HOW-OF-WHY

Pop the popcorn and ready the beverages of your choice.
People's favorite TV escapisims, faux predator scams and entertainments will be temporally preempted tonight,

The latest will enter the list (sure to be on the YouTubes soon) tonight as George Walker Bush spews all over members of. Congress in what has become his annual Stand-Up Vomity Routine. If there was one chance in a million that he would actually write the words he will expel, the air might not end up stinking quite so bad.


Just in case Americans have forgotten that we are a fully owned subsidiary of China, and that they now own the Space that surrounds the Earth, they used a small guided missile to whack a weather satellite.

The "official" Chinese rhetoric is that Space is to be kept "war free".

We'll see.

Maybe this was a first warning. When the USA introduced the world to the atomic bomb we showed the world three examples:
Alamagordo (New Mexico, Hiroshima and Nagasaki (both in Japan).

Nagasaki was not the intended target. The more military production centered city of Kokura, was. It was too hidden in smoke from earlier USA bombing, so the plane turned towards the secondary target, Nagasaki. Over 95 percent of those murdered at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilians (termed collateral damage in military & insurance lingo).

22 Days before my birth, on July 1st of 1946 the United States showed off and warned the world of our Nuclear Bomb by exploding one over the Bikini Atoll, a tiny island in the Pacific.

Four days later Bikini swimsuit debuted at a French fashion show. Irony or New World Order preview? Another explosion, on a ship just offshore of Bikini was demonstrated when I was 2 days old, July 25, 1946. Talk about life beginning with a BANG (darn that T.S. Eliot)



But back to Daddy George and Mommy Barbra, GWB's own parents. Make no mistake Babs is and always the brains of the clan since she managed to marry money & power by managing Poppies' post Fly-Boy War Job and building his Saudi related Oil connections (seeded by Gramps) into his Government CIA Super Snooper role into the Vice and eventually the Presidency.

You can bet that Bab's evil genius was what captured the brain of not only Poppy Bush but also his Hawk Posse Crew. Get the Muslim Oil owning national players to fight each other so we can "appropriate" the black gold treasure buried beneath their sand.

They found, groomed, trained and placed an ambitious guy named Saddam Hussein, and he was Bush's boy in Iraq. Bush '41 pretended to bomb Shock & Awe Iraq in a PR-Media War, encouraged Hussein's local enemies to over throw the dictator, and then withdrew to watch the blood flow on the Smartbombcams, and count the money.

Poppy and Babs are distraught that baby George not only drank the Neo-Con cool-aid, but also damaged the family franchise, but put the K-BOSH on the chance for
Jeb or Neal to get their turn at bat.

The American body politic disapproves for a variety of reasons. A small core has always had a political pulse, but most are scared, lazy apathetic or just tired of all the mid-season reruns. They'd rather watch DEAL OR NO DEAL or the latest Reality Humiliation Show to capture their lack of imagination.

Me, I'll watch and try not to become sick.
But to tell the truth, I'd rather be in America described in the Constitution.

M J M
© 2007 all rights reserved

Rev. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke the above verse during Nobel Lecture, on December 11, 1964. His lecture was entitled "The Quest for Peace and Justice", delivered in the Auditorium of the University of Oslo, Norway. At the age of thirty-five, he was the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

Today is the Monday designated as a American National Holiday commemorating the birthday of Dr. King. He was born as Michael Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta on January 15, 1929 (his father was also originally named Michael). He was renamed when he was about 5 years old when his father decided that they should both change their first names to Martin.

The authorized, idealized, sanitized version of Dr. King's life story is that he fought for racial justice in America. The reality is, in the last years of his life, Dr. King articulated a far bolder, broader and very radical American revolutionary vision, encompassing a clear minded analysis and a severe criticism not only of the role of the United States in the world, but of the very nature of our political and economic system.

Dr. King's vision was articulated most powerfully in his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at Riverside Church in New York City. He gave the speech on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City.

He was quickly condemned by the NAACP, civil rights leaders, the Democratic Party (he had campaigned for Lyndon Johnson) and the mainstream media.

It is doubtful that Dr. King would even be allowed to speak at any of the memorial events being held in his own name were he alive today. But he does speak to us still as we again find ourselves at a time, well as he said in 1967:

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
He also said:
"These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wounds of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born.
The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. We in the West must support these revolutions."

Others, wiser, much more experienced and articulate than I have pointed out that these are still revolutionary times. Our country was born of revolution.

I would argue that our society, our nation, our democracy can only be served by continuing the American Revolution each and every single day.

But now, it seems to me, we have, in fact, given in and given up.

The shirtless and barefoot people of the world continue to rise up.

But we do not support them.
In fact, in many places, we support and we are the very forces who use our overwhelming economic wealth, access to natural resources and unprecedented military power to enforce the conditions of poverty, insecurity, and injustice.

I suggest that we revisit Martin Luther King's words.
I suggest that we re-read them in the light of the present day.

"…A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

Dr. Kings words are as meaningful, powerful, truthful and dangerous as they were in 1967.

Our own federal administration and many adult Americans condemn and trivialize anyone speaking out against the present invasions, escalations and war.

Exactly to the day, one year after breaking his silence and speaking out against his nation's injustice, materialism and war waging, Martin Luther King, Jr. was silenced. Assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Those who call for us to celebrate his birthday but dishonor his life and work and spirit dishonor all human beings. King spoke well to use Donne's poem to remind us of who we can be, who we need to be, who we absolutely now must be.

"…therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee."

Michael John Moynihan
January, 15, 2007
a version of this essay was originally published on 01/17/05

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