Censorship and the Drift Backward Toward a Return to Theocracy

Did you ever read an unabridged edition of Don Quixote?  In the mid-pages we read a lengthy report by "his official censor," explaining why he let this novel pass muster. They did not call them editors or moderators back in those days.  It was the age of the Inquisition and the Church had to approve all published material, even fictional novels, to prevent anti-Government propaganda.  Some say Don Quixote is actually the first novel.  They say that truth is stranger than fiction, but the novel is a vehicle that can get through the political censorship storm with subtle truth that is obvious to the discerning eye. The discerning eye is one that can "read between the lines."

The theocratic Holy Roman Empire  ruled Europe from the end of the Roman Empire in the late 15th century until the French Revolution. Bush 43 gave a return to theocracy a big boost by allowing so-called "faith-based" schools to receive Government aid,  just like public schools.

Historically then, writers have always sought to find ways to get around censorship.  Before Quixote, they did it in more strained ways.  Shakespeare protected his neck by telling tales of kings and nobles that lived two hundred years earlier.  Some say that certain Mother Goose Rhymes were thinly disguised satire of the nobility in England. Aesops' Fables told stories of folly meant to reflect evil and power abuse back in the BCE.  Jesus did it with "parables."

 After a final stormy year of Government service in the old INS branch of the DHS, I decided to retire.  Upon being notified of my intention to retire, my supervisory office in Nogales, AZ,    immediately mailed me the old "non disclosure" Form 189, warning me that if I published anything derived from my government knowledge and experiences, I could have all the royalties diverted to the Government.  There were also not-so-subtle hints of punishment for divulging classified information.  My bosses in Arizona knew that I had obtained a degree in creative writing while studying part-time as a Border Patrol Agent in El Paso.  I planned to write mostly fiction, but that would not have allayed the concerns of my bosses in Nogales, AZ, some fifty miles from my duty station in Sasabe.  I knew that if I had refused to sign the non-disclosure form, they could have denied my application to retire.  So try and stop me, I said inwardly, by signing the non-disclosure form.  I then stuck a smiley face on it with a winking eye.   I still have a copy of the form and the stick-note with the smiley face and winking eye. 

They say that fact is stranger than fiction, but fiction has historically made a darn good vehicle to convey truth for discerning readers.  "Discerning," in this sense, to quote another old cliche, means an ability to read between the lines. 

I think I did some good as a troublemaker who had read the law and tried to enforce it, contrary to the agency as a whole , which has been grossly guilty of dereliction of duty, almost since its inception in 1924. I did my best to highlight this miserable policy that allowed our land to become flooded with illegal aliens--by sometimes demanding a passport as proof of U.S. citizenship--required by law.  I frequently violated policy by applying the law as written at the sacrifice of any hopes of advancing in the bureaucracy, of which I had had none since my earliest years in the agency. I defied illegal policy often at the risk of getting phony criminal charges trumped on me, which I once did, but finally, with great sacrifice, I finally everything dismissed. 

One change that I feel that I was instrumental in was in forcing the Government to require a passport for all applicants for admission to the U.S. at land ports of entry.  That law had been ignored for decades on the Mexican, and other, land borders. It is found in 8 CFR 235.1, and other parts of Federal Law. The disaster of 9-11-01 came seven years after I retired, but I had always known it was coming, but I expected it actually to be much worse. Bush 43's open border policies to coincide with the NAFTA agreement made such a catastrophe inevitable.  And we still have not secured out borders enough to keep out terrorists. Trump is at loggerheads with the Democrats who see illegal immigration as a way to increase their political strength, since most third world immigrants become Democrats if they legalize. 

The Name Says it All

Democrats have begun to call El Pao politician Beto O'Rourke "Kennedy-esque."  I guess they think it is cool to conjure up the image of one of America's most notorious crime families, also called the "Irish Mafia," originally led by Godfather Joseph Kennedy Sr.  The more things change in American politics, the more they remain the same.  On the border, our government looks more and more like Mexico, the source of most of our new immigrants. They have become the target of most pandering and demagoguery by establishment politicians. Even Trump seems to belatedly realize this. There are no such things as "political refugees" because they bring their problems with them, along with their values--and they infect the rest of us as we assimilate to THEIR standards. That's what happens when we do not control immigration and start letting it control us.

The mob seems to prosper more when they control politics without running for office.  When that happens, the body count of the more prominent among them starts rising. Al Capone was one of the most powerful politicians of his time, but he was wise enough to not run for office and was content to pull the puppet strings from behind the scenes. 

Benita Alexander: Professional Duper Who Was Duped in the Most Outrageous Way

I once heard that con artists can victimize almost anyone—even another con artist!  That fact led me to ruminate about the story of Benita Alexander.

Benita Alexander used to be a television producer and investigative reporter for one of the big American con artist corporations: NBC.  Example: they gave a lateral arabesque-type  “promotion” to Brian Williams to get him out of the mainstream eye.  Even the face of CBS' disgraced Dan Rather is still seen on certain oblivious channels, but such good fortune does not appear in the works for Benita.

The mainstream media in recent years have abandoned  all pretenses of being fair and balanced; they have jumped onto the bandwagon of the liberal/progressive fantasy joy ride that frequently betrays them for what they are: propagandists for the national left-wing political movement.  Hollywood is part of it. They are unified in their effort to vilify President Trump, and they fanatically believe they can destroy him for trouncing their Pygmalion airhead, Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 general election. 

A couple of years ago Benita Alexander believed that she was going to wed the most famous doctor in the world, that her wedding would be presided over by Pope Francis, that every major world foreign leader would be at her wedding.  However, she argued with her fiance about having Vladimir Putin at her wedding; she was shrewd enough to know that Putin would be anathema to her fantasy view of the world--and that of her professional associates--why the Pope might be offended.  However, her husband insisted that Putin was so powerful that it would only be proper to include him among the world leaders who would attend their wedding.

 When the bubble finally burst, NBC managers tried to distance themselves as far as possible from her.

Benita Alexander had fallen from the highest lofts of Democratic-type fantasy to the level of doormat in the field of matching wits with real con artists. NBC will not tell her story because she has become the epitome of what normal people hate about the media; those within mostly enjoy the role of the dupers, not the dupes.

Instead of her story being highlighted on NBC, her story is now being told on the Investigative Discovery Channel, and if blatant scandal follows its usual course, we can soon expect a book that  she hopes to make her rich and famous and fill in the void left by the international con artist, Paolo Macchiarini; Macchiarini, whom she once thought to be the knight in shining armor that would lift her to the pinnacle of world fame.

It does make a good scam-type of crime story for ID, but it does nothing to improve the image of Benita Alexander, a career duper for NBC who got duped in the most outrageous fashion.  As much as NBC would like to forget Benita Alexander, she will always be associated in name and by the schematic flaws of the profession.

 Like most megalomaniacs in the fantasy world of modern, mainstream media (which is now synonymous with the Democrat Party), Benita Alexander believes that hope springs eternal for fame and fortune. She decided to revert to playing the poor, pitiful victim in the ID production of her story. There she is playing the role of the underdog in hopes that this new cocoon of a scheme will spawn an eventual Cinderella who will someday rise up from her eponymous ashes and marry the Prince--at least figuratively; all that if the book becomes a best seller. For me, it would be just another "best seller" puffed by the NYT that I will have to pass up because I see scam stories in the news every day.  What makes this story worthy of this essay is because it falls into the category of poetic justice.

Will Evangelicals save the Trump presidency in 2020?

Trump fantasizes that the Evangelicals may save his presidency in 2020, but it will not go down that way.

Point Source:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/01/26/evangelicals_provide_political_cover_for_trump_on_daca_136111.html?utm_campaign=notifications&utm_medium=push-notifications&utm_source=new_content

Congressional advocates of every amnesty claimed that theirs was the last, and "Now we control the border."  Reagan's 1986 IRCA meant Immigration REFORM and CONTROL Act. We had two more clean-up amnesties since then [245(i) and Extension of 245(i)].  The majority of Congressmen in both parties are the rogue leaders of our rogue nation that exploits cheap labor.They forget that all those illegally imported third world stoop laborers—and handmaids that feminists exploit—want socialism (which they get a taste of with social welfare programs they exploit while still illegal)--and the Democrats promise it as a way of life, after legalization. 

The gestation from illegal immigrant to Democrat voter is about 15-20 years.   The end of the Republican Party likely will come whenever Trump leaves office.  The Democrats thought it came with the election of Obama, but it rose for one last gasp in 2016.  However, Trump's lies and broken promises appear to be the GOP's political epitaph. The GOP's only hope for revival and survival is to oust Trump in the 2020 primary with an honest, patriotic candidate like Trey Gowdy or Ted Cruz.  No matter who the GOP runs, he’ll be labeled the devil incarnate and a racist by the Democrat/Hollywood corrupt media alliance, and he has to be willing to take on more libel and slander than Andrew and Rachel Jackson. 

Who Killed Kennedy and Why?

I always thought the assassination of JFK was the culmination of a turf war between the Carlos Marcello New Orleans mob and the Joseph Kennedy crime family. Marcello had long controlled big-time smuggling across the Gulf waters. When Kennedy started dismantling the AC&W radar sites along the Mexican border in 1961, Marcello probably feared the Irish Mafia's land and air smuggling across the Mexican border would put his sea vessel smuggling across the Gulf out of business. Russia promptly took advantage of our dismantling the southern border radar and moved into Cuba intermediate range ballistic missiles, much more efficient than the longer-range ones.

When it comes to mob turf wars, many people get involved, including some Government officials. Speculation as to whether LBJ was a co-conspirator is still alive by historians.

I served as an Air Force aircraft and warning (AC&W) Operator from 1953 until 1957, and later, I served in the Border Patrol from 1962 until 1975--and got a hands-on view of both operations. I left Border Patrol to serve in a different branches of the old INS, now part of the Department of Homeland Security, mostly as an Inspector, Examiner or Criminal Investigator. It took a few years for me to realize just how corrupt our Government is when it comes to both contraband and illegal alien smuggling. Either crime can be controlled if the Government had the will.

On April 3, 2003, in an interview with Fox News, General Tommy Franks said that any country that wants to can control its borders.

Pending Legislation

Being the majority party means nothing if you do not know how to use the power. Reagan took them to the brink more than once in their stand-offs, even assigning which non-emergency Government employees to stay home. The Democrats always caved in. Let the Democrats biggest constituency be late getting their welfare checks just once and Trump will have them where he wants them

Will Religion Intimidate Our Government?

It is time we stopped the religious demagogues from mixing religion with government.  Religious people have screwed up every country they ever took over, including the Holy Roman Empire.   In almost every country in Europe, the Church called the political shots and had to approve every leader, every judge, etc.; they could overrule the government in all matters, especially sanctuary. 

Eventually, severe religious oppression brought about a spontaneous explosion of mass violence in  Europe called the French Revolution, which liberated most of Europe from the oppression of religion as practiced in the Holy Roman Empire..

The founding father of Democracy, President Thomas Jefferson, established a political doctrine called the “Wall of Separation” between our government and religion.   The ignorant fundamentalist demagogues called “religious leaders”  have been busy trying to erode that great doctrine ever since.


https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0167

Nowadays, many elected politicians want to be addressed as "Reverend" instead of their political title. The New Testament made it clear that there was to be a separation of the Christian church and state; Jesus expressed that in his "render unto Caesar" statement.  Matthew 22:2.  There are many theocracies around the world, mostly Muslim, and invariably they practice much oppression, especially to women. We need to avoid that incursion into our own Government.

The court antics of former judge and church cleric , Willie Singletary, a former Philadelphia traffic court judge (recently convicted for multiple cases of corruption) is a blatant example of how much abuse so-called religions leaders foist upon our government, especially the court system.  Our spineless leaders need to call them out every time they invoke their religion as a defense against charges of malfeasance. 

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150320_Former_Traffic_Court_Judge_Singletary_gets_20_months_for_lying_to_FBI_agents.html