That should be a hella easier than covering riots, such as we did in December, and encountering a phalanx of police officers in riot gear as we have done repeatedly in the last half dozen years.
The reassurance of a large police presence was contrasted by what happened in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdicts were announced. LAPD Chief Darryl Gates announced that the LAPD wouldn't respond to the calls for help generated by rioting and looting that occurred the night the verdicts were announced. All f*****g hell broke loose in "Shakeytown" that night.
The slowdown by police in New York City recently would seem to be a
limited example of the sit-down strike philosophy.
When workers at Ford, in the Thirties, called a strike action, a few were shot and killed and the strike was of short duration. Later workers at General Motors went to their work stations and remained idle, it was called a sit-down strike. It was a tipping point for unions and the Auto Workers Union became a viable entity in the history of Detroit.
The concept that police officers have the right to self
defense while performing their dangerous job should be obvious. The fact that such a right can lead to
egregious abuses of that right should also be obvious. Since discourse in America has disintegrated into a
binary choice, compromise is rendered impossible to achieve.
(Can't you just imagine the voice of Lenny Bruce suggesting that a study commission come up with an acceptable number of yearly police shooting totals? )
The goal of zero accidental fatal police involved shootings is impossible to achieve. It should be obvious that castrating the concept of policing is a bad idea, too.
This year will have a massive amount of feature story potential. It is very unlikely that this column will be the first and only mention of the fact that the Battle of Britain will be marking its 75th anniversary this summer.
It also seems quite likely that for political pundits, 2015 will be a bumpy ride with the use of seatbelts being mandatory.
If Obama is impeached, and if the Vice President is sworn in as President, what will Hilary's chances be for landing the 2016 Democratic Party's Presidential Nomination? Don't incumbent Presidents, who aren't restricted by term limitations, have a lock on the nomination?
Wouldn't it be more pleasant to be churning columns out
describing delightful assignments such as (hypothetically speaking) a
lunch/interview with an author in his hometown of San Francisco?
The closing quote this week is a famous line of dialogue from the film "Apocalypse Now:" "Charlie don't surf!"
Now the disk jockey will play a the song with the title "Charlie don't surf!," the Kingston trio's "MTA," and Waylon Jenning's song "Don't you think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand?" We have to go cover the 13th annual Noir City Film Festival (noircity dot com) which starts in San Francisco this weekend. Have a "no politically incorrect images" type week.
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