Do you want Hillary in jail? Do you want her pardoned? If you answered "Yes" to either of these questions then most people seem to agree with you. Does it matter? Let's not get into what the crimes may or may not be - you don't want to know, do you? Some things you can't undo so let's not go there. :Let's just talk about Why, about what Punishment for Crimes is all about.
Why Punish anyone for a crime? Why Jail? One answer is that you want to hurt people because they have done something hurtful to others. You want them to sit and suffer. That is one reason for punishment, maybe the main reason. If we don't want Hillary to suffer just because she hurt people - IF anyone was hurt, in a way they should have had legal protection against, anyway - why would we want ANYONE to suffer just because they Hurt people? Is Hillary exceptional? If it is only because we care about her that we don't want her to suffer - maybe she didn't mean to break any laws, maybe it was people she was mixed up with, a bad crowd - why would we want ANYONE to suffer just because they hurt people, maybe also because of who they hung around with? How can we punish anyone just for hurting other people if we claim to care about them? If we care for Hillary in this way where we don't want her hurt just because others were hurt - and maybe it was an accident! - then why don't we care for other people in this way?
If we don't want Hillary put in jail just for Revenge, because revenge is wrong, why do we want revenge on ANYONE?
"An Eye for An Eye Leaves the Whole World Blind" means if we keep this up there will be less and less of us who can see the way out.
There is One other reason for punishment to keep someone in Jail, besides "Punishment" for the sake of it, which amounts to revenge and is wrong, is to keep them from hurting more people. Who can Hillary hurt, now? Couldn't she do the same things even from jail? Pay for protests to distract the media from real causes like Standing Rock protecting our Water, or from the fact that she must still be trying to steal the election and has not returned or been caught for stealing millions of votes cast for Jill Stein and Gary Johnson - she continues to "get away with it" but I did not want to get bogged down in details. You put someone in jail to keep them from continuing illegal and hurtful behavior but if you won't catch them they keep doing it and if you don't even want to catch them, because you REALLY are not concerned about those things, then you let them go and let it happen. I still suspect Trump is Hillary's Puppet and is letting her steal it out from under him because both of them want World War Three AND Civil War Two - the best of both worlds for Warmongers when we thought Civil War would be easier to sleep through and prevent, #pillowrevolution style. Does anyone care?
If we don';t care about the crimes of Theft of Democracy and End the World in War, can we please let EVERYONE out of Jail, now, for Lesser Crimes? Since ALL crimes are less than these?
I believe in Oz, The Future - they have one infrequently used jail and it is full of nice things: They feel Doubly-sorry for the Prisoner, who misunderstood the goodness of the Law - because all Oz-Law is based on Love - and is therefore at a disadvantage for misunderstanding and who is deprived of liberty by being in Jail and is thus at a disadvantage. So they feel sorry for the Prisoner and give him the BEST of everything, the best food and games to help him see the Beauty of Love-Law, to Feel GOOD again so he can be at liberty as soon as possible. It works and will work for us, we have Many Nice things we can recover people from prison by using there, transforming them - but this is future-talk, let me return to Now.
I'm listening to Depeche Mode's "Songs of Faith and Devotion" after a decade or two absence. I just finished Jane Eyre chapter 19 for those who trace the media magic connections and those who have read it without spoiling it for those who don't. I saw Dr. Strange yesterday afternoon after feeling closer to the mystery of Time and Space yesterday morning after a discussion of 7-dimensional versus 10-dimensional space-time models - Base 7 Versus Base 10, or maybe the Ouspensky one I'm intuiting is Base 6. And Mention of Selena Fox's 9-way "quarter-calling" and my addition of the tenth and Twisty Path , Fairy-psychedelic-dream. "Rush" just came on and I've been writing maybe since the second song, to trace.
Ok, I had a previous theme to this yesterday but it fits into this larger theme. NPR interviewed Rev. Daryl Scott, a black pastor in Cleveland Ohio and personal friend of Donald Trump for the last few years. When the reporter tried to lead him into saying he had "broken" or lost faith (implying betrayed) the Democrats, who claim to be the Party for minority community concerns, he said they were like a Pimp of the Black Community. I don't want to insult Pimps or anyone in this comparison: the whole thing about comparisons is they rely on ideas like "we all abhor the sex industry" in order to demonize people. Pimps and prostitutes certainly deserve sympathy and understanding on a personal level - you can say that due to circumstances the prostitutes deserve FAR more sympathy than the pimps who exploit them but that is still the result of falling into the evil of judgment based on classification instead of Persons. Look at each individual and they are committing their crimes for a reason that can elicit sympathy. The problem with using these analogies is that the System that we try to criticize is actually far worse than the People on the other side of the analogy. People are in criminal lifestyles because they get "caught up in it" like a game and they become pawns. But Systems MAKE the game, they are no ones pawn.
Maybe Hillary IS a pawn and maybe that is why people feel a basic sympathy for her that overrides any curiosity to know what she might have done. Why are we so fascinated by Crime Shows, fictional or reality-based? Are we showing we DON'T care for these "random" people by watching and hoping they get caught and punished? Why don't we feel that way about Hillary? Because we care about her? Is there ANYTHING to the idea that Punishment, Consequences, are good for the person because they teach the person how to grow and improve? If we shield someone from consequence won't they Keep doing the same bad behaviors like a spoiled child? Isn't that dangerous when it is War and Frakking and Stealing Elections?
But maybe she is just a pawn - then aren't we ALL Pawns? Should we not indict the system?
Speaking of Pawns in the system, when this was just titled "Democrat Pimps" in my mind yesterday there was another story following the interview with Rev. Scott. He called the DNC "pimps" by the way, in case this was unclear, for "standing next to the inner cities profiting off calling attention to them but not helping to change anything for them, in order that they can keep doing it" - something like that. Then there was a n interview with two immigration lawyers about DACA, the executive order-led program that Obama installed to grant immigrants who are minors to have some legal status. They seemed to be spreading the same fear and misinformation to make people panic: on the one hand they were advising clients to save their $400-dollar filing fees and trouble of filing for DACA, and even warned of the danger of submitting your information to the system for the first time in case the same system was turned "against them" by Trump - then on the other hand, they barely mentioned that even if the DACA situation changed it might help some people to have gotten in before the changes. They basically did not know anything useful and were spreading all the fear of everything they could speculate about. I could not help thinking, "who caused this? Who created this situation?" If it is an executive order, Obama set all of these conditions when he made it. Why make something that has to be renewed every two years except to turn it into a political football? Why not just make it permanent? Because making it permanent makes people get used to it, actually improves things for THIS group of people, so we can move on to other problems. The Democrats don't want to move on, they want to keep every group oppressed and the most sympathetic, like kids, they keep in this tension in order to make Republicans look even worse for being "against kids." As I type that Sade is singing about letting folks move on, nobody in the family can get a job, in "Feel No Pain." I foolishly left a cd thereof her first album, because it was $3, I hid it and said I would come back, then spent $50 when I went back yesterday and couldn't find it. It said "SHAR-DAY" on the side which seemed Magically Rare. But maybe it's easy to find.
The Democrats just want to turn important issues, all of them, into political footballs because all they are doing is maintaining the same rules of the same evil game. They aren't pawns, they are the Dungeon Masters, in a Role-Playing analogy. But if you want to feel sorry for one of them, think of Her, Hillary, or Him, Bernie, or ANY of them, as a Pawn - or Better Yet, as a Captured Checker. If we break their lines and reach the other side of the board, we get that piece BACK, on our heads, "King Me." When Bernie, or even Hillary, comes back to the People, t the Green Party, their respect from the people will be waiting for them. Like Dr. Strange's Cape of Levitation.
The last point, yesterday, was that Obama was in Greexe - thanks, typofairies, in Greece. He told the people something like "If your governments don't listen to their people they will end up electing nationalistic candidates." ("I couldn't love you more boy, stay exactly as you are" Sade sings as I typed that) Did he JUST learn this lesson last week? Like, Super-No-Shit, Obama. Geez. Irony much? In Greexe, or Greece, of all places, "Birthplace of Democracy?" - Actually we say that to justify sexism but America really got it's Democracy from the Iroquois who had universal suffrage and women's reproductive rights - so we've been Backwards for a while now. But if we take this chance, Standing Rock, the only REAL protest left now that #blacklivesmatter and every other protest has been co-opted and therefore invalidated by Hillary's Move-On-sponsored "Throwtest" that MAKES it's own media attention in order to divert from real issues. I'm not saying there is not a valid movement against Police Brutality, but to the extent that #blacklivesmatter has allowed themselves to be co-opted THAT designation is no longer valid. Plus look at it, all it ever was, ultimately, was another political football. The problem is Police Brutality,against EVERYONE and ANYONE. Of course there are other issues that #blacklivesmatter focuses on but there must be focus to protest and activism. If you want to support people who are RIGHT NOW being beaten, gassed, and wrongfully imprisoned and tormented by police, Stand With Standing Rock not hill-troll bullshit.Not only is water essential to ALL life, all the other issues come together in this one Place and Time. And we can do far more good from home helping them at Standing Rock, if we can't go there, than we can going out into any streets for HRC.
That was all I was going to say until an interview with Mike Pillsbury rolled this all up in to a nice little dough and baked a cake with it. One more bowl. "Kiss of Life", thanks Sade, i love you! And I love this weed, Kosher Kush, thanks LivWell! (my store - and Keegan, I think, my budtender for it who was also excited when I gave him our new Foxzen cd, "Mystic Monsters" - hope he likes it, paints something good to it!) Ok, one more, again.
Pillsbury worked in the Reagan administration, I think, and has written three books on China and was being interviewed abut the relationship between America and China in relation to Donald Trump. He said his next book may be called Avoiding War with China and he said some things about how we could easily, accidentally, get into a war with them over disputes of territory in the South China Sea. He also made some interesting comments about "China First" and "Make America First" and how the language similarity, and Nationalistic belief, actually made the Chinese people have more respect and in common with America, this idea that we both admit we want to be first is more honorable than contentious, at least from a linguistic and propagandists perspective. But the most important thing he said to me was about our attitudes to Global Warming and restrictions based on Climate Change and how that fits in with this idea of Punishment.
We, in America, have a Lie-Machine that denies Global Warming and insists it is merely a "left-wing" attempt to stifle business. And that argument has the money and therefore government behind it so we must band together as people to stop it. But as Pillsbury points out, in China they also view Global Warming as a ploy by the West to shackle their development. Who is right here? Is America trying to Punish China with Global Warming? Is China, or the Left, trying to Punish America with Global Warming?
See how Punishment works? We can waste each other's time by "punishment" and Revenge - but in the End Consequences are coming for ALL of us. Global Warming is NOT a scam by one government to hinder another government, or business - THAT idea is a scam. It was 80 degrees on Nov 15th, 2016, breaking the record from 1941. I could talk about how many more records are broken, and re broken, and how often, and how even basic understanding of math.... but EACH day counts. It's not about statistics - no one cares, we are two scared of math. Basically every Republican voted for Trump, Half the Democrats voted for Clinton, but people are too scared of math to realize how many votes she must have STOLEN to tie him.
But no one needs to enforce Karma - no one can. Homer and Apu proved that 20 years ago. The Punishments will come. We don't need to visit punishment upon each other. We need to visit each other to avoid punishment. We are all in this together, now. It doesn't matter whose fault it was. What matters is we solve the problems and we know we need togetherness to do this. Blame only gets in the way. We can all tell what we really should not be doing - violence, silencing voices, ignoring calls for help - so we just stop doing those things and start doing the opposite: Peace, speaking up and to each other, asking people how we can help and listening to the people who are shouting for it, praying for it, Standing for it. Stand Together, united. We will win, EVERYTHING, for the People, for Mother earth, for ALL creatures and for The Great Spirit that unites us all to begin with and in whom we all are Strong and Whole. Nothing can stand against us and as the Water Protector I met in the thrift store told me the other day, "The Beginning is Near!"
Apart we fall like lonely feathers. Together we Fly.
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