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Consent of the Governed
All government, from the most bene
volent to the most tyrannical is possible
only by consent of the governed.^ There
is growing evidence that the somnolent
American body politic is on the verge
of refusing to accept the continued im
becilities of the United States supreme
court.
But the court grinds dangerously for
ward in this zombie-like determination
to rule or ruin. This week by a 7-toO
vote this court slapped down the effort
of Memphis, Tennessee to preserve its
neighborhood school concept, and thus
inferentially spit in the eye of everyone
from President Nixon on down who is
now trying to talk common sense on
this issue.
Charlotte and Los Angeles are current
ly the two most hideous examples Of
fhig judicial jerkery run amuk. Each
has 'been ordered to freight a sufficient
number of its students about to achieve
“racial balance”.
In Charlotte this means trucking about
13,000 students each day, the initial
purchase of S26 buses and the continu
ing expenditure of something like $500,
000 per year tdbperate thosohusefr
For Los Angeles the problem is mul
tiplied by about 20, since the number of
students and the distances to be travel-,
led are about in that ratio over Charlotte.
Here closer to home in Kinston there
Is no proposal to buy buses but to force
children to either walk or use family
transportation to bring about this same
lind of “educational” plan in the
and senior high school levels,
the Kinston elementary schools
been left in the tree '
at a later date when the :
rotted:
century now those of the South who
loved and respected the public school
systems have tried to tell those in and
out of the south that total racial integra
tion is not in the educational best in
terests of either race.
For a long time this truism fell on
deaf ears, but now the rest of the nation
is beginning to turn up its hearing aid
finally after massive injury has been
done to the schools and to race relations
they are bejpnning to understand the
magnitude of this judicial tyranny, and
soon it will be totally rejected.
From Under the Log
What is inaptly described as a “tougn
young professor” from the University
of Chicago has recommended to a com
mittee of congress that pistols be outlaw
ed in this country. When spring weather
approaches theriNfe always such worms
crawling from beneath logs.
This Frank Zimring 'blames the na
tional crime wave on pistols so he comes
up with the stupid conclusion that if
pistols are taken away from aBL law
abiding citizens criminals will quit act
ing hke criminals.
Such an absurdity would only involve
disarming the prey and arming the predi
a tor.
The reason why there are too many
crimes of violence in our country is
not because of guns or knives or cars
but is because criminals are hot punished
swiftly and severely for their criminal
acts. No pistol in the history of fire
arms has , ever killed a single person.
Either human malice or ignorance is i
volved every single time any
kffia or injures anyone.
Dioiogy wnicn ixems wua iro iw»wvu»
between organisms and their environ
ment, bo actually it is not a new subject
— only a new name for an ancient prob
lem. :'y ..'7 ■T. -'.i,
Neanderthal man moved from cave
to pave to escape his garbage, through
which archaeologists now {thick and
probe in their effort to underhand how
our ancient kinsmen lived, and died.
If the alarmists of today are even
halfway correct in their dire predictions
of immediate doom perhaps a hundred
thousatid, or a million years from now
the archaeologists, or whatever they are
called, will be digging and dusting and
classifying the jtink we are burying our
selves in today,. N
It is not a pretty picture, and if one
j simply elects to underplay the terror
I ctf simple survival the ecology kick can
easily be justified on esthetics grounds.
f- The utter ugliness, and total vulgarity
with which we despoil our environment
is too obvious to dwell upon to any per
. son with average common sense, much
less common courtesy.
The beer-can tossers, the sandwich
wrapper scatterers are bloodbrothers to
the spitters on sidewalks and to the cor
- porate and municipal dumper of raw
filth into our rivers, lakes and sounds.
They only differ by degree. Their crime
against nature is the same.
But even in such an exotic new branch
, of biology as ecokgy it is good to keep
in mind the Episcopal premise of temper
' ance in all things. These bright and ded
icated young people .do have a message,
and a great calling to rally around, but
their entire life’s work might 'be short
circuited if parents and schools and gov
ernment started teaching and enforcing
-good manners. It is just as unmannerly
to dump raw sewage to run downstream
on the next community as it is to throw
beer cans and sandwich wrappers on
your neighbor’s lawn.
Think about it!
or rifles on their own motion.
If our country would simply enforce
the lews that already exist on the mis
use of firearms the small per cent of
the papulation wjio. create the crime
wave would 'be otrt of circulation, and
when and if they did return to circula
tion' they’d think twice before doing1 the
same deed again.
Assault with a deadly weapon is pun
ishable in North Carolina with' up to
two years in prison, even if no injury is
inflicted.-AssaulL with a deadly weapon
with intent to hill is punishable with up
to 30 years in prison. Armed robbery
is punishable with up to 30 years in pris
on, Can you repall a single instance re
cently in which such existing sentences
have been imposed for these crimes?
first degree murder, whether with
arsenic or a .357 Magnum is punishable
by death, but no one has been put to
death in North Carolina for first degree
m
of n
months
under the constant e£e of that _
mother, five aunts and finally a stepmo
ther, and escaping from that into a home
where I continue under the careful eye
of a wife and two daughters I cannot
understand iwhat’n hell women ate talk
ing about when they begin hollering fOr
Equal Rights!
To me it would seem that the very
last thing in the world a woman would
wait would be to be treated like a man.
Like the average household pet dog or
cat maybe, but not a mere man. There
are such primary considerations, for in
stance, as the draft board and one moves
onto differing levels from that very rough
spring board. ^
Perhaps an indian woman might have
a point or two to make on this subject,
but not the average WASP woman. The
utopian Elysian Field in which the class
ical indian was supposed to have lolled,
consisted of a world in which men did
the fighting, the hunting, the fishing,
the smoking, the dancing and the women.
' did all the work, white men invaded this
men’s paradise and fouled it up in short
order. But the reservation indian' is
supposed to foe still living in this tribal
ignorance(?).
But the modern American woman has
the best df all worlds. She is spoiled by
the inequality some few of them now
are hollering about. Who .buys the gas
for whose car when the young in heart
go a ‘courting?’ Whd brings whom, a cor
sage for that special dance for which
the aforementioned “who” has also
sprung for the expensive tickets? On
Valentine Day who buys whom the big
heart-shaped boxes of candy?
Even such exacting souls as tax list
ers and voter registration workers per
mit the “weaker” sex to get by with af
firming that they are “21 plus”, but if
a man tried to camouflage Ms age they’d
probably Insist on looking at his teeth,
assuming that they were still the original
equipment
And look at Scouts! They even start
this in >those tender cub years when the
girls raise their hiking and ramping
money by selling cookies and 'boys have,
to lug, wet, smelly, heavy newspapers
around to a junk dealer or get out along
the highways and-try to find bottles to
collect the deposit bounty.
And until recently women had all the
■best of it fashion-wisfe- They could not
only dress for comfort, but could' use
the warm, exciting colors, while on the
hottest day the poor male of the species
was suppoed to go around wrapped in
drab, hot, uncomfortable threads that
bad- all thfr-eharaeter of a igasao bag. - —
Recently some males, or near-nudes, have
broken this fashion barrier, but the gals -
still have the best of it in any reasonably
fair match.
Women, it would seem to me, should '
be happy with their present lot, which,
to twist an-earlier phrase, consists of
being more unequal than the equals.