Feinstein 95-Years Late in Protesting Spying at U.C.

The Pasadena Pundit ^ | January 13, 2006 | Wayne Lusvardi

[WayneLusvardi]

Feinstein 95-Years Late in Protesting Government Spying at U.C. -- U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, wants an explanation about reports of Pentagon spying at UC Santa Cruz as well as other surveillance of U.S. citizens. The problem is she is about 95-years late.See link: http://us.f514.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=2650_10626774_712971_1816_2279_0_65070_5047_3503505373&Idx=6&YY=38254&inc=25&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b&box=Inbox

From 1905 - 1910 Sikhs and Indians migrated to the San Francisco area, building their own temples and schools there. Har Dayal, a Professor of Oriental Philosophy at U.C. Berkeley recruited and trained a secret army to drive the British out of India and elsewhere with the aid of the German government. Dayal smuggled arms and explosives from California to India. They acquired 30,000 rifles and pistols and quantities of explosives and obtained two ocean vessels, the Annie Larsen and the oil-tanker Maverick. They moved the arms to the Port of San Diego where the Annie Larsen was docked. The plan was for the arms to be transported to the coast of Mexico where they would be subsequently transferred to the Maverick for voyage across the Pacific to Java. The German consulates in the South Pacific co-conspired to smuggle these weapons across the Pacific in a conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and Afghanistan. William Hopkinson, an Indian policeman, sent to California to penetrate the revolutionary movement's headquarters was shot dead by a Sikh extremist when he was discovered.

This plot followed the storyline of a fictional book The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers in 1904 which tells of a German plan for an invasion of England using a secret armada of flat bottomed cargo boats (similar to today's commercial airliners). Childers' book sold several hundred thousands of copies and was such a success that the British First Lord of the Admiralty ordered his staff to investigate the feasibility of such a stealth invasion. All this is revealed in historian Peter Hopkirk's book Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire (See: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568361270/qid=1137206733/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2885797-0906244?s=books&v=glance&n=283155).

Don't expect to find this part of history in your college history course or journalism class or in the editorial pages of the local newspapers. After all, college professors and newspaper editors and journalists are too busy "getting the story (mostly) right" to have anything to do with the details of history. -- The Pasadena Pundit

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Banana slugs in cahoots with Al Qaeda? I'd believe that.

[Jemian]

Now, scroll past that picture at a fairly fast speed, but not too fast. Doesn't she resemble the wicked hag of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as she profers the poison apple?

[XHogPilot]

Your first link is to yahoo email. Care to provide a better link?

[WayneLusvardi]

Sorry about that. Here's the direct link to the article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/January/13/local/stories/12local.htm

WL

[Wil H]

Now be fair to the senator, she tried to stop the 1905 action too...

..and she was only 25 then....