*Woodrow put Eugene Debs in jail for 10 years, which subsequently killed him;
*Woodrow got us into World War 1;
*Woodrow helped the rise of J. Mitchell Palmer & J. Edgar Hoover; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids
*On the "Birth of a Nation", Woodrow said it was like "Writing History with Lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." http://time.com/3699084/100-years-birth-of-a-nation/
*Resegregated federal government, undoing Reconstruction policy gains in race relations; http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/woodrow-wilson-racism-federal-agency-segregation-213315
*Espionage Act; Edward Snowden was charged with 2 felonies from the Espionage Act; Emma Goldman is deported; attacked leftist radicals and Communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
*Began the Federal Reserve;
*Invaded Haiti in 1915 and started a decades long occupation (1915 - 1934); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti
*Invaded Veracruz, Mexico on April 9, 1914 as a response to the Tampico Affair; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Veracruz
*Woodrow said that God was speaking through him.
*Woodrow Puts Debs Into Prison For 10 Years for Speaking Out Against the Draft, which would eventually result in Debs' death: On June 16, 1918, Debs made a speech in Canton, Ohio,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6v1VRjpdKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmzt1T0NcLU
urging resistance to the military draft of World War I. Debs was arrested on June 30 and charged with ten counts of sedition. Debs was noted for his oratory, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a term of 10 years. Debs was sentenced on November 18, 1918, to ten years in prison. He was also disenfranchised for life. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921 (but he did not issue a pardon). Debs died in 1926, not long after being admitted to a sanatorium due to cardiovascular problems that developed during his time in prison. While Debs had carefully worded his speeches in an attempt to comply with the Espionage Act. "While the flower of American youth was pouring out its blood to vindicate the cause of civilization, this man, Debs, stood behind the lines sniping, attacking, and denouncing them....This man was a traitor to his country and he will never be pardoned during my administration. ~WW
"Writing History With Lightning"; On the evening of March 21, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson attended a special screening at the White House of THE BIRTH OF A NATION, a film directed by D.W. Griffith and based on THE CLANSMAN, a novel written by Wilson's good friend Thomas Dixon. The film presented a distorted portrait of the South after the Civil War, glorifying the Ku Klux Klan and denigrating blacks. It falsified the period of Reconstruction by presenting blacks as dominating Southern whites (almost all of whom are noble in the film) and sexually forcing themselves upon white women. The Klan was portrayed as the South's savior from this alleged tyranny. Not only was this portrayal untrue, it was the opposite of what actually happened. During Reconstruction, whites dominated blacks and assaulted black women. The Klan was primarily a white terrorist organization that carried out hundreds of murders. "It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." African-American audiences openly wept at the film's malicious portrayal of blacks, while Northern white audiences cheered. The film swept the nation. Riots broke out in major cities (Boston and Philadelphia, among others), and it was denied release in many other places (Chicago, Ohio, Denver, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Minneapolis). Gangs of whites roamed city streets attacking blacks. In Lafayette, Indiana, a white man killed a black teenager after seeing the movie. Thomas Dixon reveled in its triumph. "The real purpose of my film," he confessed gleefully, "was to revolutionize Northern audiences that would transform every man into a Southern partisan for life."
*Resegregated Federal Positions. During his first term in office, the House passed a law making racial intermarriage a felony in the District of Columbia. His new Postmaster General also ordered that his Washington offices be segregated, with the Treasury and Navy soon doing the same. Suddenly, photographs were required of all applicants for federal jobs. When pressed by black leaders, Wilson replied, "The purpose of these measures was to reduce the friction Ö It is as far as possible from being a movement against the Negroes. I sincerely believe it to be in their interest." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_african.html Born in Virginia and raised in Georgia and South Carolina, Wilson was a loyal son of the old South who regretted the outcome of the Civil War. He used his high office to reverse some of its consequences. Washington was a rigidly segregated town — except for federal government agencies. They had been integrated during the post-war Reconstruction period, enabling African-Americans to obtain federal jobs and work side by side with whites in government agencies. Wilson promptly authorized members of his cabinet to reverse this long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal civil service. Cabinet heads — such as his son-in-law, Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo of Tennessee – re-segregated facilities such as restrooms and cafeterias in their buildings. In some federal offices, screens were set up to separate white and black workers. African-Americans found it difficult to secure high-level civil service positions, which some had held under previous Republican administrations. A delegation of black professionals led by Monroe Trotter, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard and Boston newspaper editor, appeared at the White House to protest the new policies. But Wilson treated them rudely and declared that “segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
*Espionage Act; Emma Goldman was arrested on June 15th, the day President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act into law (June 15, 1917), and charged with violating the new law. After being convicted and serving time in prison in Jefferson City, Missouri, she and 248 other aliens and alleged radicals were deported from the U.S. on December 21, 1919, on the ship Buford (dubbed the “Red Ark”) and sent to the new Soviet Union. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/MeetEmmaGoldman/warresistance-antimilitarism-deportation1917-1919.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/peopleevents/e_redscare.html
*Woodrow got us into World War 1;
*Woodrow helped the rise of J. Mitchell Palmer & J. Edgar Hoover; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids
*On the "Birth of a Nation", Woodrow said it was like "Writing History with Lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." http://time.com/3699084/100-years-birth-of-a-nation/
*Resegregated federal government, undoing Reconstruction policy gains in race relations; http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/woodrow-wilson-racism-federal-agency-segregation-213315
*Espionage Act; Edward Snowden was charged with 2 felonies from the Espionage Act; Emma Goldman is deported; attacked leftist radicals and Communists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
*Began the Federal Reserve;
*Invaded Haiti in 1915 and started a decades long occupation (1915 - 1934); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti
*Invaded Veracruz, Mexico on April 9, 1914 as a response to the Tampico Affair; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Veracruz
*Woodrow said that God was speaking through him.
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*Woodrow Puts Debs Into Prison For 10 Years for Speaking Out Against the Draft, which would eventually result in Debs' death: On June 16, 1918, Debs made a speech in Canton, Ohio,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6v1VRjpdKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmzt1T0NcLU
urging resistance to the military draft of World War I. Debs was arrested on June 30 and charged with ten counts of sedition. Debs was noted for his oratory, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a term of 10 years. Debs was sentenced on November 18, 1918, to ten years in prison. He was also disenfranchised for life. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921 (but he did not issue a pardon). Debs died in 1926, not long after being admitted to a sanatorium due to cardiovascular problems that developed during his time in prison. While Debs had carefully worded his speeches in an attempt to comply with the Espionage Act. "While the flower of American youth was pouring out its blood to vindicate the cause of civilization, this man, Debs, stood behind the lines sniping, attacking, and denouncing them....This man was a traitor to his country and he will never be pardoned during my administration. ~WW
"Writing History With Lightning"; On the evening of March 21, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson attended a special screening at the White House of THE BIRTH OF A NATION, a film directed by D.W. Griffith and based on THE CLANSMAN, a novel written by Wilson's good friend Thomas Dixon. The film presented a distorted portrait of the South after the Civil War, glorifying the Ku Klux Klan and denigrating blacks. It falsified the period of Reconstruction by presenting blacks as dominating Southern whites (almost all of whom are noble in the film) and sexually forcing themselves upon white women. The Klan was portrayed as the South's savior from this alleged tyranny. Not only was this portrayal untrue, it was the opposite of what actually happened. During Reconstruction, whites dominated blacks and assaulted black women. The Klan was primarily a white terrorist organization that carried out hundreds of murders. "It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." African-American audiences openly wept at the film's malicious portrayal of blacks, while Northern white audiences cheered. The film swept the nation. Riots broke out in major cities (Boston and Philadelphia, among others), and it was denied release in many other places (Chicago, Ohio, Denver, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Minneapolis). Gangs of whites roamed city streets attacking blacks. In Lafayette, Indiana, a white man killed a black teenager after seeing the movie. Thomas Dixon reveled in its triumph. "The real purpose of my film," he confessed gleefully, "was to revolutionize Northern audiences that would transform every man into a Southern partisan for life."
*Resegregated Federal Positions. During his first term in office, the House passed a law making racial intermarriage a felony in the District of Columbia. His new Postmaster General also ordered that his Washington offices be segregated, with the Treasury and Navy soon doing the same. Suddenly, photographs were required of all applicants for federal jobs. When pressed by black leaders, Wilson replied, "The purpose of these measures was to reduce the friction Ö It is as far as possible from being a movement against the Negroes. I sincerely believe it to be in their interest." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_african.html Born in Virginia and raised in Georgia and South Carolina, Wilson was a loyal son of the old South who regretted the outcome of the Civil War. He used his high office to reverse some of its consequences. Washington was a rigidly segregated town — except for federal government agencies. They had been integrated during the post-war Reconstruction period, enabling African-Americans to obtain federal jobs and work side by side with whites in government agencies. Wilson promptly authorized members of his cabinet to reverse this long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal civil service. Cabinet heads — such as his son-in-law, Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo of Tennessee – re-segregated facilities such as restrooms and cafeterias in their buildings. In some federal offices, screens were set up to separate white and black workers. African-Americans found it difficult to secure high-level civil service positions, which some had held under previous Republican administrations. A delegation of black professionals led by Monroe Trotter, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard and Boston newspaper editor, appeared at the White House to protest the new policies. But Wilson treated them rudely and declared that “segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
*Espionage Act; Emma Goldman was arrested on June 15th, the day President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act into law (June 15, 1917), and charged with violating the new law. After being convicted and serving time in prison in Jefferson City, Missouri, she and 248 other aliens and alleged radicals were deported from the U.S. on December 21, 1919, on the ship Buford (dubbed the “Red Ark”) and sent to the new Soviet Union. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/MeetEmmaGoldman/warresistance-antimilitarism-deportation1917-1919.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/peopleevents/e_redscare.html
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