I will soon be taking a sabbatical from this site to work on another project. The following is Part 2 of a three-part explanation of why this needs to be done and what I plan to do. Part 1 is available at The Incident - The Promise. The project will be directly related to The Language of Mathematics. Full explanation will be given in Part 3.
Part 2: The Implications - Why I made this Promise
Civilizations are remembered based on how they treat the most vulnerable in their society, and based on our performance so far, history will not have a favorable record of us, if any.
We have allowed greed, ignorance and apathy to victimize our children, to discard our elders, to brutalize our delinquents, and to dehumanize our invalid. Fear has consumed our collective. Its toxicity has rotted our humanity, which is why compassion seems to have vanished from our vocabulary.
Jonathan Magbie and Marc Emery
The implications of Emery’s extradition to a country that in 2004 committed the atrocity of sentencing a 27-year-old quadriplegic man to serve ten days in a Washington, DC jail on charges that he possessed a minor amount of marijuana are profound.
Jonathan Magbie had never been convicted of a criminal offense and although he required private nursing care for as much as 20 hours a day, he was sent to jail. “The marijuana conviction was a first offence for Magbie, who was paralyzed from the neck down at age 4 after his school bus was hit by a drunk driver. Since then Magbie had been under almost constant nursing care, and got around on a chin-operated wheelchair.” Judge Judith Retchin “chastised Magbie for honestly saying that he would probably continue using marijuana, because it made him ‘feel better.’”
source - A young Jonathan Magbie meets with President Reagan in 1982. The irony in this picture is nauseating.
Jonathan Magbie died in agony within 4 days of being incarcerated due to negligence and inadequate health care by the State. Very few of us expect better treatment for Marc Emery. Most of us don’t expect him to return unscathed. Some of us don’t even expect him to return alive.
We, in Canada, are about to hand over a Canadian seed seller to a bunch of savages that five years ago sentenced a quadriplegic man to death through asphyxiation, just because he smoked weed. And we call this civilized?
It’s difficult to explain what it feels like to witness our society condemn a human being for selling seeds to a plant. Maybe even having the need to explain such a horror, explains why we are at the tipping point, facing an ecological collapse.
For those who have not realized it yet, the essence of America’s “War on Drugs” is the destruction of the ecosystem. It is a war on nature.
Cannabis is a part of nature, and we will never win a war against nature, because we are also a part of nature. By waging it, we are destroying not only ourselves but also the environment and in the process condemning future generations to a miserable existence on a planet devoid of diverse life.
The message shared by all marijuana activists, not just Marc Emery, is the same: We have to be psychotic to want to continue America’s “War on Drugs”. It’s not only detrimental to our health, it’s also detrimental to the health of the environment and an abomination. It’s that simple.
The Murder of Christ
A couple of years ago I came across a passage by Wilhelm Reich that resonates true today, as it did in 1953 when he wrote it, as it did 2000 years ago from which he referenced it. The passage is from the book “The Murder of Christ” and is as follows:
“This is the way it has been and has remained to this very day and will go on being for quite some time. They will not cease to kill this way until they have been rendered powerless to kill the soul in every human fruit already in the womb before it saw the light of day.
“They will kill Jesus Christ for a crime they themselves imputed, they themselves invented, they themselves committed a thousand times; a crime Christ never dreamed of, never was close to, never possibly could have concocted.”
'The Murder of Christ' by Wilhelm Reich, p.87, The Noonday Press, New York, sixth printing, 1971
Countless scholars throughout history have shared this message. The message is simple: The ruling class have persecuted and crucified all who have dared to challenge their power. The oligarchy have been able to do this by manipulating the masses through fear and misinformation, and by placing slaves in positions of power to do their bidding.
Bill Hicks paraphrased the above passage during his performances with his “It's Just A Ride” routine. He, like Reich, was disgusted by society’s persecution of our visionaries. Fortunately for us we were privy to their work since both men were wise enough to see the folly of our choices as a society, and both knew themselves well enough to choose freedom rather than conformity.
Bill Hicks: What is the point to Life
Both Reich and Hicks highlighted the fact that we have been blinded by our apathy and have forfeited our freedoms by accepting our bondage of ignorance. Their words evoke the memory of those that we have sacrificed, and those that we continue to sacrifice by maintaining the status quo, even though it paves the way for our destruction. From innocent women burned at the stake, to the persecution of those who have been brave enough to speak a truth that is plainly visible to all but hidden from our conscience, we have been persecuting for profit.
The Crucifixion of Emery
The most recent victim of our collective is Marc Emery. Like Reich, the ruling class has branded Emery as one of its greatest adversaries. The reason that Mr. Emery is considered to be such a danger to the Empire is because he is, just like Reich was. The philosophy of both these men threatens the status quo, hence the witch-hunt. Reich’s words in the above passage can easily be re-written as follows:
They will kill Marc Emery for a crime they themselves imputed, they themselves invented, they themselves committed a thousand times; a crime Emery never dreamed of, never was close to, never possibly could have concocted.
If, collectively, we, as a society, begin to realize that our attempts are futile at waging war on nature, then the elite would no longer control us. We will be able to break this cycle of madness. We will be free. The ultimate question is, are we ready to govern our own lives or are we about to crucify another Christ?
I, for one, am sick of our stupidity, which is why I made my promise to try all peaceful means necessary to prevent us from crucifying anymore human beings for consuming what grows naturally on this planet, cannabis, one of the most important bounties of nature.
As for the “War on Drugs”, the following documentary is an excellent introduction to this disastrous policy (please note that the first few minutes are in Dutch, but the rest is in English).
War on Drugs: The Prison Industrial Complex
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Hi Mescalero, thanks for the comment.
I agree that Emery alienated a huge portion of the population. You can blame his good old boy Canadian hockey loving cockiness (or stupidity if you like), but as i stated in Part 1:
As for comparing Emery to the "mythical Jesus", it wasn't a direct comparison. I was comparing him to the millions who have been crucified because they were a threat to the establishment. I believe that's what both Reich and Hicks implied.