Singing in the Tunnel

Katrina's Dream Atlanta Part 2

  Did you know someone WALKED ACROSS THE UNITED STATES to demand the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution?

Autonomy and Freedom of Speech as Human Rights

As one autonomous human being interacting with others, I am obligated to treat each person with the kind of respect that includes not violating their bodily autonomy, not usurping their control over their own lives and not purposely causing harm to people or their environments. I am in no way whatsoever obligated to respect a system of beliefs...ANY system of beliefs...whether it be a belief in authority of a state or authority or validity of a religion. I am free to criticize any religion or any activity by a religious or political organization. When a system of belief repeatedly encourages deadly violence for any reason what-so-over, marriage to or mutilation of children, or the idea that one sex is greater, worth more, or is the only sex that can have any form of true autonomy, then I will criticize it as I see fit. My goal is universal human rights and respect towards all, and if there's anything I feel that gets in the way of that: governments, organized religion, traditions that squash the rights of groups of people, then I will continue to point out flaws in those things until such a time that all human beings have the right to their autonomy, bodily autonomy included, and all interaction between individuals and communities are consensual events.

At no point will I tell others that they do not have the right to believe what they believe, but I will at every point let them know that they are not in any way excused from honoring and respecting the autonomy and human rights of every other person on the planet, regardless of how their beliefs might clash with that idea. No, not every person has to be autonomous if they do not choose to be.  Some people willingly give up their autonomy, but no person may demand that another person submit to the will of a religion using violence, threats or coercion any more than a government or community may force individuals to submit to frivolous laws or authority not consented to.

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How NOT to Combat Human Trafficking

 

People have previously believed that combating prostitution is the same as combating human trafficking.  It isn’t.

  For example, a small group of people in Washington D.C. noticed a brothel disguised as a spa had opened up in their neighborhood.  By occasionally catching glimpses of the girls, they came to suspect that the young women in question might have been victims of human trafficking.  They were morally outraged, so they filed a petition at Change.org to force the business to yank up its roots from their neighborhood, close their doors and go somewhere else.

  What did this group of people accomplish?  Well, they made it so their husbands would have to drive a little further to pay for sex.  They repaired the reputation of their presumably pure and noble neighborhood. 

  Did they do anything that helped the girls and/or women they suspected were being held against their will in order to be repeatedly sold into sexual bondage?

  No.  They did nothing that could be considered helping those women victimized by human trafficking.

  Visibility creates accountability.  Letting potential traffickers know that they were being targeted for suspicion of human trafficking doesn’t mean that they’re going to close up shop and never do business again.  It means they’re going to go further underground to sell their wares without attracting suspicion from a nosy neighborhood.

  If those women were slaves, they may never be seen again.  An opportunity to help them has been lost.

  It’s too bad Change.org doesn’t have a Wall of Shame. 

  This situation highlights how important it is to know how to approach a situation where human trafficking is suspected.  If someone truly wants to help, it is important for them to know how best to help the people involved, and that usually starts by contacting organizations that specifically deal with the issue, such as the Polaris Project.  If you or anyone you know has suspicions about a potential human trafficking situation, or if you yourself are or have been a victim of human trafficking, call the Polaris Project Hotline at 1-888-3737-888.

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A Message from an Autonomous Individual Regarding the Legality of Marijuana

This is a message from an Autonomous Individual to the President, members of the federal government and state governments.

  I find this bickering over whether it will be federal “authority” or state “authority” that will decide whether the people may use marijuana to be both ridiculous and insulting.

  Let me clarify this issue for you, since the issue itself seems to be lost in ego-posturing.  The people who have the ultimate authority to decide whether the people smoke, ingest or grow marijuana are the people themselves.  This is an individual choice, not a state or federal choice.  I find it both ironic and suspicious that president Obama would claim to understand and uphold the personal health choices of women over their own bodies and yet somehow not do the same for all citizens.

  I’m going to make this even clearer for you.  Whether I partake in marijuana is my own choice.  I personally have taken this choice out of your hands as you’ve proven to be unfit to make it.  The people are not in your hearts if you’ve chosen so blatantly to ignore their wishes.  Many others have taken this choice out of your hands, but you have chosen not to hear them.  You have chosen to lock them up as if your own opinions on the subject were somehow more important than their lives, families and freedoms.

  To add insult to injury, it seems that your friends in the United Nations are trying to convince you to continue your unlawful persecution of farmers and peaceful participants.  If you would promptly tell them that the individual people here are none of their concern unless we the individual people actually ask for their opinions, I for one would greatly appreciate it.

  I am going to let you in on something that I don’t keep a secret, anyway.

  I partake in marijuana.  I am going to continue to partake in marijuana.  I am going to bake it into cookies and brownies when I have enough.  I am going to brew it into tea.  I am going to occasionally smoke it with my friends, though I try not to smoke too much.  I may even grow it.  And if I don’t grow it, I will certainly buy it. 

  It is my hope that I and others like me can buy so much of it, that we can support the market to the point that for every cultivator you lock away, three hundred more can take their place until you each finally realize who these choices belong to and until you finally realize that no one is going to put up with your posturing on the issue any longer.

Sincerely,

  An Autonomous Individual who no longer consents to be governed by ego-centric, power-hungry strangers. 

Declare Your Self-Sovereignty

 Never expect those who rule to do right by you. They will only do right by their own rule. Instead, realize that they believe themselves to be owners of you, and realize that you do not have to consent to your own enslavement. Overthrow these rulers who seek to instill authority to themselves in your mind. Overthrow them and realize that you are your ultimate authority, that you are an equal

ruler to them in all things. Overthrow these rulers who seek to own others. Realize that their power only exists in the imaginations of the people they seek to instill fear into. Realize your power, your freedom, your rights, your sovereignty over yourself. Overthrow the powers that seek to suppress the natural equality of all life. Overthrow them and speak as an equal. Overthrow them and be an equal.

Overthrow them, and take back your life and freedom and ownership of yourself.

Overthrow them.

Peacefully, of course.

People who do not seek to destroy freedom have nothing to fear from the free.

 

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Inventing Human Rights

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