BEFORE AMERICANS IN MICHIGAN DO AN POLITICAL AMNESIA ON THEMSELVES AND FORGET INSTEAD OF MEMORIALIZE OUR HISTORY, LIBERTIES, FREEDOMS AND ESTABLISHMENTS OF JUSTICE:
Michigan Republicans violate American Liberties celebrated on Memorial Day
Michigan Republicans violate Freedoms celebrated on Memorial Day
By Charlie Brown
A main slogan of the American Revolution was "taxation without representation is tyranny". Michigan Republicans have imposed tyranny on citizens of cities throughout the state with institution of emergency managers who usurp elected representatives' powers to steward the citizens' tax money.
Memorial Day celebrates the sacrifices of troops for the very American liberty that the Michigan tea Republicans have taken from Detroit and other cities.
I discuss some of the history of these Michigan emergency "dictator" laws here: http://michigancitizen.com/state-takeovers-have-failed-the-people/
http://peoplesworld.org/state-takeovers-of-cities-and-schools-are-un-american/
"The state's takeover actions and laws violate the fundamental American liberty of the right not to be taxed without being able to elect those who steward one's tax money in the government coffers.
This is one of the main American liberties our troops defend. The state takeovers are profoundly anti-American."
FURTHERMORE , THIS BAND OF REPUBLICAN TYRANTS INSTITUTED WORK-FOR-LESS/ANTI-UNION LAW ! YET ANOTHER FUNDAMENTAL AMERICAN RIGHT, THE RIGHT TO HAVE UNION REPRESENTATION AND PROTECTION HAS BEEN VIOLATED BY SNAKE SNYDER AND HIS BAND OF THIEVES IN LANSING.
Michigan Republicans were a disgrace to our country on Memorial Day 2014
The American Revolutionaries made no exceptions from the principle of no taxation without representation for governments with fiscal problems.
Voting is synonymous with DEMOCRACY in the American vocabulary. Michigan's dictatorial takeover of Michigan cities is UNAMERICAN.
Among the Michigan Republicans' political crimes in the course of establishing tyrannical dictatorships on mostly African American majority cities and school districts ( school districts have taxes stewarded by elected officials ) was passing again essentially the same emergency manager law that the People of Michigan repealed by referendum ! I still can't believe the in-your-face arrogance of these so-and-so's in Lansing when they , with a straight-face, claimed that passing a new law with the emergency manager-dictator still in it does not violate the most fundamental principle of democracy : We, the People rule ! In the face of a command from the highest American political authority, the People voting in referendum to repeal the Emergency Manager law, the unAmerican, tyrannical Michigan Republican majority legislature and Governor, passed a law that still provides for the imposition of a dictator who usurps the powers of the elected representatives of the citizens the city; while making other superficial changes to pretend that it is a different law , not the one repealed by the People.
On Memorial Day, we celebrate those who gave the ultimate sacrifice or made grave sacrifices to defend the Freedoms established by the United States Constitution and Revolution. Voting is one of the major Freedoms and Liberties of America.
Michigan Republicans are a disgrace to our country on this Memorial Day 2014
Somebody said in response to this blog piece : "It's not Labor Day"
- Response from Charles Brown Memorial Day is one of the many Labor Day's . Your saying it is not Labor Day is wrong and anti-Labor. I didn't say anything against veterans. I said something in favor of veterans. I have several greatgrandfathers, my father, my son as all veterans. I'm blood related to Veterans. My grandfather was in WWI and WWII . He was active in the American Legion.
Charles Brown Memorial Day, Veterans Day and Labor Day go together. The Michigan Republicans are violating American, voting and labor rights, the most basic American rights that Memorial Day celebrates the supreme sacrifice for. It is a a disgrace on the flag what the Michigan Republicans are doing in imposing taxation without representation on cities, the most fundamental theme of the American Revolution.Putting Labor with Memorial Day is a natural.
Michigan is home to 642,000 veterans, of whom 31,000 are unemployed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. And Michigan ranks LAST in their treatment of Vets
http://www.freep.com/article/20140526/BUSINESS06/305260019/veterans-jobs-employment-unemployment-workplace
The 1st Memorial Day was actually started on May 1, 1865 by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina (see photo above) to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated. photo: 1st Memorial Day participants http://bit.ly/1stMemorialDay more of the story http://open.salon.com/.../the_first_memorial_day_when... whole story more Peace & Justice history here http://bit.ly/WeekInPeace
Bread and Roses 1912-2012
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STRIKER REMEMBERED: The last week of January 1912 was chaotic in Lawrence, MA as the Bread & Roses strike heated up. On the 29th and 30th strikers died, ANNA LOPIZZO by a bullet and JOHN RAMEY from a bayonet wound.
In addition, three strike
leaders falsely accused of murdering LoPizzo were tossed in jail while dynamite planted at the orders of a mill boss to discredit the strikers was found. Yet as the calendar turned into February worldwide support for the strikers grew! (Image is of workers decorating LoPizzo’s grave on Memorial Day 1912.)
From James Heaton, “Legal Aftermath of Lawrence Strike,” The Survey, July 6, 1912: “Joseph Caruso is held in the Lawrence jail as a principal in the murder of Anna LoPizzo who was killed during a clash between strikers and policemen. The state's claim, so far as it is known, is that Caruso aided Scuito who, it is alleged, did the actual shooting. The more important case of Ettor and Giovannitti, whose trial, originally set for May 27, was postponed at the request of counsel for the defense, involves far-reaching issues as to strike leadership and responsibility. The prisoners, who are charged with being accessories to the murder, were not present when Anna LoPizzo was shot.
The Commonwealth contended at their arraignment before Police Magistrate Mahoney, in Lawrence, February 9, that the defendants had spread ‘a propaganda of violence’. It was this propaganda, said the district attorney, which inspired the person actually guilty of the murder to fire at the police. According to the state's witnesses the shot missed its mark and killed the woman. Witnesses for the defense, mostly strikers, declared that Policeman Benoit fired the fatal bullet, and that at least one other officer also used his revolver. The police absolutely denied that they did any firing. Because it was dark it was difficult for outsiders to see just what happened." https://www.facebook.com/.../Bread-and.../341113802569909
Sunrise
Memorial Day service NAN military veterans will place flowers on Belle
Isle bridge to honor Black World War II veterans beaten and killed
during 1943 Detroit Riot
(Detroit,
MI 5/25/14) - U.S. Military veterans of Michigan’s National Action
Network will place flowers at the entrance of the McArthur Bridge of
Detroit’s Belle Isle at sunrise on Memorial Day tomorrow morning at 7 AM
to honor Black American World War II veterans that were held hostage on
Belle Isle June 20, 1943 when a rabid crowd of racist whites numbering
in the thousands blocked the bridge preventing Blacks from leaving Belle
Isle.
Reverend
Charles Williams Sr., a Vietnam-Era veteran, is chairman of NAN
military veterans said the brutality of June 20, 1943 must never be
forgotten; “Black veterans that sacrificed so much for our nation
fighting in wars abroad have returned to America too many times to find
that the real battlefield is here in America for human rights,” said
Reverend Williams.
“The
Belle Isle McArthur Bridge should be considered holy ground for the
wholesale slaughter of Black Americans, including some World War II
veterans’ fresh from the battlefield, began on that Detroit bridge as
America failed the most vulnerable of her citizens on June 20, 1943,”
said Sam Riddle, political director Michigan NAN and an Honorably
Discharged Vietnam-Era veteran.
Memorial Day Military Veterans of National Action Network lay flowers honoring 1943 U.S. military veteran victims of Detroit Riot
Monday May 26, 2014 @ 8:00AM
Where: Entrance to Belle Isle On McArthur Bridge
East Jefferson/East Grand Boulevard Intersection
Detroit, Michigan
Retirees’ Press Conference Friday, May 16 at 4 PM Outside Federal Courthouse
City of Detroit Retirees Condemn “Grand Theft Pension” – Urge “VOTE NO!”
May 14, 2014
Contact: Stop Theft of Our Pensions Committee, 313-680-5508, David Sole
The Stop Theft of Our Pensions Committee urges pensioners to “VOTE NO!” to the “Grand Theft Pension Bargain”. There is no reason for even one penny of pensions to be stolen for this bankruptcy. Here’s why:
The Michigan Municipal League reported in March 2014 that the State of Michigan illegally kept $6.2 billion of revenue sharing funds from cities across the state. This includes $732 million kept from Detroit.
Over $120 million of Detroit funds were looted from the treasury to pay for “professional fees” of consultants and lawyers who only sought to enrich themselves.
The biggest banks are paying tens of billions of dollars in fines to the Federal government for their criminal, fraudulent and racist mortgage scams that led directly to over 100,000 foreclosures in Detroit from 2005 – 2012. Reparations should be paid Detroit from these funds.
The banks that foreclosed on so many homes have refused to pay property taxes to the city – to the tune of around $50 million a year for the past 7 years. Go after the banks for these unpaid taxes.
Detroit should be going after the biggest banks that swindled the city with high interest “bond swaps.” Instead of paying Bank of America and UBS $85 million, EM Orr and Judge Rhodes ought to have gone after them to recover $300 million in excessive interest, fees and termination penalties already paid out.
Governor Snyder and other high officials refused to use $500 million of federal funds that were supposed to “Help Hardest Hit Homeowners.” Instead they sat on these funds and now are outrageously handing tens of millions to their rich friends to tear down the same houses they were supposed to save. The remaining funds should be used to hire and train youth in Detroit to rehad homes across the city.
The “Grand Bargain” documents admit that the funds set aside for health care (already slashed to the bone as of March 1, 2014) will not be enough to maintain these benefits.
There is no guarantee that the funding promised by the State and the charitable foundations will be paid now or in the future. If they fail to come up with their share, pensions will be cut even further. State funding also will require that Detroit be under a colonial dictator for the next 20 years, further destroying our democratic rights.
It is unfortunate that some officials and groups feel it necessary to accept the “lesser evil” choice just at the time that retirees around the country are waking up to the danger the Detroit bankruptcy case holds for all public pension funds. The California Public Employee Retirement System, AARP, the Texas Public Employee Retirement System and the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems have all recently filed amicus briefs in the constitutional appeals. Now is the time for a broad national fightback to demand “Make the Banks Pay! Not Retirees.”
The Stop Theft of Our Pensions Committee is calling for a national mobilization of active and retired workers, unions and retiree associations in Detroit at the start of the bankruptcy trial set for July 24. Weekly demonstrations are held every Friday at 4:00 P.M. outside the Federal Courthouse (231 W. Lafayette St.) called “Freedom Fridays” to protest all the proposed cuts and denial of democratic rights.
Activist retirees in the Stop Theft of Our Pensions Committee are demanding that the Pension Boards, unions and retiree associations convene mass meetings to allow a full discussion of this rotten Grand Theft Pension. Retirees must be mobilized to fight in the courts and in the streets for our rights to our deferred income called pensions – for security in our retirement. Human beings must be placed above greedy bankers, insurance companies and other corporate interests.
Tens of thousands of City of Detroit retirees and their survivors have been sent ballots this week to vote on an unacceptable “Grand Bargain” that either way will cause severe hardship to most of them. Pensioners are being pressed to vote “Yes” and agree to cuts to our monthly benefits amounting to about 30% - on top of medical, dental and vision cuts already forced on us. A “yes” gives up the legal appeals on the constitutionality of the Emergency Manager Law and the issue of the Michigan Constitution’s specific protection of public pensions.
Retirees are threatened that a “no” vote will result in much deeper cuts. The many pages of legalese details enclosed with the ballots will add to the confusion and terror accompanying either choice. The ballots will be counted by a firm in California selected by the same Emergency Dictator pushing these cuts. A mass movement can defeat these schemes.
Straight talk about War , in Memory of those who lost their lives to, War, this institution of civilization ( The original human nature was peaceful: http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2014/05/is-human-nature-social-or-selfish-i.html)
:
In 1935, Smedley Butler, Hero U.S.Marine, Most Decorated, wrote a book entitled War Is a Racket, where, amazingly, and in a complete turnabout from his historic career as a soldier in combat, he described and criticized the workings of the United States in its foreign actions and wars, such as those he was a part of, including the American corporations and other imperialist motivations behind them. After retiring from service, he became a popular activist, speaking at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists, and church groups in the 1930s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Lessons from a Veteran on Memorial Day:
Major General Smedly D. Butler; 2 time recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Marine Corps Brevet Medal, Army Distinguished Service Medal, Navy Distinguished Service Medal
“I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
He was also recruited to lead a coup during the FDR years. He outed the
treasonous leaders of the coup before Congress, who included the Bush
Family, J.P. Morgan, Singer (Sewing Machines, millionaire family),
General Motors, U.S. Steel, DuPont.
They used the name the American Liberty Group and were founded on the premise of Protecting the Constitution, a highly conservative, corporate group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEI8bnbw1o
They used the name the American Liberty Group and were founded on the premise of Protecting the Constitution, a highly conservative, corporate group.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEI8bnbw1o
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