“Are you sentimentally attached any longer to this broken Christmas ornament my wife asked as she carefully packed the Christmas decorations?”
“No” I replied - without even looking at whatever it was she was considered throwing out ”… I am no longer sentimentally attached to any of this I replied” wondering to myself how I had become so calloused, and uncaring.
I stopped my cleaning and pondered the thought a moment before an overwhelming wave of disgust settled in the forefront of my mind, and it became clear that the real reason I was no longer sentimental was because I have spent the last two years of my life being sentimental for much bigger and more important things – that affect my family and I much more deeply than a Christmas ornament, and/or anything it represents.
The reality is that I am sentimental for my children to have the hope, joy and promise that attracted me to immigrate to America in the first place – the great American values and integrity of America’s Christian founding fathers; the promise of a bright and prosperous future in the political environment defended by the world’s greatest military protecting the world’s greatest Constitution as proven over time in history as the longest succeeding and most successful republic in the history of the world.
Now that is all something I miss for me and my wife – but especially for my children.
So I ask myself – where did it all go in the last 10, 20, 30 & 40 years? Where did America’s strength go, and who let it go? Who took it from us, and who held them accountable? Who is responsible for destroying America’s moral, economic, military, and political strength over the last 40 years? Was it my generation that allowed all of this failure? Was it my parents? How did this happen?
An Oracle Against America
My thoughts have already asked these questions over and over again increasingly loudly over the last 10 years. I already know the answer because I have taken the time to study this history, and the people involved. I know who has done this and you probably know some of them to.
The reality is that America’s strength was initially inflated beyond reality when the American government of the early 20th century embraced Keynesian economics, and revved up the economic engine of America with debt and taxation of created wealth.
The great engine hit its prime in the middle of the last century when America beat the world at war with economic prosperity still married to disciplined resolve. And carried it forward as the disciplined resolve was refocused on the development of the biggest industrial and consequent broadly based socio-economic age in history. Never before has a middle class seen such affluence so broadly spread amongst so many people as has been the God ordained and blessed history of America.
But then the disciplined resolve of the greatest generation waned as their children began to influence more of the priorities of America, and disciplined community resolve was replaced with the “me” generation, civil rights, women’s liberation, pro choice selfishness and the new attitude that no one is more important than me.
Subscribe if you have, or would choose this now, but God has a much more effective way of dealing with the proud and selfish motivations of the arrogant, and now increasingly stupid. America has become selfish, lazy, too comfortable, unmotivated, incompetent, and ignorant to even understand what it takes any longer to be a great nation. The Congress has been overtaken by imbeciles incapable of making a simple calculation or demonstrating enough conviction to stand up for a principle. The education system has been overtaken by failed Congressmen, and women and are incapable of even knowing what a lesson is, let alone how to prepare it, what to accomplish with it, how to deliver it, and how to end it. Conviction? Only on their records. And you can add Law enforcement that have become the tax collection pansies for the only growing sector of America – the overspending bureaucrats. And while these bloated butt minorities now run the new America, hardly a one is capable of even reaching their shoe laces – let alone knowing how to tie them if they still had laces. Not a clue what they are there for, how they could ever begin to contribute a thing to the good of the country. And there are the Unions – the new mafia that has put the Sicilians and Italians out of their own businesses with shame as these ridiculous caricatures of power abuse every organization and person they touch to justify collecting political contributions for their democratic Congressional hacks, cronies, and now even a President.
So where are you going America? Straight into the toilet is the obvious answer. Hopefully a few thinking, caring, and less misguided souls will set down their 44 oz Slurpee, take their baseball caps off and use all this massive knowledge base known as the internet to take a moment, and see where it went off the rails, find out what was working better before, and share it with the rest of us so we can return to prosperity, and promise once again before we hit the wall. I would suggest a return to the Judaeo-Christian God as the creator and author of America’s founding documents, the God of it’s fathers, and the historically consistent provider of blessing to His children and destroyer of His enemies. If you don’t make yourself one of His children by choice, you already likely fall into the latter category, and apparently there are more of you than there is of us. This may be why we have lost our blessing America.
Call me a religious loon if you will, but you clearly haven’t demonstrated a better understanding of the problems, or especially any solution in the last decades, so who are you to criticize? Oh yeah, one other little problem for you PC types: God is just. Honest and just. That is the same word that is the root of the word Justice. Not like the kids store, or any myopic strained liberal lunacy as purveyed as a Justice Department by that nincompoop Eric Holder. Justice is the final weighing of a matter in the balance of all considerations – the only one capable of truly defining true and honest Justice – let alone meting it out – is the creator of all things – the Omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnipresent (in all places at once) God of the universe. If you haven’t taken the time to know the one that made you, you are simply an idiotic fool.
So if you really care a whit about your future let alone anyone else’s, why don’t you do us all a favor and take a moment to search him out on Google (where else would you start a search?). But I strongly suggest you go to Biblegateway.com and begin by reading the book of John. Use the search item “John 1:1”, and follow on reading from there. I don’t suggest you use the KJV (King James Version) as the style is outdated and often confusing. Instead use the NIV (New International Version) of the NASB (New American Standard Bible) and drop me a line if you have any questions.
Now as for America’s future, it isn’t looking to bright with the current crop of loons regardless of your political bent. So when you finally head to China, Brazil, India, Switzerland, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Australia, Canada, Korea, England, Germany, Italy, or anywhere in Africa, be sure to take some bottled water, a souvenir American dollar, and shut off the lights on your way out. I doubt there is anyone else ready to lead this mess again until the Chinese come to collect on their investments.
Happy New Year!
Alan Este
December 31, 2010
Showing posts with label police. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police. Show all posts
Friday, December 31, 2010
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Overpolicing America
Can there be such a thing as over policing? Aren't police all about good things for us all? And isn't there simply a lack of money to get enough good policing?
The reality is that police are the tool of a governing body.
It is a month and a half now since our new President was inaugurated, and his democratic house and senate control has been made complete. Never before in a "democracy" has such an overreaching, overspending, leadership ran over a people that elected it in such a sound way, through every possible aspect of government abuse, vindictive revenge, and fiscal mismanagement such that it has completely and effectively bombed a country with chaos.
Never before have the complete people of a country stopped spending so rapidly, so radically, and so completely in reaction to such actions through fear that they have caused a complete economy to implode in such a failure of confidence except in 1929.
And in my focus on the policing power of the state, I have continued to watch the power of police now with a new consideration. The police forces of America are now the government's new militia, self supported through abusive traffic enforcement, and now ready to turn on us all as they have become the tool of an instantly militant, ruling class who have made clear that their moderate campaign of the election era has been abandoned to their real agenda instituting the communist manifesto with every violation of freedom, taxation, and control that make Marxism reprehensible to those old enough to remember what it is .
Unfortunately, we have two generations now that have grown up without the experience of observing the reality of socialist marxism. And in their ignorance, have joined with the disenfranchised left, the disenfranchised blacks, and the majority fools of Congress to build the new society here among us, on our backs.
If you don't think an armed police force won't do this governments bidding, you do not understand the way a police army works.
In the midst of state and municipal budget cutting at almost every level in our country, one of the only place our governments will not cut budgets, employees, or priorities is in the area of policing. Our new federal budget adds government cars, and government personnel, and yet cuts the budgets of every other department. Where do you think all that money is going folks?
The answer is policing. Not every aspect of government policing (read "control") involves a marked patrol car rolling down a road watching speeders, and traffic rule violations. We have new government offices to simply study the GPS patterns of cell phone users, the spending habits of bank accounts, the use of credit cards, the conversations of callers, and the way in which you interact with those around you. And yes you are paying for this with your taxes - if you are in the half of the population that pays taxes.
But you can also bet that when the whistle is blown by "Pharobama" and his control minions, every aspect of policing will lockstep against your wallet and your freedom.
So why not add self supporting traffic police at every level? A minimum drag on taxation based public funding, and a simple way to grow the control factor?
Won't you contribute today?
The reality is that police are the tool of a governing body.
It is a month and a half now since our new President was inaugurated, and his democratic house and senate control has been made complete. Never before in a "democracy" has such an overreaching, overspending, leadership ran over a people that elected it in such a sound way, through every possible aspect of government abuse, vindictive revenge, and fiscal mismanagement such that it has completely and effectively bombed a country with chaos.
Never before have the complete people of a country stopped spending so rapidly, so radically, and so completely in reaction to such actions through fear that they have caused a complete economy to implode in such a failure of confidence except in 1929.
And in my focus on the policing power of the state, I have continued to watch the power of police now with a new consideration. The police forces of America are now the government's new militia, self supported through abusive traffic enforcement, and now ready to turn on us all as they have become the tool of an instantly militant, ruling class who have made clear that their moderate campaign of the election era has been abandoned to their real agenda instituting the communist manifesto with every violation of freedom, taxation, and control that make Marxism reprehensible to those old enough to remember what it is .
Unfortunately, we have two generations now that have grown up without the experience of observing the reality of socialist marxism. And in their ignorance, have joined with the disenfranchised left, the disenfranchised blacks, and the majority fools of Congress to build the new society here among us, on our backs.
If you don't think an armed police force won't do this governments bidding, you do not understand the way a police army works.
In the midst of state and municipal budget cutting at almost every level in our country, one of the only place our governments will not cut budgets, employees, or priorities is in the area of policing. Our new federal budget adds government cars, and government personnel, and yet cuts the budgets of every other department. Where do you think all that money is going folks?
The answer is policing. Not every aspect of government policing (read "control") involves a marked patrol car rolling down a road watching speeders, and traffic rule violations. We have new government offices to simply study the GPS patterns of cell phone users, the spending habits of bank accounts, the use of credit cards, the conversations of callers, and the way in which you interact with those around you. And yes you are paying for this with your taxes - if you are in the half of the population that pays taxes.
But you can also bet that when the whistle is blown by "Pharobama" and his control minions, every aspect of policing will lockstep against your wallet and your freedom.
So why not add self supporting traffic police at every level? A minimum drag on taxation based public funding, and a simple way to grow the control factor?
Won't you contribute today?
Saturday, January 10, 2009
"Patrolmen In Greed' - The PIGs Are On The Loose
Almost everyone I speak with - most of whom admittedly know my personal biases - have been commenting on the number of Police they are seeing everyday 'protecting our "SAFETY"' by stopping those of us evil traffic violators that speed, and/or violate some inane sign somewhere.
Safety is now deemed of vital importance to national safety by the American Society of Civil Engineers, who several years ago in an effort to promote highway and roadway construction projects introduced their version of "Safety Day". Apparently Elmer the Safety Elephant has long ago retired, and in this morbid black era of government interference, overindulgence and overreaching, they appropriately named their annual celebration each October 10 as "Fatalities Day". (See http://www.brakesonfatalities.org/)
Well I would never consider the civil engineering community the epicenter of social policy making wisdom. And I can hardly fault them for their attempt at developing an awareness campaign that gives lawmakers another good reason to spend money on Civil Engineers....
But it doesn't seem to be working that way.
In fact, the way I learned about "Fatalities Day" was through our state's websites where they are using the engineers attempts at statistic bundling to justify the ever growing need for more enforcement, more police, and more public abuse by people who are supposed to be "protecting" us. It appears that this kind of protection - like so many others - keeps breaking, and we keep ending up with more 'child support'.
In my home state of South Cackalacky, our states own statistics as maintained by the Department of Transportation (see http://www.roadmaptosafety.us/) have evaluated the cause of traffic deaths and traffic related injuries into the top 9 causes over the previous 5 years and have determined that more than 50% of the deaths and 25% of the injuries can be resolved through strategically placed guard rails, and similar such roadway improvements. In fact of the almost 20 recommendations made as to how to correct the first two death and injury types, only two involve police enforcement.
In fact, by cutting the budgets of 'enforcement' by less than 20%, almost every one of the other recommendations could be paid for and implemented as one time expenditures in less than 5 years, and maintained thereafter at a cost of less than half this amount ever after. Moreover the success rate of these improvements will far exceed 50% while the comparable expenditure on law enforcement is certain to yield a less than 5% improvement in safety.
In reality, we need less traffic police in every part of the union, more commitment to safe roads and infrastructure, and priorities that make real improvements. And yet the buffoons in every legislature in the country keep approving the budgets of these bloated law enforcement communities based on the medias preoccupation with crime, property damage, and interpersonal clashes as the top stories in every news and most reality shows. Any business mind knows that burning salary money over capital costs is the fastest way to destroy an enterprise - you add no value, and you may not get any value either.
Why can't the people wake up and recognize that the real enemy isn't your neighbor unless he drives a Police car? Next only to politicians that authorize this insanity, the power abuse by law enforcement at every level is now rampant, and costing you more than the average KGB agency ever got away with throughout the complete cold war era - and frankly with similar results.
In South Carolina, the new blue light special still includes you using your wallet, but is now available on every street corner whether or not there is a K-Mart, and more likely involves someone needing protection. But think twice - the protection is broken, and the final cost will always be yours.
Safety is now deemed of vital importance to national safety by the American Society of Civil Engineers, who several years ago in an effort to promote highway and roadway construction projects introduced their version of "Safety Day". Apparently Elmer the Safety Elephant has long ago retired, and in this morbid black era of government interference, overindulgence and overreaching, they appropriately named their annual celebration each October 10 as "Fatalities Day". (See http://www.brakesonfatalities.org/)
Well I would never consider the civil engineering community the epicenter of social policy making wisdom. And I can hardly fault them for their attempt at developing an awareness campaign that gives lawmakers another good reason to spend money on Civil Engineers....
But it doesn't seem to be working that way.
In fact, the way I learned about "Fatalities Day" was through our state's websites where they are using the engineers attempts at statistic bundling to justify the ever growing need for more enforcement, more police, and more public abuse by people who are supposed to be "protecting" us. It appears that this kind of protection - like so many others - keeps breaking, and we keep ending up with more 'child support'.
In my home state of South Cackalacky, our states own statistics as maintained by the Department of Transportation (see http://www.roadmaptosafety.us/) have evaluated the cause of traffic deaths and traffic related injuries into the top 9 causes over the previous 5 years and have determined that more than 50% of the deaths and 25% of the injuries can be resolved through strategically placed guard rails, and similar such roadway improvements. In fact of the almost 20 recommendations made as to how to correct the first two death and injury types, only two involve police enforcement.
In fact, by cutting the budgets of 'enforcement' by less than 20%, almost every one of the other recommendations could be paid for and implemented as one time expenditures in less than 5 years, and maintained thereafter at a cost of less than half this amount ever after. Moreover the success rate of these improvements will far exceed 50% while the comparable expenditure on law enforcement is certain to yield a less than 5% improvement in safety.
In reality, we need less traffic police in every part of the union, more commitment to safe roads and infrastructure, and priorities that make real improvements. And yet the buffoons in every legislature in the country keep approving the budgets of these bloated law enforcement communities based on the medias preoccupation with crime, property damage, and interpersonal clashes as the top stories in every news and most reality shows. Any business mind knows that burning salary money over capital costs is the fastest way to destroy an enterprise - you add no value, and you may not get any value either.
Why can't the people wake up and recognize that the real enemy isn't your neighbor unless he drives a Police car? Next only to politicians that authorize this insanity, the power abuse by law enforcement at every level is now rampant, and costing you more than the average KGB agency ever got away with throughout the complete cold war era - and frankly with similar results.
In South Carolina, the new blue light special still includes you using your wallet, but is now available on every street corner whether or not there is a K-Mart, and more likely involves someone needing protection. But think twice - the protection is broken, and the final cost will always be yours.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Saving Money In Our Bankrupt State
In a State like South Carolina that can no longer afford to repay the unemployment insurance to the premium payers it has joyfully taken it from, it is time for a little serious reckoning.
And before the responsible lawmakers who have abused this public trust began to whimper about their proposed absolution on the grounds that it is not their fault because ‘the economy took the money’, and we have a figurative lynching in the kangaroo court of our local media, I would suggest these buffoons first take a reality check.
Always the first to demand the highest of standards, the slightest infraction in the current law and order environment these Pharisees have been proud to cultivate now boasts an average 40 hour stay in our notorious local County Detention Center with not yet proven guilty people casually tossed in this gulag for any police officers or judges contrived whim. The net effect is a prison sentence greater than the combined stays of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and the newly redefined 42nd President of the United States who perjured himself on camera before the complete nation making a complete mockery of the word Justice – redefining it in their cases to be “Just-Us”.
It is apparent at any level of review that America has lost the ability to understand the abandoned concepts of Christianity that are an essential part of a black and white justice system – namely mercy and grace that require the discernment of thinking people who recognize their own fallen state as sinners, and do not casually assume the role of arbiters of justice through the tyranny of excuses in a system overdeveloped inordinately.
So it is time these lawmakers began to push the pendulum in another direction before they too are mistakenly placed in the gulag for a casually presumed failing of their own.
They can begin with stopping the waste of money used to build up the ultimate bastion of State work – the South Carolina Highway Patrol. This enormously bloated agency is so full of $ 50,000. cars ridden in by $ 100,000. per year “officers” – the largest group of which can’t pass a donut shop or miss a second chicken dinner. The primary taxpayer funded rolls – er’ roles – of these people is to 1) corral traffic at major public events like football games and funerals and the fair, and 2) stop speeders on well built highways and extract money from them for driving at unsafe speeds.
Now these highways aren’t the streets in your neighborhoods – these are the four lane highways with passing lanes, and speed limits that were designed for 1950’s built cars – back when a rack and pinion steering system and disc brakes were still a novelty on European racing tracks. Now that the average car is built with every capability (except the driver) of successfully navigating speeds in excess of 100 mph, speed limits are only for the benefit of these publicly paid wallet rapists who collect the money – only to give It to their local counties – a fact of which they are proud. So the first thing the bankrupt State of South Carolina should do to begin pushing the pendulum back to center is to begin dismantling the states “Public Safety” department through a careful review of the success of this goofy waste of money. There is not a thing this group does that the elected (therefore accountable) county Sherriff’s office couldn’t take over, and manage more effectively.
Secondly, they should change the terms of funding the regional pet jail of J. Alton Cannon - duly elected Sheriff of Charleston County – working to ingratiate support from an adoring public for being a “law and order man” – perhaps in the vein of the notorious idiot Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. It turns out now the jail has outgrown ol’ Sheriff Al’s responsibility limits, and likely he no longer wanted to be associated with the nightmare because after all – he has to stand for election!
Clearly the State of South Carolina’s imbalanced funding formula is a major impediment to the Sheriff’s originally implied goal of exercising true justice, and is due for an objective review.
While I’ll be the first to suggest that legitimate incarceration of proven guilty parties is a worthwhile and necessary part of any rehabilitation process, a major percentage of the people at any given time in the Charleston county gulag – more affectionately referred to by it’s growing alumni as the “Leeds Avenue Motel” are awaiting first hearings.
And these average 40 hour incarcerations are to simply hold first hearings for matters as trivial as having taken a bag of potato chips, failing to cover a check for $ 32.00 to a local grocery store five years ago, or driving with a revoked license in the wake of failing to turn in a license plate in years past, casually turned into a bench warrant by flippant judges and prosecuting officers of no distinction – who simply do their routine jobs as defined by foolish lawmakers. These elected politicians who proudly introduce laws they have not done the work of beginning to think through the implications of – all in a society that has lost its justice equilibrium so badly that the system now demands that you prove your innocence and are treated as guilty until you do.
The heart of the problem is much greater than funding. But the short term resolution by a bankrupt state is a quick and objective review by an honest arbiter of fairness, and the proposal of a revised interim funding process that forces a dismantling of such tools of abuse.
Regional jailing does not work for real justice. In fact, the net result has become a system that rewards disparate policing organizations for sending people to the central gulag, and consequently lacks justice at every level. The problem is the State of South Carolina’s funding formula that pays the jails for time they hold the inmates – only encouraging this travesty of justice. Evidently in a large gulag like Sheriff Al’s the funding is actually profitable at the County level – the first major mistake, and the opportunity for change when the State decides to make the funding more fair and hence cut.
Instead, we should demand that every local policing organization go back to taking responsibility on their own for those they arrest until justice can be determined in a fair and practical fashion by the courts. This must include the respect for the public that is demanded of a system that is supposed to demonstrate that people are innocent of every charge until they are PROVEN guilty – in a full legal process – not at the whim of a fool rewarded to arrest and cuff the public, or a judge that has not yet made themselves aware of the facts. Instead of jailing for minor infractions, bonding should be able to be posted within an hour at every local police station.
A major excuse for holding people in the gulag for an average of more than a day, is their need to complete a national criminal background check. But frankly any country that can process a credit card payment in less than a minute should be able to complete a national check of criminal backgrounds within 20 minutes with a reasonable file of information. Their inability to do so is no excuse to abuse the innocents, and they do not have the right at this level to determine who is yet innocent.
The State should immediately appoint a diverse review committee who are given the responsibility to interview people that have experienced the system as well as those that run it to come up with a more effective system for determining how to mete out true justice. But any system the State is responsible for that is generating incentive money at the County level is well worth consideration of cutting funds to in a time of belt tightening and restraint.
And before the responsible lawmakers who have abused this public trust began to whimper about their proposed absolution on the grounds that it is not their fault because ‘the economy took the money’, and we have a figurative lynching in the kangaroo court of our local media, I would suggest these buffoons first take a reality check.
Always the first to demand the highest of standards, the slightest infraction in the current law and order environment these Pharisees have been proud to cultivate now boasts an average 40 hour stay in our notorious local County Detention Center with not yet proven guilty people casually tossed in this gulag for any police officers or judges contrived whim. The net effect is a prison sentence greater than the combined stays of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and the newly redefined 42nd President of the United States who perjured himself on camera before the complete nation making a complete mockery of the word Justice – redefining it in their cases to be “Just-Us”.
It is apparent at any level of review that America has lost the ability to understand the abandoned concepts of Christianity that are an essential part of a black and white justice system – namely mercy and grace that require the discernment of thinking people who recognize their own fallen state as sinners, and do not casually assume the role of arbiters of justice through the tyranny of excuses in a system overdeveloped inordinately.
So it is time these lawmakers began to push the pendulum in another direction before they too are mistakenly placed in the gulag for a casually presumed failing of their own.
They can begin with stopping the waste of money used to build up the ultimate bastion of State work – the South Carolina Highway Patrol. This enormously bloated agency is so full of $ 50,000. cars ridden in by $ 100,000. per year “officers” – the largest group of which can’t pass a donut shop or miss a second chicken dinner. The primary taxpayer funded rolls – er’ roles – of these people is to 1) corral traffic at major public events like football games and funerals and the fair, and 2) stop speeders on well built highways and extract money from them for driving at unsafe speeds.
Now these highways aren’t the streets in your neighborhoods – these are the four lane highways with passing lanes, and speed limits that were designed for 1950’s built cars – back when a rack and pinion steering system and disc brakes were still a novelty on European racing tracks. Now that the average car is built with every capability (except the driver) of successfully navigating speeds in excess of 100 mph, speed limits are only for the benefit of these publicly paid wallet rapists who collect the money – only to give It to their local counties – a fact of which they are proud. So the first thing the bankrupt State of South Carolina should do to begin pushing the pendulum back to center is to begin dismantling the states “Public Safety” department through a careful review of the success of this goofy waste of money. There is not a thing this group does that the elected (therefore accountable) county Sherriff’s office couldn’t take over, and manage more effectively.
Secondly, they should change the terms of funding the regional pet jail of J. Alton Cannon - duly elected Sheriff of Charleston County – working to ingratiate support from an adoring public for being a “law and order man” – perhaps in the vein of the notorious idiot Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. It turns out now the jail has outgrown ol’ Sheriff Al’s responsibility limits, and likely he no longer wanted to be associated with the nightmare because after all – he has to stand for election!
Clearly the State of South Carolina’s imbalanced funding formula is a major impediment to the Sheriff’s originally implied goal of exercising true justice, and is due for an objective review.
While I’ll be the first to suggest that legitimate incarceration of proven guilty parties is a worthwhile and necessary part of any rehabilitation process, a major percentage of the people at any given time in the Charleston county gulag – more affectionately referred to by it’s growing alumni as the “Leeds Avenue Motel” are awaiting first hearings.
And these average 40 hour incarcerations are to simply hold first hearings for matters as trivial as having taken a bag of potato chips, failing to cover a check for $ 32.00 to a local grocery store five years ago, or driving with a revoked license in the wake of failing to turn in a license plate in years past, casually turned into a bench warrant by flippant judges and prosecuting officers of no distinction – who simply do their routine jobs as defined by foolish lawmakers. These elected politicians who proudly introduce laws they have not done the work of beginning to think through the implications of – all in a society that has lost its justice equilibrium so badly that the system now demands that you prove your innocence and are treated as guilty until you do.
The heart of the problem is much greater than funding. But the short term resolution by a bankrupt state is a quick and objective review by an honest arbiter of fairness, and the proposal of a revised interim funding process that forces a dismantling of such tools of abuse.
Regional jailing does not work for real justice. In fact, the net result has become a system that rewards disparate policing organizations for sending people to the central gulag, and consequently lacks justice at every level. The problem is the State of South Carolina’s funding formula that pays the jails for time they hold the inmates – only encouraging this travesty of justice. Evidently in a large gulag like Sheriff Al’s the funding is actually profitable at the County level – the first major mistake, and the opportunity for change when the State decides to make the funding more fair and hence cut.
Instead, we should demand that every local policing organization go back to taking responsibility on their own for those they arrest until justice can be determined in a fair and practical fashion by the courts. This must include the respect for the public that is demanded of a system that is supposed to demonstrate that people are innocent of every charge until they are PROVEN guilty – in a full legal process – not at the whim of a fool rewarded to arrest and cuff the public, or a judge that has not yet made themselves aware of the facts. Instead of jailing for minor infractions, bonding should be able to be posted within an hour at every local police station.
A major excuse for holding people in the gulag for an average of more than a day, is their need to complete a national criminal background check. But frankly any country that can process a credit card payment in less than a minute should be able to complete a national check of criminal backgrounds within 20 minutes with a reasonable file of information. Their inability to do so is no excuse to abuse the innocents, and they do not have the right at this level to determine who is yet innocent.
The State should immediately appoint a diverse review committee who are given the responsibility to interview people that have experienced the system as well as those that run it to come up with a more effective system for determining how to mete out true justice. But any system the State is responsible for that is generating incentive money at the County level is well worth consideration of cutting funds to in a time of belt tightening and restraint.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Piggies In Blankets
The day was March 19, 2003 and America's military was focused on quickly moving toward Baghdad, Iraq. The television news was abuzz with the pending challenge attack that was anticipated by Saddam Hussein's strongest battalions of the Republican Guard that were Iraq's military elite.
America's military had braced itself and planned accordingly - ready to fight the strongest of traditional military battles against what was clearly going to be outpowered, but brave, strongly presented forces that would fight with a sense of pride along with a focus on protecting their families and country.
But instead we were shocked as the American troops boldly drove into town without any such confrontation. Instead American lives were lost to what the embedded news people described as a terribly disorganized and surreptitious enemy that was ‘too chicken' to fight bravely and honorably. Instead the Iraqi military men would hide, remove their uniforms - or cover them up with long desert style robes to look like reasonable civilians in amongst the rest of the Iraqi people, but would then spring a gun out from under such a robe and mercilessly attack the Americans as they drove by - only to run away and return to their military uniforms for their superiors. America was disgusted by these 'cheaters'.
What a gutless bunch of wimps - we Americans were disgusted by their lack of willingness to fight properly, bravely honorably, and wearing their true colors. What is this pathetic lack of self respect that would not be willing to fight honorably? Is it because they knew that they were severely outmanned, overpowered, and under equipped to meet the enemy straight on? In fact it was. The Iraqis had no real power, and no chance of survival if they did not resort to surreptitious and hidden approaches. They were to be more pitied than criticized, and America was too naieve to anticipate successfully such pathetic guerilla tactics generated by desperation.
But what if the tables were turned? What if the powerful American forces instead came in dressed as Iraqis in robes and innocently killed the innocent Iraqi citizenry as well as military without identifying themselves - would not the world have been far more outraged? That would have been the most disgusting combination of power and surreptitious wimpiness that could possibly be fathomed.
But that most disgusting combination of power and surreptitious wimpiness has now become the modus operandi of American traffic policing. The idiots that run police forces have made war with the American public - claimed in the name of safety and other noble causes - but really only for the sake of stealing money for their budgets - like Biblical Pharisees and tax collectors.
This kind of policing is worse than Iraqi military hiding under robes. It is the people with the power simply abusing without controls. Yes these jerks use the laws to justify their tactics so that they can 'win the war'. But who made it a war in the first place? They did - the ones with the power. In fact, if they had a bit of self respect, let alone any for the public they are hired to serve, they would return to what policing was traditionally - a service to the people that pay their salaries through municipal, state, and federal budgets.
What is this stench to accomplish a goal at any cost even when you have the power? Did the Americans abuse their power in Iraq? No they fought honorably and respectably in the face of such powerless and desperate guerilla opposition. But what justification do police use for their abuse of their power?
What traffic policing has become is an embarrassment to America, and particularly the wimpy police forces themselves that hide in unmarked cars, and prey upon the public.
The ONLY right way to police the public's traffic is to do so with a clear and consistent demonstration of what should be the respectable authority these Officers of the Courts have been granted with fully marked and obvious police cars. Anything less is an Iraqi wimp under a robe - but worse yet with the already defined war winning power to abuse.
It is time this type of traffic policing was outlawed by the fools we elect to represent us. But who has the brains - let alone the fortitude to stand up for the people? Yes I strongly criticize because no one else will.
Grow up little ‘piggies' - throw off your blankets and serve - not service - the public you are paid to work for - not against. Your arrogance is becoming a stench, and the public demands a new attitude before we take the necessary steps to eliminate your budgets.
America's military had braced itself and planned accordingly - ready to fight the strongest of traditional military battles against what was clearly going to be outpowered, but brave, strongly presented forces that would fight with a sense of pride along with a focus on protecting their families and country.
But instead we were shocked as the American troops boldly drove into town without any such confrontation. Instead American lives were lost to what the embedded news people described as a terribly disorganized and surreptitious enemy that was ‘too chicken' to fight bravely and honorably. Instead the Iraqi military men would hide, remove their uniforms - or cover them up with long desert style robes to look like reasonable civilians in amongst the rest of the Iraqi people, but would then spring a gun out from under such a robe and mercilessly attack the Americans as they drove by - only to run away and return to their military uniforms for their superiors. America was disgusted by these 'cheaters'.
What a gutless bunch of wimps - we Americans were disgusted by their lack of willingness to fight properly, bravely honorably, and wearing their true colors. What is this pathetic lack of self respect that would not be willing to fight honorably? Is it because they knew that they were severely outmanned, overpowered, and under equipped to meet the enemy straight on? In fact it was. The Iraqis had no real power, and no chance of survival if they did not resort to surreptitious and hidden approaches. They were to be more pitied than criticized, and America was too naieve to anticipate successfully such pathetic guerilla tactics generated by desperation.
But what if the tables were turned? What if the powerful American forces instead came in dressed as Iraqis in robes and innocently killed the innocent Iraqi citizenry as well as military without identifying themselves - would not the world have been far more outraged? That would have been the most disgusting combination of power and surreptitious wimpiness that could possibly be fathomed.
But that most disgusting combination of power and surreptitious wimpiness has now become the modus operandi of American traffic policing. The idiots that run police forces have made war with the American public - claimed in the name of safety and other noble causes - but really only for the sake of stealing money for their budgets - like Biblical Pharisees and tax collectors.
This kind of policing is worse than Iraqi military hiding under robes. It is the people with the power simply abusing without controls. Yes these jerks use the laws to justify their tactics so that they can 'win the war'. But who made it a war in the first place? They did - the ones with the power. In fact, if they had a bit of self respect, let alone any for the public they are hired to serve, they would return to what policing was traditionally - a service to the people that pay their salaries through municipal, state, and federal budgets.
What is this stench to accomplish a goal at any cost even when you have the power? Did the Americans abuse their power in Iraq? No they fought honorably and respectably in the face of such powerless and desperate guerilla opposition. But what justification do police use for their abuse of their power?
What traffic policing has become is an embarrassment to America, and particularly the wimpy police forces themselves that hide in unmarked cars, and prey upon the public.
The ONLY right way to police the public's traffic is to do so with a clear and consistent demonstration of what should be the respectable authority these Officers of the Courts have been granted with fully marked and obvious police cars. Anything less is an Iraqi wimp under a robe - but worse yet with the already defined war winning power to abuse.
It is time this type of traffic policing was outlawed by the fools we elect to represent us. But who has the brains - let alone the fortitude to stand up for the people? Yes I strongly criticize because no one else will.
Grow up little ‘piggies' - throw off your blankets and serve - not service - the public you are paid to work for - not against. Your arrogance is becoming a stench, and the public demands a new attitude before we take the necessary steps to eliminate your budgets.
Monday, December 1, 2008
The Stranglers Match
One post and the question comes -but why 'The Stranglers Match'?
The name 'Stranglers Match' is based on my vision of a one on one fight to the death without the benefit of weapons. Only one wins.
My view of the tangled web of growing government bureaucracy is as a strangler that is slowly overpowering it's enemy - you and I - John and Susie Q. Public.
No one person can match the strangler's power in todays world.
But the solution to the problem is to ignite the fight back against the strangler. This is my attempt to ignite the flame - a match as you will - to strangle back; to incite the victim to strangle the life out of the bureaucracy beginning with its tentacles and kill off the problem.
Can the fight ever be won fully? No - we will always need a level of government bureaucracy - but it can be held in check with a good fight. We must begin to strangle back, and stop the growth before we are killed by it. We must all become a match for the strangler, and this is my match to start the fire in you.
My goal in this blog is to tell the stories of people who are successful in fighting back against government, and how they did it, along with outlining the vision of how to group together against the oppressive Pharisees that now take far more than they give, and have lost their focus. Ideas about how to reign in control. Steps towards success that force refocus on our oppressors.
Lets demand more of our government with less of our freedom, less of our money, and less attitude. After all - who is supposed to be serving who? Government is supposed to be for the people and of the people, not strangling the people.
I want to be the match that starts the fire. And let's make it a bonfire!!
The name 'Stranglers Match' is based on my vision of a one on one fight to the death without the benefit of weapons. Only one wins.
My view of the tangled web of growing government bureaucracy is as a strangler that is slowly overpowering it's enemy - you and I - John and Susie Q. Public.
No one person can match the strangler's power in todays world.
But the solution to the problem is to ignite the fight back against the strangler. This is my attempt to ignite the flame - a match as you will - to strangle back; to incite the victim to strangle the life out of the bureaucracy beginning with its tentacles and kill off the problem.
Can the fight ever be won fully? No - we will always need a level of government bureaucracy - but it can be held in check with a good fight. We must begin to strangle back, and stop the growth before we are killed by it. We must all become a match for the strangler, and this is my match to start the fire in you.
My goal in this blog is to tell the stories of people who are successful in fighting back against government, and how they did it, along with outlining the vision of how to group together against the oppressive Pharisees that now take far more than they give, and have lost their focus. Ideas about how to reign in control. Steps towards success that force refocus on our oppressors.
Lets demand more of our government with less of our freedom, less of our money, and less attitude. After all - who is supposed to be serving who? Government is supposed to be for the people and of the people, not strangling the people.
I want to be the match that starts the fire. And let's make it a bonfire!!
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