Sep 2, 2008 | 7:18 PM
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Political
When the constitution was put forth by the founding fathers an inherent thread wove through the fabric of law that defined the measure by which each citizen should conduct their person, … that ignorance of the law is no excuse for compliance of the law and importantly, that each citizen shall know every law. This is the reasonable man clause.
Granted the impossibility to know each and every law is beyond the scope of each judge much less the layman’s ability to posses the breath of each aspect of law. However the reasonable man holds that truth, be held to a standard of a honor code; one shall not lie, steal, or cheat nor tolerate anyone who does.
Any one point of honor, any one point of this code is not mutually exclusive of the other. Each is dependant upon the other. Practically, to violate one is condemnation of to be in violation of the other. Consider this example: Lie and you must consider that you have “ stolen the truth and have cheated by omission of the truth, the rightful possessor the benefit that the truth would have affected.
To offer a contention that sufficiency, or a standard to measure truth by, or what is the intent of the reasonableness of truth or the lack thereof is an argument of a Greek sophist in blue suede shoes, or shyster attorney in a cheap suit attempting to frame an outcome that doesn’t fit the circumstance, situation or instance save a grand delusion. .
Mr. Thomas, one of several elastic tongues that is under retainer of the mayor, is a source of vagueness and his associate Sharon McPhail they so often decry as foul. To this end they both fail the reasonable man clause and gives rise to the old saying “ you know they are lying … their lips are moving.”
Liars in defense of a liar, lying about a lie, because of cheating that lead to lies, which caused some more lies to steal, which required more lies to cover the theft because the cheating was to be covered up, because the lies would be discovered if lies weren’t told.
Whew!
Now I’m a lay person, not of the ability to know every law of the land. However, to observe the honor code to not lie, steal nor cheat covers the test that every law is based in this foundation. My parents taught me that. Apparently these were not taught in the Team Kilpatrick households.
Too bad Team Kilpatrick doesn’t realize what everyone else knows, liars are not, cannot, and will not be trusted. Three judges in the appeals court appear to not take one spoonful of the manure being dished by Team Kilpatrick. No honor, no code, not to be trusted on their word. The beginning of the … end ….Finally!!!
IROQVN! I said that! William Bishop, Detroit Michigan
1-207 UCC all rights reserved.
Apr 18, 2008 | 10:12 PM
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Political
What Is In A Picture? Who Looks Presidential?
Photo from NY Times 4-18-2008
I couldn’t help but notice the picture featured on the front page of the NY Times of the three presidential candidates as they walked with a Canadian minister. It really caught my eye as each candidate walked with this minister down the same hallway and each was photographed candidly as they engaged conversation.
If body language has anything to project an image of self confidence, intelligence, and leadership then the photos speak their subtle inference, yet demonstrate projection of what is presidential, to me at least.
McCain to the right, appears to be trying to keep up, as the minister looks down on him. The minister looks like he is trying to clarify in simplistic terms that the senator is not grasping, and really isn’t concerned with as he isn’t in step and the minister is walking slowly for him to catch up. I see Alzheimer’s around the corner.
The center photograph of Hillary is a mess. She is out of step, as she walks with the minister, gazing upward like a lost puppy dog and uncomfortable as her hands are held rigidly by her side. The minister appears to be talking past her, as his hands appear to enumerate a laundry list of requirements. She actually looks like she is being scolded. I don’t see leadership, I see a follower.
The last picture on the far left is Senator Obama, The minister is looking up to him, he is in step with senator, and his hands appear to firmly conveying a message. The Senators shoulders are square, posture erect and confident. Head is up, and looking very presidential. The image projects leadership, the minister is trying to keep up.
If I were to pick a candidate based on these photographs, I would undoubtedly have to go with the image that projects leadership quality.
IROQVN! I said that. William Bishop, Detroit, Michigan.
1-207 UCC all rights reserved.
Apr 16, 2008 | 5:13 AM
Category:
Political
Stopping Metal Thieves by Changing Laws? How About Enforcing the Ones on the Books!

The Harbor Light Center at Park Avenue and Sibley July 2007.

Opening Day 2008-Note the hallow appearance.
The issue of modern day “Urban Gold Miners” is no different than zealous seekers of instant wealth like the California Gold rush 49’s, or Custer reporting that there was Gold in the Black Hills, or Gold in the Cherokee Nation. In each case land and property were over run by a hoard of people who had no right to what-so-ever to invade three different sovereign nations. Today, Urban Gold Miners invade private property with all the boldness like it is theirs to do as they please. Like a locust striping every living thing in sight, the swath of devastation is obvious. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where the thieves are and what they are doing.
From July of 2007 to present I personally witnessed the complete and through stripping of a Detroit landmark, The former Original Hotel Park Avenue, now know as the Harbor Light Center. This 13 story, 255 unit residence hotel each was the swankest place in Detroit. This grand ole lady was taken over by the Salvation Army, and she went to hell in a hand basket as with everything the Salvation Army operates and abandons.
In broad day light I would watch second story men climb the exterior of the building like they were Spiderman and gain entry via a fourth floor open window. At night the blue arcs of light of cutting equipment would flash from the windows. Window by window floor by floor, the metal frames disappeared. The activity inside the structure was quite visible. The activity inside was furious. On any given day I counted no less that 15 people moving about the structure. Material stripped was being ejected from the windows; cast iron radiators, desks, bed frames, lockers, tubs, sinks, false ceiling grids, pipes, cables,vaves, junction boxs, motors, pumps and most astoundingly the huge gears that lifted the elevator cars. I called 911, no response.
To attest to the highly organized excavation of metals, I observed the crew work what must have been a couple of tons of fly wheel to the edge of the roof and roll it off and fall 13 stories to the street below. The monstrous cog partially punched through the street with an awful sound. It was thunderous and reverberated down the avenue across the drone of cars passing through via I-75. Within minutes, not much more than 15, a tractor trailer wrecker appeared and hoisted the cog up and load it on to a flat bed. Like ants swarming at a pick nick, the Urban Gold Miners secured the cog and off went the flat bed. Then a raggedy dump truck towing an asphalt roller appeared and again like ants, 10 to 18 men appeared with shovels; the street was repaired with speed not known to be accomplished by the Wayne County Road Commission. Unbelievable, and had I not seen it with my own eyes I wouldn’t have believed it. I want these guys hired to repair pot holes they are good. I called 911 and no response.
But it doesn’t end there, the power lines, lamp posts, transformers and other utility structures came down with blazing speed and were loaded on to a waiting line of pick up trucks, dump trucks and flat beds. I called 911 and no response.
During the course of this activity, I called the police several times. Result no response. I called Detroit DTE Energy; I was put through to voice mail. I jumped in my car and drove the side street of Temple. On the North side of the adjacent and vacant Hotel Eddy Stone and observed no less than 34 vehicles marshaled in line order, like an assembly line. I took down license plate numbers and descriptions. I took physical descriptions of the Urban Gold Miners, as they moved quantities of material to the vehicles; bundled cooper pipes large and small, wheel barrows of shattered cast iron, steel plates, heavy coils of palletized electrical cable, not to mention tubs, sinks, door frames, and who knows whatever else. I called 911 so many times, that the operators thought I was probably crazy. Totally frustrated I drove to the Central District Police Station and reported to the uninterested desk sergeant, all that I witnessed. He replied “Yeah the building is slated for demolition. We’ll send someone out.”
I drove to the Detroit DTE Energy building and asked to speak to someone from their Task Force to stop the theft of Utilities and Infrastructure. They took my name and phone number. Some will call you in 48 hours. Oh boy!
The police eventually showed up and stopped the last pick-up truck, with scrap filled to the brim. Looked at the truck, wrote the driver a ticket and sent him on his way. What?
Detroit DTE Energy contacted me two days latter, while I was watching the scenario play out again. I told them that I counted 17 men swarming within the building ejecting material out the west side windows. There was nothing more they could do because the utility lines weren’t being removed. I informed them I observed the gold miners remove the exterior lines, poles and transformers. They informed me that there was nothing they could do.
So the outcome of all of this has developed into a couple strong hunches:
- This is a highly organized enterprise; so much so, these miners sweep up and clean the streets, side walks,alleys and lots exposed to public view. .
- The planning, organization, and execution are by some very well trained, talented and knowledgeable people.
- This activity is staged and coordinated.
- Using the site plans of similar existing structures, and doing an estimate take-off, at current scrap redemption, I conservatively valued the materials removed to be in excess of $100,000.00. - $200,000.00
- I suspect there is some coordination between persons unknown in the building departments, of the city or county and the Urban Miners to affect this concert in broad daylight, and no police response is highly suspicious.
I have since concluded that all the hoop-la and public announcements requesting public assistance to report this activity is bunk! This is planned blight, to justify the destruction of Detroits historic structures and devalue properties into brown space for rapid turnover.
I can only surmise that there a lot of paydays going into the pockets of corrupt officials, whomever and wherever they are. There is no enforcement what-so-ever! I believe that if you want to find the culprits behind this, will require a serious investigation as to who really profits from the acquisition of the blighted properties.
We don’t need new laws; we need honest enforcement of existing laws leading to convictions and ultimately the identification of the fat cats and kingpins running a ruse on the public. This is way too organized to be blamed on a bunch of druggies, bums and dustys out to make a quick buck.
This is a highly organized criminal enterprize that is destroying our heritage; it deserves the utmost scrutiny.
IROQVN! I said that! William Bishop, Detroit Michigan
1-207 UCC all rights reserved.
Apr 9, 2008 | 10:33 PM
Category:
Political
To The City Council of Detroit:
The mayor’s stimulus package requires a significant in-depth investigation that cannot be accomplished in a few days, weeks, or months for that matter; considering his ongoing flaws of character, lack of judgment, non-transparency in the operation of his office, and his specious affiliations with various on-going concerns, organizations, individuals, and contacts. The mayor’s open capital spigot of spending of “OPM” (Other Peoples Money) manifests as a successful façade that is shored by interests that have yet to revel or to identify; themselves or their ultimate aims. OPM requires repayment, be it currency and sweat or blood. In the service of citizenry sweat and tears that improves our community relations and prosperity are recognized. When non-transparency is apparent the powers of principalities expect repayment far beyond the initial outlay to account usury far beyond the investment, to justify their risk and garner wealth and the illusion of control. Failure to account for OPM in each case, calls for a ritual of blood letting. Some times symbolic, and others times dramatically real.
Contemporary society relies on three foundations to direct responsibility and accountability; think of them as the three “robes”; morality, legality and scholarship. These three separate and distinct foundations are not mutually exclusive in their interaction; like a triangle, the absence of any one leg, leaves open a side that compromises the strength of the triangle that results in it toppling. It is without doubt that positions of trust are just as the triangle illustrates. Trust is placed, and if abused becomes distrust, in the holder; because there are too many circumstances and situations that abuses can go unobserved and OPM disappears without notice. OPM is not just currency on hand; it may be property, investment, bonds, stocks, gratuities, perks, complimentary gifts, prizes, travel, goods, and services just to name a few. None of which is the property of the office holder, but to the people for which the holder represents.
A honest servant understands because of the robes, the robes worn by clergy, that of morality, the robes worn by the bench, that of legality, and the robes of academia, that of scholarship are merged, intertwined in the individual that is reared to observe the principle of a honor code; to not lie, steal or cheat nor to tolerate anyone who does. This is an ethic demonstrated in leaders, supposedly. that has the confidence of the body politic elect, the congress of the people that to which the elected has been chosen to serve. These attributes are the essence of character that is assumed to be a basis of family teachings, unless the family structure is compromised and so then is the logic and rational of what accounts as good breeding of human beings. To the contrary, rapscallions that ply a plan of divergence whether considered or adlibbed are seizing upon a weakness of accountability. This is absolute evidence to satiate self indulgence and devil is that may be to all who would dare to interfere.
Any logic of a specious method, delivered for approval under cloak of improvement by a holder weak in the aforementioned robes, and that violates the basis of trust and the honor code, is not a plan to consider lightly and requires the utmost scrutiny. Anything less, then the trusted servant that is the watch dog of OPM is a co-opted accessory that deserves the gallows more so than its presenter.
IROQVN! I said that! William Bishop, Detroit Michigan
1-207 UCC all rights reserved.
Apr 6, 2008 | 9:00 PM
Category:
Political
ReverendCirca53
Apr 6, 2008 | 2:49 AM Wrote:

One Eyed Mental condom Piss Pants Fascist
Iroqvn; You are full of BLEEP!..I've read your Anti America,Anti White, nonsense and have seen it in the message boards. You call yourself Aero-Coon?.Your no more an Indian then a Nike Tennis Shoe.Your so-called facts and figures are no-where near accurate.I work with a number of Federal Dept's and have shown some Bureau of Indian Affairs people your rants. You wouldn't last a day among real Indians,I spend time in the Dakotas,Montana,Wyoming, Oklahoma,Nebraska,etc.You may impress the negros in the message boards, but not here.Go to RoseBudSouixTribe-nsn.gov...It's the Family of Sicangu Lakota Tetun Wan Oyate.. Dept. of The Interior..DOI.gov...I dare you to find your so-called Indian Ancestry!! There were NEVER 150,000,000 Indians!!..There are 593 Tribes of 1,923,650 people, 12 Tribes in Mich.Your use of Red-Man,PaleFace,Hitler,etc shows your lack of facts and knowledge.Your constant posts of nonsense [you]exhibits some serious mental flaws,pesonality disorders.Stop and ponder what you print......."
My reply to the White supremist/ separatist provocateur reverendcirca53 ... herein after referred to his true half nit wit exposed self .... "RearEnd about 53"
Well rearEnd now it is time to quell your rants. First I am full of BLEEP, but only after I've had 'lunch.' If I were the slime that slithered in the back doors of life I would be ashamed of it too. You have no ancestry, you were born to a prison witch in a dungeon of london. You are illegitimate -you have no birth right, you are the problem.
Listen closely ... very closely You can't stand the truth, fool! Untill you do... I will pray for you to accept the the truth. Until then , I will not relent till the last vestiges you and the kind of hate you represent are dead and buried with your fathers. The world needs to heal from the " golden age of conquest."
Ulali All My Relations Native America
What your Uncle Adolph Learned from the European-Americans and put to use in WWII. . Listen closely ... listen very closely ... Listen to the truth, fool.
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I see from your avatar that you ARE a one eye blind euro-centric metal sheathed pro- KKK/Nazi from Bloomfield Hills, Judah P. Benjamin. Now that you have opened the door usurper of lives, wealth, and property, brazen and boastful as your arrogant forefathers, did you say 1647? Your yellow pant P-38 stuck between the checks of your brains is an arse backwards representation. Didn't I mention that you were yellow, runs down your legs. As Michigan’s favorite son we called him yellow hair at Geasy Grass, and he got his kicked! He was a coward too. Yeah, the Custer family are vermin, that need be exported to Bikini Atoll to clean up hot radiation to atone for their sins.
The BIA aka the "Indian Belt Way Bandits", that continues to "suck” the sustenance of the PEOPLE that are honorable. Were I to believe that the government reported that "ReverendCirca53" ate dung, I wouldn't believe it until I saw you do it. But then your attitude smells like a skizzer after the governors husband has finished with her. Do You? Do you suck? Yessss you do! Anti-white, no! Anti-American? No! We are the Americans collectively, You are European-American at the very best. Actually American for you and your kind is doubtful, a very long stretch. Nazi-Fascist-warmongering-socialist scum fits your ire. Your ancestry speaks volumes, "YOUR-A-PEEING on everything YOUR-NOT-A-STEAL-N."
Want to address the GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING, straight out EXTERMINATION of at least 150 million PEOPLE? 593 Tribes ( by the way the use of the tribe is to me like the use of "N" word.) of 1,923,650 People is what now exists; remnants consisting of, in some cases, families, bands and clans; 1.6% of the current total population. I can understand that your ashamed of the murder of innocent People … You should be. You missed 240,000 by 1924 to be exact. Now we increase; gotta love geometric progression. And this junk of building walls and fences at the borders; all that experience building stalags then the Berlin wall. It was wrong then and it's wrong now. We need to build a fence around you and those like you. The 80 % of the population that comprises Mexico, are the PEOPLE. Millions, Tens of Millions. And that doesn't account for the remaining People in the rest of Central America and throughout South America; they have every right to go as they please, pole to pole. They are the PEOPLE and they have the inalienble right to free travel. You can’t be the mental giant you profess. By your own admission you ”HATE.” You say so. Unless, you’re a liar? Which is it? Do you hate or are you a liar? A little of both, nes pa? No? You are full of it, a lot of it, if not all of it!
You, and your sheet wearing, cross burning, thing spiel kind brought to the brink of extinction 80 million breading pair of buffalo. Don’t tell me you, and your kind are incapable of mass murder. You consume everything you leave nothing. You are a virus. Not living – Not dead, just destructive and self serving. Your 1647 roots originated in a prison and transported to these shores, as waste. Not even your Fatherland could tolerate you. Wannabe, you should return via the first leaky wooden boat that can pushed 5miles out. Then re-apply for entry! As it stands you are an "Anchor Baby", You are the Illegal Alien. Your fathers sold you into slavery and you have a debt to pay. We’ve been fighting your acts terrorism since 1492!
And bat dung for brains, IROQVN (the AERO COON is close to pronunciation, but ERO-GUN would be dead nuts.) Translates to ... are you ready ... I SAID THAT! Whoa ! How about that mental giant? Emphasis on “ant”, as in “piss ant.” My family’s history on this soil goes back, way back. We walked amongst giants and we didn't speak “Yvn Kless” till we needed too. And we learned it well. You didn't possess the mental faculties to learn our language, customs or culture. That's not true, I stand corrected, you learned enough to murder by starvation, planting bio-weapons of T.B. and Small Pox and steal land. And let there be no doubt, we speak better than you. Know more than you, and we can do more than you. I count coup and you are to be vanquished. I am no longer silent. I will speak the truth that you, yours and the evil you represent dare to stifle. Those days are gone. There over 700 treaties that you have yet to be honored.
IROQVN is a screen name … I won't hide behind a screen name. My Christian name is William Bishop, I live in Detroit Michigan, I wrote a bio, and my avatar is picture of me in regalia performing a dance…a dance of warning we did before anyone that entered our enchanted land. We are the People and we would have you here as Good Guests. But when you have behaved badly, and you have, you must be shown the door out. You are a gutless worm, you even suppress and apply the Malthusianism on the rest of the good and kind that mean well; by eugenics, economic oppression, and euthanasia to weasel out of your blatant foul lies and culmany. But, I won't hold that against you. You can't help it! You hide in a mental condom, that smacks of a supremacist and separatists symbol. You cave under the preasure that your fathers debt assigned you, and you can't admit it.
Your in denial, and like a child in a tantrum, you lash out. The 'truth hurts", butt you can be set free.
In so far as tribes are concerned. You may have come from a wondering tribe, however, we are THE Nation’s of the FIRST PEOPLES. We numbered in excess, arguably, 150,000,000 human beings that comprised over 500 Nations. We had well over two hundred languages, our mathmatic abilities developed a calander more precise than any. Brain Power. We developed long distant communications, it inspired Samuel Morse. When your fathers only knew how to bow your head to a King your sovereign, we the People, each of us were sovereign. We were free and prosperous. We taught your fathers about freedom, serf. We gave you the concept of a Constitution, nave. And you still don’t have it right, flunkey. You didn't then, save a few, and you don't now have the authority by any means to question or contain any truth that revels the putrid origins your culmany. And so your ignorance continues … the Nation’s were distinct and diverse, not relatively small and a culturally homogeneous communities as in sneaking Germanic assimilations. Thule and Teutonic you act. You and your kind the progenitors of hate and deceit. The writers of history ... "his Story" is twisted, convoluted, and like your blinded eye and mind filled with brazen arrogance, you smack the responsibility that must be extracted, "eye for an eye." The price you were promised to pay, must pay, WILL pay endears you to a life of servitude.
So lackey, when do you start? Your boat awaits, your chains wait. Your empty cell waits!
IROQVN! I SAID THAT! WILLIAM BISHOP, DETROIT MICHIGAN, 1-207 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED!
Oh Yea, one more thing, your right I am NOT Indian, never was, never will be. I am a Human Being ~Ani Yvnwia~ The Real, The Original, and The Principled People.
Butt ... your still a pale-face Nazi!
Apr 6, 2008 | 1:27 AM
Category:
Political
Where were you? What were you doing?
There are those times when significant events occur that shape the course history and impinge directly our individual life. The ramifications of the event have such far reaching implications, that to consider them all is beyond the grasp of the human mind.
Even so, there is something about the suddenness of a significant event, that it is a wonder that the individual would even recognize or otherwise know that the event is significant to begin with.
For instance, when you spy a scar on your right thumb, do you remember you came by it? Do remember what you did prior to getting the scar? How about after? Did it have an impact so as to change your behavior, mood, or how you interact with others? Do you remember the state of your emotion before, during and after? How long did your emotional state last? And how was your emotional state altered if any?
Let me roll the significant event, and only you can reach back through the time machine known as your memory of mind, to rediscover the person you were then, its affect that altered your person.
How does the memory of the birth of your children evoke your emotional state? For each of us that is a significant event. Those that wanted children and even those that didn’t. For me, my eldest daughter’s birth was on the heels of a significant event. I was on a skirmish line in the southwest area of the Island of Grenada. My unit the 82nd Airborne Division was deployed to rescue the Americans on the island. The foreign advisors, it was discovered had not only built a new airfield capable of handling military aircraft, they had built submarine pens under the airfield that crossed the bay, and missile silos that would put a MREV nuclear package on the continental United States in less than time than we could react. This is what I call a double whammy. I left the military; I wanted make sure that my children would not grow up fatherless by war. 12 years was enough. I had enough.
When the Tigers won the 1984 World Series? I remember sitting in front of the television with my 11 month old daughter, wanting to shout but not. It was a very controlled response, so as to not wake a sleeping baby. But after putting her down with her mother, it was off to the local sports bar and buying my buddies a few rounds.
Lets try this, a bit more somber. What were you doing when you learned of the Space Shuttle Challenger mishap on launch? The year was 1986, January 28th was a bright sunny winter day in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was driving, en-route to the University of Michigan. I immediately thought of the Apollo astronauts caught in the command module fire that perished, Grissom, Copper and White. Sadness washed over me and I had to pull over because I had lost my concentration momentarily. I prayed for them and their families.
What about the morning of September 11, 2001 at about 9:30 am? I had just made cup of coffee, turned on the television and observed a sky scrapper burning. I thought why are they showing a movie on the news channel, when the second plane struck. I then realized this wasn’t a movie but something horrifically tragic and dropped my cup turning up the volume to find out what was going on. I thought at that moment I had lost my entire immediate family. My two brothers worked at the Trade Center. My sister and brother-n-law were New York Fire Department Paramedics, and my other sister and mother were within blocks of the tower, as well as my Uncle who was a city engineer that handled the Staten Island Ferry operations. It took the rest of the day to get through to friends and other family members to locate them and get a status on their safety and well being. A most heart wrenching day; I had to fight every impulse to jump in my car and drive to New York and find them.
Let me date myself now. The saddest Thanksgiving ever for this nation, …The news of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was about 2:45pm and I was returning from the supply office at Public School 104, in Brooklyn New York, when the principle, who was a stern man, crouched down on to one knee, a tear was starting to roll from his eye, in a cracking voice told me to have my teacher, Miss Sealtest, to inform the other teachers on the floor that President of the United States has been shot, and report to his office immediately. I have never known this man to ever act the way he did. I remember that I walked into the class room and waited for her to stop speaking and look at me. She asked me to sit down, and then I approached her and whispered in her ear Principal Buchanan’s request. She reeled back and looked me squarely in the eyes with total astonishment as tears welled in eyes. . I then said the Japanese are probably going to attack. I had recently seen the movie P.T.-109, which was about our heroic President in WWII. The days that followed set a mood of seriousness that stayed with me. This President inspired me beyond measure.
It wasn’t until the evening of April 4th, 1968, a Thursday, while listening to Casey Casems American Top 40 on the Armed Forces Radio Network. American Television Broadcasts didn’t exists overseas then, all news and entertainment was via the Armed Forces Radio Network, Voice of America, and the Stars & Stripes News Paper.
While listening the radio and reading Edgar Rice Boroughs, “Tales of Tarzan”, the program at about 11:o5pm was interrupted to receive a live broadcast from New York of breaking news. The voice of Walter Cronkite, the most trusted name in America aside from Chet Huntly and David Brinkley, started with his low baritone lumbering voice, pausing with inflictions on certain syllables, dramatically emphasizing the gravity and seriousness of what he was to impart by this announcement.
“Today … just minutes ago the Honorable Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader, was shot standing on the balcony of the Lorraine motel in Memphis Tennessee …"
I sat up quickly and as if I could turn up the volume of ears, the radio grew louder. I wasn't sure if I heard what I heard, I was afraid to move because I might make some noise that would drown out a key word and waited till I heard Walter, say “I repeat …” . I flew off my bed and turned the volume up on the radio and listen again. I then walked out of my room and to my parents room who were sleeping and woke them. My father asked me if I was okay, and I replied “ I not sure.”
I then added, “Dad, Dr. King has been shot!” At which point he jumped up out of the bed and woke my Mother and repeated what I had just said.
The rest of the night, a vigilance of sitting at the kitchen table happened. We listened to the AFRN on one radio, the BBC on another, and the English language broadcast of Duestch Wella. The radio’s voices reflected a proper somberness that was in the following days continued. The race riots that happened the year before, were a prelude to the riots that broke out on April 6th. The seriousness of events was reflected radio programing as even the music was somber. Classical in nature, heavy in mood, a reflection of the respect only reserved for a deserving great person and the gravity of the aftermath.
In the following days our many German friends came by our house as though a wake were in progress. Herr Hider, the man who taught me how ski & mountain climb in the Alps was one of the biggest, strongest men I had ever known had tears stream down his face. The first American he had ever knew was a black soldier that liberated his town. Until a white officer showed up, he thought all Americans were black. I was taken aback that this humble giant man felt so much agony for a mans death ... a black mans death ... a man who stood for equality. Our family had a prayer ceremony in our traditional way which included our many friends in the days following Dr. Kings death. On the day of his funeral my father and mother called their seven children together for a remembrance, the placement of Dr. Martin L. King’s picture next to the picture of John F. Kennedy. Each frame with a black ribbon draped on the upper right corner of the frame. It would be two months later we would add another picture to the wall, almost to the day, Robert ”Bobby” Kennedy would also fall to an assassins hand. And the eerie events would play out again.
An event that occurred within a few days of our family’s remembrance ceremony occurred in the living room of our home that will live with me forever. It is important to understand the racially charged atmosphere of the 60’s was bad. Really bad! Nothing like today, but then, lynching men of color happened with great frequency, even Red men. Churches were fire bombed, houses and barns were set ablaze, and people were declined service at restaurants, movie theaters, and retail outlets. Police would not hesitate to club a woman, kick a child in to the path of an on coming vehicle, turn loose a dog on a play ground. Stop a car, and the occupants would just disappear. Be subject to be searched, and your money, possessions as simple as a wrist watch or groceries would be taken. All because you weren’t white, you were treated differently. I know … I lived through this. The activity of the Klu Klux Klan was rampant, brazen and prevalent, throughout the whole of the nation and sadly awash in the Armed Forces. As a few of my fathers friends entered into the living room, a man whom my father had known, for a while made the comment “ Why would you have that “Ni****’s picture next to the president much less in your home at all?”
“My father impressed me with his demeanor, frankness, calmness and courage. He then said “ I want you to sit down and listen to me very closely, you are my friend and I hope you remain my friend, but you will need to understand me, my family and why I honor these great men.”
His friend had the look of astonishment in his eyes as my father continued.
“ It was in the year 1837 when the whole of the United States Army entered into the Cherokee Nation and during the process of the removal of our family was reduced to just one. It was a Freedman, Phillip Williams, a former Negro slave that saved our Grandmother Ema, who was a newborn not even a day old, when he threw himself between the soldiers and the baby. At great risk to his own life he stopped the shooting and with the last gasp of Ema’s mother, she past baby Ema to Phillip. He would rear Ema and return her to the Cherokee nation five years later in the Indian Territory today known as Oklahoma.”
My father would go on to say, “This black man, is responsible for me being alive today, I even possess his name as well as my sons. To honor this man, Phillip Williams, who I imagine to be embodied in the character of Dr. Martin L. King and John F. Kennedy. My skin color maybe red, but my heart doesn’t know color, my eyes don’t see color, but my being knows character and a good human being. And with respect of Dr. M. L King will always be honored in this home, because he and others make it possible for me not to hate you, or despise anything good. No matter the source, I will always fight oppression, but I will always welcome peace and Dr. King is no less the man than Phillip Williams. Do you understand me?”
This man whose name I remember as Davis, did listen, and replied yes. His family was one of the families that moved in to the Cherokee Nation town of Tellico, which is near the city of Memphis today. His family was literally on the heals of the Army during the removal. He knew from the stories passed down, that these things occurred. He also understood … felt the conviction of my fathers belief. It was years later that I learned my father had saved Davis life in Korea after he had been wounded. They were brothers of the strongest bond, they were brothers of the band, a brotherhood born by fire ... it is never broken. They remained the best of friends till the end of their days. There friendship is a friendship that no man, government or ideology could break. They worked together from that point, where Davis never mentioned slurs, remarks of slang or color again. He would stand-up against anyone who would dare to tell an off color joke. He would confront racism at every juncture; he even hung a picture of Dr. King on the wall, not only in his home, but in his office as well. So forthright had Davis became, he was a savior to a woman who was distressed upon stabilizing her life. He assisted her to reach the goal of self sufficincy. She named her first son Davis to honor him. He asked her if she would also give her son the middle name Martin. She so agreed. The greatest honor a person can receive is to have a child carry your name, and story as to why.
Dr. King had this incredible affect on a person’s character. I know, I have witnessed it. I saw first hand the incredible affect that Dr. Martin Luther King on just one person’s life, and how it had a domino effect. Years later to this day the effect is not yet complete, but with each successive generation, I can honestly say it has made an extraordinary change on how we see, perceive, and engage our fellow human beings. We as a People have come far, yet we have a long way to go.
IROQVN! I said that! In remembrence, William Bishop, Detroit Michigan
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Apr 2, 2008 | 8:09 AM
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A blogger wrote:
[I] understand what you mean if a black person says black power [and] nobody says nothing[.] [I]f a me[x]ican flys the mexican flag nobody cares[,] but[,] let a white person show pride in there own race[,] we [are] racists [.] [W]e need to stop say[ing] [A]frican [A]merican and [M]exican [A]merican and all those other things and just say were americans. [I] mean on vernor they make a bigger deal out of senco de mayo may ,the fifth then they do out of the fourth of [J]uly .
I responded:
And in my culture we make a big deal out of "The Green Corn Festival, an Earth Ceremony, a Pow Wow, Warriors Day (Veterans Day)and the Friends Ceremony" all are welcome, for it is a celebration life. It's a tough road to hold, walking in two worlds, one traditional and the other contemporary. Our lives are further complicated in that the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees our first five freedoms; speech, the practice of religion, press, assembly and the petition for the redress of grievances.
When I wear a symbol of my faith and culture I run the risk of being arrested. I once forgot to secure my medicine bag when I was passing security at the federal building, and was read the riot act by the security guards, and they were both Black and White, and didn't realize that they weren't allowed to handle it! But on the same token, we are not allowed to practice our faith ... even today, in this day and age. The fear of the "Ghost Dance" still un-nerves this government, it would hearken the mistaken warning "the hostiles are on the war path." Far be it from the truth ... it is a dance to honor ... the "Holy Spirit ... Holy Ghost" of the Christian Faith in the traditional way. The only sin that may not be forgiven, the blaspheming of the Holy Ghost. Any that do so are condemned.
Remember that the nationality of Mexicans are comprised of 80% indigenous (Principled) Peoples 20% European decent; and by treaty, the highest law of the land guarantees them free travel from pole to pole. And the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo) is the independence celebration achieved from Spain and France that is on par with colonial independence from England.
It is a goal of this country's mandate to celebrate independence of any People that sheds the yoke of oppression. It is an American cultural standard that every veteran of the armed forces fights for, whether they realize it or not. Maybe that is why the American GI was selected as the Citizen of the 20th Century. It is sad the whole of the American populace fails to know, understand or recognize that measure. Then again the functional illiteracy rate at 65-85% accounts for that; evidenced by a deplorable high school graduation rate.
IROQVN! I said that!
William Bishop, Detroit Michigan
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Apr 2, 2008 | 6:39 AM
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Originally posted by lexis_babeFOUND ON U TUBE,,
In the White churches I’ve been to if you were found to be cheating on your wife and lied under oath, you would be an outcast in your church. Apparently black churches work differently, apparently black churches really don’t care about the truth or the moral righteousness of their church members, apparently as long as you’re black you have amnesty to lie, cheat and steal while still having the support of every baptist church in Detroit…..
All you dumb white people who are still holding onto some thread of hope that Detroit will get better are fooling yourselves. Wake UP! Blacks are the most racist group of humanoids on the planet and we essentially handed control over to them and now we expect them to return the favor, they’re laughing at us. This similar situation happened in South Africa in the 70’s when the White South Africans turned over control of their country to blacks, now Johannesburg is the rape capital of the world and they can’t install enough security cameras on public streets or hire enough cops to minimize it.
I have to check you and this errant U Tube poster on a few things. Xenophobic pejorativism was … is still rampant. Centrist views that you have expressed are lacking a historical knowlege that resulted in the mass genocide, ethnic cleansing … extermination of 150 million people solely at the hands of Euro-Anglo-Americans. So through and efficent was the method that a 20th century tyrant employed it as a part of his plan to rid the world of his definition of vermin, in his "T-9 Program." In the 19th and late as the 1970's the " Eugneics" movement had the contiued practice of which Michigan was the leader. Various captains of industry and politicans were awarded honoary doctorate degrees from the University of Hidelburg Germany at the behest of this dictator through the 1930's. As an example, in 1869 there were over 80 million American Bison … the Buffalo. By 1878 there were approximately only … 36 breeding pair! In removing undesirables, the ameicans are very efficent, this dictator pointed out, and are to be emulated. The idea of mass genocide wasn't his ... he copied it ... method and procedure from the americans. The truth hurts, but until it be released the chance of the lie continuing has the inate habit of rearing its ugly head.
The Cherokee Nation that resided on roughly one fifth of the land area of the now current united states, were herded into stockades. No matter there activity or state of dress and attire, they were herded. If they didn’t move to the satisfaction of the whole of the united states army … they were shot … murdered on the spot.
But I digress, the first of the Nations no longer to exist, like the Narragansett, the Seawii, or Catawba a few of the many, they were snatched bit by bit then eventually in whole; removed from the Americas in bondage and sold into slavery throughout the world, especially in Spain, Italy, and Portugal. The funds derived from the initial sales were to finance the African slave trade began.
Back to the Cherokee nation … those that survived the first wave, were interned to stockades and through the early fall and into the winter thousands died; of starvation, exposure, the diseases caused by close cohabitation and the introduction of Small Pox. Of the survivors 16,000 started on the trek to the Indian territories of now Oklahoma. Through the cruel dead of winter, half clothed, no blankets, food, or shoes, the Principled People were forcibly marched 800 miles. The path were the cried, known as “The Trail of Tears” was litteed with the bodies of children, the infirm, the crippled and old, resulted in less than 6,000 Principled People arriving. The remainder of the year saw their numbers reduced another 1500 to 2000 people. There was nothing to shield them from the open harsh west ern winter. No preperation was made to receive them.
You would ask how is that possible, how is that known, is it factual? Oh it’s factual alright, the arrogant and brazen ameicans kept accurate records;a running body count of sorts. The goal … extermination of the Principled Peoples, inclusive not only the Cherokee, but also, the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole. The Seminole, which means the outlanders were remnants of these four nations that refused to submit and scattered, then banded together, and made there way to Florida; they continued the struggle to lead into the longest continuing war in the history of the united states, they will not surrender and the united states has tried everything to exterminate them, even to the extent of draining the Everglades; which created a climatic catastrophe and the World turned on Washington till they put the water back in the Everglades. The war continues today and the united states is laughed at every time the issue of human rights charges are leveled at any country by the united states.
Now my point, did you really understand the centrism effected by Europeans on these native shores? Did you realize that your grandfathers put the burden of payment on your back? Do you realize that when cultures are belittled and centrist bashing occurs that the limited intelligence of the off- spring of the slavers show themselves to be more cruel than their early relations? No you didn’t do it … but you are accountable. So before any general,broad and sweeping statements of a cultural group of different People are leveled … think of the source of hate being repeated and where from it origins truly emanates. Think before you speak or repeat that which is inflamatory,derogatory or degrading least you appear a fool; and a fool speaks unwisely to never have credibility...again. There is no me with you, there is no us without them, we are in this together ... whether we want this or not. These are dire times and I flat refuse to allow one fool be the determinate to bring a statifcation across the whole of our community. I will work to ensure that seven generations from now, children you and I will never see, will have a viable world to live in. We inherit nothing but debt and we take from our children. When will this cycle stop? When do you want the cycle to stop? What do you want for your children? I want them to live in peace with mine. Will you let them?
IROQVN! I said that!
William Bishop, Detroit Michigan
Apr 1, 2008 | 10:29 PM
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Political
It was opening day … where was the Mayor?
The opening day of baseball, featuring the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals was a spring debut that brought on all the excitement of a sports major event barely rivaled by a world championship in terms of spectators. The streets were jammed with cars and droves of people that one would imagine a tsunami had washed into downtown Detroit. From Midtown to Fox Town, the crowds were enormous. Where was the Mayor?
The parking lots, vacant blocks, curbs on both sides of streets, where ever a car could park, found its way into each and every nook and cranny. A financial shot in the arm for the lot owners, and unfortunately for the “Dustys”; criminals that seek opportunity to conduct car theft or shattering windows and empting the contents of the vehicle. None of which deterred the enthusiasm of the tens of thousands that convened at Comerica Park; and the watering holes, hotels, and eateries that were packed to capacity and overflow crowds; lining up along the walk ways waiting to gain entry for more fun and good times.
Still, no saw the Mayor.
The fans came from far and near, to participate as spectators in the annual ritual of opening day. The bars had long lines as early as 6:30am are waiting. As the morning progressed, the lots filled strait up Woodward Avenue; past the Chrysler, past Sproat, past Temple, Peterborough and beyond Martin Luther King. The Parallel avenues of 2nd and 3rd were no different. The cars packed with fans, custom coaches, charter coaches, busses of all sizes, mini vans and SUVs all packed with fans. Mission; opening day at the ball park, the boys of summer are home again. Nobody had seen the Mayor.
With the pre-game festivities melting into the start of the contest, a fly over by war birds of the Air Force; thunderous and loud added to the enthusiasm of the crowd packed stadium, the color guard and national anthem heralded the opening pitch. This year by Michigan’s own Miss America. However in past years, the honor reserved for his Honor the Mayor. His absence definitely remarked upon but yet not missed. For you see, had the mayor performed this pleasurable civic duty. Most likely his ever brazen ego would suffer some sense of humility as the crowd would boo him off the mound and out of the park. Yes, the mayor hid out this year, because more so than not, a show of the citizens displeasure as to not only his adultery, but culmany, pandering, theft, perjurious, cheating, and possible murderous ways would meet with such thunderous heckling, he would not be able to deny that the people are not with him, for him and beside him. If anything the people are behind him … with a big boot ... to kick the fool out of office.
And that’s no April Fools joke.
Mar 25, 2008 | 3:16 PM
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Political
Three Witches of Eastwood[ward] or Oliver Betrayed the start of the fall.
When Jerry Oliver worked his way up to be the Commander and Chief of Police of a major metropolitan police department he never envisioned that he would be betrayed by the very people he hand selected to help him clean up the police department’s graft and corruption. To restore the Departments dignity and the Officers to be Detroits Finest; that when you saw a person in blue that they would be true to the motto “To Protect and Serve.” To curtail police officer homicide of the very people they were to protect, to protect arrestees, which are presumed to be innocent, until proven guilty by their peers, and not suffer pretrial death. . The number of deaths of Detroit citizens at the hands of the police department was so deplorable and horrendous, the Department of Justice jumped in the operations of the DPD.
Jerry Oliver was the go to man by then Mayor Archer, to right the wrongs and clean up the town. The ball was rolling … then a new "hip-hop demon " Mayor came to town … a thug and gangs'ta wanna-be. Kwame Kilpatrick, aka Callme Thugtrick a Mayor of Irish/African descent that practiced the politics of Tammy Hall with the ire and art of an ancient East Indian Thuge. This combination of specious characteristics soon reveled itself through greed, rumored murder, fat cat deals, wheeling the city coffers like he was the proprietor of his very own money printing press … to the tune of 10’s of millions of dollars. He was living the high life on the public dime.
There were road blocks in the way of this Demon Mayor … and one of them was Chief Jerry Oliver. The mayor to realize his total control of the forceful DPD needed to circumvent the honorable Chief. Moles like they were KGB converts were surrounding the Chief of Police. His Chief of Staff Shereece Fleming-Freeman and the assistant Chief of Police “The Bully” the two most trusted positions that Chief of Police could call upon to uphold the honor of the department, by helping him revamp the department and restore the prominence the department had been lacking; conspired with Christine Beatty to force the Chief to retire. It was though the “Ides of March were happening while the song “Smile in your face … the back stabbers…”played in the background.
Within the hours of his retirement the witch known as “The Bully” set to satisfy the mayor and his wife and his chief of staff with her pledge of hommage; the aquisition of not one but two Lincon Mercury SUV's . This wasn’t ménage-a-tois; this was the beginning of a straight up orgy in a den of evil. A coven with a Luciferious Warlock and his three witches of Eastwood[ward] casting their textspells with live sacrifices; Tamara Green that we know of … and how many others we don’t.
The minions of ministers would muster the conned-regations to chant “he ours, leave him alone” over and over.. The ministers and their councils, their weakness " the love of $$$, falling to lick hooves of the Demon Warlock Mayor to receive his $$$$ favors. Their hommage payment, preach the worship of the Demon Mayor and they continued the spell of confusion cast over the minds of the groups of amoral Detroit denizens; weak in mind, principals, conduct and morals. Yes, the “I gots mines – I gots the hook up – It about the bling and I gots mines, leave the mayor alone.”
The citizens whom believe in fairness, justice and sincereity, that effort becomes honest diligence and fair remuneration. The people with heart, vision, and friendship in their hearts see through the lies and culmany. They will bring to justice the one smitten by the lost, because the Warlock Mayor promises good times of feeling good, the effects of a narcotic induced dream, now ends and his nightmare begins … his pact with Satan corrupted he must now pay the price, because he is a lifeless man walking, his soul collected, his eternity ends.
He has been charged and now the he must walk a gauntlet, and soon the net cast wide for those that would mock and corrupt truth, oaths and honorable people, will no longer be able to hide in the shadows … they are being exposed by the clear, clean light of Law applied. And those that conspired, the “Thee Witches of Eastwood[ward], one is at the burning stake… two to go!
IROQVN! I said that! William Bishop, Detroit Michigan
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Mar 24, 2008 | 1:57 AM
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Mr. Anthony Adams, Deputy Mayor of the City of Detroit,
Political Appointee Deputy Mayor Adams of the City Detroit, you said that” …after talking to several other prosecutors and attorneys, it is their understanding that for someone to be charged after a civil trial with perjury, to be highly unusual.” Well it is my understanding that we shall see.
Consider the following --- Mr. Deputy Mayor (DM) did you discuss how highly unusual the situation is here in Detroit? Mr. DM did you discuss how highly unusual the amount of money the Mayor and his cronies have stolen from the City Detroit? Did you tell them how the obscene theft of funds involved the highly unusual method of using the legal resources of the City of Detroit to “lie” to the City of Detroit City Council, to get these funds released?
Did the people you talk to know the following: Why Mr. DM, you were principal in the Mayors operations, you should know …. Oh hell, you should be charged too. “You don’t look like a laya, so you gots ta be a playa.”
Did you direct the highly unusual interdiction teams to obstruct justice? Did you direct the legal team to prevent the highly unusual timely arrival of Sky-tels copies of 14, 000 text messages from reaching the court in time? How is it you were not at any of the Mayors parties? You mean to tell me and every one else you don’t have any “professional women working for you?” There nothing wrong about it, but are you still in the closet and are you on the “down low?” “Call the ball DM, walk the hall. Holla. Holla!”
Mr. DM did you explain that the Mayor you serve is always exposed in some seedy position in some motel, hoetel, or brothel at taxpayers money? Is that highly unusual? Then he and his sex texted moaning hoes are also on the public dole? Wouldn’t you think that was highly unusual?
Mr. DM you have no credibility, if you are the alleged advisor to the Mayor then you did him a disservice and failed, him, the city, and importantly … the people. You ... need to resign!
I see charges coming your way because; your each and every movement from day one requires accountability of your non-tranparent activities. I believe that you have been operating under the radar scope, because you are the facilitator, the man in the shadow, the bag man, message man, the Mayors “cloak and dagger capo.” You direct the others of the Goon Patrol to keep the treasury open and to drain the bank. In my opinion, I believe you are the King Pin of the Mayors Henchmen, Your are evil and despicable, and utterly disgusting. Your only interest is that the Mayor rides, till you finish filling your off shore accounts. That is highly unusual, don't you think?
Is it highly unusual to ask direct questions and not get direct answers? Is it highly unusual for the Mayor to wave his arrogance and use Jesus as a con? Is it highly unusual for a corrupt crook of a politican to visit the inside of prison cell?
These are questions for the people to answer by way of courts, inquires, investigations and audits. Charges need be made and the people need to make the case. And then the people will make the call. Is that highly unusual? It might cost millions more, but, it will be money well spent to ensure that justice is served. If found innocent, that would be highly unusual, but good luck. More likely the Mayor and all of his capos, rats, goons and bullies can reopen a closed prison to accommodate him and his entourage. . Here’s an idea, how about Michigan open a prison exclusively for the confinement of politicians and public servants that have over stepped the boundaries of their office? Sure could be a money maker, there doesn’t appear to be any shortage of willing guests that continue to skirt the law. You know what I mean Vern because that isn't highly unusual!
IROQVN! I said that! William Bishop, Detroit Michigan
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Mar 21, 2008 | 2:21 AM
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The issue of race surfaced in a very derogatory manner that was just devious and plain ignorant. A blogger on the boards submitted this query:
“If you refer to yourself as African-American I would like to know what part of Africa you are from and if your here on a visa, legally or did you sneak in[?]”
Okay, enough is enough … the ignorance of some very misguided individuals never cease to amaze me. Number one, Modern Human beings; known as Sapiens are not the first Humans. We are the Humans beings that became prevalent and dominant as other Humans became extinct or were absorbed into the dominate Homo sapiens. For whatever reasons, the previous humans could not compete, and became extinct. Number two, there is not any class of subhuman or subspecies of sapiens: “all Human beings” respective the color of one’s skin and body features, as varied as they are or of their abilities are the same, without fail. We are “all” of the same lineage, we all possess DNA, and the mDNA following the haploid factor has been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt, originates from “Africa!”
Do you racist, centrist and socially challenged twisted rapscallions get it?
The closest relative to Human being’s are the Simians, specifically Chimpanzees, revel a difference of only 1.6% of the genetic code shared by Humans and Simians. That means that 98.4% of the genetic code that makes up Chimpanzees and Human beings is the same. And guess what, this separation, relatively speaking in terms of life on this planet, occurred recently. Not yesterday, but within the last two million years with the dawning of the first on this planet only started in the last 2.5 billion years, and the events that gave rise to mammals and fishes only occurred in the last 270 million years. The class of Mammals know as Homos only had its first appearance in the last two million years. In the galactic scale that is very, very recent. Humans as a group have barely emerged; however our presence has presented immediate ramifications, especially in the last millennium; with an emphasis in the last 150 years, a mere sigh in terms of time.
The self absorbed sniveling individuals won’t get their minds around this issue, because their centrist believe is they are the center of the universe. Their conceptualization of the world is supremacy over the whole of a biosphere which is to serve their every whim; based on their mutant minds, rancid with malformed conceptions of synthetic paradigms on the whole of life. Truth, facts and evidence are subordinate to superstition, fear and greed. Their solution to any situation is to run off to the nearest David Duke Rally or stand over the grave of Jerry Farwell crying their heart out that the Earth rotates around the Sun and we tra