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< | From the Beginning | >
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< | What would you predict about the future of a legal system in a nation that preserved its existence and flourished by suppressing certain classes of people through law? | >
> | Introduction
The United States’ pledge of allegiance proclaims “with liberty and justice for all.” However, several groups have been disenfranchised throughout its history. Although in 2012 the nation has cast a notion of great exuberance due to overcoming countless injustice, I believe that its leaders have helped to discriminate against many of its citizens to preserve what they see as near and dear to their societal and economic values. From its founding, this nation has supporting constant suppression through appearing to have innocent “angel eyes,” when it reality it practices the politics of deception. | | | | |
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> | The Constitution
Several provisions in the Constitution supported the institution of slavery such as the fugitive slave clause, the three-fifths clause to relegate slaves to second class citizenship status, and the Art. I, § 8 Militia clause. Natsu Taylor Saito, Whose Liberty? Whose Security? The USA Patriot Act in the Context of COINTELPRO and the Unlawful Repression of Political Dissent. 81 Or. L. Rev. 1051, 1065. However, slavery was not enough. America had to convince its citizens that what it was supporting still upheld to the blessings of liberty promised in the Constitution. Thus, it used racism to justify the imposition of slavery, but this justification was arguably more harmful than the slavery itself. Derrick Bell notes that this practice was instrumental in creating an innate-like belief that some people were unequal to others and therefore treating them in a harmful manner was natural. Derrick Bell, Racism as Deception, 86 N.C. L. REV. 621, 623 (2008). Injustice was justified in the nation’s founding document in the guise of “the blessings of liberty.” U.S. Const. Preamble | | | | |
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> | Constitution is Upheld and Injustice Continues
Subsequent court cases such as Dred Scott took the Constitution’s lead and further proclaimed that African Americans were not citizens. Id at 625. This growing conformity made it easier to accept the “ills” of unequal treatment as a part of society. Id at 631. Those that rebelled were called “terrorist,” and those who had courage to stand up to hypocrisy were killed. In A Plea to Captain John Brown, Henry David Thoreau noted the harsh treatment that John Brown was subjected to for supporting the true notion of liberty and justice for all. In fact, many European Immigrants after the Civil War were able to rise in social status by continuing to treat blacks as a lower class and thus preserving the social order. Id at 626. | | | | |
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> | The Cover Up and Infiltration to Stop Potential “Messiah”
Natsu Taylor Saito declares, | | | | |
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> | It has been well-documented by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as by hundreds of thousands of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Administration (NSA), and dozens of other federal, state, and local agencies have engaged in illegal and unconstitutional actions against U.S. citizen and noncitizen residents in an effort to silence political dissent. Saito, supra at 1058. | | | | |
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> | An example of this cover up to continue unjust practices since the nation’s founding occurred with COINTELPRO, an FBI initiative to stop black liberation. Although J. Edgar Hoover claimed that the program was only intended to stop hate based organizations, Hoover led the FBI in the destruction of several beneficial programs such as sickle cell anemia clinics, free breakfast and clothing initiatives of the Black Panther Party. Saito, supra at 1096. The love that characterized these movements was substituted for FBI led media portrayals of these programs as violent, radical, and against American democracy. The FBI even worked to have certain people assassinated and ultimately destroyed the Black Panther Party. Similar to John Brown, citizens who actually strived for justice were “cast” as a disease to all things democratic. | | | | |
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< | The economic ramifications of slavery, beginning with the thirteen colonies through the Emancipation Proclamation, were evident in the socio-economic gap created between white settlers and slaves. To preserve slavery, blacks were dehumanized and treated as property. Crops, such as the cotton that slaves grew, fueled the economic sustainability of the nation. The law did not condemn it early on, and Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution even deemed slaves as 3/5 persons. Capitalism thrives on having a menial class work for the rich, and this was created through slavery. | >
> | J. Edgar Hoover strikingly stated that one purpose of COINTELPRO was to “prevent the rise of a ‘messiah”’ who could unify the movement for Black liberation. According to Hoover, “Malcolm X might have been such a ‘messiah;’ . . . Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammed all aspire to this position.” A second initiative was to “[p]revent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability. Saito, supra at 1094. | | | | |
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> | Despite the efforts of organizations such as the Black Panther Party to give “strength” back to their communities and to protect a group that had been historically been discriminated against through “self-defense,” the United States, as representative through the FBI, sought to destroy it in the guise of justice and preventing rebellion. | | | | |
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< | To increase the wealth and power of white men and their families, although white women were severely mistreated as well, states enacted Jim Crow laws to limit possible gain by freed slaves and to encourage the preservation of psychological slavery. Blacks were confined to lackluster resources such as polluted water fountains and confined to the back of buses. Even when Jim Crow laws were formally abolished during the 1960s, the U.S. created ways to limit the climb up the social ladder for groups such as African Americans. This includes the 1980s when American and Nicaraguan CIA agents supported the infiltration of crack cocaine into black neighborhoods in an attempt to destroy families and keep the social order stagnant. | >
> | Has anything changed?
In 2012, a third of all African Americans males end up in prison. Although there is a minority president, based on the history of the United States it appears that if he had a family history of descendants from slavery and ancestors who grew up in this nation, there may have been more pushback from him becoming president due to more fear of “black liberation.” In addition, the appearance of someone in power does not matter if that person supports the status quo. As Columbia Law professor Eben Moglen discussed with his students, injustice has become subtle but that does not mean that it has improved. This is actually further evidence that injustice has become worse because it is further engrained in the nation’s fabric. | | | | |
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evidence whatever behind this conclusion, despite the famous San Jose
Mercury News series. | >
> | Conclusion | | | | |
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< | United States' Terrorism
Anyone who could see the lies and wanted to educate others regarding the truth concerning the United States was killed, black or white. To me, that is a sign of if you are really a threat to this system. In particular, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X were killed during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement for having views contrary to the wealth driven, deceptive practices of people who had significant influence in the United States’ economy.
This does not accurately
state what we know about the three murders and those who committed
them.
Education
Education is not deemed a federal constitutional right.
A right to equal
education appears, for example, in the New York State
constitution.
Current studies show, although the United States is the top superpower in the nation, it ranks near the bottom in terms of math and science competency in relation to other industrialized nations.
Check this and link
source. "Bottom" is perhaps better written "middle"?
The nation also has a significant drop out problem and through No Child Left Behind/influence from the Rockefeller family has created generations of students who are docile and accepting of the current way of life.
The Rockefeller family?
All of them: John D and Nelson and Winthrop and Laurence and David
and the sisters and the Cousins and all their different views and
activities throughout the 20th century?
The creativity/questioning aspects of education in subsequent decades were substituted for a profit making scheme in which true education is not “valued.” (Read The Leipzig Connection by Paolo Lionni). It seems as if the law supports the lack of funding and appropriate curriculum for education in order to keep most of the public unaware of the schemes that are taking place.
Politics Reexamined
Knowing how the United States has treated some groups to increase its power has crippled my confidence in politics. Why would the United States – or the families who control it, especially considering its rise in power during the last half century, want to risk losing power through “elections?” At least in the last few presidential elections and maybe longer, it is become likely to me that the elections are rigged.
Evidence?
No matter who is “ultimately” elected, the president will be a “puppet” for the interest groups who control the nation, based on accumulation of wealth through unjust practices from the nation’s founding. Crumbs may be thrown at the table, such as an increase or decrease in taxes, but lies will continue to allow the people who control the U.S. to implement whatever programs/policies that would be in their best interest.
Incarceration
The new slavery is in the criminal justice system that disproportionately affects African Americans and Latinos. Since the 1980s the amount of criminals has spiked exponentially due to the increase in drug laws and desire for corporations to profit through the prison industrial complex. Prisons contract with corporations and prisoners make their products for cheap. Blacks are also kept from raising nuclear families, as the black male frequently winds up incarcerated or killed.
Rap Music
As the U.S. created crack epidemic hit black neighborhoods, rap became increasingly influenced by corporations/profit during the late 1980s. Now, rap music, created by black artists in which the wealthy control commonly encourages killing of other blacks, drug use, dropping out of school, disrespecting women, etc. which would also prevent social order from changing. The worst deception is from those you think are on your side because of shared traits. Then you don’t know who to trust. Subliminal messages are created that support the system as well. If anyone has Drake’s new album, play “We’ll Be Fine” and listen to the subliminal messages. It repeats “White Power” at the beginning of the song. Those in power will use anything to keep a menial class to further the gap b/w the rich and the poor, thereby abusing the capitalistic system. Race is just a tool to get there.
Conclusion
It is hard to see the benefit that the legal system can have, especially when being a good predictor may mean you have to participate in corruption to match the corruption of the system. It is weird to think that a select group of people may be controlling everything (e.g. The Matrix) like “professional wrestling.” Based on my life experiences and history of this nation, however, I believe it is a definite possibility. I still hope the legal system will allow for systemic change, but people have abused it throughout time. It’s hard to think my whole life I have been living a lie. However, I would not be surprised.
This is not how
historical writing is done, William. Some assertions here are
folklore rather than history. Some are unsourced claims that
contradict the entire body of professional scholarship. Some are
interpretations of the record that fail the historical principle of
proportionate treatment, enlarging single instances to parity with
long-term patterns. The organization of the argument is also
sporadic, with topics apparently jumbled together and a conclusion of
quite a different type and tone patched on.
I think the best way forward is to identify the real purpose of the
essay. It appears sometimes here that the effort is to show that
"history is a lie," that we cannot really know how our society has
been governed and how it has changed. This position is radical in
the sense that it denies a possibility of knowing. This particular
possibility of knowing, that history reveals the past in a meaningful
sense, is one to which I have devoted much of my own intellectual
life, and before I would believe the proposition I would need more
than a bagful of assertions. If this is not the essay's purpose, the
next draft needs to present much more clearly, upfront, what it is,
and needs to support it not by historical assertion but by reference
to well-sourced secondary works conveying a proportionate and
interpretively comprehensive view of the history you're referring to.
I think more acquaintance with professional historical method would
be good for you. Perhaps you should consider taking American Legal
History with me this coming fall. For the moment, let's bring this
draft inside the realm of what can be confidently stated about
American history, as we need to in order to develop your central
idea.
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> | These innocent “angel eyes” have fractured a nation in the belief that justice is being served. The treatment of African Americans is this nation is only one example. Thus, it is hard to see the significance of elections and laws when the structure of the nation has remained the same since its founding. The politics of deception has only made it more effective. It has created a subconscious thought pattern that has led to people striving for conformity and thus no “real change” in the structure and government of the United States. It is thus hard to believe news coming from the government, as it is likely covered with “angel eyes.” |
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