Bad Penny
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« on: January 05, 2011, 11:32:48 am » |
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Just one additional paragraph (sequentially, this belongs between "White Star Line" and "Until the election of FDR":
The First World War had yet further impact within the US: first, as the largely immigrant Northeastern Working Class gave local industrialists the problem of having workforces which consisted of subjects of crowns, many of whom the US suddenly found herself at war with .as a result of Congress’ April 1917 declaration. It was no bid deal to convince these industrialists to assist in government surveillance of enemy aliens, particularly seeing as many of these employers had surveillance systems already in place to ward off union organizing. The period of wartime sacrifice and austerity also aided the Ruling Class in their manipulation of the population, to an extent that they sought to extend it into the postwar period through Prohibition, just as the propaganda to watch out for Axis spies during the Second World War was extended into the postwar period by virtue of the civil-liberties-destroying McCarthy Period. (And, once again, the Establishment got rid of McCarthy as soon as his investigation into Communism led him into the Department of the Army.)
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Are you taking over? Or are you taking orders? I ain't going backwards! We're going only forwards!
The Clash, White Riot
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