Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

April 22, 1925: Japan enacts a law making it a crime to form or join an association that goes against the vaguely defined "national essence." The Peace Preservation Law will become the central tool in criminalizing dissent and enforcing nationalistic thought control.

The law aimed at crushing unions and the Communist Party is generated by a liberal ministry. A month earlier the government had won a fight to grant universal male suffrage. The anti-dissent law is a countermeasure for curbing radical influence on this enlarged electorate.

Up to 10 years in prison can be imposed on those who join a group "with the aim of altering the national essence or the system of private property." A "thought section" is established in the police to ferret out what’s called, years before Orwell’s "1984" > "thought crime."


Japan’s territorial expansion into China in the 1930s is matched by an aggressive effort to enforce political conformity at home. Agitating for Communism or the national essence is made punishable by death: by WWII over 70,000 people have been arrested by the thought police. Two nukes later, it was finally repealed on October 15, 1945. Probably explains how their youth became such fearless warriors in WWII.


April 22, 1925: "Modern Babylon" New York is worse even than Paris or Berlin in permitting obscene and salacious material, declares the local Society for the Suppression of Vice. It’s particularly alarmed by an unnamed play—likely "Women of the Evening"—and books with profanity.


They'd be in shock 'n horror, speechless today.


A GATHERING OF EAGLES (1963) Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired. The final screen credit for Irene (Gibbons) [1901-1962]. The celebrated fashion designer committed suicide on November 15, 1962 by jumping from the 11th floor of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood.


A Gathering of Eagles (1963)

Minimum Interval Take Off (MITO) launch of 9 B-52s and 5 Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers from Global Shield exercise circa 1985 flown out of Griffiss AFB, New York. BUFF scramble! I was on the grassy knoll. The noise level is beyond describing even with double hearing protection. From wheels-up they are over my house in less than 30 seconds. The B-52's take-off with minimum fuel to scramble as fast as possible before the Soviet ICBMs hit and are later refueled by the K-135s. If this was a real attack all B-52 crew know that it is a one-way mission. They are not coming back home.




The SAC Song lyrics, by Tom Lehrer

Here at SAC we're filled with pride.

There's just one thing we can't decide:
Which we'd rather get clobbered by,
An enemy attack or an O.R.I.

Our wing commander's got a racket,
Though sometimes it's hard to hack it.
Whenever he gets his wife alone ...
Ding-a-ling-a-ling goes the little red phone.

Oh, we love the seven-day alert.
For a week we will not see a skirt.
But we know it's part of SAC's main goal:
To test our positive control.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Whatever became of the wild blue yonder?
How we wish the good ol' days were back. In SAC!

The Sac Song by Tom Lehrer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRekY8UkC0Q


April 22, 1969: British sailor Robin Knox-Johnston completed the 1st non-stop solo voyage around the world in The Times Golden Globe Race. He set off from Falmouth on 14 June 1968 aboard his yacht Suhaili and arrived back in Falmouth after 312 days at sea.





A Sailing Legend


April 22, 1972: John Fairfax (age 33) and Sylvia Cook (age 31) landed at Hayman Island off the Queensland coast in Australia to become the first people to row across the Pacific Ocean. The journey took 362 days at sea from San Francisco to Australia. Now that is some serious rowing power! John Fairfax (21 May 1937 – 8 February 2012) was a British ocean rower and adventurer who, in 1969, rowed across the Atlantic and became the first person to row solo across an ocean. In 107 years of the History of Ocean Rowing there have been only 100 successful rows across the oceans, completed by less than 170 rowers. 11 names in this list belong to women, and only two of them - Sylvia Cook and Kathleen Saville, have rowed the Pacific Ocean.


Sylvia Cook: I rowed the high seas for love


Happy 88th birthday JACK NICHOLSON, born in Neptune City, New Jersey.




In 1979, following Iranian revolutionaries takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, President Jimmy Carter directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service [precursor to ICE] to go into college towns to "register" 75,000 Iranian students. Iranian students who evaded Carter’s order to register were detained and of the 60,000 Iranian students registered, 430 were deported.

A few years later, Reagan singled out immigrants from 8 Middle Eastern countries—Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Iran, Jordan, Syria, Morocco, and Lebanon—as potential national security threats in the event of US military action in the Middle East. He authorized plans for the outfitting a 100-acre internment camp in Oakdale, Louisiana, where Arab Americans could be round up, detained and deported.


The forgotten government plan to round up Muslims - About two decades later all those FEMA camp conspiracy stories were plastered all over Internet forums.

Mahmoud Khalil is currently being held in Jena, Louisiana, at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, a private prison run by the GEO Group. (formerly the The Wackenhut Corporation) The facility is actually located only 49 miles from Oakdale, the site of the proposed Arab interment camp.

According to Human Rights Watch, detainees at the Jena ICE prison are routinely subjected to abuse — including being beaten while shackled, forced to kneel for hours, and made to press their faces against walls sprayed with mace until they vomit. Course, that was back during the Katrina days and things are different now, right?




April 22, 2054: after a successful 6 year trial in Washington D.C., a vote will take place on taking the Precrime Initiative national.


BTW Hollyweird, April 22nd 2054 is a Wednesday, not a Tuesday.