Of the Inquisition and the Patriot Act/Safe Act

Gary C Gibson - 11:38am Apr 6, 2005 EDT (#30 of 30) Eisenhauer 61'In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for disatrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist'

Perhaps the Spanish painter Goya encountered the same sort of difficulties regarding bureaucrats and their quest for absolute power during his life in the first half of the 19th century. After apprenticing and experiencing the civil war he did a series of paintings of the wealthy some of which might irritate the Inquisition that still flourished. Although Goya had previously given all of his paintings to a monarch that might be of interest to the Inquisition, after the monarch died he eventually moved to Bordeaux only to die in 1928.

Saul Bellow wrote a brief novel about modern chaos titled 'Seize the Day' generally about a young fellow doing futures trading unsuccessfully. It may be difficult for the U.S. Public to ever 'seize the day' such as has the President with his advisers in attacking social security, perhaps the world bank, and building the greatest budget deficit in world history before retiring to leave the taxpayers holding the bag in 2008.

Security may be a correllative issue that the public falls behind the curve of, perhaps losing sight of a third of the 1000 points of light that fall from the sky as the horizon of the world expands politically to occlude their perspective. In reenforcing the Arizona border with more than a hundred customs agents, the President has removed border control officers from Texas leaving it wide open to illegal alien entry comparatively.

From El Paso or Juarez there is a 70 mile border on Nex Mexico that also permits a fair chance at surruptitous entry. If one goes over the border it justs 35 miles to I-10, and other roads that aren't patrolled exist beyond as pick up points for illegal alien taxi services.

The administration wants to require a passport for Alaskans to get into the U.S.A. through Canada, and presumably for Americans to get into Alaska via land as well. Its a remarkable requirement that is part of the reason why it is so difficult to leave southeast Alaska, earn a few dollars annual outside painting, and return north. I can't think of another state that requires a U.S. Passport to travel too (that costs a 100 dollars or so), international bus tickets, 300 dollars to cross customs and etc.

Picketed Fences

Pick the time, set the stage
take the world to another age
it grows cold as the Earth warms
sense sold in to the night

3 plus 5 equals 35
a budget plan predicts prosperity
with the slaughtered forests
exterminated species moved for oiled sheens
of no mind as illusory matrix

Passport into Alaska
remain rem sleeping in Canada
freezing by the node waiting at the gate
emblizzard’d without the weight

Of that Midland
over the trails of Deese and Burwash
Frederick Whymper following bureaucrats of Kluane
counting fields and caste towers
of Moose nuggets
in oil formed furs
after lems of Destruction Bay
deleted-for-others.

Broadcast Spectrum Royalty and Social Classes

Gary C Gibson - 12:48pm Mar 26, 2005 EDT (#480 of 482) Reason and faith can discover a cosmic structure fit for rational parameters subject unto God's moral law.

William F. Buckley wrote an article titled 'Pounding Sense into Freedom' regarding free speech and the first amendment.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=128&e=1&u=/ucwb/20050326/cm_ucwb/poundingsenseintofreedom

This nation sometimes seems to actually believe that the technical veracity of laws will overpower socially corrupting egressions in political alterity as if there were a sort of built in auto recalibrating equipment renormalizing truth, justice and the American way to balance. I think that it isn't an accurate presumption.

The control of laws and legislation creating hegemony of power by special interest groups accompany the growth of a free society arising de novo from a native soil.

In reading about the history of the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula beginning with the castros or communities of the Iberian Celts to the reconquista and repoblacion, Franco and the present era one notes the contests for power, survival, tradition, conquering, faith, reason and expression by so many different groups and individuals. Even the architecture is remarkably significant regarding the social contexts of social evolution and devolution. Perhaps a word should be invented to denote lateral evolution as well as forward and backward social changes.

The Trout Rebellion of the 12th century was one remarkable story from Aragon or Old Castile--I don't recollect presently...and it could have been from somewhere else in Spain.

A nobleman sought to take the catch from a fisherman on a river and the fisherman resisted. The city nobles met in the town church to discuss what should be done. Outside the church the people gathered, locked the church doors and set fire to it to incinerate the nobles discussing the problem of the peasant failing to submit the catch upon request. Legend has it that the hosts in the church (I think that's the Holy Bread) escaped the fire through a crack in the stone and flew to another city's church...the crack still exists perhaps in the ruins of the Church.

I believe it is a recurring social theme for advantaged individuals minding their own business to grow in power and perhaps even create an organization that becomes a power collective with it's own pecking order or trophic allocation of profits and power. In the 17th or 18th century I believe it was, some Maria Castro (please forgive the hasty inaccurate historical references necessitated by time and wind direction limitations as I stop briefly from bike trekking today to write) sought to establish a physical building and social structure in Madrid founded entirely upon financial class segregation. Classes do not just stratify by deposition-they also can become separated by design and anisotropic financial leverage that goes uncorrected socially.

Thus the problem of the corrupting power of a broadcast media that essentially is entirely an organ for the rich. With the rich owning the broadcast media and the domestic political impact and social structure is adversely structured to support returns, kickbacks and power to the rich. American independence and business diversification are substantively disadvantaged or trodden underfoot by the tremendous propaganda power of the waveforms kickback all to the rich.

The founders of course did not foresee the broadcast media and the first amendment applied to it, not it's limited number of wavelengths and the fundamentally undemocratic allocation of frequencies to the wealthiest trans-national corporations. In a sense the first amendment is used as a smokescreen in contemporary discussions to hide the repression or phasing out of independence and the poorer from standard for-profit free-expression news outlets...with the remarkable exception of the Internet.

The Internet should be given at least half of all waveform broadcast spectra in the United States to infuse a semblance of democratization to news and media broadcasting opportunities. Fifty million opinions should be written instead of just those of the rich. Fifty million entrepreneurs should be given an equal opportunity to create their own business advantages instead of just those trans-national corporate rich collectives dominating, downsizing, and intimidating when necessary the populous of the United States into thoughtless acquiescence within their realm of power.

To the rich trans-national collectives that own the broadcast spectrum, the arguments about left and right, about liberal and conservative, are two sides of an international coin that has conquered American politics. Yet since the nation began essentially as a classless society, unlike that of Iberia that began as a myriad of diverse and independent social groupings that experienced numerous social and class oppressions (one story had a community required to give a 100 virgins a year to the Moorish rulers, and the allotment from one town was seven virgins-the town supplied the women yet cut off their hands-perhaps spoiling the value or whatever), the class structures of the United States become retrofitted and pasted on somewhat unnaturally.

Trans-national corporate collectives may use communism as a straw man argument to label any individual opposition or non-conformed political opinions that could be advanced. Communism and even loyalty to Fidel Castro's principles of sugar cane communism may be set forth as the only alternative to absolute fealty to trans-national corporate rule...quite wrongly.

Continuing readjustment and fine-tuning of the U.S. Constitution and laws made consistent with it to safeguard the rights of American citizens is the alternative to the Marxist dialectical paradigm of trans-national corporate rule or communism. American liberalism sough to free people from the corrupting oppressive powers of autocracy, of authoritarianism, of gangsters, communists, corporatists, dictators and collectives of all sorts. Liberalism is the target of conservative collectivists and socialist-communists alike. The point of government and law in a liberal constitutional environment is to allow citizens to live and do business as they choose without adversely impacting others with the same rights. It can help individuals that become disadvantaged to the point of being run over roughshod by the callous.

The fundamental problem of human history is that of social equality before the law in fact and in theory, of equal opportunity and freedom. The fundamental metaphysical problem is that of relationship to God and the Creation, and original sin. Classes become problems when the members of the classes use their power to perpetrate crimes upon non-class members.

The trans-national collective protocol marrying up with the elements of the Communist Chinese social environment has no substantive concern for the rights or prospects for individuals. Their power allows them to own the broadcast media in America and to degrade the environment to velocity of monetary value flow equations simultaneously with reducing the two-party political system to a command and control structure mollifying the masses and transitioning Americans into powerless peons brainwashed into believing that life under trans-corp. rule is better than one with a government that at least stress the syllables with independence and prosperity in them.The Roman Republic and Roman Empire declined when the privileged became too egoistic in their collective objectives and failed to utilize common sense-yet they were comparatively brilliant as they had fewer political models to learn from, and a far more challenging frontier (the U.S.A. has failed miserably on the frontier challenges so far). The U.S.A. is a democracy that is challenged by the problem of trans-national and border atrophy of prosperity and national purpose, and with restive second-worlders and third-worlders that rightly desire to improve their wave of life.

I'm about out of time today for writing...

The real physical environment should be a goal for national conservation and improvement when possible. Of course the trans-national broadcast teams will attack environmentalists because they have non-corporate or even nationalist conservation goals.

Energy and transport are other problem areas...with the present fossil fuel infrastructure rupturing the nation's economy and corrupting the savings and investments in clean and productive new regions.

As the broadcast media seek to become nobility with a higher social right to attack independents and individuals; the FCC should apportion half of the broadcast spectrum to Internet researches, applications and development.

Common sense should attach itself to the contemplations by U.S. politicians about what a good life is for an ordinary individual. The difficulty in interpreting international relations protocol that is in the best interests of the majority of the people of any given locale seems caused in part by the problems from applying multiple value systems in formulating goals and reasoning regarding legislation and implementation of policy. When the largest value system is considered to be that of the ultimate and supreme good of trans-national corporations, then the ends justifying means that are bloody and brutal or at least insensitive may be found to exist. While there isn't anything implicitly wrong perhaps in creating and attaining wealth, wealth can serve to enhance the power and scale of crimes or perhaps the sharp intersocial aspects of original sin.

Remarkably many politicians and those interested in politics use inaccurate social analytical data and suppositions in formulating policy objectives. As in the case of the Spanish Inquisition the causes for political policies may have a dichotomy of purposes. The reconquista, expulsion of the Jews, compulsory conversions and relocation of the capital of Spain to Madrid did not develop because of one simple reason. It was not a pure religious war by any means. The Inquisition accomplished the simultaneous policy of purifying the Iberian Peninsula of radical non-conformist or hostile social elements politically so far as was possible in the maelstrom of chaos that forms some of Spanish History.

Nations may for a time have political economists that identify the good for the people with the good of the rich. In America today there is a joke that an Al-Qa'eda economist has claimed responsibility for the budget deficit since President Bush took office. In time the land and the people are what remain in whatever condition they find themselves in...Blasted by the Condor Legion Nazi airmen as at Guernica, ruled by the Mayor from the Cisneros, painted by El Greco in a Toledo like scene of bizarre prosperity and change, or as an independent, healthy and free people with surplus able to help others and restore the environment from the brink of destruction.