{"id":20780,"date":"2018-02-10T21:52:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T05:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=20780"},"modified":"2018-02-11T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:53:26","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-its-all-about-the-money-well-add-ideas-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-its-all-about-the-money-well-add-ideas-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: It’s All About the Money! Well, add Ideas and Violence."},"content":{"rendered":"

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We asked, you voted: 89 percent said no to Trump\u2019s military parade<\/h1>\n
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As the Pentagon continues to work on parade options to present to President Donald Trump, an overwhelming number of Military Times readers<\/a> have weighed in: Don\u2019t have one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The informal poll was launched Wednesday after news reports that Trump had requested a military parade<\/a> and that the Pentagon was working on parade options<\/a> for him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Should there be a parade showcasing troops and military equipment in Washington, D.C.?<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Yes, it’s a great opportunity to show off U.S. military might.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No, it’s a waste of money and troops are too busy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As of Thursday afternoon, more than 51,000 readers had responded. The majority, 89 percent, responded \u201cNo, It\u2019s a waste of money and troops are too busy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The other 11 percent responded \u201cYes, it\u2019s a great opportunity to show off U.S. military might.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Thursday, Pentagon press secretary Dana White said any parade plans were in the very beginning stages, and that the Pentagon had tapped the Army to lead the effort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are looking at several different options right now,\u201d White said. \u201cThe Army is the executive agent. But we don\u2019t have those options yet. Its still in nascent stages and when we have those options we\u2019ll provide that to the White House and the president will decide.\u201d\u00a0 www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/02\/08\/89-of-readers-say-no-parade\/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Freed slave who penned sarcastic letter to old master after he was asked back to farm pictured for first time<\/h1>\n
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LETTER FROM A FREED MAN TO HIS OLD MASTER<\/h3>\n
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Dayton, Ohio,<\/p>\n

August 7, 1865<\/p>\n

To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee<\/p>\n

Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jordon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin’s to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,\u2014the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,\u2014and the children\u2014Milly, Jane, and Grundy\u2014go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, “Them colored people were slaves” down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again. (Below, co-author Valentine Winters)<\/p>\n

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As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor’s visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams’s Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.<\/p>\n

In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve – and die, if it come to that – than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.<\/p>\n

Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.<\/p>\n

From your old servant,<\/p>\n

Jordon Anderson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Colombian Rebels Suspend Election Campaign, Putting Peace Into Limbo (pick up the gun–keep the gun)<\/h1>\n

The deal that ended decades of war in Colombia hinged on a simple formula: The rebels would surrender their weapons, and in exchange, earn the right to run for office in the country\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n

But on Friday the former fighters said they were suspending their campaign. Their activists were being killed, they said, and threats were mounting against those who remained \u2014 including their top commander who is running for president.<\/p>\n

While the decision does not send the country back to war, it does put Colombia\u2019s peace into a kind of limbo. The former rebels\u2019 involvement in this year\u2019s elections was meant to signal an end to decades of political violence and was a pillar of the accords that ended 52 years of civil conflict.<\/p>\n

Their sudden departure from the campaign \u2014 on the grounds that it is not safe \u2014 casts doubt on whether the conflict is over yet.\u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/09\/world\/americas\/colombia-farc-campaign.html?emc=edit_th_180210&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=2254121<\/a><\/p>\n

Congratulations to Yale Strom on his film about Eugene Debs. Check local listings for showings.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

www.facebook.com\/AmericanSocialistEugeneVictorDebs\/videos\/895150863894957\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anti-fascists march in Italian town where migrants were targeted in shooting attack<\/h1>\n
An anti-fascist rally is underway in the Italian town of Macerata in response to the shooting of six Africans by a far-right attacker last week.<\/div>\n
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Local police say Luca Traini carried out a drive-by shooting last Saturday wearing an Italian flag wrapped around his body. A failed candidate for the right-wing Northern League Party, he reportedly made a fascist salute when he was arrested, and had attended anti-immigration marches. Police seized a copy of Adolf Hitler\u2019s \u2018Mein Kampf\u2019 and other Nazi-related publications from his home.<\/p>\n

The anti-fascist march started at Diaz Gardens and will go around the medieval walls before returning to the gardens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Earlier in the week, Macerate Mayor Romano Carancini said there should be no demonstrations, to avoid further flaming tensions in the wake of the attack. The anti-fascist rally was given the go-ahead by officials on Friday after organizers ensured it would be a peaceful demonstration, ANSA reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, an unauthorized anti-immigrant march organized by the far-right Forza Nuova saw clashes with riot police as demonstrators attempted to enter the central square.<\/p>\n

Immigration is a hot button issue in Italy, which has experienced an influx of refugees and immigrants who have crossed the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n

Right-wing politicians have fanned the flames of anti-immigrant rhetoric in the run-up to the election in March. The Northern League\u2019s Matteo Salvini has called<\/a> for a \u201cmass cleansing\u201d<\/em> of immigrants, and has promised to expel 500,000 illegal migrants from the country should he be elected.\u00a0 www.rt.com\/news\/418420-antifascist-march-macerata\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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