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As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years

As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years... Intersection upon adventitious encounter, when first seed of genocide planted unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation quickly eradicated rightful breed of what coalesced into thee Americas. I experience stir of echoes haunting Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania, which lands ceded To William Penn for a song (and lap dance routine) courtesy Lenni Lenape peoples. When the concept of land ownership brokered between Europeans and indigenous tribes the latter occupants oblivious to land acquisition, (a concept alien to autochthonous population), which posed catastrophic disadvantage upon onset of fatal impact. I too flirt with the cosmology that no tract upon terra firma (housing aggregate body of flora and fauna nsync with resources atop and below demarcated circumscribed area) can be rightfully owned. What or who (pray tell) dispenses the privilege, whereby an individual steeped in the construct of capitalism gains the inalienable right to purchase blocked off section of Earthly paradise (before edenic once isolated unbroken tremendous expanse of terrain suitable for agriculture such as: forest, mountain, prairie, river, valley... snapped up courtesy savvy buyers née aggressive men with steely resolve sought to mortgage Mother Nature for coloninialization, commercialization, industrialization, or other utilization, when verdant rolling hills decreed as prime real estate. I (an American with Semitic genealogy) dismisses western establishmentarian credo, diktat, ethos... notion constituting appropriation of property (namely securing rightful title to accrue and retain monies levied courtesy legal ordinances or strong arm tactics exploiting potentially deemed riches latent within soil (leant) green. Unbeknownst origin of mine antithetical, atypical, enigmatical, fantastical, heretical... viewpoints markedly divergent from prevalent usurpation indeed linkedin with fledgling United States canonical, dogmatical, geopolitical, and more than hypothetical manifest destiny. Heartsickness arises pondering abomination, brutalization, cannibalization, decimation, eradication, federalization..., whereby relatively happy go lucky matrimonial ceremonies bolstered longevity of some arbitrary tribal nation, their prime concern constituted appeasing pantheon of gods and/or goddesses that populated as their webbed, wide world spun one after another generation keeping intact oral traditions until cultural disaster struck ferocious deadly blow severely renting asunder, profoundly wreaking havoc upon naively innocent natives "white man's" duplicity, hypocrisy, mendacity... gussied up as one cruel hoax ousting defenseless native inhabitants foisting, dislodging, begetting flagrant eminent domain.

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