Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:05:50 -0700
From: "David Brown, Recollection" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Hairpin: 9/12 "I'll shoot you six times in a minute"


Daily Bleed, slow loading web page, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0912.htm

Excerpts:

SEPTEMBER 12 --   LILI'UOKALANI

           "To gain the kingdom of heaven,
           hear what is not said."

    — Deposed benevolent leader of Hawaiian Islanders.

Greece: VIRGIN'S FAIR.  (& you know who you are)

1838 -- Last Hawaiian monarch Luli'uokalani lives.
 http://www.kalena.com/hawaiian_culture_nyc.html

1880 -- H. L. Mencken, editor, satirist, author of
The American Language, lives
http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html

1892 -- Alfred A. Knopf, dean of 20th-century
American publishers, lives

1898 -- Artist & social critic Ben Shahn lives.
http://www.music.columbia.edu/~roosevlt/shahn/

1907 -- In Belfast, Ireland, Louis MacNeice lives

1909 -- A young man, Emiliano Zapata, is elected to
head the town council by villagers of
Anenecuneo, Mexico.
http://www.ingeb.org/songs/emiliano.html

1912 -- 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua,
"protect interests"; US remains until 1925. Many
interests.

1918 -- Eugene Debs sentenced to 10 years for
protesting WWI.
See Eugene V. Debs & the Idea of Socialism
by Howard Zinn
 http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Heroes/EugeneDebsSocialism.html

1921 -- Stanislaw Lem lives. Author best known
for his satire, humor, & irreverent reflections of
society. Wrote The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic
Age; The Futurological Congress
http://rrnet.com/~nakamura/story/lem/index.html
http://www.forum2.org/ijon/authors.html

1932 -- "Martin, if you try to take this grub
            away from me, God knows that if
            they electrocute me for it tomorrow,
            I'll shoot you six times in a minute."

           ---Aunt Mollie Jackson
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/jackson.html

1943 -- Michael Ondaatje lives

                             while i've been going on
                             the blood from my wrist
                             has travelled to my heart

http://maclawran.ca/sean/bunny/b01/ess/le-billy.html

1948 -- Antonio Ortiz, takes part with Primitivo Gomez
& José Perez in an attempt to bomb (using a small private
plane) the official platform where Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Franco is speechifying

1951 -- "Declaración Previa" appears. Comienza la
participacion de los surrealistas en LE LIBERTAIRE,
periodico semanal de la Federacion
Anarquista Francesa

1970 -- Timothy Leary escapes prison

1977 -- Student anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko, 30,
murdered

1986 -- Pappy!, You Old Dog You: Papillon lives!
HemoMeister takes the day off, no electrical wiring, no
plumbing at AuntieDave's today.

1997 -- 1,111 Zapatistas march to Mexico City.

                "You think it's the end. But it's just the
                                                            beginning."

                                      ---Bob Marley
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsTactical/zaps.html

2001 -- Leonard Peltier's birthday.

1986, 1993, 1995, & 1997 U.S. prosecutors admit
they "......do not know who killed the agents ......."
& admit in 1986 that falsified affidavits were
submitted to Canadian Officials,
in order to secure the extradition of Leonard Peltier.
http://www.alphacdc.com/treaty/peltier6.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/Clemency/petition.html

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Cuba has learned with grief & sadness of the violent,
surprise attacks carried out ... against civilian & official
facilities ... Cuba's position against any terrorist action is
known.

It is not possible to forget that for over 40 years our
country has been a victim of such actions fostered from
within the territory of the United States...

            — excerpt, government statement, Havana,
                 11 September 2001

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