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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

AMERICAN COUP; WILIMINGTONTON 1898 -- MY REVIEW

PBS presented a 2-hour history program on the violent overthrow of government in Wilmington, NC. My main complaint is that it takes the Wilmington insurrection out of context; it fails to show that the fall of Negro power in Wilmington was the final chapter of what had been a 33-year long Second Civil War. When Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the US, in late 1860, not even receiving a full 40% of the popular vote, Southern states began to secede. When Louisiana withdrew, and called for volunteers, among them volunteering were the informal militia of the Free People of Color (FPC). The Confederacy did not think that wise, and they were rejected. True, there were black slave owners in the state, one woman an owner of many slaves; but these were the exceptions, and arming blacks might lead to problems in the war.

 Early in the war, the largest city of the Confederacy, New Orleans, fell to the Yanks headed by Farragut, a Southerner, fighting for the Northerners. When local women in the city showed what they thought of the Yankee soldiers by spitting on them and insulting them, Union Gen. Ben Butler ordered that such women were then to be treated as women of ? (whores), an order that caused international outrage in Europe, and Lincoln had to countermand Butler's order. Meanwhile, many of the FPCs now sought to join the Union army, and they did. So some people of Louisiana were now joining the "foreign" occupiers. 

 The American Civil War continued, and tho our population was then much smaller, the casualty rate was higher than those lost in WWI, or WWII, or any war since. By early 1864 many wanted the killing to end, have peace again. The Democrats' party program of 1864 essential promised a 2-state solution; the North would go it alone and free, the South would retain slavery and be independent as the CSA. The Democrats were so popular, that Lincoln dumped his vice-president Hamlin of Maine, and replaced him with a war Democrat from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson. They did not run as Republicans but as the Union ticket. With Yankee victories and the 2nd half of 1864, more voters turned to Lincoln's plan for victory over the rebels, and he won decisively.

 At his inauguration in 1865 Lincoln did not sound vindictive, with charity toward all," and after the band played the national anthem, Lincoln requested that it next play Dixie.  Earlier, Gen. Grant had allowed the defeated Lee's army to keep their side arms in defeat. Shortly after the inauguration, Booth made Johnson President. Lincoln had toyed with letting educated blacks (men) vote, but he had also toyed with sending the large black population to Africa or some islands. 

 By this time thousands of blacks in the North and black slaves in the south had joined the Union Army. (n 1866 in New Orleans a meeting of hundreds mainly blacks to demand the vote. The Mayor, and police, Democrats and pro Confederates, raid the gathering and murder a large number, including Dr. Dotsie, a white, and they shot a German-born newspaper man, Michael Hahn, who survived and would be one of the few Republican elected leaders at war's end.  Elected as governor, the General running New Orleans was transferred, and Hahn was given little power; then elected to the US Senate, with Lincoln's murder, the national Congress refused to seat any elected from the South.  Hahn had a bumpy political career, as would any Republican in the South.  Also in 1866 a massacre of blacks in Memphis. These were well publicized and helped the Radical Republicans win Congress. The Freedmen's Bureau was aiding the freed slaves to adjust.

 White planters had lost their work force and their Confed. money was worthless. 
Think of the trauma for some Southerners - not only had they lost their valuable property in the largest confiscation of private property in American history, but soon after their former property might be wearing the blue uniform of the enemy and aiming a gun at them! A large number of blacks had fought in the army of the Northern enemy. Blacks thought, the white South fought to keep them enslaved. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? 

     We should understand, not only was the South defeated, not only was there much destruction of property, burnt buildings, stolen cattle, chickens, whatever, but THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY SIGNALED A SOCIAL REVOLUTION.  Millions of blacks, illiterates (there had been laws forbidding teaching them to read) and everything uncertain.  Thay had lived in slave quarters, but who would now own those dwellings?  Did freedom mean they had to work?  Everything was uncertain.  Of course many whites were illiterate too; and in the north, new immigrants might not even speak English.  But the South was entering unknown terrirory.

     WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT?  A 2nd civil war. So long as Norther troops remained to occupy the South, there was some protection for blacks. But the Johny Reb's were forming new organizations to prevent black rule. Red shirts, knights of the white camellia, the white league, and the ku klux klan, all set to oppose black rule. When Grant was elected President, he pushed for civil rights for blacks, and enforced anti-KKK laws. Yes, there were national civil rights laws passed in the 1860s and 70s.

   But the crunch came in the Presidential election of 1876; Democrat Tilden clearly had a majority of votes, but not Electoral Votes, and the Dems had intimidated blacks in many southern states, including the disputes ones. A DEAL, The Republican would win the White House, but remove the Yankee troops from the south. Soon, Dems are winning big in elections in Louisiana, Mississippi, etc. and black cries of intimidation or lynching go un-noticed.  The cavalry is no longer there.

 By early 1890s, Louisiana had a new voting law that essentially prevented most blacks from registering. And this was happening in other Southern states too. In 1895 the great Atlanta Exposition, at which Booker Washington, leader of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama gave a major speech. In some things, the races can be like the finger, separate and doing separate functions, but on other issues the races can unite in strength as a fist. He basically said blacks should not prioritize politics. That was national news, what whites north and south wanted to hear. End the race problems.  Or rather, end of hearing about them.

 In the 1890s a case had been percolating up from New Orleans to the US Supreme Court, which finally ruled 8-1, that separate and equal facilities were legal in Plessy v. Ferguson; segregation was the law of the land. In 1892 Ida Wells went north and while away her newpaper was destroyed by segregationists, and she was threatened with lynching if she continued. My point, by early 1898 NEARLY ALL of the South had basically succumbed to white supremacy and the Democratic Party, often by intimidation and murder. Aside from 1 or 2 Appalachian areas that had supported the Yanks during the war, there were no Republicans left in the national Congress from the South, they had all been wiped out. All but the one in Wilmington.  But Wilmington should not be studied in isolation, for it was the last battle in the 2nd Civil War.
      Hugh Murray  I wrote this mainly from memory.  Alas, I have not taught history for 55 years.  I'll try to fill in the blanks later.

    This period in history is called the era of Reconstruction, and there was much to be rebuilt after the war's destruction.  But the social revolution promised by Northern victory depended on Yankee soldiers.  True, many locals still had weapons, former Confederate soldiers on one side, former slaves who had joined the Union army might have theirs on the other.  Local police and sheriffs were still Democrats (white supremacists).  Early large-scale massacres caused reaction in the North, determination to punish the South, and passage of anti-KKK laws and pro-black civil rights laws. So an alternative strategy was adopted.  Instead, of mass murders, the South planned to kill Radical Reconstruct with a thousand cuts, a guerilla war, throughout the South, targeting this militant here, another black voter there, a slow 2nd Civil War which engulfed the entire South.  When the Yanks withdrew the Union troops after the 1876 Compromise, the Southern offence hastened.  Wilmington was the last major battle of that war.  No more blacks in Congress from the South until the 1960s.  The "solid South" was solidly Democratic, and solidly white supremacist.

     For a modern analogy, after WWII there were 2 reconstructions in Germany, one conservative, one radical.  The radical one, in the east, the German Democratic Republic, sought to build a "socialist" society.  But how long would it last without Soviet troops?  1876 and 1990 provide somewhat similar answers.

     Back to the tv program: it is like a Shakespearean play in which the director cut Act I, cut Act II, cut Act III, etc. and only the final act was staged.  That is not good enough. 

Saturday, November 9, 2024

AMSTERDAM, MAKKABIS, 2-STATE SOLUTION v 40-STATE SOLUTION

  I see that the Dutch immigrants are celebrating Kristallnacht in Amsterdam.  Seems the Makkabi footballers are not up to their namesakes - they lost the match 5-0 to Ajax, and their fans lost to the mob of Jew haters.  Sickening shades of the Nazi occupation, replaced with the migrant occupation..

Of course, the real Makkabis of today are fighting in the Middle East, and winning.  Netanyahu has not yielded to the 2-state solution non-sense of Biden, Blinken, and  Nada heads.  Remember, many Democrats called for a 2-state solution in the US in 1864, and the result would have been a North of free states, and an independent Confederacy of slave states.  Would that have been a good solution?  It would have ended the Civil War somewhat earlier, but would that have been a good solution?

Instead of a 2-state solution of the Democrats, I would go back to earlier proposals.  There is only one Jewish nation in the world, and perhaps at least 40 Muslim nations.  If those 40 really cared about the Gazans and other Palestinian, invite them to their nations, open their borders to fellow Muslims!  If split 40 ways, it would not be a major burden for any one Muslim nation to take in some of the Muslim Palestinian refugees. BUT THEY DON'T WANT THAT.  THEY DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE AMONG THEIR OWN.

  The solution of the Palestinian leaders is stay, fight, kill - DEATH TO ISRAEL, DEATH TO AMERICA.  Start war after war, if need be lose, after loss, but eventually Israel will make a mistake.  Eventually, the Muslims will win.  Then, wipe out every Jew in the Middle East. And then prepare for the big fight against the big Satan, America.  God is great!

Happily, Israel under the leadership of Netanyahu, has avoided yielding to Biden and his 2-state cease fire policy of appeasement to the Palestinians.  And now enter Trump!  What happens now?  We shall see.----Hugh Murray

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

THE REAL ISSUE WE FACE IN THIS ELECTION 2024

 Jay Stanley on an American Civil Liberties Union web site, began an article, probably written in 2017, this way -

"President-elect Donald Trump’s criticism of the intelligence community over its reports of Russian hacking during the 2016 election has generated a lot of commentary over what is being described as a “feud” between Trump and the intelligence agencies.

"Beyond all of the questions about the Russians, their relationship with Trump, their role in the election, etc., there is another element of this story that is also raising very frightening questions about the state of our democracy.

""An example of what I’m talking about emerged when Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer was asked by Rachel Maddow about Trump’s spurning of the agencies’ findings. Trump is “taking these shots, this antagonism, this taunting to the intelligence community,” Maddow pointed out. The response by Schumer—who has been in Congress since 1980, and in the Senate leadership for ten years, and presumably knows his way around Washington—should send a chill through the heart of every American:

Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.

"Some may argue that Trump is not serving his country well by not giving more respect to the intelligence community. But whether or not that is true, if it’s really the case that dissing the intelligence community might result in retaliation by that community against a politician, then the lines of power in our political system have become dangerously distorted."

   It turns out, the American  intel operatives were active in getting the fake Russian collusion story into a FISA court, and soon a Special Council was appointed, one that kept the newly elected Trump Administration on the defensive for its first 2 years in office, though with Speaker of the House  Republican Paul Ryan - a hate Trumper, the new Administration would have had difficulty enacting its programs anyway. 

Skip to October 2020, shortly before election day .

When the NY Post began its expose of the Hunter Biden laptop, Blinken, then working for the Dems, called some intel friends, and soon 51 US Intel agents signed a LIE TO HELP BIDEN WIN AND TRUMP LOSE THE 2020 ELECTION. These included the head of the CIA, and other leaders from other intel agencies. They had not examined the laptop, but assured the American public that it was Russian disinformation; worse, the intel agents got big tech to squash the story before the Nov. 2020 election. When Hunter finally when to trial some years later, NO ONE QUESTIONED THE VALIDITY OF THE LAPTOP. Let me emphasize, just before election day 2020, the NY Post published a story on parts of the Hunter laptop, that exposed both the corruption of Hunter, and presumably his father Joe Biden, the man then running for President against Trump.  Blinken, who was then working for the Democratic Party, asked friends in Intel for help.  Without examining the Hunter laptop, they LIED, say it was Russian disinformation, and they pressured the tech stories to censure and ban the story.  51 leaders in American intelligence organizations, including the chief of the CIA, LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN ORDER TO ELECT DEMOCRAT BIDEN AND DEFEAT TRUMP!  American Intel purposely denied the American voters vital information that could have swayed the election in favor of Trump.  Is this what the Democrats call democracy???  Are our intelligence agencies active in the election contest of today?  This election campaign, there have been at least 2 assassins trying to kill Trump. Did they get help from American intel agencies?  The agencies do not have to use one of their own for such a job.  In the US there are crazies of all beliefs, some on the left, on the right, up or down.  The agencies can just let the protection down and let a crazy get through, to shoot and kill.  Is this what happened in Butler, PA? Time to open up the assassination files on Pres. John Kennedy. Pompeo, former head of the CIA, pled with Trump not to do so, for it would be a catastrophe, Pompeo said.  Trump caved and failed on his promise; Trump did not open all the files. Time to curb govt agencies that have ceased to represent the American people and instead have become the KGB of the Democratic Party.  THE ISSUE TODAY IS, WHO RULES AMERICA?  THE CITIZENS OR THE UNELECTED INTEL AGENCIES?????


Kamala gave her speech in Washington saying Trump wants to be a dictator and jail his opponents, meanwhile Trump is facing around 700 years in prison with all the Dem. charges against him, while some of his advisors like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon have recently been released from prison while Democrats who faced similar charges never went to jail.  Former Mayor of NYC Giuliani faces pauperism thanks to more political trials.  The Democrats call Trump a new Hitler and racist.  But the Democrats are the party of racism in America.  The Democrats were the party of slavery, of the Confederacy, of the Ku Klux Klan, of the "Solid South" (make sure there are no Republicans allowed to take office), the party of segregation.  Eventually, the old message failed, but unlike the Republicans who demanded equal rights, the Democrats remained the racist party, THEY SIMPLY CHANGED RACES.  To give them more power, they got to determining who was one of the favored races, what percent of advantage they would have, and all other kinds of rewards and punishments, and throw in sex, and trans, and other categories into the pot, and the Democrats, weighing each and how much they should get, becomes ever more powerful, and with INTEL friends, do they really need the votes of deplorables, and what Pres. Biden just called (white trash) "garbage" anymore?  The Democrats have Intel, the media, Hollywood, academia, and now, the military-industrial complex, and it's favored races, ethnicities, sexes, and millions of invading illegal aliens, etc.  It no longer needs the votes of American citizens to win.  Or does it?

     If Trump wins, and/or if he is allowed to win, it will be a whole new ball game!!!

 

Friday, October 25, 2024

THEY SAY KAMALA HAS CHANGED HER MESSAGE - IT IS NOW, TRUMP IS A NEW HITLER, DICTATOR

 Let us review some of Kamala's campaign for President:

Let's see - joy campaign, FAILED;

 Biden economics was a success, FAILED;

 Border czarina, FAILED; 

women need freedom to control their bodies, SUCCESS; 

Trump a convicted felon, SO WAS MLK AND MANY CR WORKERS, FAILED;

 Trump talks to Putin and gave him med assistance; FAILED,   If true, so what, why not improve relations with a rather inexpensive gift?

 BIDEN-KAMALA FOREIGN POLICY AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL DISASTER, SOLIDIFIED PUTIN-XI ALLIANCE, MESS IN UKRAINE, NEW THREATS TO TAIWAN, AND TO PACIFIC ISLANDS, MIDDLE EAST AFLAME, DEMOCRATS BROUGHT WORLD TO BRINK OF MAJOR WARS; not a successful campaign issue for Kamala.

Kamala's latest try to win, Trump is a new Hitler;;;to soon to tell, but is that why one of Trump's daughters married a Jewish man, and she converted to his faith? Trump promises to fire the incompetents who refused to use troops against violent protestors and looters and arsonists; and who refused to inquire into the Hunter Biden laptop and charge the Bidens involved in corruption with the Chinese. And Trump allegedly said Hitler did some good. When Hitler came to power, German was in the midst of a severe depression, and he did much to end it. Just as FDR did much to curtail the Great Depression at the same time in the USA.  And just as Roosevelt was loved by many saved from hunger and extreme poverty, so too was Hitler.  True, part of Hitler's solution to the depression was to prepare for war, violating treaties to expand his army, investing in war-related industries. The newsreels depict thousands of cheering people, who thought they were better off because of Hitler's leadership. Same in the US with adoration of FDR.  Of course, in Germany there was open discrimination against Jews, gays, and other minorities, and hidden murder of babies born with defects - all of this even before WWII. Hitler did do some good, as did Stalin, Mao, and most dictators, but most of us would add, it was outweighed by a vast amount of evil by those dictators. I suspect Trump would agree, Hitler's evil far outweighed his good.  Cherry-picking someone's comments in order to distort the truth amounts to just another campaign lie.  I hope the American voters will not be swayed by lies from either party.

Monday, October 21, 2024

FLASH FLOODS IN NEW MEXICO

 Recently, the rather isolated town of Roswell, New Mexico, had to endure flash flooding, rare in the dry desert area.  A few Americans died in the rushing waters.  One underground building was swamped by the fast moving waters, and it seems more deaths.  Two American males, and five illegal aliens of undetermined sex.  The illegal aliens had green skin, and the doctor speculated they might have come from another planet.  Some contend that this is not true - they did not have green skin; it was blue.  But I hope you firgive me, enough with a bad joke.  Hugh 


Saturday, October 19, 2024

DONALD TRUMP - CONVICTED FELON

A Democrat prosecutor in heavily Dem territory succeeded in winning a case - getting former President Trump to become a convicted felon. Using Democratic Party enacted laws, Democrat prosecutors got Martin Luther King to become a convicted felon, also. Using Democratic Party enacted segregation laws, Democrat prosecutors got many civil rights activists to become convicted felons too. This says far more about the dictatorial nature of the Democratic Party than about its victim "felons." 

By the way, I am one of the former convicted felons, arrested in the first modern sit-in in New Orleans at the large Woolworths on Canal and North Rampart Streets.  7 of us, 5 Negroes, 2 whites, from Tulane, Dillard, Xavier, and what was then called LSUNO sat in' requesting cups of coffee. We sat for hours without being served until the then DA for the city, Richard Dowling arrived, read us the law, and had us arrested.  Sit-ins had begun in February 1960 in North Carolina and spread, but none occurred in what had been the largest city of the South for a century, New Orleans  until we did it in September 1960.  We were part of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, while the adult NAACP organization in the city opposed the sit-in.  Woolworth's was across the street from the large Saenger Theater.  Years later the five aand dime store was demolished to be replaced by a Hard Rock Cafe on that property, but a fallen crane accident and death in construction led to delays.  I do not know what is on that block now.   DA Dowling lost in the next Democratic primary and was replaced by a new DA, Jim Garrison, but his first efforts were against "vice," and so there was a raid on the racially mixed Quorum Club even in 1963.  Garrison is a hero in my eyes for his daring probe into the John Kennedy assassination, but his early years were hardly liberal.

When we went to court on our sit-in case, each of us facing up to $500 in fines and a year in jail, we sat together.  When the judge arrived, he screamed at us he might hold us in contempt of clurt with additional fines) for desegregating his court room, so we 2 whites moved away from our fellow defendants and our attorneys.  With his first words, we suspected we would be found guilty.  We were.  It took some years, but eventually the 2nd New Orleans sit in, a week after ours, made it to the US Supreme Court, and the city lost its case against all of us.  I have no regrets about having been a convicted felon.---Hugh Murray

Friday, October 18, 2024

THE AL SMITH DINNER AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY DINNERS

Yes, the Al Smith Dinner! But what ever happened to the Jefferson-Jackson dinners that the Dems used to celebrate? Named for a founder of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson who reframed the party after the Era of Good Feelings, these dinners were important political rallies for the Democrats. But no more. Of course Jefferson did own slaves; and so did Jackson. And Al Smith probably opposed abortion.

Perhaps in future, the Democrats will be celebrating with the George Floyd-Sirhan Sirhan Dinners.
Hugh Murray  - You may not be aware, Sirhan Sirhan allegedly declared he did it (shot RFK Sr.) for his country.  Many were bewildered, thinking rambling of a mentally ill assassin.  But Sirhan was a Palestinian, Christian, non Muslim, but Palestinian, and not happy with Robert Kennedy's pro-Israeli policies.  Long before the attacks on the World Trade Center, a Palestinian terrorist changed the course of an American election.