Well, there really is one there. A fact. Actually, fact is not a good term as we now have to deal with "retruth" activity and false facts, a totally oxymoronic term. A fact is a fact and if it is a made up 'fact", it is, by definition not a fact, but rather a lie. "False facts", whatever that is, is not a truth. Period. Anyone using a 'retruth' is immediately defined as supportive of a turn away from law and justice, and most definitely has more than a minor nodding acquaintance with that monster in the basement. Actually, the relationship is more like that of 'kissin' cousins.
Lately, actually for years, at an increasing speed, that monster has been climbing the stairs, those dark, steep, rank, creaky stairs which frighten all who see them. Some try to install a better lock upon those stairs, against the danger drawing ever closer, but locks will not stop the path. Only active truth, the recognition of truth, has the power to guard against the invasion of the monster and kin. That monster in the basement, on the stairs, is being met by the monster above, in the attic, whose steps rend the silence of the night. We wonder who is there, what are the plans of these approaching monsters regarding the inhabitants of the besieged house.
And what do those inhabitants do when they discover that those monsters, those alien creatures, are not alien at all. In fact, they are our kin. Once welcomed in, shown courtesy, even acceptance of relationship, it is not so easy to rid ourselves of them and repair their corrosive effect on society and on the unity of this nation, of the progressive countries of the world. The worst, though? When we look in the mirror, see the monster and know the truth of it all. The monster. is. us.
In the animal kingdom the aberrant ones of the pack, the herd, are isolated, even driven out. The leaders have combat to determine leadership, if challenged, in a known process. The leaders do not perform wholesale slaughter on the rest of the herd. Unfortunately, it is not the same in the kingdom of humans. No, for we savage entire groups, denying their humanity, their right to live among us, and we try to block them, exclude them from so called civilized society, left defenseless at best, dead at worst. The level to which enforcers of these ugly thoughts and deeds will turn is most frightening.
Humanity has gone thermobaric. That is the use of weapon or combination of weapons, such that will literally vaporize the 'enemy', denying their humanity, denying their right to exist, denying them the opportunities we have been lucky enough to have due not to our efforts but to those of our ancestors who did exactly what these people are doing. Trying to improve their lives, the lives of their families, and yes, some are illegal. Just as many of our own ancestors did, coming in by jumping ship, by paying smugglers, by use of false documents, whatever would work to deliver them from a fate worse than death.
The desperation on their faces is the same desperation of Holocaust survivors trying to flee lands soaked with the blood of their families, of the Irish fleeing starvation, of the Scots rendered asunder from the structure of clans, of Italians fleeing poverty and rule of the Mafia, of Africans fleeing war torn nations and drought, of Asians fleeing oppression in their lands, or chaos anywhere. Why do we refuse to see the truth of it all and act properly, not humanlike, but animal like as they accept new members of the herd, even as humans exclude them.
As the Russians literally vaporize what once were Ukrainians defending their country, we vaporize others of the world by other means, the end results the same. Dead is dead.
Yes, that monster in the basement, the cousin upstairs, and all the rest in between are approaching, speed growing, the future glowing less bright, even going dark in some areas. We are the monsters, either complicitly or implicitly as we have enabled it all. Standing aside, staying "out of it" reeks of guilt and blame just as much as active participation.
When the good, or timid, or too many stand aside, do nothing, say nothing, to stop the wrongdoing, the at times wholesale slaughter, well, follow that thought to its endpoint and understand. For those who do not choose to follow, understand that where one goes, so do we all. We might one day find ourselves in the same desperate straits as the once unthinkable becomes thinkable and real.
We are all the prisoners of humans gone ballistic in their monstrous behavior. We are all
32 years old;
a mother;
a wife;
an athlete;
a person;
persecuted for being American, Black, Gay, woman;
Condemned to a hellish freezing penal prison;
known eyewitness reports of:
torture;
slave labor;
starvation;
no medical care;
little food;
inadequate clothing;
inadequate shelter;
zero life expectancy;
a plaything caught in a maelstrom of other's creation.
TIME TO BRING HER HOME.
WAY PAST TIME
IT IS UPON US -
RESCUE THE CAPTIVE
SAVE A LIFE
BRITTNEY GRINES CALLS UOONUS.
HEAR HER CRIES.
FEEL HER PAIN.
SHE IS US, YOU AND ME
AND WE ARE HER.
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