Jake
@s_decatur
Former Boston Teen
On January 14, 1940 the FBI announced the arrest 18 men alleged to be members of the Christian Front. They were charged with plotting to overthrow the U.S. government. At trial, the men argued that they were actually patriots, opposing the threat of Communism in America.🧵1/24
Allied "Area bombing” entailed mass destruction of European culture ... “destroying monuments, libraries, schools and universities, art galleries, architectural heritage, the cultural precipitate and the organs of corporate life that make an identifiable society.” /7
The firestorm "tossed entire buildings, railroad boxcars, vehicles, trees and people willy nilly into the searing inferno ... Few people who came close enough to witness the infernal scene survived. It was a fiery moloch which consumed all those who set eyes upon it." /6
Irish Americans and the Boer War: During the Boer War "a majority of Americans favored the Boers ..." But America's power-elites "were strongly Anglophile." "The most active and troublesome advocates in America of the Boer cause were German and Irish immigrants." 🧵/8
Operation Gomorrah: The Destruction of Hamburg, July 24 to August 3, 1943. The incendiary bombing on the night of 27-28 July created an uncontrollable firestorm that swept through the city, incinerating tens of thousands of civilians – mostly women and children. 🧵/8
Fox Business is on in the break room. Newt Gingrich raving about tax cuts. What century is this?
What was the form of government where this was spoken? "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."
I cannot believe I have to say this — but Catholics cannot support fascism.
On August 15, 1943, the Allies bombed Milan and left the church of the Santa Maria delle Grazie almost completely destroyed. Remarkably, Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ survived the attack undamaged.
Because if he forgets, they have him on video performing unspeakable acts.
“The struggle over Boston school desegregation is the perfect fight for the Irish. They were doomed before they started. Therefore, they can be expected to fight on.” Jimmy Breslin, 1975 /2
Inside South Boston High School disorder and violence were endemic. A series of incidents rocked the school in December of 1974, culminating on December 11, when a 17-year-old White student, Michael Faith, was stabbed in the abdomen by a Black male student. /25