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ECONOMIC BRUTALITY AND THE "WHITE SHIRT AND TIE CODE/LINE OF SILENCE"
RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATE
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS THE LEAST PREFERRED CASE FOR LAWYERS
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SUED FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS EASY TO SEE BUT HARD TO PROVE IN OUR COURTS
THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA IS INSTITUTIONALIZED THROUGH FOUNDATIONS
THE NEW REVELATION; PARENTS HAVE AN EFFECT ON CHILD'S EDUCATION
RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATE
THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT MADE REAL( THE TYRANNY OF THE BOTTOM LINE)
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3. JUVENILE JUSTICE IS THE FINAL SOLUTIONDepartment of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) training session some where in Florida;"Good morning, welcome to the (DJJ) training for Quality Assessment (QA). This is our Juvenile Justice Industry. How many here today operate a Private DJJ Company/Center funded by DJJ. Good, I see that there are nine out of ten providers here today who represent private business. This is the fastest growing industry in Florida today! Let me share with you a few facts about our industry as it is represented here in Florida.First, Florida has approximately 1.3 million children in its schools today. This ranks fourth in the nation behind Texas, California and New York. There are approximately 105,000 juveniles between 10 and 17 years old served by Florida's "Juvenile Justice Industry" and it will increase by about 25 percent in the next five years. This amounts to about 25,000 more clients! Florida has transferred more than 5,000 juveniles to adult prisons. This is more than all 49 states combined. The budget for The Department of Juvenile Justice Program budget is approximately $500,000,000 dollars and it is expected that this will increase by $100,000,000 next year, that is if the republicans continue to control the legislature. With the dissolution of social services as HRS and the placing of these services in the DJJ the primary mission/emphasis/resources have been re-directed to apprehension incarceration and punishment for public safety. Education and Rehabilitation is number twelve and thirteen in the list of DJJ standards. This is our multi million dollar business. If the raw materials for our business, juvenile offenders began to decrease the threshold for offenses resulting in detention can be lowered to less serious infractions. Yes, Our business is sound and growing. Now when we go to review our centers we must avoid looking like a Gestapo, although we are that of a sort (as he stood with his right arm raised in a Nazi salute)" Is not this something the world has seen and heard before?A yellow badge was issued by the Nazis to Jews for identification during the rise of the German Third Reich. For the greater number of inmates in the DJJ the innate badge of "color", Black serves this purpose and it is cheaper. Administration streaming was the skill of the infamous Herman Goring the Gestapo Officer who organized the bureaucracy to handle the Jews. Before this there were many offices that handled such things as social services, deportation, incarceration, and control. This made it a long and cumbersome process until Goring.At first the Jewish children were taken away from their parents for re-education and indoctrination. The adults were taken to various detention center for other things, even social services. this evolved into a system and process of apprehension, and incarceration. There was a process of individual administration of death to Jews, single hangings and so forth. After this was done long enough to desensitize the public a larger number of Jews were put to death by firing squads. This was again was carried out long enough to desensitize the public. Then came the "Final Solution." The death camps were fitted with gas chambers for mass killing and the crematoria's were built. This was the death industry of the Nazi era.Some Jews were even provided positions in this industry. The concentration of Jews in the Warsaw Ghettos came with the apportionment of a Jew to serve as the Mayor, straw boss. They were given privileges to keep the Nazis informed and keep the Jews in place. This is not to unlike the Juvenile Justice Industry here in Florida. Is there not a head Black in charge of this growing industry of putting and keeping moistly Black youths under lock and key?Then here in Florida, USA there is the ingenious twist of the inclusion of "Private for-profit Companies" in this industry. Truly an American innovation to an old "Final Solution." In these times of high emotions in the aftermath of the Purduca, Kentucky and Jonesboro, Arkansas tragedies, maybe we should look to calmer heads. Do we really want to kill our children? Do we want the insanity of a "Final Solution?" We certainly cannot long endure under the heels of short sighted politically expedient solutions.It is unfortunate to see that unwitting whites and Blacks who are looking for jobs who (bubbers, sambos, and Ms. Jane's) are becoming dupes of a squeaky clean, hygienic, social policy of a Final Solution to the problem Blacks and other perceived social out-casts. I too am looking at this good money and need the income provided by my consultant services.The Florida electric chair, lovingly called, "Old Sparky" has desensitized the public enough to accept the smell of the burning flesh of crematoriums. Florida is recently putting a female to death. A white female at that. People are gathering outside to support and view what they can of the killing being held at Starke. Is not then a short walk to the killing of the "Final Solution"; the gas chambers may not be far behind.This is very scary, but very true; and upon my word, I do know that truth will bring anger and punishment. In the worst case they shoot the messenger!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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4. AMERICA AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS IS JUST A PLAYGROUND (1997)It seems to old Frank(ly) that the whole political spectrum of governments, as America may see it, is but a child's run on the playground. I will provide this model as developed by "Sandsspur Tarven and Research Institute," located in Winter Park, Florida, with a Frank(ly) twist.In a playground run by liberal or moderate principals and teachers the children are supervised lightly, recognizing that some children will dominate others, but that no children should be abusively bullied or denied access to the playground and its activities. Sense the Black children are disadvantaged and a protected group they must be provided equality under special regulations in swings set-asides for their cut of equality.Socialism is illustrated by heavy-handed teacher intervention. Children have equality but little freedom-choice to play according to their whims. These interventionist teachers might, for example, prevent children from swinging on their stomachs, or from twisting the swings to their limit and letting it unwind with dizzying speed. Interventionist teachers are fanatics about equality and they make sure that every child gets exactly equal amount of time on each playground item weather they want it or not. Of course the result is that Freedom is sacrificed for the sake of equality and, since the freedom essential to fun is crushed, fun dwindles for everyone. Some Conservative will in an attempt to show up the Socialist set aside a "Character Playground" to provide a competitive atmosphere for the public playgrounds, saying that this competition will provide children and parents with a "better quality" playground!! But if there are Black children there are special rules for protected class because without this they will (may) be placed on the twisting swings even in the middle of its dizzy spiral, and placed frequently on their stomachs in the swings all acts are providing them equality.Just as destructive as the interventionist teacher system is the opposite extreme, promoted by conservatives: the lissez-faire teacher system Conservatives want the teachers to abandon the playground entirely so that the children can control everything. In such a circumstance, the biggest kids (representing wealthy big shots and the politicians who serve them) take over the playground for themselves by bulling and in intimidating everyone else. The result is a kind of "Lord or the Flies" scenario with playground bullies (tobacco executives and oil barons, greedy bond traders) getting away with murder since there is no teacher supervision whatsoever. There are no standards or guide lines for playground and equipment safety. There are minority bully sat-asides of playground equipment such as, yes, the monkey bars!! A bully takes the swings, one the see saws, another the slides, etc. The bullies take the children's lunch money as payment for the use of all equipment. The big kids who take over these things and all the fun things on the playground have a ball while the other kids get the shaft. The white bullies accuse the Blacks children of taking the swings and other fun things thus denying the white children of time on the Play things (Blacks are accused of taking jobs from whites in affirmative action) and the white children attack them leaving the bullies to sit on the spoils unmolested. In fact the bullies become admired by all for their ability to exploit the other children and all provide the bullies honor and respect!!Frank(ly) Speaking, it seems that no matter what political playground scenario America may see, Blacks are inevitability assigned hell!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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5. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATEIt was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.BACK TO THE TOP |
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6. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS ACCOMPLISHMENT BLINDDuring the sixties I attended college with Clyde Foster, who later became the first mayor of a city in Alabama sense reconstruction. While in college we pledged Omega together. Clyde would always say to me, " The white man says you are his Nigger, and when you get bigger you will be my bigger nigger; and when you get a Ph.D. you will be my bigger ,Ph.D. nigger; you will never be too big to be my nigger."At the time I took it as a brotherhood playful thing. But when I got fully grown and had my Ph.D. I found this to be essentially true. However, there was one more condition that a Black could achieve and still be just another nigger to white people. There was Mr. Walter McCoy, who is only one of two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the Great State of Florida. While working at the Department of Education He was treated with some great discrimination. So the saying must go, "You are my nigger; and when you get bigger, a Ph.D. or a Gold metal from the Olympics you will be my bigger, Ph.D., Gold metal winning nigger." That is truly the way brother McCoy was treated by the present Department of Education.Mr. Walter McCoy, who is one of only two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the State of Florida filed a complaint of discrimination against the Florida Department of Education nin1994. Mr. McCoy was hired by the Betty Castor, Commissioner of Education to carry out some minority teacher recruiting and provide a role model for children. He has received many compliments for his work in this area.In 1994, Mr. McCoy was one of a group of nine other Blacks who enter into a combined complaint of discrimination based on race against the Department of Education. McCoy held a Career Service position with the Florida Department of Education in 1992, however, he learned that his position had been "cut" from the budget later that year during a change in administration to that of Mr. Frank T. Brogan.McCoy alleged that he was harassed, and retaliated against because of his race. He was assigned "menial" tasks which were not within he position description to humiliate him and force him to resign. He was never paid at the same rate of pay as his white counter parts. McCoy was finally released in 1995 under the claim that he was being down-sized, however, the very position which was claimed to be cut was refilled with a white employee.In 1997 in an attempt to have the court drop his claim the Department filed a Summary Judgment saying that he was never an employee of the Department although the records show that in deposition the department testified that he was an employee and was released in the down-sizing. In addition, McCoy was not allowed to testify in the trial of three Blacks, who were a part of this combined complaint. The reason given is that his accomplishment as an Olympic Gold Metal Winner would un-dolly prejudice the jury. He was dismissed with testifying.The complaints in this case included; 1. Being kicked in the behind by a white supervisor. 2. Being paid as much as $10,000.00 a year less than comparable white staff. 3. Being called "jungle bunnies" and other racial slurs including the "N" word. 4. All Blacks in the Bureau being placed in an all Black suite of the building. 5. Being "down-sized" while the position being "down-sized" was subsequently filled by a white person. 6. Dispread promotions. 6. more.Sources say that the Olympic Committee has been contacted and is interested in representing McCoy in this litigation. In the mean time negations are being conducted between the department in Mr. McCoy of a out-of-court settlement.BACK TO THE TOP |
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7. ECONOMIC AND PLANET WELFARE CAN BOTH BE ACHIEVEDWe must all be aware at this time of the world wide interest in the prospect of global warming caused by the "hot house" gases labeled Carbon dioxide. As I recall in grade school we had a project in science to set up a "terrarium." this closed ecological system we placed animals and plants, Plants to generate oxygen through photosynthesis for the animals and animals to generate carbon dioxide for the plants. The temperature was critical and did in fact increase in relation to the amount of Carbon dioxide in this closed battle. A simple childish experiment but a simple one to record.In the real world the carbon dioxide/hot house gases are produced by our consumption economy based on energy. This energy is the burning of fuels, fossil fuels in large qualities. In this Economy the more it grows the higher the energy consumption, that is if you are not conscious enough to consider that energy efficiency can be a part of economy-profit growth and increased standards of living. In America, the greatest economy in the present day world the amount of Carbon dioxide emitted has been reported as approximately 108 million tons per year. The U. S. has approximately 250 million people as compared to approximately one billion in China alone. If you calculate the amount of Carbon dioxide which would be emitted by Chain in relation to their population and if this countries standard of living equaled that of the U. S., this would mean that approximately four times as much hot house gases would be released in the atmosphere each year. This would amount to approximately 432 tons if carbon dioxide per year. When India and other third world countries reach the living standard of the U.S. you can probably add another 400 to 500 tons of carbon dioxide per year.What is so scary are the pundits such as Kovac of CNN, William Buckley, and the syndicated columnist as George Will, who all "po po" the prediction of the consequences of a global warming. It seems that these so called "educated" "talking heads" have too much education in a too limited spectrum and too little of a general education.I can just vision the after event of a global warming with George Will, Kovac, and Buckley all crouched in an under ground cave, clutching their money box while in the corner is a twenty foot virus mutant with a napkin under its mouth, looking at them hungrily. The three sit on their money boxes ready to fight this mutant product of a consumption economy which brought them to this sorry condition. In the moments between protecting their booty, they recall the off handed way they debated the destruction of the world above their new dark hole. Will recalls the interview where he so arrogantly debated that this was just another scare, and that "scientist" said that there would be another ice age, that chicken little said that the sky was falling, that the little boy cried wolf, and there was not a dimes worth of difference between these children's tails and scientists.But scientist have allowed themselves to be pushed into a strange position of "media science" where the observations of good science is over shadowed by the proof of hypothesis in a public relation media salesmanship where truth is a condition of public belief not scientific fact.Until there is a balance between the narrow vision of the "profit of business as usual" and a change in resource consumption and human standard of living there will be the specter of a wealth and color blind disaster!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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8. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS THE LEAST PREFERRED CASE FOR LAWYERS (1997)There have been many recent articles about discrimination against protected groups in the work place. It is obvious that the whole process of obtaining regress for such occurrences is ineffective and cumbersome.On Sunday October 26, 1997 an article in the Tallahassee Democrat described problems in the Florida Commission on Human Relations (FCHR). This is the first agency that you would use in filling a complaint for violations of your rights. in Equal Opportunity in Employment. The article recorded the fact that getting your complaint even recorded in this agency is a doubtful process. If this agency does not perform its duty the next step of filing with the Federal Equal Opportunity in Employment Commission if it is either delayed or denied. It is reported that over ninety percent of complaints coming to the FCHR are either dismissed out of hand or settled in favor of the agency. So the obstacles to justice for the harmed starts here in an agency where facilitation should start.If by some miracle you get through this agency with your complaint still intact, the problem of finding a lawyer who will take your case starts. It had been my experience that very few lawyers will even consider taking a case in racial discrimination. It is found that lawyers have a definite preference in terms of case they will take on. First, they would rather take a case involving reverse discrimination, followed by sex discrimination and as a last resort racial discrimination cases.Why do racial discrimination cases receive low priority? As I understand it, in the fraternity or sorority of law people -- a lawyer who takes racial discrimination cases becomes an outcast among his or her peers. Even Black lawyers run for the hills when asked to take cases in racial discrimination. If you are lucky and get a lawyer, then there is the problem of getting a dedicated lawyer. One who will treat you with some degree of dignity. The common experience is that in racial discrimination cases your own lawyer will treat you as if you work for them. You may go to see them and each time wonder if your lawyer will fire you today or if they will spend time enough to really understand your case.If you get through these insidious blockades, then there is the problem of getting a jury of your true peers. In the existing atmosphere where discrimination is tired subject, it has been trivialized and accepted as a sustainable fact of American society. The records show that in the Northern U. S. Court District only one or two cases on racial discrimination have been found in favor of a black by a jury of their peers(?) in the last twenty years!!Consider these facts.If you prevail in court, the settlement of your relief is less than one third of the fees paid to the lawyers for the defense and the plaintiff!!You will suffer the day-in and day-out retaliation on your job because of your complaint. Although your fellow comrades in suffering will get such benefits as raises, privileges, and promotions from your efforts, you will get retribution and retaliations from both black and white alike. Blacks will come to you and say that they have been assigned to control and keep you quiet because you speak out on discrimination!! But in the next breath they will whisper I(we) are proud of you. We really have a problem. I wish I could fight like you. But I have a family and I cannot lose my job. They will send you information under your door and in your mail, in secrecy.Finally, you will find that even civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and Urban League will not want you, unless you win. Then they will want to share your time in the winner's circle!!. The Democratic and Republican party will not touch you.This unequal treatment has become more than discrimination. It is a question of Civil Liberties!! The penalties for committing these violations of Civil Liberties need to be that the institution should pay the financial penalty and the individual(s) pay with jail time. In addition, the laws must be revised to make the financial compensation favor the harmed/plaintiff(s). Further, there must be a complete public disclosure of all disbursed funds to the lawyers and plaintiffs. Presently, it is easy for lawyers for both sides to reach a no loss arrangement. This makes it questionable that a plaintiffs lawyer will be totally dedicated to winning a case.BACK TO THE TOP |
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9. THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM IS BIG BUSINESS!!! (1996)On September 23, 1994 I was driving back to Tallahassee, Florida on I-75. There was four trucks with over sized loads holding up the normal 65 MPH flow of traffic. These loads were large gray concrete four celled modules with sliding steel doors, in which there was a small closable metal window. After trying for some time to get around this convey I finally got to the front truck. There was the most alarming sign in this lead vehicle which said, " CELL MFGR'S LTD(Limited), THE FLORIDA SOLUTION, Leesburg , Florida, POD#4." What I was seeing was the manufacture of modular prison cells. This was Florida's solution to the mass production of jails to solve the problems of American society.On September 26, 1994 on TV, a Black man, Mr. Harry Singletary, Secretary of Corrections, in The Great State of Florida was giving an enthusiastic report on the ahead-of-schedule production of Jail Cells. He said in essence, " Florida is doing a fantastic job in getting ready to quickly incarcerate large numbers of prisoners (people) by using pre-manufactured modular jail cells. We are ahead of schedule. We therefore, need to accelerate the hiring of more officers and guards to take care of these inmates. The legislature must more ahead of schedule and allocate us funds for personal for the Criminal Justice Industry." Or something to that effect.The possibilities and prospects of fostering this idea and creating the massive industry of building modular prison cells at a rate many time faster than on-the-site construction is staggering. That means that the U. S. has found the answer to getting not only the dangerous criminals of the streets, but this creates the opportunity and means to expand incarceration to other minor offenders and inconveniences; jay walkers, litters, those who do not know political incorrectness, Chinks, Japs, Niggers, Jews!!! Well - maybe not Jews.The inertia of this industry fueled by the manufacturers, the officers, the guards, the administrators the suppliers of goods and services will be so massive that only a catastrophe event could turn it around. Let us look at England.England the cradle of capitalism and the genesis of the manifestation of the society of the many very , very poor, the few very, very rich, the breeding of petty thieves, the alienated , the poor houses, and yes, the process of sending the excess/surplus population to " uncivilized' territories of Hawaii, Australia, South America, North America, South Africa ... the penal colonies as Devil island!! But sense there are no more far off uninhibited places to send those outside the economic and social structure of our America, we must find an in house solution , to our societies problems jails, jails and more jails, or the final solution ... death camps. Blacks will be fighting for the positions of employment created in formation of the instruments of the final solution. They will be "Team Players!!!"BACK TO THE TOP |
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10. TOBACCO THE EVIL EMPIRE/INDUSTRY (August 22, 1997)Would you believe that evil industry/empire, Tobacco has been allowed to continue to produce it's proven and admitted agent of death? This is the most incredible example of how trivial our social/economic system has become when the lives of citizens can be bargained against the ;lost of capital($) to an industry!!This bargaining with the Tobacco industry by balancing the lives of citizens is the same as bargaining with the Nazi's industry of concentration camps which were killing Jews by the millions and saying that if you cut down on the number of Jews you kill over the years you can continue to carry on the industry of death.The Tobacco industry is being allowed to continue to produce their product of death if they just pay something for their past killings and cut back on the 400,000 people per year they are presently kill from tobacco related problems.Over the last 50 years at the rate of 400,000 deaths per year Tobacco has killed approximately 20,000,000 people in the U. S. alone!! This is a true holocaust greater than Germany committed against the Jews and the holocaust against the blacks during slavery combined. Don't you think that a world wide tribunal should be held to bring these death merchants to justice? They are no more than international criminals.If this "deal" to change their action in America is not sad enough, the Tobacco industry is fighting to maintain their unrestricted activities in China and all other nations outside the U. S.Any deal that leaves Tobacco in business is intellectually incomprehensible and morally indefensible !!BACK TO THE TOP |
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11. THE ANATOMY OF UNEQUAL TREATMENT (1995)One of the greatest deterrents to racial and sexual justice (which is directly related to the success of institutions in the U. S.) is the "business as usual" practiced by the white, male, good ole boys, who by their accepted omnipotence see things in the nature of their "eminent domain" and "manifest destiny;" These good ole boys sit smiling, double talking, lying, condescending, patronizing, sneaking, and playing overly innocent on things of equality which effect the lives of people; They are continuing to do business as usual out of the sunshine, on the golf courses, in the bars, at closed board meetings Task Forces, Transition Teams etc. They either provide only lip service to the laws against discrimination as long as they do not have to pay (money) in any way for their heavy handed, matter of fact conduct of the public's business. At times they just ignore Blacks and women as if they did not exist!! They plan their conduct using the works of Adolph Hitler, Ross Lumbaugh, Eddy Amein, Bull Conner, the GIANTS of literature on social architecture. This load stone around the life's neck of society is the main reason that America's institutional initiatives in equality always fail.Although recently we have seen the few successes of such challenges to injustice in the Black FBI Agents Vs Denny's Restaurant case, the Davis Vs Proctor Pontiac case, the Black Employees Vs Shoney's Restaurant case, etc. where the violator of civil rights were made to pay. I can say from experience that the real reason that even Public Education Institutions are in trouble is because of the accepted negative way in which race, sex, and differentism is treated by the powerful to relegate the objective of educating to a place of failure.In The Great State of Florida the Institution of Education is a basitum of sexual and racial injustice. The State Education system must be dragged kicking and screaming to the bar of justice. They have never been seriously challenged to wipe out preoccupation with power to satisfy EGO, power for the sake of power, and for a sake of racial discrimination; Making them pay for these evil activities will be the only cure. If the state has to pay it will get rid of the good ole boy of the fiftyish ages or so for they are by their nature destroying the institution and more importantly costing money by their actions. Instead of working for good education they are day in and day out working on their own positions of power and the exercise of keeping women and Blacks in their place. They use the knowish tricks to rig the system; use the weak and Tomish Blacks as overseers to hold down any "Smart Niggers." Further some women who are trying to get ahead feel they must emulate the good ole boys in order to demonstrate their equal prowess. They pit emotions against emotions, instead of reason against reason, or fact against fact.How can this cycle be broken. There must be a consistent, intense, intelligent process of filling complaints against agencies on every case of harmful illegal discrimination and harassment. The relief for such activities must be payment in money for damages. If an agency or firm wishes to discriminate they must be prepared to pay for such privileges.BACK TO THE TOP |
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12. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SUED FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY (OCTOBER 1,1997)After over twenty years of problems in discrimination in The Florida State of Education in 1994 thirteen Blacks Dr. Rufus Ellis, Ms Vessie Felton-Joseph, Mr. William Pittman, Jr., Ms. Debra Crowell, Ms. Rosezetta Bobo, Ms. Shirley Webester, Ms. Linda Dukes, Mr. Norman McMillian, Ms. Valderine Grant, Dr. Baxter Wright, Mr. Walter McCoy, Ms. Margaret Jones and Dr. James A. Scruggs filed the history making first compliant against this department with the United States District Court Northern District of Florida Tallahassee Division. This discrimination was alleged to be systemic, continuous, and on-going. Further, records show that between 1978 and 1996 approximately 95% of all discrimination suits filled against the Department of Education were during the tenure of Commissioner of Education, Mr. Frank T. Borgan.After many pretrial hearings and many summary judgment which resulted in some of the plaintiffs being dropped from the case because of such things as missing deadlines for filling their complaints, the first of (which included three of the plaintiffs,) six trials was held the week of September 22-26, 1997 in Tallahassee, Florida.In September, 1994 Dr. Baxter Wright, a Black male was given a below average performance evaluation by a white female supervisor and subsequently released. Prior to this Dr. Wright had never received a below average performance evaluation in the many years he worked with the Department.In the late 1970's the minutes of the Equal opportunity Employment Committee recorded that a Black janitor reported that on the desk of the Department's personnel officer was two stacks of applications, one saying qualified applicants the other saying some more "nigger" applicants!!In December 1993, a Black male employee in the Graphic Arts Section, who was an outstanding employee of the Department of Education ( as rated by the Commissioner of education) was a victim of "Affirmative Action" when he was kicked in the buttocks by a white female supervisor. He was forced to leave the Department because of this racist act.The allegations by the plaintiffs in the first trial included:In 1991, a Mr. Pittman, a Black male applied for a position of "Liaison" between the State and The Federal Government. He received a letter thanking him for applying but the position had been filled by someone else. In 1995 while checking the "Personnel Action Forms," (which are forms that record the applicants for the position) he found that his name was never included in the applicant pool and therefore, he was never a part of the competition for the position. However, his name was placed on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office of "candidates considered" to demonstrate on paper that "Equal Opportunity in Employment" was followed. Further Mr. Pittman was paid as much as $10,000.00 per year less than whites employees in the same position for as many as 20 years. He was never appointed as "acting" for any position as were his white counter parts.In 1977, a survey of employees in the Bureau of Compensatory Education, Department of Education found that all Blacks receiving "outstanding" evaluations and receiving "merit" pay on the basis of these evaluations were evaluated by Black supervisors. Further, a suit against the department in 1979 resulted in getting all black employees off annual contracts and onto "Career Service" in the department. However, the part addressing pay and promotion equity was never carried out.Dr. Ellis alleged that a white female supervisor denied him Department benefits of training, ridiculed him, berated him in public and with his co-workers, and withheld critical information which would have assisted him in performing his duties. The tool of Performance Evaluation was used as an "Affirmative Action" to place Dr. Ellis on probation and promote the process of firing him. Ms. Felton-Joseph, who managed a statewide program for Homeless Children, alleged that she was; 1) denied an upgrades because of race while white persons have been provided upgrades without cause, 2) involuntarily moved to a location within the DOE where the majority of other blacks in the Bureau were located, 3) suffered retaliation from a whites supervisor by such things as getting low performance evaluations, 4) denied additionally personnel who were already funded and necessary to conduct the state's "Homeless Program," when funds were available denied a secretary which was funded to work for the states' "Homeless Program," and 5) denied reimbursement for approved travel associated with the duties of the program. Dr. Scruggs alleged; 1) that he was denied an interview for the Position of Administrator of The Office of Science Improvement where Mr. Jack Leppert, a white male was hired (who did not meet the minimum qualification and had no education or background in any field of science) although he was more qualified than other applicants, 2) The second time the position was advertised the Department took "Affirmative Action(s)" by bringing in Mr. Thomas Baird, another white male who was assigned the position of "Acting Administrator", to get the experience in the program and subsequently hire him permanently, again without providing Scruggs an interview. This Office hired only one Black, a secretary although this grant from the National Science Foundation required the written assurance that Blacks and minorities would be hired as a condition for receiving the funds!! 3) Scruggs alleged that he suffered retaliation from department employees both Black and white, who were told that he had to be controlled because of his out spoken activities about the treatment of Blacks in the Department. There were many times when terms such as "Jungle Bunnies" and "you people" were used to describe Blacks in his staff. 4) In 1988, it was found that in the process of filling a position of Director of The Prevention Center, "Affirmative Action" was taken when a white male applicant was interviewed and immediately placed on the interview committee to complete the interviews of the other applicants. This white male was given the position before the interviews were completed and allowed to participate as an official member of the interview team to finish the interviewing of the other applicants. The report to the "Equal Employment Opportunity Agency" recorded the distribution of candidates considered but never suggested that the out come of the selection was decided before the interviewing of candidates was completed. In 1988, it was found that the Department of Education was found to be taking "Affirmative Action" by placing the names of Blacks on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Agency to satisfy the ethnic distribution of who were applicants considered, as though Blacks had applied and were interviewed for positions. This was the way in which the "Affirmative Action" process was conducted, but only on paper. The relief for this violation of Department Rules and Procedures was that "the Department would train the staff to be better at filling positions." 5) In 1978, "Affirmative Actions" were taken to fill a position of Administrator , Adult and Community Education by appointing a white male to the position before the advertisement was closed and the interviews had been conducted. The name of this white male was printed in the new Department phone book before the interviews demonstrating that the decision was made in "Affirmative Action" haste.The States defense was essentially that all these things did occur; However, the whole thing was color natural. All these things did happen but at no time was color taken into account when decisions were made or actions were taken.In closing Attorney for the plaintiffs, Steve Andrews, " The Department wants you to believe that these are Oprah-watching, cheese ball-eating, unemployment-grubbing people who are not worthy of a judgment in this case... If you say to someone in America today, 'This black person has an attitude (as the department's attorneys were saying) I submit to you that it sends a message... people who complain about their treatment as black people have a bad attitude, but those who don't have the right attitude. "The attorney for the state, Harry Chills said, "None of the things they're talking about were based on skin color. There is a legitimate reason for everything they're complaining about... Scruggs simply finished second to a white applicant for the science education job, and Pittman's salary gap was due to differing duties and responsibilities..." Chiles further stated that although no black has ever been appointed as to a Acting" position by the Department of Education it had nothing to do with race.After a jury of six whites and two Blacks heard all these complaints and the rebuttal from both sides and after about five hours of deliberation, a verdict which found against the plaintiffs was brought to the court.The plaintiffs were so stunned after receiving the verdict that comments were few.Dr. Scruggs said that he was trying to understand this great justice system in America. It mat be the best in the world but sometime it is difficult to get it to work. He said further that although the state tried to make it seem that Doug Jamerson and Altha Manning, who were both Black state leaders had something to do with our problems this there is no truth in this. It was a Black white problem.Mr. Pittman and Ms. Joseph had no comments.BACK TO THE TOP |
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13. WEALTH/CAPITAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN GOVERNMENTS (September 26, 1997)It is evident today that "capital/money/wealth" is truly power. It is more powerful than governments and as exampled in the Tobacco we see that power/wealth corrupts. Historically power has passed from Kings-Queens-monarchs- and somewhere during the industrial revolution it passed to money. In addition, constructs as "anti monopoly" laws are poorly enforced allowing the concentration of vast wealth and control of resources to the hands of a very, very few.On April 4, 1997 a NBC news cast was reporting essentially that, " In Iraq power was passed from "capital" to the producers of food-farmers and other producers. It continued to observe, "This transfer of power has turned the system Up-side-down!!" But hold it, this powerful observation is true with one important change! This transfer of power has not turned the system up-side-down. It has turned things right-side-up. It is one of those rare occasions where a good thing happens and the world or part of the world turns right-side-up.Capital is truly the tyrant of the present day world. Governments are the shadow of wealth/capital. Wealth rules government. Observe how money bought elections in America in 1997. It is amazing that the world is essentially convinced that without "capital" nothing can be started or finished; and when a group of people, especially a third world country makes a try at self determination ignoring "capital" they are declared as out casts, communist, socialist, heretics, evil empires, up-side-down and overt activities are instituted to bring them into line. When in fact capital(ism) as practiced today is based on human greed, avarice, malice, doing as little as possible while gaining the highest returns. What is good for General Motors is good form the nation Further, with the courts and administrations more then any other time in our history refusing to enforce anti trust laws more and more capital is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. These mergers are making more powerful wealth with less accountability to national good. As England said when taking control of South Africa which was controlled by the ZULU, "we must destroy their social, economic, religious, and military institutions; and replace them with our institutions of capital and religion. They will loose even their ability to feed themselves without our guidance." Look at Zaire for a good example of how good this works.You might wonder why are there so many militia groups, the Texas Republic Separatists, the farmers mistrust of government, etc. There is a very simple answer. It is the fact of the tyrannical nature of "capital(s)" power as it influences government. It is without conscience or moral imperative. Wealth acting though the federal government is squeezing the many little people into submission or a fight. First, the government which is visible and easily identifiable and acting at the will of capital for increasing profit by for closing on small farms or allowing mergers of companies which clearly produces a monopoly. Government, therefore, is seen as the problem and thus becomes the object of attack by those who are trying to become part of the property/capital society. Capital is, 1) convincing the public that big government, which should keep business accountable, is a supreme violation of the civil rights of people and of course capital. 2) capital is needs only the controls of that natural phenomenon called "market forces/supply and demand." But today it is not accompanied with fair competition that keeps act ities fair, moral, and in line with human needs.Yes, Iraq may not be the most acceptable nation to use as an example of a right-side-up system of power and capital because of the baggage Saddum Hassan has brought. But if free world capital had not been withdrawn from this economy, I assure you that the western perceived norm of capital being all powerful and really right-side-up would not have this contrast anywhere. But as for us poor but educated (not enlightened) Americans citizens, wealth is all powerful; and if in our brief life times we wish to make it( as they say in the vernacular) we must worship at this alter even if we know in our hearts that it is a false and iniquitous god.BACK TO THE TOP |
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14. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS EASY TO SEE BUT HARD TO PROVE IN OUR COURTS (September 14, 1997)Recently the coverage of a racial discrimination trial reported by the Tallahassee Democrat made it very clear that, first, there has been a desensitization of the public feelings on racial discrimination, and secondly, Blacks have been forced to compete with sexual harassment and reverse discrimination for the most despaired treatment.In this Henry VS the Tallahassee Police Department it seems that Henry, who is a Black officer alleged that he had been discriminated against because of race. In the Tallahassee Democrat the testimony of witnesses for the plaintiff and the defendant were reported. It was remarkable to notice that the testimony of the Black witnesses were reported more briefly than that of the white witnesses for the Police Department. In fact it would seem from the reports that the Black witnesses were always painted with a suspicious blemishing brush. Their character was challenged and the fact that they may have had some "events of discrimination in their lives that made them bias against the Police Department." Further, the court ruled not to allow some documents which were reported to contain such racially negative language as "nigger" and "poach monkeys" into evidence because they would prejudice the jury. This may be peculiar seeing as how this is a case of alleged discrimination based on race. The six member jury consisted of five whites and one Black. On August 26, 1997 it was reported that the jury was dead locked and there was a mistrial. The paper did not say exactly who on the jury was the hold out(s) but it did report that the "lone" hold out was described by the chairman of the jury as a person who had not seen the same trail as the other five. Maybe this hold out was the lone Black juror? Oh my gosh an interview with this juror on TV reviled that he was the Black juror!!In any case this is a superior example of how desensitized whites have become on the subject of racial discrimination. This is particularly important to those who may seek "justice" in the counts. They must look for the fair and just from among their peers jurors), the fair and just in judges of the court, the fair, just and interested in their attorneys. These qualities are left to be wondered about when we see daily how attorneys for both plaintiff and defendant spend much effort trying to choose a jury of bias peers and in the case of racial discrimination a jury of white only where ever possible. A case of racial discrimination and/or mistreatment must be bazaar, cruel, heinous, and extraordinary for this cover of desensitization to be breached.For example, the case in New York City where a Black male Haitian was arrested, dragged into the toilet and sodomized with the handle of a toilet plunger. Even in this extreme treatment of a Black there seems to be no clear cut cry of "no never in America" from the white community. In fact there is the continual stream of rationalization coming from officials. Some say that this Haitian man was attacking the policeman with his "but" and they had to subdue him by subduing his attacking body part!!In the words of that giant in literature, Rodney King, Can't we all just learn to live together???BACK TO THE TOP |
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15. REMANUFACTURING NEW GINGRICH (September 9, 1997)It was a real miracle to see the notorious and invincible Newt Gingrich go from "king of the Hill "to "road kill!!" Newt developed a case of political halitosis and was out of juicy fruit gum. Now the engagement in his resurrection is frightening. It is because it just may work.Recently, we have seen the orchestrated conflict between Newt and the far, far right fringe of the Republican Party. This group is saying that Newt is not carrying their banner as high as they feel he should carry it. Then there was the staged conflict between a member of the party who was said to have been trying to unseat Newt as Speaker of the House. This made for media coverage where there had been none. Newt is even loosing weight in order to remake/change his image!! These activities are to many an indication that Newt may not be so far out in left field. But this author is more than a little suspicious that the right wing attack is staged only to push Newt more to the middle and acceptable political ground by not having him move but making the far right look even further out. I hope, no I know that the public will not be so easily fooled.The powerful media and a good public relation team has proven that it can hood wink the public easily so many times and again make an admired person out of a hypocrite! Like a snake in wolf's clothing, Newt is waiting to strike again. But we must be aware of the tale about the lady who found the beautiful snake which was in the road run over by passing automobiles. This snake was close to road kill, not to unalike Gingrich. The lady took this snake home and nursed it back to health. But as soon as it was well the lady found the snake to be cute, pressed it close to her loving breast and the snake viciously bit her. As she was slipping into unconsciousness she looked at the snake in some great surprise as the snake said, "you knew I was a snake when you took me home." Newt will surely bite again as soon as he is well. He has a contract on America.Let us not forget and by the way, when Newt's fine for ethics violations was paid by "Bob" Dole it was just another ploy/attempt to make Newt legitimate by association. Great move!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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16. DISCRIMINATION IN THE FLORIDA OF EDUCATIONAfter over twenty years of problems in
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17. THE THIRD WORLD WAR; THE ECONOMIC WARIt is obvious that the Third World War is
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18. CAN POLITICS STILL BUY BLACKS FOR VERY LITTLEI was reading in an article published by the Associated Press that The democratic and the republican parties are fast courting the Black in Florida. As I observed in subsequent article this year the Democratic party in it mis guided action of deposing legislator Willie Logan from the position of "Speaker Designee of the party has created the opportunity for the Black to declare its self an Independent Voter group. This has indeed become the case.Yes, Politics .... Politics .... politics .... Politics on my mind. Sort of like an old Negro blues song I used to know which went; whisky .... whisky .... whisky ,,,, whisky stays on my mind. It is intoxicating and corrupting.In Florida, "Buddy" Mackay picked Danztler for a running mate, Bush picked Brogan for a running mate. The position of Commissioner of Education as of July 8, 1998 has no candidate Democratic or Republican. It is opportunity; Opportunity for a change in education for Florida's children ( this is the moral imperative of it ). or Opportunity of a political nature.For the over all leadership which is at this time truly white and male, both parties have the opportunity to show diversity in a Black or/and a female. The Democrats have the opportunity of healing their loyal Black party members by running a Black, maybe even Willie Logan for Commissioner of Education. He was the start of all this trouble. He has name recognition, shows skill, and ability. Of course, he will be a choice between him, Willie and Representative Keith Arnold Democrat, Fort Myers and present candidate for Governor and has $500,000.00 to bring to the commissioner campaign. So Democrats are deliberating over the question, "are Black votes worth $500,000.00 or are the fish fries, barbecued pork, and church visits still good enough for Black voters.The republicans have only 1.5 % of Black registered with their party. Will they choose a Black as J. C. Watts or a Clarence Thomas or some like Black. No they will choose another white male Mr. Gallagher, the former Insurance Commissioner. Good name recognition. But will it help to get the 17% of the Black votes they say they need to win for sure.Democrats are in the position of trying to recover the most loyal democrats they had, Blacks. Have they concluded that, " Blacks have short memories and are easy to satisfy; therefore, you can insult Blacks early in an election year which will invigorate the 'Bubber' vote and near the end of the voting year provide Blacks gestures of "love" a fish fry, some barbecue pork, some cold water melon and a pat on the head??" If this were true and this made Blacks happy, it will play well for the "virtue" of democratic politicians, because in the words of Aristotle, " a political shows virtue went they make the citizens happy.. Although shallow and shorted this is the classic fulfillment of virtue, politics, and Platonic statesmanship. It as demonstrates that Black voters have been defined as immature, ignorant, and easily swayed by emotion instead of reason and analytical deductions.The Republicans have concluded that they need or can right now get at least 17 percent of the Black votes. However, they have, in my estimation concluded that such right wing republican issuers as School Vouchers, Schools of Choice and anti affirmative action are the issuers Blacks have misunderstood and will gladly join republican ranks as soon as their great white father explains it in a way they can understand. This is a real mis understanding of the intelligence of the Black voter and will in the end make their goal a more difficult to realize.Now there are two camps of Blacks who are jumping into this moving political water:First, there those Blacks who will give them anything they want knowing that this will be the quickest way to their personal ambition of getting a piece of the pie. They deliberately take the easy premises in a problem or issue ( usually the false premises ) so they will be loved and in the end come to the false conclusion ( the false conclusion) to be loved by the master. These Black will be seen in the image of the notorious Uncle Clarence Thomas, presently a Black member of the U.. Supreme Court. I have personally seen the efforts of republicans as they try to convince Blacks that they do not really see the "virtue" in the dissolution of such things as affirmative action and the sabotage of the present public school system using School Vouchers and School of Choice. It is sad that the present state of such public institutions as education and the mission of affirmative action has left it so vulnerable to attack. But alas, it is true; Public Education and affirmative action has not worked because of the behavior and attitudes of the people who run these initiatives; therefore, "lets not dissolve it" is hard to defend.Secondly, there are those Blacks who after seeing avarice, ignorance, lying etc. will take the chance, be the hero and choose virtue, good, truth, ethics, and moral imperatives and in the face of the great back-pressure of prevailing public opinion and political threats even from their own kind who want to continue to rule at the feet of their master, take the right path. In my opinion we must admire the second group of people!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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19. THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA IS INSTITUTIONALIZED THROUGH FOUNDATIONSSince Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, the right wing consisting, mainly of conservative Republicans have made a consecutive, dedicated, long-range effort to bring their agenda to a institutional reality. The conservative foundations have been a very large part of this effort.For example, these conservative foundations have grown profusely in number and have over three billion dollars in their budgets for activities. They have given profusely to state and regional organizations that are actively promoting a conservative philosophy/propaganda, developing public positions, perceptions, feeding information to policy makers with a conservative slant, and crafting and disseminating messages for media and public consumption.Today, over 100 conservative public policy institutes exist. In fact just recently a conservative foundation purchased property from Ronald Reagan for approximately six million dollars for the purpose of training young people to be good conservatives. This is reminiscent of the Nazis young camps in the thirties. They are closely linked through extensive support and communications networks. For example, the conservative or Rutherford Foundation is supporting the Paula Jones efforts against a perceived progressive president. Conservative foundations are supporting efforts to recruit, Blacks to carry the conservative agenda to their group. These Blacks such as Clearance Thomas, J. C. Watts the conservative Congressman from Oklahoma, the radio talk show host, Ken Hamble, Bernard, the Black member of the California Board of Reagents who helped to turn back Affirmative Action through Proposition 209, etc. are provided high visibility and frequent media opportunities, far in excess of that the progressive foundations provide progressive Blacks. It is said by conservatives that liberal or progressive foundations "don't have a really sharp political program that they are seriously pushing with funding. They are kind of bumbling along. But the neoconservatives are much more consciously , purposefully, and in a focused way, trying to advance ideas. Progressive foundations are seemingly timid and easily driven to cover."Conservative fund donors have also channeled resources to build "a media empire" that consists of national conservative policy journals, a network of right-wing student newspapers, according to a recent article in the publication "These Times." The support of such talk shows host as Oliver North is one prime example of success. Conservative corporate and other foundation funder's are in mark contrast to progressive funder's. Conservative approaches have focused on the building of over-arching institutions such as "Charter Schools," The Juvenile Justice Industry, and networks that link progressive constructs that redefine the other side ( progressive) by stringing liberal, public servants, progressive, in the same sentences with communist, bleeding hearts, pinko-s, homosexual, pathetic weaklings; and it has worked for the most part. If something is said often enough this subliminal message will become a part of the publics belief system.These conservation's have successfully blemished progressive/liberals to the extent that even the one time Black civil rights types and just pure opportunist are denying their historical stand on conscience and compassion for the under privileged to side with the Newt/Rush appeal to reasoning (?). You can see the example of these blacks, who are making their living as administrators of institutional "diversity" programs, administrators of programs for the disadvantaged such as Title 1, or Blacks generally in soft money positions of anti discrimination programs are saying such things as, " I'm not a liberal. These human service programs are old bleeding efforts. In fact I personally agree with the death penalty!!!" Even Blacks who are strong and intelligent enough to know better are driven to support conservative issues detrimental to their kind by the extreme pressure of the volume of conservative foundation money.BACK TO THE TOP |
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20. BLACKS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROFOUNDLY EFFECT CHANGEThe political parities seem to be ready for a dialogue on Black issuers, at least the democrats are as seen in their article in the Tallahassee, Democrat on June 29, 1998. Be assured that Black spokespersons for both parties will be sent for highly visible presentations on both sides. I would like to provide you with the predication that some Blacks will take the Uncle Clarence Thomas approach to their presentation which is the selfish abhorrent sighted road to personal pieces of silver and in contrast there will be those Blacks who will cease the moment and provide some real guidance to both Black and white listeners.The opportunist will come across essentially like this, " .... It is time to abandon this unsupported notion that racism and discrimination is not dead. The Affirmation Action camps are holding on to the long discredited notion that we as Blacks need the supports of unfair laws around preferences and special treatments to get what we already have in the land of the free and home of the brave .... I have to admit that I am appalled to record that my mother was mis lead when she took the ill conceived supports of welfare. I am ashamed to admit that I was admitted to the university by the way of that cruel program of Affirmative Action. .... It was my boot straps that I used to get what was already mine to take .... "Then in contrast Blacks of real vision will take this opportunity to respond to the occasion in the way The Honorable Alcee Hasting or Frederick Douglas would have. They will be truthful and respectful. It may have gone like this I do believe: " .... Let me start by saying that I am highly appreciative and completely overwhelmed by the great privilege you have provided me to speak before this honorable group. It is true that we in America share a common destiny. We are like a ship of sailors on a stormy sea. Being so pounded by the divine powers of our God of nature that we by this very potential tragedy and going down by the way of our sinking ship, we are bound to stay afloat together or going down together. We are face with the decision of the ship of fools who will succumb to their own individual prejudices and fight their fellow ship mates and in some great surprise go with certain death to a common watery grave. But there is this glimmer of hope The hope that our common attribute of good, sound, mental prowess, rise to the highest of human character and pull together and in the end sail our ship into a safe harbor.... That is our destiny today .... We must admit in the privacy of our hearts that we all have these terrible prejudices that if not admitted and ceased by our common sense will destroy us all .... We live in a country based on Ideals but run on power and prejudices .... This is our burden and our common challenged .... Yes, I am a party person, but more than that I am a rational, loyal American and a true Black human being .... All of which I accept and use to a common good...."The point is that a time in history is presently thrust upon us. If we join the wrong voice we will in fact become a party to our own assignation. When faced with a choice of rotten apples we must choose from a better barrel. Jesse Jackson recently choose well when he said this year he would establish a deferent choice from the look alike democratic and republican parties. Weather the leaders are politicians, sorority, fraternity, 100 Black men or women, 100 most powerful Black men or women in America, Ministers, or commoners our choice is clear we must be progressive, humanist, solders of civil rights, high character and seeking justice. That is our only intelligent destiny.And, please don't shoot the messenger, Please!!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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21. THE NEW REVELATION; PARENTS HAVE AN EFFECT ON CHILD'S EDUCATIONJust recently a report in the magazine "Money" reported that the most important part of a child's achievement in education was the parent! Now this is a big revelation. It may be of a greater surprise to report the study that found that all human children were born of human mothers , who are females. Further , it is of even a bigger surprise to report that day light hours are always accompanied by the fact that the part of the earth that is facing the sun - in the day light hours. Is it such a revelation that any one can conclude with a high degree of accuracy that if you put your hand into an open flame you will, one hundred percent of the time get a burn and a smell of cooked flesh, your own!! Maybe it is usual that the superior human intellect to be spent satirically documenting the facts that are so obvious to any normal human, who is willing and free of mind enough to use their five natural senses of hearing, sight, smell, feel, and taste accompanied with the rational mind.What dose this all mean,. Well to me it means that the tools of science when once learned by the simple minded are used in an exercise to show that they can prove the obvious and move old bones from one grave yard to another with ruffling the fathers of all the other simple minds that have proved the same thing for centuries. But even in intellectual circles if a person took the chance to disregard the foolish works of the colleagues that have gone before and make a try at disproving the garbage that has for generations kept the human spirit in bondage the whole intellectual world will pounce on this poor fool and soundly secure their destruction. But for the educator not to have known that the parent has a profound part in the child education even before this study, is a sin before God.BACK TO THE TOP |
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22. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATEIt was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.If you wish to comment please click on the e-mail belowBACK TO THE TOP |
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23. CLONING A BAD IDEA (August 14, 1997)In the week of February 28, 1997 a scientist announced that the process of cloning" was now a reality! They had successfully cloned a sheep. The following week another scientist in America announced that they also had successfully cloned a monkey. This is the most serious advent sense the atomic bomb! The week on August 9, 1997 an American scientist announced that they were patenting a process of cloning cattle. There are serious questions that immediately come to mind.First , it is obvious that we as humans have not advanced to the level that we can handle even the simplest questions on human morality. Our competence cannot even handle questions surrounding the present diversity of humans/citizens here on earth today.Now consider the day when scientist announce that humans have been crossed with a monkey in the same way as a donkey was crossed with a horse to produce a "mule." This can be done with the same animals because their chromosome counts are close; as are the chromosome counts of monkeys and humans. Will the offspring of a human and a monkey be called a "hule?" Further, will a "hule" be human enough to be treated as a human or will it be animal enough to be treated as an animal? What civil rights will this "hule" have?The religious community will have to face the profound question of whether a "hule" has a soul; and if it dies what kind of burial will it deserve?; and can it be buried in a white grave yard; or will this "hule be buried in a black grave yard?The business community will have to decide that if this "hule" has the same or similar physical dexterity and intellect as a human, can they work it as an animal or will they have to consider the rights of this "hule" the same as human rights. Will hules replace the third world countries cheap labor market?The military will have to be told if it can recruit a hule as a solder; and if so will they have to provide the same support as they give a human solder. Can a hule become an officer?We should not be surprised when the time is considered "right" an announcement in made that there has already been experiments that have produced this hule and human clones. Yes, I believe that some hot shot scientist has already conducted these experiments and the time is not yet "right" to present it to the public!!Then there is the question, "Is a hule breed from a black person as equal as a hule breed form a white person?" Do Blonde hules have more fun and are they more equal. Is it moral to use the hule as love toys? Should hules be allowed to marry?What will happen when the government patient office issues the first patent on the production of a hule? Who will get the first business rights to mass produce these hules?These are real questions of a very serious nature!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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24. AMERICA THE IDEAL AND THE CONTRADICTIONS (Posted April 2, 2002) INTRODUCTION "The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporation form were inherent in the citizen; and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life and, hence, to be borne with resignation. throughout the greater part of our history a different view prevailed. Although the value of this instrumentality in commerce and industry was fully recognized, incorporation for business was commonly denied long after it had been freely granted for religious, educational and charitable purposes. It was denied because of ear. Fear of encroachment upon the liberties and opportunities of the individual. Fear of the subjection of labor to capital. Fear of monopoly. Fear that the absorption of capital by corporations, and their perpetual life, might bring evils similar to those which attended mortmain. There was a sense of some insidious menace inherent in large aggregations of capital, particularly when held by corporations." Justice Brandeis, in Ligget vs. Lex ______________________ That American is a nation built on "ideals" that are expressed in its constitution but run on "power" is truly the classical contradiction. Many authors have observed that America has in its constitution a separation of powers into the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. This was to prevent of a "dictator" or "monarch" evolving over time. It is also said that the management of this democracy was planned to prevent a possible bureaucracy that could do anything that would have a sudden impact on American life. We can see that all these things have been effective in America so far. No matter how radical any "power group" or corporation becomes the first amendment makes it possible for those who get too far from the center, and the good of the people, can be brought down by any individual or group of individuals, These powerless people can exercise their right to freedom of speech and organize around the undesirable condition that power in bad faith has produced. Therefore, in good faith and with great reliability we can say "and this to shall past." The marrying of the executive branch with corporate profit , greed, and selfish power "shall too past" only if and only if "we the people" preserve and exercise our right under the powerful First Amendment, the freedom of speech!! Today, under a Republican president, who is a true pro-business, America has come once again to the place in our history where "money/power" is greater than elected government power. Michelle Goldberg in his article "18 Tales of Media Censorship (AlterNet.org, April 1, 2002) describes depth of the US government's regular and common involvement and cooperation with big corporations in committing high crimes and misdemeanors. In the book "Into the Buzzsaw" this collection of essays describe the roles of the CIA role in drug smuggling, lies perpetuated by the investigators of TWA flight 8, POW rotting in Vietnam, Korean war massacre, disenfranchisement of Black voters in Bushe's election government officials involvement in corporations as Enron, etc. So one can see that Enron is but a recently opened door to the Pandora's box of private corporate greed, and individual power brokers "run-a-muck!!" |
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25. CORPORATE AMERICA RUNNING AMUCK Enron has brought home a subject and observation that has been a taboo in American life. On January 31, 2002 CSPAN2 was hosting a call-in-show featuring magazine editors Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens, (Editor The Nation Magazine). In discussing the Enron fiasco they concluded openly that "Enron" and the "Mob" used the same tactics in caring out business. With the absence of a "moral code" even capitalism can RUN A-MUCK! Any corrupt institution is a bad institution whether it is a democracy, socialism, communism or an economic institution as capitalism. For example, both the "Mob" and some "Legitimate American Businesses" use the tactic of providing money to all open hands of politicians (,Huck Gutman, The Lessons of the Enron Debacle, Common Dreams .Thursday, February 7, 2002), judges, professionals (e.g. writers), media ( Richard Blow, Paid Off Top Journalists in Return for ... What?, TomPaine.comEnron, February 6, 2002) and foreign countries to get all involved in their sometimes criminal activities. The "Mob" called it bribes, while corporate American called it "contributions." The "Mob" and legitimate business, "Corporate America" as presently practiced, differ only in the fact that one is legitimized by the acceptance of the public-at-large and the other has been labeled illegitimate by those in public places. Even the act of terminating with malice is a part of both the "Mob" and "Corporations" at times. Both even make their "Bones." (Patrick Martin, The Strange and Convenient death of J. Clifford Baxter----- Enron executive found shot to death, News & Analysis: North America, January 28, 2002) Some so called "Legitimate Business" are like the Squirrel," it is just a rat with good PR." When you think about it, there is little difference between the tobacco companies and the poppy or cocaine cartels. Poppy and Cocaine is controlled by the "Mob" while tobacco is controlled by the legitimate corporations. Both are at times harmful and kill people. Jim Hougan (Uri Dowbenko, The DynCorp-government, Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business connection Online Journal, .March 20, 202) wrote in part, " Part One: Dirty Tricks, Inc. "As Jim Hougan wrote in his landmark book, "Spooks: The Haunting of America–The Private Use of Secret Agents," "With their cultural and career investments in upholding the stereotype of the Mafia as the vehicle of organized crime, the public and the press have generally failed to grasp the felonious nature of the outfit's WASP counterparts on the Big Board. Whereas some petty hoodlums put out contracts on individuals, the multinationals have begun to place contracts on entire countries (for example, ITT versus Chile). With that difference, their operational styles are similar: offshore laundries used to wash bribes paid in clandestine support of a sales effort designed to create and satisfy the potentially lethal addictions of their would be customers. Whether the product is heroin or Star fighter jets, the result is often the same: profits that corrupt and impoverish . . . In short it appears that some multinationals had evolved into genuinely criminal enterprises." (p. 441)" The death of J. Clifford Baxter, who was a whistle blower in the Enron fresco was the making of "Corporate Bones." It is reported to have been a suicide but there is reason to wonder what really happened (Mexico City Daily, February, 2002). The recent problems of Enron can be used as a typical example to compare Big Business with the so called "Mob." (Larry Chin Contributing Editor, Enron: Ultimate agent of the American empire Part I: Money to get power, power to protect money.—Motto of the Medici family, On-line Journal, 2002) Enron was an "energy broker" or if it was labeled the "Mob" it would be called an "energy Bookie!!!" The dissolution of Enron has focused the American public on a "go-to-jail" financial scandal, laden with all the "Mob" like elements. Enron is an American based company which is accompanied by a supporting cast from money laundering through banking, cooking books as underworld type accounting ( Anderson Accounting) and political collusion by elected officials bought with corporate money. This was done thorough a virtual piñata of corrupt practices and betrayed obligations to investors, taxpayers and voters The make up of the CEOs at Enron consisted of mostly middle aged, white men, who had known the act of real violence and war. In fact violence was their business and training. For example, Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was a Pentagon official during the Vietnam War. Frank Wisner, Jr. a board member, who facilitated Enron's most egregious violations overseas, ., has intimate CIA ties and is the son of former CIA Deputy Director Frank Wisner, Sr., who was present at the creation of the CIA. There has been at least 20 CIA agents on the payroll of Enron in the past eight years. (Kevin Lynch, Michael Hanranhan, and David Wright, February, 2002) . Strongly credible evidence alleges that the California "energy crisis" was entirely manufactured. Further, Enron is alleged to have had a strong hand in this "rip-off" of California citizens. (William Greider, Crime in the Suites , The Nation, January 28, 2002 ) Enron's territory (a MOB usage of this word) extended into many foreign countries. To mention a few there was the Argentina's public works minister to award Enron a contract to build a natural gas pipeline, there is the Iraqi oil, Kuwaiti oil, the companies natural gas pipeline on India's west coast in Maharashtra investment since India opened its economy, the Philippine National Power Corporation With the intelligence provided by the CIA and their company trainees, Enron was able to get billions of dollars in lucrative contracts in Asia, South America and Europe. They were even able to get detailed information through a satellite project called "Echelon" using the U. S, Governments resources in spy satellite systems. With this information Enron was able to pressure foreign governments through powerful figures in the U. S. Government. In fact it is alleged that, Vice President "Dick" Cheney assisted Enron in getting foreign contracts. The specifics of the relationship between Enron and the Bush Administration is common knowledge. There are 35 Bush administration officials holding Enron stock. In addition campaign contributions were made by Enron to the Bush campaign and to campaigns of bush's Energy Secretary and Attorney general to only mention a few. Further, Enron's Lindsey was used as Vice President Cheney's consultant in orchestrating and directing g U. S. energy policy. (Brian Ganter, "The hidden lesson of Enron", YellowTimes.ORG, February 12, 2002) The highest irony is that Enron's president and chief, Lawrence "Gerg" Whalley the week on the hearings, February 6, 2002 established a new Enron company under a Swiss investment bank's control called UBS Warburg Energy and will be began trading this month, February (Kristen Hays, Enron operation is reborn, Associated Press, February, 2002). In fact this new company will have all of Enron's old customers including the contacts and business with the U. S. Governmental Administration. So you see the actors in this criminal business has already determined that there will not be findings that will inhibit their "business as usual" in America!! In addition, the greatest American tragedy is that this Enron exposure will be represented as an "isolated" occurrence an "exception" in Corporate America behavior, (e.g. Exxon-Texaco, Wal Mart, Microsoft, Standard Oil, General Electric, McDonnell Douglas, etc.) when it is only the tip of a very large ice berg. This is the "common practice" in the U. S business and the contradiction to the fact that industry operates at "the pleasure of" and "for the welfare" of citizens instead of corporations running the nation. The tail is again wagging the dog. |
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26. INVESTIGATE THE RACKETEERING ENRONS OF AMERICA This media and congressional concentration on the CEO Anderson accounting is nothing but an effort to have the public loose it's focus on Enron's racketeering crimes against the public. The public is asked to see this as nothing more than bad records of accounting (A.F. Nariman, ''The Enron skeleton is buried six feet under the Bush White House'' Yellow Times, February 23, 2002). This provides the cover for the reality that big business as presently conducted in US has too much greed profiteering and illegal activities by most corporations today. It is tradition and common practice in an organization that when a problem is uncovered the company/organization picks one(a) person for a-fall-guy, blame all the sins of the agency on him or her, fires them or terminate them with malice and the company/agency goes on with business-as-usual. The problem with this issue with Enron is that the whole racketeering MO of industry in the US is in the danger of being exposed and it isn't a very pretty picture. The common practices of fraud, the amorality of deception and debauchery, greed, profiteering, money laundering, betrayal-of-the-public-trust and exploiting the Government is near the spot light. (The National ENQUIRER, February 26, 2002) This is not that an individual, who is a showing criminal behavior. It is a systemic conducting of business out side of the law or in questionable area where law enforcement fears to tread. (Uri Dowbenko, Part One: "Dirty Tricks, Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business inc., The DynCorp-government connection", Online Journal, March 20, 2002). The accomplice here is the normal accepted accounting system of this agency which allows the of hiding assets and deficits . The system deliberately does business with the intent of profiteering, bribing government, lying to investors, taking the inside track by CEOs are the greatest problem. The accounting firm(s) are also guilty and the accomplice of the Enrons, who are criminal in their activities. This is the same as a murderer killing and only the accomplice being convicted of a crime and going to jail. The supporting cast of elected officials we see setting on these congressional hearing panels are a sham and failing in their duty to protect the public which voted for them. (Nate Blakeslee, How Enron Did Texas, The Nation, March 4, 2002). They are not asking the hard questions that will bring these criminals to justice because they are the product of the money paid in bribes to place them in power positions in government. Therefore, the accounting firms are taking the heat, taking the fall so to speak. David Martin observed in part,( The Bird, Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression,:) Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
The present government along with and in cooperation with the corporate community seem to be using some or all these techniques to cover up the truth of today's Enrons in America! |
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27. THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT MADE REAL( THE TYRANNY OF THE BOTTOM LINE) Americans are facing one of the must critical times in it's history. The stage is set to determine the question of, "who really runs our government," Big Business/corporations or an elected government "of, for and by the people." Are the ideals of our democracy a reality or is the dilemma of corporate power the bottom line in the US? ` Countries such as Argentina have proved that when business is able to absolutely buy government absolutely "of, by, and for" the people changes quickly to "of, by, and for" the corporations/big business which sadly produces chaos followed by national disaster. This administration makes no bones about who it feels is the must important population to satisfy big business lead by oil. The shadow government of powerful money has always been accepted by the public at large as a contradicting democratic dilemma worth allowing in our political system. However, the balance of power of money becoming the "ideal and the reality" is being decided by the non-enforcement of the "laws against monopolies." These laws are called the "anti-trust laws."( Patrick Montin, Bush's Shadow Government, New York Times, March 5, 2002) G. W. has demonstrated that he feels that big business gaining great power and sole ownership of industries will only be a good for the people. But as we all see with the example of Enron, big business will run-a-muck if it is left on its own, un-regulated (Marjorie Kelly, Business Ethics, Enron and the Myths of Runaway Capitalism, Alternews.org, February 21, 2002). The profit motive and the bottom (Line) objective (Profit) will always serve the company and the individual (CEO) first and last. Another example of the activities that are today making corporations bigger and stronger may be seen in the communications industry.( By David DeGraw, ''Freedom and democracy under attack!" www.AmericanResurrection.com YellowTimes.org, March 09, 2002 ) In a corporate corruption case, a federal court, at the request of Fox News Corp, AOL Time Warner, GE, and Viacom, has provided a decision that could remove the last remaining regulations that prevent corporate conglomerates from monopolizing the American media and communication landscape. A group of cooperation which has become known as the communications Cartel" has bought off and influenced politicians and the Federal Communications Commission, and has been casting aside media ownership rules. The top two corporations in America Microsoft and Wal Mart holds in wealth approximately $195 billion, The top 52 corporations based in America holds wealth of approximately one half trillion dollars (Forbes magazine, The world's top billionaires, February, 2002 ). In a CSPAN program recently it was reported that off shore banks in the Caribbean holds approximately 3 trillion dollars from corporations based in America, on which no taxes are paid. The national debt of the U. S. is six trillion (Bureau of Public Debt), The gross national product is One point two trillion dollars (National Coordination Board) Corporations are already more powerful than elected officials of our government as recorded in the book "The Tyranny of the Bottom Line". If G. W. has by some chance read this book this is all the more reason that US citizens must know who are the names of the "Shadow Government" we here so much about. He has formalized the "Shadow Government. Has he made the until now undeclared "Shadow Government" of Big Business an official "Shadow Government?" |
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28. CONCLUSION (THE REAL WINNERS IN "THE WAR ON TERRORISM") Although it is not readily spoken the real situation in America and corporate power is essentially this. America has been a safe tranquil place for corporations to operate world wide. Corporations have been operating in the past in unsafe-countries to only exploit "natural Resources," get raw materials and then come back to a safe haven as America to use their manufacturing investment in the US to process the materials for sale world wide.. With "Globalization" corporations have come to locate major manufacturing tangible resources in unstable countries which brought with this relocation, the regular loss of such due to upheavals of a countries citizens. In the past these crisis to private corporations were handled by declaring war on a country based on business reasons (conflict) with a moral justification given the American public to get it to commit young men to go die as if it was "a just cause" and we were "on Gods side." In order to get an on-going police force based in the US and supported by US's allies, the undeclared-"War of Terrorism" was invented which is an unending-search for all groups who exercised destructive acts against negative private manufacturing investment activities in any country in the world. The "mercenary International Force" will protect all private facilities and suppress all activities by any oppressed group in any country under the label of "The War On Terrorism." This on-going flexible unfortunate war was immediately adjusted to be a means to support world exploitation by corporations holding tangible properties in all countries forever. It was brilliantly done by corporations which becomes the Shadow Government of all of the known world today!! This "Shadow Government" has always been the real promoter and the main profiteer of the "Manifest Destiny" doctrine. This is easily seen but explained only with a large number of words. The reading public, who is so saturated with misinformation and false foundations, will probably not want to understand this because it attacks too many views we as Americans have about the invulnerability of our Constitution. But if we realize that truth is only used as an agent of a moral person the lies we regularly hear are by those amoral persons, who are not bothered by the burden of conscience. But our public officials do not call them lies. They call them "not being forthcoming," and say anything as long as there is a fall back position with a "plausible deniability". We see these lies protected by these terms every day. We hear such lies as; Elvis Presley still lives, Columbus discovered America, The South won the civil war, Tobacco does not kill, FOX FNC is an unbiased news station, Bush won election 2,etc.. Lastly, the facts (truths) described in this article were gotten by using the resources of the open medium of the "World Wide Web (WWW)". It is obvious that today this the only reliable medium that is essentially free of the pressures to tell only the "Wag The Dog" war machine and corporate line these days!
THE POUNDING YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEAD IS A CONSERVATIVE MISSION TO IMMORTALIZE REAGAN!!! The pounding you are getting in the memorial of President Reagan’s death is not as spontaneous as Americans are programmed to think! In fact this is a well planned on going crusade to redefind and redirect American preception of some basic history and force these perceptions into the institutions of the educationl systems. It is the culmination of at least ten years of planning (CNN , interviews with PUSH, June 5, 2004). Yes, Nixon, Goldwater, Bush, all will be written American history by these dedicated conservatives to be the Greats in the presidents and leaders!Remember how acceptable the label of Liberal was in the near past. Now we see that Liberals will run for cover when a fellow American accuses them of being a Liberal. This is the successful outcome of the right wing conservative foundations and institutions efforts to redefine this trem. It joins the group of negative American phases as Damn Yankee, Communist Pigs, Pinkos, Socialist, Jap, etc. and now Those Old liberals, and Those Old Tax and Send Democrats!!! Just recently the label of Those Old Rag Heads was given to the Muslims. It may not be the right time to engauge in the debate of the reality of the legacy of President Reagan because it is the sensitive emotional moments of mouning. But the debate must take place for the good health of America. The good side of Reagan is overly execrated and presented by the workers of such people as The Heritage Foundation, Big Business (e.g. Exxon-Mobil, Cato Group, Halliburton’s’, etc.) The Goldwater Foundation, The Republican National Committee, Newt Gingrinch, etc. Therefore, here are some of the many things Reagan did that were not so flattering: “The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable for children‘s lunches, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt pardon for racial slurs. Getting cozy with Argentine fascist generals, tax credits for segregated schools, disinformation campaigns, "homeless by choice," Manuel Noriega, falling wages, the HUD scandal, air raids on Libya, "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa, United States Information Agency blacklists of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, the invasion of Grenada, assassination manuals, Nancy's astrologer. Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador. $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African-American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra. "Facts are stupid things (phase)," the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon. -MORE- (66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan David Corn, The Nation. June 6, 2004) It is recorded that, “Reagan's mythic 'likeability' and 'popularity' were manufactured and packaged by the corporate political machine in Washington, then sold to the public after the fact by a willing accomplice: the media. This article from 1989 exposes this myth - the same myth the media is pushing full-steam this week. FAIR: . . . In short, Reagan was one of the most UNPOPULAR presidents of the past 50 years! (http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0609-05.htm ), (David Corn, Reagan’s Bloody Legacy, http://www.Tompains.cvom/print/reagans_bloody_legacy.php, 6/9/2004)
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3. JUVENILE JUSTICE IS THE FINAL SOLUTIONDepartment of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) training session some where in Florida;"Good morning, welcome to the (DJJ) training for Quality Assessment (QA). This is our Juvenile Justice Industry. How many here today operate a Private DJJ Company/Center funded by DJJ. Good, I see that there are nine out of ten providers here today who represent private business. This is the fastest growing industry in Florida today! Let me share with you a few facts about our industry as it is represented here in Florida.First, Florida has approximately 1.3 million children in its schools today. This ranks fourth in the nation behind Texas, California and New York. There are approximately 105,000 juveniles between 10 and 17 years old served by Florida's "Juvenile Justice Industry" and it will increase by about 25 percent in the next five years. This amounts to about 25,000 more clients! Florida has transferred more than 5,000 juveniles to adult prisons. This is more than all 49 states combined. The budget for The Department of Juvenile Justice Program budget is approximately $500,000,000 dollars and it is expected that this will increase by $100,000,000 next year, that is if the republicans continue to control the legislature. With the dissolution of social services as HRS and the placing of these services in the DJJ the primary mission/emphasis/resources have been re-directed to apprehension incarceration and punishment for public safety. Education and Rehabilitation is number twelve and thirteen in the list of DJJ standards. This is our multi million dollar business. If the raw materials for our business, juvenile offenders began to decrease the threshold for offenses resulting in detention can be lowered to less serious infractions. Yes, Our business is sound and growing. Now when we go to review our centers we must avoid looking like a Gestapo, although we are that of a sort (as he stood with his right arm raised in a Nazi salute)" Is not this something the world has seen and heard before?A yellow badge was issued by the Nazis to Jews for identification during the rise of the German Third Reich. For the greater number of inmates in the DJJ the innate badge of "color", Black serves this purpose and it is cheaper. Administration streaming was the skill of the infamous Herman Goring the Gestapo Officer who organized the bureaucracy to handle the Jews. Before this there were many offices that handled such things as social services, deportation, incarceration, and control. This made it a long and cumbersome process until Goring.At first the Jewish children were taken away from their parents for re-education and indoctrination. The adults were taken to various detention center for other things, even social services. this evolved into a system and process of apprehension, and incarceration. There was a process of individual administration of death to Jews, single hangings and so forth. After this was done long enough to desensitize the public a larger number of Jews were put to death by firing squads. This was again was carried out long enough to desensitize the public. Then came the "Final Solution." The death camps were fitted with gas chambers for mass killing and the crematoria's were built. This was the death industry of the Nazi era.Some Jews were even provided positions in this industry. The concentration of Jews in the Warsaw Ghettos came with the apportionment of a Jew to serve as the Mayor, straw boss. They were given privileges to keep the Nazis informed and keep the Jews in place. This is not to unlike the Juvenile Justice Industry here in Florida. Is there not a head Black in charge of this growing industry of putting and keeping moistly Black youths under lock and key?Then here in Florida, USA there is the ingenious twist of the inclusion of "Private for-profit Companies" in this industry. Truly an American innovation to an old "Final Solution." In these times of high emotions in the aftermath of the Purduca, Kentucky and Jonesboro, Arkansas tragedies, maybe we should look to calmer heads. Do we really want to kill our children? Do we want the insanity of a "Final Solution?" We certainly cannot long endure under the heels of short sighted politically expedient solutions.It is unfortunate to see that unwitting whites and Blacks who are looking for jobs who (bubbers, sambos, and Ms. Jane's) are becoming dupes of a squeaky clean, hygienic, social policy of a Final Solution to the problem Blacks and other perceived social out-casts. I too am looking at this good money and need the income provided by my consultant services.The Florida electric chair, lovingly called, "Old Sparky" has desensitized the public enough to accept the smell of the burning flesh of crematoriums. Florida is recently putting a female to death. A white female at that. People are gathering outside to support and view what they can of the killing being held at Starke. Is not then a short walk to the killing of the "Final Solution"; the gas chambers may not be far behind.This is very scary, but very true; and upon my word, I do know that truth will bring anger and punishment. In the worst case they shoot the messenger!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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4. AMERICA AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS IS JUST A PLAYGROUND (1997)It seems to old Frank(ly) that the whole political spectrum of governments, as America may see it, is but a child's run on the playground. I will provide this model as developed by "Sandsspur Tarven and Research Institute," located in Winter Park, Florida, with a Frank(ly) twist.In a playground run by liberal or moderate principals and teachers the children are supervised lightly, recognizing that some children will dominate others, but that no children should be abusively bullied or denied access to the playground and its activities. Sense the Black children are disadvantaged and a protected group they must be provided equality under special regulations in swings set-asides for their cut of equality.Socialism is illustrated by heavy-handed teacher intervention. Children have equality but little freedom-choice to play according to their whims. These interventionist teachers might, for example, prevent children from swinging on their stomachs, or from twisting the swings to their limit and letting it unwind with dizzying speed. Interventionist teachers are fanatics about equality and they make sure that every child gets exactly equal amount of time on each playground item weather they want it or not. Of course the result is that Freedom is sacrificed for the sake of equality and, since the freedom essential to fun is crushed, fun dwindles for everyone. Some Conservative will in an attempt to show up the Socialist set aside a "Character Playground" to provide a competitive atmosphere for the public playgrounds, saying that this competition will provide children and parents with a "better quality" playground!! But if there are Black children there are special rules for protected class because without this they will (may) be placed on the twisting swings even in the middle of its dizzy spiral, and placed frequently on their stomachs in the swings all acts are providing them equality.Just as destructive as the interventionist teacher system is the opposite extreme, promoted by conservatives: the lissez-faire teacher system Conservatives want the teachers to abandon the playground entirely so that the children can control everything. In such a circumstance, the biggest kids (representing wealthy big shots and the politicians who serve them) take over the playground for themselves by bulling and in intimidating everyone else. The result is a kind of "Lord or the Flies" scenario with playground bullies (tobacco executives and oil barons, greedy bond traders) getting away with murder since there is no teacher supervision whatsoever. There are no standards or guide lines for playground and equipment safety. There are minority bully sat-asides of playground equipment such as, yes, the monkey bars!! A bully takes the swings, one the see saws, another the slides, etc. The bullies take the children's lunch money as payment for the use of all equipment. The big kids who take over these things and all the fun things on the playground have a ball while the other kids get the shaft. The white bullies accuse the Blacks children of taking the swings and other fun things thus denying the white children of time on the Play things (Blacks are accused of taking jobs from whites in affirmative action) and the white children attack them leaving the bullies to sit on the spoils unmolested. In fact the bullies become admired by all for their ability to exploit the other children and all provide the bullies honor and respect!!Frank(ly) Speaking, it seems that no matter what political playground scenario America may see, Blacks are inevitability assigned hell!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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5. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATEIt was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.BACK TO THE TOP |
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6. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS ACCOMPLISHMENT BLINDDuring the sixties I attended college with Clyde Foster, who later became the first mayor of a city in Alabama sense reconstruction. While in college we pledged Omega together. Clyde would always say to me, " The white man says you are his Nigger, and when you get bigger you will be my bigger nigger; and when you get a Ph.D. you will be my bigger ,Ph.D. nigger; you will never be too big to be my nigger."At the time I took it as a brotherhood playful thing. But when I got fully grown and had my Ph.D. I found this to be essentially true. However, there was one more condition that a Black could achieve and still be just another nigger to white people. There was Mr. Walter McCoy, who is only one of two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the Great State of Florida. While working at the Department of Education He was treated with some great discrimination. So the saying must go, "You are my nigger; and when you get bigger, a Ph.D. or a Gold metal from the Olympics you will be my bigger, Ph.D., Gold metal winning nigger." That is truly the way brother McCoy was treated by the present Department of Education.Mr. Walter McCoy, who is one of only two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the State of Florida filed a complaint of discrimination against the Florida Department of Education nin1994. Mr. McCoy was hired by the Betty Castor, Commissioner of Education to carry out some minority teacher recruiting and provide a role model for children. He has received many compliments for his work in this area.In 1994, Mr. McCoy was one of a group of nine other Blacks who enter into a combined complaint of discrimination based on race against the Department of Education. McCoy held a Career Service position with the Florida Department of Education in 1992, however, he learned that his position had been "cut" from the budget later that year during a change in administration to that of Mr. Frank T. Brogan.McCoy alleged that he was harassed, and retaliated against because of his race. He was assigned "menial" tasks which were not within he position description to humiliate him and force him to resign. He was never paid at the same rate of pay as his white counter parts. McCoy was finally released in 1995 under the claim that he was being down-sized, however, the very position which was claimed to be cut was refilled with a white employee.In 1997 in an attempt to have the court drop his claim the Department filed a Summary Judgment saying that he was never an employee of the Department although the records show that in deposition the department testified that he was an employee and was released in the down-sizing. In addition, McCoy was not allowed to testify in the trial of three Blacks, who were a part of this combined complaint. The reason given is that his accomplishment as an Olympic Gold Metal Winner would un-dolly prejudice the jury. He was dismissed with testifying.The complaints in this case included; 1. Being kicked in the behind by a white supervisor. 2. Being paid as much as $10,000.00 a year less than comparable white staff. 3. Being called "jungle bunnies" and other racial slurs including the "N" word. 4. All Blacks in the Bureau being placed in an all Black suite of the building. 5. Being "down-sized" while the position being "down-sized" was subsequently filled by a white person. 6. Dispread promotions. 6. more.Sources say that the Olympic Committee has been contacted and is interested in representing McCoy in this litigation. In the mean time negations are being conducted between the department in Mr. McCoy of a out-of-court settlement.BACK TO THE TOP |
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7. ECONOMIC AND PLANET WELFARE CAN BOTH BE ACHIEVEDWe must all be aware at this time of the world wide interest in the prospect of global warming caused by the "hot house" gases labeled Carbon dioxide. As I recall in grade school we had a project in science to set up a "terrarium." this closed ecological system we placed animals and plants, Plants to generate oxygen through photosynthesis for the animals and animals to generate carbon dioxide for the plants. The temperature was critical and did in fact increase in relation to the amount of Carbon dioxide in this closed battle. A simple childish experiment but a simple one to record.In the real world the carbon dioxide/hot house gases are produced by our consumption economy based on energy. This energy is the burning of fuels, fossil fuels in large qualities. In this Economy the more it grows the higher the energy consumption, that is if you are not conscious enough to consider that energy efficiency can be a part of economy-profit growth and increased standards of living. In America, the greatest economy in the present day world the amount of Carbon dioxide emitted has been reported as approximately 108 million tons per year. The U. S. has approximately 250 million people as compared to approximately one billion in China alone. If you calculate the amount of Carbon dioxide which would be emitted by Chain in relation to their population and if this countries standard of living equaled that of the U. S., this would mean that approximately four times as much hot house gases would be released in the atmosphere each year. This would amount to approximately 432 tons if carbon dioxide per year. When India and other third world countries reach the living standard of the U.S. you can probably add another 400 to 500 tons of carbon dioxide per year.What is so scary are the pundits such as Kovac of CNN, William Buckley, and the syndicated columnist as George Will, who all "po po" the prediction of the consequences of a global warming. It seems that these so called "educated" "talking heads" have too much education in a too limited spectrum and too little of a general education.I can just vision the after event of a global warming with George Will, Kovac, and Buckley all crouched in an under ground cave, clutching their money box while in the corner is a twenty foot virus mutant with a napkin under its mouth, looking at them hungrily. The three sit on their money boxes ready to fight this mutant product of a consumption economy which brought them to this sorry condition. In the moments between protecting their booty, they recall the off handed way they debated the destruction of the world above their new dark hole. Will recalls the interview where he so arrogantly debated that this was just another scare, and that "scientist" said that there would be another ice age, that chicken little said that the sky was falling, that the little boy cried wolf, and there was not a dimes worth of difference between these children's tails and scientists.But scientist have allowed themselves to be pushed into a strange position of "media science" where the observations of good science is over shadowed by the proof of hypothesis in a public relation media salesmanship where truth is a condition of public belief not scientific fact.Until there is a balance between the narrow vision of the "profit of business as usual" and a change in resource consumption and human standard of living there will be the specter of a wealth and color blind disaster!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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8. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS THE LEAST PREFERRED CASE FOR LAWYERS (1997)There have been many recent articles about discrimination against protected groups in the work place. It is obvious that the whole process of obtaining regress for such occurrences is ineffective and cumbersome.On Sunday October 26, 1997 an article in the Tallahassee Democrat described problems in the Florida Commission on Human Relations (FCHR). This is the first agency that you would use in filling a complaint for violations of your rights. in Equal Opportunity in Employment. The article recorded the fact that getting your complaint even recorded in this agency is a doubtful process. If this agency does not perform its duty the next step of filing with the Federal Equal Opportunity in Employment Commission if it is either delayed or denied. It is reported that over ninety percent of complaints coming to the FCHR are either dismissed out of hand or settled in favor of the agency. So the obstacles to justice for the harmed starts here in an agency where facilitation should start.If by some miracle you get through this agency with your complaint still intact, the problem of finding a lawyer who will take your case starts. It had been my experience that very few lawyers will even consider taking a case in racial discrimination. It is found that lawyers have a definite preference in terms of case they will take on. First, they would rather take a case involving reverse discrimination, followed by sex discrimination and as a last resort racial discrimination cases.Why do racial discrimination cases receive low priority? As I understand it, in the fraternity or sorority of law people -- a lawyer who takes racial discrimination cases becomes an outcast among his or her peers. Even Black lawyers run for the hills when asked to take cases in racial discrimination. If you are lucky and get a lawyer, then there is the problem of getting a dedicated lawyer. One who will treat you with some degree of dignity. The common experience is that in racial discrimination cases your own lawyer will treat you as if you work for them. You may go to see them and each time wonder if your lawyer will fire you today or if they will spend time enough to really understand your case.If you get through these insidious blockades, then there is the problem of getting a jury of your true peers. In the existing atmosphere where discrimination is tired subject, it has been trivialized and accepted as a sustainable fact of American society. The records show that in the Northern U. S. Court District only one or two cases on racial discrimination have been found in favor of a black by a jury of their peers(?) in the last twenty years!!Consider these facts.If you prevail in court, the settlement of your relief is less than one third of the fees paid to the lawyers for the defense and the plaintiff!!You will suffer the day-in and day-out retaliation on your job because of your complaint. Although your fellow comrades in suffering will get such benefits as raises, privileges, and promotions from your efforts, you will get retribution and retaliations from both black and white alike. Blacks will come to you and say that they have been assigned to control and keep you quiet because you speak out on discrimination!! But in the next breath they will whisper I(we) are proud of you. We really have a problem. I wish I could fight like you. But I have a family and I cannot lose my job. They will send you information under your door and in your mail, in secrecy.Finally, you will find that even civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and Urban League will not want you, unless you win. Then they will want to share your time in the winner's circle!!. The Democratic and Republican party will not touch you.This unequal treatment has become more than discrimination. It is a question of Civil Liberties!! The penalties for committing these violations of Civil Liberties need to be that the institution should pay the financial penalty and the individual(s) pay with jail time. In addition, the laws must be revised to make the financial compensation favor the harmed/plaintiff(s). Further, there must be a complete public disclosure of all disbursed funds to the lawyers and plaintiffs. Presently, it is easy for lawyers for both sides to reach a no loss arrangement. This makes it questionable that a plaintiffs lawyer will be totally dedicated to winning a case.BACK TO THE TOP |
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9. THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM IS BIG BUSINESS!!! (1996)On September 23, 1994 I was driving back to Tallahassee, Florida on I-75. There was four trucks with over sized loads holding up the normal 65 MPH flow of traffic. These loads were large gray concrete four celled modules with sliding steel doors, in which there was a small closable metal window. After trying for some time to get around this convey I finally got to the front truck. There was the most alarming sign in this lead vehicle which said, " CELL MFGR'S LTD(Limited), THE FLORIDA SOLUTION, Leesburg , Florida, POD#4." What I was seeing was the manufacture of modular prison cells. This was Florida's solution to the mass production of jails to solve the problems of American society.On September 26, 1994 on TV, a Black man, Mr. Harry Singletary, Secretary of Corrections, in The Great State of Florida was giving an enthusiastic report on the ahead-of-schedule production of Jail Cells. He said in essence, " Florida is doing a fantastic job in getting ready to quickly incarcerate large numbers of prisoners (people) by using pre-manufactured modular jail cells. We are ahead of schedule. We therefore, need to accelerate the hiring of more officers and guards to take care of these inmates. The legislature must more ahead of schedule and allocate us funds for personal for the Criminal Justice Industry." Or something to that effect.The possibilities and prospects of fostering this idea and creating the massive industry of building modular prison cells at a rate many time faster than on-the-site construction is staggering. That means that the U. S. has found the answer to getting not only the dangerous criminals of the streets, but this creates the opportunity and means to expand incarceration to other minor offenders and inconveniences; jay walkers, litters, those who do not know political incorrectness, Chinks, Japs, Niggers, Jews!!! Well - maybe not Jews.The inertia of this industry fueled by the manufacturers, the officers, the guards, the administrators the suppliers of goods and services will be so massive that only a catastrophe event could turn it around. Let us look at England.England the cradle of capitalism and the genesis of the manifestation of the society of the many very , very poor, the few very, very rich, the breeding of petty thieves, the alienated , the poor houses, and yes, the process of sending the excess/surplus population to " uncivilized' territories of Hawaii, Australia, South America, North America, South Africa ... the penal colonies as Devil island!! But sense there are no more far off uninhibited places to send those outside the economic and social structure of our America, we must find an in house solution , to our societies problems jails, jails and more jails, or the final solution ... death camps. Blacks will be fighting for the positions of employment created in formation of the instruments of the final solution. They will be "Team Players!!!"BACK TO THE TOP |
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10. TOBACCO THE EVIL EMPIRE/INDUSTRY (August 22, 1997)Would you believe that evil industry/empire, Tobacco has been allowed to continue to produce it's proven and admitted agent of death? This is the most incredible example of how trivial our social/economic system has become when the lives of citizens can be bargained against the ;lost of capital($) to an industry!!This bargaining with the Tobacco industry by balancing the lives of citizens is the same as bargaining with the Nazi's industry of concentration camps which were killing Jews by the millions and saying that if you cut down on the number of Jews you kill over the years you can continue to carry on the industry of death.The Tobacco industry is being allowed to continue to produce their product of death if they just pay something for their past killings and cut back on the 400,000 people per year they are presently kill from tobacco related problems.Over the last 50 years at the rate of 400,000 deaths per year Tobacco has killed approximately 20,000,000 people in the U. S. alone!! This is a true holocaust greater than Germany committed against the Jews and the holocaust against the blacks during slavery combined. Don't you think that a world wide tribunal should be held to bring these death merchants to justice? They are no more than international criminals.If this "deal" to change their action in America is not sad enough, the Tobacco industry is fighting to maintain their unrestricted activities in China and all other nations outside the U. S.Any deal that leaves Tobacco in business is intellectually incomprehensible and morally indefensible !!BACK TO THE TOP |
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11. THE ANATOMY OF UNEQUAL TREATMENT (1995)One of the greatest deterrents to racial and sexual justice (which is directly related to the success of institutions in the U. S.) is the "business as usual" practiced by the white, male, good ole boys, who by their accepted omnipotence see things in the nature of their "eminent domain" and "manifest destiny;" These good ole boys sit smiling, double talking, lying, condescending, patronizing, sneaking, and playing overly innocent on things of equality which effect the lives of people; They are continuing to do business as usual out of the sunshine, on the golf courses, in the bars, at closed board meetings Task Forces, Transition Teams etc. They either provide only lip service to the laws against discrimination as long as they do not have to pay (money) in any way for their heavy handed, matter of fact conduct of the public's business. At times they just ignore Blacks and women as if they did not exist!! They plan their conduct using the works of Adolph Hitler, Ross Lumbaugh, Eddy Amein, Bull Conner, the GIANTS of literature on social architecture. This load stone around the life's neck of society is the main reason that America's institutional initiatives in equality always fail.Although recently we have seen the few successes of such challenges to injustice in the Black FBI Agents Vs Denny's Restaurant case, the Davis Vs Proctor Pontiac case, the Black Employees Vs Shoney's Restaurant case, etc. where the violator of civil rights were made to pay. I can say from experience that the real reason that even Public Education Institutions are in trouble is because of the accepted negative way in which race, sex, and differentism is treated by the powerful to relegate the objective of educating to a place of failure.In The Great State of Florida the Institution of Education is a basitum of sexual and racial injustice. The State Education system must be dragged kicking and screaming to the bar of justice. They have never been seriously challenged to wipe out preoccupation with power to satisfy EGO, power for the sake of power, and for a sake of racial discrimination; Making them pay for these evil activities will be the only cure. If the state has to pay it will get rid of the good ole boy of the fiftyish ages or so for they are by their nature destroying the institution and more importantly costing money by their actions. Instead of working for good education they are day in and day out working on their own positions of power and the exercise of keeping women and Blacks in their place. They use the knowish tricks to rig the system; use the weak and Tomish Blacks as overseers to hold down any "Smart Niggers." Further some women who are trying to get ahead feel they must emulate the good ole boys in order to demonstrate their equal prowess. They pit emotions against emotions, instead of reason against reason, or fact against fact.How can this cycle be broken. There must be a consistent, intense, intelligent process of filling complaints against agencies on every case of harmful illegal discrimination and harassment. The relief for such activities must be payment in money for damages. If an agency or firm wishes to discriminate they must be prepared to pay for such privileges.BACK TO THE TOP |
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12. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SUED FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY (OCTOBER 1,1997)After over twenty years of problems in discrimination in The Florida State of Education in 1994 thirteen Blacks Dr. Rufus Ellis, Ms Vessie Felton-Joseph, Mr. William Pittman, Jr., Ms. Debra Crowell, Ms. Rosezetta Bobo, Ms. Shirley Webester, Ms. Linda Dukes, Mr. Norman McMillian, Ms. Valderine Grant, Dr. Baxter Wright, Mr. Walter McCoy, Ms. Margaret Jones and Dr. James A. Scruggs filed the history making first compliant against this department with the United States District Court Northern District of Florida Tallahassee Division. This discrimination was alleged to be systemic, continuous, and on-going. Further, records show that between 1978 and 1996 approximately 95% of all discrimination suits filled against the Department of Education were during the tenure of Commissioner of Education, Mr. Frank T. Borgan.After many pretrial hearings and many summary judgment which resulted in some of the plaintiffs being dropped from the case because of such things as missing deadlines for filling their complaints, the first of (which included three of the plaintiffs,) six trials was held the week of September 22-26, 1997 in Tallahassee, Florida.In September, 1994 Dr. Baxter Wright, a Black male was given a below average performance evaluation by a white female supervisor and subsequently released. Prior to this Dr. Wright had never received a below average performance evaluation in the many years he worked with the Department.In the late 1970's the minutes of the Equal opportunity Employment Committee recorded that a Black janitor reported that on the desk of the Department's personnel officer was two stacks of applications, one saying qualified applicants the other saying some more "nigger" applicants!!In December 1993, a Black male employee in the Graphic Arts Section, who was an outstanding employee of the Department of Education ( as rated by the Commissioner of education) was a victim of "Affirmative Action" when he was kicked in the buttocks by a white female supervisor. He was forced to leave the Department because of this racist act.The allegations by the plaintiffs in the first trial included:In 1991, a Mr. Pittman, a Black male applied for a position of "Liaison" between the State and The Federal Government. He received a letter thanking him for applying but the position had been filled by someone else. In 1995 while checking the "Personnel Action Forms," (which are forms that record the applicants for the position) he found that his name was never included in the applicant pool and therefore, he was never a part of the competition for the position. However, his name was placed on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office of "candidates considered" to demonstrate on paper that "Equal Opportunity in Employment" was followed. Further Mr. Pittman was paid as much as $10,000.00 per year less than whites employees in the same position for as many as 20 years. He was never appointed as "acting" for any position as were his white counter parts.In 1977, a survey of employees in the Bureau of Compensatory Education, Department of Education found that all Blacks receiving "outstanding" evaluations and receiving "merit" pay on the basis of these evaluations were evaluated by Black supervisors. Further, a suit against the department in 1979 resulted in getting all black employees off annual contracts and onto "Career Service" in the department. However, the part addressing pay and promotion equity was never carried out.Dr. Ellis alleged that a white female supervisor denied him Department benefits of training, ridiculed him, berated him in public and with his co-workers, and withheld critical information which would have assisted him in performing his duties. The tool of Performance Evaluation was used as an "Affirmative Action" to place Dr. Ellis on probation and promote the process of firing him. Ms. Felton-Joseph, who managed a statewide program for Homeless Children, alleged that she was; 1) denied an upgrades because of race while white persons have been provided upgrades without cause, 2) involuntarily moved to a location within the DOE where the majority of other blacks in the Bureau were located, 3) suffered retaliation from a whites supervisor by such things as getting low performance evaluations, 4) denied additionally personnel who were already funded and necessary to conduct the state's "Homeless Program," when funds were available denied a secretary which was funded to work for the states' "Homeless Program," and 5) denied reimbursement for approved travel associated with the duties of the program. Dr. Scruggs alleged; 1) that he was denied an interview for the Position of Administrator of The Office of Science Improvement where Mr. Jack Leppert, a white male was hired (who did not meet the minimum qualification and had no education or background in any field of science) although he was more qualified than other applicants, 2) The second time the position was advertised the Department took "Affirmative Action(s)" by bringing in Mr. Thomas Baird, another white male who was assigned the position of "Acting Administrator", to get the experience in the program and subsequently hire him permanently, again without providing Scruggs an interview. This Office hired only one Black, a secretary although this grant from the National Science Foundation required the written assurance that Blacks and minorities would be hired as a condition for receiving the funds!! 3) Scruggs alleged that he suffered retaliation from department employees both Black and white, who were told that he had to be controlled because of his out spoken activities about the treatment of Blacks in the Department. There were many times when terms such as "Jungle Bunnies" and "you people" were used to describe Blacks in his staff. 4) In 1988, it was found that in the process of filling a position of Director of The Prevention Center, "Affirmative Action" was taken when a white male applicant was interviewed and immediately placed on the interview committee to complete the interviews of the other applicants. This white male was given the position before the interviews were completed and allowed to participate as an official member of the interview team to finish the interviewing of the other applicants. The report to the "Equal Employment Opportunity Agency" recorded the distribution of candidates considered but never suggested that the out come of the selection was decided before the interviewing of candidates was completed. In 1988, it was found that the Department of Education was found to be taking "Affirmative Action" by placing the names of Blacks on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Agency to satisfy the ethnic distribution of who were applicants considered, as though Blacks had applied and were interviewed for positions. This was the way in which the "Affirmative Action" process was conducted, but only on paper. The relief for this violation of Department Rules and Procedures was that "the Department would train the staff to be better at filling positions." 5) In 1978, "Affirmative Actions" were taken to fill a position of Administrator , Adult and Community Education by appointing a white male to the position before the advertisement was closed and the interviews had been conducted. The name of this white male was printed in the new Department phone book before the interviews demonstrating that the decision was made in "Affirmative Action" haste.The States defense was essentially that all these things did occur; However, the whole thing was color natural. All these things did happen but at no time was color taken into account when decisions were made or actions were taken.In closing Attorney for the plaintiffs, Steve Andrews, " The Department wants you to believe that these are Oprah-watching, cheese ball-eating, unemployment-grubbing people who are not worthy of a judgment in this case... If you say to someone in America today, 'This black person has an attitude (as the department's attorneys were saying) I submit to you that it sends a message... people who complain about their treatment as black people have a bad attitude, but those who don't have the right attitude. "The attorney for the state, Harry Chills said, "None of the things they're talking about were based on skin color. There is a legitimate reason for everything they're complaining about... Scruggs simply finished second to a white applicant for the science education job, and Pittman's salary gap was due to differing duties and responsibilities..." Chiles further stated that although no black has ever been appointed as to a Acting" position by the Department of Education it had nothing to do with race.After a jury of six whites and two Blacks heard all these complaints and the rebuttal from both sides and after about five hours of deliberation, a verdict which found against the plaintiffs was brought to the court.The plaintiffs were so stunned after receiving the verdict that comments were few.Dr. Scruggs said that he was trying to understand this great justice system in America. It mat be the best in the world but sometime it is difficult to get it to work. He said further that although the state tried to make it seem that Doug Jamerson and Altha Manning, who were both Black state leaders had something to do with our problems this there is no truth in this. It was a Black white problem.Mr. Pittman and Ms. Joseph had no comments.BACK TO THE TOP |
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13. WEALTH/CAPITAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN GOVERNMENTS (September 26, 1997)It is evident today that "capital/money/wealth" is truly power. It is more powerful than governments and as exampled in the Tobacco we see that power/wealth corrupts. Historically power has passed from Kings-Queens-monarchs- and somewhere during the industrial revolution it passed to money. In addition, constructs as "anti monopoly" laws are poorly enforced allowing the concentration of vast wealth and control of resources to the hands of a very, very few.On April 4, 1997 a NBC news cast was reporting essentially that, " In Iraq power was passed from "capital" to the producers of food-farmers and other producers. It continued to observe, "This transfer of power has turned the system Up-side-down!!" But hold it, this powerful observation is true with one important change! This transfer of power has not turned the system up-side-down. It has turned things right-side-up. It is one of those rare occasions where a good thing happens and the world or part of the world turns right-side-up.Capital is truly the tyrant of the present day world. Governments are the shadow of wealth/capital. Wealth rules government. Observe how money bought elections in America in 1997. It is amazing that the world is essentially convinced that without "capital" nothing can be started or finished; and when a group of people, especially a third world country makes a try at self determination ignoring "capital" they are declared as out casts, communist, socialist, heretics, evil empires, up-side-down and overt activities are instituted to bring them into line. When in fact capital(ism) as practiced today is based on human greed, avarice, malice, doing as little as possible while gaining the highest returns. What is good for General Motors is good form the nation Further, with the courts and administrations more then any other time in our history refusing to enforce anti trust laws more and more capital is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. These mergers are making more powerful wealth with less accountability to national good. As England said when taking control of South Africa which was controlled by the ZULU, "we must destroy their social, economic, religious, and military institutions; and replace them with our institutions of capital and religion. They will loose even their ability to feed themselves without our guidance." Look at Zaire for a good example of how good this works.You might wonder why are there so many militia groups, the Texas Republic Separatists, the farmers mistrust of government, etc. There is a very simple answer. It is the fact of the tyrannical nature of "capital(s)" power as it influences government. It is without conscience or moral imperative. Wealth acting though the federal government is squeezing the many little people into submission or a fight. First, the government which is visible and easily identifiable and acting at the will of capital for increasing profit by for closing on small farms or allowing mergers of companies which clearly produces a monopoly. Government, therefore, is seen as the problem and thus becomes the object of attack by those who are trying to become part of the property/capital society. Capital is, 1) convincing the public that big government, which should keep business accountable, is a supreme violation of the civil rights of people and of course capital. 2) capital is needs only the controls of that natural phenomenon called "market forces/supply and demand." But today it is not accompanied with fair competition that keeps act ities fair, moral, and in line with human needs.Yes, Iraq may not be the most acceptable nation to use as an example of a right-side-up system of power and capital because of the baggage Saddum Hassan has brought. But if free world capital had not been withdrawn from this economy, I assure you that the western perceived norm of capital being all powerful and really right-side-up would not have this contrast anywhere. But as for us poor but educated (not enlightened) Americans citizens, wealth is all powerful; and if in our brief life times we wish to make it( as they say in the vernacular) we must worship at this alter even if we know in our hearts that it is a false and iniquitous god.BACK TO THE TOP |
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14. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS EASY TO SEE BUT HARD TO PROVE IN OUR COURTS (September 14, 1997)Recently the coverage of a racial discrimination trial reported by the Tallahassee Democrat made it very clear that, first, there has been a desensitization of the public feelings on racial discrimination, and secondly, Blacks have been forced to compete with sexual harassment and reverse discrimination for the most despaired treatment.In this Henry VS the Tallahassee Police Department it seems that Henry, who is a Black officer alleged that he had been discriminated against because of race. In the Tallahassee Democrat the testimony of witnesses for the plaintiff and the defendant were reported. It was remarkable to notice that the testimony of the Black witnesses were reported more briefly than that of the white witnesses for the Police Department. In fact it would seem from the reports that the Black witnesses were always painted with a suspicious blemishing brush. Their character was challenged and the fact that they may have had some "events of discrimination in their lives that made them bias against the Police Department." Further, the court ruled not to allow some documents which were reported to contain such racially negative language as "nigger" and "poach monkeys" into evidence because they would prejudice the jury. This may be peculiar seeing as how this is a case of alleged discrimination based on race. The six member jury consisted of five whites and one Black. On August 26, 1997 it was reported that the jury was dead locked and there was a mistrial. The paper did not say exactly who on the jury was the hold out(s) but it did report that the "lone" hold out was described by the chairman of the jury as a person who had not seen the same trail as the other five. Maybe this hold out was the lone Black juror? Oh my gosh an interview with this juror on TV reviled that he was the Black juror!!In any case this is a superior example of how desensitized whites have become on the subject of racial discrimination. This is particularly important to those who may seek "justice" in the counts. They must look for the fair and just from among their peers jurors), the fair and just in judges of the court, the fair, just and interested in their attorneys. These qualities are left to be wondered about when we see daily how attorneys for both plaintiff and defendant spend much effort trying to choose a jury of bias peers and in the case of racial discrimination a jury of white only where ever possible. A case of racial discrimination and/or mistreatment must be bazaar, cruel, heinous, and extraordinary for this cover of desensitization to be breached.For example, the case in New York City where a Black male Haitian was arrested, dragged into the toilet and sodomized with the handle of a toilet plunger. Even in this extreme treatment of a Black there seems to be no clear cut cry of "no never in America" from the white community. In fact there is the continual stream of rationalization coming from officials. Some say that this Haitian man was attacking the policeman with his "but" and they had to subdue him by subduing his attacking body part!!In the words of that giant in literature, Rodney King, Can't we all just learn to live together???BACK TO THE TOP |
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15. REMANUFACTURING NEW GINGRICH (September 9, 1997)It was a real miracle to see the notorious and invincible Newt Gingrich go from "king of the Hill "to "road kill!!" Newt developed a case of political halitosis and was out of juicy fruit gum. Now the engagement in his resurrection is frightening. It is because it just may work.Recently, we have seen the orchestrated conflict between Newt and the far, far right fringe of the Republican Party. This group is saying that Newt is not carrying their banner as high as they feel he should carry it. Then there was the staged conflict between a member of the party who was said to have been trying to unseat Newt as Speaker of the House. This made for media coverage where there had been none. Newt is even loosing weight in order to remake/change his image!! These activities are to many an indication that Newt may not be so far out in left field. But this author is more than a little suspicious that the right wing attack is staged only to push Newt more to the middle and acceptable political ground by not having him move but making the far right look even further out. I hope, no I know that the public will not be so easily fooled.The powerful media and a good public relation team has proven that it can hood wink the public easily so many times and again make an admired person out of a hypocrite! Like a snake in wolf's clothing, Newt is waiting to strike again. But we must be aware of the tale about the lady who found the beautiful snake which was in the road run over by passing automobiles. This snake was close to road kill, not to unalike Gingrich. The lady took this snake home and nursed it back to health. But as soon as it was well the lady found the snake to be cute, pressed it close to her loving breast and the snake viciously bit her. As she was slipping into unconsciousness she looked at the snake in some great surprise as the snake said, "you knew I was a snake when you took me home." Newt will surely bite again as soon as he is well. He has a contract on America.Let us not forget and by the way, when Newt's fine for ethics violations was paid by "Bob" Dole it was just another ploy/attempt to make Newt legitimate by association. Great move!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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16. DISCRIMINATION IN THE FLORIDA OF EDUCATIONAfter over twenty years of problems in
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17. THE THIRD WORLD WAR; THE ECONOMIC WARIt is obvious that the Third World War is
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18. CAN POLITICS STILL BUY BLACKS FOR VERY LITTLEI was reading in an article published by the Associated Press that The democratic and the republican parties are fast courting the Black in Florida. As I observed in subsequent article this year the Democratic party in it mis guided action of deposing legislator Willie Logan from the position of "Speaker Designee of the party has created the opportunity for the Black to declare its self an Independent Voter group. This has indeed become the case.Yes, Politics .... Politics .... politics .... Politics on my mind. Sort of like an old Negro blues song I used to know which went; whisky .... whisky .... whisky ,,,, whisky stays on my mind. It is intoxicating and corrupting.In Florida, "Buddy" Mackay picked Danztler for a running mate, Bush picked Brogan for a running mate. The position of Commissioner of Education as of July 8, 1998 has no candidate Democratic or Republican. It is opportunity; Opportunity for a change in education for Florida's children ( this is the moral imperative of it ). or Opportunity of a political nature.For the over all leadership which is at this time truly white and male, both parties have the opportunity to show diversity in a Black or/and a female. The Democrats have the opportunity of healing their loyal Black party members by running a Black, maybe even Willie Logan for Commissioner of Education. He was the start of all this trouble. He has name recognition, shows skill, and ability. Of course, he will be a choice between him, Willie and Representative Keith Arnold Democrat, Fort Myers and present candidate for Governor and has $500,000.00 to bring to the commissioner campaign. So Democrats are deliberating over the question, "are Black votes worth $500,000.00 or are the fish fries, barbecued pork, and church visits still good enough for Black voters.The republicans have only 1.5 % of Black registered with their party. Will they choose a Black as J. C. Watts or a Clarence Thomas or some like Black. No they will choose another white male Mr. Gallagher, the former Insurance Commissioner. Good name recognition. But will it help to get the 17% of the Black votes they say they need to win for sure.Democrats are in the position of trying to recover the most loyal democrats they had, Blacks. Have they concluded that, " Blacks have short memories and are easy to satisfy; therefore, you can insult Blacks early in an election year which will invigorate the 'Bubber' vote and near the end of the voting year provide Blacks gestures of "love" a fish fry, some barbecue pork, some cold water melon and a pat on the head??" If this were true and this made Blacks happy, it will play well for the "virtue" of democratic politicians, because in the words of Aristotle, " a political shows virtue went they make the citizens happy.. Although shallow and shorted this is the classic fulfillment of virtue, politics, and Platonic statesmanship. It as demonstrates that Black voters have been defined as immature, ignorant, and easily swayed by emotion instead of reason and analytical deductions.The Republicans have concluded that they need or can right now get at least 17 percent of the Black votes. However, they have, in my estimation concluded that such right wing republican issuers as School Vouchers, Schools of Choice and anti affirmative action are the issuers Blacks have misunderstood and will gladly join republican ranks as soon as their great white father explains it in a way they can understand. This is a real mis understanding of the intelligence of the Black voter and will in the end make their goal a more difficult to realize.Now there are two camps of Blacks who are jumping into this moving political water:First, there those Blacks who will give them anything they want knowing that this will be the quickest way to their personal ambition of getting a piece of the pie. They deliberately take the easy premises in a problem or issue ( usually the false premises ) so they will be loved and in the end come to the false conclusion ( the false conclusion) to be loved by the master. These Black will be seen in the image of the notorious Uncle Clarence Thomas, presently a Black member of the U.. Supreme Court. I have personally seen the efforts of republicans as they try to convince Blacks that they do not really see the "virtue" in the dissolution of such things as affirmative action and the sabotage of the present public school system using School Vouchers and School of Choice. It is sad that the present state of such public institutions as education and the mission of affirmative action has left it so vulnerable to attack. But alas, it is true; Public Education and affirmative action has not worked because of the behavior and attitudes of the people who run these initiatives; therefore, "lets not dissolve it" is hard to defend.Secondly, there are those Blacks who after seeing avarice, ignorance, lying etc. will take the chance, be the hero and choose virtue, good, truth, ethics, and moral imperatives and in the face of the great back-pressure of prevailing public opinion and political threats even from their own kind who want to continue to rule at the feet of their master, take the right path. In my opinion we must admire the second group of people!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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19. THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA IS INSTITUTIONALIZED THROUGH FOUNDATIONSSince Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, the right wing consisting, mainly of conservative Republicans have made a consecutive, dedicated, long-range effort to bring their agenda to a institutional reality. The conservative foundations have been a very large part of this effort.For example, these conservative foundations have grown profusely in number and have over three billion dollars in their budgets for activities. They have given profusely to state and regional organizations that are actively promoting a conservative philosophy/propaganda, developing public positions, perceptions, feeding information to policy makers with a conservative slant, and crafting and disseminating messages for media and public consumption.Today, over 100 conservative public policy institutes exist. In fact just recently a conservative foundation purchased property from Ronald Reagan for approximately six million dollars for the purpose of training young people to be good conservatives. This is reminiscent of the Nazis young camps in the thirties. They are closely linked through extensive support and communications networks. For example, the conservative or Rutherford Foundation is supporting the Paula Jones efforts against a perceived progressive president. Conservative foundations are supporting efforts to recruit, Blacks to carry the conservative agenda to their group. These Blacks such as Clearance Thomas, J. C. Watts the conservative Congressman from Oklahoma, the radio talk show host, Ken Hamble, Bernard, the Black member of the California Board of Reagents who helped to turn back Affirmative Action through Proposition 209, etc. are provided high visibility and frequent media opportunities, far in excess of that the progressive foundations provide progressive Blacks. It is said by conservatives that liberal or progressive foundations "don't have a really sharp political program that they are seriously pushing with funding. They are kind of bumbling along. But the neoconservatives are much more consciously , purposefully, and in a focused way, trying to advance ideas. Progressive foundations are seemingly timid and easily driven to cover."Conservative fund donors have also channeled resources to build "a media empire" that consists of national conservative policy journals, a network of right-wing student newspapers, according to a recent article in the publication "These Times." The support of such talk shows host as Oliver North is one prime example of success. Conservative corporate and other foundation funder's are in mark contrast to progressive funder's. Conservative approaches have focused on the building of over-arching institutions such as "Charter Schools," The Juvenile Justice Industry, and networks that link progressive constructs that redefine the other side ( progressive) by stringing liberal, public servants, progressive, in the same sentences with communist, bleeding hearts, pinko-s, homosexual, pathetic weaklings; and it has worked for the most part. If something is said often enough this subliminal message will become a part of the publics belief system.These conservation's have successfully blemished progressive/liberals to the extent that even the one time Black civil rights types and just pure opportunist are denying their historical stand on conscience and compassion for the under privileged to side with the Newt/Rush appeal to reasoning (?). You can see the example of these blacks, who are making their living as administrators of institutional "diversity" programs, administrators of programs for the disadvantaged such as Title 1, or Blacks generally in soft money positions of anti discrimination programs are saying such things as, " I'm not a liberal. These human service programs are old bleeding efforts. In fact I personally agree with the death penalty!!!" Even Blacks who are strong and intelligent enough to know better are driven to support conservative issues detrimental to their kind by the extreme pressure of the volume of conservative foundation money.BACK TO THE TOP |
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20. BLACKS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROFOUNDLY EFFECT CHANGEThe political parities seem to be ready for a dialogue on Black issuers, at least the democrats are as seen in their article in the Tallahassee, Democrat on June 29, 1998. Be assured that Black spokespersons for both parties will be sent for highly visible presentations on both sides. I would like to provide you with the predication that some Blacks will take the Uncle Clarence Thomas approach to their presentation which is the selfish abhorrent sighted road to personal pieces of silver and in contrast there will be those Blacks who will cease the moment and provide some real guidance to both Black and white listeners.The opportunist will come across essentially like this, " .... It is time to abandon this unsupported notion that racism and discrimination is not dead. The Affirmation Action camps are holding on to the long discredited notion that we as Blacks need the supports of unfair laws around preferences and special treatments to get what we already have in the land of the free and home of the brave .... I have to admit that I am appalled to record that my mother was mis lead when she took the ill conceived supports of welfare. I am ashamed to admit that I was admitted to the university by the way of that cruel program of Affirmative Action. .... It was my boot straps that I used to get what was already mine to take .... "Then in contrast Blacks of real vision will take this opportunity to respond to the occasion in the way The Honorable Alcee Hasting or Frederick Douglas would have. They will be truthful and respectful. It may have gone like this I do believe: " .... Let me start by saying that I am highly appreciative and completely overwhelmed by the great privilege you have provided me to speak before this honorable group. It is true that we in America share a common destiny. We are like a ship of sailors on a stormy sea. Being so pounded by the divine powers of our God of nature that we by this very potential tragedy and going down by the way of our sinking ship, we are bound to stay afloat together or going down together. We are face with the decision of the ship of fools who will succumb to their own individual prejudices and fight their fellow ship mates and in some great surprise go with certain death to a common watery grave. But there is this glimmer of hope The hope that our common attribute of good, sound, mental prowess, rise to the highest of human character and pull together and in the end sail our ship into a safe harbor.... That is our destiny today .... We must admit in the privacy of our hearts that we all have these terrible prejudices that if not admitted and ceased by our common sense will destroy us all .... We live in a country based on Ideals but run on power and prejudices .... This is our burden and our common challenged .... Yes, I am a party person, but more than that I am a rational, loyal American and a true Black human being .... All of which I accept and use to a common good...."The point is that a time in history is presently thrust upon us. If we join the wrong voice we will in fact become a party to our own assignation. When faced with a choice of rotten apples we must choose from a better barrel. Jesse Jackson recently choose well when he said this year he would establish a deferent choice from the look alike democratic and republican parties. Weather the leaders are politicians, sorority, fraternity, 100 Black men or women, 100 most powerful Black men or women in America, Ministers, or commoners our choice is clear we must be progressive, humanist, solders of civil rights, high character and seeking justice. That is our only intelligent destiny.And, please don't shoot the messenger, Please!!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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21. THE NEW REVELATION; PARENTS HAVE AN EFFECT ON CHILD'S EDUCATIONJust recently a report in the magazine "Money" reported that the most important part of a child's achievement in education was the parent! Now this is a big revelation. It may be of a greater surprise to report the study that found that all human children were born of human mothers , who are females. Further , it is of even a bigger surprise to report that day light hours are always accompanied by the fact that the part of the earth that is facing the sun - in the day light hours. Is it such a revelation that any one can conclude with a high degree of accuracy that if you put your hand into an open flame you will, one hundred percent of the time get a burn and a smell of cooked flesh, your own!! Maybe it is usual that the superior human intellect to be spent satirically documenting the facts that are so obvious to any normal human, who is willing and free of mind enough to use their five natural senses of hearing, sight, smell, feel, and taste accompanied with the rational mind.What dose this all mean,. Well to me it means that the tools of science when once learned by the simple minded are used in an exercise to show that they can prove the obvious and move old bones from one grave yard to another with ruffling the fathers of all the other simple minds that have proved the same thing for centuries. But even in intellectual circles if a person took the chance to disregard the foolish works of the colleagues that have gone before and make a try at disproving the garbage that has for generations kept the human spirit in bondage the whole intellectual world will pounce on this poor fool and soundly secure their destruction. But for the educator not to have known that the parent has a profound part in the child education even before this study, is a sin before God.BACK TO THE TOP |
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22. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATEIt was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.If you wish to comment please click on the e-mail belowBACK TO THE TOP |
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23. CLONING A BAD IDEA (August 14, 1997)In the week of February 28, 1997 a scientist announced that the process of cloning" was now a reality! They had successfully cloned a sheep. The following week another scientist in America announced that they also had successfully cloned a monkey. This is the most serious advent sense the atomic bomb! The week on August 9, 1997 an American scientist announced that they were patenting a process of cloning cattle. There are serious questions that immediately come to mind.First , it is obvious that we as humans have not advanced to the level that we can handle even the simplest questions on human morality. Our competence cannot even handle questions surrounding the present diversity of humans/citizens here on earth today.Now consider the day when scientist announce that humans have been crossed with a monkey in the same way as a donkey was crossed with a horse to produce a "mule." This can be done with the same animals because their chromosome counts are close; as are the chromosome counts of monkeys and humans. Will the offspring of a human and a monkey be called a "hule?" Further, will a "hule" be human enough to be treated as a human or will it be animal enough to be treated as an animal? What civil rights will this "hule" have?The religious community will have to face the profound question of whether a "hule" has a soul; and if it dies what kind of burial will it deserve?; and can it be buried in a white grave yard; or will this "hule be buried in a black grave yard?The business community will have to decide that if this "hule" has the same or similar physical dexterity and intellect as a human, can they work it as an animal or will they have to consider the rights of this "hule" the same as human rights. Will hules replace the third world countries cheap labor market?The military will have to be told if it can recruit a hule as a solder; and if so will they have to provide the same support as they give a human solder. Can a hule become an officer?We should not be surprised when the time is considered "right" an announcement in made that there has already been experiments that have produced this hule and human clones. Yes, I believe that some hot shot scientist has already conducted these experiments and the time is not yet "right" to present it to the public!!Then there is the question, "Is a hule breed from a black person as equal as a hule breed form a white person?" Do Blonde hules have more fun and are they more equal. Is it moral to use the hule as love toys? Should hules be allowed to marry?What will happen when the government patient office issues the first patent on the production of a hule? Who will get the first business rights to mass produce these hules?These are real questions of a very serious nature!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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24. AMERICA THE IDEAL AND THE CONTRADICTIONS (Posted April 2, 2002) INTRODUCTION "The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporation form were inherent in the citizen; and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life and, hence, to be borne with resignation. throughout the greater part of our history a different view prevailed. Although the value of this instrumentality in commerce and industry was fully recognized, incorporation for business was commonly denied long after it had been freely granted for religious, educational and charitable purposes. It was denied because of ear. Fear of encroachment upon the liberties and opportunities of the individual. Fear of the subjection of labor to capital. Fear of monopoly. Fear that the absorption of capital by corporations, and their perpetual life, might bring evils similar to those which attended mortmain. There was a sense of some insidious menace inherent in large aggregations of capital, particularly when held by corporations." Justice Brandeis, in Ligget vs. Lex ______________________ That American is a nation built on "ideals" that are expressed in its constitution but run on "power" is truly the classical contradiction. Many authors have observed that America has in its constitution a separation of powers into the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. This was to prevent of a "dictator" or "monarch" evolving over time. It is also said that the management of this democracy was planned to prevent a possible bureaucracy that could do anything that would have a sudden impact on American life. We can see that all these things have been effective in America so far. No matter how radical any "power group" or corporation becomes the first amendment makes it possible for those who get too far from the center, and the good of the people, can be brought down by any individual or group of individuals, These powerless people can exercise their right to freedom of speech and organize around the undesirable condition that power in bad faith has produced. Therefore, in good faith and with great reliability we can say "and this to shall past." The marrying of the executive branch with corporate profit , greed, and selfish power "shall too past" only if and only if "we the people" preserve and exercise our right under the powerful First Amendment, the freedom of speech!! Today, under a Republican president, who is a true pro-business, America has come once again to the place in our history where "money/power" is greater than elected government power. Michelle Goldberg in his article "18 Tales of Media Censorship (AlterNet.org, April 1, 2002) describes depth of the US government's regular and common involvement and cooperation with big corporations in committing high crimes and misdemeanors. In the book "Into the Buzzsaw" this collection of essays describe the roles of the CIA role in drug smuggling, lies perpetuated by the investigators of TWA flight 8, POW rotting in Vietnam, Korean war massacre, disenfranchisement of Black voters in Bushe's election government officials involvement in corporations as Enron, etc. So one can see that Enron is but a recently opened door to the Pandora's box of private corporate greed, and individual power brokers "run-a-muck!!" |
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25. CORPORATE AMERICA RUNNING AMUCK Enron has brought home a subject and observation that has been a taboo in American life. On January 31, 2002 CSPAN2 was hosting a call-in-show featuring magazine editors Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens, (Editor The Nation Magazine). In discussing the Enron fiasco they concluded openly that "Enron" and the "Mob" used the same tactics in caring out business. With the absence of a "moral code" even capitalism can RUN A-MUCK! Any corrupt institution is a bad institution whether it is a democracy, socialism, communism or an economic institution as capitalism. For example, both the "Mob" and some "Legitimate American Businesses" use the tactic of providing money to all open hands of politicians (,Huck Gutman, The Lessons of the Enron Debacle, Common Dreams .Thursday, February 7, 2002), judges, professionals (e.g. writers), media ( Richard Blow, Paid Off Top Journalists in Return for ... What?, TomPaine.comEnron, February 6, 2002) and foreign countries to get all involved in their sometimes criminal activities. The "Mob" called it bribes, while corporate American called it "contributions." The "Mob" and legitimate business, "Corporate America" as presently practiced, differ only in the fact that one is legitimized by the acceptance of the public-at-large and the other has been labeled illegitimate by those in public places. Even the act of terminating with malice is a part of both the "Mob" and "Corporations" at times. Both even make their "Bones." (Patrick Martin, The Strange and Convenient death of J. Clifford Baxter----- Enron executive found shot to death, News & Analysis: North America, January 28, 2002) Some so called "Legitimate Business" are like the Squirrel," it is just a rat with good PR." When you think about it, there is little difference between the tobacco companies and the poppy or cocaine cartels. Poppy and Cocaine is controlled by the "Mob" while tobacco is controlled by the legitimate corporations. Both are at times harmful and kill people. Jim Hougan (Uri Dowbenko, The DynCorp-government, Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business connection Online Journal, .March 20, 202) wrote in part, " Part One: Dirty Tricks, Inc. "As Jim Hougan wrote in his landmark book, "Spooks: The Haunting of America–The Private Use of Secret Agents," "With their cultural and career investments in upholding the stereotype of the Mafia as the vehicle of organized crime, the public and the press have generally failed to grasp the felonious nature of the outfit's WASP counterparts on the Big Board. Whereas some petty hoodlums put out contracts on individuals, the multinationals have begun to place contracts on entire countries (for example, ITT versus Chile). With that difference, their operational styles are similar: offshore laundries used to wash bribes paid in clandestine support of a sales effort designed to create and satisfy the potentially lethal addictions of their would be customers. Whether the product is heroin or Star fighter jets, the result is often the same: profits that corrupt and impoverish . . . In short it appears that some multinationals had evolved into genuinely criminal enterprises." (p. 441)" The death of J. Clifford Baxter, who was a whistle blower in the Enron fresco was the making of "Corporate Bones." It is reported to have been a suicide but there is reason to wonder what really happened (Mexico City Daily, February, 2002). The recent problems of Enron can be used as a typical example to compare Big Business with the so called "Mob." (Larry Chin Contributing Editor, Enron: Ultimate agent of the American empire Part I: Money to get power, power to protect money.—Motto of the Medici family, On-line Journal, 2002) Enron was an "energy broker" or if it was labeled the "Mob" it would be called an "energy Bookie!!!" The dissolution of Enron has focused the American public on a "go-to-jail" financial scandal, laden with all the "Mob" like elements. Enron is an American based company which is accompanied by a supporting cast from money laundering through banking, cooking books as underworld type accounting ( Anderson Accounting) and political collusion by elected officials bought with corporate money. This was done thorough a virtual piñata of corrupt practices and betrayed obligations to investors, taxpayers and voters The make up of the CEOs at Enron consisted of mostly middle aged, white men, who had known the act of real violence and war. In fact violence was their business and training. For example, Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was a Pentagon official during the Vietnam War. Frank Wisner, Jr. a board member, who facilitated Enron's most egregious violations overseas, ., has intimate CIA ties and is the son of former CIA Deputy Director Frank Wisner, Sr., who was present at the creation of the CIA. There has been at least 20 CIA agents on the payroll of Enron in the past eight years. (Kevin Lynch, Michael Hanranhan, and David Wright, February, 2002) . Strongly credible evidence alleges that the California "energy crisis" was entirely manufactured. Further, Enron is alleged to have had a strong hand in this "rip-off" of California citizens. (William Greider, Crime in the Suites , The Nation, January 28, 2002 ) Enron's territory (a MOB usage of this word) extended into many foreign countries. To mention a few there was the Argentina's public works minister to award Enron a contract to build a natural gas pipeline, there is the Iraqi oil, Kuwaiti oil, the companies natural gas pipeline on India's west coast in Maharashtra investment since India opened its economy, the Philippine National Power Corporation With the intelligence provided by the CIA and their company trainees, Enron was able to get billions of dollars in lucrative contracts in Asia, South America and Europe. They were even able to get detailed information through a satellite project called "Echelon" using the U. S, Governments resources in spy satellite systems. With this information Enron was able to pressure foreign governments through powerful figures in the U. S. Government. In fact it is alleged that, Vice President "Dick" Cheney assisted Enron in getting foreign contracts. The specifics of the relationship between Enron and the Bush Administration is common knowledge. There are 35 Bush administration officials holding Enron stock. In addition campaign contributions were made by Enron to the Bush campaign and to campaigns of bush's Energy Secretary and Attorney general to only mention a few. Further, Enron's Lindsey was used as Vice President Cheney's consultant in orchestrating and directing g U. S. energy policy. (Brian Ganter, "The hidden lesson of Enron", YellowTimes.ORG, February 12, 2002) The highest irony is that Enron's president and chief, Lawrence "Gerg" Whalley the week on the hearings, February 6, 2002 established a new Enron company under a Swiss investment bank's control called UBS Warburg Energy and will be began trading this month, February (Kristen Hays, Enron operation is reborn, Associated Press, February, 2002). In fact this new company will have all of Enron's old customers including the contacts and business with the U. S. Governmental Administration. So you see the actors in this criminal business has already determined that there will not be findings that will inhibit their "business as usual" in America!! In addition, the greatest American tragedy is that this Enron exposure will be represented as an "isolated" occurrence an "exception" in Corporate America behavior, (e.g. Exxon-Texaco, Wal Mart, Microsoft, Standard Oil, General Electric, McDonnell Douglas, etc.) when it is only the tip of a very large ice berg. This is the "common practice" in the U. S business and the contradiction to the fact that industry operates at "the pleasure of" and "for the welfare" of citizens instead of corporations running the nation. The tail is again wagging the dog. |
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26. INVESTIGATE THE RACKETEERING ENRONS OF AMERICA This media and congressional concentration on the CEO Anderson accounting is nothing but an effort to have the public loose it's focus on Enron's racketeering crimes against the public. The public is asked to see this as nothing more than bad records of accounting (A.F. Nariman, ''The Enron skeleton is buried six feet under the Bush White House'' Yellow Times, February 23, 2002). This provides the cover for the reality that big business as presently conducted in US has too much greed profiteering and illegal activities by most corporations today. It is tradition and common practice in an organization that when a problem is uncovered the company/organization picks one(a) person for a-fall-guy, blame all the sins of the agency on him or her, fires them or terminate them with malice and the company/agency goes on with business-as-usual. The problem with this issue with Enron is that the whole racketeering MO of industry in the US is in the danger of being exposed and it isn't a very pretty picture. The common practices of fraud, the amorality of deception and debauchery, greed, profiteering, money laundering, betrayal-of-the-public-trust and exploiting the Government is near the spot light. (The National ENQUIRER, February 26, 2002) This is not that an individual, who is a showing criminal behavior. It is a systemic conducting of business out side of the law or in questionable area where law enforcement fears to tread. (Uri Dowbenko, Part One: "Dirty Tricks, Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business inc., The DynCorp-government connection", Online Journal, March 20, 2002). The accomplice here is the normal accepted accounting system of this agency which allows the of hiding assets and deficits . The system deliberately does business with the intent of profiteering, bribing government, lying to investors, taking the inside track by CEOs are the greatest problem. The accounting firm(s) are also guilty and the accomplice of the Enrons, who are criminal in their activities. This is the same as a murderer killing and only the accomplice being convicted of a crime and going to jail. The supporting cast of elected officials we see setting on these congressional hearing panels are a sham and failing in their duty to protect the public which voted for them. (Nate Blakeslee, How Enron Did Texas, The Nation, March 4, 2002). They are not asking the hard questions that will bring these criminals to justice because they are the product of the money paid in bribes to place them in power positions in government. Therefore, the accounting firms are taking the heat, taking the fall so to speak. David Martin observed in part,( The Bird, Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression,:) Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
The present government along with and in cooperation with the corporate community seem to be using some or all these techniques to cover up the truth of today's Enrons in America! |
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27. THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT MADE REAL( THE TYRANNY OF THE BOTTOM LINE) Americans are facing one of the must critical times in it's history. The stage is set to determine the question of, "who really runs our government," Big Business/corporations or an elected government "of, for and by the people." Are the ideals of our democracy a reality or is the dilemma of corporate power the bottom line in the US? ` Countries such as Argentina have proved that when business is able to absolutely buy government absolutely "of, by, and for" the people changes quickly to "of, by, and for" the corporations/big business which sadly produces chaos followed by national disaster. This administration makes no bones about who it feels is the must important population to satisfy big business lead by oil. The shadow government of powerful money has always been accepted by the public at large as a contradicting democratic dilemma worth allowing in our political system. However, the balance of power of money becoming the "ideal and the reality" is being decided by the non-enforcement of the "laws against monopolies." These laws are called the "anti-trust laws."( Patrick Montin, Bush's Shadow Government, New York Times, March 5, 2002) G. W. has demonstrated that he feels that big business gaining great power and sole ownership of industries will only be a good for the people. But as we all see with the example of Enron, big business will run-a-muck if it is left on its own, un-regulated (Marjorie Kelly, Business Ethics, Enron and the Myths of Runaway Capitalism, Alternews.org, February 21, 2002). The profit motive and the bottom (Line) objective (Profit) will always serve the company and the individual (CEO) first and last. Another example of the activities that are today making corporations bigger and stronger may be seen in the communications industry.( By David DeGraw, ''Freedom and democracy under attack!" www.AmericanResurrection.com YellowTimes.org, March 09, 2002 ) In a corporate corruption case, a federal court, at the request of Fox News Corp, AOL Time Warner, GE, and Viacom, has provided a decision that could remove the last remaining regulations that prevent corporate conglomerates from monopolizing the American media and communication landscape. A group of cooperation which has become known as the communications Cartel" has bought off and influenced politicians and the Federal Communications Commission, and has been casting aside media ownership rules. The top two corporations in America Microsoft and Wal Mart holds in wealth approximately $195 billion, The top 52 corporations based in America holds wealth of approximately one half trillion dollars (Forbes magazine, The world's top billionaires, February, 2002 ). In a CSPAN program recently it was reported that off shore banks in the Caribbean holds approximately 3 trillion dollars from corporations based in America, on which no taxes are paid. The national debt of the U. S. is six trillion (Bureau of Public Debt), The gross national product is One point two trillion dollars (National Coordination Board) Corporations are already more powerful than elected officials of our government as recorded in the book "The Tyranny of the Bottom Line". If G. W. has by some chance read this book this is all the more reason that US citizens must know who are the names of the "Shadow Government" we here so much about. He has formalized the "Shadow Government. Has he made the until now undeclared "Shadow Government" of Big Business an official "Shadow Government?" |
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28. CONCLUSION (THE REAL WINNERS IN "THE WAR ON TERRORISM") Although it is not readily spoken the real situation in America and corporate power is essentially this. America has been a safe tranquil place for corporations to operate world wide. Corporations have been operating in the past in unsafe-countries to only exploit "natural Resources," get raw materials and then come back to a safe haven as America to use their manufacturing investment in the US to process the materials for sale world wide.. With "Globalization" corporations have come to locate major manufacturing tangible resources in unstable countries which brought with this relocation, the regular loss of such due to upheavals of a countries citizens. In the past these crisis to private corporations were handled by declaring war on a country based on business reasons (conflict) with a moral justification given the American public to get it to commit young men to go die as if it was "a just cause" and we were "on Gods side." In order to get an on-going police force based in the US and supported by US's allies, the undeclared-"War of Terrorism" was invented which is an unending-search for all groups who exercised destructive acts against negative private manufacturing investment activities in any country in the world. The "mercenary International Force" will protect all private facilities and suppress all activities by any oppressed group in any country under the label of "The War On Terrorism." This on-going flexible unfortunate war was immediately adjusted to be a means to support world exploitation by corporations holding tangible properties in all countries forever. It was brilliantly done by corporations which becomes the Shadow Government of all of the known world today!! This "Shadow Government" has always been the real promoter and the main profiteer of the "Manifest Destiny" doctrine. This is easily seen but explained only with a large number of words. The reading public, who is so saturated with misinformation and false foundations, will probably not want to understand this because it attacks too many views we as Americans have about the invulnerability of our Constitution. But if we realize that truth is only used as an agent of a moral person the lies we regularly hear are by those amoral persons, who are not bothered by the burden of conscience. But our public officials do not call them lies. They call them "not being forthcoming," and say anything as long as there is a fall back position with a "plausible deniability". We see these lies protected by these terms every day. We hear such lies as; Elvis Presley still lives, Columbus discovered America, The South won the civil war, Tobacco does not kill, FOX FNC is an unbiased news station, Bush won election 2,etc.. Lastly, the facts (truths) described in this article were gotten by using the resources of the open medium of the "World Wide Web (WWW)". It is obvious that today this the only reliable medium that is essentially free of the pressures to tell only the "Wag The Dog" war machine and corporate line these days!
THE POUNDING YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEAD IS A CONSERVATIVE MISSION TO IMMORTALIZE REAGAN!!! The pounding you are getting in the memorial of President Reagan’s death is not as spontaneous as Americans are programmed to think! In fact this is a well planned on going crusade to redefind and redirect American preception of some basic history and force these perceptions into the institutions of the educationl systems. It is the culmination of at least ten years of planning (CNN , interviews with PUSH, June 5, 2004). Yes, Nixon, Goldwater, Bush, all will be written American history by these dedicated conservatives to be the Greats in the presidents and leaders!Remember how acceptable the label of Liberal was in the near past. Now we see that Liberals will run for cover when a fellow American accuses them of being a Liberal. This is the successful outcome of the right wing conservative foundations and institutions efforts to redefine this trem. It joins the group of negative American phases as Damn Yankee, Communist Pigs, Pinkos, Socialist, Jap, etc. and now Those Old liberals, and Those Old Tax and Send Democrats!!! Just recently the label of Those Old Rag Heads was given to the Muslims. It may not be the right time to engauge in the debate of the reality of the legacy of President Reagan because it is the sensitive emotional moments of mouning. But the debate must take place for the good health of America. The good side of Reagan is overly execrated and presented by the workers of such people as The Heritage Foundation, Big Business (e.g. Exxon-Mobil, Cato Group, Halliburton’s’, etc.) The Goldwater Foundation, The Republican National Committee, Newt Gingrinch, etc. Therefore, here are some of the many things Reagan did that were not so flattering: “The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable for children‘s lunches, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt pardon for racial slurs. Getting cozy with Argentine fascist generals, tax credits for segregated schools, disinformation campaigns, "homeless by choice," Manuel Noriega, falling wages, the HUD scandal, air raids on Libya, "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa, United States Information Agency blacklists of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, the invasion of Grenada, assassination manuals, Nancy's astrologer. Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador. $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African-American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra. "Facts are stupid things (phase)," the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon. -MORE- (66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan David Corn, The Nation. June 6, 2004) It is recorded that, “Reagan's mythic 'likeability' and 'popularity' were manufactured and packaged by the corporate political machine in Washington, then sold to the public after the fact by a willing accomplice: the media. This article from 1989 exposes this myth - the same myth the media is pushing full-steam this week. FAIR: . . . In short, Reagan was one of the most UNPOPULAR presidents of the past 50 years! (http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0609-05.htm ), (David Corn, Reagan’s Bloody Legacy, http://www.Tompains.cvom/print/reagans_bloody_legacy.php, 6/9/2004)
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3. JUVENILE JUSTICE IS THE FINAL SOLUTIONDepartment of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) training session some where in Florida;"Good morning, welcome to the (DJJ) training for Quality Assessment (QA). This is our Juvenile Justice Industry. How many here today operate a Private DJJ Company/Center funded by DJJ. Good, I see that there are nine out of ten providers here today who represent private business. This is the fastest growing industry in Florida today! Let me share with you a few facts about our industry as it is represented here in Florida.First, Florida has approximately 1.3 million children in its schools today. This ranks fourth in the nation behind Texas, California and New York. There are approximately 105,000 juveniles between 10 and 17 years old served by Florida's "Juvenile Justice Industry" and it will increase by about 25 percent in the next five years. This amounts to about 25,000 more clients! Florida has transferred more than 5,000 juveniles to adult prisons. This is more than all 49 states combined. The budget for The Department of Juvenile Justice Program budget is approximately $500,000,000 dollars and it is expected that this will increase by $100,000,000 next year, that is if the republicans continue to control the legislature. With the dissolution of social services as HRS and the placing of these services in the DJJ the primary mission/emphasis/resources have been re-directed to apprehension incarceration and punishment for public safety. Education and Rehabilitation is number twelve and thirteen in the list of DJJ standards. This is our multi million dollar business. If the raw materials for our business, juvenile offenders began to decrease the threshold for offenses resulting in detention can be lowered to less serious infractions. Yes, Our business is sound and growing. Now when we go to review our centers we must avoid looking like a Gestapo, although we are that of a sort (as he stood with his right arm raised in a Nazi salute)" Is not this something the world has seen and heard before?A yellow badge was issued by the Nazis to Jews for identification during the rise of the German Third Reich. For the greater number of inmates in the DJJ the innate badge of "color", Black serves this purpose and it is cheaper. Administration streaming was the skill of the infamous Herman Goring the Gestapo Officer who organized the bureaucracy to handle the Jews. Before this there were many offices that handled such things as social services, deportation, incarceration, and control. This made it a long and cumbersome process until Goring.At first the Jewish children were taken away from their parents for re-education and indoctrination. The adults were taken to various detention center for other things, even social services. this evolved into a system and process of apprehension, and incarceration. There was a process of individual administration of death to Jews, single hangings and so forth. After this was done long enough to desensitize the public a larger number of Jews were put to death by firing squads. This was again was carried out long enough to desensitize the public. Then came the "Final Solution." The death camps were fitted with gas chambers for mass killing and the crematoria's were built. This was the death industry of the Nazi era.Some Jews were even provided positions in this industry. The concentration of Jews in the Warsaw Ghettos came with the apportionment of a Jew to serve as the Mayor, straw boss. They were given privileges to keep the Nazis informed and keep the Jews in place. This is not to unlike the Juvenile Justice Industry here in Florida. Is there not a head Black in charge of this growing industry of putting and keeping moistly Black youths under lock and key?Then here in Florida, USA there is the ingenious twist of the inclusion of "Private for-profit Companies" in this industry. Truly an American innovation to an old "Final Solution." In these times of high emotions in the aftermath of the Purduca, Kentucky and Jonesboro, Arkansas tragedies, maybe we should look to calmer heads. Do we really want to kill our children? Do we want the insanity of a "Final Solution?" We certainly cannot long endure under the heels of short sighted politically expedient solutions.It is unfortunate to see that unwitting whites and Blacks who are looking for jobs who (bubbers, sambos, and Ms. Jane's) are becoming dupes of a squeaky clean, hygienic, social policy of a Final Solution to the problem Blacks and other perceived social out-casts. I too am looking at this good money and need the income provided by my consultant services.The Florida electric chair, lovingly called, "Old Sparky" has desensitized the public enough to accept the smell of the burning flesh of crematoriums. Florida is recently putting a female to death. A white female at that. People are gathering outside to support and view what they can of the killing being held at Starke. Is not then a short walk to the killing of the "Final Solution"; the gas chambers may not be far behind.This is very scary, but very true; and upon my word, I do know that truth will bring anger and punishment. In the worst case they shoot the messenger!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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4. AMERICA AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS IS JUST A PLAYGROUND (1997)It seems to old Frank(ly) that the whole political spectrum of governments, as America may see it, is but a child's run on the playground. I will provide this model as developed by "Sandsspur Tarven and Research Institute," located in Winter Park, Florida, with a Frank(ly) twist.In a playground run by liberal or moderate principals and teachers the children are supervised lightly, recognizing that some children will dominate others, but that no children should be abusively bullied or denied access to the playground and its activities. Sense the Black children are disadvantaged and a protected group they must be provided equality under special regulations in swings set-asides for their cut of equality.Socialism is illustrated by heavy-handed teacher intervention. Children have equality but little freedom-choice to play according to their whims. These interventionist teachers might, for example, prevent children from swinging on their stomachs, or from twisting the swings to their limit and letting it unwind with dizzying speed. Interventionist teachers are fanatics about equality and they make sure that every child gets exactly equal amount of time on each playground item weather they want it or not. Of course the result is that Freedom is sacrificed for the sake of equality and, since the freedom essential to fun is crushed, fun dwindles for everyone. Some Conservative will in an attempt to show up the Socialist set aside a "Character Playground" to provide a competitive atmosphere for the public playgrounds, saying that this competition will provide children and parents with a "better quality" playground!! But if there are Black children there are special rules for protected class because without this they will (may) be placed on the twisting swings even in the middle of its dizzy spiral, and placed frequently on their stomachs in the swings all acts are providing them equality.Just as destructive as the interventionist teacher system is the opposite extreme, promoted by conservatives: the lissez-faire teacher system Conservatives want the teachers to abandon the playground entirely so that the children can control everything. In such a circumstance, the biggest kids (representing wealthy big shots and the politicians who serve them) take over the playground for themselves by bulling and in intimidating everyone else. The result is a kind of "Lord or the Flies" scenario with playground bullies (tobacco executives and oil barons, greedy bond traders) getting away with murder since there is no teacher supervision whatsoever. There are no standards or guide lines for playground and equipment safety. There are minority bully sat-asides of playground equipment such as, yes, the monkey bars!! A bully takes the swings, one the see saws, another the slides, etc. The bullies take the children's lunch money as payment for the use of all equipment. The big kids who take over these things and all the fun things on the playground have a ball while the other kids get the shaft. The white bullies accuse the Blacks children of taking the swings and other fun things thus denying the white children of time on the Play things (Blacks are accused of taking jobs from whites in affirmative action) and the white children attack them leaving the bullies to sit on the spoils unmolested. In fact the bullies become admired by all for their ability to exploit the other children and all provide the bullies honor and respect!!Frank(ly) Speaking, it seems that no matter what political playground scenario America may see, Blacks are inevitability assigned hell!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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5. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATEIt was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.BACK TO THE TOP |
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6. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS ACCOMPLISHMENT BLINDDuring the sixties I attended college with Clyde Foster, who later became the first mayor of a city in Alabama sense reconstruction. While in college we pledged Omega together. Clyde would always say to me, " The white man says you are his Nigger, and when you get bigger you will be my bigger nigger; and when you get a Ph.D. you will be my bigger ,Ph.D. nigger; you will never be too big to be my nigger."At the time I took it as a brotherhood playful thing. But when I got fully grown and had my Ph.D. I found this to be essentially true. However, there was one more condition that a Black could achieve and still be just another nigger to white people. There was Mr. Walter McCoy, who is only one of two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the Great State of Florida. While working at the Department of Education He was treated with some great discrimination. So the saying must go, "You are my nigger; and when you get bigger, a Ph.D. or a Gold metal from the Olympics you will be my bigger, Ph.D., Gold metal winning nigger." That is truly the way brother McCoy was treated by the present Department of Education.Mr. Walter McCoy, who is one of only two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the State of Florida filed a complaint of discrimination against the Florida Department of Education nin1994. Mr. McCoy was hired by the Betty Castor, Commissioner of Education to carry out some minority teacher recruiting and provide a role model for children. He has received many compliments for his work in this area.In 1994, Mr. McCoy was one of a group of nine other Blacks who enter into a combined complaint of discrimination based on race against the Department of Education. McCoy held a Career Service position with the Florida Department of Education in 1992, however, he learned that his position had been "cut" from the budget later that year during a change in administration to that of Mr. Frank T. Brogan.McCoy alleged that he was harassed, and retaliated against because of his race. He was assigned "menial" tasks which were not within he position description to humiliate him and force him to resign. He was never paid at the same rate of pay as his white counter parts. McCoy was finally released in 1995 under the claim that he was being down-sized, however, the very position which was claimed to be cut was refilled with a white employee.In 1997 in an attempt to have the court drop his claim the Department filed a Summary Judgment saying that he was never an employee of the Department although the records show that in deposition the department testified that he was an employee and was released in the down-sizing. In addition, McCoy was not allowed to testify in the trial of three Blacks, who were a part of this combined complaint. The reason given is that his accomplishment as an Olympic Gold Metal Winner would un-dolly prejudice the jury. He was dismissed with testifying.The complaints in this case included; 1. Being kicked in the behind by a white supervisor. 2. Being paid as much as $10,000.00 a year less than comparable white staff. 3. Being called "jungle bunnies" and other racial slurs including the "N" word. 4. All Blacks in the Bureau being placed in an all Black suite of the building. 5. Being "down-sized" while the position being "down-sized" was subsequently filled by a white person. 6. Dispread promotions. 6. more.Sources say that the Olympic Committee has been contacted and is interested in representing McCoy in this litigation. In the mean time negations are being conducted between the department in Mr. McCoy of a out-of-court settlement.BACK TO THE TOP |
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7. ECONOMIC AND PLANET WELFARE CAN BOTH BE ACHIEVEDWe must all be aware at this time of the world wide interest in the prospect of global warming caused by the "hot house" gases labeled Carbon dioxide. As I recall in grade school we had a project in science to set up a "terrarium." this closed ecological system we placed animals and plants, Plants to generate oxygen through photosynthesis for the animals and animals to generate carbon dioxide for the plants. The temperature was critical and did in fact increase in relation to the amount of Carbon dioxide in this closed battle. A simple childish experiment but a simple one to record.In the real world the carbon dioxide/hot house gases are produced by our consumption economy based on energy. This energy is the burning of fuels, fossil fuels in large qualities. In this Economy the more it grows the higher the energy consumption, that is if you are not conscious enough to consider that energy efficiency can be a part of economy-profit growth and increased standards of living. In America, the greatest economy in the present day world the amount of Carbon dioxide emitted has been reported as approximately 108 million tons per year. The U. S. has approximately 250 million people as compared to approximately one billion in China alone. If you calculate the amount of Carbon dioxide which would be emitted by Chain in relation to their population and if this countries standard of living equaled that of the U. S., this would mean that approximately four times as much hot house gases would be released in the atmosphere each year. This would amount to approximately 432 tons if carbon dioxide per year. When India and other third world countries reach the living standard of the U.S. you can probably add another 400 to 500 tons of carbon dioxide per year.What is so scary are the pundits such as Kovac of CNN, William Buckley, and the syndicated columnist as George Will, who all "po po" the prediction of the consequences of a global warming. It seems that these so called "educated" "talking heads" have too much education in a too limited spectrum and too little of a general education.I can just vision the after event of a global warming with George Will, Kovac, and Buckley all crouched in an under ground cave, clutching their money box while in the corner is a twenty foot virus mutant with a napkin under its mouth, looking at them hungrily. The three sit on their money boxes ready to fight this mutant product of a consumption economy which brought them to this sorry condition. In the moments between protecting their booty, they recall the off handed way they debated the destruction of the world above their new dark hole. Will recalls the interview where he so arrogantly debated that this was just another scare, and that "scientist" said that there would be another ice age, that chicken little said that the sky was falling, that the little boy cried wolf, and there was not a dimes worth of difference between these children's tails and scientists.But scientist have allowed themselves to be pushed into a strange position of "media science" where the observations of good science is over shadowed by the proof of hypothesis in a public relation media salesmanship where truth is a condition of public belief not scientific fact.Until there is a balance between the narrow vision of the "profit of business as usual" and a change in resource consumption and human standard of living there will be the specter of a wealth and color blind disaster!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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8. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS THE LEAST PREFERRED CASE FOR LAWYERS (1997)There have been many recent articles about discrimination against protected groups in the work place. It is obvious that the whole process of obtaining regress for such occurrences is ineffective and cumbersome.On Sunday October 26, 1997 an article in the Tallahassee Democrat described problems in the Florida Commission on Human Relations (FCHR). This is the first agency that you would use in filling a complaint for violations of your rights. in Equal Opportunity in Employment. The article recorded the fact that getting your complaint even recorded in this agency is a doubtful process. If this agency does not perform its duty the next step of filing with the Federal Equal Opportunity in Employment Commission if it is either delayed or denied. It is reported that over ninety percent of complaints coming to the FCHR are either dismissed out of hand or settled in favor of the agency. So the obstacles to justice for the harmed starts here in an agency where facilitation should start.If by some miracle you get through this agency with your complaint still intact, the problem of finding a lawyer who will take your case starts. It had been my experience that very few lawyers will even consider taking a case in racial discrimination. It is found that lawyers have a definite preference in terms of case they will take on. First, they would rather take a case involving reverse discrimination, followed by sex discrimination and as a last resort racial discrimination cases.Why do racial discrimination cases receive low priority? As I understand it, in the fraternity or sorority of law people -- a lawyer who takes racial discrimination cases becomes an outcast among his or her peers. Even Black lawyers run for the hills when asked to take cases in racial discrimination. If you are lucky and get a lawyer, then there is the problem of getting a dedicated lawyer. One who will treat you with some degree of dignity. The common experience is that in racial discrimination cases your own lawyer will treat you as if you work for them. You may go to see them and each time wonder if your lawyer will fire you today or if they will spend time enough to really understand your case.If you get through these insidious blockades, then there is the problem of getting a jury of your true peers. In the existing atmosphere where discrimination is tired subject, it has been trivialized and accepted as a sustainable fact of American society. The records show that in the Northern U. S. Court District only one or two cases on racial discrimination have been found in favor of a black by a jury of their peers(?) in the last twenty years!!Consider these facts.If you prevail in court, the settlement of your relief is less than one third of the fees paid to the lawyers for the defense and the plaintiff!!You will suffer the day-in and day-out retaliation on your job because of your complaint. Although your fellow comrades in suffering will get such benefits as raises, privileges, and promotions from your efforts, you will get retribution and retaliations from both black and white alike. Blacks will come to you and say that they have been assigned to control and keep you quiet because you speak out on discrimination!! But in the next breath they will whisper I(we) are proud of you. We really have a problem. I wish I could fight like you. But I have a family and I cannot lose my job. They will send you information under your door and in your mail, in secrecy.Finally, you will find that even civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and Urban League will not want you, unless you win. Then they will want to share your time in the winner's circle!!. The Democratic and Republican party will not touch you.This unequal treatment has become more than discrimination. It is a question of Civil Liberties!! The penalties for committing these violations of Civil Liberties need to be that the institution should pay the financial penalty and the individual(s) pay with jail time. In addition, the laws must be revised to make the financial compensation favor the harmed/plaintiff(s). Further, there must be a complete public disclosure of all disbursed funds to the lawyers and plaintiffs. Presently, it is easy for lawyers for both sides to reach a no loss arrangement. This makes it questionable that a plaintiffs lawyer will be totally dedicated to winning a case.BACK TO THE TOP |
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9. THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM IS BIG BUSINESS!!! (1996)On September 23, 1994 I was driving back to Tallahassee, Florida on I-75. There was four trucks with over sized loads holding up the normal 65 MPH flow of traffic. These loads were large gray concrete four celled modules with sliding steel doors, in which there was a small closable metal window. After trying for some time to get around this convey I finally got to the front truck. There was the most alarming sign in this lead vehicle which said, " CELL MFGR'S LTD(Limited), THE FLORIDA SOLUTION, Leesburg , Florida, POD#4." What I was seeing was the manufacture of modular prison cells. This was Florida's solution to the mass production of jails to solve the problems of American society.On September 26, 1994 on TV, a Black man, Mr. Harry Singletary, Secretary of Corrections, in The Great State of Florida was giving an enthusiastic report on the ahead-of-schedule production of Jail Cells. He said in essence, " Florida is doing a fantastic job in getting ready to quickly incarcerate large numbers of prisoners (people) by using pre-manufactured modular jail cells. We are ahead of schedule. We therefore, need to accelerate the hiring of more officers and guards to take care of these inmates. The legislature must more ahead of schedule and allocate us funds for personal for the Criminal Justice Industry." Or something to that effect.The possibilities and prospects of fostering this idea and creating the massive industry of building modular prison cells at a rate many time faster than on-the-site construction is staggering. That means that the U. S. has found the answer to getting not only the dangerous criminals of the streets, but this creates the opportunity and means to expand incarceration to other minor offenders and inconveniences; jay walkers, litters, those who do not know political incorrectness, Chinks, Japs, Niggers, Jews!!! Well - maybe not Jews.The inertia of this industry fueled by the manufacturers, the officers, the guards, the administrators the suppliers of goods and services will be so massive that only a catastrophe event could turn it around. Let us look at England.England the cradle of capitalism and the genesis of the manifestation of the society of the many very , very poor, the few very, very rich, the breeding of petty thieves, the alienated , the poor houses, and yes, the process of sending the excess/surplus population to " uncivilized' territories of Hawaii, Australia, South America, North America, South Africa ... the penal colonies as Devil island!! But sense there are no more far off uninhibited places to send those outside the economic and social structure of our America, we must find an in house solution , to our societies problems jails, jails and more jails, or the final solution ... death camps. Blacks will be fighting for the positions of employment created in formation of the instruments of the final solution. They will be "Team Players!!!"BACK TO THE TOP |
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10. TOBACCO THE EVIL EMPIRE/INDUSTRY (August 22, 1997)Would you believe that evil industry/empire, Tobacco has been allowed to continue to produce it's proven and admitted agent of death? This is the most incredible example of how trivial our social/economic system has become when the lives of citizens can be bargained against the ;lost of capital($) to an industry!!This bargaining with the Tobacco industry by balancing the lives of citizens is the same as bargaining with the Nazi's industry of concentration camps which were killing Jews by the millions and saying that if you cut down on the number of Jews you kill over the years you can continue to carry on the industry of death.The Tobacco industry is being allowed to continue to produce their product of death if they just pay something for their past killings and cut back on the 400,000 people per year they are presently kill from tobacco related problems.Over the last 50 years at the rate of 400,000 deaths per year Tobacco has killed approximately 20,000,000 people in the U. S. alone!! This is a true holocaust greater than Germany committed against the Jews and the holocaust against the blacks during slavery combined. Don't you think that a world wide tribunal should be held to bring these death merchants to justice? They are no more than international criminals.If this "deal" to change their action in America is not sad enough, the Tobacco industry is fighting to maintain their unrestricted activities in China and all other nations outside the U. S.Any deal that leaves Tobacco in business is intellectually incomprehensible and morally indefensible !!BACK TO THE TOP |
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11. THE ANATOMY OF UNEQUAL TREATMENT (1995)One of the greatest deterrents to racial and sexual justice (which is directly related to the success of institutions in the U. S.) is the "business as usual" practiced by the white, male, good ole boys, who by their accepted omnipotence see things in the nature of their "eminent domain" and "manifest destiny;" These good ole boys sit smiling, double talking, lying, condescending, patronizing, sneaking, and playing overly innocent on things of equality which effect the lives of people; They are continuing to do business as usual out of the sunshine, on the golf courses, in the bars, at closed board meetings Task Forces, Transition Teams etc. They either provide only lip service to the laws against discrimination as long as they do not have to pay (money) in any way for their heavy handed, matter of fact conduct of the public's business. At times they just ignore Blacks and women as if they did not exist!! They plan their conduct using the works of Adolph Hitler, Ross Lumbaugh, Eddy Amein, Bull Conner, the GIANTS of literature on social architecture. This load stone around the life's neck of society is the main reason that America's institutional initiatives in equality always fail.Although recently we have seen the few successes of such challenges to injustice in the Black FBI Agents Vs Denny's Restaurant case, the Davis Vs Proctor Pontiac case, the Black Employees Vs Shoney's Restaurant case, etc. where the violator of civil rights were made to pay. I can say from experience that the real reason that even Public Education Institutions are in trouble is because of the accepted negative way in which race, sex, and differentism is treated by the powerful to relegate the objective of educating to a place of failure.In The Great State of Florida the Institution of Education is a basitum of sexual and racial injustice. The State Education system must be dragged kicking and screaming to the bar of justice. They have never been seriously challenged to wipe out preoccupation with power to satisfy EGO, power for the sake of power, and for a sake of racial discrimination; Making them pay for these evil activities will be the only cure. If the state has to pay it will get rid of the good ole boy of the fiftyish ages or so for they are by their nature destroying the institution and more importantly costing money by their actions. Instead of working for good education they are day in and day out working on their own positions of power and the exercise of keeping women and Blacks in their place. They use the knowish tricks to rig the system; use the weak and Tomish Blacks as overseers to hold down any "Smart Niggers." Further some women who are trying to get ahead feel they must emulate the good ole boys in order to demonstrate their equal prowess. They pit emotions against emotions, instead of reason against reason, or fact against fact.How can this cycle be broken. There must be a consistent, intense, intelligent process of filling complaints against agencies on every case of harmful illegal discrimination and harassment. The relief for such activities must be payment in money for damages. If an agency or firm wishes to discriminate they must be prepared to pay for such privileges.BACK TO THE TOP |
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12. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SUED FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY (OCTOBER 1,1997)After over twenty years of problems in discrimination in The Florida State of Education in 1994 thirteen Blacks Dr. Rufus Ellis, Ms Vessie Felton-Joseph, Mr. William Pittman, Jr., Ms. Debra Crowell, Ms. Rosezetta Bobo, Ms. Shirley Webester, Ms. Linda Dukes, Mr. Norman McMillian, Ms. Valderine Grant, Dr. Baxter Wright, Mr. Walter McCoy, Ms. Margaret Jones and Dr. James A. Scruggs filed the history making first compliant against this department with the United States District Court Northern District of Florida Tallahassee Division. This discrimination was alleged to be systemic, continuous, and on-going. Further, records show that between 1978 and 1996 approximately 95% of all discrimination suits filled against the Department of Education were during the tenure of Commissioner of Education, Mr. Frank T. Borgan.After many pretrial hearings and many summary judgment which resulted in some of the plaintiffs being dropped from the case because of such things as missing deadlines for filling their complaints, the first of (which included three of the plaintiffs,) six trials was held the week of September 22-26, 1997 in Tallahassee, Florida.In September, 1994 Dr. Baxter Wright, a Black male was given a below average performance evaluation by a white female supervisor and subsequently released. Prior to this Dr. Wright had never received a below average performance evaluation in the many years he worked with the Department.In the late 1970's the minutes of the Equal opportunity Employment Committee recorded that a Black janitor reported that on the desk of the Department's personnel officer was two stacks of applications, one saying qualified applicants the other saying some more "nigger" applicants!!In December 1993, a Black male employee in the Graphic Arts Section, who was an outstanding employee of the Department of Education ( as rated by the Commissioner of education) was a victim of "Affirmative Action" when he was kicked in the buttocks by a white female supervisor. He was forced to leave the Department because of this racist act.The allegations by the plaintiffs in the first trial included:In 1991, a Mr. Pittman, a Black male applied for a position of "Liaison" between the State and The Federal Government. He received a letter thanking him for applying but the position had been filled by someone else. In 1995 while checking the "Personnel Action Forms," (which are forms that record the applicants for the position) he found that his name was never included in the applicant pool and therefore, he was never a part of the competition for the position. However, his name was placed on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office of "candidates considered" to demonstrate on paper that "Equal Opportunity in Employment" was followed. Further Mr. Pittman was paid as much as $10,000.00 per year less than whites employees in the same position for as many as 20 years. He was never appointed as "acting" for any position as were his white counter parts.In 1977, a survey of employees in the Bureau of Compensatory Education, Department of Education found that all Blacks receiving "outstanding" evaluations and receiving "merit" pay on the basis of these evaluations were evaluated by Black supervisors. Further, a suit against the department in 1979 resulted in getting all black employees off annual contracts and onto "Career Service" in the department. However, the part addressing pay and promotion equity was never carried out.Dr. Ellis alleged that a white female supervisor denied him Department benefits of training, ridiculed him, berated him in public and with his co-workers, and withheld critical information which would have assisted him in performing his duties. The tool of Performance Evaluation was used as an "Affirmative Action" to place Dr. Ellis on probation and promote the process of firing him. Ms. Felton-Joseph, who managed a statewide program for Homeless Children, alleged that she was; 1) denied an upgrades because of race while white persons have been provided upgrades without cause, 2) involuntarily moved to a location within the DOE where the majority of other blacks in the Bureau were located, 3) suffered retaliation from a whites supervisor by such things as getting low performance evaluations, 4) denied additionally personnel who were already funded and necessary to conduct the state's "Homeless Program," when funds were available denied a secretary which was funded to work for the states' "Homeless Program," and 5) denied reimbursement for approved travel associated with the duties of the program. Dr. Scruggs alleged; 1) that he was denied an interview for the Position of Administrator of The Office of Science Improvement where Mr. Jack Leppert, a white male was hired (who did not meet the minimum qualification and had no education or background in any field of science) although he was more qualified than other applicants, 2) The second time the position was advertised the Department took "Affirmative Action(s)" by bringing in Mr. Thomas Baird, another white male who was assigned the position of "Acting Administrator", to get the experience in the program and subsequently hire him permanently, again without providing Scruggs an interview. This Office hired only one Black, a secretary although this grant from the National Science Foundation required the written assurance that Blacks and minorities would be hired as a condition for receiving the funds!! 3) Scruggs alleged that he suffered retaliation from department employees both Black and white, who were told that he had to be controlled because of his out spoken activities about the treatment of Blacks in the Department. There were many times when terms such as "Jungle Bunnies" and "you people" were used to describe Blacks in his staff. 4) In 1988, it was found that in the process of filling a position of Director of The Prevention Center, "Affirmative Action" was taken when a white male applicant was interviewed and immediately placed on the interview committee to complete the interviews of the other applicants. This white male was given the position before the interviews were completed and allowed to participate as an official member of the interview team to finish the interviewing of the other applicants. The report to the "Equal Employment Opportunity Agency" recorded the distribution of candidates considered but never suggested that the out come of the selection was decided before the interviewing of candidates was completed. In 1988, it was found that the Department of Education was found to be taking "Affirmative Action" by placing the names of Blacks on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Agency to satisfy the ethnic distribution of who were applicants considered, as though Blacks had applied and were interviewed for positions. This was the way in which the "Affirmative Action" process was conducted, but only on paper. The relief for this violation of Department Rules and Procedures was that "the Department would train the staff to be better at filling positions." 5) In 1978, "Affirmative Actions" were taken to fill a position of Administrator , Adult and Community Education by appointing a white male to the position before the advertisement was closed and the interviews had been conducted. The name of this white male was printed in the new Department phone book before the interviews demonstrating that the decision was made in "Affirmative Action" haste.The States defense was essentially that all these things did occur; However, the whole thing was color natural. All these things did happen but at no time was color taken into account when decisions were made or actions were taken.In closing Attorney for the plaintiffs, Steve Andrews, " The Department wants you to believe that these are Oprah-watching, cheese ball-eating, unemployment-grubbing people who are not worthy of a judgment in this case... If you say to someone in America today, 'This black person has an attitude (as the department's attorneys were saying) I submit to you that it sends a message... people who complain about their treatment as black people have a bad attitude, but those who don't have the right attitude. "The attorney for the state, Harry Chills said, "None of the things they're talking about were based on skin color. There is a legitimate reason for everything they're complaining about... Scruggs simply finished second to a white applicant for the science education job, and Pittman's salary gap was due to differing duties and responsibilities..." Chiles further stated that although no black has ever been appointed as to a Acting" position by the Department of Education it had nothing to do with race.After a jury of six whites and two Blacks heard all these complaints and the rebuttal from both sides and after about five hours of deliberation, a verdict which found against the plaintiffs was brought to the court.The plaintiffs were so stunned after receiving the verdict that comments were few.Dr. Scruggs said that he was trying to understand this great justice system in America. It mat be the best in the world but sometime it is difficult to get it to work. He said further that although the state tried to make it seem that Doug Jamerson and Altha Manning, who were both Black state leaders had something to do with our problems this there is no truth in this. It was a Black white problem.Mr. Pittman and Ms. Joseph had no comments.BACK TO THE TOP |
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13. WEALTH/CAPITAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN GOVERNMENTS (September 26, 1997)It is evident today that "capital/money/wealth" is truly power. It is more powerful than governments and as exampled in the Tobacco we see that power/wealth corrupts. Historically power has passed from Kings-Queens-monarchs- and somewhere during the industrial revolution it passed to money. In addition, constructs as "anti monopoly" laws are poorly enforced allowing the concentration of vast wealth and control of resources to the hands of a very, very few.On April 4, 1997 a NBC news cast was reporting essentially that, " In Iraq power was passed from "capital" to the producers of food-farmers and other producers. It continued to observe, "This transfer of power has turned the system Up-side-down!!" But hold it, this powerful observation is true with one important change! This transfer of power has not turned the system up-side-down. It has turned things right-side-up. It is one of those rare occasions where a good thing happens and the world or part of the world turns right-side-up.Capital is truly the tyrant of the present day world. Governments are the shadow of wealth/capital. Wealth rules government. Observe how money bought elections in America in 1997. It is amazing that the world is essentially convinced that without "capital" nothing can be started or finished; and when a group of people, especially a third world country makes a try at self determination ignoring "capital" they are declared as out casts, communist, socialist, heretics, evil empires, up-side-down and overt activities are instituted to bring them into line. When in fact capital(ism) as practiced today is based on human greed, avarice, malice, doing as little as possible while gaining the highest returns. What is good for General Motors is good form the nation Further, with the courts and administrations more then any other time in our history refusing to enforce anti trust laws more and more capital is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. These mergers are making more powerful wealth with less accountability to national good. As England said when taking control of South Africa which was controlled by the ZULU, "we must destroy their social, economic, religious, and military institutions; and replace them with our institutions of capital and religion. They will loose even their ability to feed themselves without our guidance." Look at Zaire for a good example of how good this works.You might wonder why are there so many militia groups, the Texas Republic Separatists, the farmers mistrust of government, etc. There is a very simple answer. It is the fact of the tyrannical nature of "capital(s)" power as it influences government. It is without conscience or moral imperative. Wealth acting though the federal government is squeezing the many little people into submission or a fight. First, the government which is visible and easily identifiable and acting at the will of capital for increasing profit by for closing on small farms or allowing mergers of companies which clearly produces a monopoly. Government, therefore, is seen as the problem and thus becomes the object of attack by those who are trying to become part of the property/capital society. Capital is, 1) convincing the public that big government, which should keep business accountable, is a supreme violation of the civil rights of people and of course capital. 2) capital is needs only the controls of that natural phenomenon called "market forces/supply and demand." But today it is not accompanied with fair competition that keeps act ities fair, moral, and in line with human needs.Yes, Iraq may not be the most acceptable nation to use as an example of a right-side-up system of power and capital because of the baggage Saddum Hassan has brought. But if free world capital had not been withdrawn from this economy, I assure you that the western perceived norm of capital being all powerful and really right-side-up would not have this contrast anywhere. But as for us poor but educated (not enlightened) Americans citizens, wealth is all powerful; and if in our brief life times we wish to make it( as they say in the vernacular) we must worship at this alter even if we know in our hearts that it is a false and iniquitous god.BACK TO THE TOP |
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14. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS EASY TO SEE BUT HARD TO PROVE IN OUR COURTS (September 14, 1997)Recently the coverage of a racial discrimination trial reported by the Tallahassee Democrat made it very clear that, first, there has been a desensitization of the public feelings on racial discrimination, and secondly, Blacks have been forced to compete with sexual harassment and reverse discrimination for the most despaired treatment.In this Henry VS the Tallahassee Police Department it seems that Henry, who is a Black officer alleged that he had been discriminated against because of race. In the Tallahassee Democrat the testimony of witnesses for the plaintiff and the defendant were reported. It was remarkable to notice that the testimony of the Black witnesses were reported more briefly than that of the white witnesses for the Police Department. In fact it would seem from the reports that the Black witnesses were always painted with a suspicious blemishing brush. Their character was challenged and the fact that they may have had some "events of discrimination in their lives that made them bias against the Police Department." Further, the court ruled not to allow some documents which were reported to contain such racially negative language as "nigger" and "poach monkeys" into evidence because they would prejudice the jury. This may be peculiar seeing as how this is a case of alleged discrimination based on race. The six member jury consisted of five whites and one Black. On August 26, 1997 it was reported that the jury was dead locked and there was a mistrial. The paper did not say exactly who on the jury was the hold out(s) but it did report that the "lone" hold out was described by the chairman of the jury as a person who had not seen the same trail as the other five. Maybe this hold out was the lone Black juror? Oh my gosh an interview with this juror on TV reviled that he was the Black juror!!In any case this is a superior example of how desensitized whites have become on the subject of racial discrimination. This is particularly important to those who may seek "justice" in the counts. They must look for the fair and just from among their peers jurors), the fair and just in judges of the court, the fair, just and interested in their attorneys. These qualities are left to be wondered about when we see daily how attorneys for both plaintiff and defendant spend much effort trying to choose a jury of bias peers and in the case of racial discrimination a jury of white only where ever possible. A case of racial discrimination and/or mistreatment must be bazaar, cruel, heinous, and extraordinary for this cover of desensitization to be breached.For example, the case in New York City where a Black male Haitian was arrested, dragged into the toilet and sodomized with the handle of a toilet plunger. Even in this extreme treatment of a Black there seems to be no clear cut cry of "no never in America" from the white community. In fact there is the continual stream of rationalization coming from officials. Some say that this Haitian man was attacking the policeman with his "but" and they had to subdue him by subduing his attacking body part!!In the words of that giant in literature, Rodney King, Can't we all just learn to live together???BACK TO THE TOP |
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15. REMANUFACTURING NEW GINGRICH (September 9, 1997)It was a real miracle to see the notorious and invincible Newt Gingrich go from "king of the Hill "to "road kill!!" Newt developed a case of political halitosis and was out of juicy fruit gum. Now the engagement in his resurrection is frightening. It is because it just may work.Recently, we have seen the orchestrated conflict between Newt and the far, far right fringe of the Republican Party. This group is saying that Newt is not carrying their banner as high as they feel he should carry it. Then there was the staged conflict between a member of the party who was said to have been trying to unseat Newt as Speaker of the House. This made for media coverage where there had been none. Newt is even loosing weight in order to remake/change his image!! These activities are to many an indication that Newt may not be so far out in left field. But this author is more than a little suspicious that the right wing attack is staged only to push Newt more to the middle and acceptable political ground by not having him move but making the far right look even further out. I hope, no I know that the public will not be so easily fooled.The powerful media and a good public relation team has proven that it can hood wink the public easily so many times and again make an admired person out of a hypocrite! Like a snake in wolf's clothing, Newt is waiting to strike again. But we must be aware of the tale about the lady who found the beautiful snake which was in the road run over by passing automobiles. This snake was close to road kill, not to unalike Gingrich. The lady took this snake home and nursed it back to health. But as soon as it was well the lady found the snake to be cute, pressed it close to her loving breast and the snake viciously bit her. As she was slipping into unconsciousness she looked at the snake in some great surprise as the snake said, "you knew I was a snake when you took me home." Newt will surely bite again as soon as he is well. He has a contract on America.Let us not forget and by the way, when Newt's fine for ethics violations was paid by "Bob" Dole it was just another ploy/attempt to make Newt legitimate by association. Great move!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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16. DISCRIMINATION IN THE FLORIDA OF EDUCATIONAfter over twenty years of problems in
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17. THE THIRD WORLD WAR; THE ECONOMIC WARIt is obvious that the Third World War is
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18. CAN POLITICS STILL BUY BLACKS FOR VERY LITTLEI was reading in an article published by the Associated Press that The democratic and the republican parties are fast courting the Black in Florida. As I observed in subsequent article this year the Democratic party in it mis guided action of deposing legislator Willie Logan from the position of "Speaker Designee of the party has created the opportunity for the Black to declare its self an Independent Voter group. This has indeed become the case.Yes, Politics .... Politics .... politics .... Politics on my mind. Sort of like an old Negro blues song I used to know which went; whisky .... whisky .... whisky ,,,, whisky stays on my mind. It is intoxicating and corrupting.In Florida, "Buddy" Mackay picked Danztler for a running mate, Bush picked Brogan for a running mate. The position of Commissioner of Education as of July 8, 1998 has no candidate Democratic or Republican. It is opportunity; Opportunity for a change in education for Florida's children ( this is the moral imperative of it ). or Opportunity of a political nature.For the over all leadership which is at this time truly white and male, both parties have the opportunity to show diversity in a Black or/and a female. The Democrats have the opportunity of healing their loyal Black party members by running a Black, maybe even Willie Logan for Commissioner of Education. He was the start of all this trouble. He has name recognition, shows skill, and ability. Of course, he will be a choice between him, Willie and Representative Keith Arnold Democrat, Fort Myers and present candidate for Governor and has $500,000.00 to bring to the commissioner campaign. So Democrats are deliberating over the question, "are Black votes worth $500,000.00 or are the fish fries, barbecued pork, and church visits still good enough for Black voters.The republicans have only 1.5 % of Black registered with their party. Will they choose a Black as J. C. Watts or a Clarence Thomas or some like Black. No they will choose another white male Mr. Gallagher, the former Insurance Commissioner. Good name recognition. But will it help to get the 17% of the Black votes they say they need to win for sure.Democrats are in the position of trying to recover the most loyal democrats they had, Blacks. Have they concluded that, " Blacks have short memories and are easy to satisfy; therefore, you can insult Blacks early in an election year which will invigorate the 'Bubber' vote and near the end of the voting year provide Blacks gestures of "love" a fish fry, some barbecue pork, some cold water melon and a pat on the head??" If this were true and this made Blacks happy, it will play well for the "virtue" of democratic politicians, because in the words of Aristotle, " a political shows virtue went they make the citizens happy.. Although shallow and shorted this is the classic fulfillment of virtue, politics, and Platonic statesmanship. It as demonstrates that Black voters have been defined as immature, ignorant, and easily swayed by emotion instead of reason and analytical deductions.The Republicans have concluded that they need or can right now get at least 17 percent of the Black votes. However, they have, in my estimation concluded that such right wing republican issuers as School Vouchers, Schools of Choice and anti affirmative action are the issuers Blacks have misunderstood and will gladly join republican ranks as soon as their great white father explains it in a way they can understand. This is a real mis understanding of the intelligence of the Black voter and will in the end make their goal a more difficult to realize.Now there are two camps of Blacks who are jumping into this moving political water:First, there those Blacks who will give them anything they want knowing that this will be the quickest way to their personal ambition of getting a piece of the pie. They deliberately take the easy premises in a problem or issue ( usually the false premises ) so they will be loved and in the end come to the false conclusion ( the false conclusion) to be loved by the master. These Black will be seen in the image of the notorious Uncle Clarence Thomas, presently a Black member of the U.. Supreme Court. I have personally seen the efforts of republicans as they try to convince Blacks that they do not really see the "virtue" in the dissolution of such things as affirmative action and the sabotage of the present public school system using School Vouchers and School of Choice. It is sad that the present state of such public institutions as education and the mission of affirmative action has left it so vulnerable to attack. But alas, it is true; Public Education and affirmative action has not worked because of the behavior and attitudes of the people who run these initiatives; therefore, "lets not dissolve it" is hard to defend.Secondly, there are those Blacks who after seeing avarice, ignorance, lying etc. will take the chance, be the hero and choose virtue, good, truth, ethics, and moral imperatives and in the face of the great back-pressure of prevailing public opinion and political threats even from their own kind who want to continue to rule at the feet of their master, take the right path. In my opinion we must admire the second group of people!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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19. THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA IS INSTITUTIONALIZED THROUGH FOUNDATIONSSince Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, the right wing consisting, mainly of conservative Republicans have made a consecutive, dedicated, long-range effort to bring their agenda to a institutional reality. The conservative foundations have been a very large part of this effort.For example, these conservative foundations have grown profusely in number and have over three billion dollars in their budgets for activities. They have given profusely to state and regional organizations that are actively promoting a conservative philosophy/propaganda, developing public positions, perceptions, feeding information to policy makers with a conservative slant, and crafting and disseminating messages for media and public consumption.Today, over 100 conservative public policy institutes exist. In fact just recently a conservative foundation purchased property from Ronald Reagan for approximately six million dollars for the purpose of training young people to be good conservatives. This is reminiscent of the Nazis young camps in the thirties. They are closely linked through extensive support and communications networks. For example, the conservative or Rutherford Foundation is supporting the Paula Jones efforts against a perceived progressive president. Conservative foundations are supporting efforts to recruit, Blacks to carry the conservative agenda to their group. These Blacks such as Clearance Thomas, J. C. Watts the conservative Congressman from Oklahoma, the radio talk show host, Ken Hamble, Bernard, the Black member of the California Board of Reagents who helped to turn back Affirmative Action through Proposition 209, etc. are provided high visibility and frequent media opportunities, far in excess of that the progressive foundations provide progressive Blacks. It is said by conservatives that liberal or progressive foundations "don't have a really sharp political program that they are seriously pushing with funding. They are kind of bumbling along. But the neoconservatives are much more consciously , purposefully, and in a focused way, trying to advance ideas. Progressive foundations are seemingly timid and easily driven to cover."Conservative fund donors have also channeled resources to build "a media empire" that consists of national conservative policy journals, a network of right-wing student newspapers, according to a recent article in the publication "These Times." The support of such talk shows host as Oliver North is one prime example of success. Conservative corporate and other foundation funder's are in mark contrast to progressive funder's. Conservative approaches have focused on the building of over-arching institutions such as "Charter Schools," The Juvenile Justice Industry, and networks that link progressive constructs that redefine the other side ( progressive) by stringing liberal, public servants, progressive, in the same sentences with communist, bleeding hearts, pinko-s, homosexual, pathetic weaklings; and it has worked for the most part. If something is said often enough this subliminal message will become a part of the publics belief system.These conservation's have successfully blemished progressive/liberals to the extent that even the one time Black civil rights types and just pure opportunist are denying their historical stand on conscience and compassion for the under privileged to side with the Newt/Rush appeal to reasoning (?). You can see the example of these blacks, who are making their living as administrators of institutional "diversity" programs, administrators of programs for the disadvantaged such as Title 1, or Blacks generally in soft money positions of anti discrimination programs are saying such things as, " I'm not a liberal. These human service programs are old bleeding efforts. In fact I personally agree with the death penalty!!!" Even Blacks who are strong and intelligent enough to know better are driven to support conservative issues detrimental to their kind by the extreme pressure of the volume of conservative foundation money.BACK TO THE TOP |
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20. BLACKS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROFOUNDLY EFFECT CHANGEThe political parities seem to be ready for a dialogue on Black issuers, at least the democrats are as seen in their article in the Tallahassee, Democrat on June 29, 1998. Be assured that Black spokespersons for both parties will be sent for highly visible presentations on both sides. I would like to provide you with the predication that some Blacks will take the Uncle Clarence Thomas approach to their presentation which is the selfish abhorrent sighted road to personal pieces of silver and in contrast there will be those Blacks who will cease the moment and provide some real guidance to both Black and white listeners.The opportunist will come across essentially like this, " .... It is time to abandon this unsupported notion that racism and discrimination is not dead. The Affirmation Action camps are holding on to the long discredited notion that we as Blacks need the supports of unfair laws around preferences and special treatments to get what we already have in the land of the free and home of the brave .... I have to admit that I am appalled to record that my mother was mis lead when she took the ill conceived supports of welfare. I am ashamed to admit that I was admitted to the university by the way of that cruel program of Affirmative Action. .... It was my boot straps that I used to get what was already mine to take .... "Then in contrast Blacks of real vision will take this opportunity to respond to the occasion in the way The Honorable Alcee Hasting or Frederick Douglas would have. They will be truthful and respectful. It may have gone like this I do believe: " .... Let me start by saying that I am highly appreciative and completely overwhelmed by the great privilege you have provided me to speak before this honorable group. It is true that we in America share a common destiny. We are like a ship of sailors on a stormy sea. Being so pounded by the divine powers of our God of nature that we by this very potential tragedy and going down by the way of our sinking ship, we are bound to stay afloat together or going down together. We are face with the decision of the ship of fools who will succumb to their own individual prejudices and fight their fellow ship mates and in some great surprise go with certain death to a common watery grave. But there is this glimmer of hope The hope that our common attribute of good, sound, mental prowess, rise to the highest of human character and pull together and in the end sail our ship into a safe harbor.... That is our destiny today .... We must admit in the privacy of our hearts that we all have these terrible prejudices that if not admitted and ceased by our common sense will destroy us all .... We live in a country based on Ideals but run on power and prejudices .... This is our burden and our common challenged .... Yes, I am a party person, but more than that I am a rational, loyal American and a true Black human being .... All of which I accept and use to a common good...."The point is that a time in history is presently thrust upon us. If we join the wrong voice we will in fact become a party to our own assignation. When faced with a choice of rotten apples we must choose from a better barrel. Jesse Jackson recently choose well when he said this year he would establish a deferent choice from the look alike democratic and republican parties. Weather the leaders are politicians, sorority, fraternity, 100 Black men or women, 100 most powerful Black men or women in America, Ministers, or commoners our choice is clear we must be progressive, humanist, solders of civil rights, high character and seeking justice. That is our only intelligent destiny.And, please don't shoot the messenger, Please!!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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21. THE NEW REVELATION; PARENTS HAVE AN EFFECT ON CHILD'S EDUCATIONJust recently a report in the magazine "Money" reported that the most important part of a child's achievement in education was the parent! Now this is a big revelation. It may be of a greater surprise to report the study that found that all human children were born of human mothers , who are females. Further , it is of even a bigger surprise to report that day light hours are always accompanied by the fact that the part of the earth that is facing the sun - in the day light hours. Is it such a revelation that any one can conclude with a high degree of accuracy that if you put your hand into an open flame you will, one hundred percent of the time get a burn and a smell of cooked flesh, your own!! Maybe it is usual that the superior human intellect to be spent satirically documenting the facts that are so obvious to any normal human, who is willing and free of mind enough to use their five natural senses of hearing, sight, smell, feel, and taste accompanied with the rational mind.What dose this all mean,. Well to me it means that the tools of science when once learned by the simple minded are used in an exercise to show that they can prove the obvious and move old bones from one grave yard to another with ruffling the fathers of all the other simple minds that have proved the same thing for centuries. But even in intellectual circles if a person took the chance to disregard the foolish works of the colleagues that have gone before and make a try at disproving the garbage that has for generations kept the human spirit in bondage the whole intellectual world will pounce on this poor fool and soundly secure their destruction. But for the educator not to have known that the parent has a profound part in the child education even before this study, is a sin before God.BACK TO THE TOP |
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22. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATEIt was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.If you wish to comment please click on the e-mail belowBACK TO THE TOP |
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23. CLONING A BAD IDEA (August 14, 1997)In the week of February 28, 1997 a scientist announced that the process of cloning" was now a reality! They had successfully cloned a sheep. The following week another scientist in America announced that they also had successfully cloned a monkey. This is the most serious advent sense the atomic bomb! The week on August 9, 1997 an American scientist announced that they were patenting a process of cloning cattle. There are serious questions that immediately come to mind.First , it is obvious that we as humans have not advanced to the level that we can handle even the simplest questions on human morality. Our competence cannot even handle questions surrounding the present diversity of humans/citizens here on earth today.Now consider the day when scientist announce that humans have been crossed with a monkey in the same way as a donkey was crossed with a horse to produce a "mule." This can be done with the same animals because their chromosome counts are close; as are the chromosome counts of monkeys and humans. Will the offspring of a human and a monkey be called a "hule?" Further, will a "hule" be human enough to be treated as a human or will it be animal enough to be treated as an animal? What civil rights will this "hule" have?The religious community will have to face the profound question of whether a "hule" has a soul; and if it dies what kind of burial will it deserve?; and can it be buried in a white grave yard; or will this "hule be buried in a black grave yard?The business community will have to decide that if this "hule" has the same or similar physical dexterity and intellect as a human, can they work it as an animal or will they have to consider the rights of this "hule" the same as human rights. Will hules replace the third world countries cheap labor market?The military will have to be told if it can recruit a hule as a solder; and if so will they have to provide the same support as they give a human solder. Can a hule become an officer?We should not be surprised when the time is considered "right" an announcement in made that there has already been experiments that have produced this hule and human clones. Yes, I believe that some hot shot scientist has already conducted these experiments and the time is not yet "right" to present it to the public!!Then there is the question, "Is a hule breed from a black person as equal as a hule breed form a white person?" Do Blonde hules have more fun and are they more equal. Is it moral to use the hule as love toys? Should hules be allowed to marry?What will happen when the government patient office issues the first patent on the production of a hule? Who will get the first business rights to mass produce these hules?These are real questions of a very serious nature!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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24. AMERICA THE IDEAL AND THE CONTRADICTIONS (Posted April 2, 2002) INTRODUCTION "The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporation form were inherent in the citizen; and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life and, hence, to be borne with resignation. throughout the greater part of our history a different view prevailed. Although the value of this instrumentality in commerce and industry was fully recognized, incorporation for business was commonly denied long after it had been freely granted for religious, educational and charitable purposes. It was denied because of ear. Fear of encroachment upon the liberties and opportunities of the individual. Fear of the subjection of labor to capital. Fear of monopoly. Fear that the absorption of capital by corporations, and their perpetual life, might bring evils similar to those which attended mortmain. There was a sense of some insidious menace inherent in large aggregations of capital, particularly when held by corporations." Justice Brandeis, in Ligget vs. Lex ______________________ That American is a nation built on "ideals" that are expressed in its constitution but run on "power" is truly the classical contradiction. Many authors have observed that America has in its constitution a separation of powers into the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. This was to prevent of a "dictator" or "monarch" evolving over time. It is also said that the management of this democracy was planned to prevent a possible bureaucracy that could do anything that would have a sudden impact on American life. We can see that all these things have been effective in America so far. No matter how radical any "power group" or corporation becomes the first amendment makes it possible for those who get too far from the center, and the good of the people, can be brought down by any individual or group of individuals, These powerless people can exercise their right to freedom of speech and organize around the undesirable condition that power in bad faith has produced. Therefore, in good faith and with great reliability we can say "and this to shall past." The marrying of the executive branch with corporate profit , greed, and selfish power "shall too past" only if and only if "we the people" preserve and exercise our right under the powerful First Amendment, the freedom of speech!! Today, under a Republican president, who is a true pro-business, America has come once again to the place in our history where "money/power" is greater than elected government power. Michelle Goldberg in his article "18 Tales of Media Censorship (AlterNet.org, April 1, 2002) describes depth of the US government's regular and common involvement and cooperation with big corporations in committing high crimes and misdemeanors. In the book "Into the Buzzsaw" this collection of essays describe the roles of the CIA role in drug smuggling, lies perpetuated by the investigators of TWA flight 8, POW rotting in Vietnam, Korean war massacre, disenfranchisement of Black voters in Bushe's election government officials involvement in corporations as Enron, etc. So one can see that Enron is but a recently opened door to the Pandora's box of private corporate greed, and individual power brokers "run-a-muck!!" |
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25. CORPORATE AMERICA RUNNING AMUCK Enron has brought home a subject and observation that has been a taboo in American life. On January 31, 2002 CSPAN2 was hosting a call-in-show featuring magazine editors Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens, (Editor The Nation Magazine). In discussing the Enron fiasco they concluded openly that "Enron" and the "Mob" used the same tactics in caring out business. With the absence of a "moral code" even capitalism can RUN A-MUCK! Any corrupt institution is a bad institution whether it is a democracy, socialism, communism or an economic institution as capitalism. For example, both the "Mob" and some "Legitimate American Businesses" use the tactic of providing money to all open hands of politicians (,Huck Gutman, The Lessons of the Enron Debacle, Common Dreams .Thursday, February 7, 2002), judges, professionals (e.g. writers), media ( Richard Blow, Paid Off Top Journalists in Return for ... What?, TomPaine.comEnron, February 6, 2002) and foreign countries to get all involved in their sometimes criminal activities. The "Mob" called it bribes, while corporate American called it "contributions." The "Mob" and legitimate business, "Corporate America" as presently practiced, differ only in the fact that one is legitimized by the acceptance of the public-at-large and the other has been labeled illegitimate by those in public places. Even the act of terminating with malice is a part of both the "Mob" and "Corporations" at times. Both even make their "Bones." (Patrick Martin, The Strange and Convenient death of J. Clifford Baxter----- Enron executive found shot to death, News & Analysis: North America, January 28, 2002) Some so called "Legitimate Business" are like the Squirrel," it is just a rat with good PR." When you think about it, there is little difference between the tobacco companies and the poppy or cocaine cartels. Poppy and Cocaine is controlled by the "Mob" while tobacco is controlled by the legitimate corporations. Both are at times harmful and kill people. Jim Hougan (Uri Dowbenko, The DynCorp-government, Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business connection Online Journal, .March 20, 202) wrote in part, " Part One: Dirty Tricks, Inc. "As Jim Hougan wrote in his landmark book, "Spooks: The Haunting of America–The Private Use of Secret Agents," "With their cultural and career investments in upholding the stereotype of the Mafia as the vehicle of organized crime, the public and the press have generally failed to grasp the felonious nature of the outfit's WASP counterparts on the Big Board. Whereas some petty hoodlums put out contracts on individuals, the multinationals have begun to place contracts on entire countries (for example, ITT versus Chile). With that difference, their operational styles are similar: offshore laundries used to wash bribes paid in clandestine support of a sales effort designed to create and satisfy the potentially lethal addictions of their would be customers. Whether the product is heroin or Star fighter jets, the result is often the same: profits that corrupt and impoverish . . . In short it appears that some multinationals had evolved into genuinely criminal enterprises." (p. 441)" The death of J. Clifford Baxter, who was a whistle blower in the Enron fresco was the making of "Corporate Bones." It is reported to have been a suicide but there is reason to wonder what really happened (Mexico City Daily, February, 2002). The recent problems of Enron can be used as a typical example to compare Big Business with the so called "Mob." (Larry Chin Contributing Editor, Enron: Ultimate agent of the American empire Part I: Money to get power, power to protect money.—Motto of the Medici family, On-line Journal, 2002) Enron was an "energy broker" or if it was labeled the "Mob" it would be called an "energy Bookie!!!" The dissolution of Enron has focused the American public on a "go-to-jail" financial scandal, laden with all the "Mob" like elements. Enron is an American based company which is accompanied by a supporting cast from money laundering through banking, cooking books as underworld type accounting ( Anderson Accounting) and political collusion by elected officials bought with corporate money. This was done thorough a virtual piñata of corrupt practices and betrayed obligations to investors, taxpayers and voters The make up of the CEOs at Enron consisted of mostly middle aged, white men, who had known the act of real violence and war. In fact violence was their business and training. For example, Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was a Pentagon official during the Vietnam War. Frank Wisner, Jr. a board member, who facilitated Enron's most egregious violations overseas, ., has intimate CIA ties and is the son of former CIA Deputy Director Frank Wisner, Sr., who was present at the creation of the CIA. There has been at least 20 CIA agents on the payroll of Enron in the past eight years. (Kevin Lynch, Michael Hanranhan, and David Wright, February, 2002) . Strongly credible evidence alleges that the California "energy crisis" was entirely manufactured. Further, Enron is alleged to have had a strong hand in this "rip-off" of California citizens. (William Greider, Crime in the Suites , The Nation, January 28, 2002 ) Enron's territory (a MOB usage of this word) extended into many foreign countries. To mention a few there was the Argentina's public works minister to award Enron a contract to build a natural gas pipeline, there is the Iraqi oil, Kuwaiti oil, the companies natural gas pipeline on India's west coast in Maharashtra investment since India opened its economy, the Philippine National Power Corporation With the intelligence provided by the CIA and their company trainees, Enron was able to get billions of dollars in lucrative contracts in Asia, South America and Europe. They were even able to get detailed information through a satellite project called "Echelon" using the U. S, Governments resources in spy satellite systems. With this information Enron was able to pressure foreign governments through powerful figures in the U. S. Government. In fact it is alleged that, Vice President "Dick" Cheney assisted Enron in getting foreign contracts. The specifics of the relationship between Enron and the Bush Administration is common knowledge. There are 35 Bush administration officials holding Enron stock. In addition campaign contributions were made by Enron to the Bush campaign and to campaigns of bush's Energy Secretary and Attorney general to only mention a few. Further, Enron's Lindsey was used as Vice President Cheney's consultant in orchestrating and directing g U. S. energy policy. (Brian Ganter, "The hidden lesson of Enron", YellowTimes.ORG, February 12, 2002) The highest irony is that Enron's president and chief, Lawrence "Gerg" Whalley the week on the hearings, February 6, 2002 established a new Enron company under a Swiss investment bank's control called UBS Warburg Energy and will be began trading this month, February (Kristen Hays, Enron operation is reborn, Associated Press, February, 2002). In fact this new company will have all of Enron's old customers including the contacts and business with the U. S. Governmental Administration. So you see the actors in this criminal business has already determined that there will not be findings that will inhibit their "business as usual" in America!! In addition, the greatest American tragedy is that this Enron exposure will be represented as an "isolated" occurrence an "exception" in Corporate America behavior, (e.g. Exxon-Texaco, Wal Mart, Microsoft, Standard Oil, General Electric, McDonnell Douglas, etc.) when it is only the tip of a very large ice berg. This is the "common practice" in the U. S business and the contradiction to the fact that industry operates at "the pleasure of" and "for the welfare" of citizens instead of corporations running the nation. The tail is again wagging the dog. |
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26. INVESTIGATE THE RACKETEERING ENRONS OF AMERICA This media and congressional concentration on the CEO Anderson accounting is nothing but an effort to have the public loose it's focus on Enron's racketeering crimes against the public. The public is asked to see this as nothing more than bad records of accounting (A.F. Nariman, ''The Enron skeleton is buried six feet under the Bush White House'' Yellow Times, February 23, 2002). This provides the cover for the reality that big business as presently conducted in US has too much greed profiteering and illegal activities by most corporations today. It is tradition and common practice in an organization that when a problem is uncovered the company/organization picks one(a) person for a-fall-guy, blame all the sins of the agency on him or her, fires them or terminate them with malice and the company/agency goes on with business-as-usual. The problem with this issue with Enron is that the whole racketeering MO of industry in the US is in the danger of being exposed and it isn't a very pretty picture. The common practices of fraud, the amorality of deception and debauchery, greed, profiteering, money laundering, betrayal-of-the-public-trust and exploiting the Government is near the spot light. (The National ENQUIRER, February 26, 2002) This is not that an individual, who is a showing criminal behavior. It is a systemic conducting of business out side of the law or in questionable area where law enforcement fears to tread. (Uri Dowbenko, Part One: "Dirty Tricks, Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business inc., The DynCorp-government connection", Online Journal, March 20, 2002). The accomplice here is the normal accepted accounting system of this agency which allows the of hiding assets and deficits . The system deliberately does business with the intent of profiteering, bribing government, lying to investors, taking the inside track by CEOs are the greatest problem. The accounting firm(s) are also guilty and the accomplice of the Enrons, who are criminal in their activities. This is the same as a murderer killing and only the accomplice being convicted of a crime and going to jail. The supporting cast of elected officials we see setting on these congressional hearing panels are a sham and failing in their duty to protect the public which voted for them. (Nate Blakeslee, How Enron Did Texas, The Nation, March 4, 2002). They are not asking the hard questions that will bring these criminals to justice because they are the product of the money paid in bribes to place them in power positions in government. Therefore, the accounting firms are taking the heat, taking the fall so to speak. David Martin observed in part,( The Bird, Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression,:) Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
The present government along with and in cooperation with the corporate community seem to be using some or all these techniques to cover up the truth of today's Enrons in America! |
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27. THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT MADE REAL( THE TYRANNY OF THE BOTTOM LINE) Americans are facing one of the must critical times in it's history. The stage is set to determine the question of, "who really runs our government," Big Business/corporations or an elected government "of, for and by the people." Are the ideals of our democracy a reality or is the dilemma of corporate power the bottom line in the US? ` Countries such as Argentina have proved that when business is able to absolutely buy government absolutely "of, by, and for" the people changes quickly to "of, by, and for" the corporations/big business which sadly produces chaos followed by national disaster. This administration makes no bones about who it feels is the must important population to satisfy big business lead by oil. The shadow government of powerful money has always been accepted by the public at large as a contradicting democratic dilemma worth allowing in our political system. However, the balance of power of money becoming the "ideal and the reality" is being decided by the non-enforcement of the "laws against monopolies." These laws are called the "anti-trust laws."( Patrick Montin, Bush's Shadow Government, New York Times, March 5, 2002) G. W. has demonstrated that he feels that big business gaining great power and sole ownership of industries will only be a good for the people. But as we all see with the example of Enron, big business will run-a-muck if it is left on its own, un-regulated (Marjorie Kelly, Business Ethics, Enron and the Myths of Runaway Capitalism, Alternews.org, February 21, 2002). The profit motive and the bottom (Line) objective (Profit) will always serve the company and the individual (CEO) first and last. Another example of the activities that are today making corporations bigger and stronger may be seen in the communications industry.( By David DeGraw, ''Freedom and democracy under attack!" www.AmericanResurrection.com YellowTimes.org, March 09, 2002 ) In a corporate corruption case, a federal court, at the request of Fox News Corp, AOL Time Warner, GE, and Viacom, has provided a decision that could remove the last remaining regulations that prevent corporate conglomerates from monopolizing the American media and communication landscape. A group of cooperation which has become known as the communications Cartel" has bought off and influenced politicians and the Federal Communications Commission, and has been casting aside media ownership rules. The top two corporations in America Microsoft and Wal Mart holds in wealth approximately $195 billion, The top 52 corporations based in America holds wealth of approximately one half trillion dollars (Forbes magazine, The world's top billionaires, February, 2002 ). In a CSPAN program recently it was reported that off shore banks in the Caribbean holds approximately 3 trillion dollars from corporations based in America, on which no taxes are paid. The national debt of the U. S. is six trillion (Bureau of Public Debt), The gross national product is One point two trillion dollars (National Coordination Board) Corporations are already more powerful than elected officials of our government as recorded in the book "The Tyranny of the Bottom Line". If G. W. has by some chance read this book this is all the more reason that US citizens must know who are the names of the "Shadow Government" we here so much about. He has formalized the "Shadow Government. Has he made the until now undeclared "Shadow Government" of Big Business an official "Shadow Government?" |
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28. CONCLUSION (THE REAL WINNERS IN "THE WAR ON TERRORISM") Although it is not readily spoken the real situation in America and corporate power is essentially this. America has been a safe tranquil place for corporations to operate world wide. Corporations have been operating in the past in unsafe-countries to only exploit "natural Resources," get raw materials and then come back to a safe haven as America to use their manufacturing investment in the US to process the materials for sale world wide.. With "Globalization" corporations have come to locate major manufacturing tangible resources in unstable countries which brought with this relocation, the regular loss of such due to upheavals of a countries citizens. In the past these crisis to private corporations were handled by declaring war on a country based on business reasons (conflict) with a moral justification given the American public to get it to commit young men to go die as if it was "a just cause" and we were "on Gods side." In order to get an on-going police force based in the US and supported by US's allies, the undeclared-"War of Terrorism" was invented which is an unending-search for all groups who exercised destructive acts against negative private manufacturing investment activities in any country in the world. The "mercenary International Force" will protect all private facilities and suppress all activities by any oppressed group in any country under the label of "The War On Terrorism." This on-going flexible unfortunate war was immediately adjusted to be a means to support world exploitation by corporations holding tangible properties in all countries forever. It was brilliantly done by corporations which becomes the Shadow Government of all of the known world today!! This "Shadow Government" has always been the real promoter and the main profiteer of the "Manifest Destiny" doctrine. This is easily seen but explained only with a large number of words. The reading public, who is so saturated with misinformation and false foundations, will probably not want to understand this because it attacks too many views we as Americans have about the invulnerability of our Constitution. But if we realize that truth is only used as an agent of a moral person the lies we regularly hear are by those amoral persons, who are not bothered by the burden of conscience. But our public officials do not call them lies. They call them "not being forthcoming," and say anything as long as there is a fall back position with a "plausible deniability". We see these lies protected by these terms every day. We hear such lies as; Elvis Presley still lives, Columbus discovered America, The South won the civil war, Tobacco does not kill, FOX FNC is an unbiased news station, Bush won election 2,etc.. Lastly, the facts (truths) described in this article were gotten by using the resources of the open medium of the "World Wide Web (WWW)". It is obvious that today this the only reliable medium that is essentially free of the pressures to tell only the "Wag The Dog" war machine and corporate line these days!
THE POUNDING YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEAD IS A CONSERVATIVE MISSION TO IMMORTALIZE REAGAN!!! The pounding you are getting in the memorial of President Reagan’s death is not as spontaneous as Americans are programmed to think! In fact this is a well planned on going crusade to redefind and redirect American preception of some basic history and force these perceptions into the institutions of the educationl systems. It is the culmination of at least ten years of planning (CNN , interviews with PUSH, June 5, 2004). Yes, Nixon, Goldwater, Bush, all will be written American history by these dedicated conservatives to be the Greats in the presidents and leaders!Remember how acceptable the label of Liberal was in the near past. Now we see that Liberals will run for cover when a fellow American accuses them of being a Liberal. This is the successful outcome of the right wing conservative foundations and institutions efforts to redefine this trem. It joins the group of negative American phases as Damn Yankee, Communist Pigs, Pinkos, Socialist, Jap, etc. and now Those Old liberals, and Those Old Tax and Send Democrats!!! Just recently the label of Those Old Rag Heads was given to the Muslims. It may not be the right time to engauge in the debate of the reality of the legacy of President Reagan because it is the sensitive emotional moments of mouning. But the debate must take place for the good health of America. The good side of Reagan is overly execrated and presented by the workers of such people as The Heritage Foundation, Big Business (e.g. Exxon-Mobil, Cato Group, Halliburton’s’, etc.) The Goldwater Foundation, The Republican National Committee, Newt Gingrinch, etc. Therefore, here are some of the many things Reagan did that were not so flattering: “The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable for children‘s lunches, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt pardon for racial slurs. Getting cozy with Argentine fascist generals, tax credits for segregated schools, disinformation campaigns, "homeless by choice," Manuel Noriega, falling wages, the HUD scandal, air raids on Libya, "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa, United States Information Agency blacklists of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, the invasion of Grenada, assassination manuals, Nancy's astrologer. Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador. $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African-American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra. "Facts are stupid things (phase)," the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon. -MORE- (66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan David Corn, The Nation. June 6, 2004) It is recorded that, “Reagan's mythic 'likeability' and 'popularity' were manufactured and packaged by the corporate political machine in Washington, then sold to the public after the fact by a willing accomplice: the media. This article from 1989 exposes this myth - the same myth the media is pushing full-steam this week. FAIR: . . . In short, Reagan was one of the most UNPOPULAR presidents of the past 50 years! (http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0609-05.htm ), (David Corn, Reagan’s Bloody Legacy, http://www.Tompains.cvom/print/reagans_bloody_legacy.php, 6/9/2004)
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3. JUVENILE JUSTICE IS THE FINAL SOLUTIONDepartment of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) training session some where in Florida;"Good morning, welcome to the (DJJ) training for Quality Assessment (QA). This is our Juvenile Justice Industry. How many here today operate a Private DJJ Company/Center funded by DJJ. Good, I see that there are nine out of ten providers here today who represent private business. This is the fastest growing industry in Florida today! Let me share with you a few facts about our industry as it is represented here in Florida.First, Florida has approximately 1.3 million children in its schools today. This ranks fourth in the nation behind Texas, California and New York. There are approximately 105,000 juveniles between 10 and 17 years old served by Florida's "Juvenile Justice Industry" and it will increase by about 25 percent in the next five years. This amounts to about 25,000 more clients! Florida has transferred more than 5,000 juveniles to adult prisons. This is more than all 49 states combined. The budget for The Department of Juvenile Justice Program budget is approximately $500,000,000 dollars and it is expected that this will increase by $100,000,000 next year, that is if the republicans continue to control the legislature. With the dissolution of social services as HRS and the placing of these services in the DJJ the primary mission/emphasis/resources have been re-directed to apprehension incarceration and punishment for public safety. Education and Rehabilitation is number twelve and thirteen in the list of DJJ standards. This is our multi million dollar business. If the raw materials for our business, juvenile offenders began to decrease the threshold for offenses resulting in detention can be lowered to less serious infractions. Yes, Our business is sound and growing. Now when we go to review our centers we must avoid looking like a Gestapo, although we are that of a sort (as he stood with his right arm raised in a Nazi salute)" Is not this something the world has seen and heard before?A yellow badge was issued by the Nazis to Jews for identification during the rise of the German Third Reich. For the greater number of inmates in the DJJ the innate badge of "color", Black serves this purpose and it is cheaper. Administration streaming was the skill of the infamous Herman Goring the Gestapo Officer who organized the bureaucracy to handle the Jews. Before this there were many offices that handled such things as social services, deportation, incarceration, and control. This made it a long and cumbersome process until Goring.At first the Jewish children were taken away from their parents for re-education and indoctrination. The adults were taken to various detention center for other things, even social services. this evolved into a system and process of apprehension, and incarceration. There was a process of individual administration of death to Jews, single hangings and so forth. After this was done long enough to desensitize the public a larger number of Jews were put to death by firing squads. This was again was carried out long enough to desensitize the public. Then came the "Final Solution." The death camps were fitted with gas chambers for mass killing and the crematoria's were built. This was the death industry of the Nazi era.Some Jews were even provided positions in this industry. The concentration of Jews in the Warsaw Ghettos came with the apportionment of a Jew to serve as the Mayor, straw boss. They were given privileges to keep the Nazis informed and keep the Jews in place. This is not to unlike the Juvenile Justice Industry here in Florida. Is there not a head Black in charge of this growing industry of putting and keeping moistly Black youths under lock and key?Then here in Florida, USA there is the ingenious twist of the inclusion of "Private for-profit Companies" in this industry. Truly an American innovation to an old "Final Solution." In these times of high emotions in the aftermath of the Purduca, Kentucky and Jonesboro, Arkansas tragedies, maybe we should look to calmer heads. Do we really want to kill our children? Do we want the insanity of a "Final Solution?" We certainly cannot long endure under the heels of short sighted politically expedient solutions.It is unfortunate to see that unwitting whites and Blacks who are looking for jobs who (bubbers, sambos, and Ms. Jane's) are becoming dupes of a squeaky clean, hygienic, social policy of a Final Solution to the problem Blacks and other perceived social out-casts. I too am looking at this good money and need the income provided by my consultant services.The Florida electric chair, lovingly called, "Old Sparky" has desensitized the public enough to accept the smell of the burning flesh of crematoriums. Florida is recently putting a female to death. A white female at that. People are gathering outside to support and view what they can of the killing being held at Starke. Is not then a short walk to the killing of the "Final Solution"; the gas chambers may not be far behind.This is very scary, but very true; and upon my word, I do know that truth will bring anger and punishment. In the worst case they shoot the messenger!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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4. AMERICA AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS IS JUST A PLAYGROUND (1997)It seems to old Frank(ly) that the whole political spectrum of governments, as America may see it, is but a child's run on the playground. I will provide this model as developed by "Sandsspur Tarven and Research Institute," located in Winter Park, Florida, with a Frank(ly) twist.In a playground run by liberal or moderate principals and teachers the children are supervised lightly, recognizing that some children will dominate others, but that no children should be abusively bullied or denied access to the playground and its activities. Sense the Black children are disadvantaged and a protected group they must be provided equality under special regulations in swings set-asides for their cut of equality.Socialism is illustrated by heavy-handed teacher intervention. Children have equality but little freedom-choice to play according to their whims. These interventionist teachers might, for example, prevent children from swinging on their stomachs, or from twisting the swings to their limit and letting it unwind with dizzying speed. Interventionist teachers are fanatics about equality and they make sure that every child gets exactly equal amount of time on each playground item weather they want it or not. Of course the result is that Freedom is sacrificed for the sake of equality and, since the freedom essential to fun is crushed, fun dwindles for everyone. Some Conservative will in an attempt to show up the Socialist set aside a "Character Playground" to provide a competitive atmosphere for the public playgrounds, saying that this competition will provide children and parents with a "better quality" playground!! But if there are Black children there are special rules for protected class because without this they will (may) be placed on the twisting swings even in the middle of its dizzy spiral, and placed frequently on their stomachs in the swings all acts are providing them equality.Just as destructive as the interventionist teacher system is the opposite extreme, promoted by conservatives: the lissez-faire teacher system Conservatives want the teachers to abandon the playground entirely so that the children can control everything. In such a circumstance, the biggest kids (representing wealthy big shots and the politicians who serve them) take over the playground for themselves by bulling and in intimidating everyone else. The result is a kind of "Lord or the Flies" scenario with playground bullies (tobacco executives and oil barons, greedy bond traders) getting away with murder since there is no teacher supervision whatsoever. There are no standards or guide lines for playground and equipment safety. There are minority bully sat-asides of playground equipment such as, yes, the monkey bars!! A bully takes the swings, one the see saws, another the slides, etc. The bullies take the children's lunch money as payment for the use of all equipment. The big kids who take over these things and all the fun things on the playground have a ball while the other kids get the shaft. The white bullies accuse the Blacks children of taking the swings and other fun things thus denying the white children of time on the Play things (Blacks are accused of taking jobs from whites in affirmative action) and the white children attack them leaving the bullies to sit on the spoils unmolested. In fact the bullies become admired by all for their ability to exploit the other children and all provide the bullies honor and respect!!Frank(ly) Speaking, it seems that no matter what political playground scenario America may see, Blacks are inevitability assigned hell!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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5. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATEIt was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.BACK TO THE TOP |
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6. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS ACCOMPLISHMENT BLINDDuring the sixties I attended college with Clyde Foster, who later became the first mayor of a city in Alabama sense reconstruction. While in college we pledged Omega together. Clyde would always say to me, " The white man says you are his Nigger, and when you get bigger you will be my bigger nigger; and when you get a Ph.D. you will be my bigger ,Ph.D. nigger; you will never be too big to be my nigger."At the time I took it as a brotherhood playful thing. But when I got fully grown and had my Ph.D. I found this to be essentially true. However, there was one more condition that a Black could achieve and still be just another nigger to white people. There was Mr. Walter McCoy, who is only one of two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the Great State of Florida. While working at the Department of Education He was treated with some great discrimination. So the saying must go, "You are my nigger; and when you get bigger, a Ph.D. or a Gold metal from the Olympics you will be my bigger, Ph.D., Gold metal winning nigger." That is truly the way brother McCoy was treated by the present Department of Education.Mr. Walter McCoy, who is one of only two Olympic Gold Metal Winners in the State of Florida filed a complaint of discrimination against the Florida Department of Education nin1994. Mr. McCoy was hired by the Betty Castor, Commissioner of Education to carry out some minority teacher recruiting and provide a role model for children. He has received many compliments for his work in this area.In 1994, Mr. McCoy was one of a group of nine other Blacks who enter into a combined complaint of discrimination based on race against the Department of Education. McCoy held a Career Service position with the Florida Department of Education in 1992, however, he learned that his position had been "cut" from the budget later that year during a change in administration to that of Mr. Frank T. Brogan.McCoy alleged that he was harassed, and retaliated against because of his race. He was assigned "menial" tasks which were not within he position description to humiliate him and force him to resign. He was never paid at the same rate of pay as his white counter parts. McCoy was finally released in 1995 under the claim that he was being down-sized, however, the very position which was claimed to be cut was refilled with a white employee.In 1997 in an attempt to have the court drop his claim the Department filed a Summary Judgment saying that he was never an employee of the Department although the records show that in deposition the department testified that he was an employee and was released in the down-sizing. In addition, McCoy was not allowed to testify in the trial of three Blacks, who were a part of this combined complaint. The reason given is that his accomplishment as an Olympic Gold Metal Winner would un-dolly prejudice the jury. He was dismissed with testifying.The complaints in this case included; 1. Being kicked in the behind by a white supervisor. 2. Being paid as much as $10,000.00 a year less than comparable white staff. 3. Being called "jungle bunnies" and other racial slurs including the "N" word. 4. All Blacks in the Bureau being placed in an all Black suite of the building. 5. Being "down-sized" while the position being "down-sized" was subsequently filled by a white person. 6. Dispread promotions. 6. more.Sources say that the Olympic Committee has been contacted and is interested in representing McCoy in this litigation. In the mean time negations are being conducted between the department in Mr. McCoy of a out-of-court settlement.BACK TO THE TOP |
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7. ECONOMIC AND PLANET WELFARE CAN BOTH BE ACHIEVEDWe must all be aware at this time of the world wide interest in the prospect of global warming caused by the "hot house" gases labeled Carbon dioxide. As I recall in grade school we had a project in science to set up a "terrarium." this closed ecological system we placed animals and plants, Plants to generate oxygen through photosynthesis for the animals and animals to generate carbon dioxide for the plants. The temperature was critical and did in fact increase in relation to the amount of Carbon dioxide in this closed battle. A simple childish experiment but a simple one to record.In the real world the carbon dioxide/hot house gases are produced by our consumption economy based on energy. This energy is the burning of fuels, fossil fuels in large qualities. In this Economy the more it grows the higher the energy consumption, that is if you are not conscious enough to consider that energy efficiency can be a part of economy-profit growth and increased standards of living. In America, the greatest economy in the present day world the amount of Carbon dioxide emitted has been reported as approximately 108 million tons per year. The U. S. has approximately 250 million people as compared to approximately one billion in China alone. If you calculate the amount of Carbon dioxide which would be emitted by Chain in relation to their population and if this countries standard of living equaled that of the U. S., this would mean that approximately four times as much hot house gases would be released in the atmosphere each year. This would amount to approximately 432 tons if carbon dioxide per year. When India and other third world countries reach the living standard of the U.S. you can probably add another 400 to 500 tons of carbon dioxide per year.What is so scary are the pundits such as Kovac of CNN, William Buckley, and the syndicated columnist as George Will, who all "po po" the prediction of the consequences of a global warming. It seems that these so called "educated" "talking heads" have too much education in a too limited spectrum and too little of a general education.I can just vision the after event of a global warming with George Will, Kovac, and Buckley all crouched in an under ground cave, clutching their money box while in the corner is a twenty foot virus mutant with a napkin under its mouth, looking at them hungrily. The three sit on their money boxes ready to fight this mutant product of a consumption economy which brought them to this sorry condition. In the moments between protecting their booty, they recall the off handed way they debated the destruction of the world above their new dark hole. Will recalls the interview where he so arrogantly debated that this was just another scare, and that "scientist" said that there would be another ice age, that chicken little said that the sky was falling, that the little boy cried wolf, and there was not a dimes worth of difference between these children's tails and scientists.But scientist have allowed themselves to be pushed into a strange position of "media science" where the observations of good science is over shadowed by the proof of hypothesis in a public relation media salesmanship where truth is a condition of public belief not scientific fact.Until there is a balance between the narrow vision of the "profit of business as usual" and a change in resource consumption and human standard of living there will be the specter of a wealth and color blind disaster!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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8. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS THE LEAST PREFERRED CASE FOR LAWYERS (1997)There have been many recent articles about discrimination against protected groups in the work place. It is obvious that the whole process of obtaining regress for such occurrences is ineffective and cumbersome.On Sunday October 26, 1997 an article in the Tallahassee Democrat described problems in the Florida Commission on Human Relations (FCHR). This is the first agency that you would use in filling a complaint for violations of your rights. in Equal Opportunity in Employment. The article recorded the fact that getting your complaint even recorded in this agency is a doubtful process. If this agency does not perform its duty the next step of filing with the Federal Equal Opportunity in Employment Commission if it is either delayed or denied. It is reported that over ninety percent of complaints coming to the FCHR are either dismissed out of hand or settled in favor of the agency. So the obstacles to justice for the harmed starts here in an agency where facilitation should start.If by some miracle you get through this agency with your complaint still intact, the problem of finding a lawyer who will take your case starts. It had been my experience that very few lawyers will even consider taking a case in racial discrimination. It is found that lawyers have a definite preference in terms of case they will take on. First, they would rather take a case involving reverse discrimination, followed by sex discrimination and as a last resort racial discrimination cases.Why do racial discrimination cases receive low priority? As I understand it, in the fraternity or sorority of law people -- a lawyer who takes racial discrimination cases becomes an outcast among his or her peers. Even Black lawyers run for the hills when asked to take cases in racial discrimination. If you are lucky and get a lawyer, then there is the problem of getting a dedicated lawyer. One who will treat you with some degree of dignity. The common experience is that in racial discrimination cases your own lawyer will treat you as if you work for them. You may go to see them and each time wonder if your lawyer will fire you today or if they will spend time enough to really understand your case.If you get through these insidious blockades, then there is the problem of getting a jury of your true peers. In the existing atmosphere where discrimination is tired subject, it has been trivialized and accepted as a sustainable fact of American society. The records show that in the Northern U. S. Court District only one or two cases on racial discrimination have been found in favor of a black by a jury of their peers(?) in the last twenty years!!Consider these facts.If you prevail in court, the settlement of your relief is less than one third of the fees paid to the lawyers for the defense and the plaintiff!!You will suffer the day-in and day-out retaliation on your job because of your complaint. Although your fellow comrades in suffering will get such benefits as raises, privileges, and promotions from your efforts, you will get retribution and retaliations from both black and white alike. Blacks will come to you and say that they have been assigned to control and keep you quiet because you speak out on discrimination!! But in the next breath they will whisper I(we) are proud of you. We really have a problem. I wish I could fight like you. But I have a family and I cannot lose my job. They will send you information under your door and in your mail, in secrecy.Finally, you will find that even civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and Urban League will not want you, unless you win. Then they will want to share your time in the winner's circle!!. The Democratic and Republican party will not touch you.This unequal treatment has become more than discrimination. It is a question of Civil Liberties!! The penalties for committing these violations of Civil Liberties need to be that the institution should pay the financial penalty and the individual(s) pay with jail time. In addition, the laws must be revised to make the financial compensation favor the harmed/plaintiff(s). Further, there must be a complete public disclosure of all disbursed funds to the lawyers and plaintiffs. Presently, it is easy for lawyers for both sides to reach a no loss arrangement. This makes it questionable that a plaintiffs lawyer will be totally dedicated to winning a case.BACK TO THE TOP |
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9. THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM IS BIG BUSINESS!!! (1996)On September 23, 1994 I was driving back to Tallahassee, Florida on I-75. There was four trucks with over sized loads holding up the normal 65 MPH flow of traffic. These loads were large gray concrete four celled modules with sliding steel doors, in which there was a small closable metal window. After trying for some time to get around this convey I finally got to the front truck. There was the most alarming sign in this lead vehicle which said, " CELL MFGR'S LTD(Limited), THE FLORIDA SOLUTION, Leesburg , Florida, POD#4." What I was seeing was the manufacture of modular prison cells. This was Florida's solution to the mass production of jails to solve the problems of American society.On September 26, 1994 on TV, a Black man, Mr. Harry Singletary, Secretary of Corrections, in The Great State of Florida was giving an enthusiastic report on the ahead-of-schedule production of Jail Cells. He said in essence, " Florida is doing a fantastic job in getting ready to quickly incarcerate large numbers of prisoners (people) by using pre-manufactured modular jail cells. We are ahead of schedule. We therefore, need to accelerate the hiring of more officers and guards to take care of these inmates. The legislature must more ahead of schedule and allocate us funds for personal for the Criminal Justice Industry." Or something to that effect.The possibilities and prospects of fostering this idea and creating the massive industry of building modular prison cells at a rate many time faster than on-the-site construction is staggering. That means that the U. S. has found the answer to getting not only the dangerous criminals of the streets, but this creates the opportunity and means to expand incarceration to other minor offenders and inconveniences; jay walkers, litters, those who do not know political incorrectness, Chinks, Japs, Niggers, Jews!!! Well - maybe not Jews.The inertia of this industry fueled by the manufacturers, the officers, the guards, the administrators the suppliers of goods and services will be so massive that only a catastrophe event could turn it around. Let us look at England.England the cradle of capitalism and the genesis of the manifestation of the society of the many very , very poor, the few very, very rich, the breeding of petty thieves, the alienated , the poor houses, and yes, the process of sending the excess/surplus population to " uncivilized' territories of Hawaii, Australia, South America, North America, South Africa ... the penal colonies as Devil island!! But sense there are no more far off uninhibited places to send those outside the economic and social structure of our America, we must find an in house solution , to our societies problems jails, jails and more jails, or the final solution ... death camps. Blacks will be fighting for the positions of employment created in formation of the instruments of the final solution. They will be "Team Players!!!"BACK TO THE TOP |
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10. TOBACCO THE EVIL EMPIRE/INDUSTRY (August 22, 1997)Would you believe that evil industry/empire, Tobacco has been allowed to continue to produce it's proven and admitted agent of death? This is the most incredible example of how trivial our social/economic system has become when the lives of citizens can be bargained against the ;lost of capital($) to an industry!!This bargaining with the Tobacco industry by balancing the lives of citizens is the same as bargaining with the Nazi's industry of concentration camps which were killing Jews by the millions and saying that if you cut down on the number of Jews you kill over the years you can continue to carry on the industry of death.The Tobacco industry is being allowed to continue to produce their product of death if they just pay something for their past killings and cut back on the 400,000 people per year they are presently kill from tobacco related problems.Over the last 50 years at the rate of 400,000 deaths per year Tobacco has killed approximately 20,000,000 people in the U. S. alone!! This is a true holocaust greater than Germany committed against the Jews and the holocaust against the blacks during slavery combined. Don't you think that a world wide tribunal should be held to bring these death merchants to justice? They are no more than international criminals.If this "deal" to change their action in America is not sad enough, the Tobacco industry is fighting to maintain their unrestricted activities in China and all other nations outside the U. S.Any deal that leaves Tobacco in business is intellectually incomprehensible and morally indefensible !!BACK TO THE TOP |
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11. THE ANATOMY OF UNEQUAL TREATMENT (1995)One of the greatest deterrents to racial and sexual justice (which is directly related to the success of institutions in the U. S.) is the "business as usual" practiced by the white, male, good ole boys, who by their accepted omnipotence see things in the nature of their "eminent domain" and "manifest destiny;" These good ole boys sit smiling, double talking, lying, condescending, patronizing, sneaking, and playing overly innocent on things of equality which effect the lives of people; They are continuing to do business as usual out of the sunshine, on the golf courses, in the bars, at closed board meetings Task Forces, Transition Teams etc. They either provide only lip service to the laws against discrimination as long as they do not have to pay (money) in any way for their heavy handed, matter of fact conduct of the public's business. At times they just ignore Blacks and women as if they did not exist!! They plan their conduct using the works of Adolph Hitler, Ross Lumbaugh, Eddy Amein, Bull Conner, the GIANTS of literature on social architecture. This load stone around the life's neck of society is the main reason that America's institutional initiatives in equality always fail.Although recently we have seen the few successes of such challenges to injustice in the Black FBI Agents Vs Denny's Restaurant case, the Davis Vs Proctor Pontiac case, the Black Employees Vs Shoney's Restaurant case, etc. where the violator of civil rights were made to pay. I can say from experience that the real reason that even Public Education Institutions are in trouble is because of the accepted negative way in which race, sex, and differentism is treated by the powerful to relegate the objective of educating to a place of failure.In The Great State of Florida the Institution of Education is a basitum of sexual and racial injustice. The State Education system must be dragged kicking and screaming to the bar of justice. They have never been seriously challenged to wipe out preoccupation with power to satisfy EGO, power for the sake of power, and for a sake of racial discrimination; Making them pay for these evil activities will be the only cure. If the state has to pay it will get rid of the good ole boy of the fiftyish ages or so for they are by their nature destroying the institution and more importantly costing money by their actions. Instead of working for good education they are day in and day out working on their own positions of power and the exercise of keeping women and Blacks in their place. They use the knowish tricks to rig the system; use the weak and Tomish Blacks as overseers to hold down any "Smart Niggers." Further some women who are trying to get ahead feel they must emulate the good ole boys in order to demonstrate their equal prowess. They pit emotions against emotions, instead of reason against reason, or fact against fact.How can this cycle be broken. There must be a consistent, intense, intelligent process of filling complaints against agencies on every case of harmful illegal discrimination and harassment. The relief for such activities must be payment in money for damages. If an agency or firm wishes to discriminate they must be prepared to pay for such privileges.BACK TO THE TOP |
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12. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SUED FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY (OCTOBER 1,1997)After over twenty years of problems in discrimination in The Florida State of Education in 1994 thirteen Blacks Dr. Rufus Ellis, Ms Vessie Felton-Joseph, Mr. William Pittman, Jr., Ms. Debra Crowell, Ms. Rosezetta Bobo, Ms. Shirley Webester, Ms. Linda Dukes, Mr. Norman McMillian, Ms. Valderine Grant, Dr. Baxter Wright, Mr. Walter McCoy, Ms. Margaret Jones and Dr. James A. Scruggs filed the history making first compliant against this department with the United States District Court Northern District of Florida Tallahassee Division. This discrimination was alleged to be systemic, continuous, and on-going. Further, records show that between 1978 and 1996 approximately 95% of all discrimination suits filled against the Department of Education were during the tenure of Commissioner of Education, Mr. Frank T. Borgan.After many pretrial hearings and many summary judgment which resulted in some of the plaintiffs being dropped from the case because of such things as missing deadlines for filling their complaints, the first of (which included three of the plaintiffs,) six trials was held the week of September 22-26, 1997 in Tallahassee, Florida.In September, 1994 Dr. Baxter Wright, a Black male was given a below average performance evaluation by a white female supervisor and subsequently released. Prior to this Dr. Wright had never received a below average performance evaluation in the many years he worked with the Department.In the late 1970's the minutes of the Equal opportunity Employment Committee recorded that a Black janitor reported that on the desk of the Department's personnel officer was two stacks of applications, one saying qualified applicants the other saying some more "nigger" applicants!!In December 1993, a Black male employee in the Graphic Arts Section, who was an outstanding employee of the Department of Education ( as rated by the Commissioner of education) was a victim of "Affirmative Action" when he was kicked in the buttocks by a white female supervisor. He was forced to leave the Department because of this racist act.The allegations by the plaintiffs in the first trial included:In 1991, a Mr. Pittman, a Black male applied for a position of "Liaison" between the State and The Federal Government. He received a letter thanking him for applying but the position had been filled by someone else. In 1995 while checking the "Personnel Action Forms," (which are forms that record the applicants for the position) he found that his name was never included in the applicant pool and therefore, he was never a part of the competition for the position. However, his name was placed on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Office of "candidates considered" to demonstrate on paper that "Equal Opportunity in Employment" was followed. Further Mr. Pittman was paid as much as $10,000.00 per year less than whites employees in the same position for as many as 20 years. He was never appointed as "acting" for any position as were his white counter parts.In 1977, a survey of employees in the Bureau of Compensatory Education, Department of Education found that all Blacks receiving "outstanding" evaluations and receiving "merit" pay on the basis of these evaluations were evaluated by Black supervisors. Further, a suit against the department in 1979 resulted in getting all black employees off annual contracts and onto "Career Service" in the department. However, the part addressing pay and promotion equity was never carried out.Dr. Ellis alleged that a white female supervisor denied him Department benefits of training, ridiculed him, berated him in public and with his co-workers, and withheld critical information which would have assisted him in performing his duties. The tool of Performance Evaluation was used as an "Affirmative Action" to place Dr. Ellis on probation and promote the process of firing him. Ms. Felton-Joseph, who managed a statewide program for Homeless Children, alleged that she was; 1) denied an upgrades because of race while white persons have been provided upgrades without cause, 2) involuntarily moved to a location within the DOE where the majority of other blacks in the Bureau were located, 3) suffered retaliation from a whites supervisor by such things as getting low performance evaluations, 4) denied additionally personnel who were already funded and necessary to conduct the state's "Homeless Program," when funds were available denied a secretary which was funded to work for the states' "Homeless Program," and 5) denied reimbursement for approved travel associated with the duties of the program. Dr. Scruggs alleged; 1) that he was denied an interview for the Position of Administrator of The Office of Science Improvement where Mr. Jack Leppert, a white male was hired (who did not meet the minimum qualification and had no education or background in any field of science) although he was more qualified than other applicants, 2) The second time the position was advertised the Department took "Affirmative Action(s)" by bringing in Mr. Thomas Baird, another white male who was assigned the position of "Acting Administrator", to get the experience in the program and subsequently hire him permanently, again without providing Scruggs an interview. This Office hired only one Black, a secretary although this grant from the National Science Foundation required the written assurance that Blacks and minorities would be hired as a condition for receiving the funds!! 3) Scruggs alleged that he suffered retaliation from department employees both Black and white, who were told that he had to be controlled because of his out spoken activities about the treatment of Blacks in the Department. There were many times when terms such as "Jungle Bunnies" and "you people" were used to describe Blacks in his staff. 4) In 1988, it was found that in the process of filling a position of Director of The Prevention Center, "Affirmative Action" was taken when a white male applicant was interviewed and immediately placed on the interview committee to complete the interviews of the other applicants. This white male was given the position before the interviews were completed and allowed to participate as an official member of the interview team to finish the interviewing of the other applicants. The report to the "Equal Employment Opportunity Agency" recorded the distribution of candidates considered but never suggested that the out come of the selection was decided before the interviewing of candidates was completed. In 1988, it was found that the Department of Education was found to be taking "Affirmative Action" by placing the names of Blacks on the report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Agency to satisfy the ethnic distribution of who were applicants considered, as though Blacks had applied and were interviewed for positions. This was the way in which the "Affirmative Action" process was conducted, but only on paper. The relief for this violation of Department Rules and Procedures was that "the Department would train the staff to be better at filling positions." 5) In 1978, "Affirmative Actions" were taken to fill a position of Administrator , Adult and Community Education by appointing a white male to the position before the advertisement was closed and the interviews had been conducted. The name of this white male was printed in the new Department phone book before the interviews demonstrating that the decision was made in "Affirmative Action" haste.The States defense was essentially that all these things did occur; However, the whole thing was color natural. All these things did happen but at no time was color taken into account when decisions were made or actions were taken.In closing Attorney for the plaintiffs, Steve Andrews, " The Department wants you to believe that these are Oprah-watching, cheese ball-eating, unemployment-grubbing people who are not worthy of a judgment in this case... If you say to someone in America today, 'This black person has an attitude (as the department's attorneys were saying) I submit to you that it sends a message... people who complain about their treatment as black people have a bad attitude, but those who don't have the right attitude. "The attorney for the state, Harry Chills said, "None of the things they're talking about were based on skin color. There is a legitimate reason for everything they're complaining about... Scruggs simply finished second to a white applicant for the science education job, and Pittman's salary gap was due to differing duties and responsibilities..." Chiles further stated that although no black has ever been appointed as to a Acting" position by the Department of Education it had nothing to do with race.After a jury of six whites and two Blacks heard all these complaints and the rebuttal from both sides and after about five hours of deliberation, a verdict which found against the plaintiffs was brought to the court.The plaintiffs were so stunned after receiving the verdict that comments were few.Dr. Scruggs said that he was trying to understand this great justice system in America. It mat be the best in the world but sometime it is difficult to get it to work. He said further that although the state tried to make it seem that Doug Jamerson and Altha Manning, who were both Black state leaders had something to do with our problems this there is no truth in this. It was a Black white problem.Mr. Pittman and Ms. Joseph had no comments.BACK TO THE TOP |
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13. WEALTH/CAPITAL IS MORE POWERFUL THAN GOVERNMENTS (September 26, 1997)It is evident today that "capital/money/wealth" is truly power. It is more powerful than governments and as exampled in the Tobacco we see that power/wealth corrupts. Historically power has passed from Kings-Queens-monarchs- and somewhere during the industrial revolution it passed to money. In addition, constructs as "anti monopoly" laws are poorly enforced allowing the concentration of vast wealth and control of resources to the hands of a very, very few.On April 4, 1997 a NBC news cast was reporting essentially that, " In Iraq power was passed from "capital" to the producers of food-farmers and other producers. It continued to observe, "This transfer of power has turned the system Up-side-down!!" But hold it, this powerful observation is true with one important change! This transfer of power has not turned the system up-side-down. It has turned things right-side-up. It is one of those rare occasions where a good thing happens and the world or part of the world turns right-side-up.Capital is truly the tyrant of the present day world. Governments are the shadow of wealth/capital. Wealth rules government. Observe how money bought elections in America in 1997. It is amazing that the world is essentially convinced that without "capital" nothing can be started or finished; and when a group of people, especially a third world country makes a try at self determination ignoring "capital" they are declared as out casts, communist, socialist, heretics, evil empires, up-side-down and overt activities are instituted to bring them into line. When in fact capital(ism) as practiced today is based on human greed, avarice, malice, doing as little as possible while gaining the highest returns. What is good for General Motors is good form the nation Further, with the courts and administrations more then any other time in our history refusing to enforce anti trust laws more and more capital is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. These mergers are making more powerful wealth with less accountability to national good. As England said when taking control of South Africa which was controlled by the ZULU, "we must destroy their social, economic, religious, and military institutions; and replace them with our institutions of capital and religion. They will loose even their ability to feed themselves without our guidance." Look at Zaire for a good example of how good this works.You might wonder why are there so many militia groups, the Texas Republic Separatists, the farmers mistrust of government, etc. There is a very simple answer. It is the fact of the tyrannical nature of "capital(s)" power as it influences government. It is without conscience or moral imperative. Wealth acting though the federal government is squeezing the many little people into submission or a fight. First, the government which is visible and easily identifiable and acting at the will of capital for increasing profit by for closing on small farms or allowing mergers of companies which clearly produces a monopoly. Government, therefore, is seen as the problem and thus becomes the object of attack by those who are trying to become part of the property/capital society. Capital is, 1) convincing the public that big government, which should keep business accountable, is a supreme violation of the civil rights of people and of course capital. 2) capital is needs only the controls of that natural phenomenon called "market forces/supply and demand." But today it is not accompanied with fair competition that keeps act ities fair, moral, and in line with human needs.Yes, Iraq may not be the most acceptable nation to use as an example of a right-side-up system of power and capital because of the baggage Saddum Hassan has brought. But if free world capital had not been withdrawn from this economy, I assure you that the western perceived norm of capital being all powerful and really right-side-up would not have this contrast anywhere. But as for us poor but educated (not enlightened) Americans citizens, wealth is all powerful; and if in our brief life times we wish to make it( as they say in the vernacular) we must worship at this alter even if we know in our hearts that it is a false and iniquitous god.BACK TO THE TOP |
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14. DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE IS EASY TO SEE BUT HARD TO PROVE IN OUR COURTS (September 14, 1997)Recently the coverage of a racial discrimination trial reported by the Tallahassee Democrat made it very clear that, first, there has been a desensitization of the public feelings on racial discrimination, and secondly, Blacks have been forced to compete with sexual harassment and reverse discrimination for the most despaired treatment.In this Henry VS the Tallahassee Police Department it seems that Henry, who is a Black officer alleged that he had been discriminated against because of race. In the Tallahassee Democrat the testimony of witnesses for the plaintiff and the defendant were reported. It was remarkable to notice that the testimony of the Black witnesses were reported more briefly than that of the white witnesses for the Police Department. In fact it would seem from the reports that the Black witnesses were always painted with a suspicious blemishing brush. Their character was challenged and the fact that they may have had some "events of discrimination in their lives that made them bias against the Police Department." Further, the court ruled not to allow some documents which were reported to contain such racially negative language as "nigger" and "poach monkeys" into evidence because they would prejudice the jury. This may be peculiar seeing as how this is a case of alleged discrimination based on race. The six member jury consisted of five whites and one Black. On August 26, 1997 it was reported that the jury was dead locked and there was a mistrial. The paper did not say exactly who on the jury was the hold out(s) but it did report that the "lone" hold out was described by the chairman of the jury as a person who had not seen the same trail as the other five. Maybe this hold out was the lone Black juror? Oh my gosh an interview with this juror on TV reviled that he was the Black juror!!In any case this is a superior example of how desensitized whites have become on the subject of racial discrimination. This is particularly important to those who may seek "justice" in the counts. They must look for the fair and just from among their peers jurors), the fair and just in judges of the court, the fair, just and interested in their attorneys. These qualities are left to be wondered about when we see daily how attorneys for both plaintiff and defendant spend much effort trying to choose a jury of bias peers and in the case of racial discrimination a jury of white only where ever possible. A case of racial discrimination and/or mistreatment must be bazaar, cruel, heinous, and extraordinary for this cover of desensitization to be breached.For example, the case in New York City where a Black male Haitian was arrested, dragged into the toilet and sodomized with the handle of a toilet plunger. Even in this extreme treatment of a Black there seems to be no clear cut cry of "no never in America" from the white community. In fact there is the continual stream of rationalization coming from officials. Some say that this Haitian man was attacking the policeman with his "but" and they had to subdue him by subduing his attacking body part!!In the words of that giant in literature, Rodney King, Can't we all just learn to live together???BACK TO THE TOP |
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15. REMANUFACTURING NEW GINGRICH (September 9, 1997)It was a real miracle to see the notorious and invincible Newt Gingrich go from "king of the Hill "to "road kill!!" Newt developed a case of political halitosis and was out of juicy fruit gum. Now the engagement in his resurrection is frightening. It is because it just may work.Recently, we have seen the orchestrated conflict between Newt and the far, far right fringe of the Republican Party. This group is saying that Newt is not carrying their banner as high as they feel he should carry it. Then there was the staged conflict between a member of the party who was said to have been trying to unseat Newt as Speaker of the House. This made for media coverage where there had been none. Newt is even loosing weight in order to remake/change his image!! These activities are to many an indication that Newt may not be so far out in left field. But this author is more than a little suspicious that the right wing attack is staged only to push Newt more to the middle and acceptable political ground by not having him move but making the far right look even further out. I hope, no I know that the public will not be so easily fooled.The powerful media and a good public relation team has proven that it can hood wink the public easily so many times and again make an admired person out of a hypocrite! Like a snake in wolf's clothing, Newt is waiting to strike again. But we must be aware of the tale about the lady who found the beautiful snake which was in the road run over by passing automobiles. This snake was close to road kill, not to unalike Gingrich. The lady took this snake home and nursed it back to health. But as soon as it was well the lady found the snake to be cute, pressed it close to her loving breast and the snake viciously bit her. As she was slipping into unconsciousness she looked at the snake in some great surprise as the snake said, "you knew I was a snake when you took me home." Newt will surely bite again as soon as he is well. He has a contract on America.Let us not forget and by the way, when Newt's fine for ethics violations was paid by "Bob" Dole it was just another ploy/attempt to make Newt legitimate by association. Great move!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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16. DISCRIMINATION IN THE FLORIDA OF EDUCATIONAfter over twenty years of problems in
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17. THE THIRD WORLD WAR; THE ECONOMIC WARIt is obvious that the Third World War is
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18. CAN POLITICS STILL BUY BLACKS FOR VERY LITTLEI was reading in an article published by the Associated Press that The democratic and the republican parties are fast courting the Black in Florida. As I observed in subsequent article this year the Democratic party in it mis guided action of deposing legislator Willie Logan from the position of "Speaker Designee of the party has created the opportunity for the Black to declare its self an Independent Voter group. This has indeed become the case.Yes, Politics .... Politics .... politics .... Politics on my mind. Sort of like an old Negro blues song I used to know which went; whisky .... whisky .... whisky ,,,, whisky stays on my mind. It is intoxicating and corrupting.In Florida, "Buddy" Mackay picked Danztler for a running mate, Bush picked Brogan for a running mate. The position of Commissioner of Education as of July 8, 1998 has no candidate Democratic or Republican. It is opportunity; Opportunity for a change in education for Florida's children ( this is the moral imperative of it ). or Opportunity of a political nature.For the over all leadership which is at this time truly white and male, both parties have the opportunity to show diversity in a Black or/and a female. The Democrats have the opportunity of healing their loyal Black party members by running a Black, maybe even Willie Logan for Commissioner of Education. He was the start of all this trouble. He has name recognition, shows skill, and ability. Of course, he will be a choice between him, Willie and Representative Keith Arnold Democrat, Fort Myers and present candidate for Governor and has $500,000.00 to bring to the commissioner campaign. So Democrats are deliberating over the question, "are Black votes worth $500,000.00 or are the fish fries, barbecued pork, and church visits still good enough for Black voters.The republicans have only 1.5 % of Black registered with their party. Will they choose a Black as J. C. Watts or a Clarence Thomas or some like Black. No they will choose another white male Mr. Gallagher, the former Insurance Commissioner. Good name recognition. But will it help to get the 17% of the Black votes they say they need to win for sure.Democrats are in the position of trying to recover the most loyal democrats they had, Blacks. Have they concluded that, " Blacks have short memories and are easy to satisfy; therefore, you can insult Blacks early in an election year which will invigorate the 'Bubber' vote and near the end of the voting year provide Blacks gestures of "love" a fish fry, some barbecue pork, some cold water melon and a pat on the head??" If this were true and this made Blacks happy, it will play well for the "virtue" of democratic politicians, because in the words of Aristotle, " a political shows virtue went they make the citizens happy.. Although shallow and shorted this is the classic fulfillment of virtue, politics, and Platonic statesmanship. It as demonstrates that Black voters have been defined as immature, ignorant, and easily swayed by emotion instead of reason and analytical deductions.The Republicans have concluded that they need or can right now get at least 17 percent of the Black votes. However, they have, in my estimation concluded that such right wing republican issuers as School Vouchers, Schools of Choice and anti affirmative action are the issuers Blacks have misunderstood and will gladly join republican ranks as soon as their great white father explains it in a way they can understand. This is a real mis understanding of the intelligence of the Black voter and will in the end make their goal a more difficult to realize.Now there are two camps of Blacks who are jumping into this moving political water:First, there those Blacks who will give them anything they want knowing that this will be the quickest way to their personal ambition of getting a piece of the pie. They deliberately take the easy premises in a problem or issue ( usually the false premises ) so they will be loved and in the end come to the false conclusion ( the false conclusion) to be loved by the master. These Black will be seen in the image of the notorious Uncle Clarence Thomas, presently a Black member of the U.. Supreme Court. I have personally seen the efforts of republicans as they try to convince Blacks that they do not really see the "virtue" in the dissolution of such things as affirmative action and the sabotage of the present public school system using School Vouchers and School of Choice. It is sad that the present state of such public institutions as education and the mission of affirmative action has left it so vulnerable to attack. But alas, it is true; Public Education and affirmative action has not worked because of the behavior and attitudes of the people who run these initiatives; therefore, "lets not dissolve it" is hard to defend.Secondly, there are those Blacks who after seeing avarice, ignorance, lying etc. will take the chance, be the hero and choose virtue, good, truth, ethics, and moral imperatives and in the face of the great back-pressure of prevailing public opinion and political threats even from their own kind who want to continue to rule at the feet of their master, take the right path. In my opinion we must admire the second group of people!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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19. THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA IS INSTITUTIONALIZED THROUGH FOUNDATIONSSince Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, the right wing consisting, mainly of conservative Republicans have made a consecutive, dedicated, long-range effort to bring their agenda to a institutional reality. The conservative foundations have been a very large part of this effort.For example, these conservative foundations have grown profusely in number and have over three billion dollars in their budgets for activities. They have given profusely to state and regional organizations that are actively promoting a conservative philosophy/propaganda, developing public positions, perceptions, feeding information to policy makers with a conservative slant, and crafting and disseminating messages for media and public consumption.Today, over 100 conservative public policy institutes exist. In fact just recently a conservative foundation purchased property from Ronald Reagan for approximately six million dollars for the purpose of training young people to be good conservatives. This is reminiscent of the Nazis young camps in the thirties. They are closely linked through extensive support and communications networks. For example, the conservative or Rutherford Foundation is supporting the Paula Jones efforts against a perceived progressive president. Conservative foundations are supporting efforts to recruit, Blacks to carry the conservative agenda to their group. These Blacks such as Clearance Thomas, J. C. Watts the conservative Congressman from Oklahoma, the radio talk show host, Ken Hamble, Bernard, the Black member of the California Board of Reagents who helped to turn back Affirmative Action through Proposition 209, etc. are provided high visibility and frequent media opportunities, far in excess of that the progressive foundations provide progressive Blacks. It is said by conservatives that liberal or progressive foundations "don't have a really sharp political program that they are seriously pushing with funding. They are kind of bumbling along. But the neoconservatives are much more consciously , purposefully, and in a focused way, trying to advance ideas. Progressive foundations are seemingly timid and easily driven to cover."Conservative fund donors have also channeled resources to build "a media empire" that consists of national conservative policy journals, a network of right-wing student newspapers, according to a recent article in the publication "These Times." The support of such talk shows host as Oliver North is one prime example of success. Conservative corporate and other foundation funder's are in mark contrast to progressive funder's. Conservative approaches have focused on the building of over-arching institutions such as "Charter Schools," The Juvenile Justice Industry, and networks that link progressive constructs that redefine the other side ( progressive) by stringing liberal, public servants, progressive, in the same sentences with communist, bleeding hearts, pinko-s, homosexual, pathetic weaklings; and it has worked for the most part. If something is said often enough this subliminal message will become a part of the publics belief system.These conservation's have successfully blemished progressive/liberals to the extent that even the one time Black civil rights types and just pure opportunist are denying their historical stand on conscience and compassion for the under privileged to side with the Newt/Rush appeal to reasoning (?). You can see the example of these blacks, who are making their living as administrators of institutional "diversity" programs, administrators of programs for the disadvantaged such as Title 1, or Blacks generally in soft money positions of anti discrimination programs are saying such things as, " I'm not a liberal. These human service programs are old bleeding efforts. In fact I personally agree with the death penalty!!!" Even Blacks who are strong and intelligent enough to know better are driven to support conservative issues detrimental to their kind by the extreme pressure of the volume of conservative foundation money.BACK TO THE TOP |
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20. BLACKS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROFOUNDLY EFFECT CHANGEThe political parities seem to be ready for a dialogue on Black issuers, at least the democrats are as seen in their article in the Tallahassee, Democrat on June 29, 1998. Be assured that Black spokespersons for both parties will be sent for highly visible presentations on both sides. I would like to provide you with the predication that some Blacks will take the Uncle Clarence Thomas approach to their presentation which is the selfish abhorrent sighted road to personal pieces of silver and in contrast there will be those Blacks who will cease the moment and provide some real guidance to both Black and white listeners.The opportunist will come across essentially like this, " .... It is time to abandon this unsupported notion that racism and discrimination is not dead. The Affirmation Action camps are holding on to the long discredited notion that we as Blacks need the supports of unfair laws around preferences and special treatments to get what we already have in the land of the free and home of the brave .... I have to admit that I am appalled to record that my mother was mis lead when she took the ill conceived supports of welfare. I am ashamed to admit that I was admitted to the university by the way of that cruel program of Affirmative Action. .... It was my boot straps that I used to get what was already mine to take .... "Then in contrast Blacks of real vision will take this opportunity to respond to the occasion in the way The Honorable Alcee Hasting or Frederick Douglas would have. They will be truthful and respectful. It may have gone like this I do believe: " .... Let me start by saying that I am highly appreciative and completely overwhelmed by the great privilege you have provided me to speak before this honorable group. It is true that we in America share a common destiny. We are like a ship of sailors on a stormy sea. Being so pounded by the divine powers of our God of nature that we by this very potential tragedy and going down by the way of our sinking ship, we are bound to stay afloat together or going down together. We are face with the decision of the ship of fools who will succumb to their own individual prejudices and fight their fellow ship mates and in some great surprise go with certain death to a common watery grave. But there is this glimmer of hope The hope that our common attribute of good, sound, mental prowess, rise to the highest of human character and pull together and in the end sail our ship into a safe harbor.... That is our destiny today .... We must admit in the privacy of our hearts that we all have these terrible prejudices that if not admitted and ceased by our common sense will destroy us all .... We live in a country based on Ideals but run on power and prejudices .... This is our burden and our common challenged .... Yes, I am a party person, but more than that I am a rational, loyal American and a true Black human being .... All of which I accept and use to a common good...."The point is that a time in history is presently thrust upon us. If we join the wrong voice we will in fact become a party to our own assignation. When faced with a choice of rotten apples we must choose from a better barrel. Jesse Jackson recently choose well when he said this year he would establish a deferent choice from the look alike democratic and republican parties. Weather the leaders are politicians, sorority, fraternity, 100 Black men or women, 100 most powerful Black men or women in America, Ministers, or commoners our choice is clear we must be progressive, humanist, solders of civil rights, high character and seeking justice. That is our only intelligent destiny.And, please don't shoot the messenger, Please!!!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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21. THE NEW REVELATION; PARENTS HAVE AN EFFECT ON CHILD'S EDUCATIONJust recently a report in the magazine "Money" reported that the most important part of a child's achievement in education was the parent! Now this is a big revelation. It may be of a greater surprise to report the study that found that all human children were born of human mothers , who are females. Further , it is of even a bigger surprise to report that day light hours are always accompanied by the fact that the part of the earth that is facing the sun - in the day light hours. Is it such a revelation that any one can conclude with a high degree of accuracy that if you put your hand into an open flame you will, one hundred percent of the time get a burn and a smell of cooked flesh, your own!! Maybe it is usual that the superior human intellect to be spent satirically documenting the facts that are so obvious to any normal human, who is willing and free of mind enough to use their five natural senses of hearing, sight, smell, feel, and taste accompanied with the rational mind.What dose this all mean,. Well to me it means that the tools of science when once learned by the simple minded are used in an exercise to show that they can prove the obvious and move old bones from one grave yard to another with ruffling the fathers of all the other simple minds that have proved the same thing for centuries. But even in intellectual circles if a person took the chance to disregard the foolish works of the colleagues that have gone before and make a try at disproving the garbage that has for generations kept the human spirit in bondage the whole intellectual world will pounce on this poor fool and soundly secure their destruction. But for the educator not to have known that the parent has a profound part in the child education even before this study, is a sin before God.BACK TO THE TOP |
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22. RACISM INVADES THE JURY SYSTEM/BLACK JURIES CANNOT DELIBERATEIt was inevitable that the white public media would try to sell and dramatize the perception that Blacks are too stupid to made good deliberators in jury duty. In fact it is obvious that the guilty verdict given by the Black jury in the criminal case against O. J. Simpson would not be allowed to stand. This is verified when the media rightly points out that the civil case which is being judged by a nearly all white jury can find O. J. "responsible" which is just another way of saying that the white folks say he is "guilty" no matter what the Black folks say. As a commentator this Sunday on CCN pointed out , we may not be able to take his life but we can take any money he may get for the rest of his life!! As for me I say, who cares if O. J. is guilty. He is a sorry excuse for a Black man and now a "cash cow" for many people.Yes, the first jury in the criminal O. J. Simpson trial was in nearly all Black. And the media regularly points out that they spent (only) approximately four hours to bring back a "not guilty" verdict. It is further pointed out that these four hours included lunch and using the rest room!! The courts subsequently decided that O. J. was/is a fit parent for his children. But the white public say he is yet guilty. Not only was this verdict unsatisfactory to the greater white population, it was inferred that the Black juries were too ignorant to deliberate.The latest jury in the civil case against O. J. is now nearly all white. In fact the only Black member of the jury was dismissed and replaced with an Asian man. The media describes him as an intelligent, college, computed expert. A man typical of the cerebral common ground of the Asian.The media is going out of its way to compare the deliberations of this white jury with the first Black jury. The so called "pundits" and white "experts" are saying, " See this (white) jury is working hard. Only the Black woman was sleeping during the trial.Now that she is gone they are deliberating over the true facts of the case. They asked for a vile and a magnifying glass to review the evidence. The Black jury did not take but four hours to react with their feelings."This week on MSNBC an example of how obsessed white people are with Black punishment, prosecution and persecution a director of a non-profit Civil Rights think tank, who happen to be a white female, when asked if justice for Blacks was biased against them, responded with a serious straight face, " Although there are disproportionate numbers of Blacks in the prison system . . . Although 1.7 million Black males cannot vote because of criminal records . . . Although Blacks are arrested more frequently for alleged infractions of the law . . . Our study finds no compelling correlation between their race and the disproportionate numbers in the criminal justice system . . ." This is the lying face of the expert scum bellies who use the blunders of "bad science" to confuse an obvious truth.Racism is deep in all that American society pretends to do in the name of objective analysis. Yes, the verdict will probably be the synonym of guilty responsible which will set right the verdict of these incompetent Blacks.If you wish to comment please click on the e-mail belowBACK TO THE TOP |
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23. CLONING A BAD IDEA (August 14, 1997)In the week of February 28, 1997 a scientist announced that the process of cloning" was now a reality! They had successfully cloned a sheep. The following week another scientist in America announced that they also had successfully cloned a monkey. This is the most serious advent sense the atomic bomb! The week on August 9, 1997 an American scientist announced that they were patenting a process of cloning cattle. There are serious questions that immediately come to mind.First , it is obvious that we as humans have not advanced to the level that we can handle even the simplest questions on human morality. Our competence cannot even handle questions surrounding the present diversity of humans/citizens here on earth today.Now consider the day when scientist announce that humans have been crossed with a monkey in the same way as a donkey was crossed with a horse to produce a "mule." This can be done with the same animals because their chromosome counts are close; as are the chromosome counts of monkeys and humans. Will the offspring of a human and a monkey be called a "hule?" Further, will a "hule" be human enough to be treated as a human or will it be animal enough to be treated as an animal? What civil rights will this "hule" have?The religious community will have to face the profound question of whether a "hule" has a soul; and if it dies what kind of burial will it deserve?; and can it be buried in a white grave yard; or will this "hule be buried in a black grave yard?The business community will have to decide that if this "hule" has the same or similar physical dexterity and intellect as a human, can they work it as an animal or will they have to consider the rights of this "hule" the same as human rights. Will hules replace the third world countries cheap labor market?The military will have to be told if it can recruit a hule as a solder; and if so will they have to provide the same support as they give a human solder. Can a hule become an officer?We should not be surprised when the time is considered "right" an announcement in made that there has already been experiments that have produced this hule and human clones. Yes, I believe that some hot shot scientist has already conducted these experiments and the time is not yet "right" to present it to the public!!Then there is the question, "Is a hule breed from a black person as equal as a hule breed form a white person?" Do Blonde hules have more fun and are they more equal. Is it moral to use the hule as love toys? Should hules be allowed to marry?What will happen when the government patient office issues the first patent on the production of a hule? Who will get the first business rights to mass produce these hules?These are real questions of a very serious nature!!BACK TO THE TOP |
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24. AMERICA THE IDEAL AND THE CONTRADICTIONS (Posted April 2, 2002) INTRODUCTION "The prevalence of the corporation in America has led men of this generation to act, at times, as if the privilege of doing business in corporation form were inherent in the citizen; and has led them to accept the evils attendant upon the free and unrestricted use of the corporate mechanism as if these evils were the inescapable price of civilized life and, hence, to be borne with resignation. throughout the greater part of our history a different view prevailed. Although the value of this instrumentality in commerce and industry was fully recognized, incorporation for business was commonly denied long after it had been freely granted for religious, educational and charitable purposes. It was denied because of ear. Fear of encroachment upon the liberties and opportunities of the individual. Fear of the subjection of labor to capital. Fear of monopoly. Fear that the absorption of capital by corporations, and their perpetual life, might bring evils similar to those which attended mortmain. There was a sense of some insidious menace inherent in large aggregations of capital, particularly when held by corporations." Justice Brandeis, in Ligget vs. Lex ______________________ That American is a nation built on "ideals" that are expressed in its constitution but run on "power" is truly the classical contradiction. Many authors have observed that America has in its constitution a separation of powers into the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government. This was to prevent of a "dictator" or "monarch" evolving over time. It is also said that the management of this democracy was planned to prevent a possible bureaucracy that could do anything that would have a sudden impact on American life. We can see that all these things have been effective in America so far. No matter how radical any "power group" or corporation becomes the first amendment makes it possible for those who get too far from the center, and the good of the people, can be brought down by any individual or group of individuals, These powerless people can exercise their right to freedom of speech and organize around the undesirable condition that power in bad faith has produced. Therefore, in good faith and with great reliability we can say "and this to shall past." The marrying of the executive branch with corporate profit , greed, and selfish power "shall too past" only if and only if "we the people" preserve and exercise our right under the powerful First Amendment, the freedom of speech!! Today, under a Republican president, who is a true pro-business, America has come once again to the place in our history where "money/power" is greater than elected government power. Michelle Goldberg in his article "18 Tales of Media Censorship (AlterNet.org, April 1, 2002) describes depth of the US government's regular and common involvement and cooperation with big corporations in committing high crimes and misdemeanors. In the book "Into the Buzzsaw" this collection of essays describe the roles of the CIA role in drug smuggling, lies perpetuated by the investigators of TWA flight 8, POW rotting in Vietnam, Korean war massacre, disenfranchisement of Black voters in Bushe's election government officials involvement in corporations as Enron, etc. So one can see that Enron is but a recently opened door to the Pandora's box of private corporate greed, and individual power brokers "run-a-muck!!" |
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25. CORPORATE AMERICA RUNNING AMUCK Enron has brought home a subject and observation that has been a taboo in American life. On January 31, 2002 CSPAN2 was hosting a call-in-show featuring magazine editors Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens, (Editor The Nation Magazine). In discussing the Enron fiasco they concluded openly that "Enron" and the "Mob" used the same tactics in caring out business. With the absence of a "moral code" even capitalism can RUN A-MUCK! Any corrupt institution is a bad institution whether it is a democracy, socialism, communism or an economic institution as capitalism. For example, both the "Mob" and some "Legitimate American Businesses" use the tactic of providing money to all open hands of politicians (,Huck Gutman, The Lessons of the Enron Debacle, Common Dreams .Thursday, February 7, 2002), judges, professionals (e.g. writers), media ( Richard Blow, Paid Off Top Journalists in Return for ... What?, TomPaine.comEnron, February 6, 2002) and foreign countries to get all involved in their sometimes criminal activities. The "Mob" called it bribes, while corporate American called it "contributions." The "Mob" and legitimate business, "Corporate America" as presently practiced, differ only in the fact that one is legitimized by the acceptance of the public-at-large and the other has been labeled illegitimate by those in public places. Even the act of terminating with malice is a part of both the "Mob" and "Corporations" at times. Both even make their "Bones." (Patrick Martin, The Strange and Convenient death of J. Clifford Baxter----- Enron executive found shot to death, News & Analysis: North America, January 28, 2002) Some so called "Legitimate Business" are like the Squirrel," it is just a rat with good PR." When you think about it, there is little difference between the tobacco companies and the poppy or cocaine cartels. Poppy and Cocaine is controlled by the "Mob" while tobacco is controlled by the legitimate corporations. Both are at times harmful and kill people. Jim Hougan (Uri Dowbenko, The DynCorp-government, Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business connection Online Journal, .March 20, 202) wrote in part, " Part One: Dirty Tricks, Inc. "As Jim Hougan wrote in his landmark book, "Spooks: The Haunting of America–The Private Use of Secret Agents," "With their cultural and career investments in upholding the stereotype of the Mafia as the vehicle of organized crime, the public and the press have generally failed to grasp the felonious nature of the outfit's WASP counterparts on the Big Board. Whereas some petty hoodlums put out contracts on individuals, the multinationals have begun to place contracts on entire countries (for example, ITT versus Chile). With that difference, their operational styles are similar: offshore laundries used to wash bribes paid in clandestine support of a sales effort designed to create and satisfy the potentially lethal addictions of their would be customers. Whether the product is heroin or Star fighter jets, the result is often the same: profits that corrupt and impoverish . . . In short it appears that some multinationals had evolved into genuinely criminal enterprises." (p. 441)" The death of J. Clifford Baxter, who was a whistle blower in the Enron fresco was the making of "Corporate Bones." It is reported to have been a suicide but there is reason to wonder what really happened (Mexico City Daily, February, 2002). The recent problems of Enron can be used as a typical example to compare Big Business with the so called "Mob." (Larry Chin Contributing Editor, Enron: Ultimate agent of the American empire Part I: Money to get power, power to protect money.—Motto of the Medici family, On-line Journal, 2002) Enron was an "energy broker" or if it was labeled the "Mob" it would be called an "energy Bookie!!!" The dissolution of Enron has focused the American public on a "go-to-jail" financial scandal, laden with all the "Mob" like elements. Enron is an American based company which is accompanied by a supporting cast from money laundering through banking, cooking books as underworld type accounting ( Anderson Accounting) and political collusion by elected officials bought with corporate money. This was done thorough a virtual piñata of corrupt practices and betrayed obligations to investors, taxpayers and voters The make up of the CEOs at Enron consisted of mostly middle aged, white men, who had known the act of real violence and war. In fact violence was their business and training. For example, Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was a Pentagon official during the Vietnam War. Frank Wisner, Jr. a board member, who facilitated Enron's most egregious violations overseas, ., has intimate CIA ties and is the son of former CIA Deputy Director Frank Wisner, Sr., who was present at the creation of the CIA. There has been at least 20 CIA agents on the payroll of Enron in the past eight years. (Kevin Lynch, Michael Hanranhan, and David Wright, February, 2002) . Strongly credible evidence alleges that the California "energy crisis" was entirely manufactured. Further, Enron is alleged to have had a strong hand in this "rip-off" of California citizens. (William Greider, Crime in the Suites , The Nation, January 28, 2002 ) Enron's territory (a MOB usage of this word) extended into many foreign countries. To mention a few there was the Argentina's public works minister to award Enron a contract to build a natural gas pipeline, there is the Iraqi oil, Kuwaiti oil, the companies natural gas pipeline on India's west coast in Maharashtra investment since India opened its economy, the Philippine National Power Corporation With the intelligence provided by the CIA and their company trainees, Enron was able to get billions of dollars in lucrative contracts in Asia, South America and Europe. They were even able to get detailed information through a satellite project called "Echelon" using the U. S, Governments resources in spy satellite systems. With this information Enron was able to pressure foreign governments through powerful figures in the U. S. Government. In fact it is alleged that, Vice President "Dick" Cheney assisted Enron in getting foreign contracts. The specifics of the relationship between Enron and the Bush Administration is common knowledge. There are 35 Bush administration officials holding Enron stock. In addition campaign contributions were made by Enron to the Bush campaign and to campaigns of bush's Energy Secretary and Attorney general to only mention a few. Further, Enron's Lindsey was used as Vice President Cheney's consultant in orchestrating and directing g U. S. energy policy. (Brian Ganter, "The hidden lesson of Enron", YellowTimes.ORG, February 12, 2002) The highest irony is that Enron's president and chief, Lawrence "Gerg" Whalley the week on the hearings, February 6, 2002 established a new Enron company under a Swiss investment bank's control called UBS Warburg Energy and will be began trading this month, February (Kristen Hays, Enron operation is reborn, Associated Press, February, 2002). In fact this new company will have all of Enron's old customers including the contacts and business with the U. S. Governmental Administration. So you see the actors in this criminal business has already determined that there will not be findings that will inhibit their "business as usual" in America!! In addition, the greatest American tragedy is that this Enron exposure will be represented as an "isolated" occurrence an "exception" in Corporate America behavior, (e.g. Exxon-Texaco, Wal Mart, Microsoft, Standard Oil, General Electric, McDonnell Douglas, etc.) when it is only the tip of a very large ice berg. This is the "common practice" in the U. S business and the contradiction to the fact that industry operates at "the pleasure of" and "for the welfare" of citizens instead of corporations running the nation. The tail is again wagging the dog. |
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26. INVESTIGATE THE RACKETEERING ENRONS OF AMERICA This media and congressional concentration on the CEO Anderson accounting is nothing but an effort to have the public loose it's focus on Enron's racketeering crimes against the public. The public is asked to see this as nothing more than bad records of accounting (A.F. Nariman, ''The Enron skeleton is buried six feet under the Bush White House'' Yellow Times, February 23, 2002). This provides the cover for the reality that big business as presently conducted in US has too much greed profiteering and illegal activities by most corporations today. It is tradition and common practice in an organization that when a problem is uncovered the company/organization picks one(a) person for a-fall-guy, blame all the sins of the agency on him or her, fires them or terminate them with malice and the company/agency goes on with business-as-usual. The problem with this issue with Enron is that the whole racketeering MO of industry in the US is in the danger of being exposed and it isn't a very pretty picture. The common practices of fraud, the amorality of deception and debauchery, greed, profiteering, money laundering, betrayal-of-the-public-trust and exploiting the Government is near the spot light. (The National ENQUIRER, February 26, 2002) This is not that an individual, who is a showing criminal behavior. It is a systemic conducting of business out side of the law or in questionable area where law enforcement fears to tread. (Uri Dowbenko, Part One: "Dirty Tricks, Organized White-Collar Crime is the absolute essence of Mega-Corporate-Government Business inc., The DynCorp-government connection", Online Journal, March 20, 2002). The accomplice here is the normal accepted accounting system of this agency which allows the of hiding assets and deficits . The system deliberately does business with the intent of profiteering, bribing government, lying to investors, taking the inside track by CEOs are the greatest problem. The accounting firm(s) are also guilty and the accomplice of the Enrons, who are criminal in their activities. This is the same as a murderer killing and only the accomplice being convicted of a crime and going to jail. The supporting cast of elected officials we see setting on these congressional hearing panels are a sham and failing in their duty to protect the public which voted for them. (Nate Blakeslee, How Enron Did Texas, The Nation, March 4, 2002). They are not asking the hard questions that will bring these criminals to justice because they are the product of the money paid in bribes to place them in power positions in government. Therefore, the accounting firms are taking the heat, taking the fall so to speak. David Martin observed in part,( The Bird, Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression,:) Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.
The present government along with and in cooperation with the corporate community seem to be using some or all these techniques to cover up the truth of today's Enrons in America! |
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27. THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT MADE REAL( THE TYRANNY OF THE BOTTOM LINE) Americans are facing one of the must critical times in it's history. The stage is set to determine the question of, "who really runs our government," Big Business/corporations or an elected government "of, for and by the people." Are the ideals of our democracy a reality or is the dilemma of corporate power the bottom line in the US? ` Countries such as Argentina have proved that when business is able to absolutely buy government absolutely "of, by, and for" the people changes quickly to "of, by, and for" the corporations/big business which sadly produces chaos followed by national disaster. This administration makes no bones about who it feels is the must important population to satisfy big business lead by oil. The shadow government of powerful money has always been accepted by the public at large as a contradicting democratic dilemma worth allowing in our political system. However, the balance of power of money becoming the "ideal and the reality" is being decided by the non-enforcement of the "laws against monopolies." These laws are called the "anti-trust laws."( Patrick Montin, Bush's Shadow Government, New York Times, March 5, 2002) G. W. has demonstrated that he feels that big business gaining great power and sole ownership of industries will only be a good for the people. But as we all see with the example of Enron, big business will run-a-muck if it is left on its own, un-regulated (Marjorie Kelly, Business Ethics, Enron and the Myths of Runaway Capitalism, Alternews.org, February 21, 2002). The profit motive and the bottom (Line) objective (Profit) will always serve the company and the individual (CEO) first and last. Another example of the activities that are today making corporations bigger and stronger may be seen in the communications industry.( By David DeGraw, ''Freedom and democracy under attack!" www.AmericanResurrection.com YellowTimes.org, March 09, 2002 ) In a corporate corruption case, a federal court, at the request of Fox News Corp, AOL Time Warner, GE, and Viacom, has provided a decision that could remove the last remaining regulations that prevent corporate conglomerates from monopolizing the American media and communication landscape. A group of cooperation which has become known as the communications Cartel" has bought off and influenced politicians and the Federal Communications Commission, and has been casting aside media ownership rules. The top two corporations in America Microsoft and Wal Mart holds in wealth approximately $195 billion, The top 52 corporations based in America holds wealth of approximately one half trillion dollars (Forbes magazine, The world's top billionaires, February, 2002 ). In a CSPAN program recently it was reported that off shore banks in the Caribbean holds approximately 3 trillion dollars from corporations based in America, on which no taxes are paid. The national debt of the U. S. is six trillion (Bureau of Public Debt), The gross national product is One point two trillion dollars (National Coordination Board) Corporations are already more powerful than elected officials of our government as recorded in the book "The Tyranny of the Bottom Line". If G. W. has by some chance read this book this is all the more reason that US citizens must know who are the names of the "Shadow Government" we here so much about. He has formalized the "Shadow Government. Has he made the until now undeclared "Shadow Government" of Big Business an official "Shadow Government?" |
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28. CONCLUSION (THE REAL WINNERS IN "THE WAR ON TERRORISM") Although it is not readily spoken the real situation in America and corporate power is essentially this. America has been a safe tranquil place for corporations to operate world wide. Corporations have been operating in the past in unsafe-countries to only exploit "natural Resources," get raw materials and then come back to a safe haven as America to use their manufacturing investment in the US to process the materials for sale world wide.. With "Globalization" corporations have come to locate major manufacturing tangible resources in unstable countries which brought with this relocation, the regular loss of such due to upheavals of a countries citizens. In the past these crisis to private corporations were handled by declaring war on a country based on business reasons (conflict) with a moral justification given the American public to get it to commit young men to go die as if it was "a just cause" and we were "on Gods side." In order to get an on-going police force based in the US and supported by US's allies, the undeclared-"War of Terrorism" was invented which is an unending-search for all groups who exercised destructive acts against negative private manufacturing investment activities in any country in the world. The "mercenary International Force" will protect all private facilities and suppress all activities by any oppressed group in any country under the label of "The War On Terrorism." This on-going flexible unfortunate war was immediately adjusted to be a means to support world exploitation by corporations holding tangible properties in all countries forever. It was brilliantly done by corporations which becomes the Shadow Government of all of the known world today!! This "Shadow Government" has always been the real promoter and the main profiteer of the "Manifest Destiny" doctrine. This is easily seen but explained only with a large number of words. The reading public, who is so saturated with misinformation and false foundations, will probably not want to understand this because it attacks too many views we as Americans have about the invulnerability of our Constitution. But if we realize that truth is only used as an agent of a moral person the lies we regularly hear are by those amoral persons, who are not bothered by the burden of conscience. But our public officials do not call them lies. They call them "not being forthcoming," and say anything as long as there is a fall back position with a "plausible deniability". We see these lies protected by these terms every day. We hear such lies as; Elvis Presley still lives, Columbus discovered America, The South won the civil war, Tobacco does not kill, FOX FNC is an unbiased news station, Bush won election 2,etc.. Lastly, the facts (truths) described in this article were gotten by using the resources of the open medium of the "World Wide Web (WWW)". It is obvious that today this the only reliable medium that is essentially free of the pressures to tell only the "Wag The Dog" war machine and corporate line these days!
THE POUNDING YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEAD IS A CONSERVATIVE MISSION TO IMMORTALIZE REAGAN!!! The pounding you are getting in the memorial of President Reagan’s death is not as spontaneous as Americans are programmed to think! In fact this is a well planned on going crusade to redefind and redirect American preception of some basic history and force these perceptions into the institutions of the educationl systems. It is the culmination of at least ten years of planning (CNN , interviews with PUSH, June 5, 2004). Yes, Nixon, Goldwater, Bush, all will be written American history by these dedicated conservatives to be the Greats in the presidents and leaders!Remember how acceptable the label of Liberal was in the near past. Now we see that Liberals will run for cover when a fellow American accuses them of being a Liberal. This is the successful outcome of the right wing conservative foundations and institutions efforts to redefine this trem. It joins the group of negative American phases as Damn Yankee, Communist Pigs, Pinkos, Socialist, Jap, etc. and now Those Old liberals, and Those Old Tax and Send Democrats!!! Just recently the label of Those Old Rag Heads was given to the Muslims. It may not be the right time to engauge in the debate of the reality of the legacy of President Reagan because it is the sensitive emotional moments of mouning. But the debate must take place for the good health of America. The good side of Reagan is overly execrated and presented by the workers of such people as The Heritage Foundation, Big Business (e.g. Exxon-Mobil, Cato Group, Halliburton’s’, etc.) The Goldwater Foundation, The Republican National Committee, Newt Gingrinch, etc. Therefore, here are some of the many things Reagan did that were not so flattering: “The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable for children‘s lunches, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt pardon for racial slurs. Getting cozy with Argentine fascist generals, tax credits for segregated schools, disinformation campaigns, "homeless by choice," Manuel Noriega, falling wages, the HUD scandal, air raids on Libya, "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa, United States Information Agency blacklists of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, the invasion of Grenada, assassination manuals, Nancy's astrologer. Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, Michael Deaver's conviction for influence peddling, Lyn Nofziger's conviction for influence peddling, Caspar Weinberger's five-count indictment, Ed Meese ("You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime"), Donald Regan (women don't "understand throw-weights"), education cuts, massacres in El Salvador. $640 Pentagon toilet seats, African-American judicial appointees (1.9 percent), Reader's Digest, C.I.A.-sponsored car-bombing in Lebanon (more than eighty civilians killed), 200 officials accused of wrongdoing, William Casey, Iran/contra. "Facts are stupid things (phase)," the MX missile, Bitburg, S.D.I., Robert Bork, naps, Teflon. -MORE- (66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan David Corn, The Nation. June 6, 2004) It is recorded that, “Reagan's mythic 'likeability' and 'popularity' were manufactured and packaged by the corporate political machine in Washington, then sold to the public after the fact by a willing accomplice: the media. This article from 1989 exposes this myth - the same myth the media is pushing full-steam this week. FAIR: . . . In short, Reagan was one of the most UNPOPULAR presidents of the past 50 years! (http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0609-05.htm ), (David Corn, Reagan’s Bloody Legacy, http://www.Tompains.cvom/print/reagans_bloody_legacy.php, 6/9/2004)
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