27 January 2014

Sick/Recovering; Hence More Off-Site Outside Agitation

THE AILMENT THAT befell me was Cellulitis, a life-threatening bacterial infection that federal officials estimate kills about 30,000 people every year in the USian imperial homeland. Of unknown origin – I am neither diabetic nor was there any apparent source-wound – the disease came on suddenly and immediately afflicted my entire lower left leg, making it a swollen, grotesquely discolored example of something one might expect to see in a gangrene ward. Since then, massive daily doses of intravenous antibiotics seem to have killed the bug before it could kill me – knock on wood and burn a candle – but I lost the entire week to the associated exhaustion. All I could write were three comment-thread posts and a few contemplative paragraphs on how the mental process of photography and the mental process of writing are not only diametrical opposites but actual opponents of one another. The latter, however, is an essay that, in the immortal words of the better teachers of my long-ago youth, “needs more work,” so what we have here this week is again all from elsewhere. 


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Why There's No Outcry”  Robert Reich writes about some of the reasons the subjugated USian majority is paralyzed by fear into permanent submission. Though Reich fails to acknowledge the subjugation of the masses is the ultimate purpose of capitalism – and that the widespread availability of a revolutionary socialist alternative might trigger and sustain widespread rebellion (exactly as it did in Tsarist Russia and warlord China) – his essay nevertheless inspires a lively, mostly supportive discussion. But I am quickly appalled by the apparent ignorance of the many who seem to have forgotten the government-inflicted murders at Kent State University and Jackson State College – killings that demonstrate the extent to which USian local, state and federal governments will go to protect the capitalists and their wars for profit. Therefore I posted a historical rejoinder that includes a roll-call of the dead. 

Constrained by the 1500-character response-limit maintained by Reader Supported News, I had to omit whet I feel are vital details of the two atrocities. These include: (1)-the fact the Kent State dead were all nearly a football-field's distance away from the National Guard soldiers when their commander gave the order to fire; (2)-the fact a secret-police provocateur,  an FBI contract-agent named Terry Norman, apparently fired four rounds from a .38 Special caliber revolver to provoke the National Guard's volley; (3)-the probability the entire Kent State incident was orchestrated by the FBI  in much the same way the suppression of the Occupy Movement was orchestrated by the USian secret police today, and (4)-the fact James Earl Green, one of those slain by cops at Jackson State, was neither part of the targeted demonstration nor even on the demonstration-side of the police line. Instead, Green was trying to get home from his job at a nearby grocery store when a racist cop happened to spot him as a target of opportunity and fired a blast of double-ought buckshot into his chest. Such was life – and death – in the free-fire zones of USian higher education. 


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MLK, Victim of the Surveillance State”  Charles Pierce of Esquire redefines the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as an early product of the total-surveillance state and inspires a lively, interesting discussion thread. In agreement with many other posters, I comment accordingly: “Thus to learn RFK too was a defender of the USian equivalent of the SS/Reichssicherheitshauptamt – let's stop mincing words and call the empire's secret-police apparatus what it truly is – is particularly painful. The lesson here is partly what Mr. Pierce says: that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a victim of the new gestapo. Perhaps ironically, RFK was most likely another of its victims. And (poster) Walter J Smith is certainly correct in his assertion any vote for a candidate of the Democratic or Republican parties – in tyrannical reality one Ruling Class party with two names – is a vote for the status quo. Thus we can vote to perpetuate capitalist governance, which means absolute power and unlimited profit for the One Percent, total subjugation for all the rest of us. Or we can acknowledge that if our species is to survive, socialism is our only alternative – and then act accordingly.”


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Can We Fix the Race Problem in America's School Discipline?” Molly Knefel of Rolling Stone reports on federal proposals to end the racist bigotry and the parallel malice against disabled children that's increasingly evident in USian public school discipline. I criticize the proposals as typical liberal feel-good measures that have no hope of alleviating the causative malevolence, and instead I advocate two proposals that would impose real change: 

“Step One is admission that 75 percent of U.S. Caucasians are consciously, viciously racist – that this white majority regards all non-Caucasians as inferior and despises them accordingly. The same intensity of hatefulness, however much concealed behind “politically correct” terminology, savages disabled children – whites included – who do not conform to the essentially Aryan (and thus incipiently Nazified) norms of “master race” mental performance and physical appearance. Step Two is therefore to empower parents of oppressed minorities (including disabled kids) to form independent disciplinary review boards to scrutinize every school disciplinary case for evidence of racial prejudice or anti-disability bias. Such boards must be empowered to over-rule school officials and to expose and fire demonstrably bigoted teachers and administrators.” 

Alas, exhausted as I was on Saturday after four days of IV antibiotics, I came too late to the thread, and as of this writing there had been no reactions to my post. Too bad, as I think such review boards are the only way we will ever nullify the seemingly reflexive Caucasian penchant for racial hatred and Nazi-like contempt for disabled people within the USian public school system.

LB/26 January 2014 

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