The attack of September 11, 2001, though said to have been conducted by “Muslim extremists” and characterized as an “attack on Freedom”, did not target the structures of Christianity, nor the symbols of freedom, but those of capitalist exploitation and military oppression.

These exist, as at the founding of Islam and Christianity, in opposition to freedom, even today, as man’s own man-made devil, fueling not the capacity of holiness, but that of evil. Under color of religion, both Christians and Muslims have served in the devil’s army, over centuries of assault designed to raise capital and gain power in elevation of themselves over others, eschewing the cooperative example of Adam and Eve, for the competition between Cain and Abel.

As Jesus said, “what you do unto the least, you do unto me”, America is founded where “all men are created equal” in the understanding that we need not to compete for God’s favor, but to cooperate to build and secure favor with one another. We must not limit our cooperation to the confines of deviled regimentation, but abandon the regiment altogether, for the universal respect of boundaries, through which cooperation is hewn.

The free and the holy stand in opposition to oppression and exploitation. It would be nice to imagine that their spirits united to effect the attacks of that day, but the reality of grief suggests a more sinister plan was afoot. Whether the towers were brought down by unscientific Muslim extremists assisted by a sympathetic God, or by a very scientific capitalist plot, has yet to be addressed and determined by public and congressional investigation.

“International Koran Burning Day” has been suspended, by the pastor, pending a meeting with the Iman of the proposed Mosque in New York City. If the day is revived, should demonstrations by Muslims burning the Bible, and of Atheists burning both, be staged in opposition and sympathy?

The Bible and Koran convey different and somewhat complementary versions of devotion to the same God. God-inspired activity in the men known as Jesus Christ and Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, inspired religious devotion to their methods and intents of worship, by populations subjected to their teachings. Now is poised a competitive scrimmage between those populations, that neither prophet would encourage. In that Christianity spread through Europe, and Islam through Africa, this may seem a continental contest. In that Christianity was adopted by whites and Islam by blacks, this may seem a racial contest. In that the Black American Muslim mission established by Elijah Muhammad employs the divinity assigned to both texts, it seems a curious contest.

That the versions of our marriages, to which we vow before God, as they are approached, engaged, and aged, differ between the mates, should render a clue that our versions of worship may differ, but remain valid. Oppression is all that should be not tolerated. Its presence is proven by damage and harm, torture and vandalism, and its endurance concludes in complete deprivation.

We protest the deprivation. Of what are we deprived? Somehow, a thirty-member congregation pastor is not deprived of national and world-wide attention for a rather radical, dubious, and offensive proposition. Perhaps it aligns with the considered offensive, but hardly radical or dubious, proposition for the all-faith mosque and community center near the hallowed “ground zero”. The radicalism of book-burning is well documented in the novel “Fahrenheit 451″. Not so well portrayed are the actual burnings of native scripture by Christian invaders around the world. The test of freedom is, “how much variety can I brave?”.

The pastor’s plan seems dubious because no seems to have asked him, “do you have a Koran”, nor, “whom do you expect to donate, or sell, Korans to be burned”. The more Christian thing to do, if he has Korans to burn, is to keep one to read himself, and donate the remainder to Muslims too impoverished to afford their own. If nothing else, both books, Bible and Koran, convey a divine love and devotion, that of man for world, community, and self, proven in sacrifice of all of these, for the art of its conveyance, the recorded speech, the book, too heavy to own.

In our freedom, we own our burdens and dispose of them as we wish and as we are able. The burden of our sadness, our anger, our evil, is not upon any art, nor book, but upon our own minds, our own conscience, and are dispersed not by the devil’s signature fire, but by the cool calculations of repentance, indeed restoring the honor of our lands, through our souls. “I submit only to God”, is the statement of Muslims, and is the pledge of the free. It is not the purpose at odds, but the perspective and methods, not only between the camps, but within them. Hate can be changed into hope. To achieve this recipe, at the point where hate simmers into a boil, add a complete package of humility.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

6:42:59 AM

Miscegenation: The Last Stand

That “Blacks and Whites should not procreate and raise babies together” is the basic premise of the theory of miscegenation, promoted by American segregationists, to maintain “whiteness” in the position of social dominance and theoretical supremacy. The current “republican/democrat” impasse over health care, is really the final scrimmage line, battlefront, of the forces supporting and those neutral to miscegenation.

“Health Care Reform” was a Hilary Clinton project, now adopted by Barack Obama, and this black/white, male/female collusion is subtly, provocatively, rumbling rumbling beneath the surface of its opposition’s objections. Barack Obama, himself, is the product of such miscegenation, but avoided the condemnation of having been reared among blacks, or secreted among whites. Elevated on the images of blacks placed into positions by conciliatory whites, Obama felt safe enough to the American spirit, for it to compose his election, and proper to the liberal attitude, to share a stewardship with Ms. Clinton.

This is not done to oppose the opposing Americans, but to sway their infantile concepts of America into maturity. As well, it is not done with intentional perfections. The perfect intents of infancy grow jagged with age and experience, sour and corrupted without truth. Yet humanity’s truth was written and signed in our founding documents, by white hands under black manners and influence. But these hands drifted between pen and whip, chain and gun, under minds starved of truth by years of mutual subjugation, toward the false shores of mutual collaboration to suppress those beyond the agreed mutuality. Within that agreement are those capitalizing on the fear they create in others, the despair and disaster they inspire, cause, and orchestrate. Indeed, they encourage illnesses of all sorts, and charge exorbitant costs for pretend cures. Such strategies extend from the practices that enforced slavery, the divide, between slave and master, standing still, throughout, today in that between the corporate giants and common citizens.

This divide mirrors those instituted between royalty and subject, king and serf, prophet and congregation. This divide is the actual thing that the “conservative” is working and looking to preserve. Though Americans are a people devoted to self-government, implied by their rhetoric is that it should, and does, exist between the citizenry and those we assign to authority. Such implication is assigned by the enemies of government regulation, those serving the corporate lobby, who claim their greed is actually a service because it increases the national financial capacity, above the constituency.

Yet, with the power bestowed by their money, earned on subjected citizens, they insist on immunity from taxation, their class rising above the citizenry so, that the “robber barons” of the “monopoly age”–at their heights, would be standing too low to see that high. It’s not really the “reform” they object to, but the “care”, and ultimately, the “health”. Extending this attitude from the current arena, one sees it applied against the prospects of “education” and “welfare”, “gayness” and “communism”, “socialism” and “liberalism”, but ultimately portray tyrants against all “freedom”, but their own. Like the plantation masters at our founding, they express loyalty to naught but their envy, their jealousy, their crime, their cover.

The stresses of today are equal to those of slavery, multiplied over a more diverse and larger population, and measured most deeply in Black Americans, those originally and most targeted. These stresses have never been healthful, but generated wealth into the estates of those who caused them. Enriched by such an unhealthful environment of oppression, the oppressors invested in more empowerment and invention, to refine and excavate more organic sacrifice, gorging on spiritual and cultural cannibalism. With no equitable opposition but the truth of time and nature, and a conscience shunted away from the natural truth within themselves, there has been no cause to think that this methodology has not continued into today. Generating and accumulating a massive and unstable store, of hypocrisy and confusion, that threatens to collide in a suicidal explosion, or merge into a suicidal poison, major and general change is inevitable. Our patriotic duty is to join these energies together in conversion, to create of them a kernel and a seed, by acknowledging, facing, and grappling with our historical and current injustice, to repair our character, rePAR, our peerage.

In this tact, America will become the nation waving its flag over the home of the brave, giving land to the free, but against this fact, will maintain its creation by saving its bag to fill, like Rome–of the slave–living hand-to mouth in conspiracy, depleting all stores of liberty, and die in its condemning of equality.

8:00:50 AM

Sunday, February 7, 2010 10:48:07 AM

 

Barack Obama To mark today’s anniversary, White House Photographer Pete Souza shares some very special moments from the past 12 months:

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Your leadership, and that of your Democratic Party fellows, has been lacking comprehension and commitment, and so, your party is risking the return of the population to the grasp of the Republican platform, which, though lacking comprehension, is quite demonstrative of its commitment.

The Republican commitment to preserving the traditions of America is trumping your commitment to change the traditions of America, because neither of you are comprehending the actual challenges to America, and so the traditional devil seems to threaten less than the potential devil, and so, that which is America remains more myth than practice. There is no more audacity in hope than there is in rain or sunshine. It is the natural condition of the spirit upon the body’s waking breath. Those who think hope is audacious are those who work to make hope die, and those are the enemies the American people expect their governing bodies to target, arrest, convict, and punish. These enemies have excuses ingrained into law, policy, custom, tradition, expectation, education, entertainment, religion, all shifting the focus on their crimes from the guilty to the violated. The convenience of the Democratic Party failures to the Republican Party excesses, seems so profound as to be coordinated, a tacit, covert subversion that only accelerates the decline of the commonwealth and the rise of aristocracy, that to which the American word and blood has been dedicated in revolt. In America, inequality is the greatest threat to freedom, for American freedom is self-evident only through equality. This is the great exploration for which we are founded. As much as it is abandoned, so too is our country.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

9:33:45 PM

 

As human, we socialize in torrents of love, despisery, and silence, by which we respectively communicate, complain, and think. We educate one another by giving answers to questions, and by asking questions for answers, for this is how we learn to educate ourselves, before we come upon one another. Touch breeds voice, and voice generates thought. In thought, the self discovers the existence of its bodily experience, which is touch formed into flesh that is distinguished by its touch. Within this flesh, thought’s discovery of self sparks voice, by which its life becomes known to its world. The puzzlement is, “what in the world knew of the first life, if no life existed before life, to do the knowing of life?”.

Life answers that by stating that life’s creator must be the knower of life, and is either the world, not in the world, or both, recognizing the fact that life is known, at least to itself, and therefore, life may be the creator of itself linked both to the world and to a knower of self who is beyond the world, or is the self beyond the world who is capable of creating the world and giving life to it. Eventually, by its experience of the world, life realizes that the world is populated by selves that are each distinct from other selves, and realizes that its monopoly is actually a polity. In this realization, selves bond into family and community, forming cultures for collective survival and Monday, February 1, 2010 5:41:30 AM and strategies for individual prosperity.

These concentrate into personal identity and public standing, held to be soul and citizen respectively, by imagination. Personal and public effect is the material disbursement of its reality. These resound into streams of politics that range vertically as the food chain, and horizontally as interpspecie, our in our case, human, relationships, generated by imaginative affections and gravitational imperatives, or friendships and arts. Families and schools become tribes and businesses, that sprout as a nation around native protections. The national constituency known as America, is a union of fifty-territorial states, occupied by citizens divided by artistic devotions and united by commerce between them. Their souls are their private affairs. Their flesh competes and cooperates according to their talents and wills, so fuse into parties of conspiracy to gain in their crafts. Unions, Chambers of Commerce, Political Parties, Religions, Universities, comprise perhaps the top five most influential classes of these. These are guided through and into the maze of reality by the quality of their discernment and employment of their resources and rights, or truth, balanced, or braced against their delusional incapacities.

Because of the “peculiar institution” of slavery, once established, the nation’s law was soundly ignored by the cream of the nation’s crop, to achieve the enforcement of party agendas, instead. That this has persisted into this day, breaks Obama’s heart. It broke as he choked back tears, and choked back words, to answer the dream that crumbled before him. The chunks of petty motive rolled to bowl him over did not frighten or amuse him, but rumbled across and around the great halls of power with such an awful, empty sound, that he trembled at the hollow echo of his own intelligent voice.

Intelligent, but not savvy, not recording the games of chess that spark fire into debate. The nerdy herd is never moved from its game, unless commanded by a lions roar, not to another ring of the circus, but to join the pride.

 

8:11:15 AM

“Marched into ovens”

“Psychic historian”

Dear Patrick,

I hope you have been well. I have thought about you since our last chat, and about our subject of discussion, not only because it is an important discussion, but because we are brave to discuss it, in a time and place where such discussion is held to be radical or foolish. As you know, it began with your search for enlightenment, and my effort to provide. Ire and anger was raised in us, because the issue is so sensitive and personal. Foolish or brave, the discussion must go on, if not between us, then elsewhere, for it is one that is a search for enlightenment and truth, and more importantly, for truth’s recruits.

We live in a course of history that is as true as the fact of our bodily being, no matter how our imaginations color it, or or minds explore it. In school, I was quite appalled by some of the claims of my educators, particularly that “history” is defined as “the written record” of man’s activities. Of course, to me, history includes all that comes before any given moment, particularly that preceding and relevant to, building up to, any given moment, and all of that can never be written. It may be felt, though, and understood, in the presence of those seeking and capable of such. In my 9th grade course in “world history”, I was told that world history dealt only with that of Europe, and I offered my self to sense what was not told in the books. The books of reference all had European sources and publishers, but in my later studies, I learned that these were not all that were written nor available. The writings of the cultures encountered by Europeans were generally destroyed by Europeans, but other writings, escaped, and others by Europeans were hidden away and not generally available. Also, the progress of “civilization” has psychological and physical markers as to motive and method, that are discernable today.

You should be able to understand that the prime targets of the Nazi orchestrated “holocaust” were Jews, of course, but as well, that the Nazi’s themselves united around the thought that they themselves were completely white and morally pure. Blacks, gypsies, and homosexuals were also targeted, but not present in so large a number. In other words, blacks were not the aggressors, and have very little interest in, or capacity for a campaign of “ant-semitism”. Indeed, semite refers to those who have characteristics of both black and white, and many “blacks” are themselves, like many Arab and Persian persons, semitic. On the other hand, there is much evidence to state that the original “Jews” were not white at all, but one of twelve black tribes within the black Hebrew nation of the original Israel, and that the “white Jew” was a result of European infiltration and overtaking during their days in Egypt, where they tried to subvert Egypt’s government on the notions of white superiority, which caused them to be banned for the disruption they caused.

Over the centuries, this notion of subverting black power and organization gained traction in the white community of Europe, and blossomed into the “slave trade”. Having mixed within the black tribe of Israel, Judah, the “Euro’Jew” was looked down on by the purer whites (all of whom developed from the recessed genetics of black people, that become prominent in times of ecological stress upon a species, migrating northward where they were suited by nature to occupy the stressed cold environs). In this motivation, the Jews found they could prove their value, and improve their standing with the whites, by assisting and facilitating the tenets of enslavement put forth in the Papal Asiento, and themselves, orchestrated the “marching in chains into corrals, ‘factories’, and slave ships”–beginning with those “blacks” with whom they were most familiar, and contentious, the remaining black members of their own tribe–and became rich and influential among Europeans, though due to their own mixture, never accepted on the par of “white purists”. In other words, their conduct of the “slave holocaust” in service to white supremacy, set up the karma for themselves being targeted, as moral scapegoats, in a holocaust. Yet, their association with black Israel had given them order of conduct that enriched them above other European tribes, making them targets of jealousy throughout the years, as much as any blackness was considered a threat, and therefore disposed of, even in their own families. (Sexism is built largely on the punishment to white women who still had the capacity and nerve to deliver black, or dark children into a family reputing itself to be purely white. The European Gypsy comes from the tradition of child abandonment, gypsy referring to a source or bond with black Egypt, in lieu of the previously common outrage of child murder.) Of course, like the body builds anti-bodies against invaders, to mimic and defeat their threatening activity, some of this human behavior in the white community has been mimicked in the black community, including the wholesale slaughter of persons considered to be “demonic” or “useless”, that was perpetrated in the “slave raids” into the African interior. These raids, and the ensuing journeys and captivity, shaved about eighty percent off the total of the population actually delivered up for sale as slaves. Many of these raids were conducted by black Africans who had been terrorized into complicity, by the destruction of their own cultures by invading Europeans. The passing years evolved some measure of trade, but none rendering an equal value, and nothing to make moral the owning of persons by other persons, nor the animalizing of persons to act and be used as a chattel utility.

Though the American doctrine and principle is hewn on the hopes of these slaves, the slaves were forbidden from participation in the structuring of law and custom, so those that did develop were built around establishing, not defeating, the tyranny of white superiority, and to void the protests to its institution. This attitude and system of racism persists today, against the tenets of equality and freedom, and the constitution of bravery. Though challenged in every moral effort, it persists on the power to terrorize and intimidate, in demonic devotion to inequality that enriches the few on the trials of the many. Jihad is properly aimed at the demons and injustices that one’s self entertains, and then aimed against those in society. The Islamic religion is the effort to harmonize with natural truths and laws for social, cultural, and personal maintenance and progress, as it is to regard the ways of nature as the ways of God, combined to be recognized under the name “Islam”. The Christian religion is devoted to the idea of the self as God, but equally distributed among the selves of our species. The Israeli religion ties the people to the land in bond with God. These components are joined in the institution of nations. They are augmented by the spiritual disciplines and explorations discovered and practiced in the Asiatic religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Many African and American tribal religions and national practices also incorporate these themes, and their expressions vary according to circumstances of environs experience, and are affected by the current wills of the current populace, managed by the current powers and wisdom of age and force. The disconnect is in the desire and devotion of will and self to positions of glory and dominance over others, presenting challenges mediated by collective forces of precedent, presence, and ambition, essentially pitting creativity and need, against obstinacy and greed, duty versus selfishness, right versus wrong.

 

“Here we go again! I’m ready. Gosh, every time I try to chill and settle down for a minute, another cause gets me going. Cause to reelect President Barack Obama. Let’s get this party (democratic party) started!! LOL! Organizing for America | BarackObama.com my.barackobama.com”

My response–Not until he makes concrete progress against the concrete problems. Crippling racism and crippling poverty, causes death and injury all across the nation, in numbers that any “terrorist” would be proud to claim. He noted the progress he would like to make for the wealthy and middle-class. Freedom and rights belong to the citizen, regardless of circumstance. He gives very little nod to the poor, or to solutions that benefit their condition. Michelle’s “health” mission should include a program for engaging land for “community gardens” like that which won the recent “Chef’s challenge” at the White House, on television, all across the nation, and to promote the produce of local agriculture, and networks of delivery. To do so would be wise on so many levels as it accomplishes the goals not only of health, but of education, self-respect, and communal unity. Don’t let your vote be a mere extension of, or substitute for worship, but a promise of your own commitment to achieving the goals and healing of this grand and wounded nation.” Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:48:46 AM

 

“The photos taken by Jordan Miles’ mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head. Now, 10 days after plainclothes officers stopped him on a street and arrested him after a struggle that they say revealed a soda bottle under his coat, not the gun they suspected, his right eye is still slightly swollen and bloodshot. His head is shaved. The three white officers who arrested him have been reassigned. And his mother says she is considering a lawsuit. “I feel that my son was racially profiled,” Terez Miles said. “It’s a rough neighborhood; it was after dark. … They assumed he was up to no good because he’s black. My son, he knows nothing about the streets at all. He’s had a very sheltered life, he’s very quiet, he doesn’t know police officers sit in cars and stalk people like that.” A judge continued the case until Feb. 18 after the officers failed to appear at a hearing …”-HuffingtonPost.com”

“the bible has done much more harm to this planet than any other book in history – whether or not some guy named jesus lived on this planet doesn’t matter – except to the politicians who count on people believing stuff like murdering and condemning those who have a homosexual experience” 1.”Most Christian Churches wouldn’t recognize Jesus if he walked right in ANY church or chapel and sat at the very front seat, because they are blinded by endoctrination. Thats the majority.” 2.”according to the Bible Jesus Christ was nothing like these self centered christians today.” 3. “WRONG AGAIN! Sometimes I can’t believe you are my brother, we are so completely opposite, and I am right. Have a great day bro!? ?” 4. “i am not wrong – christians murder in the name of god and jesus and that is WRONG”

“Race” is not a “fact of nature”; there is no scientific determinant of “racial” characteristic. The idea of us communicating on its basis is simply one imposed by our European captors for their convenience. The only arena where “race” is legitimately discussed is in that which determines the degrees of reparations.

The discussion within the “black” community on the subject, extends from the assessment of the degree of challenge to the individual. One with “blacker” features has more obstacles than one with “whiter” features, and the insults and expectations cleave to this model. Of course, this discussion in not pure. Confusions persist, and are encouraged, for the obscurity of truth is a major expedient for exploitation. Reparations is a movement toward the accounting of, and by, truth. The truth is in the people and in the land, and to employ it wholly, would rearrange the capital of this country to reflect the true sacrifices made in its building, taking wealth from the nation’s criminals and assigning it to their victims.

The trouble is not that we are “black”, “white”, or “mixed”, but that the black parts of us are only “black”. The amputation of our African heritage, by the European conduct of the “slave trade”, has made America a handicapped society for all, “whites” hampered by guilt and greed, “blacks” hampered by injury and anger. Without reparation, the outlook is one only of continuance in this tragedy.

Thank you for posting the article.

Sincerely,

Julian Steptoe

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