National Humiliation Quotes
Porfirio Diaz - the longtime dictator of Mexico stole the election of 1910 and had his opponent Francisco Madero arrested and imprisoned. Madero got out, crossed the border to San Antonio, and issued this declaration which started the Mexican Revolution.
President Harrison had first brought the problem of injured workers having no protection or recourse to public attention {640537} Then Roosevelt’s term created legislation and the Congress passed it. The very conservative Supreme Court had declared the Employers’ Liability Act of 1906 unconstitutional, leaving no recourse of assistance for American railroad employees injured on their job through no fault of their own. Roosevelt was furious and he had the legislation redrafted to get around the Supreme Court objections. and that was passed in 1908 and was not overturned.
The general was retired at the time of this interview. The United States found and killed the terrorist leader with an operation in Pakistan. The Pak military was not told and their own military nout only did not stop the incursion but didn’t even realize it was ongoing. There was much reason to believe that some military were supporting bin Laden, and this was also embarrassing. For those who wanted to bring him to justice, they were further humiliated that the Americans could find out what was happening in their own country when they could not.
The Somnauth Temple was one of the holiest of Hindu shrines in India. It had been attacked, looted, and destroyed several times since its erection before the birth of Christ. A Northern Warlord Ruler had raided the temple and stolen the spectacular gates at the tomb. When the British Indian Army of Indians led by British officers and NCOs, conquered the Warlord area, Lord Ellenborough had the huge gates removed and returned to the Somnauth Temple issuing this proclamation which he arranged to have approved by Queen Victoria and have Parliament vote to return the gates. It was a brilliant historical instance of symbols having enormous political effect. Hindus throughout India, most of whom had forgotten about the stolen temple gates, had the British to thank for righting one of the great wrongs of Hindu history.
