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When (Ruling?) WHITE(s) "LOSE" The LAW??

A "Rocky" History! 

Immediately following President Obama's State of the Union Speech on Tuesday, the psychobabble from the Cracker Media Outhouse(s) "switched" to charges of "dictator"; "Outlaw"; and there were threats from Boehner to sue the President for issuing "Executive Orders" that are authorized under our Constitution, and used much more extensively by past Presidents!  What a CROCK!! 

Less than a decade ago this same bunch of "Loonies" were spouting lines like;  "The Constitution is not a document of "surrender"!   President Obama will have all of these idiots on the Cracker Right "foaming at the mouth" by the time his term ends.  The Fugitive Slave Act, pre-Civil War, was perhaps the most egregious over-reach of those empowered to Make Law, in the history of this country.  It's really about POWER, and who exercises it -- not about LAW!

 

Thurgood Marshall told us when he retired that the "Klan" was turning in its white robes in exchange for the black robes of judges in our legal system.  We know from W.E.B. Du Bois, in his Souls of Black Folk, that the white South turned to Jim Crow "Laws" to keep the nation segregated and non-white citizens "in their place".  To blacks in the South, "Whites" were "The Law".  The Trayvon Martin Tragedy showed to the world that the "law" in the South today is anything whites down there want it to be.

In the North and Mid-West, Ethnic Gangs organized into organized crime cells;  invaded politics from the lowest levels; working their influence all the way from the Cop on the Beat, to Prosecutors, Judges, and "higher" recipients of their tainted money.  This has been the sorry history of our country since the Civil War.

Given the raucous din in our Media today, and the unraveling of positions, we can all hope that this sorry history of using "the law" to commit crime may be coming to an end?  I wouldn't bet on it!  Romney told CPAC recently that they should retrench and re-launch their attack on power from the State Level.  Some of this Red-blooded bunch has invaded School Boards.  Sheriffs, law enforcers for County Government, are rivaling Governors in states like Arizona.  Could all of this help to explain why politicians at the national (Federal) level appear powerless to enact laws curtailing gun violence?

 

Then there's the issue of ENFORCEMENT!  Some of the same Pols who twist the arms of Legislators for new legislation are in charge of those government "bureaucrats" who are charged with their Enforcement.  The MEDIA and the PUBLIC both ignore this issue.  Legislators paste new laws over old laws, without giving much attention to the enforcement of either!

What is "legal"; Who is "legal"; both become "fuzzy" in a crazy-quilt system of  "Laws" that are written and passed by people who get little scrutiny; and are "gamed', both by Media and Lawyers of questionable motives and ethics.  The voting public is ultimately "responsible" for all of this!

Stay Vigilant!  I might be legal; You might be legal; but what about everyone else??

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TRIBALISM:RACISM: "INCOME INEQUALITY"??

"Cracking The Code(s)

The latest TIME (3Feb/14), features an article by Suketa Mehta, entitled: The Superiority Complex.  Drawing  heavily from a new book by Amy Chua and Jed Rebenfeld, she cites eight "groups" as  "superior" in terms of "success" in the United States: Asians, Cubans, Jews, Nigerians, Indians from INDIA (not Native-Americans), Mormons, Iranians, and Lebanese.  Claiming this to be the new "racism" for our new century, Mehta notes that these are broad categorizations that also include a lot of abject financial failures.

 

Not unlike the "scientific racism" that was so popular among whites at the beginning of the 20th Century, this 21st Century run at racism is gaining ground in places that would be under control of the "usual suspects".  Those "suspects" seem now to have "cornered" the wealth in this country.   Only  proper "organization" by the non-wealthy and the non-racist can cure the problems we face as a nation.

Technology must also play a part in any "cure".  The Big Money people; (the likes of Romney, and perhaps, Christie; who know the coercion and oppression that wealth can enable, when coupled with the right mix of "thuggery") have to be "overcome".  Current powerful "institutions" like organized religions and "education" establishments must also be overcome.  What they do today serves the "status quo"; perpetuating the racism, classism, and economic oppression we have known for the past one hundred years or more.
The poisons of old are rapidly spreading into Red states in this country.  The "rot" at the root of politics and power in the United States today (to see it up close, follow one of our Red-Neck politicians back to one of their Hell Holes and observe how they treat their poor and non-white citizenry) must be extinguished by people who value truth and knowledge instead of the pseudo-science of the Religious Right, and,  now, a "new superiority" of  a "Group of Eight" coercive "Superiors", as identified by Chua and Rebenfeld.  The wealth gap in this country is huge, and the organizing skills of those who succumb to it have to be massively improved.

For the past 100 years, the Elites have neither needed nor valued "education" for their own use, and have permitted several generations of their own people to fall far behind the skill levels of many non-whites; both here and abroad.  That gap cannot be overcome in less time that that of several generations.  Today, the wealthy have demonstrated that they can "buy" all the "smarts" they don't  possess, and can get it cheaply!  It remains to be seen whether, what Peter Drucker called the "knowledge-worker" can get up off hisor her knees and control the wealth their knowledge produces.  So far, they have been too easily enslaved.  BIG MONEY can also get all of the creativity and inventiveness it lacks from the gifted poor; for FREE! 

Stay Vigilant!  Get Together, and Figure Out how to master BIG MONEY!; (and rabid religions??)
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"FROM RAGS TO RICHES"? ... "AND BACK"?

The "Promise" Betrayed??  

The United States of America is fabled as a country in which a citizen is permitted to rise from "rags" to "riches", based on a combination of toil, dedication, vision, and luck.  The riches achieved most often benefit families that include children who inherit the wealth.  "From rags to riches, and back again; within three generations" is what I was taught to be commonplace in this country.  The first generation created wealth, the second "spent" the wealth and lived an easier life doing that. 
The third generation was often the one that completely squanders the wealth; implicitly because of less dedication, vision, and skill.  The government promised to neither block the aspirations of individuals, nor to protect individuals from foolishly losing the wealth they achieve.

 

The laws and cultural norms were claimed to be drawn so as to support the notion that "anyone" could "make it".  There is a sense, at this point in my life, that this notion is no longer widely held in this country today, compared to what was widely expected by citizens a hundred years ago (1914).  A Great Depression (1933), and a Lesser Depression (2008) have a lot to do with this diminishment of expectation for achieving riches in one lifetime.  Today there is a widening sense that the "deck is stacked" against those not born to wealth.

 

"Caveat Emptor", or "let the buyer beware" seems a somehow "quaint"  notion in the wake of several generations of "shop-a-holics" born and raised after World-War- II.  "Thrift"  is a notion that has been abandoned, as citizens who remember the Great Depression have "passed on".  Consumerism became government policy at a time when a War on Poverty was launched.  That war has been "lost", as was also a War on Drugs; begun a decade later.

 

"Conservative" habits like saving, frugality, and wise investment, have been allowed to fade, while "rolling economic bubbles" have occurred; beginning with the great "Oil Boycott" during Nixon's term in office.  The devastation to the savings of individuals and families has mounted as the "bubbles" became successively more severe and complex.  The complicity of the Federal Government in these events became more commonplace after Lyndon Johnson's term in office, and reached it peak during the Cheney/Bush terms in office.  Voters lost their ability to deal with economic events; as can be seen by comparing the "common sense" of voters in 1948 to the lack thereof in the elections of 2000,  and 2004.  Elections since 2008 have been mired in the devastation of the Collapse of 2008.  We've not yet struggled free, due to the inability of voters to demand and reward clean government, at all levels.  Technology, coupled with the ability of dedicated groups to "solidify" their economic standing, have produced a "stratified" economic social order that trends toward the destruction of the age-old promise of wealth achievement by skilled individuals.

 

Stay Vigilant!  Is the wise management of assets becoming more important than the ability to acquire them? 

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What's Up with Whites and "THUGS" ??

Let's Look Back, a Bit??

In my Master's Thesis in 1972, I cited Eldridge Cleaver's Soul On Ice (1968).  I was taken by his depictions of the Omnipotent Administrator and the Super-Masculine Menial as roles played by white and black males throughout the history of the United States.   Ten years before that book was published, it was against the law in Missouri, and many other states for whites to compete against blacks in college athletics.  The NFL and NBA did not yet exist as we know them today.

It appears that white males have had "issues" with black male sports figures ever since that time.  It is amazing how the prejudices seem to transcend generations, and persist to this day; even in the light of the Billion-Dollar sports industries that have been built around their outstanding skills in sports like Football and Basketball.  The existence of these "plantation-like" operations are central to the daily life-style and existence  for white males in this country.

Richard Sherman, Cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks, caused quite a stir among the "Omnipotents" last Sunday with his exuberant outburst following his spectacular play that won a tight contest for his team.  It seems to have scared the crap out of a large number of these guys, who responded, in Social Media, by calling Sherman "A Thug"!

A Thug?? Really?? In this most "thuggish" of nations?   In 2014?  That's astounding!  If you're Native American, the "thugs" were the people who got off their boat; and played nice long enough with the people their descendents now pretend were "not here",  to learn how to feed themselves.  Once they were strong enough and realized how much land they could "confiscate"; they turned quite "thuggish".  The flood of  more like them never quit until just about all of the Native Americans were dead.  It lasted hundreds of years.

If you're African American, your slave boat arrived shortly before.  It didn't take the "thuggish" ones very long to realize how profitable it would be to work slaves to death, (after first reproducing themselves) -- in perpetuity!

Bernard Devoto writes that Texas was admitted to the United States under a plan to divide the territory into four slave-holding states.  That would give our slave-driving "thugs" complete political control, and extend slavery to the Pacific Ocean.

Then there werre Thugs warring among themselves.  Mexicans came north and enslaved Native Americans. They were forced to return to Mexico after a Native Revolt.  They returned in 1598 when Onate invaded and enslaved the territory that stretched from El Paso to Canada.  They butchered and enslaved the Natives until President Polk sent his "thugs" and brigands to confiscate the estates of those Californians with names like Vallejo, Sepulvada, and Pico.  President Polk also ordered an unprovoked attack on Mexico.  It raised the "ante" in our national politics and contributed to the outbreak of our Civil War.

Maybe the white "couch potatoes"  should think twice about calling someone "a thug"??

Stay Vigilant!  Thuggery is in the eye of the beholder -- Think Jersey, Philly, and New York!

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MASTER MARCO on "MARRIAGE" ??

A Repoob "Diversion"??

With "Fats" Waller singing one his classics in the background; I've decided to "sit right down and write you folks a letter! -- and hope some of you can "get it"!  Master Marco, is at it again!  This time he is giving his version of the latest Republican strategy to attack issues of interest to women.  He proposess that "Marriage" is the key to ending poverty, and that Poverty in this country is correlated "with births to unwed" mothers!  What a crock this is!!  He also asserts that "Marriage is not a Government Program".  I guess he does not know his Catholic History; the fact that throughout the Americas the Catholic Church WAS the Government!  It also ruled over the "crowned heads" in Europe!  "Marriage", along with warfare, was their method for compounding and expanding wealth!

Anybody with credible "education" could quickly learn that the decline in births to "wedded mothers" does NOT correlate with changes in poverty rates during that same period.  But, Master Marco has aptly demonstrated his disregard for "truth"; in lock-step with his Repoob cohorts. Master Marco has evidently not heard about "DIVORCE" patterns over the past several decades.  He has not examined that correlation with the loss in wealth to all members of a family that experience divorce!  Perhaps the Divorce Lawyers, who fund both Democrat and Republican "Pols" won't let them divulge their doings??

This product of those Fascistic Batista Cubans our Republican Party is so fond of, and Jeff Bush, who profited, in many ways, as Governor of the state in which they reside; is clearly "over his head" in his ambition to "lead" our nation.  He is quite adept, however, in "leading" those who want to find their way to that "outhouse" the Radical Right Wing runs in the Media in this country.

What about this Republican strategy to return to "women's health issues"?  Perhaps its a variant on their anti-Obamacare campaign; but I also think its in keeping with their need to divert public attention away from the REAL threat to the global economy: DEFLATION!!  The Republican goal since the election of 2008 has been to cripple this black President; even if it meant the country has to be crippled in the process.

Christine Legarde, managing Director of the IMF, quoted in the recent Barron's article (1/20/14): Drowning Our Deflation Fears, draws our attention to the threat of Deflation.  She shows that Deflation and the falling prices (and wages) that accompany it, are a much greater threat to everyone, than Inflation!  The antics and policies of the Republicans are leading the citizens of this nation, and the entire world economy straight toward Deflation!  Those who hoard large amounts of money, evidently think they can "clean up" when everyone else is broke!  My Dad told me stories when I was young, about a time when, in the 1930s, you could buy the most expensive house in our town, including all the furnishings and the car in the garage, for $100.  The problem was that most people didn't have a Dime!  That deflation, like the one that threatens now, was caused by the unwillingness of the rich to pay their war debts!

Stay Vigilant!  Stop voting for these evil people!  Don't fail to VOTE in 2014!

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"CHARLIE" at the "GATES" ??

Another Perspective?

In case you missed them, Google Charlie Rose's interviews of both Bill Gates and Bob Gates in recent days.

Listen carefully as Charlie goes "for the hour", one-on-one.  I don't know if he realizes it, but Charley reveals surprising bits of himself as he confronts his guests.

These two guys named Gates represent a cross-section of currents in my life; one the military, the other,   Cold War technologies that we were able to create to win the Cold War.  My military experience, between the years of 1962 and 1982, was centered on emerging technologies that are found in virtually all Tech companies today.  We were instrumental in creating what became Silicon Valley.  NASA is popularly credited for many new technology advances that were actually achieved by the Department of Defense.  The dividend to the Taxpayer for their "investment" may be Silicon Valley and its many "clones".

When I arrived in Seattle 25 years ago, a much younger Bill Gates was often spotted about town and, often, seated in a theater with you as you took in a movie.  We all are aware of the Media accounts of the exploits of both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs; those accounts ignore the role played by the military in the creation of their respective tech empires.

The Defense Department that Bob Gates is "telling all" about in his recent book, is one that took new directions, beginning in the early 1960s;  fighting the Cold War by expanding our technological knowledge and capabilities, while simultaneously acting as a "social  laboratory" for the integration of black and white races in this country.  Bob Gates has served in government many years; some of those were served in the Air Force during my tenure.  

Charlie, betraying his Carolina up-bringing, pushed both "Gates" on their views of our first black President; seemingly hoping of finding some new "dirt" to feed to our Virulent Right.  Bill Gates was more successful than Bob Gates in evading Charlie's traps.

Bill Gates spent the hour expanding on his view of what is happening in the "Developing" world, and the works of his Foundation in that part of the world.  In this new age of BIG MONEY, Africa looms large again on the "radar" of these guys.  We may be on the verge of another "colonization" -- this time by dollars, backed up by military troops and a myriad of "financial missionaries" touting their Charities and Foundations. Of the fastest growing economies on our planet today, many are in Africa.  Does Big Money "smell" Big Money?   Big Money drives out Little Money in our global economy.   Pray for the Africans (if you can find a God that will do better for them than any have thus far).

Stay Vigilant!  We may be repeating the global economy that followed WW I.
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