School Shootings

     I get the feeling that students are protesting the possession of firearms not because this is the immediate solution to school shootings but because they are the useful idiots of their leftists teachers who are not interested in their students' safety or their own, but in the elimination of firearms ownership by free individuals. I say this with the qualifications that I do not have television or access to the internet except at the public library. I could easily be missing something [ yes, I know, leftists: I'm missing a brain.] What makes me say that is the immediate solution is not the confiscation of firearms, but stopping would-be shooters from entering schools. You can't eliminate evil, but you can block it. That can be done by having a single point of entry into a school plus metal detectors for firearms made of metal plus gunpowder sniffing dogs at the single point of entry for firearms made of non-metallic parts.
     I say this is no guarantee that no firearms would get into schools but it the metal detectors and gunpowder sniffing dogs should eliminate most firearms. Plus, it would serve as a real deterrent. These kids doing the shooting are not Navy Seals. They are fragile, troubled snowflakes who need boundaries and cognitive-behavioral therapy. If they know they will have to stand in line for metal detectors and gunpowder sniffing dogs, most will crack at the thought and not bring a gun. Those who do will try to brave the waiting in line, the detectors, the dogs will show signs of stress. If our police and school personnel will become as smart and sophisticated as the Israelis, they will put down their doughnuts and Red Books and look for tells of stress. Then they will politely and respectfully engage the student and do a body and belongings search.
     Maybe students are already asking for these precautions. If you are, then I apologize for taking you to task. Your idea of eliminating guns is quixotic and wrong. Look how well the prohibition on drugs starting in 1914 has worked. Has it eliminated drugs? No! All it's done is to give trillions of dollars to the drug cartels, law enforcement, and lawyers, created more lethal types of drugs, and put millions of mainly blacks and Hispanics into jail, thus ruining their employment opportunities for life. Look at well the prohibition on alcohol worked. It was ignored until it was lifted. This is a democracy. People want alcohol, drugs, and guns. The vast majority of people use alcohol, drugs, and guns without getting into trouble. The shallow, macho people want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Being mean makes them manly and strong, they think. Don't fall for the shallow end of the genetic pool, students. Be truly strong and macho. Think, read, watch, discuss, and experience. Get out of man-made pseudo-reality and go into nature and observe how reality works!

    
 
    

Best Bigfoot Bait

     I have an idea for the best Bigfoot bait yet: take a can with a pop-top tab. Insert a stiff but pliable thin wire under the tab without breaking the seal so the contents will remain fresh. Run the wire up through the hole in the tab and wind it around the the stem of the wire. Tie the other end of the wire to the limb or trunk of a tree. You can tie it up high enough so that a black bear can't reach. Let your can of food hang there until Bigfoot finds it. He will pull the can off the wire, pulling the top off, and find inside fresh food or drink. Replace can with a new can as soon as practical so he will be rewarded if he comes back. If you get one coming in, set out a trail camera. Is it de rigeur that all Bigfoot pictures be blurry? Get your picture and videos and cause Big Development to have a collective heart attack. I think your best bet at getting a regular customer is to put out a 25 ounce can of Bud. Budweiser cans are the only ones sturdy enough to run a wire under and through the hole in the tab without opening. Besides, a Big Man needs a Big Bud. Every animal with a brain seeks to get outside of himself, seeks an altered state of consciousness, and Bigfoot is no exception. A beer will draw him in the best, but you can put out dog food - sliced dog food is the best- or cans of soda which cost next to nothing.
     If you live around Pisagh State Park in New Hampshire and have some woods, I would love to put out some cans on your property and monitor them. Please help a poor, old, lonely man redeem himself by finding fortune and fame in his final years by videoing Bigfoot quaffing a Bud! I'm Peter Nickerson at 352-359-0850. Peter or Two-Guns or Nick. All my names. I must be part Arab.
    When you put out some cans, would you let me know how you're doing with them. peternickerson12@yahoo.com  Go Bigfoot. Eat shit Big Development.

Cop Cowardice In Parkland Shootings!

     Would you really like to hear from a poor person instead of just the elites? One who has no television or Internet and sits on a plastic chair or are you just a virtue actor? From almost the bottom, this is my take on the Parkland school shootings: The most immediate cause was the Cruiz kid of course. The second was the cowardice of the first cop and the first three to arrive at the scene. I've seen some Fox news coverage and seen the talking heads analyze the four cops' behavior. The closest anyone will come to "gutless" is "lack of training." I was disappointed that was the best Fox could do in getting talking heads. They were so sanitized, gelded, and gutless. Fox news needs to get another head on its panels from the ranks of the real people - those who struggle. Fox can even call it their "wild card" to try to distance themselves from the nitty-gritty perspectives of the struggling. I'll try.
     You do not need "training" to have guts though it makes it easier. Any decent man with a gun outside that high school would have responded to the shooting inside by going inside. Perhaps, some armed women would have too. Two hours ago, I was getting free senior coffee at a generous fast food store. There was a woman outside with a suitcase on wheels. She looked like a homeless person. She walked away from the restaurant, got up to the road, and purposefully went down on her knees. No sooner had her knees hit the side of the road, than a car stopped and two women got out and assisted her to the next fast food restaurant to perch for a while. This took no social work training, it took common decency.
     Those four cops were lacking common decency because they were cowards.
I can tell you that hostile gunfire is extremely threatening. In Florida once, I was using an electronic caller to see if I could draw in a "non-existent" (as the game wardens insisted) panther in North-Central Florida. A nearby turkey hunter didn't appreciate the racket I was making with my dyeing rabbit cassette so he opened up with first his shotgun, and firing all his shots in that, opened up with his pistol and fired all his shots in that. As far as I could tell, he wasn't firing a me. My first desire was to curl up in a fetal position on the ground and hide like a baby. But without any "training," I fired into the ground several shots from my two handguns to let him know I was armed and willing to defend myself. The turkey hunter responded by walking away from me, firing shots as he put distance between us.
     Now, the POS shooting kids in the school was obviously no turkey hunter. Someone who shoots kids has earned the POS appellation. Why would you be afraid of a POS? Surely, you're much better than him. I wonder if any of the news commentators has mentioned the problem of cowardice with Florida militia-not-men during the 1800s Indian Wars. Their cowardliness became so exasperating that either General Jessup or General Harrison made a public speech in which he urged all married Florida women to divorce their husbands and marry men from the other states so they would have the guts to protect their wives and families from the Indians.
     Also, if the high school kids know about this cowardice by the four cops, why aren't they attacking that as well as guns?  Why aren't they saying anything about the fact that Cruiz verbalized doing harm to others with his guns. Why aren't they calling for a law that mandates any person hearing someone saying he is going to shoot someone must report it to the police. I think these kids are opening themselves up to charges of anti-gun crisis actors if they remain only focused on guns. It's not very mature, but then they are kids. The same thing holds for law enforcement's ignoring multiple calls about Cruiz. What's the simplest reason? Occam's Razor. They wanted it to happen so there would be a hue and cry about guns? Or public organizations are so lazy and secure because they don't have to make a profit or compete with other organizations as private businesses do, they know they can get away with murder? Take your pick or
two.
Nick Nickerson 352-259-0850   peternickerson12@yahoo.com
     
    
    

Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard Candidate #42

     "It's not your body to abort!" is on the left bank of windows of my truck's cap. I had a Planned Parenthood Northern New England plastic box containing a condom gratuitously left in the windshield wipers' well - what was the point of that? I've also had a note taped to the driver's door of my truck that read "I bet you're a man sexist." The jerk was still hanging around when I went to my truck and read it. He began tooting his horn in short beeps taunting me. There was no self-defense involved so approaching him was a no-go. Also I had my notes and my index for my black panther book inside the restaurant. I couldn't turn my back on them to walk into the back of the parking lot to confront this idiot sitting in his car beeping at me.
     I told the the Brattleboro Selectboard about theses two events because I think they are soft on the beggars in town (they won't even tell them that threatening is illegal), and I suspect they really don't support diversity, only their approved diversity.  Except for Brandi, all I got were poker-faces. She was upset. Maybe the rest were against all Americans having free speech or maybe they were just ewes and werthers. Or maybe they figured a guy who said he lifted weights three hours a day and could rip the head off a man didn't need any verbal coddling. I didn't get a word from them after I finished even though they had just hypocritically approved the U.N. resolution for civil rights! So much for my civil rights. Civil rights for a Trump-voting, American, big, white male? Perish the thought! You can see my performance on the video from that meeting. Of course it will not covered in the local pro-violence, socialist paper unless they devise a way to make me look bad.
    Today, I was having coffee at a restaurant when the manager came to my table and said, paraphrasing here, "A man came in and asked that I take that anti-abortion sign off your truck. I told him I couldn't be taking people's signs off their vehicles. He then said I should refuse to serve you. I told him that I couldn't do that either. Then he said he was going to report me to my superiors. He also said you had a sign about guns on the other side of your truck and you were big and wore camouflage, and he was scared."
     What a clever little, totalitarian, baby-killer. Having been called a baby-killer during the Vietnam War, it gives me great pleasure to give back. When I found the note on my truck, I responded by drawing a little stick-figure of a baby with a halo next to my antiabortion sign. Today, when I found out about this third incident, I decided it was time to make a little step toward organizing some support for myself. I went to the Catholic Church to talk to a Father. No Father there but a nice, quiet lady. At that point, all I wanted was a prayer for the safety of my truck and courage for myself. I'm on the spectrum from frightened rabbit hiding in my bed to charging, happy lion. The quiet lady said she'd pray for me.
     Besides being on my rabbit to lion spectrum, I am also a lonely, old man so what I'd like from Christians and other non-babykillers is a thumbs up when you see me on the road. My truck is very distinctive. I've never seen one like it- 04
Colorado, sunburst orange, with a cap with a "Have you seen Bigfoot" sign on the back. Just give me a thumbs up. I could use your support. Hell, I'm so lonely I'd enjoy hearing from you baby-killers. Just give me the bird as you go by! At least have the balls or ovaries to face me. Your head is safe as long as you don't attack me.
Nick Nickerson, Philosophy Major.

Kill The Infidel?

     No God, if he were God, would require others to kill the infidel. He would just go poof! and the infidel would be gone. You say he does it to determine who are going to earn passage to paradise and the seventy-two virgins? Rubbish! If God wants to find out who would go to battle for him and die for him, all he has to do is think of that person, and he can immediately see if that person would do that. If God is God, he is all-powerful and therefore omniscient. You don't have to prove or do anything for God. All he has to do is think of you, and he can see what you would do. God does not need man to do anything for him.
     The idea that you have to prove yourself or do something to earn something like seventy-two partly-human virgins would have to come from man. Man is not God, and man is not omnipotent. Man cannot think of you or look at you and know what you would do. He has to require you to show him, to do something for him. The requirement that you be or do something is a man-issued directive not God's directive. The requirement that you kill infidels to earn seventy-six virgins in paradise is a man-issued requirement, not God's. God doesn't need anything of man.
Peter "Nick" Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 1968

The Brattleboro Selectboard Candidate #41

    "Evidence is God, and every individual is a King or Queen." At last Tuesday's Selectboard, I asked if I had heard correctly John Allen saying that plastic bags were "were all over the place." I pointed out that contradicted by statement to the board several months ago that I had looked for plastic bags gone wild in Brattleboro and had only found one in about a month of looking for them. I noted that I had been working on my panther book at the board meeting and may not have heard correctly. I asked, if correct, that John tell me where his "honey hole" was. John forthrightly said he remembered saying that, they were all over the place, and I should look at Fairview and the Price Chopper. I replied, "I'm there!" and I was as soon as the mercifully short meeting- about three hours- was over. I drove into Fairview Village and over to the Price Chopper. No bags. The next day, I stopped at a nearby gas station and explained what had gone at the selectboard meeting. The worker said they checked the grounds daily and there were no bags around. She didn't see bags.
I asked a resident at Fairview Village and she said there were no bags, and that management kept the place immaculate. I saw a woman parked at the back of the Price Chopper shopping strip, and she hadn't seen bags either. I went all the way up Fairview Street seeing no bags. I asked a man dressed in black formal clothing and a tall hat if he had seen any. He was directing traffic on a side street. He said in the morning there had been a bag caught in a bush several feet from us, but it had disappeared. I went back down Fairview still seeing no bags.
    I look for Bigfoot, panthers, moose, and bear out in the boonies so not being able to find bags that are "all over the place" in Brattleboro bothers me. I found myself wondering if John was also seeing women from Salem, Massachusetts, flying on their sticks too. Or was the postmodernism's disdain for evidence and reason. Or were Vermonters, being Vermonters, cleaning up the bags?
     To the writer of the letter to the Brattleboro Reformer asking if a certain person opposing the ban on plastic bags had his head in the sand or elsewhere about the dangers of bags, I was moved to go to the library - my budget doesn't permit TV or the Internet- and enter "problems animals have with plastic bags."
We have been so horrible to the animals in taking their land and now to see what plastic is doing to the few left! I now don't think we should afford people the luxury of deciding individually whether to use plastic bags. I'm down with banning them. For the animals.
     I believe next Monday is Indigenous People's Day. Let's not be shallow about this: We're all Ancient Africans and indigenous to Africa. To Rich Holsuch's Reformer letter saying we shouldn't celebrate or emulate what Columbus did to the natives in South America, I say this: From knowing their customs - slavery, torturing, raping, and seizing land and property of others, I think its safe to say they would have done the same as Columbus did to them if they could have been able to sail to Spain and overwhelm the Spaniards with their technological superiority. Everyone and everything can be made to look just horrible (!) until you start making realistic comparisons and not living in your head.
     "Hold the line for civilization, brothers and sisters. Hold the line!"
Peter "Nick" Nickerson

The Brattleboro Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #40

     I sent an email to David Schoales, John Allen, the Reformer, Fox Cable News, WMUR , and family members in regard to the Reformer running my letter today but snobbily and uncourageously not responding to it. The next step will be to ask the Selectboard if they suppport violence against free speech. I don't want to see this town government namely Kate O'Connor, chairwoman of the selectboard, act like the craven college presidents and mayors who have held their police off when their preferred groups are injuring people and destroying property. That's not Kate as I know her after many hours spent at selectboard meetings, sometimes the only citizen still remaining. But I want this to be public for all the violent people to know in advance. Police are constitutional officers of the court and shouldn't have to risk being fired if held back by thuggish college presidents and city mayors and the like. In an ideal world, they would respond to the crime, and their thug bosses be damned. Surely, the American people would support them if they acted lawfully as constitutional officers. Nick Nickerson
     "The measure of a man [woman or child] is not what he says, but what he does, and what he allows others to do in his presence." - Navy Seal Instructor