UNITED STATES versus BRANCUSI, ART and ENLIGHTENMENT v. SUBTERRANEAN HUMAN FILTH OBSCURITY ETERNALLY
Donald P. Wilson, (and "Dogberry" too) “shapeshifted” (rumor is Jesus THE “mystical Taoist”, too!), GREAT
AMERICAN ARTEEST and the killers of this great gift to the USA? Ah,
yes, those that have been the most criminally insane of our species
since the beginning of the beginning to separate from our own
“humanity”, SEE: Dr. Ashraf Ezzat ~~ “My book is merely exposing the
forgery linked to the Septuagint Greek translation of the Hebrew tales
(never should have been called Bible by the way) …” ~ http://www.theartof12.blogspot.com/2015/06/super-pirates-today-and-see-egypt-knew.html
Brancusi beneath Donald P. Wilson, both read the 100 Thousand Songs of Milarepa, and both practiced DAILY PRAYER … “ART”!
Brancusi and his dog were both practicing vegitarians
- In 1927, a Brancusi sculpture landed at the center of a heated legal battle. Stéphanie Giry on the trial that redefined the meaning of art. By Stéphanie Giry After a weeklong journey from France, crates of sculptures by Constantin Brancusi arrived in New York harbor on the steamship Paris, escorted by the artist Marcel Duchamp. It was October 1926 and the sculptures were to be exhibited in the city at the avant-garde Brummer Gallery. United States Customs officials opened the crates and uncovered 20 mysterious disks, eggs, and flame-like forms of carved wood, polished metal, or smooth marble. One work in particular left them dumbfounded: a thin, 4 1/4-foot-tall piece of shiny yellow bronze with a gently tapering bulge called Bird in Space.
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2002/story_giry_sepoct2002.msp
Milarepa, Tibetan Buddhist Hermit – Articles – House of …
www.hermitary.com/articles/milarepa.html Details of his life are embedded in his Songs, and in one other source. Throughout the Mila Grubum or “Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa” –illuminating …
[SIDEBAR:
[SIDEBAR:
Why
is the “Arteest” so vitally necessary for our “HUMANITY”? ARTISTS have
dragged the species “Homo sapiens” up the proverbial hill from the
beginning of time. Constantin Brancusi read daily: “Hundred Thousand
Songs of Milarepa”. He was and is a SENTIENT BEING, then and now?! In
the FAMILY OF WHOLE BEINGS. Life is short in earth and those that do to
our species “Human Beings” what gets done (MUTILATIONS, APARTHEID,
GENOCIDE, DEMONIC LOW SUBTERRANEAN HUMAN FILTH EXPERIMENTING ON OWN
‘SPECIES’!!!!), are the vibrations of “What IT Is” — What’s that?!
Look at world earth and examine in particular the those, the thats, thems WHOM are not even beginning on a path of “enlightenment”. Obscure eternity is the span of consciousness for the ANN L. AIKEN, ET AL!
TRUTH is what truth power does — grows the whole being to be in the
family of whole beings in eternity – or not!!?? In two (2) words: FREE
WILL
Rothko knew, too
.. to be continued ….
DISASTER CAPITALISM, AND ~~KARL MARX et al WHISTLEBLOWING CONTINUING UNTIL “HUMAN” GETS BEING CLEAN-WHOLE-FIRM | Angelina Joilee et al PIMPING MUTILATION | Lifestyle Top psychiatrist: ‘We are turning childhood into a disease’ | Cognitive Dissonance and the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industry ET CETERA
[SIDEBAR#1: ? ~woman?! ~~ has either gone stark raving coo coo, or she is definitely what the reports have reported: Agenda~21 ~MONARCH SLAVE ..
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/05/angelina-jolie-pimping-mutilation-as.html
Lifestyle Top psychiatrist: ‘We are turning childhood into a disease’ ~ JOHN NAISH news.com.au
Amy Bevis wasn’t schizophrenia – she was being bullied at school. FOR
any parent, having to accept your child needs psychiatric drugs must be
agonising. But when Susan Bevis’s 13-year-old daughter Amy suffered a
breakdown after a vicious campaign of school bullying, drugs seemed the
only option – as instructed by psychiatrists.
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/07/lifestyle-top-psychiatrist-we-are.html
By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, Global Research, June 04, 2015, http://www.globalresearch.ca/cognitive-dissonance-and-the-psycho-pharmaceutical-industry/5453438
The major themes that I have dealt with over the years have included:
1) the known dangers of the synthetic chemical drugs that alter the brain, psyche and soul;
2) the serious, often life-threatening withdrawal symptoms that can result when these drugs are suddenly stopped or too-rapidly tapered down (thus indicating that the drugs were dependency-inducing/addicting);
3) information about brain nutrient therapy for brain-malnourished or brain-damaged folks who may actually be neurologically-impaired and not simply mentally-impaired;
4) safer, non-toxic, non-drug alternative approaches to mental ill health;
5) information about the reality of combat and non-combat-induced psychological traumas (PTSD) as causative factors in neurological/mental ill health; and
6) the large variety of aspects of traumatic stress injuries that have been mis-diagnosed as “mental illnesses of unknown origin” and therefore simplistically and erroneously treated with potentially dangerous medications.
My writings have been inspired by my own clinical experiences with suffering, emotionally traumatized people in my independent holistic health care practice. Over a thousand patients had come to me having been diagnosed with a bewildering variety of “mental illnesses of unknown origin”.
The
vast majority of my patients (approaching 100%) had begun their tragic
descent into psychological hell when they were victimized by acute
and/or chronic psychological, emotional, physical, sexual and/or
spiritual violence and neglect (battered child syndrome, battered woman
syndrome, childhood or spousal domestic abuse, child neglect, clergy
sexual abuse, combat-induced PTSD, etc, etc), all traumas that led them
into America’s psychopharmaceutical system, a system that has been
dominated – starting in the 1950s with the first block-buster (and soon
discredited) psych drugs like Thorazine and Valium. Those two drugs were
among the first in a long line of brain-altering medications many of
which were later found to be far more dangerous that first advertised
and that are still being greedily manufactured by a long and growing
list of highly profitable megacorporations, all undergirded by very
conflicted, very pseudo-scientific “research” studies, misleading
advertising, and cunning 24/7 promotion that is designed to brainwash
both prescribers and “consumers”.I’m just one of a small number of out-financed, shouted-down, whistle-blower healthcare-givers and activists world-wide who have remained dedicated to their professional duty to warn the uninformed or deceived by going up against the overwhelming billion dollar dis-informational advertising campaigns that come from amoral transnational mega-corporations. It often seems like we are just crying out in the wilderness. … snip snip
DISCLAIMER: Readers who are interested in reducing their psych drug use should consult their prescribing physician and not suddenly stop them. Stopping drugs suddenly can be more dangerous than starting them. They should consult a physician knowledgeable in neuroscience, brain nutrition and with experience in helping people safely and gradually discontinue psychiatric medications.
Dr Kohls is a retired physician who practiced holistic mental health care for the last decade of his career. He writes a weekly column for the Reader Weekly, an alternative newsweekly published in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Several years of Dr Kohls’ columns are archived at http://duluthreader.com/articles/categories/200_Duty_to_Warn.
[SIDEBAR #2: Father, Robert J., returned from World War II (THE WAR TO END ALL WARS, Mother said that was what was PROGRAMMED), then and now ?? same story as always via MASS MURDERERS OF OUR OWN SPECIES!!!
RJ went to work for Eli Lilly BIG PHARMA and he blew the whistle. He was fired for telling the truth that the P HARM A CEUTICALS WERE NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION! He had been a Prisoner of War, “POW”, for two (2) years. When he returned to the “USA”, he DID NOT GET NAKED in front of Mother .. wonder what happened to him?! Ah, that’s the cost of WAR, Et Cetera! RJ became a top “MILITARY BRASS”. The story has been told endless times via blogging these EXTRAORDINARY TIMES. RJ was decorated for flying more “Huey Helicopter Hours” via Lyndon B. Johnson, 1975. RJ was a TOP “CIA”. Brother FJ Alex, wrote a book about the story/ies and he was disappeared into the Bering Sea, before he could return from Alaska after ten (10) years of fishing and writing. The manuscript?! GONE, but, the notes are hidden to revisit all the work in so many languages that FJA BLEW THE WHISTLE. FJA was downed in the Bering Sea, 9/10/1986. RJ was born 9/10/1920 (1920 is a correction from Mother’s date given before on this blog – Hazel Naomi was born 1925.
In 1975, I, Roberta Kelly, LEFT THE “MEDICAL INDUSTRY”. At the hospital (Vancouver, Washington, “St. Joseph Hospital” then, and now?! “Southwestern?” Changes to continue to cover-up the DR. MENGELE experimenting on our own species.
The EASTERN practices saved my right arm and life. Western DR. MENGELE EXPERIMENTATION killed and kills far too many and maims and pimps mutilation. TIME FOR CHANGE!
Ayurveda | The Chopra Center
Early Greek medicine also embraced many concepts originally described in the classical ayurvedic medical texts dating back thousands of years.
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-art-of-war-by-sun-tzu.html
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2014/11/karl-marx-no-isms-daoism-isnt-taoists.html
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2014/10/former-top-iaea-official-actually.html
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2014/08/zionist-israels-thermonuclear-blackmail.html
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/10/awakening-to-reality.html
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-doesnt-china-do-shut-downs.html
LEADER, COMMUNIST PARTY
CURRENTLY
LIVING IN THE LAND MASS NAMED CHINA, ON MAP IN THE GLOBAL EARTH NAMED
‘EAST’. THE SILK ROAD WAS ALSO FOUND TO TRADE AND EXCHANGE, BEGINNING
THERE — BEFORE THE OPIUM WARS. BUSH ESQ. OF HONG KONG & RUSSELL
& COMPANY [‘SKULL & BONES], WERE PIRATES. THEN AS NOW THE DRUG
WEAPON IS WHAT GETS THE HUMAN BEINGS TO SURRENDER ALL SANITY. OBAMA IS A
DRUGGIE, MORE LIKELY THAN NOT HE IS COMPLETELY CONTROLLED BY THE
ZIONISTS’ WHO PAY HIM WELL TO DO WHATEVER THE ‘CENTRAL BANK’ DICTATES.
The
Yellow Emperor or Huangdi is one of the legendary Chinese sovereigns
and culture heroes included among the Three Sovereigns and Five
Emperors. Tradition holds that Huangdi reigned from 2697 to 2597 or 2696
to 2598 BC. Wikipedia
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/03/bio-hazards-karkinos-democracy-building.html
Bruce Jenner’s Jewish Enablers | “THE DEATHLESS DEATH” ~~ CLIFF HIGH “THE GRAND PENIS CONSPIRACY”
- By Brother Nathanael Kapner
IT CAN’T GET ANY SICKER than the Bruce Jenner transgender moment. But with the Jew-owned media pushing perversity it gets even sicker. The latest Jewish scheme to destroy Christian morality is their pageantry promoting “Caitlyn Jenner.”If it’s not the Jew-owned New York Times with its The Price of Caitlyn Jenner’s Heroism, it’s the Jew-owned LA Times with Caitlyn Jenner’s Courage Is Bold.
If Jenner’s castration of his testicles and shoving his penis toward his anus is “heroic” then the Jews have succeeded in changing the traditional meaning of words.
The only thing “bold” about Jenner’s transgender moment is how the Jews have taken a white ‘christian’ Olympic hero, cut off his balls, and implanted a pair of breasts on his once hairy chest. Jenner imagines that, by mutilating his genitals, pumping hormones into his system, getting feminizing surgery, and wearing women’s clothes and makeup, he’s now “a woman.” He is not. As Michael Hoffman puts it, Jenner’s a “female impersonator.”
Enter Jewish-owned Walt Disney with their animated “Emotion” character “Joy” who recently tweeted “You Go Girl! @ Caitlyn Jenner” congratulating the sicko on his sex change. It’s all about “emotions” for Jew-owned Disney, cradling Jenner’s displaced and distorted reality of his emotions. There’s no such thing as objective truth for Christ-hating Jews. Unless it comes to the Jewish agenda of destruction and chaos.
JEWISH DOGSONCE UPON ANOTHER SICK TIME pagan men castrated themselves in order to become “priestesses” of fertility cults. As transgender ’sacred prostitutes’, along with cross-dressing sodomite males, they often self-emasculated themselves during the ecstatic rites.
Male temple prostitutes were called “dogs” in the Bible — they were the goddess’ voluntary slaves. Slaves often wore torques (metal collars) around the neck, often of gold or silver: “Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God: for these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.” Deuteronomy 23:18
St Paul, when referring to the rite of circumcision as a means of Jewish salvation, called the Jews “dogs” to discourage Christians from viewing Jews as worthy of emulation. And when arraigning the pagan world for its homosexual practice, St John Chrysostom said: “Whence came this lust making man’s nature all that enemies could make it, ye that are more shameless than dogs! For in no case does such intercourse take place with them, but nature acknowledges her own limits.”
But Jews know no bounds. The utter destruction of white Christian males is their new frontier.
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=1035
[SIDEBAR: PORTLAND, OREGON, during the 1990s, two (2) TRANS-SEXUAL OPERATIONS (“TRANSGENDERS”), law firms were fully “aware” of the HORROR … the female that changed into male and the male that changed into female were S.M.A.R.T. enough to get, that, NOT FEMALE ANYMORE AND NOT MALE = DEATHLESS DEATH!!HUMANS’ PROGRAMMED (Bruce Jenner, ET AL), not long for life. How can we change the choice we contracted before we chose to be in EARTH as a “Homo sapiens” .. ILL, THE JEWS ARE NOT WELL KURT M. BULMER, SUSAN IRENE BAUR, ET AL!!! CONTRACTS with the UNSEEN! Physics — first identity in BEING HUMAN, our “physical”! Please, Bro Nathanael is a wake-up call to be the loudest alarm to what the SUBTERRANEAN HUMAN FILTH! … to be continued …
All of these diseases are caused by a chromosome mutation…
Below are the 19 Ashkenazic Jewish genetic diseases for which Jews are most commonly screened. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 Ashkenazic Jews is a carrier of a mutation in at least one of these disease genes:
Bloom Syndrome
Canavan Disease
Cystic Fibrosis
Familial Dysautonomia
Fanconi Anemia Type C
Gaucher Disease
Glycogen Storage Disease, Type 1a
Maple Syrup Urine Disease
Mucolipidosis IV (ML-IV)
Niemann-Pick Disease Type A
Tay-Sachs Disease
Walker-Warburg Syndrome
Screening in medical centers is also available for Jews with the following diseases, but on a more limited basis:
Dihyrolipoamide Dehydrogenase Deficiency (DLD Deficiency)
Familial Hyperinsulinism
Joubert Syndrome
Nemaline Myopathy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Usher Syndrome Type 1F
Usher Syndrome Type III
http://firstlightforum.wordpress.com/ <<
metzitzah b’peh, *drawing blood from baby’s penis the circumciser uses his mouth .. Naomi Reice Buchwald .. USDC Judge
.. AMPLE medical evidence *direct oral suction* places infants at a
serious risk of herpes infection .. evidence parents .. unaware MBP
circumcision .. regulation plainly addresses .. legitimate societal
concerns, Buchwald wrote, according to Reuters .. In 2003 – 2004, three
babies, including set of twins, infected .. Type 1 herpes; cases linked
to circumcision, one boy died. *See Gilad Atzmon, “Jewish Blood
Sacrifice.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/baby-dies-herpes-virus-ritual-circumcision-nyc-orthodox/story?id=15888618#.UViMb1dc1jx http://www.timesofisrael.com/ny-warning-on-circumcision-rite-is-upheld/
New York BAR #1064252: NAOMI REICE BUCHWALD, U S DISTRICT JUDGE, US COURT HOUSE, 500 PEARL ST, NEW YORK, NY 10007-1316, (212) 805-0194, Year Admitted in NY: 1968, Law School: COLUMBIA
&c/o
*Fax: (914) 390-4170, Hon. Vincent L. Briccetti, USDC Judge
*these being not ordinary times, thank you for yours’ “time,”
Dear Honorable Buchwald and Briccetti, ET AL:
Addressing reality in Century XXI.
The/a threaded, weaving in and out of “life’s tapestry,” our tap root problem is ~Information: lack or none, distorted, brainwashing, programming, engineering the human species. Obviously the intent was and is for behavior to model Biblical and / or aggressively anti-human … continued …
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/10/jew-isnt-bad-word-jew-isnt-bad-person.html
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/04/circumcision-aka-metzitzah-bpeh-federal.html
http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/08/lbgt-et-al-et-cetera-toxic-shame-due-to.html
UNITED STATES versus BRANCUSI, ART and ENLIGHTENMENT v. SUBTERRANEAN HUMAN FILTH OBSCURITY ETERNALLY
Donald P. Wilson
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/September-October-2002/story_giry_sepoct2002.msp
Milarepa, Tibetan Buddhist Hermit – Articles – House of …
www.hermitary.com/articles/milarepa.html Details of his life are embedded in his Songs, and in one other source. Throughout the Mila Grubum or “Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa” –illuminating …[SIDEBAR:
[SIDEBAR:
Why
is the “Arteest” so vitally necessary for our “HUMANITY”? ARTISTS have
dragged the species “Homo sapiens” up the proverbial hill from the
beginning of time. Constantin Brancusi read daily: “Hundred Thousand
Songs of Milarepa”. He was and is a SENTIENT BEING, then and now?! In
the FAMILY OF WHOLE BEINGS. Life is short in earth and those that do to
our species “Human Beings” what gets done (MUTILATIONS, APARTHEID,
GENOCIDE, DEMONIC LOW SUBTERRANEAN HUMAN FILTH EXPERIMENTING ON OWN
‘SPECIES’!!!!), are the vibrations of “What IT Is” — What’s that?!
Look at world earth and examine in particular the those, the thats, thems WHOM are not even beginning on a path of “enlightenment”. Obscure eternity is the span of consciousness for the ANN L. AIKEN, ET AL!
“Nothing
ever grows beneath giant trees” –some version of this saying– Brancusi
said to RODIN, the artist that cast Balzac in bronze. TRUTH is what
truth power does — grows the whole being to be in the family of whole
beings in eternity – or not.
Rothko knew, too
.. to be continued ….
US WHISTLEBLOWER KAREN HUDES: COALITION FOR THE RULE OF LAW, includes the BRICS [Braz il, Russia, India, China and South Africa] , and now Germany and Greece AND,
AND,
Assignee stands in the shoes of the assignor: It must prove the loan ~~Neil Garfield
see http://www.lowndes-law.com/news-center/1797-two-layers-protection-lenders-need-know-about-floridas-holder-due
There is a difference between alleging you are the holder with rights to enforce and proving it. If the bank, trustee or servicer alleges that it has the right to enforce then they will survive a motion to dismiss. But if the borrower denies that allegation is true, the burden of proof falls on the party making the allegation — the bank, trustee, servicer etc. The mistake made by Judges and lawyers is that they don’t make the distinction between pleading and proof. As a result you get decisions that include multiple rulings that prevent the borrower from conducting adequate discovery and allow the party bringing the foreclosure action to skate by because “it has already been established” that they are a holder with rights to enforce. That being the case the courts further compromise the verdict and judgment by over-ruling objections from the borrower on grounds of relevance.
One of the key points I have been making for 8 years is that the party bringing the foreclosure essentially never says that it is a holder in due course. In fact, we have had cases where opposing counsel expressly denies that the Plaintiff is a holder in due course. That is particularly remarkable where the Plaintiff is, for example, Citimortgage, which maintains an ambiguous status, admitting that it is a servicer but not revealing the creditor or the basis on which they rely in alleging that they are the servicer.
The importance of holder vs holder in due course cannot be over-stated. And if the loan was alleged to have been transferred while the loan was already declared in default, there can’t be a holder or holder in due course because the UCC does not apply those terms to anything but a negotiable instrument which by definition must not be in default at the time of transfer. Otherwise it is not a negotiable instrument and the allegations and proof go the the issue of ownership of the debt.
It is interesting that the banks and servicers, etc. do not allege status as holder in due course. In many cases they have back-dated the assignment or endorsement to before the alleged default. Where the Plaintiff is a trust, all they would need to show is what is in the trust instrument (PSA): purchase in good faith without knowledge of borrower’s defenses. That would be the end of almost every case — the borrower is liable to a holder in due course and may bring claims only against the intermediaries or originator in damages. The foreclosure would be completed in record time and that would be the end of it, except for borrower’s claims for damages against parties other than the Plaintiff who proved they were a holder in due course — i.e., proof of purchase for valuable consideration without knowledge of the borrower’s defenses and in good faith.
The problem with court decisions over the last 10 years is that they treat the alleged “holder” as though they were a holder in due course without any allegation or proof that the foreclosing party purchased the loan, in good faith, without knowledge of borrower’s defenses. A holder is not better than the party before they were an alleged holder. And THAT party is no better than the party before and so on.The only exception to this is where the FDIC involved in certain types of take-overs.
Eventually you get to the origination of the loan. THAT loan contract must be proven by a holder in order to prevail in foreclosure. And as every first year law student knows there is no contract without offer, acceptance and consideration. If the originator did not fund the loan there is no contract and the closing violated Reg Z, which calls such transactions predatory per se (which in turn means that the foreclosing party presumptively has unclean hands and is not entitled to any equitable remedy much less foreclosure).
If an alleged holder did not actually purchase the loan, then they don’t own it. It really is that simple. If they don’t own it then they must allege and prove the basis of their allegation that they possess the right to enforce. That also requires a contract with offer, acceptance and consideration. The existence of assignment does not prove that such a transaction took place but it might be admitted in evidence as evidence that such a transaction took place. On the other hand it might not be admitted in evidence if there are defects relating the instrument to the proof of the matter asserted.
Even if admitted, the assignment is not dispositive. Upon cross examination, the witness will probably know nothing about any transaction in which ownership or the rights to enforce were transferred or conveyed. And it is at that point where Judges and lawyers commit error. The assignment may then be struck from the record as lacking any foundation. This is not just a matter of hearsay. It is a question of how can the trier of fact rely upon an instrument (assignment) when there is nobody to testify that the transaction actually occurred? It is the same problem with the note executed at “closing.” How can the loan contract be completed if the payee on the note didn’t loan any money?
In the article cited above, the author makes the point easily:
There is a difference between alleging you are the holder with rights to enforce and proving it. If the bank, trustee or servicer alleges that it has the right to enforce then they will survive a motion to dismiss. But if the borrower denies that allegation is true, the burden of proof falls on the party making the allegation — the bank, trustee, servicer etc. The mistake made by Judges and lawyers is that they don’t make the distinction between pleading and proof. As a result you get decisions that include multiple rulings that prevent the borrower from conducting adequate discovery and allow the party bringing the foreclosure action to skate by because “it has already been established” that they are a holder with rights to enforce. That being the case the courts further compromise the verdict and judgment by over-ruling objections from the borrower on grounds of relevance.
One of the key points I have been making for 8 years is that the party bringing the foreclosure essentially never says that it is a holder in due course. In fact, we have had cases where opposing counsel expressly denies that the Plaintiff is a holder in due course. That is particularly remarkable where the Plaintiff is, for example, Citimortgage, which maintains an ambiguous status, admitting that it is a servicer but not revealing the creditor or the basis on which they rely in alleging that they are the servicer.
The importance of holder vs holder in due course cannot be over-stated. And if the loan was alleged to have been transferred while the loan was already declared in default, there can’t be a holder or holder in due course because the UCC does not apply those terms to anything but a negotiable instrument which by definition must not be in default at the time of transfer. Otherwise it is not a negotiable instrument and the allegations and proof go the the issue of ownership of the debt.
It is interesting that the banks and servicers, etc. do not allege status as holder in due course. In many cases they have back-dated the assignment or endorsement to before the alleged default. Where the Plaintiff is a trust, all they would need to show is what is in the trust instrument (PSA): purchase in good faith without knowledge of borrower’s defenses. That would be the end of almost every case — the borrower is liable to a holder in due course and may bring claims only against the intermediaries or originator in damages. The foreclosure would be completed in record time and that would be the end of it, except for borrower’s claims for damages against parties other than the Plaintiff who proved they were a holder in due course — i.e., proof of purchase for valuable consideration without knowledge of the borrower’s defenses and in good faith.
The problem with court decisions over the last 10 years is that they treat the alleged “holder” as though they were a holder in due course without any allegation or proof that the foreclosing party purchased the loan, in good faith, without knowledge of borrower’s defenses. A holder is not better than the party before they were an alleged holder. And THAT party is no better than the party before and so on.The only exception to this is where the FDIC involved in certain types of take-overs.
Eventually you get to the origination of the loan. THAT loan contract must be proven by a holder in order to prevail in foreclosure. And as every first year law student knows there is no contract without offer, acceptance and consideration. If the originator did not fund the loan there is no contract and the closing violated Reg Z, which calls such transactions predatory per se (which in turn means that the foreclosing party presumptively has unclean hands and is not entitled to any equitable remedy much less foreclosure).
If an alleged holder did not actually purchase the loan, then they don’t own it. It really is that simple. If they don’t own it then they must allege and prove the basis of their allegation that they possess the right to enforce. That also requires a contract with offer, acceptance and consideration. The existence of assignment does not prove that such a transaction took place but it might be admitted in evidence as evidence that such a transaction took place. On the other hand it might not be admitted in evidence if there are defects relating the instrument to the proof of the matter asserted.
Even if admitted, the assignment is not dispositive. Upon cross examination, the witness will probably know nothing about any transaction in which ownership or the rights to enforce were transferred or conveyed. And it is at that point where Judges and lawyers commit error. The assignment may then be struck from the record as lacking any foundation. This is not just a matter of hearsay. It is a question of how can the trier of fact rely upon an instrument (assignment) when there is nobody to testify that the transaction actually occurred? It is the same problem with the note executed at “closing.” How can the loan contract be completed if the payee on the note didn’t loan any money?
In the article cited above, the author makes the point easily:
As an assignee typically “stands in the shoes” of his assignor,7 without the holder in due course doctrine and its federal counterpart, these allegations may defeat the purchaser’s action or make it much more difficult and costly to pursue, especially given that the purchaser took no part in the these “bad acts,” and that the people who did take part (the management and employees of the failed bank) may be difficult to reach and may have little incentive to cooperate with the purchaser. [e.s.]
most of these difficulties are eliminated by the powerful effect of the holder in due course doctrine as it can clear the way for the purchaser to recover, even if there may have been prior “bad acts” of the failed bank, as the purchaser will acquire the loan free and clear of most defenses—the so-called “personal defenses”— that the borrower could have asserted against the failed bank.8 The holder in due course doctrine, when applicable, enables the purchaser to avoid liability for many of these “personal defenses” which may have been valid defenses to an action brought by the failed bank, but do not impede the ability of a holder in due course to enforce the borrower’s obligation to repay the loan.9 Generally speaking, these defenses are all defenses that would be available in a breach of contract action10 except for the “real defenses,” all of which involve either the original execution of the promissory note or its subsequent discharge in bankruptcy.11 These defenses cannot be avoided, even by a holder in due course. Fortunately, any “bad acts” of the failed bank which may have occurred during the course of the loan will hardly ever form the basis for a “real defense,” and thus can likely be avoided by a holder in due course.
THE RULE IN FLORIDA
In Florida, the holder in due course doctrine is now codified in statute,12 although it first began to develop in the English common-law as early as the late 1600s and early 1700s and was codified in that country by the Bills of Exchange Act in 1882.13 The doctrine first became codified in the United States in the early 1900s as states adopted the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Law, which was later supplanted by the Uniform Commercial Code, which governs today.14
In order to be a holder in due course under current Florida law, a purchaser of a negotiable instrument must generally satisfy three conditions. Specifically, the purchaser must have: (i) acquired an instrument that does not bear any apparent evidence of forgery, alteration, or any other reason to call its authenticity into question;15 (ii) paid value for the instrument;16 and (iii) acquired the instrument in good faith, without notice that it is overdue, dishonored, contains an unauthorized or altered signature, and without notice of any claim to the instrument.17 If these three conditions are met, the purchaser will generally qualify as a holder in due course and take the instrument free all “personal defenses” that the borrower could have asserted against the prior lender.
Israel could lose ‘credibility’ over Netanyahu’s stance on Palestine – Obama ~ “This was a diplomatic cruise missile” ~~ This simple sitting test could predict how long you will live If you have trouble performing this test, your life could be cut short ~~Ancient humans had sex with mystery relatives ~Ni Hua-Ching-The Natural Way ~~Dr. Ashraf Ezzat
Russia Today (Moscow), VT
Editor’s Note:
Obama moves from the rope-a-dope tactics of taking all that Bibi can
whip on him and not responding aggressively, by taking the initiative
here.The public needs to take a lesson here from Obama, and don’t wait for Bibi to make the next insult to America, but to start demanding that US financial support be trimmed back to cause some pain for having the Israelis pay the freight for their hard assed attitude… Jim W. Dean ]
“The danger here is that Israel as a whole loses credibility,” Obama told Israel’s Channel 2 in an interview on Tuesday. “Already the international community does not believe that Israel is serious about a two-state solution.”
Obama was responding to a question regarding Netanyahu’s contradictory comments made about the creation of a Palestinian state before and after the March’s general election.
During the campaign, Netanyahu first ruled out Palestinian statehood and then later backpedaled on the issue. In one of his most recent comments, Netanyahu claimed he supported a creation of a Palestinian state, calling for peace talks to resume.
For Obama, however, the sudden change of heart seemed “as if this is simply an effort to return to the previous status quo in which we talk about peace in the abstract, but it’s always tomorrow, it’s always later.” The US president, who assumed office the same year as the Israeli leader, in 2009, then described Netanyahu as “a politician, who’s concerned about keeping coalitions together and maintaining his office.”
Netanyahu’s statements following the election had “so many caveats, so many conditions, that it is not realistic to think that those conditions would be met any time in the near future,”
From Obama’s point of view, Netanyahu is someone who is driven by fear. He is “predisposed to think of security first. To think perhaps that peace is naive … To see the worst possibilities, as opposed to the best possibilities in Arab partners or Palestinian partners, and so I do think that right now, those politics, and those fears are driving the government’s response,” Obama said.
As for concrete steps toward solving the Israeli-Palestinian problem, Obama hinted it would be more “difficult” for the US to continue to veto UN resolutions criticizing Israel. This is because, with no prospect of peace in sight, “it becomes more difficult to argue with those who are concerned about settlement construction, those who are concerned about the current situation.”
For more than five decades, the Palestinians have been seeking full statehood recognition and independence from Israel. Meanwhile, Israeli governments have worked toward legitimizing settlements instead, which have grown in number and have been widely viewed as a violation of international law.
When answering a question about Iran, Obama defended the ongoing nuclear negotiations ahead of the June 30 deadline – in what has seemingly been another major split with Netanyahu.
“I’ve said that, in exchange for some modest relief in sanctions, that Iran is going to have to freeze its nuclear program, roll back on its stockpiles of very highly enriched uranium,” he said. “At that time, everybody said ‘This isn’t going to work! They’re going to cheat, they’re not going to abide by it.’ And yet, over a year and a half later, we know that they have abided by the letter of it.”
With the Israeli leader being a staunch opponent of any deal with Iran, the interview has been seen as an attempt by Obama to convince Israelis that he will not sign onto a bad deal, and that he “understands” their fears.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/06/03/israel-could-lose-credibility-over-netanyahus-stance-on-palestine-obama/
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/ancient-humans-had-sex-with-mystery-relatives
Ni Hua-Ching | The Natural Way thewayformankind.com/ni-hua-ching/
The story of the life journey of Ni Hua-Ching, a modern sage, is a remarkable … Master Ni is heir to the wisdom transmitted through 74 generations of Tao …
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ENERGY = ENERGY. The EARTH isn’t alone in the universe AND certainly, therefore, the SUBTERRANEAN HUMAN FILTH is not new to the “Higher Whole Beings”. Read Master Ni, and better yet, practice-practice-practice HIGHER VIBRATIONS OF “THOUGHTS”!
When the more advanced energies watch and wait, then we know we’re not alone in the universe known and all universes known and unknown. Study Master Ni.
DREAM LUCID. George W. Bush, Mr. CIA Obama, and of course we have the Netanyahu as well as the Kissinger subterranean human filth that get the Ann L. Aiken TRIBE LEGAL to be the worst of our species’ “Homo sapiens”. DNA isn’t just subterranean, however. Study the TAOIST I CHING, via MASTER NI, and that’s the TAOIST understanding of “LIFE IN EARTH”.
“HUMANS” have been intentionally used as though disposable commodities and those that do this to their own species (ANN L. AIKEN, ET AL) are criminally incurably insane. Can’t be “cured”. WHAT TO DO?! The thought forms of the higher beings can be communicated into the beings that have the same DNA. SLEEP AND DREAM AND IN OUR DREAMS DECIDE HOW THE UNIVERSE IS ENERGY WHICH WE INDEED ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR “CULTIVATING”
… to be continued ….
JPMorgan Tech Workers Have New Conspiracy Theories
Last Thursday, 29-year old Thomas Hughes allegedly took his life by jumping from a luxury apartment building at 1 West Street in Manhattan. According to Hughes’ resume at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), he had previously interned at JPMorgan Chase, as well as held jobs at Citigroup and UBS after graduation from Northwestern University. Hughes was employed at investment bank, Moelis & Company LLC, at the time of his death. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and UBS pleaded guilty to criminal felony charges for conspiring to rig markets the week prior to Hughes’ alleged leap from the building.
The fact that JPMorgan Chase holds an estimated $179 billion in life insurance on its workers, and in some cases, prior workers, whose death benefit pays to the bank not the family of the employee, has raised concerns of more than just trading conspiracies at JPMorgan Chase.
Now, according to Sarah Butcher at EFinancialCareers, at least two executives at JPMorgan have forbidden their technology workers from explaining exactly what they do at the bank on their LinkedIn profiles. One tech worker imagines that it’s a plot to restrict their ability to market their skills to prospective competitors as JPMorgan moves tech workers from the glitter of London to cheaper corporate digs in Bournemouth, England or Glasgow, Scotland. Says one worker, according to Butcher, “We’ve been joking that the plan is to make us technologists invisible in the market and then forcing us to move to Bournemouth or Glasgow.”
JPMorgan Chase could have other reasons for restricting information as to just what its tech workers are up to. There are ongoing lawsuits and investigations across Wall Street into the use of computerized trading to rig markets.
In his annual shareholders’ letter in 2014, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said the firm had “nearly 30,000 programmers, application developers and information technology employees who keep our 7,200 applications, 32 data centers, 58,000 servers, 300,000 desk-tops and global network operating smoothly for all our clients.”
According to Anish Bhimani, Chief Information Risk Officer at JPMorgan Chase, in an interview published at the Information Networking Institute (INI) at Carnegie Mellon, JPMorgan has “more software developers than Google, and more technologists than Microsoft…we get to build things at scale that have never been done before.”
One thing that JPMorgan has never before done in its 200-year history is to plead guilty to a criminal felony. That occurred on May 20 while the bank was still under a two-year probation and a deferred prosecution agreement for two felony counts in aiding and abetting the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. It’s certainly a bank worth keeping an eye on – from many levels.
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Following are the names of individuals who, at the time of their death or previously, were employed by JPMorgan Chase and experienced unusual deaths since December 2013. With the exception of the Knotts, all of the individuals were under 40 at their time of death – a striking statistic.
Joseph M. Ambrosio, age 34, of Sayreville, New Jersey, passed away on December 7, 2013 at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He was employed as a Financial Analyst for J.P. Morgan Chase in Menlo Park. On March 18, 2014, Wall Street On Parade learned from an immediate member of the family that Joseph M. Ambrosio died suddenly from Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
Jason Alan Salais, 34 years old, died December 15, 2013 outside a Walgreens in Pearland, Texas. A family member confirmed that the cause of death was a heart attack. According to the LinkedIn profile for Salais, he was engaged in Client Technology Service “L3 Operate Support” and previously “FXO Operate L2 Support” at JPMorgan. Prior to joining JPMorgan in 2008, Salais had worked as a Client Software Technician at SunGard and a UNIX Systems Analyst at Logix Communications.
Gabriel Magee, 39, died on the evening of January 27, 2014 or the morning of January 28, 2014. Magee was discovered at approximately 8:02 a.m. lying on a 9th level rooftop at the Canary Wharf European headquarters of JPMorgan Chase at 25 Bank Street, London. His specific area of specialty at JPMorgan was “Technical architecture oversight for planning, development, and operation of systems for fixed income securities and interest rate derivatives.” A coroner’s inquest in London, which relied heavily on information provided by JPMorgan Chase, determined the cause of death to be suicide.
Ryan Crane, age 37, died February 3, 2014, at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. The Chief Medical Examiner’s eventually ruled that the cause of death was ethanol toxicity/accident. Crane was an Executive Director involved in trading at JPMorgan’s New York office. Crane’s death on February 3 was not reported by any major media until February 13, ten days later, when Bloomberg News ran a brief story.
Dennis Li (Junjie), 33 years old, died February 18, 2014 as a result of a purported fall from the 30-story Chater House office building in Hong Kong where JPMorgan occupied the upper floors. Li is reported to have been an accounting major who worked in the finance department of the bank.
Kenneth Bellando, age 28, was found outside his East Side Manhattan apartment building on March 12, 2014. The building from which Bellando allegedly jumped was only six stories – by no means ensuring that death would result. The young Bellando had previously worked for JPMorgan Chase as an analyst and was the brother of JPMorgan employee John Bellando, who was referenced in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ report on how JPMorgan had hid losses and lied to regulators in the London Whale derivatives trading debacle that resulted in losses of at least $6.2 billion.
Andrew Jarzyk, age 27, went missing in the early hours of March 30, 2014 after leaving friends at a supper club in Hoboken, New Jersey. His body was recovered from the Hudson River in Hoboken on April 28, 2014. According to police, there were no signs of trauma to the body. Jarzyk was employed at PNC Financial at the time of his disappearance. He had worked previously as a technology intern at JPMorgan.
The bodies of Julian Knott and his wife, Alita, ages 45 and 47, respectively, were discovered by police on July 6, 2014 at approximately 1:12 a.m. in their home in the Lake Hopatcong section of Jefferson Township. After a two-day investigation, police announced that they believed Julian Knott shot his wife repeatedly and then took his own life with the same gun. Knott had worked on JPMorgan computer networks in London since 2001, initially as a subcontractor for Computer Science Corporation and, later, IBM. Knott formally joined JPMorgan Chase at its London operations in January 2006 and remained there until 2010 when he transferred to JPMorgan’s large complex in Columbus, Ohio and rose to the rank of Technical Director of Global Tier 3 Network Operations. Knott was transferred again in 2012 and began work in JPMorgan’s high tech Global Network Operations Center in Whippany, New Jersey. Six months before his death he was promoted to Executive Director.
Michael A. Tabacchi, 27 years old, and his wife, Iran Pars Tabacchi (who also went by the name Denise) were discovered dead on Friday evening, February 7, 2015 in their home in Closter, New Jersey. Their infant son was in the home and unharmed. A text message from the home had been sent to the father of Michael Tabacchi asking him to come to the home, according to media reports. The father found the couple. On the very evening the bodies were discovered, before any autopsy had been performed, Bergen County, New Jersey Prosecutor John Molinelli characterized the deaths in a tweet as a “probable murder suicide.” Michael Tabacchi’s LinkedIn profile lists him previously as an Operations Analyst at JPMorgan with the current JPMorgan title of Associate.
Thomas J. Hughes, age 29, was found dead on May 28, 2015 outside his residence at 1 West St., Manhattan. A spokeswoman for the NYPD said his injuries were “consistent with a fall from an elevated location.” Hughes’ death came the week after JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and UBS each pleaded guilty to criminal felony charges of engaging in a conspiracy to rig markets. Hughes had worked for all three firms previously. He was currently employed at the investment bank, Moelis & Company LLC.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/06/jpmorgan-tech-workers-have-new-conspiracy-theories/
ANN L. AIKEN HUMAN FILTH = FAILED EXPERIMENT | Madsen said they should all “undergo psychiatric treatment immediately before they manage to get this country into a war.” US policies against Russia, China will start World War III: Investigative journalist
Washington’s
belligerent policies against countries like Russia and China will
eventually start World War III, says American investigative journalist
Wayne Madsen.
He said measures taken by NATO Commander General Philip Breedlove and his friends in Washington as they are approaching Russian waters in the Black sea and also provocations against China in the South China Sea could lead to a major conflict.
“I believe these people want to bring about World War III,” the Washington-based author told Press TV on Sunday.
He added that NATO commanders and their friends in Washington need to undergo psychiatric care because of their policies.
Madsen said they should all “undergo psychiatric treatment immediately before they manage to get this country into a war.”
Madsen made the remarks when he was asked about a close encounter between Russian and American military forces, where Moscow deployed fighters to ward off a US destroyer heading towards its territorial waters in the Black Sea.
The US Navy destroyer USS Ross was reportedly heading in the direction of Russian waters on Saturday.
The Russian Navy jets forced the USS Ross to go into neutral waters in the Black Sea.
“It is not a surprise that Russia would be protective of its territorial waters,” said Madsen, adding ”after all, if Russian ships entered the Gulf of Mexico and closely approached Louisiana and Florida coasts, the US would respond with aircraft and probably ships.”
He then slammed Pentagon officials for their recent policies towards Russia, addressing them as a “dangerous provocation on the part of the Pentagon.” http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/31/413700/US-policies-Russia-China-World-War-III
He said measures taken by NATO Commander General Philip Breedlove and his friends in Washington as they are approaching Russian waters in the Black sea and also provocations against China in the South China Sea could lead to a major conflict.
“I believe these people want to bring about World War III,” the Washington-based author told Press TV on Sunday.
He added that NATO commanders and their friends in Washington need to undergo psychiatric care because of their policies.
Madsen said they should all “undergo psychiatric treatment immediately before they manage to get this country into a war.”
Madsen made the remarks when he was asked about a close encounter between Russian and American military forces, where Moscow deployed fighters to ward off a US destroyer heading towards its territorial waters in the Black Sea.
The US Navy destroyer USS Ross was reportedly heading in the direction of Russian waters on Saturday.
The Russian Navy jets forced the USS Ross to go into neutral waters in the Black Sea.
“It is not a surprise that Russia would be protective of its territorial waters,” said Madsen, adding ”after all, if Russian ships entered the Gulf of Mexico and closely approached Louisiana and Florida coasts, the US would respond with aircraft and probably ships.”
He then slammed Pentagon officials for their recent policies towards Russia, addressing them as a “dangerous provocation on the part of the Pentagon.” http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/05/31/413700/US-policies-Russia-China-World-War-III
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“ISIS fundamentalist militants who are casting terror into the heart of the civilized world are but a copycat of the mujahideen of early Islam. Whether we like it or not this is the ugly truth”
By Dr. Ashraf Ezzat
Author’s Note: Radicals and fanatics don’t get radicalized by intelligence agency e.g. CIA, MOSSAD… etc. Rather they get recruited by those secret agencies because they are hilariously fanatics and stupidly radicalized (reverse logic; a stereotype of herd mentality)The world has not seen such brutality and savagery in modern times. Horrible Stories were told about the Celts, the Aztecs and the Mongols; nevertheless they always remained stories of the remote past. But what the militants of the so called “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – ISIS” are doing is something else, what they are perpetrating defy any literary power to try and put it into words.
I also expect some zealots of the so called moderate Muslims and many others of conspiracy theory addicts to get slightly offended/shocked by my post.
Fervently they will try and refute my thesis by cherry-picking some benign verses from the Quran that call for benevolence and peace. But if they get to cherry-pick, why deny the fundamentalists and fanatics the same right?
This is the core of the problem, a divine book like the Quran (and that also goes for the Old and New Testament) shouldn’t be like a magician’s pocket; one time a dove is pulled out of it, and oftentimes a dagger. Reforming the rationale of interpreting the holy book of the Quran and also reforming the mainstream narrative of Islam is the only way this magnificent religion is to survive the fundamentalist take over.
Driven by what they see as divine command and wreaking havoc and devastation only thought possible in Hollywood productions the Islamic militant group ISIS has pushed the definition of terrorism to a new and scary limit.
Their ongoing banquet of carnage has to be seen, not only to be believed but to grasp how religion, that should have united humans in peace, could turn into a license to lawless slaughter. (Watch this extremely graphic video of ISIS brutal mass execution of Iraqi civilians and soldiers – watch at your discretion)
Contrary to what most commentators have said, it is not the graphic scenes of mass execution and beheading of hundreds of innocent civilians by ISIS that I find most repulsive, the American war on Iraq has left thousands killed in cold blood and countless numbers born with anomalies caused by US radioactive lethal weaponry (Hi-tech savagery that often go unreported by MSM)
What I personally find really scary in the ISIS militants is that they carry out their onslaught seemingly without any shred of guilt or shame. The militants/Mujahideen go about their business as usual; beheading their opponents’ minutes after they fall into their captivity. And minutes later they all go and join each other in a humble prayer to god.
Following the scripture literally
Now what’s interesting, or rather shocking, is the fact that those hideous acts of terrorism are executed by people who claim they are devout Muslims.
I know that the whole world, including the Islamic world, is viewing ISIS Mujahideen as the ultimate example of brutal terrorism and modern time’s savagery.
But this world view doesn’t concern me as much as how those Muslim terrorists really view themselves. Moreover, why a supposedly devout Muslim would/should end up as a global terrorist just for merely doing what his faith oblige him to undertake.
Ladies and gents, regardless of who is funding ISIS and the fact that many of their militants, including Abu Bakr El Baghdadi have been trained in US military base in Jordan and maybe some of their top leaders have been also recruited by CIA, one fact remains so obvious and yet so bewildering.
Those ruthless ISIS terrorists sincerely believe they are pious devotees of Islam’s god “Allah” and that they act according to his holy scripture “Quran” and they are the true followers of his prophet “Mohamed”You won’t believe this but in a strange way those ISIS terrorists are telling the truth, or what they were made to believe is the truth.
The ugly truth is that ISIS terrorists are acting literally according to some of the many Quran’s verses that incite fighting and killing non-Muslims in almost cold-blooded way.
“Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.” Quran (2:216)Now, and before we elaborate any further, let’s get this one thing about Quran straight. Like Judaism, Islam is a religion of laws. Actually Judaism and Islam are so much alike the Quran, not the Christian Bible, should be labeled “The New Testament” … after all, both Quran and the Tanakh are the product of the same Arabic nomadic culture (A topic expanded upon in upcoming series of articles)
While the Gospels of Christianity have been influenced/softened by the Greco-Roman philosophy and separated from the state by the power of Jesus’ famous line “”Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” The Tanakh and Quran kept their strong tribal culture and binding laws unmitigated over the centuries.
As a Christian, as long as you believe in Jesus Christ, you only need the scripture as a spiritual guideline but in Judaism and Islam you’re bound by the canon of your faith to embrace their rules as the instruction book of your day to day life.
The Hebrew/Muslim laws tell their followers what to eat and what not to eat and drink, how to get married, how to get divorced, how to get into the bathroom … and yes how and when to kill the non-believers.
The key point here is how should the Holy Scripture especially those of Islam be interpreted? The verses of any holy scripture should be interpreted in accordance with their historical context, but that is not what the Muslims, at least nowadays, do. (This is the focal source of all extremism and terrorism)Islam’s dilemma
The dilemma of Islam, it has been for a while actually, is that its theologians, Imams and clerics refuse/fail to view the scripture, especially the verses that promote fighting and jihad, within the frame of its historical context.
They’d rather keep them open-ended as part of an eternal and always relevant words of Allah. Most conservative Muslim clerics are under the impression that binding many of the verses to its historicity might restrain the authority of a big chunk of the scripture, and consequently the influence of the Islamic clergy.
This dilemma has been ignored for centuries, thus paving more ways and opening more doors for ultra-conservative literalism, also known as fundamentalism (closest backdoor to violence and terrorism)That said, the more any Muslim conservative reads verses from Quran and memorize Hadith (sayings) by prophet Mohamed, the more he is likely to take it absolutely literally and automatically apply it to his current life and affairs. (Not to mention that piles of Hadith are of doubtful source and purpose)
“Soon shall we cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority”. Quran (3:151)If we to interpret the above verse in its historical context we will learn that some Pagan tribes of the Arab Peninsula were terrified and finally defeated by the raids of Mohamed and his followers back in the early seventh century.
But if we to interpret it literally and maybe relevant to the present point in time, then we are talking about ISIS mujahideen casting terror, by mass execution and beheading like the early Muslim fighters used to do, into the hearts of the followers of the infidels Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and Al- Maliki of Iraq, for they ruled not according to Islamic Sharia.
Do you see how terrifyingly simple this is, and how terrifyingly complicated this has become?At this point in my article I expect many to be offended by my candid exposition and they might try and refute my thesis by irritably commenting “Early Muslims and Mujahideen never killed fellow Muslims” and my reply would be “yes they did; Sunnis killed Shia in Karbala (680 A.D) and a bloody perpetual conflict between the two sects has ensued ever since till this very day. (Not to mention the massacres perpetrated by Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates)
Bad Dogma
While everybody is agitatedly following the news and videos of ISIS, nobody is asking the logical question “How did such a group of dangerous fanatics create in the first place?
ISIS has created not only due to militarization by US army nor recruitment by CIA but primarily because of misinterpreted scripture and bad dogma.
Another ugly truth is the fact that early Muslims of the Arab Peninsula, during and following the death of Mohamed, were so brutal in their fighting and raids.The early Muslims “Sahabah” were economically desperate; as a newly formed community they needed money and craved for influence so they began by raiding trade caravans in the Peninsula (the ancient spices and incense road) and ended up raiding Persian, Roman and Egyptian territories.
Beheading the enemies, as a means to evoke fear, was a common practice in the ancient Arabian tribal wars. Khalid Bin Walid, the military commander of the early days of the Islamic state never hesitated to behead the fighters of his enemies.The Islamic records reveal that Bin Walid after the battle of Ullais 633 A.D, aka the battle of blood river, spent a whole day and night beheading 7000 soldiers and dumping them in the river(flowing it with their blood) in rejoice and gratitude for Allah’s brought-victory over the Persians.
Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya, and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life. (Khalid Bin Walid’s letter to the Sassanid Persians before he raided their empire – very similar to ISIS raid threats)Now, could you see the example ISIS mujahidin are following. What ISIS did to the Christians of Mosul is no different than what Bin Walid had earlier done, with the blessings of Islam’s Caliphate at the time, to the Christians of the Sassanid Empire.
Contrary to what the clergy or Islamic media claim, ISIS and Al Qaeda is not the exception, the millions of so called moderate Muslims around the world are.
Those fundamentalist Islamists who are casting terror into the heart of the civilized world are but a copycat of the mujahidin of early Islam. Whether we like it or not this is the ugly truth.
The reason why the majority of Muslims does not act like ISIS nor condone its crimes is because those millions of the so called moderate Muslims have not been prone to fundamentalist Islamic teaching through indoctrination (intellectual hypnosis)
Once they are, even if they were brought up in western communities, a considerable faction of them especially those with assimilation and economic problems will turn into dogmatic Jihadists ready to be recruited by ISIS.
As a matter of fact one of the most alarming ISIS-related phenomena is western Jihadists. The influx of European, American, Canadian and even Australian fundamentalist Muslims into ISIS held territories has by far been worrying (both Westerners and moderate Muslims)
This massive signing up to ISIS radical ideology, if anything, means that Muslims with their current unchecked fundamentalist religious narrative are not and actually will not be able to assimilate into western community and culture. This is a grave sign of failing multiculturalism that needs more time and space than this post allows.
Another important factor that many tend to overlook is that the majority of world’s Muslims act according to preconceptions that their own indigenous culture and traditions have mainly contributed to and not only Islam. Hence the term “moderate Muslims” denotes an attitude/mindset brought about by a blend between different cultures, be it Egyptian, Syrian or Persian and Islam.That’s why hordes of moderate Muslims disgustedly point the finger at radical groups like ISIS and cry out “That’s not our Islam” …well of course it’s not.
And indeed that intercultural blend is the reason why the fundamentalist and harsh Bedouin side of Islam has been ameliorated enough to allow millions of Muslims to coexist with their fellow men of other creeds and theology over the long centuries.
Reforming Islam
ISIS could be a peril to Islam’s reputation and future around the world, but there is a good flip-side to this situation. Never before in recent times have the Muslim clergy had the opportunity and the imperative to embark on reforming Islam.
Jihadist groups and the rise of political Islam won’t be eradicated or even curbed by air power and drone attacks. ISIS, Al Qaeda, al-Nusra front and Muslim Brotherhood won’t be dismantled except by reforming and changing the mainstream narrative of Islam. For Muslims, nothing short of that will be like burying their heads in the sand.ISIS is a reason enough for high profile Muslim scholars to start purifying the Hadith from tons of controversial sayings and teachings, doing more harm than good, claimed to have been told by Mohamed.
ISIS is a reason enough to start a new approach in interpreting the Quran’s verses especially those narrating the chronicles of Mohamed and followers’ battles against pagans.
Launching a new school of credible and enlightened Muslim scholars that will respect the historical context of the scripture verses is the first step toward reforming Islam.This couldn’t have been more urgent a time, for world Muslims have been leaning dangerously towards fundamentalism and extremism throughout the last 80 years (ever since the establishment of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and following the rise of Wahhabi tide in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan)
If this rare opportunity for reforming Islam passed unnoticed and unexploited, then we will suffer from endless and more powerful tides of fundamentalist Jihadist groups.
And we have to beware of the fact that the groups that will follow ISIS will be more cruel and tougher and they will definitely attract huge numbers of mujahideen, so huge no military coalition will be able to break them down.
Most probably the current coalition led by US will be able to dismantle ISIS militarily but not ideologically. The task of dismantling ISIS bad ideas and dangerous dogma is the vital battle that Muslims themselves led by their scholars and clergy should undertake.
I will wind up with one of ISIS favorite verses that one always hears it narrated in the background, along with their official ode/anthem in most of the execution and beheading videos. And according to ISIS “fitna” here means nonbelievers in Islam.
“And fight with them until there is no more fitna (unbelief) and religion should be only for Allah” Quran (8:39)
Postscript:
“This post is not by any means intended to offend Muslims or degrade the religion of Islam, rather it is a humble attempt by the author to contribute to reforming the current fundamentalist Islamic narrative that if not checked will unfortunately breed more violence, intolerance and terrorism” Dr. Ashraf Ezzat
https://ashraf62.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/isis-and-islam-the-ugly-truth/
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