'Tis the Time to Create Order by Creating More Fear

William Walker was furious when judge parsons ruled in the case of another judge who'd been accused of bribery. He felt, probably accurately, that the judge had just done a favor for his buddy. The people of san francisco mostly seemed to back william in this, seeing his crusade against a corrupt judiciary as fundamentally just next. Had walker possessed anything like personal magnetism, he might have made of this episode the foundation of a successful career in california politics. Instead, we would nobly stand ten feet away and shoot each other with handoh, my god. Ten pas or not a cent less.