The police went down screaming and moaning even begging for a Fanta to drink, accusing us of deceiving them, even though they have 2 receipts a sworn document from me and the shop owner testifying that we bought the cement there.  But they have signed papers to let the cement go and Joao does not have to go to jail.

In all this we had informed them that our house had been robbed and their response was when the thief shows up bring him by.

          It is all very sad that in all this we are happy that Joao is not in jail and in the light of everything 10 bags of cement is really nothing.  But I remain sad that the police are so corrupt that they are angry that we didn’t bribe and that there may be a grudge match on.  When darkness has so over come that they resent and fail to understand why others don’t function on their same level.  That they see the function of their job is to extort money. 

          We have one of my older boys from days gone by who wants to be a police and change things… he can’t get in to police school because he won’t bribe his way in.  Things are done badly on such a normal basis that  it IS normal and not seen as bad as all, but how the system works.

          I always try and reflect on things, I ask myself how does my system work?  Am I blind to my own faults and systems, are they normal?  Am I just an old dog trying to learn new tricks as well?  Is there light shining at me from some direction that I may just find annoying and be completely baffled at it, I just find it confusing?