‘Let the law handle things’
During the Vietnam War, authorities would often report “light casualties” after a firefight. If you’ve ever helped carry a corpse very far, then you know that no casualty is “light.” In context, the term referred to the number of wounded and killed, not the weight of any one of them.
There is some discussion concerning the term “isolated incidents” when referring to unarmed, black, “innocent” men being gunned down by white police officers. To their family and friends, it is no “isolated incident”; it is close to home. When taken in context, there are not that many cases of unwarranted deaths of black men at the hands of law enforcement officers.
In most if not every case, the “innocent” black man had done something for which an arrest was justified. The victim broke the law and resisted lawful arrest. That still does not justify getting killed, but we must look at all the facts.
Rodney King was a parolee, drunk driving, reckless driving, fleeing the police, but not many people know that. U.S. Representative Maxine Waters, (D-Watts?) threatened “No justice, no peace!” What she, and everybody else who parrots that remark means is, “We want revenge, our brand of justice. We don’t care what the truth is!”
US Representative Shelia Jackson-Lee opined that young black men were being hunted down and shot like dogs, in the streets, after the Trayvon Martin incident. That was a deliberate gross overstatement, designed to inflame the masses to anarchy.
Then these people, who want “justice,” turn feral. They loot, pillage, rob, burn, steal, rape, viciously assault, and kill people who have absolutely nothing to do with their alleged problem. And these people want to be treated with respect, like they deserve it? Gimme a break.
Past atrocities are no excuse to commit retaliatory atrocities against others, just because they happen to have the same skin color, or not.
Recently, a black man recently released from Mississippi prison was found hanging from a tree by a bed sheet. Immediately every outside agitating group jumped on the bandwagon. He was lynched! It wasn’t suicide! No justice, no peace!
With apologies to the preacher, I’m going to borrow a phrase from him and revise it. His sermon was on, “No Jesus, no peace: Know Jesus, know peace.” Look at it this way: No justice, no peace; know justice, and you will know, and have, peace. Justice is equal for everyone, and revenge isn’t justice. Let the law handle things.
Cameron Triplett
Brooksville
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