Logic and Reason

In life, we all go through changes. My views are my views. For years, I became economically progressive. Many of our ideological adversaries promote the deception that people like me need deprogramming. That's silliness, since a human being for advancement of truth, being for the promotion of civil liberties, believing in economic justice, and loving social maturity are great tenets to enjoy. These are the people that lie and say that the President is a socialist (when he never advocated the total public ownership of all enterprise). Exposing super wealthy thieves of our economic resources and allowing the government to finance legitimate services are views that I accept. In a civilized society, we are our brothers keeper or our sisters' keeper. Private charity isn't enough to help the poor or the suffering in society. Therefore, public and private programs are created in order for the poor to receive assistance. To assume that the free market is totally perfect to handle all economic complexities is fantasy. Sometimes, public intervention is necessary to prevent fraud, abuse, labor rights violations, and other issues going on in the financial realm. There is one person who sent me videos in trying to make me into a conservative Republican. Yet, I am not that. I am an Independent person. I don't agree with environmental degradation. I don't agree with austerity or demonizing the poor. I don't believe in bigoted rhetoric against Palestinians or a neo-conservative foreign policy ideology. I accept equality for all people and I agree with a revolution of values wherefore black people (like me) have a right to promote our heritage, promote our history (in a month and throughout the year), and expose the neo-Confederate reactionaries where ever they are. It's very hypocritical for people like some of the Republicans to claim to be on my people side when many of them voted against the Black Farmers bill, voted against affirmative action, support the pro-Drug War prison system, and some of them even want to eliminate Black History Month. Some of them (not all of them) defend Rush Limbaugh and a vile, profane extremist like Ted Nugent. That's their company. The reactionaries advance a cruel law and order policy where men and women are profiled on the basis of their skin color. It's a policy that allows non-violent drug offenders to receive higher sentences in some cases than rapists, assaulters, and murderers. It's a vicious system that ought to be abolished and replaced with a fair execution of legal remedies. I will not submit and betray my people. I will be a man and agree with justice and a real world revolution. It's very hypocritical for the Republicans and their Blue Dog Democratic allies to allow the billions of dollars a year to be sent into the military industrial complex (including millions of dollars spent to build up prisons as prisons are an extension of the military industrial complex. I don't wish anyone to go into prison. Prison is not the spot) without sending billions of dollars via programs to rebuild our cities, our towns, and the rest of our social infrastructure right here at home. It's also hypocritical of them to lecture on welfare for the poor negatively (a necessity for many in our nation) when they allow billions of dollars to be sent into corporate welfare including other various subidies. That is why human rights (as found in the Bill of Rights) are superior to states rights (which have been used in the promotion of slavery and the immoral acts of Jim Crow segregation). In our time, we should advocate a strong anti-war mentality and a sense of fighting for equality of folks of every background. For if one person's liberties are threatened, then all of our rights are in danger. Democrats too in some measure have supported the imperial wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places in the world. Some of them ought to be called out for that reality as well. Now, we should have a concern for the poor in this country. The poor have been greatly neglected by our society in great measure. They live in the ghettos, the trailer parks, in the rural communities, and in other locations nationwide plus worldwide. This record unemployment has nothing to do with laziness nor inferiority (as our ideological adversaries maintain). It has to do with socioeconomic policies that existed from laissez faire economics, extreme globalization, poverty, and a selfish culture. That is why poor need a higher access to employment and to real opportunities so that they can live a more fruitful standard of living. Now, the poor don't want handouts permanently, but they want a hand up. One sister on Youtube (named "SuperBlackWoman1") is right to say that people like Hannity and Limbaugh preach deception. Just because a man or a woman doesn't toe the conservative Republican line, doesn't mean that person is some traitor or an extremist. This movement for social change still transpire in our time from the brothers and especially sisters standing up for the Jena Six, to the labor insurgency inside of the state of Wisconsin, to the protests against the stop and frisk policies in NYC, to the nationwide protests of the death of our young brother Trayvon Martin, and to the protests of the Occupy Movement. It's not about Republican or Democrat. I criticize both parties as I am not in the Left/Right Paradigm. It's about power for the people or power for the oligarchy alone. Oligarchy is wrong and all of us have the right to strongly oppose the agenda of oligarchy completely.


One of the most tragic parts of the Vietnam War era was Operation Phoenix. These crimes against human life came about in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The CIA was involved with this program. This program killed a lot of South Vietnamese Buddhists again. It was a like a modern-day Inquisition. The Phoenix Program involved even local communities with operatives. There were the PRU or the Provincial Reconnaissance Units that operated their war crimes with impunity. The PRU collected intelligence. They sweeped communities and allowed people to be indefinitely detained in CIA interrogation centers. This was decades before the war on terror that began in 2001. They interrogated suspects according to the "CIA Manual For Interrogation and Elimination." These acts were standard policy. Many people who were killed were VC. The PRU killed people. There were active lists for VC/Buddhist assassination. The Phoenix Program for 1969 called for "neutralizing" 1800 a month. In this program, the suspected "enemies" were not allowed trial, preliminary hearing, legal representation, this program prevented them from confronting accusers, and plead in own behalf or present evidence in their defense, etc. The 1975 issue of Counter spy magazine described the "Phoenix Program" as the "...most indiscriminate and massive program of political murder since the Nazi death camps of WWII." The United Buddhist Church (or a non-Communist resistance force) has been harmed too by imperialists. CIA head William Colby was involved in Operation Phoenix along with others. This program wanted to gather intelligence, but war crimes came about as a product of this program. It lasted from 1965 to 1972. About 26,369 human beings at least were killed as a product of Operation Phoenix. CIA's Saigon station chief Peer DeSilva developed the interrogation centers and the PRUs. Rape, gang rape, use of eels, use of snakes, electric shock, sexual abuse, starvation, and many sick acts were used by military operatives in Operation Phoenix. In 1970, Ed Murphy publicly criticized Operation Phoenix. It was closed and finished once public pressure existed and Congressional investigation proved the damaging nature of the program. Similar programs of Operation Phoenix executed by the CIA would occur in Iran-Contra inside of Latin America, in Indonesia, and in other places of the world. CIA leader William Colby admitted that the program of genocide in Indonesia and the Phoenix Program were one and the same. The schools of training for government funded terrorists exist in the Western Hemisphere Institute For Security Cooperation, formerly The School of The Americas (Ft. Benning Ga.) and The Counter-Insurgency Training Center (Ft. Bragg, Fayetteville, N.C.). Operation Phoenix is one of the great sins of America to be honest with you. I love America as I was born here, but America ought to publicly repent for its sins. I do apologize to God and the inhabitants of the world for the sins of America. I am sorry to Almighty God, because Operation Phoenix should of never occurred in the first place.


People now are comparing the Dark Knight Rises film to the Aurora shooting. A movie had nothing to do with the shooting at all. Yet, the movie is a reflection of some of the nefarious issues plaguing our culture today though. Holmes was so sick and evil that he shot a 4 month old baby at point blank range. He claimed that he was the Joker. He looked similar to the Joker character of the late actor Heath Ledger in the film "The Dark Knight." The Joker in that film acted evil, satanic, sarcastic, and abrasive at the same time. The Dark Knight is the 4th grossing film of all time. Ledger would play in another film with much Masonic, occult symbolism in it. Some scenes in the Dark Knight were directed by Ledger himself. Holmes wanted rebellion and other sinful actions. Even Proverbs 4:23 is right to mention that as human beings, we should be careful what we place in our hearts and minds. We shouldn't embrace evil thoughts and sinful rebellion in our minds at all. In real life, Ledger experienced insomnia, depression, and anxiety just before he died. These drugs and a hardcore movie lifestyle are cited by some as a catalyst for him to pass away. Ledger was inspired to play the Joker character by comic writer and magic practitioner Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke." Moore of course wrote The Watchman, V for Vendetta etc. which have occult symbolism and various social messages. V for Vendetta explicitly mentioned the words of Aleister Crowley and mentioned him by name. The Joker character in the Batman movie series wanted to promote chaos or he is the evil archetype. It proves that some individuals are sick to embrace a wicked mentality. Holmes wanted to shoot as many people as possible. Witness after witness described Holmes as acting odd and calculating in the theater. He planned the attacks in months in advance, so he had a premeditated agenda before he murdered innocent human beings. Today, mentally disturbed people are trying to copy the Joker motif as an excuse to perform criminal activities. Of course, the Joker or a film has nothing to do with these acts from Kim De Gelder from Belgium or James Holmes from America. Yet, we have to seek a cultural change in the world where obscene violence isn't glamorized here. Other sick Joker like crimes occurred in Wisconsin and in other places worldwide. So, as human beings, we have to find unique ways in battling against this death culture. I am not a theocrat, but many of the Christians are right in saying that we have to promote morality, ethics, and alms giving in society (as one way out of many to prevent obscene crimes from happening in the first place). It's obvious that an evil man loves death. A man that hates God surely death and that is why some of the most intense anti-Christian, anti-God folks in history love death like Stalin, Manson, Pol Pot, etc. Therefore, James Holmes is accountable for his actions. He made a conscience decision to enact murder. Common sense dictates that we should keep the faith and draw nigh to God. As a nation, we do need to be born again to believe in growth, peace, and social improvement. It will not be easy, but these acts are surely better than a sick death, culture. It's no shame to pray. It's fine to pray. It's legitimate to pray for redemption, moral improvement, upright character, and a sense of improving the hearts of humanity. There are heroes in this tradegy. Matt McQuinn gave his life to save his girlfriend by shielding her body from bullets. His girlfriend is named Samantha Yowler. She is 26 and survived with a gun shot wound to the leg and is in fair condition after undergoing surgery. Jon Blunk gave his life to protect his girlfriend named Jansen Young. So, we need to prevent criminals from owning guns. That's true. Yet, we also need reforms in mental health issues and reforms in dealing with our culture. We don't need materialism nor unnecessary violence at all.


There is a real police state in America and a real mass opposition to it is lacking to a great extent. Now, we have seen an extraordinary violation of our civil liberties by the administrations of past decades (even in Bush II and the current administration of President Barack Obama). The executive branch of government increased its power in a great fashion. Repressive agencies are still here where thousands of personnel come about, there are secret budgets, and police state surveillance of citizens. There is the monitoring over over 40 million U.S. citizens and residents. There are people confronting the powers that be all over America, so I want to make that perfectly clear. Likewise, there is a huge sense of apathy in the world. We know the immorality of the McCarthyite purges in the 1950's. McCarthy violated the rights of the freedom of speech by promoting compulsory loyalty oaths. He organized witch hunt with Congress in order to investigate public officials, cultural figures, intellectuals, trade unionists academics, etc. That's fascism. Public debate came about and resistance came. The public hearings of HUAC or the House of Un-American Activities Committee were protested against in San Francisco by 1960. There was massive, grassroots protests against the system of segregation in the racial segregated South. Even folks used self defense units against the racist death squads of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). The Free Speech Movement from 1964 caused mass demonstrations against the university governance acting authoritarian. The Cold War & the War on Drugs (which came in the USA under President Richard Nixon) caused the police state to grow in violating the democratic freedoms and civil rights of human beings. The civil rights and free speech movements exist across backgrounds. These movements desire racial equality, and an end to the imperial U.S. Indo-Chinese wars and eliminating the Congressional witch hunts. Workers' rights and social advancements resulted as a product of the tireless efforts of these movements. All of these movements united with a wide spectrum of social movements. The overt police state tactics were common in the 1950's. Today, we have overt and more covert police state tactics like spying, state violence against individuals, infiltration, and the promotion of media propaganda. The police state apparatus didn't go away when some social movements weakened. Since the early 1980's, the police state expanded even more greatly. In the 21st century, the police state has made arbitrary detention and interrogations, entrapment and the blacklisting of hundreds of thousands of US citizens. Presidential fiats have established the framework for the assassination of US citizens and residents, military tribunals, detention camps and the seizure of private property. The Department of Homeland Security has violated our rights with this police state too. There are some voices that are speaking up against these violations of our constitutional freedoms, but these movements weren't as powerful as in the 1960's. The police state still utilize infiltration, profiling, and other methods to dominate society. They monitor mosques and other religious locations in promoting the pacification of human beings. Muslim Americans, African Americans, immigrants, anti-war protesters, etc. are regularly targeted by the powers that be. For example, the feds monitor mosques secretly with agents, they use the criminal justice system to prevent voting rights among felons who paid their debts to society, and they use warrant less wiretapping to monitor tons of American citizens as well. The establishment regularly targets anyone that is critical of U.S./Israeli policy in the Middle East (in the sense of supporting the Palestinian people and supporting the peace movement in Israel plus Palestine). People have the right to have a love for the truth, to believe in a better environment, and to express legitimate opposition to the police state. We can do a lot in order for us to fight back against the police state. It is obvious that some of the mass anti-war movements have been sold out by the Democratic machine (They even expelled millions of Hispanic Americans from America in a record fashion). So, independent socio-economic movements should link citizens in promoting civil liberties, free speech, and the interests of all Americans. There is value in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other like minded programs. Promoting independent movements that desire social justice and freedom are great avenues in order for us to battle the police state. We should promote the people's welfare at home and justice plus peace abroad.

Universal health is a real goal that can further develop the current human rights revolution. Many health professionals, lawyers, and advocates want a Medicare for all system ( I don't have a problem with this or a single payer system either). This policy is superior to the imperfect Affordable Care Act. ACA is better than the status quo though. We still have a long way to go in reaching full health care reform. The reason is that millions still don't have insurance. Our health care costs are rising. Medicaid and Medicare prevented the poor and elderly from suffering unimaginable harm. That is why an universal system is necessary in order for health care to reach more citizens of America. Corporate interests shouldn't dominate real health reform. Health reform ought to be made with the people's interests at heart. Even now, many vulnerable patients are not represented in our health care system. We should promote prevention and assure patient care beyond the motivation of profit. Health care in America costs more than anywhere on Earth. Many industrialized nations have universal health care with better health care than us. Some people die each year, because of lack of health care or the high costs of certain types of health care. Health care should be accessible to all Americans irrespective of how sick, poor, or unemployed we may be. There are many good things in the Affordable Care Act. There are some weaknesses of the ACA law well. Some of its weaknesses are that: it can leave millions without insurance because states can potentially opt out of the Medicaid expansion, no restriction on prices are charged by insurance companies, patients are forced to go into private insurance without a public option, it promotes the inhumane cost shifting to patients via compulsory purchase of expensive policies (and higher deductibles and higher co-pays), etc. The ACA can reduce Medicare cost by paying providers less. This tatcic can encourage providers to avoid Medicare patients. That is why people can a cost effective universal health care system. Privatizing health care is not right in our age. Other nations reduce or eliminate deductibles and co-pays in order to coverage people. We need progressive taxes to help give health care to America. We can eliminate the administrative waste generated by the private health insurance industry, which will reduce the costs of health costs. There should be a fight against fraud and allow patients to choose their own physicians. The remove for profit health facilities ought to be banned. There should be negotiations for fair prices and all people should have access to health care in America. Tons of doctors in America have promoted either a Medicare for all system or universal health care.

By Timothy