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Bankers and Ministers are the Same

Bankers, priests, and ministers are fundamentally the same.  Both have something that you think you need.  One has money the other has forgiveness.

They both use the same mechanism to decide your outcome.  Whether you deserve it or not.  If the banker doesn't think you will pay it back, you don't get it.  If the clergy person doesn't think you are sorry for your sins, you don't get it, forgiveness.

In both cases, you have to ask and grovel, and in both cases, they can say no.  They both come off like what they are giving you belongs to them.  Like they are giving you their own money.  The money belongs to the depositors you dumb ass.  The forgiveness is from God you dumb ass.

It's no accident that banks and churches are always the largest structures in a town.  Even in small towns, the banks and churches dominate.  The only exception is if you live in a state capital or the nation's capital, then the lawmaking structures dominate.  That's no accident either.  We hold laws as *sacred just as we hold money and God as *sacred.  We believe that without laws everything would be chaos, so we hold laws *sacred.  That's why those who peddle god and those how peddle money make sure laws work in their favor.  And when you look back, sure enough, that's the case.  Religion has a whole set of favorable laws that exempt it from paying taxes like the rest of us, and big business also has a whole set of laws that make it easier for them.  They know that to operate the way they want unimpeded is to simply get a law passed.  That's why they lobby like crazy.  Churches don't have to lobby anymore.  Thier favorable laws have been on the books forever.

As a nation, we generally try to obey most laws, except the stupid ones.  Like smoking weed.  Look how long it has taken marijuana to become legal.  But no one gave a fuck about that law,  because it was stupid.  We smoked anyway.

Here's an example that shows just how powerful laws are.  One day you can drink alcohol, the next day you can't.  This happened by merely passing a law.  Once that law was in place all of law enforcement, notice the name, law Enforcement, mobilized to enforce it.  That's their job to enforce whatever laws are in place, no matter how stupid they are.

So for the next 13 years, making sure people were not making or drinking alcohol was the most important thing in America.  **And law enforcement went batshit crazy trying to accomplish it. And speaking of churches, we can blame them for all that stupid nonsense.  They lobbied the government for prohibition.  Just how arrogant can you be to think you have the right to change the behavior of every single American in this country.  

While all of law enforcement was spinning their wheels combatting the scourge of alcohol consumption, Wall Street was busy creating a stock market speculation feeding frenzy that culminated in the 1929 stock market crash.  

It sent the entire country into the crapper.  Maybe if all of law enforcement wasn't so preoccupied with combatting the scourge of alcohol consumption they might have had some resources left to take a good look at all of those fat fucks on wall street.  But that would never happen because all the fat fucks on wall street had already made sure all the necessary laws were in place so they could fleece the country legally.

We can thank the churches for helping create organized crime because it was born during prohibition.  Thank you arrogant fucks.

Here's some interesting math for you.  The amount of power that you yield is directly proportional to the level of fat fuck arrogant prick that you become.  And speaking of alcohol, power is a very intoxicating elixir.  For most people, it's too much.

And that's why by no fault of their own, sort of, most people at the top of big business, government, and church are arrogant fat fucks.  They just can't lay off the metaphorical booze.  It's just too hard.

So what did we learn today boys and girls?  We learned that if you pass the right law, and without you lifting a finger you can get the entire law enforcement machine that covers every facet of life in this country to do your bidding.  And if you pass the right laws you can do nasty shit, and no one can stop you.

*If you don't like the word sacred substitute the words "very important".  But if you do, I can tell you, you're not going to get this blog post.

**If you were rich you could still drink without any problems what so ever.

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I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday if you fight my war today.

The 1% in power declare all wars.

The rank and file not in power fight and die in them.

Send the 1% in power to fight the war and war would be no more.

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The Big Black Elephant in the Room

There is a big Black Elephant in the room, and no one knows how to deal with it.

Why is this black elephant in the room?  It is because of the time in history that we are in right now.  It has been created by our past, from the very beginning to the present moment.  It is not our perceived history or necessarily what is written down.  It's the actual events; placed one upon another, then another, then another, to the present.  It is everything that has taken place.  Not what we wish had taken place but what actually took place.

This Black Elephant is not something that you can see with your eyes.  It's something that you feel, something that more and more people are feeling,  something that is growing in intensity.

Quite frankly we are entering a time when more and more people are realizing the depth of the horror inflicted on the African people brought into this country.

Quite frankly we are moving into a period where more and more people are realizing the real horror of slavery and the magnitude of its devastation.  A devastation that reverberates up to the present moment,  a devastation that continues to make life difficult and painful for many people.

There is nothing that can stop this black elephant from getting bigger and bigger.  The evolution of our nation dictates that this must happen.  Countries have to face their past, one way or another.  We are not alone.  Germany and Japan will one day face the horrors of World War II.  It's just a matter of time.

I want to point out before I move on that I'm not talking about this awareness becoming clear in the black community.  They are aware of it and have been aware of it, from the first day they stepped foot on these shores.  They have sounded the call from day one.   They're the reason this Black Elephant is getting bigger and bigger.  

Now let's talk about The United States of America.  Here is where the discussion becomes difficult.  Our country has an actual identity and a perceived identity.  One great thing about time is the fact that given enough of it, it becomes easier to look back and see more clearly.  

You would think that armed with the evolution and wisdom of humankind in the present moment we could face the past more honestly.  And it would, in fact, be the case if we were not the United States of America.  

The problem we face in dealing with these issues in the United States is the fact that we are, "The Land of the Free" and the "Home of the Brave."  This compounds the entire problem.

Austraila has its own unique history.  It consists of great achievements and not so great achievements.  Like every country.  However, Austraila is not the home of the brave and land of the free.  In fact, Australia was founded by criminals.  I'm not belittling the country of Australia, or its people or its character.  That is not the point.  The point is they didn't create an identity for themselves that made it impossible to examine the past clearly and honestly.

My point is, after the success of the **revolutionary war we framed it as a victory for freedom.  And as a young nation, we called ourselves a country founded on freedom.  Our constitution says "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"  As a young nation, these were wonderful ideas to build on.  

I don't know about you, but from the vantage point of now, I find it difficult to imagine that our forefathers spent whatever days it took to write the Constitution and then went back home, to their slaves and didn't even blink.  I think more and more people find that hard to imagine.

After our forefathers passed on and enough time had gone by we started building monuments to their honor, and as monuments are often bigger then life, we made our forefathers bigger than life.  So now not only does our flag symbolize freedom, but all of our forefathers symbolize freedom as well.

Here is where the problem really shows itself.  If we honestly point a light at our forefathers, we run the risk of them losing their God-like qualities.  So, what do we do?  Do we change the monuments?  No, we simply realize these monuments symbolize the ideals that we as a people aspire to, but the people that governed our country then, were no less human than the people that govern our country now.

Every nation has a rallying point especially when times are difficult, a universal symbol that everyone can unite in.  Japan rallied around the Emperor for many generations and especially during World War II, to the point that the emperor was treated like a God.  The British for many generations have rallied behind King and Country.  We have rallied behind the idea of freedom, liberty, and justice.

It's important to realize all these railing points are symbolic rather than actual.  They symbolize something that everyone can get behind.  Every nation has their own.

In choosing the idea of Freedom, Liberty, and Justice, we have put ourselves in an impossible situation.  Just think how hard it is for anyone to admit they are wrong about anything.  Just think how much harder it would be if your identity is freedom, liberty, and justice.  

The foundation of our history books, especially the ones written for children, start with the idea, that we as a nation are founded on Freedom, Liberty, and Justice, and every word is filtered through that theme.  It was natural to take that approach when the country was young.  You don't burden children with what they can't handle.  But we as a nation are older now, and the very fact that the big black elephant is in the room is a clear signal that the time has come to re-evaluate our history through a more accurate filter.

Thier's a lot of anger now.  Anger that things have not changed fast enough, anger that the American dream still eludes so many people.  Anger mostly because we seem to be moving backward.  How can this be?  Moving backward is unthinkable.

There are five stages that one moves through when facing death, the first is denial, the second is anger, the third is bargaining, the fourth is depression and the last is acceptance.  You ebb and flow between the first four stages until you reach acceptance.  

When facing death these five stages are easily seen, but they apply and are equally applicable when facing anything that is unfathomable, and slavery was just that.  It was horrific and unfathomable.  

Our nation has been in denial for a long time.  Now we are in the stage of anger, and more and more people are feeling it.  We will move through every stage, and eventually, we will come to the stage of acceptance.  Acceptance of our actual history.  Acceptance of what actually took place.  Then and only then can we move forward.  

The fact that we are in the stage of anger is a good sign.  It shows that movement is taking place.  But anger, as we all know, can be a catalyst for many different outcomes.  In the state of anger, we will want to direct it and focus it on the reason for our anger.  We will naturally want to punish that reason.  We want to punish the people responsible for these horrors and the pain and suffering that continue to take place because of it.

That's why we love movies like "Django Unchained."  The end of the movie is so satisfying because we want equal payment for equal injustice.

But we can't go back and beat the shit out of all the people that were responsible for the system of slavery that was forced upon the African people brought into this country.  And when we look back in history we come to the realization, that war, slavery, inequality are a large part of human history.

So what's next?

Let's assume when our forefathers penned the Constitution, they were unknowing tapping into something deep, deep within.  An idea of freedom, an amazing idea of equality for everyone.  An idea that they were at the time able to place on paper but as their lives showed, they had no idea of the depth, and breadth of the words they had written.  

Let's assume that all humans everywhere deep within understand these same truths.

Let's not tear down the idea of Freedom, Liberty, and Justice for all, let's realize it's a magnificent and wonderful idea.  

We don't need to tare down our monuments to those that we have given the symbols of freedom too.  

But the time has come to build a monument to the people of this country who when our forefathers penned the constitution, were the only people in this country who actually understood what those words meant.  Who actually knew the depth, and breadth of those words.  Thier wounded souls and broken bodies bear the marks of the breadth and depth of the words of the constitution, and the time has come for them to be honored for it.  

Blame is behind us now, but honor is honor.  We honor all those in the military who have paid the ultimate sacrifice, and rightly so because life is precious.  Life is precious.

We need to build the biggest monument that we have ever built as a nation.  We need to put every name of every person that stepped into this country as a slave and everyone that was born into slavery and everyone that was hanged and killed as a slave.

We have no shortage of monuments that honor those who have died for the cause of freedom.  In that same spirit, the time has come to honor all those who suffered, lived and died in the cruel clutches of slavery.  They died for freedom, they died for liberty, and they died for justice.  But their voice has not been heard.  Thier voice cries out from the grave, and we as a nation will not move forward until we stop, face our past and listen.  From the moment they reached these shores they have been teaching us what freedom is, they have been teaching us what liberty is and they have been teaching us what justice is.

So as a next step, as a continuation of the momentum forged by the civil rights movement.  We need to build a big, big, monument.  A huge monument.  The time has come.

**It seems disrespectful to suggest that the revolutionary war was not a complete symbol of freedom.  The reason for that is because many people died.  Death will take any cause and raise it to the sacred.  We know that life is precious.  The death toll of the revolutionary war makes it impossible for us not to give the war a monumental purpose.

But the sacredness of death covers everything.  It's no accident that the rallying point of "Black Lives Matter" is the pointless deaths of precious lives.  It's no accident that the symbolism of the National Anthem is all those who have lost their lives in military service.