I'm reminded of everything that happened every day.  It's with me when I wake up, its in my dreams at night.  I'm reminded when I go to my crumby job, as I lost a job and I lost a business (although it was in it's infancy).  I'm reminded when I go to the public library and see children there, and when I open my credit card statements.  I'm reminded when I fill out a job application and it says have you ever been convicted of a felony.  I am reminded I was once charged with one but thankfully I can still put down no.  I'm reminded when I hear the words jail on TV, I'm reminded when they talk about Michael Jackson and his alleged victims.  I'm reminded that they didn't use alleged; they spoke as if I had victims even though I didn't.  Never mind I didn't know any children, never mind a child has never accused me of anything.  Never mind there probably isn't a child in that state that knows my name, all of that is irrelevant.  The only laws I have broken are traffic.  It disturbs me when I am referred to as an offender.  I've won my case; it never even went to trial.  It didn't take millions, no one was bought.        

Once before I tried to get my name off a statewide database that lists me as an offender and failed.  Anyone with my last name can get my first name and middle initial.  From my last name they can obtain my date of birth.  They can verify my social security number.  I called the 877 number and spoke with an operator. She refused to answer my questions, she wouldn't even tell me if she worked for the organization or if she was outsourced.  All I wanted was a mailing address, she asked me why I wanted that information, I told her so I could write them a letter.  She hung up on me; I called back and told her she was rude.  So tomorrow I will call them and appeal to their sense of greed.  I will call them and tell them I own DEWRES Inc, and your organization has done so much for my sister who is a victim of spousal abuse.  Thankfully he is now her x spouse, but when she told me how much you have done for her I felt I had to make a donation.  I would like to talk to someone about having my company make a contribution to your organization; can you give me some contact info?  I am going to do this tomorrow, and I will sue these bastards if I have to.  I can't help but think that before all of this I would never have been able to do that.  I would never have been able to be deceitful.  So it's changed me.  I'm tired of fighting, and I am tired of losing.  I suppose I won the important fight, but sometimes I think not really.  I guess I will end with a quote.  With the first link, a chain is forged.  The first speech censored the first thought forbidden the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.    If I have any readers, and any of you know what that quote is from, shock me by telling me in a comment :-)