"Think Outside the Box:"

Comprehensive immigration reform not only benefits societies with a diversity of people and an "outside the box" mentality when it comes to "profiling" (in its various forms affecting psychological synaptic responses in communities), etc., but immigrants add capital to the economy in the USA in that I read recently: naturalized citizens en masse add 15 billion $ to the US economy while natural Americans en masse drain the economy to the tune of 115 billion $ (or, was that trillions?).

Either way: comprehensive immigration reform with "a path to citizenship" enhances the experience of life in locations like Maine or any community for reasons that synaptic responses of community members show "true colors" of community members whether community members "practice preachings" on Sunday, Friday, Saturday or any day of "faith" or are merely hypocrite hoarders of a so called secured love of money ignorant of the fact that "life is richer" monetarily in communities with a diversity of community members from different walks of life.

A diversified population is a challenge to psychological, synaptic, response mechanisms by members of communities ultimately leading to a more educated, monetarily rich public than not and may even prove to increase longevity in a work force: work force longevity equaling more tax revenue and a broader, ever growing economy with actual "trickle down" effects unlike what the GOP taxed and spent at airport bathrooms on absurd persuasions of what "trickle down" means in an economic sense.

As an example, diversified tastes of people and how so called "profiling" is a non-sequitor anywhere and in Maine: so-called "slaves" on Maine's outer islands during the 1600-1900 epochs were given the job of salting cod for "slave owner" markets in Boston and across America.  The "slaves" were forbidden to eat the cod, but the "slaves" were given lobster to eat.  In 2013, cod is cheaper than lobster.

Were it not for fluctuations of demand on various resources on a global scale in 2013 by many diversities of people who have never heard of Maine: marine industry workers in Maine would not have a job today.

Further: urchins were first fished in Maine during the 1980's because of a Japanese immigrant who moved to Portland, ME during the 1980's and wanted a menu item of urchin enlisting a local fisherman and diver who first dove Casco Bay, then the Crescent Beach area.

Because of pollution in Casco Bay, urchins in Casco Bay were non edible: but, in less polluted water along shore lines like that of the Crescent Beach area, urchins were edible and in 2013 ... they fetch a $10/urchin price with tax, which benefits the local economy.

Either way: "there is no accounting for tastes" and anything but comprehensive immigration reform with a "path to citizenship" is like "kicking a ball with no legs" in terms of economic based societies like that of the USA.

Under God:

Authoritarian acts by peoples are products of societal "status quorums" instilling false beliefs in varied peoples of diverse variations and situations.

Authoritarian acts are perpetrated by peoples who often fall short in recognizing "similarities" or "likeness" between others, self and, generally: lives on Earth (as if mankind is in any way removed from nature or one another, except that "good fences make good neighbors"). 

Perceived "differences" are sensed and stressed by societal "status quorums," which render deluded and dysfunctional societies and people across the world throughout history and in present day.

So, people act due to instilled, societal "status quorums" and stress perceived "differences" between one another and life on Earth as a result of "status quorums."

Thus, people act under false beliefs without comprehension of "a whole picture" that includes "similarities" in light of perceived "differences" due to societal "status quorums."

Hence, people are by and large deluded and blissful in ignorance of the fact that "Everybody Poops" ... a reason to cultivate "humility" and recognize "similarities."

Finally, authoritarianism is a product of deluded and dysfunctional societies and people who often fail to cultivate a necessary humility and education in building character by treating others as they would be treated because, more often than not, people act on false beliefs learned from societal "status quorums" without capabilities or education to think for themselves, "outside of the box" or within the "laws of nature" where "similarities" abound: as opposed to within "mankind's laws" whereby "differences" are stressed over "similarities" as a result of "status quorums."

Examples of authoritarian acts and authoritarianism are prevalent from the "UC Davis Pepper Sprayer" to Palestinians in Israel and just general breaches in "natural law" among mankind to do good as "stewards of the Earth" by exercising "humility:" as opposed to a "Holier than Thou" or "better than you" false belief of others and life in general learned from "status quorums," whether "man vs. man" or "man vs. nature."

Lastly: life, "status quorums" and "natural laws" may all just be about a "natural pecking order" of things on Earth, whether "man vs. man" or "man vs. nature."

In other words: "life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

So, everything that happens is meant to be, no matter how outrageous happenstance seems or is in light of varied perceptions: from a rhino calf mourning the slaughter of its rhino mother to Joesph Kony's victims mourning the loss of family, friends and limbs ... to victims of the UC Davis Pepper Sprayer who lose sight because of a blatant breach in law and perceived differences in authority between students and uniformed personnel.

It would seem that the world just shits itself day in and day out: which is largely due to mankind's delusional state of mind thinking along the lines of "versus" and "differences" as opposed to "similarities," such as "Everybody Poops."

Or else: "God made me do it," as if all life follows a set path on Earth just as the Earth follows a set path orbiting the sun, rendering something akin to ingesting five laxatives, taking a five mile hike and determining levels of bowel control (of which there is more out of control than under control for any life form in any of infinite variations and situations, including POTUS).

Like it was said to me once upon a time: "you are just one man!"

A Palistinian-American Citizen in Israel:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mona-tareh-sahouri/an-american-citizen-everywhere-in-the-world-but-the-state-of-israel/377914608922550

Scene 1:

Camera pans to Mrs. Sahouri and her two children with carry on luggage approaching a crowded, passport control at Ben-Gurion Airport: an Israeli flag on a wall nearby passport control is visible in the pan.

Then, after passport control and ensuing dialogue: mother and two children are led into an interrogation room down narrow, dimly-lit corridors of the airport with children panned sitting in chairs outside of the interrogation room while mother is led into the room.

Muffled dialogue of the interrogation is heard by children outside of the room with door closed and visibly displayed by the crying, distraught children: 14 and 16 years old. 

Outside of the Ben-Gurian airport interrogation room, pan is on son and daughter sitting in tears about their mother in the interrogation room when the son rises and bursts into the room.

Son says piece to soldiers interrogating his mother to the reproach of his mother initially, then acquiescence to allow her son to say his piece to the soldiers.

Children are led away crying looking back after their mother.

Mother is led away from the interrogation room to a waiting police vehicle for prison after being told that she would be going to a nice room to await Jordanian Air officials to be on time, if on time, at 6am and that it would cost her cash.  Otherwise, it would be deportation via Air France back to the USA at 8am without her children who are sent along through Ben-Gurian checkpoint to Palestine on their own.

Scene 2:

A visibly despairing mother is panned being led into a filthy prison and cell and ensuing interrogation dialogue upon being led up to the prison gate and reiterated dialogue in the prison cell about Jordanian Air and Air France and cash after a strip search of Mrs. Sahouri by a female prison guard.

Scene 3:

Flashback pans to Michigan of Mrs. Sahouri and two children leaving Michigan for an over night flight from New York City to Paris on the way to Tel-Aviv's Ben-Gurion for transit to Palestine with two children and mother riding in father/husband's vehicle to a Michigan airport.

Ensuing readiness for travel dialogue takes place between the wife, husband and children to benefit the children while riding in the vehicle that the husband drives to the Michigan airport.  Hugs good-bye and last words with husband/father, Mrs. Sahouri and the two children at a Michigan airport who pass through security turning back to wave to their father and Mrs. Sahouri waving a last time to her husband disappearing into a crowd at the other side of security.

Camera pans to JFK international airport customs and lounge and Mrs. Sahouri and her two children board a plane for Paris.  Further preparedness dialogue occurs between Mrs. Sahouri and her two children about being Palestinian going through Israel and Mrs. Sahouri's previous trips through Ben-Gurion amidst other dialogue of mannerisms and that the children are to follow her direction on the trip.

Camera pans to two children sleeping peacefully sitting next to their mother on an over night flight from JFK to Paris for an eight hour layover in Paris and onto Ben-Gurion.

Time lapse in layover scene at Charles De Gualle Airport, Paris with a French flag draped in the airport visible in the pan: then, the three board another plane first passing through security in Paris.

Scene 4:

Camera pans to mother being led out of prison visibly in a weakened physical and mental state of mind for a waiting police vehicle on her way back to Ben-Gurion from prison the morning after being detained out of the interrogation room in Tel-Aviv to paying $270 at 6am with a receipt of $20 to show for it and ensuing dialogue between Mrs. Sahouri and soldiers at the Jordanian Air ticket counter about the $20 receipt when Mrs Sahouri pays $270 in cash for the ticket to Jordan in order to be able to join her family in Palestine.

Scene 5:

Camera shows an emaciated Mrs. Sahouri at the Jordanian border crossing with Israel clipping through a taxi ride from Amman to the border crossing on a hot day and no air conditioning in the taxi.

Camera shows Mrs. Sahouri sitting in a VIP lounge at the Jordanian-Israeli crossing with hundreds of other Palestinians, Jordanians and Arabic speaking people (buses and taxis lined up for miles outside) when Mrs. Sahouri asks for a paramedic and receives orange juice which she cannot drink in her state after a delay in medical attention by soldiers who repeatedly question her saying to her that she cannot cross the border when Mrs. Sahouri asks for a paramedic not having had nourishment for three days and saying so to a soldier in the VIP room at the border so that soldiers call in a paramedic.

Mrs. Sahouri is told that she cannot cross at that border to her protest as to what she was told at Ben-Gurion being in direct contradiction to what she is told at the Jordanian-Israeli crossing in that she was told at Ben-Gurion that she could cross at the Jordanian-Israeli border (not at Ben-Gurion), which is why she purchased the ticket to Amman from Ben-Gurian for $270 and took a taxi to the Jordanian-Israeli border costing her a lot of money.

Dialogue ensues with Mrs. Sahouri dry heaving, blood pressure and pulse being taken after asking for a paramedic and then being led ten minutes later to an Israeli-Durzi, Arabic speaking captain in the Israeli army whom she is told has allowed her access to his office down a corridor of the border post from the VIP room where Mrs. Sahouri had to pay extra to be allowed into the VIP room filled with other travelers who have a lot of crying children with them and for whom she is sympathetic exchanging words with one of the families sitting nearby.

(No pan of Israeli-Durzi captain's office or dialogue.  Dialogue description follows in Scene 6).

Scene 6:

Mrs. Sahouri is riding with her sister and mother in a car who come to the Jordanian-Israeli border to pick up their relative.  A visibly smiling Mrs. Sahouri, upon seeing her mother and sister pick her up in juxtaposition to her weeping mother, ride in the back seat of a vehicle with a man driver driving the vehicle to their home in Palestine.

Ensuing dialogue occurs between Mrs. Sahouri, her sister and mother riding in the vehicle as to conversations between family members (husband in Michigan and Mrs. Sahouri's naturalized, US citizen sister in Palestine) and the US Embassy about how the embassy in Jerusalem and a Congressman from Michigan said that they could not do anything for a Palestinian born, naturalized, American citizen in the State of Israel, but that if her children had been detained being American born: the embassy could have exercised diplomatic channels.

Intermixed dialogue by Mrs. Sahouri about her harrowing experience and Mrs. Sahouri telling of the seemingly compassionate, Israeli-Durzi captain who spoke perfect Arabic at the Jordanian-Israeli crossing and who called Mrs. Sahouri's family for them to pick her up after not finding anything in his records to suspect any seeming, foul play on Mrs. Sahouri's part ensues on the ride from the Jordanian-Israeli crossing to Mrs. Sahouri's Palestinian home with her family while Mrs. Sahouri, her mother and sister ride in the back seat of a vehicle.

Scene 7:

A joyous reunion with family, Mrs. Sahouri, two children and cousins at a compound in Palestine with a Palestinian flag visible is panned.  A Palestinian flag is either painted on a wall nearby the reunion or an actual cloth flag at the door of the family abode is panned.  Supper is served with Mrs. Sahouri and family in Palestine at dusk on the third day of travel from Ben-Gurion through Amman.

A time lapse of Mrs. Sahouri's visit with family in Palestine is filler up to her departure date back to the USA with dialogue between family members during the visit of an alternative route for the return trip to the USA besides through Tel-Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport.

Scene 8:

Pan of a return trip to Michigan via an alternative route besides through Tel-Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport: perhaps Jordanian Air from Amman through Paris to New York City and onto Michigan with a husband, wife and two children reunion at a Michigan airport showing the ride home and house in Michigan where Mrs. Sahouri lives.

An American flag is on display at the house where Mrs. Sahouri lives that the husband visibly takes down upon her return at dusk in Michigan and dialogue by Mrs. Sahouri telling her husband about how she feels to be a Palestinian-American after the US Embassy did nothing for her in Israel, but everywhere else in the world besides Israel: the US Embassy would respect her rights as a US citizen.

Closing Shot:

The United Nations flag poles and credits.

Fin.