I was going to start this piece with a quote by someone famous about how unjust laws need not be followed.
But why? I don’t need a famous persons from history stamping their approval on the notion of innate freedom, do I?
In fact the looking itself for an external reinforcement on individual freedom - is highly ironic and only undercuts the very point.
The source of sovereignty at the individual level is the individual. It is not external nor does it need external validation.
I’m not free because that institution or that person says so, or even because that document says so. Those things merely reflect externally an internal realization and claim.
I’m free because I say so.
Sovereignty and freedom are the purview of the individual who recognizes the truth of it and then makes the claim.
This is an orientation of freedom that is both obvious and easily missed.
I recently watched the below video in which the attorney, Todd Callender tells us that a law was passed in 2013 that makes the legal case of ownership for the mRNA technology once inserted into a human being. That in agreeing to take the technology into ones body, which will create a synthetic genome, one loses the right of ownership to that body. Further, because it changes ones DNA, the claim of being human is now in question. Does someone who no longer has the genetics of a human still have human rights?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ekp3p5VSRfLb/
Disturbing, yes. But as I’ve been sitting with it for a couple days, I realized what utter nonsense the law is. Why would anyone capable of claiming their own sovereignty and its intrinsic claim of freedom agree to such a law? Just because a law is passed, doesn’t change the underlying reality of the individual’s claim to freedom. It’s an unjust law, passed by psychopaths and should not treated as a law worthy of our compliance.
I can’t help but feel this is the missing piece.
I think of many people out there fighting for human rights under the recent attacks (which are just the latest and most obvious) and who believe that the courts are our last bastion of hope.
These are people I appreciate and honor and hold in high regard. In fact it was Robert F. Kennedy who said exactly that - the courts were our last bastion of hope. But that’s not really true. We are. Unjust laws do not need to be followed, and our innate rights need not be reflected in our legal system. They should be, but they do not rely on that reflection or codification. That’s all secondary and external.
Of course, I’m not suggesting Mr. Kennedy stop those legal pursuits, nor anyone else. I understand the implications of laws and consequences of bad laws being passed. A small amount of people claiming their sovereignty won’t be enough to change the course our planet appears to be on. But growing numbers of people, will. So while these legal efforts are important, should be supported, and serve an essential function in our society, they are nonetheless extraneous to the claim of freedom itself.
This realization simplifies things. At least for me. There is nothing airy-fairy about it either. It’s actually very flesh and blood, like everyone of us. It’s grounded in the reality of our very existence. And so by extension this realization has breath, and life and a voice - because as living humans we do - and so make an undeniable self-referencing claim to innate human rights.
If you agree, great and if you don’t, so what? My claim is still my claim.
I’m free because I said so.
I'm reminded of the legendary Italian mountain climber Walter Bonatti. Among many astounding achievements, he made the first direct ascent of the North face of the Matterhorn. Solo. In the winter. He became a solitary climber after being ostracized by the climbing community after being falsely accused of causing another climber's death. In his book, "The Mountains of My Life," he said that when he found himself alone, in a do or die situation on a difficult route, high up on the sheer side of a mountain, he "made assertions to himself about himself." You're in good company.
Damn right and beautifully said Kathleen. Sovereignty bookends the anchor of the deep double bass and the exhilaratingly sweet high notes of the choir of freedom.✨🚀✨