Cause and Effect

 When I was about ten years old? The biggest thing Atlanta had going for it was a gorilla named Willie B. 

Named after former mayor William B. Hartsfield. (The same one the airport was named after.)

I asked my dad to take me to the zoo to see that gorilla and he did. Once we were there, we stood behind a handrail, maybe 10 feet from his cage. And it was a cage with bars. 

The cage had bars maybe as thick as your thumb. Seeing those bars and how huge the gorilla was, I asked my Dad, why the gorilla didn't just bend those bars and come out. 

My Dad explained, "because he doesn't know he can bend them."  Seeing the questions in my face, he explained further. 

He told me that in the old west during cattle drives, the cowboys always carried a cast iron hobble in their saddle bags. 

Seeing as there was no place to tie their horses off to on the prairies, they simply tied the reins to the hobble and pitched it   on the ground. 

And when the horses went to back up? They felt the resistance and thought they were tied to something solid. 

Never realizing that all they had to do was take off and the hobble would not stop them.

And later on? Willie B. got riled up one day and he bent those bars on his cage. After which, they had to reinforce his enclosure. 

I use that story as an example of what believing in resistance will accomplish. 

In America, we have had what is known as the thin blue line. Simply defined? The thin blue line is the police. 

They are the barrier that separates civilization from anarchy. There have never been enough police, to hold back an onslaught of crime or violence. 

At best, they were and have been a visible deterrent. A hobble if you will. Keeping those who wanted to press that line in order. 

Because the criminal element and those who chose to challenge that line? Realized that there were consequences to doing so. 

The police had power in numbers against individuals and they had power against small groups. But not any more. 

And the American people supported that thin blue line. Until recently. When they chose to stand back and watch it crumble. 

Ever since Ferguson and the Michael Brown case, that line has been being pushed. And with the George Floyd case, it was pushed farther. Farther than it had ever been pushed.  Pushed to the point of breaking. And it did break. And it has broken. 

The criminal element in America and the anarchist have now learned that they can break through that line. The same as Willie B. learned he could bend those bars. 

And they have been consistently breaking that line for well over a year now. And their efforts will continue. And their efforts wil

continue to grow. And they will continue to break that line. 

Why? Because they have now learned that they can. And they have now learned that they can get away with it. 

I posted three articles

out of California a little while ago? They are all examples of that broken line. 

Criminals now roam the cities of California with impunity. The police are powerless to stop them or to even try. 

And there are lessons to be learned from what is happening there. And the lessons are? That those same activities will be visited upon other cities in the coming months. And they already have been. 

We will see bands of marauding thieves, descending on businesses. To smash and grab and flee, with thousands of dollars in merchandise. 

Knowing that no one is going to stop them  and even if the police arrive, they too are powerless to stop them or even to chase them. 

We have already seen the same and similar type crimes and violence here in Atlanta. 

When a band of thieves entered Lenox Square with hammers and shattered display cases at a high end jewelry store and took tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry and watches. 

That was a month or so ago. 

And there have been other instances since. And they will

continue and they will increase with regularity. 

Why?

Because that line has been broken. And the only way to ever restore it, will require equal and greater force by the police. 

So as you see these reports increasing daily? Know this. It only gets worse. First by degrees, after which it will become a wave of criminal activity in all American cities. 

Why? Because we as a nation have been cowed. We have been shamed into believing that we deserve this. We have been told that these types of criminal activity are understandable. 

So as you see these marauding gangs descending and smashing and stealing, attacking people in their cars and homes?

Remember this. You are your only defense. Unless and until we as a nation stand up and call full stop. Unless and until a lot of blood flows. Inless and until the police are allowed to do their job. Provided there are any left who actually know how to do the job. 

Because now? That is the only resolution. 🤔

Worse yet, we are being told that these crimes are tolerable. Because we must show tolerance. We must show restraint. We must seek

to understand the underlying anger and self imposed justification for these actions. 

Because it is after all? Our own fault. Our white priviledge and sustemic racism are the causitive factors. And the pandemic and global warming. 🤔