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August 14, 2014
1962 -- President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to quell riots so that James Meredith, the school's first black student, can attend.
The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in all transportation facilities.
The Department of Defense orders full integration of military reserve units, the National Guard excluded.
1963 -- Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet.
Race riots prompt modified martial law in Cambridge, Maryland.
http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html
I thought National Guard units are called out by the governors in the different states, and Rick Perry won't do it. I'm confused by this article on who can call them out to keep order.
Their being callled out probably would be going against the AG of the State of Texas, or the rovering gangs of Teahadists called True the Vote, who are determined to intimidate and interfere with the vote, IMO. Here is part of the Wikepedia entry on the National Guard:
Jurisdiction
The National Guard is directed and primarily funded through its respective state. Federal funding is given however. The Army Reserve is solely funded by the federal government. It is also, however, restricted by posse comitatus.
The rest of the description of the National Guard, its history and the changes to the laws, are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_States
The Teahadists have been calling for civil war down in Texas this year, or at least one elected official did, and of course they've got all of the Patriot Movement running loose there. Just a few names in the mix and what our Democratic Texans are up against:
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/texas-judge-preparing-for-civil-war-if-obama-re-elected/
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/alex-jones
Yes, I think it's time to call in the UN observers, alright. This is getting out of hand. IDK if the Texas AG is acting legally or not.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014278414#post84
More here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11027866
More details from news in 2012. Please excuse what doesn't apply:
From the Civil Rights era of the Sixties:1962 -- President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to quell riots so that James Meredith, the school's first black student, can attend.
The Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional in all transportation facilities.
The Department of Defense orders full integration of military reserve units, the National Guard excluded.
1963 -- Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is killed by a sniper's bullet.
Race riots prompt modified martial law in Cambridge, Maryland.
http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html
I thought National Guard units are called out by the governors in the different states, and Rick Perry won't do it. I'm confused by this article on who can call them out to keep order.
Their being callled out probably would be going against the AG of the State of Texas, or the rovering gangs of Teahadists called True the Vote, who are determined to intimidate and interfere with the vote, IMO. Here is part of the Wikepedia entry on the National Guard:
Jurisdiction
The National Guard is directed and primarily funded through its respective state. Federal funding is given however. The Army Reserve is solely funded by the federal government. It is also, however, restricted by posse comitatus.
The rest of the description of the National Guard, its history and the changes to the laws, are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_States
The Teahadists have been calling for civil war down in Texas this year, or at least one elected official did, and of course they've got all of the Patriot Movement running loose there. Just a few names in the mix and what our Democratic Texans are up against:
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/08/22/texas-judge-preparing-for-civil-war-if-obama-re-elected/
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/alex-jones
Yes, I think it's time to call in the UN observers, alright. This is getting out of hand. IDK if the Texas AG is acting legally or not.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014278414#post84
More here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11027866
August 14, 2014
Motivated by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi.[2] His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans...
Meredith won in court, but the Governor still fought it, and RFK talked him into following the law and admitting him. Federal law, not state law.
Some white students and segregationists, many who had driven in for the event, protested his enrollment by rioting on the Oxford campus.
Robert Kennedy called in 500 U.S. Marshals to take control, who were supported by the 70th Army Engineer Combat Battalion from Ft Campbell, Kentucky. They created a tent camp and kitchen for the US Marshals.
To bolster law enforcement, President John F. Kennedy sent in U.S. Army troops from the 2nd Infantry Division from Ft. Benning, GA under the command of Maj. Gen Charles Billingslea and military police from the 503rd Military Police Battalion, and called in troops from the Mississippi Army National Guard.[13]
Gen. Bllingslea's staff car was mobbed and set on fire at the entrance to the university gate. General Billingslea, the Deputy Commanding General, John Corley, and aide, Capt Harold Lyon, were trapped inside the burning car but managed to force the car door open and had to crawl 200 yards into the gate to the University Lyceum Building while someone was shooting at them and continued to shoot the windows out, though the Army never returned fire.
Gen Billingslea had established a series of escalating secret code words for issuing ammunition down to the platoons with another one for issuing it to squads, and a third one for loading, none of which could take place without the General himself, confirming the secret codes.
In the violent clash, two people died, including the French journalist Paul Guihard,[7] on assignment for the London Daily Sketch. He was found dead behind the Lyceum building with a gunshot wound to the back.
One hundred-sixty US Marshals, one-third of the group, were injured in the melee, and 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen were wounded.[7][1[13]
US Army trucks loaded with steel-helmeted US Marshals roll across the University of Mississippi campus on October 3, 1962.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith
During this time, he was advised by Medgar Evers, a civil rights leader.
Evers was also inspired by Kennedy and killed the same day he came home to tell his family the good news he had heard about his decision. Terrorists gunned him down in his front yard in view of his wife and children.
In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go," Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; the bullet ripped through his heart. He staggered 9 meters (30 feet) before collapsing.
He was taken to the local hospital in Jackson where he was initially refused entry because of his color, until it was explained who he was; he died in the hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers#Assassination
All these leaders were attacked repeatedly and denied the most basic of human rights. Meredith was a very intelligent, successful man with his own strong views shown at the link. The terrorists have not stopped hating:
In 2014, vandals linked to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity vandalized Meredith's honorary University of Mississippi campus statue by putting a noose around its neck and draping it with a controversial former Georgia state flag. In response, he said "that just clearly shows that we’re not training our children like the Bible says. They don’t know right and wrong, good and bad and how to apply it to life."[1]
Our current crop of Tenthers, Teaterrorists and Libertarians would have called what the Kennedys and the military did the action of a police state.
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/10025124771#post7
Not just Alabama... but yes, federal troops did go to AL. Here's a description from MS:
James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. In 1962, he was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi,[1] an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement.Motivated by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi.[2] His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans...
Meredith won in court, but the Governor still fought it, and RFK talked him into following the law and admitting him. Federal law, not state law.
Some white students and segregationists, many who had driven in for the event, protested his enrollment by rioting on the Oxford campus.
Robert Kennedy called in 500 U.S. Marshals to take control, who were supported by the 70th Army Engineer Combat Battalion from Ft Campbell, Kentucky. They created a tent camp and kitchen for the US Marshals.
To bolster law enforcement, President John F. Kennedy sent in U.S. Army troops from the 2nd Infantry Division from Ft. Benning, GA under the command of Maj. Gen Charles Billingslea and military police from the 503rd Military Police Battalion, and called in troops from the Mississippi Army National Guard.[13]
Gen. Bllingslea's staff car was mobbed and set on fire at the entrance to the university gate. General Billingslea, the Deputy Commanding General, John Corley, and aide, Capt Harold Lyon, were trapped inside the burning car but managed to force the car door open and had to crawl 200 yards into the gate to the University Lyceum Building while someone was shooting at them and continued to shoot the windows out, though the Army never returned fire.
Gen Billingslea had established a series of escalating secret code words for issuing ammunition down to the platoons with another one for issuing it to squads, and a third one for loading, none of which could take place without the General himself, confirming the secret codes.
In the violent clash, two people died, including the French journalist Paul Guihard,[7] on assignment for the London Daily Sketch. He was found dead behind the Lyceum building with a gunshot wound to the back.
One hundred-sixty US Marshals, one-third of the group, were injured in the melee, and 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen were wounded.[7][1[13]
US Army trucks loaded with steel-helmeted US Marshals roll across the University of Mississippi campus on October 3, 1962.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith
During this time, he was advised by Medgar Evers, a civil rights leader.
Evers was also inspired by Kennedy and killed the same day he came home to tell his family the good news he had heard about his decision. Terrorists gunned him down in his front yard in view of his wife and children.
In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go," Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; the bullet ripped through his heart. He staggered 9 meters (30 feet) before collapsing.
He was taken to the local hospital in Jackson where he was initially refused entry because of his color, until it was explained who he was; he died in the hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers#Assassination
All these leaders were attacked repeatedly and denied the most basic of human rights. Meredith was a very intelligent, successful man with his own strong views shown at the link. The terrorists have not stopped hating:
In 2014, vandals linked to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity vandalized Meredith's honorary University of Mississippi campus statue by putting a noose around its neck and draping it with a controversial former Georgia state flag. In response, he said "that just clearly shows that we’re not training our children like the Bible says. They don’t know right and wrong, good and bad and how to apply it to life."[1]
Our current crop of Tenthers, Teaterrorists and Libertarians would have called what the Kennedys and the military did the action of a police state.
http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/10025124771#post7
August 14, 2014
About a dozen a day would be good for what ails BDP. Fermentation in the gut causes those evil brain farts.
Too much cheese is what gave Blood Diamond Pat that look. Freshwest sez:
About a dozen a day would be good for what ails BDP. Fermentation in the gut causes those evil brain farts.
August 13, 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calico_cat&printable=yes
The idea a 'migration of melanocytes and X-inactivation in the embryo' to the fur caused by one of the X chromosomes inside a female mammal shutting off,' 'dark, drumstick-shaped masses inside the nuclei of nerve cells of female cats, but not in male cats' and 'a condition referred to as XXY (Klinefelter's syndrome in males is something I'd've never imagined. Genetic studies must be fascinating work.
I am familiar with the challenges posed by Fragile X syndrome (FXS) as shown here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fragile_X_syndrome&printable=yes
But the picture above is the lovely Phoebe and of course a female. She looks quite healthy.
It's explained in depth here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calico_cat&printable=yes
The idea a 'migration of melanocytes and X-inactivation in the embryo' to the fur caused by one of the X chromosomes inside a female mammal shutting off,' 'dark, drumstick-shaped masses inside the nuclei of nerve cells of female cats, but not in male cats' and 'a condition referred to as XXY (Klinefelter's syndrome in males is something I'd've never imagined. Genetic studies must be fascinating work.
I am familiar with the challenges posed by Fragile X syndrome (FXS) as shown here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fragile_X_syndrome&printable=yes
But the picture above is the lovely Phoebe and of course a female. She looks quite healthy.
August 13, 2014
Certain weaponry and gear are for war zones. There is no war going on at Target or restaurants. Now if the cops or wingnuts want to declare that there is a war going on in the USA that requires this, they need to speak out and say so. And the voters need to agree. Otherwise, it's intimidation and provocation, not safety.
Yes. And so are open carry people doing the same. That's where EarlG's picture of the day hits home:
Certain weaponry and gear are for war zones. There is no war going on at Target or restaurants. Now if the cops or wingnuts want to declare that there is a war going on in the USA that requires this, they need to speak out and say so. And the voters need to agree. Otherwise, it's intimidation and provocation, not safety.
August 13, 2014
Woo hoo! 79%! Please proceed!
The McClatchy-Marist College poll shows political moderates oppose the impeachment of Obama 79 percent to 15 percent. That's a stunning margin. And not only that, if the House GOP did initiate impeachment proceedings, moderates say it would turn them off so much that they would be pulled toward the Democrats. By 49-27, moderates say impeachment would make them more likely to vote Democratic than Republican in 2014.
August 13, 2014
Published on Aug 12, 2014
Creationist Cat analyzes recent compromising footage of Sarah Palin that some have called "a babbling, incoherent mess showing signs of clear drunkeness." Is this a cringe-worthy scandal or just another phony controversy cooked up by the lame-stream media? Creationist Cat and his special guest Creationist Cat get to the bottom of it!
Run, Sarah, Run!
I would like to find this video without the er... commentary at the end which took away from the overall point.
Which is that Sarah is losing it, or lost it, or never had it.
Anyone got that clip?
TIA.
Creationist Cat: Is Sarah Palin a Fartknocker?
Published on Aug 12, 2014
Creationist Cat analyzes recent compromising footage of Sarah Palin that some have called "a babbling, incoherent mess showing signs of clear drunkeness." Is this a cringe-worthy scandal or just another phony controversy cooked up by the lame-stream media? Creationist Cat and his special guest Creationist Cat get to the bottom of it!
Run, Sarah, Run!
I would like to find this video without the er... commentary at the end which took away from the overall point.
Which is that Sarah is losing it, or lost it, or never had it.
Anyone got that clip?
TIA.
August 12, 2014
Yazidi survivors in Dohuk rescued by helicopter
Published on Aug 11, 2014
Ivan Watson Monday journeys to Dohuk where Yazidis rescued from the Mount Sinjar siege have been taken by Kurdish forces.
to ChisolmTrailDem:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025372105
Another helicopter aid drop with people picked up but in English this time. Get your hankies, fellow BOGers!.
Thanks Obama, for doing the right thing!
Yazidi Rescued from ISIS (CNN Video in English)
Yazidi survivors in Dohuk rescued by helicopter
Published on Aug 11, 2014
Ivan Watson Monday journeys to Dohuk where Yazidis rescued from the Mount Sinjar siege have been taken by Kurdish forces.
to ChisolmTrailDem:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025372105
Another helicopter aid drop with people picked up but in English this time. Get your hankies, fellow BOGers!.
Thanks Obama, for doing the right thing!
August 12, 2014
And Galredia's thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023152339
Good links. That second one takes the take on the newest disruptions. My take was here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110215862And Galredia's thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023152339
August 11, 2014
Allan Smith - Jun. 27, 2014
The Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant is mostly funded through criminal activity, such as the theft of a potential $425 million from a central bank in Mosul. But the group is also receiving private donations from wealthy Sunnis in American-allied Gulf nations such as Kuwait, Qatar, and, possibly, Saudi Arabia...
In Kuwait, donors have taken advantage of weak terror financing control laws to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to various Syrian rebel groups, including ISIS, according to a December 2013 report by The Brookings Institution, which receives some funding from the government of Qatar...
When it comes to the U.S. reaction, Levitt said the Americans are working towards stopping the flow of cash, but that it's the local governments that will have the greater impact...
If ISIS continues to stockpile cash - enough to maintain its status as the wealthiest terrorist organization in the world - it's possible that they would they would have the means to engage in international terrorism, something that the group and its supporters are already threatening online.
"ISIS is more extreme than Al-Qaeda in many ways," Levitt said of possible future ISIS attacks outside Iraq and Syria. "If they accomplish their goals in Iraq and Syria, and are capable of doing so, I don’t doubt that they would."
http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-funding-us-allies-2014-6
Posted here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025357236#post26
Obama is acting on the situation in ways that Graham can't grasp. He doesn't need Lindsey's help. But if Graham is so concerned, he needs to come back from his vacation and get to work.
Maybe Lindsey read this piece here:
ISIS Is Likely Receiving Funding From People Living In Countries Allied With The USAllan Smith - Jun. 27, 2014
The Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant is mostly funded through criminal activity, such as the theft of a potential $425 million from a central bank in Mosul. But the group is also receiving private donations from wealthy Sunnis in American-allied Gulf nations such as Kuwait, Qatar, and, possibly, Saudi Arabia...
In Kuwait, donors have taken advantage of weak terror financing control laws to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to various Syrian rebel groups, including ISIS, according to a December 2013 report by The Brookings Institution, which receives some funding from the government of Qatar...
When it comes to the U.S. reaction, Levitt said the Americans are working towards stopping the flow of cash, but that it's the local governments that will have the greater impact...
If ISIS continues to stockpile cash - enough to maintain its status as the wealthiest terrorist organization in the world - it's possible that they would they would have the means to engage in international terrorism, something that the group and its supporters are already threatening online.
"ISIS is more extreme than Al-Qaeda in many ways," Levitt said of possible future ISIS attacks outside Iraq and Syria. "If they accomplish their goals in Iraq and Syria, and are capable of doing so, I don’t doubt that they would."
http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-funding-us-allies-2014-6
Posted here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025357236#post26
Obama is acting on the situation in ways that Graham can't grasp. He doesn't need Lindsey's help. But if Graham is so concerned, he needs to come back from his vacation and get to work.
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