Myth America.

I haven't verified this story but: “A teacher at East Middle School in Farmington Hills, Mich. is being accused of forcibly dragging a black sixth-grade student from his seat for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance.

The unnamed teacher is reportedly under investigation and was put on leave from his duties after “violently” grabbing young Stone Chaney out of his seat for not standing.

“The teacher consultant comes up behind me and snatches me out of my chair violently,” he told WDIV-4 of the Sept. 7 incident. “I was so confused. I didn’t know what was going on.”

These reactions are from white Americans unable to see themselves through other's eyes. No one gives a damn about that pain of theirs. It has always been like this: Blacks and others conquered and dominated by Euro-Americans have always stood above and away with their intimate knowledge of our white people! When light hits upon their myths there is always a violent reaction. It is fear based, but belongs to them. Because they haven't the propensity to do their spiritual work leave them to be, is what Black protest is about on a deeper and invisible level! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Bill Russell, 11 time NBA champion, takes a knee.

"[Francis Scott Key] shared a general view of the free people of color as shiftless and untrustworthy: a nuisance, if not a menace, to white people. He spoke publicly of Africans in America as "a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experiences proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community."'

~ Jefferson Morley / Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 p.40 

Women's March on Washington sign of protest (fourth story)

Lemuel (my son), and I at the Smithsonian subway station Jan. 21, 2017. I was on my way to the Women's March. It was 10 in the morning, and Lemuel was on duty watching the crowds streaming by his solitary place enjoying the moment, ever ready to smile and to serve. That early in the day he was already getting high numbers of people strolling out of the subway on to the Mall. The trains were full to the maximum so early in large part because Metro put the trains on Saturday schedule. That means fewer trains to service more people!

If you haven't caught it yet, my son is a police officer.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1/21/17

I saw only two men who were a possible threat to the women in the crowd. They were moving in a way that smelled of menace. The first man was a Black man, who found within the courage to rage and vent against the women talking from the perspective of their bodies about abortion, the punany, the political assaults in the president's insults. He trembled with an old rage. I watched him for a tiny sliver of time before he suddenly stood up and began sending his words into the crowd. It was dark and the women who heard it bundled themselves in prayer and practiced fear, but only a moment or two. They were in numbers and he looked around and found no other man like him in the crowd. For a moment he was defiant. There was no response. There was just women staring up at him and looking away on purpose giving him no consideration. He tried to address the audience in his head, but that was too obvious making him look awkward and unsure. Then he was gone. He turned on his heels and darted away like a deer.

The second man was a fool. The people, many of us were walking away from the closed event up Independence Avenue. There were too many people trying to get on the subway so walking home or to the Stadium to get on the hundreds of buses to return guests home across the country and back to airports was the only thing to do. For those who don't know that avenue is flanked by government. The Library of Congress, the U.S. Capital, the administration building of the Library of Congress and other buildings all protected by Capital Police, and they are a tight well trained unit.

Walking into the happy crowd of all sorts of people one of those masked agitator men walked through the walkers with three women all dressed in a ragged assemblage of found clothing. His face was masked in a black cloth leading a chant the women he was with responded to. His energy was off. His eyes were distant, separated from his appearance and seemed to walk ahead of him. It was obvious he was from out of town. Men like that don't tread softly amongst police ever at the ready on a constant basis for terrorist attacks. It was laughable because the wrong move!! If I could be surrounded by Capital Police, and I was a few years ago for being a terrorist while sitting in a park not far from there with a friend what would a cat like that face on Capital Hill?


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 22, 2017 

Women's March on Washington signs of protest from the pain of... photo by Gaby Grebski.

Water, Mining & Business

El Salvador Water Warriors Fight Corporate Greed to Win Rights

But with a national water scarcity emergency declared last month, the crisis has reached a tipping point. Water rights advocates are ramping up their already years-long struggle to enshrine the human right to water in El Salvador's constitution and force corporations to play their part in protecting the environment and conserving water for future generations.
Yet, it remains to be seen whether conservative factions in Congress will ease up on their staunch support for private... interests and allow key proposals to move forward.

“Our demand is that water be recognized as a constitutional right,” Jose Maria Argueta, a member of El Salvador’s Foro del Agua coalition of environmental and human rights groups fighting for water rights, told teleSUR by phone. “Currently, there is no entity charged with ensuring the right to water for communities and society in general.”


Civil society groups, together with left-wing lawmakers of the ruling FMLN party, have been working for the past decade to get lawmakers to adopt a General Water Law aimed at protecting the right to water and regulating corporate use of the precious resource, but the proposal has long stagnated in Congress. Grassroots groups are also fighting to get the human right to water and food listed in the constitution to strengthen their movement. - Rudy Arredondo October 24, 2016 

Rudy, I am forever baffled by the spirit of the mentality behind this crisis. Aside from political activism what? What can change the heart separate from mind? What can join the two at the deeper levels where blending as part and essential to Creation re-enter the deadness of this kind of spirit? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.28.16  


Corporate Conquistadors Rape Indigenous Lands and Bodies 

Mining is about exploitation – not just of the minerals in the ground, but of women as well.
For decades, the primary focus of anti-mining, logging and oil and gas activists has been on the environmental destruction left behind by the extractive industry. It is also a fact that Indigenous peoples worldwide are disproportionately impacted by environmental destruction in their territories caused by these companies with the approval of state governments. Environmental racism has... put all the profits in the hands of corporations at the expense of the health of peoples, plants and animals.

What is less known by the general public are the very unique traumas experienced by Indigenous women when corporations invade their lands and their bodies.

Indigenous women and little girls experience higher rates of sexualized violence from the frontline workers and security forces hired by national and transnational corporations seeking to exploit the natural resources on Indigenous lands. Many state governments have allowed these violent crimes against Indigenous women and girls to occur for decades without taking any substantive steps to hold these corporations accountable. This has resulted in massive human rights violations often ignored, denied, covered up by out of court settlements, or re-routed to confidential alternative dispute processes. The general public is kept in the dark about what these corporations are doing in the name of profit. What is happening is shocking, but gets very little media attention, and worse, very little action from law enforcement and public safety officials in state governments.

Hudbay Minerals Incorporated is a major transnational Canadian mining company that will face court proceedings in Canada for the reported murder of an Indigenous leader and gang rapes of Indigenous women from a Mayan Q’eqchi’ community located on lands near the mine. The rapes are said to have been committed by security forces hired by the Canadian mining company, Skye Resources – the previous owners of the mine before Hudbay purchased it in 2007. - Rudy Arredondo 

Run in Prayer, the Native Way

artist, Jackie Fawn running with heavy prayers from the prayer run

in Arizona, December 2015.

"Running with heavy prayers from the prayer run in AZ this last December 2015 for Moahdak Do'ag. I've never ran so deep in prayer that I swear I felt my legs grow swift as a deer and then into wings strong as an eagle. The sacred sites we the people defend are our temples and when they are threatened, how does one expect us to respond? We will rise and defend our sacred connections to the earth." - Jackie Fawn

GAY OR HAPPY MARRIAGE!!

"Should government, at any level, regulate marriage be it a heterosexual or homosexual couple?" - Brian Hersey, 3.27.2010 

"People wanted separation of church and state. They got it, but now want the state to redefine what the bible defines as a marriage. Seriously? Every freedom is a double-edged sword. Freedom of speech isn't just as long as it doesn't anger you...it's there.

I also don't think a government has the right to define what makes up a family. I'm for unions, including plurals among adults. Can't have the term 'marriage' though and I hold each state accountable to uphold it, but I'm all for the rights of whatever is defined as a functional and loving family." - Charles Comer, 10.16.13


"No, but it should not be redefined by them either. Next we'll have people wanting to marry their pets--or maybe even their favorite pair of shoes. Who is to say that marriage should have to be between people. Marriage is ordained of God and needs to stay that way. Have any relationship you wish but leave the definition of marriage alone and let people have the religious freedom promised in the constitution." - Tom Martin 11.24.13


"Marriage was and is, first and foremost, a private (in most cases, religious) affair. The gov't decided to recognize and facilitate the institution of marriage with financial and legal privileges in order to encourage responsible procreation. Growing the US population grows the US economy, and thus tax base, workforce, ie. number of employers and employees, fills out the military ranks for a strong national defense, etc. The gov't has a state interest in encouraging population growth, which is why the public institution was established with certain regulations, benefits and purposes in mind. The gov't did not establish the public institution of marriage to recognize people's "love" for each other, "love" is neither a legal requirement nor justification for getting married, the gov't could care less whether two persons getting married "love" each other. The gov't recognizes marriage for one reason: to encourage conception, birth, and responsible child-raising--a purpose which same-sex couples cannot contribute towards because last time I checked, it is impossible for two persons of the same gender to impregnate one another. It's not discrimination, it's biology. If the state interest in population growth is no longer relevant, then the gov't should abolish the institution--which is clearly being bastardized now for political ends--and allow the private sector (e.g. the Church) to resume its prerogative to recognize marriage according to its rules & purposes." - Dan Frazee, 8.12.13

Cybill Shepard grabbing between her legs.

Making Stands

Kentucky clerk Kim Davis in secret meeting with Pope Francis, report says

by Calla Wahlquist for the The Guardian


Kim Davis, the Kentucky county court clerk who spent five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is reported to have had a private meeting with the pope during his historic US tour.

According to a statement posted on the website of Christian lobby group the Liberty Council, Pope Francis met Davis and her husband, Joe, at the Vatican’s Washington DC embassy on Thursday. The statement carries the stamp of the Liberty Council’s founder and chairman, Matt Staver, who is acting as Davis’s lawyer in her dispute with the court.

The statement, which is based on a report from Inside The Vatican, says that the pope thanked Davis for her “courage” and told her to “stay strong”. He then said he would pray for her and presented both her and her husband with a rosary, the Liberty Council claimed.

Davis is then quoted as saying that she was “humbled” by the experience: “I never thought I would meet the pope. Who am I to have this rare opportunity? I am just a county clerk who loves Jesus and desires with all my heart to serve him.”

“Pope Francis was kind, genuinely caring, and very personable,” her statement continued. “He even asked me to pray for him. Pope Francis thanked me for my courage and told me to ‘stay strong’.”

The Vatican has not responded to the reports.

Staver, who founded the Liberty Council in 1989, linked the meeting to the pontiff’s comments about conscientious objection, which prompted a flurry of speculation about whether the pope was referring to Davis.

“Not only did Pope Francis know of Kim Davis, he personally met with her to express his support,” Staver said.



 

Problem with the Plumbing

flag flown by actress Elizabeth Banks 

“From slavery and the days of Jim Crow through the civil rights movement and beyond, white supremacists have targeted the Black church because of its importance as a pillar of the Black community, the center for leadership and institution building, education, social and political development and organizing to fight oppression,” Love wrote.

“Strike at the Black church, and you strike at the heart of Black American life,” the writer added. 

face covered - Domi Dollz 

I have listened and read on this subject since childhood. My father kept a photograph of two Black men hanging from a tree above his desk. I saw it everyday as a little boy. Daddy's life work balanced the terror of it because of his ability to facilitate between the two factions at war with each other and his deep knowledge of men, of himself, American history and the inner workings of the poor white Southerns and Eastern European immigrants he grew up with in small town USA.  There were other things my father understood and studied in depth. His ability to work against the structure of Jim Crow holding an important Federal position was as important as his youngest brother, Noel's role as a union president in Illinois for a predominately white union during these times. Their skill levels exceed the whining and cowardice of our times that baits one against another. A lack of depth cannot fix a plumbing problem beneath a house. Desert tribes never learned to live on the desert pretending they lived on an oasis. The six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy did not cease endless warfare by polite talk, or dancing around the core of what ailed their souls. In like manner the problems created by white people that dominate this nation cannot be solved throwing another group into the mix to ask, plead and petition for acceptance and equality!

I dread returning to the States.

WE insist equality comes without balance and while shunning the basics of life mirroring the two primary energies we plead and play with the idea we can alter nature without consequences! Caught up in the language of a people who eat their brother and kill their grandchildren to feed their children the nation are Africans and the indigenous people of Turtle Island whose ancestors know the secrets of reconciliation, know the ceremonies that bring warring elements and people together to heal. But, that is unquestioned by the dominate culture whose language has become our language, our way of speaking to ourselves and each other.

Life is not sacred in the United States. There is pretense. There is denial. There is fear. There is division, but there is no commitment to truth in the deepest sense of the word because murder and taking from others are the dominant paradigms. Outside of this way of living in the world this nation fears reconciliation and cannot abide with the notion that there is the sanctity of the Female and Male, that masculinity and femininity are sacred states of being holding Creation together. From the Doctrine of Discovery to the present a dark spirit has grown from the European to the conquered nations, a dark sizzling evil has taken and returned nothing to the Truth of Life.

We have to find our voices. The voices of our ancestors hold more truth than the games we play pretending to be an advanced civilization.  Successful in convincing citizens to separate the whole into segments U.S. citizens are crippled. Entering a circle of any kind is frightening to the point the womb cannot be perceived as sacred in this country. With that source of power and revelation rendered invisible and irrelevant how does man reconcile with the feminine, or know it is an important act to reconcile and merge with the feminine? Without this knowing how do racial clashes cease, if the value of a Black man is measured and estimated from boyhood as a product with costs towards profit?

Sex sells and women are for sell, but the sacredness of a woman's essence is shit in American's estimation and reality. Given away, compromised and meagered out to people as non-essential the intangible powers of women's wombs have no value to the degree that men of science have decided they know how to create a woman from a man without that substance! Such a deep renunciation has gone by without alarm as the century moves deeper into consequences too complex for simpletons to grasp. Great evils can be justified in this energy. Many deaths occur in this train of belief that flies against what people say they really want out of their lives.

I dread returning to the United States. I really do. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.28.15

flag under Roxanna Wilson 

FIGHT FOR RIGHT

Black is really beautiful, and we must be proud of it

Frederick Douglass
born a slave died a free empowering man

"Such a deep impact this man had upon me. He fit into my scope of understanding about principled men, like my father and others I had the privilege of knowing, or observing at churches, at home, in other lands, or in situations where character was needed." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4.26.13























Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born in a slave cabin in 1818 near the town of Easton, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Separated from his mother when only a few weeks old he was raised by his grandparents. At about the age of 6, his grandmother took him to the plantation of his master and left him there. Not being told by her that she was going to leave him, Douglass never recovered from the betrayal of the abandonment.

When he was about 8 he was sent to Baltimore to live as a houseboy with Hugh and Sophia Auld, relatives of his master. It was shortly after his arrival that his new mistress taught him the alphabet. When her husband forbade her to continue her instruction, because it was unlawful to teach slaves how to read, Frederick took it upon himself to learn. He made the neighborhood boys his teachers, by giving away his food in exchange for lessons in reading and writing.

At about the age of 12 or 13 Douglass purchased a copy of The Colombian Orator, a popular schoolbook of the time, which helped him to gain an understanding and appreciation of the power of the spoken and the written word, as 2 of the most effective means by which to bring about permanent, positive change.

Returning to the Eastern Shore, at approximately the age of 15, Douglass became a field hand, and experienced most of the horrifying conditions that plagued slaves during the 270 years of legalized slavery in America. But it was during this time that he had an encounter with the slave breaker Edward Covey. Their fight ended in a draw, but the victory was Douglass', as his challenge to the slave breaker restored his sense of self-worth. After an aborted escape attempt when he was about eighteen, he was sent back to Baltimore to live with the Auld family, and in early September, 1838, at the age of twenty, Douglass succeeded in escaping from slavery by impersonating a sailor.

He went first to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he and his new wife Anna Murray began to raise a family. Whenever he could he attended abolitionist meetings, and, in October, 1841, after attending an anti-slavery convention on Nantucket Island, Douglass became a lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and a colleague of William Lloyd Garrison. This work led him into public speaking and writing. He published his own newspaper, The North Star, participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, in 1848, and wrote 3 autobiographies.

He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of women's rights. He became a trusted adviser to Abraham Lincoln, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C., and Minister-General to the Republic of Haiti. Frederick Douglass died late in the afternoon or early evening, of Tuesday, 20 February 1895, at his home in Anacostia, Washington, DC." - author unknown 

MARRIED GAY

GAY MARRIAGE BLACK AMERICA

Why comment on a subject when the scripts have been handed out to memorize, and most are afraid to speak their truth? If healing modalities are not a part of the conversation and reconciliation isn't part of the dialogue why talk about it?  It won't be a discussion based upon the depth and merit of the elemental roots of the many questions, and concerns needing to asked and answered. - Gregory E. Woods 3/14/13

lesbian lovers

war rights?

EQUAL RIGHTS, JUSTICE

It is often said, “True equality is not the superiority of women, but the equal status of man and women.” But, it goes deeper and beyond the rules of competition into the personal powers birthed and caged within us that bind us to the spiritual truths of power, and the knowledge of true power embraced by clarity. The sanctity of the Womb, and the development of those energies mean more than the advancement of the political cause that merely reflects the crude state of being within each person, and humanity as a whole.

With women disengaged from their Womb, and unable to embody the Earth energies as a nurturer, and the Sacred Woman; the masculine drives within them campaigning for causes like Equal Rights, and admittance to the war theater are creating divisions they are unaware of in places they cannot see around and within themselves, but eventually feel.

It is a complex arena I am dancing in right now, but it is in this arena change down to the molecular level and beyond into the beyond creates the sacred space we all ache for, but cannot recreate. – Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 3.4.13

Fight For Freedom

James Forten
1766 - 1842 

Born in 1766, James Forten was a abolitionist and a successful businessman. In 1813, his Series of "Letters by a Man of Color" helped defeat a bill that would have prevented free Negroes from entering Pennsylvania. Active in Negro churches and educational societies, Forten was also an organizer of the first national Negro Convention. After the American Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1833, Forten served on its board of managers. The society called for the immediate abolition of slavery and an end to prejudice against colored people. The next years saw an outpouring of antislavery books, pamphlets, newspapers, all aimed at convincing our fellow citizens that slave holding is a heinous crime. By the time James Forten died in 1842, there were two thousand state and local antislavery groups with upwards of two hundred thousand members. 

July 31, 2011 

Human Rights by LAW

I do not know who started this fable about 'Oaths of office', but it is untrue. The reason why the domestic lawyers are not effective in moving us toward restorative measures is because they do not know international law. There hands have been handcuffed under American law, and their courts and prosecutors. They are just HELPLESS to move forward, like the MOORS, NOI, Black Nationalist, Congressional Black Caucus and others because they do not understand International law. The questions of sovereignty, human rights, autonomy, and Economic development are questions of international law. This is one of the reason why I did not personally chose to go that route, the other are my Sheiks, The honorable Elijah Muhammad, El hajj Malik Shabazz [Malcolm x] and Dr. Yusuf Naim Kly who informed me of who I am, what freedom looks like, and what I could do as a International Lawyer. 

So I am only a member of the International Bar, and this process needs the help of the Nationalist, Moors, African Indigenous groups, Gullah-Geechee, Kush, NOI, Churches, Civil Rights organizations etc.. International law does not necessarily move by court decision, rather it is a process of both political action, and economic action. This is not necessarily a court case, where at the end of it you get a check. This process is one of status change or recognition, land development, land acquisition, land control and good governance and it needs all skilled and capable hands on deck, so we are training monitors and human rights Defenders to monitor the United States and DEFEND our interest as we move to develop our indigenous sovereignty rights. Registration for classes starts in February. www.humanrightstv.org - Mustafa Ansari 

Whiner

CNN’s ‘The Situation Room’ commentator Marc Lamont Hill is angry A&E brought Duck Dynasty back??


I don't know where to begin. First, we are capitalists, and the value of a person is based upon what he/she brings to the table. In short, what is the value the Robertson family brings to the market place?

Second on the list: I read the article several times paying attention to every word with an understanding of many things about American culture and history that were glossed over in every discussion I've heard or read since this controversy hit the news! The effect of the GQ article was revelatory. But, the myopic approach to contrary responses to homosexuality, and Gay activism is losing a lot of credibility with thinkers, and warrior spirits because the now popular myopic approach has reduced a complex issue into mere bullying. Old Man Robertson hit on more than one point, and sticking to the subject at hand he pointed to unaddressed questions pointing out points avoided by the sales professionals selling the acceptance of homosexuality. In today's jargon accusing someone of homophobia has become a way of avoiding the deep discussions the subject demands and millions of 'victims' need to address in their spirits, and intellects. Cats like Marc Lamont come across like whiners. If he is going to be on the front lines man up, and be a man about it!

The third point of contention I have is in the first paragraph of the GQ article. In the first paragraph the author laid out a foul insult to women and there wasn't an outcry! That alone trumped everything else. Phil Robinson revealed views of the world from the perspective of a Southern white man who lived before integration was law. His view is important, but the nature of American culture is one of the Devourer, and does not allow collective healing to occur because 'business is business' (whatever that means)! I say this because the Civil War wounds are open as wide as they were during the historical period of 1865 thru 1875, and we collectively tolerate that indignity, money is made from that culture, and we have the nerve to scoff at their views, which are fundamental to what is collectively viewed by the world-at-large as American!

- Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.6.14

the Story 

the Cycle of Abundance

GAY MARRIAGE CIVIL UNION

GAY MARRIAGE

There is a poster painted high on a building in New York city that reads, “IF YOU DON’T LIKE GAY MARRIAGE DON’T GET GAY MARRIED.”

In Facebook on the 23^rd of September of 2012, A woman, named Aroha H. Smith, from somewhere I do not know, responded, “I don’t get it. It must be USA humor.”

She is right.

I responded: “It is American humor. Americans are fond of catchy phrases, and shy from the depth of issues, and events. It is a common practice to pretend the deep probing questions do not exist, but how those unanswered questions plague us.” – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.21.12 

The Other 98%

FATHERHOOD & ABORTION

Fatherhood, in its deepest form, is a Priest-craft, and children live within the loins of every boy, and every man capable of laying seed within a womb. The craft of Fatherhood is a learned skill and with its attendant responsibilities requires initiation to introduce the depth of it all to Life to a man.

There are numerous clichés circulating around in people’s heads far from the depth of fatherhood used to rally people around the cause against abortion, but fear of losing position, or argument dominants the discourses on the subject. Other fears laced around the issue are masked under dark ominous countenances, and the emphasis of Christians upon the teachings of Christ reveals a weakness atheists pick up readily: the fear of true power, as Jesus saw, taught, and lived it.

Unable to speak truth to power, or embrace the ancient concept of Genesis Christians fail to understand that Creation is not a fixed event in our collective past, but an ever-present copulation of energies dancing between, or rather within life-death-resurrection. This is an understanding of Life plunging the individual, and the tribe into the fierceness of living truth-to-power. What many thinking Native people, or as some of us call ourselves: NDNS, understand about this is that the very people who must war against other nations are the most fervent supporters of abortion rights. It is hard for many to understand the movements within the white American soul.

The task of raising children needs mirrors, but the extremes within this controversy are unable to see the correlation between mirrors, and child-rearing, water, and fire, or the propensity to war and the survival of the fetus, and the inexplicable ability of white people, over our collective history, to eradicate whole tribes with the stroke of a pen, and their furious fight to shut down abortion clinics to save the lives of unborn babies. For many the contradictions are gross, too many, and overwhelming. They are complicated in the midst of the struggle, but easy to see.” – Gregory E. Woods 10.21.12

Evelyn Thorns waiting for train at Union Station

IN DEFENSE of Life

Kim Kardashian

Apparently, Kim Kardashian owns, and probably carries a small pistol, or two. One is a special piece.It is a limited-edition Colt revolver, made in the 1980's, with a diamond studded grip. It came with a mink pouch and a Baccarat crystal case, and a $10,000 price tag. It was made by Bijan, billed as a luxury purveyor in Beverly Hills. Recently, Kim Kardashian twitted a picture of her Yves Saint Laurent hand gun with a caption that read: 'bang bang'! That didn't stay up but a minute. And it shouldn't have. No woman should show her weapons until she is going to employed them in defense of her life. 

Security is an illusion. It tricks the predator's mind to believe a person is defenseless. It lures them towards a moment when the hidden .38 speaks, the cutlery cuts, and the cigarette is thrust into the open eye, and the 3-inch heel is stabbed into the instep. ~ Gregory E. Woods 2.27.13

FREEDOMS we take for grant

Playboy

Shirin Juwaley, 24 graduated from school and agreed to an arranged marriage. After her wedding Shirin saw serious problems in the relationship and realized that she wanted a divorce:

"I dared to opt out and asked for a divorce,” she said.

She returned to her parents' home and started working. One day she was returning home from work when she saw a man dressed in black trousers, black shirt, black monkey cap and dark glasses. She knew it was her husband, but was unable to run away when he threw acid in her face. Shirin's husband fled the scene and went to Kuwait the same night. She did not pursue the police case because she fears for her life and felt the case would drag on unless he was arrested.

Shirin Juwaley

RIGHTS AMERICAN STYLE

"The deeper causes and reasons against the advancement of women are individual ones from the organizations that have formulated the opinions, thoughts, and beliefs, and actions against the substance of women in politics, life, religion and business. It is a dirty job unmasking the core value system within a Judeo-Christian culture, and fearful, it is, to do that kind of spiritual work, but without doing it activists wind up facing people who've memorized scripts, and accepted modes of behavior like actors. They've essentially learned to lie to each other with a modicum of skill..." 

© Gregory E. Woods

Keeper of Stories

October 25, 2012 

Will supporting natural marriage get you fired?

On Wednesday, October 10, Gallaudet University suspended Dr. Angela McCaskill when it was learned that she had signed a ballot petition giving Maryland voters the right to vote on recently passed legislation that redefines marriage in the state. McCaskill signed the petition in chu

rch at the urging of her pastor. McCaskill (and over 200,000 other petition signers) believe voters should be heard on marriage, but her employer found this action "inappropriate" and suspended her.

FRC warned months ago that when the names of the petition signers were published online by a homosexual advocacy group, it was in an effort to intimidate and silence those who affirm natural marriage. Sadly, this is exactly what is happening at Gallaudet University. 

International Law & Sovereign Nations

Cynthia McFadden on set of
Good Morning America
March 7, 2012

Cynthia McFadden, the angle in which the news reports on international law and sovereignty is misleading and disturbing. It muddles quite a few things Americans need to understand about law, rights, expression and freedoms, money, wealth and currency. The nut cases are not the core of the law, and how it is used. Your reporting affects Native American issues that revolve around sovereignty. Distortions by your representation of law doesn't help us at all, or the larger population taught to believe we Indians do not exist! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 7/24/12