> On Apr 29, 6:38 am, "Mark" <alln...@nospammindspring.com> wrote:> "Dario Western" <dariowest...@nospambigpond.com> wrote in message
> >news:xgvRj.5927$ko5.4426@news-
> > > Trent,
> > > Why did you post this message to a wrestling and Mormon newsgroup? >
> > Why did YOU??
> because once evolving from a primate to a human being..;if that is
> possible....the first discovery is that the most hate that can be
> conjured up is a group of people or peer group that will not admit
> their evil....the evil itself is not unaceptable to the masses but the
> denial of it is unacceptable...ref...pastor wright and obama...the
> militant terrorist suicide bombers fighting for destruction of
> everyone but their kind.....stalin...hitler...etc.....does anyone
> think that hitler or stalin would ever repent....it is the
> unrelentling attitude of the nudist that is prevalent and their overt
> desires to aggress and force their nakedness on the rest of
> society....Dario is cut from the same cloth that Anna Nikki and i are
> cut from ..knowing that our beliefs are not popular and know exactly
> how the non naked feel and why....but you primates until you evolve
> and admit will never know.....jz
The Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Hari-Krishna beliefs are not popular,
but in a free world, they have a right to practice them. Most non
Hari-Krishnas likely don't relish seeing the Hari Krishnas walking
down the street and chanting and doing their dance, but it is the Hari-
Krishna's Just right, and Just Freedom to do so. Nakedness is not
being "forced" on anyone by merely walking down the street. Unless
your person or property is violated (or endangered), nothing is being
forced on you, and you have a Just right to Freedom whether you
"jon_zee," and other Americans, and other people throughout the world
recognize it or not, you have a Just right to Freedom unless you are
violating (or endangering) someone's persons or property including
public property, or engaged in commerce, which given the exploitative
nature of which may Justly be regulated, though not prohibited,
through product bundling, quality controls, and advertising
regulations, and possibly though not surely other ways I have not
thought of.
Thus, you surely have the Just right to commit non-dangerous, non-
commercial acts in public. This is Freedom. The line may not be
drawn more strictly than this, or must we violate the principle of
Freedom entirely and may as well do away with it, leaving the future
to a single prevailing ideology and religion, limiting all speeches
and actions to those of the past, for certainly once something is
outlawed it would be extinct and nearly impossible to gain a majority
support for since they would not even be able to try or see or
practice it at all. Save the argument I am presenting here, and such
is our current oppressed state.
The only thing I think about "Anna" is that perhaps she is denigrating
sex and promoting nonsexual nudity in an attempt to protect nudism
from the anti-sex bigots and persecutors in this world. I don't know
if such a tactic is well founded, but she seems maybe too much a voice
of the prejudice Nazi crowd to seriously be taking such a tactic.
Leave your dress and conduct codes to private property owners who may
eject any who violate them. No country may be called free which could
require you to wear a Burka in public, but apparently that is a
possibility requiring only 50% of the voters in the United States (or
less than 50% as the minority of elected dictators can pass the law).
Thus we see, Democracy is merely a means of political change, and
Freedom from past governance, but that it is in no way an
establishment or ensurer of Freedom. Freedom is a principle much more
important than Democracy, it is a principle to be both advanced in the
minds of the people of this planet, and established in the foundations
of any Just political system which governs them. The United States is
one of the biggest human rights violators on the planet due to its
disregard for Freedom in areas of drugs, arms, and sex. It has not
been the bastion of Freedom it was supposedly conceived to be.
American's Just rights and thus their prosperity, wealth, and
livelihood are violated all over the country - as cities may
apparently legally do thing such as ban the drinking of beer on the
beach - taking the common citizen's wealth and prosperity, and taxing
them to spend more money policing and jailing offenders. Such is the
despotic state of the tyranny of our nation today. As seen with the
drug war this vicious cycle increases true crime, undermines the
justice system, and leads to more lawlessness and criminal
lifestyles. The USA puts more people in prison per capita than any
nation in the world besides China, and thinks to call itself free
compared to such fallen Communist Empires and Theocracies which may
respect neither free speech nor freedom of religion, nor the rights of
the accused - nor the right to acquire property, and may even force
people to work like slaves - though I'm not sure how things work/
worked in communist countries. And of those rights, none at all are
protected by Democracy, they all are protected by the insufficient
Constitution (specifically the Bill of Rights) which requires 2/3rd's
of both houses of Congress and 3/4th's of all state's legislatures to
change, and neither does it protect your right to property as taxes
could be raised to 100% and the nation made Communist. Allying
yourself with a lesser evil may make sense at times, but the truth is
you wish to see both evils fall or be corrected - we can only hope for
the nation's sake the latter comes to pass.
So the nation's not free, and to the extent it is free, it is not free
because of Democracy but because of the Bill of Rights. Democracy
does not ensure Freedom, it is merely a means of political change.
Democracy is merely a means of freeing ourselves from the dictators
who ruled us in the past and electing new dictators without having to
resort to war. The Bill of Rights ensures Freedom and is either not
recognized or not extensive enough.
There are 5 means of political change:
1. Free Speech - if it is allowed
2. Democracy - if your country has it
3. Civil Disobedience - if the penalties are not too harsh - sucks
nonetheless as you can be penalized
4. Targeted Assassinations
5. War - nearly always civil war
As you can see, Free Speech and Democracy are the most palatable.
Free Speech and Democracy allow us to change the government without
war by appealing to the rulers or replacing them. The other three
methods cost lives but are sometimes necessary.
And those who violate minority freedom are prejudice evil lying
bigots, doing satanism and sin, jacking for nothing, taking people's
unalienable freedoms away.
Democracy is just an elected dictatorship. The elected
representatives are no better than any old dictators, and will oppress
you just as much as any old dictator. The only difference in America
is the Bill of Rights which is protected by the separation of powers
in the structure of our government between the judicial and executive/
legislative branches of government and the separation of power between
the Federal, State, County and City governments. Democracy does not
ensure freedom it is merely a means of political change of freedom
from the past dictators who may free us from past legislation.
If common dictators were constrained by a bill of rights protected by
a separation of powers, their country would be nearly as good as any
other government or Democracy with such freedoms, they would just lack
the means of political change. And a good king or dictator could self-
constrain but the next king or dictator could easily be not as good.
For instance China too has a bill of rights and more guaranteed
freedoms in its Constitution than the United States. But with no
separation of powers, its Dictators can ignore the guaranteed freedoms
completely and override them and routinely do.
It's true that in some states a majority can get an issue on the
ballot and pass a law in an election. But most laws are passed by an
elected minority. So much touting Democracy as freedom, when we do
not even have a Democracy. In any case, majority rule can be tyranny
to the other 49% of the voters, and so the theory goes, that a wise
minority of rulers might be elected. But rather as it turns out they
are just dictatorial tyrants, it seems a broader bill of rights and a
broader interpretation of a bill of rights is a better solution.
I'm the wise minority who would respect broader freedoms if elected.
In the absence of a bill of rights securing our freedom, tyranny is
given free reign. Justice is not established or at least it is not
secured - as the next elected dictator may legislate tyranny. Sin
instead becomes established as the government makes up new sins, and
commits evil upon the people in the name of righteousness.
Dictatorial tyrants spend their time establishing murder instead of
Justice. It's a question of tyranny of the majority vs. minority
rights, or majority rule vs. tyranny of the minority.
This is actually just *your* philosophy. In practice you have only
the rights the government recognizes. Even if the 9th and 10th
Amendments suggest that all other rights are inherent in you, it
doesn't matter unless the Supreme Court recognizes them - or some
lesser court judge agrees with you, and even then the prosecutor can
appeal up to the Supreme Court.
> Let us pause for a minute and compare to the older more "traditional"
> rule of a king. That idea is that people are basically ignorant and
> worthless so they need somebody smart and strong to tell them what to
> do. The ruler is considered the representative of "the creator" on
> earth. Therefore the ruler has absolute power over subjects. That
> power includes ALL aspects of life including life and death. "Rights"
> are "collective" and exist only for the ruler. Rights for the people
> are all filtered through the ruler and they get ONLY those which the
> ruler decides (as God's representative) to "grant" to them.
>
> The "liberal" ( what it used to be called before politicians got
> playing with the meaning of words) ideas started by men in what was
> known in history as "the enlightenment" included: 1. That the people
> are born with rights, they are NOT 'granted" by rulers. 2. People if
> left to decide their own fates will in general choose reasonably
> wisely based on their own self-interests. They will do at least as
> well as a "smart" king. 3. People may be easily fooled by politicians
> and the media as to issues and votes, but generally are a pretty good
> judge of local people they know.
>
> The bottom line is that the power of government is severely limited.
> The government is run by people elected at the local level so the
> people can better judge them (this was the TRUE purpose of the
> electorial college...but now politicians want it a democratic
> "popular" election to make elections more easily manipulated) and
> choose more wisely. These locals then pick the national leader.
>
> And finally 4. The government structure is designed to so that some of
> the more important aspects of it (such as distribution of power as set
> in the constitution) are NOT able to be changed by simple "majority
> rule". Two thirds or 3/4 of the people have to agree on the change.
> This eliminates the easy tyranny of majority rule. The people are
> granted the power to choose ANY form of government they wish INCLUDING
> a KING! But the catch is that it takes much more agreement among the
> people to install a king than merely 51%. This is why the run at a
> power grab known as the con-con and "NewStates Constitution" fell on
> it's face. They had MORE than a majority ready to install that fascist
> nightmare, but not the required super-majority.
>
> Obviously politicians all love power and will always be working to
> subvert the republic to install themselves with powers as close to a
> king as possible. It has to be expected. But given the above
> provisions of super-majority requirement of fundamental change, so
> long as the rules of the republic (constitution) is followed, it is
> difficult to get away with the subversion. This is why the mass media
> pounds away on the idea that America is a 'democracy". They want to
> subvert the ideas of the republic so that the media can form the motor
> behind a power-grab.
>
> The bad news is that many people have actually bought the "democracy"
> thing. You actually can fool some of the people all of the time!
So you're saying that a Republic is good, and that a Democracy is
bad. I'm saying that neither matter, and that all that matters is a
Bill of Rights secured by an Independent Judiciary. I'm saying that a
Dictator or a King would be nearly even as good as a Republic or
Democracy if there was a secured Bill of Rights that he could not
violate, and that there is nearly no difference. You say:
> Let us pause for a minute and compare to the older more "traditional"
> rule of a king. That idea is that people are basically ignorant and
> worthless so they need somebody smart and strong to tell them what to
> do. The ruler is considered the representative of "the creator" on
> earth. Therefore the ruler has absolute power over subjects. That
> power includes ALL aspects of life including life and death. "Rights"
> are "collective" and exist only for the ruler. Rights for the people
> are all filtered through the ruler and they get ONLY those which the
> ruler decides (as God's representative) to "grant" to them.
But that is basically what exists except for the weak Bill of Rights.
The 1st Amendment recognizes the right to freedom of speech, freedom
of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of peaceful assembly, and
to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The 2nd
Amendment recognizes the right to keep and bear arms. The 3rd through
8th Amendments recognize the rights of the accused, and the 9th and
10th Amendments suggest the recognition of all other rights.
But the rights of the accused aren't broad enough, the accused can be
coerced into plea bargaining, and the 9th and 10th Amendments don't do
anything unless a right is recognized by the Supreme Court or a lesser
court judge. That leaves us with only the First and Second
amendments. Better than a Communist or Theocratic government, but not
enough to praise as "the land of the free."
The First and Second Amendments are all America has in addition to the
weak rights of the accused who are in serious peril, and a few
interpretations recognizing a few more weak rights of the accused
(Miranda warning for instance), and extending rights, for instance,
rights to abortion and privacy may have been recognized by the Supreme
Court.
How is America "the land of the free" compared to a dictatorship, our
elected dictators can apparently outlaw anything they want, not to
mention pass patently unconstitutional laws, forcing the common
citizen to suffer until someone has the money to sue or the laws are
appealed.
Communist Empires, Theocracies and Dictatorships, countries without a
Bill of Rights secured by an Independent Judiciary, may respect
neither Freedom of Speech nor Freedom of Religion, nor the rights of
the accused - And Communist empires may not respect the right to
acquire property, and may even force people to work like slaves -
though I'm not sure how things work/worked in Communist countries.
America is a lesser evil, but today far from the country we're looking
for and far from the bastion of Freedom it pretends to be.
> The USA puts more people in prison per capita than any
> nation in the world besides China, and thinks to call itself free
> compared to such fallen Communist Empires and Theocracies which
You're a hopelessly verbose, intellectually deceptive, deluded whiner.
Bugger off to some other nation that fits your narcissistic idealized
delusions - if you can find one.
You fucking cynical asshat.
> America is a lesser evil, but today far from the country we're looking
> for and far from the bastion of Freedom it pretends to be.
Get your useless whining ass out of here then, fucking LEAVE!
> Democracy is just an elected dictatorship. The elected
> representatives are no better than any old dictators, and will oppress
> you just as much as any old dictator.
That's the stupidest, most cynically sophomoric thing I've read here in
a long time.
You're a whining ideologue hairball who should get the fuck out of here!