The day before yesterday I may have been witness to a kidnapping, but I don’t know. To explain that enigmatic statement, over the years the house next door to me here in the country has been a continuing saga of criminals coming and going. One day I returned to my cottage only to see three squad cars next door with six people standing lined up in handcuffs in the front of the place.

In my book “Birds With Broken Wings” I describe an incident involving the place next door where it was being used for making porno films, and the part I played in breaking up the gang including a pharmacist that was supplying the drugs for the “participants.” Thanks to me I was told he made a hasty exit to Jamaica. Unfortunately, the story also involved a very beautiful young woman with a three year old boy. This was an ongoing tragedy, the details of which are really stranger than fiction involving beauty pageants and very well known persons connected to Bakersfield, Hollywood, Las Vegas, and New York City.

Fortunately, because of my background I’m as comfortable wearing my Beretta as most people are with any article of clothing, and would not feel I was properly attired without the gun. But it takes considerable for any person to accommodate the actual necessity of such a thing, and being a civilized man I wish it was not an essential item, I wish I did not have to wear a gun just to walk about my place outdoors or sleep with a gun at the ready.

Though the place next door has often been vacant for months at a time going through various owners, a few years ago the situation had become so bad around here with my own place burglarized I finally called Carl Sparks. There were a number of squatters in tents, trailers, and truck campers as well as living in the house, so Carl and some helpers came up and with guns on their hips convinced my “neighbors” to move on. But while the squatters were displaced, the house continued to be inhabited by criminals of various descriptions. The present occupant and her boyfriend are doing some time in jail, but their friends continue coming and going at various times day and night.

To say I am used to strange happenings next door is putting it mildly. But I’m neither blind nor deaf so I see and hear things, and the day before yesterday I heard a vehicle revving up next door and glanced out my front window and saw a young woman walking out of the driveway onto the road and heading down toward Lake Isabella Blvd. She had only walked a short distance when a white low-rider pickup with two male occupants backed out of the driveway and took off after the girl. Pulling up next to her the man on the passenger side of the truck jumped out, picked up the girl bodily and got back into the truck with her. They then headed up the road out front in the opposite direction to which the girl had been walking. The fact drug involved murders had taken place up that road not far from me did nothing to soothe my fears for the girl.

I immediately reported what I had seen but heard nothing further. But what, exactly, had I seen? A kidnapping, or perhaps a girl on drugs and her “friends” trying to keep her from being picked up and arrested, possibly involving the two men also. I’m an experienced hand in such matters and know the scenario all too well, and aside from personal experience was reminded of the story about Patton “rescuing” a young woman gun in hand only to find out she was the fiancée of one of the men involved. I’ve seen a lot of strange things, even dangerous things and no one has to remind me that things are not always what they appear to be.

The question of what can be done to curb the gang violence taking over the cities of America requires only a one word answer: Nothing. And the ACLU with a phalanx of attendant lawyers of every description, the universities, the media, politicians and judges will continue to make sure nothing can be done about gang violence. Thanks to these and a government that favors the drug trade and illegal aliens for slave labor among a host of other insanities the laws favor criminals and punish the victims. Cops are not stupid; they know every time they give chase, make an arrest or draw their guns they are immediately open to lawsuits, censure, losing their job and possibly serving time in prison. Who needs the grief? Ask those border patrol agents now in prison for attempting to do their jobs how they now feel about trying to protect our borders. Ask any cop that has suffered for attempting to do his job how he now feels about “Serve and Protect.” Ask why Caesar Bush calls the new Minutemen “vigilantes,” and why our National Guard is in Afghanistan and Iraq instead of on our own borders in force.

“Those brave troops fighting in Iraq” is the catchphrase used by both the well-meaning and politicians without souls. I refer to politicians as being without souls because those that want power and authority over others must first make that Faustian agreement with the Devil to gain political position and power. The well-meaning remain only the well-meaning.

The fact is those troops should not be in either Afghanistan or Iraq at all. Whether the gang wars in America or the wars abroad, no politically correct war is winnable whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Los Angeles, or Bakersfield. I have a granddaughter in the Navy serving in Bahrain. I want her here at home. From the very beginning of Caesar Bush and Company’s wars this should have been abundantly evident, that politically correct wars would be unwinnable. The gang wars in America are unwinnable for the very same reason. Whether of religious fanaticism or barbarism born of greed and inhuman cruelty such wars are only won by hurting enough of the bad guys until they cry “Uncle!”

But political correctness will not allow of hurting enough of the bad guys. For example, the vast preponderance of jail and prison inmates is Mexicans and Negroes. But just this statement of the fact is bound to create howls of “Racism!” for even daring to state the fact. The illogic of such a thing would have you believe this disproportionate jail and prison population consisting of Mexicans and Negroes is due to racism rather than a disproportionate number of crimes being committed by Mexicans and Negroes. No politician can or will give an estimate of the number of illegal aliens in America though we know the number is in the millions or for that matter how many occupy our jails and prisons. But none dare dispute the fact they are vastly Mexicans by the numbers.

Nothing was done about the violence in Watts in the 60s because it was only a matter of “those people” killing each other, and now the violence has spread outside the ghettos and barrios of America. And now those who cared nothing about those people killing each other are saying attention should be paid because the violence has spread outside of the ghettos and barrios.

You don’t have to be astute to figure out as I wrote years ago that if the violence in Watts should spread to Rodeo Drive, Malibu, and Beverly Hills attention would have been paid. But neither do you have to be astute to know when the jobs are not there, the meaningful jobs in industry that were once plentiful and by which means families could be supported have been shipped to places like Mexico, India and China people are not going to simply roll over and play dead; they will in increasing numbers get a gun and take what they can no longer earn honestly.

Certainly I don’t need to distinguish between barbarians that have no intention of being anything other than barbarians and those who would choose to live quietly and honestly doing no harm to others. But things are becoming increasingly desperate for the honest citizens of America, and when things become desperate enough there is no doubt in my mind even the best of people will resort to whatever means necessary to put bread on the table even as did the honest citizens of Germany under Hitler, especially when we are confronted by the bald fact those in power don’t give a damn about America or We the People! At least Germans believed Hitler cared about them; that he cared about Germany. God forbid it will take a Hitler to put America first, but when the circumstances of organized oppression, tyranny and robbery on the part of government become intolerable… those in government may lie about many things like JFK, 9/11, and UFOs, but they can’t get away with lying about the crime and violence, about proliferating gang graffiti marking turf as do dogs, the failure of education and growing poverty in America increasingly impacting so many lives.

Those in power care nothing if your car is totaled by an illegal alien and you have no recourse, if an illegal alien murders a loved one and skips back into Mexico. It may take the barbarians beginning to kill or kidnap and hold for ransom some politicians and judges, some of their family members before we can expect any action to be taken on behalf of the honest citizens of America. But when the ordinary citizens of America have had enough, when the answer to what can be done about the growing problem of illegal aliens and gangs terrorizing at will is “Nothing” perhaps this answer will no longer be one We the People will continue allowing to stand.