we were out in public together, and another
black woman came into view, GFH would grab my arm and start strutting.
She was showing off her white boyfriend. On one such occasion, when
the other black woman walked past us, she muttered in a stage whisper to
GFH, "How sweet!" That's a true story.
—editor
Dear Mr Milam;
Thank
you, for carrying the truth forward and allowing the silenced to have a
voice....
—Robert H. Outman
Prisoner P-79939
A Slave by
Any Other Name
Sam Aurelius Milam III
The
Fourteenth Amendment informs us that a citizen of the United States is
subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. government. The various dictionaries
inform us that jurisdiction means power and control. Since the government
doesn't regard citizenship as being voluntary, and since a citizen is within
the power and control of the government, there isn't much difference between
citizenship and slavery. Anybody who's in doubt can consider the
way that the government controls the behavior of citizens.
There
are three kinds of behavior in the United States: required behavior,
prohibited behavior, and regulated behavior. If you're caught failing
to engage in required behavior, then the government will punish you.
If you're caught engaging in prohibited behavior, then the government will
punish you. If you're caught engaging in regulated behavior without
a license or a permit, then the government will punish you. If you
try to resist the punishment, then the government will initiate the use
of force against you. If you try to resist the use of force against
you, then the government will kill you. The authority of a master
to punish or kill a slave verifies the nature of the relationship.
Stray Thoughts
Sam Aurelius Milam III
• If
the only thing that you know about a situation is what the government told
you, then you don't know much about the situation.
• Revolutions
are not caused by dissatisfied people. Such people are usually happy
to become either liberals or criminals. They won't become revolutionaries
unless they're forced to do so by intolerable government.
Smitten
With Embarrassment Department
(Seldom Used)
Sam Aurelius Milam III
In
the April 2013 Frontiersman, I wrote an article
about an NCIS episode named
Chained. Among other comments,
I criticized the writers for a scene in which DiNozzo and a prisoner changed
clothes while they were handcuffed together. While I was writing
the article, I started to doubt my memory. Could the writers really
have made such a stupid mistake? To check on it, I bought the DVD
and watched that sequence on my computer, several times, in step-frame
mode. Yes, while DiNozzo and the prisoner were completing the change-of-clothes
scene, they definitely stayed handcuffed together. So far as I could
tell, the seemingly impossible change-of-clothes wasn't explained.
 In
spite of the fact that the team members on NCIS tend to behave like
Nazi thugs, it's an entertaining show. I'm quite a fan. I've
seen most of the episodes several times and, this past March, I watched
Chained
again. Here's the problem. While I was watching that episode
again, I noticed in a subsequent scene, after the change-of-clothes scene,
that the shirt sleeves on the hand-cuffed arms of both men appeared to
have been cut from cuff to shoulder, and then crudely mended. See
the picture. The scene is in a truck in a wooded region and, consequently,
it's poorly lighted and difficult to see. It appears very briefly,
for only a second or less. So, it's easy to understand how I missed
it. I haven't noticed any other scene in the entire episode in which
the condition of the sleeves is visible. Even so, it appears that
the writers didn't make the stupid error of which I accused them.
Consequently, I'm smitten with embarrassment.
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