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The spirit of Woodstock was free will. It was about battling against authority. Now they promote mindless submission to authority.
Francis Collins is the embodiment of the establishment. As NIH head he was responsible funding reckless experiments at the Wuhan lab. When things went wrong, he treated us like toddlers.
Since antiquity, strategists have advised the use of propaganda and other psychological techniques to spread fear among the enemy in order to bring about his defeat.
However, the methods to create and manipulate fear also involve terrorism (sometimes state-sponsored) and may target domestic populations in order to make them receptive or hostile to certain political or economic policies.
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Tom
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After these terrorists were convicted, Puerto Rican nationalists responded with a bombing campaign.
The FALN first surfaced on October 26, 1974, when five large bombs exploded in Manhattan—in the Wall Street area, in Rockefeller Center, and on Park Avenue—causing considerable property damage but no injuries. The FALN claimed responsibility for these acts, as it did later for bombings in Puerto Rico.
Throughout the following year, the FALN boasted of a series of bombings, beginning on January 24 with a Wall Street explosion that killed four people and injured more than 50 and climaxing on October 27 with nine nearly simultaneous explosions in New York City, Washington, and Chicago that produced only property damage. Bombings continued sporadically thereafter.
Bill Clinton pardoned most of the perpetrators in 1999, but was rejected by the leader Oscar Lopez Rivera. He later received a pardon from Barack Obama and a personal performance of "Hamilton" in his honor.
In 1971 the Weather Underground detonated a bomb inside the US Capitol to protest the invasion of Laos. Bill Ayers, who led the organization, later became a close friend and mentor of Barack Obama.
Bill Ayers said, "I don't regret setting the bombs."
Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, who led the Weather Underground together, would become professors, with Ayers getting a taxpayer-funded job in Illinois.
Ayers and Dohrn would also raise Chesa Boudin, son of Weathermen David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, then in prison for killing 3 people in an armed robbery. Andrew Cuomo commuted Gilbert's sentence in 2021. Boudin later became a professor at Columbia.
Bill Clinton pardoned the perpetrators. One of these, felony murderer Susan Rosenberg, would go on to receive various activist jobs, including as a fundraiser for BLM and a taxpayer-funded teaching position at City University of New York.
Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
The United States is concerned by the decision of Georgian authorities to call former President Saakashvili for questioning in multiple criminal investigations. No one is above the law, but launching multiple simultaneous investigations involving a former President raises legitimate concerns about political retribution
