- It is truly amazing how much of our national purpose
and our imbedded philosophy's of power are encapsulated in the everyday
symbols that have always represented so much of what the United States
has become. These symbols are not secret, but are instead in the forefront
of every official act that every congress takes. Here is a portrait of
the podium in Congress: The symbols on either side of the dais are Fasces.
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- "fascïs, 'bundle of rods', bound together
by red thongs and carried on their shoulders by lictors before important
Roman magistrates as a symbol of their power. The practice seems to have
been of Etruscan origin. Under the kings each bundle enclosed an axe,
symbolizing the king's right to scourge and execute, but from the early
republic onwards only dictators were allowed axes in Rome; other magistrates
retained the axe when outside Rome and at the head of an army. In the case
of a general who had won a victory and been saluted as Imperator by his
soldiers, his fasces were always crowned with laurel. From the Italian
equivalent fascio the Italian Fascist party took its name, with the fasces
as its symbol."
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- Above is a 1936 US Dime. And below is the Lincoln Memorial,
in Washington D.C. The armrests are also made from Fasces. . .
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- What follows below is an image that was used by The California
District Attorney's Association, as their logo; during the three years
that I free-lanced for several organizations including the office of the
State Attorney General of California and the National District Attorney's
Association in Washington. The image was used by The California District
Attorney's Association and the California Chamber of Commerce for a project
which they supposedly sponsored, but which they refused to compensate me
for. The project was called: The Forgotten Victims of Violent Crime, and
ultimately led to California's "Victims Bill of Rights" that
produced several unintended consequences. (1)
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- If you remember the firestorm that John Ashcroft created
when he spent $8,000 of the taxpayer's money to hide a partially nude sculpture
of Justice, that he personally found offensive; then you can easily understand
why this image of Justice was dropped as soon as I ceased to be a part
of the criminal justice effort in the State of California, via the office
of the Governor and the AG, that had both turned out to be less than trustworthy.
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- However, I wonder just how much different this country
could have been if our founding leadership had been as focused on the all
too human needs beneath the idea of justice, as they obviously were upon
binding the various people together into something like a bunch of rods
to conceal the Axe that has always ruled us all? This 'Justice' is rising
from a burning human heart, but nothing of this type has ever been used
to officially represent that department-at least not as far as I know-until
the CDAA decided to use this symbol.
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- For instance what kind of a country would we have created,
if our guiding symbols for this country had been something like this figure
of Justice, balanced by 'LAW' instead of those two cold dead bundles of
Fascist rods that adorn the Congress to this day?
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1 1) The Forgotten Victims
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/california/california.htm
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