When we need heroes so badly, one comes running. 
Posted on 08/15/2012 6:23:41 PM PDT by combat_boots
Eliot Ness is running for vice president of the United States.
When Chicago gangs were running roughshod over cities and towns across the nation and all hope was seemingly lost, the FBI brought in the "G Men," led by Eliot Ness. Ness was good, righteous, and uncompromised. Ness could not be bought. And Ness brought the forces of evil to its knees.
He wasn't glam, and his arrest of Al Capone, the kingpin of the outlaws, wasn't sexy (tax evasion), but it worked.
Why do I bring this up? Because I can't help but see the ghost of Eliot Ness when I look at Paul Ryan. The paradigm is the same. Of course, this time evil is cloaked in a rogue presidency, and they are making the laws, but the battle is the same: right and wrong, good and evil, etc. And Ryan, like Ness, is righteous and uncompromised.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/enter_eliot_ness.html#ixzz23fSVn8er
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When we need heroes so badly, one comes running.
Ness arrested Al Capone? I am willing to bet the mortgage that this is not even close to being true.
Wait, what was I rooting for?
Ness is credited with bringing Capone down.
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Factually this article is far from the mark. The “G men” that Ness belonged to weren’t from the FBI, they were from the Prohibition section at the Treasury Department.
How? By whom? Where? I don’t think so.
Mainly through the Volstead act and Tax evasion.
He got Capone on Technicalities.
The paradigm is not the same. The primary problem is cloaked within the Federal Reserve's policies....i.e. Quantitative easing.
I hope Ryan doesn’t shut down breweries!
Check your history. “HE” did not do squat. The accountants who brought AC down did not work for Ness and probably did not even know his name. Now, if you get your history from TV shows and a crappy movie, you probably think differently, but it’s still wrong. Check post 7; he seems to know a thing or two.
Yes, they were called T-Men, not G-Men. and had no relation with the FBI.
I read Ness’ book and he didn’t think all Chicago cops were crooked, just all their chiefs.
The main tool they used to get Capone was wire taps.
Oh, the V. Act is all about prohibition, which does not relate to the charges against AC. “Volstead Act” sounds all official and important, but it has nothing to do with AC’s conviction.
He squashed Capones income via the Volstead act.
Not something I would vote for.
What?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ness “squashed” Capones income viat the VA???????????????
The Volstead Act made Capone one of the richest men to ever trod the globe.
It is what allowed Ness to make Capone desperate for money and then he ultimately got him on Tax evasion when Capone tried to protect his assets.
Hardly a hero by my standards.
I still love Eliot Ness Beer!
Ness also shut down his Breweries via the Volstead act, cutting off his money.
The VA did not make VA desperate for money. It made him wealthy beyond the dreams of Louis XIV. Period. “HE ultimately got him...” Purely and 100% wrong. “HE” did not get him. Not once, not ever. Agents who had nothing to do with Ness got him.
Ness and his men confiscated literally hundreds of Capone’s trucks and other vehicles. They once had a parade of these vehicles around the hotel Capone used as his headquarters.
Capone and his men came down and watched the parade.
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