Congrats Gil Kerlikowske on your career move into the Obama admin. Now you can emote, Oprah-like on the national stage about your sensitivity and personal family tragedy with drugs...now you can be sloe-eyed weeper-in-chief. You are the perfect choice for the government by NPR that the Obama administration is turning out to be...

Meantime, you left behind a south Seattle ravaged by gangs and gun violence and a record - what? - 12 dead black teenagers in 2008 alone. If you had any kind of soul inside you would have resigned your position. Or say, after the 5th dead black teen, you could have gotten angry. Crazy-angry. You could have gone crazy on the problem. But that would have meant naming the problem and that you could not bring yourself to do: murdered black teenagers. You would have had to take on the reigning education, sociology and ACLU victims rights' lobbies. And that, effectively, would have ended your career. You would have had to fight through Seattle's mechanized liberal/leftism, its Earth Shoe self-righteousness, its Whole Foods liberalism (as long as we buy locally our self-righteousness is intact, dead black kids be damned).

After murdered black teen #5 you could have gone crazy on the situation. You could have said to yourself: There will not be a dead black kid #6. Screaming for the national guard, posting cops in schools, calling for meetings with every black pastor in central and south Seattle, paying kids to turn in guns, calling out the parents, calling on national stars, Michael Jordan or Chris Rock or J-Z or whoever to come to town to talk to kids; you would have said to hell with budgets and protocol kids are dying; you would have staged a rally with corporate money at one of our stadiums (Saefco Field).

Remember, chief Kerlikowske, that beautiful line in David Mamet's movie The Untouchables? Sean Connery, knowing the evil behind drug dealers and murderers, asks Elliott Ness, "What are you prepared to do?" In the movie the Sean Connery character was killed fighting murderous thugs. But here, in real life, we know what you were prepared to do: play it safe until your little Obama promotion came through...

In short: YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING SO THAT BLACK KID #6 WAS NOT NEXT. Instead you and Mayor Nickels gave us your weepy helplessness and we got dead black teens #6, #7 #8 #9 #10...you...you...

AAAAAAAARRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!