LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

of Victorian (jubilee). Lucre does not profit a nation. Sense of justice is
that where from a nation can benefit.
Ezra Pound speaking— —or perhaps only an admonition. That is— —is
your only way out.]
#31 (April 27, 1942)U.S.(B36)
OPPORTUNITY RECOGNIZED
Over 150 years ago our ancestors, that is the ancestors of some of us,
had an OPPORTUNITY—and they TOOK it. They had the opportunity
of setting up a government, without being absolutely hog-tied. They
made a conscious and CONSCIENTIOUS effort to set up a better
FORM of government than was then extant in boosy old bribe-run
England. That fact was important. After about 80 years, the American
form of government was DONE in, and it took us nigh 80 years to find
out how, when, and WHY we had been diddled.
Several columns of infamy, monuments to the crimes of Ikieheimer,
Sherman, and probably Stanton ought to be set up in front of the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington explainin’ why Lincoln was shot, why Booth
got out of Washington by the only road on which there were no police
guards after he put the lead into Abe Lincoln, that being the ONE road,
he would be likely to TAKE and the shortest cut into the south country.
Well all that needs explainin’, like the hoods on the prisoners, which
certainly KEPT ’em from seem’ folks in the courtroom when Doc Mudd
and the rest were tried. Whatever other explanation ever was given or
can be invented to explain this form of illegal torture?
Waaal, it is all very mysterious. And it definitely marked a DECLINE (to
put it mildly) of legal sense in America. Decline of our sense of fair play,
decline of American decency.