Frank

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Frank
Frank

Frank - is a homeless veteran of Native American descent. I’ve met Frank during my brief stay in Albuquerque, NM while travelling as a vagabond. Frank lives in isolation, according to him he’s a stranger to his family and admits he’s also a stranger to himself due to his recurring bouts with alcohol addiction. When I met Frank he’s in a terrible condition bouncing between homeless shelters in Albuquerque, he walked with a considerable limp while utilizing a cane to keep himself upright. He’s also suffering from a serious case of #Rhinophyma (Potato tumor) that deforms his nose into a bulbous shape covered with painful-looking red bumps and yellow pus.

Day before Halloween Eve, the US senate passed a crucial bipartisan budget agreement that would avoid the US government on defaulting on it’s debt. Part of the whole gist was - “The 2016 National Defense Authorization Act’s (NDAA)” which authorized the budget authority of the Department of Defense and National Security programs, amounting to $607 billion dollars for the fiscal year of 2016.

I understand the threat of terrorism and lowly extremists who would gladly blow themselves up so they can finally get laid “in paradise” and be called a martyr. Yet we are continously being sold this fear. People in power have been doing this for ages.

“All animals experience fear—human beings, perhaps, most of all. Any animal incapable of fear would have been hard pressed to survive. The people who have the effrontery to rule us, who call themselves our government, understand this basic fact of human nature. They exploit it, and they cultivate it. Whether they compose a warfare state or a welfare state, they depend on it to secure popular submission. Over the ages, governments refined their appeals to popular fears, fostering an ideology that emphasizes the people’s vulnerability to a variety of internal and external dangers, often blaming some element of the population—scapegoats such as unpopular ethnic or religious minorities. By keeping the population in a state of artificially heightened apprehension, the government-cum-media prepares the ground for planting specific measures of taxation, regulation, surveillance, reporting, and other invasions of the people’s wealth, privacy, and freedoms. This is the age we live in, even when the shepherd protects his sheep, but he does so to serve his own interest, not theirs, and when the time comes, he will shear or slaughter them as his interest dictates.”

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Taken on: November 4, 2015
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