LoboGunLeather
US Veteran
Quoted from Philip S. Van Cise, District Attorney in Denver, Colorado during the early 1920s, noted for prosecutions of organized crime, political corruption, and the Ku Klux Klan, in his address to the Colorado Bar Association in September, 1925:
"America, though saved for democracy, is chained fast to judicial precedent, terrified by criminals of all kinds, and mentally unbalanced by swarms of social theorists, who have delegated to themselves the task of making martyrs out of law-breakers.
"We are said to have more criminals than any other country in the world. We catch a few and then mollycoddle most of them, probably to make the penitentiary so attractive that the balance will flock in.
"We sentence a man to life and pardon him in a few years. The stench of our cesspool of crime nauseates all nations, while we wallow in our filth and seem to like it...Modern civilization is but a veneer over savagery. Men still fear power, and the law is respected only where real force is ready to strike".
98 years later and Van Cise's words strike me as accurate today as when spoken.
For more insight I suggest Gangbuster, by Alan Prendergast, published by Citadel Press Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., copyright 2023.
"America, though saved for democracy, is chained fast to judicial precedent, terrified by criminals of all kinds, and mentally unbalanced by swarms of social theorists, who have delegated to themselves the task of making martyrs out of law-breakers.
"We are said to have more criminals than any other country in the world. We catch a few and then mollycoddle most of them, probably to make the penitentiary so attractive that the balance will flock in.
"We sentence a man to life and pardon him in a few years. The stench of our cesspool of crime nauseates all nations, while we wallow in our filth and seem to like it...Modern civilization is but a veneer over savagery. Men still fear power, and the law is respected only where real force is ready to strike".
98 years later and Van Cise's words strike me as accurate today as when spoken.
For more insight I suggest Gangbuster, by Alan Prendergast, published by Citadel Press Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., copyright 2023.
