Many liberals trust systems to self-correct. But history shows democracy fails when comfort is valued over justice and when urgency is dismissed as chaos.
Some of you may remember a 1980s movie called “Cry Freedom.” It was a movie (in the old “white saviour” style) about the murder of South African student activist Stephen Biko by the South African apartheid government. Early on in the movie, Biko, played by Denzel Washington, makes the editor of a white liberal anti-apartheid newspaper understand that it is the white liberals, not the apartheid government, that are the biggest obstacle to real change.
The movie makes your point, American refugee, and illustrates it beautifully.
Thanks for the suggestion Angie. I'll try to watch "Cry Freedom" if I get a chance. I am looking into sharing movie reviews but unsure if it is appropriate for this blog. At the same time I do not want to spend energy spinning off another blog purely for movie or assorted reviews.
Agree completely. First, Sinclair Lewis described us as "fishing in the muddy slew of recollection which, for most Americans, passes for a clear pool of history" because we simply don't have a strong grasp of history to enable us to recognize the danger we're in. We've never experienced a movement of far-right ultra-nationalist populism strong enough and entrenched enough to replace our democracy. And when 90 million eligible voters couldn't be bothered to vote to save a barely functioning democracy, it shows that we've become a nation of apathetic, distracted, busy, self-absorbed, selfish, American frogs sitting in a large USA-shaped pan of rapidly-heating water unable to recognize the growing Fascist threat rising all around, and a nation of American ostriches overwhelmed and with heads buried in the sand, unsure of who or what to believe anymore, or who has their best interests at heart in a firehose of misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies and propaganda.
My name is Vicki Ann Witte. I am 62 years old, DOB 2/16/1963. I was born in Seattle, WA. My wife of 31 years is Rebecca (Becky) Ann Booth 73 years old, DOB 10/15/1951. Rebecca was born in Pratt, Kansas. We have 2 emotional support animals cats. We are in imminent danger. We are both Washington State Private Investigators trained and tested 2005 in Seattle, WA by former Federal Agent Jim Tyrell of West Seattle, WA and Paddy Calabrese former Mafia gunman who owned Inter-Tel Detective Agency in Pioneer Square Seattle, WA. Paddy Calabrese was the first individual to be placed into the U.S. Marshal's Service, Witness Protection Program. Paddy Calabrese was our boss. was our boss. May 19, 2025, 2:36PM we received a call from Damitra Stewart, Adult Protective Services Investigator at Washington State Department of Social And Health Services (DSHS). Damitra stated she would dispatch 911 to our rental property, a garage converted into an apartment to take a report of our current hostage crisis and to address the imminent danger we are in. The 911 Seattle Police Officers that arrived did not help or respond to our crisis. The 2 Police Officers that arrived harassed Rebecca and I, Vicki by mentioning a wellness check. The landlords, Craig Koball and Christopher Todd Koball intercepted the call and harassed the two of us by sending the Seattle Police instead out to harass us. The 2 male Seattle Police Officers were entirely inappropriate and incompetent in their response time and not appropriate for the call placed by Investigator Stewart. Investigator Stewart dispatched the call at 2:36 PM. The 2 male Seattle Police Officers arrived at 8:06 PM. The Officers endangered our lives that evening by not addressing our complaints. It has been 84 days without safe water in our rental home. We have no hot water. We have not had showers since December 2024. We are held hostage in the garage converted into an apartment at: 10559b Evanston Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133 next door to the voyeurs, criminals. There has been extreme voyeurism from day one of our one year lease 10/01/2024 - 9/30/2025. We have no privacy, attempted murder, hostage crisis, defamation of character, bullying, harassment, breaking entry, threats, theft of Social Security Retirement Income May 2025, blocking of Social Security Retirement Income 2/01/2025 and 3/01/2025. Civil Rights Violations and Federal Crimes. The Seattle Police Commissioner needs to intervene at this point. We are in danger of theft of our one car, a 2014 Maroon Chevy Cruze, license plate CCV3207. The Koball’s, Craig Koball 63 and Christopher Todd Koball 65 years old are planning a theft of our Chevy Cruze. This extreme harassment and voyeurism needs to end. The voyeurism is affecting the health our small family. Please take action and contact the Seattle Police Commissioner regarding these crimes against senior citizens. Rebecca Booth is in fear every day in our home.
The landlords, Craig Koball and Christopher Todd Koball address: 10559 Evanston Ave N Seattle, WA 98133. Last phone number (206) 383-3436. There may be illegal drugs involved with the Koball’s.
We are held hostage by circumstances created by the landlords and the Seattle Police Department. The Seattle Police Department officers have endangered we senior citizens women legally married and together 31 years.
You may reach Rebecca Booth at (316) 803-2171 or I, Vicki Witte at (316) 803-2297.
Jasmine Crockett has the intelligence, coupled with a strong and frank demeener. I wish she could have a chance of being elected to be the POTUS American needs.
Racism, mysiginy and an archaieic Electoral College means that will not happen in my lifetime.
Order over justice… create chaos, then summon the armed troops to make everyone feel safe… can you hear the “Four dead in O..hio? Thanks, Neil for that ear worm. And who pays? Some random youth merely walking across the space.
Sassoon wrote of the generals toddling safely home to die in their own beds.. a First World War observance of what happens when old white men decide that they want to put their toy soldiers of their childhood into action and that the youth need a shaking up.
How many times must the oracles scream into the void?
Some of you may remember a 1980s movie called “Cry Freedom.” It was a movie (in the old “white saviour” style) about the murder of South African student activist Stephen Biko by the South African apartheid government. Early on in the movie, Biko, played by Denzel Washington, makes the editor of a white liberal anti-apartheid newspaper understand that it is the white liberals, not the apartheid government, that are the biggest obstacle to real change.
The movie makes your point, American refugee, and illustrates it beautifully.
Thanks for the suggestion Angie. I'll try to watch "Cry Freedom" if I get a chance. I am looking into sharing movie reviews but unsure if it is appropriate for this blog. At the same time I do not want to spend energy spinning off another blog purely for movie or assorted reviews.
Agree completely. First, Sinclair Lewis described us as "fishing in the muddy slew of recollection which, for most Americans, passes for a clear pool of history" because we simply don't have a strong grasp of history to enable us to recognize the danger we're in. We've never experienced a movement of far-right ultra-nationalist populism strong enough and entrenched enough to replace our democracy. And when 90 million eligible voters couldn't be bothered to vote to save a barely functioning democracy, it shows that we've become a nation of apathetic, distracted, busy, self-absorbed, selfish, American frogs sitting in a large USA-shaped pan of rapidly-heating water unable to recognize the growing Fascist threat rising all around, and a nation of American ostriches overwhelmed and with heads buried in the sand, unsure of who or what to believe anymore, or who has their best interests at heart in a firehose of misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies and propaganda.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and well said.
My name is Vicki Ann Witte. I am 62 years old, DOB 2/16/1963. I was born in Seattle, WA. My wife of 31 years is Rebecca (Becky) Ann Booth 73 years old, DOB 10/15/1951. Rebecca was born in Pratt, Kansas. We have 2 emotional support animals cats. We are in imminent danger. We are both Washington State Private Investigators trained and tested 2005 in Seattle, WA by former Federal Agent Jim Tyrell of West Seattle, WA and Paddy Calabrese former Mafia gunman who owned Inter-Tel Detective Agency in Pioneer Square Seattle, WA. Paddy Calabrese was the first individual to be placed into the U.S. Marshal's Service, Witness Protection Program. Paddy Calabrese was our boss. was our boss. May 19, 2025, 2:36PM we received a call from Damitra Stewart, Adult Protective Services Investigator at Washington State Department of Social And Health Services (DSHS). Damitra stated she would dispatch 911 to our rental property, a garage converted into an apartment to take a report of our current hostage crisis and to address the imminent danger we are in. The 911 Seattle Police Officers that arrived did not help or respond to our crisis. The 2 Police Officers that arrived harassed Rebecca and I, Vicki by mentioning a wellness check. The landlords, Craig Koball and Christopher Todd Koball intercepted the call and harassed the two of us by sending the Seattle Police instead out to harass us. The 2 male Seattle Police Officers were entirely inappropriate and incompetent in their response time and not appropriate for the call placed by Investigator Stewart. Investigator Stewart dispatched the call at 2:36 PM. The 2 male Seattle Police Officers arrived at 8:06 PM. The Officers endangered our lives that evening by not addressing our complaints. It has been 84 days without safe water in our rental home. We have no hot water. We have not had showers since December 2024. We are held hostage in the garage converted into an apartment at: 10559b Evanston Ave N, Seattle, WA 98133 next door to the voyeurs, criminals. There has been extreme voyeurism from day one of our one year lease 10/01/2024 - 9/30/2025. We have no privacy, attempted murder, hostage crisis, defamation of character, bullying, harassment, breaking entry, threats, theft of Social Security Retirement Income May 2025, blocking of Social Security Retirement Income 2/01/2025 and 3/01/2025. Civil Rights Violations and Federal Crimes. The Seattle Police Commissioner needs to intervene at this point. We are in danger of theft of our one car, a 2014 Maroon Chevy Cruze, license plate CCV3207. The Koball’s, Craig Koball 63 and Christopher Todd Koball 65 years old are planning a theft of our Chevy Cruze. This extreme harassment and voyeurism needs to end. The voyeurism is affecting the health our small family. Please take action and contact the Seattle Police Commissioner regarding these crimes against senior citizens. Rebecca Booth is in fear every day in our home.
The landlords, Craig Koball and Christopher Todd Koball address: 10559 Evanston Ave N Seattle, WA 98133. Last phone number (206) 383-3436. There may be illegal drugs involved with the Koball’s.
We are held hostage by circumstances created by the landlords and the Seattle Police Department. The Seattle Police Department officers have endangered we senior citizens women legally married and together 31 years.
You may reach Rebecca Booth at (316) 803-2171 or I, Vicki Witte at (316) 803-2297.
Thank you and kindest regards,
Vicki Ann Witte
Rebecca Ann Booth
Jasmine Crockett has the intelligence, coupled with a strong and frank demeener. I wish she could have a chance of being elected to be the POTUS American needs.
Racism, mysiginy and an archaieic Electoral College means that will not happen in my lifetime.
Yes you said it
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Order over justice… create chaos, then summon the armed troops to make everyone feel safe… can you hear the “Four dead in O..hio? Thanks, Neil for that ear worm. And who pays? Some random youth merely walking across the space.
Sassoon wrote of the generals toddling safely home to die in their own beds.. a First World War observance of what happens when old white men decide that they want to put their toy soldiers of their childhood into action and that the youth need a shaking up.
How many times must the oracles scream into the void?
People know more about reality TV drama than what is happening in the government