Replacement
of the Good Housekeeping Seal
The first
edition of the Good Housekeeping
magazine was published in 1885. The
owner, Clark W. Bryan, said the purpose of his magazine was “a family journal
conducted in the higher life of the household.”
He further stated that the magazine had a “mission to fulfill compounded
of about equal portions of public duty and private enterprise.” This was the honor code of Mr. Bryan and his
magazine.
The year my father was born, 1909,
a new idea in the honor code of merchandising was born by Good Housekeeping. The national
magazine stated that they would guarantee every product advertised in their
magazine for two years – refund or replacement.
This was the new honor code of this privately owned magazine: “An Inflexible Contract Between the Publisher
and Each Subscriber.” A totally
non-biased approach of equality when dealing with the people.
Good Housekeeping has kept their
promise for over a hundred years, even to today. What a wonderful concept for our various
governments in all the states to operate under, including the federal
government: The Quality
of the ‘Goods’ is: An Inflexible Contract Between the Government and Every
Citizen. Have we not read something
similar to this before? Perhaps the U.
S. Constitution and the New Mexico Constitution.
Would this not be close to the
perfect rule for elected, or appointed officials, and business and political
party hirelings like lobbyists, to follow?
Deviations from the rules by those serving the public or those gaining
from public funds would result in dismissal, or jail. Both should be considered.
There is no way to measure the
numbers of Americans and visitors who have seen the Good Housekeeping seal over
the more than one hundred years. No
guess would justify the numbers of Americans who have purchased products
because of the assurances of the Good Housekeeping seal. What a wonderful relationship with the people.
But here in New Mexico, The Land of
Sententious Ochlocracy, moralizing by mob rule, the inclusive generations-assuring
Good Housekeeping seal has been
replaced. Not by an honor code of any
business operating in the confines of the state’s borders, but by the well-fed
beliefs of superiority and righteousness of the Christian evangelicals who have
wormed their way into government offices and dominate the leadership of the
state legislature, political parties, and court rooms by one particular
religious group.
One of the last territories in the
contiguous United States to become a state in 1912, New Mexico did not have a
state flag until 1925. Obviously a hegemonic
bricolage, Christian-privilege magic, a suddenly held, very short design contest
and instantly governor-approved, produced a new version of the stolen Zia
Pueblo sacred religious sun symbol. This
new symbol representing the Trinity of Catholicism was sanctified by the state
government a few days before Good Friday for the 1925 Easter unveiling in Santa
Fe.
The colors pay homage to the
Catholic queen of Spain and her husband-king who blessed the death-dealing Catholic
Inquisition and bloody invasions of the Americas. The adoption of the appropriated, and
evangelical-transformed, sacred Zia Pueblo religious symbol, is a constant
reminder of the subjugation of New Mexico by the sword and supposed superiority
of the Catholic beliefs over those of The People.
A bright, yet noticeable contrast
to the mundane, this Catholic version of the Zia Pueblo sacred religious sun
symbol has flown over New Mexico for eighty-eight years. As a distraction for its real intent,
apologists abound claim it represents the abundant sunshine the state is touted
for.
Not satisfied with this accepted symbol
for the Trinity’s influence over the state, the new evangelical dominionists, in an insidious campaign to reclaim
the New Mexico they dreamily claim has been lost to those masses of humanity
who reject the primitive church’s teachings, comes a new sign of total domination. Their efforts are paying off with their new,
little known flag creeping unnoticed into every facet of the lives of the
people in New Mexico. The arrogance and
superiority displayed by these new
evangelists is something that can only be held in disdain.
Thus, this well-planned and
clandestine operation headquartered in Santa Fe is spreading its smothering
shadow across the state as if it were a sweet thing like potato candy creeping
around a plate when too much powdered sugar is added. Choking the life out of our Freedom From
Religion.
This is the most common example
ignored by casual observers unaware of the Church-sponsored creep into our society. Note spacing by arrows.
To continue the attributes to the
Christian divine by hegemonic government agencies one does not have to look
very far:
This
is the State of New Mexico Human Services Department logo.
Note the Zia symbol-like modification to glorify the Catholic Trinity.
Note the Zia symbol-like modification to glorify the Catholic Trinity.
Next is a clever blessing-design for
a program of this same Human Services Department. Note the four representative human figures in
the circle holding hands. Also note the
heads of each figure are centered on the divine-representative portion of the Trinitarian Zia
symbol-like logo. Illegal? Yes, because the State is receiving federal
funds to run the program. The State
knows this. Think - religion from government.
This State of New Mexico Human
Services Department is operating the Medicaid program called the Centennial
Care program after the State’s 2012 centennial celebration, when it was
reintroduced. By all accounts the symbol
is nothing but a government’s reminder of the Catholic Trinity. The modified,
evangelical Zia-like symbol is to indicate the program has been blessed by a
Catholic deity, or is a blessing and people are reminded to offer up their
prayers, either way. This is a
federal-funded Medicaid program.
“A new name” for an evangelical-blessed Federal government program now sporting an illegal Christian logo.
