Blackbird to Sweet Grackle Raptor

Research, Interpretation  and Analyist by Segezi Malevich

“He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.”

“He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.”

“He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.”

“Having deprived her of this first right of a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.”

 The above quotes are directly from the Declaration of Sentiments. It was drafted during the Seneca Falls Convention during 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, United States of America. Stanton, Mott and Susan B. Anthony were three of the women present. You may know Susan B. Anthony from her picture on the one dollar coin in U.S. currency. The importance of this event then, was that women had no public rights. Their obligations and functions were only in the home of their parents and in the realms of the house of their marriage. One might conclude that during that time all definitons of a woman, young woman or girl came in terms of the men or man she was responsible to.

{Aside: In ancient Rome there was one way for a woman to hold property and not have to return to her father’s house in disgrace, after divorce or death of her husband. Also in this manner she did not have to committ suttee. FYS: Suttee was/is a tradition in India for Hindu women whose husbands have died. The women had to place themselves on the funeral pyre with their husband and burn along side of him. From what I can guess, the widow was not given any sedative. She had to have enough mental discipline and submission to traditional familial order to burn herself alive along with her husband. For her to submit in that matter was an issue of deference for the honor of her husband and his family.}

The Seneca Falls Convention came about during a time in U.S. history were women may have suffered similiar issues as do some women in the Middle East (Not just the Saudi Arabian Peninsula) . Religion played a large part then as the Declaration of Sentiments came out of the Abolitionist movement as well. Freedom and rights for man includes woman as well as all colors of man. [Note: If you compare the dates of the Abolitionist movement to end slavery with women’s suffrage issuses, they may run neck and neck. {Aside: Not only were blacks slaves, but whites, native americans and I’m guess Indians as well. I haven’t had the time to find the primary documents on Indians, but one day I will. …. And there is a difference between indentured slaves and purchased slaves. Indentured slaves sell themsleves for a finite amount of time to pay off a debt they could not pay otherwise. Think in terms of debtors prisons and options during the reign of King George of Britian in the 1770s and the founding  of the New World and of Australia.}

Think carefully in terms of being disenfranchised for so long, and never knowing what it means to vote. Democratic voting regards one vote for one person. Advanced politics regards one vote for one educated person. Do you actually know the ramifications of what you are voting for in length? Or is it a popularity contest? Were you bombarded by advertisements and know nothing of the motivations, track record and plans of all the candidates? Had the ballot boxes been stuffed because no one understood that one person, one vote means only one piece of paper with one name on it. You have to make a single decision. And maintain your right to anonymity as to whom you voted for.  If and when in the course of human events it becomes necessary to protect yourself  assert your right to privacy.

During the campaign for women’s suffrage, in U.S. history, times occured when women were beaten and killed during marches and protests. By organizing like the tradition of the body politic in power ,and of the historical power structure , women crafted a brilliant strategy to be heard and eventually passed into national law. Sometimes you can not change the system by attacking it from the outside. Be more clever than that–which you are. Realize that you are embedded like a bore worm in a core structure. Start with what is in your immediate life. Have a heart to heart talk with someone who can listen to what your real needs are. Quiet wars are more devastating and revolutionizing than destructive ones were people die. When the silence becomes deafening, then sitting still, being attentive, reveals the thrust of the point you were always trying to make. Though it may not, nor never come out of your mouth.

Edited by Pollix

Liquidambar Styraciflua. Repete: ille temporum ille Mahdi esse quam.

Research, Interp and Analystics by Segezi Malevich

Source:  “Human Rights Features: A South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre Publication” Geneva, 5-12 April 2004

ISSN:1541-2482

The joke in the office today is as follows:

A: Hey you! You Iraqi or Iranian?

B: I’m Iranian.

A: Why don’t you take a hint and go take a Ba’ath.

A: Hey you! You must be an Iraqi… Take Neda out and show her at a Ba ‘ath house.

The article mentioned at the header takes a deep turn and cover over the reconstruction of Iraq. Part of the plan , which has not fully manifested (other the the beheading of the top of the pyramid), is placing the foundation, corner stone and infrastructure in the Iraqi criminal justice system. When in doubt of current events, in the struggle for democracy, look to the old heads of repression to create at least one common ground principle. Yet… (Caution: Take care to understand that your enemy’s enemy is not always your friend, you friend’s enemeny is anot necessarily you enemy and old enemies can still be old enemies.) Here is a slight reference out of Benjamin Franklin’s mouth: “A secret is only a secret if three people know and two of them are dead”.

Just guessing:

Before and after the Iraq wars, that security had always been the principle part of securing not just Iraq or Iran, but the whole Saudi Arabian Peninsula.

{Aside: Running into the word Allah in a Latin dictionary and historical cyclopedia put a crimp in my neck. Why you wonder? Well, for starters, the word origin I though was Arabic not Latin. Latin was a matter of the Catholic Church during the Crusades. Also, in this cyclopadia, the word Allah was listed under military components that reported to the Roman Empire. To explain the designation further for the non-military minded: The definition in the book compared Allah as a term like the calvary being on horses, the navy in boats on open seas and militias being on foot locally (not reaching across state lines, but that is another story). Allah, according to this ancient Roman military definition, was a section of the military that operated out of of thievery(both petty and complex), seizures, rape, misfilings, etcetera. If I read the entry correctly, women were included as well. Now we know that Ali Baba and the 40 theives was actually a military unit. Considering it was and is one of the most wealthy sections of the world, it seems merchant trade routes are always at risk for seizure. Of course this would include deliveries of taxes and tributes. Remember, back then, checks and automatic debts did not exist as we know today. An odd thing , according to a documentary I watched, the first check was was honored by a muslim banker. Also then, specifically thinking of the Ottoman Empire, Christians were permitted to live in those countries, but only by paying a tax and tribute. In other words “protection money”. Under some regimes it is illegal and punishable by death to be a Christian.)}

I digress… back to the issue at hand:

Q: Does Iran, like Iraq did in 2004, have provincial and local level council to take issues to trial and resolution? If they have dissolved, check to see who may have served in moderate capacity and is still respected fairly. According to this document, in Baghdad, 88 councils existed and they were preferred to a strict line of government, especially to resolve government issues. Does the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) still exist? Brainie (i.e sudden idea): Scraps of former governing documents are better than none. Scraps of old documents, that built to the ephemeral state of civilian-government affairs, is better than a coup de tat and starting from nothing. Machiavelli, in the book The Prince, wrote that one option in subduing the public ,after a take over, is to wipe them out. Another option is to court those in power, i.e. the current intelligensia  and literati (something communist countries don’t tolerate). Take another tactic to gain time, although without spending money. What were the referendums that brought people to the voting polls and held the country together and themselves. Why not a common enemy? Whether that enemy is human, cyclic(famine) or ideological.

Lastly: According to the numbers in this report, the U.S.A. and other countries pledged finances to help rebuild Iraq. I would venture to guess that some money must have overflowed into Iran and Iran’s needs. Suggestion: pull back and be an active spectator. If the possibility that the current King Hussein, pardon me, President Obama, could back off of U.S.A. funding and let Iraq call in markers of support that was pledged by other countries… maybe resources could be pooled in a different place for something else on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Post BLT: In reference to the King Hussein comment….During the late 1700s in the U.S., there was a black slave who was a prince. He was from Africa. During his time in the United States he worked as a translator for some publisher. During his life in the United States, he was known as a Christian and professed himself as such. The whole time he kept up with his prayers and submission to Allah. If I remember correctly one thing he did was to translate the bible for publication. When viewed later, he actually translated the Qur-an and it was sold as The Holy Bible. After completing his servitude, he returned to Africa as a muslim.

 

Edited by Pollix.

 

Have members of the Ba’ath party who caused principle amounts of terror and destruction been properly brought to justice?

Would that shift concentration from the topic of blame and dissent?