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8/30/2011

JUSTICE VS. "THE SYSTEM"

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I SEE WHERE “CIVIL UNREST” IN ENGLAND HAS OPENED THE PANDORA’S BOX OF LEGAL PROHIBITIONS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT TO THE SCRUTINY OF A POPULATION THAT “APPARENTLY” IGNORES THE “REALITY” OF THE GOVERNMENT OPPRESSION UNDER WHICH THEY LIVE, WHEN IT IS APPLIED TO AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT, NOT WHEN IT INCLUDES THE MASSES. THE “KNEE JERK” REACTION OF GOVERNMENTS TO ANY PERCEIVED THREAT TO THE “ORDER IT HAS CREATED” IS “OVER REACTION”, FROM THE “GENOCIDE” IN SYRIA TO THE CONTROL (BLOCKING/CENSORING) OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE FROM CHINA TO THE “GOOD OL’ U.S.A.”.

ONE HAS ONLY TO LOOK AT THE “RELATIVELY SMALL INCIDENT” OF TERRORISM ON 9/11, I.E. THE DESTRUCTION OF A FEW BUILDINGS AND THE TAKING OF A FEW THOUSAND INNOCENT LIVES, TO VIEW THE FULL RANGE OF “INORDINATE RESPONSES”. DOMESTICALLY, WE HAVE WITNESSED THE DEPRIVATION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES FOR MORE THAN 300 MILLION “FREE PERSONS”, FROM THE FORMERLY PROTECTED FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURE TO THE “INTERNATIONAL CRIME OF WARFARE”, I.E. INVASION OF FOREIGN LANDS UNDER THE “PRETEXT” THAT THESE “SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES” MIGHT BE HAVENS FOR FUTURE ATTACKERS THAT “THREATEN OUR NATIONAL SECURITY”. IN REALITY, THE ATTACKS ON 9/11 WERE “NOTHING MORE” THAN “ACTS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR” RAISED TO A SCALE NOT WITNESSED BEFORE IN HISTORY. NOW, THIS SAME “PARANOIA” SEEMS TO HAVE OVERTAKEN THE GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND. THERE WAS “NO INVASION” OF THE USA; NO THREAT TO OUR “NATIONAL SECURITY”; AND NO MORE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE INVASION OF IRAQ THAT THAT COUNTRY HAD FOR INVADING KUWAIT, I.E. “NATIONAL SELF INTEREST, NEE “POWER AND GREED”.

HOWEVER, SCHEMING POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS, USING THIS “CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR”, SET ABOUT “JUSTIFYING” THE USURPATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS, CREATING VAST NEW BUREAUCRACIES AND VIOLATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT PROHIBITS ONE COUNTRY FROM INVADING ANOTHER. OF COURSE, THEY HAVE BEEN “AIDED AND ABETTED” IN THESE “HEINOUS CRIMES” BY THOSE WHO STAND TO BENEFIT FROM SUCH BEHAVIORS, I.E. MILITARY AFICIONADOS AND THE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX WHICH TOGETHER CREATE THE “UNHOLY ALLIANCE” THAT PRESIDENT EISENHOWER WARNED OF A HALF CENTURY AGO. THE “RESULT” OF SUCH CHICANERY HAS BEEN THE DESTRUCTION OF “BILLIONS” (TRILLIONS?) OF DOLLARS OF PROPERTY; THE KILLING OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF “EQUALLY INNOCENT INDIVIDUALS”; AND THE EXPENDITURE OF BILLIONS (TRILLIONS?) OF DOLLARS OF “THE PEOPLES WEALTH” FOR THE “BENEFIT” OF “THE FEW”.
ONE HAS LITTLE PROBLEM IN MAKING THE ARGUMENT THAT THIS “DISPROPORTIONATE RESPONSE” IS A “FAR GREATER EVIL” THAN THE “ORIGINAL BEHAVIOR” AND SERVES LITTLE PURPOSE OTHER THAN TO “BENEFIT” THE “GREEDY” AND “POWERFUL” WHO INHABIT THE UPPER ECHELONS OF SOCIETY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE “PROLETARIAT”, I.E. THOSE WHO PAY; THOSE WHO SUFFER; AND THOSE WHO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES AT THE “ARTIFICIAL ALTAR” OF “PATRIOTISM”.

IN ANY SOCIETY, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IS A “CENTRAL ISSUE AND “ETERNAL DEBATE”. AN “EYE FOR AN EYE” WAS DEEMED “CRUEL AND UNUSUAL” IN THE PERCEPTION OF OUR FOREFATHERS. FOLLOWING THIS DETERMINATION OF WHAT IS “UNJUST”, WE NOW HAVE THE LARGEST POPULATION (PROPORTIONALLY) OF CRIMINALS INCARCERATED IN THE WORLD AND MANY ARE “GUESTS OF THE GOVERNMENT” MULTIPLE TIMES OVER. IT “MUST BE OBVIOUS” THAT A SOCIETY CANNOT FOREVER “INCARCERATE” (WAREHOUSE?) A SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION OF ITS MEMBERS, AS ENGLAND NOW SEEMS “HELL BENT” ON DOING.

OF COURSE, THOSE INVOLVED IN THE “SYSTEM OF JUSTICE” (INJUSTICE?) ARE “OVERJOYED”. THE PLETHORA OF LAWS, (CRIME AND PUNISHMENT) HAS CREATED “JOB SECURITY” FOR MILLIONS WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE FORCED TO SEEK “PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYMENT”. THIS REALITY (POLITICIANS MEETING EVERY YEAR TO ENACT MORE LAWS) HAS ALSO CREATED A SOCIETY THAT “OPERATES”, AT GREAT EXPENSE, UNDER FEAR (ABJECT TERROR?) OF THE “LEGAL LABYRINTH” (LAWYERS), MUCH THE WAY “NOW EXTINCT” SOCIETIES OPERATED UNDER FEAR OF THE “SCRIBES AND PHARISEES”, “TYRANTS” AND “WITCH DOCTORS” OF OLD.

WHILE ADMITTING THAT ANY SOCIETY MUST MAINTAIN A “CODE OF CONDUCT” WHICH PERMITS INDIVIDUALS IN THAT SOCIETY TO FUNCTION IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF SECURITY, (BOTH PERSONALLY AND WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY), IT REMAINS REASONABLE FOR A “GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE; BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE;” TO PERMIT “FREEDOM OF OPPORTUNITY” TO EXIST WHILE REQUIRING “PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY” AND PROVIDING PROTECTION FROM THOSE WHO WOULD “VIOLATE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS”. IT IS “INESCAPABLE” THAT SUCH PREDATORS SHOULD BE TREATED IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THEY WILL “NEVER REPEAT” THEIR ACTIONS AND THE “NATURE OF THE SANCTIONS” SHOULD BE ONE THAT “STRONGLY ENCOURAGES” THE REST OF THE POPULATION FROM REACHING THE POINT WHERE THEY WILL BE SUBJECT TO SUCH SANCTIONS.

“IF” THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO PROVIDE CONDITIONS FOR A SOCIETY OF INDIVIDUALS FREE TO PURSUE THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS, BUT, NOT FREE TO “TAKE UNFAIR ADVANTAGE (PREY?) OF OTHERS, (AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT TO BE SURE AND NOT A REALITY TO DATE IN ANY COUNTRY WITH WHICH I AM FAMILIAR), IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF JUSTICE (WHICH IS ANYTHING BUT JUST) IS AN ABJECT FAILURE, NOT ONLY IN THE USA, BUT, IN MOST COUNTRIES IN THE “SO CALLED MODERN WORLD”.

OBVIOUSLY, THIS ABSTRACT GOAL IS NOT RELEVANT IN THOSE COUNTRIES, SUCH AS LIBYA, WHERE “MIGHT MAKES RIGHT” AND THERE IS “NO PRETENSE” OF ALLOWING FREEDOM, BEYOND “THE FREEDOM” TO DO AS THE “MASTERS DIRECT”, REGARDLESS OF WHAT “OTHERS” (SOVEREIGN NATIONS?) MIGHT WISH, BUT I DIGRESS.

FORTUNATELY, REPRESSION HAS LIMITS AND THESE “DICTATORSHIPS” SELDOM LAST FOREVER AS IS EVIDENCED BY OUR OWN REVOLUTION AND THE GROWING NUMBER OF SUCH REBELLIONS AROUND THE GLOBE. UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS EASIER TO “REBEL THAN IT IS TO RULE” AND THE CYCLE IS SELF-GENERATING IN PERPETUITY. ONE SIMPLY REPLACES THE FORMER OPPRESSOR WITH “THEIR PREFERRED BRAND OF OPPRESSION” UNTIL ANOTHER GENERATION OF SUBJUGATED (ENSLAVED?) PEOPLE REPEAT THE PROCESS.

“THE PROBLEM” WITH MOST GOVERNMENTS, AS VIEWED FROM ONE WHO HAS “SEEN IT ALL”, IS NOT UNLIKE “THE PROBLEM” WITH RELIGIOUS “DICTATORS”, I.E. THOSE WITH “SMALL MINDS”, SEEKING ONLY TO “BENEFIT THEMSELVES, WHO SET ABOUT “DICTATING” THE WAYS IN WHICH OTHERS “MUST LIVE” AND “PROHIBITING” BEHAVIOR THAT “THEY DEEM” OBJECTIONABLE, I.E. NOT “BENEFICIAL” TO THOSE IN POWER. NATURALLY, WITH EACH “CHANGING DYNASTY”, THE “LIST” KEEPS CHANGING, BUT, MOSTLY, IT KEEPS GROWING LIKE THE PROVERBIAL “HYDRA MONSTER”. IT “SHOULD” HAVE BEEN OBVIOUS BY NOW, THAT THIS STRATEGY HAS “NO CHANCE FOR SUCCESS” AND YIELDS ONLY MORE “THOU SHALTS AND THOU SHALT NOTS”.

TWO “EXCRUCIATINGLY CLEAR EXAMPLES” OF THIS INSANITY INCLUDE THE PRESENT “SYSTEM OF TAXATION” WHICH CREATES HUGE “EXPENSES” (EITHER IN COMPLIANCE OR AVOIDANCE) AND “INSUFFICIENT REVENUE”, AND THE “EVER CHANGING DEFINITION” OF INDECENCY, WHICH EVEN THE NINE OLD PEOPLE IN LONG ROBES ADMIT THEY “CANNOT DEFINE”, BUT, DO HAVE THE “EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY” TO “RECOGNIZE IT WHEN THEY SEE IT”.

WITHIN “ONE LIFETIME”, SUCH THINKING (MANDATES AND PROHIBITIONS AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT, IF NOT RELIGION) HAS CHANGED FROM “ABSURD TO RIDICULOUS”, BUT, ONE MUST ADMIT THAT THE “EXTENSIVE LIST” DOES PERPETUATE THE AFOREMENTIONED “JOB SECURITY” FOR THOSE IN POWER, I.E. POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRATS AND THE “JUSTICE SYSTEM”. FORMER “CRIMINAL CONDUCT”, IF NOT OUTRIGHT “PERVERSION”, IS NOW THE “NUMBER ONE SUBJECT” FOR DEBATE AS A “CIVIL RIGHT”. “MULTIPLE TAXATION” OF EVERYTHING POSSIBLE (REMEMBER THE PROPHETIC LINES OF PRESIDENT REAGAN?) HAS BEEN RAISED TO AN “ART FORM”, WHICH ALLOWS THOSE WITH MONEY TO “BUY FAVORS” AND FORCES THOSE WITH LITTLE MONEY, E.G. THE DEFENSELESS, TO PAY SUCH TAXES ON EACH PRODUCT AND SERVICE, WITHOUT EVEN BEING AWARE OF THEIR SERVITUDE BECAUSE THE TAXES ARE “EMBEDDED” (HIDDEN?) , BUT, THAT IS ANOTHER SUBJECT.

GREAT MINDS, IN BOTH ARCHITECTURE AND PHILOSOPHY, INVARIABLY FIND THAT “SIMPLICITY” IS THE “ULTIMATE TRUTH” IN STRUCTURE, BE IT TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE. EVEN A “NOT SO GREAT MIND” CAN EMULATE THIS PRINCIPLE AND DARES SUGGEST THAT “THERE IS A BETTER WAY” FOR “GOVERNMENTS” TO BE SERVANTS, NOT MASTERS, OF THOSE GOVERNED. TO BE SURE, THIS IS “HERESY” TO THOSE IN POWER, AND “JUSTIFICATION” FOR THE “CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT” OF CONFINEMENT, UNTIL, OF COURSE, IT “THREATENS” THE SYSTEM THAT PERPETUATES “INJUSTICE”, I.E. GOVERNMENT BY THE “PLUTOCRACY” FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE “ELITE”, SUCH AS EXISTS IN THIS COUNTRY AND, APPARENTLY, ENGLAND. SADLY, THIS IS NOT MEANT TO EXCLUDE THE OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, TOO “NUMEROUS AND PROLIFERATING” TO KEEP TRACK OF, BUT ONE CANNOT ENVISION “GLOBAL SANITY” BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION.

ANY “DEBATES” TO THE CONTRARY, I.E. THAT THE “PRESENT SYSTEM” IS ADEQUATE AND JUST, ARE SIMPLY “OBFUSCATIONS” TO MAINTAIN THE “STATUS QUO”, I.E. GOVERNMENT BY THE ELITE AND FOR THE ELITE AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PROLETARIAT, EUPHEMISTICALLY KNOWN AS “THE MIDDLE CLASS”, BUT VIEWED, IN UNGUARDED MOMENTS, AS “THE LITTLE PEOPLE” BY THEM.

ONE IS “NOT SURPRISED” AT THE “UPRISING” IN ENGLAND BY THOSE WHO HAVE BECOME “ACCUSTOMED” TO BEING “BOUGHT OFF” BY THE RULING CLASS AND NOW MUST FACE THE REALITY THAT THE “RULERS” HAVE RUN OUT OF MONEY. WHAT THE “AUSTERITY PROGRAM HATH WROUGHT” IN ENGLAND (AND GREECE, ET. AL.) IS COMING TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE NEAR FUTURE. FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, I HAVE “SUGGESTED” THE TIME FRAME OF 2015 TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN. OBVIOUSLY, NO ONE WAS “INTERESTED”.

THE “HAVOC” (CRIMINAL ACTIVITY ON A LARGE SCALE) IN ENGLAND AND OTHER SIMILAR COUNTRIES IS THE “NATURAL CONSEQUENCE” OF “POOR PLANNING AND FORETHOUGHT” BY THE PLUTOCRACY. “THEY” SIMPLY “OVERREACHED” IN THEIR QUEST FOR POWER AND RICHES AND THE “LITTLE PEOPLE” (VICTIMS?) REACHED THE “BREAKING POINT” WHERE THEY FEEL “JUSTIFIED” IN VENTING THEIR DISPLEASURE BY WHATEVER MEANS EXIST. OBVIOUSLY, A “FRONTAL ONSLAUGHT” AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS (FORMER BENEFACTORS) IS NOT A “VIABLE OPTION” (AT LEAST AT THIS POINT), SO THE “HAVE NOTS” ARE FORCED TO ATTACK THE “UNPROTECTED HAVES”. THERE IS PRECEDENCE FOR SUCH VIOLENCE (SELF DESTRUCTION?) IN THIS COUNTRY, IF ONE REMEMBERS WHEN “RACIAL REBELLION” WAS IN VOGUE.

NATURALLY, THE “RULERS” CALLED UPON “THEIR MINIONS” (WITH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER) TO PROTECT THE STATUS QUO AND ARE NOW FACED WITH THE “PROSPECT” OF WHAT TO DO WITH THE “CRIMINALS”, WHO ARE, IN REALITY, “REBELS AGAINST THEIR FORMER BENEFACTORS”, WHO HAVE BEEN DENIED THEIR “PAYOFFS FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR” (OR AT LEAST HAD THEM SUBSTANTIALLY RESTRICTED) THROUGH SUBSIDIES FOR SUCH THINGS AS HOUSING, FOOD, MEDICAL CARE, ET. AL.

PERHAPS ONE CAN DETECT A “PATTERN” DEVELOPING AROUND THE WORLD AND, CERTAINLY, ONE CAN “VIEW” THE MANY VARIED RESPONSES, FROM OUTRIGHT “WAR” AGAINST THE “PEONS” TO “CAPITULATION” IN RETURN FOR A “LUXURIOUS LIFE IN EXILE” AND “EXONERATION FROM ALL RETRIBUTION”. ONCE AGAIN, THE “REAL CRIMINALS” (THE RULERS AND THE PLUTOCRACY) ESCAPE “PUNISHMENT” FOR THEIR “CRIMES”, WHILE THE “SUBJUGATED” MUST STRUGGLE TO “DETERMINE” HOW TO SURVIVE AMID THE “CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION” THAT RESULTED FROM THEIR “CRIMINAL ACTS” (REBELLION?).

FORTUNATELY, IN “NOMINAL GOVERNMENTS FOR THE PEOPLE”, THE “RULERS” ARE SUBJECT TO “ELECTION” RATHER THAN COMING TO POWER BY “HONEST MEANS”, SUCH AS THE OVERTHROW OF THE PREVIOUS REGIME, WHICH IS OFTEN UNDERTAKEN AT GREAT RISK TO ONES SURVIVAL. “ELECTED OPPRESSORS” HAVE “REFINED THE PROCESS” TO MITIGATE SUCH RISKS AND PRESENTLY USE THE “RESOURCES OF OTHERS” TO GAIN THEIR “EXALTED STATUS” AS OPPRESSORS, RATHER THAN “RISK” THEIR OWN RESOURCES OR SAFETY.

SO LONG AS “THEY” (THE RULERS) CONTINUE THEIR “PAYOFFS” TO THOSE WHO SUPPORT THEM FINANCIALLY (THE PLUTOCRATS) AND “BUY” THE VOTES NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN THEIR POWER, THROUGH PROGRAMS GENERICALLY KNOWN AS “ENTITLEMENTS”, THE SYSTEM “WORKS”. IT IS “ONLY” WHEN THE RULERS RUN OUT OF “OTHER PEOPLES MONEY” TO BUY VOTES AND “AWARD" LUCRATIVE CONTRACTS AND SPECIAL BENEFITS TO THE PLUTOCRACY, THAT “THE RULERS” ENCOUNTER “THE WRATH OF “BOTH” AND ARE FORCED TO RESORT TO “EXTREME MEASURES” (LIKE “KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD IN VULGAR TERMS) TO MAINTAIN THEIR “POSITIONS AS RULERS”. APPARENTLY, THE TIME (AND STRATEGY) OF FOISTING OFF “EXCESSIVE BENEFITS TO MAINTAIN THEIR POWER” ON “FUTURE GENERATIONS” IS BEGINNING TO EXPIRE. STILL, ONE HAS “FAITH”, AS EVIDENCED BY THE RECENT “CONGRESSIONAL CIRCUS”, THAT THE RULERS ARE STILL SEARCHING DILIGENTLY FOR WAYS OF EXTENDING THEIR TIME IN “PLUSH CIRCUMSTANCES”, BUT, IT DOES APPEAR THAT “THE CAN” IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO “KICK”.

WHAT HAS THIS TO DO WITH “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT”? FIRST OF ALL, MAINTAINING “LAW AND ORDER”, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE ARE “ENDLESS LAWS” TO ENFORCE, IS AN “EXPENSIVE PROPOSITION”. “THE MINIONS” OF GOVERNMENT IN ENGLAND APPEAR TO HAVE “HANDED OVER” HUNDREDS OF “NEW CRIMINALS”, NOT MERELY THE “FEW DOZEN PER DAY” THAT THE SYSTEM IS PREPARED TO HANDLE. OF COURSE, FEW, IF ANY, OF THESE “NEW CRIMINALS” ARE REALLY “HARD CORE TYPES” AND YET, THERE IS A “HUE AND CRY” TO TREAT THEM AS SUCH FROM THOSE VICTIMIZED BY THEIR “VENTING OF FRUSTRATION”. THE GOVERNMENT IS NOW BESET ON ALL SIDES BY THEIR “IMPOTENCY” IN THE FACE OF THE “FINANCIAL MELTDOWN” THAT SEVERELY IMPERILS THEIR ABILITY TO “BUY OFF” THE PROLETARIAT AND MAINTAIN THEIR “LUXURIOUS LIFESTYLE” IN POWER.

PERHAPS CHANGE IS “INEVITABLE”, BUT, WITH WHAT DOES ONE REPLACE THE PRESENT “CORRUPT SYSTEM” OF “INFINITE TRESPASSES” CREATED BY THE RULERS OVER DECADES OF “MISMANAGEMENT” OF THE RESOURCES OF THEIR COUNTRY?. IT IS “SUGGESTED” THAT THE “ABOLITION” OF MOST, IF NOT ALL, SPECIFIC LAWS WOULD BE A GOOD START.

IN REALITY, THERE SEEM TO BE “ONLY TWO CLASSES OF UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR” IN ANY GIVEN SOCIETY, BE IT “PRIMITIVE” OR “LESS PRIMITIVE”. THE FIRST OFFENSE IS THE USE OF “FORCE” IN ANY OF ITS MANY MANIFESTATIONS. THE MIND “BOGGLES” WHEN CONSIDERING THE NUMBER OF TREES SACRIFICED IN THE ENUMERATION OF THIS CONCEPT. SHOULD VIOLENCE BE CONSIDERED PORNOGRAPHIC INSTEAD OF HUMAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, THE “STATUTES AND LAW BOOKS” WOULD BE THE FIRST TO BE BANNED (BURNED?) FROM READING BY CHILDREN AND ADULTS. THE ENUMERATION OF EACH ACT OF VIOLENCE IN “EXCRUCIATING DETAIL” IS AS “INCOMPREHENSIBLE” TO THE HUMAN MIND AS IS THE “FEDERAL FINANCIAL FIASCO”, BUT, I DIGRESS.

IT SHOULD BE A GIVEN IN ANY SOCIETY THAT CALLS ITSELF “JUST” THAT NO INDIVIDUAL (OR ENTITY) HAS THE RIGHT TO “EXERT FORCE” IN ORDER TO “TAKE ADVANTAGE” OF OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. ONE BELIEVES THAT SUCH LAWS NOW EXIST UNDER THE “RUBRIC” OF CRUELTY, BUT THEY APPARENTLY PERTAIN ONLY TO “ANIMALS” OUTSIDE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.

IT IS ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THERE ARE OTHER, MORE SUBTLE TYPES OF FORCE, THAT ARE “EQUALLY HEINOUS” AND OUGHT TO BE SEVERELY DEALT WITH, BUT, THEY SEEM TO BE BEYOND THE PALE OF ANY “GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE”. EXAMPLES INCLUDE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL THREATS, COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS “BULLYING” WHICH IS A TACTIC LEARNED AT A VERY EARLY AGE (IF TOLERATED) AND CARRIED FORWARD, IN THE EXTREME, BY LAWYERS, BILL COLLECTORS, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND THE CLERGY. STILL, DESPITE THESE ABOMINABLE BEHAVIORS, THE “INTENDED VICTIM” IS NOT “PHYSICALLY HARMED” EVEN THOUGH THE “DAMAGE” TO HIS OR HER RIGHT, AS A FREE INDIVIDUAL, TO EXIST UNDER “HUMANE” CONDITIONS ENSURED BY “A JUST SOCIETY” IS SEVERELY COMPROMISED.

“LEGISLATING THE GOLDEN RULE” HAS PROVED IMPOSSIBLE. HOWEVER, THAT HAS NOT STOPPED THE “LUNATIC FRINGES” ON EVERY SIDE FROM TRYING TO “IMPOSE” THEIR “VERSION” OF LIFE (THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOR?) ON OTHERS. THEREFORE, A COROLLARY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A JUST SOCIETY IS THAT “NO ONE AND NO ENTITY” MAY MANDATE OR PROHIBIT THE “ACTS OF “CONSENTING ADULTS” IN WHATEVER “ABERRANT FORM” THESE MAY TAKE, SO LONG AS THEY DO NOT VIOLATE THE PROPOSED “TWO CLASSES OF UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR”.

THIS IS NOT TO IMPLY THAT THE COLLECTIVE SOCIETY” (GOVERNMENT?) HAS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEALING WITH THE “NATURAL CONSEQUENCES” OF SUCH BEHAVIOR, BEYOND PROTECTING “THE DEFENSELESS”, MOSTLY, THE CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY, FROM SUCH ACTS BY THE “CONSENTING ADULTS”. THIS “CONCEPT” HAS BEEN DEALT WITH MORE EXTENSIVELY IN ANOTHER TREATISE BY THE AUTHOR.

HOWEVER, IT DOES POSE ANOTHER INTERESTING QUESTION FOR A “JUST SOCIETY” IN THE DISCUSSION OF “CRIMINAL JUSTICE”. TO WIT: AT WHAT AGE AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES, SHOULD INDIVIDUALS BE CONSIDERED A PART OF “THE DEFENSELESS” POPULATION? IT SHOULD BE OBVIOUS THAT “18 YEARS OF AGE” IS AN “ARBITRARY AND CAPRICIOUS” NUMBER, AS IS 75 OR 90. EACH CASE STANDS ON ITS OWN. WHEN A PERSON IS CAPABLE OF MAKING DECISIONS AND CARRYING THEM OUT INDEPENDENTLY, THEY ARE “PROBABLY” NOT “DEFENSELESS” AND THEREFORE DO NOT MERIT THE “SPECIAL CONSIDERATION” THAT, WITH RARE EXCEPTION, IS TYPICALLY GIVEN TO MINORS WHO “OUGHT” TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR “VIOLATION” OF THE “TWO CLASSES OF UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR”.

ONE READS OF INDIVIDUALS AS YOUNG AS 10 OR 12 YEARS OLD WHO, INDIVIDUALLY AND/OR COLLECTIVELY, MAKE “CONSCIOUS DECISIONS” TO DO “PHYSICAL HARM” TO OTHER INDIVIDUALS. IT IS POSTULATED THAT MANY, IF NOT ALL, OF THESE “CRIMINALS” WERE EXPOSED TO THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR WITHIN THEIR HOMES OR INSTITUTIONS BY THE “ADULTS” RESPONSIBLE FOR CARING FOR THEM. A CHILD RAISED WITH REASON, KINDNESS AND LOVE HAS NO INCENTIVE TO ACT IN SUCH A MANNER NOR THE OPPORTUNITY OR NEED TO ACQUIRE SUCH ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. MUCH OF WHAT “PASSED” FOR DISCIPLINE IN FORMER GENERATIONS IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE “CHILD ABUSE” AND THE “ADULTS” RESPONSIBLE ARE BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.

ONE SUSPECTS THAT HUMANS ARE NOT “BORN” WITH AN INNATE DESIRE TO HARM OTHERS. WHILE SOME CULTURES SEEM TO HAVE ACCEPTED THIS “MODUS OPERANDI” IN RAISING THEIR CHILDREN, WESTERN CULTURES “SEEM” TO ENCOURAGE AGGRESSIVENESS THROUGH A SYSTEM OF CULTURAL IMPERATIVES RANGING FROM LITERATURE AND SPORTS TO GAMES, MUSIC AND MOTION PICTURES. MIGHT ONE SUGGEST THAT THE “GLORIFICATION” OF VIOLENCE IS “COUNTERPRODUCTIVE” TO CREATING AND MAINTAINING A “PEACEFUL SOCIETY”? AGAIN, THIS “POSSIBILITY” RAISES THE “CONUNDRUM” AS TO WHETHER IT IS “VIOLENCE” OR “SEXUALITY” THAT “OUGHT TO BE SCRUTINIZED/BANNED”, BUT, I DIGRESS.

THEREFORE, IN A JUST SOCIETY, “ANY USE OF FORCE IS RIGHTLY PROHIBITED” AND WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED IN A MANNER WHICH ENSURES THAT IT WILL NOT BE REPEATED. GIVEN THE “RECIDIVISM RATE”, THE “IDEA” THAT FORCE CAN BE DEALT WITH “IN DEGREES” IS ABSURD. ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO CHOOSES TO USE FORCE IS AKIN TO A WILD ANIMAL AND IS A “THREAT” TO USE “WHATEVER FORCE” THEY POSSESSES TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR GOAL AGAINST THOSE WHO ARE “DEFENSELESS”. THAT THEY CHOOSE TO USE “ONLY PHYSICAL STRENGTH” IS SIMPLY AN INDICATION OF THE LEVEL OF HELPLESSNESS OF THE INTENDED VICTIM. SHOULD A KNIFE OR CLUB BE NECESSARY, E.G. THE INTENDED VICTIM CANNOT BE SUBJUGATED BY PHYSICAL STRENGTH, DIFFERS NOT AT ALL IN “INTENT” AND REFLECTS AN “UNWILLINGNESS” (LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS?) TO PERSONALLY RESTRAIN ONES ACTIONS. SHOULD THE NEED FOR A GUN OR EXPLOSIVES BE NECESSARY, NOT TO MENTION JOINING FORCES WITH OTHER PREDATORS, AS HAPPENED IN THE CURRENT RIOTS, (UPRISING?). THOSE WITH “PREDATORY NATURES” SEEM PREDISPOSED TO USE WHATEVER FORCE IS NEEDED TO MAKE THE OTHER PERSON “SUBMIT” TO WHATEVER DESIRES HE/SHE WISHES TO IMPOSE ON THE “INTENDED VICTIM”.

THE “OLD WESTERN CONCEPT” OF “GIVING A MAN A FAIR TRIAL AND THEN HANGING HIM” HAD FAR MORE “BASIS IN REASON” (PREVENTING A RECURRENCE) THAN ANY “ABSTRACT CONCEPT” OF “PROPORTIONAL PUNISHMENT” LEADING TO REPETITIVE INCIDENTS UNTIL THE POINT IS REACHED WHERE THE “PREDATOR” ACTUALLY KILLS SOMEONE AND “TRIGGERS” THE “EYE FOR AN EYE” REACTION THAT “EFFECTIVELY” PRECLUDES REPETITION. THE PRESENT “CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM” OPERATES ON A SERIES OF “FREE PASSES”, BASED ON THE “SKILL” OF THE LAWYER AND THE “GULLIBILITY OF THE JUDGE” WHICH EFFECTIVELY PERMITS A “SMALL PORTION OF SOCIETY” TO COMMIT A “LARGE PROPORTION” OF CRIMINAL ACTS INVOLVING FORCE, THUS ENSURING THE “JOB SECURITY” OF ALL INVOLVED.

THIS COUNTRY, MORE THAT ANY OTHER, IS BESET BY A “POPULATION OF VULTURES” THAT FEAST ON SUCH REPETITIVE BEHAVIOR AND GAIN ENORMOUS WEALTH BY DEFENDING “HABITUAL PREDATORS”, WHILE THOSE CHARGED WITH PROTECTING THE POPULATION FROM SUCH PREDATORS ACQUIRE “ENORMOUS POWER”, ALL TOO FREQUENTLY ABUSED, BY “PROCESSING” HABITUAL PREDATORS AND THE “OCCASIONAL” DERANGED INDIVIDUAL.

“THE SYSTEM” PROSPERS BECAUSE “MANY” ARE PAID HANDSOME SUMS TO ARREST, PROSECUTE, DEFEND, IMPRISON AND MAINTAIN THE RELATIVELY FEW INDIVIDUALS WHO REFUSE TO FORESWEAR THE USE OF FORCE. THE LARGESSE TO THOSE WHO “FEED AT THIS GOVERNMENTAL TROUGH” INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO: HIGH SALARIES WITH EARLY RETIREMENT AND MEDICAL BENEFITS, AS THEY PROVIDE CUSTODIAL CARE AND SUPERVISION INCLUDING FOOD, LODGING, MEDICAL CARE, RECREATION AND ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE PREDATORS THAT IS BETTER THAN MANY “FREE INDIVIDUALS” CAN AFFORD. SHOULD ONE SEARCH FOR ANY BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH FREEDOM, IT MIGHT BE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL DOES “SUFFER” FROM A LACK OF “TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES”.

WITHOUT SUCH AGGRESSIVE INDIVIDUALS AND THE PRESENT “CRIMINAL RECYCLING SYSTEM”, MANY “GOVERNMENT LACKEYS” AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION WOULD BE FORCED TO “SEEK GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT”, WHICH MIGHT SEEM TO CONSTITUTE “CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT” TO THEM. HOWEVER, IT IS “INDISPUTABLE” THAT THOSE INVOLVED IN THE “CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM” ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON CONTINUED “ACTS OF VIOLENCE” FOR THEIR LIVELIHOOD, JUST AS THOSE INVOLVED IN THE “COUNTLESS” WELFARE PROGRAMS ARE DEPENDENT ON KEEPING AS MANY INDIVIDUALS AS POSSIBLE IN THEIR “NEEDY STATE”. REST ASSURED THAT THOSE WHO ARE PAYING THE BILLS ARE “NOT AMUSED”, AS EVIDENCED BY THE RECENT TRAGIC DEATH OF A LITTLE GIRL IN FLORIDA THAT “TURNED INTO A FINANCIAL FEEDING FRENZY” (BONANZA?) FOR THE MEDIA AND THOSE INVOLVED IN “CRIMINAL JUSTICE”.

OF COURSE, BANISHMENT IS “ANOTHER POSSIBILITY”, BUT, IN THE MODERN WORLD, THERE ARE “FEW COUNTRIES” LOOKING FOR “IMMIGRANTS” WHO ARE DEEMED “PREDATORS” IN THEIR OWN SOCIETY. FOR A CENTURY OR SO, ENGLAND “SHIPPED” THEIR “PREDATORS” TO AUSTRALIA, THUS RELIEVING THEMSELVES OF THE RESPONSIBILITY (AND EXPENSE) OF CONTROLLING THESE INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. IN THE 21st CENTURY, THERE ARE RELATIVELY FEW “UNINHABITED” LAND MASSES AVAILABLE, SO THAT OPTION IS “BASICALLY OUT”.

WHAT DOES EXIST, IN SOME, IF NOT ALL COUNTRIES, IS “AKIN” TO THE “SIBERIAN OPTION” IN RUSSIA. MOST COUNTRIES HAVE AREAS THAT ARE “SO ISOLATED AND UNDEVELOPED” THAT THEY COULD EASILY SERVE THE SAME PURPOSE THAT AUSTRALIA ONCE SERVED. OF COURSE, THERE WOULD NEED TO BE SOME MEANS (A BERLIN WALL TYPE STRUCTURE?) OR NATURAL BARRIER, SUCH AS MOUNTAINS OR LARGE BODIES OF WATER (RIVERS?) THAT COULD ACT AS AN “IMPENETRABLE BARRIER” TO ESCAPE. UNFORTUNATELY, GIVEN THE “SUCCESS RATE” OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCES?) IN CONTROLLING “ILLEGAL ENTRY” INTO THIS SOCIETY. ONE TENDS TO ASK “WHO” MIGHT DO AN EFFECTIVE JOB IN PROTECTING THIS SOCIETY FROM “INVASION NOT IMMIGRATION”, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER TOPIC, WHICH IS ALSO DEALT WITH IN GREATER DETAIL BY THE AUTHOR IN ANOTHER TREATISE.

IN THESE “SET ASIDE AREAS”, THOSE WHO REFUSE TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES ACCORDING TO THE “CODE OF ACCEPTABLE CONDUCT” THAT STATES THAT THE USE OF FORCE IS FORBIDDEN, BUT, NOT NECESSARILY, “ON PAIN OF DEATH” (ALTHOUGH THAT MIGHT BE PREFERABLE) COULD ROAM FREELY IN A “SOCIETY OF PREDATORS” AND SURVIVE (OR PERISH) ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN ABILITIES WHILE “CREATING A SOCIETY” THAT CONDONES “THE USE OF FORCE” AS A MEANS OF OBTAINING WHAT ONE WANTS BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS (VICTIMS, BY DEFINITION). PERHAPS, THERE COULD BE “NO MORE JUST PUNISHMENT” THAN THIS. (REF: HEINLEIN)

IN “MODERN SOCIETY”, IT IS ALSO EASILY POSSIBLE TO “DISABLE PREDATORS” SO AS TO PREVENT THEM FROM “REPEATING THEIR BEHAVIOR”, THIS WOULD “ELIMINATE” THE NEED FOR INCARCERATION AND/OR “MONITORING” IN ANY FORM THAT IMPOSED AN “EXPENSE” ON THE SOCIETY THAT THEY “CHOSE” TO DISRUPT BY FAILING TO ABIDE BY THE NECESSITY FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS WITHIN A SOCIETY TO LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE, I.E. FREE FROM THE DANGER OF VIOLENCE BY OTHERS.

ALTHOUGH THIS MIGHT BE CONSIDERED CRUEL AND UNUSUAL BY “TODAY’S FAILING STANDARDS” (REVOLVING DOORS?), IT “MIGHT” BE PREFERABLE TO “HANGING”, IN CASE “SOME EVIDENCE PROVING INNOCENCE” SHOULD BELATEDLY TURN UP, (AFTER THE “HANGING” SO TO SPEAK). AGAIN, GIVEN THE “PERFORMANCE” OF THE “CRIMINAL" JUSTICE SYSTEM, ONE HAS “MORE THAN SUFFICIENT JUSTIFICATION” TO “QUESTION” THE EFFICACY OF WORK DONE BY THOSE INVOLVED. OBVIOUSLY, NO SYSTEM OF "JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS” HAS YET BEEN DEVELOPED, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER TOPIC ALSO.

IN THE FUTURE, SOME “ENTERPRISING” SCIENTIST OR ENGINEER MIGHT BE ABLE TO DEVELOP A CHEMICAL OR ELECTRONIC “SOLUTION” WHICH WOULD BE SUPERIOR TO EXISTING ONES. STILL, THE “ULTIMATE GOAL” IS SIMPLY TO ALLOW “RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS”, I.E., THOSE WHO ABIDE BY THE RULES, TO LIVE IN “FREEDOM WITHOUT FEAR OF BODILY HARM”, WHILE ENSURING THAT THERE WILL BE “NO REPEAT OFFENDERS”. SECOND CHANCES (OR THIRD THROUGH TENTH), WHICH ARE THE “NORM” UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM, WILL “NOT” BE AN OPTION.

THE SECOND CLASS OF “PROHIBITED BEHAVIOR” IS ANYTHING INVOLVING “DECEIT” (IN ITS MANY FORMS) THAT INVOLVES INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS, BUSINESSES, INCLUDING CORPORATIONS (WHICH ARE “NOT REAL PEOPLE” AS SOME WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE) AND “GOVERNMENTS”, LEST WE FORGET, USING THEIR “SUPERIOR POSITIONS” IN SOCIETY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF LESS THAN ASTUTE HUMAN BEINGS WHO MAY BE LIMITED IN INTELLIGENCE, EDUCATION, RESOURCES AND PHYSICAL ABILITIES (THINK AGAIN OF THE ELDERLY AND THE CHILDREN) AND ARE THEREFORE, UNABLE TO ADEQUATELY PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM “EITHER FORM OF PREDATOR”. THE "VICTIMS" OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM ARE BASICALLY, THE HARD WORKING, RESPONSIBLE, AND TAX PAYING CITIZENS WHO INHABIT THE “MIDDLE CLASS”, BUT, WHO ARE CONSTANTLY “PREYED UPON” BY “THE UNSCRUPULOUS”, NOT BY FORCE, BUT, BY “CHICANERY”, WHICH IS THE CURRENT “COIN OF THE REALM” FOR DECEIVING PEOPLE IN ORDER TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM .

IN “TODAY’S SYSTEM OF “CRIMINAL JUSTICE”, THOSE WHO ROB OTHERS OF “MILLIONS”, RATHER THAN A “FEW DOLLARS AT THE CORNER STORE”, ARE SELDOM “SANCTIONED” FOR THEIR CONDUCT. THAT THIS HAPPENS MAY BE ACCOUNTED FOR BY “LAX ENFORCEMENT” AGAINST THESE “”PILLARS OF SOCIETY” AND THE “LACK OF CLARITY” ABOUT WHAT CONSTITUTES “CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR”. ONE DOUBTS THAT THERE IS A “SINGLE COMPANY” (CORPORATION) THAT DOES NOT ENGAGE IN THIS FORM OF “CRIMINAL ACTIVITY”, I.E. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS THROUGH “DECEPTION”. IN REALITY, EXTREMELY “SKILLFUL CROOKS” (THOSE THAT SCHEME TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS) ARE HIGHLY PRIZED AND COMPENSATED FOR THEIR “SPECIAL ABILITY” TO “RELIEVE OTHERS OF THEIR ASSETS”, BE IT MONEY OR PROPERTY, WHILE “AVOIDING” SANCTIONS FROM A “DEPENDENT GOVERNMENT” THAT IS “SUPPOSED TO “PROTECT” CITIZENS FROM THIS FORM OF “DESPICABLE BEHAVIOR”. THAT “DECEPTION” IS NOT CONSIDERED A CRIME UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF “CRIMINAL JUSTICE” SPEAKS VOLUMES TO THE ISSUE OF A “GOVERNMENT” BEHOLDEN TO THE “PLUTOCRACY”. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT “CRIMINALIZING DECEPTION” (IN ITS INFINITE FORMS) WOULD GO FAR TOWARD CREATING A “JUST SOCIETY”, JUST AS “AVOIDING REPEATED VIOLENCE” WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR MOST INDIVIDUALS.

BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF “FORCE AND DECEIT”, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS ARE “FREE” TO “CHOOSE WHAT IS BEST FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN AND MAY LIVE WITHOUT FEAR OF “PREDATORS”, REGARDLESS OF THEIR WEAPONS OF CHOICE (THE GUN OR THE PEN). WHAT MORE COULD A HUMAN BEING WANT, SHORT OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT “OWES THEM A LIVING” AND RUSH TO RE-ELECT THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO “STEAL FROM THE SUCCESSFUL” AND GIVE TO THE POOR IN EXCHANGE FOR “VOTES”, BUT NOT BEFORE “ENSURING THEIR FINANCIAL WELL BEING BY “POCKETING A “HEFTY PORTION OF THE “TAXES IMPOSED” ON THE PROLETARIAT. THIS PRETTY WELL DESCRIBES OUR PRESENT “ROBIN HOOD” SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT, ALTHOUGH IT IS BELIEVED THAT “POOR ROBIN” DID NOT “POCKET” ONE PERCENT OF WHAT IS PRESENTLY “SIPHONED OFF” BY TODAY’S “RULERS AND THEIR MINIONS”.

BEFORE EMBARKING ON SUCH A COURSE OF ACTION, IT MIGHT BE WELL TO LOOK AT THE “INTENDED CONSEQUENCES”. FIRST, WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE PRESENT “FAILED SYSTEM”? ONE “SUPPOSES” (HOPES?) THAT THEY MIGHT TURN THEIR CONSIDERABLE ABILITIES TO “GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT” RATHER THAN CONTINUING TO “DRAIN” THE ECONOMIC LIFEBLOOD OF THE COUNTRY UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM. AT LEAST, THE REST OF US, WHO ARE FORCED TO SUPPORT THEM, WOULD BE FREED FROM THE BURDEN BROUGHT ON BY THE “CYCLICAL EMPLOYMENT SECURITY MODEL” EMANATING FROM “TOO MANY LAWS”; TOO MANY DOCUMENTS: TOO MANY LEGAL ACTIONS; AND TOO MUCH “INTERFERENCE” IN THE LIVES OF CITIZENS, UNDER THE “GUISE” OF PROTECTING US (FROM OURSELVES?).

THE “VAST EMPIRE” OF STRUCTURES, GOODS AND SERVICES PRESENTLY “SERVICING” THE SYSTEM WILL BE FORCED TO “FIND” NEW USES AND NEW CONSUMERS AND, PERHAPS WILL OFFER “BETTER” PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, SINCE THEY DO NOT POSSESS “A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE” (PUN INTENDED) THAT ALLOWS THEM TO PROVIDE “INFERIOR” PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, WHILE “OVER CHARGING” ANONYMOUS BUREAUCRATS, WHOSE SOLE INTEREST LIES IN PROTECTING THEIR JOBS RELATED TO “FEEDING THE BEAST” THAT WAS CREATED BY POLITICIANS AND IS PERPETUATED BY THE HOARD OF “BENEFACTORS”.

IT IS ALSO THOUGHT THAT 99% OF “PRESENT DAY ADVERTISING” WILL DISAPPEAR, BUT, PERHAPS A “NEW GENERATION” MIGHT FIND A “BETTER WAY” TO COMMUNICATE THE TRUTH, RATHER THAN MILLIONS OF WAYS TO “HIDE IT”. PURVEYORS OF INSURANCE; (ALL TYPES) MEDICAL SERVICES; DRUGS; FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS; TRANSPORTATION, ET. AL. WILL FINALLY BE CONSTRAINED TO ACTUALLY “TELL THE TRUTH” IN LANGUAGE THAT CAN BE “UNDERSTOOD” BY ANYONE DOING BUSINESS WITH THEM. ADVERTISERS; LENDERS; SELLERS; CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR PROVIDERS, ET. AL. MAY “NO LONGER” SAY ONE THING AND DO (OR NOT DO) ANOTHER, FOR SOME “FICTITIOUS PRICE” THAT THEY “HYPE” TO “ENTICE” THE “CONSENTING ADULTS” TO PATRONIZE THEIR BUSINESS, WHILE “HIDING” THE DETAILS IN “FAST TALK” OR “FINE PRINT” FROM ALL BUT THE MOST “ASTUTE” CONSUMERS.

ONE MIGHT ALSO ASK HOW WOULD THOSE WHO VIOLATED THE “”NO DECEPTION CODE” BE SANCTIONED? SINCE DECEPTION, AT THE SOCIETAL LEVEL, IS BASICALLY AN “ECONOMIC CRIME”, PERHAPS THE “PERPS”, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, WOULD BECOME “SELF REGULATING IF THEY WERE CONSTRAINED TO PROVIDE “RESTITUTION” BY A FACTOR OF “TEN”.

NOTE: DECEPTION ON A PERSONAL LEVEL IS ALSO ACKNOWLEDGED AS AN OFFENSE AGAINST OTHERS, BUT, AS PEOPLE ARE LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE, A “WRITTEN AGREEMENT” IS THE ONLY PROTECTION FROM SUCH PERFIDY AND A “JUST SOCIETY” MUST RESPECT “AGREEMENTS IN WRITING” BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS, OR BE FOREVER CAST IN THE ROLE OF A “NANNY STATE”, AS IF ADULTS WERE NOTHING MORE THAN “INCOMPETENT CHILDREN”. OBVIOUSLY, ORAL AGREEMENTS, IF VERIFIABLE WOULD ALSO BE “RESPECTED”. HOWEVER, ANY “HE SAID; SHE SAID” CLAIMS WOULD HAVE “NO STANDING” AS A VALID AGREEMENT.

RETURNING TO THE SUBJECT AT HAND, SINCE INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES WOULD BE HELD TO THE “POWER OF TEN” RESTITUTION, THE GREATER THE CRIME, THE GREATER THE PUNISHMENT. FURTHERMORE, AS IN THE CASE WITH “PHYSICAL VIOLENCE”, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT SUCH INDIVIDUALS ARE SELDOM DETERRED FROM THEIR “FERTILE FIELD OF OPPORTUNITIES”, I.E. THEY SIMPLY “MOVE ON” AND RESUME THEIR PREDATORY ACTS UNDER A NEW NAME, WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO “PREY” ON UNWARY NEW VICTIMS. THEREFORE, THESE INDIVIDUALS, OR THE INDIVIDUALS WITHIN COMPANIES AND CORPORATIONS WHO BREACH THIS “CODE OF ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR”, WOULD BE “FOREVER BANNED” FROM POSITIONS WHERE SUCH OPPORTUNITIES EXIST, I. E. THEY WILL BE PERMANENTLY “CONSIGNED” TO THE “MENIAL LABOR” (AND COMPENSATION) OF THE “LITTLE PEOPLE”. THAT IS “TRUE JUSTICE”!

HAD I THE SKILLS, TIME AND RESOURCES, I WOULD SET UP AN “ECONOMIC WIKIPEDIA” SITE, WHERE “PROVIDERS AND CONSUMERS” EVALUATE ONE ANOTHER, MUCH AS IS DONE UNDER THE PRESENT “EBAY” MODEL. ANY CONSUMER COULD CHECK THE “SATISFACTORY RATINGS” OR LEARN OF “ANY COMPLAINTS” FOR ANY GIVEN PROVIDER OF GOODS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING THE MEDICAL PROFESSION, INSURANCE COMPANIES, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, MANUFACTURERS, ET.AL.

IT IS “ONLY” THROUGH THE PERPETUATION OF “SECRECY” (WHICH THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALSO RAISED TO AN “ART FORM”) THAT “VIOLATORS” (PREDATORS) CAN CONTINUE THEIR OPERATIONS. CHOOSING A “PROVIDER” BY ACCESSING THEIR “PAST PERFORMANCE” AND “VOTING WITH ONES FEET” WHEN “VIOLATORS” ABUSE THE CONSUMER’S TRUST, IS THE “MOST POWERFUL SANCTION” OF ALL, BUT, IT IS ONLY APPROPRIATE IN THE AREA OF “DECEPTION” (ECONOMIC PREYING). INCARCERATION OF DECEITFUL INDIVIDUALS “CHANGES NOTHING” AND PLACES A BURDEN ON “ALL OF SOCIETY” WHILE RELIEVING “THE DECEIVER” OF ANY RESPONSIBILITY TO “MAKE WHOLE” THE “VICTIM” BY A “POWER OF TEN”. EVEN THOUGH “MENIAL LABOR” MAY NOT PROVIDE COMPLETE RESTITUTION, IT DOES “ENTITLE THE VICTIM(S)” TO A PORTION (YET TO BE DETERMINED) OF THE PREDATOR’S MEAGER INCOME.

TO AVOID REACHING THIS “BANISHMENT FROM BUSINESS”, THE “PREDATOR, THREATENED BY THE SPECTRE, “POWER OF TEN”, WOULD HAVE A “GREAT INCENTIVE” TO:
1) CONDUCT BUSINESS IN AN HONEST MANNER, AND
2) TO CORRECT “ANY ERRORS” FOR WHICH THEY MIGHT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE, SUCH AS DEFECTS IN PRODUCTS; SHODDY SERVICE; FAILURE TO PERFORM; ETC.
ANY PREDATOR GUILTY OF “DECEPTION” COULD “AMICABLY RESOLVE” THEIR DIFFERENCES WITH THE “DISGRUNTLED CONSUMER” AND, HAVING “SATISFIED THE CUSTOMER/VICTIM” HAVE THEIR “RESOLUTIONS” DULY NOTED IN THEIR “DOSSIER”.
TO BE FAIR, “PERPETUALLY DISGRUNTLED CONSUMERS” (I.E. THOSE WHO ARE IDENTIFIED AS FILING EXCESSIVE COMPLAINTS ON A REGULAR BASIS, WHICH ARE OFTEN FALSE AND NOW THE “BANE” OF MOST INDUSTRIES), ARE ALSO QUICKLY IDENTIFIED AND ANY PROVIDER WOULD DO WELL TO “AVOID” SUCH INDIVIDUALS, JUST AS CONSUMERS WOULD DO WELL TO “AVOID” PROVIDERS WITH “TARNISHED REPUTATIONS”.

HENCE, WE HAVE A UNIVERSAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (DATA BASE) INCLUDING:
1) TRANSACTIONS;
2) SATISFACTORY RATINGS OR UNSATISFACTORY RATINGS, NOTHING MORE.
NOTE: JUST AS “INCREMENTAL USE OF PUNISHMENT OF FORCE IS A FALLACY IN PROTECTING SOCIETY, INCREMENTAL “SCALES OF PERFORMANCE” ARE ALSO FALLACIOUS, SINCE “NO ONE” KNOWS WHAT THE INCREMENTS MEAN.
3) COMPLAINTS, AND
4) RESOLUTIONS.

ANOTHER “INTENTIONAL CONSEQUENCE” ALSO ARISES. SINCE THE “BASIS OF OPERATION” FOR A “JUST SOCIETY” NOW BECOMES “AGREEMENT BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS”, THE QUESTION OF “CIVIL RIGHTS” BECOMES “MOOT”. A “PROVIDER” MUST HAVE “EQUAL RIGHTS” TO CHOOSE HIS/HER CUSTOMERS, JUST AS CUSTOMERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREQUENT OR AVOID ESTABLISHMENTS, AS THEY CHOOSE. IN ECONOMICS, AS MOST PEOPLE HAVE LEARNED, THE ONLY COLOR THAT MATTERS IS “GREEN”. PROVIDERS AND CUSTOMERS IGNORE THIS AT THEIR “ECONOMIC PERIL”. TARGETING A DEMOGRAPHIC THEN BECOMES A “BUSINESS STRATEGY” NOT ONE OF “DISCRIMINATION” ALTHOUGH THE “DEMOGRAPHIC” MAY BE RELATED TO “CERTAIN TRAITS” (AGE; RACE; GENDER; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; ETHNIC BACKGROUND; RELIGIOUS BELIEFS; BALD; BLOND; FAT; TALL; SHORT; ET. AL.). HOWEVER, WITHIN THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS SPHERES IN A “JUST SOCIETY”, “FREEDOM TO CHOOSE” IS A “BASIC RIGHT” THAT OUGHT NOT TO BE ABRIDGED BY “POLITICAL OR JUDICIAL” FIATS ACTING AS THE “WATER CARRIERS” FOR PRESSURE GROUPS WITH “VESTED INTERESTS”. THE GREAT PARADOX IN OUR CURRENT QUEST FOR A JUST SOCIETY IS THAT “MOST” CLAIMS FOR “EQUAL RIGHTS” UNIVERSALLY IGNORE THE ASSUMPTION OF “EQUAL RESPONSIBILITIES” AND, BECOME, IN REALITY, A VEHICLE FOR “SPECIAL PRIVILEGES” FOR ONE “DEMOGRAPHIC” OVER ANOTHER.

REMEMBER, THE “STATED PURPOSE” OF ANY SYSTEM OF JUSTICE IS TO “PROTECT THE PEOPLE” FROM THOSE WHO WOULD HARM THEM AND TO “ALLOW” CITIZENS AND/OR LEGAL RESIDENTS TO LIVE AS THEY “CHOOSE” WITHIN THE LIMITS OF “DOING NO HARM” (PHYSICAL OR ECONOMIC) TO OTHERS. THE ENUMERATION OF “THE SPECIFICS”, I.E. LAWS”, WHILE IT DOES PROVIDE “AN EXCUSE” FOR A LOT OF “UNNECESSARY ECONOMIC ACTIVITY” SERVES NO PURPOSE EXCEPT TO PERPETUATE THE “FAILED SYSTEM”, NOW KNOWN AS “CRIMINAL JUSTICE”. ONE CAN THINK OF NO MORE “APPROPRIATE NAME”.

ENJOY, T.O.M.

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