I am a Warrior

I am a revolutionary, progressive and patriotic. But I am also a world citizen with a compassionate heart. I am the product of early American revolutionaries, of Native Americans and of Europeans that escaped persecution by crossing the Atlantic to America. I believe in human rights, our civil rights, freedom and democracy. I do not push my ideals on others, but I share them. I promote them. I defend them.

These ideals are not meant to be pushed on the world, but respectfully encouraged. They are backed by certain undeniable truths. When we have truth on our side, what can be against us? Lies? Deceptions? Omissions and cover-ups? And what else? Bombs, imprisonment and other oppressive weapons?

My weapons - Truth, Fairness, Justice and Love - are mighty. Nothing defeats them if they're pure, as in, the real deal. Nothing! It matters not if I am arrested and imprisoned for standing my ground, dissenting and revolting against something I know in my heart, or truly believe to be true. If I am imprisoned, my weapons remain unconfiscated, freely slaying the lies, injustices, cover-ups and illusions. And if I am killed, my weapons survive; they are infinite and imortal. No amount of oppression destroys these weapons.

I am a warrior, one that matches these weapons. I was made for them, as they have always existed, whereas I have not. I wield these weapons without causing physical bruizes, without breaking bones and without spilling blood. I am not the type of warrior that harms and kills. I bravely stand up to those that cause harm, burning my weapons into their minds and hearts. I am sure to leave a mark. I frequently succeed. In practice, I strive for excellence as I gradually develop my skills to marksmanship.

I am humble. Arrogance has never been my friend. It, like self-righteousness betrayed me every time I welcomed them. I am not above others, but beside them.

I am an American, because I was born to this land. But I do not believe that, for any given reason, I must always support what this country's leaders and any citizens here say, believe, desire, and do. Any objections within me usually find their way into the world around me. I am one of many that tests the Constitution and those claiming patriotic loyalty to the American way. I ardently defend the Rights as outlined by the Constitution. When I see violations of it, nothing shall convince me to wave them. It is my honor and duty to protect our Constitution. If any one changes it, only the Majority shall have this right, not to remove all that is good and worthy, but that which limits our protection from tyranny at home and abroad.

I refuse to sacrifice my rights, including my freedom, in exchange for the promise of security. No real patriot compromises this. I'd rather fall victim of bombs dropped on me by foreign enemy, than to cowardly submit to a dictatorship, to a policed state and to martial law. I have a duty to my country, to my offspring and to every American that has campaigned against oppression in this country. I must dedicate a certain amount of my time to watch those that represent us and lead us and the ones that claim to do this, but serve their own and special interests, instead. I know what they do in my state capital and in Washington D.C. (which was my first home). I, like any true patriot, am loyal to my country, not to a political party. As a citizen and a voter, I am a fraction of the government. I am one with other Americans that strive to remind the lawmakers and other officials and leaders of this very fact.

I do not foresake my national duty, nor my human and spiritual duty to the world and the universe, in favor of personal affairs. I must never choose the lesser, when the world depends on every one of us, including me, to make a positive difference for the generations of today, and for the ones that inherit what we create for them.

In the world today, the worst kind of suffering still exists. I refer to that which results from hatred, arrogance, oppression, bias, ignorance and violence. This is not the type of world I care to leave for my son and his offspring to suffer. I cannot wish a better world for him and them and expect my wish to come true while doing nothing to encourage necessary change.

I know that I must work with other similar warriors of the world to bring peace, healing, a clean Earth, fairness and justice. It is not for me to Americanize the world, for all cultures and lands have their ways, but to promote these values as gifts, and let others use them according to their ways.