Does Jail Have a Purpose?

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Guardian

Hilton checked into her prison cell Sunday where she’s expected to serve three weeks for a reckless-driving charge. She pleaded no contest to that charge.

She will stay in a part of the prison that contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates. Hilton’s cell has two bunks, a table, a sink, a toilet and a small window. She does not have a cellmate.

Hilton will eat her meals in her cell. She will be allowed outside the 12-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone. No cell phones are allowed in the facility, even for visitors.

Paris Hilton

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What does this teach? What loss does this remedy? What good does this do?

It would be pretty silly for government to spend so much time and effort making laws, prisons and courts if they didn’t use them. Sending people to jail gives their laws some weight – like cement boots.

If government wants to emulate the solid and unforgiving punishment delivered by nature and other physical laws then they have succeeded. They teach us that government can emulate nature.

Jail time also teaches us that government can torture people and use cruel and unusual punishment. Government is in in angry denial if they believe otherwise. Government can do wrong and call it right. Government laws are correct and justified – in minds of their robotic minions and champions.

There is no such thing as pain unless it is physical according to the tenants of the cult of government worshipers and sociopaths. Prison and courts are real pain.

Do the police focus on pretty celebrities? Do they get a rush? Do they like to “throw the book” at people just to be able to justify inflicting pain on others. Do they get sexual gratification from their power trip?

Having experienced similar, I cannot ever again believe that the law, the courts, the prisons, and the police are without prejudice and fault.

One or two beers can actually increase a persons’ performance in sports, make him more alert and stronger. I’ve won putting contests and other golf contests after consuming two beers. I’ve bowled my highest bowling scores after consuming two beers. Much of the campaign against people that drink is similar to a witch hunt or a hunt for heretics for I sincerely believe that one or two beers might actually, in similar fashion, diminish automobile accidents. I am not defending excesses for I haven’t consumed more than five beers a month for more than fifteen years.

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The strongest super power is the power of love.

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Guardian

Imagine if we had a superhero that could force others to love and understand others.

Imagine if our superhero made Hitler love the Jews.
Imagine if our superhero made Cho love his classmates.
Imagine if our superhero made the Shiites love the Sunni and the
Sunni love the Shiites.
Imagine if our superhero could cause government employees, like the police, politicians, and judges, to love everybody.
Imagine if our superhero made all the wicked people love one another.

Imagine if our superhero made everybody love everybody. Who would be needy? Who would steal? Who would kill? Who would be selfish? Who would not help others? The world would at least start to be utopian.

Wouldn’t an Entity that could force love and understanding be the greatest and most respected entity of all? Entities that can force hate are everywhere. It is so easy to cause death, but so difficult to cause another to love another.

One basic dichotomy is control by love versus control by death and fear. One is difficult and respected. The other is simple inhumanity.

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What is a modern day seer/prophet?

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Guardian

A seer is someone that can tell the future. The dictionary tells us that a seer is one that sees, one that predicts events or developments, or a person credited with extraordinary moral and spiritual insight.

Today we don’t call them seers. Today, a seer could be a doctor that can tell you how your health will be in the future. A seer could be a navigator that could tell you where your ship will be in the future. A seer could be a chess player that can tell you how a game will end. A seer could be a weather forecaster that tells you what tomorrows’ weather will be. A seer could be an economist that will tell you what the future economy will be. A political analyst might tell you who were going to win and election and what the winning issues will be.

The seer is known by a history of accurately being predicting future events. A seer will not be a cheerleader, a propagandist, a person in the psychiatric state of denial, or a person trying to promote his product. A seer will try to tell someone how to stay clear of future trouble. A seer may not be able to tell the entire future, as the future can be changed by people that listen to seers. A seer will give advice that is usually correct and sometimes magical.

Ancient seers watched the birds and animals knowing that their behavior could predict earthquakes, tsunamis and severe weather. Polynesian sailors could navigate by watching subtle wave patterns. Some seers may have enjoyed a sixth sense. Other seers may have predicted future events from knowledge of history or human behavior.

Politically who are the seers? Certainly not those that just want a prestige job or promise the population what they want to hear. A seer will probably warn us about the future and give facts to corroborate their findings. Although a modern day seer probably is highly intuitive, he will find the facts to support his intuition and will give them to you.

You may not understand why a seer makes his forecast. Just because the animals run from the shore doesn’t mean a tidal wave is forthcoming, you think. Moving a hundred yards further from the shore may help, you think. After all, you are a strong swimmer and you have a couple of hundred yards head start if you want to run. You survive because you take minimal precautions that the seer might be right.

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A nation, sans individuals and assets, is very easy to create.

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Guardian

A nation, sans individuals and assets, is very easy to create.

1) Create a constitution with a bill of human rights, such as the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Make it the responsibility of your nation to protect, expand and defend those rights. In fact, make it the ONLY right of your new nation to defend those rights. By lottery, choose a group to create laws to interpret those rights. Add feedback to verify those laws properly interpret those rights. Add a group to verify that those laws are applied with quality.

2) Create a judicial system that defends individuals from loss or injury. Add groups to establish fact. Add groups to check for compliance with law and principle. Have yet another group verify that the punishment is not more severe than the loss or injury caused. Have a jury vote on the findings of the other groups.

3) Create a budget. Decide how much your nation should spend for social programs, retirement, defense, education, justice, and catastrophe insurance. Divide the allotted budget down to equitably and justly spend on each slice of the pie. Use a top down approach to decide on expenditures. Use a bottom up approach to maximize how each individual benefits from the allocated funding. Use creative people to stretch the buck.

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How to pick a Candidate

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Guardian

1.) Your candidate should not engage in ad homonym attacks against his
opponent that aren’t relevant to the issues. Ad homonym attacks should
not be the emphasis of the campaign of your candidate.

2.) You candidate should recognize that there are many defects in government and society that need to be fixed.

3.) Your candidate should recognize that the main legislative body needs
to send some programs to a team for research, development, quality control,
engineering and management rather than try to resolve them on the floor.

4.) Your candidate should know that disproportionate spending is wrong.
Squandering a nations’ assets on an unnecessary war, for example, is not
a desirable quality. Squandering assets on something that is not a certain
benefit to the majority that oppose such spending is not only not a desirable
quality, but a crime.

5.) Your candidate should recognize that some programs have complex interactions and that proposals need to be written before any vote or discussion hits the floor.

6.) Your candidate should recognize that if legislation needs ‘pork’ added
in order to pass that the proposal does not stand on its own merits. Your
candidate should be able to articulate logical reasons for any practical
compensatory legislation (pork) to offset loss to any state by any bill.

7.) Your candidate should recognize that people expect quality justice
and that efforts must be made to ensure quality justice.

8.) Your candidate should recognize that people want efficient and productive
government programs. Your candidate should be able to defend a pie chart
of government spending and taxation. He should be able to justify each
slice of the pie.

9.) Your candidate should recognize that people want government programs
that benefit all – NO government program should be allowed to help just
part of the population.

10.) Your candidate should recognize that all the government programs have
to function homogeneously and seamlessly through the population and laws.

11.) Your candidate should recognize that it is the duty of government
not only to protect but to enhance the rights of citizens.

12.) Your candidate should recognize and state that disproportionate punishment – punishment that is in excess of any loss and injury caused – is an evil.

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Government Ain’t Jack Bauer

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Guardian

Jack Bauer is a fictional character that saves the world a dozen times every twenty-four hours in the hit series ’24’.

Government handles the same dozen issues year after year. These issues never get resolved. New issues and concerns are never heard, discussed, considered or resolved. The following is from the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. May 4-6, 2007. N=1,028 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

http://www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm

Important Not Important
The situation in Iraq 88 11
Terrorism 80 20
Education 81 19
Health care 78 22
Gas prices 74 26
Corruption and ethical standards in government 77 24
The situation in Iran 77 22
Social Security and Medicare 75 24
The economy 79 20
Illegal immigration 63 36
Taxes 70 29
The federal budget deficit 64 35
Global warming 53 46
Abortion 51 48
Gun policy 52 46
Stem cell research 48 49
Policies toward gays and lesbians 28 71

Some of the issues above, like the war in Iraq, are the top issues. Other issues, like abortion, never get resolved. You’ll also note that the only policy on the above poll concern gays and lesbians. What about judicial and police policies? Aren’t they important? Isn’t a policy that seeks to identify and report problems within a nation important? Are we doing a forensic-like investigation of the problems of America? No! We don’t even know what those problems are!

There are about 56,000 governments in America. There are probably 56 million laws, by-laws and rules. There are probably 56 billion individual defects in the ways those laws, policies, by-laws and regulations are administered. How many are being handled? (Close to zero percent)

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Big Brother Told Me the Following wasn’t Appropriate

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Guardian

DYSTOPIAN IDEALOGIES

“United We Stand, Divided We Fall” is plausibly the prime rational behind government. The theory is that several people can protect themselves better than one individual. However, this theory has been expanded into an expansive ideology that holds that big is always better. Some, for example, believe that war cannot be started if there is only one government on earth. The dichotomy is that evolutionary theory predicts that there will be less competition and growth if competition is less or lacking. Is there an ideology that embraces bigness and unity? Is it flawed?

The Bible contains a story of the city-states of Cannon being conquered with all occupants slaughtered. Such were the times. Feudal warfare continued for almost a score of centuries. The richer kingdom would send the bigger and better army. The bigger and stronger army would usually prevail. Perhaps it was sport. Perhaps it was genetic. Perhaps it was the euphoria of the victory. Perhaps it was sadism. Perhaps it was religion. It is likely some of the reasons for conquest were greed, growth and/or revenge.

In China, there were more competing states. There was more competition. If one province destroyed themselves and their enemy – their war spoils – then they would be weakened. The neighboring provinces would capitalize on the weakness and send their armies. Perhaps the Chinese were more opportunistic and logical. It was the Chinese philosophy to conquer without destroying. Their philosophy was to use conquest for enrichment and to grow more powerful so that a neighboring province would not invade while they were weakened from warfare. See Rev. Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”.

Is more competition better? This will be continued…

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The paragraphs above were in a zip file and emailed to myself. The company returned the email saying the the content wasn’t appropriate for a business email.

BIG BROTHER IS HERE!

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America is not the only Nation with Absurd Laws

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Guardian

Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants Thursday in the northwestern city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed a complaint charging that a public kiss Gere gave to Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event offended local sensibilities.

Richare Gere Kiss

Nations of the world have to effect policy against absurd laws.

International standards such as the “UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights” should be adopted as yardsticks against which laws that violate individual rights.

Disproportionate punishment is defined by this site as any punishment that is more severe than the loss or injury the alleged crime caused.

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Eisenhower the Peacenik

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Guardian

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we, in our dealings with all the peoples of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice. Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book… Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957

“…in [July] 1945… Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. …the Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent.

“During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face’. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude…”

– Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate For Change, pg. 380

In a Newsweek interview, Eisenhower again recalled the meeting with Stimson:

“…the Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.”

– Ike on Ike, Newsweek, 11/11/63

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32 Killed at a Virginia University

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Guardian

A gunman killed 32 people at a Virginia university on Monday, calmly gunning down students attending class and then killing himself in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.

Shouldn’t government be performing forensic-like investigations to uncover the reasons for school shootings?

A glib explanation for events of this type is that a person gets a “chemical imbalance in his brain” and goes berserk. Because the person is different, there is a reason for the evil deeds. Government, schools and society are free from blame. The individual is dehumanized and no further reasons need to be sought. Everybody mourns the victims and puzzles over why anybody would be so evil to go on a shooting rampage. Life continues.

That scenario shows how irresponsible government has become. If government doesn’t even know what responsibility is, then how can their poor charges – the citizens and individuals be responsible? Someone gets into a rage from a series of frustrations, slights, imagined slights, losses, confusions, exasperations, angers, upsets, and problems. Government doesn’t take the responsibility for finding out what were the problems that led to this explosion. Government doesn’t investigate the defects in government and society. Government doesn’t categorize and analyze the problems. Most importantly, government doesn’t fix the problems. Other shootings happen.

Government programs to build reliable satellites have extensive and exhaustive examination and testing. Transistors for these satellite programs are X-rayed, vibrated, heated, frozen, accelerated, life tested, dissected and microscopically analyzed. The American government wrote the book on QC analysis and control. Government should apply similar rigorous QC techniques to solving the problems of society. Government doesn’t have to be a cheerleader and brainwash Americans that this is the greatest country on earth. Nor does government need to publicize the grim details. Government should just investigate and fix the problems with their society in a quiet, efficient and business-like manner.

After government discovers what her own defects are, she will be better able to produce citizens that are more responsible. Perhaps individuals can become responsible enough to emulate government and solve their own problems without misdirected or excessive force.

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