The years of the Johnson administration from 1963 to 1969
were fraught with violent turmoil in the streets of America’s major cities. In
1967, Phyllis released a book entitled Safe
– Not Sorry, which exposed the
corruption of poverty office workers under the Great Society program. She
connected the dots to show how these government employees, including known
Communists, were actively aiding and participating in violent riots across
America. Just as her book predicted, the riots got even worse in 1968. In that
year, destructive and violent demonstrations led to untold millions of dollars
in property damage and millions more in lost revenue for businesses because
legitimate customers were too frightened to leave their homes to go shopping.
In the May 1968 PS
Report, Phyllis reported the shocking numbers justifying people’s fears. From
1965 to 1968, the number of riots exponentially increased from 5 in 1965 to 125
in just the first 4 months of 1968. More than 3,500 people were injured and 130
were killed in riots from 1965 to 1967. Many of those people were law
enforcement officers who were operating on behalf of law and order. As Phyllis
put it: “Our nation’s capital – once the showplace of the world – is now more
dangerous than the Vietnam jungle.” Everyone wanted to know what was happening,
and Phyllis Schlafly was determined to get to the bottom of it.
After hard work and investigation, she determined the root
of the civil unrest problem. Politicians simply weren’t doing their jobs. As
Phyllis put it: “Instead of enforcing the law, the Justice Department is
spending its time asking judges to release rioters scot-free.” No matter how
valiant police were in putting their lives on the line for law and order, an
overwhelming tide of releases undid any progress that was made. From 1965
through 1967, riots lead to 28,932 arrests, but only 5,434 convictions. “In
other words, a rioter has less than one chance out of five of being convicted.
With odds so favorable to criminals, the temptation to loot whiskey, gun,
clothing, and television stores is irresistible.” Phyllis knew that the first
step to solving a problem was to get to its root.
However, she did so much more than just point out the
problems. Her two-fold solution to the riots of the sixties is the same
solution that we need today. First, we must get the right people into office.
Second, we need to stay vigilant and hold them accountable to the promises that
they made on the campaign trail. Phyllis’s May 1968 PS Report proved that violent protests don’t just happen; soft
elected officials allow them to happen. That’s why Donald Trump’s promise to be
a law and order president was so important in last year’s election. We need a
president who will enforce the laws and give no quarter to those who would
resort to violence and destruction to get their message across. With a network
of supporters to hold him accountable, Donald Trump can be that President.
Phyllis Schlafly saw that before nearly anyone else, and we would do well to
follow her lead.
Very useful and important to go over the exact history of what happened in those years, because it can shed a lot of light on the goings on of today. Back then, most people took it for granted that the mayhem was misguided young people spontaneously taking to the streets. Today we are lucky to be able to spot the method in the madness, and where the financing comes from, which also allow us to understand their real motivations.
ReplyDeleteWhat should also be factored in when considering the timeline is the fact that the same things happened in other countries as well: Germany had its Baader-Meinhof gang, France had its student insurrection of 1968. In Italy, home to the largest and most powerful Communist party of the West, the riots of the Sixties were followed by terrorist murders which lasted for a decade. The press wrote that the killers and kidnappers who called themselves "Red Brigades" were actually fascists, until the Red Brigades threatened to kill the next person who dared contradict their identity as extreme-leftwing people.
The tumults took place elsewhere as well. How could this be? At the time the only real-time communication was the telephone and international rates were still very very steep. How could there not be a very powerful and well-funded coordination overseeing the world situation? The answer is: there was indeed a coordination, and it was the Communist International. Today we don't call them communists any more, because they don't WANT to be known as communists. The whole point of tearing down the Berlin Wall was to shed the mantle of communism and get the West to stop defending itself. In East Germany alone there were 200thousand agents of the Secret police. Not to mention all of the rest of the government (party) employees,educated and salaried to tow the line of communism. Not to mention all of the rest of the Warsaw Pact countries, and not to mention Russia itself. All of these people with a stake in the perpatuation of the party and the culture edified on the mass murder of millions of innocent people, all these were still in place when they opened up to "democracy". They may have voted some honest new leaders (maybe) but what could they possible have changed with all the rest of the power-structure remaining the same?
This is the deception that the world has inherited. The deception carried out and carried into the West by Mikhail Gorbachev. With Eltsin, and then with Putin, things changed inside Russia, but that's another story.