Contemplate life....What else is there to do there?![]()
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Contemplate life....What else is there to do there?![]()
Nothing new under the sun. In Canada and in Germany clergy blessed troops and weapons as sons of mothers and fathers were ordered to murder one another. While industrialists, specializing in weaponry, counted the profits with somber delight.I really don't understand how the churches can ignore this greed, murder and brutality.
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Nothing new under the sun. In Canada and in Germany clergy blessed troops and weapons as sons of mothers and fathers were ordered to murder one another. While industrialists, specializing in weaponry, counted the profits with somber delight.
I have been employed by the UCC for twenty years. No one wants to talk to me. Why? I see what is going on with a fair degree of clarity. This began in my youth. And all along the way I have tried to open the understanding of others in the hope of realizing democratic potential. This with Socrates in view. The ethical citizen as the cornerstone of a free and responsible social order.
If I am found carrying a small pouch of herb and pipe the law has freedom to punish me. This while corporate greed drives the poisoning of children and youth with addictive substances profoundly detrimental to the developing child. The rise of fast food profits is congruent with the rise in obesity and diabetes in children and youth. A major health determinant indicating the rise of pulmonary and cardiac distress. Where is the law? Where is the outcry of the Church? The refusal of the population?
The Hebrew God consistently calls forward truth tellers where power has overstepped its bounds. These truth tellers are consistently rejected. Often imprisoned and too often murdered. Why? This pattern is revealed in the Christian story about Jesus. His compassionate inclusion of the religiously and politically excluded persons of the land is considered seditious. Why? It inspires the imagination of an oppressed population, who aspire to liberation and restoration of the common good. Which in our day, as in days past, continues in servitude to private interest.
I have a point of view on our common experience in the phenomenal realm. I have been led for nearly forty years along the way of making that point of view clear. I am not there yet. I am much encouraged by the voices from all places by which the way of power restlessly striving after power is creatively and courageously resisted.
"O Canada! We stand on guard for you." This important concept is rendered ironic where sung by a mass audience at some sport spectacle. We will become citizens or we will perish. Folk on another page are looking at the story of Job. There are times when we are afflicted by the consequence of rebellion. This is best taken as a time of refinement. A stripping away of all that hinders and a liberation of all that helps.
George
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This is an important captured moment. It indicates my relationship to power. Stephen Harper was conversing with folk inside. I walked through the front door of the legislature and was immediately told that I was not permitted entrance. The person just behind me is one of Harper's police escort. He has his fist in the small of my back. One defensive move and the handcuffs come out. Previous experience taught me to be non reactive. A player on a stage playing a part. This to communicate an insight. In Canada our public buildings have all been privatized. By increments the security structures have overcome the liberty of the citizen. This by resort to the doctrine of fear. They stress that this is not power taking control. It is power protecting you from the other who threatens from all direction. Those not prone to reflection on their lived experience swallow this rationalization whole.
Almost all of Trump's moves have been aimed at diverting more money to the rich, and away for everybody else, most especially the poor. According to a very recent UN report, the U.S. has, of all the wealthy countries, the worst income gaps, the worst (and most) poverty, the shortest life expectancy. It's worst in other categories, too - like public education. Mind you, Canada is not exactly flashing ahead. It's close to the U.S. toilet by a disturbingly close margin. The area Canada leads in is medical care - and that is owing to neither the Liberals or the Conservatives. And, certainly, it is not owing to the efforts of Canadian capitalists who would dearly love to move us further into the American model.
This has all the earmarks of a nation in decline. As this continues, we will see an acceleration of the trend of Americans to vote against rather than for anything. And that will mean a breakdown of social and economic patterns - and rising violence and disorder.
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All wars now are wars against whole societies - civilians, children, babies...Troops rarely meet on the battlefield. Bombers carry the war. And bombers have been deliberately sent to kill civilians since 1920. Obama inherited wars that he did not change. He continued the starvation of Yemen civilians and children. There was no cessation in the American pattern of wars. I have no doubt that Obama made some improvement for race relations in the U.S. It has not, in fact been a great one - but I don't see how he could have done more.
He did nothing to end murder by drones, nothing to end the horror of Yemen, nothing to heal the destruction in Guatemala, nothing to improve relations with Venezuela....
She was at a meeting with him today. Seriously, I did not think that
she looked all that well.
What a truly cool idea. The end of professional politicians.