"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called." ~ John Stuart Mill
Knowing Your Role as an Obedient Citizen
"We are reminded, constantly, of Orwell’s Newspeak Dictionary, in particular the reference to what the author calls “blackwhite.” Orwell described it as “…loyal willingness to say black is white when party discipline demands this. It also means the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know black is white, and forget that one has ever believed the contrary.” "
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Knowing Your Role as a Non-Citizen. gfywi
Who is a Non-Citizen?
According to Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, “a citizen is a member of a state to whom he or she owes allegiance and is entitled to its protection.” Hence, from this definition, it is implicit that a non-citizen is someone who is not a member of a state nor owes allegiance to the state he or she currently resides [sic].
There are certain inalienable rights to which all humans, regardless of citizenship or nationality, are entitled in principal.
These rights are called natural rights.
"Natural rights are rights [claims] not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable. In contrast, legal rights are those [claims] bestowed on to a person by the law of a particular political and legal system, and therefore relative to specific cultures and governments."
Since citizen means a person of a city-State, (civilization, see civil: from civis, meaning citizen, from Latin civitatis, meaning city-state,) do you know the nature of cities?
The Nature of Cities
by Jason Godesky
4 September 2007
http://rewild.info/anthropik/2007/09/the-nature-of-cities/index.html