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« on: April 21, 2007, 10:40:24 AM »

Lost story is told: Detention of German-Americans  

Art Jacobs' father never came home.

Pops went to his job at a diaper laundering service on a Friday in November 1944, but didn't return for dinner.

Mom paced in front of the window of their Brooklyn, N.Y., flat all weekend, until she got the call: Lambert Jacobs — a German immigrant in the United States on a visa — had been arrested and detained because he was deemed a potential national security threat.

"I had no idea what was going on," said Art Jacobs, who was 12 at the time. "Our family as we knew it was destroyed after that moment. It was never the same again."

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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2007, 11:05:55 AM »

"These are our people," he said. "There is no excuse for what they suffered. It was pure hysteria, pure racism."


It was and still is pure hysteria, pure racism, planted by those in power to keep control.  I read that story and felt shame that my country could do that to innocent people.
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« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2007, 03:03:56 PM »

I just read a story in Guideposts about a Japanese family that was interned during WW II.  The beauty is after all these years, they understand and hold no grudges.  That is real forgiveness..... wink
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2007, 09:07:58 PM »

I think that unfortunately when we go to war with a country the people here who can be identified with that country often suffer.  I grew up in an area that had a lot of people who were from Germany.  Up until the time of WWI the schools there were taught in German and there were many other German customs.  When the US got involved in the war there was pressure to end these practices.  I think that is when the schools stopped teaching in German.
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« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2007, 12:02:41 PM »

Slave tunnel found at home of Washington

PHILADELPHIA — Archaeologists unearthing the remains of George Washington's presidential home have discovered a hidden passageway used by his nine slaves, raising questions about whether the ruins should be incorporated into a new exhibit at the site.

The underground passageway is just steps from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. It was designed so Washington's guests would not see slaves as they slipped in and out of the main house.

"As you enter the heaven of liberty, you literally have to cross the hell of slavery," said Michael Coard, a Philadelphia attorney who leads a group that worked to have slavery recognized at the site. "That's the contrast, that's the contradiction, that's the hypocrisy. But that's also the truth."

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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2008, 10:05:52 AM »

Buzz posted this on AAD.  I don't think he would mind sharing it.  It's revealing.


"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime.... A prominent executive of one of the largest corporations, told me point blank that he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism into America if President Roosevelt continued his progressive policies. Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there. Propagandists for fascist groups try to dismiss the fascist scare. We should be aware of the symptoms. When industrialists ignore laws designed for social and economic progress they will seek recourse to a fascist state when the institutions of our government compel them to comply with the provisions."

In 1933, Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler was approached by a cabal of influential American bankers and industrialists working under the umbrella of the front group, American Liberty League. Their request of Butler: that he lead a 500,000 strong force of rogue veterans in a coup against FDR and the legal American government. The intent of this cabal, already supporting the efforts of Hitler and Mussolini in Europe, was to instill a government not unlike that of Hitler and Mussolini in the United States. Butler went along with the scheme until he was able to ascertain who the participants were. He then blew the whistle on this group before the House Committee on un-American Activities. For his efforts, Butler was ostracized and black-balled by the mainstream media;his testimony before the House Committee on un-American Activities was omitted from the record. The cabal was never brought to justice, but the coup was foiled. Who were the American bankers and industrialists involved in this plot to overthrow the legal government of the United States? According to Wikipedia, while most of the funding came from the Du Pont family, participants included U.S. Steel, General Motors, General Foods, Standard Oil, Birdseye, Colgate, Heinz Foods, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. And among the participants in this coup attempt was one Prescott Bush (who is the father of George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States, and thus is the grandfather of George W Bush, current president of the United States). Prescott Bush was not only instrumental in bringing Hitler to power in Germany, Mussolini to power in Italy, but was also plotting to overthrow the legal government of the United States and establish a fascist state here. Prescott Bush served as a Senator from Connecticut and was a partner in the prominent investment banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman.

"I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914," "I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." Butler acknowledged that he'd spent most of his thirty-three years in the Marines as "a high class muscle man for Big Business, Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism[ts]." - US General Smedley Butler wrote in his 1935 classic, "War Is a Racket"

Wars are really a continuous stream of coordinated acts of terrorism, related to money and power instigated by the people who will benefit from the war and its expected end result. War is an instrument to expand economic power by destroying the national institutions and intelligent people of the victimized nation.

"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together." -- President Dwight Eisenhower, Feb 1961

"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match." -- President John F. Kennedy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel New York City, April 27, 1961. The US/UK/Zionist governments are deeply infiltrated by the Conspiracy

"The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens." -- Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D., former German defense ministry official and advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner

Note: Obama has picked Brzezinski as his foriegn advisor.

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." - Murdered Past CIA Director William Colby

"If you (Senator Wellstone) vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota." -- Vice President Dick Cheney to Senator Paul Wellstone (D), October, 2002, just days before Wellstone's death in a suspicious airplane "accident".

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight." -- JFK

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days, 1976

..."Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushs have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." --- George Bush Sr. 1992
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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2008, 11:45:54 AM »

> AN INTERESTING HISTORY LESSON.
>
> Railroad tracks.  This is fascinating.
>
> Be sure to read the final paragraph; your understanding of it will
> depend on the earlier part of the content.
>
> The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4
 feet,
> 8.5 inches.  That's an exceedingly odd number.
>
> Why was that gauge used?  Because that's the way they built them in
> England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.
>
> Why did the English build them like that?  Because the first rail
> lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad
> tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
>
> Why did 'they' use that gauge then?  Because the people who built
 the
> tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building
> wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
>
> Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?  Well, if
 
> they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on
> some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the
> spacing of the wheel ruts.
>
> So who built those old rutted roads?  Imperial Rome built the first
> long distance roads in Europe (and England ) for their legions.  The
 
> roads have been used ever since.
>
> And the ruts in the roads?  Roman war chariots formed the initial
> ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their
> wagon wheels.  Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they
> were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.  Therefore the United
 
> States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from
> the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.
> Bureaucracies live forever.
>
> So the next time you are handed a Specification/Procedure/Process and
 
> wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly right.
> Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to
 accommodate
> the rear ends of two war horses.  (Two horses' asses.)  Now, the
 twist
> to the story:
>
> When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two
 
> big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. 
> These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's.  The SRB's are made by
> Thiokol at their factory in Utah.  The engineers who designed the
> SRB's would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's
> had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.  The
 
> railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the
 
> mountains, and the SRB's had to fit through that tunnel.  The tunnel
 
> is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as
 
> you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
>
> So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the
> world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two
> thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.  And you thought
> being a horse's ass wasn't important?  Ancient horse's asses control
 
> almost everything... and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling
> everything else.
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« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2010, 05:24:20 PM »

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

If that remark was original with me, I should be even more strongly denounced as a Communist agitator than I shall be anyhow. It is Lincoln's. I am only quoting it; and that is one side; that is the side the capitalist should hear. Now, let the working man hear his side.

"Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.... Nor should this lead to a war upon the owners of property. Property is the fruit of labor; . . . property is desirable; is a positive good in the world."

And then comes a thoroughly Lincolnlike sentence:

"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."

http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com/historicspeeches/roosevelt_theodore/newnationalism.html
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