Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

The great socioeconomic levelers of all time are economic depression, famine, plague, revolution, and total war. Before delving into more ancient history, let us consider the United States in the era, 1929 to 1955. There was a lot of speculation and greed acting on Wall Street (the stock market) in 1929 and the ballooning stock prices could not be sustained so the market had a nearly fatal crash. That was early beginnings of our nearly a decade long economic depression. We were led out of the depression by the drums of war and our saber rattling in the East and West. Eventually, we entered World War II on December 8, 1941, which is twelve years before my birth coincidentally. We had a vast new middle class to come out of the war with GI Bill for education setting the standard for educating a lot of returning veterans of foreign wars. Unfortunately, that robust middle class no longer exists.

In recent time famine has led to our police actions in Africa especially in Somalia which is the ancestral home of the Barbary pirates and oil tanker pirates of today. On October 3, 1993, we had a bad setback in our attempts to render food aid to the Somali starving people. We entered Mogadishu the Somali capital to rescue downed helicopter with SEAL Team 6 members and Naval flight crew. Famine in Africa has been the driving force in some African revolutions.

We are in dire economic straits due the SARS Coronavirus-19, 20 and the sickness it causes, Covid-19, which is currently plaguing our country. We also have lost a lot of our Constitutional rights because of the near marshal law we are now under.

The United States Revolutionary War which began in earnest with the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, changed our socioeconomic hierarchy. After the war there were a lot of shopkeepers in business who formed a basis of our middle class. The French Revolution was a blood and gore affair also. The royalty and other aristocrats were executed. That revolution was ended when Napoleon Bonaparte stole the show and declared war on all of Europe. The October Revolution (Bolshevik Coup) of November 3-4, 1917, installed Lenin as a supreme power and was the beginning of several pogroms and the ending of Tsarists epoch in Mother Russia. Most of the dictators that followed Lenin turned out to be mass murderers and purveyors of terror.

The United States was changed dramatically by our participation in World War I and World War II. After World War II we helped rebuild Europe and Japan with our Marshall Plan. We entered an era where a large and robust middle class was a direct product of World War II.

Why do the U. S. citizenry and residents’ worship and so generously reimburse celebrities, professional entertainers and sports stars, and the U. K. royal family? It is sickening to me to see vast wealth being accumulated by those that have no claim to fame other than initial family wealth and good genetics. Many worship ephemeral traits such as female and male aesthetics (beauty), artistic and sports abilities, or the ability to write a spellbinding novel or movie.

The real heroes are those individuals who volunteer to fight and quite possibly die upholding our national interests, principles, and values (about 1 – 2% of the population currently in the military). Another even larger set of heroic people are our healthcare providers. Also let us not forget the instructors, parents and other family members, professors, teachers, and other mentors that helped to mold us into who we are today.

I have many heroes in my extended family tree. My kin volunteered for military duty and other forms of service such as being medical doctors. My great-grandfather Jordan was trained in medicine after the Civil War in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Jordan like many country doctors of his day performed practically the whole spectrum of medical arts and sciences of the times. He especially was known in Clay and Randolph counties in Eastern Central Alabama as an excellent doctor to deliver babies. My niece on my deceased sister (died recently of ALS) is a medical doctor in Georgia and was a general surgeon until just a while ago. While in medical school at the Medical College of Georgia, she volunteered with Doctors Without Borders and was on an assignment to Honduras.

I wonder if Alexandra Bracken is on Merry Sue Bracken’s family tree:

http://www.alexandrabracken.com/

The age differential is only fourteen years so Merry could be an aunt or even a sister of Alexandra. Another wilder theory is that Merry was the young teenage mother of Alexandra, although Merry told me she had two sons: one twenty years old and the other twenty-five.

I recall that Merry told me “You cannot help who you love”. Well our culture and society set artificial and legitimate boundaries on who you can love. One sane relationship fence is the  age of consent. I believe nowadays the age of consent should be federally set at twenty-one for all U.S. citizens and residents. That way women can get educated before worrying about their biological clocks and having children. The same principle and restrictions should apply to males also. Of course, another smart restriction has to do with fraternization in the military, public, and perhaps private sectors of our democratic republic. A superior should not have sexual relationships with someone under her/his command.

There are quite a few distinguished individuals on my maternal side (Jordan) of my extended family, but their names are not in history books nor the tabloids.

My sister wants me to have a DNA analysis performed to check my paternal side (Williams). According to my theory or paranoia the federal or state government has already secretly done a partial genome mapping of me.

I think that Dr. Yvonne Marie or Maria (no time to check) Greene, MD is perhaps 51 years and probably still married to a distinguished and brilliant medical doctor who also holds a doctor of philosophy degree. As far as I know she is on leave or retired from the Veterans Administration and hospital therapy work in Clayton County and now works for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. In my research the nearest match for her maiden last name is Dudac (? spelling).

This may sound like a conspiracy theory, but the states and the federal government could be amassing a large DNA database disguised as Covid-19 antibody testing. There is a stigma attached to having a positive or false positive test for the virus SARS Conronavirus-19, 20. A few weeks ago a moratorium was placed on positive qualitative Covid-19 test takers trying to voluntarily enter the military. We need an inexpensive quantitative test for virus genome and the viral load. Vaccines are genotype (strain) specific. Remember that the SARS Conronavirus-19, 20 is a single strand positive sense messenger RNA type of virus. Last I read the virus had mutated to include at least seven genotypes. It is a rapidly evolving in humans RNA virus so there could be more genotypes around now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_virus

One my almost lifelong friends is a world class art collector specializing in African American works on paper. He owns and operates the Cochran Gallery downtown on the Marquis de La Fayette Square. It is opposite the Courtyard by Marriott. His Facebook page is:

https://www.facebook.com/TheCochranGallery/

His webpage which I did most of the creation along with Ray Sullivan’s wonderful high-resolution digital photographs is:

http://thecochrancollection.com/

Anyway, Wes and Missy Cochran are going to soon host a new exhibit of photographs by Bruce Checefsky. Bruce is a world-renowned photographer using digital devices, such as printer scanners.

https://www.mocp.org/collection/mpp/past/checefsky__bruce.php

Let us estimate $100 – $1,000 per day for my jail and inpatient mental healthcare. The jail was 75 days at an estimated cost of $7,500 – $75,000. My inpatient mental illness hospitalization was 127 days at an estimated price tag of $12,700 – $127,000. Due to the trips to the local hospital emergency room, we can tack on $5,000 – $10,000 more to get $17,700 – $137,000. I do not know how in the heck Medicaid could afford me!

Take a look at the website:

https://www.bustle.com/p/the-cost-of-mental-health-hospitalization-is-part-of-what-makes-mental-health-care-inaccessible-15919218

I know this sounds paranoid, but how would I find out if a secret warrant has been issued by a federal judge involving me? I think you would need the clout and wherewithal of CNN to find out the answer to my previous question.

I also think that some agency or nefarious individual has a cat fishing expedition and investigation involving me currently. I say this because I have been contacted via social media and cellphone text by an aesthetically very pleasingly looking and young female who claims to be 36 years old about to turn 37. This must be a tool of some government entity since I am not able to attract that level of beauty anymore.

Here are the people I am interested in getting to know better by initials and open source ages:

1. MSB 43
2. YMG 51
3. AG claims to be 36

We are rapidly converging on the 79^th Anniversary of the Battle of Denmark Strait which was a battle between the Royal Navy’s HMS Hood, a battlecruiser, and HMS Prince of Wales, a newly built battleship, and the Nazi Kriegsmarine’s Bismarck, a battleship, and Prinz Eugen, a heavy cruiser. The battle took place on Saturday, May 24, 1941 at approximately 5:52 AM to 6:02 AM local time. The Prince of Wales fired the first salvo at a range of 26,500 yards which is about 15.06 miles towards the lead Nazi ship which was the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. The Nazis held their fire until 5:55 AM. At 6:00 AM a 15 inch = 38 cm = 380 mm armor piercing shell from the Bismarck probably blew the HMS Hood to smithereens by hitting one of her magazines. Unfortunately, 1415 members of the HMS Hood’s crew died in the explosion. There were only three survivors from the doomed battlecruiser and pride of the Royal Navy. The HMS Prince of Wales was also badly damaged and forced to withdraw from the scene of the battle making smoke. The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a tactical victory for the Nazis. However, on the morning of Tuesday, May 27, 1941 the Royal Navy exacted its revenge for the loss of mighty HMS Hood by forcing the sinking of the Bismarck. The Prinz Eugen survived the Battle of the Denmark Strait and World War II. The HMS Prince of Wales was sunk in the Pacific Theater of the War by Japanese aircraft on Wednesday, December 10, 1941.

The Geneva Conventions supposedly govern the way prisoners of war are treated by their captors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

I hope we are still a signatory to all four treaties in the Geneva Conventions. I do not believe that enhanced interrogation including water boarding is allowed. Resorting to water boarding shows impatience and ignorance in my humble opinion. I hope we will not torture our prisoners of war in the future.

Supposedly intelligence garnered via water boarding a HUMINT target was necessary to locate our arch nemesis, Osama bin Laden. bin Laden was hiding in essentially in the plain sight in Abbottabad, Pakistan. We sent members of SEAL Team 6 to assassinate the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary organization known as al-Qaeda. All the necessary intelligence came from a near onsite joint CIA-NSA observation and listening post. We lost a very valuable stealth helicopter in the operation.

1. Rule out trigger happy bullies
2. Only accept civilian applicants
3. Only accept liberal arts college graduates with majors in sociology or psychology
4. Check everything on an applicant’s resume
5. Require all college transcripts (3.0 out 4.0 GPA minimum, preferably 3.5 and up)
6. Two polygraphs one limited scope and one full scope
7. Require some type of martial arts training
8. Two different clinical psychological examinations by two different clinicians
9. A tribunal question and answer operational interview with nursing staff and sociological technicians, and social workers
10. An extended trial period of work in the facility

The Pathways Center Second Season security personnel certainly did not meet the preceding strict criteria (most desirable requirements). I was threatened with death multiple times by gun toting (off the facility for the most part) turnkeys. I was continuously bullied by the Security Staff and those beasts should not have been allowed to work around the mentally ill!