#HenryWallace

[criminol]

Henry Louis Wallace

Henry Louis Wallace, also known as The Taco Bell Strangler, is an American serial killer who killed eleven women from 1990-1994.

Wallace was born in South Carolina to a busy mother who was a harsh discipline. He spent time in the US Navy before he was honourably discharged. During his time in the Navy, he began using drugs including crack cocaine. In Washington, he was issued warrants for several burglaries. In 1988, Wallace pled guilty to second-degree burglary and was sentenced to two years of supervised probation.

On 8th March 1990, Wallace murdered Tashanda Bethea, a high school student, he dumped her body in a lake. Her body was not discovered until weeks later, Wallace was questioned but never charged. He was also questioned in connection with the rape of a 16-year-old girl but, again, was not charged.

In February 1991, he stole from a radio station he had once worked at and was caught trying to sell stolen goods. He relocated to North Carolina and began working at fast-food restaurants.

In May 1992, he picked up Sharon Nance, a woman working as a sex worker, beat her to death and left her body by railroad tracks. In June he raped and strangled Caroline Love at her apartment before dumping her body in a wooded area.

Wallace's killing spree continued when on 19th February Wallace raped and strangled Shawna Hawk at her home, he later went to her funeral. Shawna had worked at Taco Bell where Wallace was her supervisor. On 22nd June he attacked another colleague when he raped and strangled his co-worker Audrey Spain.

On 10th August 1993, Wallace raped and strangled Valencia Jumper, a college student and friend of his sister, then attended her funeral.

A month later Wallace murdered Michelle Stinson, raped, strangling and stabbing her in front of her three-year-old son. Michelle had also worked at Taco Bell with Wallace.

On February 4th 1994, Wallace was arrested for shoplifting, but police failed to make a connection between him and the string of murders.

On February 20, 1994, Wallace raped and strangled Vanessa Little Mack in her apartment. He knew her through her sister who worked at Taco Bell.

On March 8, 1994, Wallace raped and strangled Betty Jean Baucom. Betty was a colleague of Wallace's girlfriend. He stole her possessions including her car. Wallace then returned to his apartment and raped and murdered his girlfriend Brandi June Henderson, he also strangled her son but he survived.

Police patrols increased at the apartment block and began stopping people from entering or exiting after the two bodies were discovered but Wallace managed to sneak out. He then strangled Debra Ann Slaughter, who had been a co-worker of his girlfriend.

On 13th March 1994, Wallace was arrested. He made a 12-hour confession to the 11 murders including the one he committed before moving. He described the women's appearances, how he raped, robbed and killed the women and his drug addiction in great detail.

The police were heavily criticised for the delay in apprehending Wallace with allegations officers had neglected the murders of black women. Shawna Hawk's mother stated: "The victims weren't prominent people with social-economic status. They weren't special. And they were black."

Wallace was sentenced to death and remains on death row.

[unblogparaloschicos]

Cine: Identidad borrada (2018)

Dicen que el Infierno está empedrado de buenas intenciones. Que, buscando hacer el bien, podemos conseguir exactamente lo opuesto, hiriendo más de lo que quisimos sanar. Tal parece ser el tema principal de “Boy Erased”, una película basada en el libro autobiográfico de Garrand Conley “Boy Erased, A Memoir”, publicado en 2016. No tomó mucho tiempo transfomarlo en un filme: en 2017 comenzó la producción y en 2018 se estrenó en los cines.

El gran impulsor del proyecto fue Joel Edgerton, que escribió el guión, lo produjo, lo dirigió e incluso tomó para sí el repulsivo rol de Victor Sikes. La historia nos lleva a la intimidad de una familia perfectamente cristiana: el papá Marshall Eamons es pastor de una iglesia bautista (Russell Crowe), la mamá, Nancy es una devota ama de casa (Nicole Kidman) y el hijo, Jared (Lucas Hedges), es el orgullo de ambos. La armonía familiar sufre un vuelco inesperado cuando Jared reconoce su homosexualidad. Marshall toma la situación en sus manos y pide ayuda a un par de pastores que, en una muy ominosa, agobiante, escena, le recomiendan afiliarse a las filas de “Love in Action” (Amor en Acción), un programa (dirigido por Sikes) que le garantiza eliminar de cuajo esta pésima idea de enrollarse con otro chicos y volverse “normal”. No obstante, el programa demuestra ser todo menos amoroso, más parecido a una prisión que a un proyecto regido por la caridad cristiana. 

El problema es que no puede escapar ni de sus sentimientos ni del programa, ya que sus padres lo conminan a que prosiga ese camino... hasta que Nancy comienza a descubrir la verdad detrás de las ignominiosas enseñanzas de Sikes y sus laderos. 

En una realidad en la que la instituciones que buscan “curar” la homosexualidad están a la orden del día y en donde cada vez más son los estados de EE.UU. que prohíben su funcionamiento, esta película parece emparentarse con otro proyecto como “The Misediucation of Cameron Post” (2019), que también apunta a la terapias de conversión sexual. Además de los mencionados, el elenco incluye a Joe Alwyn (Henry Wallace), Xavier Dolan (Jon), Troye Sivan  (además interpretar a Gary canta “Revelation”, que también compuso) Britton Sear (Cameron), Théodore Pellerin (Xavier), Cherry Jones (Dr. Muldoon), Flea (Brandon), Madelyn Cline (Chloe), Emily Hinkler (Lee), Jesse LaTourette (Sarah), David Joseph Craig (Michael), Matt Burke (Simon) y David Ditmore (Phillip).

[progressiveparty]

The Democratic Office Boy Machine

A new Progressive party that can command decency on the part of their candidates will be coming, whether it is going to be a revamped Democratic party or something else remains to be seen. Of course the DNC will do it again. The fact that anyone considers that they will play fair is hopelessly out of touch with their history. They will try to thwart the will of their voters through continued reliance on second vote superdelegates and the use of slanted support that will be extended to corporate-friendly candidates. They did it the last time around, and less known…they did it back in 1944 (more about this later). The only way this will stop is through a fear of becoming completely irrelevant and going the way of the Whigs. A new Progressive party that can command decency on the part of their candidates will be coming, whether it is going to be a revamped Democratic party or something else remains to be seen. My guess is the Democrats will try to steal the primary again for their corporate candidate who will lose, and the DNC will become bankrupt (fiscally after the moral) and a new party will have to rise. If the fascism continues on the right from a blown opportunity by the Democrats, these predictions become more weighted with terrifying possibilities. A new Progressive party that can command decency on the part of their candidates will be coming, whether it is going to be a revamped Democratic party or something else remains to be seen. Henry Wallace (no relation that I know of) was a bit of an anomaly. He was a left- leaning Iowa boy who hated imperialism. He absolutely loathed the British Empire and its abuses. He was able to understand the needs of and advance the rights of workers. He even went against the United Fruit mode of intervention in Latin America and was able to find common ground with the people there, all without the use of right-wing juntas. This may be a bit of a simplification, but overall, Henry Wallace was a friend to the working men and women across the globe. He served as FDR’s vice president until a fateful convention in 1944. He had the backing of the voters—they appreciated that he had done more in that vice president’s office than others before him and they felt he had a kinship with them—that he would work in their favor. He was not popular with Southern conservative politicians or the corporate factions and they wanted nothing of him and his common man appeal. FDR made overtures and indicated that he was still behind Wallace being his vice president. Eleanor was a staunch supporter as well…but whether FDR was simply too ill by that time to exert his will or just plain feckless regarding Wallace, the Pendergast political machine of out Kansas City was able to insert their “office boy” as the vice president.

Henry Wallace Truman was a haberdasher from Kansas City (failed haberdasher, actually) and he came across the corrupt Pendergast group through that connection. Suits for brutes, I guess. Truman was encouraged to go into politics by the Pendergast political influencers and that he did, owing his start to this machine. It sounds like Truman struggled with the alliance having physical symptoms of stress from a bit of cognitive dissonance, but he never did anything that truly rocked their boat or made him a less of a favored candidate in their eyes. Truman was a natural to be handed the vice president slot in 1944 as he looked to be the office boy of choice for the disparate factions that were not representing the progressive appeal of voters. These things have consequences. We are now in an “anything but Trump” era. Older Democrats would probably vote for an Amazon delivery drone if it had the mark of the DNC on it in the general election because it feels right to vote against the melon-hued Mussolini. Trump is, of course, that calamitous of a human, but this “lesser evil” thing ends up with an effect. We need to not get to that point where your choice is not simply death by a malignant cancer like Trump versus a slow descent through dysentery, offered up by a centrist Democrat. But back to Wallace. By August of 1945, it was clear that Japan had lost the war. The common refrain is that atomic bombs were dropped on two civilian cities because the US “was going to have to send our boys to invade”. But is this true? A land that had already lost needed to be invaded and/or nuclear bombed right away? What happened to a little patience and isolation? Internal Japanese factions would get sick of the isolation and most likely force a surrender, wanting to join the world again. They weren’t a threat to the US by that time. But even discussing this around the “greatest generation” members is dangerous. I know by experience. I had a friend in high school who wrote an opinion paper stating the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes. My parents didn’t even want her to come over to visit after they heard that! Strong feelings aside, there is even stronger indication that the real purpose of dropping the bombs was to scare Uncle Joe Stalin shitless with the death that could be meted out by the US. What would have been the harm to wait a bit for a full surrender? At least try for that? America solves everything with violence, or in this case violent science. The choice is framed as this: atomic bombs or every young man in America will be killed by Japanese grannies on their shore with weapons. This jingoistic framing should be a red flag to anyone that the truth is probably going to be a bit more nuanced.  Illogical horror descriptions that are built to scare should be analyzed for veracity. (Babies being thrown out of incubators etc.). Not that the world doesn’t have ample evil for certain, but don’t get played is what I’m saying. They are masters at this and always have been. Manufactured consent and all. Another consideration: anyone who can think of the atomic bombing in sterile ways should be forced to read the accounts from survivors. But ”they” attacked Pearl Harbor…I didn’t sodomize anyone at Abu Ghraib, but that line of thought brings you to retribution in ways you might not want to consider when you begin to view all civilians as being directly responsible for the actions of their “leaders” or their military. This is why old school anarchy considerations feel like common sense truth to me. How can you be responsible for what a psychopathic “leader” did? I wasn’t asked for my feedback. Not to mention a war that was for all purposes over—well, that’s the time these bombs were dropped! My circuitous thought is this: Truman was the office boy to do it. If Wallace had been vice president, then he would have been our subsequent president when FDR died.  I don’t know what the end result would have been, but I have a hunch he wouldn’t have dropped bombs to scare someone. Patience and good judgment might have ruled the day. So the results would have been very different for the citizens of the US, multiple Japanese civilians, as well as perhaps not staining the US as the only nation to own that quote : “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds” as  Oppenheimer famously repeated from the Bhagavad Gita . You can’t see yourself as the paragon of goodness when you knee-jerk use nuclear fission to solve your problems. So we are pretty far down the destroyer of worlds path. Regime change are US. A drastic realignment is necessary. Characters like Biden and Cop Harris won’t cut it, and those types are the DNC’s favored candidates. When Warren becomes favored, you know her sell-out with the Sith lords is complete. These things sound like petty squabbles over a group of similars until you think about Strummer’s pregnant mention of an unwritten future. What consequences will come from the continued use of corporate office boys/girls for the job? Can we write a future that is better, that is decent? There are a lot of individuals like me who find Bernie Sanders to be a compromise, not far enough to the left. But even his middle-of-the-road-in-Europe notions scare the crap out of the machinery. I was furious last time that he didn’t simply run as a third-party candidate. We won’t survive much more of this nonsense. The threats of being a spoiler…well I say spoil it all. It’s rancid. That milk you put back in the fridge that smells isn’t going to rehabilitate itself. Trump won anyway–even with Bernie hitting the road for Clinton last time. And don’t get me started about her. Are they even trying to win? She was needlessly caustic, much like Biden. He has a huge problem with younger voters, so he goes on the road and when he is asked about environmental concerns by a young voter, he says “Look at my record, CHILD!” to an adult woman! Is he even trying at all? Is he just campaigning so he can smell new shampoos around the country? I don’t have high hopes that Bernie will fight back this time when they screw him over again. I hope I’m wrong or at least I hope his campaign leaves the threat of it there to create a known moral hazard for the DNC if this is the path they take. The younger voters are showing that they are basically a bit more decent than the “pragmatic” Boomers and X’ers. There is evidence that they have…empathy. I am so relieved by this and feel this is an indication that a progressive party can win because they have some massive numbers they could draw from. And there are X’ers like me as well as Boomers who aren’t totally evil. We kind of want the world to survive.  We will be there for this change. The tepid centrist Democrats will not help with this imperative. Considering all this though, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to believe that to many corporate/centrist Dems, a loss to Trump is preferable to ceding to the progressive arm of the party. This is a moment like the situation with Wallace in 1944. If the party can’t get rid of things like superdelegates (the Republicans have even done that!) and they continue to use media connections to ignore the true state of support that candidates have (oh, oh, the excitement for Biden is palpable per CNN)…well, the party will vanish and sadly our descent into Republican-style fascism will probably accelerate without a needed safety valve. A true change in the Democratic party would be required, a change to reflect the views of all the adults out there who came of age after things quit being better than their parents had it. A tree does get stronger in the wind (if it survives) and perhaps things were just too easy to breed strength for some of those with comfortable health care and a guaranteed retirement. It will take some strength of character for those older Americans to care about those coming after them and call for change accordingly even if they personally feel they are safe. But ultimately their support will not be required, time will march forward with or without them.  The decent thing to do is be part of the change. The younger generations are especially suffering at the hands of unfettered capitalism. Our globe is even suffering. The middling better than Trump Obama types will not cut it. They will simply slow the descent and make it more comfortable for the well-heeled older centrists on the way down. They might be less overtly embarrassing than Trump, but that’s not enough, My elderly malignant narcissist mother who endorses aggressive nudity is less embarrassing than Trump. That’s a low bar. What we have now, well–this is not just, and this is not good. To only care about your 401 K but not care about someone else’s DKA is a sign of being a shitty person (explainer: DKA is Diabetic Ketoacidosis. It’s what you get when you can’t afford your fucking insulin and it is killing young Type 1 diabetics as we speak). But Sanders can’t just bow down to Biden or Warren if that is who the machinery wants for the office position when the time comes. A new party and movement needs to be built at that moment with no hesitation because you can’t fight fascism and climate destruction with polite adherence to rules set up to keep you down. This Piece Originally Appeared in LA Progressive Read the full article

[darby27]

I'm on episode 5 .... things have been fucked for a while .... Henry Wallace was a badass #rad #henrywallace #history #fucktruman

[historysisco]

I’ve started watching the documentary series by Oliver Stone entitled The Untold History of the United States of Netflix. I’m two episodes in and I find it fascinating far.

Stone uses period piece footage including maps and graphics to his advantage. The amount of Russians lost in the war against Germany is astronomical. Stone quotes the figure at 27-million Russians lost. It’s just mind boggling. While it’s generally taught that the big three allies US, USSR and Great Britain worked together to bring about the end of World War II, but what I find interesting was how in essence back room deals made between members for the post World War unknown to the others. I also found it interesting how GB wanted to maintain and preserve their way of life in the post World War as it was in before World War II, but the U.S. called for the end of colonialism which went directly against the British. I really can’t say that I was ever taught that in school.

The documentary also touches on the largely forgotten Vice President Henry Wallace who rose and fell due to Washington politics both overt and covert. I need to do more research on Wallace.

Harry Truman also has light shed on him since. Basically he was a virtual unknown in Washington politics though being a State Senator from Missouri. He went from being a second thought for Vice President to President upon FDR’S death. Again, I need to do some more research on the early years of Truman’s political career.

And lastly I was curious to see that labor strife was huge in the U.S. during the war years. We’re taught that everyone, male and female, white and black did their part for the war effort. Now I would be naive to think it was done so without any discord, fueled by patriotism, but I found it surprising that there were many strikes and riots during the war years. More research is in order.

I’ll come back to this after watching a few more episodes.

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[stacyamiller85]

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The article I wrote for The Nerdy Girl Express.

[butlerbilly]

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[thategyptiancopt]

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

Henry A.Wallace