X-Chairman's Corner Week of July 14

From Hamas on the Palestinian West Bank to Inglewood: Here We Go Again

In Palestine today, the Palestine leaders say, "Give us a state on our terms or we will continue to kill ." That's called ‘terrorism’. In America, some black leaders imply that if justice fails to meet their definition, they will encourage riots where whites and Asians die, their stores burned, and the responding firemen and police fired upon. That's called ‘civil rights’. In Politically Correct democratic Washington, they make war on acts of terror but politically reward riots and their political inciters.

A man in a motel in Inglewood California video taped an incident where police had handcuffed the hands of a black youth behind his back, threw him on the hood of a car and punched him in the face. This is unreasonable. I am offended by anyone who would hit a restrained person. However, to add some perspective let us review the details. The father of the youth was stopped for an expired license plate. He had a criminal record of assaults against a police officer, and prior vehicular infractions. Three or four Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies were attempting to give the father of the youth a ticket. As the ticket was being written the youth went into a service station. When he came out, the incident occurred. Two of officers were white and one was black, the youth was black.

Is this racial? Not necessarily. The black father was not beaten. In the Connie Chung presentation, she stopped the cameras and showed the bruises and cuts on the face of the officer who struck the youth. Other officers were alleged to have been hurt in the fight. Is this police brutality? Probably. Is this similar to the Rodney King case? Almost identical. Did these cases have to have happened? Not necessarily.

This last incident might never have happened if the father had simply complied with the law. He did not. Perhaps he considered himself above the law. The son would never have been handcuffed, arrested and hit if he had stayed in the station and had not appeared to have attacked the police officer. The two helped create this tragedy. Does this sound familiar? It should. Other similar cases have their genesis where the so-called abused person is resisting arrest. I certainly cannot approve of the police abusing anyone. On the other hand any reasonable person would understand that at some point, any person, even a cop, might reach a breaking point.

Some black leaders are seeking to gain notoriety, attention, and funds out of this unfortunate situation. At this writing Rep. Maxine Waters, Mayor Dorn, and many others are on site ‘organizing’ "No Justice, No peace", is their chant. Mayor Dorn promises no riots if ‘justice’ is done. His definition of ‘justice’. The youth sued the City of Inglewood the next day. He may become a millionaire. This is superior to his present status of being welfare dependent on the basis of his developmental disability status.

Other black leaders may soon be on site, perhaps seeking to become the next ‘civil rights’ super star, the next Al Sharpton. Black leadership should be ashamed of their perpetuation of racist attacks on the police. Sharpton took the Tawana Brawley case and rode it into political stardom, but at the cost of slandering the policemen in the town where the incident supposedly occurred. But such leaders have little shame.

Their implication in Inglewood seems to be that this particular citizen had a right to resist arrest, a right to do bodily harm to a police officer, a right to sue the citizens of Inglewood. They seem to want perfect policemen, who could resist violence after being attacked, spit on, and cursed. These problems often occur between a person resisting arrest and a police officer who could not resist reacting to abuse in like manner. It becomes personal between them. The blacks hits the or resists the policeman, the policeman responds in kind. Both seem to think that they have that right.

Now come Mayor Dorn and Congresswoman Waters who seek to settle this personal problem with veiled threats of riot and retaliation. If all the policeman are not fired and jailed, they may ‘see’ a riot as ‘inevitable’. (The film showed other officers trying to restrain the abusive officer.) As previously stated, such situations are often personal. The proposed ‘civil rights’ solution is not personal, nor legal. Whites and Asians are to be targeted for punitive, ‘collective’ punishment. Some of these who may suffer may have the similar beliefs as the black population.

None of these to be targeted were involved in this case, nor could they have prevented it. Yet they are to be subjected to physical abuse, financial loss, and emotional harm, just as a suicide bomber might injure a 15 year-old innocent Israeli student. Even according to the Geneva Rules of War, collective retribution against a civilian population is treated as a war crime. Those who encourage riots in the United States are as guilty of war crimes, as those are in Saudi Arabia who encourage the Palestinian suicide bombers.

If the black leadership wanted to act responsibly, it could ask their followers to submit to arrest and then if falsely charged, help them in a legal defense. Have these foolish leaders forgotten the hundreds of fireman and policemen who lost their lives in the World Trade towers attack? These fireman and policeman went into this situation not knowing whether they would survive. I have heard no one charge that they refused to assist anyone because of their color. This sacrifice of their life in the line of duty was voluntary with them.

Sadly, even Israelis sympathetic to the Palestinian cause; have lately turned to the idea of a massive fence between the Jewish side of Palestine and the Muslim-Arab side. Most Israelis have about had all the suicide attacks that they can handle. They seem to be tired of periodic one-person ‘riots’, with dozens of deaths and scores of injured. If the American black political leadership continues down the Al Sharpton road, the old fences in America may yet return as well, even by those most sympathetic to Black problems in the United States.

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