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Show L July 8, 1976 The Utah Independent Page y THE QUOTA GRIP Copyright Jo The axiom federal assistance means federal controln is brutally apparent in deathlocks between local police departments and the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. LEAA offers subsidy but requires conformance to experimental federal guidelines that would wipe out time-testhigh police standards, such as capability tests, minimum physical height standards, training norms, etc. The Los Angeles city council wants federal subsidy but balks at ed the lowering LA 2ND No Strings On Detente Police-Department- s DEATH (75) according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. School violence and vandalism grow, according to a survey by Research for Better Schools, Inc. of Philadelphia, Pa. The joint Bureau of Census-LEA- A report tallied $ spent on crime unabated in 1974, 15 percent over the previous 15-bill- ion year. The MITRE Corporations impact analysis for the LEAA calls for the continuance of a collectivized federal approach al against crime, although the structure isn't working out in practice. Massive federal funds were dumped on eight Impact (selected) cities in 1972 Atlanta, Baltimore, two-volu- pro-feder- (LAPD) traditionally high selection and training standards. Of late, federal officials have been on the scene seeking to bring about some sort of compromise. The citys police chief E.M. Davis states where principle is involved there can be no com- promise. Concerning LEAA's the threat to withhold SI Chief observed that the aid cutoff would not harm the LAPD. The sum allegedly is earmarked for computer and electronic aids. Commander Hagan,' LAPD spokesman, in late May reported that the city council, in oral negotiation with the LEAA, issued a policy conclusion to the effect that promotions will be made on merit bases not on quotas (of race, sex or ethnicity). LEAA likewise tangled with Chicago (111.) on quotas. Federal funds were withheld, Chicago was sued, the U.S. District Court in Chicago ordered the police department to meet quotas in hiring. (LEAA Newsletter 276). Amid the deadly LEAA punishment in Chicago and catspaw dickering in L.A., an explosion of reports is bombarding LEAAs nationwide program that will end Sept. 1976 unless extended by Congress. anti- LEAAs high impact crime project is termed a failure by Center for National the non-proSecurity Studies (AP, Wash., D.C. fit Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Neward, St. Louis, Portland, Ore. The dismal results: long term severe crime rate increases, burglary up, robbery rate increases in every Impact City. When the crime rate reductions, so glowingly predicted in selling the LEAA project to the public failed to materialize, LEAA turned to blaming political conrivalries siderations and between governmental agencies as so-call- ed causes. In short, LEAA is heavy on promises, short on action. As congressional candidate John Rarick (La.) puts it in Jiis April 1976 bulletin, LEAAs answer to crime is to study it to death. Despite LEAAs sorry performance and with no glimmer of justification, LEAAs appointees are asking Congress for continuance of the LEAA project for another stint of years, together with more billions of dollars to finance the operations. The record suggests that crime reduction per se is lagging among LEAA s LEAAs objectives. prime motivation is to compress all crime --fighting resources under one centralized federal control point. That is LEAAs prime objective, not crime reduction. The cost of crimes against TRILOCK PLUG GAGES wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury: I am sure that someday the Czechs will see that what we did was to save them for a happier future. And I sincerely believe that we have at last opened the way to that general appeasement which alone can save the world from chaos. Ten years later, the historian H.R. Trevor-Ropdrew this somber lesson: In world politics there are no short cuts, no personal triumphs problems must be understood, not simplified, and mystical faith is no substitute for calculating reason. Above all, it is certain that an aggressor can never succeeded in history. If Chamberlain knew no history, at least he supplies us .with further proof of that certainty. Chamberlain had noted with pride that when he proclaimed the success of his appeasement at Downing Street, he spoke to the multitudes below from the same window as that from which Dizzy announced peace with honor 60 years ago. Now, a generation after Chamberlains Munich, our own has self-proclaim- ed Disraeli (with nothing Chamberlains resembling good faith and naivete) is committing us irreversibly to appeasement, to what Daniel Moynihan calls an accommodation totalitarianism to without precedent in our history. us, not without a blush, lately, that tells Kissinger we must place no strings on detente with the Soviets, for and defend April76. HARDENED AND STABILIZED BLANKS IN STOCK FOR .750 TO 2.510 DIA. RANGE READY FOR GRINDING AND LAPPING WE ALSO MAKE WIRE AND RING GAGES and those actions by the .Soviet Union most conducive to peace and Call Mr. Allen at (801) 966-627- 3 "THE EASY WAY national and g) overcome "IN THE HOME Program individual not g well-bein- 87 Overweight People For A New perfect, Kissinger thus sums up the choice he as pressed upon us: To provide as many incentives as possible for well-bein- WANTED . appeased. Appeasement Refs. LEAA Newsletters March IT REALLY WORKS By Thomas O. Breitling er be the to swings between illusionary optimism and harsh that have characterized most of the postwar period. In other antagonism words, we are OF COUNTIES there can be no alternative to peace in the nuclear age. Excluding the very idea, of preserving the national Union we are pledged to 51076). business rose $3.3 billion last year ASSOCIATION Neville Munich, Chamberlain never AND NATIONAL On October 2, 1938, after his unprecedented accomodation to Hitler at Hindman SOUTH 5 to do whatever the Soviets, want us to do to appease them ( without harsh antagonisms ) and we are to have no illusionary optimism about what is bound to become of us as a consequence. -- State Of The Nation Tax cuts do not reduce what we have to pay to support government, only make us pay more through inflation and reduced standards of living. A news item in The Salt Lake Tribune for June 18, 1976 said Salt Lake City Police may use patrol cars rather than female police decoys to reduce pros- titution on West 2nd South during an upcoming national convention, Public Safety Commissioner Glen N. Greener said Thursday. The reason, he said, is that undercover officers might arrest a executive during the National Association of County Officials Convention and touch off an incident similar to the one involving Rep. Allan T. Howe, high-ranki- ng D.-Ut- ah. Commissioner Greener has already taken the tribune to task for saying the above, and Rep. Howe has not yet had his day in court, so the above quotation is provided as background for what follows, and we are making no judgments here about what Mr. Greener or Mr. Howe said or did, in this article. HYPOTHETICAL CASE Rather, just for the moment lets consider the following hypothetical case, and try to exercise a little satire. A current and obvious effect of the secular humanist movement throughout concomitant the world is its Hedonism is the hedonism. that theory philosophical pleasure (sensual or spiritual satis- faction of a drive) determines the ethical value of any action." One of the : chief advocates of hedonism was Democritus. At any rate, to proceed with the satire lets imagine that during the national conference of National Association of County Officials in Salt Lake Gty June 26 through June 30 a executive from another State decides to follow a sensual drive some evening and after a short walk finds himself in the vicinity of 600 West 2nd South where a young woman sitting in a car calls out to him, Good evening sir. Are you a delegate to the convention? He, surprised but pleased to be recognized, rejoins, Why yes. In g executive fact, Im a in from County the State How did you recognize of that I was a delegate? Well, we knew the convention was on, and our marketing plan calls for segmenting the market and targeting on all special events and situations. Are youjust taking a walk or did you have something else in mind when you high-ranki- ng high-rankin- came to this address?' POLICE MARKED CAR ARRIVES At that point the dialogue between the two of them ended. A marked police car pulled up to the curb and a policeman politely executive asked the would he like a ride back to the Salt Palace or to his hotel. The offer was accepted, and thus ends this particular episode in the life of our subject, and the satirical part of high-ranki- ng this article. , DANTES DIVINE COMEDY But I hope all readers realize and agree that in addition to problems of passions and the flesh our elected representatives face problems in matters of discretion involving their oath of office.' One of the greatest poets of all time. By Thomas O. Breitling Dante Alighieri, had a vision of hell in his trilogy called The Divine Comedy. The part on hell is called Inferno and is considered a poetic masterpiece. In his vision Dante saw hell as a gigantic, underground place consisting of a series of nine descending circles. Punishment of sinners is shown as dependent upon the sin and the deeper the circle the more serious the sin. For example, he placed carnal sinners in the second circle and evil counselors in the of the eighth circle. Even in our own law we do the same. Treason, if proved, is supposed to be a felony, while eighth sub-circl- carnal e are crimes often misdemeanors. SUBVERSION IGNORED It is necessary that we all be reminded that subversion, a crime requiring a plan, needs to be given the type of sensational publicity in the major media as has been given the Congressional scandals. Since it is a fact, it is desirable for voters to know that while executive members of NACo might not be picked up by Salt Lake City police on West Second South, those members are affiliated with an organization which openly supports regionalism consolidations and in County-Cit- y the formation of Umbrella Organizations (UM-JOand in other ways. The entire Metro, Regionalist system is subversive of our Constitutional republic. Based as it is on the Soviet system of democratic cencontrol it tralism and on top-doworks to create one gigantic, totalitarian corporation to replace our Constitutional system of responsible Not withstanding some of the caveats issued by NACo in high-ranki- Multi-Jurisdictio- ng nal s) wn nt. Hearings on Substate Regionalism, publication of Advisory Commission A-4- 3a on Relations (ACIR), it is ridiculous for NACo Intergovernmental to assume it can take the first step off the precipice without eventually going all the way to the bottom. 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