The Fireman

The Dream

 

Last night I dreamed

And everything was fine.

My loves all gathered to me

Happiness & peace of mind.

 

The Burning House

 

Outside is a world of woe.

Fire in the rafters

And lava, like hot coal, below.

But I divert myself

With the Great vehicle

Of my soul!

 

To Put out the Fire!

 

I have a hose

It's called the truth.

These are things I know.

My Soul, the summation of my life,

Depends solely on where I go.

 

So I choose to stay

To spray the water of truth

On all our collective pain and woe.

 

Fighting the Fog

 

Though smoke seek to overwhelm me.

I breathe calmly

Wearing the breathing gear

Of a mind free and clear.

 

And when I've fought

To heavenly exhaustion.

I fall into my couch

Knowing true friends gather near.

 

True Friends

 

All I love

Gather inside me.

To warm and protect me.

Encourage, warn & guide me.

They help me ward the forces of mara,

Who rend and tear, hunt and snare.

So I can protect those I love in turn.

 

The Mortal Path

 

So as my body begins to fail.

Yet my spirit continues to sail.

As nature marshals rains

To cleanse and rearrange.

And wake those in Mara's thrall.

One day we will awake all.

If I can stay awake long enough, myself

 

I ride on

Sadly observing the world of woe

Storms above

Fire below.

I do what I can.

 

I fully understand.

Will anyone listen?

Will they grab the fire hose?

Or run away with burning clothes?

 

All I can do is shake my head

And aim the hose of truth,

Instead.

 

Why People Triffle

 

I know why they bleed!

Delusions of fear.

Anger at phantoms.

Drugs and beer.

 

Holding onto lies and liars.

They March into the fire

Without a hose.

Instead of putting out fires

They are burning their fingers & toes.

 

Carvings On the Rocks

 

I take comfort.

Maybe one day they will listen.

I have carved my soul

On Rocks & trees.

 

I have shouted from the mountain.

And some have heard.

It need not be this way.

It need not be so cruel.

Mara doesn't even want to rule.

She just is deluded too.

 

Choose Life!

 

Which future do we choose!

Choose life?

Or the path of tyranny,

Which is death.

What good does it do,

To instigate strife?

There is more than enough for two.

Why take it all?

 

By:

Chris Holte, June 2018

Blowing Winds of Time

Seasons March

 

Winds blow and leaves turn,

take on dying colors,

go dry and burn

Billowing up into the sky,

clouds that dissipate and die

Then comes the cold,

relentless until winter gets old

Time goes by

and soon enough spring is back.

Time is blowing on the wind.

 

Year after year;

spring blows in,

bringing summer storms,

and falling rain

then winter again.

 

Change Marches

 

And time waits for no-one.

So a young man has fun, and soon enough a son;

And the winds blow, and go where they go;

And they bring love, and hate, tears and fate;

And soon enough an old man goes walking hand in hand;

With other old people;

With a father he barely can understand,

except that he’s been there too.

 

So the spring leaves return until they fall

And the snow buries all in an innocent blanket

And we walk by the walls, and say hi to our friends;

We are all like the leaves and the rain

Except that we number our loved ones

with names and stones, tears and pain.

 

Father and son a long march down the road;

Each thinning in his own time, each failing in turn

vanishing like a dream, Sons, fathers survive and move on

leaving markers by the road for the fallen.

We walk together with no hope of eternity

Beyond handing off a baton;

Not really enjoying the moment the baton gets handed on.

Praying our children and our children’s children do better than we did;

But knowing that in the end,

We are like clouds going by.

 

Daisy in the Rain

 

I plant a daisy in the rain

Thinking of fathers, grandfathers,

their fathers and their father’s fathers;

What must it have been like?

What secrets could they tell me?

What troubles did they bear?

What feats they dare?

Do they sleep in peace at last?

 

I look up at the sky

And watch the clouds walk by;

Whispers in my imagination

And their voices live in my heart.

 

Chris

By Christopher Hartly Holte

June 17, 2012 · Silver Spring ·

The Question

and will there be sons and daughters?

Will the baton be there to hand on?

Will we endure, survive, thrive and learn?

Will we ever learn, to live in peace?

Immigration Courts as Unjust Administrative/Admiralty Courts

The Tyranny of Mock Courts

This is pure Tyranny and breaking International Law: [UNHCR Child Asylum]

To me there is a process issue in the awful oppression of our Immigration and Naturalization Courts and ICE. This oppression is the expression of a corrupt administration. But it is inherent in the constitution of the Immigration System. The fact that we have administrative courts at all is an inheritance of our Colonial and Feudal origins. I noted the injustice and wealth favoritism of our system when I made the half joking, very serious comparisons between admiralty courts and administrative courts in this previous post:

Tribunals, Admiralty Courts, Privateers versus Common Pirates

Orwell Warned that 1984 newspeak is not new

Orwell criticized use of euphemisms, Dying Metaphors, "verbal false limb 'Operators'", Pretentious diction, & meaningless words," because these debase the language and are tools of corrupt government. Suggest people read his article, Politics and the English Language in addition to "1984" and "Animal Farm."

Further Reading:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/politics-and-the-english-language-trump_us_5888da31e4b061cf898c18b3

Official Copy: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/

PDF: https://faculty.washington.edu/rsoder/EDLPS579/HonorsOrwellPoliticsEnglishLanguage.pdf

pdf: https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf

By 1984 at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/1984-George-Orwell/dp/1328869334

Animal Farm: http://www.huzheng.org/geniusreligion/AnimalFarm.pdf

The Authoritarian Playbook

Trump is following an Old playbook.

The Dictator's playbook is old. This list is inspired by an article in "Raw Story," but it is a list I already had so this is my version. I've been writing on this for a long time. So this post is a place to put related posts.

1. Lie Often, Lie Big.
2. Target, Challenge and Coopt Institutions that Enforce Accountability.
3. Consolidate power by putting sychophants in key positions (military and law enforcement).
4. Target, Attack and Control the Press.
5. Target & Scapegoat minority groups, rivals and foreigners.
6. Target, Vilify as Enemies and bad people, protesters, minorities and scapegoats.
7. Find and Recruit the Angry, dogmatic, disaffected, ignorant and fearful.
8. Rile up the Mob, but exclude anyone not onboard.
9. Play on Religious, Ethnic, Racial and cultural prejudice.
10. Enforce identity of the movement and leader.
11. Enforce Personal loyalty in key institutions.
12. Indoctrinate thru Repetition belief in alternative facts over facts.
13. Relentlessly go after disloyalty and criticism.
14. Instigate and use violence to beat down opposition verbally and physically.

That "Muddle Head [Marx]" David Ellerman and Henry George on Marx

One thing that both David Ellerman in the present age and Henry George in the 19th Century, both have cogent criticisms of Marxism from the left, from a Human Rights/fundamental rights point of view. Henry George Considered Marx a "muddle-head". Ernst Wigforss made corrections to Marxism that made it effective in Scandinavia based on similar critiques to those of George. Ellerman explans why. These critiques explain both why Marxism doesn't work as advertised, and why even when it works as promised it fails.

This post follows on the post titled "The Fraud of Rented Labor"

http://www.cooperative-individualism.org/holmes-john_henry-george-and-karl-marx-1947-159.pdf

Ellerman explains how Marx, Lenin, and the Russian Revolution have set back the Left for over a century. More like a century and a half.

“As if the central question was whether people should be publicly or privately rented–with the Great Capitalism-Communism Debate and Cold War being like a ‘Peloponnesian War’ over whether slaves should be publicly owned (Sparta) or privately owned (Athens).”

To summarize:

Marx:

“brought a knife to a gun fight.”[Ellerman]

“He brought a value theory to a property-theoretic fight.”[Ellerman]

Both Ellerman and Henry George believed that:

“His “labor theory of value and exploitation” is inherently superficial” and Ellerman adds "and thus the favorite foil in economics.”[Ellerman]

“But that is not worst of it.”[Ellerman]

“By misunderstanding the basis for the employer’s appropriation (i.e., the human rental contract), he ended up attacking the idea of private property!”[Ellerman]

“This allowed the employers (“capitalists”), who are the beneficiaries of the whole fraudulent human rental system, to appropriate the positive and negative fruits of other people’s labor by “renting” them; and to parade as the defenders of private property that is supposed to rest on the principle of people getting the fruits of their labor!”[Ellerman]

Thus: “How screwed up is a so-called “critique”” that:

“allows those who violate human rights (to the fruits of your labor or to self-government)”

“to parade as the “defenders of human rights”!” [Ellerman]

“The conclusions of these arguments is that, contrary to Marx”

the Left should be arguing for the abolition (not nationalization) of the whole system of renting human beings:”[Ellerman]

“In the name of inalienable rights (no renting of human beings);”[Ellerman]

“In the name of private property (getting the fruits of one’s labor);”

and In the name of democracy (in the workplace).”[Ellerman]

This argument draws on the Swedish thinker Ernst Wiggforss for much of it's inspiration. But it also, unconsciously draws on Henry George.

For a Detailed discussion continue:

The Fraud of "Renting Labor."

Some currently "legal" tropes are in-fact logically unjust. With things like exploiting labor, "renting" labor, and binding laborers to abusive contracts, most folks recognize their innate injustice. Unfortunately, as displayed in the corrupt SCOTUS decision announced just 12 days after I first drafted this post (5/21/2018), stealing wages is perfectly legal under the sophist arguments of "right to contract" having primacy over a right to own oneself, the fraud of "renting labor" is a perfectly legal fraud.

See:Supreme Court upholds Employers Right to Require Arbitration

David Ellerman and related historians and economists offers better arguments than the raw emotional ones offered by many activists. His arguments, founded in the arguments of the enlightenment and the abolitionist movement apply the logic of inalienable human rights. Listening to them could drive a paradigm shift in understanding the legal rights and wrongs of our system; and a framework for righting them. But of course only if we can upend the corruption in our electoral and legal system.

This post is intended to be a follow on to the post: “Justice, Injustice And "Legal Fictions" = Fraud” Ellerman explains why the "rental of labor" is a legal fraud and a tool for wage slavery and inequality.