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But she predicts that if real "vio-
lence comes, the backlash is going to
racism and militarism, but everyone
likes safety and order. If we've al-
ready got safety and order, fascists
( on tact Arkansas Times columnist
Gene Lyons at eugenel\ons2(a ya-
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making excuses for them to reject the
KKK.
But let them start real trouble, and
warriors
the Berkeley crowd
had decisively out-
numbered, ridiculed
and shamed "all-
right" marchers as
That's certainly what happened
during the Sixties.
My late lather taught me an oft-re-
peated expression I always took as
the essence of Americanism. “You're
no better than anybody else." he'd
growl, “and NOBODY'S BETTER
THAN YOU.” There was more than
a little Irish nationalism in what he
said, but he definitely meant it. So
do I.
Most Americans do, too. Even
there’s no real comparison between under Donald Trump, the great ma-
le ft- and right-wing political violence jority remains deeply attached to the
in the United States. fundamental premises of democratic
The “alt-left” Trump described citizenship.
scarcely exists, and had almost no
role in the Charlottesville tragedy.
Beinart cites Anti-Defamation
League statistics showing that 74
percent of politically motivated mur-
ders in the I .S. since 2007 were
committed by right-wing extremists,
versus 2 percent by leftists.
1 he news media's tendency to
soft-pedal the far-right motives of
killers from Timothy McVeigh to
Dylan Roof has long been an in-
stance of willful blindness.
appeared, w ith petty property destruction.”
But when masked intruders quit
breaking windows and start car-
rying weapons, things can change
shamed “alt- fast. “Paramilitaries facing off in
marchers as the streets is god's gift to fascism,”
the pathetic goobers Beyerstein adds. “Not everyone likes
that they are.
Much as thousands
ot peaceful citizens
on
They want to believe that we're all
in it together - America, that is - and
they react against anybody threaten-
ing that belief.
So that when Alabama segrega-
tionists attacked peaceful civil rights
demonstrators with clubs, tear gas
and dogs, the majority sympathized
with the victims -- and brought about
the end of Jim Crow. But after rioting
tore Chicago apart in 1968, they went
the other way. 1 lard.
Nobody needs the help of Anti-
Journalists on the left correctly fear fa militants and the idiot professors
that won’t be the case with Antifa.
Also on 1 acebook, journalist Lind-
say Beyerstein explains that she's
covered many protests halfway sab- we ll all end up wishing we'd never
otaged by Antifa antics: “1 always heard of them,
thought of them as self-indulgent
parasites because they'd show up at
demonstrations organized by other
people and capture the news cycle
Yes, Antifa dangerous - but not to fascists
( all me unromantic, but I disliked
a lol about the fabled “Sixties” the
first time around. Some of the music
was good, but otherwise 1968 was
among the worst years in American
life. The center nearly failed io hold.
As if the Vietnam War were not bad
enough, the assassinations of Martin
Luther King and Robert I Kennedy
made it feel as if America’s demo-
cratic institutions might not survive.
Lager for “revolution,” hothouse
warriors in the SI)S and Weather Un-
derground did every thing possible to
promote anarchy -- from rioting to
selling oil bombs. During the 1968
Democratic National ( onvention,
pitched battles between street fight-
ers and ( hie.igo police brought chaos
and a massive voter backlash.
The most immediate result, bril-
liantly chronicled in historian Rick
Perlstein's book “Nixonland,” was
the criminal presidency of Richard
M. Nixon.
So 1 found it heartening to see
Perlstein take to Pacebook to scold
the latter-day anarchists of “Antifa.”
There was nothing subtle or scholar-
ly about it.
"Stop destroying the left, you in-
fantile (bleeps),” Perlstein wrote.
Can 1 get an amen?
In a subsequent post, the histori-
an quoted an eyewitness account of
Antifa goons assaulting KKK-style
marchers at a “white power” demon-
stration in Berkeley, California, ofall
places.
"Yesterday, at the anti-Alt-Right
rally in Berkeley.” Leighton Wood-
house wrote, “1 watched groups ot
masked Antifa members in Black
Bloc formation swarm individuals
who were apparently antagonizing
them, and pummel them with their
fists, feet and flagpoles. When the
victims tried to escape, they were run
down, and in at least one case, cut off
by the Antifa mob and beaten down
some more.”
A similarly vivid account of Anti-
fa bullying by photojournalist Mike
Kessler appeared in The New Re-
public. lhe irony was that until the
masked, black-clad social justice
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had so outnumbered white suprema-
cists a week earlier that they look off
their little bedsheets and went home
without even trying to harangue lhe come down as hard against the entire
crowd. left as it did against the alt-right after
1 hat's all that ever needs to hap- Charlottesville.”
pen.
But I don't even need to turn on
I ox News to know that Sean Han-
nity and the rest of lhe merry band
of I rump apologists on right-wing
media are playing up Antifa as the
moral equivalent of Bolshevik revo-
lutionaries.
Well-meaning journalists such as
the Washington Post's Margaret Sul-
livan and l he Atlantic's Peter Bein-
art are certainly correct to argue that
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TODAY IN HISTORY
On this date:
In 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized
the first national election, and declared New York City the
temporary national capital.
In 1814, during the War of 1812, British naval forces
began bombarding Fort McHenry in Baltimore but were
driven back by American defenders in a battle that lasted
until the following morning.
In 1948, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine
was elected to the U.S. Senate; she became the first wom-
an to serve in both houses of Congress.
In 1959, Elvis Presley first met his future wife, 14-year-
old Priscilla Beaulieu, while stationed in West Germany
with the U.S. Army. (Thev married in 1967, but divorced
in 1973.)
In 1971, a four-day inmates’rebellion at the Attica Cor-
rectional Facility in western New York ended as police
and guards stormed the prison; the ordeal and final assault
claimed the lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages.
In 2002, the earliest known online use of the term
“selfie” (a photographic self-portrait, usually taken with
a smartphone) occurred on an Australian Broadcasting
Corp, website forum.
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush ordered grad-
ual reductions in U.S. forces in Iraq and said in a televised
address, “ l he more successful we are. the more American
troops can return home.”
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Health hazard looms
Lawrence .1. Daniel
Baytow n
What’s trending
@baytownsun.com
Here are the top-10 most-read articles on www.bay-
townsun.com for the week of Sept. 5 through Sept. 11, as
determined by the number of page views:
1. Woman's body found in Chambers County (Saturday
online)
2. Body of missing woman found; murder charge for
ex-husband (Sunday)
3. Search for missing woman continues (Thursday)
4. Tex-Mex pioneet, Eugene Ybarra, dies at 81 (Friday)
5. GCM teacher wishes she could do more (Sunday)
6. Private eye joins search for realtor (Tuesday)
7. Pinehurst begins road to recovery (Wednesday)
8. City: Kroger to cleanup Alexander site soon (Friday)
9. Police Beat - Man charged with stalking (Friday))
10. Baytown Police seeks help in locating missing
Baytown man (Friday)
The most-read articles for the year so far were, “Miss-
ing Baytown woman’s car found.” (Aug. 30); “Evacua-
tions, rescues ongoing in Baytown,” (Aug. 29); and "Pro-
gram to feature Baytown murder,” (July 16).
In all that’s going on during our recover} efforts, can
the City send some building inspectors to 1200 North-
wood? Residents are on Facebook claiming that the man-
agement is going door-to-door telling residents still in the
complex that they are collecting rent and that anyone re-
fusing to pay because their apartment is damaged will be
evicted immediately which they don't have the right to do
but a lot of folks might not know that.
I messaged the management and they claimed that they
had no flooding whatsoever and that they were going to
call the City and tell them not to come inspect. Residents
are posting pics of their flood-damaged apartments, some
have no place else to go and are living in those moldy,
mildewed apartments.
lhe management at 1200 told me that they haven't
stripped out any of the first-floor apartments. The City is
going to have a health hazard on their hands if they don't
get down there and take care of business. I really hope
they get down there soon.
Wednesday,
September 13, 2017
On the last page, titled Bee
Lines, I continue to enjoy news
from the past, including an item
about Denise Fischer’s grandpar-
ents. Louis and Marguerite Van
Meldert, visiting their roots in
Europe.
Van Meldert was one of my
early mentors in local history',
and it was from him that I first
learned about the Bayland Or-
phanage.
The Humble Bee. that autumn
of '56. reported that the Van
Melderts stopped by the Meldert
Cathedral built in Belgium by his
ancestors in the year 600.
Now, that's history!
Banda Orton is a retired man-
aging editor of The Sun. She can
he reached at viewpoints@bay-
townstin.com. Attention: Banda
Orton.
co-captain the team.
By the time this issue went to
press, the Ganders had played
two games that ended in ties.
They tied 0-0 with Lamar and
7-7 with Pori Arthur. Next game
on schedule would be a confron-
tation with Corpus Christi Ray.
(Wonder how that turned out.)
In refinery new s, plants man-
ager Gordon Famed names Ike
Hall to head the newly created
solvents department, assisted by
George Armer, Chris Hansen,
John Alliston and J.C. Cloud.
Remindful of the Baytown
Sun's Around Town, folksy col-
umns by employees contained
tidbits about their co-workers.
Among the columnists was Billie
Hinton, who worked for Hum-
ble Production before starting
her career as an educator in the
Goose Creek school system.
WANDA
ORTON
4 The Baytown Sun
| R.B. Jacobs,
from the fleet
H of fine company
commentator for the show. Not
only adept at selecting and sell-
ing clothes, she could describe
them very well.
Two younger age groups
shared the spotlight with the reg-
ular models. Teen-agers on the
runway include Adrienne Da-
vis, Sandra Dias, Elaine Bruce,
Ann Kelly, Mona Leslie, Deanna
Opryshek, Lucy Stall worth and
Marcia White while children’s
clothes are modeled by Becky
Camp, Anne 1 eeseman, Kerry
Katribe, Kurt Pullen, Richard
LaFosse, Alice Marie Anton ini,
Kathy Leeseman, Kelly Katribe
and Jill Hopper.
On the sports page. Gan-
der football players stand with
coach Dan Stallworth and assis-
tant coaches Pete Sultis, Henry
Armstrong and John Adams.
Bill Laughlin and Wesley Hicks
Viewpoints
Old Humble Bees buzz with Baytown history
Every now and then this his-
tory buff seeks a nostalgia “fix”
from the Humble Bee, a maga-
zine once published by Humble
Oil & Refining Co., forerunner
of ExxonMobil.
I pick up a past issue -just any
old issue, doesn’t matter - and
familiar names and faces always
pop up on the slick pages. I’m in
hometown-history heaven.
The Bee not only covered
company activities but provided
stories and photos of communi-
ty-wide interest as well.
Today I’m looking at the Sep-
tember 1956 issue featuring fash-
ion and football on the cover. One
photo show's Alloyd Dickerson,
preparing to model in an Epsilon
Sigma Alpha style show, and in
the other photo. Gander football
team players are lining up on
the field at Memorial Stadium.
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Wflpy: photographers,
_ sr|apPeJ both
scenes.
Turning inside
■IBHi the magazine to
a group photo ot'
Epsilon Sigma
Alpha members,
I can't name all of them but in-
stantly connect three with Robert
E. Lee High School ties. They
are Brigadier director Carmel
Norton, librarian I ois Snead and
physical education teacher Chic
Godwin. Also. I recognize coun-
selor Dorothv Willis and teacher
Onida Carroll from my Baytown
Junior High days.
Em not surprised to read that
Helen Melinger from The Style
Shoppe was the coordinator and
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