Friday 4 October 2013

The Towering Inferno


Having had a bit of a laugh at (the expense of) The Human Comedy yesterday,1 today got off to a bit of a serious start for me.  A somewhat belated start, after spending the middle of the day working my way through back mail,2 to try to get caught up before the next day's lot hits.3  It was when I was on my way to the Main Library to make some more copies of my 'I'm Inundated - Stop!' note that I came across the really serious note for my day.  

It was in the form of a headline in one of the local papers, which announced something like 'Governor Signs Bill Okaying Drivers Licenses for Illegal Aliens', and which showed alongside the story a picture of (presumably) said persons celebrating with him.4  When I got home from my trip to the Library (and then to the Main Post Office, to mail a bunch of my thus-treated letters, and get some more stamps for this project that has been thrust on me, or rather, that I have thrust on myself), I fired off an email to Gov. Brown's office; to wit:   

"Dear Gov. Brown,

"I just saw the headline in one of today's local papers that announced that you had just signed a bill authorizing drivers' licenses for illegal aliens.               

"By authorizing the granting of drivers' licenses to the category of Illegal Aliens - and thus giving them the status of being recognized officially as being domiciled in this state; thus shortening the political/legal distance between a non-citizen not allowed to vote and a non-citizen embedded in the system, with a political and financial stake here; to say, by opening that door, and among the states - you just signed America's death warrant. 

"How does that make you feel, O ye of little foresight??'  

If I had thought of it at the time, I may have ended it rather with the sentence/statement: 

"Unless a critical mass of citizens joins me in settling things right in the country, from the mess that shortsighted leaders like you are making of it."5


Perhaps I am more sensitive to this matter than other citizens, because I encounter The Change every day.  Walking the streets of my old home town, and with everything that is going on these days, I have to wonder how many of these blacks and Hispanics that I encounter on the streets and in the shops, under their smiles of greeting or not, are thinking, 'We've got your number, White Man.  You're going down.  Hee hee.'

In my own home town.

In my own country…

Tell you what, Minority Person soon-to-be-a-part-of-a-Majority Minority: I'm taking it with me.

How's that for a response to that sort of thinking???

Or to rub in the Hispanics' faces the message that I saw on the homemade sandwich sign of a fellow today, on my way to the Main Library for my mission there.  It read (in part): 'Can Americans go to Mexico for Jobs, and Medical, and Housing?…A Hell uv a Lot of People in This Country are Sleeping under Bridges, - '

 - and a memory flashed for me at that point, and statement.  Yes, I've 'been there'.  Many years ago, when I was taking my message to the country - that "the way to rid ourselves of all our aches and evils is to do away with money" - I slept under many a bridge, and under many a bush, and in many a vacant lot or field of wheat or grapes.  In Fields of Dreams…  

I know the feeling, Destitute Person.

P.S. The person with the homemade signs: A white man, disgruntled with the preferential, 'affirmative action' treatment afforded minorities in his country?  Actually, no.  It was a black person.  And i couldn't tell if it was a male or a female, because the person's head was covered with a cloth cap, and torso masked with a piece of cloth as a neck warmer, above an old tattered, undifferentiated coat. 

Equal Opportunity.

What a farce.

But it's clearing up, these days.  With decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States starting to go against such 'set-aside' preferential treatment for blacks & other minorities, and beginning to set a level field again (and get the country moving economically again, from too much governmental regulation, PC/socialism-wise).  Wherein regardless of what The People do amongst themselves in the world of  the exercise of free will - to say, in the realm of de facto - the law itself - to say, in the realm of de jure - is color blind; Justice is blindfolded.  As it should be.  In a free country. 

The kind of country that this one is heading for now is another matter.  

Hopefully, Obama's more extreme supporters will take note of the drift of the SCOTUS back to hard, black-letter law - give up their dream of their Iron Man overthrowing the Constitution totally and ruling by enlightened decree - and allow sanity to prevail.

Yes, I'm angry, at what's going on in my country.

What do I want.

I want everyone to have a chance to close down any scams that they are involved in, including if they are in the country illegally, first.  And then we go to work, cleaning house.  Even if people are still varied as to their fundamental feelings, between 'liberal' and 'conservative', we can still pull together; if we see the larger picture.6      

The larger picture: Meaning how what we are going through is a drama, of our making, to 'catch the conscience of' us all; in learning lessons.  From the parts we play; and from the interactions with those of others.  Until we see that larger picture.  As I put in my footnote, from the above paragraph.

And once we get 'it' - that point - we can release the play we are involved in.  Have been for eons of time.  

And ascend.

The state - the real state - that is awaiting us, as we speak. 

So there need be no more towering infernos.

Of buildings.

And of people's emotions.   

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footnotes:

1 And to make my position totally clear: I personally don't want civil war.
     I want civil disobedience.  The People On Strike.  Until the Usurper vacates the office that he has purloined.  With the help of both political parties.
     Traitors all, to the Republic.  
     My feeling of 'What the hell is going on in this country' over this issue is the same as I feel regarding 9/11.  People, people: Have you heard yet of any other steel-frame high-rise office buildings coming down in their footprints like that, before or since that terrible, and illuminating, day?  Illuminating, for those who had eyes to see??
     The answer is No.
     Because?
     Because 9/11 - including WTC7 - was a controlled demolition job.  (More sophisticated than normal; but still, that category.)
     And so many of you STILL don't recognize that fact.
     Not just 'fooled'.
     Fools.
      What the hell is wrong with you??? I want to yell sometimes.
     And just here I'm reminded of how I felt at the time, brooding at home after having dropped out of university, over the issue of nobody else seeming to care much about What Life Was All About.  How could people carry on as though it didn't matter??? 
     Strange people, these humans.
     And I have felt a Stranger in a Strange Land ever since.
     And so, sometimes you just have to laugh…...


2 And some of it very much like blackmail.  I hate it when an outfit sends you something unsolicited, thinking to con you into sending them some money for it, out of a sense of obligation.  I fell for that stunt initially, many a time; but soon began hardening my heart to it, recognizing it for what it was: a scam.   
     I think there must be a school for training fundraisers, where they teach them these sorts of scammy techniques.  That, or most nonprofit organizations have just outsourced their money-raising aspect to 'the pros'; and are not aware of just how aggravating, and pushy, and downright obnoxious some of these 'pros' can be.  (Some of whom even have the temerity to send you a follow-up letter asking, 'Did you get the calendar I sent you?  I haven't heard from you yet, and wanted to make sure that you received it, and that your generous contribution didn't get lost in the mail…')    


3 I have had to resort to creating a form letter, that I send back to many of my contacts (mostly those that don't have their return address on their envelope; on which I simply write, 'Return to Sender', and hope they get the picture from that rebuff, to clean their mailing list of me).  I have referred to this note before in these pages, so I won't bother citing it here.  It basically says: 'I'm inundated - No more mail please!'.


4 'Him' being our state governor, Jerry Brown.  Who used to be known - during his first term as governor, many years ago ('75 to '83) - as 'Moonbeam' Brown, because he hung out with the 'alternative' likes of (singer) Linda Ronstadt and New Age types of people, into meditating and such.  I always felt that he got a bum rap for that (being a New Ager myself).  But if somebody starts calling him 'Moonbeam Yesterday - Hot Tamale' Brown now, I may not be so miffed.
     P.S. I have just googled Linda Ronstadt, to confirm the spelling of her name, and was saddened to learn that she has lost her voice and mobility to Parkinson's disease.
     Comes the revolution, Linda, and some help can come your way, outside of the mainstream medical procedures for this sort of thing - and others.  
     The allopathic medical profession does not have nearly enough of the answers regarding proper - to say, holistic - health care.    
     Blessings on you, Linda.  And thanks for the memories.


5 Actually, I went on to say:
     "You KNOW what happened in the wake of the amnesty authorized by Pres. Reagan, in '86.  It was predicated on further security to be made at the border, and in the country proper.  What happened to that promise??

"That's how these things go, Gov. Brown. And you have been a politico long enough to know that.  That's why I say: You have opened a door that will now not ever be able to be closed, from being opened further, and further, and just a little bit further... 

"…until one needs no longer to be a U.S. citizen to vote in this country.  

"Perhaps what is contemplated is a citizen of the North American Union???... 

"In any event: A terrible wrong has just been committed.  To the American federal constitutional Republic, that is.  And it has your name on it.

"Sincerely," (etc.)


6 Liberals…holier-than-thou, guilt-ridden complexes…
     Most liberals are pretty hopeless.  They think that it's just dandy to take from some and give to others.  But many of them, granted, think that way because they believe that a lot of other scammers on the other side of the aisle have been making a lot of money that they are not really entitled to, in the sort of financial and ethical environment that encourages greed rather than sharing.  Rampant individualism as opposed to collective security.  And believe - truly believe - that the world can't handle rampant individualism any longer, for the damage it is doing to the environment.
     So humanity must be controlled, to within an inch of their damage-creating-tendency lives.  
     Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater…
     Hey, Lib: Life isn't fit to live if you're not free to live it.  Free to experience it.  Its choices.  Its learnings.  About oneself; and others.  Coming ultimately - that way; that is to say, the way of Essential Liberty - to the realization that  We Are One Another.  That there is no 'other', outside of ourselves.  And so, more fully realized: We Are One.  
     And that there is a Better Way to deal with the other-selves than the way you would impose on human society; to say, the way of Force.  
     The Way is Love.  Or it is nothing.
     Wake up to that fact.  And fast.  Your way - the Way of Force - is getting out of control of even you.  Like Frankenstein's Monster.
     Only this one is not likely to be moved by the proffered gift of a flower by a little girl.  
     This one is just as liable to bury her under a ton of soil with a bulldozer.
     

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