Don't Call it Terrorism

[kpete]

Don't Call it Terrorism
by BooMan
Tue Aug 7th, 2012 at 01:55:21 PM EST

In 1920, at the Republican National Convention, the party promised to pass an anti-lynching bill. They followed through on that promise in 1921 and passed a bill through the House of Representatives. Southern Democrats in the Senate filibustered the bill, and it died. In August of 1925, more than 50,000 Klansmen marched on Washington DC. Here's a picture of how that looked:



http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/8/7/135521/8491
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/KKK_march_on_Wahington_DC_Pennsylvania_Avenue_1925
I never heard of a Klansman who thought Napolitano was an appropriately Anglo-Saxon name.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/07/fox-news-analyst-sikh-temple-massacre-not-domestic-terrorism/

[onehandle]

1. Everything old is new again. We are the laughing stock of the world. nt

[leveymg]

2. The German Nazis borrowed a lot (with interest) from their American brethren.

[uponit7771]

3. In the movie Harts War they used it as one of the main excuses for killing Jews

[leveymg]

4. Neither Fritz Thyssen nor Prescott Bush were Jewish

Nor were John Foster and Allen Dulles, the head partners at the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm, who were also major facilitators of German industrialists and financiers who bankrolled the rise of the Nazi Party, and then at the dawn of the Cold War oversaw the escape or reintegration of top Nazi officers in charge of the intelligence service of the New Germany.

Scapegoating works.

[wriver]

6. Sullivan & CIA

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5318170&mesg_id=5322015

And if you SEC Search Republic of Portugal, Sullivan & Cromwell are the underwriters.

[leveymg]

7. S&C is a top tier global player in many places. What's the particular significance of Port.?

Please, see, http://www.legal500.com/firms/50971/offices/52795 for the wide stretch and enormous variety of its activities. Also, there's an excellent book about the firm's founder, William Nelson Cromwell, that's a must-read, How Wall Street Created a Nation, review here, http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1027-03.htm

Massive objects don't change trajectory much.

Welcome to DU.

[slackmaster]

5. That particular dark piece of our history is why I eschew party loyalty

I have always thought carefully about who and what to vote for or against, and party affiliation is way down on the list of factors that I consider. I place it slightly over gender and sexual orientation (which I have never considered at all.)

Even a good party can go through a bad phase, or go down an ideological blind alley. Every party in history has produced at least a few bad players. Every party has been squarely on the wrong side of an issue more than once.

I've been politically aware for long enough to have seen good and bad ideas come from Republicans and Democrats. Being on the correct side of things at one time provides no guarantee that a person or group will never be wrong in the future.

We must all be vigilant. It is our civic duty to keep our elected leaders on the correct course at all times.