Victim Impact Statement

Welcome to Lincoln Country, a town of high crimes and misdemeanors, unsolved murders mysteries, and a witness protection program for people who seek refuge.

Unfortunately, not every person seeks refuge but escape. Witnesses who escape, however, risk becoming an enemy of the state.

As you, the citizen, begin reading, you will find yourself looking for answers to questions you should have asked-to whether you should bear witness or plead the Fifth, simply run and be hunted with nowhere to hide, or remain in Lincoln Country to be sex-trafficked. "Silence" can be your most sacred friend until silence turns against you.

Now, as a bystander, you'll think it safe just choosing to live your life with your eyes closed - unlike law enforcement officers and judges who deliberate without their jurors who subscribe to the "blue wall of silence" with their wide eyes open. I observe you contemplating, why? Do you wonder, if what you didn't see was the social justice you were expected to bear witness to? Perhaps, you already knew, that internal departments and there allegiance to "blind justice" under oath tips the iron scales of law and policy from how we should sustain humanity to furthering the misrepresentation of individual freedom, justice and equality of the "people, person and citizen."

This is the first serial and unnerving story by Dwayne Arthur Jones, who welcomes you to Lincoln Country, home of the witness, a town you cannot escape from. It is now twenty years later, the beginning of a story that never ended. The victims are older, the innocent are guilty, and testimonies of unknown witnesses are presumed dead. The crime scene has been reduced to faulty memories, abstract illustrations, and storyboard images, along with misplaced documents and a signed confession of one defendant who committed the murders and the only witness, who takes the stand under oath, confronting the killer in silence.

Silence harms the injured, not the offender.

Do not treat silence as a defense, a weapon used to avoid victim accountability. A responsible victim protects themselves as well as other victims.

Do not become a victim by your own self-defense.

-Dwayne Arthur Jones