tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18518379331092395042024-03-08T17:06:20.195-06:00Shift of PowerProgressive Unique Hope for America's future. This is the purpose of Shift of Power. The United States of America is in a state of decline. James B. Tinsley, B.A., examines politics and poilticians, citizen's struggles, and the Status Quo. Offering clear and specific solutions based on Humanistic Equalism: Philosophy for Ethical Government. Demonstrating the need for citizens to carry out a second Revolution to create a new government valuing people over profit and property.James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-5012010703787427192011-02-24T11:25:00.000-06:002011-02-24T11:25:08.951-06:00LABOR DISPUTE-SCOTT WALKER-WISCONSIN-REPUBLICANS-UNION BUSTING<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO DETERIORATE:</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<em>The following slightly paraphrased excerpt is from “The Ruins Of Empires,” by C.F. Volney, 1791... </em><br />
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Nations and states prosper because their social institutions conform to the true laws of nature. And because the people, enjoying liberty and security for their persons and their property, can display the full extent of their faculties. That is to say, all the energies of their self-love. <br />
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However, when all the principles of society are dissolved, there is no longer any common interest, no longer any public spirit. This causes a distinction of casts and races to arise, which then reduces the maintenance of disorder to a regular system. So that one who is born of this or that blood, is born a slave or a tyrant—property or proprietor, privileged or poor.. <br />
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With oppressors being less numerous than the oppressed it is necessary to perfect the science of oppression in order to support this false equilibrium. The art of governing has become the art of subjugating the many to the few. To enforce an obedience that is so contrary to instinct, the severest punishments are established, and the cruelty of laws render manners atrocious. <br />
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The distinction of persons within the state is established by two codes, two orders of criminal justice, and two sets of laws. Placed between tendencies of the heart and an oath uttered from one's mouth, people have two consciences in contradiction with each other. Ideas of justice and injustice no longer have any foundation within understanding. <br />
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Under such a system, people fall into dejection and despair, and occurrences of nature are added to the other evils that assail them. Prostrated by so many calamities, people attribute the causes to superior and hidden powers. Because people have tyrants on earth, they fancy others in heaven, and superstition aggravates the misfortune of nations. <br />
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One consequence of this is fatal doctrines with gloomy and misanthropic systems of religion become dominant. They paint their gods like their despots, wicked and envious. To appease them, humans offer up the sacrifice of all their enjoyment. Surrounded in privation, they reverse the order of nature. <br />
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They conceive pleasures to be crimes and suffering as expiation. People endeavor to love pain and renounce the love of self. Because of religion, humans persecute their senses, hate their life, and with a self-denying and anti-social morality, plunge a nation into the apathy of death. <br />
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When a holy indolence spreads over the political world, fields are deserted, empires are depopulated, monuments are neglected, and deserts multiply. Ignorance, superstition, and fanaticism combine their operations to overwhelm the earth with devastation and ruin. <br />
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Thus agitated by their own passions, humans, whether collectively or individually taken, are always greedy and improvident. They pass from slavery to tyranny, from pride to baseness, from presumption to despondency, making themselves the perpetual instruments of their own misfortunes. <br />
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These, then, are the principles, simple and natural, which regulate the destiny of nations and states. By this regular and connected series of causes and effects, they rise or fall, just in proportion as the physical laws of the human heart are respected or violated. In the course of successive changes, a hundred different nations, a hundred different empires, have, by turns, been humbled, elevated, conquered, overthrown, and repeated their instructive lessons for the earth. <br />
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However, since the experience of past ages is lost for the living—since the errors of progenitors have not instructed their descendants, these examples are about to reappear. The earth will see the tremendous scenes it has forgotten, renewed. New revolutions will agitate nations and empires. Powerful thrones will again be overturned. Terrible catastrophes will once again teach humankind that the laws of nature, and the precepts of wisdom and truth, cannot be infringed with impunity. <br />
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Presumptuous and ignorant people, who arrogate the earth to yourselves! If your imaginary God were to gather all the generations of past and present what would be of Christians and Muslims, of the sects calling themselves universal? What would be the judgment over the real universality of humankind? It is by this judgement that knowledge loses itself to incoherent systems. It is by this judgement that evidence exposes truth. And, it is by this judgement that the powerful and simple laws of nature and reason, of a common and general mover resides. <br />
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The only true God is the laws of nature, impartial and just, shedding rain on a country without asking who is its prophet, that causes the sun to shine alike on the entire human race—on white as on black, on the Jew, Muslim, Christian, and on the Idolater. It is nature that rears the harvest wherever cultivation is diligent, that multiplies every nation where industry and order prevails, that brings prosperity to every empire where justice is practiced, where the powerful are restrained, where the poor are protected by laws, and the weak live in safety. The real universality of humanity can only be found in those places where all people enjoy all rights given by nature, and a compact is formed in justice. <br />
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Does any of this sound familiar, or ring true to you? Until next time give Peace a Chance.<br />
James Tinsley, B.A.James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-35997461495996707082010-11-11T08:53:00.000-06:002010-11-11T08:53:37.149-06:00LOSER DEMOCRATS-CORRUPT REPUBLICANS-SCREWED AMERICANS11 November 2010<br />
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IGNORANT AMERICAN'S CONTINUE TO ELECT IDIOTS<br />
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“Just as long as people worship a God in heaven, there can be but little liberty on earth.” R. G. Ingersoll <br />
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Following a time of personal turmoil, uncertainty and upheaval in recent months, I am back. Before moving on, I would like to point out that Israeli Zionists continue to act like Nazi's; arrogant, self-important petulant persecutor's. God, that is, the God imagined by Moses, appropriated by Christian's, and used by Mohammed, is the underlying cause of nearly all humankind's suffering and war. And will be so long as <strong>It</strong> is considered or accepted as necessary or important to any aspect of government, or governance. <br />
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God and religion and religious practices may be just fine for individuals; I said “may be” just fine. So far there is no substantive proof or evidence of this, but if ignorance and superstition is someone's personal lifestyle choice, that's their deal. However, God, religion and religious practices are absolutely irrelevant and immaterial to any aspect of government. <br />
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If our species our civilization is to advance beyond our present condition and level of development anything and everything to do with God, religion and religious creed must be exorcised from our government. Then it must be somehow permanently prohibited in future. Keep in mind that as an American citizen I am primarily concerned with and speaking about United States Federal, State's, and local government. I do not have a vote in any other part of the world, therefore I have no say-so in other people's internal affairs. Although, while my concern is for all people everywhere, the United States of America is where I live. <br />
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This brings us to the current topic and my observation of ignorant American's electing idiots. That is to say they continue to elect idiots. According to American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd Edition, the first definition of an idiot is a foolish or stupid person. A stupid person is one that is slow to learn or understand. It is hard to imagine anyone challenging the assertion that our politicians, our elected representatives and officials are in fact, stupid. That is, idiots. Bear in mind that idiocy has little to do with education; Einstein is a great example of a brilliant idiot...so is Rain-man. <br />
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But, our politicians are simply the resulting effect of general ignorance that permeates United States citizens and society. All of us. Ignorant is different from idiot. According to the same source cited above ignorant is lacking education or knowledge; unaware or uninformed. Again, I feel confident that, broadly speaking, there is very little room for argument or dispute that as a nation we are definitely lacking in education and knowledge. America's current rankings with the rest of the developed world regarding reading, math, science, health care availability, infant deaths, maternal deaths, disparity between the very wealthy elite and everyone one else, poverty rates, and with respect to basic human and civil rights is undeniable evidence of our ignorance. <br />
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Of course, when I or anyone points this out, the nearly unanimous response from fellow American's is defensive consternation. Another glaring indication of the pervasive pall and pox that is symptomatic of our ignorance. That is, our lack of education and knowledge. <br />
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But then again, why should we expect anything different or better? When a recent in depth survey by the Pew Research Foundation revealed that slightly more than ¾ of all Americans say they believe in some kind of God, Supernatural Power, or Force that either controls or interferes in the affairs of this world. Moreover, nearly 60% of our citizens claim that they pray regularly, believe that prayer is answered and can effect outcomes in their daily life, as well as throughout the world as a whole. Most of our nation's “God-believers” claim to be Christian whether or not they are affiliated with an organized group, church, or particular religious creed. More proof of ignorance plaguing the majority of our people. <br />
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Finally, to close out this posting I ask the reader to consider the following questions. <br />
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What good or long-lasting positive contribution has any God or any religion ever been with respect to humanity or civilization? Has belief in or worship of any God ever added to or unconditionally promoted the advancement of education, human discovery, science or invention? Is there any credible substantiated proof or evidence that any God, any prayer, act of worship or sacrifice ever prevented disease, famine, earthquake, flood, tornado, heart attack, or any of life's natural suffering or processes? Has any God or religion ever prevented war? <br />
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Conversely, has the idea or cause of God and religion actively prevented and even punished by torture by sentence of death practically every positive contribution, every scientific discovery and advancement made by humans? Has the idea or cause of God and religion ever been propagated by force with sword or guns? Has any war or conquest ever been perpetrated in the name of God or religion? Has the idea or cause of God and religion ever rejoiced and celebrated human life unconditionally without restraint? Has God or any religious orthodoxy ever been about human happiness here, and now? Is the idea of God and religion dedicated to human liberty and equality, or is it fundamentally about subjugation, servility, and suppression of human instinct, free thought, and all that is natural to the human condition of life and living? <br />
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I leave you with this to think about. The future of our nation depends entirely on people, not God. Our United States of America is in decline headed for certain failure because of Christianity, because of the deleterious destructive dogma associated with religions arising from the code of Moses, because of God. Our only real hope is to get God and religion as far away from our government as possible, and focus all our attention on the only thing that has any true value or meaning: human prosperity, growth, and happiness. <br />
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Until next time, Give Peace a Chance. <br />
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James Tinsley, B.A.James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-19392973187572806482010-02-25T18:56:00.000-06:002010-02-25T18:56:06.116-06:00ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN-ZIONIST-NAZI-ISLAM<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>"No God has ever succored the weak, the oppressed, or the enslaved."</em></strong></span></div><div align="right"><span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"><strong><em>R. G. Ingersoll</em></strong></span></div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>I wish to be perfectly clear, I am not a racist. I see no "color," only shades along a continuum. I am not anti-Semitic, or Anti-Jewish. I harbor no hatered or malice towards any ethnicity or group. I do not attack or hate human beings. I attack ideas, creeds, and ignorance. I hate gods, dogma, oppression and slavery-of body or mind. JBT</em></span></div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div align="left">With that said, Israeli's and other Zionists, had better pay attention. They seem to be unaware that they are treading on very thin ice. This arrogant, self-important, self-chosen tribe of liars, thieves, and murderers are becoming Nazi's. They have been in the process for nearly a quarter century, much more so in the past ten years. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">However, in all fairness, I will say that Jews, to some degree are victims, innocent victims. They are simply doing what they have been told to do, following orders, living according to law. And, ignorant as they are, Jews genuinely believe they are correct. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Of course, these orders they follow were given by a second tier, insecure, petulant, self-admitted jealous vengeful God, called Yahweh, or Jehovah. And included in the law Jews follow is a set known as, Jehovah's "Laws of War." Look them up (Old Testament, Pentateuch, Torah), ask any honest Jew. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Everything the Israeli's are currently inflicting on the Palestinian's, all the inhuman barbaric treatment-taking their land, homes and businesses by force and by fraud; isolating them into ghetto-like areas that grow smaller and smaller, Israeli's keep them locked within these concentrated prison camps. Surrounded by heavily armed, bloodthirsty young soldiers and police,they are under seige. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Israeli's deny Palestinian's liberty, food, water, medicine, building supplies, work, income, education, electricity, fuel...and on and on. The Israeli's perpetrate constant terror and threat, they attack at will, they kill women, children, anybody in the line of fire, and they kill Palestinian's around the world with impunity. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">The truth, that is, the facts, as determined by the undeniable record of evidence, is that Israeli's and other Jews have nearly become the mirror image of the ideas, ideology, and conduct that, in the 20th Century, resulted in massive death and tremendous suffering among Jews.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Jews have only one card to play, the Holocaust card. Without Holocaust, Jews have nothing; no leverage, no power, no ability to manipulate. But, Israeli's and other Zionist's are beginning to reveal their true colors. The guilt is wearing thin, and hate is, in most instances, more powerful, more intoxicating, more seductive than everything else is. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Jews have hated Islam, Hitler, Nazi's, and Holocaust for so long they are becoming what they hate. Israeli's are now committing exactly the same kind of malevolence upon Palestinian's that Hitler and the Nazi's enacted on Jews. Israeli's are Nazi. They should either kill all Palestinian's and put them out of their suffering, or stop this crap and move on. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">There is not now, and never has been any El, any Yahweh, any Jehovah, Allah, or God. Jews are <strong>NOT</strong> "Chosen" people. Jews, like every other living person, are nothing more, or nothing less than human beings. There is no such thing as a Black, no Red, no Yellow, no Arab, no Chineese, no Indian or Asian or White person. There is, on this planet, only one species of Humans, only shades of Brown, only one Human Race.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">As long as Humankind worships some God, allows the idea of some supposed Supernatural being or force to keep it subjugated by ignorance, darkness, and fear; allows Superstition and creed to dominate and control government, education, and science, and poison human actions and minds-as long as this persists, Humankind will continue to stagnate. </div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Just as long as any God or Religion holds power over people, Civilization cannot, will not advance. Our only real hope is human beings, us. Only humans can save Humanity.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Until next time, Give Peace a Chance.</div><div align="left">James B. Tinsley, B.A. </div><div align="left"><br />
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</div>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-45020708040155154802009-12-31T13:23:00.000-06:002009-12-31T13:23:46.252-06:002010 PREDICTIONS-PROPHECIES-POSSIBILITIES-PROBABILITIES<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. Liberty is of more value than everything else."</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The religious zealots insanely pursuing Armageddon and the Rapture, will begin to directly challenge the wealthy elite minority faction for full control of financial matters and constitutional politics, that is to say, the politics of war and federal power. I predict the anti-Christians and anti-religionists will become much stronger, louder, and reactionary. Labor, teachers, nurses and other professionals will return to organized union to conflate their number and enhance their power in preparation for battle. Within each of these major forces untold numbers of smaller more targeted and sectarian fractions will begin to grow and, by year's end, be more numerous and obvious. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I predict that in the coming year, 2010, the most wealthy will increase their money and power, the rest of us will continue to let them take our wages, our power, our health, our intellectual development, our labor, and our lives. I predict by the end of 2010 Americans will have less liberty, less equality, less, money, education, general welfare and security. By the end of next year citizens of the United States will be more subjugated to God and less human; more enslaved to religion and state, less free to speak and act; more afraid of our government and each other, less confident and empowered. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the new year, 2010, I prophesy that ignorance, cruelty, and hypocrisy, the perpetual fruit of ALL RELIGIOUS ORTHODOXY, will dominate the mind of the nation, exert unnatural influence on our politics, and thereby substantially increase suffering, despair, and dissatisfaction. As a result of this the darkness of decline will deepen, and, absent any counter-action, the process of America's deterioration and ultimate failure will continue to accelerate toward an eventual conclusion in the not-to-distant future.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is always the possibility we, as a nation, could make that next leap forward in intellectual development to realize that Human Beings, not some imaginary vengeful jealous God-thing, are the true source and most important valuable asset on planet Earth. It is possible by doing this and then acting to support, enhance and empower people that we might begin to reform our Humanity, then our nation, and finally the world. There is a slight possibility that we will make health care, education, living conditions, personal choice and security, that is to say, human liberty, equality, and happiness more important, more valuable, more desirable than excessive profit, power, or piety. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The probability is, unfortunately, that we are so afraid, so subjugated and controlled, so weak, ignorant and superstitious, we will do little or nothing. The probability is we will continue to grovel and serve our masters, heavenly and earthly; that we will believe and propagate the lies, fraud and terror perpetuated by religious orthodoxy and our Untied States government; that we will compromise until there is absolutely no liberty, no justice, and no chance for any equality, whatsoever. </span><br />
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</div>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-22382883545360425412009-10-08T15:40:00.001-05:002009-10-08T15:49:16.008-05:00YAWEH-GOD-JEHOVAH-AMERICA-JESUS-MOHAMMED-MONEY<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Christianity Destroys United States;</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A great deal has transpired since our last contact just over a month ago. The most alarming events and happenings all appear to indicate that the worst is indeed occurring. Everything will remain the same as it ever was; the Status Quo will prevail, and nothing to improve or contribute to human progress, citizen's progress, will change. In fact, the powerful and wealthy elite occupying America's pseudo-Aristocracy and ruling class are in the process of codifying our retribution for daring to be impudent enough to demand to see a doctor and interfere with projected quarterly profit. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mark my words, the so-called "health care, or insurance reform" that will become law by year's end, will ultimately be recognized and exposed as yet another massive transfer of public taxpayer wealth (our hard earned and desperately needed cash) into the possesion and control of the richest one percent. An elite minority of select people that currently own more wealth and assets than 95% of those that earn less combined. Again, 1% of Americans own and control the flow of more cash and assets than 95% of Americans put together. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Yes, I know many will think that I am just saying that because Michael Moore happens to use this fact in his latest movie. It is not true. I first encountered this number several years ago while reading a book by journalist, tax expert and investigator, David Cay Johnston, formerly with the New York Times Newspaper. I have also heard the same statistic used by several economists in the past year. The point is, 95% of us all together have just slightly less economic power and resources than 1% of us. How does that happen, how is it even possible?</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Throughout human history those who seized, assumed, inherited, were Divinely chosen, or thrust into power by abused and desperate subjects, employ the same means to manipulate and pacify, subjugate and control the restless rabble. Every major or influential society, state, nation, confederation of nationstates, and empire in the whole course of human civilization has been, and remains so today, the same in this regard. Even the self-declared, self-appointed "Greatest most powerful democratic nation in human history," the United States of America, is the same as every other that came before, or exits today. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The most effective and cost efficient means used byr those in power to remain in power is fear, or terror; also, division, despair, and dependance. These tools of authority are always reinforced with state or government approved brutality-physical and mental, restricted liberties, imprisonment or death. It is also a fact that a government can only brutalize, frighten, and abuse the people for just so long before chaos and anarchy destroy the system bringing down the entire society. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Besides, it is utterly impossible to change a person's beliefs and convictions by any amount of force. So, in order to minimize the harsher methods of excercising power and authority, the ruling elite in most of your more durable longer lasting civilizations offer their citizens promises of a better tomorrow, a brighter more plentiful future for their children. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I ask each reader, off the top of your head, what can you think of that uses division, despair, dependence, and fear in conjunction with the threat of force, punishment, or death. While at the same time attempts to console and bribe your acquiescence, your support and devotion, by offering hope for, and promises of, a better world. A heaven, if you will. Not now, but later. The most obvious answer, to my mind, is religion. In the United States, that would be Christianity, that is, Christian orthodoxy. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Christian God, in fact, all gods, supreme beings, creators and supernatural powers, infinite and omnipotent, were created by humans to manipulate and control others; to stay in power. Yes, the concept, or idea of an all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful being or force was invented as a way to explain this harsh and scarry universe in which we live to our savage ancestors. But, isn't it true that the one that purports to communicate with or have knowledge of "the answers," that can explain "why," fundamentally holds the reins of power and control?</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I submit that the overwhelming majority of pain, suffering, torture, slavery, slaughter and cruelty human beings have inflicted in the past, and continue inflicting upon each other today, is perpetrated, that is initiated, by priests, pontiffs, and preachers. As long as any God is believed to be above and over humankind and the affairs of this world liberty and equality are nothing more than mere words. Empty meaningless sounds used as nouns. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Let me be clear. I do not care one bit, nor is it any businees of mine whether someone believes in or worships some God or God-force. I do not hate religious people, or think that every Christian is bad. I do not hate or despise people. I hate and despise creeds; I abhor dogma and sectarian doctrine. As far as I can tell most believers are honest, and most ministers sincere. If a person decides that religious belief and worship is necessary to their well-being and happiness, I have no problem with it. I will fight and die to ensure they have that right. But, the instant that supporters and promoters of religion, any religion, attempt to legislate their beliefs, enact there creed or commandments to be enforced by the full force and authority of law, I will do whatever it takes to stop it. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Religion and religious dogma are irrelevant and immaterial to the actions and function of government. Government must be for this world. It must be for human security, for the progress, proseprity, and happiness of all citizens absolutely equally. The United States of America is in the condition it is currently in because nearly everything this nation has done since before the American Revolution, until this very moment, has been done to establish the Holy Bible, God, and Jesus Christ as supreme, and Christianity as the one true religion. Christian orthodoxy, its promoters and ardent supporters, are bringing our great country to its knees, they are in the process of causing the ruin of America. </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unless, and until, the citizens of America, whether believers in religion, or not, act to scrub our laws and government officials clean of the entanglement and influence of Christian orthodoxy. That is, unless, and until, we take aggressive action to eliminate the deleterious and insideous influence of ignorant superstition from the purpose and function of our government, our nation will continue to deteriorate, decline, and will, in the end, fail. We still have a choice: either God, or people. It is in our hands. Until next time...Give Peace a Chance.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">James B. Tinsley, B.A. </span><br />
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</div>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-17523166506980989132009-09-03T14:43:00.005-05:002009-09-03T16:54:38.644-05:00SHIP OF FOOLS-OBAMA'S IGNORANCE-STUPID AMERICANS<span style="color:#666600;">3 September 2009</span><br /><span style="color:#666600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#666600;">It is four days shy of three months since my last posting. Until just recently I drifted, or was thrown, into and out of various states of mind and being. All were overwhelmingly on the negative side of the continuum; sadness, frustration, depression, anger, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">despondency</span>, rage. At one point near the middle of July, I literally woke up one morning saying <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">out loud</span>, "fuck it! the truth is that, as a general rule, people do not give a damn, we care about nothing but 'me.' It's all about I, me, mine." I spent the next <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">several</span> days thinking about why I, or anyone, should make any effort to make it better. Why do I keep imagining that anything that I might do, or say, will make any difference? Never did figure out the answers. </span><br /><span style="color:#666600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#666600;">What I did decide is that, in spite of the futility, I will speak and write my honest thoughts, I will stand by my convictions to the very death. Even though I am fully aware that I am pissing directly into the wind, am speaking gibberish to idiots, and suffering with fools, I will not, I must not abandon the cause of human progress, prosperity, and happiness. Regardless of expected failure, I will, I must do all that I possibly can do to ensure that every citizen of the United States has, and is guaranteed, absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights by government. And, finally, I determined to undermine, to castrate all religion; and ultimately to disabuse Christian orthodoxy and their imaginary God of all authority, power and influence. </span><br /><span style="color:#666600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#666600;">Understand, I do not say such things out of malice or <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">hatred</span>. Nor, do I excoriate from superiority, or out of arrogance. I, too, am an American citizen, and as such, I am no better, or worse than any other person; and conversely, no one-absolutely no other person is better than me. Some, however, are worse. </span><br /><span style="color:#666600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#666600;">Take for example our current social war over health care, health cost, health insurance, health access, health privilege, and health rights. How is it even possible that we, as a nation, a people, a society, do not, cannot, will not, act to give every citizen of the United States proper, unrestricted basic care for all matters of physical and mental health from conception to coffin. How can anyone that claims the title Christian do anything else? What would your Jesus do? Actually it is a trick question. Those that market Jesus as love, mercy, forgiveness, as an advocate for the weak and downtrodden; as healer, as friend of the poor and enemy of the rich, must stand for universal and unrestricted care for all, or admit they are hypocrites. While those that kill physicians over what they insist is a "Right To Life," and wish to kill and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">destroy</span> all dark skin people and Muslims in a vain and vindictive effort to avenge being driven from the Holy Land and the empty <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">sepulchre</span> of Christ by the followers of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Mohammad</span>. For those that hate all that is human, and love Jesus because they know He did not come to bring peace on earth, but instead came with sword to set daughter against mother, and son against father, must insist that their Jesus is the Holy Prophet of money, privilege, and power. They know, without any doubt, only the unclean, wicked, and evil will go without care. That Jesus, and His Father, God, will protect and care for all who are worthy. </span><br /><span style="color:#666600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#666600;">Can any person with any degree of intellectual development and cognitive ability honestly say that we, as a nation, a people, a society, consider even one dollar to be more valuable, more important, more necessary than one human life, any human life? My friends we are adrift on a Ship of Fools, led by an ignorant Congress and President. We are stupid Americans. </span><br /><span style="color:#666600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#666600;">Until next time, Give Peace a Chance. </span><br /><span style="color:#666600;">James B. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tinsley</span>, B.A. </span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-37532170220028413112009-06-07T12:39:00.004-05:002009-06-07T16:33:04.404-05:00HUMAN RIGHTS-CIVIL RIGHTS-EQUAL RIGHTS<span style="color:#33cc00;">7 June 2009</span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">FEAR PARALYZES-REASON LIBERATES</span><br /> RELIGION IS FEAR-SCIENCE IS REASON<br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">As we dig deeper into the meaning and purpose of Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government, keep this in mind: </span><span style="color:#33cc00;">Time flows, or moves, in only one direction-forward. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Everything, absolutely everything in the known universe operates, that is proceeds, adheres to, one process. It is the process of birth, stabilization, decline, and death. This process is the signifier of change. Change is the actual observable experience of this process. Change is the consequence, or result of cause and effect, which is the natural law that underlies, drives, literally every aspect of what we call life. That is being alive, living. And finally, change is the natural <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">expression</span> of time. In other words, as a result of cause and effect nothing remains the same from moment to moment. Therefore, change is always occurring and cannot be stopped. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">If we accept these statements to be true, and they are, then we face a perplexing paradox. The paradox is that in spite of knowing full-well (and I do believe that every human being, on some level, does know) that change is inevitable, a fact, a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">certainty</span>, we-humankind- resist change even at the cost of our own life. Why? </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">This conundrum has perplexed me for decades. Why has humanity throughout civilized history wasted so much of it's physical energy and intellectual power trying to stop that which cannot be stopped? This puzzle is one of the primary reasons behind the creation and development of Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government, which brings us back to point of this blog. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">The primary premise from which the logic of Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span> Philosophy for Ethical Government flows is that if the sole reason for a government to exist is improving the lives and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">condition</span> of all citizens by establishing, then guaranteeing absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for all, it will be an ethical government. </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">So far in this review at the beginning of the second year of publishing <em>Shift of Power</em>, I have emphasized the Humanistic element. I contend that meaning, or purpose of life, as far as we are concerned, is about only one thing: human beings. Human prosperity, human experience, and human happiness. The first law of nature is life, that is, to survive, to live, to stay alive. Thus, it is for human development and improvement society and government should, indeed must, exist. </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">The second law of nature is equality, or, as I have defined it within the context of my work, absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for every citizen. Equal, or equality, is not <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">synonymous</span> with fair. Fair is a subjective concept that flows from, is a product of equal. Equality is a principle. To put it another way, fair treatment is relative and subject to interpretation, while equal is either the same, or it is not. Equal and equality is constant. As such, if government functions treating every citizen, private and corporate, equal, then it must be fair. Within the context of my work, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span> (here-to-fore unknown), arises by adding the suffix "ism" to the root word equal. </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">This next bit is somewhat technical, so please bear with me. The suffix "ism" means action, process, or practice that implies doctrine, theory, or system of principles. In the case of this political philosophy, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span> is narrowly defined as a doctrine, or theory regarding the improvement of human life that is animated by the principle of equal, or equality with respect to the function of government. It contains a system that <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">describes</span> the process to actively apply the theoretical principles of absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for all citizens. Now, what does this mean in plain language? </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">After nearly fifty-seven years I have concluded that every human being inherently, naturally desires to be secure, happy, and treated as equal. Even the most ardent conservative, and the most dogmatic liberal must agree to this. What I mean is, I am convinced that human beings, every human being on earth, comes into this life with this desire. This is our natural condition, it is intrinsic to our nature, it's in our DNA. Of course, human history will testify that we have pursued fulfilment of this desire by mostly negative means, that is, fear, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">hatred</span>, discrimination, and war. Human history is the story of coercion, force, conquest, and oppression. I submit that the source of these means and methods is religious orthodoxy and I argue in my work that religion's influence and entanglement in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">function</span> of government is the source for the failure of all states, nations, and empires. </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Until we, human beings, act and govern exclusively and expressly for the purpose of improving and advancing the human race; and until we institute a governing process whereby EVERY citizen is regarded as having absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights our species, indeed civilization, cannot advance. There is no doubt that technology, communication, science, medicine, and all of our material existence will continue to develop. Our society, our social condition, the way we treat each other however, will remain just as it is this very moment. </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Society today, that is, the way people treat each other and the way governments act and function have not changed <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">noticeably</span> in over five thousand years. The truth is humans are just slightly less barbaric than our cave dwelling ancestors. We may be more sophisticated, more subtle, more politically correct in our barbarism to each other, but we are barbaric <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">none the </span>less. I realize this is a strong statement that most people immediately reject as <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">asinine</span> and absurd. I wish it were not true. I encourage readers, once your outrage subsides, to simply take some time to seriously reflect and think about the news of any given day. If what happens around the world, and in your home town everyday is not inhumane and barbaric <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">behavior</span>, then the formal dictionary definition of barbarity, barbarism, barbaric must be changed. </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"></span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">Until next time, Give Peace a Chance. </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;">James B. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tinsley</span>, B.A.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">REVOLUTION ACTION ALERT: Please speak out <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">vigorously</span>, forcefully, and loudly as often as possible to demand that Congress and President Obama enact SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE and eliminate all useless fraudulent corporate for-profit health insurance. You can start by checking out <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">singlepayeraction</span>.org and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">ralphnader</span>.org. </span><br /><span style="color:#33cc00;"> </span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-67282739268721634272009-04-26T11:42:00.005-05:002009-04-26T13:25:34.462-05:00100 DAYS-RELIGION-SEX-T.V.-TORTURE<span style="color:#3366ff;">25 April 2009</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><em><span style="color:#3366ff;">Keep us doped with religion, sex, and T.V. We think we are so clever, classless, and free. But, we're still fucking peasants, as far as I can see. </span></em><br /> <span style="color:#3366ff;">(paraphrase, John Lennon, "Working Class Hero," 1971) </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Continuing our review of the meaning and purpose of a new political philosophy, Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government. It is the next natural and logical adaptation in the evolution of government systems. "Why, or how," one might ask, "is it the next advance in government?" </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">The simple answer, the short answer is that Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span> makes the citizen's lives with absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for all the reason, the justification for government to exist. As was noted in my last posting (16 April 2009), thus far in human history has been conceived, instituted, and carried out for one overriding primary purpose: To protect the status <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">quo</span>. By that I mean, to ensure continuing dominance of the wealthy elite minority faction ruling class over, and at the expense of, the common citizen. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Dr. Howard <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Zinn</span>, historian, activist, and author of, <em>People's History of the United States</em>, points out that early Twentieth Century historian Charles Beard "warned us that governments-including the government of the United States- are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their constitutions are intended to serve these interests." If one examines the political clauses of our United States Constitution in light of the economic implications behind them, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying to establish a decent and orderly society, but the work of certain groups trying to maintain their privileges while giving just enough rights and liberties to just enough of the people to ensure popular support. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">I encourage everyone to take some time and read the "<em>Federalist Papers</em>." </span><span style="color:#3366ff;">Especially those that would argue that our United States government was created and subsequently adopted because it guarantees everyone equal protection, equal opportunity, and equal rights. The <em>Federalist Papers</em> is a series of essays written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. They were published as anonymous articles in favor of adopting the Constitution. There is not room here to go into detail of the various arguments put forth by Jay, Hamilton, and Madison, but suffice to say, they reveal a great deal about the true nature of our Constitution. </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">However, pertinent to our discussion, it is worth taking note of an argument expressed by James Madison in <em>Federalist #10</em>. Madison's greatest fear for our new Republic was unrest, even rebellion, caused by disputes among minority factions spreading throughout the thirteen states. Madison believed that, "These disputes arise from the various and unequal distribution of property." In other words, the problem was how to control factional struggles that come from inequalities in wealth. </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">So, according to James Madison, primary author of our Constitution, the solution was to have a large nation extending over thirteen states because then "it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other..." That is, all <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">grievances</span>, dissent, and dissatisfaction among people would remain local, or at worst sectional; they would be contained and controlled. </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">As for Alexander Hamilton, his feelings and philosophy were well known. He was very clear when he wrote, "All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The few are the rich and well born, the other is the mass of the people... Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government." </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness or property, and equal protection under the law are elements of American Mythology. Equal rights, equal opportunity, equal representation are a fabrication, a lie. All of these concepts are nothing more than bullet points in an advertising campaign, a marketing scheme. They are merely one means of selling the world and common citizens on the idea of American <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Exceptionalism</span>. Not one of these things has ever been true, not for one minute of one day. </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">From its adoption in 1789, and continuing through this very moment, our Constitution faithfully serves to protect and extend the privileges and interests of the wealthy elite minority faction ruling class. By doing just enough for small property owners, farmers, and the middle-class the wealthy elite is able to sustain a broad base of support. This tactic enables them to keep control using only minimum coercion with maximum enforcement of law. All this is made <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">believable and</span> acceptable in the name of patriotism and unity. </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">After reading this, when you leave this site to continue with other matters, consider this. To divide and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">conquer</span> is the oldest, most sure means of seizing power. The most reliable means of holding power is giving just enough to just enough of the people. The United States of America is the product of both these methods. </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">We will continue this discussion next time. Until then, Give Peace a Chance. </span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">James B. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tinsley</span>, B.A.</span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">REVOLUTION ACTION ALERT: The iron is hot, time to strike it! Please take action as soon as possible. Email, call, write to your Representatives, Senators, Attorney General Eric Holder, President Obama. DEMAND without equivocation that a "Special Prosecutor" be appointed to fully investigate, then prosecute any and all Constitutional violations and criminal acts committed by G.W. Bush, R. Cheney, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">et</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">al</span>. during the period from January 2001 through 20 January 2009. A so-called "Truth" commission, a Senate investigation will not do. If activities such as an unconstitutional illegal declaration of war, torture, extra-legal spying on American citizens, and many others are allowed to go unexposed and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">unprosecuted</span> a dangerous legal precedent will then be in place. If this is permitted then we, as a nation, will have fundamentally changed the perceived generally understood meaning of what the United States is supposed to be. To act go to c-span.org and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">whitehouse</span>.gov .</span> </span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-81358597472172310972009-04-16T06:23:00.003-05:002009-04-16T08:48:42.241-05:00INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE-GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY-TAX DAY TEA PARTIES<span style="color:#ff0000;">16 April 2009</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">As we begin charting the course that Shift of Power blog will take during this second year of its publication, I think it is time for a review of the meaning and purpose of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Humanistic</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government. I will start with some words by the father of modern Capitalism, Adam Smith, and French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau with respect to government. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Pryor to the advent of economic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">terrorist</span> Milton Friedman's Chicago School of Economics reformation in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century, Adam Smith's, <em>Wealth of Nations</em>, was considered sacrosanct by a majority of economists and capitalists in America. In this free market holy work Smith writes candidly about the fundamental character of government regarding the issue of "class." Smith says that, "Laws and government may be considered in this and indeed in every case as a combination of the rich to oppress the poor, and preserve unto themselves the inequality of the goods which would otherwise be soon destroyed by the attacks of the poor...". What he is saying is that all government is designed and created to protect the interests of the wealthy elite minority ruling faction from the common people by oppression, and to preserve a condition of inequality. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">At about the same time in France, philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau published a work regarding the results of his examination into how government and laws came to exist. In his book entitled, <em>Discourse on the Origin of Inequality</em>, Rousseau surmised that, "society and laws gave new fetters to the weak and new forces to the rich, irretrievably destroyed natural liberty, established forever the law of property and inequality, changed adroit usurpation into irrevocable right, and for the profit of a few ambitious men henceforth subjected the entire human race to labor, servitude, and misery." In other words, government and laws were created and instituted to enslave the weak by establishing as a right of the wealthy elite minority ruling faction the protection of their property and profit, thus subjecting all others to a condition of labor, servitude, and misery. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">If anyone takes the time to do the research you will find there are many others throughout human history that have reached and expressed similar conclusions, myself included. In my original manuscript, <em>Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Philosophy</span> for Ethical Government of Common Sense, by Common People, for Common Good</em>, I insist that never in the history of human civilization has any government existed exclusively for the purpose of enriching all citizen's lives. There has never been a government system with absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights guaranteed for every citizen. So far, every known government, including our present United States government, has been designed, instituted and enforced to favor the wealthy elite minority ruling faction by oppressing the rest of the population. To put it another way, all government thus far protects property, profit, power, and position through enslavement of we, the people. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">I contend that Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government is the next logical adaptation in the evolution of government systems. The system and process of government derived from the political philosophy of Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span> codifies the principle of human progress and liberty over property and profit. It establishes that, with respect to function and purpose, government shall maintain absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for EVERY citizen, that it must treat all citizens, whether individuals or corporations, absolutely equally. Of course, these ideas are contrary to our present system of government, and they are diametrically opposed to the fundamental tenants of Christian orthodoxy. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">I find it perversely amusing that nearly everyone considers the creation of a government dedicated to human needs, human liberty and progress, as well as absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for all to be radically anti-American, even <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">un</span>-Christian. Yes, everyone declares without hesitation that they believe in freedom, liberty, and equality. But, the truth is they only believe in freedom, liberty, and equality for themselves and their group. I submit that nearly every American is ready and willing to die fighting for, or kill anyone who challenges their particular perception of liberty, freedom, and equality. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">In other words, generally we say that other people, other nations </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">can determine their own government, laws, religious exercise and social structure. However, unless it is the same or very similar to ours, odds are that, at some point, we will bring the force of our military to bear against them in an effort to force our "great American Democracy" upon them. This includes forcing the acceptance of Christianity and its practices. The point is we, in the United States, scream and cheer for freedom and liberty, but only as long as it is American freedom and liberty. We preach and promote the tenants of equality, but only as long as the wealthy elite are treated more equal. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">We will continue this discussion next time. Before taking my leave, I wish to introduce a new feature that will appear at the end of my posting called, "Revolution Action Alert." It is exactly what it sounds like, an exhortation to take some action with regard to a specific problem. Until next time, Give Peace a Chance. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">James B. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tinsley</span>, B.A. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">REVOLUTION ACTION ALERT: Please take time to email, call, or write your Representatives, Senators, Attorney General Holder, and President Obama and DEMAND that a "Special Prosecutor" be appointed to investigate and prosecute G.W. Bush, R. Cheney, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">et</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">al</span>. for any and all Constitutional and criminal violations committed during the period from January 2001 through 20 January 2009. Our nation cannot move forward until this is done. Please tell your friends and family to do the same. We must not be afraid of Truth. </span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-4031734118720513072009-04-01T18:46:00.004-05:002009-04-01T20:32:36.599-05:00G20-LONDON CALLING-ISRAEL KILLING-AMERICA FAILING<span style="color:#006600;">1 April 2009</span><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIFT OF POWER BLOG!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#006600;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">Today is the one year anniversary for this blog. When I sat down on 1 April 2008 to write and publish my first blog entry I had no idea about what to do, or how to do it. Though I have figured a few things out, I am still quite ignorant. I am still struggling to improve, to make this blog more exciting and widely read. To that end, I anticipate making a variety of changes, additions, and hopefully, improvements in the coming weeks. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">I first published this blog shortly after completing the second draft of a manuscript entitled, <em>Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government of Common Sense, by Common People, for Common Good. </em></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">It is an original non-fiction work expounding a new political philosophy that I started writing in 2006. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">As an "unknown" author, as yet unpublished in book form, I concluded it is highly unlikely that any publisher would be willing to get behind the unorthodox radical ideas posited by Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>. Ideas such as human progress, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">prosperity</span>, and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">happiness</span>, or absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for every citizen. Or, the insane idea insistent upon the proposition that if a government is concerned first and foremost with people, instead of profit, piety, position, and power, such a system and process must result in an ethical government. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">As the late John Lennon tells us, IMAGINE. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">Is this even possible? Or is it nothing more than smoke induced idealism? Are we still too savage, to uncivilized to envision and institute a government that functions to enhance, embolden, and embrace all citizens, that endows everyone with absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights with respect to the actions and treatment by government? Is the human brain still so undeveloped, so superstitious that our mind cannot conjure or conceive of creating a system and process of government that is truly free, completely and inviolably divorced from the interference, the explicit influence of religious orthodoxy? Why is it beyond our capability to imagine a government devoted to improving the condition of human life? That is to say the lives of all citizens. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">There was no doubt in my mind, no <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">reputable</span> publishing house would be bold enough, progressive enough to gamble on a nobody espousing such heresy. I reasoned that the most likely outcome will be some type of self-publishing, or e-publishing arrangement. As this was, and is, the case it occurred to me that writing and publishing a blog about Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government could be a great vehicle to introduce it and establish a foundation. Thus, Shift of Power appeared in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">blogosphere</span> one year ago. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">I continue to employ this device as the primary means of introducing, defining, describing, and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">demonstrating</span> the principles, concepts, system, and process of Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government. One of my primary objectives is to apply this unique new political philosophy to our current conditions and circumstances in order to validate it's value and viability. I endeavor to prove my hypothesis that Humanistic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Equalism</span> is the next natural logical progression in the evolution of government. I am firmly convinced that until common citizens exercise our tremendous power to overthrow our current bad government, then replace it with a better one, nothing we do will retard the accelerating decline of our nation. To this end, I actively encourage my fellow citizens to unite, challenge the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">status</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">quo</span> and carry out another revolution. We must find it in ourselves to act as our forefathers and mothers did and wrest power from an elite minority ruling faction, a pseudo-aristocracy. I declare that it is our duty and obligation to alter the course of the United States of America and fulfil the legacy of our United States Constitution. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">I hope my readers will continue to stop by and tell others about Shift of Power. Look for the modifications beginning soon. Until next time, Give Peace a Chance. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;">James B. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tinsley</span>, B.A. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#006600;"><em></em></span> </div>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-12992376162495900502009-03-25T18:55:00.004-05:002009-03-25T20:26:52.713-05:00SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE SOLUTION<span style="color:#3333ff;">25 March 2009</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">We can only truly resolve our health care system dilemma by instituting single-payer health care. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">While I am in no way or form suggesting the elimination of private health care in favor of so-called "socialized" medicine. I am absolutely certain that as long as any citizen is required to pay any third party entity for access to basic health care we will be unable to effectively address our current on-going crisis. There is only one solution that will fully accomplish "health care for all", Single-Payer, or Medicare for All. The vehicle for this is ready to be brought to the floor of the House of Representatives for debate and vote. That vehicle is HR-676. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">I wish to make myself perfectly clear with respect to health insurance companies, H.M.O.'s, or any kind of third party administrator/ provider. They are all nothing more than fraud, legalized fraud. They take our money, stand between citizens and a healthy life, and provide absolutely no part of caring for any person. They contribute nothing to our health, nothing to our nation's well-being or prosperity, nothing to our children's future, nothing to our society. They are parasites. profiteers, liars, thieves, and con-artists. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Who doesn't want a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">single</span>-payer system? Insurance <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">companies</span>, pharmaceutical companies, Republicans, most Senators, and President Obama. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Conversely, who wants a single-payer federal <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">health care</span> system? 59% of all physicians, nearly all nurses unions, a majority of small, medium and large businesses, National Chamber of Commerce, and most importantly 70% of our citizens. That fact alone should be enough to make it happen. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">On Democracy Now! recently I heard about a group that is being organized to demand that single-payer health care be included in the debate and ultimately enacted. I am actively participating and strongly encourage everyone to visit their website, sign up and get involved. Obama is doing exactly the wrong thing and unless we bring him to heel, make him realize that he works for us, and force him to do what we want I promise you nothing of any real substance will change for most American citizens. The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">website</span> is <a href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/">www.singlepayeraction.org</a> I also advise that everyone should google HR-676 and read it. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Think about this. With single-payer every citizen will have REAL choice regarding doctor and every aspect of basic primary health care. No co-pays or deductibles for doctor visit, hospital, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">prescription</span> or therapy. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">We can eliminate the bureaucracy and cost of the Veteran Administration and every veteran will get all the care they require, they will be able to simply make an appointment for treatment where-ever they want and go to the doctor when they need to go. Veterans will be able to get the care they deserve and were promised without all the bullshit. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Small and medium size businesses will no longer have to be concerned with trying to pay for benefits or offer them. Therefore, they will be more profitable. Large corporations, such as American auto makers might not be forced out of business. All business would become more profitable. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">More than 50% of all family bankruptcy could be prevented. Infant mortality would become minimal, all children will be healthier. Even if the initial cost is outrageous (which is extremely doubtful considering the billions our government is already spending on subsidies), within one generation (about 18 years) all medical related costs would begin to decline rapidly. And, within two generations (about 30 years) medical costs will be greatly reduced and remain relatively flat thereafter. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">President Obama has betrayed his own belief. Pryor to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">becoming</span> the Democratic nominee, for his entire public service career, he repeatedly declared that "single-payer is the only way to go." Now that a brother is in the White House, has been permitted to join the ranks of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">pseudo</span>-aristocrats among the elite minority faction ruling class he is in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">subjugation</span> to money and power. He is doing everything in his power to protect and enhance the profit, power, and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">position</span> of his fellow elites at the expense of every common American citizen. He, and his kind must be stopped. We, the people, gave him the power he has, we endowed him with all the authority he now <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">wields</span>, we permitted him to rise to the top. And WE CAN TAKE IT AWAY. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Please start telling everyone to email, write, call their Representatives and Senators. Tell them to email, write and call the White House. After you have gone to <a href="http://www.singlepayeraction.org/">www.singlepayeraction.org</a> and signed up, tell them to do it. If I do not act now, if you do not act now, if we all do not demand that everybody should be provided free health care for life and do it now, then this opportunity will be wasted and we will all remain sick and poor. God Damn It! Do something NOW! </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Until next time, Give Peace a Chance. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">James B. Tinsley, B.A.</span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-48849174193234086222009-03-04T11:57:00.006-06:002009-03-04T14:30:32.887-06:00HEALTH CARE SUMMIT-BANKRUPTCY-HEALTH CARE COST<span style="color:#3333ff;">4 February 2009</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Citizens arise! Stand up! Realize the tremendous overwhelming power that we possess. Take to heart the words of Thomas Paine that " the rich are slaves to power and money; the rest of us are a slave to the rich." (paraphrase)</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">President Obama is trying. He is saying many of the right things. By "right," I mean that he talks the talk of the people, of the progressive. But, his actions continue to favor the status <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">quo</span> and the elite minority faction ruling class. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Let us consider the issue of health care for example. President Obama talks quite sincerely about radically altering our current <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">health care</span> system, of seeking "universal" coverage, of lowering costs and making it better for all. He absolutely knows and understands that this aspect of American life is out of control, that is is literally killing us. Our president acknowledges that the outrageous cost of health care is an unbearable burden on business, that it sends thousands of individuals and families into bankruptcy every year. Yet, he, and most of the people around him, continue to talk about change in terms of "insurance." </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">The care of our health is not, and should not be considered as a matter of insurance. Why do I say this? </span><span style="color:#3333ff;">Let me ask you, "What is insurance?" "What is its purpose?""Why do we buy insurance for our vehicles, our boats, our personal property, our houses and our life?" </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Insurance is a bet based on risk. Insurance is a way to hedge against an unknown unforeseen unexpected event or circumstance. Vehicles can be involved in accidents, boats can be wrecked by storm, personal property can be stolen or damaged, a house can be destroyed by fire, tornado or termites. One's life can be ended suddenly at any moment. However, such things are only a risk, not a certainty. For these type of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">occurrences</span> insurance serves an acceptable function and has a valid purpose. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">In other words, for all these and other such things insurance can be a wise purchase or investment to offset the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">unknown</span> unfortunate risk inherent to the nature of life. It can prevent complete financial ruin, ease the pain and suffering related to an accident, or provide the means to continue in the event of a tragic sudden loss of life. When it is attached to chance or possibility determined by risk insurance can be a good bet that is beneficial to all concerned. But, with human health there is no chance or possibility and the element of risk does not exist in the same way or to the same extent. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Micro-organisms, bacteria, virus, plants, trees, animals, ecosystems, and the human body all require proper care, conditions, and circumstances. Relatively speaking all organic natural life depends on a specific and near perfect environment to be born, develop, grow and reach maturity. All living things a subjected to countless brutish obstacles and forces within nature. Consider the innumerable miscarriages that occur everyday in women that become pregnant, or the flowers, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">fruits</span>, and vegetables planted that fail to take hold and grow. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">My point is that all living things demand constant attention and care to become and remain viable, to develop and reach maturity. Even after reaching maturity they require constant regular <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">maintenance</span>. This is an undeniable inarguable fact. With respect to living things, especially human life, there is no insurable risk, chance, or possibility; something <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">can</span> and ultimately will go wrong. Regardless whether a person is fortunate enough to be born with excellent health, to have an accident free exceptionally healthy childhood, to reach maturity and middle-age with a strong body and mind. Such a person cannot avoid the eventual <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">inevitability</span> of old age sickness and decline. It is in this regard that I say there is no chance, no possibility, no risk. I feel confident stating that no human being has ever lived from conception to coffin in perfect health without any physical harm, illness, injury or accident. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Therefore, the idea or concept of "insurance" as it relates to human health is a fallacy. It is a lie and a fraud. It is contrary to all reason, all logic, all evidence. One cannot in any way be "insured" against that which is known, natural, and unavoidable. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">As long as President Obama and the so-called "experts" continue thinking, speaking, and acting based upon a premise of "insurance" there will not be any substantive change to our system or the cost of health care. The wealthy will stay healthy while the rest of us get <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">poorer</span> and sicker. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Health insurance companies and so-called "providers" such as <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">HMO's</span> are nothing more than government sanctioned fraud that carry out legalized theft. They do not provide any part of health care, nor do they insure us against the unavoidable ravages of time and old age. In so far as the definition and purpose of insurance these things are not <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">insurable</span>. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">By associating the care of our health with the capitalist profit business model of "insurance" we are making money more important than people. We are allowing profit to be more valuable than human beings. Permitting health insurance companies and the like to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">continue</span> existing and operating in America is immoral. If President Obama and our leaders insist on supporting self <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">proclaimed</span> health insurance providers to go on stealing our money, wasting our time and our resources this is sufficient cause for Revolution. We, the people, must force our leaders to protect our right as citizens, our human right to be healthy. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">There is near unanimous agreement that our present health care paradigm is wrong, that it needs to be changed. In the United States our health care is reactive. In other words, health care in America generally only happens in response to symptoms, to sickness, to emergency. Our health care is not designed and constructed to prevent or cure, but to treat or control. It is built upon the idea of making money. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">In order for all citizens to have the best opportunity, the greatest possibility for a truly vigorous healthy life we must completely change the premise and paradigm upon which the system is built and functions. Our government is legally bound by our United States Constitution to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty" for all citizens. This is not some pie-in-the-sky wish, or abstract desire. This is the legally binding obligation of our federal government. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">So, I say again, Citizens arise, stand up! Do not compromise, do not accept promises or excuses. Our leaders and our government are not above our law or our Constitution. We are not their slaves. Our government is just that, OUR <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">GOVERNMENT</span>. Our leaders serve at our pleasure, they work for us. President Obama, every member of his administration, every Representative, every Senator, every judge, every Justice, every police person and military person is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">there</span> to serve and protect every citizen of the United States of America. They all work for us. But unless we exert our power and force them to do what we demand, to serve our needs, to act on our behalf neither our leaders, nor our federal government will do it. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">Next time I will demonstrate that providing free health care to all citizens is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">practical</span>, possible and exactly the right thing to do. Until then please Give Peace a Chance. </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">James B. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tinsley</span>, B.A. </span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-89954401958300372622009-01-25T15:51:00.002-06:002009-01-25T17:49:10.100-06:00INAUGURATION SPEECH-MID-EAST ENVOY-BAN ON TORTURE-SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#000000;">25 January 2009</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">I am feeling extraordinarily radical, so please bear with me. First, some context. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">Last fall I joined Daily <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Kos</span> hoping to contribute to their partisan Democratic Party discussion. I truly wanted to play devil's advocate and stimulate some lively interaction and possibly promote my blog, Shift of Power. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">As it turns out I only made three or four diary entries. I realized very quickly that not all, but certainly the vast majority of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">DKOS</span> participants are historically retarded and naive to the point of extreme credulity. They are <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">venomous</span> and arrogant. I suspect the reason for this is that they are mostly young middle and upper middle-class Caucasians below the age of thirty-five. But I digress. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">The point of my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">DKOS</span> experience is the diary entries. I attempted to employ sarcastic humor in all my writing. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">DKOS</span> readers were not amused. In my first diary I claimed and offered evidence the BARACK <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">OBAMA</span> IS A LIAR; in my second I claimed and offered proof that OBAMA IS A PHONY, A GREAT BIG PHONY, and in my third diary I stated that it appeared that OBAMA DONS KNEE PADS in order to be comfortable while performing the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Lewinsky</span> Love Massage upon the elite minority ruling donor class, and select members of the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">pseudo</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">aristocratic</span> Status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Quo</span>. I went on to say that Obama had <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">successfully</span> become the perfect Democratic Party whore. I then offered evidence to support my statement and ended by asking a series of questions regarding some of the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">candidate's</span> most recent actions and statements. This was in mid-September when the bottom began falling away from under our economy during the 700 billion dollar Wall Street rescue. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">I received many many responses to each of my entries. Interestingly, the evidence I presented was never challenged and not one of the questions raised was answered. Out of several thousands responses there was no serious issue-oriented comment. I am beginning to think that I now understand why. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">From 4 November 2008 through his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">inauguration</span> 20 January 2009, and since, President Obama continues to reinforce my initial conclusion. At the end of his first very active and busy week our President has said nothing, nor taken any action or signed any order that substantively demonstrates that he is anything other than a liar, a phony, and a perfect Democratic Party whore. I stand by my original assessment of the man.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">Now, based on what I have said thus far, what I am going to say next may surprise you. In every <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">DKOS</span> diary entry, and every time I have written about Barack Obama here or elsewhere, I have always supported his rhetoric. I always hoped he would get the nomination, was convinced he would win, and was deeply moved when he did win. Watching the inauguration was emotional and inspiring; and when he took the oath of office (ignoring that Roberts screwed it up) it brought tears to my eyes. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">Our nation has done something exceptional. I strongly believe that we, as a people, are greatly enhanced by our act of freely electing a person of color to be our chief executive. I am glad and proud that Barack <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Obama</span> is our president. Now, he must unequivocally prove his <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">character</span> and worth. He must be a leader and actualize his self-declared values, beliefs, ideas and plans. He must clearly and overtly demonstrate that he is NOT a liar, a phony, or a Democratic Party whore.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">And, we must make him. Every citizen needs to become or stay <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">involved</span>. Every citizen needs to stay on <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Obama's</span> ass like a bad headache and force him to do only what is best for all citizens. We, the average people, have to push President Obama to be a real leader for all the people. He has to keep us well informed, answer our questions, be honest, and most of all he must feel free to tell us who in Congress is preventing the will of the people from being done. If our president will be honest and open with us then we will direct the full force of our pressure and turn our wrath upon anyone in the House of Representatives or Senate that stands in our way. This is called Revolution. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">Obama and his campaign started this Revolution and now we must see it through. When I call for Revolution I do not mean violence, killing, and bombings; nor do I mean destruction or chaos. I am fomenting a Revolution of political philosophy, of ideas about the true purpose and function of government, its conduct and activities. I am convinced that the weapons and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">ammunition</span> for a truly radical Revolution were written into the United States Constitution by the framers. If citizens accept their responsibility and exercise their power to the fullest extent the only way to stop us will be to kill us, and they cannot kill all of us. They may have the guns, but we have the numbers. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">There seems to be a general consensus that if we really want change, if we really do want President Obama to succeed, then he will have to be supported and pushed hard from the "bottom." That's us, common people, average working people, the working poor and those in poverty. We also need substantial help from those in the middle-class, as well as the technical and management class. This idea that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Obama's</span> success can only happen if there is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">continual</span> and relentless pressure from the "bottom" is prevalent among a wide variety of informed respectable observers, especially on the liberal left and among progressives. Many conservatives agree. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">This is what I mean by Revolution. We, the people must make demands, stand our ground, make no compromise. This is our nation, we the common people are the true source of all power, all wealth, and all the labor that creates it. There are millions more regular people than there are within the elite minority faction ruling class. The truth is without us the powerful and the super wealthy would have nothing. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">Revolution is the word. Congress and Obama are the targets. It is the right time to overthrow our bad government and institute a new more effective one. Let us unite, organize, and move en <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">mass</span> to make our nation and President Obama the greatest and most <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">successful</span> in history by doing what is right and best for human progress, prosperity, and happiness by guaranteeing absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for every citizen. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">Until next time, Give Peace a chance. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Tinsley</span>, B.A.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"> </span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-60038151583037954362009-01-18T10:49:00.008-06:002009-01-18T13:55:04.466-06:00OBAMA INAUGURATION-MARTIN LUTHER KING-STIMULUS PACKAGE-ISRAEL-GAZA<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#003300;">19 January 2009</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">Hello, again. I have greatly missed my relatively regular communication with readers. When I last posted in mid-November I had no idea it would take until mid-January 2009 to return. I wanted to write, thought frequently about writing, kept intending to write, but to no avail. I was through the looking glass trying to embrace the chaos of reality. My absence and neglect was unexpected and unavoidable. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">I truly hope that all who read this had at least some joy and received some memorable benefit in the course of the holiday season just past. I hope that most are well and have, so far, been able to escape the most devastating effects of our nation's relentless economic decline. And, finally, it is my most sincere wish that those who read <em>Shift of Power</em> will think about and will talk with others about the need to break with the past. The United States, citizens and government, must seize the moment and abandon failed systems, processes, and political philosophies. We must create a new government, a new system with a new process that is based upon a new and genuinely different political philosophy. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">We must act now! At this point in the new year, at this moment in history, we, the people, are entering a period with much that is new. We are in a new year, we have an historic new president, a new congress, new majority, new hope and new opportunity with tremendous POTENTIAL for substantial change and growth. Conversely, our citizens and nation are also precariously perched on the so-called "tipping-point" regarding many issues on many fronts. The future of our country, our society, and our culture is firmly within our collective grasp. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">Every day every week from one year to the next, evidence demonstrating the inexorable deterioration and decline of the United States continues to mount. As it does, I am convinced beyond a reasonable doubt the only best hope is government exclusively devoted to human needs along with equal status, privileges, and rights for ALL citizens by ethical conduct. This means that our nation and citizens will be required to stand up and finish the Revolution inspired and organized by Barack Obama. We have to demand that President Obama REFUSE to compromise our <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">health</span> care and education; and we must make him make congress insist that all citizens, all corporations, all who are economically prosperous, including religious and so-called non-profit institutions, pay an equal share of taxes through Equal Taxation. All citizens must be willing to insist upon themselves and their fellow Americans to willingly give a period of service to America. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">If the United States is to be the nation of life, liberty, justice, and equality. If we, the people, are truly the sole source from which our government derives it's just power. If our leaders and system of government is honestly the benefactor of, and dependent upon, the consent of the governed. If any of these things are true, and if the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land, then it is not only our responsibility it is our duty, our obligation, and our right to overthrow a bad government. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">As United States citizens we do not have a choice. We are required to rid ourselves and our posterity of ineffective leaders and failed policies in order to institute a better more responsive system of government. The election of Barack Obama is only the first small act toward this end. Do not forget that he, and the new majority in congress, are DEMOCRATS. They owe many favors to many interests and, more than anything, their overriding desire is maintaining their power and position. Political parties will not and cannot significantly change the structure or direction of America. Only the American people have the ability and power to do that. So, unless enough of the people are willing to force President Obama and the new congress to work for, legislate for, and create policy for people instead of property, profit, power, and position this momentary condition of hope and national unity will pass without the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">desperately</span> needed change we voted for and were promised. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">Throughout 2009, and for the remainder of my lifetime, I will redouble my effort and continue striving to explain a new system and process of government, <em>Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government</em>. It is a political philosophy that will allow us to do what has never been done, or even honestly attempted in the history of human civilization. I will endeavor to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">demonstrate</span> the fundamental truth and benefit of embracing and adopting Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Equalism</span> as the foundation and basis for a new system and process of government. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government provides the means for a system and process wherein human progress, prosperity, and happiness are the primary concern and reason for government to exist. It contains the philosophical building blocks for a system and process that puts in place and guarantees absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for EVERY citizen. And, Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Equalism</span> will lead to unqualified ethical conduct within and by every aspect of our federal government. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">I have no doubt in my mind or heart that, as of this moment in history with respect to the development of human intellect and the advance of civilization, Humanism and absolutely <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">equal</span> status, privileges, and rights for all citizens is the best and most obvious path. In the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">history</span> of human civilization it has never been done and, so far, all systems of government have failed; all nations, all empires have fallen. Our nation, our "empire" is decaying rapidly and new ones are on the horizon. It is a natural fact that everything eventually dies, but the question Americans must answer is, "Is it time for the United States of America to die?" </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">There is, and can be, no argument that our country has been, and is currently in a state of rapid decay, that our eventual decline and death is accelerating. To arrest this process, to revitalize and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">reinvigorate</span> our entire country will only become a real possibility when we, the people, and our institutions of government make human progress, prosperity, and happiness with absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for all citizens through ethical conduct our primary aim and purpose. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">I hope that readers will contribute to this discussion. I invite readers to make comments, to tell others about these ideas, to share this blog, and, most of all, to return soon for more. Till next time, Give Peace a chance. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;">James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Tinsley</span>, B. A.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;color:#003300;"> </span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-33339715741292111832008-11-17T13:15:00.002-06:002008-11-17T14:37:00.432-06:00TRANSITION-BIG 3 BAILOUT-LAME DUCK SESSION-DIVERSITY<div align="left"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">17 November 2008</span><br /></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">RACE, RACISM,RACISTS</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">Irrespective of our electing the first president of color in the person of Barack Obama, the United States of America has been and is the most consistently racist society in modern history. Our collective racism goes beyond Black and White. It extends to so-called "immigrants" and "illegal aliens." And, though it is only slightly different because the bigotry and discrimination is directed at a class of citizen, the treatment of homosexuals is essentially another manifestation of racism in America. Racism and racist behavior will not end or even necessarily diminish as a result of the election of Barack Obama. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">In order to clearly understand how adopting Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government as the underlying philosophical foundation for a new government will effect issues of race, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">immigration</span>, bigotry and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">discrimination</span> it is necessary to consider their source and purpose. By source I mean, where do these ideas originate; by purpose I mean why are these ideas employed, embellished, and perpetuated, by whom and for what benefit. Simply stated, the source is Christian orthodoxy and the purpose is to divide, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">conquer</span>, and control. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">As to the source, Christian orthodoxy. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Admittedly</span> there has been, and still are, many sincere and good self-proclaimed Christian believers, and various worthwhile organizations and groups <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">affiliated</span> with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Christian</span> denominations. This number, however, is a relatively small percentage when compared to the total number of so-called Christian believers. The point is that, yes, there are some Christians that have always tried to do the Human thing but, there have always been many more that do exactly as they believe the Bible commands them to do. </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">Throughout its history the Bible has been, and still is used to rationalize, justify, support and uphold the most cruel and inhumane treatment and conduct by humans upon others. Though there may be some argument on this point it cannot be denied. Christianity was adopted by "White" people and is still considered to be the "White man's religion." This fact alone is ample proof that Christian orthodoxy is the original source of the ideas, attitudes, and actions associated with race, racism, bigotry and discrimination. </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">I should state that, although in the United States <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Christian </span>orthodoxy is the key source race, racism, bigotry and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">discrimination</span> is common to and cultivated by all developed religions. In other words, racism is a product of all religion. Consequently, the degree of racist expression and conduct within a given society will will be directly proportionate to the extent that a society's primary religion influences it's government. </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">What is the purpose of racism, bigotry, and discrimination? What does racism achieve, and who benefits? </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">From its inception the primary purpose of racism and racist behavior has been to create the " other" - the "them" of "us and them." Once this potential threat to the well-being of the majority, or status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">quo</span>, is in place the general population can then be further subdivided. By dividing the citizens into smaller factions, then playing them off each other, an elite ruling minority faction exerts authority. It is well known and well understood that a most effective means to quiet dissent, quash rebellion, and control the mass of citizens is to keep them divided and agitated against each other. The more divisions that can be created the easier to manipulate the individual factions.</span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">When this has been accomplished and a nation's population is divided against itself that nation has, for all intents and purposes, been <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">conquered</span>. The obvious next step is to control that which has been <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">conquered</span>. Racism, bigotry, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">discrimination</span> and racist conduct sanctioned or ignored by government has proven to be entirely sufficient to effect control and oppression. I am not revealing anything new, or that is not well known by most people and thoroughly understood by the ruling class. </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">Division and fear have been, and continue to be, the moving principles of every government that has existed in human history- including the United States of America. The premise of every government in human history has been a variety of things. Such as, absolute power, expansion, wealth, resources, and God to name a few. There has never been a notable system of government that existed solely for the progress. prosperity, and happiness of all citizens. There has never been a government in human history that had as its moving principle absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for all citizens. </span> </div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Equalism</span>: <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Philosophy</span> for Ethical Government establishes a philosophical foundation for just such a government. Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Equalism</span> defines and describes a system and process by which such a government can be instituted and maintained. With the system and process provided by Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government racism, racist behavior, bigotry and discrimination would be eliminated with regard to our federal government. In other words, all citizens recognized by our United States Constitution would be given and treated with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">absolutely</span> equal status, privileges, and rights by the United States Government. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">In concluding this discussion of race, racism, and racist behavior- what this is, where it came from, why it is used, and who benefits. I wish to make clear that I do firmly believe that our election of Barack Obama is both in act, and in fact, a tremendous and severe blow to the elite minority faction ruling status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">quo</span>. I am also just as firmly convinced that for Barack Obama to do what his supporters believe that they elected him to do will require constant and unbearable pressure from average American citizens. In other words, unless we, the people, make Obama, make the House and Senate act differently- make the changes- they will not. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Obama's</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">campaign</span> of change rests entirely with us. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">This land is your land, this land is my land...Until next time, Give peace a chance.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Tinsley</span>, B.A.</span></div>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-19433705577228895672008-11-01T12:12:00.007-05:002008-11-01T14:22:23.361-05:00RALPH NADER-TAX AND SPEND LIBERAL-BATTLE GROUND STATES-INDEPENDENT VOTERS<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">1 November 2008</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">In less than 72 hours on 4 <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">November</span> 2008 qualified citizens will have an opportunity to participate in the act that defines democracy. Americans will essentially vote for one of the two ruling parties candidates. Some that cannot bring themselves to vote for the "lesser of two evils" will vote for a third party candidate. We are told that every election is important, that every vote counts and that it is our duty. In the United States we cast our votes and hope that among those we elect there is someone with the answer, someone that can and will bring about real and lasting change. That hope is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">especially</span> strong this year. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">The election of 2008 is in fact truly special and historic. Yet, in spite of this, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">in spite</span> of the overwhelming and undeniable desire among the majority of citizens for substantial even radical change of direction and priorities, purpose and policies our history and the evidence suggests that all our hope is futile. I submit that neither Democrats nor Republicans are willing or capable of resolving America's problems including the course of its decline. Our only genuine hope lies with people, not political parties. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">The key element that makes this election potentially the most historic in our nation's history is race. It is very likely, and I believe almost certain that we will elect a man of color as our next president. Though Barack Obama is the product of a Caucasian woman and an African man, he is considered and has presented himself as the first "African-American" nominated by one of the ruling political parties. It is only fitting that I address the issue of race as it now is and how Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Equalism</span>: Philosophy of Ethical Government can eliminate the negative connotation of race within our racist nation. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"><br />I must start by admitting that discussing this topic is difficult for me. Though not for the reasons that may first come to mind. Ironically, the two biggest reasons would, at first glance, seem to be directly contrary to one another. The first most basic explanation as to why the racial point is perplexing for me is that I forget about it. I know that race and its product of racism is, quite frankly, bullshit!<br /><br />Race, as we associate and define it today, is a malicious artificial construct . It is used as a means of dividing, manipulating, and dominating our citizens and policy. Because I have known this for years I do not play "skin-games."<br /><br />For example, using the term "black" exclusively in relation to people of African heritage, and the term "white" exclusively in relation to Anglos and Europeans. I do not know the experience of anyone reading this but, although I do know some "black" people, I do not know any "white" people. I have seen pictures of people born with Albinism, but they are rare and certainly not the norm.<br /><br />The vast overwhelming majority of human beings are neither black, nor white. Nearly all human beings are some different shade of brown –from pale beige to blue-black. Any time I fill out a form that inquires about race, I always check the "other" box and write in Caucasian; ‘cause I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">ain</span>’t white.<br /><br />I am, as they say, colorblind. When I observe another person I do not recognize any color. I see a human being first, then a male or female being. Any further refinement of my perception of this person will be determined by their actions and how they define themselves. In short, because there is only one species of human beings, race is irrelevant and immaterial.<br /><br />The second reason it is difficult for me to engage the topic of race is the fact that race and racism distorts everything in America. This undeniable fact means that it cannot be ignored or tolerated. Race and diversity is at the core of our nation’s history. It is at once our greatest asset and the biggest source of national shame.<br /><br />There is not a country in world history in which race and racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States. So, this topic is difficult for me because on a personal level I reject it. I do not acknowledge or empower it in any way. Yet, because race is so entangled with everything that happens in the United States. Because race and racism is in our nation's DNA, so to speak, it must be confronted. Unless there is a shift of power in the United States we will continue to be victimized by our own ignorance. My objective is to demonstrate that Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Equalism</span> government can and will redefine race and racism with regard to bureaucracy and its function.<br /><br />Slavery has always existed in some form and still exists in our country and throughout the world. Slavery was not always connected to or associated with race or skin color. Slavery was an important element of exploration and colonial expansion beginning in the late 1400’s. By the mid-1600’s Africans were the hottest item and biggest seller on the slave market. Wealthy slave traders and their pious peers were quick to point out that Africans are sub-human heathens and Christian duty mandated that their souls should be saved.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">The Bible and the Christian God dictated that the best way to save the black African and the American savage, to please the Lord, was to steal babes suckling at their mother’s breast, separate entire families, and then sell these godless savages to good Christians to be shackled, saved and subjected to subservience and abuse for the rest of their lives. Because of their obvious natural inferiority, apparent by their physical differences, Africans have a God-given suitability for slavery. At least that was, and in many cases still is the primary justification for bigotry and racism.<br /><br />Physical features of different groups became the markers or symbols justifying their low position on the scale of social systems. Subsequent race ideology promoted the belief that the social, spiritual, moral, and intellectual inequality of different groups was, like other traits, natural, innate, inherited, and unalterable. This facilitated the creation of the only slave system in the world that became exclusively racial.<br />However, perpetual servitude was limited to Africans and their <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">descendants</span>. This means that blacks will remain at the bottom of the social hierarchy forever. Slavery and racism were sanctified by God and Christian creed then legitimized by our United States Constitution.<br /><br />Segregating black Africans and native Americans from whites and outlawing marriage between whites and people of color ensured that the color of one's skin, the visible physical differences are the key indicator of unequal social status. Race as we know and define it today has, from its inception, been about separateness and inequality. The inferior status indicated by race was eventually applied to free blacks and others. Thus the autonomous new mechanism of social differentiation went beyond slavery and has persisted as the primary form of social and class identity.<br /><br />The status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">quo</span> and elite minority ruling faction depend on the division that race and racism produce to help them stay in power and control the average citizen. This condition of manipulation and oppression will continue to bring and keep our nation in shame unless it is stopped. And, even though many ignorant individuals in our society, especially orthodox Christians and fundamentalists, will always be bigoted against other races our government must not. We, the people, must revolt and demand a new system and process of government. A government of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Equalism</span> that acts to guarantee absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights to every citizen treating none as special or different. Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government is the best hope we have of creating a system and process of government capable of achieving this standard. </span><br /></span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">Next time I will conclude this discussion of race. Regardless of the fact that nothing substantial or truly radical will change as a result of this election, please please go out and vote. Exercise your right, live up to your responsibility, and fulfil your obligation as a citizen of the United States. Until we meet again, Give Peace a chance. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Tinsley</span>, B.A.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-28859439514476149202008-10-15T16:00:00.004-05:002008-10-15T17:31:27.395-05:00POVERTY-POOR PEOPLE-WORKING POOR-WELFARE<span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;color:#990000;">15 October 2008</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">POVERTY: Tool of Oppression, Fruit of Dispassion</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">I am joining today with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">bloggers</span> throughout the United States and around the world to address the issue of Poverty. This coordinated day of blog-posting is sponsored by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Blogger's</span> Unite. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Poverty-the idea of it, the concept and understanding of it, is generally thought to be rather straightforward and obvious. But I believe that poverty is multi-dimensional and much more complicated. I am quite certain that many people will devote more than enough space exploring economic inequities, the evils of capitalism, and a plethora of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">perfectly</span> valid causes and reasons for poverty. Some people will attempt to demonstrate the correctness of their argument <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">mathematically</span> with numbers and statistics. These are all acceptable. </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">I will pursue a different tack. I have concluded that discussions and arguments such as those just noted are exactly what the purveyors of poverty wish us to focus on. They are a diversion and address only the symptoms and evidence that the condition of poverty exists. That is, they only prove the reality of poverty. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Observation and experience have led me to conclude something different. Poverty is not a product of nature. Poverty is an exclusive product created by some human beings to subjugate and oppress other human beings. Poverty is a human-made artificial construct, a tool or machine that enables a wealthy elite minority faction to exert control and maintain their position of power over average and common citizens.Poverty is manufactured from cupidity, rapine, and creed. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"></span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Cupidity is the unrestrained greed, especially for wealth or money. Rapine is unrestrained plundering of rights and property. Creed, that is to say religious <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">orthodoxy</span>, whether it is Christianity, Islam, Judaism or any religion is the fundamental means of subjugation. All religious orthodoxy is predicated on submission. Submission to a higher power. Religious orthodoxy provides the shackles and chains used by the elite ruling class that creates and institutes systems of government. </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Religious dogma, doctrine and creed always serves in conjunction with the wealthiest and most powerful interests, regardless of the culture or society, to protect and perpetuate the Status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Quo</span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Religious</span> dogma, doctrine and creed are the lowest common denominator among people and are the most effective shortest route to controlling the greatest number. Both government and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">religion</span> need and use poverty. In other words, poverty is a beneficial and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">necessary</span> tool employed by government and religious authority. Poverty enhances the power of government.</span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Poverty breeds hopelessness, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">despair,</span> and cruelty. Poverty is demoralizing, emotionally <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">debilitating</span>, and physically abusive. Poverty fosters fear, anger and division. Poverty denies liberty and demands subservience. Poverty is the betrayal of humanity. Poverty is the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">animalistic</span> and savage expression of the powerful over the weak, the large over the small. Poverty is the opposite of equality. </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">There are many actions we can all take to combat poverty. There are various organizations we can support and contribute to that work tirelessly to alleviate poverty. There are lots of things we should do regarding the real and corrosive condition of poverty. In the end, however, I believe that absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for EVERY citizen will prove to be the most natural and effective means to eliminate the circumstances that give rise to and perpetuate poverty.</span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Therefore, to bring an end to the substantive experience, the ongoing and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">excruciating</span> human suffering of poverty we, the people, must rise up, exercise the full amount of our power, and demand that all government protect people before profit <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">and</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">property</span>, before position and power. We must cause a shift of power that removes bad and corrupt government. And without compromise we, the governed, the source of all power, must exorcise and prohibit the entanglement of religion and government to institute new systems of government that treat all citizens, all people everywhere, with absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights. This is a government of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Equalism</span>. </span></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">Next time I will examine Race and the issue of difference and how Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government offers a viable and practicable solution. Until then, Give Peace a chance.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;">James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Tinsley</span>, B.A.</span> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"> </span> </div>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-76232399071694904362008-10-10T06:34:00.005-05:002008-10-10T08:27:02.390-05:00NATIONALIZE-COMMERCIAL PAPER-FROZEN CREDIT-NEGATIVE ADS<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">10 October 2008</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">"<em>Only a crisis--real or perceived--produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable</em>." </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">(Words of the late economist Milton Friedman taken from <em>The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism</em>, by Naomi Klein.) </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Milton Friedman also said that "economic policies have consequences." I submit that history will eventually prove Milton Friedman and his so-called "free-market" or "fundamentalist" capitalism was the worlds most prolific and deadly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">terrorist</span> in the latter half of the 20<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">th</span> century and the beginning of the 21st century. Friedman and his economic <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">terrorist</span> group, trained at the University of Chicago, have three trademark demands that have caused more suffering, conflict and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">death than</span> any known terrorist in modern history. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">These demands are: privatization, government deregulation, and deep cuts to social spending. Sounds familiar doesn't it? It should, our current economic impotence and devastation is the result of almost forty years of applied Friedman economics. These ideas are also intimately and directly connected to our nation's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">foreign</span> policy. Contrary to myth and popular belief the United States economic structure and policy have never been genuinely "free." </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">From the the time of our Constitutional Convention, since the United States Constitution was ratified and the first Congress called to order; throughout the course of our nation's history the economic policy and all that flows from it have been designed and implemented to benefit the wealthy elite minority faction. Everything about our country and government with regard to the accumulation of wealth and power has, and is, done to favor those that have the most. This fact is indisputable. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">We, the people, have only one choice to make. We must stand up, stand together, and carry out a second Revolution in the name of citizens and absolute equality. It is the obligation and responsibility of our citizenship. It is not only our right but it is our duty to rise up and remove our bad government, to cause a shift of power. With our Constitution in tact, using the means it provides, citizens must institute a new government based on the system and process of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">The system and process arising from Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government promotes and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">protects</span> the value and dignity of citizens. Wealth, profit, position, and power are not the primary and overriding objective. Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Equalism</span> economic policy requires that all capitalist enterprise succeed or fail on its own merit and ability. Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Equalism</span> makes government a tool and a means for citizens benefit and, while vigorously encouraging <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">entrepreneurship</span> and the creation of wealth, Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government does not act or function as the machinery of perverted American capitalism’s exploitation and greed. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">The tax code will no longer be up for sale to the highest bidder. All business, public or private, charitable or philanthropic, religious or political; all business that owes taxes will pay taxes. Like all citizens, they will pay taxes for the privileges, and rights guaranteed by our Constitution; they will pay taxes for the opportunity and freedom to make as much money as can be made. Nothing in life is free including American citizenship and wealth.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">With government based on Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Equalism</span> our civil and criminal code will no longer be for sale. Justice will no longer be a high priced commodity available only to the wealthy, powerful, and well connected. The executive branch of government will be taken off the auction block; while professional lobbyists, unscrupulous tax lawyers, and accountants, along with so-called health care insurance providers will all have to seek a new line of work. Because the system and process of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Equalism</span> will eliminate any need for such vermin. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Because Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Equalism</span> forbids the interference of government into the affairs of free market enterprise, multi-national corporations and big business financiers that wish to protect operations located in other countries, or secure natural resources and open new markets will have to spend their own money, energy, and blood. America's military and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">foreign</span> policy will no longer be for lease. The use of police, National Guard, or the United States military to oppress the needs and demands of labor or to overthrow uncooperative foreign governments to enhance corporate power and profit will no longer be an option. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Every citizen private and corporate will have absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights in regard and relation to our federal government. Yes, I know that most people read these things and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">immediately</span> think, "This guy is either smoking something or living in fantasy land." The truth is, because that is exactly what most people will say is evidence and undeniable proof that we have been completely subjugated to defend and protect the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">quo</span> and elite minority faction; the wealthy <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">pseudo</span>-aristocracy that rules our country and controls every aspect of our lives. The ideas of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government are just as fantastic and impossible as the idea of independence was to the subjugated colonists that carried out our first Revolution. With one major exception, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Christianity</span> and religion are truly divorced from government and relegated to the free market of ideas and personal choice. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Equalism</span> is a system and process of humanity not money or "manifest destiny." As such, it postulates that if people are the primary focus and concern of bureaucracy, if our citizens, as well as governments of other nations, are treated with equality, respect, dignity, and honesty then there will be no reason for economic warfare or violence of any kind. The economic policies and machinery of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Equalism</span> government will have a profound life-altering effect on all citizens. Especially average common working people and the traditionally poor.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">The status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">quo</span> approach to economics, while wildly effective and beneficial for an elite minority faction, is cruel, inhumane, and degrading to the overwhelming majority of common citizens. It generates huge profit and wealth for the few at the expense of the many. I believe it should be evident that America and its citizens will be tremendously and positively affected by government and economic policy emanating from the philosophy and principles of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">This concludes my initial in-depth examination regarding our traditional understanding and view of economics and how it will change with the implementation of a new government of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Equalism</span>. Next, on 15 October 2008, I will join tens-of-thousands of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">bloggers</span> from around the world to discuss the ever-widening and thoroughly demoralizing issue of poverty. I sincerely hope that you will think about the concepts and possibilities expressed here and contained within Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government. Until next time, Give Peace a chance. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;">James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Tinsley</span>, B.A.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000066;"></span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-65860790887935869412008-10-03T09:41:00.005-05:002008-10-03T10:31:26.385-05:00BIDEN-PALIN DEBATE-ECONOMIC RESCUE-PAUL NEWMAN-UNEMPLOYMENT<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">3 October 2008</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">Although the United States is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">celebrated</span> as and thought to be the bastion of so-called "free market" capitalism, it should be glaringly obvious to anyone that does not live in a cave that it is not. Our current fear-driven financial and economic crises is just the most recent example of how our federal government is, and has been created and run to benefit the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">wealthy</span> elite minority faction.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">From its inception, the federal government of the United States of America has protected property and rights of the rich first, and common citizens sometime later, if at all. In his penultimate work, <em>The Wealth of Nations</em>, the godfather of American economic practices, Adam Smith, writes candidly on the class character of governments:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><em><strong></strong></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><em><strong>"Laws and government may be considered in this and indeed in every case as a combination of the rich to oppress the poor, and preserve to themselves the inequality of the goods which would otherwise be soon destroyed by the attacks of the poor, who if not hindered by the government would soon reduce the others to an equality with themselves by open violence."<br /><br /></strong></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><em><strong></strong></em></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">At about the same time (the late 18<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">th</span> century), French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about how government and laws came to exist. In his book, <em>Discourse on the Origin of Inequality</em>, Rousseau surmised that:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"><em><strong>"Society and laws which gave new fetters to the weak and new forces to the rich, irretrievably destroyed natural liberty, established forever the law of property and of inequality, changed adroit usurpation into irrevocable right, and for the profit of a few ambitious men henceforth subjected the entire human race to labor, servitude, and misery."<br /></strong></em></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">In these two quotations it is easy to recognize the philosophy and foundation of our present economic status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">quo</span>. These two statements epitomize exactly what our government through its policies, and many of our citizens by unconditionally supporting the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">quo</span>, are eager to spend trillions of dollars and countless numbers of lives to defend. I am fond of saying, "Stupidity strikes someone in America every two minutes!"<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">In order to redefine and reform America’s economic paradigm and our perverted application of capitalism it is necessary to close, ignore, and abandon the failed status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">quo</span> exemplar. Our only best hope is in the system and process of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government of common sense, by common people, for common good instituted through a second American’s Revolution and a successful shift of power. How can this be accomplished?<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">First and most importantly by using our Constitution not violence to throw out bad government. Citizens must revolt and exercise their full power to establish and control a new one. Living people are inherently more valuable than property, profit, power, and position. Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Equalism</span> is the only means by which this kind of administrative system and process is currently possible.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">Unlike anything in the past, or that is known today, Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">Government arises from an assumption that human beings are the source from which all life derives its value. In other words, without human beings nothing on this planet or in the entire universe would have any value whatsoever. It is only through human cognizance and intellectual development that nature acquires its meaning, purpose, and value. All that the human species is, and all that it is not, is the effect and consequence of human reasoning, human labor and human intellectual progress – or lack of it. No God no religion no creed or dogma has ever advanced civilization or the human condition.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">If one starts with the presumption that human life, that is, citizens, are paramount and proceeds from there to organize government with all its attending institutions, powers, and authority it will lead to an entirely different set of economic objectives. As it stands now, government economic policy is crafted and carried out to protect the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">quo</span> minority faction and complete control by the ruling elite minority faction. The economic game has been, and is rigged from the get-go against average citizens. Profit and property rights take precedent over human and civil rights.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">Capitalists and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">corporatists</span> are completely dependent upon our United States government to remain viable and profitable. If business and corporate interests could not buy our tax code, use federal power and authority to enforce rules and regulations to their advantage a great portion would fail. This is the inequality of the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">quo</span>. It is free market feudalism, economic <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">terrorism</span> and indentured servitude sanctioned and perpetrated by our pseudo-aristocratic semi-elected representatives. There is, at this time, only one way to fix this oppressive regime and practice. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">Next time I will conclude this initial look at economics and how our economic paradigm will change with implementation of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government. As congress prepares to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">subject</span> average citizens, the poor, and those citizens living in poverty to even greater hardship I sincerely <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">hope</span> that readers will give some serious thought to the facts and issues, as well as the possibilities I have raised. On 15 October 2008 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Bloggers</span> Unite is sponsoring another "blog-in" for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">bloggers</span> around the world to address the issue of POVERTY. An event that I will be participating in. Until we meet again Give Peace a chance. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;color:#009900;">James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Tinsley</span>, B.A.</span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-71302278262279925722008-09-26T13:35:00.005-05:002008-09-26T14:37:24.939-05:00PAULSEN PLAN-PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE-WASHINGTON MUTUAL-DODD-SHELBY<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">26 September 2008<br /><br /><em>[Thomas] "Jefferson insisted that ‘every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another,’ and therefore in the United States, ‘the care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.’" (Larry J. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Sabato</span>, A More Perfect Constitution.) </em><br /><em></em><br /><br />America’s economic system is one of capitalism. What is ‘capitalism’? According to the <em>American Heritage Dictionary </em>(3rd edition), the general definition is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in the free market.<br /><br />Adam Smith established the foundation of modern capitalism in his most notable work, <em>The Wealth of Nations</em>. Written in the same year British colonists living on the North American continent declared their independence, 1776. I believe and Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government vigorously promotes the idea that capitalism is a solid proven economic system, perhaps the best ever organized for a free democracy or representative democracy.<br /><br />Contemporary American capitalism, however, is an abomination. It is a misshapen and unnatural application of capitalism principles and theory aimed at achieving improper and immoral objectives. At the beginning of the 21st century the driving force of United States economic practice is not "free market" capitalism, but instead, it is "financial" capitalism and "disaster capitalism". What does that mean?<br /><br />The over-simplified answer is that in a true "free market" capitalist economy profit and wealth are created and accumulated through one’s merit, creativity, and ability. While in a "financial" capitalist economy, profit and wealth are generated and accumulated by speculation and manipulation. "Disaster" capitalism is a historically and relatively recent wild-west bastardization of the free market profit paradigm that exploits instability, terror, terrorism and the subsequent demand for increased ‘security’. It is brilliant really. Brilliant, vulgar, cruel, and quite possibly the pinnacle of cynicism.<br /><br />In the case of a true "free market" capitalist economy government assumes a very limited role in regulation and oversight. In our current "financial" capitalist economy government only gets involved when there is egregious malfeasance or wide spread harm caused by excessive greed and obviously unscrupulous behavior by financial speculators. Some examples include insider trading, fraudulent accounting practices, and inappropriate manipulation of stock prices.<br /><br />As for "disaster" capitalism, government policy and agencies directly promote conditions favorable to what author Naomi Klein in her most recent work, "<em>Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism</em>," aptly redefines as "the disaster industrial complex". For example the Iraq war and our current financial meltdown. It is when the people of a nation are thrown into a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">state</span> of extreme fear and shock that government <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">can</span> then institute policy changes that ultimately usurp the power of the people and increase the power of the elite ruling minority faction.<br /><br />I am not an economist and it is not my intention to delve into or try to explain economic theory and principles. I have no intention of rehashing old debates that are no longer pertinent or relevant. My aim is to establish that Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Equalism: Philosophy for Ethical Government</span> economics is more like Adam Smith’s free market capitalism and is not, as many will claim, about the redistribution of wealth. Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Equalism</span> economic policy is quite simple.<br /><br />Government establishes the parameters and clearly defines the terms, conditions and rules regarding the conduct of business and the market. Government defends the lives and conditions of American citizens first, and then public and private property. All government activities and functions with regard to the workings of free markets will be based on serving the interests and needs required to provide all citizens equal access, opportunity, health, and safety. In other words, the well-being and benefit of average citizens-the people-are considered more important than profit, property, power and position. <br /><br />There are basically two principles underlying our nations so-called "conservative" political doctrine. First, the smallest sized government possible and very little, if any, interference or regulation by government. From the Founding Fathers through the Whigs of the 19<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">th</span> century to the contemporary Republican Party, less government and less regulation has been the mantra. The caveat is that whatever oversight, regulation and government involvement that is absolutely necessary must exist to support, promote, and insure "free" markets and capitalist profit.<br /><br />Second, government and law must be organized in such manner that the rich can depend on it to protect their profit and property regardless of the effect on citizens. Why is it governments business to get involved beyond the rules and regulations of conducting business that apply to all in order to provide something extra for the wealthy elite? I will tell you why. Because the rich could not remain rich and the powerful could not remain powerful without government support and protection.<br /><br />As we watch the current economic crisis unfold I will ask you to think about this: What our president, congress and presidential <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">candidates</span> are doing is exhibiting the actions and attitude of aristocracy. That is to say, while they continue to tell citizens that they need to act in order to protect "<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">main street</span>" their actions are designed to do nothing more than maintain the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">quo</span>. Or, as long as the rich are allowed to remain rich and the powerful are allowed to keep their power the rest of us will be protected.<br /><br />I will delve deeper into the difference between what our so-called "leaders" are trying to preserve and how Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government economics will change our nation for the better next time. Until then Give Peace a chance.<br />James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Tinsley</span>, B.A.<br /><br /></span><br /></span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-80031321404602619932008-09-19T07:38:00.007-05:002008-09-19T09:10:25.826-05:00WALL STREE BAILOUT- AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP (AIG)-YEMEN-RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#000099;">19 September 2008</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><br />Maintaining the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">quo</span>,that is, continuing the same actions based on flawed reasoning to achieve misguided ends, will only bring the same results we are experiencing today. Violence and war cannot resolve any issue, nor can they establish peace. The United States of America was born in blood, expanded by blood, industrialized and made wealthy with the blood of the poor, with that of slaves, women, immigrants and the weak. America’s traditional philosophy of government is the same as every empire that ever was. Consequently, the results have been, and will be, the same as that of empires past. As long as our government makes law and conducts policy that value’s property over citizens our future will be as violent and bloody and divided as our past. The cycle of momentary success followed by failure and violence will continue until the United States, as we now know it, is no more.<br /><br />Many people argue with me about that statement, but they are wrong and the statement is true. Since becoming a legally established country in 1789 America has taken what it wanted by force. Our actions may be justified and rationalized, one can proclaim ‘manifest destiny’ and insist that what America has created, invented and given to the world far outweighs any of its minor indiscretions. Indeed, those protestations and claims might sustain that argument for a moment or two. However, if the quality of an action is determined by its consequences, I believe the historical and current evidence leaves no doubt that the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">quo</span> is a decisive failure. Is there any valid logic, reason or common sense in fighting so hard to keep doing something that always fails?<br /><br />If the purpose of our government is to insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare, I ask, is our government doing it? Anyone that says yes, is, whether by nature, nurture or choice, cognitively disabled (retarded). Either that, or they are a bold-faced liar.<br /><br />I ask, if our government is supposed to provide security to enable all citizens to pursue life, happiness, and property in a state of liberty, is it; has it ever done so? If one answers yes they must be brain dead, extremely wealthy, or they are a bold-faced liar.<br /><br />Our government, the purveyor and symbol of the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">quo</span>, is incapable of securing anything except its own power and position. It does this by fomenting fear. Through propaganda we are convinced of a monstrous ‘new’ enemy. We imagine just who they might be, what they might do, and where they might strike. Citizens are constantly demoralized and terrorized by our government and Christian orthodoxy. Everyone foreign or with different convictions is a suspect. The status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">quo</span> is thoroughly corrupt, its objectives amoral, and its power is held on to through intimidation, secret spying and by applying all the force and resources of state and federal police agencies against citizens in the name of protecting citizens.<br /><br />Guardians of the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">quo</span> know full well that they cannot defeat so-called terrorism, they know that our citizens can never be safe. Ask yourself one question: "Who or what was really protected or profited by the more than one Trillion dollars spent by the United States government in FY2007?" Did you, your family or business become more wealthy or better off?<br /><br />Terror and terrorism cannot now, nor will it ever, be defeated by any amount of force or money employed by the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">quo</span>. Why? Terrorism is a means driven by an idea to resolve an untenable condition. It is generally known and widely accepted that an idea can never be eliminated or beaten by oppression, faith, opposition or force. Terror and terrorism can be fought openly as with warfare, or covertly under cover of secrecy and blackness. Agents of terrorism can be bought or bribed. They can be cajoled, placated, even negotiated with. Terrorism can be supported if it serves our purpose, and denounced to establish our credibility or to gain an advantage.<br /><br />Those among the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">quo</span> concerned with such matters know very well that terrorism and terror will, in the end, always win simply because it cannot be ignored. The status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">quo</span> have accepted this reality and are now actively seeking avenues and opportunities to make terrorism and terror a profitable wealth generating multinational enterprise.<br /><br />In practical terms this means that instead of attempting to establish genuine security for America and Americans, the machinery of the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">quo</span> has adopted the persistent nature and reality of terror and terrorism as a business model and marketing tool for a wide range of "security products". This is yet another exhibit in the already overwhelming mountain of evidence that our pseudo-aristocratic government, on behalf of elite minority faction rule, believes it is supported by a divinely inspired and therefore protected philosophy. It is a philosophy operating on principles of piety, profit, power, and with supreme control that places the highest and most desirable value on property, position, and wealth, while regarding human life as either a cheap commodity to be exploited or as a disposable tool.<br /><br />Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government appreciates the momentary pleasure and motivational value of personal achievement. It has great respect for creating wealth and actively encourages success, profit, power and position. There is no question that these are important goals and desires natural to human beings and the advance of civilization. However, Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Equalism</span> ultimately regards these and all exclusively self-aggrandizing materially motivated pursuits as secondary and subservient to the progress, happiness, and improved conditions in which all our citizens, and indeed all people everywhere should live and function.<br /><br />Wealth, position, profit, and power in their proper context with relation to government and society are interim and immediate results that should serve as an additional means to loftier ends. Ends such as leading all citizens toward the long held commonly desired goal of accelerating human progress, happiness,prosperity and advancing civilization. Wealth, position, profit, and power should not be governments motivating purpose or function. The purpose and function of government is to guarantee equal access, equal opportunity, and equal consideration by hearing all and favoring none. Government must clearly define the rules and parameters regarding the products and wealth our citizens create and produce. The benefits of human ingenuity and labor are a society's common product resulting from common sense for the common good; they are not the property and machinery of an elite minority faction.<br /><br />The point is that if wealth, position, profit, and power are prioritized properly and governed by a humane rather than ordained political philosophy, all citizens will have an equal shot at the brass ring. Those that start at birth in fortunate material circumstances will be able to achieve even greater heights. While those born with nothing more than a strong heart, strong intellect, and strong back will have just as much opportunity to accomplish something and rise above the circumstance of their birth. After all, is this not the American Dream?<br /><br />The next natural evolution of political philosophy and systems of government can only be one where the entire reason for a government to exist is to make sure the playing field of public business and public interactivity is level and the rules apply equally to all citizens at all times. To make sure that no citizen is penalized for the course of their life by the circumstance of birth. In practical terms this means that no citizen should ever be kept down burdened with poor health, insufficient inadequate education, hunger or lack of shelter as a result of to whom and in what <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">circumstance</span> they were born.<br /><br />I do not understand when anyone tries to argue that there is any other reason for government power than to defend and secure the basic necessities of life. In previous times that meant defense from invasion, food, clothing and shelter. In the 21st century it means good health, unlimited education, reasonably priced healthy food, and equal treatment by authority. It means equal access to process, equal opportunity with equal enforcement and equal justice. Government, though it is of society, cannot function or act like it. Society is brutal. Society is a buyer beware, every person for him or her self, I'm gonna get mine jungle; it is neither fair nor equal. And why should it be? Individuals make up a society and their primary concern is their own well being.<br /><br />Government, on the other hand, must be the controlling authority and force of consistency guaranteeing every citizen absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights by the impartial and ethical conduct of all its action, function, and responsibility. Government must be the home-plate umpire calling balls and strikes, fouls and outs; a neutral objective third party whose only function is to enforce the rules that have been approved by all, for all.<br /><br /><br />There is no doubt or argument that government must assume the primary responsibility of defining and enforcing the law of contracts and use its full force and authority to protect private and personal property. Government must also define, enact, and enforce a civil and criminal code of laws; and it should be entrusted with all necessary power and authority to keep order through justice. But since all of these matters concern the affairs and effect the lives of all the people, it is they, and not property or other things, about which contracts are entered into, which are of the greatest value.<br /><br />Government, first and foremost, must be base its action and function on human beings, their needs and progress. The proposed Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Equalism</span> system and process of government controlled by the objectively neutral Three-question Test process will accomplish something never before done by the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">quo</span> or any government thus far in history.<br /><br />Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government adopted as our government system and process will translate into real and substantial security for all America’s citizens, for our homeland, and for our foreign interests by establishing absolutely equal status, privileges, and rights for every citizen in all matters by its ethical conduct of equal consideration and treatment. When United States citizens, and those of other nations are treated equally, with dignity, with respect and with consideration of their needs and progress; only then will security, prosperity, and hope prevail. Only then will human civilization advance beyond its historical and present condition of misery, decay, and terror.<br /><br /><br />In the case of continuing to uphold and support the institution and tradition of the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">quo</span> versus a second American’s Revolution and shift of power to a government of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Equalism</span>. I believe that I have presented sufficient evidence for a decision and ruling in favor of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government and radical change. If my fellow citizens will consider the testable and factual evidence on the merits and not whether this new philosophy and system of government will rock the boat, stir things up, or cause them to be uncomfortable and inconvenienced, there can only be one logical outcome.<br /><br />If Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Equalism</span> is considered with intellectual and personal honesty, unfettered by shackles of dogma and creed, failed political ideology or the fraudulent prestidigitation of miracle our course of action is clear. One must consider the facts and evidence as a United States citizen by rising above petty selfish affection and attachment to inherited personal beliefs. When the evidence is weighed based only on that which is knowable and true, a citizen must decide in favor of Revolution, in favor of overthrowing the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">quo</span>.<br /><br />This concludes our initial examination of the broad subject of "Security." On 15 October 2008 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Blogger's</span> Unite will sponsor another "blog-in." This time <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">bloggers</span> around the globe will be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">coming</span> together to address the subject of poverty. I will be among those blogging about this <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">egregious</span> condition plaguing America and the world. So, in preparation for, and leading up to 15 October 2008 I will be discussing on this <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">blog site</span> economics as it is and as it could be under a government of Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Equalism</span>. Please come back soon and Give Peace a chance.<br />James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Tinsley</span>, B.A. </span><br /></span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-40175364514135564222008-09-12T10:31:00.007-05:002008-09-12T11:35:15.367-05:00IKE- LIPSTICK ON A PIG-PIT BULL PALIN-LEHMAN BROTHERS FAILURE<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">12 September 2008<br /><br />Because of the horrendous events of 11 September 2001<br />the United States is now spending nearly half its annual federal budget – more than one Trillion tax dollars – to manufacture and sustain a delusion of so-called National and Homeland Security. The status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">quo</span>, in full support of the elite minority faction, keep telling us we can even more get security by invading and occupying some nations and threatening others. Pretending that America is safe and citizens are free, we are neither.<br /><br />There is more than a general consensus in 2008 that real security in the United States is doubtful. In spite of all the borrowing and spending by congress and the executive, in spite of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, war, torture, degenerating civil rights and liberty. In spite of a vengeful fundamentalist unitary executive who acts like a king issuing decree by executive order and legislative signing statement, the United States is impotent against terrorists and terrorism.<br /><br />The inadequacy and failure of the status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">quo</span> model and minority faction rule is now being exposed. If we, as a nation, choose to pass up a rare historical opportunity to carry out another American’s Revolution, make a new system of government, and cause an irreversible shift of power, the current status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">quo</span> will be the condition and position of America until its demise. To establish what most citizens imagine and think about when discussing security terms must be redefined and our nation's means and objectives <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">re-framed</span>. Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government is, for the moment, the only viable solution.<br /><br />In his essay "The Ultimate Power," found in <em>Passionate Declarations</em>, Professor Howard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Zinn</span> discusses redefining terms and changing the framework of our objectives writing:<br /><br />Statistics indicate that, of the industrialized nations, those that spend the least for military purposes show the greatest economic progress. … [The] habits of governments [are] so deeply dug into old policies of militarism and war … if a great popular movement should develop to insist on change, … if it became large enough to threaten the political power of government …[it] must be driven by a vision. … The vision in this case, for people all over the world, is the most inspiring of all, that of a world without war, without police states, … and with immense resources now free to be used for human needs. …It is, of course, an enormous job to be done. But never in history has there been one more worthwhile. … All we need to do is make the first moves, speak the first words.<br />…The conversion of resources requires a conversion of language. New definitions of old terms could become a part of the common vocabulary. The old definitions have misled us and caused monstrous harm.<br />The word for security, for instance, would take on a new meaning: the health and well being of people, which is the greatest strength and the most lasting security a nation can have. (A simple parable makes this clear: Would a family living in a high crime city feel more "secure" if it put machine guns in its windows, dynamite charges in the yard, and tripwires all around the house, at the cost of half the family income and less food for the children?) The analogy is not far fetched. It is an understatement of what nations do today.<br /><br />Following up on Professor <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Zinn</span>’s ideas keep in mind that our nation is now spending more than one Trillion dollars annually to produce nothing more than the illusion and delusion of national and homeland security. Future spending is projected to be even higher. Citizens must ask and answer some simple but very serious questions.<br /><br />Would we not in fact be substantially and measurably more secure if every citizen were guaranteed the best basic medical care from conception to coffin? Would we not be more secure if every citizen were guaranteed the best education and training throughout the course of their life? Would our discernible security not be more reliable if every citizen actively and willingly contributed to the nation through a brief period of useful work on its behalf? Would citizens not be more united and devoted to each other and America at large if every person, every business and every corporation that should pay taxes actually paid them? If all citizens had an opportunity to exercise authentic material control over government actions and spending would we not substantially increase the meaning and degree of national and domestic security? And finally, is it not undeniably obvious that America and American citizens would be <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">infinitely</span> more secure if every citizen were guaranteed that our United States government treats all living citizens in a truly equal way by establishing and maintaining absolutely equal status, privilege, and rights, and conducting its business in a consummate ethical manner?<br /><br />As for national security with regard to foreign affairs, is it not reasonable to believe American security is more likely if our government does not invade and occupy other countries, or engage in constant bullying by threatening others? If leaders used our know-how and influence to aid and support those around the world that are struggling against totalitarian rulers, tyranny, ethnic cleansing, or religious genocide because it is the right and humane thing to do and without expecting anything in return, would we not be infinitely more secure? For example would we not be better off supporting <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Venezuela</span> rather than Israel or Saudi Arabia?<br /><br />If, instead of flouting our alleged superiority and very real military arsenal to force untenable Milton Friedman wild west capitalist economic terrorism and social changes upon places where they are unwelcome, unwarranted, and unwanted, would we not enhance our own reputation and thus our security? If we employed our ingenuity, technology, and authority exclusively to help others less fortunate, those mired in devastating poverty or oppression? If America helped them to rise up and determine their own destiny, while allowing them to remain true to their traditional beliefs and culture, instead of trying to make them more like Americans. If, instead "giving" Democracy to those that do not necessarily want it at gunpoint, or forcing the American way of life upon other cultures, the United States lived up to its own ideals, would we not find ourselves with greater demonstrable security?<br /><br />America has always claimed and, until recently, always been believed by other nations to be the world's first and strongest protector of basic Human Rights. I ask, if our foreign policy were to be equal to our marketing and mythology what nation, what group or cause, what ideology or terrorist would have reason or grievance to attack the United States or any of its interests, facilities or territory? Honestly? Really think about the implications. Our hubris, ignorance, and cupidity – our hypocrisy – is the source and cause of any terrorism, any attack or disruption we are <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">now</span> experiencing or will face in the future.<br /><br />If our nation acted as it spoke, practiced what it preaches, or did unto others, as it would have them do unto America, we would have no enemy. Only when someone is wronged, intentionally or otherwise, will they become an enemy.<br /><br />Generally, people treated with common courtesy, respect, honesty and without deception will not and cannot become an enemy. They may still hurt you, but any such action would be motivated by something else; like greed or a need to dominate, something emotional or psychological but not the venom and vitriol that inspires terrorism and real enemies.<br /><br />Imagine the United States being a humanitarian super power rather than a military super power. Imagine America being a facilitator and supporter of people and nations rather than an invader and occupier. Imagine being the world's healer and the planets’ supreme protector rather than its interrogator, torturer and plunderer. Imagine if the United States government, its citizens and its corporations, were focused on and dedicated to improving human living conditions for all people around the world rather than increasing the wealth, position, and power of an elite minority faction. Imagine that human progress, happiness, good health, unlimited education, opportunity and absolute equality of status, privileges, rights and ethical conduct by government is the most important objective of United States citizens and government. More important than profit, wealth, conquest, oil, or even image and prestige; imagine that people are more valuable than anything of or beyond this world. If you can imagine these things, then you can imagine the true spirit and purpose of the United States of America and its aspiration as expressed in Declaration of Independence. Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government will make it possible.<br /><br />Can you imagine the United States of America being this kind of nation? Certainly the two major presidential candidates and the two ruling political parties do not and cannot inspire such high minded thoughts. Until we, the people, carry out another Revolution throwing out our bad government and instituting a new one based on Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government our security and safety will remain as a source of fear, oppression, and profit.<br /><br />Next time I will conclude my examination of security with an in depth look at terror and terrorism. Until then, Give Peace a chance.<br />James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Tinsley</span>, B.A.<br /></span><br /></span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-26894253403146513412008-09-05T11:40:00.004-05:002008-09-05T12:12:18.811-05:00BRISTOL PALIN-MAVERICK McCAIN-RNC-HANNA-IKE<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">5 September 2008</span><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Our in depth examination and discussion about the fallacy of security in the United States of America continues. </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">The deception of America’s security begins in the words of the Declaration of Independence with the suggestion that "all are…equal." Recall Thomas Jefferson’s meaning that all are equal in rights and not necessarily in abilities. Although this myth of equality was vital when instigating rebellion it was not considered important enough to be explicitly included as part of our Constitution. In the Preamble ‘equality’ is overtly implicit as a sub-text lending support to American security mythology.<br /></p></span><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">The Preamble is unambiguous in its assertion that we, the people, did ordain and establish our constitutional framework. Principally for the purposes of organizing a system and process of government to provide security for life, liberty, and property. It is a legal and binding social contract. The framers agreed that the ends of government are to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. All of which are aspects of either domestic or national security. They also pledged to devote resources to creating a more perfect union and ensuring liberty’s blessings.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Citizens first learn about the American Revolution and the writing of the Constitution in school. This process generally includes memorizing the Preamble. As a result, the natural and logical inference one draws is that all this security, protection, justice, and the supposed blessings secured by government are for every member of the group. That is to say, Americans believe this Constitutional contract must apply equally to all citizens, private and corporate. Therein one discovers the fraud, the deception and ultimately, the myth.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">The plain unvarnished non-mythologized truth is that our independence was declared, our Revolution instigated, and our United States Constitution was constructed and ratified by and for the benefit and protection of the property and interests of an elite wealthy minority faction; not for <strong>ALL</strong>. The only role common citizens and poor farmers had in establishing this nation was the actual fighting and winning of the Revolutionary War.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">In <em>Passionate Declarations</em>, re-titled and re-published in 2003 by Perennial, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., New York, historian, activist, and author, Dr. Howard Zinn, discussing the opening phrase of our Constitution’s Preamble writes:<br />"The Constitution thus looked as if it were written by all the people, representing their interests. … In fact, the Constitution was drawn up by fifty-five men, all white and mostly rich, who represented a certain elite group in the new nation."<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Dr. Zinn also writes about this extensively in <em>A People’s History of the United States</em>, first published in 1980 by Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., New York, and revised most recently in 2003. He notes that, "In <em>Federalist Paper #10</em>, James Madison argued that representative government was needed to maintain peace in a society ridden by factional disputes." Disputes caused from, as Madison says, "the various and unequal distribution of property."<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">According to Zinn, Madison saw the real problem threatening survival of the United States going forward as one of "minority faction." The solution offered by the Constitution was a large republic ranging over thirteen states. Madison then says: " It will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other… The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but [it] will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States." Madison reasoned that, any rabble-rousers, or even someone with a legitimate cause, if separated – isolated, could be controlled and ultimately shut down. Thereby keeping the peace and security for those with wealth and property.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">But Professor Zinn asks, "[Is] it the aim of government simply to maintain order…? Or is it that government has some special interest in maintaining a certain kind of order, a certain distribution of power and wealth, a distribution in which government officials are not neutral… but participants?"<br />In <em>Federalist #10</em>, James Madison is direct about whose peace he supports. He remarks: "A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other <em>improper or wicked project</em>, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it." [Emphasis added.] James Madison impugns common citizens’ redress for economic stimulus, for relief that had been assured, and a demand to have equal access, opportunity, and protection by designating our purported inalienable rights of citizenship to be both improper and wicked. This act exposes his true aristocratic nature and loyalty to the powerful status quo.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Madison was a member of the original American pseudo-aristocratic class that also included Hamilton, John Adams, Jefferson, and Washington. Most of our constitutional framers were an elite cohort of men that were already established in positions of wealth and power. The group also included lawyers, shipping tycoons, slave traders, speculators and moneychangers. This minority faction instigated rebellion and revolution for less than altruistic or compassionate ends. Upon attaining victory this minority acted to institutionalize its position, power, and priority interests as synonymous with our new nation’s objectives by assigning exclusive authority and privilege to themselves and the minority faction they represented at the Constitutional Convention.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">In <em>A People’s History of the United States</em>, Professor Zinn refers to historian Charles Beard’s early twentieth century book, <em>An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution</em>, in which Beard points out that, "for their own interest, the rich either have to directly control the government or the laws by which government operates." By studying the political ideas and economic backgrounds of the fifty-five men who assembled the Constitution, Charles Beard discovered that most of them were wealthy, and that most had some direct economic interest in establishing a strong federal government.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Mr. Beard also noted that four groups were not represented in the Constitutional Convention: slaves, indentured servants, women, and men without property. I would add native people to the list. Because those groups were not represented, the Constitution did not reflect their interests. But, according to Zinn, Beard wanted to make it clear that, "he [Beard] did not think the Constitution was written merely to benefit the Founding Fathers personally. Rather, it was to benefit the groups the Founders represented, the ‘economic interests they understood and felt in concrete, definite form through their own personal experience.’" Charles Beard also warns us that government, including our own, is not neutral.</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Government always represents the dominant economic [and I would add religious] interests and shapes their constitutions to serve these interests.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">By examining the political clauses of our Constitution and the economic interests that created them, it is very easy to recognize it for what it is. The United States Constitution is not the work of wise men simply trying to establish the security of a decent and orderly nation. The final draft language clearly demonstrates that certain parts of society arranged things for their security in order to hold on to their established privileges, power and wealth, while, as Dr. Zinn says, "giving just enough rights and liberties to enough of the people to ensure popular support." From the very beginning of our nation the government has been arranged to divide and control.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">That ours is a nation dedicated to providing justice, domestic tranquility, common defense and general welfare for all citizens is the myth of America’s security. The truth is that ‘<strong>All</strong>’ is narrowly defined and includes primarily wealthy and powerful religious, political, and corporate interests. The remaining 90%-plus of citizens must be content to rely on our rugged individualism and, in deference to our pseudo-aristocratic government and the wealthy donor-class, we should be grateful to live in the greatest, most powerful, most secure and free nation in the history of the world. The security objective of the elite status quo is to protect its own position, power and profit, not all the citizens of the United States.</span></p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><p><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">This process of securing the wealth, powers and position of the American Ruling Class is maintained by granting – usually after much resistance – some number of limited, tightly restricted and controlled civil rights and liberties. All of which continually undergo further limitation and qualification upon review by the courts and legislative amendment. It is unpatriotic to complain about this because every citizen should know by now that, Freedom ain’t Free.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">We have traded our liberties for lawyers and our integrity for the myth of security. The illusion and structure of America’s traditional Homeland and National Security model protected and defended thus far by the status quo offers some insight into the deleterious stupor of credulity and cupidity infecting the spirit and character of United States citizens.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;">Something for readers to consider. More to follow in my next posting. Until then...Give Peace a chance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;">James B. Tinsley, B.A.</span> </p>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-27055075533369708192008-08-28T11:01:00.005-05:002008-08-28T11:44:38.616-05:00DENNIS KUCINICH-OBAMA NOMINATED BY ACCLAMATION-BILL CLINTON'S SPEECH-ACCEPTANCE SPEECH IN DENVER<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">28 August 2008<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"><strong><em>To believe without evidence or proof is an act of ignorance and folly. The credulous man loses himself in a labyrinth of contradictions; the man of sense examines and discusses that he may be consistent in his opinions. The honest man will bear contradiction because it gives rise to evidence. Violence is the argument of falsehood and to impose a creed by authority is the act and indication of a tyrant.<br />(C. F. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Volney</span>, The Ruins of Empires, 1792)<br /></em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Beginning with my last posting on 22 August 2008 I am now going to undertake a extensive discussion about "<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">security</span>"- national, homeland, and personal.<br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">America’s probable future with Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government will be drastically different and greatly improved compared to the discomfort, division, and inevitable decline anticipated by the continuation of our conditioned reflexive habit of opposing extreme and fundamental change. The human tendency toward ‘habit’ is, I believe, as instinctive and natural as our fear of the unknown or always seeking the path of least resistance. It is reasonable to conclude that the human proclivity to ‘habit’ is related to self-preservation, the survival instinct. Therefore logic dictates that on some level within the human psyche habit equates with security.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">What exactly is ‘security’? Is security a feeling? Is security tangible, verifiable? Can one buy security, or guarantee it? How much might security cost? Who or where would one pay? Is it a concept, a principle, a condition? From what does security arise? Is it an end or a means? Is the argument or question of security with regard to the United States actually about security? Is there a difference between personal security and national security? Is national security even possible? For that matter, is personal security possible? If asked, "Are you secure?" or, "Is the experience of your daily life one of security?" What conditions would have to exist and what process would be used to enable one to respond, "Yes"? What is security?<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">I submit that ‘security’ in America is a fallacy; that is, a false notion with the quality of being deceptive. Consulting the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd Edition, ‘security’ is defined in a number of ways relevant to the context of this examination.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">For example, one definition of security is ‘freedom from risk or danger." A person or nation can never achieve freedom from risk or danger. Another definition is "freedom from doubt, anxiety, or fear." This too, is unattainable. Other definitions state that security is "something that gives or assures safety; such as building or body guards, measures adopted by government to prevent espionage, sabotage, or attack; and finally,security is defined as measures adopted by businesses or homeowners to prevent a crime such as burglary or assault."<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Neither guards nor measures or laws are capable of providing or assuring safety to individual persons or a nation. At the very most ‘security’ is a desire, a goal, like perfection, to be striven for but ultimately never achieved. Therefore, within the context of this inquiry and analysis, ‘security’ is a fallacy. Security is false because it is always something "we need." It is deceptive because it can never be shown to exist, it cannot be accurately verified or measured. Think about that. Look back through our history. You will find that defense and security is always something we need more of. Ironically, we always need more precisely because how much we have (or do not have) cannot be demonstrated. So, the power of the idea of security to manipulate populations of citizens arises out of the fact it is unknown and unknowable, a condition rife with fear.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Security is a fallacy with primordial power. It is the kind of self-interested and manipulative notion that is perfect for inclusion in American mythology and exploitation by machinery of the elite Status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Quo</span> minority faction – America’s ruling class. The most obvious purpose of security is to safeguard and sustain control of wealth and power. Security, especially ‘national security’, is the language of domination and subjugation, of capitalists and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">corporatists</span>, and of aristocracy and privilege. If this seems incredible, start listening, look back through history; security is always the purview of wealth, power, and authority. And it is always the poor and common people that pay for it and die for it. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Cultivating the myth of security in America is the means to command, to control, and to profit. Defenders of the Status <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Quo</span> insist that they are the main source responsible for our nation’s mythological quest for security. A closer reading of America’s traditional historical myth regarding its actual security achievements is instructive. It reveals the fallacious and deceptive nature of security for the protection and purpose of special interest. Our s<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">ecurity</span> is perpetrated and inflicted by government agencies upon citizens, rather than safety and protection that is actually provided for the people. Security predicated on Humanistic <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Equalism</span>: Philosophy for Ethical Government is far superior to the current model. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">Our examination of "security" will continue next time. Make a comment if you like and please tell others about this blog. Give Peace a chance. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;">James B. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Tinsley</span>, B.A.</span>James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1851837933109239504.post-69187305954896186462008-08-22T20:13:00.002-05:002008-08-22T21:30:16.801-05:00Gaza-Denver-Democratic Convention-Joe Biden-How Many Houses?21 August 2008<br /><br />What is the case for citizens of the United States rufusing to accept chang and fighting with all their might to keep the Status Quo in place: because it is familiar and convenient; because it will be really hard, confusing, and scary to act otherwise. To challenge the power structure of the Status Quo would interfere with our comfort. Rather than only being concerned about some selfish special interest, getting what we want when we want it like spoiled children, citizens will have to think of our nation and act like mature adults. Citizens believe, for the most part, they must not upset the Status Quo, but instead manage it with compromise so as to protect the property, profit, power, and position currently held and manipulated by the elite minority faction. I have also presented the basic philosophy, system, principles and process of Humanistic Equalism: Philosophy for Ethical Government, its desired ends and the means to achieve them. Do we choose people and progress, or the Status Quo in order to achieve the greatest degree of security for our nation and ourselves?<br /><br />“National Security” by the Status Quo only exists as statistics and delusion. It is a conceptual or virtual product. The need or demand for national security is stimulated among citizens by the president, congress, and media, which use fear and terror as the core of its marketing strategy. By continually terrorizing America’s general population and creating a demand, our Status Quo government is free to divert an endless flow of taxpayer dollars and public wealth to private sector corporatists and disaster complex capitalists.<br /><br />To be sure there is lots of flash and bang and bodies contained in the security product manufactured by government, media and capitalist interests but it is nothing more than propaganda and show. As a tangible measurable and verifiable substance security in America is not apparent, and it cannot be demonstrated to exist. The entire national security manufacturing procedure, from creating the demand to selling the conceptual product to citizens, is just another method of protecting and sustaining the position and domination of the super rich and religiously influential; the Status Quo.<br /><br />The United States is now spending nearly half its annual federal budget – more than one Trillion tax dollars – to manufacture and sustain this delusion of so-called National and Homeland Security. The Status Quo, in full support of the elite minority faction, keep telling us we can get even more security by invading and occupying some nations and by threatening others. Pretending that America is safe and citizens are free, we are neither.<br /><br />It is more than a general consensus in 2008 that security in the United States is doubtful. In spite of all the borrowing and spending by congress and the executive, in spite of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, war, torture, degenerating civil rights and liberty. In spite of a vengeful fundamentalist unitary executive who acts like a king, issuing decree by executive order and legislative signing statement, the United States is impotent against terrorists and terrorism.<br /><br />Not even by eliminating due process, habeas corpus and keeping people imprisoned for years without justification or charges, or funding American companies to create mercenary security forces that oversee a growing franchise of torture facilities around the world is able to make us truly secure. Nothing being done or supported by the existing power structure is making the United States, its citizens and its interests, any safer today than we were on 10 September 2001. In fact there is every indication that our nation is more vulnerable and likely to be attacked now because the only thing about security the Status Quo is interested in is its earnings and profits.<br /><br />Based on the evidence and our experience thus far, it must be concluded that there is not and cannot be any security by keeping the Status Quo. America’s future security, if left to the Status Quo, will not improve or, for that matter, change. It will remain as it is; the Status Quo. Our nation’s ominous security outlook was captured earlier in the 2008 presidential campaign. One of the candidates was fond of saying that the security challenge for the United States in the foreseeable future is a transcendental one; it is the very real and serious danger posed by radical Islamo-fascists.<br /><br />Nearly all the presidential candidates of both major parties, to some degree or other, expressed a belief that our future security at home and abroad is threatened by this fundamentalist element. Simply stated, this is the position of those that support and defend the Status Quo. Our biggest and most serious security challenge is not transcendental, nor is it radical Islam or terrorism. The obstacle to real security and peace is American citizens refusing to demand that the forces of government and institutions of authority make progress, prosperity, and the condition of citizens lives the focus and objective of all government action and function. Our only real obstacle is American hubris, ignorance and cupidity.<br /><br />More soon. Give Peace a chance.<br />James B. Tinsley,B.A.James B. Tinsley, B.A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11892411913511205624noreply@blogger.com0