Here’s a report by the American Bar Association (ABA) Committee on Communist Tactics, Strategy, and Objectives from the 1960 United States Congressional Record in the Senate.

They’re very happy about President Eisenhower in 1958 formally declaring May 1 as “Law Day”, as in an American law enforcement day.

If you aren’t celebrating this as a holiday of “individual freedom” in America, you’d be excused. A lack of celebration on May 1st every year, the complete lack of anyone paying attention to history or what happened, is ironically by design.

“Law Day” proclamation in 1958 was an anti-holiday tactic from the U.S. government. The idea literally was to prevent people from gathering and talking about injustice and excessive force that has been applied under the law (e.g. prevent May Day being celebrated in America).

It’s a bit like how the state of Arkansas in 1985 officially combined a day to celebrate slavery with the federal Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day. This came after two years of requiring state employees wanting a day off of work to declare affinity to either MLK or a secessionist domestic terrorist known for raping black women (with a third option being they could refuse both and choose their own birthday).

Nobody in America remembers or talks about either May Day and Law Day anymore because… that’s the whole idea.

I’ve written before about the Haymarket Affair on May 4th of 1886. Here’s some more commentary in how tragic deaths and unjust trials in America fueled popularization of May Day around the world as a holiday.

…the protests [calling for an eight hour workday] turned violent when police — “which were basically the armed force of the capitalist masters,” according to historian Linebaugh — attacked workers demonstrating near the McCormick Reaper plant. The following day, a meeting held in the city’s Haymarket Square turned even bloodier. Again, the police intervened, said Linebaugh, triggering clashes that killed both officers and civilians.

A bomb exploded among police ranks in the melee, but historians say it’s unclear whether it was intended for the police or the crowd of civilians.

“There was a trial of eight men who were found guilty of conspiracy to murder,” Linebaugh said. “Even though no evidence was ever produced that any of them had any relationship to this bomb, and four of them were eventually hanged despite a worldwide campaign in England, Europe, Mexico to save their lives.”

Linebaugh points to the influential words of August Spies, one of the convicted men, who just before his execution cried out the famous words: “There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.”

His words “swept the globe,” Linebaugh said. “Throughout Latin America, throughout Europe and in North America, to many, the day became this holiday to celebrate working people.”

To honor the Chicago workers, the International Socialist Conference in 1889 named May Day a labor holiday, birthing what many nations now call International Workers’ Day.

By 1893 the governor of Illinois pardoned the men convicted, calling the trial unfair and a menace to the Republic because “the law was bent to deprive” Americans of civil liberties.

As a result of the 1886 deaths and false convictions, people worldwide observe May 1 as a holiday to commemorate labor protests against abuses of power. A kind of “no taxation without representation” theme, if you will.

Though the movement celebrating May Day originated in the United States, it is not a recognized holiday there. May Day commemorates the mass protests on May 1, 1886, for the eight-hour day, when sixty thousand workers went on strike in Chicago, and the subsequent Haymarket Affair, where eight labor organizers were hanged by the state.

However, in the United States, there’s very intentionally no May Day holiday; instead, the very specifically named “Law Day” was established by the President to quell remembering and fighting for what’s right. This initiative aimed to encourage Americans to stay out of the streets, avoid gatherings, focus on work and above all stop discussing events where the law was unfairly used against those advocating for justice.

I just noticed a series of nine rare interviews were posted in June 2023 by the Polish Embassy in London.

Each has only a couple hundred views on YouTube despite significance of the subject. They feature war hero Marian Rejewski, the 1st person to crack the Enigma code, describing major breakthroughs before and during WWII (which the British rarely, if ever, gave proper credit to Poland):

1) French X, British Y, Polish Z (0:42)

2) Wiretap collection amounts needed to break Enigma (1:00)

3) Breaking the Enigma code in 1932 (0:56)

4) Enigma “banal” A-A-A, Q-W-E keyfinding (1:31)

5) The 1938 “Bomba” machine (1:16)

6) Enigma codebreaking process and how the Bomba automated the work of over 28 codebreakers (1:30)

7) Manual codebreaking with the primitive “grill method” and then the “cyclometer”, processing over 100,000 Enigma key possibilities ((26x26x26)6) in a few minutes (1:56)

8) Handing over Enigma codebreaking and Zygalski sheets to the British in 1939 (2:07)

9) Polish-British cooperation on Enigma codebreaking. Poles in Paris would send cracked German Enigma keys over wires to Bletchley Park using “almost comical” protection… encrypted with the German Enigma (1:18)

Related: 2023 biography of Rejewski

I thought it interesting that an April 16, 1966 edition of the New Yorker offered this sarcasm about the American automobile industry.

“Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile” by Ralph Nader was first published in 1965.

I’ve already written about Tesla extensively using the white supremacist symbol 88 in their marketing material.

It’s very strange to me that people don’t see the company shouting the white supremacist tag 88 (“Heil Hitler”) all over the place as being obvious enough evidence of Nazism.

So here’s yet another example from Tesla that I was just asked about.

What’s the story behind a car company registering the term “Cyberhammer” at the start of 2024 and then recently announcing they would be giving actual branded hammers away?

Let’s start with the very precise number of hammers announced, because it matters.

We got #29 of 800 Tesla CyberHammers out there. I spent 35,000 referral points to get it, and you can’t actually buy it with cash. A simple design, it only comes in matte black…

Someone at Tesla probably decided 88 would be too few and maybe even overused symbolism, so they went with one of Hitler’s favorite numbers instead: only 800 hammers are being made to be “earned”.

In his mind, Hitler’s “thousand-year Reich” would serve as the natural conclusion of a process that he traced back to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800.

Nazis see the number 800 as a reference the starting year of the First Reich. Perhaps even more important they also reference it as a starting number of adherents to a nascent Third Reich.

Notably, a specific event in October 1922 allegedly involved 800 NSDAP members instructed by Hitler to unleash mob violence and abruptly seize control of a local German government.

These 800 men (more likely around 600) known as the “Zug Nach Coburg” hammered against democracy, achieving mythical significance for Nazis and especially Hitler, which sparks debate even to this day.

How can you annotate an 800-page monologue exposing Hitler’s insane worldview? After every single line [of Mein Kampf] you would have to write, ‘Hitler is wrong here’…

The violent march of 800 men on a small town, in other words, was detailed in Hitler’s 1925 propaganda that infamously swept up readers. Coburg then became the first town in Germany to put the NSDAP in power and the first to gift Hitler honorary citizenship. By 1931 the swastika flag officially was raised for the first time in front of a German government building… in Coburg.

We should think about contextualizing 800 adherents “earning” hammers, just like 88, as a significant reference point for Nazis today signaling intent to forcibly destroy America.

Why then hammers?

Does the name Cyberhammer seem odd, contradictory and irrelevant to a car company promoting “futurist” technology? Here’s the simple explanation for why it is very on brand.

Thor’s Hammer symbol has been appropriated by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists…

On it’s own a hammer would not have raised alarms, yet Tesla has the long and obvious habit of numbers that whistle to white supremacists.

Tesla bothered to announce exactly 800 hammers, as if trying to troll for a violent anti-democratic mob like it’s October 1922 again.

And although people describe it as a “simple design”, the hammer has the particular word “FRANZ” prominently written. It could be any Franz, even a Franz who works at Tesla, but come on…

Franz von Papen was instrumental in promoting Adolf Hitler to become chancellor of Germany in 1933, which violently smashed democracy, as retold in a 1980s film infamous among white supremacists based in Texas.

Pink performs a song in which he expresses a desire to line all of the “queers,” “Jews,” and “coons” in his audience “up against the wall” and shoot them. In obvious references to the Holocaust, he sings of the “final solution” and “waiting to turn on the showers and fire the ovens.” The swastika is replaced by Pink’s symbol: two crossed hammers, which he boasts will “batter down” the doors behind which frightened minorities hide from his fascist supporters.

The swastika is replaced by hammers. 800 of them.