Says Obama following the five policeman killed.  “It’s very hard to untangle the motives of the shooter.  I’ll leave that to the psychologists and other people who study these issues.”   He’s kidding right?  No, this is our President who time after time always defends the indefensible.  Who always sides with his race before even knowing the facts.  Same thing for seven and a half years.  Plus throw in his Muslims leanings.  It is simply endless.   He is part of the problem instead of part of the solution.  A little over five months and counting.  “A man who indulges in killing White officers is a man engaged in evil.” Karl Rove.

No question if I was a Black person, I would be on guard.  I would know the Afro American history in America that is not always pretty.  Thousands of Blacks were hung by the Ku Klux Klan as recently mid twentieth century.  No trial.  The great Black entertainers of our time could not even stay in the Las Vegas hotels where they were entertaining.  The great singer Lena Horne saw the pool drained after she swam in it. The wonderful Nat “King” Cole would be fired if he dared to look at a White woman in the audience.  It wasn’t until the 1960’s when Frank Sinatra said he would not perform unless his friend Sammy Davis Jr. could stay in the same hotel where Frank was staying and broke the color barrier.

But much has changed for the better since.  Not ideal yet. But much better.  However, there is a time when matters get out of hand as we see day after day here in our Country.  The movement will go on.  However, nobody is above the law.   Nobody should be fanning the flames of racial tension as we see today.  The media, Black leaders who owe their stature and income tied to racial tension and the drug culture so prevalent in nasty neighborhoods.  And a President who has made matters worse.

So what do we do now to stop the growing killing that are coming on daily now?  Politicians such as Hillary Clinton tell us we need “a  conversation.”  Silly.  Might as well bury it forever in some committee.  Instead she and others in her Party will point to gun legislation as some sort of a solution.  Laughable.  There will be some workable answers from a new President if it is not Hillary.  But what now?   Well, we are too far into this killing spree to examine eventual plans that may work.  And, there is no leadership in our Country.  As jacksjargon sees it, local police forces are on their own. They must now be more aggressive in handling these demonstrations and still walk a very fine line to keep from an out right insurrection.  But, we cannot let the inmates run the asylum.  That’s anarchy.  For instance, there is no way police should allow any group shut down a major interstate.  Or demonstrators lock hands keeping shoppers from entering a department store during Christmas season in Chicago.  Police commissioners must risk their careers fighting city hall and the media to do what is right for the public.  They cannot stand idly by and let unruly demonstrators become criminals.  Or police, such as in Baltimore, stand by and watch as demonstrators loot and set fires.

Here come the conventions.  The Republicans in Cleveland beginning next Monday and soon after the Democrat’s in Philadelphia.  No matter how well authorities think they will be ready…in all likelihood, they are not.   Governors should have the national guard standing by.  If demonstrator’s break laws, there has to be swift action.  They can’t wait until matters get out of hand.  It is critical they nip any problems in the bud or else things will explode.  Those extremists are willing to do anything if they sense there is no strength to stop them.

There has to be strong Rudy Giuliani type leadership.   Weakness will beget weakness and America, as we know it, may never see anything like what could happen.  A bully will back off if he knows you are up to stopping him.  At this awful time in our Country we must be strong on the local level.   There is simply no telling what well financed demonstrators are capable of doing.  This is not a time to be overly patient and back off.  Or, as General Colon Powell used to preach…overwhelming force will win any battle.   Let us pray local leaders and governors will do what they must.  There will be no help from Obama and his administration.  He has shown what side he is on again and again.

In 1968, I was working in the media at Chicago.   I remember well what happened.  Force came too late.  It was terrible, but these days, if not handled well, 1968 could seem like a picnic in Grant Park.

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