Crime, carefully planned and executed, is demonstrably the royal high road to pecuniary success in the United States.
If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.
