My email to Sheriff Rantala regarding a new threat

Thank you, Sheriff.

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I have indeed been to the sheriff’s department, but to the foyer, not the interior of the building. I have never been back in the bowels of your semi-soundproof jail building.

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And you, and your deputies, and the undersheriff, have always been helpful at every visit.

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As you know, I have sought ever to defuse things. I did not take out a restraining order on [X] and since then, actually, I have had reasonably conciliatory conversations with [X].

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[….] We have money now for lawyers, safety measures, and defensive acquisitions that fall under the category of the Second Amendment.

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We did not come here of our own free will to Ontonagon, Sheriff Rantala. The FBI made me and Margi MISERABLE and got us thrown on the STREET four times in 2014, and broke us financially in Apollo, Pennsylvania.

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We drove here, 18 hours straight, with a half-hour nap at an International House of Pancakes, lacking the funds for even the cheapest motel, and why?

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Because we had been offered 1) a furnished little house — and 2) two months free rent.

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We had lost everything in Apollo, in our sixties, and had kept only what we could stuff in my ’96 Crown Vic.

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I drove 857 miles with this torn contact lens in my eye.

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You can blame one and only one malefactor, the FBI, for the fact that we are even here, sheriff, causing you headaches which we do not wish on you at all, sir.

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But the FBI, which has been out of control since J. Edgar Hoover, will NOT drive me any further.

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I am friendly to every person in this village, respectful, helpful in so many individual cases of need, a spender of funds regularly at many establishments, and respectful of the right of all to disagree  — in a peaceful manner — with me.

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I do not push my views on those who are on an obviously different wavelength.

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Many others agree with me in whole or in part. After all, this town landslid for Candidate Trump (who as president now disgusts me, btw.)

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But no one has the right to slander me with the vilest inventions and falsehoods so as to agitate the most wayward elements (which exist in every town) to mob violence against our persons or property.

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I had an experience at [X] that determined me to contact you to head off any more issues, before things get serious.

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My number is 884-6689. Thank you for coming tomorrow, sir.

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Best,

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JdN