Since i was homeless at the time, and i wasn't looking forward to another winter in my car, i thought i could make the best of things by believeing in an Alabama native, and considering i had never actually visited the state, maybe my preconceptions were wrong. What a mistake that would prove to be!

Right off the bat, i should have believed more in myself. Real estate agents peddling apartments for rent had zero interest in renting or even talking to anyone with a disability. But i found a small piece of property, and figured buying a piece of property would put me in control of the property, and i wouldn't discriminate against me. What a mistake that would prove to be!

The class structure here is alive and well. Women are at the bottom, usually ranking below a "good dog". Disabled people, those with a wandering eye, those who cannot hear or walk well, others, will rank at the bottom, below any living thing, below most non-living things. If you are percieved as acting as if you belong to a class above the one you are assigned to, you are spat at. I was. You certainly get no job, you go into the interview under your own steam, managing your life as well as anyone else could, and they tell you they will not accomodate your "care taker", even though it's apparent you have no need for "care".

It's assumed in courts here that if you have a disability, you belong in a nursing home. Anything you do that others above you haven't done first is declared a dangerous unknown behavior, and you can be threatened with incarceration to a nursing home. You are assumed to be psychotic, not knowing what is going on around you, unable to discern a friendly dog from one hell bent on shredding you. If you claim to know the difference, and present photos of friendly animals around you, including dogs and birds, you are said to "be in denial" concerning the aggressive and dangerous dogs. The District Attorney's lawyer will ask you in court why you need property, and can you justify needing it more than the dog?

The situation gets worse if a redneck who works for the local government moves in next door with intent to drive you off and take your property. As a government employee he enjoys the priviledge of always being correct in everything he says and does, even if there is photographic proof to the contrary. And, proof will be declared illegal to gather or possess. Proof is inadmissable in court. There is no way you can establish a pattern of using dogs to harrass if you cannot mention there were other dogs or other court cases. Doing so is "misusing the court's time". I was once out of debt, even after buying property and building a large home. I went into some debt for the internet business, confident it would pay for itself. The dog situation threw me so far into debt, i had to cancel my health insurance to pay for lawyers.

In a way, the legal system here is working as well for me as the Aruban system is working for Beth Twitty. The laws against murder (of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway) in a vacation resort island aren't being upheld, and the laws against neighborhood terrorism and weaponised dogs are not upheld in St Clair county Alabama. One could argue Natalee should have known better than to go drinking alone in a unknown bar in a foreign resort after midnight. She was allegedly a top student, altho that would speak badly for the school system, given what she did. How many people know if you move to St Clair county, any random dog and their owner can wreck your life to make a better one for the dog? I have voted for animal rights, i have participated in animal abuse protests, but never in my wildest imagination did i think that anyone with a dog could take over my property, restricting access to it, incarcerate me in my house for the duration of their trespass, have legal rights to my blood, and have the full force and authority of the District Attorney's office to back them up.

The District Attorney's office will tell you that taking a photo of the dog biting you will put you in jail for 10 years on a felony animal cruelty charge. Videotaping your own property is illegal for you, altho many people in the higher classes do. Nearly all stores use video cameras. But for me to videotape my own property to prove the actions of a dog on my property, is harrassment. I was told by a county sherriff's deputy yesterday that i could mount a camera in the car like the police do, because the law was clear that anything you can see from a public place is assumed to be in public view. I had asked because i was run off the road again by people driving on the wrong side of the road. I guess it's ok to videotape them because they don't rank as high as a god,, i mean dog.

Basically:

If you cannot scare or fight off the dog, if you cannot legally remove the dog from your body, then the dog has the exclusive rights to your body, not you. Defending yourself from the dog is felony mental or physical cruelty to animals, mandatory 10 years in federal jail. The dog's owner is not liable for anything.

If you have no legal access to the county road right-of-way, because the dog is allowed primary access to it, then you have no access to/from your property, no access to garbage pickup, and no mailbox. My house is filling with garbage, my business is gone.

If the DA's lawyers tell you to go inside when the dog is tresspassing, that's legally denying you the fair use of your property. But they can enforce what they say, you cannot enforce the law against them. I constantly look around me for approaching gods.

If the dog's owner can (and likely will) place/toss the dog over the fence you put up on your property (and not right at the property line), so he hasto trespass to place the dog on your properly, he can then do one or both of the following:

Have you arrested for theft of the dog. After all, it is on your property, trespassing, despite a decade of trying to get the dog OFF your property.

Remove your fence, and follow the god around your property, calling to it, even if the god comes only when the wife calls it. He can spend all day, days even, legally, following the dog around, as you stay penned up inside.

And all this points out that altho the dog owner's 3 acres is too small for the dog, that restricting the god to 3 acres is cruel, putting an adjacent land owner in a 5ft x 7ft cage for 10 years is fine and dandy. So you can see the dog has more actual active rights than the disabled human. And you know what? There is a county law that says animal owers must keep their animals on their own property. It does not specify "dogs", it specifies "all animals". And it's the law in Alabama that all land you don't own is considered "posted", as in "no trespassing". Dogs are exempt, they are held in extremely high esteem (or worshipped) by the DA's office, while 50 yr old disabled people with 140 IQ who can take care of themselves belong in nursing homes. Lets see the dog catch me trespassing on it's property, and lets see it write a webpage. HA!

There's a odd way the laws are applied to dogs being off the owner's property. Lets say a guy gets a dog and it comes after a neighbor. (Well, it did happen.) You could go to the clerk of court and swear out a warrant against the owner for the actions of his dog. The dog is his property, and you do not swear out a warrant against property. Ok, court is scheduled for two months from then, and he gets rid of the dog and gets an identical dog 6 weeks prior to court. Did you know, you cannot swear out another warrant against the owner, even tho this is a new dog doing the same behavior? And oddly, once you get to court, the judge will dismiss the charges because the original dog was "gotten rid of"? So the dog owner had 6 weeks of zero liability, zero punishment, for the exact same behavior you took out the warrant for? So same day you got home from court, this second dog was there again in your driveway and not letting you out of the car, and you called the police and made out another complaint (there's been so many, you lost count). So now you have the warrant because of the second dog that freely threatened you for 6 weeks, and the owner disposes of that dog, and gets a third god, and it also gets 6 weeks of zero liability harrassing time? AND even tho the warrants are against the owner, and are identical warrants, you cannot mention the previous warrants in court, because the dog is different?? The owner has zero history of repeated harrassment using dogs, each and every time you two go to court for harrassment using dogs!

Lets say you think you can avoid problems by asking the DA's office or the police to enforce the law, or by hiring a lawyer to contact the neighbor regarding his illegal behavior. The neighbor taught the dog to hunt on your property. Lets say you ask everyone in the legal system, and the state and local politicians, and everyone they suggest, and the tv news people. After a month or so, the lawyer hasn't contacted anyone because he thinks you aren't serious, the DA himself told you to shoot the dog, several police told you to shoot the dog, you don't want to shoot the dog, and the situation is getting worse. One day, after retrieving mail from the mailbox on the county road right-of-way on your property, the huge rottwiler charges you, barking, growling, frothing at the mouth, and follows you down your driveway, rapidly getting closer. And in 100% self defence, you shoot the dog, wounding it, and you continue to the safety of your home, and once therein call the police. In the meantime, the dog dies. You figure you did all you could to avoid this shooting, you did your best to ask for help for a month. You are arrested for the shooting. Before the court date, the District Attorney is out of office, and a new guy is in office, but you cannot subpoena the previous DA, the one who told you to shoot. In court, there is an incredible show. A very uncredible show. The neighbor admits teaching the dog to hunt on your property, admits the god cannot find you hiding in the shrubbery (because you where in the house), and admits the god has previously shown aggression towards you. You also testify, but no one believes a word you say, you cannot complete a sentence, and you are ordered to pay $350 for the dog, $500 in court costs, you lose the $200 bail money, and you have a $650 lawyer bill too. Oh, and the judge tells you to not wound or distract the dog, but to shoot to kill. But that same judge just charged you $1700 for shooting the dog. It's like when they tell you there's no proof of the dog on your property, but taking a picture of the dog on your property is an invasion of it's privacy and they'll prosecute you for that too.

 

 

If you do something on your property that does not impact anyone else in any way,

but no one else did it first,

you risk jail or assault:

This area was under forced or voluntary water restrictions for several years. But collecting rain water in a cistern for watering plants or other uses is going to get you called "crazy". In some countries, it's virtually a law that you must have a cistern, in Burmuda it is the law. In some of Australia, it's the law. In some countries, there is no ground water, and importing water isn't cost effective, so again, people use cisterns. I built this house with space under it specifically for a 1200 gallon cistern. The plumbing thru the walls was in place before i poured the concrete for the walls. Ex-president Bush's Crawford ranch house has a huge cistern under it. The tv show "This Old House" has installed cisterns in, under, and beside houses. There are usa companies that make and sell rain water storage systems. But if i install one, i am probably "crazy".

There are places where you get paid to put solar panels on your roof. There are places in the usa with significant tax breaks for solar systems. There are places around the world where you are greatly envied if you have solar panels. In some places, you are envied if you can generate your own power by any means. That includes here when the power goes out, which is often. Since i had a large internet presence once, i required huge battery backup with invertors, plus a generator. One outage here lasted 10 days. The phone lines are managed by a different company and so the phone lines don't get disrupted on a long term basis very often (but repeatedly during storms). But i was threatened with assault here if i generated my power, once it was known i could and did. I was told by one that they'd drive over, gathering all the viscious dogs they could find, and throw them over my fence. I was told i was a criminal, stealing from the power company, even though their lines were removed from my property at my request. Oddly, a guy who got fed up with rate increases, who owned a fuel distribution company, installed generators for fulltime power at his home, and was ostracized. If you have electricity you did not buy from the power company, the humans here will consider you a degenerate thief. I have ten 15 watt panels i am afraid to put up now. They'll never pay for themselves stacked against a wall inside, but i still must pay the bill for them. (As an aside, two are busted because UPS threw them over the fence i had to put up to keep the neighbor's gods away from me.) I planned on a relatively large solar installation here (i have 12 acres), i have some serious hardware to make it happen, as well as the research, hands-on experience, and the will. But i might get murdered for "stealing power".

Many people around here garden. If i garden, its called "crawling around, spying". Same if i clean out the rainwater gutters on the driveway (it's ~250 feet long and collects a lot of rainwater which i am not allowed to save). There's two gutters across the driveway to divert water off into the woods. Some people poison their neighbor's dogs, some put up fences. I put up a fence, the District Attorney's office said i should put up a fence. So nevermind i didn't have a dog or other livestock to control, i incurred a financial and physical loss because someone else got dogs. Putting up a fence in self defence instantly got distorted to mean i was "withdrawing from society". I hate the idea of a fence, i miss the wild fox that would come thru here, and i miss the few humans that would visit me. I miss getting mail and garbage pickup too, as well as package delivery. And i am not pleased that opening and closing gates now takes 30 minutes for every trip to town. Regardless of how much i tried to be part of a society that would rather i be in a nursing home for watering my plants with rainwater, putting up a fence the DA's office said i should put up got me placed alongside the Unibomber in conversation, regardless of the fact he was against technology and i embrace it happily. That fence tore up my shoulders so badly i could not change the shirt i wore for a week, and could not put on a long sleeved shirt for several years. I still have restricted range of motion and shoulder joint pain because of that fence.

Virtually anything i do, even spray the poison ivy, annoys the dogs, and it's said in court i am teasing the gods. Well, the poison ivey is doing quite well now, a lot of it is over a foot tall, where i haveto open and close the tarped gate especially. I've not done any more work on the driveway, and have not changed the oil in the car or truck in about 3 years now. The damned god should be very happy with it's overgrown rat-sized self and the DA's efforts to enforce what it wants.

I can't figure out why it's a 10 year felony for mental cruelty to a dog if i yell at it to not approach and bite me on my property. The neighbors yell at the dog multiple times a day: to come back when they turn it loose, when it goes under their trailer, when it's biting the cats, when it goes after the other dogs, or when it's barking at the neighbors themselves.

I cannot understand how the dog ever got rights to my blood. This blood in my veins is original equipment to my body, it's doesn't belong to the neighbors or their dog, or so i thought. The district attorney's lawyer set me straight about that tho, saying if the dog wants my blood, there is nothing i can legally do about it, and if i interfere with the god gnawing on me she will spend the rest of her career seeing to it i spend my life in jail. Anything i do to stop the dog will be construed as cruelty to animals. I suppose i could try talking sweetly to it and explain the illogic of the situation as i see it, as i am bleeding. No, i think i'll kill it, and then face suicide rather than spend life in jail or a nursing home, knowing the neighbor will have my house for his dogs.

Apparently, they also own my fence, they damage it or take it down enough, without my permission.

They can also have me arrested so that i must bail out of jail, and when i am found innocent they don't need to reimburse me for the trauma or lost finances, even tho both were caused by their LIES UNDER OATH. I don't get the bail money back. I believe the trick is to get me to use the property as bail, and on that day they'll find me guilty and set up events with me in jail that guarantee i lose the house and land. Then the neighbor can buy it for his dog for accumulated taxes owed while i am in jail.

No, i no longer feel safe living on land among humans.

 

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