History Is Trauma Silenced: The Violence And Brutality Of American Police Forces At Work, Police Infiltrating The Judiciary, Influencing Judges Poem by Dennis Ryan

Wednesday morning, May 8, 2024, Poem Hunter blocking publication of a 50-line poem at 8: 58 a.m.; Poem Hunter has been delaying publication of this poem under "New Poems" for three-plus (3+) hours now—the time now being 12: 12 p.m. and counting—in an attempt to limit the number of viewers reading it.

' ‘If this were the country,
The Nation, If these were the routes through it— ‘ '
—George Oppen, 'Philai Te Kou Philai' (Loved and Not Loved) ,
the American poet Charles Reznikoff speaking to George Oppen in a rowboat on a small lake at a bend in the New Jersey Parkway

We find ourselves—if we find ourselves—lost, adrift
in an irrevocable now, find ourselves spiritual drifters
in this America, El—you and I—a country that has clearly
lost its bearings, its routes since its founding, despite
what my high school friend Robert Paquette—American historian, founding President of the Alexander Hamilton
Institute—has to say to the contrary, yet complementarily,
based on his ongoing agenda: Bob is a flaming reactionary
who urges a return to federalism, the Federalists … which
we clearly have enough of already in a 'stacked', 'packed' Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed federal judiciary.
Almost the entire judiciary is corrupt, from top to bottom, beginning with our district courts, appeals courts right here
in Wake County, North Carolina, Raleigh district courts,
appeals courts, where police collude with local judges,
judgments, to get their way: for example, in The State
Of North Carolina (i.e. Dennis Ryan) Versus Daniel Cash
Hilliard Jr., Assault, Conveying Threats,2002-2003, Judge
Michael Morgan presiding, clearly influenced by police—
no delay given to include subpoened evidence in the case;
meanwhile, the assistant District Attorney assigned, Ms.
Lee Lipscomb refuses to meet with me to prepare the case—
I am victimized twice, by Hilliard, already convicted twice of
previous assaults, then by the state itself, my own attorney!
What is going on here? Then? Now? America in disarray
when the police, not the judiciary, call the shots—Raleigh
and Cary police shootings, killing innocent, unarmed citizens
on our local streets, daily, and getting away with it. That is
what's going on locally, right here—as it is in every American
village, town and city! What does American history tell us?
The answer—America has become a police state in long-
standing, from the late 1960's onward, backward to WWI,
then the Roaring Twenties. Check the facts—President
Woodrow Wilson mobilizing the military, the police in cities,
Chicago, New York and Los Angeles; police descending
in 1968 on the Democratic National Convention, Chicago,
man-handling CBS reporter Dan Rather—its all there on
film, take a look—then California Police jailing, torturing Hollywood actress Frances Farmer in the 1920's, leaving
her broken, traumatized because of outspoken Leftist
leanings—read her biography, other books about her. Subjected to constant police surveillance, terror and
harassment right up to the end of her life—Frances
died penniless, in Indianapolis in her very late fifties.
(Police killed her by one thousand cuts.) If, in fact,
this were the country, the routes …. Loved and not,
American children 'waking in the beds of the defeated
as day breaks on the million windows and grimed sills
of a ruined ethic. Bursting with ourselves', El, 'and myths
have been murderous, most murderous, stake and faggot. Where can it end? Loved and not loved …' The whole
of American history—white historians like my friend Robert Paquette, our textbooks lying to hide the military atrocities
and extreme police violence and terror, hiding, protecting
the shameless. (And the police, in truth, are shameless—
they walk away, shameless, from the people they murder,
to wake up the following day to do it again—check police
personnel files if you can get to them with a subpoena.)
Our textbooks hide, erase police violence, police murder
by staying silent about them. And my family are not the
only victims-survivors—Frances Farmer. Many others—
American Indian populations, African Americans, boys,
murdered by police in cold blood—the police caught on
camera, and still exonerated. What in hell, hellish America,
is going on here with these police devils, and the nearly
lily-white state legislatures, assemblies—right here in
North Carolina, Trump conservatives—that pass laws
that protect the police from investigation, prosecution?
American history? American history—it silences facts
as the police try to silence me, us. I, we, we will prevail—
I will no longer allow history to silence our collective trauma.