Frank Georgalis – Writer

To the Victors belong the Spoils I: The confessions

No man can find pleasure in life, no matter where he goes, if he is not pleased with himself. William Haggerty was such a man and he was also my friend. He made nasty and offensive ill-tempered growls at anybody who gazed at him with somewhat unkind glance, and it was known that his arrogance was compared to that of General George Patton.

THE MEETING

No man can find pleasure in life, no matter where he goes, if he is not pleased with himself. William Haggerty was such a man and he was also my friend. He made nasty and offensive ill-tempered growls at anybody who gazed at him with somewhat unkind glance, and it was known that his arrogance was compared to that of General George Patton.

William Haggerty was always looking for a reason to intimidate people and put the blame on others. He felt prosecuted and condemned; therefore he was the first to prosecute and condemned others in anticipation. It seemed that he had finally realized that his audience, which was the world before him, did not enjoy his performance, even though he performed with zeal. By the time he was forty five he had taken two women, one after the other, as his wives and had lost both of them and a number of girlfriends the same way one after the other and was left with his ill-temper, more ill than before. He confessed to one of his friends in many separate occasions, that he wished he could find another way to display his anger to the world.

“Why display anger? Why not show some kindness?” asked the friend.

“The world is cruel and it does not deserve kindness,” he responded.

“You have confessed to me, now it’s time for me to confess to you,” said his friend in one occasion while they were sitting in a “Bar and Grill” establishment, by a corner table away from most eyes and ears. “I wanted to be your hero because you have always been my hero, but I know you hated me, my friend,” said the friend showing a hint of paranoia. “But I also know that you have no right to hate me any longer. I no longer wish to be the same hero now as I tried to appear before you, and I became a perfect nuisance to you and you began to hate me. The more I realized you hated me the more anxious I got to be your hero. Now I realize that I was stupid to try to do whatever you did. I went against everything I disliked the way you did. I even tried to change the laws of nature the way you went about it,” said his friend.

“You are surprising the hell out of me,” said Haggerty. “You are right about the laws of nature. If there is anything that needs changing, it’s that. With what kind of an eye you looked at me and saw all that?  How did I go about changing the laws of nature and I know nothing about it? How could you imitate me, you don’t even know what I did for living,”

“I was impressed, Haggerty, by the way you moved. The way you fleshed the cars and the boats and the beautiful women around you. You are right-handed and I am left-handed, but to be like you, I fought Mother Nature and I insisted of using my right hand. It was awkward and heart breaking,” continued his friend. “At night I used to go home and punch my throat hoping to sound like you with a deep voice. That is fighting Mother Nature and trying to change it.”

“I must give you credit for tying to change nature even though you tried for the wrong reason,” said Haggerty, not with any trace of a smile as one might had expected.   I was an obedient child of Mother Nature for being what she wanted me to be. I must inform you, even though the laws of nature, above anything else, cause the punishment and the trouble through out everybody’s life, one has to be quite stupid trying to change them. The laws of nature are the ones that cause all the nastiness in the world: I could see that even then, but I didn’t have the stamina to fight nature. This is amusing, to say the least. There I was, fed up with the life I was leading and you were impressed. I assure you from now on; I shall turn a new leaf in life and roll with the punches that nature throws without mercy. I have found out that we the humans are governed by the laws of nature, I fear, we are as cruel as nature. If the laws of nature govern humans they can become extremely wretched, after all the law nature is not called ‘mother nature’ for nothing. It passes down to humans her wishes, which are her laws. Nature has no mercy; it has no remorse and never repents.”

“Look at the laws that human designed, not alone some of them are merciless and contradictory they are also stupid. In New Jersey not too long ago they passed a law prohibiting people eating sunny side up eggs. That was a health code violation for restaurants to serve their costumers sunny- side-up eggs. The violators could lose their license to operate. Their costumers, being refused sunny-side-up eggs, became so heated they threatened the restaurant employees with violence and some restaurants resorted into closing their places of business for breakfast. If it weren’t for the Greek Diner owners and some of their employees and a lot of sunny-side-up egg lovers to march into Trenton, the state capital of New Jersey to protest the law, showing signs of violence and threatening to burn Trenton to the ground and the capital would be a farm land, something the Royal English troops failed to do during the revolution, the law would still be in effect and enforceable. If that law had stayed, the next one in line would have been: no one could walk in the rain, because of the danger of catching pneumonia. Oh, wait a moment. They have a law close to that. You cannot drive a convertible car with the top down it during a cold spell. I was driving a convertible in February one year in New Jersey, when the temperature was 26 degrees above zero, and I was stopped by the police officer. Tell me what kind of people pass laws like these? Bullies. That’s what bullies are. Every body remembers the bullies in school bulling every body around just to tell the world they were there. When you are trying to tell the people what to eat, that alone tells where you come from. I bet you dollar to donuts if you could run a survey of the politicians and the cops, you will find out that most of them were bullies in school and became lawyers and then politicians, the ones who could not cut the muster in school and the ones who had an ax to grind became cops. Oh, take a look at the law against prostitution. New Jersey Law 2C-34-! It reads as follows; Sexual activity with another person in exchange of something of value is prostitution and the house they live in is the house of ill-repute and is a subject to governmental confiscation. I knew that my mother, if my father would not had provide her with bare necessities in life, would had left my father and I would not blame her. Therefore she stayed and was involved in sexual activity with my father for something of economic value, to the eyes of the law my mother was a whore, but what saved her from being arrested was that she had marriage license. The way the law reads most of the women who live with men and who have not taken out a marriage licenses, are whores. Do you know how many whores are in your town, according to the laws of prostitution? I would say thousands. Listen to this, my friend, the law says that if two people are having dinner in a restaurant and one pays for it and both go to the same house or hotel or motel not even to have sex, or to touch each other they are guilty of prostitution. Listen to this! They don’t have to be caught touching each other or having sex, if the lights go off and stay off, over fifteen minutes, according to the law; it is a proof of sexual activity is taking place in there. Thank God they passed the Privacy Act in 1974 and stopped some of the law enforcement agents intruding. I would like to invest some time and follow a daughter of high ranking politician and her lover from the restaurant to their house, wait for fifteen minutes after the lights go off, call for a search warren, go in with a police and have them arrested and charged them with prostitution and it should stick according to the way the law is written. She is not above the law and she should be prosecuted convicted and go to jail like most prostitutes. Oh, the high ranking politician, who is saying that, nobody is above the law, will have another high ranking politician to pardon both of them like the presidents do on their way out, pardoning criminals in favor of political donations.

In my opinion, one of the most fascinating books that have ever been written is Doctor Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly when she was only 19 years old. The fascinating part of it is Doctor Frankenstein stricken with mega-mania, like most politicians, created a monster; stronger than he was which eventually killed him. If anyone puts together all the laws we have in the books, will end up with a monster capable of destroying all of us. According to Kinsey, if all the laws are enforced 35% of the American people will go to jail. Why these laws have been voted to be passed? My friend, you must remember the thinking of the bullies. They only wished to intimidate their fellow students. The students who chose not to fight back they grew up, most of them to be cowards and political supporters and the bullies count on them.

“What makes you to want to go after the daughters of high-ranking politicians?” asked the friend. “What is it you are looking to accomplish?”

“They may say that no body is above the law. I say, except those who are pardoned by elected political figures. Let the public know that they are people above the law. And most of all I want the Monster of Law to take a bite from some high-ranking politician’s ass.”

 

 

 

I shall change

“When Herodias visited John the Baptist in his dungeon, the moment he laid his eyes upon her he screamed and criticized her jewelry; her bracelet’s, anklets necklaces and ear rings. She turned and said to him: ‘Of all the ills in the world, of all the injustices and the killings and the sufferings, you picked on my earrings as if they are the reasons for all those happenings,” said William to his friend. Saying this he stopped turned and stared at his friend with different look on his face and said in a different voice, “that, my friend, is what the politicians are doing; they go after our earrings.”

“Why are you so concerned, most of these laws are not been enforced?” said his friend.

“True what you say, but all these laws can be enforced at a moment’s notice,” replied William.