Just plain dumb
A law that basicly prevents anyone from being anonymous... As a supporter of a free internet that just makes me sick. Read about it at news.com
Rant!
Its time for a rant.
Today my rant is about children. Well societies take on them and the raising of them. Almost every time I hear about some violent crime or some more taboo crime I always hear "its near a school, we have got to protect our children". This gets me to think. All the things that we 'protect' our children from are causations of society. These things they need to learn from, know about and in a sense witness these 'things' so that they can fully understand the scope of why 'said thing' was wrong.
Ever think that 'protecting' them from these horrible 'things' might also lead to problems. There is a point when one must accept society and move forward through it. And its kinda hard to do that when one never knows right from wrong under our society. Perhaps 'I am the sum of my experiences' is correct after all.
Parents must accept that these things have happened and do happen and will always happen. They must adapt and teach there children about morality and right and wrong. But perhaps that is the problem. It all comes down to responsibility and no one seems to one to take any of it.
--Oracle
Government Aid – Whether You Want It or Not
The High Road: Legal and Political - An Interesting Post by Preacherman
There was a time not too long ago that I would have looked at the original poster of the above link with concern for his mental stability. After all, the government is here to help us, right?
But the more I see things, the more I realize that the government is actually helping itself under the guise of helping citizens.
Does this mean that I think there's a super-secretive group who makes malicious decisions as to who will live and who die in any given situation for the furtherment of "The Plan"? Goodness, no.
What I do believe is that the government has gotten to the point that in attempting to provide for all that is expected of it in this day and age, it is pushing to provide itself more and more power to meet the expectations of citizens. And when the few citizens who want to be and are capable of fending for themselves denies the government's right to excersize this power over them, the government feels threatened. It has become so obsessed with power in its struggle to provide the masses with all that they want, that it cannot remember what it was to be passive. And so, people who are taking care of themselves are branded as extremists, militants, power-hungry. When, truly, the only power these people desire is power over their own existence.
"But if the people can get on without the government, how will government survive?" its members ask. "How can I keep the great job that I've got if I'm not needed?" And so, they begin to persecute the capable within the nation. Not conciously, I'm almost sure, but subconsciously, from a fear of obselesence.
The thing is, we will always need government in some form. There will always be those who will not abide by a peaceful social contract and need to be removed from society in some way. And laws will always be necessary to determine the boundaries of what is and is not acceptable behavior. And what is the law without an organization with the authority and power to back it up?
And so, we get into a vicious circle. The government needs power to perform its necessary functions. Unfortunately, as we've so often heard, "Power Corrupts".
Just thinking out loud, mostly. Don't take anything I say as gospel, 'cause I'm wrong much more often than I'm right.
Okay, now Oracle or Mens needs to post something completely and totally off the wall. This crap is just too serious.
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