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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3 color="#131313"
face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";
color:#131313;font-weight:bold'>The Perpetual Recipe for Tyranny—Refused!</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> Dear Mr.
Schneider, </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>I attended your
elementary school almost thirty years ago and I'm very sure that you will remember
me. My name is Suzy. I'm that hyperactive girl from the Egyptian family who
used to always play dead on the playground during recess. You used to keep me
after school a lot, and then my father would force me to make the long
walk home in the cold or rain. Sometimes I would arrive after dark.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> I'm writing to
tell you that I was bored as a kid. I was bored by your curriculum and the way
I was always taught a bunch of useless junk. I did not like being locked up in
a prison of scheduled time learning about irrelevant material, and watching
belittling cartoons and shows approved by academia that made me even more
bored.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> As a kid who
was constantly growing, evolving, and being shaped by all around me, I wanted
to travel, see other kids in the world like me, to understand what was going on
amongst us and around us, to know what we were here for, and what was our real
purpose for existence.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> I have some
questions I would like to ask you, Mr. Schneider, now that I know that you are
no longer a school principal, but the new superintendent of the entire school
district. I want to know why racism today was not clearly explained to me even
though we covered events that happened long ago. I want to know why you
never shared with us why other countries never liked us, why we are taught
to compete, to be divided in teams, and why conformity is associated with
popularity, while eccentricity is considered undesirable?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> I want to know
why my cafeteria lunches were slammed packed with bottom-tier processed junk
food only suitable for pigs? And why is it that whenever a bully slammed a kid
into a locker for his lunch money, nobody explained to us that egotism,
selfishness and greed were the seeds of war?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> I want to know
why we were never taught to stick up for each other, to love one another, and
that segregation sorted by the occupations of our fathers, the neighborhoods we
lived in, our houses, choices of sport, wealth, clothing, color of our
skin and the texture of our hair should never, ever divide us? And lastly, I want
to know why is it that whenever I pledged allegiance to the flag, I was never
told that I was actually hailing to the chief?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> You used to say
that I was a troubled child, a misfit, and that I needed obedience training,
but you never acknowledged that I was the fastest runner in the district, and
that I took the school to State and Nationals to compete in the Spelling Bee
among kids grades higher than me. And that it was me, who won that big
trophy that sat in your office when you used to detain me for hours and tell me
I was no good.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> Mr. Schneider,
if we are not taught truths as kids, then how do you expect us to grow up to be
truthful citizens? if we are only being taught the written way, and it has not
shown positive effects in societies of yesterday or today, then how can we
progress as a united and compassionate nation? What good is it, to memorize the
histories of our forefathers, without learning what could be gained from their
lessons and mistakes to improve our future tomorrows?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> And finally, I
want to thank you, for I know you have a tough job dealing with rebellious
children like me. Your job of mass processing and boxing the young minds
of America has not been an easy one, and I congratulate you on your recent
promotion But I sincerely want to thank you, thank you, and thank you, for
always pointing out that I was different.”</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> <span
class=apple-tab-span> </span>―
</span></font><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4551735.Suzy_Kassem"><font
color="#262626" face=LatoLatin-Bold><span style='font-family:"LatoLatin-Bold","serif";
color:#262626;text-decoration:none'>Suzy Kassem</span></font></a><font
color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";
color:#131313'>, </span></font><a
href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14994756"><font color="#262626"
face=LatoLatin-Bold><span style='font-family:"LatoLatin-Bold","serif";
color:#262626;text-decoration:none'>Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of
Suzy Kassem</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>“You see these
dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and
the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear.
They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring
at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little
mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are
thrown into panic.”</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in'><span class=apple-tab-span><font size=3
color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'> </span></font></span><font
color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";
color:#131313'>― <a
href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14033.Winston_S_Churchill"><font
color="#262626" face=LatoLatin-Bold><span style='font-family:"LatoLatin-Bold","serif";
color:#262626;text-decoration:none'>Winston S. Churchill</span></font></a>, <a
href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/14542628"><font color="#262626"
face=LatoLatin-Bold><span style='font-family:"LatoLatin-Bold","serif";
color:#262626;text-decoration:none'>Blood, Sweat and Tears</span></font></a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>“It is the fate of
great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to
be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great,
brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have
corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have
been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some
trifling error as your guiding principal. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>This, little man, is
what you have done with Christianity, with the doctrine of sovereign people,
with socialism, with everything you touch. Why, you ask, do you do this? I
don't believe you really want an answer. When you hear the truth you'll cry
bloody murder, or commit it. … You had your choice between soaring to
superhuman heights with Nietzsche and sinking into subhuman depths with Hitler.
You shouted Heil! Heil! and chose the subhuman. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>You had the choice
between Lenin's truly democratic constitution and Stalin's dictatorship. You
chose Stalin's dictatorship. You had your choice between Freud's elucidation of
the sexual core of your psychic disorders and his theory of cultural
adaptation. You dropped the theory of sexuality and chose his theory of
cultural adaptation, which left you hanging in mid-air. You had your choice
between Jesus and his majestic simplicity and Paul with his celibacy for
priests and life-long compulsory marriage for yourself. You chose the celibacy
and compulsory marriage and forgot the simplicity of Jesus' mother, who bore
her child for love and love alone. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>You had your choice
between Marx's insight into the productivity of your living labor power, which
alone creates the value of commodities and the idea of the state. You forgot
the living energy of your labor and chose the idea of the state. In the French
Revolution, you had your choice between the cruel Robespierre and the great Danton.
You chose cruelty and sent greatness and goodness to the guillotine. In Germany
you had your choice between Goring and Himmler on the one hand and Liebknecht,
Landau, and Muhsam on the other. You made Himmler your police chief and
murdered your great friends. You had your choice between Julius Streicher and
Walter Rathenau. You murdered Rathenau. You had your choice between Lodge and
Wilson. You murdered Wilson. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>You had your choice between
the cruel Inquisition and Galileo's truth. You tortured and humiliated the
great Galileo, from whose inventions you are still benefiting, and now, in the
twentieth century, you have brought the methods of the Inquisition to a new
flowering. … Every one of your acts of smallness and meanness throws light on
the boundless wretchedness of the human animal. 'Why so tragic?' you ask. 'Do
you feel responsible for all evil?' With remarks like that you condemn
yourself. If, little man among millions, you were to shoulder the barest
fraction of your responsibility, the world would be a very different place.
Your great friends wouldn't perish, struck down by your smallness.” </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>
<span class=apple-tab-span> </span> ―
</span></font><a
href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/118694.Wilhelm_Reich"><font
color="#262626" face=LatoLatin-Bold><span style='font-family:"LatoLatin-Bold","serif";
color:#262626;text-decoration:none'>Wilhelm Reich</span></font></a><font
color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";
color:#131313'>, </span></font><a
href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/414183"><font color="#262626"
face=LatoLatin-Bold><span style='font-family:"LatoLatin-Bold","serif";
color:#262626;text-decoration:none'>Listen, Little Man!</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 color="#131313" face=Merriweather-Regular><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>It is through our
abject apathy and acquiescence to the dictates of a system that processes us
into good, obedient, ignorant, uninformed citizens, who are very happy to stay
that way for the promise of receiving the minimum of creature comforts and the
toys for fun. In just that way we have again arrived at the threshold of
tyranny with the ascent of Donald J. Trump. We have only ourselves to blame.
Finger pointing is useless, unless we indignantly stab the air while looking
into a mirror. Neither the Republicans, nor the Alt Right, nor southern
rednecks have done this to us—<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:
italic'>we</span></i></b> have done this to us!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:"Merriweather-Regular","serif";color:#131313'>
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—Matthew Yrigoyen</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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