Histrionics over History

By Rich Kozlovich

I recently read an article out of Detroit by Kathryn Larson, Enter At Your Own Risk: Police Union Says ‘War-Like’ Detroit Is Unsafe.

The article stated that:

"[The] Detroit Police Department believe the city is too dangerous to enter, and they want citizens to know it.” “Detroit Police Officer Association [want] remind the public that the officers are overworked, understaffed, and at times, fearful for their lives.”

The article continues saying:

 “Detroit is America’s most violent city, its homicide rate is the highest in the country and yet the Detroit Police Department is grossly understaffed …..the once 2,000 strong force is shrinking rapidly; since the start of summer, hundreds of officers have left....."

Ok…so now what are the decent honest hard working citizens supposed to do against this failure to maintain civil order? A failure which in turn has resulted in a failure to keep the “protectors” on the job? Guns? Make no mistake about it; at some point people will start to take the law into their own hands. In point of fact…you will see people starting to make, enforce and execute their own laws. That is the way reality works.

Many years ago I bought some tapes of books to listen to in my truck as I drove from account to account. In this case I bought some Louis L’Amour tapes of western novels. L’Amour loved the Texas Rangers and wrote about them a lot, and he may have been the most knowledgeable man on the history of the west in the nation and certainly had one of the largest libraries, if not the largest library, about the old west in the nation in order to research his books. He did have the largest library collection about western gunfighters in the nation.

On some of his tapes he would do a short dissertation about the old west. On one of the tapes he talked about one of his favorites, who was a Texas horse rancher who eventually became a Texas Ranger, who had his horse herd stolen. His friends wanted him to wait in order to get a large posse together. He said there was no time as they would be in Mexico by then and took off after them alone.

A few days later he came riding back with his horses and was asked what had happened. He said he rode night and day until he caught up with them. A gun fight ensued and he killed two of them and arrested that third. Since he came back alone they asked where his prisoner was.

He said that since he hadn’t slept since he took off after them he was falling asleep in the saddle and his prisoner taunted him saying that when he fell asleep that night he was going to kill him and take off for Mexico. He said he realized that this was exactly was going to happen, so he had to develop some way of securing his prisoner to get a good night’s sleep and yet survive.

So he tied his hands behind his back; put him on his horse; tied a noose around his neck and tied the other end to a tree. Then he said…. You know, that darned horse walked off and left him in the middle of the night.

Well, that isn’t what happened. He hung the man! They knew he hung the man! And it didn’t much matter because they were going to hang the man anyway! So what is the moral of this story? They understood the difference between right and wrong and what needed to be done about it.

People will not tolerate this abuse by the system and the criminals. People will not watch their families being destroyed without taking a stand. So who is at fault? In the Navy the Captain of a ship is responsible for everything; even if it isn’t his fault. It is his job to put systems and people in place that will do the job properly….and failure isn’t an option and no excuse will be tolerated.

We need to get this. Detroit is a example of failure of leadership in the city, the nation and society. As society has abandoned Judaic/Christian principles they adopted the secular values promoted by the leftists that says….nothing is right and nothing is wrong and certain minority groups cannot be held accountable for their actions because it is the fault of the white majority that “forced” them into this behavior. What a load of horsepucky!

Everything we are told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality. The reality is that the “values” of the left are meaningless platitudes that have, in all of history, only promoted dystopia for society. Why is that so hard to grasp? The history books speak so loudly on this that I would think this wouldn’t be an issue. Yet…..why aren’t we as a society aware of this history? The schools and the media have been part and parcel of the problem because they have abandoned history for histrionics.

The reality is that when the Judaic/Christian values that created our civil society were abandoned disaster followed. The only answer must be to return to those values. Even if the churches won’t! But that is another story for another day!