Earl Callaway

A little about me:
No, I was not a gang member from the inner city. I was a South Georgia farm boy from the boonies, and definitely during a period of time when being "country" was not even luke warm, let alone "cool".

From an early age, I never seemed to be one who would accept things on their face value or simply believe something because someone said it was so. I liked to check things out for myself to see how things really worked and why certain things in nature behaved the way they appeared to and why there seemed to be so many unexplained mysteries, that others seemed to just accept, without question. My immense curiosity caused me a lot of grief as I would constantly conduct experiments and explorations in and around the farm that would ultimately wind up creating small disasters. It would usually be marked off as just childhood mischief, but sometimes I would fall victim to the old and currently incorrect 'corporal punishment' regime (switch or belt across the butt).

Anyway, I eventually survived the farm labor, went off to college, got married and became a father and a cop, all by the ripe old age of 20. Farm folks just grew up faster (or so we thought). Of the 32 plus years that I've been in law enforcement, over 26 of were as a criminal investigator. I live in Wayne County Georgia. We are located along the Altamaha River swamp basin in a 650 square mile county of around 30,000 residents, the worlds largest paper mill, a state prison and a large federal prison. The population figure is somewhat misleading due to the large number of people who come into our county to work and the large volume of traffic that passes through on our mainstream highways (U.S. 301, 341, and 84).

Doctor Town Landing, a once prosperous settlement located on the banks of the Altamaha (the largest river east of the Mississippi) is the only location in Georgia where the rebels were successful in their efforts to turn back the cut-throat troops of General Sherman during the Civil War. I still haven't figured out what was so civil about it. There is still an active railroad trestle located at Doctor Town. Too proud of saving it from the Yanks during the War to tear it down and build a new one, I guess. Anyway, I think that's enough history for now.

I suppose you're beginning to get the idea that I live in a peaceful little redneck community of lazy, fishing, tobacco chewing, professional mosquito breeders. Well, to be honest, that's partially true, but my, how things have changed! Even though we still have an occasional gator to leave the swamp and wander through someone's yard or a black bear to help himself to a honey producer's bee hives, we also have the whole gamut of criminal activity you find in the northern wastelands of New York, Detroit or (heaven forbid) Atlanta. The moonshiners of my youth are the Dixie Mafia of today, and crack cocaine, methamphetines and varous narcotics trafficking, with it's associated wide ranging criminal and moral savagery is alive and thriving in the once peaceful land of southern hospitality. And, as for as government and political corruption goes, we certainly do not lag behind in this modern day pastime either. Unfortunately, the greedy, power struck, egocentric jerks that operate much of our national affairs get their original training at the local city halls and county court houses all across our country (the deep south is certainly no exception). I suppose this is what I had on my mind when I wrote my thoughts on the "Theory of Unity"

Well, I haven't really told you a lot about myself but knowing a little about where I live and worked helps give you an idea of the environment from which I was molded (if we are really products of our environment like the psychoanalysts say). Actually, it would require a least one very thick book to even begin to tell of the many events, trials, tribulations, victories, defeats and so fourth that I have experienced during my life, both personally and especially through my work. It is my wandering mind, inquisitive nature, experience, and life's hard-learned-lessons that has lead me to most of my views, which I will discuss in various articles throughout the EarlCallaway.com web site. I will continue to add, delete and/or update my material, so check back often and e-mail me with your questions, thoughts or comments, whether good, bad or indifferent. And remember, don't take anyone's word about important issues. Always check it out yourself, so you can be sure that you know what you think you already know is really what you have yourself convinced of knowing, or if it's actually got anything to do with the real truth! You may be surprised by what you find!
Earl Callaway

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