Daily Bleed for September 17th - Helen Nearing

It was indeed a glad & gracious time, & the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war & cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern & angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight & offended no more in that way... ... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love... Amen. — Mark Twain, The War Prayer Daily Bleed in full, 84 entries, 28+ links, cuppla pitchers, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0917.htm Excerpts: SEPTEMBER 17 -- HELEN NEARING "Back-to-the-Land" dropout advocate, ecologist. WE ARE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS DAY. (Is it just me, or is it crowded on this bus?? —db) FUCKING DAY (Roman, traditional). ______________________________ 1858 -- US: All Indians, No Chiefs?: Colonel Wright dictates terms of surrender to Indians at Coeur d'Alene mission; 24 chiefs of Yakama, Cayuse, Wallawalla, Palouse & Spokane tribes are shot or hanged. 1859 -- Self-coronation of Emperor Norton I of US, in Frisco. America's Greatest Ruler. Joshua Norton, who lost his money in an attempt to corner the rice market, declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico. Greatest ruler America ever had. Curious Bookshop puts us in serious debt in 2009: "Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars." — Emperor Norton I, 1872 edict 1861 -- A new theater, Tucker's Hall, opens with a performance of "Norton the First," or "An Emperor for a Day." http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/EmperorNorton/nortonAnitarCache.htm 1864 -- Albert Theodore Schroeder lives ... met & came to know the liberals, socialists, radicals & anarchists whose civil liberties he worked to uphold. 1883 -- William Carlos Williams lives & we degraded prisoners destined to hunger until we eat filth... No one to witness & adjust, no one to drive the car 1897 -- US: Portland editor A. J. Pope arrested & jailed for sending "obscene" material in the anarchist "Firebrand" through the mail. Abe Isaak & Henry Addis, the other "Firebrand" editors, are arrested within the next few days on the same charge. 1900 -- US: Ton of Trouble?: 100,000 Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners go on strike. But those who have no pennies O what do they do -- pray Lie down & get themselves buried While the world goes on it's way Oh no! For we'd have no pounds then If they were allowed to do that For without their toiling & moiling We'd none of us grow fat — Bertolt Brecht, nursery rhyme from Three Penny Opera, translated by Christopher Isherwood 1934 -- Vivien Eliot, no longer wanting to be separated from her husband, sent an ad to the London Times: "Will T.S. Eliot please return to his home, 68 Clarence Gate Gardens, which he abandoned Sept. 17, 1932." 1935 -- Hippie bus driver, psychedelician, author Ken Kesey lives. Wrote One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a vehicle for his anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions. "You are either on the bus or you're not on the bus." 1939 -- Soviet troops invade Poland, jointly occupying it with Nazis. Poland is not free of Soviet domination for another 60 years. "Springtime for Hitler & Germany, Winter for Poland & France. Deutchland is on the rise again, Bombs are dropping from the skies again." — Mel Brooks, The Producer 1961 -- England: 1,314 arrested in anti-bomb sit-down, Trafalgar Square, London, while Bertrand Russell sits in jail since his arrest on 13 September. 1967 -- The Doors perform "Light My Fire" & "People are Strange" on the "Ed Sullivan Show." Prior to the show, Sullivan asked Jim Morrison to change or omit the line "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" ... Morrison sang it anyway. 1980 -- Former US-supported Terrorist Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza assassinated. 1998 Australia: Huge (sic) Run on Viagra? Soldiers are officially given the all-clear to use performance-enhancing drugs to improve their strength. Saps no longer, no drooping troops in Kangaroo Land! 2001 -- US: America returns to normal following the September 11 "Attack on America". America, the largest weapons seller in the world, swears to "take out" weapons manufacturers. The largest military in the world begins to bring its occupation troops home from around the globe. Wall Street reopens, swears it will put people before profits. A Beloved & Respected Comrade Prez Bush rallies the nation to a "war" footing, to fight all wars & all terrorism — not only individual or group terrorism, but also the largest & worst purveyor of such horrors, "state terrorism." Like all politicians in the new millennium, he demands that morality, not expediency, rule the day. America unites, vows human tragedy will not beget another palette of death & destruction. The US government calls its history of military "solutions" suitable to "US interests" a miserable failure, & sets to work to fight for human solutions to problems that sit like a plague upon the world. Americans are told they can no longer check their brains at the flag pole, not see criticism as traitorous, newspeak become wisdom, freedom sacrificed at the alter of freedom. No longer does Pogo prove America's greatest political philosopher ("We have seen the enemy...he is us"). Relatives of victims refuse to sell their stories, TV mini-movies will not appear next month. The spectacles of the past will be a past spectacle. The Great American Way of Life, valuing life above all, reaffirms human & democratic values in the face of evil & the Dark Side. Poetry replaces war, play displaces work, utopian notions drive consumerism from the marketplace, gardens consume parking lots, media commits suicide. America unilaterally commits itself to putting the lie to Randolph Bourne's famed & succinct claim that, WAR IS THE HEALTH OF THE STATE ____________ Fredy Perlman: The idyl is gone now. Nothing is left but the dirty realities. Leviathan is all there is. These very words, written words, are inventions of the Lugal's scribes. They cannot convey dream time. Every meaning has been inverted. "Central Africa," "Australia," "America" are not the names of places where free human beings ever lived. They are names of unprecedented holocausts, of gigantic colonies, of monstrous Leviathanic trophies. They are Leviathan's "empty continents." From the vantage point of Death, all Life is an aberration. The languages of the two protagonists are mutually unintelligible. The very vocabularies are untranslatable. Leviathan's world is a Wilderness to free living beings. The freedom of living beings is a Wilderness to Leviathan. 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