Soup's Auntie OxyMoron: Shera Says: "This nation is getting as scary now as it was during the puritanical days when we burned or hung witches and beat and raped Indians into Christianity, and cut up the rebels to feed to the dogs."

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Shera Says: "This nation is getting as scary now as it was during the puritanical days when we burned or hung witches and beat and raped Indians into Christianity, and cut up the rebels to feed to the dogs."

Soup McGee

Ron Paul: It's Not Government's Job To Take Care Of Uninsured : NPR

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Paul's assertion was less controversial than the response from some in the crowd at the GOP debate who said they approved of the government letting the uninsured die.

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- Shera Starr Oliveria
  I'm having trouble loading the article because my internet is being very slow right now, but the headline is very disturbing to me! Before this I really thought Ron Paul was looking good for the Republican nominee. ARGH - anyone that can say that is just NOT living in reality! Or has never dealt with personal illness or cared about anyone who has been in the position of being uninsured and sick. Its not like we CHOOSE to be sick or turned down for jobs an/d/or insurance! And its definitely not as if the large portion of unemployed people in this country who lost their jobs due to outsourcing CHOSE to send their job overseas, therefore screwing themselves, their family and coworkers! When this nation quits sending jobs anywhere but HERE, then and ONLY THEN can politicians say that the problems of the unemployment and uninsured (or underinsured) isn't the governments problem. Actually, not even then, because we send money to every country that has a disaster to help their sick and injured, yet we are supposedly to broke to help out our own. ARGH!
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- Shera Starr Oliveria
  Ok, now having read it and his response, I'm torn. In the context he is describing, and in saying no one should be turned away, but others should help, ok I could understand that. But what happens when others wont help? Then the government NEEDS to. We could argue that oh well, Haiti and Chile and all these other countries we send aid to whenever there's an earthquake should have taken it upon themselves to retrofit their buildings for earthquake sustainability. But the fact is they didnt. So is it our responsibility to help out the injured and homeless because of a natural disaster? No, it absolutely is not. But it is our DUTY as human beings to help out anyone in need. If we can help out people abroad - then we can help out people here.
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- Shera Starr Oliveria
  I'm trying to DL the audio clip but my internet is apparently being gnawed on by trolls. I cant believe that people were shouting "Let them die!" Fucking Tea Party idiots. Soon we will be floating witches again - if they float- they're a witch; if they drown, oops, guess they were innocent. Bloody hell. This nation is getting as scary now as it was during the puritanical days when we burned or hung witches and beat and raped Indians into Christianity, and cut up the rebels to feed to the dogs. *shudders*
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- Soup McGee http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/tea-party-debate-audience-cheers-idea-of-letting-sick-man-without-insurance-die-video.php
  Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers Idea Of Letting Sick Man Without Insurance Die (VIDEO)
  ‎2012.talkingpointsmemo.com
  The last two Republican presidential debates have been some of the most macabre ...See More
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- Jay Murry Anyone who cheers at the idea of letting someone die is missing some vital element of their personality and may not, in fact, be human.
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- Soup McGee loves you Shera...please, can you elaborate for the observer? re:"beat and raped Indians into Christianity..."
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- Shera Starr Oliveria
  Well isnt that whats wrong with this country? We've lost our humanity, and with it our sensibility. Everyone wants to blame the Goths and Visigoths for the downfall of Rome, when in truth the downfall of the Empire came from the corruption within. The infrastructure has to be sound before we can add more layers to the structure - greed and the glory of conquest fueled the Roman Emperors to push the Empire's brinks beyond its abilities. Rome was sacked because it wouldn't take care of the territories it absorbed, people were starving while the Emperors got fat and happy with their lavish spreads and drunken orgies. I learned that in my Western Civ class my very first day at community college, from a brilliant professor who predicted back then - 15 yrs ago - that America was heading in that same direction. Well, here we are. And if a Revolution is gonna take place, it certainly wont be the Tea Party who puts an end to the corruption. When it comes time to rise and resist, I'll slap my war paint on and do my part - if the government hasn't sent all of us with health problems off to concentration camps by then.
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- Shera Starr Oliveria
  Oh well, that was the official stance of the Missionization system - sanctioned by the Catholic church. The missions set up all along the coast by Franciscan monks represent ones of the darkest parts in the early history of California. The "mission" if you will, was to spread Christianity to the California Indians by means of force. Indian men and women had to live at the missions, and were basically forced into slave labor. They were not allowed to practice their own cultural traditions, worship in their own way, or speak their native tongue. Anyone caught "backsliding" to their heathen ways was beaten. Rape was a common form of intimidation and punishment, used against both women and men, and carried out by non other than the padres themselves. Venereal diseases such a syphilis spread like wildfire as a result, as did other diseases that the Natives had no immunities to, largely due to the close confines that the Indians were forced to live in, usually about 15-20 per rooms that were usually nowhere near as big as an average-sized apartment bedroom. Because disease was so rampant, women often miscarried their babies (many of whom were conceived through the act of rape by the padres). When a woman miscarried, she was forced to have her head shaved and wear sack cloth, and carry around a wooden doll painted red to represent the baby that they were accusing her of "self-aborting". The children who were born to women suffering from syphilis and other venereal diseases were often born with a variety of health issues that not visible to the eye - auto-immune conditions, arthritis, gout, etc... Those who lived into adulthood suffered from pain and fatigue due to these conditions, which often hindered their ability to work - leading to the gross misconception-turned-stereotype of the "lazy good -for-nothin' Indian".
  
  Those who chose to rebel and run away were chased after and often brought back or murdered. Those who organized more severe forms of revolt were rounded up, captured, murdered, then cut up into pieces and fed to the friars' dogs.
  
  Go Team God. Way to live in the example of Christ's teachings...
  
  I love you too!
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I breathe. I am your tax dollars at work.

Consider these two quotes in succession:

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919
Russian Communist politician & revolutionary (1870 - 1924)
In a featured column on flashreport.org, Grover Norquist clarifies and defends the default conservative position, making clear that any vote to send tax increases to the ballot is a violation of the taxpayer protection pledge. Further he publicly admonishes any Republican pledge signer who has any doubt about the consequence of wavering: “There is nothing subjective about the determination that voting to refer higher taxes to the ballot is a violation of the taxpayer protection pledge. A vote for tax hikes on the ballot is clearly and indisputably a failure to ‘oppose and vote against any and all efforts to raise taxes’” (“Featured Column”).

...(...)...In Response to Kings essay on Meeting Oppression---:  King states that he favors nonviolent resistance over the other two ways of meeting oppression. Look closely at the words he uses to describe nonviolent resistance and those he uses to describe acquiescence and violence. How does his choice of words contribute to his argument? Show examples.
The weakness of giving in and submitting to an immoral authority is that you make yourself inferior by choice, and this is the choice of a “coward.” This is the nature of man craving inferiority because he is still filled with “falsehood, malice, hate [and] destruction.” All is not lost; nobility is reached in the practice of nonviolence. Because all men of good will are indeed bound together, asserts the Reverend, a conscience educated to the consequences of violence or acquiescence will turn away from the inferior position (the weakness of man is to give in or fight with force) and toward the superior position (the strength of man lies in his nonviolent reaction to oppression).

Why do you suppose King discusses acquiescence, violence, and non-violent resistance in that order?
The consequences of each failure are staggered so as to outline clearly for the reader the reality of each successive failure. As individual bitterness becomes community discontent, the oppressed must be cautious as their calls for justice escalate. When the choice is made-unbeknownst to anyone until the choice is made- it must be for nonviolence, or the line will become a circle again. That choice is both individual and community, so each of us must be aware of our nature.

...(...)... Please forgive my "Show Your Work" Style.

I am not a Socialist, a hippie looking for a hand-out, or a lazy hypocrite. I want to pay taxes so I have something to vote about. I believe my paying taxes entitles me to support those who are using their Constitutional Rights of Redress (first amendment)and demanding that America admit She is not Broken. Those who say She is need say no more! I prefer Democracy over Theonomy. I am not fighting Capitalism, only ignorance and those who hate America. I Demand A Redress as Guaranteed by the Constitution!

The richest four hundred families, jointly owning the majority of the most profitable corporations and in their sixth or seventh generation of landed gentry are depending on a Third Wave of Reformation in Christianity and a voting bloc determined to end Democracy's Evil Hold On God's Sphere of Authority (Rj Rushdoony, etc.). Having disguised themselves as American, their ultimate goal is to soon separate us from our primary rights. Through the manipulation of media backed by corporate funding, they seek to influence the government to create hysteria such that the people will Want to or find they Have replace civil law with biblical law- regardless of the fact that it violates the First Amendment- by imposing the theory of theonomy. Those one-tenth of one percent that own the 40 percent or so of America’s printed money and access to all the keys of the Kingdom ARE the Corporatocracy we are Fighting. Same fight. Not a different fight.

The problem for All groups, as the Revolting Randian Calvinist Class sees it, is government. You have the right to be your own state and gave to the government by will alone- otherwise, the gov is only a gang, and those opposed to it are a family. This is according to them, not me...so...

Grover believes gov. taxes by force, and builds coalitions-

I Pledge Allegiance To the Flag. Full Stop. Please Get Your Elected Official On The Record re: Authority...

Man Has Authority to govern Man, the Dominionist Believes Only God Has Authority- they hold the Constitution as Biblically based and allow local law to become “theonomic” ---this TREASON---this is the reason for my animus. Christianity has Become an argument against itself by supplanting the Authority of the Document We share, believer and non-believer alike. End the Pledge. End the Influence.
Tax the Church.
Get the Money out of elections.
End Corporate Personhood.
Same fight.

I hope readers are following their own trail---this is an archive (soupsauntie) designed to position stories in a way that allow MY further investigation— ‎,"No, it's a messy soup...fair enough. It's Google Search results, pasted from my Facebook Page (posted as status updates so I know where and when I read something)", and this is to allow anyone to see how I came across the info (not by biased searches but by multiple sources and key words) followed by pasted source material. This, of course, would be helpful info for the 'About' section there...:-/ :-)"