Dear children,
The moment you first walk as a toddler, you must know, you will know, that this world you now walk on is, and will seem to forever be, a cruel world. A trap. The generation you are now a part of is a sensation of anguish, greed, and a dysfunction of loyalty. By the time you see it, you’ll see there is no trust, no honor, among any one of us. We have aged appallingly through the end of the 20th Century and already through my time this moment on the 21st Century.
We tell you it’s illegal to have contact with the enemy, racism, drugs, etc... but would we know who is the enemy? If not inside of us? What makes me better than a Negro with the same ego and fashion as I? A misconception of different categories of drugs and experiments can cause issues in authority? ... but in the end, it seems more than okay for them to follow an “arrest/kill first, ask later” policy. We have our rights as Americans and humans, but those rights are often overpowered by violence and deception. It has come to a staggering point where it truly feels like every person must feed for themselves. But this is where you, children, this is where you shine the light.
I have hopes that most of you (some of you will follow your own path) will grow to understand what I’m trying to express through words on this page. Just because they justify that “When someone starts smoking marijuana, he/she’d start with tobacco”, it doesn’t mean you need to follow that policy. It is your choice, for Christ’s sake. And why follow anyway, when selling tobacco is more than legal in our states. Since when did we ever care about our health? What do we care about the connections between the two? Almost all of us would do the drug because of the psychedelic effects on the mind. Tobacco is just a life-cutter. MaryJane is a high. Where’s the connection? What makes marijuana a threat to us? Has it killed anyone over history? Is it illegal to have our own President of the United States of American run our nation, when he himself has his own history with the plant? Where’s the jurisdiction over the jurisdiction?
Didn’t a wise man state that “mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an to mankind”? Didn’t the words and works of JFK teach us enough? Did war bring any more “freedom” to America than we already had? You call this freedom? With all due respect for the US Army, Marines, and all others fighting for us... what are we fighting? “for us”? Who’s “us”? We are far apart from each other to be an “us” anymore. For a long time.
As told, in the end of this life, there is no one to trust. For that mention, even I can’t be trusted, not even for my own sake.
Everything you see today is a load of lies, and the sooner you discover and study this, the more stronger and wiser you will be in the future. The stronger and wiser you shall all be, so that when the time comes where man can no longer survive himself, at least you are still the walking chess piece.
You can be a piece of this resistance, a resistance from choking authority, a resistance for freedom, true freedom. A freedom where a community can live together peacefully and gleefully through the power of music, feeling, soul, “I am you, you are me”, and the scent of a burning piece of cannabis. I tell you again, the freedom of which I tell you all is a freedom far stronger and more beautiful than the freedom of which I see in America, and abroad.
Though this dream is clouded far too much almost every day and week, I dream we shall see the green, grassy fields again, of what was once a Woodstock Festival, but in our own spirits and virtue. A green field where we can hold hands and not worry about threats from anyone or anything but God toying with a thunderstorm. A green field where we can dance to the feelings of music flowing through our flesh,
I am still the student in this world, but you can be leaders.
- Anthony J. Garcia, 17
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