by Joseph Bolden, staff writer, 

redefining economics, 
the stock market, and the millenium 
from the people's perspective.  
In a bi-monthly reverse/advice column 
Joe welcomes your responses, advice or queries 
write him: poormag@sirius.com  

  letters to the editor 

 The object of Ask Joe, He Don't Know
(  A.J.H.D.K. ) is as a conduit for others like myself living our future knowing the answer to  

"Are You Ready?" Many of us are not. 

I believe in God, Life Extention, and True Immortality in that order. I do not believe in melding the I-Net, Televison with computer and telephone technologies. As technology becomes seamless, the more it can be ignored, tuned out, and controlled. 'Nuff Said. 

TIME TO VOTE!!!

Hi, guess who? ItsÕs Tuesday, Oct. 10. 2000. Are you folks sick and tired of seeing my columns about voting? Too bad. Any of you voting for ÔPrez or Vice, SenatorÕs Judges, Right to Life/Choice, and Racism or Tolerance, Space, Cryonics, Life Extension, and/ or Immortality am I right?

I did go to City Hall to find out if IÕm registered to vote in the upcoming elections. IÕm registered so IÕm voting... for whom? ThatÕs my choice as is yours not to be revealed until IÕm in the voting booth. I will give folks a hint IÕd like to continue beyond the 20th century moving ahead towards habitats in space, reproductive rights for women, social security protections, and universal health care, not only that but also openning the flood gates to life extension because weÕll all need it as we get older . Is that enough of a hint folks?

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Every generation has had a crisis to face from the founding fathers, to World Wars 1 and 2, to a socalled Police Action named ÔThe Korean Conflict - A police action? I still think when you place boys and men in uniform, train, em, to kill, have Ôem sent to fight on foreign soil against other young boys and men with dying on both sides IÕd tend to call it a war, undeclared or not soldiers on both sides died in that midcentury conflict. Viet Nam, the first war ever lost by the then undefeated United States, Then a short glorius war in 1991 called Desert Storm.

If we donÕt watch out we may end up a Viet Nam like scenario again in Korea. You know our government, when we the people are silent that tells them to have a ball, spend money, Have A War. Uhh, I think economically speaking making weapons to kill each other is no longer the economic stimulus it used to be. Peacetime is a better way less dead citizens lying around, less money to be made on dead consummers unless youÕve read The Body BrokerÕs in the Orange County Register in April off 2000. Vote Vote Vote, Stand up, learn facts, figures, his/herstories of candidates, then chose and Vote. Is it November yet? Oh, crap-I Ôgotta write this for another month. Well, hereÕs the message; whom ever you choose its up to all of us around this great fertile land to futurize not fossilize America. Do it early, do it late, but do it; VOTE Bye.

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Kill Zone

I am deadly serious on: 'Traditional Death In America' mainly about Black Americans but other people's in the United States who're also seen the raw, mean underside of America. Our people have done everything proving we are a loyal, dedicated, and sacrificed as Americans can be, Lord knows our blood and bodies are all over this land, we’ve bled and died in every war, on foreign soil yet we are always told "It ain't enough, Never Enough."

Traditional Death: America is a Kill Zone Pt. 1)

Think about it, let it sink in... America is in the title but it could be Japan/China/Philippine, Great Britain/Scotland/Ireland/India, or Jewish/Catholic/Protestant/German to Russian/Slav /Polish/ Armenian/Syria/Palestinian/Arab/Africa/South Africa.

They all have a common thread at one time each has had near genocidal destruction rained down on them either because of their race, religion, country, and perceived inferiority. Everyone of them have physical and psychological scars handed down from generation to generation all have persevered in spite of terror, death, tricks, and threats set apon them plus all if people dig beyond the surface have fantastic, glorious his/herstories of literature, music, poetry, dance, architecture, past of noble deeds, daring, great lives of survival, lived, lost, and struggled to surpass the darkness; all in their unique humanity becoming a shining people on the world's stage.

If I have forgotten nations (besides African Nations) forgive me, though ignorance is no excuse there are simply too many great nations and people's for me to remember but they too are included in humakinds tapestry. African's may know more of their own genealogy, his/herstory than we hybrid African Americans (yes, hybrid A-American's ) we're so diluted by American slavery I cannot say I'm pure anything. We like other mixed races are unique, we are the new people of the new world and we breed true, sterility is not our propblem living and staying alive is.

But as African's do we too multiply that has been American's waking nightmare seeing these multicolor faces all over America! Except concentrating on killing us they sometimes forgot about Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, and the rest of the rainbow crowd. Because we do so intimately know America so well she/he the Bitch or Bastard does its best ignoring our cries, warnings to others coming to shore "America can one hell of an opportunity or simply Hell."

America's Tradition besides using black women as breeding stock, black men to stud, sex/love/lust was mixed, feelings of slaves didn't matter-it was all about creating a commodity to raise, sell or one day do both. We in untold billions died, committed suicide killing our children rather have them live-in-hell chained forever in this New World called America.

We read of White masters cohabiting with slave woman black sometimes white but mainly black. white women were deemed to dainty, pure, genteel, to be handled so roughly and because of the patriarchal power black women are blamed for being lascivious, I wonder how many white woman revenged themselves by taking black males as secret lover's never revealing him and as for children, they could be sold with no one the wiser.

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Scientific Racism: [Pseudo or false-fake Science justifying racist policies, laws and/or beliefs.]

In 1851 Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, a respected physician created a mental illness peculiar to Black people. "The effort of the slave to gain his freedom by running away from the plantation, he said was a symptom of a serious mental disease called "DRAPETOMAIA." Dr. Cartwright maintained that this hideous condition could be cured by recapturing the 'patient', rubbing him down with oil and beating him into submission.

Scientific racist scholarship has emerged to justify police against Blacks. These studies, such as Bell Curve, argue that behavior, such as intelligence and criminality, are genetically determined.

Blacks, they insist, are genetically coded to commit violent crimes and are beyond the bounds of society and civil rights. Sounds like Scientific Racism again. African American men are 45% of those on death row, although they are but 6% of the population.[excerpt from Antonio Monteiro, 07/28/00,We Charge Genocide!!]

Umm, young black ladies, men stay out of the Prison Industrial Complex because guess who's having problems now its those two family well adjusted middle class white kids in the suburbs. No one worried when in the 1970's and mid 80's as Blacks were shot in drive-bys, gangs, suicides, homicides, drug overdoes, or jailed and executed, sudden infant death plagued us. We had a turning point not all of us died in the street, infants survived aids, crack, and drug abuse which seem to disturb white america. In the past this would've wipe us out but we as many people before us are resilient.

In 1869, Francis Galton, The English psychologist, cousin of Charles Darwin, published 'Hereditary Genius. His racist view of Blacks was clear when he wrote, 'The average intellectual standard of the Negro is some two grades below our own. 1883 He (Galton) introduced the term Eugenics to describe ideas and proposed practices of racist superiority and sterilization.

[Excerpt from: Gone but effects linger Saturday, March 18, 2000, Bill Baskerville, Associated Press Writer]

Blacks are seen as inferior in mental abilities but the next step was slow or stop our reproduction through sterilization. Seven years later and into the 20th century "Strange Fruit" male, female, young boys, girls, are seen hanging from trees, pregnant Black women raped or worse, strung up, gutted from belly to womb, infant(s) taken from the dead mother's womb and stomped to death. Its mob rule and mass killing on any pretext. Imagine. Being a black youngster, old woman, man, family man or up and coming businessman, suddenly a crowd gathers around you of various ages, faces - you are either shot if your lucky die quick if not you're slowly tortured to death. As you're being chased your clothes are torn, ripped away until you are running in fear and panic completely naked!

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Human Rights U.S.A. and The No-Work Society? (Part 2)

6/27/00

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (U.D.H.R. Dec.10,1948) by The Human Rights Steering Committee. I asked people to dust off the Bill Of Rights, add to that the Constitution of The United States and if at all possible - to have those and other important human freedom documents of every language reproduced and sent globally so most of us are aware of all these freedoms. Please read (U.D.H.R's) Articles 1 to 30. Plus we can no loner think, act, or be an earthbound species.

When our Internet archives are researched hundreds, thousands, of years from now it will be said brave, courageous, sensitive, intelligent souls reached out to mend the rifts, scars, hurts of the world. We may have partly succeeded that is why the records are read to learn how some of us did reach beyond petty desires for something more than our individual selves.

That's my posterity bid for visiting "Chrononaughts" who might be curious and show me what went right or wrong, what has remained unchanged. Back to the present. Does anyone remember "The Illuminati Trilogy, Illuminati Papers or others written or CO-written by Mr. Robert Anton Wilson or some of his friends like Timothy Leary. I know, "enough T & A, get on with it."�

Our economy is fat, bloated, also twisted in an insane climate of boosted rents, real estate speculation 'n greed on scales that would make early 19th and 20th century robber baron's envious. This is where Mr. R. A. Wilson and friends enter. The current level of GNP is conservative. (add 20 or more years) It was proposed that a share would be worth several times as much, per year, as a welfare recipient receives at least five times more-obviously adjustments has to be made for the passed. Critics say inflationary. National Dividend Supporters say it would only be inflationary if the dividends distributed were more than the GNP; and they are only to issue dividends equal to the GNP. Am I making sense? We all pay taxes some more, some less, a few too poor or extremely wealthy pay next to nothing. House mortgage, taxes to the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service) This was proposed over 30 years or more ago!

What if hypothetically every citizen in America that pays any kind of tax be it candy bars, fast food, restaurant, clothes, and mortgage on their home their tax go into an individual account, that account as part shareholder in the nation, they receive dividends on the Gross National Product for the year; which includes, Gross Domestic Product(s) G.D.P. NASDAQ, or Global investments overseas, Standard & Poor's and other economic indicators. Is it possible to really have people not working because the taxes they pay return as dividends to them?

If It were possible would you watch how your money's spent if you knew each year some that G.N.P. G.D.P., or other economic indicators returns to you as a check, now multiply that by as many friends, relatives and people across America; how many people would stay focused on Geo-polititics, foreign issues and our domestic economy? Here's my point most of us know work especially low wage-work (an honest days work, for an honest pay) is a drag unless your soul sings with what you love, few people have that satisfying kind of work - those who do are blessed. To most of us being employed is a life numbing, boring, purgatory.

Could the cure for unemployment be unemployment? Stay with me, 'old Joe hasn't flaked out. The more advanced a society, the less 'people power' needed to run it, Buckminster Fuller called it ephemeralization or doing-more-with-less. An engineer C.H. Douglas, coined the term- Increment-Of-Association: 1) The by combining efforts we can do more than the sum of each of us separately. How about: The National Dividend, a concept also invented by Mr. C.H. Douglas then revised by Ezra Pound and Buckminster Fuller with some conflicting ideas.

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2) Knowledge itself is self augmenting: we learn, know and want to increase our knowledge (C.H. Douglas or someone else may have said this I Don't know.) Hope I'm explaining this correctly, here goes.

1) The National Dividend. Every citizen should be declared a shareholder in the nation, receive dividends on the Gross National Product G.N.R. (I'd expand that to include Gross Domestic Products also G.D.P. Global foreign or money markets can come later.

2) The Guaranteed Annual Income. Economist Robert Theobald and others have urged this maybe Mr. Greenspan can study it, help guard against possible negative aspects. Our government would simply establish an income level above level above the poverty line and guarantee that no citizen would receive less; if your wages fall below that level, or you have no wages, the government makes up the difference. Now that there is hardly any welfare system it will cost the government less in red tape and most importantly It would also spare the recipients of humiliation, degradation, and dehumanization built into the welfare system. (Which is still going on even as welfare falls away and no safety net is in place, this can be a revolutionary permanate safety net!)

3) The Negative Income Tax devised by Milton Friedman is less radical would establish a minimum income for every citizen; anyone whose income fell below that level would receive the amount necessary to bring them up to that standard.

The Guaranteed Annual Income, cashing a check from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) who'd know it was a "subsidy" income, a refund from you overpaying last years taxes? If everyone is paid this way welfare loses its meaning. In this 'Miracle" economy think of China in its state-run, slow lumbering way "The nail that stands up gets hammered down" They kill their best and brightest young people as we've done too, anyway some survive flee to other countries including America. China has another brain drain in years to come.

America's hidden brain drain is homeless mom's, children, single adults not able to work willing but the jobs are not living wage jobs, what if all of us didn't need... work but our government did, it would again make all other countries including China, Japan, take notice. It would be a race in which nations can care for its citizens the best ways in added wealth, health, longevity. China, Japan, parts of Russia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and France would win hands down now but after America switches to this new economy all bets are off. This is the end of Part 2 No-Work Society, I urge anyone reading this to please do more research to find out if this is possible. As always contact each other, connect globally. I apologize for babbling in this long; hope I've hit a nerve. Bye.

PS Next time The Rich Economy.

1(Not Complete For Radio) On Sunday after eating four servings of peas and carrots, ground beef, and peppery sauce on top of mashed potatoes, chunks of pineapple, peaches, and banana's on the side I remember some old books

1 No-Work Society (not done yet)

Or The Only Cure For Unemployment

Is Possibly: Unemployment Itself.

sauce in highschool THE ,, Many farsighted social thinkers suggested Work

1 some alternative, intelligent and workable plans adopted to a society of rising unemployment.

Some examples:

1) with some modifications

2) designer. The basic idea is every citizen in the nation, should be declared a shareholder in the nation, and should receive dividends on the Gross National Product for the year. Estimates may differ as to how much for each citizen.

We American's native and naturalized have paid in blood, sweat, illness, and death to build this country. Every child, young teen, adult, and senior citizens have paid taxes on everything from cupcakes, pies 'n candy to saving and checking accounts in banks and also traditional yearly taxes paid each

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To: Lil Kim Survivor... Thriving

6/22/00

They're at it again, those self righteous, know it alls. Ever notice how some people make the same mistake, over and over (selective prejudice) of others. Like Whitney Houston, Minnie Ripperton, Donna Sommer, or Millie Jackson. Now they have a beef with rap artist 'Notorious 'Lil Kim.

Born Kimberly Denise Jones in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, her parent's divorced when she was 9, experienced homelessness shortly after and began learning how to rap before meeting 'Notorious "Biggie Smalls" in 1995, he is her mentor, friend, and lover and met the Junior M.A.F.I.A. group/collective.

By 1997 Biggie is killed leaving Kim on her own. She rising star in her own right beating the odds, (we tend to do this on a regular basis) So called Moral Factions worry about her lyrics, scanty clothes, dancing, than recent killings of innocent people in the streets of America. (I cannot rap, dance, or sing) but I wish this strong, young, woman the best of a long, lusty, exciting life

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A few people have problems with you and your music... well you can always make 'em into stronger, brainy raps. They'll go after someone else not suppose to rise up again. What's so threatening about black women? I would rather hear a Woman's angry, sensual, sexy truth and pain than have 'em so mad at men folk they go off and shoot, punch, kick, or stomp 'em in the nuts. Brother's, we know what Sister's are capable of when we get on their last nerve.

Sow them wild oats (safe sex wise) until you find your one and only. Over two decades of Rap 'n Hip Hop and some people still don't get the message but want to silence the messengers. Now I must listen to two over 20 years of this music of protest and change to better understand. Before then Ms. Jones will be producing movies, video's, directing, or staring in movies or own her own multinational corporation. Could that be why they, (the mainstream) worry about another "Madonna" (pun and analogy are apt, the conservative segment of the population still have problems with her...To bad-unique, brilliant, creative people do that so get use to it. Got go. Bye.

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Social Capitalism:
Sharing The Wealth

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (U.D.H.R.) This Declaration guarantees the rights of all people and encompasses a broad spectrum of economic, social, cultural, political and civil rights. The Human Rights USA Steering Committee.

That was 52 years ago, 6 months more or less. Tell that, to Mr. Mumia Abu-Jamal Geronimo Pratt now known as Geronimo Dijaja and other falsely accused, wrongly convicted, faulty eye witnessed individuals in prison or anyone that has been stopped for no other reason than "reasonable suspicion." Dust off your old books, pamphlets, or papers; you know, your Bill of Rights. Its: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I keep hearing America's economy is breaking records, creating more wealthy individuals while at the same time people, families, and single adults on fixed incomes, struggle with two or three jobs because their low wages does not keep pace up to this "miracle market"/ economic boom. People are working longer, harder without a living wage. As science and technological innovations place more people on the unemployment line. One of many bright spots in this bleak picture is we're living longer, are healthier, of course no one wants to be a healthy, lusty individual at 80 without the means to forfill those urges.

Imagine, being retired with little or no savings and though your 65, 70, 80 or more and your brain, hormones and you act and feel 10-20 years younger and though your at an age when your not suppose to be working you may have not saved enough money or none at all now you must work another 15 years. This cuts down on your personal pleasure principle drastically. The elderly should be knowledgeable sages about banks showing life is a process in motion,we don't just grow older but change, improve, keep on growing wiser, stronger more independent.

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WE ARE THE PEOPLE, ELECTING PEOPLE TO BETTER OUR LIVES NOT LINE THEIR POCKETS, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE MORE OF US THAN THEM - PLEASE REMEMBER THAT. Folks, take a rest, nap, walk outside, do other life affirming things... and when you're ready read on... Our government, Yes our government needs to change too. It doesn't have be drastic but in incremental fundamental ways. Now that there is a surplus of funds built up by the I-net, Dot- Com, real estate, foreign, and domestic investments created by Global Capitalism shouldn't all the people benefit?

What I'm proposing isn't new, it has been said, written, thought of two or more decades ago by brilliant, creative, and thoughtful people and if by chance some readers know what I'm writing about and want to contribute to the discussion please go to e-boards, e-mail, each other, Congress, both President and Vice President and on down the line so there is a ground swell of support.

Sounds radical, could be, all I'll say for now to excite your neurons is:

When corporations have economic downturns our government supplies extra cash we regular working stiffs call it a subsidy or bailout. When people are out of jobs, strapped for cash, in need of temporary or long term assistance or being-on-the-dole- its Welfare. Think a minute or two ECONOMIC INCENTIVE, or WELFARE, THE ONE DIFFERENCE IS THE WORDING, yet both need cash replenishment. Next time Part 2: The N0-WORK-SOCIETY. Bye.

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Lead Poisoning Worse For Children New Research Found

Tuesday, May, 23, 2000

Boston - Millions more children than previously thought might have lead-linked mental impairment. Another study supports a strong link between lead exposure and juvenile delinquency.

How many of these interior-exterior painted buildings still exist?

Does anyone remember the late 1970's or 80's crack epidemic, and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) infants born to addicted mothers? Mainstream media and TV specials said, "These babies have a dim or no future." Many of these reports are wrong; some of these children are geniuses, although some do have mental or behavioral problems. Notice fewer news reports on "crack babies", though there are still problems with infants born with drugs and the AIDS virus in their system. Then miracles happen as babies' immune systems fight off the disease and live!

Or when so many young African-Americans died from gang related drive-by shootings all over the inner cities of America, that first year medical students were learning triage medicine by:

1) separating the seriously wounded from

2) the dead and death bound and

3) survivors.

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News all over the country, in a main story format, was the possible extinction of Blacks in America. It seemed to me at the time that there was actual glee at such a prospect. We as a people not only survived, but thrived, as in an old Richard Pryor joke: "After 400 years of this shit (Slavery) we ain't afraid of aliens in spaceships."

Now we're becoming victims of the accumulated lead poisoning from buildings constructed in the 20th century: the 1930's, 40's, 50's, and 60's, in both old and 'urbanely renewed' neighborhoods.

How many children have permanent mental or physical problems, and as young men or women, do not know why, blaming themselves for something not their fault. I ate bugs 'n roaches as a child, especially those big, fat waterbugs; full of blood and crunchy. Later I learn they are also full of diseases, too, and they walk on lead painted walls.

Everything must be reassessed, and with updated medical progress some children and adults might be helped. Permanent brain damage from lead poison may not be as irreversible with new therapies like were available to the cocaine babies and AIDS infants. And no more black folks to scare. There could be a way to reverse brain damage. Let's all say it together: "Fetal cells, stem cells." Just a thought. Talk to each other. "The answers are with us all." Bye.

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Fatal For Off-Duty Cop "Friendly Fire"

Wednesday, April, 21, 2000

Friendly Fire: A military term, used when soldiers are wounded, killed by weapons fired from our own military fighting enemy forces in war.

Folks, like I wrote before, not all though most police have a'Thin Blue Line' mentality down perfect. As in a Providence, Road Island restaurant on Friday, January, 28. That mental "blind spot"cost 29-year-old Sgt. Cornel Young Jr. an off-duty officer, out of uniform. His life. It happened to a black police officer, attempting to help two fellow policemen both white.

Solitro, 33, and Saraiva, 30, were responding to a fight outside the restaurant. Young, in street clothes, drew his gun to help the officers, both officer's said they repeatedly told Young to drop the weapon, but he did not comply and they shot him. The police union insisted Young's shooting was a split-second decision, not prejudice.

I guess, between the adrenaline flow in all three officers, a situation highly charged and poor Sgt.Young maybe didn't hear - his focus being on the immediate problem... helping two 'brother's-in-uniform but he in his skivvies is like any other citizen, in the way or a suspect. Leisa Young Mr. Young's Mother is angry having to learn Tuesday's ruling from reporter. Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse, criticized by some community leaders for his handling of the inquiry. Bill Fisher, an aide for Whitehouse, said "the attorney general had left messages at her Mrs. Leisa Young home and work but could now reach her before he held a news conference announcing the grand jury's decision: Jury clears 2 white Rhode Island Cops of accidental killing of off-duty officer.

To me it sounds like a righteous shoot? I may be wrong. Warning to off-duty officer's: show a badge, police academy ring, anything showing your police personnel too. Is it an aberration? I guarantee this has and will happen in other places as long as cops are trained to shoot black outlines which automatically make African-American's or any non Caucasoid in the minds of officer's walking targets.

My humble suggestion: change those shooting targets into mixed colors, rainbow spectrums not just one gradient of black, gray, brown, or white outline... in case police departments have those around. 'Ya know between those four goons in not all of their names begin with a G like Mayor R. Guiliani, G. Garcetti of Angle, 'uh Angel City, The Honorable Reverend/Supervisor Amos Brown, what he's done to a family I don't care what he says in a reputable newspaper it is WWW. Wrong! Eloquent, stylish, 'lucky Dot-money investor Mayor Brown, and across the Bay STRONG MAYOR and Former California Governor Jerry Brown or E-B Emperor Brown have some weird convergence going on Darn, them aligning planets! Cops flipping out, gone crazy making mistakes killing innocent people and if an officer isn't in uniform, off-duty he or she is libel to be another victim.

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I'd sure like to hear that "Cop Killer"or any other track on the same subject and hope they B'n M know what I mean folks, b+m-rhymes with groan. In other Cities, States, Counties, small towns the same thing is going on and citizen's are fed up; here it is damn near the 21st Century and cops are have devolved backwards only with modern weapons. It's a nasty time for anyone 'walkin the street with flops 'uh cops acting out their 'Wild Wild West fantasy's with real weapons and I don't mean the TV show or updated movie.

There are many ex-military, gang members, younger folks fed up-won't take this crap plus we know those bullet proof vests, shields, armor plated don't protect one from grenades, portable, rocket launcher's or a Vintage WWII bazooka in mint condition. People become radicalized, organized, politicized, and more vocal and they tend to want payback when friends, relatives, or they get shot at, wounded over "a perception or suspicion" Cops constantly piss folks as it is, with their power of legal murder I see why some cops "eat their gun" Maybe the next generation of police will learn from past mistakes.

I do not envy minority cops of either race, sex, or sexual orientation because when you take off the uniform you literally can lose your life as Sergeant Cornel Young Jr. did either by trying to help or not being believed that you are one of the 'blue's only off duty.

'Wanna know what I call 'friendly fire'? When a 'smart-bullet hits a cop and knows by optical scans, colors, imaging, diagnostic/medical technologies its made an error, corrects it by releasing natural and nanobots healing, cleansing, closing the wound, also excellerated healing then spills over to further heal other areas with left over med-bots. For criminals the same so 'accidental hits to heart, lung, or brain is no longer automatically fatal. Back to reality.

The really sad part is as a dedicated officer if he Sgt. Cornel Young had survived this tragic event he probably would have thought twice before doing it again. How many off-duty cops survived, were wounded, killed simply because they were seen as potential criminal-with-gun-threat? Someone could make a national website adding up statistics of related "Friendly Fire" Cop-Killing-Cops by accident it may surprise us how many are being lost. If I offended any former or retired cops feelings... My deepest apologies; EVERYONE- BE SAFE. Bye folks.

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Mayor 'G', Head of "Blue Goon's"

About a week ago New York Mayor R. Giuliani's praised New York's Filthiest (1% to 5% of rotten apples on the police force) for the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Patrick Dorismond this month then pulls out the late Mr. Dorismond's "sealed" records in response to justify shooting an unarmed man. The Dorismond Family is suing the (police for the wrongful death of Mr. Patrick Dorismond.) To all hardworking, non racist, fair officer's that abide by "To Serve And Protect as a real standard, a few of your "Brothers-In-Arms are turning the populace against that 'Thin Blue Line' making a mockery of why most of you joined the force in the first place. These... sleazy, cowardly, (shooting unarmed people in one-on-one or in an organized gang formation is cowardly.) out of control brutes. A bunch of Goons in a Rabid, Mad Dog Goon Squad. I'm a transplanted New Yorker living in ("Lets say it together) Sodom and Gomorra, or the place with all the fruits and nuts: San Francisco, California. Police are just as twitchy on the trigger out here, though our Mayor "His Willi-ness" is dapper, has some finesse' in his "Power Politics. Cops, like those funny car insurance adds: "We all do dumb things commercials. These Keystone Cops (my apologies to the Late Hal Roach and his family.) are not funny. L.A. has its problems too. There was a time years back when I had just arrived tired, hungry, no place to stay and no money that I actually went to a police department to see if they had an empty cell I could sleep in for the night. "You have to commit a crime."

I didn't, luckily I find a drop-in shelter this was before lottery beds when all you did is show up early, sign your name, S. S. (Social Security number.) and someone did not show or is late you get their spot. If you don't have one, write your name anyway you'd still get a bed if a guy or woman didn't show up. (women were treated better then too.) I showered, had a four heaping helpings of solid and liquid food, and got into clean, used bed clothes or pajamas. My sleep is restful except for the terrified screams in the night. Now if I went back and two cops asked me what I am doing, I better not have hands in pockets hidden from their view or I could end up as a dead, gallows humor, bloody joke: "I AM TAKING MY WALLET OUT OF MY POCKET OFFICER, I DON'T WANT THIS TO BE NO MOTHER 'FUCKIN ACCIDENT." Richard Pryor once said jokingly even then Black humor by black comedians 'talkin truth to an integrated audience split two ways: one saw it as simply funny and another laughing through the pain, anguish of life and death situations may have really been through this. In Angel City or Los Angeles a District Attorney, George Rosenstock urging his superiors to file conspiracy charges against several officers is pulled off a task force days later.

Explain this to me, the man is a bonafide pass-the-bar lawyer in good standing as a prosecutor he gathers evidence (true not fiction or hearsay) and presents his or her case to a judge and jury for a final verdict. Wacky Angel City D.A. Gil Garcetti denied the Deputy D.A. sought approval on a radio talk show. Maybe he did or the case fell on his docket, he goes about his job and for his troubles is pulled off the case. Is this L.A. thing so scuzzy 'n rank that it really is an open and shut case on L.A.'s Snafu, Pollute, 'um, Police Fake, 'uh Force?

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(Situation Normal Everything All Fucked Up) a Military term that fits, any other terms you can think of tell 'em to me. These... Officer's of the law, protectors of peace and freedom (the fallen stars, no talent bit players, de-evolved, mentally challenged, knuckle dragging... (sorry, didn't mean to insult our chimp cousins.) these lousy, underpaid assassins (at least real mercenaries risk their lives with an enemy with equal access to weaponry and tactics. Misfits in uniform do it with a badge then cringe behind it just makes me want to hear those cop killer rap songs 'n video's because brother's, sister's are on the front line of this manure and see the raw 'n real. I don't ever want to hear cops bitch about being betrayed as killers (I'm talking about the rotten, stinking eggs on the force 'smellin it up for the many good eggs doing their jobs 24-7 year by year. L.A., N.Y.C, S.F, and other places where PIGS are going ape shit on defenseless folks. Get those Blue Goon A-wipes off the force before they cause more grief, heartache, and anger.

With that out do you think these yokes read out of the same rule book? Funny, in the 30's and 40's striking workers are beaten, jailed and killed. 50's and 60's homosexuals, beatniks, blacks, radicals are getting the stick across the head, between the scrotum and breast bone. Between the 70's and 80's blacks, browns, and Asians are getting bashed and blacks, browns, women, gays, lesbians, transsexual and gendered are the targets. But by the 1990's mostly everyone knows of someone be they a relative, friend, or a stranger by chance set upon the police. One thing remains the same, to some police anyone out of uniform is the enemy. Being brown, black, Asian, man or woman on the force. When you take off your uniform do you feel safe or have you become another target for a goon that doesn't know you are part of them; a fellow brother, sister, in arms, a beat cop, chip, or on patrol in squad cars?

You, on the force think of that when and if they mistake you for some citizen= criminal= enemy then tell me about the thin blue line. And all young folks, talk, ask your father's, mother's, aunts, older siblings and elders they may know something of the so-called dead bygone days when there was strange fruit hanging from trees, these days most of the trees are in parks or dead so Goons shoot 'em without thinking of ropes. Be careful youngbloods invest in education, bullet proof vests and think before reacting cause the dogs are loose looking for an excuse any excuse to take our lives and by hiding behind a badge: THEY CAN, HAVE, AND WILL CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER. THIS IS YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD 'GOON 'umm, POLICE PORK, oops FORCE, NOW MORE THAN EVER EVERYONE IS THEIR ENEMY. AVOID ANY CONFLICT WITH 'EM! Bye folks (Not yet) Source:San Francico Chronicle Mon. 3, 27, 2000.

P.S. I'm available as a housesitter, hours may vary. Prices: $200 a day, $500 weekly: $2,000 a month. For 3 months $6,000. You may find someone incorruptible like me to housewatch. Its possible, they may be less expensive. Your home, your choice.) I value that borrowed space. To me all homes are sacred spaces; from living in shelters, bad motels, a real home is priceless.  

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New York City born, with a lazy left eye. Because I kept taking off the brown plastic patch so it didn't correct itself. Other than being in fights, snubbed by girls and women, and having no depth perception, my psyche is okay. My job history in brief: Lab Aide, Library Aide, Food Service Assistant in Oakland's and Berkeley's Unified School District's, also a Custodian, Security Guard, and Certified Nurse's Aide, (CNA) Dietary Aide, in a Convalescent Hospital with Holocaust Survivors. The blue/purple numbers etched into their flesh told me. They were terrified and cringed at my touch. My CNA license was not renewed: my choice.  

1989, I moved to San Francisco, jobless, homeless, drifting from shelter to shelter; let's just say I was living the polar opposite of the 'Go Go 80's. 1991: I was on General Assistance (G.A.) By 1994, I saved enough money from odd jobs and G.A. to leave the shelter I was staying in, Pierce Arrow Multi Service Center North, known on the street as "Broken Arrow," I move into a Single Room Occupancy hotel or (S.R.O.) Yes, there's more, but not now; dear readers, you now know a little about me. My apologies if you were bored. 

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More on Knowing Joe 

I learned photography, darkroom techniques, lighting, in what was known as Eye Gallery, renamed The Sixth Street Photo Workshop. One day, I met a slim, red-haired woman, named 

"Tiny," who asked me to write my true feelings in the pages of a new magazine called POOR. At first I balked at doing it, dredging up bad memories. But once passed the past, I have worked on and off with the struggling magazine since 1995. During the same time I have relearned data entry, word processing and worked as a sorter in Goodwill Industries. A sorter's job is to check donated items for possible resale to the public. Items like old cameras, photos, and records, are thrown in the garbage. Old 78's, 1930's-40's records are old and brittle, they're also rare and valuable Americana, destroy-ing them is more of our history lost forever.  

After graduating from Goodwill's work/education program, POOR Magazine got a grant and I was hired December 15, 1998. At POOR I work as a Writer-in-training, I learned about reporting, interviewing people, and working on different news stories. I also learn I do not like investigative reporting. The art of Investigative Reporting is an on-going, never ending process. 

This column is a dream, I dreamt, about when I was homeless, in shelters, and in food lines. I am a latecomer to the Internet, e-mail etc. Still, I'd like folks to drop by on stealth visits for one-on-one (PNN) Poor News Network web cast interviews. Other voices, hidden or shaded for safety reasons, can help people I may never meet. I worry about column shock, a version of writer's block, when I feel everything's been said and I am all written out. Must go, please tell me what you believe and think... "bye."  

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A Stern but Friendly nudge from don't know Joe about Voting.

2000 is as important a year as 2001. In November of 2000 its time to get out the vote. I didnÕt see the MTV Awards on Thursday and IÕm hear-ing the usual adult (Oh Damn, IÕm One) blab on its coverage, inart-iculate guests, too much T Ôn A on stage. Give Me A Break, MTV was and is made to shock people and its done its job again splendidly remember it was cre-ated expressly for shocking grown folks and is a creative outlet for a younger generation - to angry, shocked, adults single or with children Get Over It as for Rap/Hip Hop Its Here and WonÕt Go Away.

Deal With Reality. Rap and Hip Hop is INTERNATIONAL, GLOBAL, PROBABLY INTERGALACTIC SPEEDING THROUGH SPACE.

If you canÕt stand the message or music donÕt listen. Rap been disre-spected, Ôdissed, banned, and people have been arrested for selling it, the powers that be tried to overide market forces, that didnÕt work either so now what? If rap still pisses people off because of messages they donÕt want to hear then it too still does its job as informing, warning inner city folk and those that care enough to listen that weÕre all are being are getting fucked over! If my phrasing is raw this is as bad as it gets - darn it.

MTV folks, your turn to voice your opinion, views, likes, dislikes, out-right hate too. Many adults believe you wonÕt go to the poll, do your civic duty. ÒActually they donÕt want you to vote so prove Ôem wrong show Ôem your generation and ones coming behind you that your Ôgen knows the game.Ó

We will leap forward or stumble backward. Me, I want more political parties like Life Extension Party, Immortalist Party, or L5-SpacerÕs Party. The L5 or Lagrange Point between earth and the moon and spacer is for people who are willing to go into space to live on asteroids, planitoids, or H.O.M.E.Õs (High Orbital Mini Earths) yet another future political party. How about independant asteroid mining for fun and profit.

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Had a good laugh, well this could be our future if a couple of guys get elected and there are seats open for the Supreme Court. Call all Grrrrls, Girls, Women, and Wimmin think of your choices. Doc-torÕs being maimed, killed because of the abortion debate, embryo, or stem cell research and medical benefits of cloning. (grow brainstem, nervous system separate from bodies) then you have parts that cannot be rejected and not another human being and no creepy moral dilema.

Think of homosexuals being beaten up, killed for sexual orientation alone. There is no Gay/Lesbian/Transexual/agenda, the only agenda is to stop killing for being slighly different from so called Ònormal heterosexual lifestyles. The Eternal made all of us without errors, the only Biological Errors are in Peoplekind none of us are perfect, genetically speaking hu-manity are full of flaws.

In Coeur DÕAlene, Idaho a American Mother and child attacked and beaten in 1998 by Aryan Nations guards outside the white supremacist groupÕs North Idaho headquaters is awarded $6.3 million thusday. Richard Butler says ÒYou canÕt stop us, This is nothing.Ó ÒWe have planted seeds.Ó ButlerÕs chief of staff, Michael Teague said ÒThis does not stop the message.Ó (Mr. B. the message is dying, its been heard too many times its old, ugly, filthy, untrue and twisted most people know you are wrong - GET OVER IT., IS THAT REASON ENOUGH TO VOTE!!

BYE.

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Cadaver Cash

My problem with this old then new news item titled: The Body Brokers to me is so vast that even reading and down loading some of it was a chore. I first hear of this stuff Saturday on KFSOÕs Barabara Simpson. As she in-terviews Mr. Mark Kathches of Orange County Register. It began in No-vember of 1999 with interviews of people in diverse medical fields, rela-tives of the deceased, documented laws and loopholes to them - real inves-tigative reporting.

As Ms. Simpson said ÒThis is important.Ó I did go on the web the next day and saw those stories getting paranoid by the second. Please, I urge everyone on the web whether youÕve read my columns or not, if you can... down load every last bit of ÒThe Body BrokerÕsÓ at the Orange County Register.com . Look for yourselves.

Imagine if your spouse, brother, best friend, a parent, or any beloved relatives dies suddenly or had a natural death usually they are buried, cre-mated, or if they dicide to take one last chance on science and techn-ololgy signs up for Cryonics, the after death freeze choice where they might be back among the living while you do the old, reincarnation through womb, or test tube birth. Others may want to donate their bodies, organs to peo-ple, science or both this is where trouble begins.

Some companies not all make millions of dollars off skin, heart valves, veins, bones, and tendons. One cadaver can be worth $220,000. Here are a few names of those companies some are non profit some are for profit:University of Florida Tissue Bank a spinoff of a private firm Regen-eration Technologies Inc. 1998 (dosenÕt it sound like a life giving, rejuve-nation, revitalization company?) Osteotech Inc., Intermountain Tissue Center, a Salt Late City, a non profit bank.

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There are others all over California, New York, Chicago, where every people die these places are they have to be where the bodies are. Cadaver skin plumping the lips of fashion models $1,050. Ground bones dentists use to treat patients 200,000 times a year and glossy catalogs ad-vertise 650 products made from body parts. Do you know a single dead body part (raw material) is worth tens of thou-sands of dollars. Its stock is even traded on Wall Street. Folks this looks like it is international!

Grieving families are not told their ÔdonatedÕ gifts (loved ones) fuels and industry predicted to hit 1billion within three years.

Again, I say LOOK THIS UP, THEN DIG AROUND AND BEYOND OUR COUNTRY THIS I S ALREADY QUIETLY GONE INTERNATIONAL.

The National Organ Transplant Act approved by Congress in 1984, banned Profits from sale of Tissue. But no Tisssue Bank has been prose-cuted. ÒThe law has never been tested in courtÓ Jeanne Mowe, Executive Director of The American Association of Tissue Banks. 100 of millions of dollar selling products crafted from donated human bodies even though its illegal to profit from parts.

Like space weÕre back in it again supplying material for the interna-tional space station. The Orange County RegisterÕs story is not just timely its a warning that the future is not through with us even after death we be-come another valuable product.

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