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Prescript: I'm looking for someone to go 50/50 with me and move to either Ecuador, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, or Mexico where we can make a very low income go much further with a lower cost, and higher standard, of living (than living in the States on such a low income). This includes an only income of Social Security Disability (SSDI) and/or Retirement benefits. The Social Security Administration most definitely DOES allow SSDI and/or Retirement benefits, but not Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, to be sent to recipients in most other countries! There are many books about moving and living abroad available at the public library and/or at Amazon.com . Naturally, I realize we would probably have to spend some time getting to know eachother, and finding out if we're compatible, before moving abroad together. We could even have our own separate "spaces" by choosing to rent or purchase a house or apartment with separate quarters, and still save considerable money in monthly costs compared to living in the States on the same income. If you might be interested, want to ask me some questions, and/or want to discuss it, please e-mail me at the address below.
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Rights And Duties
"The Power Of One"
Fathers 1
Fathers 2
How To Live 1
How To Live 2
Brave, Free Heart
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING POEMS ARE COPYRIGHTED (c) 1996-2004 IN THE U.S.A. AND INTERNATIONALLY BY S. WOLF BRITAIN. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.
RIGHTS AND DUTIES
An Ode For Only True Justice And Against All Authoritarian Rule
[Tyranny = "The worst of treasons." --Lord Byron.]
[A Tyrant = "Nothing but a slave turned
inside-out." --Herbert Spencer.]
(Dedicated to Jesus The Christ, The Apostles, Francis of Assisi, Martin Luther and the Other Protestant Reformers, The True Founding Fathers, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, Martin Luther King, Jr., Billie Holiday, Hermann Hesse, Thelonious Sphere Monk, Pablo Neruda, Nat King Cole, William Stafford, Ray Charles, Jackson Browne, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Smokey Robinson, Ken Kesey, Stevie Wonder, Jack Nicholson, Quincy Jones, Gerry Spence, Ella Fitzgerald, Ramsey Clark, Noam Chomsky, Edward W. Said, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Robert A. Heinlein, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Arthur C. Clarke, John Steinbeck, Frank Herbert, M. Scott Peck, Isaac Asimov, Sean Penn, George Orwell/Eric Blair, Daniel Ellsberg, Leonard G. Horowitz, William Thomas, John Nash, Barbra Streisand, Past-Governor George H. Ryan of Illinois, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and Former Representative Tom Andrews, and many more)
I stood up for what is right,
And I was shot down.
I wanted to become an attorney,
To vindicate the rights of the oppressed,
But Social Security shut me down,
And apparently extinguished my dream.
I spoke of O.J. Simpson,
And said, "I'm one of the few white people
Who didn't (at all) presume his guilt",
And I was treated rudely,
Because I don't blindly follow the majority.
I am polite to everyone,
But others' who believe
That they supposedly deserve
Preferential treatment,
Expect me to respect their opinions
Without respecting that I have
Just as much right to mine,
And I am thoroughly vilified.
I am a fully disabled man,
But my mind is not disabled,
From standing up for the truths
That "all men are created equal!",
That "the majority is usually wrong!",
That most people "can't handle the truth!",
And that it's not only just "the Peoples'" right,
It is also their "duty" to stand up and be counted
Against all tyranny and injustice, as much as they can,
Within and without their own sphere of influence.
And who knows, perhaps they will have
A greater influence for good
Than they possibly could have imagined;
And even one man, throwing off the shackles
Of injustice and tyranny, will make it all worthwhile;
Because that is what true American democracy is all about.
So let us all throw off the bonds of ignorance, apathy
And complacency, and all take a strong stand
For true liberty and justice . . . for all!
"THE POWER OF ONE"
(Inspired by the Movie of that Name)
Even one man alone
Must stand up for human rights
One woman must stand
Against the darkening nights
For the power
Of a group of bigots
Must not prevail
Against the "zealots"
Or those with the ideals
Being counted for human rights
Let no ignorant men
Take away from you idealists
Your desire to see unity prevail
Even if you must stand against the "pietists"
Who seek only ungodly union in the name of God
Do not join together with Roman doers of idolatrous acts
But be joined in Love with the One and Only True God
Have no other gods but He and His facts
Even if you must face death for the truth
That all men are created equal, and to be individualists!
FATHERS 1
(For Anna)
Fathers are not allowed to be there
For their children after divorce,
While the mothers poison them
Against their only fathers
With impunity and injustice
For all,
Leading to the judges believing
The children when they say,
"I don't ever again want to see my
Father".
Fathers are the most oppressed
Minority in this country,
Because they have very little actual rights
To their own children any longer,
As the children have been given
More rights than the fathering parent
And the mothers wreak havoc upon both,
Causing the children to suffer the most,
While the Courts sit back and let it happen
"In the best interests of the children".
ALL OF THE FOREGOING POEMS ARE COPYRIGHTED (c) 1996-2004 IN THE U.S.A. AND INTERNATIONALLY BY S. WOLF BRITAIN. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.
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MORE OF MY POETRY ON ISSUES OF LIBERTY AND FREEDOM,
AND EQUAL, HUMAN, CIVIL, AND LEGAL RIGHTS. ALL OF THE POEMS ARE COPYRIGHTED (c) 1996-2004 IN THE U.S.A. AND INTERNATIONALLY BY S. WOLF BRITAIN. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.
FATHERS 2
(For Anna)
It is in the best interests of the mother
That the children are denied their fathers,
Not in the best interests of the children;
And goodness and mercy and justice
Do not follow the fathers' and their children
All the days of their lives,
Only pain and suffering and agony
Hidden from the eyes of men and women
Who stand in false judgment of the place of
Fathers.
The children suffer the worst indignity
By not understanding why they must endure
This separation that is as unnatural
As separating children from their mothers
And mothers from their children;
While the fathers' cry unheard,
Asking themselves where it all went wrong
That their families are no more,
And their children are fatherless,
In the professed "best interests of the child".
HOW TO LIVE 1
[Dedicated to Gerry Spence, Esq.--
with quotes from his great book,
With Justice For None,
Copyright © 1989 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by Gerry Spence;
and from The Word of God,
Isaiah, Chapter 58, Verse 1.
All rights are reserved.]
Stand up, stand up for Freedom,
You soldiers of our Duty;
This should be our combat cry!
For that is how we should live,
By standing up for the Truth,
Our battle hymn of Democracy!
It is an inviolable responsibility,
That we "....must test and protest
(A)nd raise hell and shake our leaders
(B)y the napes of their necks",
Because "(o)ur Founding Fathers gave us
(T)he supreme weapon of liberty--free speech--
...(T)hat most sacred of our rights" and duties
While most Americans have been brainwashed
Into rejecting their precious rights and duties
We must "(c)ry aloud, have no pity,
Lift up (our) voices like a trumpet,
And show (the) people their transgression(s)...."!
As standing up for freedom and rights
Is our God-given potential and obligation!
HOW TO LIVE 2
(Dedicated to Gerry Spence, Esq.)
Stand up for freedom no matter what,
No matter what may befall you,
Even if you must die for standing up
For what is right and faithful
And kind and truthful and hopeful and loving,
The greatest of these being the giving of love,
In the form of standing up for our rights,
Is the highest and noblest way to give
And warning our fellow-man
Of the infringement of our rights,
The finest and most honorable
Way to achieve our duty to love them,
Unconditionally, and without reservation
True patriots are what we must be
For the sake of all mankind,
And contrary to public opinion,
We are our brothers keepers,
Who will be held accountable in the end,
For fulfilling or not fulfilling our sacred calling
To help our neighbors come into the light of true liberty
BRAVE, FREE HEART
An Ode to Freedom
A Poem
January 15th, 1999
[Copyright © 1999 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
As Heinlein so aptly and succinctly said,
"...Mighty little force is needed to control a man
Whose mind has been hoodwinked;
Contrariwise, no amount of force can control
A free man, a man whose mind is free.
No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--
You can't conquer a free man;
The most you can do is kill him."
And killing him doesn't take away his freedom,
For freedom is deep within his brave heart.
Courage is the state of mind of the free
As air is to those that breathe air,
Though that does not mean
They're never scared.
But the perfect love of freedom
Casts out their fear,
And they soar to greater and greater
Heights of liberty,
Where fear cannot touch them
Nor waylay them from their pursuit
For more of that which is buried
Deep within their brave free hearts.
Not just for themselves,
But all mankind they can encourage
To seek and not be satisfied
With anything less
Than true and complete freedom,
Especially freedom to believe
And speak of one's belief in liberty
Entirely free of government control.
Freedom is only the domain of the truly free
Who stand up for it without fear
Of the tyranny and oppression
That most government organization
Ultimately leads to without fail.
For instance, American "democracy",
The very nature of which led to complacency
And the mistaken belief that it couldn't do enough wrong
To justify standing up against it's many injustices
As well as the great undermining of freedom it commits.
But apathy is the very opposite of liberty;
Yet the majority follow their country's dictates
With an appallingly blind devotion and false patriotism,
Supporting, defending and carrying out
Even their killing of innocent women and children,
All in the name of God and freedom,
When He and liberty have nothing to do with such evils
Except to meet out unremitting punishment
Of the doers of those sins in due time
To rid the Earth of the scourge of their existence.
Thank God for freedom and for His God-given liberty
To fulfill His calling and duty to rebel against
Any and all threats to true freedom,
Including those committed by our own government
For the purpose of making us conform
And keeping us so conformed,
Subservient to their tyrannies,
Subjugated to their oppressions,
Submissive to their controls,
That abrogate the very principles for which we stand.
"...One (Earth), under God, indivisible,
(W)ith liberty and justice for all!"
ALL OF THE FOREGOING POEMS ARE COPYRIGHTED (c) 1996-2004 IN THE U.S.A. AND INTERNATIONALLY BY S. WOLF BRITAIN. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.
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