3.25.2015
Note to Jewish Voice for Peace re their article in The Hill: Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya.... Your words are nice, your cowardice is CERTAIN DEATH TO PALESTINE... click link for post
Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya.... Your words are nice, your cowardice is CERTAIN DEATH TO PALESTINE. There is no alternative to violence except the willing placing ones own life, limb and treasure at risk for the goal, the willingness in action to die for the cause. Surely you are not so ignorant of history that you don't know this. AJ Muste, "If men are not willing to practice the way of non-violence with the same kind of commitment and recklessness of cost or consequences as they practice the way of war and as Communists work for Communism, clearly non-violence will not work." http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/236846-change-in-israel-will-only-come-from-outside-pressure
***** SPDF Day 23. COULD BE SIGNIFICANT: "it’s time American Jews let all that mythology go...
it’s time American Jews let all that mythology go. That’s what Obama is also nudging us towards. The most disputed territory in the Middle East is between American Jews’ ears; once American Jews give up the idea of a two-state solution, and of a Jewish state, we can proceed (calmly, I pray) to the next phase. - See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/sitting-shiva-solution#sthash.kRFMccas.dpuf
Beinart was suggesting that American Jews who oppose the occupation fly to Israel to stand in nonviolent solidarity with Palestinians in the occupied territories. What Beinart didn’t mention is that there is a new organization doing just that. It’s called the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/217296/want-to-fight-the-occupation-after-bibis-victory/#ixzz3VPBqFmBG
Beinart was suggesting that American Jews who oppose the occupation fly
to Israel to stand in nonviolent solidarity with Palestinians in the
occupied territories. What Beinart didn’t mention is that there is a new
organization doing just that. It’s called the Center for Jewish
Nonviolence.
***** SPDF Day 23: ***** EXACTLY THE SICKNESS (USELESSNESS, HOPELESSNESS) of 2015 – activists are devoted to the lie that their very lives are not, are NEVER, DEMANDED OF THEM ...
***** SPDF Day 23: Exactly the sickness (uselessness, hopelessness) of this 2015 US, the 2015 'activists,' is that they think they are NOT called to give their very lives for their causes. THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH UNVIOLENT ACTION RESTS, IS EXACTLY, THE WILLINGNESS TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE. THERE IS NO NON-VIOLENT ACTION, OPPOSITION, RESISTANCE OF ANY HOPE WITHOUT THIS.
vid. 5 min. SPDF Day 23: Indian man thinks, 'Why not do something with my life that benefits all of society?”...
vid. 5 min. SPDF Day 23: Indian man thinks, 'Everyone makes money for themselves and then they die. Why not do something that benefits all of society,' he though?... vid
http://www.upworthy.com/they-told-him-it-was-impossible-it-took-him-a-hammer-a-chisel-and-22-years-to-prove-them-wrong?c=ufb1
http://www.upworthy.com/they-told-him-it-was-impossible-it-took-him-a-hammer-a-chisel-and-22-years-to-prove-them-wrong?c=ufb1
nd. SPDF Day 23: Very weak, and ill, this morning....
SPDF Day 23: Very weak, and ill, this morning. Therefore delayed in getting to the Hill. Expecting to arrive prior to noon and remain until 7pm or later, subject to rain. Can't afford to ruin the posters.
3.24.2015
SPDF Day 22: J-Street was on the Hill today: “I am not willing to die for Palestine”....
***** SPDF Day 22: J-Street was on the Hill today, or many, anyway. "What do we have to do to stop this?" asked one of them as he passed. "We have to die, or be willing to die, so the Palestinians don't. There is no other answer for social change, in history." "I've been fighting this for 50 years, but I'm not willing to die for it." That is why there is currently ZERO HOPE for the Palestinians, (US democracy, stopping Ecocide...). Lip-service. J-Street (or, fill in your do-nothing, pay nothing, risk nothing 'activist' group)- fun meetings, moralistic masturbation, huge circle-jerk. Pay the price???? Nah. Not since the '60's. Activism by 'free lunch.' Uh, there is not free lunch, just more dead Palestinian children. Have a nice f'cking day.
SPDF Day 22: I have an impossibly strong body and have learned to turn my being entirely over to the Family Emergency Response...
A brief exchange with one of the only Friends I have left: "How the heck are you still well enough to sit out there and communicate?"
My reply: "I have an impossibly strong body and have learned to turn my being entirely over to the Family Emergency Response - the most powerful force in the Universe, by whatever name or no name at all. But having been on many hunger strikes, and witnessed others, like the Great Diane Wilson, within the first 10 days it is very tough as the body learns to consume itself. Then, until day 30 or so one is usually quite functional, tho weak. Stuff starts getting dangerous after day 30, although I'm very fortunate this time, 1st time ever, to have a doc checking my blood chem. Stuff like blindness sometimes happens after day 30, tho numerous times I've gone to 50 with no such effects.
Friend: "Wow. I knew you had years of experience but didn't think about how that experience would be helpful now."
My Reply: "Oh, my entire life has been preparation for this campaign. Creating and Demonstrating the Death Fast, the last chance for Humanity, is what I was born for."
Friend: "Our mutual associate posed the question, 'what would it take to get me to join the Death Fast." I would have to be called to do it. So far I have not been called to that specific action. I was called to walk along the KXL, and to start this farm, and I'm listening. You, Start Loving, have obviously been called, that is why i t gives you such joy.
My Reply: I only EVER do what I am Called to do. And I am ALWAYS called to do what is the best way for me to serve the most of the world's suffering... in that instant. The Family Emergency Response. This is the ONLY call any of us can get, that is genuine. Anything else is a misunderstanding.
My reply: "I have an impossibly strong body and have learned to turn my being entirely over to the Family Emergency Response - the most powerful force in the Universe, by whatever name or no name at all. But having been on many hunger strikes, and witnessed others, like the Great Diane Wilson, within the first 10 days it is very tough as the body learns to consume itself. Then, until day 30 or so one is usually quite functional, tho weak. Stuff starts getting dangerous after day 30, although I'm very fortunate this time, 1st time ever, to have a doc checking my blood chem. Stuff like blindness sometimes happens after day 30, tho numerous times I've gone to 50 with no such effects.
Friend: "Wow. I knew you had years of experience but didn't think about how that experience would be helpful now."
My Reply: "Oh, my entire life has been preparation for this campaign. Creating and Demonstrating the Death Fast, the last chance for Humanity, is what I was born for."
Friend: "Our mutual associate posed the question, 'what would it take to get me to join the Death Fast." I would have to be called to do it. So far I have not been called to that specific action. I was called to walk along the KXL, and to start this farm, and I'm listening. You, Start Loving, have obviously been called, that is why i t gives you such joy.
My Reply: I only EVER do what I am Called to do. And I am ALWAYS called to do what is the best way for me to serve the most of the world's suffering... in that instant. The Family Emergency Response. This is the ONLY call any of us can get, that is genuine. Anything else is a misunderstanding.
***** vid. SPDF Day 22: THE SINGLE GREATEST EXPOSITION OF UNVIOLENT ACTION: "LETTER FROM....
***** vid. SPDF Day 22: THE SINGLE GREATEST EXPOSITION OF UNVIOLENT ACTION: "LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL." Read it once, twice, 10, 20 times, until it is written in your DNA.
"A Reading of The Letter From Birmingham Jail" – Before the Dream... There was a Letter... from Kirwan Institute on Vimeo.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY a non-fiction film commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” No longer will the Letter from Birmingham Jail be in the SHADOW of the "I Have a Dream" speech.
The film stars community leaders of Columbus, Ohio and educators and leaders of The Ohio State University. The Letter from Birmingham Jail is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racial discrimination, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. After an early setback, it enjoyed widespread publication and became a key text for the American civil rights movement of the early 1960s.
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The film is approximately 56 minutes.
nd. SPDF Day 22: On Capital Hill since 10am...
nd. SPDF Day 22: On Capital Hill since 10am. Likely to be here till 4pm or 7pm. Losing much strenght, along with the ability to generate body heat. The hike up Capital Hill, even with much of my stuff on hand truck, is getting much more difficult, and llllooooonnnngggg.
SPDF Day 22: Medical Update. This morning my doc said yesterday's bloodwork shows ...
SPDF Day 22: Medical Update. This morning my doc said yesterday's bloodwork shows ok except my potassium (hearts stop when it gets too low) is still too low, but it is better than last week, thanks to the potassium horse pills she started me on. She's having me double the dose. My blood pressure is dropping, 110 over 76, lowest I've ever had. So much fluid pools in my legs is probably a contributing factor. My doc, she's ordering support hose for my lower legs thinking this may help supply the fluid back to the rest of my body. Weight has dropped about a half pound per day, about what I would have expected, from 175 when I started down to 163 this morning, tho several pounds of that is fluid in my legs, so probably a little more than that.
***** SPDF Day 22: ***** Day 22: “Yes, ‘alive is better!!!!’ That is exactly the point. Every day for the last 20 or so one Palestinian every three days, EVERY THREE DAYS, has their life sadistically stolen from them...
SPDF Stop Palestines Death Fast Day 22: A near lifelong acquaintance who I love above all others, upon learning of this death fast wrote: "Understand your position, but I still feel alive is better than not. xxoo"
My reply: Yes, 'alive IS better!!!!!!' That is exactly the point. Every day for the last 20 or so one Palestinian every three days, EVERY THREE DAYS, has their life savagely taken by our US backed Israeli goon squads. Every two years or so our US funded, armed, backed... Israeli goon squads go in and 'mow the lawn,' and 'remove the top soil,' that is slaughter, as the most powerful military in the world, a defenseless indigenous population of children, women and men. This last time it was 500 children, 1500 adults. This next time, and everyone knows it is coming with 18 months, could be 2,000, 20,000, 200,0000. These Naziesque Israelis know no limits thanks to the criminal enabling of we US CITIZENS these last 68 years. And much much much much worse. 7 million Palestinians have been deprived of Life by we enabling Americans for 68 years now... LIVING DEATH... in refugee camps, and worse, the open air, LITERAL PRISONS... of the West Bank and Gaza... ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS. ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS. ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS.... LIVING DEATH. ROBED OF LIFE BY WE WALKING DEAD AMERICANS.
AND IF ONE SURVEYS AND DEEPLY CONSIDERS the in-actions of the Obama Administration, the US Free Palestine 'activists,' the European Free Palestine 'activists,' the invisibility, distortion, lies... spewed by the US Zionist Controlled Media... regarding the otherwise HEROIC Resistance of the Palestinians... THERE IS CURRENTLY ZERO HOPE, ZERO HOPE, FOR EVEN ONE OF MY PALESTINIANS TO BE ALIVE. ZERO.
That is unacceptable to me. I can at least save one. I am sure of it. One can be alive if I die. And that is enough for me.
Yes, 'alive IS better!!!!!!' And from what I can see, other than the International Solidarity Movement, I may be the only person in the US that believes in every cell in my body that 'alive IS better!!!!!!' And with infinite Joy and Peace of Heart, EVERY BREATH, I'll give mine now that even just one of them may be 'alive,' sometime, in the next 20 years, who otherwise would not be. I can't think of, I can't see, anything on earth I'd rather do, or have ever done, in my 63 years. Why can't you see that?
And the Death Fast, as I've written elsewhere, is the ONLY WEAPON that can save all of creation, stopping ecocide that at this moment is 100% NOT being stopped in time, and to stop the currently unopposed take over by the Oligarchs, the Corporate Fascists, of America, rolling back American human rights to the 1800's... for centuries.... a dark ages.
My reply: Yes, 'alive IS better!!!!!!' That is exactly the point. Every day for the last 20 or so one Palestinian every three days, EVERY THREE DAYS, has their life savagely taken by our US backed Israeli goon squads. Every two years or so our US funded, armed, backed... Israeli goon squads go in and 'mow the lawn,' and 'remove the top soil,' that is slaughter, as the most powerful military in the world, a defenseless indigenous population of children, women and men. This last time it was 500 children, 1500 adults. This next time, and everyone knows it is coming with 18 months, could be 2,000, 20,000, 200,0000. These Naziesque Israelis know no limits thanks to the criminal enabling of we US CITIZENS these last 68 years. And much much much much worse. 7 million Palestinians have been deprived of Life by we enabling Americans for 68 years now... LIVING DEATH... in refugee camps, and worse, the open air, LITERAL PRISONS... of the West Bank and Gaza... ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS. ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS. ZERO HUMAN RIGHTS.... LIVING DEATH. ROBED OF LIFE BY WE WALKING DEAD AMERICANS.
AND IF ONE SURVEYS AND DEEPLY CONSIDERS the in-actions of the Obama Administration, the US Free Palestine 'activists,' the European Free Palestine 'activists,' the invisibility, distortion, lies... spewed by the US Zionist Controlled Media... regarding the otherwise HEROIC Resistance of the Palestinians... THERE IS CURRENTLY ZERO HOPE, ZERO HOPE, FOR EVEN ONE OF MY PALESTINIANS TO BE ALIVE. ZERO.
That is unacceptable to me. I can at least save one. I am sure of it. One can be alive if I die. And that is enough for me.
Yes, 'alive IS better!!!!!!' And from what I can see, other than the International Solidarity Movement, I may be the only person in the US that believes in every cell in my body that 'alive IS better!!!!!!' And with infinite Joy and Peace of Heart, EVERY BREATH, I'll give mine now that even just one of them may be 'alive,' sometime, in the next 20 years, who otherwise would not be. I can't think of, I can't see, anything on earth I'd rather do, or have ever done, in my 63 years. Why can't you see that?
And the Death Fast, as I've written elsewhere, is the ONLY WEAPON that can save all of creation, stopping ecocide that at this moment is 100% NOT being stopped in time, and to stop the currently unopposed take over by the Oligarchs, the Corporate Fascists, of America, rolling back American human rights to the 1800's... for centuries.... a dark ages.
3.23.2015
nd. Paul Tillich: "All institutions including the church are inherently demonic."
Paul Tillich: "All institutions including the church are inherently demonic."
SPDF Day 21: My health is my Palestine Family, my flesh and blood. There health is mine...
From a FB contact: "James, I will worry about your health as much as I wish, this doesn't have to bother you at all, how are you doing"
My reply: "Hi. I never try to control another person. Ever. But I do control my time, as is my duty to G_d. All I have to say about my health is here - . My health is my Palestinian Family, my flesh and blood .Their health is mine. I have none other, and right now, no one is saving them. They and I are Dead."
My reply: "Hi. I never try to control another person. Ever. But I do control my time, as is my duty to G_d. All I have to say about my health is here - . My health is my Palestinian Family, my flesh and blood .Their health is mine. I have none other, and right now, no one is saving them. They and I are Dead."
vid. Muslims are Terrorists. 3 min......... In my experience the most Godly small group on earth are the Jews (the Zionists are the antithesis). The most Godly Large group I've found are the Muslims (ISIS, Boko Haram, al Qaieda are the antithesis).
In my experience the most Godly small group on earth are the Jews (the Zionists are the antithesis). The most Godly Large group I've found are the Muslims (ISIS, Boko Haram, al Qaieda are the antithesis).
***** SPDF Day 21 vlog: DEATH FAST IS THE ONLY WEAPON THAT CAN SAVE HUMANKIND.....
***** SPDF Day 21 vlog: DEATH FAST IS THE ONLY WEAPON THAT CAN SAVE HUMANKIND..... The difference between me (and the activists of the '60's) and virtually every other activist today is that I start with the question that none of them have the courage or humanity to ask. That question is: what would it take to win? What would it take to succeed? That's it. And how in god's name they can morally justify calling themselves activists or taking the time and resources for what they do is completely beyond me. It is so morally bankrupt.
They do nothing important in their own personal lives that does not start with the question, what will it take to succeed?. But when it comes to their dogooder activities for people really in need, they never find the courage, the morality, the humanity, to grant to these victims the benefit that they always granted to themselves and to those near to them, that question, what would it take? What price would have to be paid? What sacrificed would have to be made?.
When one asks that question with reference to stopping the slaughter of Palestinians while there are still Palestinians to save, or if one asks that question rather relative to stopping ecocide, or saving the last vestiges of any decent American government, any shred of democracy, before the police state makes doing so a process that would take decades or hundreds of years, there is one answer, and one answer only, that comes forth: death fast.
All three of the Armageddon's I just mentioned are so imminent that Marches, lobbying Congress, face book and social media campaigns, fund raising, periodic undignified rantings at Congress, rallies, and other such activities are categorically way too little way too late. In a very important earlier post I spoke of the law of social change which is the law of paying the price. Essentially, social change happens when a relatively small group of innocents pays such an enormous personal price, or risks doing so, that the masses of onlookers of goodwill cannot stand the pain, and mobilize and militantly demand of government representatives that these deaths be prevented by meeting the demands of this Vanguard.
Prior techniques of paying this price are no longer sufficiently effective in the United States because the system has rendered them relatively impotent. The system has become expert at demonizing activists, infiltrating and discrediting them, causing them to be ignored by the media; businesses that could be boycotted are so gargantuan that attempts to do so are laughable rather than understood to be heroic. Self immolation is not understood, it has never been understood in the United States although Dr. King understood it and it was seeing a Monk self immolate in Vietnam that caused him to speak against the war. But such exceptions cannot be counted on.
One can argue about the number, but there is a number of citizens that if they were in a dignified, disciplined, serious, committed death fast, here on capitol hill fasting unto death until the U.S. government stopped enabling Israel and held them to standards of international law, thereby stopping the slaughter of Palestinians and restoring to the Palestinians their human rights to which they are due by every legal and human measure, there is a number, 500, of 1000, 10,000 in waves... that would cause such an outcry of agony from millions of bystanders around the country and the world, that the house and the senate would be forced to meet their demands.
No one of any honesty or humanity or decency can dispute this. They can argue how many. It would matter the age and race. 500 white college students would count for 5000 old folks like me. 100 middle schoolers would kill for 500 college students. And so on.
You don't have, and are not pursuing, anything that will work so basically your activism is self gratification, obscuring the fact that you do not have a solution, that you are not saving the Palestinians or democracy or stopping ecocide, so thereby you hide that fact because by acting you imply you do have a solution further keeping onlookers on the sidelines, lulling them into a deadly sense of security, and thereby murdering the very people and causes that you purport to stand for.
They do nothing important in their own personal lives that does not start with the question, what will it take to succeed?. But when it comes to their dogooder activities for people really in need, they never find the courage, the morality, the humanity, to grant to these victims the benefit that they always granted to themselves and to those near to them, that question, what would it take? What price would have to be paid? What sacrificed would have to be made?.
When one asks that question with reference to stopping the slaughter of Palestinians while there are still Palestinians to save, or if one asks that question rather relative to stopping ecocide, or saving the last vestiges of any decent American government, any shred of democracy, before the police state makes doing so a process that would take decades or hundreds of years, there is one answer, and one answer only, that comes forth: death fast.
All three of the Armageddon's I just mentioned are so imminent that Marches, lobbying Congress, face book and social media campaigns, fund raising, periodic undignified rantings at Congress, rallies, and other such activities are categorically way too little way too late. In a very important earlier post I spoke of the law of social change which is the law of paying the price. Essentially, social change happens when a relatively small group of innocents pays such an enormous personal price, or risks doing so, that the masses of onlookers of goodwill cannot stand the pain, and mobilize and militantly demand of government representatives that these deaths be prevented by meeting the demands of this Vanguard.
Prior techniques of paying this price are no longer sufficiently effective in the United States because the system has rendered them relatively impotent. The system has become expert at demonizing activists, infiltrating and discrediting them, causing them to be ignored by the media; businesses that could be boycotted are so gargantuan that attempts to do so are laughable rather than understood to be heroic. Self immolation is not understood, it has never been understood in the United States although Dr. King understood it and it was seeing a Monk self immolate in Vietnam that caused him to speak against the war. But such exceptions cannot be counted on.
One can argue about the number, but there is a number of citizens that if they were in a dignified, disciplined, serious, committed death fast, here on capitol hill fasting unto death until the U.S. government stopped enabling Israel and held them to standards of international law, thereby stopping the slaughter of Palestinians and restoring to the Palestinians their human rights to which they are due by every legal and human measure, there is a number, 500, of 1000, 10,000 in waves... that would cause such an outcry of agony from millions of bystanders around the country and the world, that the house and the senate would be forced to meet their demands.
No one of any honesty or humanity or decency can dispute this. They can argue how many. It would matter the age and race. 500 white college students would count for 5000 old folks like me. 100 middle schoolers would kill for 500 college students. And so on.
You don't have, and are not pursuing, anything that will work so basically your activism is self gratification, obscuring the fact that you do not have a solution, that you are not saving the Palestinians or democracy or stopping ecocide, so thereby you hide that fact because by acting you imply you do have a solution further keeping onlookers on the sidelines, lulling them into a deadly sense of security, and thereby murdering the very people and causes that you purport to stand for.
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