stefan segal
01-24-2007, 03:59 PM
Kres made a powerful observation in another thread, that I feel deserves exposure and underlining on its own behest, and that is:
We have chosen to entrust our lives to government and have voted most of our personal freedoms over to them ,as such they have every right to tell us what we can and cannot do
The reservation Indians found out to their great loss what it means and meant to turn their personal responsibility over to the government...that of jump hoops and kiss ass while being serviced so poorly as to be criminal...and no recourse for remedy.
Single mothers must do hoop jumping with social services...especially with the repug control of policies (yes I remember the election...the repugs have had 6 years to spread their disease throughout the whole of government.,..it may take an equal number to right their wrongs), but have no other options.
The government cannot open their veins to allow tax dollars to run freely on the kitchen floor, so there must be levels of screening...and attempting to make it less dehumanizing, is a matter of degrees of relativity...in whch neither side are happy at the same instant of events.
I recall an effort called the "the voter's bill of rights"...it was, if memory serves, a gingrich (the most dangerous mind in DC) thing, and I didn't bother to look into it, but the concept of a threshold of indignities concerning services government rendered, I believe might be a positive direction for satisfying the existing problem .That of:
Rendering the will of the people, in terms of tax dollars and services, to those the people deemed in need.
The police force is one such service with checks and balances....and though imperfectly served, we don't, on the other hand, live beside or in the OK corral...no all of us need to be armed when strolling down main street.
In the best of all worlds, all the policemen of a precinct would be required to have their abode in that sector. But as it stands, those policed are not without options...they have not all been lost to enjoy the public service.
On a similar note of loosing oversight when relinquishing one's responsibilities to a service, I see no difference when the administration hands away their responsibility to...say controlling our ports...especially so, when giving it to the other side (in terms of butch's holy 'ism' war)
When I was a kid in the building trades, I strove to tackle those jobs I've never done before. I would say I knew it all, to assume responsibility, so I would be at the design/command...even if I was only commanding myself.
I considered free education...and when I fucked up...I would gather my tools and say "fire me"...then melt off into the sunset. (Some kids are arrogant pricks...)
If a government contractor of ports allowed or engineered a small army of sappers each to simultanously invade all the larger port cities...he could also flip it off with: "so fire me"...but the damage would be alredy done before anyone had a clue that two or three containers housed sappers with ATV's loaded with plastic or plastic and DU dust, just loaded into containers ten miles off the port docks, and offloaded into the heart of downtown by truck.
If they were fancy and well financed, they could also morter off multiple EMP explosives to blow in the air and wipe out communications...great for a get-away, and devistating for a country already in abject shock....so fire me :)
Stefan
We have chosen to entrust our lives to government and have voted most of our personal freedoms over to them ,as such they have every right to tell us what we can and cannot do
The reservation Indians found out to their great loss what it means and meant to turn their personal responsibility over to the government...that of jump hoops and kiss ass while being serviced so poorly as to be criminal...and no recourse for remedy.
Single mothers must do hoop jumping with social services...especially with the repug control of policies (yes I remember the election...the repugs have had 6 years to spread their disease throughout the whole of government.,..it may take an equal number to right their wrongs), but have no other options.
The government cannot open their veins to allow tax dollars to run freely on the kitchen floor, so there must be levels of screening...and attempting to make it less dehumanizing, is a matter of degrees of relativity...in whch neither side are happy at the same instant of events.
I recall an effort called the "the voter's bill of rights"...it was, if memory serves, a gingrich (the most dangerous mind in DC) thing, and I didn't bother to look into it, but the concept of a threshold of indignities concerning services government rendered, I believe might be a positive direction for satisfying the existing problem .That of:
Rendering the will of the people, in terms of tax dollars and services, to those the people deemed in need.
The police force is one such service with checks and balances....and though imperfectly served, we don't, on the other hand, live beside or in the OK corral...no all of us need to be armed when strolling down main street.
In the best of all worlds, all the policemen of a precinct would be required to have their abode in that sector. But as it stands, those policed are not without options...they have not all been lost to enjoy the public service.
On a similar note of loosing oversight when relinquishing one's responsibilities to a service, I see no difference when the administration hands away their responsibility to...say controlling our ports...especially so, when giving it to the other side (in terms of butch's holy 'ism' war)
When I was a kid in the building trades, I strove to tackle those jobs I've never done before. I would say I knew it all, to assume responsibility, so I would be at the design/command...even if I was only commanding myself.
I considered free education...and when I fucked up...I would gather my tools and say "fire me"...then melt off into the sunset. (Some kids are arrogant pricks...)
If a government contractor of ports allowed or engineered a small army of sappers each to simultanously invade all the larger port cities...he could also flip it off with: "so fire me"...but the damage would be alredy done before anyone had a clue that two or three containers housed sappers with ATV's loaded with plastic or plastic and DU dust, just loaded into containers ten miles off the port docks, and offloaded into the heart of downtown by truck.
If they were fancy and well financed, they could also morter off multiple EMP explosives to blow in the air and wipe out communications...great for a get-away, and devistating for a country already in abject shock....so fire me :)
Stefan