Urban Predators Speak Out

  REDEFINIG MAGA The operative letter is “A” for “AGAIN.” It automatically calls for an all-inclusive look into a past beyond imperialistic tendencies like flexing Military Power, Manufacturing and Global Economic Dominance. But that past also included modeling a democracy offering its citizens and so many from abroad freedom of speech, the right to elect and impeach its public officials, as well as equal legal protection of inalienable rights: Life, Liberty and Justice FOR ALL! However, it’s really hard to ponder and understand: What’s going on or where to turn for answers. It’s even harder to prioritize and choose what to focus on when media is not only rapid firing information but being forced to combat intimidation and censorship. Compound that with all the inhouse fighting among our “Publicly Elected Officials” trusted to focus on protecting and providing opportunities for a better future. But beyond finger pointing: What about us? What’s happening to the operative phrase “ We...

  WHAT WILL IT TAKE Many phrases as “ What goes around comes around; Do onto others as you would have done to you, and It’s all Water under the bridge ” are automatically being turned into popular contemporary clichés. Even age-old words of wisdom full of common sense!  “ An eye for an eye only makes the world blind; What you did not for them you did not for me ” and the most presently, relative and simplest statement, “ Love thy neighbor ” has been made irrelevant. The former set seems to be socially correct and acceptable fill-ins or dismissive conversational boomerangs to avoid contemplation or reflection. The latter set seems to be experiencing a similar fate with a few debatable twists added on. First, for many turning to God use the cliché “ He will provide .” But that only tends to dismiss personal responsibility and initiative. Second, it treats God as a “genie in the bottle” to rub and expect immediate gratification and absolution from actions with later feelings of...

  IMMIGRATION 6: “DIM” Spreading a 4 “D” Worldwide Wildfire   Citizens of humanity become aware, prepare and beware: Present ICE activity is a key but small part of a bigger game in play.   While withdrawing from its traditional place, America, not necessarily its citizens, is currently contributing to dismantling the role of key organizations committed to global order and mutual coexistence (The U.N., International Criminal Court, Centers for Human Rights and the Paris agreement on Climate Change). Meanwhile, America seems to have been a testing ground to develop a global D.I.M. (Deportation, Immigration, and Migration); A Manifesto with 4 “D” Articles (Declare, Detain, Deport, Dissolve), currently defining who and what will be considered wasteful, harmful and expendable ( site1 ). Starting with Immigrants and Migrants deemed illegal and/or criminal, people are becoming either part of a magician’s trick (able to make anything disappear and reappear somewhere else...

  Welcome to the Automated World of Automatons   Surviving multiple revisions (1215-25), The Magna Carta’s commitment to outlining the limits of governance and its primary role in assuring the sovereignty of its constituents got imbedded in our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights stressing Freedom to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness as Unalienable Rights. Stressing the importance of The Civil Rights Movement ; 4 term President F. D. Roosevelt’s 1944 “Second” Economic Bill of Rights added key elements (Employment, Housing, Medical Care, Education, Food, Clothing, Leisure and a Social Security safety net for the elderly and disabled), toward establishing a new level of government responsibility and economic security for all Americans. Considering John Lock (asserting citizen rights to replace dysfunctional governments), he advocated: When the private sector fails to provide the basic needs of the people, government has little recourse but to ...

JESUS FACTOR: BEHOLD! THE SWINGING DOUBLE EDGE SWORD   Religion’s been considered both a liberator from the ball and chain of hopeless despair and the opiate that ties the masses to the ball and chain of dogmatic helpless slavery. Between both there seems to be a double-edged sword sharpened by circumstance, interpretation and choices that can be personal or collective. Where one can be based on strong conviction, the other might be based on a conformity stemming from manipulation, force or the basic human need to belong. Sharp and deeply penetrating with dual potential and authority, a sword can deliver profound healing or absolute judgement. As an intuitive tool it can reveal one’s true thoughts, motives, hidden secrets and falsehoods. As a formidable defensive or offensive weapon, it can hold the fate of humanity accountable. Spiritually, the double-edged sword is a profound biblical metaphor that encapsulates a dynamic and transformative power that challenges indiv...

  “I’m A Grunt of Humanity” wandering through the outskirts of the “Social Abyss” seeking a place that would embrace my existence and say, “Welcome Home!”  Yet what happens when suddenly forced out of native homeland (for whatever reason), at every door (sought, found, and knocked upon), one is greeted with “We’re presently busy keeping those that are different in their place.” With family and offspring facing the choice to “survive or perish” one has little options but to seek an underground railroad leading to a place professing a land of milk and honey; a land offering immigrants (permanent) and migrants (temporary) opportunities to invest and be more than what’s been left behind; a  land broadcasting "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" at its gate ( The New Colossus ) Thus, although at the initial expense of native inhabitants, its economic dependance on black slavery, its western expansion to become a nation between the Atla...