Thoughts from Terry Funderburk - the insanity of it all
Oct. 25th, 2007 by email from Terry

Sometimes when I am out driving and looking for work my case plays heavily on my mind.  I think about what I have been through in the last four months and in a lot of ways it seems so utterly ridiculous. I sometimes wonder how many people in this world have never said a cussword. I imagine just a few. Out of a population of six billion I would bet that there might be a million that has not. Surely no more than that. Is there any language in the world that does not have cursewords? And I just happen to be one of a very few individuals who went to jail for it. Lol. Talk about unlucky. Strangely enough, I am not the only one, I read an article last week about a lady getting arrested for cursing in her bathroom. Well, let me tell you, I can sympathize with her. I wonder how many hours she spent in jail. I happen hold the record. 22 hours. Lol. I read about another case where a guy spent an hour in jail for uttering one of those horrible words. His cussword must not have been quite as bad as mine. I even got two charges for it, two counts for saying one cussword one time. I reckon that’s a record too.

   And when I think about it, if they can charge me twice for the same bad word, then why not just make it three, hell, let’s make it four(whoops). That way instead of just spending sixty days in jail, I’ll be there for 120 days. That way maybe I will learn that it is not nice to curse. Maybe when I get out of jail, I can wear an electronic bracelet with audio, so they can make sure I am not cursing. When I think about it though, it is not out of the range of possibilities. I mean, the prosecutor said that if I refused to plead guilty, then an additional charge would be pressed against me. What’s to stop him from doing it again? What a way for getting people to see things your way. If they don’t plead guilty the first time, just simply keep slapping the charges on until they do. Eventually they will see things your way. I mean, if you think about it, if I keep refusing to plead guilty I could eventually spend years in jail. And all for saying a bad word.

I wonder if they got the best prosecutor for my case. I think they should, maybe someone that has some experience with capital cases. You know, the ones where they get the death sentence. It’s going to take one with a lot of know how to prosecute such a heinous and complicated case as mine. They will probably want to call some expert witnesses so as to dissect the medical and legal complexities of it. And three or four assistants of course, to research all the finer points of the law, I imagine they will lose a lot of sleep reading the  histories of similar cases all the way back to when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. The city council will have to come up with a few million dollars for all the expenses.

 I am trying here to expose the absolute absurdity of my case. The ridiculousness of it. My God! Is this how far our justice system has fallen? They will arrest and jail and try me for saying a curse word. They are trying to put me in jail for 2 months for saying a word! And I have already spent a day in jail on top of that. And a 400 dollar fine, can’t forget that. Lol. Like I have said before, the inmates are running the asylum, that can be the only answer. Because, if not, how can such insanity as this exist?

   How can an entire legal establishment just completely close their eyes to the real crimes being committed all around them? How can they allow our justice system to become so perverted and corrupted that they silently aid and abet people that are really breaking our laws? So, if they are silently complicit, are they not just as corrupt as the real criminals? And these people represent themselves to us as paragons of virtue. As being in such lofty positions that they are the ones that will decide which laws are to be enforced. And which will not. I think it is time to tell these blowhards to take a hike. It is time to bring back the lost art of tar and feathers and running some of these idiots out of town on a rail. It is time to tell them that we want no part of their perverted ideas of justice. That we want justice and equality and a fair legal system where nobody gets a free pass for any crime they commit.  

   Sometimes, I try to imagine what would have happened to me that day if we still lived in an America where the rule of law is supreme, where, if you break a law you pay a price. In that America, I might have got a verbal warning from the cop, and had the pleasure of seeing the real lawbreakers there that day arrested and taken to jail. And then they would be the ones staying awake at night wondering what is going to happen to their future. But no, I remember now, I am not in that America, I am locked up in that insane asylum where anything goes, except cursing of course. Don’t you wish you were me?