[Vision2020] Thought Control

[Kenneth Marcy]

It is interesting to see this subject here again. About five and a third 
years ago we discussed it.  Here is a link to a post I made to this list 
during that thread:

http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2010-March/068906.html


Ken


On 7/1/2015 6:16 AM, Sunil wrote:
> LBJ was a Southern Democrat and he pushed through the Civil Right Act, 
> with the support of Democrats and Republicans. It's true that the 
> majority of Southern Democrats opposed the legislation. We can't and 
> shouldn't pretend that's not true. But here's an article looking at 
> the vote from a geographical perspective:
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights
>
> We also shouldn't forget Nixon's Southern Strategy, and it's pretty 
> clear that the former Dixiecrats have become Republicans. Howiington 
> isn't alone in taking the position below, but I never see people 
> taking that position talking about the post-Nixon shift.
>
> Sunil
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 02:47:49 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Thought Control
>
> Courtesy of the Letters section of today's (July 1, 2015) Lewiston 
> Tribune.
>
> -------------------------------------
> *Thought Control*
>
> I find it interesting that soon after a deranged racist goes into a 
> predominantly black church and murders nine people, the conversation 
> goes to a flag. A flag?
>
> Why?
>
> Is it because this hate-filled monster cannot be connected to any 
> conservative?
>
> By all accounts, he is a leftist Nazi. He is a leftist. We have to 
> change "the narrative." The left cannot be exposed as the "intolerant, 
> racist haters" they are. The subject has to be changed to blame "the 
> others."
>
> The Democrats were the slave owners who helped trigger the Civil War.
>
> After the war, it was the Democrats that started the Ku Klux Klan as 
> the enforcement arm of the Democrats in the South.
>
> It was the Democrats that fought against the Civil Rights Act (1964).
>
> How can anyone in good conscience ever vote for a person who denies 
> the history of the blatant racism of his own party?
>
> Oh! Yeah! We hate Republicans! Why?
>
> Because we are mind-controlled by robots who believe what television 
> said. We don't have to actually think about anything. We have been 
> told what to think.
>
> Roy Howington, Kamiah
>
> --------------------
>
> /My response . . ./
>
> Mr. Howington -
>
> The person that committed those nine murders in Charleston, South 
> Carolina has repeatedly, and openly, associated himself with the 
> "culture" (for lack of a more appropriate term) related to the 
> Confederate flag and its racist heritage. It is for those reasons that 
> the flag should be permanently removed from government buildings and 
> placed in a museum.
>
> The person that committed those murders should be placed in solitary 
> confinement for the remainder of his life, which should amount to 
> about sixty years (as, according to the media, he recently turned 21), 
> with his human contact restricted to gazing at photos of his victims. 
> This punishment should be imposed . . . regardless of how he voted on 
> election days.
>
> FYI, Mr. Howington: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was fervently 
> supported and enacted by then-President Lyndon Baines Johnson . . . a 
> Democrat.
>
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>
>
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>
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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