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Date Posted: 10:19:00 08/22/13 Thu
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Subject: Re: Chapter 18: 1964-1968: History of the United States of America
In reply to: edy 's message, "Chapter 18: 1964-1968: History of the United States of America" on 10:13:30 08/22/13 Thu

chapter 18 continued.

War protests revving up, and the fight to be rid of poverty once and for all, and other issues were at the forefront. All races were educated to be proud of their heritage. Black power, Brown power, Red power. Women were now coming out and marching for equality in the workplace. And at home frankly. 1969 was Anti-Bra day. Wrote Betty Friedan, �Well, it used to be, not so long ago, that every woman from about the age of 12 to 92 who left her house in the morning encased her flesh in rigid plastic casing.�

No make up is the style for the first time, in like, forever. Not to be dressing up for men; in fact shouldn�t need a man at all. [So is the opposite attitude by women now, where make up is massive, mini skirts, prancing about in a bikini, is almost nude. However sexual freedom is why they prance about nearly naked, not being against equal rights. The painted lady is all the females now, --as they go to college to be what they truly wish to do. By 1974, a teen age girl gets the impression she is supposed to have sex on the first date, verses, the judgmental pronouncement that girls who had sex out of wedlock are somehow bad. This new attitude towards sexuality must have frightened the parents. Who tell their daughters why they should not have sex until they are married. �Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free.� (Meanwhile, Boys will be boys, when young men, ..men, have casual sex, -- has always been the hypocrisy.)]

�Tune in, turn on, and drop out�, said Professor Timothy Leary, writer, psychologist, who did experiments with LSD, and its effects on people, at Harvard. Experience life man, or have a new experience, may be spiritual even. The drug era. This had to scare the parents. Marijuana was new! A new plant, -- as we know plants tend to not be new. The effects were exaggerated very much. And marijuana is still considered illegal using an old firearms bill. But is legal constitutionally. You hear of horror stories of people going to prison 10 years for a joint. And harder drugs, cocaine, heroine, all sorts of pills, they referred to with funny names. �.No one who is emotionally healthy will use hard drugs, and get addicted knowing they would. Attention, to understand them truly, always cures.

[Meanwhile, Johnson directly supported the overthrow of democratically elected president Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic, and Joao Goulart of Brazil. Why? They were saying they want a war on poverty as well. Or rather, saying you desire fairness for all poor people too = communism. These elected president�s were replaced by authoritarian governments.] --- In parenthesis, because, public knowledge not so much.

The traditionalists were upset to hear women want to work in not a job, but a Career. It endangers the family. Who will mind your own children! [A job pays low wages, destroys the ability for one parent to be home, taking care of matters]. �You are wrong to not be happy just being wife to your husband, who you chose to love, honor, and obey, until death do you part. Phyllis Schlafly was worried that the fabric of society will be ripped thoroughly, with women�s rights legislation. She was herself a woman with a career, a lawyer and conservative activist, married to a lawyer, and they had children. She was a conservative activist, to preserve the moral fabric of the Republic, -- worried over sexual promiscuity and harmful drugs. Of course equal rights for women, even in legislation, could not wreck the family; lust can; and so will the need for 2 people to support one household, -- has the children, as if second fiddle, waiting for the parent to show up at the babysitting center, 6 p.m.. Poor people can�t afford.

Now, the neurosis created by sexual hang ups is being addressed. Having sex before marriage has nothing to do with morals, as long as both are consenting adults. No one is hurt; there is no breakage of the golden rule here. .. Homosexuality is not breaking the golden rule between consenting adults. �Nudity is how we were born. Hugh Hefner�s Playboy magazine, and bunny club empire. Tasteful, as opposed to pornographic purely. �.Sexual hang ups are the past; and this is good. By 1970, at least, the new normal, and couples are having sex on the first date or two. Not so good.

People are protesting for a number of causes now. Anti war, the biggest cause, by 1970. ...The music as we know, rock and roll, a great music explosion occurred. Drugs, Sex, and Rock and Roll!!, the tone. The college protestors were sincere about their concerns against the war. Parents meanwhile, were mortified by these sudden changes in culture; but the young adults were dressing naturally now, compared to say, dressed up in country club clothes. Down to earth. The women are not going to dress for men anymore, {well, we wish}. The hair for males, ..way long now. 1960, if a man�s hair was long, he was a weirdo; in 1973, if a young man�s hair was short, he was weird. ��Casual Friday would have ever come, if it weren�t for the hippie�s? Who we refer to as hippies today is but a dress style. Even then, as every crowd has their noble, honest people, and their hanger ons just to fit in to have a fun time, with great music and drugs. This style, embraced the American Red man as well. Because it is an honor to have Indian heritage, is what every white person sees, today. But it was merely the way the kids dressed in that era. And it is noble to be more unpretentious. --- An angry minority, some, were violently prone, regarding the war. Even planning bombing attacks on industry that was producing war materials.

The Counter Culture these hippies were called. Communes were inspired in this era; as they sound good to people in poverty. --- Can you imagine living life not violently scared silently within, all the time, over the fear you will be the one left homeless and then neglected with the pretense you are bad or something. No poor person can imagine life with security. Or was the typical hippi who lived in a commune simply there to escape the pretentious establishment. �.The gravest evil of poverty, is also not allowing people to live, but to see they can be frightened to death over a true fear their whole life. �.The music said, give a damn. [As I sang with my 6th grade graduation class, Bob Dylan�s �The Truth is Blowing in the Wind�. -- Turns out, it is. I was 12, in 1969, and the social justice music of Joan Baez and others, was what I was listening to at this time.] �. Famous rock and roll musicians, Jimmy Hendrix, Keith Moon, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, all died of a hard drug overdose around 1970. �Rock has hard rock now.

Many peaceful protests, were occurring all over the country, foremost at the college campuses, although some angry violent protests were occurring also, extremist behavior; regarding the war.

1967. Wages were the highest in American history. There was a 13 year low in unemployment, corporate profits were up, even farm incomes were up. There was on the downside, a 4.5% inflation, and interest rates were high, as they should not have been. So Johnson asked for a 6% surcharge income tax. The war was costing more then his poverty fighting programs. And it would blind the people to note, then, let us cut back on the poverty program. --- was the idea. So now how the economy works. �Riots occurred again, the moment the War is more important then poverty programs?, in the inner city of Detroit and Newark, New Jersey. 1967. Biggest riots ever. 6 days of riots. The inner city of Newark was burned, and Governor George Romney of Michigan, sent 7,400 National Guard out to quell the fire bombings, looting, and the attacks on busses and police. Johnson sent in federal troops with tanks and machine guns to help. Detroit burned for 3 days. 43 died, and 2,250 people were injured. 4,000 people were arrested. There were 123 outbreaks of violent rioting. ---During the riots in Detroit, 3 black teenagers were killed in the Algiers Motel. The 3 police and one guard who shot them, were found innocent in a court of law.

Those killed in the riots, were mostly the rioters or Negro bystanders.

Meanwhile, for some reason, as a teenager during the early 1970�s, before I ever held a job, I did not know people were not treated fairly in the workplace; and, I did not have a clue as to just how bad wages are. Middle class and sheltered.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was addressing poverty,� for the Poor People�s Campaign in Washington. They were to have a big camp out against homelessness, -- without the president�s approval this time.

Up to this date, Martin Luther King Jr. had his home bombed, and had been jailed for peaceful protesting many times. At age 35, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. �..the first person in the Western World, to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence.�, said the chairman of the Norwegian parliament.

After accepting his award in Europe, King agreed to march on behalf of the garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee, who were on strike. He led the march; but when teenagers at the back began to smash windows and loot stores, he became furious, �I will never lead a violent march! Call it off!� �..King felt nonviolence was on trial! We need to come to Memphis, is what he said.

Non violence was on trial. �.ever since the first round of violence. Angry over poverty, it wasn�t Reverend King�s death that ended the pursuit of the American dream really will exist for all people, equals no poverty: It was the violence that ended the anti poverty campaigns. �If I misbehave, then the offender you are so upset with, will only concentrate on your behavior. Scared people are not responsive; educating people is effective; holds them accountable to know right, thus do right.

Well, Congress passes this Civil Rights Bill in 1968, supposedly to protect protesters on the streets. However, it did the opposite, with little addendums that did not include the police, and army, who are the offenders. Thus this law actually was and is still used to harass protesters. They go after who will speak to promote a riot or something? A young black SNCC leader, H. Rap Brown, made an angry speech right before a riot in Maryland. He was arrested, using this civil rights act. It was even used later, to prosecute the Chicago Eight, -- anti war demonstrators at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, 1968.

1967. And war breaks out in the mid-east. Beginning with border skirmishes, and then the refusal to release war prisoners, and then more border skirmishes. Syria shoots 6 MIG�s into Israeli territory, 1967. Israel announces that the 1947 U.N. partition plan can be ignored. Egypt and other Arab States draw up a military pact to deal with Israel. Egypt�s leader Nasser sends thousands of troops to the Egypt/Israeli border, [telling U.N. Troops to go home], and ordered a blockade on Israeli shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba. U.N. negotiations fail. Israel bombs Arab countries airfields, then attacks the Gaza strip, then onward into the Sinai. Now Israel had control of all that territory. �Then the country of Jordan fires upon the Israeli section of Jerusalem. Israel captures Jordanian East Jerusalem, and most of the West Bank. The U.N. Security Council called for a cease-fire. Syria did not accept this. Syria shells Israeli settlements. Israel captures the Golan Region. [A zone between Israel and Syria.] Syria now accepts the cease fire. Israel now occupies Gaza, Sinai Peninsula, Jordan�s West Bank, and East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The U.N. Resolution 242 calls for Israel to withdraw, and for a peaceful solution. Okay. And then the Arab countries meet in Khartown, 1967, calling for no peace with Israel, no negotiations, and no recognition whatsoever. Afterward they tempered their stance, and dropped the demand for the repatriation of lost property, if Israel will withdraw back to the originally agreed to 1949 borders. The 6 Day war they call it.
[Today, we need the West Bank to be Palestine. We need everyone in the Mideast, Arab and Israeli both, to see both sides of the issue, evenly, is honest only. And the whole matter would be solved overnight. Civil disobedience would have solved this matter years ago. Yet, I don�t need civil disobedience to do the right thing. An impartial child can tell you the right thing to do on all matters.]

Secretary of defense, Robert McNamara said that the U.S. 6th Fleet sent on a training exercise, was repositioned to the Eastern Mediterranean, due to the 6 Day war. 1967. When the Israeli�s made their strike upon Egypt, Soviet Premier Kosygin said, �If you want war you�re going to get war.� Soviet naval forces came to protect their Arab allies. They shadowed U.S. and British carriers with destroyers and were spying. As the Soviets armed the Arabs, and the U.S. armed the Israeli�s. Is the way of the world at this hour.

March 16, 1968, the 11th Brigade of the American Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai, and shot every man, woman, pregnant women, and children, babies, they could find, -- 347 civilians in all. The soldiers ate lunch. Then they went back to shoot all the animals. A few miles away, soldiers in Bravo Company [same army division], murdered everyone they could find in a hamlet called My khe. Then they lied about it. �Not all soldiers minded; Hugh Thompson, Jr. was one, who was in a helicopter overhead, and threatened to shoot any U.S. soldier who dares to kill one more woman or child. A reporter, Seymour Hersh, wrote the truth, -- receiving a prize in so doing. Lieutenant William Calley, Jr. was the one who directed this massacre, and who personally murdered 109 Vietnamese civilians, including babies. He was the only one put on trial; and he was sentenced to life in prison at hard labor. Nixon was President by the time the trial was over with; and he intervened, cutting Calley�s sentence down to 3 years of house arrest. ? �.To the terror of the American public!

The credibility gap was bad enough, but this is unacceptable. Period. Infuriating. I recollect hearing of the problems they were having in South Vietnam, as soldiers were being shot by armed children. So murder all civilians, children, includes babies, is a true sociopath to order. �.MORE BOMBS FELL ON VIETNAM THEN FELL ON GERMANY AND JAPAN DURING ALL OF WW2. �.It is not a war we should have ever been in, is true. Fighting in someone else�s civil war.

Anger over the war, the extreme destruction in Vietnam, all the deaths, for what, nothing. Vietnam vets, some, demonstrated also; they burned their medals of bravery; others burned their draft cards. �.Incidents were reported of individuals angry even at the very people who endangered their own lives fighting in this war. �Spitting upon soldiers, or rants of rage. .

1968. NASA Gemini program, Apollo program. Apollo 8 sent the first person to the moon. [The Apollo missions through out the 1960�s. Before the moon landing 3 astronauts had died in a spaceship on ground, that had caught on fire.]

Meanwhile, J. Edgar Hoover, hated Reverend King. He was tapping his phone, which was illegal. And, Hoover was planting false stories about King to the press.

King watched LBJ make the surprising speech on Television, March, 31, 1968, when Johnson said he will not run for re election. [The president was not doing well in the polls.] And then, the next day King headed back to Memphis. As he made a great speech, �I would like to live a long life. But I�m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God�s will. And He�s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I�ve looked over. And I�ve seen the Promised Land. And I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land�I have a dream this afternoon that the brotherhood of man will become reality.�

The next evening in Memphis, he was fixing to go eat dinner. He stood on his hotel balcony at the doorway of his room, (the Lorraine Motel), along with Ralph Abernathy, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and others. They heard what sounded like a fire cracker, and Reverend King fell to the ground. He had been shot in the head, and he was dead. April 4, 1968.

The presidential election was in full swing by this time. Robert Kennedy is who Reverend King was supporting; because Kennedy will cure poverty, -- as Hispanic, and Catholics, and African Americans supported him. There was Hubert Humphrey, who had the labor union�s support. There was Eugene McCarthy, liberal, who attracted students and intellectuals, who�s main focus was anti-war. And there was George Wallace, and his all American Party. A Democratic party split four ways. As the polls made him feel, President Johnson thought the liberals weren�t supporting him as they should, is ignorant. But he had passion he said, to Cure Poverty, and the damn war got in the way instead.

When the public heard of Reverend King�s death, the reaction was shocking! 130 inner cities were burning. Horrible rioting, looting, and shooting. 39 people were killed, homes and businesses were destroyed. 65,000 troops had to be called in to stop it. An odd response regarding the death of a man, who was foremost, for non violent protest. [A photo in the �A US History book�, depicts the inner city of Washington D.C. ..Soldiers who are standing around what looks to be Berlin after W.W.2, as the buildings were so destroyed, and rubble so profound. But it had been these riots that did it.]

June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy, before a crowd of supporters, was thanking those who helped him win the California and South Dakota primaries, -- his staff, his friends, his wife, and Cesar Chavez. And then he took a short cut through the kitchen, in order to get to a press conference. A shot was heard; Robert Kennedy was shot in the head, and died. The creep who did it was angry over his Israeli policies, they say.

�Hey hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today.�, the protesters chanted.

_______________________

*After Civil Rights worker Viola Liuzzo was murdered by the KKK, Johnson angrily denounced the klan, �hooded society of bigots. �return to a decent society before its too late� Johnson was the first president since Grant to arrest and prosecute the Klan.

*1967, Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to be the very first black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. They were friends.

*In every era there is always a big list of names; but to mention at this moment: Chief Justice Earl Warren. Sam Rayburn. �Tip O� Neal is already on the scene. �Tell students to go look up so n so, is boring? Then have any of these dead people visit, or�

*The Warren Commission. --- As Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories take hold. Although, not by the Warren Commission. [E. Howard Hunt, was in the CIA, wrote his memoirs, claiming Johnson ordered JFK�s assassination. He suggested that William K. Harvey was in the plot to help him. A CIA man, who wanted a promotion, he said. --- Well, if you are well meaning only is you, obviously false accusation, is proven. But it is accusing the president of being an absolute true sociopath. My opinion does not feel that he was/is. But this E. Howard Hunt guy then, is looking sociopath.] �..As for other theories, maybe there was a killer in the grassy knoll; I don�t know.

*1968. $300 million in damage in North Vietnam. 700 U.S. aircraft were shot down, costing $900 million.

*My Dad's mother, Granny, very elderly, told me at age 15 or so, after two boys my age walked by, and had the long hair on their head, that was expected, "How can you tell what they look like?" ...Some conservatives, including their teenagers hated the Beatles, as if political they are, somehow. They were different. The long hair. ...Latter 1960's, my husband was a teenager. He moved from urban Fort Worth out to the rural countryside. Going to school there, with his hair longer, and the kids in the countryside all still wore their hair really short. He walked into the class: "Oh, look! A Beatle!", although his hair wasn't all that long. The weird urban guy. Soon their hair will be longer also.

*Regarding the age of innocence, is why the "Andy Griffith Show" and the "Dick Van Dyke Show" are still the best sitcoms ever on U.S. television. My opinion? There was never such an age in reality; but our age began 1968, the age of cynical despair. Hazel the maid, was a saint, [normal person], My Three Sons. Isn�t Leave it To Beaver sad, today, as we are in a �Great Recession�. Bad old days are back? We've had some great sitcoms since then, ....although the cynical age must go. --- Rude jokes about how I don't wish company to stay, or I am better then that low life, or, wise cracking kids that sound 40 and rude. Bratty and selfish, verses, fair is what we know. My house is your home, is basic ethics.. [The �Rosanne Show� in the 1980-90�s, showcased the dysfunctional family, without the extra satire, is the way the families are, a lot.] Want to mention the show, 1969, "Room 222", -- kids in high school. Great show, but all problems they had, we still have, is outrageous.

*There can be an entire book only on Rock and Roll. John Hammond brought Jazz, invented by the African American musicians in the U.S., to the white population. So look him up. Look up Barry Gordy, who signed an endless list of now well known black musicians. The Jackson 5, the youngest.

*References mentioned in previous chapter, still used. Spartacus Education Website, Wiki pedia, and Answer.com, ..

*Johnson while in Congress brought electricity to the Texas Hill Country. �Nothing has ever given me so much satisfaction as bringing power to the Hill Country of Texas.� Johnson died in San Antonio, Texas 1973. �.�Lyndon�s Law� , is why one can keep his Senate seat while he runs for president.

*Dorothy Day again. She was in her 60�s during the 1960�s. Protesting the Vietnam war she stood outside a missile base to block the entrance. She protested any industry that built weapons of destruction. She told people not to pay your taxes, because of the war. She wasn�t afraid to go to jail for what she believed in. ��She believed in,.. the power of God�s love. She believed that God could be found among the poor, and that helping the poor was a way to change society and find the meaning of life.� She founded the Catholic Worker Newspaper. Ran soup kitchens, and hospitality houses for the poor. [the �A US History book�]

*Poverty is cured is why there is no one to be stuck up over.

*The Lakota of South Dakota had been forced to sign their land away by the U.S. Congress. They straight up broke treaties. Their food source, the buffalo, was almost now extinct. Settlers and gold miners encroached upon their land. And this is what occurred before the Battle at Wounded Knee happened: "It was during this time of suffering and degradation that news spread among the reservations of a Paiute prophet named Wovoka, founder of the Ghost Dance religion. He had a vision that the Christian Messiah, Jesus Christ, had returned to earth in the form of a Native American. �.The Messiah would raise all the Native American believers above the earth. During this time the white man would disappear from Native lands, the buffalo herds and all the other animals would return in abundance, and the ghosts of their ancestors would return to earth - hence the word "Ghost" in �Ghost Dance�. They would then return to earth to live in peace.� �..U.S. officials began to worry that this ghost dance was preparation for war. So U.S. Troops went to the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, 12-29-1890, to disarm, take away their guns. Well, one man called Black Coyote was deaf; and they said so; but a soldier didn�t get it, or something, and there was a scuffle to grab his gun, [which the man had paid much money for], the gun discharged, and Troops reacted by shooting Lakota men, women, and children. 150 to 300 Lakota people died. 39 U.S. soldiers died, they say, some likely died of friendly fire. �Sitting Bull was murdered, when they came first, to arrest him.
Chief Spotted Elk, who was ailing, was murdered. ...American Horse, (1840-1908), Chief, Oglala Lakota, said of the massacre: �There was a woman with an infant in her arms who was killed as she almost touched the flag of truce...A mother was shot down with her infant; the child not knowing that its mother was dead was still nursing...The women as they were fleeing with their babies were killed together, shot right through...and after most all of them had been killed a cry was made that all those who were not killed or wounded should come forth and they would be safe. Little boys...came out of their places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded them and butchered them there." [Quotes off of Wikipedia]
�A church was built on the hill behind the mass grave in which the victims had been buried. In 1903, descendants of those who died in the massacre erected a monument at the grave site. The memorial lists many of those who died at Wounded Knee along with an inscription that reads:
"This monument is erected by surviving relatives and other Ogalala [sic] and Cheyenne River Sioux Indians in memory of the Chief Big Foot massacre December 29, 1890. Col. Forsyth in command of US troops. Big Foot was a great chief of the Sioux Indians. He often said, "I will stand in peace till my last day comes." He did many good and brave deeds for the white man and the red man. Many innocent women and children who knew no wrong died here." ....... U.S. sociopath believing soldiers. The Wounded Knee Battlefield was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1965 and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1966.� As the Red People of North America up to 1966, mostly lived in abject poverty, through out the 20th Century in particular.

*Sociopath behaving isn�t a real sociopath? The problem is, self correcting proves one was honestly most stupid in some way; and who is sorry, is hugely sorry, not just a little. Who is sorry actually, is, dramatically. Those who do not have this honest stupidity at all, chose. And real sociopath�s do have a frightening situation in their soul; for they must admit they died eternally, most frankly, and work through that, if they are to not die eternally after all. Yet, they won�t bother at this point, typically. As philosophical facts are, living eternally is forever, is most exciting. Very sad to miss out on that. The truth will set you free from your emotional angst, for all who do deal in their heart honestly, only. Those who do, foremost, give a big darn, concerning who they hurt.

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