[encryptluks2]

That sounds absolutely terrible and something like no person should ever have to go through. I understand the traumatic impact an incident like this could cause a person. Your experience is similar to mine in that once something does happen, its almost like the lawyers and doctors that should be there to protect you act like they can't fathom what you're telling them. Part of me just believes that they are so subscribed to the system that they can't even comprehend that it allows for such abuses. I've seen signs of it in my personal life. I've also had doctors straight up lie about things that were said during behavioral health appointments, and when I confronted them about it they continued to lie and try to gaslight me about it. I guess once you experience an event like that it is much harder to ever go back to trusting people and institutions the same way again.

[stew-j]

I'm sorry you had to have any involvement in that morass of a mess too. I've had more friendly interactions with the police in the new state I live in, 1500 miles away--although before that incident I never had any run-ins with the law in Wichita after living there 25 years off and on. Here, my wife and I wave back at them when they drive by.

This isn't the America I grew up in, the one where my parents taught me to trust, but verify authority. It seems like everything in our society is "upside down" these days--I really do want to trust our institutions, we have them for a reason--but the cracks are now canyons and it's easy to slip through. I guess it's trite to say it, but "When they came for the oddball, nebbish computer nerds, I did nothing because I wasn't a..."

Thank you for your sympathetic comments, they did make me feel better for sure, and best wishes.

[stew-j]

I forgot to add, at the time in 2014 I was working on this project

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491982

which lead to this one:

https://github.com/JMC-design/tovero

As I was taking a break from writing that "wall of text" last night, I finished my "Homer's Donut" shape, a 3D torus with a 0 - 360 degree arc to connect pipe-like shapes. My pipe-routing code is almost finished as of this morning.

My parents also taught me to "pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again." Peter Tosh too. So I guess another trite quote, "It's hard to innovate when you keep receiving 'being hit over the head' lessons."