Decolonize The Law

Posted by: admin | on October 1, 2020

The Revolutionary War was fought to decolonize the law. Somehow, we’re back where we started from.

Topics over interest for local communities are the foundation and reason for www.celdf.org. This organization exists to help We The People to remember and act according to principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic—https://celdf.org/2020/09/grant-township-moves-to-dismiss-pa-dep-lawsuit/–“Dismissing this bogus lawsuit is another step in stopping harmful activity by DEP, and clearing the path for a deeper examination of misconduct not just by the DEP, but our state government which passes preemptive laws and legalizes destructive corporate behavior. Communities are always on defense, fighting things off. It’s time we turn that around and push forward with a movement for change that protects all communities,” said CELDF Pennsylvania Community Organizer Chad Nicholson.
–end of celdf info–Investment in time to secure confidence in human, civil, and environmental rights is worthwhile—https://celdf.org/2020/09/module-3-natures-rebellion-against-the-corporate-state/–Join us for this final installment of a three part webinar series. In parts 1 and 2 we looked at a Community’s and a Great Lake’s rebellion against a system that allows both to be harmed. In this webinar we will broaden out the strategy of Rights of Nature as a global movement for systemic change. In order to profoundly change our relationship with Nature we must decolonize the law. Rights of Nature is rooted in Indigenous knowledge and must be expanded into western law and culture. Join us for an open discussion with CELDF legal professionals on decolonizing law, culture, and our relationship with Nature. –end of celdf info—————–Get involved, if you wish.

Any pretension of civility (as in civilizing lifestyle by respecting human, environmental, and civil rights) goes out the window as we watch the US government that is “running like a business”, which on a continuum is organized crime. Colonization uses patriarchy that is the next of White Supremacy to invoke violence and aggression for self-promotion. Principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic are not included in this system. Capitalism is the foundation of this system. Consider the following—-https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/7yzOow5PLu5kOpyfovH5ET#.X2ULuSTqgm8.twitter–The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not immediately respond when asked to provide evidence that it had publicized or notified any Oklahoma tribes about the deadline.
The proposal came from Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) in a July 22 letter that Stitt never made public, but apparently shared with one oil-industry group, which posted the letter online. Neither Stitt nor the EPA disputed the letter’s authenticity. TYT first reported Stitt’s request last month.–end of facebook post—-https://twitter.com/movementrights/status/1311181692569153536?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email

When Christopher Columbus first set foot on the white sands of Guanahani island, he performed a ceremony to “take possession” of the land for the king and queen of Spain, acting under the international laws of Western Christendom. Although the story of Columbus’ “discovery” has taken on mythological proportions in most of the Western world, few people are aware that his act of “possession” was based on a religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Discovery. Even fewer people realize that today – five centuries later – the United States government still uses this archaic Judeo-Christian doctrine to deny the rights of Native American Indians.

Origins of the Doctrine of Discovery

To understand the connection between Christendom’s principle of discovery and the laws of the United States, we need to begin by examining a papal document issued forty years before Columbus’ historic voyage In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued to King Alfonso V of Portugal the bull Romanus Pontifex, declaring war against all non-Christians throughout the world, and specifically sanctioning and promoting the conquest, colonization, and exploitation of non-Christian nations and their territories.Doctrine of Discovery is a blatant pronouncement of patriarchal chauvinism imposed against humanity and nature for profit—http://ili.nativeweb.org/sdrm_art.html–
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https://portside.org/2020-09-29/vandana-shiva-pandemic-consequence-war-against-life–“The coronavirus pandemic pits all of humanity against the virus,” he said.
In fact, the pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life. The mechanical mind connected to the money machine of extraction has created the illusion of humans as separate from nature, and nature as dead, inert raw material to be exploited. But, in fact, we are part of the biome. And we are part of the virome. The biome and the virome are us. When we wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves.
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Capitalism has privatized and monetized education from institutions of higher learning that are run by Establishment hierarchy for indoctrination and profit, where students graduate deeply in debt for an education that requires employment within the exploitation of capitalism in order to survive. Make no mistake, this system is not accidental—-https://www.nlg.org/radical-law-student-project/–From Traci Yoder, Editor: It has become a truism that many are drawn to law school initially to further social justice, only to end up working in areas of the law that have little potential to serve these ideals. The most common reason cited for this is economic: the average law student emerges into practice with well over $100,000 in debt. However, this is not the only factor. In most universities, the culture and pedagogy of legal education tend to emphasize commercial law over public interest fields and the intellectual pressure of law school undermines student’s commitment to their ideals. Very often students feel very little support within the institution, and a subtle pressure to abandon the political and moral values that informed their decision to pursue law in the service of the people.
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Greed and corruption don’t only stalk the halls of higher learning. We surely find the same in the halls of government—-https://www.dailyposter.com/p/billionaire-gop-donors-firm-reports?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTU0NTE0LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1NDU4MDIyLCJfIjoicWdQdmMiLCJpYXQiOjE2MDE0NzcyNDgsImV4cCI6MTYwMTQ4MDg0OCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTM3Nzc4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.xa32mtcgJJVCuZmJcbAguESilFJHIPJ7tCLQEjwmYwE–Donald Trump is not the only one who has managed to whittle down his tax bill during his presidency — the world’s largest private equity firm, the Blackstone Group, reported that its effective income tax rate went below zero last year even as it raked in billions in profits, according to corporate documents reviewed by The Daily Poster.Now, Blackstone billionaire CEO Steven Schwarzman has become one of the GOP’s largest donors, as one study shows his net worth has increased by 27 percent during the coronavirus pandemic. In all, Schwarzman has funneled nearly $25 million into campaigns to help Republicans retain control of the Senate and to help Trump win reelection.–end of dailyposter info–The Supreme Court handed down the decision that encouraged corruption in elections via Citizens United.
Capitalistic hierarchical Establishment is practiced in tyranny. Only We The People have the power to challenge these dictators, if we choose freedom, justice, and equality—https://mronline.org/2020/09/29/charlie-chaplin-and-karl-marx-in-conversation/–Modern Times, directed by Charlie Chaplin, was released in 1936, in the depths of the Great Depression. It opens with a clock marking the beginning of the working day and a sentence: “A story of industry, of individual enterprise—humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness.” Stampeding sheep dissolve into men entering a factory, punching in, taking their places. The president of the Electro Steel Corporation orders a subordinate through a screen—“Section 5, speed her up, 4-1!” In the film that follows, no one achieves happiness, and no one rewards the industry or enterprise of a working-class couple fighting merely to stay alive and out of jail.–end of mronline info–

Censorship is the strategy of the Democratic/Republican duopoly which runs the Presidential debates as one will learn by accessing www.debates.org. This is the organization that presented to the world, the embarrassment of idiocy as Biden and Trump so called debated. The USA is proceeding as though the rest of the world can’t see us—-http://europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article54985&fbclid=IwAR1t4mOAIEU0crBqsDygIOHVLyWHOki1M1ALpdsV2NIsrYf9l96sYM3QvKY–Voter suppression has become a real issue in recent years. The major discussion has been centered on Democrats correctly accusing the Republicans of disenfranchising people of color and working class people.But now the Democrats are actively seeking to keep the Green Party presidential and vice presidential candidates, socialists Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker, off the ballot in a number of states.They have been backed in this effort by the liberal media. A case in point was a September 23 front page article in the New York Times titled “The Green Party’s Biggest Fan? It’s Often the Republican Party”.
–end of europe-solidaire info–So is the New York Times proud of their propaganda that supports characters Trump and Biden? Green Party Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins was censored out of the debate that is run by the corporations Democratic and Republican, owned by big-money interests.
That doesn’t mean We The People are not permitted to hear the FACTS from Howie Hawkins, if one is sufficiently independent to do so—Howie Hawkins of the Green Party calls the debate a fraud, and who would challenge this assessment?—-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnXMVGda9mg–

———–Howie Hawkins responds to first Presidential debate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXCmYFii604&feature=youtu.be——–Hawkins on Climate Justice…..

https://www.opendebates.org/———————–https://www.opendebates.org/about-us/our-supporters/–Our campaign to reform the presidential debate process is supported by more 50 civic groups from across the political spectrum, including:
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Voting is an action of conscience.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQRggiBA3ys—-Green Party Rally in Albany, NY featuring Howie Hawkins
Demand inclusion in debates of 3rd-Party Presidential candidates such as Howie Hawkins of the Green Party, in order to understand the difference between value and price. You will hear a politician running for public office who has a strong grasp on reality, and policies that are in keeping with requirements of We The People, in Howie Hawkins—

A vote for Green Party Presidential candidate Howie Hawkins is to ensure that you honor your own voice—-https://www.c-span.org/video/?473680-3/washington-journal-howie-hawkins-discusses-green-party-platform—

Green Party Candidate Howie Hawkins on Campaign 2020

Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins discusses his 2020 campaign for the White House.—end of c-span interview with Howie Hawkins—- Howie Hawkins expresses the view that Democratic voters or Republican voters will not propel the Green Party, but rather the enormous number of disenfranchised voters who never make it to the polls, in abject disgust of the system of exclusion and lies……………………last 10 words not Hawkins’ …(paraphrase0

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Republicans	Independents	Democrats
	%	%	%
2020 Feb 17-28	30	39	29
2020 Feb 3-16	33	39	26
2020 Jan 16-29	30	42	27
2020 Jan 2-15	27	45	27

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And many of the most non-Establishment voters are in the Green Party.
**************************************As a Green Party registered voter routinely, one re-registers every 4 years into the Democratic Party to be able to cast a vote in the Democratic Primary for Bernie Sanders. One is positive one is not alone in doing so.Lost in the fog of political corruption over several decades, is the fact that the Presidential debates were once in the capable hands of the League of Women Voters—-https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud—-Most objectionable to the League, Neuman said, were conditions in the agreement that gave the campaigns unprecedented control over the proceedings. Neuman called “outrageous” the campaigns’ demands that they control the selection of questioners, the composition of the audience, hall access for the press and other issues.”The campaigns’ agreement is a closed-door masterpiece,” Neuman said. “Never in the history of the League of Women Voters have two candidates’ organizations come to us with such stringent, unyielding and self-serving demands.”Neuman said she and the League regretted that the American people have had no real opportunities to judge the presidential nominees outside of campaign-controlled environments.—-end of lwv info—In other words, (paraphrase) patriarchy says, “we’ll handle it from here, little ladies”—https://straty.com/controlling-outcomes-controlling-table-stakes/—After studying the election process in 1985, the bipartisan National Commission on Elections recommended “turning over the sponsorship of Presidential debates to the two major parties”. The CPD was established in 1987 by the chairmen of the Democratic and Republican Parties to “take control of the Presidential debates”. The commission was staffed by members from the two parties and chaired by the heads of the Democratic and Republican parties… (wikipedia)
—end of straty info—https://www.debates.org/—The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was established in 1987 to ensure, for the benefit of the American electorate, that general election debates between or among the leading candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States are a permanent part of the electoral process. CPD’s primary purpose is to sponsor and produce the quadrennial general election debates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates. The organization, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) corporation, sponsored all of the presidential debates in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016
—end of debates info—The Commission on Presidential Debates, replacing the League of Women Voters, controls who can debate and on which topics. They call this educating the public, others may see this as brainwashing. The CPD would profit by hearing from We The People, as to concerns about censorship. The censorship seems to have become so blatant, that petitions to the CPD have reached into the hundreds of thousands. PETITION—–https://www.change.org/p/commission-on-presidential-debates-get-joe-rogan-to-moderate-the-2020-presidential-election/u/25040294——–Thank you all for continuing to share and support this petition. Within the last couple of days, I have composed and sent an e-mail to the Commission on Presidential Debates. The message reads as follows:—-end of change.org info—https://www.debates.org/about-cpd/commission-leadership/—

Commission Leadership

Co-ChairsFrank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.
Dorothy S. Ridings
Kenneth WollackHonorary Co-ChairsGerald R. Ford*
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan*
George W. Bush
Barack ObamaCo-Chair EmeritusPaul G. Kirk, Jr.Board of DirectorsJohn C. Danforth
Charles Gibson
John GriffenYvonne Hao
Jane Harman
Antonia Hernandez
Reverend John I. JenkinsNewton N. Minow
Richard D. Parsons
Olympia SnoweExecutive DirectorJanet H. Brown* Deceased© COPYRIGHT 2020 THE COMMI—end of debates so-called leadership—-This also filters out any other than Democratic Establishment and Republican Establishment views. This means We The People have nothing to say in our own governance.Consider the large number of voters who do not embrace the policies of either of the Democratic Establishment or Republican Establishment, and the fact that the Democratic Establishment and Republican Establishment have swindled the American electorate out of unbiased information directly from possible Presidential choices; often outside of the Capitalist Party D&R. Since these disgusting events in the ’80’s, state-run/corporate-owned MSM has consistently indoctrinated We The People into accepting the falsehood that “we are a 2-Party system”. This has had the effect of rending illegitimate, the deeply legitimate tradition of free, clean, and fair elections.
In other words, politicians are now choosing their voters, rather than voters choosing their politicians.
Acting on the human frailty of ignorance combined with arrogance, and using as an example the Democratic Establishment, one recognizes what is called a Democratic Base that believes in their right to dictate to others, their voting choices. —–https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/influence-on-democracy/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIDtvTydkU&t=638s