Living a Lie

-- By WilliamDavidWilliams - 14 Feb 2012

From the Beginning

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?

Can't predict. That's every legal system that ever existed.

Would you expect people who advocated against it to be successful? Would you expect deception by that nation in order to keep the system profitable and intact?

Growing up as a pawn to the system, this is what I see:

Slavery

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.

Jim Crow Laws

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.

There is no reliable evidence whatever behind this conclusion, despite the famous San Jose Mercury News series.

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.