Saturday, January 8, 2011

GABRIELLE GIFFORDS ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION, JFK REDUX

"In that third year of the Kennedy Presidency a kind of fever lay over Dallas County. Mad things happened. 
Huge billboards screamed “Impeach Earl Warren.” 
Jewish stores were smeared with 
crude swastikas. Fanatical young 
matrons swayed in public to the chant, 
“Stevenson’s going to die–his heart will 
stop, stop, stop and he will burn, burn burn!” 

Radical Right polemics were distributed in 
public schools; Kennedy’s name was booed in classrooms; junior executives were required to 
attend radical seminars. Dallas had become the 
mecca for medicine-show evangelists of the 
National Indignation Convention, the Christian 
Crusaders, the Minutemen, the John Birch and 
Patrick Henry societies . . .

In Dallas a retired major general flew the 
American flag upside down in front of his 
house, and when, on Labor Day of 1963, 
the Stars and Stripes were hoisted right 
side up outside his own home by County 
Treasurer Warren G. Harding–named by 
Democratic parents for a Republican 
President in an era when all Texas children 
were taught to respect the Presidency, 
regardless of party–Harding was accosted 
by a physician’s son, who remarked bitterly, 
“That’s the Democrat flag. Why not just run 
up the hammer and sickle while you’re at it?" - 
William Manchester, Death of a President.

The perfectly “conservative” Neo-Confederate 
RIGHT WING LUNATIC ASLYUM.