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| Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:24am |
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
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Remember, it was not until 1920
that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
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The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking
for the vote.
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(Lucy Burns)
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above
her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping
for air.
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(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her
head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
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(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920
that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking
for the vote.
(Lucy Burns)
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above
her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping
for air.
(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her
head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf

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I am referring to your posts in other threads as well. You DO bash others and to be honest, all you seem to really bring to the board is negativity. You rarely offer proof for the "information" you give but you constantly ask for proof from others who believe differently than you. AND when you're provided with factual links and the proof you asked for you all of a sudden stop posting about that topic. Then I see your name pop up in a different thread bashing someone about something else. I really can't see why you would even want to come to this board, I think you just like to stir the pot and create drama to fill your meaningless life.
I want to add for others who may read this post, the above comment is not the way I would typically talk to someone, especially someone I am debating with. I believe the purpose of debates, and this board for that matter, are to share and discuss information. Knjess all too often crosses the line and I was just "giving her a taste of her own medicine."
Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
Grayson Blaine 12/30/07
MONTANA MOM !
I posted this information to you
Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
Grayson Blaine 12/30/07
MONTANA MOM !
Your generalizations are inaccurate and misplaced in that you are assuming everyone
I think the nurses who have come forward have said 'supply closet' is where they were left to die... not much different than a dumpster.
Did the law say put them there ... no, but when the law failed to protect them where would they be put?
that being said ... on the OT ... I'm glad women and men, black, white, purple and green have the right to vote and I hope all do ... even if they don't vote for my candidate.
MONTANA MOM !
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