Daily Recap 11/4/12: Topeka Grows: President Obama Born In Topeka KS

Daily Recap 11/4/12: Topeka Grows: President Obama Born In Topeka KS:
The viciousness and downright gossip and slander is rampant in this election year. Even some commentators are wondering if after the election everyone can pull together and do what is best for the nation and the people.
If it weren't for so much money and wealth and power involved by those that have all this at stake; would it matter who won and who lost? In our system of governing, ti should not matter that much. If one is there to serve and listens to those who have wisdom and knowledge in areas where matters need to be attended to.
But things have evolved down a slippery path that has taken us f so far from what liberty and freedom is supposed to be about. One is to have an election, and everyone participates and chooses one person for each job, and the losers are to be a' good sport and help the best they can for all. If there are disagreements in philosophy or thinking then those should be made known and laws may or may not be adjusted to accommodate those with a difference of opinion in matters.
Instead we have allowed a coup d'etat to take place and my writings of my personal matters and that of our family documents just how this has occurred in a step by step fashion. Its complex and very masterfully put in place and it took many Congresses not paying attention to what they were passing in all those unread bills to accomplish it over the last 30 years. But the Genesis was in the works much longer.
 As one college professor said in his lecture at Kansas StateUniversity back in the Fall of 1967; whoever controls the knowledge of the govt controls the govt. He was referring to the actual files and data. We were just entering in the computer age to what is now being called the digital age. Bit by bit state and federal agencies begancontracting out these services and turning over all our files and data to these companies.
In the beginning there used to be govt officials on site with these contractors to make sure the constitutional rights of everyone was upheld and that the way things were done and carried out were lawful. Any illegal activity was found in audits and/or complaints filed and dealt with through criminal investigations. It was not a perfect situation, but at least it was done and no one would have ever gone through what I have for almost 25 years with no security on anything and a life and death struggle to even stay alive and certainly no onewould have been permitted to carry out an order to let her die and throw away judges orders over and over in a blatant disregard for any semblance of law or constitutional rights at all.
The News media would have taken a situation like mine, and did in those earlier years and exposed the wrong doers and the shame and exposure would have stopped the activity and made things right out of human decency.
We rarely ever hear of any worng by any level of govt or their contractors any more as the media and the govt contractors and too often the high level wrongdoers are all 'in the pocketof the sameentities. This did not happen instantaneously; its was a methodical step by step processs nd a growing indifference to right and wrong got worse and worse as the ' old timers' retired and left govt service only to be replaced, too often. by those high level corrupt officials who had gotten control of an agency and was involved in blatant thefts and wrong doings and bribery  and often hire those of their own ilk at least those that would be complacent and not be a whistle blowerAny honest civil servant or employee finds themselves caught in a situation of needing their job and benefits and standing up for the constitutional rights and against corruption. Too often, many like me, are made examples to show how bad their retaliation can be if they don't   ' go along with corruption and sometimes outright intentionally causing people to die before their time and lose their livelihood. Its become a' way of life' so much that one is just expected to lay done and die and accept it.That's not freedom our foundersf fought so hard for; its an invisible and insidious slavery.
PRESIDENT OBAMA BORN IN TOPEKA KS;
I first met Stanley Ann Dunham sometime in the Summer before 8The grade which we would be entering in the Fall of 1958. Our Junior Highschools were grades 7 through 9. And our 9The grade grades counted into our highschool credits.
When we first moved to Topeka KS in the Fall of 1950, I had started Kindergarten in McPehrson KS but transferred to Randolph grade school We lived at 1748 Randolph. The country was  a few blocks from home. It was 14 miles to the farm at Dover down Hwy 4 and all farmland between.
Topeka Ks has\never stopped growing.-it grew so fast. New schools were built and no one rode buses as there were so many families with children that just  a few blocks radious would fill a shcool of K-6Th with 600 students. I think the furtherest any had to walk or ride their bikes was about 8 blocks.  The boundary betwwen Randolph and the newest was at the corner of 18th and Randolph. I was 3 blocks form school and it would've been 6 blocks to go to the new school.
Randolph was built in the early 1920's and had a lot of old charactor and was well mantained. There were no cafeterias in schools in those years.
When Capper opened in the early 1950's, I recall they did have a cafeteria, but there were no free lunch programs for the poor. The area of Capper Junior HS was considered the most affleunt in the city, so  there sould have been few  that couldn't have afforded the meals. Topeka HS was 50 cents in early '60's.
Again, boundaries were only a short distance from our home to go to Capper Jr HS. I was in Boswell.
Much of this had to do with the WWII and new industries and all the growth going on in the area.
Capper JRHS did not exist. in 1950, but soon the city annexed rural land and houses were built and a rural school was turned into the new Jr HS.and named after a famous Kansan.  The building was a rural highschool, before.
It had a football field but no seats, so when we went to games we stood unless one brought a chair and then sat back as students would stand closet to ropes that lined the spectator sides.
The homes in our area had been built just before WWII for the most. In those years, one understood that a War stopped all growth for the person as all monies were speent on the hattred of war and the killing machines that go with it. No one seems to ever be a winner in war as one side destroys as much as possible of the other. After Pearls Harbor, no destruction but there was no money to maintain or build for the people. Some younger generations don't understand that even I as a toddler understood about rationing of food and machine parts  for a vacuum as no new ones were made. When we go to war, there is no money for US, as all goodds and serfvicfes are in the war effort. Even if one considered it 'justified.'  Economics understood.
Once the war ended ,  people had jobs building for ourseleves and that included schools which were being built as fast as the children came. Not unusual to have 35 to 40 in a classroom, yet the teachers seemed to be able to teach us all the basics and we were expected to do the work and learn. What's happened since?
Segreagtion still existed and few persons ofc'olor lived in our part of town, and if they did they went to their own schools which could be a long distance. The only ones I knew of were pastors'children where the churches had been in rural areas and parsonages remaned as city grew around.
Brown vs the Board of Education was more of a phsycial reality.Why couldn't one got to a school a few blocks away when the 'colored' school might be a couple of miles for some? Some distance to walk to.. My early upbringing and expereiences made it difficult for me to understand why people treated each other like this. To divide based on skin color? One didn't have to be best buddies with  different races, etc., but couldn't they at least do things in the pubic institutions toegther?
I got put in an awkward situation as words were said and I couldn't understand why they were said and aactions that occurred. I got labled as 'different.' Almost in a third class of persons. that too often got labeled a derogatory t erm of "n" lover. Social pressure could be severe against such whites. Untold story.
Often in the public school system, which was rated very highly; there was high expect ations for those from the south and west sides of the city, but not so much from the other. It was ingrained into the underlying invisible system that existed. Even though integration had occurred in the HS system in Topeka KS for years, there actually was a type of segration that had occurred and after Brown Vs Board, those in charge made real efforts to overcome but  often some hatreds were not addressed too well and continued 'under the surface.' It was also an era when girls were starting to want more opportunities but for Ann and I it would be in college when doors started to open. In Kansas that had not quite happened yet, but we were awakening!
Westboro Baptist Church was in the Capper Jr HS 'all white'area and the message was very pro white when Fred Phleps arrived in 1954 to pastor the  Southern Baptist Church from the Deep South, himself.
So Ann enters into what shold have been a comfortable and good learning experence, but was it? Today, I linked to this site part of a published bio of Fred Phelps. Its horrific and one has to be cognizant that this is an excerpt from a long series published by the Topeka Cpaital Jounal and only after much litigation  to stop psublication. Much of the years and times when Ann lived there are not included but there are references to some sealed court records. Did Ann try to report  and cause the split once she graduated from Capper JR HS and find herself with no where to go as she didn't know her Dad's real name was Pope and where to find relatives. There are unanswered questions for the time until my paresnts were found and asked to help  in 1961.
There are laws on the books now to help in such situations. Sometimes the govt contractors and other officials don' do their job and too often the innocent get caught in the snares of it and lives get ruined by a system that is supposed to help, but that has more to do with a sytem being put in place that does not follow the checks and balances in our constitution, yet no ones done much to correct the flaws in it.. There are times when society needs to help out, but they need to help in such as way to not fail the very ones that are being helped. The 14TH amendment to the constitution says the govt must intervene, but the 4Th amendment needs to be upheld and that is the extra mile that often is not done to see if the broken can be mended and if not another unbroken scenario be found. A whole generation and more has been let down. No wonder we have gone down a path that seems to be going in the wrong directions. It didin't start 4 years ago, it started over 40 years ago, even longer than that, when we allowed themselves to be seduced in the Garden of Eden to choose evil over  good. And as we forget our History , we  keep repeating the same mistakes over and over to the point of collapse of our humanity, nation and now the world as we are so interconnected. 11/4/12 Linda Joy Adams