Monday, November 22, 2004

Re-membering Thanksgiving

By Pattrice Jones

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  1. Excellent article, but there does appear to be substantial reason to doubt that anti-LGBT sentiments or even “moral values” -a loaded phrase, for sure, played an exception role in this election. This is only to say that it appears that these sentiments were not the primary motivating factors behind Bush’s win.

    Posted by micah holmquist from  on  11/23  at  01:32 AM

  2. The people that voted for Bush may have had rational short term reasons for doing so. Their shitty low paying Walmart and other better paying defense contractor factory pork barrel jobs exist only thanks to the military industrial complex. Since the USA no longer produces anything of value other than dollars (possibly to decrease in value in the future) and weaponry, the red state people who voted Bush knew that he will keep this system going and keep the corporate welfare gravy flowing. It was also easy for them to not vote for Kerry since he represents the hated urban “liberal”. I suppose it could have been persuasively argued that Kerry would have carried out the corporate welfare gravy train even better than Bush, but his supposed liberalness was easy for the ignorant rednecks to toss off. And then there were the Diebold voting machines that already had Bush votes inserted in them. Whaddya reckon?

    Posted by Rhino Rick from  on  11/23  at  04:18 AM

  3. Thank you, Pattrice. Just as we can connect the dots of exploitation and greed, we can also connect the dots of humility, compassion, and respect, to form a picture of an ideal world such as that envisioned by Isaiah. By adopting a vegetarian - or rather, vegan - diet, we free the animals, we free up natural resources, we allow more people to be fed, we reduce our dependence on oil (to fertilize the corn that feeds the pigs and cows), we increase self-determinism abroad, we shed excess poundage, and most importantly, we liberate ourselves. We can look animals straight in the eye because we are no longer killing them for their flesh or fur, or for our amusement. We don’t have to “not think about” how our food was made, or turn the other way if we see a reminder.

    While self-described Christians have trampled the Earth and crushed dissenters for centuries, Isaiah reminds us that we can build a world in which the lion (that’s us) lies down alongside the lamb (that’s the animals, the oppressed, the weak, the wounded) and “they shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain.” We can start along this path to peace by GIVING turkeys their lives back, so they will have some THANKS.

    Posted by Gary Loewenthal from Falls Chhurch, VA  on  11/23  at  07:43 AM

  4. This is an excellent and touching article and now is really a good time to reflect on it. When Washington, Jefferson and the rest of the ‘Skull and Bones’ boys arrived here from class-driven Europe, there existed a diaspora of small businessmen, farmers and hunters, which they decided to incorporate so that the lines of profit would be ending up in their interests. For that they set up a list of incorporation dicta, namely the Declaration of Rights, which guarantees the business of “the means of acquiring and possessing property, that government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, (sic) protection and security of the people, and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest and attachment to the community have the right of suffrage and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their consent, etc.” (in other words they are guaranteed no interference in their pursuit of property as long as they toe the line). Here are the ‘grundlage’ for a perfect commercial enterprise directed and profit-oriented from above. The Constitution of the United States of America Inc. then follows as a set of by-rules for this incorporation. Thus everyone fulfills their destiny and ranking in the domination of land, animals and other humans to further private profit and also to create revenue for the state, i.e. for those who own and direct it and who act as their proxy. Talk of real freedom of thought and Democracy are thus actually superfluous in this system and unless the above mentioned strict incorporation documents are re-interpreted, the Corporation of North America will march on and on and on without any regard for ‘humanistic’ principles.

    Posted by gui r. from  on  11/25  at  02:44 PM

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