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How-to write in the name of a Write-In Candidate on Tuesday, Nov. 7:
Locate the REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FIFTH DISTRICT heading on the ballot.
Then locate the WRITE IN SPACE ONLY and then use the supplied fiber-pen and write in (or print--print's good):
William Wilt of Waltham
in that Write-In Space. Then fill in the little oval just to the right of Waltham. That's it for the office of Representative in Congress. And thank you.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
I call this my never forget essay/speech.
But I have to warn you, there's a little bit of a trap to it, which goes like this:
You have to know something, first to remember it, before you can either forget it or never forget it.
Please let me give you some examples:
How many of you can never forget that "The Pledge of Allegiance" was concocted in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a socialist minister from our Fifth Congressional District (Melrose), a school superintendent, AND the circulation slash promotion manager of Youth's Companion Magazine, published in downtown Boston? (Now an historical site, even!)
How many of you can never forget that Francis Bellamy came up with this so-called "pledge," because he was getting kids to sell magazine subscriptions to family, friends and neighbors, and he used the American flag as an incentive. As the story goes (look it up on the internet), you'd get a little tiny flag if you did OK. Bigger ones for the teachers' desk if you did better than OK and got the whole class selling subscriptions. And really big schoolyard-sized flags if you got the whole school involved and really sold subscriptions.
And how many of you can never forget that Bellamy, in his speeches, said that he thought children should be seen and not heard, should be docile and obedient to "their elders" and to their teachers
, and that he came up with what he called "the Roman salute" to go along with the "pledge" and a flag-raising ceremonies he promoted all over the states, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' finding the Winter Paradise called The Caribbean Islands—one in particular, Hispaniola (now poor, benighted and beset Haiti & the Dominican Republic).
Now here's a real test of never forgetting for you. Who can demonstrate Bellamy's "Roman salute" for us right now? Don't tell me you've forgotten!??!
Anyone? Well, here are a couple of public school classroom pictures you've all never forgotten, right?
There's a whole batch of stuff on this topic on the Internet, and you should look it up. Suffice it to say, though, that somewhere between Columbus' Quadricentennial and World War II, Mussolini saw the salute, liked it, and copied it for his troops. Then Hitler saw it, and expropriated it from Francis Bellamy as well. Then Franklin Delano Roosevelt noticed its use abroad, and thought it might make sense to change the "Bellamy Roman salute" to the "hand over the heart".
This is one illustration of the intellectual trap that never forget conveniently leaves out. Namely, that if you've never learned it, it will be impossible for you to "never forget" it.
As for how you can learn such things as this, look it up on the Internet. If you think it's enough for me to have told you about it, you're wrong. Because all you have learned about it is that Someone Named William Wilt from Waltham, who is running for Congress in the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts TOLD you about this.
Now, here is something I think you REALLY should never forget. And if you don't know it, you'd better learn it, and teach it to your kids, their teachers and all your neighbors, friends and associates. Myself and a few others call it The Constitution of the United States. It used to be that when someone took office in the United States, they actually knew the Constitution. They could recite it to you, or quietly, for themselves as, for example, they considered whether a government bill or law or procedure was consistent with the Constitution.
Now, I can't recite the whole Constitution. I am familiar with it, and I have a copy I carry, and copies on a "hot key" on all my computers, so it's never very far away.
I do know the Preamble, the 52-word-long sentence that begins the Constitution. I'd like you to recite it along with me—I'll be the bouncing ball.
We the People/of the United States
in order to form
a more perfect Union
establish Justice
insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and
secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
That's it. When you learn it, when you Know it, when you never forget these 52 words, you will find, I think, that you have a very powerful place to stand, and you can make it even stronger if you take on learning all of the Constitution. I would start with the Preamble (seems a logical place, right?), and then tackle the Bill of Rights, paying particular attention to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
I'll tell you why in a couple of minutes.
But first, you might want to know why a "complete unknown" from the news, television and computer industries—now retired—would undertake an unconventional, free-from-money, quixotic, long-shot, snowball's chance in Spring, write-in congressional campaign.
So here's why. I have two ex-wives, with whom I produced or adopted four children, ages 37, 23, 14 and 14. My eldest child has two sons, 6 and 8. I have a brother, with three children, and a sister, with four. Together, I call them "My hostages to history."
I suspect my hostages are not so different from your hostages, your parents—and I'm sure we all have or had parents, right? We have hard, scientific evidence of it, easy to verify. Here's a simple test
: Ouch. There it is. You're alive. And we certainly can verify that our spouses, children, grand children and even great-grand-children are alive, using this same test.
So, I don't want my living family members, all of whom I hope long outlive me—but I don't wish to meet an unnatural end, don't get me wrong. I'm in no hurry to shuffle off this mortal coil [Act III, Scene i — Hamlet], or betimes [too early] within Time's bending sickle's compass come. (Sonnet 116). But I'm mindful that there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we wilt.
And that's probably enough to let you know that, while I was only an American PFC, I was an English Major, I guess because the English are more generous with their titles, tied as they are to Royalty, which they've been unable to shuck for lo these many, many centuries (1066 and all that, and well before).
Let me go back to that PFC thing for a moment, because there's a lesson in it for all of us. Many lessons, in fact.
How many of you have actually served in combat? Not this namby-pamby "in harm's way" euphemism. This is in Death's way, not harm. The Grim Reaper. Kill or be killed. It's amazing that we let gummint officials pollute our language, concepts, thoughts that way. Harm, indeed. It's death we're talkin' about here, and we all need to be bold enough to call a spade a spade, a war a war, a grave a grave, a headstone a headstone.
I got my draft notice in the spring of 1964. I thought I'd exercise some initiative by choosing a branch of service and an interesting job. I thought flying planes in the Navy would be a challenge. I'd become a Navy-ator. Not an Aviator, as my late dad had wanted to be in World War II.
So I filled out the forms, took the physical, and was told the bad news. I had a minor physical defect—broken coccyx. "Sorry, son, we can't take you."
Now, this could have occurred to me as a disappointment, but perhaps, if the Army had the same problem…well, let's find out. So I wended my way to the Army recruiters, filled out the papers, and went for the physical. Well, wouldn't you know it, the Army doc found the same thing the Navy doc had found. And they were different guys, by the way.
Well, I figured that was that. I'll be a civilian and go back to my cub reporter's job in Watertown (New York, not the Watertown in the 5th Congressional district right here.
One month later, in mid April, I found myself raising my right hand and swearing to support and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. In Buffalo. With a dozen or so other young guys (I was actually somewhat older than many of them, so I got to be their "squad leader," charged with getting them from Buffalo to New York City by train, and then to Ft. Dix, New Jersey by bus. So let me remind you of what I'll never forget: I couldn't enlist in the Navy or the Army because of a coccyx "issue," but I could be drafted. US Navy. US Army. US Draft. Obviously three different branches of military service, right?
We had a three or four hour wait on the train schedule, so, in our first of many encounters with the United Service Organization (USO), we were given a meal chit and a free movie pass.
Guess what we got to see. 1964. Buffalo. Movie Theater. Matinee. You'll never guess. It was a kind of dark comedy (in black and white, too, to extend the metaphor). Called Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayward, and so on. It was on a very big screen. Which made the last scenes all the more impressive, with Slim Pickins riding "The Bomb," rodeo style, but backwards, waving his cowboy hat to Doom.
And here are we, brand spanking new draftees, waiting to board a train to Ft. Dix, the Pneumonia Capital of the War Department, watching this screen-filling explosion, this smoking gun still used by our "leaders" to terrify the world, 70 years after the event…and 50 years after the movie was released.
Here we are, about to begin Basic Training, in the Pine Barrens of Ft. Dix, and we're listening to the sound track: "We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when," sung by Vera Lynn, and watching a nice video montage of atomic bomb blasts, with an odd thought or two about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Song, sung by Vera Lynn, We'll Meet Again.
We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through,
Just like you always do,
Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds, far away.
So will you please say hello,
To the folks that I know,
Tell them I won't be long, (I won't be long)
They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go
I was singing this song.
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through,
Just like you always do,
Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds, far away.
So will you please say hello,
To the folks that I know,
Tell them I won't be long, (I won't be long)
They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go
I was singing this song.
We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through,
Just like you always do,
Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds, far away.
So will you please say hello
To the folks that I know,
Tell them I won't be long, (I won't be long)
They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go
I was singing this song.
We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when.
But I know well meet again, some sunny day.
We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when.
But I know well meet again some sunny day.
Keep smiling through,
Just like You always do,
Till the blue skies drive the dark Clouds far away.
So will you please say hello to the folks that I know,
Tell them I won't be long. (I won't be long)
They'll be happy to know as you saw me go,
I was singing this song.
We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when.
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
Keep smiling through just like you all ways do.
Just so you know, this was a USO free movie pass that I will, what, people?
It's a USO pass I will never forget.
But to further this tale, whenever there were any forms to fill out (and there always were forms to fill out back then—probably still are, even with iPads and laptops and iPhones) and they had a box for "Branch Of Service," I always put in You Ess Dee, USD, for USDraft. I was invariably called out on it, and I always recited my tale of being rejected by the Navy, then the Army, but not the Draft, so obviously, if the Navy and the Army had different admissions standards from the Draft, it was obviously its own branch of service. And I would point out that the death tags he was wearing begin with the letters RA, whereas mine began with the letters US—followed by 51529326—these are numbers, of course, that I will never forget. Then the sergeant would loudly tell me to "Siddown, Private!"
Long story shorter, I was trained in ordnance, did get to spend about 18 days in Qui Nhon Province—II Corps or Two Corps— got out 89 days early, and flew home to finish my last semester of school. I worked as a reporter and photographer and then copy editor for about a year, then, because of a couple of eye-opening stories I'd covered, decided to go to law school to become a better journalist. Got a NYS GI scholarship, something like $200 a semester, and got federal GI Education benefits. I made it through my first year of law school, then a summer of copy-editing by night and kayaking by day.
Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances.
When it rolled around September again, we students bought our casebooks and notepads and started in. However, in the 2nd or 3rd week of school, there was a big rally in D.C. at the Pentagon, Washington monument, Lincoln Monument, all of that—a large bunch of people showed up, that quaint old "peaceably to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances" thing.
And there was indeed a petition. It was a simple petition—end the Vietnam War and bring the rest of the troops home. Or, as the late Sen. George Aiken proposed, "Say 'We Won' and bring the troops home."
I was standing in the crowd alongside the Reflecting Pool, and a young guy in Army fatigues was making his way through it, asking if anyone was a veteran who'd served in Vietnam. I nodded, and he held out his clipboard and asked me to sign the petition to end the war. Of course I would.
I'd come back in January of 1966, and it was now 1968, and the war continued, and would continue for another ten years, just in time for the US Sesquicentennial
in 1976. This is pretty much prosaic stuff, except for the fact that the kid with the clipboard was from a start-up group called the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the following Sunday, the VVAW ran this petition as a full-page ad in the NY Times News of the Week in Review, or §4, as news hounds use to call it.
I'd come back in January of 1966, and it was now 1968, and the war continued, and would continue for another ten years, just in time for the US Sesquicentennial
My name, as PFC William F. Wilt, was the last name on the third column of about 80 names. The type was large—more than 18-point, perhaps 24 points. I should have kept a copy of it.
The rest of the month was pretty much the same-old same-old for a law school student, uneventful, nondescript. Except for one non-event that was worthy of description. That was the non-appearance of my September GI Education Bill check.
I called up the VA office, and they told me that my records were in transit to another VA office, "because you moved." This is another thing I'll never forget. I had NOT moved. My then wife and I were still living in the same upstairs apartment in one half of a two-family home in Delmar, outside of Albany. Lived there all first year, 2nd year and 3rd year of law school, summers too, in fact. So, where were my records, and where, more to the point, was my GI benefits check?
I wrote to my congressmen (one from my home district, the other from my law school district. Didn't get so much as a postcard back from them. Ditto my two senators. Nary a word.
Now, having taken a sabbatical from the copy desk, I had some familiarity with newspapers, and noted that the Albany newspaper had an Action Line column, and the Rochester paper had one, too, called HELP! and help was just what I needed. I wrote up my little tale and asked for assistance.
The Albany Action Line was useless, in my case, but the Rochester HELP! column put pedal to the metal and got my records "found" and back checks and new checks started again. It had taken the editor, Jim Blakely, the better part of four months, 'til January of 1969, to accomplish the task. I met him years later and got to thank him in person for his HELP! It was a favor I would never forget.
Some of you may have heard about the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. And now Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Afghanistan Veterans Against the War. Perhaps just part of the Military-Industrial Complex Eisenhower warned us about (just as he left office, the coward. He did have eight years to do something about it, but did not, or could not. More on that in another essay).
I learned about the VVAW's activities over the years—I had never done more than sign a petition that once, never contributed a dime to the organization, did not "put my money where my signature was." The VVAW was mentioned in a biography of J. Edgar Hoover. It recounted a scene wherein Hoover was summoned to the White House and told by then President Nixon
, concerning the VVAW, that he should "get them." And, as the Church hearings on illegal wiretapping revealed, the CIA and FBI had infiltrated the VVAW, broke into their HQ office to get members' names, worked hard at provoking violence with government provocateurs, just as Operation Gladio was doing in Europe. In the states, this illegal, unconstitutional activity by government agencies was called COINTELPRO, or "counter intelligence program." One FBI spy, a young woman, quit when she found out that the FBI and CIA were targeting church groups. I guess they didn't want the word getting out on thou shalt not kill, do unto others, peace on Earth, good will towards men, as that might put a crimp in the style of the trillion-dollar military-industrial-legislative-bankster-espionage Complex. And as the late Col. L. Fletcher Prouty put it in a youtube interview, "people will kill for that kind of money." Which is a fact every one of us should never forget.
The VVAW was mentioned in testimony in the 1999 wrongful death lawsuit brought by Coretta Scott King and her family, vs. Lloyd Jowers "and other unidentified co-conspirators" in Memphis, Tennessee. The King family won the case, by the way. And that's something you should never forget. (remember that conspiracy is "two or more people planning to do something," and a criminal conspiracy is "two or more people planning to do something against the law." In fact, this is another something you should
Right, something you should never forget. In the King v. Jowers case, a conspiracy was alleged, and a conspiracy was proven in a court of law, tried before one of those standard features of "due process," called a jury.
In the King vs. Jowers case, testimony was adduced under oath that the US government's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), had created seven US rogue field offices (in violation of the posse comitatus act), staffed by military and CIA Vietnam hands from the rogue Operation Phoenix, six in designated regions of the country, and the 7th in DC. Their job was to "neutralize the VVAW" and high-profile "hippies" and "peaceniks".
The VVAW was also featured in the Frank Church investigation into the domestic spying activities of the CIA and the FBI. These organizations had "infiltrated" the VVAW, to further their efforts in "neutralizing" first, the VVAW, then prominent entertainers —Joan Baez, Woodie Guthrie
Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda, etc. The 1950s, as you'll never forget, featured McCarthy and "Commies," while the 1960s featured "hippies" and "peaceniks,"— someone could do a Critics' List of all the names of "people the government doesn't like and doesn't want any of us to like (or emulate), either." Right? Of course the Blacklists of the 1950s have morphed into the multi-million-strong Government Watch List, maintained by Der Abteilung für Heimats Versicherheit (Homeland "security" dept--I use German because "homeland" is not an American word. The US is "the melting pot"), and the President's shorter Kill List. If people got serious about treating the US as anyone's "homeland," we would have to give back all the First Americans' lands to the First Americans. And inasmuch as every square inch of North and South America was occupied by "the indigenous peoples," the mostly-white, round-eyed European Invaders would have been left with nothing.
But don't let me digress. The FBI and CIA conducted break-ins on VVAW offices. They planted spies or "moles" in the VVAW. And they did the same thing with church groups. Imagine targeting for surveillance church groups who take the First Commandment as seriously as our government officials do NOT take the First Amendment seriously. Never forget that it is a very problem when a government breaks the law against its own bosses, We the People.
So let me recapitulate this exegesis, this essay:
Second-year law student, a Vietnam Veteran, signs a petition, requesting that the gummint stop a war it started, the petition is published in a "newspaper of record," and then VA stops paying the student his educational benefits. And lies to the student about it. This would be one concrete example of "neutralizing" anyone who signs a petition against war.
Fast forward to, say 2013, and the Edward Snowden Report on the illegal domestic spying by the National Surveillance Agency (NSA—it's officially called the national "security" agency, but I call it "surveillance" because that is what it's doing to pretty much everyone who tries to communicate with anyone else in the world—keeping all of us "under surveillance," 24/7 by 365—all spying, all the time. This is another something you should never forget.
By the way, in 1968 when folks were peaceably assembling to petition the gummint for redress of grievances, it had not become generally known that the Tonkin Gulf Incident was a fraud. It never happened. The President and his government lied about it, and used as an excuse to reverse JFK's course of withdrawing US "advisors" and turn 180° about, and rapidly ramp up the war, to kill 55,000 or so US soldiers, and five or six million Asian men, women and, most notably, children.
The short hand for this official lying to start a war of choice is the Latin phrase casus belli, the cause, or rationale, or "excuse" for war. Pretty much all of our wars are started, have been started, because of some "excuse" for war—some staged or manipulated event, or just plain lies repeated by every government spokesman and echoed by every key on The Mighty Wurlitzer—which used to be called The Press, or The Fourth Estate. This repetition, incessant drumbeat for war was called, in the Third Reich, "The Big Lie." In the U.S. we could just call it The Propaganda Machine, or just "That's the Way It Is," as Walter used to put it.
This is a topic for yet another essay in the series.
But here's the short list:
Remember the Maine. USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor—it was coal dust in an improperly ventilated engine room.
They Sank The Lusitania! Riiiight.
The US shipping owners
loaded the ship with tons of ammunition bound for Britain. They let Americans and others book passage, despite German warnings that they'd attack ships bearing war materiel. Then Navy Admiral Winston Churchill withdrew a two-destroyer escort. Then the U-boats had untrammeled access to the Lusitania. One torpedo amidships hit the explosives, and the ship, cut in two, sank in about 18 minutes. That's not quite as fast, though as WTC #7, #1 & #2 were blown into smithereens and then collapsed into dust—in about 7, 10 and 11 seconds (not minutes, SECONDS) respectively.
Both the Lusitania and WTC have in common that they're False Flag casus belli––excuses for war or causes of war. Hitler's men put the torch to the German parliament—The Reichstag Fire—to justify pogroms and then war. We had Pearl Harbor ("KAIALIH—Knew About It And Let It Happen"). Congressman Lincoln's "Spot Amendments" (Mr. President, show me the SPOT where Mexicans spilled American blood." (US Army deliberately crossed the Mexican border and their little invasion was repulsed (at some cost in American lives). This was the casus belli for the Mexican/American War. Remember the Maine was Spanish/American War. (We water-boarded the Philippine revolutionaries—called it "the water cure" then—another nice euphemism for torture and death.) The waterboarding, "water cure" methodology was rendered unforgettable by a drawn cover of Atlantic Magazine. Military factotums standing by said of the Americans doing the deed, Now let Americans lecture us about our tortuous practices! And this was 1902 or so .
The US shipping owners
I digress. Off to bed., at 5:11 ayem, 23 June 2014.
"Up betimes" (as Craig Beeny's dad started most of his "coffee cup reader" columns in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle when I was growing up. I didn't drink coffee, but did read the column, particularly given that it was written by a classmate's dad. And they lived in a little beach cottage on the shore of Lake Ontario.
OK, here's an attempt to be lucid and coherent as to why it is that I'm running for office.
OK, here's an attempt to be lucid and coherent as to why it is that I'm running for office.
I'm running because of these and other things I'll never forget.
I'll never forget my children, my family, I'll never forget that I've been lucky over my lifetime—knock wood—to have been born in a country that has a Constitution. Back there in Buffalo, I actually swore an oath to support and defend that Constitution, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And that was before I went to law school and learned a lot more about what I'd promised to support and defend. Learned things that I'll never forget.
As I grew older, I learned more things I'll never forget. When I was drafted, I learned that my government can be arbitrary and capricious.
I learned that my government can, will and did lie to get us into war. And I'm not talking Afghanistan or Iraq. I'm talking Vietnam, and the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident. Which never happened.
I learned that my government will harass people and do other bad things, illegal things, to people when that government doesn't like what you're saying. How's that for "freedom of speech"?
These are things I will never forget.
They are not particularly happy recollections. What I've concluded from these experiences is that my country, my Constitution, can altogether too easily slide into a big, nasty cesspool.
If we let it. As I think we most definitely have done, pretty much starting with the Assassination of JFK by the three or four Lone Gunmen™ who pulled the Lone Triggers. I note that the phrases "Lone Gunman" and "Lone Gunmen" are trademarked, as a Government Brand of a Propaganda Product on offer by the Government to We the People. The conceit of "Lone Gunman" is the primary tool of governmental coverup of murder, rape and pillage. Whenever you hear it, see it, read it, know that, by default, a criminal coverup is in train.
Now, I started out telling you about the Preamble to the Constitution. And Francis Bellamy's so-called "pledge." And I'll ask again your indulgence as I speak about infelicitous things (felicity, another Latin word—more about education in another essay.)
So we have a pledge about a flag that symbolizes a Republic "with liberty and justice for all." Think about that. The so-called Pledge makes the bold assertion that this is one nation "with liberty and justice for all." Is that something you know, from your own experience?
Are there things about our country that you will never forget, but wish you could? Are there things about our country that you know you don't know about, and don't want to know about because once you learned about them, you'd never forget?
Frankly, I think we should never forget the Preamble, and recite those 52 words at every time and in every place we're accustomed to reciting Francis Bellamy's magazine-subscription-getting, flag-waving patriotic-sounding gimmick.
I think we should go back to the Constitution, and the Preamble, because this is our funding document, this is the contract between We the People and the people we hire and appoint to take care of the quotidian activities, the daily routines of running a country. And the Preamble is "aspirational"—something we aspire to have made real in our lives. Words we can know, AND, perhaps someday, see and believe.
Why did we come up with a Constitution, We the People of the United States? Here is what we say we wanted to have happen, wanted to call into existence, why we ratified the Constitution in the first place all those 225 or so years ago.
We did so in order to reach, in order to strive to reach, aspire to reach, in order to attain six over-arching goals, in order to:
form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare, and
secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.
That's why we [did] ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Now, why would the Framers first talk of a more perfect Union? Was it because the 13 original colonies had turned out to be a bunch of squabbling, contentious states? Seems likely.
What about "establish Justice"? The Framers certainly didn't claim that there was justice for the "indigenous peoples"—the Indians—who inhabited every square inch of this continent and had done until the European Invasion — mostly, that's us and our our FaceBooks — arrived on these these shores, fleeing injustice at home, in Europe, in Britain…and importing a not so new style of injustice to this hundreds of thousands-year-old "new land"). Go visit Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico some time, to see the adobe high-rise apartments in the canyon where the Anasazi danced with Kokopelli, a thousand or so years ago--a millennium ago. Compare 1,000 years of occupation with 225 years of occupation. While you're at it, see if you can get a few hummingbirds to land on your fingers. Reflect on "Oh what hand, and oh what eye...could make those beauties fly." (Bill Blake, apologies to.) The Mutually Assured Thermonuclear Destruction Labs are a few miles up the road at Los Alamos National Labs. They've been working on better, faster, cheaper, smaller "thermonuclear devices" every day, 40 hours a week, since 1945. That's 69 years--longer than many of us have stalked this mortal coil.
Establishing Justice was a goal, an aspirational thing. And it is clearly something we have not yet obtained, though it would be nice if we had, wouldn't it.
If we had a more perfect Union and had successfully established Justice, we could try to keep it that way, to insure domestic Tranquility, right? But do you feel "tranquil" these days, here in the country you live, are you tranquil? I know I'm not. I worry about how I'll ever send my 14-year-old daughters to college. I'm retired, but with no pension, so I'm looking for another business to start (no one would hire me, because I'm "too old," and way, way "overqualified." I'm in that "total unemployment" percentage that's higher than it was during the Great Depression. My deceased parents would never forget those days, because they lived through them. My mother always told us, "Finish your dinner, clear your plate. Don't you know there are starving children in China."
Of course, there are actually starving children in these United States. That's for another essay.
Now we're learning about the Preamble, and how the next goal, now that we've thought about forming a more perfect Union, establishing Justice, and achieving some measure of domestic Tranquility, now—and really only now—so we have something worthwhile to defend. Call it provide for the common defense. That's the fourth aspirational order, the fourth priority, We the People listed in our "mission statement," if you will.
I think all of us should never forget that "provide for the common defense" IS the fourth goal we set out in the Preamble. We did not write "The first job of government is to protect our citizens". I'm sure you've heard that statement, over and over and over and over. Said by politicians. Who apparently HAVE forgotten what they took and oath to support and defend. Because the Preamble quite clearly puts "provide for the common defense" as the Fourth priority. In other words, if we don't form a more perfect Union, if we don't establish Justice, if we don't insure domestic Tranquility, the there's hardly anything worth defending, is there. Is there?
But once those three goals are in place, then we do indeed have something to defend.
And if we're successful in defending it, then it's possible to tackle promoting the general Welfare, and even, if we're lucky, securing the Blessings of Liberty for ourselves and our children, grand-children and great-great grandchildren, should we live so long.
It was for those six reasons, those six "in order to's", that We the People did ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I'd like to make a further comment about the priorities, our fourth priority. I will never forget that whenever any of our employees, the people we elect or appoint to run our government for us, tries to convince me that "Keeping America Safe" is our first priority, that is a flag. Not a US flag, but a solid red flag, a warning flag that the speaker who is waving it is telling a lie. Telling "A Big Lie," or "The Big Lie," in the lexicon of propaganda and public persuasion—also known as mind control.
Whoever claims that "Keeping America Safe" is government's "first priority," is ignoring, casting aside the business of forming a more perfect Union, is casting aside the whole business of establishing Justice, is completely ignoring that domestic Tranquility comes before providing for the common defense.
And why is this so important that you should never forget it? Because this lie is used—and we've seen it time and time again in our shared lifetimes—to frighten We the People into approving things we would never approve if we were in control of our reason. As we all of us know (but do often forget), whenever our emotions are ascendant, when our emotions are in control, then our common sense, our ability to reason, is quietly playing second fiddle to our fears, whipped up by the guys with the red flags.
Once you decide to learn the Preamble, and decide to never forget it, you'll be able to see that waving red flag of danger whenever it is raised.
And I strongly urge that you learn, and never forget, the Preamble to your Constitution. It's 52 words long. Short, powerful, and to the point.
Of course, there's another thing I'd ask you to never forget. And that's my name, William Wilt of Waltham, and never forget to write it in the blank space for write-in votes for Congressman/Representative come November, because I'm not going to be advertising, and I'm not going to be handing out "stickers" to put on the ballot. And I'm not going to be asking for "campaign contributions."
But I will be petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to set aside sufficient bandwidth, enough broadcast channels, to accommodate free political advertising, all day, all year. The airwaves belong to We the People, these airwaves, this "electromagnetic spectrum" you should think of as the Communications Commons of We the People.
Thank you for listening.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Let's try this: bw0.pdf
[Need to swap this out for the PDF version, which is where it began.]
May not have mentioned that ma Pere was something of a sports car nut, even as they became antique sports cars. But after we stripped down a TD, he said I could have it if I put it back together again. I was into bicycling at 14, however.
But eventually another dad and his son put it back together. In taking it apart with dad, though I was taught, or browbeaten, into anticipating what tools, where light, how to hand off/retrieve, etc. After some 2 years of it, I could pretty much anticipatorialy empathize/put myself into anyone else's shoes when I had to. Useful for system design.
Amazing Orchids I'd not had the oppor-tunity before to actually go to what is no longer the Bronx Botanical Gardens, but rather the New York Botanical Garden, after a few "twunks" of 3-term NY Mayor Flowers R. Us Bloom-berg's magic twanger, Froggy. He just put a few thou into the operation, and thereupon got naming rights of some sort. Orchids really do have an amazing range of flowerness. I'm certainly glad I no longer have to buy roll film for these excursions into the land of snap-happy-sappiness.
Of course, the problem then arises of finding enough time to edit all of these digital images, and you would love to have a really large screen to do it on. —Yours trilly.
Not the worst of Chem-Trails You'" be able to see them heave into view as slowly, slowly I turn around. There are far better examples of ChemTrails than I've gotten here, but this was the very first time I'd noticed them overhead in Waltham. I was headed south for an appointment at my friendly VA on a bright sunny day, and I noticed these wonderfully fluffy, greybottomed clouds, especially because we'd had about five dry weeks and bushels of pollen were pouring forth, causing hay-fever sufferers to do so. I wonder if we'll get rain. Heading north 1 hr later, clouds, gone, chem-streaks as *. OK, So Maybe I should Have Hung On
So this needs a lot of "form" work--it's my first effort in about 13 years to do some page layout and "graphics". All my old software was / is obsolete, though I've managed to keep the hardware reasonably current. I don't yet have a smart phone or tablet or phablet. ! Tho maybe, given world enough and time, I can turn Grampa Bi"'s Bean-Bag Binary © bag-toss and radix - teaching tool into some sort of limited production — and as well to resuscitate What's4Dinner?©, now that I don't have to get cook-book publishers to go digital, get grocery stores to set up Bulletin Board/Email systems of their own, provide for digital register tapes on a floppy, little things like that. Ahh, the Internet. ! On the other hand, our country seems to be under attack by its own government and the behind-the-scenes actors we know (or rather, suspect, but have a glimmer about as we peruse guest lists at such things as The Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the private "national" bankers — nice oxymoron, isn't it. !
An earnest young Newsernet Journalist asked former Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska something about 9/11/2001 during a hearing break, Kerrey said oh, it goes back at least 30 years, and the young one said, No, I'm talking about 9/11, and Kerrey answered, That's what I'm talking about, too. And suggested that we need a permanent commission to take on these topics. (Cue the linked video up to 0:48 "it's a longer conversation"). He may have been referring to "Operation Northwoods," which see. Pretty spectacular what our Joint Chiefs were willing to do to Americans (kill them, at home) in order to have an excuse to invade Cuba.
They were able to dust off the script and play it in Boston, NY (off Broadway), Arlington & some say a little playhouse in rural PA. Another little tidbit: During the "Gulf War" the oil field fires were supposedly set alight by Saddam's forces. One US wildcatter who was actually there said it was US troops who mowed down the Iraqis guarding the wells and then set them on fire. Part 0 — this is part 0 Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — Can't believe I actually had a copy of this 1959 "selfie" thumb-print. Back then, you had to set the camera on a tripod, wind up the self-timer, trigger it, count down from 10 as you scooted into position (9, 8, 7, 6, 5), composed yourself (4, 3, 2), put on the face to meet the faces that you meet, and (1, flash/snap). No "at arm's length wide-angle" cell phone, or smart phone (aka hand-held computer)—d'you remember Handspring? Palm Pilots? "Gestures" on the stamp-sized stylus-sensitive touch-patch?
May not have mentioned that ma Pere was something of a sports car nut, even as they became antique sports cars. But after we stripped down a TD, he said I could have it if I put it back together again. I was into bicycling at 14, however.
But eventually another dad and his son put it back together. In taking it apart with dad, though I was taught, or browbeaten, into anticipating what tools, where light, how to hand off/retrieve, etc. After some 2 years of it, I could pretty much anticipatorialy empathize/put myself into anyone else's shoes when I had to. Useful for system design.
Amazing Orchids I'd not had the oppor-tunity before to actually go to what is no longer the Bronx Botanical Gardens, but rather the New York Botanical Garden, after a few "twunks" of 3-term NY Mayor Flowers R. Us Bloom-berg's magic twanger, Froggy. He just put a few thou into the operation, and thereupon got naming rights of some sort. Orchids really do have an amazing range of flowerness. I'm certainly glad I no longer have to buy roll film for these excursions into the land of snap-happy-sappiness.
Of course, the problem then arises of finding enough time to edit all of these digital images, and you would love to have a really large screen to do it on. —Yours trilly.
Not the worst of Chem-Trails You'" be able to see them heave into view as slowly, slowly I turn around. There are far better examples of ChemTrails than I've gotten here, but this was the very first time I'd noticed them overhead in Waltham. I was headed south for an appointment at my friendly VA on a bright sunny day, and I noticed these wonderfully fluffy, greybottomed clouds, especially because we'd had about five dry weeks and bushels of pollen were pouring forth, causing hay-fever sufferers to do so. I wonder if we'll get rain. Heading north 1 hr later, clouds, gone, chem-streaks as *. OK, So Maybe I should Have Hung On
TheWilt Letter
An earnest young Newsernet Journalist asked former Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska something about 9/11/2001 during a hearing break, Kerrey said oh, it goes back at least 30 years, and the young one said, No, I'm talking about 9/11, and Kerrey answered, That's what I'm talking about, too. And suggested that we need a permanent commission to take on these topics. (Cue the linked video up to 0:48 "it's a longer conversation"). He may have been referring to "Operation Northwoods," which see. Pretty spectacular what our Joint Chiefs were willing to do to Americans (kill them, at home) in order to have an excuse to invade Cuba.
They were able to dust off the script and play it in Boston, NY (off Broadway), Arlington & some say a little playhouse in rural PA. Another little tidbit: During the "Gulf War" the oil field fires were supposedly set alight by Saddam's forces. One US wildcatter who was actually there said it was US troops who mowed down the Iraqis guarding the wells and then set them on fire. Part 0 — this is part 0 Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — Can't believe I actually had a copy of this 1959 "selfie" thumb-print. Back then, you had to set the camera on a tripod, wind up the self-timer, trigger it, count down from 10 as you scooted into position (9, 8, 7, 6, 5), composed yourself (4, 3, 2), put on the face to meet the faces that you meet, and (1, flash/snap). No "at arm's length wide-angle" cell phone, or smart phone (aka hand-held computer)—d'you remember Handspring? Palm Pilots? "Gestures" on the stamp-sized stylus-sensitive touch-patch?
Monday, April 22, 2013
Well well--lookee here It's the First Friday, and Unemployment jumped to 16.5%
I'm talking about the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS') joblessness category U-6.
These government officials' "official" unemp rate stayed the same, at 9.1%, but the REAL, or Fact-Based, official unemp rate jumped from 16.2% to 16.5%.
So, do you feel that our current government (a Constitutional Republic) can handle the task to save the country, our economy, and maybe event he global economy?
Or should we go back to the Declaration of Independence, and start all over again?
Let's just update that document a wee bit, shall we? (May have to update 99% to 99.9% and the 1% to the 0.1% to more accurately reflect the reality of our plutocracy.)
Signed by:
[Representing the 99%]
[the initial Declaration of Independence, of July 4, 1776, was signed by: John Hancock, Benj. Harrison, Lewis Morris, Button Gwinnett, Thos. Nelson, Jr., Richd. Stockton, Lyman Hall, Francis Lightfoot, Lee Jno. Witherspoon, Geo. Walton, Carter Braxton, Fras. Hopkinson, Wm. Hooper, Robt. Morris, John Hart, Joseph Hewes, Benjamin Rush, Abra. Clark, John Penn, Benj. Franklin, Josiah Bartlett, Edward Rutledge, John Morton, Wm. Whipple, Thos. Heyward, Jr., Geo. Clymer, Saml. Adams, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Jas. Smith, John Adams,
These government officials' "official" unemp rate stayed the same, at 9.1%, but the REAL, or Fact-Based, official unemp rate jumped from 16.2% to 16.5%.
So, do you feel that our current government (a Constitutional Republic) can handle the task to save the country, our economy, and maybe event he global economy?
Or should we go back to the Declaration of Independence, and start all over again?
Let's just update that document a wee bit, shall we? (May have to update 99% to 99.9% and the 1% to the 0.1% to more accurately reflect the reality of our plutocracy.)
The NEW 99% Declaration of Independence
The United States of America
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for 99% of the people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with the ruling 1%, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that the 99% are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the practices of the 1% to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such plutocrat-controlled Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of the 99%, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present 1% is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the 99% majority of this nation. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
- The 1% have refused Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good and to promote the general Welfare.
- The 1% have forbidden the representatives of the 99% to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till the assent of the 1% should be obtained; and when so suspended, the representatives of the 99% have utterly neglected to attend to them.
- The 1% have refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of equal, balanced and non-gerrymandered Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
- The 1% have called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, expensive to get to and distant from the depository of their public Records (which the 1% and its representatives refuse to give over to the 99%), for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with measures of benefit only to the 1%, but paid for by taxing the 99%.
- The 1% have blocked the functioning of the representative Republic in matters of war and peace, have endeavored to use the military as its personal police force, and to use police forces local police forces as their own private Blackwater and Pinkerton mercenaries, while at the same time requiring the 99% to pay for them. At least in the previous Gilded Age, the 1% had to pay for their own private armies of Pinkerton goons.
- The 1% have paid the campaign expenses of our elected officials, in the millions of dollars, with the expectation--and the result--of getting returns on these political investments in the thousands of a per cent ($70 million in campaign contributions, for $700 BILLION (and more that we don't even know about) in bailouts for the Wall Street Casino operators.
- The 1% have, through their purchase of the government, allowed the United States to be attacked, both from without and from within, and have refused to allow an investigation which would establish some simulacrum of the truth, and mete out accountability for the death and destruction their captive government allowed to occur (at the very least).
- The 1% have refused for the past several decades, to let elections occur without committing fraud on the 99%, illegally disenfranchising as many of the 99% as they can, preventing others the 99% to choose who is to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, now must be said to have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
- The 1% have endeavored to prevent the population of these States to chose their representatives; for the purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
- The 1% have obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing their Assent to Laws to establish Justice, the second adjuration in the Preamble to the Constitution for the United States of America.
- The 1% have made Judges dependent on their Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
- The 1% have erected a multitude of New Departments, such as the Heimats Versicherheit Abteilung, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass the 99% of our people, and eat out their substance.
- The 1% have kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the Consent of our citizens and our legislatures.
- The 1% have affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power, and to coerce local police departments, state militias and National guardsmen, to serving the needs and wishes of the 1%.
- The 1% have combined with others to subject us to powers foreign to our constitution, such as the Federal Reserve System, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation by silence or overt approval:
- For inflicting upon us a standing army, augmented by militarized state and local "law enforcement" personnel
- For killing American citizens abroad without due process, or any process at all, that we know of
- For permitting the National Surveillance Agency, at least since 2002, to wiretap without court order our telephones, cellular phones, fiber-optical internet data transactions, copy our financial transactions, our conversations, our email, our keystrokes, our health records, financial records, school records, library records, vehicular travel records--in fact any and all communications over our telecommunications networks
- For directing the Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency to lie about the safety of the air in Lower Manhattan after the 9/11/2001 building demolitions in the World Trade Center
- For protecting government officials from punishment for any Murders which they have committed or will commit on the Inhabitants of these States, on the inhabitants of Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Jordan, Pakistan, Libya, as well as any and all other sovereign nations which have raw materials or other benefits which the 1% see as beneficial to their fortunes:
- For sending our manufacturing and trade overseas to all parts of the world:
- For imposing Taxes on the 99% greater than those taxes imposed on the 1%.
- For depriving the 99% in many cases, of the benefits the writ of Habeas Corpus, of due process of law, of speedy and public Trial by Jury
- For authorizing local, state, federal police and espionage agencies to enter the homes of the 99% without search warrants, to kill, beat up, spray blinding capsicum oleoresin into the eyes of the 99%, and then deny redress of grievances of the 99% peaceably assembled to petition their government for redress of grievances
- For transporting members of the 99% in this or other countries into "dark sites," where they are known to be tortured, in an attempt to extract Russian-style "Confessions" to acts perpetrated by the 1% and/or their agents
- For causing the rescission of long-standing global treaties to which the 99%'s United States of America was a party and had ratified into the body of the Supreme Law of the republic
- For establishing a large network of concentration camps and an unknown number of deep underground military bases and cities to which only the 1% will be allowed access, in the case of a global catastrophe, such as thermonuclear, chemical and/or biological warfare, for which they have been preparing in secret, for several decades (at least)
- For eliminating funding for and thus abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments by means of this withholding of funds and application of unfunded requirements upon the States
- For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever, under the guise of secret "Presidential Decision Documents," secret "Findings of the Attorney General," and other largely secret or suppressed documents pretending to be within the ambit of the Executive Branch, but are not
- The 1% have promoted the abrogation of the nation's laws, its 231-year history of an attempt to make our Constitutional Republic a government of laws, not of men, and thus have stood the "government of laws, not of men" on its head, making the United States of America a "government of men, not of laws," and a pariah among the world's other nations, joined by two other pariah nations, the United Kingdom and Israel
- The 1% have polluted the 99%'s air, our seas, our rivers and streams, have ravaged our way of life, have torched our economy, destroyed our homes, villages and towns by bankrupting them and the the 99% who live there--in short, have destroyed the economic well-being of our people.
- The 1% are at this time supporting large armies of soldiers and foreign mercenaries occupying several sovereign nations abroad, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and others we do not yet know about, to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of so-called "Shock and Awe," of collective punishment for decades, and such Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the wishes and direction, by Constitution, of the 99%
- The 1% have celebrated the murder overseas of American citizens who, so far as been made public, have spoken nasty things about our country--these "remote controlled murders" violate our Constitution and are, in fact, "justice-free" governmental actions, neither directed by our Constitution nor approved by the 99%
- The 1% have endeavoured to inflict and perpetuate on the inhabitants of our frontiers the affliction of the merciless South American Drug Kingpins whose known rule of warfare, death and destruction has caused an indiscriminate destruction of people of all ages, sexes and conditions
- The 1% have attempted to foment domestic insurrections amongst us by use of false flag terrorist attacks, as against the World Trade Center towers in 1993, the Oklahoma City federal building in 1965, the Ruby Ridge assassinations in ___, the 9/11/2001 false flag operations against the World Trade Center's buildings #1, #2 and #7 (and perhaps #6), the likely "NewTown Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre and, most recently, the Boston Marathon Bombings on Patriots' Day in April of 2013
- The 1% have launched illegal invasions, war and occupations against Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, have supported and/or conducted torture upon prisoners of war, and are attempting to corner the market on the most popular calibers of rifle and pistol ammunition as they also seek to confiscate the weapons which use such ammunition, to weaken and disarm the 99%, in preparation for a planned takeover of the government by the 1%.
In every stage of these Oppressions We, the 99%, have peaceably assembled and petitioned for Redress of our grievances in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. These 1% Plutocrats, "Royalty" and "Princes," in effect, whose character is thus marked by every act which may defined as Tyranny, are unfit to control this nation of free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our 1 Percenters. We have warned them from time to time that their attempts to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us and our economy are anathema to us. We have reminded the 1% of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, that we are no "Homeland" in Herr Hitler's terminology; we, the 99%, are the children of immigrants, of "the melting pot" that once was our nation, our country, our America. We, the 99%, have appealed to the better angels, if any, of their dispositions, and we have conjured them, have begged them, evoking the ties of our common immigrant kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. But the 1% have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold the 1%, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
WE, the 99% of the United States of America, in deliberation gathered, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the 99% of these United States of America, solemnly publish and declare, That the 99% of our citizens, that 99% of the un-rich, the un-priviledged in these United States are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT CITIZENS; that the 99% are Absolved from all Allegiance to the government of the 1%, and that all political connection between the 99% and the 1%, is and ought to be totally disolved; and that as Free and Independent Citizens, we, the 99%, have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Citizens and States may of right do
—And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
—And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Signed by:
[Representing the 99%]
[the initial Declaration of Independence, of July 4, 1776, was signed by: John Hancock, Benj. Harrison, Lewis Morris, Button Gwinnett, Thos. Nelson, Jr., Richd. Stockton, Lyman Hall, Francis Lightfoot, Lee Jno. Witherspoon, Geo. Walton, Carter Braxton, Fras. Hopkinson, Wm. Hooper, Robt. Morris, John Hart, Joseph Hewes, Benjamin Rush, Abra. Clark, John Penn, Benj. Franklin, Josiah Bartlett, Edward Rutledge, John Morton, Wm. Whipple, Thos. Heyward, Jr., Geo. Clymer, Saml. Adams, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Jas. Smith, John Adams,
Arthur Middleton,, Geo. Taylor, Robt. Treat Paine, Samuel Chase, James Wilson, Elbridge Gerry, Wm. Paca, Geo. Ross, Step. Hopkins, Thos. Stone, Caesar Rodney, William Ellery, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Geo. Read, Roger Sherman, Tho. M: Kean, Sam. Huntington, George Wythe, Wm. Floyd, Wm. Williams, Richard Henry, Lee Phil. Livingston, Oliver Wolcott, Th. Jefferson, Frans. Lewis, Matthew Thornton.]
Monday, February 20, 2012
Maced or Pepper-Sprayed (OC) Wall Street Petitioner
Youtube Comment to Pamela Parker's recommendation (on Facebook) of YouTube video, title: maced Wall Street demonstrator:
Looks like, at seconds 19, 20 and 21, there's a white-shirted officer, to right, over blue shirted officer's right shoulder, wielding what might be Mace container, with his arm outstretched, thumb over the top of it. I think I can make out a white stream of something. Seems his hand and what's in it are 3 feet from the girl who then falls on her knees. Can someone do a frame-by-frame analysis?
Also, a plea, from a frequent taker of video & stills, to all folks taking video:
Be The Gyroscope.
(borrowed without apology from the golfers' nifty mantra, "Be The Ball.")
That is--and as nearly impossible as it is in crowd situations, the highest camera priority is "keep camera as stable as possible". It's like an exercise in gymnastics or ballet, to keep the camera steady while everything else--you and everyone/-thing about you is chaos, in movement.
You can practice "being the gyroscope" in the privacy of your own digs and/or with friends and family. View, critique and delete the results, and do it over again. And again.
Why make this effort?
I'm thinking that all of us must become proficient "cinematographers" and camera-persons in the coming days.
This and other video from the Wall Street Casino reminds me of the 1966 Democratic Convention in Chicago when Chicago's finest went berserkers, and we had the spectacle of the Chicago Eight-Minus One on trial before an almost certifiably crazy judge (not that he wasn't provoked as never-ever in his life, but that's hardly an excuse--item #2 in the Preamble? "We the People of the United States, in order to … establish Justice….". That was 1966. This is 2011, a decade after what will surely be called the Most Successful False Flag Operation In History" (blaming all Muslims and beige people for something whitey did to whitey's own), and virtually all local police departments have been "federalized" by the Heimats Versicherungen Abteilung ("Homeland" "security, Dept of.). With the latest in "crowd-control" weapons, in abundance--from mace to internment camps "closed" military bases refurbished and reconstituted as internment camps by (drum roll, pls) Halliburton Industries.
It's probably wise for any and all citizens who seek "peaceably to assemble, and petition the government for redress of grievances," without being injured or killed doing so, to start bringing to such peaceful assemblies (along with cameras) gear like helmets, goggles, shoulder-, bicep- and thigh-pads--remember from your Abu Ghraib training that billy clubs to the thigh leave hardly any "audit trail" but are immensely debilitating/incapacitating/bring you to your knees. Perhaps even gas masks.
If any of you ride trains, you may have noticed that each conductor has a "signature" paper punch (issued by the transit authority). I'm thinking that perhaps all police billy clubs, night sticks, brass knuckles, saps and, for musically minded crowd control, the extended or telescoping "baton" (doesn't that sound so benign--a perfect euphemism for a bone-shattering club, dontcha think?-- should have an individual, citizen-identifiable, reverse "users's logo," or "brand," permanently engraved on its striking surface(s).
This way, if you didn't have a chance to ask for the officer's name, rank and badge number, either you or a friend, or lawyer, will be able to make the connection between the marks and the miscreant from the police-person's brands in your bruises.
Of course, just as some police persons in the 1966 Chicago Convention kerfuffles (sounds like feminine ruffles, rather than bone-breaking scuffles, no?) or police riots, if you prefer accuracy, taped over their badge numbers (so they wouldn't be charged with not wearing their badges, while at the same time defeating the purpose of wearing them--so too might enterprising "enforcement folks" be able to come up with counterfeit brands or unmarked batons, much like cattle rustlers in the good old days when the killing of African American slaves and "indigenous persons" by white European invaders was seen as not such a bad thing by white European-immigrant prosecutors and judges.
Also, you should be alert to the context in which police-persons work every day, with heightened awareness in large crowd "situations." Please take a thoughtful look at this beautiful web catalog from manufacturer ASP, for Armament Systems & Procedures), who manufactures the "telescoping baton" that is, I think, used now by the Bobbies in Britain, US military, federal agencies, state and local police. Also handcuffs, disposable handcuffs, batons with OC dispensers (oleoresin capsicum, or hot, hot red chili-pepper spray), super-bright flashlights, baton holsters, optional equipment such as a Human Rights baton tip (no kidding), and so on. Take in the pictures of the products, the beautiful diagrams, the lovely stamped and cloisonné medallions you can mount on the butt of the batons, with state seal, surrounded by department name, such as NYPD, or HVA (Heimats Versicherungen Abteilung to help your recollection), and to the full-page, staged "active encounter" situations, and take in the ad copy. Here's the ASP catalog URL. There's also a YouTuber "knuckledusterbooks" who put up an "introduction to saps" (saps are a slab of lead on a spring-steel shank wrapped in leather; blackjacks are a round billet of lead, molded over a compressed coil spring (like a screen door screen) also wrapped in leather--these are very good at breaking human clavicles (collar bones), fascia (face bones), skulls, fibulae (small calf-bone), ulnae & radii (the two small forearm bones).
The instructions below are in the nature of "Know what you're up against, and "Be Prepared," as in "having advance information gives you two more arms (Forewarned is Four-Armed). This is no apologia for law-breaking, Constitution-busting individuals and the agencies that supervise and train them. So, herewith, some caveats to keep in mind:
If you haven't yet learned this, police officers live and operate in a world where the presumption is that an approaching person is "armed and dangerous," or merely "dangerous with his or her arms, voice, psyche," etc. The younger of them, not yet risen in rank, have truly abysmal, home-wrecking working hours (weekend duty, shifts that precess 'round the clock, all the while surrounded by critics & potential danger. Anyone who's in the restaurant bidness, entertainment bidness, nursing, ambulance, fire outputting -- or copy editors for morning newspapers & TV shows & weekly magazines that come out on Mondays -- can empathize. Except in the danger department.
However, some journalists can even empathize in the that department as well, like: investigative reporters in the US, war correspondents overseas, correspondents representing non-US news modalities (like Al Jazeera) and any reporters in and from foreign countries, esp. in the Asian con- and sub-continents, particularly where US troops are active, where empathy and life-ending activities are congruent with, or surpass, those of police personnel -- and even more so, if the police are trying to terminate reporters' assignments w/ extreme prejudice (or what Darth Cheney might call (after first submitting it to focus groups to make certain that people won't or don't understand a word of the phrase but THINK they do, and that it has a really nice meaning), "enhanced unitary interviewee techniques"). (In rhetorical and "language arts" circles, this is called "euphemism" or cynical obfuscation, and my description a sad attempt at sardonic sarcasm, to use a tautology twice in the same phrase.)
You should also be aware that the number of physicians, professors, cancer researchers, Wall Street Casino operators, PhDs in the Arts and Sciences, etc., are severely underrepresented in police departments throughout the US. And members of those professions are not insisting to any and all that they're being discriminated against, marching on Washington, clamoring to gain admission to the police departments. Although, given our economy's slide into third-world status, that may be changing, under the red headline: "PhD Paupers Can't Be Choosers." Those of you who live in big cities, haven't you already found that you have a plethora of foreign-born, foreign-trained MDs and PhDs driving cabs in NYC and LA and SF and Boston and Atlanta? And not practicing their professions?
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Tomás de Torquemada
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|Tomás de Torquemada
Tomás de Torquemada
Torquemada or Valladolid, Spain
|September 16, 1498 (aged 77–78)
Ávila, Spain
|Grand Inquisitor
|Roman Catholic
|Juan de Torquemada (cardinal) (uncle)
Tomás de Torquemada (Thomas of Torquemada), O.P. (/ˌtɔrkəˈmɑːdə/ Spanish: [toɾkeˈmaða]; 1420 – September 16, 1498) was a Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain's movement to restore Christianity among its populace in the late 15th century.
The existence of many sham converts among the Moriscos and Marranos (i.e. Crypto-Jews) had found it more socially, politically and economically expedient to join the Christian fold, where perceived at that time as a threat to the religious and social life of Spain.[1][2][3] This lead Torquemada to be one of the chief supporters of the Alhambra Decree, which expelled the Jews from Spain in 1493.
Early life[edit]
Torquemada was born in 1420 in either the small village of Torquemada near Valladolid, Castile-León, Spain[4][5] or directly in Valladolid.[6] He himself hailed from a family of conversos (converts from Judaism) as was his famed uncle the celebrated theologian and cardinal, Juan de Torquemada,[7] whose grandmother was a converso (someone who had converted to Christianity from Islam or Judaism); the contemporary historian Hernando del Pulgar (himself a converso) recorded that his uncle, Juan de Torquemada, had an ancestor Álvar Fernández de Torquemada married to a first-generation Jewish conversa.[8][9]
Hernando del Pulgar, in his book Claros varones de Castilla, says about Torquemada:[10]
«sus aguelos fueron de linage de los Judios convertidos á nuestra Santa Fé Católica»(translates as "His grandparents were of the lineage of the Jews converted to our Holy Catholic faith").
Tomás entered the local San Pablo Dominican monastery at a very young age. As a zealous advocate of church orthodoxy, he earned a solid reputation for the triple virtues of learning, piety and austerity. As a result, he was promoted to prior of the monastery of Santa Cruz at Segovia. Around this time, he met the young Princess Isabella I and the two immediately established religious and ideological rapport. For a number of years, Torquemada served as her regular confessor and personal advisor. He was present at Isabella's coronation in 1474, and remained her closest ally and supporter. He had even advised her to marry King Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469, in order to consolidate their kingdoms and form a power base he could draw on for his own purposes. [11]
Establishment of the Holy Office of the Inquisition[edit]
Torquemada deeply feared the Marranos and Moriscos as a menace to Spain's welfare by their increasing religious influence on, and economic domination of Spain.[12] King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella concurred, and soon after their accession to power petitioned the Pope to grant their request for a Holy Office to administer an inquisition in Spain. The pope granted their request, and established the Holy Office for the Propagation of the Faith in late 1478.
Grand Inquisitor[edit]
The Pope went on to appoint a number of inquisitors for the Spanish Kingdoms in early 1482, including Torquemada. A year later he was named Grand Inquisitor of Spain, which he remained until his death in 1498. In the fifteen years under his direction, the Spanish Inquisition grew from the single tribunal at Seville to a network of two dozen 'Holy Offices'.[13] As Grand Inquisitor, Torquemada reorganized the Spanish Inquisition (originally based in Castile in 1478), establishing tribunals in Sevilla, Jaén, Córdoba, Ciudad Real and (later) Saragossa. His quest was to rid Spain of all heresy. The Spanish chronicler Sebastián de Olmedo called him "the hammer of heretics, the light of Spain, the savior of his country, the honor of his order".
Under the edict of March 31, 1492, known as the Alhambra Decree, approximately 200,000 Jews left Spain. Following the Alhambra decree of 1492, approximately 50,000 Jews took baptism so as to remain in Spain; however, many of these—known as "Marranos" from Corinthians II, a contraction of anathema—were "crypto-jews" and secretly kept some of their Jewish traditions.[14]
Torquemada made the procedures of prior inquisitions somewhat less brutal by moderating the use of torture, limiting its use to suspects denounced by two or more "persons of good nature."[citation needed]; and by cleaning up the Inquisitorial prisons. The condemned were made to wear a sanbenito, a penitential garment worn over clothes and of a design that specified the type of penitence. One type, worn by those sentenced to death, had designs of hell's flames or sometimes demons, dragons and/or snakes engraved on it. Another type had a cross, and was worn instead of imprisonment, then hung in the parish church.[clarification needed]
Forced conversions by large numbers, often ordered by Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, took place under significant government pressure. The Treaty of Granada (1491), as negotiated at the final surrender of the Muslim state of Al-Andalus, clearly mandated protection of religious rights,[citation needed] but this was reversed by the Alhambra Decree of 1492.
There is some disagreement as to the number of victims of the Spanish Inquisition during Torquemada's reign as Grand Inquisitor. Some scholars[specify] believe that he was responsible for the death of 2,000 people. Hernando del Pulgar, Queen Isabella's secretary, wrote that 2,000 executions took place throughout the entirety of her reign, which extended well beyond Torquemada's death.
During his final years, Torquemáda's failing health, coupled with widespread complaints, caused Pope Alexander VI to appoint four assistant inquisitors in June 1494 to restrain the Spanish Inquisition. After fifteen years as Spain's Grand Inquisitor, Torquemáda died in the monastery of St. Thomas Aquinas in Ávila in 1498 and was interred there. His tomb was ransacked in 1832—two years before the Inquisition was disbanded. His bones were stolen and ritually incinerated as though an auto-da-fé took place.[15]
In fiction[edit]
- Torquemada, a historical novel by Howard Fast.
- Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov features a parable involving Christ coming back to Seville in the days of the Spanish Inquisition, and being confronted by Torquemada as the Grand Inquisitor.
- Torquemada, a play by Victor Hugo.
- Tomás de Torquemada is one of the main protagonists of Jerzy Andrzejewski's novel And Darkness Covered the Earth (also translated as The Inquisitors).
- Tomás de Torquemada is one of the main characters of Gilbert Sinoué's novel Le livre de saphir.
- Mel Brooks portrayed Torquemada in the musical song "The Inquisition" in the 1981 comedy movie History of the World, Part I.
- Torquemada is the name of the primary antagonist in the comic series Nemesis the Warlock by Pat Mills. This future Torquemada is later revealed to be an incarnation of the original Torquemada.
- ^ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marrano
- ^ http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history/Modern_History/Early_Modern/crypto-jews.shtml
- ^ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14783a.htm
- ^ Gerli, E. Michael (2013). Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 794. ISBN 9781136771620.
- ^ Whitechapel, Simon (2003). Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition. Creation Books. p. 52. ISBN 9781840681055.
- ^ von Dehsen, Christian (2013). Philosophers and Religious Leaders. Routledge. p. 188. ISBN 9781135951023.
- ^ "Meditations, or the Contemplations of the Most Devout". World Digital Library. 1479. Retrieved 2013-09-02.
- ^ Template:A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews
- ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Tomas_de_Torquemada.aspx
- ^ Fernando del Pulgar (1789). Claros varones de Castilla. G. Ortega.
- ^ http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Eaz4AaGLGr8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=claros+varones+de+castilla&source=bl&ots=KDDi0SLza5&sig=FYdJ4Zza7HZXONnmJFptS6-tSjQ&hl=en&ei=AKi1S5e7CMuLkAW-ktStDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Torquemada%20convertidos&f=false
- ^ Template:A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews
- ^ The Age of Torquemada, by John Edward Longhurst (1962), from vlib.iue.it (European University Institute)
- ^ Wolf, A (1909). Life of Spinoza (Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man and his Well Being. London: Adam and Charles Black. pp. 4–5.
- ^ Cullen Murphy, God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
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- Duran, Alphonsus Maria, Why Apologize for the Spanish Inquisition?, (Eric Gladkowski, Ed., 2000). ISBN 0-9702235-0-1.
- Goldberg, Enid A. & Itzkowitz, Norman, "Tomas de Torquemada" (A Wicked History), (Scholastic Books, 2008) ISBN 1-4351-0322-X
- Kamen, Henry, The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision, (Yale University Press, 1999). ISBN 0-300-07880-3.
- Lea, Henry Charles, The history of the Inquisition of Spain, (Macmillan, 1906–07) Wikisource:A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages/Volume I
- Ott, Michael. "Tomás de Torquemada." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 23 Sept. 2013 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14783a.htm>.
- Sabatini, Rafael, Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition, (Bretano's 1913; reprinted BiblioLife, 2009). # Paperback: 304 pages, Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition (31 May 2001) # Language English # ISBN 1-84232-834-4 # ISBN 978-1-84232-834-7
- Walsh, William Thomas, Characters of the Inquisition, (Tan Books and Publishers, 1987). ISBN 0-89555-326-0 .
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Send a triple-decker gift packed with favorites! Each gift box reveals a snack treasure: crunchy Bar Mix, sweet and salty Peanut Butter Pretzels with Chocolate Bridge Mix, and savory Cheese and Sausage. Sharp Cheddar and Brick Cheese are joined by Summer and Mettwurst Sausage, all ready to go with Stone Ground Wheat Crackers. Red boxes are tied up with a sheer red ribbon for a distinctive presentation. The tower is 10 1/2"H. Net wt. 3 lbs. 3 oz.
Big Snackin' Birthday Tin
Wow! This big birthday-bright tin bursts with over 3 pounds of great treats to get the party started! Big assortment includes Creamy Candied Confetti Pretzels, Fruity Sour Stars, Tootsie Roll® Pops, Cheese Corn, Caramel Corn, Fruity Popcorn, Pretzel Nuggets, Fruit Discs, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Milk Chocolate Stars... Surprise! All in a fun 2-gallon Birthday Tin. Net wt. 3 lbs. 2 oz.
All Packed & Ready To Go Gift Basket
Everything is ready for a 'snack-sational' picnic with your lucky friends and family! Tucked into a delightful wooden Picnic Basket, Cheddar and Cheddar with Port Wine flavored Cheese Spreads, Pepper Crackers, Cheese Popcorn, Beef Sticks, Mixed Nuts, and a Cheese Spreader Knife will bring instant enjoyment. Plus, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Tootsie Roll® Pops make your picnic even sweeter! Net wt. 1 lb. 12 oz.
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Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has accepted a one-year position at Yale University in which he will participate in a course examining issues related to religious faith and globalisation.
The news that Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho in Iraq has been killed could force the Church underground, say Iraqi Christians. The Chaldean Catholic archbishop's body was found yesterday.
A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq has been found dead, the news agency of Italian bishops' conference has reported. The SIR news agency says Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was found dead near the Iraqi city of Mosul, where he had been abducted.
British Quakers today lent their support to the concerns of the two human rights campaigners arrested off Diego Garcia after protesting about the island's use in British and US military operations.
In the run up to the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, churches are reiterating their call for British troops to withdraw from the country and will join in a 'Christian Peace Witness for Iraq'
The vicious circle of violence which tormented Israel and Palestine for years has returned, says Jerusalem Lutheran Bishop Munib Younan, following the shooting attack on a Jewish seminary. Blood will not save the Holy Land, he says.
Recent religious conflict in the Indian state of Orissa has been aided by the aggressive evangelising of missionaries from outside the region, says an official with the largest traditional Protestant denomination in northern India.
The head of a world churches body which has been highly critical of the policies of the state of Israel toward the Palestinians has unequivocally condemned the recent bomb outrage against a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem.
Palestinians and Jews working for peace and justice have expressed deep foreboding about the future after Israel responded to the appalling recent shootings in Jerusalem with hints of reprisals and a pledge to occupy more territory.