By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
THOREAU CONFRONTED PRESIDENT POLK
In 1845, James K. Polk became President of the United States. Polk sought territorial expansion, promoted war with Mexico, defended slavery, and demanded obedience to government authority. Many Americans admired Polk’s aggressive nationalism. Others viewed his policies as unjust. Among Polk’s most determined critics stood Henry David Thoreau, the Massachusetts writer later famous for Walden. Thoreau saw the Mexican-American War as an act of aggression. He opposed the return of escaped slaves to bondage. He distrusted government demands that citizens surrender their moral judgment to political leaders. Both men refused to remain silent. In Congress, former President John Quincy Adams also battled slavery’s defenders. Adams fought repeated attempts to silence anti-slavery petitions in the House of Representatives. While Adams fought within government, Thoreau challenged injustice from outside government.
DOMINATOR CONSCIOUSNESS DEMANDS OBEDIENCE
Polk’s policies reflected what I call Dominator Consciousness, the attitude toward all things that our Anunnaki creators and masters have inculcated in us and perpetuated through the institutions and practices they forced upon us. The Dominator mentality demands that we accept class and caste structure, support war, territorial and travel route expansion and conquest, hierarchy, submit to rulers, institutions, and power structures. Embrace loyalty, say dominators like Putin and Trump, to religious institutions, national parliaments, and multinational business corporations above your personal conscience. A good citizen obeys, say the dominating elite of each institution.
The Anunnaki, our genetic ancestors from the Planet Nibiru, live within this pattern, and inculcated it in the slave race they bred with the African humans, Homo erectus. The COUNCIL OF HATONA, in the Andromeda star cluster, had ordered the warring Lyran and Draconian antagonists to create and place primitive Earthlings in their areas, where they terraformed on Earth. Twelve of the Human civilizations and one Draconian-Human group contributed basic beings and got them started in their designated territories on Earth. Homo erectus was the primitive Being that the terraformers situated in Southeast Africa.
THOREAU CHOOSE CONSCIENCE
Thoreau rejected the dominator premise. He argued that an election determines who holds office, but it does not determine what is right.
A citizen’s highest duty, said Thoreau, is not obedience but conscience. People should never surrender their moral judgment to politicians, legislators, or governments. Every citizen must continually evaluate whether government actions are just.
To Thoreau, patriotism did not mean silence. Patriotism meant independent thought.
PARTNERSHIP CONSCIOUSNESS REQUIRES MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
The Partnership Consciousness associated with Great Princess Ninmah teaches a different lesson.
Partnership Consciousness asks: Is this policy compassionate? Does it promote human well-being? Does it respect freedom and dignity? Does it serve life rather than domination?
Rather than blind obedience, Partnership Consciousness requires moral responsibility. Citizens must think, care and, above all, ACT.
THOREAU’S NIGHT IN JAIL
To demonstrate his opposition to Polk’s policies, Thoreau refused to pay certain taxes. In July 1846, authorities arrested him and placed him in the Concord jail. He spent only one night there before a relative paid the tax on his behalf. Yet the symbolism he enacted endured. He said, “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is a prison.“
For Thoreau, jail was not a disgrace; the disgrace was complicity. (Ask yourself, Are you complicit or do you honor your conscience?)
LET YOUR LIFE STOP THE MACHINE
Thoreau understood that governments and institutions possess momentum. He knew that people excuse injustice by claiming they are merely following orders, obeying laws, or respecting the will of the majority. but Thoreau disagreed and wrote that when injustice becomes severe, a citizen should become “a counter-friction to stop the machine.”
The domination machine was not merely government and domination institutions, the overall machine was–and still is– CONFORMITY, PASSIVE OBEDIENCE, AND MORAL SURRENDER
Partnership Consciousness asks each person to become the counter-friction that can grind the state, the church, and the business to a stop and allow We The People the loving oneness and sharing inherent in our consciences.
THE DANGER OF POLITICAL PASSIVITY
Thoreau reserved special criticism for people who privately opposed injustice but took no action. He observed that many Americans claimed to oppose slavery and war, like that of Polk’s war against Mexico while doing nothing to stop it. People who opposed the war just waited, perhaps complained, but basically just waited for it to end while they remained comfortable as American and Mexican soldiers and innocent civilians suffered theft, rape, home destruction, wounding and death.
For Thoreau, silence assists domination, and inaction strengthens the machine. Partnership Consciousness requires participation, and freedom survives only when citizens actively defend it.
LET CONSCIENCE TRUMP AUTHORITY
The enduring lesson of Civil Disobedience that Thoreau gave us is simple: Though government, majorities, and traditions possess power, conscience possesses legitimacy.
Thoreau refused to serve what he considered an unjust government. Instead, he served his own reason, moral judgment, and conscience. He chose cooperation, responsibility, and moral awareness over the path of domination and obedience. His message remains relevant today:
Never surrender your conscience to authority.
When the machine serves injustice, become the counter-friction that stops it.
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