Comments on: On becoming a victim

By: Mike Gogulski

Mike Gogulski — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:07:28 +0000

@Milos: Yes. And then I realized that the first step to doing that would be to enter my complaint into the record when I provided the witness statement I was required to make the following Monday after being released to the hospital from jail (without even being “arrested”).

And, finding myself in the same building where I’d been beaten in the cell, I decided that putting the real story on the record there might be hazardous to my health. So I told a little story that let them close their files — and that let me leave unmolested any further.

By: Milos

Milos — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:04:49 +0000

mike, did you consider filing some sort of a complaint against the slovak police?

By: winston smith

winston smith — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:24:51 +0000

i don’t know what you went through. but i do believe that you will make it ok. hang in there,ok?

By: Cork

Cork — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:54:18 +0000

Holy crap Mike, sorry to hear about all this. Hope you’re ok. I’ve had my own unpleasant experiences with the pigs, although nothing this intense.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:13:13 +0000

FYI, women aren’t the only gender that suffer from domestic violence, although they certainly are the most vocal about it and stereotype men as abusers and women as victims. Here’s just one web site that addresses that issue. http://www.abs-comptech.com/domestic.html
I used to be in a relationship where my wife hit and kicked me frequently, almost daily, and I never hit her back. She eventually left me and got an ex parte order of protection against me, claiming that I was abusive (even though I had never hit her and didn’t even so much as yell at her). The judge gave her sole custody of our children, who I haven’t been able to see in about a year and a half and haven’t been allowed any communication with in well over a year. She had the police seize thousands of dollars worth of my property and got a judge to require me to pay child support. I am sympathetic to women who truly are victims, but all too often women use the system as a sword rather than as a shield.

By: Darian

Darian — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:12:12 +0000

I’ve got no advice, but I want you to know I’m thinking of you and hope you prevail over your victimization.

By: George Donnelly

George Donnelly — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:53:07 +0000

You will recover. You will go on to even greater heights of greatness and happiness than ever. Things will get better. We love you.

By: Sky Captain

Sky Captain — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:29:12 +0000

The police in any country are pretty useless. To get any usefulness takes a lot of understanding and practise, even for a native.
I would have walked away when the barkeep asked. These sorts of people usually have the fix in somewhere.
Take it easy bud, keep your head down, swim between the rocks and hard places and don’t get caught out relying on the state again.

By: Amanda Crissinger Spohn

Amanda Crissinger Spohn — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:42:22 +0000

Amanda Crissinger Spohn false accusation detailed in transcripts of court proceedings Alaska Anchorage case 3AN-05-08188CR ( Alaska North Carolina Wasilla Anchorage ) note that serious felony charges were dismissed by Prosecutors. A.C. in Courtview documents is Amanda Crissinger – cross reference with her Courtview records for connection. Surveillance camera evidence proved she lied. Made allegations of serious felonies that were spurious. Do not be victimized by this “victim” – it is her hobby, and so far she has done it with legal impunity in spite of fact that Anchorage Prosecutors knew she perjured herself.

By: John Galt

John Galt — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:09:33 +0000

Sleep, blessed sleep, that knits up the raveled sleeve of care.

Being physically attacked and hurt is traumatic. It takes time, rest, reflection, and distance to get over it.

There is no royal road to geometry. There is no shortcut to recovery from violence.

Imagine a world with no state violence. Perhaps one day children would grow up without any sort of coercion at all.

We might not bring about a world without coercion of all kinds. We might not succeed in creating a world without state violence. But we are on that path.

The only good state is no state.