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May 3, 2013
This was most notably done in Wisconsin to attack those who were organizing the recall against Scott Walker, but it's a feature of all the areas with Koch money funding these folks.
We should stop dignifying them by calling them political activists, they are criminals and thugs. This is why we have so many low-life's getting elected because people who believe in government service as a higher calling are being shut out or have decided it's not worth the danger to life and limb.
So we have a legion of teabagger grifters and their supporters who are generally not well educated but see this as way to get ahead of the people they resent. Such as the effete intellectual liberals, just as the brown shirts saw the educated Jew in Germany.
This is the tawdry side of fascism where you have to know someone to get anything. No due process or equal treatment, because they prey on others. Sloppy, maddening, and destructive.
There have been stochastic killings and assaults. People are not being allowed to assemble to do
lawful governmental activities with they or their representatives without being mobbed and even followed to their homes, their families threatened there or at work or schools.This was most notably done in Wisconsin to attack those who were organizing the recall against Scott Walker, but it's a feature of all the areas with Koch money funding these folks.
We should stop dignifying them by calling them political activists, they are criminals and thugs. This is why we have so many low-life's getting elected because people who believe in government service as a higher calling are being shut out or have decided it's not worth the danger to life and limb.
So we have a legion of teabagger grifters and their supporters who are generally not well educated but see this as way to get ahead of the people they resent. Such as the effete intellectual liberals, just as the brown shirts saw the educated Jew in Germany.
This is the tawdry side of fascism where you have to know someone to get anything. No due process or equal treatment, because they prey on others. Sloppy, maddening, and destructive.
May 3, 2013
A clear and present danger that is going forward daily, all around us.
Especially the depotism. You cannot reason with them because their living is paid for by reactionaries.
May 3, 2013
Mayday Mayday
BMDC will join the rally in East Boston immediately following Boston City Hall rally
Supporters: ANSWER Coalition, Boston Anti Authoritarian Movement, Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition, Harvard No-Layoffs Campaign, Industrial Workers of the World, Latinos for Social Change, Mass Global Action, Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Party of Boston, Socialist Workers Party, Student Labor Action Movement, USW Local 8751 - Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Worcester Immigrant Coalition, National Immigrant Solidarity Network, Democracy Center - Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge/Somerville/Arlington United for Justice with Peace, International Socialist Organization, Community Church of Boston, Dominican Development Center
http://www.bostonmayday.org/
We have work to do!
http://election.democraticunderground.com/10022766354
I was going to add what we were taught about American socialism and the labor movement in public school in the sixties.
No one was interested, but here's the May Pole dance pretty much how we did it in the fifties and sixties:
I was going to post this next to it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
And this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day#United_States
Also this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_States
It's a natural evolution. I was a member of the YSA, SWP and a union steward for years and we learned even more doing that work. I guess this is all something new to some here now. But it's not because most of us don't know, much less that we don't care.
Right here! We celebrated it in elementary school.
Sheshe posted a thread about May Day on April 27th being celebrated in Boston, but it sank like a stone:Mayday Mayday
BMDC will join the rally in East Boston immediately following Boston City Hall rally
Supporters: ANSWER Coalition, Boston Anti Authoritarian Movement, Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition, Harvard No-Layoffs Campaign, Industrial Workers of the World, Latinos for Social Change, Mass Global Action, Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Party of Boston, Socialist Workers Party, Student Labor Action Movement, USW Local 8751 - Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Worcester Immigrant Coalition, National Immigrant Solidarity Network, Democracy Center - Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge/Somerville/Arlington United for Justice with Peace, International Socialist Organization, Community Church of Boston, Dominican Development Center
http://www.bostonmayday.org/
We have work to do!
http://election.democraticunderground.com/10022766354
I was going to add what we were taught about American socialism and the labor movement in public school in the sixties.
No one was interested, but here's the May Pole dance pretty much how we did it in the fifties and sixties:
I was going to post this next to it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
And this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers%27_Day#United_States
Also this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_States
It's a natural evolution. I was a member of the YSA, SWP and a union steward for years and we learned even more doing that work. I guess this is all something new to some here now. But it's not because most of us don't know, much less that we don't care.
May 2, 2013
Segretti's involvement in the "Canuck letter"[2] typifies the tactics Segretti and others working with him used, forging a letter ascribed to Senator Edmund Muskie which maligned the people, language and culture of French Canada and French Canadians, causing the soon to be Democratic presidential candidate Muskie considerable headaches in denying the letter and having to continue dealing with the issue.
Many historians have indicated over the years that Muskie's withdrawal from the Presidential primaries, and the disastrous Iowa primary loss to George McGovern that precipitated it, were at least partly the result of Segretti and some of the other "Ratfuckers" creating so much confusion and false accusations that Muskie simply could not respond in any meaningful way.
In 1974, Segretti pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal (in fact, forged) campaign literature and was sentenced to six months in prison, actually serving four months. One notable example of his wrongdoing was a faked letter on Democratic presidential candidate Edmund Muskie's letterhead falsely alleging that U.S. Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a fellow Democrat, had had an illegitimate child with a 17-year-old; the Muskie letters accused Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of sexual misconduct as well.[3]
After testimony regarding the Muskie letters emerged, Democrats in Florida noted the similarity between these sabotage incidents and others that involved stationery stolen from Humphrey's offices after Muskie dropped out of the race. A false news release on Humphrey's letterhead "accused Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) of being mentally unbalanced" and a mailing with an unidentified source mischaracterized Humphrey as supporting a controversial environmental measure that he actually opposed.[3]
In the 1976 film about Watergate, All the President's Men, Segretti was played by Robert Walden.
Segretti was a lawyer who served as a prosecutor for the military and later as a civilian. However, his license was suspended for two years following his conviction. In 1995, he ran for a local judgeship in Orange County, California. However, he quickly withdrew from the race when his campaign awakened lingering anger over his involvement in the Watergate scandal. In 2000, Segretti served as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign in Orange County.[4]
He holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Southern California (1963) and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law (1966). While at USC he became associated with Dwight L. Chapin, Tim Elbourne, Ron Ziegler, Herbert Porter and Gordon C. Strachan, they all joined the "Trojans for Representative Government" group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Segretti
It's been working for years. We get so many misrepresentations posted to divide us and have us at each other's throats. This guy was still involved a decade or so ago, why would they stop now when it's so effective?
Rush savaged Hillary when she tried to reform healthcare, saying it would create Death Panels. Palin used it in 2000, and they've never stopped using these lies and distortions. That is just one example only.
It won for them in 2010 and they plan to use it for 2014, too. So, there it is, writes like a ratfuck, makes you feel you've been ratfucked, it is ratfucking. I'd apologize for the language, but I didn't invent the term.
Someone explained it to me. It's called ratfucking, invented by the Nixon operative, Segretti:
Donald Henry Segretti (born September 17, 1941, in San Marino, California) is a former political operative for the Committee to Re-elect the President (Nixon) during the early 1970s. Segretti was hired by friend Dwight L. Chapin to run a campaign of dirty tricks (which he dubbed "ratfucking"[1]) against the Democrats, with his work being paid for by Herb Kalmbach, Nixon's lawyer, from presidential campaign re-election funds gathered before an April 7, 1972, law required that contributors be identified. His actions were part of the larger Watergate scandal, and were important indicators for the few members of the press actively investigating the Watergate break in in the earliest stages that what became known as the Watergate scandal involved far more than just a simple break in.Segretti's involvement in the "Canuck letter"[2] typifies the tactics Segretti and others working with him used, forging a letter ascribed to Senator Edmund Muskie which maligned the people, language and culture of French Canada and French Canadians, causing the soon to be Democratic presidential candidate Muskie considerable headaches in denying the letter and having to continue dealing with the issue.
Many historians have indicated over the years that Muskie's withdrawal from the Presidential primaries, and the disastrous Iowa primary loss to George McGovern that precipitated it, were at least partly the result of Segretti and some of the other "Ratfuckers" creating so much confusion and false accusations that Muskie simply could not respond in any meaningful way.
In 1974, Segretti pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of distributing illegal (in fact, forged) campaign literature and was sentenced to six months in prison, actually serving four months. One notable example of his wrongdoing was a faked letter on Democratic presidential candidate Edmund Muskie's letterhead falsely alleging that U.S. Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a fellow Democrat, had had an illegitimate child with a 17-year-old; the Muskie letters accused Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of sexual misconduct as well.[3]
After testimony regarding the Muskie letters emerged, Democrats in Florida noted the similarity between these sabotage incidents and others that involved stationery stolen from Humphrey's offices after Muskie dropped out of the race. A false news release on Humphrey's letterhead "accused Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) of being mentally unbalanced" and a mailing with an unidentified source mischaracterized Humphrey as supporting a controversial environmental measure that he actually opposed.[3]
In the 1976 film about Watergate, All the President's Men, Segretti was played by Robert Walden.
Segretti was a lawyer who served as a prosecutor for the military and later as a civilian. However, his license was suspended for two years following his conviction. In 1995, he ran for a local judgeship in Orange County, California. However, he quickly withdrew from the race when his campaign awakened lingering anger over his involvement in the Watergate scandal. In 2000, Segretti served as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign in Orange County.[4]
He holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Southern California (1963) and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law (1966). While at USC he became associated with Dwight L. Chapin, Tim Elbourne, Ron Ziegler, Herbert Porter and Gordon C. Strachan, they all joined the "Trojans for Representative Government" group.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Segretti
It's been working for years. We get so many misrepresentations posted to divide us and have us at each other's throats. This guy was still involved a decade or so ago, why would they stop now when it's so effective?
Rush savaged Hillary when she tried to reform healthcare, saying it would create Death Panels. Palin used it in 2000, and they've never stopped using these lies and distortions. That is just one example only.
It won for them in 2010 and they plan to use it for 2014, too. So, there it is, writes like a ratfuck, makes you feel you've been ratfucked, it is ratfucking. I'd apologize for the language, but I didn't invent the term.
May 2, 2013
Just in case it's needed:
Elect ME Emperor of the World and I'll do it! Heads will roll! Sorry if some are mistakes, but...
Isn't that what Americans really want now? C'mon, you know you wanna...Just in case it's needed:
May 2, 2013
He also made a statement about the over 400 lives lost in Bangladesh:
The thread posted by malaise:
Bangladesh workers protest as building collapse death toll passes 400
...Thousands of workers have marched through central Dhaka, Bangladesh, to demand better safety at work and the death penalty for the owner of a garment factory building that collapsed last week in the country's worst industrial disaster
The May Day protests came as officials confirmed the death toll from the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex had risen above 400. More than 2,500 were injured.
Among the garment makers in the building were Phantom Apparels, Phantom Tac, Ether Tex, New Wave Style and New Wave Bottoms. Altogether, they produced several million shirts, trousers and other garments a year.
The New Wave companies, according to their website, make clothing for several major North American and European retailers. British retailer Primark has acknowledged it sold garments made in a factory in Rana Plaza and on Monday said it was providing emergency aid and would pay compensation to victims who worked for its supplier...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/01/bangladesh-workers-protest-may-day-building-collapse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022780264
Only a heart of stone would not take action on what is happening to workers around the world.
May 1, 2013
Sorry to hear that... Sabotage was a thought I had too, unfortunately. Either mechanical with tying
down, or something more like a EMF (though improbable), some kind of jamming or hacking. IDK what the capabilities of those who would deliberately bring the plane down are. At any rate, very bad and still, it looked as if the pilot did a good job, just overcome by the accident.
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