POISON (The Bakery Revisted)

Mr. Benson,

Sitting on my writing table, immediately in front of me, is a very small number of 4 x 6 cards each with a reminder to reconsider the positions a particular writer and I took on a certain subject. I consider the writer/artist's position worthy of a review because it contains some merit; that is also why the number of cards is very small.

One of them is Steve Benson's carton in The Arizona Republic, of 03/09/00, "The whole... not the hole. Good Cops/Bad Cops." I subsequently wrote an in depth critique of its theme. With non-contradictory reasoning and valid logic, I exposed his theme as invalid and his pictorial conclusion false. However, again, he called and stated that, "I needed to reconsider the whole vs. the hole." This I have done over the past weeks.

In the disciplines of a priori and a posteriori reasoning and etymological accuracy, his theme still remains invalid and its conclusion false. Therefore, I assume that he must simply mean a kind of simple mathematical ratio. In other words, if we were to use a "super" computer to count heads, we would find that it produces a larger number of "good cops" then some smaller number of "bad cops."

Despite the perverted utilitarian ethics of such a count, I admit that using such an infantile way of counting, where only cops who were in some way "punished,” his theme might be true. But cognitive examination above a childish 1,2,3, etc., produces a different picture. As I previously pointed out in my essay, when you expand the conceptual framework of bad cops, not to just punished perpetrators of some illegal or unethical act, but also to include each and every cop who knew of those acts but refused to report it, let alone act against it—then hides behind that even more evil Blue Wall of Silence—to any honest mind, the score keeping changes astronomically and his "Donut turns to mush!

He says that he simply cannot accept my statistical analysis. Well try this on for statistical fit from men who Benson would invite to dinner to meet the family. Retired Police Chief Joseph D. McNamara, a man who spent 35 years wearing a police uniform reports, "Los Angeles cops are taught to lie at the birth of their careers at the Police Academy, I've come to believe that HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS (Emphasis mine) of law-enforcement officers commit FELONY PERJURY (Emphasis mine) every year testifying about drug arrests." (I guess they believe in the Clinton definition of perjury!) He goes on to state, "These are not cops who take bribes or commit other crimes; they are law-abiding and dedicated. They don't feel lying under oath is wrong because politicians tell them they are engaged in a “holy war fighting evil'."

Agreeing with Mr. McNamara is Police Chief Bernard Parks who reported, "An evil cancer has been found inside the LAPD...the scandal has grown so large that settling the lawsuits $125 million is a sum twice the size of the Los Angeles budget for liability." The district attorney claims, that hundreds of criminal cases are all linked to the growing list of officers under investigation for tainted and faked arrests."

Mr. Benson, what sort of numbers did you have in mind to disprove the obvious?

Now to some recent evidence that offers strong proof that even an elementary 1-2-3 count presents a numerical race to close to call. The following are just two such pieces of evidence, out of many appearing daily in newspapers, in ever increasing numbers across the country:

1. The Arizona Republic 08/10/00 headlines: CASA GRANDE’S DIRTY SECRET. I need not repeat it; for surely you've read it, and surely you can see which way your donut tally would crumble!

2. The Arizona Republic 09/03/00 headlines: BORDER TRAINING UNDER FIRE. Again, I need not repeat it, or it's even more obvious arithmetical donut demolition—especially when one adds in that sinister Blue Wall of Silence!

More to ponder: I deeply believe that Benson is no way racially bias (His work proves that over and over). Nevertheless, does he honestly believe that his Good Cop/Bad Cop theme or the events of the two articles above could or would ever be believed as evidence of most cops being good and very few being bad in any barrio, ghetto or inner city in this country? Especially since so many polls show that such areas distrust the police and consider corruption and cover-up rampant!

Surely, Benson, you would disagree with the rabid right that holds that most of these people are criminals or potential criminals anyway! Again, in the face of such overwhelming evidence, I see nothing left for you to do but repudiate your cartoon and its false message. In your position it will take Solomon-like wisdom and Herculean guts; but it's the only ethical and moral thing to do!

Mr. Benson, my preceding presentation is a simple, common sense way, open to any honest mind of average intelligence and education, to see the truth of the subject at hand. Of course, it is virtually never seen, but for other reasons I will subsequently cover.

What follows has never been accepted and has always been scoffed at by the vast majority with any intelligence and education. Since I find no merit in writing to those who think as I think, believe as I believe, nor to those who simply don't think nor know what they believe—I write to those who think and believe diametrically opposed to me—to those who make up virtually all educators, columnists, politicians, intellectuals, etc.—to those who consider me a fool, a traitor, a dangerous person, at best pitifully ignorant.

Their evaluation of me is never for their lack of intelligence, or for their lack of education; usually, they are very high in both. They come from the "left,” the "right,” the "center,” from every metaphysical direction possible by the human mind!

It is more than noteworthy, though, that when most of them write (if they write) a rebuttal of my work, it most often follows one or more of the following courses:

1. Argumentum ad hominem. For example, Columnist Steve Wilson offering to help people pack and leave his country if they don't pay their taxes, and Keven Willey and Barney Frank calling people who burn their OWN red, white, and blue cloth, "ignorant rabble" and "obnoxious jerks."

2. Argumentum ad Verecundium. Used by virtually ALL theists and many educators. For example, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on same sex marriage, homosexuality, etc.

3. Argumentum ad Populum. The favorite of ALL politicians. For example, Bill Clinton's belief that he is a good president because a majority voted for him or a majority in the polls say what he did was of no consequence.

4. Argumentum ad Baculum. For example, Daryl Gates proposing public executions for marijuana users. Bill Bennett wanting the beheading of drug dealers. Countless cops using batons on the head and up the rectum. And, several times, the people at ballgames who decide to try and force me and my family to stand for that putrid song and flag of tyranny. And that great American hero, John McCain, who wants to put flag burners like me in prison for 5 years!

But one thing they virtually never do is cognitively counter principle by principle, axiom by axiom, syllogism by syllogism, my reasoning, my evidence, and my logic. I take it as an indication of the intellectual strength of my arguments.

Fundamentally, their intellectual shortcoming is historically twofold. One, they are simply consistent with the millions of years of Homo sapiens’ cerebral evolution, and the way primitive man viscerally dealt with physical survival—Life and Death! Two, they are products of the most advanced and skillfully developed propaganda and indoctrination model ever formulated by an advanced collective: the religious, educational, political, legal, and social systems of the United States. It is only its unique economic system that forms the fountainhead for human progress and survival.

It is unparalleled. Whether compared to the fiction of Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's' 1984 or to the reality of Hitler's and Goebel's Germany or Lenin's and Stalin's Russia. Though effective, these systems were always open to insurrection and had to be maintained by extreme and brutal force; the knee had to be forcibly bent! On the other hand, the sheep of modern America, like Boethie's quote, "Wear the yoke and have learned to love it." Their knees bend willingly, rarely requiring force, America's ethnic and jingoistic sense of superiority (God's people) exceeds by far even that of the otherwise unprecedented Roman Empire.

The ironical and paradoxical reasons for this phenomenon is the unique historical nexus that formed from a virtually virgin continent (America), a complete absence of political, cultural, most of all existing economical systems, and finally the writing of Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. The subsequent development of laissez faire capitalism free market economics, a virtually non-existent political system, the explosion of inventive genius, venture capital, and entrepreneurship led to a nation of material wealth, prosperity, and happiness never seen before or since.

Given this virtually infinite level of satisfaction, Americans were, and have been ever since, 100% vulnerable to the subtle, but successful build up of tyranny, loss of freedom, and erosion of birthrights, further evidence of the social, political, and religious power of this Pavlovian brainwashing. This can be witnessed in another ironic fact that so many of the more recent scientific and inventive minds by which we learn of reality and who continue to invent ways to pull man inch by inch from his brutish and superstitious past can not, themselves, avoid the Orwellian snare of theism and statism!

So why do I bother! First, because as I stated on the dedication page of my book, it is for me and someone." Second, because I believe that without their full awareness, Benson's and E.J. Montini's work shows a chink in that Orwellian armor over their neo-cortex. If it should ever be fully stripped away, they both would do tremendous things in the struggle for truth and reality—before that "rag" they work for fires them.

Well, what is that "truth" and that "reality?” To briefly answer that, what follows is a very succinct précis of relevant sections of my forthcoming book: EVERY PERSON AN ISLAND, The Individual Human Being As Prime In The Universe. Though I've been preparing it for over 25 years, it is still one to two years from completion.

That concise summation:

1. The genesis for all existence is the singularity (Big Bang to most people), and evolution (Darwinian in nature) is the infinite thread drawn through that unique event. Both of these events are PRIME; therefore, the metaphysical origin of ALL that follows, including the individual human being. (The Hubble Telescope and The Human Genome Project continue to prove such fact almost hourly.)

2. Etymologically and epistemologically, this original thread must be the foundation of all language and knowledge when writing or speaking of any of man's actions or development—biological, sociological, political, etc. This axiomatic non-contradictory binding of man’s existence to PRIME is conceptually known as reality. Since cognition precedes communication (speaking and writing among people) it is mandatory that the words to symbolize that cognition be chosen solely based on their uncompromising dependency and traceability through and to PRIME. Through this etymological paradigm, therefore, we guarantee our epistemological and metaphysical truth about a reality as told or written to another.

3. Any other use of words, or actions based on words, that violate the above axiomatic principles is null and void, a complete denial of reality, and usually results in evil. Since an emotional denial of reality is the way over 99% of human beings think, speak, and write Ayn Rand (one of the very best at reality based cognition) called this violation: "The Fallacy of the Stolen Concept." It is using etymological concept building and communication while denying the validity of Its roots (PRIME) on which it logically depends. I like to offer this quote from Lewis Carroll to conceptualize that violation:

WHEN I USE A WORD, HUMPTY DUMPTY SAID IN A RATHER SCORNFUL TONE,
IT MEANS WHAT I CHOOSE IT TO MEAN. THE QUESTION IS, SAID ALICE,
WHETHER YOU CAN MAKE WORDS MEAN S0 MANY THINGS. THE QUESTION
SAID HUMPTY DUMPTY IS WHO IS MASTER—THAT'S ALL.

Here are twenty pointed examples of such graduates of Humpty Dumpty School of language. They will be followed by two longer examples that demonstrate how such etymological and epistemological breaks with truth and reality produce unimaginable evil.

The brief list of language looney tunes:

1. Clinton on sex, truth, and dresses,
2. Falwell and Robertson on homosexuality,
3. The pope on Jews and other religions,
4. Steve Wilson on taxes,
5. Jefferson on race relations and offspring,
6. Westmorland on napalm and hibachi burns,
7. That "brilliant” blond bombshell Kevin Willey on me, my family and other "ignorant rabble” of flag burners,
8. Reagan on reality,
9. Aquinas on war/the all good god!
10. Both Bushs on public speaking,
11. Again, that "brilliant” blond bombshell on the Kennedys,
12. Reno on burning babies,
13. Bill Bennett on virtues and decapitation,
14. The constitution on “Rights,” Trail of Tears, 3/5th of a human being,
15. The police defining brutality and The Blue Wall of Silence,
16. The Bible's etymological chaos dogmatizing as the Alpha and Omega of omniscient and omnipotent order in the universe,
17. Ministers, Priests, and Rabbis explaining child abuse, Pol Pot, Hitler, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Trail of Tears, slavery as "Why Bad Things Happen to Good People,”
18. The Arizona Republic's editorial page explaining on why the vote is the way to stop number 17 above,
19. Newt Gingrich, Joe Lieberman, and Gary Condit on stable marriages.
20. America is a free country because we have over 2 million people in prison. More than any of the other non-free countries in the world.

The following two examples demonstrate how the language laceration and prostitution inherent in the 20 preceding statements must eventually lead to evil!

1. To "cure" the potential damage to any individual's life and health by the misuse and abuse of drugs (of anything for that matter)—America collectively (an example of abuse itself!) denies the PRIME reality of an individual human being's birthright of bodily sovereignty. Then politically uses the fallacy of the stolen concept and declares a "war” against that reality—the prime and sovereign existence of the individual human being. Scientifically speaking they will use force to make Newton’s apple "fall up!" Consequently, they perpetrate the evil of putting one million humans in prison for how and what they do to their own bodies! Most of them for breaking some lex mulla lex nulla law against marijuana or how one gets a bigger bicep. This further results in billions of "stolen" dollars to reverse reality, subsidize a "new” field of organized crime, create massive corruption among already corrupted law enforcement, and underwrite murder and genocide in our cities!

2. This collective evil in all its hellish splendor: It is not known how many murders from passion, robbery, for hire, rape, gang warfare, etc., have been committed in the 20th century, but it is known that it is no where near the documented 300 million murders that have been committed by governments (aka the state). Nowhere near the millions more that subsequently died from the infrastructure collapse, especially children at Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Korea, and the ones who continue to die from the destruction of medical and water facilities by Bush and Clinton's "smart" bombs in Iraq. To OK this attack on reality, politicians, historians, educators, and idiot columnists like Steve Wilson continue to quote that "saintly and moral" thinker Aquinas on war as moral, murder as collateral damage. Their innovative Newspeak is infinite.

Returning to the itemized précis of certain portions of my book:

3. Such heinous, inhuman acts and their verbal rationalizations are the direct result of severing that prime thread of reality. The first “cut” is man's canonizing of force over truth to alter human behavior. The second “cut” is the use of the stolen concept fallacy of “giving” existence to non-existents. (Malignancies initially formed from Plato's "Ideas.”) An existent is some—thing, a referent, that has material existence; it is the sensory building block of man's vocabulary, hence his knowledge of reality. For example, in my second example—300 million murders—the nonexistent is the fallacious concept border. Nowhere in the universal thread of reality (the expanding singularity through all of evolution) is there such an existent as a border! The only such referents to reality are entropy, continental shift and geological rearrangement. The non-existent border is the mystical, superstitious and jingoistic manifestation of man’s evolutionary fears of his mortality and the threat of human beings outside his tribe—today his country or race! Today’s best example: The U.S. Government’s 2,000 mile non-existent U.S./Mexican border over which it spills Mexican blood in “its” deserts! To all but Pavlovian puppets, jingoistic jerks and devious despots, the border as a non-existent is clear. Allow me to present a term that I’ve long believed to be a non-existent, but until just recently could not prove so within the PRIME thread of reality with axiomatic certainty: Race. But science (not government, not religion, not another damn way!), through the final unraveling of the human genome, has with that PRIME certainty proven race as a referent to Homo sapiens’ existence to be a non-existent. By governmental law and policy, this non-existent (race) has certainly exceeded border as documented evil! I call as historical witness: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Pol Pot’s Cambodia and that icon of governmental love and affection America’s slavery, Indian genocide and Hiroshima and Nagasaki as nuclear test sites! Of course, individual hate mongers and private hate groups perpetrated and continue to perpetrate evil based on the now proven non-existent race, but the far, far bigger question remains, “How can people who fight such evil on that level become deaf, dumb and blind to that same astronomically increased evil as done by government?” All evil is evil, but when numbers of such evil is the sole criteria, government rules hell!

Why will good men like Mr. Benson and Mr. Montini relentlessly fight "small potatoes"? Evil such as Hollywood's pandering to violence, and Firestone Tires' negligence with the heart of a warrior and the courage of a lion, but break weak in the knees and yellow in the spine when presented with a body count of millions and millions—murdered, maimed and mangled by Satan on earth—government (aka the state)? Is it the simple fact that Firestone and Hollywood can only call you names or write you vulgar letters—trying to “hurt” you with words? Or, is it the fact that to stand against greedy tire makers, Hollywood punks, etc., requires all of the guts of a Don Quixote and a Walter Mitty, while to uncompromisingly condemn and fight the state can get you killed, imprisoned or at best fired?

It’s always been clear to me why a mouse like Keven Willey and cronies will call a family of intelligence and respect for the birthrights of others, “ignorant rabble” for burning their own red, white and blue cloth, that she’s dubbed a non-existent deserving something reality can never deliver! Or when a blowhard like Steve Wilson pretends heroics against “tax cheats” and offers his “prowess” to pack their suitcases and throw them out of “his country.”

But for assumed reasons, I do not place Mr. Benson and Mr. Montini as want-a-be comic book heroes fighting straw men, villains who can never hurt you. Yet, for some reason, when they attack the evil consequences of the state that's as far as their cognitive clarity goes! For example, Mr. Montini produces a powerful column against the greed of Firestone executives that cost a happy little boy his life, and he believes some justice lies in seeing those greed mongers in prison. He further states, (and as a father and grandfather I deeply understand) that his 8-year-old son brings his sorrow and anger to a very personal level. So far so good! The trouble in his justifiable empathy is it does not transfer to the happy children at Waco or the happy son of Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, or the thousands of happy children in Iraq!!! While I surely believe that he feels sorrow for those children's murders and suffering, neither he, nor Mr. Benson demand in a column or cartoon the incarceration of Janet Reno, all FBI officials involved at Ruby Ridge, or George Bush and Bill Clinton for Iraq!

I won't even guess and leave it to such people to explain, what paralyzes their higher brain centers? I can tell you, from personal experience, that it is the pain of hell to face Leviathan. It bludgeons and brutalizes you and loved ones; as said in that magnificent Anglo-Saxon poem, "It is not the coward's enterprise!” But if you read this essay and have the intellectual courage to challenge it, I beseech you not to insult your intelligence or mine by any of the following thoughtless rhetoric:

1. They are NOT the same!
2. That's just the way it is!
3. That my thinking is Utopian!
4. Only God knows!
5. Worst of all: The state is an existent that is PRIME to the genesis of all existence! In a simpler way—collective humanity is PRIME to the individual human being!

Virtually every answer I've received (that is, if there is an answer!) is a hodge podge of some or all of them and with a mingling in of those logical fallacies presented earlier. Never, I repeat never has an "educated" writer answered me by organizing first a principle-by-principle, axiom-by-axiom, syllogism-by-syllogism, etc., scholarly criticism of them as developed in my essays, or as presented in précis form. Then, if time and length allowed, developed their antithetical positions as relevant to the discussion.

Again, returning to my PRÉCIS:

4. To intellectually conceptualize, thus understand, this suicidal tendency of human beings, one must understand how about 5 million years ago an ape-like evolutionary line "broke off" to evolve the genus Homo. Then over much time evolved Homo habilis, then Homo erectus with an increased brain capacity of around 800 cc, then Homo sapiens with brain size of 1500-2000 cc.
Therefore, to have an inkling about the nature of man, it is absolutely imperative what that 1500-2000 cc brain saw what no other organism ever sees: Its own existence and its own mortality! Since the forces of nature were brutal and instant death was everywhere, that primitive mind did the only possible “thinking” available at that stage of its own image. Thus was the seedbed for church and state sown out of the unimaginable fear and terror of this initial knowledge.

5. At first this personification assigned "deities" to the forces of nature—storms, floods, volcanoes, etc. Human sacrifice, torture, mutilation, incantations, rituals, altars, totems, prayer, crosses, worship, sin, commandments, medicine men, holy men, seers, priests, ministers, Holy Wars, ad nauseum, all born of that first awareness of existence and mortality continuing right down to this exact moment in time when this same frightened creature is making up his or her "mind" whether to genuflect before Bush or Gore!

6. Let’s return to reality, truth and the universal thread of existence: With the birth of each and every individual human being comes axiomatically his and her birthrights: speech, bodily sovereignty, life, trade, travel, property. No!!! These birthrights are not inalienable rights, not positive rights, not legal rights, and not constitutional rights!!! These are simply more semantical bastardizations, stolen concepts, and non-existents of a rape of reason and reality! They support tyranny, man’s arrogance and evil—albeit by a ballot, a bullet, or a bloodline! For example, speech is an axiom of existence—a birthright. Free crying (speech, you damn fools!) like free breathing (life, you mental midgets!) comes with you when you enter the world, and a doctor slaps your butt! Though, on most, he should have smacked the head! This universal axiomatic reality of existence holds true for one’s body, one’s travel, and one’s property. With absolutely no exception, any infringement by force of these birthrights is the epistemological and metaphysical origin of evil!

Mr. Benson, before closing, I shall again assume: I believe, at least hope, that thinkers like you and E J. Montini see the truth of what I write; your works hint, as I wrote earlier, at such an assumption continuously. I can't guess what keeps them in the “closet.” (Prestige, money, image, fear?) I simply cannot believe its ignorance or indoctrination, like most. So get some "guts" come all the way out of that "closet"; use your talents to light some candles in man's darkness until that rag you work for fires you both.

I must close this synopsis of my philosophy and its eventual book. Otherwise, it will become necessary to expand its research support, thus becoming the book. If Homo sapiens hope to outlast the life span of the dinosaur, let alone the virus, humankind must in a simple way allow Darwin, Newton and their modern peers to stand as judge and jury for its decision making process. This being the only way it can kill the primordial roots of its ignorant and brutish past.

To accomplish this, thinking human beings must go back to "school,” shed primitive brainwashing, learn about Dawkins' "memes,” nanotechnology, gene splicing, cloning, chaos theory, quantum mechanics, genome manipulation, "down loading" human intelligence, etc. It is mandatory that these same open-minded people re-study, in great depth, how laissez faire free-market capitalism works. For it and it alone is how scientific discovery works its way out of academia's labs into new knowledge and innovative inventions improving man's health, wealth, longevity, freedom, labor, and offers the only way to "kill" that primordial evolutionary brute in all of us.

Yes, that Big Bang/Darwinian brute is in all of us. A very few of us hate and reject him, while the Bushes, Clintons, Gores, and their ilk, and the millions of human pawns and puppets get simply orgasmic over him! For example, witness the idolatry of virtually all Americans for the four despots carved into Mount Rushmore and the various sculptured memorials for such despots in Washington D.C. Juxtapose this universal worship of evil icons with the universal ignorance of real creative genius: Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Jonas Salk, Samuel Morse, Henry Ford, Gutenberg, the Wright Brothers, Adam Smith, et al. It then becomes crystal clear why we've murdered 300 million people in the 20th century!

Remember, it is the statist-theist who is a misanthrope. The statist believes himself or herself to be of Plato's "Ruling Class," superior to all others who cannot be trusted to run their own individual lives. These elitists must use force for the good of mankind. This concept mankind is, itself, a non-existent to justify unspeakable evil against the individual human being for the good of mankind. As Swift wrote, statists-elitists are "those who imagine they came into the world only to watch and govern."

The theists believe that all individual human beings are born in sin (a non-existent); therefore, can not be trusted to guide his or her own life. Special people (priests, ministers, rabbis) with a special connection to God (another non-existent) will erect icons: churches, commandments, crosses, confession, statues, prayers, masses, ad infinitum to save one sinful individual human being's soul (another non-existent) from hell (another non-existent.) The brilliance of Ayn Rand elucidates "This mystical code of life is set beyond the grave. . . in a supernatural dimension. Individual human beings must take the blame for it and suffer through the whole of his/her earthly existence . . . when a supreme ruler becomes the collector of sacrificing.” Traditionally, there are two such collectors: either god or state!

Non-existents must be defined, installed, and sustained by force. All referents outside of reality or by stolen concept (no roots to reality) are invisible to the neo-cortex, and are usually "implanted" within the neo-cortex by indoctrination and propaganda then conditioned by some kind of Pavlovian reward system, and finally sustained by the use of physical or mental torture. Even though reality and truth deny their very existence, they can last for hundreds, even thousands, of years—witness Plato's "Ideas," Kant's "Moral Imperatives," Christianity's "Divine Birth,” "Mary's Immaculate Conception," Moses' "Parting of the Sea," "Christ Rising from the Dead," and "Miracles" ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

I won't insult your intelligence as to where Benson's “Good Cop/Bad Cop" theme obviously fits in the paradigm of this essay. Suffice it to say, Benson and virtually all human beings pledge allegiance, to one degree or another, to a false edifice of violence to control violence, necessary evil to combat evil, imperfect political systems to control imperfect people. One last example, the American government with the approval of the vast majority of Americans murder supposed murderers as justice (the death penalty). As any student of the mathematical law of probability would know, innocent people are murdered in such a system. No one cares! Then, science (DNA testing) suddenly proves the very truth of murder of innocents as "justice." No one cares! The governor of Illinois decides to investigate what should be obvious to an intelligent chimpanzee. No one cares! The only conclusion: government is evil and evil cannot produce a good! And even in the face of scientific evidence—no one cares!

The sacrifice of the one for the good of the many—Homo sapiens' ultimate evil!