I just received an interesting e-mail from OKforTEA telling me that the Tulsa City Council is discussing waving all permits and fees for
If I understand this correctly, these intruders come onto private property, violate the very laws designed to keep the area safe, refuse to abide by any rule, waste the time of police officers who have real crime and traffic issues to take care of, take up cell space needed for dangerous criminals, and the city council’s answer is to abolish the rules. The Tulsa city council, it seems, may be going to say “oh well, rules are made to be broken”, and look the other way once again. Isn’t that the very attitude that got us into this situation in the first place?
The contrast to the TEA Party events couldn’t be more stark. I remember seeing the Glenn Beck 8-28 event on television and internet. I remember the Washington Mall packed to the gills with people, estimated to be anywhere from the 500 or so reported in the main stream media to the 800,000 estimated by more accurate sources. How many arrests? Uh, NONE. How many sexual assaults? Uh, none again. How many robberies? Correct you are, NONE. And litter, could you see any litter in any picture or video? None visible to these eyes, and I looked hard.
These “occupy” people overturn vehicles, set fires, and smash windows- just any window, regardless of whether it belongs to some poor family, barely making ends meet with their storefront business as it is. They throw rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, and the like at the police, and then when one of their own gets hit by return fire, such as tear gas canisters, they go into a tizzy about police brutality. I say hogwash. Return fire is not brutality, it is self-defense. And, I might add, self defense from police who put up with a lot more than they should have to put up with.
And look at what happens at the TEA Party events in Tulsa. Several thousand people gather to sing patriotic songs, salute the banner of
TEA Party attendees aren’t there to damage the very property they pay to provide. They aren’t there to assault the police but to commune with them, to show the support of We the People for those who do their best “to protect and serve” the citizens of this nation. TEA Party people respect the law, but work through peaceful means to change those laws and those regulations that are not in line with our Constitution. TEA Party people respect the possessions and property of others. TEA Party attendees rally all weekend and then go back to their jobs on Monday.
And how many “OWS” protestors are there in Tulsa anyway? Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands? Hundreds, maybe? Tens, even? How many arrests? There are those who may have valid issues, but this is not the way to solve the problems; the way the occupy crowd is going about it is the way to destroy everything that makes solutions possible.
I guess it may be a good thing that many of the current councilors change jobs. We cannot continue caving in to threats and/or bad behavior and expect any semblance of peace in our time. The absence of law enforcement is anarchy. The collapse, or in this case the abdication of, civil responsibility is inexcusable. Any councilor willing to follow this course of action is violating the oath of office to serve in the best interests of the citizens and the city as a whole. They will not be serving the people of Tulsa, nor will they be serving the complaints of the protestors. Do councilors really not realize that tolerating this behavior only invites more of the same?
I submit this in the name of the Most Holy Trinity, in faith, with the responsibility given to me by Almighty God to honor His work and not let it die from neglect.
Bob Russell
Claremore, Oklahoma
November 10, 2011
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