Posted on 06/08/2020 9:38:14 AM PDT by SJackson
Guidance for President Trump in the current insurrection.
The violent insurrection now raging nationwide does recall the Los Angeles riot of 1992, the Detroit riot of 1967, and the Watts riot of 1965. For deeper dynamics of the current conflict, turn back the clock to October 5, 1945.
By 5:00 a.m. that day, 1500 members of the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) had arrived at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California. The CSU forces flipped cars, formed lines, and attacked anyone attempting to get in the studio. As Kirk Douglas noted in The Ragman’s Son, “Thousands of people fought in the middle of Barham Boulevard with knives, clubs, battery cables, brass knuckles, chains and samps.” It looked like a strike, but it wasn’t.
This was a jurisdictional dispute between the Conference of Studio Unions, headed by Herb Sorrell, and the International Alliance (IA) headed by Roy Brewer. Behind the scenes it was a battle for control of Hollywood labor, on the back lots and talent guilds alike. The Communist Party dominated many studio unions, and backed the CSU to the hilt.
Even with reinforcements from Glendale, Sorrell’s forces outnumbered police 1500 to 122. When Burbank police chief Elmer Adams showed up, CSU thugs flipped his car. Officers watched helplessly as CSU goons dragged workers from cars and beat them. Three Burbank police officers, three firemen, and 89 Warner Brothers employees needed medical treatment. The CSU also firebombed the homes of IA members, and when a local judge issued a restraining order, Sorrell replied, “To hell with the law!”
Communist union boss Harry Bridges sent longshoremen from San Francisco and some days the CSU force swelled to 4,000, joined by Hollywood Communist Party bosses. John Howard Lawson stood with pickets and Dalton Trumbo led a vicious smear campaign against Brewer. The CSU’s Hollywood Atom began to read like the People’s Daily World, with headlines such as: “Is Hitler Safe Within Warner’s Walls?” “Sheriff’s Brownshirts Lavish With Brutality,” and “Rampant Fascist Scabs Wield Deadly Chains.”
As an investigation by California assemblyman C. Don Field revealed, the CSU remained in total control of the area around Warner Brothers from October 5 until October 28. Sorrell extended the violence to every major studio and facilities such as the Technicolor lab. It was full-blown warfare, with Sorrell flying overhead in his airplane, barking orders through a bullhorn.
Screen Actors Guild president Ronald Reagan initially sided with the CSU but when Brewer convinced him of Communist Party involvement, Reagan joined forces with his fellow New Deal Democrat. Brewer kept the studios going and Reagan stood up to the Communist Party surge in the so-called talent guilds, where stars like Katharine Hepburn supported the CSU in fiery speeches ghosted by Dalton Trumbo.
The studio Stalinists came to believe their own propaganda. When the revolution prevailed, they proclaimed, dissenters would be lined up and shot. The threats alienated actors, writers and directors, and Reagan was able to swing many into anti-Communist alliances.
Out on the street, the embattled AI workers, most of them FDR Democrats, were beginning to prevail. Most of the CSU workers were not Communists, and their desire to work came to outweigh any support for Sorrell. As the conflict stretched into 1946, the public grew weary of the violence. Once confident of victory, the CSU lost the war and the Communist Party failed to commandeer studio labor and gain control of the industry. More than 70 years later, key takeaways abound.
When thousands of people battle in the street, the cause is sure to go beyond what the aggressors proclaim. What is going on now has nothing to do with George Floyd or racial injustice. As in 1945, the broader public opposes the violence but celebrities, athletes and the establishment media support the violence. Unlike 1945, the rioters enjoy support from a previous president, whose own biographer, David Garrow, proclaimed him a “composite character” in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
As he said in a virtual town hall Wednesday, what has happened over the last several weeks challenges “structural problems here in the United States.” The problems “are the result of a long history of slavery and Jim Crow and redlining and institutionalized racism that too often have been the plague, the original sin, of our society.” Therefore “we both have to highlight a problem and make people in power uncomfortable.” So “educate, activate, mobilize and act,” the former president said, “and I hope we are able to seize this moment.”
And so on, in classic style, with no condemnation of arson, looting, or the murder of police officers. For his part, the current president knows what the deal is.
For three years President Trump was target of an FBI-DOJ coup easily traced to his predecessor. The Russia and Ukraine hoaxes failed to remove Trump from office, and as he confronts the pandemic, rioters target the current occupant of the White House and anybody who supports him. The first composite character president, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, clearly wants his troops to seize much more than “this moment.”
As in 1945, the violent forces of the left believe their own propaganda and expect full victory.
Failure to mount the strongest response leaves two choices: bluff or fold. Both would lead to further destruction and death. If the people now under attack support deployment of the Insurrection Act it would be hard to blame them.
There weren’t as many brainwashed Communist ghouls back then.
I see Trump as a mixture of Andy Jackson, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan. I know Trump gotta be Trump. But I sure wish he had a bit more Reagan in him.
(Last time I mentioned that, I got yelled at. I suppose it will happen again. So I will now retreat to my underground bunker.)
Once confident of victory, the CSU lost the war...They lost a battle. The war continues.
And the Barbarians are at the gates.
There were, but they just weren't so obvious about it.
Reagan was Reagan, Trump is Trump.
These times require Trump, not Reagan.
The Hollywood element during Reagan’s time were NOT the leftists they are now Hollywood during Reagan’s time were very conservative!! Universities and media who were born from universities have DESTROYED this country!! These professors teaching these kids are from the 60’s and they accept NOTHING but their own communist views!!
Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer
Reagan’s War is the story of Ronald Reagan’s personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role in the demise of the Soviet Union, Peter Schweizer details Reagan’s decades-long battle against communism.
Bringing to light previously secret information obtained from archives in the United States, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Russia—including Reagan’s KGB file—Schweizer offers a compelling case that Reagan personally mapped out and directed his war against communism, often disagreeing with experts and advisers. An essential book for understanding the Cold War...
Way too many now.
Well, Like Reagan he started as a Democrat. Hillary and Obama supporter in fact. Some people have the brains to recognize a mistake, most just keep making it again.
It is the same Masonic “ Solve et Coagula” at work then as it is now.
Dissolve/destroy and then recreate in their own twisted satanic image.
Time to preserve/restore order in for the greater good and glory of God!
Open Commies, yes. But today there are many, many more Indians for every chief.
The studios & telecom now own the news. This is far worse than “Hollywood” — the media corporations now influence & manipulate the public in real-time via “news”
Here are the major media players
ABC is Disney
CNN is ATT
NBC, MSNBC, CNBC are Comcast
It's too bad that throwing herself on men who quickly discarded her as a raving ninny (until Spencer, who also screwed around on her) made her an old scag by 40.
Her interview with Dick Cavett is unwatchable. She taunts every question and shifts between old uninteresting stories (notably avoiding her shrill speechifying for Bolshevik stooges) and gardening.
Guess you missed the findings of the Venoba project
Yeah! He needs to sign off on an amnesty for illegals!
And so on, in classic style, with no condemnation of arson, looting, or the murder of police officers. For his part, the current president knows what the deal is."
I would like to see someone wrongfoot Bobo by explaining that if roles were reversed, blacks would have their foot on white's neck.
Sorry to shoot down your “figures” balloon but today’s Communist Party USA and its split off faction, The Committee of Correspondence, probably have a combined membership of just several thousand at the most. The old Stalinists have basically died off and the recruiting for new people is not very successful.
This is not to say that they don’t still have political and academic influence because they do, but they are a shell of what they used to be (I’ve questioned Herbert Aptheker, the CP’s ideological theoretician as well as George Novack, one of Trotsky’s secretaries and theoretician of the Socialist Workers Party. Even met C.L. R. James at a CP Chile conference at George Washington University.
The SWP is really a shell of themselves when they had several thousand members and more in the anti-Vietnam front, the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, WONAAC (Women’s National Abortion Action Committee, which I exposed in Women’s Wear Daily a long time ago), andthe Political Rights Defense Fund (an amalgamation of old CP attorneys and SWP staff/lawyers).
Today’s biggest Marxist party/organization is the Democratic Socialists of America, whose membership is a “reported” 10,000 or more, esp. made up of young college uneducated students. Many members of Congress are members of the DSA. See the “DSA” site at www.keywiki.org for more detailed information.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization and its various affinity groups, plus the powerful Marxist “Working Families Party” (WFP), are also gaining a lot of political behinds the scene power in getting radicals elected to city councils, town councils, and even city, state and national office.
There are a few other maoist organizations, esp. the Psychopaths R Us” “revolutionary Communist Party” (Resist Fascism front group), and the mixed Marxist/anarchist ANTIFA are not very large but are well organized, funded, spread out over the country, travel across state lines to foment riots and revolution, and to recruit lone “psychopaths”, “meth-heads”, sexually mixed up people, and independent Marxists/communists/progressives.
Oh, we should not forget the Progressives for America and similar groups like that, including the Socialist Forum organization, which has thousands of members/followers.
Other than the above, the communists/Marxists/progressives/anarchists and assorted psychopaths aren’t doing too well!
They don’t need as many CP members per se because of the political and academic influence you mention, which enables them to use a Popular Front approach (when you can elevate a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama to the White House or a Keith Ellison to head of the DNC, and you’ve got a large DSA caucus in Congress, who needs a CP?); plus they’ve infiltrated the courts and media and intelligence community and the corporate world (notably tech companies) at very high levels, both in America and internationally. Also, as you note, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization is making inroads via its Black Lives Matter front; and the Resist movement is a front for the Revolutionary Communist Party and old SDS/Weathermen veterans and their proteges, with the revived VVAW network from the Kerry campaign lending support.
On note on numbers: British intelligence officially quit keeping track of numbers on Communist groups a couple decades ago, they’ve announced recently. U.S. counterintelligence against Communists was gutted in the 1970s. There are no official counts of the enemy’s numbers.
The Red-Green alliance between Marxists, ecofascists, and Islamists is another factor here worth mentioning. We’ve also got Lyndon LaRouche type groups in that mix working hand-in-hand with the likes of the Workers World Party. Where’s a scorecard when you need it?
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