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.
*****
“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.”
*****
“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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