Caliphates are safe, because they're easy to wink at, good governance is something else again.
东方红 (The East is Red)
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Caliphates are safe, because they're easy to wink at, good governance is something else again.
guinazacity
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i'd definitely travel to Aceh to fight under the banners of the Hunterid Caliphate.
July 10th, 1963: Rosa Parks is found guilty of the shooting of Alabama Governor George Wallace.
She bursts out into uncontrollable laughter as she is sentenced to death by the State of Alabama.
Is that all you got, you fucking pussies?
Angela Davis, the 19 year old Commissar of the League of Holy Moses is in the audience during the sentencing, watching the proceedings intently.
"And at that moment, I promised myself that violence would ensue."
Davis and her life partner George Jackson decide at that moment to dedicate their lives to the violent overthrow of the White dominated power structure in the United States.
Mugshot of George Jackson in 1961. Someone got the date on the placard wrong. Jackson was known to law enforcement to be a violent and sociopathic murderer and a fanatically dedicated adherent to Maoism. This mugshot was taken after his arrest for murdering a dozen innocent bystanders in a bank robbery gone wrong. (1) He would later escape from prison in 1962 due to Maoist sympathizers in the California Department of Prisons providing him with a gun.
July 13th, 1963: Richard Kuklinski, Commissar of New Jersey Red Guard, purchases several ice cream trucks, nominally since he runs a dairy distribution business and the price of ice cream and ice cream related accessories has bottomed out due to the Latin Flu epidemic.
The Iceman cometh.
July 29th, 1963: This is really quite the boring summer. However, Jakarta does fall again, this time to the Islamists.
The Masyumi Party has become far less moderate during its time in the countryside and immediately begins to behead "apostates" and "Communists."
In Aceh, Islamist attacks against Maoist and pro-Soviet communists have begun to surge in frequency and effectiveness. There are rumors of an insane white man leading the Acehnese rebels into battle. (2)
August 18th, 1963: The Latin Flu seems to have subsided in the United States, although it is still active in other parts of the world.
August 30th, 1963: Things have gotten so bad in Indonesia that the US government has the CIA commission a shipping company to get people out of the area.
September 5th, 1963: Federal agents raid Ben Nighthorse Campbell's jewelry business in downtown Denver. They find no evidence tying him to Communism. Campbell's father files a lawsuit against the FBI.
September 17th, 1963: CBS president Bill Paley is kidnapped from his home by unknown assailants in New York City.
His former employee Edward R. Murrow, who is the director of the US Information Agency, receives the ransom note in the mail at his home in Washington DC, along with Paley's severed right ear.
Murrow informs the FBI of Paley's kidnapping but hides the note from them.
Murrow also had quit smoking in the 1950s, promising to never touch another cigarette until Joseph McCarthy's death.
September 18th, 1963: The police search frantically for Paley, meanwhile, Murrow appears alone in the woods of North New Jersey, as per the instructions of the note. He is carrying audio equipment with him.
Several men appear and place a hood over Murrow's head. They drive him to an unknown location.
Murrow then interviews a man wearing a garish red mask, who informs him that Marxism is buried deep in the heart of America and deep in the heart of the military and civil service.
The Masked Man proclaims that the Great Helmsman Mao Zedong has decreed that there will be a fundamental shift in the United States, a Cultural Revolution in other words.
The man in the garish red mask.
Murrow decides not to air the tape.
September 25th, 1963: Despite the insanity and violence going on in the United States, there are some people who are still doing good work.
One of them is Cesar Chavez, a former farm worker who is trying to organize financial and housing assistance for recently arrived immigrants from Latin America.
Another person is Malcolm Shabazz, who is assisting recently arrived Indonesian refugees with their immigration paperwork.
October 11th, 1963: Lurleen Wallace tries to arrange for the murder of Rosa Parks in prison by agreeing to provide a very large amount of money to Neo-Nazi sympathizers in Montgomery Women's Correctional Facility.
"Killing n(expletive)s is better than hunting turkeys or deer."-Lurleen Wallace.
October 24th, 1963: Patrice Lumumba sets the date of the referendum of union between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo for June 6th, 1964.
October 31st, 1963: An unarmed black boy is shot to death by police in Columbus, Ohio. The boy had been dressed as an FBI SWAT agent for Halloween and the police apparently thought his assault rifle was real.
Instead of resorting to violence, members of Red Guard cells in Columbus go from door to door, urging calm.
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(1): The fact that such a violent and controversial crime never registered in the timeline shows just how great a world this is.
(2): Charging into battle naked and high on various psychoactive substances counts, right?
She bursts out into uncontrollable laughter as she is sentenced to death by the State of Alabama.
Is that all you got, you fucking pussies?
Angela Davis, the 19 year old Commissar of the League of Holy Moses is in the audience during the sentencing, watching the proceedings intently.
"And at that moment, I promised myself that violence would ensue."
Davis and her life partner George Jackson decide at that moment to dedicate their lives to the violent overthrow of the White dominated power structure in the United States.
Mugshot of George Jackson in 1961. Someone got the date on the placard wrong. Jackson was known to law enforcement to be a violent and sociopathic murderer and a fanatically dedicated adherent to Maoism. This mugshot was taken after his arrest for murdering a dozen innocent bystanders in a bank robbery gone wrong. (1) He would later escape from prison in 1962 due to Maoist sympathizers in the California Department of Prisons providing him with a gun.
July 13th, 1963: Richard Kuklinski, Commissar of New Jersey Red Guard, purchases several ice cream trucks, nominally since he runs a dairy distribution business and the price of ice cream and ice cream related accessories has bottomed out due to the Latin Flu epidemic.
The Iceman cometh.
July 29th, 1963: This is really quite the boring summer. However, Jakarta does fall again, this time to the Islamists.
The Masyumi Party has become far less moderate during its time in the countryside and immediately begins to behead "apostates" and "Communists."
In Aceh, Islamist attacks against Maoist and pro-Soviet communists have begun to surge in frequency and effectiveness. There are rumors of an insane white man leading the Acehnese rebels into battle. (2)
August 18th, 1963: The Latin Flu seems to have subsided in the United States, although it is still active in other parts of the world.
August 30th, 1963: Things have gotten so bad in Indonesia that the US government has the CIA commission a shipping company to get people out of the area.
September 5th, 1963: Federal agents raid Ben Nighthorse Campbell's jewelry business in downtown Denver. They find no evidence tying him to Communism. Campbell's father files a lawsuit against the FBI.
September 17th, 1963: CBS president Bill Paley is kidnapped from his home by unknown assailants in New York City.
His former employee Edward R. Murrow, who is the director of the US Information Agency, receives the ransom note in the mail at his home in Washington DC, along with Paley's severed right ear.
Murrow informs the FBI of Paley's kidnapping but hides the note from them.
Murrow also had quit smoking in the 1950s, promising to never touch another cigarette until Joseph McCarthy's death.
September 18th, 1963: The police search frantically for Paley, meanwhile, Murrow appears alone in the woods of North New Jersey, as per the instructions of the note. He is carrying audio equipment with him.
Several men appear and place a hood over Murrow's head. They drive him to an unknown location.
Murrow then interviews a man wearing a garish red mask, who informs him that Marxism is buried deep in the heart of America and deep in the heart of the military and civil service.
The Masked Man proclaims that the Great Helmsman Mao Zedong has decreed that there will be a fundamental shift in the United States, a Cultural Revolution in other words.
The man in the garish red mask.
Murrow decides not to air the tape.
September 25th, 1963: Despite the insanity and violence going on in the United States, there are some people who are still doing good work.
One of them is Cesar Chavez, a former farm worker who is trying to organize financial and housing assistance for recently arrived immigrants from Latin America.
Another person is Malcolm Shabazz, who is assisting recently arrived Indonesian refugees with their immigration paperwork.
October 11th, 1963: Lurleen Wallace tries to arrange for the murder of Rosa Parks in prison by agreeing to provide a very large amount of money to Neo-Nazi sympathizers in Montgomery Women's Correctional Facility.
"Killing n(expletive)s is better than hunting turkeys or deer."-Lurleen Wallace.
October 24th, 1963: Patrice Lumumba sets the date of the referendum of union between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo for June 6th, 1964.
October 31st, 1963: An unarmed black boy is shot to death by police in Columbus, Ohio. The boy had been dressed as an FBI SWAT agent for Halloween and the police apparently thought his assault rifle was real.
Instead of resorting to violence, members of Red Guard cells in Columbus go from door to door, urging calm.
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(1): The fact that such a violent and controversial crime never registered in the timeline shows just how great a world this is.
(2): Charging into battle naked and high on various psychoactive substances counts, right?
November 8th, 1963: China signs a large scale trade agreement with Japan. In exchange for being allowed to assemble goods and provide components for Japan's burgeoning electronics industry, Japan will act as a trade conduit, allowing them to tax Chinese goods meant to be sold in the United States, which technically has no relations with China.
November 16th, 1963: James Jesus Angelton, the highest ranking KGB operative in the United States and CIA Director of Counterintelligence, meets with fellow KGB operative Lee Harvey Oswald in Washington DC.
They discuss the upcoming 1964 elections. A popular favorite on the left seems to be Terry Sanford, governor of North Carolina. Sanford's progressive social and economic policies have helped the state avoid the violence plaguing the rest of the South. Other favorites include Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Ed Muskie of Maine.
The right wing's favorite is Barry Goldwater, junior senator from Arizona. The problem is that a Jew getting elected to the US Presidency (and Oswald notes that Goldwater has repeatedly referred to himself as a Jew) would basically destroy relations between the USSR and the United States. However, Goldwater will run as a racial progressive, which means that another candidate from the South might run. The previous poster child for the Dixiecrats was George Wallace but the Maoists got to him first.
Angleton explains that the Soviet Politburo is ambivalent to China's policies with regards to the United States. On one hand, their campaign of terror has been absolutely brilliant and has weakened the United States in ways that the Soviets could never have managed. However, it also make the United States more erratic in its behavior and has made them prone to using or threatening to use nuclear weapons.
Oswald asks for instructions and Angleton thinks for a bit before ordering Oswald to kill Goldwater before he is elected President of the United States. He feels that the upper echelons of the Politburo would not be able to overcome their antisemitism and thus would drag Russia and the United States closer to a nuclear war.
Nyet?
November 21st, 1963: The FBI arrests the officers who shot an unarmed black boy in Columbus, Ohio on Halloween. Because the boy was dressed like an FBI SWAT agent, the FBI takes it personally, especially since SWAT is considered one of the last bastions of integrity and sanity in an increasingly insane America.
November 30th, 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King is released from Bethesda Naval Medical Hospital. He promptly goes to visit Rosa Parks in prison. They converse briefly but cannot find any ground in common.
King leaves, contemplating what a more peaceful movement would look like.
December 8th, 1963: Neo-Nazi inmates attempt to kill Rosa Parks in prison. However, they are prevented from doing so by the intervention of Maoist inmates. The Neo-Nazi and Klan affiliated gangs in Montgomery Women's Correctional Facility are all murdered as the prison descends into a riot which quickly spreads to nearby Kilby Prison, a maximum security for men housing Alabama's death row (1).
FBI SWAT immediately arrives on scene.
December 9th, 1963: The rioters in Kilby and MWCF have taken hostages and will kill them if FBI SWAT storms either facility. They demand access to television broadcasting equipment.
FBI SWAT doesn't bother and instead storms both facilities immediately. The inmates end up killing several dozen prisoners and staff members with crude homemade bombs but the FBI puts an end to the riot.
Rosa Parks is taken away and transferred to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas for the time being.
December 11th, 1963: Military units act quickly to prevent riots from breaking out in Alabama by scattering protests before they grow too big.
December 18th, 1963: The identities of several Minneapolis Red Guard members are discovered. Leaving nothing to chance, 4 full platoons of FBI SWAT are called in.
The FBI are able to arrest all the suspects without a shot being fired. Among those arrested is Carolyn Adams, a teenager who had run away from her home in New York to fight in People's War.
Special Agent Bruce Lee, one of the SWAT agents present, decides to hold Carolyn in the Minneapolis FBI field office and calls her parents to pick her up.
Although Mr. and Mrs. Adams are angry, this beats a life sentence in Leavenworth for murder and conspiracy charges. In any case, she'll be headed to Harvard next spring and Bruce didn't want to jeopardize that.
Unfortunately, this act of compassion on Bruce's part makes him many enemies with Maoist and Black Radical FBI agents (2), who note that while he let some rich white girl go, many men and women of color have received long prison sentences for far more trivial crimes. They also dislike Bruce engaging in casual relationships with numerous white women (3).
December 23rd, 1963: Comedian Lenny Bruce goes on tour with up and coming talent Emmett Till. Till unashamedly talks about sensitive topics, such as interracial relationships, police brutality, lynching, homosexuality and communism. This makes Till a hit with younger audiences but will get him in trouble with authorities for corruption, even though his act is far less ribald than Bruce's. To make things worse, Till is married to Emily Walker, a white classmate of his from high school and double majored in political science and theater at Northwestern University in Chicago.
December 31st, 1963: All this means that Till is arrested by the Boston Police Department at a New Years' Eve show under the guise of "spreading sedition and obscenity", mainly because some BPD officers wanted to teach that "uppity n(expletive) a lesson." (4)
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(1): Yes, I am aware that Alabama's death row is not located at Montgomery Women's Correctional Facility. However, I am the author, so it is now.
(2): They don't have to be terrorists or work towards the same end as the Maoists but it's likely at least some FBI agents sympathize with the ideals of Maoism even if they don't agree with People's War.
(3): It's the early 1960s after all, interracial relationships are still illegal in many parts of the country.
(4): The North is racist too. Shocking, I know.
November 16th, 1963: James Jesus Angelton, the highest ranking KGB operative in the United States and CIA Director of Counterintelligence, meets with fellow KGB operative Lee Harvey Oswald in Washington DC.
They discuss the upcoming 1964 elections. A popular favorite on the left seems to be Terry Sanford, governor of North Carolina. Sanford's progressive social and economic policies have helped the state avoid the violence plaguing the rest of the South. Other favorites include Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Ed Muskie of Maine.
The right wing's favorite is Barry Goldwater, junior senator from Arizona. The problem is that a Jew getting elected to the US Presidency (and Oswald notes that Goldwater has repeatedly referred to himself as a Jew) would basically destroy relations between the USSR and the United States. However, Goldwater will run as a racial progressive, which means that another candidate from the South might run. The previous poster child for the Dixiecrats was George Wallace but the Maoists got to him first.
Angleton explains that the Soviet Politburo is ambivalent to China's policies with regards to the United States. On one hand, their campaign of terror has been absolutely brilliant and has weakened the United States in ways that the Soviets could never have managed. However, it also make the United States more erratic in its behavior and has made them prone to using or threatening to use nuclear weapons.
Oswald asks for instructions and Angleton thinks for a bit before ordering Oswald to kill Goldwater before he is elected President of the United States. He feels that the upper echelons of the Politburo would not be able to overcome their antisemitism and thus would drag Russia and the United States closer to a nuclear war.
Nyet?
November 21st, 1963: The FBI arrests the officers who shot an unarmed black boy in Columbus, Ohio on Halloween. Because the boy was dressed like an FBI SWAT agent, the FBI takes it personally, especially since SWAT is considered one of the last bastions of integrity and sanity in an increasingly insane America.
November 30th, 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King is released from Bethesda Naval Medical Hospital. He promptly goes to visit Rosa Parks in prison. They converse briefly but cannot find any ground in common.
King leaves, contemplating what a more peaceful movement would look like.
December 8th, 1963: Neo-Nazi inmates attempt to kill Rosa Parks in prison. However, they are prevented from doing so by the intervention of Maoist inmates. The Neo-Nazi and Klan affiliated gangs in Montgomery Women's Correctional Facility are all murdered as the prison descends into a riot which quickly spreads to nearby Kilby Prison, a maximum security for men housing Alabama's death row (1).
FBI SWAT immediately arrives on scene.
December 9th, 1963: The rioters in Kilby and MWCF have taken hostages and will kill them if FBI SWAT storms either facility. They demand access to television broadcasting equipment.
FBI SWAT doesn't bother and instead storms both facilities immediately. The inmates end up killing several dozen prisoners and staff members with crude homemade bombs but the FBI puts an end to the riot.
Rosa Parks is taken away and transferred to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas for the time being.
December 11th, 1963: Military units act quickly to prevent riots from breaking out in Alabama by scattering protests before they grow too big.
December 18th, 1963: The identities of several Minneapolis Red Guard members are discovered. Leaving nothing to chance, 4 full platoons of FBI SWAT are called in.
The FBI are able to arrest all the suspects without a shot being fired. Among those arrested is Carolyn Adams, a teenager who had run away from her home in New York to fight in People's War.
Special Agent Bruce Lee, one of the SWAT agents present, decides to hold Carolyn in the Minneapolis FBI field office and calls her parents to pick her up.
Although Mr. and Mrs. Adams are angry, this beats a life sentence in Leavenworth for murder and conspiracy charges. In any case, she'll be headed to Harvard next spring and Bruce didn't want to jeopardize that.
Unfortunately, this act of compassion on Bruce's part makes him many enemies with Maoist and Black Radical FBI agents (2), who note that while he let some rich white girl go, many men and women of color have received long prison sentences for far more trivial crimes. They also dislike Bruce engaging in casual relationships with numerous white women (3).
December 23rd, 1963: Comedian Lenny Bruce goes on tour with up and coming talent Emmett Till. Till unashamedly talks about sensitive topics, such as interracial relationships, police brutality, lynching, homosexuality and communism. This makes Till a hit with younger audiences but will get him in trouble with authorities for corruption, even though his act is far less ribald than Bruce's. To make things worse, Till is married to Emily Walker, a white classmate of his from high school and double majored in political science and theater at Northwestern University in Chicago.
December 31st, 1963: All this means that Till is arrested by the Boston Police Department at a New Years' Eve show under the guise of "spreading sedition and obscenity", mainly because some BPD officers wanted to teach that "uppity n(expletive) a lesson." (4)
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(1): Yes, I am aware that Alabama's death row is not located at Montgomery Women's Correctional Facility. However, I am the author, so it is now.
(2): They don't have to be terrorists or work towards the same end as the Maoists but it's likely at least some FBI agents sympathize with the ideals of Maoism even if they don't agree with People's War.
(3): It's the early 1960s after all, interracial relationships are still illegal in many parts of the country.
(4): The North is racist too. Shocking, I know.
January 6th, 1964: Because comedy is not the most lucrative of fields, Emmett Till is forced to accept a public defender, in this instance, a student at Harvard Law School by the name of Claudette Colvin. Colvin is attending law school on the FBI's dime, so it's somewhat awkward that she's defending a known Communist, even if it's on a fairly minor obscenity charge.
Well Mr. Till, I'll see what I can do.
January 18th, 1964: Emmett Till pleads guilty to obscenity charges leveled by the State of Massachusetts but Colvin gets Federal sedition charges dropped, since she convinces the local US Attorney that it wouldn't be worth his time to pursue the charges.
January 30th, 1964: Emmett Till is sentenced to a fine and 2 weeks in jail. He is released due to time served.
The situation in Indonesia deteriorates further as the PKI retakes Jakarta from the Masyumi Party. More accurately, the PKI retakes the ruins of Jakarta from the Masyumi Party. Meanwhile, the PKI cements its control over Bali, which is mostly Hindu.
February 5th, 1964: Lt. Hunter S. Thompson reports to the CIA that the situation in Sumatra has degenerated into bands of Communists and Islamists wandering the countryside beheading anyone who looks at them funny. The Indonesian Civil War has already degenerated into one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the 20th Century thus far, having already surpassed the Holocaust and is on track to surpass Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.
The CIA offers to extract him from Aceh but Thompson puts in a transfer request from the Navy to the CIA Special Activities Division instead. Thompson promises the CIA that he will help stabilize the area.
February 6th, 1964: Of course, the Brazilians can't let the Indonesians take the mantle of worst humanitarian disaster. A botched military coup results in a civil war starting in the country. The war is kicked off with the assassination of the entire Brazilian military command by communist rebels, which causes the situation in the country to rapidly spiral out of control.
At minimum, the United States cannot intervene until the 1964 elections.
February 8th, 1964: Fearing that Barry Goldwater is insufficiently conservative, Lurleen Wallace declares her candidacy for President of the United States. (1)
I love n(expletive)s but n(expletive)s have to learn their place.
February 19th, 1964: China establishes its first microchip foundry outside of Harbin, China. They will agree to teach the Japanese how to make smaller microchips if the Japanese can help China establish its automobile industry.
Of course, these early microchips are going to be utter crap but that's to be expected.
March 3rd, 1964: The bridge between Kinshasa and Brazzaville is completed. Rail traffic can now make it from Lubumbashi to Point Noire in the Republic of the Congo, simplifying the supply chain for the Gécamines, the Congolese national mining firm.
March 5th, 1964: Oswald and Angleton meet again. They determine that maybe it's ok for Goldwater to be President. Maybe it's ok. If anything, Lurleen Wallace just saved Senator Goldwater's life.
March 11th, 1964: There is now a Maoist study group in every state in the Union from Hawaii to to New York and from Alaska to Maine. Most of them are innocuous but many are militant.
March 28th, 1964: A sweeping gun control bill is floated in Congress but dies in Committee, mainly because many constituents have been lobbying Congress for relaxed gun ownership requirements so they can defend themselves from Reds/Nazis.
April 9th, 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King begins to organize a peaceful march from Houston, Texas to Washington DC. While announcing his intention to march, he publicly breaks with Red figures in the Civil Rights movement, such as John Lewis, Clarence Smith and Angela Davis.
King declares his willingness to become a martyr for peace in the United States.
April 11th, 1964: Right after he declares himself to be a "racial realist", Congressman Jesse Helms of North Carolina demands that someone "arrest that n(expletive) Martin Luther King", for "making a mockery of our good, Christian nation."
"I hate n(expletive)s, spics, kikes, chinks, nips, charlies, gooks, sandn(expletive)s, ballwashers(2), driftwoods (3), greasers, wops, wogs and Papists and I support Lurleen Wallace for President. White power."-Congressman Jesse Helms.
President Thurmond, glad that for once that a marcher doesn't have a Kalashnikov in his hand, declines to order the arrest of Dr. King.
April 15th, 1964: True to his word, Dr. King kicks out a group of assault rifle wielding Red Guardsmen from one of his rallies in Louisiana.
When the guardmen's commissar asks him what he would do if Neo-Nazis show up, Dr. King just smiles and shrugs.
"Let 'em do as God wills."
April 29th, 1964: Fearing for his life, an FBI SWAT unit is sent to protect Dr. King. King rejects the FBI's protection as well. The SWAT unit Special Agent in Charge replies that they are there to protect innocent bystanders if the Neo-Nazis start shooting. Special Agent Bruce Lee is part of the unit; forced to march in the hot sun in a heavy kevlar and steel vest because of his actions in Minneapolis.
May 10th, 1964: The United Arab Republic holds its first Federal elections for Council of Delegates (lower house) and the National Assembly (upper house). The Baath Party of Syria and Iraq takes a majority in both houses over the Arab Socialist Union and various Islamist parties. This alarms Nasser and his supporters.
May 22nd, 1964: Aung San Suu Kyi makes it to the United States and is offloaded in New Orleans with not much more than the clothes on her back.
She ends up finding a job cleaning seafood in a coastal town.
June 1st, 1964: Dr. King and his marchers make their way to Montgomery, Alabama.
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(1): And this is what Rosa Parks was afraid of. This is what happens when you don't let Rosa Parks poison women and children.
(2): Insult for Indonesian people, who are rapidly becoming the most numerous type of Asian-American. Due to a lack of jobs, many Indonesian women have taken up prostitution to help support their families.
(3): Insult for Burmese people, many of whom drifted towards US Navy ships on crude boats.
Well Mr. Till, I'll see what I can do.
January 18th, 1964: Emmett Till pleads guilty to obscenity charges leveled by the State of Massachusetts but Colvin gets Federal sedition charges dropped, since she convinces the local US Attorney that it wouldn't be worth his time to pursue the charges.
January 30th, 1964: Emmett Till is sentenced to a fine and 2 weeks in jail. He is released due to time served.
The situation in Indonesia deteriorates further as the PKI retakes Jakarta from the Masyumi Party. More accurately, the PKI retakes the ruins of Jakarta from the Masyumi Party. Meanwhile, the PKI cements its control over Bali, which is mostly Hindu.
February 5th, 1964: Lt. Hunter S. Thompson reports to the CIA that the situation in Sumatra has degenerated into bands of Communists and Islamists wandering the countryside beheading anyone who looks at them funny. The Indonesian Civil War has already degenerated into one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the 20th Century thus far, having already surpassed the Holocaust and is on track to surpass Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.
The CIA offers to extract him from Aceh but Thompson puts in a transfer request from the Navy to the CIA Special Activities Division instead. Thompson promises the CIA that he will help stabilize the area.
February 6th, 1964: Of course, the Brazilians can't let the Indonesians take the mantle of worst humanitarian disaster. A botched military coup results in a civil war starting in the country. The war is kicked off with the assassination of the entire Brazilian military command by communist rebels, which causes the situation in the country to rapidly spiral out of control.
At minimum, the United States cannot intervene until the 1964 elections.
February 8th, 1964: Fearing that Barry Goldwater is insufficiently conservative, Lurleen Wallace declares her candidacy for President of the United States. (1)
I love n(expletive)s but n(expletive)s have to learn their place.
February 19th, 1964: China establishes its first microchip foundry outside of Harbin, China. They will agree to teach the Japanese how to make smaller microchips if the Japanese can help China establish its automobile industry.
Of course, these early microchips are going to be utter crap but that's to be expected.
March 3rd, 1964: The bridge between Kinshasa and Brazzaville is completed. Rail traffic can now make it from Lubumbashi to Point Noire in the Republic of the Congo, simplifying the supply chain for the Gécamines, the Congolese national mining firm.
March 5th, 1964: Oswald and Angleton meet again. They determine that maybe it's ok for Goldwater to be President. Maybe it's ok. If anything, Lurleen Wallace just saved Senator Goldwater's life.
March 11th, 1964: There is now a Maoist study group in every state in the Union from Hawaii to to New York and from Alaska to Maine. Most of them are innocuous but many are militant.
March 28th, 1964: A sweeping gun control bill is floated in Congress but dies in Committee, mainly because many constituents have been lobbying Congress for relaxed gun ownership requirements so they can defend themselves from Reds/Nazis.
April 9th, 1964: Dr. Martin Luther King begins to organize a peaceful march from Houston, Texas to Washington DC. While announcing his intention to march, he publicly breaks with Red figures in the Civil Rights movement, such as John Lewis, Clarence Smith and Angela Davis.
King declares his willingness to become a martyr for peace in the United States.
April 11th, 1964: Right after he declares himself to be a "racial realist", Congressman Jesse Helms of North Carolina demands that someone "arrest that n(expletive) Martin Luther King", for "making a mockery of our good, Christian nation."
"I hate n(expletive)s, spics, kikes, chinks, nips, charlies, gooks, sandn(expletive)s, ballwashers(2), driftwoods (3), greasers, wops, wogs and Papists and I support Lurleen Wallace for President. White power."-Congressman Jesse Helms.
President Thurmond, glad that for once that a marcher doesn't have a Kalashnikov in his hand, declines to order the arrest of Dr. King.
April 15th, 1964: True to his word, Dr. King kicks out a group of assault rifle wielding Red Guardsmen from one of his rallies in Louisiana.
When the guardmen's commissar asks him what he would do if Neo-Nazis show up, Dr. King just smiles and shrugs.
"Let 'em do as God wills."
April 29th, 1964: Fearing for his life, an FBI SWAT unit is sent to protect Dr. King. King rejects the FBI's protection as well. The SWAT unit Special Agent in Charge replies that they are there to protect innocent bystanders if the Neo-Nazis start shooting. Special Agent Bruce Lee is part of the unit; forced to march in the hot sun in a heavy kevlar and steel vest because of his actions in Minneapolis.
May 10th, 1964: The United Arab Republic holds its first Federal elections for Council of Delegates (lower house) and the National Assembly (upper house). The Baath Party of Syria and Iraq takes a majority in both houses over the Arab Socialist Union and various Islamist parties. This alarms Nasser and his supporters.
May 22nd, 1964: Aung San Suu Kyi makes it to the United States and is offloaded in New Orleans with not much more than the clothes on her back.
She ends up finding a job cleaning seafood in a coastal town.
June 1st, 1964: Dr. King and his marchers make their way to Montgomery, Alabama.
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(1): And this is what Rosa Parks was afraid of. This is what happens when you don't let Rosa Parks poison women and children.
(2): Insult for Indonesian people, who are rapidly becoming the most numerous type of Asian-American. Due to a lack of jobs, many Indonesian women have taken up prostitution to help support their families.
(3): Insult for Burmese people, many of whom drifted towards US Navy ships on crude boats.
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guinazacity
Banned
I'm inclined to believe they never showed up in Cuba, for fear of provoking the increasingly unstable US into starting something stupid.
Marc A
Some constructive criticism: the fact that you're talking about how all these individuals are doing crazy stuff (assassinating people, becoming revolutionaries, etc) is causing this timeline to tank. I'm really sorry but honestly the fact that you're putting too much of these stories is causing the TL to become boring.