Boxing great Muhammad Ali (ne Cassius Clay) died last week of septic shock. Sepsis, a condition in which body’s response to infections damages its own tissues and organs, affects more than 1 million Americans every year – and kills more than one-fourth of those — and is a growing but under-reported health problem.
Clay changed his name a few years after he converted from Baptist to join the racist Nation of Islam. He later said he wanted to drop his “slave” name, though one has to wonder, given his IQ, if he understood he was a slave to the establishment for most of his life regardless of his name.
With the ramp-up of the war in Vietnam and racial strife over the civil rights struggle, the establishment in the 1960s could not abide a black man of such prominence who “trash-talked” and “whipped” whites and was also a verbal opponent of the war. The establishment also could not abide a black man who might cause other blacks to think for themselves and realize they were being sent to Vietnam — along with poor and disaffected whites – to fight a war for the globalists and corporatists while the rich and elites were granted deferments.
In other words, the real struggle, then as now, was not white versus black but the elites of the establishment versus the rest of us.
Though ineligible to be drafted because of his low IQ — he measured in the bottom 16th percentile with an IQ of 78 — when he was of the age that most young men were being gathered to be used as cannon fodder in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Ali was called after the military lowered its standards in 1966. The standards were lowered to take all males above the 15th percentile. (In psychiatry, IQs of 71-84 indicate borderline intellectually functioning.)
So Ali, at age 25, was drafted even though he was classified as borderline intellectually functioning, claimed “conscientious objector” status and the average U.S. soldier in Vietnam was just 19. Who can doubt that the establishment sought to make an example of him?
When Ali repeatedly refused to step forward as his name was called during his induction, he was arrested and boxing commissions across the country revoked his boxing license and stripped him of his titles. While his case made its way through the courts he was denied an opportunity to pursue his profession until his conviction was finally overturned in 1971.
In 1975, the Frank Church Committee uncovered the NSA spying operation Project MINARET which teamed with the British intelligence agency GCHQ to monitor the electronic communications of 1,650 American citizens, including Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., Senators Howard Baker and Frank Church, journalists Tom Wicker and Art Buckwald, Jane Fonda and others. The resulting evidence uncovered by the Church Committee led to the creation of FISA courts which supposedly limited the NSA’s spying powers. The FISA courts were later abused by George W. Bush — on behalf of the fictitious “War on Terror” — who was abetted by Congress and the USA Patriot Act. FISA courts continue to be abused used for spying on Americans to this day, and efforts to stop it through the courts and a feckless Congress have gone nowhere beyond some window dressing.
Ali’s death reminded me of something I wrote in The Bob Livingston Letter™ (subscription required) in June 1997 about the way he was continuing to be used – whether willingly or unwilling, I cannot say – by the establishment long after his career was over in order to promote universalism and, ultimately more slavery:
The key question becomes, how do people come to accept universalism? One of the means is by secular, civic glory. That is, public sporting and political events take on a religious fervor, much as they did in the French and Russian communist revolutions. People no longer distinguish between different kinds of events between secular, political, athletic and religious function. Moreover, traditional and creedal Christianity is gradually forced out and substituted with the new, secular system. Two examples are the Olympics and national elections.
One such event was recently held in Pensacola, Florida, in what was billed as the “Nationwide Muhammad Ali Healing Campaign.” Just who or what it was to be “healed” is not clear, but apparently it was the presumed racial intolerance of the good people of Pensacola. Sponsors and attendees included a Jewish attorney named Fred Levin and Florida Governor Lawton Chiles.
Muhammad Ali spoke, and the crowd went into some kind of ecstatic religious experience, one moment crying and the next cheering, and then booing. Then came the preaching. The Muslim ex-boxer, Muhammad Ali, said that “if you are a good person, you will receive God’s blessings.” By contrast, Christians know that there is none righteous, no, not even one person, and that all people have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:10, 23).
The Muslim or Islamic message of universalism is the same one that Muhammad Ali presented at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Atlanta has not fared well, of course, since that time. Ali even popped up at the 1997 Academy Awards in March. Everywhere he goes, the reception given Ali is the same — one of wild appreciation and even abandon.
Why do all the people immediately break forth in cheers, in tears, and clapping and shouting? It seems as if the mere appearance of Ali sets them off. There he is, shaking violently from the throes of Parkinson’s disease and brain injuries caused by boxing. Is his pitiful condition enough to send audiences rocketing to their feet in thunderous applause? Just what is it exactly they are applauding?
I do not think audiences know why they stand up and cheer for Muhammad Ali. But I know why they do. Mass crowds influenced by universalism do not really think at all. All independent judgment and thinking is surrendered to mass belief and to the mass emotions of the moment. Young people in such crowds are easily converted into confused practitioners of universalism.
The great masses of people can no longer tell the difference between religion, politics, sports, patriotism, civic duty, and even sympathy. Today all these things are mixed-up together in universalism. The reason they stand up and cheer Muhammad Ali is because it feels good. The reason they do it is because everyone else does it. It’s the polite, democratic, pluralist thing to do.
People who adhere to universalism are no longer free. Instead of expressing themselves in terms of thought, or creed (“I think” and “I believe”) they say, “I feel” so-and-such. These folks no longer have independent opinions, only programmed feelings.
In the Ali appearances we have ample testimony to the deceiving and enslaving power of universalism. Universalism recruits the unthinking and the unwary through ecstatic spectacle. Universalism seems to be comfortable, tasty, exciting, intriguing, patriotic, sporty and charismatic, but it is not…
Universalism subverts man’s will to the state. The more indoctrinated with universalism and egalitarianism we become, the more we respond to authority. Authority defines for us our parameters of thought and our morality. We are persuaded to submit to a system that manipulates our allegiance and production to the state. Freedom is glorified but in reality we are reduced to slaves.
Ali will no doubt continue to be used by the establishment in death. For the sake of more funding for mainstream “research” into the causes of and cures for Parkinson’s disease and sepsis, Big Pharma will seek to capitalize on the outpouring of adulation — even the “pro-war” crowd who hated or would have hated Ali in the 1960s for his “draft dodging” are singing his praises — toward Ali and raise money to create more chemicals with which to assault the human body.
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