Barack the Ink

This weekend, Alex & Allyson live painted at the Rock the Ink Tattoo Convention in Rhode Island. Allyson executed a 24" x 24" painting of the Square Root. Alex portrayed the visionary Senator Barack Obama and illustrated the award winning Miss Tattoo.

Painting a quick portrait Miss Tattoo 2008 Alex painting Barack as Allyson chats with tattoo artist. (photo by James Kern) (photo by James Kern) With Murderball star Painter and tattoo artist James Kern, Alex Grey and Shawn Barber, extraordinary painter of tattoo artists pose as Allyson Grey keeps painting. Many great painters and tattoo artists came together and made Rock the Ink incredibly memorable assembly of creative forces.

On Thursday, Alex spoke at RISD, the Rhode Island School of Design, sequencing his lifes' works, from childhood paintings to highly refined visions CoSM's legacy.

Comments

[rhoda rossman]

I love the beautiful artwork depicting our new president. What a glorious image, thanks for creating it, Alex!

[Timotulips]

The Barrack piece, Very inspiring!!!

[James Redford]

The same violent ruling elite who installed the Bushes in the White House have now made Barak Obama U.S. President. It didn't matter if either Barack Obama or John McCain was installed in the White House: the permanent government of the so-called military-industrial complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about in his January 17, 1961 presidential farewell address would still be firmly in control. The U.S. presidency is little more than a figurehead position. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted in a private letter only published after his death:

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The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson--and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W.W. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States--only on a far bigger and broader basis.
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(From President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a letter to Col. Edward Mandell House, November 21, 1933; contained in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt [New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950], pg. 373.)

The history which Franklin Roosevelt invokes in his above comment is quite telling, and all the more relevant to the current economic ills which the world is experiencing. President Andrew Jackson was a staunch critic of central banking, and he led the movement that ended the Second Bank of the United States. So in writing the above, Roosevelt was criticizing the Federal Reserve System and the monied families (e.g., the Rockefellers) which put it in place, whom Roosevelt refers to as the actual owners of the U.S. government and whom Prof. Carroll Quigley would later write about.

Roosevelt in the above letter mentioned President Woodrow Wilson ("W.W."). Below is what Woodrow Wilson himself wrote concerning this same matter:

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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

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[A]nd we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world--no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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(From Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People [New York and Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913], available at gutenberg .)

Obviously if these monied families outright own no less than the U.S. government as President Franklin Roosevelt maintained (and he was in a position to know), then the major media must also be their servants, since the major media would presumably represent a far easier target for control (at least going by the popular assumptions regarding the danagers of monopolies which government is somehow supposed to protect us against, forgetting that government is itself the largest and by far the most dangerous monopoly). But that this is indeed the case has been revealed in many official U.S. government documents, which demonstrate that all news agencies and media outlets (e.g., in the fields of television or movies) of almost any significance around the world are firmly under the control of the U.S. government or its allied governments.

For much more regarding the voluminous amount of official U.S. government primary documentation which demonstrates the near-total control of the major media by the U.S. government, see the below November 30, 1999 trial testimony of Attorney William H. Schaap:

"William Schaap - Part 1/8 - The Media, CIA, FBI & Disinfo.," reprehensor, YouTube, March 8, 2008

The transcript of Attorney Schaap's testimony is available at The King Center:

"MLK Consipiracy Trial Transcript - Volume 9"

For even more details regarding this matter, see the below interview:

"William Schaap & Louis Wolff - Air date: 07-13-98," haroldchanner, YouTube, April 10, 2007

So quite simply put, the only reason Barack Obama won the U.S. presidency is because the ruling establishment--i.e., the military-industrial complex (using President Eisenhower's terminology)--wanted him to win. If Obama wasn't completely a subordinate of the ruling elite then most people would have never even heard of him in the first place because the major media would have barely covered him. But as it was, Barack Obama was heavily promoted by the military-industrial complex-owned major media. Indeed, without this promotion it would have been exceedingly unlikely that he would have ever become a U.S. senator.

Obama has already promised an escalation in the invasive war in Afghanistan with an increase of 7000 U.S. troop, and has threated to invade Pakistan, which, lest we forget in this Orwellian world, is officially a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA) of the U.S. and has been officially commended by the U.S. government in its so-called War on Terrorism. Obama has also declared his support for the U.S. client state of Georgia after it invaded the break-away region of South Ossetia and mass-murdered some 2000 noncombatant civilians.

Obama has additionally treatened to invade Iran, despite the fact that Iran hasn't done anything to the U.S. or any other country and is one of the most peaceful states in the history of the world: Iran has started exactly zero wars in the past century. Contrast this against the U.S. government, which installed the unpopular and violent dictator Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Iran with the C.I.A.'s Operation Ajax, and not long after the Shah was deposed in a popular revolution the U.S. government had its client state of Iraq invade Iran with the U.S. government providing support, resulting in the murder of some one million Iranians during the 1980-1988 war.

And Obama has been among those fearmongering and warmongering against Iran, such as with Obama making the hysterical statement on March 2, 2007 that Iran is "a threat to all of us."

Obama voted in favor of the 2006 reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act which is an illegal color-of-law evisceration of the U.S. Constitution: as the only way for it to be legal, given that it sets aside the Fourth Amendment, among other human rights, would be to pass it as a Constitutional Amendment, which of course hasn't been done. But then, no government in the history of the world has ever followed its own laws, except trivially so, such as perhaps with supreme rulers whose slightest whims were regarded as law.

After saying that he would fight against it, Obama voted for the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 which granted legal immunity to telecommunications companies that engaged in illegal warrantless wiretapping (including against U.S. citizens) on behalf of the U.S. government. As Glenn Greenwald, a Salon.com writer, stated regarding this matter as quoted in a July 2, 2008 New York Times article, "For him to suddenly turn around and endorse this proposal is really a betrayal of what so many of his supporters believed he believed in."

Unfortunately, the last thing in the world Obama is is a man of peace or freedom. He has thoroughly demonstrated in his words and actions that he is a faithful servant of the military-industrial complex. And it is precisely his faithfulness in this capacity that got him his most recent job.

Hence, it's sad to see you being cozened by the ruling elite, Alex Grey. The destroyers of the Earth are also the destroyers of men's minds, for the only actual power they possess is over the minds of men. Before they can destroy men's bodies in their endless series of wars, mass-murders, and genocides, they must first control men's minds.

It's also troubling to see you make use of a stylized version of what is, whether you are consciously aware of it or not, the Freemasonic All-Seeing Eye of Horus on your Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (COSM) website, replete with rays emanating from it, in the Freemasonic manner. This is a religious symbol which the ruling elite make extensive use of: such as on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States (as found on the back of the U.S. one dollar bill), the British intelligence agency MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5) logotype, the logo for the Information Awareness Office (IAO) under DARPA, the new Israeli Supreme Court building, and more besides. In the previously-mentioned symbolism, the All-Seeing Eye is depicted within a triangular-faced capstone hovering above the base of an Egyptian-style pyramid, although similar elitist usage is made of the symbol without the pyramidal base, and with the capstone represented by a flat triangle with one of its corners up (such as with the Estonian 50 krooni bill and the Freemasonic Grand Master amulet).

The Egyptian pyramid is the ultimate symbol for total government, since the Egyptian pyramids were made to worship government-rulers as gods on Earth by untold thousands of indoctrinated serfs laboring their entire lives in total servitude to the ruler and his government. As well, the Masonic pyramid with the illuminated, floating capstone has the All-Seeing Eye of Horus in said capstone, which represents the surveillance and desired omniscience by the government over every aspect of the common masses' lives (and which is sometimes made explicit, e.g., with the IAO/DARPA logo, and with the Eye of Rotterdam award given to informants, among other examples).

Taking on the ultimate symbol of slavery (of body, mind and soul) to, and inculcated worship of, state rulers is an utterly bizarre affair for any government which maintains the slightest pretense of the country it rules over being "free."

It is sometimes claimed that the All-Seeing Eye which a number of Western governments make such extensive use of represents a supposed "Eye of Providence," i.e., representing a supposed figurative eye of God. This claim is usually asserted to imply that what this symbol represents is the God of Christianity and of Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) Judaism. (Hence, no need for the common folk to get upset that their governments are using such bizarre religious symbolism.) But this cannot be the case, as this symbol is typically used along with the Egyptian-style pyramid, and its synonymity with the All-Seeing Eye of Horus is sometimes made even more explicit. Yet the ancient Jews were so repulsed by the Egyptian pyramids and what they represent that they didn't even deign to mention them once in the Hebrew Bible (i.e., the Old Testament). Indeed, neither are the pyramids mentioned in the New Testament.

The ruling elite's religiously occult design of the new Israeli Supreme Court building (such as the large pyramid with the All-Seeing Eye of Horus and the Egyptian-style obelisk) is an utterly contemptuous mockery of the common mass of Jews. After all, the Torah gives the account of the Exodus (Ytsiyat Mitsrayim) of the Jews out of Egypt, from whence they were slaves (and which forms the basis of the Jewish holiday of Passover).

There is much more to be said regarding the above matters, but due to space considerations I'll close shortly. Though on the analytical side, my below article is quite edifying as pertains to these matters vis-à-vis the teachings of Jesus Christ:

"Jesus Is an Anarchist," James Redford, revised and expanded edition, at praxeology, June 1, 2006 (first published on December 19, 2001)

On a somewhat related matter which fans of your artwork ought to be happy to learn, the truth in the imagery of your 2001 painting entitled One has been confirmed and explained by rigorous mainline physics: i.e., all that exists, has ever existed, or will ever exist is God. For the details on that, see my below post (published by me under a nom de plume):

"God Proven to Exist According to Mainline Physics," TetrahedronOmega, libertyandtruth forum at armleg, May 6, 2008

Take care, Mr. Grey.