Ei sihtasutuse Perekonna ja Traditsiooni Kaitseks petitsioonile

Sorry to those who have used to read my blog in English.. at least right now I wrote this entry only in Estonian, but as it is quite an universal problem I´m talking about here, I may translate it sometime. So check back at it sometime in a future.

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” - Coco Chanel

Meile tuli paar päeva tagasi postkasti petitsioon sihtasutuselt Perekonna ja Traditsiooni kaitseks, mis põhimõtteliselt oli selgelt kirjutatud, et vähe mõtlevates inimestes paanikat tekitada. Selle kirjutajad üritasid tekitada tunnet justkui oleks heteroseksuaalsus, traditsionaalne perekond ja minu eriliseks üllatuseks ka isegi sõna- ja tegutsemisvabadus Eestis ohus. Kas teie olete selle juba saanud?

Kõigepealt tahan ma oma arvamuse lugejale selgeks teha, et ma olen täiesti veendunud heteroseksuaalne noormees, kellel isegi teatav homofoobia. Seega ei ole mul mingit eesmärki homo propagandat teha. Kuid ma olen salliv ja mõtleva, haritud inimesena sellise fanaatiliselt konservatiivse rühmituse paanika külvamise vastane, rääkimata sellest, et faktid mis petitsioonis olid esitatud ei olnud tõesed. Ise oleksin arvanud, et nende jutt on kõigile läbi nähtav, kuid nähes oma ema reaktsiooni sellele kirjale, sain aru, et paljud inimesed tõepoolest esimese hetkega tundes, et nad on homoseksuaalsuse levimisest häiritud, ei panegi tähele selle sihtasutuse ekstreemsust, millest see petitsioon tulvil oli. See pani mu kirjutama, lootuses, et ehk taoliseid asju lugedes teinekord mõeldakse ja uuritakse enne oma allkirja andmist.

Kõigepealt mainiks ära, et selle kirja ainus tõene fakt oli see, et tõepoolest on Justiitsministeeriumis ettevalmistamisel kooseluseaduse eelnõu. Siiski, esiteks eelnõu ei tähenda veel, et see seadus ka kindlasti vastu võetaks ja teiseks, isegi kuna ilmselt siiski võetakse, ei muudaks see eriti midagi muud kui vaid tõestaks, et meie põhiseadus, milles tunnistatakse iga inimese usulist, poliitilist ja seksuaalset eneseteostamise vabadust, on siiki kehtiv. Realistliku inimesena mõistan ma, et heteroseksuaalsus ei oleks sellest kuidagi ohustatud. Ohustatud on aga marukonservatiivsed maailmavaated. Nimetatud sihtasutus on aga selgelt just marukonservatiivne, mida võib võrrelda ka marurahvuslaste olemusega. Mõlemad on leidnud endale vastase, kes tegelikult ei häiri ega ohusta ju kedagi. Nii homo- kui ka ksenofoobid on häiritud vaid mõttest, et keegi, kes pole nagu nemad võiks saada nendega samad õigused. Minu arvates, andes oma allkirja sellele petitsioonile, ohustame me oma vabadusi palju enam. Sihtasutus Perekonna ja Traditsiooni Kaitseks näitab ju vabaduste arengut halvas valguses. Nad tahaksid õigusi vaid valitud seltskonnale ja hoida traditsioone, mis tõepoolest ammu ajast ja arust. Väites, et homoseksuaalidele vabaduste andmine vallandaks ahelreaktsiooni, õigustab see olukorda kus teatud rahva hulk ühiskonnast oleks selgelt alla surutud. Nende võitlus homoseksuaalsete õiguste vastu meenutab mulle seda, kuidas valged orjapidajad võitlesid ülejäänud rassidele inimõiguste laienemise vastu. Tänapäeval on rassism taunitud ja enamik inimesi võtab iseenesest mõistetavana, et ka mustanahaline võib käia valgetega samades asutustes ja end seal hästi tunda, võrdselt valgetega ametikohtadele kandideerida, kaevata kohtusse enda ründajaid, valida presidenti või isegi ise riigijuhiks tõusta. Miskipärast on senini aga hulk inimesi, kes tahaksid sarnaste piirangute rakendamise õigust homoseksuaalidele, just nagu ei oleks nemadki

Inimesed. Minul tekibki pigem küsimus, et millise tagurliku ahelreaktsiooni põhjustaks mõne ultrakonservatiivse organisatsiooni laialdane toetamine. Kas järgmiseks võtamegi taas õigused ka mustanahalistelt, moslemitelt ja teistelt vähemustelt? Kas unustame püüdlused soolisele võrdõiguslikkuse saavutamiseks ja muudame naised kodukanadeks, kes ei tohi midagi öelda ega midagi õppida vaid on sunnitud vaid kuuletuma mehele? Võibolla hakkame siis ka sunniviisiliselt levitama ristiusku, kuna see ju ülistab heteroseksuaalset suhet, traditsioonilist peret ja moraalsust üldiselt? Räägime siis veel sõna- ja tegutsemisvabadusest ning õigusriigist! Teate, vabandage väga, aga minu hääl läheb siis ikkagi vabaduste arengule – ka isegi siis kui see tähendab, et ma pean tänaval nägema suudlevaid homopaare. Minupärast seadustage homode abielud ja andke neile kasvõi õigus lapsendada. Ma ei näeks selles midagi halba. Kuigi ma olen hetero ja uhke selle üle, ei saagi ma aru, kuidas on ikka veel võimalik olukord, kus maailmas on veel inimesi, kes on seaduse silmis “võrdsemad” või “õigemad” vaid seepärast, et nad on enamik. Ma ei taha olla kahekümne esimese sajandi orjapidaja.

Petitsioonis kirjutati, et ilmselt peatselt hakataks ka homopropagandasse kriitiliselt suhtuvate inimeste sõna- ja tegutsemisvabadust piirama. Esiteks ei saa mina aru, mis homopropagandast jutt käib. Ma pole kunagi ühtegi homopropagandistlikku asja või aktsiooni näinud. Jah, mina ei trügi homoparaadi juurde, et agressiivselt oma foobset vaadet näidata. Igaljuhul sellise kartuse illustreerimiseks kasutatakse teist seaduseelnõud – vihkamise õhutamise kriminaliseerimist, mida nemad nimetavad (tsiteerin) homoaktivistide eestveetavaks asjaajamiseks. Vihkamise õhutamise kriminaliseerimine ei ole aga ju sõnavabaduse ära võtmine. Igal ühel jääb kuni Eesti Vabariik kehtib, õigus oma arvamust avaldada nii kaua kuni see ei kutsu kedagi üles vihategudele, mis kedagi võiks kahjustada. Sellest lähtuvalt tekib tunne, et nimetatud sihtasutuse liikmed peavad lausa oma õiguseks teise kodaniku või rahav grupi vastast viha õhutada. Muidu nad ju sellist seadust probleemseks ei peaks. Ei tasu minna homoparaadidele õelutsema ja rusikaid näitama. Üldsegi, ei ole ju konstruktiivne ka kuskil internetis kedagi sõimata vaid seepärast, et ta ei ole normaalne (minagi kasutan seda sõnagi siin vaid mõistes valdav/tavapärane). Oma arvamust saab ikka avaldada. Ma kusjuures olen kindel, et usklik rahvas laidab homode teguviisi avalikult, alati ja igavesti. Nad lihtsalt ei õhuta viha ja seega ei satu seadusega ka pahuksisse. Samuti ei saa lahti lasta ühtegi õpetajat, kasvatajat, kohtunikku, arsti või muud ametnikku vaid seepärast, et nad homoseksuaalset käitumist heaks ei kiida. Vallandada võiks aga arsti, kes ei teeninda homoseksuaali või kohtuniku/politseiniku, kelle tegevus on selgelt homo vastane, nende otsused just seksuaalsest sättumusest kõigutatud. Aga just nii see ju peakski olema, sest õigust arstiabi, haridust, õigusabi ja muid teenuseid saada on kõigil inimestel.

Kõige rohkem häiris mind kui õpetaja haridusega inimest selles petitsioonis aga vale, nagu oleks tulevikus arstidel ja õpetajatel kohustus homoseksuaalsest eluviisist rääkida kui igati tervest ja moraalsest eneseteostamise võimalusest. Nii see lihtsalt pole. Iga arst teab, et homoseksuaalsetel on suurem risk nakatuda suguhaigustesse. Ja iga inimene võib ka tulevikus oma moraalikoodeksi järgi õelda, et homoseksuaalsus ei ole moraalne. Rõhutan veel kord, usklikud nii kui nii ei hakka seda moraalselt kõlblikuks pidama ja igal õpetajal ja arstil on õigus olla mis iganes usku nad ka ei tahaks. Koolides kohe kindlasti ei hakata tegema mingit homo propagandat. Võibolla hakatakse rääkima sallivusest erinevate inimeste suhtes. Pigem räägivad õpetajad inimeseõpetuse ja ühiskonnaõpetuse tundides (ja ka arstid muidugi) ikka homoseksualismiga seonduvatest ühiskondlikest ja tervislikest ohtudest. Petitsioonis nimetatud sooneutraalne kasvatus on aga juba praegult kõigi edumeelsete õpetajate toetuse saanud, ega ole kuidagi moodi homoseksualismi propageeriv nähtus. Eeldatavalt peaks sooneutraalne kasvatus suurendama soolist võrdõiguslikkust ning taaskord sallivuse suurendamiseks. Kogu maailm ei ole ega peagi olema täis vaid macho mehi ja õrnakesi naiselikke preilnaid. On ka igasuguseid vahepealseid. Sooneutraalne kasvatus lihtsalt aktsepteerib iga ühte isiksusena ilma nende kohta soost lähtuvaid eelarvamusi võtmata. Kogu ühiskond võiks olla rohkem sooneutraalsem. Mina tõesti arvan, et soorollid on iganenud asjad. Mees kes on õrna hingega ja õpetab lastele kunsti, ei peaks olema tabu. Samamoodi ei tohiks kiusamise ohvriks langeda poisike koolis, kes hakkab käima tantsutundides vmt. See on sooneutraalsus.

ACTA against the better judgement

I didn't go to protest action, but I came to the idea that I will write today to my blog and make my fight like that. Even though I'm small time artist and haven't really earned much anything with my art, I have my art up in internet on many sites, and therefore it is vulnerable for theft... but I don't care, I'm still against such laws as ACTA. What ACTA really is? It is yet another control mechanism and a censorship. Ask yourself for whom it should be. Answer is that such thing should protect the interests of authors. Yet you can see that many authors themselves are against that law. It is not for us. To whom it really is, is politicians and especially companies. Authors lose only some money because of piracy, yet the same piracy greatly expands the opportunities for most of the authors to be known in the first place. As long as piracy of creative property has existed, it really has only been useful for artists. Piracy has broadened the field of art and only created more artists. Some copying artists have even made the original artist more famous and selling than he/she ever was before. I would let anyone steal my art from internet rather than have ACTA like laws. The ones who earn from it are companies and maybe few very mainstream artists. And ACTA also creates legal right for more control for those who already have too much control over others. We need freedom. greatest need for artist is a freedom. Therefore you can easily say that such laws are just making world more uniform or limited. Is money really what artist wants. NO! I have only small money now, but what really is my greatest wish all the time, is the opportunity to share my creation and mainly to get something for it in the same form - art against art. Sure, I would want money too, but I have accepted that for getting real money I should do some different kind of work. Right now we still have possibility to get music and movies created by small artists and producers from other sides of the world. I don't mean USA but much more remote places where really cool things are done. How can you get such things when laws close down all unconventional and "illegal" sources. I wouldn't even know half of the artists I know now, if internet would be more controlled.

In Sweden internet piracy was registered as a belief, and I really see why. Some people really believe that nowdays it is only possible solution to have a world where money and power aren't most important, and the lifestyle that saves us from damned global homogenizing of culture and art going under big business. I think all people say that without music and art life would be depressing, but hell, I would be depressed if only music I could reach and/or afford, would be some mainstream pop-things. Already in 80-s and 90-s it was said that tape recording music from radio will be the death blow to music. What actually happened was, that the greater market, greater choice of different creation and soon also easier ways to get anything came to be. MBasically more culture and cheaper culture. You want to know the truth - without pirated or otherways not quite legal music, we would lose very many of good parties. And artists would lose lots of inspirational material to make some of their own good creative material. Probably entire next generation would be much less creative. And still today they say the same. Piracy kills creativity. No, piracy is bad only to big producers and big names. What kills creativity is exactly the opposite of piracy - making laws that allow only big companies and selected few artists to flourish. You know what would be good solution against piracy and intellectual theft? Lots of small producers who take small artists to produce their music, films, games, books, etc; lots of small shops that take things to sell from all kinds of artists and producers with smaller quantities and smaller prices. Maybe profits would be little bit smaller, but actually I believe that twice smaller prices would bring much more clients. And make really all kinds of different things from different parts of the world available in internet shops to be downloaded. But it is pretty impossible - which salesman cares to search for some artists in African slums or Mesoamerican small town. And therefore I believe that nothing replaces piracy as a mode to share from person to person, so that wherever you are in a world, you may get some movie made in Lebanon or Nigerian dancemusic or traditional music from South-China, or painting from some artist of some small town in Brazil. This is simply what people need. So what if 100 people seeing my art in internet just copy it to their hardrive, but when my art travels enough that way, then probably 101st person asks me if he/she can really buy some original work.

And ACTA isn't only just against piracy. It is good ground for all kinds of limits. It is good ground for censorship and internet espionage. Basically when right now I can quote anyone in my blog, then ACTA creates possibility that such use of someone else's text is theft without permission. I understand, for politicians it is good way to control free journalism. Or another possible problem for anyone having their own independent internet site - if right now I don't have to care where some link that has been added to my blog either by myself or someone else, may lead, then after some such harsh laws, I may be criminal if anything from my site leads to illegal internet pages. And actually I can't even do much if someone would put a link to my chatbox. Only way to remove someone else's post from there, would be to delete all entries or even remove the chatbox. I would rather live in "communist" China. And really, as I have already wrote in my earlier blog entries, one reason why I want to leave Europe and go back to Kenya, is our lack of freedom. It is such a lie that we live in most democratic and free areas in the world.

Mchawi & Mrogi

I don't remember if I already wrote, but we met with few Estonians who were in Nigeria. It seemed that in Nigeria traditional beliefs and superstitions have much greater role than in Kenya. In Nigeria these beliefs seem to exist side by side with christianity and islam or even in some way rule over these. In Kenya this would be impossible. Yet, Kenya has little taste of this. They don't believe into witchcraft so much as Nigerians, but there are some stories. Today I will write about Mchawi and Mrogi. I remember only little.. probably I know only little of all the stories about them. I just give some insight of whom they are. Mchawi and Mrogi are basically mytholgical characters in Kenya.. people with certain supernatural abilities and as I understood, also need to do bad for others.

MCHAWI - a nightrunner. When we were told about nightrunners I thought at first that they are talking about something like vampires. But no, nightrunner is kind of like gremlin or some special kind of witch. They seem like normal humans, walk around like normal humans, but actually are not that. First off they have some magical abilities like going through locked gates or being invisible (There was something that their woman had to do at home for them to be invisible though). They could do other illusions too. They run around naked in the night and go to houses of other people or just to their yards and do shenanigans and troubles to these people. When I asked why they do this, I was said that because if not then they would die.

MROGI - is yet another witch. In Africa they have lots of different witches. Mrogi isn't the good kind who may heal you with herbs or ceremonies. He or she doesn't create spells to give you and your loved ones good luck. It is completely other way around. They have "bad eyes" (macho mbaya) aka. they can hex you basically just looking into your eyes. When you look into Mrogi's eyes, you get sick without any hope for recovery without doing exactly the right kind of rituals - very simply, rubbing the stomach with the fat until there comes sugar, salt and hair through the skin. But I understood, that it is still done by traditional healer.. so ritual. And again, also Mrogi has to do that to stay alive.

When I thought at first that nightrunners are kind of African version of vampires, then I actually asked if they have any stories or beliefs about vampires. At first they didn't understand, but when I explained that people who also move around at night, but to drink a blood of other people, then I was told that isn't completely story anymore (or who knows, maybe there really are some witches who know things that to others seem supernatural. Anyway, everything concerning vampirism in Kenya is bound with some cults there that at least by christians are believed to be Satanic cults. Although drinking blood of the coat is quite normal by traditional view of many people there and often blood is mixed into sour milk (I too drunk coat blood there once), but these cults were supposed to be real and big, and they were supposed to make sacrifices and also drink the blood of humans. It was said that many of country's elite are in such cults.. they do ceremonies that were supposed to have brought them power and money, but turned them mean and/or selfish. They only hold each other. Well, this belief is probably mixed with lots of myths, but I imagine that there may also be some truth in it.. some cults or groups that help eachother to gain power over the lives and happiness of other people with such methods that are not exactly normal.. why not?

Aliens invade

Täielik ulme noh

One more post today. Yesterday night I watched a movie about one town in Alaska where it seemed that all the townspeople were visited and abducted by aliens. I have to say that like other documentaries about aliens, also this movie itself pretty much sucked. Though before going to sleep it created quite creepy feeling. I actually believe that aliens exist and visit our planet and for some reason abduct great numbers of humans, and also for certain reasons I believe that when I was kid they also may have abducted me, therefore even this crappy movie had some impact on me.

How do you know if you are abducted? Like usual, they remove the memory and make it all seem just like a dream (if you think a little, then it is so easy to make us believe that something that happened in the middle of the night was just a dream.. some hypnosis or something like this, and everything seems logic). Usually abduction experiences seem like dreams with certain memory lapses. But some things raise the questions. When some kid who have not known much about all of this alien theme at all, haven't watched sci-fi movies, but have been more interested of medieval knights and heroes like William Tell for example, how does that kid suddenly see amazingly detailed and realistic dream about UFO? Or when you see some place you never have been, but many years later you get there and find out that it is exactly as it was in dream, then what to think about that? Maybe you have even wrote about it before visiting the place. What if after this experience suddenly your physical condition starts to change, you get weird medical problems to what doctors don't find any explanation? And after all, this experience is really weird for dream. Well, dreams are usually weird, but it is weird that it was not weird but very logical. Most stories like this have very common features that are not very dreamlike. You ask why would aliens abduct people? Who knows? There may be reasons we can't even think about. In the world there are lots of people who say they have seen UFO's, many people who have come to realize they were abducted, even some statements from people with backgrounds that simply make them feel credible. Just few days ago there was talk about this theme in radio here in Estonia, and one guy who investigates these things said that such statements come from highranking statesmen, scientists, army officers, pilots, astronauts, psychologists, from big groups, from people who see the same sighting from different places, there are although not very good photos and videos, still some material that are by experts been acknowledged not to be fake.

I'm not some conspiracy theory fanatic, simply a guy who from time to time just questions some things that not many people even think, and lately some things have started to seem weird again. Actually what brought this theme into my attention again, is that it has actually come up again lately everywhere. And not just sightings (these happen anyway quite often), not even some highly credible statements, although also these are made more often nowdays (Maybe these people have until now been afraid, maybe they have signed non-disclosure agreements, maybe they believed that no-one would believe and his/her statements would mark him/her as crazy, but lately anyway people have come to be more ready to tell things out.. again who knows why). But anyway, right now it is that theme of extra-terrestrial beings has come into the interest of different institutions and appeared in very serious talks and seminars. International organization like UN is discussing about space aliens matters and seems to prepare paragraph changes that would expand some rights and laws so far applying only to humans, also to ET; British Science Academy and other conservative areas hold seminars that in one side are serious, but from other side seem kind of like some fantasy fan gatherings; Russian leaders have organised enquiries about how people would react if they would come to know that aliens exist, and even Catholic church is suddenly stating that they are ready to introduce the true God and creator of entire universe also to our brothers and sisters from other worlds. All this makes at least me to wonder if there is something that elite of the world and specialists of certain areas know, something that they haven't shared with general population, yet what now seems to need disclosure in near future. I can't believe that all this crap is just hypothetical or even random. I guess if there is some secret they know, then at least in this decade it will be revealed to everyone. We'll see.