Soap Box

This past couple of weeks are not quite like any I remember in this nation, although the spirit of the times somewhat resembles the atmosphere of the late sixties and early seventies, the Nixon days with the marches, the sit ins and the massive rallies with the slogans, chants and invective laced rhetoric, though it seems the temperature has been turned up a couple of notches this time around.

Regardless of how much racial or social injustice is supposedly represented by a statue or monument, it is still public property and destroying it is still a crime, tantamount to breaking a window out of a courthouse or some such.

And while the sixties and seventies protests got extremely radical at times, with the exception of radical terrorists like Weather Underground, etc., it appeared there was at least a modicum of propriety amongst the general population of protestors, who are - I would imagine - present day, most likely as nonplussed by the actions of the mobs and rioters as the rest of us, it�s amazing how having to actually earn a living can change attitudes.

Basically what we are seeing in the streets of America doesn�t resemble mostly peaceful civil rights marches as much as it resembles anarchy, pure and simple, aided by milksop politicians who so fear they might lose a vote, they allow part of the population to run all over the rest of the population, claiming to act in the name of freedom of speech, while half of the free speech in the affected cities is being drowned out by shrill, fanatical voices and the deafening silence of any media to tell their side of the story.

The radicals on both sides take all the oxygen out of the coverage.

Soon, the obvious is going to happen, in fact it already has, in Charlottesville, with the wanton actions of a deranged white supremacist when he drove his car through a crowd of people killing a young lady.

The first shot has yet to be fired, but it won�t be long before somebody, supremacist or protestor, is going to pull out a gun and start shooting and that�s when things get more serious than most people involved on both sides of this conflict are willing to participate in, which will remove moderate voices and leave only the radicals for the most part.

There�s a lot of difference in getting in somebody�s face and screaming how much you hate them and approaching somebody who may well be packing and is apt to blow your head off.

Breaking out the windows of a defenseless business owner with a crowd of mischief makers on a deserted city street and doing it in a war zone are two different things, and that�s exactly what some of America�s streets are going to turn into if the powers that be keep refusing to put a lid on it.

The thought of this conflict escalating to that point is truly frightening, but, at least in my estimation, that is exactly where it�s heading, as there are hot heads on both sides and there are also those whose interests a lethal escalation would serve.

Because the ultimate goal of all this chaos is not about a few pieces of marble and bronze, that commemorate the Civil War and the ones who fought on the losing side, and mark my words, even if every vestige of that war was removed from public view, the movers and shakers of this movement would still not be happy. They will demand more and more and emboldened by their victories and the spineless politicians who let them run wild, will continue to provoke, demand and wreak havoc on the streets of America.

There is a fork in the road ahead and the direction America chooses could well determine whether our children can live in safety or whether the cities will turn into an urban war zone like parts of Chicago.

The difference being that most of the citizens in America will not be deprived of firearms to protect themselves like the citizens of Chicago are and they�re not going to stand by and be occupied in their own neighborhoods.

I believe there is a tipping point in all of this, and once we�ve reached it there will be blood.

The mayors and governors who refuse to let the police do their job, the politicians who try to make political hay out of a most volatile situation have all America sitting on a powder keg with a short fuse.

Have the timid actions, or I should say, non-actions of Rahm Emanuel quelled the slaughter in Chicago!?

Well multiply that by a few thousand and see what the situation in our nation could morph into in a shorter time than we can imagine.

It�s time for action.

What kind of action?

Whatever kind of action it takes to protect American citizens from chaos, violence and anarchy.

Pray for our troops, our police, the peace of Jerusalem and for our nation.

What do you think?

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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