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...advocating the overthrow of the government? I am advocating cleansing. If you combined everybody in the United States of America that you would even estimate to be on the other side, you would only have a drop in the bucket compared to the masses in rebellion. Why are we sitting here...
...became so corrupt that a citizens' Vigilance Committee took over, violently. The year was 1856. Across the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman watched with approval. He wrote in his notebook, "These [United] States need one grand national Vigilance Committee, composed of the body of the people," to overthrow the government in Washington. Walt Whitman...
...always considered Guatemala its private playpen. It was in Guatemala that the agency learned to overthrow Latin governments, engineering the 1954 coup that toppled leftist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Administrations have come and gone. So has the cold war. But the freewheeling tradecraft the agency practiced in Guatemala has barely changed. "If you were going to pick a place where the CIA still has a cowboy mentality, it's there," says a former top official with the agency...
...detail-crammed psychohistory by Ann Douglas, who teaches English and comparative literature at Columbia University. As she interprets this era, the modern artists who gathered in New York to create a new American culture relied upon "terrible honesty"--a term devised by the crime writer Raymond Chandler--to overthrow the romanticizing, domineering matriarchal ethos of the late Victorian...
Enter plot twist number three: mutiny. With the exception of its commander, General Guy Atine, the 69th special division is composed exclusively of women (hence, its motto: "Muscle, Skill, Cleavage"). Led by Private FiFi Fifofum, the women overthrow General Atine, prompting him to join forces with Sir Meltdown...