Civil Rights From The Twilight Zone

September 27, 2007September 27, 2007 / Anita Marie / 2 Comments

Rod Serling gave this speech back in 1968, just after I turned four years old. (link at the end of this post)

In the wake of Jena, The ICE Raids and the Wars in Iraq And Afghanistan as well as the questions raised by the Patriot Act

one can see that

Rod Serling could have given this speech yesterday.

How sad and how utterly tragic that is.

amm

moorpark college

Suddenly we are a nation whose new battle slogan is law and order.

Last year it won countless numbers of elections.

It’s the great new American euphemism.

Law and Order.

It is now interchangeable with God, Motherhood, the Constitution and the Holy Grail.

But how empty and how suspect is this sloganry when it points up the incredible selectivity on the part of America’s citizenry –how picky and choosey they are when it comes to moral outrage.

Rod Serling

December 4, 1968

Moorpark College

She Who Laughs Lasts

September 26, 2007September 26, 2007 / Anita Marie / 4 Comments

It’s Funny

Really.

amm

I Never Do…

September 26, 2007September 26, 2007 / Anita Marie / 2 Comments

It’s Not Like The Movies

September 26, 2007September 26, 2007 / Anita Marie / 2 Comments

So I go to this meeting that about Race and Immigration and sitting up in the front row is this seven foot tall ( okay, he wasn’t that tall ) white guy with blond hair cut military short and black boots but he’s wearing casual clothes in neutral colors and everytime someone from the press took a picture of the speaker and he was in the shot he would cover the lower part of his face with his hand or look down into his lap.

Yeah.

That’s what I thought too.

amm

No Enemies?

September 25, 2007September 26, 2007 / Anita Marie / Leave a comment

You have no enemies, you say?

Alas, my friend, the boast is poor,

For those who have mingled in the fray

Of duty, that the brave endure,

Must have made foes.

If you have none,

Small is the work that you have done.

You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,

You’ve dashed no cup from purjured lip,

You’ve never set the wrong to right.

You’ve been a coward in the fight.

——Charles Mackay

My friend Nancy sent this to me in response to my post

Bring It On Home Baby….

The thought was appreciated and I’d like to share it here and dedicate it to all of my friends who have ever stood up and spoken out.

amm

Bring It On Home Baby

September 24, 2007October 10, 2007 / Anita Marie / 9 Comments

As I’ve mentioned here in my journal before, I think it’s important to stand up for what you believe in, that it sometimes it comes at a cost and that at other times you have to wonder if the price you’re going to have to pay is going to be worth it.

Here in my state an individual who is running for city Council in a neighboring city has been routinely targeting individuals who dare to speak up for the rights of others or to express opinions contrary to her own on her website

She runs their pictures on her front page, tells people where they work and live and in a very indirect way ‘ encourages’ her readers to be aware of these people.

Recently this person has targeted my husband.

She ran his picture; distorted facts about his support of human rights and out right misrepresented his position on immigration.

And then posted it all on the front page of a racist website.

She also told like-minded individuals where we live.

From her site

“The open borders crowd, including Democrat Kingpin Luis Moscoso (far left of course),”…

Luis Moscoso, Dist. 1 Democrat kingpin from Mountlake Terrace (with halo) nuzzles up with WA Gov. Christine Gregoire (sitting, no tiara) and other democrats to spend some more taxpayer cash

Quotes only- I will not provide links to this individual’s forum here.

amm

On the face one could feel intimated and fearful. But in the world my husband and I live in we have good friends, we belong to a strong community and have the support of individuals who work every single day to make our Community a better and a safer one for everybody.

Even for people like her.

Note From My Mom

September 23, 2007September 24, 2007 / Anita Marie / Leave a comment

Dear God

Please Excuse My Daughter From God Chat

This Sunday

She’s out trying to do some good in the world

Sincerely

Anita’s Mom

Dear Anita’s Mom

Tell Anita she’s excused and if she scores one of those

South Lake Union Trolley

t-shirts

for me

I’ll call it good.

Yours Truly

God

Jerry Johnson, foreground, and Don Clifton model the “Ride the S.L.U.T.” T-shirts they created to poke fun at the original acronym of the South Lake Union Streetcar. The shirts are sold at the Kapow! coffee shop in the neighborhood. (Note: Johnson was misidentified in the original caption.) (September 18, 2007)

FULL STORY HERE

What Remains

September 22, 2007September 23, 2007 / Anita Marie / 7 Comments

it’s been a long and interesting week

and to sum it up

a little

E.A Poe comes to mind

enjoy

photo used by the kind permission of

Kitty

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted – nevermore!

the raven