Lincoln’s Republican Party died with him, replaced by Comstockist book-burning societies. Voters saw through this and reacted, but Comstock “republicans” still held the troops with bayonets and power to stop citizens from voting. The 13th Amendment was recast by White Supreme male judges to only extend suffrage to some black males. Compare that to what was written after the war to Save the Customs Union:
14A: All persons born or naturalized in the United States… are citizens of the United States and of the State.
15A: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
By leaving out SEX, the door was left open for men with guns and billy clubs to ramrod women into prison for daring to vote or run for office.(link) With disenfranchisement legitimized by the White Supreme Court, it was but a small step to expand that to racial collectivist Jim Crow legislation and laws denying suffrage to ANYONE who dared to stand up to a superstitious usurpation imposed at gunpoint. The trick was to use definitions to finish chiseling away the antislavery amendment and restoring the original prewar language in Article Four, Section Two, Clause Three. That’s the part that tells U.S. Marshals to help Slave States and their bounty hunters to hunt down fugitives from enslavement, defined as Service or Labor.
Bodily ejecting uppity blacks and females from polling booths was promptly redefined as “not really” disenfranchisement. Comstock Laws lustily redefined writings as “disloyal” or as “obscenity.”(link) Soon, enslaving youth into the trenches of the World War to Enforce the Hague Opium Convention was redefined as “not really” slavery. Laws enacted at China’s request redefined trade and production as “traffic” to create victimless “crime.”(link)
By the time the Harrison Act and Constitutional Amendment defining potions, wineries and breweries as “traffic” had wrecked the economy, addictive narcotics, non-habit-forming stimulants and harmless hemp had replaced much of the recreational market. Republican attempts to again export sumptuary coercion to drug-exporting Germany backfired as before. Big Pharma subsidized Christian National Socialism and got Adolf Hitler installed as Chancellor of the Reich. This was good? (link)
Most of Prohibition was replaced by FDR and New Deal Reconstruction. Brewers and Distillers reinvested profits by hiring politicians and advertisers to declare “Reefer Madness” the new national emergency. This was replacement for the “Cocaine Negroes” emergency used in 1914 to secure passage of Francis Harrison’s “Trade Restrictions Act.” Madness gave the pretext in 1936 for again shrieking “traffic” and hauling out the pistols, manacles and truncheons to “do something” about that unfair competition. Not for long would plant leaves kick sand in poor little Beelzebubba’s beer!
So after thousands of man-years of prison terms for youth, felony plant leaf laws keep those same skeptical people from voting a half-century after the Nixon-Reagan war on Woodstock Nation. Observe that the Beatles-albums-burning Solid South that voted for George Wallace is where prohibitionism replaces democracy with jail cells. Now would be a good time to either donate libertarian or move someplace more civilized, register and vote.(link) More: (link)
Good Reading: The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan, by James Scott.(link) One of the facts disclosed is how easily submarines smuggled cargo–everything from weapons, fuel, ammunition, explosives, men and materiél–past armed and eager enemy blockades. Nor was this news in 1916, when the Deutschland carried a hefty load of goods to the neutral United States in 1916. It makes you wonder about how Rum Row turned a profit 12 miles off the coast during Prohibition. After all, 97% of U.S: alcohol demand was met by brewing and distilling corn sugar. Only 3% in all could have come from Canada, Mexico and Rum Row ships–but what if those floating contraband stores were also selling drugs the government made disappear in 1914. If so, how did those supplies arrive?
Get the big picture in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.
Prohibition and The Crash, on Amazon Kindle (link)
ASYLUM APPLICATION FORM i589 INSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE: INSTRUÇÕES PARA O FORMULÁRIO DE ASILO i589. What we did was make the Political Asylum instructions accessible to and understandable by people accustomed to thinking in Portuguese. This costs one dollar ($1) and you can read it on a cellphone with the Kindle app.(link)
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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)
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