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So, we will see where this goes and hopefully we can all enjoy. Take care.
Richard
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For Pony!
Let's say that I last went to university when Aristotle wore shorts. After studying the sciences to please my father for two semesters, I decided to study Literature to please myself. This was in a socialist country, in a Presbyterian college which I joined after studying in a Catholic school. I guess that is why I am an atheist, but that would be beside the point. In the Land of the Free, I decided to do some courses in English because I love the language. I must admit that I'm having fun. My Professors are a very nice bunch and they do the best that they can, albeit with their puppet strings pulled by the invisible "nanny state" here. A year ago, a friend in San Francisco, Pessolini land, called me worried about an elocution contest that his 8 year old daughter was supposed to participate in. Her teacher did not allow her to read Casabianca because she did not like a poem where the protagonist died. She then disallowed Yeats' The Stolen Child because it spoke of children being kidnapped by fairies.
Things at university are no different. You might say that I live in the fascist enclave of Chicago, ruled by "off with their heads" Richard Daley, and that is a reason for the drab syllabus that we have to do with. I'm not sure that this is the case. We study e e cummings' "loneliness" and "in just -" but not his really combative, brilliant poems like "the way to hump a cow" or "my sweet old etcetra." Turn the radio on in this city and if you hear Bob Marley, then you're sure to hear Buffalo Soldier or Redemption SOng, but not some of his mroe controversial music like "Got to Have Kaya Now." I guess any mention of drugs is taboo in Chi Town, never mind that I have seen the wealthy do drugs at parties and in the most exclusive hotels, in public, and with the waiters looking the other way. Even Daley must know about this - he runs a Gestapo state as everyone knows. I don't do drugs but have no problem enjoying music about them. The nanny, and his name is Richard Daley, is the Gestapo. Cross the state border to Milwaukee and listen to the FM stations there and they have no such pretensions.
Chicago is home to the American Nazi Party who used to march through Skokie because that is a prdominantly Jewish locality and the literature and music scene here remind me of a more sophisticated "Entarte" classification than Hitler foisted on his people. The world went to war with Hitler, reluctantly, and more than 50 million people got killed. I doubt that Daley, a non entity outside Chi Town, and a dog in the manger while he holds on to hereditary power in this dirty, crumbling and dying Baghdad of the future, would be responsible for more than the 500 odd deaths that take place every year in his fief while his bootlickers sing his praises in the Chicago Tribune and the Sun Times. But the soul of this city is dying, slowly, with it's people turned into un-thinking zombies. Illinois' schools rank 47th out of the 50 states in the USA. There stilla re some decent universities. I wouldn't be surprised if they, too, slide in the future, to a similar level as the schools here.
Does anyone remember when s fascist state ever produced a great artist, writer, poet, musician etc? If you could think of any, do let me know.
September 2, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 100th police author, Richard Rosenthal. Richard is the Chief of Police the Wellfleet Police Department, Massachusetts, a town located halfway between the "tip" and "elbow" of Cape Cod.
Before becoming Chief of Police in Wellfleet, Chief Rosenthal spent twenty years in the New York Police Department, where he ran the Heavy Weapons and Undercover Weapons Training programs and, as a detective in the Bronx dealt with homicide, narcotics, and armed robbery. Before joining the NYPD, he worked for U.S. Air Force military intelligence as a Russian language specialist. In addition to being the chief of police, he is the author of four books. His latest book, published in 2000, is titled “Rookie Cop: Deep Undercover in the Jewish Defense League.”
According to Kirkus reviews, it is "a strange true tale of a Jewish NYPD cadet recruited into the department's elite intelligence unit to spy on the Jewish Defense League, offering vivid portraits of a politically incendiary era and revealing secrets of intrusive police tactics. This is a well-tuned portrait of the stress and acrimony that permeates such radical cliques, and of the lonely, paranoid personalities at their centers - and it offers insights into the radically charged violence of the early 1970s. Rosenthal has a fine eye for human detail and a cop's mordant sensibility. Altogether an exciting tale of unusual police practices, and a solid portrait of a quintessential fringe radical group inhabiting insecure, volatile times.”
His other works include two books on policing, “Sky Cops: Stories from America’s Airborne Police” and “K-9 Cops;” and, one novel – “The Murder of Old Comrades.” According to the Wall Street Journal, his novel is "a spicy police procedural about KGB assassins on the loose in Manhattan.”
Police-Writers.com now lists 100 police authors and their 313 books in six categories. Police officers have written a wide range of books. Some are widely used by universities and colleges to teach in criminal justice, law enforcement, police technology and leadership. Other police authors have concentrate on the police procedural genre in novels, adding realism that readers won’t find elsewhere. Still other give readers a police officers insight into true crime and life on the beat. But there are also books on poetry – if the author was a police officer you will find it on Police-Writers.com.
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