I'm happy to hear your family touched down safely in Cambodia, and Monkey B was very brave handling that test. (saw in the last post, just commenting here on it catching up.)
I had to read back a couple of weeks to get a picture of the full scope of what you are facing with being able to see your family. I missed that post previously and have a hard time keeping up with everyone but I do my best.
I know all too well of the 60 hour a week grind and barely getting by in the USA, contrary to the belief of many that we are all living like kings here, and the truth could not be any further from this, for a great deal many of us.
To have to plead with the embassy to reside with your family when you're a human being dwelling on this planet who does no harm to anyone is just heart breaking to me and exemplifies more of what is wrong with this world.
I hope that you have a safe place to stay in the United States and are not being forced to reside in a homeless shelter man.. I'm willing to bet they are all packed like sardines right now and am plenty familiar with that life as well.
You obtain an intelligent mind and good communication skills from what I have gathered, and as someone else @mers suggested, it may be wise to obtain a lawyer if you can. I would simply not take no as an answer. You have documented proof on the blockchain of both your family, and your intellectual capacity, and ultimately your life... Who's to say you can't be with your family?
I find this all pretty upsetting to see you divided from your family because of imaginary lines and restrictive visas.
For me to ever leave the US would pretty much take an act of congress, which is not an exaggeration, for things that happened years ago. I tried to get a passport and gave up on it after being told I would need to undergo a criminal investigation when I had committed no crimes.
Kind of seems like we're all being treated as prisoners, and I for one, having served my country honorably, no longer believe in government and am a self proclaimed anarchist who believes in self governance and ultimately the removal of all governments.
Why? Well.. situations like yours, families torn apart and unjust treatment towards good citizens like yourself.
Things will work out for you and your family. You have an entire blockchain of people who you can summon to vouch for you, and we're good with the pen, best believe!
Peace be with you, stay strong brother!
Give thanks for these words, I am truly honored to receive them.
In some ways, our attempted US immigration was seemingly the most rational path out of Suriname, but now that Cambodia is a bit more receptive to hosting me than my country is to hosting my Cambodian family. So, at this point, we honestly don't want to immigrate to the US anymore, but because we've already paid all the fees, we'd still like to pursue it just to have it an as option, or even just visit for two weeks.
Our case was denied for lots of reasons, mostly my lack of address in the USA and my lack of an income 125% of poverty for a family of 4. Of course when you've been stranded abroad for three years, you aren't exactly living above the American poverty level. Basically what the government wants me to do is abandon the family and put it in one or two years of manual labor at 60-70 hours a week, which would probably just barely put me above that poverty line.
The biggest problem is that is the life I was fleeing when I escaped to Cambodia in 2010, so it seems foolish to attempt the life again that has never ever worked for me. I can't blame you for being an anarchist, not sure if would technically be labeled one or not. I don't believe in a necessary overthrow of governments, but I'd at least like to have the right not to participate in their world, but that's impossible now that the world has already been divided like a pizza.
I'm already learning to keep my mouth shut about these issues, especially in southern Indiana. Someone made a comment about the Mexicans crossing the border "so easily," so why can't we, etc. I tried to explain the reason they cross illegally is because they would suffer my family's fate if they tried to do things the "right way" like I did. The conversation ended when I said " I wouldn't wish the US immigration process on my worst enemy."
It's almost unfathomable to many people how easily and peacefully government could be abolished worldwide.
I like to envision humanity being fed up with this slavery monetary based system we are trapped in and all agree to no longer partake in anything involving money, contracts, corporate, and government jobs. Move to a barter based system and completely replace money with crypto currency, ignoring all governmental demands for KYC and taxation, etc. There wouldn't even be any governmental workers left to enforce laws at this point anyway.
This would dismantle the system in a matter of hours. The stock market would crash immediately, there would be no government gunslingers to enforce (because they would not be going to work!)
And all that would be left of the "governments" would be a bunch of corrupt politicians fleeing to their hideouts to avoid the gallows.
This wouldn't be super easy of course, and things such as food production, electricity, importation/exportation of necessary goods would still be very much needed, and would need immediate restructuring and people willing to step up to the plate and potentially work with no slave based monetary pay, but I'm sure the common good could work it out and those willing to make sacrifice would be taken care of.
Same goes for the fears of people looting, robbing, raping, murdering. There are more good people on the planet than bad people, and the common good would quickly work out the "problems".
Law in many capacities promotes people to do vile things, because a law based punishment is oftentimes much less worse than a lawless communities justice for vile/inhumane acts. Law tends to protect some of the worst people who do the worst things, which is a pretty lengthy topic of discussion, but I've witnessed it first hand in the justice system of NY.
The biggest problem we face in all of this , is the polarization of peoples beliefs and perception to inadvertently support the global banking corporate law based slavery system, and we've reached a point where people will become hostile and even violent to protect their programmed beliefs. Truly believing that the beliefs they harbor are their own true thoughts and critical thinking skills, while oblivious to the strings that their puppet masters pull over their daily perception through life.
I see non compliance in a peaceful manner to be a great exemplification of what it means to be an anarchist, and really it's just another politically based label. I just don't believe in this system anymore, because I see it as an evil slavery based control system, where the people are controlled by the banks and corporations.
I think we share a very common perspective of just peacefully dwelling on the planet untied to the binds that shackle us to this nightmare of a system.
I don't blame people for being nervous to express their opinions and beliefs anymore. I also wish I had a great outlook on the situation we're facing, but quite frankly I think it looks pretty grim.
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What you describe reminds me of life in the Cambodian countryside, too far from banks for cash to be very useful, too far from the government to be micromanaged, and too poor for any entity to come in and regulate what they are doing. And would you imagine the Cambodian countryside is a lovely place, because it is.
I totally agree with your sentiments, but we just have to wait for humans locked in to stupidity to wake up. Your comment leaves me thinking of Jacques Fresco and Eugene Debs, two fine Americans that worked hard to flesh out some of things you've highlighted. Eugene Debs lived only an hour from me in Indiana, only person ever to run for president from federal prison, I think you'd like his story.
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