Jose Rizal Quotes
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
Rizal, José. The Philippines A Century Hence. Translated by Austin Craig, Philippine Education Company, 1912, p. 74.
Leary was a strong advocate of the use of illicit drugs and stimulants. Yet he ignored all the side effects and negative health consequences of the processes and while he thought he was assisting people to enlarge their mental horizons, he irresponsibly and criminally damaged many permanently. His government “persecutors” themselves were also all disgraced by the extremes to which they went to prevent the counter-culture characterized by Leary and others. They became paramoid that the drug culture would morph into a protest culture against the administration. The tended to exxagerate the negative consequences of illicit drugs--especially marijuana. These exaggerations caused many people to believe Leary and others who went to the other extreme and underated the negative consequences of illicit drugs. It became a culture war when it should have been a medical problem.
Major Fleener had been assigned to defend accused terrorists who were being held at the military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. For several years they were held without a hearing or trial. Then the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that they had to be given a hearing or trial. A Military tribunal was selected. The methods and procedures of these hearings came under much public world-wide criticism as they did not meet the normal legal standards of most countries. Surprisingly, one of the military officers made public statements criticizing the army and the trials.
He was expelled from the Libertarian Party for his extreme views.
At the time the Southern part of China was quite primitive. Essentially the proverb claims that it is better to live in the boondocks than to be in a more civilized area ruled by corruption.
The Iranian government had negotiated with America and agreed to a law granting diplomatic immunity to ALL Americans working in Iran for any purpose.
Veterans of WWI had been authorized a bonus by Congress, and had been issued certificates, but Congress had not appropriated the money to redeem the certificates. Veterans of World War I formed a “Bonus Army,” some twenty thousand unemployed veterans and a like number of family members arrived in Washington DC with their hurting families and sett up a shantytown across the river from Capitol Hill. They demanded of Congress their bonus pay. Instead President Hoover castigated them and authorized the U. S. Army to disperse the veterans. General Douglas MacArthur commanded the troops and in one of the great disgraces of the United States, he used excessive force, MacArthur attacked women and children with infantry, cavalry and tanks. Governor Bartlett was in Washington at the time and became an eye witness in an era where there was no television.
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement, which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain.
