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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

1954 United States Capitol shooting March 1, 1954, March 1, 1954,

1954 United States Capitol shooting


The 1954 United States Capitol shooting was a terrorist attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists wanting Puerto Rico's independence from US rule. They shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol.

The nationalists, identified as Lolita LebrónRafael Cancel MirandaAndres Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores Rodríguez, unfurled a Puerto Rican flag and began shooting at Representatives in the 83rd Congress, who were debating an immigration bill. Five Representatives were wounded, one seriously, but all recovered. The assailants were arrested, tried and convicted in federal court, and given long sentences, effectively life imprisonment. In 1978 and 1979, their sentences were commuted by President Jimmy Carter.[2] All four returned to Puerto Rico.

SEDITION. Shall there be a double standard for those that participated Wednesday, January 6, 2021?

SEDITION.

Shall there be a double standard for those that participated Wednesday, January 6, 2021?
CDS 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384 

" If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)"

Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $20,000”.
1956—Act July 24, 1956, substituted “$20,000” for “$5,000”, and “twenty years” for “six years”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1956 Amendment

Act July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 3, 70 Stat. 624, provided that:
“The foregoing amendments [amending this section and section 2385 of this title] shall apply only with respect to offenses committed on and after the date of the enactment of this Act [July 24, 1956].”

Saturday, January 9, 2021

How Capitol Police handled a Black woman in 2013. Her name is Miriam Carey.

 https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/elections/miriam-carey-capitol-police-trump-capitol-riots/65-7ba91013-d0ee-46f5-b7f9-87afa7273c40




Carey, 34, originally from Connecticut, struck a security barrier with her car at 15th and E Streets NW, one block from the White House. Officials don't know if she deliberately rammed the barrier or simply sideswiped it, according to CBS News.

The collision led to a chase, from near the White House to the Capitol, ending with officers opening fire and shooting at her 26 times from behind, including a fatal shot to the back of her head on October 3, 2013. Her 13-month-old baby was in the car but unharmed.

The U.S. was lead to the brink of history fully repeating itself.

https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-6

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By 1934, Hitler considered the National Socialist revolution in Germany complete.  In control of the nation, the Nazis turned their attention to creating a racially pure “national community” in which Nazism was not revolutionary but normal.  This chapter focuses on the methods the Nazis used to get individuals to conform, if not consent, to their vision for German society. It also focuses on the consequences faced by those who did not fit into the “national community” the Nazis envisioned. 

Essential Questions

1.     In what ways did the Nazis use laws to create “in” groups and “out” groups in German society? How did they also appeal to people’s hearts and minds?

2.    What were some of the reasons that the Nazis’ idea of a “national community” appealed to many Germans? Why did it appeal to particular groups, like young people? 

3.    What did it mean to be an outsider or even a dissenter in an otherwise “racially pure and harmonious national community”? What did it mean to be an insider?

 





Original Post on 01/05/2021: 1860. Is history repeating itself when President Lincoln was elected. January 9, 2021

 Was history rewritten on January 6, 2021?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/07/opinion/horror-confederate-flag-us-capitol/

The horror of the Confederate flag in the US Capitol

Historians have noted that not even during the Civil War did this violent symbol of white power and oppression penetrate the halls of our Capitol.

By Josh Delaney     Updated January 7, 2021, 4:56 p.m

A member of the mob of Trump supporters who rampaged throughout the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., Wednesday carried the Confederate flag inside the building.ERIN SCHAFF/NYT

 As white supremacists stormed our nation’s Capitol on Wednesday, the text messages and e-mails were coming so quickly that it was just easier to copy and paste a form response to nervous friends, family, and loved ones: “I’m home safe. Thank you for checking on me. This is horrifying.”

Like the rest of America, I watched the chaos unfold on TV. Although I was about a mile away from the Capitol building, I feared for the safety of my colleagues and friends who were in the complex, as well as the thousands of staff — especially the Black and brown support workers — who dutifully keep the sprawling Capitol complex humming every day.

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1860. Is history repeating itself when President Lincoln was elected

Shall the GOP majority 'secede' from the Union?
Tuesday and Wednesday, January 5-6, 2021 will show, will change come, or business as usual since Reconstruction ended.

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