The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-17
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The pattern Of communist court
procedure runs about the same
everywhere.
1t must seem strange to them to
witness an American trial, or to be
a part Of one. They squawk about
our capitalist injustice, which is a
part Of their riga-marole, but they
get a fair trial and they know it.
Communist trials are no more
than part of purge machine.
Where it seems good tactics they
stage what they call a trial. Other
wise they just get rid Of the culprit
by less costly means.
Nobody will ever know how many
opponents of the red rulers have
disappeared leaving no trace for
relatives or friends.
1t used to be said, rightly or
otherwise, that in the German
language there is no equivalent for
our words "fair play"
It's certainty that in cOmmun-
list lingo there is no sincere equival-
ent for the word Justice.
T. j. \
The word "liquidate" more near
ly fits the communist idea. And to
"liquidate" person means to
cause that person to cease living.
Liquidation" is a matter of final
ity.
What hideous thing Karl Marx
loosed on the world when he form
ulated a philosophy with which
Communists could cloak them
selvesi
A thing of hate, of lies, of deceit,
of torture, of murder!
And those who defend this thing
are wont to cry "red batter" or he
who calls time on the diatribe of
destruction. To me it seems that
the thing called red batting, which
is no more than calling the turn on
the Communists, is a most honor
able and worthy thing. We need
more of it, not less. 1t needs to be
unremitting and unerring.
Get on the target and let go with
the truth!
The trials in Hungary have been
a case in point.
No Catholic prelate can be ex-
pected to even apologize for COM
munism. But here we have letter
written in advance, saying that any
subsequent confession" would be
a sign only that the flesh was
weak.
Then sure enough, comes the
Confession, with a reputation of
the advance letter. 1t is all in per-
feet form in a communist "court"
and it is likewise all a complete
pattern of what high church dig
nitary would be likely to do.
He would, and did repudiate in
advance any subsequent "confes-
sion", because he knew that the
communists have ways of procur-
ing Confessions. Whether by
drugs or by torture, we do not
know. Possibly by means of both.
To use a vulgarism, the whole
thing stinks. 1t stinks as all COM
munism does.
Here is a double dose of nauseat-
ing dope for the civilized world.
Another thing is sure about COM
munist prosecutions. The outcome
is for sure.
The prosecutor doesn't have to
worry about what a "jury" will
say, after celebrating the facts
and the law. He knows. He tells his
so-called jury and does anyone
imagine the faithful souls in that
so-called jury will do other than
grant what the dictatorship de-
mands?
1t is more than strange that
there are Americans who espouse
communism; others who trail along
with apologies.
But no stranger than the fact
that we have among us psyche
pathic cases, cases of neuroses of
one type or another-mental aber-
rations of many types, caused by
who knows what combination of
events.
For none of these is the snake
pit of old a cure, of course, but
there are times when it seems that
just throwing one more snake into
it might be a reasonable facsimile
Of sweet retribution.
But the Communists among us
are safe-very safe-protected by
the very processes of freedom,
justice and democracy which they
so despise.
Does ANYBODY recall the name of