Oops, wrong Nixon. This same issue contained other gems, including an ad for agents to hawk an 800-page illustrated book on the practice of medicine as she is right after the second Comstock law took effect. The book, “The Funny Side of Physic” has been converted and posted for download by our friends at Gutenberg.org (link) Gutenberg accepts donations.
The Comstock law–which provided 10 years on a chain gang for mailing a birth control pamphlet–was overturned by the Roe v. Wade decision formulated by the 1972 Libertarian Party Platform. This was shortly after the electoral vote count elected Nixon over the obstreperously antichoice George Wallace of Alabama.(link) The complete text of THAT Libertarian Party Platform is here.(link)
It was legal for the government to compel men to young to vote to burn peasant villages in the former French opium regie of South Vietnam. Women too, as corollary to Comstockism, were legally forced to the involuntary servitude of carrying pregnancies to term under laws dating back to when bleeding, leeches, laudanum, creosote, henbane, phosphoric acid, henbane and worse–were ordinary, common and as unsurprising as death in childbirth. It is the death rate among soldiers and childbearing women that prompts male politicians in leather chairs to threaten them by deadly force to face danger voluntary choice declines. The doctor’s Comstock-era book makes no mention of birth control–sparing him from prison and fines.
Getting back to Nixon. After Nixon lost to Kennedy he tried to sue Texas for robbing the election. Nixon was in Dallas the day JFK was assassinated, and left minutes after the job was done. After Warren Commission investigator Gerald Ford agreed with the magic bullet theory, Nixon was declared President. Nixon, as President, instructed immigration authorities to deny former Beatles musician John Lennon a visa. Lennon hired an able attorney able to overcome the work of “plumbers”, phone-tappers, servile bureaucrats, snoops, spooks and pettifogging obstructionists to prevail in court while Nixon spun down the toilet of the Watergate scandal and resigned in disgrace.
Like Trump, Nixon considered any election he lost was rigged. He blamed Texas in 1960, and was in Dallas the day Kennedy was assassinated. But who could he blame in 1973? George Wallace, who had nearly cost Tricky the 1968 election, was riddled with non-magical bullets by a lone Manchurian Mystery gunman–we are assured–and dropped out. John Lennon was to Nixon as evil a threat as fellow peace activist and college professor Timothy Leary. Leary shared the title of “most dangerous man in America” with reporter Ellsberg. But John Lennon had beaten Nixon, and beaten him at his own game!
Quaker Nixon moved to New York in 1980 and lived a 20-minute walk across Central Park from John and Yoko when John was shot and killed by another lone Manchurian Mystery gunman. Killer Mark David Chapman had married an Asian lady the year before and convinced her to convert to Christianity. Another Manchurian Mystery gunman, likewise packing a copy of Catcher in The Rye, soon shot Ronald Reagan and several others. Hinkley was tried, Chapman wasn’t; both were declared innocent because “insanity.” Cool coincidences, huh?
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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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