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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
May 1:
1794 - Cordwainers Unite! The long and turbulent history
of America's labor unions officially began on this day in 1794, as a
group of shoemakers decided to  join
forces in the battle for wages and workplace amenities. The shoemakers,
who consecrated their new brotherhood by gathering in Philadelphia,
christened themselves the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers.
1889 - First of May is designated as International Workers
Day, in commemoration of the Chicago's Haymarket riots in 1886. The
new holiday is actually an co-opting of the banned Beltane (Day of Fire),
or May Day, traditionally celebrated by encircling a phallic maypole
with delicious fertile virgins.
May 2:
1536 - King Henry VIII gets medieval on Anna Boleyn's
ass by accusing her of adultery & incest. We all know what happens
to Anna...
1957 - Senator Joseph McCarthy dead, two and a half years
after he was censured by the U.S. Senate for his deplorable witch-hunts
during committee hearings. McCarthy had discovered that it was much
more effective to have the private sector repress people than the government
itself. In all, about 150 people were jailed during this period, mostly
brief sentences.
1972 - World famous drag queen and agent of The Man J.
Edgar Hoover dies at 77.
May 3:
1971 - Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war
protesters in 3 days
1988 - Proof that The Man doesn't know what's going on:
The White House admitted to the press that Ronald and Nancy Reagan consult
astrologers to help with certain decisions involving presidential activities,
including the timing of superpower summits.
May 4:
1970 - At Kent State University, 100 National Guardsmen
fire their rifles into a group of students, killing four and wounding
11. This incident occurred in the aftermath of President Richard Nixon's
April 30 announcement that U.S. and South Vietnamese forces had been
ordered to execute an "incursion" into Cambodia to destroy
North Vietnamese bases there. In protest, a wave of demonstrations and
disturbances erupted on college campuses across the country.
May 5:
1955 - An internal CIA memo emphasizes the need for a
drug that creates a state of "pure euphoria" and no letdown.
From this springs Operation Midnight Climax, in which CIA brothels were
run in San Francisco, with their customers unknowingly dosed with LSD
by prostitutes. Operative George Hunter White observed reactions behind
a two way mirror, purely in the interests of science.
1990 - The Man is alive and well in
Florida....Jesse Tafero is executed in Florida after his electric chair
malfunctions three times, causing flames to leap from his head. Tafero's
death sparked a new debate on humane methods of execution. Several states
ceased use of the electric chair and adopted lethal injection as their
means of capital punishment.
May 6:
1527 - "This is okay with God, right?!" Forty
thousand mercenaries, hired by Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, sacked the city
of Rome, destroying two-thirds of the houses. They butchered clergy
and laity alike, and forced Clement VII to flee, disguised as a gardener.
It was the end of the golden age of the Renaissance.
1853 - Ignoring signals, a train travels through an open
drawbridge and into the Norwalk river in Connecticut, killing 46 passengers.
The engineer and crew jumped clear, not warning the others of their
fate.
1987 - Jim Bakker formally removed as a minister from
Assemblies of God.
 May
7:
1959 - Boxing promoter Don King arrested
in Cleveland on suspicion of drug dealing. This arrest was part of a
long string of criminal conduct.
1992 - 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge
Long Island for selling cocaine
May 8:
1952 - The original pubescent magazine
against The Man - Mad Magazine debuts
1991 - At the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock, Governor
Bill Clinton of Arkansas touches Paula Jones, who was working for him
at the time, and asks her to perform a sexual act. Later in the deposition
of a civil suit, she admits to knowing a "distinguishing characteristic"
near or about Clinton's genital area, though exactly what manner of
characteristic is open to speculation
May 9:
1989 - Vice President Dan Quayle says
in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose
one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"
1983 - Pope John Paul II reverses the
condemnation of Galileo, issued by Pope Urban VIII in 1633. The Church
tried the scientist for heresy and forced him to recant basic facts
of science, an error that the institution took 350 years to admit.
May 10:
1994- An official survey is administered at Twenty-nine
Palms marine base in California to veterans of Desert Storm. The final
question asked marines that, if guns were banned in the United States,
whether they would be willing to fire on U.S. citizens who refused to
turn theirs in.
2001 - The FBI reveals to convicted Oklahoma City bomber
Timothy McVeigh's attorneys that it had withheld about 3,000 pages of
documents related to the investigation. The documents were handed over
to McVeigh's attorneys May 10, just days before he was scheduled to
die for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building.
May 11:
1972 - John Lennon says his phone is
tapped by the FBI on Dick Cavett Show
1996 - Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami,
109 die
May 12:
1978 Commerce Department announces
that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female
May 13:
1996 - OJ "I got away with murder"
Simpson appears on British TV discussing his not guilty verdict
May 14:
964 - Twenty-six year old Pope John XII dies. Rumor has
it he died after being beaten by the husband of a woman he was caught
having sex with three days earlier. Critics had accused the pope of
turning the Lateran Palace into a brothel.
2001 - "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly
three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America.
It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it."
- George Bush in Philadelphia, sounding like a supporter of marksmanship
training by the NRA.
May 15:
1981 - What was The Man Thinking? "Harlem
Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs
1991 - Defense releases documents claiming
Noriega was "CIA's man in Panama"
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