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Asylum Instructions in Portuguese

Asylum forms are about a clear as tax forms, especially if they are in the “wrong” language. To make them easier I translated instructions for the i-589 form Brazilians have to fill out in English in order to apply for asylum. With interruptions and postponements it took me two years to translate the instruction form and get it edited and proofread by two professional colleagues. So it is not a surprise that many folks are unable to fill in all the answers in English within the one-year deadline for filing for asylum. The instructions translated into Portuguese cost one dollar.(link)

Anyone can buy these Instruções para o formulário de asilo i589 for a dollar at Amazon and read them on a cellphone using the Kindle app. Actual government asylum application forms–with instructions all in English–are posted free online. (link)

Most Americans have no idea what the asylum requirements are for Brazil. So naturally most Brazilians caught without papers in the USA also have no real understanding of who can benefit from these forms, nor when nor why. Lots of time is taken up explaining that political asylum is not about jealous boyfriends or angry loansharks, but rather, about Race, Creed, Color, Cohort or Party. Courts also reinterpret things to say something different from what the law looks like it says.

The 15th Amendment says “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.” The previous Amendment, the 14th, states that “All persons born” in the USA are citizens. Women therefore concluded that THEY could vote as of late March 1870. So Victoria Woodhull(link) ran for President in 1872 and Susan B. Anthony voted for her; both women were arrested(link). Shocked by female reasoning, churchly males of the bullying and book-burning persuasions promptly passed Comstock laws to put women in their place–and censorship laws, and prohibition laws and confiscation laws.

Those laws made Republicans unpopular. Southern Democrats soon imagined they’d been cheated in elections and proceeded to murder hundreds of Blacks elected to office thanks to the 15th Amendment. So to free voting Southern night riders from prosecution for murder while still prosecuting women non-voters for voting or conspiring at birth control, the all-male Supreme court ruled that the invisible words “Black male” were also in 15A between “right of” and “citizens.” Financial panic inconveniently set in, markets collapsed, Republicans lost the next election and it was THEIR turn to overturn the results at gunpoint. So you see how U.S. laws and policies can contain invisible words that make them difficult for foreigners to understand without a translation.

Good reading: A History of Pi, by Petr Beckmann (link)

Get the big picture in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.

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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

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Denazification of Brainwashees

NSDAP = CCCP

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Denazification of Christian National Socialists was a major problem for the Truman administration after Germany surrendered in May of 1945.

Those Christian socialists dismissed everything occupation forces said as a foreign or communist plot. Communist socialists just as balefully suspected Yanks were in league with plutocrats. Germany in 1945 was divided–pretty much like These American States in 2016–between Christian socialists and socialists less impressed by the Sermon on the Mount than by the equally apocryphal “Give unto Caesar“.

Religious conservatives want more censorship and laws outlawing sex, choice, herbs, cacti, mushrooms, having cash, crossing borders and speaking one’s mind. Conservatives want more mind control, fewer individual rights, but prefer prohibitionist asset-forfeiture looting to outright nationalization.

Gaian ecological nationalsocialists and yellow-dog communists pine in unison for the complete abolition of economic freedom. This false dichotomy within a universe of discourse restricted to variants of socialism was precisely the situation that allowed National Socialist ideology to completely tailor Germany while cursing “liberal” ideas as narcissistically selfish and irresponsible. Actual American Liberals, before 1932, sought voluntary solutions–especially the repeal of Blue Laws and Prohibition–not the mystically-motivated initiation of force.

People without the slightest notion of the definition of energy or the dimensions of its units are passionately committed to the banning of most electrical power plants. Others just as ignorant of physics, chemistry and economics want men with guns to arrest Planned Parenthood doctors and shoot teenagers who smell like the munchies. To fanatics of both camps the only alternative to sending men with guns to kick in doors is “to do nothing” and simply “let” the End of the World happen any minute now…

The spell cast by years of altruist propaganda from teevee sets, pulpits, yellow journals and journalistic hack books has taken its toll on those susceptible to altruist seduction–mystical right-wingers and lefties alike. After the 1945 surrender, German nationalsocialists were conditioned en masse into the serried ranks of Soviet international socialists. Anyone with experience in running a slave pen or death camp could certainly find work in East Germany or Soviet Russia.

Just so in the post-Soviet USA fifth-column technocrats formerly advocating nuclear disarmament and surrender to peaceful Soviet altruism are today welcomed into the loving arms of new, improved, Ecological National Socialism. New improved nationalsocialism tolerates the existence of selfish jews and imposes prohibitionist jail sentences as a Christianizing influence to improve people of color–in 2016 as in 1857.

But what about the rest of us? What about people who understand enough physics to realize that no energy means no work, and no work  means no voluntarily-acquired income? Four million voters voted pro-choice, pro-electricity, anti-prohibition and against attacking people on the other side of the planet. Libertarians voted against the initiation of harmful and deadly force as a political tool. We did it in numbers large enough to shift the tallying of 124 electoral vote outcomes in 11 states.

The people of Germany had no libertarian choice in 1932, but they do today. France also has a functioning Parti Libertarien dutifully ignored by that kleptocracy’s media. All those countries’ voters lack is the courage, understanding and ethical values it takes to act on that choice. Come to think of it… these are exactly the same things that are in desperately short supply in These United States.

Are you interested in replacing coercive violence with a peace, prosperity and freedom?

Find out the juicy details behind the mother of all economic collapses. Prohibition and The Crash–Cause and Effect in 1929 is available in two languages on Amazon Kindle, each at the cost of a pint of craft beer.

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