Hello everyone. Ive created a web site for The Power of I - This Killing Has To Stop. Heres the web address. thepowrofi.weebly/ And heres the first page its been edited from the original I shared. I hope you will join me, register to vote if you arent registered, share The Power of I, and lets make a difference in our country. THE POWER OF I ThIs killing has to stop and there is only one way to do it! My name is Lee Caudle and I am the person who developed, launched and worked with Craig Floyd, the Chairman of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, to start the Officer of the Month Program in 1996. Over a period of four years I met some of the greatest law enforcement officers in the country and the program continues today. I have always believed that if every American could do what I did for NLEOMF, they would have a different view of law enforcement. We are a country based on the rule of law and that is why we have and need law enforcement. We need to stop the violence going on across the country and we can do it through The Power of “I”. Every American knows how our country was founded. Rag tag colonialists with the help of France took on the most powerful nation in the world and won. We can do the same thing to stop this and we have an advantage “the Constitution is already in place”. We all know Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream…” speech, many know Mahatma Ghandi’s “I regard myself as a soldier… a solder of peace” and President John F. Kennedy said it a little differently, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” The most important point these great leaders made is the focus on the individual. It’s the “I” factor, all of us individually. Protests and demonstrations get a lot of press and many times deadly violence is associated with them and that makes it bigger news; but these events don’t last. When the next “big” story comes up, the media moves on. To affect the changes we have to remove the people who are damaging the country and to do this we have to VOTE. Voting is BORING and it doesn’t give people that 15 minutes of “fame”. In fact no one knows what you do because you go into the voting booth alone, but when you walk out, your “I” has become powerful and with that one vote we force change. We have two years until the next general elections and we have to start now. We use this current movement across the country to register every single eligible voter. Like the colonialists who founded our country; we fight anyone in any state that tries to keep people from getting registered and voting. EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN DESERVES THE RIGHT TO VOTE. We get all of our leaders, our Black leaders, our Hispanic leaders, our Asian leaders, our Female leaders and our White Male leaders who believe in equality and we work until the job is done. My families, on both sides, date back to the American Revolution and “I” have always believed that I own my country. And I believe those Americans who are descended from slaves have a much larger interest in our country because not only did the colonists fight for their freedoms we had to fight a Civil War to free Americans who were enslaved. It is time for the racism to stop. NOW! Not one person is better than anyone else, NOT ONE. If you want to change the Ferguson, Missouri police department, hold prosecutors’ responsible for manipulating grand juries, stop violent deaths at the hands of anyone, the rogue police officers who kill our young people, you have to remove them and the way to do that is to vote the politicians’ who hire them out of office. And if the people we vote in don’t do their jobs, then we vote them out. Our message is, “Clean up your police departments, fire the cops who overstep their bounds, prosecute the police who break the law while wearing a badge. Do the job youve been elected to do or we will FIRE you in the next election. This is not rocket science and it can be done. More importantly we have to take care of our good police officers. These men and women put their lives on the line everyday to protect us. Whether you want to admit it or not, we need our law enforcement. It is as simple as that. We haven’t lost our power; we just don’t use it right. While we are at it, we take back the money that is supposed to be used to hire and train police, pay our soldiers, take care of our veterans, fix our roads and our bridges, pay our teachers, fix and build our schools, etc. It is our money folks, OUR money. I know there is a monetary connection to the violence and part of it is because law enforcement agencies across the country have lost so much money they can’t do everything they need to do; they are having trouble hiring and training officers. Not many people want to put their lives on the line for a median annual salary of $52,268, and that is why tragic events like what happened recently in Ohio and New York occur. According to the press, the police officer who shot Tamir Rice had been released from the Independence, Ohio Police Department after working on the streets for one month because his superiors did not think he had the emotional stability and maturity to perform his duties. Apparently, the Cleveland Police Department did not perform a thorough background check on this police officer. The Cleveland PD has been under investigation by the Justice Department for excessive use of force and now a Federal Court will keep tabs on them. However, Ohioans can control this by voting out the politicians who have oversight of the PD and force them to focus on cleaning up the Cleveland PD. To me the greatest law enforcement officer I met is a Sheriff in Oklahoma. His name is Charlie Hanger; he was an Oklahoma State Trooper and he’s the one who captured Timothy McVeigh the American terrorist behind the Murrah Building bombing in 1995. He is an NLEOMF Officer of the Month. Why? Because it’s personal! I am from Oklahoma and one of my best friends, a black man named Clarence Wilson, was killed in that bombing. Clarence was an “I”. He was the first black man to become a pharmacist in Oklahoma; he went on to become an attorney, and the lead counsel for HUD in Oklahoma. He was tireless in his advocacy. He was a good and fair man. After his death, I vowed to myself that I would work as much as I could to stop racism and violence. And one of the things I did was launch the NLEOMF Officer of the Month program. And I honestly believe that God helped me put this program together…I have never thought it was an accident that I met then Deputy Inspector Stephen Nasta of the New York City Police Department. He was the first NLEOMF Officer of the Month. I knew when I met Steve and when I talked to Rose Garcia, a Bronx mother who was able to keep her sons home with her because of Steve’s work to clean up the Bronx, that Steve would be the first NLEOMF Officer of the Month. I’ve always wondered how many young lives were saved because Steve said “I” am going to clean up the Bronx and he did along with thousands of other police officers. Our great law enforcement officers need recognition and we have to acknowledge the police who put their lives on the line every day and do their jobs selflessly. We can’t just take them for granted; we have to take care of them. I’ve heard a lot of people talk about the “Thin Blue Line” referring to the police closeness across the country. That Thin Blue Line is what stands between us and atrocities like what just happened in Mexico. In the United States you cannot round up 43 people and slaughter them for protesting what the mayor of a town does. We must put a stop to the violence and we need our law enforcement. “I” am on a mission. I am going to work to get people registered and motivated to vote and I don’t care how they register because I have faith in the American people. I want change and while I think protests and demonstrations will put focus on what we need to do and it’s a great way to contact people and start working on the voter registration, I know that the only way to accomplish our goal is to remove the people who are causing it. Our WEAPON is our VOTE and that is the way we put a stop to the violence and take back control of our country. We take the power away from the people who do not do their jobs or break the law while doing their jobs. If we don’t any one of us can be the “next” person killed. “I” can do this and so can you.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 18:36:13 +0000
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