The Case of the Drowning Men (27 page)

2.
      
In
an
obsessive-compulsive
bid
to rule the
entire
globe
, homicidal
drug
addict Adol
f
Hitler
used his
police and soldiers
to
kill tens of millions of citizens
in little more than a decade
.
A
ll
to lay claim and
control
over
just
one small
portion
called
Europe.
An indiscriminate hater,
Hitler
killed
everyone
and anyone
he
perceived
stood
in the way of
achieving
world dominion
, including his
very
own generals
.
At that rate of mass death, had
he
gotten his wish and n
ever
been stopped
,
eventually there would’ve been no one
left on the planet
for
him
to lord over
.

3.
      
In a
highly
-organized reign of terror perpetrated for over a century
beyond
America’s
successful
war against
slavery
, s
outhern
sheriffs and their
sworn
deputies systematically intimidated, tortured and
murdered
millions of African Americans
,
as well as
a number of
white
civil rights workers intent on registering them for the vote
. To this day, many of the victims’
remains
have never been located
, their families never
properly
compensated,
and only a
fraction
of
the
offenders
formally
charged
and
prosecuted.

4.
      
Born Saloth Sar
,
but
far
better known as
Pol Pot
, th
is
self-appointed
ruler
of Cambodia was
yet
another
bona fide
dunce,
flunking his college exams three years in a row before
being forced
to return from Paris to his motherland
, his
wasted
scholarship revoked
. W
ith
an
obvious
axe to grind thereafter
,
Pol Pot
w
ould
later
go
on to
seize control of the
same
government
who had paid for his education
, ordering his uniformed thugs
of
the
Khmer Rouge
to arrest
, torture and murder nearly 25% of his country
men
—
particularly those from the
intellectual
class
es
who
he
almost completely
e
radicated
.
I
n
the
three
year
s
Pol Pot
strove
to be
Cambodia’s
sole
master
,
he
managed to kill
an astounding
one
-
million of
the mere
seven
-
million
people
who lived
there
.
Doing the
quick
math
then,
and a
pply
ing
that timeframe
and his
bloodthirsty
behavior
as a predictor
, if Pol Pot
had
not
been
ousted
from office
when he was
,
this
demented individual
w
ould
’
ve succeeded in killing
every
one of his fellow
Cambodian
s
in only
a
nother
fifteen
years
.

5.
      
By Amnesty International’s estimates, Uganda’s former madman
Idi Amin
,
a practicing cannibal with only
a
fourth-grade education who
insisted on being called
"His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Alhaji Dr. Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC,
Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular
”
directed
his police force
to
arrest, torture
and
murder approximately 500,000 citizens
in his seven-year reign
.
It should
also
be noted
,
Amin had
originally
seized power in a military coup that was prompted by his fears he was going to be arrested for stealing
funds
from the
Ugandan
army
,
of which he was a commanding officer
.

6.
      
For
a
half century
,
the supplanted
white minority
government
of
South Africa
used
their
police force to
brutally
oppress the black majority
,
through the torture and murder of millions
of these natural citizens
,
systematically
stealing
all
their lands and wealth
while
at the same time
forcibly
imposing
on
them
condition
s
of
abject
poverty.

7.
      
Last
but not least,
in
one of the most
unique
mass murder events of all time
which was
executed
d
uring Argentina's
“
Dirty War
”
through
a p
rogra
m
dubbed
Operation Condor
,
roughly
6
0,000
citizens
were abducted
by the Argentine Federal Police
and
illegally
hel
d in
secret
detention cente
r
s where they were
interrogat
ed and
tortured.
Eventually,
so
there wouldn’t be any
proof
of the
se
crimes
, the police
sedated
their
prisoners
and
then
airlifted
them
out over the
middle of the
Atlantic Ocean,
where
they were thrown
in
alive
and drowned
.

"Every night I have to go to sleep thinking about his last moments
.
It drives me crazy. Was he afraid? Was he hurt? Was he cold?"
The victim’s
mother, speaking in 2011
on the anniversary of her son’s death

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 4, 2010
:
“
A missing Columbia College student was found dead in the Calumet River in South Chicago Tuesday. The
partially clad
body
of
Jay Polhill
was
discovered
floating near East 126th Street and South Stony Island Avenue on the
f
ar South Side of Chicago. An autopsy was conducted yesterday, but the results were inconclusive. Twenty-year-old Polhill, a photography major, had last been seen Sunday at his dormitory.
”

- - -

The beauty
of
murder
,
if any
,
is that there
’
s no
S
tatute of
L
imitations running
on it
. So
even
the perfect
kill
,
once
it unravels, as
most
crime
plots
invariably
do
after awhile
, can
still
be investigated and its perps prosecuted
at
anytime.
The case of missing/murdered child Etan Patz is
the
proof of th
at
; for 33 years
gone
cold and
recently
reactivated
on
brand
new evidence
.

The only snag
in this scheme
of
justice
and the American way
is, of course, that you
have
to get a murder classified as a murder
right
off the bat
, otherwise
the case
starts to
languish
with
in the files of the
local
police department as an “undetermined” death
and
, eventually,
after six months or so,
goes
inactive.
In the meantime, and as a matter of routine, storefront surveillance videos and cellphone records get wiped clean
again
, erasing both the victim’s and the
ir
assailants’ trail.

Residents of Chicago Illinois claim this scenario is all the likelier in their city
these past few years
. They say the Chicago police
force
has been
busy
playing a numbers game with crime statistics, trying to feign a decrease in violence
on their streets
, namely
in
homicides, and
that they’
v
e
been
doing so
at the expense of victim
families
like Jay Polhill
’s
,
a young Chicago student and resident
who clearly met with
some type of
foul play
in the last days of February
2010.