by Scott Creighton
I was told by a friend and supporter of my work that I am like a Nazi or a Zionist now, that nothing good will come of my 'ideological purity' and that he wants 'nothing more to do with that kind of thinking'
Painful days lie ahead, that is for sure. Friends come and go when you do this kind of work. Doesn't make it less depressing. However...
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” said Steve Biko not too long before he was beaten to death by friends and colleagues of Elon Musk's father in apartheid South Africa. Do you understand that?
Believing that all of us are created equal, that we rise and fall with each other, that the weakest must be defended and that the rule of law matters is NOT THE SAME as those who believe in their hearts of hearts that the disabled, the poor, the leftists, the gays, the minorities and the Muslims have NO VALUE and can be used and cast aside for the benefit of a few.
These are not equal mindsets and should never be compared to one another. But of course, the left is conditioned to believe it is... by those who fear the possibility of 1789 happening again. Indeed, who is in their hands?
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die”
I think it is fair to say Steve's ideological purity was securely settled in both his mind and his heart.
and where is apartheid now my friend? Where is apartheid now?
notes for today's video
'Left-wing populism, or social populism, is a political ideology that combines left-wing politics and populist rhetoric and themes. The rhetoric of left-wing populism often consists of anti-elitist sentiments, opposition to the establishment and speaking for the “common people”. The important themes for left-wing populists usually include anti-capitalism, social justice, pacifism and anti-globalization, whereas class society ideology or socialist theory is not as important as it is to traditional left-wing parties.
The criticism of capitalism and globalization is linked to anti-militarism, which has increased in the left populist movements as a result of unpopular US military operations, especially those in the Middle East' Populism Studies
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'Ideological purity, especially the very angry sort, is dangerous, including to itself, self-destructive, self-limiting and immune to self-control.
Nazis are ideologically pure. Zionists are ideologically pure. They know what they want, they know it’s right, and they are willing to destroy everyone and everything for it.
Pure black and white “good vs evil” mentality is a no peace ever for anyone anywhere anytime proposition. I want nothing more to do with that kind of thinking.
It doesn't matter which side you think you’re (on) once you are “ideologically pure”. Then you are in “their” hands.' friend
1. 'According to Abraham Lincoln, war was necessary to preserve the Union, meaning that even though he abhorred war, he believed it was the only way to prevent the United States from breaking apart, particularly in the context of the Civil War where Southern states were attempting to secede due to their desire to maintain slavery; he often stated that his primary goal was to "save the Union" and not necessarily to abolish slavery outright'
"... On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ~ all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted altogether to saving the Union without war insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war ~ seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
"One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves not distributed generally over the union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered ~ that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be that offenses come but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of God must needs come but which having continued through His appointed time He now wills to remove and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him. Fondly do we hope ~ fervently do we pray ~ that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address March 4 1865
April 2 1865 the capitol of the South fell in Richmond Va. marking the beginning of the end of the war officially.
April 15 1865 Lincoln was killed for his efforts to hold this nation together and bring an end to the Godless practice of slavery.
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'Economically, modern liberalism opposes cuts to the social safety net and supports a role for government in reducing inequality, providing education, ensuring access to healthcare, regulating economic activity and protecting the natural environment.[2] This form of liberalism took shape in the 20th century United States as the franchise and other civil rights were extended to a larger class of citizens. Major examples include Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal and New Nationalism, Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, Harry S. Truman's Fair Deal, John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society. ' American liberalism
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Henry Wallace Vice President from 1941 to 1945
'“The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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“The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”
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'On Nov. 2, 1920, Eugene V. Debs received one million votes in the U.S. presidential election on the Socialist Party ticket while in prison. He was serving a 10 year sentence for his speech in Canton, Ohio protesting World War I which was raging in Europe.
For giving this speech, he was arrested and convicted in federal court under the Espionage Act of 1917. He was his own attorney. His appeal to the jury and his statement to the court before sentencing are regarded as two of the great classic statements ever made in a court of law. Here is an excerpt from his Canton, Ohio speech:
And here let me emphasize the fact — and it cannot be repeated too often — that the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish the corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace.
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'On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. When the bus started to fill up with white passengers, the bus driver asked Parks to move.'
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'On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan. They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.[1] After being followed for some time they were abducted by the group, brought to a secluded location, and shot. They were then buried in an earthen dam. All three were associated with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and its member organization, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). They had been working with the Freedom Summer campaign by attempting to register African Americans in Mississippi to vote. Since 1890 and through the turn of the century, Southern states had systematically disenfranchised most black voters by discrimination in voter registration and voting.' source
The murders contributed to congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal and state civil rights legislation
from their efforts, from their ideological purity, came a better system by which African Americans could vote and of course the film Mississippi Burning.
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