Kamala Harris at a multilateral meeting with the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, the president of Latvia, Egils Levits, and the president of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda. Photo by the White House.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-harris/
Dear Vice President;
I exceeded the limit of words I could send you, then I saw the light. In the two photographs of my Stuttmeister-Janke grandfathers, I saw they were framed by two trees – TWO PINE TREES! Are these the two trees that were-are found in Twin Pines Park that is located at the center of the City of Belmont? Before you and President Biden won the White House fair and square, I and Ed Howard were combining our Oakland History, the city where I was born. Were you born in Oakland where my kin took refuge after the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. They lived below Joaquin Miller who brother published Jack London’s ‘Martin Eden’ in the Pacific Monthly. Jack lived and worked in Belmont and grew up in Oakland.
When the Belmont Historical Society did not respond to the photographs I posted on their sites, I wondered if they were looking at who I am on the internet. I posted my blogs on you and the Turnverein Abolitionists who chose John Fremont to run in the newly formed Republican Party. I am related to Fremont. I also posted one of my famous sisters paintings ‘Lena and Her Sisters’. Lena was our ‘Black maid who raised us when my mother went to work to support her four children. I surmised I was dealing with racists’, but, it is much worse than that. I dealing with people like Governor DeSantis and his people, who are engaging in SELECT HISTORY. They have gone way beyond EDITING HISTORY, they are passing laws that OUTLAWS HISTORY they do not like. Denny Lawher did not like your amazing history. He ruled that the first Black Woman to be elected Vice President, had nothing to do with Belmont. HE LIED! He knew better. I had posted on the Forty-Eighters. Five days after my first post, I got this message from Denny Lawhern.
Greg Presco Hi Greg , I have been enjoyed some of your posts and photos that are directly related to the Belmont area and you have provided some new photos and information that will be put in a file, but please try not to post anything that is off topic or is not Belmont Area related. Thank you , Denny Lawhern Belmont Historian“
I am still appalled – and in shock two years later. What Denny is saying ism “Thanks for your deposit of you family history! Now – GET LOST! Denny thinks he is a Family Information Bank, and I and others are obligated to give him our family history. When Cynthia McCarthy joined in, she informed me I may be violating her Copyright by putting a photograph of my Janke ancestors that appear in her book. Again – I am still in shock! Why didn’t Denny or Cynthia post these photographs, saying. “Are you aware we have photographs of your bloodkin?” Were Christians intent on suppressing the Oddfelows?
I now suspected these two were idling something from me. I soon discovered that my great-grandfather and grandmother were dug out of their graves in the middle of the night, and moved to the Union Cemetery in Redwood City. But, what is truly astounding, is, it looks like Carl Janke brought six portable house around the Cape to establish a Oddfellow Utopia, completer with a Turnverein Amusement that is not unlike the original Disneyland. It was meant to be a Magical Place for the Oddfellow who lived in San Francisco to come and enjoy My family co-owned a stagecoach line, that took honeymooners to Halfmoon Bay. How many Californians wished they had this in their resumé? We owned a Soda bottling company. What if I wanted to revive this family buniness and draw business because I am…….LIVING BELMONT HISTORY
Mrs. Vice President, I suggest you and President Biden investigate Historical Societies across America, to see if racist select history is going on. Stanford is moving to Belmont. I would like their history department to look at the history of the Oddfellows in California. Here is Ms, McCarthy taking a bullet for Mr, Lawhern who dedicated his life to compiling MY FAMILY HISTORY that is some how – his. He got praises and pats on the head. He wanted more of that. How – parasitical in denying me my history. Of course my German history fell out of favor because of the Two World Wars. With the invasion of Ukraine, NATO and the world, is looking to how Germany responds. Ursula van der Layen went to Stanford. Her children were born in America. I suggest you invite Ursula to meet with you at Stanford, and do a tour of the Bay Area. It is from here a war with China would be launched. We must show our enemies the reason we fight. Our real and true history must stand and face the light of day! We have nothing to hide when….The future is ours!
There is a wreath and rifle in the tree if you look closely in one of the photos of my family which highly suggests they are paying traditional honor to their ancestors – who are buried in Twin Pines Park! It is traditional for Oddfellows to meet at the graves of loved ones on Sunday, and have a picnic. This order has genealogical archives like the Mormons do. Christians had an interest in suppressing the Oddfellows, then – and now! With the rise of Christian Nationalism inside the Republican Party, ONLY, a religious war is taking place in our Democracy. The Republican Party – may be using the Oddfellows as a model. In Iconography Culture Wars, the original is always destroyed after alterations. I suspect the Belmont Historical Society knew I could make a claim of ownership. Is there a Deed on file that allowed the worship of the Cark Janke and his wife – to take place at Twin Pines – forever? I will solicit the HELP of my local Oddfellows in Springfield Oregon.
I am now wondering if the BHS found my post of July 17, 2020 where I founded the Black Turnverein, that does anticipate the Jan.6th. Insurrection – that failed? What if it has succeeded? Would black people be up in arms – for real? Intelligences Agencies are saying – its not over! How many spooks in NATO Nations are playing a lot of attention to the real crisis our Democracy is in. Did Trump backers in Belmont believe the election was stolen?
Sincerely
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
“My name is Cynthia McCarthy and you can blame me and me alone, not the Belmont Historical Society. You can email me at @gmail.com.
EXTRA! An hour after my last edit of this post, I saw on Television the NAACP issued a travel advisory for the whole State of Florida for the reasons I have made the Vice President – I am aware of. I’m sure she knows already. I have sent Kamala my letter in two increments and will not send more. What is going down in Florida is now a world crisis!
I am seventy-six and am having more rouble writing. I have never been a good writer due tomy abusive upbringing. I live to write and do research. I believed I got a real good story that the New Yorker Magazine will buy. But, I cant wait to reveal what I discovered three hours ago. My left finger is not working like it used to. I type with my forefingers.
https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-issues-travel-advisory-florida
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 20, 2023
Contact: Chyna Fields cfields@naacpnet.org
WASHINGTON – Today, the NAACP Board of Directors issued a formal travel advisory for the state of Florida. The travel advisory comes in direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis’ aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.
The formal travel notice states, “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color.”
“Let me be clear – failing to teach an accurate representation of the horrors and inequalities that Black Americans have faced and continue to face is a disservice to students and a dereliction of duty to all,” said NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson. “Under the leadership of Governor Desantis, the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans and in direct conflict with the democratic ideals that our union was founded upon. He should know that democracy will prevail because its defenders are prepared to stand up and fight. We’re not backing down, and we encourage our allies to join us in the battle for the soul of our nation.”
The travel advisory was initially proposed to the Board of Directors by NAACP’s Florida State Conference. NAACP’s collective consideration of this advisory is a result from unrelenting attacks on fundamental freedoms from the Governor and his legislative body.
“Once again, hate-inspired state leaders have chosen to put politics over people. Governor Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida have engaged in a blatant war against principles of diversity and inclusion and rejected our shared identities to appeal to a dangerous, extremist minority,” said Chair of the NAACP Board of Directors, Leon Russell. “We will not not allow our rights and history to be held hostage for political grandstanding. The NAACP proudly fights against the malicious attacks in Florida, against Black Americans. I encourage my fellow Floridians to join in this fight to protect ourselves and our democracy.”
Following Gov. DeSantis’ so-called leadership in driving the state to reject students’ access to AP African American studies course in March, the NAACP distributed 10,000 books to 25 predominantly Black communities across the state in collaboration with the American Federation of Teachers’s Reading Opens the World program. The majority of the books donated were titles banned under the state’s increasingly restrictive laws. The NAACP continues to encourage local branches and youth councils to start community libraries to ensure access to representative literature.
The NAACP encourages Florida residents to join this effort to defeat the regressive policies of this Governor and this state legislature. Interested residents and supporters can visit www.naacp.org for additional information and updates.
Black Turnverein
Posted on July 17, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday, I admitted I have gotten out of shape due to COVID-19. Today I founded the Black Turnverein Channel that hopefully will be broadcast across America. Many black athletes will not be taking the field in our Nation’s colleges. I moved to Springfield fourteen years ago and bonded with some of the black Oregon Ducks. For awhile there was a group of blacks who met near the playground to do exercise. I joined them. I was seventy years – young!
With the coming of Black Live’s Matter, the whole world is looking at major issues that can, and will change the course of world history. It was traditional for Turnverein Clubs to hold debates of all kinds. These German immigrants go involved in our Democracy and served in the Union Army and helped defeat the Confederate Conspiracy – which is still alive! With my discovery my kin, John Fremont, formed the Radical Democracy Party in order to get Abraham Lincoln to drop out of the rice, opens up a huge field of topics in regards to how thoroughly black slaves were oppressed in the United States.
I would like to see the Black Panthers found a Black Turnverein in Oakland California. There is talk about armed Black Militias. My kin, Carl Janke, founded a Turnverein in Belmont and San Francisco where a armed Vigilante Committee may have been preparing to fight the Confederacy – as well as maintaining Law and Order. These issue are up! This history has returned.
I am for seeing armed black groups – if they take advantage of the Turnverein history. I would love to see the Black Panthers marching down Broadway and parading at Merritt College – after the coronavirus is no longer a threat. Being of sound body and mind was the motive of the Turnverein that admitted Jews who went on of the create Muscular Judaism, and, founded the New Israel. Are we to see Jews doing the goosestep in Los Angeles where live the largest Jewish population outside Israel? I have roots in Reformed Judaism.
I highly suggest BLM contact Ursula Von Der Leyen who went to Stanford. Tell her you want to set up a cultural exchange with Germany. Blacks should learn German. English is the language of the slave masters. I would start classical music clubs and learn the goose step that many nations south of the Trump Wall have adopted. I would recognize Cuba, who were taught to goose step by the Russians – who learned it from my Prussian kin. The Germans were for the cultural advancement of the black slaves – they were determined to set free! Germany did take part in the slave trade and there is reparation conversation about the genocide of Africans. Perhaps Germans will donate violins and other instrument to black students – who may not go back to school. The Black Turnverein channel can teach children to play and speak German. Why Trump and the Republicans snub Germany, is to say:
“The enemy of my enemy – is my friend!”
“Donald Trump is suggesting the United States should treat Germany more like an enemy because the two countries were adversaries in World War II as the president again lobbied for closer US-Russian relations.”
Huey Newton came up with a plan he titles ‘Internationalism’. I know Black Lives Matter has stepped into the Limelight of History – that is on their side! There are around forty-two million black people in America and the same amount for Americans with German roots. I have a vision of black men and women speaking in German in a public place. They are discussing the German and Black Composers. I see a black man standing on stage at Carnegie Hall singing the BLM anthem, a blues number sang to Beethoven’s Sonata Claro de Luna. This is the first victory song. as a historian, I testify BLM won it’s first victory. We have a major contender on the World Stage.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Lodges, officers, positions and degrees
Our archives hold over 200 years of genealogical, social and organisational history. If you’re an Oddfellows member, they’re all yours to browse and research any time you like. Or you can become an Archive member for just £10 a year.
587 BC
Earliest legend of an Oddfellows fraternity is linked to the exile of the Israelites in Babylon, when many banded together into a brotherhood for mutual support. After the fall of Jerusalem (AD70), the fraternity is said to have continued amongst Jewish prisoners and was taken to Rome. It was recognised by Emperor Titus Caesar and from there it spread across the Empire.
Vice President Harris was born in Oakland, California to parents who emigrated from India and Jamaica. She graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
“My mother would look at me and she’d say, ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.’”KAMALA HARRIS, JANUARY 28, 2019
Vice President Harris and her sister, Maya Harris, were inspired by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan. Gopalan, a breast cancer scientist and pioneer in her own right, received her doctorate the same year Vice President Harris was born.
Her parents were activists, instilling Vice President Harris with a strong sense of justice. They brought her to civil rights demonstrations and introduced role models—ranging from Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to civil rights leader Constance Baker Motley—whose work motivated her to become a prosecutor.
Growing up, Vice President Harris was surrounded by a diverse community and extended family. In 2014, she married Douglas Emhoff. They have a large blended family that includes their children, Ella and Cole.
Janke Park, Hall, And Stagecoach Line
Posted on November 27, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Very few families can say their kindred owned a Stagecoach Line, Theme Park, and a Turnverein Hall, or two. Carl Janke was half owner of the Belmont Accommodation Company that ran between Belmont ‘Beautiful Mountain’, and Halfmoon Bay. Mrs. Walter E. Janke was the President of the Cap and Bells Club that employed the cap of the Jester in its emblem. Consider the Merry Pranksters. Musicals, plays, and “Jinks” were performed. Consider the Hi-jinks of the all male Bohemian Club. Is this a feminists answer? It appears the Cap and Bells founded an art gallery. Was this the formation of the Outdoor Art League?
Dear Vice President Kamala Harris;
The oppression of my family history in the Belmont Historical Society I believe is racially motivated. My first posts were about Turnverein Germans, and Forty-Eighters who founded the Republican Abolitionist Party and fought Confederate Traitors to free slaves. This is the main reason I got in trouble because the white folks of Belmont want their city to remain a white enclave, and not have a direct descendant of the founder if Belmont, put his history in my back pocket -to do with it what I will. This is a new brand of Fascism, where any white sympathizer of black causes, is MARKED as a undesirable, their history erased, and then they are publicly SHAMED? What kind of attorney will hand my suit? This is hardly the kind of treatment one would expect when asked to contribute your history.
Above is my first post made on Feb. 25. Ed Howard had just told me he saw the new Black Panther movie. I told my fellow historian on Feb. 24 I was going for a grant. Here is Cynthia’s book on Belmont published in 2014. She must have found my family history on the internet. She says there is no competition, but she was Gaslighting me. I made copies of our posts – and caught her mentally torturing’ me, accursing me of abusing her. I have seen her act before.
G7 Summit in Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said on Sunday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin as he claimed to have taken the eastern city of Bakhmut, something Kyiv denied.
KAMALA HARRIS
Vice President of the United States
Readout of Vice President Harris’s Call with European Commission President von der Leyen
March 15, 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke today with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Following up on their meeting in Munich, Germany, last month, the leaders discussed coordinated U.S. and EU actions in response to Russia’s unjustified, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. In particular, they discussed the severe economic consequences imposed on Russia and those complicit in the invasion and next steps to ensure Russia continues to incur high costs for its aggression. The leaders also discussed the increasing numbers of those fleeing the violence in Ukraine, and the Vice President underscored the U.S. commitment to surge humanitarian assistance to those in need, both in Ukraine and throughout the region. The leaders agreed to continue to work together to provide life-saving assistance to the vulnerable. The Vice President welcomed the generosity and kindness demonstrated by EU leaders and the European people.
Black Turnverein
Posted on July 17, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday, I admitted I have gotten out of shape due to COVID-19. Today I founded the Black Turnverein Channel that hopefully will be broadcast across America. Many black athletes will not be taking the field in our Nation’s colleges. I moved to Springfield fourteen years ago and bonded with some of the black Oregon Ducks. For awhile there was a group of blacks who met near the playground to do exercise. I joined them. I was seventy years – young!
With the coming of Black Live’s Matter, the whole world is looking at major issues that can, and will change the course of world history. It was traditional for Turnverein Clubs to hold debates of all kinds. These German immigrants go involved in our Democracy and served in the Union Army and helped defeat the Confederate Conspiracy – which is still alive! With my discovery my kin, John Fremont, formed the Radical Democracy Party in order to get Abraham Lincoln to drop out of the rice, opens up a huge field of topics in regards to how thoroughly black slaves were oppressed in the United States.
I would like to see the Black Panthers found a Black Turnverein in Oakland California. There is talk about armed Black Militias. My kin, Carl Janke, founded a Turnverein in Belmont and San Francisco where a armed Vigilante Committee may have been preparing to fight the Confederacy – as well as maintaining Law and Order. These issue are up! This history has returned.
I am for seeing armed black groups – if they take advantage of the Turnverein history. I would love to see the Black Panthers marching down Broadway and parading at Merritt College – after the coronavirus is no longer a threat. Being of sound body and mind was the motive of the Turnverein that admitted Jews who went on of the create Muscular Judaism, and, founded the New Israel. Are we to see Jews doing the goosestep in Los Angeles where live the largest Jewish population outside Israel? I have roots in Reformed Judaism.
I highly suggest BLM contact Ursula Von Der Leyen who went to Stanford. Tell her you want to set up a cultural exchange with Germany. Blacks should learn German. English is the language of the slave masters. I would start classical music clubs and learn the goose step that many nations south of the Trump Wall have adopted. I would recognize Cuba, who were taught to goose step by the Russians – who learned it from my Prussian kin. The Germans were for the cultural advancement of the black slaves – they were determined to set free! Germany did take part in the slave trade and there is reparation conversation about the genocide of Africans. Perhaps Germans will donate violins and other instrument to black students – who may not go back to school. The Black Turnverein channel can teach children to play and speak German. Why Trump and the Republicans snub Germany, is to say:
“The enemy of my enemy – is my friend!”
“Donald Trump is suggesting the United States should treat Germany more like an enemy because the two countries were adversaries in World War II as the president again lobbied for closer US-Russian relations.”
Huey Newton came up with a plan he titles ‘Internationalism’. I know Black Lives Matter has stepped into the Limelight of History – that is on their side! There are around forty-two million black people in America and the same amount for Americans with German roots. I have a vision of black men and women speaking in German in a public place. They are discussing the German and Black Composers. I see a black man standing on stage at Carnegie Hall singing the BLM anthem, a blues number sang to Beethoven’s Sonata Claro de Luna. This is the first victory song. as a historian, I testify BLM won it’s first victory. We have a major contender on the World Stage.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Blatant Racism In Belmont
Posted on March 1, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
“I am going for a grant to study the relationship of German Turners with Black People. I would like you, Ed, to help get this grant. ROSAMONDPRESS.COM Janke and Turner Vigilantes
Janke and Turner Abolitionists | Rosamond Press
Above is my first post made on Feb. 25. Ed Howard had just told me he saw the new Black Panther movie. I told my fellow historian on Feb. 24 I was going for a grant. Here is Cynthia’s book on Belmont published in 2014. She must have found my family history on the internet. She says there is no competition, but she was Gaslighting me. I made copies of our posts – and caught her mentally torturing’ me, accursing me of abusing her. I have seen her act before.
Belmont (Images of America): McCarthy, Cynthia Karpa: 9781467131353: Amazon.com: Books
The oppression of my family history in the Belmont Historical Society I believe is racially motivated. My first posts were about Turnverein Germans, and Forty-Eighters who founded the Republican Abolitionist Party and fought Confederate Traitors to free slaves. This is the main reason I got in trouble because the white folks of Belmont want their city to remain a white enclave, and not have a direct descendant of the founder if Belmont, put his history in my back pocket -to do with it what I will. This is a new brand of Fascism, where any white sympathizer of black causes, is MARKED as a undesirable, their history erased, and then they are publicly SHAMED? What kind of attorney will hand my suit? This is hardly the kind of treatment one would expect when asked to contribute your history.
I came to the Belmont Historical Society via my friend, Ed Howard, and my therapist who treated ne for PTSD. I promised to start promoting myself. I have been promoting Ed Howard’s history of Oakland because we were born in Oakland. The four Presco Children were raised by a black maid who took Christine home with her to share her with her three sisters who had been maids in mansions in Mississippi. Then came the call for ship workers in Marin.
I posted Rosamond’s painting ‘Lena And Her Sister’s and it was taken down. Ed’s brother was going to drive me to the Naval cemetery to see my parents who served. My two siblings went over to the dark side when a outsider bought my families creative legacy, and they did not tell me my father was dead, and, my other was dying, My brother is a racist neo-Nazi who also descends from Carl Janke and William Stuttmeister, two men who lived in Belmont. I thought I would establish my history on a Belmont site, and then apply for several grants, that would help Ed and I preserve the history of Oakland, and our families. Is this the history Bemont wants….
Politically Incorrect Iconoclast (mbpresco.blogspot.com)
I began to wonder if racism was their motive when after I posted on my famous sister, then on our cousin, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, I got no response. It was hard to believe. THEY did not want these famous white people backing black people – especially when they are kin to my family members they captured, and made them THEIR prisoners. They took my posts and information – HOSTAGE!
Above is Liz Taylor in the movie Sandpipers. She looks just like the great granddaughter of Augustus Janke. I am convinced THEY were going to rip-off much of my posts, write another book, and laugh all the way to te bank. I can hear them sniggering as they used facebook for racist purpose’s.
John Presco’
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The Turners
Posted on November 26, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday I discovered one of my great grandfathers founded a Turnverein Hall on Bush Street in San Francisco. This hall was a place one could go hear music and practice gymnastics. The Seamens Friendly Union met here, and the Vigilance Committee. Plays were performed, and debates held. This is the radical root of San Francisco that I have traced to the Longshoreman’s Hall and the first Acid Tests. The Turner hall offered music and other entertainment as an alternative to gambling and prostitution. My father was a Merchant Marine and would be pleased to know the first institution for furthering sailor rights met in the Bush hall.
“All seamen are invited to attend at the Turn Verein Hall on Bush Street between Stockton and Powell Streets on Thursday Evening, January 11 at 7 1/2 o’clock to form a Seamens Society for the Pacific Coast.”
The Vigilance Committee combatted corruption and violence. These were idealists that lay the groundwork for a city famous for it cultural revolutions.
“Flaunting their rebellious spirit, the gymnasts of Vormärz wore their hair long and sported large black hats decorated with a rooster feather”
Above are my grandparents having picnic in the Oakland Hills. There is a sharpshooters rifle hanging in the tree. Janke had marksman contests Belmont Park. Many Turnverein were Socialists and Marxists.
Jon Presco
http://art.famsf.org/wa-janke-founded-belmont-picnic-grounds-and-first-turn-verein-bush-street-39933
“W.A. Janke, founded the Belmont Picnic Grounds, and the first Turn Verein on Bush Street.”
Yesterday I received information from Shirley Schwoerer of the Redwood City Library, that said my ancestor, Carl August Janke, was instrumental in establishing a Turnverien in Belmont, and the Bay Area. Was it the first?
“He erected the old amusement hall of the Turnverein, and managed this for several years.”
Janke may be the first real estate developer in the San Francisco bay area.
“In 1849 the family came around the Horn on an old Clipper ship, and Mr. Janke brought with him on the trip the material for six portable houses. He set up these houses, and at once engaged in a successful business, as a building contractor.”
Visiting the sick was a daring, bold thing to do in 1819, and indeed for in excess of one hundred years more, because of the very real possibility the visitors would contract the illness or disease. Odd Fellows, and Rebekahs after they came into existence in 1851, visited the sick as a matter of course. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs continue to this day to make special efforts to visit the sick.
Relief of the distressed was a major goal of most or all fraternal organizations, then and now. Odd Fellow Lodges normally provided monetary sick benefits to its members who were ill or injured and unable to work. A few California lodges still provide monetary sick and/or death benefits for members. Assistance to those in need, whether in the form of donations to charities, or donations of money or goods and services to members or others in the community is commonly provided today by all lodges.
In addition, lodges commonly provided all kinds of assistance to members who were in need, such as a box of groceries, a cord of wood, or a member or visiting nurse to care for a seriously ill member at home. With the modern day social welfare programs operated by government agencies, these services by the Order are no longer as vital as they once were, but Odd Fellows and Rebekahs still provide friendship that members require for a wholesome and full life.
Odd Fellow Lodges continue to conduct funeral and memorial services for members when requested prior to their death or by their families. This may be the only service, or may be in conjunction with a church service or with other organizations.
Educating the orphan was also taken seriously, and orphans of Odd Fellows, and Rebekahs too, could expect to receive at least a high school education through the lodge. In California the Rebekahs were in the forefront of caring for the orphans, and in the late 1800’s they were granted authority to establish the Odd Fellow-Rebekah Children’s Home in Gilroy. They likewise were in the forefront of providing funds to insure an education for orphans and needy children of members.
The “Big Four” cemeteries were Odd Fellows’, Masonic, Laurel Hill, and Calvary. They were located in the Inner Richmond area of San Francisco, and surrounded Lone Mountain, with Odd Fellows’ to the west, Masonic to the south, Laurel Hill to the north, and Calvary to the east. These are the cemeteries on which A Second Final Rest concentrates. While many other cemeteries came and went before the “Big Four” were removed, the “Big Four” were the ones most directly affected by legal battles and referenda that finally banished almost all cemeteries from San Francisco. They were removed from San Francisco between the early 1930s and 1947. All bodies were exhumed and relocated by 1941, but lack of manpower due to World War II prevented the complete removal of monuments from Laurel Hill until 1947.
What happened to the bodies once they were removed from the cemeteries?
The vast majority of bodies were moved to mass gravesites in Colma, a small town known as “The City of Souls”, just a few miles south of San Francisco. Colma has the peculiar distinction of being home to approximately 2,000 living and 2 million deceased individuals. Colma has seventeen cemeteries, including a pet cemetery.
Insurrectionists and the Fourteenth Amendment
Posted on May 20, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Members of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia are seen in front of the U.S. Capitol a day after a pro-Trump mob broke into the building on Jan. 7, 2021.
Why was the Fourteenth Amendment written and them made law? I suspect the Republicans were giving clear messages to foreign entities that they had won the Civil War and the United States would honor the debts it incurred putting down Insurrectionists, so, that if there arose another rebellion, the same foreign powers would come to the aid of Democracy – and not those who killed to own human beings. This amendment is rewarding loyalty, and punishing disloyalty. Those who engaged in insurrection on Jan 6th. were punished. Lawmakers who support the Insurrectionist this very day, should be disqualified from voting on the Debt Ceiling – and not be allowed to run for office.
This is the amendment to my letter to VP Harris;
Would you and President Biden look into the real possibility the Capitol Police will not be paid for services rendered in putting down the Jan 6th. Insurrection, in regards to overtime. There is a real possibility they will not BE THERE TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY, if the Republicans do not raise the debt ceiling. To not do so may be seen as a act of Treason. Anyone who wants the chaos that will result, should lose their citizenship and right to vote. This goes for anyone who backs Insurrectionists, or, wants to pardon them, such as Donald Trump. All he has to do is admit Biden and you won, conduct a simple ceremony handing over the reigns of power, and sign the Iron Clad Oath. What better way for him to show he is a Loyal American. How can the Supreme Court deny the Capitol Police their wages – after getting protection from these Loyal Americans?
John Presco
except for participation in rebellion, or other crime
shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Constitution of the United States
Fourteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment Explained
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5
The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Dear Vice President Harris. I was born in Oakland during an amazing star-shower and lived on Berlin Way, a street my German grandfathers named. They built about forty homes in the Fruitvale area. They were Forty-Eighters and members of the Turnverein. We co-found the City of Belmont where we had one of the first theme park on the West Coast. I just ran for Governor of Oregon as a Republican because I am kin to John Fremont, the co-founder of this party that was taken over by Dixiecrats in the Red States. I voted the Democratic ticket most of my life. This was ten years ago. It was my hope the Abolitionist party of Fremont and Lincoln – would return to sanity. My hope – is dashed!
Recently I connected Jack London to George Miller who lived in Eugene Oregon. He and his wife published the Pacific Monthly. This is huge because Joaquin Miller is Georges brother, and honorary member of the Bohemian Club that Justice Clarence Thomas visited. Miller had a Bohemian commune above the farm of my ancestors where Japanese poets lived. This is vital in establishing a cultural exchange with Japan, a hands across the water theme
I have posted idea to my Governor, Tina Kotek in getting Disney to move to Oregon. I was behind the new home for the Oakland A’s at Howard terminal where I lived on my sailboat. That deal is not quite dead. I am asking for your intervention. I have called for a all-Black Naval Academy in Marin that can be located in Oakland. The old stadium and arena can be home to this Cadet School. Also, I am looking at the closed Alameda Naval Station being home to Disney, and or, a Futuristic College with a Atlantis theme – and a new statue of Pacifica.
I am very concerned about the drug fentanyl in the Bay Area. In my prophetic science fiction book ‘The Gideon Computer’ I saw the coming of ‘Crinkle’.I am an original hippie and would like to take part in a major recovery program. I have been on the bus with Ken Kesey, and have been clean and sober for thirty-six years. I can help found an emergency program.
I am a Biblical Scholar who has become very concerned about Christian Nationalism that may be backing Putin and his Patriarch, who called for a Holy War against the LBGTQ people in Ukraine. It looks like Justice Thomas, and Governor DeSantis, are in lockstep with ‘Killer Kirill. On March 1, 2018, I placed all LGBTQ people under the protection of the Knights Templars who may be my kin. Has Governor DeSantis been to….The Grove?
It is my desire for you to convey this message to President Biden, on the eve of what looks like Economic Warfare. I just began to study the Fourteenth Amendment that appears to comcern to Lincoln and the Republican Party, to insure the economic wellbeing of a re-united States does not result in total economic collapse, and thus encouraging foreign advisories to invade America to collect debts, such was the case of France invading Mexico. This amendment declares the rules of who can best restore the American Economy, and who best not take part. Insurectionists are hindered for taking part in the Cvil War, they replaced with Loyal Southerners. Governor DeSantis has declared a Holy War on the history of the Thirteen and Fourteenth Amendment, He is waging a economic warfare on Disney for supporting Gay rights. No LGBT origination took up arms against the Union in the Civil War. thus they are not outside the spirit of the Fourteenth. Couple with Disney, it can be concluded Gays are being signaled out for Economic Retribution.
Because many Republican Senators and Congressman still believe you and the rightful President stole the election, then I find it fitting that all elected officials take The Iron Clad Oath – or they will have no vote in raising the Debt Celling. How much money did The Real Traitors cost the U.S. Government, which includes borrowing from Foreign Nations? Please, send the Iron Clad Oath to all elcted Democrats so they can sign it by the time our debts come to.
Would you and President Biden look into the real possibility the Capitol Police will not be paid for services rendered in putting down the Jan 6th. Insurrection, in regards to overtime, and the real possibility they will not BE THERE TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY, if the Republicans do not raise the debt ceiling. To not do so may be seen as a act of Treason. Anyone who wants the chaos that will result, should lose their citizenship and right to vote. This goes for anyone who backs Insurrectionists, or, wants to pardon them, such as Donald Trump. All he has to do is admit Biden and you won, conduct a simple ceremony handing over the reigns of power, and sign the Iron Clad Oath. What better way for him to show he is a Loyal American. How can the Supreme Court deny the Capitol Policd their wages – after getting protection from these Loyal Americans?
Sincerely
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God.
My Odd Fellow Kindred Evicted From Graves
Posted on March 23, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press
At great expense to himself, my great-grandfather, William Suttmeister, moved the bodies of his wife and kindred from the Laurel Hill cemetery in San Francisco to a tomb in Colma where I brought my daughter and grandson so they can own their heritage. These bodies were evicted from their graves. Many tombstones were used to make a sea wall.
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