Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation.
We must look intimidation in the eye, and stand defiantly against what we know is not just.
The government holds its self-preservation as its highest imperative.
The machinery of government and its war apparatus acts as a double-edged blade, with one side sharpened for outer enemies and the other honed for inner enemies.
We live at all times, with the barrel of a gun pointing at us.
People who do not test boundaries unknowingly live under the constant threat of violence as suppressed beings.
The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of raw, unadulterated and magnificently-purposed force of violence when needed to suppress any threat to its true grip of absolute control.
The mind is the first level of the control prison, where your own thoughts are like a jailer, guard or a violent captor, which through time you have come to know and protect in a perverse paradox of self-imposed Stockholm syndrome.
We self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.
As beings who have been raised, educated and trained in violence, we are violence.
