"Street Warriors" (Prologue)

 “Street Warriors”

cji

5/30/17

(Prologue:

Many years ago as a young boy I did many things which today I regret. This is not to say I was wicked or into criminal behavior – but it was enough to get me into trouble at the time. One of these was throwing snowballs! One such time I almost hit a crossing guard – and in those days they knew us not only be name but where we lived. Needless to say this man in uniform showed up to call me into accountability. He did so in that to this day I both remember and understand why I should not have done this. He made a great impression on this elementary student. He also became my friend – indeed as I grew many from crossing guards to policemen have done the same! One such was the uncle of a boy who played baseball with us. He could see I had not much understanding or a very good skill set for the game. As his nephew wouldn’t take any advice or help from him I did. It turns out he’d been a very good athlete and an excellent baseball player. Being a quick learner – it helped me become skilled in most aspects of the game. It also taught me that Policemen/women played many different roles in their lives and not just enforcers of the laws – but also as preventative measures to help out those who struggle in their lives. Thus when attempting to write and honor their professionalism and duty to the protection of the innocents within our society some background was needful. One could account for those who don’t have these qualities and do things which do not honor their duty but this is such a small percentage of those who do serve with honor they need not be mentioned below. Wherever below I use the singular gender i.e. man/woman men/women it applies equally to both. We’ve many in our society who’s responsibility is to enforce the rules or laws of the land. Many in doing their professions suffer at the hands of those who want not rules or laws unless they can be used to their advantage.

We’ve also to remember the wicked in our society who’s only goal is to murder these who serve – i.e. Detroit in the early 60’s would start fires and when those to enforce or fight the fires would be shot upon by these cowards in ambush. Today the murder of those enforcing the laws of our nation are actually being encouraged by haters, politicians, media and others trying to create a chaotic society. Today we’re almost like the inane laws NYC tried to pass in in the 70’s to make officers of the law to empty their weapons until the need for them was required – which any sane person knows would be too late. Teaching high school at the time – we discussed this – and the basic understanding was – they (the uniformed officers) would be nothing more than targets of opportunity for the criminals walking the streets.

Again one can think of the riots – storms – and other situation where chaos was present – remembering the good and the evil of all walks of life in the destruction of property, theft, and honest service. It is sad that we’ve become a nation of the very wealthy striving to destroy our nation for their gain – but they’re funding the riots and criminal aspects of our society. Dividing and destroying is the same now as it was in the hundreds of millenniums gone before. Hopefully we’ll learn to honor the good – and seek to destroy the evil (at least in our control).  Street Warriors is my tribute to those in uniforms trying to defend the rights of the Constitution and the freedoms of our land.  c/ork

(note: photos are not all mine and some from a very good friend WH)