Author: Judge Michael Boyajian

I Sing The Body Electric

By Michael Boyajian

I sing a song for humanity and take great solace in places where a multitude of languages can be heard as you walk far away streets.  I embrace the Turk so that Jew and Arab can embrace themselves as well.  I reach for new highs of belief when I see a majority in favor of same sex marriage yet feel low when the same majority projects anger at Muslims.  I have been to the Alhambra a Moorish palace of vast beauty, a world heritage site and know that no work of art like this could be built out of hate.

Rise of Empire

By Michael Boyajian

I remember being a child in the 1960s on Long Island and during visits to my grandparents’ home in New Jersey and my great grandmother’s home in Fresno and how there was still a 1930s or pre World War II small town feel  to life.

Bulldozers Threaten Underground Railroad Church and Burial Ground

By Michael Boyajian

The sinister reputation of the Town of Fishkill is further enhanced when you arrive for a meeting at town hall and the walk to the building and the lobby are unlit.  Town officials might say they are saving electricity but most observers would say they want to be uninviting.

Let’s Hear it for the Teachers

By Michael Boyajian

I remember back when I was a Republican sitting at political dinners with one GOP speaker after another getting up to bad mouth our teachers and thinking to myself what are they talking about I have never had a bad teacher from K through 12 in New York City and Long Island through Buffalo State College, Stony Brook University and Brooklyn Law School.  All were true professionals.

Labor Day 2010

By Michael Boyajian

I grew up in a union household.  My father was a photoengraver.  As kids my brother and sister and I would argue politics around the kitchen table.  Occasionally my father would say, “You can say anything you want but never bad mouth the unions.”  You see the union put food on our table, paid for our healthcare and helped with our educations.

Dining Around the World

By Michael Boyajian

I don’t have to travel to the United Nations to experience world peace.  I do not have to go to an airport to travel to distant lands in search of understanding of different cultures.  I merely have to dine at an ethnic restaurant to learn something about my fellow human beings.

Greater Mediterranean Economic Zone:  A Continuum

By Michael Boyajian

With the EU merged with the Middle East and North Africa in my previously proposed Mediterranean Economic Zone the question is what happens next?  Several things can now occur beginning with the 800 pound gorilla in the room, Russia.  Russia must join the EU or what has now become the Greater Mediterranean Zone eventually spreading the zone east into the Far East providing trade linkage with China, Japan, Taiwan and the Koreas.

A Greater Mediterranean Economic Zone

By Michael Boyajian

The European Union is merely one step leading to a greater Mediterranean Economic Zone based on the logical borders of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent and beyond.  A region that was joined by Rome for trade purposes for a thousand years and not for any other reason like conquest for the sake of conquest.

911 Call For Justice

By Michael Boyajian

Some people like cop movies.  I like F.B.I. movies like Mississippi Burning where Gene Hackman is knocking around pasty white KKK goons.  I would like to see this kind of action against those who threaten this country in real life too.  That is why I believe President Obama should deploy special agents to investigate the mosque burning in Tennessee and anywhere else Muslims are being threatened just like JFK did during America’s civil rights battles of the 1960s.

Signaling A Change in Tactics:  Will the Real Tea Party Step Forward

By Michael Boyajian

Frank Rich reported in the New York Times that Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers were bankrolling the Tea Party.  It was ironic to me that foreign born billionaire Murdoch would be the force behind the most xenophobic movement in American history turning brother against brother in a political civil war in a country in which he had no birth right leaving many to wonder if he himself should be deported.