George Floyd

Charles Jordan

George Floyd had Covid-19, only one of his problems.  He must have had a problem with money because he was trying to pay for something in a store with a counterfeit $20 bill.  The owner noticed that and called the police.  The police came and arrested him.  

As they tried to put him in the back seat of the police car, Mr. Floyd seemed to think that they were going to kill him.  It seemed so irrational to the police that they discussed whether he was high on drugs.  According to a blood test he was, on fentanyl and metamphetamines.  He struggled, banging his head against his surroundings in the police car so they police took him outside and restrained him, finally using a standard technique of pressure to his breathing by means of a knee on the back of his neck. One of the policemen stated that they had to take him out of the car to keep him from hurting himself.

The restraint technique works by robbing the suspect of his ability to breathe if he struggles.  It is a standard non-lethal method of control.  Normally when the  suspect realizes that he can breathe when he doesn’t struggle, he stops struggling.  Pretty standard stuff, but the policeman doesn’t believe the suspect has Covid-19, a pulmonary disease, as the suspect keeps saying, thinking it a ploy to get them away from him.  Using a breath robbing technique on a suspect with a respiratory disease like Covid-19 is perhaps somewhat risky if he actually has it. It exposes the policemen to a theoretically deadly disease.  If he had known about the infection, he probably wouldn’t have touched him. I don’t know what the guidelines are for handling someone who you know has Covid-19.  

This scenario is another example of the difficulty of a policeman’s job.  He has to make a split second decision on the state of being of a suspect of a crime who says he has Covid-19, who acts like he’s high on drugs, is beating his head against the police car, calling for his mother (maybe he is a mental case, not on drugs, although apparently they knew each other incidentally much earlier in life.), and is struggling mentally and physically to find a way to keep from going to jail.

He knows that police have guns.  No way is he going to go quietly, even if going quietly would have clearly been the best decision.  Better to have your breath constricted than to get shot.  Another possibility for the police, of course, would been to let him go, stating that he had Covid-19 and find him later, but if you find him later why would anything be different?  What is he going to learn from this interaction but that if you struggle enough the police will let you go.  The whole idea of trying to arrest someone with Covid-19 is disconcerting.

Handling anyone with breath suppression techniques will cause them to think or say “I can’t breathe.”   If they can breathe easily, it’s not working.  Such techniques - which I assume have been used by most policemen since it is a standard - allow some breathing if you stop struggling.  The goal is to stop the struggling without killing the suspect and that’s what normally happens.   If the suspect has Covid - 19 and the policeman doesn’t know it, he may not realize the danger he is putting the suspect in.  In this case, it may have made all the difference between control and death.

Strike one - attention due to suspicion of criminal activity, Strike two - struggling against authority, Strike three - he has Covid-19 and has trouble breathing.

Given the equipment and training and numerical superiority, the policeman always has a feeling of superiority. He feels that his is the good guy with right on his side, and the suspect is the bad guy.  If the “human” policeman feels that he is the good guy simply because he is white-skinned, not just because he is enforcing the good guy laws, he is the only one who knows and we will find it hard to tell. And it’s not good enough to dig up something he said 10 years ago to conclude that he was killing the suspect because of his ethnic group. 

One thing is for sure, George Floyd wasn’t a hero and didn’t want to be a representative of Black people everywhere. He just probably wanted to get some money (in change for his fake $20) to get some more drugs? And there was no report that he had a mask on due to his Covid-19.  He was just a bad citizen with bad luck.  

Lynching, violent and non-violent

Charles Jordan

Overwhelmed by the mob atmosphere in Atlanta after the shooting of Rayshard Brooks in a DUI arrest entanglement I try to  imagine a similar situation in the old South.  The Atlanta scenario is not much different from a lynching even if its non-violent. I imagine a crowd of white people reacting to a black man who wrongly or rightly was thought to have caused the death of a white man.  Perhaps a lone white lawyer or judge type raises the cry  “let the police handle this.”  The crowd ignores him, because they don’t need any more proof.  They know what is right.

The black man might have done nothing wrong, but was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  He may have even tried to explain the misunderstanding to the crowd but the crowd found his obvious defensiveness proof of his guilt.  Eliminating him would clear the air of any misunderstanding.

As I watched the Atlanta video, I thought how human and reasonable Mr. Brooks seemed.  Surely nothing he might have done would justify  shooting him.  Yes, he was dead drunk and couldn’t admit it.  He didn’t know where he was and he had no ability to understand his position except that he was clearly concerned that anyone would find he was at fault and cause him to be rearrested while on probation for felony cruelty to children, false imprisonment, Simple Battery/Family, etc.  Human beings are complicated creatures.  Even the worst people in the world like Jeffrey Daumer can be pleasant people in a social situation.  I’m sure Hitler could be charming at a ball if you didn’t know anything about him.

A policeman has to size up a man for what he might do in a confrontation with the law.  A large man even without a gun can be dangerous, especially if he has the advantage of surprise, putting on a friendly front while desperate about his situation.  Forty minutes of small talk trying to get Mr. Brooks to admit that he had driven his car to the Wendy’s while being dead drunk -drunk enough not to be able to stay awake.  But after the amiable banter, when the policemen tried to place handcuffs on him, he struggles and as he is dragged to the ground reaches for a taser he sees, fires it at one officer, slugs the other, gets on his feet and runs away.  About 10 - 15 feet away, he turns and fires the taser again. He knows how it works.  He turns to continue fleeing and the policeman fires at him to stop him from escaping. Presumably the policeman was worried about his own safety, unsure in the rush of the moment, feeling the blow on his face as a sign he might be in danger, not trusting Mr. Brooks to act rationally, he fires three times.  

After the shooting Office Rolfe is trying to do CPR on Mr. Brooks. Somehow he is even more guilty in the press because he didn’t recover from shooting someone within 2 minutes to try to keep him from dying and asks Mr. Brooks to “hold on.” The finality of someone dying because you have shot them starts bringing you back to reality, I presume.

Now Officer Rolfe has been charged with 11 different crimes for what to him must feel like a denial of everything he was trained to do.  Sort of like the lynching mentioned above.  The district attorney must feel panicked just like the officer. A normal case where someone has been shot would presumably go through a couple of hearings before charging someone with murder.  The chief of police resigns to avoid having to discuss the situation so central to that job. What did she expect?  Did she think she wouldn’t have to face such an incident with large numbers of police with weapons trying to control a large metropolitan area covered with bars and cheap alcohol, people with guns, and thousands of human antagonisms.

But it’s hard for a human beings to be objective when they  feel that the whole of America is looking at them through the eyes of a voracious media  which still considers itself to  be the underappreciated defender of virtue rather than the untouchable dispenser of opinion.  Guilt is obvious to the media.  Only one side of the question is discussed.  Facts tend to be adjectives rather than nouns.  News remains news for many days.  News has legs rather than facts.  “If I use the word racism it sells.”  If I can connect the word “racism” to the President, it’ll sell more. 

 It’s their business model.

747 against World Trade Center. Who wins?

747 Kinetic Energy

Charles Jordan

A red glow from a melted mass was all that was left of the steel girders on which the World Trade Center was built. It had been five days since the building collapsed on September 11, 2001. There was a general disagreement as whether steel could become red hot just by falling, but one of the engineers/ physicists who had been hired to look into the horrific happening found that the kinetic energy of the steel falling from a maximum of 1350 feet down would be enough energy to melt the iron when it crashed to the ground, all those iron atoms bouncing into one another.

“Nonsense!" echoed the opinions of most people in New York City." There must have been something or someone incendiary messing with the building over the last year."

John Fulminery has been studying the age old records of heat-inducing chemicals and energy waves used by people like Isaac Newton to make alchemical changes in materials and thought these might be away to induce a change in steel from a rigid strong material to a floppy gelatinous mess.

When he suggested such a possibility, the investigators considered him to be a nutcase. There was a lot of iron at the base of the collapsed building and it was dense and red-hot.

If anything, they thought that the energy of a 747 striking the building containing a full load of gasoline should have been enough to heat the building supports to their melting point or at least weaken them enough to lead to a collapse.

But nobody could know what was in the minds of the perpetrators of this game, a single-minded group of jihadists whose world view reached back before Mohammadism to when Arabian science was at its zenith and Sufi mysticism was achieving magical transformations. 

The Motion of Sufi Dancing can generate energetic focal points which can change reality. If it can work for the human body, why not for large physical objects like airplanes. Perhaps there were complexes of motion involving the automatic pilots of the 747s which could lead to highly energetic resonances which could saw through or melt steel like butter.

Abdul Assiz had qualified to fly 747 airplanes early in their rollout into the industry.  But he quit flying with his family ask him to return to Konya as the oldest male Assiz in the family. Konya is the origin of the Whirling Dervish dancers whose connection with the loving center of the universe depends on body position and twist rate to generate a blood distribution in the head and states of ecstasy similar to drugs like LSD. It was through techniques like this that the Sufis managed to develop new ways to manipulate reality.

Assiz’s knowledge of the 747enabled these transformations of motion using the computer driven controls to enhance the energy content of the plane to levels high enough to weaken the ski steel girders and bring  down the buildings just due to the plane’s impact.

Stories of the attackers using box cutters to overwhelm the pilots were the only plausible way most people could understand how the jihadist could have succeeded, but the actual methods were more like the whirling dervishes than the criminal gangs.

Similar techniques where used to shield the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. The many-layered defense around the District of Columbia and our government were curiously quiet during this attack and never actually confronted a plane they seemingly couldn't see.

The last plane was planning to eliminate  the President and his family in the White House and it is amazing that one of the passengers had spent time in the US airbase at Incirlik,Turkey, just south of Konya. He recognized the motions of the attackers and managed to disrupt them causing the plane to dive into the ground in Pennsylvania, a heroic effort indeed.

Sufism is a way of life based on love, but any powerful method of relationships can bring energy to intent.  

Deterioration of Justice

Deterioration of Justice

Charles Jordan

January 29, 2020

It is more and more obvious that our justice system is distorted.  Enforcement of laws seems to be optional depending on the opinions of politicians and bureaucrats. Establishment of a law seems to rely on the policy preferences of single judges rather than the vote of Congress or the executive departments pronouncements. Executive orders take away the initiative of Congress due to that large group’s reluctance to do anything but fight the executive orders. Getting re-elected (staying elite) is a complicated thing. Reactionary government is bad. And it leads finally to reactionary leaders. To the have-nots outside of government, anything which will break down the delay and getting things done is a good thing.  They need change, the elites do not.  The elites lead their case with promises to help the have-nots since they represent a lot of votes, but find many reasons why the promises can not be kept.

The choice of Donald Trump as president is a case in point. He scorns the ineffective Congress as did Pres. Obama before him. President Obama was surrounded by the liberal elite who were doing quite well thank you. So he was inactive, not wanting to rock the boat. Whether Trump is visionary or just reactionary isn't clear, but he makes many people happy that something is happening in an over-the-hill country where anything goes.

Education for many an average student is a bust due to lack of motivation. “If I can’t handle the math, I’ll just stay home and mooch off my parents.”  The older elites in power are satisfied with just having power and enjoying it. Of course power requires being in control of the government, not solving the problems of the have-nots. Control requires ideological judges, friendly justice bureaucrats (FBI, CIA, DOJ), a media committed to political correctness, and a disdain for traditional verities.

Trump, with his unsocial outlook, partially due to his personal wealth, avoids fitting into a politically correct slot in the elites. Just by disturbing the status quo of the elites, he invigorates the have-nots and threatens the control of the elites.

Mind you, the word elites doesn't mean highly educated creative thinkers. It means "big guy on campus" manipulators like Bill Clinton, but with money. They drive the analysis with fear and smear. Cool headed thinking followed by constructive design and implementation is not their job.

How have the various problems that our black brethren face been addressed by our late black/white President Obama. His presidency was mostly a celebration of getting elected, of entering the elite. Pres. Trump trumpets the increase in black salaries, but he says it all wrong.

As many people have said, what we need is a redefinition of what standard-of-living means. Does the Dow Jones average define prosperity? Not if the structure drives more and more money into elite pockets. Is anyone “worth” $1 billion? I don't think so. On the other hand we are also not equal to each other. We can be equal before the law, but some will be found guilty and some innocent.  The new fixes we need to reverse some of these negative trends we face needs to be defined by laws that enable rather than disable our citizens.

Capitalism isn't perfect, but productive. Socialism is idealistic, but nonproductive. We live right now in a combination of capitalism and socialism. We just need to find a new mix to reverse the slide of assets from the middle class to the elites. I see the very poor as a separate case with more problems to solve requiring  special solutions to remove the stress which incapacitates them.

That would require a new classification of citizenry which most would find unacceptable. However, from the Greeks on, democracy never included the debilitated poor in their decisions.  In any case, serious problems require serious changes and even though things seem prosperous on Wall Street, there are serious structural problems clouding up the future of our unusual nation. A $1 trillion budget deficit is a problem. Can our first trillion dollar CEO solve it?