The Smiths and Joneses (26 page)

“What about actions based on principals?”

“Sean, aren’t principals based on people’s background and feelings?”

“Sharon, is the truth based on feelings?”

“Sean, you know truth is based on the facts.”

“Sharon, that’s the entire question isn’t it? What are the facts? It’s possible for the facts to be created from assumptions or feelings which aren’t the truth.”

“Sean, honestly, you make this so much more complicated then it is. Facts and truth are what they are. No one can change them.”

“Sharon, I’m sorry. However, you’re wrong. In all of history, the winners have always rewritten history from their viewpoint. Your history is different from what’s taught in the USA.”

“It can’t be very different; we shared a common early history before the great divide.”

“Sharon, I’d like to compare Scott’s history book with the book Leon uses in the USA.”

“Sean, how do you propose to do this? USA books can’t enter the LSA without the censor approval; our textbooks are signed out by our children, if the book goes missing from school Scott will be held responsible for it. Our textbooks are not for sale, and they’re not available on the web.”

“Can I look at Scott’s book? I should be able to see what differences were made?”

“Please let me first check?”

“Sure, I don’t want to cause you any problems.”

“Sharon, can Scott join us again to talk about his after school activities?”

“Sure, let me get him.”

A couple of minutes later Scott joins the group in the living room.

Wolf quickly starts questioning Scott to delay Sean from getting in the initial questions.

“Scott, could you please tell everyone what you do after your official classes end?”

“Mr. Wolf, sure. On the days the weather is good, we go outside to play various sports and we practice for games with other schools.”

“These are the games that are played only for fun and exercise correct?”

“Yes sir, that’s right. We don’t keep score.”

“Not at all?”

“Well, I’m sure everyone keeps score in their heads.”

“Does anyone say anything to each other after the game?”

Scott begins to look around the living room; his face turns red, he responds, “No, no one mentions whatever the score might have been. Oh no, no one does that. That’s not fair. No one should brag about doing better than anyone else. If we did, we wouldn’t be equal, and we’d have to spend time with the school counselor.”

Sean asks, “I take from your answer that these after school games are just for fun, so why do you practice for them?”

“Everyone wants to do the best we can to put on a good show for anyone who may watch us play.”

“Do friends or your families usually come see the games?”

“There’s usually always people in the stands watching us play.”

“Do they cheer when your team scores?”

“Mr. Sean, no one does that anymore. Cheering for scoring points makes the other team feel unequal and lose self-esteem. We would be stopped from playing and have to attend a joint sensitivity training session. Those aren’t fun; I’ve had to attend them twice because we cheered when we scored a point at the last minute of the game giving us a win. We were counseled that we are all winners. We shouldn’t have worked so hard in the last minute to score a goal. We made the other team feel sad; we didn’t think about how the other team felt when we scored the last point. We harmed their self-esteem and may have damaged their self-confidence. We apologized to the other team in case we caused them undue stress.” 

“I see you do want to win and you do keep track of the scores.”

Looking very nervous and worried Scott replies, “Mr. Sean, no, I didn’t say anything like that. We don’t keep score. I think you misunderstood what I said. We play for the fun of the game. We play to stay in shape. Do you have any other questions about our sports?”

“I understand you don’t play American football any longer, is that correct?”

“Mr. Sean, we play football, which you in the USA call soccer. We don’t play what you call football because people can get injured playing a game as rough as your football is, we’ve had too many cases of concussions. Soccer is what the rest of the world plays.” 

“Scott, doesn’t the rest of the world and even the USA play in the World Cup to be the best team in the world?”

“You do, but if you had checked, you’d see we don’t enter the World Cup for that every reason. Why should one team be better than all of the others? Aren’t all humans the same?”

Wolf jumps into the discussion, “Scott, yes, everyone is the same. Everyone is equal. Playing games to win, like fighting a war, is outdated and not accepted in the LSA.”

Sean jumps on Wolf’s last statement, “Wolf, are you saying that if attacked the LSA wouldn’t fight back?”

“Sean, no one would attack us. We don’t have any enemies; we don’t even have a standing army. We have no one to be afraid of.”

“Wolf, that doesn’t mean another country wouldn’t attack the LSA, maybe just to reach the USA since we share a border thousands of miles long.”

“Sean, those are stories told to scare little children.”

Before Wolf can respond, Sissy enters the living room to ask, “Mommy, do we have any more cookies?”

“Honey, we’ve talked about this before. You’ve had more than enough sweets. There won’t be any more sweets for a while. Your body has to be balanced. If you eat too many sweets, you will get fat and if you get fat, no one will like you or want to play with you. So take some fruit.”

“Mommy, that’s not true, my teacher says people who eat too many sweets get sick and die. She didn’t say anything about getting fat or not having any friends.”

“Honey, you’ll learn more in a year or two. Is there anything else you need?”

“Can I take my puppy outside?”

“Sure, Daddy will go with you, so you’re not alone.”

“’K, come on Daddy, we’re going to take my new puppy for a walk.”

Jason and Sissy put a leash on the puppy whose tail is wagging showing she’s happy; they take the puppy outside.

Sean asks, “Sharon, I take it that you don’t allow Sissy out by herself?”

“Oh no. Who knows who might come by and abduct her?”

“Does that happen a lot here?”

“No. That’s because we don’t allow our children outside from us. No one allows their children to go outside alone. Even if a group of children plays together there’s always at least one parent watching over them.”

“Sharon, are those the laws here?”

“It’s not really a law; it’s just something that everyone does.”

“How did it get started?”

“Sean, it started because we love our children. Everything we do, everything we sacrifice, is for our children. We’ve accepted the fact that we needed to change our lives to improve the lives of our children. We’ve accepted that which you in the USA haven’t yet, that being - we try to understand how the other person feels and how our actions and words may make someone else feel. We’ve built a society, not a country, but a society, one we hope will expand to include the world based on accepting how others feel and that everyone is equal. Here if someone breaks the law, it’s most likely because of the way they were brought up. You’re too quick to assume the person breaking the law should have known the consequences of their actions. We spend more time trying to understand how the person felt and the reasons behind their actions before we pass judgment.”

“Sharon, isn’t it possible that people are responsible for their own actions?”

“Sean, no, there are always mitigating reasons behind people’s actions.”

“Sharon, I think we can agree to disagree. And on that note I think we’ll end tonight’s broadcast.”

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Mark Leven, a famous USA radio talk show host, begins his evening program with; “We’ve now gotten more insight into everyday life inside the LSA than we’ve ever had. I, for one, am not surprised by what we’re seen and heard. Their progressive administrations have had twelve years of zero opposition to mold their so-called perfect society. The LSA has been able, over twelve years, to change the way people react to their government. In these twelve years, Presidents Brownie and Bloomberg have been able to destroy so many of the freedoms and protections we in the USA take for granted. I, like most of you, felt if they wanted to be left alone and build a wall, they should be able to do so. We no longer needed to support them.

“Behind the walls that the LSA calls the divide, they built a society where the average person works for the government and relies on the central government for almost everything. The government supplies all of the utilities; they are the phone company, the electric company, the cable TV company and the gas company. 

“Their access to the World Wide Web is restricted; every web site and search goes through the LSA central government censor. Every conversation, every text message, every social network post, every tweet, everything is recorded and reviewed by the LSA central government. Granted, they don’t have enough people to check and review everything posted, they use intelligent software to perform most of the grunt work. Their software seems more advanced than what’s used in the USA.

“The LSA monitors every call their citizens make; they have cameras on almost every street lamp. Their citizens have lost all their privacy.

“The government has taken control of how children are raised; they’ve barred parents from the classroom. They’ve even disbanded the PTA. The have co-ed locker rooms and showers. Hell, they have three sexes in the LSA, male, female and transgender. I wonder if the transgenders in the LSA can have their own children.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is what a progressive administration totally unchecked looks like. Everything they do, they claim is for the children, but everything they do is so they can control their population. The progressive administration controls hiring, firing, and even where you can go on your vacation. We don’t know if the progressive government fires people or how they handle dissenters.

“How about their no bake sale policy and no parents allowed to help out in the classroom? Every child eats school prepared meals. Every child attends state-sponsored and paid for after-school daycare. The state spends more time and has more control over children than parents do. No one can park on the street because they claim when drivers have to swerve around the parked cars they potentially increase risks to children who might dash into the street.  Children can’t play outside without a parent. Even swing sets have to be fenced. Everything is protected from the average person.  

“The state even controls how much and what their citizens can eat. Living space and calories are regulated. While they claim everyone is equal, there is the ruling class and everyone else. I have to ask you, is this the life you want to live? Is this how you want your children to live? Do you want to give up the Bill of Rights for a little extra perceived security, if you can even call it security? This isn’t how I want to live. We have to do everything possible; we have to do everything we can to stop this type of life from spreading here, inside the USA. Many listeners find the LSA’s intervention into their people’s lives as unacceptable; others say it’s not too bad because the government is doing everything possible to protect their people. Protection is one thing; control is another. The LSA isn’t protecting their people; it’s controlling them. There’s no evidence of terror attacks, no evidence of children being snatched. The LSA controls every aspect of their people’s lives. They have embedded themselves into every aspect of their people’s lives, is this what you want?

“Do you want the government to listen to every word you say, to have cameras everywhere, cameras that can see into your homes? Into your bedrooms? Are you willing to give up all of your rights for what the government calls security? Remember your history, those who give up freedom for security end up with neither.

“Do you want your children to share bathrooms with others of the opposite sex, or shower with the opposite sex? This policy applies not just to public schools but even to private schools. Do you think you can escape by home schooling? In the LSA, home schooling is illegal. The LSA is a perfect example of progressivism run amok.”

Chapter 15

“Feelings, nothing more than feelings

Trying to forget my feelings of love

Teardrops rolling down on my face

Trying to forget my feelings of love

Feelings, for all my life I'll feel it.” (Morris Albert copyright 1974)

Talk radio plays the song “Feelings” at the start of almost every program. Glenn, Mark, and Andy all play the song while laughing that the LSA is based on “Feelings.” Andy says, “This reminds me of an event that also took place on the west coast, ‘Can’t we all just get along?’ It’s amazing to me that so many people don’t realize people don’t naturally just get along. Some people operate based on feelings, others on logic and some on other emotions. On last night’s program, we learned that we have to understand how a criminal feels and his background before we judge them. We were told our failures are that we don’t spend enough time to understand the motivations of people. We are failures because we try to apply laws equality. I say; we’re not wrong; the people in the LSA are wrong. A law is a law; a rule is a rule. A person’s background, how they grew up, or if they grew up in a single or dual parent household, doesn’t apply when they damage personal property or harm others. We learned that last night that it was OK to surrender all of our privacy and rights so long as we do it for our children and to keep our children safe.

“For the children, the children. It’s always the children. This is the same argument that progressives have used for years. They use our children to create an emotional argument. Who could argue against saving our children? Have any of their programs succeeded? Have any of the progressive programs saved a single child? Who can point to the facts and say this child was saved by this program? Has surrendering rights and privacy saved a single child’s life? Can anyone point to a real case where all of the LSA’s current surveillance or the NSA’s previous surveillance saved a single child? 

“I don’t know of a single case. I don’t think there is a single case. The LSA was built upon a lie; progressivism itself is based on a lie. Man can’t build a perfect society. There is no such thing as a perfect society. Humans are not perfect. We were made imperfect; as such how can any government, except for the holiest, regulate society into perfection? Nothing man does can change mankind making us perfect, nothing man does can take the sin out of us; nothing man does make us always do good. No amount of cameras, no amount of spying, and that’s what it is, the LSA spies on their own people, can make people perfect.

“Is there a low crime rate in the LSA? That’s a good question since the LSA doesn’t publish statistics on crime. What we do know is, the average home in the LSA has steel bars blocking entrance via windows. We know that the LSA has cameras on almost every streetlight, they use drones for watching their cities. They have entire sections of cities that are labeled as ‘not recommended.’ Not recommended means stay out for the sake of your health. ‘Not recommended’ means enter, and you most likely won’t leave alive. How can a progressive government have ‘not recommended’ sections of cities? They do, because the people in the ‘not recommended’ area can’t leave, they can’t reproduce, without children the government is hoping the people in the ‘not recommended’ areas will die out taking their criminal mindset with them. Their Department of Public Safety officers all wear full body armor and helmets while on duty. Their vehicles are armored, and I think that the armor isn’t all for looks, it’s there to protect the officers meaning there has to be a threat to the officers. Which also means there is a lot of violent crime in the LSA. That might be why they don’t report any numbers. Another clue about the crime rate in the LSA is what we’ve heard on the program, last night we heard that parents don’t allow children to go outside by themselves, there is always a parent watching them. This must be for the protection of the children, protection from whom? I think based on the LSA spending so much of their resources on understanding how people feel and how words and actions impact others and how they may make someone feel, they chalk up crime to the upbringing of their criminals. I’m betting there are a large number of lawyers whose defense of the criminal class is ‘the poor criminal isn’t understood, how would finding them guilty make them feel?’

“Since firearms of all types, pepper spray and even crossbows are outlawed in the LSA, the average citizen is helpless to defend themselves against a violent criminal. Most of the citizens don’t know that self-defense is possible. This is what happens when progressives are unchecked and left to their own devices to ‘protect’ their people. Progressives think people are all good, we know the truth; some people aren’t good. Some people are ill, some need help, some are just evil, and there isn’t another word to use except for evil. People who abuse children and animals are evil. No amount of social programs is going to make these people better or do good.

“Let’s see learn what the other differences between our two countries are. I hope the hosts ask about any food shortages and the people’s reactions to the lack of food. I have to pause for a commercial.”

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“Kathy, is this what happens when people are brainwashed? Can an entire country be brainwashed? How does the government get such control over the population?”

“Honey, I don’t know, but frankly I’m sick of the ‘feeling’ bullshit. I don’t care how a criminal feels when they're caught. I’m sick of the ‘poor little me’ defense. When do those people start to stand up and accept responsibility?” 

“I’m not sure they ever do.”

“Brad, well, I’m happy we’re on this side of the divide and not theirs.”

“I just hope enough people watching the program can add one and one to get two. I thought after the split the progressive movement moved with them. However, it keeps trying to raise its head and spread here. Congress keeps trying to pass laws to protect us from ourselves. No matter how much we write in we don’t want them to, they go ahead anyway. I think we might have been better off having a real revolution. I sometimes wonder if progressivism isn’t a mental illness. Some people just think they know better, they think they we’re not smart enough to live our own lives.”

“Brad, maybe we should have had a real revolution?”

“Kathy, a real revolution would have killed hundreds of thousands if not millions. The USA would never have been a superpower again. We would spend years fighting each other; others in the world who hate us would have used us fighting each other as a cover to attack us. Our external warning systems would all have been turned to look internally. A real revolution would have resulted in the country breaking up, not in two, but in many small, much weaker, countries that most likely would have fought each other on and off for many years. Once we were out of the picture, the rest of the world would have fallen into darkness. The powerful would have taken over the weak because there would be no one to stop them. The Middle East would have exploded into chaos, India and Pakistan would be at each other’s throats. China would make their move on the rest of Asia. Russia, most likely, would take back all of central Europe if not all of Europe. The world would have collapsed into the worst dark ages in our history.”

“I think you may be right. It would have been horrible. The bloodshed might have been the worst the world’s ever seen. I hadn’t thought about it that way. I wonder how Ron and Bev are doing in Las Vegas, I wonder if they got caught up in the riot.”

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Ron is being interviewed by the LVMPD, “Officer; I was the captain of my local police department. I know what I saw. I already gave a statement to three other officers. Why was I asked to come to the station to repeat what I’ve already given and signed?”

“Because of your experience, we’re hoping you can tell us something we haven’t heard or something we’ve missed. Maybe you know a question we should have asked you and didn’t. Do you?”

“Look, I appreciate your desire to create a complete picture of the event, however, I’m here on vacation and would like to get back to my wife.”

“Would you be willing to spend a little time with our artist to describe what you saw?”

“Sergeant, come on, we both know you confiscated everyone’s phone so you could review the images and videos on them, you must have the entire event recorded from every angle there is. I do mind spending a few hours with your artist. In normal times, I might not mind, however, given the limited time we have here, I do mind.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. Being you were one of us, we naturally assumed you would be happy to help us. You of all people know that if you’re not with us, you’re against us.”

“That’s not the way I ran my department, and if it’s the way you run yours, I’m sorry for you. May I leave now?”

“Yes, but remember we’ll be watching you. Before you go, the LSA Department of Public Safety would like to speak with you.”

“Do I have to meet with them?”

“We can’t force you to, however we’d strongly suggest it, especially if you ever plan to visit the LSA.”

“Alright, where are the ‘black shirts’?”

“I’ll take you to the conference room we loaned them.”

“Have you met them?”

“Yes, hard bunch, they’re used to getting whatever they want from whoever they want it from. Just tell them what you told us.”

“I assume you’re recording everything that happens in the conference room?”

“They declined to sign off on the recording.”

“Don’t tell me, that’s stopped you?”

“If we recorded them, we’d be the same as them.”