Strong City

Dear little family,

I write again from Los Lunas prison. Prison will never be home, but even here my Father visits with my heart. I was smiling today over the fact that in 2007 I felt my writing was over and I would retire. I would spend the rest of my life in quiet repose and introspection. Then the State attacked us, goaded by the media frenzy, and it was as if the Father were saying, “Not so fast; I want you to kill a dragon for Me.” So here I am, killing a dragon. But after all, the dragon did start it.

I quote from the Scriptures: “And the dragon was very angry with the woman” – that’s the church in the wilderness, “and went to make war with those that were left of her, who follow God’s instructions and have the testimony that Jesus had.” That’s Revelation 12:17. By that attack, the wrath of the Lamb was kindled. I quote: “For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?” Revelation 6:17.

I have felt like a lonely soul on planet earth, until I read some of the writings of Henry David Thoreau that I found in the prison library. I was blessed that he could see the state of man and describe it very clearly, much as I have. His writings revived many thoughts in me, that I have had through the years as I have observed the machinations of mankind. As with Thoreau, I’ve always chafed at unjust controls that were arbitrary and against the Spirit that is in me. I have been a free spirit, which is to say, I allowed the Spirit within me to be free. I quote from Thoreau:

The state never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but only with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. …If a plant cannot live according to it’s nature, it dies. And so, a man.

When the Spirit moved Jesus, he too would not allow outside forces to dominate him. Even at 12 years old, when his mother complained to him for not following his parents out of Jerusalem, he responded, “Isn’t it ok with you that I’m about my Father’s business?” Even then, he knew that God was his Leader.

Jesus ran into more and more difficulties with the religious leaders because of his free spirit. They could not dominate his soul. He criticized the social norms of the time, when they were hypocritical or unjust. He was not a follower of religious works, and he had no superstition regarding its vain formalities. He just loved God.

Thoreau seemed to me as having some of these same qualities. And this made me feel a kindred spirit with some of his observations. I felt like I had a little company with me in my present vicissitudes. After reading what he wrote, it seemed to me that men have not changed in many ways. They are still stupid. But today there are more of us, and less room to spread out in. I know that some things about men have changed very much, though. Today’s sinners are on steroids.

Thoreau was intense in his love of nature. He was often drawn to the woods, and out of that came his years at Walden Pond. He loved to teach children of nature, and to help them not get caught up in the slave-state which he keenly saw the evils of.

In 1846 Thoreau was arrested for not paying his taxes. He stated that it was a matter of conscience; he did not support the war against Mexico over the Texas territory, nor the government’s support of the slave trade to the south. He said, I quote: “I quietly declare war with the state after my fashion.” After being jailed for not paying his tax, he remarked, “I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations (my writings), which follow them out again without let or hindrance. And they were really all that was dangerous.”

I have thought of those things also. They also industriously locked the prison door on my meditations, increasing them greatly, and they follow them out again without let or hindrance. The State gave me much on which to ponder here in my place of captivity, and much to write about first-hand.

I am amazed at how Thoreau is one of the major works of study in American universities, but almost no one follows his ideas. His ideas on civil disobedience are clear and true to the mark, but no one takes them seriously. The words of Jesus are likewise studied in every Christian church, yet a mere dusting of individuals know anything real about Jesus at all. They think that Jesus will save them, but they have no comprehension that Jesus only saves those who receive his Spirit into themselves. When men receive Jesus in Spirit, and that Spirit appears in their flesh, they are saved by that exchange. They also gain wisdom and reason. They are not stupid anymore. God becomes the life of the soul, and sin is banished. Jesus never promised any other kind of salvation than this. Did not Jesus say,

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name have cast out devils, and in your name have done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you (I was never intimate with you); depart from me, you that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:22-23.

People love study, but they rarely find the truth. They talk about God but never let Him in. They worship what they imagine, but they have nothing to worship in their own temple except Satan and his delusions. When men do not let God into their temple, Satan goes in there, pretending that he is God, and he tells them what to do.

America has been called a Christian country in the past, but that name for this country is blasphemous. I agree with Thoreau when he said, “How does it become a man to behave towards this American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” That association was in regard to his tax. That disgrace was in regard to war, but especially in regard to slavery. Today, slavey has only changed forms; it is more subtle than in times past, but equally disgraceful. American slaves are of all colors now. Some Chinese workers are no better off than the American slaves of the 1800′s. But there is something else that is often overlooked. As I wrote recently, income tax is actually a form of slavery. If I work to support my family and am forced to pay thirty percent of my salary in income tax, I am actually working as a slave for the US government thirty percent of my time. This is not only disgusting, but illegal. It is unconstitutional. The reason there are no income tax laws is because that would be illegal according to the Constitution. America is still a slave state. But now all colors are enslaved, and if they do not pay their slave tax, they are imprisoned, and then other slaves pay to support them in prison. Thoreau would roll over in his grave.

Many millions of souls world-wide are no better off than were the black slaves before the civil war. But why do I protest? As with Thoreau and Jesus, I believe that all men are created equal. No, I don’t mean that they are created carbon copies, but rather created with the right to be respected and treated equally under the law. This is especially true in regard to one’s conscience. The State has no right to rule the conscience of any man, ever. Thoreau’s love of conscience is my own. I quote: “Is there not a sort of bloodshed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man’s real manhood and immortality flow out and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now.” He also said,

A whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army and subjected to military law. I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country is not our own, but ours is the invading army.

Do I support revolution? No. A revolution can only be rightly carried out by men of conscience and education, and Americans lack these qualities as a society. The only thing that can cure us now is God’s cleansing fire. If it is all burned up, He can start over.

When a young woman of 16 asked me to allow her to lie naked on my bed as she poured out her difficulties, I was constrained to let her. She told me that God instructed her to request this favor. I was forced into a decision. Would I come against her conscience? Or would I avoid imposing such a wound upon her? I chose to allow her to follow her God-given conscience, but the State took offense at that, and sentenced me to ten years in prison.

As I have said before, I believe that religious prejudice played a role in my conviction. Religion that supports the violation of one’s conscience is worthless. Any religion that rules over the conscience of man should be flushed right down the toilet, now. And anyone who joins a religion like that is a fool. I have always instructed those under my shepherding, “Follow your heart; do what God tells you to do.” I have said, “If you have a question about anything, ask God; He will give you the answer.” Some souls now accuse me for one thing or another. They even accuse me for their own crimes.

Thoreau spent a little time in jail and was quite philosophical about his fortunate circumstances. He felt that a good place for a righteous man is in prison, where he can get free support while he writes or prays or considers the affairs of men. This is what he said — I quote:

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. The proper place today, the only place which…[America]…has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons. To be put out and locked up of the state by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles… On that separate but more free and honorable ground [the prison] is where the state places those who are not with her but against her, the only house [a prison]…in which a free man can abide with honor. If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the state, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error. Nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person.

I, too, have been benefited and have come to some philosophical conclusions because of the injustice I have suffered. I have learned things about modern man that I did not comprehend so fully before. I had to have this concentrated view of man in my own face to grasp their decadent nature fully. Modern man is barely above a dog. He is only a state-of-the-art animal. I admit that I was surprised at the depth of man’s decadent nature. And I speak of those mostly who rule, for they are most dog-like, I think. Describing man as a dog actually disparages the dogs. Dogs seem more decent to me. I could perhaps more accurately describe man as a machine, like a computer who is programmed and operated by an evil spirit. I am truly amazed at how vacant man is; there is no one home. Thoreau wrote, “The mass of men serve the state, not as men mainly but as machines with their bodies.”

My closest friend in prison is a man who murdered some people. He honestly described himself as having a very evil history. He has left it all behind him. But I could not become offended in him. He is twice the man that many ministers are whom I have met, and four times the man as those who lied to put me here. I can honestly talk to him, and he has intelligence and reasoning capabilities that are superior to the people who put me in prison. There are child molesters, murderers, and other criminal offenders here, along with some innocent of their charges. But I have spoken with most of them, and have found it hard to take their crimes too seriously. This is because I look at life as it is, and not from the perspective of storytelling. The president of the United States is licensed to kill whomever he wishes. President Bush killed hundreds of underage girls, blowing their sexual parts right off of them. He also killed their daddies and mommies. He did not receive a single day in jail for it, and he gave no public expression to even caring, except to say that he was glad he did it. I speak of the invasion of Iraq.

But I was put in prison for ten years, for putting my hand on the sternum of a 16-year old at her request while praying for her. I receive prison, while Mr. Bush receives a nice pension, along with body guards to protect him from people who would like to take his head off for killing their babies. Some of Mr. Bush’s army raped some underage girls, then killed them when they were finished raping them. Would those who loyally pay their taxes like their girls to be raped by the president? I doubt it. I assume by how the district attorney talked in court that he is a tax payer. Well, all tax payers paid for the murder and molestation of millions of people in that war. That makes them guilty of Mr. Bush’s crimes. You are responsible for what you support. Now the DA said that this is a good country; but I say the DA is responsible for murder, rape, terrorism, unlawful aggression, deception and lies. Yet he walks free.

Now children, I’ve had a lot of time here in prison where Mr. Gallegos put me, to think things over. Now consider this: If Mr. Gallegos, the district attorney, knew of a man who committed murder, he would no doubt prosecute him. But what if there was another man who knew of the murder, and the intention to murder, beforehand, and even paid for the costs of the murder? Do you not suppose the DA would charge that man for a crime also, and for good reason? I think you can see my point. The whole nation of tax payers are now guilty of mass-murdering Iraqis because the president was mad at Saddam for not showing him due respect. The whole nation knew that Mr. Bush was going to mass-murder, and the whole nation paid for his crimes. Of course, the media was used powerfully to dupe the populace into viewing it all as a “just cause.”

At present, all U.S. payers of income tax are guilty of the “extrajudicial killings” that the U.S. Government has become foremost in. I received this in the mail today:

I read an article in the LA Times today that reported that the U.S. is now using 7,000 remote controlled aircraft, mostly in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan.  The U.S. is not at war with Pakistan but is conducting extrajudicial killings there via pilotless drones, controlled remotely from a base in Nevada.

In another article I read where a suicide bomber had killed seven CIA agents at a secret base in Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. Soon afterwards U.S. drones killed 100 people in 15 separate reprisal attacks in Pakistan.

President Obama ordered more killings by drone in the first year of his office than George Bush did in his entire presidency.

God holds the nation of the United States guilty. The whole nation of taxpayers is guilty for extrajudicial killings, child rape, child molestation, mutilation, mayhem, theft, murder, and a host of other offenses. No, God will not hear their prayers. No, they will not be forgiven, for they will not repent. But they sure wanted me in prison for putting my hand on a sternum. I think this is God’s joke on them.

Thoreau wrote this:

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison or give up war and slavery, the state will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure as it would be to pay them and enable the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is in fact the definition of peaceful revolution, if any such is possible.

The tax payers in New Mexico provided money to hire Gallegos to chase down his “healing messiah” and get a name for himself. If the state had no money to chase frivolous charges, our blood would not now be on their hands.

President Obama stated that the Afghanistan war has to be managed properly. No one seems to even consider that “managing it properly” would be for foreigners to go home. But the corporate American greed wants to get the oil pipeline built first, and secure a government under the control of the West that will protect the pipeline.

Well, I could not help but divert for a moment in my meditations. But this is why it is hard for me to take the crimes of my fellow inmates very seriously. American leaders have molested far more children than all the inmates in America. They have also killed more people in their illegal wars than all of the inmates in America. But these leaders have bodyguards and armored limousines to protect them from people who would avenge these murders.

Is there not something wrong when the greatest criminal offenses are practiced by the few who govern? The petty thieves are put in prison for years, while the professional criminals, elected to office, get to be congressmen, presidents or governors. They do not obey the law. “National Security” are the magical code words used to say that the law doesn’t matter anymore. No one seems to consider that the actions of the few in government have actually made the nation very insecure, for God will leave it to the devil to deal out their karma.

I have sometimes referred to “the beast.” A beast is an animal that represents a government. A lion, for example, represented Babylon. Today there is a not-so-subtle irony in these representations. This nation’s beast is an eagle. In my trial, an eagle presided over the courtroom. It’s on the New Mexico state seal, which was placed over and behind the judge’s head. The judge in my trial was Judge Baca — “Baca” in the scriptures means “weeping.” Judge Baca certainly brought weeping to us. The United States is also represented by an eagle. Those who are familiar with the bald eagle know that it can be observed diving into the water and catching fish. The eagle will then kill the fish and eat it, even feeding it to its young. It is also commonly seen fighting with other birds of prey over its quarry. A fish, of course, represents true Christianity. In the book of Matthew, Jesus Christ speaks of his coming as lightning, and then he states, “Where the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” Matthew 24:28. Job also refers to the eagle: “Where the slain are, there she is. Her young ones also suck up blood.” The eagle is best known for killing that which is alive, while the vulture is known for eating that which is dead. The eagle is a fitting beast to represent the United States of America. On the national seal is an eagle. In one of its talons are weapons of death, and in the other talon is an olive branch. That is as if to say, “Do what I say and make peace with me, or I will kill you.”

America has brought death to many shores, and our young drink the blood. I would have liked to believe that America could repent, but I don’t believe that it’s possible now. It takes a certain nobility to repent, and I honestly think that Americans don’t have that kind of nobility anymore. There are only a few who have some integrity left. They don’t deal with the devil.

Last night in a dream I was looking down upon the United States. I saw from California to Florida and from Washington to Maine. There was a clear division through the middle of the country. Half of the United States was burnt and only ashes remained. The western half was being burnt, and New Mexico was on fire. The dream ended, and I was left with the thought that very soon, the whole country would be ashes.

The entertainments of the country reveal its heart. The soul loves what it entertains itself with, and the soul of this land is clearly lost. The nation is demon-possessed.

Thoreau wrote, “I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew and never shall know a worse man than myself.” These are the words of nobility, and I would hope that the judge, DA and jury could say that of themselves, for then they could judge justly. But my hope is in vain. Men do not tend to right thinking, and that is especially true for those who see themselves as good. If President Bush could have made that statement, one million Iraqis would be alive today who are dead now. Thoreau wrote, “The greater part of what my neighbors call good, I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behavior.” “Good men” condemn me for a crime I did not commit. “Good men” crucified Jesus, and “good men” invaded Iraq over a lie that they made up.

One irony of our present circumstances seems to have been missed by virtually everyone in the legal community. I was accused of a crime, but none of my accusers were present when the crime was supposed to have been committed. I was there and the DA’s witnesses were there, and none of us stated that there was a crime. We said there was not one. The DA, judge and jury were not there, and they all said I did things that I did not do. How would they know? Are men so utterly void of reason that they cannot see their own mental folly? They cannot recognize their own dementia?

Consider wisdom, children. Let us suppose that the officer who checks the inmates here each day checked me. Suppose that every day my eyes would shift back and forth as I explained to the officer that the warden was planning to come and kill me. To everyone I saw, I would fearfully explain that I had proof that the warden was going to come and kill me. Don’t you suppose they would very soon put me in a safe-cell for the mentally ill? So it is with those who imagine that I committed sex crimes. The people’s eyes shift back and forth as they repeat, “Wayne Bent molested girls.” They tell everyone, “Wayne Bent is guilty of sex crimes.” But why are not these folks put in a safe-cell somewhere for lunatics? It is probably because those who are authorized to put them there are saying the same words, and they believe that they are all normal.

The people in prison are like the people outside of prison. Truly there are bad people in prison, but there are bad outside of prison also. I have tried to figure out this puzzle to my mind, and I think I have it figured out now. I think the worst people are those that get elected to office, because they are the best at hiding their badness. The people in prison are the ones who are not very good at hiding their badness. So those who are good at hiding their badness put them in prison for not hiding their badness very well. When the DA said that the world was good, because I had said that it was not, I knew I was in trouble. “Good” people are downright dangerous to justice and righteousness. “Good” people crucified Jesus. I am wary of “good” people because they are always ready to kill anyone that they suspect might be better than they are, or have something they want.

After reading Thoreau, I felt comforted, though. Not everyone in society is so thick and insensitive that they seem mindless. He did not project himself as particularly religious, but he was far more spiritual than the masses of church-goers today, whose gospel now consists of behavior modification and getting rich. Getting rich, of course, is often connected with giving one’s money to the preachers. The songs of Zion are gone now, replaced by a strange kind of Christian rock. Thoreau would recognize the hypocrisy of the age, and he would spend the rest of his life at Walden Pond because of it.

The state accused me falsely for contributing to the delinquency of minors, while there is not a single TV network but that contributes to the delinquency of minors every single day. Children are sexually molested by the media, made mad by the media, and assaulted by the media. Some children commit suicide because of it, and a huge proportion of children have to be on some mind-altering legal drug because of its influence, just to keep them somewhat manageable. I would not show one of today’s TV shows to a dog. But none of the networks are charged with any such crime.

The public schools are also heavy contributors to the wreckage of children. These turkey farms called schools should be disbanded, because they don’t know how to teach. Some children are good at memorization, but they are not taught to think, to reason and come to a fair judgment. They are programmed to perform, much as a computer would be. This is why I was convicted. Reasonable thinking men did not convict me.

I love life but hate death, and death is what America has adopted, as the eagle sticks his talons into anyone who swims. But America also kills the soul by turning everyone into its slaves. As I said, that is done when a man’s labor is taxed.

But there is a solution. I do not pine away in my stew, because I know the clock ticks. The beast will be thrown into the fire with the dragon and the false prophet. God’s children will change in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, and then we will leave the domain of the eagle. God’s “fish” will return home.

Judgment day has come, and the dead and lost will consume in the fire. They will do so since they cannot reason or think or repent. They will put a gun to their own head. This does not make me happy, but it does bring peace. Soon this horrible experiment will be over. It was necessary, but so painful, even to the heavenly host. I think the most painful part for heaven was the religions, that all somehow reported that they were God’s religion while they killed and maimed and lied. God had to close His eyes and just take the hit, while those professing Him jail His children and torture them. But this is the nature of people who worship themselves, as those who put me in prison do.

But God has used it for the good, and I do not complain. I accept His ways of judging the wicked. I am blessed to be part of it, even when it hurts me. You also have had to hurt, but this pain will take us away from here. We will give up these old houses and exchange them for new ones. After we depart the earth, there will be nothing remaining to hold back the flood of fire, and the earth will perish in its own flames. Then heaven can rest from the horrors of thousands of years, and we will rejoice with the God who gave us life. We will forget those things that caused us to weep. Our tears will be dried. We will forget Judge Baca and District Attorney Gallegos. Those in heaven will understand how sin came to be, and what it did, and it will never rise up again. Heaven will be a safe place for us, and death and hell will be no more. The wicked will be consumed in the fire of God. It is right, for God sent His Son to warn them, but they only abused His Son and rejected the warning. Everyone had a chance, and a choice.

Precious companions, I will conclude my letter with this comment from the back of the book by Thoreau that I read, on the duty of civil disobedience. It says,

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience is Thoreau’s classic protest against government’s interference with individual liberty, one of the most famous essays ever written. It came to the attention of Ghandi, and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement. Emerson wrote, “No truer American existed than Thoreau.” Ralph Waldo Emerson was a man who had been a minister until his views clashed with his church. His speech to the Harvard Divinity School, in which he maintained that God was in man, was considered so heretical that thirty years would pass before he would be invited to speak at Harvard again.

If Thoreau was the truest of Americans, I dare say that all true Americans today are in prison. The people outside of prison must be something else. Today Thoreau would be guilty of tax evasion and tax avoidance. The government puts people like him in prison on a regular basis, and for a long time. Jesus said that one should give unto Caesar that which was his. Income tax from one’s labor is not Caesar’s; income belongs to the earner. The conscience also does not belong to Caesar. But people don’t seem to know the difference. We belong to God, little children, and to God we will be true, for He is in us.

I send you much love, my companions. Our days on earth will soon end. Let us ascend.

Your Michael

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