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substitute chickens for cows and this is what I thought of:
George Nelson: Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers! [fires his Tommy gun at them] Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, George... not the livestock
O Brother, where art thou.
_________________ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. .. those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C.S. Lewis
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This is a prime example of how our Mental Health System has broken down. As the Government on all levels are cutting back or ignoring those who need help this will play out many times sometimes with tragic results. People with Mental Health issues has always been with us and will always be with us it’s how we choose to treat it that is the difference. The choice is clear we treat it or we do not. The choice now seems to be we do not, just send them to jail and let Law Enforcement deal with mental issues. I myself DO NOT feel this is what Law Enforcement is set up to do, their role should be putting people who need help to the proper agency for them to be helped ,Not putting them in Jail and them having to deal with it. As bad as our Mental Health System has been in the past it is worse now in that we have shifted or put out on the streets persons who need Mental Health help. A prime Example of this is the treatment of the VA toward Veterans who have Mental Health Issues due to their service.
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Sounds like it all came to a head today with the suspect threatening the life of the Sheriff and other elected officials. Such a shame that this man never could get the help that he really needed. Oldtractor can tell you all about this issue much more than I because that is the feild he is working (volunteering) in.
Sheriff Cannon Receives Death Threat August 24, 2011 6:56 PM Kim Chapman Dade County Sheriff Patrick Cannon says he chased down a suspect who threatened to kill him Wednesday afternoon.
Sheriff Cannon says he got a call last night from a “contact” who said a repeat offender, Hillard Allen Stevens, bought a gun and threatened to kill both Cannon and other Dade County public officials.
Cannon tells NewsChannel 9 that when he left his office Wednesday afternoon, Stevens was in in his car in the jail parking lot and appeared to be waiting for the sheriff.
But as soon as he saw the sheriff, he took off in his car. The sheriff chased Stevens through Trenton and eventually got him pulled him over.
Sheriff Cannon said Stevens had a loaded .45 caliber handgun in the front seat of his car.
Stevens has been taken to the Dade County jail.
We told you about Stevens back in January when Dade County investigators rounded up close to 50 farm animals from his property. Stevens was charged with animal cruelty at that time and we know of at least two other times he was charged with the same offense. The first two charges accuse him of stabbing and killing two dogs and killing chickens.
Man Accused of Making Death Threats To Sheriff Will Go To Superior Court October 07, 2011 5:25 PM Natalie Jenereski In Dade County, a man who's charged with threatening the life of that county's Sheriff will have his case heard in Superior Court. A county judge made the decision Friday afternoon after a preliminary hearing. Prosecutors painted Hillard Stevens as a man who is mentally unstable and capable of murder.
Back on August 24th, police arrested Hillard Stevens for leading officers on a high-speed chase on Hwy. 136. Dade County Sheriff Patrick Cannon was also involved in that chase, and he says Stevens threatend his life just days earlier.
At Friday's hearing, Agent Daniel Sims with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation read from the notes he took the day of Stevens' arrest as he watched the interview process through a closed-circuit television. "During his interview, it was clear to me as an investigator and as law enforcement officer that he was very angry at the Sheriff," said Sims.
Agent Sims also said Stevens was friendly and professional in his interview, but at times could be hard to follow, suggesting he may need a mental evaluation. "He would sing to Detective Prince during the interview, I believe it was a gospel song, 'On the Wings of a Snow White Dove,' it was just out of the spontaneous blue he did that," said Sims.
After the investigator's nearly 2-hour testimony, and a few other witnesses, Magistrate Chris Griffin decided there was probable cause that Stevens had, in fact, made terroristic threats against Sheriff Cannon. "That's what Agent Sims hammered on the most and the best. His investigation really centered around that terroristic threat. I felt he provided that probable cause and that's why I elected to go forward with all of those charges," said Griffin.
Sheriff Patrick Cannon says he hopes those charges put Stevens behind bars for a long time, and he's not in any rush to put this case behind him. "I personally want it to go as far as it can possibly go, and Mister Stevens to get as much time as he possibly can," said Cannon.
Agent Sims added that Stevens would speak in self-invented acronyms and nicknames, saying he even refered to Cannon as "long legs" when describing him.
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