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The that government must obey
Letter to the editor;
Every level of government passes laws -- and forces people to obey them.
What law do governments have to obey?
Municipalities have to operate within the bounds of their charters.
States – and the national government – have to obey their constitutions.
They don’t obey. But they still have to. The fact that they daily violate their charters and constitutions does not nullify them. Those documents remain the law -- and the violations remain crimes. Only, nobody punishes crimes that are committed by governments.
Government agencies commit crimes against people they are supposed to protect.
Politicians foment wars against countries that never did us any harm.
Our Beloved Leaders make secret deals with foreign leaders in violation of the Constitution.
Judges get so friendly with prosecutors that defendants are utterly ignored in their courtrooms.
Municipal land-use bureaus get so interested in making their cities beautiful that they deliberately grind the faces of the poor to force them to move out of town.
Close decisions are decided by giving nice jobs (that do not involve showing up at work) to worthless, do-nothing relatives.
Judges decree that nobody has standing to challenge acts of government. Worse; they invented “judicial immunity” to protect themselves from accountability.
I don’t know how to hold government to account for disobeying the law. Does anyone? I want to know. Answer me at glenn3@frontiernet.net.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Peace thru distributed strength
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Big bombs prevent war
Letter to the editor; (a guest-rant by Don Blaster)
I hearby submit to you readers THE solution to eliminate ALL WARS ! (But does that defy the Bible which states that “There will always be wars and talk of wars”?)
THE solution, already tried as an experiment that froze the Cold War before it could ever get hot, is based upon “MAD,” the agreed-upon policy of Mutually Assured Destruction between the Soviet Union and the U.S. -- when we were the only (or main) owners of weaponry capable of destroying the Earth's population many times over. The scenario is that if one of the two attacks the other, there is so much latent revenge firepower provenly remaining that the one to attack would also be eliminated. It exists. It worked. It is proven.
NOW, what we do is get the entire world on the same MAD agreement, so that ANY nation that attacks another will be jumped upon by the others and turned into a cinder! Set it up! Mean it! If necessary, DO IT!
Since it forced the owners of thousands of nukes to hold their borders between them, why would it not work for all? Imagine -- no more plans to eliminate Israel, no more Tibets, no more Georgias, no more Iraqs, no more Viet Nams, no more Koreas, no more World Wars!
Countries like China can spend $43 Billion to prepare for the Olympics because they are not spending themselves into bankruptcy with wars at present.
I M A G I N E, if ALL countries could use their wealth and assets for such improvements, making for an Olympic Solution to poverty. disease, much crime, etc. !!!
Ahhh, “But all will not agree to such a solution,” you say, “because there are still enough countries and their Greedster leaders who covet the assets of other nations over which they have no control!” God, help us. God, let the world adopt THE solution to war, as stated above. Jihad is supposed to be internal improvement of self, not the forceful overtaking of others, their beliefs, their lands, their lives . . .
Don Blaster / Benton, Kentucky
[Hey! We could give about half-a-dozen nukes to each country in the world. The knowledge that all the neighboring nations have identical immense power might make the tin-pot dictators of the world behave themselves.]
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Big bombs prevent war
Letter to the editor; (a guest-rant by Don Blaster)
I hearby submit to you readers THE solution to eliminate ALL WARS ! (But does that defy the Bible which states that “There will always be wars and talk of wars”?)
THE solution, already tried as an experiment that froze the Cold War before it could ever get hot, is based upon “MAD,” the agreed-upon policy of Mutually Assured Destruction between the Soviet Union and the U.S. -- when we were the only (or main) owners of weaponry capable of destroying the Earth's population many times over. The scenario is that if one of the two attacks the other, there is so much latent revenge firepower provenly remaining that the one to attack would also be eliminated. It exists. It worked. It is proven.
NOW, what we do is get the entire world on the same MAD agreement, so that ANY nation that attacks another will be jumped upon by the others and turned into a cinder! Set it up! Mean it! If necessary, DO IT!
Since it forced the owners of thousands of nukes to hold their borders between them, why would it not work for all? Imagine -- no more plans to eliminate Israel, no more Tibets, no more Georgias, no more Iraqs, no more Viet Nams, no more Koreas, no more World Wars!
Countries like China can spend $43 Billion to prepare for the Olympics because they are not spending themselves into bankruptcy with wars at present.
I M A G I N E, if ALL countries could use their wealth and assets for such improvements, making for an Olympic Solution to poverty. disease, much crime, etc. !!!
Ahhh, “But all will not agree to such a solution,” you say, “because there are still enough countries and their Greedster leaders who covet the assets of other nations over which they have no control!” God, help us. God, let the world adopt THE solution to war, as stated above. Jihad is supposed to be internal improvement of self, not the forceful overtaking of others, their beliefs, their lands, their lives . . .
Don Blaster / Benton, Kentucky
[Hey! We could give about half-a-dozen nukes to each country in the world. The knowledge that all the neighboring nations have identical immense power might make the tin-pot dictators of the world behave themselves.]
Saturday, August 16, 2008
The Holy Scriptures tell of war and provocation.
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War and the Holy Word
Letter to the editor;
Why do the Holy Scriptures contain so many chapters about war?
Is it because religious people need to know how to fight wars? No, a book cannot help anyone there, because every war is different from every previous war.
Is it because religious people need to know how to keep their countries out of wars? Maybe. Wars happen. But there remains a thread of hope that people can insist that their governments not stir up wars. (I don’t know of any instance of this.)
Possibly the Scriptures go on and on about war because wars are going to happen and our nations are going to be involved in them and people of faith need to survive mentally-whole as well as physically. The scant word of comfort is that this is not the first nor only time that millions of men (and women) have practiced with deadly weapons and deliberately organized to slaughter one another with them.
Nearly everyone agrees that every people be prepared to defend their nations and their nationalities. The problem comes when politicians tell them that the best defense is a good offense – the “pre-emptive attack”. (“They’re going to attack us sometime anyway. We’d better attack them first, before they can get ready.”)
For their own nefarious and unknown reasons, many American politicians practically salivated over the prospects of getting the US into World War One.
They flaunted the passenger ship Lusitania in the German face, shipping ammunition to England in open defiance of our declared neutrality. The Germans put a full-page ad in the New York Times pleading with people not to go for a ride on the Lusitania.
That ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean with destroyer escorts, zig-zagging and laying smoke screens. However, when they got to the area of maximum submarine activity, the Lusitania was sent alone, in a straight line. The Germans sank it to keep their enemies from receiving untold tons of ammunition.
You can check this out. It was a deliberate provocation to get us into that war. (The politicians liked it so much they actually called it “The Great War”.)
Glenn Jacobs / Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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War and the Holy Word
Letter to the editor;
Why do the Holy Scriptures contain so many chapters about war?
Is it because religious people need to know how to fight wars? No, a book cannot help anyone there, because every war is different from every previous war.
Is it because religious people need to know how to keep their countries out of wars? Maybe. Wars happen. But there remains a thread of hope that people can insist that their governments not stir up wars. (I don’t know of any instance of this.)
Possibly the Scriptures go on and on about war because wars are going to happen and our nations are going to be involved in them and people of faith need to survive mentally-whole as well as physically. The scant word of comfort is that this is not the first nor only time that millions of men (and women) have practiced with deadly weapons and deliberately organized to slaughter one another with them.
Nearly everyone agrees that every people be prepared to defend their nations and their nationalities. The problem comes when politicians tell them that the best defense is a good offense – the “pre-emptive attack”. (“They’re going to attack us sometime anyway. We’d better attack them first, before they can get ready.”)
For their own nefarious and unknown reasons, many American politicians practically salivated over the prospects of getting the US into World War One.
They flaunted the passenger ship Lusitania in the German face, shipping ammunition to England in open defiance of our declared neutrality. The Germans put a full-page ad in the New York Times pleading with people not to go for a ride on the Lusitania.
That ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean with destroyer escorts, zig-zagging and laying smoke screens. However, when they got to the area of maximum submarine activity, the Lusitania was sent alone, in a straight line. The Germans sank it to keep their enemies from receiving untold tons of ammunition.
You can check this out. It was a deliberate provocation to get us into that war. (The politicians liked it so much they actually called it “The Great War”.)
Glenn Jacobs / Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Your papers please
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Federal ID
Letter to the editor;
Congress shouldn’t try to fix the REAL ID Act. They should just repeal it.
Here is my prediction of the horrible future to be inflicted on us by this Act.
Year One: Real-ID goes into effect. It is very easy to acquire the card, and 99% of those who apply get it the first or second time. You can still do anything without it.
Year Two: It is harder to get the card. Still, over half of those who apply receive one. Those who don't have a card are not allowed on airplanes. That’s all.
Year Three: It is practically impossible for adults to get the card. If they didn't get one already, there is a presumption that they must not be who they say. Those who don't have the card are not allowed to board a plane, a train or an inter-city bus. They are not allowed to start a bank account nor to apply for a job.
Year Four: It is finally, totally, absolutely impossible for about one in a thousand Americans to get the card. This is to say, about three hundred thousand Americans become “unpersons” -- reduced to scrounging out of dumpsters for food and clothing, and to sleeping in cardboard boxes.
Real-ID is not a problem to be fixed. It is an abomination to be repealed.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Federal ID
Letter to the editor;
Congress shouldn’t try to fix the REAL ID Act. They should just repeal it.
Here is my prediction of the horrible future to be inflicted on us by this Act.
Year One: Real-ID goes into effect. It is very easy to acquire the card, and 99% of those who apply get it the first or second time. You can still do anything without it.
Year Two: It is harder to get the card. Still, over half of those who apply receive one. Those who don't have a card are not allowed on airplanes. That’s all.
Year Three: It is practically impossible for adults to get the card. If they didn't get one already, there is a presumption that they must not be who they say. Those who don't have the card are not allowed to board a plane, a train or an inter-city bus. They are not allowed to start a bank account nor to apply for a job.
Year Four: It is finally, totally, absolutely impossible for about one in a thousand Americans to get the card. This is to say, about three hundred thousand Americans become “unpersons” -- reduced to scrounging out of dumpsters for food and clothing, and to sleeping in cardboard boxes.
Real-ID is not a problem to be fixed. It is an abomination to be repealed.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Good intentions. Abysmal results.
The law of opposite results
Letter to the editor;
Sometimes a government action ends up giving the opposite of the intended results.
Just to make up a silly example, let’s say Town Hall wants to encourage children to fly kites. So they write a regulation mandating that only genuine blue spruce may be used for kite sticks, that only parachute nylon may be used for the air-foil, and that only three-ply cord may be used for the string.
What they have done, according to the law of opposite results, is to make it so expensive to fly kites that children cannot afford to do so without adult sponsors.
Here’s a real one. Congress wanted to do something for disabled people, so it voted for an extreme number of pages that someone else wrote detailing wheelchair access to public places. Well, they were done with good intentions – but according to the law of opposite results, it made it exceedingly expensive to be disabled – and fantastically expensive to allow wheelchair-bound persons onto the premises.
A really terrible example of this is when the Maine sank in Havana Harbor, Congress was stampeded into a war that nobody has ever been able to justify. Worse: When the Maine was raised, it was obvious that the explosion had been on the inside.
Notice that this is not to say that everything any government does will end up with the opposite results. It just tends to happen that way when Congress, the Legislature, or City Hall lets itself be stampeded into voting for some pre-fabricated bill that they did not think of themselves, write themselves, or discuss among themselves.
The moral to this story is that legislative bodies ought to write their own bills, limit them to one subject and not let “Chicken Little” tell them “the sky is falling”.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Letter to the editor;
Sometimes a government action ends up giving the opposite of the intended results.
Just to make up a silly example, let’s say Town Hall wants to encourage children to fly kites. So they write a regulation mandating that only genuine blue spruce may be used for kite sticks, that only parachute nylon may be used for the air-foil, and that only three-ply cord may be used for the string.
What they have done, according to the law of opposite results, is to make it so expensive to fly kites that children cannot afford to do so without adult sponsors.
Here’s a real one. Congress wanted to do something for disabled people, so it voted for an extreme number of pages that someone else wrote detailing wheelchair access to public places. Well, they were done with good intentions – but according to the law of opposite results, it made it exceedingly expensive to be disabled – and fantastically expensive to allow wheelchair-bound persons onto the premises.
A really terrible example of this is when the Maine sank in Havana Harbor, Congress was stampeded into a war that nobody has ever been able to justify. Worse: When the Maine was raised, it was obvious that the explosion had been on the inside.
Notice that this is not to say that everything any government does will end up with the opposite results. It just tends to happen that way when Congress, the Legislature, or City Hall lets itself be stampeded into voting for some pre-fabricated bill that they did not think of themselves, write themselves, or discuss among themselves.
The moral to this story is that legislative bodies ought to write their own bills, limit them to one subject and not let “Chicken Little” tell them “the sky is falling”.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
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