Reverse Human Trafficking
By taking bipedal earthling artists
Who may have escaped bad or
Dangerous and violent circumstances
To come to a place of safety and hope
Only to have the alleged leader
In a nation of mostly immigrants
Destroyer of indigenous peoples
Having the compassion-less
Wherewithal to (get this………..)
Send them back to that vile situation
Which to my best, yet vaguest understanding
Is not something that Jesus fella would do
Ooopsie
NOT SOMETHING, THAT JESUS FELLA WOULD DO
So if/when you are allegedly against
The concept of human trafficking
Be against the reverse of it, too
If not in action, because after all
You can not fight city hall
Realizing every bipedal earthling artist is a
Citizen of this world in this dense dimension
As if this wasn’t dark enough, bring a flashlight
To put it in context, using metaphorical language
Abortion is reverse human trafficking by
Sending the spirit (the ghost in the machine)
Back to the spirit realm, which may have been
Leaving a good situation to change a bad one
But was circumstantially unwanted and sent back
Nobody knows, certainly I do not, no way at all
At what point does a fetus so sacrosanct become
So unwanted after it comes out of its protective womb
To be placed (forced) into detention centers
Wink wink (camps) at Guantánamo Bay
Ought not the Christian in Christian nationalist
Be more Christ like first than nationalistic
Not rooting out all the non-white, non-Christian
Having once escaped religious persecution themselves
Do we have to go through this shit again
Sorry folks, Mars is not an option
Not now, not ever. Deal with it
This year, I was going to veer off of using
Comedian’s quotes and closing comments
However, since I have not used this one yet,
Will leave it here in its entirety.
“Here’s one more item for you, the last in our civics book: rights.
Boy, everyone in this country is always running around, yammering about their fucking rights. I have a right. You have no right. We have a right.
They don’t a have right. Folks, I hate to spoil your fun but there’s no such thing as rights, OK.
They’re imaginary. We made them up, like the Boogie Man, the Three Little Pigs, Pinocchio, Mother Goose, shit like that.
Rights are an idea. They’re just imaginary. They’re a cute idea. Cute but that’s all. Cute and fictional.
But if you think you do have rights let me ask you this, where do they come from? People say, “Well, they come from God. They’re God-given rights.”
Oh, fuck, here we go again. Here we go again. The God excuse. The last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument, “They came from God.” Anything we can’t describe must have come from God.
Personally, folks, I believe that if your rights came from God, he would have given you the right to some food every day, and he would have given you the right to a roof over your head. God would have been looking out for you.
God would have been looking out for you, you know that? He wouldn’t have been worrying about making sure you have a gun so you can get drunk on Sunday night and kill your girlfriend’s parents.
But let’s say it’s true. Let’s say God gave us these rights. Why would he give us a certain number of rights?
The Bill of Rights in this country has ten stipulations, OK? Ten rights. And apparently, God was doing sloppy work that week because we’ve had to amend the Bill of Rights an additional 17 times, so God forgot a couple of things like slavery. Just fucking slipped his mind.
But let’s say God gave us the original ten. He gave the British 13. The British Bill of Rights has 13 stipulations. The Germans have 29. The Belgians have 25. The Swedish have only 6. And some people in the world have no rights at all.
What kind of a fucking, goddamn, God-given deal is that? No rights at all? Why would God give different people in different countries different numbers of different rights? Boredom? Amusement? Bad arithmetic? Do we find out at long last after all this time that God is weak in math skills?
Doesn’t sound like divine planning to me. Sounds more like human planning. Sounds more like one group trying to control another group. In other words, business as usual in America.
Now, if you think you do have rights, one last assignment for you. Next time you’re at the computer, get on the internet. Go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, I want you to type in Japanese Americans 1942, and you’ll find out all about your precious fucking rights, OK? All right. You know about it. You know about it. Yeah.
In 1942, there were 110,000 Japanese-American citizens in good standing, law-abiding people, who were thrown into internment camps simply because their parents were born in the wrong country. That’s all they did wrong.
They had no right to a lawyer, no right to a fair trial, no right to a jury of their peers, no right to due process of any kind. The only right they had? Right this way, into the internment camps.
Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most, their government took them away, and rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges.
That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year, the list gets shorter and shorter and shorter.
You see how silly that is? Yeah. Sooner or later, the people in this country are going to realize the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn’t care about you or your children or your rights or your welfare or your safety.
It simply doesn’t give a fuck about you. It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.
Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights or we have no rights at all.
Personally, I lean toward unlimited rights. I feel, for instance, I have the right to do anything I please. But if I do something you don’t like, I think you have the right to kill me.
So where are you going to find a fairer fucking deal than that? So the next time some asshole says to you, “I have a right to my opinion, “you say, “Oh yeah? Well I have a right to my opinion, and my opinion is you have no right to your opinion.” Then shoot the fuck and walk away.
Thank you.
– George Carlin
“I only hope
Buyer’s remorse
Sinks in quick enough
So as to return
It’s defective product
Back to the reality TV
Hell that produced it.”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 
Intense post!!! You really move the standard! Thank you.
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Thank you
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I’m curious about your thoughts on this. Jesus also said, Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s as a response to a question whether Jews should pay taxes to Rome. His answer was yes, of course. The Romans provide the roads, services, and even make the coins they used to sell and pay for their goods. So, isn’t it proper, especially in light of what Jesus would do, to ask that people coming over any ‘border’ (as determined by any modern day Rome) to do so legally? Jesus never advises someone to break the law. There is a difference between a spiritual domain and the secular society domain.
I also just learned that the heartbreak of “allowing” people to cross borders illegally is that it enrichens and emboldens the drug cartels who often abuse the people who are escaping horrible situations. Triple whammy for the victims!
So how can we find a way to “save” the downtrodden who need our compassion and kindness and do so in a way that makes them feel loved, accepted, and welcome? There is no good that comes from skulking around a country with no legal status. (No one would try that anywhere else in the world).
My sense is that we can uphold “Caesar’s laws” and help immigrants get “Caesar’s papers” in a proper way instead of subjecting them to the chaos we’ve had, which puts everyone on every side of the fence in a bad place.
Grateful for you as always.
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And yes!!! Sanctity of all life! Can we have that across the board? How can we teach that? I know you have some good ideas so we can spread the Word!
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Good question. How do we save the downtrodden who need our compassion.
The answer is simpler than what you might expect. Plus, it has been in society’s consciousness since the early 70s. Which is probably the underlying basis unconsciously for my perspective.
“Drum roll, please…….” – Bill Hicks
“Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…. Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one”
“John Lennon” “Imagine”
Imagine being a sovereign citizen on a host planet. Methinks it is possible, and it would be easier to collectively and individually be responsible. If we knew we were looking out for ourselves by looking out for others.
Unfortunately, it works for the dividers to keep us divided. Technically, there is no such thing as an “illegal person.”
But as solutions go. Imagine we had the best education system in the world, from K through college, trades, and art. Instead of the dumbing down digression we are experiencing.
We could have the best transportation, roads, and rail. Housing, food, etc.
People would want to be “legal” to help contribute to that imagined system.
More musical inspiration.
From Rush 2112
“[V. Oracle: The Dream]
‘…I guess it was a dream, but even now it all seems so vivid to me. Clearly yet I see
the beckoning hand of the oracle as he stood at the summit of the staircase…’
‘…I see still the incredible beauty of the sculptured cities and the pure spirit of man revealed in the lives and works of this world. I was overwhelmed by both wonder and understanding as I saw a completely different way to life, a way that had been crushed by the Federation long ago. I saw now how meaningless life had become with the loss of all these things…’
I wandered home through the silent streets
And fell into a fitful sleep
Escape to realms beyond the night
Dream, can’t you show me the light?
I stand atop a spiral stair
An oracle confronts me there
He leads me on light years away
Through astral nights, galactic days
I see the works of gifted hands
That grace this strange and wondrous land
I see the hand of man arise
With hungry mind and open eyes.”
Thanks for the inquiry. I didn’t realize I had something in my head to back it up.
It comes down to a simple business dilemma. What if we train them and they don’t stay. As opposed to, what if we don’t train them, and they do.
Get them “legal” and contribute back to a system that would have global implications.
There is no us vs. them. It is all us.
Bring it in to balance with a governmental system of meritocracy and technocracy, so the best and brightest continue to rise to their situation and station in life.
Hope this helps. It certainly helped me understand where I’m coming from.
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Thank you for your thoughtful response. Gives me so much more to think about.
As you say, we’ve had the “clue” of Imagine(ing) for 50 years now, and yet… the Rush quote too – It must move from a dream to an actual hands-on reality.
To honour your way of using lyrics to convey additional powerful points, I think of this (also from the 70s) from Ten Years After
It seems that’s what we’ve been doing, leaving it up to whoever wants to deal with it. Which means no one is going to do anything, until someone actually does something.
I think it would be great if people came to the US to get good training and skills and then go off into the world to share it with whomever they want. We can make the entire world an amazing place by sharing knowledge and talent. Which is what you always convey.
“Bring it in to balance with a governmental system of meritocracy so the best and brightest continue to rise to their situation and station in life.” – YES!!!!!
You make the world already a better place to be in!!
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And no religion too…
Joseph Campbell in “The Power of Myth” to my best recollection points out the similarities and adaptations of most religions. Even though people can see/read and understand this. They still want to cling to what they know and believe what feels comfortable.
“They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.”
Issac Asimov
Meanwhile science too has at least theorized God’s existence with the Higgs ocean / boson. So too has Obi-Wan Kenobi by explaining
“An energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.”
“Basically, there are 3000 gods. You deny one less God than I do. You don’t believe in 2,999 gods. And I don’t believe in just one more.”
― Ricky Gervais
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I find it fascinating that every culture comes up with a language and a system to try to understand how and why we are here. Most of them use some version of the word God, or some meaning that is identical to it. Even the quantum physicists. Probably because somewhere in there is a truth to it. But exactly as you say, people get too married to a rigid conception of what it means and then get lost in the frozen circles of their tradition instead of understanding it as a living thing (aka Life) that animates and inhabits everything that is and isn’t.
So simple really.
Glad you understand it too!
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My best perception and one that makes it universal for me is that God is the Word and the Word is God. Like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest, if there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound? The same goes for existence and the universes. If no one, nothing is there, to observe it, then it too does not exist, nor make a sound, let alone a big bang.
It is only when we have God / Words, like seeing and hearing, that we are able to experience subjective perspectives within the “observable” existence.
Almost like those who chain themselves to the concept of a flat earth. To them, it is flat, and no amount of God / Word’s are going to convince them otherwise.
Perhaps in the reverse, once we are dead and meld back into infinity, then our “self” will no longer “exist.”
Pete Holmes has a clever observation
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