[Peace-discuss] Re: [CUCPJ Announce] Martial Law comes to Garden Hills

Tue Jul 3 20:48:31 CDT 2007

I was assuming one of the faithful labeled this "Martial Law," as it was like a Wild West shoot 'em up... The subject line could as easily have read, Random Acts of Unkindness, or Random Acts of Dangerous Stupidity...

  Jenifer

Nora Whipple <carbenmommy at yahoo.com> wrote:
    I have a question.  Who sent this note to the PEOPLE of GARDEN HILLS, and what does it say?  The only people that have the right to declare martial law are the Governor of each State and the President of the United States (a mayor can only ask for martial law to be implemented in their town, but please recheck into this list).  If the letter came from anyone else in a position of authority (ie. judge, chief of police), you have the right to take matters into your own hands, and if you plan on doing this the "Gandhi" way, I strongly urge you to call either Senators Durbin and/or Obama at their DC Offices and/or their scheduling staff and arrange a meeting with them both and send someone to take me with you.

  Keep the Faith and the Ball Rolling,

  Nora E. Whipple

Kimberlie Kranich <kakranich at yahoo.com> wrote: 
  I was very sad by the violence that visited Ms. Davis and her family when the suspect invaded her home and the police fired shots at him in their pursuit.  I was glad that none of her children who were hiding under their beds were harmed. 

On Sunday I bought a card for Ms. Davis and her family and went door-to-door in my neighborhood and invited my neighbors to sign the card.  I went to each neighbor regardless of whether or not I thought they would sign the card.  With one exception, they all did.  Not only did they sign the card, they wrote some beautiful sentiments of care and concern and I learned things about my neighbors that I didn't know before and I saw that many of our aspirations for C-U are the same.  Eighteen of my neighbors wrote in the card.  I and they want Ms. Davis and her family to know that we care.  Our care won't stop the suspect or the police but it says we aren't separate from her.  Maybe our love and reaching out will connect with her in some meaningful way.  It connected me to my neighbors and me to her  family and I know that I needed that connection.

I delivered the card later that day. Ms. Davis wasn't home but her daughter was and I spoke to her.  I asked her about the bullet holes in the siding and glass window.  She said that the landlord had insurance and was going to take care of fixing the holes.  She gave me a hug before I left which I gladly returned.

~Kimberlie

  Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.
  - Mahatma Gandhi

Marti <tvchick at insightbb.com> wrote:        st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }             Recently residents of the Garden Hills subdivision received a letter in the mail regarding the increased amount of police activity which would be taking place.  This was done with the ‘good’ of the residents in mind.  One of the results of this increased patrolling is the story below.

  http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/06/29/resident_rips_police_over_shots_into

  According to the resident of this house the man who ran into her place was not firing his gun at the moment, yet police officers maintained open fire and caused damage to the property.  Now if I decided to damage the property of my neighbors they would be well within their rights to charge me with vandalism, yet our police chief defended the actions of his officers when they caused damage to someone’s house.

  I wonder if the City of Champaign will pay for the repairs in this instance. At this point that would be the proper thing to do. 

  Peace, Marti

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