A Coney Island of the Mindless by E. Michael Jones

Author:E. Michael Jones [Jones, E. Michael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Fidelity Press
Published: 2013-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Eventually the Judenbuben from New York City, Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and the work of epigoni like Ferlighetti and Ginsberg combined to overturn the nation's obscenity laws. One day after Ferlighetti heard "Howl" for the first time, he wired Ginsberg a telegram saying: "I greet you at the beginning of a great literary career." It was the same line that Emerson had sent to Walt Whitman after the former had read Leaves of Grass. The reaction of the police was anything but flattering. In 1956 San Francisco police confiscated copies of "Howl" and Shig Murao, the bookstore manager, was arrested on obscenity charges. Ferlingetti went on trial, but was eventually acquitted thanks to the efforts of Jake Ehrlich and the American Civil Liberties Union, the Jewish organization that was then in the forefront of striking down obscenity laws. The judiciary followed the ACLU's lead on the matter. Judge Clayton W. Horn declared that "Howl" was not obscene, and Ginsberg was acquitted in October 1957.[41] In 1964 the United States Supreme Court declared that Tropic of Cancer wasn't obscene either.[42]

What followed was moral deregulation not just in sexual issues, but across the board. The prime beneficiaries were the Wall Street Usurers. The Jewish-led sexual revolution, which began when Hollywood overturned the essentially Catholic production code over a two-year period of time beginning with the release of The Pawnbroker in 1965 and ending with the release Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1967, found its culmination in the de-criminalization of abortion in 1973, but the point of sexual liberation was ultimately economic. The culmination of the sexual revolution was the Monetary Control Act of 1980. The decriminalization of usury which occurred with the passage of the Monetary Control Act of 1980 was only the logical extension of the wave of moral "liberation" which began with the sexual revolution. Greider sees the same connection when he writes:

For some years, American society had been engaged in an era of moral liberation. . . . The Catholic sin [sic] of abortion was legalized. . . . Moral inhibitions that had held authority for centuries were abandoned. Old notions of sinfulness were redefined as largely private matters, no longer subject to public regulation. . . . In this climate of moral change, American finance was also liberated to do what had once been forbidden. This sin of usury was legalized by an act of Congress.[43]

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