AUG. 1, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 189/182; WHEELS
Let's put some wheels on the cart.
Right now our form of democracy is a crude bobsled careening down a summer mountain slope.
It's only a matter of time until the bottom of that sled is torn loose or wears through, and we all know where the focus of the friction is going to be when that happens. Smarts a little bit just to think about it, doesn't it.
Yes, it can be a wild, exhilarating ride, but this isn't the amusement park.
Once we get some wheels on, we can add brakes and a steering mechanism, can't we.
Let's face it, we, the average citizens, really don't have much control over this thing we call democracy.
Disaffection with government is as common and as recurrent a theme as their is.
How many times have our mainstream genius political analysts told us, indeed the elected pols themselves, that the results of one election or another were a mandate for change? Countless times.
And, so, what have they changed?
The nameplates on the doors.
There does seem to be some validity to the saying that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
We still have campaign finance problems.
We still have pols devoting virtually all their time, energy and resources to their own political preservation.
Our bureaucracy is still as truculent as ever.
More often than not, the focus is still on making the symptom go away rather than eliminating the cause. (Making the messenger rather than the message the problem is one instance that immediately comes to mind.)
Typically, an effort is made to make the Sunday Daily Message one appropriate for prayerful consideration.
When one considers the impact an unaccountable government has, particularly when that government is the sole superpower of the planet, should this message appear on any day other than Sunday?
Is there a day more appropriate than Sunday for a plea for an end to stonewalling?
Is there a day more appropriate than Sunday for a plea for an end to MURDEROUS STONEWALLING???
If we put some wheels, brakes and a steering mechanism on that bobsled would there not be a good chance that stonewalling would end!
If we put some wheels, brakes and a steering mechanism on that bobsled would there not be a good chance that MURDEROUS STONEWALLING would end!!!
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AUG. 2, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 190/183; DE FACTO FASCISM
de facto:
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in reality (Webster's New Collegiate)
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fascism:
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arbitrary elitism (PonyTail)
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Numerous references have been made in the Daily Messages to fascism, both as inherent in every society which has an "elective process" democratic form of government, and to the comparatively recent phenomena of world facism.
Virtually every society is politically goulash, a little of this, a little of that, and a lot of something.
My concern is the degree to which we are politically a de facto
fascist society.
Without reservation, qualification, or condition, the one thing
this society is not, is a merit society. Merit is the exception in this society.
By definition, any society in which the circumstance of birth
predominantly determines the quality of life of the individual is
not a merit society. Would anyone dispute that far and away the
majority of those born into poverty in this society die in poverty?
Again we are talking about a matter of degree so, of course, to
some degree every society is a merit society but this time the
concern is the lack rather than the excess of the degree.
Is not merit an exact opposite of arbitrary?
Would anyone argue that get along, go along is not merit?
Would anyone argue that Political Correctness (PC) is not merit?
Would anyone argue that get along, go along and PC have been the
behavior of choice during at least the past several decades?
Is not the PonyTail case proof positive of the degree of
intolerance in this society for one who rejects get along, go along
and political correctness?
Is not stonewalling the epitome of arbitrariness!
Is not MURDEROUS STONEWALLING the epitome of arbitrariness!!!
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AUG. 3, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 191/184; REPRESENTATIVE
STATUS DATA:
(ESTIMATED SHORTFALL DATA TABLE OF DM 7/13 IS CURRENT)
| FIRST WEEK (7/11-7/17) | |
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TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
600-650 |
638 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1350-1399 | 1362 |
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| SECOND WEEK(7/18-7/25) | |
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TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
550-599 |
582 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1400-1449 |
1418 |
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| LAST WEEK (7/26-8/01) | |
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TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
500-549 |
516 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1450-1499 |
1484 |
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| THIS WEEK (8/02-8/09) | |
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TARGET |
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| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
450-499 |
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| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1500-1550 |
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From time to time the truculent bureaucrats condescendingly point out that we have a representative form of government, as though we are oblivious to that fact.
Yes, we do indeed have a representative form of government.
What they have lost sight of, is that the intention was for the people, THE PEOPLE, to be represented in the government.
Special interests have representation.
People per se do not.
People only have representation to the extent they are included in a special interest group.
Stonewalling in response to a person's petition for redress of a grievance is not representation!
MURDEROUS STONEWALLING in response to a person's petition for redress of a grievance is not representation!!!
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AUG. 4, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 192/185; RIGHT TO PETITION
RIGHT TO PETITION
Amendment I.
of
The Constitution of the United States of America
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Or the RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
First Amendment. Uno number one.
And, the right to petition, is a right of the people. A right of the people.
And, the Declaration of Independence itself tells us what petitioning for redress of grievances meant to the founding fathers:
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen
United States of America
WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.
WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their afety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The History of the present King of Great- Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
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In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be
Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is
and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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It is within such a context that this citizen has repeatedly petitioned for redress of a notorious grievance.
It is within such a context that the response has repeatedly been stonewalling!
It is within such a context that the response has repeatedly been MURDEROUS STONEWALLING!!!
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AUG. 5, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 193/186; KUDOS
Significant progress has been made on development of two of the three Marquee Issues, De Facto Fascism and Petition for Redress of Grievances.
For recipients of the fax form of the Daily Message, the pi4c website menu has been revamped including the addition of a "Marquee Issues" link which provides access to the De Facto Fascism and Petition for Redress of Grievances pages.
The third Marquee Issue, Lottery/Draft Selection Process, shall also be accessible via that link and material for the issue shall probably be posted within the next few days.
Which leads us into a belated Good Bureaucrat award to James H. Billington of the Library of Congress for a program specifically designed to avoid the patronizing syndrome of sending Americans to Russia to tell the Russians how to run their lives.
Instead, thanks to Mr. Billington, about 2,000 local and national officials from Russia will visit the United States during August and September to show them how American democracy and civil society work.
Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska and Representative Charles H. Taylor earn credit for knowing a good idea when they see it. They sponsored the legislation which provided the funding necessary to enable Mr. Billington's idea to become a reality.
Kudos to all three gentlemen!
Now, can we just carry that sentiment one step further.
How about expressly acknowledging to them that maybe, just maybe we didn't get it 100% right, that maybe if they gave the matter a critical review they could even improve upon it.
Oh, let's say maybe they might consider substituting a draft/lottery selection process for the elective process.
How about a competition to see which Nation could come up with the most perfect form of democracy?
Wouldn't it be something if the cold war were replaced by hot competition to see which Nation could come up with the most perfect form of democracy!
And, without reservation, qualification or condition, they should be made aware of the dangers of stonewalling!
And, without reservation, qualification or condition, they should be made aware of the dangers of MURDEROUS STONEWALLING!!!
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AUG. 6, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 194/187; SIX DECADES
Six full decades.
No thanks to the stonewallers!
No thanks to the MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS!!!
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AUG. 7, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 195/188; LOTTERY/DRAFT
STATEMENT OF ISSUE
It is proposed that the Constitution be amended to provide that our current "election" method of selecting our "representatives" be replaced with a lottery/draft method of selection.
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For the time being, the Marquee Issue page for the LOTTERY/DRAFT issue shall consist of a collection of the excerpts from Daily Messages which refer to the issue.
FEBRUARY 1, 1999
Select our representatives by drafting them. Establish a pool of qualified candidates and select representatives by drafting them.
I have been advocating this theory for some time, on some occasions using a lottery selection metaphor. (I have increasingly become enamored with the notion of a society walking up to an individual and saying, ok buster/busterette, get your affairs in order, you are going into training and you may be spending the next 4, 6, 8 years doing something else. I really like the notion of that. A lot.)
MARCH 19, 1999
Those who have followed the issue closely will know the sentiments resonate with me and perhaps even recall comments about the need for a Constitutional Amendment which would address this issue specifically. For those joining the Daily Message thread mid-stream, the Daily Message for February 1, 1999 proposes replacing the "elective" process for selecting public officials with a draft or lottery selection process as a mechanism for eliminating the sytem which allows powerful interests to control a supposedly democratic society.
APRIL 26, 1999
BEST RECEIVED CONCEPT: replacement of the elective system with a lottery/draft selection system;
JUNE 29, 1999
And, the crown jewel of the que'd messages:
The solution to the fascist element inherent in any "election selection process" form of democratic government is to replace elections with a lottery/draft selection process from a pool of qualified candidates so large that it can not be compromised.
The thing that really tickles my funny bone, is the likelihood that Russia would become Democratic before the United States. I can not see ourselves changing our beloved Constitution that radically in anything less than 10 years. All "emerging" democracies, including Russia, can draft a Constitution with a lottery/draft selection process in a heartbeat.
Would not the greatest benefit from a lottery/draft selection process be in the dregs, the residue left over? Let's say that the pool size for president is one thousand (1000). Instead of pouring campaign funds down a rat hole, significantly less funds would be used to train candidates and afterwards we would have 999 statesmen left over. Over a period of time, would that not create a very sophisticated society!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PROBLEMS IT WOULD VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE
MARCH 9, 1999
[money as] a virtual condition of access to the bureauacrcy.
MAY 5, 1999
The poor do not have access to government. ... The politically incorrect do not have access to government. ... The elite have access to government. We know [arbitrary] elitism is fascism.
MAY 9, 1999
ELECTED politicians act[ing] not on the merit of matters, but rather on that which ensures their political survival.
MAY 9, 1999
The privilege we have referred to almost exclusively is that of "ACCESS" to government, and our complaint is really not that they [the "elite"] have access, but rather that in reality they have it exclusively.
JULY 19, 1999
A specific charge has been levied in the DMs that our democratic process is seriously flawed because it reserves virtually exclusive access to government to the elite (some using it judiciously, others not). ... At least one member of mainstream media recently, and icily I might add, referred to his being a member of the elite who "had access to government".
AUG. 1, 1999
We still have campaign finance problems.
AUG. 1, 1999
We still have pols devoting virtually all their time, energy and resources to their own political preservation.
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AUG. 8, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 196/189; HELP
Rarely do I pray to the Lord FOR something.
I am vastly more comfortable giving thanks to the Lord after the fact.
Today is an exception.
I seek the counsel of one of the Lord's servants about a matter which is either or both medical or nutritional in nature.
I suspect because of the hunger strike it is basically medical in nature.
Some of you may recall the DM in which it was revealed that the hunger strike is being conducted without the benefit of medical consultation.
On Friday or Saturday I saw a TV program which indicated that in victim's of a crushing injury, the destroyed muscle releases toxins, including potassium, which are often fatal.
Months ago someone observed that bolemia victims sometimes die of potassium poisoning, and that such poisoning might be the real danger for me.
I believe the risk of such poisoning may increase rapidly over the next few weeks.
Additionally, I have been taking a daily potassium supplement each and every day of the hunger strike, a throw back to my pre-strike habit of getting a potassium fix the first thing every morning by eating a bannana for the dual purposes of mental acuity and heart health both of which are still hugely important.
My questions:
1. Should I discontinue taking the potassium supplement?
2. Are there other anti-toxin precautions which I should be taking?
Anyone able to answer my prayer for help on this matter please email me at: pi4ckbd@erols.com, or telephone me at 703 273 2044.
I also pray that the stonewallers make answer of the prayer unnecessary by merely doing that which they should have done voluntarily so very long ago!
I also pray that the MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS make answer of the prayer unnecessary by merely doing that which they should have done voluntarily so very long ago!!!
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AUG. 9, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 197/190; STATUS
STATUS DATA:
(ESTIMATED SHORTFALL DATA TABLE OF DM 7/13 IS CURRENT)
| FIRST WEEK (7/12-7/18) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
600-650 |
638 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1350-1400
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1362 |
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| SECOND WEEK (7/19-7/25) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
550-600 |
582 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1400-1450 |
1418 |
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| THIRD WEEK (7/26-8/01) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
500-550 |
516 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1450-1500 |
1484 |
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| LAST WEEK (8/02-8/08) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
450-500 |
481 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1500-1550 |
1519 |
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| THIS WEEK (8/09-8/15) |
TARGET |
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| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
400-450 |
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| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1550-1600 |
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Stonewallers', these numbers are!
MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS', these numbers are!!!
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AUG. 10, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 198/191;
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AUG. 11, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 199/192; SCOFFLAW
scofflaw: a contemptuous law violator
Is not a stonewaller a scofflaw!
Is not a MURDEROUS STONEWALLER a scofflaw!!!
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AUG. 12, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 200/193; TOXICITY
Sunday's prayer appears to have been answered.
It produced an email with a significant amount of information on potassium related bodily processes. It did not unequivocally answer the take/not take issue, but prompted an exchange which allowed me to make a decision to discontinue taking the potassium supplement.
The basis of my decision is simply that now that the net caloric daily intake is approximately 400 calories per day, and shall decrease each week by 50 calories, there being if anything an increase in physical activity ("burn" activities are increasing), that a significant degree of tissue breakdown is occurring thereby producing a hyper potassium condition. It is assumed that it is more likely than not that the condition shall increase in degree as daily caloric net intake decreases.
A by product of the exchanges I believe was a more succinct expression of the issue, and absolutely at a minimum another expression of the issue. In any event, because the matter may literally be the difference between survival and succumbing, and there is still an element of doubt about the "safest" course of action to follow, relevant portions of the exchanges are set forth below the immediately following dashed line on the off chance that this version may resonate with someone and prompt a response which would leave nothing to chance. (Information from the source is indented.)
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Am having a little trouble integrating your information into the hunger strike scenario and would appreciate your help sorting a few things out so I make the best use of the material and am able to post it as a DM.
My original mind set was that the issue was simply whether to continue or discontinue taking the potassium supplement.
The present diet is caloric deficient. That can not be remedied, consistent with the regimen of a hunger strike, a given.
It is not known whether the present diet is potassium deficient, or potassium excessive.
Accordingly, we apparently have a potassium sufficiency issue per se, i.e., if a minimum level is not maintained, a fatal heart beat irregularity will probably develop, your material:
Low pottasium leads to heartbeat irregularities. (otherwise understood to be potentially fatal)
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It apparently is a given that a caloric deficient diet ultimately will cause the body to break down body tissues in order to convert the latent energy in the tissues into active energy, into fuel which the body engine can then consume.
This latter phenomena appears to present a second potassium issue. Your material included the following:
High pottasium due to release of pottassium from the cells into body fluid is dangerous due to heart beat irregularities, some of which can be fatal.
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The toxin thing is what I thought killed Karen Carpenter. And I have more or less extrapolated from that premise to having a feeling that maybe it is a given that when body tissues are broke down, potassium in those tissues is not consumed, is not a fuel for the body engine to consume, but instead is a toxin which then builds up in the body fluids, your material:
Metabolic acidosis is caused by tissue breakdown.
Decreased Cardiac mass and output, dehydration and low serum pottassium (Merck Manual, 16th edition) Plasma levels of total amino acids and fatty acids are elevated indicating catabolism of tissue protein and triglyceride respectively.
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My thinking is that of the two issues, the latter is the more significant. Everything I take seems to have significant levels of potassium, so my inclination is that the toxicity thing is likely the more significant of the two.
Your observations please, including relating the objective symptoms to their respective conditions if there are in fact two conditions we are dealing with and they conveniently associate themselves with one or the other - fat chance, right?
kbd/PT
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2nd input from source:
Crushing injuries release intracellurar pottassium to the serum (blood fluid), pottassium - like all other minerals it is in balance with, it is normal within a certain range that is maintained religiously by the body (homeostasis).
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ULTIMATE CONCLUSIONS:
A crush injury destroys cell membranes and thus the above "release".
Tissue breakdown includes a breakdown of cell membranes and thus a "release", also.
Because my GROSS caloric intake is comparatively normal, and because my diet may even be hyper potassium, it is more likely than not that a hyper, vis a vi, hypo potassium condition shall result from tissue breakdown.
Of course, should anyone be aware that this reasoning is false or otherwise have comments which they deem pertinent, please email me at:pi4ckbd@erols.com
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AUG. 13, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 201/194; WOOD SHED
Janet, we have an appointment at the wood shed.
Citing public pressure to "do something" to end gun violence, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno called Thursday for a major expansion of national gun control measures. Among her proposals are denying guns to people who committed violent offenses as
juveniles, imposing federal limits on handgun purchases, reinstating a "cooling-off period" between the time a gun permit is applied for and the time it is approved, and requiring the registration of all handguns nationwide.
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What in the hell is wrong with you?
How many times do you have to be told to stop trying to make the symptom go away!
How many times do you have to be told to start trying to eliminate the cause of a problem!
Causes yes, symptoms no, Janet!
I do not presume to be an expert in this area. I do have enough life experiences that I know there are at least two causal factors of gun related violence.
Factor one: the individual is sick.
Factor two: the individual is provoked.
Of course, sometimes, and probably in most instances, both factors are present.
Provoked is used in a sense inclusive of alienation. Acts which alienate an individual also have a capacity to provoke the individual.
Your statement not only does not address these causal factors, nor any other causal factors, but, indeed, has a capacity to provoke and thus to exacerbate rather than ameliorate the problem.
Your statement was made for the sole purpose of political expediency.
Your statement is a classic example of why "elective process" democracy does not work and must be replaced with the lottery/draft process form of democracy discussed in numerous prior daily messages. (The pi4c web site Marquee Issue, Selection section.)
Your statement is what one would expect of a stonewaller!
Your statement is what one would expect of a MURDEROUS STONEWALLER!!!
[DAY 201/194 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=194 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 14, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 202/195; SELF EVIDENT
There is certainly precedent in this society for one's taking one thing or another as self evident.
Quite evidently to this writer at least, the basic, fundamental approach to problem solving of attacking the cause, rather than the symptom, of a problem is self evident.
For whatever the reason, that does not seem to be the case with the power structure of this society.
Making prostitution illegal has not worked. Prostitution is the world's oldest profession they tell me.
Making alcohol illegal did not work.
Making drugs illegal has not worked.
Why do these rocket scientists think that, in essence, "making guns illegal" is going to work?
Is not what they are doing analogous to squeezing a balloon to make it smaller?
I like the balloon analogy because you can make a balloon smaller by lowering the temperature, and there is a temperature allegory thread which runs through both of the causal factors, illness and provocation, cited in yesterday's DM as regularly associated with gun violence.
Temperature frequently accompanies illness. Does it not exist for the purpose of alerting us that the illness is present? And true, we sometimes need to treat excessive temperature, the symptom, in order to buy us the time necessary to cure the illness.
And, does not provocation heat things up, to the boiling point, we say, don't we.
Why do we shy from an analysis of the underlying root causes of so many of our problems?
Do we actually know what those problems are in significant part and don't want to admit it?
That's certainly what stonewalling is all about, isn't it!
That's certainly what MURDEROUS STONEWALLING is all about, isn't it!!!
[DAY 202/195 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=195 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 15, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 203/196; LEVEL
Last Sunday's prayer seems to have been answered, so maybe I should be praying FOR things more than I have.
First, however, let me very publicly offer up my prayer of thanks for the answer to last week's prayer for guidance on whether or not to continue taking the potassium supplement. For those of you new to the Daily Message (DM), or who may have missed that particular DM, I have discontinued taking the supplement.
My prayer today is for a level playing field.
A field which does not include stonewallers!
A field which does not include MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS!!!
Stonewallers:
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at a minimum, let the light of day see your reasons for not granting relief from the unlawful suspensions.
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MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS:
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at a minimum, let the light of day see your reasons for not granting relief from the unlawful suspensions.
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Speak now, stonewallers, or forever be known as a cur which stuck its tail between its legs and slunk off!
Speak now, MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS, or forever be known as a cur which stuck its tail between its legs and slunk off!!!
[DAY 203/196 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=196 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 16, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 204/197; STATUS
STATUS DATA:
(ESTIMATED SHORTFALL DATA TABLE OF DM 7/13 IS CURRENT)
| FIRST WEEK (7/12-7/18) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
600-650 |
638 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1350-1400
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1362 |
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| SECOND WEEK (7/19-7/25) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
550-600 |
582 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1400-1450 |
1418 |
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| THIRD WEEK (7/26-8/01) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
500-550 |
516 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1450-1500 |
1484 |
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| FOURTH WEEK (8/02-8/08) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
450-500 |
481 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1500-1550 |
1519 |
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| LAST WEEK (8/09-8/15) |
TARGET |
ACTUAL |
| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
400-450 |
425 |
| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1550-1600 |
1575 |
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| THIS WEEK (8/16-8/22) |
TARGET |
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| NET CALORIE INTAKE |
350-400 |
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| CALORIC SHORTFALL |
1600-1650 |
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Stonewallers', these numbers are!
MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS', these numbers are!!!
[DAY 204/197 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=197 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 17, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 205/198; NEVILLE
Does any reputable historian argue that Neville Chamberlain was anything but wrong?
Appeasement was wrong then and is wrong now.
Tolerance of fascism is appeasement.
Is not the United States therefore at a crossroads one of which is appeasement and the other of which is unqualified, overt and open repudiation of modern day fascism!
Do you think you can rely upon the stonewallers to voluntarily take the right path?
Do you think you can rely upon the MURDERSOUS STONEWALLERS to voluntarily take the right path?
Would not the contact them daily and recruit two others to do the same strategy ultimately get the stonewallers on the right path!
Would not the contact them daily and recruit two others to do the same strategy ultimately get the MURDERSOUS STONEWALLERS on the right path!
[DAY 205/198 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=198 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 18, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 206/199; APPEASEMENT II
I am proud that I am not one of "them". That is the one good thing about the unlawful suspensions, they are an unequivocal statement that I am not one of "them".
This is not a goody, goody two shoes matter, however.
This is about the heart and guts of democracy.
I know damn good and well that in 1944 and 1945 nobody would have dared to trivialize democracy, to thumb their nose at democracy in the way those unlawful suspensions do, to say that up is down and down is up, to say that those who are in control can do any damn thing they please. With impunity.
Those guys, the guys of 1944 and 1945, chose me to go to Boys State.
They spent their hard earned money to send me to Boys State.
I know what they expected me to learn by going there, and it wasn't the self centered, mercenary, chicanery, deceit and deception practiced today by those who are in control. Actually, most of the "practicing" is done by boot licking martinet, lackey suck ups to those who are in control. A bunch of losers. The losers who can't compete so they have to cheat bunch.
Nor was it to tolerate the bunch of garbage we have in control of our society now.
It was to stand up to "them". To do otherwise, to do anything less, would be to be an appeaser. A cowardly appeaser.
Not all of those who went to Boys State learned the lesson of that experience as well as I. Indeed, even some of those guys of '44 and '45 are now part of the problem.
And stand up to that bunch typified by the stonewallers I shall.
And stand up to that bunch typified by the MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS I shall.
[DAY 206/199 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=199 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 19, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 207/200; APPEASEMENT III
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pacify, conciliate; especially: to buy off (a potential aggressor) by concessions usually at the sacrifice of principles
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Would those who are in control appease if it served their selfish interest. In a New York minute they would appease.
If one does not act when one should act in order to "buy off" those who are in control, does one appease?
Yes, and this is in the nature of appeasement by non-feasance, isn't it, a genuine negative two-fer.
Do the stonewallers stonewall for the purpose of appeasement, for the purpose of serving their selfish interests, or for a combination of appeasement and serving their selfish interests?
Do the MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS stonewall for the purpose of appeasement, for the purpose of serving their selfish interests, or for a combination of appeasement and serving their selfish interests???
[DAY 207/200 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=200 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 20, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 208/201; NONE
[DAY 208/201 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=201 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 21, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 209/202; NOTICE
THERE HAS SIMPLY BEEN TOO MUCH AGENDA, AND TOO LITTLE PonyTail.
THE DAILY MESSAGE SHALL RESUME ON MONDAY, AUGUST 23RD.
[DAY 209/202 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=202 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 23, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 211/204; SABBATICAL
Well folks, I still feel exhausted.
Complicating all matters is the current level of "burn" activity.
And, I've just started writing several new series of DMs.
The bottom line is that I need the next few days to rest, write, and get a few errands and other badly neglected matters which have accumulated taken care of.
There may be a sporadic message or two this week but I do plan to resume normal distribution next Monday, August the 30th.
[DAY 211/204 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=204 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 30, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 218/211; PREMISES
We were mid-stream on the Appeasement theme when the Daily Message was interrupted. Rather than attempt to immediately regain the momentum of that theme, the DM shall be resumed with a statement of basic fundamental premises of the hunger strike.
PREMISES
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The suspensions are unlawful. (New readers of the DM and anyone wishing to refresh their memory are referred to the Death Sentence Section of the pi4c website.)
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A person unlawfully suspended from the practice of law is a victim.
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Anyone in any way responsible for causing a person to be unlawfully suspended from the practice of law, anyone responsible for victimizing a person, is a perpetrator.
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Any person having "psychiatric problems" sufficient to justify suspending the person from the practice of law is a sick person.
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fascism: arbitrary elitism.
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Mind you now that today, Monday August 30, 1999, is the 218th. day of the hunger strike, and approximately the 211th. day of the process of body shutdown, and thus I claim a right based upon probable significant reduced capacity to add to or amend these premises at a later date.
If the stonewallers have any problems with these premises, let them speak now or forever hold their peace.
If the MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS have any problems with these premises, let them speak now or forever hold their peace.
[DAY 218/211 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=211 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
AUG. 31, 1999 HUNGER STRIKE DAY 219/212; FIRST PREMISE
Yesterday's DM listed basic and fundamental premises of the hunger strike.
The first premise was that two suspensions of the victim from the practice of law were unlawful.
Suffice it to say that both suspensions are predicated upon a decision the operative language of which is an oxymoron, to wit:
Without the benefit of competent medical testimony
neither the referee nor this court is qualified to
arrive at a diagnosis or prognosis concerning the
respondent's mental health. ... suspended ...
petition for reinstatement ... entertained ...
provide substantial evidence ... overcome ...
psychiatric problems.
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The above language is from the last page of a so-called opinion by the minnesota supreme court, lack of capitalization deliberate.
It is an oxymoron to first admit they were "unqualified" to arrive at a diagnosis of an individual's mental health, but to nonetheless then say that the individual had psychiatric problems.
In twenty plus years of attempting to obtain relief no one has ever given a reasoned defense of the suspension. Scores of lawyers have had the opportunity to do so; none has.
In thousands of discussions with lay persons, no one has ever given a reasoned defense of the suspension; a minuscule few have dug in their heels and in effect said "it just is", no reason, but "it just is".
Stonewallers, I trust even you agree that any legal decision predicated upon an oxymoron is invalid!
MURDEROUS STONEWALLERS, I trust even you agree that any legal decision predicated upon an oxymoron is invalid!!!
[DAY 219/212 BOILER PLATE]
[BODY SHUTDOWN=212 DAYS]
[BODYWEIGHT LOSS>24%]
[VICTIM'S AGE > 60]
[MESSENGER NOT PROBLEM]
BAD GUY CONTACT INFORMATION
PRESUMPTIVELY BAD GUY VENTURA CONTACT INFORMATION
TELE: 651 296 3391
FAX: 651 296 2089
email: jesse.ventura@state.mn.us
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