EP1 The Anniversary and The Mandate: Monologue
My thoughts on the anniversary of 9/11 and Biden's mandate.
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Hello all, this is number six. I had a different show planned for you today, but with our recording schedule changing this week, John Henry and I ended up having our conversation on the Anniversary of 9/11.
I don't believe in coincidences much these days. I had most of what I'm about to say written and ready to record for our first episode...then Biden announced the mandate.
To stick with the topics we had prepared for you, albeit related to these two very important moments in the history of our country, the occasion called for a bit more attention.
We have reached the twentieth anniversary of an event that drove the American people into what have been endless wars. Wars we were driven to by our media, politicians, intelligence agencies, justice system, and our business class. Covert wars were also waged against our privacy, our freedom of speech, and due process resulting in a dramatic change in our culture. All based on the lies from the people in the institutions I just mentioned. Not only did these wars lead to the usual murder and atrocities, and trillions spent this time, our war to protect our freedoms removed our freedoms.
Twenty years later and we have another new war. Instead of bringing that war to foreign soil...we're the targets. Because as of this week the executive branch in this country can decide what freedoms it chooses to recognize and punish those exercising the ones it doesn't like. But our president failed to remember...we the people will not stand for it. We will not comply!
It doesn't matter who we are, the ideas of liberty are much larger than identity. Much more capable of changing people's minds than we are. The concepts we discuss on today's show are far older than we are and many will probably last quite longer after we're gone. But while we're breathing we will not let this overtake us. We will not be silent. We will not be apathetic or nihilistic. We will be empathetic and pragmatic. And we might get loud. Whatever non-violent actions it takes for the people to break from their isolation and take back control of their culture, we at The New Prisoners will stand with you.
We don't think we were meant to be mindless consumers. We don't think we were meant to be servants under a dictatorship. We were meant to be the owners of our own country.
We have a duty to address the problems with what we own. If there's no way to air our grievances to the other owners on the land we all share that makes conflict inevitable.
If that conflict escalates with both the people who control most of our means of production and the ones we gave the monopoly on violence then we shouldn't be surprised when they threaten to starve and kill us.
If businesses have rights and entitlements granted to them by the government, which can be used to make them act at the behest of the government, circumventing the process that protects our rights, then everything we consume feeds that corrupt system. Positive rights that businesses now have, that use government protection and violence to violate the negative rights of the people, is a result of a broken hierarchy. These corporate entities deserve no right that violates the human rights we are all born with.
Because groups have no rights. Rights are inherent in every individual. Its through the individuals choice to say "No, I won't do that." when they ask you to put on the mask, to turn in your neighbor, or to force a needle into their arm.
The complacency, the cynicism, and apathy towards the role of government in our nation has lead to a culture of nihilistic self interest. When you have nothing else to believe in, all you might care about is yourself. Corrupt systems lead to black markets. To darker instincts in all of us. In a system in which you relinquish all control, how could you be made to compromise yourself for survival? Would you kill to survive? Would you abandon your family to save yourself? What other sick things would you do if asked to do so by our now overtly fascist government?
The people of North Korea and China live like that. As did the people in Eastern Europe. You can witness their stories online. You don't have to live them.
Speaking of online...the reason why the government and businesses censor you, the reason why they gate keep information, the reason why they gaslight you, is because doubt leads to instability. When you're dealing with people who feel entitled to control and manipulate you, to their will, any weakness that they show, any acknowledgment of failure, can bring their whole game crashing down.
We want all of you to recognize your power and the responsibilities that come with liberty. To seize it and use it as a weapon of peace and justice. To not let any corrupt entity steer us into serfdom or slavery. It begins with a simple "No." and sticking to it.
Fortunately there are plenty of us to look to for encouragement on alternative platforms. Where new communities are being built. Communities where our values are upheld. Where our commitment to massive non-violent civil disobedience holds firm to take back what belongs to each individual. Where we can exercise the right to a life free from the control of business and government. One closer to our nature. One that allows us all to find our true purpose in life.