St. Patrick's Day

Geolibertarian on the prisonplanet forum made interesting points on the Occupy Wall Street movement. As I get older, I see that Henry George has a lot of accurate positions on economy issues. Even Dr. Martin Luther King read up on Henry George’s views before he was unjustly assassinated in 1968. Now, in my opinion, the vast majority of the Occupy Wall Street movement wants the best for the nation. Most of the views are admirable and I agree with the core of their agenda. Yet, some infiltrators are trying to stir the movement into some Democratic movement. This is similar to the infiltrators transforming the Tea Party movement into some Republican campaign machine. The OWS is right to desire to investigate, arrest, and try the Wall Street criminals who created the 2008 financial crisis in the first place. Yet, some of them omit that the one major reason why some Wall Street mega banks were so rich and powerful in the first place was because of fractional reserve banking. That means that private banks shouldn’t create our entire money supply as an interest bearing debt to them. We should replace the privately controlled, debt based money system with a publicly controlled, debt free money system. The repeal of the Glass Steagall Act (the provision that prohibited investment bankers from serving as officers of commercial banks) directly contributed to the financial crisis. Yet, the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble influence the recession as well. That is why we should put the derivatives-infected Wall Street mega-banks through Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the purpose of cancelling all of these glorified gambling bets, even though these bets are mathematically impossible to pay off (the derivatives bubble dwarfs not only the most liberal estimate of the U.S. money supply, but the annual productive output of the entire planet). Commercial banks shouldn’t have the power to create money out of nothing and loan it into circulation at interest. In other words, banks shouldn’t steal billions in usurious interests from the economy per year. The rich should pay their fair share of taxes. I believe that wage and income taxes should be fair and progressive. I believe incentives should be made to grow small businesses. Also, there should be a land tax, especially on the huge lands of the very rich. The 99 percent deserve tax relief, but fair taxation is real. Also, we need ballot access laws without the influences of the corporate owned Democratic and Republicans parties that can shield third party competition. The two party duopoly is strong with various laws. We should expose electronic voting machines that are very vulnerable to vote fraud. Instant runoff voting is fine too. Election reform is one great prerequisite for liberty. All wars should end. Peaceful negotiations, foreign aid, and other methods can solve conflicts. One problem with the OWS is that so many MI5, American federal agents, Democratic agents, George Soros funded groups, and undercover cops are infiltrating parts of the Occupy Movement. I oppose the military industrial complex and the Department of Homeland Security publicly for its violations of human liberties (among other reasons). With that being say, we should educate Occupy people about the real truth since again the vast majority of OWS members want to do what is right for the world. I don’t agree with the police assaulting OWS folks either via police brutality.

Poverty is real in the world. In many times of history, we tried to deal with certain aspects of poverty and not ending poverty itself. Michael Harrington’s groundbreaking book entitled, “The Other America” back in 1962 was one of the first books that many America got a glimpse into poverty. The poor have been invisible in many cases during human history. Harrington wanted to show poverty harmed human beings like inner city black people, Appalachian whites, farm workers, elderly Americans, etc. He said back then that about 25 percent of Americans lived in poverty. It confronted the comfortable people. Harrington’s major argument was that Americans should have tolerance for the poor and understand their culture, their language, and their livelihood in order for the USA to make reasonable, comprehensive solutions that can crush poverty. The poor are not monolithic in their composition. Some poor people are disorderly, but the vast majorities of poor people has great character and are hardworking surrounding their daily lives. To Harrington’s credit, he didn’t blame poverty on culture or the poor themselves. Yet, Daniel Patrick Moynihan did exactly that via his 1965 Moynihan Report. Moynihan lied and said that inner city poverty was a product of black culture or the structure of the black family (which resulted in decades of victim blaming. This victim blaming is still occurring even among Uncle Tom blacks. You know I don’t back down from a white racist or a House Negro). Some have gone too far in saying that the poor suffers from a genetic impulse to act in a degenerate fashion collectively. A few years after The Moynihan Report, Harvard urbanologist Edward C. Banfield, who was to go on to serve as an advisor to Ronald Reagan, felt free to claim that: “The lower-class individual lives from moment to moment... Impulse governs his behavior... He is therefore radically improvident: whatever he cannot consume immediately he considers valueless… [He] has a feeble, attenuated sense of self.” In the "hardest cases," Banfield opined, the poor might need to be cared for in “semi-institutions... and to accept a certain amount of surveillance and supervision from a semi-social-worker-semi-policeman.” The racist Charley Murray in his 1984 book called “Losing Ground” that it’s futile to intervene with programs to help the poor since he felt that these programs can only deepen their depravity. His assumptions are false since historically intervention has make poverty decreased throughout human history. One example is the Great Depression alone ended when intervention came about via public and private means. The Reagan era allowed reactionaries to slander the poor as dissolute, promiscuous, addicted to crime, etc. The reality is that poverty is mainly caused by low wages, a lack jobs, and reactionary economic policies in the world. Some Democrats and Republicans worked to try to deal with the symptoms of poverty without totally curing it. The Clinton administration used welfare reform and forced people from public housing who committed a felony. TANF was used to force people to take low level jobs or they can’t have welfare. In a further nod to “culture of poverty” theory, the original welfare reform bill appropriated $250 million over five years for “chastity training” for poor single mothers. (This bill, it should be pointed out, was signed by Bill Clinton). The poverty rate is worse, because of bad economic policies and the war on terror. Also, the reactionaries want to make new laws to violate human civil liberties like forcing people to have drug tests for job training, food stamps, public housing, welfare, and home heating assistance. This involves the lie that poor people are predespoited for violence or savage actions. Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have suggested drug testing as a condition for all government benefits, presumably including Social Security. If granny insists on handling her arthritis with marijuana, she may have to starve. Harrington is wrong to assume that there is this unique “culture of poverty,” but he is right that there is a condition of poverty caused heavily by corporate corruption. The new poor once were middle class folks or even suburbanites. So, a true war on poverty ought to exist to solve problems. We’ll have to conclude that poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money and power among the people.



People are increasingly exposing about how the KONY 2012 campaign is a fraud. People from across the political spectrum have exposed KONY 2012 as deceptive. Invisible Children and their corporate sponsors are using damage control. The reason is that Invisible Children has been caught with having ties with the U.S. State Department, Wall Street speculator George Soros (including his Open Society Institute), and other corporate funded foundations. The documentary KONY 2012 is grown greatly all over the Internet. So, Invisible Children’s true backers are the elite. Increasingly, populists understand that AFRICOM is going out to advocate the slick neo-colonial plunder of Africa. The KONY 2012 propaganda campaign has backfired, because people know the truth. The military industrial complex is sick in desiring to rule Africa. Ironically, Invisible Children’s director Jason Russell was recently arrested for lewd behavior in public. Using when a man does this action, it cover up insecurities or other issues going on in the man’s mind. Like the British Empire with its BSAC in yesteryear, AFRICOM now with its corporations plus NGOs want to loot Africa of its vital natural resources. BSAC stands for the British South Africa company. The coat of arms of the BSAC logo has the words of justice, commerce, and freedom when it has done thing antithetical to those mottos. Faulty justifications have always been used by evil people to cover up their true intentions. The YouTube video entitled, “Colonialism in 10 Minutes: The Scramble for Africa” explains how colonial powers are harming Africa. These events are happening now. Invisible Children was backed by USAID and they worked in the U.S. State Department’s Alliance for Youth movements. These movements acted as foundation for the NGO-sponsored Arab Spring activities. Soros funded foundations, JP Morgan Chase, and other funded Invisible Children (who used a documentary to exploit people, emotions, etc. in order to get an agenda going). Even the International Criminal Court’s head named Luis Moreno-Ocampo supported the fraud called KONY 2012. Amnesty International and the Neo-Con run Freedom House who skillfully rode the wave of publicity Invisible Children created, but ran concurrent anti-Kony/pro-AFRICOM invasion campaigns of their own, safely isolated from what they knew was experimental, unpredictable, and potentially disastrous propaganda. Even Hollywood puppets have been deceived about supporting KONY 2012 and now the truth is revealed about this organization.

Many people falsely call pro-life people racist to promote policies that will reduce the number of abortion among black Americans. The mainstream media is pro-abortion on demand without question. To most of them, abortion is equivalent to having a cold or a simple procedure. It isn’t. People from across the political spectrum are pro-life and they love women. Pro-life people collectively aren’t racist at all. Some of the biggest racists have support eugenics and abortion at any circumstance unconditionally (without restraints or even restrictions). When innocent black babies are murdered by abortions, the women who suffered abortion are acknowledged as victims (not nannies or any offensive stereotype). Reproductive freedom is important to promote. Yet, reproductive freedoms in my life don’t deal with killing a baby via partial birth abortion or shedding innocent blood at any specific way at all. Real pro-lifers don’t wish to criminalize victims of abortion or shame freedom. Sincere Pro-lifers desire outlets to assist women and promote a culture that agrees with the sanctity of life. Many Pro-Life protests can be interpreted as exploitive, but the overall message that record abortions in America is a serious problem here. We have compassion for the innocent babies being killed by abortion. Even in jail, poor folks like Ashley McCrary have exposed the forced C-Section pregnancies in prison inside of Georgia. Hypocrites found in groups like many pro-abortion groups claim that pro-life citizens don’t care about a black child after they are born. Pro-life people for decades advocate child care, flexible times, and other services to help the child after they are born from the women. It’s a disgrace to assume that Pro-Life people don’t care about children when Pro-Life liberals even have expressed that concern. Government programs should be funded to assist children. Yet, the government shouldn’t be treated as a god. Regardless of what they say, there is humanity of the unborn. There are numerous human beings have respect the unborn. Some folks are allowing their voices to be heard about this issue like Dr. Alveda King (in spite of some of her errors), Ryan Bomberger, and Pastor Clenard H. Childress, Jr. Yet, I don’t feel that legitimate health care services and legitimate reproductive efforts to help women. I am not a reactionary, but the unborn has the right to dignity in this world.

St. Patrick’s Day is here today. It’s a special time. People from all over the world are celebrating the holiday via speeches, parades, and other exercises of enjoyment. Many individuals of Irish descent enact great and excellent contributions in America that revolve around literary achievements (as numerous Irish monks preserved literature and modes of learning from extinction during some portion of the Middle Ages long centuries ago), education, technological advancement, and other forright avenues. We all realize that the late President John F. Kennedy was an Irish American. President John F. Kennedy eloquently and militancy ascribed to peace between America & the Soviet Union, civil rights granted to all Americans in a just fashion, and compassion toward the oppressed whereever they reside in the globe. So, it is feasable and reasonable for any people to not only not be ashamed of their ethnic heritage. It's also adequately important for us to promote human rights and human dignity. The rights of man as old leaders mentioned before originate precisely from God and not from the state. Ireland won its struggle for independence from the boot of the oppressive British Empire. St. Patrick was a real historical figure, but his total history is very much sketchy. He was born in Northern Britain, yet he traveled into Ireland as a missionary and famous preacher.

By Timothy