Much ado about Nothing

There has been much ado about nothing as of late.  It turns out that the Strawman Marine is legit, but his argument is not.  It seems the matter of racial tension has been resurrected again.  It is always hard to watch a Veteran make an ass of themselves.  It is particularly painful to me when they are a well-decorated veteran that happens to also be a Marine.   Let’s get the legit part of LCpl Todd Edward Winn out of the way.  We posted about him HERE, he is the Marine that put on his Dress Blues and put tape over his mouth labeled “I Can’t Breathe”.

I am not posting the picture of his asshattery because I find it repugnant.  Mr. Winn earned that uniform.  I wish he would not use it to push his own ideas of social justice to the rest of the world.  I understand why he did it.  If Mr. Winn had not disgraced the uniform in that manner, none of us would be talking about him.   Lance Corporals are the backbone of the Corps.  I imagine that is probably true of E-3 ranks service-wide.

Bringing attention to a personal political position is not an excuse to disrespect the very thing that the generations before you sacrificed so much for so that it would draw the kind of attention you yourself could never achieve alone.

I enjoyed being a Lance Corporal…both times.  It was one of my favorite ranks.  It’s a great rank where one can get away with all kinds of grabasstic nonsense.  When I first saw a posting on Facebook of Winn, I accused the Beirut Veteran who posted it of spreading fake news by posting an obviously photo-shopped photo.   Even I get caught off guard by the lengths some people will go to while seeking attention.  That Marine is always posting racially focused things as if it’s supposed to be on some kind of enlightened moral high ground.  He is one of these guys that goes by a new spiffy name these days because names like the Hatfields and McCoy’s are not good enough for enlightened morally superior people.

I do not know Mr. Winn,  but I have a friend that I respect that does know him.  Our views are similar on many fronts and diametrically opposed on others.

I do not care that George Floyd is dead.  His death is no tragedy to me.  My opinion of what happened is as follows:

George Floyd,  under the influence of drugs and alcohol, went into a liquor store and tried to buy alcohol with fake money.  The police were called and they shortly arrived on the scene.  The clerk told them the suspect was in the car across the street.  Officers went to the car, found George Floyd in the driver’s seat, and removed him from the car.  They cuffed him and took him back across the street to the front of the store so the clerk could see him and make a positive ID.  The clerk did, the officer informed Floyd he was under arrest, then Floyd collapses to the sidewalk.  Some kind of struggle occurs and Floyd ends up on the other side of the car pinned down by one or more of the officers.

As a direct result of that event, George Floyd died… and I do not care.  Nothing about that arrest or his death has a damn thing to do with racism.  Apprehending and arresting people is not a pretty event much of the time.  Doped up drunks are particularly problematic.  I will wait until the riots happen after they find that officer not guilty of Murder to say “I told you so”.  There is no evidence whatsoever that this officer deliberately killed George Floyd.  A simple manslaughter charge will probably not stick.

I am around active-duty law enforcement officers regularly.  They come in all colors.  One thing I have noticed over the last 20 years is they seem to develop a “Them against Us” kind of mentality.  Civilians or “The Public” are the “Them”.   That probably comes from having to deal with the likes of George Floyd and his ilk day in and day out.  Floyd had a long history of being a violent man.

One thing that seems to be regurgitated by Officers these days is “The most important thing about my job is that I go home safe to my family at the end of the day.”   Well, me being me…I am quick to point out how wrong they are about that.  I step up to them and say, “No it is not,  the most important part of your job is to make sure I go home safe to my family at the end of the day.  I pay your ass to get between me and harm’s way.”   If more in Blue understood the fundamental difference between those two views,  we would probably have a lot less of them.  So be it.

Instead, we have turned our local law enforcement into paramilitary units.  Overly aggressive, over-policing, intrusive, pains in the ass is what they are nowadays.  Special Forces of fat men dressed to kill while beating down doors with no-knock warrants.  Kill a few women at the wrong address,  they are just Good Cops following orders.  “There are a lot of good Cops”…blah, blah, blah.   Ya, I have listened to that for decades as well.  Where are all the reports of these “Good Cops” stepping up to stop the hoards of roid raged bad apples?  I don’t read much about it, it must be a super-secret effort.

I fully support an overhaul of our Law Enforcement Organizations.  I also support accountability for Judges that sign Death by Cop sentences without due process.  I also support radical Tort Reform to rid our society from the parasitic infestation that is fed by a fecal stew of societal sepsis and jurisprudent minutiae.

What I will not do is put on my uniform and prance in front of cameras so my message will be bastardized by the press.  I will not disrespect the uniform that so many others cherish.  Because of that, my little article will not make national news.  But I will have my dignity, and I don’t have to lie to myself about why I pissed all over the Corps in the process.

I dated a woman named Tamara for a while.  Her father never spoke a word to me…because I am white.  It ain’t safe for me to go above about 105th Street in NY…because I am white.  Every major city in this country has a part of town where my safety is at risk…because I am white.  There are over a hundred Universities in this country that my children could not attend…because they are white.  I can go on and on.  That dark green Marine who posted Winn’s picture accused me of not knowing anything about racist hate…because I am white.  He is wrong and racist.  Most of the racist hate I see these days is coming from people like him that are screaming about seeing racism where there is none.

I am White, no guilt about it…no apology for it.  Nor should anyone be ashamed of their race or apologize for it.  I do see a lot of people who should be ashamed of their actions and beliefs.  Mr. Winn should have known that his actions would be used by Race Pimps to scream a crescendo of Racism…where none exists.

He is free to voice his opinion, but he should be ashamed of the manner in which he did it.  He did not exercise his right to Free Speech,  he represented the valor and honor of all Marines when he put on that uniform.  The moment he put that uniform on,  he became a symbol of something much bigger than he himself could ever dream of being.

If he can not understand the fundamental difference of doing what he did with and without the uniform,  he is worse than those he was protesting.  I will offer him the same advice that Benedick gave to Don Pedro with one caveat,  “Get thee a wife” – and listen to her.

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