Good
morning,
Quote
of the day:
When
one of his troops admitted that he was scared during combat he said:
“Do
you know why you are scared? It is because you still have hope. The
sooner you convince yourself that you are already dead the sooner you
will become the soldier you are supposed to be. You will be able to
kill without fear, without compassion and without remorse...all wars
depend on it.”
1st
Lt. Frank Spears
2nd
platoon, “E” company, 506 PIR, 101st
Airborne 6/6/44.
Here
are some thoughts about the events in Ferguson, Missouri in the last
few days. Some of you will agree with me and other will not but here
it is anyway. What do we know for sure? The only thing were know
for sure is that the dead guy was unarmed and was killed by a gunshot
from a police firearm. There are hundreds of scenarios that could
apply to this event but we do not know which one is the truth. There
will be at least three scenarios of what happened.
None
of these versions are valid because each group making a report has an
agenda and their reports will be biased.
One:
The cop reacted properly and shot the guy when he made an aggressive
move toward him even though cops are trained with non fatal
instruments like batons, tasers, five cell flashlights, blackjacks,
different holds of submission, etc.
This
will be the report by the police because they want the killing
justified to avoid adverse publicity and a scourging by the city
fathers.
Two:
The cop shot the guy because he hated or feared blacks.
No
one knows what was in the cops mind but it makes it easier for those
that hate or fear cops especially white ones.
Three:
A variety of witnesses believe the cop shot the guy because he hated
blacks regardless of where the truth lies. This prejudice will taint
their statements.
Those
with a penchant for thievery and burglary will use this one. If they
were zealots for justice they would not be criminals themselves in a
demonstration for a dead person for which they are allegedly seeking
justice. Everyone knows right from wrong. Maybe the killing of the
black man was not justified, that is for the courts to decide not by
a deluge of looting and burglary. That solves nothing and cast a
veil of doubt as to the real intentions. Was there an outbreak of
lawlessness when Nichole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were found
stabbed a slashed to death? Was there a demonstration of any kind
when a 13 month old Latino baby was shot and killed and the Latino
mother was shot and severely wounded by two black kids trying to rob
her down in Brunswick, Ga.? Why was there no explosion in the media
about this outrage? Well, why not?
Four:
The cop over-reacted because he felt the situation was getting out
of hand and he was in fear for his safety or his life.
This probably what
happened.
A
while back in northwestern Afghanistan the Taliban accused a pregnant
WIDOW of ADULTERY and punish her by administering 200 lashes and then
shooting her in the head three times. They also executed a 10 person
medical team that was in Afghanistan on their own time to help the
Afghanis. Their only crime was that they were westerners except for
three of them who were Afghanis. The Taliban wants everyone to come
to them and them only for everything. They want total control of
everyone’s body and soul. I can assure you that they would love to
take over America and enslave all of us. They are the enemy with
which we are at war. The purpose of any and all wars is to kill the
enemy or prosecute the war so severely that the enemy surrenders.
A
few days ago at 1:30a in Cleveland county North Carolina, the 911
operator received a call from 48 year old Joe Crosby. Joe said that
“he thinks he just killed his wife.” The operator dispatched a
county cop and an EMS team and sure enough, Joe’s 51 year old wife
Gaylain was dead. Joe was cooperative and helped the cops with their
investigation. He had no criminal record of any kind. How can this
happen?
This
Date in History August 18
1227
Earlier, in about 1162 a man-child was born to a minor Mongol
chieftain who he named Temujin. The chieftain died and Temujin was
set to succeed him but the remainder of the tribe would not obey such
a young leader and the rest of the tribe abandoned the family to fend
for themselves out on the vast Steppes of Mongolia. By his late
teens Temujin had become a very skilled and feared warrior and had
attained a charisma that attracted other tribal leaders and he
consummated many alliances. The end result was Temujin had acquired
a monstrous army all of them on horseback. One tribe kidnapped
Temujin’s wife. They should not have done that because Temujin and
his troops went after her and tortured and killed all that had done
the kidnapping. Temujin decided that he was going to combine all the
Mongol tribes under his command by force if necessary. He made an
offer to those tribes that had not joined him that either they would
join or each and every member of the tribe would be killed. It was a
simple choice for the other tribe leaders, they chose to live.
Temujin ended up with and army of over 500,000 mounted warriors and
his name was changed to Genghis Khan meaning “Oceanic Ruler.”
There was no other army in the world that could even come close to
competing with a cavalry that size. Normal armies in the rest of the
world relied on huge infantry and a small amount of cavalry because
of the amount of ground and feed required to support horses. The
Mongols did not have that problem with thousands upon thousands of
acres of open rangeland in the Steppes of Asia. Khan organized his
army in units of 10, 10 horsemen to a unit, 10 units to a company, 10
companies to a division, etc. The most feared unit was a “Tumen”
or a unit of 10,000 highly organized cavalrymen. After Khan got his
troopers organized he set out to conquer China in 1209. Through an
extensive network of spies, Khan found a weakness and sent 250,000
cavalrymen to the attack. It was no contest and Khan went in and
slaughtered millions and then asked the survivors if they wanted be
obedient or not. As you might suspect, they chose to become a
follower of Khan. On one occasion he was attacking a city that
refused to surrender so he dismounted many of his troops and they dug
a diversion canal from a nearby river into the city and flooded it.
There is no need for me to tell you what happened after the city
finally surrendered. And finally as he approached yet another city
the city leaders offered to surrender if Khan promised that “not a
drop of blood would be shed”. Khan agreed and the city surrendered
then Khan went in and strangled everybody. No blood was shed,
however. While putting down a rebellion in the Xi Xia, China Genghis
Khan died on this date. On his deathbed he ordered the Xi Xia wiped
from the face of the earth. His army did as they were told and they
did not leave one stone standing on top of another and either killed
or enslaved all its residents. In order to keep Khan’s gravesite a
secret, his army killed anyone that saw his funeral procession on the
way to his home in Karakorum, Mongolia and Genghis Khan’s burial
site is not known to this day. At one point Khan ruled half of the
known world.
1931
After weeks of torrential rain, on this date the Yangtze River in
China overflowed its banks and floods the surrounding countryside.
The Yangtze River has the most populated cities in the world on its
banks. The majority of the peoples of China live close to the
Yangtze or its tributaries. The end result was the greatest disaster
in the 20th
Century. Over 3.5 million Chinese died as a result of this flood
either by drowning or disease promulgated by the failure to dispose
of so many bodies at one time. Typhus, Typhoid and Malaria was
rampant. Not only that the rice fields were flooded and the crops
failed causing widespread starvation later on. The Chinese
government had been warned about the possibility of the flooding of
the Yangtze and had plans to reinforce the flood control system but a
civil war intervened.
1988
On this date Seattle, Washington judge the Honorable Gary Little
went to the basement of his court house and blows his brains out.
Earlier a few juvenile offenders had complained that Judge Little had
approached them for a sex while they were being tried in his court.
Their reward was a lighter sentence if the complied. Somehow these
complaints were covered up, at least for awhile. Finally a news
reporter smelled a rat and dug into the case and found out the Judge
Little had been coercing young men for sex for years and the legal
community had covered it up. The reporter gathered all the
confirmation he could find and notified Judge Little that he would
author an expose’ in the next day’s newspaper. It was then that
Judge Little went to the basement and took care of business. I
wonder how many of those in the legal profession protect each others
backs in cases like this. The ironic thing about the Judge Little
thing is that he shot himself under a pipe where his father had hung
himself years before after being arrested for burglary.
1853
Cyrus Skinner was born in Ohio in 1829 and began a life of crime
almost as soon as his age allowed. He drifted into California and
robbed a few people before being caught and sentenced to three years
in San Quentin. He was released on this date and started his old
routine again and began burglarizing business around Yuba City,
California. He was again arrested and sentenced to 15 years in San
Quentin where he met an old friend name Henry Plummer. I have
mention Plummer in a previous essay about John X. Beidler. Anyway,
Plummer and Skinner escaped and hightailed it over the mountain to
the wild and wooly Montana gold fields where nearly no law
enforcement existed. Plummer stopped enroute and organized a gang in
Idaho before going to Montana. Skinner, Plummer and company began
robbing the Montanans to the point that the local people organized a
vigilante committee to handle these outlaws. On January 10, 1864 the
vigilantes captured Henry Plummer and two of his buddies and they
were hanged on the spot. Cyrus Skinner ran like hell out of the area
but the vigilantes were relentless. They cornered Skinner in
Hellgate, Montana. Skinner ran away on foot hoping to be killed by
gunshot rather than hanging. No such luck. Skinner met his maker
dangling from a tree limb. Skinner was one of the last of the 24
members of Plummer’s gang to be hanged by the vigilantes.
Born today:
1919
Former governor of Alaska Walter Hickel. While asking to be
allowed to kill hundreds of wolves in the Alaskan wilderness he said
“After all, we can’t allow nature to run wild.” Walt, shut up
and quit ruining my life.
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