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traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors · 3 years

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I need support/advice.

TW: ableism, racism, stalking, abusive relationships, incest, CSA, rape, emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, suicide attempt, transphobia

I don’t know how to feel like with my mom. I’m just so confused.

Because for so often I idealized her and thought she was the best thing ever.

My life has never been what anybody would consider very well. In my childhood, I actually didn’t have much of an opinion about my mom, since she was being abused by my dad the majority of the time he was home. And, even when he wasn’t, she mostly paid more attention to my twin sister, or at least that’s what I think. I have always been considered a daddy’s girl against my own will. Also, my mom seems to almost be in denial that I was also miserably abused by my father like her and my sister. Then again, I haven’t told people that my dad raped me multiple times and tried to sell me to sex work out of fear that nobody will believe me.

My sister’s abuse of me is only acknowledged by my sister. I remember that my mom even encouraged her to hit me with a textbook once because I made a sassy comment about knowing her favorite character would die in a video game. Whenever I try to bring it up, I get told to forgive my sister, something not even my sister wants me to do for her actions back then. This adult lasted until the two of us were sixteen years old and had no choice but to rely on each other. I was also made into a second mother of sorts for my sister, and always had to take care of her needs whenever nobody else could or would. It was exhausting.

When I was eleven, I was also groomed into an abusive relationship with my cousin, and at least my mom tried to put a stop to that even though she doesn’t fully realize that we were romantic before he tried to rape me multiple times and began stalking me (my mom even admits that she is a very naïve person and doesn't like to see the truth). I bring this up because I am being forced to move close by a lot of my abusive relatives by my mother, including my cousin who still wants me (I am 22 by the way and he’s a year older than me). Also, my mom refuses to stop talking about how she thinks it’s okay for cousins to date and marry even though I have told her multiple times it makes me severely uncomfortable since my grandparents almost forced me into marrying my cousin using legal loopholes.

My mom is also very ableist and racist. She continues to use the r slur around me even though I also keep telling her that I’m uncomfortable by it and it legit triggers me because of my severe school trauma. Also, makes a lot of hateful comments about people with Autism, and I have Autism but hide it from her (along with me hiding my OSDD because of her hateful comments towards systems). And she won’t stop talking about the typical racist talking points. Stealing jobs, being inferior, using slurs, etc. And, whenever I try to express my mixed Roma culture, she uses slurs and refuses to understand or listen to me when I tell her what she’s doing is wrong. With her views, I live in absolute terror every day that she’ll find out my true political beliefs, and this has been going on for six years.

My problems keep getting downplayed next to my sister’s, especially since when she tried to commit suicide but luckily didn’t succeed. I keep getting forced to do things and yelled at when I don’t. I keep getting told that I’m a burden and useless because I had to quit my job because of our move and my worsening mental health, then by told sorry later and bombarded with attention. I keep getting told I have to do everything for my sister, and we have a pretty codependent relationship. Also, I have been told for pretty much ever since I was a child that I was a waste of money and my mom especially loves bringing up that she went 10,000 dollars in debt during my middle and high school years to feed me.

I just...she’s the only person in my family that hasn’t been absolutely horrible to me. But now I have more exposure to the real world, people aren’t supposed to act this way. It’s more like my mom was the least bad option. I’m just so confused. Then again, I do have a really bad habit of sticking with abusive people until I finally snap out of it. Even now I feel guilty for telling the truth out of fear of making my mom look bad.

Sorry if this is a little bit too heavy for this blog. I just needed to put this out there somewhere. I don’t know what to do. If things get too bad with the moving situation, I do have a plan with one of my friends to move in with him, but that’s only if things get really bad. Because my family also likes to stalk people that try to leave them, make their lives absolutely horrible, and force them back.

If you want to know, I have OSDD, ADHD, Social Anxiety Disorder, CPTSD, OCD, AFRID, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Autism. I was also forced to stop therapy recently.

--Raven (she/they)

Also, I’m genderfluid and my mom is transphobic but thinks she’s not because she has a trans friend and uses the right pronouns. She, however, forced me to tell my trans friend’s dead name to her and doesn’t accept nonbinary and genderfluid people. Also she really hates pansexual people, and keeps trying to convince me I'm sexually attracted to others even though I'm openly panromantic asexual with her (but not openly genderfluid). And my mom really likes telling me stuff about her sexual habits that I do not need to know (she did this even when I was a kid).

Hi Raven,

I'm so, so sorry you're going through that. That sounds like such a difficult situation to be in and I appreciate your courage and vulnerability sharing that with us.

There's really a lot to unpack there, and a lot of really messed up and difficult things you've experienced. Your pain is valid, your frustration is valid, and your trauma is valid. You should not have had to go through all of that.

Are you able to move in with the friend even if the move doesn't go badly? Are there any support services in your area (you can google "family violence support resources [your location]") that you can access? They may be able to help you find things you need, and if your family tries to stalk you or force you back, they may be able to help you get a restraining order or find ways to hide from them/stop them from being able to find/contact you.

- Mod Allison

#trauma talks #tw ableism #tw stalking #tw abuse #tw CSA #tw SA #tw r #tw incest #tw transphobia #tw suicide #mod allison

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palestudenttoadbailiff · 3 years

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Muslim Lives Matter TOO

An issue, no it is world crises that never gets mentioned, that does not even cross anyone's mind and it happens on a daily basis it has been happening for years, even before civilization. The violence that is unleashed upon Muslims every single day is unbearable, unacceptable and unprecedented but does anyone speak up against the monsters who tortures, murders and rapes innocent Muslim children and women, the answer is no. NO not a single person does a thing to stop this, why because the rest of the world thinks we deserve it but in reality nobody deserves this kind of treatment it has to come to an end.

As the world defends Asian people for the hate crimes acted upon them which is good people need to defend those who can not do it themselves, but we have also seemed to forget that the same Asians we are protecting are also keeping millions of Muslim people in concentration camps. A sad truth is that the Muslim people of Palestine has been in war since 1948 and it is still ongoing lets face it this is a one way war but if we stand up we might just have the power to stop it. These people have no weapons to defend themselves so many innocent lives being lost and for just some political ploy that the people who are in power oversee, do you not see this is part of a much bigger plan the people in power are trying to everyone against each other. Just like black lives matter campaign and the all lives matter campaign, shouldn't Muslim lives fall under the category of “All lives matter” because we are just as much part of “ all lives” like the rest of the world is. But yet we choose to be silent about this , why? Look at China and how they are trying to ban Islam in their country, authorities are removing crescents from the mosques because according to them Islam is an extremist religion. The Imam and the boy responsible for the call to prayer from a local mosque without any reason at all got arrested. On one occasion the Chinese authorities beat an elderly Muslim lady for wearing hijab, for representing what she believes in she got beat mercilessly. People do not even respect the elderly Muslims. The authorities even went as far as confiscating prayer mats and many copies of the Quran. What is even more sad is that Muslims are not even allowed to wear the clothing that represents our religion, they are not allowed to have long beards and women are not allowed to wear veils or anything that is viewed as “extremist” attire according to the Chinese authorities. Even the children are not even allowed to be educated about Islam even in the comfort of their own homes. These people are having their human rights violated and nothing is done about it.

A variety of repressive tactics are used on an unprecedented scale.Muslims in China are being monitored on a daily basis and their have their privacy invaded without cause. Each and everyday they are questioned about anything that could be seen as “extremism” in the eyes of Chinese laws.Islam is basically outlawed in China.Having a Muslim family member is enough to get you interrogated in an inhumane way. Now for the bigger issue, about the Muslim people who are disappearing in China on a vast scale, where are they you might wonder, oh they are just being held in so called” political education camps” until they are deemed qualified to reside in the country, they have no freedom of movement they have to qualify in order ot moves around from town to town. And proving my point once again there has been little to no international outrage over what may be the world's most draconian and comprehensive control over Muslim life throughout history.

What do you imagine when you hear the word “terrorist” you would imagine a man in a long thobe with a beard right? Preferably a Muslim man but my question is why do we associate Islam with terrorism. First of all you should know the correct meaning of terrorism. According to the United States government Terrorism is: the unlawful forceful violence against persons or property to intermediate for political or social objections. Now listen to this in 2013 a Caucasian Christian male killed three Muslim students known as a hate crime. Did he use an unlawful forceful violence yes he did, was it targeted at against persons or property yes it was, did he want to intermediate for a political or social segments yes he wanted to because it was a hate crime. So i ask this question why was this not considered an act of terrorism it clearly fits the description, was it because he was white i think so. We need to stop associating terrorism with Islam because there is a major difference because anyone could be a terrorist not just Muslims. 9/11 was when the world hated Muslims even more than they did because 15 Arabs hijacked one plane why should the rest of the 1.8 billion Muslims suffer their consequences. Within every religion there exist a spectrum of attitudes and behavior and extremism is not unique to one particular belief system. There are people who view themselves as Muslims who have committed these horrible crimes in the name of Islam but they do not represent the rest of us, they are a minority within Islam and have the wrong interpretation of what Islam is. A vast majority of Muslims around the world reject their violence. Terrorism is not what Islam is check your facts.

Why is it so easy to stand up for every other injustice in the world, but when it comes to Islam everyone goes silent. Its incredibly sad to see that the how war ridden Palestine is and what is the rest of the world?And its a one way war because all those innocent people have no physical weapons to retaliate, lives are being lost as we live our lives and nothing is done to stop it. Yes i agree all lives matter but when are we going to realise that Muslim lives should matter as well. The same Asians that we are protecting is holding our Muslim brother and sisters in concentration camps raping Muslim women, killing our babies , physically and mentally abusing them day in and day out. And yet we are silent standing up for Muslims should not only be on social media platforms for two days, it is something that should never fade and what is more sad is that our own Muslim brothers and sister are afraid to speak up against these wrong doings, because we fear offending the Christian friend we have or the Jewish friends we have and so on. But we forget that Allah has told us” to not take the enemy of Allah as a friend and do not take the friend of Allah as ur enemy”. We want to the live the modern lifestyle and i am not speaking of everyone , i myself have not done my part. So many Muslims are not allowed to walk in the streets because they will be exposed to attacks threats and discrimination and we are mocked for our religion. So i will ask again why, why all of the hate that turns into violence , so many innocent lives lost and for what , what could these people possibly gain. ALL this violence is just wrong we are all human we all have our own beliefs so you tell me what is wrong with Islam its a religion based on peace how can you not see that. Everyone who is not Muslim ask yourselves would you want this to happen to your religion, would you want to be killed like dogs in the streets , no you would not so why is is okay for it to happen to a Muslim, ponder about that. More Muslims will stand up and fight for what is right as they should, and this, this is only the beginning, not all of us can be strong that is why we are an Ummah

Written by: Imraan Hardien With help from Yusriyyah Latief

#muslim lives matter #islam #stop the hate #stop the violence

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delwray-blog · 5 years

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FACEBOOK'S TREASON OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Freedom of Speech is being attacked by Social Media.

Now Kentucky State Officials are ordering Pastors not to call Homosexuals Sinners. Not only are they sinners but murderers. America is reaping the consequences of rejecting God. Sodomites and rag-head Muslims everywhere are raping and killing America’s citizen.

Felt a need to pass this on: I’m not a Republican. Before you place that tag on me, be warned… I’m also not a Democrat - I'm a Bible-believing Christian.

No, I consider myself a Believer. Whenever it’s election time, I do something rare these days. I actually vote for the candidate rather than the party. Although I tend to vote Republican more than Democrat, I refuse to let the preconceived notions of one party define me or pressure me into voting one way or another. That’s just the way I am. If I only learned one thing during my time in the education system, it was this, learn to think for yourself. Unfortunately, that gets you in trouble in the current state of times we live in.

Freedom of speech is one of the core principles our country was founded on 239 years ago. I’m here today to tell you it no longer exists. Oh sure, you still have the right to say what you want, think how you want to think and express yourself how you want to express yourself. However, if it doesn’t fit in with the flavor of the day or the media propaganda that is accepted at the time, you run the risk of ruining your career, destroying your life, staining your family’s name.

Never has this ugly truth been more crystal clear that over the past month. If you are not following me, let me put it this way. If you were to come out right now and proclaim yourself as a supporter of the Confederate Flag or a non-supporter of gay marriage, you are immediately labeled a racist and a bigot by the growing liberal community of our nation. Your views go viral – shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter. Depending on your line of work, you are running the risk of losing your job, not necessarily because of your views, but because your views do not fit in with popular opinion. And nobody can employ someone whose views might reflect poorly on their organization. Now, I am not saying that is my stance on either of these controversial issues, but I am saying that is what would happen if I did take that stance. That, my friends, is not Freedom of Speech.

What I will take a stance on is to point out the hypocrisy of the mostly liberal media and nation in which we now live. Shortly after Dylan Roof committed the heinous act of killing nine people in an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., the debate began to rage over whether the Confederate Flag should be taken down from the state’s capitol building in Columbia. After all, pictures depicted Roof, filled with rage and hate, with the Confederate Flag.

What the national media forgets – or perhaps more accurately, wants you to forget – is that there were also pictures of Roof burning the American Flag, wearing symbols of the Apartheid era in South Africa and other symbols of hate. Regardless, the damage had been done. Public opinion had been painted and the Confederate Flag now had to come down, because while there may be Freedom of Speech in this country, there is no place for such a divisive symbol as the Confederate Flag now on a state government building.

Now that point, I can see. I don’t argue against it. We can argue all day long about what the Confederate Flag represents. Does it represent heritage or does it represent hate? Does it represent the South fighting back against what it perceived as aggression from the North or does it represent slavery? No matter which side of the debate you find yourself on, you can’t argue that the meaning of the Confederate Flag now does carry a meaning of hate to more people than it does not. Therefore, it is argued by many, it had to come down. After all, while we may be guaranteed freedom of speech, the government should not take a stand on such a divisive issue. At least that seemed to be the message portrayed by the liberals and national media.

That is all fine and good if that is your stance and that is your point. At least a precedent had been set moving forward. Or had it? How ironic, at the very same time, another divisive symbol is allowed to shine bright and proudly on one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks. The day the Supreme Court historically voted that gay marriage would be the law of the land, the White House was lit up that very night in the colors of the rainbow – the symbol of gay pride. Talk about hypocrisy. Here, the very symbol of our nation, the White House, is taking a stance on a divisive issue. That is my whole point. You can’t have one divisive symbol and not have the other. You can’t take one down because you don’t agree with it, then turn around and blast another symbol that offends millions of others because you do. That is hypocrisy at its finest. That is NOT freedom of speech.

These hypocrisies are also what is wrong with our nation today – political correctness. Today, people are more worried about being PC than actually doing what is right. Being politically correct is way more important than things that actually matter – the national debt, unemployment, foreign threats such as ISIS, etc.

My point was proven as I watched the CBS Nightly News this Friday evening. The number one story on the news that night was about the Confederate Flag officially coming down from the state capitol building in South Carolina. It was a big story, a huge story, no doubt, but CBS spent the entire first segment on the issue. It was deemed so important it was featured front and center ahead of these two stories – the arrest of 10 people inspired by ISIS militants in suspected terrorism-related plots during the weeks leading up to the Fourth of July holiday, and a government data breach in which the social security numbers of up to 22 million Americans were stolen. Now, in the grand scheme of things which is more important – a Confederate Flag coming down or potential terrorist attacks in the U.S. thwarted? Which would you be more concerned about, a flag coming down or someone possibly stealing your social security information? This is what is wrong with our country today.

When a biker can go into Wal-Mart and have his Confederate Flag turned down on a birthday cake, only to come back the next day and have an ISIS battle flag printed on a birthday cake at the same store, something is seriously wrong in our country. Personally, I am sick of it.

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clubofinfo · 6 years

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Expert: There is nothing sadder and more pathetic, than a notorious liar shouting, spitting saliva, insulting normal people left and right, while terrorizing those who are telling the truth. Lately, the West has gone clearly berserk. The more it is scared of losing control over the brains of billions of people in all corners of the world, the more aggressively it is screaming, kicking and making a fool of itself. It doesn’t even hide its intentions anymore. The intentions are clear: to destroy all of its opponents, be they in Russia, China, Iran or in any other patriotic and independent-minded state. To silence all the media outlets that are speaking the truth; not the truth as it is defined in London, Washington, Paris or Berlin, but the truth as it is perceived in Moscow, Beijing, Caracas or Teheran; the truth that simply serves the people, not the fake, pseudo-truth fabricated in order to uphold the supremacy of the Western Empire. Huge funds are now being allocated for the mortal propaganda onslaught, originating predominantly in both London and Washington. Millions of pounds and dollars have been allocated and spent, officially and openly, in order to ‘counter’ the voices of Russian, Chinese, Arab, Iranian and Latin American people; voices that are finally reaching ‘the Others’ – the desolate inhabitants of the ‘global south’, the dwellers of the colonies and neo-colonies; the modern-day slaves living in the ‘client’ states. The mask is falling down and the gangrenous face of Western propaganda is being exposed. It is awful, frightening, but at least it is what it is, for everyone to see. No more suspense, no surprises. It is all suddenly out in the open. It is frightening but honest. This is our world. This is how low our humanity has sunk. This is the so-called world order, or more precisely, neo-colonialism. ***** The West knows how to slaughter millions, and it knows how to manipulate masses. Its propaganda has always been tough (and repeated a thousand times, not unlike corporate advertisements or the WWII fascist indoctrination campaigns) when it originates in the United States, or brilliantly Machiavellian and lethally effective when coming from the United Kingdom. Let us never forget: the U.K. has been murdering and enslaving hundreds of millions of innocent and much more advanced human beings, for many long centuries and all over the world. Due to its talent in brainwashing and manipulating the masses, Great Britain has been getting away with countless genocides, robberies and even managing to convince the world that it should be respected and allowed to retain both a moral mandate and the seat at the U.N. Security Council. The Western regime knows how to lie, shamelessly but professionally, and above all, perpetually. There are thousands of lies piling up on top of each other, delivered with perfect upper-class ‘educated’ accents: lies about Salisbury, about Communism, Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, South Africa, Libya, refugees. There are lies about the past, present and even about the future. Nobody is laughing, seeing such imperialist thugs like the U.K. and France preaching, all over the world and with straight face, about both freedom and human rights. Not laughing, yet. But many are slowly getting outraged. People in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America are beginning to realize that they have been fooled, cheated, lied to; that the so called ‘education’ and ‘information’ coming from the West have been nothing else other than shameless indoctrination campaigns. For years I worked on all continents, compiling stories and testimonies about the crimes of imperialism, and about the awakening of the world, ‘summarized’ in my 840-page book, “Exposing Lies Of The Empire”. Millions can now see, for the first time, that media outlets such as BBC, DW, CNN, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, have been encoding them mercilessly and thoroughly, for years and decades. Reuters, AP, AFP and several other Western press agencies, have managed to create a uniformed narrative for the entire planet, with local newspapers everywhere in the world now publishing identical fabrications that originate from Washington, London, Paris and other Western capitals. Totally false pictures about such important subjects as the Soviet Union, Communism, China, but also freedom and democracy, have been engraved into billions of human brains. The main reason for the opening of the eyes of people of the world which is still oppressed by Western imperialism, is, the relentless work of media outlets such as the Russian-based New Eastern Outlook (NEO), RT and Sputnik, as China-based CGTN, China Radio International and China Daily, Venezuela-based TeleSur, Lebanese Al-Mayadeen, and Iranian Press TV. Of course, there are many other proud and determined anti-imperialist media outlets in various parts of the world, but the above-mentioned ones are the most important vehicles of the counter-propaganda coming from the countries that fought for their freedom and simply refused to be conquered, colonized, prostituted and brainwashed by the West. One mighty anti-imperialist coalition of truly independent states has been forming and solidifying. It is now inspiring billions of oppressed human beings everywhere on Earth, giving them hope, promising a better, optimistic and just future. Standing at the vanguard of many positive changes and expectations is the ‘new media’. And the West is watching, horrified, desperate and increasingly vitriolic. It is willing to destroy, to kill and to crush, just in order to stop this wave of ‘dangerous optimism’ and strive for true independence and freedom. ***** There are now constant attacks against the new media of the free world. In the West, RT is being threatened with expulsion, brilliant and increasingly popular New Eastern Outlook (NEO) came just recently under vicious cyber-attack from, most likely, professional Western hackers. TeleSur is periodically crippled by sanctions shamefully unleashed against Venezuela, and the same banditry is targeting Iranian Press TV. You see, the West may be responsible for billions of ruined lives everywhere in the world, but it is still faces no sanctions, no punitive actions. While countries like Russia, Iran, China, Cuba, DPRK or Venezuela have to ‘face consequences’ mainly in the form of embargos, sanctions, propaganda, direct intimidation, even military bullying, simply for refusing to accept the insane Western global dictatorship, and for choosing their own form of the government and political as well as economic system. The West simply doesn’t seem to be able to tolerate dissent. It requires full and unconditional obedience, an absolute submission. It acts as both religious fundamentalist and a global thug. And to make things worse, its citizens appear to be so programmed or so indifferent or both, that they are not capable of comprehending what their countries and their ‘culture’ are doing to the rest of the world. ***** When being interviewed, I am often asked: “is the world facing real danger of WWIII?” I always reply “yes”. It is because it appears that both North America and Europe are unable to stop forcing the world into obedience and to virtual slavery. They appear to be unwilling to accept any rational and democratic arrangement on our Planet. Would they sacrifice one, tens or hundreds of millions of human beings, just in order to retain control over the universe? Definitely they would! They already have, on several occasions, without thinking twice, with no regret and no mercy. The gamble of the Western fundamentalists is that the rest of the world is so much more decent and much less brutal, that it could not stomach yet another war, another carnage, another bloodbath; that it rather surrenders, rather gives up all its dreams for a much better future, instead of fighting and defending itself against what increasingly appears to be an inevitable Western military attack. ***** Such calculations and ‘hopes’ of the Western fanatics are false. Countries that are now being confronted and intimidated are well aware what to expect if they give up and surrender to Western insanity and imperialist designs. People know, they remember what it is like to be enslaved. Russia under Yeltsin, collapsed, being plundered by Western corporations, being spat at, in the face, by the European and North American governments; its life expectancy dropped to sub-Saharan African levels. China survived unimaginable agony of “humiliation period’, being ransacked, plundered and divided by French, British and the U.S. invaders. Iran robbed of its legitimate and socialist government, having to live under a sadistic maniac, the Western puppet, the Shah. The entire ‘Latin’ America, with its open veins, with ruined culture, with Western religion forced down its throat; with literally all democratically-elected socialist and Communist governments and leaders either overthrown, or directly murdered, or at least manipulated out of power by Washington and its lackeys. North Korea, survivor of a beastly genocide against its civilians, committed by the U.S. and its allies in the so-called Korean War. Vietnam and Laos, raped and humiliated by the French, and then bombed to the stone ages by the U.S. and its allies. South Africa… East Timor… Cambodia… There are living carcasses, decomposing horrid wrecks, left after the Western deadly ‘liberating’ embraces: Libya and Iraq, Afghanistan and Honduras, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to name just a few. These are serving as warnings to those who still have some illusions left about the Western ‘good will’ and spirit of justice! Syria… Oh Syria! Just look what the West has done to a proud and beautiful country which refused to fall on its knees and lick Washington’s and London’s feet. But also, look how strong, how determined those who truly love their country can be. Against all odds, Syria stood up, it fought foreign-backed terrorists, and it won, surrounded and supported by the great internationalist coalition! The West thought it was triggering yet another Libyan scenario, but instead, it encountered an iron fist, nerves of steel, another Stalingrad. Fascism was identified, confronted and stopped. At an enormous cost, but stopped! The entire Middle East is watching. The entire world is watching. People now see and they remember. They are beginning to remember clearly what happened to them. They are starting to understand. They are emboldened. They clearly comprehend that slavery is not the only way to live their lives. ***** The Anti-Western or more precisely, anti-imperialist coalition is now solid like steel. Because it is one great coalition of victims, of people who know what rape is and what plunder is, and what thorough destruction is. They know precisely what is administered by the self-proclaimed champions of freedom and democracy – by the Western cultural and economic fundamentalism. This coalition of independent and proud nations is here to protect itself, to protect each other, as well as the rest of the world. It will never surrender, never back up. Because the people have spoken and they are sending clear messages to their leaders: “Never again! Do not capitulate. Do not yield to the Western intimidations. We will fight if attacked. And we will stand, proudly, on our own feet, no matter what, no matter what brutal force we have to face. Never on our knees, comrades! We will never again fall to our knees in front of those who are spreading terror!” And the media in these wonderful countries that are resisting Western imperialism and terror is spreading countless optimistic and brave messages. And the Western establishing is watching and shaking and soiling its pants. It knows the end of its brutal rule over the world is approaching. It knows those days of impunity are ending. It knows the world will soon judge the West, for the centuries of crimes it has been committing against humanity. It knows that the media war will be won by ‘us’, not by ‘them’. The battlefield is being defined. With some bright exceptions, the Westerners and their media outlets are closing ranks, sticking to their masters. Like several other writers, I had been unceremoniously kicked out from Counterpunch, one of the increasingly anti-Communist, anti-Russian, anti-Syrian and anti-Chinese U.S.-based publications. From their point of view, I was writing for several ‘wrong’ publications. I am actually proud that they stopped publishing me. I am fine where I am: facing them, as I am facing other mass-circulation media outlets of the West. The extent of Western ideological control of the world is degenerate, truly perverse. Its media and ‘educational’ outlets are fully at the service of the regime. But the world is waking up and confronting this deadly cultural and political fundamentalism. A great ideological battle is on. These are exciting, bright times. Nothing could be worse than slavery. Chains are being broken. From now on, there will be no impunity for those who have been torturing the world for centuries. Their lies, as well as their armor, will be confronted and stopped! • Originally published by New Eastern Outlook – NEO http://clubof.info/

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nemesis-nexus · 7 years

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AVÈ MARDUK! AVÈ SATANÌ! Darkest Greetings and Salutations my Family! Full Hunters Harvest Moon 2017 In the last month we have seen the levels of violence between nature and man seem to be in competition with each other... On the one hand we have mankind relentlessly going after the Earth's mantle and constantly breaking it up causing fissures that are enabling seismic activity to increase not only across the Continental us but across the ocean floor! It has been proven repeatedly that the consistent fracturing of the Earth's mantle to extract Natural Gas from the Shale underneath has not only increased the amount of earthquakes that occur, but has also increased the intensity of these are earthquakes as well! It is also no big secret that the fracturing companies have been lying about the numbers as far as just how intense these earthquakes have been so that they can stay in operation! We have seen even more oil companies attempting to do even more damage in the context of the Keystone XL pipeline which would stretch from Canada all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico as well as every line protruding from it including Enbridge Kinder Morgan line 3 and line 5! The fact of the matter is that promises were made to young children that these pipelines would be rejected and the environment around there areas would be spared only to see that these were just more lies being spewed in an attempt to silence the opposition! Unfortunately once again we have also seen the human death toll at the hands of one and most likely more gunmen in Las Vegas! We all know that the official story is never the whole story and is very rarely even the true story and at the moment they want us to believe that only one person was responsible for this vicious massacre! Not only do they want us to believe that only one person carried out this entire debacle but they refuse to call this person a terrorist or this vicious brutality an act of terrorism! Terrorism is any activity that produces fear to the extreme of imminent danger on one's life, sometimes people will know what's going to happen before it does and other times it takes them by surprise, it is more likely than not carried out by more than one individual however it is not unusual for an individual to take matters into their own hands for example the Unabomber, the person on that airline who tried to ignite the C-4 in his shoe and the Boston Marathon bombing which was only two people. It is no big secret that the most violent animal on the earth is the fact mankind, we go around killing other species including each other and the environment and why do we do this? Because we think that we are above reproach! The problem is that we're not and several times over we have seen just how special we are! Some of the most adamant examples that demonstrate just how low we are is how severe this hurricane season has been so far and it's not even half over yet! First Harvey came rushing in and slammed right into the east coast of Texas, then Jose and Maria came charging through! Now we have another tropical depression forming in the Gulf Coast that they don't think is going to become much but even a tropical depression can do significant damage on an area that's already been obliterated! When the Anunnaki reduced the world to a giant swimming pool the first time, they did so to save everything in existence from being utterly annihilated by the ego of the human race! We are once again at these Crossroads where the arrogance and ego of the human race is ruling the roost and is taking it upon itself to decide what species, including human beings, get to live and who gets to die according to them! We have seen the human race even the last two thousand years commit such egregious atrocities but all the praying in the world isn't going to help them! In the last two thousand years we have seen the uprising of the new church and the level of violence it is responsible for not to mention the human sacrifice it is guilty of as well as cold-blooded murder and sexual assault makes them not only guilty of the very laws they tried to force on the rest of us but deserving of the condemnation and dehumanization that they were all too willing to put others through just to demonstrate that they could! Many of these sheep like followers continue to carry on this level of brutality hatred and murder in the form of religious extremists who are all too willing to do anything including blow themselves up just to prove their severely misguided sense of loyalty! The biggest problem is that even though they take their own lives in the name of whatever deity that the only reason that they are dying is at the directive of a human who is manipulating them! Of course they will never see it that way, they don't understand that in this context that they are not in fact the hunters they are in fact the prey! Blessed Father Marduk we know that we are not the prey, we are the Hunters! We are not the sheep, we are the wolves! We will not be dominated by anyone just because they say so only to be turned out, tortured and slaughtered in the end! If we follow anyone it is only our own Elders who have earned their status and you indomitable Father Satan! It is through you that we know that no other human has the right to dictate to us how to live! It is through you that we will always rise to meet any and all challenges whoever poses them because like you we will never back down especially when our lives and the lives of those we care about are threatened! It is through you that we have a deeper appreciation of our environment and our ecosystem and a more profound understanding that the Earth will survive without the human race but the human race cannot survive without the Earth and as such we are guardians of this planet and it is our responsibility to take care of her so that she may thrive and in turn be able to take care of all her children, humans, animals, plants, minerals, all that which is a part of the circle of life! It is through you that we have the Free Will to do whatever we want to do, unfortunately it is a double-edged sword, because being able to do whatever you want to do means being able to create all the problems that currently exist in the world... However even though Free Will includes the ability to create massive issues on a global scale it is also includes being able to counter said issues on a global scale! Everyday we see people rising up and fighting the system and while it is slow going the results are still there! We are not where we need to be but we are on our way to get where we are going, we need to keep moving forward! We may be in Dire Straits currently but that does not mean that we do not possess the ability to turn things around, the first thing we need to do is start relying more on alternative energy sources and less on fossil fuels because not only are fossil fuels on their way out the door as a thing of the past the methods being used are causing extreme damage to the Earth's mantle and in turn increasing not only the frequency of earthquakes but the magnitude of them! The strongest one in recent days was in Mexico at 8.1! The other thing people need to do is stop relying so much on technology and be willing to hire human workers! People who are working and earning a living more often than not do not have time to pray on other people trying to make money off of the vulnerable! However the more we see these automated tellers and such working in place of humans the more humans were going to have on the streets relying on the system to pay for them because there will be no jobs available! If you think the welfare system is messed up now, you ain't seen nothing yet and the sad fact will be that they won't have a choice but to rely on it! It's either support everyone or start systematically killing people off so as to thin out the population, with our government either situation is absolutely possible... The biggest thing people need to do is to stop hating each other just because of skin color, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, religion or political affiliation! We have seen all throughout time how all of these were used as an excuse for violence, murder, rape among other things and at the end of the day it changes nothing - beating up a gay kid is not going to make him straight and raping a lesbian is not going to make her desire men! Rattling your saber at another country because you think you're so very awesome does not make you a badass it makes you an idiot who's willing to put millions of other people's lives in jeopardy because you have something to prove! Hating someone for the color of their skin or their ethnicity is absolutely pointless, why bother? It's been my experience that some of our best friends are those who are nothing like us! In all of these cases a little respect goes a long way, as I said before no one has the right to lord over anyone else to dictate to them how they should live their lives if they're not harming anyone simply by existing! RESPECT EXISTENCE OR EXPECT RESISTANCE! ZI ANA KANPA! ZI KIA KANPA! MAY THE DEAD RISE AND SMELL THE INCENSE! "The phoenix, no longer a myth, So strike a match and watch it burn! Our destination is rigor mortis, Cause nobody listens and nobody learns... Your world rejects my kind, Those words have lost their touch... This place has lost its mind, So now I wanna burn it up! HUMILITY is based on TRUST But IGNORANCE and ARROGANCE rule the grounds, So ashes to ashes and dust to dust, And now I wanna burn this WHOLE! PLACE! DOWN! LEASHED. CUFFED. LOCKED. HOOKED. BLOW IT DOWN! TEAR IT DOWN! BURN IT DOWN! Blackmail - come take it to a whole new level! MOTHERFUCKER, I can't WAIT till I can watch you DROWN! We placed our trust in you, Reassured us that we're not to blame, But tables turn and we're the first to burn, Now I could NEVER look at you the same! HUMILITY is based on TRUST But IGNORANCE and ARROGANCE rule the grounds, So ashes to ashes and dust to dust, And now I wanna burn this WHOLE! PLACE! DOWN! So take your word and SHOVE IT! Come take your deal and SHOVE IT! Just take the lie and SHOVE IT! I KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY ARE. (Out of my way) (Out of my way) (Out of my way) (Out of my way) The SCHOOL in which we LEARN, Is the FIRE in which we'll BURN! The SCHOOL in which we LEARN, Is the FIRE in which we'll BURN! The SCHOOL in which we LEARN, Is the FIRE in which we'll BURN! The SCHOOL in which we LEARN, Is the FIRE, in which, WE. WILL. BURN! Burn! Burn! Burn! Burn! Burn! Burn! Burn! HUMILITY is based on TRUST But IGNORANCE and ARROGANCE rule the grounds, So ashes to ashes and dust to dust, And now I wanna burn this WHOLE, PLACE, DOWN!" -Reveille ("The Phoenix") Etiamsi MULTA Et Nos UNUM Sumus Nos Sto Validus Ut Nos Sto Una! Semper Veritas, Semper Fideles, In Diabolus Nomen Nos Fides! AVE SATANÍ! (We Are ONE Even Though We Are MANY And We Stand STRONGEST When We Stand TOGETHER! Always TRUTHFUL, Always FAITHFUL, In Satan's Name We Trust! HAIL SATAN!) Ave URURU! Ave EA! Ave DIMUZI! Ave ININNI! Ave GILGAMESH! Ave ENKIDU! Ave TIAMAT! Ave ABSU! Ave MARDUK! Ave SARPANITUM! Ave SATANÍ! HAIL SATAN! HPS Meg "Nemesis Nexus" Prentiss

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The Case for Legalization (An Excerpt from My Political Philosophy Paper)

To Each Their Own: The Case for Legalization In American culture, a major emphasis is placed on liberty and personal freedom. These values are the cornerstone of the American Dream. Though most don’t know it, the prevailing mindset across the country resembles greatly an ideology known as Utilitarianism. Utilitarianism was outlined by a philosopher known as John Stuart Mill, who argues that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure." In essence, utilitarianism argues that what is right is what produces the most happiness, or utility, and what is wrong causes pain and no pleasure. In America, citizens expect to be able to do pretty much whatever they want, but at what point does one individual’s right to freedom encroach on another’s? Where does the government draw the line? After all, the government has a responsibility to protect its citizens. The answer lies in what is known as the “harm principle.” The harm principle, also presented by Mills, states that the government has no right to interfere with the personal actions of anyone so long as that choice does not harm anyone else, even if that person is harming themselves. Mills attempts to give a solid definition of what exactly constitutes as harm, lest the principle be used to oppress people, with something as subjective as offense not quite making the cut. In order to qualify as harm, an action must “an action must be injurious or set back important interests of particular people, interests in which they have rights.” Unless an action violates this principle, the government, by virtue of Mill’s utilitarianism and liberalism, has no right to interfere or even sanction the action. It is almost hypocritical that this breed of utilitarianism--maximizing happiness as long as no one is harmed--would seem to be the underlying prevailing mindset when recreational drugs, an almost textbook example of increasing utility and, harming nobody but the users themselves, completely within the jurisdiction of the harm principle, are illegal across the United States, with the exception of marijuana, which is illegal across the majority of the United States. Since utilitarianism focuses on the overall wellbeing and happiness of the population, the arguments for the war on drugs, harm to the drug-user his or herself notwithstanding, do have some merit. The black market for drugs, for example, is rife with violence and, as is the nature of illegal markets, highly unregulated, which can lead to improperly prepared products and easy access for minors. Minors themselves are not included in Mill’s interpretation of liberty, as children are “not in the maturity of their faculties” and lack the capacity to exercise liberty in a responsible way. Therefor, drug use by children would indeed fall outside the protection of the harm principle, since children cannot be trusted to use freedom responsibly. All of these side effects of the black market not only decrease the utility of all directly involved, but also spread fear, which decreases the utility of an even broader sphere. While completely criminalizing drugs at first seems like a logical solution, further examination of the ramifications of such an action will tell us otherwise. To declare a substance or action illegal does not guarantee the cooperation of the population. If people want to use drugs, they will continue to use drugs, only now the government has forced them to resort to illegal means. This cycle is known to be true because not only is it happening right now, it has also happened before in the form of prohibition. When the government banned alcohol in 1920, it did not stop the consumption of alcohol. Instead, it shifted the market into the dark and gave birth to organized crime as networks of illegal alcohol dealers began to surface. The same thing is happening today. The illegal market for drugs has given rise to a new ring of organized crime: drug cartels. "The cartels routinely torture and slaughter, they put their decapitations out on video clips. (ISIS has only ripped a page from the cartel playbook.) They've depopulated entire villages, co-opted police and government. They're now heavily involved in human trafficking, with a twist -- they kidnap immigrant families, force the husband or a brother to mule drugs across the border by threatening to kill the family, and then often kill them anyway." All of this violence does not take into account the individual violence that an illegal market can lead to. A person seeking to purchase drugs may fall victim to assault, having to do business in a shady manor and no legal options for protection or justice after the fact. To legalize recreational drugs such as marijuana would increase utility all around by disrupting the black market and denying cartels the customer base they need to continue to operate, thereby preventing almost all of this violence. Furthermore, the state by state legalization has already proven that providing a safe, regulated market ends the reign of terror the cartels have ascended to. Seizures of marijuana at the border are down almost 40% since several states in the U.S. have legalized it, The Washington Post reported. Mexican marijuana traffickers will tell you that it's not worth it anymore -- they can't compete with the domestic American price and quality. The wholesale price of Mexican marijuana has dropped from $100 a kilogram to $25. Growers in Durango and Sinaloa have stopped planting the crop.” Those who fall victim to the violence that isn’t prevented will then have a viable and accessible means for justice. Additionally, the legalization of recreational drugs will necessitate a regulated market, in which quality is controlled, customers can be sure of what they are receiving, and sales to minors can be eliminated, especially as the black market withers away. While the push that would come to be known as the war on drugs officially started in the 1960’s, the roots of the movement come from earlier on in the 1920s. "After the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexican immigrants flooded into the U.S., introducing to American culture the recreational use of marijuana. The drug became associated with the immigrants, and the fear and prejudice about the Spanish-speaking newcomers became associated with marijuana. Anti-drug campaigners warned against the encroaching "Marijuana Menace," and terrible crimes were attributed to marijuana and the Mexicans who used it." With inherently racist beginnings, it is no wonder that the war on drugs continues to this day to target people of color. Despite an equal amount of drug use across black and white population, black people are incarcerated at higher rates: "And there are many more racial dimensions of the drug war. African-Americans do not use drugs more than white people; whites and blacks use drugs at almost exactly the same rates. And since there are five times as many whites as blacks in the United States, it follows that the overwhelming majority of drug users are white. Nevertheless, African-Americans are admitted to state prisons at a rate that is 13.4 times greater than whites, a disparity driven largely by the grossly racial targeting of drug laws. In some states, even those outside the Old Confederacy, blacks make up 90% of drug prisoners and are up to 57 times more likely than whites to be incarcerated for drug crimes." In fact, the very nature of the relationship between laws pertaining to crack-cocaine as compared to powdered cocaine have been shown to have racially motivated ill-intentions: "The scientifically unjustifiable 100:1 ratio meant that people faced longer sentences for offenses involving crack cocaine than for offenses involving the same amount of powder cocaine – two forms of the same drug. Most disturbingly, because the majority of people arrested for crack offenses are African American, the 100:1 ratio resulted in vast racial disparities in the average length of sentences for comparable offenses. On average, under the 100:1 regime, African Americans served virtually as much time in prison for non-violent drug offenses as whites did for violent offenses." Recently, the Fair Sentencing Act was passed, a ten year bipartisan effort to reduce the disparity between sentencings for possession of the two forms of the drug. Legalization of recreational drugs will remove a tool of institutionalized racism, increasing the utility and reducing the pain of marginalized people. "More people are in jail for marijuana possession alone than all violent crime combined. All of these people are in jail at the expense of the American taxpayer, for simply having a good time. This is a major drain of utility, with those incarcerated and the families and friends of those incarcerated suffering on a daily basis. Even after being released from jail, a combination of social disdain and the classification of drug possession being a felony hinders, if not prevents, a resumption of normal life. Such a large section of society, from employers to distributors of financial aid, reserves the right to deny an applicant based on criminal history. Under the Higher Education Act of 1998, “any drug conviction blocks or delays all federal educational assistance, including loans and even work-study programs…” This denial of necessary funds is specific to drug use, explains Graham Boyd, founder and director of the ACLU Drug Policy Litigation Project: “Murder and rape do not render a person ineligible; someone could burn a nursery or bomb a federal building and still receive financial aid, but smoking marijuana in the privacy of one's own room means a student risks losing financial aid and having to leave college or graduate school.” The system is designed to set drug-users up for failure by denying them access to education and any kind of well paying or self sustaining job. These people may have no choice but to resort to more crime or join the welfare system, both of which result in a drain of tax dollars. As the state of the country stands, it is estimated that the war on drugs costs the American taxpayers around 41,000,000,000 a year. Legalization would decrease the amount of people in jail drastically, allowing those very tax dollars to be repurposed in ways that better benefit the community. Additionally, with the legalization of recreational drugs, thousands of jobs would be created, economic activity would be stimulated, and millions upon millions of dollars worth of taxes could be collected, benefiting public schools, parks, services, and infrastructure. Colorado is a prime example of such benefits: "Legal weed created 18,005 full-time jobs and added about $2.4 billion to the state’s economy [in 2015], an analysis from the Marijuana Policy Group (MPG) shows,” deputy director of economic policy at news outlet ThinkProgress summarizes, “Between the dollars that customers spend and the money business people invest in their crops and shops, pot is generating more wealth and activity than almost anything else on a pound-for-pound basis. Every dollar spent in the industry generates between $2.13 and $2.40 in economic activity. Only federal government spending has a higher multiplier.” Such investments in the local economy drastically raise the standard of living, again increasing utility for not only those who ingest marijuana, but for the rest of the community as well. One can only imagine the economic activity that could be generated across the country if legalization were to occur at the federal level. After all of this, options remain for cases when addiction causes harm to people who no longer want to use recreational drugs. Rehab centers, support groups following the format of Alcoholics Anonymous, and medical assistance are all options open to those who suffer from addiction. Such methods have already been shown to work in countries such as the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Portugal. With so much utility generated from legalization, and with legalization being so in tune with America’s liberty song, it seems rather counterintuitive to continue pouring millions of dollars into the prohibition of recreational drugs. Perhaps it speaks to a larger theme of humanity’s stubborn refusal to admit to its errors. Unfortunately, pride cannot come at the cost of the countless human lives jeopardized by black market violence and systemic bureaucratic persecution. No longer can we sit around and justify this blatant disregard for utility. We, as the people of the United States of America, must come together to protect our fellow citizens and people across the world, and end the war on drugs. Bibliography Boyd, Graham. "The Drug War is the New Jim Crow." American Civil Liberties Union. Accessed April 29, 2017. Branson, Richard. "War on drugs a trillion-dollar failure." CNN. December 07, 2012. Accessed April 29, 2017. Brink, David. "Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. October 09, 2007. Accessed April 29, 2017. "Fair Sentencing Act." American Civil Liberties Union. 2015. Accessed April 29, 2017. Funkhouser, Mark. "State Marijuana Laws in 2017 Map." March 23, 2017. Accessed April 29, 2017. Gwynne, Kristen. "These Four Countries Prove That Decriminalization Works Better Than Prohibition." TheInfluence. March 14, 2016. Accessed April 29, 2017. PBS. "Marijuana Timeline." PBS. Accessed April 29, 2017. Pyke, Alan. "Marijuana's $2.4 billion impact in Colorado is a lesson for 5 states considering legalization." ThinkProgress. October 28, 2016. Accessed April 29, 2017. Stauffer, Brian. "Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States." Human Rights Watch. March 02, 2017. Accessed April 29, 2017. Winslow, Don. "U.S. war on drugs empowers Mexico cartels (Opinion)." CNN. June 28, 2015. Accessed April 29, 2017.

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hansikajethnani · 7 years

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on Independence Days

written on: August 15, 2016 I've often felt conflicted when it comes to Independence days. Today is India’s, yesterday was Pakistan’s and on the 17th of August it will be Indonesia’s. To think that my ancestors came from Sindh (now a part of Pakistan but during the partition that happened when the British left was a part of the ‘British Indian Empire’) and that if they didn't choose to flee during the partition to Indonesia, I would be Pakistani instead of Indian/Indonesian really gets me thinking.

I fully support independence, of any country, colonialism and imperialism was/is absolute BS. But I suppose I've never been patriotic - because not only do I not know who to be patriotic for, but because what is there to be patriotic about? Growing up in Jakarta, where you pass through some of the poorest communities and then suddenly you’re inside a mall that houses the most elitist brands and companies in the world - and seeing the exact same thing in India every summer that I visited always really stuck out to me. The disparity between the ‘rich’ and the ‘poor’ is so so so evident in these two countries, as is in the rest of the world but I saw it the most growing up in India and Indonesia and it cannot be overlooked. I only ever saw the disparity growing, and I still do. It seemed like everyone succumbed to capitalism because they felt like they didn’t have a choice - and I can see why when the government never really provided an alternative or an economy that worked for everyone; but instead succumbed to it themselves.

I’m currently reading this book: Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy that really highlights the social and economic inequalities in India, along with the rest of the world, which is pretty much the same in Indonesia.

Some things I’ve read from the book include:

‘India’s government has embarked on a massive biometrics program, perhaps one of the most ambitious and expensive information gathering projects in the world - the Unique Identification Number (UID). People don’t have clean drinking water, or toilets, or food, or money, but they will have election cards and UID numbers.’

‘Post-independence, right up to the 1980s, people’s movements, ranging from the Naxalites to Jayaprakash Narayan’s Sampoorna Kranti, were fighting for land reforms, for the redistribution of land from feudal landlords to landless peasants. Today any talk of redistribution of land or wealth would be considered not just undemocratic but lunatic. Even the most militant movements have been reduced to fight to hold on to what little land people still have. The millions of landless people, the majority of them Dalits & Adivasis, driven from their villages, living in slums and shanty colonies in small towns and megacities, do not figure even in the radical discourse.’

‘In the drive to beautify Delhi for the Commonwealth Games, laws were passed that made the poor vanish, like laundry stains. Street vendors disappeared, rickshaw pullers lost their licenses, small shops and businesses were shut down. Beggars were rounded up, tried by mobile magistrates in mobile courts, and dropped outside the city limits. The slums that remained were screened off, with vinyl billboards that said DELHIciously Yours.’

It often seemed like the government just completely brushed off this inequality and refuses to acknowledge it - and please correct me if I am wrong because I do not know much about Indian politics and me reading this book is me trying to educate myself on it but it seems to just give evidence to thoughts I’ve had when I’ve visited. If one refuses to even tackle the very epitome of the issue, it cannot be fixed. Making the rich ‘richer’ and hoping that that will somehow make the country richer and thus, everything okay is not okay. Things need to be changed from the bottom up, and I have never seen that acknowledgement in India. The fact that any talk of redistribution of land and wealth in India today would be ‘lunatic’ literally goes to show the how okay the government and the rich are with the way people live there. And the fact that they literally just made the poor vanish just to ‘doll’ up Delhi when essentially they are hiding the majority of the country, goes to show how they just refuse to acknowledge the inequalities and simply be honest about them.

I understand, that the British leaving is/was a time to celebrate, it was a long struggle for freedom that was finally won - but I feel conflicted about being patriotic because years on, as someone of Indian origin, I don’t see or feel very much to be proud of when there are still communities and people struggling for freedom; when the government has not been able to pick up those pieces that the British left India in; and it seems like they don’t even want to try.

The other day I also came across this:

“During the New York agreement, the Netherlands, US and Indonesia decided the future of West Papua. Not a single West Papuan person was allowed to take part in the negotiations, or to have any say on their future rulers or what happened to their lands. This paved the way for a further and more devastating illegal act: The Act of Free Choice in 1969, which again betrayed the West Papuan people as the vote was rigged! 1022 of the 800,000 West Papuans, who were eligible to vote, were handpicked and forced at gunpoint to have Indonesia rule over them. This administrative process, which was overseen by the United Nations, resulted in the illegal annexation of West Papua by Indonesia.

These atrocious and unfair acts have led to nearly 60 years of terror in West Papua. 500,000 West Papuans have been slaughtered by the Indonesian military and police. West Papuans are victims of daily human rights abuses such as false arrest and imprisonment, torture, rape, beatings, which are often fatal, and massacres. Their lands which are rich in minerals and resources: gold, copper and oil are being looted by multinational corporations and governments who leave a trail of environmental destruction to West Papua's forests, rivers, land and wildlife.” - https://www.facebook.com/events/274249322958101/

And I suddenly felt ashamed to carry an Indonesian passport. Yes, the time that the Dutch left Indonesia is a time to celebrate, but still - what they have done, and are still doing to West Papua is not okay. And it seems like celebrating the freedom is wrong if it came to Indonesia at cost for West Papua. Also, everything I think about India is so so applicable to Indonesia. The inequality in society there is no different. I understand and do think that colonialism and imperialism is a lot of the reason for the very inequalities and injustices in India and Indonesia alongside SO many other countries in the world - but in my opinion, I don’t think the governments of India or Indonesia are doing very much to tackle it today - but instead just succumbing to capitalism / privatization of everything and making it worse.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m not saying celebrating independence is not okay and unnecessary or that colonialism and imperialism is okay - far from it, colonialism and imperialism was definitely not okay and Independence is a thing to be celebrated and of course a great thing for the country, but the way the two countries has treated its citizens, and neighboring countries thereafter is not something in my opinion, that I’m proud of.

I always thought my confusion about Independence days came from my identity; the fact that I didn’t know which culture I really resonated with, but having really thought about the economic systems of the countries and their history, I realized its beyond just what culture I identify with - it’s because I think there is still a struggle; there is still 'Independence' to fight for. The countries may have gotten Independence, but millions of people in India and Indonesia are still living in poverty, still tied down by their class, their gender, their socio-economic background and until they aren’t free, I don’t think full freedom for the country - for every citizen in India and Indonesia has been achieved, because "nobody's free until everybody's free" (Fannie Lou Hamer)

#Capitalism #inequality #socialism #arundhati roy #india #indonesia #independece #independence day

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