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Bad Seeds

In this article, I am going to discuss something that is very personal and important to me. I feel that in order to fully express what it is, that I want all of you to understand I have to talk about a situation in my life that was very painful for my loved ones, several others, and me. The story in this article may hit close to home for many of you reading this and my heart goes outto anyone who has ever been viciously attacked by another human being.

Aurora Colorado, July 7, 2004. My sister is putting my nephew in the car after doing some shopping at the Target store two blocks from where I live when a young man around the age of 20 approaches her and asks if he could simply make a call from her cell phone. She finishes strapping my nephew into his car seat and lets him make his call. He talks for a few minutes and then panics and says he needs her to drive him a block away because a family member is in trouble and he needs to get home as soon as possible. She explains that she does not feel comfortable driving him anywhere and suggests to the man to call the police if there is a problem. He grabs the keys out of her hand and jumps into the drivers seat to take off with her car, my sister quickly jumps into the passenger seat realizing that she would not be able to get her child back out of the car before the man drove off. After she gets in the car and realizes that the man has driven several blocks she looks at her phone only to realize that the man never did actually make a phone call. She knew she was in trouble and at the mercy of this troubled man. An hour goes by, and after repeatedly beating and raping her, and nearly strangling my nephew to death, because he would not stop crying for his Mom, the man finally decided that he had enough and pulled over and disappeared into what has now become a dark night. The man continued to do this to other women and is now known as the Aurora Serial Rapist, at this time he is still on the loose.

You may be asking yourself, what does this have to do with Vampirism and why do I feel it is important to tell this personal story in a Vampire Magazine? It has nothing to do with Vampirism and that is merely my point to a lesser degree. After talking with my sister she explained to me that she is afraid of men because of what happened and of course that is completely understandable. I explained to her that in society there are simply a few 'Bad Seeds' but that does not mean that everyone in this society has to be bad. Not all men are sick and twisted but surely, there are individuals out there both male and female that just happen to be the worst form of the Human Race. They are impossible to avoid and at some point in everyone's life, we will have to deal with people that simply have no respect for Human life.

Later that night after talking with her I had trouble sleeping. I couldn't channel my thoughts into anything else because the fact that this man attacked my sister was eating me alive. A week went by and I still had trouble sleeping and getting my mind off of what happened. So I finally decided that the only way I could begin to feel better is to get everything off my chest and try and take this negative situation and turn it into something positive if that’s even possible. I thought to myself, what if this man were to claim to be a Vampire and what affects would that have on the Local Vampire Community here in Colorado? Those affects could be very bad and of course, the Vampire Hater population would explode to new proportions. Not only would that be a bad thing for peaceful Vampires like myself, but I feel that there would have been more of a concern with the general public. The local news warned everyone that there was a Rapist on the loose and told all women to take precaution after dark. My sister was the first victim so she didn't have much of a chance. But, for this to happen to a total of five or so women completely baffles me. If the news had said that there was a Vampire on the loose attacking women in parking lots after dark, than you can believe that the parking lots would be empty. Most of the people here didn't even know that there was a Rapist attacking women but I am sure if the news were to say that it was a Vampire attacking people than everyone would know and it would be a big deal.

We have seen such things throughout history where someone has committed an awful crime and claimed that they were a Vampire. But what is often misunderstood is that if a Vampire were to commit a crime, they are simply a Criminal. If a Vampire were to murder someone they are simply a Murderer. Being a Vampire has nothing to do with what type of person you are, just as being a certain race does not make you any better or worse than anyone else. A Vampire is a human being just the same as anyone and if they, as a person cannot differ between right and wrong, than they are simply a Human being that has been raised without any morals or respect for life as it is.

Vampires are highly misunderstood by the public in general. Many people cringe when they hear the word and there are even some that feel the need to ridicule us for having an Energy Deficiency. Some people still believe that Vampires attack people in the night. But, Vampires don't attack, people attack other people. Vampires are not sick and twisted evil monsters like Hollywood portrays us to be. We are loving and caring normal people, just like most of the people you meet walking down the street everyday. If a Vampire were to ever commit a crime, or do something that is frowned upon than that is simply a mistake made by that individual and that individual represents them self and not every person in this community. This person that viciously attacked and raped my sister was not a vampire, he wasn't the same skin color, in fact he was very different in a lot of ways. But we cannot discriminate and be prejudice merely by one person’s mistake. We as humans are constantly labeled and guilty of labeling others. We label each other by the color of our skin, by our sexual preference, and even by the amount of money that we have and so on to the point that it makes this Vamp sick to his stomach.

I can label this man in several different ways if I wanted to. I could be angry with men just as my sister is, even though I am a man. I could judge every person merely by his or her skin color, because this man that raped my sister had a different skin color than me. I could even stoop so low as to say that this man was not a Vampire and hate all that are Mundane. But I won’t label or hate anyone other than this man because this man does not represent society as a whole; he merely represents his sick and demented evil self. This man, is merely a skid mark on the underpants of society, he is a bad seed.

If a Vampire is what you fear after the sun goes down, than you need to open your eyes and realize that there are all kinds of people on this earth and you may be living right next door to someone that is sicker than you could ever imagine and this person could be labeled in any shape or form. But if you live in Aurora Colorado, you and your Family could either live next to a Rapist, or live next door to this Vampire that wakes up every weekday at 6 AM in the morning to go to work, pays his Taxes, and has never attacked anyone.

Take your pick....

**Note** Within the frame of time that it took me to write this the man was arrested. The Trial is in progress and it appears that this man will go to jail for a long time. But until the final verdict my sister says she still won’t be able to sleep well at night.

Steve Thompson

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