[AdamSelene235]

Claude Cockburn, interviewed Al Capone in 1930:

'Listen,' he said, 'don't get the idea I'm one of these goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system. The American system . . .' As though an invisible chairman had called upon him for a few words, he broke into an oration upon the theme. He praised freedom, enterprise and the pioneers. He spoke of 'our heritage'. He referred with contemptuous disgust to Socialism and Anarchism. 'My rackets,' he repeated several times, 'are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.'

[You Dirty Rats]

I for one am not willing to take Al Capone's word for it.

He was a man of violence who believed that the law of this country did not apply to him. He corrupted cops, judges, politicians, and anyone else who was part of the American system that stood in his way.

I don't consider Capone or any other murdering son of a B to be a real American, just a common criminal who needs to be locked up tight.

[yankeedame]

"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured."
- Henry Ford