The Market Coalition

Eh? I can think of scores of reasons to move to Canada (or opt for the Mexican Riviera) . . . any place but Babylon the Great: The USA. The War in Iraq . . . or better yet: The entire Military-Industrial Complex sucking the life-blood out of Americana for starters. Or, how about the whole hedonistic culture of greed, avaricious appetites, and super sizing all things godly and ungodlyfrom Hollywood to Mega Churches; indeed, ours is a “city set on a hill which cannot be hid” but the closer you get to this glittering jewel, the more it resembles the “Little Shop of Horrors,” you know, that flesh-eating plant crying out: Feed me, Seymour! Conspicuous consumption of a nation which spends $1.8 Billion more each day than the whole earth combined and finds herself some $14 Trillion in debt (National Debt + Balance of Payment/Trade Debts) is a bit too much, wouldn’t you say?after all, she represents but 5% of the world’s population.

Come on, half the eagle is in a declared state of emergency and the overt identification by Big Brother of all things human is prepared and/or is itching to pounce upon American liberties once thought sacrosanct by both the ACLU and the NRA by euphemistic legislation called Patriotic Acts, and finally, a cashless society where all of us are implanted with chips awaiting true identity and debit through scanning devices at your local Safeway.

The clock is ticking. Peak oil, where American’s “zero sum game” is played outfor you to gain I must looserefuses to share her bounty with the Asian tigers of China and India; and, of course, they are more than pleased with our indulgence. Like Rome, our legions amongst the world’s “provinces,” are stretched thinand the draft can’t be all that far off if we’re to maintain our economic edge and SUV-lifestyle (latest stats for the past two years show that 58% of all vehicles purchased in the USA are SUVs, pickups, or plain old gas guzzlers). And, as if these outrageous consequences weren’t enough to abandon shiptoss in the worst natural disaster ever to afflict the homeland: Katrina; man, wait till we finance that one!

So . . . isn’t it about time to flee to Canada or head for the Mexican Riviera? Eh? Canada’s a safe haven for pot-people and same-sex marriage is the rage. Crime’s relatively low compared to the lower 48 and the death penalty’s been outlawed for nearly thirty years. Finally, most of the 125,000 Viet-Nam Era draft dodgers who fled to Canada stuck around and now constitute the leading edge of all the above progressive life-style. Wow, we’re talkin’ about socialized medicine for alla veritable paradise compared to the inflictions of them patriots down under. Cheap drugs (includes tons of cannabis), affordable housing, tiny military budget, etc., etc.a little cold, but you’ll get used to it.

Finally, if Hollywood’s collective apoplexy over President Bush’s election can be believedwe’re outta here . . . a few of these righteous indignations (unfulfilled) are duly noted, if for nothing else, their entertainment value. Notwithstanding the Hollywood stars and directors who claimed exodus was their only option under BushBarbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Robert Altman, Lynn Redgrave, Pierre Salinger (now deceased), and Cherall found the allure of Babylon on the Hudson irresistible; so much for leftist vibratos. Misquoted or just plain fluffthey all abide within the walls of the crystal palace celebrating the party atmosphere, as they star in a movie sequel to the “Left Behind Series” entitled: Talk is Cheap, Follow Us.

ECONOMIC INTEGRATION VIA NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAAEnter the “Three Amigos”

Patriots would exclaim we’re selling off and out America; globalists would see dollars galore; socialists would see an on-going rip off; and a whole bunch of people in the middle could care less (a.k.a. “victims anonymous”).

Meanwhile Deanna Spingola in “Building a North American Community” (July 15, 2005) keeps telling it like it is:

“While our sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers having been spilling their blood in the sands of Iraq under the guise of restoring the country to the Iraqi citizens, our president is in the process of giving our country to the elite One World Order insiders. While our president is requiring protected borders in Iraq, he is obliterating, not only our southern, but our northern borders.”

Actually, Deanna (and you’ve got to read her entire article) is referring to the Bush/Fox/Martin meeting (USA/Mexico/Canada) held at Baylor University in Waco, Texas on 23 March 2005, where they were busy about establishing the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” - to wit, the SPPNA’s troika:

“We, the elected leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, have met in Texas to announce the establishment of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.

“Over the past decade, our three nations have taken important steps to expand economic opportunity for our people and to create the most vibrant and dynamic trade relationship in the world (i.e., NAFTA; my insert). Since September 11 2001, we have also taken significant new steps to address the threat of terrorism and to enhance the security of our people.

“But much still remains to be done. In a rapidly changing world, we must develop new avenues of cooperation that will make our open societies safer and more secure, our businesses more competitive, and our economies more resilient.

“Our Partnership will accomplish these objectives through a trilateral effort to increase the security, prosperity, and quality of life of our citizens. This work will be based on the principle that our security and prosperity are mutually dependent and complementary, and will reflect our shared belief in freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic values and institutions. It will also help consolidate our efforts within a North American framework, to meet security and economic challenges, and promote the full potential of our people, by reducing regional disparities and increasing opportunities for all.”

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONSThey’re at it again!

Now don’t go conspiratorial on me . . . hee-hee . . . don’t need to . . . let the truth speak for itself:

It was on May 17, 2005 the CFR formalized its “Independent Task Force” to review at length the parameters of such a three-pact agreement among the USA, Canada, and Mexico. This 31-member force de jure was chaired by John F. Manley, Pedro Aspe, and William F. Weld and vice-chaired by: Robert A. Pastor, Thomas P. d’Aquino, Andrés Rozental. Cooperating with the CFR’s efforts were the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.

Indeed, the composite document released by the aforementioned is the very title of Spingola’s article . . .

No wonder that Spingola and other American patriots view this as the “Great American Give-a-way!”

Take a gander at their timid prognostications and guess why moving to Canada’s a joke . . .for what NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) could not destroy, FTAA (Free Trade Area/Agreement of the Americas . . . a.k.a. “Building a North American Community”) fully intends:

“We are asking the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada to be bold and adopt a vision of the future that is bigger than, and beyond, the immediate problems of the present . . . they could be the architects of a new community of North America, not mere custodians of the status quo.” (Canadian co-chair, John P. Manley, Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance).

CHRISTIANS ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE

Now, listen to Spingola’s assessment of all thisand, don’t think she’s some brainless Libertarian gone amok down in Texas somewhere . . .

“This basically means that Americans must give up their freedoms and hard won sovereignty along with all resources for the greater good of the ‘New Community.’ It is a socialistic equalization designed to make slaves of everyone in all three countries. This will occur as a result of the secret, subversive activities of our ruling elitist who have never sacrificed anything except their integrity. When it comes time to sell this socialistic venture, Bush will adopt his multipurpose ‘Christian’ stance and use every possible guilt maneuver to encourage this good hearted Christian country to open our hearts to the less fortunate. This is a ploy to make all of us less fortunate. There will be many who will fall for this scam under the pretext of Christianity. If we think Christians are media maligned now, just wait! We will be the most hated inmates in the camp!”

Wow! Powerful projections here, right? I’m sure we’ll somehow meet up with Spingola one dayif not in glory, then in some gulag cell contemplating how all of this got out of hand . . . I mean, if Shirley McClain went out on a limb, Spingola’s going out on a twig:

“All of this is done under the facade of protecting us - from terrorists? The worse terrorists we face are those who serve in our government. Another day that shall live in infamy, 9/11, has done much to serve the purposes of those whose main goal is to establish the One World Order. What an opportunistic event! It couldn’t have worked any better if they had planned it!”

O CANADA - VIVA MEXICO - Life is good!

Of course most Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans can’t stomach all of this unification at once; thus, the GREAT TRANSITION awaits us all:

Unified military command? Listen to what the CFR plans for your future:

1. Establish a common security perimeter by 2010.
2. Develop a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers.
3. Develop a unified border action plan and expand border customs facilities.

The CFR web site is effusive in its sacrifice of sovereignty:

4. Create a single economic space:
5. Adopt a common external tariff.
6. Allow for the seamless movement of goods within North America.
7. Move to full labor mobility between Canada and the U.S.
8. Develop a North American energy strategy that gives greater emphasis to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases - a regional alternative to Kyoto.

Hey, and let’s shoot the gap - listen, we’re talkin’ INTEGRATION BIG TIME . . . and we’re not whistling Dixie (although we might permit that in the new North American Federation of United States as an expression of multiculturalismharkening back to the good ole days when a different form of slavery abounded) . . . so, we might have to:

9. Review those sectors of NAFTA that were excluded.
10. Develop and implement a North American regulatory plan that would include “open skies and open roads” and a unified approach for protecting consumers on food, health, and the environment.
11. Expand temporary worker programs and create a “North American preference” for immigration for citizens of North America.
12. Spread benefits more evenly:
13. Establish a North American Investment Fund to build infrastructure to connect Mexico’s poorer regions in the south to the market to the north.
14. Restructure and reform Mexico’s public finances.
15. Fully develop Mexican energy resources to make greater use of international technology and capital.
16. Institutionalize the partnership:
17. Establish a permanent tribunal for trade and investment disputes.
18. Convene an annual North American summit meeting.
19. Establish a Tri-national Competition Commission to develop a common approach to trade remedies.
20. Expand scholarships to study in the three countries and develop a network of Centers for North American Studies.

CAESAR HAS CROSSED THE RUBICONDOWN WITH THE REPUBLIC!

Now, that doesn’t sound so badin point of fact, we can sort of ease ourselves into this new North American “framework.” Especially enlightening are the PROGRESSIVE comments of people like William F. Weld (another co-chair) former Governor of Massachusetts and U.S. Assistant Attorney General:

“We are three liberal democracies; we are adjacent; we are already intertwined economically; we have a great deal in common historically; culturally, we have a lot to learn from one another.”

Three democracies? Now, let’s not mince words like “Democracy” vs. “Republic” - we all know what we’re talking about here, right? ” . . . and to the Republic for which it stands.” Of course, that’s been turned into a prayerso much for the Republic, and so much for allegiance! Oh well, we weren’t all cracked up to be much of a Republic anyway, right?

CFR’s been around since 1921 and Mexico/Canada duplicated these efforts in 1976 (Mexican Council on Foreign Relations and the Canadian Council of Chief Executives). CFR members frequently address House and Senate meetings who attempt to probe academia at the highest levelsand, of course, the CFR is right up there with the best (if not THE best) of them (you know, big bucks and all). Enter Dr. Robert A. Pastor, V-P, International Affairs Professor/Director, Center for North American Studies American University, speaking on the “Travel Initiative” within the Western Hemisphere.

THE TRAVELING PASTOR–ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR AL

Dr. Pastor (fourth Musketeer amongst the three) didn’t have to travel far . . . he simply sat there before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs on June 9, 2005 and quoted the CFR’s “Independent Task Force” (May 17, 2005) and their fine efforts to frame a new “Future of North America.”

In sum, Dr. Pastor accused the three nations of “small-mindedness” - and felt that in order to “secure the homeland” we shouldn’t zero in on U.S. interest; instead, let’s stop worrying about our borders with Mexico and Canada and let her rip! Let’s start thinking global here in North America.

First, let’s integrate the economieswe’re well on our way on that one; next, let’s get down socially, especially in light of 9/11 (terror, as in Nazi Germany, is a real catalyst for “positive change”); and, thirdly, let’s forge ahead and go beyond these petty terrorists to a create a massive North American Communityno-holds-bared thinking is needed around this bastion of isolationism! All for one and one for all . . . each benefiting from the other’s success, while avoiding our demise when we concentrate on our problemsthat’s the ticket (whoops, travel-talk; no pun intended).

Pastor’s Center for North American Studies at American University is designed to think dynamically, think hugelet the tide rise and pick us all up! Feel the surge! As a CFR member, Pastor poured praise upon NAFTAno big deal if a few jobs have gone south. In the totality of it all, we all benefit, for is not the dictum we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, or is it that some are more equal than others, or that some benefit more than others? Oh, well, we can work out the details later, because the War on Terror trumps all.

Sure, we all might have to work for lower wages and benefits for starters; and we might, if we want to hold up the current social order, work longer hoursbut just think: More of us will be workingDads, Moms, daughters, brothers, etc. And, once in a great while, we’ll be allowed to vacationnot bad, right?

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE: OIL

During the latest round of Russian-American talks between Bush and Putin (this week, Sept. 11-17), the biggie was energy policy: How to secure Russian petroleum over the protestations of the Chinese and Indians? Energynow that’s why the USA-Canada-Mexico deal is absolutely mandatory.

The lion’s share (58%) of our imported oil comes from Canada and Mexico anyway, right? So, isn’t it about time we awoke and smelled the roses? Economically, we’re integrated and America’s insatiable love with the automobile demands that we fully integrate the livin’ tar out of these economies. Canada is our biggest trading partner anyway86% of all Canadian exports go to America, whereas 89% of Mexico’s go northsomehow we consume it all!

“Since the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement eight years ago, Mexico has surpassed Japan and has become the United States’ second-largest trading partnerCanada is the biggest. Thanks to the open trading borders, companies in all three countries have been stretching their reach throughout North America.” (Forbes, 2002).

What a difference a little time makes! Yep, ole NAFTA keeps workin’ its wonders. Now, over 40% of U.S. trade with Canada is intra-firm, that is, trade occurring between parts of the same firm operating on both sides of the borderand, that trade totals over $500 billion annually between the two. Insofar as Mexico is concerned, both nations are on line for $300 Billion for 2005! Thus, our little North American Free Trade Agreement is pressing in around $1 Trillion annually, import/export.

Pastor claims that 9/11 actually threatened to cripple “North American long-term integration.” Help me understand the problem, Dr. Pastor. For one little ditty, we went from 3 million illegals in the 1990s to 11 million todaywe’re getting integrated in spite of your rhetoric!

So, the theory goes, Canada is rich in resources (and Mexico’s Gulf Oil too), and Mexico is rich in cheap laborso can’t we all just get along? If we’re getting integrated economically, in any event, maybe we can all enjoy cheaper oil at the pumpssay, by the way, that bridge in Brooklyn is going for half off this weekend only! In conclusioncan’t we all just get along and drive off in our Hummers into Baja’s sunset or up through the Yukon’s wilderness?

NORTHCOM

“For nearly two years now, Ottawa has been quietly negotiating a far-reaching military cooperation agreement, which allows the US Military to cross the border and deploy troops anywhere in Canada, in our provinces, as well station American warships in Canadian territorial waters. This redesign of Canada’s defense system is being discussed behind closed doors, not in Canada, but at the Peterson Air Force base in Colorado, at the headquarters of US Northern Command (NORTHCOM).

“The creation of NORTHCOM announced in April 2002, constitutes a blatant violation of both Canadian and Mexican territorial sovereignty. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced unilaterally that US Northern Command would have jurisdiction over the entire North American region. Canada and Mexico were presented with a fait accompli. US Northern Command’s jurisdiction as outlined by the US DoD (Department of Defense) includes, in addition to the continental US, all of Canada, Mexico, as well as portions of the Caribbean, contiguous waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans up to 500 miles off the Mexican, US and Canadian coastlines as well as the Canadian Arctic.

“NorthCom’s stated mandate is to ‘provide a necessary focus for [continental] aerospace, land and sea defenses, and critical support for [the] nation’s civil authorities in times of national need.’”

www.sfu.ca/casr/ft-lagasse1.htm

Surprise, surprise! You see, ever since FDR sprung his “attack on Canada is an attack on the USA,” and the Canadians reciprocated in 1938, this little military integration thing has really gotten serious. Maybe you thought NORTHCOM was just for the Canadiansapparently, the only guys squawking about it are them draft dodgers worried about Sam’s long reach. Don’t think we’re talking about a slight modification here for the Canadian Mounted Police and the Mexican Federales . . .

Donald Rumsfeld postured that North America’s geographic command center (smack dab in the Middle of the USA) “is part of the greatest transformation of the Unified Command Plan since its inception in 1947.”

Furthermore, as Army, Air, Naval, and Special Forces integrate, NATO and NORAD’s old frameworks are and will get a complete facelifti.e., you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! To facilitate this shakeup (between the USA and Canada) a Binational Planning Group (BPG) now works in tandem with NORTHCOM (BPG is a mix of US and Canadian officers.). BPG has the following goals:

• to share maritime surveillance and intelligence
• to coordinate binational actions involving military and civil agencies
• to design and conduct joint training programs and exercises.

This means of naval and military integration came about in 2002 through the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) who initiated the BPG. The BPG’s singular mission is to develop an “Enhanced Canada-US Security Cooperation with the US . . . starting with a simple two-year mandate, the BPG works alongside NorthCom and NORAD in Colorado Springs.”

It won’t be long before the militaries of these alleged sovereign states are fully integrated. In sum, here’s what Americans who’ve just moved to Canada have to look forward to:

“And ultimately what is at stake is that beneath the rhetoric, Canada will cease to function as a Nation . . .

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Of Racism

By Punkerslut

Introduction and Statement of Opinion

There are few institutions that are more deplorable than Racism. It is this vice-ridden belief, the belief that a man can be reduced to the color of his skin when his worth is measured, it is this bigotry that has turned men into scoundrels, that has turned people into heartless murderers and slavers. Racism does not count intelligence for a man, nor does it count ignorance against a man; it does not state that affection is to be valued, nor that brutality is to be detested. It states, and it only states, that one particular race is to be valued or judged, that one tone of skin is either divine or satanic, that a person is only worth as much as the type of people he came from. In the history of civilization, it was a vulture preying on the superstitions of people all around the world. Those who conformed to whatever society told them to commonly accepted Racism, just as commonly as those with enough heart to feel have rejected it. This vile institution has profaned the minds of men, it has turned them into monstrous beasts, careless and heartless, brutal and cruel, in their pursuits to cause suffering.

To Racism, there is nothing but race. A man may speak for all that he wishes, may argue for as long as arguments last, but if he is not the right race, the right ethnic background, then there is no difficulty in the question. And it is but one question: is this man a member of our race? Does he have the same skin color? Do his parents have the same skin color as my own parents? Racism is simply a judge of that and nothing else. It is not humane or rational in the slightest bit. It does not ask: is this man humane? Is this man merciful? Is this man accepting? Does he offer his sympathies to those who may suffer?

Racism is blind inhumanity. Without caprice, it will throw responsibility onto that which no man can possibly be responsible for: race. From this one creed, men have committed numerous atrocities. Racists have forced Jews from their homes and barred them from work. They have whipped the flog against the stinging, bleeding flesh of the African human, whose life can be defined as toil and sweat. They decapitated Asians who tried to mine gold. Of every immigant to the United States, they have put coals of fire on their back, much like the coals of fire on their own minds. They have lynched men with a smiling face, cast them out into the streets, smited them and beaten them. With scorn and hate, Racists have committed the contumelies that once were thought to only make up nightmares. That is my opinion of Racism.

Arguments of Racism

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“You are now citizens of many of the States, and in time you will be of all. I am astonished when I think how long it took to abolish the slave, how long it took to abolish slavery in this country. I am also astonished to think that a few years ago magnificent steamers went down the Mississippi freighted with your fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters, and may be some of you, bound like criminals, separated from wives, from husbands, every human feeling laughed at and outraged, sold like beasts, carried away from homes to work for another, receiving for pay only the marks of the lash upon the naked bark. I am astonished at these things. I hate to think that all this was done under the Constitution of the United States, under the flag of my country, under the wings of the eagle.

“The flag was not then what it is now. It was a mere rag in comparison. The eagle was a buzzard; and the Constitution sanctioned the greatest crime of the world.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, “An Address to the Colored People,” 1867, delivered at Galesburg, Illinois.

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There are those who assert that since someone of a particular race committed a certain crime, therefore the entire race is dedicated to committing such crimes. However, this is flawed reasoning. An individual’s actions can only be representive of their own character, their own morals. An entire race is not a moral agent, just as a society is not and a government is not. Every sole conscious being is their own moral agent. To hold green-eyed people, red-haired people, or black-skinned people responsible for the actions of a very few, select individuals is ludicrous. Yet, even beyond this, there is a bigger justification for Racism. According to certain statistics, more African men are in prison or some correctional phase than European men yet more European men populate the nation. Some may argue against these statistics, but I will not argue against Racism if it is at the cost of truth. From these statistics, one may be quick to conclude that African men have a tendency towards criminal activity. However, this is still flawed reasoning. Consider how many African men were in prison prior to the conclusion of the Civil War in the south. I would be astounded if even one were in prison, as they were all confined to the prison of slavery. With a mixed population of both white and black people, and prisons constituting most white people, it would be equally logical to assume that Europeans had a racial inclination towards criminal activity as it would be to assume today that Africans have a racial inclination towards criminal activity.

However, from an objectively logical standpoint, it would be easy to see that race has little if anything to do with criminal activity. If one were to study Criminology and to understand the reasons why men and women commit crimes, they would understand entirely that the reasons are poverty, opportunity, among other factors that are exhibited in those who commit crimes. Being born of one race does not make any person inclined to commit crimes. Being born of poverty and corruption, being born in a government that holds no respect for your values, these are the aspects that will incline a person to become a criminal. To say that one’s race is important in determining their moral stature is tantamount to saying that one’s hair color or eye color, or any other physical attribute, is important in determining as such. If 90% of the people in prison had birth marks, does that mean we can conclude that individuals with birth marks are bound to be criminals? In fact, we can hypothesize even further beyond that. If 100% of the individuals in prison are human beings, does that mean we can conclude that human beings have criminal tendencies and that they are deviant, cruel beings? As I have stated, a person is not a criminal because of their race, their species, their hair color, their eye color, or any other arbitrary, physical characteristics. An individual becomes a criminal from tendencies that lead them to break the law.

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“Some of the best people I have ever known are Jews, and some of the worst people I have known are Christians. The Christians were not bad simply because they were Christians, neither were the Jews good because they were Jews. A man is far above these badges of faith and race. Good Jews are precisely the same as good Christians, and bad Christians are wonderfully like bad Jews.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, The Jews.

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There are those who argue, however, that by fighting other races, they are preserving their own race. Some claim to get this reasoning from Evolution and the law of Natural Selection. (It is astounding that it has never occurred to them that Evolution is a a scientific observation and not a moral foundation.) Some of them may argue that hate and love go hand in hand, that as much as they love their own race, they hate opposing races. Yet such claims are ridiculous and unreasonable. If I am going to die for preserving something, it will be love, affection, and reverence. Race is unconcerned with any of those things. A person born of any particular DNA is fully capable of becoming an intelligent, active, warm person. Whether or not someone is born of white parents, black parents, red parents, or yellow parents, it is irrelevant. They still all have the same opportunity to excel in life in the particular fields that they wish to choose. For a Racist to argue that they are defending their race, they commit heinous crimes. Not only are they defending something that holds no monopoly on kindness or compassion, but they are launching offenses on those individuals who certainly are capable of suffering, who certainly can feel pain. By lynching those of another race, or tightening immigration, or fostering a hate for those who have a different appearance, Racism works to cause the downfall of unity and certainly defends nothing but the unchosen variable of race.

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“Ex-Governor Atkinson protested against this savagery. He was threatened with death. The good people were helpless. While these lynchers murder the blacks they will destroy their own country. No civilized man wishes to live where the mob is supreme. He does not wish to be governed by murderers.

“Let me say that what I have said is flattery compared with what I feel. When I think of the other lynching — of the poor man mutilated and hanged without the slightest evidence, of the negro who said that these murders would be avenged, and who was brutally murdered for the utterance of a natural feeling — I am utterly at a loss for words.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, Fragments From The Pen of Robert G Ingersoll.

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Still, there are those who draw their arguments from religion and the Bible. Ephesians 6:5, Exodus 21:2-6, Exodus 20-21, and Leviticus 25:44-46, are all verses in the Bible which condone slavery. Racists have used this as an excuse for slavery, to enslave those who are not the same genetically. Slavery is but a cruel institution that works for the small gain of a profiteer and works for the massive destruction of the mind and body of the slave. As I detest slavery, I must detest the Bible, as the later righteously and proudly defends the first. To state that god has given one race the right to enslave another is not revelation. It is hearsay. Even so, if god condoned murder and rape, would any person listen to it? Only the pious and religious would, as their minds have often been restricted to what the church can tell them. To those who are humane and rational, the abuses and manipulative methods of the Bible are only atrocities to mankind. To practice the Bible truthfully is to be inhumane, uncaring, unfeeling, heartless, and brutal. However, the point is made: a god can condone anything, but that holds no foundation on what is right or what is wrong. The religious Racists, some who have “Slavery is of God” as their motto, are combinely ignorant and malicious in ways not seen before. To quote Frederick Douglass, the slave who fled from his plantation, “We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen, all for the glory of God and the good of souls. The slave auctioneer’s bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave trade go hand in hand.” [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself, 1845.]

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“As soon as our ancestors began to get free they began to enslave others. With an inconsistency that defies explanation, they practiced upon others the same outrages that had been perpetrated upon them. As soon as white slavery began to be abolished, black slavery commenced. In this infamous traffic nearly every nation of Europe embarked. Fortunes were quickly realized; the avarice and cupidity of Europe were excited; all ideas of justice were discarded; pity fled from the human breast a few good, brave men recited the horrors of the trade; avarice was deaf; religion refused to hear; the trade went on; the governments of Europe upheld it in the name of commerce — in the name of civilization and religion.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, “Centennial Oration,” 1876.

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One final plea for Racism is to declare that one’s race is superior. That, for some reason or another, one’s race has produced better art, better technology, better government, better literature, better people. After such a declaration is made, one then concludes that one race is better than another. They conclude that a man of one particular skin color holds more worth because of his ancestors, as compared to another man of a different skin color, who holds less worth because of his ancestors. This justification is a fraud. Whether or not someone’s father invented the telephone, it does not give them the right to torture unrelentingly without thought. The inventions and art of past do not give moral justification to anyone to be cruel or inhumane. The inventors and artists have given us their genius so that we may better ourselves, so that we may advance our position in life. To take that for granted and state that is the reason that individuals of a different skin color deserve no freedom or life is a credulous claim. Men, despite the acts of their fathers, can feel just the same, whether their father was Graham Bell or Thomas Edison.

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“The average American, like the average man of any country, has but little imagination. People who speak a different language, or worship some other god, or wear clothing unlike his own, are beyond the horizon of his sympathy. He cares but little or nothing for the sufferings or misfortunes of those who are of a different complexion or of another race. His imagination is not powerful enough to recognize the human being, in spite of peculiarities. Instead of this he looks upon every difference as an evidence of inferiority, and for the inferior he has but little if any feeling. If these “inferior people” claim equal rights be feels insulted, and for the purpose of establishing his own superiority tramples on the rights of the so-called, inferior.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, “Should The Chinese Be Excluded?” 1898.

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Ending

Racism is a profanity in the realm of logic and in the realm of humaneness. It does not endeavor to preserve that which has led us to glory, or will lead us to glory. To affection and kindness, beauty and reverence, it could not care less — it has only one care: race. In this light, it may rightly be called blind injustice. To a white Racist, they would rather have a white rapist than a black philanthropist in their community. To a black Racist, they would rather have a black murderer than a white Humanitarian in their community. Racism does not love virtue or mercy. It only loves race, an unknown variable that holds no control over one’s merits or value. By opposing Racism, one affirms that individuals can attain value and worth, no matter what color their skin. By opposing Racism, one is both rational and humane. And I must oppose Racism, as it has caused countless cruelties across the globe, all for the sake of something so trivial, so unrelentingly unimportant as one’s genetics.

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Punkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been writing essays and poetry on social issues which have caught his attention for several years. His website http://www.punkerslut.com provides a complete list of all of these writings. His life experience includes homelessness, squating in New Orleans and LA, dropping out of high school, getting expelled from college for “subversive activities,” and a myriad of other revolutionary actions.