Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Leave my country

Nationalist to anarchist: Why don’t you just leave this country and go elsewhere? You don’t believe or respect its very foundations. We certainly won’t miss the traitors of this land, the like of you.

Anarchist: For a person, belonging to a specie who hopes to live for 70 or 80 years at the most, this is mighty claim you lay to a piece of land, belonging to no one. How long have humans been here, on this planet? And since when did they get the right to carve up this planet into pieces for themselves, setting up their own laws, fighting and killing people living on other pieces of lands? By what right does any thing on this planet “belong” to you or anyone, you, we, who start life here, born with life counters counting down every second. By what right you claim to own a piece, you call your property, individually, or your country, your nation, collectively. What does it even mean to “own” a piece of the planet earth, in your name, that you then pass on to your families? To own a piece of cosmos, by what right do you even claim to such inheritance, we whose very existence is constructed from borrowed materials from this very planet, this immensity, this universe.

And you call me a traitor, because I don’t agree to your hate against other people, other humans, members of my own specie. And yet I am the one who is a traitor? You carry guns and weapons and organize yourselves into bodies of mass murderers, your armed forces, and you wage wars against your own kind and I am the one who is the traitor, one who see no Americans or Indians or Iranians but members of my own specie. And for this loyalty to my fellow humans you declare that I am not fit to live in your land? Really, truly, honestly? I ask you to help me abolish all instruments of divisions and oppression, the state, the nations, the borders, the mighty war machines, and for that I get to wear the label, traitor? Why my dear fellow human, why should it be so and where am I to go, to some other planet, or would you rather take my life for thinking of peace and freedom and love and respect for this planet and its entire living species. Tell me why?

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