The Suburban Book of the Dead: Exile in Paradise Well, now for those StS fans, here it is the Official Release 1.0. It is not complete, but I didn't feel like writing anymore. I could, but I am lazy. If you want to add to it or disagree with it, go right ahead, I will be interested to see your remarks. I don't care either way, but if you do have something to say: SIGN IT! Anonymity isn't. If you feel enough about it to say, stand behind it. No Real Names please, as that is just an easy way to give the government a list of people to watch. Handles will do just fine. Comments may be inserted Quote-like where ever or appended. My typing, spelling, and grammar suck, but I don't even have a G.E.D. and you should be amazed I can even speak or write at all. All opinions in ver1.0 release are Exile in Paradise's. Additions are the sole responsibility of the person adding to this. Title: Suburban Book of the Dead stolen from Armageddon: the Musical by Robert J Rankin. He has no idea I even wrote this and let 'em try to sue for copyright infringment. Ha! ============================================================================ Well, not too much longer now, I suppose. The way I see it, society is about to fragment very badly. Not just class, race, or some such 'progressive' blame receptacle, but due to the amazing amount of information one individual must aquire just to keep abreast with and field of learning. Think of it like this: One person can only learn so much in a given lifetime. Only a handful ever rise to eminence in a given field, and that is only after DECADES of soaking up the available knowledge. This aquisition phase does not include contributing to that given field, just getting a 'handle' on it. Soon, I think, civilization will have aquired so much knowledge that the rate of advancements in a given field will drop. Eventually the major avenues of research will be exhausted and the nit-pickers will set in. This may have already happened. Even now (1993) it takes teams of specialists just to provide some 'enhancement' to some bit of knowledge our civilization already posesses. In many cases these teams will only be 'rediscovering' some lost art or knowledge any pre industrial revolution man took as just 'common sense'. This would seem to pose many problems if pondered for any length of time. Fact: The 'average joe' cannot read worth spit. As Robert Heinlein pointed out, since the 1950's the global literacy rate in one generation has passed the literacy rate of all previous history. So what about it? What good has it wrought? Very little I say. This 'literate common man' cannot feed himself , nor clothe, nor house himself. He has not even the faintest inkling of how to make fire WITHOUT modern help like lighter, matches, charcoal, fuel, etc. Ask the common man how to make an oven requiring no electricity or gas, and he would probably point to a microwave and say "what's an oven". Given this is a bit exageratted, but still contains much truth. In a New York power outtage, most people (even educated professionals, etc.) will stand like sheep in a dark elevator and repeatedly push the magic button hoping the djinn inside will awaken once again. It never occurs to people trapped on a subway to actually GET OUT and walk to the next station. The djinn has fled and the sheep are left dumbfounded. In all I say this is a sadder fate for our people than gas chambers or murder. This is the slowest death one can endure. If you beleive ignorance is bliss, wait for the djinn to return. Maintain and even feed more energy into your dependence system. It has been said any city is three days from starvation and one week from cannibalism. I am not sure about cannibalism, but barbarism I could believe quite easily. We have gangs of armed youth now who will gladly demonstrate this for you any time you please. All you need to do is watch the local news. As I write this, I realize I am dependent on so many djinn as to exhaust the entire linfe output of any group of working class sorcerors. The computer I am writing this one required the lives of thousands, just to build. Untold numbers keep it running with supply chains of parts and power. The food I ate today was nowhere near prepared by my own hand. It came prepackaged and 'conveniently' available. Every person in America, save the Amish and Native Americans, are only the parasitic leeches at the ends of thousands of long chains of dependence. My apartment does not belong to me, nor did I help in any way to make it. I know none of my neighbors, nor could I depend on them in a crisis anyway. Many people better than myself have all put forth reasons for the current state of affairs, but have offered few solutions. Solutions that do exist are scoffed at by those who cannot contemplate a wourld without all the vast networks in existance to keep them alive without their conscious thought or participation. Joseph Campbell has made many good suggestions on how to alleviate or remedy these problems. Native American philosiphers have been quietly working on tenative solutions. Other societies have tried various ways of changing their 'status quo'. It hasn't worked because they fail to realize the amount of hubris bound up in the lowest dolt. Man is an animal, and a piss-poor one at that. Man has stopped evolving both physically and mentally. Man has even gone so far as to aggravate the problem by coddling the weak, ill, and deformed. Man now coddles the elderly well beyond their years where they contribute to society. In "primitive" societies elders were well respected, because they EARNED it. They were the wisdom and continuation of history for the tribe. Now the parasitic arthritics DEMAND a level of support and respect they neither deserve or earn. Dead weight should be removed when it becomes such. You do not carry every flat tire you ever had around in your car because it was once useful. Todays elderly actively campaign for 'more rights' while trampling over the rights of those who are busy inheriting the sad world THEY left us. They will not even have the good sense, grace, or decency to weed themselves out. Children today are raised by the state practically from birth on. They are required by law to attend STATE schools, get STATE mandated medical care whether they need it or not, and then they are hustled into subservience to the STATE as soon as they can flip a whopper. Anyone who tries to resist is made the target of STATE sponsored terrorism in the form of swayed public 'opinion' and armed shock tropper intervention. And you believe the pap they feed you over the air and in your papers. They coax you like cattle to the slaughterhouse into doing the majority of their work for them. Once they have a large enough pool of 'outraged citizens' or 'do-gooders' (either one) they can act in the public good and supress (violently if they get their jollies that way) anything 'different' or 'out of the ordinary'. YOUR state will pass any number of laws necessary to band-aid a problem and never once ask you or themselves consider the root of the problem. Just patch it over and then vote themselves a raise. Since when, Joe Ignorant, did you need the state to tell you how to run your own affairs? In our 'Land of the Free to Sue', the state will break even its own SELF-IMPOSED rules (your glorious Constitutions) when They see fit. In trying to be an outside observer to the affairs of this country, I have grown increasingly of the opinion that we have been invaded already by large swarms of useless parasitic intelligences in human form. Not UFO's as They would have you believe, but by Doctors, Lawyers, and Politicians. A silent invasion, and many, if not most, of you are traitors and conspiritors with them. The sad fact is they were so clever as to make you believe you were acting in the common interest. Sort of a massive Stockholm Syndrome, where victims of terrorists increasingly aid their captors. Your chains are invisible and silent. They do not weigh you down, nor do you even suspect their existence until you take them off. That is how good the Invaders are. (personal note: clever little bastards like this can only be admired though, they do a thorough job if nothing else). Example time: how did women have children until the professional Doctor came along? Mystery or genetics? Well, they had children the same ways they do now except then they didn't have to pay thousands of dollars a day for the right. Another example: what the hell do we need police for? Who guards the guardians? In 'primitive times' man was Ultimately Responsible for every action and thought. "Primitive" man did not give up once ounce of his power to another man, and those who tries to take that power often has to pay with their lives, thus improving the species. The Invader has not only convinced you to give up your power to him, but he has convinced you to give him power OVER you. You have forfeited the one thing you truly have: your life. You gave it to the STATE, and do not even want it back. You will not even ask for an equal share, a sort of mutual partnership. Instead you are perfectly willing to act like helpless chicks with your mouths open waiting for Mother STATE to reguritate whatever they will and fill YOU up with it. I can here you begging for it from here. Mark Twain once quoted an essay from a schoolboy in a more enlightened time. The essay was about girls. In it the young author said "I pity them poor things" in reference to his opinion that girls of his time were not allowed to do fun things like him. I feel the same about all of you. I pity you. I can at least will myself to look for the chains of dependence that bind me just as tightly as you. Can you say the same? If you think so, put down the cellular phone first. More examples you say, now that the content of this talk has finally leaked through all the layers of STATE sponsored garbage, polically correct slime, and morally decent sewage covering your grey matter? Fine. Happy to oblige since the teacher's responsibility is to teach when asked. Note that, in horse sense, you cannot lead the dull to Euclid and expect him to even care much less want to learn what Euclid had to say. Primitive Societes taught all in them survival first, then the individual followed his heart to what teachers interested him. He was not bussed to the Pablum Factory and force fed at everyones expense. In fact the Primitive Individual BOUGHT his learning from the teacher, or went and invented it himself. Sounds kinda logical does it not? Examples though: do you smoke? I can hear the politically correct types gagging even now. I smoke, so what of it? This country you are all so falsely proud of was BUILT on tobacco. Look it up yourselves. The forefathers you gleefully spout off about sucked the pipe every now and then. If the tobacco nowadays was not poisoned the way it is, it really would not be all that bad for you in moderation. Unfortunately I am an extremist, I smoke a pack a day or more. Talk about dependencies... I know. But you could also look at it this way: I am flawed this way and it will eventually kill me, thus removing me from the gene pool. Neat, clean, and I'll even pay for my own funeral if at all possible. Talk about flaws, what sense does it make to spend thousands of dollars a day to keep an AIDS patient alive. Because there may be cure before they die? Harrummph. They are a specie unto themselves and deserve to die out. Harsh? True. But they are not paying for their care any more than the elderly pay for their care. In fact, another little idea about the Invader's Plan. The government cooked AIDS up after getting your approval and money, then it got loose and began to eradicate whole sections of the population. Then they got you approval and money to spend BILLIONS to cure it. Screwed twice, folks. Thumbscrews I mean, and you are eating it up. The only reason the government allowed AIDS to become a public issue was so you would blindly do whatever they asked of you. AIDS is a killer, and you bought and paid for it, many times over. And yet you never ask where it comes from. Sad record guys. Every generation has it's plague. You think AIDS is the plague, but you are wrong. Stupidity and blind dependence are the plague. AIDS is just to thin the herd a little and increase the rest of the herd's dependence a lot. In government numbers, AIDS is a pretty good investment. It has backfired on them though, and they are running scared. Hell there may even BE a cure, but once they can synthesize it, the rest of the rainforest will QUICKLY disappear. Bank on it... Speaking of banks and money in general, let us take a closer look at another invisible chain that binds you. The first is that money is neither an end or a means. It is energy bound up in an idea. Since it is a common idea, it becomes easy to manipulate it. Banks appear, ostensible to move the energy (money) around to stimulate 'economic growth' whatever that is. I used to farm, and economy is no bush I ever saw grow from the soil. You cannot eat it nor can you wear it. What happens is this. You deposit you money in the bank. Records of your money then spring up everywhere like weeds. The government knows how much you have, and in most cases where you spend it. The knwo how much you made already because the Invaders rigged the system, all earnings are reported before you even SEE the check. They will know before you do. As soon as you money goes in a bank, it is gone. It is not anywhere to be found except on paperwork (more records) you can not even see. Try this for fun, convince everyone at a bank to withdraw their cash AT ONCE. Not one at a time, but rush them. Bet you there will be no bank the day after . Unfortunately, this is a pipe dream, because the Invader has made you so blindly dependent on that system. So, the money is gone with only a promise that you can have some of it back when you want it. Sorry, you are not ALLOWED to get at it when you want it, because they set the Rules on how you can play with you own money after They get it in your hands. If you think you can 'get away with' not paying the IRS, you will soon find out who the bank thinks REALLY owns you money. They do not even have to tell you when or if the IRS has 'attached' or 'frozen' your 'account'. When the bounced checks show up, you start to get a clue. So you can not even have all your money at once, only in dribbles. Take a careful look at your 'statement'. All of your money is not even there. They charge little dribbles of it away until you begin to wonder why you 'work so hard for so little'. Then elect a smiling clown to lead you to 'economic prosperity'. In more 'primitive' days, the dollar was backed by a certain amount of gold. You could turn in your 'dollars' for gold whenever you wanted to. And there was no imaginary Monopoly money floating around. Today you carry seventeen credit cards, fifty debit cards, and ATM (All The Money, what they really want you to give them) cards. Use them, you get charged and charged. Do not use them and still get bled dry, smiling! My father is a sad victim of this scheme. The trick, dear reader, is to NOT HAVE THEM AT ALL! That's right, cash is still usable in Most places. Although due to your exacting, unwavering devotion to the 'convienience' of having palstic instead of cash instead of gold, this is rapidly becoming both unpopular and dangerous. I can not pay my rent in cash, even though it says "For All Debts Public and Private" right at the top. You have rigged it unwittingly so I MUST buy a 'money order'(???) which costs more than the rent which I already had in cash. On the other hand I can pay with a check, while the banks bleed me dry. No win. Too much lose. While touring the 'former' Soviet Union, Robert Heinlein wrote an article about Intourist, the Soviet travel bureau. READ IT! Then ponder it and see how it could fit in your present day situation. Intourist's function was to rape the American traveller for as much cash they could, and deliver as little for that cash as they could get away with. The point was to run you through their system, and then ship you out broke. You and the Invaders have basically instituted the same system here, except I am not on holiday here. You have built it so well, you are trapped in it from birth to death. You must like it, no matter what you hypocritically say, because you will not even question it. Back to dependency if you can stomach any more. Electricity is called a public utility, yet it is not 'publically owned' and the public has little say on what you will be charged for it. More? In this day and age, it is utterly necessary to have a functioning car. First the Invader's made it necessary, then they implemented so many controls on it, it is not feasible to own one. Cars cost roughly three times what they are worth. They are simple enough to build from even salvage yards, yet the carrot you will get beaten with is that it is utterly desireable to own a NEW car, etc. But let us say you have a car, you are only deeper in the STATE's bondage than ever. You must pay and pay for the 'privilege' of driving. Tags, titles, liscences, ad nauseum. If you can not afford this, you could try to get by without your 'papers' (disgusting Nazi Border Guard Voice). From personal experience, I can tell you that you will be whipped before you start. The 'police' WILL throw you in jail and impound that much needed car. The attitude seems to be, pay up front this much, or pay in jail later MUCH MORE. I am sorry, but I believe a man should be incarcerated for a crime, not a debt, especially one he could neither avoid, pay, or ask for. One of the much spouted cliches' is "this country was founded to get away from the system of debtors prison". Hah, I say! I've been there. You do not pay, in jail you stay. At the beast you get sued for some such or another and you are bled into a hell just as bad. No escape. I have heard of the concept of the 'Social Contract'. Great, I never signed a damn thing yet I had to pay and pay, with no services rendered. You get ripped off by some poor soul trying to stay alive, and the police will not help unless you pay up front. Try to get them to. I dare you. As far as promises and contracts with the government go, in my experience, I would rather be lied to to face. Ask any Native American what a contract with the government is worth. Then visit his reservation. I am Native American, yet I can not even claim that heritage for fear the Bureau of Indian Affairs will notice me and try to 'help' me. A Native American joke: Hey Great White Chief! We'll buy back Manhattan for the original sale price! What? You don't get it? Well, show me the person that 'owns' any piece of land. Then read the government notes about 'Right of Eminent Domain'. You can't own a thing. You can't own land, the government will take it away when They see fit and give you what They think it is worth. You have no say, period. You think you own your life. Your are not even close. Government is the only controlling force. Everything belongs to the STATE if they want it. Remeber the part about the IRS 'attaching' bank accounts? They can attach your house, car, television, stereo, anything. Anytime they want. What can you do about it? Diddly/squat as Kurt Vonnegut would say. Lets flail around a bit now and really offend some senses. You say you got Religion! It never fails you! God is there and all that bushwah! Well, when you get a minute from following the carrot around blindly look up the word for Religion. I'll save the trouble since you are obviously already busy. Religion from the Latin Religare: to control. If you do not believe me, check it yourself. Nowhere does it say anything remotely like faith, belief, God, whatever. It means control. It means to control. It means to have religion is to be controlled. Simple once you actually shine a light in those dusty corners, eh? Government: a body that CONTROLS another body. In your case, one out of every three people in this country work either for McDonalds or the government. Scared yet? The government already has the guns. Imagine what would happen if every McDonalds worker picked up a gun. Well, do not even bother. I can tell what they can do WITHOUT the guns. Sell lots of Pepsi's to Russians. Pepsi and McDonalds did more to tear down the Berlin Wall than all the guns in it's history. Speaking of the Berling Wall... that nasty iron curtain, who built it? Every one who says anything but " An American named General Marshall under the Marshall Plan" go to the end of the line. Has the brain fog started to lift? Even a little? If it has lifted you may actually be thinking. If it has started to really clear up, you may be asking "But what can I do?" Answer: your already starting to do it. All you have to do is think. Ask questions. Mr. Heinlein said the easiest way to get what you want from Intourist was to accuse the clot blocking your way of being uncultured. Too bad, your society does not even possess a culture to offend. Soon, thanks to you and millions like you, we may not even have a planet to stand on. As comedian Dennis Leary once said: "People... we broke the sky!" He is right. For the sake of chemical smelling underarms, we wiped out our only protection from deadly energies from space. For the sake of fossil fuel guzzling cars, we destroyed the sky! The active mind boggles at the concept that this planet has developed for Billions of years and in less than one hundred revolutions of our world our our star, we wrecked it. We have destroyed as many species of plant and animal as were wiped out in the Meteor Strike that knocked off the dinosaurs. Just think, if dinosuars had McDonalds and all of it's chemically synthesized, prepackaged sludge, they might still be around. Some more examples: a baby's diaper, a milk jug, or plastic garbage bag will be around UNCHANGED as long as out radioactive waste will be. Do they measure the 'staying power' of plastic in half-lives? They ought to. Too bad you have been fooled by the 'Fireside Chats' and 'State of the Union Addresses' so long. In primitive times, children played with carved wooden animals and the like. Now they play war game simulators on Nintendos. Does this alone not speak volumes to you? Man, that violent, stupid creature that he is, is in desparate trouble. Man is the only creature that will foul its OWN nest! Watch a cat and his personal habits. He will not do anything near his own lair, his own nest. Nor will he over hunt his food supply to extinction. Nor will he do many other things you take for granted as 'rights' every day. While watching a terrorist movie called 'Invasion USA' it dawned on me how easy it would be for me alone to decimate large chunks of the population. All you have to do is see how the networks of dependency are set up and strike them at their sources. Revolution in this day and age are NOT possible however. If you have ever had the privelege of seeing the Miami Riot Control police work, you would think many, many times over before even considering it. I had the dubious honor of seeing just that. A military coup overthrew the 'democratic' government in Haiti. Haitians in south Florida took to the streets in an attempt to make America accept Haitian refugees from the military coup. The riot lasted less than a few hours. As I sat on the roof of my car, I watched the Miami Riot Control tear gas indiscriminately. The riot was out like a light. Tear gas, a gun, or a stick is what you will get now for speaking your mind. Make no mistake, fellow couch potato, this is a police state as bad as anything Nazi Germany saw. They have just disguised it better. Brain Exercise Time: how many shows are there on television Glorifying police, lawyers, judges, etc? Count them up. Getting scared yet? No? Well, you see what the police are willing to do on camera, imagine what they do when the camera is not around. Some of you may know. I do. You have no rights they are not willing to grant you. Police make up the law on the spot. You will not even get a phone call unless you are REAL nice to them. You will be lucky if the bed in your cell has a mattress over the steel plate. Mine did not. If you think jails are like they are portrayed on television, step to the middle of the line since you may be wondering now. My latest cell was a ten by ten steel cube. The door was not any 'sliding' bar situation. It was solid steel too. Take a tour of your local jail. Not a county or state facility where they have bars because they want to SEE the inmates, but a local rathole where the police only want your money. They do not want to have to deal with you. Forget the much spouted 'rights of prisoners'. In a local hole, you probably will not have ANY rights. Food at least is guaranteed right? Wrong. Breakfast is 2 pieces of toast and a cup of coffee to keep you awake and suffering. This is served at 6:00 am. At 6:00 pm you will get dinner. Dinner is a TV Dinner, another cup of coffee to keep you up all night, and two pieces of bread. Enjoy. And when you are done, well, I will leave it to you to go have a look yourself. The first time I was in this cozy little 'home-away-from-home' we didn't even have running water in the sink. Just a little dribble that took about five minutes to halfway fill a styrofoam (no less!) cup. You would think a government so bent on passing laws to keep you the serf from destroying the environment would bother to use recycleable paper cups instead of STYROFOAM! Tips for having fun in jail: Don't think about when you are getting out. Don't DEMAND to use the phone, only new fools demand anything from Boss. Try not to move on the rack, it will piss off the guy on the other side of the wall. Hide cups in crannies around the rack. Make game pieces for checkers from the cups Wiggle the door back and forth and try to keep the little window in the door open. Endless fun watching Bossman keep closing it. Don't kick anything! Walls, doors, and bunks made of steel will BOOM in an enclosed steel cubicle. Sneak extra calls when you allowed to use the phone. Sometimes even asking for them will work, but only if you have not been a nuisance. Trade food with fellow prisoners! Endless variety for bartering. Never ask to become trustee. It won't happen if you do. Since Trustee pays off twice as fast and they get perks like going outside, extra food, matresses and the like, it is a coveted position. Used in moderation, cupping your hands over your mouth and 'playing' the harmonica can get lots of laughs and kill time. Ask for a bible. The Gideons leave them everywhere. It will give you some thing to do while not sleeping. Sleep. Should be self explanatory, but it will let you skip blocks of time. Note: sleeping with four other people and countless cells booming, and Bossman walking aorund all the time is a trick, but once mastered pays off well. Always ask for the time. Guards will usually tell you. Do Not try to read their watches. They will think you are a thief, and I once spent three days thinking I had more time than I really did. Don't talk about 'how much time left until...' just makes time go slower. Do not sing. Especially if you do not know all the words. Irritating. Always ask for more toilet paper. Hoard everything you can. Origami toilet paper is an easy way to kill time. Paper airplanes are harder. Search the cell thoroughly for any metal bits possible, but do not take them from the cell for any reason. Guards use metal detectors and you should leave it for the next person. Well, enough about getting the most from what you really paid for. Well maybe not yet. Do you really think that Russia is all roses now? Since They are trying their damndest to make you think so, ask yourself this: where are all those bombs? Nuclear missiles are still here folks. All this time we have been pumped with how much a threat Communism is/was. McCarthyism is only now being swept under the rug, since They have found new ways of fooling you. Mr. Heinlein's article "Pravda is Truth" works here too! Even better in some ways since you already believe you are free to read a free press. For all you really know even I may be an Invader stooge trolling for dissidents. You would have to meet me in person to actually decide that for yourself. Suffice it to say, there are still nuclear weapons with kids manning them all over the place. If you disagree, go to Cheyenne Mountain and ask to play with their computer unsupervised for a while. Cheyenne Mountain is not an amusement park of a bygone era yet. My mother grew up with grade school drills on what to do if a nuclear weapon went off. Basically the drills were to line the bodies up for easy disposal if anyone was around to bother later. My generation grew up with casual destruction of the planet as an everyday fact of life, at the most to be shrugged at. Well, even without the threat of nuclear attack, you are wrecking your nest all the same. Talk about stupidity: On television news I saw a piece where Chevron office workers rode bicycles to work in a "Help the Earth" type of spirit. Chevron makes gasoline and plastics people, and those office workers are hypocrites. The bike to work to save the Earth, and once they are there, work steadily to destroy it. Now I am not railing against the principle mind you, just the hidden messages such stunts pull. It was touted as a great media event for everyone to be proud of. Summary of Modern Day Disasters in Waiting: Nuclear War, probaly terrorist in nature Overpoplulation Genetic Stagnation Rampant Stupidity etc. You know, Bush was an average Joe kind of guy. Once he got into the Presidency, he fought some dirty little wars. Remeber Panama? I almost went myself, and several of my friends did go. Bush said it was for The War on Drugs. No it wasn't. Noriega was a bonus, fathead, and you ate it up. Bush, by saving Panama from Satan's Drug Pusher, got a new Panama Canal Agreement. Not too bad since Houston gets a lot of that business, but it is more hypocrisy. All told Bush got the War on Drugs, Panama, and Iraq. More if I could remeber them all, but still in four years almost that many little wars. And you paid for it. Remeber SDI? The great SDI! Anything that involves space exploration I am in favor of, but tell it to me straight, please. One TRILLION dollars in five years. That is what you spent for a railgun here on the ground, and some missiles fired from F-15's to knock out satellites. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REST?!??! Why do we not have a Space Station, even one with as hokey a name as Freedom. Because, you will pay for silly, dirty little wars over things they will not even admit too. Iraq was a war for oil. Simple as that. Not to 'free Kuwait' or some such nonsense. That was for YOU to like it and 'Tie your Yellow Ribbons" for. By the way, Tie a Yellow Ribbon is a song about a prisoner coming home from prison. Hmmm. Iraq was for Oil, Panama for Canal rights, and the War on Drugs? What better way to dupe you into accepting more police control, than by convincing you you need it against a hoarde of addicts and junkies. They never once mention the basic fact that an addict gets addicted to escape reality. So, in other words, to escape from THIS reality. Also, if you let an addict follow his habit to its logical end, he dies. Thus he is gone anyway and all you have to do is keep from doing it yourself. I have been a marijuana user, cocaine user, LSD user, and more. Life was not worth living anyway so I got hooked. I got myself unhooked, too after an aborted suicide attempt. I realized I have a lot to live for. Mainly to at least tell another side of the tale about what I have seen. Here it is. What should scare you is now, I do not break hardly a law at all. I do not even drink alcohol. I am not saying this is for you, but then again, neither could drugs be. The Invaders want you to keep your attention anywhere but on THEM. Who here has seen the movie 'They Live!'. It even fits. Scary enough but true. Who has seen 'the Prisoner ? You are Number Six. In case you haven't seen the end, Number Six was actually Number One. The same holds true for you. Just recognizing you are being led by the nose s the first step down the road. Well, now we have President Clinton. In the words of Stimpson J Cat: " Oh Joy!". Haven't you realized that the puppet in the office is JUST THAT? Weird how things sound the same to me now as they did in the Sixties. Except now Kent State is much more probable. Except this time the casualties excuse me 'collateral damage' will be much worse. For a true sign of the times think back to the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles. Houston Police routinely gun down people around here. In fact Ida Delany was killed by three DRUNK off-duty police just for basically being 'in-the-way' getting on the freeway to go to work. A security guard was shot SIX times in a routine traffic stop because the officer saw a gun on the seat of the security guard's car. Maybe if Police would use something less than deadly force, like tear gas, maybe criminals would only use guns on each other. Thus leaving less criminals, albeit a better breed of criminal. This would increase the ratio of police to criminals right there. All this trouble in our country, homeless people, starving kids, police state seige mentalities, and we go off to other countries to police them. I say , and you should too, that we oughta fix our own boat before helping to bail someone elses out. So many countries OWE the United States so much money on defaulted loans, we could 'reposess' whole countries all over the world. Soon it will be too late, if it is not already, because the United States WILL collapse under the weight of it's own hypocrisy and become a third world country. You have no future. You children's future was sold years ago. There may not be a planet fit for even grandchildren to exist on. All because you have let everything slip so far out of balance for the sake of convenience. You drop an egg, it breaks. The United States is that egg. You have already dropped it. All you can do now is try to catch it before it hits the floor, shatters under its own weight, and you all come spilling out. The world can not be fixed until you fix yourselves. WAKE UP! I am a member of the thirteeenth generation of the Unites States. My generation has the distinction of being the first generation in our history to do worse than our parents. In 1950 you could expect to double your standard of living in just 10 to 20 years. I will be expected to double my standard of living in a little over 240 years. What can you do? Fo one thing, start a journal like this one. Take a look around and make logs of the things you uncover. Spread this wealth around. I find humor to be an excellent way to catch someone's culpability. Make jokes about the things you see. This will also give you a good handle on the kinds of people around you. I ask You, fellow reader, what sense does it make to pass law after law to prevent smoking when you live downwind from Port of Houston? It is now illegal to smoke in all sorts of buildings, yet you are perfectly free to walk outside and breathe up some of the wonderful soup the Port belches out. Hmmm... and do you buy 'bottled' water? It is just tap water run through a filter. Part of the problem I see, is you made it so easy for the Invader State to pass a law, but never gave yourself the power to remove old or idiot laws when their time has passed. Steal a horse in Texas, you can still be legally hanged. By the neck, pahdnuh. There are literally thousands of laws to prevent you from practising witchcraft, driving your car faster than ten miles an hour, or skatebaording on a sidewalk. Hell, the lawyers beg for lethal punishments, and will not even be the person to exact the punishment. For lethal injections, the STATE now has a little machine to poison the offender. At the preset time a little machine injects lethal dosages of deadly sludge into the veins. Only a slighty larger machine could inject those same lethal dosages into your water supply. Hmmm. Seems to me, you paid for another way for Them to kill you. You know, I've had a few days to reflect on this, and, the problems are much worse than even I could have imagined. As I sat and watched Tiny Toons, they stopped for a commercial break, and all the kids in the room began reciting all the jingles. Sick. When I ran to puke, all I could here was the strains of 'It's a World of Fun, Doc' from the friggin Astroworld commercial echoed by all the children. You can't get the kids to remember basic school facts but they can recite every jingle on cartoon television. Since parents won't raise their kids anymore, may I suggest a solution. Since you want to help the Invaders so bad, why not impound all the kids under 16 on an island and just hardcore indoctrinate them from birth. That way you are not bothered and you can leave the job to professionals instead of your solution to leave them to a tv to be babysat. One wonders what archeologists of the future would find excavating? I will leave it to whatever little fizzle of imagination you may still possess. "But I have lots of imagination" you protest. I say you are a liar. Plain and simple, you have removed the imagination components from your mind and replaced them with Sony Watchmans and Nintendo Gameboys. What good is having a society where the majority can read, but will not? I weigh somewhere around 250 pounds. That pisses me off, but I will deal with it. What jerks me around is the Health Craze. FOr all you runner types, I get no end of pleasure reflecting on the fact that Jim Fixx died of a heartattack , running! You idiots will jog all over the place, endlessly patting your own backs, while cars drive by belching out thousands of times more carbon monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbons than you can get from smoking a pack of unfiltered cigarettes. Combined with all the crap in the air, it sort of makes cigarettes look like life support equipment, the 'lesser-of-two-evils'. The Invaders have it worked out so well to lead you by the nose. You believe what They say, and yet the objectors still manage to sneak some real thinking by Them. To prevent you from being an effectual force for change, They will deflect your thinking about fixing our problems with little 'scandals' like Bush and the flag burning issue, or now Clinton and his 'un-nominating' people. You will spend all sorts of time worrying about what They want you to waste your time worrying about. ============================================================================ End Official Release v.1.0.0. Comments appended to the end will be appreciated. Append Here: