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On September 30, 2011, I awoke and composed three posts on my Trading Post – take back the Post Office – idea. This took me five hours. I then grabbed some spare clothes and other items, and headed for Safeway to find my homeless friend, Hollis. I talked him, and two other people into going to the Post Office in Springfield and putting down a blanket to barter upon. I bought an American flag, ran some other errands, then, ran out of steam. We decided to do our thing on Monday, but, then one person pulled out. I postponed our demonstration and went to the Jazz and Poetry at the Granary and shared my idea and posts with the Josh and Blackhorse – who said they were on board. Friday night, I found a flyer for a Occupy Eugene meeting to be held on Saturday, my birthday. I attended that meeting dressed in flags and wearing a Santa hat. Some guy came up to me and said;
“Samaclaus. Uncle Samaclaus!” A star was born.

Things went downhill from there, just after the meeting got underway. We THE PEOPLE were now being taught how to use hand signs to communicate our collective feelings. Most of the people present were into this. I wondered why. Were there other meetings with a core group?

This morning I read an article wherein folks are using the same gestures to silence Congressman Lewis who wanted to address the Occupy Atlanta gathering in Atlanta. The Occs were not ready for Lewis to speak. Like in Eugene, they were still running down a complex set of procedures voted on by committee. Its is agreed upon – Lewis is no better then anyone. Why this was put to a vote – has to be examined!

At the Eugene occ the MC (who elected him?) asked if anyone objected to the whole hand sign-vote thing. I approached the microphone dressed as Uncle Samaclaus. I said this;

“I represent the one hundredth of one percent. Nietzsche said; “There was only one true Christian, and they crucified him.” Jesus did not go into a huddle with his disciples in order to get a consensus about his idea of turning over the money lending tables. When it comes to being demonstrative, action speaks louder then words.

I have been in several demonstrations, including the million person march on Washington in 1971. These event tend to bring out the best in you, what is there, deep down inside. We all know the difference between what is right, and what is wrong. From there, we bring forth INSPIRATION! Whatever you do – BE INSPIRED, AND STAY INSPRED!”

I finished speech, and got applause, something that was voted against moments earlier. The point I was making is, that history shows it is very special people, and very mad people, who bring the multitude together, and change the status quo – with inspriring speeches! Hitler, Stalin, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, had the ability to inspire the masses, bring them together, and make drastic changes.

The criticism I have had of the Democratic Party, and other political bodies that have opposed the Republican agenda, is that they are fixated on being extremely policitlclly and democratically correct, as if this is where things go wrong in a Democracy, some folks dont play fair. For twenty three years I harried to tell my liberal buddies, their opposition is NOT ANYTHING LIKE YOU! They want to be winners – at any cost! They always invent, and out, a Big Dog in the fight! The dog we always get is that dude that stands in front of the library trying to get signatures because he is irate marijuana is not legal – and everyone should try some before they knock it!

As for the Republican evangelicals, they are running Jesus for every office, because they want Jesus to be the divine Emperor dictator Ruler of the whole world – because only his godly opinion matters.

I told the Mass Mind Melder of Spock that I would like to speak to them again when it came to putting the collective finger on the map and identity exactly what we are going to occupy. “I have a good target!”

But, before we get that, let us make sure no one feels inferior to anyone, for whatever reason. This reeks of Potheadism where everyone must be in a circle lest their be a hierarchy of some kind.

D-Day is set for October 15th. I might be in front of the post office – today! Being all alone there, is fine by me, because I never like Catechism. I think we are seeig Secular Catechism, where alas, the democratic process will being out the Inner You, the Inner Light of Secualr Truth! Someone should conduct a survey on how many of these Signers – VOTE! Someone needs to instruct them about the puropus of Democracy.

Jon Presco

Occupy Atlanta Protesters Use ‘Assembly’ Rules to Prevent Rep. Lewis From Speaking
Published October 10, 2011 | FoxNews.com

Rep. John Lewis is one of 435 members of the House interminably frustrated by the arcane ways of the Senate. At an Occupy Atlanta protest, he encountered a process arguably worse.
A lengthy video posted online over the weekend showed what happened when the Democratic congressman tried to address an “assembly” of protesters in his home state. Instead of giving the floor to a man who is not just a longtime U.S. representative but a revered civil rights icon, the protesters employed a tangle of parliamentary procedures to ultimately prevent him from speaking.
A stunned Lewis could be seen watching the whole thing unfold before ambling away.
The procedures they used — rather, invented — would make the Senate blush. Imagine some combination of Model U.N., Lord of the Flies and a Phish concert.
The central premise, it appeared, was that no one person is inherently more valuable than anyone else. So when the group’s leader, a bespectacled man with a bullhorn, said anything, he spoke in clipped fragments so the rest of the crowd could repeat what he was saying back to him. Another rule — no clapping, because “clapping can prevent someone else who is addressing the assembly from being heard.”
Instead, the leader urged everyone to use effusive hand signals to show approval.
With these fundamentals in place, the assembly spent 10 minutes debating whether Lewis should be allowed to speak before the crowd, which had gathered as one of many offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York.