ALAN writes:
Two years ago I wrote about peace-loving Communists in St. Louis who staged a riot outside city hall in 1932. (TTH, Feb. 22, 2024) They “demanded” more welfare handouts to more people.
Two weeks ago, a group of Communist-trained agitators returned to city hall and tried for twenty minutes to shout down the mayor of St. Louis as she was giving a speech. They “demanded” more of other people’s money to benefit victims of a tornado last year. Five agitators were arrested and charged with peace disturbance.
Standard Communist operating procedure in both cases. They are so funny. They would have us believe they possess a “right” to “demand” other people’s time, attention, or money, and a “right” to shout down anyone they please whenever they profess good intentions. Aha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Of course they have no such rights because there are no such rights. Communist agit-prop is so predictable.
The only difference between the response to such thugs in 1932 and the response today is that the former was more sensible. News accounts then used plain words in clear, concise prose, whereas today they read like mush because they are festooned with vague, “sensitive”, PC-ready-made phrases in order not to hurt the feelings of thugs and their apologists.
Which proves that at least in some ways, people in the news business in 1932 — with only words and printing presses available to them — had more savvy and good sense than most of them have today with all their pretentious high-tech gadgets. Smart gadgets are an easy sell to dumb journalists and a dumbed down population who have been taught to prefer mush over plain language.
