Can you still do that? I thought you had to be invited now to sit in on a
congressional session.
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Miriam Vieni
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 9:16 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Hasn't happened since 1814
Of course Congress was in session. That's why it happened then. When you visit
the Capitol, you can sit in the gallery to watch sessions of the House or the
Senate. I was taken there as a child several times because my aunt and uncle
lived in Washington. All those people had to do was to file in with all the
other visitors. They could have fired at the congressmen sitting below them.
Miriam
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<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
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Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 8:48 PM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Hasn't happened since 1814
When that attack happened it was still almost two months until I would be born,
so I have no memory of it myself, but I remember reading an account of it in
some book or other. I forget what book it was. There was a description of
congressmen running out of the chamber and ducking for cover. I just Googled it
and found an article that says that five congressmen were wounded. It didn't
say that the congress was in session, but if it wasn't then I would wonder why
there were so many congressment present and why the attackers would choos a
time that they were not in session. Here is the article I found:
Remembering the 1954 Puerto Rican Attack on Washington
https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/Remembering-the-1954-Puerto-Rican-Attack-on-Washington-20150301-0020.html
On March 1, 1954, Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores and Andrés
Figueroa walked into the U.S. House of Representatives building and began
shooting. They fired thirty shots and wounded five U.S. Representatives.
They were arrested and spent 25 years in prison. The purpose of their armed
attack was to call the world's attention to the colonial plight of Puerto Rico
and the U.S. government´s repression against its independence movement.
Puerto Rican nationalists Lolita Lebrón and Rafael Cancel Miranda discuss the
1954 attack on the U.S. Congress.
Puerto Rico has been occupied by the United States since the U.S. war with
Spain in 1898. Since then, the U.S. Congress has exercised sovereignty over the
island nation. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens but the island's residents have
no voice or vote in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections.
In the first half of the 20th century, the Puerto Rico Nationalist Party called
for independence, leading the opposition against the U.S.
occupation. The
Puerto Rican government — then headed by U.S. governors appointed by the
president of the United States — responded to the party's actions with
repression, culminating in the Rio Piedras and Ponce massacres, in 1935 and
1937 respectively. In the latter incident, a peaceful march of Nationalists, or
members of the Nationalist Party, was fired upon by the police, resulting in 19
deaths and over 100 injuries. It was described by the American Civil Liberties
Union as “cold-blooded murder.” In response, members of the Nationalist Party
turned to armed struggle, assassinating U.S. counterinsurgency specialist
Francis Riggs, and attempting to shoot governor Blanton Winship, who had
ordered the Ponce massacre.
The 1954 attack on the U.S. Congress came in the wake of major reforms in the
Puerto Rico political system, which allegedly were to put an end to colonialism
and send the occupied country on the road to formal democracy and
self-determination. These reforms were intended to placate the United Nations
Decolonization Committee, which was then beginning to ask Washington questions
about the case of Puerto Rican self-determination. During this period, which
spanned the late 1940's and early 1950's, Puerto Rican voters were allowed for
the first time to choose a governor, and to vote for a constitution.
But the U.S. campaign to repress and exterminate the independence movement
continued apace, targeting even the legal, non-violent Puerto Rican
Independence Party (PIP). Repressive legislation, modeled on the anti-Communist
Smith Act of the United States, made it largely illegal to advocate in support
of Puerto Rican independence. In the 1950's, those who did were incarcerated
merely for speaking in public, as proven by the publicly available transcripts
of their court trials.
The Nationalists were practically alone in denouncing the democratic and
constitutional reforms as a farce.
The March 1954 attack was not the first time that Washington D.C. heard the
gunfire of Puerto Rican independence fighters. On November 1, 1950, two
Nationalists tried to assassinate president Harry Truman. One of the
assailants, Griselio Torresola, died in the act. The other, Oscar Collazo, was
wounded and went on to spend 29 years in jail.
The response from the FBI and local colonial authorities was harsh and
vindictive. During the 1950´s, hundreds of supporters of independence were
incarcerated.
Some would remain in prison for two decades. Even today, the FBI holds a
special grudge against Puerto Ricans, and particularly those in favor of Puerto
Rican independence.
In the 1970's allies of the Puerto Rican independence movement suggested that
Collazo — the survivor of the 1950 attack — and the incarcerated members of the
1954 assault request a presidential pardon. They refused on the grounds that
they would only accept unconditional freedom. If anyone should beg for pardon,
they said, it is the U.S. government. In 1979, Washington finally capitulated.
That year, President Jimmy Carter gave them an unconditional pardon. The five
returned to Puerto Rico, welcomed as heroes.
Today the only survivor of the 1954 attack is Cancel Miranda, who remains
lucid, extroverted and outgoing. To this day, he remains an active member of
the Puerto Rican independence movement.
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George H. Smith “It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain,
emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how
comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the one
hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the other
hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is contradicting
himself. There can be no knowledge of what is good for man apart from knowledge
of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in which this knowledge can
be acquired except through reason. To advocate irrationality is to advocate
that which is destructive to human life.” ― George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case
Against God On 1/6/2021 8:25 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
Roger, for some reason I didn't think that happened during a congressional
session but I could be wrong and you could be correct.
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 7:39 PM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Hasn't happened since 1814
I'm wondering about this claim that the capitol has not been breached since
1814. Wasn't it in about 1954 that a band of Puerto Rican separattists shot
up the house chamber? Wasn't that a breach of the capitol building?
___
George H. Smith “It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain,
emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how
comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear. Anyone who claims, on the
one hand, that he is concerned with human welfare, and who demands, on the
other hand, that man must suspend or renounce the use of his reason, is
contradicting himself. There can be no knowledge of what is good for man
apart from knowledge of reality and human nature, and there is no manner in
which this knowledge can be acquired except through reason. To advocate
irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.” ―
George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God On 1/6/2021 3:59 PM, Carl
Jarvis wrote:
On 1/6/21, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just got a report from the Sergeant at Arms office at the US capital.There is a regressive gene that, when left untreated, leads to
Trump supporters place fake explosives around the city to use as a
distraction to capital police. They stormed the capital building and
shot tear gas and gasoline bombs at capital police and broke into
the Senate chamber with buts of rifles. This was a well-coordinated
attack. The remainder of the protestors are blocking access to the
capital so that police, fire department and EMS cannot get near it.
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Frank Ventura
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2021 3:04 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Hasn't happened since 1814
The US Capital building and the senate chamber has been breached. As
we speak Trump supporters have broken into the senate chamber and
are ripping it apart. Some members of the press have been attacked
as well. All congress members and staff have ben told to put on
their gas masks and barricade themselves in their offices. No
foreign enemy has broached our democracy since the war of 1812 (took
place in 1814), but we have done it now to ourselves. We have seen the
enemy and the enemy is us.
violent, greedy tendency's. This gene usually shows around the
second year in the normal child, and its cure usually takes another
18 to 20 years. The usual cure is to apply the palm of the hand to
the bare butt. And do it as often as necessary.
Carl Jarvis
