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Why are likely Jan 6 defendants so nonchalant about going to prison?
I’ve spent some time thinking about this. Among some quick and easy answers: They don’t fully understand what they’re facing, because… They are appallingly ignorant about our history, our laws, our prosecutorial agencies such as the DOJ, and our conventions. … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Government, Judiciary, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Bolsheviks, Cheka, Jan 6 insurrectionists, Lenin, MAGA, Okhrana, Steve Bannon, Trotsky, Trump, Tsar Nicholas II
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Part 3. The matriarch of all revolutions
You thought we were finished? Oh no. Bannon’s revolution is finished — except for the prison sentences. But in the Russian Revolution, the battiness continued. When I left off excerpting Victor Sebestyen’s narrative of the Russian Revolution in his biography … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Guns in the U.S. of A., political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Bolsheviks, Cossacks, January 6 thefts, John Reed, Petrograd, Russian Provisional Government, Russian Red Guards, Sergei Eisenstein, Shock Battalion, Steve Bannon, the Russian Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II
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A peaceful march for human rights
The petition made specific demands: open discussions between the workers and the government, an eight-hour working day, a minimum wage of one ruble a day, more hygienic factories, an income tax, an amnesty for political prisoners, universal suffrage, education and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers, voting rights
Tagged " Father George Gapon, Grand Duke Vladimir, Robert Payne, Romanov dynasty, Russian "Bloody Sunday, Tsar Nicholas II, Winter Palace St Petersburg
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