SPDF Day 26: Hunger pangs, weakness...

SPDF Day 26:  Hunger pangs, weakness, fatigue... are driving me mildly insane. The craving of taste. The craving of consumption.  The craving of a strong body and full eyesight and mental faculties. The craving of life. LOL.  But I crave the Life of Palestines, more.

SPDF Day 24: Stamina and strength waning...

SPDF Day 24:  Stamina and strength waning. On the Hill for 12 hours, unable to stay conscious for 3 hours or so.  But surely I can't complain, after 24 days, virtually zero calories... and I still have many hours per day where I'm functional for Palestine.  No complaints. Thank you body.  Thank you Spirit.  Thank you Creator.

nd. SPDF Day 22: On Capital Hill since 10am...

nd.  SPDF Day 22: On Capital Hill since 10am. Likely to be here till 4pm or 7pm.  Losing much strenght, along with the ability to generate body heat.  The hike up Capital Hill, even with much of my stuff on hand truck, is getting much more difficult, and llllooooonnnngggg.

vlog. SPDIF day 17: this death fast is for everyone I know and everyone I do not know. This death fast is against everyone I know, and everyone I don't know. (If the shoe does not fit, don't wear it.)

This death fast is for everyone I know , and for every one I do not know, born and to be born in the future.  I experience all of these as part of me.  I experienced all of these as part of my family.  That's just how it is with me.

And this death fast is a protest against everyone I know , and everyone I see involved in the so called free Palestine effort.  Against individuals?  Of course not.  Against grossly inadequate, cowardly, self serving behavior of nearly all the individuals involved?  Absolutely.

Every one of the people I'm describing may be doing exactly what history requires.  But to my trained eye none, with a certain exception of Diane Wilson (on other crucial issues), and the possible exception of very few others, with the near certain exception of the international solidarity movement activists in Palestine, with the near certainty exception of some other activists in Palestine.  With the fairly certain exception of much or most of Hamas, heroic, intelligent, informed freedom fighters.

But I just mentioned dozens of people on a planet with seven billion.  This death fast is a protest against the behavior of almost everyone, above the age of 12, on earth, particularly we over privileged in the United States .  We are behaving like the walking dead people that we are.  In willful, catatonic denial .  Fiddling while Rome burns.  Not lifting a finger so that our nieces and nephews, our children, our grandchildren, have a future remotely worth living in terms of democratic society , a planet habitable , other than the police state that is being developed in Palestine for export to the elites around the world. 

***** vlog. SPDF Day 17:I EXPECT TO TERMINATE THIS DEATH FAST...

SPDF Day 17: I expect to terminate this death fast within the next few days. I'm no expert on missiles but I know that some are equipped with an abort mechanism.  Anyone that launches a campaign of any sort and regardless of changing circumstances is unwilling to change their plans as a zealot, a madman.  This death vast was begun on the day, on the night before, Netanyahu was here in Washington enabling Congress to demonstrate its complete corruption, and his as well.  It was a time of complete darkness.  Utter hopelessness.  Absolute shamefullness among the cowardly inadequacy of the American Free Palestine activities. 

We American activists don't do what's needed.  We do what's convenient.  We do what feels good.  We do what attracts money, followers, accolades, while enabling us to continue on with our over privileged lifestyles.  The exceptions prove the rule. 

I think that may have changed now.  No, it has changed.  The question is how substantial is the change, and will it continue. 

I posted earlier today some discussion of my analysis of the situation.  At the core is the widely covered news that the Obama Administration may have been given enough license by this criminal Netanyahu and his criminal Israeli country to act aggressively to impose the international law of record, the 1967 borders and the right of return for the 3.5 million  Palestinian refugees.  I make not the slightest assumption that tomorrow's headlines might not reverse all this.  But I do make the assumption, it is my analysis, that A. it could be substantive, and B. It changes the clarity of the situation with in which I am on Death Fast.  Even the most infinitesimal candle in a room of absolutes darkness and be seen.  Well I could be that candle on the day, and on the days since, Netanyahu was here in town.  But for the moment the room is no longer nearly so dark with these obvious considerations on the part of the Obama Administration.

I suspect that I'll not reach a final conclusion for several days.  I'll continue to watch the news for clues as to whether this is substantive or illusory.  But within hours or days I think there is an excellent chance that the best way I can serve the part of my family that is Palestine is to terminate this death fast, regain strength, continue my online work, probably continue my vigil and work, and to watch for the next point of clarity as to how I can serve, which could well be, if the next absolute darkness appears even almost immediately, to launch another death fast.

As I wrote in an immensely important post the other day, I feel not the slightest hesitation to have my life terminate now, this instant, if it can save one Palestinian in the next 20 years.  But the clarity for that at the moment may have been lost, and there may now be new and better opportunities to serve even more.  I'll see.

I will, I AM giving my Life for Palestine, for the infinite Joy of it. The only variable  is how to best serve in doing that.  I'll continue to re-calculate breath, by breath, by breath.

***** SPDF Day 17 MUST READ.: MY DEMAND IS NO LESS THAN....

 ***** SPDF Day 17 MUST READ.: My demand is nothing less than the immediate restoration and of full human rights, 100% human rights....

My demand is nothing less than the immediate restoration and of full human rights, 100% human rights, for the seven million Palestinians of my family who have been Tortured, and tormented, terrorized, dispossessed, humiliated, defiled, degraded... by the US and Israel for 68 years now.  More specifically I demand of my government that they obey the law, they stop supplying weapons to a terrorist state Israel, they stop providing funding to a terrorist state Israel, they stop obstructing in the UN almost all countries of the world in holding Israel to international law.  United States law forbids the providing of weapons to a country that uses those weapons for offensive purposes.  Israel is the quintessential example of that notwithstanding the tidal waves of Israeli lies and deceit, propaganda, to the contrary. 

My goal is not to die.  My goal is to bring about to some even minuscule measure this objective.  My goal is at minimum to save the life, to reduce by even one day, the torture and torment of one of those seven million Palestinians of my family over the next 20 years. And that I can do.

In an important post of several days ago I described the law of social change which is the law of sufficient suffering, sufficient paying the price for the change.  That is based on an extensive study of a history of change, particularly unviolent change, and is indisputably the way change happens. 

I cannot have the impact that millions of my brothers and sisters in the over privileged, colonial, terrorist, US could bring to bear by joining me and doing their part.  But I can do my part.  Mine can be one of the Lives, it will be one of the lives, on the scale of change, and when enough are added to the scale, the rest almost certainly to be Palestinian children and other inocent Palestinians, due to our collective apathy, inhumanity, cowardice on the left, in the scale will be tilted to Justice.

No, I do not expect this to happen before the last Palestinian is exterminated.  Netanyahu and his satanic minions are acting and speaking just as the Nazis did in the lead up to the extermination of the Jews.  They are absolutely the children, the psychological and philosophical and spiritual descendants, of Hitler and the Nazis.  That's not a condemnation per say.  It is a rather expected psychological fact.  Those who are abused frequently learn and adopt and practice the lifestyle of abusers.  Netanyhu and his sick, sociopathic, psychotic, post traumatic, siege mentality hoards are no exception.

I do not know what impact if any the news of today and the last several days will have on this death fast campaign.  It is possible that the game has changed dramatically now.  It has been and remains my belief that Pr. Obama is a profoundly good man and detests the human rights desecration of the Palestinians as much as I.  The great Edward Said was his professor.  Pr. Obama has just appointed his classmate from Harvard, Robert Malley, as his point man on this situation, to the fury of the Zionists.  Malley, a graduate of Yale, Harvard, Oxford, it seems unlikely to me that Pr. Obama would have appointed him to a meaningless post this month, or that Maley would have accepted. 

I consider Pr. Obama the greatest president this country has ever seen, consummately brilliant, profoundly serious, and I think it is entirely possible that he has been working to enable Netanyahu to accumulate enough rope for himself that he hang himself.  And it could be that Netanyahu did so in the final days of this past election. 

Also possible, I believe, is that Netanyahu could be in on it to some degree.  Not so much that I care, but this is quite possible.  Netanyahu could have enough sanity that he sees and cares that Israel is headed toward global pariah status in the world community for as long as Israel survives.  He could have enough sanity to see and care about this.  Im not betting on it, but it is possible.  And his calculation, possibly in consultation with the Obama administration, could have been, could be, that the only way to bring about a just resolution, given the insane Israeli and U.S.  Zionist right wing , was to maneuver such that Pr. Obama could get away with imposing it on Israel. 

***** Day 16: “MY LIFE COUNTS FOR NOTHING TO ME COMPARED WITH SAVING EVEN ONE PALESTINIAN…

**** SPDF Stop Palestines Death Fast Day 16:  'My life counts nothing to me compared with the merest possibility of reducing by even one day, for even one of my 7 million Palestinians, their torment, torture, terrorization, degradation, dehumanization by we Americans and the Israelis these last 68 years.'  My soul has known this for years, and I follow my Soul, long before I understand what it is telling me, but as I was staggering to Capital Hill this morning after seeing my Doc, mercifully, this clarity came to my mind.  Clear as day. Clear as day.

SPDF Day 15: To a dear dear sister since childhood: “Do not ache over my condition. I have never been so Joyful. Ache for the condition of our millions of Palestinians …

SPDF Stop Palestines Death Fast Day 15:  From a dear dear sister since childhood:  "i am aching over your condition..i do understand...yet i want you to be taken care of along with the rest of humanity...SENDING MY LOVE x."  My reply: "Do not ache over my condition. I have never been so Joyful.  Ache for the condition of our millions of Palestinians.  Ache for every young person you know on earth.  Ache for every person and creature in the future. Ache for everyone you know in America just a year or two hence, it is all collapsing, economy, fascism, police state, plantation Amerika.  Ache for everyone above the age of 12 today that will look back in horror and agony, just a few years from now, and shake in agony as they say, 'MY GOD, WHY DIDN'T I SHAKE OFF MY DENIAL AND STAND FOR GOOD, WHILE THERE WAS STILL A CHANCE.'

SPDF day 15: terribly sick last night and this morning. Arrived...

SPDF day 15: terribly sick last night and this morning. Arrived here on Capitol Hill by 7 a.m. I was on the hill yesterday from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. The sickness is, I think, a self inflicted wound. Night before last I learned that my body can no longer tolerate a potassium tablet. I thought it could tolerate a magnesium tablet, but it turns out I am sadly mistaken. My stomach hurts like hell and I have waves of nausea. I have lost much of my strength but mercifully a hand truck I ordered arrived last night which makes it somewhat more possible to transport my stuff to and from Capitol Hill and this weekend to and from the White House.

SPDF Day 13. vid. 47 min. Why Palestinian prisoners in Israel go on hunger strike

SPDF Day 6: I think a trip to the ER may be necessary.

SPDF Day 6: I think a trip to the ER may be necessary. This is the third day I'm too sick to get out of bed. This is a first. I've done a dozen or so severe hunger strikes and never anything like this sickness. Three hours ago I all but passes out with nausia when in the bathroom. Now I am sitting up and feeling a bit better. Maybe my body is stabilizing. We'll see. I think my blood chem must be all messed up and maybe the ER could stabilize that. I need to hang around at least until Congress gets back next Mon.

PS: That's odd, it seems I never posted of the ER visit.  Blood work was fine, they judged me dehydrated and gave me two liters of saline. Maybe made me feel a little better. They wanted to give me a liter of glucose but to their credit they respected my wishes on the Death Fast.  

***** nd. SPDF Day 5: bed ridden for the second day.

* nd. SPDF Day 5: bed ridden for the second day. Nausia, back pain, extreme weakness. Stop Palestine death fast.

posted from Bloggeroid

SPDF Day 4: tragically, congress is not in session.

SPDF Day 4: tragically, congress is not in session. However, I am very ill today, I would have gone to the hill but it may have been a disaster physically. I will rest and work today online.

posted from Bloggeroid

vlog. SPDF Day 3: I intend to remain functional as long as my body has strength...

vlog (upload problems, will upload tomorrow).  SPDF Day 3: I intend to remain functional as long as my body has strength but I am not interested in prolonging this death fast.  I expect no impact or attention before I terminate, any impact I expect will happen months or years or many years afterwards.  It is patently obvious that death fast is the only weapon that we have in civil society of 2015 that can stop Palestine's death, can stop global warming, can stop the financial elite from continuing their totalitarian rule of us all.  I defy you to find any 'activists' in any of these movements that will tell you when their tactics, their strategies, will result in success.  These brothers and sisters of mine are cowards, they do not fight to win, they fight to feel good.  I don't fight to feel good.  I fight to win, willing to lose.  I expect to lose, but not because I am using the wrong tactics and strategy.  I am using the obviously correct tactics and strategy.  I expect to lose because there are no longer enough healthy people on earth to see that this is the correct strategy, death fast, in larger and larger numbers.  But I don't know that on this the most morally horrible issue, Palestines death, I don't know that there is no one that can learn from what I am doing.  It is so obviously correct, it is so obviously needed, it is so obviously the only answer, that it is worth a try.  What if the polio vaccine had been developed and no one chose to use it?  Should it not have been developed in that case?  Was it a waste of time?  Jonas Salk did his job.  I am doing my job.  With zero support I am demonstrating this weapon.  There may be someone on earth after I terminate that by my example senses the power of the weapon and is able to improve on and build on what I am doing.  To remain functional as long as my body can continue I am taking vitamins, potassium, magnesium, electrolytes, plenty of liquids.  I am not avoiding strenuous physical activity.  Today I want several miles to secure the new poster, the vitamins, electrolytes, and herbal tea.  Except when sickness from this fast, and the weather prevents me, I expect to be around DC with the posters.  I pray that tomorrow Congress is in session.  They are then off for a week.  In the little time I have left I expect to make every moment cannont that I can with the posters.  Weekends I expect to be back in front of the White House.  Next week and the days that Congress is not in session I expect, finely, to haunt the Washington Post and NVR with my presence.  Again, I expect to see no results from this in my lifetime.  But I know that if I execute what I've described it will be seen, it will create suffering that otherwise would depend on the death of an additional Palestinians child, and by doing what I am doing fine now that I am saving a Palestinian Life, not today, not tomorrow, not next year, but by putting my life on the scale as I am I am bringing near the day of the torture of Palestine will stop.

SPDF Day 3: A potential miracle!

A potential miracle!  It is possible that today's snow day means that Congress, which was not in session today although they were scheduled to be, will be in session tomorrow which they were not scheduled to be.  The reason that this could be a genuine miracle is because they are off next week and if they were not in session tomorrow them none of them will know of the Stop Palestine's Death Fast until they return the following week.  The function of this death fast is to awaken conscience to some degree, to create suffering toward a level of suffering that some of these congress people cannont accept, on top of the suffering of Palestinians.  Just like one soldier cannot win a battle of violence, one death faster cannot win an unviolent battle, but in both cases each soldier is part of the potential win.  But if the unviolent soldier is invisible then the soldier can play no role in arousing conscience, in arousing humanity, in arousing sanity.  Another part of the miracle was that staples remained open long enough, despite today's snow, to print the new poster which will announce the death fast and display how many days that it has lasted.  It is only after midnight that a congressional web site displays whether they will be in session, so until then this is conjecture.

***** I think that the only way to avert the next slaughter in Palestine is to massively escalate the pressure on the US Congress / US Gov / White House..., to 1. Stop obstructing the UN, 2. Stop Funding Israel, 3. Hold Israel to International law. I think the time is now: A. The unprecidented 'split' Netanyahu has handed us in the Congress; B. We know the clock is ticking toward the next slaughter... NOW is the time to act. I am thinking seriously of beginning a death-fast on Capital Hill, 24/7, beginning in the next week or so. My target, the point of my effort, would be Congressman John Lewis, the only man that may still have a conscience, and the Black Man that SHOULD understand that the slaughter of Palestine IS A READ LINE THAT CANNOT BE CROSSED, and President Obama who wants to do the right thing more than I do but is facing impossible odds. Both of these men are great men, they are the only ones that can lead what needs to be done and I and we must do all in our power to inspire them to impossible levels of courage and leadership, now. As many of us as possible must pay, and at least offer, the ultimate price in order to remind them to do the same. There is no other way. There has never been any other way. There will never be any other way. If not now, when? . I'm not sure if I would be allowed to sleep in a chair on the Hill. I think so, but not sure. I might need logistical support to pull it off. It would be stronger if people joined, but that will not influence whether I begin, and finish, or not. I'm open to EQUIVALENT, OR SUPERIOR (more promising) ideas. A Death Fast is a Hunger Strike (Water Only) that is expected to go to death unless the demands are met. The current PROBABILITY IS THAT THE MASS KILLING IN PALESTINE, 1000'S, WILL TAKE PLACE WITHIN THE NEXT 2 YEARS. If, 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 1000 of us offered our lives now, in the US, NOW... maybe we could reduce the slaughter by 1, 2, 4, 8... then. I THINK PEOPLE IN PALESTINE SHOULD JOIN. I HAVE NO CONTACTS. THERE. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH THOSE IN PALESTINE, IF YOU HAVE THE CONTACTS. I'm open to Ideas, Alternatives, Support, Comrades. Let me know. I am NOT open to A. Idle chatter, B. Hand wringing, C. Pointless planning. SHARE this with anyone you think should see it. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/03/i-think-that-only-way-to-avert-next.html

***** I think that the only way to avert the next slaughter in Palestine is to massively escalate the pressure on the US Congress / US Gov / White House..., to 1. Stop obstructing the UN, 2. Stop Funding Israel, 3. Hold Israel to International law. I think the time is now: A. The unprecidented 'split' Netanyahu has handed us in the Congress; B. We know the clock is ticking toward the next slaughter... NOW is the time to act. I am thinking seriously of beginning a death-fast on Capital Hill, 24/7, beginning in the next week or so. My target, the point of my effort, would be Congressman John Lewis, the only man that may still have a conscience, and the Black Man that SHOULD understand that the slaughter of Palestine IS A READ LINE THAT CANNOT BE CROSSED, and President Obama who wants to do the right thing more than I do but is facing impossible odds. Both of these men are great men, they are the only ones that can lead what needs to be done and I and we must do all in our power to inspire them to impossible levels of courage and leadership, now. As many of us as possible must pay, and at least offer, the ultimate price in order to remind them to do the same. There is no other way. There has never been any other way. There will never be any other way. If not now, when? . I'm not sure if I would be allowed to sleep in a chair on the Hill. I think so, but not sure. I might need logistical support to pull it off. It would be stronger if people joined, but that will not influence whether I begin, and finish, or not. I'm open to EQUIVALENT, OR SUPERIOR (more promising) ideas. A Death Fast is a Hunger Strike (Water Only) that is expected to go to death unless the demands are met. The current PROBABILITY IS THAT THE MASS KILLING IN PALESTINE, 1000'S, WILL TAKE PLACE WITHIN THE NEXT 2 YEARS. If, 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 1000 of us offered our lives now, in the US, NOW... maybe we could reduce the slaughter by 1, 2, 4, 8... then. I THINK PEOPLE IN PALESTINE SHOULD JOIN. I HAVE NO CONTACTS. THERE. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH THOSE IN PALESTINE, IF YOU HAVE THE CONTACTS. I'm open to Ideas, Alternatives, Support, Comrades. Let me know. I am NOT open to A. Idle chatter, B. Hand wringing, C. Pointless planning. SHARE this with anyone you think should see it. http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/2015/03/i-think-that-only-way-to-avert-next.html

Obama visits immigration activists on Hunger Strike. Politico

Obama visits immigration activists

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***** Obama team praises immigration fast. USA TODAY

Obama team praises immigration fast

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Biden visits immigration fasters on day 11. KFOX El Paso

Biden visits immigration fasters on day 11

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Guantánamo: 19 prisoners still on hunger strike. MiamiHerald.com

Guantánamo says protest hits bottom with 19 prisoners still on hunger strike

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