Carl Jung said, “There are no coincidences.”
Yesterday, I wrote about American citizens who seek asylum overseas (American Citizens Seek Asylum in Great Britain). Now, we learn that Randy Quaid and his wife Evi are seeking asylum in Canada.
It seems that the couple had legal trouble in the U.S., stemming from a property dispute. As a result of the dispute, the couple was arrested in California and released on $50,000.00 bond each. They then traveled to Canada where Mr. Quaid was scheduled to receive an award from a Canadian film critics group. When they failed to appear at a hearing in California, they were arrested in Canada. Rather than quietly returning to the U.S., the couple has sought refugee status in Canada.
The basis for the claim is not entirely clear. Mrs. Quaid says that eight of their friends, including actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger, have been “murdered” under mysterious circumstances and she’s worried something will happen to her husband next. “We feel our lives are in danger,” she said.
According to my favorite website, TMZ, the Quaids have had a troubled history and have made some pretty outrageous claims involving different conspiracies against them. Although the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada has released them, they are being kept on a pretty tight leash, and will have to appear again for a hearing later this week. Whether they follow through with their asylum claim, we will have to wait to see. If they succeed on the claim, they will become two of the handful of U.S. citizens who have successfully claimed asylum in another country.
Clearly a number of reported deaths and tragedies have been staged or caused by criminal actions. This goes hand in hand with an examination of what extremes the American people can hear and accept, and yet not speak out against or contradict. Because the capacity of the American people for lies and garbage is so high (tuned only to whether the fiction affects their particular and momentary lives), we essentially tell those without scruples that they are free to commit any crime or perpetuate any tragedy, and we will sit tight. We now know the Vietnam War was one such ruse, the conflict in Iraq was its progeny, and others will come if our silence and lack of introspection persists. On a more minute scale, it is time we openly recognize that those who commit serious acts of violence, most especially those with a former military background, were pushed, tortured and manipulated to do so by the same forces that profit when the American people are distracted. Such individuals are chosen and cultivated, starting with the allowing of bullying with no authority response, to the control of the friends and circumstances of that person’s existence by clandestine, subtle and yet pronounced means, and once in the military, the final deconstruction of that person’s humanity can go into full swing. Yet, because our authority figures are no more than criminals themselves, their work designed to suppress individualism not protect it, a person put in this position is not only without the ability to obtain help, he (or she, that will come, too) is ridiculed and pushed down harder, by those who understand their actions and by others too stupid to comprehend, resulting in some tragedy, that likely, the specifics of which were likely intended by those in control of this process. This is precisely why the police rarely prevent crime, and with the advent of each new tragedy, demand more in the way of infrastructure and salary to “meet” these problems. While the police are not the problem per se, the systems they work under support the constant upheaval of our security so that further demands can be made upon us. If 9/11 truly happened, this is why it did, and it is not a handful of Middle easterners that are to blame, but rather a network of people who hold US citizenship (I will not call them Americans, even as I seek to find a new country) that knew well they could get away with it, as they did with Vietnam and so many other wrongs. And the silence, sadly, continues…