Time to read this book. There is fear afoot and it is being put there deliberately by people exploiting events to frighten you into submission. This book tells how they do it.
It was written in 1919, a year that saw fear of “THE OTHERS” in a more violent way than we are even experiencing now. So far…
I wrote the intro to the NEW EDITION of this book showing what history records about FEAR and 1919. That period is what Pres. Roosevelt was talking about when he famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is… FEAR itself.” Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This is a book for today!
NYPD – New York’s Finest – Pepper Sprays Innocent By-Standers Out of FEAR of Occupy Movement. Perhaps A Tad Less Fixation On Legal Protest And More On Terrorism? Hmmmmm?
Perhaps if American law enforcement had not needlessly squandered millions of dollars and countless man-hours spying on and infiltrating the peaceful Occupy movement, or stopping and frisking innocent citizens by the millions, they would have freed up their finite resources to pay attention to those who are truly dangerous. And then perhaps law enforcement could have prevented the Boston attack.
But OCCUPY and young Black men scare the crap out of the richest Americans so that was where the money went. More’s the pity. And the shame.
LATE NEWS: Manhattan DA will NOT prosecute this violent man. So far the only punishment for Fat Tony Baloney is… he lost 10 vacation days. Wow…
Just heard another right wing nut mindlessly repeat the meme that the words “separation of church and state” are not in the Constitution. Well, you know what else is not in there? The words “gun” or “firearm”. The 2nd Amendment addresses the keeping and bearing of arms, but that could be a set of Nunchaku or a cross-bow. How about a throwing star or a long-stick? Brass knuckles? Hey, but none of THEM are mentioned in the Constitution either. I don’t see any place where the word “arms” means exclusively guns. Not in the Constitution…
From Robert Reich. He “gets” it. The REAL issue here is, why is a Democratic president offering to gut Social Security (which has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DEFICIT) and means-test Medicare? Obama apologists say it is a mere negotiating ploy. THAT’S EVEN WORSE! Because Obama has done this reckless thing, future conservative maniacs will try to gut these programs and point to Obama to say, “well, HE did it first!” This man who many of us said was NOT ready for prime-time, has wrought more damage than he will acknowledge just by making this offer whether he means it or not. He has opened Pandora’s box. He is the FIRST Democrat president to do this. We will all suffer because of this. As Reich concludes, “Democrats invented Social Security and have been protecting it for almost 80 years. They shouldn’t be leading the charge against it.”
“The White House and prominent Democrats are talking about reducing future Social Security payments by using a formula for adjusting for inflation that’s stingier than the current one. It’scalled the “Chained CPI.” I did this video so you can understand it — and understand why it’s so wrongheaded.
“Even Social Security’s current inflation adjustment understates the true impact of inflation on the elderly. That’s because they spend 20 to 40 percent of their incomes on health care, and health-care costs have been rising faster than inflation. So why adopt a new inflation adjustment that’s even stingier than the current one?
“Social Security benefits are already meager for most recipients. The median income of Americans over 65 is less than $20,000 a year. Nearly 70 percent of them depend on Social Security for more than half of this. The average Social Security benefit is less than $15,000 a year.
“Besides, Social Security isn’t in serious trouble. The Social Security trust fund is flush for at least two decades. If we want to ensure it’s there beyond that, there’s an easy fix — just lift the ceiling on income subject to Social Security taxes, which is now $113,700.
“Why are Democrats even suggesting the inflation adjustment be reduced? Republicans aren’t asking for it. Not even Paul Ryan’s draconian budget includes it.
“Democrats invented Social Security and have been protecting it for almost 80 years. They shouldn’t be leading the charge against it.”
Have you heard about the petition to revoke Pres. Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize? It is gaining wide support. Why on earth does Pres. Obama have a Nobel Peace Prize? This is a man who expanded American military operations into over a dozen countries AS THIS NY TIMES PIECE noted. Under Obama diplomacy has been replaced by illegal, unconstitutional unilateral war. Just this past February, Obama sent American troops into Niger, for god sake. Not very peaceful, I daresay. The move received scant coverage in American media. Not while Lance Armstrong was all the rage…
Read about the petition to revoke Pres. Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize HERE or click the image above to go right to the petition.
This was the worst choice since they gave the Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger for ending a war that he started.
HERE IS SOMETHING I POSTED AT NY TIMES ABOUT THE COMMENTS CONCERNING HUGO CHAVEZ: “So many angry, bitter and uninformed comments here. Nationalism is indeed a sad form of bigotry.” HERE IS WHAT SOMEONE WROTE TO REBUT ME! IT IS HILARIOUS!!! His death threat against Joe Kennedy proves my point completely… “Bigotry? It’s called dialogue, Rev (or, if you will, blogologue). Talk about angry and bitter, read your own stuff! At least most of the people here are engaging in civil discourse. I think Chavez was an illiterate fraud whose only real concern was himself, but I feel the same way about some of our own! Yes, I resent his anti-Americanism, and I could ring Joe Kennedy’s neckfor being the fool he is, but there is no questioning the sincerity of many of the folks who think he was an effective advocate for the poor. I don’t agree, and we throw words back and forth, but that is the American way. Democracy and freedom of speech can be a cacaphonous exercise, even without the smug tirades that you obviously believe your “Ph.D.” entitles you to.” (emphasis added)
SICK PEOPLE ALWAYS REVEAL THEMSELVES. Even when they cower behind a hood or, in this case, a phony name. It is signed – if you call it that – T3. It is worth noting that out of nearly 800 comments on this article, one of mine is in the top 10 of reader recommendations. God, how that must gall this T3 nutcase…
All I will say about the “sequestration” of funds: What we have been hearing: Teachers fired! Police laid off! Prisoners released! Air Traffic Controllers Fired! Meat Inspectors Fired! VA hospitals closing! What we SHOULD be hearing: People who monitor your phone calls FIRED! Warrantless Wire Tap Program SUSPENDED! People who look at surveillance camera output LAID OFF! Undercover informers in Church, Temple, Mosque and Occupy Movement LET GO! Why does the ax only fall on services we like? How about chopping away at the police state?
Have you seen this? Probably not. It is the poster approved by G.W. Bush (the mental defective, remember?) for his NASA trip to Mars extravaganza. The poster was supposed to whip up excitement among the public for this project so near to his, um, heart (he had one?) It shows astronauts landed on Mars, walking among RUINS OF BUILDINGS. It was pulled real fast after xians went nuts. I mean really, ruins on Mars? We all know that god only created one form of life. Americans. But it must have inspired the ignoramus because today, Bush passes the time, while waiting for the call to become baseball commissioner, daubing pathetic oil paintings of himself in the bathroom. Honest. Look it up.
What, you thought bat-shit crazy right-wingers were something new?
In 1965 cuddly, avuncular actor Walter Brennan recorded a screed to warn about how commies and beatniks are plotting to take over America through LBJ’s War on Poverty. That record was called HE’S YOUR UNCLE, NOT YOUR DAD and it was put out by KEY RECORDS, the show-biz wing of the whack-o JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY. Here is how it is described on the back cover:
“Hilarious, yet completely factual, this record album finds Walter Brennan throwing a million-candlepower floodlight on the evils of imported and duty-free collectivism in our nation. Then, it brings into vivid focus the brave moves we must make if we are to preserve the dream of our founding fathers to save our constitutional Republic from the man-made nightmare it is becoming.”
So about this nightmare… exactly how will the commies destroy the United States? According to Brennan and his writer, they will accomplish this nefarious nightmare plot through (are you sitting down?)… Area Codes and Zip Codes! Yup. Area Codes and Zip Codes are a commie plot devised in WATTS by Adam Clayton Powell! (Then he praises PATRIOTIC NEGRO AMERICANS – he even names two! – so it’s ok. No bigot he.) Brennan then launches an attack on free-spending “DO-GOODERS.” I never got that about conservatives. To them, doing good is bad? Yes. Because then, as now conservatives hate poor people. They are spongers. They are loafers. They are welfare cheats. For a while there, I thought I was listening to a Mitt Romney speech from last year, not a political Neanderthal from 1965.
Here, in an LP undoubtedly owned by the disgruntled fathers of today’s idiot conservatives, you will discover the seeds of the Tea Party and their ilk. A few years later Brennan refused to support Richard Nixon for president, claiming he was a “do-gooder” liberal. Nixon! Nobody escapes Brennan’s angry conservative stereotyping and vituperation. So we get Welfare queens with 16 illegitimate children. African “head-hunters” populating UN delegations. Farm worker unions are all controlled by Castro. Of course, Castro was installed by our own State Department, according to the delusions presented here. No mention of Batista, the corrupt dictator who raped and pillaged the island of Cuba. No. Instead we hear about the Free Cubans whom Castro overthrew. Brennan knew Batista was good because… his corrupt regime repaid American foreign aide with 20% interest. All this man cares about is money. At times Brennan’s harangue sounds more like a psychotic rightwing accounting lesson than a man talking about “The Greatest Country In The World.”
Naturally, since this is a product of the John Birch Society, international communist plots abound, abetted by what Brennan calls lazy student beatnik agitators. It is funny today, but overall this exercise in political rage and hate makes Archie Bunker sound like St. Francis of Assisi.
Listen as Brennan reveals that the LBJ administration is, according to “sworn affidavits,” filled with IDENTIFIED COMMUNIST AGENTS. How does Brennan know? Sources include “ACCORDING TO THE GRAPEVINE.” It’s a riot! And what would a right wing paranoia festival be without a rant against France? I’ll refrain from quoting that. It has to be heard. And get this… THIS WAS SOLD AS A COMEDY ALBUM. You know, like Woody Woodbury, Lenny Bruce or Bill Cosby… So how are the jokes? Although the carefully chosen audience guffaws with wild abandon, most all of the alleged zinger just made me cringe. Witticisms like, “What did Italy ever give us? The mafia.” Yikes. He even tells a Jewish joke but, being essentially a coward as all conservatives are, he changes them to “Dutchmen.” I guess the writer knew better than to screw with Jews.
PATRIOTIC TWADDLE
And what, I ask you, would a zany rightwing screed be without the homey but totally bullshit little stories that Paul Harvey once specialized in? This record does not omit them. For just two examples Brennan makes the utterly false claim that George Washington, as a result of his sacrifice to the nation, died broke. Old George was the wealthiest man of his time and on his death left an estate worth $19 million dollars in today’s money. We should all be so broke. He also tells the nonsensical story that Martha Washington had to melt down her silver tea service so the new nation could make coins. While there is no evidence whatsoever that she did this, what if she did? For a woman married to the richest man in America to give up her teacups hardly qualifies as a sacrifice. Now, had she give up all their slaves, THAT would have been a sacrifice for it would indeed have broken them financially.
MONEY IS ALL THAT MATTERS
This fixation on money and riches is typical of the Goldwater right-wingers. As Brennan sums up his philosophy, he actually says that Life is just a chase to get money to come in. How bloody sad! We all know that Life is so much more than that. But the creators of this thing dwell on money. This is all Brennan carps about: all the money being “wasted” on “do good” efforts. We get dollars and cents from but him nary a trace of compassion for the “loafers, spongers, welfare cheats, students” which all poor people must be. Stripping money out of government programs is justified, according to Brennan, because The Founding Fathers didn’t want a free ride. Tell that to their slave labor… In the world of this record, stealing money from the poor is designed to HELP them. But it is clear that what we have here is greed, pure and simple. They crave the money in exactly the same way today’s conservatives DROOL when they think of the $2.7 Trillion surplus in social security. And yes, Brennan says that social security is a way to steal your money. All the now-standard conservative bullshit memes are here. This record is the acorn from which a rotted oak tree grew.
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