“Thoughts on the Government”: P.S. Dear FBI…don’t arrest me.

So today I was thinking about American Indians and their history in this country. and i thought about the standoff at Wounded Knee in 1973. Which led me to think about resistance. 

one thing led to another and BAM, i had a pretty bleak thought.

how crazy is it that basically we’re trapped. we. are. trapped.

okay let me clarify a bit.

i thought: what if like every american indian in this country and on reservations just decided “screw this place, we want our country back!” and they organized some kind of revolt to take back their lands. i thought: they could organize as well as possible. arm themselves. plan. strategize. and really, lets say they have a plan that is as good as it possibly could be.

well, the truth is…at the moment of revolt, within moments, the US military could wipe them all out. the revolt could be put down in a matter of moments.

as you {may} know, i don’t believe in violent resistence, but I DO believe in ideological resistence and things related. and it ocurred to me that the gov’t is so big, so all-encompassing, so tapped in to our lives, and so invested in its own continuance at any cost…that nothing can ever be done.

i know that Jefferson (i think it was him) said something along the lines of every generation or so needs a revolution. does anyone working in the government currently even believe the words of this much revered founding father?

if Jefferson, Adams, Washington, or Franklin (i know, not a prez) were alive today, would they be on the FBI watch-list? Would they be arrested and taken to Gitmo? Would they be “terrorists”? seriously, think about it. ask yourself that question.

again, I’m nonviolent, and would rather die than to kill….but truth be told…I understand the sentiment of radicals. doesn’t part of you sympathize with a person who would want to blow up, say, the Pentagon, or CIA headquarters, or something like that? (not necessarily with people in it).

i mean, if you were an american indian, for instance, wouldn’t you feel justified in messing up some government shite? to be forced to follow the laws of a government that you had no say in installing, and in fact, took your land and then imposed its own laws on you. what were the indians at wounded knee (’73) guilty of? whose laws did they break? by what authority were those laws enforced? what a sense of utter futility and depression i get when i place myself in their shoes for even a moment.

a system of govt set up in an effort to maintain balance. to never be a monarchy. to never be a monolith. but now, what is it? it is inpenetrable. sure, there is change here and there. there is good as well as bad. but the central essence of the government, of it’s self-propogation, of its absolute ubiquity… is singularly immovable. 

not only does it not want its own re-evaluation, if you will…but it can never be challenged. IT CAN NEVER BE CHALLENGED. the last challenge was at the Civil War, and that was it. revolution is impossible. we are trapped. 

for all i know (and i don’t say this out of self-importance, but to make a point) the FBI or someone is already tracking the progress of this note right now. for all i know, now I am gonna be looked at. maybe not, but is it that far-fetched?

bearing this in mind, how can anything truly new be done? how can someone change? how can a revolution occur? how can someone break out of the rat maze? the answer is…they cannot. and never can. the government is too big. too invested in its own dominance, and too well equipped to ensure that it can not be any other way. one can have ideas. one can live outside of the mainstream, sure. but only within the boundaries. we are like dogs on a leash tied to a pole. running in circles, always running in circles. and occasionally we might be allowed to run free of the chain. and we run and run. only to find a fence. beyond the leash there is but a fence.

i suppose this is why Truth is only in Christ, because even in the midst of such bleak cynicism, we can experience joy and love. i take my hope in the fact that this place can go screw itself, because my allegiance is to the Kingdom of God. i do not pledge allegiance to the flag, but to true freedom, that is not of this world.

but still.

i dunno. like i said i am against violence, but i can understand why out of sheer exasperation people would…lose it.

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November 22, 2008 / 11:09 pm
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