I didn't do a new podcast yet...working on that now but I did post something new up that I thought was interesting...I'm sure some of you will have fun with it....
On the day of Carlo Gambino's funeral on October 18, 1976, Eric Sevareid gave a scathing editorial during the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. In it, he said the Mafia weren't Italian but a separate race and that they should be treated like an enemy government and not entitled to due process. He even compared them to Nazis.
At the end, he's obviously speaking of Joe Colombo and the Italian American Civil Rights League and their FBI protests in 1970 & 1971. Here are some excerpts.
"The cherished rights of due process designed to protect the arbitrary power of the government protect the Mafia. But are they individual citizens or are they a separate government? An enemy government."
"...the Mafia are not Italian. They have been closely inbred for so long...they should be considered another race - simply mafiosi.No doubt should they really be broken up, someone will raise up a cry of race prejudice against the part of the law enforcers."
You can listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqJR7yOIWUw
I didn't do a new podcast yet...working on that now but I did post something new up that I thought was interesting...I'm sure some of you will have fun with it....
On the day of Carlo Gambino's funeral on October 18, 1976, Eric Sevareid gave a scathing editorial during the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. In it, he said the Mafia weren't Italian but a separate race and that they should be treated like an enemy government and not entitled to due process. He even compared them to Nazis.
At the end, he's obviously speaking of Joe Colombo and the Italian American Civil Rights League and their FBI protests in 1970 & 1971. Here are some excerpts.
"The cherished rights of due process designed to protect the arbitrary power of the government protect the Mafia. But are they individual citizens or are they a separate government? An enemy government."
"...the Mafia are not Italian. They have been closely inbred for so long...they should be considered another race - simply mafiosi.No doubt should they really be broken up, someone will raise up a cry of race prejudice against the part of the law enforcers."
You can listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqJR7yOIWUw