To Every Country in The World
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The Anarchist Nomadic Turtle
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Current story: to all countries for a cause
Visas are the racism of our times. That’s why I decided to travel to every country and then burn my passports. |
A portrait of the world
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Sorry, not enough said and not enough done...
Angelina Jolie is a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In her speech “Refugee system breaking down”, she says: |
Listen to my recent podcasts
My interview with Kevin Koskella of www.freedomlovin.com.
A conversation on travels, borders, security and other issues that should matter for those who question themselves about the state of the world today. Ending up with my endeavor to go to every country in the world and then burn my passports to end #GlobalApartheid and #BirthplaceRacism. Thank you for listening. |
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Join The League Of Unreasonable MindsRemoving borders as barriers of movement, acknowledging everyone's right to move around and live anywhere they wish on the planet they were born- is the moral imperative of our time. Because being unreasonable in this ridiculuously irrational world is the only reasonable thing to do. |
A portrait of the world we live in
Planet Earth is a big zoo; Countries are the cages where the same kind of human species (Ethiopians, Italians, Brazilians etc.) are gathered; Borders are the fences of those cages to see that we are kept under custody; Customs officers are the wardens of those cages. Governments are our shepherds, our owners basically, who have rights over us, imposing rules, regulations and laws way too far into personal lives; Citizenship is the governments' seal they cauterize us with at birth. A Passport is “valuable” paper we need to pay for granting us permission to go out our zoo-cage. A Visa is the due we have to pay to present to the guardian of the cage we want to visit, a seal of approval we need to get to be temporarily let in on parole to another zoo-cage. Visas are the racism of our times. Yes, visas are an institutionalized and worldwide accepted racism. “But the zoo-cage you are coming from has no agreements with our zoo-cage. Therefore, you will need to bring such and such documents and pay us this amount of money,” they say. They reason like this: "There lives deer, zebras and goats in the European zoo; they would get along. Therefore the European zoo-cages have an agreement with each other. Whereas there are lions in the zoo-cage of Turkey. If you come over here, you'd eat us. So we only accept those of you that have been tamed into our zoo-cage. You bring along your vaccination cards, your taming diplomas, and your bank statement, if your wallet is thick enough, and your documents are good enough, if we deem them adequate and see fit, we grant you a visa, you may get into our country for a while." You may substitute other countries or unions for Europe and Turkey and interchange the animals of countries with cats-dogs, cats-rats, birds-worms-caterpillars or any other animal to your liking. Only when the reality dawns on us that every single person living in all countries are people, human beings that is, that we all cry at least once, laugh at least once in life, that our basic needs are the same, only then will borders be abolished. It will perhaps be overnight like the Berlin Wall crumbled. Or perhaps it will be slow and gradual. Bets are on. |
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P.S. I know these are not generally held opinions, especially these days.
But I feel so very strongly about them that I plan to devote the rest of my life in making whatever change I can. In order to propagate these ideas to achieve this goal, I would of course like to publish these articles. However, as I am currently very busy writing I cannot devote time to go hunting for a publisher, so if you are one or know of one who would support such ideas please...
But I feel so very strongly about them that I plan to devote the rest of my life in making whatever change I can. In order to propagate these ideas to achieve this goal, I would of course like to publish these articles. However, as I am currently very busy writing I cannot devote time to go hunting for a publisher, so if you are one or know of one who would support such ideas please...