I am going to read here part of an editorial from the New York Post concerning this arrest out in California. It stated: Feudal tyranny walks through the great agricultural valleys of California. The arrest and illegal deportation of James Rorty. nationally known poet and writer. from the Imperial Valley lights up the rapidity with which American liberties are being destroyed there. It should have added. "and in many other States." Then it says: In the process the destruction of civil libertfes has reached the stage where a writer cannot enter a town to gather material for a book without being jailed on a trumpedup charge of communism. and then driven out of the State. Then it says further: Unless Congress and the Federal courts intervene soon. a rulingclass dictatorship will be firmly established in rural California on European models. and the success of strongarm methods there in crushing labor is likely to bring the same methods into use elsewhere. Then the editorial mentions hired gu.imen and sheriffs. and I want to call particular attention to this factthe use of socalled "peace officers " committing illegal acts. When a sheriff or other peace officer illegally knocks a man in the head and deports him out of a State or county. little is said about it and nothing is done about it. but if some poor. weakminded Communist says something to which no attention is paid. we all begin to shout and holler all over the country about it. When this alleged peace officer illegally arrested this news reporter. who was an American citizen legally traveling in his own country. he. the sheriff. "violently overthrew the government ". at least temporarily. Suppose some socalled "radical" had deported the sheriff? The Governor would have ordered out troops. and. if that had not been enough. a section of the Army would have been sent there. That is the reason that I say we should require our peace officers to obey the law just as any other citizen. and there is no law on earth that gives a sheriff the right to deport an American citizen out of a given State because the sheriff does not happen to like the thoughts of the visitor.
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