WHAT LONGING FLOWS
Features fade in the twilight vague with pastels,
day is exhausted, and the moment ripe for reflection;
like most other things, I’ve a facility for abstraction
and mine human experience for the rare perfect phrase,
which will take on an independent existence echoing through eternity.
A soft refrain, a variation by Goldberg, falters hesitant at the door,
as if apprehensive about whether it belongs in this room,
where your sweet presence permeates everywhere.
Like you, it has something I don’t posses, the ability to endear;
I don’t respect people, who don’t respect themselves;
they’re generally transparent and shallow,
and their character flaws stand out as soot soils glass;
let’s speak the Truth, I rail against the world’s smug self-satisfied mediocrity,
which has an unfortunate effect – I make people uncomfortable.
What solace is my high-minded solitude, where I experience extraordinary adventures.
Behind a barricade of books, I’m spared the loud babble,
from gaggles of aggressive and egotistical degenerate apes,
fools bent on exposing their profound ignorance,
which arrogantly bumps against my window pane,
where the garden is silently vanishing.
TO YOU
When you look lovingly at me,
the strongest tempests of my soul
become calm; and, your kind words soon heal,
the open wound that’s life.
I’ve experienced bitter despair
and bleak disappointments, but these blessings put everything past care.
Margy! everyone who knows you
wishes to bask in your presence,
its payment for all the pain and worry I’ve been through:
I’d rather die than deserve your contempt.
Please listen, to someone, like Odin, touched by fate,
my heart desires two things, freedom and you for my soul mate!
Your one in a million among mankind,
a precious jewel who possesses a great heart;
your ambition is not for fame and fortune, but to be kind,
virtuous, and loving in a world consumed by hate;
you, endure a thousand sorrows and one immense sadness,
and have become this family’s stay, and are our lasting Truth.
For irritable with pain is my perennial disposition,
my teeth are clinched, and body grotesquely contorted;
in mercy let us not endure their so called final solution,
that will destroy Democracy and leave us all afflicted
with the tyranny of a manipulated mass mob,
hidden behind a false Democratic façade.
Listen, for once, to the voice of Reason,
let the relentless vice driven malice depart;
its pride, its spite, its greed, its pretended revenge,
its anything but God’s Love and honor.
Let a more noble spirit prove itself, and move mankind from above,
and let personal interest motivate humanity, if not a higher sense of love.
BLUE LIGHT
In the blue light of early morning,
a star shines radiant
beside a crescent moon;
suddenly, a bird starts to sing.
Light sweeps over tree tops,
love shines from your face;
and, a meadow lark glints gold
against a pale blue sky,
I gaze downward at the emerald earth
taking a long draught of the dawning day.
What a happy daze
among the dew glinting grass!
My mind travels faster than light
sliding down a rainbow,
or racing the day’s first ray that bursts over Mt. Hood’s shoulder
flooding the still sleeping Willamette Valley with light.
She sleeps peacefully,
while translucent sunlight shines through her radiant dreams;
softly, quietly, beautifully!
The dawning day’s first beam of light.
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
Calm summer night
who hid the young lovers,
as they sat close together, and, exchanged confidences and kisses
beneath the thick canopy of old pendant trees.
And, deeply immersed among shadows,
the eternal mysteries started to flow;
from their shy intimate embraces,
earnest vows were exchanged and sealed with pressed lips.
Suddenly, startling their tender hearts, a raucous rumble erupts from the sky,
it rudely intrudes and forces in its gross presence; a crude cyclopean eye
blindingly leers down at them through peepholes in the lattice leaves,
which violates their shared sacred privacy with an obscene loud roar;
penetrating the embryonic precincts of the soft warm evening,
by outrageously spying on the intimate moments of the embarrassed and angry
young lovers, whose tender moment of love is now dead.
Blinded by the light, the confused young lovers feel a strange chill,
as darkness descends and suffocates the Night.
IRRATIONAL ASSAULTS
All through the day poured the treacherous flames
and lure of evil times. Now sun has set,
and evening throbs awake. Exposed daily
to the most disgusting temptations – what a jaded bunch of whores.
They race to embrace their shame, and they pretend their perverse predations
are expressions of virtue and not the vicious seductions of morally bankrupt hypocrites
who eagerly publicly embrace every form of depravity and degradation,
in immoral efforts at organized crime – turn back the burning plague despoiling our land.
Even Heaven is ravaged by those drunk on Power.
Today has devoured yesterday’s pleasures.
Extremist measures deceitfully ensnare the way with wicked cunning,
as they newly employ the old tyrannical ways.
Fanatics have lost in a stupid day, the hard earned progress
civilization has made over the ages.
Join with me in moderation and reason, and reaffirm our God given Freedoms.
Resist the radical right’s ill advised and irrational assaults on our Civil Rights.
TRANSFORMATIONS & INTEGRATIONS
We are like clouds at dawn, whose soft feathers veil the sun;
and, restlessly transform themselves, hurling toward the blue silhouetted mountains,
their rootless plastic forms speed and gleam, before exploding with crimson color,
brilliantly streaking the brooding darkness! And yet, soon the sun rises high.
Shafts of golden light fall on the green valley’s river shore,
burnishing the cadaverous hull of an abandoned boat,
and making the translucent leaves glint like peridot.
The wind briefly rises and clouds disperse on the mountain’s snow white battlements
like battalions of red coats, with bayoneted weapons held at ready, they advance
on the waking herds of sheep grazing on emerald fields below, and depart,
and are lost forever.
Long lines of cars slow as they approach Portland’s city center,
and my heart seems to sink in sadness, in excitement. I’m about to meet – what?
Obviously, the usual tedious radical right iniquities; but, what
extraordinary adventures wait among the swarms of people, the trucks, trains and taxis? I feel detached, as I gaze over the asphalt fields and gray sepulchral spaces.
The paradox of parallel lines that distance converges forever – never;
and, the pre-cell phone telephone wires that bob incessantly like small children playing,
one falls and another rises. Light almost pierces the thin green leaves in trees
that line the tedious street, where people try to imitate superficial imitations of life
that they see on TV and only succeed in making themselves seem ridiculous.
I don’t despise them, they’re pitiable. Without understanding, they destroy Liberty.
At home in my garden, butterflies dance erratic in the dawn, where birds sing matins,
on the trees bursting with blossoms pale and passionate pink, or bushes white, yellow,
and red, together now they trill in chorus, sharp and shrill; now together, as if conscious
of companionship instead of intense competition, and alone beneath the pale blue sky
They swoop, as if one, from the shrub with bugs, when the black cat, a stalking shadow,
moves among the bushes; or, when I cast a bucket of weeds on the compost pile and
startle them. A stark note of fear is in their song, and apprehension of pain,
and the thrill of joy, to be snatched at while on the wing now at this instant!
Also, melodies are sung to the cool morning air, vague and dingy with tons of dirt,
swerving high above the firs, as they chase each other quarreling and cavorting,
pursuing and escaping vainly establishing peck orders a moment will erase.
They soar high in Heaven. And, after tiring, they return by deft degrees,
descending delightfully, dropping down and sitting on wires, on trees, on houses
bright eyes quickly glancing, heads warily turning, aware, terminally awake,
intently listening, intensely conscience of one ominous thing, one obtuse object.
Below a spider’s dew adorned cathedral, glinted in the garden sun;
lower down, towering among the great grass canyons and green shadows,
a mounding city of insect life that had quickly erected and heavily populated overnight.
It was splendidly decorated by purple, white, blue, yellow, pink, and red hyacinths
over the beds, or various varieties of yellow daffodils and tulips whose chalice shape
celebrate life swaying gracefully, as they sparkle among the petal showering shrubs.
A lone dew drop dangles on the yew hedge, precariously perched, but, resolutely
refusing to fall, with a universe contained in its inverted translucent sphere,
complete with blossoming fruit trees: I stand and am stabbed by pain!
Gazing at the sun, my eyes become crimson orbs with black pupils.
I writhe in agony, like the worm lying at my feet. Beneath the forest of flowers,
down dusky avenues, resides a shadowy world, where fallen flowers and recumbent
leaves rot - dramas unfold daily. Silently, a worm emerges from its home burrow
and stretches toward some unseen destination, when suddenly death darts down,
beautifully descending with precise accuracy alights and stabs its soft sensitive skin
stretched out in the shade; it pecks at it repeatedly, disemboweling it before being
startled away. The worm writhes in agony, too, down among the stems ensconced in
shadows, where decaying petals and other dead smells from deleterious matter mixes
with the sweet fragrance of flower blossoms; bowels protrude from the worm’s
convoluting sides, as an ant cautiously approaches before reversing direction and racing towards its nest with news. Drops form on the bloated sides of swollen bodies,
the skin of last year’s apples split, and their flesh oozes out to thick to flow.
Trails of silver slug excretions snake about eloquent testimony to the mute suffering,
as poisoned by pellets they futilely attempt to exude their burning intestines.
Intermittently, an amorphous head tentatively appears briefly above ground before
hurrying on its way over the earth. A moment later an inch long black cylindrical bug
erupts in hot pursuit, its many small legs furiously pounding like tiny pistons in sync up
and down, forward and back. The wolverine of insects, it spies its prey; and the
relentless predator sinks its oversized mandibles into the huge worms soft sensitive flesh
and viciously whips it to and fro, like a dog shaking a rat. The worm twists and curls
in contorted coils, its convulsive movements clearly shows its shear agony.
If it had a tongue and the necessary accompanying vocal structures, its screams would
mount the empty pale blue skies and assail the towering gates of Heaven. Observed by beady black eyed birds, who furtively flit between branches and wonder
whether the moist swelling purulent mass is edible and if it is tasty. Meantime the bird
now and then stabs its worm deftly with its savage beak, before a quick glance around
for Death’s silent stalking shadow; and then, it brutally stabs it again, for another taste,
to vary its diet from the seeds and insects that are its standard fare. Near by, a wasp
is partially paralyzed and being wrapped into a cocoon, by a big fat garden spider,
and then, left to dangle by a single thread over the vast abyss of life.
Now, too, the sun enters into the room touching the white shutters
and illuminating geometric patterns imbedded in the upholstery.
A brilliant ray of light rests glowing on a gold watch decorated with a life like thrush
caught cavorting in mid-flight, its gold image radiantly gleaming.
Behind, bookshelves loom with accompanying paintings, each an independent work of
art that together form a beautiful harmonious whole, which exudes a quiet grace.
Statuettes and antiques with floral motifs are strategically scattered
about the room. The light is reflected in pools on the walls.
The hard wood floor is covered with a Persian rug decorated with leaves and flowers,
whose phantom images inextricably seem to reflect and integrate
with those outside in the garden in the yard.
I rest drowsing. The radical right subliminal virtual reality technology can poison dreams
and violate their sacred privacy. I wake and am tormented by their waking dreams
and aroused emotional states, in futile efforts to favorably predispose me to embrace their
shame. A stray thought of my own penetrates their mind numbing mediocrity;
I exist, without feeling, creating or reasoning, laughing or crying,
and even welcome my well familiar pain, or I’m shaken with despair,
or, I cast my cares away as someone else wills:
without free will its all one and the same! For be it happiness or be it sorrow,
the path is one of human bondage, it makes a slave of all that we say and do,
and you can bet that the wielders become vice ridden and corrupt
granting themselves sexual favors and extra profits contrived from immoral criminal acts:
After, first turning their unwitting victims into villains,
for dissenting and/or being personally disliked, the radical right then induces them
into committing their crimes; and, many of these poor people,
even the ones that come from the ranks of the privileged idyll rich,
in despair pick the last path that’s still free,
and even though some of them are roughly pushed down it murderously,
still, at least for some, at least with their departure they become free!
Unlike the dead time that we endure here,\
as grotesquely misshapen shadows that are extensions of some one else’s will!
After all as Heraclitus once said, all is change.
And, what tyranny ever endured forever?!?
PRIVATE NURSE
When exhausted with intense pain
I realize how much I love you,
from somewhere beyond this shrunken horizon
curtained off by pain come those pale hands,
to caress and care for my soul.
And, staring from its misty veil are your sad eyes,
which call me back from exploring bleak innerscapes;
obscured by some pressing problem
earnestly entreating, in the cool dark night.
And, groaning with pain,
complaining to God, and cursing Fate,
I kiss those pale compassionate hands
And those beautiful quiet eyes.
MIDNIGHT OUTSIDE THE CITY
In the cold midnight hour,
the distant city sleeps below,
frequently, after finishing my work with words,
I open the shutters and gaze at the stars.
Randomly scattered, they move across the sky,
like a flock of lambs grazing in green fields;
they pass in clusters, or solitary,
glinting celestial jewels.
Large and small they twinkle brightly
in our atmosphere embedded in velvet darkness.
Deep in the cistern of silence, I see this splendid sight;
every chance I escape from the city, I gaze on high and can’t get my fill.
Then, under Heaven’s dome
the inner most reaches of my heart commune with me;
and plainly states, “The world of man with its shame and pain, joys and pleasures,
has some greater significance to impart than the sum total of its parts.”
I turn wearily to bed,
and propped and contorted, I try to sleep;
and, lying awake contemplating,
I ponder the wisdom of my heart.
THE FLOWER
In a mountain meadow
I wandered happily
having no particular
objective in mind.
I saw several dancing flowers,
in that basin of sunshine;
fair as stars shining in the night sky,
they enchanted me.
I stopped before one, that was particularly radiant,
but, suddenly realized;
“Why pick it for a bouquet,
it will merely wither and fade away?”
I carefully scooped
up the soil around with its roots,
and drove it home,
and planted it in my garden.
In a sheltered corner
the flower that I planted
grows and flowers to this very day
where I enjoy its grace, charm and beauty.
AN INVOCATION
Wandering through the silent tides
the moon steps secretive and aloof,
she often furtively peers from behind dark clouds
bathing the sleeping streets in soft pale light.
And, now along the indigo river
a few feet above its mysterious surface
a billowy white blanket of fog
floats four feet thick between banks.
Nearby something splashes unseen,
making the silence seem more immense,
dark towering tree silhouettes stand
mute in the intermittent moonlight;
whose luminous beams
seem to cover the grass and cenotaph
of an abandoned winter barren park
in a light powder of snow;
transforming the nocturnal scene
into a surreal cynosure,
where my wandering poem is whispered in shadows
in an invocation for lost dreams.
All of the ideas expressed in the following essays are the opinions of Mockingbird’s editorial staff.
RUMOR MILL
A President’s Positive Role
As anyone knows who has had the fortunate misfortune to take an entry level Political Science course at one of our institutions of higher regurgitation, one of the primary functions of the Chief Executive is to lead by positive example. One way to provide a positive example is to distribute favors to deserving individuals and entities, in ways which benefit the nation. In current euphemisms this is called political pay-offs, where monies and favors provided to the candidate are generously rewarded after the election and during the ensuing administration; and, it can take the form of public beneficence, or it can be pushed to excessive degrees of the profusion of favors – i.e. corruption. The current Republican administration’s entire performance is one long continuing example of Avarice driven faction. Two high profile examples are the favored status of Enron before its public scandal, and the $11 billion payoff to VP Cheney’s company, to start the second term.
One wishes one could say that this was a case of Republican Pres. Bush being deceived, but the truth is the only deception that occurred was on the part of the Republican administration, when it deliberately deceived the US public. A positive example of a public procurement process would be for the Congress to award a deserving company and/or group of companies whose contract was awarded after a fair bid process occurred, which was made based on justice, efficiency and merit, and which protected the public’s interests; but, these two examples demonstrate nothing except unswerving support for this administration’s vice, corruption and incompetence, at levels unattained before except for perhaps Pres. Grant’s administration and the Republican Reagan / Bush administration. What is needed for the arduous task of government is solid ability, and honest enthusiasm, and a strict adherence to probity. The Bush / Cheney Republican administration gave us elegant and polished vice pushed almost to the level of art. The result was unprecedented profligacy and the world’s largest debt. Under such a negative example every talent withers in the bloom and every virtue dies as a bud.
The Republican administration’s record is worse than if the United States of America’s elected officials where chosen by blind chance. Under the Republican Bush / Cheney administration, partiality grants favors only to those who intrigue for them, while honorable people with real merit disdain intrigue. The fact is starting at the top deviation from propriety, even in trifles, should not be countenanced. This should be felt in the circle of supporters, where currently corruption runs rampant. When a principle of rectitude is known to guide selecting policies and personnel, then merit and ability are soon realized, by means of ambition beneficially applied to the public good.
Instead of the present state of affairs, where intrigue prevails with debase dark deeds and prejudicial passions stifles the Truth. Today, preferment provides faction with excessive glittering profits and splendid infamy, which has obscured genius and people with abilities who refuse to serve vice and corruption. The virtuous people are retired, replaced by people with base cunning, the ability to please, and loyal perfidy. The results speak for themselves, with three phony wars, depressions, waves of cost push inflation, labor prospects plummeting to third world standards, the world’s largest trade deficits, a plummeting dollar and the world’s largest debt – the list is endless.
The Republican Bush Jr. administration has worked its damage by degrees, while distracting the US public with staged events that furthers the factional tyrant’s personal prejudices. Its radical right wing faction and the political branch in the Republican Party have benefited from rampant corruption. The result to the nation is for the people to become apathetic. Guilt becomes brazen and evil extremes run amok with impunity. The landscape is littered with the broken careers of individuals who could be useful to their country, while worthless wretches rise on their ruins to replace them, to the greater misfortune of us all. The result is a general diminution in the ability of labor factor inputs, where the only necessary skills are an unswerving blind allegiance to following orders and a willingness to engage in misanthropic iniquity. Such are the evil results attendant with factional extremes.
The Rumor Mill opposes the present ruinous state in which our nation is enmeshed. We have sunk by slow degrees under the heel of radical right wing factional Tyranny and its Republican Party henchmen, however to despair is to give sanction to our present deplorable, degenerative state. The present negative position of our nation has been developed by a series of deliberate incompetent and corrupt steps. Our current national situation is analogous to a sick patient, and while all living bodies are born, live, become sick and die; our nation must not delude itself, it has to slow its disorders down and turn our circumstances around. And initially, active measures will strain the country’s already overspent strength; but, the maladies it confronts are not mortal, and it needs to carefully martial and develop its resources. We need to address the specific symptoms of tyranny and simultaneously we must play into the Democratic system’s strengths. Let us pull together, trace the plague that afflicts our nation to its roots, and correct each of its causes. The Rumor Mill believes that by learning from the recent mistakes of ignorance, which centered in the factional abuse of power assisted by new invasive technologies. We can shore up the nations sinking prospects, by sound economic policies and respecting private citizens Civil Rights. After all it must be remembered that other nations have been saved from the very brink of destruction, they’ve emerged from the depths of despair; and, they have, after struggling with the severest crises, survived rejuvenated to previous states of vigor, glory and self-respect. What our nation’s future will be is up to the good efforts of a pluralistic nation inhabited by varied and decent people respecting one another’s rights. Whether it occurs smoothly or discontinuously, after a rough time filled with moral degeneration, experiencing systemic dysfunction and serious dislocation has yet to be determined. The time of its inevitable ascendance is coming every radical right wing victory brings it closer to reality. It will happen!
RUMOR MILL
The President’s Health
(Humor)
In an unrelated “story”, during a recent physical at Bethesda Hospital, the staff neurologist said that contrary to rumors the President did in fact have a brain. It consisted of two cells, but one didn’t come back after the last vacation. And, the other has gone back to Texas, and is out on a posse looking for it.
It has neither been affirmed, nor has it been denied that resulting from a massive spontaneous petition effort from private citizens, there will soon be a measure before Congress to change Presidents day from its current position in the calendar to April, 1. The problem, which has prevented its being presented before Congress, is finding two Republicans to co-sponsor the bill.
RUMOR MILL
Considerations On Good Government
Essay #1
Its unfortunate when firmness and resolve, those drive springs of human progress, should egregiously injure the beneficial characteristics necessary to promote free enterprise and Democracy, and generate destructive dynamics that forced the nation’s Democracy to the edge of extinction, with greater energy and efficiency than were necessary to restore our ancient heritage, which initially was the objective. To prevent further damage from being done its necessary to tear away the veil of secrecy, which covers up the radical right’s hidden private agenda for world domination and empire. Their supposed new system of government was really nothing other than old fashioned tyranny with a false façade of Democracy. Then, the Democratic façade was overwhelmed with money. It was a masterpiece of willful self-deceit that was extended by an efficient propaganda machine to the general population. It proposed to utilize a populist movement to create a private international network that in turn established an empire utilizing the virtual reality technology (VRT) erroneously felt to be instrumental in ending the Cold War. In vain their best efforts were employed because the fundamental fact was ignored that the invasive teleported virtual reality technology (VRT) was inherently anti-Democratic and could only be used inappropriately to violate citizens basic Civil Rights; in vain were the nations resources exploited in efforts that included corporate welfare privatizing Social Security and Medicare: it was mere self-serving self-deceit, as tyranny blindly pursued factional Avarice and Oppressive bigoted biases.
Initially, the radical right was a populist movement, who believed that they had a unique opportunity to save the world and re-affirm their interpretation of America’s historical values. The ultra-conservative pseudo-religious right, media, insurance industry, investment banking and the right wing populist movement were displaced by the massive infusion of funds from the radical right’s three primary sources: 1) DRUG MONEY – from a rapidly developing monopoly, which replaced the two Columbian drug cartels and the SE Asian war lord heroin network, which had established links with the radical right dominated CIA during the Vietnam War; 2) EMBEZZLED INDUS.-MILITARY. FUNDS – to the tune of approximately $200 billion per year for at least the 12 years that the Republicans controlled the white house during the Reagan/Bush administrations, which is a matter of Congressional record; 3) FELONY STOCK MARKET MANIPULATIONS – which helped create the bubble that eventually burst during this Republican administration’s first term loosing private investors up to 75% of their retirement portfolios literally in an instant. The radical right felt that the then new teleporting virtual reality technology (VRT) could end the recreational use of drugs. The radical right publicly claimed, in a series of articles which they had written and sanctified by giving it their award, their intention to realize three goals - improve morals, decrease crime and improve productivity. All three are laudable goals.
When the radical right had established their lucrative international drug trade monopolies, the movement went through a transformation. They took over the domestic drug distribution networks, too. Then, they made a corrupt decision, to expand operations to include targeting pot, to increase the number of available victims (see last month’s issue) because American heroin and crack scenes were quickly running out of abusers of serious drugs, and ½ % of the nation’s population wasn’t large enough to condition USA society to be oppressed. Simultaneously they made an equally corrupt decision to eternalize what at first was only designed to be a temporary expedient, to rid society of heroin and crack use, and accomplish the three stated objectives. The result was to expand and transform a populist movement into a vice ridden and corrupt criminal organization, utilizing a pyramid structure with cash rewards in the form of bounties and perks in the form of special benefits and privileges.
At that time it hadn’t been recognized that the virtual reality technology (VRT) had serious negative consequences, when applied to domestic civilian populations. Consider, if the policy position being pursued is correct, then reason is all that is required; people will freely agree to follow your position, which makes the virtual reality technology (VRT) unnecessary. But, if the policy position pursued is wrong, then the use of the technology becomes a mistake; and, society is stuck following less than optimum solutions, which makes the use of anti-Democratic, subliminal, virtual reality technology (VRT) a serious error. In the best possible scenario, the use of virtual reality technology (VRT) is unnecessary, and in all less than optimal scenarios the use of virtual reality technology (VRT) results in inferior solutions and erroneous policies being employed by society. And, to date the use of virtual reality technology (VRT) has degenerated into political acts of violence that competent statesmanship could have avoided, and it caused immoral criminal acts like prostitution, rape, the proliferation of rare perverse behaviors, murder and sexual and physical abuse of children to occur, which runs contradistinctive to the rationalization utilized that justified the technology in the first place. This doesn’t introduce two other problems associated with the virtual reality technology (VRT) and its abusive uses (see the previous two months issues) dealing with controlling political dissent and the problems pertaining to human errors. Finally, the essential role that the radical right has employed abusing virtual reality technology (VRT) in attempting to superimpose tyranny models on American society directly contradicts the third stated objective. Tyranny inherently impairs labor factor inputs, instead of improving them, which was the radical right’s third objective. Any way virtual reality technology (VRT) is analyzed: it is mutually exclusive with Democratic forms of government and egalitarian societies: and its use constitutes a violation of Humanities fundamental Civil Rights.
The deliberate effort to condition American society, to be oppressed by virtual reality technology (VRT) was viewed as prerequisite to defrauding America out of proven beneficial public entitlement programs - Social Security and Medicare. The demise of the Cold War and the success that the industrial military met with generating excessive profits while exploiting the USA, helped to create a reduction in future right wing faction economic prospects. It became perceived as desirable to replace and augment the industrial military revenue sources, as America slipped over the precipice of tyranny; and, the USA pursued policies of Avarice and Oppression, into the now familiar cumulative-circular-causatory-spiral in a negative direction economic pattern representative of tyranny. The targeted areas for exploitation, to add to the existing industrial-military revenues, constituted a form of corporate welfare, which entailed privatizing Social Security and Medicare. This views government inefficiently as a means of making money, which was identified as a disastrous inferior form of economic activity over 70 years ago, by Sir Maynard Keynes, in his THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY. It replaces proven public policies Social Security and Medicare that had eliminated the spectra of poverty among our Sr. citizens, provided business with a base of sustained demand during downturns in the business cycle, and stabilized the world money markets, with over 100 year old pre-existing theories, which were failures that required replacement by what came to be called Keynesian economics.
At present the radical right has afflicted the USA with two ruinous practices. First, the anti-Democratic use of teleported virtual reality technology (VRT) has degenerated into a corrupt method organized crime utilizes to engage in immoral criminal acts, which they perversely enjoy and financially benefit from. The fact that VRT eliminates beneficial dissent, assaults American Civil Rights, and motivates people by fear is ignored. The operations are coupled with propaganda efforts to replace reality with extremists’ self-serving self-delusions that further injures Democratic practices, which increase prosperity and happiness. Consider the recent murder of a 40 year old. It was claimed he had a history of domestic violence and used drugs, which was the propaganda machine’s efforts to link violence to the recreational use of drugs in a front page story. But, the story did not mention the following facts: the radical right had used the teleported virtual reality technology (VRT) to cause the acts of domestic violence. Also, not mentioned was the fact, when 75% of the population had experimented recreationally with drugs, there was no change with pre-drug subculture crime rates. Further, today’s drug program participants don’t demonstrate elevated rates of violence &/or crimes. Finally, wealthy people who use drugs recreationally don’t demonstrate an increase in either violence or crime rates. Drugs do not cause crimes let alone acts of violence. What we can confirm is that where the radical right is busy using VRT there is a marked increase in certain high profile crime rates like prostitution, perverse acts, child abuse and murder. Remember, if there is no crime and immoral behavior, the radical right ceases to exist; and, they function in a system, where members actually benefit from immoral-criminal acts occurring. The consequence of such a stupid scenario is an artificial increase in crime, and wide spread oppression, which makes communities less safe and less happy places. Second, the privatizing public entitlements was a mistake partially made possible by employing virtual reality technology (VRT), which utilized both Avarice and Oppression to accomplish Tyranny’s objectives at great public expense. When the Truth is deliberately with held from the public, mistaken policies are pursued. And, whenever a people’s Civil Rights are attacked, the real objective is to financially rob them. Why doesn’t the radical right pay their extremist members rewards for decreasing crime rates, which would make society a safer place; and, it would correct the lamentable fact that currently they are a criminal organization, which is comprised of career criminals, which follows a program that immorally corrupts and artificially increases crime.
The moderate use of marijuana provides beneficial effects for society. First, it causes a certain percentage of people to become more creative, a look at pre and post using societies, which used marijuana repeatedly, demonstrates this observation. Second, progress is accelerated, by creating tolerant and creative environments. Third, it functions as a pressure valve for releasing increasing social pressure, which promotes social stability without all the negative consequences contingent on alternatives which utilize oppression; it is considered by many to be the primary reason America didn’t degenerate into a Civil War, because of the Vietnam War during the 60’s. Fourth, the responsible, moderate use of pot results in a re-leaving of pressure and tension, which makes employees more relaxed and efficient, when they subsequently return to work the next day. Fifth, happier workers tend to be more stable, which equates a more experienced and productive work force. Sixth, it’s a well known fact that stable societies benefit business in two ways, it makes for better markets to sell goods and services and it equates security for capitol investments; and, obviously if the worker is happy and stable, then the aggregate impact is positive, because scaled up to the level of society, it means an increase in social stability which is associated with increased savings. Eight, a society that’s a stable market with a stable work force that’s experiencing a high saving’s rate, will inevitably lead to an increase in expectations for return on capitol, which will catalyze investment, which will increase employment etc, etc, etc.. It turns out the path to greater prosperity, enhanced business prospects and increased profits is the fair path of protected property rights and personal freedom, which are characterized by enlightened marijuana laws; and, no longer oppressively perceiving the responsible moderate use of drugs under carefully controlled circumstances as criminal conduct, but realizing its far more beneficial and ultimately effectively managed as a medical issue.
The ill advised oppressive models that infringe on Civil Rights do not heal America’s social heritage. By protecting personal property and promoting individual liberty, society becomes both more prosperous and happy, which increases the peace and stability of society that benefits business, too. We have the same public and private institutions, which generated greatness and prosperity in the past. The one different characteristic is the post WWII rise of the right wing faction associated with the industrial military that eventually became extreme; when, its popular movement transformed into organized crime, which established tyrannical patterns based on Avarice and Oppression that it employs to afflict the rest of society. The leaders involved in this movement didn’t feel the negative constriction of wealth and restriction of Civil Rights; because, they initially benefited from the short term increase in factional profits, and it was their personal prejudices, so they didn’t feel the pinch of oppression that robbed America of its rights and set the stage for the plundering of its personal property. The effort to reduce labor costs and increase profits, by making it competitive with the cheap third world labor markets, actually erodes domestic American markets that impair prospects of return for future private investments both in America and internationally. This in turn makes exploiting America’s government appear attractive by comparison, as a corrupt beneficial alternative. The favoritism shown to the oil industry, replacing production capitol for Iraq oil, at great public expense; and, which only served to benefit radical right factional interests, who received the proceeds from the oil, rather than the good citizens of, either the USA, or Iraq. Also, the radical right factional interests benefited, when the world economy was repeatedly shocked by large increases in oil prices, as it eventually increased by over 100%; and, resulted in waves of cost push inflation, which resulted in perturbations in the overall American economy. In a like fashion, favoritism in the insurance industry and private investment banking resulted in short term exploitive policies that generate excessive profits at the expense of further weakening economic prospects of America’s broad business base, who are forced into injurious business decisions to retain competitive short term rates of return, but actually create perturbations in the economy that will yield future long term dysfunctional results, like a greater constriction of business exemplified by companies downsizing their operations and continued business mergers which even include banks. The radical right faction erroneously views this as advantageous, as it blindly pursues its policies of Avarice and Oppression. The people are hurt by these policies, which result in greater ignorance, worse job prospects and plummeting standards of living as America’s standard of living adjusts to coincide with their third world labor status; and, big business is hurt by impairing American domestic markets, which reflect the transformation of its labor markets. These are a few of the negative consequences when government administration lands in the wrong hands, the strength and respect of the state is impaired, and a train of never ending mistakes and calamities inevitably ensues.
The USA has experienced serious problems before. What is lacking is a change in leadership, which will result in a change in direction. The Democratic Party, with its ties to a broad base of big businesses and organized labor, is the best positioned viable option available to America today. American virtue, which has been eclipsed by the vice ridden and corrupt radical right’s injurious twin policies of Avarice and Oppression, and which is, as previously stated, symptomatic of Tyranny, has not been extinguished: whenever a leader appears who has statesman like qualities and genuine abilities who recognizes the need for fundamentally sound social and economic policies, prospects improve and public spirit ignites in a blaze. But, unfortunately, tyranny’s policies of Avarice and Oppression have damaged almost every virtue, and our nation’s task to rebuild sustained prosperity and personal freedom is a long arduous one, which must be built on a solid base of justice, moderation and wisdom. Currently, our very factional driven victories serve to further ruin our state. Iraq and Afghanistan, while not making us safer, has burdened us under a mountain of debt, which impairs our ability to effectively govern. Our domestic policy of one at a time is doomed to be a constant drain where dissent is met by destruction, which may divert the public and deceitfully further personal prejudices; but, at a cost of braking much needed progress, and motivating society by fear, which are both characteristics inherent to Tyrannical states. Thus, after years of effort which drain our nations resources we are confronted with fear and oppression, hypocrisy and hidden demand, vice and corruption, and this only if the radical right succeed with on going efforts of sadism, extortion, coercion and slander, which utilizes prostitution, perversion, rape, assault and battery, murder and the physical and sexual abuse of children as tools to condition society to be oppressed. The fact is that inevitably accompanying this sordid state of oppressed affairs is widespread poverty and reduced freedom which in turn means less happiness, as the radical right exploitive economic policies generate vice, corruption, and oppression in a never ending cycle.
The right wing Republicans, hurry our flag around the globe in policies of military adventurism. And, our military victories, like our domestic oppressive policies, exhaust our nation. The effect is greater poverty, and partisans inflamed by greed and pampered passions. The right wing extremists are attracted by misanthropic opportunities and greed, and leave a wake of desolation, hatred and fear behind. And, if the radical right extremists feel their popularity slipping, they create crises which leave an impression of terror. Authority will rest on a foundation of vice and corruption from abused power and its counterpart of fear driven sycophancy. And, the special interests wealth extorted from the public, by abusing power, has an unpleasant point of origin, the sweat and affliction of its citizens. Only power based on oppression will cower open resistance. And, if the behaviors in question are perceived as reasonable and promote human happiness, then power has to employ extreme, cruel and brutal measures in order to be effective. Wouldn’t it be better to follow enlightened policies instead? Our Republican Party has an attachment for power and profits
Its opponents the Democratic Party has to prove it has the virtues that demand respect. Government is more secure and cost effective that basis its power on the affections of its citizens, and it best accomplishes this laudable objective by principles of humanity, public beneficence, old fashioned integrity, faith in humanity and enthusiasm for happiness. What they must actively strive to do at the grass roots level is instill enthusiasm for the Constitution and specially The Bill of Rights, rather than the tyrannical double standard which generates wide spread corruption. When people are protected and free, commerce and industry spontaneously appear as people pursue their interests. Also, if Democrats become the party of peace and make the case equating peace and prosperity, then prospects will be increased by reduced levels of military spending; and, people will benefit from affordable programs, which directly benefit their lives. Democrats should align themselves with justice and moderation not the extremism of the right wing Republicans, where war and rebuilding Iraq made Republican VP Cheney $11 billion of US tax payer money, which should have helped at home. War shouldn’t be waged for rapacious profits and gain, there is no such thing as honorable plunderers and pillagers. Besides, wars have a nasty habit besides excessive costs: ultimately, they’re paid for by blood.
The right wing Republican Party has demonstrated imbecility in leadership, caprice and despotism in its cabinet and enormous corruption and incompetence in administrative positions. Consider advancing to fill a cabinet level position, someone who supported violating international law pertaining to torturing prisoners of war, and another who completely botched the job of occupying Iraq, and you have the current Republican administration of Bush / Cheney, whose exclusive criterion for promotion was a blind obedience to following orders and unswerving loyalty to extremist wrongs. One of their first acts has been to interfere in a tragic case of a person, who opposed extraordinary medical efforts, a woman without brain function for 15 years, who is being constantly tortured and forced to be kept as a bedridden corpse, on life support. Her husband is trying to follow her wishes and stop the needless tragedy by terminating life support. He has tried to get on with life, and now has a family complete with children; but, he is prevented and compelled to endure more senseless suffering and anguish. The motive for the Republican administration is it’s politically expedient for politicians to pander to the ultra-conservatives’ wishes, who callously disregard those peoples’ rights to control what’s left of her miracle of life. Control of our lives is being wrestled away from us; and, the Republican Pres. Bush, by behaving so autocratically, is despicable, when any people are deprived of their Civil Rights and made miserable, all society is deprived of their Civil Rights and made to suffer, too. Is it reasonable to expect that a people harassed so cruelly and prevented exercising their basic human rights will be readily reconciled to the chains which afflict them? Is it reasonable to expect any ties of duty and interest to exist between citizens and their oppressors? It’s not a coincidence that our nation is experiencing unprecedented levels of apathy, and citizens who no longer identify with their communities. A new cruel method of reducing mankind to a state of bondage has resulted from an experiment in teleported virtual reality technology (VRT), which was initially introduced in order to improve morals, reduce crime and improve productivity. But, if people are well governed in a Democracy, then the virtual reality technology (VRT) is a contradiction. And, its been shown that (VRT) even in the best case scenario the technology is unnecessary, because reason alone would motivate people to be enthused about complying, and in all other scenarios using the technology is a bad mistake. It is the pride, incompetence and arrogance of tyrants, which prevents good citizenship and spawns apathy. The Republican Party administration has been reduced to a system of cruelty and arbitrary power.
At present it’s unfortunate that its not international terrorists who are this nation’s biggest enemy. It’s the radical right criminal organization who is our most cruel adversaries. It has resulted in wide spread aversion and apathy from its good citizens. Where ever they operate one discovers capricious passions, gratifications of prejudices, pride, avarice, and self serving ambition, which are all designed to blindly serve arbitrary power. The net effect is to deliberately turn our government into a scourge to its own citizens, who only feel arbitrary authority as a capricious curb to justice. And, every corrupt act committed by the radical right criminal organization dirties the reputation of our nation with the tears of the oppressed. And, acts of violence by the radical right impugn the integrity of its legitimate political branch, the Republican Party. But, if the Democratic Party could gain enough political power to check the iniquity, and control the corruption and redress the grievances of our citizens; then, the people would begin to see the potential inherent in good models of Democratic government, and what good government could help them do for themselves. The frustration of citizens would be correctly directed at its proper source, it would eliminate the sources of public malfeasance; while, an honest Democratic Party, lead by good and decent ministers, pursues beneficial policies that help people rather than impoverish their lot, would receive the swelling support from a grateful constituency.