"John Wilkes Booth had a clean record til he did what he did."

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

tweety's reply to former Sen. Breauz defending oil drilling in the GOM.

Breaux and Lott on Hardball now.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. in truth, he did not.

he had a history of other arrests.

The problem centered around the drunk cop who was assigned the role to protect the president.

His name was not Mudd.

[Demoiselle]

2. Is Tweety saying by indirection that BP had a clean record until this disaster?

Because that's just flat out not true!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. breaux was saying how oerfect GOM drilling has been

and tweety brought up Booth.

[Darth_Kitten]

3. When some people screw up, they screw up BAD.

:eyes:

[Boojatta]

4. Now for something completely different.

(As described by Godwin's law...)

In prison, Hitler decided that any future ventures by the Nazis would have to be legal. Any action outside of the law would not be tolerated. In prison, Hitler became moody and depressed. He put his energy into his book "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle). This book explained to anybody who would read it, his plans for Germany's future. There are also sections on boxing, the growing of roses etc. Many years later, in 1942, Hitler explained to army officers that "Mein Kampf" would never have been written if he had not been sent to prison.

Link:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Adolf_Hiter_Mein_Kampf.htm

Hitler entered the beer hall at 8:30pm, accompanied by SS men, and fired a bullet from his revolver towards the ceiling. He then announced that a national revolution had begun, and a ‘provisional’ Reich government had been formed. Kahr was led to the state police and Lossow to a small room to discuss the ‘national revolution.’

(...)

The events that followed are disputed. In court, Hitler claimed that Kahr Seisser and Lussow all agreed to the conspiracy, but others say that Kahr did return to the platform to say he would support the Putsch, but only because he was forced to at gunpoint. Kahr, Seisser and Lussow later said that they all intended to suppress the revolt as soon as they were free to do so. What they did not mention in court was that they had all planned a conspiracy in the precious months, just abandoned it at the eleventh hour. Ludendoff even went as far as to say he was taken by surprised at Hitler’s action.

Hitler left the beer hall. Once he had departed Kahr took measures to suppress the uprising. He moved the Bavarian government to Regensburg and issued a proclamation which claimed his support for Hitler had been given at gunpoint. He also announced that the Nazi party and the paramilitary Kampfbund were now banned organisations.

(...)

Hitler led the demonstration along with 2000 Nazis, including 300 armed SA men. He intended to match to the War Ministry building and seize it but along the way they found there armed police blocking their route. Both fired several shots, and at the end of this short exchange (under two minutes) four police officers and fourteen Nazis were dead. In the middle of the mayhem Hitler fell and dislocated his shoulder. Once standing Hitler ran away leaving the dead and wounded behind, and escaped in an ambulance. Hitler later claimed he left because he thought that Ludendorff was dead, although surely this was a reason to stay. Some years later he managed to start a new story, that he had carried a child away to an awaiting ambulance. After it was all over, Hitler was arrested at the house of a wealthy friend and taken to Landsberg prison on 11th November to await trial.

Link:
http://wikitextbook.co.uk/index.php/The_Nazi_party_from_its_formation_to_the_Beer_Hall_Putsch_%28A_level_History%29