A few years back - in the Bush Administration -  I would have hesitated
to publish this letter, even "anonymously" on my blog at the time, where I was
writing about solutions, Fortune 500 companies, surveillance, the movie
Zeitgeist, etc. Because, being honest with myself I was aware that while I was
perhaps anonymous to my blog readers, if I or the ideas I was expressing were
perceived to be a sufficient threat to anyone to be worth bothering about, I had
insufficient knowledge to maintain anonymity to anyone who actually wanted to
know who/where I was.


Fast forward to the end of 2011 - when President Obama "announced [his]
intent to sign into law the indefinite detention bill embedded in the 2012
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)."  
When combined with "Don’t Be Fooled: The Horrible Anti-Internet Bill Is NOT
Being Shelved Until Next Year" 
I now feel that Cory Doctorow's 2008 book Little Brother (read, share and remix
it free of charge - for now) truly could reflect a "day after tomorrow" scenario
in this country.


To the 99% - you do know that your "mics" allow your location to be tracked
and monitored, right? Just checking. This nearly four year old blog post should
give you some idea of where our Panopticon society has likely arrived as we
count down the days to 2012. 


Meanwhile, I plan to continue my efforts to form a global non profit project
which will help people be more self sufficient, have more food security and
collaborate with each other both locally and globally; that's what this website
will continue to focus on. At the same time, I also recognise that in a "day
after tomorrow" scenario FEMA might well come knocking at my door to confiscate
and redistribute any food I (or we) do manage to grow.


Our Peace Officers, members of the armed forces and elected officials all
swear oaths to "support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign
and domestic" http://oathkeepers.org/oath/ Members of
the military also swear oaths to "obey the orders of the President of the United
States" So what would happen if a President of the United States were to become
an enemy of the Constitution? Hmmm. Food for thought.


Next summer is scheduled to be the Summer of Peace.  
Make it so.


I close this open letter with a few of my favorite quotes. The first one is
from Frank Herbert's Dune series, "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I
will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will
turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be
nothing. Only I will remain."


"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something
else is more important than fear." Ambrose Redmoon


"No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right
now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on
your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us
as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride.
Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend
it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay
for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space,
together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace." Bill Hicks