9653 or
1135809
all there in the words

In 1920, Eugene V. Debs, in jail over charges of sedition for statements he made about the United States and WWI, ran for President as the Socialist Party Candidate.

In, 2023, Donald J. Trump was arrested on charges based on statements he made about the 2020 Presidential election.

Debs was imprisoned in the Federal Petitionary in Atlanta.

Trump was booked in Atlanta.

Debs’ inmate number was 9653.

Trump’s booking number was P0-1135809.

There are some similarities there

But similarities cease when we leave their numbers for their words.

During his trial, Debs said:

Your honor, I ask no mercy, I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. I never more fully comprehended than now the great struggle between the powers of greed on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of freedom. I can see the dawn of a better day of humanity. The people are awakening. In due course of time they will come into their own.

Prior to his attest, Trump said:

Can you believe it? I’ll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED by a Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis. She campaigned, and is continuing to campaign, and raise money on, this WITCH HUNT. This is in strict coordination with crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ.

At his sentencing, Debs said:

Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

After being released on bail, Trump said:

I really believe this is a very sad day for America, and it should never happen. If you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election. I thought the election was rigged election, a stolen election, and I should have every right to do that. As you know, you have many people that you’ve been watching over the years do the same thing, whether it’s Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams or many others. When you have that great freedom through challenge, you have to be able to otherwise you can have very dishonest elections. What has taken place here is a travesty of justice. We did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong.

It’s all there.

All there beyond numbers.

palingenetic
ultranationalistic age
meet the enemy …

In the book, The Winds of War, Rhoda Henry is in Berlin and sees all the Third Reich icons and says to her husband Pug,

“What on earth does NSDAP stand for?” Rhoda said, peering out of the window of the embassy car at the multitudinous gilded poles.
 “National Socialist German Workers Party,” said Pug.
 “Is that the name of the Nazis? How funny. Sounds sort of Commie when you spell it all out.”

I like words and I write this blog to recognize unique word usage but when I ran across palingenetic ultranationalistic this morning in the article, US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network by Jason Wilson (The Guardian, 8/22/2023) I had to stop and say, “What on Earth is palingenetic ultranationalistic.”

According to Wikipedia, palingenetic ultranationalistic is the effort .. to attract large masses of voters who have lost their faith in traditional politics and religion by promising them a brighter future.

The palingenetic myth can also possibly stand for a return to a golden age in the country’s history so that the past can be a guidebook to a better tomorrow.

… there will be one great leader who battles the representatives of the old system with grassroots support. It appears as one mass of people with only one goal: to create their new future. They have infinite faith in their mythical hero as he stands for everything they believe in. With him, the country will rise like a phoenix from the ashes of corruption and decadence.

Sounds sort of Commie when you spell it out.

North Korean type Commie.

Joseph Stalin kind of Commie.

But it seems to the be the basis for a secretive, men-only, invitation-only far-right network here in America.

Still sounds sort of Commie when you spell it out.

Not that spelling it out helped me too much.

Wikipedia tries to help explain by using palingenetic ultranationalistic in a sentence.

National-anarchism has been argued to be a syncretic political ideology that was developed in the 1990s by former Third Positionists to promote a “stateless palingenetic ultranationalism”.

Have to say I haven’t seen so many poly syllabic words is so short a sentence in a long time.

I did notice that according to the article this far right network is a registered non profit under section 501(c)(10) of the Internal Revenue code.

Jim Harrison once wrote something along the lines of if you really want to take a stand and protest against the government, stop paying your taxes.

So I feel a little less threatened that these folks are concerned about their non-profit status.

Or should I feel more threatened?

Kind of like Tony Soprano hustling around to get his W2 ready.

Never the less, the article was chilling and the comments about warlords and maximum leaders brought to mind Mr. Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1984.

” … on the face of the coin [was] the head of Big Brother. Even from the coin the eyes pursued you. On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet — everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.

Who are these people?

Where did this people come from?

As Pogo said back over 50 years ago, we have met the enemy and they are us.