When I was finished with my lecture at University of New Mexico (Sept. 19), a liberal Indian law professor objected to my statements regarding the defeated state of American Indians. He said that Indians were not defeated. "We ceded land by treaty to the U.S. government." He accused me of perpetuating a negative stereotype.
I generally show respect in a public situation. Then later I write what I think, or perhaps should have said at the time.
I think this professor was perpetuating the negative stereotype of the "dumb Indian."
There are lessons in war here.
Because of Liberal Communists, nations in the world are acting like its wrong for one nation to defeat another. Why, nations are not defeated. This, they say, is wrong thinking. It's wrong for one to have power over another. All are equal.
This is the "dumb Indian" approach. I destest it. This undermines the whole validity of human conflict, and undermines everything that has been accomplished in the name of human progress.
The Communists dictator wants to rule without contest, through manipulation and deception. He wants the strong to be weak, and the weak to think that they are strong. This is a linguistic based deception, based on the usurpation of words.
The Communist is not a warrior. He has no honor, no real strength, and ought not to be tolerated in the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Remember, a Liberal is only a renamed Communist.
The annual Comanche fair takes place these days on the tribal complex, near Elgin, Oklahoma (20 mi. north of Lawton). It is a great event, especially if you're Comanche! I love to gourd dance, and designed and and made my own gourd. The gourd always has horsehair at the top. You can buy horse hair at certain stores, but, I wanted a very certain color. So, I went looking, not in stores, but in stables. I went to a stable where my late older brother used to keep his two Arabians. I found what I wanted.
I snipped the horse hair from a beautiful mare, after, of course, gently asking her permission. I'd never met her before. I just picked out the color I wanted, and walked over to this beautiful horse, and literally talked to her. She was a little jumpy, but she knew. We understood each other.
Anyone that knows anything about Comanches and horses knows what I'm talking about.
The Comanche fair this year had the best quality venders I'd seen. Prices were quite reasonable. Now, there were two different flute boths. One operated by a white man, with mass-manufactured wooded flute kits, the other operated by a man who, though white-looking, claimed Cherokee, and dress Cherokee. He made and played the 5-hole flutes. These are the more ancient, and more difficult to play. He was authentic. His name was ManWolf Strayhorn, from Seven Points, Texas. He was sharing the booth with two women, who displayed some terrific new designs in beadwork and necklaces. However, they were more on the New Age wave length. ManWolf was for real.
The Comanche Nation tribal complex is located at a beautiful spot, just off the Medicine Park Exit, off I-44
Here is an e-mail I received today regarding OU's president David Boren. He recently renamed the OU football stadium. Curious fellow, this Boren.
The usually airhead Oklahoma Gazette has finally done something worthwhile. See page 11 of the current (Sept 26) issue for an article on the renaming of the stadium. Boren might be in trouble. They say that the Regents' agenda posted on the OU website did not list the stadium name change as an action item.
They also talk about the Open Meetings law which prevents public bodies from making decisions in informal meetings, with exceptions that would not include the stadium renaming.
Boren has denied that the issue was omitted from the original agenda or added late. It's Boren's second nature to lie all the time.
For the online report scroll down to the second article:
My understanding is that the new name was a result of the donor who funded the re-building. That sounds normal enough, but, hey, one must follow due process, right? unless it interferes with personal back scratching among friends. After all, life is all about friends, not laws. We've become Romans these latter days.
I'm happy to see that my idea of holding mock courts to examine the matter of teaching patriotism in public schools has caught on.
The Salt Lake Tribune, (9-8-02) reports that Attorney Geri Kelley will be visiting Hillcrest Junior High to discuss with students the idea of freedom, civic duty, and even outsiders' views of American "excess."
The Utah Bar Association has created a program "that will place elected officials, lawyers, and judges inside more than 1,000 classrooms in 81 schools."
The "Dialogue on Freedom," it's called, also involves putting students on TV, with Chief Justice Christine Durham, and defense attorney Ron Yengich. A four-page educational supplement on citiznship and historical events "is now available...at most Albertsons and Smith's stores." (Of course, the supplement is available in English and Spanish. Now there's an irony.)
Read about the Dialogue at www.utahbar.org
It seems that true social change, even revolutionary change, comes about through word-robbing. I call it verbal usurpation. When you take an established word, especially a powerful, long established word, and apply it to a new situation, a new circumstance, a radically different predicament, you are essentially usurping that word of its time-honored meaning, and using its authority to validate your new cause.
Top on the list of words usurped since the '60's are: equality, justice, beauty, family, love, and 'preference,' as applied to sexuality.
Beware of these words. They have turned America upside down. They have come to justify obviously un-American values.
We all know what happened this time around for the Miss America contest. Beauty of appearance was not the first priority, but diversity, and social causes. It may be true that these girls really have to be qualified in all sorts of ways, but, without the principle element, beauty, the nature of the contest is altered completely.
I supposed Ward Connerly got his way. It is a Miss Person contest. (Please refer to my article "An End Of Beauty.") The contest now demonstrates that one woman mustn't be considered more beautiful than another. That special element of womanly beauty must never be considered more important than her ideas or political causes. Down with beauty. We can't help how we look, and if we don't look so good, then that means we must never acknowledge anyone who does.
Miss America is now the triumph of diversity, and the elimination of aesthetic hierarchy. In the name of equality, any girl has a chance now.
I will be posting an article on this matter soon. In the mean time, my sympathies go to Lauren Davidson, Miss Arkansas, and Janna Kerns, Miss West Virginia. Girls, keep the faith- in beauty.
Who does not have preferences? We are all individuals. Part of the definition of being a person is being different from another person. We like different things. We are averse to different things. It's called freedom to be.
Politically, however, in modern times, we are told we no longer have the freedom to express our preferences. In the name of "equality," the Communist tells us that we must have no preferences. There is no longer a distinction between excellence and incompetence. There is no longer beauty and ugliness. There is no longer truth and error.
It is now a sin to say to another person, "I really am offended by your personality," or "I'm not particularly attracted to you," or, "I definitely don't like the way you look." Some people think that to indicate any aversion to another human being, for any reason, is sacrilege. We mustn't hurt anyone, they say. Therefore, they say, we must abandon all standards, all preferences, and all discrimination in the name of "equality."
This path of "equality" leads downward, not upward, nor even toward "equality."
A person will never rise higher than his own standards. If he's not allowed those, he will fall even lower. Down hill is easier and natural, therefore, inevitable unless fought against with every breath.
When one sculpts a rock, or carves a wooden shape, there is "waste." There is material not used for the final statue. I believe we all need to be more humble, and realize that we may not be part of the statue we want to be. We may be used for something else. We mustn't be so arrogant as to demand that everyone honor us as intelligent, beautiful, or even equal. We must be more independent secure within ourselves. If we're not part of the great statue we want to be, we must be patient, and trust that the scrapings and chips will be used for some other, perfectly legitimate cause.
If we were to interpret the administration of the organization of early Christian believers (1st century AD), we would have to see that they were Jewish, and that they were "communist." It was definitely all about redistribution of wealth, and everyone shared all, so that all were supported equally. This is evident in New Testament scripture, particularly in the book of Acts.
However, it is also evident that the congregation was not a political power. It was a voluntary brotherhood, an ever-expanding chaburah. It was not intended to ever be forced on anyone, nor was it intended to wield political power in the world.
Communism in modern times is a cruel, dictatorial political application of the idea of wealth redistribution, and results in only a small minority of leadership possessing all the wealth, and the masses hardly achieving any significant economic improvement. It is a terrible hoax, and a gross misapplication of the idea of equality. Because it is political, and forced through tyranny, communism is actually very degrading to the human spirit, and the modern world has not really produced a good, authentic example of true communism.
The effects have been detrimental, in that "equality" has come to mean economic parity. Justice has come to be associated with materialism. In America, communism has used race and gender as its chief agitators.
Late this afternoon I returned to Oklahoma City from the Texas speaking tour. I spoke to students at law schools of Baylor University, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Tech University at Lubbock, and the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. The tour was co-sponsored by the Texas Federalist Society and the Young America's Foundation.
I will post an article next week about this exciting tour. I was greatly encouraged to meet outspoken conservative students with deep American values. All real Americans will be greatly encouraged to read about the young people of north Texas universities.
In my lectures I did experiment with corollating the term "liberal" with the word "communist." Most conservatives applauded the revival of the word communist. I said, "The word communist used to have a healthy stench to it. It was worse than the N word. So, because the word communist offends certain people, does that mean there are no more communists in the world? Makes about as much sense as Dick Gregory's take in his 1964 book, "N." If a word offends, we simply remove the word, and there is no more reason to offend or be offended.
Truth is very hard to swallow sometimes. Only a brave man can really face it.
Truth is not for the weak.
Today I leave for Texas to speak at four major universities, Baylor, UT Austin, TT Lubbock, and UNM. The topic is gun control. I believe that the public must be armed, otherwise the government will inevitably turn tyrannical, in the name of peace. As an Indian, I have to say, whoever wants to take your weapon is your enemy. If you ever hand over your weapon, you are surrendering. That's what it means to surrender, to hand your weapon over.
I should return Friday. I don't know that I will be able to attend matters on BadEagle.com, but I shall try. Please know that this is not negligence, but circumstance.
I look forward t corresponce from all patriots and potential patriots.
I first repent of my neglect to make a journal entry on this great day of personal refreshment and spiritual restitution. I should have made an entry last night, before the day began. (In the ancient Near East, the 24 hr. day begins at sundown, and lasts until the next sundown.) Well, I'm a sentimentalist, rather than a practioner. The Jewish people of the world will carry the burden of this special day. For that, I thank them. It's not an American Indian tradition to be sorry for anything, any too much. I've always been impressed with the Jewish tradition on this point. Guilt is a mighty motivation in the human psyche. It is a command of the ego above and beyond the heathen concept of personhood.
So I reflect on my political endeavors, the things I've said about people, about myself, about the world. I have a feeling of confusion and doubt about at least one thing: to tell the truth about some one, a public figure, in a way that might "damage" him, is a responsibility, yet a pain to the conscience. I am still seeking a way to do this, without a spirit of rage, envy, or desperation.
I have received more information about OU's president David Boren, which is not pleasant. What do I do with it? Daily, I find out more things about other Oklahoma officials. None of it is inspiring, but disappointing and discouraging. Does the information change anything besides my mood? Does knowing it enable me to change any of it? Am I wasting my time? Should we all just let everyone do what he wants to do, and float along blythely?
To oppose wrong is to "send a sword" into the world, and not peace. This is true whether one is wrongly opposing wrong, or rightly opposing what is actually wrong. This is why it is difficult to know one's own state of mind or spirit. Well, I'll let readers decide. In the near future, we will have polls on hot topics. The BadEagle forums each have their own polling devices.
For now, sincerely, dispassionately consider the following information about OU.
So the news now is about the Yemen Muslim community in Buffalo, NY who turned terrorists over to federal authorities. This is the first sincere moment in modern Arab American history. This we welcome many more such moments.
There is a thought in comparison about the original mafia sector of Italian America. The mafia's always been here, hiding behind the Italian community. Italian Americans have always struggled with the mafia, fought against it, and suffered by association. Italians have been here a long time, and fought in two world wars, and several undeclared wars. Because of this, one thing is clear: we never entertained any thought of deporting all Italians, because of the mafia.
However, there is the thought of deporting all Arab Muslims, in the name of national security. This would be Arabs immigrating since, say, 1980. The Arab community has not shown, up until this Buffalo point, any true aversion to terrorism against the United States. They have not proven themselves American in spirit, but only in the sense of personal social advantage that being here brings them.
As a community in America, the Arabs need to do some serious PR work in this department. The Buffalo incident is the first positive step, the first action, speaking much louder than many words.
Of course, the mafi is different that Al Qaeda. The mafia lives off society like a leech, or a parasite. Al Qaeda terrorists just want to destroy, like sixth-grade bullies or emotionally disturbed children. The mafia needs society. Al Qaeda is a pure killer. The mafia is evil, but more tolerable only because it has an interest, a self-interest, in the success of the society it live's off. Al Qaeda just wants to destoy. It has no other or higher purpose. The abuse of religion doesn't count as a "purpose." It is only a solipsistic delusion, or an inverted, perverted and destructive instinct. It simply does not serve a higher purpose, despite the delusional thoughts in the minds of the murderers about winning the world for Allah. The effects of their actions define the meaning of their "purpose." It is all negative, cruel, destructive, and nihilistic.
A person with a mind like Ann Coulter could never be a Liberal communist. The clarity of her expression as she present her concepts and ideas is not the result of a usurpation or manipulation of words. She does have control of the words, but the Liberal communist, on the other hand, takes a free ride on words, controlling nothing, but accentuating the emotional content until the meaning of the word takes off in another direction than it originally had.
The Liberal ropes in the emotional content of words like "family," "compassion,"
or "respect," and rides with swashbuckling romanticism until the social application of the word overrides the essential word meaning. Liberal communism is based on a metaphor fest. The average liberal has no idea of the anti-American use their leaders make of these words that are so basic to our language.
David Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma, just 'preached' to the students of OU yesterday, about the OU "family." Even the word "community" wasn't emotional enough for him. It was a "family."
A student had published a piece of satire on slave reparations, and the minority students held a protest. Boren spoke to them as children, as family members. Some "outsider" had attacked their family, and must be severely condemned. The student author was denounced as having no place in the American community. Sounds like intolerance to me.
It was a non-thinking response, based on emotion, well suited for young people on a campus.
Now, Ann Coulter's control of words is such a sharp contrast to a speech like Boren's, I could help but think of her. I know her own satire is quite lethal, but that is just a mode of expression. I know too that many people sometimes miss her deeper points, because her humor sometimes is just so strong that it distracts somewhat.
Yet, the Liberal doctrine could never accommodate such humor, because Liberalism is not an intellectual enterprize, but a deceptive, emotional campaign. Humor is really an intellectual activity, in comparison. That's why Liberals will never have an Ann Coulter.
My ancient and honorable Comanche mother made an interesting comment the other morning. She'd been reading Coulter's new Slander. My mother said, "There's no need to read another book about politics." So, Ann, have an old Comanche patriot's blessing for the day.
The people who lost friends and loved ones in the 9-11 attacks deserve the public funeral/memorial which they received yesterday. Anything that would help them bear the burden of sorrow should be freely given them, which it was.
I hope that, however, that they don't feel someone owes them anything. The current mood of American society since the '60's can easily corrupt one's sense of propriety. All we've heard for the last 40 years is how much wrong America has done, and how much it owes everyone. This is an ignoble note in the chorus of compassion which was poured out so freely yesterday. I pray that each person in sorrow can keep their hearts pure and free from greed, envy, and that pestilential sense of Liberal/communist justice which has so distorted the American thinking
Instead, we all need to focus on our resolve. What is our resolve? If we don't want it to happen again, what must we do? Make young mothers drink their own breast milk in the name of airport safety? How about deporting Arab muslims fundamentalists? Must the majority always suffer for the minority? In the name of what ideology? Communist "equality?"
"Why is this night different from all others?" reads a rhetorical question in the Haggadah, the text for the Jewish sader on Passover night. The answer is given clearly. It is the night that the Lord led the Children of Israel out of Egypt, out of bondage.
If we were to ask the question of September 11, 2001, "Why is this day different from all others?", what would the answer be?
The media is saturated with stories of heroism, sacrifice, tragedy, and survivors. It is a massive day of mourning, and honoring the dead. But these are really vicarious, dissembling acts of rage. We are basically outraged, and want to destroy our enemies. But, we feel guilty for such passion, and instead pour it all into crying over the tragedy.
It's become an act of righteousness, of duty, of salvific obligation. We must mourn, or rather, celebrate the dead, the tragic, the loss. If we don't, we haven't responed to the reality. We'll feel more guilty.
I fear this is all approaching some socio-psychological sickness. It is becoming quite heathen in nature. I must blame the media for this. Money and profit are involved, and that's really what's distorting the whole experience.
There were heroes a-plenty on that day. They are rightfully honored. A job well-down is always honorable, even if the risk is part of the job. There were many lives uselessly lost. There is abundant tragedy.
But what is the answer? Why is this day different? More people have been killed in tragedies, more soldiers have heroically lost there lives in a day. Remember the Indian wars? Remember the Civil War? These took place on American soil. Why is September 11 different?
Is it New York? Is it a foreign, enemy religion? Is it flying an airplane into a building? Is it the overall logistics of the event?
I hope that all people can search and recognize the actual, true significance of this day, and not get lost in the media's dramatization of emotion, all designed for entertainment and profit. Let's pray that we can distinguish news from entertainment. That we will have to do by the power of our own discernment. The media cannot do that for us.
Here we are, the day before. What are we thinking? The media wants to make sure we're thinking about 9-11. But how should we be reacting? I wrote a piece for the University of Okahoma's conservative newspaper, Fountainhead (now called Citizen) last spring, around April 19. You see, I live in Oklahoma City. I lived through all the trauma of our April 19 Murrah Building bombing. As yet, I have felt no new insight regarding the NYC and DC tragedies. This is the worst effect of terrorism: indifference. No, I'm not indifferent, but I'm numb. This is akin to indifference. If the right courses of action are not pursued in response to such tragedies, one simply cannot afford to waste cataclysmic emotion.
Oklahomans were left with an empty feeling. We knew there was cover-up from the beginning of the OKC bombing investigation. Charles Keys, in The Final Report, lays it all out. It is heart sickening.
I don't say the same thing happened in NYC and DC. I do say that there is a wide spread mistrust in government, particularly and especially in the FBI and the CIA. This is the real tragedy. This is the real effect of terrorism. The soci-psychology of America isn't prepared to deal with that. We merely live with it.
Approaching the moment of memory, September 11, I regret to inform my fellow patriots that Oklahoma leaders have failed once again in the campaign for true patriotism.
The earlier mentioned Citizen's Task Force, created by executive order of Senate President Pro Tempore Stratton Taylor, was as of August 30 cancelled by another executive order, rescinding the first. That Task Force, to which I was appointed, lasted exactly 54 days. We were appointed to investigate legal corruption in Oklahoma, chiefly as pertaining to the Oklahoma Bar Association. We also had in mind the idea of re-investigating the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Oklahoma reminds me of Iran. We have such good hearted people, and such incredibly corrupt leadership. We're too patient, to tolerant, and too forgiving. This leads to terrorist acts, like the OKC bobming, and like NYC's tragedy.
I will continue to pursue truth, justice, and the American way.
I just wanted to point out that New York, like OKC, is more committed to mourning than to the routing out of corrupt officials, without which there could be no criminals. There seems to be a resigned virtue in mourning. That's safe. To pursue criminals is dangerous. But what we need now are warriors, not hired mourners, like the media. I'm not in the mood for crying, but for war against crime.
Tonight, at sunset, begins Rosh Hashanah, of the year 5763 in the uninterrupted Jewish calendar. It is called the Yom Harat Olam- the birthday of the world.
Why does a Comanche Indian care about this? I'm fascinated with the psychological utility of the Biblical faith. Comanches were known for streamlining their own spiritual and practical approach to the world. Whatever was superfluous was eliminated. The Creator, the One Creator, to me, bespeaks the same charm and advanced sense of spiritual beauty.
To all my beloved brothers, friends, and friends yet to be,
Shanah tovah tikkatevu, le-shanah tovah u-metukah. May you be inscribed for a good year.
America is a republican form of democracy. America is not an open ended democracy. Democracy leads to socialism, and finally communism. Republicanism, capitalism, and probably Protestantism itself, are the safeguards against communism.
I plan to make less and less use of the words Liberalism, or Leftist, or even socialist. I'm going to revive the word communism. That's what all this Leftist/Liberal talk is really about. These people are communists, whether they understand themselves as such or not.
Yes, Communism is alive and well. It is still the enemy of America, and still should evoke loathing in the heart of every true American.
For two thousand years, Christians have sent missionaries into all parts of the world. Muslims have essentially done the same, but more aggressively, with violence. This could be because the Muslims originally encountered more "civilized" peoples in their neck of the woods, whereas the Christian missionaries, at least in the New World, across an ocean or two, encountered more underdeveloped peoples, like the Indians.
The messages of these two religions are nevertheless incompatible, really, except on superficial levels. I don't know that Christians initially took up the sword to spread Christianity, but they did defend themselves against Islam, which had definitely taken up the sword from the start, first to take over Arab lands, then to invade Christian lands.