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DEMOLISH THE WALL OF SILENCE!!!

Brian Meadows
3 min readAug 30, 2020

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I’m a white, straightly married, middle-aged Anglo-Saxon. And I mean this specifically as being of English descent. English. That’s most of, but not interchangeable with, British. British=English, Scots or Welsh. I have a little Scots in the family tree, but my dad’s side is still mostly English.
My point here is, I am a member of what seems still to be this country’s ruling caste. The only thing that makes me otherwise is that I haven’t any money more than necessary for the modest comfort in which I, my wife and our pets live. And I am seething with rage at what really seems to be, more and more, Gestapo and SS-style thugs in uniform who gun unarmed people down, especially black and brown people, and almost never reap the just consequences of their actions!
All you M**ks, D*gos and, to use Mr. Dooley’s description, ‘Pollackies’ who are now presidents of those mafias called police unions such as the FOP, listen up and listen good!! Don’t you dare lie to me about how ‘you’ll never be one who we need to subdue’ or some codswallop, to use a relatively polite term, like that! It is true that any injustice, anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere! By the way, how do the epithets that were applied to your grandparents or, maybe, your great-grandparents feel to you now? Getting the point a bit, are we? I certainly hope so!
And yet, I am still ready to believe that most of you genuinely want to ‘serve and protect’ all the people equally. At least you may start out that way before the thuggish ‘police culture’ swallows you up!
If you wish to be and remain reputable enforcers of the…

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Brian Meadows
Brian Meadows

Written by Brian Meadows

An angry straight white Anglo-Saxon angry at most of his 'own kind'.

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