Roy Bean Quotes
In 1812 England was in a major depression and workers were breaking their weaving frames in protest. Parliament was debating a bill that would provide the death penalty for such activity. 6th Baron Byron
Reacting to the slogan, "Impeach Earl Warren:"
There violence was extreme on both sides. However, the Fascist / Nationalists had a firm policy of violence and terrorism. The institutions of society had so broken down that vigilantism and revenge drove the Republicans to almost the level of atrocities as the Nationalists.
Kennedy, the father of JFK, had been one of the sleaziest of the stock market manipulators in the country. Prior to 1934 the Republican Hoover philosophy had prevailed letting the market regulate itself. But the practices of many of the Wall Street leaders were by modern standards outright thievery.FDR created the first Commission to regulate publicly traded stock transactions and schemes. He made a shrewd pick with Kennedy who was very egotistical and ambitious for power and recognition for Kennedy not only was an accomplished master at the skullduggery of the day, but he had no loyalty to the wealthy brokerage and financial leadership class as Kennedy was a Roman Catholic and at the time Catholics were never really accepted by upper class Protestant society. He turned out to be not only the first SEC Chairman but the one who demonstrated the efficacy of such regulation. He was then rewarded with the Ambassadorship to England the plum diplomatic assignment of the country.
South Carolina passed a state law which overrode and nullified Federal Laws that they did not like. It was a type of secession. President Jackson, in his own blunt style, let them know that they had better not try to implement their nullification law. Of all the Presidents in American History, Jackson had the least respect for Constitutionality and due process. He had a history of summary execution where he was the judge, jury and almost the personal executioner. He is the only president in American history who refused to obey and order of the Supreme Court. There were few who doubted that he would make good on his threat. The South Carolina convention reconvened and repealed its Nullification Ordinance on March 11, 1833.
The terror to which he referred was to the French Revolution’s executing former aristocrats and then including anyone suspected of monarchist sympathies. This quotation shows how fanatics can rationalize evil as justice.
In 2008 Pakistani Islamic terrorists, with the support of the Pakistani military, attacked Mumbai, India killing innocent civilians. Shoune was one of the Indian politicians who called for retaliation. The Indian government, however, restrained its forces and did not increase the cycle of violence.
Phantly Roy Bean Jr. was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. After his death, Western films and books cast him as a hanging judge, although he is known to have sentenced only two men to hang, one of whom escaped.
