Rule 5: Don't add to the population or subtract from the population.
- Sapiophielle
- 1 day ago
- 8 min read
Apparently the Weekend Safety Brief has become the thing of legend to Gen Z kids raised by service members who kept up the good fight at home as their brothers and sisters in arms fought fascism on far off shores.
Time for the Weekend Safety Brief... Don't beat your wife, kids, or dog. Don't drink and drive. Wrap it before you tap it. Don't add to the population. Don't subtract from the population. Don't end up in the newspaper, the hospital, or the jail. If you end up in jail, establish dominance quickly. The First Sergeant will pick you up on Monday, and the rest of platoon will laugh at you over drinks Monday night... you will be paying.
Rule 5 looks specifically at population control and who holds the power of life and death. The answer is NOT YOU!! This one is going to be a bit of a long one, so buckle in.
Population control is probably one of my favorite topics to discuss because this is where the rubber meets the road when it comes to social engineering and what is considered ethical.
What is population control?
Population control generally refers to the policies and practices aimed at regulating the growth, size, or distribution of a human population. The strategies are typically implemented by governments to address concerns like:
Overpopulation: The strain on resources, infrastructure, and the environment.
Economic development: The belief that slowing population growth can aid in reducing poverty and promoting economic stability.
Social stability: Concerns about the link between rapid population growth and issues like social unrest or crime.
Methods of population control can range from voluntary, such as promoting family planning and increasing access to contraception and education, to coercive measures, like enforced birth limits.
You mean this *hit is legal?!?
Legal population control generally refers to the strategies or policies that are sanctioned and enforced by a government's law. These can be broadly categorized into:
Voluntary/Incentive-Based Measures (Generally considered legal and ethical): These approaches respect individual reproductive rights and include:
Government-funded and accessible family planning services: Providing a range of contraceptives, counseling, and reproductive health education.
Incentives for smaller families: Offering tax breaks, cash payments, or priority access to housing or social services to couples who adhere to birth limits or choose to have fewer children.
Policies promoting women's education and economic empowerment: Studies show that when women are more educated and have economic autonomy, fertility rates tend to decrease voluntarily.
Coercive Measures (Legally enforced but highly controversial and often a violation of human rights): Historically, some governments have enforced policies that place legal restrictions or mandates on reproduction, which are considered legal within that country's jurisdiction but widely condemned internationally. Examples include:
Mandatory birth limits: Requiring couples to have no more than a certain number of children (e.g., China's former One-Child Policy, which was legally enforced with fines and penalties).
Forced sterilization or abortion: In the past, some countries or regions have legally mandated or pressured individuals into sterilization or abortion to meet population targets, which is considered a severe human rights violation.
Eugenics-based sterilization laws: Historically, some laws mandated the sterilization of certain groups, such as individuals with intellectual disabilities, under the false pretense of improving the genetic quality of the population.
In modern international discourse, the emphasis has shifted away from "population control" towards voluntary family planning and reproductive health rights, which are approaches that are consistent with international human rights standards. The term "population control" itself is often avoided by international health organizations due to its historical association with coercive and unethical practices.
Who is liable?
As I discussed in my last letter, what is legal often comes down to who is liable, and this my friends is why the United States is currently being subjugated to fascist policy. The far conservative mindset is that all the world's problems are because of women - who need to be controlled and maintained.
Timing could not have been better when I received this article from a dear friend:
This opinion piece was posted by David French concerning an article written by and based on the original speech by Helen Andrews, a writer and editor who served as a senior editor at The American Conservative. The speech was given to the National Conservatism conference.
Both the essay and the speech are generating an immense amount of conversation. The speech, “Overcoming the Feminization of Culture,” has been viewed over 175,000 times, a number that dwarfs the views for any other speech at this year’s convention.
Now I could bore you with dissecting article by Helen Andrews, but I'll just hit the wave tops. In January 2005, Larry Summers was "cancelled" by women who were offended by his discussion about diversity in Science and Engineering.
The basic facts of the Summers case were familiar to me. On January 14, 2005, at a conference on “Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce,” Larry Summers gave a talk that was supposed to be off the record. In it, he said that female underrepresentation in hard sciences was partly due to “different availability of aptitude at the high end” as well as taste differences between men and women “not attributable to socialization.” Some female professors in attendance were offended and sent his remarks to a reporter, in defiance of the off-the-record rule. The ensuing scandal led to a no-confidence vote by the Harvard faculty and, eventually, Summers’s resignation.
The fun fact about the timing of this is that this just so happen to occur during my Senior year of Secondary School, and this is where I begin to submit my testimony for the record.
My Socialization
I was the third daughter of a deputy sheriff and a teacher who divorced during my eighth year. I went from being home schooled to public school. I attended two primary schools in Pinellas County Florida, one middle school and one high school for my secondary education. My mother was re-married in my nineth year, and our family became a blended family of eight kids under the direction of a network engineer and special education teacher, primary teaching at Title I schools.
We attended church every Sunday and Wednesday. We did lots of extra-circulars, from drama to band to team sports. I, specifically, played flute and sang in chorus from 5th grade to 12th grade, participated in cheerleading from 2nd grade to 8th grade, and danced from kindergarten all the way through high school. As I was preparing for college and looking at options, a United States Marine came to my Economics class.
I had three older sisters who went to college - two were still working through extended terms due to balancing cost and growing families while one was in and out of rehab for drug dependencies. The "becoming a teacher" career path was not looking so great. When I walked in the door and stated my decision, "I'm joining the Marine Corps" echoed through the house muffled by the dare of my step-brother. "Yeah right... you won't do it." My step-father looked at him and said he bought my ticket to boot camp.
My parents didn't discourage me, but they made a simple request: I had to talk to every service branch before I made a decision. I took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) with the United States Navy - they wanted me to join the Nuclear Program. I spoke to the Army and was told I could have any job I wanted. The Air Force never showed up for work, and the Marine Corps promised me one thing: whatever I wanted to do, they would prepare me for it... for life.
The Marine Corps
The Marine Corps taught me a lot of different things, but it was made clear that I was property of the United States Marine Corps - they owned me. Their job was to teach me how to stay alive while also attempting to break me. They were not allowed to touch me without informed consent or medical necessity, but accidents happen. I was told that I could pick between being a slut or a bitch - it didn't matter which I chose because I was going to be called both. When I mis-spoke to my drill instructor, she badgered me into saying "I made a fucking mistake," then she taught me the most important lesson I have every learned:
Don't you ever let someone else put words in your mouth. Sometimes, your word is all you have.
After boot camp, I was trained as a Communications Intelligence/Electronic Warfare Technician. The game was to learn who was lying, who kept their word, and what happened when trust was tested. The job was to keep people alive while others were trying to kill them - mistakes didn't cost money, they cost lives.
Booz Allen
When it was time to be mom, I went to the dark side - same job, but I became anonymous. Hidden behind the firewalls watching for leaks from home where my kids needed me most. I provided policy input, advisory services, and process improvement, but decisions were not mine to make. The new role was just as exhausting, but my kids were close and my partner was always present. The difference was the game changed to making money, and the job was to "shut up and color." It didn't take long for the environment to become toxic. They didn't care about losing lives, just losing money.
I filled two different roles where the environment was different and job was rewarding, but making money was still the name of the game. When I finally found myself in a position to help change the name of the game, I was ignored, sidelined, and almost lost myself. There is only so long you can survive in a toxic environment and reporting can be exhausting, so I began sending out flares in January 2023. After a year of treading water in a toxic environment, I began requesting a new contract with Booz Allen and removal from the toxic environment (namely their National Cyber Platform). I was denied both, and in December 2024 I was terminated.
What does any of this have to do with population control?
I'm so glad you asked... my socialization within the system was to trust the process, use your chain of command, but when all else fails - your word may be all you have so you better make every word count!!
Population control only works if the population has trust in the one wielding control. The moment the United States moved from the World War II mindset of "woman can do anything" to "woman do not have the aptitude," there was a fundamental shift from US against the world to US against woman. War time policy has always been about uniting together and everyone doing their part, but peace time policy suddenly looked at women as the lesser while women were responsible for 90% of the work with little to no recognition.
The United States Marine Corps taught me that there is nothing in this world that men can do that women cannot also; however, women are the only ones capable of maintaining population control through the power of both life and death. Booz Allen taught me that humans can attempt great feats of science, but those unwilling to address their flaws and biases will take themselves out along with anyone in their environment. The key aspect that each of these organizations were missing was how do you keep humans alive while they work through their flaws and biases without killing anyone in the process.
More to come, but until then remember... stay alive.
XOXO, Sapiophielle
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