Comfort and Convenience.

When you have these two things in your life it makes things easier to deal with. Comfort. Nice home, fine car, money in the bank. Convenience. Lots of friends, at your finger tips, only a phone call away, always ready. Many more words could be added to the list, but you get the idea.

Now, I’ve said that to say this. Ain’t it easy to ride the bandwagon! When you are rolling everybody is your friend. They stand up and fight for you, call people out on their lies about you. See, that will put you, and keep you, in your Comfort Zone. Why leave? Life has gone on for all these years.

So what changed?

I still have not killed anybody, still the same country-stupid, redneck hick. So why all the haters now? Easy: convenience. I am a easy target; the haters do not have to admit they were wrong. It’s strange. The only people that have a voice in this as for how I feel about the case would be the parents of the other children, Dana, Todd, Pam, and of course Terry Hobbs. Pam agrees that the search for the truth is more important than her personal comfort. Dana and Todd, well, comfort and convenience is all I can see. And Terry Hobbs? Can you folks guess what I would be doing if I was Terry Hobbs? All these years I have stood up for myself and took on all assclowns, bar none. Think what I might do to somebody I know, and know where they live. It isn’t the same as it is with some of these internet folks running their pieholes. Todd got him a dose over the phone. Why did he call the WMPD? I'll tell you why: he got his memory back. Enough said.

Now what about me? Simple: I wanted answers and I got them. No, this is not easy, and it sure as hell ain’t no fucking game. A man’s life hangs in the balance. Three dead children deserve better. The stakes are huge. When it is all over - and I believe it will be, one way or another - I will still be here. My life isn’t over!!! MY son’s not coming back.

These next words are not mine, however they have changed my life. I have learned much from this man’s words.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy," Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love, 1963

Challenge and Controversy. Interesting.

So you see, this is not comfort, and it sure as hell ain’t convenient. It is, however, challenge and hell yeah, controversy! Dr. King was a great man. He has helped many people, from back in the 1960s to this day. No matter what I have to go through, I will not stop. I have always been up for a challenge, and sure as hell I’m controversial. If I have to fight, so be it. I’ll fight not with my fists, for those who wondered; that would the old JMB. Dr King I am not, however the man had some great advice, and some powerful words to live by.

I hope this helps my friends understand me a little better. You can ask folks who speak to me on the phone. I sound smarter than I look. Maybe I have a radio face, like Memphis, lmao@myself!

John Mark Byers