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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

RETHINKING THE SCOTTSBORO CASE?

   As many of you know, I am now rather conservative politically.  When I was young I wrote about a famous rape case in the US, and defended the Left.  Now that my politics have changed, should I revise my history?  A few months ago Smithsonian Mag on line published an article on the old Scottsboro case of the 1930s.  I immediately replied, and the next day.  But no replies were posted.  Today I decided to check, and my comments were there.  My own politics have changed, but history has not changed.  Facts do not change with fashions.

     Alice George wrote the article "Who Were the Scottsboro Nine?"  in the Smithsonian on line, 23 March 2020.  She has a doctorate.  My comments are below.

  • This is not for posting. I sent in 2 posts already. I have published several articles on Scottsboro beginning in the 1960s. My British research was never published - thus the link between the SDC, Robeson and Kenyatta. So that should be of general interest. Hugh Murray


  • One more thing. In the UK in the 1930s a Scottsboro Defence Committee was established with 2 co-chairs. One was the American Paul Robeson, who had been an All American football player at Rutgers, earned a law degree, but then became known on stage as a singer and actor. In the 1930s film version of "Show Boat," he sang "Old Man River." In the UK he starred in a number of films and befriended some African students studying in Britain who were extras in the films. Britain still held the largest empire in the world prior to WWII, and many colonials would appreciate films with a Black star. The other chair of the Scottsboro Defence (Brit. spell) Committee was an African, Johnstone Kenyatta. By the 1950s, in America Robeson's career had withered because of the blacklist. And in Kenya, Johnstone became Jomo Kenyatta, the leader of the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule in that country. The Scottsboro cause had brought together many from various parts of the world.
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  • Scottsboro is important for many reasons, but one reason - the role of the Communist Party and its fronts, like the International Labor Defense, in moving the case beyond the small court-room and into the streets around the world. The NAACP sought an attorney to represent the boys in the initial trials. The ILD moved in and wanted to direct the case, and fought with the NAACP to get the support of the boys and their parents. The NAACP wanted a defense in the courtroom; the ILD wanted more, not just a good defense attorney but agitation outside the courtroom. Through the world-wide communist movement, one of the Scottsboro mothers toured Europe, telling of the oppression of Blacks in America. Einstein and many of the notted intellectuals of the day signed petitions to save the Scottsboro boys, sent to officials in Alabama! The Garvey newspaper showed a Scottsboro protest in (pre-Hitler) Germany. The ILD won the first US Supreme Court case maintaining that the initial defense was no defense, and a new trial was required.
    The ILD led a March on Washington in 1933 emphasizing the Scottsboro case, and one woman who picketed the White HOuse (FDR and the Democrats were not interested in ending lynching, legal or not.) was Ruby Bates, one of the alleged victims. She had testified in the 2nd trial that there was no rape. The doctor who examined the girls told Judge Horton in private, that the girls were laughing when he examined them re the "rape." He was convinced they had not been raped, but refused to say so on the witness stand, and if the judge required that he testify, he would lie.
    The Communist led effort saved the Scottsboro boys and led to a combined, legal inside the court defense WITH an effort on the streets, on the media, agitation with which we are now familiar. The Scottsboro boys were innocent and deserved the support. In much of the 1930s and until the mid-50s Communists, were often leaders in the civil rights movement, from sit-ins in Baltimore and DC around 1950 and the Progressive Party anti-seg campaign throughout the South in 1948. The NAACP was not always the leader, and often opposed to action.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

CRITICAL RACE THEORY: A RACIST IDEA TO OPPRESS WHITES

 Critical Race Theory contends that Blacks cannot be racists, by definition.  History indicates that not only can they be racists, they can be fascists.  I shall add more to this post soon.


Anthony G. Flood, "From Garvey to Farrakhan"

On August 13, 1920 Marcus Garvey presided at the convention of the United Negro Improvement Association held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. There he promulgated the Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World. Its 54 points comprise the farthest thing from a fascist manifesto.

And yet, as my friend Hugh Murray noted a quarter-century ago, Garvey “admired . . . leading anti-communists, such as Mussolini. Indeed, in 1937 Garvey proudly proclaimed of his Universal Negro Improvement Association, ‘We were the first fascists.’[1]

Here’s the full quote:

We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.[2]

He said this in 1937, after Mussolini consolidated his rape of Ethiopia.

While many liberals [Murray continues] are the first to hurl the word “fascist” at those with whom they disagree, they usually ignore the fascism of blacks, even when publicly advocated.[3]

A few years after Hugh wrote those words, King’s College Professor of American and English Literature Paul Gilroy came out with “Black Fascism” (Transition, Indiana UPress, 2000, 70-91), a scholarly monograph on Garvey’s boast, the first instance of Black public advocacy of fascism. I recommend it to students of this overlooked chapter of Black American history.

George Lincoln Rockwell, center

On June 25, 1961 American Nazi Party Commander George Lincoln Rockwell sat in the Uline Arena, Washington, DC (where the Beatles would give their first US concert a few years later). He was there at the invitation of Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad. Thousands were in attendance. During the collection, Rockwell shouted:

George Lincoln Rockwell gives $20!

That’s about $135 in today’s money. Malcolm X, noting the applause, asked him:

George Lincoln Rockwell, you got the biggest hand you ever got, didn’t you? [4]

This wasn’t a one-off: Muhammad invited Rockwell to speak at their next Saviour’s Day Convention, which he did on Sunday, February 25, 1962, before 12,175 people in Chicago’s International Amphitheater.

At the podium, in full Nazi regalia, Rockwell adjudged “that Elijah Muhammad is to the so-called Negro what Adolph Hitler is to the German people. He is the most powerful black man in the country.  Heil Hitler!” [5]

Louis Farrakhan, NOI’s current Führer, has not only not repudiated his outfit’s past overtures to American Nazis, but has only reinforced his image as a Black National Socialist. Of course, there isn’t an American Nazi Party worth its salt to invite to a Saviours’ Day commemoration. (Farrakhan pluralized “Saviour” in 1983.) Instead he enjoys the admiration of Black Muslim members of Congress who share his anti-Jewish Weltanschauung and can promote it on a platform wider than the Uline Arena.

Whereas Farrakhan recently joked that he’s not an anti-Semite (only “anti-termite“) it’s the considered view of Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.” When, under pressure from the Democratic leadership, she apologized, Farrakhan gently chided her:

Ms. Omar from Somalia—she started talking about ‘the Benjamins’ and they are trying to make her apologize. Sweetheart, don’t do that. Pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweet heart. You sure are using it to shake the government up, but you have nothing to apologize for. . . . Israel and AIPAC pays off senators and congressmen to do their bidding, so you’re not lying, so if you’re not lying. Stop laying down. You were sent there by the people to shake up that corrupt House.

Another Muslim congressional newbie, a 2006 guest columnist for NOI’s The Final Call, is Rashida “Impeach the motherf—–” Tlaib (D-MN). She wants the US to cut off aid to Israel because such aid “doesn’t fit the values of our country,” which “values” apparently include using an obscenity to refer to our country’s president. In front of her child.

Addressing both women, the Minister reminded his “beautiful sisters” that they “were sent there to shake that House up. Your people voted you in, but God is the overseer.”

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Then-Senator Obama with Farrakhan and members of the Congressional Black Caucus, 2005

America’s most notable Black Muslims, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, fell out with the NOI: Malcolm in 1964, Ali in 1975.[6] Farrakhan, perhaps the lone survivor of that generation, remains Farrakhan. His 1984 description of “Adolf Hitler [as] a very great man” didn’t socially restrict him from appearing in a photo op with one president or sharing the stage with another.

He was almost certainly at those “ecumenical” NOI events in 1961 and 1962. I would appreciate hearing from any reader who can eliminate the “almost.”

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Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Bill Clinton, funeral service for Aretha Franklin, Greater Grace Temple, Detroit, MI, Aug. 31, 2018

[1] See J. A. Rogers, World’s Great Men of Color (New York: J. A. Rogers, 1947), Vol. II, pp. 602, 605.”

[2] 1937 interview reported by Joel A. Rogers, “Marcus Garvey,” in Negroes of New York series, New York Writers Program, 1939, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York. This remark seems to have been dropped from later editions of Rogers’s book.

[3] See Murray’s “White Liberals, Black Racists,” in Chronicles (August, 1994), pp. 43-46.

[4] Muhammad Speaks, April 1962, p. 3.

[5] See Black History and the Class StruggleSpartacist League, August 1994, p. 37. Those interested in researching this fascinating (if also disturbing) chapter of American history should start with William H. Schmaltz, Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell & the American Nazi Party, Washington,DC: Brassey’s, 1999. For the June 25, 1961 event, see Chapter 6, “1961: This Time the World,” 119-21; for February 25, 1962, see Chapter 7, “1962: A World Union of National Socialists,” 133-35. I’ve posted the text of these chapters here. See also Tristan Hopper, “The weird time Nazis made common cause with black nationalists,” National Post, August 24, 2017. Also useful is Mark Jones, “Malcolm X’s Unlikely Washington Connections,” Boundary Stones, February 21, 2015.  The most comprehensive article I’ve seen is Sam McPheeters, “When Malcolm X Met the Nazis,” Vice, April 15, 2015. See also Hugh Murray’s 1994 letter to The New York Times and 1995 letter to The Chronicles of Higher Education. You can read them here.

[6] It probably got Malcolm killed. After he had called out Elijah Muhammad for serially impregnating his underage secretaries, Farrakhan (then “Louis X”) announced that “such a man is worthy of death.” He later regretted that his words may have led to Malcolm’s murder on February 25, 1965—two months after he uttered them.

 

Monday, January 11, 2021

 JOE BIDEN'S ELECTION AND THE REICHSTAG FIRE

On November 6, 2020, I posted an article about the Biden Election and Its Predecessors. I compared his election to that of the Nazis in March 1933, in which the majority of voters, nearly 2 thirds, voted against democracy and in favor of totalitarianism, Nazi, Nazi allies, and Communists. Here I want to reconsider the comparison.


When I wrote immediately after the November 3 election in the US, I assumed that Biden had won the popular vote by several millions, and the Electoral vote by a substantial majority. However, the more I considered the objections to the electoral results, the more I questioned my initial acceptance of the major media narrative. I reside in Wisconsin, a state which in my youth was synonymous with clean government. But was that still true? I thought of my anger when in Wisconsin we had a state-wide election in April 2020. The Democrats were already promoting vote-by-mail, and the day before the election, the Governor, a left-wing Democrat, canceled the election day polling. A last minute judicial ruling said the governor could not do that. We would go on with the in-person voting as scheduled. So then Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, another liberal Democrat, reduced the number of polling places for a city of over half a million, from 180 to a mere 5 polling places. I suddenly did not know where to vote, had to take a bus to a different neighborhood, a find where to enter the place, etc. At some of these polls, the wait was 2 and ½ hours to vote. Other Democrat Mayors also cut the polling places. Yet, Democrats always proclaim that it is Republicans who seek to suppress the vote!


I learned that in September and October 2020, before the Wisconsin law permitted early voting, there were vote parties in parks in Madison and other areas, advertised by the Wisconsin Election Commission and the Democratic Party, in which many young people could vote, early, and their ballots were collected by election officials. A Republican official demaned that these ballots be kept separate, as the GOP would contest this violation of the law. The election officials immediately went about to integrate these ballots with the uncontested. Election officials defied the law also stating that because of the virus, people who were not permanently impaired, could sign saying they were, and get mail-in ballots for which they would not have to show the required photo ID. Wisconsin law states that if a mail-in vote lacks a signature, or that of a withness, or the address of a witness, it should be returned to the voter for correction, OR NOT BE COUNTED, AS IT WOULD BE AN ILLEGAL VOTE. But election officials defied the law, especially in Democratic Party areas, allowing clerks to correct and count these defective ballots. And so on. It is estimated that over 200,000 Biden ballots were illegally cast in Wisconsin. The official tally is that Biden won the state by 20,000 over Trump. Delete the 200,000 illegal votes, and Trump should have won Wisconsin by 180,000.


What happened in Wisconsin happened in many other states. The major contested states were Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, but there was probably fraud and Democratic Party cheating in most states. It got less publicity and less perusal because the other states were less crucial – if Trump could show that he had really won more legitimate votes in those contested states, then he would be the winner and should be inaugurated January 20, 2021 for his 2nd term. But court after court was unwilling to look at the evidence – they preferred to turn a blind eye to the cheating. It is possible they kept a wide eye to what happened all summer long, the violence of the Democratic Party mobs burnding down parts of cities. The culprits were rarely punished, and the organizations who sponsored these terrorist tactics earned millions from frightened corporations. Whatever the reasons, the courts refused to hear the evidence.

On January 6, 2021 Congress was to meet to count and certify the votes of the Electoral College. Pres. Trump had urged his followers to come to Washington, DC, so he could give an account of the voter fraud essential to Biden's alleged victory. At the conclusion, he urged a peacable march on the Congress. Not all who marched were peaceful? Some stormed into the Congress, fighting with police, overwhelming the authorities by their numbers. A policeman was killed by demonstrators; one unarmed female demonstrator was killed by the police.


The media was outraged. Congress under attack; our democracy at risk! Congress, the people's chamber interrupted by invaders. Foreign nations are laughing at us; China compares the anti-Beijing protestors in Hong Kong (who invaded the city's chamber) to those in DC. The problem with the media and the Democrats outrage is that it was hypocritical. In the summer of 2020 mobs of Democrats, bearing Black Lives Matter and Anti-Fa banners had cause great destruction in many cities, including Washington, DC. The AP story of 31 May 2020 relates:


WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker on Friday night as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the executive mansion, some of them throwing rocks and tugging at police barricades.


The US Govt., has 3 basic divisions: legislative, executive, and judicial. While the media went over the top with the invasion of Congress, it's treatment of the attacks on the executive were quite different. It failed to see that as an attack on democracy; and some mocked Trump for hiding in the basement. Next night, when Trump cleared Lafayette Park of the mob, media and the Democrats (I'm being repetitious) complained that the peaceful demonstrators were being deprived of their civil liberties. After the clearing, Trump walked through the cleared part ot an ancient church that, the previous night the “peaceful protestors” sought to torch. (If given a chance, would they have also set fire to the White House?) There, Trump waved a Bible in triumph; the church was still there. Even last week Biden belittled Trump for using the Bible. If the invasion of the Capitol was an assault on democracy; then so was the assault on the White House that the Secret Service found threatening enough to bring the Trumps to the bunker. Why do the media and Democrats make so much of the attack on the Capitol, and so little about the attacks on the White House, for it was not just one, but guests leaving the White House were often subjected to harassment and threats by the Dem allies BLM and Anti-Fa.


On 30 January 1933 Pres. Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancelor of Germany. Hitler asked that a new parliament (Reichstag) be elected, and the date was set for 5 March. However, on 27 February the Reichstag building was set ablaze, and a Dutch Communist was found in the building and was probably the arsonist. Hitler then asked Pres. Hindenburg to suspend civil liberties while the govt. sought to prevent further Communist terrorism. The election gave the Nazis 44%, their allies 8%, and the Communists, 16%. The parliament then passed an empowering act, giving Hitler special powers to handle the crisis. The Communists were then expelled from the Reichstag; with their exit, the Nazis suddenly had a majority in the Reichstag.


1 April 1933 the Nazis conduct a national boycott of Jewish stores and businesses.

Shortly before European Labor Day, 1 May 1933, union offices raided, those of Communists, Socialsists, and Catholic unions. The govt. announces hereafter there will be but one German Labor Front organization under leadership of the Nazis, and the Nazis conduct the May Day celebrations. Meanwhile, freedom of speech, of the press, and so on was quickly evaporating in Germany.


The media and Democrats are using the Capitol invasion as their Reichstag moment. There is such hatred of Trump and those who support him. A Senator who dared speak up in Congress to denounce voter fraud, just lost a contract with a major publisher (now a subsidiary of CBS) in which he would expose the big tech monopolies and how they are a danger to free speech. To prove their danger, and more, their power, the big techs colluded to ban Parler from the internet! Since big tech supported Biden, even banning the expose by the NY Post of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's corrupt dealings in China and elsewhere. Do not expect a Biden administration to crack down on big tech.


Biden talks of unity, but simultaneously sounds quite vindictive, not only against Trump, but against all who voted for him. Hitler moved quickly to destroy freedom in Germany. How quickly is Biden moving? And Biden is not yet President!-------------Hugh Murray



Friday, December 11, 2020

ANOTHER DAY IN INFAMY - THANKS TO US SUPREME COURT

 US SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR EVIDENCE

OF CHEATING IN US PRESIDENTIAL ELELCTION OF 2020

by Hugh Murray


Nearly four score years ago President Franklin Roosevelt announced that December 7 would live in infamy. He was referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. With news of today, one must sadly conclude: move over December 7 to make room for December 11. On this day the United States Supreme Court made a decision in the tradition of that court, in the tradition of the Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that Scott, a Black slave suing for his freedom, had no right that a white man need respect, and had no right to be freed. The High Court ruled 7-2 supporting Taney. Today's decision continues the heinous precedent of Dred Scott.


On November 3, 2020 the US conducted its Presidential election. Because of allegations of wide-spread fraud in many states, and of obvious defiance of state laws in several states, there were serious questions if Democrat Joseph Biden really did win the popular vote in many states. Also, in several states, election officials had ignored state laws and constitutions, or simply revised them by proclamation, consent decrees, or bureaucratic re-interpretations. Critics alleged that a consequence of the many changes was to give Biden and the Democrats sometimes hundreds of thousands of what should be deemed “illegal” votes, that is votes that should never have been counted. Worse, by permitting illegal votes to sway the final election results in 4 key, swing states, the “cheat” were sufficient to determined the entire election for the nation. Thus, the cheats, would determine the final results, not merely in those states, but nationally, giving the Presidency to Biden; whereas if only legal votes had been counted, Pres. Donald Trump would have been handily re-elected. To rephrase, the cheating by the Democrats in 4 swing states was sufficient to elect as president Biden over Trump, whereas Trump was the man who had really won all 4 contested states if you only count “legal” votes.


Because the cheating by the Democrats resulted in changing the winner from Trump to Biden, this cheating discounted the electorate in states which did not cheat. If not stopped, it would enslave all of Americans to the leadership of an obviously corrupt Biden family, beholden to Chinese Communists for millions of dollars, and prepared to yield American policies to benefit the national interests of the Peoples Republic of China.


Americans do not want to be enslaved – by cheating Democratic Party machines, by a corrupt Joe Biden, or by his buyers in Beijing. Today, December 11, 2020, the US Supreme Court chose not to even hear the evidence. It closed the door on, not merely the good people of Texas, but all those who reject voter fraud in all the states and in all its forms. The US Supreme Court, in effect, gave the American people no remedy. It refused to hear the case, by a vote of 7-2. The majority voted to enslave not only the voters of those 4 states where the cheating most blatantly occurred, but of all 50 states and territories. This is why December 11, 2020, will also live in infamy.

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

DR. FAUCI - The Medicrat OR . . .?

 As Dr. Fauci was raised to celebrity status in the spring of 2020 by Pres. Trump, few realized how powerful the doctor would become.  Trump, who had been know as something of a germaphobe, was clearly worried about the Wuhan virus, which has now gone through many names: Corona, Covid 19, etc.  The daily tv reports on the virus that featured several medical authorities, including Dr. Fauci, and the President, raised the immunologist to national attention.  Though Fauci had made some bad predictions early in the virus era, that we did not have to worry about it, in time the rift between Fauci and Trump grew.  Fauci became more of a lock-down advocate, thinking basically about the virus and how it might spread.  Trump also had to consider the repercussions of lock-down - closing schools and what that would mean for youth, and for their parents who might not be able to work if the children had to remain home.  Closed factories and stores.  Unemployment.  Social distancing brought social isolation for many.  Drug abuse rose, and drug deaths.  Spouse abuse rose, and child abuse too.  Depression, economic and mental.  Rise in suicides.  And since the only permissable outdoor assembly was left-wing protest, riots, arsons, lootings, crime rose.  But to prevent the spread of the virus in prisons and jails, many convicts were released, and some of them quickly returned to crime.  Murder rates in large cities rose.

     Pres. Trump sought to open up society; Dr. Fauci  gave Democratic Mayors and Governors the green light for ever more crack downs.  He rarely implied they would be long.  After a month or so, there would be relaxation, people would gather, drink, eat, celebrate, and the virus would spread.  Though the death rate was mainly among the elderly or those with pre-existing conditions, the major media (pro-Democrat) would stress the case rate.  And since hospitals would earn more if a patient died of the virus, almost any death would be inspected looking for the virus, and be classified as cause of death.  The infamous Minneapolis criminal George Floyd also had the virus when he died as police sought to arrest him.  But he would not be classified as dying from the virus, because then the liberal authorities could not charge the police with murder.

      When front-line medical workers asserted that combinations of cheap drugs could cure the virus, Dr Fauci attacked them.  He demanded orthodoxy, and soon the dissenters were banned from major media and social media.  Fauci, earlier in his career, had demanded the opponenets of the HIV theory of AIDS be silenced, and he succeeded.  Free speech is not one of his values, nor free inquiry.

     Dr. Fauci seems to favor lock down, a slight loosen up, lock down, loosen, and so on for years.  Wear the mask.  You must obey.  Dr. Fauci, a carreer beaurocrat, is undoubtedly a Democrat, and "President Elect" Joe Biden will make him a chief advisor.  A frew months ago Fauci was diverting US funds to a laboratory in Wuhan, and he has friends in large pharmeceutical corporations.

     Because Dr. Fauci is so important today, and better known than the fabled Dr. Faustus, I suggest a word to summarize his views - FAUCISM.  This would be pronounced fauchism, to distinguish it from fascism.  Though they may be closer than one realizes.

HUGH MURRAY 

Friday, November 20, 2020

WISCONSIN VOTER RECOUNT IN 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

  The election for US President in 2020 indicates some states are in dispute.  In Wisconsin, where I live, Pres. Trump has paid $3 million for a recount of the vote in the 2 largest counties encompassing Milwaukee and Madison, both Democratic Party strongholds.  Below is a comment I sought to place on the comment area of the Milw. Journal Sentinel, on line.  It may or may not be approved for posting.  Hugh Murray 

The big question is were massive numbers of illegal ballots counted as valid?  The law says that for mail-in ballots the voter and his witness must correct the errors.  In 2016 with relatively few mail-ins, clerks were allowed to correct the ballots.  It was illegal, but probably few ballots were involved.  In 2020 with massive mail-ins, corrections became massive in some areas, and so did corrections in Democratic dominated areas.  These votes were ILLEGAL, and enough to change the winner.  Such votes should not be added in the recount.  Then there were the summer voting parties in the parks of Madison, jointly sponsored by the official election organization AND the Biden organization.  Picknickers were allowed to vote early - before the legal date for early voting.  These ballots were illegaly cast and harvested.  Add to these thousands of illegal votes, regular fraud, and the sleazy way the Greens and Kanye West were barred from the ballot, denying voters their first choice for president to please the Democratic machine in Wisconsin and nation-wide (as they had fought against the Nader ballot earlier this century), one sees the Democrats in a different view.  They accuse the GOP of trying to suppress the vote, but in April 2020 in Milwaukee the polling places was cut from 180 to a mere 5; that is voter suppression by the Democrats, and this type of suppression occurred in other Dem run cities.  Finally, now for the re-count, the Dems are at it again, trying to obstruct a fair recount.

     The sooner this case gets to the courts, the better.  Republican poll workers  were not really allowed to observe the regular count, being held back 30 feet or at best 6 feet from the counters.  In effect, the observers were denied the right to observe.  Will this be repeated during the costly recount.  The courts will most likely have to resolve all these questions.

Thursday, November 19, 2020

ANOTHER ORANGE REVOLUTION?

      The American media were shocked during the Helsinki Conference when Pres. Trump asserted that he believed Pres. Putin of Russia when he said there was no Russian interference in the American election of 2016, directly contradicting reports of American intelligence.  (Of course, the leaders of the FBI and CIA had conspired to place spies in the Trump campaign during 2016 and derail his Presidency after he won the election.  Never the less, it was interesting to hear a major Democrat politician soon after Helsinki declare that when you attack the American intelligence agencies, they can do things to harm you.  (At that moment, I thought about John Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963.)  I worried that so much of the Trump movement depended on one man.

     On a seemingly different issue, for some time NGOs (non-governmental organizations), social media, and out government, and major players like George Soros have played roles in various types of "color revolutions" in different nations.  There might be an unpopular president or dictator, an election with disputed results, mobilization of masses in protests, and with effort, the overthrow of the government.  Thus, the pro-Russian president of the Ukraine was overthrown and replaced by an un-elected government in Kiev, which led to the Russian seizure of Crimea and support of unofficial pro-Russian rebel forces in eastern Ukraine.
     But that was not all.  Recall the Arab spring?  First a rebellion in Tunisia, which was rapid and successful.  More important was the overthrow of American backed Mubarak in Egypt.  Though the beautiful CBS correspondent was sexually molested in the mass crowd in Cairo, the American media still portrayed the rebellion positively.  After Mubarak's fall, the new president of Egypt was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, often associated with Muslim terrorism.  But Obama was pleased with the change.  Sec. of State Hillary Clinton then pushed the buttons and Libya's dictator fell; but choas replaced him.  The American Ambassador and several American guards were murdered by Islamist terrorists in Benghazi, but Hillary and Obama blamed this on a Christian Egyptian then living in California who had made a video mocking Mohammad.  Then the US intelligence agencies decided to bring the revolution to Syria.  When alliance with the Kurdish minority proved insufficient, the US may have helped ISIS, to help destabilize the Asad regime, but Syria had Russian help, and it did not fall.  Instead, in time the Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt was overthrown.
     The question now, did the American intelligence agencies, working again with George Soros (important in financing the paramilitary groups of the Democratic Party, Black Lives Matter and Anti-Fa), the big tech social media that now censors more and more, the hate-Trump major media, conspire to bring an anti-Mr Orange Man revoluion to the USA?
     The blatant use of mail-in ballots to steal the election, the possible use of soft wear and tech voting machines that switched masses of votes from Trump to Biden, counted illegal votes for Biden, voted the dead and the mentally lost in nursing homes, refused to allow Republican poll watchers observe - except from 6 feet away or even 30 feet away.  The greatest stealing of an election in American history.  It is possible Trump even won the national popular vote.  It seems most likely he won the electoral vote.  If the courts do nothing, America's democratic republic is dead.  We will then join Athens as an historic example of failure.  The legislatures and courts have to reject all the illegal votes, and then Trump wins 4 more years as president.  If they fail, America will never have a fair election again, and the great experiment in freedom will come to a close.
     HUGH MURRAY