Hi Rev. Jarvis and all,
I had to add the Rev. to Jarvis since I feel like what you have written is in
some ways most prophetic. I am not sure how we rid ourselves of greed since it
seems to be endemic to any pluralistic environment, however this does deserve a
good deal of thought.
Charlie.
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Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 11:10 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: I Am Disheartened to See So Many Progressives
Willing to Let the President off the Hook
Carl's Daily Sermon.
Letting president Barak(Prince of Peace)Obama off the hook is merely a
symptom of a deeper problem. In a word, Capitalism! If there were
ever anything good in Capitalism, it has been far out shadowed by its
silent partner, Greed. Greed, the Evil One. Until we come to
understand that Greed must be stamped out and ground into dust and
blown into outer space, until then we cannot allow such forms of
government as Capitalism to exist. Like a moldy pot of forgotten
beans, Greed breeds in the dark stench of rotting goop, waiting for a
chance to take control. Like a cancer, hidden deep within a person's
lung, Greed multiplies and grows, unless discovered and cut out. It's
the very nature of Greed to expand wherever it can. Yes, Capitalism
has lived past its time in the Sun, but if Greed is not dealt with, it
will not matter what system we set in place, Greed will find a way to
reclaim our Souls. If we get serious and look inside our own lives,
we can see how invasive Greed truly is. We cannot rub shoulders with
Greed, day after day, year in and year out, without being tainted.
We hear a great deal, and talk about a revolution that will wipe away
the corruption and misdirection in our nation. But until we deal with
our own lives, our own perceptions, we will continue to be faced with
growing Greed. Purging Greed from within our own Being is not as easy
as we might think. Our entire culture is built with Greed lurking in
all of the dark corners. We set out to right all of the wrongs,
strike down those shameless 1% Masters, with the best of intentions.
But once that horrific task is done, and we have set in place a new,
improved, all inclusive government, Greed begins again, deep within
the hearts of the very champions who led our fight for a better life.
Of course Capitalism is some of the most fertile soil for fast growth.
But so long as we divide ourselves into classes and nations, we will
simply be putting off the day when we will need to begin the struggle
again.
A total change of focus could begin the process of building a new,
free world. Putting ourselves as equal to all others, putting
ourselves in partnership with all other life on Planet Earth, and
declaring that "Profit" will henceforth be measured by how well each
of us contribute toward these goals.
We have allowed our Ruling Classes to overlay a phony system called,
"Material Wealth", and we all respond to it as if it were real. But
the real wealth of our Planet Earth is all that lives upon the Land
and within the Seas.
But it calls for a great shift in how we look upon our individual
lives. The long talked about revolution must begin within each of us.
We must encourage one another to help cleanse our minds of Greed. It
will not be an easy task, and we may never reach it before Greed
consumes, like a wild cancer, all that we are.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/5/16, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I agreewith every word here.
I was even more stunned at Obama's "stunt" when it happened and so were many
folks.
Now, while claims are made that filterred water is safe to drink we still
have a declared state of emergency and tests show the ppipe infrastrure is
improving, butstill not proven safe throughout the system. "Corroded clumps"
still float out through the system which is why residents have been
encouraged to run more water through the system to "coat pipes". Residents
were even given "free water" to encourage this through the month of May!
Yet, Obama made his stunt in April.
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 12:01 PM
Subject: [blind-democracy] I Am Disheartened to See So Many Progressives
Willing to Let the President off the Hook
Moore writes: "From the looks of it, the comments to my last Facebook
post,
in which I criticized our beloved President Obama for betraying Flint by
publicly drinking its water (and thus falsely implying to the world that
it
was clean and safe to drink), has caused a bit of a row."
Michael Moore. (photo: Nicolas Genin)
I Am Disheartened to See So Many Progressives Willing to Let the
President
off the Hook
By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
02 June 16
From the looks of it, the comments to my last Facebook post, in which I
criticized our beloved President Obama for betraying Flint by publicly
drinking its water (and thus falsely implying to the world that it was
clean
and safe to drink), has caused a bit of a row. I was also upset that
Michigan's governor still hasn't been arrested for poisoning Flint's
children, and the president still hasn't sent in the Army Corps of
Engineers
to replace Flint's damaged pipes.
From the reaction to my words, I guess it's clear that us Obama
supporters
fall essentially into two camps:
.Camp #1: Those who support the president unconditionally and without
question because not only has he done so much good for this country, he
needs every single one of us to stand and protect him from the
Congressional
obstructionists who have made it their mission to stop him from doing any
further good. They're right about that -- AND the fact that this Obama
Hatred is most definitely a race-based hatred. But then they take this
position: Anyone who says a single negative word about President Obama -
including those who do love him - are only helping the enemy.
. Camp #2: Those like me who voted for him twice -- the first time in '08
with great enthusiasm and emotion (truthfully, I teared up as I voted in
the
booth that day for Barrack Hussein Obama). Camp #2 is full of people who
give him great credit for what he's accomplished and consider him to be
possibly the best president in our lifetime -- BUT we are also
disappointed
that he squandered his opportunity to accomplish so much more in his
first
term when, during those first two years, the Republicans did not control
EITHER house of Congress. We are disappointed that he's deported more
people
than all past American presidents combined, imprisoned more
whistleblowers
than all past American presidents combined, and has our military
conducting
acts of war in SEVEN separate countries -- more continuous years of war
than
any president in our history (more than FDR, Lincoln, Johnson or Nixon,
according to last week's NY Times). This second camp of Obama supporters
believes it is our duty to encourage him to live up to his promises,
offer
criticism when he's wrong and aggressively support him when he needs our
help to stay strong and do the right thing. But we're different in this
one
way: We have never blindly supported any politician, no matter how good
she/he is, and we see our job as citizens is to keep them all honest (and
protect the good ones when needed from the bigots and the haters).
I'm always amazed that Camp #1 goes ballistic when Camp #2 speaks up and
offers any criticism of Barack Onama. Hillary Clinton has successfully
exploited this, taking direct aim at the Black community with her early
denouncing of Bernie Sanders as anti-Obama. Even though Sanders has
probably
voted for Obama's programs 95% of the time, the fact that he has dared to
question the White House's lackluster policing of Wall Street or why
GITMO
is still open has led him to being painted as some guy who doesn't have
the
president's back. It was Sanders who risked bodily injury committing acts
of
civil disobedience as part of the Civil Rights movement in the '60s while
Hillary was "evolving," eventually seeing the error of her ways as a
member
of the Young College Republicans, and evolving further in 2011 when she
admitted the error of her years-long fight against gay marriage, and
again
in 2015 seeing the error of her husband's "drug laws" (which she had once
enthusiastically supported) that kicked off 20+ years of ruthless mass
incarceration of African Americans). But as long she keeps repeating her
mantra that she'll continue doing whatever Obama is doing, implicitly
promising "a 3rd Obama term," well, that definitely seems cool with Camp
#1.
As to my Facebook post on Flint, I am disheartened to see so many
progressives willing to the let the president off the hook: "He didn't
cause
the problem!" "He's doing the best he can!" "He's got more important
issues
to deal with than Flint!"
That last one is the one that stings. Of course he had nothing to do with
poisoning the people of Flint. That was done by a Republican governor who
only did what he promised the voters in Michigan he'd do: give the rich a
billion-dollar tax break and cut services to poor cities like Flint. This
crime is on him -- and on the majority of my fellow Michiganders who
voted
for him.
But that's why we have someone like Barack Obama in the White House, to
protect us from those who would harm the voiceless and the defenseless --
NOT land in Flint and shake the governor's hand and tell the people all
is
well, "just make sure you get the right water filter." Wow. Then he
jetted
off -- and few have thought about Flint since. Admit it. Admit it to me.
It's OK. There's lots of things going on in your neck of the woods that
I'm
not thinking about today - it's a big country, and there's so much shit
that
needs stirring and we're all just doing the best we can do.
But the people of Flint have been poisoned -- NOT by a delapidated
infrastructure, NOT by bad environmental policy -- but by a decision made
by
the governor to cut corners and then pass the savings on to the rich --
all
the while knowing full well that the poor and Black of Flint had no way
to
fight back. That's not cynicism on the part of the governor -- that's
just
cold, calculated racism, a hate crime in any other advanced country.
That night, after Obama left town, I was deluged with calls and texts and
emails from people in Flint -- distraught, angry, abandoned, and resigned
to
their lives being ruined, their children with permanent, irreversible
brain
damage, their city, our city, destroyed. No one will move here, no
business
will bring jobs here, everyone knows what the true appraised value is of
their homes: $0 (which the state won't cop to because, if they did, how
could they ever collect the property taxes on $0?).
I love President Obama, and if his daughters happen to run across this
post
of mine on Facebook, I hope they show it to their Dad. I hope he knows
that
Camp #1, with their unconditional, unquestioning support of him might
feel
good, but it's those of us in Camp #2 who are going to make sure he
actually
lives up to the promise of who he is and why he wanted the job in the
first
place. We are the ones who want his legacy to be that, when everyone else
gave up on Flint, Michigan, and everyone else allowed the rich to plunder
away, he was the one had the courage to turn his back on his Wall Street
supporters and say "ENOUGH" and stop the madness in Flint. THAT is the
President Obama we believe is still there, the President Obama who will
be
remembered for saving thousands of children in a decimated town that was
once the best place in the world to live.
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valid.
Michael Moore. (photo: Nicolas Genin)
https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10153527139826857https://www.facebook
.com/mmflint/posts/10153527139826857
I Am Disheartened to See So Many Progressives Willing to Let the
President
off the Hook
By Michael Moore, Michael Moore's Facebook Page
02 June 16
rom the looks of it, the comments to my last Facebook post, in which I
criticized our beloved President Obama for betraying Flint by publicly
drinking its water (and thus falsely implying to the world that it was
clean
and safe to drink), has caused a bit of a row. I was also upset that
Michigan's governor still hasn't been arrested for poisoning Flint's
children, and the president still hasn't sent in the Army Corps of
Engineers
to replace Flint's damaged pipes.
From the reaction to my words, I guess it's clear that us Obama
supporters
fall essentially into two camps:
.Camp #1: Those who support the president unconditionally and without
question because not only has he done so much good for this country, he
needs every single one of us to stand and protect him from the
Congressional
obstructionists who have made it their mission to stop him from doing any
further good. They're right about that -- AND the fact that this Obama
Hatred is most definitely a race-based hatred. But then they take this
position: Anyone who says a single negative word about President Obama -
including those who do love him - are only helping the enemy.
. Camp #2: Those like me who voted for him twice -- the first time in '08
with great enthusiasm and emotion (truthfully, I teared up as I voted in
the
booth that day for Barrack Hussein Obama). Camp #2 is full of people who
give him great credit for what he's accomplished and consider him to be
possibly the best president in our lifetime -- BUT we are also
disappointed
that he squandered his opportunity to accomplish so much more in his
first
term when, during those first two years, the Republicans did not control
EITHER house of Congress. We are disappointed that he's deported more
people
than all past American presidents combined, imprisoned more
whistleblowers
than all past American presidents combined, and has our military
conducting
acts of war in SEVEN separate countries -- more continuous years of war
than
any president in our history (more than FDR, Lincoln, Johnson or Nixon,
according to last week's NY Times). This second camp of Obama supporters
believes it is our duty to encourage him to live up to his promises,
offer
criticism when he's wrong and aggressively support him when he needs our
help to stay strong and do the right thing. But we're different in this
one
way: We have never blindly supported any politician, no matter how good
she/he is, and we see our job as citizens is to keep them all honest (and
protect the good ones when needed from the bigots and the haters).
I'm always amazed that Camp #1 goes ballistic when Camp #2 speaks up and
offers any criticism of Barack Onama. Hillary Clinton has successfully
exploited this, taking direct aim at the Black community with her early
denouncing of Bernie Sanders as anti-Obama. Even though Sanders has
probably
voted for Obama's programs 95% of the time, the fact that he has dared to
question the White House's lackluster policing of Wall Street or why
GITMO
is still open has led him to being painted as some guy who doesn't have
the
president's back. It was Sanders who risked bodily injury committing acts
of
civil disobedience as part of the Civil Rights movement in the '60s while
Hillary was "evolving," eventually seeing the error of her ways as a
member
of the Young College Republicans, and evolving further in 2011 when she
admitted the error of her years-long fight against gay marriage, and
again
in 2015 seeing the error of her husband's "drug laws" (which she had once
enthusiastically supported) that kicked off 20+ years of ruthless mass
incarceration of African Americans). But as long she keeps repeating her
mantra that she'll continue doing whatever Obama is doing, implicitly
promising "a 3rd Obama term," well, that definitely seems cool with Camp
#1.
As to my Facebook post on Flint, I am disheartened to see so many
progressives willing to the let the president off the hook: "He didn't
cause
the problem!" "He's doing the best he can!" "He's got more important
issues
to deal with than Flint!"
That last one is the one that stings. Of course he had nothing to do with
poisoning the people of Flint. That was done by a Republican governor who
only did what he promised the voters in Michigan he'd do: give the rich a
billion-dollar tax break and cut services to poor cities like Flint. This
crime is on him -- and on the majority of my fellow Michiganders who
voted
for him.
But that's why we have someone like Barack Obama in the White House, to
protect us from those who would harm the voiceless and the defenseless --
NOT land in Flint and shake the governor's hand and tell the people all
is
well, "just make sure you get the right water filter." Wow. Then he
jetted
off -- and few have thought about Flint since. Admit it. Admit it to me.
It's OK. There's lots of things going on in your neck of the woods that
I'm
not thinking about today - it's a big country, and there's so much shit
that
needs stirring and we're all just doing the best we can do.
But the people of Flint have been poisoned -- NOT by a delapidated
infrastructure, NOT by bad environmental policy -- but by a decision made
by
the governor to cut corners and then pass the savings on to the rich --
all
the while knowing full well that the poor and Black of Flint had no way
to
fight back. That's not cynicism on the part of the governor -- that's
just
cold, calculated racism, a hate crime in any other advanced country.
That night, after Obama left town, I was deluged with calls and texts and
emails from people in Flint -- distraught, angry, abandoned, and resigned
to
their lives being ruined, their children with permanent, irreversible
brain
damage, their city, our city, destroyed. No one will move here, no
business
will bring jobs here, everyone knows what the true appraised value is of
their homes: $0 (which the state won't cop to because, if they did, how
could they ever collect the property taxes on $0?).
I love President Obama, and if his daughters happen to run across this
post
of mine on Facebook, I hope they show it to their Dad. I hope he knows
that
Camp #1, with their unconditional, unquestioning support of him might
feel
good, but it's those of us in Camp #2 who are going to make sure he
actually
lives up to the promise of who he is and why he wanted the job in the
first
place. We are the ones who want his legacy to be that, when everyone else
gave up on Flint, Michigan, and everyone else allowed the rich to plunder
away, he was the one had the courage to turn his back on his Wall Street
supporters and say "ENOUGH" and stop the madness in Flint. THAT is the
President Obama we believe is still there, the President Obama who will
be
remembered for saving thousands of children in a decimated town that was
once the best place in the world to live.
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