Richard J. Daley, the old-school mayor of Chicago, told the city’s superintendent during the riots that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination to “shoot to kill any arsonists” and “shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting.”
Another of President Lyndon Johnson’s staunchest allies offered a similarly sanguine prescription to the unrest taking place on campus that same month. “It would have been a wonderful thing,” longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer later testified before a Senate committee about the Columbia University student takeover, “if [Columbia President] Grayson Kirk got mad and got a gun and killed a few.”
They don’t make Democrats like they used to. But occasionally years, and usually not the good ones, reincarnate.
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-WiscoDave
Let's not forget that LBJ put in motion the entitlement programs that put forth the trash we have trying to kill over country today.
ReplyDeleteWe have had 4 presidents from Tx,, not necessarily born there but called it home, only one was worth a shit, the other 3 pure trash.
JD
Ike was born in Texas and raised in Kansas. Not a lot of flare, but accomplished a ton.
ReplyDeleteYep, it was Ike I was referring to as being worth a shit.
DeleteLBJ and both Bushes fall into the trash bin.
JD