Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #5I have a few questions....
1. How is John Kasich supposed to feel after forming an alliance with TrusTed a week ago and now getting stabbed in the back today. What was in it for Kasich?
2. What about the workers in Indiana's John Kasich campaign who were working for Kasich but without notice, were told to stop and to now work for Ted Cruz? Do Kasich and Cruz think their supporters are zombies who can be ordered to do whatever they want?
3. I REALLY want to know why a Ted Cruz Super-PAC sent $500,000 to Carly Fiorina's campaign? Isn't anyone beside me curious about such an incredibly high donation from and to a competitor? This contribution deserves the spotlight of scrutiny
I think Kasich could care less that he got stabbed in the back. It is all about no letting Trump win. The workers must be upset. I am very curious why StCruz gave her that 500k.
I would assume her campaign has debt that needed retiring. And allowing oneself to be the figurehead on the good ship TEDTANIC when it's going down don't come cheap.
******* “We cannot continue to allow ourselves to be influenced and molded by the political class and by the media. That is going to destroy us," he said, remarking that it's "kind of sad" that the press is the only business protected by the Constitution "because they were supposed to be the allies of the people." Dr. Ben Carson
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #19TM, do you know who this woman is? I recommend you find out.
Oh dear, this sounds horrible!!! I have no idea!
******* “We cannot continue to allow ourselves to be influenced and molded by the political class and by the media. That is going to destroy us," he said, remarking that it's "kind of sad" that the press is the only business protected by the Constitution "because they were supposed to be the allies of the people." Dr. Ben Carson
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #19TM, do you know who this woman is? I recommend you find out.
Oh dear, this sounds horrible!!! I have no idea!
She's a lady author Cincinnatus, died 1940
******* “We cannot continue to allow ourselves to be influenced and molded by the political class and by the media. That is going to destroy us," he said, remarking that it's "kind of sad" that the press is the only business protected by the Constitution "because they were supposed to be the allies of the people." Dr. Ben Carson
ZitatEmma Goldman, also known as “Red Emma,” was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics. Her advocacy of anarchism set her over and against those who value law and order. Her advocacy of women's rights, however, may have shocked some into realizing the moral imperative on which equality of women, and their inclusion in leadership, rests.
Goldman advocated free speech, birth control, women’s equality and independence, and union organizing. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation to Russia in 1919. There she witnessed the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and experienced first-hand its murderous terror. This turned her against the Bolsheviks at a time when many of her leftist friends were singing their praises. While she believed that open warfare against oppression, slavery and exploitation is justified, she came to question the morality of violence aimed at spreading an ideology, which merely leads to "counter-revolution and in turn itself becomes counter-revolutionary."
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In New York City, Goldman met and lived with Alexander Berkman, who was an important figure of the anarchist movement in the United States at the time. The two remained close friends until his death in 1936. With the influence of anarchist writers such as Johann Most, Berkman and Goldman became convinced that direct action, including the use of violence, was necessary to effect revolutionary change.
Goldman and Berkman were consumed by the Homestead strike, where the strikers had seized the Homestead plant and locked out management. After Pinkerton detectives attempted to take back the factory and expel the strikers, a riot broke out, causing the deaths of several men. Berkman, with the support of Goldman, decided to take violent action in support of the strikers by assassinating the factory manager, Henry Clay Frick, in retaliation for his role in hiring Pinkerton detectives to retake the factory. Berkman entered Frick's offices and shot at Frick three times, hitting him twice in the neck, then grappled with Frick and stabbed him four times in the leg. Berkman was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Goldman was widely believed by the authorities to have been involved in the planning stages of the Frick assassination attempt, but Berkman and the other conspirators refused to give evidence against her, and she was not charged in the indictment. Her defense of Berkman after the attempted assassination and her later attempts to win his early parole made her a marked woman and highly unpopular with the authorities who regularly disrupted her lectures. Berkman was released on parole after 14 years in 1906.
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Goldman's persistent championing of anarchist and radical causes caused her to come under increased scrutiny from federal officials. In 1908, her U.S. citizenship was revoked. In 1914, along with Alexander Berkman, she participated in anarchist protests against John D. Rockefeller which were brutally dispersed by police. Berkman is alleged to have participated with four other anarchists to bomb Rockefeller's Tarrytown, New York mansion. On July 4, 1914, one of the plotters left her apartment where the bomb was being constructed to visit Berkman at the Mother Earth offices. Fifteen minutes later, the bomb exploded inside the apartment, killing everyone in the apartment (including the remaining members of the plot), and severely wounding another person. Berkman denied all knowledge of the plot. It is not known whether Goldman knew of the bomb plot, but after speaking at the funerals of the anarchists, Berkman returned to work at Mother Earth for another year before leaving for San Francisco to found his own revolutionary journal, The Blast.