Our Un-Named "Patriot"
Today all of these conditions exist in most countries to various degrees.
Some years ago a Judge's remarks after sentencing someone in a "tax crime" case in the Northwest, a federal judge expressed the opinion that people involved with "these groups" (You know who you are!) are actually afflicted with some type of mental illness. I think he meant it. This judge simply hadn't the foggiest notion how any sane human being could lose family, fortune, and freedom and still refuse to give in. Perhaps this judge knew exactly what he was doing being a shepherd for 'rebelious sheeple'. Of interest, the judge made no comment on what manner of mental health allows a man known as "Your Honor" to omfortably facilitate the government's destruction of another man's life in the absence of any charging statute or plainly demonstrated legal duty to hich a penalty statute might apply. Aiding and abetting political and judicial fraud could be a sign of an evil heart; but perhaps we should withhold judgment. "Your Honor" could plead "mental illness".
Though it goes by various names, there is a loosely associated band of people who just have a terrible time tolerating tyranny -- especially the lying, hypocritical, cowardly variety. Amongst this merry band of "patriots" (although what is left to be "patriotic" about is sometimes a wonder) there is a good bit of disagreement, even rancor. This is not surprising. After all, what personality types are apt to take a stand against a power as awesome and intimidating as the government of the United States, Canada or the UK? Shy, cautious people-pleasers? No offense to all the "B-type" personalities out there, but ... I don't think so.
There are probably numerous stories similar to that of our un-named "patriot".
One day after years of research, personal paranormal encounters and interviews with hundreds of eye witnesses to UFOs and alien abduction, Purple Crow hears allegations that "UFO research groups" are a fraud and the world is not what it seems, especially in the field of paranormal research. The word "Illuminati" is first uttered by a cryptic shaking man who after uttering these very words runs to his car and skids off as if about to die for merely speaking to Purple Crow. Purple is the independent, self-confident, curious type, so he digs into the subject. Purple Crow has learned to ALWAYS ask questions after years of personal paranormal encounters, including direct ET contact. In a few months his entire world view is turned upside down as he has discovered far more than he bargained for. Believing that "the Truth shall set you free", Purple confronts his peers regarding these 'rumours', certain that this corruption must be exposed and he can make a difference.
On the initial leg of his sojourn, Purple meets a number of kindred souls who reinforce his views and appear to share his contempt for "the lie" and his desire to confront those who perpetrate it.
Jumping ahead 2 or 3 years, Purple's girlfriend has taken the Y2K supplies (2 months before midnight 2000), the house and the bank account ... and left him. Another employer has fired him, and he is living out of the back of his friend's house across the US border. This goes on for a couple of years as Purple, living like a Jew running from the NAZIs, attempts to regain his balance, during which time Purple writes a book while staying in a few different 'safe houses' and finds a way to generate some relatively "safe" and quite temporary cashflow for the first time in a while in the form of donations for his research on his new website. Purple then finds out that the "unregulated" world of "free enterprise" has at least as many crooks, hucksters and fools in it as the "system" ever hoped to have. Book-deal after book-deal falls through while he attempts to share everything he knows with earnest intent to help others help themselves. Friends turn into enemies as ears and hearts close to what Purple has exposed with documented factual reports.
Keep in mind that Purple is now several years into being deprived of his family, his career and much of anything resembling a "normal" life. Purple is experiencing the "convert's awakening": people may go to your church and read out of the same scriptures you do, but that does not mean they understand things the way you do; nor does it mean they are automatically competent and trustworthy. All corruption comes from WITHIN each system of trust.
Purple Crow discovers that the "patriot" world of solid political change also has a few people who are self-serving, dishonest, deceived, desperate and, in some cases, just not very bright. About this time Purple is feeling isolated, betrayed, a bit hopeless ... and, yes, incredibly angry. Everything he believed in ten years ago has turned to crap; and now the people who showed him this crap in the first place are themselves turning out to be crap. To quote the forlorn Mel Brooks' character in the movie of the same name, "Life stinks!"
Purple now becomes quite a handful -- a bit unstable, to put it mildly. Not knowing what other direction to take, Purple actually accelerates his study of every theory he can find that might explain how "they are doing it to us." Each new theory comes with an impressive rationale and set of "proofs", along with a handful of anecdotal "wins". However, Purple becomes a rabid new convert to each "silver bullet" and angrily denounces his former gurus, placing himself as the new guru of truth all the while attempting to inspire others to do as he has done, following no one, trusting few -- denouncing anyone else who dares to debunk his newly found set of "proofs". Purple has even been known to spread nasty, vindictive information about other people in "the Movement", even going so far as to threaten them with "legal action".
Virtually all of Purple's former family and friends, of course, have thought he was crazy from the instant he announced that income tax is an illegal fraud, a tired old argument that he leaves to other 'researchers' to continue to expose. Now, however, people "in the Movement" are becoming convinced that Purple is a genuine nut-case, maybe a government agent, and certainly a detriment to any effort to restore honest, Constitutional government free from corruption. Purple's bold, outspoken research has left him pretty much on his own as he heads back to a more underground private life where he continues to explore even deeper realms of contact with otherworldly beings to share in mutual respect whatever he can before the inevitable global ET contact day transpires.
So, what do people think of Purple Crow? Some people tend to agree with the judge: Purple is now genuinely afflicted with a form of 'mental illness'. The difference is that some people know who did it to him. Purple was quite literally shoved into the abyss of emotional illness by none other than "Your Honor" and every other judge like him -- as well as every friend, every family member, and every Canadian, American and European who suffers from the far more serious problem of character deficiency.
Give thanks for all the Purple Crow's out there who were strong enough to continue to be "mentally ill" enough to recognize and resist corrupt government, let alone the same sickness that lives within the paranormal 'community'. Purple may make some bad choices in his own personal behavior. He may sink into confusion, even self-deception, and may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer; but whatever his personal shortcomings, Purple Crow was at least MAN enough at some point to take a stand against corruption, tyranny -- and against the TRULY insane behavior of an entire society that holds up a set of ideals, principles and laws collectively misrepresented, trampled and defiled on a daily basis.
Give me a man driven mad by adherance to the principle of truth over ignorant bliss any day over a man whose "success" in this world requires him to be a liar, a coward and a hypocrite. God may heal the former; the latter may never see His face.
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