UNDERSTANDING
My desires are many and my cry sad,
but, you’ve protected me
by showing me cruel expressions of human behavior,
oppressing others by abusing power
and distressing oneself by refusing self-restraint.
Day by day you make me more deserving
by learning life’s lessons,
like responsibly receiving your various precious gifts
that you’ve graciously given unsolicited –
the sky, this moon, my mind and body,
and life with its wide variety
of ways of living and perceiving:
You’ve saved me from life’s greatest folly
desiring too much power,
which can only result in the blasphemous usurpation
of other’s Civil Rights; and, afflicting both them and me,
with brutal tyranny’s blind prejudices.
Teaching me to respect others as I’d want to be respected,
specially when frustrated with my fellow insipid biped’s
all too human mistakes; I forget
that a moral universe, and all its myriad blessings,
are based firmly on a foundation of personal liberty.
Each day you make me understand more.
Your vast store of endless wisdom
saves me from the perils of hate,
with its evil persecutions,
which are the outward expressions
of fear and ignorance
derived from blind personal prejudices.
MORNING MOON
We see the moon gaze sightlessly down
on frozen yards and silent houses,
where the dead stand staring in doorways;
abused, right-wing children, who are prematurely old;
and, the false, lewd smiles that sadden them;
and, dark, barren branches shiver at windows with frost cataracts,
in the last vestiges of night.
We, too, have dead voices
that were never allowed to live –
they were shouted out by other’s lies.
Our sylvan hearts hungered for the high lands,
but, were driven to the sea,
where we were no more
than the empty shadows in other people’s dreams.
FOREVERMORE
Deep in thought, lost in a twilight reverie,
a winter storm thunders outside,
as birds abandon the gray skies and huddle among furrows in the fields;
turning on a light that illuminates the familiar room,
we two lay together and enjoy our evening reflections,
when you turn to me your inquisitive soft brown eyes
and ask, “When were we happiest?”
Softly, like a chorus chanting a
I reply, steadily returning your searching gaze,
while gently taking hold of your pale hand -
“The white smoke rose slowly curling towards the ceiling,
sleepy music played,
as you languidly lay naked beside me:
and answered, Yes!”
WINTER PASSAGE
All through the dark winter months the gray street light withstood
the assault of rain laden winds from dolorous skies; which at sunset
are suddenly bright as severed arterial blood, as they nourish trees
with budding branches securely anchored by the firm resolve of good steadfast roots.
Now, as new green growth decorates the astonished forest,
each transept trail with emerald foliage assuages our eyes
sprouting from
So, when famished ancestors chose flight
from blight desolated cottages, and to toil their poor immigrant portage
across the treacherous
Remembering the slate gray, white capped spray,
as I prune my spirea, with enduring happiness
they, too, strove to realize their dreams.
FIRST EDITIONS
It wasn’t some later printing during the first year in print,
by
as to hide its real worth.
It was a real first edition, orange covered buried beneath
over a half century of accumulated dirt, its title
obscurely printed in ordinary bright yellow letters.
“I suspect the author,” said the bibliophile, “of not having become famous enough
with the general reading public that wasn’t sure whether he was only an author of
“Yes,” he continued in a serious thoughtful manner, “yes, he probably was
so varied and talented that the publisher didn’t take him seriously
and give it the cover it deserved.”
At this point, he pursued the pages of another first edition, the enormous Gravity’s
Rainbow, which was found unidentified in a local used book store.
“It doesn’t matter!” He said, picking up a third first edition, Angel In Repose,
“its neither the cover, nor if it’s a first edition that establishes the worth of a great
work of art. Besides, the time has come to become reacquainted with the recently
renovated
REFLECTIONS ON THE MOON
Over The Coquile Lighthouse
I
Blessed be this beautiful place,
more blessed still this sentinel beacon lighthouse;
a bloody and arrogant power
rose up among us
uttering lies and with foul deceit it mastered,
it rose like the development
which annihilated this community,
whose rustic cottages storm weathered walls it replaced –
In scorn I’ve set
a powerful incantation up,
and recite it rhyme for rhyme
in mockery of a time
that like the trees
is dieing from the head down.
II
and Babylonian Gods’ scourge, which mapped the illustrious heavens;
the great hearted and intelligent
Ozmandios was its proud and exalted name.
This sentinel beacon is my symbol;
its revolving, extinguished, cyclopean-eye light
is a modern day symbol of our ancestral vigilance;
that
because the heart beating beneath a blood soaked tunic
had sacrificed to
And pragmatic
whose son organized an unconquerable continent
and whose majestic mountains and broad fertile plains extended from sea to shining sea,
where they firmly anchored their tap root.
And leafed out in equations of liberty and equality
that these God given Civil Rights were the foundations of optimal happiness;
but, in this practical preposterous, presumptuous bestial existence,
whose foundation seems so bedrock solid must instantaneously vanish if power changes
its focus.
All men are created equal, but some are more equal than others,
wage slaves that give our state its sinew and strength;
everything ethereal and saintly that’s subordinate to the intellectual fires
yoked to tyrannical prejudices.
III
The purity of a cloud haloed moon
has cast its translucent shafts to the ground.
Over two centuries have expired and it staggers across the sky
in weary mourning, the blood of innocents left it bone white.
Here on blood consecrated ground
has stood soldier, assassins and executioners,
whether for greed or perverse predatory pleasure;
or, blind malice, and object fear
citizens are subject to torture
and their blood is still being shed
on what should be stairways to Heaven.
The odor of blood bathes our ancestral beacon!
And, we who’ve not shed any must gather there
And clamor in bacchanal frenzy for the moon.
IV
On these cold glinting windows peers darkness
that clings to the moonlit skies,
crystal feathers and crystal butterflies
are washed away in rivulets of baptismal rain.
Does every modern nation have its sentinel beacons extinguished,
are all the states dieing from the head down?
It doesn’t matter here ignorance is exalted
and wisdom has become a characteristic of the dead,
viewed as somehow incompatible with life;
and power, that negative bane of humanity,
that is stained with blood in service of the deluded living
which surreptitiously snuck up among us;
but, no stains can cover the bone white visage of the moon,
when it is gazed at in the colorful glory of a cloud.
SUNSET FLOWERS
Days end.
Clouds depart towards distant horizons,
gray clouds, blue clouds, pink clouds
and every shade in between clouds – transforming flowers.
“Where are you wandering off to?”
I stand on the shore of the river
its mysterious calm waters
furtively mirror the sky.
improbable clouds high above with you,
we silently in the growing Night.
THE RIGHTEOUS LIFE
On bright spring twilights, I’ll pause in my garden,
the flowers will fondle my fingers, while I brush off the dirt;
and dreaming, I’ll enjoy their fragrance and feel the sweet coolness on my face
of a playful passing breeze which will tug good naturedly at my skein hair.
I’ll whisper words to the wind which will penetrate to the root of reality,
ideas that inhabit both my head and heart.
And then, having labored arduously all day, I’ll take a well deserved rest,
while my thoughts slip silently off leaving my body temporarily exhausted,
like an empty stage whose lights are dimmed after the evening performance.
No trouble and anxiety will further fatigue me depleted and worn out,
I’ll sit in silence and rest; and like for over 30 years recuperate.
Love will flow through me and fill my weary soul to over flowing;
after a good meal I’ll retire to my easy chair,
where with a pipe, a beverage and pleasant music, I’ll wander far away
to the four corners of the universe, ‘till bed time and I adjourn with my wife.
In the morning relaxed and refreshed the golden sun beaming from a congenial blue sky,
I’ll return to work meeting my responsibilities as son, husband and father -
living a righteous life.
A PACK OF FELONS
The derelict stood with his sign,
(funny how all the signs look alike) staring straight ahead
saying nothing.
With his hands clasping
the edges of the sign he’d been given,
suddenly he was called over to a car.
He slowly ambled over and
for the sake of the person
he took the dollar that was offered.
But, his predatory eyes,
fixed on nothing,
spoke for him.
“Thanks for the alms,
now I’m paid twice – by
you who are coerced, and
them, who gave me the sign
and paid me to stay here –
a silent reproach degrading humanity.
But, the person who gave me
this spontaneous act of charity
was comforting them self.
A tokenistic alms
to a broken person
is a bitter sarcasm.
Proud is the day
this nation brands its indigence
with a extorting dole.”
So those eloquent eyes
spoke its dumb message
about mitigating tyranny’s supposed charity.
I stared back at the same nothing as he,
for surrounding us both
was a vast sea of human misery.
Then, the light turned green
my neighbors window
was hermitically rolled tightly shut.
And, the herd fled
down the gray road,
like a pack of felons.
LACE SHADOWS
Hello moon, whose beautiful scarred face is kindly beaming
in the radiant evening sky! Are you smiling
at the young couple parked in their parent’s car,
where whispered promises are quickly made.
The sounds of love murmur through the darkness,
so sweet the ecstasy echoes discretely down the empty street;
it listens to the aroused youths filled with shameless lust,
as the eternal truth unfolds - youth is attracted to youth.
So the evening quickly passes and the embraces become more intimate,
as silently the moonlight shadows stretch and grow;
with pure delight their panting breaths join rhythmically together,
united in a rapture that diffuses through out both of their bodies.
Summer flowers spread from the fragrance of her hair,
as a probing breeze caresses her young exposed breasts.
The city whispers through the cracked window covered with condensation,
in the delicate shadows of tree silhouettes popular tunes drone on unheeded in the dark.
Play on melodies and remind us of the fantastic times of fair summers long ago.
All the magic contained in a kiss,
the necromancy that resides in the attraction of two beings.
Smile gently ancient moon, at each sweet kiss and tender embrace being shared
beneath lace shadows.
THE DARK DEEP
I hear a splash,
somewhere near by,
standing on the river shore;
above, a sea bird cries – evermore,
as the current of time flows by.
Twilight,
the wind briefly rises
into a forlorn wail, and retires for the night
the sounds of the city recede
into the dark deep.
All the ideas expressed in
the essays contained in the Rumor Mill are the opinion(s) of its editor.
THE RUMOR MILL
Error Factors
Mistakes are inherent to the
human condition. No one is perfect,
everybody makes them. The fact is that
in a limited context, mistakes can potentially be beneficial, too. At work every serious minded person tries to
perform their job as efficiently as possible, and yet errors still occur. And, in business a variety of strategies are
employed to minimize the expense generated by errors in the work place. In science the prevalence of this problem is
recognized and addressed at the most fundamental level, by means of the
scientific method. Our American
judiciary system is based upon two principals presumed innocence and due
process, which are designed to protect the public from the negative
consequences of man’s propensity to error.
These two characteristics are designed to protect our innocent citizens
from miscarriages in justice, and minimize the injury, sometimes quite serious,
which can result from mistakes made by our legal system. In spite of the general prevalence of errors
and how effectively they’re contended with by most aspects of American society,
there is a troublesome note worthy exception: the extremist element of the
radical right, who refuses to recognize their errors, at great cost to society.
In any given situation there
are three possible outcomes, either one can be right, or one can be wrong, or
one can be some degree of both. A nice
thing about being human is that even under the worst scenario possible, where a
person is completely wrong; the people who are wrong have the greatest
potential to progress, which is really terrific if you stop and think about
it. In fact only those extremist
elements, who repudiate the right of other people to hold divergent
perspectives, doom themselves to eternal stagnation; because, they irrationally
contend that only their way is correct and has a right to exist, which is an
extraordinarily vain and troublesome position to take. Contradistinctively, people who are right to
begin with benefit from being initially correct, and all others face the pleasant
prospect of improving by varying degrees.
One learns more from their mistakes than from all of the times when
they’re right combined.
Successful business has
turned mistakes to its advantage.
Improving the efficiency of production processes by means of
specialization is a strategy as old as
Science studies the
environment in a variety of complex ways, which is specialized into several
well defined disciplines. Each discipline develops component concepts built
upon clearly defined terms, which are quantitatively measured and placed into a
specialized nomenclature. Then, the
interrelationships of the nomenclature’s terms are carefully studied, in a
process collectively known as the scientific method. My profuse apologies to
The American judicial system
is an adversarial system of law, it is based on the
dual concepts of presumed innocence and due processes. Both sides present all available information
to a trained and experienced judge, and/or jury of our peers according to
certain established procedures. Because,
the system is fraught with human error and the consequences of the out comes
can be quite severe, the best legal minds in Constitutional Law have over the
centuries repeatedly determined that in order to protect innocent citizens from
becoming victims of miscarriages in justice, the most expedient way to proceed
is based on some combination of presumed innocence and due process. The fact is that this has not been enough, to
protect the rights of citizens from serious errors being made on a regular basis. The legal system has recognized the
prevalence in errors in a system based on the best efforts by trained and
experienced law enforcement officers and judicial officials. In recognition of this fact of life an
appeals process has been implemented.
And, even this has not proven to be enough, for several examples of
grievous mistakes to be continually made.
These institutional safeguards are not designed to help criminals get off, they are designed to protect the rights of innocent
citizens from the negative effects of mistakes.
And, they have repeatedly been proven to not be adequate.
Enter the radical right and
their vigilante thugs. The radical right
is not comprised of trained individuals.
The radical right consists of prejudicial people who have a conflict of
interest that predisposes them towards vice and corruption. They are a loose
network of paid bounty hunters, under the control of a well funded organized
criminal organization, who supplement their living by causing immoral and
criminal acts to occur. The radical
right’s criminal organization is linked with right wing factional economic
interests and legitimate right wing political organizations, too. Further, the radical right does not believe
that people have the right to, either disagree, or dissent. Any one who politically disagrees with the
radical right’s private agenda becomes fair game. All people must subordinate their beliefs to
those of the radical right. The radical
right does not believe in equality and liberty.
The radical right believes in a double standard of conduct, one standard
of conduct is valid for them and another standard of behavior is valid for
everyone else. If this scenario were not
bad enough the radical right impose their will without moral restraint; their
own phrase to justify their conduct doesn’t exactly generate confidence, “What
ever it takes!” And, as a result, they
have placed themselves above God and well beyond the reach of the law. Consider that if you’ve been targeted by the
radical right, you’ll be subjected to privacy invading technologies to develop
continually updated psychological profiles, which are coupled with subliminal
virtual reality technologies that are designed to predispose an individual to
engage in immoral criminal behavior that to date has included assault and
battery, rape, murder and child abuse. Other sadistic behaviors the radical right
regularly employs are psychological and physical torture, which has solicited
murders disguised as suicides. The radical
right has a built in conflict of interest against freedom, equality and public
safety, because they could not exist with out crime.
In their long career, the
radical right has never publicly acknowledged making a mistake. If trained experts in law enforcement and the
judiciary make mistakes all the time, which requires that stringent legal
safeguards be employed in order to protect the public; then, is it reasonable
to expect that the radical right, with their inherent bias, amateurs and
conflict of interests, are free from making large numbers of serious
errors? Remember, people’s lives hang in
the balance. Are we to believe that
these people functioning with their extreme prejudices and under their great
disadvantages are immune from mistakes?
Or, are we expected to believe that they are what no one else has ever
(except perhaps
Obviously, the radical right
embrace a wide range of immoral criminal behaviors, which engaged in by others
would be vigorously opposed and stridently condemned. This double standard is one example of a
behavior characteristic of tyranny. In
addition, the radical right coerces people, to intimidate them from demanding
the full exercise of their Civil Rights; and, the radical right motivates
people by fear, instead of people being motivated by what seems to be
reasonable to them, and tends to promote their happiness. Both behaviors (intimidation and fear) are
characteristic of tyranny, too. Part of
the radical right pay offs go to torturers, prostitutes, perverters
and perverts and child prostitutes of both sex, not to mention their pimps, and
the individuals who physically intimidate and assault and batter people. The radical right has enjoyed a monopoly on
the domestic and international drug trade for over a decade now, and being
above the law are opposed to efforts, which decriminalize and license drug
users; because, it would erode their considerable profits, and it doesn’t
reflect their bigoted biases. They have
self-servingly and self-delusionally employed their
hypocritical activities for propaganda purposes, which are developed to
increase their political power base. The
triumvirate base of illegal activities of the radical right consists of immoral
sex crimes, acts of violence and the drug trade.
The radical right represents
a modern manifestation of two recurrent problems: first, they are a
contemporary, incredibly virulent form of organized crime; and second,
politically they demonstrate all of the social characteristics attributed to
tyranny, without one exception. To
further these dual roles, the radical right has tried to vilify the victims
that they’ve set up and induced into committing their crimes. The radical right accomplishes this by
associating in the media the targeted victims (the people they get to do the
acts) with the crimes that the radical right has caused to occur, which is
deliberately designed to deceive the public.
Also, it furthers the radical right tyrannical model, by manufacturing
public opinion into reflecting the previously mentioned right wing prejudices;
and, they use it, in a vain effort to try and justify their continued existence. Locally, the most recent effort has been to
flood the Northwest with their amphetamines – see last months issue.
The radical right causes
morals to deteriorate and crimes to increase.
The felonious use of prostitutes and perverts, some of them children, in
efforts to compromise dissidents and potential political opponents in obscene,
adulterous and illegal acts erodes American morals, by functionally legalizing
widespread forms of right wing sponsored prostitution. The radical right’s critical role in
sponsoring the three types of criminal activity already mentioned causes an
artificial elevation in American crime rates, which based on historical evidence should operate as constants in sociological models
of American society. Ironically, they’ve
cynically benefited both politically and economically by publicly opposing the
criminal behavior they are privately sponsoring. Another unfortunate negative consequence is
that this undermines our judiciary system, and it makes our judiciary’s time honored
institutional safeguards of due process, presumed innocence and an appeals
process largely irrelevant. Meanwhile,
the radical right’s essential role in planning the crimes and causing them to
occur goes generally undetected by the public.
The radical right operatives rarely go to trial, and when they do it’s
usually to testify against their targeted victims, or with every support and
influence that the considerable assets of the radical right criminal
organization can provide. The negative
effect is for the radical right career criminals to currently be arrogantly
walking the streets, enjoying all their special privileges and perks, while
actively planning to continue undeterred their operations in organized crime.
Today a profoundly important
choice confronts the American public.
The country stands at a cross roads.
The radical right way divides the country into a privileged few
afflicting an impoverished many. It is
assisted in this endeavor by a vice ridden corrupt group, an evil gang of
organized operatives, who wickedly embrace all the tools of tyranny. They are establishing norms and morays that
are based on sadism and deceit, and openly exhibit behavior that is morally
degenerate and depraved, too. They no
longer identify with larger civic units, like being citizens of a nation,
state, city and or region; but rather, they identify with corrupt organizations
who abuse power, which they personally benefit from. They aspire to improve their circumstances by
guile, and they hope to benefit from entrapping their unwary neighbors with
deceitful cunning, rather than by industry, hard work and thrift; and, as a
class they are comprised of largely ignorant individuals, who are foolishly
proud of that fact. Besides being
immoral, liars and cheats, the radical right’s operatives’ primary motivation
is greed. Beneath the radical right
operatives, in the social peck order, are the majority of oppressed people,
they no longer identify with political units, too. They are personally isolated members of dysfunctional
families, who are motivated by fear; and, they are unhappy hypocrites, who are
compelled into subordinating their desires and beliefs, to that of a
manipulated herd. They are as ignorant
as their counter parts in the radical right; but, instead of being vice ridden
and corrupt, they are merely base sycophants.
The nation’s resources are being ruthlessly exploited and so are the
dwindling economic prospects that both groups of society face, as steps continue
to third worldize American labor markets.
This is an inevitable consequence of the greed driven, myopic policies
of the radical right, which views government as a means for a few people to
make a lot of money. In this scenario
even the country’s virtues are perverted into serving the interests of power,
in their on going efforts that directly hurt the vast majority of its
citizens.
The stark alternative, to
the reduced prospects that confront
THE HISTORY
Truncated
and Highlighted
The radical right is one of
the biggest errors ever to afflict the American public. The radical right is an extremist populist
movement which started in the
These events had a profound
effect on the development of the
The radical right populist
movement evolved over time into a vice ridden and corrupt, extremist criminal
organization. It had accustomed itself
to violating rights, but as noted, it was running out of victims. The radical right operatives were getting
used to artificially elevated standards of living, too. A corrupt decision was made to expand the
targeted victims to include people who smoked pot and any political dissidents. This opened up a potential market that
included 75% of the population of a nation of 250 million people. Happy days were here again. Measures were taken to deceive American
society and make it associate the harmless use of pot with criminal acts of
violence and deviate sexual behavior. Also,
the fact that the radical right couldn’t condition society to be oppressed on
½% of the population, but it could condition society to be oppressed by
attacking innocent sitting ducks like pot users, which comprised over 185
million people which was ¾ of the country’s population, was not overlooked.
This decision enabled the radical right to expand its operations and become
politically more effective, while backing off on what was felt to be the less
offensive homosexuals. In a pattern as
old as tyranny, it helped the radical right condition society to be oppressed,
which was important; because, the radical right’s exploitive economic policies
of the industrial military was impoverishing the nation, and the bloated
military budgets faced reduction under government budgets not confronted with a
Cold War.
It seemed expedient for
other revenue sources to be actively sought.
In a process that relied on computer generated economic models that in
latter forms became computer games, additional funding sources were found. These additional sources were the entitlement
programs of Social Security, and Medicare.
Unfortunately, the fact that these additional funding sources would
require the dismantlement of critical Keynesian economic features, which had
proven their effectiveness in providing a solid foundation of demand during
recessions and depressions, stabilized the money markets, and eliminated the
specter of poverty and destitution among the elderly, was largely ignored. The fact that it rolled back 100 years of
economic progress and replaced Keynesian economics with failed obsolete
economic policies didn’t deter the radical right. Besides, it produced a characteristic
complimentary with the tyrannical model that was becoming ever more prevalent,
before the radical right could rob
The internal dynamics of the
populist movement, helped make the movement more extreme. The individuals, within the organization, who
advanced were its more fanatical members.
And, predictably, just like in any other organization, people within the
movement copied patterns of success.
Also, the radical right started attracting all of the extreme, aggressive,
misanthropic and sadistic oriented members of society. Inside the radical right, individuals where
actively conditioned to become corrupt through sadistic and deceitful
operations, and they became indifferent to Civil Rights violations. Inevitably, they were conditioned to be
deadened to humanity’s finer instincts, and they became cruel and brutal
instead. Its operations became more
violent and more morally degenerative.
It steadily grew increasingly perverse and depraved. As available victims became progressively
younger, younger operatives were employed.
The systematic sexual and physical abuse of children was the result of
this trend. And then, it became so
ordinary that in some instances it became a family affair that extended back
for three generations. Simultaneously,
people were being subliminally predisposed to commit sex crimes and criminal
acts of violence. It wasn’t long before
the systematic perversion of citizens was occurring, which targeted on right
wing child prostitutes in heterosexual and homosexual operations. After all, these people were financially
encouraged to generate results, the more abhorrent and sensational the crime
the better, because it generated a greater response from the media’s propaganda
machine; and, the radical right never has tolerated any moderating dissent,
“you are either with us or against us”; and, the radical right are not bothered
by any objective external supervision, which would dare to disagree with any
policy line being pursued. This was done
to gain more money by creating a greater number of victims, which would better
condition society to be oppressed; it deceived society and made it associate
the harmless use of pot with acts of violence and deviate sexual behavior. And finally, it expanded vice and corruption
among the radical right operatives by financially benefiting them, which made
them not mind the corrupt and negative effects that the radical right’s
factional business interests and legitimate right wing political party’s
policies, like the three needless aggressive wars and the exploitive economic
policies privatizing Social Security and Medicare, had on the country, while it
yoked the nation with the prejudices of its would be tyrants.
The propaganda machine
helped serve the interests of the radical right. The ownership of the media constricted, and
it required a steady diet of ever increasing acts of violence and sexual
atrocities, in order to keep the American public’s short attention span supplied
with public shaping stories. The radical
right who financially benefited from this arraignment readily cooperated.