My husband and I were about to start cooking dinner a couple of weeks ago when a loud expolosion erupted in the marina near our home.  Having once been a volunteer fireman, my husband had experience helping people so he rushed out the door and arrived at the scene of the accident just as a man and woman were pulling the victim out of the water.  My husband stablilized his neck and kept him talking until paramedics arrived.

 

Friends in the yacht club mentioned there had been a nice article about Jim's part in the rescue, so we googled it and came across your article written May 2011, regarding the dismissal of our law suit against Boundary County.  Several things show your ignorance of our situation while living in Idaho.

 

First of all, you took the deputy's word that Jim had gone for his gun.  If you view the video (available on You-Tube) it clearly shows his arms stretched at a 90 degree angle to his torso and no such motion is made prior to tasering.  He is never told to put his hands behind his back and never warned that he is about to be tasered.

 

Second, our efforts to have the 25 mile an hour speed limit signs re-installed were not self-promoting.  Everyone on the road wanted them back up.  They had been a fixture on the small loop road for a very long time prior to their removal in an effort to get us to quit complaining about speeders.

 

Third, Jim's website wasn't from a lack of respect for public servants in general.  We have friends who are State Policeman, Firemen, Prison Guards, and Postal Workers, all public servants.  It was a lack of respect for the leadership in Boundary County, who were protecting a particular family from abiding by laws to which most others had to comply.

 

Fourth, the only people in the neighborhood who were glad to see us go are the ones we were complaining about.  It was obvious from the traffic, that they were invloved in dealing drugs.  Dean Duane Stevens, Jr, is one of the people my husband confronted for speeding.  He has since been convicted of using methamphetamine to assist in his raping a girl.

 

Although our experience in Idaho brought us to bankruptcy (due to having to sell our home at a loss just to get out of there; attorney fees from Jim wrongfully being prosecuted for obstruction of an officer; being unemployed for awhile after our move) we are still so much happier to be living an an area where people show respect for each other, and seldom see the, "I have the right to be this way, no matter whom I harm" attitude. 

Your petty article was just another reminder of how glad we are to have shaken the dust of Boundary County off our feet.