American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Not to mention, the current president is no longer Kennedy, an Irish Catholic, but Johnson, a white Protestant from the Southern United States. Therefore, after losing the halo of identity politics, a considerable number of Irish people have also voted for the Republican Party, no longer supporting the Democratic Party, and even less supporting the Kim family.

　Things had come to this point, so Bernard came to consult with Fili, but what could Fili do? He could only persuade him to admit defeat!

　"There's definitely no hope for this year's midterm elections. Brother, you should just focus on preparing for the next election in two years."

　Phiri said to Bernard, "In politics, ups and downs are common. If you really can't stand it, don't force it. It's not good for anyone.

　After losing the election to Kennedy six years ago, Vice President Nixon did not become depressed, but continued to look for opportunities.

　Since your election prospects are unfavorable this year, then just accept defeat gracefully. Then, over the next two years, participate in more public events, recruit more supporters, and prepare for the next storming of Capitol Hill! While our family isn't wealthy, we're not so poor that we have to rely on your meager congressman salary to survive..."

　Bernard pursed his lips upon hearing this, seeming somewhat unwilling to accept it. After all, no politician wants to leave the center of the stage.

　But Patrick, the gray-haired father of the King family, burst in happily at this moment, waving a newspaper in his hand and shouting, "Big news! Big news! The blacks are making trouble again! I heard it's the Black Panthers who are rebelling! Go watch TV!"

　Ferry and Bernard: ???

　Then, on the TV news, they saw burning houses, messy streets, black people with bloody heads, and people holding shields.

　Police, and the tattered Stars and Stripes...

　Chapter 373: Rivers of blood everywhere!

　Since the 1960s, African Americans in the United States have been making riots in the streets, beating, smashing, looting and burning, which has become a daily news event.

　Although Martin Luther King repeatedly claimed that he wanted to campaign for peace and oppose violence, he could not control the black people in the United States.

　Just like Martin Luther, who founded Protestantism four hundred years ago. Although he tried his best to please the princes and suppress the lower classes from the very beginning, he could only watch helplessly as the religious reform movement he single-handedly launched caused the peasants throughout Germany to rise up and launch a vigorous uprising.

　From this time on, whenever African Americans encountered any sensitive incidents, they would take to the streets to set fires and buy things for free, which became a daily sight in America.

　There is no other way. Only children who make noise can get milk, and only black people who commit crimes can be treated as human beings. Otherwise, they will be slaves all their lives until they die!

　The values ​​of the united front are created through rebellion. Black people who don’t want to be slaves must work hard to set fires and rob in order to make their presence felt!

　Therefore, President Johnson's "One Million Man Draft Plan" has once again ignited the anger of black people in the United States.

　Why? Because those damn racists at the draft office were targeting black college students and conscripting them!

　At this moment, in order to meet President Johnson's "One Million Man Recruitment Plan", recruiters sent by the Pentagon are breaking into universities everywhere to frantically arrest people - for various considerations, the main target of US military recruitment now is precisely the group of young and promising college students.

　But the problem is that college students in a modern country are the most intelligent, organized and innovative group of people.

　Even students in seminaries who teach religion can create warlord groups like the Taliban in Afghanistan.

　In the United States, college students of this age are passionate young people, all believing that "there's a vast world ahead of them" and "there's much to be done." How could they be willing to serve as cannon fodder for the military? If conscription were unavoidable, many college students' families would have extensive connections, and if the situation became serious, it's hard to say who would suffer.

　Therefore, the conscription officers who bullied the weak and feared the strong focused their efforts on conscripting college students of color who seemed easier to bully.

　Especially those universities with conservative school spirit and few black students, they might as well arrest all the black male students in the school and send them into exile!

　But the problem is, even though there are fewer black college students today, they are not so easy to be slaughtered, right?

　In those days, racial segregation in the United States had only been abolished a few years earlier. Admissions preferences and test score advantages for Black people hadn't even begun to appear—or rather, Black people still faced discriminatory treatment during admissions. They had to outperform white students on the test scores and have stronger letters of recommendation to gain admission. The number of Black people who could attend college nationwide was extremely small.

　Especially in the southern states of the United States, it is rare to have seven or eight black people in a university.

　Under this systemic oppression, any black person who managed to become a university student was essentially a test-taker among test-takers, the elite among the elite, the chosen ones among the chosen ones, regardless of their actual abilities. However, their arrogance was no less than that of the scholars in old China.

　However, the Pentagon today is actually going to throw these proud black people into the trenches to die with fools?

　What a terrible humiliation! What a cruel persecution!

　These black elites will definitely contact the media, denounce the Johnson government for racial persecution, and then call on their friends to take to the streets to cause trouble!

　Anyway, my bright future as a college student has been ruined by you damn recruiters, so what's so scary about having a criminal record?

　Instead of fighting with strange yellow monkeys in faraway Asia, it is better to fight the white ghosts directly in your hometown!

　Take Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian leader of the "Non-Violent Non-Cooperation Movement." Don't be fooled by his seemingly benevolent appearance. If the British colonial authorities had simply torn him apart, forcibly conscripted him into the army, and then sent him to be killed on a battlefield, do you think he would have immediately become more violent than anyone else?

　Of course, if it is just a small group of black college students who were forcibly drafted into the army making trouble, it generally will not cause much trouble.

　However, American society today has long been a powder keg with a crackling fuse, and it really only takes a spark to explode!

　——At the beginning of the Vietnam War, as a large amount of military spending was spent, the initial stimulus to the US economy was quite effective: investment in military orders provided a large number of jobs, greatly increased the employment rate, and even delayed the outbreak of the economic crisis.

　As a result, the American economy in the first half of the 1960s was later called the "Storm Era" by economists.

　This is just like the arms race among countries on the eve of World War II, which once allowed Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire to escape from economic depression and usher in a war boom.

　However, there is a problem here. It feels good to spend a lot of money, but where does the money come from?

　In the end, it still has to be extorted from the common people!

　Just like the rearmament efforts of various nations during World War II, which were essentially eating up tomorrow's food, the US economy's rapid growth during the Vietnam War was accompanied by soaring government deficits, skyrocketing domestic prices, and widespread public discontent.

　In order to raise military funds, the tax burden on the American middle class was greatly increased after the Vietnam War began. In 1966, personal income tax was raised to

　The economy grew by 15%. But this amount was still far from enough to pay for a massive overseas war. Consequently, during President Johnson's administration, welfare benefits were drastically cut, the public debt increased massively, and the government deficit soared. Prices also soared, seemingly on wings. In 1966, the average wage in the United States was growing at a rate of 10%, while retail prices were increasing at a rate of 20%.

　Behind the apparent economic prosperity lies a serious polarization between the rich and the poor and intensified contradictions!

　It's bad enough that wage growth is lagging behind inflation, but the White House is now conscripting a million men to fight and die in Asia!

　On the one hand, there are heavy taxes and soaring prices; on the other hand, there is excessive military spending and the separation of families.

　How can this be considered a beacon of democracy and freedom for human civilization? It's like Nazi Germany, which advocated "guns over butter"!

　As public grievances gradually boiled over, society naturally began to become turbulent. A reporter commented in a newspaper editorial: Although most people still yearn for peace, the entire country has entered a new era, one of the most prominent characteristics of which is the yearning for violence.

　There is no way. The vast majority of the ruling class are so detached from the masses that only violence can be used to talk to them properly.

　In addition to class conflicts, racial conflicts in the United States have also intensified during this period.

　Originally, when President Johnson was elected in 1964 and put forward a series of exciting welfare society slogans such as "Great Society" and "War on Poverty", moderate black leaders such as Martin Luther King were complacent and declared that their struggle had achieved a phased victory.

　Well, it’s almost like a Japanese person shouting “the end of history” more than 20 years later.

　Unexpectedly, as the Vietnam War intensified, military spending became increasingly huge, and the government's fiscal debt piled up, President Johnson's "Great Society" plan also underwent a "version rollback". The various benefits that were promised to be provided to black people were either abandoned halfway or directly postponed.

　Obviously, the black people will not understand President Johnson's difficulties, and will only feel that they have been deceived again!

　Not only were they fooled by white people, but they were also fooled by those black civil rights leaders!

　Didn't they say they had won? Why are things getting worse and worse? Could it be that they've been bribed by the white people?

　So, in the past, when a few prominent black people achieved success, all black people felt satisfied. The entire race would take pride in the achievements of these few. But that's no longer the case. Black elevator drivers and cotton pickers earning three dollars a day also demand their fair share. "The food those bigwigs eat can't fill my stomach." This is a natural human sentiment, taken for granted, yet it remains unfulfilled.

　Thus, with frustration and anger at being deceived, the Black Panther Party, a radical black political group in the United States, was born in late 1965 and early 1966 (the Black Panther in the Marvel movie was inspired by this group), claiming that "black people are now going to take everything they deserve from white people."

　Unlike previous peaceful rallies and performance art by black people, the Black Panther Party's organizational form and struggle strategy were more similar to the Irish Republican Army. Incited by their shouts of "Black Power", the already aggrieved black Americans became even more radical and aggressive.

　When the Ku Klux Klan in the southern states tried to use violence to force black people to submit as they had done before, black people in various states also took up guns, and even took the initiative to secretly assassinate white activists who spread extreme racist ideas - "their response was to fight guns with guns!"

　Although Martin Luther King expressed his regret over the abuse of firearms and incitement to riots, he also had to tell the media that in the years to come, various violent conflicts would inevitably follow because the anger and disappointment that had been suppressed by black people for a hundred years had now burst out.

　Since the spring of 1966, various armed conflicts between blacks and whites have occurred frequently and continuously in states across the United States.

　White politicians talked about the need for law and order. Black militants protested that opposition to oppressive laws was the very cause of the armed conflict, "a major act of rebellion by the Negro against his own submissive nature."

　When Martin Luther King toured the scene of the conflict, filled with the smoke of war, he was not universally welcomed by black people. He gradually got used to this situation. The torch of struggle had been passed to a new generation of black leaders, and it had become a real torch.

　Everyone has a vague feeling that something big is coming!

　Sure enough, on the evening of August 22, 1966, several black students from Columbia University protested being drafted despite being severely nearsighted and failing medical exams. They held signs and marched through the streets of New York City, followed by a variety of anti-war groups.

　If they had simply marched and shouted a few anti-war slogans, it wouldn't have been a big deal, and the police wouldn't have bothered to intervene. But three black students publicly burned their draft cards while giving speeches on the street, and were seen by a clueless white police officer.

　So the white policeman walked over with handcuffs, ready to arrest them for burning their draft cards.

　As expected, a conflict broke out with the demonstrators, with dozens of people surrounding the police and threatening to get him out.

　What's even worse is that this policeman had just followed his colleagues in a fierce gun battle with a group of vicious black gangs in Harlem.

　He was a bit overly sensitive. Seeing so many people surrounding him aggressively, he immediately pulled out his pistol and fired without thinking. In addition to emptying the magazine, he also knocked down eight people. Six of them died afterward.

　The next day, hundreds of angry black people, carrying the bodies of four dead black college students, besieged the police station where the murderer worked. The police chief ordered the shooting to disperse the "black mob" and urgently contacted the governor to dispatch the National Guard to maintain law and order.

　By the time the first National Guard troops arrived in the afternoon to restore order, half of New York City was already in chaos. From Harlem to Brooklyn to Queens, black thugs and white looters were clashing everywhere. They set houses on fire with homemade Molotov cocktails, ambushed firefighters responding to the blaze, smashed open store windows and doors, and dragged out everything of value. Despite the bold graffiti on the exteriors of some black-owned businesses, which read "Black Brothers," "Black Property," and "Black Owned," they were still looted.

　According to on-site reporters, the area most severely damaged during the riots was actually Harlem, where black people live. The New York Times commented: "Those rioters are burning their own city, just as madmen sometimes cut off their own limbs."

　Because the National Guard, which was suppressing the riots, arrested several Black Panther members on the streets and found graffiti of the Black Panther Party emblems on the walls of some buildings, many sensational American media outlets reported that the Black Panther Party had officially raised the flag of rebellion!

　What’s even more terrible is that, just like the revolutions in modern Europe that spread beyond national borders, the black riots in the United States are also contagious. Just like the "Black Lives Matter" movement in later generations, they will not be limited to the place where the incident occurred, but will quickly become a big hit and even receive a nationwide response.

　So, just one day after Fieri watched the zero-dollar shopping in New York on TV and gloated over it, black people in California also started to riot - they shouted "If we don't get fair treatment, we will tear this country apart", and took to the streets in the thousands, soon bathing the City of Angels, Los Angeles, in purgatory-like fire and violence.

　When everything was in chaos, Firi was also picked up by the Pentagon and received an order that made him feel embarrassed.

　"What? Let me take the newly recruited Chinese soldiers and Vietnamese refugee volunteers to the city to quell the riots? Haha, is this to allow those black people to fight the Vietnamese at home without going to Asia?"

　Fili muttered, "This kind of adaptive training is really exciting!"

　They were only concerned with killing people and fighting wars far away, and no one mentioned the ideal blueprint of the "Great Society" anymore. The light in the eyes of the local black people disappeared again.

　In addition to the poor living environment and limited income, the ubiquitous racial discrimination makes it even more unbearable for black people - 98% of Compton's residents are black, but there are only 5 black police officers among the 205 police officers in this area.

　The remaining 200 white police officers were known to the local black community as "That Guy," and they were a despised presence in Compton. They could grab any black citizen and say, "I want to check your ID," and if a black child made the slightest mistake, or even just got drunk and yelled a few words on the street, "That Guy" would come and arrest them.

　--The white American police in the 1960s were not as lax as they would be half a century later, allowing zero-dollar shopping in supermarkets to happen right under their noses. Instead, they were very keen on finding faults and arresting people, and they wanted to put every black person in jail.

　What is even more unacceptable to black people is that their lives are already so depressing. They have finally raised a few promising and well-educated children, who have been admitted to college and are on the verge of turning their lives around. However, it is so difficult for poor black families to support a college student these days. You can refer to the film "Cyberpunk: Edgewalker" and how the corpse collector Gloria worked so hard to support the protagonist David to study at Arasaka Academy.

　Sixty years later, African-American college students in the United States received extra points on exams and tuition discounts, but their grades were generally so poor that employers rejected them.

　But at present, American universities do not give preferential treatment to black people. Instead, all kinds of discrimination are piled up higher than a mountain, and only black top students can get in.

　Therefore, the African-American college students in the United States these days are absolutely genuine, of extremely high quality, and have excellent prospects!

　But at this time, the government wanted to destroy the struggles and hopes of these black families and send all the black college students to the Vietnam battlefield to die!

　This not only destroys a young man's future, but also tramples on the struggle of a family and even an ethnic group!

　So, I heard that black college students in New York were beaten to death by the police because they resisted the draft and were unwilling to go to Asia to fight the Vietnamese.

　The black people in Compton, South Los Angeles, also felt the same grief and soon organized a march to protest and show support on the streets.

　"Oppose Washington's tyranny! Respect everyone's freedom and human rights!"

　"Warmongers, get out of the White House! No war, love and peace!"

　"Why are we forced to kill Vietnamese? Black people are not Mamluk slave soldiers!"

　Next, the white police in Compton, as usual, lined up to form a human wall to block the road and threw tear gas at the black people marching, but they were the ones who were smoked - there were quite a few baseball experts among the black people marching, and they even brought baseball bats. When they saw the tear gas canisters being thrown at them from the air, they immediately stepped forward and swung the bats, "Ha hey!", sending the tear gas canisters back the way they came, causing chaos among the police officers standing in line.

　"Rebellion! Assault! The niggers are rebelling!" An irritable redneck police officer covered his nose and shouted loudly: "Hit them!"

　The sound of gunfire rang out, and two black men swinging baseball bats fell down, but more black men were ignited with anger.

　As a result, the streets of Compton were filled with gunshots and flying Molotov cocktails. More than a hundred police officers had to face tens of thousands of angry black people, including possibly the Black Panther Party's "urban guerrilla" fighters. The result can be imagined. They were soon overwhelmed.

　Next, the angry blacks instantly turned into an army of zero-dollar shoppers, rushed out of Compton, and rushed into several nearby middle-class communities and shopping streets, smashing down store doors, beating up clerks, and looting. They even broke into the campus of the University of Southern California and physically mingled with the teachers and students.

　Then, in addition to the Compton area in South Side, blacks and Mexican wetbacks near MacArthur Park also took advantage of the chaos, engaging in zero-dollar shopping, setting fires, and raping women. A well-trained group of black thugs attempted to sneak into the police station under cover of darkness and seize guns. But the Los Angeles police were no pushovers, and the thugs were quickly defeated.

　After failing to capture the police station building, the black group turned around and headed towards the bustling downtown area, setting fires and looting shops along the way, creating chaos. The Los Angeles City Government urgently dispatched more than 9000 police officers into the city, who worked tirelessly to put out fires but were unable to control the situation.

　So, just like in American TV shows and movies, the mayor of Los Angeles urgently requested assistance from the California National Guard, hoping these regular troops would drive into the city in armored vehicles to mop up the rioters... But the poor mayor was told that Los Angeles wasn't the only city in California experiencing black riots! Black people were also taking to the streets in San Francisco, Sacramento, and San Diego! They had been unrest there even earlier than in Los Angeles!

　All the National Guard troops the state government could mobilize have already been dispatched to these areas, so the quelling of the riots in Los Angeles will have to be put on the back burner...

　Another 24 hours later, a mixed force of FBI agents and Marines finally arrived in Los Angeles during the riots. But what surprised the reporters on the scene was that this group did not take the corresponding responsibility to stop the riots in time. Instead, they rushed to the wealthy areas of Los Angeles such as Beverly Hills, piled sandbags and built fortifications to prepare for battle, but did not pay attention to the people struggling in the blood and fire.

　The "poor streets" are ignored.

　It is obvious that the goal is to let the thugs and the poor torture each other, as long as the rich people's mansions are preserved.

　However, after running wild like wild dogs for 48 hours, the black people in Los Angeles finally met their opponents.

　Moreover, they were a group of opponents that left them dumbfounded and even their brains frozen.

　"Vietcong!! Why are there Vietcong in Los Angeles?!"

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　"The Vietcong!! The Vietcong have reached Los Angeles!"

　"The Vietcong! The Vietcong are coming! Run!"

　On the chaotic streets of Los Angeles, several black men, bleeding and wailing, ran by. Whether it was the thugs looting stores and taking drugs, or the shivering store clerks and residents hiding behind windows, they all saw a scene that stunned them:

　A group of short, dark-skinned Asians, wearing the grass-green uniforms and white-painted wooden helmets of the North Vietnamese People's Army, holding rifles with fixed bayonets, calmly walked past the burning houses, around the charred wreckage of cars on the road, and came towards them aggressively.

　Such a magical and incredible scene made the black thugs wandering on the streets, the thugs of other ethnic groups taking advantage of the situation, the ordinary citizens hiding in the upstairs and peeking down, and the reporters hiding in the corners and lying on the roof to take pictures, all stunned for a moment.

　Even some old guys who are knowledgeable, have fought in World War II, crossed the ocean to beat up the Japanese and Germans, and feel that they have lived for so many years and there is nothing in the world that they don’t know, all feel that they are a little unwell.