Welcome to the madhouse...


My website is a work in progress as I continue to consolidate material from several websites to which I have contributed or edited. I am working on three projects at the moment – an exposé on public school disciplinary policies termed zero tolerance, an essay proposing a new analytical political spectrum, and my first novel which is in final re-write.
    urrently, I am executive director of Texas Zero Tolerance. We’re a parental rights advocacy group that has been petitioning the Texas state legislature to reform school disciplinary policies and reaffirm the proper role of parents in public education. What most people don’t understand is that once you allow your child to go to public school, your parental rights are greatly reduced.

Say your kid is walking down the school hallway toward his or her locker and another child, for no apparent reason other than randomness, attacks your child. Don’t think it can happen? Then you’re misinformed. Say your child repels the attacker in self-defense. Suddenly your kid is a criminal and is arrested and hauled off to jail - all before you’re notified. From that point forward you live in a nightmare of criminal proceedings, suspension, and expulsion to reform school. All because some kid was having a bad day and decided to pick on your precious angel.

It does happen every day at every school in every state throughout the nation. Don’t you, as a parent, believe you should be allowed to speak with your child and the school’s principal before your child is arrested? The nightmare of reform school is humiliating enough as is. Think along the lines of getting a traffic ticket and being thrown into a maximum security prison with murderers, rapists, and drug dealers. That’s what happens to school kids.

Those charged with safeguarding our children seem to lack integrity. Don’t they understand that it is in their power to do the right thing?

As a result of my involvement, I have appeared in scores of media reports and television interviews and have, at times, contracted a big head – not really, I’m really quite modest.

I have run for school board twice – losing twice – and elected to the Fort Bend Texas Republican Party executive committee. I was appointed election judge for three years.

I don’t do any of that anymore, preferring to transition into writing – a goal from my earliest childhood.

I do enjoy all things politics and I look at things a little differently as I am a kooky libertarian. I don’t consider myself a Republican anymore. While I share many of the cultural and faith-based morals with conservatives, I’m getting sick and tired of it being jammed down everyone’s collective throats – from both sides of the political spectrum. What I believe and practice is my business and it has no bearing on what policy should be in this nation. I just want to be left alone and I believe the vast majority of Americans want the same.

For Americans to practice democracy, I believe an individual must be well-informed and hold themselves and elected officials to a high degree of integrity. I remember interviewing for a small suburban newspaper twenty-five or so years ago and the interview went perfectly until the editor asked me to define integrity. I stammered a bit and that was the end of the interview.

Integrity is basic right and wrong. We all know what that means – putting good before ones own self-interests – but we practice it with such irregularity that the basic concept is disappearing from our society. I’m a strong believer in what goes around comes around. It does seem that at times, those who ignore the basic concept of human interaction seem to get away with murder – and sometimes literally.

I hope the projects I choose now and in the future will reflect a great deal of integrity and the consequences of selfishness. I’m not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and like most, I am insensitive from time-to-time.

In the mean time, please: just do the right thing. I hope I always do.




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