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142 he says, “this chap served in France an’ won the Croy de Gaire an’ the Distinguished Service Cross.” An’ right there the guy jumps up an’ says: “Don’t you pay no attention to that stuff,” he says, “I don’t want no credit for no services I ever performed for no gover’ment that tells me I got to go to jail to stand up for my rights.”

Do you want to go to jail?

There’s worse places, I tell you. I been there before, too. That guy in Quincy got the limit an’ I’d like to shake hands with him, I would. Tony says this is a free country. Well, Tony ought to know. He’s a bootlegger.

[Indignantly]: Hah!

What I say is: about the only freedom we got left is the freedom to chose which one of our rights we’ll go to jail for.

[Super-sententiously]: Joe