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Title: 'Prohibition': Drunk with power (The GOP have been crazy for a long time)
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metro.us
URL Source: http://www.metro.us/newyork/enterta ... --prohibition-drunk-with-power
Published: Sep 29, 2011
Author: AMBER RAY/METRO
Post Date: 2011-09-30 22:06:47 by Godwinson
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Views: 790
Comments: 4
'Prohibition': Drunk with power AMBER RAY/METRO NEW YORK Published: September 29, 2011 5:26 p.m. Last modified: September 29, 2011 8:35 p.m. In the simplest terms, Prohibition — the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” — became law under the auspices of lobbyists who believed that a corrupt society could be bettered with the elimination of alcohol. Of course, nothing about Prohibition is simple. “We not only didn’t fix everything about society, we made half the nation lawbreakers, and we created organized crime and a host of other horrific unintended consequences,” says Ken Burns, who, along with filmmaking partner Lynn Novick, examines the law and the 1920s era so defined by the ruling in the PBS documentary, “Prohibition.” In typical Burnsian fashion, the three-part, five-and-a-half-hour series utilizes well-documented history (the rise of Al Capone) and lesser-known stories (23-year-old Lois Long — pen name Lipstick — covering the speakeasy lifestyle for the New Yorker) to shed light on an important moment in American history. But it’s a period of political and cultural upheaval that reverberates today. “If I told you that I had been working with Lynn for several years on a film about single-issue political campaigns, if the story was about the demonization of recent immigrants to the United States, if I told you we’d been working on a film that involved smear campaigns during presidential elections or unfunded congressional mandates or, more importantly, a whole group of people who felt they’d lost control of their country and wanted to take it back, you would insist that we had abandoned our historical interests and were covering the contemporary political scene,” Burns says. “But, of course, we are only dealing with a handful of the topics that are engaged throughout our series on Prohibition.”
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#1. To: Godwinson (#0)
I think not. There's a *reason* why I call you "gobsheit," and the title of this article is simply one more confirmation of it. Like a good little "useful idiot," you push to two-party sham that is our current political system. Ironically, though, your agenda is to advance socialism, which has a 100% failure rate. Which confirms you are, indeed, an idiot. ESAD.
DUMMY DwarF: ...I'm eating a meatball... ROFLMAO! What kind of brain-dead Useful Idiot from the party that nationalized the banks, 2 car companies, the entire US health system, and launched an unconstitutional al-Qaida supporting war in Libya is fool enough to try and sell the shit that the other guys are drunk with power? How stupid are the Useful Idiots that buy that line of shit?
Anything to distract from 2011 under Owe-bama.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
ROTLMAO. Progressives adopted the cause of prohibition. They claimed the consumption of alcohol limited mankind's potential for advancement. Prohibition was a Progressive program. Same thing with euthanasia and the forced serialization of blacks and other undesirables. ditto for abortion on demand, endless wars to promote "democracy" (nation building), the Federal Reserve (which caused the Great Depression), direct election of Senators (which eliminated the checks and balances between the states and federal government), the federal income tax, and the nation's first drug laws. These are all failures of the Progressive Era.
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That government is best which governs not at all -- Henry David Thoreau
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