Saturday, June 22, 2019
Friday, June 21, 2019
On this day in 1964,
MISSISSIPPI BURNING
THREE "FREEDOM SUMMER" CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS MURDERED
"Mom & Dad - The people in this city are wonderful and our reception was very good."
On this day in 1964, three young Freedom Summer civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman (a former Honors Program student at the University of Wisconsin), Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney, were murdered in Neshoba County near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
The three had traveled to Longdale, MS, to meet with members of a black congregation whose church had been burned by the KKK. As they left the church, they were arrested allegedly for speeding, and thrown in jail for a few hours. When they were allowed to leave, they were followed by the local police and others, including members of the KKK. The police pulled them over again as they were about to leave the county and, with the mob, took the three to another location, tortured Chaney, and shot all of them at close range. Their bodies were buried deep in a nearby earthen dam. Their burnt-out car was found three days later near a swamp and their bodies were found two months later thanks to a then-anonymous tip to the FBI from a member of the local police force.
On the day he was murdered, Goodman wrote his last postcard to his parents:
Dear Mom and Dad,
I have arrived safely in Meridian. This is a wonderful town and the weather is fine. I wish you were here. The people in this city are wonderful and our reception was very good.
All my love.
Andy
The murder of the young Freedom Summer workers enraged the nation and helped guarantee passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
When the State of Mississippi refused to prosecute, the federal government took over and successfully prosecuted several individuals with civil rights violations but failed to find all those involved. Forty-one years later, Edgar Ray Killen, was charged and convicted of three counts of manslaughter. Killen is currently serving a 60 year prison sentence.
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| Edgar Ray Killen |
In 1980, in what many believe is a stain on his career, Ronald Reagan opened his campaign for president by giving a speech at the Neshoba County Fair Grounds near Philadelphia, expressing his support for states’ rights.
On this day in 1863,
West Virginia Secedes From Virginia and Confederacy - Becomes 35th State
On this day in 1863, West Virginia was admitted into the Union as the 35th state following its secession from secessionist Virginia and the Confederacy.
After Virginia seceded to join the seven southern states that had originally seceded to form the Confederacy, western Virginians, who were mostly non-slave-owning farmers and laborers, felt increasingly alienated from and controlled by the eastern oligarchical planter-slaveholders. This sentiment had existed from the days of the American Revolution when area residents had unsuccessfully petitioned the Continental Congress to form the state of Westsylvania.
On June 11, 1861, western Virginia delegates voted to secede and wanted to name the state “Kanawha”. Western Virginia was immediately invaded by Confederate forces who took over the region claiming, ironically, that the westerners had no right to secede.
Notwithstanding the presence of Confederate troops, western Virginians voted in a public referendum for secession from Virginia and drew up a state constitution.
President Abraham Lincoln, who like many others had reservations about West Virginia’s legal right to secede from Virginia, admitted West Virginia into statehood on this date two years later.
Thursday, June 20, 2019
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton:
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
The loudest objections to pro-life laws come not from ordinary citizens but from cultural elites, and increasingly from giant corporations who wield their economic power as a weapon to punish the American people for daring to challenge their pro-abortion extremism.
Today's 1984 Orwellian Update:
UC-Santa Cruz to Remove Mission Bells because Symbol of Racism and Dehumanization
UC-Santa Cruz to Remove Mission Bells because Symbol of Racism and Dehumanization
Tucker Carlson (w/ video):
‘Conservatives Might Want to Pause and Rethink the Relationship’ with the Kochs
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
John Solomon, The Hill:
FBI, warned early and often that Manafort file might be fake, used it anyway
On this day in 1972,
Curt Flood
Loses Supreme Court Free Agency Case
Lawsuit Effectively Ends Career
On this day in 1953,
Commie Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
First U.S. Citizens Executed For Treason
Gave Soviet Union Top Secret Info re Nuclear Weapon Designs, etc.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
On this day in 1812,
U.S. "Hawks" Declare War Against Britain
In Hopes of Seizing Canada
U.S. Gets Butt Kicked Until Jackson Wins At New Orleans
A Hip Hughes video history
Monday, June 17, 2019
Council on Foreign Relations:
A Tale of Two Tariffs: China’s So Far Ineffective Tariffs on U.S. Manufacturing Exports
A Tale of Two Tariffs: China’s So Far Ineffective Tariffs on U.S. Manufacturing Exports
On this day in 1972,
The Beginning of Watergate:
Nixon Reelection Employees Caught Burglarizing Dem Headquarters
G. Gordon Liddy recalls that night: "I think I'm going to jail."
George Orwell predicted it:
Students Demand Removal Of Oregon University’s 100-Year-Old Pioneer Statue
Students Demand Removal Of Oregon University’s 100-Year-Old Pioneer Statue
Sunday, June 16, 2019
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy mic drop:
Re info from foreign informers, I am appalled by what actually happened during the 2016 campaign, when the Dems contacted foreign sources, not what might happen in 2020
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