Our home-grown "liberals" constantly extol the United States as an example of democracy, civilization and humanism. Well, what kind of humanists and civilizers they are, I have already written in the articles “USA's true face. Part One "and" The USA is a true face. Part two". Now let's see what kind of democrats they are? And then the liberals only listen to us "bloody totalitarianism", and there everything is "decorous and noble."
Well, we will not talk about the genocide of the indigenous population of North America today, this topic deserves a separate article. Let's go further.
You and I are very fond of poking hunger in the USSR in the 30s, "repressions", resettlement of peoples. And what about the USA? Yes, that's what …
On April 14, 1914, Colorado coal workers decided to demand permission from the authorities to form their own union. First, they were kicked out of their homes, which belonged to the factory, and they were forced to set up a tent city. The management of the plant saw that intimidation was not enough, and ordered everyone to be shot and their tents burned. 20 people died, the case itself went down in history as the massacre at the Lyudlov.
In late August and early September 1921, in Logan County, West Virginia, between 10,000 and 15,000 miners fought in arms against an army of private detectives, police officers, and strikebreakers. On 28, 30 and 31 August, there were clashes between miners and detectives, with losses on both sides. Colonel Yubank called in the air force, after which full-scale hostilities began. Home-made bombs were dropped from private planes on miners, as well as high-explosive bombs left over from hostilities during the First World War. On September 1, US President Warren Harding sent federal troops and aircraft to Logan. By this time, 50 to 100 miners had died in the fighting, and hundreds of people were injured. Realizing that the rebels would be destroyed by the army, union leader Bill Blizzard told the miners to return home. On September 3, the miners surrendered.
Hungry March in Detroit.
On March 7, 1932, during the Great Depression, the Detroit Hunger March was shot. Starving laid-off workers at the Ford plant took to the streets of Detroit with economic demands. Henry Ford's police and mercenaries opened fire on the workers, as a result of which 4 people were killed and more than 60 injured.
Hungry March in Detroit.
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1932 - "March of the veterans to Washington." Then the soldiers returning from the First World War went to Washington to demand monetary compensation, which the government did not want to pay. For some reason, President Hoover considered the demonstrators to be communists and ordered General Douglas MacArthur to disperse them. And he did it with tanks. 1,600 people were killed - mostly children and women - members of veteran families. Those who survived were taken by trucks to the Florida Everglades. According to the official version, 240 veterans left there were killed by the hurricane that came from the south. If you believe the veterans' testimonies themselves, the Florida swamps became a collective grave - under Major Patton's reasoning about "betrayal", the soldiers first shot the families of the traitors, and then themselves.
March of veterans.
March of veterans.
In 1932-33, more than 8 million people died in the United States due to hunger during the Great Depression. Only for some reason everyone is silent about it. There was also "dispossession" for them.
The Great Depression.
Defarming - haven't you heard this term? Well, yes, everyone heard that two million "kulaks" were resettled in the USSR. Note that they were provided in the places of resettlement with either land or work.
The Great Depression.
But no one knows about five million American farmers at the same time, driven by banks from the land for debts, and not secured by the US government with land, work, social assistance, or old-age pension. Even statistics for 1932 in the United States have been destroyed. They just don't exist. Without explanation. They appear later, in later statistics, from 1940, in the form of retrospective tables. With a mark - “No statistical report was prepared for this year”. See how convenient it is? And ends in the water.
The Great Depression.
The Great Depression.
Hunger raged in the country. With the abundance of products, people simply could not afford to buy them.
Destruction of products.
Destruction of products.
Destruction of products.
Unemployment was growing, if in 1932 the number of unemployed reached 12.5 million, then at the beginning of 1933, the number of unemployed in America was already up to 17 million. To occupy the "extra" population, they introduce "public" work (labor camps). This is mainly the construction of transport facilities (highways, bridges, tunnels, airports) and public (schools, hospitals, parks) infrastructure. Everyone involved in community service received $ 30 a week, 25 of which was sent to his family. It was hard, unskilled labor, barracks, canteen food, the same wheelbarrows and shovels as on the construction sites of the first five-year plans. Often, work was carried out in places with an arid climate, sometimes in malaria regions. And in terms of the number of people involved, public works can really compete with the Gulag. With that differencethat the American "sat down" voluntarily.
Destruction of products.
On April 5, 1933, US President Franklin Roosevelt issued Decree No. 6102 on the actual confiscation of gold in bars and coins from the population and organizations. All individuals and legal entities located in the United States (including foreign citizens and companies storing gold in the United States), with rare exceptions, were required to exchange gold for paper money before May 1, 1933 at a price of $ 20.66 per troy ounce in any bank in the United States. How. What about freedom? What about the market?
March 17, 1942. On that day, 120,000 US citizens, ethnic Japanese or half-breeds, were sent to concentration camps. Everyone who had at least 1/16 of Japanese blood, even orphans, was subject to internment. The concentration camps were officially called "military displacement centers." 11 thousand Germans and 5 thousand Italians were placed in the camps. Another 150 thousand Germans and Italians received the status of "suspicious persons", and during the war they were under the supervision of the special services.
Deportation of the Japanese.
Deportation of the Japanese.
In 1944, the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of internment, arguing that the restriction of the civil rights of a racial group is permissible if it is "required by social necessity." The internees were housed in hastily constructed barracks without running water or a kitchen. Family members usually lived together. The camps were surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by armed men. There are cases when the guards shot at those trying to leave the camp. For example, the Hart Mountain Center for Displaced Persons in northwest Wyoming was a barbed wire camp with a shared toilet, bunks instead of beds, and a budget of 45 cents per person per day. Since most of the internees were evicted from their homes on the west coast without advance notice and with no knowledge of their final destination, many did not take clothing suitable for Wyoming winters, when temperatures often dropped below -20 degrees Celsius. How is it? Very democratic?
What about racial segregation? And this is a country of "equal opportunities"?
Officially, racial segregation has existed since the 13th Amendment to the American Constitution, which outlawed slavery in 1865.
Racial sengregation.
Its first signs are separate schools (for whites and blacks), separate public transport (existed until the 1970s), prohibitions on co-location in hotels and motels, division into cafes and restaurants only for whites and for “colored” and black, in the service area, African American military units and the like. African Americans remained second-class citizens, infringed on all rights - political, social, economic. Poor education, life in ghettos, wages half that of white workers, often inability to participate in elections. Discrimination persisted in the US armed forces during the war years: segregation was eliminated during the period of combat training, African-Americans were allowed into combat units, but in the vast majority they served in separate units.lived in separate barracks and even in case of need for blood transfusion received it from separate supplies. In 1905, through the California law "prohibiting mixed marriages", marriages between whites and "Mongols" were prohibited. In principle, a ban on mixed marriages existed in all states. The ban on mixed marriages was finally lifted in 1967. So much for democracy and equality….
In 1962, the United States was rocked by riots over the attempts of a black citizen, James Meredith, to enroll at the University of Misissippi as a student. (that is, we already have Gagarin flew into space, and they were still arguing - black people or not?)
May 4, 1970 - Shooting at the University of Kent.
University of Kent.
In Kent, Ohio (USA), during anti-war demonstrations against the Vietnam War, students at the University of Kent took to action against the invasion of Cambodia by American and South Vietnamese troops that had begun a few days earlier. A unit of the State National Guard arrived at the university to disperse the demonstrators, then, for some unknown reason, fire was opened on the crowd, resulting in 4 deaths and 9 injuries.
University of Kent.
On February 27, 1973, Wounded Knee (Wounded Knee), on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, was invaded by followers of the American Indian Movement, a movement for Indian rights. On December 29, 1890, the famous clash between the Sioux and the US Army took place here, as a result of which more than 150 Indians, including women and children, died. In this regard, the village of Wounded Knee was chosen as the venue for the action. what was originally intended as a symbolic confrontation to draw the government's attention to the Native American situation, culminates in a 71-day armed conflict on American soil, the longest since the American Civil War, in which the "invaders" firefight with the police, by FBI agents.
April-May 1992 Events in Los Angeles. During the riots, 53 people died, about 1.1 thousand houses were burned. (racially motivated riots).
2003 - Arrests of participants in protests against the war in Iraq are held in the United States. In San Francisco, police arrested 123 of the most active protesters.
September 17, 2011 - mid-2012 - Occupy Wall Street crackdown.
August 9-25 and November 24 - December 2, 2014 - Riot suppression in Ferguson. (racially motivated)
May 25 - 3, 2015 - Riot suppression in Baltimore. (racially motivated)
September 21-22, 2016 - Riot suppression in the city of Charlotte. (racially motivated)
January 20, 2017 - dispersal of opponents of President Donald Trump during his inauguration.
April 9, 2017 - dispersal of rallies and arrests of citizens protesting against a US missile attack on Syria.
Well, the fact that there is no smell of freedom and equality of opportunity is understandable. But I would like to touch upon one more topic. These are experiments on people. Yes, it is over people. What did you think only in Japan and in Nazi Germany?
-Dr. Leo Stanley was the chief surgeon at the American prison of St. Quentin. During his service, he conducted terrible experiments on prisoners, including an experiment with testicular implantation. Stanley later explained that in this way he tried to find a way to rejuvenate and reduce people's cravings for cruelty. True, he did it strangely: he took the testicles of executed criminals, as well as the testicles of rams, goats and boars, and sewed them up to the convicts. Naturally, rejection began, often with complications.
- "MK-Ultra" is perhaps the most famous project of the US government related to human experimentation. Started in the 1950s, it included a number of illegal experiments on children and adults. As part of the project, government agents and medical personnel associated with the special services tried to find the most effective schemes for using drugs for interrogation and information extraction. In addition to drugs, the project included experiments related to mind control through sexual violence and hypnosis. The experiments were carried out both on prisoners and on the most ordinary people - of course, without their consent. Most of the unwitting participants then had to restore their health for a long time, including mental health, - not always with satisfactory results. Many have died as a result of inhuman experiments.
- In 1950, a bacterial culture of Serratia marcescens was sprayed over San Francisco, which at that time was considered a conditionally pathogenic organism, but today it is considered pathogenic and harmful to the human body. As a result, many cases of pneumonia were reported in the city, and one person died. And in 1955, a similar CIA bacteriological experiment caused the whooping cough epidemic in Tampa Bay, Florida, which killed 12 people.
- During the famous Manhattan Project, 18 people were injected with plutonium. The experiments were carried out in Tennessee on military personnel who were injected with minimal doses of plutonium. Three more received injections at a hospital in Chicago. According to rumors, not all participants in the experiment were volunteers - some, including a pregnant woman, were injected with plutonium under the guise of other drugs.
- For 20 years, since the mid-1950s, University of Pennsylvania professor Albert Kligman has been conducting a terrible experiment on the inmates of Holmesburg Prison. He was paid by several commercial companies and the American army to expose prisoners to the famous Agent Orange poison gas. At first, the experiments did not give satisfactory results, so Kligman increased the dose of the substance 468 times over the recommendations of the customers. Soon the skin of the prisoners became covered with ulcers, many were diagnosed with lupus, all had mental problems.
- From 1940 to 1953, Laretta Bender, a specialist in child psychiatry, was engaged in the fact that in one of the hospitals in New York she experienced the effect of electric shock on hundreds of children. For some children with schizophrenia, Larette was given two electric shocks a day for three weeks.
- James Marion Sims, an American physician of the early 19th century, is considered the father of modern gynecology, but few people know by what methods he achieved success. From 1845 to 1849, he conducted a series of brutal experiments on black female slaves with vesicovaginal fistulas - the openings between the vagina and the bladder. He practiced on them the operative methods of treating this pathology, without bothering to give the patients anesthesia - after all, they were just slaves! He reworked the unsuccessful results for the living, so that one of the slaves was subjected to three dozen operations - and all without anesthesia!
- In 2010, the American government admitted that in the 40s, Americans deliberately infect Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases. Researchers used prostitutes to infect prisoners, soldiers, psychiatric patients, and when this did not give enough massive results, pathogens began to be injected. Even orphans were used as test subjects! Moreover, the majority were included in the experiment without their consent. Virtually all victims did not receive the treatment they needed. As announced, the purpose of the experiments was to study methods of prevention and treatment of diseases.
- In the mid-1880s, a Californian doctor working at a leper hospital in Hawaii "for scientific purposes" infected six teenage girls with the syphilis virus. Not far from him left the New York pediatrician Henry Heyman, who specially infected two mentally retarded boys with gonorrhea. In the scientific literature of the 19-20 century, about 40 experiments of this kind are described - when doctors deliberately infected children with sexually transmitted diseases.
- In 1956 and 1957, in Georgia and Florida, the US military released millions of mosquitoes infected with yellow fever and dengue fever.
- In the late 1960s, the US military launched hay bacteria into the New York and Chicago subways. The experiment was proudly called "Investigation of the vulnerability of metro passengers to covert biological attacks."
- In 1953, the American Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) at the University of Iowa conducted experiments on pregnant women. They were exposed to radioactive iodine-131 to induce an induced abortion. In another experiment, AEC staff fed 25 newborns with radioactive iodine, and in another, 65 infants.
- In 1931, Dr. Cornelius Rhodes received funding from the Rockefeller Institute to conduct experiments in Puerto Rico. He infected the townspeople of Puerto Rico with cancer cells, presumably in order to study the effect. Thirteen of them died.
And by the way, you know such a doctor, Shiro Ishii (Japanese microbiologist, Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Shiro Ishii.
A war criminal who conducted biological experiments on Korean, Chinese and Soviet prisoners of war)? In 1946, at the request of General MacArthur, the US authorities granted him immunity from prosecution in exchange for data on biological weapons research based on human experiments. As a result, Shiro did not appear before a Tokyo court and was not punished for war crimes. The Americans took it under their wing and continued to use it along the profile. But he was not enough for them. While the Nuremberg Trials were underway, the United States secretly took out Nazi scientists and gave them American citizenship. During Operation Paperclip, which got its name from the paper clips that attached new scientist files to their American documents, the Naziswho participated in famous human experiments in Germany (which included the surgical splicing of twins, the removal of nerves from the human body without anesthesia, and human testing of the effects of the bomb blast) were transported to America for several top-secret projects. Then, due to the anti-Nazi decrees of President Truman, the project was strictly classified, and the scientists received fake political biographies that allowed them not only to live on American soil, but also to be free people.and scientists received fake political biographies that allowed them not only to live on American soil, but also to be free people.and scientists received fake political biographies that allowed them not only to live on American soil, but also to be free people.
Here are the things. Well, I would also like to add about the current United States.
Homeless in the USA.
The homeless in the United States make up a social group, according to various estimates, from 550 thousand to 3.5 million people. Can you imagine the scale of the phenomenon?
Homeless in the USA.
In 2008, scientists from the Center for Prison Research at King's College London estimated that a quarter of the world's prisoners are held in US prisons, despite the fact that this country is home to only five percent of the world's population. In the United States, for every 100 thousand people, there are 751 prisoners. (The number of prisoners and convicts today in the United States (7 out of 100) is even higher than during the bloodiest "Stalinist repressions" in the USSR, during the 1930s (5.83 out of 100).)
How do you like this phenomenon - private prisons? They say it is a very profitable and multi-billion dollar business. Who is naturally interested in a constant influx and increase in the number of prisoners. And given the lobbying of US lawmakers, the number of prisoners is not surprising.
Now, not much about democracy. By the way, even the Americans themselves no longer believe in their democracy. You didn’t notice that whoever becomes the president of the United States, a Democrat or a Republican, despite the fact that he does not promise before the elections, the US policy does not change, well, maybe in some "cosmetic" little things. In general, NOTHING changes. It's just the president, the Democrats, the Republicans, it's all just a screen. In fact, several clans and families are in command. Here are some of them:
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Rockefellers
Dynasty founder John Davison Rockefeller was born in 1839 and became known as the first dollar billionaire in history. Traded in grain, steel and oil. However, only the grandchildren of the founder of the dynasty were able to securely stake out a place for themselves in the political establishment - for example, Nelson Rockefeller from 1959 to 1973 was the governor of New York and vice president under Gerald Ford in 1974-1977, his brothers also entered politics - Winthrop, was elected from the Republican governor of Arkansas, the second, David, was appointed director of the US Council on Foreign Relations.
Kennedy
Wealth was amassed on speculation in alcohol during the “ prohibition ”
The peak of their political influence came in the 60s. John F. Kennedy became president in 1960, Robert became attorney general and attorney general under his brother president, and Edward became a senator. After the assassination of John in 1963, due to his attempts to limit the influence of the Fed, they largely lost their positions. Nevertheless, they occupy a firm place in the country's elite.
Bushes
This family gave America two presidents - George Sr. and George Jr., in addition, Jeb Bush, in 1998-2006 was the governor of Florida. In our country, Bush Jr. is known mainly as an idiot with his unforgettable pearls at various performances, but few people know that the family amassed their wealth on trade with the German Nazis. George Jr.'s grandfathers, Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker financed Adolf Hitler's Union Banking Walker's company, with its help the Nazis "laundered" the treasures looted in Europe. Both Bush Jr.'s grandfathers served on the boards of this company. The US government investigated their activities and concluded that they were acting in the interests of Nazi Germany. However, the company was finally liquidated only in 1951, but Prescott received $ 1.5 million in compensation. Bushi's grandchildren were also involved in "trade with the enemy." For example, the same terrorist number 1 - Osama bin Laden - is a business partner of the Bush family. They are connected by Carlisle Group, which is one of the ten largest companies in the American military-industrial complex and manages a portfolio of shares worth $ 12 billion.
Roosevelts
Emigrants from the Dutch emigrants are a fairly old family (the family has existed since the end of the 17th century) and gave America two presidents - the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Theodore Roosevelt, who headed the United States in 1901-1909, and Franklin Delano, the only American president to be elected four consecutive terms as well as the savior of the United States from the Great Depression. It was under him that the United States became an almost absolute world power and leader of the capitalist world, having eliminated all rivals except one - the Soviet Union.
Kohi
A classic industrial family that made a fortune in the oil industry. They are the ones who fund the main libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, and are called the main donors for the neocons and the Tea Party.
Morgan
One of the oldest capitalist families in the United States. The Morgan ancestors were English pirates, and the founder of one of the greatest capitalist dynasties, John Pierpont Morgan I, gained his wealth by selling weapons to both northerners and southerners during the American Civil War. His case was considered in court, but he came out dry. They now own JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the world by assets.
American sociologist Michael Parenti identifies several organizations that run the "state" of the United States.
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), established in 1918
The Council has about 1,450 members, it unites bankers, financiers, industrialists and representatives of government circles. The Rockefellers, Morgan and Dupont play the main violin on the Council. The representation of the ruling circles in the council is colossal. As Parenti himself writes, it included US presidents, secretaries of state, defense ministers and other members of the White House cabinet and other senior officials, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA directors, federal judges, leaders of the Federal Reserve System *, dozens of US ambassadors, key members of Congress.
He participated in the development of the Marshall Plan, the creation of the IMF and the World Bank, spurred the development of a strategic nuclear arsenal, advocated active US intervention in the affairs of other countries, and contributed to an increase in military spending in the 80s directed against the USSR.
In addition, many members of the Council are also included in the so-called. The Trilateral Commission, a group of the most influential businessmen dedicated to defending capitalism and coordinating the actions of the heads of the largest capitalist monopolies. Founder - David Rockefeller.
The Committee for the Promotion of Economic Development (CED) is another policy-making organization in the United States. It includes most of the leadership of American business. Develops "recommendations" for the implementation of foreign and domestic policies, which, as a rule, the so-called. “ by the presidents of the United States ” are strictly implemented.
In general, in the United States, there are many associations of businessmen, heads of corporations and TNCs that are engaged in protecting their interests and in fact run the entire American “ democracy ”
Another such organization is the Council of Businessmen, which includes, in addition to the ubiquitous Morgan, representatives of companies such as General Electric and General Motors.
(***** family data source)
That's how it is, democracy ………