Trademarks, ideally, should be abolished, all copyrights replaced with Creative Commons, and patents reduced to public acknowledgments of those who created the product. These are all idealistic woulda-coulda-shoulda-oughta-bees, unfortunately, for our capitalist system compels such division, profiteering, withholding, deceit, exploitation, and thievery by those with the resources to command. Specifically those efforts by Corey Goode and his attorneys to trademark SSP (Secret Space Program) and Blue Avians, among others, are unwise, ill-founded, divisive, and just plain wrong. Drop the TMs!!! Please. Yes, you all seem to be at heart good people, and being good people doesn’t make you or anyone else right on this trademark hoopla pookla.

The most important aspect is the originators, designers, and builders are recognized, acknowledged, and even celebrated as such. They all belong to the creative commons of our planetary and solarian commons. Yes, solarian, as our species is already well on its way, our way, to explore our solar system. There are already plans to mine asteroids, build settlements on Luna and Mars, visit Titan, and send more probes to other worlds around Sol. All as Voyager exits our Sol System.

The larger question is what and how do we make a living in an economic system based upon capitalism and debt slavery? We lack a 21st Century economic system balancing individual liberties and social responsibilities or even know what such would look like thru the haze of our mutually conflicting opinions. How may such a new system function, especially as people keep doing what people do?

Capitalism has provided many opportunities, allowing entrepreneurs and small businesses to flourish, compete, and even cooperate. This system, however, i.e. the mix of codified and unspoken relationships between people and people, people and products and services, and people and consensual concepts of money, has gone too far. Many feel our system is broken beyond repair. Efforts to reform our fractured system have not always worked and even seem to accelerate the rise of fascist movements to strong-arm capitalism in a more authoritarian, nationalist, and racist direction.

Systems are not always all good or all bad, and they change over time. The numbers of humans and even other living things who benefit increase greatly in the beginning then decline as those who secured the top echelons of power for themselves place more and more barriers out of greed and fear. This isn’t the place to delve further into this morass, however, especially as people continue to argue for the future based on 18th and 19th Century isms. Those terms are emotional trigger words these days. They are no longer relevant except in a historical context, yet we seem unable to see beyond such labels.

We must understand, however, this global chaos, whether one perceives it as a Marxist analyzing the “anarchy of the markets” or a Finance Capitalist agreeing with the proto-fascist Trump as he declares, “We function very well in chaos,” allows for more and more people to manipulate, abuse, and exploit both laws and loopholes in the laws. Such are these efforts to scoop up and hoard trademarks in arcane or obscure areas while the rest of us are distracted by the mainstream news and putting food on the table while juggling debts. The UFO community has been further riven by animosities unheard of even a decade ago.

Trademarks, copyrights, and patents are expensive and require capital. Those with capital thus amass power. Creative working class folks with few financial resources often lack the funds to pursue these routes, routes set up by those in the upper classes to protect their power altho ostensibly to protect the creative liberties of all. These steps are a big expense for many middle-class professionals, too.

One of the problems with class privilege is lack of awareness among the elites of what so many of the rest of us either must do or miss out on to achieve even a remote measure of protection. No, I don’t believe in a conspiracy of rich folks sitting around in blood-red hoods intentionally setting up systems to keep the lower classes at bay. Those without capital are simply not recognized. Nor am I interested in dismissing the situation here and the role of class and racial privilege in the United States because life is much worse in Congo, Syria, Gaza, Venezuela, Yemen, Myanmar, or North Korea.

Thus these systems self-perpetuate as new bureaucracies emerge to operate, regulate, measure, tax, and to profit from these systems. Attorneys and developers and other private businesses arise to feed upon this system by embedding themselves into it as ticks bury into the rectal folds of a dog’s anus.

They don’t think of themselves as parasites, of course, but as educated working people offering valuable services. Yet the behavior of Capitalist systems, a hierarchy of systems founded upon conquest, slavery, and environmental destruction, is inherently parasitic.

My opposition to Corey Goode’s trademark attempts is deeper than the outrage generated by his efforts to TM SSP et al. It is systemic. Look at the system we all participate in and ended up living within. We’re almost like the fish in the old proverb who don’t know what water is until they are pulled up out of the water by fishermen. We humans live within our sea of languages and laws and points of view, often so deeply we are unable to see the bigger systemic threat or feel apathetic or helpless to address it.

Even so, I encourage Mr. Goode to drop his trademark attempts and recognize his pursuit of such trademarks further undermines the credibility of his narrative. Hell, I demand he drop the damn thing!

One does not trademark the names of species. Did anyone ever trademark the Galapagos tortoise, the Nile crocodile, the white oak tree, the bonobos, the ostrich, the trilobites, sunflowers, squirrels, hookworms, red-tailed hawks, western red-cedar, Tyrannosaurus rex, the Dracos, the Greys, the Tall Whites, the Pleiadians, Sasquatch, psilocybin mushrooms, and the Hobbit people? No. So why would anyone trademark the Blue Avian species, also allegedly known as the RA? Unless one made the Blue Avians all up as fictional characters in a space opera comic book? Besides, according to mythologist William Henry, images alleged as possible Blue Avian prototypes have been found in the god-king myths and religious art of Ancient Egypt and in mystical paintings by Renaissance Europeans. The Hindu gods Garuda and Yama aren’t blue, tho blue humanoid deities abound. Nor are divine versions of bald eagles and ravens blue to the Native Americans. None of these are TM’d! Anyone, however, can craft fantastic tales inspired by the art and history of past civilizations. For goodness sakes, people, they’re where many comic book creators and sci-fi writers get some of their inspiration from.

Did anyone trademark the Gestapo, the SS, the NKVD, the CIA, the FBI, the ATF, USSR, USA, ISIS/Daesh, USAP, UFO, ET, CT, and Erectile Dysfunction? No. So why in all the galaxy would anyone trademark SSP and Secret Space Program? Capturing control of words maintains a despotism over language. Free speech and expression is subverted in favor of capital profits, market control, and greed. Besides, the SSP acronym and reports of secret space programs have been around for years if not decades.

Did Richard Dolan, one of Earth’s most diligent and thorough UFO researchers, TM breakaway civilization? No. He declared multiple times in a flurry of recent videos he doesn’t want to. Instead Mr. Dolan called out the real threats trademarks pose to free speech and to free enterprise, both which he is passionate for. I’ve used his term, “breakaway civilization,” many times and often attributed its origin to him as well. Acknowledgement is a form of respect. In a way it’s a form of tribute. Which would you rather have, tribute in the form of respect and sharing, or hoard up more Federal Reserve Notes?

Why trademark the phrase, “Twenty and back?” Do militaries around the globe TM similar phrases whether official or slang? Did anyone TM “Fubar?” Or, “dust off,” or, “Voices in the Sky,” or, “chest candy,” or, “out and back?” No. So, hey hey ho ho let those trademarks go! OK?

Once I trademarked a term because I could not afford to copyright the title of one of my books in progress. I was close to completing editing and revising the book manuscript. This was before the Great Global Recession erupted.

After attending a free workshop on copyrights and trademarks by an attorney, I felt spooked into protecting what I had created before someone with a lot more money stole my ideas, forbade me to use my own creative license, and profit from my work at my expense. So I paid a lot of money to TM a term that in hindsight was more of a commonly used phrase in political circles such as “democratic world government.”

Unable to afford to renew the TM a year later, I let it expire. A number of warnings landed in my mailbox claiming someone else would most likely pounce on my trademarked terms upon expiration and claim them as “theirs.” Well, to Hell with such people and their parasitic behavior then. Furthermore I chose to set my book manuscript aside back then as well. Ironically I didn’t use the trademark and copyright attorney who taught the workshop. I would have preferred to have worked with her, and her lawyer fees were beyond my boundaries of fiscal responsibility. So I went with a less expensive yet more extensive company I discovered online over the web.

Furthermore I admit I was terrified of losing ownership of my intellectual property. Bottom line for me, however, is ethics. It is ethical for any who use another’s work acknowledge those sources without claiming they, as the user, created or otherwise generated such said work. To so otherwise is dishonest and out of integrity.

The experience soured me on TMs. The complementary unethical practice were those hogging website URLs so as to sell them back to the original creators at a much higher price. These are legal forms of piracy. They are unethical. I do not agree such predatory practitioners be allowed to prey upon artists and inventors. “Creator beware” is bullshit! It’s bullshit pure and rank. May such a foul stench serve to wake up those who feel people should do whatever they want to prey upon others and profit from the weaknesses and fallabilities of the unprotected public.

Look at the current fussbucket dramas of a food company in Chicago trademarking, “Aloha,” demanding an already-existing Alaskan company with a similar name change theirs, while Native Hawaiians rise up in fury against this abuse of a welcome greeting from their language. Now the Girl Scouts are going after the Boy Scouts for dropping the word, “Boy” so as to be simply called, “Scouts,” a term used for millennia in different languages. Apparently Marvel is now after even Corey Goode over his business use of, “the Guardians.” Apparently Red China granted at least 16 trademarks to Ivanka Trump’s newly defunct company.

Come on now, people, stop it, stop monetizing every damn thing! It’s ridiculous, yes, it is, unethical, even despotic. Such quarrelling over who owns what so someone can profit at everyone else’s expense is pathetic. People and their communities become more fractured and polarized. Larger corporations and the big banks behind them as well as any military-intelligence agencies in cahoots with them clamp down to dominate both Information and the distribution of Information for profit and power.

When I post and publish my creations, I usually craft some variation of the following declaration:

“Copyright (C) 2018 by William Dudley Bass, All Rights Reserved by the Author & his Descendants until we Humans establish Wise Stewardship over and for our Earth and Solarian Commons. Thank you.”

This time I put this article out with (CC), i.e. Creative Commons community licensing.

No to trademarks! Especially “No!” to trademarking commonly used words and phrases as well as species both real and alleged. And no to Twitter and the little blue birds, too. I shut down my Twitter twiddle twaddle some years back. Don’t miss it. Maybe I’ll leave “Facefoot,” too. Plus leave other privately-owned corporate spaces masquerading as public commons open to surveillance by both government agencies and other corporate entities plus cybercriminal actors. “Yes!” to sharing. Yes to community! Yes to working together across our differences and in the face of greed and ridicule to generate shared wealth from our creative commons.

These different topics are best suited for another inquiry as are the attempt to patent genetically modified living and dead organisms and the cells and tissues of such biological entities.

The ultra-rich Capitalists like to quote each other by saying, “Own nothing. Control everything.” Perhaps those of us moving towards a 21st Century, post-Capitalist and even post-Socialist world can move past 17th and 18th Century terminology to declare, “Own everything. Share everything. Grumble, laugh, and love.”

Imagine if someone tries to TM “Blue Space Chickens.”

William Dudley Bass
Tuesday 6 November 2018
Revised Thurs-Fri 8-9 November 2018
Updated Wednesday 17 July 2019
Seattle, Washington
United States of America
Bioregion of Cascadia
Earth
Sol

NOTE: This article was inspired by the commentary in online articles and YouTube videos by Joe from the Carolinas, Richard Dolan, Joseph P. Farrell, Paul Ryan, Teresa Yanaros, Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt, Clif High, and their fellow communities of respondents. Joe from the Carolinas was the first to enlighten me with his unique approach to follow the logic with critical analysis of records. Thanks to all of you! I also read, watched, and listened to different points of view from Corey Goode, David Wilcock, the Staff of Gaia TV, and Jordon Sather. There were a few others, too, espousing different stands on these issues, and my apologies for being unable to recall your names in this moment. Thanks to everyone for their contributions. I know where I stand on these issues, and I reserve the right to change my mind on any issue as more data and information come into my awareness. Thank you.

For more detailed information on creative commons, go to: https://creativecommons.or.

P.S. from Friday 9 November 2018: Apparently Corey Goode and his followers are behaving like cult-gangs and doxxing people who oppose their bullshit including defectors and researchers. Doxxing is not only unethical but criminal. Doxxing people is illegal, gross, slimy, and quite frankly illuminates how stupid and cruel the blue chicken gang demonstrates itself to be. I am ashamed I once fell for Corey Goode’s and David Wilcock’s toxic nonsense back in 2016-2017. Felt as if I’d been cast under a spell for I’m usually a nuts, bolts, and documents kinda guy. This is a lesson I shall remember. And people, stop the damn doxxing.

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