In peace-loving Kingfisher County where mostly everybody gets along with everyone else, the mob riots in large cities seem like they’re happening in another country.

Now there are mob cries to defund police departments because of the death of an unarmed Minneapolis man under police custody.

America was almost totally united in the awfulness of that atrocity, then the mob erupted.

This wasn’t about George Floyd’s death in police custody – as bad as that was.

It was more about disruption of American society through the domestic terrorist organization, antifa, leftist politicians and complicit corporate organizations seeking a position that will help their bottom line – with the end game to remove President Donald Trump from office in the presidential election in November.

It is an effort to create a forever war in America - anarchy – with the eventual goal of taking down a constitutional republic and replacing it with an authoritarian centralized government that the elitists sell as a way to create more equal treatment for all. It’s ironic that such a plan has never worked that way. Boosters of such outlawry claim America was founded on riots, beginning with the Boston Tea Party.

Floyd’s death was not a case of ritualized racism but more about a couple of out-of-control policemen both of whom had serious complaints filed against them in the past.

They should have been removed from their jobs before such an atrocity could have happened. Or, preferably, have never been hired. It’s all indicative of a serious breakdown in administration.

How Did This Happen in ‘Blue’ City?

How is it that a far-left administration, such as that in Minneapolis, didn’t prevent this? It should have been sufficiently “woke” to prevent hiring such people in the first place, or at least kicking them out after receiving numerous complaints. The police union there got the blame for preventing that from happening.

Over the weekend, the progressive mayor of Minneapolis was silenced at a rally for failure to commit himself to abolition of the police force.

Columnist Bill Murchison comments:

“Abolition of the police force?! Where, oh, where are we presently going as a nation, as a culture wrestling with racial reconciliation and the right of all Americans to protection from unjustified and malicious treatment? The idea that we can’t talk as well as shout about such matters is nincompoopery.”

He is bringing up another topic that provides enough volume for books rather than short essays: The idea that only one point of view will be tolerated.

As in: “Let me explain, shut up!”

(As an aside: The New York Times booted its editorial page editor [he obligingly said he resigned] for having the effrontery to run an op-ed piece written by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton suggesting that military forces could be called out to put down rioting. The left’s mantra is that “You simply cahn’t [elitist’s pronunciation, possibly] allow an opposing viewpoint to be shared.

Sadly the New York Times appears to have been completely taken over by diaper-wetting interns.)

Most Americans learned years ago that police were there to protect and to serve. Laws are designed to protect everyone.

This writer’s last advice from his father when he left for college was: “Don’t join crowds and if a policeman tells you to stop, stop.” (Otherwise, they had the right to shoot you.)

The new rule seems to be if a policeman (in a big city, anyway), tells you to stop, throw a brick at him and then burn a building or police car and maybe hold up a sign saying, “Defund Police.”

But enough of this. It hurts to think about it.

Farmers Get Straight A’s

On a happier note, Kingfisher County’s wheat harvest is drawing to a successful close.

After a lot of uncertainty due to freaky weather conditions, combines entered the fields and uncovered a fine crop, possibly the highest quality grain ever.

While the cities were burning and people, including police, were getting hurt or killed, Kingfisher County farmers purposefully went about their business, doing their part to feed the nation, as well as hungry people elsewhere.

Raising a good crop is soul satisfying to agricultural producers. Whether prices are high or low, it is like getting a high report card in school when the results of your work are so outstanding.

Most have read about the high test weights of the wheat this year – routinely 64 and 65 pounds per bushel when 60-pound-per-bushel wheat is No. 1.

Maybe growers should get A-plus report cards – certainly a “High Five.”

Rather than expressing pride at their accomplishment, though, our farmers are more likely to feel blessed.

They certainly deserve credit for “staying the course,” as President Reagan liked to say, when things looked so grim early.