I was inspired by a posting of this same title by Matthew Webb on his own website (here) to add my reflections -- similar, but different for various reasons. First, I've already lived out of the U.S.A. for 25 of my 53 years, almost half of my life. So, I have been slowly growing out of my birth nation-matrix for some time and, for me, 9-11 was not so much of a surprise but more of a symbolic warning of major changes for the Western world on the horizon. I unconsciously managed to be 'home' for it, having returned to the U.S.A. with a Nepalese wife. Readjusting to life in the U.S.A. after more than 15 years gone was more of a shock for me than 9-11 itself. Shortly after the event, I returned to Asia, which my heart identifies with more, but followed by a reawakened sympathy for my American siblings. The sympathy only goes so far, though, as I've spent a lot of time on the internet backtracking the events which contributed to 9-11 happening.
Plenty of people have done this and the ' bullshit' we believe about American culture is slowly being scraped off of the painful 'truth' of our society. I suppose it is beneficial in some ways, kind of like a colon-cleansing for a nation -- but, none too pleasant to observe! Yet, there are Americans still not ready for a 'cleansing' who continue to play the 'blame game' -- they are probably in line for further shocks to their belief structure in the future.
"Hierarchical civilization is based on just this (the idea that someone gets hurt, but it's not us), something so simple, hurt, power, the repression of meaning (truth) and the evasion of consequences. The Latin root of 'evade' means to 'walk out' on." (An Indigenous Perspective by Juan Santos, July 31, 2006 here)
So, I ask myself whether or not I am another 'walk out' on the situation -- isn't that what an ex-patriate is? I answer: both -- yes and no. I started out in my youth as just another 'dumbed-down' American patriot -- I enlisted of my own choice in 1972 in the U.S. Navy and served as a communications technician in the U.S. Naval Security Group. I was very impressed upon the completion of my schooling to be sent to Washington, D.C. and remember my oath-taking for a security clearance in an N.S.A. office overlooking the Pentagon. Pledging to keep the nation's secrets has been an initiation for many fools into the illusion that we actually have a government. That illusion of being one of the initiated into a special group takes a lot of us in hook, line and sinker! Waking up from that one has taken some work. I was on a U.S. Naval frigate in 1973 in the Red Sea -- reminescent of the USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea five or so years before. The story of what happened that day when the USS Liberty was bombed and almost sunk has never been investigated by the U.S. Congress even after repeated requests by high-ranking military officers. When push comes to shove, it's usually the politician who has his knife in someone's back -- almost always someone supposedly expendable. I don't plan to become 'cannon fodder' for such as the likes of our country's 'puppet show' leaders. (More here)
Many people have criticized George Bush for remarking that the 'Constitution is ONLY a piece of paper' and some have reacted in the same way as people who've been offended by flag-burning protests. (Here) I remember all those little American flags on cars shortly after 9-11. People are really attached to those little pieces of plastic! Here I am in Thailand, on the border with Burma, and I've witnessed the local police burning the rags of homeless/parentless street children. Their reaction is like mine -- none! They live without shoes and only have the clothes on their back. They are not attached to possessions or the lifestyle of an American materialist. A flag is 'ONLY a piece of cloth'. The piece of cloth can never be a living contract between people and those they designate to manage some of their affairs. I think our present government is, in reality, just another corporate entity. The law on this, of course, is hard to find. It's like a maze of string hopelessly tangled into a ball of monstrous lies and deception. You can pull a piece of string out of it this way or that but never get to the original agreement. Actually, in hindsight, George Bush is probably right.
"The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man . And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. ... Furthermore, we know, historically, that only a small portion even of the people then existing were consulted on the subject, or asked, or permitted to express either their consent or dissent in any formal matter. Those persons, if any who did give their consent formally, are all dead now. They had no natural power or right to make it obligatory upon their children." (Here)
I've pulled on this legal ball of string and come away with a few pieces -- Social Security and the IRS are probably both scams to steal our money and we've probably been under marshal law for most of our lives. I've lived in two countries under marshal law and now know how to recognize it when I see it. (Read here and here and here)
Of course, since 9-11 happened, everyone has had to play the 'blame game' -- was it our own government, was it a Zionist conspiracy or part of the Illuminati's One World Order plan? And, of course, we won't know until we can 'follow the money' trail or examine the evidence not divulged by our government. Take your pick! I find it is a puzzle not so all-consuming as it was at first. I have worked as a 'mystery shopper' and once for a security company belonging to the ex-Chief of Police in New Orleans but I am neither Sherlock Holmes nor Dr. Watson. I can only conclude it is ALL part of the same 'ball of string' -- pull on it any way you choose and you'll come up with another piece of string. It's kind of like the new super-string theory model of the universe. Even Stephen Hawkins, who recently asked the question 'How can the human race survive the next hundred years' admits he doesn't know the answer.
"Few realize the extent to which society is manipulated and controlled by unseen forces. So much of what we know is programmed and indoctrinated into us by unseen forces. So much of what we know is programmed and indoctrinated into us at an early age, that many people do not give any thought to why they believe some of the things that they believe." (From the Introduction to Jewish Persecution: Tool of the International Zionists' Plan for World Dominion, by Jackie Patru, here)
So, we could consume the time left to us by trying to discover who the hidden manipulators are or we can get on with our lives. It is each individual's choice -- unless you're a reborn Sherlock Holmes or a professional colon cleansing therapist, I'd suggest you observe the world's evil in small doses. I am reminded of this daily as I am a teacher in contact with the reality that children live in. It is a challenge not to further indoctrinate them into the system that wants to consume them. I am lucky that I live in a simple farm house with Burmese children. I have more to learn from them than the English language I teach them. They are not yet 'consumed' with the Western mindset's search for id-entity (the entity people identify with their basic being and its nurturance). They just are. Society is an idea completely foreign to their way of life -- family and community is where they are at. They are finally experiencing some of it and so am I. As a teacher, how could I ever approach my students with the horrors of Western civilization that I'm growing out of?
"No teacher openly tells a room of school children, 'success means destruction, ... and in our culture (western) means death.' (Yet) the most conscious elements of humanity (get) this deeper message -- often at great personal cost: not only that the Bomb is evil, or that slavery, conquest and genocide are evil, but that this way we live is a way of death, in its entirety." (An Indigenous Perspective by Juan Santos, July 31, 2006 here)
So, to finally answer my own question -- am I just another 'walk out' on the situation? Considering that I was never given the 'truth' and asked to sign a contract with the corporate entity now masking itself as the government of the U.S.A., I don't consider myself so much as a 'walk out' but as a 'walk on' as in 'keep on truckin'! I choose not to participate in a society that is intent on dying instead of living . I don't accept the rules of the games I was taught to play during my upbringing -- I have new peaks to climb and can't afford to let the 'bullshit' weigh me down too much! If others still want to become mesmerized by the sideshow of American politics or the lies fed daily to the 'sheeple' still consuming them, so be it. I finally don't feel responsible for relating to them indefinitely. If that makes me an ex-patriate, OK!
"In tribal times, there were the medicine-men. In the Middle Ages, there were the Priests. Today there are the lawyers (our modern day Pharisees). For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trade and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of its trade from the unitiated, and running after its own pattern, the civilization of its day." (Woe Unto You Lawyers (2d edition 1957) by Fred Rodell, pg. 7)
I've worked as a lawyer's personal assistant and as a court reporter, including transcribing proceedings of Grand Jury hearings, and observed our 'great' legal system from its bowels -- more colon-cleansing needs to go on there, for sure! The only way I would become a patriot again is with a 'real' contract between myself and those I would delegate authority to for the management of the affairs of government. I don't think that will happen in my lifetime unless there is a genuine American war for independence against the world's banking system, usury and the people who would 'own' the collective soul of my birth nation-matrix. The cult of 'national secrecy' would have to be destroyed totally for this to be possible. The American people would have to abnegate the corporate entity that masquerades as our government. With my present understanding, I would only identify a 'true' American as a native American Indian -- the rest of us are 'interlopers' at best, and genocidal marauders, at worst. I am brave enough to say that this corporate entity we identify as the government of the U.S.A. must be dissolved but at the same time I have no stomach for the destruction of the cancer it represents upon the American political body. I have studied alternative medicine and work to prevent disease, not react to it with death-dealing drugs or radiation instead of a healing therapy. I was never born to be a surgeon -- and emergency room trauma surgeons are the only ones equipped to do the job. However, it is possible to build a new society from the ground up, as a new Phoneix arises from the ashes of the old. That's our most probable future, sobering though it is.
"In the most coherent and morally consistent of the indigenous prophecies -- that of the Hopi nation -- it is said that during the Time of the Purification, a brave person will stand up and demand of the rulers, 'you profit at the expense of all life. Come and pay your debt'!"
I am not a debt-collector. Yet, the American government's public debt will broach 10 trillion dollars before George Bush leaves office. The government has already pledged half of our country's land -- mostly in western states -- as collateral for this debt. The debt-collector has his eyes on this land (see map at left). If you live there, you might want to do some research on land titles. When the debt-collector comes knocking on the U.S.A.'s front door, I don't plan to be there. The debt collector looks like a Fascist to me. Good luck!
"A true patriot defends the country in which he immediately lives and works in. This country is spelled with a little "c", as in countryside. Taking care of one's friends, families, and neighbors, as well as the land they all share that supports them, is the highest of all patriot duties. If the land area that you live on is free, happy and prosperous, then you have done your duty to the world, and no more is required of you." (True Patriots, Are There Any to be Counted? by Patrick Mooney here)
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