Daily Journal Continued April 17, 1999, William Thomas Thompson. Dear Lord, protect us from the guns of police and children. The local police shot and killed a lady today in Travelers Rest South Carolina; she was reportedly swinging a gun. Killing of men and women is increasing by police showing their coward nature. We must remove their guns and take away their cars to make them equal with the common man. Friends reported that this mother was upset and got into her car with a gun threatening to commit suicide but when they called 911, the cops did it for her, let it all stop. Psalm131-3, "Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth forever" Travelers Rest is a small doctor town 10 miles North of Greenville on highway 25 with a Charter Hospital for drunks and crazy people in all due respect for the crazy. I think the crazy are saner than the law. This killing will never be forgotten by the killer. Years ago my father told me that George Coleman was a little Deputy Sheriff here and that he shot a man in the mouth for a very minor offence killing him. My daddy said George was a hotheadsmartaleck (insider) and should not have used his gun at all. The George Coleman name means Travelers Rest today, a life time Ford Dealer spread all over town in terms of real estate. George still lives well in his nineties. To travel the bypass north you see his sign a mile. Travelers Rest had two hospitals some years ago, Coleman and Gaston, Dr. T.E. Coleman who died heavy and early, Dr. Gaston also died not long after delivering my younger sister Judy. This was before the take over of the hospitals by government sponsored syndicates. This is the beginning of rough neck county. Bootleggers always operated a short distant from here to the North Carolina line. Those 41 fords would sure run over you in the early morning hour. Terri Creek and from Powdersville to Tigerville, they had built up engines and had heavy springs to carry the moonshine without sagging or showing a load. The legal liquor and beer on every corner has put the poison stills out of business. Taxes from alcohol sales fund our schools. There is no wonder the devil is raising up to shoot and kills our kids. The devil is just being himself. The devil is death. Satan is in charge. People with rings in their ears, eyes and noses are everywhere symbolizing Satan. Satan is glorified in all areas of life and worshipped religiously and hallowed like on Halloween and Christmas with Santa Claus and with the Easter egg. We worship all but God and we build our house on the sand. Let us start anew and recognize the Creator of all things as Lord of all. We have departed from faith in God and have drifted faraway from God into the hands of that old serpent the devil, the dragon of Revelation ch12 and we belong to him. We have compromised with sin for phony peace in our country, church and home. We have nothing as a result. Now we are destitute with our hope in nothing. We are devoid of peace and joy; we have only sorry, pity and confusion to deal with. Here we are on the run with multi families and vacant children on our hands. We have lost our way and we are miserable. Our future will be the same as the movies we watch, as the thoughts we think. This is the place we do not wish to be. No man lives any higher than a thought or deed or his/her expectation of self. We are what we eat. We also are what we think. We are what we plan to be and do. Let no person be a fool. We must all give in account to God for our time. Let us all submit our service to God now and forevermore.