28-06-2013, 12:18 PM
Not having the eloquence that you show so often.....I do what I can.
Astute this:
"Let's see how long that lasts. For I am an imperfect human being. I cannot claim the right to be thought of as a satyagrahi. Far from it. My blood still boils, my fists still clench, and my righteous indignation still prompts me to savage verbally not only the enemy, but even some well-meaning individuals who, through their arrogance and/or ignorance, cloud all-important issues relating to our shared quests for truth and justice for John Fitzgerald Kennedy and for the millions collaterally damaged by his assassins.
Listen to me. I'm still at it. "Arrogance ... ignorance ... "
Physician, heal thyself."
Sure I still feel the wrath rise and the fists clinch. And I be guilty of this event too....
"my righteous indignation still prompts me to savage verbally not only the enemy, but even some well-meaning individuals who, through their arrogance and/or ignorance, cloud all-important issues relating to our shared quests for truth and justice for John Fitzgerald Kennedy and for the millions collaterally damaged by his assassins."
If I didn't care I suppose I wouldn't know the angst that leads to the above reaction. No excuse.
To be receptive to Satygraha, I find it better to shed the anger. Akin to antimatter and matter. Just my own observation of myself and most folks I know.
Anyway I know the Confuseum has no effective weapon against Satygraha. The whole vast Empire has no answer to Satygraha. It only knows force and fascist reactions to Satygraha.
I have a poor feeling about the Empire's reaction to the people's gathering at the Knoll @ 12:30 the 22nd.
Dammit, the People - WeThePeople already proved once that there is no means to oppose Satygraha by force.
The Empire's weapons for "crowd control" are changed, Satygraha has not. Oppression and Active Repression didn't work in the past, it only delayed the confrontation between People and Empire.
Kent and Jackson State state sponsored murder as well as "rioters" killed in confrontations across the nation didn't stop change.
Opposition to the War didn't stop, demands for inner city improvement and reversing social wrongs didn't stop.
Even the active assassinations of Black Panthers did not pour oil on the troubled waters.
All these things flew in opposition to Satygraha but couldn't stop it. Events of repression only escalated the level of confrontation on both sides.
The first time I heard of the Panthers was Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver arming the repressed folks of Oakland and taking films of the police in action in their own neighborhood. And then I learned of breakfast programs for the poor people of all colors.
But the Empire decided the leaders had to die. Too much self preservation and Satygraha in that group to allow it to go on growing.
The fear of the Empire for it's own people is far reaching and on-going.
I do also have some fear of the evil violence of the Empire. I cannot the second time around the confrontation games allow any Pig to strike me with his "equipment". So Martin's non-violence I fall short of and thereby limit Satygraha in my own life.
I hope there is never another public insurrection today, but the signs are that the Empire prepares for another time of pain for this nation.
However, this is NOT my first rodeo. I've seen and lived both sides of confrontation.
Example One: My company at Camp Pendleton was ordered to guard the San Clemente estate of RMNixon before he resigned the same summer.
Do not be fooled into thinking active duty troops will not or cannot be deployed tactically against WeThePeople. The ammo was in the back of the 6 X 6 - 2 1/2 ton trucks we drove to the perimeter. Many hundreds of rounds for our 7.62 M60s left in the truck with the M-60s themselves with more hundreds of 5.56 rounds for the Matty Mattel junk M-16A1s in our hands unloaded.
Thanks God no confrontation beyond yelling came of it.
My internal feelings were sympathy for the protests. I wanted to see RMNixon in federal prison with his compadres too.
But my duty if I must would have been duty not choice. The mob would have been stopped if they threatened the Gyrenes and the "Pacific White House".
I know the lie of the National Guard trying to tell me they were afraid of demonstrators armed with rocks.
In an unarmed environment if I carry an M1 Garand as the Ohio Guard did, I would fear nothing from the unarmed.
Example Two:
Satygraha can be FUN as ALL get out too.
In 1996 as a punk right wing (GOP) fascist was running for reelection to the US House,
he pushed the reduction of the minimum wage law to garner Corporate and wealthy fascists' donations to his campaign I suppose.
A group of activists (peaceful ones) got a broom and played limbo in the hall outside his campaign office on a day when he was in his home district.
Our chant was "How Low Can You Go?"
A public hallway in a public building.
The fascist candidate was pissed,
and yes we left after we made our point and some paper reporters/photographers arrived for documentation.
We left when told we had to or be "detained" if we stayed.
The BPD were quite civil and openly laughing at our guerrilla theater (thanks for the template Abby). It worked well.
Many laughs were gained the point was made and exposed in the newspaper. The punk was reelected but did not carry the votes in our precincts where the exposure was published.
The Elite as far as I have seen have no reaction to confrontation with Satygraha except hatred and wished for violence against the "protestors".
The fascists above actually thought the BPD was automatically going to beat the "disruptors" and evict by violence the people when no violence was required.
We laughed at the fascists and the police laughed at the fascists too.
That moment was worth the efforts.
Satygraha is its' own reward.
Astute this:
"Let's see how long that lasts. For I am an imperfect human being. I cannot claim the right to be thought of as a satyagrahi. Far from it. My blood still boils, my fists still clench, and my righteous indignation still prompts me to savage verbally not only the enemy, but even some well-meaning individuals who, through their arrogance and/or ignorance, cloud all-important issues relating to our shared quests for truth and justice for John Fitzgerald Kennedy and for the millions collaterally damaged by his assassins.
Listen to me. I'm still at it. "Arrogance ... ignorance ... "
Physician, heal thyself."
Sure I still feel the wrath rise and the fists clinch. And I be guilty of this event too....
"my righteous indignation still prompts me to savage verbally not only the enemy, but even some well-meaning individuals who, through their arrogance and/or ignorance, cloud all-important issues relating to our shared quests for truth and justice for John Fitzgerald Kennedy and for the millions collaterally damaged by his assassins."
If I didn't care I suppose I wouldn't know the angst that leads to the above reaction. No excuse.
To be receptive to Satygraha, I find it better to shed the anger. Akin to antimatter and matter. Just my own observation of myself and most folks I know.
Anyway I know the Confuseum has no effective weapon against Satygraha. The whole vast Empire has no answer to Satygraha. It only knows force and fascist reactions to Satygraha.
I have a poor feeling about the Empire's reaction to the people's gathering at the Knoll @ 12:30 the 22nd.
Dammit, the People - WeThePeople already proved once that there is no means to oppose Satygraha by force.
The Empire's weapons for "crowd control" are changed, Satygraha has not. Oppression and Active Repression didn't work in the past, it only delayed the confrontation between People and Empire.
Kent and Jackson State state sponsored murder as well as "rioters" killed in confrontations across the nation didn't stop change.
Opposition to the War didn't stop, demands for inner city improvement and reversing social wrongs didn't stop.
Even the active assassinations of Black Panthers did not pour oil on the troubled waters.
All these things flew in opposition to Satygraha but couldn't stop it. Events of repression only escalated the level of confrontation on both sides.
The first time I heard of the Panthers was Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver arming the repressed folks of Oakland and taking films of the police in action in their own neighborhood. And then I learned of breakfast programs for the poor people of all colors.
But the Empire decided the leaders had to die. Too much self preservation and Satygraha in that group to allow it to go on growing.
The fear of the Empire for it's own people is far reaching and on-going.
I do also have some fear of the evil violence of the Empire. I cannot the second time around the confrontation games allow any Pig to strike me with his "equipment". So Martin's non-violence I fall short of and thereby limit Satygraha in my own life.
I hope there is never another public insurrection today, but the signs are that the Empire prepares for another time of pain for this nation.
However, this is NOT my first rodeo. I've seen and lived both sides of confrontation.
Example One: My company at Camp Pendleton was ordered to guard the San Clemente estate of RMNixon before he resigned the same summer.
Do not be fooled into thinking active duty troops will not or cannot be deployed tactically against WeThePeople. The ammo was in the back of the 6 X 6 - 2 1/2 ton trucks we drove to the perimeter. Many hundreds of rounds for our 7.62 M60s left in the truck with the M-60s themselves with more hundreds of 5.56 rounds for the Matty Mattel junk M-16A1s in our hands unloaded.
Thanks God no confrontation beyond yelling came of it.
My internal feelings were sympathy for the protests. I wanted to see RMNixon in federal prison with his compadres too.
But my duty if I must would have been duty not choice. The mob would have been stopped if they threatened the Gyrenes and the "Pacific White House".
I know the lie of the National Guard trying to tell me they were afraid of demonstrators armed with rocks.
In an unarmed environment if I carry an M1 Garand as the Ohio Guard did, I would fear nothing from the unarmed.
Example Two:
Satygraha can be FUN as ALL get out too.
In 1996 as a punk right wing (GOP) fascist was running for reelection to the US House,
he pushed the reduction of the minimum wage law to garner Corporate and wealthy fascists' donations to his campaign I suppose.
A group of activists (peaceful ones) got a broom and played limbo in the hall outside his campaign office on a day when he was in his home district.
Our chant was "How Low Can You Go?"
A public hallway in a public building.
The fascist candidate was pissed,
and yes we left after we made our point and some paper reporters/photographers arrived for documentation.
We left when told we had to or be "detained" if we stayed.
The BPD were quite civil and openly laughing at our guerrilla theater (thanks for the template Abby). It worked well.
Many laughs were gained the point was made and exposed in the newspaper. The punk was reelected but did not carry the votes in our precincts where the exposure was published.
The Elite as far as I have seen have no reaction to confrontation with Satygraha except hatred and wished for violence against the "protestors".
The fascists above actually thought the BPD was automatically going to beat the "disruptors" and evict by violence the people when no violence was required.
We laughed at the fascists and the police laughed at the fascists too.
That moment was worth the efforts.
Satygraha is its' own reward.
Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON