LOOK BACK

Look, my sons there’s the long steep path

that we so arduously climbed covered with obstacles and pitfalls,

don’t ever say “Don’t look back.” How else do we know

where we are, unless we know where we’ve come from.

 

Remember to appreciate how much you’ve accomplished,

when looking back from the mountain at all life’s beauty;

but, then cheerfully look up and see the distance left to go,

as filled with wonder go and gaze up at the sun, moon and stars.

 

Relax and be happy,

you belong here in this joyous universe,

be humble and don’t disgrace the legacy of our forefathers

Peace, Love, Joy and Freedom!

 

 

 

PAIN

Deserted supermarkets

torrents of sunshine

litter fills your gutters

another day enduring pain.

 

Let me limp through my life,

down your endless dingy isles,

lined with the visual clutter of goods;

life is a tapestry of impressions, & a reclining bed of pain!

 

My gold grained sun

ripens in the dry fields

may it not germinate

in a strangers painful delusion.

 

A dark day is my life

with dawn futilely hurrying

a white bird soars

against an empty blue sky teeming in confusion.

 

Sunlight flows like lava

flooding the streets with pain

and the parched earth cracking with thirst

I lay my weary head back and close my eyes –

on a world consumed with pain.

 

 

SOLITARY

The blue sky aches in emptiness

I wait outside alone at your door.

 

In the noontime bustle, I’m swept solitarily along, with the surging throng;

but, at this time, stripped of shadows, my thoughts are with you,

if only your face would appear floating among the crowd,

if you leave me totally alone, I wonder how these long glacial hours

will pass solemnly before the frozen sun.

 

I gaze longingly at the distant horizon,

and my heart wanders wailing with the rootless wind.

 

 

 

WONDERING WHY

From your womb I rise,

green blood coursing through my veins

with a beleaguered universe implanted in my beggared brain,

and gazing about, I begin to weep -

 

all those who ever were

walk with me through the sun and shadow.

Everything is as silent as death,

all our words turn to seven stones.

 

Buried alive in the silence of Heaven,

each person recreates the universe

complete and not knowing:

they grieve wondering why.

 

 

 

THE WEAVE OF TIME

Mon. and Tue. weave with Wed.,

and so the week extends diurnally within the yr..

Discontinuous & incisive time,

your decaying incisors can’t quite cut;

and so, they flow away

in an endless parade of days

flushed out in the waters of night.

 

Well worn words are common domain,

noman afflicts me, noman is John, more or less,

all of us are ashes or dust,

all of us are shadows devoured by rain.

They come to me gaggling of America,

Iraq and England, with no idea

what they mean. The earth doesn’t recognize

any artificial arbitrary boundaries.

I enjoy all nations alike,

yet, countries leave me feeling cold.

 

I’ve been happy burrowing around roots,

their pleasures are different from the corolla;

and my mallet smote stones

rang like a bell,

with words which were Truth.

 

Long summer leaves

linger toward Autumn

they have a Spring feeling

which lasts ‘till Winter rains.

Time is lost,

in a blizzard of falling leaves

a yr. seems like layered realities

each lasts four varying seasons.

 

My illusions sleep every night.

Where are they encumbered ?

Am I the same dream when I wake?

Or, is my shadow still the same one I slept with,

if I’m another illusion today?

What does this make me?

 

I’m barely debarked,

when I leave, bang in the middle

of another waking dream;

my eyes filled with wonder,

at the expanding exploding universe

imprisoned inside my brain;

 

with so many arrogant vices littering the view,

with so many myriad faltering phrases,

with so many insipid false formalities,

with so many excruciatingly stupid emails,

with so many oppressive depersonalized delusions,

with so much of our sad meager life like an aseptic assault.

 

I have a mind to float buoyant

over these seas of chaos

mixing layers of reality

striping them of preconceived pretences

‘till all the light in the universe

illuminates a vast pellucid sea:

a fragrant, loving organic being,

a live, vital entity in which everyone

forms a unique miraculous whole.

 

 

WHAT TIME IS IT?

If all we have is time,

Then how we spend it is extremely important.

What is time anyway?

and, how long do we have to live?

 

Does one live each and every day,

or, only certain special ones?

How many people actually live,

while the rest are merely someone else’s shadow hurtling towards death?

 

Lost among these reflections

I’m an image seeking for clarity.

 

In quest of sacred knowledge,

I burned my lamp at midnight

studying science priests’ rituals,

as they, like Faust, invoke the Devil

and played blasphemously at being God.

 

In the end their fires expired,

and, their shadow characters disappeared;

because, they knew precious little,

which was beyond a point always fatally flawed.

 

Late, I hurriedly depart, and an anemic sky

covers over all of this

that rises as if it were made from noise,

and cross the Summer shrunken river,

where green trees and shrubs form fountains on the verge.

 

Insurance indentured servants, busy physicians

saw me for a 15 min. appointment that was double booked

they hurried in and peer at their computer screen

and started ordering expensive tests at my cost of course.

These harried individuals are buried beneath a mountain of debt

and unbelievable caseloads that grow bigger every day.

 

Their costs increasing by over 15% a yr., all for a system that gives worse health

to a growing # of poor and Sr. citizens, in the world’s most unfair & expensive sys.

that is so bad the Ins. Industry sneakily tries to steal our right of legal redress:

it seems they need to address changing the dressings of our hemorrhaging health care.

The current private health care sys. has an inherent conflict of interest ,

where profits are placed before human’s well being and Dr.s are caught in the crunch.

They left me so sore

I paid a visit to Chiron,

who still works where the dark waters flow,

there they created grotesque painted monsters,

crawling like insects except with bony bodies,

here the shadow puppet masters congregated and uttered horrible oaths,

and terrible tragedies wiped waves of humanity out,

in one fell sweep of oppressive tyranny’s phony terrorist attacks.

The verge was littered with great mounds of dead corpses

and pale specialists who stood around lying about why.

 

When I pointed out several relevant facts

and provided profitable alternatives that left everyone free and happy,

they offered to torture me, too, for free!

You see, it was all that they knew how to do.

 

It was then my country

learned lessons about shame.

The good citizens, between rounds of drink

said, “For God’s sake shut up and keep your head down!”

 

I never saw people so hateful and afraid.

Driving in their cars isolated between home and work,

They were herded by fornicating sadistic bigots

arrogant in their ignorance and vice.

 

Hurrying home, hurting more than ever,

I was certainly wiser,

after all of these years

traveling down the world’s river of tears.

 

Now an enormous silence

answers all of my raging questions.

We live during dark days,

where every waking moment we become poorer.

 

 

 

GRACE

Before time measured space and existence

exploded from the void, You touched me

with Your love and with mercy conceived my form –

and I was blessed by Your infinite grace.

 

And, the mystery of creation began.

And, who was it made us free and the universe moral?

Who smiled at my youthful folly

and filled my days with fun and a burning desire

to know Truth so that I learned about the objective world

through my subjective senses, and in my innocence it was all very good?

 

Who brought me thus far growing with each experience

and accelerating learning with every mistake I made

‘till today I’m endowed with wisdom and wonder

in some small measure?

I, merely a miraculous bit of fecund earth,

cupped in the comfort of Your hands;

all that I am, I owe to You, its true!

You who sustain me, in the presence of enemies who seek to turn Paradise into Hell.

 

And, blight me with their hate,

and curse me with the burden of their sins;

and the sins of the wicked golden serpent with ruby red eyes,

I’ll never let their Evil seduce me!

 

How could I pay back Your all consuming love

with such base ingratitude? How could I

dare to stand before You cloaked in such degenerate shame?

 

You who know all our errors and failures,

You who see inside our hearts all the stains on our souls,

You who before time began touched me with love and granted me grace.

 

 

 

BLESSING

They say life flowed from my being into your body,

where it condensed and intensified and distilled;

but, I feel only joy in my heart. It swells like a balloon.

 

“Who am I?” I ask myself out loud, “to have a miracle

cradled in my arms? How small he is!”

And then, an answer comes to me:

“I am a man who loved, and was loved in return;

and, our love reached Heaven, when we kissed and made love;

and, then it echoed onward toward eternity.”

 

May the Earth see me, with my child in my arms;

may it bless my son, for he is the sacred fruit of my fruitful body,

like the fir trees, and fertile fields and fecund valley.

 

IN THE PARK

I watched two lovers walking in the park

their curious form comprised two arms two heads four legs and feet

silhouetted in a tender pastel sky,

the city din humming like a disturbed hive in the distance.

 

And, while they walked slowly along near where traffic ran riot

coursing in long lines where buildings erupted from the valley floor

my kind heart commiserated with the youths

as they futilely tried to imitate the superficial public figures I disdain to despise.

 

They drifted down paths, lost in their beautiful blended dreams,

merged harmoniously together, deep in the high that was doomed too soon;

they moved in the languid moment and I from my pentacle of years gazed at them

and, sadly aware, what chimeras fate had in store for them, I got up and left.

 

 

 

LOVING HEART

Why such sorrow my wretched soul

silent as a forgotten tomb –

you drag around behind the broken wing

of your dreams, which cause your sufferings?

 

When will you cease to mourn?

When will your poor old heart cease to bleed?

One who holds their sadness too tightly, too long,

winds up alone; and, turns their life into a grave.

cease mourning my soul, before God –

be patient, and never despair!

 

Enjoy God’s gracious gifts – the ones you still can –

that shower down from on high,

close your door to the sick and sadistic

‘till the hatred subsides, and love warms your life once more.

 

Let the world’s splendor parade past,

and ignore the good opinions of fools:

for happiness is an internal state,

and to be good and decent requires liberty;

and, paradoxically, today, one helps best on the sidelines,

remove yourself from the world’s problems.

 

On its surface the universe seems indifferent,

while lurking underneath a hypocritical mask entraps the unwary

with cruel arrogance; but, for those few souls

who aren’t stupid and sadistic and seek for fundamental reasons

discover that the universe is a wonderful, beautiful place.

So, hold on to your dreams!

 

Dare to be happy and strive constantly to be free!

Remember, whatever you receive is returned in the end,

which includes our souls to God – where we explain all things....

and are embraced in God’s loving heart.

 

 

 

THE TREES THAT RODE

The trees that rode the mountains broad back

climbed into my window.

Love is vicious,

it casts my heart

into the exaltation of your dirt.

My blood becomes fertilizer

for morose basalt formations.

Love is obscene.

 

There land is darkness and death

it spreads inward and outward

a cancer of the soul –

not for daylight.

Moon is a phoneme,

a sealed nocturnal rune;

and stars are isolated points

set in slit space

lacerated by the bestial

upsurge of love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the ideas expressed and statements made in these essays, editorials and discourses are the opinion of Mockingbird’s staff.

 

RUMOR MILL

 

It is my unfortunate duty to convey to you the following amendment to last issues discourse. It contained the following unintentional error, instead of 10,000 dead in the Iraq War as was stated, the number of fatalities to date was approx. 2,000 dead and 10,000 wounded. We sincerely apologize, because exaggeration never furthers a just cause as much as Truth.

 

4th DISCOURSE: on The Modern Effects of Faction

 

There is a quote found in Cicero so relevant it seems penned for the injurious superimposition of the predominant principles of government, which the radical right dominated Republican Party have stolen and smuggled into our country; and, because of the amazingly relevant parallels between the collapse of the Roman Republic and contemporary events transpiring in the USA, it seems that a perfect way to start this discourse, is to share it with you, and then to discuss it. First, gentle readers a quick digression might be helpful, oratory in classical antiquity took the place of today’s media – it hadn’t been abused by the time of Cicero into an exclusive tool of tyranny, its two greatest practitioners in order of genius were Demosthenes (Cotton’s translation is best) and Cicero. “Groundless opinions are destroyed, by rational judgments, or the judgments of nature, are confirmed by time.” The self-serving projects being employed by the radical right faction lead Republican Party exclusively view government as a means for making a very few individuals a great deal of wealth. There is a great deal of money to be made pursuing policies that destroy Democracy and its institutions. But, by comparing the radical right lead Republican Party’s inferior view of Democratic government, with the time proven Truths of genuine Democratic principles, and sound principles of government, the groundless opinions of radical right faction that are currently being programmed into society can be correctly perceived. Consequently, the application of it may now have relevance in numerous examples taken from the most important foreign and domestic policy issues, on which the attention of the nation is directed and where society’s interests are concerned.

The power of a faction, and much more a displaced government, coupled to a propaganda machine – the media – is able to exert to establish and habituate society to confirm the most ridiculous opinions. Interests and prejudicial passions can create extremist zeal, which are advanced by the internal dynamics of faction. However, error is inherently unstable and consequently must be camouflaged with deceit and a steady flow of re-affirming absurdities. Ignorance and indifference, fed by a steady diet of manipulated events that serve to program prejudices and intermittent tragedies that distract and prevent the public the time and opportunity to pause and reasonably reflect on the nature of events and issues keep erroneous opinions in circulation, which transform into popular bigoted bias in the fullness of time; and, it unfortunately serves the interest of faction by veiling the Truth from the people; when common sense, experience and reason no longer find their stories believable. However, such self-serving prejudicial opinions, like human being’s physical bodies tend to dissolution from the moment they are born. They’ll be rejected in theory and in observable fact, where people can think for themselves and in practice where people are free to act. They maintain their oppressive existence only as long as the deceitful seductive practices, which initiated the bigoted biases in the first place, are employed; or, the same tired circumstances, which first superimposed their afflictions and then serviced them, support their continued existence. People are forced and fooled into them, and bound down by them with chains of circumstances. Remove the chains, and the human mind returns with an inherent intellectual instinct for survival to its correct objective state, Truth. This natural propensity is so strong that numerous examples are easily provided where people embrace Truth in practice, by virtue of common sense, long before it’s a proven theory. There are cases where reason, freed from arbitrary restraint, and spurned on by necessity, functions as a logical imperative. The reason the radical right faction deliberately utilizes contrived crises, to impel communities and states into rash actions is, because otherwise reason, in search of Truth, would prevail against their erroneous self-serving opinions. Reason asserts what is right, before the radical right faction’s propaganda machine can manufacture public opinion. We’ve witnessed recently, in affairs of state, where propriety determined by reason, opposed the Republican administration’s official position, which meant that the public opposed the policies before the spin had been placed on the events to make them more palatable to the public. But, observe the perverseness of faction. When this occurred, and the common sense of the people prevailed against the Republican administration’s efforts to manipulate public opinion, instead of admitting the Truth, which would appropriately have prevented precipitous action in attacking another nation, the Republican President continued down a previously determined path. The effects are plain to see, a tragedy with over 2,000 dead and 10,000 wounded at last count, and the Largest National Debt in the history of the world, where the Republican Party strive petulantly to reconcile their disastrous actions with their continual blunderings; and, if that weren’t bad enough they cover them up with false maxims like stay the course, which is of course ridiculous and sheer folly. What it does is enables the radical right wing faction to reap more money from Iraq in oil and natural gas revenues, increased industrial-military profits, and the prospect of large temporary profits generated from wrecking the world’s investment markets by destabilizing them which privatizing Social Security is sure to do, this is not an if question, but rather its a when question.

Observe where we inevitably arrive at, as a result of these rational reflections. The absurd opinions derived from the exploitive abuse of power and prerogatives brought about by subordinating the rights of others to the tyranny of faction are endeavoring to take root by aligning themselves with the Republican Party, as they increase short term profits by bankrupting the country. We are as noted the possessors of the largest national debt in the history of the world. I assert this fact on common knowledge. A recent tradition assures us that when the same faction generated opinions revived at the rise of fascism, they failed to become deeply established in the minds of the people; but, superficially coated established traditions of government practice that Congress continued exercising in time honored ways, and was utilized by the Republican Party, who were ready to proceed farther in direct opposition to them. A tradition still alive among us, and that is the subject of this discourse; that when these erroneous opinions now held by the radical right faction revived again, at the beginning of Republican Party President Ronald Reagan’s reign, with the appearance of greater right wing support and of a more national right extremist concurrence than ever, they revived under a populist movement that degenerated into organized crime. They revived, but were exposed; and then, they extended into international terrorism, which was manipulated behind the scenes ,too, by the radical right faction, whose economic interests included the industrial-military, oil, natural gas, insurance, investment banking, entertainment, and the media to give only a partial listing. The radical right faction consolidated their widespread economic gains and established a tyrannical political regime fronted by their political pawns the generally homogeneous Republican Party. The degenerated populist movement which was involved in organized crime and international terrorism were useful to the Republicans, who used them to check opposition to their politically corrupt and avaricious policies of oppression. And, the dynamics of tyranny found it useful to institutionalize what was originally thought of as only a temporary expedient, to the radical right’s contrived crack epidemic. The puppet Bush presidencies extensively depended on them, to function as a distraction and coercive threat to the public that they could then posture as a counter-point to, by pretending to champion social stability and law and order. This was necessary, because American tyranny, like its other subordinating predecessor slavery, as an economic system must aggressively expand, or its inevitable extinction will accelerate. That was why all the Axis powers before World War II engaged in belligerent acts of aggressive expansion against their neighboring states; Nazi Germany required additional land for the fatherland to experience economic growth, and Mussolini’s Italy needed the re-establishment of the Roman Empire around the Mediterranean to aid its faltering economy, and Japan who was resource poor anyway resolved their economic deficiencies by military invasions around the Pacific Rim. But, these are temporary expedients to camouflage the fact that factional economics based on tyranny are studies of obsolescence, just like its historical predecessor slavery; because, it reduces economic performance to its lowest common denominator, with employees advanced not because of ability but rather for blind obedience, witness the Republican proposed appointment for the Supreme Court who is a stooge of the radical right and supports such extreme measures as repealing inconvenient measures that will emasculate the Geneva Convention, authorize torturing enemy soldiers, and approved the Texas killing spree under Governor Bush Jr., when people were being murdered at between one and two per week. Obviously, Mr. Gonzales was picked because he is blindly obedient and the radical right hopes to delude part of the Hispanic vote, which is the largest ethnic group in America. Its easier to pick a tokenistic corrupt junta like political figure than fully fund Head Start and provide fair high quality education programs for all children and not just a corrupt 20% privileged few, like the Republicans are sneaking in across the country with contrived special elections and stacked school boards; or, provide effective Health Care for everyone rather than the worst Health Care Sys. for children in the industrial world. They were busy becoming vice ridden and corrupt at that time; and, they accelerated their moral degeneration, by the immoral-criminal purposes for which they were employed. They were in the minds of many, but, of those who were aware of how they operated, they were in the hearts of few, for almost all who supported them did so based on deliberately contrived abhorrent acts that were erroneously blamed on others, who were a set of victims targeted to be this society’s scapegoats, like the Nazi’s and their Jews. The radical right subordinate tyrants are currently wagging an extensive campaign to gain and keep local popular support, by behaving in excruciatingly pleasant ways with feigned polite manners, which follows the time observed practice tyranny has always followed, of arriving smiling and congenial and doing all manner of favors making themselves as agreeable as possible only to end up standing on a communities throats dictating how they had to live – it’s a time honored fact that hypocrisy is the compliment that vice pays to virtue, and everyone knows that vice couldn’t travel so far if it did not keep virtue company. Thus were these wicked and ridiculous expedients for governing revived, and functioned to destroy sound principles of Democratic government in less than twenty years, with the assistance of an intensive propaganda campaign only equaled one other time in the history of the world in the 1930’s in Nazi Germany with its Judeans free Deutschland campaign.

I think the end of the Cold War gave birth to the rise of extremist faction, with the overt displacement of the Republican Party who were assisted by a small contingent of fifth column Democrats; and, they have continued growing, with the exception of the temporary reprieve brought about by the Democrat Clinton Presidency, until today. In an injurious period of reactionary tyrannical government, we watched the radical right lead Republican Party deliberately destroy our US system of government with its checks and balances designed to protect the property rights and Liberty of all American citizens. The dominance by the radical right faction and their henchmen in the Republican Party of the US Senate meant the radical right faction dominated Republican Party also controlled all government appointments, which guaranteed whenever they held the White House through a Republican President that the Judicial Branch of government would soon be dominated by the extreme right, too. And, so it came to be. The specter of totalitarian dominance became an overt reality, when the Republican Party, with their control of the media that in some instances constituted overt ownership and all tokenistic gestures to propriety, in the form of appropriate parity of media coverage between political parties, was dropped. Also, the Republican Party possessed funding advantages that reached critical proportions, which functioned to undermine our Democracy’s free and fair elections; and, it resulted in monetary interests being represented rather than people, and it turned government into a money making investment rather than a public institution designed to serve the needs of all of its citizens.

The Democratic Party functioned as a hybrid Crown Government’s loyal opposition, trying to steadfastly adhere to sound Democratic principles of government, while contending with varying degrees of success the radical right’s self-serving delusions that the media’s spin on news stories were creating and that substituted as an inferior reality for the majority of the American public. Any vain lingering doubts about the true state of affairs were eliminated, when the Republican Party conquered

(by fraud) the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. The radical right Republican Party brought their attacks home to American families, with contrived terrorist attacks (see previous issues) and reduced standards of living brought about by trying to make American labor markets competitive with the Third World. This exploitive measure, which brought worse education and greater ignorance in its wake; the fact that tyranny promotes based on loyalty rather than ability; also, because tyrants fear to lose their power and corrupt privileges means that they mistrust intellectuals, and so, promotes mediocrity or worse, look at American Presidents in the Post Cold War Era; also, the undereducated population tends to have lower expectations and so the prospect of worse jobs that they’re confronting and correspondingly lower standards of living are more easily reconciled, which makes for citizens who’re potentially easier to control, by the avarice driven radical right faction. But, with impaired uneducated labor come lower productivity, lower consumer demand, and lower marginal rates of return. The ignorant population is not able to solve society’s increased problems as efficiently, besides there are fewer resources available, to apply to society’s problems; and, any people with ability are put to work to further exploit available resources trying to increase the power elite’s rates of return, which will dwindle. Already, this system can not compete, it cheats; and, it expands aggressively trying to afflict by corrupting what otherwise would be competitive entities. Foreign wars are engaged in that over extend and bleed the economy, burdening it with unnecessary leakage. Domestically, the organized crime by subordinate tyrants accelerate the process of decay with operations that include the now familiar crimes like pimping, prostitution, perversion, theft, child abuse, rape, extortion, drugs and murder all for pleasure and profit. Now there is a new wrinkle, some of the targeted victims are being subliminally predisposed, and then, induced to commit any one of the previously mentioned crimes utilizing the subliminal virtual reality technologies that were developed in the US navy during the Cold War, when concern was felt for men’s psychological states in nuclear submarines submerged for long periods and who possessed the ability to start a nuclear war with the push of a button; and so, studies were conducted on subconscious states of navy personnel that included a sailors’ dream state, in efforts which eventually developed teleporting virtual reality capacities. The predictable effect of surreptitiously unleashing these new invasive technologies in our local communities has been to increase selective crime rates. It should be pointed out that there aren’t any laws currently on the books to protect US citizens from a technology that if used for anything reasonable is unnecessary, and if not reasonable shouldn’t be used at all. This has resulted in unnatural appetites of perverse predation being developed in increasing numbers of the radical right participants, which are directed at targeted dissidents and scapegoat population groups within the general population. The net effect is a society conditioned to be oppressed and motivated by hate and fear, the two emotional states that most negatively impact higher levels of cognition. The legitimate efforts at marketing virtual reality technology were unsuccessful; and, they were characterized by a shortage of investment capitol, with spasmodic efforts to sell basic generic examples of virtual reality experiences, while connecting the consumer to the transmitting device by means of the old fashioned headsets, usually limited to booths at shopping malls.

In a related development, its ironic to note the ethnic, racial and religious groups that the radical right has immigrated to the USA, with the allure of higher standards of living are being set up; because, the radical right is busy reducing the American labor markets to the same Third World levels that the immigrants are trying to flee. The radical right gets increased influence in regions around the world, which satisfies their goal to dictate how others are compelled to live, while helping to force down labor costs for their businesses in the United States; meanwhile, most non-skilled immigrants are stuck working at lower than competitive market wages, and all help that they receive is based on how helpful they are, which means how effective they are at influencing indigenous elements back home and in the USA how corrupt and vice ridden they become engaging in immoral sadistic operations designed to destroy targeted people in criminal operations that include prostitution and perversion. I talked to one individual working at a substandard wage who was asked to be a transvestite, as a means of obtaining a better life. But, this isn’t a paper designed to provoke or embarrass its merely providing one of a countless number of examples of how prostitution works for the radical right, with their philosophy of whatever it takes run amok. In this example, happily the operation failed, and while the individual retained their job, they weren’t promoted, and didn’t receive a cash bounty, as anyone who is acquainted with similar common place anecdotes of this era understands, of course after 20 years of vilifying the targeted scapegoat victims by erroneously associating them with horrific events there are people who are genuinely deceived into believing that there are people who deserve such sordid fates. This tragic behavior was representative of the degenerative sort of thing that went on all over to support conspiratorial efforts that destroyed Democratic states and the Western Monotheisms. This is an extremely bold assertion, and one which is unfortunately true. But, one has to place things in a proper historical context, the government had already previously experienced one military coup with the Kennedy assassination and one impeachment with Nixon, the radical right faction had tried to duplicitously justify themselves with their own crack epidemic, which they also used as an initial means to partially provide financial support for their independent existence - felonious stock market manipulation schemes and defrauding the government (i.e. the American people) by unnecessarily extending the Cold War, which was followed by diverting the desperately needed Russian foreign aid to augment their own portfolio investments in first Western Europe and latter around the World were other means of funding. The corrupt process culminated in the Post Cold War Era in phony foreign wars and the politics of terror, which utilized the radical right faction’s secret relations with terrorists and that resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary industrial-military profits, which were expenditures to US tax payers. The privatizing of US energy grids and other ill advised Republican Party energy policies that resulted in bloated profits to the oil companies and cost push inflation for the rest of the global economy and American public, as the USA government displaced by the radical right faction and not protected by the checks and balance system took on the common pattern of tyranny the cumulative-circular-causatory-spiral in a negative direction designed to quickly make a lot of money for a fortunate few by destroying our popular Democratic government.

The attempts by the Democratic Party at legitimate efforts to govern during the respite that was the Democratic Clinton Administration, or later when they futilely tried to arrest the USA’s slide down the slippery slope toward tyranny; or, to stop the persecution that was sweeping unjustly over the country, by subjecting society to the caprice of the ruling elite’s personal prejudices justified by contrived abhorrent acts; or, to build a solid base of sustainable prosperity with government programs run by able citizens designed to benefit all of its citizens, like public controlled Medicare and Social Security funded by a balanced budget; all conspired so that our hopes were disappointed. However, the Democratic administration did prove that Democratic principles correctly applied work! The subsequent Republican Administrations re-established all the preceding absurdities and abuses America had been laboring under and added a few new ones, too. The Presidential elections where characterized by lying and fraud by the Republicans, while the Democrats desperately tried to get the Republican record before the public, without appearing negative, and at the same time honestly presented their alternative concept of good government to the voters. In the first election that was decided by the lie in Florida, which made Bush Jr. President, the radical right faction saw that the American public would submit, and they proceeded to open the floodgates of corruption, and avarice determined the character of the Republican Party dominated American government. In the subsequent Presidential election, with Bush Jr. as America’s own Dunciad wearing the emperor’s new clothes, defrauding elections became a computerized affair involving thousands of votes which crossed districts in critical races that influenced election outcomes, all seeming to favor the Republican Party candidates. Its interesting to observe that these machines are all manufactured by businesses whose owners are active enthusiastic supporters of the Republican Party, and further, the individuals who were responsible for monitoring the races in the critical state were members of the same political party, which resulted in an election where all branches of government are controlled by that same radical right controlled Republican Party. The effect of which was obvious, by dominating all branches of government any potential post election investigation could easily be controlled, and the fact that no post-election investigations were conducted stemming from such serious impropriates and a complete lack of simple corrective measures being taken, implies the worst possible conclusions. In an attempt to investigate serious Republican misconduct charges, the Democratic Party were forced into the basement to hold hearings on documented evidence of an impeachable offense by the Republican President. Also, its interesting to observe the radical right lead Republican Party pursuing policies that run consistently against the interests of the nation involving foreign wars, a National Debt that’s the largest the world’s ever seen, Trade Deficits the largest in the world, unfair tax cuts for the extremely rich under such dire circumstances, and deliberately trying to bankrupt the Medicare and Social Security Systems, this done while supporting a scandal ridden oil industry that was subjecting the nation to a six year depression, to repeated waves of cost push inflation, and declining standards of living for the vast majority of people. The Republican President with the Republican controlled Congress, voting in goose step just as they were told, acted in concert, as though devoid of reason starting wars and invading countries for no valid reason among other actions that ran against the common sense, let alone reason, of the nation; and, it appeared as an amazing phenomenon in a moral universe, like a retrograded motion of the Earth, or, like the Sun suddenly starting to orbit the Earth, or any other ordinary deviation from the natural laws of the physical universe.

There was only one salutary point, which this government scrupulously observed, and acted as if it had taken it to heart; and, which was no longer relevant, to a government that was bought and paid for, and it was observed in every empty outward form, but particularly in the exercise of foreign affairs. The empty façade of Democracy was scrupulously observed, which meant a decision was made and followed only after money and media softened public opinion with overt lies, distortions of the truth and conspicuous omissions. This lead to phony leaders being placed, for the benefit of the radical right, in other nations, too, like the radical right are trying to do in Iraq; and, they were either supported by contrived terrorist assaults, as in the case with England (see last months preliminary comments) or, coerced established governments into embracing policies and actions advantageous to the radical right like in the United States before the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Currently, the United States is observing the last act in the radical right’s covert terrorist operations efforts to eliminate “real” popular support for legitimate elected officials in Iraq, and trying to replace them with “acceptable” that is corruptible individuals who are the willing tools of the radical right. The motives of the radical right faction aggressors were simple, they wished to intimidate other radical right foreign government puppet leaders, and the radical right wanted to make up for money it lost when the radical right created stock market bubble burst, and they lost approximately 75% of their wealth, in a trap they would afflict Americans with when they implement their privatizing Social Security scheme, when Wall Street experienced its single biggest crash in the history of the institution at the beginning of the current Republican President administration six short years ago. And, the radical right wanted to steal Iraq oil and natural gas revenues, accelerating the process with brand new equipment given to them for free by the Republican Bush Jr. Administration, but paid for by American tax payers, who then had to pay over 100% higher prices for oil products like gasoline; and, the increased profits from Iraq oil and natural gas revenues were redirected for the exclusive benefit of the radical right faction’s portfolio investments. Finally, increasing the industrial-military profits with the phony foreign wars would appear to bankrupt the United States government and provide the necessary pretence to the Republican Party for the radical right faction’s ill advised plans to privatize the current conservative and highly successful public based system that has made destitute Sr. citizens in the USA a thing of the pre-Keynesian economic system past. In short the motive for the radical right faction lead American aggressors was greed that lead to such base bare faced usurpations. The USA and Iraq’s neighboring countries had not recently received injuries, the USA instigated the Iraq-Iran war, with Iraq serving as our ally; nor, had Iraq violated any one’s rights. The continued dominance in the Post Cold War Era of mid-East oil rich states by the radical right faction utilizing their terrorist threat depended on the war. No wonder the radical right faction, who allied itself openly with another of its puppet states England, pulled out all the stops with these belligerent measures. The last point to consider is the radical right construction companies which received billions in government contracts to rebuild an extremely wealthy country, the third largest OPEC nation in the world, from the world’s biggest debtor nation. All construction project profits are unmonitorable, because when a project gets blown up by a terrorist bomb its impossible to determine if fraud occurred on the project. This scenario, which served the radical right faction’s private interests at great public expense furnished ample matter for public discontent, and helped increase the Republican administration disapproval ratings, which didn’t matter because Republican Bush Jr. couldn’t be re-elected and Republican Vice-Pres. (what a perfect title for a pun) Chenney has no further political aspirations after his company has taken all those billions from the United States, so the USA “staid the course” to the bitter end.

These two points the persecution of persons continued, for supposed reasons of security and which served to oppress society; and, the exploitive policies persisted, which undermined USA prosperity, while generating short term wealth for the radical right factional interests. The first measures conditioned society to acquiesce to the second. The propaganda for oppression centered around two basic endeavors that subverted the religion and liberty of the people they actively exploited, while pretending to govern, united with their other organized criminal activities that deserved to gain the radical right and its subordinate tyrants a just notoriety and would have except for their dominance of the media. And, it demonstrated their bent of soul, and the scheme of their policy which sacrificed the rights and prosperity of three nations for the exclusive benefit of the radical right faction’s interests. First, the effect of selfish self-love is the primary motivator for all human behavior is not exactly a shocking observation; but, it is surprising when a nation abandons its trust in reason in the form of its separation of powers doctrine, to a faction which has such a terrible record on issues relating to public malfeasance, prosperity and freedom. Consider the radical right factions record of involvement in the politics of terror in the Post Cold War Era (see previous issues) and the recent lethal waves of bombings in England, designed to support the faltering prospects of their faction’s puppet Prime Minister Blair’s regime. Also, consider the most recent contrived campaign about speed in the USA, which is used per usual as a pretense, just as its crack predecessor did, to justify policies based on slander, extortion, fraud and coercion and has repeatedly resulted in criminal acts involving morality and public safety and security of private property; where people are subliminally set up and encouraged to engage in high profile crimes like stealing, assault and battery, prostitution, perverting, rape, murder and all forms of child abuse. These abuses of power conducted with impunity are excused by a group of extremists (the radical right faction’s subordinate tyrants) attacking another extremist fringe (the speed freaks) and it utilizes that contrived scenario as a justification to reduce and/or eliminate essential social characteristics like Equality, Egalitarian Safeguards, Civil Rights and Liberty for the vast majority of mature citizens denying them the right to engage in a wide range of innocuous recreational behaviors in the pursuit of Happiness, like adults responsibly smoking pot in moderation. The contrived speed campaign, like its crack predecessor, is deliberately designed to establish a precedence to violate the axiom in human conduct that states people have the right to control their own lives. The fact is that the end objective for which our loving and just God put man on earth was to be Happy. And, with each person being a unique miracle of creation with no two individuals being exactly alike the only reasonable way to accomplish this is by freewill and self determination. However, liberty like all other behavior traits mankind manifests should be kept within a healthy moderate range, least it be pushed to injurious extremes and degenerate into harmful vice, like with liberty which becomes license when pushed to far; and, the best formulation of freedom in a social context is to place, what in Christianity is known as the Golden Mean, into this axiom of human conduct that a person has the inherent God given right to live their life in harmony with the nature of their being and pursuing Happiness to the extent that it does not directly prevent another person from doing the same thing - i.e. freely exercise their God given right to free will and self determination. The radical right contrives crises and creates extreme exceptions and abhorrent examples of excesses to try and justify the unjustifiable, and then they deceitfully don’t bother to inform other people about their active interference, which erroneously castes the blame for these events on their targeted scapegoat victims! The radical right contends that they have the exclusive right to hurt and destroy others, even when to do so acts against an individual’s wishes; but, a person doesn’t have the right to hurt them self. And, while personally I would hope and prefer that neither scenario would occur, doesn’t it seem to make more sense that its better for an individual to make a mistake and hurt them self where they at least have the potential to learn from the experience, than to give extremists the right to abuse the rights of others hurting and destroying like common criminals do; and, then, paying the radical right’s subordinate tyrants for the privilege of hurting and destroying their fellow citizens, it is inevitable that problems will occur: in fact that way is not just ludicrous, it guarantees trouble!

There are a few other considerations that need to be made about this current situation concerning speed. If meth labs spring into existence, they can not sell the speed unless either, they go through existing networks run by the radical right, or, they attempt to develop their own networks at which point they come to the attention of those who sell serious drugs like heroin, speed and crack, in other words the radical right with their monopoly and they are caught. The fact remains that under existing circumstances no one can sell speed in the USA without the approval of the radical right, because of the vertical integration strategies they successfully employed, when they were functioning as middle men back in the 70’s and 80’s in the international heroin and cocaine trades. Further, to manufacture speed certain chemicals are necessary, anyone who purchases these without legitimate reasons why are easily identified and apprehended. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. What we are witnessing is a contrived situation designed to accomplish at least two things. First, distract the public from other issues like inadequate Health Care and Education, or the foolish attempt to privatize our Social Security System, or continued troop deployment in the Middle East and phony foreign wars. Second, it conditions society to be oppressed by tyranny, which is necessary if one wishes to steal from them: first one steals a society’s rights, and then, it steals their resources and money. The last thing to be noted is one of the central characteristics of tyranny is the capricious superimposition of its personal prejudices on a society, thus reshaping it after the ruling elite’s own interests and opinions. After all what good is power if it can not be used corruptly to increase personal wealth and to reshape society after their personal beliefs. The recent contrived speed campaign manifests all these characteristics. And, it deliberately employs ambiguous terms in an imprecise way like “drug” which means whatever the radical right wants, rather than accurately addressing a specific social situation, like the unfortunate human tragedy which addiction to speed represents.

Our fore fathers were animated with the spirit of independence and a love of Liberty. They established a representative government that was designed to protect an individual’s Civil Rights by separating power between the states and a national government. Then, they in their vigilance separated it again at the national and state levels, at the Federal level into three branches Executive, Congressional and Judicial, with the majority of power residing with the people. The radical right faction have manipulated the Federal government, they view it as a means of making money for a fortunate very wealthy few. But, our forefathers viewed government as a means of protecting private property, and Liberty, increasing public safety, and pursuing policies on issues that resolved problems to the benefit of all citizens. These are two diametrically opposite views of government. The radical right view has resulted in disastrous government out comes, which were accomplished by efforts to deliberately deceive the public. The view of government by our forefather resulted in a government that lasted through a wide variety of changing circumstances over 200 years and created the highest standards of living the world had ever known. Contrarily, the radical right has started four phony foreign wars, the Largest Debt in the history of the World, the world’s largest trade deficits and standards of living competitive with the Third World for 80 % of its citizens, in a regime based on vice and corruption in stead of a virtuous nation based on the love of freedom.

The violent and sanguinary persecutions by career criminals of the radical right faction who corruptly intend to advance their personal prospects by firmly establishing their personal prejudices as justification for their criminal activity, by elevating people’s passions to such a violent pitch through a campaign of atrocious acts that the radical right faction’s propaganda machine erroneously attributes to the scapegoat victims that no expedient but an absolutist response immediately applied by radical right extremist elements engaging in sadistic torture and genocide should be regarded as a sufficient response. It must be noted that this extreme, irrational, emotional, response deliberately based on lies is more than regrettable, it’s the chief tragedy of our time that has resulted in the spilling of rivers of innocent blood; in a misguided attack that ultimately was directed at our Democratic government, Civil Rights, Liberties and Religion; and, practiced in such precipitous fashion that to be accused was to be tried and convicted, and executed without the benefit of due process and presumed innocent safe guards against mistakes and miscarriages of law and order, on insufficient evidence that would have been disallowed in any legitimate court of law. The radical right faction profit motive to generate more victims and practice of employing individuals habituated to unnatural appetites that require a steady supply of victims to satisfy meant operations where systematically carried out which must be interpreted to the everlasting disrepute of any and all participants; and affected in ways that served to pervert our nations religions, while attempting to deny the solace of religion to the targeted victims. I wish that the virtue and honor of my country where held inviolate and remained in tact, and that the extremist persecutions on behalf of the radical right faction and much more on account of the politics of terror, which caused both heroic and base blood to be needlessly spilt at home and abroad, could be expunged from the record of history. But, there are greater reasons for wanting that wiser heads had prevailed at this time and directed toward protecting with equal enthusiasm religion, Democracy and Liberty. People were deluded into believing that these persecutions could be inflicted on society with impunity; and, impoverishes the nation morally and economically leaving us with greater problems and fewer resources to resolve them, and our increased ignorance alone results in poorer productivity, less wealth and a population whose collective ignorance directly impairs its ability to improve our nation’s performance on a variety of fronts. Now in this the nation was deceived; and, it must be suspected deliberately by the radical right faction who was the only entity with the ways means and motive. The radical right faction’s political pawns the Republican Party, which had demonstrated neither moral character nor even mediocre discernment on previous occasions was incompetent here, too; and, the consequences of pursuing policies in this manner where giving them opportunity to bankrupt the country, destroy Democracy, ruin the world’s largest consumer driven market and oppress its people by ever increasing poverty, ignorance and persecution. The final effect being to provide the radical right faction with greater absolute power than any entity ever experienced before in pursuit of tyrant’s oldest chimera: world domination.

As soon as the Republican Bush Jr. administration had received, by a campaign of lies (see issue on British government memorandums) a plausible pretence the phony threat of weapons of mass destruction the Democratic Party’s just opposition to an illegal unaffordable war could be ignored, because the nation based on separation of powers no longer existed. A Democratic national government must rest on the consent of the people. It must be built on principles of common interests. It can’t be forged and sustained on particular bigoted biases, any more than it can, or should be directed toward the specific factional interests of any particular group of people whosoever. A government thus constituted is improperly called a Democracy. Its nothing but the packaged presentation of actions pursued that are the discourse and conduct of a particular powerful set of people. Without institutional restraints it will eventually prevail in all political struggles in the fullness of time, as long as our Constitution continues to exist; and, nothing is easier to demonstrate than this contention, that whenever a faction’s political party (Republican Party) establishes ascendancy and experiences difficulties in prevailing our Constitution is in danger; and, when they find it impossible, our Constitution is either ignored or thwarted, or usurped and altered. The radical right faction’s political pawn the Republican Party first, cheated , when they declared themselves to have won the Presidential election in Florida, and made Bush Jr. the acting President; and, then they again cheated in critical elections in the subsequent Presidential election, transferring thousands of votes; and, finally they mugged the political process with massive amounts of money and they improperly used the media covering news stories and the election to favor their factions candidate the Republican incumbent, which championed the largest debt in the history of the world, the world’s largest trade deficits, four phony foreign wars, 100% increase in fuel bills, standards of living shrinking towards Third World levels, job flight, tens of millions more uninsured, under funded education, the worst health care in the industrial world, and a Social Security scheme implemented that robs significant numbers of people of the use of their money, their retirement and finally eventually even their money, not to mention the inevitable future stock market crashes that will occur. This merely highlights a few items that the Republican Party sponsored, in a record of incompetence and avarice, which they imposed on the American people by deliberately systematically lying to the public. And, established a government where the radical right faction’s Republican Party dominates all three branches of Federal government, thus altering the clear intent of the Constitution, in a way that subjects US citizens to the abuse of power. It should be stated that whenever the prejudices and interests of a dominant faction prevails, the broad based continuum that is the essence of national parties, is destroyed, and after a convenient transitional period where its façade is sustained, its very appearance will be abandoned, as a needless expense. Under this scenario, every person will align themselves to the organization which they previously were affiliated, to which their interests and inclinations are attracted, and/or, the organization that attracts them the most; and, the largest group of people hovering around 50% will participate by not participating, they’ll be deliberately isolated by the ruling faction and programmed to feel apathetic and they will be lead to believe that attempts to organize are futile; and, the non-displaced alternatives of dissent will be ruthlessly attacked. Welcome to the “new” totalitarian order!

Such a tragic destruction of our country’s two party system is being brought about in the Post Cold War Era, which is evolving into a dominant one party system, with the passions of the public programmed to reflect the particular interests and prejudices of the ruling power elite; and, by the manipulative ploys of the politics of terror, which leaves society feeling isolated and besieged, as though caught in a relentlessly squeezing vice whose jaws are the champions of law and order the radical right faction’s conservative government and its adversary the foul advocates of destructive freedom the terrorists, who are recruited, organized and funded by the radical right faction, too. The oppressive measures employed by the subordinate tyrants, the career criminals now involved in organized crime that the populist movement has degenerated into and who manipulate the general population, by persecuting targeted scapegoats subjecting them to coercion, extortion and fraud. The dissolution of Democratic government, while carefully maintaining its convenient false Democratic façade, brings us into contrived danger; and, ironically, we’re supposed to look for safety to the very dishonest elements who’ve created the contrived threat, which serves the radical right faction for a motive to extend additional needless industrial-military profits. And, society is stuck oppressed by an obsolete factional system burdened by countless dislocations, perturbations and inefficiencies. It is hoped the country can reverse its retrograded motion in time to avert a protracted period of extreme moral and economic danger and eventual collapse, with all the destruction and dysfunction inherent in that alternative. If this extreme danger can be correctly identified and recognized before we degenerate to critical levels of vice and corruption, such a collective experience might be able to demonstrate to today’s current participants that regardless of how opposite their positions and experiences are, they actually differ greater still on negative than positive principles. Further, that they perceived each other in a false perspective for the most part as a result of self-serving, self-delusions and irrational responses of chimerical hate and fear generated from models of social oppression they were programmed with, and they’d been fighting phantoms conjured to create and sustain artificial divisions between members of society, rather than real people. Experience hasn’t realized this happy alternative to date. The blind misguided momentum continues, as does the destructive divisive radical right factional policies that are causing all the damage; besides, first we must try and re-establish a parity between the two major political parties built around broad based continuum constituencies, and the institutional integrity of our election system complete with a paper ballot trail, which is currently fraught with violations that abuse the system by those who are in dominant positions of power. Let us hope that this scene of tragic folly can be arrested through a process of education and enlightenment, recognizing that it will result in disappointments to the corrupt and vice ridden subordinate tyrants who financially benefit and satisfy unnatural desires and are presently busy planning future mischief, for those smarting from the unjust blows of past iniquities and who spoil for retribution, and finally the only others who benefit are the members of the power elite who fail to understand that superior alternatives already exist to the obsolete factional system. The radical right system of faction is a study of obsolescence, which like its historical antecedent the Southern slavery system is aggressively expansionistic to compensate for its inherent fatal flaws; its current success is built on a iniquitous foundation based on vice and corruption, and it continues because its all that its advocates know.