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Uncle Joe

(58,349 posts)
7. Honestly, I didn't know until I read your OP. I always liked him but have discovered or
Tue Jul 22, 2014, 03:29 AM
Jul 2014

remembered things that I had forgotten about the man until after his passing, such as these two prescient episodes from the Rockford Files on this thread by Ptah concerning Grand Juries vs the 5th Amendment and particularly mass surveillance in 1978 two year before Reagan came to power and passed Executive Order 12333.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025273747

Rockford Files; two episodes that reflected James Garner's politics.
"So Help Me God" and "The House on Willis Avenue"






http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5273417

A primer on Executive Order 12333: The Mass Surveillance Starlet.



On top of all that he was a Korean War Veteran with two Purple Hearts, one of them from "friendly fire" (personally I think that should be called fucked up fire or WTF fire) during combat and he attended Martin Luther King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
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