meaning o f the First Amendment of our Constitution, they are aiding and abetting the confusion and the turmoil that we see on every hand. Most assuredly, the framers o f our Constitution and the attending Amendments never for one moment envisioned the present-day distortion o f the First Amendment. Others have brought out the fact that “ there is a clear distinc tion between the freedom to act and the freedom to speak.” Su preme Court Justice Hugo Black has noted, “The First Amend ment protects speech, and it protects writing, and it protects as sembly, but it doesn’t say anything that protects a man’s right to walk around, and around, and around my house, if he wants to; fasten my people — my family — up in the house, make them afraid to go out-of-doors, afraid that something will happen. It just doesn’t do that; that’s conduct.” Granted, the dissenters have certain rights. But so have law-abiding citizens! The dissenters have absolutely no right whatsoever o f interfering with the ordi nary pursuit o f life, liberty, and the provision o f law-abiding citi zens to assemble without fear o f harm, danger, or molestation. The spectacle o f former President Lyndon B. Johnson coming to Los Angeles to give a major policy address and having to be brought surreptitiously by a back door into the hotel where the banquet was being held for fear o f the mob o f dissenters who had assembled around all o f the main entrances for the purpose o f hurling verbal insults and doing possible bodily harm to the chief executive o f these United States was utterly revolting. That will be a dark blot on the United States throughout the generations to come. It was all allowed because o f the irrational and totally un-American interpretation o f the meaning o f the First Amend ment by the Supreme Court. Certainly the concept o f dissent was never intended to mean that a baby doctor and a University chap lain would have the liberty o f going around the country, deliber ately encouraging young men to bum their draft cards and refuse to be inducted into the Armed Forces o f our country. When at last they were arraigned, one o f the branches o f our Judiciary released them because o f some minor interpretations o f an incon sequential legal matter! This is an utter travesty o f American justice and the laws o f our land. It is to be devoutly hoped that within the near future the per sonnel o f the Supreme Court o f these United States will be changed sufficiently so that Constitutional government once again will begin to be enforced. As citizens of our land, we would do well to re member very definitely the judges o f the various lower courts who periodically come up for re-election. Names o f these liberal-minded judges should be well-noted and remembered. The electorate should repudiate them with a resounding vote o f “ no confidence!” Then once more we can have a society governed by “ law and order.” That phrase, incidentally, used to be well understood, but some have objected to the phrase because it infringes on their right o f dissent. So now, the phrase has to be supplemented by the words “with justice.” Law and order w ith justice. The laws o f the land are just; to anyone who is a true American, law and order mean that the citizens are safe in their homes and on the streets and the hoodlums are put in their places. May the right-minded, right- thinking officials both in the Judiciary and in the Legislative branches of our government become far more concerned with the rights o f the populace than with the so-called rights o f certain individuals who would tear down a whole government and the society which brought it into being. God grant that this day may come soon! k b
OCTOBER, 1970 / Vol. 61 / No. 9
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