Al Sharpton a Blind Squirrel?

I hate to agree with Al Sharpton on anything, but as the old saying goes: “Sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut.” Sometimes even Al Sharpton can find a truth. This is the case. Sean Bell was a 23 year old American. He was celebrating with friends the night before his wedding when he and his friends were accosted by unidentified men with guns. Sean and his friends, drunk from their celebrating, jumped into their car and attempted to leave when a van drove in quickly to try to cut them off. The closest man with a gun was pointing it at them. What would you do? He attempted to run down his attacker and was killed by 50 bullets striking his body. Sean and his friends were unarmed, and there were no guns in the car. The men were NYPD undercover detectives. The van was an unmarked NYPD vehicle. The three standard sidearms for the NYPD all have a maximum capacity of 15 rounds, so if all three officers emptied their magazines, someone would have had to reload and fire 5 more rounds, just in Sean. That is not counting his two friends. Just a little overkill. We have one innocent man dead and two others wounded at the hands of government officials who are supposed to “protect and serve”. In what would appear to be an open and shut case, the unthinkable happened, the officers were acquitted. Now Al Sharpton is leading a protest in NY and I wish him luck and God speed. There have been too many cases of police abuse in the U.S. and they have been increasing in frequency over the past few years, as the federal government strikes down restrictions on government power which were put in place to protect the citizens from an aggressive government. And as The Patriot Act shreds the Constitution in a very un-patriotic way, we the people have to stand up for ourselves and each other. We have to come together as Americans and understand that whatever our differences are, we are Americans first. We also have to remember George Washington’s words that government is like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master. We must return the fire to the servant position.