The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS - March through early April, and as the days shuffle past it grows increasingly conceivable that America finally is taking its first timorous steps toward adoption of one of...
...Had Mr...
...Incarceration would last until sunset election day, unless the candidate was already under sentence for a prior misdeed...
...Carter introduced him as a symbol of the "eagerness for freedom, independence, and liberty that exists throughout Eastern Europe and indeed throughout the world...
...Carter's once elusive image now is accessible to all...
...For an American socialist that was a rare opportunity and, not surprisingly, within five years of his release he was dead...
...He also opposes the Equal Rights Amendment...
...There you are...
...On April 6, Representative Frederick W. Richmond was arraigned in District of Columbia Superior Court on charges of soliciting a 16year-old boy and an undercover policeman for purposes of some sort of sexual congress...
...There, their bombast will do less harm, and if they do go too far there is always solitary confinement...
...Naturally the candidate could have easy access to his mother and any other close friend or member of the family who really cares to visit...
...As I see it, now is an opportune moment to adopt a constitutional amendment requiring any candidate for elective office to report to the federal prison nearest his home within twenty-four hours of filing his candidacy...
...For special cases such as Congressman Ron Dellums or Senator Mike Gravel, reasonable accommodations could be worked out...
...unemployment rose to 6.2 percent in March., and during the first quarter inflation devoured the dollar at the annual rate of ten percent...
...Joshua Eilberg, who as a member of the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 won the hearts of all thinking, feeling Americans when he observed: "Our citizens are afraid that if they take a position on a political issue their telephones will be tapped, their mail opened, and their tax returns audited as a means of punishment...
...From behind prison walls, Debs' rancorous threats against the capitalists and other taxpayers caused very little hysteria, assuring the electorate a sober atmosphere in which to meditate on those vaporings Debs called socialism...
...As the visibly discomfited comrade's unease mounted, our learned President extolled the old bandit as a "great world leader...a friend and associate of Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt, and General De Gaulle...
...In fact my guess is that the American people will be so pleased by this experiment's effect on public health and morals that they will insist on its wider application...
...And a New York man, whose girl friend reportedly made "dynamite eggplant parmigiana" and who was arrested for stealing $12 worth of underwear from a New Jersey department store, has turned out to be none other than Frank Madonna, for seven years one of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives...
...Ernest Barkley upon his release from a six-month jail sentence for stealing from the town treasury...
...Mason Wood, a 48-year-old vacuum-cleaner salesman seeking high office in North Carolina, has sent letters to all female candidates in that enlightened state urging them to withdraw from their respective races as a matter of "Christian duty...
...John Spanish is not giving up on his bill to allow blind and disabled persons to hunt without state licenses...
...The 1920 election was one of the most decorous ever run...
...Before his trip the Wonderboy evoked a full forehead of sweat from Marshal Josip Broz Tito...
...Tito never met Roosevelt and De Gaulle...
...Spanish for his audacious liberalism...
...This result makes it imperative that Richard Nixon be impeached...
...The compulsory incarceration of presidential candidates is a reform I have propounded all my adult life, yet it has never been able to get up the wind, not even among so-called liberals in the American Political Science Association...
...At a White House hijinks held in the Yugoslav dictator's honor, Mr...
...There is no word as to whether officials will reinstate his teaching certificate, which was taken from him after his conviction on a morals charge...
...Further, the candidate would have unlimited access to his campaign aides so long as they observed a modicum of decorum...
...The University of Texas gave its award for achievement in communications to Captain Kangaroo...
...Monroney, the branch manager of a Carle Place bank, complied with an anonymous telephone caller's orders to leave a bag of money in an alley and silently depart for a nearby Chinese restaurant with his two clerks...
...Despite the fact that our President left the country for seven days, the economy continued to founder...
...Civics books could finally be read in the home without embarrassment...
...In Carle Place, New York, the dutiful Robert Monroney, 53, is in hot water with the officers of his bank...
...The people obviously approved of Debs' incarceration, and many showed their thanks by giving him the largest total vote he had ever received...
...If Americans had perceived the wisdom of this procedure, today the jailing of presidential candidates might be the law of the land, and what a land it would be—America, showcase of civilization...
...As a matter of historic interest, nearly fifty congressmen from the Watergate era are ex-convicts, convicts, under indictment, or lying low...
...Rather than debate the death penalty in a manful way, New York's Governor Carey has chosen the low expedient of simple ridicule...
...Many rude jokes have been aimed at Mr...
...At any rate, clad in prison garb and observing the regimen of prison life, Debs experienced firsthand socialism's egalitarian ethic...
...Doubtless there would have been even less hysteria had the experiment begun in 1916 with the virtuous Woodrow in the slammer...
...In locales where the prisons are overcrowded or where other prisoners might rebel at having to live with common pols, the pols could be clamped in mental hospitals or the local Unitarian Church...
...De Gaulle loathed him, and Churchill died hating him...
...No candidate would be expected to undertake any of the usual prison duties...
...The jailing would be handled with the utmost dignity...
...On April 7, Representative Charles C. Diggs was charged with 35 counts of misprision...
...It could have been improved upon only if Harding and Cox too had been detained in the Atlanta Penitentiary...
...And in Minnesota State Rep...
...The imperial president is no more...
...On March 31, former Congressman Otto E. Passman was indicted for accepting $213,000 in bribes, and on March 17 former Congressman Richard Hanna pleaded guilty to fraud charges...
...In testimony before the House Ethics Committee Mr...
...Today it is inspiriting to see that four sitting congressmen have been indicted from the 95th Congress, and over a dozen more are just a step ahead of the law, including the illustrious Speaker of the House, the Majority Whip, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Labor-HEW, and the Rt...
...To State Senator James Donovan's cogent argument that there would never have been a Christian faith if there had not been a death penalty to warrant the execution of Jesus, Carey, an opponent of capital punishment, replied that the Resurrection started Christianity and "If Senator Donovan can get Resurrection into the death penalty, I might be willing to give it a second look...
...Let those who fever for electoral reform tender a more judicious scheme...
...Wood contends that "God did not ordain women to rule this universe...
...THE CONTINUING CRISIS • March through early April, and as the days shuffle past it grows increasingly conceivable that America finally is taking its first timorous steps toward adoption of one of the most salutary innovations ever suggested for democratic government...
...Next came the most boring and pointless presidential journey since Calvin Coolidge took Chief Justice William Howard Taft to lunch on the presidential yacht, and finally the neutron bomb decision for which there is no historical comparison in this or any republic of literate men...
...Tongsun Park, Esq., the South Korean patriot, has admitted to having showered some $850,000 of his munificence on fourteen sitting congressmen and seventeen others who have moved on to lusher fields...
...This is a very hopeful turn of events...
...RET 2 The American Spectator May 1978...
...He was obviously warming up for his neutron bomb decision...
...After decades of hesitation, the nation stands on the threshold of implementing a visionary reform first seen in the presidential campaign of 1920 when the late Eugene V. Debs campaigned from prison...
...Suffice it to say that Mr...
...Now, thanks to the energetic journalism of William Safire and some apparently unfireable prosecuting attorneys, a goodly number of congressmen might be conducting their 1978 campaigns from the hoosegow...
...a pert ignoramus gibbers in his stead...
...never have they noted how his condition benefited democratic process...
...Think of the immense opportunity that was missed at that time...
...Ford been shut off from the voters in 1976 he might be president today...
...For years snivelers have whined about Debs' sad plight...
...The dolt cost his employers $10,229...
...Progressive Gretna, Florida, reelected Mr...
...Frank's underwear worries are over...
Vol. 11 • May 1978 • No. 7
