At a hippie fest this last summer, Shusli and I went to a presentation about global warming given by a fella whom I believe did the Al Gore school of "I'm Gonna Run for President in 2012 and Want to Look Like I Honestly Give a Shit to Get Your Vote." It was a devastating power point presentation (can you say "a peace prize couldn't hurt my chances, either), that us until it was explained to the audience that the "Founding Fathers" could be called upon to send us great energy into being creative enough to end this problem. Afterall, isn't that what the "Founding Fathers" would do?
I wanted Naomi Wolf's book, "The End of America" for my birthday. I wanted this book so bad I was tempted to go out and buy it before my birthday. I was patient, and Shusli, being the wonderful sweetie she is, bought me a copy. The book is about the fascism being enacted by the U.S. government against it's citizens using examples of fascist states historic and current, primarily the Nazi's. Considering the U.S. so greatly Loved the Nazi's even as they slaughtered U.S. citizens in "the great war," I thought this would be a very interesting book. However, as I read along, Naomi frequently calls upon "the ideals of the founding fathers." Her premise is to return to the ideals of the founding fathers. This type of shit drives me nuts and I can't finish the books as I'm being told how these horrific assholes are some of the greatest folks to have ever existed in history.
Women, of course, were second class citizens OR LESS. Women, by these idealistic and superior white males, were mostly considered property of men. Thus, women were not only excluded from voting in the initial stages of the alleged greatest nation to have ever existed, they were also excluded from participating. Women were also treated horrifically in the work place and often raped. Not much has changed.
Jefferson was a slaver. Now there is a great ideal, don't you think, Black America. Jefferson, an Idealistic Founding Father, was also a slave holder. Many of these founding type folks were either slavers or complicit in slavery. Genocide was often used in collecting slaves, wiping out whole cultures in order to benefit, in part, idealistic wealthy white men who found nations such as this one. Read some of the history of slavery from the viewpoint of slaves...mighty horrific this ideal of the Founding Fathers.
The founding fathers were also genocidal. One of their ideals, according to that great founding father and slave holder Tom Jefferson, was to "annihilate, exterpate, assimilate, or move west of the Mississippi" all Indians. Those idealistic founding fathers were a buncha genocidal creeps.
Reading Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, I came across the bar tab after the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. These idealistic fellows sure Loved to drink.
I was listening to Howard Zinn yesterday from a CD of a lecture he did at Reed College a few years back. Seems the ideals of the founding fathers were to create a constitution in order to basically keep the masses shut the fuck up while the white male elites committed their crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, etc., all to create greater masses of wealth for themselves. When James Madison was asked what he meant by "we the people," he said he meant "We," the wealthy white elite propertied males. The rest of us aren't considered people.
The reason, it turns out, that there was even a Revolution (if you want to call it that) in this nation was because the wealthy white boys no longer wanted to pay tribute to a king. They wanted that money for themselves. And, like in all wars, the wealthy folks con the non-wealthy (thus non-human, "beasts" is what they called us) into doing their fighting for them. When folks refused to, there was a time when George Washington had his men kill their fellow Americans for refusing to fight for the wealthy white elite male founding fathers.
Another interesting fact about that idealistic founding father, genocidal George Washington is, when he was leaving office, he robbed the U.S. treasury. These idealistic fellows were indeed some of the most inhumane worthless wealthy pieces of shit to have hit this nation and ain't much changed.
The only founding father I have ANY appreciation for is Benjamin Franklin, patrly because he didn't commit genocide, he was very interesting in his ideas and inventions, and the man Loved to Fuck. Ben (we share the same birthday) it is said had 72 illegitimate (if you use that type of term) children. He and his wife were free thinkers and very open sexually and often participated in sexual pleasure with others or in orgies in France, so I've heard. To me, there is something very important about someone who desires to share pleasure with others in such an intimate and mutually agreeable circumstance. It's not my bag, but I know Ben Loved pleasing women in that most inimate and basic way.
Another person whose work I admire is Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Loved to Fuck. How do we know Martin Loved to Fuck? J. Edgar Hoover, demon piece of shit that he is (and great American hero), got audio recording of Martin fucking women other than his wife. Seems that Martin Loved making women happy in that most intimate of ways, but also violated an agreement with his wife.
Funny thing about J. Edgar, a horrific gay bashing official as head of the FBI, had an interesting photo of him. Seems Meyer Lansky got a hold of a photo, maybe even had it taken, of J. Edgar with his side kick, Clyde Tolson's dick in his mouth. That is a photo worth circulating on the internet, as horrific as that would be. J. Edgar with his buddies cock in his mouth. A few days later, J. Edgar said publicly there was no such thing as a Mafia. J. Edgar also liked wearing red dresses and blonde wigs and go by the name "Mary."
Please stop invoking the alleged ideals of the founding fathers. These are YOUR ideals. Put them to work. You have your own ideals. Work them. Fix the kinks. Continue to move forward. YOU HAVE THE POWER. The ideals folks attribute to the founding fathers are there own.
The founding father ideals, from everything I've been educated on in personal research and the research of others, I personally would see fitting PERFECTLY in with what is going on in the U.S. today. Genocide, indentured servitude, keeping the masses in fear and shut up, stealing the wealth of other nations, everything for the elite, etc.
Alexander Hamilton, founding father whose face is on the $10, wanted a monarchy, but after having the constitution explained to him and how it would basically keep the people shut up via their various representatives, he became RELUCTANTLY for a democracy.
Think about these things, folks. TAKE YOUR OWN FUCKING POWER AND USE IT! You, my friends, are the founding MOTHERS and Fathers of this world. Act like it. Don't act like those guys whom folks allege to have had some higher ideals. Their ideals were to create wealth for themselves and their fellow elites. Nothing much has changed. Use YOUR ideals and change the world.
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