#832 + HeARMe #1/ #2/ #3/ #4 2018 CatHERine L. JohnsON + “How LONG? NOT long” 1965 MartIN Luther KING Jr.

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How long?

Not long,

because no lie can live forever.

How long?

Not long,

because you shall reap what you sow.

How long?

Not long.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

reassured

a gathering of 25,000 people

that the days of

Southern white brutality

were waning.

25 March 1965

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PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGE FOR DETAIL OF THE PAINTINGS

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PLEASE CLICK ON LINK FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE PAINTINGS:

http://www.mnartists.org/artwork/hearme-1-2-3-4

 

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 HeARMe #1                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson 2013

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 HeARMe #2                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson 2013

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HeARMe #3                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson 2013

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HeARMe #4                                                                                                Catherine L. Johnson 2013

 

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How long?

Not long,

because

the arc of the moral universe

is long,

but it bends

toward  justice.

 

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

reassured

a gathering of 25,000 people

that the days of

Southern white brutality

were waning.

25 March 1965

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/c4.html

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IPROMISETOTELL                                                                                 Catherine L. Johnson  2015

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#825 + HEARINGS #1 + #2 2018 + KAVANAUGH SCOTUS HEARINGS > KavaNAH + NAH I do NOT remember + obfUScAtion

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/09/08/825-hearings-1-2-2018-kavanaugh-scotus-hearings-kavanah-nah-i-do-not-remember-obfuscation/

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#829 + What YOU allow IS what will continue + an individual requesting for sincere forgiveness + THE definition of VALIANT courage and the pinnacle of a HEROIC character?

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/829-what-you-allow-is-what-will-continue-an-individual-requesting-for-sincere-forgiveness-the-definition-of-valiant-courage-and-the-pinnacle-of-a-heroic-character/

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#830 + DHA – Dramatic Hysteria Actions + JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT + Accountability v. ATTACK + Thank YOU Senator Amy Klobuchar / Minnesota

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/830-dha-dramatic-hysteria-actions-judicial-temperament-accountability-v-attack-thank-you-senator-amy-klobuchar-minnesota/

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#830 + DHA – Dramatic Hysteria Actions + JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT + Accountability v. ATTACK + Thank YOU Senator Amy Klobuchar / Minnesota

WOKE

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What is different this time

is that this nomination battle is no longer purely about predicting

the likely outcome of Judge Kavanaugh’s vote on the court.

It now involves the symbolic meaning of his nomination

and

confirmation in the #MeToo era.

The hearings and the committee’s deliberations

are now also a bellwether

of the way the country treats women

when their reports of harassment,

assault and abuse

threaten to

derail the careers of powerful men.

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/09/27/editors-it-time-kavanaugh-nomination-be-withdrawn

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The train will continue, and you will be crushed

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/09/28/it-is-very-difficult-to-get-the-train-to-stop/?utm_term=.e55d8fe13e8e

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JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT:

means that a judge exhibits

“compassion,

decisiveness,

open-mindedness,

sensitivity,

courtesy,

patience,

neutrality,

respectfulness,

composure,

freedom from bias

and

commitment to equal justice.”

American Bar Association

https://ballotpedia.org/Judicial_temperament

 

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NAUGHT

WHO LIKES BEER, HERE?

BLACK OUTS, ANYONE? AMY?

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/828-truth-telling-the-who-of-the-truth-telling-whose-experiences-voices-are-deemed-credible-and-valid-ipromisetotell-willyoulistenbelieveme/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/829-what-you-allow-is-what-will-continue-an-individual-requesting-for-sincere-forgiveness-the-definition-of-valiant-courage-and-the-pinnacle-of-a-heroic-character/

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2018/09/08/825-hearings-1-2-2018-kavanaugh-scotus-hearings-kavanah-nah-i-do-not-remember-obfuscation/

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AFFIRMATIVE

This morning.

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PLEASE WATCH/LISTEN

to the INTEGRITY/FORCE of MORAL COURAGE

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This afternoon.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota

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“Where is the bravery in this room?”

she implored the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of its vote,

suggesting Republicans were afraid of what they might find out.

“This isn’t a he said,” she said.

This is a he said-they said,” she said.

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I have met my Senator Amy Klobuchar several times.

She defines integrity.

She defines a NEW BREED LEADER, a MAVERICK and a remarkable template of courage.

She possesses the requisite moral courage, an authentic spine,

and the capacity and willingness to step UP and be defiant, the vehicle,

to challenge the staid, inflexible conventions of a dominant culture

– all personal characteristics which defines an illuminated steward leader.

She defines the capacity to navigate turmoil with grace.

She defines luminous leadership,

equanimity

and fair play

when challenged.

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She does not become a smug, malicious

and vicious scorpion: 

whereby an enraged attack is the scorpion’s violent destructive offense

 – their petulant, reactive, stinging, venomous self-defense –

 is directed toward anyone who challenges them

effectively shutting down hope, a dialogue/questions for clarification,

the possibilities and principles of an improvisational, mutually respectful call and response,

 which is the requisite and luminous template of practicing the complex art of “conversation”

– which is collaborative and co-creates honorable I/THOU resolutions.

The “scorpion self-preservation behavior” attacks stings,

tears apart the challenger leaving miles of bloody collateral damage behind

– not a heroic template/practice. 

Attack behavior is learned, a reflexive action – an emotionally immature behavior

that signals

contempt, lazy hubris, a self-centered mean-spirit, poor vision and restricted foresight

rather than an imaginative, creative, open-minded wise strategy

to move forward and beyond! 

Definitely NOT a description of a NEW BREED LEADER!

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A NEW BREED LEADER welcomes challenges

to their thinking, vision and practices as dialectical process

to be OPENED, enlightened, evolve, practice RADICAL HOPE

and create NEW paradigms!

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LIFE is MESSY and LIVING LIFE is a YESGIFT

OPPORTUNITY

to DISCOVER,

INNOVATE,

RESURGE

+ RiSE!!!!!

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Senator Klobuchar defines clarity, thoughtfulness, grace, wisdom

and serenity under pressure.

She defines judicial temperament.

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NOTE: 

Judge Kavanaughs’s “scorpion self-preservation” attacks;

his hiding truths and obfuscations, lying and adamant denials;

his insufferable and indignant arrogance, a clear lack of humility;

his self-centered explanations and belligerent wild-eyed protests;

his ease in throwing his own family under the bus to serve his selfish objectives;

his off- the rails behavior of crying, agitation

and bellowing ” I am a victim” DHA;

his attempts to create a “beer fraternity” with the Senators on the Judicial Committee;

and

his bizarre interaction with our Senator Klobuchar with his rebuttal question to her

suggesting

a “shared” (a preface to rationalization and/or justification) experiences of “black-outs”,

to me,

spells an individual who may be an active alcoholic and/or, at least, is a heavy drinker.

Spot on.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/28/brett-kavanaugh-likes-beer-but-not-questions-about-his-drinking-habits/?utm_term=.e1f0b320d7c7

RED FLAG: The active disease of alcoholism is progressive

and certainly disqualifies anyone’s capacity/ability to exhibit/practice a

JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT.

 

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Thank YOU, Senator Klobuchar!

I am so PROUD of WHO you are!

YOU RISEREPRESENT!

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Japan: MEDITATION                                                                             Catherine L. Johnson  2011

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https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/hurricanerapturelantern-a-libretto-5-december-2010-japan-meditation-catherine-l-johnson-2011-john-coltrane-peace-full-moon/

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#828 + TRUTH-TELLING + THE WHO OF THE TRUTH-TELLING + WHOSE EXPERIENCES/ VOICES ARE DEEMED CREDIBLE and VALID + IPROMISETOTELL willyoulistenbelieveme?

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In the United States, women, children, individuals of color, those who live in low income economic classes and those who are differently-abled KNOW that their truth-telling stories,  no matter their personal integrity and their capacity/pattern of eloquently telling the truth of their life experiences, are invalidated. Their credibility is not upheld, and is, in fact, they are shamed, silenced, judged, taunted and shredded. Actually, the truth-tellers, whose stories counter the dominant culture, are the definition and testament of COURAGE, moral courage, who SEE a universe of greater humanity.

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As Brene Brown said in her viral TED Talk: “Empathy’s the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment. If you put the same amount in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t survive. The two most powerful words when we’re in struggle: me too.”

 

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NOTE: The Republicans on the Judicial Committee have now POSITIONED Brett Kavanaugh as a partisan prop for their specific political agenda. Brett Kavanaugh has ALLOWED himself to be made into a partisan prop by them – taking away any redemption of possible humility within his character. Brett Kavanaugh has agreed to eliminate his capacity to respond as a human. Imagine what would have occurred IF he spoke of his drunken teenage years at an elite all boys prep school. I do know heavy alcohol drinkers have selective memories and are champions of denial,  lash out and blame those who call them out on their behavior and their justifying explanations are obfuscation coupled with empty and repetition of excuses. No healing enters , but, rather a continuum of wounding ensues. Trapped. Tribalism based on distrust of the “other”. Thick institutionalism.

https://www.salon.com/2018/09/26/wtf-is-wrong-with-kavanaugh-even-conservative-bro-culture-might-not-save-him-now/

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Imagine what would occur IF an individual asking for sincere forgiveness from those they have injured, owning up/being accountable to causing injury by their words and/or actions and making actual amends WAS the definition of VALIANT courage and the PINNACLE of character. IMAGINE the sincere and the joyous energy of FREEDOM ringing through hearts and our humanity and our world IF this was the practice! Gas-lighting as a manipulation to undermine the victim of the abuse and the wide/deep collateral damage of cycles of abuse would cease! NEW worlds would EMERGE! Relationships, true authentic relationships, are slowly built, face to face, the sacred DANCE of evolving/dialectical TRUST – with empathy and reverence. Lives are relational! This ethos and intimate practice would be/is a revolution of overturning tribalism and would be/is a redemption/transcendent fusion story of SEEING the other. A re-negotiation of power that honors the fire and width of humanity and extinguishes the lashing, cruel and hostile burn of divisive tribalism. This would be/ IS sweeping radiant JOY!

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“Let us realize

the arc

of the moral universe

is long

but it bends

toward justice.”

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

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Truths told by marginalized demographics simply do not resonate with the values of the dominant culture and are dismissed. The truths told do not serve the values of the dominant culture. Praise those who summon the courage to step up and tell the truth of their personal experiences which, in turn, inspires others that their own life experiences are testaments of life – valuable and worthy.

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The Kavanaugh SCOTUS hearings is THE truth-telling of our current society.

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Democracy is improvisational blueprint — moving forward with NEW perspectives. A vital ongoing process of rising and constantly adapting, improvising, overcoming > an innovative experiment of inventing and creation! We know the process of suppression of truth telling of specific demographics is the graph, the litmus test, of where our society is.

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The US president and the current Republican representatives on the Judicial Committee is echoed in Carl Dreyer’s 1928 silent film.

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The clip below of Carl Dreyer’s film, “The Passion of Joan of Arc”  is, tragically, heart-stopping  and relevant to our contemporaneous lives. This film is genius – SILENT – no voices and no subtitles. The visuals of Dreyer’s cinematography, film editing, casting and direction are intentional and silently NAMES the dominant culture at that time and the power hierarchy. Of course, the irony is that HER truth-telling is silenced, prosecuted, judged and she is burned at the stake for her truth- telling.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Joan_of_Arc

 

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IPROMISETOTELL                                                                               Catherine L. Johnson  2015

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Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee (from top left):

Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Ben Sasse, Thom Tillis, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn; (from bottom left) Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake, John Kennedy, Mike Crapo and Mike Lee. (Photos: U.S. Senate)

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We have a few questions for you.

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Don’t be afraid.

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We are open to learning the truth of your experiences.

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We are open-minded and are receptive

to your truth-telling.

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We will listen (wink-wink).

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“I’m, I mean WE ARE looking

for a fair process.”

(We advised Brett to say that over and over and over

when interviewed on Fox News. Nicehypnotic effect?!)

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We listened to Anita Hill twenty-seven years ago.

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You can trust/entitle us.

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New York Times:

Why Women Don’t Report Sexual Assault

 

As new allegations surface about Brett Kavanaugh,

readers discuss the underreporting of sex crimes,

prep school culture and more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/opinion/letters/kavanaugh-sexual-assault.html

Why didn’t you report? Shame, shame, shame

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2018/09/26/shame-sexual-assault-trauma-victim-blaming-kavanaugh/1381881002/

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What a rehearsed “read the teleprompter” and using your wife as a prop!

He is a good acolyte of the president – his mentor of lying and repeating mantras.

PAINFUL to watch this display of a coached “player”.

 

Playing Agent Orange’s playbook of being a victim

– this strategy  is a dog whistle

to enrage men in our society.

  A woman challenging a man is deemed as humiliating

– the woman is from OUTSIDE the privileged and elite world of power.

Women in that world are mama bears protecting their men’s ego

rather than an expectation for the man

to step up and be accountable.

DIGNITY + RESPECT

Think of the converse – our society protecting women

who counter the dominant culture’s speak/practice.

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“The staggering hypocrisy of Brett Kavanaugh”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/09/24/the-staggering-hypocrisy-of-brett-kavanaugh/?utm_term=.ed99109d038a

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IPROMISETOTELL willyoulistenbelieveme?

 

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WHO are the TRUTH-TELLERS whose told aloud stories

BEND the arc of the moral universe toward justice?

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Please acknowledge their courage, radical hope

and

sacrifices in their truth-telling.

 

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“It’s not about standing still

and

becoming safe.

If anybody wants to keep creating

they have to be about change.”

 Miles Davis

 

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#825 + HEARINGS #1 + #2 2018 + KAVANAUGH SCOTUS HEARINGS > KavaNAH + NAH I do NOT remember + obfUScAtion

IPROMISETOTELL                                                                                 Catherine L. Johnson  2015

https://catherineljohnson.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/ipromise-ipromisetotell-ipromisetotellthewhole-ipromisetotellthewholetruth-16-december-2015-catherine-l-johnson-artist-patti-smith-people-have-the-power/

 

 

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obfuscation

noun

1. the act or an instance of making something obscure, dark, or difficult to understand

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obfuscate

verb

1. to obscure or darken
2. to perplex or bewilder

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THE obfuscation: THE SCOTUS HEARINGS                                       Catherine L. Johnson   2018

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Unlike the tens of thousands of unreleased Kavanaugh documents

and

KavaNAH’s decision to withhold the truth of him,

you can know the truth

and

the details of my documented work

by clicking on the image!

Yes!

No obfuscation,

I offer you

  my art of ambiguity and clarity

that discloses:

the rigid or fluid perceptual lenses,

openness to explore/discover

and

the imagination

of

you,

the viewer

– how you see, how you think, how you envision,

how you negotiate uncharted territories, etc.

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LIVING/SELECTING/DECISION-MAKING

by

Precedents or Firsts.

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Listen to how truth is revealed<>hidden

in the Kavanaugh SCOTUS HEARINGS.

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How questions are shaped/framed

is the vehicle

to

truth-telling.

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The DYNAMICS/SPECTRUM of

AWARENESS <> DENIAL.

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Do you really want to KNOW what is the truth

of someone

IS the question.

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Awareness is the catalyst to action.

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Once you know the unvarnished reality,

and

choose to NOT act

you chose complicity.

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HEARING #1(DAY 1)                                                                           Catherine L. Johnson 2018

 

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HEARING #2(DAY 2)                                                                           Catherine L. Johnson 2018

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HERITAGE FOUNDATION

https://www.heritage.org/about-heritage/mission

https://www.heritage.org/impact/supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaugh-was-included-the-list-the-heritage-foundation-helped

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Five things that we know for sure about Brett Kavanaugh:

1. He has not committed to uphold Roe v. Wade, and, if appointed to the Supreme Court, he would likely be the decisive vote that would undermine the right to safe and legal abortion.

2. He refers to birth control as “abortion-inducing drugs” and believes that employers have the right to exclude birth control from health insurance plans.

3. He has gone further than the Supreme Court and written that assault weapons and high-capacity magazines cannot be banned under the Second Amendment.

4. He believes that a sitting president should never be indicted, and he refuses to answer even basic questions about presidential authority, such as whether or not a president can pardon him or herself.

5. He has flat-out refused to recuse himself should any of the president’s civil or criminal investigations reach the Supreme Court.

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Judge Brett KavaNAH:

I am an unimaginative thinker.

I am LOYAL

to those who program and fund my binary brain

with

fixed, obsolete and outdated laws and worldviews

that hold specific demographics captive and hostage

– I will uphold their imprisonment by choosing to

NOT adapt, NOT improvise and NOT overcome

social injustice and inequities!

I love my HERITAGE (wink wink)!

YES, I am their “dummy”!

Precedents and living in fixed pasts is MY future

– and will be YOUR future!

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WHEEEEEEEEEck!

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CHOICES.

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My Mother lost most of her amniotic fluid

when she was 20 weeks pregnant with me.

She was given two possibilities, options, choices:

1.) go home and walk around and you will have a natural miscarriage

– the fetus needs the full volume of the amniotic fluid to create a healthy baby

OR

2.) lie down for a few weeks and see if the tear heals

– the loss of the amniotic fluid is permanent

and if the fetus develops there will be major orthopedic issues.

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My Mother chose to lie down.

I was born 29 December with my right leg twisted around my neck.

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I lived in an institution, Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children

where cribs were lined up in rows and rows and rows in a large cavernous room

and I lived bound face down in body casts.

from 6 months to 3 years.

Parents could visit 1x week and were NOT permitted to touch their children.

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My Daddy fought the hospital administration to get me OUT at 18 months.

He achieved that goal with his phenomenal love and  singular purpose

to take his his daughter from captivity and experience the world.

I was/am WONDER and AWE!

I had never experienced the vastness of Nature nor the improvisation of human relationships

– the sensuous brilliant exhilarating experience of touch, sight, sound and taste.

I ate the colors of flowers in my Grandparent’s garden.

I touched and was touched, kissed, caressed by my Mom, Daddy and sister

with timidity, hesitance

and then, slowly, with lessened terror> unfolding overwhelming joy.

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To feel caress was both frightening, overwhelming and amazing GRACE.

I felt the WINGS of freedom and pure love.

I could NOT ever return to a pattern of being hostage and live as a captive.

I was brought back to the institution after 2 months in the world experience.

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At three I began my DANCE,

my life altering blessed, sacred, joyous DANCE

WITH Dr. Mark B. Coventry at Mayo Clinic.

He could SEE me.

We DANCED a miracle.

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I have prevailed.

Forty-eight reconstructive surgeries since my first breath.

I am A/LIVE.

A life of riSING EXODUS.

My life.

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My Mother made a choice. I lived her choice.

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EXODUSIMFREEATLASTIAINTGOINGBACKIMFREE                       Catherine L. Johnson  2013

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PLEASE!

The woman’s choice – no one else – HER life

and

HER child’s life.

The child’s LIFE story.

Not YOUR life.

A woman creates the life of her choices – no matter.

A woman is not a pet, a captive

and

nor should she be a hostage of biased laws

rooted in

patriarchal perceptions/controls of women’s right.

Every woman breathes her own heal/thy <> NOT healthy choices.

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Everyone is IMPACTED by HER LIFE choices.

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HER CHOICES are hers to make and LIVE her LIFE story

– not your choices for her.

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HER LIFE.

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