THE GREAT AMERICAN SERIES
The tragic butchering of that idealistic young Black Panther, Fred Hampton, has moved many of us to muse ruefully over our nation's grisly history. Brother Hampton was not the first visionary to...
...Though ever at odds with the Establishment, he managed to open a successful second hand furniture store on South Wabash Avenue in Chicago...
...W e must keep the worker away from Red literature and Red ruses...
...Al Capone, 1929 "Don't get the idea that I'm one of those goddam radicals...
...Al Capone, 1929 "Bolshevism is knocking at our gates...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941 "I a m convinced that just as the media can tell the facts to the people, they can also exaggerate and inflame the situation...
...Agnew's wisdom had been anticipated by earlier patriots, Americans long deemed as somewhat unsavory inhabitants of our shadow history, w e decided these fellows deserved rehabilitation...
...Generally, their campaigns for special interests have created confusion in the minds of the American people and in several instances have bordered on acts of treason...
...W e have got to organize ourselves against it, and put our shoulders together and hold fast...
...Not many years ago another young nonconformist journeyed to America from Italy...
...Adlai Stevenson, 1942 Page 9...
...Agnew might have an awfully good chance of winning The Alternative's M a n of the Year award...
...Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 1968 "The failure of the commercial press, with few exceptions, to honestly report the news and be fair in their editorial columns, has served to retard the war effort...
...His idealistic fervor brought him such success that in 1931 the M a n could countenance it no longer and imprisoned him for making too much money...
...Brother Hampton was not the first visionary to taste the bitter justice of our fascist police state...
...Thus we raise them to the august realm of our Great American Series...
...Al Capone, Liberty Magazine Page 8 W h e n Spiro T h e Terrible recently delivered his minatory "Edicts on the Media," he prompted America's highest paid professional mourners, the editors of the N e w York Times, to lead the nation in an elegiac refrain oyer the death of American liberties...
...And when our research department discovered that Mr...
...Yet we can all find inspiration and consultation in his writings...
...Through sedulous enterprise and with prodigious skill he became a millionaire in spite of continuous harassment from the pigs...
...The tragic butchering of that idealistic young Black Panther, Fred Hampton, has moved many of us to muse ruefully over our nation's grisly history...
...W e must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled...
...Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system...
...that these agitators are appealing to the ignorance, the prejudice and the fears of Americans and are acting in an unAmerican way...
...The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it...
...Burning with enthusiasm for this Land of the Free, he scratched out a pitiful existence first in N e w York, then in brutal Chicago...
...The American people are beginning to realize that the things they have read and heard, both from agitators of the legislative variety and the agitators of the newspaper owner variety, have been pure bunk — B-U-N-K — bunk...
...we must see that his mind remains healthy...
...So convulsed were the aggrieved editors of the Times, that we decided Mr...
...W e can't afford to let it in...
...And that is why The Alternative, as still another of our continuing services to humanity, gladly includes Alphonse Capone, a second hand furniture dealer and Italian immigrant, in its Great American Series...
Vol. 3 • February 1970 • No. 4
