Thugs Quotes
There was a rumor in 1922 amongst American Fascists and extreme conservatives that Henry Ford was going to run for President. Hitler and Ford were mutual admirers. In Hitler’s diatribe, Mein Kamph, the only American he refers to with favor was Ford, whose virulent anti-Semitism was very popular in Germany.
In September of 2005 a Danish Newspaper published some political cartoons showing the hypocrisy of some Muslims who use Islam to justify murder of innocents and terrorism. Months later, in January of 2006 many in the Middle East protested vehemently and Muslim riots broke out because the Prophet Muhammad's visage was depicted against Islamic tradition. Many Muslim nations started a boycott against Denmark. Many Muslim leaders claimed that insulting religion was an “abuse” of freedom of speech including those from nations which regularly publish material that is virulent against Christians and Jews. In the United States a debate raged over whether or not news organizations should show the cartoons. Some did; most did not.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
While that is often true, there have been some cases in American espionage history where the CIA did vouch for and employ and bring into the United States war criminals and even agents who had murdered and tortured innocent Americans. See {633240} for one such example.
Referring to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms:
Referring to the defendant, U.S. Congressman Mario Biaggi, in a corruption trial:
In America, the Communist Party used gangsters and thugs to break dissident communist parties and factions in exactly the same way that the early capitalists tried to break the early unions.
This editorial was an excellent summary of the issue of Mormon polygamy where both sides are described. The Thugs were a violent religious sect in India where females were forced into marriage.
This was the first report or expose of “Thuggee” a quasi-religious Indian cult that revolved around robbery and murder. The word “thug” came to English from the Hindi word for the member of the cult.
