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Was There a Hidden Message in Obama's Osawatomie Speech?
The New American ^
| Tuesday, 13 December 2011
| Selwyn Duke
Posted on 12/13/2011 10:48:58 AM PST by Paladins Prayer
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To: Paladins Prayer
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:13:11 PM PST
by
EasySt
(2012... Sometimes you have to flush twice.)
To: bigbob; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; Bikkuri; ...
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Was There a Hidden Message in 0bama's 0sawatomie Speech?
. . . . Check out article.
Also # 9 and # 12.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:16:08 PM PST
by
LucyT
To: loveliberty2
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:16:54 PM PST
by
matt1234
(Bring back the HUAC.)
To: loveliberty2
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:19:12 PM PST
by
Pagey
(B. Hussein Obama is weak, was born weak and as P.O.T.U.S. is a complete embarrassment to the U.S.A.)
To: Paladins Prayer
Hidden message addressed to whom? To William Ayres? To the few remaining Weathermen? Doubtful.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:22:59 PM PST
by
x
To: BenLurkin
They will always express their intentions in no uncertain terms.
They then say anything to obscure and achieve those intentions.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:28:33 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: Paladins Prayer
That Obummer chose a place for a speech and that place has a
connection to an earlier Pinko- Communist Fag is not so spooky as it is a matter of someone at New American doing their homework and finding the light turned on in the AHA moment.
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posted on
12/13/2011 12:43:59 PM PST
by
StonyBurk
(ring)
To: x
Because he just loves shoving our faces in it. It makes him feel powerful.
To: x
There was and remains a fairly large and connected group of people who were supporters of the Weather Underground and the entire Movement. These people are today also fairly affluent, either from public service pensions, inheritances or trust funds, sometimes all three. These folks are scattered around the country, many of them in obscure rural areas that are known to be *happening places*, full of delightful countercultural events and organizations. All of these events and organizations can be counted upon for full political support of the far left when it is needed. Think of them as bundlers in hippie dress.
Some of these places harbor safe houses, such as the one utilized by Abby Hoffman. This is where one is likely to find original underground publications and first editions of books such as Prairie Fire.
If there was a secret message to the troops, those are the troops.
To: Paladins Prayer
To: Paladins Prayer
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posted on
12/13/2011 1:09:27 PM PST
by
matt1234
(Bring back the HUAC.)
To: Paladins Prayer
Paul is dead.
Smoke pot, smoke pot....everybody smoke pot
/s
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posted on
12/13/2011 1:15:50 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(Michelle, Sarah, Perry now Newt over Mitt.....that is how I've seen it and it's where we are)
To: reformedliberal; x
There was and remains a fairly large and connected group of people who were supporters of the Weather Underground and the entire Movement. Agreed. There are also younger people who are ideologically sympathetic.
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posted on
12/13/2011 1:18:42 PM PST
by
matt1234
(Bring back the HUAC.)
To: loveliberty2; LucyT
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posted on
12/13/2011 1:54:13 PM PST
by
thouworm
(.)
To: reformedliberal
There was and remains a fairly large and connected group of people who were supporters of the Weather Underground and the entire Movement. These people are today also fairly affluent, either from public service pensions, inheritances or trust funds, sometimes all three. These folks are scattered around the country, many of them in obscure rural areas that are known to be *happening places*, full of delightful countercultural events and organizations. All of these events and organizations can be counted upon for full political support of the far left when it is needed. Think of them as bundlers in hippie dress.
...
If there was a secret message to the troops, those are the troops.
Todd Gitlin? Tom Hayden? Mark Rudd? Michael Kazin? Paul Buhle? So now that they've got the signal what are they going to do with it? How much weight do they really carry? And how much more will they bring to bear for Obama than they otherwise would have.
Reagan got flak because he spoke at a county fair in Mississippi that hosted many politicians and happened to be in the county where civil rights workers were killed.
Some people still go on about that, and people will go on about this. All's fair in love and politics, I guess, and every politician is responsible for the silly or possibly offensive things he or she does.
But the secret signal idea is a stretch in both cases.
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posted on
12/13/2011 2:05:42 PM PST
by
x
To: LucyT; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; Bikkuri; ...
ON AUGUST 31, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt delivered what was perhaps the most important speech ever given in Kansas. Surrounded by 30,000 enthusiastic listeners at Osawatomie, he developed a political creed which became a milestone along the road to the modern all-powerful state. This speech, later called the "New Nationalism Address," evoked a wide variety of responses. It was labeled "Communistic," "Socialistic," and "Anarchistic" in various quarters; while others hailed it "the greatest oration ever given on American soil." What then were the circumstances surrounding the address? What was the Kansas role in the drama at Osawatomie? Why was that town chosen for such an auspicious moment in history? And why did an ex-President devise a comprehensive political program such as the "New Nationalism?"
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Kansas Historical Quarterly - Theodore Roosevelt's Osawatomie Speech
After the release of Prairie Fire: The Politics of Evolutionary Anti-Imperialism, Weather began actively building an above-ground support group named, appropriately, the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC). The First chapters were formed in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Seattle, and Chicago. In addition, a film, Underground, was made,
a newsletter, Osawatomie, published, and a meeting -the Hard Times conference called to gather movement activists together around the issues and hopes expressed in Prairie Fire. Meanwhile, van Lydegraf formally joined the organization, forsaking his aboveground support activities and going underground.
On January 23, 1975, the Agency for International Development (USAID) office in the State Department building in Washington, D.C., and the offices of the Department of Defense in Oakland were bombed. These attacks were coordinated between at least one East Coast and one West Coast unit. The explosions caused over $50,000 worth of damage, and no injuries were reported. In a statement released to the press, Weather expressed solidarity with the Vietnamese still fighting against the Thieu regime in Vietnam and demanded an immediate and complete withdrawal of all US forces and aid. Weather ended the communiqué demanding that the US honor the peace accords signed two years earlier to the day.
On June 16, 1975, Weather bombed the Banco de Ponce office in New York's Rockefeller Center, causing several thousand dollars worth of damage. A statement was sent to the Associated Press, the New York Post, and NBC television detailing the role of the bank's owners in causing the poverty that was endemic in Puerto Rico. In addition, Weather expressed its support for the cement workers' strike then taking place against a construction company partially owned by the bank. On October 10, 1975, it bombed the Kennecott Corporation's headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, in solidarity with the resistance to Chile's military government and in opposition to the Kennecott Corporation's involvement in the coup two years earlier. The explosion was preceded by a phone call from a Weather woman to the Salt Lake Tribune. The blast tore through a restroom in the building and caused damage amounting to about $50,000.
~~~
The Way The Wind Blew - A History Of The Weather Underground
Organizers must be intimately aware of every problem and each injustice, and they must show that underneath each particular problem lies another problem, and another and another until you reach the system of imperialism itself. The system is designed to create problems for poor, Third World and working-class people. Organizers need to find small solutions to small problems and great solutions to great problems. Our solutions should be drastic.
We need to build a successful struggle, strong organization and a winning revolutionary party. This is a process, which will not emerge full-blown from our minds. It will emerge and change and grow from practice. We know where to begin.
It is with all this in mind that we have created OSAWATOMIE, the revolutionary voice of the Weather Underground Organization.
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Copies of OSAWATOMIE are available from:
Water Buffalo Print Collective
P.O. Box 22184
Seattle, Washington 98122
Single copies: 30¢ plus 10¢ postage.
Books by Weather Underground
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posted on
12/13/2011 2:29:53 PM PST
by
Brown Deer
(Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
To: Paladins Prayer
I’ve lived within a 45 minute drive of this little town most of my life I have never heard of this connection. Why on earth would the weathermen use that name? It is famous for being a place that John Brown killed people. Is that why?
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posted on
12/13/2011 2:37:25 PM PST
by
Mercat
To: Mercat
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posted on
12/13/2011 2:54:15 PM PST
by
matt1234
(Bring back the HUAC.)
To: matt1234
Yes. Many are the children and now even the grandchildren of the original supporters. But, of course, Marxism is cool today, so there is a entire new bunch. for example, the Occupiers.
To: x
Todd Gitlin? Tom Hayden? Mark Rudd? Michael Kazin? Paul Buhle? So now that they’ve got the signal what are they going to do with it? How much weight do they really carry? And how much more will they bring to bear for Obama than they otherwise would have.
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No, not so much. This is a more diffuse group, not necessarily cadre, but the rank and file, their kids and grandkids and all the newbies who are convinced that the USA needs to be eliminated and then the ruins burned.
These are the people who are really the 1% but are guilt tripped into supporting their own demise and loudly proclaim that they don’t really care about money while living a rural hippie lifestyle supported by same. They are contributors. They are the ones working for the NGOs and doing the Occupation. They are prolific grant writers and grantees, using our tax money to do the ground-level work for EPA and the rest of the far left agencies. They are the petitioners who spend rainy days on street corners for the cause. They were Movement grunts and then they raised an entire couple of generations on their *war* stories.
Scoff all you like. I live surrounded by them and way back in the day, they were my friends. Their kids are in their 30s and early 40s and the grandkids are teens to twenties. As Anonymous likes to say:they are Legion.
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