Today the Orange County DA rendered his decision not to charge the police who seemingly gunned down Manuel Diaz last July 21st seemingly in near execution style. Oh they issued the twenty page report and I thumbed through it - and it's basically a bunch of garbage. The testimonies have all been "sculpted" to try and sound harmonius but we know the facts. Manuel Diaz's shooting was justified on the grounds that there were pictures of himself on a cell phone posing with guns and doing a gang symbol. This is of course 'incompetent, irrelivent, and immiterial" as Hamilton Burger was so fond of saying. If this were a court trial I would order all references to the cell phone content striken from the record, and if the DA deemed to bring it up in his closing arguments, I would cite him for contempt of court. The truth of the matter is that Dias was not suspected of comitting any crime. He was not a "fleeing suspect" he was just fleeing. It seems now as details emerge that he was "cornered" and could no longer continue to retreat. The cop who shot him kept making reference to his having a gun- - in his testimony - - even AFTER he had stated that he clearly did not have one he continued to speak as though one existed. He said "I knew from experiance once a suspect gets cornered like this now he's going to turn and use his gun. I knew he was going to use his gun because he kept looking back to see us chasing him. He was probably sizing up our position so he'd know where to shoot. And it only would take a fraction of a second to spin around and shoot us". What happened was that Diaz was shot "in the bottox", which means from behind- - and THEN he started to turn around- no doubt to gaze upon the person who shot him. According to other testamony he went down and then was shot execution style in the head. Clearly this was not simply a case of "getting two shots off firing at body mass" the way cops are taught. The second shot was clearly an independant deliberate action. Other questions emerge. It is said "Well perhaps he was attempting some crime against the people in the car". If this is so and the suspect is running away, why not get a statement from the people in the car to acertain what the suspect said to them. And then we have the phrase of "He kept furtively reaching for his waist". He was wearing baggy pants. Perhaps he was pulling up his pants so he could run. The cop testomonies were clearly altered because the cops are always referred to in the third person and never as "I".
They say that the Universe is a Billion years older than we thought. So instead of twelve Billion years, it's 13.4 Billion or something. I wonder how they determine these things. There is no law that says that our entire Universe couldn't exist entirely within the Black Hole of a greater Universe, with which we are destined never to know of or have contact with, or they with us. I would like to speak of this idea of "You may Continue", which is a Star Trek term meaning you won't be sumarily exicuted. This term here applies to whether a time-dimentional continuoum has the prerequisits to "Continue On" ore does it "break down" at some point? Like appliances- - most of these "Break-downs" no doubt occur within the first few weeks or months or what have you. One might speak of it as Dimensional collapse". Keep in Mind that it is classic "Bones" doctrine that "Anything that CAN happen, HAS happened in SOME Universe- - or Time continuous. So this Christian notion of "overcoming the odds' is a mute point because there are as many "Odds" as you need to achieve whatever Universe or Time Continuous is evolutionary fit to survive. (Selah)
Of course I have a bias on this one having gotten confirmation on the view presented here from Mal Evans from "The Other Side". And Manuel Diaz related his testimony personally to Mal. In a previous life, Diaz was a famous guitarist from Chicago of the Jewish perswasion, at least nomally, and in frequent contact with Terry Kath. Mal Evans told me "We don't have Federation people in that area. We have a few on the south side of town, (just east of Disneyland) Federation opperatives from Sirius A". But he says "If we went into northern Anaheim we would be out manned by the local terriestrial inhabitents". I had a dream last week where I was telling someone in the dream that Mal Evans "is being a little whimpy these days, not defending what is his". In other news- - this is weeks old- - but I thought I'd check Joni Mitchell. She is not Andromeda D but a member of a small group that lives in Merin County. The other three musicians in this same group you'd know are the Carpenters, Gordon Lightfoot, and Maria Moldaire. Earlier in the day, Jim Morrison initiated contct with Mal Evans to discuss this incident today with the District Attorney.
I want to talk a little about the Christian Persecution in ancient times. I learned today that the Roman Empire didn't seek persecution as part of some personal vendetta, but the population at large demanded it, because the Roman people themselves hated the Christians. The first really massive persecution was under Emperor Decius and lasted only two years from 249 to 251 AD. Later it resumed briefly under other Emperors and was picked up in a major way by Diocletian in 303. Christians were kicked out of the Roman Army. So much for ancient Christians being unwilling to fight in the armed forces. Some articles leave the idea that Christianity did not become the state religion till late in the Fourth Century. This isn't exactly True. Almost immediately in the time of Constantine- - the Emperor worked virtually hand in glove with the Church Papacy and the Pope now lived in great splendor and the Pope, Sylvester, of that period, actually had the luxury of dying in his plush bed. There are questions about Justin Martyr. He talked a lot about the Logos - and spoke of the Logos coming into being as a creation of God- - at some point after God's own existence, so as such is in conflict with Catholic theology. Justin got the term Logos from Philo of Alexandria's writings in the first century. Justin quoted from the first three gospells but his normal term for these were "The memwires of the Apostles". There is only one reference to being Born Again, and the article kindly informs us that "This expression of being Born Again was part of the litergy of the Baptism ceremony" rather than being a quote from the Gospel of John, with which the Apostle appears unaware. (Or maybe Justin Martyr WROTE the gospel of John, which wouldn't surprise me in the least) People wonder about the relation of Christianity to Rome. In AD 96 there was a foreign religion tax that Jews had to pay, but Christians were at this time specifically exempted from the tax, which makes you wonder. Justin spoke in his early writings of "The seed of the Word, which is in every man" and only later preferred expressions of "From the life of Christ". This notion of The Word being a living entity is an interesting one. As you well know the Apostle Paul seems to have had little or no exposure to any Gospel writing. What struck me was the notion of civil unrest generated by the Christians rather than some "doctrinal vendetta".
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