30, 20, 10-7 forever.

March 1, 2011 marked 30 years since Bobby Sands MP started his hunger strike. For the most part, I have to ask, what was achieved and what was lost?
Looking back, the hunger strike was the best recourse for those being held. All that was asked was recognition of their status of political prisoners, nothing more nothing less.
All they prisoners want was this:
1. The right not to wear a prison uniform.
2. The right not to do prison work.
3. The right of free association with other prisoners, and to organize educational and recreational pursuits.
4. The right to one visit, one letter, and one parcel per week.
5. Full restoration of remission lost through the protest.
As an Irish American who’s never been to Ireland, I may not understand the oppression they felt, but I understand their desire for the respect the wanted and fail to achieve under a hateful woman. Oppression at any level is means for revolt. Maybe with his death, Bobby Sands MP, was able to open the eyes to those to the world to the oppression the British have done to the Irish for the simple act of having a gun in a car.
That’s what Bobby Sands MP was convicted of, possession of a gun, he was to spend 14 years in prison for that.
March 3, 2011 will mark twenty years since Rodney King was beaten by a group of LAPD officers. Mr. King was no stranger to law enforcement, but the beating he got was one he did not deserve.
I can understand running from a cop if you’re holding illegal drugs, but running from fear is another matter. The fear being that no matter how you comply, you will get a beating, simply because you’re not a white person.
I was actually living in Simi Valley in 1992 when the not guilty verdict was announced, the aftermath was the only time in my life I feared for my life, and I’ve walked through Times Square at this worst at 2 am.
“Can’t we all get along?”
Not as long as we have members of law enforcement that feel they are above the law.
However, there are good members of law enforcement.
One member was taken to his final rest on Tuesday when St. Petersburg Officer David Crawford funeral was held.
Officer Crawford was responding to suspected burglary call and was shot multiple times and died shortly afterwords. Sadly, this was the third officer who died in the line of duty in St. Petersburg in a month.
Officer Crawford was not wearing a bullet proof vest, amazingly, it’s not mandatory in St. Petersburg. Nor is it in Las Vegas, which the police union fought against.
Gee, either be uncomfortable and live or take a chance on dying? I’d choose being uncomfortable.
When a office goes out of service, the call is for “10-7”.
Officer Crawford is now 10-7 forever.
May Officer Crawford rest in peace.