How much easier it must be to sit at home, sip wine, work on Vespa scooters, and write small columns ripping on our county’s District Attorney than to do what our District Attorney has. Namely, honorably serve our nation as an Army Colonel, put himself in harm’s way on multiple overseas assignments as such, sacrificing time he could have spent at home with his loved ones here on the coast, and just as importantly, manage our county’s District Attorney’s office. If The Shredder doesn’t know what public service means, this is it. With his law license, surely Mr. Dow could have worked in the private sector as an attorney and made out like a bandit, especially with the acuity he and his assistant DA’s had to actually get a conviction on Paul Flores. No body, no weapon, and decades gone. Dan Dow got a conviction, doing so was an expression of the values that the good people of SLO county possess. We don’t leave injured soldiers on the battlefield and neither did Dan Dow. Kristen Smart and her family can finally have some peace. Going after Paul Flores was a huge gamble. I’m no lawyer (or writer), but I think Paul Flores couldn’t be tried for the same crime twice, right? If Dan Dow failed, Paul Flores could continue slipping micky’s into the drinks of women in LA, as he was later convicted of doing. Further, Dan Dow would have looked like a fool. The world knows SLO cares, we don’t let students get murdered here in SLO and not hold their perpetrators accountable. Every time I passed by that large billboard in AG with Kirstin Smart on it, it did nothing but make me angry knowing that someone in our community got away, scot free, with murder. What The Shredder would have had Dan Dow do was to just look the other way and ignore the rights of victims. What The Shredder would have done is waste our tax dollars defending the rights of boutique identitarians, and why? Because members of the left hate God and hate morality. What they don’t understand is that secularism is a type of religion and has just as many zealots as does organized religion. The Shredder is this town’s self-appointed high priest of secularism. Dan Dow is no religious zealot. What he is and what I had the honor of hearing him speak of at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, is a person aware of his own mortality, the brevity of life, and the importance of using this gift given to us by God called “life,” to do something more important than seek our own interests. He exhorted the students and people in attendance to basically question authority. For students, it may have been their professors, and why not, hardly a day goes by where one isn’t arrested for domestic (left wing) terrorism. For others, it was basic science, what makes a man and what makes a woman. As the son of a now deceased butch dyke, I’m not threatened by traditional marriage. If someone in the LBTQ community wants to marry someone of the same sex, simply move to a state where it is legal, the same with reproductive rights. No one is saying you can’t do any of that, just don’t expect the federal government to intercede in areas best left to individual states to decide. I for one, have seen (and experienced from a child’s perspective) the worst in heterosexual marriages. If a same sex attracted person wants to partake in that institution go for it, just do it in a state that allows it and don’t shove your belief system down my throat.
The Shredder’s dream would be to have a Chesa Boudin type figure as our DA. This is the person who served a whopping two and half years before being recalled as the DA in San Francisco. Why? In an effort to appease soft-on-crime types, like The Shredder, San Francisco imploded. Is that what we want here in SLO? If anyone deserves to be reelected here, it would be Dan Dow. If anything, Shredder, he needs to be tougher on crime. Go after white collar crooks like the farmers employing illegal aliens around here and dodging the taxes they should be paying so that we could have better public services. Go after all the incestuous activity between the local chapter of the Democratic party and city officials, otherwise known as a system of patronage. Become like FDR and go after our version of Tammany Hall, raid the Democratic party headquarters. Go after all the illegal cannabis growers destroying the profitability of honest, taxed and regulated, dispensaries. Fly helicopters over everyone’s backyards and rural areas. It took decades to legalize cannabis. I saw my late father get removed from our VW van and arrested by law enforcement in Big Sur in the 70’s, all from a pot seed. All these illegal cannabis growers are destroying the investment involved in operating legally. These backyard growers might as well be rum runners during the prohibition era, operating whiskey stills in their backyards. Our government needs every tax dollar it can and all I see are cheats. Mr. Dow, become Elliot Ness. Go after street gangs and drug cartels too. Clean our country up. We are on the verge of becoming a failed state and live in very dangerous times. The Shredder has simply lived a charmed life, having never become a crime victim, risked his life for his country, or become half the man Dan Dow is. Perhaps The Shredder’s animosity comes from his own jealousy. I’m not afraid to say it, I wish I was a full bird colonel (as Dan Dow is). I wish I was an attorney, let alone a DA (as Dan Dow is). I wish I could say I gave my entire life to this country (as Dan Dow has). I wish I could say that I successfully prosecuted Kirsten Smart’s murderer (as Dan Dow has). What about you, Shredder? WTF have you done for anyone other than yourself?