TRAYON DIARIES??

Lest We Forget

The Yin-Yang Media never ceases to amaze!  Today, they blankly report that the "defense" in the Trayvon Martin case has announced two new web-sites; one for raising money (surprise, surprise), the other to air "their side" of the story.  Get up off the floor!  Stop laughing!!

This is NOT funny.  Remember, they're supposed to be preparing for a trial -- even though they've pushed that off for a year.  Remember also there were two attorneys earlier in this case who were fighting with the "defendant" over web-sites for the purpose of raising money for him.  Those attorneys were dismissed, or quit, and now there is a "top lawyer" who has been "assigned" to the case.

We have a front seat to an unfolding drama in which we're the target.  They're trying this case in the media!  The true victim is in his grave and cannot defend himself.  The "defendendant" we're supposed to form a predominant public opinion about, may not ever have to face a jury; or even a TRIAL.

This is a replay of the O.J. saga, with a money twist.  Suppose Johnny Cochran had the insight to raise money by opening a web-site.  Suppose the opposing side did also. Both sides could have walked away with fortunes!

So, what to do?  I propose we all keep diaries.  The Masters of this affair are hoping we all forget, the story will fade, and all of the living will walk away happy.  Except, of course for Trayvon's family.

The state, which pretends they will defend Trayvon "when the time comes", has already peformed its televised "Pontius Pilate" act in this affair.

If you think keeping track somehow, "keeping their feet to the fire" as the old folk would say, is a good idea,  please respond to this blog.



Stay Vigilant! 
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BULLY

Learn What has Happened to "Childhood"

Approaching 73 years in age, grandfather of six grandchildren, former single parent, I was shaken by the docu-movie Bully.  I thought my childhood was hard, but racism, poverty, and other social ills did not result in suicide appearing to be the only escape.

We tend to think the person who commits suicide is the "victim", but if you see this film, you will quickly learn that all of the children are the  "victims" of many things that human beings can change.

Whether the bully, the bullied, the cheerleader or the scared non-participant, all of the children were caught up in a tragedy.  It has all the markings of mob psychology and not all members of the mob were present at the bullying.

Having lost a sister to suicide (as an adult, not as a child), I have "walked in the shoes" of the family members who have lost their loved ones.  In one of my Drucker classes I learned how Voodoo Death Works.  There are strong similarities in bullying; the "selecting out" the roles of the non-bullied, the acceptance (of a sort) of the bullied, and death.

Paramount in this matter is the role of the community.  The predominating beliefs held, the lack of dissent or exception, no safe passages from the pressures exerted.  The "lock" that most often leads to the death outcome is the "shared beliefs" held by the victim.

It seems that as a child we could always find at least one adult who could "hear" us.  Who is willing or has the time today?  No child committed suicide in our segregated small town community.

Stay Vigilant!  We can escape these traps and save our children and ourselves.

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POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

When The "Saints" Came Marching In

As we approach the 2012 election, the sirens are blaring from the history of our country that most us have never been taught.  One day in Seattle, I stopped in a rare book store and found a copy of Bernard DeVoto's The Year of  Decision 1846.   It was published first in 1942 (my copy was published in 1943) and a young Arthur Schlesinger Jr was a principal researcher.  

The book chronicalled that part of our history when the era of the Mountain Men was fading and the expansion of our country to the Pacific Ocean was underway; driven by President Polk.  It's focus was the unpopular and, to some, "illegitemate" invasion of Mexico by the United States; but also included the rise of Mormonism. 

Most religions prominent in the United States today washed up on these shores from Europe.  Mormonism, however, was born and bred in this country.  It was, unlike others, militant and insurrectionist from its beginning.  Summarily driving out all forms of internal dissent, it quickly moved to form militia's and, later, armies to thwart rule of state governments,  (Missouri and Illinois), and then the federal government.  Theocracy and internal secrecy was its preferred form of government. Its early history included massacres of pioneer settlers. 

Founded in 1830, by 1838 the religion found itself in armed rebellion against the state of Missouri.  This led to its eviction from the state.  Return to the year, 1830, and you will find Alexis de Tocqville here studying the new, young Democracy.  You also will find some things uncomfortably similar to today; like grid-locked government, sharp divisions among the people, and an air of rebellion.  In the next  30 years these conditions led to what we were taught was the Civil War.  The "War of Popular Sovereignty" would have been a more accurate name for it.  It would also draw accurate parallels to what we're facing today.

Before our Yin-Yang Media spreads its soft-soap in support of candidates for this year's election, I strongly advise potential voters to do their own research.  Go on the web and Google Wikipedia's accounts of "1838 Mormon War" and "Utah War".  These accounts will get you started.  It's a fascinating period in our history from many aspects.

Stay Vigilant!  Pleasant reading.

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SIOUX CITY

Kudo's to the Sioux City Journal! Great Journalism!

I read the Christian Science Monitor report on the Sioux City Journal's publication of the death of Kenneth Weishuhn Jr.  The reflection of the role of community is welcome and refreshing.  The response of a community is very important when a child dies.  Compare Sioux City's response to that of the Florida community most recently in the news.  If more communities share the concern exhibited by Sioux City, maybe more of our children can be saved.

The story struck me because I visited Sioux City in the late 90's in search of information regarding the death of another boy, 12 years of age, that occurred in that town in 1933.  He was murdered.  You see, from my earliest memories I was told that my name came from that boy.  He was my Dad's youngest brother, and was born in Missouri in 1921.  Even though I was able to verify much of what I had been told,  more than sixty-five years later;  mysteries still linger.

If you visit the abandoned section of the city Cemetery, you'll find at the bottom of a steep slope, in a ravine, under a spreading tree, a solitary white marble cross.  That is his grave.  Who put that expensive cross on that lonely grave (especially in the depth of the Depression) is just one of the mysteries.

The boy was 3 years old when his mother died.  He and his 5 year old brother and seven year old sister were bundled onto a train by the Missouri state Welfare and shipped to Wichita, Kansas.  From there, he somehow wound up in Omaha, Nebraska and, finally, in Sioux City, Iowa where he was shot-gunned.

I had been told that he was killed in the Depression to collect insurance money.  In my research, I found there was a child killed in Iowa for insurance around that time, but it was not him.  The woman who shot him claimed he had stolen a gold watch.  The trial revealed that the watch had been taken to a jeweler by the woman's husband.  How he wound up with that couple is still a mystery.  I was able to find, in a Sioux City nursing home, his cousin, who, at 4 years old, witnessed the murder.  He said my uncle did not steal the watch.

The murder took place around the time that President Roosevelt closed the banks in this country and had citizens turn in their gold.  Even though we may be facing tough times today, 1933 was miserable  for U.S. citizens.  Sioux City was especially rough!  Children were especially vulnerable. The Sioux City Journal ran a series of articles on the murder and the trial of the murderer, beginning April 25, 1933, and running through May 29, 1933.

If  you should visit the grave, put a flower on for me?  Thanks!
 
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RACE and U.S. IMMIGRATION

"Duck and Cover" won't work for the "Demography Bomb"

When our ally in World War II, the Soviet Union, helped us defeat the Fascists, Russian immigrants were popular on the Bogardus Social Distance Scale in the United States.  By 1952, Russia had acquired "the Bomb", and the Cold War was on.  Russian immigrants to the U.S., and citizens of Russian origin fell significantly lower on the Bogardus scale (compare ratings in 1926 and 1956).

The deck has always been stacked against immigrants of color.  That is because our first law on immigration, the Naturalization Act of 1790, restricted citizenship to white persons.  Many other attempts aimed at limiting immigration by color, and  deporting   immigrants of color (Chinese Exclusion).

The Bogardus scale, which shows the "pecking order" of citizens, based on origin, as they measured themselves, shows a preference by all for "whites" over all persons of other origins.  The scale, re-measured in 1939, on college campuses, shows that "Negroes" at Howard University preferred whites ahead of all others, including themselves.

Fast forward to the Presidential campaigns of 2012.  The Repoobs know well the history above, evidenced by the campaign they're running.  Their anti-immigration rhetoric is targeted against non-whites.  They think they can "etch" away this reality by employing the likes of  Marco Rubio.  Either the mirrors don't work in Marco's house, or he thinks he can skate on his skin here the way his folks could in Cuba.

The Repoobs are "crazy like a fox" in their layering of anti-immigrant sentiment with anti-non-white sentiment.  Those campaigners most clearly evidencing fecal matter for brains are now claiming that Democrats are "Communists".  They're harking back to the Red-baiting campaigns of the 1950s.  These three layers of the campaign (race, inti-non-white-immigration, and anti-Communist) will be dog-whistle themes that hold their base in place.

Demographics are immutable!  Your jobs, your government, your health care, your personal wealth, your religion, and just about everything else are impacted by two demographic realities: people, all over the world, are living longer lives, and: non-white people have higher birth rates than white people.  The Repoobs are using these facts to do three things: grab total control of government in the United States, take control of all of the wealth in the United States, and use law-making to return their "enemies" to peonage.

Because of the Cold War, Red-Baiting, wholesale migration of Nazis to the United States after the War, the United States is woefully vulnerable to extreme-Right-wing political tactics.  Many of our politicians rose to political prominence (most notably Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan) by Red-baiting.

Rather than enabling future citizens of the United States to prepare for their future in a healthy way, the Repoobs are setting up "Armageddon" on many fronts.

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DIALOG ON RACE

Our Nation's Future Depends on the Outcome

Talking heads in our media have often declared that this nation needs a long-overdue "Dialog On Race".

I submit that we've already entered that dialog.  It's disguised as the electoral campaign of 2012.  Judging from the race-laced filth coming from the Repoob candidates and their backers, it will be a lop-sided "dialog".

I refer to them as Repoops out of respect for Abraham Lincoln.  The current imposters killed the Republican Party in the early 1970's.  They've damn-near killed the country economically, and are engaged in an elaborate media-driven campaign to pin the blame on the first Black President; who was able to plug the hole in the economy and put the nation back on the road to recovery.  Looks like they might get away with it.  No good deeds will go un-punished, it seems.

My ancestors and those from surrounding communities must be rolling in their graves if they can see the sorry stage this country has been reduced to.  The grounds were set at least 30 years before the turn of the last century, but this first decade of the 21st century is a "doozy"; due to 6 years of un-checked power wielded by the Repoobs.  The list of their crimes, mis-demeanors, and severe mismanagement will be the stuff for historians for decades to come.

But not today, it seems.  We've devolved to a nation that prefers "hee-hee" and entertainment over thought and introspection.  This has led to a break-down in government function that has the entire world scared for the future.  The Repoobs have joined in lock-step to bring our governments function to a stand-still, and have pushed it toward default on its debts to get their way.

My relatives rest in eternity adjacent to the site of the historic George R. Smith College, the place where Scott Joplin invented Ragtime.  My grandfather's business was two doors away from the Historic Maple Leaf Club.  The town was a Union Headquarters during the Civil War, but the residents were evenly divided in that War.  The Klan reighned well into my life-time.  Supreme Justice Thurgood Marshall warned in 1991 that the Klan switched their white sheets for the black robes of Judges. 

The Klan burned George R. Smith College to the ground in 1925.  My mother's siblings attended  that college, but because it was burned, she attended college in Kansas, graduating in 1929.  Ridgidly divided by race, the entire state operated in a manner more racist than the deep south, according to fellow students from the South whom I met in College in 1957.  In spite of that history, the citizenry was more engaged in public affairs and exhibited a common sense that permitted everyone to survive, however tentative their survival became.  For instance, health and dental care were denied because of race up until the time I left in 1959.  Income had no effect.

Having served for fully half of  the Cold War in uniform, standing at one point toe-to-toe with live nukes, I think I'm qualified to engage in such debate.  Perhaps the internet (a Cold War invention) is the proper place for it to take place?


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"FINANCE'" is not "BUSINESS'"

Finance is to Business as Blood is to the Body

Kids today are into vampire movies and T.V. shows.  They seem to be attracted by blood.  The "Money Boys" (some view as blood-suckers) sprang on the scene in the early 80's with Ivan Boesky.  They have become legion since, along with the damage they've done to our country and its economy.  They want you to see them as "businessmen"; especially the Repoob front-runner for 2012.

Starting with Boesky and junk bonds, old, job-providing corporations met their demise.  The finances they contained were stripped out (pension funds, marketable assets, etc).  As the corpses of U.S. businesses mounted, the excess "finance" (think blood) mounted.

The people who were "laid off"; mostly blue collar in the beginning, ultimately became what are today the followers of "leaders" like Nugent, Limbaugh, Gengrich, Santorum.  What the clowns running in the 2012 Repoob Primary call "losers". ( Remember, losers like guns! )  Read Susan Faludi's book "Stiffed" for a fuller picture of these guys.

This trend paralelled NAFTA and the Yin-Yang Media ignored it.  They probably were'nt smart enough to see it, and besides, they would have to work.  It is a lot easier for them to simply repeat gossip and the keep the "mushrooming" rolling.

By the late 80's you had the McDonnell-Douglas "paint factory firing" and the realization by the money boys that they could combine the slauthering of companies with the manipulation of stock on Wall Street.  Then the "blood" really started flowing.

Drucker warned in the mid-80's to "keep an eye" on the 401K funding because it was "largely un-protected", and that some "smart guys with computers" will find a way to "get their hands" on it.

Voila! Witness the explosion of Hedge Funds in the 90's.  Corporations that produced products that could be "monetized" (think cars, appliances, etc) turned into banks that also manufactured things.

Following the "Red-Neck Coup" of 2000 (aided and abetted by the "Supremes"), the best and brightest of our engineering and technical schools, joined our brightest MBA factories to create for Wall Street instruments like credit-default-swaps (CDS) and Derivatives that ultimately blew up the economy.

Mean-while, the Hedgies, by now "blood banks" were looking for larger targets, both domestically and globally. Remember, just about all of this was enabled by laws passed by the U.S. Congress, beginning in the early 1970's.

There was plenty of excess "blood" to buy politicians, judges, whole countries (think Iceland).

Now they have their head "Hedgie" targeting the White House.

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