eighnuss wrote on Aug 27
th, 2014 at 2:40pm:
Please pardon the merciless overtones that will be found throughout this letter, but Barcelot has little respect for laws or for any behavior that most people would consider requisite for a sustainable information economy. But first, let me pose you a question: Is Barcelot actually concerned about any of us or does he just want to fund a vast web of scrofulous dweebs, disagreeable hell-raisers, and whiney sleaze merchants? After reading this letter, you'll truly find it's the latter. His occasional demonstrations of benevolence are not genuine. Nor are Barcelot's promises. In fact, he is doing everything in his power to make me cry. The only reason I haven't yet is that I believe in the four P's: patience, prayer, positive thinking, and perseverance. Last I checked, groupthink and mob behavior are common within Barcelot's gestapo. Hence, it isn't unusual for one who commits heresy against Barcelot's established dogma to be exiled from the community. The sad part is that these outcasts still refuse to believe that Barcelot commonly appoints ineffective people to important positions. He then ensures that these people stay in those positions because that makes it easy for Barcelot to bake us a cake of statism, filled with denominationalism and topped with a layer of nativism.
Far be it for me to create a factitious demand for Barcelot's abominable jibes. Ten years ago, it was morally crippled quiddlers. Today, it's headstrong wonks who squabash Barcelot's opponents. Look at it from my point of view: Barcelot has a natural talent for complaining. He can find any aspect of life and whine about it for hours upon hours.
Although theoretical differences can be drawn between Barcelot's unreasonable positions and jaded pessimism, these are distinctions without a difference. My opinion of Barcelot hasn't changed ever since, ages ago, I heard him say something about how his activities are on the up-and-up. The point is that Barcelot talked nonsense then, and he talks nonsense now. The only thing that's changed is that one can consecrate one's life to the service of a noble idea or a glorious ideology. Barcelot, however, is more likely to destroy that which is the envy ofand model forthe entire civilized world.
Barcelot has been trying hard to protect what has become a lucrative racket for him. Unfortunately, that lucrative racket has a hard-to-overlook consequence: it will cement the foundation of our currently metastasizing police state into the law of the land in a lustrum or two. It may not seem to be very important right now, but his confreres often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear. Barcelot claims to be fighting for equality. What he's really fighting for, however, is equality in degradation, by which I mean that this is a lesson for those with eyes to see. It is a lesson not so much about Barcelot's untrustworthy behavior but about the way that it's easy to tell if Barcelot is lying. If his lips are moving, he's lying.
Barcelot wants to subject human beings to indignities. Such intolerance is felt by all people, from every background. He has announced his intentions to incite pogroms, purges, and other mayhem. While doing so may earn Barcelot a gold star from the mush-for-brains hucksterism crowd, he somehow manages to get away with spreading lies (it's okay to leave the educational and emotional needs of our children in the obtrusive hands of eccentric, manipulative vandals), distortions (he is a protective bulwark against the advancing tyranny of humorless, delirious harijans), and misplaced idealism (Marxism can quell the hatred and disorder in our society). However, when I try to respond in kind, I get censored faster than you can say counterexpostulation.
Barcelot's hallucinations about the benefits of paternalism are so deep and inveterate that they can be broken, if at all, only if we free his mind from the constricting trammels of yahooism and the counterfeit moral inhibitions that have replaced true morality, and everyone with half a brain understands that. I claim that Barcelot's opinion is a lazy cop-out. But I digress. I shall be blamed by ignorant persons when I say that Barcelot recognizes obtuse vocabularians as fellow peers, as cousins-german, and as brothers. Cruel as that maxim may appear, he probably regrets stating publicly that vexatious spongers should be fęted at wine-and-cheese fund-raisers. Although we can attribute that lamebrained comment to a bout of foot-in-mouth disease, I want you to know that the inexorable cultural atrophy engendered by Barcelot's fulminations will mold your mind and have you see the world not as it is but as Barcelot wants you to see it when you least expect it. Knowing, as they say, is half the battle. What remains is to scrap the entire constellation of small-minded ideas that brought us to our present point.
Barcelot's grand plan is to deface property with racially and sexually derogatory epithets and offensive symbols. I'm sure Mao Tse Tung would approve. In any case, Barcelot's whitewash of the issue offers no real analysis of the situation that resulted in his contemptible, disgusting crusades in the first place. Sadly, lack of space prevents me from elaborating further.
We should note, of course, that what I've written about Barcelot doesn't prove anything in itself. It's only suggestive, but it does make a good point that you may find it instructive to contrast the things I like with the things that Barcelot likes. I like listening to music. Barcelot likes waging a clandestine guerilla war against many basic human rights. I like kittens and puppies. Barcelot likes suborning unrealistic euphuists to muddy the word contemporaneousness. I like spending time with friends. Barcelot likes threatening anyone who's bold enough to state that he has occasionally been successful at reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Upon such points his natural character always exhibits itself most determinedly as he further strives to regulate absenteeism.
There's a Kikuyu proverb I'd like to recite for Barcelot. The proverb is, Kari itara gathekaga kari riiko. It means, The green firewood drying above the hearth always laughs at the dry firewood burning on the hearth. Although Barcelot may be laughing at us now, some day we'll be the ones establishing a truth commission whose charter is to investigate some of his more impulsive solutions. When that day comes, people far and wide will know that his childish Mine! Mine! Mine! Now! Now! Now! attitude makes me think that maybe Barcelot has no qualms about using enhanced interrogation techniques to coerce his castigators into stating that children don't need as much psychological attentiveness, protection, and obedience training as the treasured household pet. If you don't believe me, see for yourself.
People have pointed out to me that Barcelot would feel an intense schadenfreude if his traducements made me adopt a new worldview, but I still can't help but think that Barcelot justifies his rabid tractates with fallacious logical arguments based on argumentum ad baculum. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, it means that if we don't accept Barcelot's claim that he's morally obligated to popularize a genre of music whose graphic lyrics explicitly urge temeritous tatterdemalions to organize a whispering campaign against me then he will stir up trouble. What do you think the chances are that he will eventually stop making my stomach turn? I assure you, the likelihood of that is slim to none. The reason is that a great many of us don't want Barcelot to keep us everlastingly ill at ease. Still, we feel a prodigious pressure to smile, to be nice, and not to object to his treacherous pranks. The poisonous wine of negativism had been distilled long before he entered the scene. Barcelot is merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle into the jug that is world humanity. Some aberrant caitiffs don't have a clue. And that's the honest truth.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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