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By Bob McDowell (Born Neil Carson) Number 19-30
REVERSE DOWNWARD SPIRAL Week of 2019/07/29
Having been critical of the, in my opinion, misconduct of certain members of the
Congress, it seem to be proper to offer some suggestion on how to first stop the
progression of violence before more are killed than in the terror shooting in Las Vegas,
and then what could be done to reverse this trend that seems to have groups and/or
individuals sponsoring and financing the massive unlawful conduct and speech going on.
It seems to me that the root problem is, and has been for some time, a failure at all
levels of government to properly enforce the laws already on the books. This failure
certainly has different levels of officials of same to find guilty of refusing or, being
incapable of, exercising their sworn duty to 'maintain protection for the population from
enemies both without and within'. In some cases it would appear that the officials
involved who ordered police at whatever level involved to "stand down" did so
deliberately.
One relatively recent example is the mayor of Baltimore issuing an order to,
paraphrasing, 'just let them get it out of their system'. The result of course was
substantial property damage to owners not involved at all but just located in an area
where the rioters happened to be carrying out their 'vengeance' for a perceived
improper act of local police on one of their ethnic group. Turned out the police were
correct.
It is apparent also that in some cases such violence against property and people
is occurring because those doing the felonies are oriented to doing these things and
there has been a long time failure to of law enforcement, including the courts, to bring
such people to justice and enact punishment plus retribution for the damage involved.
Part of this situation can be blamed on a less than honest media, of all types, in
reporting and a tendency to inflate or inflame the report, twist the wording so as to
imply, or state, that the actions were "justified" because of some real or imagined
misconduct by law enforcement.
Of course any 'journalist' of worth has an overwhelming desire to have the
'scoop' with her/his name mentioned as the source. All too often in such cases the old
adage of "haste makes waste" is in full sway and the truth in the matter turns out to be
totally opposite to what appears to be true in the beginning. This same statement could
be made where military or diplomatic actions are involved.
Also involved, it appears to me, in such failures of law enforcement could be
corruption or incompetence within the management of law enforcement organizations.
A most recent example would be the continuing to surface corruption in Federal law
enforcement units including the FBI, CIA, and even in the Department of Justice going
back, it appears, more than a decade. It is really unfortunate that the "civil service laws"
enacted early in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, beginning in 1933, has
served to make it almost impossible to remove wrong acting bureaucrats from their
positions. Prior to that time it was the practice in the Federal Government that all hired
personnel, even down to Postmasters, were subject to replacement upon the
inauguration of a different President. The incoming "POTUS" could retain those
believed to be honest and effective.
This is carried out even today in the staff members of both houses of Congress.
To his credit my own Representative in OK District One, Kevin Hern, kept three very
effective, honest, and interested in constituent staff members. They have been effective
and helpful in representing him to the voters and are my first choice of contact when
needing something or having information or a suggestion for the Congressman.
Incidentally, in what I consider a wise and economical move there was no change in
address or telephone number involved in the change in office holder. Again a wise move!!
Back to the first subject of discussion, there can, and will not, be any improvement
by reduction in the violence and lawlessness we are having until a strong move is
implemented to bring wrong doers to justice with meaningful and prompt retribution!!!
PRESDT-45 is finding resistance in Congress, even from some who were elected with an
'R' over their name. We call them RINOS (Republican in name only
END
Composed July 19, 2019
Robert W. McDowell, Jr. 841 Lynwood
Lane
918-451-1051 Broken Arrow OK 74011-8608
Email: abdmcfpi@localnet.com
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