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Jim Comstock In The West Viiginio Hillbilly -™-y responsible person you in this country has _jy about the current of arson and looting, like Calvin CooMge and sin, they are “ag’in it” President John son has said time and again that “this country will not tolerate,, riots .and arson and looting. It Isn't American, he says. He says it with such force that people start to believe him. They say to themselves and to their neitfi bors, “President Johnson is go ing to terrorism.” One wonders how. Senator Byrd said the same thing only he said how we were n’t going to tolerate lawlessness. So did Mayor Daley of Chicago. And the mayor of Miami The President took the words right out of their mouths to a certain point. He didn't say how. He im plied that he would meet any where, anytime, anyplace with rioters and they would reason together. That is, of course, after they have burned and looted. Now Attorney General Ramsey dark is doing with the double talking and adding to the admin istration’s credibility gap. Asked by a group of editors to comment on Chicago Mayor Daley’s shoot to-kill for arsonists and sboot-to -cripple for looters, he said he did not think that was “permiss ible” and then added unless in “self-defense or when.' it is ne cessary to protect the lives of others.” Then he added the bit of fuzzi ness: “I think to resort to dead ly force is contrary to the totals experience of law enforcement: in this country and woul&.tend toward a very dangerous escala tion of the problems we are so intent on solving.” What problem, General Clark? Why does racism have to be * part of the problem of riofcef*? Why does integration have to be' connected with arson and loot ing? Actually, General Chirk, aren’t there two problems in volved here? (toe social, one crime? Is there anybody in these United' States who believes that the death of Martin Luther King was justification for terror? Was-, n’t that death an excuse tor thugs and hoodlums to surrend er to pent up savage desires? Kennedy was killed too, but that didn’t- call forth the young guards to burn a town. It was Mayor Lindsay, I be lieve, who said that to shoot-to fcill was merely the placing of property values over that of hu man bongs. I rather wonder where in America did we ever do anything else but. Why did we kill off the Indians? Why did we take Isthmus of Panama? How come we had Cuba before we lest it, and the Phfflipines which we still have after a fash ion? How did we get Guam? Are we shooting to kill in Viet nam? And not only are we, but we are shooting to kill a bunch of poor villagers who haven't done one iota of damage to the Americans as some big city hood lum? have. The LmdsayjClark school of American protection says that law must take its due course and the capital punidi meat does not rest with the con stabulary. What they mean is for the policeman to anest the man after he has tossed fire into a building. Arrest him and take hjm to court and fight a battery of OEO lawyers with a govern ment subsidy. I wonder if there might be a few exceptions to the Lindsay Clark orders. Here’s this police man who has just arrested a loot er he’s holding him for the . Half way down the to toss a tear-and-gasoline soaked rag into this orphanage. Ibe fire crew is fighting fire and snipers two blocks away? What does the policeman do? What would Hod say do, Lindsay with the heart of the humanitarian? Or there’s this Mkrw whose great great great grandparents picked cot ton in Louisiana, getting ready —r Jenkins Machine & Supply Co., Inc. hi If 306 S. 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General Statutes Commi Jacksonville Kiwanis Club, Onslow County Your vote aid s On May* 4th -the voters of the Fourth District, comprised of Duplin, Jones, Onslow end Sampson Counties, will select four (4) Judges (out of seven (7) candi dates) for the important and responsible positions of District Judges. The terms of offices wilLbe four (4) years. For /our (udicial systent to work property if Is ‘ imperative that capable men of honesty, integrity;and experience be selected. I promised equal justice for all. I offer my qualificafloris for comparison against those of tho other candidates. to have a caaikoat with a drug store. ■ • 'p, ' ' Hie cop on the beat know* whc lives on the third floor up. Nice old invalid lady. Who dies, she or the arsonist? There is one thing the police know, and there’s something that mayoreiot burned-out cities know, and that is the feliqw with the Mofoto* cocktail kfcJpore lethal to man people thawthe policeman with ! gun. And think how many tirali more lethal an arsonist is than the policeman with orders not to protect ttfie and property with his gun. Terrors in- the streets is no mors than warfare. R is m in surrection. Under such condi tions and at such times, a sound' v*
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