Thoughts from Jimmy

Thoughts from Jimmy:

PEOPLE!!!! Listen Up! I am only going to say this once! If you don’t want it known, don’t do it. If you don’t want your family to see it in the news or on Facebook, don’t do it. If you don’t want to read it in the news or Facebook, don’t read it. If you don’t want to see it in the news or Facebook, don’t look at it. If you don’t want your children to read it on the internet, control their online activities.

If you are out in public, you are fair game to be photographed or videoed. If you are an Officer of the Law, you don’t get to demand not to be videoed. Law Enforcement Officers video people everyday without their consent and use it as evidence against them. Officers should know this.

If you are an Elected Official, you are obligated to keep the public informed. This does not mean you get to decide what records you want to share and not share. There are only a few things that are not “Open Records”. Don’t get mad when I demand to see it.

Please don’t cry to me that your three times removed, half-brother saw it on the news or Facebook before you had a chance to tell them first. Especially when I waited hours to publish it until Officials notified me I could. By the way, I wait as a courtesy, not because I am required to.

Today’s world is not what it used to be. Communications today are a whole lots faster than they used to be. Twenty years ago, something could happen and it might be a day or two before you found out about it. Today we have cell phones, internet, satellite TV, Facebook, and numerous other high-speed forms of communication. Cameras are EVERYWHERE!! If it happens today, it is likely to be caught on camera.

You might as well get used to the idea that if it happens today, people are going to know it today.

There is no need to get mad at me for publishing it. I did not invent the technology, and YOU are the one buying it.

Jimmy Joines