Extortion deadline: Good Friday

This was postmarked, I’m guessing, at exactly 9:50 AM, but verifiably on Wednesday, 13 March, 2024. It was $9.85 for the postage. For one piece of paper. The irony of the timing is absolutely stunning. I note that I’m given exactly 10 days to get my response post-marked (by Good Friday), or else. That’s a very rigid, legalistic period of time in this era of anything goes.

This must be serious. I can hardly wait to open it. It’s so exciting.

Yep. It’s what I’ve been expecting for a long time: the extorting of protection money.

A-w-e-s-o-m-e

The intrigue! The suspense! Where’s the popcorn! // off sarcasm

The boring truth is that I am being extorted for a tidy sum of money which is not mine though I’m in charge of it, and that money has a specific intention attached to it by the donors, that it is NOT to go to those who traffic children from the border all the way to Western North Carolina. If I were to hand over the money for that purpose I may well go to prison on a raft of charges. You gotta use the money for that for which it was intended. Or give it back. That’s all ignored.

Meanwhile, the traffickers themselves have asked me three times to deliver unvetted kids to unvetted recipients. I didn’t do that. Now money is desired to fund their activities, or else the extortionists will bring about the irreparable harm they threaten in the letter. They have delineated their methodology and the schedule of events. So exciting!