A history of the most violent of the Free Speech Fights. A combination of police brutality and vigilante terror was unleashed against the IWW and the workers of San Diego, including torture and murder.
got together with and set the price. see the government, see if this sounds familiar. have you been invited? your small business to the white house to sit down and have the power broker meetings that all of the big businesses have? see, with f.d.r. just like with obama he d bring in the big businesses and they set a price at a level that worked for them. but not for the small businesses. one example of this was in the tire industry. the ferris tire and rubber company of newark, ohio. you remember ferris and you may have some of the ferris you don t have any ferris tires? that s weird. they were a very successful small tire company with about 1,000 employees run by carl ferris, a well-respected man in the community. at the time, f.d.r. brought in well, not ferris, but three other groups. brought in goodyear, goodrich and firestone, but not ferris. weird that you ve not heard
about him but you have heard about these guys. ferris provided tough competition for the other three, because he could mark his tires down. so when the big three wrote the new price codes, ferris was in a jam, because the price codes were higher than the discount prices he was charging. so it not only screwed the little businessman but also people buying tires because it meant you had to go to the big three and get those tires that were more expensive. ferris would lose money, he would eventually have to lay off each and every employee. ferris was an honest man. so he followed the new rules and he lost money. he fired everybody in the end. there were others that didn t follow the code. there was a tailor in new jersey, probably the most famous case. this guy got 30 days in jail. 30 days because he charged 35 cents for pressing a suit instead of the required 40 cents because he was losing business, because everybody were going to the more convenient dry cleaner. he said i ll charge five
attack in the united states of america? well, i could point to some evidence on things like if you question the president, or his policies, or this administration, the person that questions comes under vicious attack. we know that to be true. it has gotten to the point where obama s attack dogs have gone so far to accuse me of sedition. watch this. i did a little bit of research just before the show on this little napkin here and i looked at the definition of sedition, which is conduct or language inciting rebellion against authority of the state. and a lot of these statements, especially the ones coming from people like glenn beck and to a certain extent sarah palin were right up close to being seditious. glenn: anti-government, anti-government speech anti-government speech defined by cass sunstein is a conspiracy theory. okay? anti-government. rush limbaugh was also attacked on the very same show. joe s right, and i ll name another person. name rush limbaugh who u