Who Should Serve as a Police Officer?

The police officer who falsifies a report written or oral is an absolute threat to domestic peace and public order. The reality is that no second chances can be given by his/her employer for making a false report. 

So much depends upon the law enforcement profession's reputation for truth and veracity.

I can accept that any given police officer regardless of race or gender or ethnicity is prejudiced. It's hard to stay neutral in the midst of a race war that has gone on in my homeland for generations (the real civil war). 

What I can not accept is that the rule of law can be served by police officers incapable of disinterested reports of fact unslanted by personal agendas that would betray our civilization and our society. 

Domestic peace is premised on mutual hope for redemption and de jure and de facto equal treatment for all. 

Even if you hate others, Martin Luther King gave us a way forward our other Founding Fathers failed to provide us: civil disobediance through non-violent protest. The first practitioners of non-violence must be our police officers who put their lives on the line for every domestic call, every public altercation, and every arrest of a fellow human being. 

If you are called to serve as a law enforcement officer and you do stand for something (and there are things worth dying for), please consider a career in law enforcement. We really need you!

Down the Highway, a Peace available for purchase at online bookstore of the publisher Friesen Press

Down the Highway, a Peace by Richard J. (Rick) Hilber
has now been released and is available for purchase.  Cut and paste the link below as the web address to reach the webpage for a book purchase:


http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000014848187/Richard-J.-%28Rick%29-Hilber-Down-the-Highway%2C-a-Peace

Release Date for Down the Highway, a Peace is projected for June 22, 2015.

superseded by notice of publication

June 15, 2015.

The publisher of Down the Highway, a Peace, by poet Rick Hilber has provided a preview of the book available on the internet at the link displayed at the bottom of this press release (just click on the link to see the preview).

- Be sure to read the blurbs in this preview provided for publication by three who had read the manuscript shortly after submission to Friesen Press by the poet: Dr. Jennifer Montgomery, Poet Dale Jacobson, and the Rev. Jacki Belile. The poet has made changes in the manuscript as part of the book preparation process since these blurbs were first provided to promote the sale of the book.

Publisher’s Bookstore Sales.

As early as next Monday, June 22, 2015, the publisher at this same link will then begin to take orders for any of the three editions of the book: ebook, softcover book, or hardcover book. The prices for the softcover edition and the hardcover edition at FriesenPress bookstore at this link will remain typically lower than other retail outlets (at least initially) although the discounting of list prices of books is always at the discretion of a retailer in most instances. See the note below on ebook pricing however.

General Availability Delay.

A number of weeks (two to five weeks) will then follow before other retail outlets such as Amazon.com will begin to take orders for purchase of the book in all three editions: the ebook, the softcover, and the hardcover editions. There will be some unpredictability of course about when it should reach the various retailers such as Barnes and Noble, but the book dealers tend nowadays to have online bookstores which helps them stay abreast of the daunting lead of Amazon.com in marketing new titles (without actually having shelf copies available for walk in sales).

About the Ebook Purchase of the book.

The email book is priced at $4.99 if purchased from my publisher’s online store (see link below) - which is the same price that one will pay at Amazon.com and other online book stores which market the ebook edition of my book. So do not pay more than $4.99 for your kindle or ebook reader edition next week, or ever for that matter.

http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000014848187