Happy 250th Birthday to a Divided USA from Frederick Foote

Happy 250th Birthday to a Divided USA

Divided and subdivided was the way our nation started

With a third of us, waving our revolutionary flags and a third of us, siding and fighting with the British, and a third of us saying, I’m Bennett, and I ain’t in it

We were born with a Declaration of Hypocrisy.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

A declaration signed by slave owners standing on stolen land.

All the players and parties recognized the hypocrisy and sneered, laughed, or cheered.

That includes the 9,000 Africans and African Americans who fought for the new country and the 20,000 Africans and African Americans who fought on the side of the British in exchange for their freedom.

On this foundation, rotten with greed, racism, and deceit, a great, flawed nation was erected.

From eighteen sixty one to eighteen sixty five, we fought a war to correct one of our foundational errors, slavery. With over 620,000 deaths, it is our most deadly military conflict.

Over 180,000  Black troops fought for their freedom in this war.

The union prevailed, and the freedmen embraced democracy and voting. They elected their own to the national and local stages.

However, that freedom was short-lived as the Union Army withdrew from the South after twelve years of Reconstruction, and the plantation class ensnared the freedmen in new forms of slavery, including convict labor and tenant farming, all supported by Black Codes, which restricted the freedom of African Americans. And our court systems supported this outrageous demolition of Black rights.

The convict labor system allowed planters to literally work convicts to death. This was due, in part, to the fact that the United States has never fully repudiated and outlawed slavery.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

The 13th Amendment provides a constitutional basis for the enslavement of prisoners. Think of Nazi prisoners of war being forced to labor in Hitler's factories.

Today, there are about four million people under the jurisdiction of the US criminal justice system. The largest prison population of any nation today.[i]

Slavery is alive and well in the United States of America on its two hundred and fifty-second birthday.

What more is there to say except happy birthday to us, and we must keep up the good fight and keep present-day slavery in the light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[i] Countries with the most prisoners 2026| Statista

Is democracy a cult?

A cult is a social group or movement defined by unconventional, often extremist, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and practices. They typically feature a charismatic leader demanding excessive devotion, with members often subjected to manipulative psychological control, isolation from society, and exploitation.

Is democracy a cult? Ai, the new boy toy. Good for fake sexual and sensual experiences, used as a weapon against women. And used for strategy and weaponization in war. ManLove and ManWar, two peas in a pod. Technology driven by the same mad and ad men, like the first book coming off the Gutenberg printing press, the bible. In Asia, the first woodcut technology print was The Diamond Sutra, the Asian version of the bible, and thus spoke Zarathustra. Technology is a wonderful thing until the intellectual thugs discover how to beat your brains out, a modernized, democratized version of the good old fashioned club. Printing, they say, democratized the use of books but as we’ve seen, the printing press and now digital, electronic dissemination of information certainly “democratizes” information but does not democratize freedom of information. The powers that control democracy of all types are fascist in principle, that is, they give you the freedom they want you to have. You can only go so far down the road to true freedom before somebody or some thing stops you. The message is clear, stay in the mainstream herd, where information and belief may not keep you free but will keep you secure from fear. True knowledge is only garnered by transgressing fear of the unknown, but even that can be a Herculean task. What is freedom anyway? Freedom doesn’t have anything to do with hate, or ignorance, or power. Freedom isn’t doing whatever you want. It’s not about desire, either. It’s a sense of appreciation of the individual’s need and ability to act with the social, where most individuals live in the world. The social contract necessitates a certain number of conscious limitations or voluntary restraints on the individual in order for cooperation to produce what every individual needs. A social contract (call it work) is necessary, but cooperation is only truly effective if it is composed of individuals who are free to offer and provide their skills and services. The conditions under which individuals freely interact with their environment/society determines the success of every society, community, or nation. Of course, religions, storytelling, myths, and politics (that is, the policymaker's) all tell us freedom needs to be subjugated to the will of the social order, the principles that subjugate are established by the above mentioned anti-free institutions fostered by, once again, self-proclaimed “owners” of those institutions. The owners convince the freedom loving that in order for society to function properly they must give up their freedom (which they would most likely do anyway in order to survive) but only under the owner's directive, permanent, and unquestioned. Democracy is supposedly the owners giving back some of that lost freedom to the individual but the conditions of the democracy such as who gets elected to represent freedom loving individuals are selected beforehand. If the individual refuses to vote say, the individual does not get represented and those not represented are nearly always the majority. A nation which represents itself as a democracy is really a tightly controlled, institutionalized minority bound together by a wide range of illusionary principles, beliefs, and lies. The framers of the modern ideals of democracy and freedom merely represent a conglomerate of minority Views and do not represent the “all.” Democracy becomes a cult, or religion, rather than a universal ideal. Sent from my iPad

More chickens coming home to roost

Now the chickens will come home to roost. It will be the democrats who will aid and abet the critics of the Iran memorandum. Much in the same way they have hindered the Epstein files. The Israel lobby which has been in the background of both parties will make sure Iran does not get nationhood once again. Sovereignty. They didn’t start this, Israel has wanted it for decades, the US has wanted something since the Islamic Revolution. Revenge. Every nation that has nationalized their own resources has paid a similar price. Poor Cuba, which only had sugar got pre-empted really fast, and never got a chance, along with Chile, Iraq, you know the stories, even little Grenada, so remember the democrats were all there in all those places, supporting J Edgar, the CIA, and Israel, military intervention. We don’t have a chance in hell to fix this system. we have to think revolution. Not a power interchange, but acceptance of reality, not supremacy, not the color of our skin, not the gods we have to pray to, not the sexual ids we revere, and certainly not the political parties. 

The democrats are already saying the memorandum merely puts Iran right back where they were before Israel masterminded an attack. Well, yeah, it should because there’s no reason it should have been attacked in the first place. Schumer says we’re worse off. Deep down nearly everyone, including many so-called progressive podcasters that Trump was inept, keep on baiting trump, and he’ll get shit for all of it but make no mistake about it, everyone wants Iran to lose. Unfortunately, Iran doesn’t know when to keep its mouth shut because there are no victories here. This is an example of a world war that benefits no one. 

If Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, neither should Israel and many others who should be able to see how ineffective nukes are. Like if you can't use it except when you're backs against the wall and complete moral annihilation is the only way a nation can see fit to use one.

Iran did show that it could take a punch (trump should respect that). We can thank Muhammad Ali for that tactic.

Again, everyone listens to their own interna, hateful monologue on this one. Let's see what Albania does, another possible, fruitful example of more David against Goliath (Netanyahu should appreciate that one).

Hidden retrograde motion. Check out Israel's kissing up the new president of New Somaliland (right across from Yemen, another thorn in Israel's side), though we can probably learn something from Israel's ability to find new or old enemies, then park themselves nextdoor, looking forward to a future fight.

 I’m telling you all. We are so close to the end of something, my skin is tingling. 

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What Trump doesn’t understand about Netanyahu

What Trump doesn’t understand about Netanyahu is that N is Trump doubled down. Whether or not Iran has a nuclear weapon is not Israel’s goal and never has been. Of course, it’s goal, is the greater prophesied Israel project. It’s bigger than ego or even money, it’s historic, in the same vein as genghis khan or Robert e Lee. Leaders riding an abuse of power because of ignorance, arrogance, or because they can. One time I met a minor author who came from Iran and then later wrote a book about her experience as a young girl at the beginning of the Iranian revolution. It was a good book as far as I was concerned and probably there were many like it, written by refugees or immigrants who come to America from negligent countries, either to escape repressive situations or to seek freedom, where they didn’t think they got it before. There’s likely many reasons people come here to the land of the free, home of the brave. At the time I met this young woman writer with a nice husband and promising son, I already knew that Iran had been exposed to Americas CIA in such a way, much like Cuba or Vietnam, or Indonesia or any number of smaller nations worldwide that had been exposed, by treachery, subterfuge, assassination, overthrow of democracy, and, finally, a reliance on dictatorships to do the dirty work. 

I bring this up because of the ongoing protests by this Iranian diaspora against the Iranian football team trying to play in the worldwide World Cup. I think it’s funny that all these diasporas we’ve amassed here in America as refugees from the dirty wars we’ve instigated have, for the most part, become the very essence of an anti-American progressive movement. Many but not all, it’s never all, bring not only their hatred of anything progressive here to America because but also their antagonisms and acceptance of authority, as if our president, our ideals are more than just ideals but a magical reality. They don’t care about Americas history, that most of America is composed of, not people who were born into freedom, democracy, and the American way, but most of us or our ancestors had to fight, die, be oppressed, segregated, murdered, or kill or be killed on the battlefields, to preserve what others maintain is guaranteed. All the Cubans that fled the revolution brought what they could, which was their money, influence, and dictator ship politics before the Castro's could even start. Yet, the Cuban diaspora, bitches and moans, even three generations away from Cuba. They vote dictator, they live overthrow, they act like they wished they never left Cuba because they’re not doing any better here than there. Basically, they’re losers, if they’re still wanting to go back, especially if they want others to die for them so they can go back. Go back to what? The colonial homes are trashed, the economy is poor, not as if that’s what they want, but because America can’t ever just go on and be as good as they think they are. I think we can look at the lack of success of Israel if we want an example of what happens when America (and all the western power mentality nations) who have control of a small, nothing nation. Israel is a warrior nation, much the same, but still different from the United States. Israel is also a cruel, arrogant nation whereas the United States is a sadistic nation. It uses its power in the modern world as a hammer on a nail. It believes it is constructing an eternal legacy, essentially it refuses to accept natural and political change. Change is reality. That’s where Israel and America are similar, they both believe they are destined; thus cruelty, greed, arrogance and supremacy are effective as fear. So, the world, or the world controlled by America and slow thinking thugs and gangsters hasn’t progressed very far. I’m sure black people, women, everyone in America can or will claim how much better off they are than in Cuba, Iran, Russia, china, Venezuela, I could go on and on, but lifestyle is different than quality of life and some freedoms are better than none but what is freedom when there is no future? 

We’re all going along for a ride in a circle game of musical chairs, and once you’re out, you’re out. Sent from my iPad

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident,

 "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

Well, no longer can we consider anything to be “self evident”, can we?

As the Jefferson Airplane says in White Rabbit, 

 When logic and proportion

Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the Dormouse said
Feed your head

Feed your head.

Yes, it’s that time. To feed your head before our society becomes more thoughtless, careless, and starved from too much of the little things (because of little men with big money), and too little of knowledge. So yes, feed your head so you won’t die from a lack of preparation for the coming of the real fight, right from wrong. It’s already too late for millions and minions of ignorant sheep, fattened on lies and dependent on strong men to survive.

There is absolutely no scientific or common sensical proof that women are more able to lead or represent the people than men and, as women should submit, neither are men. So all this bullshit about graham platner bad behavior vs the significant crimes of many members of congress that even women in congress and high positions of power and influence have neither stopped nor slowed or have supported just makes everybody suspect. That’s what power does, no matter what’s between your legs or even what hormones running through your brain, nearly all succumb to power, wealth, and ambition in a society based on hierarchy and greed. Few ever examine their own motives, introspection is what it’s called, but like many internal codes in this day and age, introspection has gone the way of dinosaur love, that is, unreciprocated love based in respect for some higher order of living without fear.

If you believe in god because you are afraid you’re going to be punished in the next life or you don’t believe in god because you don’t think you should be held accountable for anything you do, then either way you’ve missed the point of living.

There are probably significant differences between men and women but as far as I know, no one has discovered them yet and it’s possible that political systems, hierarchies of gender, race, culture make no difference in those differences anyway.

I can truthfully say that it’s true, men have created a horrible political system of international, ethnic, cultural divisiveness, they’ve made the rules, the laws and have established and institutionalized all the principles of how to take freedom away from those who don’t bow to their established authority. 

On the other hand, despite the relatively few ambitious women who are considered successful, the realm of children has been used as an example of how women, in general, handle themselves. Of course, children are the bottom of the welfare totem pole, and have become the ultimate weaponization against all the political and social matters delegated to adults. Children around the world are the canaries in the cold minds of everyone, including women.

Child abuse, sex trafficking, starvation, war, education, all affect the conditions of children. And yet, both men and women in all the halls of congresses, parliaments, and national institutions everywhere continually discuss, argue, and support the same lies, and are unable to stem the tide that will eventually affect the next few generations to come as the racism, selfishness, ethnocentrism of the past created this one.

So, NOW (National Organization of Women) endorsement of Janet Mills because she stood up to Trump based on gender alone vs the obvious hindrance of Plattner’s reckless past is tantamount to only kicking the can further down the street.

I’m sorry to say that the only cure is a revolution of the highest magnitude. It has to be a creation of disjunction within the world already set on a course that is way off course. Disobey, ignore but at the same time, in order to maintain our sanity, build, cooperate, multi family, extended  self sustaining communities, not reliant on institutional banking, traditional methods of power and hierarchy. Be universal in equitable freedom and relationships. Sound impossible. That’s why it’s revolutionary, sir.  

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Freedom

Back in the day, like the 1950s the implications of Japanese monster movies was that nuclear weapons could trigger bigger and more lethal reptiles. Now it’s more like Trump set off a chain reaction of similar proportions when he saw Wonder Woman comics, DC Comix, clean up dc. Japan just sends us tsunamis now. So, it’s still Mother Earth vs Father Time. We invented time, the western mind, the daily grind.

It’s clear the pigheadedness of Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump are not out for a peace stroll. If you really think about it, here’s what “peace” looks like from the perspective of money talks, bullshit walks.

Gaza will be turned into some sort of capitalist, Palestinian free (meaning free from) private enterprise, over governed by the no longer secret nuclear state of Zion. Netanyahu reiterates that there will NOT be a two state nor even one peaceful state solution in which Palestinian or any indigenous people will coexist or survive.

Putin states Russia will not back any plan whereby it must give up the eastern region and crimea, thus making that peace plan obsolete before it becomes a reality.

Trump will insist on continually rebranding this country, like a cattle thief while sticking, the hot poker up the ass of any idea he insists invades his sleepy, drug addled mind with golden sugar canes and lollipops dancing through his empty head. Think Donald Trump Institute of Peace or the Arch de Trump or any other imitation he can come up with. It’s not the anarchist in me nor the free thinker me that thinks of the humor that will come out of all this as sometime in the future, how much enjoyment the people will have as they topple all the statuary, burn all the banners, erase all the ridiculous “trumpian” nonsense of this era. Unfortunately, I probably won’t be around to see it but at least I am prescient enough now to know it is inevitable and I can have a good internal snicker.

Remember we are in year two of a four-year apocalypse, no matter who is elected between now and 2028. The rules of the game have been set. Remember, Obama and Joe Biden both had congressional majorities at one time or another and look where we are now. And always remember, we had democratic presidents with both houses of congress and social security and some version of civility and progress and a future but always riding along was war, slavery, and hate so no matter what happens, you and me, we can’t forget, even when we are happy or content. We have to always be vigilant while laughing, be wary while compromising, have a strong sense of freedom while giving someone authority over us. Don’t let anyone convince you, bribe you into thinking they know better than you.

A few simple rules for lifelong happiness and struggle. Dance, sing, make love but be ready to fight for that right because there is ALWAYS someone who doesn’t want you to do whatever you’re doing to be free.

(I don’t know why I feel I have to say this, kind of like everyone who says “I love America but don’t like whatever it’s done” but here goes. Being free to me isn’t getting to do whatever you want but choosing to give what you have to offer and choosing whatever is offered to you. So, yes, one can be greedy, take but not give, and be free to do so. That’s the negative, right? But, remember, free is you and only you. Don’t offer to the greedy, if you don’t want but don’t take from the corrupted, the bribers, the snake oil salesman. There should be no law that says you have to. You don’t have to go to war, pay taxes for war, you can be selfish and not give nor take anything if you can survive that way. Just don’t try and make, coerce anyone else to do what they don’t want to do or decide they can’t do something you don’t want them to do. Free means it’s on you and no one else. Love becomes a series of acknowledgements between individuals, such as trust, consent, honesty, and in the case of children, responsibility. All these attributes have to do with freedom. Ambition, dishonesty, greed, the seven deadly sins are deadly for a reason, and to do those things is not freedom, its recklessness.

Stop Believin' in Pete

 

I poured over darwin and jane goodall. Ernest Hemingway and Bettina Aptheker from the coliseum to stonehenge, today is pete hegseths tribunal for manager of the dept of defense, as if it matters who's in charge there, where the president has a remote office, just like at the cia.

Why do we care? Where does pete hegseth fit in the scheme of right and wrong, democracy and total authoritarianism? 

It's just an intellectual exercise. A game. It's like arguing the rules of war. Or international law. Nothing moves slower than moral persuasion, except maybe glaciation.

If the idea is to prevent another Hiroshima, My Lai, Wounded Knee, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Oct 7th, Sudan, before the atrocity happens, then where is that solution? Israel is the perfect example of the institutionalized hubris of the modern nations and LA fires is the perfect example of the neglect that institutionalized hubris causes.

Stop Thinking. We are the original AI. If AI is the intelligence of non-experience, that is, if we're going to invest our being into a false type of experience because of the fear generated by knowing (and believing) every possible threat and fear of the future is imminent, then we become paralyzed, like we are.

Free the incarcerated firefighters. Why is it so difficult to do the right thing? It shouldn't be democratic nor republican. 

Get rid of eternal punishment. They are not gods and criminals who pay the punishment price shouldn't have to have the letter "C" stamped across their resumes. 

Stop believing in the President. If he (or if it she) were god, would we believe in its existence? No, we would have our doubts.

 It's OK, isn’t it, to believe you're smarter than the constitution or whatever belief system you were raised under, to reject that which justifies your killing someone you don’t even know except by some sort sort of magical transformation of logic or having someone else kill someone for you?

The constitution is no more than the revised ten commandments for nation states, which need some authority to pre-empt the real emptiness of the ten commandments.

And look at what happened with the ten commandments. Adam and Eve got thrown out of the Garden of Eden, Cain killed his brother Abel, Noah took his sons wives to bed to repopulate the earth and every god fearing wanna be human made up their own version (religion), from the first pope, first king, first follower, first Utah messiah, just so they could justify their own crimes.

The first savior, Jesus Christ, was the first big loser because he never wrote on a book nor etched a tablet, but, unfortunately for him and for us, we got a whole mess of ghost writers and worse, tyrants and misanthropes who distrust and hate the human race but at the same time think they are exempt. Basically, they think they’re gods. That’s why I don’t believe in em.

Stop believing in all this fairy tale and fear mongering. Anyone who believes that a Virgin Mother wouldn't have been either stoned or banished and whose son rose again from the dead, the entire family a coven. In order to be fair, our entire history, in the world, rome, greece, norway, africa, and asia, and america, is based on the so-called chronicling of events that supposedly have improved our condition. Jesus, Mohammed, all the popes, kings, and emperors (and billionaires) have come to us either as felons or naked as jaybirds, and we've dressed them up in our minds like Barbies to fit our presumptuous illusions of who we think we are.

Everytime we take a bite to eat, drink, sit on the toilet we need to remind ourselves that we are no different or better than the worst of us, so quit contemplating who to blame for whatever is happening to you. All these "monsters' who believe in their right to not only exist but to determine who else should exist, will get the same comeuppance as we will. History may look as if Biden, Netanyahu, Putin, Trump, or Musk, as examples but certainly not all of these named predators will come out smelling like roses, but in the end, they'll just leave the same rubble and destruction  in front of us as Hadrian, Charlemagne, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Hitler, as examples, and who among them, do we actually care about nowadays anyway?

Take a trip to the Middle East or Turkey and see the ruins and rubble created by all the great religions and conquerors of the past.