While imprisoned in Illinois with my children, who are now grown into adolescent individuals who ostensibly are of age to think with their own minds, I noticed there were many people who were experiencing government oppression, not just myself. Most were not living in my district--as people in affluent districts leave if they arent happy with the situation, generally--unless interfered with by courts or other government institutions. The difference in culture from one district to another is quite remarkable, it is difficult to believe that people live in the same country based upon perceptions and beliefs as well as to the rules and regulations people are expected to abide by and the enforcement of these rules which differs greatly from one district to another. It isnt their fault, I understand having watched my own children be inculcated with their beliefs--they have all been educated by this school system. As I watched it systematically destroy my children I came to understand why few people educated in this culture could have any hope of growing up into enlightened, compassionate, caring and humanitarian cause driven individuals. Teenagers must be allowed to be teenagers, and find themselves. While I am not, and have not been throughout most of their lives, allowed the parenting authority--due to court interference with my parenting authority--to be the mom they truly need--mothers need the authority to create and maintain rules, however it impossible to do so when the children can just run to the other parent who chides the mom for being unreasonable. This situation spoils children and therefore joint custody is a formula for parental failure. International law should abolish this travesty even if US national laws insist upon promulgating this parenting arrangement: no child will grow up unscathed in a parenting system in which each person who has been divorced from the other due to incompatibility--or they wouldnt have been divorced--has equal authority to compete with the other regarding differing sets of beliefs and rules. Such an arrangement can only result in confused, damaged children. The fact that my children attended The Faith Community of Saint Sabina with me for a couple of years gives me hope that some level of intrinsic civic sense of duty exists in them somewhere at the bottom of their hearts. My hope is that they will eventually outgrow the values that have been inculcated into them by the district 200 and district 203 schools because a seed was planted in their hearts and souls by Father Michael Pfleger if not their mother. The power of the Holy Spirit that emanates from the beautiful worship in these churches in the midst of what can only be described as hell, in neighborhoods where there are more shootings than actual places of declared war across the world, you see these beautiful spirit driven people praising the Lord, through the iniquity, through the hell, through the difficulties--this has kept me alive and also left me with a deep appreciation of another culture, one I can understand and feel an affinity to across all ancestral differences, far more than I can feel any affinity to the strangers in DuPage county who share my skin color but little more in a culture distant and strange. A culture in which I find I am pretty much universally offended by the beliefs and world views that are held .. a God-forsaken place where the U.S. government has forced my children to be raised.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:00:00 +0000
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