Land, People, Politics, and Ignorance

By Alan Millard

A consistent effort to destroy the natural environment, with a cultural influence that clashed with the Native American way of life, presently continues from European arrival. When we see land "developers," supported by government-funded contracts and zoning laws that accommodate turning land into urban sprawl, we are still witnessing today the European take-over of Native America. Sharing the same destiny with the Indians and the buffalo, large unaltered areas of our native land will soon be gone too.
    The recent expanded powers of eminent domain, allowing a large private company/corporation to take land from a smaller private party, supports the exploitation of our land and its citizens by force for private/corporate gain. The government wielding the bigger stick, rather than protects the people, now as a thug, takes away by force what they have--very similar to how the Native Americans had their land taken from them. The people have been set up by a continuance of the same expansionary practices that took this country from the Indians.
    Native Americans multiplied basically to the caring capacity of the land and were all involved in a life sculptured to the natural environment—an original culture with its own habits, beliefs, and customs. The natives didn't need churches because they lived their beliefs, not as a religion but as their life. Offspring were not considered part of a religious incentive to reproduce either, as is often the case in the European/Anglo culture. The land's human-caring capacity can be increased, however, without damaging the natural environment with good land-use/management practices implemented. But instead, exploitation and greed, without any foresight, continues to take its toll today in a process that started when Europeans discovered America.
    It comes as no surprise that people who are not close to nature, influenced and conditioned by the city and urban environment, are those opposed to sex roles defined by nature. The same foreign concept applied to the environment is thus being applied to humanity. And an exploitative correlation applies to both.
    What's termed development is to the environment what "equality" is to the people and our social structure. One is destroying our land and the other its people. In the past, one earner's wage, sculptured to support a family, was kept at par with the rate of inflation. However, the current arrangement of two workers for the price of one operates as a double-profit effect benefiting big business/government at the expense of humanity.
    Hence, the family has been displaced by the individual for the purpose of the corporate employer, with the typical employee mind-set now molded by corporate philosophy. Jobs are no longer designed, or intended, to support the people (families), but sculptured to suit corporate interests, with government propaganda and policies that support the employer's and government's best interests. Taking two people to gain the equivalent income that only one person and one job provided in the past, along with the attitudes, hatred, laws, human resource policies associated, is a combined effect that has sacrificed male/female unity and the family in our society, along with a more meaningful and valuable quality of life. The most important thing in one's life is, or was, and should be, a mate and a family. All sociological paths within our society are leading us further from this basic foundation of life and any hope for future generations. Read within to fully understand what Alan Millard has conveyed in Land, People, Politics, and Ignorance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alan Millard
• Release date: Oct 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9789781441585

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Copyright © 2010 by Alan Millard.

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Contents

AUTHOR’S NOTE

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CONCLUSION

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I dedicate this book to the preservation of America and to all people whose hearts and souls are true and genuine.

Alan Millard

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Due to a compilation of research, experience, knowledge and insight, Land, People, Politics, and Ignorance not only offers examples of poor environmental/land-use practices but also demonstrates illegitimacies by exposing hidden government/corporate agendas to the average citizen. The ordinary person may witness these occurrences or be involved but not understand or know, without the disclosure provided, what’s actually happening and may even accept the bogus explanations (BS) offered by a professional in the field.

Knowledge is derived from truth, nothing else. If you don’t value the truth, you will not value this book. And if you choose to remain ignorant, you will want to discard this reference. But someone with this character lacks regard for his or her country, since that is what’s at stake. The truth hurts because we’ve veered so far from it. Few people now want exposure to the truth because it reveals, by comparison to the past, a modern lifestyle based upon falsities—one lacking genuine down-to-earth qualities, which social degradation many of us have come to accept as a standard. We’re conditioned to accept philosophies and practices by propaganda and government policies that fifty years ago would not have stood a chance under a common ethical standard embraced by the majority and all political parties.

Those people locked in either the Conservative/Republican or Liberal/Democrat mind-set will also be offended by this book, being unable to accept truth and knowledge offered in its truest, most unadulterated form. Individuals who refuse to be locked in this political mind-set, who think for themselves, will benefit most from this source and are in turn those able to contribute most to society.

Responsibility lies upon our generation to maintain a standard of freedom and integrity that will be passed on to future generations. Otherwise, as those born to slavery and servitude, new generations will never know anything else, including the free spirit that inspired this great nation.

As for quality of people, I have found that those who have less, or at least not an abundance, and have experienced rough, trying times, working hard for what they’ve acquired and often coming from an agricultural background, are the best type of people. These are the type of people who formed this country.

The closer we are tied to the earth (nature), the more in touch we remain with humanity (ourselves), and a happier and more content society—optimal level of life—corresponds. Once we are removed from life (bio means life, which common reference alone subliminally doesn’t convey this meaning), the city/office environment is created, lacking all components of nature and a natural environment. Rules and laws that are obtrusive and foreign—not compatible with life—are applied within this abnormal environment. A conversion process continues, corresponding to the exploitation of people and the destruction of our native land. Instead of living in harmony with nature, humans have become parasites upon the earth and off each other.

I once expressed my compassion for the Native Americans, due to how they have been violated, to a Ute medicine man. Although I told him that I have no Indian blood in my veins, he told me that I have a red heart due to my understanding and compassion. I know there exist other whites besides me with red hearts. However, we must all regard any issue by what is right and not allow our race, whether white, Native American or otherwise, to influence our thought process or to prejudge others.

Society consists of many people from many backgrounds, but what pulls it together is a common denominator of goodwill bound by a shared faith—not a religious faith, but a faith in fellow man. Once this shared faith is taken away, so is unity—what makes a society. If you don’t look out for yourself, no one else will is a common phrase applying to this effect. Although this phrase applies at the individual level to being a responsible person, it is not a sound social concept. If you don’t look out for others, no one else will also applies. Otherwise, you become bound by the control of others. By not protecting the individual, the whole is lost. The puppet masters (government and big money people/business corporations) then pull the strings to guide/mold society into what they want. Without the citizens looking out for each other, the people are no longer in control. As part of the fashionable trend, people are influenced by government/social propaganda, which makes its way to influence laws. All the citizens have in common then is their adherence to their social indoctrination (sheeplike tendencies). Through these means a dictatorship is developed and a police state is formed. The government, no longer representing the people, becomes impenetrable to the general population.

If a person commits an act the government (courts/judges) deems is not right, isn’t this an act against the people? If the people are represented by their government, it is. Therefore, we must ask ourselves how the average citizen would see the act and deal with the person who committed it. Would it even be considered a crime by the average person? Would the average person (citizen) side with the person against the government? Is not the average citizen the one targeted—no longer considered acceptable or an equal to those in power who supposedly serve the citizens?

Land, People, Politics, and Ignorance places our earthly existence into perspective and demonstrates how all entities within are tied together. We are all attached to the earth although many of us, by living a lie, deny this connection. Conceived through knowledge and experience, the book provides insight through actual demonstration and practical application. Few people know in a fast-paced electronic world of an advanced consciousness that is still connected to reality, but only what is commonly referred to as virtual reality and an artificial, materialistic, superficial, and fake existence—one easily controlled by propaganda. Modern, fashionable trends are created and easily used to control the people.

Drugs (hallucinogens) provide a very similar effect in which case the incumbent lives in a separate world. But, unfortunately, drugs are no longer needed to have this detached effect. Modern society provides it for us. As a result, life (our human existence) is deprived value. Thus, as life under artificial conditions loses meaning, new generations lack the connection and become conditioned (e.g., credit instead of cash, electronic transactions/records—nothing tangible exists, along with a detachment from justice and our U.S. Constitution). But life’s true meaning (reality), remaining somewhere outside of this artificial environment, needs to be exposed and referenced to continually keep our society in check and grounded—connected to its founding. We may not like what we see and experience acts of denial in the process, but acknowledgement and acceptance are part of the process to recovery.

PREFACE

A true conscience applies to everything we do, including how we regard the land, plants, animals, and people. Any exception makes us hypocrites and parasites. The principles of ecology work by one entity depending on another for the success of the whole. One entity left out throws the others out of sync. Thus, as this interdependency works, without one part, the whole will crumble. As this principle applies to all life, it applies to people and society, as well as to human families that make up society—the whole.

Once people become part of a system, most accept policies and procedures as a mere condition of their employment and daily routine. Many don’t question the actions of the established authorities. Those who do are often insignificant in having any influence, especially on the inside. And many private citizens outside of the government/corporate system don’t know what’s going on.

Some of the names, times, and places mentioned within this book have been unidentified or unspecified to protect the guilty, lazy, unethical, and incompetent, as well as the innocent who express their honesty and concern. Due to its accuracy, this book is not politically correct. You may like some of what it contains, but despise the rest. When the country is divided (politically, socially, and individually), the truth, and those who tell it, have no friends.

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction

Land, People, Politics, and Ignorance is a book about ecology, human ecology, and what makes us human, less than human, and less than animals. If we, as humans, with our power and advanced characteristics, are a species worthy of recognition, we would be true to other species as well as to our own. Ecological principle dictates for any species to exist, it must continue to coexist with other species, as well as operate within the guiding principles of its own species. This usually occurs by checks and balances. Otherwise, a species will overpopulate. Lemmings commit mass suicides as a result. A quality of life gets so bad that suicide (death) is considered a better option. Ordinarily, when a species overpopulates, its fate is confined to its own species due to predation, disease, or other limiting factors within the land’s caring capacity—food, shelter, or water. Humans have conquered what other species never have by adapting to and altering their environment to cope. But humans are also entrusted with the lives of other species. They may destroy themselves too, but before they do, they will likely take many of the other species with them, as well as other natural features that many humans and other species value.

Due to the human species’ control, humans are essentially entrusted with the whole world. But can they be trusted? Some can, as those who live closest to the land. However, those who have deemed themselves the most advanced civilizations are the worst and most untrustworthy. They are merely the most self-serving. Humans reveal that no matter how advanced (self-serving) they become, they ultimately are no different than any other species, except more destructive.

Every species, and individual within, is genetically programmed to perpetuate its kind, giving preference to its own. If we are above other animal species, we will be able to rise above that level. Exclusive qualities the human species has that no other species possesses are awareness and an advanced form of consciousness, which in some people forms a conscience. But the same qualities, deemed so valuable, have also proven, when misused, to be the most destructive. If the average person is big enough to see and accept that the basic principles governing our own species (society) are no different than those governing others—only human laws made to accommodate—then he or she can better understand that we are only another species, just more dangerous. But more differences exist than this within our own species. Aggressiveness and arrogance within create problems due to misuse of this advanced consciousness, which carries with it many worse qualities, including cruelty, vindictiveness, hatred, and greed. A type of innocence is left within the animal kingdom.

No other species makes war, especially against its own species, killing masses. Members may unite against predators or have territorial disputes that seldom involve killing. However, humans are socialized and trained to hate and kill people—ones they don’t even know, whom they may even like as individuals, and many who are just like them or even related to them (e.g., during the civil war). It doesn’t seem to matter. Instead of shame, pride comes from the effect. Egos are fed off the value of harming and killing others by political/military-based propaganda—To be a ‘real man,’ you must be tough, serve in the military, be a killer, and be willing to sacrifice your life. And yet, due to this applied male image, men are also blamed by the same government for domestic violence problems.¹ It’s a setup administered by both genders and by a government using the assigned male identity for its own interests. This tough identity for males serves to place men with an unequal status to women in that less regard is given to their abuse and violation. They are supposed to take it when no one should. The person, whether a man or woman, is to be given the same rights and consideration—physically, mentally and personally. Without this equal status granted to his person, a man is destined to a status equaling blacks during times of slavery.

Revealing equality double standards, manhood (versus womanhood) is often arbitrarily defined by men’s servitude to women. Thus, under these supposed social (sex discriminatory) obligations, men don’t have an identity of their own but one bound to serve women. Realistically, by equality standards and a right to their own identity, men have no more obligation to serve women than women have to serve men. Therefore, manhood is not derived from serving women any more than womanhood is derived from serving men. Equal treatment for all (men and women alike) is necessary as a prerequisite for the maturity and better character of either sex. A complementary, reciprocal social arrangement between the sexes is the ultimate healthy societal condition.

However, as war is created within a country, eventually, by effective propaganda, it can even be created between the sexes—male and female being the most basic component (unit) upon which a species exists. Males are targeted in the so-called advanced society. Hatred, and its supportive propaganda, has been introduced into the populace by feminism—an internal terrorism—against the males of our species (a self-imposed social plague), which certainly doesn’t occur in any other species either. Just as our educational system has been contaminated by feminist influence, the movie industry has used the same propaganda to bridge the gap between the past and present to influence the minds of new generations. Sadly, more money, energy, and effort are spent harming and killing others within our species than toward acts of kindness and saving lives.

Populations within our human species have lived for many centuries in harmony with nature (including other species and the land). In comparison to the modern cultural mind-set, how can this copasetic quality be explained? Within native human cultures, battles existed between tribes, similar to territorial disputes between certain animal packs, concerning their territorial boundaries. But humans consist of a mixed bag. Do other species contain the same humane qualities, which we do not see due to survival of the fittest—most aggressive? To consider survival of the fittest in effect as being the most aggressive, however, is a shallow assessment. Somewhere along the way aggression consumes itself.

Many forms and levels of aggression exist. Any self-serving trait can easily develop into a type of aggression, especially without a condition that provides reciprocation. In humans, this takes form in many ways. But with humans, it’s not so simple. Logic and emotions are thrown into the mix. Humans too are not a monogamous species as, for example, wolves, swans and geese. And when we apply standards of control that are not a part of our species, as under the auspices of religion, we confine our species to rules that are foreign to our social/biogenetic makeup. An internal, societal conflict results.

Ironically, religion creates its own governing rules but reveals qualities that are no different than those of an out-of-control species—self-serving, greedy, aggressive, overpopulating (lack of birth control), and territorial. And many religions exist. However, the limitations usually applied to territory are lifted under the auspices of religion, encompassing masses of people, societies, and countries. The origin of outright war is rooted in religion, with only territoriality preceding it. Religions in their own right combine to create the most wars—conditions and a mind-set most removed from God and, as mentioned earlier, the animal kingdom.

Egos first segregated to begin religious beliefs: I was there and witnessed Christ or I am of the same race as Christ or yet I was born in the same land as Christ. There are also those who are not Christians, such as Native Americans who others place themselves above due to this religious ego mind-set. Just as a spoiled child says to another, My daddy can beat up your daddy, or thus My religion is better than your religion, conceit is used as an excuse to violate and kill. The ramifications of Manifest Destiny demonstrate this. The Native American culture basically shares the same religion." But more than that, it’s an accepted spiritual concept shared by all members of this society applying to the world in which we live. Irony reveals the irrational mind-set by allegiance to religion demonstrated in the following example.

When the United States invaded Mexico and the Mexican-American War continued from 1846 to 1848, newly recruited Irish immigrants, being Catholics as the Mexicans, were not considered as good as others within the ranks and treated accordingly, with many deserting and joining the Mexican forces defending Mexico. Also, despite the country and its culture being established under either Spanish or Mexican rule longer than the United States has been established now, the idea existed that land could be taken from the Hispanics/Mexicans since they, basically being half-natives, were somehow less worthy and not entitled to it. (Footnote number 69, chapter 8 explains this effect in detail.)

Now place this into perspective with other species. No other species has religion or perhaps, better put, beliefs based upon blind faith within its own species that separate its members. Racism is not prevalent either, with many accepting one color with another. Territoriality could be associated, with some of the same derivatives. Territorial differences, with our advanced consciousness, leading up to genetic segregation, likely led to racism within our species. But races have crossed, and people from different religions have blended.

Great irony exists concerning race and cultural/territorial differences. Many express curiosity about other cultures and people/races and first meet as friends. For example, Native Americans helped the first European immigrants to survive. Only when greed and self-serving factors (e.g., capitalism, with its components of slavery and other exploitation) come into play do attitudes and conditions change. As a people within an educated, and supposedly advanced, society, modern humans have expressed qualities that rank below many native cultures.

Political parties show the same qualities as religion, with many members just as blindly devoted to a party as some are to a religion, and with political parties just as self-serving as religions and societies expressing the same aggressions and desires to overpopulate and rule. Within animals, and certain human cultures, this less advanced trait is confined to territory. As in this case though, many people confuse what appear to be advanced human characteristics with mere cover-ups, implementing very primitive traits combined with modern technology and power. But are they primitive or just flawed traits? What are referred to as primitive societies are in many ways more advanced in their character. Only the conquerors refer to those societies they have conquered or are capable of conquering as primitive and less advanced.

On the other hand, achievements to help society have been made by advanced civilization that can benefit all humanity. This is due to research and using what one society has to benefit others. Many medicines and cures have come from what are considered less advanced (primitive) societies/sources. Research and scientific method by more advanced societies using these sources have produced modern medicine. A cultural ego mind-set is associated, however, that gives these people a superiority complex. In many cases, only a select few, and those within certain societies who can afford it, benefit. And modern technology also carries with it a counter dichotomy. An increased ability to save lives is offset by an advanced ability to destroy lives, with both capabilities laced with egotism and greed.

Is not one human’s life just as valuable as another’s no matter how primitive or advanced? The aborigine’s life is considered amongst many less valuable than the civilized white’s life. And money is used as a part of making that assessment. If the average aborigine is killed, is justice equally served compared to the average person who is killed from a modern society? Would the aborigine receive the same legal representation, and would the average civilized individual care, especially to the extent given to the more civilized person killed? The conquering and exploitation of other countries, still taking place, incorporates the better-than-you mind-set that has existed for centuries, associated with money, power, racism, and slavery. And these poor qualities are also internalized within by a society that supposedly prides itself in equality standards.

The following information was published in the Forum section of Playboy magazine, August 2007 issue—a strange source perhaps, but the information is revealing.

"ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL

This simple concept should at least be reflected in public institutions, right? The evidence proves otherwise." This source states:

It’s a basic part of what makes us Americans: the belief, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that no person is better than any other. We have no aristocracy and no caste system and even adhere to the fiction of a classless society. But in practice, things are different. Even among government and government institutions—which surely should uphold the legal and moral codes of our hallowed founding documents even when others do not—this egalitarian ideal is subverted left and right. Stratified disbursements of public funds to victims of 9/11 were a glaring example; instead of dividing funds equally, thereby acknowledging that all lives are of equal worth, payments were tied to victims’ earning potential.

This source goes on to provide three more comparative examples. (Photos of each were included in the original publication.)

Government Personnel Facilities:

Walter Reed’s Building 18 housed soldiers wounded in Iraq; reporters found many of the filthy, derelict rooms had moldy walls and were littered with trash and dead vermin. At the same facility, government VIPs stay in executive suites in Ward 72.

Government Detention Facilities:

As far as we’re concerned, theft is theft. But not only are suspects of so-called white-collar crimes prosecuted lightly, white-collar convicts are treated better. Just compare Martha Stewart’s prison cell with this overcrowded California prison.

Government-Controlled Services:

Customers wealthy enough to use a helicopter service between New York City and its airports can bypass security lines thanks to an on-site Transportation Security Administration station. The rest of us must queue at airport security checks.

Money, created as a common, acceptable means of exchange, has taken the place of trading goods, genuine values, and a genuine human element associated. Beyond trading, greed—a trait few animals possess—transformed itself into an exchange medium, first appearing in the form of precious metals, gold and silver, and jewels, rubies and diamonds, with its effects increasing through more population and exploitation. (The government formed money, which is a universal means of exchange and exerted power.) Monetary values in excess compare in contrast to kindness, sentimental values, justice, and peace.

Keep in mind that the government knows only one means of exchange, and that’s money. It can’t accept potatoes in place of taxes. Large businesses and corporations are the same. But when the government (city, county, state, and federal), corporations, and big businesses can no longer accept the concept of commodity involving individual/family needs and credit granted for abundance, a means of self-sufficiency and self-reliance (a community self-worth) is taken from the people.

A community-based commerce is then no longer possible, when prior the value awareness was shared by the financial institutions being connected to the community. Flat, strict rules are thereafter placed on everyone. It doesn’t matter that crop farmer, Jake Miller, has a beautiful crop of corn that will produce a great financial return in early fall. He doesn’t have the current income to pay many of his present costs. The local bank knew Mr. Miller was good for the amount due to a community/personal relationship and the bank’s knowledge of his farming operation, but the government and large business/corporations do not have this connection with the community. Out of touch with the community and controlled by big money and greed, they don’t care. All that represents our communities, and what used to be tangible accounts/real people, are electronic imagery and numbers in cyberspace.

Instead of being with a consistent banker/financier, your home mortgage is traded off like a wild card to other financial institutions. And often one branch/office doesn’t communicate with another concerning your account, and issues are lost in the process, with no one accepting accountability. This lack of personal/community tie by large corporations is a major problem affecting America. (Complicated computer processing, lacking individual accountability, also contributes to this effect.) Large corporations/big business, and the government, take power and control from the people and community. Every piece of the pie previously shared by the community is being consumed by big businesses and the government, no longer dispersed throughout the communities of our country, disallowing self-sufficiency and community ties/strength. This trend now even effects laws governing special privileges as eminent domain (see chapter 6, Misuse of Eminent Domain). As the little guy is being stamped out, the personal connection that ties society together is lost. This mind-set, in practice, is now also being applied to the family, breaking it up to serve the corporate world and government. Everyone must care about others and stand up for them.

While completing my undergraduate degree, I did an internship at a hospital in surgery. I briefly worked with a surgical registered nurse (RN) who tended the surgery patients in recovery. She was one of the most kind and compassionate people/professionals I’d ever met. She was so connected to the patients’ needs, due to her compassion and understanding, that they seemed to recover much better/faster than others who did not receive the same care and consideration. (Studies have also shown this attentiveness and personal care, with its mental component, speeds recovery.) She was a credit to her profession. Unfortunately, this is a rarity. Others expressed jealousy toward this nurse due to her consideration and dedication. She made them look bad.

My experience there helped open my eyes to modern reality. Many people, regardless of their profession, are not kind people, entering a profession for the wrong reasons (money and ego/power), and are into backstabbing and political mind games. I found the same going through the police academy and during my stint as a police officer. Many merely choose the law enforcement profession for the power/ego trip it offers, not for the good they can do, many being the worst type of people, especially for this type of job—criminals protected by their position and covered for by others within the profession. (Throughout my experience, I have found, of all the law enforcement agencies, the small-town police and the sheriff’s office to be the most unprofessional and least competent.)

Sometimes, when a person does an extra good job, rules are bent to accommodate getting the job done. Other times, however, rules are bent for other reasons—not out of consideration for others, but for self-interest and biased, preferential treatment. But this nurse was being watched. And anyone can get in trouble if the pack turns against him or her even when nothing has been done wrong.

It wasn’t long, I didn’t see her anymore. I asked what had happened to her since she was such a hard worker and so dedicated to her patients. (Others of less authority knew of her value as I did.) I was told that since she wasn’t liked by the other nurses (rest of the staff) that she had to go somewhere else. I asked where she went. No one seemed to know. Patients, wanting her continued personal attention and assistance, were asking for her, but I had nothing to tell them. I believe this incident conveys well the big picture taking over our society. To be a contributing member of society, every person needs to have, as a part of himself or herself, a sense of self-worth based upon helping everyone else.

Holding Fast to Guiding Principles

If we keep our patriotism sound and do not allow politics and political parties to veer us, our true interests/values will remain intact. But once we lose hold of our heritage, bound by a common patriotism, contradictions will later emerge to haunt us. When certain ideas become popular or politics and our government are deemed representative of only a segment of our population (women, minorities, etc.), we veer by accepting policies/ideas that contradict our heritage and patriotism by dividing the people, which serves to support mere political gains at the expense of others. When our unity is broken, our true patriotism is lost.

The Revolutionary War was represented, not by a flashy uniform or a politically correct government, but by a ragtag bunch of people (patriots from the community—homes and families) who, sharing guiding principles, thought of one another as their country, not the superficial government cover (mask) that is now used to hide something else. What’s on the surface appears to be the same. We see the same uniforms, flag, speeches, and religions but not the same contents that formed this country. Little remains to which we can identify or dedicate ourselves. The only remnant left of our country’s past integrity remains in the symbol—the mask—and in the hearts of some of the people.

As patriotism is built at a personal level, our country’s patriotism is derived from this premise. Emphasizing this point, noted English author and critic, E. M. Forster, said that if he had to choose between betraying his friend or his country, he hoped that he would have the courage to betray his country.² In other words, if the two (friend and country) don’t remain the same, a true patriot will hold true to his friend, along with the guiding principles that once made his country his friend when the two were one and the same. A country (actually its government) that veers is a country that becomes foreign to its origination. The grand document of reference, our U.S. Constitution, continues to convey this patronage but of which purpose and intention is to also hold new generations of Americans to the same premise. Without it, and a government supporting it, people and their country are led astray, violated, and destroyed. Our U.S. Constitution will never become obsolete unless our country becomes obsolete.

A news broadcast over UEN’s World Focus November 23, 2009 announced that new immigration requirements for immigrants entering the U.S. may be that they believe in freedom of speech and equal rights for women.

The immigration requirement that people prior to immigration must believe in freedom of speech is accurate because it is supported by our U.S. Constitution, but that they must believe in equal rights for women is treasonous, since we, by way of our Constitution, do not have that requirement but one that requires equal rights for everyone, with no distinction between sex, gender, race, etc. Women are not to be acknowledged separately, with rights of their own from the rest of society. This actually defies the premise upon which our country is founded. Those trying to make this rule for immigrants are misrepresenting the United States of America and violating the U. S. Constitution by such a discriminatory and coercive thought-based requirement. Our Constitution supports the right to freedom of speech and expression, which includes the right to believe in traditional sex roles, which are often erroneously cast as discriminatory against women. This country’s premise—its past—is based upon having designated sex roles, and to defy that premise is to defy America and many true Americans. Freedom of religion—also a Constitutional right—is therefore violated by this proposed requirement. This is a take-over of our country by those who in no way represent it. Besides stop this nonsense, we must be asking ourselves why this is even an issue. What is on the agenda? Ironically, the same broadcast also told of women’s organizations helping women, but not men, in other countries, which is a good example of the type of equality we’re talking about.

The U.S. is not the same country it was thirty years ago, and what those in power now prescribe for other nations is just as foreign to them as it is our own nation. As