Movement Of Jah People

This week the irony of Donald Trump trying to takeover other countries, most notably Greenland, when his whole rhetoric has been about drawing lines around America and making it great again got me thinking. That's always the problem with beliefs - those that push hard with their own beliefs often can't take it when others apply the same belief against them. The other story I've been seeing this week is related to the Beckhams family feud. What strikes me is how these stories (if they are even real), which appear nothing to do with each other, are related. I'm sure a lot of the same people who believe strongly in the boundaries of their nation are also the ones calling out Brooklyn Beckham for creating a boundary from his family. I don't see a difference.

If countries can create strict borders around themselves then surely people can? Afterall, a country is only a name for a bunch of people. Yet many people have a problem when an individual creates a border around themselves to stop people getting access. They are called weak, spoilt, pathetic. My point here is the more you create a world of strict borders in a countries sense, the more you will see a world where individuals apply the same rules. Want people to loosen up? Well, then loosen up the borders and rules in the world.

When I pointed out to someone pre-Brexit that SoulJahm would not have existed or be possible if Brexit came into effect, they replied that before Britain joined the E.U. in the 1970s, people still travelled to Europe. I pointed out that was in an era of less administration and rules, it wouldn't go back to that now. But that got me thinking about the world before passports. I knew they had only been in existence for about 100 years and inevitably, it came after World War I. Wars are always about resetting things so that the power and control hungry can go on another feast of tightening the reigns on the people.

What I found out was there were many different ways of how people moved around before this standardised worldwide way of the last 100 years. I won't go into that here but one sentence particularly caught my attention:

"Movement was assumed unless there was a reason to restrict it"

This is essentially what I've been trying to say to people for years and what the song "Borders" is pointing to. The birds don't need any permission whatsoever from anyone to fly from one continent to another. Nature intended them that way. It's easy to forget in this mad world but humans are nature too and our nature is very clearly to move. We have legs, we have created bicycles, cars, boats and planes and more faster, efficient ways to move since the beginning. So quite clearly it's in human nature to move and travel and explore.

The law generally rests on "innocent until proven guilty". So why does that not apply to movement of people, something that is within our nature? Movement around this planet should never be a right given to us by anybody. It is a birth right. It should be as assumed as breathing, eating and sleeping. If you cause harm or trouble to others in moving then that can be dealt with but to treat every person who wishes to move around this planet as a potential criminal is insane. Why not just lock everybody up first in case they commit any kind of crime? If we don't stop this nonsense soon, that's the way it's already going.