Pen - A Poem by William Gomes

| by William Gomes

[ May 14, 2012, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka Guardian]

They want me to say what they want

They want me to write what they want

They want me to thought like them

They want to hold my PEN !

Who are they?

They are DOG

No, they are not

DOGS are faithful!

They are Elites!

Who are they?

They are liars!

They are slaves!

They don't want to be free

They are enemies of freedom

Who are they?

They call them intellectuals

They get awarded for telling lies

They get awarded for killings the truths

Who are they?

They are the elites

They are everywhere!

They are in, first page to last page

They are in RED and BLACK

They want to defame me

They want to kill me

They want to make me silent

I will not stop!

My PEN will not stop!

Even on my death!

My sprit will speak up!

Who I am?

I am PEN

I am an ordinary man

I am free!

I think freely!

I write freely!

I am free !

You will find out among the poorest

You will find me in struggle for peace

You will find me in struggle for truth
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Re: GOP Establishment makes a mockery of the democratic process in Oklahoma

MJ i ask are we to hold our noses and let big government republicans neocons continue with big government policies and back romney? i voted for ron paul in our primary.and i will vote for romney in the general election but i would vote for a viable third party if it got rid of obama what do you think?

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:06 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

May 12, 2012
GOP Establishment makes a mockery of the democratic process in Oklahoma
Kevin Kervick

The GOP in Oklahoma has some explaining to do.

As of this writing, the GOP convention in Oklahoma is being continued in the parking lot because the temporary chair ended the convention illegitimately before a roll call for delegate selection could take place. Party rules state that a convention can be ended if two thirds of the attendees approve dissolution. Apparently that did not happen, but the temporary chair adjourned anyway before scheduled business was completed. Consequently, a group of disenfranchised attendees decided to continue the proceedings outside (video) in what is known as a Rump convention.

Instead of conducting a roll call vote, which is required by Party rules, the chair asked for a voice vote for a predetermined delegate slate that was favorable to Mitt Romney, despite objections from the floor. The reason provided for this decision according to the chair, apparently oblivious to influence from the audience, was that 'It was the way they always did it'. This appears to be a clear case of Establishment GOP corruption because the insiders wanted to select a slate of delegates that was not supported by the majority of attendees at the convention.

This turn of events came at the end of a long afternoon during which there was a lot of animosity in the air. This video contains a conversation with a Ron Paul supporter who witnessed some violence perpetrated against a fellow Ron Paul supporter by a person who was identified as an older 'Establishment guy'. According to this report, the older gentleman hit the Ron Paul supporter in the back of the head. The Sergeant at Arms intervened to remove the Ron Paul supporter but apparently did nothing to the man that hit him.

Later, an observer at the scene said that after the convention prematurely ended, the lights were immediately turned off and the walls to the convention center started to close in on the attendees. One person in attendance told me he believes the portable walls were rearranged in a manner that made it possible to exclude voters from affected districts from the ongoing process. Roberts' Rules of order, which are supposed to govern the convention, were flatly ignored as the GOP pushed its autocratic agenda.

Contrary to popular belief, nominees for the Republican Party are not selected when the state holds its local caucuses. That vote is nothing more than a beauty contest designed to gauge the popular support for candidates. The delegates that select the eventual nominee are selected at state conventions. In this way, the candidate that has the best grass roots support and the most invested supporters often sees improved chances when the state conventions convene.

This is the way the Founders envisioned the process working because they wanted the citizens that were most invested in the outcome to have the greatest influence. They feared the tyranny of the majority, which is a flawed pure democracy system in which a special interest could galvanize a majority of voters to select a poor candidate who might be supportive of a particular popular agenda or be a favorite of a big money interest that can buy a lot of votes. This is precisely what GOP operatives seem to have attempted to orchestrate in Oklahoma in an attempt to force Mitt Romney on a group of delegates that wanted to vote for Ron Paul.

In Oklahoma, the party leaders made a complete mockery of the democratic process. According to many witnesses on the scene in Oklahoma, and with verifiable evidence from a live video feed from the event, the following violations to Roberts' Rules of Order occurred.

·       Delegate credentials were never verified.

·        A convention chair was never appointed, which is required by Party rules.

·        Many motions on the floor and calls for division were ignored by the existing chair.

·        The temporary chair adjourned the convention even though the vote to adjourn was rejected by an estimated two thirds of the attendees.

When the meeting was adjourned after the corruption that had ensued previously, a group of stalwarts decided to take matters into their own hands and take over the process. They gathered people inside the hall and summoned them to meet in the parking lot. This is entirely consistent with the rules of order, which allow for participant action when the presumed leaders act with impunity to operate outside of the rules.

Consequently, the real Oklahoma Republican Party convention occurred after many of the participants had already left. The parking lot convention elected a convention chair who conducted the proceedings with confidence and dignity. After several hours of procedural meandering and roll call votes, the real slate of delegates was selected.

As the parking lot convention waned, participants started cheering and chanting 'Ron Paul Ron Paul' and 'We cannot be bought', which was an obvious reference to the Romney campaign which has been repeatedly accused of paying people to endorse the Governor and to serve as his delegates. All of this was captured live by a feed that sent the proceedings around the world on the internet.

Preliminary estimates are that Congressman Paul captured 95% of the Oklahoma delegates. This was an amazing feat and a political coup of epic proportions.

The Ron Paul Revolution continues.

https://www.examiner.com/article/gop-establishment-makes-a-mockery-of-the-democratic-process-oklahoma

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Re: Letter to the Editor

hegelian dialect plain and simple.

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:04 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Here is a letter I just wrote to the editor of my hometown newspaper.  I am really tired of all the letters worshipping our military 'heroes'.  Thanks for inspiring me.

To the Editor,

Please don't call me 'America Hater'.  It's tough for me to understand all this military worship. I retired from the military.  I flew Special Operations aircraft and logged combat time.  I flew supersonic jets in pilot training.  It was a blast.

How did I 'defend freedom'?  Our government today limits our freedom by regulating EVERY aspect of our lives.  But those same politicians order the military to go 'defend our freedom'.

Compare that to  the private sector.  Businesses ask for nothing except a chance to make your life better and they work their butt off to do it, or go out of business.  In the military the taxpayers were forced to pay for my flying.  American private businesses have shown the world why freedom is so wonderful by giving us the greatest wealth in history.  Business has done this despite being hamstrung by ridiculous regulations from our 'freedom-defending' government.  What has the military, through the government, given us?  From 1981-2001, there were 42 suicide missions against the US.  From 9/11 to 2011, there were 1,833, according to The University of Chicago's Project on Security and Terrorism.

Don't military members die for our freedom?  In 2010, there were 462 combat-related deaths.  The military had more deaths from suicide than combat in 2010.  Were all those deaths 'worth it'?  I have never felt threatened by an Afghani or Iraqi.  9/11 was run by Saudis that trained in Minnesota.

In 2010 6,210 private sector workers died to IMPROVE your freedom according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.  More truckers and farmers were killed doing their jobs, than military were killed doing theirs. If you look at deaths per 100,000 workers, military  doesn't even break the top 10.

Yet I am always thanked for my military service and told by the media that my corporation is greedy and evil.  Next time you feel like thanking someone, don't thank me.  Thank an entrepreneur or private sector employee.

Hal Cranmer

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Re: Were Americans Safe in 1965? in 1970?

we were less safe if you compare what terrorist are willing to do at this time we were very naive back then.

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Were Americans Safe in 1965? in 1970?
Posted by Michael S. Rozeff on May 13, 2012 09:47 AM

I conjecture that Americans were no less safe from foreign threats in 1965 and 1970 than they are now. How much did national security cost back then? In 2005 dollars that adjust for changed price levels, "national defense consumption expenditures and gross investment" ran at about a $60 billion annual rate in 1965. In 1970, it was running about $88 billion per year. This includes all military spending on paying military and support personnel, equipment, airplanes, bombs, wars, bases, etc. Suppose I am wrong. Suppose that Americans were not spending enough to feel safe. How much "under" might they be? Suppose that defense spending had to have been twice as large to make them feel safe. (Being off by a factor of 2 is intuitively generous, is it not?) Then, if you are a defense hawk who believes that military spending was too low to make Americans happy, I grant you figures of $120 to $176 billion.

Now, come ahead to 2012, also in 2005 dollars. This series is running at a rate of $808 billion (down from a high of $844 billion in mid-2011). I am saying that if Americans are no less safe now than then, military spending can be cut from $808 billion to $60-$88 billion without loss of security. That's a cut of about 90 percent or more. If you are a defense hawk, then the cut is to $120-$176 billion, which is a cut of 78 to 85 percent. This doesn't take into account population growth, which has risen by 50% since 1970. But counteracting that is the fact that the Soviet Union is gone, and I've allowed a factor of 100 percent for defense hawks. I conclude that defense spending could be cut by a minimum of 80 percent without compromising American safety. And if this were done, terrorist threats would actually decline because American provocations in foreign lands would be curtailed.

I've checked these numbers. The data are available here. They are real (price-adjusted) figures. I checked that here.

It seems unbelievable (astonishing) that real expenditures for the military could have increased so greatly without there having been any large-scale wars and in an era in which government didn't mobilize the whole population for war or impose wartime measures, until recently, that is, when it has instituted the DHS, the Patriot Act, disregarded the Constitution, ramped up torture and assassinations, started ruling by executive orders, and has taken police state measures.

But it did happen. It happened in two periods mainly: 1973 to 1992 and again from 2001 to the present.

In my opinion, the government's nature and its spending have both been hugely influenced by the military-industrial complex in this era. Between 1952 and 1965, military spending was between $55 to $60 billion a year, roughly. The Korean War drove it up from the $20 billion mark and it never went back. The Vietnam War drove it up to the $100 billion mark, and it never went back. After that war, it just went up, up and up relentlessly under Carter, Reagan, and Bush I until Clinton took office in 1992. Bush II resumed the upward drive and it hasn't yet stopped under Obama.

There is absolutely no need for such high spending. Americans were just as safe in 1950, 1960 and 1970. They didn't need to go to war in either Korea or Vietnam to have stayed safe, much less ramp up a military force after the Vietnam War ended.

The proponents of this war footing have persuaded large numbers of Americans that they are unsafe and must have an empire abroad to be safe. Goverment finds support in the press and in Congress for spending enormous amounts of money to maintain American military personnel overseas and/or to deploy expensive weapons systems everywhere.

This level of spending is totally irrational and unnecessary for safety. A look back to 1950, 1960 and 1970 reveals that. The collective purchase, deployment and use of excessive armaments is like any purchase of a good in that its utility is psychological. Pardon me, then, for saying that the psychology of the American public that keeps electing hawks and big military spenders to Congress is warped, sick and pathological. It is paranoid, overly fearful, overly aggressive, and stupid in its hatreds and prejudices.

This spending is also tremendously wasteful and harmful to economic progress. It is no accident that while this spending has been sharply rising, the median family income in the U.S. has been stagnant. Taxes are extracted to finance military spending that has no payback. Those taxes throttle private investment in projects that improve labor productivity, wages and productivity. The pool of savings that could go to free market activities is diverted into military waste. This is a heavy burden on the American economy.

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