act - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T00:47:22Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/actDaPhunkeeProfessor.com - Black History Month Is Supposed to be a Launch Pad, Not a Destinationhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/daphunkeeprofessor-com-black-history-month-is-supposed-to-be-a2018-02-01T23:36:55.000Z2018-02-01T23:36:55.000ZMwalim *7) DaPhunkeeProfessorhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/Mwalim7DaPhunkeeProfessor<div><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sctC7NexEds?wmode=opaque" width="560"></iframe> <br /> <br /> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;">Originating from the efforts of Carter G. Woodson, whose landmark dissertation ' The Mis-Education of the Negro' challenged the social structure of American education. <br /></span><br /> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;">However, the white supremacist orientation of the United States makes it impossible for Black History Month to have any significant impact in the education of the masses.</span><br /> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size:large;">To Follow DaPhunkeeProfessor.com, Subscribe Here:</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div style="display:inline-block;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size:large;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/daphunkeeprofessor-com">https://tinyurl.com/daphunkeeprofessor-com</a></span></div></div>"Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act" Obama Vetoes, Congress Caves (Videos)https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism-act-obama-vetoes-congress2016-10-07T19:00:00.000Z2016-10-07T19:00:00.000ZNana Baakan Agyiriwahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jIqO7DpEFRo/V_J5o3NhkdI/AAAAAAACfDk/0C8NisCQ9agwNP25Zs7Af463Tmx_xQXkQCLcB/s1600/Congress%2BCaves%2BIn%2Bto%2BObama%2BVeto.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jIqO7DpEFRo/V_J5o3NhkdI/AAAAAAACfDk/0C8NisCQ9agwNP25Zs7Af463Tmx_xQXkQCLcB/s400/Congress%2BCaves%2BIn%2Bto%2BObama%2BVeto.png?width=320" width="320" class="align-left" alt="Congress%2BCaves%2BIn%2Bto%2BObama%2BVeto.png?width=320" /></a></div><div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">The US Congress passed a bill called the "We are gonna sue Saudi Arabia on behalf of the victims of the 911 Terror Attacks" or <span style="color:#111111;">Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, which, Obama promptly vetoed by the way, in an unprecedented move against Congress.</span></div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Now that in and of itself should send some folks to look in the mirror and ask themselves some serious questions about this administration, and especially about our dearly beloved President, Barack Hussein Obama.</div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">When the smoke cleared, Congress decided that it would override the veto, in another unprecedented move against this administration. Then they got word… sorta like the word they got when they were refusing to give the banks all that money back in 2008.. Does the words "martial Law" ring a bell anyone? I don't know what made them back pedal for sure, but looking closely at the gaul they had to even attempt to override his royal highness was unprecedented to say the least. <em><strong><a href="http://nanas-rants.blogspot.com/2016/10/justice-against-sponsors-of-terrorism.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></strong></em></div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><b><i>But…..</i></b></div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><br /><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLRwF36V2kd5xrZVdq5ceKv2S3NRNsxZK1&wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Here's the deal. Why are they blaming the Saudi government when there has been no proof that the Saudi government had anything to do with it? Does anyone remember that the 19 hijackers had Saudi passports but 9 of them were found alive?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How about the fact that they Bombed Afghanistan because OBL was reportedly held up in them there hills. Wanna sue Afghanistan for its rocks and hills?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How about they blamed Libya for the plane crash and Gaddafi wasn't responsible but he paid t<span style="color:#1d2129;">he families and you see where that got him?</span></div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How about they sue Larry Silverstien who admitted that they had plans to build a new trade center in early 2000?</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How about they sue BBC for foreknowledge of WTC7 collapse 20 minutes before it collapsed? </div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How about they sue the FBI for never proving that OBL had anything to do with it and they never even put him on the Worlds most wanted list cause they had no evidence he actually orchestrated the attacks.</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How about they go after the real person instead of dragging the blemishless Saudis thru the mud? Surely I jest cause it ain't no way the Saudis are free from blemish.. But that's a horse of a different color and does not need to be inserted in this narrative. So let me not digress in sighting the various human rights violations and supporting of ISIS and harboring of known terrorist among them and their pitiful treatment of women because that requires a whole other video.</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Let me continue with my list of folks who should be sued by the families of the 911 victims.</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Sooooo,</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How about they dig themselves out of a hole because Pres. OBAMA knows we will surely end up in China if folks even look down that 911 rabbit hole. Just look at the wording of this thing.</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act.</div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">How many heads would role if there was a real investigation and the real culprits were given their just due?</div><div style="color:#111111;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Obama is the front man for the cover-up and he most definitely is not gonna air the dirty laundry for the whole world to see.</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">At this point, most folks know it was an inside job. First responders are dying from all kinds of cancers. And whistle blowers are dying, out of jobs, fearing for their lives. How about suing the EPA for saying the air was safe to breathe?</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">But any of these so called public officials who pretend to be clueless about what happened on that fateful day, are all complicit in the cover up, and the Saudi Royals ain't gotta take the hit when they can hit back really hard with the OPEC option of dollars for oil.</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">It's noble to say he wants to protect Americans over seas, but seriously… Obama ain't no dummy and neither are the rascals he rubs elbows with.</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Time for some serious 911 truth!</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Mainstream media is still peddling the lie. It makes you wonder how folks can wake up, read the lie, know it's a lie, turn over and go back to sleep. The train wreck continues.</div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#1d2129;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SBUO1Kj-Vx8?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:left;"></div><div style="text-align:left;"></div><div style="text-align:left;"><b>More Reading:</b></div><div style="text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#111111;">“Reflecting the desire to keep the public placated, while at the same time giving in to Saudi demands, Sens Bob Corker (R – TN) and Lindsey Graham (R – SC) both indicated that the ‘fixes’ would be implemented after the November elections, during the lame duck session,” </span><a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2016/09/29/congressional-leaders-move-to-weaken-911-victims-bill-after-override/"><span style="color:#333333;">Antiwar.com</span></a><span style="color:#111111;"> reported. So for now, the bill is law, but after the elections it will be watered down to nothing to please the Saudi’s instead of the American people.</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><a href="http://wearechange.org/congressional-leaders-caving-saudi-pressure-911-bill/">http://wearechange.org/congressional-leaders-caving-saudi-pressure-911-bill/</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">White House: Congress has 'buyer's remorse' after overriding Obama veto</div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/29/white-house-congress-has-buyers-remorse-after-overriding-obama-veto/91289856/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/29/white-house-congress-has-buyers-remorse-after-overriding-obama-veto/91289856/</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">‘Time Of Looking Away Over’: Germany Warns Saudi Arabia To Stop Funding Wahhabism</div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/time-of-looking-away-over-germany-warns-saudi-arabia-to-stop-funding-radical-islamists/211859/">http://www.mintpressnews.com/time-of-looking-away-over-germany-warns-saudi-arabia-to-stop-funding-radical-islamists/211859/</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399774">http://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=399774</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">The Senate recently overruled a veto from President Obama on a bill that will allow the families of terrorist attacks file lawsuits against countries suspected of supporting terrorism. What's actually in the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA)? Hasan Piker gives you the breakdown on the JASTA bill.</div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBUO1Kj-Vx8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBUO1Kj-Vx8</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://usahitman.com/wbdct911/"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Whistleblower Deaths Connected To 9/11 (You Cant Deny This One)</span></a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://templeton01436.blogspot.com/2013/09/whistleblower-deaths-connected-to-911.html">http://templeton01436.blogspot.com/2013/09/whistleblower-deaths-connected-to-911.html</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Opec quota deal not guaranteed to force up the oil price</span> </div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/01/opec-quota-deal-not-guaranteed-to-force-up-the-oil-price/">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/01/opec-quota-deal-not-guaranteed-to-force-up-the-oil-price/</a>></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">OPEC Leaves Production Target Unchanged</div><br /><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/opec-leaves-production-target-unchanged-oil-price-falls-1417086606">http://www.wsj.com/articles/opec-leaves-production-target-unchanged-oil-price-falls-1417086606</a></div></div></div>[Mixtape] JoJo Capone "Boss Life" They Talk It, I Live It. 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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><em style="font-size:medium;font-family:Verdana;">Washington, DC -</em><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Verdana;"> Five decades after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law, activists the </span><a href="http://trk.cp20.com/Tracking/t.c?6u9oc-e31bg-sbsv985&_v=2" target="_blank" style="font-size:medium;font-family:Verdana;">Project 21</a><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Verdana;"> black leadership network are commenting on its impact and legacy. Many believe the overwhelmingly positive efforts of the Act are being downplayed by "race-obsessed" critics.</span></p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000" size="3">"The 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act is a bittersweet occasion. As we assess what its passage means for American society and why it came about, we also must lament those who treat 21st Century USA like the Jim Crow America of yesteryear," said Project 21 Co-Chairman <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/Tracking/t.c?6u9oc-e31bh-sbsv986&_v=2" target="_blank">Horace Cooper</a> , a legal commentator who formerly taught law at George Mason University and was a leadership staff member for the U.S. House of Representatives. "Today, black Americans and other minorities no longer face the daunting obstacles that existed prior to 50 years ago. The public square and corridors of commerce are overwhelmingly accessible by blacks and whites, men and women alike. Sadly though, for too many of us, broken families and undue faith in government programs serve as a modern hindrance to black achievement and success."<br /><br /> President Lyndon Johnson signed the <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/Tracking/t.c?6u9oc-e31bi-sbsv987&_v=2" target="_blank">Civil Rights Act</a> into law on July 2, 1964. The new law created sweeping protections against discrimination based on race, gender, religion and national origin. It covers issues such as access to government facilities, public accommodations, voter registration and workplace discrimination, among other things.<br /><br /> While the Civil Rights Act brought about fundamental change in the way American law handles the topic of race and helped usher in a new era of equality, Project 21 members note there are members of the civil rights lobby and self-appointed black leadership who still insist the United States is inherently racist.<br /><br /> "On the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, we are sure to hear that little has changed for black Americans. The usual batch of self-proclaimed black leaders will jockey for the opportunity to do so. They are wrong," said Project 21's <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/Tracking/t.c?6u9oc-e31bj-sbsv988&_v=2" target="_blank">Joe R. Hicks</a> , a community activist in Los Angeles who was formerly the executive director of the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission and the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- a civil rights group formed by Martin Luther King, Jr. "Simply put, the Civil Rights Act changed American culture. Within a matter of years, racist sentiment became largely outdated and unacceptable. Race-obsessed black leaders unrealistically demand a racial utopia, but they miss the fact that black people have achieved something far more important. They are now the masters of their own destiny."<br /><br /> "The passage of the Civil Rights Act was a signpost that America demonstrated she is more committed to the idea of equality under the law than any point since the Declaration of Independence. But, unfortunately, black leaders often fail to give our nation the credit it's due," added Project 21's Cooper. "It was quite a galvanizing act when the nation came together to ensure the commitment that all Americans would be equal under the law was secured. Unfortunately, instead of stepping out and embracing the reality of Dr. Martin Luther King's dream of a colorblind society open to all Americans of good will, too many continue to focus on injustices of the past."<br /><br /> "It's been five decades since the Civil Rights Act was signed. It's a time for us to reflect upon the sacrifices made so that equality and freedom can be shared with all men," said Project 21's<a href="http://trk.cp20.com/Tracking/t.c?6u9oc-e31bk-sbsv989&_v=2" target="_blank">Demetrius Minor</a>, a youth minister and former White House intern. "It's a mix of the heroism of individuals such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, who gave us the boldness and courage to fulfill our dreams, and a bipartisan coalition in Congress who codified their crusade into law. While there is obviously more work necessary to further the cause of civil rights, it remains largely at the personal level and not with society as a whole. It is with a grateful heart that I salute the heritage of the past that made my successes in life possible today."<br /><br /> In 2014, Project 21 members have already been interviewed or cited by the media over 800 times -- including TVOne, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fox News Channel, Westwood One, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, SiriusXM satellite radio and 50,000-watt talk radio stations such as WBZ-Boston and KDKA-Pittsburgh -- on issues that include civil rights, entitlement programs, the economy, race preferences, education and corporate social responsibility. Project 21 has participated in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race preferences and voting rights and defended voter ID laws at the United Nations. Its volunteer members come from all walks of life and are not salaried political professionals. <br /><br /></font></font> <em><strong><font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000" size="3">Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over two decades, is sponsored by the <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/Tracking/t.c?6u9oc-e31bl-sbsv980&_v=2" target="_blank">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>, a conservative, free-market, non-profit think-tank established in 1982. <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/Tracking/t.c?6u9oc-e31bm-sbsv981&_v=2" name="Contributions" target="_blank" id="Contributions">Contributions</a></font></font><font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000" size="3"> to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated</font></font> <font face="Verdana"><font color="#000000" size="3">.</font></font></strong></em></p>
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<p></p></div>Symmetrical Analysis in the Time of Myopia: Seeing the New Colonialism; Seeing Genealogies of the Triangle Slave Trade; Seeing Ghostshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/symmetrical-analysis-in-the2009-03-30T02:00:00.000Z2009-03-30T02:00:00.000ZRayfield A. Wallerhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/RayfieldAWaller<div><p style="text-align:left;"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507674,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="468" height="368" /></p><i>“The truth is, in the country of the blind, The one-eyed man is considered to be crazy as hell.”</i><b>--Robin Palmer, Ex Officio, The Weather Underground</b><i>"The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."</i><b>-- Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein</b><i>"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others."</i><b>--Frederick Douglass, his address on West Indian Emancipation (1857)</b><b>1. Preface</b>What is this 'Symmetrical Analysis' I speak of? It is the will toward seeing social, political, economic, and historical issues and reality not in isolation from one another. Thus, it is the act of refusing to accept the popular, media moderated practice of judging our reality and our freedom as any single sort of EFFECT; rather, our reality and freedom are the result of a collection of ALL of these material components. What is economic is political, and what is political has social ramifications. What exists must have its roots in history. Nothing makes sense unless all of these components are considered.Yes, thinking requires effort. It is a form of labor. It is a form, in fact, of STRUGGLE. As Frederick Douglass warned us about struggle, it is a thing we must engage in, and must do so despite fear and pain and even death, for it is a necessary process if we are to preserve our freedom. Freedom, as has been lately observed with great alacrity, "Is a conversation by free men about being free."<b>2. Thugs Я Us: To Overturn the Nation State</b>The thugs (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Pentagon Advisor Richard Perle, Honorary Thug Bill Kristol, Gunga Din-Sambo Ahmed Chalabi, Honorary White Man Condoleeza Rice, John Ashcroft, Sad Sack Colin Powell, etc.) who had for eight years worked steadily at destroying our democracy, our Constitution, and our precious civil rights, have gone into eclipse following the election of President Obama.But mark me well: their eclipse, like the eclipse of the moon, parallels any other celestial eclipse in that the thing eclipsed has not truly departed; it is merely now invisible, out of range, lacking its former luminescence and influence. Things in eclipse by astronomical definition always return sooner or later.Let it not be forgoten that independent journalist, Doug Thompson, broke the story back in 2005 that Bush had openly expressed contempt for the Constitution in an oval office meeting attended by several congressional leaders, including conservative congressman Bob Barr, who, incidentally, veered far to the left of the Bush administration in 2005, becoming a vehement spokesman for civil liberties and a steadfast critic of Bush; could the events of that meeting as recounted by Thompson, have influenced Barr to recognize how the Republican adminstration was a chief enemy of human freedom and individual rights?(see <a href="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml">http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml</a> to read Thompson's article in full).Thompson reported :<i>...Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell-shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court."I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.""Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.""Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"I've talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution "a goddamned piece of paper."</i>--Doug Thompson, "Bush on the Constitution"....The ever present danger of these beasts returning (in the case of Rumsfeld and Cheney, for instance, any future return will be their fourth time taking a run at destroying America: both men served in the Nixon, Reagan, and in the Bush I administrations in various positions and in various advisory capacities) means that our individual freedom, as guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, and extending all the way back into English Common Law and the Magna Carta itself (remember: Bush Jr. actually overturned the writ of Habeas Corpus not only in its expression in our Constitution but had, through the Patriot Act, attacked the very roots of discovery, evidentiary justice, and rights of the accused as set forth in the Magana Carta signed by English King John in 1215!) was and still is, in its weakned state, in danger of dying in our lifetimes.We had best keep Obama's feet to the flame.So what exactly ARE these rights expressed as 'individual freedom'? The evolution of the nation-state between 1200 and 1600 AD was undeniably a causal factor in the birth of individual freedom under the law, freedom being exactly what is being largely lost in present-day America after what can best be understood as a 911 provoked regime change that took place here in the United States.Individual freedom as a function of the rise of the nation-state is generally and almost universally understood as being comprised of most or all of these civil and human entitlements:1. Freedom to speak one's mind and conscience, in an orderly fashion in public, in written form, and in the presence of power witout fear of reprisal or censorship.2. Freedom to associate with whomever one chooses.3. Freedom to assemble in public, in orderly fashion, for the purposes of expression, recreation, celebration, protest, civil disobedience, or asociation.<b>below: 700 year old draft of the Magna Cartasold at auction by Southeby's in 2007, purchasedby a trustee of <i>The Carlyle Group</i></b><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507704,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="299" height="600" style="float:left;" />4. Freedom from wanton, random, or gratuitous coercion at the hands of The State, of economic powers, or of a ruling class.5. Freedom from taxation without legitimate representation and amedment.6. Freedom of religious belief. and of worship and ascription as well as orderly professment.7. Freedom from religion (protection from religious coercion, dogma, or organized powers)8. Freedom from prosecution without trial by jury.9. Freedom from indictment or prosecution without writ of habeas corpus.10. Freedom from group condemnation or persecution, coercion and condemnation by association.11. Equal protection under the law, and equal possession of each of the rights elaborated herein, regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, political persuasion, religious association, gender, sexual orientation, physical appearance, challenge, or empairment, or genomic or phenotypic genetic heritage or profile.12. Freedom to own property and to enjoy safety and protection from persecution or coercion based soley upon economic profile or economic viability and identity.13. Freedom from torture, from cruel and unusual punishment, and from physical threat by The State.14. Freedom from the penalty of death.15. Freedom from arbitrary or systemically entrenched poverty and want (the right to full employment at a living wage).16. Freedom to organize unions of common cause, employment, and professional advocacy.17. Freedom of artistic and intellectual expression, and freedom to invoke intellectual property rights.18. Freedom to control, direct, and manage the fate, processes, and development of ones body (freedom of choice, freedom from sexual coercion, abortion rights, the right to euthansia, and to consumption of all legal substances and mood altering or pharmecuetical agents).<b>below: Original Copy of the US Constitution<i>The National Archives</i>, Washington, DC</b><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507691,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="384" height="450" style="float:left;" />19. Freedom from forced conscription without legitimate representation and random lottery.20. Freedom to declare conscientious objection to conscription.Though these twenty points are not exhaustive, they are all mentioned, alluded to, or represented in various constitutions and declarations globally, throughtout the western democracies, and within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the South Afrikan Constitution--two of the most recent and most humane examples of modernist expressions of civil and human rights.These points presuppose that civil rights are merely an extension of human rights, that human rights are rights by birth and without national or international limitation, and that consequently, these rights <i>are neither bestowed upon individuals by nation-states, nor can they be arbitrarily rescinded by nation-states</i>. The freedom of individual rights, however, are generally understood by historians, social analysts and critics, and by social activists, as being the result, in the west that is, of the rise of nation-states during the period of the waning of monarchy, in the 14th-16th centuries.This liberal, modernist conception of individual freedom is indeed in the process of being razed in the United States, as well as in many other of the Western democracies, which are poised to fall like dominoes to the designs of America’s current ruling cadre of corporate brigands and thugs (i.e., the Exxon/Haliburton/Carlyle-Group/Blackwater/Kellogg, Brown, and Root tribe). The ‘brigands’ who used 911 as a pretext to begin a process of reanimating feudalism, slavery, and essentialist notions of race, had also begun a process of erasing the very notion of social justice predicated upon principles of intrinsic human and individual rights. This particular brigandage began as a small but feral cabal of right wing ideologues and administrators who’ve done Ronald Reagan’s dream of eliminating the nation-state one better by launching a rhetorical coup to seize the means of ideological, social, political, and finally economic production in the U.S. I say that the timing of the Wall Street economic collapse was no coincidence: it corresponded with the growing certainty last Fall that Barak Obama was destined to become the next president.<img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507629,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="533" height="800" style="float:right;" />This process of ideological, socio-political, and economic unraveling was obviously conceived by American corporate thugs, as always, to be carried out in those very stages (ideological, social, political, and economic) and is was being executed by the Bushistos in that prescribed order. Such was the order of operations for earlier authoritarian thugs, e.g., the German National Socialists in Deutschland; the right wing of the Peronist power bloc in Argentina; Tito in Yugoslavia; Radovan Karadžić in former Yugoslavia/Bosnia-Hercegovina/Republika Srpska; the Francoists in Spain; and the Batista regime in Cuba. All these regimes followed or employed to various effect the methods of anti-Statism in their climb to and maintenance of authoritarian power.Both Naomi Wolf’s “Ten Steps to Fascism” from her text, The End of America, and Professor Theodore M. Vestal’s writings on the characteristics of authoritarianism in several texts including his "Ethiopia: A Post-Cold War African State", discuss the various incremental changes in consciousness, in popular discourse, and in political institutions and social and public policy that inexorably shift modern populations away from social democracy (or even away from socialism in the case of Weimar Germany) and toward authoritarianism/fascism.Among these incremental paradigm shifts is the establishment of what Professor Vestal calls ‘pervasive bureaucracy staffed by the regime, and what he calls the ‘creation of allegiance through various means of socialization’. Bushistos had heavily stacked formerly democratic, public policy bureaucracies with Republican/corporate shills while arbitrarily funding and empowering a huge new authoritarian bureaucracy (known as the Office of Homeland Security). They meanwhile had established a bogus, propaganda apparatus known as ‘Fox News’ in order to re-socialize the American mind, while compromising public education via the privatizing of schools, the imposition an anti-pedagogical testing regime to replace liberal curricula. They had meanwhile blanketed the mass media with right wing ‘noise’ (see "The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy", by former Bushido turned critic of Bush, David Brock). For her part, Wolf, in her “ten steps” ominously warns against the establishment of ‘a thug class’ (step #3), which of course, had been fulfilled by the Bushisto/corporate palace guard known as Blackwater Corporation, a mercenary army and corporation CEO’d/commanded by Bush family lackey, Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater right here in Michigan, my home state.It bears mentioning, in fact, that Prince’s pedigree as candidate for Bush thugmeister reaches back to his little known tour as an intern in the Bush Sr. White House in 1992. His company, which he founded in 1997, is one of the chief war profiteering corporations to benefit from the U.S. Iraq occupation (as editorials and reportage in The Arab American News have pointed out, it is indeed an illegal occupation, not a ‘war’).The upshot was the determined, and to a startling degree successful creation, by authoritarians, of a society-wide form of cognitive dementia in conjunction with a systematic diminution of the effectiveness or of the very purpose of democratic institutions, democratic government apparatuses, and the compromising and even overturning of the very means by which democracy is achieved: that is, the destruction of popular elections and of the electoral process.Specifically, in order to eliminate the bases of civil society in its praxis of human and individual rights, to eliminate democracy, and to eliminate electoral values, it is first necessary to eliminate the collective expectation of these things in our minds. Having achieved this psychic excision, the next tactic was to eliminate its accoutrements. The coup was bloodless (if you don’t count the deaths during 911, in Najif, in Abu Ghraib, at Guantanamo, etc.)<b>3. New Colonialism: Race and the Slave Trade She Rode (back) In On</b>William Kristol, Newt Gingrich, Donald Rumsfeld, Gary Schmitt, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Trent Lott, et al., as well as corporate funders (DeVos and Prince) and think tanks such as The Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, the Scaife Foundation and The New Citizenship Project, have all waged this coup in order to recondition collective consciousness.Historians like Richard Bean typically understand ‘nation-states’ (i.e. Bean’s essay, "War and the Birth of the Nation-State", from Journal of Economic History, Vol. 33, #1, March, 1973) as entities that have organized the forces of western ‘civilization’. By his definition statism distinctly positions itself against, or after, feudalism and monarchism proper. It nurtured ‘civilization’ and its accoutrements: egalitarianism, humanism, early mercantilist energies, post-Athenian/Post-Periclesian democracy, collective administration, and individual/minority rights. Statism literally gave succor in Central Europe to the post-Romanesque notion of individual freedom and individual rights.This is so even while Statism admittedly was a force for repression of ethnic difference, local autonomy, and pluralism i.e., the 19th century Italian phenomenon of 'Il Risorgimento'. It must be admitted that the Risorgimento though it generally involved the birth of nationalist sentiments that drove out Austrian, Napoleonic, and Habsburgean foreign rule in Italy, particularly in the Italian-speaking northeast, nevertheless was a movement that contained and crushed dissent from annexed states and among defiant regionalist movements. Secessionists, particularly the Sicilians, protested and revolted against the centralized, authoritarian Italian state, and late 19th century resistance to Statism was particularly strong among the southern peasants who refused to accept the Risorgimento government. It goes without saying that certain Spanish, Arabic, and Greater Metropolitan African elements within the southern population continued to see areas such as Sicily, Messina, and Corsica as distinct, independent entities. The savage repression of regional autonomy and difference across the Italian peninsula was part and parcel of Italian evolution toward statism.Still, statism across Europe in toto, created a social milieu in which social cruelties and barbarisms (such as slavery) could no longer be transparent, but became opaque. Unlike the milieu of ancient Rome, of ancient Carthage, or ancient Persia and Egypt/Kemet, the new milieu and age that followed the 13th century forced signing by King John of the Magna Carta and that included the 18th century rationalism and empiricism of the enlightenment and Renaissance (both of African origin, say many historians such as Cheikh Anta Diop and Martin Bernal) was one in which slavery needed a new justification since it arose out of a new impetus.Certainly, even the archaic and antique periods of Europe, followed by the classical period and then the dark ages, all featured African influence, but the unique aspect of the African and Asian influences of the enlightenment itself was the drive toward democracy (first in Greece, then in Rome, and later in France and the Americas) that this particular period (from AD 1400-1800) entailed slavery was both a continued barbarism in Europe even after the enlightenment, a peculiarly altered practice because of the enlightenment and the statism that accompanied it (since slavery became a more mechanistic, corporate practice, as well as an aberrant practice whose days were necessarily numbered due to the very mercantilist and statist forces--under waning monarchism and feudalism--that drove the slave trade through those forces’ support of the slave trade).The classical period had been one in which slavery had three clear and widely acknowledged justifications:1. Slavery was a result of war—a form of pillage (a defeated enemy was understood to be subject to a portion of the defeated population being taken as slaves).2. Slavery was a result of fiat—the will of a king (those subject to the monarchist rule of a king, emperor, or a Caesar, were understood to be subject to the whim of that ruler, who could declare one to be enslaved, or remove one’s freedom to the point of virtual slavery).3. Slavery was the result of a debt—an indenture of indefinite length (a debtor might be subject to policy, procedure, or law, all of which might decree that his freedom be forfeited for a limited term of service, or for any term up life, in compensation for a debt).By contrast to these acknowledged justifications for enslavement, the advent of the Transatlantic, Triangular Slave Trade was a break with all known standards of behavior, and this paradigm shift required a justification. Race became that justification. The invention then, of the ideology of ‘Race’ (and of ‘white’ supremacy), is contemporaneous with the creation of corporations and the rise of a global slave trade organized not by kings, not by states, and not by generals, but by corporations.The global slave trade was unique in that it was highly systematized, mechanistic (in the sense that it established interlocking and complex patterns, policies and procedures commercial in nature that could create repetition of expenditure, storage, processing of ‘goods’, sales, and profits in a pattern meant to operate into perpetuity), and purely commercial in nature, with operations motivated and enabled through investment and strict profit margins. It was an immense, global, and nearly unprecedented mass relocation of millions of Africans, not after conquest in war, not through fiat, and not for repayment of a debt, but for no other reason than gross profit of the type that came into being after mercantilism and the birth of corporations.To justify such mass theft not only of human labor but also of natural resources (such theft eventually becoming the project of global colonialism through which Europe ravaged Africa and Asia) necessitated the invention of a mythology of the sub humanity of Africans.This was in direct contrast to the previous, classical conceptions of ethnicity and nationality (as opposed to ‘race’) which were the conceptions by which nations identified themselves and identified other nations. An Egyptian in ancient Rome was understood to be a resident of the nation of Egypt, while a Roman was understood to be a resident of Rome, or a descendant of a certain ethnic community native to Italy. Likewise, an Ossian, or German, or Greek, or Numidian, or Nubian would be understood as a member of those associated nations, tribes, or communities. The notion of ‘race’ per se, as we now understand it, did not exist, and so then neither did racism.Racism, like brigandage, rape, war, monarchist cruelty, unrestrained pillage, or order by the whim of warlords, was essentially mitigated by the rise of the nation-state, and thus, at the behest particularly of corporations, race became a justification for the establishment of an exception to the growing protection of individual and collective justice that nation states tended to exert.We habitually assert such claims about the beneficent potential of nation-states, notwithstanding legitimate anarchist critiques of statism. Nations, every bit as readily as monarchies, possess the strong potential, and even the tendency, to inflict war, oppression, plunder, and abuse upon other states, and even upon their own citizens. Yet, the undeniable history of the rise of the nation-state between 1200 and 1600 verifies the concordant, even resultant rise of the forces of egalitarianism, law, social constraints upon brigandage, and cultural freedom.There was, however, an inevitability to the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, given the reality of the pure profit motive adopted by the nascent and the early corporations. The creation of the modern concept of ‘racism’ was rooted in the advent of the corporation. The formation and ‘chartering’ of the Stora Kopparbërg in Sweden (AD 1347), of the Dutch East India Corporation (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie ) in The Netherlands (AD 1602), the and the granting by the British Crown of a monopoly to the British East India Corporation (AD 1600) commenced the history of corporate profit motive that led to the spread of the corporate model, the invention of the trust company and of limited partnerships in the 19th century, corporate fascism in the 20th century, and the current 21st century model of the multinational hegemonic corporations, such as Blackwater, and without borders or national identity (the incorporeal corporation).<b>4. Seeing The New Colonialism</b>Donald Rumsfeld’s presumptive Jewish identity notwithstanding, he was, in 2003, the Bush administration’s herald of New Fascism and of New Colonialism. During a series of rambling, psychically dizzying press briefings throughout the latter nine months of 2003 (the invasion of Iraq had commenced on March 20th, 2003) Rumsfeld introduced to a pacified White House Press Corps the theory and battlefield practice of ‘The Rumsfeld Doctrine’; a post modern rejection of heavy, tank-style attacks in favor of lighter armor, more rapid, more effective, fast moving columns carrying scant numbers of troops deep into enemy territory for the purpose of surveilling enemy positions in order to call in massive air strikes and then move on, eschewing secure bivouacs or fortress-like entrenchment.Rumsfeld’s preening, neologistic, nonsense ridden diatribes in these press conferences (“There are known knowns…there are known unknowns…but there are also unknown unknowns: there are things we do not know we don’t know.”) marked a launch point for the only recently overturned (if we can actually trust that Obama's election overturned it), ongoing U.S. project of New Fascism.Step one in this process, a process we are currently living through, was the re-introduction of Old World Colonialism (post-post Colonialism, if you wish, or Neo-Colonialism, or, as I prefer to call it, ‘New Colonialism’, for it hardly matters by what name we call the rose; it would stink as much).Step two had proven itself to be the systematic desensitization of the U.S. population to the debasing of human rights, the founding of a pugnacious foreign policy based upon endless war, the founding of a torture state, and the destruction from within of democratic institutions.<img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507758,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="470" height="368" style="float:right;" />Step three, it seems clear, would have been the imposition of massive social, economic, and political collapse, necessitating the impositio, presumably, of military rule, of a police state, and of society-wide surveillance and suspension of individual freedom.A question to haunt us: has step three been averted thanks to Obama? And if so, for how long? Eight years is the legal extent of his presence in the White House. Without vigorous and harsh prosecutions and punishment meted out to the war criminals and thugs who hyjacked our democracy for eight years, will those now in eclipse return to finish their work?Only time will tell.</div>