The Need to Exercise Rights should be Rare

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Feb 032011
 

The exercise of Rights is most important when government power is at it’s zenith. In the case of the First Amendment Right to Free Speech, when the government wants to censor ideas, the expression of ideas or to restrict the exercise of speech against the government, the exercise of the Right to Free Speech becomes most important. One would hope that the need to invoke the Right to Free Speech against the government would be rare. For obvious reasons the most rare of the Rights should be the exercise of the Right to one’s life against the  powers of government. That’s a Right that can only be oppressed by government once. 

 ”Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law”,   wrote Ayn Rand in the Appendix of her amazing book: CAPITALISM THE UNKNOWN IDEAL. http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ari_ayn_rand_man_rights  Rand also explained other aspects of the idea of Rights, for example: 

“The concept of individual rights is so new in human history that most men have not grasped it fully to this day. In accordance with the two theories of ethics, the mystical or the social, some men assert that rights are a gift of God—others, that rights are a gift of society. But, in fact, the source of rights is man’s nature.

The Declaration of Independence stated that men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” Whether one believes that man is the product of a Creator or of nature, the issue of man’s origin does not alter the fact that he is an entity of a specific kind—a rational being—that he cannot function successfully under coercion, and that rights are a necessary condition of his particular mode of survival.

“The source of man’s rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A—and Man is Man. Rights are conditions of existence required by man’s nature for his proper survival. If man is to live on earth, it is right for him to use his mind, it is right to act on his own free judgment, it is right to work for his values and to keep the product of his work. If life on earth is his purpose, he has a right to live as a rational being: nature forbids him the irrational.” (Atlas Shrugged)”.

I believe that the descriptions and definitions of the elements of Rights and Individual Freedom have become so submerged within the psyche of Americans and so oppressed by most cultures outside of America that meaningful discussion is difficult. It’s why I found it necessary to take Northampton and three other townships to Federal Court for violation of the First Amendment and even though I’m not a lawyer I wrote up all of the brief’s and successfully answered all of the defenses of the defendants for over two years before winning.

The Right to Free Speech is a key difference between America and every dictatorship. For that and many other reasons America is an exceptionl culture. Even though I would hope that the exercise of the Right to Free Speech should be rare because that would mean it is respected by government, it is not. Like many other Rights it is neither respected nor understood by countries and cultures outside of America.

Unfortunately it is not understood by some of America’s sub-cultures either.  

Is Obama a Citizen or an Impostor? Ask “The Birthers”

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Jan 262011
 

To be the President of the United States, a person must meet the requirements of the Constitution which includes the requirement to be “Natural Born”. Barack Obama is supposed to be a Natural Born Citizen but there is, apparently, no birth certificate to confirm his place of birth. That may not be a problem because the citizenship of one’s parents confer natural born attributes on a child born out of the country.

EG., Children of military parents serving out of the country when a child is born, for example, would mean the child is a Natural Born American. If the mother is under the age of consent and the father is a natural born citizen of Kenya, for example, the child may or may not be considered a natural born American. But the argument about the natural born requirement of the President seems to have landed on the question of whether or not he was born in Hawaii.

In December 0f 2010, the governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombi announced he would find the birth records and settle the controversy. He recently admitted there were none. No documents. That’s different than knowing there are records but not being able to find them. No record of Barack Obama being born in Hawaii could mean he was not born in the United States.

Phil Berg, an attorney in Norristown was one of the first to try to find where and how the President was born. Berg couldn’t find the info either. Berg claimed to have found records in Mombasa and someone interviewed an aunt who claimed to have attended the birth. Mombasa. Not in America. It’s on the coast of Kenya. On the Indian Ocean. Not America. Remember, though, that Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunhan was absolutely an Amerifcan citizen.

Other records of Barack Obama that might be useful to identify whether he is a natural born American citizen or not, seem to be sealed. University applications, student aid forms and other papers that might be useful to identify the situation appear to have been made ‘not available’.

There are plenty of denials about being born elsewhere but the facts about where and maybe even the exact day seem to remain unknown. In politics, souls get sold and lies are told. Perhaps someday it will be confirmed but that may never happen. For now there are people who say the President is a natural born citizen and others who claim he is an impostor. Are the Birthers wrong?  

Lying by Silence

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Jan 262011
 

The whole truth means leave nothing out. Leaving out something is lying by silence. What was left out of President Obama’s  Jan. 25th, 2011 so-called State of the Union address that has become just another political event? Read the speech and try to find anything done to accept the responsibility for the lousy economy. Saying “I Accept Responsibility” is not an action done to reverse the damage done by whatever it is for which the acceptance of responsibility is admitted.

Restitution is the acccepted means to accept responsibility for the damage done. People who rob a bank have a moral obligation to return the money. People whose car hits another car are responsible to pay to repair the car. The idea is to redress the damage caused. The first step of restitution is to total up the damage done, not to accept responsibility. Accepting responsibility is meaningless to the victim. Getting the life of a victim back to where it was before the injury is what needs to be done.  

Which brings this back to the so-called State of the Union. Nothing was proposed to offer restitution for TARP, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, A.I.G., Bear Sterns, the misnamed and very private Reserve U.S. Government Fund, Stimulus I, the Bank Bailouts or the widely unpopular Takeovers of General Motors, Chrysler, the Firing of Certain GM dealers for political reasons or for the even less popular takeover of America’s Medical Community including Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals and for=profit Medical Insurance providers.  

Obama’s GM and Chrysler are now creating unfair competition for cars and trucks worldwide. GM/Chrysler will be forced to make cars Obama wants, not what the market or consumers want. Obama Motors cannot operate a for-profit business. Government does not operate like a business because business has two fundamental characteristics that are missing from government. Profit from Sales and Free Market ompetition. Note that the lack of those two business attributes are the reasons Obama Motors failed and why Obama Motors took over Obama Motors.  

The State of the Union was not discussed during the so-called State of the Union address. Ideas like what needs to be done to pay off the massive debt, the money the politicians in government took from the people and spent to increase the power of the political class. 

LYING BY SILENCE

Northampton Township Bad Wells

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Jan 172011
 

Over the past 30 years comments have been made to the supervisors about carcinogens in the well water of some residential wells. The township handles trouble by ignoring it until some higher power vorces their hand. So the State representative called a private meeting for some residents, nothing public and no record, and keep kicking the ball around.

Bill O’Neill proposed in an e-mail to the State Rep that the following be done immediately.

1. Tell everyone in the neighborhood to bring a bottle of their water to the township building.
 
2. Tell the supervisors in charge, viz Komelasky, Silver and Deon to put the bottles, there may be around a hundred, in a township vehicle
and deliver them to the DEP in Harrisburg. One hundred half gallon containers full of water would weigh about 450 pounds and if they are lined up ten bottles across and ten bottles deep they will easily fit in one of the large SUV’s bought by Northampton.
 
3. Hold a press conference on the Capitol Steps. Call it “Eliminate Cancer in Your Back Yard”
Invite Senator Tomlinson, Governor Corbett and local Commissioner and Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley. Invite FOX and MSNBC. Let me know if you need contacts there.
This press conference should be an important event even for the State Government because Cancer is fatal.
Explain to the Press that you are not going to make some citizens wait one minute longer to find out if their well is poisoned, oops, that’s not very PC, say “contaminated with cancer causing chemicals”.
Be careful about giving away the Time Line — the number of years this has been known or should have been known by the officials because that could include both you and Senator Tomlinson.
 
4. Issue a demand to the DEP to test the water right away. If they don’t respond in an hour, tell the press you are going to drive the water samples to a test lab in Harrisburg. If the test costs $50 each, it’s $5,000. Send the bill to The Northampton Supervisors where Supervisor Deon spent twice that amount on one letter to the citizens last year, a letter, the cost of which he alone authorized. Deon has that kind of power. 
 
But the DEP should have some kind of test lab where they can run the required tests themselves. If they do not, and I would not be surprised to learn they cannot test water even though they claim they have the responsibility to protect the Waters of the Commonwealth that’s another set of political issues that will just fall in your lap.
 
This is a great opportunity to exercise more of the leadership qualities that some citizens still expect from some government leaders but you better hurry before some enterprising Democrat wannabe official does it.

Dictator Barack. Totalitarian and Anti-American

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Jan 022011
 

It really doesn’t matter where he was born although being the son whose Kenyan father was against the West for colonizing Kenya, inclines his thoughts more towards issuing orders and resisting the law of the land.  That’s what his father dreamed according to Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father”. Barack discovered how as President he could act like a dictator and help ruin America. IMO

Obama is President. He is in charge of The Executive Branch and has the power to order people who work for him and his Cabinet. He has no Constitutional Power over private citizens. The Constitution did not grant arrest power to the Federal Government. Read it and try to find the Federal Power to Arrest a Citizen.

The Constiution does not authorize the President or the FBI or the CIA to arrest people. That doesn’t stop them which means the Federal Government must violate the Constitution to arrest people. The power to enforce the law is a State Power, not a Federal Power.

Of course it’s futile to resist the FBI, CIA, United Nations or Interpol, to cite a few examples of futility but the inability to resist is different than the power to arrest. 

For the same reasons the States, not Washington, have the power to regulate the behaviors of it’s citizens.

Yes, it’s futile to argue the State should arrest people for Federal Crimes but that doesn’t excuse the unconstitutional nature of Federal Arrests.

The argument that Obama is a Dictator follows from his actions. Look at it from the perspective of the missing grant of that power. Try to find the source of Presidential Power to create a law over any citizen of any State. If you can’t, the order is dictatorial. It follows that a dictitorial order must come from a tyrant and tyrants, by their nature create  Totalitarian Rule. 

Avoid the Death Panel

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Dec 292010
 

New Medicare Regulation #1233 will pay doctors for holding end-of-life-care discussions with patients, according to the New York Times. Section #1233 of the Health Care Law was dropped from the bill after Republicans accused the administration of withholding care from the sick, elderly and disabled. Some called it: “Death Panels”. The Obama Adminstration issued a Regulation that paralleled Section #1233 making it possible for doctors to get paid for discussions about end of life treatment.

“The only thing new here is a regulation allowing the discussions … to happen in the context of the new annual wellness visit created by [healthcare reform],” Obama spokesman Reid Cherlin told The Wall Street Journal.

The purpose of the End of Life discussion is to get a patient to sign an “Advanced Directive” like: “Do Not Resuscitate” or: “No Feeding Tube” or: “No Breathing Tube” because that witholds treatment and saves money for the government.  

Quoting from the New York Times article: “Dr. Silveira said, she might ask a person with heart disease, “If you have another heart attack and your heart stops beating, would you want us to try to restart it?” A patient dying of emphysema might be asked, “Do you want to go on a breathing machine for the rest of your life?” And, she said, a patient with incurable cancer might be asked, “When the time comes, do you want us to use technology to try and delay your death?”

Let’s be sure the bureaucrats don’t pull the plug on Grandma. I believe a written, signed Advanced Directive to: “USE ALL HEROIC MEASURES” would work as would “use all measures to keep this body from becoming a corpse”.

 Bill O’Neill, Holland PA

Government Control of Climate

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Dec 272010
 

The New York Times reports:- cold weather is produced by global warming. The report is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26cohen.html?_r=2&ref=opinion
The problem with global warming or cooling is that all solutions enable government. Solutions that enable government exclude free market solutions. It’s either government control or the free market. It’s either / or.
The either / or argument can be false when there are choices other than the two presented. If there are only two choices then the either / or argument is correct.

The implicit agreement that underlies most climate change argument is that government SHOULD control the climate. There is only one other choice, viz., that government SHOULD NOT.

The supposed existence of a combination of free market solutions along with government imposed solutions is the false choice because freedom and oppression are opposites. It’s freedom or not-freedom, never both. If one says both freedom and oppression can exist together it’s freedom that is diminished because in any compromise between good and evil, good loses.

Don’t Be Fooled Again

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Dec 232010
 

Township governments all over Bucks are announcing their spending plans for 2011. All are too high.

Badly made contracts that continue rubber stanp raises that are often un-deserved; un-necassary vehicle purchases or equipment with more features or bigger than needed; and un-necessary hiring are some of the ways the Township Rulers cost people more money. limit our free market choices and chase jobs from Bucks County.

Northampton spun off their job to provide water and sewer service by creating a Water and Sewer “Authority”. It was a way to avoid saying taxes are too high. They invented “fees for service” which is another government word for a tax.  

Most Bucks Townships are awash in money but they spend more almost as an annual ritual. There is no way to stop them. It’s one of the sad things that happened in America. A township is a local government that rules the people. It should be the other way round. What can be done? Find people like me who can reverse the spending while doing the things government should do but no more.

More than just me are needed but you have to start somewhere.

Goodbye Private Sector, Hello Big Government

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Dec 042010
 

In October 2010 there were 112 million civilian jobs plus 23 million government workers. That’s according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Government is growing and the private sector is shrinking. Only 36% of the 310 million population is working in the private sector. That’s going the wrong way.  

see: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_12042009.pdf

Why are jobs disappearing?

Government. Too many useless regulations and too many job-killing regulators writing regulations with the force of law but not approved by Congress. Congress can’t keep up with the laws they write and the regulators write three to five times as many regulations as Congress writes laws.

Plus government uses the force of law, doesn’t sell anything; is not controlled by competition nor by the need to make a profit. Those four requirements keep the free market under control at no cost or effort while government is out of control and a constantly increasing burden on the workers. 

The welfare state sucks money out of the 112 million workers pockets to support: 1. government workers,  2. Illegal Aliens, 3. the prisoners, 4. those on unemployment and 5. the families of the employed. Do the arithmetic: 310 million less 112 million, the number working in the private sector,- gives 198 million being supported by 112 million who also have to support themselves. So 112 million jobs support all 310 million people.

 

Save America. Stop Government Banks

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Dec 032010
 

A column in the Bucks County Courier by Mike Krauss promoted Bucks County starting a bank because the county has so much money and assets that are not being used. In 2008 Krauss reports Doylestown had $201 Milllion cash on hand and and $351 Million in assets, funds and investments. That’s HALF A BILLION DOLLARS of money taken from the people that are not being used to help the people.

Krauss promotes going local because the Federal System of controlling banks has failed. Of course it failed. Government should not be in banking because the goals, strategy and tactics of government use force in relationships. Force should be limited, as was done in the Constitution, to police and military and the courts. Government ruins the free market in practically everything by regulating and taxing it as much as possible. Government should not get into more banking because, as Krauss admits, government has turned into an “Orwellian Monster”

Force breaks things and kills people. Force is not a substitute for profit making. The Federal Reserve has no competition and no reason to restrain itself. A private enterprise on the other hand cannot use force, must face competition and must generate profits or it fails. That’s why private, profit making, competitive businesses do well. If they do not provide value for money spent they fail because customers abandon them.

Think about the success of say, Wal-Mart. Why do people smile when they shop there? Then think about how government is so unsuccessful when they can simply command people to do things under penalty of punishment? Why do people complain about paying government but willingly pay Wal-Mart? Profit and Competition keep Wal-Mart in business. Force and Compulsion keep people mad about government. 

Think how awful it would be to go to another government controlled bank that exists on the backs of the people.  Government destroys private sector jobs. If you get a chance tell Mike Krauss where to stick his idea.

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