Archive for 2009

The recent attempt to defend the merits of the use of force has opened a “Pandora’s Box” of complex questions.  What would generally be perceived as “making its wording more clearly” depends largely clear to whom.  If this “wording” is aimed at those sworn to protect and serve, the bullet still does not have a name on it.  It can just as easily claim the life of a police officer whose family may have the same or similar questions as the black community or any community.  How much is too much?

Support for policies and procedure may follow state and national guidelines well enough but the teeth in them protrude unsightly and the public detects a bad over-bite.  It does not improve the face value of perceived authority.  It seems that whenever City Council members have to ask for clarifications on the availability of it to individual police officers and community members or on something they had no prior knowledge of, there is something stinking in Stockholm or rotten in Rotterdam.

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The question of all questions has been sufficiently asked, “Where do we go from here?”  Suffice it to say, there are many roads to Champaign, which causes one to choose how to get into the city.  The present debacle has not gone unnoticed by the feeble-in-thought to the most eloquent summarizations, all of which are as valid as a Federal Reserve Note.  However, the Silver Certificate has greater value.

We know what we know not because someone has ground our noses into the dirt of everyday politics, but because politics runs our daily lives, one is either a borrower or a lender.  Oh the ambiguity of language!  It’s like the wheel-of-fortune, where it stops no one knows.  How can we all “just get along” when there is continued spin after spin.  Someone does not like the radio or television spin and fewer still, the newspaper spin.  It is becoming a web of confusion—this complexity of continuums.

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