My admiration for, and advice to, our cops

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Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud ( = Arnold) Beltrame of the French police, a husband and father, volunteered to become a hostage so a muslim terrorist immigrant who had stormed a supermarket would release his French female hostage. The muslim then, in the name of Allah, viciously shot the cop and killed him (and some reports leaked out that he actually cut the cop’s throat). Colonel Beltrame gave his life for that woman, who then went on tv to express her deep gratitude for his ultimate sacrifice. He graduated at the top of his class in 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Beltrame

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOAJlQn1pS4

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufg0jsqVxE

Letter to the editor

Dear Editor:

I learned a lot and enjoyed the article on life as an law-enforcement officer “Our Blue Knights” by Daniel J. Paul in the May 2 issue of the Ontonagon Herald. (I wonder if this Paul is related to the original founder of Ontonagon, James K. Paul?) My own experiences with both the state police and the local sheriff’s department with respect to local individuals has been excellent. They did not throw their weight around, but endeavored to solve problems with locals using tact and diplomacy.

As an infantry veteran myself (Marines and Army National Guard) I am well aware of the issue of PTSD (which can fully impact LE officers as well), and my father had it after serving as a Marine staff sergeant in WWII (battles of Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima)

….and in the Korean War (as a captain). Half his officer class was killed or wounded in Korea.

He was a big enough man to see a Navy psychiatric counselor after his excruciating Korean War service, when he could not sleep for six months from insomnia due to reliving the constant stress of night attacks and disgusting North Korean atrocities.

It was a sign of his own real manhood and professionalism to admit “No, I am not completely okay” after seeing horrible things, having to be a brutal killer in hand-to-hand combat with young Chinese men in trench warfare, and seeing the innocent Korean civilians suffer terribly.

My concerns for LE are threefold: One, are they getting enough regular sleep? I read once that the average cop who does swing shifts falls asleep at the wheel (for maybe a half-second) at least once a month. Running on caffeine (which is also hyperacidic) can lead to irritability and over-reacting.

(Green tea is just as stimulating, but alkalizing and calming, and also helps against various cancers.A Japanese friend of mine who was a Harvard cancer researcher and PhD gave me the full facts on green tea.)

Two, I would recommend taking a spiritual view of life, and thus not ending up, against your original intentions, pretty much hating The People as mostly being scum – because your work does expose you every single day to the significant number of wayward, dangerous and even evil individuals in our current society. In my case, both Christianity and the bestselling teachings of Eckhart Tolle help me deal with tragedy, trauma and keenly disappointing people without getting overly bitter. Serve and forgive, I would say, even if “tough love” dictates that you must also punish. As the French say, “Comprendre, c’est pardonner” – “to understand is to forgive.”

Three, the origin of so much mental illness and drug abuse is of course not from itself – but comes directly from being molested as a kid and terribly scarred. As a survivor myself, and a person who helps others in the same category, I know that all children are deeply shattered by this loathsome form of abuse.

This is also the real reason why, as is well known, arrested or convicted molesters are often beaten viciously by other prisoners. Those prisoners’ own wayward course began with being molested. Kids who were not protected from such fiends (as every little person has a right to expect!) will end up seeing the world through very angry and violent glasses as being in reality a kind of jungle consisting of 1) human predators, 2) their prey and 3) cowardly adult hypocrites who say and do nothing.

Such little victims can become very emotionally ill from this shocking crime. (A therapist with a PhD from UC Berkeley told me the toxic scenario is

1) doing drugs PLUS

2) drinking too much alcohol – and then

3) being the boyfriend/stepfather and

4) alone with the kids, who are not their own.

I saw a video of the psychiatrist at the worst prison in all of Canada saying that every single murderer in there had been molested as a kid — every single one.

I would therefore urge Law Enforcement to pursue child molesters with all their resources, because the kids you save today from these human devils will then not end up in your jails and group homes, or selling drugs, or being violent and full of rage (maybe injuring or killing a cop!), one year, five, or ten from now.

I was very touched by the anecdote the author related of the mom arrested for meth who was berating herself over and over and sobbing in the back of the squad car for being a lousy mom, for being arrested on her child’s birthday, and then agonizing with worry who would pick her kid up at school.

What really got her to try something as insane as meth? A total lack of self-worth that just maybe came from being molested as a little girl!

This revolting crime can shatter tender and beautiful young lives for many decades. That is the real root of so many symptoms the article mentions such as “mental illness,” rage-filled “violence,” “meth” and abusing other drugs. After heartless monsters in human form have shattered their fragile young self-image, abused kids so often no longer love anyone or anything or even care how they look, smell or act. How can you possibly feel loved and protected after adults allow something like that to happen to you, sometimes repeatedly, and ignore the warning signs? I acted molested, harmed and withdrawn as a kid — and adults were too oblivious, cowardly or selfish to say anything. Or evil!#

As we can see, our law enforcement men and women must deal with the very dark side of life every day. “Hours of boredom punctuated by seconds of sheer terror,” as a Boston cop friend told me. The many good ones are our real heroes, and they are right here on our streets, smiling and waving at you, not off in some faraway wars cooked up by the politicos.

John de Nugent

Ontonagon

(906) 884-6689

Just a screenshot of me chatting with my friend Jack Sen in Britain