More later, but for now, off the Hill until Monday when Day #101 Vigil Resumes 24/7 I expect.
Dennis Kucinich, God bless him, stops by several times per week now to thank me for my courage. And according to one of his staff members who stopped by this week, he is deeply moved by what I am doing, as I am deeply moved by HIS patriotism.
This solo campaign is proving to be of tremendous power. Enough to stop the war? Enough to keep me going at it.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
REFUGE FROM THE RAIN. STRIKE DAY 13
Discretion is the better part of valor - so it goes.
The storm raging in DC today exceeded my ability to avoid becoming soaked so I accepted the kind offer of sister Ellen to accept refuge for the night.
I expect to be on the Hill days until the storm breaks.
The storm raging in DC today exceeded my ability to avoid becoming soaked so I accepted the kind offer of sister Ellen to accept refuge for the night.
I expect to be on the Hill days until the storm breaks.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
WHY AM I ON HUNGER STRIKE?
An acquaintance just asked me. It is covered on this site, but shehe didn't have the time or interest to look at the site below so let me outline it here.
- The worst bullies in the schools we grew up in have been given by YOU AND ME $3 trillion dollars to rape and plunder Middle East oil by terrorizing the local population.
- If you don't know the human cost we've extracted from the Iraqis, US Forces, US POOR, and soon the Iranians I'll not insult you by telling you.
- The folks with the power, and maybe enough sanity to stop this warring are on Capitol Hill.
- The strongest, clearest way I can think to cast my vote is with my body on vigil, and often on Hunger Strike.
- "What is my demand?" I'm asked by this individual. My demand is that Congress shift 18o degrees from being Hell bent on rape and plunder to Waging Love to immediately end this war; and that they immediately act to PREVENT the Nazi's in the White House from bombing Iran.
- When will I stop? When I perceive that there is a better way for me to fight. My guess is a total of 20 days this time, but it may go longer, maybe much longer.
IF I'M NOT RISKING MY LIFE FOR MY FAMILY I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM (or they're not my family)
A dear friend reminded me that an activist shehe knows first lost eyesight and later mind due to Hunger Strikes. Now I don't expect that will happen to me, although I realize it might.
But it got me thinking. If when my family is being raped, pillaged and murdered by folks with the most cruel and deadly weapons ever conceived; by the bullies we all grew up with in school turned loose with $3 billion of your tax dollars to do the job, YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO STOP IT! DON'T YOU?
And the US Forces, Irsnians and Iraqis ARE my family.
Hmmm. I'm surprised it has taken me so long. This riddle has been trying to fully solve itself within me for years - "How do you live in the face of Genocide?" "How do you live in the face of your country being the world's Terrorist?"
IF I'M NOT RISKING LIFE AND LIMB I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM.
.
But it got me thinking. If when my family is being raped, pillaged and murdered by folks with the most cruel and deadly weapons ever conceived; by the bullies we all grew up with in school turned loose with $3 billion of your tax dollars to do the job, YOU RISK YOUR LIFE TO STOP IT! DON'T YOU?
And the US Forces, Irsnians and Iraqis ARE my family.
Hmmm. I'm surprised it has taken me so long. This riddle has been trying to fully solve itself within me for years - "How do you live in the face of Genocide?" "How do you live in the face of your country being the world's Terrorist?"
IF I'M NOT RISKING LIFE AND LIMB I AM PART OF THE PROBLEM.
.
GANDHI ON HIS DEATH BED - I NEVER UNDERSTOOD
You know how in the movie Gandhi, whenever he was on Hunger Strike he looked like he was dying? I never understood. I have lots of experience with Hunger Strikes now and I never understood.
Now, I get it. I''ve never felt on day #44 what this time I'm feeling on days 4-7; deathly listless and sick. For the last 18 hours I've been taking juice thinking that might jolt me back to my old fasting self, but so far, no impact.
My body should be in a hospital seeking medical care which I will do as soon as all of my family in Iraq, Haiti, Darfur, Palistine and among the US poor can do the same; which will only happen when in mass we Middle Class realize that our Family consists of 6 billion, not 5 or 10. When the time comes I'd much rather leave my body than my Humanity that I seem to have at long last after decades of struggle regained
Beginning tomorrow morning I expect to be on Capitol Hill 24/7. It is too exhausting going back and forth to the Peace House and it is not time for half measures.
Start Loving
Wage Love and End War
9pm update:
I am feeling slightly better after 3.5 days. Calories, juice, soup and vitamins didn't seem to touch the deathly malaise that had me in its grip.
Then Thomas got me some bananas and I had some salt. I remembered that on Strike often potassium plummets. I am certainly a little improved.
Now, I get it. I''ve never felt on day #44 what this time I'm feeling on days 4-7; deathly listless and sick. For the last 18 hours I've been taking juice thinking that might jolt me back to my old fasting self, but so far, no impact.
My body should be in a hospital seeking medical care which I will do as soon as all of my family in Iraq, Haiti, Darfur, Palistine and among the US poor can do the same; which will only happen when in mass we Middle Class realize that our Family consists of 6 billion, not 5 or 10. When the time comes I'd much rather leave my body than my Humanity that I seem to have at long last after decades of struggle regained
Beginning tomorrow morning I expect to be on Capitol Hill 24/7. It is too exhausting going back and forth to the Peace House and it is not time for half measures.
Start Loving
Wage Love and End War
9pm update:
I am feeling slightly better after 3.5 days. Calories, juice, soup and vitamins didn't seem to touch the deathly malaise that had me in its grip.
Then Thomas got me some bananas and I had some salt. I remembered that on Strike often potassium plummets. I am certainly a little improved.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Hunger Strike Day 4; Off the Hill till Monday
It has been a very interesting week, but day 4 of a hunger strike is usually among the worst and this strike is proving no different - no energy to write much.
My strike related poster reads "2o Day #4." My goal is 20. I'll do less if Good needs me elsewhere, and more if Good asks. My guess is the latter - but I'm not great at projecting these things.
My other posters are the same - 2 of the children we've mangled - 2 of the depleted uranium children.
Why not on the Hill till Monday? My focus is the Congressfolks. They take long weekends and will not be in session tomorrow as near as I can tell. My previous and current efforts leave not doubt in their minds as to my seriousness and commitment. With the Hunger Strike there is sufficient "punch" to my during-the-week presence that 24/7 will be marginal return. Better for me to accept the support of Ellen in the Peace House for daily transportation and a place in the evening to get online and sleep.
Start Loving
WAGE LOVE
ps: 'WAGE LOVE" is now tattooed on my cheeks in large letters.
pps: "WAGE LOVE" is the closest we'll get in the English language to how to save the world.
My strike related poster reads "2o Day #4." My goal is 20. I'll do less if Good needs me elsewhere, and more if Good asks. My guess is the latter - but I'm not great at projecting these things.
My other posters are the same - 2 of the children we've mangled - 2 of the depleted uranium children.
Why not on the Hill till Monday? My focus is the Congressfolks. They take long weekends and will not be in session tomorrow as near as I can tell. My previous and current efforts leave not doubt in their minds as to my seriousness and commitment. With the Hunger Strike there is sufficient "punch" to my during-the-week presence that 24/7 will be marginal return. Better for me to accept the support of Ellen in the Peace House for daily transportation and a place in the evening to get online and sleep.
Start Loving
WAGE LOVE
ps: 'WAGE LOVE" is now tattooed on my cheeks in large letters.
pps: "WAGE LOVE" is the closest we'll get in the English language to how to save the world.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
SCEDULE UNCERTAIN MON-WED
Hi beloved friends.
I am very well thank you, and I pray the same for you.
Much is going on this week:
1. My need to be on the Hill with our Iraq children (posters)
2. General Betray Us? is in town Tue/Wed
3. Another activist is planning an effort that may require me to be off the Hill video taping.
Your Loving brother,
Start Loving (Join Jesus, Wage Humanity)
I am very well thank you, and I pray the same for you.
Much is going on this week:
1. My need to be on the Hill with our Iraq children (posters)
2. General Betray Us? is in town Tue/Wed
3. Another activist is planning an effort that may require me to be off the Hill video taping.
Your Loving brother,
Start Loving (Join Jesus, Wage Humanity)
Friday, April 4, 2008
OFF HILL THIS WEEKEND
Returning Monday I expect.
All is well with me; all is Hell with the world. No? You are not paying attention then.
A gift from our beloved sister Start Caring:
Song by Nickelback
All is well with me; all is Hell with the world. No? You are not paying attention then.
A gift from our beloved sister Start Caring:
Song by Nickelback
It goes something like this
If everyone Loved and nobody lied
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone shared and swollowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died.
Humanity begets Humanity. In/Unhumanity begets In/Unhumanity.
What will you spawn today?
Humanity begets Humanity. In/Unhumanity begets In/Unhumanity.
What will you spawn today?
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
WE'RE IN THE DARK AGES ALREADY! AM I THE LAST TO KNOW?
[Email exchange with an international activist / her0]
From: xxxxxxx
To: start_loving@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:53:23 AM
Subject: Re:
Hey Start, you are as close to Holy Man as I'm ever gonna see. Wouldn't
think to question your judgment.
If only this USA had the same sense of
outrage at the destruction we are causing and the moral courage to do
something about it.
I am ever your sister. keep me posted. Let me
know.
xxx
---------------------
Well by God you ARE my sister.
Xxxx, I don't go out on a limb, into the desert, or on suicide missions to learn. No ma'am I don't! I go when the Almighty Powers, as best I can hear It says "GO!" And many times now I expected it was a suicide mission. Fine with me! Just tell me what you want me to do!
But I'm still here Sister! About 5 times now God has asked for my life; I've said "ok fine" and I'm still here.
The point? God so far us using these things to tell me, show me stuff.
2 days and I'm off the Hunger & Thirst for Humanity Strike. If you had asked me 3 hours ago I'd have said with entire peace, "Sister, this is it. By end of next week I'm gone. We're headed off of the cliff as a species and we either start paying with our lives now or it is just too late. We're on the brink of the dark ages and these are our last seconds."
Xxxxxx, did you see my error? I didn't until 2 hours ago. Like everything I value I didn't "figure it out," flash - it was just there. "Start, you imbecile, WE'RE ALREADY IN THE DARK AGES! WE'VE ALREADY GONE INTO THE ABYSS! Don't rush off to die now, rather the flame is alive in you, you need to keep it alive until such time as Humanity is ready to regain its sanity."
Sister, did you know this already? This is big for me. I had misdiagnosed where we were, but now I think I have a better grasp of the problem, and a better idea of where to go/how to approach things/how to best serve - similar to what I've been doing, but with a better of idea of WHY - to keep the flame alive until such time. The monks of the dark ages did this - but mistakenly they went literally into the desert, or into caves. No, I think the "cave" we are to go to is "the least of these." For me I think it is on the Hill 24/7 with those signs, but not with the idea of flaming out.
I thank God for you Sister and about 7 others. That is not many.
Thank God for you Xxxxx,
Start Loving (Join Jesus)
From: xxxxxxx
To: start_loving@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:53:23 AM
Subject: Re:
HUNGER AND THIRST FOR HUMANITY STRIKE 3/31/08 CAPITOL HILL 7/24
Hey Start, you are as close to Holy Man as I'm ever gonna see. Wouldn't
think to question your judgment.
If only this USA had the same sense of
outrage at the destruction we are causing and the moral courage to do
something about it.
I am ever your sister. keep me posted. Let me
know.
xxx
---------------------
Well by God you ARE my sister.
Xxxx, I don't go out on a limb, into the desert, or on suicide missions to learn. No ma'am I don't! I go when the Almighty Powers, as best I can hear It says "GO!" And many times now I expected it was a suicide mission. Fine with me! Just tell me what you want me to do!
But I'm still here Sister! About 5 times now God has asked for my life; I've said "ok fine" and I'm still here.
The point? God so far us using these things to tell me, show me stuff.
2 days and I'm off the Hunger & Thirst for Humanity Strike. If you had asked me 3 hours ago I'd have said with entire peace, "Sister, this is it. By end of next week I'm gone. We're headed off of the cliff as a species and we either start paying with our lives now or it is just too late. We're on the brink of the dark ages and these are our last seconds."
Xxxxxx, did you see my error? I didn't until 2 hours ago. Like everything I value I didn't "figure it out," flash - it was just there. "Start, you imbecile, WE'RE ALREADY IN THE DARK AGES! WE'VE ALREADY GONE INTO THE ABYSS! Don't rush off to die now, rather the flame is alive in you, you need to keep it alive until such time as Humanity is ready to regain its sanity."
Sister, did you know this already? This is big for me. I had misdiagnosed where we were, but now I think I have a better grasp of the problem, and a better idea of where to go/how to approach things/how to best serve - similar to what I've been doing, but with a better of idea of WHY - to keep the flame alive until such time. The monks of the dark ages did this - but mistakenly they went literally into the desert, or into caves. No, I think the "cave" we are to go to is "the least of these." For me I think it is on the Hill 24/7 with those signs, but not with the idea of flaming out.
I thank God for you Sister and about 7 others. That is not many.
Thank God for you Xxxxx,
Start Loving (Join Jesus)
Sunday, March 30, 2008
HUNGER AND THIRST FOR HUMANITY STRIKE 3/31/08 CAPITOL HILL 7/24
Cannon House Office Building as before. Zero intake of food or liquid - anything.
I've got one vote, my body, and in these darkest of days for Humanity, in these last minutes
where a new Dark Ages might be staved off I'll continue to cast that vote in the most heart-piercing, Humanity-building way-in-potential that I can imagine, minute my minute, hour by hour. Nothing less from anyone has any hope or appropriateness anymore; or our rhetoric about the darkness of these times is a lie, and it is not a lie, but rather our rhetoric is understated by orders of magnitude. Spitballs are not going to pierce these hardened hearts of our middle and overclass brethren here in the US and globally. The Fourth Reich is on the rise. Only the highest megatonage Weapons of Mass Humanity we can imagine individually becoming have any hope or appropriateness now. We must stop "playing activist" and become the Anti-Terror - now; and I can't control you, but I can control me, so I'm going to "roll."
"Never think that an individual cannot change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has." Start Loving. The individual can no longer wait for the group. It has always been the action of the individual that has been the catalyst that spawned the EFFECTIVE group, always, throughout history, invisible though these individuals have been. Let's stop waiting, watching, worrying and wasting time. Let's stop killing time; the little time Humanity may have left. "We individuals must be willing to fail; but entirely unwilling not to make the attempt, with our last breath if that is what is asked of us by conscience, by our Humanity." Start Loving.
"Live as though the whole world depends on what you do; and realize that what you do probably will not make any difference at all," anonymous ancient Buddhist. I have few illusions; but I've shed most of my carefully indoctrinated-by-society delusions including the one that hope lies in the group; it never has and it never will.
We talk, and talk and talk but it is as if we don't hear what we ourselves are saying. If Bush and Cheney operated in a more identifiable setting, for example a neighborhood, they would be known as muggers, rapists, thugs, thieves, hoodlums, criminals; and your loved one is being raped as we speak.
If the American people were looked at with historical perspective Nazi Germany comes to mind with the mainstream concerned with getting more while the marginalized are ignored, neglected and then oppressed as scapegoats. (Did you ever see the movie "High Noon?" We are in it. We're the townspeople.)
We Americans violate with abandon every natural law of decency, humanity, ecology, economics... like folks at a drunken orgy that has gone on way too long... and now they face a tab that is totally beyond their means, so they return to debauching to dull their senses.
And where are those still with any sanity, with any Humanity left? Demoralized. Confused. Writing. Talking. Once-a-week demonstrating. Doing what they "want" to do rather than starting with the constraints of the problem: we are out of time, the tactics we've employed show no hope of changing history, we need to spark Revolutionary PeaceBuilding / Hunanity now or whatever we do will be too little too late. Looks like activists are on a personal mission to be able to report that they did "something," unwilling to face the question - "did you take your best shot, regardless of cost?"
With what's at stake: what's left of Iraq, our US Forces, Iran's integrity, Congress's Humanity, activists' courage, US's Humanity... it is time to pull out the stops; especially realizing that we know that at this exact moment Bush / Cheney could be launching nukes at Iran, and/or allowing another False Flag terrorist attack to trigger Marshal Law, or both. It is time for all-out action even as individuals until such time as groups begin to show signs of life.
I expect to remain on Hunger and Thirst Strike on Capitol Hill until either:
I have almost no experience with a Thirst Strike so all I can do is guess that as soon as this
weekend but more likely next week at some point I'll have some sort of medical event - hallucination, loss of consciousness, whatever. Almost certainly if the officers spot it in time they'll have me taken to the hospital, force hydrate/feed me, eventually let me out; I expect to return to the Strike on the Hill, repeat.... When they get tired of this, incarceration? Banning from the Hill? Commitment?
"It is not my responsibility what they do. It is my responsibility what I do." Start Loving
Know that I am completely at peace with this. I need nothing; but Action needs everything.
Based on past experience I expect no press, but if there is press for which I have some respect, I intend to stay entirely on point of the mission - what I am doing, why - and to allow no side trips to all the voyeuristic stuff they love to distract their audiences with. In short, I'd not be a very fun interview on this campaign - all business.
What do I expect to achieve? If you ever watch the extraordinary movie, "Cry Freedom," notice how at the end of the movie they scroll through the list of activists murdered by the apartheid system of South Africa. The list is chronological and begins in the 1960's as I recall. Apartheid
finally was overthrown, partially, in 1993, 30 years later? The way things currently look I am working to start the clock so whoever is left 30 years from now can achieve some significant success in throwing off the Police State we are headed for. No, I do NOT expect we will see Bush / Cheney leave office in 300 days; nor do we deserve to see them leave.
By the way, if / when I get into health trouble the cruelest possible blow to me would be to divert net energy away from sparking the Revolutionary Humanity I'm striving to initiate. I am expendable. Humanity is NOT expendable.
[Those two photos are the results of our 300 tons of Depleted Uranium poison, weapons of mass destruction we've unleashed on Iraq, and our US Forces.POISONOUS LEGACY - a 3 minuete primer on DU, YOUR tax dollars at work.]
More of what's on my mind:
I've got one vote, my body, and in these darkest of days for Humanity, in these last minutes
where a new Dark Ages might be staved off I'll continue to cast that vote in the most heart-piercing, Humanity-building way-in-potential that I can imagine, minute my minute, hour by hour. Nothing less from anyone has any hope or appropriateness anymore; or our rhetoric about the darkness of these times is a lie, and it is not a lie, but rather our rhetoric is understated by orders of magnitude. Spitballs are not going to pierce these hardened hearts of our middle and overclass brethren here in the US and globally. The Fourth Reich is on the rise. Only the highest megatonage Weapons of Mass Humanity we can imagine individually becoming have any hope or appropriateness now. We must stop "playing activist" and become the Anti-Terror - now; and I can't control you, but I can control me, so I'm going to "roll."
"Never think that an individual cannot change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has." Start Loving. The individual can no longer wait for the group. It has always been the action of the individual that has been the catalyst that spawned the EFFECTIVE group, always, throughout history, invisible though these individuals have been. Let's stop waiting, watching, worrying and wasting time. Let's stop killing time; the little time Humanity may have left. "We individuals must be willing to fail; but entirely unwilling not to make the attempt, with our last breath if that is what is asked of us by conscience, by our Humanity." Start Loving.
"Live as though the whole world depends on what you do; and realize that what you do probably will not make any difference at all," anonymous ancient Buddhist. I have few illusions; but I've shed most of my carefully indoctrinated-by-society delusions including the one that hope lies in the group; it never has and it never will.
We talk, and talk and talk but it is as if we don't hear what we ourselves are saying. If Bush and Cheney operated in a more identifiable setting, for example a neighborhood, they would be known as muggers, rapists, thugs, thieves, hoodlums, criminals; and your loved one is being raped as we speak.
If the American people were looked at with historical perspective Nazi Germany comes to mind with the mainstream concerned with getting more while the marginalized are ignored, neglected and then oppressed as scapegoats. (Did you ever see the movie "High Noon?" We are in it. We're the townspeople.)
We Americans violate with abandon every natural law of decency, humanity, ecology, economics... like folks at a drunken orgy that has gone on way too long... and now they face a tab that is totally beyond their means, so they return to debauching to dull their senses.
And where are those still with any sanity, with any Humanity left? Demoralized. Confused. Writing. Talking. Once-a-week demonstrating. Doing what they "want" to do rather than starting with the constraints of the problem: we are out of time, the tactics we've employed show no hope of changing history, we need to spark Revolutionary PeaceBuilding / Hunanity now or whatever we do will be too little too late. Looks like activists are on a personal mission to be able to report that they did "something," unwilling to face the question - "did you take your best shot, regardless of cost?"
With what's at stake: what's left of Iraq, our US Forces, Iran's integrity, Congress's Humanity, activists' courage, US's Humanity... it is time to pull out the stops; especially realizing that we know that at this exact moment Bush / Cheney could be launching nukes at Iran, and/or allowing another False Flag terrorist attack to trigger Marshal Law, or both. It is time for all-out action even as individuals until such time as groups begin to show signs of life.
I expect to remain on Hunger and Thirst Strike on Capitol Hill until either:
- a. Congress exhibits a Revolution of Humanity starting with elevating the least of these our Iraqis, US Forces and Iranians from the bottom of their priority list to the top;
- b. I see some better way to serve;
- c. They stop letting me out of the hospital to return to the Hill;
- d. I am incapacitated or expire.
I have almost no experience with a Thirst Strike so all I can do is guess that as soon as this
weekend but more likely next week at some point I'll have some sort of medical event - hallucination, loss of consciousness, whatever. Almost certainly if the officers spot it in time they'll have me taken to the hospital, force hydrate/feed me, eventually let me out; I expect to return to the Strike on the Hill, repeat.... When they get tired of this, incarceration? Banning from the Hill? Commitment?"It is not my responsibility what they do. It is my responsibility what I do." Start Loving
Know that I am completely at peace with this. I need nothing; but Action needs everything.
Based on past experience I expect no press, but if there is press for which I have some respect, I intend to stay entirely on point of the mission - what I am doing, why - and to allow no side trips to all the voyeuristic stuff they love to distract their audiences with. In short, I'd not be a very fun interview on this campaign - all business.
What do I expect to achieve? If you ever watch the extraordinary movie, "Cry Freedom," notice how at the end of the movie they scroll through the list of activists murdered by the apartheid system of South Africa. The list is chronological and begins in the 1960's as I recall. Apartheid
finally was overthrown, partially, in 1993, 30 years later? The way things currently look I am working to start the clock so whoever is left 30 years from now can achieve some significant success in throwing off the Police State we are headed for. No, I do NOT expect we will see Bush / Cheney leave office in 300 days; nor do we deserve to see them leave.By the way, if / when I get into health trouble the cruelest possible blow to me would be to divert net energy away from sparking the Revolutionary Humanity I'm striving to initiate. I am expendable. Humanity is NOT expendable.
[Those two photos are the results of our 300 tons of Depleted Uranium poison, weapons of mass destruction we've unleashed on Iraq, and our US Forces.
POISONOUS LEGACY - a 3 minuete primer on DU, YOUR tax dollars at work.]
More of what's on my mind:}}}}}}} "THE END OF AMERICA," by Naomi Wolf {{{{{{{
TODAY'S MASS TERRORISTS: THE MIDDLE CLASS
LIKE ME, JESUS WAS AN APOCALYPTIC. WAS HE WRONG?
EVEN THE BEST OF US ACTS LIKE WE HAVE MONTHS OR YEARS LEFT. WE CAN'T COUNT ON IT ANY LONGER.
JESUS' ENTIRE MESSAGE: LOVE IS UNIVERSAL OR IT IS NOT LOVE.
ALMOST EVERY HERO I KNOW OF TODAY IS FEMALE.
SPIRIT IS EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING ELSE IS DEADLY, DISTRACTING DELUSION.
START'S ELITISM, EXCLUSIVITY, CONDESCENSION , EGOCENTRISM....
REBIRTH / BORN AGAIN / SAVED = REGAINING YOUR HUMANITY
VIOLENCE: THAT WHICH DESTROYS (ANYONE'S) HUMANITY
WHEN IS A CELL NOT CANCEROUS? WHEN IT IS NOT CANCEROUS.
"CRUCIFIERS" = "CHRISTIANS"
CANCER SURGEON: "I CAME NOT TO UNITE, BUT TO DIVIDE WITH A SWORD."
cHRISTIAN cHURCH: JESUS-ZOO / FREAK SHOW
THE ONLY THING WORTH dYING FOR: TO AVOID Death
JOIN JESUS
}}}}}}}}} THERE IS NO WAY TO HUMANITY. HUMANITY IS THE WAY. {{{{{{{{{{
HUMANITY: WHEN YOUR HIGHEST STANDARD IS YOUR ONLY STANDARD
"NORMAL:" KING IS NORMAL, GANDHI IS NORMAL...
CARBON FOOTPRINT? NO. CONSUMPTION FOOTPRINT.
LIFE IS HUMANITY IS UNIVERSAL LOVE. NOTHING ELSE IS LIFE.
ENCOURAGEMENT OR ENABLEMENT? START'S SIN (ERROR.) SORRY.
}}}}}}}}} IT IS OUR VALUE SYSTEM STUPID {{{{{{{{{{
LOVE: THAT WHICH ACTS TO CREATE JOY
THE ""CHOSEN: WHAT "THE LEAST OF THESE" MAKES OF THE LIVING
SO THOSE YEARNING TO BE BORN CAN FIND THEM: WHY HOLY MEN LIVE IN REMOTE CAVES
GENERATING HUMANITY: JOB #1, 2, 3, 4....
YOU AWAKE? THEN YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR
"CHRISTIAN" IS BY NOW A USELESS ABORTION. "CHRISTLIKE" IS WHAT WE MUST PURSUE.
LOVE GOES ON. ANYTHING LESS GETS DISCOURAGED AND STOPS.
"INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES:" THEIR DESTRUCTION IS IN THEIR ATTEMPT.
LOVE: IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE. IMPOSSIBLE, IF YOU LOST IT, IT WASN'T LOVE.
"FOLLOW ME... LOSE EVERTHING:" INCREDIBLE BLESSING
"SOLIDARITY WITH:" THE ALTERNATIVE TO LONELINESS
FAIRNESS/JUSTICE IS NOT HUMANITY. OTHERWISE WE'D LET OUR TODLERS STARVE
LOVE IS UNIVERSAL. NOT UNIVERSAL? DOUBLE STANDARDS? NOT LOVE.
LOVE IS THAT WHICH DOESN'T WAIT TO BE ASKED
GOD: THAT WHICH WILL HAVE THE FINAL SAY
LOVE: THAT WHICH ACTS TO ELIMINATE SUFFERING/CREATE UNIVERSAL JOY
I KNOW 8 LIVING HUMANS, AND HUNDREDS OF ZOMBIES
FLESH IS NEVER WORTH DYING FOR
HYPOCRICY DETECTORS: B.O., TATTOOS, LONG NAILS AND HAIR...
}}}}}}} CHRISTLIKENESS: THE ENTIRETY OF ALL HOPE {{{{{{{
}}}}}}} CHOOSE SELFISHNESS AND YOU CHOOSE TO LEAVE GOD {{{{{{{
THE EXTINCTION OF CHRISTIANITY: THE cHURCH'S TRIUMPH
cHURCH: A WEEKLY SHOWER FOR WE PROSTITUTES
JESUS ABHORS WORSHIP AND FOLLOWING.
MEET JESUS: TOLSTOY'S "WHAT I BELIEVE"
UNDERSTAND JESUS' APOSTLE: TOLSTOY
FOR OUR JOY/TO ELIMINATE SUFFERING: WHY JESUS DIED. PERIOD.
YOUR ONLY OPTIONS: FLESH OR HUMANITY
CHURCH AND "FAMILY::" THE PLAGUE OF EXTINCTION
INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ACTIVIST, "Start, are you Jesus Christ?"
HUMANITY BEGETS HUMANITY. INHUMANITY BEGETS....
HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. "THE KINGDOM."
YOU MAY BE THE ONLY JESUS
THE MEASURE OF HUMANITY; FOR JESUS IT WAS BILLIONS
"The Least of These:" 2 flavors: MATERIAL, SPIRITUAL
TO "PROFIT FROM" IS SIN AGAINST OUR HUMANITY (THE ONLY GOD WE CAN KNOW)
CULTURALLY INDUCED AMNESIA: WHAT JESUS DIED TO DISPEL
JESUS GIFT CAN KILL; IS KILLING MILLIONS
HUMANITY IS WHAT JESUS DIED FOR
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Some Videos
This is what democracy looks like:
MARCH OF THE DEAD - Arlington to GWU
MARCH OF THE DEAD in Washington March 19, 2008 part of 5yearstoomany of the Rape of Iraq. Created by ART Activist Response Team. (more)
MARCH OF THE DEAD - Penn. to Jail MARCH OF THE DEAD in Washington March 19, 2008 part of 5yearstoomany of the Rape of Iraq. Created by ART Activist Response Team. (more)
MARCH OF THE DEAD in Washington March 19, 2008 part of 5yearstoomany of the Rape of Iraq. Created by ART Activist Response Team. (more)
Start Loving Interview - Part 1
Start Loving Interview - Part 2
Start Loving Interview - Part 3
Start Loving Interview - Part 4
Start Loving Interview - Part 5
Start Loving Interview - Part 6
Start Loving Interview - Part 7
Friday, March 14, 2008
Figting OFF the Hill till Congress returns
The radio announced this afternoon that Congress was in recess for 2 weeks; so I'll find other ways to War for Peace until they return.
These four days on the Hill with the new signs (below) have been powerful. Many in congress have thanked me for returning, as have the officers on duty. Hundreds of folks each day have pondered the new signs.
Your Loving brother,
Start Loving (Join Jesus)
These four days on the Hill with the new signs (below) have been powerful. Many in congress have thanked me for returning, as have the officers on duty. Hundreds of folks each day have pondered the new signs.
Your Loving brother,
Start Loving (Join Jesus)
Thursday, March 13, 2008
If you do not care for all my children...
Hi. MAKE NO MISTAKE - I will never love you less, you will NEVER NOT be my sisterbrother.
But, if you do not, have not, will not care for all of my children, brotherssisters...:
1. You are of no hope to us,
2. You are starving them,
3. YOU are not Family TO US,
4. You will understand if I divert all of my energy and time to those that ARE OUR Family.
Your Loving brother, for all eternity; may God come upon you, and me,
Start
But, if you do not, have not, will not care for all of my children, brotherssisters...:
1. You are of no hope to us,
2. You are starving them,
3. YOU are not Family TO US,
4. You will understand if I divert all of my energy and time to those that ARE OUR Family.
Your Loving brother, for all eternity; may God come upon you, and me,
Start
Saturday, March 8, 2008
The Face of We Americans to Capitol Hill
God willing I return to Capitol Hill as early as Monday. My work here is done. The "least of these" in our family needs me back on the Hill, NOW.
At long last I've recognized our face (Phil Berrigan saw it long ago) and it belongs on the Hill for all to see in 2x3' posters that will grace the Hill 24/7 as long as the Campaign survives. We personally bought this face with our Taxes, "normal" behavior and silence in return for which we receive our Over-Privelage, the spoils Starved and Killed from the "least of these" our family:
Oh, you didn't know about Deplete Uranium? Hmmmm. You would have thought our Press and Government would tell us. No?
This will tell you what you need to know:
POISONOUS LEGACY
DEPLETE URANIUM
(GOOGLE "depleted uranium")
This Campaign / I will exist as long as It has support, and then we will not. God's Will be done. VIGIL RISKS / NEEDS 3/9/08
Your Loving brother, Stop Starving, Stop Killing, Start Loving (Join Jesus)
ps: If Empire attempts to remove me from the Hill for whatever reason (to get rid of these Photos, the Truth) I will gladly live in Jail / Prison UNCONTESTED for as much of my life as they want. What a fabulous demonstration / manifestation of the Evil that has consumed our US Body that would be. "Do not go to Law." Jesus. I will not, Start Loving (Join Jesus)
At long last I've recognized our face (Phil Berrigan saw it long ago) and it belongs on the Hill for all to see in 2x3' posters that will grace the Hill 24/7 as long as the Campaign survives. We personally bought this face with our Taxes, "normal" behavior and silence in return for which we receive our Over-Privelage, the spoils Starved and Killed from the "least of these" our family:
Oh, you didn't know about Deplete Uranium? Hmmmm. You would have thought our Press and Government would tell us. No?
This will tell you what you need to know:
POISONOUS LEGACY
www.bushflash.com/pl_lo.html
DEPLETE URANIUM(GOOGLE "depleted uranium")
This Campaign / I will exist as long as It has support, and then we will not. God's Will be done. VIGIL RISKS / NEEDS 3/9/08
Your Loving brother, Stop Starving, Stop Killing, Start Loving (Join Jesus)
ps: If Empire attempts to remove me from the Hill for whatever reason (to get rid of these Photos, the Truth) I will gladly live in Jail / Prison UNCONTESTED for as much of my life as they want. What a fabulous demonstration / manifestation of the Evil that has consumed our US Body that would be. "Do not go to Law." Jesus. I will not, Start Loving (Join Jesus)
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Goodbye
Goodby, what does that mean? How should I know; I'm writing as fast as this is coming to me. But it has to do with moving out of communities / relationships I have been in for the same reason I entered them - to attempt to do Good. By being in relationship with many of you I suspect this has been the case - I have done you some Good, as you have done me. But I sense that with most but not all of you I have ceased doing good and am enabling by my "presence" exactly the spirit of Empire / UnHumanity / InHumanity my life is100% dedicated to eradicating with Humanity.
(This post is among my most important, but least cogent sharings.)
A year and a half ago God took mercy on me and my pitiful struggles toward Life / Truth / regaining-my-Humanity and revealed to me the Truth that Life lay along the Path of never again working for money, but living or dying solely within the relationship of "Family," from each according to herhis ability, to each according to herhis need. My yearnings had been tearing me in that direction forever but the clarity that day at the White House on hunger strike for Darfur was a Divine gift. It was soooo the Clarity I had been searching for. And thus I've LIVED WITH A SHAMEFUL WEALTH OF JOY ever since.
Today I've received the next installment - Life comes, is developed by, and is to be accepted ONLY from PeaceWarriors / Humanitarians / Christlikes / WorldFamily, come what may. ("Christlikes?" What Jesus attempted to restore us to - "Our Father.... (Jesus said, including you and me WITH Himself.)" "Whoever claims to abide in Jesus aught to live just like Jesus lived;" John's 2nd letter. Why not "Christians?" Christians are Pagans and Zionist-jews that stole and have masqueraded under the "Christ" brand for wholly evil, anti-Christlike reasons; the greatest most murderous hijacking / hoax / atrocity / holocaust in history.)
Is all this ranting of mine Exclusionary? Elitist? How could I have been so blind, I wonder. This is among the most profound, hopeful awakenings on my part in the last 10 years! Eureka! Thank God! When I was in the computer industry turning around failing organizations I was acutely aware of the ULTIMATE importance of having the right people in the organization. Everything was possible with, nothing was possible without. Truly and consciously I would much rather have had vacant seats, than to have those seats filled with non-zealous, non-selfdisciplined, non-committed folks; and frequently so it went. Since leaving industry, and especially since entering God's business, Saving Humanity, I've totally, TOTALLY overlooked this ALL IMPORTANT ASPECT. In industry would I have hired / engaged with someone because they were nice, because they were pleasant, because they were kind, because their WORDS were agreeable? NO! These are important ingredients but totally insufficient in and of themselves to achieve anything great. No, the crucial ingredient I knew to look for in a recruit / partner / fellow traveler / contributor then was potential for Vision / Burning Desire / Fire / Passion / Courage / Commitment / Self-Sacrifice / Self-Discipline / Complete Devotion, Surrender and Submission to Mission. This has been nowhere on my radar screen, a profound and total blind spot day after day, year after year since joining God's Business - Humanity. Thank God for this new clarity. God forgive me if I forget again.
The last two months have been spent using all of my powers and all of my resources to be an instrument in God's hands to bring the most able PeaceWarrior I've ever encountered back to Life from a murderous, Evil affliction. Success? "Full effort is full success," Gandhi. Yes. Will health return? Will this PeaceWarrior return to battle after so many years? God knows. Better pray that shehe does.
During these two months the best friend, the only total friend and fellow traveler God ever gave me (my father doesn't count) withdrew from / terminated our relationship. For the sake of this individual I've long been begging for himher to make a decision between Life and Empire; I've been emphatic that more important than WHAT was chosen was making a choice because heshe was being ripped apart attempting to straddle the two realms year after year. Well, the choice was made, thank God - and Empire, the Dark Side was the choice (we 600 million overclass, white, abusive and exploitative western Empirists can't be wrong. Right?) Anikan Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith. There may be no work of art that so clearly shows us the dynamics and mechanisms of how Empire destroys Humanity - and how "immediate family," "my group" is THE mortal Sin / the great Killer. Life dies the second that the cell elevates the needs of itself and its group above the needs of the Body. The fault in the case of my friend lies with me, in part. I have not yet become that which we are all called by Jesus, Wilson, Wright, Arbeiter, Hohensee, Connie, Beverly, Preston, Gandhi, King... to become - Life, Salvation, a Savior, that which overcomes the otherwise overwhelming call of Empire.
It has been many, many years since I've experienced such pain as I have over this tragic loss of my friend. I've been sick and bleeding for weeks now. Rarely have I received such a gift - the gift of Sight /Vision, among the innumerable gifts I have received from this blessed friendship for which I'll be eternally grateful. No other way could I have had the veil of Illusion and Denial ripped from my eyes, a veil I've been clinging to so tightly, unawares. Excruciating but so necessary. Now, only now can I see and face the horrible, wonderful truth that everything depends on delineating the demarcation between that which is cancer and that which is health; and partnering with Health / Christlikes... or standing alone. And the cancer that is the spirit of Empire, the cancer that is our religion of group selfishness, superority, oppression and mass exploitation of the least of our Family exists entirely on its brilliance at disguising itself as VIRTUE! "Nothing is to tempting as evil in the garb of Virtue." King. "1984." "Animal Farm." The Bush administration and its war on "Terror (Humanity)" in which we bystanders are ENTIRELY complicit, guilty, bloodsoaked.
The new clarity? There is, there IS PeaceWarrior / Christlike (health) and everything else is Death (cancer); everything else, no matter how kIND, how nICE is the end of Life-worth-living on earth - lIVING Death. Extreme view? Your heart is extreme - it NEVER for an instant has stopped to think of itself; it NEVER has stopped beating, stopped Living entirely for the body - for the "least of these." Same for the skin cell, the eye, the ear, the liver.... Such total, complete, 100% service, EXTREME SERVICE of the BODY is the way, the only way of Life NOTHING ELSE IS LIFE. It is precisely this Clarity that seized and held Jesus, and now holds me. Thank God. "What profiteth a man to win the wORLD but to lose hisher Life; hisher HUMANITY?" "The good shepherd lays down his life for the flock." "Do unto others ALL that you would have them do for you." "You cannnot serve God and Mammon." Falling away from what the heart knows and practices, what the skin cell knows and practices - 24/7 service - is the ENTIRETY of the Biblical "Fall" from Grace, the Fall from God / Life / Love / Humanity. "We will be extremists for love, or extremists for hate." ML King. Tissue is healthy, or it is cancer. Start Loving.
The new clarity? I am to exist on support from PeaceWarriors / Christlikes (desperately-seeking-wanabees like me qualify) alone, or I am not to exist (no matter; when was the last time you grieved with the death of one of your cells? Me either.). Life cannot come from Cancer, and certainly not by encouraging / enabling cancer (sloth, delusion, exploitation, selfishness...). Specifically I expect to be on the Hill 24/7 within a few days or weeks. Unlike before where I was to exist on only the kINDNESSES of acquantances and strangers, NOW I am to exist or not only, ONLY on the collaboration of PeaceWarriors / Christlikes (including wanabees like me). The outlook for continuation of my pulse is not terrific, seeing as the only PeaceWarriors I know - about 15 - are out of state and or TOTALLY over-committed to other fields of battle within the PeaceWar, and MUST NOT leave their posts. Never the less it is clear to me, IT IS AN ENORMOUS BLESSING AND INEXPRESSIBLY JOYFUL AND HOPEFUL TO SEE that this is how it will be for me. THANK GOD! So many possibilities.
I wonder. I think that maybe God has it where it wants me so I can finally being Its work. Oh, what Blessing that would be.
If you are not a PeaceWarrior / Christlike (or desperate-wannabe), and as much as I Love, as much as I Adore you, most of you are not, this is Goodbye, whatever that means, God knows.
Your Loving brother,
Start
ps: ARE you one of the PeaceWarriors? If you are not sure, no, you are not. :-) Does your current daily performance measure up to the folks listed above? Past PeaceWarring does not count either. Nor does the "ritual" enactment or occasional "worshiping" of PeaceWarring. :-)
pps: It is said that the best way to make God laugh is to tell It your plans. What in actuality will God have me doing / writing / seeing / thinking tomorrow? We'll see.
ppps: Have you ever seen "The River?" Mel Gibson. There is much to be learned there for would-be Saviors / PeaceWarriors from that movie; much to see in how "Saving" others happens. Relentless Humaniy begets Humanity. "There is no way to Humanity. Humanity is the way." Start Loving (Join Jesus)
pppps: We are ALL born PeaceWarriors / DaughtersSonsOfGod / CHRISTLIKES, the inevitable consequence of recognizing, as we do at birth, others who suffer as being in our "immediate family." "The Kingdom if God is within you. Be like a child and enter in." "Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve." King. And within a few days or months we begin destroying the Humanity, the Divinity, the intrinsic Goodness of our children, sacrificing them to the gOD of Empire. But this does not have to be.
ppppps: You are a Doctor and everyone you love with the exception of yourself becomes afflicted with a murderous plague of unknown cause and without a known cure. How do you feel? Superior? Smug? Relieved you don't have it? Proud? Special? Elite? Chosen? You are frantic. Chosen? Yes, in the sense that you are totally seized by the need - every fiber of your being - to Save those you Love. You would, you will give your life in the attempt to give Life to your loved ones - to accurately diagnose the cause and to formulate a cure, to BECOME THE CURE - in time. What if due to the nature of the disease and the nature of the cure your loved ones look on with horror at the potential cure and revile you, detest you, ridicule and dismiss you for the attempt? Do you do everything within your Rights and power to develop and administer it anyway? What if they will hate you for it? Abandon you? Reject and despise you? Pitty you? Yes, you proceed anyway. Me too. Bye.
(This post is among my most important, but least cogent sharings.)
A year and a half ago God took mercy on me and my pitiful struggles toward Life / Truth / regaining-my-Humanity and revealed to me the Truth that Life lay along the Path of never again working for money, but living or dying solely within the relationship of "Family," from each according to herhis ability, to each according to herhis need. My yearnings had been tearing me in that direction forever but the clarity that day at the White House on hunger strike for Darfur was a Divine gift. It was soooo the Clarity I had been searching for. And thus I've LIVED WITH A SHAMEFUL WEALTH OF JOY ever since.
Today I've received the next installment - Life comes, is developed by, and is to be accepted ONLY from PeaceWarriors / Humanitarians / Christlikes / WorldFamily, come what may. ("Christlikes?" What Jesus attempted to restore us to - "Our Father.... (Jesus said, including you and me WITH Himself.)" "Whoever claims to abide in Jesus aught to live just like Jesus lived;" John's 2nd letter. Why not "Christians?" Christians are Pagans and Zionist-jews that stole and have masqueraded under the "Christ" brand for wholly evil, anti-Christlike reasons; the greatest most murderous hijacking / hoax / atrocity / holocaust in history.)
Is all this ranting of mine Exclusionary? Elitist? How could I have been so blind, I wonder. This is among the most profound, hopeful awakenings on my part in the last 10 years! Eureka! Thank God! When I was in the computer industry turning around failing organizations I was acutely aware of the ULTIMATE importance of having the right people in the organization. Everything was possible with, nothing was possible without. Truly and consciously I would much rather have had vacant seats, than to have those seats filled with non-zealous, non-selfdisciplined, non-committed folks; and frequently so it went. Since leaving industry, and especially since entering God's business, Saving Humanity, I've totally, TOTALLY overlooked this ALL IMPORTANT ASPECT. In industry would I have hired / engaged with someone because they were nice, because they were pleasant, because they were kind, because their WORDS were agreeable? NO! These are important ingredients but totally insufficient in and of themselves to achieve anything great. No, the crucial ingredient I knew to look for in a recruit / partner / fellow traveler / contributor then was potential for Vision / Burning Desire / Fire / Passion / Courage / Commitment / Self-Sacrifice / Self-Discipline / Complete Devotion, Surrender and Submission to Mission. This has been nowhere on my radar screen, a profound and total blind spot day after day, year after year since joining God's Business - Humanity. Thank God for this new clarity. God forgive me if I forget again.
The last two months have been spent using all of my powers and all of my resources to be an instrument in God's hands to bring the most able PeaceWarrior I've ever encountered back to Life from a murderous, Evil affliction. Success? "Full effort is full success," Gandhi. Yes. Will health return? Will this PeaceWarrior return to battle after so many years? God knows. Better pray that shehe does.
During these two months the best friend, the only total friend and fellow traveler God ever gave me (my father doesn't count) withdrew from / terminated our relationship. For the sake of this individual I've long been begging for himher to make a decision between Life and Empire; I've been emphatic that more important than WHAT was chosen was making a choice because heshe was being ripped apart attempting to straddle the two realms year after year. Well, the choice was made, thank God - and Empire, the Dark Side was the choice (we 600 million overclass, white, abusive and exploitative western Empirists can't be wrong. Right?) Anikan Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith. There may be no work of art that so clearly shows us the dynamics and mechanisms of how Empire destroys Humanity - and how "immediate family," "my group" is THE mortal Sin / the great Killer. Life dies the second that the cell elevates the needs of itself and its group above the needs of the Body. The fault in the case of my friend lies with me, in part. I have not yet become that which we are all called by Jesus, Wilson, Wright, Arbeiter, Hohensee, Connie, Beverly, Preston, Gandhi, King... to become - Life, Salvation, a Savior, that which overcomes the otherwise overwhelming call of Empire.
It has been many, many years since I've experienced such pain as I have over this tragic loss of my friend. I've been sick and bleeding for weeks now. Rarely have I received such a gift - the gift of Sight /Vision, among the innumerable gifts I have received from this blessed friendship for which I'll be eternally grateful. No other way could I have had the veil of Illusion and Denial ripped from my eyes, a veil I've been clinging to so tightly, unawares. Excruciating but so necessary. Now, only now can I see and face the horrible, wonderful truth that everything depends on delineating the demarcation between that which is cancer and that which is health; and partnering with Health / Christlikes... or standing alone. And the cancer that is the spirit of Empire, the cancer that is our religion of group selfishness, superority, oppression and mass exploitation of the least of our Family exists entirely on its brilliance at disguising itself as VIRTUE! "Nothing is to tempting as evil in the garb of Virtue." King. "1984." "Animal Farm." The Bush administration and its war on "Terror (Humanity)" in which we bystanders are ENTIRELY complicit, guilty, bloodsoaked.
The new clarity? There is, there IS PeaceWarrior / Christlike (health) and everything else is Death (cancer); everything else, no matter how kIND, how nICE is the end of Life-worth-living on earth - lIVING Death. Extreme view? Your heart is extreme - it NEVER for an instant has stopped to think of itself; it NEVER has stopped beating, stopped Living entirely for the body - for the "least of these." Same for the skin cell, the eye, the ear, the liver.... Such total, complete, 100% service, EXTREME SERVICE of the BODY is the way, the only way of Life NOTHING ELSE IS LIFE. It is precisely this Clarity that seized and held Jesus, and now holds me. Thank God. "What profiteth a man to win the wORLD but to lose hisher Life; hisher HUMANITY?" "The good shepherd lays down his life for the flock." "Do unto others ALL that you would have them do for you." "You cannnot serve God and Mammon." Falling away from what the heart knows and practices, what the skin cell knows and practices - 24/7 service - is the ENTIRETY of the Biblical "Fall" from Grace, the Fall from God / Life / Love / Humanity. "We will be extremists for love, or extremists for hate." ML King. Tissue is healthy, or it is cancer. Start Loving.
The new clarity? I am to exist on support from PeaceWarriors / Christlikes (desperately-seeking-wanabees like me qualify) alone, or I am not to exist (no matter; when was the last time you grieved with the death of one of your cells? Me either.). Life cannot come from Cancer, and certainly not by encouraging / enabling cancer (sloth, delusion, exploitation, selfishness...). Specifically I expect to be on the Hill 24/7 within a few days or weeks. Unlike before where I was to exist on only the kINDNESSES of acquantances and strangers, NOW I am to exist or not only, ONLY on the collaboration of PeaceWarriors / Christlikes (including wanabees like me). The outlook for continuation of my pulse is not terrific, seeing as the only PeaceWarriors I know - about 15 - are out of state and or TOTALLY over-committed to other fields of battle within the PeaceWar, and MUST NOT leave their posts. Never the less it is clear to me, IT IS AN ENORMOUS BLESSING AND INEXPRESSIBLY JOYFUL AND HOPEFUL TO SEE that this is how it will be for me. THANK GOD! So many possibilities.
I wonder. I think that maybe God has it where it wants me so I can finally being Its work. Oh, what Blessing that would be.
If you are not a PeaceWarrior / Christlike (or desperate-wannabe), and as much as I Love, as much as I Adore you, most of you are not, this is Goodbye, whatever that means, God knows.
Your Loving brother,
Start
ps: ARE you one of the PeaceWarriors? If you are not sure, no, you are not. :-) Does your current daily performance measure up to the folks listed above? Past PeaceWarring does not count either. Nor does the "ritual" enactment or occasional "worshiping" of PeaceWarring. :-)
pps: It is said that the best way to make God laugh is to tell It your plans. What in actuality will God have me doing / writing / seeing / thinking tomorrow? We'll see.
ppps: Have you ever seen "The River?" Mel Gibson. There is much to be learned there for would-be Saviors / PeaceWarriors from that movie; much to see in how "Saving" others happens. Relentless Humaniy begets Humanity. "There is no way to Humanity. Humanity is the way." Start Loving (Join Jesus)
pppps: We are ALL born PeaceWarriors / DaughtersSonsOfGod / CHRISTLIKES, the inevitable consequence of recognizing, as we do at birth, others who suffer as being in our "immediate family." "The Kingdom if God is within you. Be like a child and enter in." "Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve." King. And within a few days or months we begin destroying the Humanity, the Divinity, the intrinsic Goodness of our children, sacrificing them to the gOD of Empire. But this does not have to be.
ppppps: You are a Doctor and everyone you love with the exception of yourself becomes afflicted with a murderous plague of unknown cause and without a known cure. How do you feel? Superior? Smug? Relieved you don't have it? Proud? Special? Elite? Chosen? You are frantic. Chosen? Yes, in the sense that you are totally seized by the need - every fiber of your being - to Save those you Love. You would, you will give your life in the attempt to give Life to your loved ones - to accurately diagnose the cause and to formulate a cure, to BECOME THE CURE - in time. What if due to the nature of the disease and the nature of the cure your loved ones look on with horror at the potential cure and revile you, detest you, ridicule and dismiss you for the attempt? Do you do everything within your Rights and power to develop and administer it anyway? What if they will hate you for it? Abandon you? Reject and despise you? Pitty you? Yes, you proceed anyway. Me too. Bye.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
NURSING A SICK FRIEND; OFF THE HILL...
Off the Hill until... not sure; a day, a week, 2 weeks... not sure.
Your Loving brother, Start
Your Loving brother, Start
Monday, December 31, 2007
The "Hill" not until Tuesday or...
Hmmmm. Sorry, I consistantly underestimate the energy and time it takes me to transition between the "Hill" and the world.
God willing I'll be back on the Hill Tuesday or Wed. Need much prayer and meditation to prepare.
Your Loving brother, Start
God willing I'll be back on the Hill Tuesday or Wed. Need much prayer and meditation to prepare.
Your Loving brother, Start
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
OFF THE HILL UNTIL MONDAY AT LEAST
I have been so extraordinarily, so unfairly blessed my entire life, and especially in the last few years - with Joy.
If there is any justice in this, it is that my life now, and I suspect forever, every cell, every neuron, is 1000% dedicated to making this inexpressible Joy I have, available to all Humanity - born and unborn. Yes, I may well fail. Yes, I am trying to follow Jesus and others in this work.
I've had an unbidden revelation today as to an evolved path of how I need to proceed. To wrestle with, and to jump-start this evolved path I need some time at the computer. Until God and Her Angels (about 72 of them at $10 per) equip me with a wireless service plan ($720 / year) from Verizon (I have the card) for my laptop (for access on the Hill) this necessites being OFF THE HILL.
I expect to be off the Hill, with some of my "Immediate Family" in the Philadelphia area until at least Monday.
Loving you, Start
If there is any justice in this, it is that my life now, and I suspect forever, every cell, every neuron, is 1000% dedicated to making this inexpressible Joy I have, available to all Humanity - born and unborn. Yes, I may well fail. Yes, I am trying to follow Jesus and others in this work.
I've had an unbidden revelation today as to an evolved path of how I need to proceed. To wrestle with, and to jump-start this evolved path I need some time at the computer. Until God and Her Angels (about 72 of them at $10 per) equip me with a wireless service plan ($720 / year) from Verizon (I have the card) for my laptop (for access on the Hill) this necessites being OFF THE HILL.
I expect to be off the Hill, with some of my "Immediate Family" in the Philadelphia area until at least Monday.
Loving you, Start
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
GOOD NEWS! GOSPEL! WE ARE HUMANITY CRIPPLES!
This is the Gospel, THE Good News! There is no other. WHO WOULD WANT BETTER NEWS THAN THIS? DO YOU SEE WHAT THIS MEANS??!!?!?
Jesus, giving us a point of comparison, his life, showed us what grotesque Humanity Cripples we have been made by our environment, and therefore, WHAT HEALTHY GIANTS OF HUMANITY WE CAN RESTORE OURSELVES TO BE!!!!!!! GOOD NEWS!
We live in Humanity Cripple Hell - OF YOUR OWN MAKING, OF OUR CULTURE'S MAKING - a cesspool of False Idols! Return to the HEAVEN THAT IS YOUR COMPLETE, PURE, UNINTERRUPTED HUMANITY!!!!
HEAL THYSELF! Return to being the Giant of Humanity you were at birth! How? Move toward every positive thought regarding the "least of these." Move away from every thought about Self, Flesh, Stuff, Superiority, Systems and Institutions. It is hard work. It is a long journey. Heaven is worth it.
Save yourself. SAVE HUMANKIND! SAVE YOUR CHILDREN AND DEAREST!
MERRY CHRISTmas !!!!!!!!!!
Loving you all, Start
Jesus, giving us a point of comparison, his life, showed us what grotesque Humanity Cripples we have been made by our environment, and therefore, WHAT HEALTHY GIANTS OF HUMANITY WE CAN RESTORE OURSELVES TO BE!!!!!!! GOOD NEWS!
We live in Humanity Cripple Hell - OF YOUR OWN MAKING, OF OUR CULTURE'S MAKING - a cesspool of False Idols! Return to the HEAVEN THAT IS YOUR COMPLETE, PURE, UNINTERRUPTED HUMANITY!!!!
HEAL THYSELF! Return to being the Giant of Humanity you were at birth! How? Move toward every positive thought regarding the "least of these." Move away from every thought about Self, Flesh, Stuff, Superiority, Systems and Institutions. It is hard work. It is a long journey. Heaven is worth it.
Save yourself. SAVE HUMANKIND! SAVE YOUR CHILDREN AND DEAREST!
MERRY CHRISTmas !!!!!!!!!!
Loving you all, Start
HOME (THE HILL) FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Home is where the heart is.
I
guess it is like our brother Thomas says, "I don't like needless suffering." (Hear Thomas, CLICK photo). (Learn from Thomas' at his new site: Thomas).
guess it is like our brother Thomas says, "I don't like needless suffering." (Hear Thomas, CLICK photo). (Learn from Thomas' at his new site: Thomas).Well, my heart is so many places, with so many people that I know and Love. But, like any father, sibling, child... my heart is most with my "least of these." I want to spend the holidays with my children in US Forces, my Iraqis and Iranians, so I'll be on the Hill I expect, the closest I can be to them all at once.
Loving you, your brother, Start
Loving you, your brother, Start
Monday, December 17, 2007
Monday off-site too. Quiet prayer and projects day.
Spiritually I need a day of quiet and quiet projects before I am ready for the Hill. I feel further encouraged to go with this inclination by the 4o mph winds in the city today that would do the signs I carry no good.
Loving you, Start
Loving you, Start
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Off the Hill 'till Monday a.m.
Helping "family" with some challenges here in DC.
I expect to be back on station on the Hill Monday morning round the clock for many months to come.
Loving you, Start
I expect to be back on station on the Hill Monday morning round the clock for many months to come.
Loving you, Start
Friday, December 7, 2007
EVENING OFF HILL TO REPAIR SIGNS
Hmm. The weather has been pretty tough the last few days causing the signs to literally fall apart. Two Angels happened by tonight with some warm soup and were happy to take me to refuge for the evening so I can repair the signs and stave off their total destruction.
God willing I'll be back on the Hill tomorrow morning.
Wednesday Evening I'll be gone from about 6pm until 10pm speaking with a group of friends - our topic is roughly - moving from distance, apathy or animosity to intimacy in a relationship.
Friday the 12th I'll be gone to another function all night.
Loving you, Start
God willing I'll be back on the Hill tomorrow morning.
Wednesday Evening I'll be gone from about 6pm until 10pm speaking with a group of friends - our topic is roughly - moving from distance, apathy or animosity to intimacy in a relationship.
Friday the 12th I'll be gone to another function all night.
Loving you, Start
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
BACK ON THE HILL
Wednesday morning.
Until when? God only knows. Best I can guess it will be many, many months with few breaks.
Often Sunday morning I'll go with some friends to a church.
Start Loving
ps: We know what emergency workers look like in an emergency. What do HEALTHY citizens, "activists" look like in the face of this perfect, existential, global storm? What do WE look like?
Until when? God only knows. Best I can guess it will be many, many months with few breaks.
Often Sunday morning I'll go with some friends to a church.
Start Loving
ps: We know what emergency workers look like in an emergency. What do HEALTHY citizens, "activists" look like in the face of this perfect, existential, global storm? What do WE look like?
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Not back on the Hill yet
I've had an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to some of the greatest heroes of Humanity in our lifetime by doing some enhancements of their web site:
Technically it was way over my head and has taken me to the wee hours of recent nights including this one.
My anticipation is that Monday AND TUESDAY will be spent all day preparing to return to the Hill beginning early WEDNESDAY morning.
Start
Technically it was way over my head and has taken me to the wee hours of recent nights including this one.
My anticipation is that Monday AND TUESDAY will be spent all day preparing to return to the Hill beginning early WEDNESDAY morning.
Start
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Brazilian Bishop on Hunger Strike AgainThe Associated Press - 20 hours agoSAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A Catholic bishop on Tuesday began his second hunger strike in two years to protest a government project to divert river water to irrigate parts of the country's arid northeast.Brazilian Bishop Goes On Hunger Strike To Protest Sao Francisco ... AHN
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Remaining off the Hill for now.
I slept 13 hours night before last and 15 hours last night. The point? I think my body is trying to tell me some things:
1. I'm a whimp
2. I'm a lush
3. The many weeks on the Hill took more out of me than I understood.
Also, I've been little besides emotional drain on my DC family here at the Peace House these last few months. There are a few small projects here I could do to contribute.
The point?!?!?! I'm quite sure I'm called back to the Hill by Monday next week. I am NOT sure how many days BEFORE then.
Loving you, Start
1. I'm a whimp
2. I'm a lush
3. The many weeks on the Hill took more out of me than I understood.
Also, I've been little besides emotional drain on my DC family here at the Peace House these last few months. There are a few small projects here I could do to contribute.
The point?!?!?! I'm quite sure I'm called back to the Hill by Monday next week. I am NOT sure how many days BEFORE then.
Loving you, Start
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
OFF SITE UNTIL 11/26
All is well with me and the Vigil - not with our treatment of our US Forces, Iraqis and Iranians.
I'm headed to spend time with my family in Philadelphia.
God willing I'll be back on site early next week.
Start Loving
I'm headed to spend time with my family in Philadelphia.
God willing I'll be back on site early next week.
Start Loving
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Returning to the Hill
Court case requirements satisfied this morning (see posts below).
Should be back on the Hill by 1pm.
I expect to remain there until mid next week when I may spend several days with family in Philadelphia (Tues - Sun worst case).
Also possible is several more days off to help a friend with a critical medical emergency.
Should be back on the Hill by 1pm.
I expect to remain there until mid next week when I may spend several days with family in Philadelphia (Tues - Sun worst case).
Also possible is several more days off to help a friend with a critical medical emergency.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
!!! OFF SITE !!! COURT 11/24 AND POSSIBLY...
Due to neglegence on my part and sloppily thinking that just because all my other court dates have been Friday this one too would be Friday...
I'M OFF SITE (the "Hill") tonight and atleast tomorrow morning.
POSSIBLE SEVERAL DAYS MORE!!! It might be that one of my dearest friends will need my help in a life or death situation.
I'M OFF SITE (the "Hill") tonight and atleast tomorrow morning.
POSSIBLE SEVERAL DAYS MORE!!! It might be that one of my dearest friends will need my help in a life or death situation.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
SO LITTLE CLARITY - FAITH IS THE WAY
Friends,
I wish there were a bit more time to write. Maybe next week when I'll take 24hrs or so for court - when I have to hand in my certificate of Community Service completed today (as discussed in yesterday's post).
For now:
* This is a very difficult time for me and the few heroes I see in the self-proclaimed "Peace Movement." It is horrifying to see the Democrats cave at every turn and stand for nothing (voting in Mukasey for example / caving on Water Boarding). No one is fighting for the hearts and minds, for the Humanity of the American people except for a handful like Desiree, Laurie, Ann, Diane, 26 Year Peace Vigil, a few of the Code Pink folks and doubtless a few hundred others around the country.
* The Hunger Strike was an especially powerful aspect of the campaign and now that I am consuming calories I sense much less penetration of hearts among those witnessing the 24/7 vigil. I sense almost a let down and confusion among those witnessing.
* A heartwarming and sustaining level of support has materialized (see post below).
* But there is no evidence that I will not wind up in the hospital due to starvation or dehydration over the next few months. The level of support is not commensurate with the Vigil.
* It is getting very cold.
* The police are beginning to show signs that their "superiors" are getting a bit tired of this guy being on the Hill 24/7. Many times per night the police are stopping to "check" on (harass) me. A saving grace is that they seem embarrassed to do so. I feel quite willing to go to jail over this vigil for as long as they dictate if necessary. I do not see retreating or accomodating any further than I already have.
With all this I should feel discouraged. I do feel tired. I do feel slightly depressed. I do NOT feel discouraged. I feel clear that now more than ever I need to keep the tiny flame burning on the Hill - for the congresspeople, for the passers by, for the heroic activists, for the lip-service activists....
A friend of mine in DC is in fairly acute medical need. It may be that I will need to take time from the Hill to care for him. Yet it is extremely important that the Vigil on the Hill be maintained, unbroken, month after month....
This is an extremely dark time for the world. We must all walk out in faith, into the darkness, and generate and follow what little bits of flame we can muster. Everything depends on it.
I wish there were a bit more time to write. Maybe next week when I'll take 24hrs or so for court - when I have to hand in my certificate of Community Service completed today (as discussed in yesterday's post).
For now:
* This is a very difficult time for me and the few heroes I see in the self-proclaimed "Peace Movement." It is horrifying to see the Democrats cave at every turn and stand for nothing (voting in Mukasey for example / caving on Water Boarding). No one is fighting for the hearts and minds, for the Humanity of the American people except for a handful like Desiree, Laurie, Ann, Diane, 26 Year Peace Vigil, a few of the Code Pink folks and doubtless a few hundred others around the country.
* The Hunger Strike was an especially powerful aspect of the campaign and now that I am consuming calories I sense much less penetration of hearts among those witnessing the 24/7 vigil. I sense almost a let down and confusion among those witnessing.
* A heartwarming and sustaining level of support has materialized (see post below).
* But there is no evidence that I will not wind up in the hospital due to starvation or dehydration over the next few months. The level of support is not commensurate with the Vigil.
* It is getting very cold.
* The police are beginning to show signs that their "superiors" are getting a bit tired of this guy being on the Hill 24/7. Many times per night the police are stopping to "check" on (harass) me. A saving grace is that they seem embarrassed to do so. I feel quite willing to go to jail over this vigil for as long as they dictate if necessary. I do not see retreating or accomodating any further than I already have.
With all this I should feel discouraged. I do feel tired. I do feel slightly depressed. I do NOT feel discouraged. I feel clear that now more than ever I need to keep the tiny flame burning on the Hill - for the congresspeople, for the passers by, for the heroic activists, for the lip-service activists....
A friend of mine in DC is in fairly acute medical need. It may be that I will need to take time from the Hill to care for him. Yet it is extremely important that the Vigil on the Hill be maintained, unbroken, month after month....
This is an extremely dark time for the world. We must all walk out in faith, into the darkness, and generate and follow what little bits of flame we can muster. Everything depends on it.
Support for the 24/7 Vigil
* Rick: Great friendship, diet coke, sign coverage for bathroom many days a week.
* Nicholas: Extreme Sleeping Bag for the sub freezing days (I risk arrest if used regularly).
* Nicholas: Waterproof winter hunting jacket.
* Kay: Soup.
* Kay: Warm, waterproof boots.
* Kay: Warm socks.
* Kay: Long johns and windbreaker set.
* Jim: Long Wool Coat to keep my legs warm at night and during sub freezing days. Oversized boots to give my feet a prayer on freezing nights.
* Martin: Mid-weight down jacket (Layer #2)
* Dave and Mary Rachel: Laptop.
* Tom and the Mrs.: Water, soup, bread, PBJ, kind company... at just the right times.
* Dave and Mary Rachel: Back support.
* Laura: Water and food at just the right times.
* Jes and friends from Code Pink: A day's soup.
* Laurie: Friendship and a day's granola.
* Beverly: NEW SIGNS.
* Howard: PBJ for days, soup, great friendship.
* Ellen: Kindness, food, transportation, water.
* And others. Forgive me. Many Angels - the faces of the Almighty.
KEY NEEDS:
* POP TOP CHUNKY SOUP - Zero days reserve with an intention to be on the Hill for many, many, many months 24/7.
* Quilted, very quilted snowpants fully zip up sides for easy on and off.
* Real warm longjohn bottom.
* Coverage of the signs so I can go 2 blocks to the Library to get on-line and power up.
* PR
see: VIGIL RISKS / NEEDS ))))11/07 {{{{
* Nicholas: Extreme Sleeping Bag for the sub freezing days (I risk arrest if used regularly).
* Nicholas: Waterproof winter hunting jacket.
* Kay: Soup.
* Kay: Warm, waterproof boots.
* Kay: Warm socks.
* Kay: Long johns and windbreaker set.
* Jim: Long Wool Coat to keep my legs warm at night and during sub freezing days. Oversized boots to give my feet a prayer on freezing nights.
* Martin: Mid-weight down jacket (Layer #2)
* Dave and Mary Rachel: Laptop.
* Tom and the Mrs.: Water, soup, bread, PBJ, kind company... at just the right times.
* Dave and Mary Rachel: Back support.
* Laura: Water and food at just the right times.
* Jes and friends from Code Pink: A day's soup.
* Laurie: Friendship and a day's granola.
* Beverly: NEW SIGNS.
* Howard: PBJ for days, soup, great friendship.
* Ellen: Kindness, food, transportation, water.
* And others. Forgive me. Many Angels - the faces of the Almighty.
KEY NEEDS:
* POP TOP CHUNKY SOUP - Zero days reserve with an intention to be on the Hill for many, many, many months 24/7.
* Quilted, very quilted snowpants fully zip up sides for easy on and off.
* Real warm longjohn bottom.
* Coverage of the signs so I can go 2 blocks to the Library to get on-line and power up.
* PR
see: VIGIL RISKS / NEEDS ))))11/07 {{{{
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
OFF THE HILL TUE EVE - THU AM
For arrest early August I either do 8 hours community service or jail. I've decided that I am more valuable to humanity on the Hill than in jail right now. Ellen picked me up at 5pm today and I expect to be back on the Hill by 8am Thursday morning.
Monday, October 29, 2007
24/7 PEOPLE OVER PROFITS - BACK ON THE "HILL"
God willing by 7:30am I'll be back on the "Hill" for as many months or years as it takes to see a fundamental shift in Congress from Profits to People.
The last 4 days in Pennsylvania are the happiest days I can ever remember, in a year when I didn't know that more joy than I bask in every day was a possibility. I must be doing something good. Such love, kindness, humanity I've been surrounded with. God in our midst.
The last 4 days in Pennsylvania are the happiest days I can ever remember, in a year when I didn't know that more joy than I bask in every day was a possibility. I must be doing something good. Such love, kindness, humanity I've been surrounded with. God in our midst.
“START, I’M CHRIS ???? FROM CONNECTICUT”
****Chris ???*** Correction 11/7/07: Hmmm. Now that I've had a chance to listen to Dodd's voice on the radio, and to check the internet - it could have been any of three "Chris's" that stopped by to see me.
Mid last week in the middle of the afternoon I was sitting on the steps of the Cannon House Office building about two in the afternoon gazing into the sky toward the west so my gaze was averted from passersby, giving them full permission to gaze, ignore, ponder… whatever. My peripheral vision is quite good and I became aware of a tall figure obviously walking toward me to engage.
To express welcome I redirected my gaze to the figure. “Start, I’m Chris Dodd of Connecticut,” said a voice that would strike anyone with its pronounced humility, respect, humanity and kindness. “I’m worried about your health.”
“I offer you my great thanks for what you are doing. You are impacting both sides of the aisle. You are showing us what it means to stand for a cause.”
Mid last week in the middle of the afternoon I was sitting on the steps of the Cannon House Office building about two in the afternoon gazing into the sky toward the west so my gaze was averted from passersby, giving them full permission to gaze, ignore, ponder… whatever. My peripheral vision is quite good and I became aware of a tall figure obviously walking toward me to engage.
To express welcome I redirected my gaze to the figure. “Start, I’m Chris Dodd of Connecticut,” said a voice that would strike anyone with its pronounced humility, respect, humanity and kindness. “I’m worried about your health.”
“I offer you my great thanks for what you are doing. You are impacting both sides of the aisle. You are showing us what it means to stand for a cause.”
“I’M DENNIS KUCINICH”
About a week and a half ago I was sitting on the steps of the Cannon Office Building sitting up with the signs, but dozing in the early afternoon.
I was awakened by “Hello.” I turned and recognized the face of the man at my left but before I could find the name he continued. “I’m Dennis Kucinich,” he said with no more ore less pomp than when you or I introduce ourselves. “I’ve driven past you before and this time I didn’t want to drive by again, so I had to park and come over. Thank you for what you are doing. Thank you for your courage.”
I was awakened by “Hello.” I turned and recognized the face of the man at my left but before I could find the name he continued. “I’m Dennis Kucinich,” he said with no more ore less pomp than when you or I introduce ourselves. “I’ve driven past you before and this time I didn’t want to drive by again, so I had to park and come over. Thank you for what you are doing. Thank you for your courage.”
Sunday, October 28, 2007
CAPITOL HILL 24/7 FOR PEOPLE (OFF-)DAY #28
RETURNING TO CANNON OFFICE BUILDING ON TUESDAY I expect.
It takes a village. Part of the small village that has supported my work over the years is in Philadelphia and for my joy, and in support of them I am staying here one day longer than I had anticipated.
The village, the blessed community is our entire hope and it is my joy to direct one additional day toward the strength, growth and health of that village, and me.
It takes a village. Part of the small village that has supported my work over the years is in Philadelphia and for my joy, and in support of them I am staying here one day longer than I had anticipated.
The village, the blessed community is our entire hope and it is my joy to direct one additional day toward the strength, growth and health of that village, and me.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
CAPITOL HILL VIGIL-FOR-PEOPLE (OFF-)DAY #27
Per the post below (Capitol Hill Campaign Day 25 BRIEF BREAK) God has afforded me the most excruciatingly joyful gift of reunion with my beloved Pennsylvania family. I am overwhelmed with joy, and hope for the world. She is so evident among these people.
However, their house where theY have me stay is in the stone age technically and I've had no Internet access - hence the post updating you on exciting recent progress has not yet been achieved. Yes, it IS my fault. Later this afternoon maybe.
Loving you,
Start
However, their house where theY have me stay is in the stone age technically and I've had no Internet access - hence the post updating you on exciting recent progress has not yet been achieved. Yes, it IS my fault. Later this afternoon maybe.
Loving you,
Start
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Capitol Hill Campaign Day 25 BRIEF BREAK
Please check back in a few days for a lengthier update on the last several weeks - some of which might please you quite a bit.
For now - 3 DAY BREAK from the 7/24 Occupation I've been maintaining. Hypothermia, Exhaustion, the Toll of this my 5th Hunger Strike in the last 18 months - they say discretion is the better part of valor. I'm ok, but I think it wise if I target not tomorrow, but Monday AM to return to Capitol Hill 24/7.
Your brother,
Start
For now - 3 DAY BREAK from the 7/24 Occupation I've been maintaining. Hypothermia, Exhaustion, the Toll of this my 5th Hunger Strike in the last 18 months - they say discretion is the better part of valor. I'm ok, but I think it wise if I target not tomorrow, but Monday AM to return to Capitol Hill 24/7.
Your brother,
Start
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Day #16 Hunger Strike for US Forces, Iranians, Iraqis
The weather is very kind - mild. My body is no longer putting out much heat due to the Hunger Strike. It was mid 70's but even so I was chilly with two sweatshirts on.
Often the Congress People use the tunnels but today they were out in force all day long. Many had to look at the Hunger Strike and ponder. My sense is that their Spirits, their Humanity is all but dead. They need what I am doing, and similar work from many, many, many people before their Humanity will be restored.
Joan N. from Kennett Sq, PA came by for a while. In her mid 70's I guess. Seems to spend more time in DC getting arrested for efforts to stop the war, than she spends at the bridge table. Very inspiring.
I'm pretty weak physically but everything else checks out ok.
I expect to return to Cannon first thing tomorrow (Wednesday) morning and remain there 24/5-7 with few exceptions for many, many, many months.
REQUIREMENTS for the Vigil: Watch at the upper left for a link to what the current requirements are. Later tonight I expect.
BACK AT CANNON TuesDAY
Thank goodness I'm back.
Today, Tuesday from 7am until 6pm.
Will return to the Peace House tonight to pack and finish the indexes linked to HOME PAGE of
Quote from American President:
Today, Tuesday from 7am until 6pm.
Will return to the Peace House tonight to pack and finish the indexes linked to HOME PAGE of
START LOVING.
Wednesday I hope to set down at Cannon 24/7 until People (US Forces, Iranians, Iraqis) become more important on Capitol Hill than keeping Congresspeople fat.Quote from American President:
"I was so busy keeping my job
I for got to do my job.
That ends now."
I for got to do my job.
That ends now."
Saturday, October 13, 2007
"CASE DISMISSED"
This was a victory for the "system," in God's eyes.
Due to weekly vigils of Catholic Workers / Jonah House there is familiarity and a modicum of respect on the part of the Pentagon police, and ilLegal inJustice system staff involved with us yesterday. With the benefit of their "sense" of "our kind," the officers / court / etc involved quickly realized, as I realized on the spot, that they had lumped me in with tomato planters, which I did not. I contested nothing, just gently shared the Truth pre-trial.
History, and my brotherly behavior toward this part of my family evoked from them, "we'll dismiss your charges. We don't want you penalized for something you did not do."
Details on the day will be appearing at Jonah House soon, I expect.
I am now, on Hunger Strike, working round the clock to bring Start Loving to an acceptable level of completion.
My expectation is to be on Capitol Hill at Cannon House Office Building by Tuesday, 24/7 until the next court date November 14th.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
COURT OCTOBER 12TH
COURT OCTOBER 12TH FOR LEAFLETTING REGARDING WARMING AT THE PENTAGON.
If I am cited/jailed for contempt the reasons I can anticipate are:
If I am cited/jailed for contempt the reasons I can anticipate are:
- Calling the officials the sign of love and connection I call everyone - brother and sister.
- Rising for the "Judge" out of respect AND doing the same for everyone else present.
- Responding only to "Start" or "Mr. Loving" instead of the old name they have been insisting on.
- Reading the Bible silently during other court cases instead of "paying attention" as required last time by the bailiff. With Iran, Iraq, Darfur, Haiti... I cannot waste such time - it is theirs, not mine.
- Calling the Judge "sister / brother" not Judge - Your Honor - which only the Almighty Truth Love Life are.
- Relentlessly holding that "Guilty" does not apply to my actions because in the Almighty's eyes they PREVENT ME FROM BEING GUILTY OF NEGLECTING MY PENTAGON BROTHERS AND SISTERS. "Yes," I'll say, "I did exactly what you say to AVOID guilt."
- "... Sisters and brothers, if you arrest me, take portions of my life, whatever, I forgive you."
- "You know not what you do." see LEGAL-INJUSTICE SYSTEM
If any of my actions is for effect, manipulation, show, conflict, self protection, combat... it is less than nothing - IT IS INHMANE - exactly what is destroying us. I simply refuse to surrender my Humanity for the Inhumanity Empire demands of us. This is the entirety of our responsibility as: activists, mothers, brothers....
I AM NOT TO BE BAILED OUT.
I WILL NOT EVER CONTEST / COMBAT AND THEREBY ENTER HOSTILITY / INHUMANITY; NOT IN THIS CONSUMATELY, BLATANTLY CRIMINAL-INJUSTICE SYSTEM.
- I WOULD LIKE TO SEE LIGHT MAINTAINED ON MY HEALTH, AND THEIR BEHAVIOR IF / WHEN I AM IMPRISONED. IF A LAWYER WANTED TO HELP WITH THIS, GREAT.
- NOTHING CAN HURT ME. DON'T WORRY. YOU KNOW ME NOW. YOU KNOW THIS IS TRUE. LOVE YES, WORRY NO.
IT IS NEITHER MY BUSINESS NOR CONCERN WHAT THEY DO TO ME; ONLY WHAT I DO TO THEM IS MY RESPONSIBILITY AND OPPORTUNITY.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
"YOU'RE IN JAIL? HOW CAN I HELP?"
Matt has visited me on vigil four times or so at the Sudan Embassy and now on Capitol Hill. The rare person of any age that gives you hope that all is not yet lost. Finishing college in the area. Interning with the DC homeless paper.
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Brother Start,
What happened? I thought you were in jail at the sound of your blog...but I guess you were talking about possibly facing jail time in the future. My editor wants to know if we can use the picture of you in front of the Cannon Office Building with the sign (on your latest blog) and if so, whom do we credit it to? Let us know!Also on a personal level, I saw your list of needs. Let me know if there's anything I can do. I don't have a ton of resources myself, but I can get some if need be...like clothing or money. Let me know what you need and how to get it to you, brother.Take care and godspeed,
Matthew
--------------------------Start's Response--------------------------------------------
Brother Matt,
The warmth and urgency of your email (above) to me gladdens my heart, Matthew, as few things have and can. Bless you.
I need nothing. But we, WE need to wake up. You are on the way. I pray for your protection.
I don't know the legal system and intend as a matter of moral and Strategic necessity never to learn, but I just can't imagine that by the end of my arraignment tomorrow I'll not be in jail for contempt charges. I'll be as brotherly as you've ever seen me. That is why I'll be cited for contempt. I will not abandon my Humanity for their deadly dance of In-Humanity. That is our one and entire existential choice. The charge? If you follow the links on my blog (where you saw the picture of me) regarding Pentagon you'll see.
My only, MY ONLY PREFERENCE in the matter is that God use me well. This planet is Hell if something doesn't happen fast - on 20 fronts at once - US EMPIRE, Palestine, Global Warming, Congo, Iraq, Iran, Burma, China, Tibet................................... There is no time for
serial solutions.
The Photo? 100% ok. You would adore the fellow from Arkansas that took it. On that post with the photo I list two blogs - his is one - Josias X or something like that.
I NEED NOTHING. BUT GOD NEEDS EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO
GIVE NOW. I've begun close to 50 posts today at the Start Loving blog. I feel like I am being given final revelation. It is awesome, and awful responsibility. Matt, I see clearly now the Strategy for how the War for EVERYONE'S Humanity is to be waged. Part of it, a minuscule part includes me being 24/7 in front of Cannon throughout the winter - BUT ONLY IF A LOT OF PEOPLE MAKE IT HAPPEN. Otherwise I starve there.
[Extortion? GOD NO. Natural consequence of collective IRRESPONSIBILITY]. I'm being really, really infected with a Spirit, and everything depends on providing people the opportunity to
catch it through close contact. Sorry to be so long winded, but this is a really sacred opportunity. I'm taking it farther toward self-sacrifice than most have ever seen; like Jesus, so that MILLIONS MIGHT FOLLOW.
My Joy is uninterrupted, and infinite. Bliss? No. It is crucial that many (dozens, hundreds?) be given the opportunity to contribute to my pitifully unimportant campaign, only so they
might become infected through contact. Small donations ONLY is all I'll accept (through someone like you and the cc's?), come what may, and many would be required. Many must be given the chance. Food is by far the biggest thing, I expect. In
30-50 days God willing I'll be on death's door at Cannon 7/24 having been
on Water Only. But if then support in terms of pop-top soup / can / food supply is forthcoming I
can take about 1000 of the 1600 calories per day people need and stay at the threshold without passing over for the entire, brutally cold winter 24/7. At this point, with the world's / country's
situation being so dire, if this sort of trivial support doesn't materialize, it may be time for me to cross that threshold as a final chance for people to see our
murderous irresponsibility that is our doom. I don't mind at all, if that is the best way for me to serve.
From about mid November I'll be needing about 3 cans a day (or equivalent) to survive.
At a max donation of maybe 5 cans per person, that is a lot of people from mid November through April. What then? I can see that the conditions could demand me being there on death's door another year, or two. What's with the cans? Nothing religious; convenient and non-perishable; and can be stored in a multi-day quantity with me. If someone in a coordinated way wants to bring a PEASANT-CHEAP MEAL, whatever. It is neither my job in this to coordinate, nor to care about the outcome for me. My job is to maintain as pure an infection of this Spirit by playing my role as I am, and God willing, to infect the world? Or die trying. I've copied three people / entities that might have some interest (pure guess on my part) in working on some or all of this. The forth is that Daily Kos blogger on the post with my picture. T-- is his name. His blog is posted but I don't know his email, etc. He has expressed interest.
Matt, still there? Very long winded. :-)
As to the other items on the blog - clothing - etc. they all provide the same logic - opportunity for closer contact infection. As you can imagine, they are all needed. I could explain further over
time if someone wants to come by Cannon.
NO ONE MUST BE ENABLED TO FEEL THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING IMPORTANT BY GIVING $20 BUCKS (max) WORTH OF SOMETHING. This is not about me. This is not about them. This is about preventing Armageddon in military, economic, climate, moral, social forms that are multitudinous. This is about supporting ONE SOLDIER in what must fast become an army of millions worldwide, or it is all over. No, I have no illusion of making a difference, "succeeding."
But I also have no lack of clarity anymore of how this war is to be waged.
Matt, by tomorrow you owe it to yourself and those you love to struggle through the mass of Start
Loving posts for OCT and as much else as you can.
Matt, whereas I now know what millions must do, I'll never know what any individual should do. This email conveys not the slightest expectation or responsibility from me to you. You and God. You and Your Humanity.
Loving you extremely, your brother,
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