I spoke about diversity, tolerance, and choice. The freedom to do what you want and become who you want.
One of the founding principles of our country is the Freedom of Speech. Like it or not, unless they physically touch you, people and the press can say just about anything they want.
As long as it doesn't break the laws of libel, slander, and whatever else, people are allowed to say what they want.
Freedom of the press goes right along with that. The press, while overzealous at times, particularly in areas of national security, are allowed to report and print as they wish.
If today's news is any indication, there is a certain reporter down in Florida who might need to start thinking about his own need of self defense.
This story can be seen on a certain "impartial" national news website and television station.
A reporter, doing a story on a potentially violent man who was allegedly stealing identifications, buying homes and then renting them out, was camped out in front of the alleged bad guy's house, trying to interview him for the story.
A woman, probably his wife, shows up and starts yelling and screaming at the cameraman and the reporter.
Using language that would make a sailor or truck driver blush.
From there, she whacks the reporter in the face several times with a water bottle. To the reporter's credit, he didn't smack her or provoke her in any way; he tried to "talk" her down from her heightened level of anger.
He must not be married.
She stays muy caliente under the collar until You-Know-Who arrives. The bad guy calmly gets out of his car, walks pass the woman, walks up to the reporter...
And knocks the snot out of him.
I mean, he pulled back and let loose with what looked like a ridge hand strike and clocked this guy.
The reporter, probably still saying to himself, "Hey, you can't do that to me; I'm the press", did what every non-trained person does in the face of an assault.
He turned his back and crouched down, trying to cover his face. Not Good.
Now the bad guy has his back, one arm around his neck and the other trying to claw the guy's eyes out.
Enter the reporter's cameraman. He grabs the bad guy from the back around the throat with one arm and tries to pull the bad guy back and off of the reporter.
The reporter is not helping anything because he is frozen in place, bent over, which is keeping the bad guy bent forward, which is preventing the cameraman from getting a good lock on the bad guy.
If it hadn't been a violent assault, it would have been comical.
It wound up with everyone going down in a heap on the ground, reporter trying to keep from getting his eyes gouged out and ears bitten; bad guy trying to maim and snack on the reporter, and cameraman trying to get a lock on the bad guy.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The woman ran off saying she was going to get a gun, but all she could find was a rock.
She would have brained the cameraman with it if it hadn't been for a passerby who thought things were enough out of control and he disarmed the woman.
This whole thing could have been avoided if the reporter had bothered to acknowledge the potential danger in his job, starting taking self defense classes and picked up Secrets of the Shaolin Temple Volume I.
All he had to do was go to http://www.shaolinsecrets.com and he could have had the first volume that covers the fundamentals of self defense, health, fitness as well as strikes, kicks, methods of movement and defense, all based on the secret teachings of the Shaolin Temple.
He would have known that blocking with his face and then cowering in a little ball is not the most effective form of self defense
No matter who you are or what you do, none of us knows if or when we may need to protect ourselves and our families. Don't be like the reporter.
Best,
William Huff
P.S. - After the reporter went to http://www.shaolinsecrets.com and picked up Secrets of the Shaolin Temple Volume I, he should have gone over to http://www.shaolinsecrets.com/lightning-ju-jitsu.html and picked up the training manuals that were used to train our fighting men in World War II and used to train a certain President of the United States. Then he would have been prepared for the woman and the water bottle.