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Hands off the monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Grant!
Protesters in San Francisco recently knocked over a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, who commanded the Union to victory in the Civil War and suppressed the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.
In this perspective from the World Socialist Web Site, Tom Mackaman and Niles Niemuth explain why this and similar actions around the country only help the ruling class's objective of pitting members of the working class against each other.
22 June 2020
Hands off the monuments to Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and
Grant!
by Tom Mackaman and Niles Niemuth at the World Socialist Web Site
In recent weeks, participants in demonstrations against police violence in the United States have demanded the removal of monuments to Confederate leaders who waged an insurrection to defend slavery during the American Civil War of 1861-1865.
But the justifiable demand for the removal of monuments to these defenders of racial inequality has been unfairly accompanied by attacks against memorials to those who led the Civil War that ended slavery and the American Revolution, which, in upholding the principle of equality, for the first time placed a question mark on the institution of slavery.
Last Sunday, a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, was torn down in Portland, Oregon, followed four days later by a statue to George Washington, who led the forces which defeated the British during the American Revolution.
On Friday, protesters in San Francisco knocked over a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, who commanded the Union to victory in the Civil War and suppressed the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.
Now a social media campaign has been launched to see the removal of the famous Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., which depicts Abraham Lincoln standing above a kneeling slave who has been freed. The statue, erected in 1876, was in fact paid for by freed slaves. Frederick Douglass gave the oration at its dedication.
No one can object to the removal of monuments to the leaders of the Confederacy, who dedicated their lives to the rejection of the thesis that “all men are created equal.” These figures sought to “wring their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces,” in the words of Lincoln’s second inaugural address.
The monuments to the leaders of the seceded states were erected in a period of political reaction following the end of Reconstruction, with the aim of legitimizing the Confederacy as part of the “lost cause” school of historiography, which denied the revolutionary character of the American Civil War.
But the removal of monuments to the leaders of America’s revolutionary and civil wars has no justification. These men led great social struggles against the very forces of reaction that justified racial oppression as an incarnation of the fundamental inequality of human beings.
It is entirely possible that those who participated in the desecration of monuments to the leaders of the two American revolutions were not conscious of what they were doing. If that is the case, then the blame must be placed on those who incited these actions.
In the months preceding these events, the New York Times, speaking for dominant sections of the Democratic political establishment, launched an effort to discredit both the American Revolution and the Civil War.
In the New York Times’ 1619 Project, the American Revolution was presented as a war to defend slavery, and Abraham Lincoln was cast as a garden variety racist.
Historical clarification of some of the major historical figures involved is necessary.
Thomas Jefferson was the author of what is arguably the most famous revolutionary sentence in world history: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” That declaration has been inscribed on the banner of every fight for equality ever since 1776. When Jefferson formulated it, he was crystalizing a new way of thinking based on the principle of natural human equality. The rest of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence spells out in searing language the natural right of people to revolution.
The American Revolution delivered a powerful impulse in that direction that led to the French Revolution of 1789 and the greatest slave revolt in history, the Haitian Revolution of 1791, in which slaves liberated themselves and threw off French colonial domination.
George Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution (1775-1783), in which the 13 colonies asserted their independence from their British colonial masters. Washington, in a decision that electrified the world, left behind his military post and returned to private life, helping to institute in practice the separation of the civilian from military power in the republic.
Abraham Lincoln must rank as one of the greatest figures of modern history. The leader of the North, or the Union, in the Civil War, his historical purpose was revealed over the course of that war to be the destruction of what contemporaries called “the Slave Power.” Lincoln saw that struggle through to a victory in April of 1865, only days before he was martyred to the cause of human liberty. The world grieved at his death. This was so in both the North and South, and especially among the freed slaves. “The world only discovered him a hero after he had fallen a martyr,” Marx wrote.
Ulysses S. Grant was a hero of the Civil War whose stature was second only to that of Lincoln. Prior to his ascension to lead the entire military effort in 1864, the cause of the Union was hampered by generals who opposed the emancipatory impulse of the Civil War.
Grant and his trusted friend General William Tecumseh Sherman recognized that to defeat the South required a war for the destruction of slavery, root and branch. “I can’t spare this man. He fights,” Lincoln said of Grant. In the White House, Grant was overwhelmed by the force of capitalism unleashed by the Civil War, but he defended the freed slaves and suppressed the Ku Klux Klan. After he retired from the presidency in 1877, Grant toured Europe where throngs of workers attended his public events and speeches.
The attacks on the monuments to these men were pioneered by the increasingly frenzied attempt by the Democratic Party and the New York Times to racialize American history, to create a narrative in which the history of mankind is reduced to the history of racial struggle. This campaign has produced a pollution of democratic consciousness, which meshes entirely with the reactionary political interests driving it.
It is worth noting that the one institution seemingly immune from this purge is the Democratic Party, which served as the political wing of the Confederacy and, subsequently, the KKK.
This filthy historical legacy is matched only by the Democratic Party’s contemporary record in supporting wars that, as a matter of fact, primarily targeted nonwhites. Democrats supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and under Obama destroyed Libya and Syria. The New York Times was a leading champion and propagandist for all of these wars.
The New York Times and the Democratic Party seek to confuse and disorient the democratic sentiments of masses of people entering into political struggle against the capitalist system and its repressive forces within the state because they know that the growing multiracial, multinational and multiethnic movement of the working class will take place in direct opposition to their own politics.
There are many people involved in the taking down of these
statutes who do not understand the political implications of
what they are doing. However, ignorance is not an excuse.
Actions have an objective significance. Those who attack the
American Revolution help contemporary reaction.
The authors also recommend:
Ron
Chernow’s Grant: An able and compelling new
biography
[15 December 2017]
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This preoccupation with tearing down statues is obviously a distraction from the primary goal: putting an end to the profit motive which is the cause of all our grief, including racism, which only a labor movement capable of carrying out a general strike can do. The Democrats and Republicans are the twin capitalist parties of war and fascism, with the Democrats mouthing decent phrases at election time but when elected, they carry out the same profiteering agenda as the Republicans as they are paid by the same capitalist corporations. You will notice that poverty remains in this country; tearing down and defacing statues did not end poverty. The following is a history lesson of the Democratic Party since Woodrow Wilson's presidency to millionaire war criminal Democrat Obama.
The chants over the years go like this:
We remember Democrat Woodrow Wilson’s support of the 1918 anti-communist, anti-Russian Revolution invasion by the capitalist European powers with American troops (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Russian_Revolution);
We remember Democrat Woodrow Wilson illegally invaded Haiti in 1915 and brought the US into World War 1 in 1917, a war of imperialist rivalries;
We remember Democrat Woodrow Wilson’s anti-immigrant, anti-labor and anti-communist Sedition Act of 1917, Espionage Act of 1918, and Palmer Raids of 1919 and 1920;
We remember the viciously racist Democrat Wilson’s promotion of segregation in the federal government (See https://charlesohalloranboyd.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/woodrow-wilson-most-anti-black-president-of-the-20th-century/, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/);
We remember Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) FBI’s 1936 investigations of the Communist Party for subversion, and his Order to intern Japanese Americans without trial in 1942;
We remember Democrat FDR’s allowing US businesses to invest in Nazi Germany so that it would, and did, attack the Soviet Union (1933-1945) (see https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-history-of-wall-streets-unspoken-relationship-to-nazi-germany-dragon-teeth-to-be-planted-all-over-europe-again/5398757) and https://www.mintpressnews.com/victory-in-europe-day-these-american-corporations-aided-nazi-germany/267345/;
We remember the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (Democrat Truman);
We remember Democrat Harry Truman’s loyalty oaths, part of the anti-Communist, anti-labor witchhunt of the 1940s to smash the labor unions that had risen out of the Great Depression of the 1930s;
We remember the creation of the CIA in 1947 with $200 million from the Rockefellers and Mellons by 350 German Nazis under Nazi Army Major General Reinhard Gehlen (Truman);
We remember the frame-up and eventual execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and frame-up of Morton Sobell in 1950 (framed by Truman);
We remember Truman and the founding of US military base and settler colony, thief of Palestinian land and lives called Israel in 1948, which Zionist government has been supported by every single president from Truman to Trump, Democrat and Republican;
We remember Korea (1950-1953), with 3 million dead Koreans, 1 million dead Chinese, 36,000 dead Americans (Truman);
We remember germ warfare practiced by the US military against North Korea (see https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/19/the-bug-offensive/ The Bug Offensive by Wilfred Burchett) (Democrat Truman);
We remember Vietnam, with 3 million dead Vietnamese, 1 million dead Cambodians, 1 million dead Laotians, 58,000 dead Americans and thousands of other dead people (Democrats Truman, Kennedy, Johnson including under Truman the US paid 80% of the French war against Vietnam after WW2 until defeated in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu) (for more on JFK and his policy toward Vietnam and other matters, see https://www.truthdig.com/articles/joe-kennedy-iii-just-another-false-progressive-idol-like-jfk/);
We remember Democrats John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson continuing the racist, anti-communist FBI COINTELPRO program commenced in 1956; we remember the racist, anti-workingclass phony War on Crime of Democrat Johnson begun in 1965 integrating the federal government with local police;
We remember Democrat Kennedy’s infamous 1961 CIA invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and the 1961 Operation Mongoose in Cuba (See https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmongoose.htm), all attempts to overthrow the Cuban Revolution of 1959 that fortunately failed;
We remember Democrat Johnson’s support of a 1964 fascist coup d’etat in Brazil and his 1965 illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (for more on the coup in Brazil and a comparison to the Democrat-Republican attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of President Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, see https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/07/trump-sends-gun-boats-to-venezuela-while-the-world-partners-to-fight-a-deadly-pandemic/);
We remember Unemployment Insurance being tax-free until 1978, the 1979 bipartisan Advisory Council which promoted taxing of Social Security which bipartisan Congress legalized in 1983 (See https://www.ssa.gov/history/taxationofbenefits.html), the disastrous effects of the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act (See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-morris/airline-deregulation-ideology-over-evidence_b_4399150.html); the US aid to the murderous Indonesian government at war with East Timor in 1977, US aid to CIA terrorists in Afghanistan in 1978, US aid to the fascist dictatorship of El Salvador in 1980 that murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero and thousands of other people, the Carter Doctrine that is the same as Trump’s war mongering against Iran (See https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/how-jimmy-carter-laid-the-groundwork-for-trump-to-go-to-war-with-iran/) (Democrat Carter);
We remember Democrat Carter’s support of the 1979 CIA Operation Cyclone arming anti-communists in Afghanistan;
We remember Democrat Carter’s support of fascist governments in Zaire, Angola, East Timor, Guatemala and El Salvador from 1977 to 1980;
We remember from 1978 to 1983, the HUD (public housing) budget shrank from $83 billion to $18 billion (in 2004 dollars), homeless shelters opened and the beginning of the homeless crisis in 1980 (Democrat Carter);
We remember Iraq and Yugoslavia, both victims of “depleted” uranium, and in the case of Iraq, over 1 million dead and hundreds of thousands displaced (Democrats Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember Democrat Clinton’s sanctions against Iraq, an act of war, from 1993 to 2001, killing over 1.5 million people, Democrat Clinton’s bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998 and Yugoslavia in 1999;
We remember the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of January 1, 1994 that destroyed the Mexican economy, forcing whole villages to flee to the US to try to find work and caused the loss of 879,000 jobs in the US (see http://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp147/) (Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember the destruction of a welfare system that actually helped people get out of poverty, replaced by the poverty-promoting Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) (see http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clinton-the-anti-woman-feminist/5541857); we remember the prison, death penalty and racism promoting 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act eliminating higher education for prisoners, a form of rehabilitation (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act) the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiterrorism_and_Effective_Death_Penalty_Act_of_1996) (Bill and Hillary Clinton); and the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 that makes it more difficult for prisoners to file lawsuits in federal court complaining of the horrifying prison-concentration camp conditions they experience (see https://www.nlg.org/struggles-of-using-legal-recourse-as-a-path-toward-better-prison-conditions/; and https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/images/asset_upload_file79_25805.pdf and the result of these police state acts being much higher mass incarceration, a militarized police force, accelerated executions and less civil liberties, all by definition racist and anti-workingclass (Bill and Hillary Clinton) ;
We remember the Faircloth Amendment or Faircloth Limit (as in 1-term Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-NC)) to the 1998 Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act which prevented HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) from supporting the construction of new public housing, signed into law in 1999 by Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton capping the supply of public housing to 1999 levels. For the legal definition of this outrage, see https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/capfund For more on the “US Public Housing Hall of Shame” from Clinton to and including Democrat Obama, see https://alexisandjesse.tumblr.com/post/67478272962/its-hard-to-tell-who-hates-public-housing-more;
We remember from 1995 to 2011, HUD (housing authority) dismantled 290,588 units of public housing and 360,000 Section 8 units (from 1995 to 2000, Bill & Hillary Clinton);
We remember from 1996 to 2017 HUD (public housing) funding for new public housing units has been ZERO since 1996 (from 1995 to 2000, Bill & Hillary Clinton);
We remember the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, an Inside Job that was a rehearsal for the 9/11/01 Inside Job, and was led by Andreas Strassmeir, a German national from a Nazi German family and resident of Elohim City, Oklahoma, a bastion of fascist organizations (Bill & Hillary Clinton)
We remember Sudan, Somalia and many more (See http://technoccult.net/archives/2007/10/11/war-casualties-under-clinton-and-bush/)(Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, also known as the Mexican Exclusion Act, authorizing Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use secret “evidence" against aliens in various immigration proceedings if the evidence is deemed classified and the ICE considers it relevant to the case AND it
made today’s immigration enforcement the nightmare that it is and led to the rise of the MS-13 gang (See https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/31/made_in_the_usa_the_real
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11515132/iirira-clinton-immigration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and_Immigrant_Responsibility_Act_of_1996 (Bill & Hillary Clinton);
We remember influencing the Russian election of Boris Yeltsin in 1996 to continue the impoverishment of the Russian people, whose Soviet Union was destroyed by the US in 1991 (see https://www.blackagendareport.com/us_fixed_russian_election_1996 and Rescuing Boris, 7/15/1996 at http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,984833-2,00.html) (Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember Bill Clinton took $500,000 from a Russian bank in 2010 to give a speech in Moscow. See
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5009373/FBI-surprised-Bill-Clinton-took-500-000-Russia.html;
We remember the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 codified the US embargo against Cuba which previously had been by presidential proclamation, now was an Act of Congress, which only the US Congress could cancel, and the embargo, in effect since 1962 started by Democrat Kennedy, is the longest genocide in history (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJp6t9RGaU Blockade Against Cuba: The Longest Genocide in History) (Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember The Clinton Foundation founded by Bill Clinton in 1997 and whose Board of Directors includes Bill and Hillary Clinton, which became a significant promoter of capitalism and its accompanying low wages in Haiti after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation) and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund formed by Bill Clinton and George Bush, Jr. at the behest of Barack Obama in 2010 promoting the same poverty wages (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Bush_Haiti_Fund) (See also https://www.liberationnews.org/trumps-kkk-style-racism-liberal-counterpart/) (Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember the Clinton Foundation’s Partners in Health in Massachusetts’ COVID-19 Pandemic’s testing, tracing and quarantine routine, easily used by any police state, all with possibility of profits by the big drug companies in this backward country that does not have socialized medicine, (See https://www.mintpressnews.com/massachusetts-contact-tracing-partners-in-health-clinton/267534/) (Bill & Hillary Clinton);
We remember 50% poverty and 80% living from paycheck to paycheck including the 50% in poverty after 8 years of Democrat Obama’s failed presidency;
We remember from 1995 to 2011, HUD (public housing authority) dismantled 290,588 units of public housing and 360,000 Section 8 units (2009 to 2011 Democrat Obama);
We remember from 1996 to 2017 HUD (public housing) funding for new public housing units has been ZERO since 1996 (2009 to 2016 Democrat Obama);
We remember 2010-2016 HUD (public housing) housing and community development funding fell $4.6 billion or 8.7% since 2010 (adjusted for inflation) (Democrat Obama);
We remember the 2011 Budget Control Act requiring a mandatory cap on government spending annually until 2021 in its sequestration process (Democrat Obama);
We remember 43 million student loan debtors because we do not have free education for all and it should be free from pre-school through university; we remember the failure to forgive all student loans; we remember the theft of Social Security payments from the poor who have student debt under the pretext of paying for student loans (http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/21/older-americans-pushed-poverty-feds-garnish-social-security-student-debt and http://www.aging.senate.gov/hearings/indebted-for-life-older-americans-and-student-loan-debt) (Democrat Obama);
We remember Democrat Obama’s use of the military to engage in union-busting in February 2012, when in Longview, Washington, Obama ordered an armed Coast Guard cutter escort a scab grain ship (see https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/12/the-survival-of-the-ilwu-at-stake/);
We remember Democrat Obama’s refusal to support socialized medicine guaranteeing free medical care to all who live or visit here upon demand from cradle to grave and instead, with both the House and Senate majority Democrat when first elected, promoted a tax give away to the insurance companies with high deductibles and co-pays for American citizens only and restrictions on abortion payments known as Obamacare or the “Affordable” Care Act also known as Republican Mitt Romney’s medical plan for Massachusetts when he was its governor, with an increase in Medicaid tossed in which Medicaid expansion could have passed separately, all of which covers only 10% of the population, with the lack of socialized medicine for all causing about 1,000 deaths per year (see http://www.pnhp.org/news/2015/september/more-americans-gain-health-coverage-but-many-can%E2%80%99t-afford-to-use-it-doctors-group and http://kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/coverage-for-abortion-services-in-medicaid-marketplace-plans-and-private-plans/ and http://kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/data-note-5-misconceptions-surrounding-the-aca/;
We remember a decline in life expectancy in 2014 for the first time in 20 years due to increased poverty, despite 8 years of Democrat Obama being in office (See https://www.liberationnews.org/u-s-life-expectancy-falls-for-first-time-in-20-years-as-inequality-rises/ and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db267.htm);
We remember Democrat Obama cut auto workers’ wages in half during the takeover of the bankrupt General Motors in 2009 (See http://labornotes.org/2010/10/uaw-members-protest-50-wage-cut-gm-plant-demand-vote, https://socialistworker.org/2009/06/02/a-giant-falls-and-workers-pay);
We remember Democrat Obama cut $8.7 billion in food stamp funding in the 2014 Farm Bill: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-signs-food-stamp-cut;
We remember Democrat Obama bailed out Wall Street but not Main Street: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104 and http://www.commondreams.org/news/2009/12/13/obamas-big-sellout-president-has-packed-his-economic-team-wall-street-insiders;
We remember Democrat Obama froze federal worker wages from 2011 through 2013 and came up with a paltry 2.1% raise in 2016: http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2017/01/obamas-track-record-federal-pay-and-benefits/134485/;
We remember Democrat Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, who helped bail out predatory banks, and then went to work for a Warburg Pincus, which exploits the poor with phony loans with high interest rates and sues those who cannot pay (See https://www.alternet.org/after-long-career-bailing-out-big-banks-obama-treasury-secretary-tim-geithner-now-runs-predatory);
We remember Democrat Obama’s transfer of wealth, $4.5 trillion tax dollars to the 1% known as his quantitative easing program (see https://nypost.com/2016/01/17/occupy-obama-he-orchestrated-a-massive-transfer-of-wealth-to-the-1-percent/);
We remember the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in 2010 and how Democrat Obama did everything he could to prevent the EPA from going after BP for its murder of its 11 workers and destruction of the Gulf of Mexico (See https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/how-obama-defanged-the-epa-before-trump-gutted-the-agency/);
We remember Democrat Obama’s stockpile of nuclear weapons which no one needs, but not of medical equipment and supplies needed by all hospitals in a pandemic to save our lives. (See https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/05/tale-two-stockpiles : “Among the synonyms for the word “stockpile,” along with “cache,” “hoard,” “store” and “lay-away” is the word “treasure.” We stockpile what is valuable to us, the things that we treasure, what we want to keep for the future.”)
We remember the spending of $1 trillion to upgrade US nuclear weapons instead of abolishing all nuclear weapons and nuclear power (Democrat Obama);
We remember that the Obama administration sold more weapons than any other since World War 2 (See http://www.globalresearch.ca/obamas-administration-sold-more-weapons-than-any-other-since-world-war-ii/5566411);
We remember Obama approved the B61-12, a nuclear bomb, considered small by some, that can have the power of 50 kilotons, 3-4 times more powerful than the US nuclear bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (See https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/18/its-not-just-trump-and-the-republicans/);
We remember that the US has never renounced a nuclear first strike, never promised not to use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear adversary, has come close to starting and repeatedly threatened to start a nuclear war from 1945 to the present, Democrats & Republicans together;
We remember Democrat Obama’s military coup d'état in Honduras in 2009, promoted by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to overthrow President Manuel Zelaya (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_coup_d'%C3%A9tat, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-honduras-coup-memoirs_us_56e34161e4b0b25c91820a08);
We remember Democrat Obama ABOLISHED the opium eradication program in Afghanistan, causing a major heroin epidemic in the US (See http://www.globalresearch.ca/narco-state-afghanistan-leeds-to-heroin-addiction-in-the-usa/5519104;
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-war-afghanistan-s-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade/91; http://www.globalresearch.ca/heroin-dealer-in-chief-afghanistan-source-of-90-of-the-worlds-heroin/5502813);
We remember Democrat Obama’s National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 promoting indefinite detention, ending habeas corpus, and sanctioning Iran, sanctions being a war-promoting act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_201
2 and https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/indefinite-detention-endless-worldwide-war-and-2012-national;
We remember Democrat Obama's refusal to support the Columbia 2016 peace accords ending the 53 year civil war between the government and FARC (See
https://www.liberationnews.org/worldwide-vigils-demand-end-to-rightwing-violence-in-colombia/);
We remember that in 2015 Democrat Obama started the sanctions against oil-rich Venezuela which has used its oil profits to lift its people out of poverty (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Venezuela_relations)
We remember that Venezuela and Haiti signed the PetroCaribe agreement in 2006, allowing Venezuela to provide Haiti with 20,000 barrels of oil daily for which Haitai had to pay only 60% of the price while 40% of the oil funds went to the PetroCaribe Fund, which was repayable after 25 years at 1% interest. This fund was to pay for schools, hospitals, roads and social programs for Haitians. In 2011, Michel Martelly was installed in a rigged election as president by Obama & his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who squandered the PetroCaribe Fund and used the money to elect Jovenel Moise in 2016. Moise is now supporting Republican Trump in attacking the legally elected socialist government of Venezuela. For more on the Obama-Clinton attack on the workingclass of Haiti, see:
“Mass Protests in Haiti, Like France’s Yellow Vests, Threaten Modern Oligarchic Structure” by Whitney Webb, 2/12/19 at
https://www.mintpressnews.com/protests-in-haiti-like-frances-yellow-vests-threaten-oligarchic-structure/255009/
We remember Democrat Obama’s murder of Libyan president Mummar al-Gaddafi, by an illegal drone sent from Las Vegas, Nevada, and then Qaddafi was raped by a bayonet. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi “For over 40 years, Gaddafi promoted economic democracy and used the nationalized oil wealth to sustain progressive social welfare programs for all Libyans. Under Gaddafi’s rule, Libyans enjoyed not only free health-care and free education, but also free electricity and interest-free loans…Unlike many other Arab nations, women in Gaddafi’s Libya had the right to education, hold jobs, divorce, hold property and have an income. The United Nations Human Rights Council praised Gaddafi for his promotion of women’s rights. When the colonel seized power in 1969, few women went to university. Today, more than half of Libya’s university students are women. One of the first laws Gaddafi passed in 1970 was an equal pay for equal work law.” See https://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-from-africas-richest-state-under-gaddafi-to-failed-state-after-nato-intervention/5408740
We remember Democrat Obama’s escalation of drone strikes. See https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/13/droning-world-assassination-complex-bush-obama-trump;
We remember Democrat Obama’s illegal wars against Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Syria (On Iraq, see https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/10/13/troops-from-sixteen-different-countries-currently-involved-in-iraq
; on Libya, see http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/5-Years-Later-US-Is-Carrying-Out-More-Airstrikes-in-Libya-20160801-0018.html; on Yemen, crimes against humanity perpetrated by the US puppet, Saudi Arabia, at https://www.rt.com/news/373712-yemen-starvation-fishing-houthis/); on Pakistan, where Democrat Obama sent illegal drone strikes repeatedly, see https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/07/01/obama-drone-casualty-numbers-fraction-recorded-bureau/; on Somalia, see http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-attacks-in-somalia-expose-failure-of-decade-long-war-strategy/5514312; on Afghanistan, see http://inthesetimes.com/article/19285/its-time-to-put-an-end-to-us-occupation-of-afghanistan; and on Syria, see http://www.globalresearch.ca/i-am-a-syrian-living-in-syria-it-was-never-a-revolution-nor-a-civil-war-the-terrorists-are-sent-by-your-government/5544450;
We remember Democrat Obama’s illegal installation of Nazi Ukraine in 2014 with $5 billion of our tax dollars, where they worship a proud Nazi, the late Stepan Bandera and have named a street after him (on the May 2, 2014 Odessa massacre at the House of Trade Unions and the history of Nazi Ukraine, see http://ersieesist.livejournal.com/813.html, http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-odessa-massacre-was-a-carefully-planned-covert-intelligence-operation/5382253; http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-white-houses-nazis-from-hitlers-germany-in-the-1930s-to-kiev-today-the-us-disturbing-partnerships-with-nazis/5382188; http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-may-2nd-odessa-massacre-why-obamas-coup-regime-still-runs-ukraine/5446593; http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine/5371554 , https://www.voltairenet.org/article183807);
We remember Democrat Obama’s illegal drone killings, illegal targeted assassination weekly lists, praise of US war crimes in Vietnam, providing skin-melting white phosphorus to Saudi Arabia to aid in killing 10,000 people in Yemen (same chemical used for same purpose by USA during American War against Vietnam), illegal use of “depleted” uranium in Syria, illegal use of white phosphorus in Iraq by American troops illegally there, all bombings and massacres in the US and Europe which were all staged INSIDE JOBS by definition as was the 9/11 Inside Job staged by the previous CIA family member, Bush, as is Obama, from 2009 to 2017, accelerated destruction of Civil Liberties (See “The Obama Legacy Part V: Waging War on Civil Liberties,” 8/2/16, by Danny Haiphong at http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama_legacy_civil_liberties), the refusal to compensate CIA torture victims or prosecute any officials responsible for their crimes (See : “Former CIA Detainees Describe Previously Unknown Torture Tactic: A Makeshift Electric Chair” by Alex Emmons, 10/3/16
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/03/former-cia-detainees-describe-previously-unknown-torture-tactic-a-makeshift-electric-chair/);
We remember that in 2016, Democrat Obama dropped 26,171 bombs on the poor people of the world in 7 countries, 3,027 more than in 2015 (see http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article124842824.html);
We remember the increased US military presence in mineral-rich Africa by Democrat Obama (see https://www.liberationnews.org/us-military-presence-in-africa-continues-to-grow/);
We remember that Democrat Obama continued the scapegoating of Muslims started by Republican Bush with his 9/11 Inside Job, the American Reichstag Fire, and continued with all bombings and massacres since 9/11/01, all inside jobs, to justify war and fascism, the same reason the Nazis perpetrated the Reichstag Fire and scapegoated Jews for everything, including all kinds of watch lists, such as the No-Fly List, which lists a 7-month-old baby as a terrorist (See
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/how-democrats-helped-pave-way-trumps-islamophobia);
We remember that in 2015, Obama supported the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, and updated it in February 2016, HR 158, which names the same countries listed under Trump's Muslim Ban. See https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158/text
and http://www.nafsa.org/Professional_Resources/Browse_by_Interest/International_Students_and_Scholars/Visa_Waiver_Program_Improvement_and_Terrorist_Travel_Prevention_Act_of_2015/
We remember Democrat Obama’s failure to grant amnesty to all undocumented immigrants;
We remember Democrat Obama was the biggest deporter in history, deporting 2.5 million immigrants;
We remember that then Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and Charles Schumer supported the Secure Fence Act of 2006 which was an expensive attempt to build a wall at the US-Mexican border;
We remember that Bush and Obama already built a 702 mile border fence wall at the US Mexican border out of 1,954 miles of border;
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/
We remember that then Senator Obama, with then Senator Kerry, both on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005 when Pres Bush nominated John Roberts to be Chief Justice and in 2006 when the same president nominated Sam Alito to be a Supreme Court Justice, refused to stall, delay and filibuster the nominations and instead let their nominations go out of committee to the
Senate floor, now we have a 5-person anti-abortion, anti-labor, anti-environment gang consisting of Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas to undue all the gains of the past many decades on those issues and more. (See https://www.blackagendareport.com/obama-and-democrats-share-blame-trumps-supreme-court)
We remember Democrat Obama’s re-election campaign on the false statement that he had Osama bin Laden killed when Osama bin Laden, who had nothing to do with the 9/11 Inside Job but was a CIA agent who was on the CIA’s payroll in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet Union in the 1980s and in 2001 was the CIA’s prearranged fall guy or pasty, died of kidney disease and Marfan’s Syndrome in December 2001. See
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15601 (Griffin: Bin Laden died Dec 2001)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24622 (Dr. Pieczenik: Bin Laden died Dec 2001 of marfan syndrome, genetic disease that shortens life span.)
http://911blogger.com/news/2011-05-06/michael-ruppert-proof-obama-lying-about-killing-bin-laden (DNA sample not possible in time frame given.)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25898
(Roberts, 8/4/11: The Mysterious Death of OBL: Creating Evidence Where There Is None)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-was-an-american-hoax/5350261
(Roberts: 9/17/13: The Killing of Osama bin Laden was an “American Hoax”)
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24625 (In 48 hours, bin Laden “death” story changed for pending presidential election)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30654 (“Who Was Osama? Who Is Obama? By Michel Chossudovsky)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30671 (One Year On, Still No Evidence For Osama Bin Laden's Killing by Brit Dee) ;
We remember the failure to fulfill the promise to close Guantanamo Concentration Camp where the inmates are held indefinitely and receive no charges, trial or convictions and suffer torture, all illegal, and where 41 inmates remain from the 242 Democrat Obama inherited from his predecessor, Republican Bush who originally illegally imprisoned without charge and tortured 780 men, and we remember the same Democrat Obama who upgraded the illegal Guantanamo Concentration Camp with $40 million of our tax dollars (Democrat Obama) (See https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/files/gtmo-by-the-numbers.pdf);
We remember the Democrat Party’s revival of anti-Russian hysteria in 2016, even though the US destroyed the Soviet Union in 1991 and Russia is now a capitalist country, to promote Democrat Hillary Clinton as president with no evidence being presented of wrongdoing by the Russians (but plenty of evidence that the Republicans again won the Electoral College vote with election fraud by tossing the black vote, as they did in 2000 and 2004 as that is the only way they can win the presidency since 1992), and promoting a possible attack on Russia by NATO-USA in the last days of Democrat Obama’s presidency (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev, http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-meddling-in-1996-russian-elections-in-support-of-boris-yeltsin/5568288, http://www.globalresearch.ca/outgoing-president-obamas-operation-atlantic-resolve-against-russia-us-sends-3600-tanks-against-russia-massive-nato-deployment-underway/5566679);
We remember Democrat Obama failing to improve the environment in that 1. He did not clean up the water in Flint, Michigan and the rest of the 3,000 communities that have contaminated water; 2. He approved 1500 offshore oil drilling plans including fracking in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010 to 2014; 3. He failed to permanently cancel the Dakota Access Pipeline; 4. He approved new oil pipelines equal to 10 Keystone pipelines from 2010 to 2015; 5. He continued to allow oil and gas rail shipments. (See http://www.mintpressnews.com/donald-trump-is-anti-environment-but-so-was-barack-obama/223540/);
We remember Democrat Obama joining with Democrat California Governor Jerry Brown in destroying the Delta Tunnels and destroy the Delta’s ecosystem, and destroy local fisheries, agriculture, and recreation (see https://mavensnotebook.com/2017/01/05/this-just-in-well-sorta-secretary-jewell-lays-out-strategy-to-address-impacts-of-drought-and-climate-change-in-california/ and http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/27/1553375/-Delta-Tunnels-Restoring-An-Estuary-by-Diverting-Its-Water);
We remember that the Democrat & Republican parties are both bought and paid for by the oil companies (See “Buying Silence: Why So Many Democrats are Mute About Standing Rock” by Michael Sainato, 11/23/16 at http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/23/buying-silence-why-so-many-democrats-are-mute-about-standing-rock/);
We remember that on Friday, December 23, 2016 while people were busy preparing for a holiday weekend, Democrat Obama signed a $619 billion military appropriations bill for the 800 US military bases and 7 illegal wars Obama was promoting, which in and of itself is unconscionable, but it also contained a Ministry of Truth clause known as the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act, an anti-free speech and anti-free press law that was part of this 3,000 plus page war-mongering bill which Congress did not read, but did approve (See http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama%27s_propaganda_gift_to_trump);
We remember that Democrat Obama’s 2016 Ministry of Truth clause followed his 2011 Indefinite Military Detention Law for American citizens without trial or charge as part of the December 31, 2011 military appropriations bill (see https://www.aclu.org/news/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-bill-law, http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama_and_trump_neo-fascism, http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama%27s_propaganda_gift_to_trump and for a comprehensive list of Obama’s horrors including this one, see http://www.blackagendareport.com/locating_fascism_on_home_map and http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama%27s_last_presidential_lies);
We remember that Democrat Obama expanded the powers of the spy agencies to do warrantless searches in January 2017 (See http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/13/obama-expands-spy-agencies-access-private-data-just-time-trump);
We remember Democrat Obama promoted deregulation of Boeing that allowed Boeing to inspect itself, resulting in certifying its faulty MCAS software that lead to the air crashes of “the two Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane crashes: the Lion Air crash off the coast of Jakarta, Indonesia in October 2018 that killed all 189 on board and the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March 2019 that killed all 157 on board.” See “Boeing, Obama A Gold Watch and 346 Dead” by Russell Mokhiber, 6/7/19 at
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/boeing-obama-a-gold-watch-and-346-dead/
We remember Democrat Obama telling us, who voted in the majority against the Republican Donald Trump in 2016, to get in line behind Trump, whose attorney was the vicious US attorney Roy Cohn (who later became an attorney for organized crime friends of Trump, organized crime often being a part of the construction industry) who framed and prosecuted the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell, innocent of the false and phony charge of conspiracy to commit atomic espionage and Democrat Obama opposed the recount in the contested states where the Republicans again committed election fraud in 2016, as they did in 2000 and 2004, which vote for his fellow Democrat presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, was a popular vote by a wider count, 2.9 million votes, than the victorious candidates in 1948 (Truman over Dewey), 1960 (Kennedy over Nixon), 1968, (Nixon over Humphrey) and 1976 (Carter over Ford) (see http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html);
We remember the failure to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg, despite a petition with over 59,733 signatures to him to do so (see http://www.rfc.org/ethel); we remember the refusal to abolish the federal death penalty, the refusal to legalize all drugs to remove them from the street to end the prison pipeline as they will have no market value, the refusal to free Leonard Peltier, Sundiata Acoli, Aafia Siddiqui and all other political prisoners; the refusal to pardon Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Assata Shakur, Mutulu Shakur; the refusal to completely close all federal maximum security prison-concentration camps and the refusal to demand that all state governors abolish the death penalty, free Mumia Abu-Jamal and all other political prisoners, the refusal to free all prisoners over age 50, the refusal to transform all prisons, federal and state, into high schools providing a high school diploma and job training for decent paying jobs, changing all sentences to a maximum of 5 years (Democrat Barack Obama);
We remember Democrat Obama’s FBI increased the bounty on Assata Shakur on May 2, 2013 to $2 million and placed her on the FBI’s Most Wanted List (she is safely in Cuba) and increased the militarization of the police (see https://www.blackagendareport.com/free_assata_fight_black_misleadership_class)
We remember Democrat Biden wrote the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act signed by Democrat Clinton which among other things eliminated higher education for prisoners, a form of rehabilitation ( See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act)
We remember Palestine being destroyed by Israel (Truman through Obama, Democrats and Republicans together, 100%)
We remember the twin parties of war and fascism paid for by the same capitalist class to maximize their profits, the Democrat-Republicans, refused to abolish the stock market, refused to nationalize everything and abolish the private profit system replacing it with a planned economy to satisfy the needs of everyone as equitably as possible, refused to establish socialized medical care, including dental care and all related medical treatments and drugs, free to all upon demand from cradle to grave, refused to support free abortion on demand to all who live here and refused to repeal the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment, refused to provide free education, including tuition and books, from pre-school through university to all upon demand, refused to legalize all drugs, thereby ending the prison pipeline; refused to abolish the military, the police, the prison-punishment system; refused to abolish the CIA, FBI and all other police state agencies; refused to abolish nuclear power and nuclear weapons and transform the US into a renewable energy state, using solar, wind and tidal power for our energy needs, along with massive, free public transit, thereby reducing cars to being rarely used; refused to house the homeless and provide free public housing to all upon demand, with housing built with full laundry and child care facilities in transit villages to minimize the need to travel to work, school, pharmacy, grocery and clothing stores and medical appointments;
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WE KNOW WHICH SIDE YOU ARE ON!
The chants over the years go like this:
We remember Democrat Woodrow Wilson’s support of the 1918 anti-communist, anti-Russian Revolution invasion by the capitalist European powers with American troops (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Russian_Revolution);
We remember Democrat Woodrow Wilson illegally invaded Haiti in 1915 and brought the US into World War 1 in 1917, a war of imperialist rivalries;
We remember Democrat Woodrow Wilson’s anti-immigrant, anti-labor and anti-communist Sedition Act of 1917, Espionage Act of 1918, and Palmer Raids of 1919 and 1920;
We remember the viciously racist Democrat Wilson’s promotion of segregation in the federal government (See https://charlesohalloranboyd.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/woodrow-wilson-most-anti-black-president-of-the-20th-century/, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/wilson-legacy-racism/417549/);
We remember Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) FBI’s 1936 investigations of the Communist Party for subversion, and his Order to intern Japanese Americans without trial in 1942;
We remember Democrat FDR’s allowing US businesses to invest in Nazi Germany so that it would, and did, attack the Soviet Union (1933-1945) (see https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-history-of-wall-streets-unspoken-relationship-to-nazi-germany-dragon-teeth-to-be-planted-all-over-europe-again/5398757) and https://www.mintpressnews.com/victory-in-europe-day-these-american-corporations-aided-nazi-germany/267345/;
We remember the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (Democrat Truman);
We remember Democrat Harry Truman’s loyalty oaths, part of the anti-Communist, anti-labor witchhunt of the 1940s to smash the labor unions that had risen out of the Great Depression of the 1930s;
We remember the creation of the CIA in 1947 with $200 million from the Rockefellers and Mellons by 350 German Nazis under Nazi Army Major General Reinhard Gehlen (Truman);
We remember the frame-up and eventual execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and frame-up of Morton Sobell in 1950 (framed by Truman);
We remember Truman and the founding of US military base and settler colony, thief of Palestinian land and lives called Israel in 1948, which Zionist government has been supported by every single president from Truman to Trump, Democrat and Republican;
We remember Korea (1950-1953), with 3 million dead Koreans, 1 million dead Chinese, 36,000 dead Americans (Truman);
We remember germ warfare practiced by the US military against North Korea (see https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/19/the-bug-offensive/ The Bug Offensive by Wilfred Burchett) (Democrat Truman);
We remember Vietnam, with 3 million dead Vietnamese, 1 million dead Cambodians, 1 million dead Laotians, 58,000 dead Americans and thousands of other dead people (Democrats Truman, Kennedy, Johnson including under Truman the US paid 80% of the French war against Vietnam after WW2 until defeated in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu) (for more on JFK and his policy toward Vietnam and other matters, see https://www.truthdig.com/articles/joe-kennedy-iii-just-another-false-progressive-idol-like-jfk/);
We remember Democrats John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson continuing the racist, anti-communist FBI COINTELPRO program commenced in 1956; we remember the racist, anti-workingclass phony War on Crime of Democrat Johnson begun in 1965 integrating the federal government with local police;
We remember Democrat Kennedy’s infamous 1961 CIA invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and the 1961 Operation Mongoose in Cuba (See https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmongoose.htm), all attempts to overthrow the Cuban Revolution of 1959 that fortunately failed;
We remember Democrat Johnson’s support of a 1964 fascist coup d’etat in Brazil and his 1965 illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (for more on the coup in Brazil and a comparison to the Democrat-Republican attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government of President Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, see https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/07/trump-sends-gun-boats-to-venezuela-while-the-world-partners-to-fight-a-deadly-pandemic/);
We remember Unemployment Insurance being tax-free until 1978, the 1979 bipartisan Advisory Council which promoted taxing of Social Security which bipartisan Congress legalized in 1983 (See https://www.ssa.gov/history/taxationofbenefits.html), the disastrous effects of the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act (See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-morris/airline-deregulation-ideology-over-evidence_b_4399150.html); the US aid to the murderous Indonesian government at war with East Timor in 1977, US aid to CIA terrorists in Afghanistan in 1978, US aid to the fascist dictatorship of El Salvador in 1980 that murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero and thousands of other people, the Carter Doctrine that is the same as Trump’s war mongering against Iran (See https://www.alternet.org/2019/05/how-jimmy-carter-laid-the-groundwork-for-trump-to-go-to-war-with-iran/) (Democrat Carter);
We remember Democrat Carter’s support of the 1979 CIA Operation Cyclone arming anti-communists in Afghanistan;
We remember Democrat Carter’s support of fascist governments in Zaire, Angola, East Timor, Guatemala and El Salvador from 1977 to 1980;
We remember from 1978 to 1983, the HUD (public housing) budget shrank from $83 billion to $18 billion (in 2004 dollars), homeless shelters opened and the beginning of the homeless crisis in 1980 (Democrat Carter);
We remember Iraq and Yugoslavia, both victims of “depleted” uranium, and in the case of Iraq, over 1 million dead and hundreds of thousands displaced (Democrats Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember Democrat Clinton’s sanctions against Iraq, an act of war, from 1993 to 2001, killing over 1.5 million people, Democrat Clinton’s bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998 and Yugoslavia in 1999;
We remember the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of January 1, 1994 that destroyed the Mexican economy, forcing whole villages to flee to the US to try to find work and caused the loss of 879,000 jobs in the US (see http://www.epi.org/publication/briefingpapers_bp147/) (Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember the destruction of a welfare system that actually helped people get out of poverty, replaced by the poverty-promoting Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) (see http://www.globalresearch.ca/hillary-clinton-the-anti-woman-feminist/5541857); we remember the prison, death penalty and racism promoting 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act eliminating higher education for prisoners, a form of rehabilitation (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act) the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiterrorism_and_Effective_Death_Penalty_Act_of_1996) (Bill and Hillary Clinton); and the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 that makes it more difficult for prisoners to file lawsuits in federal court complaining of the horrifying prison-concentration camp conditions they experience (see https://www.nlg.org/struggles-of-using-legal-recourse-as-a-path-toward-better-prison-conditions/; and https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/images/asset_upload_file79_25805.pdf and the result of these police state acts being much higher mass incarceration, a militarized police force, accelerated executions and less civil liberties, all by definition racist and anti-workingclass (Bill and Hillary Clinton) ;
We remember the Faircloth Amendment or Faircloth Limit (as in 1-term Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-NC)) to the 1998 Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act which prevented HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) from supporting the construction of new public housing, signed into law in 1999 by Democrat Pres. Bill Clinton capping the supply of public housing to 1999 levels. For the legal definition of this outrage, see https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/ph/capfund For more on the “US Public Housing Hall of Shame” from Clinton to and including Democrat Obama, see https://alexisandjesse.tumblr.com/post/67478272962/its-hard-to-tell-who-hates-public-housing-more;
We remember from 1995 to 2011, HUD (housing authority) dismantled 290,588 units of public housing and 360,000 Section 8 units (from 1995 to 2000, Bill & Hillary Clinton);
We remember from 1996 to 2017 HUD (public housing) funding for new public housing units has been ZERO since 1996 (from 1995 to 2000, Bill & Hillary Clinton);
We remember the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, an Inside Job that was a rehearsal for the 9/11/01 Inside Job, and was led by Andreas Strassmeir, a German national from a Nazi German family and resident of Elohim City, Oklahoma, a bastion of fascist organizations (Bill & Hillary Clinton)
We remember Sudan, Somalia and many more (See http://technoccult.net/archives/2007/10/11/war-casualties-under-clinton-and-bush/)(Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, also known as the Mexican Exclusion Act, authorizing Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use secret “evidence" against aliens in various immigration proceedings if the evidence is deemed classified and the ICE considers it relevant to the case AND it
made today’s immigration enforcement the nightmare that it is and led to the rise of the MS-13 gang (See https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/31/made_in_the_usa_the_real
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11515132/iirira-clinton-immigration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_Immigration_Reform_and_Immigrant_Responsibility_Act_of_1996 (Bill & Hillary Clinton);
We remember influencing the Russian election of Boris Yeltsin in 1996 to continue the impoverishment of the Russian people, whose Soviet Union was destroyed by the US in 1991 (see https://www.blackagendareport.com/us_fixed_russian_election_1996 and Rescuing Boris, 7/15/1996 at http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,984833-2,00.html) (Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember Bill Clinton took $500,000 from a Russian bank in 2010 to give a speech in Moscow. See
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5009373/FBI-surprised-Bill-Clinton-took-500-000-Russia.html;
We remember the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 codified the US embargo against Cuba which previously had been by presidential proclamation, now was an Act of Congress, which only the US Congress could cancel, and the embargo, in effect since 1962 started by Democrat Kennedy, is the longest genocide in history (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJp6t9RGaU Blockade Against Cuba: The Longest Genocide in History) (Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember The Clinton Foundation founded by Bill Clinton in 1997 and whose Board of Directors includes Bill and Hillary Clinton, which became a significant promoter of capitalism and its accompanying low wages in Haiti after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation) and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund formed by Bill Clinton and George Bush, Jr. at the behest of Barack Obama in 2010 promoting the same poverty wages (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Bush_Haiti_Fund) (See also https://www.liberationnews.org/trumps-kkk-style-racism-liberal-counterpart/) (Bill and Hillary Clinton);
We remember the Clinton Foundation’s Partners in Health in Massachusetts’ COVID-19 Pandemic’s testing, tracing and quarantine routine, easily used by any police state, all with possibility of profits by the big drug companies in this backward country that does not have socialized medicine, (See https://www.mintpressnews.com/massachusetts-contact-tracing-partners-in-health-clinton/267534/) (Bill & Hillary Clinton);
We remember 50% poverty and 80% living from paycheck to paycheck including the 50% in poverty after 8 years of Democrat Obama’s failed presidency;
We remember from 1995 to 2011, HUD (public housing authority) dismantled 290,588 units of public housing and 360,000 Section 8 units (2009 to 2011 Democrat Obama);
We remember from 1996 to 2017 HUD (public housing) funding for new public housing units has been ZERO since 1996 (2009 to 2016 Democrat Obama);
We remember 2010-2016 HUD (public housing) housing and community development funding fell $4.6 billion or 8.7% since 2010 (adjusted for inflation) (Democrat Obama);
We remember the 2011 Budget Control Act requiring a mandatory cap on government spending annually until 2021 in its sequestration process (Democrat Obama);
We remember 43 million student loan debtors because we do not have free education for all and it should be free from pre-school through university; we remember the failure to forgive all student loans; we remember the theft of Social Security payments from the poor who have student debt under the pretext of paying for student loans (http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/21/older-americans-pushed-poverty-feds-garnish-social-security-student-debt and http://www.aging.senate.gov/hearings/indebted-for-life-older-americans-and-student-loan-debt) (Democrat Obama);
We remember Democrat Obama’s use of the military to engage in union-busting in February 2012, when in Longview, Washington, Obama ordered an armed Coast Guard cutter escort a scab grain ship (see https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/12/the-survival-of-the-ilwu-at-stake/);
We remember Democrat Obama’s refusal to support socialized medicine guaranteeing free medical care to all who live or visit here upon demand from cradle to grave and instead, with both the House and Senate majority Democrat when first elected, promoted a tax give away to the insurance companies with high deductibles and co-pays for American citizens only and restrictions on abortion payments known as Obamacare or the “Affordable” Care Act also known as Republican Mitt Romney’s medical plan for Massachusetts when he was its governor, with an increase in Medicaid tossed in which Medicaid expansion could have passed separately, all of which covers only 10% of the population, with the lack of socialized medicine for all causing about 1,000 deaths per year (see http://www.pnhp.org/news/2015/september/more-americans-gain-health-coverage-but-many-can%E2%80%99t-afford-to-use-it-doctors-group and http://kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/coverage-for-abortion-services-in-medicaid-marketplace-plans-and-private-plans/ and http://kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/data-note-5-misconceptions-surrounding-the-aca/;
We remember a decline in life expectancy in 2014 for the first time in 20 years due to increased poverty, despite 8 years of Democrat Obama being in office (See https://www.liberationnews.org/u-s-life-expectancy-falls-for-first-time-in-20-years-as-inequality-rises/ and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db267.htm);
We remember Democrat Obama cut auto workers’ wages in half during the takeover of the bankrupt General Motors in 2009 (See http://labornotes.org/2010/10/uaw-members-protest-50-wage-cut-gm-plant-demand-vote, https://socialistworker.org/2009/06/02/a-giant-falls-and-workers-pay);
We remember Democrat Obama cut $8.7 billion in food stamp funding in the 2014 Farm Bill: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-signs-food-stamp-cut;
We remember Democrat Obama bailed out Wall Street but not Main Street: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104 and http://www.commondreams.org/news/2009/12/13/obamas-big-sellout-president-has-packed-his-economic-team-wall-street-insiders;
We remember Democrat Obama froze federal worker wages from 2011 through 2013 and came up with a paltry 2.1% raise in 2016: http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2017/01/obamas-track-record-federal-pay-and-benefits/134485/;
We remember Democrat Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, who helped bail out predatory banks, and then went to work for a Warburg Pincus, which exploits the poor with phony loans with high interest rates and sues those who cannot pay (See https://www.alternet.org/after-long-career-bailing-out-big-banks-obama-treasury-secretary-tim-geithner-now-runs-predatory);
We remember Democrat Obama’s transfer of wealth, $4.5 trillion tax dollars to the 1% known as his quantitative easing program (see https://nypost.com/2016/01/17/occupy-obama-he-orchestrated-a-massive-transfer-of-wealth-to-the-1-percent/);
We remember the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in 2010 and how Democrat Obama did everything he could to prevent the EPA from going after BP for its murder of its 11 workers and destruction of the Gulf of Mexico (See https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/26/how-obama-defanged-the-epa-before-trump-gutted-the-agency/);
We remember Democrat Obama’s stockpile of nuclear weapons which no one needs, but not of medical equipment and supplies needed by all hospitals in a pandemic to save our lives. (See https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/05/tale-two-stockpiles : “Among the synonyms for the word “stockpile,” along with “cache,” “hoard,” “store” and “lay-away” is the word “treasure.” We stockpile what is valuable to us, the things that we treasure, what we want to keep for the future.”)
We remember the spending of $1 trillion to upgrade US nuclear weapons instead of abolishing all nuclear weapons and nuclear power (Democrat Obama);
We remember that the Obama administration sold more weapons than any other since World War 2 (See http://www.globalresearch.ca/obamas-administration-sold-more-weapons-than-any-other-since-world-war-ii/5566411);
We remember Obama approved the B61-12, a nuclear bomb, considered small by some, that can have the power of 50 kilotons, 3-4 times more powerful than the US nuclear bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (See https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/18/its-not-just-trump-and-the-republicans/);
We remember that the US has never renounced a nuclear first strike, never promised not to use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear adversary, has come close to starting and repeatedly threatened to start a nuclear war from 1945 to the present, Democrats & Republicans together;
We remember Democrat Obama’s military coup d'état in Honduras in 2009, promoted by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to overthrow President Manuel Zelaya (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_coup_d'%C3%A9tat, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-honduras-coup-memoirs_us_56e34161e4b0b25c91820a08);
We remember Democrat Obama ABOLISHED the opium eradication program in Afghanistan, causing a major heroin epidemic in the US (See http://www.globalresearch.ca/narco-state-afghanistan-leeds-to-heroin-addiction-in-the-usa/5519104;
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-spoils-of-war-afghanistan-s-multibillion-dollar-heroin-trade/91; http://www.globalresearch.ca/heroin-dealer-in-chief-afghanistan-source-of-90-of-the-worlds-heroin/5502813);
We remember Democrat Obama’s National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 promoting indefinite detention, ending habeas corpus, and sanctioning Iran, sanctions being a war-promoting act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_201
2 and https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/indefinite-detention-endless-worldwide-war-and-2012-national;
We remember Democrat Obama's refusal to support the Columbia 2016 peace accords ending the 53 year civil war between the government and FARC (See
https://www.liberationnews.org/worldwide-vigils-demand-end-to-rightwing-violence-in-colombia/);
We remember that in 2015 Democrat Obama started the sanctions against oil-rich Venezuela which has used its oil profits to lift its people out of poverty (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Venezuela_relations)
We remember that Venezuela and Haiti signed the PetroCaribe agreement in 2006, allowing Venezuela to provide Haiti with 20,000 barrels of oil daily for which Haitai had to pay only 60% of the price while 40% of the oil funds went to the PetroCaribe Fund, which was repayable after 25 years at 1% interest. This fund was to pay for schools, hospitals, roads and social programs for Haitians. In 2011, Michel Martelly was installed in a rigged election as president by Obama & his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who squandered the PetroCaribe Fund and used the money to elect Jovenel Moise in 2016. Moise is now supporting Republican Trump in attacking the legally elected socialist government of Venezuela. For more on the Obama-Clinton attack on the workingclass of Haiti, see:
“Mass Protests in Haiti, Like France’s Yellow Vests, Threaten Modern Oligarchic Structure” by Whitney Webb, 2/12/19 at
https://www.mintpressnews.com/protests-in-haiti-like-frances-yellow-vests-threaten-oligarchic-structure/255009/
We remember Democrat Obama’s murder of Libyan president Mummar al-Gaddafi, by an illegal drone sent from Las Vegas, Nevada, and then Qaddafi was raped by a bayonet. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Muammar_Gaddafi “For over 40 years, Gaddafi promoted economic democracy and used the nationalized oil wealth to sustain progressive social welfare programs for all Libyans. Under Gaddafi’s rule, Libyans enjoyed not only free health-care and free education, but also free electricity and interest-free loans…Unlike many other Arab nations, women in Gaddafi’s Libya had the right to education, hold jobs, divorce, hold property and have an income. The United Nations Human Rights Council praised Gaddafi for his promotion of women’s rights. When the colonel seized power in 1969, few women went to university. Today, more than half of Libya’s university students are women. One of the first laws Gaddafi passed in 1970 was an equal pay for equal work law.” See https://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-from-africas-richest-state-under-gaddafi-to-failed-state-after-nato-intervention/5408740
We remember Democrat Obama’s escalation of drone strikes. See https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/13/droning-world-assassination-complex-bush-obama-trump;
We remember Democrat Obama’s illegal wars against Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Syria (On Iraq, see https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2016/10/13/troops-from-sixteen-different-countries-currently-involved-in-iraq
; on Libya, see http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/5-Years-Later-US-Is-Carrying-Out-More-Airstrikes-in-Libya-20160801-0018.html; on Yemen, crimes against humanity perpetrated by the US puppet, Saudi Arabia, at https://www.rt.com/news/373712-yemen-starvation-fishing-houthis/); on Pakistan, where Democrat Obama sent illegal drone strikes repeatedly, see https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/07/01/obama-drone-casualty-numbers-fraction-recorded-bureau/; on Somalia, see http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-attacks-in-somalia-expose-failure-of-decade-long-war-strategy/5514312; on Afghanistan, see http://inthesetimes.com/article/19285/its-time-to-put-an-end-to-us-occupation-of-afghanistan; and on Syria, see http://www.globalresearch.ca/i-am-a-syrian-living-in-syria-it-was-never-a-revolution-nor-a-civil-war-the-terrorists-are-sent-by-your-government/5544450;
We remember Democrat Obama’s illegal installation of Nazi Ukraine in 2014 with $5 billion of our tax dollars, where they worship a proud Nazi, the late Stepan Bandera and have named a street after him (on the May 2, 2014 Odessa massacre at the House of Trade Unions and the history of Nazi Ukraine, see http://ersieesist.livejournal.com/813.html, http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-odessa-massacre-was-a-carefully-planned-covert-intelligence-operation/5382253; http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-white-houses-nazis-from-hitlers-germany-in-the-1930s-to-kiev-today-the-us-disturbing-partnerships-with-nazis/5382188; http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-may-2nd-odessa-massacre-why-obamas-coup-regime-still-runs-ukraine/5446593; http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-has-installed-a-neo-nazi-government-in-ukraine/5371554 , https://www.voltairenet.org/article183807);
We remember Democrat Obama’s illegal drone killings, illegal targeted assassination weekly lists, praise of US war crimes in Vietnam, providing skin-melting white phosphorus to Saudi Arabia to aid in killing 10,000 people in Yemen (same chemical used for same purpose by USA during American War against Vietnam), illegal use of “depleted” uranium in Syria, illegal use of white phosphorus in Iraq by American troops illegally there, all bombings and massacres in the US and Europe which were all staged INSIDE JOBS by definition as was the 9/11 Inside Job staged by the previous CIA family member, Bush, as is Obama, from 2009 to 2017, accelerated destruction of Civil Liberties (See “The Obama Legacy Part V: Waging War on Civil Liberties,” 8/2/16, by Danny Haiphong at http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama_legacy_civil_liberties), the refusal to compensate CIA torture victims or prosecute any officials responsible for their crimes (See : “Former CIA Detainees Describe Previously Unknown Torture Tactic: A Makeshift Electric Chair” by Alex Emmons, 10/3/16
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/03/former-cia-detainees-describe-previously-unknown-torture-tactic-a-makeshift-electric-chair/);
We remember that in 2016, Democrat Obama dropped 26,171 bombs on the poor people of the world in 7 countries, 3,027 more than in 2015 (see http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article124842824.html);
We remember the increased US military presence in mineral-rich Africa by Democrat Obama (see https://www.liberationnews.org/us-military-presence-in-africa-continues-to-grow/);
We remember that Democrat Obama continued the scapegoating of Muslims started by Republican Bush with his 9/11 Inside Job, the American Reichstag Fire, and continued with all bombings and massacres since 9/11/01, all inside jobs, to justify war and fascism, the same reason the Nazis perpetrated the Reichstag Fire and scapegoated Jews for everything, including all kinds of watch lists, such as the No-Fly List, which lists a 7-month-old baby as a terrorist (See
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/how-democrats-helped-pave-way-trumps-islamophobia);
We remember that in 2015, Obama supported the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, and updated it in February 2016, HR 158, which names the same countries listed under Trump's Muslim Ban. See https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158/text
and http://www.nafsa.org/Professional_Resources/Browse_by_Interest/International_Students_and_Scholars/Visa_Waiver_Program_Improvement_and_Terrorist_Travel_Prevention_Act_of_2015/
We remember Democrat Obama’s failure to grant amnesty to all undocumented immigrants;
We remember Democrat Obama was the biggest deporter in history, deporting 2.5 million immigrants;
We remember that then Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and Charles Schumer supported the Secure Fence Act of 2006 which was an expensive attempt to build a wall at the US-Mexican border;
We remember that Bush and Obama already built a 702 mile border fence wall at the US Mexican border out of 1,954 miles of border;
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/
We remember that then Senator Obama, with then Senator Kerry, both on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005 when Pres Bush nominated John Roberts to be Chief Justice and in 2006 when the same president nominated Sam Alito to be a Supreme Court Justice, refused to stall, delay and filibuster the nominations and instead let their nominations go out of committee to the
Senate floor, now we have a 5-person anti-abortion, anti-labor, anti-environment gang consisting of Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas to undue all the gains of the past many decades on those issues and more. (See https://www.blackagendareport.com/obama-and-democrats-share-blame-trumps-supreme-court)
We remember Democrat Obama’s re-election campaign on the false statement that he had Osama bin Laden killed when Osama bin Laden, who had nothing to do with the 9/11 Inside Job but was a CIA agent who was on the CIA’s payroll in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet Union in the 1980s and in 2001 was the CIA’s prearranged fall guy or pasty, died of kidney disease and Marfan’s Syndrome in December 2001. See
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15601 (Griffin: Bin Laden died Dec 2001)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24622 (Dr. Pieczenik: Bin Laden died Dec 2001 of marfan syndrome, genetic disease that shortens life span.)
http://911blogger.com/news/2011-05-06/michael-ruppert-proof-obama-lying-about-killing-bin-laden (DNA sample not possible in time frame given.)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25898
(Roberts, 8/4/11: The Mysterious Death of OBL: Creating Evidence Where There Is None)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden-was-an-american-hoax/5350261
(Roberts: 9/17/13: The Killing of Osama bin Laden was an “American Hoax”)
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24625 (In 48 hours, bin Laden “death” story changed for pending presidential election)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30654 (“Who Was Osama? Who Is Obama? By Michel Chossudovsky)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30671 (One Year On, Still No Evidence For Osama Bin Laden's Killing by Brit Dee) ;
We remember the failure to fulfill the promise to close Guantanamo Concentration Camp where the inmates are held indefinitely and receive no charges, trial or convictions and suffer torture, all illegal, and where 41 inmates remain from the 242 Democrat Obama inherited from his predecessor, Republican Bush who originally illegally imprisoned without charge and tortured 780 men, and we remember the same Democrat Obama who upgraded the illegal Guantanamo Concentration Camp with $40 million of our tax dollars (Democrat Obama) (See https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/files/gtmo-by-the-numbers.pdf);
We remember the Democrat Party’s revival of anti-Russian hysteria in 2016, even though the US destroyed the Soviet Union in 1991 and Russia is now a capitalist country, to promote Democrat Hillary Clinton as president with no evidence being presented of wrongdoing by the Russians (but plenty of evidence that the Republicans again won the Electoral College vote with election fraud by tossing the black vote, as they did in 2000 and 2004 as that is the only way they can win the presidency since 1992), and promoting a possible attack on Russia by NATO-USA in the last days of Democrat Obama’s presidency (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev, http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-meddling-in-1996-russian-elections-in-support-of-boris-yeltsin/5568288, http://www.globalresearch.ca/outgoing-president-obamas-operation-atlantic-resolve-against-russia-us-sends-3600-tanks-against-russia-massive-nato-deployment-underway/5566679);
We remember Democrat Obama failing to improve the environment in that 1. He did not clean up the water in Flint, Michigan and the rest of the 3,000 communities that have contaminated water; 2. He approved 1500 offshore oil drilling plans including fracking in the Gulf of Mexico from 2010 to 2014; 3. He failed to permanently cancel the Dakota Access Pipeline; 4. He approved new oil pipelines equal to 10 Keystone pipelines from 2010 to 2015; 5. He continued to allow oil and gas rail shipments. (See http://www.mintpressnews.com/donald-trump-is-anti-environment-but-so-was-barack-obama/223540/);
We remember Democrat Obama joining with Democrat California Governor Jerry Brown in destroying the Delta Tunnels and destroy the Delta’s ecosystem, and destroy local fisheries, agriculture, and recreation (see https://mavensnotebook.com/2017/01/05/this-just-in-well-sorta-secretary-jewell-lays-out-strategy-to-address-impacts-of-drought-and-climate-change-in-california/ and http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/27/1553375/-Delta-Tunnels-Restoring-An-Estuary-by-Diverting-Its-Water);
We remember that the Democrat & Republican parties are both bought and paid for by the oil companies (See “Buying Silence: Why So Many Democrats are Mute About Standing Rock” by Michael Sainato, 11/23/16 at http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/23/buying-silence-why-so-many-democrats-are-mute-about-standing-rock/);
We remember that on Friday, December 23, 2016 while people were busy preparing for a holiday weekend, Democrat Obama signed a $619 billion military appropriations bill for the 800 US military bases and 7 illegal wars Obama was promoting, which in and of itself is unconscionable, but it also contained a Ministry of Truth clause known as the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act, an anti-free speech and anti-free press law that was part of this 3,000 plus page war-mongering bill which Congress did not read, but did approve (See http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama%27s_propaganda_gift_to_trump);
We remember that Democrat Obama’s 2016 Ministry of Truth clause followed his 2011 Indefinite Military Detention Law for American citizens without trial or charge as part of the December 31, 2011 military appropriations bill (see https://www.aclu.org/news/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-bill-law, http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama_and_trump_neo-fascism, http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama%27s_propaganda_gift_to_trump and for a comprehensive list of Obama’s horrors including this one, see http://www.blackagendareport.com/locating_fascism_on_home_map and http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama%27s_last_presidential_lies);
We remember that Democrat Obama expanded the powers of the spy agencies to do warrantless searches in January 2017 (See http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/13/obama-expands-spy-agencies-access-private-data-just-time-trump);
We remember Democrat Obama promoted deregulation of Boeing that allowed Boeing to inspect itself, resulting in certifying its faulty MCAS software that lead to the air crashes of “the two Boeing 737 Max 8 airplane crashes: the Lion Air crash off the coast of Jakarta, Indonesia in October 2018 that killed all 189 on board and the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March 2019 that killed all 157 on board.” See “Boeing, Obama A Gold Watch and 346 Dead” by Russell Mokhiber, 6/7/19 at
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/boeing-obama-a-gold-watch-and-346-dead/
We remember Democrat Obama telling us, who voted in the majority against the Republican Donald Trump in 2016, to get in line behind Trump, whose attorney was the vicious US attorney Roy Cohn (who later became an attorney for organized crime friends of Trump, organized crime often being a part of the construction industry) who framed and prosecuted the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell, innocent of the false and phony charge of conspiracy to commit atomic espionage and Democrat Obama opposed the recount in the contested states where the Republicans again committed election fraud in 2016, as they did in 2000 and 2004, which vote for his fellow Democrat presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, was a popular vote by a wider count, 2.9 million votes, than the victorious candidates in 1948 (Truman over Dewey), 1960 (Kennedy over Nixon), 1968, (Nixon over Humphrey) and 1976 (Carter over Ford) (see http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html);
We remember the failure to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg, despite a petition with over 59,733 signatures to him to do so (see http://www.rfc.org/ethel); we remember the refusal to abolish the federal death penalty, the refusal to legalize all drugs to remove them from the street to end the prison pipeline as they will have no market value, the refusal to free Leonard Peltier, Sundiata Acoli, Aafia Siddiqui and all other political prisoners; the refusal to pardon Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Assata Shakur, Mutulu Shakur; the refusal to completely close all federal maximum security prison-concentration camps and the refusal to demand that all state governors abolish the death penalty, free Mumia Abu-Jamal and all other political prisoners, the refusal to free all prisoners over age 50, the refusal to transform all prisons, federal and state, into high schools providing a high school diploma and job training for decent paying jobs, changing all sentences to a maximum of 5 years (Democrat Barack Obama);
We remember Democrat Obama’s FBI increased the bounty on Assata Shakur on May 2, 2013 to $2 million and placed her on the FBI’s Most Wanted List (she is safely in Cuba) and increased the militarization of the police (see https://www.blackagendareport.com/free_assata_fight_black_misleadership_class)
We remember Democrat Biden wrote the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act signed by Democrat Clinton which among other things eliminated higher education for prisoners, a form of rehabilitation ( See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violent_Crime_Control_and_Law_Enforcement_Act)
We remember Palestine being destroyed by Israel (Truman through Obama, Democrats and Republicans together, 100%)
We remember the twin parties of war and fascism paid for by the same capitalist class to maximize their profits, the Democrat-Republicans, refused to abolish the stock market, refused to nationalize everything and abolish the private profit system replacing it with a planned economy to satisfy the needs of everyone as equitably as possible, refused to establish socialized medical care, including dental care and all related medical treatments and drugs, free to all upon demand from cradle to grave, refused to support free abortion on demand to all who live here and refused to repeal the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment, refused to provide free education, including tuition and books, from pre-school through university to all upon demand, refused to legalize all drugs, thereby ending the prison pipeline; refused to abolish the military, the police, the prison-punishment system; refused to abolish the CIA, FBI and all other police state agencies; refused to abolish nuclear power and nuclear weapons and transform the US into a renewable energy state, using solar, wind and tidal power for our energy needs, along with massive, free public transit, thereby reducing cars to being rarely used; refused to house the homeless and provide free public housing to all upon demand, with housing built with full laundry and child care facilities in transit villages to minimize the need to travel to work, school, pharmacy, grocery and clothing stores and medical appointments;
DEMOCRATIC PARTY, WE KNOW WHICH SIDE YOU ARE ON!
Don't oversimplify history. And don't ignore indigenous peoples.
President Grant promised peace with Indians — and covertly hatched the plot that provoked one of the bloodiest conflicts in the West
President Grant promised peace with Indians — and covertly hatched the plot that provoked one of the bloodiest conflicts in the West
For more information:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/uly...
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