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All was well, as long as he didn't know Shayne had indirectly caused her death... |
Dinah went to Bosnia to retrieve a music box of Lara's, which she knew Shayne would treasure. While there she visited an orphanage in which Lara had taken an interest - and she, like Lara, was moved by the plight of the orphans. She mentioned it to her ex-husband and still friend, Springfield police detective A.C. Camaletti (better known simply as "Mallet"). He and his new wife Marina - younger than he, a former girlfriend of Shayne's - couldn't have a baby, and were having trouble adopting. So Mallet surprised Marina with a Bosnian baby he'd illegally adopted (to hurry things along, Dinah had posed as his wife). |
Too late, Dinah learned the baby wasn't really Bosnian. He was Lara's child, and Shayne - who hadn't known she was pregnant - was his father. Lara had been killed while on her way to tell Shayne they had a son. |
Before Shayne could learn this, he made the foolish mistake of telling Edmund his role in causing Lara's death. |
Edmund went ballistic. He didn't know about baby Henry (named for a deceased uncle of Marina's). But Reva and Jeffrey were married by then, and Reva had recently given birth to Colin. So he tried to take revenge on Shayne's kin by kidnapping Colin. Reva succeeded in stopping him. He got away, but killed a man while doing so. |
Not long afterward, a crisis involving Henry's blood - and Shayne's having the same rare blood type - led to everyone's learning the truth about Henry's parentage. Unfortunately, one of the people who learned about it was Edmund. He didn't learn about Henry's medical problem, and the possibility he might continue to need Shayne's blood. |
No one had thought Edmund would dare show his face in Springfield again. But a dead body found in the river was visually identified as his. Possibly due to a mix-up, it was quickly cremated, the ashes scattered in the lake. But the police had already determined how the man had died: from a blow to the head. It was definitely homicide. |
And in light of Edmund's previous attempt to kidnap Colin, it was a safe guess that this time, he'd been planning to kidnap and raise his grandson Henry. |
Virtually everyone who'd known Edmund, or had reason to care about Henry, had to be considered a suspect in the killing. Jonathan hadn't returned to Springfield at that time. But Shayne, Josh, Reva, Jeffrey, Marina, Mallet, and Dinah were all in the mix, as were Phillip Spaulding and his ex-wife Beth (Lizzie's parents, divorced but still in love, who had their own tortured history with Edmund). And everyone was suspicious of everyone else. |
Mallet discovered the handle of Henry's stroller was broken...and Marina claimed she didn't know how or exactly when it had been broken. He couldn't help thinking she'd interrupted a kidnap attempt, bashed Edmund over the head with the stroller, and dumped his body in the river. He was willing to assist in a cover-up. But Marina was outraged at her husband's even suspecting her, and not immediately, unequivocally, accepting her denial. |
And why, he wondered, would she have panicked and dumped the body? If she'd explained that she'd been foiling a kidnap attempt, protecting her baby, she almost certainly wouldn't have been charged with a crime. Everyone knew Edmund's character; he was infamous. |
But then the police found compelling evidence against someone else. Edmund's DNA was on file, and a tire iron with his blood on it was found...in Reva's car! On top of that, a reluctant witness reported that she'd overheard snatches of conversation in a park, near the river, shortly before the time Edmund was thought to have died. She'd been on the other side of a hedge. But knowing them both, she was sure the voices she'd heard were Edmund's...and Reva's. |
Reva had indeed been lying to the police - and to a now-furious Jeffrey - when she said she hadn't known Edmund was in the area. Now she admitted she'd seen and argued with him. She'd promised that if he left, she wouldn't get him in any more trouble by revealing he'd been in Springfield. (She'd been thinking, in particular, of her sometimes hotheaded husband. She didn't want him to jeopardize their happiness by doing something to Edmund that couldn't be justified as self-defense or defense of anyone else.) But she had no idea how that bloody tire iron had gotten in her car. |
If she was innocent, she'd seemingly had no good reason for not admitting after the body was found that she'd seen Edmund. Apparently, she'd just thought that if she and the killer were the only two people who'd known he was in town, and she was the only one who admitted it, the police would focus on her. |
In truth, having felt fairly confident that Jeffrey hadn't known Edmund was nearby, she'd suspected Shayne of the killing. And she'd feared that if suspicion fell on her, he'd confess. But now it seemed she really was going to take the fall! |
At least her marriage hadn't suffered any permanent damage. When she was arrested, Jeffrey arranged for her release on bail, and quickly forgave her for having lied about her knowledge of Edmund's whereabouts. He was still deeply, passionately, in love with her. And he believed her claim that she hadn't killed Edmund. |
Unknown to Reva, two separate stories were unfolding... |
#1: Jeffrey had come up with a theory - which he shared, confidentially, with Josh. Perhaps that body wasn't Edmund's! Shayne, who'd identified it, could have been mistaken; it had been in the water for some time. But there was another possibility. What if Edmund had a surgically-created double? Jeffrey himself was living proof such things were possible. |
If the body wasn't Edmund's...regardless of whether he or someone else had killed "John Doe," Edmund had planted the fake "murder weapon," with his blood on it, in Reva's car. |
Jeffrey decided that to test his theory, he'd have to go in search of Edmund. But he couldn't leave Reva at risk of being prosecuted for murder while he was gone. So with the assistance of a reluctant Josh, he planted "evidence" that would make him appear to be the killer. By the time the police followed up on a tip and discovered that evidence, Jeffrey would have - as it would appear - fled. Then, and only then, Josh could tell Reva what was really going on. |
(Yes, Jeffrey knew - beyond a shadow of a doubt - that Josh could be trusted to do that! Good-guy Josh had even offered to undertake the search himself, because Jeffrey had a wife and baby who needed him. Jeffrey convinced him that only he possessed the skills and experience that would be required to find and deal with Edmund.) |
#2. Dinah, who still had a soft spot in her heart for ex-husband Mallet, was distressed by the problems this situation had created for his marriage. On the day of her own wedding to Shayne - at the reception - she broke down and confessed to Mallet that she'd killed Edmund. She told him in private, but said she understood that he'd have to report it. |
She and Marina had been together for a while that day. They'd been in the park, and she'd agreed to watch Henry while Marina went off to do something else. Whatever it was, Marina's entire day had doubtless been so normal, so uneventful, that it was understandable she hadn't remembered - after a lapse of time - that she'd briefly left the baby with Dinah. |
Edmund had snatched Henry out of the stroller, and Dinah had clobbered him with the stroller. She'd dumped his body in the river before Marina returned. And on their way back to Marina's house, she'd volunteered to push the stroller, so Marina wouldn't immediately notice the broken handle. |
The killing itself had happened exactly as Mallet had guessed. But Dinah had a good reason for covering it up: she was a convicted felon! She was probably the only person who'd be sent to prison - sent back to prison - for killing Edmund under the circumstances she'd described. |
She claimed she hadn't planted false evidence to frame Reva. She knew nothing about that. But she wouldn't have come forward solely to clear Reva, either. They'd never been friends. And she'd assumed, in any case, that Jeffrey's influence in high places would prevent his wife's ever standing trial. |
Dinah, of course, knew nothing of Jeffrey's theory. But her memory of events wouldn't have ruled it out: far from it! If she was telling the whole truth, who'd tried to frame Reva? She could have killed Edmund's double; she'd undoubtedly spoken with the real Edmund at some point, but it could have been earlier in the day. Alternatively, she could have knocked the real Edmund unconscious, and wrongly believed he was dead. In that scenario, he could have survived and killed his double. |
Mallet was grateful for Dinah's confession. But he had a soft spot for her, too. So he "allowed her a little time to get her affairs in order before turning herself in." Privately, he encouraged her to flee. Meanwhile, other officers were finding the evidence that seemed to incriminate Jeffrey, and preparing to go after him. |
Dinah and Jeffrey, both "fleeing," met at the heliport and wound up leaving together. Jeffrey had thought of a plan in which Dinah could take part. (It can probably be assumed that after Mallet reported Dinah's confession and flight, Josh and Reva quickly told the police what Jeffrey was doing. And just in case he was right about Edmund, they didn't publicize the suspicious detail of his having left Springfield at the same time as their "fugitive" Dinah.) |
Jeffrey and Dinah went to Bosnia, where they staged an elaborate ruse to make it seem Edmund's daughter Lara had been a government agent, and her "death" had been faked. A disguised Dinah, seen from a distance, could pass for Lara. As they expected, Edmund got word of her seemingly being alive. He fell for the ruse, traveled to Bosnia...and they caught a glimpse of him. He realized what was happening and escaped, without their being able to photograph him. But they at least knew he was alive. |
They followed Edmund's trail to South America, then back to the U.S. Jeffrey, knowing the chase was becoming extremely dangerous, insisted Dinah go no farther with him. He rented a plane to fly from Key West to North Carolina. But a henchman of Edmund's had sabotaged the plane. When the controls failed, Jeffrey had just enough time to make a quick phone call to Reva - telling her the plane was going down and he was about to die, but he wanted her to remember, always, how much he'd loved her and Colin. And he didn't want her to grieve for him, because Colin would sense it, and then he'd be unhappy. |
Reva was screaming, "You're not going to die!" She refused to believe he could die. |
In fact, he survived and made it to shore - an isolated stretch of the North Carolina coast. But he was injured, dazed, his phone either lost or unusable. Reva had reported the plane crash immediately, but she hadn't known the location. It took a while for the FAA to figure out where Jeffrey had been; and by the time searchers reached the site, he'd wandered into the woods. Searchers did go into those woods, but only briefly, because they had what they thought was good reason to believe he'd never gotten out of the plane. |
He was lost in the woods for weeks, subsisting on whatever edible plants he could find. Within sight of a shack, he finally passed out. When he came to, he found he'd been taken inside by the occupant of the shack - Reva's son Jonathan! |
Jonathan explained why he was hiding out, with Sarah, in such a remote place. Edmund had located him, communicated with him, and brazenly announced his intention of kidnapping and raising Sarah. Jeffrey then made the fateful decision to patch up his own minor injuries, and take advantage of his enemy's thinking he was dead. He'd stay "dead" a little while longer and set a trap for Edmund, who wouldn't be prepared for Jonathan's having a tough, experienced ally. |
He soon contacted Jeffrey and Jonathan again, via a tape recording. He vowed to keep trying till he succeeded in killing Jeffrey...knowing full well that Jeffrey would also be trying to find and kill him. |
But Edmund had a network of agents. If any of them came to believe Reva had learned Jeffrey was alive - if a "bug" caught her speaking too freely, or her actions, demeanor, or even an unguarded facial expression somehow gave it away - those agents would kidnap Colin, Sarah, and Henry, and he would raise them. |
As if that threat wasn't bad enough, he followed it up with a worse one. In a note delivered to Jeffrey, he said he'd changed his mind. He wouldn't attempt to kidnap and raise the three children. He'd have them killed outright. |
Yes, even his own grandson! |
Jeffrey had of course intended to surface quickly - not keep anyone believing he was dead, once he'd lost the advantage of surprise with Edmund. Now he saw that he couldn't risk doing that. And he really would have to keep Reva in the dark; the alternative would put an intolerable burden on her. But he asked Jonathan to make a quick visit to Springfield, so he could let him know how she and Colin were coping. |
Once there, Jonathan concluded it would now be safe for him to live there permanently with Sarah. So Reva had two more loved ones near her...and Jeffrey had at least one confidant in Springfield with whom he could stay in touch. |
Dinah had gone back, briefly, to report what she and Jeffrey had learned. But few people believed her. There was still no proof Edmund was alive, no proof Jeffrey hadn't died in an accident while following false leads. (The Coast Guard had concluded that his plane couldn't be brought up from the ocean floor without risking divers' lives; so it couldn't be examined for evidence of sabotage.) And Shayne couldn't forgive her for having let his mother be arrested for something she'd done; their marriage was over. So she'd escaped to Europe again. |
Marina had forgiven Mallet for having suspected she'd killed Edmund, and doubted her denial. But he became convinced that their family situation - with him and Shayne, Marina's first love, both trying to be "fathers" to Henry - was untenable. So he made the sacrifice of leaving...sure that if he did, Marina and Shayne would become a couple. |
He was right. But he wasn't alone for long; he went to Europe, and was happily reunited with Dinah. |
Reflections: Might not Jonathan's returning to Springfield at that point have been dangerous in itself - risked fueling Edmund's suspicions? In my opinion, yes! Edmund could have thought Jonathan would take Reva to an out-of-the-way spot where there was zero chance of "bugs," cameras, or human observers, and share the Big Secret with her in face-to-face conversation. His agents might as a consequence have intensified their surveillance of her. And with so much reason to be suspicious, they might have imagined her betraying some "knowledge" she didn't really possess. |
I didn't invent this storyline; fans of the show are stuck with it. In an essay I posted online, I made the grumpy complaint that based on the writers' subsequent use of Jeffrey, it seemed their only purpose in having him survive the plane crash had been to create a plot device - an awkward plot device - for bringing Jonathan back to Springfield. |
But in 2012, I finally learned the truth about that "plane crash," and the subsequent lack of story for Jeffrey. |
Some fans have been led to believe that after the cancellation was announced, Bradley Cole, who played Jeffrey, asked to be released from his contract early. That was said to be the explanation of the plane crash. It was claimed he then pre-taped what little material the producers would still want from him, to air later. (This "desertion" might seem to reflect badly on Cole. What if, after one actor asked for and was granted an early release, others had sought to follow suit? How could the producers and writers have coped with a half-dozen of them seeking to "jump ship"?) |
Evidently, that was either a lie or someone's guess, which had been picked up and repeated as fact. I've learned what I believe is the real story. |
Cole's contract had been up for renewal in the spring of 2009; and while it was uncertain whether he'd re-sign, the plane crash storyline was written as a way of possibly leaving his character "presumed dead." Whether Jeffrey would be known to have survived was always meant to be dependent on whether Cole re-signed; and he did re-sign. Since storylines were being planned months in advance, all of that took place before the cancellation was announced. |
When a soap opera character's survival has been dependent on the actor's re-signing, the character is often left without much story for a while - because the writers haven't had enough lead time, knowing the actor would be available, to write for him. This situation was further complicated by the cancellation, and the writers' need to somehow wrap up everything, quickly. |
All things considered, they did it pretty well. It was a producer, not the writers, who muffed the ending by cutting a key scene. (I suspect that producer "muffed the ending" - in my opinion - because he or she saw as clearly as I do that in any realistic imagining of what would happen if Jeffrey returned at that point, Reva would choose him. And the producer thought the majority of viewers wanted her to be with Josh.) |
I've explained why Josh - recognizing that Reva needed more time to mourn her dead husband - went away for a year. Now that year has passed, and she has a hard decision to make... |
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We know that the Federal Reserve is bailing out foreign banks. So, for some, the American people and the economy are being harmed by international interests. The Federal Reserve policy benefits big foreign banks. The Federal Reserve has also intentionally locked up bank money so that it is not loaned out to Main Street. The FED policy is about 81.5% of all money has been created by quantitative easing is sitting there gathering dust (in the form of excess reserve). This money ironically is not being used to loan out to help Main Street or the American economy. A large percentage of the bailouts went to foreign banks. A 2010 Fed audit also revealed that of the $1.25 trillion of mortgage back securities the central bank purchased after the housing bubble popped, some $442.7 billion (or more than 35%) were bought from foreign banks. Many of the FED created money is being held by foreign banks. This truth has been documented by the Levy Economics Institute from May in the following words: "...Excess reserves are the surplus of reserves against deposits and certain other liabilities that depository institutions (loosely called “banks”) hold above the amounts that the Board requires within ranges set by federal law. The general requirement is that covered institutions maintain reserves at least equal to ten percent of liabilities payable on demand. For the first time in history, there is statistical evidence that as much as one-half or more of excess reserves are held for United States banking offices of foreign banks..." Zero Hedge reported on the same facts in the following words: "...As per last night’s [Federal Reserve] H.8 update, commercial bank deposits rose by $94 billion in the week ended July 17: the fourth largest weekly increase in history …. This took total commercial bank deposits to an all-time high of $9.54 trillion...The entire difference can be attributed to the $2+ trillion in excess reserves created by the Fed since the start of the [global financial crisis]..." There is as high as 2.1 trillion dollars in Federal reserves with banks. We know that foreign banks continue to be the biggest beneficiary of the FED's monthly $85 billion liquidity largesse. They are the biggest winners during QE2. In fact, the total reserve cash distribution continues to favor foreign banks, which now have a record $1.13 trillion in cash, or $9 billion more than all Domestically-chartered banks, at $1.122 trillion. Global liquidity as created by the FED is highly fungible. There are more mainly European banks benefiting from this reality. The FED is using policies that benefit the super elite at the expense of Main Street (or the U.S. economy including average Americans). The foreign super elite benefits from this action than even some elites in the States. Therefore, the Federal Reserve are sucking the prosperity out of America and shipping it abroad. So, we know what we are up against. We are still fighting for justice, worker rights, and human rights. There is still racial, class, and other forms of injustices in the world. The struggle continues. We know that imperialism is unjust, so unjust wars including occupations ought to cease to exist. We should not be silent in the midst of unwarranted wiretapping. We shall not be silent when we have extrajudicial murders of Black brothers and sisters in cold blood now in the USA. We shall not be silent when reactionaries try to enact foreclosures, evictions, budget cuts of vital public services, cuts to social programs, attacks on worker rights, and police brutality. We shall speak up for not only environmental justice, but universal health care for all human beings in the world. I will never blame the economic crisis in the world on immigrants or other human beings. The struggle for the rights of workers is similar to the February 1968 strike of Memphis sanitation workers. They went on strike as a means to demand recognition and collective bargaining rights through the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The racist city administration of Mayor Henry Loeb refused to negotiate with the workers, and a citywide strike support committee was established, headed by James Lawson, a long-time civil rights organizer. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on March 18, 1968 spoke to about 13,000 human beings as a means to call for a general strike in Memphis to force the city administration to recognize the sanitation workers. On March 28, the police rioted on the day of the general strike. They attacked a mass demonstration in downtown Memphis. Federal provocateurs also caused violence in Memphis. The city administration shot dead a 14-year-old African-American youth and declared an emergency, calling in the National Guard to suppress the demonstrations and the sanitation strike. It was only after Dr. King's unfortunate assassination that a deal was reached between the city and the strike workers. So, the value of unions is greatly related to our history in America. We should mobilize ourselves as a means to rebuild American society. We should disagree with corporate greed and advance public need. We need to address the vital issues of poverty, national discrimination, and oppression. |
We know that the Syrian rebels and beheading Christians and using child soldiers. These re evil, abhorrent actions. These rebels are unfortunately funded by the White House. Al-Qaeda affiliated rebels are ironically aided by the Western governments. They are beheading innocent Christians still and using 14 year old child soldiers. It is a shame and a disgrace. It is immoral to fund the rebel troops that kill innocent citizens. Syria should never be thrown back into an even more reactionary state of affairs if the rebels win. Even some Democrats agree with funding these murderous, terroristic rebels. Some of the Syrian rebels massacre innocents in public beheading sessions where they applause and cheer. This is total perversion and demonic. Much of the mainstream media refuses to report on this reality. Even Reuters from August of 2012 admitted that the President secretly went ahead and enabled support for Syrian rebels while bypassing any form of checks or balances. There is the June 2013 headline that reads ‘Syrians behead Christians for helping military, as CIA ships in arms’ in The publication, and we’re still letting this happen. The report in the Washington Times reported more information on the story in the following words: "...A priest and another Christian were beheaded before a cheering crowd by Syrian insurgents who say they aided and abetted the enemy… The reported beheading of the two Christians comes about the same time America has started sending arms to rebel fighters, the Wall Street Journal revealed this week.” The CIA is wrong to give the rebels weapons as a means to perform their horrendous brutality against innocent human life. Missionaries in Syria have talked about this situation. The rebels kill Christians who do no convert and pay excessive taxes to the rebel army. The rebels want Christians to convert to Islam or die. Some kill Christians in the center of town as a means to scare friends and family from challenging the Syrian rebel army. The House and the Senate Intelligence Committee approved the continued support of the Syrian rebels even after the funding officially runs out for this fiscal year. The Syrian war continues that pits Sunni rebels against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad (who is an Alawite). Western imperialists carved up the Middle East after the First World War. This was done via the secret Sykes-Picot treaty of 1916. Since then, the West played the Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurdish forces against each other. There have been thousands of human beings that died as a product of the Syrian civil war. Many establishment liberals are wrong to support the evil rebels. One of them was Abu Sakkar. He is the commander of a rebel militia fighting in Qusayr. He cut an internal organ out of the body of a dead government soldier and bite it. This same commander has been widely quoted calling for the slaughter of all Alawites. According to the London Guardian (14 May), before forming his own militia late last year, “Sakkar was a well-known member of the Farouq Brigades,” a “militia with mainstream leanings” that “became one of the rebels’ best resourced fighting forces” due to financing from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. This situation is very similar to the events of the late 1970's when the West aided the mujahedin. In Afghanistan, reactionary Sunni mujahedin (holy warriors)—among them, Osama bin Laden—were armed, funded and trained by the U.S., Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to kill Soviet soldiers. The Red Army had entered the country at the request of the modernizing nationalist People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) regime, in order to defend the USSR’s southern flank and to prop up the besieged government. The PDPA’s introduction of minimal social reforms—especially those benefiting women, such as the lowering of the bride price—had provoked a jihad led by the landlords, tribal chiefs and mullahs. As the CIA undertook its biggest covert operation ever in support of the mujahedin, Afghanistan became the front line of the imperialist crusade to destroy the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone and now NATO is used as a bulwark in the world today. This system of white supremacy (which even some alternative media figures refuse to talk about. We know their names) is linked to the current agenda of imperialism plaguing the world today. It has even more influence and evil than the current White House. So, we know how to put the truth into real perspective. Today, we witness the continuation of the war on terror. Also, it is important to note that the Syrian rebels are not real Muslims. They are not representative of all followers of Islam. These rebels are in violation of any real faith tradition. They are extremists that exploit religion as a means to carry out great evil against humanity. So, the rebels are indeed wicked and work for the imperialists indeed. |
One Saudi Prince defects from the Saudi Royal Family. Prince Khalid Bin Al-Saud has announced his defection form the Al-Saud royal family. He outlined his defection via his statement. He called on other princes to break their silence and reveal the truth for sake of God. The Saudi prince referred to his "sufferings" under the reign of the Al Saud regime. He called those experienced as being bitter. He told these revelations to the Saudi twitter writer Mujtahid and Saudi activist Saad al-Faqih (he lives in London currently). He said that he thanked God that helped him understand the truth about the Saudi regime via a “direct horrible personal experience” so that he could have a taste of what people suffered from throughout the country. “With pride, I announce my defection from Al Saudi family in Saudi Arabia,” he wrote in his statement. Some of his statement reads the following words, “This regime in Saudi Arabia does not stand by God’s rules or even (country’s) established rules and its policies, decisions, and actions are totally based on personal will of its leaders.” “All that is said in Saudi Arabia about respecting law and religion rules are factitious so that they can lie and pretend that the regime obeys Islamic rules.” He criticized the royal family for considering the country as its own property while silencing all voices from inside and outside the government calling for any change and reforms. Khalid Bin Farhan said that the ruling family has deliberately pulled the country to the current condition where cries of oppressed people are ignored. “They don’t think about anything but their personal benefits and do not care for countries' and people’s interests or even national security,” he added. He said that the current issues in Saudi Arabia are not temporary or superficial. They relate to unemployment, low wages, and unjustified distribution of common wealth, facilities, and services. These problems are very deep and real. According to the Prince, there is huge political and financial corruption including the abuse of power by the regime. This fraud is found in the Parliament and the judiciary system. The Saudi prince said that everything that the pro-reform opposition says about the country's political, economic, judiciary, social, and security condition (including their abuse of religious values) are true. He said that the situation is even worse than what is said in criticisms. He wants anyone who cared for the future of Saudi Arabia to join him and the reform stream and break their silence on Al Saud corruptions. It is easy to see that the Saudi elite have sold out their own people for the Western imperialists in many capacities form funding CIA back rebels to economically exploiting the Middle East's resources for profit (at the expense of human rights and other progressive freedoms). Many of these monarchies of the Persian Gulf are filled with the evils of brutal theocracy, the suppression of women's rights, and the harm to religious liberty. That is why protests by human beings against these reactionary regimes from Qatar to Saudi Arabia continue to persist. The absolute monarchies are certainly a threat to world security and human freedom indeed. That is why such regimes fear their own populations. They rely on the support of the United States and the British for aid. Some of them even work or cooperate with the Israeli Mossad. Now, the good news is that sincere freedom fighters are in the Persian Gulf who are dedicated for real change in the world. They want freedom and human rights indeed. |
We know about illegal orders in the military. There were the details of My Lai. My Lai was a Vietnamese village. It was destroyed by the U.S. soldiers. Men, women, and children were killed by Western military forces. The military selected the fall guy for the massacre named Lt. Calley. In the armed forces, folks were subjected to numerous classes on when to follow or when not to follow orders. There are illegal orders and legal orders. If someone was following what they knew to be an illegal order, not only would the person that gave the illegal order to be held responsible, but the person that carried out the illegal order could also be charged. On many cases, folks follow orders immediately. Inside of the battlefield, quick decisions are made. The fog of war means that in the midst of war, there are controversial actions taken and debates had. Some folks follow orders even if it means putting your life on the line. There are numerous unspeakable horrors of war spanning throughout human history including the Vietnam War. We have rules as found in the Geneva Convention on the Laws of War. We have seen the war on terror for almost 15 years now. Many of these invasions and operations from the West now in the war on terror contradict the precepts from the Geneva Convention. The American soldier is in a predicament. There is the issue of obeying constitutional law and international law. Many folks refuse to violate the oath of protecting and defending the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Manning was a Private First Class. He was allowed to access sensitive information that showed beyond a reasonable doubt that the American military was committing atrocities and crimes. These acts were not only against his moral code. They were against military law and the Geneva Conventions. We know about the Western military crimes of depleted uranium (a weapon of mass destruction) and destroying cities like in Fallujah with air strikes, artillery, and armor. Some imperialists murdered men, women, and children indiscriminately and all for intents and purposes destroying the city. The war on terror is wicked filled with undeclared wars. When Manning brought this matter to his superiors, he was ignored. This is what many soldiers experience when confronted with horrific crimes. Private Manning wanted to go to the public with this information. Yet, the American government views him as equivalent to a terrorist enemy. Bradley Manning showed a lot of courage to release the information to Wikileaks. He was in front of a court martial after being tortured for months by the military. He was forced to remain in solitary confinement for months being in a cold dark cell. He was treated like an animal in direction violation to all military law and the Geneva Convention (that relates to the treatment of prisoners). Most of his defense has been deemed inadmissible (by the folks in charge of his Court Martial). The United States military once proclaimed that if a soldier saw wrongdoing and violations of the Geneva Convention on the Laws of War, that soldier should go to a higher authority and report it, and if it was within his power, he should try to stop it. The Private did report it, but the report of these violations fell on deaf ears. Manning is paying the price for doing the right thing. The war on terror includes wars filled with invasions of other nations against all International Law, National Law, the Geneva Conventions, etc. We have seen an observer call on Apache attack helicopters to fire on journalists walking with their cameras on a city street, and once they were wounded and lying on the street and when people ran to help them, the Apaches were ordered to fire on the rescuers. Manning let the world see this. Still, no charges were filed against the individuals responsible for these actions. Bradley Manning is suffering because of executing courageous actions. We shall not be intimidated. The truth must be known and imperialism is always immoral. |
Bill O'Reilly made recently disrespectful, racist, and ignorant views on the black community and our issues. You know me. I will respond to his lies. Bill O'Reilly made the lie that African American culture today is all about degeneracy, violence, and other fragrant evils. In other words, the black community is responsible for its own oppression collectively not the system of white supremacy, not discrimination, not a racist criminal justice system, and not police terror in the streets of black community. He ignores the fact that many black leaders have criticized many musicians using the N word and other controversial, vulgar language in their lyrics for years and decades. He ignores the many single black mothers that have raised exceptionally gifted children and have been great role models for our community. A real family is very diverse and we are all family in the black community. Our situation never came from single black mothers trying to live a better life. Our situation came from the Maafa and centuries of oppression by the oppressor. Many black human beings have talked about the black family for generations. For O'Reilly to lie and assume that no major black leaders have talked about family issues is silly by me. An adulterer like him has no merit on that issue. For him to slander Sister Michelle Alexander and Martin Luther King III as the grievance crowd is to show his white supremacist mentality. The truth is that anybody has the right to call for justice in an imperfect society. Folks have the right to disagree with police brutality, to disagree with discrimination, and to oppose the evil system of white supremacy day in and day out period. Blacks and whites do drugs at about the same rate, but far more blacks go to jail for it and get longer sentences than whites do, and that is a fact. O'Reilly lies about that fact. The ironic thing is that even President Barack Obama has for years called on black men to step up and act as positive role models to black youth (I don't agree with all of Obama's Booker T. Washington stuff, but this is a fact). O'Reilly just lies and denies the reality of the President doing it. Many African Americans grow up in segregated communities with little economic opportunity or development, decreased employment opportunities, long term unemployment, and failing public schools. Racist reactionaries like Bill O'Reilly and Dinesh D'Souza believed that blacks have cultural inferiorities and these cultural issues are causing African Americans to suffer not other factors like discrimination, and socioeconomic factors. The reality is that racism shapes the communities of America and it harms the poor. The reality of foreclosures, redlining, and predatory lending have harmed some in the African American community. Now, we know that mainstream U.S. capitalism was built on the labor black slaves. When slavery overtly ended in the States by 1865, the capitalists of the North and South stoked racism as a means to divide the workforces, drive down wages, and increase their profit margins. The new poor include folks that are very educated and still can't receive a job or receive very low wage jobs. So, the solution is that all levels of government and all Americans will have to contribute their time and effort to fight poverty and economic inequality (from institutions, organizations, religious bodies, all levels of the government, charities, and the whole nine yards). I will never be a reactionary and blame all poor human beings for poverty itself. Many times, poverty is a systemic problem brought about by neoliberalism, oppression, and other socioeconomic issues. Poverty is complex. Also, we need radical solutions. Today, our economic recovery is stagnant because most low wage and service sector jobs are being created. These anti-poor policies, shrouded in anti-Black rhetoric, were underpinned by the politics of "personal responsibility," which looked to shift the blame for poverty and unemployment away from inherent problems in the system--as they were identified in the 1960s by everyone from the Black Panther Party to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.--to the individual failings of Blacks themselves. So, the racists blame the black people (who are victims) of their own oppression instead of the white supremacist elite in charge of the whole corrupt system in the first place. When 650,000 jobs have been lost every month since December, it's difficult to mount an argument that the problem of unemployment is a moral one. The corporate elite have personal irresponsibility when they receive trillions of dollars in bailouts, but they want the government to refuse to even bailout the poor and workers in cities including other locations throughout the American landscape. We have to address racism and class oppression in the world. We have to address economic inequality, low wages, and health care complications. Industrialized nations mostly have universal health care while we do not in the United States of America. The American dream has been distorted by some. Some want the American dream to be the dream of supremacists that want all humans (especially black human beings) to be colorblind not loving their blackness, to want humanity to confirm to a wicked economic system, and to want society to bow before imperialism (including worker exploitation) not justice. |
By Timothy |
Sunday, July 28, 2013 |
Detroit: The Bell Tolls for All of Us |
George Zimmerman Juror B29 = Racism/White Supremacy Refinement |
My Response to a scapegoater of black human beings. |
Well Al Sharpton isn't Jesus and he's far from being any kind of Christian. He's a wolf in sheeps clothing if anything. Truthseeker, you have a lot to learn about Al Sharpton. Just because he has a "REV." in front of his name, doesn't mean he follows that righteous path. He's incited a nation full of hate and racism. Blacks murdering and raping whites is so common, everybody seems to have accept it as a fact of life, some will even make up excuses for the black criminals, believing that white people deserve it and/or that whites have, possibly via mind control, made blacks do it. It's unacceptable if the victim of a violent attack defends himself, as e.g. Zimmermann did, it may inspire other people to finally grow a pair and stand up to thugs on our streets. |
Sharpton's demanded they arrested Zimmerman, so Florida did. Sharpton demanded a trial and he got one. Sharpton didn't like the verdict so his comment was this is "an atrocity." After the verdict, Sharpton didn't like the jury, even though the prosecution and defense both picked them and approved of them. Sharpton now says the jury is racist. |
The true atrocity was the incredible blatant and sickening anti-White - pro-Black bias exhibited by the media controlled by the person yelling the loudest or for ratings. The media blew this case out of all proportion for what really should have only been a news item of interest to a local audience. Sharpton ensured it was not. Why is that...It was an opportunity for him to cash in and to take this anti-White - pro-Black war to a different level, which it has. And the black community fell for it. The media and Sharpton and Trayvon's parents went so far as to use photo bias in using a four year old photograph of Trayvon, rather than a recent image that would have portrayed him in an accurate light. Most of all, they tried to frame the whole event as being another tall tale of the evil, hateful, and bad 'White racist' man who fatally attacking a poor and innocent young black youth because of the color of his skin. George Zimmerman isn't even a white man nor is he racist. |
Sharpton was wrong about Tawana Brawley, Duke LaCrosse Players, and now he's wrong about Zimmerman. |
Sharpton, in 1987, there was the Tawana Brawley case and at the same time of the Crown Heights Riots. Sharpton's role were vile words that incited the anti-Semitic rioters, which made an already volatile violent situation much worse. Sharpton constantly screamed to the rioters, "No justice, no peace!" |
Sharpton has blood on his hands because he is partially responsible for the continued violence during that riot and for the stabbing death of a jewish scholar visiting from Australia. Not to mention the 100's of other people that were injured or killed. Looting and burning buildings, rapes, murders and he fueled that fire ANDDD fueled that fire and he called numerous people racist....all from a lie this girl told that Sharpton kept going. If you let the law handle things appropriately, the truth will prevail. Sharpton didn't do that and he pushed, and pushed, and pushed the hate of the rioters and in the meantime, innocent lives were lost or injured. |
You all hang on to every word Sharpton says like he's Jesus. That's sick, disgusting, and ignorant. Your mob mentality brain isn't capable of logic hence the HIGH rate of black on black crime. It's a fact and there's your truth, Truthseeker. |
My Response: |
You listed so many errors, false statements, stereotypes, etc. that is shocking even for me. Now, like many of what you people do, you take things out of context, you put words in folks’ mouth, and you change the subject. The subject at hand in this article is about the lives of black males mattering. That is the point. He is right in saying that the life of black males matter. Black males matter in the world and in the black community just like all black human beings matter regardless of nationality or gender. I never called Sharpton Jesus. I know all of the reactionaries’ views on Al Sharpton. I know many of his controversies. The truth is in between the 2 extreme perspectives of the situation. The truth is that Al Sharpton is not perfect, but he is right on some issues (from being opposed to police brutality to wanting the life of innocent black males to be protected in the world). You just want black folks to accept your reactionary way of thinking. Sorry, we will not, because we will follow our own thinking. Our black community believes that we are our brothers' and sisters' keepers (We don't agree with telling the suffering let them eat cake). My black people rejects imperialism and Empire and we believe in collective action beyond just individual initiative. The rest of your points outline issues that you need to take up with NAN and Sharpton not with me. I am my own man and I have my own independent thinking. Al Sharpton apologized for his previous errors and in the 21st century, he never called for inciting a nation to hate and racism. You cannot find a single quotation from him saying that recently at all. Most black human beings are not raping white human beings. I never support rape of anyone of any color, gender, or background period. Rape done by whites or blacks is evil. Whites have a huge legacy raping blacks (including other humans of color) in epidemic levels for centuries and even recently. White folks target us all of the time for romance or sexual exploitation. |
You stalk us all of the time including here in social media when we want to independently express our ideals. You say nothing here to rebut the white racist trolls here, but want to target my sincere, non offensive words on the issue of the value of black life. How ironic. I reject the offers from many whites who want to have romance with me. I love Sistas. Most black human beings love black people. I love black women socially and romantically. Also, most crime in America is intraracial or occurs among the same race. Not to mention that black folks have talked about the great evil of black on black violence for a very long time and white reactionaries like Bill O'Reilly ignore that truth. Crime in the black community has to do with many factors. It has nothing to do with all black human beings collectively being culturally inferior (which your ilk implies all of the time). No one is many excuses for anything. |
Folks are talking about how poverty, discrimination, oppression, recessionary economic realities, and socioeconomic factors contribute to criminal actions including the bad conditions in poor areas including other areas. That is reality not excuses. Zimmerman has a known history of assaulting a woman, he was accused of sexual molestation, and he assaulted a police officer. These actions are far worse than what Trayvon Martin ever did in his life. His or Zimmerman's MySpace was filled with bigotry against Mexicans, so he is no hero. Any man that assaults a woman is no hero. The family of Trayvon Martin demanded an arrest. The family of Trayvon Martin demanded a fair trial revolving around the murder of their innocent son. The family of Trayvon Martin shed tears sincerely over the passing of their beloved son. Al Sharpton was asked by that family to help. See, you disrespect a grieving family since you don’t care about a grieving family. You care about advancing an agenda that gives vigilantism a path to exist in the world (and give license for racists to kill innocent, unarmed black youth in cold blood under the guise of stand your ground. Your agenda is to try to make black human beings docile to the system of white supremacy. You want black human beings to accept an Eurocentric way of thinking that abhors protests, that abhors standing up strongly for justice, and that abhors expressing a black cultural identity in a firm way. We as blacks have the right to roar for freedom and roar righteousness in our legitimate indignation). Also, a lot of folks and many human beings did not like the verdict. The verdict was a tragedy and Sharpton never called the jury racist explicitly. You just use anti-black race baiting rhetoric. The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy. The other real atrocities are when Sean Bell was murdered by the crooked police and when the innocent six year old Sister Aiyana Jones was murdered by evil police too. The real tragedy is North Carolina trying to pass a regressive voter ID law that limits voting access. The real tragedy is when our brothers and sisters are taught self-hate by a wicked, materialistic Western society. The real tragedy is about reactionaries ignoring the epidemic of white pedophilia, white serial killing, white massive war crimes against foreign lands, white rape, and other crimes by white supremacists then and now. There is nothing wrong with being pro-Black, so to imply that it is a sin to be pro-Black is silliness. The mainstream media reported on the trial and was down the middle in my eyes (in some cases and biased in other cases). Many folks in CNN and FOX supported Zimmerman. FOX is like Zimmerman central, so you obviously need to learn that. FOX News labeled Zimmerman as an angel. The truth is that Zimmerman is half white and he is not black. He not being black is a fact. No real person said that he was totally white. Zimmerman is blatantly a vigilante, a fake cop, claims that it is God's will for him to murder a teenager, and an assault of a woman. He is a sick person. Also, you ignore the whites rioting in Tulsa, Oklahoma where dozens of innocent black, women, and children were murdered by white terrorists. You forget about rioting Europeans harming and even killing black human beings in Europe because of their black skin color recently. You ignore even today, some black Americans experience racism. You ignore the civil liberty violating stop and frisk action in NYC. So, you want to minimize black suffering as an excuse to justify white domination of Western society (which is the system of white supremacy). See, that is the point. I do not hang onto every word of Al Sharpton. That is another lie that you have made. I am not ignorant. I am intelligent, I am black, and I am beautiful. I have rich and noble history. Black women are the most beautiful women on the face of the Earth too. I do not have a mob mentality you bigot. |
My brain is highly cognitive. There has been a decrease in overall crime in the span of three decades inside of the USA. We have issues in our black community, but we are not mostly criminals you bigot. We can defeat racism with the destruction of the system of white supremacy. You try to ignore some of your faults as an excuse to paint the false narrative that black human beings are collectively brutes (and we are responsible for the Maafa and our oppression totally. We are not). I make no excuses for Al Sharpton’s errors. You just want to change the subject as a means to make it about him while ignoring the subject at hand. Unjust laws have the right to be eliminated via constructive avenues. I have never condoned rioting of innocent property at all. Most blacks never endorse rioting that destroys property of their own communities at all. We condone justice and peace. Sometimes, you have to sacrifice for freedom and you have to fight for freedom without being docile to white people. A real black person never bows before a white man or a white woman at all. The subject in this article was about black males having value. My life as a black man has great value. We just stand without malice like men and like women. That truth is what you can never refute at all. Black is Beautiful. Black is Strong. Black is Lovely. Our dark melanin is indeed God's Gift and it is great as well. Black is the Truth for God is pro-Black African. The truth is Golden and it is in 4-D. I will break it down for the Brothers and the Sisters indeed. My flavor is real, the struggle continues, and my soul is blessed. |
By Timothy (Me) |
To Courtney from Me: |
Thank you Sister from my heart. You hold it down as well. At first, I did not want to respond to the guy. Then, I read the rest of his words and then I felt a thought in my mind to wanting to respond. Also, you are blessed with your wisdom too. Yes, the enemy focuses on our issues as a means to push psychological buttons, try to intimidate debate, and have a very limited view of the issue at hand. Thanks for your words Sista. You are very intelligent and filled with Glory. |
-By Timothy (Me) |
Encouragement from the Sweet Sister Courtney: |
courtneyrR \ |
Standing Ovation!!! Racist really should worry about the 86 percent of YT on YT crime, that happens in their communities that rarely gets told by the media . The focus seems to be a bit one sided. Excellent post. :) |
You are very very welcomed and , I would totally understand if you didn't respond back. It's exhausting trying to explain common decency to people who have none. Or doesn't feel it important enough to at least attempt to have some.At the same time, nothing but good came out of your response to his lies. The fact that you choose to respond ,created a teachable moment for those that come across your views,knowledge,wisdom and truth because it is the truth. Intimidate debate is right. They do the same in real life and they are very condescending about it, when you are approached by undercover racists in everyday life. I feel a person just has to let them know in a certain way that let's them know that, african Americans have insight and intelligence and that,we are not to be played and toyed with, and to assume so, would be a mistake on their part. Only in the sense that, people who know who they are, know they don't have to cowar to those without insight and light.When they see that they are dealing with something real, it makes them angrier but also terrifies them. They usually back off but if not, they switch up tactics, when they see that they can't talk down to you and that you are not tolerating it. They have this warped view of African Americans, of African American men because it's so rooted in fear that their minds can't fathom the idea of docile African American men. They don't see the black man as the protector but he is a fierce protector when his strength and leadership, is called upon. You are very intelligent and filled with glory too. we all continue to be works in progress. :) A lot of people are learning from you along with so many others. You're very kind. :) |
No problem. I absolutely want the best for everyone and not just to experience that for myself. The time that we are given, is simply not long enough but we are blessed to have what we have. I wish more people saw that.Encouragement, goes along way and you never know who is listening. I never could understand how people look down on those who are sensitive. Life is sensitive at times so it can't be a bad thing. Especially when balanced out along with strength.EVeryone that tries their best has value.It does not matter what we look like. Old has value , we all will get their one day. Being fat, can be changed. It's a controllable thing. Even those that don't try, still have value to others. They make us want to be better as well as reaching back to show them differently, like many did for us But it's up to them to take that fruit or not. I've come to realize that, all my experiences, all of them,help to shape me into the person that I am.. They are all just my perspectives based on what i've been through. Just like anyone else . Society simply can't paint us all the same as African American women. Same as AFrican American men. It's true that many of us grew up idealistic but , that does not mean that we are not aware of the truth. We get a bad wrap on all fronts but,their are so many like me, who look like me, who are just so down to earth. good natured, not looking to get over on anyone but was taught to work hard for their worth and not settle for anything less than their worth. As for my dad, I have no other choice but to make him proud. I carry his last name. :) Thank you Truthseeker2436577. |
Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
More Historical Information;query=id:ugabma_wsbn_63671 |
Ted Nugent Exposed |
Refuting Bill O'Reilly's Garbage |
Neither the Right or Left have love for Blacks because in America Blacks are hated to the core by the original oppressor and other groups that have been taught to hate Black |
people by that oppressor. |
I'm an Independent and from what I can see: One party is overtly racist while the other is covertly racist. The Huffington Post is a very liberal site and when I look at some of the user names such as "Never Going Right" say that the "killer of Trayvon was defending himself against a thug", that tells me that so called "left wingers" are no different than the overt racists on the right. |
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