Archive for December, 2013
The Liberal Intifada
This essay was published yesterday by BreachBangClear. http://www.breachbangclear.com/site/10-blog/582-the-liberal-intifada.html When I was a UN cop in Kosovo, I read Serbian literature about the war. The Serbs sometimes referred to the Albanian resistance as an intifada, a Muslim uprising. This was right after the Palestinian intifada began in 2000, when the West was becoming increasingly concerned with […]
Filed under: Writing | 28 Comments
Tags: GLAAD, homophobia, Phil Robertson
So there I was, minding my own business, on night shift patrol in a deserted, half-industrial half-residential area. This was around 2 a.m. on a boring weeknight. The area I was patrolling was full of illegal aliens, drunks, drug addicts, prostitutes (both voluntary and trafficked), gangsters and stolen cars. But this was a quiet night. […]
Filed under: Cops, What Police Work is Really Like | 12 Comments
Tags: police, police work, veteran writers
What happens when a brave, dedicated, armed citizen fights back against an untrained, unskilled, pathetic coward bent on murdering helpless innocents? The coward surrenders or winds up dead, and the killing is either stopped quickly or never has a chance to start. Last week at the Arapahoe High School in Colorado a student named Karl […]
Filed under: Cops | 29 Comments
Tags: active shooters, arapahoe high school, karl pierson, school shooters, veteran writers
This essay was published on TheTruthAboutGuns.com on December 15th. http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/12/daniel-zimmerman/just-another-night-smith-street/#more-279867 ———————————————————————————– So there I was, minding my own business, taking a bathroom break at the station. This was late on New Year’s Eve in a small town. I was just a rookie with less than a year on the street. But even so, I knew […]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 14 Comments
Not long ago I wrote a post about my friend Manal and her quest to find a US Marine who had welcomed her and her family to safety in Beirut in 2006. Joyful hopes, painful reminders The Marine, a then-Lance Corporal named Wilks, went out of his way to make them feel safe in the US […]
Filed under: Afghanistan | 3 Comments
Tags: Kyle Wilks, Manal, toys for tots, veteran writers
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