of sick minds and that these minds are in dire need of treatment. It is sheer stupidity, however, to rely upon brief therapy and con finement to rehabilitate degraded sex criminals. Bulging police records on known repeaters and daily headlines on sex crimes are testimonials to the fallacy of such practice. Community protec tion demands the separation of these degenerates from society. "There is no shortage of theories on sex crime causation. Text books are filled with them. However, sex criminals for the most part strike knowingly and with deliberate intent. N o amount of maudlin rationalization can hide this fact. “ The real tragedy of sexual atrocities lies in the suffering of the innocent victims. Unfortunately, in many instances, the vic tim’s rights are never considered. The sexual degenerate, shielded by an array of technicalities and loopholes, bares his wrist for a light judicial pat and soon is free to resume his assaults, rapes, and murders.” — J. Edgar Hoover One of the most admired and most feared citizens of our country is the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Honorable J. Edgar Hoover. He is deeply respected by law- abiding citizens who are honestly desirous of seeing the laws of our land upheld and who believe that citizens have every right to all the protection that can possibly be thrown around them against the subversives, the vicious, the lawless and the criminal element of every type and stripe. He is greatly dreaded and thoroughly hated by the element of our beloved country who hold our laws in complete contempt and who have no regard for human life or the rights of others as they go about seeking to kill, maim, and in other ways wreak vengeance on a society which they hate and upon innocent individuals whom they victimize. One cannot but wonder at the attitude of many otherwise respectable individuals who attempt to discredit the word and work of J. Edgar Hoover and his splendid corps at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The society in which we live is at least, it seems, most precarious; one shudders to think what kind of society we would have if the soft sentimentalists should have their way entirely. W e as a people have stooped to a most deplorable level when there is evidenced more sympathy for rapists, thugs, murderers, sex deviates and other parasites on the body politic than is ex pressed for the innocent victims of the criminals. It is discourag ing to realize that more concern is expressed for the mobs and hoodlums who desecrate our flag and denounce the American way of life than for the faithful police who attempt to protect us. More sympathy is wasted on those who try to break up organized meetings of government officials as they seek to discover and deal with dangerous, subversive elements than on the peace officers who often must eject bodily law-breakers and rabble-rousers from such meetings at the risk of their lives and limbs. How such a perverted sense of decency and justice — such tolerance for lawlessness — has come about in our country passes under- Standing. (continued on page 35) MAY, 1964
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