THE POSTERS STATE “BIKES UP, GUNS DOWN,” but only the first part is true.
Blacks, at least in Dade County (Miami) Florida take over the streets on Martin Luther King Jr. day with licensed and unlicensed motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).
Despite their bluster of controlling events, the local Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) — from city and county cops to the state’s Highway Patrol, close their eyes to threats to people just trying to get from Point A to Point B.
TO BE FAIR, The ML King Jr. celebrations bring terrorists from around the U.S. and, according to tv talking heads, the world; terrorists and terrorist want-to-be’s of all races head for the (relative) warmth of south Florida to “behave badly.”
Dream becomes nightmare
King preached peaceful coexistence. I had a dream1 was King’s dream. The behavior of the Bikes up, Guns down blacks, along with a few whites and other “people of color,” is anathema to that dream.
King knew about terrorism.
As a black he knew about white supremacists, not all of whom wore robes and hid their faces.
- As of noon Monday, 20 JAN, Dade County LEOS managed to arrest two Hispanics.
Would he support blacks risking their lives by stunt riding on public roads?
Would King come down on the side of law and order or on the side of the terrorists?
King DID believe in civil disobedience — marches, sit-ins, and disregard of segregationists signs, e.g., Whites Only water coolers, Whites Only beaches.
But did he support black terrorists? In a word, NO, according to the King Institute at Stanford University.2
Call out the guard
The governor and local politicians are sworn to protect the citizens in their jurisdictions.
If the local LEOs are unable to do their jobs, then it is the governor’s obligation to call out the state’s Guard to do the job the cops can’t or won’t.
Calling out the Guard, however is a two-edged sword.
The Guard is trained to fight a war or to rescue people who refused to get out of danger when Nature went on a rampage, bringing floods, storm surges, strong winds, etc.
- (It is this scrivener’s experience that most people needing to be rescued refused to leave when ordered to do so. Most flood and hurricane threats are predictable far enough in advance so people who are willing can take shelter in a safer area. Failing to evacuate when ordered puts responders’ lives in danger.)
The Guard is, generally, not trained to replace trained LEOs.
Remember the Ohio National Guard and Kent State University? That incident started off as a demonstration against the U.S. incursion into Cambodia and ended with four fatalities.3
Still, flaunting and taunting the law with “reckless endangerment” to innocents needs to be squashed. If that means calling out the Guard and issuing rubber bullets or bird shot, then so be it.
Since a number of blacks inappropriately celebrating MLK Jr. Day are armed, the Guards having rubber bullets or bird shot must be backed up by Guards with combat (real) ammunition.
This scrivener is NOT in favor of killing, or even seriously wounding, anyone, but if that is what it takes to protect the majority of people — of all races — then that must be an option.
Anarchy, and anarchy is exactly when the “Up with bikes, Down with guns” riders are committing on Dade County streets and highways, must NOT be allowed.
Parades, speeches
Parades and speeches are better — and safer — to honor MLK Jr.’s legacy.
Non-violent protests, protests protected by local LEOs so that protesters are well separated from anti-demonstrators (to avoid what occurred at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville VA).4
As long as the speeches don’t instigate violence by anyone against anyone, speeches should be encouraged.
Many cities with large black populations have marches honoring King. Almost all such communities have streets, parks, libraries, and other tax-supported facilities named in honor of King.
There are many ways to honor King and other famous blacks —Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Jesse Owens, Muhammad Ali, Sojourner Truth, and Tuskegee airmen among others4 — and these people should be recognized, alongside other illustrious people: Billy Bowlegs, Samuel Langhorne Clemens to name but two.
Perhaps members of the Seminole5 and Miccosukee6 tribes should give up their peaceful (and profitable) ways and take over the south Florida streets with their vehicles. Historically, they have as much — or greater — right to endanger the “immigrants” (of all races) to their territory.
Bottom line
Taking over the streets and terrorizing the general population — everyone — is not the legacy I suspect Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to leave behind. Certainly it does not help integration or build good will between races and, without a doubt, between generations.
What “Bikes up, Guns down” does, it creates resentment and, to some degree, anti-black sentiment which is unfair to the majority of people who are law abiding citizens and are likely as unhappy with the bikers’ shenanigans as are all others who respect the law.
What “Bikes up, Guns down “ does NOT do is to remove any weapons from the street.
Sources
1. Dream speech: https://tinyurl.com/j7zqcot (text and audio)
2. Black terrorists: https://tinyurl.com/j7zqcot
3. Kent State: https://tinyurl.com/yb6c6wjl
4. A few famous blacks: https://tinyurl.com/han52q4
5. Seminole tribe: https://www.semtribe.com/stof
6. Miccosukee tribe: https://tribe.miccosukee.com/
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