I think he's going through something else and someone out there is probably trying to brainwash him to act out or say what they want him to say next. That's my next post...kids being used.
My son has come to visits hardly able to talk and saying things that just sounded like they were stemming from massive brainwashing. He's only 3 1/2 and then I see it being done with other kids in the town too. One of the saddest things to see, since I've been here, is how kids are used to give messages, and are brainwashed at such an early age.
I grew up in the area when I was little, and none of this was happening then. I wasn't in on it when I was a kid, and never was coached to say things or be part of a group. I know that this kind of thing goes back to the grandparents in the area, so it's at least 3 generations, but it's so predominant and blatant, some of the adults think nothing of using their kids to relay messages or pretend to be doing something spontaneous.
You know, for all the criticisms about sending teens to war in some countries, how is this kind of behavior any different? It may or may not be using a child to do physical harm, but instead, it's emotional abuse and brainwashing.
Why in the world get on North Korea and so-called communist countries, about brainwashing, if the same thing is being practiced right here in Wenatchee
I'm sure some parents, even if they're a part of things here, I'm sure that some parents prefer to allow their kids to grow up naturally and free and to be able to grow into their own, but I have seen a lot of kids here who are manipulated into doing tasks and acting bits for adults.
I personally think it's horrible. I don't believe children should be used to do the bidding of their parents or whatever their parents are involved in--kids should be allowed to be kids and be free. But I guess this is how the next generation is being raised up, with this kind of thing, and told not to argue or protest either, and to enjoy it.
I kept and saved this article from The Seattle Times I think it is, about Bin Ladin's Son talking about "Bizarre Family Life". I thought, after reading, you could almost just change a couple of things and it would fit what I see going on in Wenatchee. I mean, change it up a little maybe...Kids are not being told to go out there and shoot to kill, but every other technique is used. Ladin's son talks about how they had to dig ditches and lie in them to prepare themselves for the future but metaphorically, I don't see how using kids and teens in Wenatchee to emulate a system they should have free choice in, is any different.
The whole basis of this country is freedom and equality. It's to allow people to have free will and free choices and also, that no matter what the choice is, that all should and will try to respect the rights of others, and will do their best to support and defend equality.
It is really strange to see some of the ideology and banter that goes on, how so many in Wenatchee, for example, might say they think the Taliban is evil or corrupt or whatever, and how we are fighting for "freedom" and yet, taking a look around, where is the freedom here?
Where is the freedom Wenatchee? When did you last let people decide for themselves, what their lives would be about and who they associated with, and how the town was run. Is this town run on equality and freedom, and does it support "the American way" or have too many of you forgotten what it is to be free?
People like me get punished for daring say a word.
I sometimes wonder if, as we're fighting to "liberate Afghanistan" how is it there is no liberation in a town like Wenatchee? Are there others, and other "silent supporters" who are scared to death of saying a thing, as I do? but who would appreciate having a chance to be free and to see justice rightly, evenly, and equally dispensed according to the facts and evidence at hand and not group affiliation? I mean, are there all these others who feel oppressed but who see all the power, this super rich Wizard of Oz (or a few) that might control everything, so some are to afraid to speak up or break out of this? Or do too many actually really enjoy the system as it is, because they're bored and it gives them something to do and a reason to feel important? I think it must feed on egos and that for a minute, people might think they are part of something something that increases their value or is important, when really, they signed themselves up to be slaves.
I do not believe Wenatchee remembers what is like to be free or to have equality. And maybe that goes for a lot of people, in other locations too.
Do I want the Taliban to bomb us out? or do I want any take-over? No, of course not, but I'm just saying, some of the very behavior that is demonized over there, puts on a party hat over here and gets away with it.
What do you do when almost everyone and everything seems corrupt and one group dominates another? I don't know. If there are not neutral people around to try to keep order, I don't know.
I feel priorities need to come down from the top and hit hard and heavy, and that it should be to clean up corruption first. Then, I think or hope, there will be a kind of spiritual revival that goes deep as well as a kind of philosophical revival which will remind people what the point of the U.S. was to begin with, and some inspiring speeches from The Leviathan or Paine and Washington and Lincoln.
I think what happened is that capitalism went to the heads of some and many got away with corruption in the name of just getting ahead. Then,other groups formed, and gained strength, to protect against abuses or discrimination. But then, the groups all began to merge somehow, with a lot of dealings going on on the side and lesser and lesser transparency.
It just has to be fixed. In the meantime, if you want to use your children as lackeys, and errand boys and girls, and raise them up to be brainwashed with your own ideas, that's fine but don't think there won't be a price to pay. It will just be a civil war all over again, and this time, not divided by race but divided by, if not gangs that go all the way up to government, by people who want to fight for the freedom and equality our forefathers talked about in the first place, who have done some reading and are wondering why it's not working out.
I think some could be writing a few Uncle Tom's Cabin novels. Because people need to be inspired and reminded of what they are giving up and why it is they have been directed to kill a mockingbird.
I don't mean just me, but many who are in the world and who have been in the world, who want to make a difference but are pushed down for not being in perfect conformity.
I found the following quotations from a website out of Portland, Oregon called "Serendipity":
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. — Thomas Jefferson, American Declaration of Independence
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WE HOLD THIS TRUTH
THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE CREATED DIFFERENT.
That every human being has the right to be mentally free and independent. That every human being has the right to feel, see, hear, sense, imagine, believe or experience anything at all, in any way, at any time. That every human being has the right to behave in any way that does not harm others or break fair and just laws. That no human being shall be subjected without consent to incarceration, restraint, punishment or psychological or medical intervention in an attempt to control, repress or alter the individual's thoughts, feelings or experiences.
— UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF MENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
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Tom Paine (Common Sense):
[Government is made] necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world ... [and] the design and end of government [is] Freedom and security. ... [The] articles or charter of government should be formed first, and men delegated to execute them afterwards ... As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.
Samuel Adams (American revolutionary):
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
James Madison (Fourth President of the United States):
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (Queen Mab):
The man
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanized automaton.
John Stuart Mill (Essay on Liberty):
[T]he sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. ... [T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Bertrand Russell (Principles of Social Reconstruction):
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages ...
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear that holds men back — fear lest their cherished beliefs should prove delusions, fear lest the institutions by which they live should prove harmful, fear lest they themselves should prove less worthy of respect than they have supposed themselves to be.
T. S. Eliot: (Burnt Norton):
... human kind cannot bear very much reality.
Mahatma Gandhi:
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
Bob Dylan:
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's Farm no more ...
George Orwell:
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Dr Martin Luther King:
Let freedom ring!
Aldous Huxley: (Brave New World Revisited):
Big Government and Big Business ... will try to impose social and cultural uniformity upon adults and their children. To achieve this they will (unless prevented) make use of all the mind-manipulating techniques at their disposal and will not hesitate to reinforce these methods of non-rational persuasion by economic coercion and threats of physical violence. If this kind of tyranny is to be avoided, we must begin without delay to educate ourselves and our children for freedom and self-government. Such an education for freedom should be ... first of all in facts and in values — the facts of individual diversity and genetic uniqueness and the values of freedom, tolerance and mutual charity, which are the ethical corollaries of these facts.
Bob Marley (Redemption Song):
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds ...
Wade Frazier:
All those institutions that we have given our power away to — corporations, governments, churches, etc. — have largely enslaved us with our own power. The only path to true freedom is by reclaiming our power, responsibility and sovereignty, and doing it lovingly.
Gore Vidal:
'Conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
Leuren Moret:
The legacy of the weapons proliferators, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, and gambling promoters of yesterday ... continues to enrich the same families. It is a culture of death and destruction which is turning Planet Earth into a death star. ... The United States has become a fascist state where there is no clear distinction between legitimate and clandestine illegal organisations.
Margaret Atwood:
When things are really dismal, you can laugh or you can cave in completely. ... If you can laugh, you're still alive. You haven't given up yet.
Wright Morris:
It is not the fear of the bomb that paralyzes us, not fear that man has no future. Rather, it is the nature of the future, not its extinction, that produces such foreboding in the artist. It is a numbing apprehension that such future as man has may dispense with art, with man as we now know him, and such as art has made him. The survival of men who are strangers to the nature of this conception is a more appalling thought than the extinction of the species.
Citizen Spook:
Once the American people understand that they have been robbed blind and that the money they thought was being used to run the government is actually being funneled, in a manner that would make Enron's frauds seem paltry, to the vaults of a few private banking institutions, the people will wake up and join the million man petition for a redress of grievances. The power is with the people, but unless the people use that power it remains dormant. We haven't awoken enough people to their proactive power as the respiratory system of the Constitution and the government. In order to make the government submissive to the will of the people, the people must be educated.
Terence McKenna:
The further you go, the weirder it gets.
Nature loves courage ... and rewards it with success.
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