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Harry S Truman The weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship.
Daniel Webster ``In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism or religion or both to deceive and overawe the people.``
“The meeting took place in a big board room and there were about 30 or 40 people, including the big news anchors from all the networks.”
“Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was [a] network of liars…Trump didn’t say [NBC reporter] Katy Tur by name, but talked about an NBC female correspondent who got it wrong, then he referred to a horrible network correspondent who cried when Hillary lost who hosted a debate – which was Martha Raddatz who was also in the room.”
“[CBS Good Morning co-host Gayle] King did not stand up, but asked some question, ‘How do you propose we the media work with you?’ Chuck Todd asked some pretty pointed questions. David Muir asked ‘How are you going to cope living in DC while your family is in NYC? It was a horrible meeting.”
In something that could’ve been scripted by George Orwell, President-elect Donald Trump just has pretty much every major media personality and/or outlet over to Trump Tower for a closed-door meeting.
“The hour-long session included top execs from network and cable news channels. Among the attendees were NBC’s Deborah Turness, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, ABC’s James Goldston, George Stephanopoulos, David Muir and Martha Raddatz,
Also, CBS’ Norah O’Donnell John Dickerson, Charlie Rose, Christopher Isham and King, Fox News’ Bill Shine, Jack Abernethy, Jay Wallace, Suzanne Scott, MSNBC’s Phil Griffin and CNN’s Jeff Zucker and Erin Burnett.”
Before the meeting, everyone was speculating as to what was going on. Why is Trump colluding with the media? Is he trying to control the conversation and form some sort of state sponsored media?
Well, speculate no further. Trump called everyone to his tower to scold them like the Henry the 8th he is very much turning out to be.
According to one source who confided in the NY Post:
“It was like a f–ing firing squad…Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed.”
Adding:
“The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down.”
It was basically Trump throwing a hissy fit and talking down to everyone in the media to tell them how very awful they are to him. Even though they were pretty soft on him throughout the course of his campaign, often given him an open forum and hours of free airtime to tout his craziness.
Another source said:
“The meeting took place in a big board room and there were about 30 or 40 people, including the big news anchors from all the networks.”
Further:
“Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong.’ He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. He called out Jeff Zucker by name and said everyone at CNN was a liar, and CNN was [a] network of liars…Trump didn’t say [NBC reporter] Katy Tur by name, but talked about an NBC female correspondent who got it wrong, then he referred to a horrible network correspondent who cried when Hillary lost who hosted a debate – which was Martha Raddatz who was also in the room.”
Some of the media did try to get a word in edgewise, but it was pretty much all for naught. Trump was there to scold and not get a lesson from the media in freedom of the press and speech.
“[CBS Good Morning co-host Gayle] King did not stand up, but asked some question, ‘How do you propose we the media work with you?’ Chuck Todd asked some pretty pointed questions. David Muir asked ‘How are you going to cope living in DC while your family is in NYC? It was a horrible meeting.”
According to Kellyanne Conway, however, it all went really well. Yet, it’s hard to believe a word that comes out of the Trump camp, because they will say only what they want people to hear, and most of the time there’s barely a sliver of the truth involved.
No word as to who the source is that spoke to the NY Post.
It’s pretty clear Trump wants to control the narrative of the press, why else would he have so many big news names over to his palace tower? He wanted to scold them and likely tell them how they should be operating, and we should all be very, very mortified that he even had them over in the first place.
After all, if you control the press, you control what the people hear. If you control what the people hear, you can tell them anything you want, even if it’s not in their best interests. It’s horrifying, to say the least, absolutely Hitler-esque, if we’re going to be honest.
The press need to be counted on to hold Trump accountable for everything that he says or does, and if they don’t someone needs to hold the press accountable as well. This is a scary time we’re entering into and hopefully the Constitution will not be shredded and honesty with accountability will prevail.
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Under the U.S. Constitution they are obligated to vote only for a candidate who is fit for office. To this end, each elector may vote as a "faithless elector".
The faithless elector option was included by the founding fathers as a safeguard against the situation we now find ourselves in - when a highly unfit person is about to become our President. In fact, Alexander Hamilton said, "the office of president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
We The People must now urge our electors to exercise the "faithless elector" option. Our electors MUST now speak for us. It is their duty to prevent a man "who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications" from taking the office of President of the United States.
The 2016 election is not final until the electors of the Electoral College meet (in their respective state capitals) and vote on December 19, 2016.
Furthermore, The People have spoken; Hillary Clinton has won the popular vote.
Our electors MUST vote for Hillary Clinton on December 19, 2016.
This petition will be delivered to:
Amy Bunk, Director of Legal Affairs and Policy; Miriam Vincent, Staff
Moore said:Day Two’s To-Do List: Abolish the Electoral College!!!!
1. Must quickly and decisively form an opposition movement, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the 1960s. I will do my part to help lead this as I’m sure many others (Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, MoveOn, the hip-hop community, DFA, etc.) will, too. The core of this opposition force will be fueled by young people who, as with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, don’t tolerate b.s. and are relentless in their resistance to authority. They have no interest in compromising with racists and misogynists.
2. Prepare to impeach Trump. Just as the Republicans were already planning to do with President Hillary from Day One, we must organize the apparatus that will bring charges against him when he violates his oath and breaks the law — and then we must remove him from office.
3. Must commit right now to a vigorous fight (including civil disobedience, if necessary) which will block any and all Donald Trump Supreme Court nominees who do not meet our approval. We demand the Democrats in the Senate aggressively filibuster any nominees who support Citizens United or who oppose the rights of women, immigrants and the poor. This is non-negotiable.
4. Demand the DNC apologize to Bernie Sanders for trying to fix the primaries against him, for spinning the press to ignore his historic campaign, for giving Clinton the questions in advance at the Flint debate, for its latent ageism and anti-Semism in trying to turn voters against him because of his age or religious beliefs, and for its anti-democracy system of “superdelegates” who are elected by no one. We all know now had Bernie been given a fair shot, he probably would have been the nominee and he — as the true outsider and “change” candidate –would have inspired and fired up the base and soundly defeated Donald Trump. If no apology is soon forthcoming from the DNC, that’s ok — when we take over the Democratic Party (see yesterday’s To-Do List, #1), we will issue the apology in person.
5. Demand that President Obama establish a Special Prosecutor to investigate who and what was behind FBI Director James Comey’s illegal interference into the Presidential election 11 days before the vote was held.
6. Begin a national push while it’s fresh in everyone’s mind for a constitutional amendment to fix our broken electoral system: 1. Eliminate the Electoral College — popular vote only. 2. Paper ballots only — no electronic voting. 3. Election Day must be made a holiday for all — or held on a weekend so more people vote. 4. All citizens, regardless of any run-ins with the criminal “justice” system, must have the right to vote. (In swing states like Florida and Virginia, 30-40% of all Black men are prohibited by law from voting.)
7. Convince President Obama to immediately do what he should have done a year ago: Send in the Army Corps of Engineers to Flint to dig up and replace all the poisoned pipes. NOTHING HAS CHANGED; the water in Flint is still unusable.
Will try to get these done by sundown. More To-Do tomorrow…
–Michael Moore
Moore continued with a list of ways that America can fix the broken electoral process:
“1. Eliminate the Electoral College — popular vote only.
2. Paper ballots only — no electronic voting.
3. Election Day must be made a holiday for all — or held on a weekend so more people vote.
4. All citizens, regardless of any run-ins with the criminal ‘justice’ system, must have the right to vote.”
Moore is saying something that many liberals have been asking themselves throughout every single presidential election. Why do we not just count everyone’s votes and determine a winner that way? Why the confusing electoral votes, and why are elections held in the middle of the week, when people have to work?
On December 19, the Electors of the Electoral College will cast their ballots. If they all vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump will win. However, they can vote for Hillary Clinton if they choose. Even in states where that is not allowed, their vote would still be counted, they would simply pay a small fine - which we can be sure Clinton supporters will be glad to pay!
We are calling on the Electors to ignore their states' votes and cast their ballots for Secretary Clinton. Why?
Mr. Trump is unfit to serve. His scapegoating of so many Americans, and his impulsivity, bullying, lying, admitted history of sexual assault, and utter lack of experience make him a danger to the Republic.
Secretary Clinton WON THE POPULAR VOTE and should be President.
Hillary won the popular vote. The only reason Trump "won" is because of the Electoral College.
But the Electoral College can actually give the White House to either candidate. So why not use this most undemocratic of our institutions to ensure a democratic result?
SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE.
There is no reason Trump
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Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. Alex Storozynski
The contest for all ages has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. Daniel Webster
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite. Thomas Jefferson The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. James Madison Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation. Justice William O Douglas Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. Jeremy Bentham Justice without force is important. Force without justice is tyranny. Blaise Pascal The concentrating [of powers] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. Thomas Jefferson The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands, whether of one, a few or many; and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elected - may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. James Madison Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth; and let me remind you that they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny. Barry Goldwater
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power. Love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness - such as pride, cunning and cruelty Leo Tolstoi A democratic despotism is like theocracy; it assumes its own correctness. Walter Bagehot This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest. William Shakespeare (Macbeth) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know my Lords, that where law ends, tyranny begins. Lord Chatham Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition was the cause of all these evils. Thucydides The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. Thomas Bailey Aldrich A fondness for power is implanted in most men; and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. Alexander Hamilton Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. Daniel Defoe Experience hath shown, that even under the best form of government - those entrusted with power, have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it to tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim that can preserve the liberties of any people. John Adams There is no slippery slope toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must be first tolerated by the people and their leaders. Alan K Simpson Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. Joseph Sobran American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses' problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us. Charlie Reese Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Thomas Paine
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of a private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power. Franklin D Roosevelt The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical. John Adams This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. George Orwell (Animal Farm)
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die. Charles Dickens (Bleak House) Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, Proud and vain. Samuel Butler We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed. Thomas Jefferson
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. William Pitt "Useful" and "necessary" was always the tyrant's plea. CS Lewis
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. Albert Camus Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not it's inhumanity, but it's anti-humanity. Eric Hoffer
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. Thomas Paine
How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words. Samuel Adams Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men of all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Daniel Webster In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism or religion or both to deceive and overawe the people.
OH Canton The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. Edmund Burke When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. Euripides Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. Lysander Spooner
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers only have to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. William E Channing By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable. Friedrich August von Hayek Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master Demosthenes When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. James Madison If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. James Madison A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. Crystal Eastman
The means of against foreign danger have always been the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending have enslaved the people. James Madison Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe...And "emergency" became the justification of subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
Herbert Hoover Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?
Alexander Hamilton The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) my menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. HL Mencken A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire [Decree]. Srdja Trifkovic Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. It's grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency. Justice Charles Evans Hughes Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear - a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens, and real diseases are useful material Susan Sontang The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded. Vance Packard
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal". Martin Luther King The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more "laws" or law-like measures were put on the books than ever." Sheila Fitzpatrick In germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me. Rev Martin Niemoeller When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees. Jessica Mitford When it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Viscount Morley No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" or "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights. Rev Edmund Opitz If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it. Erich Fromm A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. Justice John Marshall Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. Charles de Montesquieu The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is dominated by the executive. Edward Gibbon A decision by the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or a decree may not be scrutinized by a judge. In addition, the judge is bound by any other decision of the Fuhrer. Adolf Hitler
Peace without justice is tyranny William Allen White The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives. Sir Patrick Devlin There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office Aesop
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue. They support the laws before destroying them. Voltaire No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices they would call "hard but necessary" for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story. Jim Butcher
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. Bill Clinton Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom not tyranny; democracy not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Tony Blair Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal
constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure conformity, but one that removes awareness of other possibilities. Alan Bloom For people to rule themselves in a republic. they must have virtue; for a tyrant to rule in a tyranny, he must use fear. William J Federer The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life. Justice William O Douglas Authoritarian methods do not produce independence; they reinforce dependence. Elaine Heffner It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind. WEB Du Bois
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Charles Peguy [It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. Sir Walter Raleigh The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. Emily Greens Balch I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Thomas Jefferson Both Oligarch and Tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms. Aristotle Tyrants are seldom free. The cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. George Santayana For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
Aeschylus Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one that rises against them and strikes back. JK Rowling You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their heart there is unspoken, unspeakable fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts. Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse, a little tiny mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. Winston Churchill Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once; all he has to do now is to "educate the people" so that they wil have one common mind to delude. Richard Mitchell
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. Robin Morgan
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. Frank L Stanton Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. Robert Heinlein To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils. Thomas Holcroft To silence criticism is to silence freedom. Sidney Hook The framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and the revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. Hugo Black Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime. Harry Kalven Jr Once a government is committed to silencing the voice of the opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S Truman The weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship. TH Qualter Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. Henry Steele Commager
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism. John Stuart Mill
I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they were rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves and of one another. Samuel Johnson
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition. George Orwell
All tyranny needs to gain foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenal The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. CJ Redwine He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetuate it, Martin Luther King If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Bishop Benjamin Tutu
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so. For tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles on sleeping men. Voltaire If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln
For you see, the world is controlled by very different personages from what is imagined by those not behind the scenes. Benjamin Disraeli A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa - treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed and wasted at will. Eric Hoffer The real truth of the matter is, as you know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. Franklin D Roosevelt History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violet means to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. James Madison
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. James Garfield It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking or monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. Henry Ford
Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside of Congree and manipulates the credit of the United States. Barry Goldwater A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and very powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks. John C Calhoun The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as "international bankers". This little coterie ... run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...[and] seizes...our executive orders...our legislative bodies...schools...courts...newspapers and every agency created for public protection. John F Hylan Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. Stephane Hessel Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. Friedrich August von Hayek If you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave. John Bryant
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A joint project between a Virginia Commonwealth University history professor and VCU Libraries shows for the first time how the Ku Klux Klan spread across the United States between 1915 and 1940, establishing chapters in all 50 states with an estimated membership of between 2 million and 8 million.
"Then/Now/Next: The Ku Klux Klan Data Mapping Project, 1915-1940, and Today's Dialogue on Race"
VCU Libraries is hosting an open discussion and presentation about the KKK mapping project on Dec. 3, at noon, in Cabell Library, Room 250. John Kneebone, Ph.D., chair of the Department of History at VCU, will lead the presentation. All are invited.
The project, “Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1940,” is an animated, online map that illustrates the rise of the second Klan, which was founded in Atlanta in 1915 and spread rapidly across the country to total more than 2,000 local units, known as Klaverns.
“The project is using technology to demonstrate, and make available for people to contemplate, the nationwide spread of the Ku Klux Klan,” said John Kneebone, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of History in the College of Humanities and Sciences. “This map shows that you can’t just say ‘Oh, it was those crazy people in the South.’ The [KKK] was in the mainstream.”
The map, he said, invites the viewer to learn about the Klan in their own area, and to reflect on how the Klan’s vile message of racism, anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism appealed to so many millions of Americans.
“Everywhere there was population, there was the Klan,” Kneebone said. “Think about being a young person — black or Jewish or Catholic — and growing up, knowing that these were everywhere.”
“Everywhere there was population, there was the Klan.”
Kneebone built a list of local KKK chapters by piecing together information culled from the hate group’s official publications, including newspapers and magazines with such names as The Fellowship Forum, Kourier Magazine, Indiana Fiery Cross and Imperial Night Hawk.
He partnered with digital librarians at VCU Libraries to use his data to map out the list of KKK chapters and illustrate their chronological rise across the country.
“This project models innovative collaboration between libraries and scholars,” said Jimmy Ghaphery, head of digital technologies for VCU Libraries. “Building on the extensive research and scholarly context that Dr. Kneebone brought to bear, the VCU Libraries was able to provide support for data normalization, data visualization and a publishing platform. In publishing the raw data set, the door remains open for other researchers to jump in and join us.”
The project is significant for VCU Libraries because it marks the first time the digital librarians have worked directly with a faculty researcher to develop a digital visualization of their work.
“It kind of indicates where libraries are going in general, moving more into the digital humanities realm, where we’re working with scholars to find new ways to disseminate scholarship,” said Erin White, web systems librarian with VCU Libraries, who worked on the project. “This is really exciting from our perspective because it’s a new thing that we’re exploring that has great potential for us as an organization.”
“In publishing the raw data set, the door remains open for other researchers to jump in and join us.”
The map’s animation shows red dots, each representing a local Klan, spreading across the country “like a contagion,” said Shariq Torres, a web applications analyst with digital technologies who oversaw creation of the map.
“A lot of times today, talk of racism says this region is bad or that region is bad. No, all of it is bad. And this map shows that,” he said. “[Even after the KKK disbanded], all those people were still in the community. They became cops, they became judges, they became lawyers, they became teachers. They were all throughout the community. I see it as a very striking example of the sort of institutionalized racism that remains in the country today.”
The map shows that unlike the first KKK of Reconstruction and the third Klan of the civil rights era, both of which were concentrated in the Deep South, the second Klan was far more widespread. It operated not only in all 50 states, but even in spots like Panama, where the Panama Canal was under American control.
Wearing white robes and hoods, members of the Ku Klux Klan parade on Grace Street in Richmond circa 1925. Image courtesy of The Valentine.
“It’s not even the full picture because we don’t have all the data. But even with the data we have, every state is represented,” Torres said. “This organization’s ideas were so mainstream that people were fine with it. They were fine with excluding black people. That trickles down to everything else – housing inspectors, cops, policymakers, everything.”
Kneebone suspects that the second KKK was more widespread than the map conveys because they only included local Klans that were mentioned in the group’s publications.
“You’ve got an organization with thousands of units and millions of members, so there’s [a lot of these organizational records that existed],” he said. “I’m convinced that a lot of folks, years later, came across these [Klan documents] in grandpa’s attic and went ‘Oh, my god. I’ve got to get rid of this.’”
The 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation" helped fuel the nationwide rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
The rise of the second KKK was fueled in large part by the 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation,” which was a fictional and highly racist depiction of Reconstruction that portrays the first KKK, which operated between 1865 and 1871, as the saviors of white America.
“In class, I describe it as pornography for racists,” Kneebone said. “It’s a horrible movie.”
World War I also played a role in spreading the Klan, Kneebone said.
“World War I comes and the nation becomes fixated on the dangers of aliens and hyphenated Americans and disloyal people, which leads to a good deal of extralegal violence against dissenters,” he said. “People were whipped, tar-and-feathered, even hung. People were forced to kneel and kiss the flag. The generic term that the press used for these actions was Ku Klux Klan. So the message was out that the Klan is one, a good thing, thanks to ‘The Birth of a Nation.’ And two, it’s the means by which the community protects itself.”
The second Klan went into decline in 1925 when the man behind the group’s expansion in the Midwest, David Curtiss Stephenson, was arrested and convicted of the second-degree murder of a woman named Madge Oberholtzer, who had been raped and beaten and who ultimately committed suicide. “That was the final blow that showed just how low and corrupt the Klan is,” Kneebone said.
Most historians, he said, end the story of the second Klan around 1925 when membership begins to drop off. However, Kneebone’s research shows that local Klan units continued to meet, even outside the South.
The second KKK met its end in the 1940s when the IRS essentially shut it down for its failure to pay taxes. Yet the Klan did not go away entirely, Kneebone said. In Virginia, for example, it simply reincorporated under another name, the American Shore Patrol.
It is important to understand the second KKK, Kneebone said, not only to come to grips with the widespread racism that permeated the country, but also because it tells the story of the Klan’s courageous opponents.
“In the long run, the importance of this project is the opponents,” he said. “What comes out of the opposition to the Klan is for the first time black Americans, Catholic Americans, Jewish Americans, work together.”
The coalition of Klan opponents formed the basis of the modern Democratic Party.
“It’s important for us in terms of politics,” Kneebone said. “This is when the Democratic Party, which had been the leave-us-alone party of racism, begins turning toward the party of liberalism.”
Notably, opposition to the KKK and “The Birth of a Nation” was also a defining moment in the early days of the NAACP.
“From the emergence of ‘Birth of a Nation,’ the NAACP, which had been founded in 1910, had seen the movie as a base libel of black people and an evil film with a terrible, terrible message and fought really hard to have it banned in various cities,” Kneebone said. “In many ways, this is the making of the NAACP.”
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