DAMMIT!

California has what amounts to a giant garage sale in order to make money to run the state government?????? What the fuck is going on here!

Over 10,000 non-Bureau of Reclamation dams (only 350 of U.S. dams are controlled by the Bureau) are considered high hazard dams????? WTF!

Experiment

Before I request you to do a certain kind of experiment, should you be willing to put the lives of one or more children in danger, I request that you read the following quotes about the Supreme Court and the FCC.


Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Fine for 'Fleeting Expletives'

By Robert Barnes, Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Supreme Court said yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission may penalize even the occasional use of certain expletives on the airwaves but left for another day the question of whether such a policy is constitutional.

The court's narrow ruling said the FCC -- prompted by Cher's use of the F-word during a 2002 live broadcast and similar remarks by what Justice Antonin Scalia called "foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood" -- was justified in changing its policy in 2004 to fine broadcasters up to $325,000 every time certain words are allowed on the air.

"The commission could reasonably conclude that the pervasiveness of foul language, and the coarsening of public entertainment in other media such as cable, justify more stringent regulation of broadcast programs so as to give conscientious parents a relatively safe haven for their children," Scalia wrote for the five-member conservative majority.


FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al. v. FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, INC., et al.

certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the second circuit

No. 07-582. Argued November 4, 2008--Decided April 28, 2009

Federal law bans the broadcasting of "any ... indecent ... language," 18 U. S. C. §1464, which includes references to sexual or excretory activity or organs, see FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U. S. 726. Having first defined the prohibited speech in 1975, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a cautious, but gradually expanding, approach to enforcing the statutory prohibition. In 2004, the FCC's Golden Globes Order declared for the first time that an expletive (nonliteral) use of the F-Word or the S-Word could be actionably indecent, even when the word is used only once.


Now that you have read these quotes, here is the experiment I wish you to participate in, should you be a person of 18 years of age or older:

If you are 18 years of age or older, I want you to find a child who is 17 years and 364 days or younger all they way to just born. One will do, but you can find more if you like. Now, take this person who is legally described as a child and say a few words and phrases to them. The words and phrases I suggest are thus:

Fuck.

Shit.

I'm taking a shit.

You're parents had sex and that was how you were actually created. It wasn't the stork like your parents have lied to you.

Play them a blues song or a rock and roll song that has sexual references in it without using the deadly "f-word" or "s-word", referring to words so deadly the Supreme Court couldn't even write them in their decision. The words are, of course, fuck and shit.

If you have actually done this experiment, even if you used only one of the deadly words, I request that you observe what has happened to the child. Have they fallen down dead? Have they contracted a terminal cancer? Has their IQ points dropped BELOW zero? Has the child been otherwise traumatized by the use of the words or songs played or excretory functions described? Does the child seem normal? Has nothing harmful happened to the child with your "fleeting utterances" or song playing?

Now, since no harm has come to the children you have tried this experiment on, what conclusions can you make from the Supreme Court Case and the FCC? Children are not being harmed but the FCC and Supreme Court are claiming that such language which THEY deem indecent indeed do harm to children. Wouldn't that make them...LIARS? If they are lying (unless, of course, after uttering the word fuck to someone 17 years 364 days or less actually has hamred or killed them) why was such a decision made? Who can actually be hurt by a $325,000 fine? How is this related to "free speech"? *thinking* *thinking* *head ache forming*

I know that such public institutions like community radio or televion can be easily destroyed by allegations of indecent language. If they get destroyed, corporations could help relax regulations (as they've been attempting for years) and possibly purchase our public airwaves (all of which are legally public, but the FCC was formed in order to sell OUR airwaves to corporations). I wonder if it is actually the safety of children the FCC and Supreme Court have in mind, or maybe helping their profit motivated corporate pals in acquiring more of our public airwaves?

Since there are 8.6 million children in the U.S. without health care and the Supreme Court and FCC does nothing about that, I'd have to say that they are, AT BEST, disingenuous in stating their "fleeting expletives" decision has ANYTHING to do with the interests of children.

Nor does the U.S. and its various organizations, such as the Supreme Court and the FCC, give a RATS ASS about the systematic rape of children within various church organizations and other governmental style organizations. I mean, fuck, they don't even do a thing about the UN pedophile ring.

My conclusion (and yours possibly, too, should the child you experimented with not suddenly fall dead or have some serious trauma enacted upon them because of your utterance or song) is, the Supreme Court and FCC are FUCKED UP AND FULL OF SHIT! That the real reason, as stated in my conclusions of my "Guilt Ridden Catch Phrases" post, is "GOLD!" It is always about gold.The government doesn't give a fuck about children. If they did, those children would have health care and their systematic rape within various organizations like churches, boy scouts, the UN, various governmental organizations, etc., would be prevented and stopped. But it aint, is it?

Hmmm. I wonder what else the Supreme Court, FCC, and other such governmental organizations might be lying about?

Guilt Ridden Catch Phrases

Imagine...

I'm beating the living crap out of someone you Love, and for some reason you cannot stop me. I beat your Loved one so severely, they are left unconscious on the ground, possibly dead, and for whatever reason, there is nothing you can do about it.

Imagine a car pulls up and a man in a suit jumps out and examines the bloody body I left on the ground.

"There is no relationship between this bloodied human and that human that claims to Love them. In fact, as a scientist, I claim there is no relationship at all between this person and the one who claims to Love them, nor have they ever had a relationship. I should know! I'm a scientist, and scientists never lie. I have letters after my name and an office in a university."

He pulls out a pad and starts scribbling. "Thus," he says as he continues scribbling, "I am as infallible as the Pope. Heck, if the Pope can declare he can say and do no wrong because he is the Pope, then I, as a scientists, given the laws of universality, can claim that I can say and do no wrong and thus you all have to believe me without question.

"Now," he says as he finishes writing, "I claim this bloody mass as my own in the name of science and have just written a grant in which I will collect millions to do a study to prove that this person has NO connection to the person that claims to Love them."

I stand, overjoyed at this crazy justification of my bloody brutality.

Just then, another car pulls up. A person who knows something bad, something mean, just happened jumps out of their car, runs up and tells us all, "Can't we all just get along?"

GREAT! I smile to myself, further justification for my horrific and brutal actions. It doesn't get any better than this. Science man gets his money, guilt man gets to have his guilt alleviated by making his simplistic catch phrase. I get away with my crime. It just doesn't get any better than that!


The above story is motivated by a post I made almost two years ago on this blog about the fallacy and the bullshit of the Kennewick Man case. Folks just plain believe that: a) science does not lie, b) Kennewick Man was aged at 9,300 years old with radio carbon dating which is the most accurate dating system known to man, c) that Jamie Chatters did archaeology at the site, d) that Kennewick Man was white.

In a previous post with a link to the article there has been a study that states people are willing to believe big lies much more than small ones. Example: Many people did, and still do, believe that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the commercial jet liners being flown into the two towers of the world trade centers in 2001. People will take the first statement made, usually for propagandist purposes, and believe it until the day they die. The Hitler Youth are another good example. They couldn't believe that their beloved lord and master would do such horrible things to the Jews, Sinti, Roma, gays, lesbians, trade unionists, insane, etc. But, Hitler did.

Science, like everyone and everything else, is ran by folks we like to call...human beings. Humans have a tendency to be fallible. Humans make mistakes. Humans lie for their own gain. Humans believe lies even when they find out they are lies. Humans Love. Humans create beauty. Humans can be factual. Humans are curious. etc. Science is not the great omnipotent god so many folks enjoy believing it is and thus either corroborating or replacing the great infallible christian style god with another.

The truth about Kennewick Man is that THERE WAS NO SCIENCE DONE AT THE SITE! There were no careful digs, no mapping, no site report, no layer by layer study to corroborate the RC dating, nor any of the other glorious trappings required for the science of archaeology. Chatters did none of that, nor did anyone else. (Would you like to talk about the FELONIOUS permit Chatters was issued by the Corps of Engineers?) Vast amounts of evidence have thus been DESTROYED or CONTAMINATED by this man folks hold up as an archaeologist, when he is, if I remember correctly, a pre-historic climatologist or something like that. Tell me, all those who believe that this has been a TRULY scientific experiment, have you seen the photos of the dig? Have you seen the site report? Have you seen drawings of all of the other artifacts and the layers of sediment that went along with the remains? If you have, then you are dreaming and having some sort of fantasy life as NONE OF THIS SCIENCE HAPPENED! HELLO! SMART PEOPLE! HOW CAN YOU BE SO FUCKING STUPID?

What was the science done around Kennewick's race? Well, the science with the study that has been done, which included three DNA tests, has come up INCONCLUSIVE! Hello, stupid fucking smart people! How can you all still CLAIM, alleging through SCIENCE, that Kennewick Man is white? HOW? Truth is...YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA! What was Chatters science? Chatters was watching Star Trek: Next Generation, saw Patrick Stewart, and thus concluded that K-Man was white. How is that for some fucking science smart people? (By the way, the bust Chatters did that is commonly accepted as Kennewick Man was not done using the actual skull nor a replica of the actual skull, it was done, as Chatters admits, as a replica of none other than Patrick Stewart). What has been shown to be desired, here, is a scientific backing of the THEORY that is out there stating that white folks came to this continent first and were killed by us Red Niggers when we invaded from Asia. There is NO scientific evidence for this theory, but the K-Man case will be bantered about by such types as proving this theory true. What if Chatters saw a bald black man, asian, aborigine, indian, or some other race of person on the TV instead of a bald white guy? Have there been any scientific studies done around that theory?

I did something any critical thinking type of person would do. I asked a buddy of mine who was a former Ph.D. candidate in the field of archaeology. Six months from his dissertation, he resigned from the program at the University of Oregon (where he worked with Bonnichsen, the head scientist in charge of the Kennewick Man case) because of what he called the blatant racism around the Kennewick Man case. So I asked him, how can one tell the race of a person by the shape and size of their skull. You know what he told me? He said that skull variance in shape and size VARIES MORE within the group than between the groups. In other words: Skull shape and size within Indian country would vary more amongst its peoples than between those of other nationalities or races. Hmmm. Ask a scientist. Not all of them lie to protect their grant money.

If one reads such books as "Red Earth, White Lies," by Vine Deloria, Jr., one learns that radio-carbon dating is highly inaccurate. It dated a living tree at 9,000 years old. Why? Because the tree was near an area with a high carbon output, an airport. Whaddya know? Science ain't infallible afterall. However, I know you stupid fucking smart people will prove me wrong, enit? Several things come out in the Patrick Stewart...er...I mean Kennewick Man case: The site had already been disturbed at least once prior to Chatters. It was near where boat racing was taking place (high output of carbon). I have no idea but maybe the carbon output of years of aluminum smeltering in the area could have increased the carbon rate. The Columbia River is second only to the river going through Chernobyl in its radioactivity (another factor in "radio"carbon dating), the site being down river from Hanford. Combine these factors with the fact that radio carbon dating is highly inaccurate, and whaddya know, another scientific inconclusive report. However, again, stupid fucking smart people will just accept the dating as fact, even without the corroborating scientific evidence of an actual site report. Again, I asked my former archaeological candidate friend about radio carbon dating. Know what he said, something like, "There is no real way to measure the accuracy of any dating system." Stupid fucking scientists. What the fuck do they know, anyway?

Do I have to mention the millions in grant money that Bonnichsen and others received to do the study, which came up INCONCLUSIVE you stupid fucking smart people? "Gold," my sister mentioned in reading the log of Christopher Columbus, which I keep a copy of. "It's all about the gold!"

I am watching Terry Jones' "Barbarians." It is a documentary about the Barbarians that the Romans slaughtered to further their great and glorious civilization. Turns out, using ACTUAL archaeology, that the "Barbarians" were rather intelligent and human folks with their own cultures and societies. However, they lost the war and their history was thus written by the victor. The victor, of course, stated that these folks were cruel and in-human, and thus needed civilizing. Sound familiar? I think I heard that about Iraq and Afghanistan recently, except the word civilizing wasn't used, I think it was "democratizing." Still, it was/is all really about the gold (not necessarily a scientific study).

You should see the column about the genocide the Romans committed against Dacia (now Romania). Dacia, it turned out was rather civilized by Roman standards and fairly peaceful (unlike the Romans). But they had something the Roman emperor wanted. Can you guess what it was? That's right. GOLD! Thus, the Dacians became Barbarians in the history books and were brutal, cruel, slavers and slaughterers, even though the column in Rome GLORIFIES Roman attrocities committed against the Dacians in order to steal Dacian gold. Huh, whaddya know? This proven through archaeological digs where scientists have done actual science.

So, there is actual science, and then there is Kennewick Man style science.

It doesn't matter what I say here, there will ALWAYS be folks who BELIEVE that Kennewick Man was "proven" white by the great science god and their theory that Whites were here first and that we imperialist Red Niggers wiped them off the face of the earth and stole what is really white land are true. All this proven by what is ACTUALLY INCONCLUSIVE science. But there are so many stupid fucking smart people out there who will tell me otherwise no matter how much I explain the facts of the case.

Then, some asshole with their white guilt will come along and say something like, "Can't we all just get along?" I thought we were. We're not killing or fighting each other. We're not stealing from each other. We aren't trying to conquer each other. We aren't rioting in the streets. We are having a discussion. Folks are telling me their great science god has stated whites were here first and we reds slaughtered them and stole their land. Thus, the more recent whites slaughtering reds is scientifically justifiable and whites no longer have to feel guilty. A complete lie, but that's beside the point, it helps alleviate that great white guilt. And I'm telling them that the science they "believe in" has actually come up inconclusive and that there are tremendous inaccuracies and misinformation happening around the case. It gets rather intense as I present science god believers with scientific fact and they refuse to listen nor investigate. Much easier to believe what they've been told by fellas with lotsa letters behind their names and offices in universities and colleges.

Do you want to know something else? I don't give a fuck about your guilt. Your guilt is not my responsibility, nor the responsibility of Indians, nor the responsibility of the assholes that have and continue (with kinder gentler hands) to slaughter Indians and MANY OTHERS including their fellow whites world wide. As I'm sure my therapist would say: "Your guilt is your responsibility. It is not the responsibility of any one else. You can't control others and others can't control you." Your guilt is not my fault, it is yours, and it is, in my opinion, FUCKING STUPID!

I don't want you to feel guilty, as I've been told face to face by a white person that I do. Guilt is useless. It is stupid. It is an excuse, in my opinion, for you to sit around and feel sorry for yourself instead of actually doing something. Not necessarily something for us reds, maybe even something for women, the poor, other oppressed folks, etc. Fuck your guilt! Not my problem. It's your problem.

I know there are folks who won't stop attempting to feed me the bullshit that Kennewick Man was white and that it has been scientifically proven, even though the ACTUAL science has come up "inconclusive." What has been PROVEN is that there was no science at the site, radio-carbon dating is inaccurate and there are possibly high levels of radiation and carbon at the site with no studies done about that either. The DNA studies on K-Man came back INCONCLUSIVE. So, unless you have ACTUAL scientific evidence surrounding this case, and not just the words of Bonnichsen and Chatters or something you pulled out of your very own anus, I'd like to see the proof. I'd like to see the evidence. Because the evidence I have actually seen states, "INCONCLUSIVE." That is an actual scientific FACT!

I'm hoping that what Ward Churchill stated in an interview on "Mitakuye Oyasin" collective radio program on KBOO radio is true. Ward stated he plans on writing an expose about the world of academia. That should be pretty interesting, and pretty scary to you science god believers.

Here is an interesting quote from Tacitus putting words into the mouth of a Briton back in the good old days of Rome. I gleaned it from Terry Jones' "Barbarians:"

"If you want to rule the world, does it follow that everyone else welcome enslavement? To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name 'freedom.' They make a wilderness and call it peace."

Now, where the hell have I seen that before?

81

Hey, did you know that 81 banks have failed so far this year in our economic recovery? But wait...THERE'S MORE! It is expected that a total of 150-200 banks will fail this year, in our year of recovery. Hmmm!

In other exciting econimic recovery news, the auto industry with its recent boon from the cash for clunkers program is expecting a LARGE DOWNFALL IN SALES for the rest of the year as most folks who would have bought cars anyway during this year did so under the cash for clunkers program.

For more interesting easy to understand analysis about the fallacy of alleged economic recovery, here is an article by Robert Kiyosaki you might find interesting.

The most interesting article of all that I have read this morning is a study as to why people believe big lies, such as economic recovery and Iraq being responsible for 9-11.

Calla Lily

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Leonard Peltier Denied Parole

As you all know by now, I'm sure, Leonard Peltier was denied parole. According to Eric Seitz, Leonard's parole lawyer, the parole board took the FBI's side which basically states you kill an FBI agent, you get life in prison. This comes as no surprise to me. I would have been shocked and surprised had they let him out.

In my opinion, folks whose lives are put on the line for their work should not be considered more valuable than those who don't. Their is always the potential that FBI agents will get killed in their line of duty. They likelyhood is minimal for most, but it is there and they know it. They know they could be putting their lives on the line. Would there be as much fanatical fervor for a rock climber who falls to their death? Would folks want to tear down the rock the climber fell from for killing their friend?

That said, truth is, Leonard didn't kill those agents, but the coppers needed to put someone behind bars and he was the only one they had left. You see, the other two who went through a trial were found not guilty for reasons of self-defense. Truth is, they don't know who killed those agents. Truth is, during the firefight, the folks in the camp assumed the folks shooting at them were goons and had no idea they were FBI agents until after they checked their wallets after they were dead. Truth is, U.S. government supported goons were terrorizing traditionalists like those in the camp at that time. Truth is, there were over 400 federal agents and other heavily armed U.S. government types at the camp within 45 minutes, the first arriving 15 minutes after the first shots. The truth is, the Jumping Bull Ranch where the firefight took place is hours from anywhere so why were all those heavily armed assholes in the area? Truth is, heavily outgunned, 13 of the campers escaped and one was killed. Truth is, the bullets didn't match Leonard's gun. Truth is, Lynn Crooks, the prosecutor, stated that they couldn't prove Leonard did the killing, nor what role he played in it, but someone has to pay for the crime. Truth is, there are millions of crimes that have been committed that someone should pay for and yet no one does, guilty or innocent. There are thousands of crimes many innocent pay for.

You can read all about this in, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," by Peter Mathiessen.

I saw a documentary about a Chechen terror action in Russia. It took place at a childrens school. One Chechen rebel/terrorist was standing on a switch in the open. The switch was to a bomb that would go off if he was taken from it. A Russian sniper shot the Chechen, thus setting off the bomb and killing many children. Many of the children who were killed with bullets were killed by Russians in the ensuing firefight. The official Russian story is something like the fella on the switch got tired and stepped off the bomb and the Chechen's then killed all those children despite the fact that a shot was heard and the window in front of him broke prior to him stepping off of the switch. However, the parents of the killed children don't buy the story. They seek out the truth. They want to know who really killed their children and why the Chechen rebel/terrorists did what they did. Of course, it isn't America over there. In the U.S., most governmental stories are accepted without thought. These Russian parents want the truth, unlike in the U.S. The truth is hard, complicated, and can paint the U.S. government and its employees in a rather ugly light. Such as the case of Leonard Peltier and, truthfully, so many others.

Now That's Funny!

Through the winding trail leading from John Talley ("Indian World") and Louis Sowa, "Mitakuye Oyasin" (Dean Looking Hawk, Louis Sowa, and I) manged to hook up with one Gilbert Brown who is touring with a bunch of goof balls who call themselves the "Pow Wow Comedy Jam," to bring laughter to the world Indian Style.

It was a good radio show, but more importantly, this is going to be a good comedy show. They will be bringing their humor live to Portland, Oregon at the Jubitz Truck Stop off of exit 307 on I-5.

The crew of the "Pow Wow Comedy Jam" are Marc Yaffee, Vaughn Eaglebear, J.D. Redwater, and Jim Ruel, with Special guest Gilbert Brown. We interviewed Marc and Vaughn on the phone and Gilbert was in the studio LIVE AND IN PERSON. We had a great time!

These folks also have their own website called...wait for it...Joke Signals. Check it out. Then come on out to Jubitz Truck Stop, 33 NE Middlefield Rd. in Portland, Oregon on August 26 at 7pm and let some Indians make you laugh.

I don't know if they will be supplying frybread, so you may just want to bring your own.

Christopher Cornstalk

[Shusli related a story to me last night that she had read on the Derrick Jensen forum about one Christopher Cornstalk.]

Christopher Cornstalk was a member of the Odawa Nation, Turtle Clan.
His difficult life journey brought him to the streets of Chicago, and the surrounding suburbs. Christopher struggled with the alcoholism that lead to his homelessness. During this time he had many dealings with Police Officers, Firefighters, Ambulance Drivers and Hospital Personnel.

Christopher lost his battle on July 17, 2006 and joined his Ancestors.

Then, in an act of unspeakable offence and racism, a NURSE started a Facebook Group under the category of "JUST FOR FUN" called "Did you Know this Alcoholic Indian?"
She then requested that people join, so that they may regale each other with stories of encountering Chris during the course of their PROFESSIONAL DUTIES.
Unflattering photos of Chris in his hospital bed, racist images of Natives and some of the most disgusting comments ever were then posted to this site.

Over 600 people joined, many of them Nurses, EMT's, Firefighters, and Police Officers.

Many of these PROFESSIONALS violated their own codes of ethics, and in some cases criminal law by posting intimate, private information about Mr. Cornstalk's struggles, and medical conditions.

Many comments were blatantly racist.

All of this was done without the knowledge or consent of Mr. Cornstalk's family. And of course, since Chris himself had passed on, he could certainly not defend his dignity and rights.

On July 17th, 2009, online Anti-Racist Activists discovered this profoundly disturbing site.

Facebook was contacted immediately, and the group was deleted.
The Activists took screen shots of the group before it was pulled, and then forwarded that information to media outlets in Chicago and area. The Mayor of Chicago was contacted and a search for Cornstalk family members was launched.

The Activists facebook pages came under attack immediately - Making Change Streetpapers account was unceremoniously, and without notice, deleted. Barbara Low's account was seized for a day, and has had glitches and problems since.

This group was formed to see to it that the members of that heinous group are held to account for their racism, and many breaches of their Professional duties.

We intend to honour Mr. Cornstalk and his family, by
standing by them as they seek JUSTICE AND DIGNITY for
their lost Brother.

[Another interesting link to this form of racism is this one which shows some of the pages these wonderful professionals put up on their racist forum.]

While listening to Democracy Now on Thursday, the discussion went to health care and health care reform. There was discussion on how all those morons are disrupting the town hall meetings being held around the nation about health care reform. My favorite stupid quote from the audience when asked why the person atteded was they wanted to make sure that "the government didn't touch their Medicare!"

Anyway, it is almost transparent that this alleged health plan coming from the Obama administration is going to fail. It was designed to fail to begin with in my opinion. It is not enough. It is not single payer like Canada, France, etc. Nothing will really change. If it passes (which it won't), it would be enough of a failure to make even more stupid and intelligent Americans alike think that single payer must be the most horrific health care plan ever and will never be implemented. Thus, like usual, all our health care dollars will being going to insurance company execs. Got to keep those billionaires rolling in all that free money note matter how horrific health issues get for folks ("beasts" as James Madison would refer to us).

I know I know I know, this comment will most likely open a ton of useless arguments, but I'm telling you that in my opinion, in having paid attention to the general patterns of the U.S. government, this plan is doomed to fail EVEN IF it passes, which it won't. We will not get single payer in this nation. It is just not going to happen. It will be business as usual and folks will die uselessly and even more will go bankrupt. But the good news is, BILLIONAIRES WILL HAVE MORE MONEY!

VIVA MEXICO!

I went to a friends house to have him fix something for me and he had the World Cup qualifier soccer game between Mexico and the USA on. I'm not a big fan of any sports anymore, but I watched as he went to work on by case.

My friend said he was at the bar the day before and said loudly to his friend that he was going to watch Mexico kick the U.S. ass in soccer on Wednesday. All the Mexicans in the bar, he said, got rather excited by his comment.

I started getting into the game and got to see the spectacular footwork of Miguel Sabah as he kicked the winning goal near the end of the second half. Unfortunately, my friend was working on my case and missed it (but got to see it in rerun).

CONGRATULATIONS MEXICO AND MIGUEL SABAH AS WELL AS THE WHOLE MEXICAN SOCCER TEAM!

oh, wait...THERE ALREADY IS A DEPRESSION

Pardon my arrogance, folks, as I, like so many other americans, sometime see the world only through my own country's eyes.

A friend of mine is moving to Mexico, and Shusli and I have been the recepient of many fine gifts from this wonderful man. One of those gifts was a 2004 (approx.) documentary film from Ironweed Films by Arturo Perez Torres and Heather Haynes called "Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary." It is a film about immigrants from Central America and Mexico trying to cross the border into America to "live the American Dream."

Their nations, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico, have been devastated by trade agreements like NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA and others. These trade agreements, billions to billionaires programs, have created conditions for the poor that leave virtually no opportunities in their own countries. Thus, the devastation of immigration.

In this film you watch these folks leave their friends and families in a desperate attempt to come to the U.S. and get work. Many people are murdered along the way for any money they may have, women are raped, they have to face gangs and police who rape and rob, etc.

There is a train called "The Train of Death." It is a train that runs from South to North in Mexico and thousands of folks hop the rails everyday in an attempt to get to the border and get their chance to cross where there is work. Many folk get sucked under the train where often they are killed. Most, however, get their legs ran over and thus, lose one or both of them in the process.

These folks are determined to come to the U.S. because their nations are economically depressed thanks to billions to billionaires programs that help take the wealth of nations and put it in the pockets of the wealthy.

I have a GREAT RESPECT for these people, much more than your average American born into this privilege. These folk face horrific perils and uncertain futures. They risk it all to get to this nation so they can have some sort of opportunity.

Then you get these stupid redneck MOFO's who say shit about these folks and they have no idea what the fuck they are even talking about. Youz all can kiss my flat been here for thousands of years ass.

One of the most STUPID statements I heard from those fuckin' minutemen assholes was that these folk are the dregs of Mexico and Central America. He even said many are child molesters. However, no talk about how most child rape happens from relatives within the home, nor the FACT that many religious organizations have pedophiles galore, I mean, afterall, most of those folk were born into this privilege.

See this film. I have always had a great respect for many of the immigrant folks, but now that is even greater. I haven't always had a great amount of respect for those born into the privilege of the U.S., now I have even less.

WELCOME MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM THE SOUTH TO THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES CURRENTLY KNOWN AS THE UNITED STATES!

WELCOME!

Nagasaki

I almost forgot to mention Nagasaki. For a good history on that event you all should read George Weller's "First Into Nagasaki." George was the first American into the city after the bombs fell. His words, however, were silenced by that horrific piece of shit Douglas McCarthur for political reasons in dealing with the government of Japan.

8-6-9

8-6-9

by Eugene Johnson

Do you kow what day it is,
son?
Sun.
Do you know what day it is,
son?
Do you remember the sun,
son?

I am the son of my father
who would have been 76
and it has been 64 years
since they harnessed the power of the
sun
and used it to burn the people,
burn the earth,
like a deadly parady
of "The Republic"
by Plato.

Half of the power of god
is in the hands of man.
Pius XII kisses the fins
of the rockets of death.

Half of the p;ower of god
is in the hands of man
like a butcher knife
in the hand of
Peter Brzica.

At least Dr. Frankenstein
created life
the other half
of the power of god.
Dr. Frankenstein created a monster,
man has created a monster.

Do you know what day it is,
son?
Do you remember the sun,
son?

All war is slaughter.

Do you remember
the death marches
of Bataan
and the many
Trails of Tears?

Do you remember the
Death ships
Luzon and the slavers?

Do you remember
Dresden and Tokyo?

Do you remember
the crusader
wallowing joyously
in the ankle deep blood
of the temple?

Do you remember the two nuns
and the priest
tied to posts
sheathing steel with their
anguished flesh
as soldiers practiced
bayonette thrusts?

Now, son,
they can kill thousands
in an instant.
Sun.
More impersonal
than Peter Brzica's knife, son.
More impersonal
than a crusaders sword
or a soldiers bayonette,
sun.

Half of the power of god
is in the hands of man, son,
death

Man can destroy the world
in less than a day, son.

Man can destroy the world
in less than a day,

less than a day.

And still,
in my insanity of Love,
son,

IN MY INSANITY OF LOVE

I still

Love

Humanity.

Health Care? C'MON!

If you are a not so stupid American to a genius, about 7% of ya, by my reckoning, you all know that we ain't gonna get a decent health care in this nation. It ain't gonna happen. Folks don't want it.
I mean, FUCK, if you've seen Michael Moore's "Sicko," you would have noticed that a walk-in patient to a doctors office in Canada (the backwoods nation to our North) had to wait up to 45 minutes to see the doctor instead of the 6-8 WEEKS here in America. FUCK! We can't have any of that shit here in the greatest nation on earth. I mean, what the fuck do you think we are, Civilized?

Reality Check! The American government is corporate owned. That means all of our congressfolk (with a few exceptions) and definitely the president...are corporate owned. That means that our government is not really ours, but the property of corporations. Corporations don't care about people, ESPECIALLY AMERICAN PEOPLE, because there are NO PROFITS in giving a shit. There are, however, GREAT PROFITS in things like "pre-existing conditions." Say you're a woman and had a child. Now, 20 years later, you have operable cancer. Will your insurance pay for your operation? FUCK NO! You're pre-existing condition of giving childbirth will prevent you from stealing money from billionaires who need it much more than you need some silly life saving operation.

Folks, you can all fantasize all you want that things will change, but the government doesn't give a shit about you unless you are involved heavily in a corporation. Let's stop fantasizing, here. If you want real health care, real change, we as a mass movement would have to TAKE IT! But here in America, folks are so vested in the FANTASY of freedom, they lay down and take oppression just like they are supposed to. I mean, if we all stood up and TOOK OUR RIGHTS, that would cut into corporate profits, and we all know billionaires are more important than our relatives who have operable cancer. I mean, Billionaires need that money more than some ordinary money demanding asshole that works needs a life saving operation. I mean THINK! Who is more important, someone in need of health care, or billionaires in need of more money?

Whirlwind

Whirlwind

by Eugene Johnson


The first one I saw
this season
gently twisted
in a clockwise motion
in the mowed grasses
of the field,
picking up the brown blades gently
and attempting to weave them
into a basket
to carry the spirits
of the people up
into joy and happiness.

Whirldwind

Spirits travel
in the whirlwinds
I have heard

A whirlwind traveled through
our camp
after I lived on the mountain
for four days.
It was wound
so tight
it looked like brown celophane
with a dusty mop of hair
atop.
I knew where it was going
without malice or anger,
with a ferocity of Love
it lifted the red cloth
of our souls
from the altar
and tossed them to the earth
as a young man
fruitlessly attempted
to catch them.
There,
it disappeared.

I laughed at the beauty
at the message
that I knew then
but didn't heed until later.

In the hot desert sun
of ceremony
a whirlwind came
large and dusty
swallowed the whole arbor
lifting violently
the brown blades of grass
and dust
creating a basket
of angry Love.
It drained the last bits
of moisture
from the dry
hot
earth
and the bodies.
For the brief moment
of its violent Love
without anger or malice
it lifted the spirits
to joy and happiness.

Every year
I look forward to the whirlwinds
brown and dusty
in the mown and plowed fields
of the Willamette Valley.

Are they spirits come
to remember the earth,
to send us a message?

I lift my soul
into a brown dusty carriage
and am carried into
the world of imagination.