to
subvert and corrupt the youth of this country by
the most insidious means imaginable, with a
recklessness and a viciousness equalled not even by
the most hardened drug pushers and the most
loathsome pornographers.
No, it was not to the dissolute, unprincipled and
overindulged on our college campuses that Charles
Curtis Flood turned with his plan to destroy
America. Nor was this yet another call to violence
to the dropout and hippies and flagdefilers of the
left.
Who then, you ask, did he seek to corrupt? The
answer, my fellow Americans, is the Boy Scouts of
America. Not only did Charles Curtis Flood incite
them to riot, and tamper with their morals, but
what is even worse, it was he and he alone who
drove the Boy Scouts headlong into the tragedy
that occurred here yesterday in Washington, D.C.
Surely the great majority of Americans will agree
that it is a tragedy in every sense of the word when
the brave fighting men of our Army are called
upon to risk their lives in the streets of
Washington, D.C., instead of in a foreign coun try.
But that is what happened here in the na
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lion's capital, when, through a long day and a long
night, our brave soldiers, armed only with loaded
rifles, fixed bayonets, tear-gas canisters and gas
masks, faced a mob of Boy Scouts, numbering
nearly ten thousand.
I am sure you all know by now the nature of the
chants and the songs that these ten thousand Boy
Scouts were singing in the streets of the nation's
capital. I am sure you are familiar with the kind of
placards they were waving before the television
cameras. I do not intend to repeat to you the
wording of those posters. It should suffice to say
that they did justice to the language and interests of
Charles Curtis Flood, whose favorite city, according
to his own writings, is Copenhagen, Denmark, the
pornography capital of the world.
The posters are presently in the hands of the FBI,
whose laboratories have already begun the
painstaking job of fingerprinting each and every
poster, and submitting them to blood tests so as to
determine the correlation between the obscenity
printed on an individual poster and the blood type
of the Boy Scout bearing the poster containing
those objectionable words. If such correlations can
be established with a reasonable degree of accuracyand
we think they can-it will of course be of great
assistance to our law enforcement agencies. Under
our program of "preventive detention," we will be
able to round up
110 OUR GANG
those with suspect blood types before sueh
demonstrations as this even get under way, thus
preventing them from violating community standards
of decency, and the ordinary everyday rules of
courtesy, decorum and good taste that are sacred to
the great majority of Americans.
As you all know from the headlines, of the
approximately ten thousand Boy Scouts who assembled
here in Washington during the two-day
uprising to threaten the lives of our brave fighting
men, it was necessary to kill only three in order to
maintain law and order. That breaks down to one
and one-half Scouts dead per diem, while nine
thousand nine hundred and ninetyeight and a half
Scouts continued to live full and active lives the first
day, and nine thousand, nine hundred and ninetyseven
the second.
Now I would think that by anyone's standards, a
mortality rate in a crisis of this kind of .0003 is a
wonderful tribute to the very great restraint with
which we were able to confront what could have
been a terrible' tragedy for our soldiers. Certainly it
should give solace to all of those who detest
bloodshed as much as I do, and put the lie once and
for all to the vicious charge that it was the military
and not the Scouts who were responsible for the
violence. On the other hand, I think the fact that we
did have three Scouts dead by the end of the second
day is a good indication of the necessary firmness
with
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subvert and corrupt the youth of this country by
the most insidious means imaginable, with a
recklessness and a viciousness equalled not even by
the most hardened drug pushers and the most
loathsome pornographers.
No, it was not to the dissolute, unprincipled and
overindulged on our college campuses that Charles
Curtis Flood turned with his plan to destroy
America. Nor was this yet another call to violence
to the dropout and hippies and flagdefilers of the
left.
Who then, you ask, did he seek to corrupt? The
answer, my fellow Americans, is the Boy Scouts of
America. Not only did Charles Curtis Flood incite
them to riot, and tamper with their morals, but
what is even worse, it was he and he alone who
drove the Boy Scouts headlong into the tragedy
that occurred here yesterday in Washington, D.C.
Surely the great majority of Americans will agree
that it is a tragedy in every sense of the word when
the brave fighting men of our Army are called
upon to risk their lives in the streets of
Washington, D.C., instead of in a foreign coun try.
But that is what happened here in the na
TRICKY ADDRESSES THE NATION 10g
lion's capital, when, through a long day and a long
night, our brave soldiers, armed only with loaded
rifles, fixed bayonets, tear-gas canisters and gas
masks, faced a mob of Boy Scouts, numbering
nearly ten thousand.
I am sure you all know by now the nature of the
chants and the songs that these ten thousand Boy
Scouts were singing in the streets of the nation's
capital. I am sure you are familiar with the kind of
placards they were waving before the television
cameras. I do not intend to repeat to you the
wording of those posters. It should suffice to say
that they did justice to the language and interests of
Charles Curtis Flood, whose favorite city, according
to his own writings, is Copenhagen, Denmark, the
pornography capital of the world.
The posters are presently in the hands of the FBI,
whose laboratories have already begun the
painstaking job of fingerprinting each and every
poster, and submitting them to blood tests so as to
determine the correlation between the obscenity
printed on an individual poster and the blood type
of the Boy Scout bearing the poster containing
those objectionable words. If such correlations can
be established with a reasonable degree of accuracyand
we think they can-it will of course be of great
assistance to our law enforcement agencies. Under
our program of "preventive detention," we will be
able to round up
110 OUR GANG
those with suspect blood types before sueh
demonstrations as this even get under way, thus
preventing them from violating community standards
of decency, and the ordinary everyday rules of
courtesy, decorum and good taste that are sacred to
the great majority of Americans.
As you all know from the headlines, of the
approximately ten thousand Boy Scouts who assembled
here in Washington during the two-day
uprising to threaten the lives of our brave fighting
men, it was necessary to kill only three in order to
maintain law and order. That breaks down to one
and one-half Scouts dead per diem, while nine
thousand nine hundred and ninetyeight and a half
Scouts continued to live full and active lives the first
day, and nine thousand, nine hundred and ninetyseven
the second.
Now I would think that by anyone's standards, a
mortality rate in a crisis of this kind of .0003 is a
wonderful tribute to the very great restraint with
which we were able to confront what could have
been a terrible' tragedy for our soldiers. Certainly it
should give solace to all of those who detest
bloodshed as much as I do, and put the lie once and
for all to the vicious charge that it was the military
and not the Scouts who were responsible for the
violence. On the other hand, I think the fact that we
did have three Scouts dead by the end of the second
day is a good indication of the necessary firmness
with
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