this day in history

i'm just making some general observations here while i'm waiting for a neighbor from the north to give me shelter from the storm. a basic premise i've recently become fond of is that "all that lives was born. all that was born will die. and although i am now aware of that which was before birth and that which is after death i am compelled to observe that we all share this lifetime together thus presenting the unavoidable conclusion that we're all in "this lifetime" together". we have the capability to make this a better place and this very moment provides us with an opportunity to create a better world.

Yet the madness of men that respond to violence with more violence leaves me perpetually perplexed by the failure of man to find that path which will lead man to getting along with his fellow man and this planet which we share in order to leave this planet with less suffering for all the forms of life that follow.

as this is my first post, my first step into the stream of consciousness on this journey in search of a more peaceful world - yova's world - the new way of life required by the one in which we now live - created by an act of individual rebellion against this diseased corporate state ruled by an ideology wreaking of fascism and social injustice in which the few profit by the suffering of the many while the stench of death and destruction is everywhere.

surfing the www searching for any site that mentions on this day, december 9, 2000, the supreme court issued a stay of the florida state supreme court's decision to recount the vote of it's citizens. so much for state's rights and by definition individual rights. three days later it would issue the bush v gore decision which legitimized the violation of that social contract between man and government when it decided that the governed no longer had a right to exercise their consent.

a majority of our supreme court, the interpreters of our constitution, cited the 14th amendment as justification for the abuse of power to follow, a story in itself. "...nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". a civil war amendment passed in 1866 to protect people of color and other minorities was now being used to give legitimacy to the notion that one white man of privilege had more value than over a million people of color and other minorities who were denied the right to give their consent to be governed.


indeed in the chief justice's decision he postulated that indeed "no such right to vote" is contained in the constitution. but then again his experience in suppressing the black vote in arizona years ago without being held responsible or accountable permitted him to perpetuate the crime years later. and now that same chief justice suffers from thoracic cancer. reminds me of a line in a woody allen movie in which allen's character says "rationalization" is more important than "sex" because you can go a day with sex but not without "rationalization". i can imagine all sorts of rationalizations created to support an act of treason but i wonder what rationalization this mediocre legal scholar can now create when facing the end of his suffering. is it possible that this man is ignorant of the suffering he created? if he is i suggest we offer our deepest compassion for he is soon to experience the effects of that suffering which his codified opinions caused. such a request doesn't mean i'm a saint - for i hope the chief justice lives a long time.

and yet "we the people" are just as responible. where was our outrage the day democracy died? less than 20 members of the house of representatives challenged that fraudulent election. not one senator from either party supported that challenge. the naacp settled out of court rather than fight. the nra didn't fire a shot in defense. the press exercised it's freedom by creating legitimacy where none existed and three years later reports about the alleged fraudulent elections in the ukraine while ignoring the ones here at home. and the justice department has yet to investigate the crime scene of 2000 in florida which has now been replaced by the crime scene of 2004 in ohio.

while things may have changed since 9/11, it was this day in history, december 9, 2004 which preceded that tragedy for it was four years ago today when we first saw the faces of those who really hated our freedoms. that apparently 59 million americans have forgotten presents the frightening possibility that indeed the terrorists have won.