Modern prohibition still destroys individual freedom in the U.S.A. via
the "War on Drugs" (more correctly known as the war on you and your rights)
and via the Prohibition Party that still exists as a political party in the
United States. As its name implies, the Prohibition Party advocates the prohibition
of the use of beverages containing alcohol, as did the party during the
old temperance movement. Prohibition (old and new) is the tragedy of
civilization. http://rexcurry.net/drugs-prohibition-party-today.html
The Prohibition Party was founded in 1867. The Prohibition Party's infamous
deed was the passage of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution
in 1919, which outlawed the production, sale, transportation, import, and
export of alcohol.
Francis Bellamy was a Prohibition Party speaker before he authored the
"Pledge of Allegiance" to the United States flag. According to the writer
Bill Kaufmann “Bellamy called it a ‘Pledge of Allegiance,’ probably choosing
the word 'pledge' because it was redolent of the temperance movement." The
early Pledge originated the stiff-arm salute that was adopted later by the
National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Francis (1855 - 1931) and his also-famous cousin, Edward Bellamy (1850 -
1898), were self-proclaimed socialists in the Nationalism movement in the
U.S.A. Prohibition was supported in Edward Bellamy's magazine "The
Nationalist." Francis was a charter member of the first Nationalist Club
of Boston, and promoted Edward Bellamy's Nationalist creed in written articles.
Francis Bellamy defended his cousin's form of socialism in the article "The
Tyranny of All the People" in the Arena Magazine July, 1891 (p.180-191).
The Bellamys admired Abraham Lincoln for his part in the War of Northern
Aggression against Southern independence (wherein more Americans lost their
lives than in any other wars, including the more recent Vietnam War and World
War II). Although the war took just over four years - starting in
1861 and ending in 1865 - over 600,000 people lost their lives and another
million people were seriously injured. Even after his death, Lincoln's
military police-state persecuted, imprisoned and killed people (including
civilians) for saying things like "I'd like to shit on his grave" or "If
they had killed him four years ago it would have been better." Lincoln's
police-state tactics still inspire domestic tyrants/terrorists in the USA's
government today. http://rexcurry.net/bellamy-edward-military-socialism.html
Lincoln inspired old prohibition and new prohibition. http://rexcurry.net/drugs-prohibition-party2.jpg
His likeness and his words were used on campaign buttons for new
laws and bigger government. http://rexcurry.net/drugs-prohibition-party1.jpg
One button states: "The legalized liquor traffic is the tragedy of
civiliation." The truth is that prohibition (past and modern) is the tragedy
of civilization.
The legacy of the Bellamys, the pledge, the U.S. flag, and the War of
Northern Aggression was massive centralized socialism that resulted in widespread
government policies of racism and segregation, along with a government takeover
of schools. Government schools imposed segregation by law and taught
racism as official government policy.
It was the same dogma that inspired the socialist Wholecaust (of which
the Holocaust was a part) the worst slaughters of human history: 62 million
under the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 35 million under the
People’s Republic of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party. (Death tolls from the book "Death by Government" by Professor
R. J. Rummel).
At first, temperance organizations pushed personal voluntary moderation,
but after several decades, the movement's focus changed to the stereotypical
socialist slant with a complete prohibition by government force.
The Temperance movement blamed alcohol for many of society's ills, including
crime and murder. Prohibition, members of the Temperance movement urged,
would stop people from spending all the family income on alcohol.
It makes an interesting comparison to the socialism movement which is
blamed for many of society's ills under the former Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (62 million dead); under the People’s Republic of China (35 million
dead); and under the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (21 million
dead). The USSR was notorious for creating a socialist society in
which people would spend all the family income on vodka in order to stay
inebriated and forget the socialist hellhole in which they lived.
In the beginning of the 20th century, there were Temperance organizations
in nearly every state. By 1916, over half of the U.S. states already had
statutes that prohibited alcohol. In 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, which prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol, was ratified.
It went into effect on January 16, 1920.
While it was the 18th Amendment that established Prohibition, it was the
Volstead Act (passed on October 28, 1919) that clarified the law. The Volstead
Act stated that "beer, wine, or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors"
meant any beverage that was more than 0.5% alcohol by volume. The Act also
stated that owning any item designed to manufacture alcohol was illegal and
it set specific fines and jail sentences for violating Prohibition.
Loopholes existed for people to legally drink during Prohibition. For
example, the 18th Amendment did not mention the actual drinking of liquor.
Since Prohibition went into effect a full year after the 18th Amendment's
ratification, many people bought cases of then-legal alcohol and stored
them for personal use. The Volstead Act allowed alcohol consumption if it
was prescribed by a doctor and large numbers of new prescriptions were written
for alcohol.
Men would smuggle in rum from the Caribbean (rumrunners) or hijack whiskey
from Canada and bring it into the U.S. It would arrive by boat via
the southern USA through Key West, Florida, traveling northward.
Others would buy large quantities of liquor made in homemade stills.
Should the old alcohol suppliers be considered gangsters or entrepreneurs?
Should today's suppliers under modern prohibition be considered gangsters
or entrpreneurs?
Because of government and socialism, the average citizen broke the law.
Even the Curry family of Key West broke the law in order to maintain
freedom in the USA. Because of the government's actions, the government caused
a great growth in organized crime. During that time, newly hired Prohibition
agents embraced a high rate of bribery. Government corruption was enormous,
though it is difficult to gauge whether it was larger than the corruption
of today's government.
The enactment of national prohibition had taken away the party's main
issue, and the party declined in importance. Even so, antidisestablishmentarianism
arose in efforts to maintain the statist quo.
The perfect world promised by the Temperance movement and socialists failed
to materialize, just as it failed to materialize under the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics, the People's Republic of China, and under the National
Socialist German Workers Party. More people joined the fight to restore
freedom. The anti-Prohibition movement gained strength as the 1920s progressed,
often stating that the question of alcohol consumption was a local issue
and not something that should be in the Constitution.
By the time the government caused Roosevelt's Great Depression, the old
prohibition had been discredited. On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment repealed the 18th
Amendment. In a "Lazarus effect," it was the first and only time in U.S.
history that an Amendment has been repealed, reviving the earlier condition.
But new prohibition remained and grew and still destroys individual liberty
in the U.S.A. today. An enormous amount of criminal justice work
and court time is occupied with modern prohibition. If the antidisestablishmentarianism
does not end, more crime and harm will occur to everyone. http://rexcurry.net/drugs-prohibition-party-today.html
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Francis Bellamy and Edward Bellamy inspired socialism in Germany under the
National Socialist German Workers' Party, the infamous stiff-arm salute,
and prohibition under German National Socialism.
In 1941, the magazine Auf der Wacht (On Guard) under the National Socialist
German Workers' Party published an illustration reminding Germans of a new
public-health ordinance. The poster showed a cigarette, a cigar, and a pipe,
all smoldering beneath a menacing black boot and an eagle-and-swastika insignia.
The illustration, and dozens others like it, is reproduced in a new book
by the Penn State science historian Robert N. Proctor. The book is about
the "War on
Cancer" under German National Socialism. What's more, the National Socialist
German Workers Party imposed a series of public-health measures that are
still promoted by socialists in the United States and elsewhere today: banning
smoking in various places, running aggressive anti smoking propaganda campaigns,
and placing restrictions on how tobacco could be advertised.
Half a century before the Environmental Protection Agency enrolled junk
science against "environmental tobacco smoke," antitobacco activist Dr. Fritz
Lickint coined the term "passive smoking." Taxation was used to divert
money from other needs and toward advertising campaigns that urged women
to have regular screening exams for cervical cancer. Taxation was then used
to divert money from other needs to providing the exams which, in the classic
socialist lie, were called "free" exams, though they were in fact much more
expensive, with the expenses hidden via taxation and government.
Cancer was declared "the number one enemy of the state." National Socialist
purported to favor "natural" food and opposed fat, sugar, alcohol, and sedentary
lifestyles. The existing temperance movement against alcohol and tobacco
became more active under German socialists, who were involved in what Proctor
calls
"creating a secure and sanitary utopia."
Many of those schemes were imposed by the leader of the National Socialist
German Workers Party. A nonsmoking, nondrinking vegetarian, he promoted the
idea that through asceticism imposed by socialism one could improve the health
of the race. He characterized tobacco as "the wrath of the Red Man against
the White Man for having been given hard liquor." He even suggested that
German socialism might never have triumphed in Germany had he not given up
smoking. The medical fraternity of the notorious German socialists
championed whole grain breads, soya beans, and extensive medico-botanical
gardens at Dachau and Auschwitz.
German national socialists, Proctor states, had the most aggressive anti-smoking
campaign in the world.
German national socialists translated their views into police state conditions.
The clean-living lifestyle of the National Socialist leader was touted in
propaganda campaigns as benchmark for all Germans, who were called on to
live healthily for the good of the race. They began a temperance campaign,
although they avoided
demonizing beer for fear of alienating the German workingman.
Smoking was a different story. Many antismoking controls were enacted,
including restrictions advertising and bans on smoking in many workplaces,
government
offices, hospitals and, later, in all city trains and buses. Women could
not legally purchase cigarettes in certain places. "The German woman does
not smoke," proclaimed a German socialist slogan. The National Socialists
passed criminal sanctions against driving "under the influence" of cigarettes.
Reich health führer
Leonardo Conti worried that tobacco's addictive qualities would compete
with political loyalty. One medical paper discussed a final, if nonlethal,
"solution to this difficult problem of smokers."
Cancer prevention also fit with the National Socialist emphasis on nature
and natural modes of living. Hitler was a vegetarian and did not smoke or
drink; nor would he allow anyone else to do so in his presence-excepting
the occasional woman. (German socialist health propaganda drew attention
to the fact that Roosevelt smoked cigarettes, while Churchill smoked cigars).
By law, bread had to contain a minimum percentage of whole-grain flour.
Several influential health officials decried the raising of meat as a waste
of agricultural
resources.
Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler were largely vegetarian (and also non-smoking
teetotalers).
Himmler once wrote about contemporary food: "The artificial is everywhere;
everywhere food is adulterated, filled with ingredients that supposedly make
it last longer, or look better, or pass as 'enriched,' or whatever else the
industry's admen want us to believe." The Reich Health Office spent 48,000
marks in 1940 and 1941 researching possible carcinogenic effects of food
dyes. Lead-lined toothpaste tubes were banned in Germany long before they
were in the United States.
Martin Gumpert, an émigré physician, laid into Nazi food
policy in his deliciously titled polemic, Heil Hunger!: Health Under Hitler
(1940).
More information based on Proctor's book: HUEPER'S SECRET
Of course! There is a great deal being done for cancer research in Germany.
In every part of the Reich there are magnificent institutes, for which the
Führer has provided large sums of money. --Adolf Butenandt, Germany's
postwar president of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, in a 1941 radio interview
On September 28, 1933, Dr. Wilhelm Hueper, chief pathologist at the University
of Pennsylvania's Cancer Research Laboratory, wrote to the minister of culture
under German socialism, Bernhard Rust, inquiring into the possibility of
an academic or hospital appointment in the new Germany. Hueper had emigrated
to
the United States in 1923, and we know from his unpublished autobiography
that he had worn the swastika on
his Freikorps helmet as early as 1919. Now,
only months after the Machtergreifung (the seizure of power by German socialists),
the young pathologist was petitioning the authorities to allow him to return
to
Germany to restore his bonds to German culture.
Hueper's apparent support for National Socialism (he ends his letter with
an enthusiastic "Heil Hitler!") still comes as a shock to anyone unfamiliar
with the political landscape of European cancer activism in the 1930s (see
fig. 1.1). Hueper was behind the ominous cancer chapter in Rachel Carson's
Silent Spring (titled "One in Every Four"). The man behind Silent Spring
was attracted to German socialism. What were German socialists saying
and doing about cancer that led a man such as Hueper to bet his future on
the Thousand Year Reich?
edward bellamy 
francis bellamy 
rex curry 
pledge of allegiance 
swastika