DEAR SHASTA…

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHY DO YOU ALLOW YOURSELVES TO BE LED AND THEREFORE DEFINED BY IGNORANT RED-NECKS. NO, REALLY, I’D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND. I KNOW THAT MANY RESIDENTS OF SHASTA ARE REAL ASSHOLES. WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS EVERYONE IN THAT COUNTY A RED-NECK PIECE OF GARBAGE, OR NOT? IT’S ONE THING TO BE UNDER-EDUCATED OR ILLIBERAL. IT’S ONE THING TO NOT BE TOO AWARE OF THE TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE AROUND YOU. IT’S ANOTHER THING COMPLETELY TO ALLOW THE WORLD TO SEE YOU AS AN ENTIRE COUNTY OF RED-NECK ASSHOLES. YOU REALLY DO WEAR IT LIKE A BADGE, DON’T YOU SHASTA? YOUR SHERIFFS, FOR STARTERS ARE THE BIGGEST ASSHOLES I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED IN MY LIFE, HAVING LIVED IN MULTIPLE STATES AND COUNTIES. I EVEN GET ALONG WITH SOUTHERN RED-NECKS. IN FACT, I GET ALONG WITH A VERY WIDE GROUP OF PEOPLE. YOUR SHERIFFS AREN’T THE ONLY ASSHOLES IN THAT COUNTY. YOUR DISTRICT ATTORNEY PUTS THE LETTER B IN THE WORD BITCH, YOUR LOCAL PRESS IS MOSTLY SLOBS AND MANY OF YOUR LOCAL MERCHANTS ARE SELF-ABSORBED LITTLE PRICKS. EVEN YOUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HATE EACH OTHER AND CONSTANTLY SNIPE AT EACHOTHER. I WILL SAY THAT I HAVE NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH REDDING POLICE. KNOCK ON WOOD. R.P.D. SEEMS TO NOT BE A BUNCH OF CORRUPT DOGS LIKE YOUR SHERIFFS DEPT. AS FAR AS AVERAGE FOLKS. I HAVE MET SOME WHO SEEMED ALRIGHT. MANY OF THEM ARE TRANSPLANTS AND NOT FROM SHASTA. ALOT OF SHASTA FOLKS ARE VERY IGNORANT OF WHAT GOES ON IN THAT COUNTY, BUT I TRY NOT TO JUDGE THEM FOR THIS. YOU CAN’T BE AWARE OF EVERY LITTLE THING. AT THE SAME TIME, I AM COMPLETELY PERPLEXED AS TO WHY MORE PEOPLE AREN’T ASHAMED OF ALL THE INCIVILITY, CORRUPTION, IGNORANCE AND DOWNRIGHT VILE SHIT THAT PASSES FOR “SOCIETY” IN THAT COUNTY. IT’S ALMOST AS IF YOU DO SEE ALL THE GARBAGE GOING ON, BUT DON’T SAY ANYTHING BECAUSE IT’S BASICALLY YOUR RELATIVES THAT ARE DOING IT. IS THAT IT?

IN ADDITION TO YOUR INCOMPETENT AND CROOKED COPS, YOUR FUCKED UP D.A. AND COURTS, SHASTA HAS MORE JUNKIES, CHILD MOLESTERS AND THIEVES THAN ANY MAJOR CITY I CAN THINK OF. IN FACT, SHASTA TAKES MONEY FROM THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR BEING A RELOCATION AREA FOR CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTERS AND IT’S CROOKED COPS ALLOW THOUSANDS OF POUNDS OF HEROIN AND CRYSTAL METH TO BE IMPORTED YEARLY. YOUR SUBURBAN TEEN REDNECKS QUICKLY BECOME GOOD LITTLE JUNKIE SCUMBAGS AND START RAMPAGING THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO GET THEIR STUPID FIX. OF COURSE, THE KIDS WHO ARE POOR AND GET CAUGHT UP IN THIS ARE OFTEN SENT TO PRISON, BUT THE KIDS WHO HAVE PARENTS WHO ARE CONNECTED GET A PASS. WITH INCREDIBLE HYPPOCRACY, YOUR COUNTY “ELDERS” BITCH AND MOAN ABOUT ALL THE CRIME, WHILE THEY SECRETLY SHELTER THEIR LITTLE POINTY-HEADED, DIRT-BAG KIDS AND GRAND-KIDS FROM SCRUTINY. NICE TRICK SHASTA! BE A BUNCH OF WORTHLESS, VILE SHIT-EATERS AND JUST PRETEND IT’S “NEW-COMERS” AND “HOMELESS PEOPLE” TO AVOID THE REALITY THAT YOU ARE A BEDROOM COMMUNITY OF CRIMINALS. IS THIS THE COMMUNITY THE REST OF YOU WANT? WERE YOU IGNORANT OF WHAT GOES ON THERE? WELL, NOW YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW. IT WOULD TAKE A WITCH HUNT AND A SCORCHED EARTH, BURN THIS FUCKING PLACE TO THE GROUND CAMPAIGN TO REMOVE ALL THE VAMPIRE MOTHER-FUCKERS FROM THAT COUNTY. MOST OF YOU PROBABLY DON’T HAVE THE STOMACHE FOR THAT. TOO FUCKING BAD. MAYBE YOU DESERVE TO BURGLARIZED WEEKLY AND HAVE YOUR TEENAGE DAUGHTERS TURNED INTO HEROIN ADDICTS AND SOLD INTO SEX SLAVERY. THERE’S A SAYING ABOUT IGNORING THE EVIL IN YOUR WORLD UNTIL IT TURNS UP AT YOUR DOOR-STEP. SHASTA COUNTY IS ABSOLUTELY SWIMMING IN GARBAGE. MAYBE THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF SHASTA COUNTY WARS. MAYBE SHASTA COUNTY IS JUST A POSTER-CHILD FOR OUR COUNTRY AS A WHOLE. MAYBE IF PEOPLE WERE TOO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT SHASTA, THEY WOULD REALIZE THAT’S WHERE THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS HEADING. MAYBE GOOD PEOPLE (WHAT FEW OF THEM ARE LEFT) WILL FIGURE OUT THAT IT REALLY IS US OR THEM, GOOD OR EVIL. MAYBE PEOPLE WILL FIND THEIR BALLS FINALLY AND RISE UP!

DOES IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU THAT THERE ARE DECENT PEOPLE AROUND YOU SHASTA THAT JUST WANT TO LEAD A NORMAL LIFE? THAT YOUR SHENANIGANS HAVE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO EVEN LIVE IN THAT COUNTY? DO YOU EVER CONSIDER THE WAY YOU HAVE TREATED ROBERT GIBBS? YOU ALLOWED PEOPLE TO THREATEN HIM, BURGLARIZE HIS HOUSE, MAKE HIM FEAR FOR HIS FAMILY, ALL BECAUSE YOUR COUNTY IS COMPLETELY LAWLESS. THEN, YOU ALLOWED YOUR CROOKED COPS TO BEGIN A CAMPAIGN OF BULLSHIT AGAINST HIM, TO FALSELY ARREST HIM ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS, TO PERJURE THEMSELVES AND MALIGN HIM. HE GETS HIS DAUGHTER TAKEN AWAY AND DOES THREE YEARS IN YOUR FUCKED UP JAIL. NO WONDER HE WANTS TO ATTACK YOUR COUNTY, EVEN YOUR CHILDREN. YOU FUCKED WITH HIS FAMILY, WHY SHOULDN’T HE FUCK WITH YOURS? THE TRUTH IS MOTHER-FUCKERS, GIBBS COULD HAVE ATTACKED YOU AT ANY TIME. THE TRUTH IS, SHAST-HOLES, YOU DON’T GIVE ONE SQUIRT OF PISS ABOUT YOUR PEEPS OR YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE PROVOKED A MAN LIKE GIBBS AND THEN SAT BACK AND PRETENDED LIKE THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD DO ABOUT IT. HERE’S A LITTLE SECRET SHASTA FUCKING COUNTY: GIBBS HAS MILITARY TRAINING. SMALL-ARMS, GUERILLA TACTICS, ASYMMETRICAL, EXPLOSIVES. IF GIBBS WANTED YOU DEAD, IT WOULD ALREADY BE OVER. THE TRUTH IS SHASTA, YOU AMUSE GIBBS. YOU’RE NOT EVEN WORTH KILLING. NO, ALL GIBBS WANTS IS TO SHOW HOW STUPID YOU ARE, HOW YOU HAVE ENDANGERED YOUR OWN COMMUNITY BY ATTACKING PEOPLE. LIKE CHICKENS NEVER COME HOME TO ROOST. WHAT SHOULD GIBBS DO ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO HAVE A NORMAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS DAUGHTER? SHOULD HE ATTACK THE PEOPLE OF SHASTA? OF COURSE HE SHOULD, IF ONLY ON PRINCIPLE. THAT HE HAS NOT SHOWS YOU EXACTLY THE KIND OF MAN YOU ARE DEALING WITH. A MAN OF PEACE AND GRACE. A MAN WHO CAN TAKE YOUR PETTY BULLSHIT AND NOT EVEN BE PROVOKED INTO A REACTION. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO SAY “I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS”, “I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT”…ARE YOU REALLY INNOCENT? DON’T YOU HAVE SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN COMMUNITY AND COPS? IF GOOD PEOPLE DON’T STAND UP FOR GIBBS, WHO WILL? WHO WILL STAND UP FOR A LITTLE GIRL WHO DOESN’T EVEN GET TO HAVE A LOVING FATHER IN HER LIFE? YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED SHASTA. YOU SHOULD BE ENRAGED. DON’T EVEN PRETEND TO BE DECENT, LOVING PEOPLE UNTIL GIBBS GETS TO HUG HIS DAUGHTER AND READ TO HER AND LOVE HER. MONSTERS! FUCKING MONSTERS! DON’T EVEN PRETEND YOU BEAR NO RESPONSIBILITY. IT’S ALL OF YOU, UNTIL YOU PICK A SIDE.