Just Breathe...

Please see:

http://poetrybyadamvernontrotter.blogspot.com/2016/11/just-breathe.html

AVT (November 9th, 2016.)

#Orlando

#Orlando

Do something nice to help someone else!  Don’t let evil triumph!  No matter what it does.

(See:  http://alz.org/socal/ .)

There will be time to argue policy and the proper strategy to rid such evil scourge and violent creeps from the earth!  But for now:  (See:  Commit to Truth  http://poetrybyadamvernontrotter.blogspot.com/2011/06/commit-to-truth.html .)

So for now, for whatever it might be worth, I say helping another helps us all!!

(See:  http://tornadotamer.org/ .)

AVT  (June 13th, 2016)

Pardon the Election

June 7, 2016

ON this Primary Election Day here in the most populated state of California – wherein the populace votes for some combination of delegates who eventually in-turn vote for the candidate(s) to represent the respective political parties of the Nation in the General Election, and as no reflection on the candidates currently campaigning for the Office of the Presidency and having recently seen him in a televised interview, I wonder:  If he were to be elected as President of the U.S., could Edward Snowden pardon himself of any ‘crimes’?  I’m just wondering.  Could he pardon himself even if he had to hold the Office in abstentia for some period of time before he could pardon himself?  Because if he could, and the Nation does not come into any better significant ‘change’ than what we’ve had over the last couple of decades or so (economically, in particular), I am confident that I could easily get Mr. Snowden elected to the Office.  So, if he were ever to read these words or if the reader has channels to communicate with him, Snowden should not hesitate to call me if he were to desire being elected to be President of the U.S.  Like I say, I was just wondering, anyhow.

Adam Trotter

Exclusive: Snowden Tried to Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns, Documents Reveal

https://news.vice.com/article/edward-snowden-leaks-tried-to-tell-nsa-about-surveillance-concerns-exclusive

Shane Smith's Debrief on Edward Snowden and the State of Surveillance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhPV58YV_Kk

Watch Edward Snowden Teach Vice How to Make a Phone ‘Go Black’

http://www.wired.com/2016/05/snowden-vice-cell-phone-hack/

NSA Turns Allies Into Enemies! Snowden Come Home!!

http://adamvernontrotter.blogspot.com/2013/10/nsa-turns-allies-into-enemies-snowden.html

Fascists on Power-Trips: The NSA and IRS. …Flush ‘Em! 
http://adamvernontrotter.blogspot.com/2013/06/fascists-on-power-trips-nsa-and-irs.html 

A Just Government Fears Not… 

 http://poetrybyadamvernontrotter.blogspot.com/2011/03/just-government-fears-not.html

Emigrate to Make the New Place the Same as the Old Place?

April 2nd, 2016

Odd how when peoples emigrate from their family homeland to a new and different nation, that so often those same groups of people or their offspring try to instill in the new land the same absurdities and idiosyncrasies of the place from which they left.  Moreover, often those same absurdities are the very reason that caused those peoples to leave the family homeland in the first place.  Such absurdities can include forms of governments, forms of economic policies, forms of religion, forms of law – up to and including what constitutes a legal killing of another individual.  To demand such change in a new and different yet already lawfully established nation or any demands for changes to the way of life in the new land seem to reflect an unwillingness or inability of the new residents to assimilate and/or acculturate in the new homeland, for whatever the reason.  To demand sameness in the new nation also appears to reflect an ignorance or maybe an intolerance which need not be accepted lightly by the established inhabitants of that new homeland – in my opinion and depending on what type of change is demanded, of course.  In other words, it seems ridiculous for one to emigrate from a nation and then demand the new homeland change to become the same as the typically dysfunctional nation from where one left.  

I trust the high-brow, intolerant, and holier-than-thou types among us won’t read too much more into this blog entry than what is stated and intended by these words.  However, realistically, if one is unable to acculturate or assimilate into a new land and lifestyle and for anyone to demand everything to be as it was in one’s original family homeland, then those unrealistic folks would probably be best advised to stay where they are and work/fight to change their original homeland into what they desire of that place – instead of relocating to a new place only to demand that the new place become of the same dysfunctions as the place from where they emigrated. 

Adam Trotter