Obstructing Traffic or Exercising Free Assembly?

Both in court and later in prison, suffragists arrested on criminal charges of obstructing traffic demanded to be treated as political prisoners. They asserted that silent picketing and peaceful assembly were protected First Amendment rights, and that their arrests were politically motivated, as Mary Winsor’s sign suggests. Winsor was arrested twice, the first time on September 4, 1917, during Draft Day festivities holding a banner questioning why women had no voice in a government that was conscripting their sons. Recently released from Occoquan Workhouse after serving a lengthy sentence for picketing on Draft Day, Baltimorean Lucy Branham unfavorably compared the U.S. government to Tsarist Russia, which had earlier imprisoned historian and liberal statesman Pavel Milyukov.

This “Night of Terror” galvanized support for the women’s suffrage movement at a critical moment. The tortured prisoners included activists Dorothy Day and Lucy Burns. Some were left for dead after the beatings. They had been arrested for peacefully picketing for universal sufrage in front of the White House

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WHILE RE-READING THE PAGE “SECRETS” (top of post)  I found this one:

51. Quote from Stephen Jay Gould;s Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes p 244: “We hold a mirror to nature and see ourselves and our own prejudices in the glass. ,,,Aristotle described the large bee that leads the swarm as a “king,” and this misidentification  of the only sexual female around persisted for at least two thousand years… He also  describes the embryonic separation of a unisex into male or female.  “The female course of development is, in a sense, biologically intrinsic to all  mammals. It is the pattern that unfolds in the absence of any hormonal influence.” (p 154). He discusses the peniform clitorises and false scrotum of female spotted hyenas, and crabs that have faces on their backs, (p 156, Norton, 1984).

Perhaps someone should alert members of Moms for Liberty in response to their charges of transgenders’ “lies.”

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END OF…

We came, we tried, we fought

and ate each other up.

We lived and died by our own hand.

If two survived and met on a plain

would we hug one another

or kill again?

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