While I served in
the Air Force during the Vietnam Era, going on leave was always a prickly
experience all around. To get a
substantial and appreciated military discount when flying from airport to
airport, service people were required to wear our uniforms during travel. For me, uniform-clad, an immediate
observation in civilian territory was a profound unfriendliness by civilians
toward military people, as if we were single-handedly responsible for the
Vietnam
I only mention
this because I think I understand how good, solid law enforcement people -- at
all levels -- across the U.S. must feel right now. Yes, bad things have happened and bad things
have always happened, but the usual lot of leftists, anarchists and morons are
doing what they do best -- coagulating into violently protesting bacteria of
all kinds, blaming every cop on the beat for every ill they can conjure. These folks care only about their own form of
justice, the variety which brings "the system" down. Right now, they're working pretty hard at it.
"The
system" may not be perfect, but so far there hasn't been a good substitute
in sight.
In New York, I
think the protesters would serve themselves and the country best by focusing
their rage toward the governor and legislature, for these are the folks who
perpetually tax citizens nearly to oblivion and insist that police personnel
pursue tax "criminals" aggressively.
As far as NY City goes, it may just become increasingly clear that
electing a garden-variety socialist mayor disguised as a Democrat wasn't a good
idea, either, because his speeches and actions appear deemed and doomed to
foster even more trouble in the streets.
Meanwhile,
everything seems to be increasingly about "white privilege" vs. black
injustice and black everything else. As
a white guy, may I just say, if you're going to in-my-face black me all over
the media and on the street, at least black me with somebody other than Sharpton,
Jackson and all the usual race-baiting opportunists who exist only to stir their
non-melting pot. Instead, black me with
people such as Lt.Col. Allen West or Dr. Ben Carson. people of talent, intellect
and honor. If you're going to black me
with black hate talk radio, then black me instead with well-spoken black radio talk show hosts who actually make sense, such
as Kevin Jackson, who isn't buying the tired old liberal apologist line for a
second.
I can understand that some black
minorities are filled with storming rage, but they invariably direct all their energy in
the wrong direction -- and the right direction is toward all the wildly liberal
Democrats who built a cage around their dreams and hopes to keep them captive
to socialist ideals. If 93 percent of
black murders are performed by other black people, then one would have to
conclude that the main problem isn't the police -- it's the generational
Democrat-concocted conditions that created the ongoing environment of poverty,
hatred and mistrust anchored in one failed city government after another.
