Real Persons vs. Faked Persons

The law of sowing and reaping has never been more evident than in the recent supreme court ruling - granting personhood to non-human corporations.

I believe that God has caused this abomination because His justice requires that those who denied the full personhood of His human creations who are black, have to now accept the personhood of corporations who are not even human. This denial of personhood was not only applied to blacks in this country, but in the countries victimized by our foreign policy as we sought cheap resources, labor and land, such as in Haiti. Haiti's current condition is a direct result of our interventionist foreign policies toward it, along with the foreign policies of other European imperialists, such as the French.

Some are calling it a major threat to democracy and rightly so, but it's the 'sowing' of the historical, horrendous, inhuman, denial of personhood to blacks, which now is about to be 'reaped' in having to recognize the humanness of non-human corporations.

With their unlimited financial resources and their increased ability to buy any or all of our democratic institutions and representatives as they see fit, these fake human corporations will demonstrate another precept of God - "The love of Money is the root of all evil"

I predict, we will soon see the awesome truths of these precepts as we have never seen them before!....

Is Democracy For Sale?

Ever since the Supreme Court decision yesterday, granting 1st amendment human rights of speech also to corporations, it became legal for them to buy a congressperson, a senator or a President directly from their treasuries, in other words, buy the country.

Those in the know, now realize that the tremendous wealth of these corporations enables them to 'speak' by purchasing those legislators they want to do their bidding. Also foreign corporations will apparently be granted this right as well, so foreigners will also have a say in whom is elected to Congress and who is not - the best 'democracy' any one's money can buy.

Well, the thought occurred to me that this abuse and attack on the democratic process is the logical 'sowing and reaping' that is long overdue for the centuries of denial of democracy and human rights to black slaves and others non-whites, which started before the founding of this country right up until the 1960s. It's perhaps poetic justice that democracy is now officially for sale just as slaves were also for sale - "...what you have sown, you shall surely also reap.."

The Power of Images - 2009

White folks control the image-making mediums such as the movies, television, videos, and print/newspapers and magazines, and utilizes a powerful ability to shape the perceptions about blacks for whites, and even for blacks...

2009 started with one of the most powerful, positive images, for and of black folks - the swearing-in and installation of Barack Obama, to the office of President of the U.S., and the first black President, ever.

The fact that blacks are only 11% of the population and less than 5% of the voters, meant that most of those who supported him were whites, followed by a high percentage of other ethnic groups.

Looking back at 2009, it is useful to ask, what did whites achieve and get out of his election, and what purpose did it serve for them? I would argue that they attained a long-sought image of being racially tolerant, progressive, and free from their racist history which has existed since the beginnings of this country. This of course also meant that internationally, they could point to Obama's election as proof of their progressiveness and good intentions toward others. This has been a bonanza for promoting and advancing our efforts in the arena of foreign diplomacy, worldwide.

But with every positive step forward, there are usually several steps backward, and I point to just 3 that were particularly offensive and onerous to me...

- The green-lighting, financing, and distribution of the movie "Precious", which offered some of the most negative stereotypes of blacks ever seen in a movie, ....another powerful image-destroyer of the black family...

- The over-the-top build-up and hype of the talented Tiger Woods, for the past 15 years, starting from when he was an amateur and then becoming the best pro golfer and the world's 1st billion dollar athlete. All this was followed by one of the most intense and vicious destruction of his image, when he was revealed to be a serial adulterer with a long list of white bimbos, to the embarrassment of his Swedish wife....another powerful image-destroyer of the black athlete...

- The recent February, 2010 issue of 'Vanity Fair', with it's cover photo of Tiger Woods, upper torso naked and darkened, and wearing the knit cap commonly worn by prison inmates. This 'darkening' also occurred on the cover of a prominent magazine, when OJ was on trial in 1996. Neither of these darkened images were unplanned, but were very deliberately placed for maximum effect.

- The terrorist 'attempt' by a black Nigerian to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas day - not only were the warnings about him strangely ignored by those in charge of our security, but he was suspiciously allowed to buy a ticket (paying cash and without any baggage) and board the plane in just a tee-shirt, headed to Detroit in the height of winter. In the many pictures of him that have been posted after his arrest, he looks just like an average young black man on the streets of any of our American cities - another powerful image destroyer of black males....

I am viewing these as the push-back by white supremacists against the hugely positive image created by Obama's election to the presidency. I suspected that there would be a reaction, but I was not prepared for the scope and the intensity of their fury. They were not going to let such a positive image stand, without highlighting and promoting multiple negative images to counteract the positive ones.

If you doubt that white supremacists have the power to create and build-up, then destroy and tear-down, as they choose, I offer these examples as proof....

Obama's 1st Year's Grade

It's now the end of 2009 and almost 1 year has passed since President Obama assumed the office of the presidency. It's been a year of turmoil, both financially and politically, unlike anything I have seen since I have been alive. It is also the first time in 8 years that I did not have to suffer the embarrassment of having an incompetent as president of the US, and our country being the laughingstock of the world.

The things that I would downgrade him for, was his renewal of the Patriot Act, his renewal of FISA, his decision to send additional troops into Afghanistan, and his refusal to prosecute the criminals of the previous administration who approved torture and all manner of other violations of International and US law.

For these I would give him a grade of C.....

On the other hand, there were many notable things that he did achieve, the most recent was being awarded the most prestigious award in the world - the Nobel Peace Prize. Earlier in the year he also nominated and secured the appointment of the 1st Latina Supreme Court Justice, he fulfilled his campaign pledge to begin the daunting process of reforming healthcare in America, and he achieved a host of other legislative actions that had been neglected or denied by the previous administration. He has had many critics, both on the Right and on the Left, but at least one source correctly saw that his was one of the best 1st years in office that any previous president has had..

....from The BradBlog - http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7595

• Continued the draw down the misbegotten war in Iraq
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Thoughtfully and decisively picked the best of several bad choices regarding the war in Afghanistan
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Gave a major precedent-setting speech supporting gay rights
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Restored America's image around the globe
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Banned torture of American prisoners
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Stopped the free fall of the American economy
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Put the USA squarely back in the bilateral international community
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Put the USA squarely into the middle of the international effort to halt global warming
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Stood up for educational reform
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Won a Nobel peace prize
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Moved the trial of terrorists back into the American judicial system of checks and balances
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Did what had to be done to start the slow, torturous and almost impossible process of health care reform that 7 presidents had failed to even begin
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Responded to hatred from the Right and Left with measured good humor and patience
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Stopped the free fall of job losses
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Showed immense personal courage in the face of an armed and dangerous far Right opposition that included the sort of disgusting people that show up at public meetings carrying loaded weapons and carrying Timothy McVeigh-inspired signs about the "blood of tyrants" needing to "water the tree of liberty"...
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

• Showed that he could not only make the tough military choices but explain and defend them brilliantly
  (But that wasn't good enough for his critics)

For all these first-term achievements, I would give him a grade of A....

IMHO, His overall grade for his first year is a B to a B+, and I fully expect it to rise to a grade of A by the end of his 4-yr. term in office.

Time Out - Tiger Says!!

Well, the Tiger just announced that he was suspending his prowling on the PGA tour...and presumably in the bars and nightclubs where he picked up a bevy of flaxen-haired, blond hotties whom he clearly has a preference for, and who are just as unaccomplished as his nordic wife.

When you marry a woman for the wrong reasons, you are bound to get bored and restless, even if she is the mother of your two children. And apparently he was very bored! - so much so that he recklessly left traceable text-messages, and voicemails on the phones of a bunch of one-dimensional sperm cups, and now is paying millions for their silence. If only he had his head on straight and had a preference for the many attractive, accomplished Sisters available, it's almost guaranteed that he would not be in this mess today.

You would think that palling around with certified 'playas' like Barkley and Jordan, would have taught him a thing or two about how to 'play' with discretion and minimal exposure and risk. Instead, he displayed all the street smarts of a Monk gone wild on vacation. Reportedly he did not even use condoms as he scraped the bottom of the barrel with his driver and his 9-iron.

Predictably, the American sports establishment is chagrined at being betrayed by one of their 'honorary' whites who had the temerity to 'diss' one of their beauties they allowed him to marry, by whoring around on her. Just a few years ago they would have lynched him for much less than this - and this is how he repays them??? There was also a time when he would not have been permitted to even enter the clubhouse doors, never mind play on their golf courses.

Now, beat writers are tripping over themselves in angst at the besmirching of their sport by Tiger -
"golf has always held itself on a higher moral plane as a sport ruled by principles of honor. Has any such publicity created a bigger stain on golf?", and, "the game of honor and integrity had been besmirched like at no other time in it's 500-year history. It is a stain that no amount of Clorox could remove."
This is the most laughable of all assertions...that golf could have been stained by Tiger's actions, notwithstanding their racist history of exclusion that did not end until 1961, when black golfer, Bill Spiller's 13-year court battle, finally permitted him and fellow blacks to play on the PGA tour.

What they probably are really pissed at, is the certain plunge in revenues that all phases of golf will experience while Woods is away from the game - from smaller gates, drops in TV ratings, smaller purses, decreased corporate sponsorships, decreased equipment sales, deceased Ad revenues; to tour players dropping back to the 'Peter Principle' salary levels, where they would have been had not Tiger come along in the first place.

Many of the golf pros grumbled at Tiger's greatness and invincibility whenever he played, now they have a lot more to grumble about while he's on his sabbatical - the longer he is gone the worst it will be for them. When he was on tour they loved to hate him, now that he is gone, they will love to have him back.

It now appears more and more, that Tiger was being beaten with a golf club by his wife, because of her fury at the published accounts of his infidelity. This is what caused him to run out of the house and take off in his SUV with no shoes on, just before the crash. Apparently his wife was running right behind him and succeeded in smashing out the rear windows in her fury. But by the time the authorities got there, the spousal battery of his wife on him, was turned into "her heroic rescue of him", thus saving her from being arrested and charged with spousal battery. Had he been the one beating her, he would have surely been arrested and gone to jail. Instead, she gets a pass plus millions of more dollars to stay in the marriage with him.

All the facts may never come out, but he made his bed and he has to lay in it.

A Prize For Peace - Or a Nobel War?

As I listened to President Obama's speech, it struck me that his justification for the war he just expanded, is exactly what he had to say in order not to displease the powerful, elite, MIC ideologues who profit handsomely from our being constantly at undeclared war.

Do you think his life would be worth a plugged-nickel if he crossed them????

He is not a fool - he knows that they already murdered a sitting president plus his brother and two Civil Rights Activists, for crossing them by opposing the escalation of the Vietnam War; He knows that they warned Reagan with a faked assassination attempt when he strayed from their directives; he knows that they assaulted NYC and Washington, DC with massive air strikes that only they could have engineered and accomplished - all to provide a 'terrorist' rationale for war and the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq...

He also knows that the recent security breech that allowed the 'party-crashers' to get close enough to kill him, was a thinly-veiled warning to let him know how easy it will be to take him out if it were ever necessary.

So it appears to me that President Obama is fighting to stay alive, while still trying to do some good for the people who supported him and even for those who did not - I don't envy his dilemma.

So don't get caught up in the hype that he could have ended the war by bringing the troops home, rather than choosing to expand it as he did - he may not have had that option because his life was on the line, and his first duty to himself and his family, is to stay alive!

How Dare You, Jesus!

This is the month of the year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the only Eternal God and Creator of the Universe.....

But since His birth and earthly ministry, His teachings has created a conundrum and a dilemma for those Conservatives who consider America to be a 'Christian' nation, yet hate, resist and ignore most of His teachings, particularly those they consider to be too socialistic, too communistic, or too pacifistic.

When Jesus says, "You have heard that it was said, 'eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." (Matt. 5:38-39), Conservatives reply, 'we consider this to be unrealistic - in fact we believe in capital punishment and Bush's doctrine of Preventive War that justified the bombing, invasion, and rape and pillaging of Iraq.'.....how dare you, Jesus!

When Jesus says, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God." (Mark 10:25), and in Matt. 6:19 He says "do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth", and a few verses later, in Matt. 6:24, He says "You cannot serve both God and Money". In Luke 6:24 He says, "woe to you who are rich." Conservatives reply to all this, 'we believe in being filthy rich and we love the tax cuts for the rich that Reagan and Bush lavished on us while the standard of living for the middle class and the poor worsened every year....and to expect us to 'sell everything we have and give to the poor' (Mark 10:17-22), is pure insanity - only a communist would expect us to consider doing something like that.....how dare you, Jesus!

So every year about this time, Conservatives of every stripe are reminded of how far from the teachings of Jesus they really are, and in no sense can they claim to be Christians or claim America to be a Christian nation.... Jesus says they are not, and how dare He?