“A child will lead you.”

Once in a time close to this moment, there was empire that was very powerful and rich. It was so rich that even its ‘poor’ persons in the empire were considered rich by many in the world. The empire kept its power by military might. Its military spending budget was larger than the budgets of all the major countries in the world combined. The empire said it was ‘democratic’ but it was controlled by a large military/industrial/educational complex controlled by a small group of very rich persons. This group was sometimes called ‘unspeakable powers’ since the people of the empire lived in fear of these powers.

Fear was used to control the empire. The empire preached a gospel of hate your enemy, do bad to them. In the empire the word justice came to mean ‘punishment’, revenge and persecuting persons. Persons were encouraged to compete and be in conflict with each other by the ‘powers that be’. There were many distractions to keep them from seeking the truth.

A young child born outside the empire was brought to it by its parents. The parents never told the young child that they all were ‘illegal aliens’. As the child grew up the child sensed something was wrong. He saw the fear in the eyes of his parents whenever there was talk of ‘illegal aliens’.

As the child grew in age and wisdom the child saw there was something terribly wrong in the empire. The empire was conducting wars to prevent wars and terror on it but it was only causing more wars and terrors. The child saw killing and violence everywhere in the Empire, on T.V., in the video games, on the streets of his city and in the wars the empire was constantly carrying on.

As a young adult the child started to practice the values of hard work, human dignity and loving everyone ass the child’s parents had taught him. As a young adult the child started to speak out and protest wars and injustices of his country. As an adult the child now only worked with and advocated for the growing number of poor in the empire, he fought nonviolently for change.
The child was now aware of his ‘illegal status’ but continued to speak out.

One day the authorities came to take him away as an ‘illegal alien’ but he resisted nonviolently by sitting down and refusing to go with them. They used force to put the adult/child in a detention center but he continued to resist by fasting and non-cooperating with the authorities. The child parents pleaded with the adult/child to cooperate with authorities, not to speak out any long against the ‘unspeakable powers.’ But the child now felt a higher authority driving the adult/child to keep true to values and beliefs.

The adult/child was scorned by the community as being an ‘alien’ and troublemaker. Even some friends ignored the adult/child. Finally taken to court and officially deported he resisted the officers taking him away. One officer took his nonviolent resistance as a threat to the other officers and shot him. He died in the hallway of the courthouse. He was mourned by his parents and a few others.

The empire went out building and destroying itself. But inside the empire the memory of this child lingered. The empire, despite increased militarization, could not keep its power. Eventually it started to fall apart. However the memory of the child grows. Others started to resist the power of the empire and were not fooled by the empty words of the empire. After a long time the empire declined and toppled but the child power of nonviolent resistance grew and soon became greater than the violent power of the empire.

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