The press has an obligation to disburse its resources to uncover facts. Today, however, most of The Media can't be trusted. It's not just a matter of stinginess but a deliberate effort to manipulate public opinion.
Adolf Hitler may have written the world's first so-called "right-to-work" law. Before Nazi Germany outlawed labor unions altogether, the regime implemented a law that was nearly identical to the right-to-scab laws now found in 24 U.S. states. It's a fact that Hitler inspired America's current "right-to-work" laws. The media gatekeepers can discover this fairly easily, but how often do you see them mentioning it? (Hitler also implemented mandatory school uniforms when he took power - a fact that The Media usually ignores but also occasionally denies outright.)
One of the first people to advocate "right-to-work" laws in America was Texas business executive Vance Muse. Muse was known for proposals like his national sales tax plan that was designed to hit the poor the hardest, but right-to-scab laws were the issue that would truly bring out Muse's racism. Here's a racist quote from Muse about his fear of the rise of unions: "From now on, white women and white men will be forced into organizations with black African apes whom they will have to call 'brother' or lose their jobs."
Muse helped organize a shadowy club called the Christian American Association, which lobbied for passage of "right-to-work" laws. This organization became the target of a probe by Texas lawmakers because of its Ku Klux Klan ties. At the time of Muse's death in 1950, he was trying to add a "right-to-work" amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
There's gobs of parallels here between Vance Muse's activities and what we see today. His national sales tax plan is echoed by the Tea Party-backed FairTax movement (which has been heard from less since it unsuccessfully tried to infiltrate Occupy). Muse's Christian American Association sounds like a forerunner of ALEC.
That The Media won't disclose or investigate the links between Muse's racism and today's thick menu of right-wing grievances is proof of The Media's own racism. That's all there is to it. There's simply no other conclusion you can make when you see such a concerted effort to cover up racism in order to advance an agenda.
I don't like racists.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Media hides racist "right-to-work" roots
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You mention the goofy Tea Party "Fairtax" plan. I admit, I got sucked in. Happens.
ReplyDeleteThen I read the fine print. Seriously see what's in the fine print -- I show some of it. They may as well pretend to tax moonbeams and baby farts.
Yes, they have that retail sales tax -- but that's only a small part of Fairtax. Happens to be the part their tell their suckers about.
What they DONT tell their suckers about is the much larger, and impossible as hell, other taxes. Taxes on all medicare patients, for example. Im not kidding. Your destitute grandmother lives in a nursing home, paid for by medicare? Oh,she would owe 50K in fed taxes, on that "consumption".
But that pales into nothing when you see the other impossible taxes -- massive taxes on city county and states on all expenditures other than education. Operate a prison, court system, police department, whatever? Your city has to pay taxes on those expenditures. No, I am not kidding and no I am not wrong.
The slick way the bastards included these taxes (footnotes, definitions, and assumptions) can fool you, if you can even find all their documents.
President Bush Tax Advisory Panel, of course, had no trouble unraveling the fine print tricks, they were experts at fine print tricks. They showed these "other taxes" but you can see them yourself, they are in the documents, just cleverly stated.
Uh, the KKK is virulently anti-union.
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