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The real terrorists II

08.06.04 (7:51 pm) [edit]

Hey!! It's nice to see that somebody out there is thinking. I will admit that some form of organization is desirable in a society. I think that one of the problems today is that we have too much government. Pause and think for a moment about the vast expansion of governments since your own grandparents were your age. It's probably a safe guess to say that half of all the laws that have ever existed were created in the last 50 years. How did our grandparents ever get by without all of the laws, by-laws, rules, regulations and codes that we have today?

It's not for me to say what sort of organization society should have. If i did that I'd be just as big a problem as all those MPs, Congressmen, Deputies, or whatever thy're called, who are running things now. But I do have a couple of ideas about where we should start asking questions. First, the present economic system, which started with the establishment of the first central banks, such as the Bank of England. The U.S. Federal Reserve came along later, as did central banks in most countries which were dominated or controlled by the West. I would suggest that you read what Edison and Henry Ford had to say about the present sysyem. Or if you want to be a little more up to date, read U.S. Congressman Ron Paul's comments on the subject. And for sure have a look at http://www.michaeljournal.com... because the establishment of a healthy and equitable economic system probably is the place to start. And don't be mislead by the people who say that everything would be O.K. if only we went back on the Gold Standard. It was the Gold Standard that caused most of the modern problems in the first place.

Another question that should be asked is simply who should be responsible for various things like education, medical care, public works, etc.. I think that the answer should be: The most local organization that can get the job done. That's called subsidiarity. Think of education. A child's first education is provided by its parents. In fact, as the record shows, parents can do a better job than the government schools of educating the children at least to the grade twelve level. Home schoolers regularly outperform public school students in standardized tests, and in such fun things as the National Spelling Bee. The old one room schools did a much better job of educating than do the modern glass and marble showplaces which house and fail to educate several thosand in a single school. One other point. Those old small school originally had volunteer school boards; people who were only interested in having the best school and the best teacher that the community could afford. Today, Job One for a school board member is getting re-elected to insure that the easy money keeps rolling in.

Who should take care of water, sewer and garbage collection? Again, the local town, cor community. Must a city like London or New York have one single department of sanitation? perhaps not. Perhaps each borough should run their own.

Is there really any place for the central (Federal) government in education, or health care, or communications?

A couple of hundred years ago the founders of the U.S. believed that the Federal Government had very little to do beyond the defence of the nation. George Washington warned that the nation should not get entangled in foreign entanglements. Read what he had to say on that subject.

I guess what I'm trying to suggest is that we need less government. A much more clever person than I am has suggested that we should wipe out all the laws that have been passed since 1900. If we did that, all the laws relating to public safety would remain in place, but nearly all the laws which just harrass people would be gone. Not a bad idea.

But I really think that nothing will work to the citizen's advantage until we reform the economic system.

The real terrorists

08.06.04 (6:18 pm) [edit]

I suppose that the most overused word today is "terrorist". In most of the English-speaking world, "terrorist" is just another way of saying "Muslim". That's the pure and simple, unvarnished truth. It's also true that most muslim "terrorists" could also be called "freedom fighters". The root of the problem lies in the ancient soil of Palestine. Palestinians have been "ethnically cleansed" by force of arms from the lands that their forefathers had lived on for two millenia or more. Can anyone blame them for fighting back? Indeed, the record shows that they have shown great restraint during the past 60 or 70 years. Suppose that some foreigners came into your neighbourhood and started shooting up the place, killing unarmed men, women and children and blowing up the houses that you and your family had lived in for hundreds of years. Would you not fight back? If you did, the governments of the U.K, the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, etc. would call you a terrorist.

The fact is, the real terrorist organization in any country of the world is the government. I don't care if it was elected, or imposed by force. The government is nobody's friend. If you work hard and earn a couple of dollars the government will take half of the away from you, by force or the threat of force. It will then spend the money on all sorts of things that you don't approve of. But you have a little money left over and you buy a house. The first thing that hits you is the tax notice. You will have to pay to the local government, under threat of force, at least one percent of the value of the house, every year. If you fall on hard times, perhaps because the government has exported your job to India, and you are out of work and can't pay your property taxes the local government will sieze your house, throw you out into the street and resell your house at a firesale price. You can fight with the crows for roadkill as far as they are concerned.

Or maybe you have just graduated from high school and the government decides that it needs some cannon-fodder. Do they ask you whether or not you approve of the latest war? Not likely!! They'll put you into a uniform and shove you out into harm's way quicker than Hell can melt a snowball. Of course when you get killed they will posthumously award you some kind of a medal which probably cost them about two bucks to have made in Japan.

Truly, when you are under the heels of your own government you don't need any outside enemies.

Now listen up carefully. I don't want anyone to go out and try to overthrow their government by force. In fact, I don't want anyone to do anything violent, short of self-defence when necessary. First of all, you can't overthrow the government, and second of all, if you tried they would soon make an end to you. They have the police, the armed forces and the courts against you. So, what's to do? Do the best you can to get by, to make a living, and to educate yourself. The education that you got in public school was just brainwashing designed to make you a nice, cooperative useful idiot for the government. Maybe, if enough of us educate ourselves and our families, in two or three more generations we can develop a political system which is really a friend of the people, not their enemy.

Education is the key to a peaceful and prosperous society, where all people can live free from a tyrannical government.

The Wolf at the door must be fed

08.05.04 (5:56 pm) [edit]

Have a look at http://www.michaeljournal.org... to find out why you can never seem to get ahead, no matter how hard you work, or how much money you make.

My Alter Ego

08.02.04 (7:29 pm) [edit]

I have another blog at http://doralh.blogspot.com/ in case anyone is interested. I hope to have totally different subject matter over there as time goes on. Not sure just how it will work out. These blogs seem to take on a life of their own after a while.

What? Me worry?

08.01.04 (6:21 pm) [edit]

So the Office of Homeland Security is warning people of an imminent attack on several NY and DC buildings.

I should say that I am a Canadian and that I don't live anywhere near NY or DC. But I am relatively literate. I read at least the front pages of 6 or 8 major daily newspapers. And I have been around long enough to know a scam when I see one.

In my opinion, this scaremongering is designed to do just one thing. Take the spotlight off John Kerry. The polls show Kerry ahead of Bush. No doubt the polls this week will show Kerry even higher as a result of a good showing at the DNC.

Tell you what. If I worked in one of the buildings that TR named, I'd take tomorrow off and go to the park, or the beach, or a ball game, or whatever. What employer would dare fire an employee for being AWOL after the dire warning issued this afternoon on tv.

How many times can Homeland Security holler "WOLF, WOLF' (no pun intended) before people just stop listening?

Look for an announcement later in the week saying that because Pres Bush took such decisive measures the potential terrorist attacks in NY and DC were stopped.

Can you say President Kerry?

07.30.04 (6:48 pm) [edit]

Just in case anybody out there doesn't already know it, John Kerry will be the next President of the United States.

You might dispute whether that wiill be a good thing or a bad thing, but it's a certainty. Always barring some unforseen disaster, of course. Like Kerry could have a terrible plane accident, or Bush could attack some other small defenceless country and get the jingo vote again. But aside from these kinds of events, Mr. Kerry is soon to be President Kerry.

NO Skinny Dipping Tonight!

07.28.04 (3:15 pm) [edit]

Something is going weird with the weather. At least in the northern plains of central Alberta. The temperature got down to 35 degrees F. last night. That's almost freezing. The inside of my refrigerator isn't that cold! This still is July, isn't it? Or am I trapped in The Twilight Zone? At this time of year I used to go skinny dipping in a nearby lake. But that's a whole other story.

It's sure a good thing that there is global warming going on or I would have been out shovelling snow this morning.

old friends

07.25.04 (4:27 pm) [edit]

While I'm trying to learn how tblog works, I'd like to post links to all of my old friends from mblog, if you're still around. If you'd like to leave me a note telling me where you're at now I'll try to get the links added soon.

I'm a slow learner, but I know that lots of people will help me when I get stuck on this cyber-gadgetry. And to think that back on the days of the Sinclair 1000 I was the local computer geek!

Still around

07.25.04 (4:09 pm) [edit]

To all of my blogging friends, I'm just dropping in to say hello, and thanks to those of you who wished me a happy new year. It hasn't been too bad so far. I hope to have the time to do more writing on tblog from now on.

I just had a look at Fotocali's new portrait samples. They show that he has a great talent, but we already knew that, didn't we.

I'm still looking for an answer to a question that has been haunting me for years. "If I'm out in the middle of the forest where my wife can't hear me, and I say something, am I still wrong?"

See you next year

12.21.03 (1:23 pm) [edit]

Hi to everyone....I'll be off until after new Year's, so I want to wish everyone a very happy and safe Chritmas. Until 2004 then......

I must be a slow learner

11.20.03 (6:02 pm) [edit]

O.K., I still don't really know my way around this TBlog place...but I'll keep on trying. I'd like to get some links and friends added but I'm not real sure how to go about it. Like I said before, I'm really a computer dummy. That is strange, in a way. Back in the old DOS days I had one of the first computers in my town. The operating system was cpm-86, and when my friends got their own computers I was the one who taught them how to get up and running with MS-DOS 1.0, which was almost the same as cpm. Now I guess that I've dated myself. Problem is, I got lazy and didn't keep up with the new stuff. I still have a Sinclair 1000 and a Commodore 128 tucked away in a closet. Maybe I should start up an antique computer museum!

I must be a slow learner

11.20.03 (6:00 pm) [edit]

Checking in for the first time

11.20.03 (11:51 am) [edit]

Hi, to anyone who doesn't have anything better to do than read this. I'm new here...one of the M-blog community who appear to be migrating. I thought that the migration season was over. Here in central Alberta I haven't seen a flock of geese heading south for about a month now. I might not be a very regular blogger, because I have a lot of other writing that I'm trying to get done.

I'm also not very computer literate, so if I make some technical mistakes I hope that you'll overlook them.

Oh yes, before I forget...HELLO ARIELLE.