Monday, March 12, 2018

IN WHICH WAYS CAN A DRUG-ADDICTED EMPLOYEE OF A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT --- SUCH AS THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF AUSTIN IN THIS STATE-CAPITAL CITY FOR TEXAS --- UNDERMINE THE MORAL INTEGRITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY OF A CITY?



----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin in Austin, Texas, is addicted to an illicit drug such as marijuana or cocaine or heroin or methamphetamines, this means by definition that that municipal government has an unacknowledged ongoing relationship through that employee with an illicit-drug dealer who has ties to organized crime.


----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict and other persons learn about his or her nefarious activity, the City of Austin's unofficial or official endorsement of the "Keep Austin Weird" slogan is thereby equated in a tragically perverse manner with "Keep Austin High (On Drugs)" --- a revised slogan thereby endorsing illegal activities that can be very harmful to the medical health and public safety and level of obedience of the law of City of Austin employees and this entire state-capital city along the Colorado River.

----If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin in this state capital city for Texas is addicted to any illicit drug, that individual might attempt to share the name and phone number or e-mail address of his or her own drug dealer with a coworker or work supervisor in a context in which the former individual states, "I've been impressed by the quality of the drugs I'm getting from him, and his prices are very reasonable," or words to that effect. By then "recruiting" additional customers for his or her own drug dealer from within the City of Austin workforce, the cited City of Austin-employed drug addict may then be committing a crime in the process that further damages the moral integrity of the City of Austin. This additional damage to the moral integrity of the City of Austin could occur if the "recruited" City of Austin employee or official fails to report that crime evidence to the Austin Police Department or Federal Bureau of Investigation, or, alternatively, if the "recruited" City of Austin employee or official actually agrees to himself become a paying client of the cited illicit drug dealer.

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, he or she may bring a baggie containing a "sample" of an illicit drug he had purchased to show to and "impress" a City Government of Austin coworker or work supervisor at their municipal-government workplace. Otherwise, the former individual may keep a "sample" of an illicit drug he owns in the glove compartment or trunk of his parked car that was parked in a City of Austin-approved parking garage or City of Austin employee parking lot. He may then ask a coworker or work supervisor to accompany him to his car during his lunch break, so that "I can show you the quality of the item I'm getting from my drug dealer," as that City of Austin employee might put it. This conduct would then tarnish the moral integrity of either the City of Austin workplace or the City of Austin parking lot facility, and could put both of the City of Austin employees or officials at risk of getting arrested on the spot---whether by a police officer or by an FBI agent or by a Texas Ranger employed by the Texas Department of Public Safety state law-enforcement agency.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that his "leisuretime pursuit of illicit drugs" will at some point during his own tenure with the City of Austin play a role in his reporting for work duties or attending or directly participating in an Austin City Council meeting, for instance, at a time when he himself is under the influence of one or more illicit drugs.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, he or she may decline to accept health insurance coverage through the City of Austin, "since I'm a bit paranoid about the possibility that the City-affiliated health insurance company will figure out that I'm a drug addict and then share that information with the Austin Police Department or my work supervisor. That would result in my getting fired from my job."

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, this increases his or her risk of getting fired because of difficulty getting to work on time and work performance-related problems. That unemployment, in turn, increases the risk that the drug addict fired from his job by the City of Austin will then attempt to retaliate by consuming one or more illicit drugs and then revisiting his former workplace in a rage-filled and possibly violent manner.

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that at some point during his career he will report for work while experiencing some form of "illicit-drug addict's hangover". His irritability and inability to concentrate well while on the job during those "hangover" periods are very likely to then significantly disappoint and irk and offend and even alienate his or her work supervisor, his or her coworkers and colleagues with other offices of the City of Austin and other government agencies, and, just as importantly, any members of the general public whom he or she communicates with while on duty and experiencing an "illicit-drug addict's hangover".

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that he will receive a phone call from an on-duty City of Austin official or an on-duty City of Austin coworker during his or her off-duty hours at a time when he himself is "high on drugs". If the drug-addict employee is then expected to respond to a factual question during that telephone conversation, his or her consumption of an illicit drug during his or her off-duty hours would undermine his ability to provide a factually accurate and helpful answer to a question posed to him by an on-duty City of Austin official or coworker. 
Otherwise, if the off-duty City of Austin-employed drug addict is contacted at his home by a City of Austin work supervisor and asked to pursue overtime work for the City "due to an emergency," he poses a major legal liability for the City of Austin when he then agrees to pursue those "emergency" duties for the City without disclosing to his or her work supervisor that he is, in fact, under the influence of one or more illicit drugs.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, this significantly increases the risk that he or she may allegedly attempt to commit a violent crime, such as attempted mass murder or homicide, at some point during his tenure with the City Government of Austin. It is very likely that a disproportionately high share of all mass murders and homicides and attempted homicides and sexual assaults and other personal-injury crimes in the 21st Century United States were allegedly committed by persons--some of them former or current government employees-- who are either current illicit drug addicts or "recovering illicit-drug addicts who have had relapses".

--If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin is a drug addict, it is a virtual certainty that numerous other Austin residents know about his or her drug addiction. And that, in turn, plays a role in many persons developing the impression that "the City Government of Austin is 'very soft' on drugs", or permissive toward illicit drug activities.

---If ANY employee or ANY official of the City Government of Austin (TX) is addicted to at least one illicit drug and is a client of a drug dealer, that illicit relationship could result in that City of Austin employee or official attempting in a sly manner to pressure the Austin Police Department into not pressing criminal charges against the individual who sells illicit drugs to himself. The cited City of Austin employee or official could do that by contacting the Austin Police Department and objecting to alleged "persecution" of the cited "friend" or "associate" of that City of Austin employee or official. Otherwise, the cited illicit-drug-addict employee or official of the City of Austin might through associates of his with local government object in general terms to "excessive criminal prosecution" of any and all individuals who are employed in selling marijuana, for instance, since "there is a trend toward legalization of marijuana, which is, in my opinion, a 'victimless crime'," as that drug-addict employee or official of the City of Austin might state. "And after all, the term 'medical marijuana' proves that marijuana can be good for the health, as most reasonable Austinites will surely agree."

---IF ANY employee or official of the City of Austin is a drug addict, he might object to City Council requiring enrollment in a drug-treatment program by City of Austin employees or officials who test positive on a drug test. "The results of that drug test may have been a false positive," as that drug-addicted City of Austin employee or City of Austin official might strenuously object in an e-mail message to a City of Austin official. "And furthermore, I object to this type of flagrant violation of the privacy rights and civil liberties of myself as a hard-working person employed by the City of Austin. I find it very degrading to be asked to submit to a drug test, when my own integrity, as you know, is beyond reproach."

Saturday, March 10, 2018

STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA ACCEPTS URGENT REQUEST FOR TEXAS LEGISLATURE-MANDATED EXPANDED DRUG TESTING ON CITY OF AUSTIN EMPLOYEES AND CITY OF AUSTIN OFFICIALS (ALONG WITH OTHER MUNICIPAL-GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND MUNICIPAL-GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT TEXAS)


On Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:51 AM, John McMillan wrote:

To: State Representative Gina Hinojosa of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas.

March 10, 2018

Dear State Rep. Hinojosa,

As a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult male constituent of yours in northwest Austin, I appreciate your great dedication to pursuing factual research on behalf of generating proposed revisions to existing state laws and proposals for new state laws in Texas.

During my leisuretime this weekend, I have been pursuing online research about drug testing of employees by municipal governments in the United States.

I am pursuing this factual research because I feel very strongly that the integrity of all municipal governments in Texas, and the public-safety of all Texans, will be greatly enhanced when the percentage of all municipal employees in Texas who are drug addicts is as close to zero as possible.

State Rep. Hinojosa, I would like to take this opportunity to ask you if you are planning to recommend any revisions to state law in Texas that significantly increase the number and scope of circumstances in which a municipal government---including the City Government of Austin in this very influential state-capital city---is either required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct drug testing on one or more cited municipal employees or municipal-government officials, such as City Council Members or the Mayor or City Manager or a department head, of that municipal government in our state.

On behalf of that type of public-policy goal for Texas, I have pursued online Google searches late this Friday night and Saturday morning inside my rental apartment unit in the District 10 section of Austin. District 10 is the local district in which the Austin City Council Member directly and officially representing any and all persons residing in that local district on City Council is Dr. Alison Alter (who, as you know, has reportedly prohibited me ever since March 9, 2017, from ever again myself directly contacting Dr. Alter or any of the City Hall staff members whom she directly supervises).

In my online research this weekend, I have been very pleased to find an item about a pertinent state law in our neighboring state of Oklahoma.

That item can be found at the following blogsite address:

https://www.omag.org/news/2016/5/24/drug-testing-municipal-employees-1

That blogsite address provides a link to a May 24, 2016, blog, "Drug Testing Municipal Employees," that was written by Suzanne Paulson of Oklahoma.

The blog notes that Ms. Paulson is the Associate General Counsel of the Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG). That Edmond, Oklahoma-based organization provides insurance and risk management solutions for municipal governments throughout Oklahoma.

The cited office phone number for Ms. Paulson at OMAG headquarters in Edmond, Oklahoma, is:
(405) 657-1400. Her E-mail address: spaulson@omag.org.

According to Ms. Paulson's May 2016 blog, state law in Oklahoma authorizes (and I did not check to find out if that law has since been revised by the Oklahoma Legislature) drug testing of municipal-government employees or prospective new municipal-government employees in that southwestern state for any of the following reasons:

---if the individual is applying for employment by a municipal government in Oklahoma;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being transferred or reassigned to a different position or a different job;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma was involved in a workplace accident that reportedly caused an injury or property damage;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma is being required to take a routine "fitness-for-duty" exam;
---if a municipal employee in Oklahoma has been in a rehabilitation program (and I myself am assuming this may refer to a drug-addiction treatment program) for which a follow-up drug test on that employee is then legally permitted by state law.
---if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma has reason to suspect that an employee of that municipal government is under the influence of drugs at the workplace. That might occur, for instance, if a municipal government employer in Oklahoma directly observes an employee with drugs at the workplace, or if a municipal-government employer in Oklahoma notices an "unexplained pattern of absences and tardiness, or employee behavior that suggests impairment".
---if a municipal government employee in Oklahoma is employed in a "safety sensitive position" as defined by state law. For employees fitting that state-mandated description, random drug testing on themselves is authorized by state law in Oklahoma.

Rep. Hinojosa, would you like to see state law in Texas revised to specify any additional circumstance or any additional circumstances in which a municipal government is required or authorized by the Texas Legislature to conduct or sponsor drug testing on cited employees or cited officials of that municipal government?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the public-safety-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, anti-marijuana-minded, drinking-alcohol-free, and lawfully non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion"---an "Honor Society" new religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.
My home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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Monday, February 26, 2018

'TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION' STATE AGENCY IN AUSTIN, ON FEB. 13, 2018, STATES IN FOUR-PAGE UNSIGNED REPLY LETTER TO MYSELF THAT TWC PLANS TO CHARGE ME AN ESTIMATED $64 FOR RESPONDING TO MY JANUARY 22, 2018, E-MAIL PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST FOCUSED ON TWC BLOCKS OF E-MAILS FROM ME


"Texas Workforce Commission
"A Member of Texas Workforce Solutions

"February 13, 2018

"John McMillan
"10926 Jollyville Road
"Building 16 Apt 1609
"Austin, TX 78759

"Request No.: 180122-008

"Dear John McMillan:

"In response to your Open Records request assigned the above no., we estimate the cost to be over $40.00. The cost of locating, copying and compiling the information responsive to your request is itemized (page three, below, in this four-page reply letter from the TWC) on the attached cost estimate. For work to begin on your request, please remit the cost listed in the estimate ($64.00). Send payment ($64.00) to Texas Workforce Commission -- Revenue and Trust Management, P.O. Box 877 Austin, TX 78767. Please include the Request Job number listed above with your payment. ....
_______

"Itemized Search Items

"Staff Labor Charge

"@$15.00/hr + 20% overhead

"Pages: 0 @$0.10/page $0.00

"Units: 0 @0.00/Unit $0.00

"Labor Hours: 3 @$18.00/hr $54.00

"Manually Entered Charges: $0.00

"Total for Search Item: $54.00

"Computer Processing -- Lan or PC

"Computer processing -- Lan or

"Pages: 0 @$0.00/page $0.00

"Units: 0 @$0.00/Unit $0.00

"Labor Hours: 10 @$1.00/hr $10.00

"Manually Entered Charges: $0.00

"Total for Search Item: $10.00
________

"Sincerely,
"Maria Rivera
"Assistant Disclosure Officer
"Texas Workforce Commission,
"Open Records Section
"101 E. 15th Street, Room 266
"Austin, Texas 78778-0001
"Tel: (512) 463-2422
"Fax: 512-463-2990"
______

On Monday, January 22, 2018 12:50 AM, John McMillan wrote:

Open Records Coordinator,
Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) state agency,
101 East 15th Street,
Room 266,
Austin, TX 78778-0001
e-mail: open.records@twc.state.tx.us
FAX: 512-463-2990

January 22, 2018

Dear TWC Open Records Coordinator,

This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from your state agency in Austin a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mail communications or letters or memoranda or advisory opinions, between or among Texas Workforce Commission state agency employees or officials at any time since 8 a.m. August 14, 2014, in which one or more TWC officials or TWC work supervisors or TWC attorneys in Austin have stated in writing that the Office of the Ombudsman of the TWC, or any other cited office or division or official or attorney of the TWC, is given permission by your state agency to, or is officially authorized by the TWC to, either impose an automatic block on one or more of the expected future incoming e-mails from myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin, or to automatically discard as "spam" one or more of the expected future e-mails from myself to any particular cited office or division or official of the TWC.

Included in the scope of this public-information request is the following (below) quoted text of a 2014 intra-agency written reply note that Texas Workforce Commission state agency General Counsel Paul N. Jones wrote and sent to TWC Civil Rights Division Director Lowell A. Keig.

The cited legal document was released to me in response to a March 2015 public-information request that I submitted to the TWC. According to online records for Mr. Keig, he is also cited as having served as the chair of the Health Law Section of the Austin Bar Association.

"From: Jones, Paul N (the TWC state agency General Counsel, with an official E-mail address of: "paul.jones@twc.state.tx.us")

"Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:30 PM

"To: Keig, Lowell A (the TWC state agency Civil Rights Division Director, with an official e-mail address of: "lowell.keig@twc.state.tx.us")

"Subject: Re: 8-14-14 urgent note to APD and Travis County District Attorney re: crime case

"Absolutely

"Sent from my iPhone

"On Aug 14, 2014, at 12:29 PM, "Keig, Lowell A" wrote:

"Paul:

"May I block or send directly to junk mail any further emails from Mr. (John Kevin) McMillan (of Austin) since they do not involve civil rights discrimination?

"--Lowell

"Sent from my iPhone"
_____
This public-information request is prompted in part by a December 13, 2017, e-mail Open Records response (below) I received from your state agency in Austin which stated that your agency's Office of the Ombudsman did not have any applicable documents generated by that TWC office which referred at least once to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.


The following contains some of my e-mail correspondence with your state agency on that:
"On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:51 PM, John McMillan wrote:

"Dear Ms. Chastain at your Austin-based Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) state agency with legal authority over many of the sexual-harassment cases and many of the other civil-rights violations cases that each involve alleged violations of the civil rights of Texan apartment tenants or alleged violations of the civil rights of gainfully-employed persons at their workplace in Texas,
"This is to confirm your very succinct December 13, 2017-dated e-mail reply letter (below), stating that you have no record of any documents generated by your TWC Ombudsman at any time since August 1, 2001, that refer in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin.

"I am resident of Austin District 10.

"I am very surprised and disappointed by your 'no documents' reply to me on this, particularly since I have written and sent e-mail letters of complaint to the TWC Ombudsman in Austin on dozens of occasions in the last several years.

"Sincerely and Best Wishes,
"John Kevin McMillan, a gainfully employed single adult white gentleman and former full-time employee in Austin of the 'Texas Department of Public Safety' state agency.
My current home address: Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com"

John Kevin McMillan

"On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 10:19 AM, "Chastain,Lona" wrote:

"TWC has no responsive records.

"Respectfully,

"/lc
"Lona Chastain
Assistant General Counsel/Open Records Coordinator
Texas Workforce Commission
101 East 15th Street, Room 266
Austin, Texas 78778-0001
Desk: 512-463-2238; cell: 512-914-4721"

"From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]

"Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 3:08 AM

"To: Open Records ; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; Gerald Daugherty ; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; Gina Hinojosa ; doug.greco@house.texas.gov; Amanda Foster ; Kirk Watson ; Public Information ; Senator Kirk Watson Constituent Services Rep. Walcott (2016) ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Texas Legal legal-aid service (2015) ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; FBI Dallas Bureau ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; State Comptroller Criminal Investigations Division Chief Martin Cano ; Sao State Tx Webmaster ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) ; KXAN TV News Investigations ; BBC News Story Ideas (2017) ; Unknown National ; statesman ; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims ; Sona Nast ; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon) ; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015) ; Trevor Glynn ; District 8 ; Christian Hawley ; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan ; Texasadvocacyproject Info ; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett ; APD Officer James Turner ; rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; White House Fellows Program 2017 ; Attorney General of Massachusetts ; Bethany United Methodist Church Assoc Pastor Sheri Clifton ; Travis County Intergovernmental Relations Coordinator Eckstein ; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy ; Harvard Law School Human Rights Program (2016) ; roger@northwestfellowship.com; Notre Dame Univ. Center for Civil and Human Rights ; Outback Asst Mgr Nick Burton ; Dayna Blazey ; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office) ; Doc Webmaster ; U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul Communics 2017 ; Human Rights Law Society (U of Chicago) ; Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci ; Steven Rich


"Subject: 12-11-17 TWC PIR re: TWC Ombudsman and me

"December 11, 2017

"Dear Public Information Coordinator for the Texas Workforce Commission state agency in Austin, Texas,

"This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from your State Government of Texas agency a copy of any and all written communications, including e-mails and memoranda, that at any time since August 1, 2001, were generated or written or typed or sent or e-mailed or forwarded or mailed or FAXed by any official or staff member of your state agency's Office of the Ombudsman, and that, in each such case, referred at least once in any way to myself, John Kevin McMillan of northwest Austin...."
My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. My date of birth is April 27, 1957. I am a native of Lincoln, Nebraska.

I have most recently resided in Austin proper on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.


I am gainfully employed and the founder and only approved current member of a new and non-Christian religion, the "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion," that has very stringent membership-eligibility requirements. In the late 1990s and in 2000, I gave several televised speeches about that fully independent and new religion of mine on local community-access television in Austin.



My e-mail address throughout the applicable multi-year time period of this public-information request is: mcmillanj@att.net. I have maintained and paid for a personal landline phone number for myself of (512) 342-2295 throughout the entire multi-year time period applicable to this public-information request.


In the applicable time period ever since August 24, 2014, I have resided as a rent-paying tenant or rent-paying occupant in the following respective rental apartment units:
---Wind River Crossing Apartments, 11411 Research Boulevard, Building 3, Apartment 325, Austin, TX 78759;
---Crossland Economy Studios (an Extended Stay America rental-housing complex), 12621 Hymeadow Road, Apartment 133, Austin, TX 78729;
---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 9, Apartment 902, Austin, TX 78759;
---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759.


I hope to hear from you soon in response to this January 22, 2018-dated e-mail public-information request to your State Government of Texas agency in Austin.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.

My new official home address ever since September 5, 2017:
Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apartment 1609, Austin, TX 78759,
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com/

Friday, February 23, 2018

AUSTIN-BASED STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE, IN FEB. 23, 2018, REPLY LETTER TO ME, PROMISES TO 'KEEP IN MIND' HAWAII'S PUBLIC-POLICY STRATEGIES FOR DETERRING GUN-RELATED VIOLENCE


On Friday, February 23, 2018 10:11 AM, Amanda Foster wrote:

Mr. McMillan,

Thank you for sharing your ideas on how to deter violent crime here in Texas. We will keep in mind Hawaii's public policy actions as we research potential solutions during the interim.

Amanda Foster, LMSW |Legislative Director
State Representative Gina Hinojosa
amanda.foster@house.texas.gov
____________
From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net] 


Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:13 PM

To: Gina Hinojosa; Amanda Foster; doug.greco@house.texas.gov; Kirk Watson; sally.hernandez@traviscountytx.gov; margaret.moore@traviscountytx.gov; statesman; Austin Chronicle Editors; Texas Monthly Editors (2017); Texas DPS Office of General Counsel; Travis County Sheriff Law Enforcement Assoc. (2016); Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. President; Texas Dept. of Public Safety Officers Assn. Director; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator; Traviscountydemocrats Info; Travis County Republican Party (2016); Eddie Rodriguez; Dawnna Dukes; Donna Howard; APD Officer James Turner; christopher.gaines@austintexas.gov; rocky.reeves@austintexas.gov; U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul Communics 2017; Federal Law Enf. Officers Assn; Cedar Park (TX) Police (2016); Leander Police Chief Minton; Pflugerville (TX) Police Chief Charles Hooker (2016); Bee Cave (TX) Police Dept. (2016); Sunset Valley Police Dept. Lt. Richard Andreucci; Sunset Valley (TX) Police Chief Sean Ford (2016); Amie Ely; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ); The Republican National Committee; Democratic National Committee; Republican Party of Texas; Austin Mayor Steve Adler; Council Member Kathie Tovo; district9@austintexas.gov; Austin City Council Member Delia Garza (2015); Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016); Travis County Commissioner Margaret Gomez; Gerald Daugherty; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt; Travis County Criminal Justice/Public Safety Director; HillCountryNewsEditorScottMcDonald; Houston Police Dept (2015); Dallas Police Chief David Brown; DMN Editorial Page Editor Keven Ann Willey; DMN Austin Bureau Reporter Robert Garrett; Houston Chronicle Letters To the Editor; White House Fellows Program 2017; U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (2015); cji@uh.edu; The University of Texas at Austin; ACC President Richard Rhodes; Superintendent; Liz Laurence; Sona Nast; Leslie DeGraffenried; Annie Arnold Lancaster; Eric Jones; Outback Asst Mgr Nick Burton; Trevor Glynn; Joyful Heart Foundation for Rape Victims; Texasadvocacyproject Info; Rainn Info; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon); zpatton@governing.com; edaigneau@governing.com; Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Assoc (2016); Public Information; FBI Dallas Bureau; U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Christian Hawley; pastor@redeemer.net; Missouri Synod Lutheran HQ2015; Notre Dame Univ. Center for Civil and Human Rights; Human Rights Law Society (U of Chicago); spencer.cronk@austintexas.gov; Texas City Management Pres-elect 2017; Texas City Management Pres. 2017; Crime Report Ed. Stephen Handelman (2016); Austin Regional Crime and Terrorism Intelligence Center; Texas Observer Editors; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla; Texas Rangers Division of DPS; Unknown National; CNN.Viewer.Communications.Management; NBC Nightly News Headqrtrs 2016; Dailytexanonline News; CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters; CBS News Story Ideas Editors; news@cbsaustin.com; WallStJournalNewstips; Criminal Justice Journalists Board Member Rashbaum; District 8; zachandalex17@gmail.com; Steven Rich; Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; BBC News Story Ideas (2017)

Subject: 2-20-18 gun-violence deterrence strategies for TX Leg

February 20, 2018

Dear State Representative Gina Hinojosa and State Senator Kirk Watson of the Texas Legislature governing body for our often-great State of Texas,

I am a tax-paying, gainfully employed, dependably civil and law-abiding and tactfully honest, vigilant and crime-deterrence-minded, Anglo adult male constituent of each of you. I reside in our state capital city of Austin in each of your two respective legislative districts.

I am very concerned about the outrageous frequency of homicides and other violent crimes in Austin, Texas, and elsewhere in Texas these days.

As each of you may be aware, I myself am a permanently-drinking-alcohol-free, anti-marijuana-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, lifelong-tattoo-less, facially-cleanshaven and anti-facial-hair-minded, consistently clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with others), hygienic, single-by-choice, longtime-celibate-by-choice (including ever since the day I moved to NW Austin in August 2001), British-and-German-ancestry constituent of each of you.

I am also the founder and only approved member of the non-Christian and quality-of-life-minded and implicitly-deistic, non-atheistic, "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", a new "Honor Society" religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

I am also a former full-time employee in Austin of the Texas Department of Public Safety state agency.

Today during my leisuretime, I googled "least violent states" in order to identify which U.S. states have been the most successful at deterring violent crime. As you might have guessed, Texas was not among the states fitting that very honorable description. Hawaii, however, was cited for great success in that category.

I am writing you both today to urge each of you to please review the very logical public-policy actions that the U.S. state of Hawaii has pursued to help deter violent crime there.
The online profile (see last item, below) on Hawaii that I obtained today through the above-cited Google search states that the Aloha State "requires residents to obtain a permit with a waiting period of 14 days minimum before they can get a gun."

That factual statement, along with the others cited below, was contained in a "247wallst.com" online blog that was posted on July 12, 2017. The blog was entitled "America's Most Violent (and Peaceful) States", and was written by Samuel Stebbins, Evan Comen, and Michael B. Sauter. I was not able to find any copyright information for that particular blog, but otherwise would have definitely cited that as well in this letter to each of you two very distinguished state legislators who directly represent me in the Texas Legislature.

The above-cited flattering profile on Hawaii also states that "in June 2016, Hawaii became the first state to register its gun owners in an FBI database."

The profile on Hawaii also points out that guns are involved in only 21 percent of all homicides there and in only 20 percent of all suicides there --- "the smallest share of any state," the cited online profile (below) states.

The violent crime rate in Hawaii (293.4 per 100,000) is 20th lowest in the nation, and the murder rate there (1.3 per 100,000) is second lowest in the entire nation, according to the above-cited online account that I read today.

Rep. Hinojosa and Senator Watson, are either of you willing to propose to the Texas Legislature that our U.S. state adopt both of the two above-cited strategies in order to help reduce the violent crime rate here in Texas?

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the rational-goals-minded and non-praying "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".

My home address: Village Oaks Apts. (a NW Austin apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by two separate for-profit corporations that each have the same headquarters address in Newton, Mass.), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
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America’s Most Violent (and Peaceful) States
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John Kevin McMillan

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

IDEA ON HOW TO HELP DETER UNWANTED PREGNANCIES: STUDY THE SIX U.S. STATES WITH THE LOWEST TEENAGE PREGNANCY RATES


Based on the above-cited criterion, the leading U.S. states to study are: New Hampshire; Vermont; Minnesota; Massachusetts; Utah; and Wisconsin (see more information, below).


A more complete report on this can be found at the following webpage:
https://www.livescience.com/45355-teen-pregnancy-rates-by-state.html

If you visit that webpage at the "livescience.com" website, you will find an enlightening online article that highlights reported teenage pregnancy rates for each and every U.S. state in the year 2010. The article was written by Tanya Lewis, staff writer for Livescience.com. Ms. Lewis wrote and posted her article on May 5, 2014.


Livescience.com's website bears the copyright date of 2018. Livescience.com is headquartered at 150 5th Avenue, 9th Floor, New York City, New York, 10011. The office phone number for Livescience.com is: (212) 703-5800. An e-mail contact address for Livescience.com is: info@livescience.com.
Livescience.com's parent company is Purch. Purch is headquartered at 11 West 42nd Street, 15th Floor, New York City, New York, 10036.

Ms. Lewis in her online article reported that according to the New York City-based Guttmacher Institute (a globally influential non-profit organization that promotes sexual and reproductive rights through factual research and evidence-based advocacy), the following U.S. states in the year 2010 each had an incidence of teenage pregnancy that year which was fewer than 40 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents in that state.


These statistics are especially noteworthy because 77 percent of all teenage pregnancies that occur each year in the United States are unwanted----either "unplanned" or occurring "too soon", according to online data from the National Center for Health Statistics of the United States Government.

Helping to reduce the unwanted pregnancy rate is one of the leading religious and societal goals of my one-member (myself, only) and non-Christian, pragmatically idealistic and factually-based "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".

Women and girls who are able to avoid sustaining ANY unwanted pregnancy, along with their boyfriends or husbands or male dating partners, lead much happier and healthier and more productive and more financially successful lives. And the absence of any "unwanted child" resulting from those women's or girls' and their male sex partners' lives, also helps to reduce the crime rate in the United States. Unwanted children are significantly more likely to later become criminal persons than are children who are wanted and loved from the very start.

The following are the six U.S. states that reportedly had the lowest teenage pregnancy rates in the year 2010:

---New Hampshire (lowest teenage pregnancy rate in the United States, at 28 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 female teenage residents in that state); 

---Vermont (second-lowest in the nation, at 32 per 1,000);

---Minnesota (third-lowest teenage pregnancy rate, at 36 per 1,000 teenage female residents of that state);

---Massachusetts (fourth-lowest teenage pregnancy rate, at 37 per 1,000);

---Utah, with 38 reported teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents;

and

---Wisconsin, with 39 reported teenage pregnancies per 1,000 teenage female residents.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

STATE REP. GINA HINOJOSA AND STATE SENATOR KIRK WATSON ON FEBRUARY 20, 2018, RECEIVE TENTATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM MYSELF ON HOW TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF VIOLENT CRIME IN TEXAS


On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 12:12 PM, John McMillan wrote:

February 20, 2018

Dear State Representative Gina Hinojosa and State Senator Kirk Watson of the Texas Legislature governing body for our often-great State of Texas,

I am a tax-paying, gainfully employed, dependably civil and law-abiding and tactfully honest, vigilant and crime-deterrence-minded, Anglo adult male constituent of each of you. I reside in our state capital city of Austin in each of your two respective legislative districts.

I am very concerned about the outrageous frequency of homicides and other violent crimes in Austin, Texas, and elsewhere in Texas these days.


As each of you may be aware, I myself am a permanently-drinking-alcohol-free, anti-marijuana-minded and anti-illicit-drugs-minded, lifelong-tattoo-less, facially-cleanshaven and anti-facial-hair-minded, consistently clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with others), hygienic, single-by-choice, longtime-celibate-by-choice (including ever since the day I moved to NW Austin in August 2001), British-and-German-ancestry constituent of each of you.

I am also the founder and only approved member of the non-Christian and quality-of-life-minded and implicitly-deistic, non-atheistic, "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion", a new "Honor Society" religion with very stringent membership-eligibility requirements.

I am also a former full-time employee in Austin of the Texas Department of Public Safety state agency.

Today during my leisuretime, I googled "least violent states" in order to identify which U.S. states have been the most successful at deterring violent crime. As you might have guessed, Texas was not among the states fitting that very honorable description. Hawaii, however, was cited for great success in that category.


I am writing you both today to urge each of you to please review the very logical public-policy actions that the U.S. state of Hawaii has pursued to help deter violent crime there.


The online profile (see last item, below) on Hawaii that I obtained today through the above-cited Google search states that the Aloha State "requires residents to obtain a permit with a waiting period of 14 days minimum before they can get a gun."


That factual statement, along with the others cited below, was contained in a "247wallst.com" online blog that was posted on July 12, 2017. The blog was entitled "America's Most Violent (and Peaceful) States", and was written by Samuel Stebbins, Evan Comen, and Michael B. Sauter. I was not able to find any copyright information for that particular blog, but otherwise would have definitely cited that as well in this letter to each of you two very distinguished state legislators who directly represent me in the Texas Legislature.


The above-cited flattering profile on Hawaii also states that "in June 2016, Hawaii became the first state to register its gun owners in an FBI database."


The profile on Hawaii also points out that guns are involved in only 21 percent of all homicides there and in only 20 percent of all suicides there --- "the smallest share of any state," the cited online profile (below) states.


The violent crime rate in Hawaii (293.4 per 100,000) is 20th lowest in the nation, and the murder rate there (1.3 per 100,000) is second lowest in the entire nation, according to the above-cited online account that I read today.


Rep. Hinojosa and Senator Watson, are either of you willing to propose to the Texas Legislature that our U.S. state adopt both of the two above-cited strategies in order to help reduce the violent crime rate here in Texas?


Sincerely and Best Wishes,


John Kevin McMillan, founder and only approved member of the rational-goals-minded and non-praying "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion".
My home address: Village Oaks Apts. (a NW Austin apartment complex reportedly owned and managed by two separate for-profit corporations that each have the same headquarters address in Newton, Mass.), 10926 Jollyville Road, Building 16, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295.
My Blog: John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
John Kevin McMillan: A 21st Century Conservative Left-Wing Agenda
Observations for a rationally religious and implicitly deistic modern religion, public-policy writing, creative ...





America’s Most Violent (and Peaceful) States













America’s Most Violent (and Peaceful) States
Source: Thinkstock 50. Vermont > Violent crime rate: 118.0 per 100,000 (the lowest) > Murder rate: 1.6 per...





John Kevin McMillan

Monday, February 19, 2018

PRAISE FOR THE 'PEANUT-BUTTER BROWNIE' AT THE 'BLUE BAKER' BAKERY AND PIZZERIA LOCATION NEAR THE ARBORETUM


I was delighted this Monday evening by the flavor and texture of the inexpensive "peanut-butter brownie" I purchased in the "Blue Baker" location near the Aboretum in northwest Austin.


That brownie combines the flavors of peanut butter and chocolate in a very agreeable manner.

Price was only $2.75.

The "Blue Baker" company was reportedly established in College Station, Texas, and now has one location in Austin, Texas.


That Austin location is situated at 10,000 Research Boulevard near Great Hills Trail----on the northeastern edge of the Arboretum shopping center. The office phone number for that "Blue Baker" location is: (512) 346-2583.

This is the first example I myself can recall of a "culinary trend" that began in the hometown for Texas A&M University's main campus, College Station, and spread to Austin, the hometown for the main campus of the University of Texas.

I should keep in mind, though, that the Aggies are famous for their "fish frying event" fund-raisers, and possibly that was a culinary tradition that has been influential in Austin as well.

In my own life, I am under doctor's orders to refrain from eating ANY deep-fried foods on any occasion for the rest of my life. So the "Aggie fish-fry tradition" will not play any role in my own life in the year 2018 and beyond.