Hi, Ray, This is very interesting: governance model. Is there much written about this governmental structure? Can you recommend a book, or article?
Cheers, Lawry On Jun 1, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Ray Harrell wrote: > I am most grateful to my people for the distinction between the Domains of > Peace and War. > > The Cherokee people would completely change the government from top to bottom > if war was declared. The seven clan structure of government has, in my > opinion, never been equaled for National and City structures. There was no > national police force because the clan was responsible for the behavior of > all of their members. Marriages were never within clans and always between > clans. But the genius was in the knowledge of war. War is Alpha and the > war government came from the Wolf Clan. It was called the "Red" government. > The Peace Government could be drawn from all of the Clans including Wolf, > but one Clan tended to be more about diplomacy. Each clan had an area of > responsibility in the social structure of the society. But the war and > peace was not mixed in the governing structure. A young Wolf would never be > a member of the peace government. That would be for the old Wolf "Generals" > who were knowledgeable about the costs of war. My teacher was Wolf Clan > and had been Chief of the Wolf Clan. He had to give all of that up in spite > of the excitement of conflict. He became the Peace Priest and put away the > path of war in his life although he felt that war was imminent in the > dominant Non-Indian Society. The Gulf War happened soon as he said, just > before he died. Captives and Societal Control are tools of the War > government. After a thousand years of European war, it's almost a habit. > It will take great courage and commitment to unravel the pattern. Remember, > Alexander's cutting of the knot was not a peaceful but a war government > action. Unraveling the knot would have been contemplative and peaceful. > > REH > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D & N > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 12:54 PM > To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION > Subject: Re: [Futurework] There have been so many stories > > Wow, sometimes my "quick read" does work for the best. That is what I saw in > the original send. > > D. > > P.S. AS angry as I sometimes get and as caustic and disjointed in some posts, > I always remain on the anti-war, anti violence side and have no understanding > of how those 'who would rule' can even suggest the things that have occurred > in the past and that are still occurring. If insanity is not the result of > genetics, epigenetics or 'nurture', then how is it to be categorized so it > can be treated? It seems fear is the thing that has always been utilized to > control communities, populations, and societies. Even though it may stem from > the tribal rule of the meanest wolf in the pack, there must be a time when > that attitude is not seen as a plus to survival and that co-operation is the > better choice. Otherwise the strivings of greed for the sake of profit > through control (by any means) of a 'captive' population (societal control > through learned mores) will ultimately destroy the society (as any accurate > account of history shows) and ultimately not give that which the greed has > sought. > > > ] > > On 01/06/2012 8:43 AM, Ray Harrell wrote: > (Correction) Somewhere the Art has to rise ABOVE the level of fairy tales, > ghosts and goblins and even heroes. > REH > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:39 AM > To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION > Subject: [Futurework] There have been so many stories > > Kim Phuc and Nick Ut are friends over the years from the Eddie Adams workshop > where we have given remembrance ceremonials for the past fifteen years. > One should remember that this also happened in Europe after WWI when > national racism was supreme, class was considered "culture" and economics was > the tool that caused the "untermenschen" to rise up in revolt in another > world war. (Hitler had no idea that he was untermenschen. It's always > easier to point at other people.) Freud called it "projection." Now, > after a great cleansing (WWII) they have Europe formal and shiny again. > (See yesterday's third article I sent on the Count Bardi Palazzo. ) But > there are still the Freudian realities that bubble up, separate people and > create a despair so great that war is the only imaginable answer, (until you > have one and then you wonder how you could have been such a monster). > > The only answer must be an external devil who made you do it (or your > parent's hardwiring). Genes, Epigenes or something else but external to > what really happens when people can't work together and arrive at amicable > solutions for all concerned. The biggest fraud seems to be the Socialists, > followed by the Aristocrats. The German Socialists are still reeling from > the collapse of the wall and the absorption of the East. Next to an East > German (a relative) a Greek is a troll to a West German. Next to the Scots > or the Irish, the Spanish are Dwarfs to the English. Next to............ > Somewhere the Art has to rise about the level of fairy tales, ghosts and > goblins and even heroes. > > Criminality is just crime and theft is theft no matter where it's found. If > the economists truly want capitalism then they have to find a way to temper > it so the people they lure into the market (for their retirement and health > care funds) don't wake and find their elders and children in abject poverty > over the crash. Meanwhile, America wants to imitate a Europe that is once > again enamored of and at war with themselves. The was Euro just a hopeless > dream totally out of sync with the culture? > REH > > 'Napalm Girl Photo' From Vietnam War Turns 40 > By MARGIE MASON 05/31/12 11:05 PM ET <image001.jpg> > > > <image002.jpg> > South Vietnamese forces follow after terrified children, including 9-year-old > Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial > napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places on June 8, 1972. A South > Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese > troops and civilians. The terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes > while fleeing.(AP Photo/Nick Ut) > TRANG BANG, Vietnam — In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and > wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning > Vietnamese village. > > She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her > clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava. > > She will always be a victim without a name. > > It only took a second for Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut > to snap the iconic black-and-white image 40 years ago. It communicated the > horrors of the Vietnam War in a way words could never describe, helping to > end one of the most divisive wars in American history. > > But beneath the photo lies a lesser-known story. It's the tale of a dying > child brought together by chance with a young photographer. A moment captured > in the chaos of war that would serve as both her savior and her curse on a > journey to understand life's plan for her. > > "I really wanted to escape from that little girl," says Kim Phuc, now 49. > "But it seems to me that the picture didn't let me go." > > ____ > > It was June 8, 1972, when Phuc heard the soldier's scream: "We have to run > out of this place! They will bomb here, and we will be dead!" > > Seconds later, she saw the tails of yellow and purple smoke bombs curling > around the Cao Dai temple where her family had sheltered for three days, as > north and south Vietnamese forces fought for control of their village. > > The little girl heard a roar overhead and twisted her neck to look up. As the > South Vietnamese Skyraider plane grew fatter and louder, it swooped down > toward her, dropping canisters like tumbling eggs flipping end over end. > > "Ba-boom! Ba-boom!" > > The ground rocked. Then the heat of a hundred furnaces exploded as orange > flames spit in all directions. > > Fire danced up Phuc's left arm. The threads of her cotton clothes evaporated > on contact. Trees became angry torches. Searing pain bit through skin and > muscle. > > "I will be ugly, and I'm not normal anymore," she thought, as her right hand > brushed furiously across her blistering arm. "People will see me in a > different way." > > In shock, she sprinted down Highway 1 behind her older brother. She didn't > see the foreign journalists gathered as she ran toward them, screaming. > > Then, she lost consciousness. > > ___ > > Ut, the 21-year-old Vietnamese photographer who took the picture, drove Phuc > to a small hospital. There, he was told the child was too far gone to help. > But he flashed his American press badge, demanded that doctors treat the girl > and left assured that she would not be forgotten. > > "I cried when I saw her running," said Ut, whose older brother was killed on > assignment with the AP in the southern Mekong Delta. "If I don't help her – > if something happened and she died – I think I'd kill myself after that." > > Back at the office in what was then U.S.-backed Saigon, he developed his > film. When the image of the naked little girl emerged, everyone feared it > would be rejected because of the news agency's strict policy against nudity. > > But veteran Vietnam photo editor Horst Faas took one look and knew it was a > shot made to break the rules. He argued the photo's news value far outweighed > any other concerns, and he won. > > A couple of days after the image shocked the world, another journalist found > out the little girl had somehow survived the attack. Christopher Wain, a > correspondent for the British Independent Television Network who had given > Phuc water from his canteen and drizzled it down her burning back at the > scene, fought to have her transferred to the American-run Barsky unit. It was > the only facility in Saigon equipped to deal with her severe injuries. > > "I had no idea where I was or what happened to me," she said. "I woke up and > I was in the hospital with so much pain, and then the nurses were around me. > I woke up with a terrible fear." > > Thirty percent of Phuc's tiny body was scorched raw by third-degree burns, > though her face somehow remained untouched. Over time, her melted flesh began > to heal. > > "Every morning at 8 o'clock, the nurses put me in the burn bath to cut all my > dead skin off," she said. "I just cried and when I could not stand it any > longer, I just passed out." > > After multiple skin grafts and surgeries, Phuc was finally allowed to leave, > 13 months after the bombing. She had seen Ut's photo, which by then had won > the Pulitzer Prize, but she was still unaware of its reach and power. > > She just wanted to go home and be a child again. > > ___ > > For a while, life did go somewhat back to normal. The photo was famous, but > Phuc largely remained unknown except to those living in her tiny village near > the Cambodian border. Ut and a few other journalists sometimes visited her, > but that stopped after northern communist forces seized control of South > Vietnam on April 30, 1975, ending the war. > > Life under the new regime became tough. Medical treatment and painkillers > were expensive and hard to find for the teenager, who still suffered extreme > headaches and pain. > > She worked hard and was accepted into medical school to pursue her dream of > becoming a doctor. But all that ended once the new communist leaders realized > the propaganda value of the `napalm girl' in the photo. > > She was forced to quit college and return to her home province, where she was > trotted out to meet foreign journalists. The visits were monitored and > controlled, her words scripted. She smiled and played her role, but the rage > inside began to build and consume her. > > "I wanted to escape that picture," she said. "I got burned by napalm, and I > became a victim of war ... but growing up then, I became another kind of > victim." > > She turned to Cao Dai, her Vietnamese religion, for answers. But they didn't > come. > > "My heart was exactly like a black coffee cup," she said. "I wished I died in > that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died > at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore ... it was so hard for me to > carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness." > > One day, while visiting a library, Phuc found a Bible. For the first time, > she started believing her life had a plan. > > Then suddenly, once again, the photo that had given her unwanted fame brought > opportunity. > > She traveled to West Germany in 1982 for medical care with the help of a > foreign journalist. Later, Vietnam's prime minister, also touched by her > story, made arrangements for her to study in Cuba. > > She was finally free from the minders and reporters hounding her at home, but > her life was far from normal. Ut, then working at the AP in Los Angeles, > traveled to meet her in 1989, but they never had a moment alone. There was no > way for him to know she desperately wanted his help again. > > "I knew in my dream that one day Uncle Ut could help me to have freedom," > said Phuc, referring to him by an affectionate Vietnamese term. "But I was in > Cuba. I was really disappointed because I couldn't contact with him. I > couldn't do anything." > > ___ > > While at school, Phuc met a young Vietnamese man. She had never believed > anyone would ever want her because of the ugly patchwork of scars that banded > across her back and pitted her arm, but Bui Huy Toan seemed to love her more > because of them. > > The two decided to marry in 1992 and honeymoon in Moscow. On the flight back > to Cuba, the newlyweds defected during a refueling stop in Canada. She was > free. > > Phuc contacted Ut to share the news, and he encouraged her to tell her story > to the world. But she was done giving interviews and posing for photos. > > "I have a husband and a new life and want to be normal like everyone else," > she said. > > The media eventually found Phuc living near Toronto, and she decided she > needed to take control of her story. A book was written in 1999 and a > documentary came out, at last the way she wanted it told. She was asked to > become a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador to help victims of war. She and Ut have > since reunited many times to tell their story, even traveling to London to > meet the Queen. > > "Today, I'm so happy I helped Kim," said Ut, who still works for AP and > recently returned to Trang Bang village. "I call her my daughter." > > After four decades, Phuc, now a mother of two sons, can finally look at the > picture of herself running naked and understand why it remains so powerful. > It had saved her, tested her and ultimately freed her. > > "Most of the people, they know my picture but there's very few that know > about my life," she said. "I'm so thankful that ... I can accept the picture > as a powerful gift. Then it is my choice. Then I can work with it for peace." > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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