The Second Session of Patria's 52nd Congress (2·LII 2023-24) adjourned for the Northern Hemisphere Summer recess, following the traditional Annual Message delivered by the Speaker Pro Tem:
Om Sri Maha-rajñyai Namaha. With the Divine
Mother’s blessings, the Fifty Second Congress has reached the midpoint of its
term of office.
Patria respects tradition, and one of the
oldest traditions in this Congress is that the final act of the session be the
ratification of the budget for the year to come. Just moments ago, this House
ratified Patria’s fiscal 2025 budget in which, as in previous year’s budgets,
billions of rupees are committed to public transit improvements such as
purchasing new vehicles, repairing roads, bridges, railways and other
transportation infrastructure, strengthening the network of electric vehicle
charging stations and other incentives intended to reduce dependence on – or
should we say – addiction to fossil fuel. When it comes to public transit in
Castoropolis and Patria’s other major cities, this Congress is committed to
going beyond the traditional state
of good repair (what usually passes for such in Toronto) in which the current, often
inadequate, level of service is patched up and maintained as is. Rather, we will
move towards bringing about real improvements in cleanliness of vehicles and
stations, on-time performance and other positive changes that even the most
casual rider of buses, streetcars and subways cannot help but notice.
Twenty eight years after the first
Premyatra in December 1995 and on this day six months ago, this Representative
of Patria embarked on Premyatra II. From Cochin
to Kanyakumari, a most fantastic voyage, of which the main focus was
Amritapuri, the home of the former House Leader of the now-disbanded Amrita
Party. Among the highlights of Patria’s visit to South
India was a special address to a joint session of the Lok Sabha
and Congressus Patriaë on Jan. 10, 2024. After brief visits to Madurai,
Trivandrum, Kanyakumari and Cochin, the final day of the Premyatra
culminated in the inauguration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
At Amma’s ashram, Patria’s famed 108th Battalion raised the
Patrienish Tricolor over the backwaters of Kerala as the Battalion’s
Colonel-in-Chief Hanuman took the salute. The Amrita Party has dissolved, but
Amrita’s legacy continues, affirming the special relationship between the Inner
Realm and Bharat Mata.
On the front lines of the culture wars, let
it be known that Patria will not cave in the face of woke mobs, particularly
when it comes to so-called “trans rights”. Trans women are not real women, no
matter how much the drugs and surgery make it seem so. Trans women have rights
to public accommodations in hotels, trains and the like, even a right to “gender-free”
single-occupancy public restrooms, but in Patria they do not have the right to
be accepted as real women. Violence against trans women will never be tolerated
and the cowards who perpetrate such violence will be vigorously prosecuted. But
know this: in Patria trans women will never play competitive high school or
collegiate sports against real biological women. Nor will real women be
required to share locker rooms and other intimate or safe spaces with these
mutilated former men. In order to achieve these goals, this Session passed the
SAAB Act – Sex Assigned at Birth, not the Swedish car. The fight against the acceptance
of trans-folk may not be the hill everyone in Patria wants to die on, but it sends
the message to our friends in the macro- and micro-world alike: notwithstanding
the sizeable number of Social Democrats and other leftist or progressive
parties in this House, Patria is not woke and will never be woke! Let it become
the call letters of a new radio station: PINW, Patria Is Not Woke.
At the University
of Castoropolis, University
of Caesarea, University
of Lazuria and at other campuses
across Patria, “Free
Palestine” encampments have sprung up, in what is the largest student
movement since the creation of the SRM in the 1960s. Patria joins the macro-national
movement calling for an end not only to the current war but also to Israel’s almost 60 year old occupation of the
West Bank and Gaza.
For many years Patria has called for the establishment of a free and
independent country of Palestine.
Patria supports the hoary old “two-state solution”
that has long been rejected by Organized Jewry and the Israel right-or-wrong lobbies in the US. Hamas
is not our enemy. Israel
is not our ally. Nonetheless Patria says this war has to end now, as does the
occupation and Israel’s
decades-old subjugation of the Palestinian people. Israel has a right to exist, but
only within the borders that existed prior to 1967. Israel
has the right to defend itself against terrorist attacks but does not have the
right to go to war against every man, woman and child in Palestine and to kill civilian non-combatants
in violation of international law. Let Organized Jewry hate Patria. They can
call Patria’s legitimate condemnation of Israel “antisemitism”. They can
call Patria’s small Jewish community “self-hating
Jews” for not being Zionists and not supporting the Israeli war machine
right or wrong, but know this: Patria must be a safe place for Jewish anti-Zionist
and dissident voices such as Jewish
Voice for Peace and If Not Now.
Patria rejects Israel’s
assertion that the government based in West Jerusalem
since 1948 acts as the voice of and in defense of all Jews worldwide. If Mr.
Netanyahu intends to bomb Gaza
to the Stone Age, Patria’s Jews say “NOT IN OUR NAME!” If the IDF storm
troopers are committing genocide, ethnic cleansing and other war crimes in Gaza, Patria’s Jews say
“NOT IN OUR NAME!” If the Jewish lobbies in the US attempt to conflate the
spiritual practices of Judaism with the bloodthirsty nationalism of Zionism,
Patria’s Jews say “NOT IN OUR NAME!” More than forty years ago, Congress passed
a resolution recognizing an independent State of Palestine. From one
unrecognized by First World powers state to another, can I get a “FROM THE
RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!?”
As the midpoint of Patria’s Congress always
occurs amid the US
presidential election campaign, Patria says NO to both Sleepy Joe and Donald
2.0. While Mr. Biden might be fit to serve as a ceremonial head of state like
the President of India, his
cognitive decline has only grown since 2020 and is such that he is unfit for
the job of President of the United
States. Would you fly on an aircraft captained
by an 81 year old pilot? Would you undergo surgery by an 81 year old surgeon? Of
course you wouldn’t. Mr. Biden is simply TOO BLEEPING OLD! The less said about
Mr. Trump and his legal predicament as a convicted felon, the better. Both are
too old to handle the duties of the office and have serious age-related
cognitive deficiencies. These two failing old men are one of the main reasons
that Patria has enacted an age limit of 70 for all elected federal and precinct
public offices. America’s
Founding Fathers did not intend to establish a gerontocracy. For that matter,
neither did the Preceptors of Patria in 1818. Patria does not endorse any
candidate in November 2024, but Patria does believe that Americans should
consider voting for a third party candidate such as RFK Jr. or Jill Stein.
Under the power vested in me by the
Constitution of Patria, I declare closed the Second Session of the 52nd
Congress, and call this Congress to re-assemble here on Monday, 16 September
2024, in order to open the Third Session of the 52nd Congress.
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| Patria's Jews say "FREE PALESTINE!" |
