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Even passing aliens know that poor people don't get to enjoy the trees.
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For Prayer please. Because of the mission statement of AiG that includes helping to bring Reformation to the Church--we often end up in circumstances that aren't necessarily comfortable. I was asked to appear on a TBN TV program tonight to talk about origins. Later on I found out that Ray Comfort would be on the program (he is a good ministry friend)--and then I found out Hugh Ross (wh...See More Soup McGee shared a link via Occupy News.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
The Exclusivity Agenda: Tacit Complicity and Corporate Rule
5/7/2012
In The Way We Never Were, Stephanie Coontz lays bare with nearly
overpowering evidence a number of myths permeating American society that an
open mind will have pondered. Chapters three, six, and nine provide symmetry in
creating one of many clear arguments put forth in this concentrated classic. Chapter
three revolves around the myth of gender roles as relating to the individuals
within “traditional” families and their relation to the state; six strips away
methodically at the myth of state intervention being the ruin of this family;
nine is a thorough dismantling of the idea that parents alone are responsible
for their children and the unavoidable risks inherent in life.
Finding one coherent argument in
the book was much like dipping my hands into a box of treasures; I may have
missed some rubies, but I made out better than I started. The primary truth she
shares with us is that the nuclear family, which is held up on all sides as the
foundation upon which all individual character traits rely and on which all of
societal calm and prosperity rests - indeed,
where all morals and virtues come from - in fact is not in danger of
collapsing, but instead naturally diversifying. This, given America’s history
of exclusion, is a source of fear to those who profit from the lack of honest
discussion. This diversification could be a source of strength for the
individual in our state system if we re-discovered the strength of non-kin
networks. Finding the proper role for government will mean more actual discussion, but until, through
voter engagement, we can force corporations to participate more equally in
taxation as a way to keep inequity from rising, any progress towards
inclusivity will be moot.
In chapter three, Professor
Coontz lays waste to the myth of “a traditional family.” This traditional
family is supposed to be made up of mothers--excuse me, women--who are expected
to be the domestic based givers of all affection and emotional validation,
goddesses of altruistic nurturing, essential in the character formation of each
and every individual and so all of society. Woe be to those who fail this ideal
or are raised by those who fail, and further woe to the society that does not
protect this role for moth—excuse me, women. Femininity in this role is
required to “counteract capitalism” (56). Fathers are to always and only be
competitive and arrange for provision/shelter, absent any sentimentality and
incapable of intimacy outside the binding marriage. One major point she raises
is that non-white, non-males and even those white males of lower classes have
historically been seen as less fully human to the upper and elite classes (I
believe this is class imposition)
(48).
Coontz
points repeatedly at the history of humanity as not having required or even
accepted these gender roles. Requiring such discordant roles from individuals
and families puts the natural need for state intervention (redress, etc.) into
an unnecessarily shameful light. This, as she puts it, is “foreign” (44). The
origin of the word ‘family’ comes from the word ‘slaves.’ The concept evolved in
pre-capitalist societies so as to recognize authority, not paternal or maternal
structure. But the state here in America is presumed under the myth to exist for
the purpose of protecting the idyllic, 1950s-era nuclear family structure. Such
expectation, absent a comprehensive allowance for reality ( i.e., the
fragmentation of our individual rights as regulated by the state), demands
failure from the many for the benefit of very few. This occurs while we allow
more power to private firms and corporations that are most-often owned by very
old money. A long-term trend towards polarization in our politics and policy has
long prevented reasonable solutions for forced inequity from being discussed,
proposed or accepted.
To
continue living within these “traditions” without questioning them , one
must ignore and avoid consequence of willful ignorance, be
willing to hold inconsistent and even contradictory positions, and remain outright
acceptant of the consequences (infanticide, abandonment, illegitimacy, etc.) we
face as a whole for not dealing with these inequities. Coontz shows that the
history of labor division in other cultures, and in our pre-Civil War society,
relied not on gender based divisions but always helped create and reinforce
culturally approved ways for each gender to receive and give intimacy inside
and outside of marriage. These intimacies prove nonfamily reliance led as much
as to American prosperity as any family structure (65). One consequence of
“falling for” these myths that are so beyond
complex is that dependence on the state and subjugation to any “higher”
power emerge as the only roles an individual can fill. This cannot be healthy,
or continue much longer without another violent realignment.
The chapter six myth is pretty
straightforward: since family is the basis for all morality and individual
traits should come from the family alone, any need for state intervention comes
from weakness, be it criminality or immorality. The need for outside
intervention, says this myth, is due to an unhealthy reliance bred from
families with poor morals or individuals with poor families. This weakness is
effectively criminal, for it drains the state of resources with which to
enforce morality, and breeds dependency on the government instead of the
family. This has lead to the further collapse
of the family…the myth that dies is that the nanny state (excessive government
intervention) is the reason for the collapsing family, and the collapsing
family (supported by the paternalistic nanny state) is the reason we cycle through
booms and recessions…
One of the many problems/causes
of inconsistencies we see is that all sides decry the “growing” nanny state.
Each, however, are inconsistent in their position. She lays out the basic
failings of each philosophy and their history of providing lone and incomplete
solutions (124). Coontz is careful to point out liberal complicity in the
selfishness of our system. Enlightenment thought and the rise of self-interest
drove the rise of capitalism, and the desire of those who benefited most from early
capitalism to protect their “privacy”
led to the rise of the state. “Privacy rights” were never meant to be
inclusive. Eugenics, for example, arose from “child savers” asserting Christian
values, terrified that “unworthy families” would receive the benefits of
government (132). As it stands, most families would prefer to be invaded by a
doctor (145). To need this “invasion”
puts you in opposition to the interests of the state, especially once the state
took a position on which family structure to protect (140).
Coontz wins the day when she
quotes education professor Joseph Featherstone: “An anti-statist position, pure
and simple, is a tacit endorsement of rule by the giant corporations.” A clear
example of this control is the 1978 Right to Privacy Act, which “severely
restricted” federal access to “bank account records and credit reports, but
exempted private employers, state agencies, creditors, and even solicitation
firms.” Truly, “business policies regulate family life far more extensively”
than the so-called nanny state (146). Down goes the myth!
Chapter nine highlighted my own
upbringing as being irredeemable to society and left me feeling repugnant. My
experience was as a child saved by state intervention - literally, by being adopted away as an infant
from an abusive mother - but I’m not allowed as a parent to lean on what was
for me a righteously “paternalistic” state
without exposing some “immorality” or proving my bastard status. This is both
frustrating and alienating. Parents, goes
the myth (especially in light of the two mentioned) are the sole entity
responsible for raising children amidst the collapsing society filled with
at-risk families—this is a trap for failure and cannot change absent an honest
dialogue. There is no normal, largely because any attempt to study and find a
normal would/has left out some important considerations (211). There is no way
to measure normal, but we do know
that most abuse comes from inside the home, not some stranger danger (227).
Normalcy in human familial structure historically comes from “co-parenting
relationships” and “shared responsibilities;” the consequence of failing in
those relationships depends largely on your class status (227). We survived for
centuries recognizing “tacit communities,” a structure that in our state system
is seen as less valid than the nuclear family, and so has been legislated to
have less access to redress and equality of intervention. Our system is
“hopelessly-biased toward one kind of family setting.” This bias leads to the
failings or feelings of failure in parents, as the individual and family roles
they have to live up to cannot in fact all be lived up to. No worries for the
children of the extremely wealthy, though; they have “special advantages” in
maintaining their success (227).
For high and low income individuals,
the “omnipotence” we are supposed to display as parents is more relevantly on
display from corporate employers towards us (225). This creates in turn an
inward and collapsing pressure on parents that trends towards divorce (though
no evidence, again can show functionality suffering more under one familial
structure than another). Coontz draws a
master stroke in pointing out that the discussion in America about parenting
centers around impossible roles, incredible risk, blame to go around and always
individual behavior is compared to the most tragic situation being dragged
through the media at the time (228). The truly dysfunctional gets the attention
and seems the norm…who to blame? Why, the collapsing family and the values we
are not passing on to our children! Unfortunately, because we lack an honest
discussion about these myths, those who suffer from severe risk and true
dysfunctionality are in less danger of being “invaded” by a helpful societal
force in part because they lack access to “social capital” (231). She closes
her argument with the idea that all children can be loved by all of the adults
in a society, and a transition to this ideal would be more healthy than our
current inverted and imploding morass.
Instead, we see a continuing
decline in open, honest and fair dialogue concerning very real risks to our
Union. This reduction in discussion benefits an increasingly miniscule few who
have no fear of failing or of being required to do the actual work that would
be involved in failing to live up to the ideal (47, 227). By establishing the nuclear family as a
“state” unto itself separate from the “nanny” government, democracy (as I took
the major lesson to be) is decaying from within our deep center as a result of
this continual opposition. Each individual not a member of the “oppositional
state” finds themselves stuck in a paradoxical role, forced to act in the best
interests of capitalism, not the expansion of democracy. We see a paradox here
that can only be rectified by a renewed allegiance to the idea of government as
having a legitimate role in the life of the family and the individual.
I was not just convinced by the
validity of her arguments; I have carried this book with me everywhere marking
it up since the beginning of semester. I am spending my summer reading her
follow-up (The Way We Really Are)
because I am determined to be ready to debate when, inevitably, my failings as
an individual, a man, a husband, and a parent (especially in relation to the
state structure) are called on the carpet. We have become consumers, not
producers, and the major firms lead the effort to defund, privatize and
decentralize the federal and eventually the state governments in the interest
of our masters. We are, whether we
recognize this or not, a society of slaves to our masters. These undying
corporate persons see individuals and families as a “species of property” and
“not fully human” when not literally related, historically (126, 48). The words
and some expectations may have changed, but privacy rights have never been
truly inclusive; making rights equal and access to redress accessible is not in
the best interests of capitalism, and so it (capitalism) is at odds with
democracy. Unregulated capitalism decays democracy (123, 126, 129, 132, 135,
137 - 138). Non-familial networks, in
this light, are a human right.
“The increase in poverty…is
entirely attributable to changes in taxes and government benefits rather than
demographics” (260). While the “nanny” state may have grown larger (there is no
doubt America has more government now than at its founding, and that this
government is more inclusive than originally planned), our government today is
literally controlled by families not exactly looking out for the best interests
of anyone except that of their undying corporate sons.
By engaging in democratic
participation and continuing education, each of us raise the chance of the
other to be successful in overcoming these extremely unhealthy myths and their
multiple effects on us as individuals, families, and as a whole society.
Continuing to accept rising inequity as a consequence of trying to meet
impossible expectations is unbearable, and I believe for democracy,
unsustainable. Stock and trust bred by nativism, not mom and dad, rule America
(111, 272). Let’s change that by establishing our own non-kin networks: that’s
right…go make a friend!
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Is The Norquist Coalition Waterboarding America? Yes.
This week
I chose the article http://www.thenation.com/article/167583/meet-28-lawmakers-who-have-quit-alec-month because ALEC is part of a larger group of
factions (a Coalition represented most clearly by the Taxpayer Protection Pledge) whose interests are met when the Constitution is more poorly
enforced. Unless all members end and report on ALEC activities, unless the
pledge is held as less than the Oath, the Norquist Coalition will defund the government
entirely by mid-century. This, if it were successful, would be the bloodless
coup of Christian Nationalist Conservatism, ending America’s standing as a
power in the realm of Human Rights most particularly. As it goes, this is a “slow motion
secession” (Howard Fineman).
In a "conversation that never happened"
with noted Debunker/Author Chris Rodda, she expressed her trepidation that the theonomy we will find
ourselves having codified here nearly already
came to pass with the Pledge Protection Act of 2006 (introduced by stage three socialism
cancer survivor Todd Akin). The question I asked in the conversation I never
had that I just have to share anyway: is the ultimate intent of the theonomic
right to criminalize the need for
state intervention, even redress? As she explained it, this Act would have
allowed Congress, not the Judiciary, to decide which cases the Supreme Court
hears, all in the name of keeping ‘Under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Given that the only document with explicit enforcement power is the
Constitution, and that this act would have un-separated the powers given to the
three branches co-equally, I surmise that the American people should at the very least be alarmed at this attempted coup (the representative
that introduced this act is of course a signatory of the pledge.)
If Charles
Taylor can be convicted for committing crimes against humanity, I have to ask:
what is using a religious ideology and political power gained through
subversion and deceit while delegitimizing the elected President, to endorse a
regime that ignores all but the rights of corporate people with the end goal of
separating powers so that God alone has the power of intervention? Not
attempting to overthrow conspiratorially? Not a war crime? Hmm. From Rodda at
the time: “...May 17, 2005, a little over a month after Sen. Lautenberg tried
to stop Bill Frist's David Barton tour, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) introduced the
"Pledge Protection Act," an act that would have removed all cases
involving the Pledge of Allegiance from the jurisdiction of any court created
by an act of Congress (meaning all federal courts except the Supreme Court),
and removed the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court "to hear or
decide any question pertaining to the interpretation of, or the validity under
the Constitution of, the Pledge of Allegiance...or its recitation." This
act, so clearly an attempt by Congress to usurp the authority of the courts,
passed in the House on July 19, 2006, by a vote of 260-167.”
One example in a
basket full of them. Reagan allowed the CIA to bomb the harbors of Nicaragua, to
which the World Court issued an indictment Reagan promptly ignored (for
example). That isn't exactly violating Pakistan's sovereignty to kill Bin-Laden. Defunding the Government will take that option off of the table -how
to enforce the Constitution (enforce a claim of sovereignty) if no revenue comes
in and the various states are owned outright (through unregulated services) by neo-foreign
MNC’s? An overview of more recent strategy reads like this: Dilute and suppress the
minority vote, strangle redress by redistricting (re: little churches
everywhere), dominate state legislatures and accompanying bureaucracies with
like-minded small government conservatives, (ALEC controls two-thirds of the
state level lawmaking), refuse any federal Tax increases (re: Taxpayer
Protection Pledge), privatize all services provided by the government (ALL)…this
is done despite the Oath of Office, in service to a pre-Oath Pledge. All of the
pretty words that we weep to see in the UN Declaration of Human Rights mean nothing without America
as a shining light to read it by. A miniscule and unfunded federal government cannot provide
this light. But Grover knows that. Those major funders Romney won’t reveal know
that.
The presumptive Republican nominee would overplay (as a pawn, even) the
blind dissident who came to (who else?) the United States for help.—perfect
example of stupidity disguised as bravo—Look, the stated goal of the 9/11 terrorists was to undermine our economy.
If we don’t demand Keynesian policy, we are caving to terror. Got that,
monetary fascists? We need new revenue, even new taxes, and not as a political
or policy issue, but a human right issue—the people need stability-We’ve
already seen two stolen elections for the (southern) strategy, what more will
we need to see? Who saw what? Kim Kardashian? Octomom? Ooh, doughnuts.
Finally,
I saw Grover defending Apple this morning with an outright lie, putting out
this half-truth: the current corporate tax rate is 35%, but the question is--why
keep legal what Apple does? Is making what Apple does illegal, which is
imperative for ethics and logic, not to mention the future of our American Democratic
political process, mean breaking the Taxpayer Protection Pledge? Well of
course, Commie! He dares to call it “stupid” to suggest they make a move on
their own to pay more into the system that secures the rights of all, and says
we see them moving overseas because of tax advantages there---so they do not see
themselves as American, says the guy who would know. What do taxes pay for,
Grover? And if force is, in your view, used, how that force is provided?
Conspiracy to subvert
or overthrow is treason. Taxes are a necessity for peaceful transfer of power
and protection of even the non-taxpayer, not a forced accommodation. If the violence
of faction is warned against and allowed (in that factions are “allowed”
because the strength of the Union is more enduring that that of the goal of
those who might rise to oppose it)-- what then of the many headed faction with
one mouth to suck the public teat dry? What then of the Norquist Coalition?
Paul Weyrich, co-creator of ALEC, is named checked by Norquist on page 15 of “Leave
Us Alone,” telling us a better understanding of the religious right in America
can be had “by examining the life and work of Paul Weyrich”, a man who made
popular the term “Moral Majority.” It is high time we reminded good people that
the Moral Majority used Christianity/Christian activism to fight integration efforts as late as
1979. If one coalition stands to profit and seeks in search of that profit to
defund the one enforceable document that protects human rights, then to end all
government services by 2050 would clearly leave the United States gasping and gut-punched. Let me repeat…..
Factions in collusion with intent to overthrow: war crime. Someone. Please.
Tell me I am wrong.
P.S- Dear people who
believe in “hard measures”:Torture is a war crime. Harboring torturers is
criminal. We just have to be better than to knowingly vote to a return to these
policies. Don’t we? Norquist has already made clear a Romney President would be
a pushover for Congress, and is building a faction pushing to impeach President
Obama when the Bush Tax cuts are not extended…how far towards drowning can our
nation go before we realize air is far, far away? More specific question, answer:
Is the Norquist Coalition waterboarding America? Yes. If you think this isn't happening, you are hereby invited to debate yourself while watching Rachel Maddow's continually exceptional coverage of "emergency manager" laws in Michigan.
Attempt to
unseparate powers
“Regardless
of the merits, the government should not be in the business of subsidizing
student loans.”
“Norquist is widely known in politics for
creating a pledge, which many public officials have signed, that officials will
not raise taxes for any reason. He founded ATR on the no-new-taxes premise.The pledge has no expiration date, so Norquist works to hold members who signed it as early as the 1980s to their promise. The long list of prominent pledge signers has made Norquist one of the key forces pushing Congress on tax policy during budget battles.
At least 279 members of Congress have signed the pledge. That includes almost every Republican in the House and Senate, and three Democrats.
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is also a tax pledge participant, as The Hill has reported.”
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/25/471055/reid-gop-support-for-preventing-student-loan-rate-hike-depends-on-grover-norquists-support/
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/04/28/opinion/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/grover-norquist-has-no-interest-in-bipartisan-cooperation/256027/
http://www.atr.org/reducing-government-half-a1095 “But central to winning is keeping score. We must keep our eye on the goal of reducing the size, scope, power and cost of government at all levels. Measuring and reporting on the trend in government spending, regulations, government employment and State ownership of property will keep us focused and let us know if we are winning or losing the struggle.
Cutting the government in half in one generation is both an ambitious and reasonable goal. If we work hard we will accomplish this and more by 2025. Then the conservative movement can set a new goal. I have a recommendation: To cut government in half again by 2050.”
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/195843
Peaceful transition of power
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0408/Planned-Parenthood-deal-breaker-or-trump-card-in-government-shutdown-talks
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/04/02/santorum-denounces-planned-parenthood-bombing.html “He said in a statement, “While we can and should work to defund Planned Parenthood and push back against government mandates that force Americans and religious institutions to violate their faith, violence against our fellow citizens has no place in a freedom-loving America.””
http://gawker.com/5877892/newspaper-editor-israel-should-consider-assassinating-obama
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/04/25/470925/tony-perkins-birther/
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/12/442710/cliff-stearns-birther/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82561667/Alaska-Epperly-v-Obama-Nomination-Petition-Objection
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/01/26/brian-kemp-to-barack-obamas-attorney-skip-ballot-hearing-at-your-own-peril/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/tennessee-dont-say-gay-bill-advances_n_1282038.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/tennessee-evolution-bill-haslam_n_1416015.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/08/tennessee-sex-education-b_n_1411100.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/27/alec-legislator-uses-occupy-pansy-slur-against-activist/
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/28/justice-scalia-goes-on-the-offensive/
http://www.lawnix.com/cases/yick-wo-hopkins.html
“Issues
1.
May a city enforce an ordinance in a
racially discriminatory manner?
2.
Does a law or ordinance granting a
person or entity absolute discretion to grant or deny permission to carry on a
lawful business violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Holding
and Rule (Matthews)
1.
No. A city may not enforce
ordinances in a racially discriminatory manner.
2.
Yes. A law or ordinance granting a
person or entity absolute discretion to grant or deny permission to carry on a
lawful business violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
Some of the weapons were found
within a false wall in a child's room, Freeman said.
The tube is part of a LAW – Light
Anti-tank Weapon – M72 A2 single-use weapon, Freeman said. It was a rare find,
Freeman said – it was the first time in his law enforcement career he had seen
one "outside of a 'MacGyver' episode."””
kept promise http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/02/obama-signs-sch/ no new independent tax on > $250000
Dr. Perkinson once visited the Carol S. Vance
Unit, a Texas prison that subcontracts with Prison Fellowship for programming.
Inmates can opt into the program, but cannot be forced to participate. He was
both discomfited and amazed by what he saw. “On the one hand, it was flagrantly unconstitutional,” Dr. Perkinson said. “If you didn’t believe God created the earth in seven days, and not just that same-sex relations were a sin but so was masturbation, you couldn’t graduate from this program. It was almost Taliban-style. But it was the only prison of all that I visited in Texas that was permeated with love.”
Just unconstitutionally applied love
is all. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/us/with-prison-ministry-colson-linked-religion-and-reform-beliefs.html
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/19/21st_century_chain_gangs/
“Convict Labor in the “New South”After the Civil War, the convict-lease system metamorphosed. In the South, it became ubiquitous, one of several grim methods — including the black codes, debt peonage, the crop-lien system, lifetime labor contracts and vigilante terror — used to control and fix in place the newly emancipated slave. Those “freedmen” were eager to pursue their new liberty either by setting up as small farmers or by exercising the right to move out of the region at will or from job to job as “free wage labor” was supposed to be able to do.
If you assumed, however, that the convict-lease system was solely the brainchild of the apartheid all-white “Redeemer” governments that overthrew the Radical Republican regimes (which first ran the defeated Confederacy during Reconstruction) and used their power to introduce Jim Crow to Dixie, you would be wrong again. In Georgia, for instance, the Radical Republican state government took the initiative soon after the war ended. And this was because the convict-lease system was tied to the modernizing sectors of the post-war economy, no matter where in Dixie it was introduced or by whom.”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175520/best_of_tomdispatch%3A_michelle_alexander,_the_age_of_obama_as_a_racial_nightmare/
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-we-dont-demonize-prosperity-we-celebrate-success
http://books.google.com/books?id=6O_XYBMhNYAC&pg=PA383&lpg=PA383&dq=moral+majority+school+integration&source=bl&ots=fNdZq8Mk0U&sig=RAnhsENw
books.google.com
Few groups in
our history are as fascinating and mysterious as the Ku Klux Klan. Its story is
one of violence, political manipulation and intrigue, absurdity, and
mesmerizing organizational and propaganda skills. Through shrewd political
tactics and powerful leadership, the Klan has often been a pot...
“JAMES A. HAUGHT
Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.
Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”””””””””””””
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