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Government is useful for protecting us against government.

The Fourth Amendment protects us against outrageous police and government spy agencies. Unfortunately, the Patriot Act and Supreme Court decisions have rendered the Fourth Amendment toothless.

Public prosecutors protect us against charges brought against us by narcissistic government employees. Unfortunately the public defenders don’t protect the middle class.

Unemployment compensation protects us against jobs lost due to government endorsed outsourcing. Unfortunately, the compensation isn’t sufficient and is only temporary.

Medicare helps us against the high costs of medical care. Unfortunately, this compensation could have been lowered by reducing regulations on the health care industry resulting in lower health care for all.

Social Security protects us against prejudices in hiring people over 62 years old. Unfortunately, this fund is borrowed from at zero percent interest to pay off the war debt.

In a Nutshell, government provides only 10% of the inexpensive services that they should provide and spends 90% on that which is not in the interests of all. The top 1% receives 20% of the income and does 1% of the work. The bottom 20% does 1% of the work and receives more than 20% of government revenues. The middle class is that group of people that does 98% of the work and receives 10% of the government revenue.

Yahoo Article

PORTLAND, Ore. – Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, “now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment.”

The U.S. attorney general’s office essentially asked a court to amend the Bill of Rights by giving it an interpretation that would deprive it of any real meaning. There is already many tombs written about Supreme Court interpretations of the fourth amendment. Most of them degrade the fourth amendment to worthlessness. A couple of years ago I personally witnessed such a travesty as the local police unimpeded by the necessity for search and arrest warrants burst into the home for traffic violations. Twenty thousand dollars and much heartburn later, the court gave my family our fourth amendment rights.

I champion the restoration and enhancement of all rights whether enumerated or implied by amendments nine and ten (like the right to have sex, eat, have families and breathe)

WBZ link to story

(WBZ) BOSTON Between 70 to 100 of the state’s youngest school children are suspended each year for sexually harassing their classmates, state education records from 2003 to 2006 show.

The disciplinary tactics are prompting concerns from parents, educators and academics about the appropriateness of charging young children with sexual harassment.

“They cannot understand what it means. They’re too young. They’re just babies,” said Linda Burke, whose grandson attends the Downey Elementary School in Brockton.

Brockton is among the most aggressive school districts in the state when it comes to disciplining its youngest students for sexual harassment.

An I-Team review of incidents in recent school years indicate students are being punished for using foul language, fondling or exposing themselves on the bus, pinching other kids or requesting to touch their private parts.

Districts with the highest rate of discipline of first through fourth graders also include Springfield, Fall River, Wareham and Lawrence, state records show.

DISPROPORTIONATE PUNISHMENT SUCKS!

These public school officials are terrorists that try to robotize Americans with terror techniques to comply with their goodie-goodie views.

We really have got to start disciplining public officials that use excessive force, inflict disproportionate punishment, make mountains out of mole hills and other wise over-react and cause good people trouble.

Fire them all!

1.) Government shall protect the rights of their citizens as defined by the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In America, amendments nine and ten of the US Constitution together with the maxim to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness virtually endorse the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

2.) Government shall have no rights not derived from the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

3.) Government shall minimize death in dangerous efforts to protect human rights such as war.

4.) Government shall respect and not punish all non-lethal self-defense.

5.) Government courts shall emphasize restitution and minimal restraint without fear and court inflicted damages.

6.) Government courts shall directly respect truth, fact, human rights including the right not to have unjust loss and injury inflicted by another or others as equals to the law.

7.) Government shall provide a judicial system that protects human rights without impinging on on those rights with time consuming and expensive effort.

8.) Government shall directly protect the human rights of each individual rather than by the equivocation of law.

9.) Government shall spend taxes collected from all only for the benefit of all.

10.) Government shall give the people the annual right to vote for a well written 200 page book deliniating future government policy.

Amendments nine and ten of the US Constitution:

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

[When my brother was president] “The top earning q percent of Americans earned about 10 percent of the total income earned by all Americans. Today, that 1 percent has doubled their share – they now earn 20 percent of total American income. I never imagined when I became a senator that income inequality would return to the levels of 1929, but that is exactly what has happened.”

“We have more children living in poverty than any other nation in the developed world. Middle-income families are under constant strain because their basic costs have risen far faster than their income, even when both parents work. Such costs include providing higher education for their children, living in neighborhoods with first class public schools, maintaining adequate health insurance, or buying a car. It is time to stop making excuses and make sure the economy works for all of us again.”

49.9 percent of all bachelor degrees awarded In 2000 in Science, Math, Computer Technology and Engineering were to China. The US was ninth in the world with 15.4 percent. The reason is that US industry rewards people with degrees in Science and Engineering with less income than those with degrees in law and business.

“in a time of already extraordinary income inequality, it is especially unfair to bestow lavish new tax breaks on the wealthy. Americans do not want a tax code in which average citizens pay twice as much tax on their weekly wages as millionaires pay on their stock market gains.”

It’s an interesting book.

For balance, I previously quoted Eisenhower.

Health Care Only for Children is only a façade – like those made for movie towns where the buildings only have fronts. The buildings have no insides and no backs.

A government health program should cover all the people. That way, the temptation for politicians to create programs that are an illusion of the real thing won’t exist.

Perhaps a health care program that covered the basic problems for everyone would be worth something. If a health care program covered the need for antibiotics, simple operations, and need for bones to be set, it would be worth something. It would still be a façade though, wouldn’t it?

A health care program needs to be thoroughly designed and described. The best two programs need to be voted on by all the people.

More and more, I encounter government programs where I’ve sought help have turned out to be illusions. Here in Massachusetts, 90% of government programs have been façades. Went to appeal a small claims decision the other day. The court said I could appeal. Then the crafty opposition lawyer showed that I had to post bonds of five times the amount of the verdict. Didn’t matter that I could absolutely prove that my opponent won by total perjury. Nobody that knows today’s courts is going to gamble five dollars to make one. The appeal process was a façade, an illusion.

By the time you get to be sixty, you will understand what I mean – especially if you are actively involved. Don’t wait to personally experience life’s misfortunes. Be pro-active. Learn from the experiences of others.

The cop appeared to be baiting the kid. If the kid had touched the cop, the kid might have been charged with assault and battery on a police officer. That would have merited a sentence of two years in jail. All the cop would have had to do to entice the kid to touch him would have been to have stood on the kid’s toe. The kid would have pushed back. Then the kid would have been charged with assault and battery on a police officer. If the kid got off, he would have spent tens of thousands on a lawyer. AND the kid would not have been able to file charges against the cop. The video probably saved the kid. Learn from this, it probably happens millions of times a year!

I repeat, I do not want to be presumptive as to what the cop would have done. Only the cop knows. This situation is like a lot of others that have led to charges of assault and battery on a police officer. I’ve been there.

Crazy Cop Link

Government employees – judges, legislators, selectmen, and police chiefs alike – mainly want to keep their jobs. Government employees do not do discipline police as that would brand them as “soft on crime”.

There are 20 million arrests in the United States each year. Two million people are in jail. Ever wonder why?

Horrors, “Soft on Crime”! What about being soft on police abuse? Isn’t being soft on police abuse also being soft on crime?

I believe the platform of the Reform party aligns more closely to the platform of this site than those of any other party. Take a look!

http://reformparty.org/platform.htm

This is what the reform platform says regarding term limits:

TERM LIMITS

The Reform Party seeks to increase citizen participation in political affairs, and supports:

* Requests for candidate pledges to limit their term of office, regardless of the current laws

* Institution of Term Limits on the House of 3 terms (6 years)

* Institution of Term Limits on the Senate of 2 terms (12 years)

I would rather a lottary than term limits. However term limits mean that at any one time half the senate and a third of the house will be on their last term. In other words, these last term senators and representatives will not have to raise the funding to be re-elected. They will not have to make false promises. Consequently, they are more likely to vote for the good of their country than for what makes their family tens of millions.

I believe most government workers believe they are merely doing a job. They look at their work as a job. They look out for themselves and their family. They look at their benifits, perks and compensations. They don’t even entertain ideas that are theoretically good for lifestyles of democratic people.

A lottary from a pool of applicants with above average reading, math and logic skills is optimal. Term limits, however, is a more viable idea for democratic people. Democratic people have not been brainwashed to accept the idea of a lottary. Democratic people have been brainwashed to accept the concept of term limits. It is a feasible idea and thus gets my nod.