written by Pamela Scholes
We enter this world with our own special identity, things that separate us from other people and allow us to blossom into our own unique selves. This journey takes a lifetime to build and yet it can be swept from underneath you like a flying carpet ride. Your entire world can now be turned upside down and inside out by the fastest growing and yet least paid attention to crime of Identity Theft. People out there have become experts on being able to steal who we are and we, sadly, are the last to know it and by then the damage is done. And once the damage is done there is a long uphill road waiting to climb to try to untangle this web of a mess.Through some research I have found that not even the IRS will give the police authorities any information concerning any identity theft victim or case even while asking questions about an open investigation. All words fall on deaf ears and people hide behind policy to abandon the innocent.
The IRS and other governmental departments know who the perpetrators are through fraud tax returns and duplicate filings and yet they still withhold any/all information from the victim and authorities. I have been told that victims of this crime spend years spinning their wheels and doing their own leg work while the "powers that be" sweep this ever growing invasion of ones life under the proverbial rug. This deserves full due attention. Imagine the devastation of waking up one day to find that on paper your identity has been stolen and you have no clue where to turn. It is a sad fact but the avenues of help are 95% closed. Oh, it is acknowledged that this crime does exist but I have never heard of one proposal or plan to bring down an iron fist on this. We should not only feel protected, we should BE protected. Hackers are sneaking in and dissolving what one has worked so hard for and no one offers a hand toward a solution nor do we hear of anyone suggesting ways to implement a better, stronger system. The government itself is being hacked and yet they do not seem on high alert nor do we hear much about the corruptness striking even them. No one is beyond reach in this epic saga of technical robbery. Any one of us could fall victim to having our identity stolen on any given day.
It is a time of true "beware" but it will never be broadcast on the news as such; might alarm people-as opposed to looking at it like informing them. In my research and with talking with many victims I was astonished at the number of people who appear as new cases each day through the Fraud Investigative Department. A Detective shared with me that identity theft is his main case load now and they can lay dormant for long periods of time due to a tall wall of shut down from those who should be helping by providing information so that the perpetrators may be brought to justice. The "powers that be" just close the door and draw the blinds as if it will just go away. It is a far larger problem than I have heard admitted. How can a continual blind eye turn to yet another screaming and obviously intrusive attack against innocent people? Is it really that easy to think that if it just isn't addressed out loud then it will quietly find a way to fix itself? There are extreme measures that are long past due to be taken to fight for the victim instead of protecting the criminal. Ask anyone what price they would put on the tag for all the trauma and discord a situation like this cost and they would have no numbers to offer for so much of the violation took irreplaceable things. Heads should be hanging down for leaving a person hanging out to dry and letting them try to figure out how to recapture who they are. I intend to expand on this issue in the Atlanta Constitution but I just HAD to share it here as well. Beware and make sure you know to whom your identity belongs...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Why surrender your will...
Life is a constant ever changing battle for it will change the rules and then break them, but you don't have to let it break you. You must push yourself, drive yourself, go for it all; for what are we without a dream, without passion, without a reason to keep moving forward? Even the seemingly impossible is better than nothing at all. As long as you can conceive that there is something out there waiting for you to find it then you have a choice of pausing or trudging on.
Life will give and it will take away, sometimes what we are given is snatched back from us. We are surrounded by every reason to be downtrodden and disheartened but that is not a path we have to follow, to give in to. Even in the worst of situations you can hold on if you will just remember that it could always be worse for you don't need to have the luxury of not caring anymore. Chase down those dreams and let them fill your lungs with the air to help you breathe through it all for are we not built better than that than to just give in and surrender our will...?
Pam's evening thoughts...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
State of panic...
written by Pamela Scholes
I sat this early , dark morning at the hour of 4:30am here in Atlanta sipping my Java and letting my mind think about the events of the day. Normally I let the day go at the end of the day so that tomorrow gets more promise but there are those times when distraught enough that I can't let it go without putting it to paper. I sat in the quiet of my home and wondered what everyone else in the world was doing at that time. Half of a new day was over for some and others a new day only beginning. Time is strange how it shifts and moves in location. This era of time is strange as well and this is what I pondered this morning. They say if we do not change it then history will repeat itself and I swear, with all of my searching can I find much change-not much good change anyway. Our own IRS, Medicaid, and various areas of the government have fallen under intense scrutiny- a thing I do not think has ever happened.
I am not out to point fingers or blame any ONE person as this failure was a wrongful slew of decisions. So much is made in haste and nothing is given serious deliberation as everyone is in such a hurry. Why?- We are steady rushing the world into a pace it can not possibly keep up with. People are desperate, I do not believe I have ever seen such acts of desperation from everyday working people who can't afford to make any ends meet. People are standing on the edge and no one is offering any help, any relief, or any promise of a turn around. These are desperate times, tough times and instead of banding together most have gone out on their own to survive however they can. I am not condoning these acts of desperation but I am certainly bringing it to the forefront. People do not know who to turn to anymore and it seems that no one can be trusted, from the lowest of the ladder to the highest rung. We have been sold a false bill of goods under the lemon law of "as is" and this little catch 22 has brought so many to a dead end. Don't judge a person until you have walked in their shoes for times are hard all over and people are lost with no one to lead them. I can't understand how it can not be so apparently clear to the upper echelon that this world is in a state of panic...
I sat this early , dark morning at the hour of 4:30am here in Atlanta sipping my Java and letting my mind think about the events of the day. Normally I let the day go at the end of the day so that tomorrow gets more promise but there are those times when distraught enough that I can't let it go without putting it to paper. I sat in the quiet of my home and wondered what everyone else in the world was doing at that time. Half of a new day was over for some and others a new day only beginning. Time is strange how it shifts and moves in location. This era of time is strange as well and this is what I pondered this morning. They say if we do not change it then history will repeat itself and I swear, with all of my searching can I find much change-not much good change anyway. Our own IRS, Medicaid, and various areas of the government have fallen under intense scrutiny- a thing I do not think has ever happened.
I am not out to point fingers or blame any ONE person as this failure was a wrongful slew of decisions. So much is made in haste and nothing is given serious deliberation as everyone is in such a hurry. Why?- We are steady rushing the world into a pace it can not possibly keep up with. People are desperate, I do not believe I have ever seen such acts of desperation from everyday working people who can't afford to make any ends meet. People are standing on the edge and no one is offering any help, any relief, or any promise of a turn around. These are desperate times, tough times and instead of banding together most have gone out on their own to survive however they can. I am not condoning these acts of desperation but I am certainly bringing it to the forefront. People do not know who to turn to anymore and it seems that no one can be trusted, from the lowest of the ladder to the highest rung. We have been sold a false bill of goods under the lemon law of "as is" and this little catch 22 has brought so many to a dead end. Don't judge a person until you have walked in their shoes for times are hard all over and people are lost with no one to lead them. I can't understand how it can not be so apparently clear to the upper echelon that this world is in a state of panic...
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Sum up your life...
written by Pamela(pam)Scholes
That's a very large question; I mean if asked to sum up your life, what would you say? Would you tell all of the good and the bad, would you admit your pain and often weakness? Would you tell those truths and even the half truths or just shove that under the rug? Would you speak kindly to the person in the mirror or would you sing your should have and could haves? Would you be proud, would you know that you had given every endeavor your best and would you let it be okay when you fell short? Would you speak of your dreams, those you have had and those you still have hopes for?
Would you say that you always tried to do right by other's and right by your self and when not, would you be brave enough to admit the times you didn't do right? Would you say that you had known true love, that way deep down kind of love or would you have to say that you held back instead of letting go? Would you say that you had made many a friend, and lost some too but that those in your path-looking back- had changed your life? I could really run with this and ask countless questions but there is only one that matters and that is what YOU would say if ask to sum up your life...
That's a very large question; I mean if asked to sum up your life, what would you say? Would you tell all of the good and the bad, would you admit your pain and often weakness? Would you tell those truths and even the half truths or just shove that under the rug? Would you speak kindly to the person in the mirror or would you sing your should have and could haves? Would you be proud, would you know that you had given every endeavor your best and would you let it be okay when you fell short? Would you speak of your dreams, those you have had and those you still have hopes for?
Would you say that you always tried to do right by other's and right by your self and when not, would you be brave enough to admit the times you didn't do right? Would you say that you had known true love, that way deep down kind of love or would you have to say that you held back instead of letting go? Would you say that you had made many a friend, and lost some too but that those in your path-looking back- had changed your life? I could really run with this and ask countless questions but there is only one that matters and that is what YOU would say if ask to sum up your life...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Stray thoughts...
written by Pamela(pam) Scholes
I was sitting alone in my living room listening to some classical music and winding down from the days events and out of no particular place came upon me these stray thoughts. Anyone who has visited me knows that I do not dabble in politics or religion but I do have thoughts and feelings as a human being as to what goes on around me- around all of us. I thought of all of the desperate people doing desperate things that perhaps they would not normally do. I thought of all this era of youth living confused and lost inside and doing undo-able things. I thought of all the people I pass on the street with no food or place to call home and I can find no understanding in this. I watch the news early each morning and I see pain, anguish, death, natural diasters, famine, and heartache in the eyes of so many. On my good feeling writing days I skip the news.
I thought of the people who have gone so far down that they have given up and let hope slip away from them. Hope is a good thing people, often times the only thing that keeps us going. Hope is a good thing, it will be your air when you think you can not breathe. I thought of all of the sinkholes around the country and wondered if the bottom is simply going to fall out from under us one hole at a time; sure seems that way. So many things seem to be coming apart one hole at a time and we can't keep doing patch work; I wonder sadly if it is all fixable anymore. Will we find our way back home inside? Oh, do not get me wrong for I still have high hopes for the people who will, if they just dig deep, pull through and make a happy ending. And I have high hopes for myself and future as tomorrow may open a new window to a better day. I thought so many things that my hands can hardly keep up with my mind. I suppose the big picture can just be so overwhelming in these times we are living in. I want to please ask all to take a calm moment alone and think of your good fortunes, no matter how small, so that you will be thankful for what you have when YOU ponder these stray thoughts...
I was sitting alone in my living room listening to some classical music and winding down from the days events and out of no particular place came upon me these stray thoughts. Anyone who has visited me knows that I do not dabble in politics or religion but I do have thoughts and feelings as a human being as to what goes on around me- around all of us. I thought of all of the desperate people doing desperate things that perhaps they would not normally do. I thought of all this era of youth living confused and lost inside and doing undo-able things. I thought of all the people I pass on the street with no food or place to call home and I can find no understanding in this. I watch the news early each morning and I see pain, anguish, death, natural diasters, famine, and heartache in the eyes of so many. On my good feeling writing days I skip the news.
I thought of the people who have gone so far down that they have given up and let hope slip away from them. Hope is a good thing people, often times the only thing that keeps us going. Hope is a good thing, it will be your air when you think you can not breathe. I thought of all of the sinkholes around the country and wondered if the bottom is simply going to fall out from under us one hole at a time; sure seems that way. So many things seem to be coming apart one hole at a time and we can't keep doing patch work; I wonder sadly if it is all fixable anymore. Will we find our way back home inside? Oh, do not get me wrong for I still have high hopes for the people who will, if they just dig deep, pull through and make a happy ending. And I have high hopes for myself and future as tomorrow may open a new window to a better day. I thought so many things that my hands can hardly keep up with my mind. I suppose the big picture can just be so overwhelming in these times we are living in. I want to please ask all to take a calm moment alone and think of your good fortunes, no matter how small, so that you will be thankful for what you have when YOU ponder these stray thoughts...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
The Voices...
written by Pamela(pam) Scholes
I have taken a personal hiatus on my blogs but am now ready to talk. I am a true Gemini and, like most of us, have the voices in our heads. I am not talking about hearing voices other than your own. We each have two sides within us that will often be in conflict with one another and wish to battle our decisions. The voice can some times tear you down and steal your inspiration- this was the cause of my hiatus. I share as much inspiration as I can but there will be times when the inspirer needs some extra inspiration- and I gather that from all of you.
The voice can also be comforting as we have to know how to tend to ourselves and let that voice lead us where we are meant to go. I have fought with my voice, argued with it, reasoned with it, and discussed some important issues with myself. We must always be able to reason with ourselves and spend more time in harmony. I have managed to get both ends to meet in agreement and this can be a difficult task. Look into the reflection in the mirror; look deep down inside and choose carefully but listen to the voices...
I have taken a personal hiatus on my blogs but am now ready to talk. I am a true Gemini and, like most of us, have the voices in our heads. I am not talking about hearing voices other than your own. We each have two sides within us that will often be in conflict with one another and wish to battle our decisions. The voice can some times tear you down and steal your inspiration- this was the cause of my hiatus. I share as much inspiration as I can but there will be times when the inspirer needs some extra inspiration- and I gather that from all of you.
The voice can also be comforting as we have to know how to tend to ourselves and let that voice lead us where we are meant to go. I have fought with my voice, argued with it, reasoned with it, and discussed some important issues with myself. We must always be able to reason with ourselves and spend more time in harmony. I have managed to get both ends to meet in agreement and this can be a difficult task. Look into the reflection in the mirror; look deep down inside and choose carefully but listen to the voices...
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Let's talk truth...
written by Pamela (pam) Scholes
Let's just sweep everything to the side for a moment and discuss what we know about the truth. It is another double edged sword and will most always cut both ways. Let's just strip the truth bare.
The plain truth is that in our lives poeple will intentionally lie to us while others are there to comfort. It is true that people will betray us for selfish reasons as others remain steadfast. It is the thruth that people closest will abandon us while others remain at our side, both by choice. It is truth that people will let us down and disappoint us while others will lift us up.
It is truth that people will wear false mask to cover who they are while others are proud of that fact. It is truth that people will use us and take advantage of us while others will appreciate us. It is truth that it will rain from the heavens just as sure as will the sun beam.
Some truths are hard and painful to deal with but they will come just the same so join me today for a sit down chat and let's talk truth...
Let's just sweep everything to the side for a moment and discuss what we know about the truth. It is another double edged sword and will most always cut both ways. Let's just strip the truth bare.
The plain truth is that in our lives poeple will intentionally lie to us while others are there to comfort. It is true that people will betray us for selfish reasons as others remain steadfast. It is the thruth that people closest will abandon us while others remain at our side, both by choice. It is truth that people will let us down and disappoint us while others will lift us up.
It is truth that people will wear false mask to cover who they are while others are proud of that fact. It is truth that people will use us and take advantage of us while others will appreciate us. It is truth that it will rain from the heavens just as sure as will the sun beam.
Some truths are hard and painful to deal with but they will come just the same so join me today for a sit down chat and let's talk truth...
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