If ICE is Representative of America’s Law Enforcement Agencies Today, No one Can Be Trusted or Respected
The Saga of the Drumpf Family
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
You all know it, although I would never brag about it, but I
am nine months away from being an octogenarian. Trump is just eight months
closer to being way too old to hold any office in any government in the world.
Trump’s life experience is far different from my own, and
for that, I am grateful.
He was born into a life of extreme white privilege and great
wealth. I, too, was born into an atmosphere of white privilege, but we were
poor and never knew it. However, my life’s path experienced many changes:
changes which made me the man I think I am today. Trump’s life never changed. He
is the same person today that he was on June 14, 1946. He never learned how to
be a good and respected man. He remains a spoiled, rich, white brat who has to
have everything his way. His parents really sucked at raising him.
This is one of the primary reasons Trump loves his personal Gestapo,
ICE. They are nothing like the men and women I knew in law enforcement throughout
most of my 79 years.
Law enforcement took a radical change when they received “left
over” military armament and clothing. The “boys in blue” who walked a beat on
your city’s streets will never exist again.
For example: I was watching a television show called “48
Hours” yesterday. It was about a lone gunman who was being chased by police in
his car in the Los Angeles area. The fugitive left his car and entered a Trader
Joe’s establishment. 30-40 men and women immediately became hostages. This was
a serious situation. However, the video outside of the establishment showed a
definite overreaction. I estimate that what I was seeing involved more than 50
police officers, including a SWAT team, and snipers on rooftops.
The fugitive was a young Black man. He was being chased
because he had recently shot his grandmother seven times. He and his girlfriend
began racing down the streets as several patrol cars followed him, firing their
weapons at the vehicle. Both the man and woman were wounded, but not seriously.
The young woman was taken to a hospital, after her boyfriend rushed inside the
Trader Joe’s establishment.
It was a long story, so allow me to offer only the lowlights.
Inside, a married woman with two children used her
experience as a former teenage drug and alcohol addict, and her ensuing
experiences in rehab, to gain the confidence of the man with the gun. He was
bleeding profusely, and she cared for him as best she could, as she engaged in
conversation about the situation. He began to trust her and her judgment.
Several hostages were released.
The story was told by this courageous woman and others who
remained inside the store. As a negotiator began to speak with the fugitive, we
learned that a 27-year-old woman, the store manager, had been shot and killed
by a police officer as they exchanged gunfire with the perpetrator.
Agreements were made to end the situation. However, the
police did not act in good faith. As the hostages told their story, it was law
enforcement who placed their lives in danger.
The story ended with all of the hostages released, with the
exception of one store clerk, the heroic woman, and two other female hostages.
They formed a shield for the young man, preventing an overeager cop from
shooting him.
Now imagine this situation, as bad as it was, under the
control of ICE. It would have been disastrous. There is no doubt that they
would have made a decision to rush inside, guns blazing, and several of the hostages
would surely have been wounded or killed. In the television room at the White
House, Trump would have been smiling broadly. The bully’s thugs would have done
what he could not.
From a very early age, Donny was taught that there were only
two kinds of people in the world, “winners, and losers.” He was raised to be a
schoolyard bully, and became afflicted with malignant narcissism.
“I strongly suspect that he had a relationship with his
father that accounts for a lot of what he became,” Tony Schwartz, who
co-authored The Art of the Deal with Trump, tells FRONTLINE. “And his father
was a very brutal guy. He was a tough, hard-driving guy who had very, very
little emotional intelligence, to use today’s terms.”
Trump is a product of both “nature and nurture.” He was sent
to military boarding school, located just a few miles from his home, at the age
of 13.
I am not making excuses for the worst man in the world. We
all have free thought and free choice. Trump chose to be a villain who remains desperate
to feel relevant and a “winner.”
The American people are now suffering from the failures of
Fred and Mary Anne Trump.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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