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I have always said I hate a rough police force more than all the bad men in the world. That may be some exaggerated but not much.One expects bad men to act bad but not those sworn to protect and serve. I:m speaking of the murder of George Floyd recently by a law officer. 

I have also maintained that one of the biggest chance-decisions anyone makes in charge of any police force, is when he pins a badge on a person and hands him a gun. Give them every physiological test there is, you still don’t know. Some folks are mean underneath, but it doesn’t come out until they are given authority-but you know that. You don’t put your foot on the neck of another person and not care-or realise this can kill or badly injure him. That is a willful force beyond care or reason. 

A football coach told me he recruited this big strong guy. When they ran the first play in class it was clear this big fellow didn’t know much about football. The coach blew his whistle and took the new player aside and told him,  “You don’t need to kick them after you get them down!” 

When I see a bad person on TV I want to rejoice when he gets his comeuppance. Then I need to remind myself that the Bible says “vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord-it shall repay.” 

Some years back I visited a man with terminal cancer. Fact is, he and I were in high school together. Paul was somewhat of a loner, very brilliant, made straight a’s. An Air Force retiree, he made maps in the service-a cartographer, as it were.  

As we talked he said “one thing about me-if somebody does me badly, if it takes me twenty years, I’ll get even with them.” 

I thought, “how sad.”

He was dead in less than a month. 

KIndest regards...