COULD DALLAS HAVE BEEN PREVENTED?

What happens when a man trained by America to kill "terrorist" abroad, come home to see America's police force as the terrorist? You get Dallas' Micah Johnson.

I seen the inevitability of such a tragic event, 6 years ago, when I wrote the essay, " PTSD & The Pyramid of Crime." (See earlier blog-post) As for the devastating traumatic impact that police violence was having on our collective psyche, I stated:

Minorities are CONSTANTLY in (a) STATE OF TRAUMA, from beholding, OVER & OVER, someone that looks like them CONSISTENTLY being gunned down, ONLY because of THEIR COMPLEXION. Then to FURTHER TRAUMATIZE THEM, they have to watch the perpetrators' actions ruled JUSTIFIED time, & time again.... this would ROB ANYONE of their OPTIMISM! (@ p.5)

Next, I explained how lethal this can become if the individual, also, happens to be a veteran (with deadly skills) suffering from C-PTSD:

If the outbreak of PTSD/C-PTSD (& its CAUSES) is not contained, we will not 'avoid self-destruction.'... Without a wide-spread Human Revolution, soon there will be C_PTSD sufferers returning from... abroad (ala Micah Johnson), merging with those already in our communities to create one tumultuous time-bomb, that none of us want to see DETONATE!!!

Just today, July 11, 2016, Mumia reminded me of the following Langston Hughes excerpt, that also demonstrated the danger of exterminating a person' OPTIMISM.

What happens to a [American] dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
or fester like a sore-
and then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust & sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it EXPLODE?

Unfortunately, in Micah's case, we had to witnessed the EXPLOSION.

Fortunately, it isn't too late to Establish Peace of the Land, & prevent ALL of this warfare from having a continuing carcinogenic outcome. Once again, we must have a Human Revolution (See essay for definition, & ways to alleviate PTSD) that will give us the chance to employ police that WILL NOT SEE US AS ENEMIES DESERVING TO BE MOWED DOWN. This, in turn, will give us opportunity to view them, NOT as OCCUPIERS, i.e., ENEMIES, but PROTECTORS, as they are paid to do.

And this will definitely bring PEACE to OUR LAND!!!

*Quoted from, Zinn, Howard. (2005). A People's History of the United States, p. 443 (New York: HarperCollins)