[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] Comment on some recent faking & bluffing

[C. G. Estabrook]

SOME NOTES ON WAYNE'S POEM

For those whose education was more practical than mine (Wayne's seem to have been both: he obviously became operational well before 12 January 1997 in Urbana, Illinois), it may be worthwhile to point out that the Latin lines are a translation of a Greek text (probably from an Aramaic original) found in the rather random collection of documents maintained by the Christian movement from its first century of existence; the author is purported to be the head of the Christian community in Jerusalem, before its destruction by the Romans in 70CE. The text reads

"...for judgement will be without mercy 
to anyone who has shown no mercy; 
mercy triumphs over judgement."

(For the context, see the New Testament Letter of James, chapter two.)

It's clear that the Carpenter has shown no mercy: young Martin is dead. But it seems that our local Walruses are more than diction-and-thought-police: they seem almost to wish to emulate the Carpenter in regard to those who commit Liberalism's unforgivable sin, racism. (James, incidentally, is concerned about class discrimination but doesn't mention racism.)    

"…a lot of them think of themselves as being on the Left and they think it’s especially inappropriate for people to come along and tell them that the thing they like best about themselves, their anti-racism, is not in and of itself a left-wing commitment." [W. B. Michaels]

Wayne has written elsewhere that the Carpenter for all his crimes "is part of the 99%.  What social good is there if [the Left] pursues the 99%?  Zimmerman sure 'nuf ain't part of the 1%, now is he?" 

Many of those who condemn the Zimmerman decision continue to support Obama. You'd think they'd at least be a bit abashed at that, after Obama's killing of a 16-year-old American, to say nothing - as we do - of his killing of hundreds of Asian children. Wayne is surely right when he calls Zimmerman, "Low hanging fruit for social reformers."

Wayne again: "The challenge for [all those who pride themselves on 'being on the Left']  is to see the man behind the curtain and go after him."

Benn Michaels again: "To be poor in America today, or to be anything but in the top 20 percent in America today, is to be victimized in important ways and in so far as we’re appreciating the characteristic products of victimization, we are not actually dealing with exploitation, but rather enshrining victimization, treating it as if it had value and therefore ought to be preserved. And that’s obviously reactionary."

James again, the first and last word: "If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill’, and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?"

--CGE

On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:21 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" <ewj at pigsqq.org> wrote:

> iudicium enim sine misericordia
> illi qui non fecit misericordiam
> 
> superexultat autem misericordia iudicio
> 
> The blood lust of those who want Revenge
> through the scourging and crucifixion of Zimmerman
> (carpenter in German) is a clear example
> of the operation of the meme at the Milgram reading frame.
> 
> What could possible be more Evil than the continued
> pursuit of a man freed from punishment for a crime?
> 
> Kafka's tooths is stranger than friction.
> 
> What is more Xenophobic than the racism of blacks against
> whites?  Or the Xenophobia among racist whites, whites who
> love to cry and decry racism, and those accused of being
> racist who are not really racist but just caught up in the fray?
> 
> Amerika is one gigantic global expression of the Milgram meme.
> 
> Justice ya say?
> 
> Ya want justice?
> 
> Justice is taking the whole fuckin' ant farm over
> to the trash barrel and zapping it.
> 
> Ya want big sibling to kick Billy's ass because
> he teased you and made you drop your popsicle.
> 
> Ya cried real tears, Sherlock.
> 
> Real justice grinds very slowly but it grinds very finely.
> 
> Y'all wan' friiice wid' yer Kryshtchule?  Y'aw wan'friiice?
> 
> There is a Sibling bigger than big sibling.  Call it
> what you will... you might not like my name for "biggest sibling".
> 
> Amerika you are too arrogant...
> i will break the backbone of your power...
> uh...merica you are too arrogant...
> i will break the backbone of your power...
> uhm...
> there's a man answering...
> he keeps hanging up...
> there's a man answering...
> 
> dave...
> dave...
> i'm scared dave...
> 
> ...us Roman Meal bakeries just thought you'd like to kn
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/17/13 1:46, Karen Medina wrote:
>>> juries have the right to read the law regardless of
>>> what the judge or anyone else tells them in "instructions".  That's
>>> sort of the purpose of juries.  They ain't robots.
>>>     
>> I was reading an article about the conclusions of the Milgram
>> experiment and a modifications to those conclusions. I think both
>> apply here.
>> 
>> *Conclusions of the Milgram experiment: people blindly obey
>> authorities to the point of committing evil deeds.
>> **Modified conclusions: Human moral nature includes a propensity to be
>> empathetic, kind and good to our fellow kin and group members, plus an
>> inclination to be xenophobic, cruel and evil to tribal others.
>> 
>> ===
>> * One description of Milgram's experiment:
>> http://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm
>> ** http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-milgrams-shock-experiments-really-mean
>> ->  What Milgram’s Shock Experiments Really Mean: Replicating Milgram's
>> shock experiments reveals not blind obedience but deep moral conflict
>> By Michael Shermer  | Monday, November 12, 2012, Scientific American, online
>> =====
>> By the way, Milgram's experiments began in July 1961, three months
>> after the start of the trial of German Naziwar criminal Adolf Eichmann
>> in Jerusalem.
>> 
>> Milgram, S. (1974). Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. New
>> York: Harper and Row. An excellent presentation of Milgram’s work is
>> also found in Brown, R. (1986). Social Forces in Obedience and
>> Rebellion. Social Psychology: The Second Edition. New York: The Free
>> Press.