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Show I 'A V .N : "BANK OF PLEASANT GROVE BURNED" Rampaging Rampag-ing demonstrators, protesting the 'capitalistic establishment' burned Bank of Pleasant Grove to a skeleton last Tuesday night, while outnumbered police pol-ice and firemen watched helplessly. help-lessly. Police from other North Utah County communities and Highway High-way Patrolmen were called in as about 500 protestors added fuel to the holacaust by throwing throw-ing Molotov cocktails into the raging flames. Then a solid phalanx of 100 helmeted officers swept thru-out thru-out Main Street and the adjacent ad-jacent community. Retreating protestors threw rocks and bottles at oncoming officers, injuring several and hospitalizing four. The demonstrators said they were protesting America's involvement in-volvement in foreign wars and the "capitalistic establishment" which financed them. And also police repression of student dissent. dis-sent. One 18-year-old demonstrator said that the bank was under siege "because it was there and that it was the biggest capitalistic cap-italistic establishment around." Police said that the arsonists arson-ists were largely outside agitators agi-tators and students from North Utah County high schools and older students from Alpine Jr. College. The outbreak and resultant fire, followed a Junior College campus speech Tuesday afternoon after-noon by Mike Kerensky, defense de-fense attorney in the recent University of Utah riot trials. Following that trial Kerensky was sentenced to 29 months jn jail for contempt of court. He is currently free on bail. Does that sound absurd, unlikely un-likely and ridiculous, ladies and gentlemen? Well sirs and madams, mad-ams, the foregoing is exactly what could happen in the not too distant future, unless all Americans individually and collectively, col-lectively, apply the brakes. And not that we have not had warning. About 15 years ago, a national president of the American Legion was speaking at a convention in Atlanta, Ga., The theme of his speech was "The Encroaching Menace of Communism." He told of how the master I plan of the Moscow hiarchy in cluded infiltration of all Amer- ican institutions, includjng labor, lab-or, industry, education, communications, com-munications, government, religion, reli-gion, sports, and recreation. He pointed out that the Communistic Com-munistic infiltrators would concentrate con-centrate principally on the youth jn the areas of immorality, immoral-ity, drug abuse, campus and educational institutional uprisings, upris-ings, anti-military dissent and so on. And not forgetting the adults, the Master Plan includes infil-ternig infil-ternig and debauching the courts and undermining the Amerjcan free enterprise and capitalistic system, he said. All one need to do in order to realize how far the ideals of the Master Plan have been achieved, is to read a current daily paper, watch television or listen to radio. The Communistic Commun-istic project to "take over America Am-erica by force and violence " is well advanced. Let me remind those who stjll believe that "It can't happen hap-pen in Utah," that it is happening. hap-pening. Only a few days ago, the President of the University of Utah gave tacit consent to Jerry Jer-ry Rubin to address a student assembly on campus. Mr. Rubin, Rub-in, bearded and bare-chested, was then out on bail as a defendant de-fendant in the "Chicago-7 Trial" for. inciting riot at the 1969 Democratic National Convention. Con-vention. During his U of U address, Rubin reportedly called President Presi-dent Nixon a "pig" and referred referr-ed to the Salt Lake City jail as a "pigsty." He was invited to speak on campus by the Students for Democratic Society Soc-iety and other far-left groups. Don't know how many young American people have been arrested ar-rested during recent years for participating actively jn riots. Don't know either, how many of them have been given more than a slap on the wrist by our weak-kneed courts. However, something must be done. This column suggests sending the young criminals to U.S. Labor La-bor Camps, like their Communist Commun-ist masters maintain, when they destroy property, injure or murder persons or resist officers of-ficers in the performance of their duty. Let the punishment fit the crime. Seem harsh? The space in this column is open to anyone having a better plan to suggest. So long 'til Thursday. |