scene from “To Kill a Mockingbird”,
white south Alabama lawyer
defends black man
accused of
raping white woman
who made it all up,
the white jury knew it,
convicted black man,
who then hung himself
in jail
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Jerry Weinstock, M.D., Psychiarty, replied to yesterday’s life is poetry, poetry is life – Amtrak, Israel and America, art school in India, Kali, Jesus, mockingbird song post at goodomorningkeywest.com:
Sloan; Mocking birds are not at all benevolent; they are highly aggressive birds -I have seen them thrash a mangrove snake to death and sink their beak into my just ripe tomatoes and ruin months of work and lovely anticipation… they are NOT what most might think— there is a lesson and a metaphor here
appearance as well as popular widely held beliefs can be wrong -perhaps Harper Lee missed the mark, concerning her assessment of Mocking birds —-signing off —-fishing tomorrow and Monday…Jerry
I replied:
Jerry, this is bizarre, coming from a scientist, evolutionist, and lover and defender of Mother Nature who designed mockingbirds to be just what they are, perfect in every way as far as She is concerned. Harper Lee knew exactly what she was doing, and the KKK and their regressive redneck allies, the American Nazis, hated her for it. However, there might be another reason I should set that poem aside, the mockingbird isn’t concerned about money, and I’m leaning hard on my father’s lawyer and his widow and his former business associates about that, in Birmingham, re an advance of 1/2 of my second inheritance. I knew when the Mockingbird poem came through me, the mockingbird was Jesus, and, boy, was he hated when he was turning the Jewish status quo upside down when he was in Palestine. He’s still hated today by most of the people who claim he saved them. He told them they could not worship mammon and God, they had to chose one, or the other. I suppose all but a view of them have chosen mammon, and they have a great deal of company in other religions, including Judaism and Islam, all three of which have the same common father, Abraham, who, according to all three religions’ scriptures, walked and talked with God, and they revere him for it, although if he were here today and took his son Isaac up on a mountain to kill him, as per God’s orders, he would be locked up and the key thrown away, I suppose, had not the angel stayed his hand, because it was a test to see if Abraham was truly obedient to God, and he passed the test, something none of the three religions he sired came anywhere close to doing. America would do very well to pull out of the Islam part of the world altogether, in every way, and leave Judaism and Islam to work it out, or fight it out, and in that way learn what God’s chosen people really means, of which right now they have no clue, and apparently never had a clue. It means, they will be tested by God, and tested, and tested until they are worthy and are examples for the rest of the world, which, so far, they have utterly failed to become. As has Christendom utterly failed in that regard. As has America, which claims it is one nation, under God. It’s time America attended to that, instead of furthering the work of the Devil overseas, and also at home. I mean the Devil literally. Just as I mean God literally. It’s time America, Christendom, Judaism, Israel, Islam and all of its countries get to know God and the Devil up close and personal, in themselves. That Armageddon will not be to their liking, any more than you like mockingbirds, who are perfect in every way, including singing other birds’ songs better than they sing their own.
Sloan
Letter to the editor in today’s Key West Citizen:
homeless vet at Memorial Day service in Key West Cemetery
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Memorial Day: “Remember our Fallen Heroes”
Do you have any idea what GIs are willing to give up for our Fallen Heroes?
At the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia guards must commit to two years of duty and live in a barracks under the tomb. They cannot drink any alcohol on or off duty for the rest of their lives. They cannot swear in public, and much more.
I wonder how many of them honor those two pledges: no drinking, no swearing, ever? I wonder if Ed believes they honor those two pledges?
In 2003 during Hurricane Isabel the guards were given permission to suspend the assignment. “No way, sir! It is the highest honor that can be. Since 1930 it’s been 24/7.
For most of us it is a three-day weekend. Wow, let’s get off the rock!
There is something you can do. Saint Mary Star of the Sea has a 7:30 a.m. mass in the cemetery to commerate those whose gave their all. The Navy has a special service at the cemetery at 9:00 am. Let’s not forget our Fallen Heroes.
Ed Sminkey
Key West
How about, Ed, we stop sending our troops into stupid ruinous rich white Christian American men’s wars for profit, to die, be maimed and post traumatic stressed for the Devil. And, since you dragged Jesus into this via Mary Star of the Sea Catholic church, how about Americans who claim Jesus saved them, start protesting against this so-called nation, under God, trampling Jesus’ teachings, thus Jesus, to forego and eye for and eye and a tooth for a tooth, to resist not one who does evil, to turn the other cheek, to first take the beam out of their own eye, and to do good to and pray for those who persecute them (and America). Just kidding, I know that’s not ever going to happen. It’s so much easier to be a Christian, than it is to follow Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew, in the Gospels. But then, in the Gospels, he said, steep is the way and narrow the gate and few enter therein, many are called but few are chosen, and the work is great and the laborers are few.
Do you have any idea, Ed, how much awful karma America racks up, sending its troops into stupid ruinous rich white Christian American men’s wars for profit, to die, be maimed and post traumatic stressed for the Devil, and to kill, maim and post traumatic stress the invaded nation’s troops and civilians? I kinda doubt you ever even gave that a moment’s thought.
sloanbashinsky@outlook.com, one nation, under God, candidate for US President, 2016
Perhaps anticipating, Sancho forwarded this comic relief just as I was about to send this post out to my email hit list:
