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1985 - 2004 OUR ENEMIES ARE INTERNAL


UNRAVEL – 1985 - 2004
BATTLE MAP OF THE
AMERICAN CULTURAL WAR

TIMELINE AND COMMENTARIES @ $3.00
  • FORMAT - PDF
    • A TIMELINE OF 31 PAGES
    • 17 COMMENTARIES.  
THIS GENERATION...
“Commonly called “The Millenials.” Rebellion against cultural forms, and an attempt to maintain existing values at all social and technological levels frames the struggle of this generation. Huge infrastructure investments in digital switching technology is the basis for future data networks which will include Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites.
Worldwide economy and petroleum based lifestyles lead to warfare and open “cultural warfare” domestically and internationally.”1
 1 THE FOURTH TURNING, William Strauss and Neil Howe, Broadway Books, 1998, Pg. 135

COMMENTARIES INCLUDE
1985 – Overview of The Unraveling - Culture Wars – “Hot button issues included abortion, gun control, music, police violence, homosexuality, immigration, and censorship in two defining polarities.”


1985 – Catholic Media Coverage Criticism - ‘… during the first half of 2002, the 61 largest newspapers in California ran nearly 2,000 stories about sexual abuse in Catholic institutions, mostly concerning past allegations. During the same period, those newspapers ran fourstories about the federal government's discovery of the much larger
- and ongoing - abuse scandal in public schools.’”

1985 – CIA Cocaine Smuggling“Most people assume the War on Drugs was launched in response to the crisis caused by crack cocaine in inner-city neighborhoods. This view holds that the racial disparities in drug convictions and sentences, as well as the rapid explosion of the prison population, reflect nothing more than the government’s zealous – but benign – efforts to address rampant drug crime in poor, minority neighborhoods. This view, while understandable given the sensational media coverage in the 1980s and 1990s is simply wrong…”

1985 – “Our enemies are internal” “…drugs, guns, the widening gap between poor and elite, and lots more competition for jobs.” A student from Nashville quoted by Gail Sheehey

1985 – Vatican Skeptical of American Media Handling Of Sex Abuse Scandal – “…they do think the reporting on it is uniquely American, fueled by anti- Catholicism and shyster lawyers hustling to tap the deep pockets of the church.”

1987 – Jules Pfeiffer (b. 1929), “Truth Hurts “A description of one of Pfeiffer’s ‘everyman’ cartoons by Molly Ivins.”

1990 – Context Clues, Angela Y. Davis “What kind of society is this which creates this hall of horrors where jail is allowed to turn to freedom and freedom into jail? This is one of the many contradictions that you will have to examine.”

1991 – Cult Watchers– “[Originally named] Citizen's Freedom Foundation was originally headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and collected information on New Religious Movements. [It was renamed Cult Action Network.] By 1991, the Cult Awareness Network had twenty-three chapters dedicated to monitoring two hundred groups that it referred to as: "mind control cults."[10]
The CAN website was called a “flame” site.

1991 – Rodney King, L.A. Riots Four LA Police officers beat Rodney King. “A witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony, and sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by. Parts of the footage were aired around the world, and raised public concern about police treatment of minorities in the United States.”

1992 – “The Battle For The Soul Of Our Country” – Pat Buchanan - “I am not here to talk surrender terms, but to talk about how to fight and win the war for the soul of our country.” [Multiculturalism is] “…an across the board assault on our Angle-American heritage!”

1992 – Restore American Greatness Through Moral Strength – Pat Robertson – Republican Convention Speech – “The campaign before us is not just a campaign for an office, but for the destiny of America.”

1993 Media Sensationalism Driven By Profit Motive – “More colorfully, Nancy E. Bernhard of Harvard Divinity School put it this way in 1993: “With or without the reporter’s intent, such coverage reinforces mainstream norms about religious and social behavior and creates the impression that all nontraditional or exotic belief is lecherous, moronic or illegal.”

1994 – The Republican “Contract With America” – Newt Gingrich – Eight reforms and 10 bills - During the crafting of the Contract, proposals were limited to "60% issues", i.e. legislation that polling showed garnered 60% support of the American people, intending for the Contract to avoid promises on controversial and divisive matters like abortion and school prayer.[1][3]

1995 – Religious Freedom Under AttackFrench Parliamentary Commission On Cults and Sects releases a report naming hundreds of religious groups as purported “dangerous cults.” The list was generated by former members and anti-cult groups. The list was used for raids by SWAT teams, harassment and created a public atmosphere of intolerance.”

1995 – The Cult Of Violence, Vigilantes and Vengeance – Lt. Col. Dave Grossman[After the Oklahoma City Bombing] “ if we look into the mirror provided by the television screen, the reflection we see is one of the nation regressing from a society of law into a society of violence, vigilantes, and vengeance."

1995 – The Bell Curve, a review by Lewis H. Lampham “ The pseudoscientific speculation adds a few more brush strokes to the standard portrait of black people… At long last and with a clear conscience, the governing and possessing classes can comfort themselves with the thought that poor people deserve what they get, that their misery is nobody’s fault but their own.”

2000 – Business Magazine Covers “The New Media Redefinition Of Heroism” – David L. Brooks “[Business executives] are photographed [on magazine covers] looking like mellowing rock stars, wearing expensive collarless linen shirts or multicolored sweaters and rag-wool socks under funky expensive sandals.”






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