This Ain't Your Daddy's Pizza

"Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out!"

Thus declared Claudius, at both the beginning and end of Robert Graves' brilliant I, Claudius.

At the end of empires, the foul rot that lies at the heart of power is always revealed.  Ultimately, the revelation is at least a proximal cause of the collapse, but equally is it the moral and ethical decay it represents a reason for implosion.

Whether historically or contemporaneously, all centers of power and wealth rot out.  The debauchery of power always eats itself like a parasite until the host dies.  It is as inevitable as sunset.

Throughout history, one of the primal signals that an empire was about to collapse has been the complete abandonment of propriety and moral standards.  Rome, of course, serves as an iconic symbol of such decay.  That empire only survived past the first century anno domini because of the mass conversion of the empire to Christianity and the return of some moral compass.  That was enough to keep the empire going for another three centuries, until even the Roman Church had corrupted.

Only one thing is more sure than the decay of empire, and it is that the decay is commensurate with the scale of wealth and power that the empire wields.  The greater the pile of gold on which the emperor sits, the more fetid and debased will be the spirits that dwell at the seat of power.

At its lowest point, the heart of the empire resorts to sacrificing innocents lives, drinking their blood and sexual practices that would make even the most liberal mind reel in shock and horror.  At this point, there are no longer factions or divisions; you are either in or out.

Empires also work like secret societies: in order to ensure the absolute fealty of its members, they must commit the most heinous crimes in front of witnesses who will use it to destroy any member who steps out of line.  The lure of unending riches and plate-fulls of the most forbidden fruits is more than even the most resolute of minds can resist.  No matter how idealistic one's initial state, unbridled power will drag one down.  After all, who of us would not eventually taste the fruit if all consequences of law and shame were removed?  Once tasted, then there could be no turning back.

At which point we come to PizzaGate.

Back during the waning days of the US presidential election, WikiLeaks began dumping thousands of email, most especially that of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager.  Researchers began noticing a patter of odd pizza references that were strangely out of context.  It was a police investigator in New York City who mentioned that pizza references were common code among pedophiles, which he had investigated for several years.

At that time, I noted on the Farcebook feed that folks should keep an eye on PizzaGate.  It was going to become a major story, and indeed it is, with at least one major news story per week cropping up in various parts of the US.  There are a lot of dogged private investigators out there, some who have been at this story since at least the early 1980s, who needed just that bit of information to finally pry the lid off the rotten core of empire.

The story broke a couple of years ago with the revelations concerning Jimmy Seville, a UK celebrity who happened to be known for his "charity" work for children.  Despite fierce resistance, that investigation has already ensnared a number of the elite, including now a former Prime Minister.

Americans have blissfully ignored the story until now, and even in the face of mounting evidence and even several arrests, most continue to ignore or deny that such a thing could exist at the heart of their empire.  When faced with information too horrible to contemplate, the mind will default to the "everything is just fine" position in protection mode.

The fact is, though, that pedophilia and human sacrifice have appeared repeatedly throughout recorded history wherever wealth and power condense.  As if under some spell from outside, those at the centers of power come to believe that having sex with, drinking the blood of and sacrificing the lives of innocents will transfer even more power and perhaps even eternal life to their blackened hearts.

Throughout the Western world, so-called Child Protective Services (CPS) have been set up to procure children for the elite.  In the Middle East, especially Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, Bacha Bazi boys have been around for at least as long as Islam, and probably much longer.  In Asia, Thailand is notable for providing children for sex.  Institutions like the Roman Church have long been seething cesspools of child abuse, but most major European churches are involved in the system.

Most of the children are street urchins or orphans.  They would not be missed if they disappeared.  The Western CPS systems evolved to identify abandoned and abused children who could vanish without much fuss, and the legal system was adjusted to allow these organizations the right to take children from their families under an entire spectrum of sanctioned conditions.  They identify potential sources of fresh meat, then literally prey on them until they can find some means to take the children into custody and place them with "foster" families, where they are conditioned for the elite "market".

PizzaGate and its various related scandals around the world, threaten to expose one of the oldest and best kept secrets of the global elite.  This practice is one of the most vital sources of power that the elite have, and they will do virtually anything to protect themselves and their sicknesses.  It is their most vulnerable point, but also the source of their cohesiveness.  It binds them together more tightly than social institution, like marriage.

There is a literal war being carries out before our collective eyes.  Some factions of the elite are still human and find the practice revolting, but they have their own vulnerabilities that can be exposed.  It is a stalemate of mutual destruction: sociopath versus sociopath.

Nearly every major news story right now has at its core this elite perversion.  Middle Eastern wars on "terror" are an ideal means of creating orphans and displaced children.  The children are shipped around under the guise of "refugee relocation" programs, where they can disappear into "social services" networks with almost no oversight or accountability.  Once the elite are done with them, they are simply killed off in ritual murders and no one is the wiser.

Those who think Trump will champion an investigation have not considered the significance of the so-called "Russian prostitute" dossier that made the rounds.  It was most likely fake, but it served notice on Trump that he is vulnerable regardless of his innocence in any given accusation. Even if the elite have no substantial charge (highly unlikely), they have the means to fabricate evidence and disseminate it within hours to their media blow-hards.

The die is cast.  The poisons in the mud will hatch out.  It is the nature of crumbling empires to have their darkest secrets brought to light.  It will not be simple or without collateral damage, though.  Deep secrets, like the elite pedophile system, will cause widespread injury and death as they struggle to keep their most vile practices under wraps.

This is by far not the only scandal that is coming to light, but it is the most visceral.  Economic manipulation, vast deception and wars for profits are horrible, but at least comprehensible to most people.  The elite pedophilia is something that cannot be repaired or covered up.  Once made common knowledge, the vast majority of normal people will demand blood.  Once the lid is off this can of worms, there is no going back.

Stay alert.  Not only has PizzaGate just begun, the depth and breadth of its revelations will shock even the most jaded mind.

As Claudius Caesar admonished, "Let all he poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out."

Family Law Is Neither

There is a pernicious evil eating at the core of western civilization.  It is the foundation of nearly all other evils attacking the good people there.  It is the root of moral decay and systemic destruction of the family.  Because of it, folks no longer have an ethical compass and it is chasing men away in search of stability and balance in their lives.

It goes by many names, and has operatives and spies nearly everywhere.  It feeds off the worst aspects of the human character.  It impoverishes people and incarcerates them in a whimsical and nonsensical manner.  It has no regard for truth or justice.  It's sole purpose is to destroy from within.

IT is the so-called Family Law system.  This vile rot is eating out the heart of nations and has completely destroyed millions of lives.

It purports to champion women and children, but it must utterly demonize men to do it.  It empowers the worst aspects of the female personality in order to trample the rights and lives of husbands and fathers.  It entices women by offering 'insurance' that the men will 'pay' for their children and spouses, yet it's primary goal is to imprison the men so that they are prevented from doing what the system says they should.

I have met dozens of men in Asia who have escaped the vicious maw of the Family Law system.  Some have been impoverished by ex-wives and girlfriends who, out of sheer vindictiveness, have taken all that they have worked for and endeavored to build with their lives.

In fact, that is the true goal of the Family Law system.  It is not to protect anyone.  It is designed solely and completely to destroy men and prevent them from achieving their true potential.  By literally stealing all that they have amassed, and continuing to pop up wherever the men go to take their paychecks and throw them in jail if they fail to meet the outrageous judgements against them.

I know of men who are still being hounded by the system though their children are well past majority age.  I know men who have been chased for years for paternity payments, even though they have DNA tests that prove they are not the fathers.  I know men who spend a great deal of time in jail because they can't find work, since they are now ex-cons, and so can't meet the support payments, which lands them back in jail...again and again and again.

I know men who pay outrageous sums of money every month to support children they are forbidden to see.  They are buried under a mountain of restraining orders and other legal rubbish for no reason other than a vindictive female judge and a wicked ex-wife.

Part of the Family Law system is a...how do I put this politely...thing called Child Protective Services (or any of a dozen other equally benign names).  This vile and deleterious organization is nothing more than a band of legal kidnappers and slave traders.

It thrives on a system that pays 'foster parents' to 'care' for children they have kidnapped from the rightful family.  These 'foster parents' care little about the children and many offer horrid and squalid conditions in order to collect the state payments.  The children are tortured and abused in ways that make many of the worst abusers look mild by comparison.

With the children as hostages, the Family Law system can extract any amount of concessions from the natural parents, who are desperately trying to get their children back.  These poor parents become docile drones wiling to do anything to save their children.  It is a horrible and demeaning system that beats down human beings to create emotional basket cases.

Let's take an example of someone I know.  His story is so horrific that he is still recovering nearly 10 years later.  We'll call him Paul.

Paul came home from work one day to find his house completely cleaned out, lock, stock and barrel, and his wife and three children has vanished.  Her cell phone number had been changed, as had the numbers of her friends that he knew.  The only person he could contact was the father-in-law, who railed at Paul for what he had done to the wife.

Paul was mystified, not sure what any of that meant.  On the kitchen counter, he found the case number and contact for a police investigator in the spouse abuse division.  Paul couldn't fathom what was going on.  He had never abused his wife, and in fact had spent years trying to get his wife help for abuse she had suffered at the hands of her mother and step-family.

As it was Friday, Paul had to wait until Monday to contact the investigator.  When he did, he ws informed that the wife had accused him of beating her.  Paul was shocked, to say the least.

At lunch, he went to the police station to talk with the investigator.  He was told the the wife had several serious injuries and had accused Paul of beating her the previous Thursday between 7am and 730am.  Paul wrote out his statement, and when he returned to the office, he collected key card records, computer log-on files, email and phone records which showed conclusively that he was sitting at his desk at the very time she reported being beaten.

The investigation concluded that there was no possible way for Paul to have beaten the wife, and he later found out that she had tried changing her story a couple of times to match what she thought was Paul's testimony.

The wife finally turned up three months later 1,500 miles away in another city.  The children had been taken from her since they were running wild outside a motel where she was prostituting and doing drugs.  She had been kicked out of the shelter system because she was never there taking care of the children.

In the meantime, the oldest child had admitted to the CPS 'case workers' that his mother had been sexually abusing him for some time.  He was 12 years old at the time.

This and other information was presented to a judge in the other state who agreed to release the children to be returned to their home state.  But they were not returned to Paul.  Instead, they were placed into foster care while Paul was thoroughly investigated up one wall and down the other.

The children were repeatedly traumatized by being placed with family members, and then re-kidnapped on several occasions for no apparent reason.  The mother-in-law, afraid that the horrific abuse she and her current husband's family had perpetrated on the wife when she was young, began making dozens of wild accusations.  They were accepted without question despite years worth of psychological records showing the woman to be quite unstable.

The mother-in-law was also placed in charge of the wife, who was at this point facing numerous felony charges.  Despite being in the mother's "loving" care, the wife committed suicide under suspicious circumstances and her body was not discovered for three days.  This followed three previous attempts in the mother's own home.

Meantime, the Family Law system investigated Paul's every breath.  They took his school records, job history, driving record, tax filings...everything public record they could dig up.  They forced him into psycho-therapy and dozens of useless classes and help groups.  He went along with all of it in the desperate hope of getting his children back, who by now had been spirited away to some 'foster' home for months without contact of any kind.

Despite having combed through Paul's life with a fine-tooth comb, they found nothing but a couple of hundred dollars in unpaid taxes from 10 years before.  This didn't stop them from putting him through sheer hell.  They loaded him down with insipid classes and therapy sessions, and dragged him to court once or twice a week for pointless hearings.  They drug tested him and visited his house on a regular basis to see what he was up to.

In the three years that Paul went through this, friends and family had helped him rebuild his home so that the vultures could see that he was prepared to give the children a comfortable and safe place to live.  He had kept the children registered in school in the hopes that they would be home soon.  But it all took a toll.

Paul was fired from his job because he spent more time jumping through hoops than sitting at his desk.  He had already spent more than a quarter million dollars defending himself from nothing, trying to get his children back.  Without a cent and no job, the vultures smelled blood and pounced.

Paul's own sister, a lesbian and a 'social worker,' had taken the children by now.  She saw an opportunity to take the children from Paul, since she was never going to have any by natural means.  She sided with CPS and the Family Law system and finally forced Paul to make a horrible choice: either go to trial without a lawyer and risk losing the children forever, or accept joint custody with his sister.  He would have visitation 'rights' and would have to pay support based on his income from his last job.  He was making well over $100,000/year when he was employed.  They were going to stick him with support payments of $4,000/month...with no job and absolutely no resources left.

Paul saw the writing on the wall.  They were salivating at the prospect of throwing him in jail within months for non-payment.  His only option was to sign away his 'parental rights.'  Mind you, this is all while his children were being held incommunicado, which means he was under about as much duress as a man could be.

Paul signed.

Immediately, his sister got a restraining order and refused to let him see his children.  He bounced around trying to find work and doing freelance projects.  His life was completely wrecked and he was on the verge of becoming a full-blown alcoholic trying to drown the pain and anger he felt.

This is the Family Law system in a nutshell.  It is a horrible, dreadful creature that eats families and destroys lives.  It is the reason I meet so many men here in Asia looking for traditional culture and decent women, and a legal system that still respects family above all.

Until this blight is completely dismantled and relegated to the dust-bin of history, I see little hope for the future of western civilization.  It is eating itself from the inside out.  The Family Law system is a parasite draining the life out of the culture.

Despite the magnitude of this evil, it remains well hidden, because its victims are thoroughly discredited and have no voice to fight back.  The feminist movement has created a beast that eats men's lives with little though for truth and justice.  The Family Law system does not promote equality and fairness.  It is nothing more than using the power of the state to vanquish the family and create mindless sheep.  It has completely undermined thousands of years of balance, tradition and real strength.  And that is its true purpose.

If there is one single cause for the rise in divorce, the plummeting birth rates and the masculinization of women, then the Family Law system is it.  Destroy it and restore sanity to the world.

TSA - Tacit Sexual Abuse

You see, here's where it's all screwed up...

If you homeschool your child and don't shove piles of poison down his throat just because some bloated drug-abuser in a white coat says so, then the SWAT teams raid your house and throw you in jail.  But!  If you wear a yellow shirt and act like some official lackey slime, then you can feel up children and grope other men's wives, and no one does a thing about it.

First They came... - Pastor Martin Niemoller
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

This is the way it always works in the end.  This is the way empires always collapse.  It starts with busy-bodies getting all up in other people's business.  They holler and complain that someone isn't behaving the way they want.  They push and push until some government agency is created to ensure that you do exactly what they want you to do.

Then the agency grows and sucks in more budget and takes more powers.  Then it becomes the very thing it was designed to fight.  This process is repeated a hundred times over, until the country goes broke eating itself alive.

It's like 'Child Protective Services.'  Pardon me while I gag.  It's populated by a bunch of do-goodie numbnuts with Social Work degrees (whatever the hell those are), who don't have kids of their own, and who want to tell you how to raise yours because they read it in a book.  Vile scum is what they are.

Or how about 'Transportation Safety Administration?'  So far they have done absolutely nothing to make anyone safer, but they hire a bunch of brainless thugs to grope and feel their way through your family.

How about the 'Internal Revenue Service?'  A bunch of mafia knuckle-busters who are used to go out and steal your money at gun-point to pay off a debt to a foreign corporation that you didn't authorize.

The list goes on: Secret Service, Central Intelligence (LOL!) Agency, Environmental Protection (hahaha!) Agency.  They're all a bunch of useless idiots who couldn't get real jobs, so they signed on for the nice pay and great bennies, courtesy of your pocket and labor.  Each one targets some group in society and preys on them until there is nothing left.  The part they never think about is that eventually everyone is in jail and they are all left investigating each other.  It's an endless, no-win scenario.

They problem is, they do absolutely nothing to the real criminals.  Instead, they go after the regular folks who can't afford to hire a 'Dream Team.'  Everyone reads about it in the papers, or watches the 30-second blips on TeeVee, and feels all justified that somehow society is getting cleaned up.

Then it happens to you.  You go about your business and don't think about the fact that the thugs are running low on real perps and you are next.  Did you EVER take a questionable deduction on your taxes?  Did you EVER exceed the speed limit?  Did you EVER take a hit off a joint in college?  Did you EVER spank you child?

You scum.  You should be in jail.  When you're rotting in Sing-Sing, then I can feel justified that my tax dollars are being effectively used to clean up America.  After all, they'll NEVER come for me.  My crimes are so small and piddling compared to YOURS.  We're busy watching each other and trying to catch each other committing little nothing crimes, that the real perps are getting away with murder...literally.

It's like the cow that used to live next to me in the States.  She was always watching out for parents doing something with their children she didn't like.  If you so much as cast a shadow over the line, she would drop a nickel on you with CPS.  Yet, her son was known as the best pot dealer in the neighborhood and her daughter was a teen-aged Matahari.  Word has it someone finally repaid her good deeds and she got bit by the same vile creatures she was always turning loose on others.

Here's a thought.  CPS allows anonymous tips, because all vile and filthy vermin do that.  So, start calling CPS, everywhere and all day, and report the TSA yellow shirts.  Won't that be great fun?  We can all sit back and watch as two groups of Nazi scum go after each other.

In fact, that's a great idea!  Start calling various agencies and reporting agents from other agencies.  Keep those useless scum running around in circles investigating each other.  While you're at it, throw in your local congresscritter.  After all, the most egregious violators of the law usually hide behind masks of law-makers.  Just paedophiles like to get positions of trust and authority over children (hmmm...maybe TSA agents?).  Just like child abusers becoming foster parents so that the vile CPS vermin hand them victims, under shadow of law.

It's all so...filthy.

I think it would be great theater if CPS started getting thousands of calls reporting TSA for child abuse.  If they don't investigate the reports, then why should anyone take them seriously?  After all, isn't that what they are supposed to do?  Protect children?  Hahahaha!  It would kill two agencies with one stone.

Why, it's just like the BATF killing 80 men, women and children in a church using every kind of modern weaponry, all because those folks supposedly had guns.  Or how about the DEA boys who are running drugs across the Mexican border and protecting drug lords?  Better yet!  How about the unlawful guy sitting in the White House dusting his Nobel Peace Prize while killing hundreds of thousands of people in four different wars?

And all because you willingly and fearfully hand over your money and follow anyone with a color-coded shirt and a piece of metal in their pocket with pretty designs all over it.

And people wonder how the German people could go along with the death and destruction that Hitler brought to Europe.  And all those people paid their taxes and went along with it because they were afraid of being a target.  Thus millions of people were easily controlled by hundreds of vile creatures.

It's really amazing, when you think about it.

There was an experiment a few years back, where volunteers were told that a switch in front of them was hooked to wires that would cause great pain to someone in another room.  The volunteer was to ask a series of questions, and if the other person got an answer wrong, they were to flip the switch.  All because someone in a lab coat told them to.  And they did.  Even when they thought they were inflicting severe pain on a complete stranger.  In almost every case.

It's just like a friend of mine, trundling down the six-lane interstate in his massive Ford pick-em-up full of eletric and electronic equipment, sipping on his 'fair trade' coffee that was flown in from Columbia via half a dozen middlemen, grousing about how people live resource-intensive lifestyles, on his way to make a documentary on global warming.  He honestly didn't see the irony of it.  He was doing the right thing, just like Algore in his personal Boeing 737.

Anyone that comes up to you and says you ought to be doing things their way should be immediately arrested and taken to Gitmo.  They're the ones who are supporting the Empire.  The problem is, they won't see the error of their ways until the goon-sqad comes to their door.  Until then, they are just self-righteous do-gooders who think they are being oh-so-helpful by changing the world to suit their tastes.  It never occurs to them that maybe other people like things different.

You see, the minute you want to use government force to change me, then you have created empire, and that empire will come back to eat you and everyone around you, because empires can not be constrained.  They will grow and swell until they have consumed everything around them.  Then they turn inward and start eating their own guts.

It's happened over and over and over.  And yet, we keep building more empires, because you can't stand the fact that maybe I want to live differently from you.  It's the whole fallacy of forced integration.  Why should I have to live with a bunch of people who want to mow their lawn, when I like mine a little more natural?  Then when you create a police force to make sure my lawn is just like yours, you have destroyed my world to make you happy.

The only problem with the collapse of empires is they tend to take just about everything else with them.  It's the hallmark of cowards to make others suffer their fate with them.

But certainly, the world is much better off without them.

Wig-Flipping And Other Notes

America has finally gone 'round the bend.

The entire country is in receivership, Japanese radiation is wafting overhead, the Middle East is in revolution, Europe is cratering, and Asia is literally falling apart at the seems, and the headline in today's Jakarta Post?

"Man Leaves Child To Play Ninja"

Yup, seems cops and busybodies in Scottsdale, Pennsylvania, have nothing better to do than arrest a man in the park wearing black.  They later claim he left his 4-year-old son alone while he was out jogging (in black clothes).  So, for lack of ANYTHING better to do, they threw him in prison and charged him with 'child endangerment.'

Looks to me like the only people endangering the child is the government of Scottsdale.

Though the article fails to say, I can imagine that those fascist pigs put the man's son in 'protective custody' with foster parents, who have a long and stellar history of mental, physical and sexual abuse.  Furthermore, they have stripped the child from his father and everything he knows and they call that 'protection.'

I loathe CPS, busybody government agents and hack-booted thugs.  The people who should rightfully be in jail are the ones who are truly endangering the child: intrusive and over-whelming government know-it-alls.

You see...here's how it's supposed to work: you commit a crime, you are tried and convicted, you are sent to jail.  This poor father was accused after the fact of endangering a child, yet the child is (or was before the slimeballs came), and in fact there was no crime committed.  You can not be charged with what might have been.

Michael Jackson holding his baby over a balcony railing and showing it off to waiting press was child endangerment.  A man jogging in the park while his kid slept is not, no matter what color clothes he was wearing.

You see, that's the problem in a nutshell.  People are jailed for crimes that MIGHT have happened and priorities are completely and utterly backwards.

Had the man's child been harmed or killed, he could have been charged with manslaughter.  But leaving his kid to sleep while he gets in a quick jog is not a crime.  If you don't like leaving your kids alone, then don't, but that doesn't make it a crime when I do.

It's like the whole madness with 'hate crime.'  If I kill someone, it's murder whether I hated the person or it was cold blood.  Because I kill someone for being green makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to the nature of the crime.  In fact, all crime is hate crime at some level or another.  And hate speech is the absolutely right of every human being on Earth.  Every individual has the right to speak their mind, regardless of whether I like the message or not.

If someone kills a Jew because Hitler claims the Jews are scum, then the person who commits the crime is the killer, not Hitler.  Hitler only spoke his mind.  But, if Hitler orders the killing of a Jew directly, then both Hitler and the killer are at fault.

If a preacher says his religion condemns homosexuality and that church refuses to allow homosexuals to join, that's their prerogative.  It's called the right of free association.  But, if a member of the church assaults a homosexual, then the assailant is at fault.  If the preacher tells his flock to assault homosexuals because they are evil, then both are at fault.

Very simple concepts, really.  If nothing is lost and no one is injured, there can be no crime.  Anything else is just a scene out of "Minority Report."  A crime can not be prevented, it either happens or it doesn't.  The whole concept of crime prevention is a myth perpetrated by a massive incarceration industry whose business model is to process every human being on Earth through the system to generate profits.

This whole concept leads to something called 'political correctness.'  PC is nothing more than fascism repackaged and relabeled to be more palatable, since Hitler put a dirty image on it.  No matter how you wrap it, though, it is an attempt to control not only how we think, but what we think.  It is vital to a healthy society to be able to express any idea, no matter how distasteful it may be to you or me.  If we start putting limits on what I can say or think, then the flood gate is open and all thought is on the chopping block, to mix a few metaphors.

At one time, Galileo Galilei was a radical thinker.  He took what he saw, objects that didn't revolve around Earth, and expressed it as the idea that the Earth wasn't the center of the Universe.  Today, we accept that as axiomatic, but he was condemned to house arrest for life and excommunicated by the Catholic Church for daring to challenge the existing paradigm.

Mahatma Ghandi was persecuted and hounded to the end of his days by the British Empire for his desire to live in a country that was free of control from some outside power who had no interest in the welfare of the people.

Si Pitung was made into a criminal and hunted like an animal by the Dutch, who stole the wealth of Indonesia to support their lifestyles and because they were too damn cheap to buy what they needed.  Now-a-days, Si Pitung is a hero of Indonesian folk lore, much like Robin Hood.

Things like independent American states existing outside the iron-fisted rule of a tyrannical federal empire is only inconceivable because it changes the paradigm we have had pounded into our brains since birth, such that we can not conceive of any other way to go.  The time has come to not only think of, but try another way.

All governments lie.  The recent Japanese situation is case in point.  That they lie and fail to protect their citizens, which is their primary function and the reason we create them for ourselves.  As so many fine thinkers throughout history have rightly pointed out, when governments fail to do the one task they are charged with, then it is time to get rid of them.

One poor guy in Pennsylvania was doing his own thing and is now rotting in jail.  He can't care for his child in that situation.  He is a victim of a nanny state that has grown to the point where it destroys its citizens to prove that they are worth destroying.  It is a fallacious and evil form of ruling class that would do this.

The scum who call themselves government agents, and whose primary purpose is to protect society from thugs such as banksters and other profound threats to freedom, is instead aiding and abetting the evil, and perpetrating the crimes of the mobsters upon the innocent citizens.

The time has come to not only conceive of, but institute a new way of thinking...a new paradigm.  It is time for families to resume watching their own and not letting faceless, brainless thugs tell us how to live, and by extention perpetrate the very crimes that they charge us normal human beings with.

The most vital and powerful tool at our disposal is the power to ignore and castigate those who would make us their slaves.  But, it also requires us to change our mode of thinking.  We can not enforce on others the standards that we hold for ourselves.  Sure, maybe you wouldn't leave your child to go out and jog, but that does NOT give you the right to tell another what they can do.  If the child is injured in any way, then there is a crime that is punishable.  Otherwise, bug off and let sleeping dogs lie.

Besides, has anything happened to the man's child, his own conscience would be the ultimate punishment, as he must live with the consequence of his action until the end of his days.

To each his own.  I'll let you be stupid and irresponsible, if you piss off and let me do the same.  If my actions cause loss or injury to another, then we have an argument.  Otherwise, keep your authoritarian fascist slimy hands off of me and mine.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me.  But, being reasonable seems to be in very short supply these days.

Nina bobo, nina bobo.  Kalo tidak bobo, digigit nyemuk.

Sampai jumpa!

 

Thanksgiving On The Far Side

American ex-pats occasionally bring some of their home culture with them. You have to keep in mind that many ex-pats live outside the country because of the oppression and tyranny back home. I'm no different. I was attacked and impovrished by Child Protective Serives (CPS) because of my politics.

I was intimately involved in the Texas separatist movement for many years. They tried a number of times to get me. My father was also a major enemy of the Bush family mafia, and since he was dead, they wanted to pound me into submission.

Basically, my wife got hooked on Xanax, which like other depression "cures", causes a complete break with reality. When she disappeared with our children, CPS at the behest of political forces saw an opportunity to get me. They could find nothing to hang on me. They had no proof that I had committed any crime. So their solution, which they use quite often, is to delay and hem and haw until you are completely broke and can't fight anymore. My fault was nothing more than disagreeing with fascism and having the gaul to fight back.

So, like many ex-pats I know, I have left the American pile of pullshit behind. But, I still have certain customs that are a part of my life and my memories. Thanksgiving is one of them. Giving thanks to the Universe for my life and my small successes seems like a pretty darned good idea.

furthermore, a lot of Indonesians are deeply curious about Americans and the life we live. The only image they have of us is what they see in movies and on TV. Think about that. How much of what you see in the media actually reflects your real life? None.

So, when I said I wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, a number of friends wanted to join, taste some of the traditional foods and take part in a well-known American holiday.

I had to make some concessions: some of my friends are muslim, so the food has to be halal; I have to work Thursday, so the celebration will take place on Friday; and turkey is about $100 a kilo here, so I will use chicken instead. However, I will make the sage stuffing, my famous mash potatoes, my world-famous spaghetti sauce, and cheese brocolli. My girl-friend is making bakso soup (bakso is a Chinese meatball) and some other Indonesian favorites.

So far, there are about 20 people on the list for dinner. To a person, they have all asked me what is the story of Thanksgiving, so I've had to discuss the whole history of European invasion of North America.

The first time I celevrated Thanksgiving outside America was when I lived with my family in Dublin, Ireland 30 years ago. We could get a turkey, but it was tough and dry...not like the factory-raised Butterball. What was special about that holiday is it drew us together to perform a ritual we have all celebrated all our lives. There is a warm feeling that comes with rituals.

This year, I am using ayam kampung (village chicken). Ayam kampung is halal, not to mention healthier than the factory birds available at home. They are raised within a mile of my house, have never had growth hormones or vaccines, and are young pullets, so they should be tender and juicy.

The chickens will be slaughtered and plucked on Thursday morning. I will pick them up and prep them Thursday night. Friday, I will cook all day to make enough food for the folks who are coming. Indonesians love anything free, especially food, so I figure at least 30 will actually show up. I'm cooking four chickens, five pounds of potatoes, an acre of brocolli, and enough meatball soup to feed an army. I even bought an oven just for the occasion.

Oh, and the best part is I am making a traditional Texas beverage to compliment the food: margaritas. Picked up a liter of Sauza in Singapore just for the celebration. None of the Indonesians coming for dinner have ever had one. Should be fun!

This is my first Thanksgiving since coming to Indonesia. I have finally reached to point where I can host the celebration, so I have something to celebrate. Thank God for success for hard work. Thank God for a good woman to help me. Thank God for friends who took care of me when I went blind. And thank God for the freedom I have found here in Indonesia.

Just hope my friends and family back in the gulag can one day celebrate also.

And thank God that my children are healthy and growing up well. I hope someday they will take up my fight and finish the job.

I hope they will continue to celebrate this tradition, mindful of its real meaning.

And finally, thanks to the people and nation of Indonesia for letting this crazy foreigner to come here and live his dreams and be part of this amazing country.

I can't wait for the chicken and stuffing sandwiches on Saturday!