3923: All I Know -- Please Publish for California and Everyone Else from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
Candidates come and go. Election practices and standards do not.
I
also know that our American Government defends the right of everyone to
hold their private religious beliefs as their private beliefs, period.
If David Gall believes that Maureen is a witch and says so,
that's his belief, his opinion. He's welcome to it. If she wants to
call him an overbearing Luddite, she is equally welcome to do so.
What
both parties need to step back from is the damage that their personal
antipathies and prejudices are causing to the group and the effort as a
whole, and the overall loss of respect and trust that results when the
leadership of an organization resorts to name-calling like little kids
on the playground. Both are guilty, in my view, of creating and allowing
an unproductive atmosphere to prevail.
When our American
Government was founded Jews and Muslims and Christians all came
together to make it work. I have no doubt that Hindus and Buddhists and
others also left their mark. They came together because the Government
is not, and we believe should not be, allied to religious beliefs. It's
a republican State-based government, not a theocracy.
The use of The Ten Commandments as a basic "code" for the conduct of the courts was
agreeable to members of all three major western religions back in the
1780's. Whether it stays that way or we adopt some other standard, such
as Universal or Natural Law (so-called), is for a Continental Congress
involving all fifty States to consider and resolve. These issues are
not going to be decided by California acting alone, and it is not going
to be any major focus for the Assembly Process.
We have
to get past this and have a common understanding of what we are doing
--- what our actual mission as a State Assembly is at this point in our
development. Our duty and calling is to set up the State Assembly to
serve the People of California with a competent court system,
well-regulated militia, public elections, an open public forum, and
private business functions.
After the State Assembly is
fully set up and functioning it will be able to elect its Congressional
Delegation to sort out all sorts of issues, but for right now, it's
important for everyone to settle down and focus on the work at hand.
Don't allow yourselves to get distracted by abrasive personalities and
loud voices--and don't imagine that I am encouraging or condoning any
bad behavior on anyone's part at all.
If David Gall is an
ass (of the braying kind), then he's an ass on his own recognizance,
everyone will see that he is being a problem child and will take action
to avoid him and limit his ability to impact them, in the same way that
we handled bullies on the playground, or will, perhaps, see that he is
trying to do something good, and support him in that.
Whatever
else may be true, it is unlikely that a grown man with such
determination, energy, and passion is a total waste. Finding ways to
direct the flow of his energy toward positive goals for the group as a
whole is perhaps a challenge, but it's a challenge California has to
face among all the other challenges that Assemblies face from us
less-than-perfect members of all stripes, kinds, colors,
religious persuasions, ages, political backgrounds, educational levels,
ethnic backgrounds and on and on and on it goes.
That is
part of the beauty, the strength, and yes, the stiff challenge of being
a Public Government in a diverse and ever-changing America. What
unites us has to be stronger than what divides us, and we ourselves must
choose to make it so.
Remember, we are all just little
mortals struggling away here, trying to do good, according to the lights
we see. Sure, David Gall's lights are different, but he doesn't get it
wrong 100% of the time, and neither does anyone else. My experience with
people like David is that the best way to handle them is to notice
anything good, however small an action it may be that they do, and
praise them for it. Encourage and lead them into doing more of what you
want, not less.
Some people aren't very socially adept
or aren't used to interacting with a lot of different kinds of people
outside their own group, Make it clear to each and every newly restored
Californian that this is a Public Government and it has to include
everyone in the California Public. That is a very diverse group you've
got there, and whether it's witches and warlocks or Buddhist priests or
Ministers of God from the Church of the Nazarene -- they are all
Californians and THAT is the identity that we have to focus on and give
meaning to. That is the rallying point --- your State of the Union,
that precious parameter of freedom and protection for all that you are
called to serve and defend and preserve against all odds.
That's
what I struggle for -- the unique beauty, value, potential, and
strength of each and every State, all bound together for the Common Good
of All.
Search in your heart for what the Common Good
really is. You will quickly find that it goes beyond personalities and
political differences, and beyond religious beliefs and racial and
ethnic identities, too. It's universal, unwavering, and true for all times and seasons, for everyone. If
you truly seek what is good for all, you will create what this country
is meant to be--- not only a successful and happy melting pot, but a
bastion that preserves and protects our individual peculiarities, that
holds the individual however rough cut or obnoxious, to be of the
highest value and greatest potential and yes --- to hold the individual
to be sacred.
Our Government is the only Government in
the history of the world that has ever focused the Powers of Government
in support of individual people. Not Kings. Not Principalities. Not
Laws. Not Religions. Not races. Not any of the things that divide us.
No, what we most highly value, what we protect, are the people of
California in all their varieties, so that they may all reach their
highest potentials and enjoy the peace and security they deserve as
co-owners of this planet.
So, again, don't let your
attention be focused on false issues and false idols. Don't let the
"narrative" be about personality conflicts or word choices or other
differences. Forge forward, looking for what is of common concern to
all the people of California, and what is good for everyone. Including
David Gall. Include him, absorb him, accept him, make it work. Find the
ways.
I have faith in the creativity and goodwill of
the people living in California. I really do. If you set your minds on
creating a vision for your State and a shared, broad, and happy vision
of what it means to be a Californian, you will all be able to let go of
the chains that have hitherto bound you -- and rejoice
in all that there is to discover and support and treasure in your neighbors and your own backyard.
I
love you guys, I really do. It hurts me to have to be the Task Master,
but, you must, among yourselves, learn to recognize the dangers and
damages that can come from within, and grow beyond them. You have to
keep centered on what counts and let the rest fall away like so much
detritus from a sculptor's hammer. Recognize it when you are being
small, petty, fearful, selfish, unkind, or unfair, then govern
yourselves accordingly. Find the right notes in life's symphony. And
when life sends you a David Gall, find the best in him. It's in there,
somewhere, struggling to get out and play with all the rest of you.
He is part of the Public, and so are all of you.
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