Democrats Never Change (My Title)

"The Gangs of New York" | 1927 | Herbert Asbury

[ZULU]

"Throughout the rioting, police and military authorities were hampered, and their plans often frustrated, by the politicians, especially the Democratic members of the Board of Aldermen and the State Legislature, who seized the opportunity to embarass the administrations of the Republican President and the Republican Mayor. These worthy statesmen frequently appeared at Police Headquarters, and at a time when houses were being looted and burned, and Negroes (sic) tortured and hanged, when business was at a standstill and the streets were filled with surging mobs, demanded that the police and soldiers be withdrawn from their districts, complaining that that they were murdering the people. A Democratic Police Magistrate held a special session of his court, brought forward a test case, and solemnly pronounced the draft law to be unconstitutional, and urged the people to resist its enforcement. Most of the prisoners taken by the police during the last two days of the rioting, and during the search for stolen goods, were immediately freed through political influence, and were never brought to trial. Many of the gang leaders of the Five Points, the water front and other criminal infested areas were caught leading their thugs on looting expeditions, but politicians rushed to their aid and saved them from punishment. When the rioting had ceased only twenty men, out of the thousands who had formed the mobs, were in jail. Of these nineteen were tried and convicted, and were sentenced to an average of five years each in prison." - "The Gangs of New York", Chapter VIII, Secion 4, page 155.

[ZULU]

Martin Scorcese' "Gangs of New York" was very loosely based on a small section of this very amazing book which was published years before political correctness had besmirched historical scholarship. I thoroughly recommend this book, forget the movie.

The Draft Riots in New York, whatever the justification, were possibly the worst incident of civil unreast in American history. Mobs in effect seized control of the bulk of New York City, burning, looting and killing. Only the combined efforts of the New York Police Force and several regiments of Union soldiers, brought from the front, were adequate to protect government buildings and finally restore order at the points of bayonets and with musketry and cannons.

So, it seems New York City was always the cesspool it is at present, and was at one time even worse.

And so, DemocRATs, regardless of time or place, are ALWAYS willing to put political expediency ahead of national security, and pander to the mobs.

I often think the ONLY reason the Democrats supported WW1 and WW2 was because there were DemocRATic regimes in power in Washington at the time and the enemy was viewed also as an enemy of Communism, or as an Imperialist Monarchy.

[Texas Eagle]

Democrats Never Change, they just turn their underwear inside out.