Nifong is disbarred, fired and jailed for one day. Not enough. He should have everything he owns taken away and given to his victims. Leave his family destitute. Make it hurt. This is the only way to discourage this type of behavior by arrogant public officials. Knowing the likely outcome if they are caught is to have their family suffer as much as them will keep them honest.
Durham, North Carolina is likely to be slapped with a huge liability judgment for the actions of Nifong, the police department, and the city government. The citizens will pay. They need to learn that the vote comes with responsibility. That responsibility is to choose with care who runs things. Their actions will cost you money if you do not.
Ken Jenne is no longer Sheriff in Broward County, Florida. He is to plead guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion charges, in order to avoid more serious charges (money laundering). He, too, needs to have the punishment hurt till he screams. Does anyone think that he was able to faithfully perform the duties of the office of sheriff and protect the citizens WHILE BEING A CRIMINAL HIMSELF? He is known to have associated with known felons, which is a crime for a sworn police officer. How can he possibly explain this? Does it make you feel safe thinking that a sheriff is a crook? He is a long time mover and shaker in Florida politics - who of his many political contacts are also dirty? How many times was justice perverted by those who had something on Jenne? His crimes were not committed without other people being involved, and anyone involved would have had a strong blackmail ability over Jenne. Think about it.
I know that there are more examples of this type of behavior on the part of government officials, employees and elected public servants, but the point is simple. We MUST take back the power that has been usurped by those who claim to act in the public interest.
Your country, family and life are at stake. It may already be too late.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Power, and the abuse of it.
Okay folks, wake up.
You may be complacent with the state of affairs when it comes to crime. If so, you are helping cause the abuses of power that are happening with alarming frequency. Police brutality, eminent domain, families torn apart by idiotic government workers who are charged with PROTECTING them, and many others exist because of your apathy. All of these situations are caused by the poorly chosen and poorly executed powers that you have ceded to the government in the hopes of finding security. There is no security when the police crash through your door and kill you for trying to protect your home, all because a search warrant was granted based on bad information given by an informant who is high on drugs. It has happened. It can happen to you.
Don't take my word for it. Use the search facilities of the internet to read about these issues. You will be frightened at the sheer number of times innocent people have been harmed or killed for no legal reason - by people who are supposed to follow the law. YOU REALLY WILL!
Don't say you didn't know, when it happens to you or your loved ones. The information is there in black and white. Ask the Duke lacrosse players, Amadou Diallo, Abbate's 110 lb female victim or even some officers who have been victimized by bad cops. Ask Elian Gonzalez and all the children that CANNOT BE FOUND in Florida's child "protective" system. Ask homeowners who have been stripped of their family homes for "development" - just a way to increase tax revenues. Ask people who have seen a fifty dollar tax bill become hundreds then thousands of dollars, because the IRS didn't have their address correct. Ask people who have lost their property because of the tax burden on land that was once undesirable, but became useful due to encroachment of suburbs, and the taxes on this unused land became onerous.
You say, these people were unlucky, this doesn't happen very often. WRONG. It happens a lot. It can and will happen to you and people you know. It probably already has, but you don't recognize it for what it is, abuse of power by the government, because you don't love freedom as much as you love security. It is sad that so many of you just want to work, drink beer and watch your football games - and you pay no attention to what the politicians are doing to you - and you don't care, as long as it doesn't take away the beer or the football.
It is stunning that Michael Vick is a bigger story than the process of choosing our next president. I bet most of you can't even name 6 of the candidates for that office. I am dead certain that most of you can't name more than 4 of the parties that will have candidates - and there are more than four. You probably think that health care is a big issue, but you can't name three countries that have a well run system and explain why they work. You don't even know the names of your representatives - and you think they work for you. Stupid. And ignorant. You are giving away the most precious of our rights and freedoms because you are lazy. Not physically lazy - mentally lazy. It's too much trouble, it's too confusing, it takes too much time - I hear all of these excuses and it makes me sick. You wimps, you lazy insufferable idiots.
This is why I have no children. I can't trust my fellow citizens to make intelligent choices about things that will affect them for the duration of their own lives, much less protect my offspring. Instead, the arguments are Bud vs. Miller, Cowboys or Vikings. How pathetic.
Go ahead and laugh at me. Go ahead and call me a kook. Just don't let me hear you say you didn't know, when it happens to you. I will laugh at you and call you a kook, and I will be right.
You may be complacent with the state of affairs when it comes to crime. If so, you are helping cause the abuses of power that are happening with alarming frequency. Police brutality, eminent domain, families torn apart by idiotic government workers who are charged with PROTECTING them, and many others exist because of your apathy. All of these situations are caused by the poorly chosen and poorly executed powers that you have ceded to the government in the hopes of finding security. There is no security when the police crash through your door and kill you for trying to protect your home, all because a search warrant was granted based on bad information given by an informant who is high on drugs. It has happened. It can happen to you.
Don't take my word for it. Use the search facilities of the internet to read about these issues. You will be frightened at the sheer number of times innocent people have been harmed or killed for no legal reason - by people who are supposed to follow the law. YOU REALLY WILL!
Don't say you didn't know, when it happens to you or your loved ones. The information is there in black and white. Ask the Duke lacrosse players, Amadou Diallo, Abbate's 110 lb female victim or even some officers who have been victimized by bad cops. Ask Elian Gonzalez and all the children that CANNOT BE FOUND in Florida's child "protective" system. Ask homeowners who have been stripped of their family homes for "development" - just a way to increase tax revenues. Ask people who have seen a fifty dollar tax bill become hundreds then thousands of dollars, because the IRS didn't have their address correct. Ask people who have lost their property because of the tax burden on land that was once undesirable, but became useful due to encroachment of suburbs, and the taxes on this unused land became onerous.
You say, these people were unlucky, this doesn't happen very often. WRONG. It happens a lot. It can and will happen to you and people you know. It probably already has, but you don't recognize it for what it is, abuse of power by the government, because you don't love freedom as much as you love security. It is sad that so many of you just want to work, drink beer and watch your football games - and you pay no attention to what the politicians are doing to you - and you don't care, as long as it doesn't take away the beer or the football.
It is stunning that Michael Vick is a bigger story than the process of choosing our next president. I bet most of you can't even name 6 of the candidates for that office. I am dead certain that most of you can't name more than 4 of the parties that will have candidates - and there are more than four. You probably think that health care is a big issue, but you can't name three countries that have a well run system and explain why they work. You don't even know the names of your representatives - and you think they work for you. Stupid. And ignorant. You are giving away the most precious of our rights and freedoms because you are lazy. Not physically lazy - mentally lazy. It's too much trouble, it's too confusing, it takes too much time - I hear all of these excuses and it makes me sick. You wimps, you lazy insufferable idiots.
This is why I have no children. I can't trust my fellow citizens to make intelligent choices about things that will affect them for the duration of their own lives, much less protect my offspring. Instead, the arguments are Bud vs. Miller, Cowboys or Vikings. How pathetic.
Go ahead and laugh at me. Go ahead and call me a kook. Just don't let me hear you say you didn't know, when it happens to you. I will laugh at you and call you a kook, and I will be right.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Power, Government and Religion
Ok, I've thought a little more about it and I want to state unequivocally that my desires are for private enterprise to come up with approaches and solutions to our problems, one of which is the never ending struggle by our government and institutionalized religion to take and hold power over us.
Many people moan about pork barrel projects funded by tax dollars, but this is only the face of the beast. The problem is in the assumption that Uncle $am has ANY right to spend money on anything other than protecting the rights of individuals, the citizens from whom the power is derived. All other uses of tax money constitute nothing but the exercise of the power that has been stolen from those individuals. Sooner or later it will no longer be just an exercise.
When you have entrenched propaganda machines like public schools teaching young people that government knows best, it is very hard to make them understand the real principles of self-reliance and freedom from coercion. It's easier to let the government make decisions, even though the government demonstrably does nothing well.
If you stop to think you will realize that the wars on drugs, terrorism, poverty, discrimination and ad nauseum all have one thing in common - some group has to give up some rights in order for some perceived injustice to be corrected by our benevolent, protective, well meaning but power hungry government. This will only stop when all have given up all rights.
If you don't like people using drugs recreationally, don't associate with those people. If you don't know who they are, in other words, if you cannot tell who is or is not using, why do you care? If it is so bad that they hurt others, then their violations of other people's rights will give society the right to deal with it in the legal system, which exists to preserve individual rights and to punish those who violate them. Some worthless movie stars snorting cocaine are likely only dangerous to themselves. Let them self destruct. This will improve society.
The same goes for poverty, if you don't like it, create a job for someone that doesn't have one. Or teach people how to improve themselves. Otherwise, shut up. I don't care that you feel their pain.
For terrorism, simply stop interfering with the freedom of people to choose their own way of life. If they choose to live in slavery under despots, that is their business. If they choose to change, it is their responsibility to effect that change. You cannot force freedom on anyone. They have to want it.
Perceived discrimination is the biggest joke of all time. Do you spend all of your time worrying about what other people think about you and how they treat you? Perhaps you need a change of attitude in order to change what they think, instead of telling them that they must accept you because, or in spite of your color, religion, orientation or whatever. There are ALWAYS going to be people who don't like you. Get over it. The best revenge is living well. Put your efforts to that instead of trying to make everyone see what a wonderful person you are. We really don't think about you at all.
Do this so that the government doesn't have the reason to continue to erode our freedom.
A great way to live well is to open your mind and look for the facts. Quit the wishful thinking and figure out what is real and factual, then act on it. If you choose to believe something on faith, that's OK, just be prepared to accept that others are not going to accept your word on it. They will want facts, and faith isn't based on facts. Don't try to argue ethical arguments based on faith. Ethics can only be based in reality, the reality is that the sum total of improvements made by individuals in self interest, is the state of society. When individuals do not improve themselves, society is doomed. Religion is never an improvement on the state of society, only a way for those professing humility to exercise power over those who choose to believe their brand of mysticism. To put it another way, religion has always been used to present people with a moral dilemma, to act according to their nature and be damned, or to act against their nature and be "saved." It is the nature of man to be human, but religion would have you believe that this is evil, and that their particular code of behavior is the only way to be acceptable to your fellow man and to God. I say that God didn't make every animal except man to act according to its nature, leaving man in an impossible situation. It is very powerful to tell a child that a certain behavior will result in their everlasting damnation. It is a great evil to tell them that pleasure or rational self interest will do so. Yet religion often does.
No matter your place in the grand scheme of things, your characteristics, or personality, you can be a force for positive change. All you have to do is quit whining, stop the self destructive worrying about what others think, and start living your own life and taking responsibility for your own happiness. Don't try to please me, or worry what I think. I'm not signing your paycheck, and I'm not condemning you. I just don't care. My life is full enough without all that.
I'm just doing my tiny bit to improve things for all of you. The least you can do is get out of the way.
Many people moan about pork barrel projects funded by tax dollars, but this is only the face of the beast. The problem is in the assumption that Uncle $am has ANY right to spend money on anything other than protecting the rights of individuals, the citizens from whom the power is derived. All other uses of tax money constitute nothing but the exercise of the power that has been stolen from those individuals. Sooner or later it will no longer be just an exercise.
When you have entrenched propaganda machines like public schools teaching young people that government knows best, it is very hard to make them understand the real principles of self-reliance and freedom from coercion. It's easier to let the government make decisions, even though the government demonstrably does nothing well.
If you stop to think you will realize that the wars on drugs, terrorism, poverty, discrimination and ad nauseum all have one thing in common - some group has to give up some rights in order for some perceived injustice to be corrected by our benevolent, protective, well meaning but power hungry government. This will only stop when all have given up all rights.
If you don't like people using drugs recreationally, don't associate with those people. If you don't know who they are, in other words, if you cannot tell who is or is not using, why do you care? If it is so bad that they hurt others, then their violations of other people's rights will give society the right to deal with it in the legal system, which exists to preserve individual rights and to punish those who violate them. Some worthless movie stars snorting cocaine are likely only dangerous to themselves. Let them self destruct. This will improve society.
The same goes for poverty, if you don't like it, create a job for someone that doesn't have one. Or teach people how to improve themselves. Otherwise, shut up. I don't care that you feel their pain.
For terrorism, simply stop interfering with the freedom of people to choose their own way of life. If they choose to live in slavery under despots, that is their business. If they choose to change, it is their responsibility to effect that change. You cannot force freedom on anyone. They have to want it.
Perceived discrimination is the biggest joke of all time. Do you spend all of your time worrying about what other people think about you and how they treat you? Perhaps you need a change of attitude in order to change what they think, instead of telling them that they must accept you because, or in spite of your color, religion, orientation or whatever. There are ALWAYS going to be people who don't like you. Get over it. The best revenge is living well. Put your efforts to that instead of trying to make everyone see what a wonderful person you are. We really don't think about you at all.
Do this so that the government doesn't have the reason to continue to erode our freedom.
A great way to live well is to open your mind and look for the facts. Quit the wishful thinking and figure out what is real and factual, then act on it. If you choose to believe something on faith, that's OK, just be prepared to accept that others are not going to accept your word on it. They will want facts, and faith isn't based on facts. Don't try to argue ethical arguments based on faith. Ethics can only be based in reality, the reality is that the sum total of improvements made by individuals in self interest, is the state of society. When individuals do not improve themselves, society is doomed. Religion is never an improvement on the state of society, only a way for those professing humility to exercise power over those who choose to believe their brand of mysticism. To put it another way, religion has always been used to present people with a moral dilemma, to act according to their nature and be damned, or to act against their nature and be "saved." It is the nature of man to be human, but religion would have you believe that this is evil, and that their particular code of behavior is the only way to be acceptable to your fellow man and to God. I say that God didn't make every animal except man to act according to its nature, leaving man in an impossible situation. It is very powerful to tell a child that a certain behavior will result in their everlasting damnation. It is a great evil to tell them that pleasure or rational self interest will do so. Yet religion often does.
No matter your place in the grand scheme of things, your characteristics, or personality, you can be a force for positive change. All you have to do is quit whining, stop the self destructive worrying about what others think, and start living your own life and taking responsibility for your own happiness. Don't try to please me, or worry what I think. I'm not signing your paycheck, and I'm not condemning you. I just don't care. My life is full enough without all that.
I'm just doing my tiny bit to improve things for all of you. The least you can do is get out of the way.
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