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Notes for book review:
What a great topic to tackle — how the history textbooks which our children are forced to use (and which the property-taxpayers are forced to acquire) — are completely full of bullshit, lies by commission and omission.
I do remember that the history book my son was reading from in 9th grade did not mention the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This is in a Massachusetts (Boston) school, mind you. Can you imagine what text-book-approving, text-book-purchasing outfit would spend one red cent on such a text? In this Commonwealth? This home of the Kennedys?
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And Holy Hammurabi! Talk about Henry Clay (Frick) feet! I had nooo idea that Woodrow Wilson was an incredibly hypocritical, wretched, nasty president as he apparently was. It wasn't enough that he signed the Federal Reserve System into law (remember that it's not Federal (it's private), that there's no Reserve — it's all System; which means that it's false advertising. I thought there was a law against private firms taking on the appellation "federal" when they're nothing of the sort).
And while the members of the board are Decider-appointed, and paid around $189,000/annum, they can, I believe, also own an undisclosed/secret amount of shares in the dozen private bank/banks which form the "system". A system which, as we're seeing, takes care of its own, and from which the federal government actually has to borrow all its money, at interest. And I think "The Fed" actually sets the interest rate, but I don't yet know enough about it.
Probably should ask Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich about all of this.
So Wilson launched illegal wars (without Congressional declaration of war), re-segregated federal government offices, was a profound, nasty racist (though, Loewen says his wife was even worse — I can get that, just thinking about Babsie Bush — which is why I call George W. an SOB, or Son Of Barbara. Remember her nifty, thoughtful comment about how the refugees of New Orleans actually had a pretty good deal of it, in moving to Texas.
And now, of course, they're being permanently eliminated from the city by rapacious developers and a complaisant city government.
But I digress.
So, Wilson sent maybe 15,000 of our soldiers to Russian after WWI to see if he could destroy the "revolution" and maybe take over the country (is that any reason for the Russians to distrust us and our intentions? How could it be, it was soooo long ago, in 1918, 1919.
And invaded and then occupied Haiti, from 1915 to 1934. Forced out one government; stripped land from the powerless citizens (apparently every citizen had his own little bit of land) and aggregated it for the "multinationals" of the day. As we know, Haiti today is a basket case that we twiddle with from time to time, I guess when the president, CIA or whomever gets bored and needs someone to bully around.
Another bit: "A young Ho chi Minh appealed to Woodrow Wilson at Versailles for self-determination for Vietnam, but Ho had all three strikes against him (Wilson's colonialism, racism and anti-communism). Wilson refused to listen, and France retained control of Indochina."
As president of Princeton University, Wilson kept it absolutely closed to blacks. Ahh, higher racism. And of course the text books say nothing bad about the sumbitch.
"A Southerner, Wilson had been president of Princeton, the only major northern university that flatly refused to admit blacks. He was an outspoken white supremacist — his wife was even worse — and told 'darky' stories in cabinet meetings. His administration submitted an extensive legislative program intended to curtail the civil rights of African Americans, but Congress would not pass it. Unfazed, Wilson used his power as chief executive to segregate the fedceral government." pg. 19.
He was a red-baiter.
The KKK flourished on his watch.
The filmmaker D.W. Griffith quoted Wilson's two-volume history of the United states, now notorious for its racist view of Reconstruction, in his infamous masterpiece, The Clansman, a paen to the KKK for its role in putting down "black-dominated" Republican state governments during Reconstruction. Griffith based the movie on a book by Wilson's former classmate, Thomas Dixon, whosse obsession with race was "unrivaled until Mein Kampf," according to historian Wyn Wade. At a private White house showing, Wilson saw the movie, now retitled Birth of a Nation, and returned Griffith's compliment: "It [the movie] is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so true." Griffith would go on to use this quoation in successfully defending his film against NAAACP charges that it was racially inflammatory. pg 21.
Have you ever heard any negatives such as these against Woodrow Wilson? I certainly did not, though I probably would have if I'd taken history instead of chemistry.
