God3’s Blog

over the rhine featuring the angelically powerful voice of Karin Bergquist -words fail.

After checking that I hadn’t slipped into a parallel universe I could not believe the news in September; that a family in Germany had there 15 year old daughter forcibly removed from her home and placed with foster parents in an unknown location for 3 months.

This was a government enforced action -apparently home-schooling (the crime which precipitated the German government to intervene ) is such a crime as to be consider worse than forcibly separating a 15 year old girl from her family?!?

The genius behind this law is none other than Adolf Hitler,amazingly this law remains on the statute books ! For a nation that wants to divorce itself from its nazi past, this whole story would not be out of place in Hitler’s Germany.

Happily once Melissa Busekros turned 16 the law no longer could constrain her, she left the foster home and is currently back at home.

This is not the end of the story as there are other home-schooling families  who are under pressure and Melissa may yet have to face further action by the German Government.

Please consider contacting the German embassy to complain against this blatant loss of freedom:

In Canada:

German Embassy
1 Waverley Street
Ottawa, ON, K2P 0T8
Tel.: 613-232-1101 Fax: 613-594-9330
Email: germanembassyottawa@on.aibn.com

In the US:

German Embassy
4645 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC, 20007-1998
(202) 298-4000
The embassy can be e-mailed from its website: http://www.globescope.biz/germany/reg/index.cfm

In the UK the embassy can be contacted here:http://www.london.diplo.de/Vertretung/london/en/Kontakt.html

The point is this, Homeschooling is the right of every parent should they choose and the Current German government is acting on a law that removes that right -I hesitate to put Hitlers image at the top of this post as it only serves to polarise but I have the right to protest and that image is part of that!

Stepping off of the plane at Owen Roberts International airport into the heat and humidity of  Grand Cayman in the British west Indies at night; my first impression as I walked down the steps to the tarmac, was the mixed aroma of pine trees and the sea, another  vividly memory to  treasure.

Many thousands of miles from home and the next place I found myself was as familiar as the face I see staring back in the mirror, I was at a KFC!Same food (except for the Zinger) same décor, same tastes and all run  at the same speed as Home.

Perhaps increased mobility and pace of change has produced a subconscious need for familiarity and consistency, KFC, BK and Pizza Hut et al are there to oblige.

Consistency comes at a  price, the loss in some small way of a distinctive place and culture.At the  extremes something has to give, either everything is the same no matter where you are when you step off of the plane, or there is a culture shock and all is different and new.

Today I was informed of an  example of the need for bland sameness, prefering global  rather than a national  identity; the 2012 Olympics are being held in blighty. Some one has decided to ban any overt distinctiveness, it may well offend! I am at a loss as to why distinctiveness is offensive while sameness is not?

The red arrows, the famous RAF aerobatic team, are not allow to perform at the Olympics-the reason  is they are  too British! No that’s not a typo it’s genuine, they are too British!The red arrows are too British to fly in the olympics!!!

History apparently repeats itself, although I cannot recall being too British in Britain as being thought of as a undesirable characteristic?Only in our global culture have we  developed an undeserved poor opinion of ourselves.

Your allowed to be British but there’s a threshold above and below which you are (I assume) either not British enough or too British!?!If you’re born in the UK please consider signing this online petition, here.If you’re not born in the UK please consider the madness that goes on here and point at us and laugh, I would if I were you.  

I have found it more difficult of late to update God3’s Blog -and I’m going to blame it on our new 8 month old dog Sam.Currently he has chewed a broken glass bottle (fortunately no cuts) eaten my New Zealand Palm and several other plants including 3 cacti plus there pots.

Win Butler of ‘Arcade Fire’:

“The Bible talks a lot about fear of God—fear in the face of something awesome. That kind of fear is the type of fear that makes someone want to change. But a fear of other people makes you want to stay the same, to protect what you have. It’s a stagnant fear; and it’s paralyzing.”

Its not often I am impressed with new technology -but this has to be seen  to be believed.

This new software can be tried out here

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible”

Check out this blog ’shrinkwrapped’, they have a excellent post ‘The value and danger of Anxiety’ regarding using ‘green’ politics as a means to control and as an avenue to power, consider Al Gore as a primary example.
Here in the UK our government is hell bent on introducing more and more restrictions in order to reduce C02 emissions, this sounds like something we would expect a good government to do -given the assumption,and that assumption is not universally accepted, that we are the reason for the rise in co2 -but this could be an opportunity for a ‘Creeping Climate and Life style fascism is already underway’.If nothing else this post at ‘Shrinkwrapped’ is provocative.Everyone should read this! Woops blogofascim!

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