On June 3, 1959, Singapore adopted a constitution.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
Documentary (23 minutes) Published on Jun 5, 2017.
- ABC News: China’s Premiere Meets Student Protestors News Report (4:41) “World News report from May 18, 1989: Members of the Chinese government met with leaders of the student protests. Hundreds of student[s] demonstrated in Tiananmen Square.”
- ABC News: Standoff Between People’s Army and Demonstrators News Report (6:34) “World News report from May 19, 1989: People’s Army trucks could not reach China’s Tiananmen Square because demonstrators block roads.”
- ABC News: Chinese Soldiers Open Fire on Civilians News Report (4:48) “World News report from June 4, 1989: Chinese soldiers open fire on civilian, pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing.”
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Citizenship
On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
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Zeno of Citium
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
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2020 Blow-out!
Effective satire from Reason:
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Tennessee and Kentucky
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky was admitted as the 15th state of the United States. Four years later, Tennessee became the 16th state.
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Guilty. Guilty! Guilty?
“No responsible prosecutor,” Alan Dershowitz writes in The Hill, “should ever suggest that the subject of his investigation might indeed be guilty even if there was insufficient evidence or other reasons not to indict.”
Don’t I know it.
The world-famous lawyer takes issue with the “statement by special counsel Robert Mueller in a Wednesday press conference that ‘if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that.’”* Dershowitz makes a good case that the ‘innocent until proven guilty’ principle requires the government not merely to refrain from imposing punishment before obtaining a lawful conviction, but also to hold back from punishing people by making loud public claims about their supposed guilt.
Which brings to mind my own experience at U.S. Term Limits. In 1994, we ran radio ads and sent mail to citizens in two Oklahoma congressional districts and one in Kentucky. We did not urge a vote for or against anyone, but merely provided information on where the candidates stood.
Yet, prompted by a complaint from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which prefers ignorant to knowledgeable voters, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) investigated.
As if to foreshadow current prosecutorial proclivities, the FEC abandoned its witch hunt after two long years. Relieved the agency’s harassment was finally over, I remember opening an Oklahoma newspaper and discovering a story headlined, “Term Limits Group Violated Law in State, U.S. Agency Charges.”
This problem goes well beyond Mr. Mueller and President Trump. Government agencies that cannot prosecute, should not persecute.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
* Dershowitz calls Mueller’s comments “worse than the statement made by then-FBI Director James Comey regarding Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.”
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Zeno of Citium
All the good are friends of one another.
On May 31, 455 A.D., Emperor Petronius Maximus was stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
On that date in 1578, King Henry III laid the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
In other rock history, May 31, 2013, marked the closest approach to Earth that the asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon will get until two centuries hence.