What good is it to throw a life preserver into the ocean when there is nobody there to use it? It just drifts forever and ever and never is used for what it is designed for. You can't save a life when a person doesn't have a life to save.
Laurie and Brian have made a career out of taking away a person's life. They steal everything they own, disease them with a life ending disease, take their income and jobs, destroy their family ties and leave a person that once had a better life than them with the exact same situation that the two of them are in...with nothing.
Laurie acts like just because she has drugs and needles that she has more than anyone else...if she takes away everything from a person and allows them to have no support from anyone, then they will have only her to rely upon. That's just stupid. What Laurie has is a great big nothing...just like her brother, Brian. Nothing. Drugs aren't anything and needles are a way to inject nothing into your body. All she has is a baggie full of nothing and a needle to put it in your arm.
You might as well be just sitting alone in a room waiting to die.
Electronic Harassment victims are living a life of nothing in Palm Springs, California. What Laurie doesn't take from them the police do. With entrapment arrests and illegal surveillance, the police give these men and women a less than even chance of ever getting better. Once you have a criminal record achieved under illegal circumstances, then you aren't at zero, you are at a negative ten. Getting back to zero is an accomplishment in and of itself, nevertheless getting ahead. Complicate that with disease and poverty, and you have what Laurie calls, "the program" that you have to get with.
Laurie thinks that if she makes you similar to her her (criminal, drug addicted, without family support, hungry, tired, homeless), then you will understand what she is like. First of all you can never be what she is like if she took things from you because she's never had anything that she's earned legally her whole life. She doesn't know what it is like to have her own things that she earned for herself. Your experience is different than hers and it can never be the same no matter how desperate she makes your life look like hers. Not to mention the negative influence she has with her brother being the same as she is. That's two nothings for the price of your life.
Why throw a life preserver to a person without a life? What are you preserving? A slow Laurie induced death? Palm Springs is full of wandering gay men that have nothing...they can't work now because of their police records, if they do work they owe all kinds of monies to the court. If they have friends Laurie will do something to them. There is no life to preserve. Is preserving them worth it?
You tell me. I don't work with the E.H. victims in desperate situations for this very reason. If they don't have a car, a home and a job, it is almost impossible to keep them from doing something for Laurie. If they are drug addicts, it's even worse. I am careful about whom and when I decide to throw a life preserver and this blog is intended for me to be able to give that life preserver to their families so that they can find and save them. If you do it any other way, Laurie and Brian will steal that life preserver and throw it in the garbage.
My team needs to realize that in this situation if the victim of this crime wants no better life than "no life" then why are we preserving them and not the others that want to live...better?
My team needs to realize that in this situation if the victim of this crime wants no better life than "no life" then why are we preserving them and not the others that want to live...better?
