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A time to kill
Letter to the editor;
The TV movie “High Noon” (not to be confused with the classic western of the same name) depicted a crazy man with a twisted personal agenda, holding hostages in a bank.
Eventually the SWAT snipers killed him, but only after the negotiator tried for a long time to coax him out.
To give the viewers reason to believe this murderous lunatic could be persuaded to surrender, the movie first covered some other hostage situations with varied results.
In the end, the police had to decide to take it upon themselves to kill this man before he would kill several innocent people he was holding at gunpoint.
This goes both ways: Evil government people (and there certainly are evil government people) can murder an individual of their choice and have the public applaud the killing as protecting public safety.
On the other hand, when the defenders of law and order have righteously killed a violent criminal, publishers and broadcasters can spin the story out until the public believes the bad guy was an innocent victim of corrupt and murderous police.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Good and evil government
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The basis of evil government
Letter to the editor;
In the beginning, Hashem created the heavens and the earth.
(For us who are not Jews; Hashem, or ha Shem, means The Name – of G-d.)
And Hashem created man in his own image.
And He gave them just that one Commandment about the forbidden fruit.
And the Yetzer Hara came among them and said, “Do it my way. You shall be like G-d, knowing good from evil.” (For the benefit of us Gentiles, the Yetzer Hara is your evil inclination.)
Adam already knew good from evil, as he already had that one Commandment.
But the Yetzer Hara had to pretend to have something to offer. Maybe he pretended to mean, “Do it my way and you can decide good and evil for yourselves.”
And then came to pass six thousand years of evil government by men and women who decided for themselves what was good and what was evil – and shoved it down the throats of everyone else by force and violence and mass-murder, backed by goon-squads.
Josef Stalin was an example of this. He murdered tens of millions of Russians, trying to establish government his way; the way of the Yetzer Hara. Other examples are Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Genghis Khan.
And the modern “Liberal,” has decided to do things his own way (the Yetzer Hara way). He believes that knowing good and evil means that he gets to decide for himself what is good and what is evil for the entire human race – and force it on us.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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The basis of evil government
Letter to the editor;
In the beginning, Hashem created the heavens and the earth.
(For us who are not Jews; Hashem, or ha Shem, means The Name – of G-d.)
And Hashem created man in his own image.
And He gave them just that one Commandment about the forbidden fruit.
And the Yetzer Hara came among them and said, “Do it my way. You shall be like G-d, knowing good from evil.” (For the benefit of us Gentiles, the Yetzer Hara is your evil inclination.)
Adam already knew good from evil, as he already had that one Commandment.
But the Yetzer Hara had to pretend to have something to offer. Maybe he pretended to mean, “Do it my way and you can decide good and evil for yourselves.”
And then came to pass six thousand years of evil government by men and women who decided for themselves what was good and what was evil – and shoved it down the throats of everyone else by force and violence and mass-murder, backed by goon-squads.
Josef Stalin was an example of this. He murdered tens of millions of Russians, trying to establish government his way; the way of the Yetzer Hara. Other examples are Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Genghis Khan.
And the modern “Liberal,” has decided to do things his own way (the Yetzer Hara way). He believes that knowing good and evil means that he gets to decide for himself what is good and what is evil for the entire human race – and force it on us.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Constitutional authority
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Federal spending authority
Letter to the editor;
(An open letter to your Congresscritter)
Do you get your authority by way of the Constitution?
(YES.)
Do you get just a little extra authority some other way?
(NO.)
The Constitution tells you how you may spend money
.Army.
Navy.
Post offices and Post roads.
Patent office.
Courts.
Piracy-punishment.
Counterfeiting-punishment.
Treason-punishment.
Naturalization laws.
Bankruptcy laws.
There's some stuff about the militia, too. No doubt that authorizes you to spend money on it.
Did I miss anything?
(YOU SURE DID.)
But the list is short.
Is your authority open-ended? Is it limitless?
(NOT REALLY.)
Is there a clause in the Constitution that if Congress REALLY wants something, or if the political situation REALLY requires it, that over-rides the whole rest of the Constitution?
(OH, DON'T I WISH!)
The chances are that we could pay off the national debt in a single generation if you would obey the Constitution and limit your spending to those items it authorizes.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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Federal spending authority
Letter to the editor;
(An open letter to your Congresscritter)
Do you get your authority by way of the Constitution?
(YES.)
Do you get just a little extra authority some other way?
(NO.)
The Constitution tells you how you may spend money
.Army.
Navy.
Post offices and Post roads.
Patent office.
Courts.
Piracy-punishment.
Counterfeiting-punishment.
Treason-punishment.
Naturalization laws.
Bankruptcy laws.
There's some stuff about the militia, too. No doubt that authorizes you to spend money on it.
Did I miss anything?
(YOU SURE DID.)
But the list is short.
Is your authority open-ended? Is it limitless?
(NOT REALLY.)
Is there a clause in the Constitution that if Congress REALLY wants something, or if the political situation REALLY requires it, that over-rides the whole rest of the Constitution?
(OH, DON'T I WISH!)
The chances are that we could pay off the national debt in a single generation if you would obey the Constitution and limit your spending to those items it authorizes.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Are governments above the law?
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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
Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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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
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