And on the matter of Mr. Merritt not being charged for his fender bender- okay. At first comments on the accident being investigated. But as it has progressed, Mr. Young says Mr. Merritt would not be cited although he may end up being retested on his drivers' license. He won't pass a driving test if it is done properly would be my call. But this is Wood County and he is/ was a respected law officer for many, many decades. At least I thought that up too the Mr. Six deal. Still like him personally, law position decisions notwithstanding.
Mr. Merritt noted that although Mr. Six was a good officer and "he felt bad that it had to be this way, but we have to play by the rules". May I ask if we were playing by the rules, why was Mr. Six NOT arrested, had a proper alcohol test and was driven home by two Vienna Police Officers? Who's Rules were those? If any one of us got stopped, it would be arrest, pushed around, arraigned and then up to the Judge to work one over based on connected or not connected? Something does not gel here?
Mr. Young stated that Mr. Merritt in his latest bump would not be treated any different than anyone else just because he had "sheriff" in front of his name. So what was the treatment for the two officers while off shift are really never off duty and drove an allegedly intoxicated Mr. Six home INSTEAD of too the local hoosecow? No special rules there either? Mr. Young; "Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive", if I may quote the play "Marmion" by Sir Walter Scott?
Is anyone going to ask to have the old gentleman that had a wreck while trying to turn into the parking lot of Men's Wearhouse retested? He is 86, older than Mr. Merritt by a bit. What is good for the gander should be good for the goose? There are many, many elderly drivers in Vienna not just those coming here as the man above. At about 80, it should be MANDATORY to be checked closer. While I can appreciate one wanting to be independent as long as possible, there is a point of what is called "diminishing returns".
My dear departed grandmother while active as all get out into her early 90s, said she knew when it was time to quit driving and just gave her keys to her oldest son. Says she missed the out and about when she wanted, but knew she was not up to the task of safe driving any longer.
That is sadly all that Vienna is but a City of double and triple standards. So many good people and so little for 85% of them. Just wallets and purses as demanded.
It is refreshing to see the Attorney General going after some of the Pharmacies in the State that were part and parcel in the massive number of prescription pain killers that were dispensed for whomever, where ever.
But now the local Daily Blat is going after the DEA for not doing more to stop these drugs from coming into the State. Is anyone naive enough to believe that all the profits stopped with the Pharmacies and the Manufacturers? Too much money in play to not have some big fish feeding off the little ones .
I was pleased at the State getting the $87 Million in aid the other day. Than the 100 Refugee OR Refugee Families dropped right behind that. So it immediately started to stink that Mr. Tomblin had made a deal to get a lot of money with way too many unvetted Refugees? A big chunk of that money will go for them; far out of proportion to their numbers; watch and see?
And some of you may not care, but I was a bit put out when a National Cable Show actually had a former FBI Agent and the Commentator talking about the aid to the incoming Refugees through out the U.S., but specifically zeroed in on West Virginia. "Sending people to West Virginia where they will get housing, medical, schooling, food subsidies and the local people of West Virginia still have many living in tents because of the floods earlier this year and many local people have nothing ".
So many truths and sadly, at least to me is the notice Nationally, that West Virginia is in such bad shape. This can and should be laid exactly where it belongs. The poor if almost non existent efforts to make this State better. Lots of talk, but no real improvements after how many hundreds if not Billions of dollars over the past few decades? Even now, in one of the more propserous area's where we live, the infrarstructure is a joke if one has not made the necessary one hand rubs the other motions.
And in our neigboring Country, the Philippine Government has just seized a 1/2 ton of Meth in suburban Manila. This is more than in that entire Country last year. And the death toll continues to climb with over 6,000 suspected drug dealers killed since July. 1/3 by police and the rest by rumored vigilantees? This smacks a bit like the semi-quasi death squads that ran amok in the County when Ms. Arroyo was President for 7 or 8 years. It is the part I have a problem with in not having any due process? A lot of old scores get settled that really have little or nothing to do with drugs. Grudges there can make the old Hatfield/ McCoy feud look like a Boy Scout Jamboree; it gets very rough for generations and for sure not just onesies or twosies.
But don't worry, Mr. Obama is showing his enlightened side by releasing Drug Dealers from Prison here no matter the circumstances. There the sentence is immediate death; here, have a good day. It may be that the Philippines has an idea on dealing with the Drugs ruining the Country? 'nuff said'.