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The reason that I've been taking so long reading this book is that with every page I discover either another family name, resource or historical context that relates directly to my French-Canadian ancestors. I'm having just as much fun reading and then researching.

I was visiting in Syracuse, NY the weekend of the uprising when I got a call from a friend in my Police Science class at Monroe Community College. A request to get back to Rochester as soon as possible because the Monore County Sheriff's office was asking for crowd control assistance from the Police Science classes to deal with some of the traffic and chaos that was happening at Attica.

"The Ohio Company sought land for speculation. To call this hodgepodge of ambitions and aims an alliance is like calling the occupants of a brothel on any given night a family."

"After 12 years in government the Conservatives were an exhausted force. It was surprising perhaps that a party so predicated on privilege had lasted so long, though as governments have learned since, you can get voters to vote against their own economic interests if you can find something sufficiently powerful to counter them with - religion, a powerful hate, a collective (even if unrealistic) aspiration."

Amazing, some of the stuff that went on over 100 years ago that is still going on today... ;)

"But the fiction of top-down Government control, of a Command Economy, is, at essence, like a Reality Show, which is to say, a fraud. The Good Causes of the left may generally be compared to NASCAR, they offer the diversion of watching things go excitingly around in a circle, getting nowhere."

The assassination on the morning of June 28, 1914, might have been the end of Gavrilo Princip's 'mystical journey...Look carefully at the photograph of the Graf &Stift limousine as its wheels turn to make the corner outside the Moritz Schiller cafe...by some strange synchronicity the car's number plate can be read A111118. It was a sequence with no great resonance before the First World War...Armistice Day, 11-11-18

"This behavior earned the United State a reputation all over Latin America as the 'Colossus of the North', an international bully. A pattern that had started informally in Mexico in 1848 gradually became national policy. The United States used its muscle to prop up dictators who kept order by suppressing democratic movements. Thus the North Americans sponsored such beastly tyrannies as those of the Somoza family..."

"This world of schlock stereotypes and EZ solutions is the one experience a pampered billionaire can share with all of those 'paycheck-to-paycheck' voters the candidates are always trying to reach. TV is the ultimate leveling phenomenon. It makes everyone, rich and poor, equally incapable of dealing with reality."

"Brethren you know that we have no forcing rules or laws amongst us."

Definitely worth reading!

Bomb makers, detectives, filmmakers, lawyers, actors, actresses, and lawyers! Story of my life. Damn good reading.

Thinking how incredible this would be as a televised docudrama. A period peice set in the theater, with individual interviews of each of the participants in their appointed roles and on-stage character performance, without revealing the premise or the evening's finale, until the end.