I have a letter from Robert Kennedy. As a 13 year old I had my first intuitive dream I remembered the night before President Kennedy was shot. I wrote a letter to Robert Kennedy in the days after President Kennedy died and Robert Kennedy (or his office) replied with a very kind letter to a young girl. It is packed away or I would get it out and share. He basically said thank you for the letter and then there was a paragraph about young people, truth, and government and how his brother had really believed young people were the answer to the big changes we needed in the world. Or something like that. It was so precious to me at the time that I didn't even let my parents know I had received it. I can still see myself walking down the street to get the mail and taking it out of the mail box, stunned, and then shaking. That was what, 58 years ago! From then on I followed everything he did, and was devastated at his death. I still have a box of newspapers from the days and weeks after RFK was shot--also packed away! I kept everything. It helped make history real to my sons years later when we went through the box of newspaper clippings and I shared the letter with them.
I haven't been able to visit the forum much these days, so I find it fascinating that those posts were on the first page I decided to read. I try not to watch too much news so I did not know about Sirhan Sirhan's release.The recent posts here, about RFK, activated a trigger I guess. The only other politician who has touched my soul in the same way is Barack Obama. Thank god he was not shot! I will touch in when I can. I need to MAKE time to visit! The love here is so powerful--and I too have been feeling the dark attempting its rise. I just keep trusting the Light because the Light will always win, even when we can barely see past our noses because the darkness has thickened and seems so powerful, I trust the illumination that the Light of the Creator is sending and hold on tight to the strength of love. Hate yells, love tho is the strongest Oak tree, roots at the center of Mother Earth and Branches reaching into Spirit. I always see that Tree with flowers growing around it in a meadow and then growing up the trunk. Strong Gentleness / Gentle Strength, this is the Light. Namaste.
@tesseract Thank you for your so very beautiful post and for addressing it to me. I read every word and took in every word. What a special story you have. If you ever get to taking out that letter, would you take a photo and post it here? Or email me the photo and I'll post it for you. So incredibly special! ❤️
I feel the same as you, about RFK and Obama.
@tesseract What a beautiful gift you got! I have a photo of my grandpa and JFK, when Grandpa was a freshman Congressman and JFK was a freshman Senator. They were friends. It's a wonderful photograph, but also so hard to see those young, enthusiastic, idealistic faces and know all the hardships that were to soon come.
Not unlike now.
Today is so, so heavy. And I find myself having so little faith in this country anymore.
The "Texas, Texas, Texas" prediction has gotten a lot of mileage over the years.
I will indeed send you a photo of the RFK letter when I get into my little fire safe, which is not easily reached at the moment. ❤️
@tesseract I never met RFK, but I did see JFK at a Harvard-Yale football game. I was a teenager sitting in the stands and suddenly he was making his way down past me with an entourage and sat down. I remember how red his face was. He had a very red face! He only stayed a short time and then the Yale band played
” Hit the Road, Jack” as he was leaving.
The day he was shot, our school let us out early and I was in a car pool. The mother who picked us up had known him and Jackie because her husband had been JFKs French ambassador. We were listening to the news reports on the car radio and I knew she was reacting on a personal level. I remember clearly, as if it happened just now, the concern in her voice as her daughter and I sat silent in the backseat. His death was my first experience of grief. I felt so much grief, a great black cloud from the collective. I was just 14.
Best News of the week!
Guess what? Somebody has their lowest approval rating ever right now!!!!
:D
I think it is gonna get much lower....just saying!
Good Morning. Woke up to some hopeful news from Politico. It seems that Florida is not pleased with DeSantis.
There are now more Floridians dead of COVID than DeSantis' winning margin.
TEXAS! TEXAS! TEXAS!
Yes, I'm quoting @jeanne-mayell !
Was talking to my hubby about the anti-abortion law in TX and he had an insight I hadn't thought of: this law may be the thread that starts the unraveling of the US as a union of states. I asked him why, and he told me that essentially the SCOTUS ruling is not about Roe v. Wade, it's really about giving a stamp of approval to state-sanctioned vigilantism.
I thought about it for a minute, and I think he's right. Reminder: he has been poo-pooing the idea that we are headed to a civil war and break up of the union by all of our predictions. Now not so much.
SCOTUS allowing this to happen means that they may apply this same logic to other laws, which means vigilantism across the board.
I asked him for an example and he said "The was a state legislator in Pennsylvania who said that if any school tried to make anyone wear masks at school he could 'fix the problem' himself with 20 strong, armed guys. -- Now imagine that happening for any and all laws that any individual disagrees with and you end up with violent chaos." That is vigilantism in a nutshell - the idea that individuals can enforce rules how they see fit rather than governmental entitities.
Another thing my husband told me about was more technical, it is a way to seriously f* up the Texas reporting agencies around this law. Essentially, it involves setting a VPN to Texas, then creating fake email accounts to spam the hotlines with fake reports. Maybe someone here with a strong tech background can give us a better step by step outline? I'm happy to do that on my free time. I love throwing monkey wrenches into theo-fascist cogs!
I wonder what would happen if someone falsely accuses someone of getting an abortion (say, a woman has a miscarriage, but someone tries to sue her as having an abortion to get the $10,000 bounty, and she must go through the indignity of having to prove it in court and in the media).
I haven't read the law completely, but I don't think that the Texas Republicans thought to put in a clause to protect their merry band of bounty hunters from libel laws. So while the law doesn't give recourse to the victims, nothings prevents these victims from suing and using libel laws to win damages.
So....there is a way to make these vigilante bounty hunters take note. If they falsely sue someone and it is proven, then the victim can use libel laws, win their lawsuit, and have the case serve as an example to other would-be bounty hunters.
Oh, how the devious attorney within me has awakened! All I need is a huge laser cannon and a skull-shaped hideout inside a mountain, and I am all set! Mah-ha-ha-ha!
I SEE YOU!!
Yeah, sure, but I think it's better to gum up the works from the start. Not everyone who is falsely accused will have the resources to pursue a libel case, ne c'est pas?
ETA: Where are my damn sharks with lasers?!?!?