A GERMAN VIEW OF ISLAM

A GERMAN VIEW OF ISLAM

This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. The author's references to past history are accurate and clear. It's not a lengthy read, it's easy to understand, and it's well worth the read. The author of this email is Dr.Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When he was asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis, ‘ he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.' We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'? History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. Now Islamic prayers have been introduced into Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in Ottawa too, while the Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?). The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country until the fanatics move in. In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, many of the most commonly-consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food items in your local supermarket. Food on aircraft have the halal emblem, just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding within the nation’s' shores. In the U.K, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of “no-go” zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim community in those areas refuse to acknowledge British law. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts - the fanatics who threaten our way of life. Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passivity that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and they also continue to send it on - before it's too late. And we are silent.....and then. . . silenced.

Get ready to be Responsible

Does anyone else have politician fatigue?  Do you wonder how we can gain back some of the control of governance?  Do you think our country will survive under the system of political prostitution?  Do you think we should return to the rule of law?  Are you happy allowing our country to controlled by those basing decisions on a political game of winning votes instead of what is actually best for our country? Are you happy with your votes based on actual observation being discounted by votes based on ignorance and apathy?

Get involved.  Look for the facts.  Protect yourself from pure propaganda.
Speak out from a position of reason based on fact rather than propaganda and ideology.  Educate yourself and avoid bandwagon mentality. and most of all 

VOTE!

VOTE FOR OUR COUNTRY NOT FOR IDEOLOGY, PARTY POLITICS OR APATHETIC MALAISE.

a NEW PRINCIPLE describes his approach to education

NEW HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL!!
 Listen to the young people, F-this, F-that, and nary anyone will step up and correct them- even with wife and kids in tow!
 
FINALLY - - Someone in the teaching profession had the courage to set the standards so badly needed NOW.

New high school principal
We watched high school principal Dennis Prager of Colorado , along with Sara Palin and Tom Brokaw on TV a couple of weeks ago....what a dynamic, down  to earth speaker. Even though Palin and Brokaw were also guest speakers they did little but nod and agree with him. This is the guy that should be running for President in 2016
 A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give. By Dennis Prager .

 To the students and faculty of our high school:
 I am your new principal, and honored to be so.
There is no greater calling than to teach young people.

 I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the  ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.
 First ,
this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity -- your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American.

 This is an American public  school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans. If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America , one of its three central values -- E pluribus unum, "from many, one." And this school will be guided by America 's values. This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

 Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism -- an unhealthy preoccupation with the self -- while the purpose of  education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interested in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.

 Second , I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America 's citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you  leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here -- it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English -- but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.

 Third , because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor , everything in this school will reflect learning's elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.

 Fourth , no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school's property -- whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can't speak without using the f -word, you can't speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as "Nigger," even when used by one black student to address another black, or "bitch," even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.

 Fifth , we will end  all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way -- the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago -- by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.

 Sixth , and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue... There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately fortunate -- to be alive and to be an American.
 Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.
 

MINIMUM WAGE DEBATE another wolf in sheeps clothing

Another wolf in sheep’s clothing trying to wheedle its way into the 2014 election discussion. 

In an attempt to direct the political discourse away from all the “false” subject matter such as spying on US citizens, and the IRS choosing to audit and harass conservatives groups over liberals at some 280 to7. Fast and Furious, Benghazi and sending armed force against a rancher in Nevada are a couple more questionable subjects. The Democratic political talking points are out to gain votes with the populace need for more income.  Rather than create more jobs by increasing the need for employment, they seek to gain votes from those trying to make a living by working entry level jobs.  The big point they are using to bribe voters is that it is not possible for a family to live on minimum wage employment.  In that belief and statement they are correct. 

The misleading part of that statement is that those jobs are for those entering the workforce for the first time.  Those who have had to drop out of school; those who have to work part-time jobs as they try to gain skills and more education need those jobs.  The supporters of higher minimum wages do not want our young millennial population to know that with a higher minimum wage, the pipeline for improving their own lot is clogged.  The 15 or 16 year old high school student trying to help his family’s economic situation will have lost his entry into the workforce to the college graduate or the main supporter of families with more experience.  Those young people will find it almost impossible to gain the work skills needed to make them a vibrant component of the economic growth and stability of our country.

 I personally believe in a minimum wage, one that allows people an economic lift, one that opens the doors of employment to those needing to gain work experience and one that helps young people learn the value of education and work as means to a better way of life.  Giving them a place to grow stagnant in the complacency of mere existence does nothing to help the individual nor does it help the middle class.  I also believe that the entry wage levels are a viable means of helping with a supplemental income for those looking for better employment and for those who are unable to work in more physically or mentally demanding positions.  Older folks and those with physical and mental challenges need economic supplements to exist.  With the reduction of purchase power, as a result of increasing the money supply rather than employment opportunity, the societal aids of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and disability compensation do not stretch and require part-time employment for subsistence.  If the population lacks incentive to move up in income bracket, the opportunity to fill those needs becomes highly inadequate.

What is used to fool the sheep is just another ruse, another trick in the progressive bag of false hopes, to fool those in need of real systems to make their lives better.  The one who is given fish never learns to fish for his own food and eventually will become a slave to the one who keeps feeding him. 

Until there is no one left with anything to share.

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE

Once again the subject of Benghazi rears its ugly head.  The queen of the Democratic Party made the phrase “what difference does it make?” part of the standard discourse.  Most of the little people, including me, still have unanswered questions.

Anytime the facts of a circumstance are manipulated to change perception to create a false belief, most of us in our daily lives would say, we have been lied to.  Generally, I will refuse to use the words all, anytime or always because they are so absolute and very seldom lead us to the truth. Truth is and should be an absolute.  In the case of Benghazi, the truth of that circumstance has never been accounted for. 

The answer to the question “what difference at this point does it make” requires an answer.  If I were asked this question I would have this answer:  it matters because I don’t like being lied to; I expect honesty from my government; we cannot correct a problem if we are told there is no problem; because of the timing, we as a country may have elected people because of false confidence.  Our country’s standing in the world community is lessened because it is evident that democracy can be easily manipulated by propaganda; most importantly it diminishes the faith and belief that our country stands for what is good in humanity.

Something for us to think about might be how would we react in our personal lives if our friends, spouses, parents, or children manipulated  information constantly to lead us to believe nonexistent facts.  What if they did this to make us perceive them as someone they aren’t?  What do we think about people who sell us products using false claims regarding what those products are or what they can do for us?  How long could we put up with those people being in our lives?

I think most of us are smart enough to know why the facts surrounding Benghazi might have been manipulated.  Why the cause of that heinous act would have looked better if it were caused by a random group of people acting in response to an insult of their religion.  How would it have looked if an incumbent administration looked incompetent just prior to their request to be re-elected?  How would it have looked if a decimated enemy were able to pull off yet another attack on American soil?  We might ask how it looks almost two years later when no one has been held accountable for perpetrating that attack, or for the lack of preparedness, or for the lack of importance placed on the value we call truthfulness.  

PERCEPTION AND PROPAGANDA part 1 OF LET'S MAKE A DEAL

What a deal. 

We are a country noted for its form of government, by the people, for the people.  Our President takes a vow to protect our constitution, protect our country and to lead.  Our Congress and our Senate members are elected by the adult (???) population to represent our positions on matters affecting us (the people) as individuals and for our society.  So how is it that ideology has supplanted the original concept.  How is it that perception, so manipulated by the politician and the press is in control?  Why is it that we are so easily pulled along a path that most likely will lead to the destruction of one of the greatest experiments in the history of governance?  The answer lies within our society’s apathy and unwillingness to do our part.  It is our responsibility as individuals to make sure we are able to make good decisions, to ferret out the truth, and to demand honesty from our educators, our press and our politicians.  We, as a society, have failed our country and our descendants who were supposed to inherit a “brave new world”. 

The fault does not lie at the feet of our educators or our politicians.  The fault lies at the feet of each and every one of us who rely on someone else’s common sense, someone else’s opinion.  We are too easily miss-led by those who use the power of perception to confuse the rest of us with partial truths, and some outright lies.  Our decisions no longer fueled with fact.  This technique is age old,  a practice used to supplant one ideology over another.  The transformation taking place in our country is as insidious as the process of rot and decay of a fine old building infested with termites and a lack of proper maintenance.  We have allowed wolves to take over the position of guarding the sheep.  We can no longer trust the media, as a whole, to inform us with objective truth.  The press has evolved from its position of supplying information to one of creating power through the creation of perception.  The politicians are using this vehicle as force to blast out their own semi-permanent positions of power. 

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.”

It’s time for each of us to make the decision to protect myself, to not, tricked, or non-factually manipulated.  It is the responsibility of each individual to get involved enough, to care enough, to find truths.  We can no longer rely on the other guy to be honest in fact, only in what he or she believes the end purpose should be.  The pendulum of ethics has gone past that bench mark of relying on fact.

Truth is a fundamental element needed for fighting through the fog of propaganda.

 Propaganda has been the primary means of creating a manageable society, far surpassing the fear of bodily harm management systems of centuries past.  Perceptions that give the power to those that use it for their own gain rather than the good of the people.  The effective use of perception has been a critical instrument of political administrations in the past, and with an increase in the effectiveness with each changing of the guard.  We the people have abdicated our control, our part in the continuation of The United States of America.  We have done this because of a misplaced trust in the words that form our perception of truth.  The political class is able to use words and repeated slogans to form public attitudes that are based on the “me” rather than the “we”.  Those attitudes evolve into belief systems.  This is a slow form of indoctrination creating beliefs that can relate to the masses for the purpose of control. This control system disregards positive results for the society as a whole in favor of individual or party power.  Once these belief systems are in place they tend to spread exponentially, effectively eliminating what stood in place previously, and the society is fundamentally changed. Feat accomplished, generally without an excess of bodily harm, but with a giant loss in reality.

Obama's Mixed But Improved (For Now) Week on Iran and Syria

When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them.



Quran 9:5; "Repentance," Dawood, p. 186
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama's Mixed But Improved (For Now) Week on Iran and Syria

"About sixty-one percent of the contents of the Koran are found to speak ill of the unbelievers or call for their violent conquest; at best only 2.6 percent of the verses of the Koran are noted to show goodwill toward humanity. About seventy-five percent of Muhammad's biography (Sira) consists of jihad waged on unbelievers." Dr. Moorthy Muthuswamy http://www.truthbeknown.com/islamquotes.htm
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama's Mixed But Improved (For Now) Week on Iran and Syria

Abu Darda said: "Let us smile to the face of some people while our hearts curse them." Al-Hassan said: "Doing taqiyya is acceptable till the day of judgment [in perpetuity]."



Wolf acting as docile pomeranian?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama's Mixed But Improved (For Now) Week on Iran and Syria

When in a dialogue of importance it in a necessity to understand from what foundation of beliefs your counterpart speaks.

This Iranian state representative President can not and should not be trusted.



Qur'an (66:2) - "Allah has already ordained for you, (O men), the dissolution of your oaths"



Reliance of the Traveler (p. 746 - 8.2) Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible (N:i.e. when the purpose of lying is to circumvent someone who is preventing one from doing something permissible), and obligatory to lie if the goal is obligatory... it is religiously precautionary in all cases to employ words that give a misleading impression..."One should compare the bad consequences entailed by lying to those entailed by telling the truth, and if the consequences of telling the truth are more damaging, one is entitled to lie.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

House Republicans Target Contraception In Last-Minute Spending Bill

We should pass a law making everyone has to eat pork, and everyone has to pay for everybody's pork bill costs. How do you think that would go over?

To compare GOP

with Taliban is STUPID

off with your head, a fatwah upon your empty noggin.
About Republicans
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

House Republicans Target Contraception In Last-Minute Spending Bill

The question is not about what is immoral for you, it's about what is absolutely immoral for them. An example would be if we passed a law saying everyone should eat bacon and everyone would have to pay a tax so free bacon would be available to all. Do you think that the Muslim population might have a problem with such a bill?
About Republicans
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

House Republicans Target Contraception In Last-Minute Spending Bill

It's not about women, especially those with such a self serving attitude. The fact is that a majority of those innocents that have paid the price have done so not out of a need but due to a want.
About Republicans
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

PARDON ME....I SAID WHAT?

Arbee:

There was an article blog posted on the Huffington Post recently, touting the fight for equality of races. The author quoted the famous “I have a dream” speech. One of the lines in that speech has often been overlooked, and that involves the word character.
Some thoughts on that subject:

http://aresponse2.blogspot.com/2013/09/it-should-be-new-day.html

This is an email response received regarding the above posting on AResponse2.  Interesting take.

1^st Comment received: I think Dr. King’s speech will go down in history as one of the most important speeches in our country.  But he was murdered shortly after his beautiful words were spoken.  It is easy for white people, who have every opportunity handed to them from the time of birth, to decide how people of minority races should feel.  Like the old saying, “you should walk in my shoes”.  If I were a Black or Hispanic American today, I would be angry.  As a matter of fact, I am a white American and I am angry.  I cannot believe that any sane person in this country would think that people of color are treated the same as whites.  I hope this opinion was respectful enough for you.  It is just one little white woman's opinion.

AR2:  Did you even read the link I posted?  Do you really think that anger is the way to correct the problem?  Do you have any positive suggestions on how to give those folks a real chance to be self-reliant and to have a real sense of equality?  Anger is easy, being constructive takes an effort.  As far as people of color being treated the same as whites, they are not. And in so many ways you would probably fail to admit.

2^nd Comment received:  yes I did read the link and agreed with a lot of it.  But then that is the way white people would like the world to be.  I admit I do get angry~~~~~ angry at the arrogance of white people.  The race problem was not settled with the freeing of the slaves or with Dr. King's beautiful words or with the Black Panthers or with giving black people more opportunities just because they are black.  This race problem will not be over for hundreds of years, as it was hundreds of years in the making.  I don't think you can make an angry person less angry by words.  It will take time and lots of it.  It will not happen in our lifetime as I once thought it would.  The anger is not just from black people but just as many white people are angry too.  Just look at the angry people when we had the first 1/2 black president elected.  I have friends that hate President Obama and when I ask them what they hate, they can't give me an answer but they are sure to tell me it's not because he is black!   I don't think this problem will be solved until we are not black or white but we are a race of honey colored green eyed wavy haired people.  I wish I could be here to see it.  Until that time I will try to view other people's feelings from their point of view.  I think that would be a constructive first step.  White people better learn to get along with other people that are not white or are not born again Christians or of the same sexual preference as they are.  It is really not that complicated.

AR2 response:  It has been about a week or so since the above conversation took place and since it has continued to pester my mind, I find it necessary to respond.

The original posting referred to Rev. King’s speech and the oft forgotten phrase related to his fervent hope that his daughters would see the day when a person was judged not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.  The basic premise was that our societal character is what creates the inequality. The anger propagated by the hate mongers on both sides of the issue, who continue to dwell in the sewer of the past, can only see through glasses colored through those times.  As they speak, so they teach and another generation continues the hatred and misunderstandings of the past because of the osmosis of prejudice and mistrust.  One of my favorite readings is AS A MAN THINKETH, and it presupposes the necessity of self-review of our own beliefs.

The discussion that came out of that article prompted just such a review, and brought to my mind my struggle with such sites as the Huffington Post and Roots.  It is really difficult to carry on meaningful dialogue with those who are so intent on defending their ground that the original subject does not matter. There is almost nothing in the response I received regarding anything related to character.  There is much related to the thoughts produced by anger and prejudice.  Rather than working toward a better understanding of viewpoint, acceptance of others, and seeking mutual solutions, blame and derision seem to be the standard argument.  The comments of the responder did, however, cause enough turmoil in my thoughts to spawn another fury of typing.  Hopefully I can respond to the subjects embedded in the comments as received.  I posted my answer to the first comment and you can see it above.  It was the next comment that struck me with a sense of futility of getting through the barriers of so many prejudices.  I would classify myself as one who is strong and fervent in my desire to make my side of the story understood, and it has taken a few days to understand why the second comment advanced my need for further discussion. Discussion not of the original article but rather one regarding the points brought up in the comments.

Prejudice is a very insidious sickness of the human condition and is usually only apparent in the other guy.  Unfortunately, it will eventually infect all of us in one way or the other, forming our attitudes and affecting our interaction with others in our world.  Christ said “Be ye as little children”. If only we were able to maintain that degree of innocence.  I can truly attest to this regarding racial prejudice.  I grew up in a small town of approximately 600 people. When I reached the age of high school, the only people I didn’t like were bullies, Japs and Germans. .That was because I had some actual mental or physical contact with those groups.  All other people were just that, people.  I never learned to distrust or to think that colored people were any different from me.  It wasn’t until many years later that I learned why.  I had never had any contact with people of any other color so I had never learned prejudice. For that, I feel blessed and fortunate.  I thank you Lord, for those years of innocence.  That brings me back to the children.  Children are colorblind. They will play, argue and make friends with any other child until one of them crosses the line of civility, and that is one of their guidelines. I think that is the kind of personal judgment that Rev. King was referring too.  

I did learn in later years that my contact with colored races during my formative years was so minimal due to the cities “Sundown Law”.  People of color were not allowed in the city limits after sundown and knowing this they just never came into our area.  My innocence was paid for with that which remained hidden to my nature, prejudice, bigotry and mistreatment.  I could feel guilty about those things but that would be misplaced guilt.  I could spend my time trying to make retribution for that but it wasn’t me that created the circumstance.  I could be aware of how wrong that law was.  I could have compassion for those who were harmed.  Having the compassion does not mean that I have to accept the blame for an act in which I was not involved.  I can, out of compassion, understand the current plight and work toward improving it.  I also feel anger toward the ignorance of the past actions of mankind in their injustice toward their fellow man.  Color is not the first to be touched by prejudice and bigotry there are few if any throughout history that have not been under that attack.  I am currently one of those who feel its sting.  I am one of those arrogant white people who want the world to forget all of our races past transgressions.   I am one of those religious fanatics who believe in the deity and the graces offered by my Savior Christ.  I am one of those traditionalists who believe that marriage is reserved for the union of a man and woman.  I am one of those who fervently wish we had a different President of our country.  I am one of those who wish our young people would pull their pants up, turn their hats around, and respect the lessons learned in the past.  Just because I believe these things does not negate my belief in the fact that we all put our lives on pathways of our own choosing.  The mile walked in my moccasins may be different but I also understand that your mile is unique to you and I hope your journey ends well.  God speed.

To trade one form of prejudice for another doesn’t make you better or different but it can make you a bigot of another color. arbee

IT SHOULD BE A NEW DAY (IN MEMORY OF Martin Luther King)

“We all stood - amidst this brotherhood of humanity - rapt with attention as King told of his dream of an America where his four little children would one day live in a nation where they would not be judged "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character".  Martin Luther King.

What a powerful phrase. It should replace the tired worn, “we shall overcome”, rhetoric of the past. Why are there not thousands of voices condemning the continuation of a fight against those who would continue a fight in anger when achievement in harmony would be so much better? The blame of failure to succeed lies within the individual and those who instill beliefs of blame upon others.”  (huffington post)

Kings words that day are revered today as a battle cry.  Not the words about character,

(they would be pointing the finger in an unpopular direction) but the call to overcome unfairness.  We have too many churches, learning institutions and politicians clinging to the injustices of the past rather than the possibilities of the future.  

If an honest appraisal of our race problems in the United States were to be taken, one would have to admit to great movements toward equality in most areas of our society.  We hear only about how badly we mistreat our African American populace and other people of color.  This is in fact true, but the reasons are most likely not due to prejudice.

We continue to hear about the disproportionate numbers in regards to unemployment, incarceration, conviction rates and income.  We get bombasted with media hype about how Latinos and African Americans are viewed as dangerous by the rest of us.  About how we view them as incapable of holding higher paying jobs.  Once again there is truth in those statements, but the reasons are most likely not entirely due to prejudice. The responsibility for curing social illnesses is one we all bear each and every day. If we as individuals do nothing to make our neighbors existence on this planet better, then we are failing both them and ourselves.  As a society, we need to start treating cause rather than blaming the symptoms on someone else.

Martin Luther King’s dream consisted of an uplifting of his people into a place where their character replaced color as criteria for equality or inequality.  There can be no denial of his character or the character traits that he propagated within his community.  Whether or not he would be happy with the advances we have made regarding racial equality is not the question.  Would he be promoting the anger, the resentment and the entitlement mentality?   I don’t think so.  He was a person who accepted his responsibility as a leader and acted in that manner.

We no longer have that many heroes in our society who promote good behavior, a high ethical standard and the Good Samaritan attitudes that I was privy to in my formative ages.  The Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy’s have all been replaced.  Heroes expounding the feats required to overcome evil are at a minimum, while being replaced by examples of a more dubious nature.  Our young people are in an atmosphere constant input from those outside their immediate influence.  This is not limited to any one ethnic group but spreads across all boundaries within our country.  Our society is what the majority holds sacred in its cumulative beliefs, ethical sensitivities, and whatever seems popular.  Character is only relevant to now, in the new society, not what was or what may be a better for the individual in fact.  Age old mores of value are being eroded by the constant waves of anger, mistrust, and feelings of being denied, the “you owe me because I exist”, perks of life.  It is as if the past descriptions of morality and respect for others have been replaced in the new heroes with the attitudes promoted by gangsta rappers, shock entertainers, anarchists, rebels, violent videos.  It is no longer an “in thing” to be a law abiding, hardworking, responsible young adult who works toward achieving successes in their life.

The society and country we are to be exists in the nourishment we provide the minds of our children.  It rests upon each of our shoulders to insure the quality of character that will enhance the beliefs of the future in a positive manner.  All people of all groups within our great country have the responsibility of positive example, remembering that we are all members of the family we call humanity.

AN AMERICAN SPEAKS ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN ADVANCES

   Sometimes it is a lot easier for me to accept the wisdom of others into my tent.

BILL HAS GONE AND DONE IT AGAIN...

They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't, ...
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
$500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from??
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa .....

I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ......... And all of them are in jail.

Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..
We cannot blame the white people any longer.'

~Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.

WELL SAID, BILL
It's NOT about color...
It's about behavior!!!

OPPORTUNITY SQUANDERED

I came across this in an e-mail that I hope the NSA was able to get into the Presidents hands.  It brought to mind all of the things that could have been accomplished in his tenure.  Why would such an opportunity of position be so wasted on politics?

It is far too easy to pick and choose from all of the things he has concentrated on that we disagree with.  It is also very easy to bring to point all of the methods of harming our heritage and way of life.  Complaining is the easy part of looking at Mr. O and his administration.  The saddest thing about this is not what he has done or caused to happen but more disheartening is what he could have done but didn't.  He did not concentrate on improving race relationships in our country, improving the problems of his race within their own communities, showing young people the advantage of education,, exemplifying the opportunities provide for people of all color and creed within the boundaries of our great country. He did not use the strength and power of our country to make the world a better and safer place.  He did not provide a better standard of living for any section of our society.  He did not unify our country.  The list could go on ad infinitum.  Just ask yourself what would you have done?

WHICH QUESTIONS TO ASK...TRAYVON MARTIN/GEORGE ZIMMERMAN

Recently a verdict was handed down in the case against George Zimmerman.  It claimed that Mr. Zimmerman had killed Trayvon Martin unjustly and with prejudice in his heart and mind.  In the press he was found guilty far before the trial even began.  We might ask why.  Mr. Zimmerman was charged with second degree murder without the process of a Grand Jury which resulted in the trial that took place.  This occurred after the local police and District Attorney did not find cause for arresting him in the first place.  We might ask how this occurred in a country where the law is supposed to be the governing factor. 

That part in our eternal drama of justice, truth, honesty and search for power raises many questions.  Questions that ask who we are as a society that allows a condemnation before a trial and an acquittal because of a trial. Looking at the whole situation, the fault lies not with the individuals involved, but with all of us. We have become a society involved and invested in finding fault rather than solutions.  A society seeking gratification for what “I” want.  Rather than me doing something positive to attain or earn those things, the attempt is made to gain through fear and intimidation. We choose to see and to react to (imaginary and real) occurrences through our own set of blinders. That is the real prejudice of our time.

Perhaps the Martin/Zimmerman case would not have happened if we (the American people) were to approach racism from a more realistic viewpoint.  The old saying of “one bad apple spoils the bunch” can also be turned around to “your apples won’t spoil if you throw out the rotten ones.” The national approach to eliminating prejudice has been focused on stopping the symptoms rather than healing the infection.  The approach we have been taking is not “what can I do to make it better”, it has been “what can we do to them to get what I want.”  We learn the majority of our interaction skills and attitudes from our environment by the age of six and spend the rest of our lives adjusting and honing those attitudes.  Our learning in terms of prejudice can go in many different directions depending upon who we rely upon for our growth. 

The institutions and people we should be able to rely upon for positive examples are deserting their responsibilities.  Our educational institutions are filled with a high percentage of activists who are convinced that showing the ills of our society (real or perceived) are the fault of “fill in the blanks”.  The institution of the Press has deteriorated into promoting their point of view rather than giving our society facts.  Our government is acting in service of power for self and party rather than for the people they were elected to serve.  The labor unions have grown into a point of power, deceiving their membership to gain power for their leaders.  We have elevated the position of court jester (the entertainment industry) to one of knowledge and wisdom.  A sizable portion of our parental responsibilities have been abdicated to those listed above.  With little positive input, our young people are being misled for the purposes of those seeking power. 

The problem of racial prejudice is centuries old and we, as a society, are not curing it, we are exacerbating and caressing it by listening to the wrong teachers.  Rather than listening passively to those who would teach and inform us, we need to start asking them “How does what you are saying make me better, make the condition better, address the real causes of the situation?” Who is in charge of teaching our children the right questions to ask?  Who will we use to show our children the example of the “Good Samaritan” is a better solution than teaching blame, distrust, separation and segregation from those “other people?”  As long as we continue to teach from the pulpit of “we have been wronged and they deserve what they get” our wounds will never heal.  Some in the position of power achieve that position by continually scratching the scab off any chance of healing.  The ignorance of continually seeking retribution rather than repair is not good for us as individuals or for our society.  Repetition of error cures nothing.

 In the case of Martin/Zimmerman, the question is not who did what, the question should be why it occurred in the first place.  Both men were acting on their individual belief systems.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND PERPETRATORS

Once again the opportunity to appear as all knowing, smarter than the average, and in on the real scoop is handed to the conspiracy theorists. Those who feed upon the process of imagination to create their realities will use the Boston bombing as another log on the fire.  The really sad part is that resembling a physical illness being passed on to infect others, those theories generally create intellectual illness in others too weak or too lazy to understand the importance of the truth.  

In today’s age of lightning fast information, sharing it is far too easy for innuendo and rumor to establish false conclusions as the truth.  What may or may not have really occurred becomes what probably did in the minds of those receptive to the altered information.  Those theories are similar to the sprouting of weeds. They will take root in a wide variety of soils and can be widely spread through the ingestion of seed and dispersed through indiscriminate dropping of scat.

There is no doubt that a good portion of information is packed with some form of “propagandic” seasoning.  The reality of any given event is almost impossible for us to know, and finding receptive minds to spread any story one might dream up is far too easy.  We are forced to deal in the realm of possibility, probability and actuality, never knowing for sure if what or how much of what we are led to believe is the truth.  It appears that for every story there are numerous contradictory counterparts from which we pick and choose depending upon our individual beliefs.  
Therein lies the problem.  Conspiracy theories are dependent on some form of prejudice in order to survive.  Without some seed of pre-agreement there could be no continuance into the stage of probability.  It is impossible for belief and doubt to exist at the same time in the same mind but there is the self-knowledge that one is still in the info collection stage.  The problem is beliefs in prior probabilities are inserted into the equation.  
The “Boston Marathon bombing” is a good example of how one theory is able to gain agreement over that of another.  Within minutes of the bombing, theorists were hard at work finding various possibilities of what took place.  The possibility that supported their previous positions, in similar circumstances, is the one they promoted into the realm of probability and then promoted as the truth.  The actual truth is obscured by denial of evidence and the story is supported by stacking theory on top of theory rather than fact upon fact.  It gains the appearance of truth through repetition.  The old adage that if you tell them often enough people will come to believe anything, is not a theory, it is part of human nature.

There are far too many of those theories that have taken place in recent history, and to that purpose I have let others make their lists. I have listed some web sites that have interesting information and listings.

http://listverse.com/2013/04/10/10-more-fairly-recent-conspiracy-theories/ http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/fall/patriot-paranoia#.UXv3vqKceD4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories

Wikepedia is one of the more extensive listings and gives some of the why these theories exist and meanings behind the particular theory.  The original purpose behind each of them will have a similarity of type.  Most are self-serving, pseudo altruistic ideas that are designed to elevate the importance of the person promoting the theory.  

A friend of mine suggested a blog site that really opened my eyes on the matter of conspiracy promotion.  In today’s world of what can be deemed as news in social media becomes tomorrows “truth”.  In actuality this site was filled with so many of the author's personal deductions and denial of any facts or ideas that didn’t support his theories.  This article supports my own theory that conspiracy theories are seldom factual.  The age old practice of a falsehood containing just enough truthful elements to add the appearance of truth is a major tool in the conspiracy world as much as it is in the world of cover ups.

The following pertains to that article: http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2013/04/american-terror-manufactured-fbi

“American Terror: Manufactured by the FBI

by grtv

The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: the FBI.”

 In this one statement the Bovine excrement warning bells start ringing.  The word “every” is as much of a miss-speak as saying “all” of a race are.  Over active imagination and the need to support the exciting aspect of everyone else being uninformed and ignorant compared to “ME” helps create the theory.  The belief of others fuels the spread and the growth of the conspiracies possibility.  The above article made so many leaps into false credibility that listing them all in my article would be a waste of time.  The article in question is still up on the site listed above if you want to check it out.

Conspiracy theories are called theories for a reason.  They cannot be substantiated into the realm of factual truths.  When they are put along side of the other views of an event certain things happen to promote the theories existence and spread. Some of the components required are:

1.       The event must be important enough to capture the imagination of the originator

2.       The event must have repercussions affecting society as a whole

3.       The theory must have a villain with some degree of notoriety or importance to the society

4.       The theory must have an audience with agreement as to the probability and possibilities proposed in the theory

5.       The theory must be able to be expanded upon

6.       The theory must be able to be connected to previous theories and proposed guilty parties

7.       Gullibility and the desire of the followers to be part of an elite group of intelligentia

8.       A good enough story to gain the strength of growth equal to a life of its own.

It must contain the same components of any good work of fictional “who dunnits”.  Intrigue, multiple possibilities, miss-direction, miss-interpretation of fact and the reliance upon involving the audience in the process of discovery.

Each of us could be susceptible to those theories if they are in agreement with our own individual belief systems.  It would be important to us to be aware of what we believe, questioning ourselves as much as we question others.

Boston in a perspective

Sadly we watch as our nation goes through another period of mourning.  It’s difficult enough when someone loses a family member or close friend to any untimely tragedy, but these occurrences are somehow different.  It is much easier to understand an accidental death, or even one brought about in the commission of a crime.  Attacks aimed at ordinary citizens due to a difference in ideology, brought about by propaganda, indoctrination and misinformation, are much harder to understand.  In the case of attacks, such as 9-11, and the recent Boston Marathon bombing, the loss of life, limb, and peace are attacks against us all as a nation.  They are in fact an attack upon the whole of humanity brought about by irrational hatred. 

 The saying “The pen is mightier than the sword” is as true today as at the time of its origin.  The only difference is the speed at which ideas can be spread and expanded upon and the pen and paper has been replaced by electronic communicative devices.  The Russian premier Nikita Krushchev predicted that Communism would defeat our way of life, not with weapons but with propaganda. The insidious creeping of hidden indoctrination evidences itself daily.  It is very easy to be aware of the effects of indoctrination in other ideologies when we see them acted out in violence.  It has always been easier to see the splinter in our enemy’s eye than the log in our own.  What we fail to see in ourselves may be much more heinous than the violence perpetrated by others. 

The danger of losing our country and way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to acts of physical violence is minimal.  The loss of those ideas we hold dear, nationally, are being eroded by propaganda promoted by our news media, the purchase of voter base through appeasement, the promotion of skewed values and historical misinformation put forward by our educators.  Our nation, assuredly, is attacked from the outside but the real danger is within.  That danger is self-inflicted ignorance because we are too lazy or lack the time to explore and seek the truths and dispel the falsehoods.  It is far too easy to look at the United States as good or bad. We have been led to believe one or the other and the real fact is that throughout our history we have been both.  When our sources of information are tainted by educators, parents, preachers and peers our beliefs may or may not have validity.  If it is important we owe it to ourselves to seek the truth and we owe it to our children even more so.

I believe that within each of us exist the seeds of both good and evil.  Whichever receives the most food will become predominate.  I think that the reason most radical purpose is generated in the young is because they are the most susceptible to whatever is fed into their minds.  That is one reason Communism, fundamentalist Islamists, and anti-American sentiments are so prevalent in today’s world.  Whenever there is a collective dictatorship, the first thing that is eliminated is any source of knowledge that disagrees with those in control.  That can be seen in countries all over the world.  That used to be why our form of government was feared by communist and socialist nations.  Control of the educational system is the only way the future can be swayed in the direction of an ideology.  Eventually those educated become the educators.  A self-perpetuating trek toward either a individual dictator or a government controlled by a few at the top of a bureaucratic food chain. 

We can look at the young people involved in acts of terrorism and ask how anyone can hate enough to kill innocents.  The answer is simply that they were taught to hate and in their young minds the acting out is a form of heroism.  They see the enemy not as a living human being but simply as an enemy, a thing not a life.  In this we can see the true effect of indoctrination and propaganda.  We need to beware.  Our own society is in a period of flux, deeply into the educational indoctrination and media propaganda stages.  Not so much in terms of government but in terms of restructuring our society to the point of submission