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The California Mess
The most'terrible .of all 'Possible op
pressions is*that of-anarchy. When all
rules, when all principles, when eve*y
discipline is cast aside no ohe and no
thing is safe. The prince and the pauper
stand in equal jeopardy.
Our society is still far from the final
death throes of total anarchy, but the
seed is sown, and unless discipline is
exerted, and soon/ this nation will harv
est some very bitter crops.
Permissiveness at every level, from
the home to the White House has turned
loose the wrong 'side of man on us all.
When a John F. Kennedy can be shot
down certainly no small one of us is
free from this constant peril.
And fear is the. most corrosive emo
tion. ft turns brother against brother,
religion against religion, race against
race. And there is no real reason for'
this fear to possess so many of us for
so long. ! '3
’There has never been a time in the
history of man, and there never will be
a time in man'when the
criminal elements would not press upon
the law-abiding. Ouc time in history is
no different in that respect than any
other. But it does differ in that there
is a pathological passion on the part of
far too many to either overlook or ac
tually condone deliberate acts of crim
inality.
Rehabilitation of criminals is a far
bigger concern of society today than
reimbursement of those who have been
physically or financially or mentally
ruined by such violators.
Consider that our society today nas
an expensive array of dedicated people
who are trying sincerely to make human
silk purses out of criminal sows’ ears.
We have probation boards, paroles
boards, recreational and educational pro
grams in prisons. But does society spend
,penny to help the man who has been
rdbbed or the innocent (girl who has been
raped? ' > ' -
The aged storekeeper whose life
savings has been snatched away by a
ibu^ly with a gun, of a young girl 7
whose virginity has been corroded by a
rapists also need help. But society of
fers none, while wasting vast amounts of
money to help the poor robber and the
apple-cheeked rapist. \
' life Oppression of Anarchy
Fortunately the majority of the na
tion has little to no Comprehension of
the mess in “higher education” in the
Great State of California. It reads more
llki the muttering, of mad men then re
porting on the solemn affairs of the na
tion’s most populous state.
A major isSfrersity has been dosed
because its., administration permitted,
and in many instances even encouraged,
the most vile and evil people to take
of California is
in all of higher
tion because he has spoken out and
tried to take action against this miser
able mess that academic permissiveness
has made put of the largest higher educa
tion system in the nation. —
Screaming mobs who demand full
credits for listening to a Negro pervert
named Eldridge Cleaver, who has been
hired with the taxpayers’|money to
spread the most virulent and violent
filth imaginable. Afrjan who wrote in
Of course, he does not want peace, be
cause peace would mean the end of him
and his regime. If nothing else has been
{woven after , all these bloody years of
war the world surely recognizes that
the^preseqt Saigon government wouldn’t
last 10 minutes without American aid.
It has been years since there was any
doubt about the fact that the Siagon
government is the handpicked stepchild
of American duplicity v •. * a duplicity,
that failed in its beginning because it
never fooled anyone, including the peo
ple of Vietnam and the rest of the.
world.
So now with our country finally awak
ened to some brutal facts of lifeSSuch
as the fact that our country should never
have been involved there in the first
place, and now should get out as quickly
as possible it is flogging the deadest
possible kind of political horse to delay
any move toward peace because of
the whims, or fears or greeds of this
Saigon government.
For generations we have been nour
ished with the legend that it is the
Oriental who places such high esteem
on “face” and now we are finding out'
the hard way that American leaders suf
fer this form of pride to a degree far
worse than even the most egotistical
Oriental Potentate.
No really major steps can be taken in
any Erection, at home or abroad until
this first issue of Vietnam is decided.
We cannot really begin to improve our
tedious balance of payments situation,
We cannot* pretend to solve our hous
ing, pollution, transportation and farm
problems unto, vast waste of the Viet
namese frustration is ended. , 1
We cannot even seriously defend our
household against the deliberate destruc
tiveness of international communism un
til we, as a nation, recognize that inter
nal bleeding is just as deadly, if not
quite so emotional as external wounds.
the ghetto and wheri'I considered myself
smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and
sought out white prey. I did this con
sciously, deliberately, willfully, method
ically — though looking back I see that
was in a "frantic, wild and completely
abandoned frame of mind. Rape was
an insurrectionary act. It delighted me
that I was defying and trampling upon
the white man’s law; uppn his system
of values, and that I was defiling his
women — and this point, I believe, was
the most satisfying to me because I
was very resentful .over the historical
(fact of how the White man used the
black woman. I wanted to send waves
of consternation throughout ^the white
race. . *
And that is the kind of man that the
trustees of the University of California
permitted to hold classes on their
'campus^ and over the objections of
Governor Reagan.
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The State Baptist Convention wants a
stronger 'law against drunken driving.
What the brethren really should be
talking about, is not a stronger law, but
stronger courts to enforce existing, law
in this realin, ahd if any mohkeyihg is
to be done with the law itself it ought
to be aimed at relaxing the law so that
the. punishment could be fitted to the
offender rather than beih£ an inflexible
punishment which falls far from fairly
upon (ttfferent offenders.
The last time I checked the record of
local courts there was about a 95 per
cent conviction rate in recorder’s court,
where the cases are heard without a
jury, and then after conviction at that
level the conviction rate when appeals
were taken fell to about 8^ per cent in
superior court where juries determine
guilt or innocence. This raises the ob
vious question: Why will a jury turn
loose a man, or woman, who has already
been convicted by a judge, and after that
person has been indicted by a disinter
ested officer* whose only intent is to get
a dangerous driver off the highways.
The answer is almost universally this:
If the poor fellow is convicted he will
lose his driving • license for one year,
and this will cause him to lose his job
and put his family in a destitute position,
and since generally speaking a majority
of the jurors also occasionally get behind
the steering whed when they have had
a snort or two they wind up consciously
putting themselves in the defendant’s
shoes; and they treat him as they would
like to be treated if the situation were
reversed.
This is the key to this problem. The
present law makes the jury both judge
and jury. And the only duty any jury
should ever have in any case is to deter
mine the guilt or innocence of the per
son before them. Punishment should be
in the discretion of the judge, and with
in* broad limits. Loss of the driving
license for a year is in many instances
a terrible financial blow to one defend
ant and\to his family, and to another
man it may be a blessing.
Trial judges ought to have the right
to punish drunken drivers with a wide
range -of sentences. Heavy fines, perma
nent loss of license, part-time loss of
license and heavy prison terms for chron
ic offenders. That Saturday night drunk
who drives a truck for a living the rest
of the week might be allowed to,drive
during working hours, but be forced
to surrender his driving license under
heavy penalty during his non-working
hours. '
And as for forcing people to testify
against themselves by giving blood or
blowing up ballots; that kind of forced
testimony — some times called thirdN
degree — was supposed to have ended
with the establishment of the United
States of America and the adoption of
our constitution. If a jury will not believe
the sworn teatimpn? of a trained and
disinterested officer that kind pf jury
will just as . easily ignore any kind of
evidence that