"We are at war!" exclaimed Major Yates. "The men and women behind the badge know it. Good leaders know it, and decent communities know it. For the safety of all of our men and women behind the badge, it is time our country knows it." In what some might consider a remarkable specimen of hyperbole, Major Yates compares the emotional impact of recent episodes in which police officers have been murdered to the 9/11 attacks.

"I'll never forget the mood at the squad meeting at 3 pm on September 11, 2001," Yates recalls. " I gathered with about 20 cops in the same room that we had deployed out of for years but this day was different.  Our country had been attacked and we were pissed. In fact, several from that day joined the military and others seriously pondered it."

"Those thoughts and feelings came back like a vengeance this morning as I heard the news about Baton Rouge," he continues.  "Yes, we all saw five officers killed in Dallas last week and multiple shot throughout the week but today's news solidifies what just about no one wants to acknowledge – we are at war."

Nearly a year ago, celebrity Sheriff David Clarke of Wisconsin's Milwaukee County, an FBI-indoctrinated drug warrior who was awarded a Master's Degree in "Security Studies" through the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterrey, California, issued an undisguised call for action to "eradicate" Black Lives Matter activists and others giving voice to what he calls "anti-cop rhetoric." Such people, he ranted, are "vulgar, vile, [and] vicious … slime" whom he characterized as "domestic terrorists." He now demands that the public and the political class mobilize for a literal war of extermination – and he insists that citizens must rally to the defense and protection of the police officers whose advertised role is to protect them.