Blasts from the past
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One of the most famous incidents of congressional violence is the caning of Charles Sumner. In 1856, pro-slavery DEMOCRAT Representative Preston Brooks beat anti-slavery Republican Senator Charles Sumner nearly unconscious with a cane on the Senate floor.
The caning of Sumner was not an isolated incident. Historian Joanne B. Freeman identified more than 70 violent occurrences between congressmen while researching her book, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War.
In 1858, a fistfight between about 30 congressmen broke out in the House of Representatives at 2:00 a.m. when a DEMOCRAT grabbed a Republican by the throat.
In 1860, DEMOCRAT congressmen threatened a GOP congressman with pistols and canes while he spoke against slavery on the House floor.
When Republican Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, DEMOCRAT-dominated states responded by seceding and waging a bloody insurrection against war the United States of America.
On July 2, 1915, a former professor at Harvard, Erich Muenter, planted a package containing three sticks of dynamite in the Capitol near the Senate Reception room. The explosive detonated around midnight and during a time when the Senate had been on recess. An on-duty Capitol Police officer was nearly knocked out of his chair during the blast, but fortunately no one was injured. The man later wrote a letter to a Washington, D.C. newspaper saying he had planted the explosives to protest U.S. wartime aid to Britain and said he hoped the detonation would "make enough noise to be heard above the voices that clamor for war.” He then traveled to the home of J.P. Morgan in Long Island, New York and shot the financier. Morgan’s wounds proved superficial and he survived. Muenter was soon captured and detained in jail where, several days later, he committed suicide.
Leftists shot up the House of Representatives in 1954, injuring five congressmen. Peanuts Carter commuted their sentences in 1978.
On March 1, 1971, a bomb exploded in the Capitol building. While the explosion did not injure anyone, it caused some $300,000 in damage. The leftist Weather Underground claimed to be behind the bombing and said it was in protest of the ongoing U.S.-supported bombing of Laos.
Leftists detonated a bomb in the Capitol in an attempt to murder GOP Senators in 1983. A group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for President Reagan's military actions in Grenada and Lebanon. Seven people were eventually arrested in connection with the attack.
Impeached perjurer B.J. Clinton* gave one of them a pardon on his last day of infesting the Oral Orifice. Now she's a fundraiser for BLM.
https://www.history.com/news/us-capitol-building-violence-fires
The caning of Sumner was not an isolated incident. Historian Joanne B. Freeman identified more than 70 violent occurrences between congressmen while researching her book, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War.
In 1858, a fistfight between about 30 congressmen broke out in the House of Representatives at 2:00 a.m. when a DEMOCRAT grabbed a Republican by the throat.
In 1860, DEMOCRAT congressmen threatened a GOP congressman with pistols and canes while he spoke against slavery on the House floor.
When Republican Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, DEMOCRAT-dominated states responded by seceding and waging a bloody insurrection against war the United States of America.
On July 2, 1915, a former professor at Harvard, Erich Muenter, planted a package containing three sticks of dynamite in the Capitol near the Senate Reception room. The explosive detonated around midnight and during a time when the Senate had been on recess. An on-duty Capitol Police officer was nearly knocked out of his chair during the blast, but fortunately no one was injured. The man later wrote a letter to a Washington, D.C. newspaper saying he had planted the explosives to protest U.S. wartime aid to Britain and said he hoped the detonation would "make enough noise to be heard above the voices that clamor for war.” He then traveled to the home of J.P. Morgan in Long Island, New York and shot the financier. Morgan’s wounds proved superficial and he survived. Muenter was soon captured and detained in jail where, several days later, he committed suicide.
Leftists shot up the House of Representatives in 1954, injuring five congressmen. Peanuts Carter commuted their sentences in 1978.
On March 1, 1971, a bomb exploded in the Capitol building. While the explosion did not injure anyone, it caused some $300,000 in damage. The leftist Weather Underground claimed to be behind the bombing and said it was in protest of the ongoing U.S.-supported bombing of Laos.
Leftists detonated a bomb in the Capitol in an attempt to murder GOP Senators in 1983. A group calling itself the Armed Resistance Unit claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for President Reagan's military actions in Grenada and Lebanon. Seven people were eventually arrested in connection with the attack.
Impeached perjurer B.J. Clinton* gave one of them a pardon on his last day of infesting the Oral Orifice. Now she's a fundraiser for BLM.
https://www.history.com/news/us-capitol-building-violence-fires
The Anonymous
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This is what "a terrorist attack on Congress" looks like:
But leftists did it, so DEMOCRATS don't want you to know about it.
The Senate had planned to work late into the evening of Monday, November 7, 1983. Deliberations proceeded more smoothly than expected, however, so the body adjourned at 7:02 p.m. A crowded reception, held near the Senate Chamber, broke up two hours later. Consequently, at 10:58 p.m., when a thunderous explosion tore through the second floor of the Capitol’s north wing, the adjacent halls were virtually deserted. Many lives had been spared.
Minutes before the blast, a caller claiming to represent the “Armed Resistance Unit” had warned the Capitol switchboard that a bomb had been placed near the chamber in retaliation for recent U.S. military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.
The force of the device, hidden under a bench at the eastern end of the corridor outside the chamber, blew off the door to the office of Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd. The blast also punched a potentially lethal hole in a wall partition sending a shower of pulverized brick, plaster, and glass into the Republican cloakroom. Although the explosion caused no structural damage to the Capitol, it shattered mirrors, chandeliers, and furniture. Officials calculated damages of $250,000.
A stately portrait of Daniel Webster, located across from the concealed bomb, received the explosion’s full force. The blast tore away Webster’s face and left it scattered across the Minton tiles in one-inch canvas shards. Quick thinking Senate curators rescued the fragments from debris-filled trash bins. Over the coming months, a capable conservator painstakingly restored the painting to a credible, if somewhat diminished, version of the original.
Following a five-year investigation, federal agents arrested six members of the so-called Resistance Conspiracy in May 1988 and charged them with bombings of the Capitol, Ft. McNair, and the Washington Navy Yard. In 1990, a federal judge sentenced Marilyn Buck, Laura Whitehorn, and Linda Evans to lengthy prison terms for conspiracy and malicious destruction of government property. The court dropped charges against three co-defendants, already serving extended prison sentences for related crimes.
The 1983 bombing marked the beginning of tightened security measures throughout the Capitol. The area outside the Senate Chamber, previously open to the public, was permanently closed. Congressional officials instituted a system of staff identification cards and added metal detectors to building entrances to supplement those placed at chamber gallery doors following a 1971 Capitol bombing.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/bomb_explodes_in_capitol.htm
Now, next time a leftist tells the forum that "the Capitol has not been attacked since the War of 1812", laugh at their lies.
Bonus fun fact: Bowing to a request from DEMOCRAT Jerry Nadler (yes, that Jerry Nadler) impeached perjurer B.J. Clinton* pardoned the convicted terrorist perpetrator.
That's how sincere DEMOCRATS are about "attacks on our democracy".
But leftists did it, so DEMOCRATS don't want you to know about it.
The Senate had planned to work late into the evening of Monday, November 7, 1983. Deliberations proceeded more smoothly than expected, however, so the body adjourned at 7:02 p.m. A crowded reception, held near the Senate Chamber, broke up two hours later. Consequently, at 10:58 p.m., when a thunderous explosion tore through the second floor of the Capitol’s north wing, the adjacent halls were virtually deserted. Many lives had been spared.
Minutes before the blast, a caller claiming to represent the “Armed Resistance Unit” had warned the Capitol switchboard that a bomb had been placed near the chamber in retaliation for recent U.S. military involvement in Grenada and Lebanon.
The force of the device, hidden under a bench at the eastern end of the corridor outside the chamber, blew off the door to the office of Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd. The blast also punched a potentially lethal hole in a wall partition sending a shower of pulverized brick, plaster, and glass into the Republican cloakroom. Although the explosion caused no structural damage to the Capitol, it shattered mirrors, chandeliers, and furniture. Officials calculated damages of $250,000.
A stately portrait of Daniel Webster, located across from the concealed bomb, received the explosion’s full force. The blast tore away Webster’s face and left it scattered across the Minton tiles in one-inch canvas shards. Quick thinking Senate curators rescued the fragments from debris-filled trash bins. Over the coming months, a capable conservator painstakingly restored the painting to a credible, if somewhat diminished, version of the original.
Following a five-year investigation, federal agents arrested six members of the so-called Resistance Conspiracy in May 1988 and charged them with bombings of the Capitol, Ft. McNair, and the Washington Navy Yard. In 1990, a federal judge sentenced Marilyn Buck, Laura Whitehorn, and Linda Evans to lengthy prison terms for conspiracy and malicious destruction of government property. The court dropped charges against three co-defendants, already serving extended prison sentences for related crimes.
The 1983 bombing marked the beginning of tightened security measures throughout the Capitol. The area outside the Senate Chamber, previously open to the public, was permanently closed. Congressional officials instituted a system of staff identification cards and added metal detectors to building entrances to supplement those placed at chamber gallery doors following a 1971 Capitol bombing.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/bomb_explodes_in_capitol.htm
Now, next time a leftist tells the forum that "the Capitol has not been attacked since the War of 1812", laugh at their lies.
Bonus fun fact: Bowing to a request from DEMOCRAT Jerry Nadler (yes, that Jerry Nadler) impeached perjurer B.J. Clinton* pardoned the convicted terrorist perpetrator.
That's how sincere DEMOCRATS are about "attacks on our democracy".
The Anonymous
Bag On My Head
The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s were a call for independence against the US government.
The party demanded the recognition of the 1897 Carta de Autonomía, and Puerto Rico's international sovereignty. It also repudiated the status of Estado Libre Asociado, established in 1950 by law, as continued colonialism.
The Nationalist president, Pedro Albizu Campos, ordered armed uprisings on October 30, 1950, in several towns, including Peñuelas, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Arecibo and Ponce. The most notable uprisings occurred in Utuado, Jayuya, and San Juan. They were suppressed by Puerto Rican forces, assisted by US forces.
In Utuado, police killed the insurgents after they attacked the station. In Jayuya, insurgents declared the "Free Republic of Puerto Rico" after taking control of the police station; they held the city for three days, until the U.S. sent bomber planes, artillery, Puerto Rican National Guard and Army troops to suppress the revolt. In San Juan, the Nationalists attacked the governor's residence, intending to assassinate the governor, Luis Muñoz Marín, but were unsuccessful.
The revolts resulted in many casualties: of the 28 dead, 16 were Nationalists, 7 were police officers, 1 a National Guardsman, and 4 were uninvolved civilians. Of the 49 wounded, 23 were police officers, 6 were National guardsmen, 9 were Nationalists, and 11 were uninvolved civilians.
The actions were not limited to Puerto Rico. Two Puerto Rican Nationalists, who were living in New York City at the time, planned to assassinate the US president, Harry S. Truman.
On November 1, 1950, they attacked police and Secret Service to gain access to Blair House in Washington, D.C., where Truman was staying during major renovations of the White House. One Nationalist, Griselio Torresola, was killed in the attack, as was a White House police officer, Leslie Coffelt. The other, Oscar Collazo, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_Capitol_shooting#Puerto_Rican_Nationalist_Party_response
The party demanded the recognition of the 1897 Carta de Autonomía, and Puerto Rico's international sovereignty. It also repudiated the status of Estado Libre Asociado, established in 1950 by law, as continued colonialism.
The Nationalist president, Pedro Albizu Campos, ordered armed uprisings on October 30, 1950, in several towns, including Peñuelas, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Arecibo and Ponce. The most notable uprisings occurred in Utuado, Jayuya, and San Juan. They were suppressed by Puerto Rican forces, assisted by US forces.
In Utuado, police killed the insurgents after they attacked the station. In Jayuya, insurgents declared the "Free Republic of Puerto Rico" after taking control of the police station; they held the city for three days, until the U.S. sent bomber planes, artillery, Puerto Rican National Guard and Army troops to suppress the revolt. In San Juan, the Nationalists attacked the governor's residence, intending to assassinate the governor, Luis Muñoz Marín, but were unsuccessful.
The revolts resulted in many casualties: of the 28 dead, 16 were Nationalists, 7 were police officers, 1 a National Guardsman, and 4 were uninvolved civilians. Of the 49 wounded, 23 were police officers, 6 were National guardsmen, 9 were Nationalists, and 11 were uninvolved civilians.
The actions were not limited to Puerto Rico. Two Puerto Rican Nationalists, who were living in New York City at the time, planned to assassinate the US president, Harry S. Truman.
On November 1, 1950, they attacked police and Secret Service to gain access to Blair House in Washington, D.C., where Truman was staying during major renovations of the White House. One Nationalist, Griselio Torresola, was killed in the attack, as was a White House police officer, Leslie Coffelt. The other, Oscar Collazo, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_Capitol_shooting#Puerto_Rican_Nationalist_Party_response
The Anonymous
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I would like to extend fraternal greetings to the companeros who are here tonight and to those who imperialism has prevented from their being here, tomparferos for having invited us here to participate in this very important act. I think this act is well dedicated to the companeros Oscar Collazo, Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores, and Andrcel Miranda, Irvin Flores, and Andres Figueroa Cordero, as well as the compafTeros Andres Rosado, Luis Rosado and Julio Rosado and Pedro Archuleta. It is evident that this act as well as the names I have just mentioned clearly demonstrate how two peoples can unite under immense oppression and capitalist exploitation, in the manner that intense heat binds metals.
https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/cristobal.pdf
Collazo and Torresola decided to assassinate President Harry S. Truman, in order to bring world attention to the need for independence in Puerto Rico.
On October 31, 1950, Collazo and Torresola arrived at Union Station in Washington, D.C. and registered in the Harris Hotel. On November 1, 1950, with guns in hand, they attempted to enter the Blair House, where the President was living during renovation of the White House. During the attack, Torresola mortally wounded White House Police officer, Private Leslie Coffelt. Collazo wounded another man. After wounding two others, Torresola was killed by the mortally wounded Coffelt. Collazo was shot in the chest and arrested.
In prison, Collazo was asked why he had targeted Truman, who was in favor of self-determination for Puerto Rico and who had appointed the first native-born Puerto Rican governor. Collazo replied that he had nothing against Truman, saying that he was "a symbol of the system. You don't attack the man, you attack the system."
Collazo said he had been devoted to the Nationalist Party since 1932.
On September 6, 1979, President Jimmy Carter commuted his sentence to time served, after Collazo had spent 29 years in prison. President Carter also pardoned Collazo's fellow Nationalists: Irvin Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, and Lolita Lebrón, convicted in the 1954 attack on Congress in which 5 members of the House of Representatives were wounded by gunfire. Collazo had been eligible for parole since April 1966, and Lebron since July 1969. Cancel Miranda and Flores became eligible for parole in July 1979, but none had applied for parole because of their political beliefs. Upon their return to Puerto Rico, these activists were received as heroes by their supporters and independence groups. The Governor of Puerto Rico Carlos Romero Barceló publicly opposed the pardons granted by Carter, stating that it would encourage terrorism and undermine public safety.
In 1979, Collazo and the other nationalists were decorated by Cuba's President Fidel Castro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Collazo