When As A Child, excerpt from the oratorio, Primal Beginning

I made this movie, January, 2017 after The Women’s March, after the first debacle, November 6, 2016.

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Today, this day, I am free of alcohol, free, thirty-one years, six months and twenty days. Free…

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My Mother, Ida Louise Mosedale Boyd loved tulips, I carved this piece for her Easter present, 1983. Also shown in this view are hand carvings of the Tai te Chu and calligraphy from the i Ching, the Book of Changes, a four thousand year old Taoist oracle, also a treble clef. The copper cap, cast copper and granite base was done in celebration of the 2025 vernal equinox, my eighty-fourth.

Ida Louise’s 1983 Easter present now has a cap and base, completed this vernal equinox, 42 years later. I just did the numbers. None of this was intentional. In 1983 when I did the carving, I was forty-two years of age. Forty-two years hence, the 2025 vernal equinox, I am eighty-three years of age.

Initial Research & Opening Discussion Regarding The Powers Invested In The Secret Service (SS) And Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) And The Potential For Abuse Of Those Powers For Intimidation, Repression And Reprisal.

To  my Indivisible friends and collaborators, the United States of America, our  country still, our Republic still,  has an independent policing force under the aegis of the Department Of Homeland Security. Here is the magnitude of this force and the potential  threat there from to our civil rights and freedom.

U.S. Immigration And  Customs Enforcement document.

The Homeland Security Act together with the Patriot Act, 2003.

Distinction is first recognized between ICE/SS pursuit of suspected illegal immigrants and investigation and apprehension of  suspected seditious acts and perpetrators. I am focusing here on the investigation and apprehension of  suspected seditious acts and perpetrators.

Suspicion of Sedition

Forbes 

What Is Sedition? Meaning, Punishment And Basics

Published: Oct 14, 2024, 6:02am

 

“What Is Sedition?

Sedition refers to the federal criminal offense of seditious conspiracy.

Seditious conspiracy is defined in 18 U.S. Code Section 2384, which states that the offense occurs when two or more people in any place under U.S. jurisdiction conspire to do any of the following:

·       overthrow, put down or destroy using force the government of the U.S.

·       levy war against the U.S. government

·       oppose the U.S. government’s authority to execute any U.S. laws using force

·       seize, take or possess U.S. property contrary to its authority

Sedition is a criminal offense, not a civil one. The offense is a felony, not a misdemeanor offense, and it carries a penalty of up to 20 years of imprisonment.”

 

 The combined affect of the Homeland Security Act and the Patriot Act is the discretionary abrogation of the constitutional guarantees of due process, unlawful search and seizure and freedom of speech on perception of threats to “homeland security”. The far reaching implications of these acts and threats for abuse by a fascist government are apparent.

It can be, will be argued that a citizen who falls prey to an unconstitutional over reach of ICE/SS agents will have recourse to the courts and the protection of due process in accordance with the Constitution. That outcome may or may not follow under present conditions.

However, an individual  instance in the investigation and pursuit on the suspicion of seditious behavior may resolve, a targeted suspect  can be detained without warrant or with administrative warrant issued not by a judge or magistrate but by and at the discretion of an ICE/SS agent. In such situations, detainees can be held indeterminately without probable cause, formal charge and due process.

Enough said for now. There is clearly opportunity for the tyrannical administration to use this situation as  tool of intimidation and reprisal