Debbie Bell - Leave Us Alone and Let Us Shine

LEAVE US ALONE AND LET US SHINE

Debbie Bell

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Copyright 2010 Debbie Bell.

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ISBN: 978-1-4269-3968-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4269-3982-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010910715

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Life

Some people could put your name out there bad base on where you live or where you grew up. I was born and raised in Chicago and back when I was born. If you were from Chicago you had to be tough.

Yes I had to be tough living in Chicago. I remember being 10 year old going to the store with my best friend and we were laughing and just having fun when we were approach by an 18 year old girl. She asks what we were laughing at and we said none of your business, not knowing that she would be waiting outside when we came out. I happen to be the first one out the door and she stuck her foot out and tripped me and I chipped my tooth and I remember what my mother told me If you dont fight back Im going to whoop you when you come homeso who would you rather it be Sandra or your mother?

So I got up off that ground and ran into her like there was no tomorrow and I beat the hell out of her. I surprised myself and from that point on I promise myself.;the bigger they are the harder they fall. I would never allow myself to look at the size of someone and be too afraid to defend myself or my siblings. I will always try to protect my siblings and those of my family members whenever Im around.

Most of my life I was the protector of my family. I could always depend on my parents to be there because I would never run to my family or friends when I would get in trouble. I would allow them to hear about it from the streets or someone else. Ive always did my dirt by my self. Not to mention from 10 years old; until I was grown everyone always blamed me for something someone else has done. Sometimes people here things about your family and assume everyone acts the same. How can someone fix their mouth to speak wrong and bad about someone else family members! That person mother and father love them just as much as you love yours! No matter what they have done.

My motto was dont take anything from no one as my mother always told us. I just didnt understand it when she said dont take nothing. Until she finally made me understand that she meant do not take anything that does not belong to you. She also said do not go outside picking and starting trouble with anyone.

Now if someone hit you! You better hit them back! Which Im sure all mothers heard that saying and told their childrens the same thing. We all know children have selective listen and take bits and pieces of what we say to them. My mother wishes she had never told me to hit them back, because it went to my head and thats another reason why I miss my brother.

My brother would be the one to calm me down when someone has pissed me off. Once I got started it was hard to calm me down. A lot of people whom knew me knew this to be true. When you live in a small area everyone think they know you even if they just heard your name. The ones that truly knew me said I have a very good heart. If you didnt mess with me I could be the sweetest person that one have every met.

You see my brother would stop whatever he was doing to calm me down. He would talk to the person and tell them walk away and let her calm down. Then when she is ready you can talk to her because mostly everyone that I got into it with was men. I didnt care who they were or how tough they were or if I won or lose. I wasnt giving up. I was not giving up until they knock me out or I whipped the hell out of them. I did not care how many people it was because it did not matter. But it never made a different. Not too often would I get into a fight with a female. Not saying I couldnt be beat but it was going to be something to remember and Ill leave that at that!

Unless we are defending our self in a life or death situation no one would just kill someone for freedom of speech. There is a better way to deal with that situation. I had to learn that the hard way. I remember hearing the saying that not all states and country have self defense..

In the state of Wisconsin: 939.48 Self-defense and defense of others. 2) Provocation affects the privilege of self-defense as follows:

(a) A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense against such attack , except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. In such a case, the person engaging in the unlawful conduct is privileged to act in self-defense, but the person is not privileged to resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the persons assailant unless the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm at the hands of his or her assailant.

Your attacker may not provoke you to attack and then use self defense as their justification. There is an exception in italics that appears to allow the attacker to use lethal force against you if escape is not possible for them and to avoid death or great bodily harm (from you). This exception applies in situations where the attacker did not intend for their attack to cause you death or great bodily harm. Of course if they had not sufficiently threatened you with death or great bodily harm, you would not have used lethal force to stop their threat against you either. We really do not shoot people because they cut us off in traffic, for example.

I went to prison for defending myself and I spent 18mths of prison time and the rest on a new law no one could understand not even the justice system. It was new to them so they gave me 6 1/2 years on truth and sentence. In Wisconsin, if a judge decides to send a defendant to jail, it is required that he/she impose a two-part sentence, called a bifurcated sentence:

a portion to be served in prison (called confinement) and

a portion to be served in the community on extended supervision

This structure was instituted with the passage of as the truth-in-sentencing law. Bifurcated sentences may also include fines or probation as part of the sentence. As a technical matter, you are in prison the entire time of the bifurcated sentence. They are referred to as Type I (confinement) and Type II (ES) prisons. In each part you are under the custody of the Department of Corrections and subject to their control. That means you dont get good time nor can you file for an early release. You see God does everything for a reason!