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Man >September 1-15
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:
September 1:
1983 - Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia &
is shot down by a Soviet jet.
September 2:
1963 - Alabama Governor George C. Wallace prevented the
integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with
state troopers.
September 3:
1957 - Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the National
Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School
in Little Rock.
September 4:
1997 - A trio of Buddhist nuns acknowledged in Senate
testimony that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed
donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, and later
destroyed or altered records to avoid embarrassment.
September 5:
1882 - The nation's first Labor Day parade was held in
New York.
1989 - George Bush uses a bag of crack cocaine purchased
at Lafayette Park across the street from the White House as a prop to
demonstrate how ubiquitous drugs are. Later, a newspaper investigation
reveals that DEA agents had to lure a drug dealer there to make the
deal. The dealer didn't even know where the "White House"
was. No crack is normally sold there. Framed by The Man. (More
Info)
1990 - Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates testifies
before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that "casual drug users
should be taken out and shot. Smoke a joint, lose your life." (More
Info)
September 6:
1973 - NY Times reports almost all Superfectas run at
Yonkers, Roosevelt & Monticello from Jan-Mar of 1973 were fixed.
September 8:
1974 - President Gerald Ford pardons former President
Richard Nixon of all federal crimes.
September 9:
1972 - Our lives would never be the same. "Fat Albert
& Cosby Kids", TV Cartoon Show, starring Bill Cosby; debut
on CBS.
September 10:
1999 - After denying for six years that potentially flammable
tear gas canisters were used on the final day of the Branch Davidian
standoff near Waco, Texas, the Justice Department and FBI turn over
documents indicating that pyrotechnic military tear gas rounds were
in fact used.
September 11:
1973 - Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent
military coup that is widely believed to have been linked to the CIA.
(More
Info)
September 12:
1873 - Modern tool of The Man - a typewriter invented
by Charles Latham Sholes was sold to customers.
September 13:
1789 - The U.S. receives its first
loan, negotiated with the Bank of New York and the Bank of North
America
-- at 6% interest. The loan was used to pay the salaries of the President
and the members of congress (the action was illegal).
September 14:
1886 - The Man figured out how to make
us work faster... the typewriter ribbon was patented by George K. Anderson
of Memphis, TN.
2001 - Cantor-Fitzgerald was in the flight path
of one of the 9-11 hijacked airliners, which managed to wipe out
two thirds of the company in an instant. 700 people died. What was
the companies immediate reaction to the terror attacks? On September
14, 2001 they took all their unaccounted-for employees off the payroll,
effective the following day. Yes, that was three days after the attack.
Once Cantor-Fitzgerald realized what a horrible public relations
gaffe they had made, additional plans were added to donate 25% of their
profits
to victims' families.
September 15:
1992 - Good thing we have an informed
electorate. Ted Weiss, despite dying on September 14th, wins a congressional
NYC seat.
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