by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/13/2023
The reason for the clandestine activity of secretly drugging me was to create the impression that I was being kept "down"
In the future - in my metamorphosis year of 1989 - *scheduled* - the reason would become obvious
Obvious to *those* in late-1980s evaluating me for approval to operate in the USA clandestine organization.
Without such subterfuge, they never would have accepted me. And I never actually was capable. Only known to a few to *become* in the future capable
The day the tigers broke free.
by me, Kerry Burgess, 11/13/2023
Full-scale mainstream-media circus alert today nearby in Moscow, Idaho
"Petey" KREM2 is milking the hell out of those dead, rich white kids, tragic in their loss to that psycho
Nothing rakes in the loot for the mainstream-media than dead white kids, I'm sure
And I'm certain the parents have generous book-deals they're peddling, too, and the tv-stations have to get a piece of that action and pump it up
Ditzy First-Worlders confronted for the first time with mortality and they want you to think what happened to them is the single greatest tragedy ever in human history. And they got to get paid.
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The Simpsons
The Wandering Juvie
Quotes
Bart Simpson: I hate this place! The boys beat me up, the girls beat me up.
Marge Simpson: Honey, you shouldn't hang around with people who beat you. They're not true friends!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Czl6qGjOXIx/?img_index=2
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Linda Barrett: He's no high school boy.
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The Simpsons
The Wandering Juvie
Quotes
Judge Constance Harm: Bart, the record of your mischief is staggering.
[Holds up a manila folder]
Judge Constance Harm: Just look at this file!
Marge Simpson: That doesn't look so bad.
Judge Constance Harm: These are directions to the facility where Bart's criminal record occupies THREE full storage lockers!
Marge Simpson: ...Six feet by eight?
Judge Constance Harm: Six by FOURTEEN!
[audience gasps]
https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000705
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
CONRAD, Kent, a Senator from North Dakota; born in Bismarck, Burleigh County, N. Dak., March 12, 1948
From 3/12/1948 ( ) To 3/23/2006 ( by me, Kerry Burgess ) is 21195 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/13/2023 ( Monday ) is 21195 days
From 12/19/1986 ( premiere USA film "Platoon" ) To 11/13/2023 ( ) is 13478 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/27/2002 ( premiere USA TV series "Robbery Homicide Division") is 13478 days
IMDb
Platoon (1986)
Quotes
Capt. Harris: Be advised. We've got zips in the wire down here.
Phantom Pilot: Roger your last, Bravo Six. Can't run it any closer. We're hot to trot and packing snake and nape, but we're bingo on fuel.
Capt. Harris: For the record, it's my call. Dump everything you've got left on my pos. I say again, expend all remaining in my perimeter. It's a lovely fucking war. Bravo Six out.
From 3/8/2002 ( premiere USA film "The Time Machine" ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 1/18/1953 ( The Robertson Panel concludes that UFOs were not a direct threat to national security, but could pose an indirect threat by overwhelming standard military communications due to public interest in the subject ) To 6/8/1993 ( commencement, Princeton University Class of 1993 ) is 14751 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 14751 days
From 10/21/1958 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Rifleman"::"The Marshal" ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) is 8660 days
From 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 14026 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/28/2004 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"The Wandering Juvie" ) is 14026 days
From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 5068 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/18/1979 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo"::"The Day That Shark Ate Lobo" ) is 5068 days
From 8/1/1954 ( premiere USA film "Rear Window" ) To 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my US Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 14751 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 14751 days
From 8/29/1950 ( Dave Reichert ) To 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 14751 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 14751 days
From 9/4/1976 ( George W. Bush arrested again by police in the United States AND from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the unpublished true birthdate of Beyonce Knowles ) To 3/23/2006 ( ) is 10792 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/21/1995 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Who Shot Mr. Burns? - Part 1" ) is 10792 days
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:36 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Crime journal 3/23/06
Crime journal 3/23/06
I haven't committed any crimes today (unless you count not being able to send flowers to my pretty imaginary girlfriend). I won't be committing any crimes tomorrow as is normal (except probably for the flower stuff).
https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000578
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
REICHERT, David G., a Representative from Washington; born in Detroit Lakes, Becker County, Minn., August 29, 1950; graduated, Kent Meridian High School, Kent, Wash., 1968; A.A., Concordia Lutheran College, Portland, Oreg., 1970; United States Air Force Reserve, 1971-1976; United States Air Force, 1976; police officer, King County, Wash., 1972-1997; sheriff, King County, Wash., 1997- 2004; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Ninth and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2005-January 3, 2019); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress in 2018.
"Bart After Dark" The Simpsons tv-series
Original Airdate in U.S.: 24-Nov-96
(from internet transcript)
Principal Skinner enters. He obviously doesn't see the new doorman.
Skinner: Oh, I hope I didn't miss the floor show.
Bart: Nope.
Skinner: Is Roxanne back?
Bart: Yep.
Skinner: Did she, uh, get my flowers?
Bart: She did.
Skinner: Hello, Bart.
Bart: Hello, Principal Skinner.
Skinner: This is the National Air and Space Museum, isn't it?
The doorbell rings. Homer answers it and sees the "God Squad" of the Lovejoys and the Flanderseses.
Homer: Uh, this isn't going to be about Jesus, is it?
Lovejoy: All things are about Jesus, Homer, except this.
Lovejoy: Your son has been working in a burlesque house.
Helen: Principal Skinner saw him with his own eyes.
Skinner: [appearing from being Rev. Lovejoy] That's true, but I was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there.
U.S. Marshals (1998)
(from internet transcript)
Sheriff POE: Seems we have ourselves a bona fide federal fugitive out on the lam. Name of Roberts, Mark J.
Uh, somebody give me a map.
Who's got a map around here?
COP: I got one.
POE: Oh, all right. Thanks, Earl.
Okay.
Okay. Now, uh...
I want you setting up roadblocks, general radius of, uh...
ahem, uh, 10, 12 miles.
Twenty.
What?
He's got a real big head start.
Oh, okay, 20 then.
That sounds good. And...
Sheriff Poe: In all directions, just like a big-
United States Marshal Samuel Gerard: Perimeter.
Sheriff Poe: Uh, circle deal.
U.S. Marshals (1998)
(from internet transcript)
Chief Deputy US Marshal Gerard: Cosmo, get the local sheriff lined out and ready to go. He's feeling weak.
From 8/29/1950 ( David George Reichert ) To 9/20/1981 ( premiere USA TV series pilot "Code Red" ) is 11345 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/24/1996 ( ) is 11345 days
"Bart After Dark" The Simpsons tv-series
Original Airdate in U.S.: 24-Nov-96
(from internet transcript)
Later, at a town meeting...
Quimby: ...and after visiting the area for, uh, the past two months, I have determined it is not feasible to construct a supertrain between Springfield and Aruba. [removes his sunglasses] [audience groans] [with a tan] Next on the agenda is, uh, the Citizens' Committee on Moral Hygiene.
[audience groans]
Marge: I'm here to share my moral outrage. But this time it's not about that giant inflatable "Dos Equis" bottle. It's about a certain house in our town.
Moe: Yeah, well what's wrong with this house? Is it the plumbing?
Marge: No. It's a house of ill fame. A house of loose ethics.
Brockman: Is there a building code violation? A drainage issue? A surveying error?
Marge: [annoyed] The house is perfectly fine!
Wiggum: Well, then quite bad-mouthing the house!
Otto: Yeah, leave the house alone!
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess: Subject: Sleep journal 4/1/06
I wish I had written down these dreams shortly after I awoke. I don't remember as much detail now. But I think that illustrates how I am sensing the difference between these foreign or manipulated dreams and what would be normal dreams. I think the foreign dreams stay with me longer. I remember more of their detail. I can visualize the details in those dreams longer than I can the dreams I think of as normal. I still don't know if they are reading information to me or if they are simply reciting words that I construct into something that makes sense to me. When I had a recent dream with my so-called imaginary girlfriend the other day, I can still almost hear her voice. I don't know if that means she was literally talking while I was asleep, or that I just have heard her talking enough to be able to assign her voice to any suggestion that the dream manipulator attributes to her.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-6298-national-desert-storm-reservists-day-1991
The American Presidency Project
GEORGE BUSH
41st President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Proclamation 6298 - National Desert Storm Reservists Day, 1991
May 21, 1991
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On this occasion we gratefully salute the members of the National Guard and Reserve forces of the United States -- dedicated and highly trained men and women who played a major role in the success of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Whether they served directly in the Persian Gulf or on military bases in the United States and elsewhere around the world, as members of our Nation's Total Force, these National Guardsmen and reservists made a vital contribution toward the liberation of Kuwait.
During the course of the war in the Persian Gulf, more than 228,000 members of the Ready Reserve were ordered to active duty. Thousands more volunteered in advance of being called to support the coalition effort. Members of the Army National Guard, the Army Reserve, the Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, the Air National Guard, the Air Force Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve -- these men and women were trained and ready to do their jobs. As they have done for all conflicts since colonial times, guardsmen and reservists responded quickly to the call. They promptly assumed a variety of combat missions such as armor, artillery, tactical fighter, tactical reconnaissance, and minesweeping. Their support missions included transportation, medical, airlift, service/supply, civil affairs, intelligence, military police, and communications.
When called to active duty, members of the Ready Reserve were suddenly required to leave behind their families and their careers. As we thank our Desert Storm reservists for the many sacrifices that they have made in behalf of our country, it is fitting that we also honor their loved ones. They too have shown the extraordinary degree of patriotism and courage that we have come to expect of the Nation's military families. National Guard and Reserve units worked in close cooperation with the Active Services to develop a broad-based family support network to assist these new military dependents.
The Nation's employers, educators, and other institutions throughout the private sector have provided strong support and assistance to their reservist employees and students who were called to duty on short notice. The National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a 4,000-member network of business and civic leader volunteers, has put forth special efforts to help guardsmen and reservists, as well as their employers, to understand their job rights and responsibilities.
In recognition of their vital role in the liberation of Kuwait, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 134, has designated May 22, 1991, as "National Desert Storm Reservists Day" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day.
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 22, 1991, as National Desert Storm Reservists Day. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities in honor of the courageous men and women of the United States Ready Reserve.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth.
Signature of George Bush
GEORGE BUSH
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-press-secretary-bill-signings-0
The American Presidency Project
GEORGE W. BUSH
43rd President of the United States: 2001 ? 2009
Statement by the Press Secretary on Bill Signings
December 20, 2006
On Wednesday, December 20, 2006 the President signed into law:
S. 1998, the "Stolen Valor Act of 2005," which expands criminal penalties for fraud relating to military decorations and medals;
From 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 595 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/20/1967 ( Muhammad Ali convicted of draft evasion ) is 595 days
From 5/21/1991 ( George Bush, 41st President of USA: Proclamation 6298 - National Desert Storm Reservists Day, 1991 ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 5692 days
5692 = 2846 + 2846
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) is 2846 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my US Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 5816 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/5/1981 ( Ronald Reagan, 41st President of USA: Remarks Following a Meeting With Former National Security Officials on the Sale of AWACS Planes and Other Air Defense Equipment to Saudi Arabia ) is 5816 days
From 1/19/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Dead Man's Shoes" ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 16406 days
16406 = 8203 + 8203
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/18/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Petty Officer Second Class Fire Controlman (FC2), from my official enlisted US Navy records: during USA Armed Forces Expeditionary Operation Earnest Will with my personal participation and commendation - CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - aboard the USS Wainwright CG-28 US Navy the United States Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8203 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 4192 days
4192 = 2096 + 2096
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/30/1971 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the US Navy Commander circa 1971 was United States Apollo 15 Falcon spacecraft US Navy astronaut landing and walking and driving on the planet Earth's moon - his 4th of his 6 lunar-landings Project Apollo ) is 2096 days
From 12/5/2002 ( premiere USA film "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
From 10/2/1955 ( premiere USA TV series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" ) To 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 15023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 15023 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 4/19/2000 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: At Hayden Planetarium, Tyson Opens A Window To The Universe ) is 15023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 15023 days
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 4/19/2000 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: To $ 1,000,000,000 And Beyond . . . After Five Years, Administration's Fund-Raising Efforts Pay Off ) is 15023 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/2006 ( ) is 15023 days
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 8:17 PM Tuesday, November 06, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2005
The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 (the Act), signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2006,[1] is a U.S. law that broadens the provisions of previous U.S. law addressing the unauthorized wearing, manufacture or selling of military decorations and medals. It is a federal offense which carries a punishment of prison time and/or a fine; the scope previously covered only the Medal of Honor.
The Act was first introduced into the United States Congress's House of Representatives on July 19, 2005 by Representative John Salazar, a Democrat from Colorado, as H.R. 3352.[2][3] It was introduced into the Senate by Senator Kent Conrad, a Democrat from North Dakota, on November 10, 2005 as S. 1998.[4][5] The Senate version was passed unanimously on September 7, 2006.[5][6] The Senate version then went to the same House Judiciary Committee that held the House version. The Act briefly stalled, but the House subsequently passed the Senate version, S. 1998, on December 6, 2006.[7]
The purpose of the Act is to strengthen the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 704 by broadening its scope and strengthening penalties. Specific new provisions in the Act include: granting more authority to Federal law enforcement officers, extending scope beyond the Medal of Honor, broadening the law to cover false claims whereas previously an overt act had to be committed, covering mailing and shipping of medals, and protecting the reputation and meaning of military heroism medals.[3][5]
The need for the Act came about because of large numbers of fake military heroes in the United States. For example, as of June 2, 2006 there were only 120 living Medal of Honor recipients, but there were far more known imposters.[8][9][10] There are also large numbers of fake Navy SEALS[11][12] and Army Special Forces,[13] among others.
The Orders and Medals Society of America (OMSA), an organization of collectors, had opposed the bill in its current form. OMSA is of the opinion that the changes to 18 U.S.C. § 704 included wording that implied that any movement or exchange of medals would be illegal
http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index/_/id/6680431
ESPN
This Day in History: Muhammad Ali loses title
Mon, Jun 20 11:01 AM ET
by Page 2
June 20, 1967: Muhammad Ali convicted of draft evasion, stripped of heavyweight title.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/15/shoot-them-for-what-how-muhammad-ali-won-his-greatest-fight/?utm_term=.500eed7f288d
The Washington Post
Retropolis
‘Shoot them for what?’ How Muhammad Ali won his greatest fight
By DeNeen L. Brown
June 16
A little before 8 a.m. on April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali arrived at the Armed Forces Induction Center in Houston.
The Vietnam War was raging, American soldiers were dying by the hundreds, protesters were burning draft cards and conscientious objectors were fleeing to Canada.
Ali had no intention of fleeing to Canada, but he also had no intention of serving in the Army.
“My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America,” he had explained two years earlier. “And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. … Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.”
[The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon]
Instead the heavyweight champion emerged from a cab in a metallic blue silk suit. Reporters surrounded him. Ali was a magnificent, walking quote machine, often speaking in rhyme and famously antagonizing his opponents with eerily precise predictions of the round in which he would eventually defeat them.
“This is the legend of Cassius Clay, the most beautiful fighter in the world today,” Ali had announced before his title match in 1964. “The brash young boxer is something to see, and the heavyweight championship is his destiny.”
Now renowned sportscaster Howard Cosell thrust a microphone before Ali, demanding to know what he would do. Cosell prodded the boxer, “Your action will be registered in two hours.”
As cameras flashed, Ali smiled and said, “No comment.”
Inside the induction center in Houston, Ali, a Muslim convert, refused to step forward when the name he’d been given at birth — Cassius Clay — was called.
The fight of Ali’s life was underway, one that he would win and would render President Trump’s offer of a pardon last week as merely symbolic.
[Why Trump would pardon Muhammad Ali, even though he hates NFL political protests]
A senior officer pulled Ali out of line, took him to an office at the center and asked whether he understood “the gravity of the act,” according to Ali’s autobiography, “The Greatest: My Own Story.”
Ali replied, of course he understood. The officer ushered Ali out and once again a lieutenant called his name: “Mr. Cassius Clay, you will please step forward and be inducted into the United States Army.”
Ali refused to budge. Minutes later, Ali appeared outside the induction center and handed out a statement:
“It is in the light of my consciousness as a Muslim minister and my own personal convictions that I take my stand in rejecting the call to be inducted. … I find I cannot be true to my beliefs in my religion by accepting such a call. I am dependent upon Allah as the final judge of those actions brought about by my own conscience.”
Later that day, Ali was stripped of his boxing license.
“When I fly out of Houston,” Ali wrote in his autobiography, “I’m flying into an exile that will eat up what boxing experts regard as ‘the best years of a fighter’s life.’ ”
On June 20, 1967, Ali was convicted by a Houston jury of a felony charge of violating the Universal Military Training and Service Act. According to a New York Times report, federal District Judge Joe E. Ingraham sentenced Clay to five years in prison and fined him $10,000.
The judge announced the sentence immediately, granting Ali’s request not to wait.
“I’d appreciate it,” the 25-year-old boxer said, according to the Times, “if the court will do it now, give me my sentence now, instead of waiting and stalling for time.”
Banned from boxing, he and his attorneys would spend the next four years appealing that verdict. As the Vietnam War became increasingly unpopular, Ali made speeches on university campuses, becoming an antiwar and civil rights hero.
“It has been said that I have two alternatives,” Ali told a crowd of college antiwar protesters. “Either go to jail or go to the army. But I would like to say that there is another alternative. And that alternative, that alternative is justice. And if justice prevails, I will neither go to the army, nor will I go to jail.”
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. praised Ali’s decision to become a conscientious objector.
“I’ve talked with him about it,” King said in a televised interview. “I think he is absolutely sincere. … It is legally justified to be a conscientious objector … I would strongly endorse his actions on the basis of conscience … I would not dare stand in the way of one who has taken a position because of moral conscience.”
Ali’s boxing license was restored in 1970. “After two tuneup fights, the 29-year-old boxer sought to regain his heavyweight title from the new champion, Joe Frazier, in a highly touted fight at New York’s Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971,” according to a Washington Post report.
“Each boxer was guaranteed at least $2.5 million, the highest payday for any athlete up to that time. Frazier knocked Ali down in the 15th and final round and won the fight by unanimous decision. Afterward, both fighters were treated at hospitals.”
In 1971, in what some considered a surprise decision, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned Ali’s conviction.
What happened inside the court on that decision was almost as dramatic as watching Ali box.
According to the book “The Brethren,” by Post reporter Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, the justices met in a secret conference on Friday, April 23, 1971 — with Justice Thurgood Marshall taking himself out of the case because he had been solicitor general when the case began. The justices decided in a 5-to-3 vote that Ali was not a conscientious objector and made the decision to send him to prison.
Chief Justice Warren Burger had assigned Justice John Harlan to write the majority opinion, according to the book. Harlan’s clerk began drafting the opinion and “was persuaded by another clerk who had read Alex Haley’s ‘Autobiography of Malcolm X’ to reconsider the question of Ali’s opposition to war.”
Harlan’s clerk became convinced that Ali really was opposed to all wars and was indeed a true conscientious objector. The clerk convinced Justice Harlan to reconsider the case.
That night, a reluctant Harlan took home papers and reexamined the case. The next morning, Harlan announced he was convinced the government had painted “Ali as a racist, misinterpreting the doctrine of the Black Muslims despite the Justice Department’s own hearing examiner’s finding that Ali was sincerely opposed to all wars,” according to “The Brethren.”
Harlan found that the Justice Department had committed an error and wrote a memo suggesting the court reverse the conviction. “When his memo suggesting reversal of the conviction was circulated, it exploded in the Court,” according to “The Brethren.” The stakes were high: If the other justices refused, Ali would be heading for prison for draft evasion.
Justice Potter Stewart suggested that the Court simply set Ali free, citing a technical error by the Justice Department. Eventually, all justices, including Chief Justice Burger, agreed to overturn the conviction. The unanimous decision was announced on June 28, 1971.
When Ali heard the news, he was in Chicago, according to news reports.
“I thank Allah. And I thank the Supreme Court for recognizing the sincerity of the religious teachings that I’ve accepted,” said Ali, who died June 3, 2016.
Ali, according to the book, “did not know how close he had come to going to jail.”
In January 1974, Ali defeated Frazier. Then challenged George Foreman, the reigning heavy weight champion, in a match that would come to be called the “Rumble in the Jungle” because it was held in Zaire, now the Congo.
In the eighth round, Ali landed a right hand to Foreman’s chin, and sending Foreman to the canvas.
“Mr. Ali’s knockout victory was considered almost miraculous and took on symbolic importance because it took place on African soil,” according to The Post. “It had been more than 10 years since Mr. Ali first won the title, and seven years since he relinquished it. When he reclaimed the heavyweight championship in such dramatic fashion, many observers considered it one of the most remarkable displays of endurance and boxing skill in history.”
album: "The Final Cut" (1983)
Pink Floyd
"When The Tigers Broke Free"
It was just before dawn
One miserable morning in black 'forty four
When the forward commander
Was told to sit tight
When he asked that his men be withdrawn
And the Generals gave thanks
As the other ranks held back
The enemy tanks for a while
And the Anzio bridgehead
Was held for the price
Of a few hundred ordinary lives
And kind old King George
Sent Mother a note
When he heard that Father was gone
It was, I recall
In the form of a scroll
With gold leaf and all
And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed
With his own rubber stamp
It was dark all around
There was frost in the ground
When the Tigers broke free
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess {me}
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess {me}
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too. I have these thoughts too that I was captured by enemy forces at some point and tortured while in captivity.
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journal: 9/26/2006 3:06 PM
As I was trying to go to sleep last night, I had a thought that I have a doctorate in computer science from Princeton.
and I had thoughts that I studied music as well at Princeton.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: 9/28/2006 7:13 PM
This sounds very interesting. In my memory of taking Physics my Senior year at Ashdown, I remember being very interested in the class, but we didn’t cover such an interesting topic.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/present/
Ayan Chatterjee (left) and Mark Daly measure piano strings as part of a lab project for professor Pierre Piroué's freshman seminar on "Sound, Music and ... Physics."
9/28/2006 7:37 PM
I think I even have memories of the graduate degree process. I am not sure of the terms to describe the process.
9/28/2006 7:47 PM
I actually do remember... something... I can’t explain it. It feels that I am holding an unmarked, undistinguishable book that I don’t know the name of or the contents but I know I have read it already.
9/28/2006 8:34 PM
A few minutes ago I started thinking that maybe I started at Princeton University in 1972. I would have been 13 at the time as Thomas Ray. I remember that Kerry Burgess started first grade in 1972. But then I decided that I probably started Princeton earlier than 1972 and maybe 1972 was the year I completed my first major degree. Or 1972 doesn’t really mean anything in particular to Thomas Ray; rather it is there for continuity sake for the life of Kerry Burgess.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 3:06 AM Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Salesman
Also, "Salesman." I saw that in a dream while sleeping recently. I saw myself going through an induction process in the United States Marine Corps and I woke up understanding that I was dreaming of my actual experience in 1990. I saw a document that indicated I was being inducted to the United States Marine Corps with the officer grade of Chief Warrant Officer 2. I saw in the dream another document associated with my induction and that document indicated I had been assigned the informal name "Salesman."
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
by me, Kerry Burgess, excerpts from my private journals: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 6:24 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 27, 2006
Went to Camp Couchdale in the summer of '81, after graduating 9th grade.
Met a girl named Phoebe, took her out on the lake in a boat and paddled around. We wrote letters for a long time afterwards.
"Metamorphosis" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967
NANCY Hedford, Federation Commissioner: How perceptive of you to notice I needed one.
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 8/13/1982 ( ) is 5390 days
5390 = 2695 + 2695
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/20/1973 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Police Story" ) is 2695 days
From 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe, 27 days before beginning his strike to divert Comet "Lucifer", threatening extinction by death and destruction to all life on this planet Earth ) To 8/13/1982 ( ) is 2258 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/8/1972 ( premiere US TV movie "The Astronaut" ) is 2258 days
From 1/3/1913 ( Thomas Edison gave the first demonstration of his new invention the kinetophone ) To 7/25/1946 ( the United States Operation Crossroads - Bikini Atoll - 2nd of 2 atomic bomb detonations and underwater detonation code-name Baker ) is 12256 days
12256 = 6128 + 6128
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/13/1982 ( ) is 6128 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/releaseinfo
IMDb
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Release Info
USA 13 August 1982
Full Cast & Crew
Phoebe Cates ... Linda Barrett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8UFBV1f70I
YouTube
The Astronaut (Sci-Fi, Drama) ABC Movie of the Week - 1972
The Made-For-Television Movie
Original Airdate: January 8, 1972
https://prod-www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/456884/the-astronaut#notes
TCM
THE ASTRONAUT
Aired in United States January 8, 1972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronaut_(1972_film)
The Astronaut (1972 film)
From Wikipedia
Original release January 8, 1972
Television coverage of Brice Randolph, the first astronaut on the surface of Mars, is interrupted, indicating the signal has been lost. Shortly afterward, Eddie Reese is recruited, and shown what happened after the TV signal was interrupted
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068229/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Astronaut (1972 TV Movie)
Release Info USA 8 January 1972 ABC Movie of the week
Gail Randolph: [ slaps him ] Stop it! Stop looking at me with his face!
by me, Kerry Burgess: Journal May 27, 2006
They lined up all the girls at the start of the dance and told me to pick who I wanted to dance with. I still remember thinking about how she just seemed the right choice.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Linda Barrett: He's no high school boy.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
[Montana woods]
(Cochrane, running away pursued by Riker and Geordi, is confronted by four guards)
GUARD #1: Doctor!
GUARD #2: Sir.
LAFORGE: Still looking for the bathroom?
Dr. Zefram COCHRANE: I'm not going back.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070551/
IMDb
Police Story
S1.E0
Episode aired Mar 20, 1973
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv-series Season 2 Episode 9, 11/10/1967
Episode Summary
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
Star Trek - "Metamorphosis" - tv series Season 2 Episode 9 - 11/10/1967
(from internet transcript)
[Outside Cochrane's home]
KIRK: How do you do it?
COCHRANE: I just sort of clear my mind and it comes.
(He walks to the edge of the garden then stands with his eyes closed. The Companion appears, then moves to envelope him.)
KIRK: Bones, what do you make of that?
MCCOY: Almost a symbiosis of some kind, a sort of joining.
KIRK: Exactly what I think. Not exactly like a pet owner speaking to a beloved animal, would you say?
MCCOY: No, it's more than that.
KIRK: Agreed. More like love.
(The Companion vanishes, so Kirk and McCoy go over to Cochrane.)
MCCOY: Are you all right?
COCHRANE: Yes. It kind of drains me a little, but I'm all right.
IMDb
Platoon (1986)
Quotes
Chris Taylor: [narrating] Maybe I finally found it, way down here in the mud. Maybe from down here I can start up again. Be something I can be proud of without having to fake it, be a fake human being.
From 3/27/1953 ( premiere USA film "The Girl Who Had Everything" ) To 11/13/2023 ( Monday ) is 25798 days
25798 = 12899 + 12899
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/25/2001 ( premiere USA TV episode "The Simpsons"::"New Kids on the Blecch" ) is 12899 days
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2023/11/today-is-11112023.html
excerpts, by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me, November 11, 2023
album: "Fashion Nugget" (1996)
Cake
"The Distance"
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns.
"New Kids on the Blecch" [ The Simpsons ]
25-Feb-2001
One of Smash's superior officers jolts him back to reality.
Admiral: Lt. Smash!
Admiral: That hippie fantasy again?
Smash: They're getting less frequent, sir.
Admiral: Excellent.
Berserker
From Wikipedia
In the Old Norse written corpus, berserkers were those who were said to have fought in a trance-like fury, a characteristic which later gave rise to the modern English word berserk (meaning "furiously violent or out of control").
To "go berserk" was to "hamask", which translates as "change form", in this case, as with the sense "enter a state of wild fury".
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:35 PM Pacific-time USA Monday 11/13/2023
