This report began as a Mass Communications Theory presentation, since then, it has
turned into a timeline, to remember all that we have forgot, or did not know. In an
attempt to reveal the past, through the cycles of war and oppression, we wish to
break those cycles. In showing the past, maybe we can avoid the repeat of a fallen
nation. A lot of history has just disappeared with the 20th century. Before we move
on, we need to reflect on the past, and examine our future potential.
1620-1640 Puritans and Pilgrims come to America.
1692 Salem Witch Trials.
1730’s Ben Franklin
1770-1775 REVOLUTIONARY WAR/NAVY BORN/ILLUMINATTI CREATED
178 ARMY CREATED
1789-1797 PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON
USED HEMP FOR ALL PRODUCTS
1790 COPYRIGHT ACT
1797-1801 PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS
1801-1809 THOMAS JEFFERSON
180 DUPONT BORN
1809-1817 PRESIDENT JAMES MADISON
1812-1814 WAR OF
1817-1825 PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE
182 SATURDAY EVENING POST
1825-1829 PRESIDENT JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
1829-1837 PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
1830 INDIAN REMOVAL ACT ,TRAIL OF TEARS
1837-1841 PRESIDENT MARTIN VAN BUREN
1841 PRESIDENT WILLIAM H HARRISON DIED
1841-1845 JOHN TYLER
1845-1849 JAMES K POLK
1850-NYTIMES BORN
1949-1950 PRESIDENT ZACHORY TAYLOR DIED
1850-1853 PRESIDENT WILLARD FILLMORE
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
1853-1857 PRESIDENT FRANKLIN PIERCE
CHARLES DARWIN
RECORD CREATED
1857-1861 PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN
1861-1865 PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
CIVIL WAR
KKK
BAYER
1865-1869 PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON
THE NATION
SALVATION ARMY
NESTLE
1869-1877 PRESIDENT ULLYSES S. GRANT
STANDARD OIL
THOMAS EDISON
1877-1881 PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD B HAYES
1881 PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD ASSASINATED
1881-1885 PRESIDENT CHESTER A. ARTHUR
SEARS ROEBUCK &CO
DR PEPPER/COLLIERS/COCA COLA/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL/IDA B
WELLS/HERSHEYS
1885-1889 PRESIDENT GROVER CLEAVELAND
1889-1893 PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON
WAR/NELLIE BLY/G.E./
1893-1897 PRESIDENT GROVER CLEAVELAND
JACOB A. RIIS/COSMOPOLITAN/MCCLURES
1897-1901 PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY ASSASINATED
1901 DOW CHEMICAL/MONSANTO/RSA/WALGREENS/MARCONI
1901-1909 PRESIDENT THEODORE ROSEVELT
1902 IDA TARBELL/LINCOLN STEFFENS/TARGET/POPULAR MECHANICS
1903 FORD/PEPSI CO.
1906 THE JUNGLE/CATTILLAC/DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS/MUCKRAKERS FDA
FORMED
1908 FBI FORMED
1909 – 1913 PRESIDENT WILLIAM H TAFT
1911 ANTI-SHERMAN ACT/CHEVORLET/THE MASSES
1912 RADIO ACT/TITANIC SINKS
1913-1921 PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
1913 FEDERAL RESERVE CREATED
1914 WWI THE WOMEN REBEL/TRILATERAL COMMISSION
1916 PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN USA
1917 THE ESPIONAGE ACT
1918 WARNER BROTHERS/LIBERATOR
1919 HALLIBURTON/CON AGRA FOODS
1920 RADIO IS BORN/PROHIBITION/WOMEN GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE
MONSANTO CREATES ASPERTAME
1921-1923 PRESIDENT WARREN G HARDING DIED
1921 ALBERT EINSTIEN/KKK/BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW
1922 KKK/THE READERS DIGEST
1923-1929 PRESIDENT CALVIN COOTLIDGE
1923 TIME/AT&T/WALT DISNEY
1925 SIBERIA HERO DOGS SAVE TOWN BRING MEDICINE IN WORST SNOW STORM
1926 NBC/TV
1927 FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION/KOCH INDUSTRIES/
1928 CBS/DISNEYLAND/
1929 -1933 PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER
1929 BLACK TUESDAY/7UP/ST VALENTINES MASSACRE
1931 HITLER RISE TO POWER
1932 BONNIE & CLYDE
1933-1945 PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
1933REPEAL PROHIBITION/DILLINGER/CCC/
1934 FCC CREATED/SUPERMAN/DC COMICS
1935 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
1936 REEFER MADDNESS/NUCLEAR TESTING IN USA
1937 MARIJUANA TAX ACT ISSUED LICENCES
MONSANTO INFECTS LIVESTOCK WITH BHT & ANTIBIOTICS/FEEDING THEM GMO
CORN AND GRAIN/NUCLEAR TESTING
1938 WAR OF THE WORLDS/NUCLEAR TESTING
1939 WWII/MARVEL COMICS/NUCLEAR TESTING
1940 THE SMITH ACT/MONSANTO/ELENOR ROOSEVELT
1941 BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR/JAPENESE INTERNMENTS/US DISCOVERS
PLUTONIUM
1943 ALBERT HOFFMAN CREATES L.S.D.
1944 MONSANTO CREATES DDT/IMF CREATED/ERNIE PYLE
1945-1953 PRESIDENT HARRY S, TRUMAN
1945 FDR DIES/HITLER DIES/UNITED NATIONS/MANHATTAN PROJECT/PROJECT
PAPERCLIP/BOMBING OF HEROSHIMA & NAGASAKI
1946 NUCLEAR TESTING/ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION/SONY
1947 ROSWELL/AREA 51/COVERUP/NSA/CIA
1948 ABC/PROJECT BLUE BOOK/MOUNTAIN DEW/PROJECT GRUDGE
1949 NATO/PACIFICA/1984 RELEASED/OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD/CIA TAKES
OVER THE MEDIA
1950 KOREAN WAR/RED CHANNELS/PROJECT BLUBIRD/PROJECT
RAINBOW/MONTAUK PROJECT/PHOENIX PROJECT
1951 NUCLEAR PLANT BUILT IN IDAHO/PROJECT ARTICHOKE
1952 BILDERBURGERS
1953-1961 PRESIDENT DEWHITE D EISENHOWER
1953 PLAYBOY/ATOMIC ENERGY ACT/CIA/MKULTRA
1954 MOBAY[MONSANTO&BAYER]/CERN/MURROW VS MCCARTHY
1955 NUCLEAR/VILLAGE VOICE
1956 ELVIS/COINTELPRO
1957 NUCLEAR TESTING/REACTORS BUILT
1958 NASA/DARPA/AARPA
1959 VIETNAM WAR/TWILIGHT ZONE/FM RADIO
1960 SDS/YIPPIES/CASSETTES/BERLIN WALL/OPERATION ALERT
1961- 1963 PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY ASSASINATED
1961 PEACE CORPS/WALT DISNEY WORLD/NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
Throughout the founding of the United States, the quest for the truth has been
revealed through the investigative journalists. The investigative journalist’s stories
have provided a history for us to reflect upon, and reveal the spirals of silence
promoted by propaganda and cycles of truth by those who were compelled to
defend it. Through critical theory, the authors will show the rise and fall of these
cycles, and the people’s courage in defending the truth by getting the information to
the people. If there is suppression of the truth, veiled by corruption and/or lies
(disinformation), told to the people; eventually this causes an uprising of truth, told
by the people.
Since the founding of America, the rights of the citizens have been taken from
them through laws enacted, imprisonment, and sometimes death. Using fear as a
tactic, and controlling the media as a tool, the change agents have successfully
cycled the American people through many wars and imprisonment. We will go on a
historical journey through America’s timeline, to search for the cycles of truth and
justice, along with the corruption in America.
In the founding of America certain books taught of the morals,
the country was to adopt. One of these books was
John Bunyan’s, “The Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to
That Which Is to Come” in 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works
of religious English literature of its time. This book was about a man’s journey and
the choices we make in life along our roads we walk. It was
used as a guide in ethics and morals for society, required reading in childhood. Later
in our story, Theodore Roosevelt will refer back to it in 1906, in a passage in the
book referring to the Muckrakers. Referring to “The man with a muckrake is fixed
on carnal instead of spiritual things.” Implying that the reform journalists were too
busy digging up the Muck and they didn’t see the good things around them. From
this point on, they were known as “Muckrakers”, thus, turning the tables on the
journalists in hopes to get them to stop exposing the big businesses corruption. We
are here to tell their stories, so let us begin.
We first give credit to Thomas Paine for having Common Sense
available to the people so we could all join together to fight the
British. Thomas wrote “Common Sense” to bridge
between the rich and the poor, realizing United we
stand stronger against the British to gain our Independence. In giving
the people the knowledge to fight back and being on the same page
they were able to join together to defeat the British.
The fourth President of the United States was James Madison and
was also the drafter of the U.S. Constitution and The Bill of Rights.
Madison believed that without knowledge about the world and what is
going on around them, the people are ignorant and the ruling
class would always have the power over the ignorant - unless the
press was available to all people. He believed in the people’s
“Right to Know.“ James Madison and Thomas Payne were among the 1st writers of
freedom in America.
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1776)
We start the journey with the Daniel Shays, who fought for the country as a
soldier and believed in the American way, truth, justice and the pursuit of
happiness. When he returned from the war, he had a war brewing at home as well.
Between the times the Constitution was written and the Bill of
Rights came about there was Shay’s Rebellion in 1786. The vets
returning from the American Revolution War turned to farming
with the land sold to them by the
Eastern Bankers. The excess taxes
imposed on the farmers were more than they could pay
after the Revolution. They petitioned, went to town
meetings, met with officials and followed the letter of the
law. The eastern bankers response was more “New Taxes”. By
1786 Daniel Shays, had seen enough of his farmer friends and
fellow soldiers being sent to debtors prison, so he started to take
up arms and take over the courthouses so that no more farmers
would have to go to prison for the debts they cannot pay. Shay’s
army grew from 1000-9000, as they continued to shut courts down around the
country.
In response to Shay’s Rebellion, The Republic enacts the Militia/Riot Act of 1786.
Being a rebel in Shay’s Army was equal to death. The Riot
Act stated that more than 12 people gathered in a negative
light of the Union would be jailed, their land taken and tried
for treason. The Federal troops were called in to handle the
situation. Shay’s Army stormed the Arsenal in Springfield
Mass. and were shot and taken over by the Union. Three men were hanged and Shay
was released 1788 on his word of allegiance. Daniel Shay’s action caused George
Washington to return to leadership and write the Bill of Rights into law in 1791.
THE BILL OF RIGHTS (1791)
I.
Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for
a redress of grievances.
II.
Right to keep and bear arms
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall
not be infringed.
III.
Conditions for quarters of soldiers
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a
manner to be prescribed by law.
IV.
Right of search and seizure regulated
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
V.
Provisons concerning prosecution
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a
Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or
public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be
compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
VI.
Right to a speedy trial, witnesses, etc.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State
and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law,
and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have
compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
VII.
Right to a trial by jury
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be
preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the
rules of the common law.
VIII.
Excessive bail, cruel punishment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
IX.
Rule of construction of Constitution
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
people.
X.
Rights of the States under Constitution
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the
States respectively, or to the people.
In eight years time, 1798, The Sedition Act was created in which it made it a
crime to criticize the government (Adams) in any way. The Federalist Congress
were trying to take control of the election and the Republicans were the ones that
were locked up under the act. (Mathew Lyon from Vermont served four months in
prison for describing President Adams in a less than flattering manner.) Jefferson
won the election over the Federalists in 1801, and pardoned those who were
imprisoned under the act.
In 1861, the Civil War began and President Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus.
(Habeas Corpus, literally in Latin "you have the body" is a term that represents an
important right granted to individuals in America. Basically, a writ of habeas corpus
is a judicial mandate requiring that a prisoner be brought before the court to
determine whether the government has the right to continue detaining them. The
individual being held or their representative can petition the court for such a writ. )
Tens of thousand civilians were detained by the military without charges for
suspicion of being “Disloyal”. A draft lottery was implemented which turned into
class warfare and Draft Riots of 1863. The elite could save their sons from being
drafted by paying a $300 fee. There also was a law preventing the black people from
serving in the service. The civilians that were detained were released after the Civil
War. (What happened to that 1st & 6th Amendment?)
In 1887 Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Pen name: Nellie Bly
wrote from her experiences a book called “10 Days in a Madhouse”. Nellie
uncovered stories about prison life, child labor and the selling of babies. She
submersed herself in the environment in which she wanted her reports. She went
on to be the first woman reporter to give reports directly from the battlefield in
World War I. She went undercover to report the treatment of the women in the
mental institutions in, Ten Days in a Madhouse.
The Century turns with new ideas on the way as well as new inventions in the
media world. The suppression of the truth had waited long enough and the rise of
Investigative Journalism begins. Beginning in 1890, stories of the culture of the
people started to surface.
Jacob Riis, author and photographer, tells the stories along with
a visual tour of emotional gripping
photos of the ghetto in New York City, in
his book “How the other Half Lives”
(1890).
Ida B. Wells Barnett was a slave’s child and wrote articles in the
local papers and the New York Age Magazine
(1892) about the lynching and killing of her
people for sport. Ida helped inspire the antilynching movement and encouraged the black
people to stand up to the abuse of her people.
McClure’s Magazine is founded in 1893 by and begins the periodical for the new
investigative journalists.
Ida Tarbell captures the nation with her report revealing
“The History of Standard Oil”(1902), and how the Great
John D. Rockefeller got his fortune and control of the
countries oil supply. Although, articles and books were
written before her on the Rockefeller oil fortune, Ida grabbed the nation’s attention.
In 1906, The Hepburn Act was established, which put an end to oil rebates. Also she
prompted the formation of the Bureau of Corporations (FBI), which conducted an
investigation in the petroleum industry and found that Rockefeller had been getting
preferential treatment from the railroads and fined twenty-nine million dollars. As
the work of Ida Tarbell still rocks the nation with what started as a two story series
on Standard Oil turned into 19 part series. Rockefeller ran a campaign to control the
damage his reputation suffered after Ida’s story, The campaign failed miserably and
was followed up with the Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1911. This act makes it illegal to
hold a monopoly on industry and Rockefeller had to break up his company,
Standard Oil into 38 pieces.
Lincoln Steffens reveals the corruption and
poverty in the cities with “Shame of the Cities”
(1902). It was the disgust of the elite and
corporations buying senators and votes in the government. In Lincoln’s career he
had seen corruption at every level from the police department to the state and
federal government. The articles made the country take a hard look at the kind of
government the people will allow. There were some regulations put in place but it
ended up being accepted anyways, corruption as a platitude of the U.S. government.
Samuel Hopkins Adams talks about patent medicine in “The Great
American Fraud” in Colliers (1905). Samuel was joined by
Edward Bok & Mark Sullivan in warning the people by
exposing the ingredients and fraud within the patent medicines.
Revelations of the contents in the traveling
road shows peddling concentrated bottles
of alcohol, morphine and cocaine. The
patent medicine companies took over the advertising in the newspapers and
publications causing much concern in the medical and social community. This
leading to the Drug Act created in 1906.
Charles Edward Russell wrote about the
meat packing industry in “The Greatest
Trust in the World”(1905), and exposes the
prison labor camps and corruption on the railroads. In 1909, Russell was one of five
founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People(NAACP).
Upton Sinclair publishes in Appeal to Reason,
“The Jungle”(1905), which exposed the Meat
packing industry, and its grossly unsanitary
conditions of the slaughter - houses. The rats
infesting the plants were getting grinded into the sausages, and the rotten meat that
would sit on the floor for days would get injected with pickle juice. The kind of
treatment of the livestock was also horrifying, the torturing of the animals and
inhumane killing techniques. The meat packing companies tried to block the
publishing of the Jungle. The overwhelming response of the demand of the people
for some answers prompted Theodore Roosevelt to personally inspect the packing
houses himself to see if Sinclair’s claims were true. After the tours Roosevelt
established The Food and Drug Act in 1906.
David Graham Phillips begins the war with the President.
Theodore Roosevelt was against the Muckrakers after the
article, “The Treason of the Senate” is printed in the
Cosmopolitan in 1906. The series reveals the senate and congress being bought and
bribed by the lobbyists and big business. The president reacts by calling them
Muckrakers for exposing the corruption of all the crooks. The demonization began
but it did not stop them. The ratification of the constitution in 1913 placed the
senator elections in the hands of the people instead of in the hands of the legislators.
McClure’s expose’ on the white slave trade of
immigrants caught up in prostitution in, “The Daughters
of the Poor” (1909), by George Kibbe Turner, shined the
light on the white slavery issue in America. This led to the antiprostitution campaign in the 1910’s in the United States.
Edwin Markham, a teacher and poet, put the spotlight on child labor and awful
working conditions in, “Children in Bondage”(1914). Following in the same year,
child labor laws were passed for the first time in America.
Margaret Sanger, arrested at least eight times, sacrificed it all to get the
information and contraception to the women about birth control. At that time in
history, Margaret saw the huge problems arising from unwanted pregnancies, large
families, and enslavement to motherhood for the women. She started the
publication, The Women Rebel in 1914. At this time, it was seen as Taboo, obscene,
and worth imprisonment to talk of birth control. Many came against her, and she
fought and won, eventually establishing Planned Parenthood in 1916.
World War One began 1914-1918 in which created a new law, The Espionage Act
of 1917. This law made it a crime to “willfully utter, print, write any disloyal,
profane, scurrilous or abusive language about the United States“ OR “attempt to
cause, or incite, or attempt to incite, insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny or refusal of
duty” in the military or naval forces of the U.S.
1919, “The Palmer Raids” began, when there were two attempts to assassinate
Attorney General A. Mitchel Palmer, by followers of anarchist, Luigi Galleani, failed
to do anything but blow up his porch. The administration of Woodrow Wilson
responded by rounding up and interrogating over 10,000 suspected resident aliens
who had been targeted based on their political ideology. These detainees were
beaten and forced to sign confessions, and over 500 were eventually deported. In
August, he organized the General Intelligence Unit within the Department of Justice,
and recruited J. Edgar Hoover, a 24-year-old law school graduate, who spent the war
working in, and then leading the Justice Department's Enemy Alien Bureau. The
American public was supportive of the raids at first, but later realized the absurdity
of it all, due to the fact that none of the detainees were ever linked to any
wrongdoing…Neither did they pose any kind of threat.
Many newspapers and magazines went out of circulation at this time. (A new law
created every war that takes more of the American rights away.)The Espionage Act
was repealed in 1920. (Re-instated as the Alien Registration Act of 1940, coined as
the peacetime sedition act)
The Women’s Movement gains strength and by 1920 they get the upper hand
with Prohibition and the right to vote. A decade of protests won their rights. In 1926
television network NBC is founded, followed by CBS in 1928. Speak Easies took over
and breaking the law became common - place, the country went underground. Bank
robberies and bootlegging created heroes amongst the people.
In 1929, the stock market crashed, The Valentine’s Day Massacre brought down
Al Capone, and the depression followed. In 1932, the country is taken by the bank
robberies of Bonnie & Clyde, and John Dillinger in 1933, being hunted by the G-Men
of the Central Bureau of Investigation, headed by J. Edgar Hoover. Later, called the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in which Hoover ran from its inception in
1924-1972.
By 1933, Prohibition was repealed.
Superman was created in 1933. A coincidence he was an investigative reporter as
Clark Kent?
The land of opportunity turned to the land of despair. When Franklin D.
Roosevelt became president, he started the Social Security Act in 1935 for the
elderly and the Wagoner Act for the workers to unionize. Franklin D. Roosevelt
seemed to care about the country to put safety nets into place for the benefit of the
people but not everyone felt this way. The money of the government went to public
works, building roads, hospitals, play grounds and did not fix the high
unemployment rates. The NEW Deal came about in the election of 1936. The New
Deal consisted of massive building programs. Social Security, The deal built the
hydro-dam, food stamps and medi-care and paid for it by raising taxes. The elite did
not like this but he was re-elected. The New deal failed miserably.
In 1938, George Seldes founds, “In Fact” to
publish findings on cigarettes being linked to
cancer. Nobody would publish the findings, so he
found a way. Many people would not publish his stories, although all
of his career, even though he was very ethical, and always went to
the source for the facts. In a time when cigarettes were king, it did not make you the
most popular fellow to claim they cause cancer. George wrote more than twenty
books about historic events, and interviewed 800 prominent figures, and called for
an ethics code for journalists. Before Seldes death, he saw a National code adopted,
and ethics classes taught in journalism schools.
In 1940, the Smith Act was adopted. This law was designed to go after political
organizations. (socialists & communists) Through the years of 1941-1957, hundreds
of suspected socialists/communists were prosecuted under the act. This act states
that it is a crime to willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty necessity,
desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the U.S.
by force or by violence or to organize any assembly of persons who teach, advocate,
or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any government in the U.S. by force or
violence. In the late 40’s and 50’s any communist parties or left wing thinkers were
subject to sirvelence, blacklisted from employment and reputations destroyed.
Propaganda on World War 2 increased after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941.
President Roosevelt issued executive order 9066, which mandated the evacuation,
relocation, and internment of 110,000 men, women, and children of Japanese
ancestry living on the West coast of America. They were kept in preventive
detention under harsh conditions for much of the war. They were U.S. citizens.
Eleanor Roosevelt was deeply opposed to this action. The Red Scare
was keeping people in fear, and justified Japanese - imprisonment in
America. Their prisons are now our Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) camps. They did not get this overturned until 1984,
over 40 years! The War ended in 1945. This was good example of the spiral of
silence and agenda setting by President Roosevelt, by putting an order into place
that imprisoned a certain race of people, and all the propaganda used to scare the
population into authorizing free reign to the government. Eleanor wanted to end the
lynching of the blacks in the south, and by 1938, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt,
took up the federalization of anti-lynching, to make it a crime. As F.D.R. stayed
reserved on the issue, Eleanor pushed forward only to have it dismissed after a
sixteen-month filibuster in the Senate. Her cause was true, and she really wanted to
change the situation for the black people. It is an amazing revelation that F.D.R.
never showed the people that he had polio. To get someone worth three terms as
president, that is a cripple, says something about America. It must have been an
almost impossible job, although he prevailed till his death in 1945.
In 1945, Roosevelt dies, Hitler dies, Harry Truman takes over, and the U.S. bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two years later, we are seeing U.F.O.’s in Roswell, New
Mexico, and suddenly the National Security Agency is created, along with the Central
Intelligence Agency, and Air Force. The peoples are suppose to just except secrets
from the government…no questions asked?
The horrors of nuclear war was graphically described by journalist, John Hersey,
in his book, “Hiroshima.”
Roswell, in 1947, was the biggest cover-up of its time, and remains to be so to
this very day. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency
(NSA) were born, the government, has been keeping secrets ever since.
A win happened for the people in 1947, with the establishment of the
Commission of the Freedom of the Press. The Commission set forth a code of social
responsibility for the press. It stated that the press should report a truthful,
comprehensive and intelligent account of the day’s events, that gives them meaning,
with a forum for the exchange comments and criticism, as well as the presentation
and clarification of goals and society, with full access to the day’s intelligence.
In 1949, The Fairness Doctrine was created. It required the news to have both sides
to the issues, in order for the people to be properly informed. Fair and balanced
reporting, although exemptions were made for the news.
George Orwell gives us a futuristic look at Big Brother book “1984”. The book
describes life in a totalitarian society where everyone is under 24/7 sirvelence; even
your thoughts are watched. Word play was a big part of the plot. “Those who control
the past, control the future.”in 1949 with the
In the early fifties, as we enter into the Korean War, The Red Channels were
distributed through the headquarters of every media company. The Red Channel
Guides names 151 actors, writers, musicians, broadcast journalists for being
communist supporters, or sympathizers, or accused of manipulating the media, and
entertainment industry, for the communist agenda, and destroyed many people’s
careers and lives because of their political beliefs… like the witch hunts of the
1600’s, without the bonfires. The 151 people were denied employment, and there
were more placed on the industry blacklist.
Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin headed the hunt for communist supporters to
detain through this time (McCarthyism). That was until 1954 when Edward R.
Murrow (a reporter for CBS) took on Senator McCarthy in his broadcast show “See It
Now”. After a year of the show aired Senator McCarthy was being investigated and
the Red Channel Scare was over, we thought.
1954, EDWARD R MURROW GOT SICK OF ALL HIS FRIENDS GETTING
BLACKLISTED SO WITH CBS BEHIND HIM, HE CONFRONTED MCCARTHY, LIVE ON
HIS SHOW SEE IT NOW. THIS THEN LED TO A SENATE INVESTIGATION ON
MCCARTHY AND THE END TO THE RED CHANNELS.
In 1956, a new F.B.I. project was created, Counter Intelligence Program. (Co-IntelPro)
Beginning in 1956, the secret mind control experiments being conducted by the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), using L.S.D.,was coined MK-ULTRA. Also, this was
the time that Nazi’s were fleeing to America to avoid persecution. The CIA’s Project
Paperclip brought the scientists into NASA, to share and continue their work. From
1945 on, CIA experiments continued beyond Roosevelt’s death, and the legacy was
the Manhattan Project, giving us the A Bomb, and the many nuclear plants to follow,
with experiments like Project Phoenix/Project Monarch & Project Rainbow. The
first nuclear plant built in America, was in 1951.
Ralf Nader writes an article in The Nation “The Safe Car you can’t Buy”(1959)
and “Unsafe at Any Speed”(1965) which describe the design flaws and dangers in
American vehicles. In 1966 Safety Standards were implemented and in 1989 Nader
got GM to put air bags in the cars. Many things have been implemented because of
Nader’s dedication. Nader helped establish Occupational Safety & Health
Organization (OSHA), The Consumer Product Safety Commission, Environmental
Safety Commission (EPA), and helped pass the Clean Air Act, Freedom of
Information Act, Radiation Control Act, among many others. In 1989, Nader led a
successful campaign to block Congress from giving them-selves a 51% pay raise.
Michael Harrington wrote of his study in, “The Other America-Poverty in the
U.S”, in 1962. Michael Harrington’s goal in life was to make it a better place to live in
for everyone. This book was read by President John F. Kennedy, he was so
impressed, it was required reading in the administration to become a domestic goal,
to abolish poverty in America, thus began “The War on Poverty” which Kennedy was
to begin but was assassinated. Lyndon B. Johnson carried out the challenge.
Harrington was called to the capital to be an advisor on poverty.
In 1962, Rachel Carson (a biologist/muckraker) wrote the “Silent Spring”. Rachel
stirred the nation with the facts of the damage of chemicals/pesticides (Monsanto’s
DDT & Agent Orange) that were being used everywhere with no caution to the
hazardous effects it was having on the environment, earth, humans and the wildlife.
The Environmental Movement begins. The printing of the Silent Spring prompted
the federal government to act on environmental protection. The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) was created in 1970. DDT was banned in 1972. (only to be
replaced by round up in 1976.)
Spiderman was created in 1962. The country needed another hero in the media,
freelance photographer, Peter Parker.
Jessica Mitford publishes The American Way of Death in 1963. In the book Mitford harshly
criticized the industry for using unscrupulous business practices to take advantage of grieving
families. The book became a major bestseller and led to Congressional hearings on the funeral
industry.
Seymour Hersh writes “My Lai Massacre 4” (1969) in which described the Massacre
of My Lai in Vietnam in 1968 when 104 innocent, unarmed women and children
civilians were executed by our soldiers at point -blank range. Soldier’s trial
followed. In 2004, Hersh reported for The New Yorker on torture inside the Abu
Ghraib prison by members of a military police unit of the U.S. Army Reserve
during the Iraq War.
Jean Heller broke the story on AP story “Syphilis Patients Die Untreated”(1972). The
story was about a forty - year Tuskegee Syphilis Study of untreated syphilis on
uninformed African-American participants. This report exposed one of the secret
studies The Department of Health Department had conducted over the years that
they did not want in the public eye.
in 1975. B.J. Phillips wrote about Karen Silkwood in Ms. Magazine. This expose’
educated the world about the dangers and correlation of cancer and radiation
exposure in the nuclear plants. The story went on to create an Emmy award winning
movie in the eighties.
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) began in 1960 in the halls of Berkley
with a young lad named Tom Hayden. Paul Potter Many educated minds were part
of the movement to change the world for the better. SDS was the leading anti-war
organization by 1969. Students joined the SDS by the thousands as long as the
Vietnam war dragged on. By the 1969 annual SDS convention, being held in Chicago,
the followers were tired of petitioning and protesting and getting nothing but
beaten down by clubs and arrested.
The Weather Underground formed in 1960, fighting for civil rights, and against
the war. Bernardine Dohrn, David Gilbert, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, and Brian Flanagan
made up the radical group.
The Weathermen, took over the SDS at the convention. They created an army of
white kids, to create a revolutionary army, against the police force. They moved
from the colleges, to the streets. They wanted to “bring the war home”, was the
original Weathermen’s mission. They wanted to create violence, to end the violence,
so the people would listen, to stop the war. Complacency was unacceptable. The
Days of Rage, was carried out on the north-side of Chicago in Summer of 1969, they
broke out windows of the ruling class business, three were shot by police and many
were arrested. The SDS were shunned by the media, and Nixon. Nixon was elected in
1969, and the protesters were targeted. From that point on they were harassed,
raided, constantly watched, while the black panthers were being targeted and
assassinated. December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, leader of the black panthers in
Chicago, was killed in his bed while sleeping by a police raid. 40 panthers were
killed, and 1000 imprisoned through the years of 1968-1969. Anger raged through
the movement. They tried to create bombs, and learned to use weapons.
Overwhelmed by hate, they wanted to make a statement, and get the attention of the
world. A planned bombing went wrong, when they detonated a bomb accidently.
Three of the weathermen died. The rest of the group went underground.
During the early seventies the prisoners rose up. George Jackson was the leader
of the movement, publishing a best seller “The Prison letters of George Jackson” and
was killed in a prison break, August 1971 and sparked the prison movement. The
Weathermen Underground planted a bomb in Perry Building in San Francisco,
August 28 1971 in response to Jackson’s killing and the prisoners of San Quinton.
The Underground Weathermen bombed National Guard Headquarters, May 1970 in
response to Kent State killings, NYC Police Headquarters on June9, 1970 in response
to police repression, Presidio Army Base in San Francisco to mark the 11th
anniversary of the Cuban Revolution on July 16 1970, The U.S. Capital to protest the
invasion of Laos in February 28, 1971, Queens Courthouse in solidarity with New
York prison revolts, a The Harvard Center for Internal Affairs to protest the war in
Vietnam on October 8, 1970, New York Department of Corrections to protest the
killing of 29 inmates at Attica State Penitentiary on September 17, 1971. The
Weather Underground grew in their popularity and were the people’s heroes, like
Bonnie and Clyde. They took $20,000 to break Timothy Leary out of jail. The
Weathermen were most wanted by the FBI. The FBI sent in undercover agents to
infiltrate the peace movement. Loss of enthusiasm crept into the early seventies as
the loss of togetherness, hope, love and mission was lost. After being underground
for so long The Weather Underground began to be forgotten, so they made a
comeback on May 18, and continued to protest with the reasons stated before each
attach, so everyone would get out of the buildings, so no one would get hurt. This is
The Weather Underground’s protesting history:
*May 18, 1973, when they bombed the 103rd Police Precinct, in NYC, in response to
killing of a 10 year old black youth by police.
*September 28, 1973 they bombed the ITT headquarters in NYC in response to the
U.S. backed coup in Chile.
*On March 6, 1974, they bombed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
offices in San Francisco to protest the forced sterilization of poor women.
*May 31,1974, they bombed the Office of the California Attorney General, in
response to the killing of six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
*June 17,1974 they bombed the Gulf Oil’s Pittsburgh Headquarters to protest its
actions in Angola.
*January 28, 1975, they bombed The State Department in response to the escalation
in Vietnam, June 16, 1975, Banco de Ponce in NY in solidarity with striking Puerto
Rican cement workers. After all the bombings they realized that the violence wasn’t
making a difference. The end of the war happened in 1975 so they came above
ground and turned themselves in and had families and broke apart because the war
was over and so was the fight that brought them all together. By the end of the
seventies most all of them turned themselves in with no charges because the FBI
had broken so many laws in pursuit of them.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. & THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Martin Luther King was a true inspiration to his race, representing courage and the
message of freedom for all. It was truly appalling the way that blacks were treated.
In the times that King rose up the nation of blacks had enough of being second class
citizens. The black people couldn’t go to the library, they had only one day a week
they could go shopping in the white stores. They had to sit in the back of the busses
and give up their seats for the white people. The black people were not allowed to
go out after dark or they would be beaten or hung. The KKK got away with burning
down their houses and burning crosses in their front lawns. King was a Christian
preacher’s son and continued his father’s legacy after being educated in the city.
King taught the way of peaceful, non-violent protesting. He wanted equal rights for
his people and lead many marches to stand for what he believed in and was arrested
a couple times for civil disobedience. Inspired by Rosa Parks on the bus that day in
1956, King turned those ideals into action. When his brothers were killed, he took
the white man to court. When his sisters were beaten, he demanded accountability.
When the innocent were hurt, he stood up for them. Jim Clark and his posse killed
and beaten King’s followers when attempting to vote. By 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson
signed it into law, blacks have a right to vote. Martin Luther King was shot April 5th,
1968.
MALCOLM X & THE BLACK PANTHERS
The Black Movement gained momentum in 1960. The segregation that happened in
the fifties seemed to make situations worse by the sixties. Martin Luther King was
the rational and peaceful part of the black movement.
Malcolm X was a supporter of Islam and the Muslim religion. Malcolm X was shot on
February 21, 1965. The Watts Riots lasted for five days and resulted in thirty-four
deaths and 40,000 blacks injured.
The Black Panthers was formed by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. They took up
arms in their neighborhoods to protect their families from the unwarranted raids
and police brutality. They marched on the capital with guns when the state was to
make a new law to prevent the blacks from owning guns. For six months after that,
the pictures circulated through out the world. On October 28, 1967 Huey Newton
was stopped by the police, the policeman was shot and Huey was locked up for
murder. Black Power took hold of the movement. The 1968 DNC protest gathered all
the movement together and the police were waiting for them with a new 1968 Riot
Act. Many protesters were charged and beaten. The police brutality postponed the
convention for two weeks and the riots continued to spread across the country
against the police. Reagan called in the National Guard to handle the violence.
Martin Luther King Jr. (assassinated in 1968). Then Bobbie Hutton was shot ten
times by Oakland police. The Black Panthers declared war on the police. December
1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, from the black panthers, were killed while
sleeping by a police raid. Anger raged through the movement. Black Panthers were
being targeted across the nation.
ABBY HOFMANN & THE CHICAGO 7
The Chicago Seven (originally Chicago Eight: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David
Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner all charged
with conspiracy, inciting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Bobby
Seale, the eighth man charged, had his trial severed during the proceedings,
lowering the number from eight to seven.
The Chicago 7 vs. The Federal Government.
THE US GOVERNMENT TAKES THE CHICAGO SEVEN TO TRIAL FOR INCITING A
RIOT AT THE 1968 DNC CONVENTION. IT GOES TO JURY IN 1970 AND ARE
CHARGED AND CONVICTED.AFTER THE REVELATION OF THE QUESTIONABLE
MOTIVES AND PRACTICES & HARRASSMENT OF THE FBI’S COINTELPRO
PROGRAM….. THEIR CHARGES WERE REVERSED IN 1972.
The Women’s Liberation Movement headed by Gloria Steinem. Gloria founded the
National Women's Political Caucus.
Betty Friedan wrote “The Feminine Mystique”(1963)
which created quite a stir in the women’s revolution and founded National
Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.
Women were protesting for equal rights in the work place and the right to do what
they want with their bodies and their future. They got the equal rights in the work
arena in 1963 and Roe vs. Wade granted them freedom in 1973.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) began in 1964 when the Berkley Administration
tried to shut down political activity on the Berkley University. This caused a
movement to rise up lead by Mario Savio. They gathered to protest against the
administration of Berkley University. After a long drug out fight, they won their
political freedom on campus, so they joined the fight to stop the war. After a few
peaceful protests turned violent, the group splintered off into the counter culture in
Height Ashbury, the SDS, the Weathermen and some went to join the Black Panthers
Vanguard. They all seemed to support each other at certain times, just some were
more radical than others.
Counterculture Movement (hippies) began in the streets of Height Ashbury in 1966.
They were part of the “turn on - tune in and drop out” crowd who wanted to create
their own counter culture society and the concept of communes became the new
escape, dropping out of the political movement to expand the mind, to live off the
land and communal living.
On July 4,1966, The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was signed into law by
President Lyndon B. Johnson. It is a federal freedom of information law that
allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and
documents controlled by the United States government. (Amended 1996, 2002,
2007) George Bush has put a freeze on the documents dating back to the
Reagan years so the public cannot access them. Now how does a government
get away with overturning all the laws we have put into place to prevent and stop
a rough secret governments and corporations from taking over the country?
In 1969 many events changed the movement forever. Woodstock. Richard Nixon
was elected. Three Weathermen blew themselves up creating a bomb. Charles
Mansion creates horror with the La Blanca Murders.
In 1968, in Minneapolis Minnesota the American Indian Movement (AIM) began.
They protested housing, poverty, police harassment and treaty issues. Oct. 1971
protests in Washington DC called “the trail of broken treaties” when they demanded
Bureau of Indian Affairs to uphold to the treaties that were signed. In 1973
Wounded Knee 200 Lakota and Cherokee Indians took over Pine Ridge to protest
the election of the Indian leader and the demanding of the treaties be upheld. The
Movement grew exponentially, many gathered there to occupy, after 30 days the
feds cut off electricity, water and food and medical supplies in the wintertime of
South Dakota winter and also blocked the media. The occupation ended after 71
days of occupation when a sniper shot Lawrence "Buddy" LaMont, at that time the
tribal elders called for and end to the occupation. Many activists were found
executed on Pine Ridge in following years.
In December 1969, Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a free concert for the west
coast in the field, on private land with 300,000 people in attendance. It was suppose
to be the Woodstock of the West Coast but turned violent when the Hells Angels
shot a fan. Four deaths, scores of people were injured, cars were stolen and then
abandon. The Rolling Stones were performing and The Hells Angels were the
security for this event and it ended badly, along with the era and the movement of
the sixties.
Mr. Richard Nixon was elected president in 1969 on the pretenses that he would
stop the war in Vietnam. At the height of the protest movement the colleges were
very involved in trying to stop the war. Kent State University students where
angered in 1970 when Nixon’s expansion of the war into Cambodia, so on May 4,
1970 the students had been holding demonstrations and the Army Reserve Officers
Training Corps building was burned to the ground in protest and the National Guard
was called in and martial law was declared.
So on the 4th, as students rallied and rang the victory Bell on the Commons a
National Guard jeep drove on to the Commons and an officer ordered the crowd to
disperse. Then several canisters of tear gas were fired, and the students struggled
up the hill and retreated into buildings. The National Guardsmen who had been
stationed there were armed with M1 rifles and gas equipment then proceeded to
chase the remainder of the students who were on the Hill until the students split
into two groups. After several minutes of tear gas volley’s between the guardsmen’s
guns and the students throwing the canisters back at the guardsmen unsuccessfully,
the guardsmen formed a single line and began firing into the crowd of students.
Four students where killed and nine injured.
In Washington, President Nixon deplored the deaths of the four students in the
following statement:
"This should remind us all once again that when dissent turns to violence it
invites tragedy. It is my hope that this tragic and unfortunate incident will
strengthen the determination of all the nation's campuses, administrators, faculty
and students alike to stand firmly for the right which exists in this country of
peaceful dissent and just as strong against the resort to violence as a means of such
expression."
The College was sealed off and a court injunction was issued ordering all students
to leave that afternoon. In Kent, a 5 P.M. curfew was declared and roadblocks were
set up to prevent anyone from entering the town.
This action has set forth a common way of dealing with the protesters. Through
out the sixties and seventies, this kind of police brutality and military type tactics
used by the police were used at peaceful protests. If this was a right of the American
citizen, it does not appear so. If the Bill of Rights gives us the right to protest to
address our grievances, then why is it, that the persons who do exercise these rights
are beaten, teargased, shot, jailed and sometimes killed? Do you think the founding
fathers of our country would have agreed with this kind of behavior?
In 1971 a break in into the F.B.I. field office in Media Pennsylvania and leaked the
information what was seized in that office to the press. The papers exposed the
Counter Intelligence Program defined the F.B.I.’s mission to “Expose, disrupt,
misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize activities of individuals and
organizations perceived to pose a threat to domestic interests.” The F.B.I. started
investigating the communist party but now it encompassed all the
social and civil parties in the 1960-1970’s, many assassinations followed.
J.F.K.
Malcolm X
11/22/63
2/21/65
Martin Luther
King Jr.
4/4/68
Bobby Hutton
4/6/68
Robert Kennedy Fred Hampton
6/6/68
12/4/69
At this point what exactly is the need for the F.B.I.’s involvement on the evolution of
the young people in America? How is this the betterment of America? The FBI gets
the right to assassinate the people’s leaders and kill the forward thinking? This
hardly makes the country free.
MOST OF THE ORGANIZATIONS WERE PROTESTING THE END OF THE WAR…IT
TOOK 15 YEARS TO ACHIEVE AND IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE MUCKRAKERS IN THE
END.
1971 Daniel Ellsberg, Neil Sheehan and the Pentagon Papers.
After serving and spinning the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg (employee of the RAND
CORPERATION) decided that the people needed to know the truth about the War.
The Pentagon Papers was a study conducted by the federal government to decide if
it was nessassary to engage in the war, it concluded that it was not nessassary. This
study was buried. After seeing the horror in Vietnam, Ellsberg realized the right
thing to do was tell the people the truth and stop the massacre of so many people
and save our soldiers from their attrocities and government experimentation of
Agent Orange and Napalm during this time. Dan Ellisberg photocopied the pentagon
papers to release to the New york Times. President Nixon reponded to the New
York Times with a cease and disist order to stop printing or jail time would ensue.
The next set of papers were released to the Wall Street Journal and seventeen other
newspapers around the world for release the following days. The truth was out and
Nixon wanted Ellsberg tried for treason. Dan Ellsberg was marked an “Enemy of the
State” and was to be tried for aiding and abetting the enemy caring a sentence of 70
years in prison.
WATERGATE
In June of 1972, five men were arrested breaking into Watergate headquarters of
the Democratic Party. The men from the Washington Post responsible for breaking
the story were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Bob and Carl’s relentless style of
reporting played a crucial role in the uncovering of the whole story of the break in
leading back to Nixon. The results ended the war in Vietnam within six months time
and caused President Nixon to resign in 1974. Nixon made sure to create the DEA
and the Drug Act before he left office. The war on drugs began in 1971.
J EDGAR HOOVER HEADED THE FBI FROM ITS INCEPTION IN 1926 AND CREATED
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM COINTELPRO….THEIR JOB WAS TO
INFILTRATE AND DISCREDIT AND DISMANTLE THE LEADERS OF ANY OF THE
POLITICAL MOVEMENTS . J EDGAR HOOVER DIED IN 1974, AT THE SAME TIME
THE SENATE WAS QUESTIONING THE COINTELPRO PRACTICES. …NO ONE WAS
PROCECUTED FOR THE ASSASINATIONS.
In 1977 James Carter took the presidency. Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer,
served as an officer in the U.S. Navy and Governor of Georgia from 1971-1975. He
won the election running against Ronald Reagan. Carter really believed in Human
Rights and created Habitat for Humanity and tried instituting solar energy to
combat the energy crisis. Carter improved government efficiency by merging about 300 state
agencies into 30 agencies. He also pushed reforms through the legislature, providing equal state
aid to schools in the wealthy and poor areas of Georgia, set up community centers for mentally
handicapped children, and increased educational programs for convicts. Carter took pride in a
program he introduced for the appointment of judges and state government officials. Under this
program, all such appointments were based on merit, rather than political influence.
INTERESTING THINGS APPEAR IN THE UNITED STATES
THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES
In June of 1979, an unknown person using a pseudonym R.C. Christian hired
the Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the stone structure. The Georgia
Guidestones is a large granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. A message
comprising ten guides is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a
shorter message is inscribed at the top of
the structure in four ancient languages'
scripts: Babylonian, Classical
Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian
hieroglyphs. A message consisting of a set
of ten guidelines or principles is engraved
on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one
language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving
clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English,
Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
THE REPUBLICANS TAKE OVER AMERICA
1981 Ronald Reagan won the presidency
and was almost assassinated the first year in
office. During his reign of power he restructured
the nation and deregulated media. In 1983 we had
over fifty-six media companies, By the end of the
decade, it was six. Through the years of 1981-1988 we had another war on drugs
and incarceration skyrocketed with unfair marijuana convictions and three strikes
law. This was combined with moving the prisons to the private sector. From this
point on, these private corporations are paid to lock up Americans for profit. (was
this approved by the people?) Have we really looked into these companies?)
Through the years, following this action, many lawsuits have been filed for the
mistreatment, experimentation on and death of inmates.
PRIVATELY OWNED PRISONS BEGIN IN 1983
Corporate private prisons took over in America. Corrections Corporation of
America, the GEO Group Inc., and Community Education Centers were some of
corporations operating 264 correctional facilities, housing almost 99,000
adult/juvenile convicts. (The GEO Group was formerly known as Wackenhut
Securities.)
In 1986, Jack Anderson breaks the story that Reagan Administration sold weapons
to Iran to release prison hostages in the Middle East. Jack Anderson was a key and
often controversial figure in reporting on J. Edgar Hoover's apparent ties to
the Mafia, the Watergate scandal, and the John F. Kennedy assassination.[2] He
also broke open the investigation and harassment by the Nixon administration
of John Lennon during the fight to deport Lennon, the search for fugitive exNazi officials in South America and the savings and loan crisis. He discovered
a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro,[3] and was credited for breaking the Iran–
Contra affair, though he has said the scoop was "spiked" because he had
become too close to President Ronald Reagan.
The Iran Contra hearings followed.
DEREGULATION OF THE MEDIA WAS THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS AND OUR 50
MEDIA COMPANIES FELL TO 12 BY 1993.
1984 WAS THE WAR ON DRUGS ALONG WITH THE FIRST EVER PRIVITIZATION OF
PRISONS IN AMERICA. INCACERATION SKYROCKETS. HE OVERTURNED THE
FAIRNESS DOCTRINE AND APPOINTED NEW PEOPLE TO THE FCC AND JUDICIAL
DEPARTMENT
Bob Woodward exposes the CIA with his book “Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA
1981-1987” (1987) On the Iraq War “State of Denial”(2006).
Eileen Welsome exposes the federal study on persons (subjects) injected with
Plutonium without their consent in, “The Plutonium Experiments”(1993).
Michael Moore has to have a place in all this with his revealing documentaries
beginning in 1989.
The country enters the George Bush Sr. years in 1989-1993 and the New World
Order begins. We went to war in the Gulf.
In 1990, HAARP is created under a weather modification cloak requested by the US
Air Force in Alaska. Monsanto is appointed to the USDA and Agenda 21 is signed at
the Rio Accords.
Ruby Ridge happens in 1992.
CLINTON SELLS ALL OF OUR NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETS TO CHINA IN
EXCHANGE FOR FUNDING OF HIS REELECTION CAMPAIGN IN 1996.
AND PASSES THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT ALLOWING THE CORPORATIONS
TO BUY UP THE REST OF THE MEDIA IN CABLE SATTELITE AND RADIO STATIONS
AND CROSS MEDIA OWNERSHIP WAS ALLOWED.
The Presidential election went to Bill Clinton, defeating George Bush Sr., Clinton
takes us from the years 1993-2000.
April 19th 1993, in Waco Texas it is live on television, David Koresh vs. the Federal
Government in a siege of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. The FBI & BFTA
raid and kill 75 men women and children after a 45 day stand off with The Branch
Dividians. (Freedom of Religion and the Right to Bear Arms did not apply here.)
In 1993 James Redfield brought us “The Celestine Prophecy” to showed us what
was possible. The Celestine Prophecy stayed on the best-seller list for 165 weeks. It
was our chance to evolve together, in that moment…then the moment was gone.
Mary Summer Rain told us the Indian prophecies of
times to come from No Eyes in “Phoenix Rising”(1993).
Oklahoma City Bombing on April 19th 1995. Timothy McVeigh & Tim Nichols
arrested for the bombing.
1996 The Telecommunications Act was passed and it allowed radio ownership to
own more market share of the audience. At this time Bush’s company Clear Channel
bought all the radio stations across the country and consolidated the ownership of
concert halls, media companies, record stores and cable networks resulting in
blacklisted artists and songs from the radio and cancelled concerts and venues.
Mom and Pop stores began to buckle under the weight of the corporate giants.
In
On April 20th 1999, Columbine Shooting proving there is a serious problem in our
country.
On November 30th 1999, The Battle in Seattle started as peaceful demonstrations
against the World Trade Organization, protests and teach ins, turned into a riots,
lockdown, curfews and martial law after the police batons, rubber bullets and
teargas.
Eric Schlosser shows the dark side of America’s food and nutrition in “Fast Food
Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal” (2001)
2000 George Bush is elected.
The twin towers are bombed on September 11th 2001.
War in Afghanistan in begins in 2001.
The patriot Act is created in October 2001 along with Homeland Security.
• FBI’S ROLE WENT FROM SOLVING CRIMES TO GATHERING NATIONAL
INTELLEGENCE
• IDEOLOGY TEST BEFORE ENTRY INTO U.S.
• GUILTY BYASSOCIATION, SPY ON NEIGHBORS
• UNLIMITED SURVEILENCE POWERS
• DEPORTATION OF NON-.‐ CITIZENS
• INDEFINATE DETENTION
• BY 2002 - 2000 ARAB/MUSLIMS WERE SECRETLY DETAINED AND TORTURED
• SEMANTICS-PLAY ON WORDS (CHANGE AGENTS)
• ACTIVISTS/PROTESTERS=DOMESTIC TERRORIST
• PATRIOTISM=NATIONALISM
• FREEDOM=SECURITY
• BLOCKING MEDIA ACCESS/TOLD WHAT TO REPORT
• ANYONE WHO SPOKE OUT WAS A DISENTER
• DISENTERS WERE BLACKLISTED (DIXIE CHICS)
• 1ST 4th 6th & 8th AMENDMENT RIGHTS ARE SUSPENDED
Embedment of journalists during this war caused many of them to lose their lives.
Collateral damage as they called it. No sympathy was given by the government to
rescue the captured reporters. In February 1, 2002, Daniel Pearl (Washington Post
Journalist) was beheaded in Pakistan by terrorists when he was investigating the
shoe bomber.
DIXIE CHICKS ARE BLACKLISTED IN 2003 FOR NATALIE MAINES SAYING
ON THEIR WORLD WIDE TOUR SHE WAS EMBARRASED TO BE FROM THE
SAME STATE AS THE PRESIDENT AND DID NOT AGREE WITH THE WAR.
Many investigative reporters lost their jobs at this time, change agents were placed in the
media companies and the change agents would screen the news for the government and
corporations and puts a positive spin with word play/semantics. Those who did not report
what they wanted were fired. George Bush abolished public interest rules and the
Commission of Freedom of the Press.
The illusion of Weapons of Mass Destruction brought us to War in Iraq in 2003.
rewrite.2004 the truth was revealed on the happenings in Iraq Beginning in 2004, human rights
violations in the form of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, including torture,[1][2][3] reports
ofrape,[1][2] sodomy,[3] and homicide[4] of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also
known as Baghdad Correctional Facility) came to public attention. These acts were committed by
military police personnel of the United States Army together with additional US governmental
agencies.[5]
Revealed in the Taguba Report, an initial criminal investigation by the United States Army
Criminal Investigation Command had already been underway, where soldiers of the 320th Military
Police Battalion had been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice withprisoner abuse.
In 2004, articles describing the abuse, including pictures showing military personnel appearing to
abuse prisoners, came to public attention, when a 60 Minutes IInews report (April 28) and an
article by Seymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker magazine (posted online on April 30 and
published days later in the May 10 issue) reported the story. [6]
In 2005 Washington Post reporter Dana Priest reveals the Secret CIA Prisons in
their fight against terrorism. Anne Hall joins Dana in a report in 2007 on the poor
treatment of veterans of the Iraq War at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Exposing the history of Monsanto, Marie Monique Robin writes “The World
According to Monsanto”(2010).
2010 BP OIL SPILL
2010 Fukishima Radioactive Meltdown
Amy Goodman
Goodman had been news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York
City for over a decade when she co-founded Democracy Now! The War and
Peace Report in 1996.
Howard Zinn searched for the real peoples history of the country. Interviewing the
people that were there and realistically showing the hardship of the people and
different history of America is told. His legacy was for the people to what really
happened in America through the people’s eyes and experiences.
Alex Jones, a libertarian born in the year of 1974, has been warning the world of the
take over happening in America. Airing out of Austin Texas, Alex has been informing
the people since 1998 with his many movies made through the last decade. He
currently can be found with updates daily on AM/FM/Shortwave radio across the
nation. Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com are his two online website channels.
Alex is a watchdog on the corruption of the country and defends our constitutional
rights of America.
Jessie Ventura (born in 1951), A well - known outspoken World Wide Wrestler
(1975-1986), a Navy Seal UDT in Vietnam(1969-1973), Governor of
Minnesota(1999-2003), talk show host, author, actor and anti-corruption advocate
reveals truth and freedom of information. Jesse has a Television program
Conspiracy Theory in 2009 to present on Tru TV.
Thom Hartmann
Camelot Project was created to protect the whistleblowers of government’s CIA
experiments and underground projects exposed. Here they are provided a shield to
protect them and their stories.
In 2010 Wikileaks, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning created a fire storm when
Private Bradley Manning leaked secret classified cables and video footage of a In April
2010, WikiLeaks published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike in which
Iraqi journalists were among those killed by an Apache helicopter, as the Collateral Murder video.
Wikileaks, a whistleblower site founded by Julian Assange (computer programmer
and investigative journalist), in 2006 published the cables and Bradley was
immediately arrested in May 2010 after a fellow soldier Adrian Lamo
turned him in to the FBI CABLEGATE/WIKILEAKS 2010-JUNE 7 2010 BRADLEY
MANNING (ARMY PRIVATE) WAS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RELEASING
CLASSIFIED MILITARY DOCUMENTS/CABLES TO WIKILEAKS AND KEPT IN POOR
CONDITIONS IN THE MILITARY BRIG HEADED FOR COURT MARTIAL ON FEB 23
2012. JULIAN ASSANGE (WORLD RENOUNED AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST) IS
ARRESTED ON DECEMBER 7, 2010 FOR FALSE SEX ALLEGATIONS FROM SWEDEN
BEING HELD UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN THE UK. US WANTS TO PROSECUTE
ASSANGE BUT HE IS A JOURNALIST AND IS PROTECTRED UNDER THE FREEDOM
OF THE PRESS.
BOTH TRIALS SCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING OF 2012. THEY ARE BEING
PROSECUTED FOR TELLING THE PEOPLE THE TRUTH. ASSANGE LOSSES THE
FIGHT IN THE UK SUPREME COURT AND IS FACING EXTRADITION TO SWEDEN.
UPDATE: Private Bradley Manning faces court marshal for 22 counts of aiding and
abetting the enemy. They are still looking for the link/law to prosecute Assange and
Wikileaks. Bradley is still locked up in a military brig. Julian Assange was granted
asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and remains there until safe passage
is granted to Ecuador. The UK police will arrest him if he sets foot on England soil.
Sweden wants him for bogus sex allegations but most importantly, the US wants to
charge him with espionage. Assange is running for Senate in the Australia elections.
.. V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly
by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the
1990s. A mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian
government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters. Warner Bros. released a film
adaptation of V for Vendetta in 2005.
Anonymous was founded in 2003 but became active hack-tivists on the Internet in
2008. They are defending the underdog, as well as, trying to keep the Internet free
from censorship.
RT (2005) has a show with the spitfire Alyona Minkovski. Minkovski joined RT as a producer in
December 2008 and was given an on-air assignment on Inauguration Day in January 2009. She
was then tapped to become host of RT's first live show as a second option. Minkovski was
eventually chosen.[1]
The first episode aired on October 9, 2009 and lasted for 30 minutes.[2] The show expanded to a
live, hour-long format in a new studio on January 15, 2010.[3]
In April 2010, the show was one of the first to interview Julian Assange, before his
organization Wikileaks received global attention for leaking U.S. diplomatic cables later in the
year.[1] The interview has been described as one of the most sympathetic to
Assange.[4] Minkovski has said that she would have done the interview differently with "5 million
more questions about him and about WikiLeaks."[1]
Update: Minkovski moved to the Huffington Post 123, in December 2012. Her show
was cancelled.
Pacifica Foundation Radio (1949) First Public Radio Network founded in the United
Staes in 1946, aired in 1949 promoting free speech. In 1978 In 1973, a father
complained to the FCC that his son had heard the George Carlin routine "Filthy Words" broadcast
one afternoon over WBAI, a Pacifica Foundation FM radio station in New York City. Pacifica
received censure from the FCC, in the form of a letter of reprimand, for allegedly violating FCC
regulations which prohibited broadcasting indecent material.
THE MUCKRAKERS OF TODAY RESIDE ON FREE SPEECH SATELITTE NETWORKS
AND THE WEB AND SOCIAL NETWORKS.
SATELITE STATIONS FSTV/LINKTV/CURNT
Internet/Twitter/YouTube/Facebook
ARAB SPRING began December 18, 2010 in Tunisia when Mohamed
Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest of the failure of government. Like the shot
heard across the world, that action triggered the uprising that spread throughout
the Middle East.
OCCUPY WALL STREET & The 99%, on SEPT.17th 2011.
Across the world and the United States. On September 17, 2011 the U.S. Day of Rage
began in Zuccotti Park NYC.
The GLOBAL REVOLUTION Live Stream allowed everyone online to watch and
experience the events those on the ground were in the moment live across the
world audience. All live streams as well as chat rooms to communicate with the
other viewers as well as those on the ground and were all linked together to get the
beat of what was happening in any and or all occupations at the same time. Police
brutality sent the viewers to 20,000 in a matter of 3-5 minutes. The Mass Media was
arrested, removed and told to leave so the only coverage was in the moment on
global revolution and those who got out of there with their video cameras in tact.
The immediate information went through twitter. On the ground information
became an instant peoples network. Most of the raids would happen to the
occupations in the middle of the night and people who slept…missed it. There would
be coverage on the satellite stations but mainstream media would not cover it until
two weeks later. The more police brutality the peaceful protesters withstood the
more occupies popped out around the world and the nation. The occupies set up
tents and camps at a local public park or to address their grievances and protest
during the day about the issue of too much money controlling our government after
a sinister bill “Citizens United” allowed Corporations to have the same rights as
people. Soon there were many people with many causes in the streets with their
tents.
By Nov 11, 2011, there were no more protests, or occupies or free speech. All
occupies were dismantled. The police cleared the parks of the occupies with
bulldozers and trash trucks, rubber bullets, tear gas, tasers, barricades, live
ammunition and closed the parks. No More Tents or Camping Allowed!
TRIAL AND DETENTION OF BRADLEY MANNING AND JULIAN ASSANGE 2011-2012
DECEMBER 31, 2011-NEW LAW IMPLEMENTED.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT (NDAA) This law authorizes the
President the use of Military forces to detain indefinitely without trial, anyone who
is suspected of being a terrorist or terrorist supporter. This law comes after the
occupiers experience that the Military Manual name protesters as low-level
terrorists.
ACTA – Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement implemented by the UN in Fall of 2011
2012 Marijuana legalized for recreational use in Colorado and Washington State.
Obama is re-elected for another four years.
Increase in school shootings. Gun control laws are being implemented.
Gabby Gifford, Arizona
James Holmes – Batman-Aurora, Colorado, movie theater
Sandy Hook- Elementary School, Sandy Hook,
Increase in fracking, earthquakes and unstable deadly weather.
2013- Aaron Swartz was charged for sharing scholarly journals and was harassed
repeatedly from Homeland Security. Swartz was a freedom fighter/activist for noncensorship and right to privacy on the Internet. Swartz was a Prodigy with the
Internet. He committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by the
FBI.
JAN. 2013 - ABBY MARTIN – BREAKING THE SET-RT NEWS
FEB. 2013 - LAPD, California, Donner, cop killer
FEB. 2013 - GE SELLS NBC MEDIA STOCK TO COX COMMUNICATIONS.
FEB. 2013 – CURRENT TV SOLD TO ALJAZEERA.
The People continue to occupy the parks, streets, banks and city halls around the
world. Again and again, the militarized police, using military weapons, meet them
with more force. The people in Egypt, Libya, London, Greece, Syria and Yemen are
fighting for their lives daily from rebel fighters doing unspeakable things (not to be
aired on MSM). The children have been taken and brutally
tortured/imprisoned/abused and beheaded and the world is busy playing politics.
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