"Something's Up" In America's Big Berg
featuring
Selected Poems from The Alaska Mystery Collection
and The Tree Series
by Paula Marie Rose
Songs can say so much, and a good tune is well worth listening to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOXfC5OgmY&feature=related
My Mom used to say to me: "People will lie about anything and anyone." It took me years to realize the wisdom of her words, but Moms are usually right.
So many odd things have happened in my life for the last five or six years that simply don't add up for an ordinary woman from the Big Berg.
Every group has a Chief and some Indians, so to speak.
When I put two and two together, I climbed up on the horse, and met the enemy on the war path.
Most things in life are way, way bigger than I am. I'm an ordinary gal from a very small town.
So many things during my younger years didn't make sense, and so many odd turns and events in my more recent years, that I knew I had to solve those mysteries, and piece together the puzzle. So many folks have mentioned to me that the multitude of odd things and events that occur in my life, never ever happen to them. I began to feel just a tad bit "Special", and not in a good way, but I have heard there are many, many more folks who have suffered at the hands of "The They", here in the USA, for speaking out against crimes and coercion carried out by some undetermined Branch of a very Big Tree. Just a few of them are mentioned under the chapter:
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When I was about 7 years old, I asked my Mom about something odd that happened to another person, and why did she looked so scared. She replied something about: "They can do Anything They damn well please, and nobody can do a damned thing about it."
Being a kid, I suggested the Police could help, and she said something like "No. They won't."
That was very puzzling to a young child, who had been taught at home and at school that the Police are there to help, if one ever needed some.
She then said how if folks didn't do as they were somehow instructed, or tried to tell other people what was going on, that "bad things" would happen to them.
She said something about children being taken away from their parents, then the parents being called "Crazy", and sometimes locked up in the Looney Bin. She mentioned the word Lobotomy, and I had to ask what that meant. And if that didn't work, that "Other Things" would be done, unflattering or very compromising photos or home movies being made to embarass someone, or blackmail them, and perhaps drummed up charges for drugs, or other set ups for crimes would be created, that would put innocent people in jail.
When I asked, how could that be? And wouldn't other people say it wasn't true? or some form of those questions; she replied with a chlling statement.
"No, because if they try to help that person, the same or worse will happen to them."
I was very surprised and confused, because I thought friends, family, and neighbors could always be counted on to tell the truth, and to help each other out.
Apparently not. Which I found out much later in life, when my very own family members and former best friend signed affidavits which contained false statements, misconstrued and misleading words, and outright lies; which were accepted as accurate by the Alaska Court System, and I lost custody of my then 13 year old daughter. Neither the judge nor the child custody investigator seemed to read my rebuttals, nor to question any of the statements or affidavits written or spoken by others; even when I had facts which proved their affidavits had untrue statements.
It appears that "Someone" found this website (which I started back in April of 2008), highly objectionable, even tho most of it wasn't even written, but the content had been revealed by me to a couple of gals during the now infamous "Girl's Night Out." Readers can read the Chronological Order by reviewing the Daily Items and Updates AND the Daily Items and Updates in the New Decade sections. Begin at the home page of:
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The beginning of the Child Custody dispute started with legalese breeze and letter of lies, blowing down in the Big Berg in the following letter from the attorney of my former spouse. Ya gotta read it for yourself, cuz it passes for legal in Alaska to make up stuff about a person, and calling it "the truth."
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How unusual that I was unable to find an attorney in Alaska to represent me in the ensuing Child Custody suit; which I began by filing the first motion myself. I had money to pay for the legal fees, but not one attorney I contacted by phone or email would agree to represent me. Including one who had previously represented me in my first divorce. Sniff Sniff! But, I knew that would happen, because of something I heard about "some people" not being able to hire legal help when they needed it, decades previously.
I took it all in stride, and relied on my favorite song to help keep me goin' when I was feeling down, and a team of one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP94PlEtsEQ
I grew up listening to AM radio, and also other forms of radio communications. AM, FM, CB, VHF, Shortwave, and Single Sideband. Most of you who might read this story will have no idea what those forms of communication are.
And you are missin' out.
Ya don't get most of the Really Good Stuff over a new fangled tech device.
Once I met a man from an African Country, and I was from Alaska. He was almost Speechless, when I mentioned to him about a Heathkit Radio. He knew what it was, and so did I. That's amazing, in a way. But he was from a 3rd World Country, and is older than I by many years. I'm from the Big Berg, but we had mutual knowledge of a major form of communication. They still are in use, in some circles. And for very good reasons.
And when the weather is right, what you can receive on the "Skip" is amazing; you could be receiving from what was transmitted well over a thousand miles away.
Totally Awesome!
Most folks under 40 don't even know what a Transistor Radio is, much less have owned one. And Walkie Talkies were so much fun, when I got to use them from a friend. Short range, but too cool for playin' Cowboys and Indians, or Kick the Can, as we did.
AM Radio had 2 stations in my little town, and both were worth noting.
I thought it was odd how certain songs might be played over the airwaves, and my Mom would yell, "Get your Coats On! It's time to pay the Piper."
I don't recall where we went, or what happened, but she didn't look happy and it wasn't fun.
I was maybe 10 years old, and one song I recall in those later years was this; Corazon by Carole King. Because we spoke only English in our house, and apparently, none of us knew any other languages, until we'd taken them in Jr. High or High School. My sisters took both Spanish at Jr. High, or High school, and Japanese in private lessons from a local Japanese woman, as they prepared to be Exchange Students. I took French, and don't recall most of what I learned.
I do know that when this song was played over the radio, my Mom would jump into action, and my Mom knew and spoke only American English, as far as she ever told me.
Check out the lyrics and run them thru the Google Tranlate tool.
Another tag line from "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in action with those three little words, "I Love You."
Just Another Coincidence, I'm sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRV06Tb7gOY
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