Re:OFF (rights)

[Hugh Lovel]

>>
>>Although Georgia has had a long string of drought years I quit using my
>>irrigation equipment long ago as I have discovered how to make rain. It's
>>cheap and effective and the last eight years I have had adequate rain for
>>free out of the sky for all my crops. And it's not a miracle, I can teach
>>people how to do it. I'm giving a rain making seminar out in Santa Fe, NM
>>the 22 and 23rd of November, courtesy of CHI/Bioneers and Kenny Ausubel.
>>I'm hoping farmers here in Georgia will pick up on this and organize some
>>courses here. I do this for a living, and I'm totally immersed in it.
>>
>
>Hey, Hugh, I see you're teaching a rain making course at ACRES this year, also.
>For those of us who just cannot make it to SF in Nov, do you think
>you'll be able to give us the rainmaking tools in your few minutes at
>ACRES in December?
>(Of course, this assumes that you haven't been disappeared by then.)
>
>-Allan

Dear Allan,

I'll try. Rainmaking is sure important. I'd like to see more workshops organized. I'll teach them if others will organize them.

As for getting "disappeared" it is surely possible. If I disappear you can be sure what has happened. I have had trouble keeping my mouth shut when things suck the way they do. I protested the Viet Nam war too, once I got out of the Air Force. Back in '77 I had a FOIA exempt file that was a couple inches thick, presumably because the CIA has had me under surveliance for some time. Great stuff, considering I'm far from anti-social. I'm part of the solution, not part of the problem, and I wish no ill on anyone. I'd give Richard Nixon or George Bush a free meal and speak civilly to them any day. But I see what is going on, and I think it is time for those who will to wake up. Our democracy is in grave danger. The stampede to war? Very dangerous. Maybe we should save Israel. Maybe no one else can or will. I don't know this to be true, but I'm not trying to pass judgment on that or stand in its way. I'll simply continue doing what I can to make things better. What I think is so foreign to the American way is that dissent will not be tolerated. So I may get shipped to the Gulags--or worse. Better make use of me while you have me. I've already spent too many years not keeping my mouth shut. At least you will know what has happened to me.

Storch wants me to keep my mouth shut. It's a good idea, only I should cower in fear in a time of crisis? There's a good chance I'd disappear even if I kept my mouth shut--depends on how scared the leadership is.

Best,
Hugh



"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the
mind...

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils
with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in
seizing the rights of the citizenry.

Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism,
will offer up all of their rights unto the leader - and gladly so.

How do I know?

For this is what I have done.

And I am Caesar." --William Shakespeare, Julius Ceaser
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