Be Patient

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Knowing that the photos were sent as an emergency situation report, I do not respond. The two jpgs carry answers to a pair of questions: One proves that she is safe and apparently moving into an upper-management position with the cell, and, two, that the cell is actively creating dangerous disinformation campaigns. 

The immediate follow-on questions are why, for who and for what purpose. My immediate suspicion suggests that the answers to those are; anarchy, the Russians and, in their skewed version of a perfect world, massive profit, political power and prestige at the expense of America. 

I recall our initial conversation, Violet and I, after the breakout. The soul-barring discourse on the state of the state as seen from the points of view of opposing extremes. The Queen of Hearts, nee Maria Satriano and nee Violet Hayes, confessed to me at the time of a deep resentment, a contempt for the blatant political crimes committed in the name of democracy and freedom by the USA, basically for the last two-hundred and forty-four years. Her discourse on the subject began almost in synch with our rebellious stand and subsequent bloody break from the tyranny of King George III of England. The principals of independence, laid down through the collective wisdom of men we now call the Founding Fathers, was assembled into a monumental document of lasting value. One that has also been at the core of countless interpretations and translations. It is, as she said, like the bible in that regard, basically a work of fiction designed to sedate and rule the masses with a bit of chicanery, a little hubris, a sprinkling of pixie dust and a lot of weasel wording. As much as I tried to protest by indicating several of the positive points in our declaration, citing the difficulty and obvious challenge in the creation of any philosophical political manifesto, be it religious, fascist, communist, liberal, progressive, conservative or the current villain, socialistic, she wasn’t biting. Until we got the to the pragmatics. What do we do with what we’ve got, where we are? And the kicker, isn’t peace and prosperity for all better than relentless chaos and forced violent insurgencies? Aren’t a cohesive set of rules, fair and shared, impacting the one percent to the one hundred, better than a martial law free for all? Or, in popular vernacular, should the shotgun sing the song?

Taking an ounce of pride in my personal justification for the path I chose long ago, that of the defense of the constitution, the recollection of her change of heart over the course of one exchange provided me with a degree of hope I hadn’t experienced in many years. Perhaps it was our difference in age, or experience, or that we belonged to completely, and mostly at odds, generations. It provided me with another empirical example of ‘teachers joy’ — that magical moment when an esoteric, obscure, exploited and mismanaged ideal, is transferred from teacher to student. Or, in this case, from student to teacher as well. It reminded me of one of the most import reasons behind our oaths; to protect and defend. Of course the very need for protection and defense is exactly her point, and a good one. 

She has succeeded in phase one of the master plan. We have a plant. She is inside the organism that, by all traditional methods of analysis, appears to be orchestrating some type of criminal operation with felonious intent. By industrial comparison, they are manufacturing mass-market consent. A quick review of Orwell’s infamous treatise on the fragility of freedom tells us as much. I ask TOM if we can use the media hits as search headers, specifically those with the key words taken literally from the second MBI poster: Victimization, vermin, infestation, law demonization, media scapegoating, enemy of the people, bully, mock and threaten, and the number of repetitions, and areas of concentrated density for each. 

He immediately sees the point, assigns the chore, and ends our quick update with the specific advice I didn’t need to hear: “Be patient.”