Saturday, March 23, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
Starting on this day 35 years ago in 1984, one of the greatest episodes of mass hysteria and injustice in American history, including the Salem Witch Trials:
The Martin Preschool Sex Abuse Trial
The trial lasted seven years and cost $15 million, the longest and most expensive criminal case in the history of the United States legal system,
and produced no convictions
On this day in 1947,
More here via the Truman Presidential Library
TRUMAN ORDERS LOYALTY TESTS
FOR ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
On this day 62 years ago, Democrat President Harry Truman ordered loyalty tests for all federal employees to flush out all those who were communist sympathizers or aligned with “totalitarian, fascist or subversive” organizations. Truman’s order demanded “complete and unswerving loyalty” to the United States, with anything less being deemed “a threat to our democratic process.” Each federal department and agency set up Loyalty Boards to enforce the order.
More here via the Truman Presidential Library
Thursday, March 21, 2019
On this day in 1980,
Pres. Carter Announces U.S. Boycott
of Olympic Games in Moscow
Blames Russia's Failure to Timely Withdraw from Afghanistan
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
On this day in 1965,
LBJ Federalizes Alabama National Guard to Protect Selma Voting Rights Marchers
On this day in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to protect a 54 mile civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery led by Rev. Martin Luther King. The purpose of the march was to protest the intimidation of black voters which had resulted in almost all of the black voters of Selma not being able to register to vote. Two other marches had started but ended in violence when police attacked the peaceful marchers with dogs, billy clubs and tear gas, all caught by TV cameras and broadcast on the national news shows. Five months later Congress passed the Voting Rights Act which guaranteed the right of all citizens to vote.
On this day in 1852,
Uncle Tom's Cabin,
the best-selling novel of the 19th century,
is published
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| Simon Legree Beats Uncle Tom |
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Jesse Watters nails it:
Here's Why Trump Has Every Right To Say Fake News Is The Enemy Of The American People
Monday, March 18, 2019
On this day in 1942,
FDR War Relocation Authority Created
To Imprison Japanese Citizens
All Democrat-Appointed Justices on Supreme Court Approve
Only Republican-Appointed Justice Dissents
On this day, the War Relocation Authority was created per the direction of Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt to imprison over 120,000 Japanese citizens residing in the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona solely because of their national origin.
There were three categories of Japanese citizens covered by the order: Nisei (native U.S. citizens of Japanese immigrant parents), Issei (Japanese immigrants), and Kibei (native U.S. citizens educated largely in Japan). The internees were transported to relocation centers in California, Utah, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Milton Eisenhower, the younger brother of Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, was the first administrator of the WRA. He was opposed to imprisonment of Japanese citizens and resigned after 90 days.
The Democrat-appointed majority of the Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by former KKK member Hugo Black, upheld this imprisonment of Japanese citizens per the president’s war powers. The only Republican-appointed member of the Supreme Court dissented.
In 1976 Republican President Gerald Ford signed an executive order prohibiting the executive branch from ever taking such action again.
In 1988 Republican President Ronald Reagan formally apologized on behalf of the American people and authorized reparations for all those detained or their descendants.
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