Ah, it's good to hear from
another avid opponent of the
slogan "Law and Order" (i.e. Police
Brutality!"). I myself don't care
very much for the byline, but I find
it unbelievable where it has led Mr.
David Pollock in his Cavalier
Daily letter. "Look here," he tells
us, "excessive speeding fines, jailing
for minor offenses, bodily injury
for refusal to move from a street,
these are all part of the hostile
judge-police complex which has
charge of 'law and order' in our
society." Simple, huh? And he
winds up, logically enough, by
warning "the Wallace-Nixonites et
al," to remember the harsh
remedy of Hitler for disobedients
and undesirables.
Mr. Pollock's letter is the most
shallow and illogical I have ever
read in The Cavalier Daily. Politics,
like many other things, is a broad
and varied spectrum, Mr. Pollock; it
claims an almost infinite
combination of hues and
intensities, limited only by the
number of people active in things
political. The man who categorizes
Wallace and Nixon as exponents of
the same type of "law and order"
cannot distinguish between what
each man thinks the slogan means
and what his followers can distort it
to mean — and such a person who
lumps Nixon and Wallace together
is as misguided as the Wallacite who
says there's not a dime's difference
between Nixon and Humphrey!
Following Mr. Pollock's "logic"
about Hitler, I suppose I should end
this letter by warning FDR
admirers that Lenin, too, supported
"freedom from want" and yet he
slaughtered millions of kulaks in
the early '20's. I should warn
Humphrey voters that Ho Chi
Minh, too, wants the bombing of
North Vietnam stopped — and he
was responsible for the death of
hundreds of thousands of peasant
landlords and farmers during his
"Land Reform" campaign. But I'm
afraid I just can't be that simplistic
— there can be no valid comparison
between Lenin and FDR, Ho Chi
Minh and Humphrey, Wallace or
Nixon and Hitler. I just wish that
Mr. Pollock had been a little more
thoughtful and a lot less prejudiced
in his astute analysis of that slogan
"Law and Order."
