Justice David Suitor announced that he would be retiring at the end of this Court season. Suitor wants to return to New Hampshire while he is still in good health. He's only 69, which means he is one of the younger justices. Justice Suitor is most famous for the famous stab in the back to right to life protagonists when he ruled in favor of Abortion in a key case in 1991 or so, that basically changed the whole tide on the topic of abortion. Suitor was appointed by Bush 41 and turned out to be one of the Court's predictably liberal justices. He didn't go along in the Bush verses Al Gore vote to end the investigation and declare George Bush the winner in the 2000 election. There were murmurings about Suitor being "unstable" because he wasn't married.
Tomorrow, May 4th is the 39th anniversary of the Kent State shootings of four students. These shootings shocked everybody. They were out protesting the Viet Nam War and more specifically Nixon's "incursion" into Cambodia a few weeks previous. People want to bring back the draft because more people will protest. But I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that protesting NOW can accomplish anything, besides perhaps getting yourself killed by the National Guard. This time of the year there are lots of May Day protests but those are even fewer in number this year. Some have the theory that there are fewer street protests in hard times because people fear losing their jobs by taking a day off from work. Some of these will even say that protests are an inherently good thing because they show a "healthy dialog" with government. Everybody pretty much has the message that protests don't work because the media no longer covers them. There is kind of a delusion that exists now that Joel Olsteen was talking about that "If you offer no resistance and don't fight back when others oppress you, then God will see your distress and reward you". But this line of reasoning relies on what I call the Gandhi myth. Because Gandhi got good press coverage in England, it is supposed that "someone somewhere out there" will see you and your cause and somehow feel sorry for you. It doesn't work that way today.
As you may not know, this blog was locked down for two days. As such I have to decide which things that I was going to bring up are still relevant. I wanted to talk about a posting a couple of places down in this blog of "Skeletons from the Closet". The title of the posting is, "What a Revolting Development This Is". I would like to explain myself and my motivations. As you may know I have a fanatic fundamentalist Christian background. And these people believe that behind every strong national leader, be he a king or potatentate, or president, behind every strong leader is some demonic power in the "realm of the spirit". And that various candidates are sponsored by various "wicked powers in high places" to quote St. Paul. I have also told you people what Michael Benner often said on his radio program that "When you become president, some dark figures take you to some back room where they explain to you that you aren't your own man but they are a group who is secretly ruling the country and that any President has to do their bidding or- - - well let's just say, unseemly things might happen to him. I'll leave it at that. The idea is that an independant candidate like the platform Obama ran on during the primary campaign last year- - such a candidate could never get elected without "help from higher ups", if you know what I mean. I know the posting came off as a "Psycho" movie sequel, but if you read every sentense slowly and carefully, it will make more sense to you. My writing isn't the sort of writing you can speed-read through, viewing only every third sentense. There are various financial bills in congress now that Obama is under pressure to side with Wall-Streeters on, and this one about hiking credit card interest rates is one of them. Regardless of what he says, Obama isn't really for "the little guy" when push comes to shove.
There is one more issue I need to re-address. Last Friday on his radio program, Thom Hartman talked about how hate crimes are really terrorist crimes. They are corporate crimes against an entire ethnic group. He raised the example of lynching a Black man and doing it in an extremely blatent and public manner so as to drive the point home. Hartman concludes "Such a crime is horrible, don't you agree?" I've thought about it. A lynching of the type they had in the South is certainly despicable and intimidating. But I happened to think: if the Court system is fair, all of the conspirators will be given the death penalty. And you can't get much more drastic than that. There are things taken into consideration like mitigating and aggravating qualities of the act, that modify the sentense. Certainly a public lynching would be an aggravating act. But where my head is at on this issue are people in my life- - I can think of a Pastor, and also another guy who is a Bible teacher. These two people bear me mallace. I didn't need to hire a psychic to learn they had it in for me. Their intention was made manifest by their actions. People's actions spell out a lot. You can be dispicable and say "I didn't mean it" or "I was only joking" or the Frat Boy favorite "We didn't mean for things to get out of hand". Certainly they have conspiracy laws on the book where intent can be inferred by a suspicious pattern of people's actions. You know there is a scripture that says "Vengeance is Mine - saith the Lord". If I am oppressed, don't I just have the option of "turn it over to God"? I don't have to exaust myself trying to somehow rationalize a good motive the person had when there was none. I've had a therapist tell me "Well, I'm sure that person must have had a good intention". Sometimes, "You know what you know". How does Joel Olsteen feel about Shottenfreuden, or whatever. In my own life two of the biggest sources of screwing up my walk as a Christian- - two of the most influencial people in my life- - - are dead now. Should I say "Thy will be done?" Regardless of what I tell God his will is already manifest anyhow, so I might as well make it easy on myself. I still maintain, returnint to the root topic, that looking at actions is what counts, either good actions or bad actions. I'm not God. I can't do all the psycho-analytic stuff anyway!
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