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So What’s Up With Jack … !!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column
Just when you felt it was safe to go back into the
water, the Shark is seen swimming out away from the shore
line.
Back and forth, so swims the Shark. Always showing his
dorsal fin. Always
making sure that you know that it is there. Waiting. Hoping.
Hoping that you will make a fatal step and go into the water
and become his lunch or early dinner.
The Shark. Always preening. Always sharpening his teeth
in anticipation for a quick meal or a fast snack.
The Shark loves catching a possible wader or swimmer
off guard. Someone who is enjoying the surf without being on
the lookout for that tell-tale sign of the Shark’s ominous
dorsal fin.
The Shark takes great joy in swimming beneath the
surface trying to find that errant surfer or rafter who for
the joys of swimming, has not taken the effort to know that
there is always danger in the water…the waters of the Shark.
The Shark is designed for a swift hit and attack and is
equipped with razor-edged teeth that he can quickly render
his catch helpless.
The Shark has evolved over thousands of years to be an
efficient and ruthless machine of efficiency when it comes
to quickly dispatching his helpless prey.
Now. In Toledo. There has been a Shark sighting. One
would think that in these relatively calm political waters,
that a Shark sighting would be a mirage.
A mistake. A creation of one’s over stimulated imagination.
After all, why would a Shark want to cruise the
political waterways in Toledo unless there was a prime
succulent morsel of prey that was standing in the waters and
enjoying a day on the beach.
The Shark saw the prey on the beach and was wondering
and hoping that the prey would venture a little too close to
the waters and maybe, just maybe would venture in a few feet
or more.
The Shark has no friends. Just acquaintances.
Just people who could or would do the bidding of the Shark
because the Shark operates alone. He strikes alone. He eats
alone. He patrols the unguarded beaches alone.
In that loneliness, the Shark develops no conscience.
It does not factor in what is good or what is bad. Food is
food. Wherever and however it is found.
In that solitary life, the Shark makes no provision for
what is just and unjust.
In being a loner, the Shark has tunnel vision for he
only sees what his primitive mind shows him and that is: Is
that a meal for me?
The Shark does not need to justify his conduct to
others. He lets others talk about him or he let others
exploit the Shark myth so as to cause others to shudder and
run from the Shark.
That is what the Shark loves. He wants to inspire fear
and trepidation in the onlookers on the beach when they see
the Shark approach his victim.
The Shark wants the reputation that all is lost when he
has his eyes on you and that there is no escape.
The Shark seemingly involuntarily grins when he attacks
because he is happy at what he does and the look of shock on
the victim face when he hits, makes it worth it all…assuming
the victim even has a chance to see the Shark hit its mark.
Who is the Shark you say in Toledo?
Jack Ford is back in the waters….the political waters
and he has apparently set his political teeth on biting and
devouring State Senator Edna Brown.
The word is out via Blade Columnist Keith Burris who
is apparently the Shark’s best mouthpiece that Jack Ford
wants Edna’s job in Columbus.
The Shark has convinced himself via the reporting of
Keith Burris that Edna is simply shark bait and not state
senator material and he wants to clamp down and end the
impressive political career of Edna.
Oh sure. The Shark would raise some spurious issues
that may give the impression that Edna is not worthy of
being a state senator and that the Shark…a/k/a Jack Ford is
because The Shark has been to Columbus before and his
shark-like appetites and workings are already known around
the Capitol.
Yeah. The Shark would try to convince you that if you
feed the Shark you will be safe and protected and by voting
for the Shark, all would be well in northwest Ohio.
The Shark wants you to push Edna into the water so the
Shark can circle around her and inflict a mortal political
wound on Edna.
Is the Shark saying that if you sacrifice Edna to him
that you will be OK and that the Shark’s appetite would be
satiated for a time?
If you are a shark watcher, tell this Shark that your
harpoon (your vote) will be on the lookout for this
particular Shark and that you will not throw Edna into the
shark-infested waters.
Toledoans, it is Shark Watch Time. Get your harpoons ready.
Tell the Shark…go ahead and make my day.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at
Tolliver@Juno.com |
