2007 America Has as Almost as Many Blacks in Prison as there were Slaves in 1786

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Guardian

According to government statistics there are 1,159,326 non white males in prison. According to statistics at http://academic.udayton.edu there were 1,510,000 slaves imported for the English colonies in America (excluding Jamaica) from 1680-1786. Only angry denial would think that the prison population is better off than the slaves of the era.

From DOJ statistics on December 31, 2005 —

— 2,193,798 prisoners were held in Federal or State prisons or in local jails — an increase of 2.7% from yearend 2004, less than the average annual growth of 3.3% since yearend 1995.
— there were an estimated 491 prison inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents — up from 411 at yearend 1995.

— the number of women under the jurisdiction of State or Federal prison authorities increased 2.6% from yearend 2004, reaching 107,518 and the number of men rose 1.9%, totaling 1,418,406.

At yearend 2005 there were 3,145 black male sentenced prison inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,244 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 471 white male inmates per 100,000 white males.

From http://www.tpronline.org/

It has been estimated that approximately 1.5 million children have a parent in prison. However, this number misses those youth whose parent is in jail or has recently been released.

Incarceration rates have increased four-fold in the past 30 years, and those who are incarcerated are serving longer sentences (and thus are removed from their families for longer periods of time).

Parental incarceration is not a single event, but a process which begins with criminal activity, progresses through the arrest process, incarceration, and (usually) release. Additionally, incarceration does not signal the beginning of family distress, but usually exacerbates a life that may already be characterized by poverty, stress, and trauma.

Prejudice likely prevents the causes and solutions of this skewed prison population from being discussed. Does prison alienate people? Do the courts convict all on the basis of exaggerated police reports by incompetent police which can only be over-turned by the extremely literate, savvy, sane, and knowledgeable? My personal experience would suggest that the defendant has to be articulate and scientific in order to disprove police lies and distortions in order to prove his innocence. Other posts give proof to this premise.

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All have the right to a just and proper income, taxation and justice.

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Guardian

All of us should have the right to a just and proper income, taxation and justice.

1.) A just and proper income will at least provide sufficient food, shelter, clothing and medical care to sustain happy, healthy life. It should also be proportionate to effort, ability, and investment.

People have the right to keep the wealth that they’ve earned. People also have the right not to starve to death.

2.) Taxation, to be just and proper, should only be levied on income and wealth beyond what is necessary for standard and acceptable food, shelter, clothing, medical care and other normal expenses. Only opulent wealth and income should be taxed.

Income necessary for a little six room house, food, transportation, and clothes should not be taxed. Taxation should only be on wealth above and beyond what is calculated to produce a happy healthy life – which might be only 40 thousand a year for a family of four in the suburbs of an American city. An America family of four might have a healthy, happy life for only 25 to 40 thousand a year if they didn’t have to pay property or income taxes to government.

3.) Justice, to be just and proper, would consist only of restitution and prophylaxis applied to remedy loss and suffering. It should be applied on the basis of fact and statistical probability presented to judge and jury. No punishment should be disproportionate to loss or injury or for any other purpose than to ultimately protect the rights of man.

People should NOT have to spend a fortune to defend themselves against unjust state accusations that threaten punishment disproportionate to any real loss or injury that they caused. A just quarantine should be available for those that are likely to be a threat. Those quarantined should have their rights fully protected. They should not be libeled by false or inflated accusation. The concept of “Throwing the book” at someone should be abolished.

{When legal conviction is impossible} Let’s not allow lies, libel, circumvented law and torture to harshly imprison people suspected of being highly dangerous. Let us quarantine people suspected of being dangerous. Let us do it scientifically, honestly, fairly, justly and compassionately. Let us comply with all human rights except the minimum prophylaxis necessary to prevent a suspected terrorist or a suspected serial killer from killing.

African Poverty
These simple rights are currently not available, at least not uniformly or consistently applied, anywhere on earth.

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Does Jail Have a Purpose?

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Guardian

Hilton checked into her prison cell Sunday where she’s expected to serve three weeks for a reckless-driving charge. She pleaded no contest to that charge.

She will stay in a part of the prison that contains 12 two-person cells reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates. Hilton’s cell has two bunks, a table, a sink, a toilet and a small window. She does not have a cellmate.

Hilton will eat her meals in her cell. She will be allowed outside the 12-by-8-foot space for at least an hour each day to shower, watch TV in the day room, participate in outdoor recreation or talk on the telephone. No cell phones are allowed in the facility, even for visitors.

Paris Hilton

The picture of Paris Hilton is a link from http://www.solarnavigator.net. It may be subject to copyright.

What does this teach? What loss does this remedy? What good does this do?

It would be pretty silly for government to spend so much time and effort making laws, prisons and courts if they didn’t use them. Sending people to jail gives their laws some weight – like cement boots.

If government wants to emulate the solid and unforgiving punishment delivered by nature and other physical laws then they have succeeded. They teach us that government can emulate nature.

Jail time also teaches us that government can torture people and use cruel and unusual punishment. Government is in in angry denial if they believe otherwise. Government can do wrong and call it right. Government laws are correct and justified – in minds of their robotic minions and champions.

There is no such thing as pain unless it is physical according to the tenants of the cult of government worshipers and sociopaths. Prison and courts are real pain.

Do the police focus on pretty celebrities? Do they get a rush? Do they like to “throw the book” at people just to be able to justify inflicting pain on others. Do they get sexual gratification from their power trip?

Having experienced similar, I cannot ever again believe that the law, the courts, the prisons, and the police are without prejudice and fault.

One or two beers can actually increase a persons’ performance in sports, make him more alert and stronger. I’ve won putting contests and other golf contests after consuming two beers. I’ve bowled my highest bowling scores after consuming two beers. Much of the campaign against people that drink is similar to a witch hunt or a hunt for heretics for I sincerely believe that one or two beers might actually, in similar fashion, diminish automobile accidents. I am not defending excesses for I haven’t consumed more than five beers a month for more than fifteen years.

This report may not represent the views of the star. The link to her picture was not authorized, but I believe is fair use. If the www.solarnavigator.net site removes the image, it will not appear here.

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The strongest super power is the power of love.

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Guardian

Imagine if we had a superhero that could force others to love and understand others.

Imagine if our superhero made Hitler love the Jews.
Imagine if our superhero made Cho love his classmates.
Imagine if our superhero made the Shiites love the Sunni and the
Sunni love the Shiites.
Imagine if our superhero could cause government employees, like the police, politicians, and judges, to love everybody.
Imagine if our superhero made all the wicked people love one another.

Imagine if our superhero made everybody love everybody. Who would be needy? Who would steal? Who would kill? Who would be selfish? Who would not help others? The world would at least start to be utopian.

Wouldn’t an Entity that could force love and understanding be the greatest and most respected entity of all? Entities that can force hate are everywhere. It is so easy to cause death, but so difficult to cause another to love another.

One basic dichotomy is control by love versus control by death and fear. One is difficult and respected. The other is simple inhumanity.

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What is a modern day seer/prophet?

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Guardian

A seer is someone that can tell the future. The dictionary tells us that a seer is one that sees, one that predicts events or developments, or a person credited with extraordinary moral and spiritual insight.

Today we don’t call them seers. Today, a seer could be a doctor that can tell you how your health will be in the future. A seer could be a navigator that could tell you where your ship will be in the future. A seer could be a chess player that can tell you how a game will end. A seer could be a weather forecaster that tells you what tomorrows’ weather will be. A seer could be an economist that will tell you what the future economy will be. A political analyst might tell you who were going to win and election and what the winning issues will be.

The seer is known by a history of accurately being predicting future events. A seer will not be a cheerleader, a propagandist, a person in the psychiatric state of denial, or a person trying to promote his product. A seer will try to tell someone how to stay clear of future trouble. A seer may not be able to tell the entire future, as the future can be changed by people that listen to seers. A seer will give advice that is usually correct and sometimes magical.

Ancient seers watched the birds and animals knowing that their behavior could predict earthquakes, tsunamis and severe weather. Polynesian sailors could navigate by watching subtle wave patterns. Some seers may have enjoyed a sixth sense. Other seers may have predicted future events from knowledge of history or human behavior.

Politically who are the seers? Certainly not those that just want a prestige job or promise the population what they want to hear. A seer will probably warn us about the future and give facts to corroborate their findings. Although a modern day seer probably is highly intuitive, he will find the facts to support his intuition and will give them to you.

You may not understand why a seer makes his forecast. Just because the animals run from the shore doesn’t mean a tidal wave is forthcoming, you think. Moving a hundred yards further from the shore may help, you think. After all, you are a strong swimmer and you have a couple of hundred yards head start if you want to run. You survive because you take minimal precautions that the seer might be right.

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A nation, sans individuals and assets, is very easy to create.

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Guardian

A nation, sans individuals and assets, is very easy to create.

1) Create a constitution with a bill of human rights, such as the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Make it the responsibility of your nation to protect, expand and defend those rights. In fact, make it the ONLY right of your new nation to defend those rights. By lottery, choose a group to create laws to interpret those rights. Add feedback to verify those laws properly interpret those rights. Add a group to verify that those laws are applied with quality.

2) Create a judicial system that defends individuals from loss or injury. Add groups to establish fact. Add groups to check for compliance with law and principle. Have yet another group verify that the punishment is not more severe than the loss or injury caused. Have a jury vote on the findings of the other groups.

3) Create a budget. Decide how much your nation should spend for social programs, retirement, defense, education, justice, and catastrophe insurance. Divide the allotted budget down to equitably and justly spend on each slice of the pie. Use a top down approach to decide on expenditures. Use a bottom up approach to maximize how each individual benefits from the allocated funding. Use creative people to stretch the buck.

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How to pick a Candidate

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Guardian

1.) Your candidate should not engage in ad homonym attacks against his
opponent that aren’t relevant to the issues. Ad homonym attacks should
not be the emphasis of the campaign of your candidate.

2.) You candidate should recognize that there are many defects in government and society that need to be fixed.

3.) Your candidate should recognize that the main legislative body needs
to send some programs to a team for research, development, quality control,
engineering and management rather than try to resolve them on the floor.

4.) Your candidate should know that disproportionate spending is wrong.
Squandering a nations’ assets on an unnecessary war, for example, is not
a desirable quality. Squandering assets on something that is not a certain
benefit to the majority that oppose such spending is not only not a desirable
quality, but a crime.

5.) Your candidate should recognize that some programs have complex interactions and that proposals need to be written before any vote or discussion hits the floor.

6.) Your candidate should recognize that if legislation needs ‘pork’ added
in order to pass that the proposal does not stand on its own merits. Your
candidate should be able to articulate logical reasons for any practical
compensatory legislation (pork) to offset loss to any state by any bill.

7.) Your candidate should recognize that people expect quality justice
and that efforts must be made to ensure quality justice.

8.) Your candidate should recognize that people want efficient and productive
government programs. Your candidate should be able to defend a pie chart
of government spending and taxation. He should be able to justify each
slice of the pie.

9.) Your candidate should recognize that people want government programs
that benefit all – NO government program should be allowed to help just
part of the population.

10.) Your candidate should recognize that all the government programs have
to function homogeneously and seamlessly through the population and laws.

11.) Your candidate should recognize that it is the duty of government
not only to protect but to enhance the rights of citizens.

12.) Your candidate should recognize and state that disproportionate punishment – punishment that is in excess of any loss and injury caused – is an evil.

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Government Ain’t Jack Bauer

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Guardian

Jack Bauer is a fictional character that saves the world a dozen times every twenty-four hours in the hit series ’24’.

Government handles the same dozen issues year after year. These issues never get resolved. New issues and concerns are never heard, discussed, considered or resolved. The following is from the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. May 4-6, 2007. N=1,028 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

http://www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm

Important Not Important
The situation in Iraq 88 11
Terrorism 80 20
Education 81 19
Health care 78 22
Gas prices 74 26
Corruption and ethical standards in government 77 24
The situation in Iran 77 22
Social Security and Medicare 75 24
The economy 79 20
Illegal immigration 63 36
Taxes 70 29
The federal budget deficit 64 35
Global warming 53 46
Abortion 51 48
Gun policy 52 46
Stem cell research 48 49
Policies toward gays and lesbians 28 71

Some of the issues above, like the war in Iraq, are the top issues. Other issues, like abortion, never get resolved. You’ll also note that the only policy on the above poll concern gays and lesbians. What about judicial and police policies? Aren’t they important? Isn’t a policy that seeks to identify and report problems within a nation important? Are we doing a forensic-like investigation of the problems of America? No! We don’t even know what those problems are!

There are about 56,000 governments in America. There are probably 56 million laws, by-laws and rules. There are probably 56 billion individual defects in the ways those laws, policies, by-laws and regulations are administered. How many are being handled? (Close to zero percent)

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Government Ain't Jack Bauer

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Guardian

Jack Bauer is a fictional character that saves the world a dozen times every twenty-four hours in the hit series ’24’.

Government handles the same dozen issues year after year. These issues never get resolved. New issues and concerns are never heard, discussed, considered or resolved. The following is from the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. May 4-6, 2007. N=1,028 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

http://www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm

Important Not Important
The situation in Iraq 88 11
Terrorism 80 20
Education 81 19
Health care 78 22
Gas prices 74 26
Corruption and ethical standards in government 77 24
The situation in Iran 77 22
Social Security and Medicare 75 24
The economy 79 20
Illegal immigration 63 36
Taxes 70 29
The federal budget deficit 64 35
Global warming 53 46
Abortion 51 48
Gun policy 52 46
Stem cell research 48 49
Policies toward gays and lesbians 28 71

Some of the issues above, like the war in Iraq, are the top issues. Other issues, like abortion, never get resolved. You’ll also note that the only policy on the above poll concern gays and lesbians. What about judicial and police policies? Aren’t they important? Isn’t a policy that seeks to identify and report problems within a nation important? Are we doing a forensic-like investigation of the problems of America? No! We don’t even know what those problems are!

There are about 56,000 governments in America. There are probably 56 million laws, by-laws and rules. There are probably 56 billion individual defects in the ways those laws, policies, by-laws and regulations are administered. How many are being handled? (Close to zero percent)

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Big Brother Told Me the Following wasn’t Appropriate

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Guardian

DYSTOPIAN IDEALOGIES

“United We Stand, Divided We Fall” is plausibly the prime rational behind government. The theory is that several people can protect themselves better than one individual. However, this theory has been expanded into an expansive ideology that holds that big is always better. Some, for example, believe that war cannot be started if there is only one government on earth. The dichotomy is that evolutionary theory predicts that there will be less competition and growth if competition is less or lacking. Is there an ideology that embraces bigness and unity? Is it flawed?

The Bible contains a story of the city-states of Cannon being conquered with all occupants slaughtered. Such were the times. Feudal warfare continued for almost a score of centuries. The richer kingdom would send the bigger and better army. The bigger and stronger army would usually prevail. Perhaps it was sport. Perhaps it was genetic. Perhaps it was the euphoria of the victory. Perhaps it was sadism. Perhaps it was religion. It is likely some of the reasons for conquest were greed, growth and/or revenge.

In China, there were more competing states. There was more competition. If one province destroyed themselves and their enemy – their war spoils – then they would be weakened. The neighboring provinces would capitalize on the weakness and send their armies. Perhaps the Chinese were more opportunistic and logical. It was the Chinese philosophy to conquer without destroying. Their philosophy was to use conquest for enrichment and to grow more powerful so that a neighboring province would not invade while they were weakened from warfare. See Rev. Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”.

Is more competition better? This will be continued…

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The paragraphs above were in a zip file and emailed to myself. The company returned the email saying the the content wasn’t appropriate for a business email.

BIG BROTHER IS HERE!

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