Compliance, Hmm?

I've known for most of my life that I was different from most members of the groups of people with whom I was associated. I have been able to identify a few factors that clearly demonstrate that. Being introverted is one. Testing high for intelligence is another.

I was born before WWII and reared in Georgia, schooled in a racially segregated public system, in a culture still exhibiting the features of racial prejudices being preserved by the Democrat Party, almost an exclusive political party environment there until the 1960s. I had left Georgia by then and had an opportunity to meet individuals of different political persuasions. As I matured I developed an interest in the foundation of the American Republic and events during the years of its formation.

I was indoctrinated, willingly, into supporting the concepts expressed in the Constitution including the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I served two years in the late 1950s as an NROTC Midshipman, but did not complete the program; was drafted in 1961 and served two years of active duty and six more in the reserves. That period included the episodes termed the Berlin Wall Crises and the Cuban Missile Crises. These years also provided events that were finishing the work on racial equality that had been left undone. So my studies and experiences toned my American patriotism, and belief and support for the founding principles to a high level.

For the next thirty-plus years I was busy working in banking and government in money transfer-related operations, mostly concerned with converting paper-based transactions to computer-based electronics, while supporting my wife in rearing our three children. I retired from twenty-five years of government service in the mid-nineties, then worked in private industry until 2005.

The beginning of the new millennium changed things. The events of 9/11, the passing of the Patriot Act, and the other resultant actions by our government that followed puzzled me and got my attention. Obama's Presidency confirmed my concerns about the direction we were taking. Donald Trump's election and presidency revealed much, confirming my conclusions about Obama's term — not from Trump's actions, but from what the federal bureaucracy, led or aided by the intelligence agencies and big tech, proved capable of doing to reduce Trump's effectiveness. Obama's third term, ostensibly headed by the incompetent puppet President Joe Biden, has displayed this program for all to see.

I have learned much about the features of my own behavior that always made me think I was somehow different from most of my peers. I now think I was deceived, in large part during my most productive years, into believing that any match existed between what powers my government was exercising and what it was allowed to based on its founding principles.

This is where the post title enters the picture. I'm non-compliant. The actions of the Biden administration and most public and private institutions are making this apparent. I missed this for most of my life, just operating under the assumption that the American founding principle of individual liberty and my own free agency existed in accord. We are now being shown this is not true with the government we now have. I could write volumes on this to include specifics related to government actions, actions of private industry, joint actions of those two, and treatments of religious organizations and activities, but that's all public information even though rarely seen in the mass media.

A last thought I have about this. We, Americans and our government, are in my view being transformed into the USSR, a population required to conform and comply to and with the dictates of government.