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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
March 2:
1899 - Congress allows railroad companies blanket approval
for rights-of-way through Indian lands.
1937 - Long before Joe Camel hit
the scene - "For Digestion's Sake Smoke Camels" |
March 5:
1983 - The creative director of a New York advertising
agency spoke of working on tobacco advertisements, "We were trying
very hard to influence kids who were 14 to start smoking". (Medical
Journal of Australia, 5 March 1983, p.237).
March 7:
1945
- General George Patton urinates in the Rhine after the U.S. Third
Army takes the bridge at Remagen.
March 8:
1971 - Members of the "Citizens' Committee to Investigate
the FBI" break into an FBI office in suburban Philadelphia, and
later publish files revealing the existence of the FBI's COINTELPRO
program harassing domestic political dissidents.
March 10:
1913 - Death of Harriet Tubman, self-liberated slave
and Underground Railroad organizer.
1987 - United Nations recognizes conscientious objection
to military service as a human right.
March 15:
1917 - U.S. Supreme Court approves Eight-Hour Act under
threat of railway strike.
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