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Name:
Thomas Jefferson Bradford
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Age:
54
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Mar 24, 2010
Latest Activity:
5 days ago
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About Me:
"I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment."Speech, Dec. 12 1964, New York City.
"There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.""Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
"I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."Malcolm X.
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Ho Chi Minh's Speech, Ba Dinh Square, September 2, 1945
"All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a right to live, to be happy and free.
The Declaration of the French Revolution made in 1791 on the Rights of Man and the citizen also states: "All men are born free and with equal rights, and must always remain free and have equal rights."
These are undeniable truths.
Nevertheless, for more than eighty years, the French imperialists, abusing the standard of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, have violated our Fatherland and oppressed our fellow citizens. They have acted contrary to the ideals of humanity and justice.
In the field of politics, they have deprived our people of every democratic liberty.
They have enforced inhuman laws; they have set up three distinct political regimes in the North, the Center, and the South of Viet-Nam in order to wreck our national unity and prevent our people from being united.
They have built more prisons than schools. They have mercilessly slain our patriots; they have drowned our uprisings in rivers of blood.
They have fettered public opinion; they have practiced obscurantism against our people.
To weaken our race they have forced us to use opium and alcohol.
In the field of economics, they have fleeced us to the backbone, impoverished our people and devastated our land.
They have robbed us of our rice fields, our mines, our forests, and our raw materials. They have monopolized the issuing of bank notes and the export trade.
They have invented numerous unjustifiable taxes and reduced our people, especially our peasantry, to a state of extreme poverty.
They have hampered the prospering of our national bourgeoisie; they have mercilessly exploited our workers.
In the autumn of 1940, when the Japanese fascists violated Indochina's territory to establish new bases in their fight against the Allies, the French imperialists went down on their bended knees and handed over our country to them.
Thus, from that date, our people were subjected to the double yoke of the French and the Japanese. Their sufferings and miseries increased. The result was that, from the end of last year to the beginning of this year, from Quang Tri Province to the North of Viet-Nam, more than two million of our fellow citizens died from starvation. On March 9 [1945], the French troops were disarmed by the Japanese. The French colonialists either fled or surrendered, showing that not only were they incapable of "protecting" us, but that, in the span of five years, they had twice sold our country to the Japanese.
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Crowing Cocks
ticking clocks
and creatures from the deep
roaches Rats and bed bugs
all keep me from my sleep
the late night blow
of the summer snow
has kept me from my dreams
the swinging jaw
and the gnashing teeth
is all that's left it seems
the paint wont stop nagging
at the shadows down the hall
while the spiders in their silky hammocks
are having a natural ball
if i could get just 20 winks
To make it
round the bend
id bet the bank
that i would never
ride the rails again
"Thomas Jefferson Bradford"
(Dimestore)
Influences:
Direct influences Dave Alexander(Blues Piano)Ron Thompson(Blues Guitar)William Clarke--Rod Piazza(Blues Harmonica)ZZ TOP...and many other indirect influences, too many to name.
Hometown:
Houston Texas/San Joaquin Valley California
Country:
United States
Interests:
Music,Cycling and the A.K.47
Movies:
The Bad Lieutenant, Pulp Fiction, Good fellas, Taxi Driver, Lawrence of Arabia, Reservoir Dogs, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Citizen Cain, The Deer Hunter, The Ten Commandments, Cool Hand Luke, The Getaway, Dead Presidents, Che, Heaven, Elmer Gantry, The darjeeling limited, Raging Bull, Godfather 1 and 2, Full Metal Jacket, Gran Torino, Dog Day Afternoon, Scapegoats of the Empire, Ben Hur, Bridge on the river Kwai, Bonnie and Clyde, Slumdog Millionaire, Dr. Stranglove, Casablanca, Gone with the wind, The Graduate, The grapes of wrath, The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon, The birth of a nation, One flew over the cuckoos nest, To kill a mocking bird, The bicycle thief, Hells Angels, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Pulp Fiction
Music:
Everything!
Books:
The life, the legend and the madness of Howard Hughes(Barlett-Steele), The Torah, The Bible, The Holy Qur'an, Bagvadhgita(Lord Krishna)Lun Yu(Confusious), Guru Granth Sahib(Guru Arjan ). The teachings of the Buddha, Incident at Oglala - The Leonard Peltier Story, Crime and punishment(Dostoevsky), The Odyssey (Homer), Human Rights and American Foreign Policy (Noam Chomsky), PALESTINE- PEACE NOT APARTHEID (Jimmy Carter), By Any Means Necessary(Malcolm X speeches and writings)THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of English and American Literature-Keats-Shelly-Byron-Jane Austen, ETC., Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi(Gandhi), Ho Chi Minh's Speech, Ba Dinh Square, September 2, 1945(Declaration of Independence), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes(Hughes), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Mark Twain),
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THanks a lot for your invitation.
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You are nice riding road lace bike. also motor cycle, and you like blues.
These are very similar to me.
Thanks
Toshio Okamoto