Mayday

# 671

May Day reminds us that Spring is here, we have survived another Winter, and this Winter, the Winter of 2010, the worst Winter I can ever remember. There is perhaps no single day with such varied significance. The last words heard on a ship going down in the water or a plane going down in the sky are the words “mayday” … A distress call. In Europe, England and Germanic countries, particularly on college campuses, a symbolic Maypole is an institution. Decorated a variety of ways, students dance around the Maypole, symbolic of spring and a new year of energy.

In Communist countries, May Day is a time for parades displaying and demonstrating the strengths of the totalitarian system.

I was in Moscow, for the U.S.S.R. May Day parade in 1964. In movie shorts and news broadcasts I had heard the May Day parade and such a political system described. At the Kremlin, near Lenin's tomb, from which the Communist government leaders viewed the parade, my guide arranged for me to stand with the Cuban delegation. As in America, it is difficult to distinguish between those of different ideologies. The Cuban Communists looked just like the rest of us and were particularly wholesome in their attitude. Perhaps they thought I was an American Communist. I have known some in my time, and most Communists are far more alert to the social and political world than their dry, ignorant, non-attentive fellow Americans.

The weather was still cold in Moscow, May 1. The marchers, men and women, had on the same type and color uniform, had one other thing in common, all were smiling. They carry large banners which I could not read, large picture posters of their political and industrial leaders. A loud speaker would bark out the industrial contingent involved along with their accomplishments to the applause of the audience. (For instance, a large unit would have an outstanding attendance record for work or accomplishment in some other way.) Everything was built around the totalitarian philosophy of advancement … Bigger and better.

This was, evidently, the only holiday of the year since one day is very much like any other day in the Communist world … No religious observance days or national days of any type. In the Communist system, there are no vacations. I noticed on this day, many soldiers were walking with new brides, evidence by young girls dressed in a white bridal gown. In the Communist system, Russia, China or elsewhere I have observed, little emphasis is put on sex … you seldom see children. Only the older women wear dresses … everyone else in uniform.

On another May Day I was in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. As in every Communist country, you are assigned to the tourist hotel, where the government can keep a very close, critical eye on you. Any time you leave the hotel, you can be sure you are being followed by someone. In America, we have instruments in our homes now with which the government can keep us under surveillance … total police state control. This is old hat for the Communist system, with their peep holes, listening devices everywhere.

I finally decided to attend the May Day parade. Very few foreigners were in the hotel, or the city. I went through five checkpoints to reach my location. Can you imagine, my camera bag searched five times, my person searched five times? They had an ancient television filming system with which evidently, they were sending out evidences of their May Day parade to the rest of the world. The officials would keep moving me from one place to another, obviously to portray foreigners watching their parade. Marchers, banners, poster picture signs, smiling peasants, marching to the sound of recorded music … government sedans taking the Commissars to the viewing stands. I tired quickly of the entire looney tunes totalitarian pretension, eased out into a group of marchers and marched with them to the end of the parade where I judged my hotel was close by.

Marching and observing Communist May Day parades, I can well understand why it is a call for help in the civilized world.

Real knowledge of any subject humbles you. So many people talk about things which they know nothing about. Like the man, in a very different time in America, the time when, at any laundry, there would be a sign which read, “trousers pressed while you wait.” One man went into the laundry, pulled off his trousers, (in the old days a small room was furnished in which you could wait) handed his trousers to an astonished manager. The manager said, “we don't do that here, we just make the signs”.

Why if you just make the sign, do you put the sign in the window? If your parade is a pretension, why have it? The secret of the plight of the Communist worker is a matter of history. The uselessness of dancing around a Maypole is a matter of useless tradition. Stay with things that mean something.

May Day is just one other day in the year. Labor Day, Thanksgiving day, President's Day, Veteran's Day … all these days at one time meant something. Sunday, a day of rest and worship has become just another holiday. Most veterans I know, are busy working, trying to survive on the day that honors them. Days set aside to observe anything are only important after their importance is lost. Before you take down a fence, remember the reason for putting it up in the first place.

Dark Monday

Monday March 9th, 2009 will go down in history as a dark Monday. It was the day that the president of the US signed the documents to provide taxpayer money for experimentation and consequent death of embryonic stem cells, the most innocent of human life. When Mr. Obama was running for President he stated to pastor Rick Warren that “abortion was beyond his pay grade.” It was no secret to anyone who studied the matter that  this was the most pro abortion politician in American history. In a mixture of rhetoric which only a Chicago-land corrupt politician could accomplish, he tried to mix morality with science and to the glee of atheists in the room some of which professed to be scientists, or even such a political hack as Nancy Reagan, these clowns could hardly wait to get their hands on these tax dollars at the universities, where the experimentation will continue.

Since, it has never stopped (private funds, non published agencies), as Pope John Paul said before his death, “any nation that will kill its own cannot be called a nation”.  It was like spitting in the face of almighty God that a country so blessed, where 63 million of its innocent citizens have been slaughtered in the abortion holocaust, that now the most innocent human embryos will be subjected to experimentation and death (stem cells were first isolated in mice in 1980, experimentation with stem cells began with human beings in 1998).

I have been a disabled, totally blind person for most of my life and I would give much to have seen my parents, before they were put in the ground, or to see my two grandsons now. I would give much to be able to drive a car, or read a book, if only for one day, but I do not want to see anything enough to want the life of one innocent person sacrificed for my sight. I do not believe that any of the disabled patients of neurological diseases, muscular and mental diseases (such as Parkinson’s disease) want to be cured enough for the most innocent of life to be sacrificed to please the gods of paganism.

Human beings were taken to the apex of the Yucatan, Mexico Chichen Itza pyramids and sacrificed.  When I stood at the base of these pyramids, I could sense the cries of horror and the blood running down those great pyramids. When I stood at the sacrificial alter in front of a temple in Merida, Yucatan Mexico, where the virgins were sacrificed to the pagan Aztec gods, I could sense the cries, such as I heard of burn victims in army hospitals. 

Paganism will cause you to compromise every sense of human decency and this is what we are seeing with this President and his followers. Those of you who voted for him and supported him with your time and money, will give an account to the real Almighty God who mad heaven and earth, for your part in this atrocity. 

Yesterday in the capital city of Guinea Bissau, Bissau, President Vieira received a military funeral after the military coup d'etat which deposed and shot him.  It is significant that the same military who killed him, gave a 21 gun salute at his funeral. Yesterday, in an Italian northern town, Bolzano, a world class mummy museum was opened. More than 60 mummies from Ancient Egypt, Asia, South America and Oceania will be on display, the oldest one is 5,000 years old. The world's most important paleontologists will be there for a symposium.  Yesterday, former president Clinton and secretary general of the united nations General Ban Ki Moon, arrived on the island nation of Haiti (the poorest country in the western hemisphere) with the objective to bringing prosperity to this very poor nation. 

“Haiti is often considered a foreign policy success for President Clinton, however in the wake of Senate questioning of Anthony Lake (nominated as Director of Central Intelligence) some serious issues have arisen over the US and CIA’s role in Haiti. Patrick Elie (Head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Secretary of Defense in former President Aristeed’s Government) spoke with Amy Goodman about Michelle Francis' role in Haiti. Patrick Elie speaks from a jail in Virginia. Michelle Francis, a reported Haiti CIA agent and key leader in the coup regime that led Haiti, was recently indicted in Miami for smuggling thirty three tons of cocaine into the US. Elie describes Francis as one of the most oppressive figures in the Haitian regime, who was actively involved in the drug trade. Elie claims that Francis is a creation of the CIA, whose drug trafficking has been widely know to the US for a long time, but ignored due to his political usefulness to destroy the Haitian popular movement. Patrick Elie goes on to describe his own incarceration, he has been held in US custody for almost one year, without trial, on charges of impersonating a diplomat. Elie believes he is a ‘marked man’ upon his release from jail, due to his knowledge of US crimes in Haiti.” (This was written before the Port-de-Prince, Haiti earthquake which destroyed the city and killed 250,000) (http://www.democracynow.org/1997/3/11/us_policy_in_Haiti)

The people in Haiti are in worse condition now then they were before the Clinton interference, but since his presidency, his speaking fees have made him multimillionaire, he probably thinks the people of Haiti want to pay him to speak to them.  The average income of a Haitian is $270 a year.

The Obama smoke and mirrors “bailout” philosophy of restoring the economy, is doomed for failure, “his arms are too short to box with God”.  In our weakened economy, rippled by corruption, we are ill prepared to face the wrath of an Almighty God which can come through a terrorist attack, floods, droughts, or other disasters.

At a time when this country yearns for intelligence and stability, we find the most powerful executives of industry, banking, insurance, and academia, with their “begging bowls”, taking without any evidence of shame, the tax dollars of the hard working, frugal managing, enslaved people of this nation. These executives who are supposed to be smarter then the rest of us, who eat off gold plates, who are awarded with millions of dollars of bonuses for failure, should be sentenced and put in a federal prison for life. The directors of these large corporations (GM, Chrysler, Ford, AIG, Merrill Lynch, etc.) who enjoyed their prominence and their appointments to these boards because of their political astuteness, because they could not adequately manage and direct these corporations and financial institutions, should likewise be sentenced and put in federal prisons for the robbery of their fellow citizens.

When did we become a country of inferior intelligence where we reward failure? When did we become a world of inferior mortals, that we would put on display dead immortals? When did we become a country unable to handle our own problems of poverty that we would send the former head of this nations and former head of the united nations to a much poorer country to handle their poverty?

The first time I was in the communist USSR, I said to a fellow traveler, a personality on a well known NY radio station WOR, when we were talking about the drunkenness of the people. “If I had to live here I would become a drunk also“, perhaps this is the reason our young people have fallen into the drug culture.