Write to me if you have any thoughts you'd like to share, information you want me to have or a correction to any information you see here.  I respond to all emails.  CAT  NOTE: I reserve the right to NOT respond to whack jobs that waste my time.

It is as much about the ongoing events and behaviors of those who murdered Eddie (and others)  on the Fort Totten Reservation, North Dakota today as it is about how it was that night Eddie was murdered.  How the ongoing criminal enterprise continues to flourish unabated and without a single response from the Justice Department.  Well, not surprising on that!  They would have to investigate themselves and how some of their elite were directly involved and have prospered from the corruption that exists, protected and funded by US Tax Dollars.

Even if you don't live on the Rez, it's your money, YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK.  You owe it to yourself to peek in once in awhile and see what you are paying for

Texas Monthly Magazine has done a feature on this case.  Read the October, 2006 Issue.  OR, go to the online version.  Michael Hall went to the rez and saw for himself.

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Counterfeits

One of the places I have found a great deal of hypocrisy is in the field of counterfeits and counterfeiting.

Basic examples of fraud/counterfeiting, can be found just about everywhere. Counterfeit money is worthless.  Yes, it is printed the same way (almost) as real money, but it is not from the proper source, so it is not only worthless, but if enough of it gets around, it can undermine, destabilize, the economy of an area. 

I am told that on any given day, $20 million in counterfeit money is circulating in the US.  I am also told that there is no way to actually divine that, and it could be much higher or much lower. (Maybe we should discuss counterfeit statistics at some point?)

It mixes with, often passes for, the real deal. 

Now, what does one do when they realize they have a bogus bill? Do they turn it in and take the loss? Or do they try to pass it off on someone else? Perhaps a merchant? A vending machine?  They could always claim they didn't know.  They might get away with it.

Do they get angry that it was passed to them by someone they trusted? A friend? A merchant?

Counterfeit accessories are big sellers. They look like the real thing, unless you look closer, or you find it falls apart on you, the stitching is cheap, the materials thin.  Be it a purse, a watch, sneakers, software, music, movies, counterfeits are everywhere. 

When it comes to accessories, it is hard to imagine why anyone would want to look like they are carrying a bag worth $2,000 when anyone that would notice that bag, would also notice that person getting into a beater car, has not got the 'style' to carry it off (hair, make up, clothing, shoes... hey, looking high maintenance is expensive!) If you think people won't question the authenticity of that bag (watch, shoes, hat, jacket, whatever) when they see you strolling around with it, think again. 

If thoughts were formed visible to the eye, one could see big question marks, and then the word "FAKE" would pop up like prairie dogs as the stroller comes into view, passes by. That snickering would be hard to contain as people exchange smirks.  Counterfeits don't fool anyone you would be trying to impress. 

People you are trying to impress know the difference.  If they don't, what's the point?

And then when the cheap knock off that 'looks like, but isn't' the $2,000 bag, (but you got it for ONLY $50!) falls apart, you will sneer and declare "Cheap P.O.S." as if you have been ripped off.

When that fake Rolex loses time, the gold turns your wrist green (were you expecting REAL gold?), and the crystal falls off, you will feel you were ripped off. 

But you knew it was fake when you went after it, right?  You ripped yourself off.

I hold the criminals responsible for counterfeiting.  But I hold those who seek out the cheap and easy knock offs, responsible for making the market so lucrative.

There are other counterfeits, harder to detect, and priced as if they were real: Counterfeit drugs (prescription) can be deadly. What is supposed to heal you, poisons you, or does nothing to save you.

People trust healers: Doctors, pharmacists, drug companies.  People generally have no way of knowing if they have been given bogus medicine, until it is too late.  The effects might give a clue, but people trust their healers sometimes more than they trust their own wisdom.

Sometimes a trusted provider gets greedy, and takes a turn down the Black Road, cuts corners, buys on the cheap, doesn't ask questions, doesn't want to know, passes the bogus meds on to those who trust them. Betrayal.

People should question those who provide healing. They may get lied to, but they have to at least form that question and hold accountable anyone that misleads them.

Spiritual Deceptions

I watched the documentary on Jonestown last night.  I remember when it happened. All those people, 909 of them, suicided and murdered after following a charismatic mad man into the jungles of Guyana, where he had free reign to indulge his psychotic terrorism on men, women and children.

He had begun to reveal his psychosis before he migrated his followers to the Jungle and slaved them out, lied to them, and eventually murdered them.  He had started to say and do things that should have set off alarms but his followers, for the most part, had created in their own minds, that he was (squeezes thumb to forefinger) that close to God, and they failed to question what they were hearing or seeing.

I suspect that in their desperation for spiritual connection, and thinking they were that close to someone 'that close', they completely shut down their critical thinking and followed a man who claimed to be a man of God, and later claimed to BE God, into Hell on earth.

The other part, most likely, was peer pressure.  Nobody wanted to admit that they could not see the Emperor's new clothes.  After awhile, they were simply afraid of his rage in retribution if they dared to question or not obey his every command.

He was drunk on the power, and no one stopped him. 

All they had to do to stop him, was ask the question.  In fact, the mass murder was brought about, because someone from the outside, Congressman Ryan, who was not under his spell, had not been conditioned by isolation, starvation, sleep deprivation, came in, and asked the questions that should have been asked long before the move to Jonestown.

The tyrant crumbled into a ranting, babbling puddle of his own fear. He knew that the questions had revealed him, and he had nowhere to go.  Unwilling to let go of power, he, and those whom he gave high positions of authority, and weapons, made the people drink the Kool Aid, which was laced with cyanide.

So many had already lost their will, that even though they knew they would die, could not stop themselves, nor even save their children.  They fed the poison to their children. 330 of the 909 victims, were children.

Jim Jones was a spiritual counterfeit.

And he is not the only one. Spiritual Fraud runs rampant in almost all the religions that I have seen. Including, Native Spiritual ways. Cults begin as spiritual fraud and advance when people no longer question the actions of the leaders and members.

Communities where the people accept without question, despite the obvious signs that something is amiss, the behaviors of their leaders, is as bad off as any cult, any Jonestown because they have lost the will to save themselves, or their children.

People who claim to be something they are not, are as dangerous to your entire existence, as the counterfeit medicines dispensed knowingly, or otherwise, from the hands of trusted healers, who themselves may have been fooled.

But here you can save yourself.  You can look a little closer. Do the parts look genuine? Are you getting a Black Road knock off from someone that hungers for power? Or are you getting the real deal, genuine healing, from someone that has been called by The Creator, and who walks a clean Red Road?

Is the Altar carried by someone that drinks? (except during ceremony). Do they run around on their spouse? Do they sell ceremony to make themselves richer? Better ask the questions.  Better find out, before they pass out the Kool Aid, or the spiritual equivalent of your spiritual destruction.

If that person drinks, only once in awhile, stay away. If they abuse drugs, stay away. If they run around on their spouse, stay away.  Red Road is a full-time walkin' way of life, not a past time stage act, cheap thrills for the adoring audience.

No person, who claims to be walking in the Light of God, can bring anything but sickness and destruction to their community and anyone that gets close to them, if they foul their energy with alcohol, drug abuse, infidelity... oh, and one more: Murder.

A lot of counterfeits out there, claiming to be the real deal. You may want to accept them as that, but you do so at your own peril.  I tell you now, something you already know: It is not by God's Grace that they have what they have.  All that they have, in property, in status, in sickness and in suffering, comes from the evil which they feed.

I know, some counterfeits look and sound like the real deal.

Now that you know the difference, and you realize that Tony MacDonald and his brother Demus, his daughter Mary, his wife, Lavina, are counterfeits, what are you going to do? Turn them in? Throw them away? Or try to pass them off to others as your keys to the Kingdom?  Where do you think it will get you?

Counterfeits bring sickness, suffering, and murder.

They are the fakes, trying to impress you.  Either you know better, or you are, as they hope you are, too dumb or too weak to know better.

Ask them each, how they justify their part in Eddie's murder, and in covering up the killings by the Turd Clan.  Most of all, ask Mary how she feels Jesus and God look upon her, with those lies she told that convicted an innocent man, still firmly on her lips, like sores that will not heal.

Ask her when she thinks Jesus would want her to finally tell the truth.

You can stop the counterfeits from contaminating your community, infecting your children, by asking the questions and revealing the truth.

Or you can continue to drink the Kool Aid, knowing it is poison, not having the will to save yourself.  But before you do, look at your children, grandchildren.  Whatever you do decides their life to come. Do you share the poison by not stopping it? Or do you say: "Enough"?

I know you know. Everyone knows. Everyone knows that everyone knows. The level of self-deception is what makes that counterfeit spiritual currency keep undoing the entire community.  Self deception becomes a habit, like drugs, alcoholism and worse. It stops when you regain the ability to ask the questions, challenge the lies.

Asking, challenging, is where you begin to regain your power. It's where you begin to heal, and become stronger.

How do you know something is really wrong in Spirit Lake? An innocent man is still in prison, while the murderers are running the place, with the help of your silence and your friendship.

You may not be able to tell, right away, when you have been given fake medicine. But you should know a fake watch when you see it coming apart over time.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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Court News

If you go to the documents page, via the "site map" you will see the latest rulings on both Galen Robertson and Lemon Longie. (Go ahead, click the link, I made it easy here). The short part of it is this: Galen, found guilty and that is the ruling for those who want to print it and send it out, hand it to, put it on the desk of, the car seat of, Seashelly.  She is still paying his court costs, legal fees and whatever, with Tribal Funds.

Lemon Longie was found guilty on one or more of the counts he was charged with, but he was able to wrangle a 'hung jury' on the subsequent counts.  Kudos for the prosecution and the Justice Dept on this one as they are tenaciously continuing the push to retry him and get a proper 'guilty' verdict.  His retrial is scheduled for January 20th. Do keep me posted!

The case against Galen was investigated by: The FBI, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Ft. Totten Police.  If that last part is true, it would be the first time that I know of that a rape was investigated by Tribal Police, at least in Ft. Totten.  Usually, the victim is derided, subjected to tortuous jokes and comments, or ignored completely.

Further, since Donovan Wind is so hell-bent of investigating only those who read or print the blog (last seen on all fours, sniffing the carpet for staples), I find it dubious that any serious investigation from that department could ever manifest, much less succeed.

If it did, it did so without Donovan Wind and his lazy ass, scared, piss-themselves badgers.

IF there was anyone in the Badger shop that did investigate this, in a professional way, let me know!

What we have to look at here are two things: One, change is coming. People are no longer as compliant or willing to allow the fear of the corrupt to control them and beat them down. The corrupt are afraid of being found out and held accountable and they can, less and less often, sell that fear to their victims nor force their victims to protect them.  People know they can have a better life, that they deserve a better life, and that they must stand up.

Clearly, with both of these rape cases, it is the women and the young girls doing the work of standing up for themselves.  By them doing that, they become the example for everyone else, on how to stand up for themselves, and for their community.

These young women have done more to rid the community of the plague of corruption and perversion, than the entire police force, and all the men who just sat around, getting drunk, complaining; put together.

Now is the time for everyone, man, woman, child, in communities that are oppressed by corruption, to realize that even though they don't have the political power; even though they are at risk for standing up, speaking out, that the greater risk is in allowing the corrupt to continue reigning evil over them.

The power is yours.  You give it up to the corrupt when you refuse to use it. This is one of the places where courage is seeded and grown in the community.

Support those who have stood up, those who are standing up.  By supporting them, you support yourself and weaken the corrupt.

Do not be divided by lame prejudices, mindless racism, jealousies and all that has kept us from uniting for our own good in the past.  You know when you are feeling those things. Question yourself and get over it. It is the only way to save yourself, ourselves, from the tyranny of abuse and corruption.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Self-pity is one of the most destructive behaviors we can indulge in. It weakens us by giving us 'excuses' to fail. In turn, we fail by not attempting to change anything. Not every attempt will be successful, but each attempt is one step closer to success.

Nobody is perfect. Do not expect perfection from others. Expect respect. You will get it as you deliver it unto to others. Hold others accountable and expect that you will be held accountable. Act accordingly. Do not 'react' but do not fail to act: "Respond".

The Times They Are A' Changin'

Those who have, for all this time, held themselves above others by blood, skin color, or religion, are losing power.  They would, to have their way, continue to spout their racist and hateful rhetoric in hopes of retaining a sense of 'superiority'.   They deliberately refuse to see that we are all related, and that we all do better, together, than we do isolated by fear, racism, jealousy.

This country of ours is, for the first time, beginning to come together in a meaningful way.  Racists will be a thing of the past. Racism is a fear-based thinking that comes from people who are afraid they themselves, are not worthy, and can only belong if they can prove themselves superior.

Anyone that needs to feel superior reveals that they believe they are inferior.  Why else would they need to 'prove' it? Men who feel inadequate and unmanned, to the extreme, commit rape in order to feel 'manly'.  By definition, they feel inferior in their manhood.

People who claim a racial superiority feel inferior, and completely do not understand either what it is to be a Human Being.  Most of them who claim to be 'strong Christians' are neither. I see nowhere in the gospels, where Jesus preached racism, or hate for other races or religions.  I am amused at how many weak-minded racists claim to be 'strong Christians'. Their hypocrisy reveals their true self to others. They then feel they have to intimidate others into 'agreeing' with them or 'accepting as right' their statements.

Essentially, they must sell their fear to others in order to maintain a clearly unbalanced mindset.

In other words, our silence is viewed as 'agreement'.  Their being louder, more abusive, or intimidating, they feel, is all they need to be 'right'.  They are not right.  They are wrong.  They are simply, louder, more violent. Pathetic.

Remember this one true thing: Nothing Done in Anger will ever succeed. 

Obama, attacked from within his own party, lied about, betrayed by those whom he had so deeply held in high esteem, did nothing in anger.  He stayed focused and he accomplished that which most felt could not be done.

The attacks from the opposition lost their power because they had no soft spot, no vulnerable point of rage, to penetrate.

His attackers made the supreme error of becoming angrier.  They became weaker for it. The smart thing for them would have been to change tack.  They continued to attack. Obama, on the other hand, stayed steady, on course.  He was able to adapt with out anger.

Fact of the campaign is that he dismissed anyone in his campaign that acted out of anger.  Not because they were disloyal to him, and not because they were not effective and well thought of.  Rather, because their anger became a point of vulnerability for the entire campaign.  He made hard decisions that needed to be acted on.  The opposition did not.  They played 'loyalty' politics within their own ranks, to their own undoing.

They continue to unravel, amazingly, before the election until now, with no end in sight. Talk about self-pity leading to self-destruction!

Reminded me of that scene in the Matrix, where Neo realized that he had the power within him to accomplish his destiny.  His anger left. When his anger left, his fear had nothing to hold onto. He suddenly became calm.  The opposition threw everything at him, and the bullets (symbols of attacks), suddenly had no energy and fell to the ground.  The bad guys then hurled all they had left, their personal rage and fear at him. The battle became one-sided with the bad guys unable to infect Neo with fear, they undid themselves.

Some people glory in their ability to display rage. The highest point of rage is the weakest point of our being.  We are at our most vulnerable, spiritually and physically, in our state of rage.

You can be angry, but learn how to deal with anger.

You cannot change anyone, except yourself. If you are dealing with a moron, or someone that refuses to learn, or continues to ask for your advice and then do the opposite and then ask for your help to fix what they break; stop.  you are not helping them. You are only helping them to take your energy, your focus, your time and drain you on all levels.

It is a fact that people can kick over their buckets faster than you can fill their buckets for them.

Second to that is this: The more time and energy you spend trying to fill the buckets of those who do not fill or repair their own, the less you have for to fill your own bucket and meet your own needs. When you need help with your bucket, you will find you are surrounded by people with empty buckets and no desire or ability to help you with yours.

Those who ask you to fill their bucket, over and over, and continue to kick that bucket over and over, are there to distract you and drain you.

If you really want to help people, then help them to help themselves. Do it with them, not for them.  Lead by example, not by dragging them up with you.

The more you hold others accountable for their own doing, the more you have to hold yourself accountable for what you do or fail to get done.

Some people, continually martyr themselves and complain on how much they do for others who don't appreciate it are really saying: "I have no intention of doing my work to succeed on my path and meet my own destiny, so I am using other people as my excuse for my lack of progress."

I am not saying to not help, not lend a hand.  I am saying that if we actually take the time to know who we are helping, we can help them better by working 'with' them, not doing it for them. It's actually more work, but it's actually more worth it.  You can then move on to help others, and learn from them, each time, something better in yourself.

But as long as you see yourself as 'hero', you miss the point entirely. Heroic deeds are rare, and they involve, without exception, intervention from a greater power that works through the individual or groups that perform acts of heroism.  Ask anyone that has been in that situation, and they will tell you true.

I have no enemies.  I have 'opposition'.  An 'enemy' would require time and energy on a constant basis, that would drain me of my own ability to walk my own path and meet my own destiny. Those who are my 'opposition' either do not understand my destiny and hope to distract me by steering me towards their pits of fear, or they do understand it and mistakenly think that by stepping off their path, to confront me on mine, can 'win' that which cannot be 'won', only earned.  By stepping off their path, they have weakened themselves.  By stepping onto mine, in opposition, they go not only against the force of my destiny and all that is mine, but they do so without the strength of their destiny, which awaits them on their path, which they have probably lost their way and cannot find back again.

What is true for me, is true for everyone. Learn more about your own path and how strong you are when you are on it. Learn more about the paths that join and which cross yours and how they weave the fabric of this world into the shape, texture and color that it is now, and will be later.

Each path holds only one. You are strongest on your own path. The more you can succeed on your own path, the brighter the light will shine on the paths that are close to yours. 

We are all guided by the light of other paths and we all bring a light by which others are guided.

The fabric of all things is connected, interwoven, and we are a part 'of' that, not apart 'from' that.

When a major event happens, it is felt throughout the fibers of this fabric as grief, celebration, awe or suspense. It is a 'collective' sense we have about our world.

I say that the young woman and the little girl who were raped, but stood up and spoke up, risking even more abuse from more directions, are such an event.  Small in that they're not famous, but having an effect on the community as a whole, by showing they could stand up.  It's not that they were not afraid, rather that they did not allow that fear to stop them. And now, it never can touch them again.

Courage is not something you are born with.  It is something you earn by standing up to that which scares you, for what you know is right.  Once you have it, no one can take it from you.

The Ghost in the Machine, is dancing. We are all becoming aware.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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The Good News Just Keeps On Comin'

Remember how Galen Robertson, with help from Seashelly, kept on getting away with rape?  Remember how she even protected him after he viciously raped her own niece? That was the 17 yr. old. 

That trial, the real one, started on November 3rd--the Day before the Election-- and Ended November 5th. GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES!

He had been denying everything, but this time, DNA nailed his sorry ass in court. Seashelly used Tribal funds to buy off his previous victims, and to hire people to threaten other victims.  She has used Tribal Funds to bail him out, hire his lawyers, and pay his court costs.  He is STILL on the Board of Education, and being paid for the job he never found time to show up for, at the Rec Department.

Despite all her efforts, he was found guilty.  Naturally, Seashelly, the drama queen, made a scene when the verdict was read.  She wailed and screamed. 

I guess the Truth hurts, eh Seashelly? Going to hurt a lot more when your crimes, come to light.  Maybe they will give you adjoining cells? Nah! You'll get one of your very own, to be shared with, perhaps the biggest, meanest dykes they can find as your cell mates.

Now, if we could just get the Justice Department to send a platoon of USAGs to the rez to try the other 2 or 3 thousand rapes, assorted murders, and that ever popular, incest rape, as well as the embezzlement, and ongoing corruption... you know, all the things that define RICO. 

Maybe the Justice Department, under the new Administration, Barack Obama's White House (Get used to it!) will deem it of higher importance to begin the work of bringing real justice to the people of Indian Country.

Remember: Galen went down because people stood up.  The more you stand up, the more they crumble.  (I was going to say, 'the more they go down,' but who knows where some of your minds would have run off with that little gem!). 

The more we stand up, the more we can stand up, and the more we must stand up.

In fact, go outside when you can.  Find yourself a high place and stand up on that. Now look around. The more you stand up, the more you will like what you see when you look at yourself.

Wish I had the time to blog all of what is going on, especially with Ronin this past month.  Hoo Boy! (*The sound of shredders grinding to a halt, bearings overheating...).

I do hope I will be able to get it all together for you before the year is out.  I am putting it in report format, and seeing if I can get a friend to add comments in layman's terms so that we can all understand what is going on there.

And, apparently, Ronin is not the only game in town.  There are several, modeled on the same format.

But there is news and happenings on several fronts, ongoing simultaneously, that are important to note.  As much because they play out in a way that shows a global shift in awareness and people becoming pro active, as well as on an individual level, people are evolving.

And there is the ongoing crumbling of the forces of darkness, as viewed on several fronts: Our political scene is shifting seismically, and the global shift in how those who have terrorized, and tortured, are suddenly finding themselves losing power, losing ground.

We have to be aware of these events in the nation and the world because it shows a trend that is moving in a direction that we can tap into, spiritually, in our own lives, to move forward and catch some of that growing momentum.  Seeing it happen in places near and far, large and small, is the ghost in the machine that we need to understand.

It is what saves us from destruction, and brings us to a better day.  It is what makes us sure that what we are doing is worth doing, when it seems like there is too much to do, or that we are not big enough or strong enough, to do it all.  We see by the evidence of events, that by doing our part, large or small, we turn a bigger wheel.

I have a major project to finish this next week, but I hope to get the blog posted at least twice before next friday.

This is YOUR blog. Write in with the news of what is going on in your corner of darkness or light, and I will share it with all who want to know.

Once again:

GALEN THE RAPIST IS FOUND GUILTY.  I await for information on his sentence. When I get it, I will share it with you all.

The more we do, the more there is for us to do. Find strength in that. I do.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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Judgment

The plan is, now that the elections are over, I can update this blog more frequently.  My travel this past year or so, has been as much a factor as anything else. I am not as technologically adept as I'd like to be, and sometimes, I am in a place that advertises 'free wifi' but I can't get it to work for me.  I am lucky if I can get my email!

The People Have Spoken

One of the most historic events of our time, took place Tuesday, when we elected a person of color to the highest office in the land.  He is, arguably, one of the most qualified, intelligent, and savvy Presidents we have ever had the opportunity to vote for.

He ran his election cleaner than any I have ever seen.  There was plenty of low-hanging fruit, as they say, in the vernacular of scandals and gaffes, that he just walked by, even while garbage was being thrown at him, most of it lies, all in an attempt to make him seem "Dangerous". 

"Dangerous" is how we view the racial divide, the religious divide, the economic divide and all the other divides that keep us from doing the one thing we have to do, to save ourselves: Unite.

He bypassed the easy, and what would be effective true stories that would make his opponent seem even 'scarier' and instead, he kept on his path and did not detour chasing down those same rabbit trails that so many before him, had fallen for, and lost their way in the process.

He stayed focused, steady, and intent on the finish line in a way not seen before in this nation.  He was not tricked by anger into acting against his own best interests. He was not tricked by rants and diversions, and he stayed true to his path.

That was how he ran his campaign. He won without owing political favors to the Corporations, The Banks, or even to his own Party Leaders.  He did it by bringing us all together, for our own good, and the good of this nation.

It can be done.  He competed against those who were born into wealth and power.  Nothing more ridiculous than his opponents trying to stick the label of "elitist" on him, because he was well-educated and smarter than they were, because he worked his whole life to become what he is now.  He came from a background of love, struggle, food stamps, welfare, and being bi-racial in a time and place where he was considered not enough of either to 'fit in'. 

Had he succumbed to 'Self Pity', and stayed there, he would have found every excuse necessary, to fail.  Yet he overcame his own worst enemy, 'Self Pity' and focused his energy on making his life what he wanted it to be, serving a purpose greater than himself. 

As weak and dumb as the McCain/Palin ticket was, and as thinly coded racist the slurs were, and as outright threatening as the rally crowds were, he stayed respectful, and did not attempt to demean the other guy.

It only added to his air of being unflappable, strong and intelligent.  The opposition was selling fear, racism, empty promises and lies, and he was reminding us of who we really were, inside, before we had been stomped down, by rampant corruption, abuse of power and deceptions. 

When we started to wobble, he reminded us again. This is who we are.  This is what we can do. And no one can stop us from getting up, if we all come together and help one another.

He brought enough of us together, that this time in history, as we stand on the river's edge of rising economic disasters, collapsing markets, expanding wars and weary soldiers, and the world ready to write us off as having any power, much less being a super power and we held our breath, waiting for the banks to crumble and wash us away, knowing there would be no one able or willing to save us if we could not save ourselves. 

And we came together.  Enough of us came together.  The wreckage that has to be cleaned up spans not just the last 8 years, but centuries.

Now that we are uniting, we must continue to unite and to find ways to come together, and to help one another to make this a better world for the children and their children yet to come.

Barack Hussein Obama, with every excuse to fail in this world, chose instead to reach for all that was not yet in sight, much less within his reach, and now, he holds the world in his hands.  A testament to believing in yourself, and working to fulfill that belief.

Everything in his early history, even his name, made his struggle greater.  The struggle made him stronger.  And now, we are all stronger, as a nation, uniting.   We are believing again.

And that is what terrifies the opposition.  We are remembering and relearning how to do the one thing that will save us all: We are coming together, and that is powerful awesome to behold.

Obama is the symbol of what we can overcome and what we can be, as a nation, and individually.

Knowing who we are, and what we can do, is the beginning of our finding our path to freedom.  And we cannot do it alone. We must all come together. 

Ghost In The Machine

The 'Ghost in the machine' theory of all things is this: "Once something has been accomplished, achieved, produced, the event is more apt to be replicated more easily and more frequently thereafter." 

Manufacturing the first artificial diamond, and 'baking rubies', are two such 'events'.  Up until that point, the point where it actually produced a diamond, and rubies came out of the oven (BIG oven.. do not try this at home), it was thought that the processes were too overwhelmingly complex and required too much power to make it happen.

It took years to create the first gems. That it had become 'accomplished' was, at first, viewed with sneering skepticism.  It was dismissed without even being examined, as a 'hoax'.  Those who were considered the 'experts' in the field, laughed it off, even spoke against it being possible.

The next diamond was bigger, and took less time. It became easier, faster, cleaner, less expensive to do. Rubies are made by the pound, daily, with the process that makes them, and they are more perfect than rubies found in the wild.

Those diamonds have made huge strides in industry and manufacturing, possible.  Those rubies have accelerated our ability to use lasers, build satellites, and send information.  And they are beautiful to behold!

Now, we take it for granted that not only diamonds and rubies can be man-made, but other gems as well. 

What we once thought was impossible, has become commonplace.  Not only accepted, but one can hardly remember, even though it has been relatively recent that we have them, a time when they were not available.

Another example of Ghost in the Machine, is Star Trek. Remember the "Communicators" Those nifty, flip open thing-a-ma-bobs? And then they advanced to 'com badges' that they had only to touch to talk?

Ghost in the Machine dictates that once you think something is possible, it becomes more possible. The mind begins to find a way. Behold! Not only cell phones, but wireless devices that fit inside the human ear, that we need only touch to talk.

Gems, communicators, and now, a Black Man, with a name we had never heard before, and which we would not think was one of ours, is our President.  And he knows that all things are possible.

What Dreams Will Come

And we have seen that all this is possible.  We have seen it with our own eyes and we know it is possible. Now, we know that even more is possible.

I watched and I was so humbled by the heroic act of 'standing in line for hours, up to 12 hours' by people who knew that was the one thing they could do, had to do, regardless of their own discomfort, health or loss of wages, they had to stay on that path, stay in that line, and not be discouraged, not feel sorry for themselves and not buy the fear that was being shouted at them from the sidelines and the airwaves.  They held steady, and THEY made this all possible.

They were in every state where voting had been made difficult to impossible for the poor, the non-white, and the disabled--democratic regions.  They could have quit. They could have given up. There were plenty of excuses to allow that.  There were plenty of hardships to make it easier to give up, but they did not give up.

They did not get angry, they did not complain, and they did not quarrel.  They kept standing, taking one step at a time, until they reached their ballots.  They did it for themselves, and they did it for all of us.

He could not do it alone. He could not do it without us, and we cannot do this without each other. He is not there to do this for us, but rather, with us.  He knew it could be done, and we proved to him, it would be done.

The effort was heroic. Quietly heroic. No one in line was given an award, a medal, fame or fortune.  They may never be known individually for what they did, but what they did, all over, in the most difficult of places, won the day for all of us.  Some of our greatest heroes are never named.  So it is with this. 

What they did, changed the world.

You may never know their names, but they were united in one goal-- to vote.  And that vote changed this nation forever.  Our Nation shapes the world, and we now shape this nation, and we can't be stopped if we don't give up.

And, to this, other heroes.  A legion of lawyers, thousands of lawyers stood by, were on call and responded to, within minutes, areas of trouble where voters were being denied their right to cast a ballot.  Those ballots were cast, and the tactics of deterrent were defeated.

Lawyers did this for free, at their own expense for travel and staff.  Lawyers, poor people, coming together for the common cause of saving our Democracy.

Some were deterred, some were defeated, but enough held on to make it to the end, for all of us.  And we can be so proud that we showed the world what we are made of and what we can do, and that we are now, more than ever before, united.

And the armies of volunteers. Knocking on doors, making phone calls, talking to strangers, walking, driving, answering phones, running errands and keeping the communication with their leaders, instantaneous, they made this happen, in a time, in a place, in a land, where it had never happened before, and many thought it was impossible, too complex, required too much power-- they made it happen.

And now that we have proved it can be done, it can happen; It did happen: What dreams will come?

Everything we have in this world, everything we know, was first dreamed into being by someone who then built that dream, good or bad, and that is how this world is made or destroyed. 

We watched the destruction beginning, progressing, and we could have given up. Instead, something in us, rose up, stood up to the tyranny of fear, racism, lies and deceptions, and we have now begun, all of us, to cross the threshold into a world we can repair, rebuild if we continue to remember how it was done this time: Unity.

There is power in unity. It has been used against us in the past, when we allowed those who had it to divide us and weaken us.

Now they run in fear, throwing lies in their wake, trying to distract us from our pursuit of Justice.

I say it is a good sign. It is the symbol of our awakening, and the beginning of our healing.

Much work to be done.  But we know it can be done.

We are all Indians, and Indian ways are powerful, healing, constructive and Just.  When Indians can unite with other Indians, and non-Indians, we will find ourselves in a better day, able to heal, repair and rebuild, together, for our children and their children yet to come.

A Black Man, Barack Hussein Obama, is our president. It can be done.

We must, continue this wave or realization, across all communities, all people--regardless of how they are different in gender, gender preferences, the color of their skin, the way in which they worship, conduct their spiritual walk, their level of education or ability. 

We are just beginning to get a sense of our true power and the magnitude of what can be accomplished. 

It resides in all of us, in those places where we recognize one another, not as strangers, or alien; not as someone to be afraid of, or jealous of; but as our brothers and sisters, in whom our true power, or real strength, resides. Allies, united.

The opposition is more apparent now that it has failed, for what it is.  Almost comical as they try to herd us, stampede us, with tricks of fear that no longer have the same effect on us.

We will not be tricked by our anger, misled by our greed, nor our fears, into ever turning back again.

We are ready now.  Look around you. You see others who are awake, aware as never before. More are waking up.

The 'machine' is the 'mind'. The 'Ghost' is the knowledge, true knowledge, of what can be.

The Ghost In The Machine is dancing. Judgment is coming.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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