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Dispossessed
Analogy
Your car is said to be a of piece junk, according to other people?s standards. You don?t always drive it either.
What if you were car jacked?
Your car jacker graciously donates your vehicle to a man in need. This man in turn offers to give you rides in said vehicle.
You feel the car is still yours, regardless of whom currently posses it. Thus, you try to regain control of vehicle and kick out that man.
Your friends have your back so it seems you may actually get your car back after all; until the original car jacker who is mightier intervenes. He arms the new owner with a gun, frightening your friends away. Although they still support your cause, they cease.
The new owner offers you the rims, use of the trunk space, and the air freshener.
You refuse this offer because the car is yours! You still have the registration even.
Soon enough you find yourself using the trunk space and the air freshener too?..but, you make every attempt to regain access of the entire car.
Meanwhile, the new owner paints the car a new color and installs monster truck tires and a huge sound system. Although you feel the car looked better before, it is improved in the eyes of the new owner and the car jacker alike.
You contact the police. They do nothing. They too feel the new owner deserved a car of his own because riding the bus your whole life is rough.
Even angrier, you flick them off. Out of the frustration of dispossession, whenever you see the car parked at the grocery store, at a friend?s house or whatever, you slash the tires, scratch the paint, and smash the windows.
Sometimes your friends join in. Others try to the police again.
The Police try to arrest you but see they too are in the wrong. They only hold you for a few days and release you.
The new owner suggest you get rides from you friends. You do wind up doing that most of the time but still aim to ultimately get your car back.
The new owner gets a restraining order against you. You violate it. You are soon put on house arrest. You violate that too.
The new owner justifies his possession of the car by calling it his ?birth right? because in fact his grandfather once owned it. Only thing is, the two of you have the same grandfather. After all, you are cousins.
The current car owner?s parents moved away generations ago due to persecution from neighbors who incidentally were hostile to your parents as well. These neighbors died several years back though.
The car jacker knew this background information. He was motivated by this very history in choosing your vehicle to give away apposed to offering the man in need of a set of wheels the fancier car in his own garage, or his wife?s, or the police?s.
You wonder: if all these folks truly sympathized with this man?s needs, why didn?t they offer him their own vehicles to have? Surely this is not merely empathy and consideration for fellow man. If it were, would n?t it carry over onto you as well? Is there something to benefit for them in this arrangement?
Sure the new owner needs a car of his own, but so do you. He has family. So do you. He has sentimental affection for the car because it belonged to his grandfather. His granddad is your granddad too!
Since your views of ownership are different, you have often let others make use of the car. If this man would have asked you to borrow the vehicle, it was rather likely that you would have agreed. You never viewed it as your ?birth right? to posses it in the first place.
It is the principle of the matter that offends you most. Furthermore, you feel disempowered. Out of frustration in the system, you resort to vigilantism. Whenever you see the car driving around town you throw nails and glass in his path. This goes for the original car jacker, his wife, and the police too. You resent them all for the role they play in your hardship.
You get rides from friends and neighbors but you walk mostly. Walking great distances makes you madder and more ill-willed.
? ?People under occupation have the right to resist occupation by any means necessary?. Article 51 UN Charter
The Vehicle = Palestine/Israel
The Car Jacker = Britain
The Wife = Europe
The Police = US
Your friends = Arab and Muslim counties + other sympathizers around the worlds
Dead Neighbors = Phoenicians, Assyrians, Mesopotamians
Driving = ruling/governing
?Terrorism is a symptom of Imperialism.?- Me (This is not a justification. It?s a sad reality.)
Your car is said to be a of piece junk, according to other people?s standards. You don?t always drive it either.
What if you were car jacked?
Your car jacker graciously donates your vehicle to a man in need. This man in turn offers to give you rides in said vehicle.
You feel the car is still yours, regardless of whom currently posses it. Thus, you try to regain control of vehicle and kick out that man.
Your friends have your back so it seems you may actually get your car back after all; until the original car jacker who is mightier intervenes. He arms the new owner with a gun, frightening your friends away. Although they still support your cause, they cease.
The new owner offers you the rims, use of the trunk space, and the air freshener.
You refuse this offer because the car is yours! You still have the registration even.
Soon enough you find yourself using the trunk space and the air freshener too?..but, you make every attempt to regain access of the entire car.
Meanwhile, the new owner paints the car a new color and installs monster truck tires and a huge sound system. Although you feel the car looked better before, it is improved in the eyes of the new owner and the car jacker alike.
You contact the police. They do nothing. They too feel the new owner deserved a car of his own because riding the bus your whole life is rough.
Even angrier, you flick them off. Out of the frustration of dispossession, whenever you see the car parked at the grocery store, at a friend?s house or whatever, you slash the tires, scratch the paint, and smash the windows.
Sometimes your friends join in. Others try to the police again.
The Police try to arrest you but see they too are in the wrong. They only hold you for a few days and release you.
The new owner suggest you get rides from you friends. You do wind up doing that most of the time but still aim to ultimately get your car back.
The new owner gets a restraining order against you. You violate it. You are soon put on house arrest. You violate that too.
The new owner justifies his possession of the car by calling it his ?birth right? because in fact his grandfather once owned it. Only thing is, the two of you have the same grandfather. After all, you are cousins.
The current car owner?s parents moved away generations ago due to persecution from neighbors who incidentally were hostile to your parents as well. These neighbors died several years back though.
The car jacker knew this background information. He was motivated by this very history in choosing your vehicle to give away apposed to offering the man in need of a set of wheels the fancier car in his own garage, or his wife?s, or the police?s.
You wonder: if all these folks truly sympathized with this man?s needs, why didn?t they offer him their own vehicles to have? Surely this is not merely empathy and consideration for fellow man. If it were, would n?t it carry over onto you as well? Is there something to benefit for them in this arrangement?
Sure the new owner needs a car of his own, but so do you. He has family. So do you. He has sentimental affection for the car because it belonged to his grandfather. His granddad is your granddad too!
Since your views of ownership are different, you have often let others make use of the car. If this man would have asked you to borrow the vehicle, it was rather likely that you would have agreed. You never viewed it as your ?birth right? to posses it in the first place.
It is the principle of the matter that offends you most. Furthermore, you feel disempowered. Out of frustration in the system, you resort to vigilantism. Whenever you see the car driving around town you throw nails and glass in his path. This goes for the original car jacker, his wife, and the police too. You resent them all for the role they play in your hardship.
You get rides from friends and neighbors but you walk mostly. Walking great distances makes you madder and more ill-willed.
? ?People under occupation have the right to resist occupation by any means necessary?. Article 51 UN Charter
The Vehicle = Palestine/Israel
The Car Jacker = Britain
The Wife = Europe
The Police = US
Your friends = Arab and Muslim counties + other sympathizers around the worlds
Dead Neighbors = Phoenicians, Assyrians, Mesopotamians
Driving = ruling/governing
?Terrorism is a symptom of Imperialism.?- Me (This is not a justification. It?s a sad reality.)
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