THE GLOBAL, SUBTERRANEAN “SOCIETAL TIME BOMB FACTORY”!
On December 31,1988 I retired from a 29 year, “three prison career” as a Federal Correctional Officer. During that career, personal experience, observation and dialogue with inmates and class room instruction gradually endowed me with a certain degree of “there but for the Grace of God go I” empathy for even some of the most “hard core” and violent offenders.
When I found out yesterday that the same old major supporters of the Tea Party, the Jewish billionaire Koch brothers (according to Haaretz and The New Yorker, hyper supporters of Zionist causes and Israel) are just as much also the major designers and supporters of the present attack and opposition against unions, indeed, I had no doubt that “a perfect setup for cronyism and profiteering” is what underlies the whole spectre with the union/Gov. Walker discontent of the day, which threatens to spread nationwide. 
It seems as though Black History Month is being over shadowed by protests around the globe, and here, in the United States, all stealthily encouraged by our own Commander in Chief.
Last week the current occupant of the White House said the he will no longer force federal judges to enforce the existing ban on same sex marriages, stating that he believed the law to be unconstitutional. That statement pissed me off so much that I felt obligated to share my thoughts about it. 
Cochise County rancher, Roger Barnett, is no stranger to anyone who reads or listens to news stories concerning current events on the Mexican-American border. Even in the midst of international crisis such as: Hosni Muburack’s recent downfall, and the U.S. being on the highest level of terror alert, Roger, of late, has had equal footing on the prime time news shows. Fox News channel’s chief bloviator, Bill O’Reilly, has seen fit to use Mr. Barnett’s recent legal problems to feast upon, salivating over half truths, resulting from poor investigation. 
A news item by Agence Press France flew under the radar of many American news media. On February 25th it reported that “The White House on Friday named Jeremy Bernard to serve as social secretary to President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama, the first male and first openly gay person to hold the position.” 
We wonder how many Americans really get it? What is at stake here is nothing less than the total loss of our freedom, liberty, property, the pursuit of happiness and American sovereignty and the implementation of a global, collective society where the rights of the individual are subjugated to the demands of the mob, as in a Democracy. We find ourselves neck deep in a “soft” civil war between those who “feed” off the sweat and labor of others, required and enforced by government, and those that provide the sweat and the labor. 
One of my dreams for as long as I can remember is to own a sail boat and sail the world; just my wife and I enjoying the solitude and beauty that this endeavor can offer. There will be hours and hours of peace; just the wind and the water and the boat. We would have plenty to keep us busy. We would have great conversations about our lives and the friend we’ve enjoyed. Maybe we would even bring them along on parts of the odyssey. 
A literary detective story that began 18 months ago and was advanced through a chance reading of an 1880 edition of The Harvard Register has led researchers from the Jefferson Library at Monticello to a trove of books that were among the last ones that Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s most bibliophilic president, collected and read in the decade before he died. 
