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THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD
(3/6/2007)
Common Sense Lost: World Gone Mad
Common sense has indeed been lost in so many areas of life that it has become overly alarming. How did that happen? Is it something in the air? Something in our food? Something beaming us from a satellite in the sky? A signal from our cell phones or radiating outward from our computer monitor and television screens? Is it the ink on our newspapers or the toilet paper? Or maybe it is the water we drink, cook and wash with? What little burgers might be secretly invading our common sense and putting us on the path of madness at its best? A nobody judge in Florida actually blew off a federal subpoena, thereby disrespecting the entire US legislative body and the judicial system, and nothing happened to him? If he says subpoenas don't have to be respected on the one hand, and nobody does a thing about it (except to give him some awards), how can ANY court demand ANY ONE else to respect a subpoena either? I mean... a judge said they are meaningless, so why bother with them? Hasn't a precedent been set here? The precedence of how crazy and unreliable this world and its rules have become? (Rules only must be followed by some -- not all. Judge George Greer has ruled such to be so.) Then, also from Florida, we have Judge John Sloop that had people arrested for not appearing in his courtroom per schedule, though they had been wrongly directed to a different courtroom and he knew it? People that got the privilege of being "strip searched". Well, doesn't "EVERY ONE" enjoy taking their clothes off in front of strangers and being searched? Or, is that suppose to be something only the powerless of our society are suppose to accept as just something that happens (or can readily happen) within the normal events of life? But then, we have the situation with Judge Cliff Barnes, who is from -- you guessed it -- Florida. Wonder what is happening with that case. The case where a judge actually spoke up about some problems in the system and the JQC wanted to wipe out his judge hood as a result of his speaking up. How dare he suggest that anything might be wrong with a system that so impacts the lives of citizens? Can't have that happening, now can we? One might think this ends at the borders of Florida. If only it did. Let's move on up the coast to North Carolina and the district attorney that charged, judged and had the suspects already found guilty in the media before the accused even had chance to face and answer charges within a court of law. Worse, it turns out he held back evidence that suggested the accused weren't actually guilty after all. Whoops! Little mistake there, I guess. On and on we go... where we end--nobody knows...however...we haven't ended with the craziness of the courts. We the people are compounding and adding to the craziness each and every day as well. There is this intense fight to ban smoking in public places. Okay. But... When a person takes his/her money and opens a business (at his or her risk of success or failure), who becomes the rule setter when the doors are open to the public? Can a smoker legally open the doors to his restaurant to "smokers only"? Or, is it that once the doors are open to any member of the public ever, it then is considered "public domain" and must be a "non-smoking" facility freely open to the non-smokers in spite of the owners intent and plans? Does someone actually have a right anymore to open a restaurant with a specific theme and clientele in mind, without the fear of a lawsuit and a city creating an ordinance to the contrary? What if someone wants to open a restaurant that only blondes can frequent? Is that legal? Maybe I might want to open a cafe where only animal lovers are welcome. Do I have to let in the people cruel to animals or face discrimination charges? Can my employee sneak a smoke in the back room without me being charged for allowing smoking in my building that I didn't invite the non-smokers into? What does the smoking ban have to do with the judges of Florida and the district attorney of North Carolina? The fact that none of it makes sense within the way the United States of America is suppose to think and be and act upon matters. None of it has been representative of "fair", nor of the sense of feeling safe within a country that was meant to be right and fair to all it's citizens, including the ones that might not be in the favored group today. Right now...at this moment...it feels more as though we are in the Hitler mode, rather than in the protection of the men who so studied over and defined the Constitution of the United States. A constitution that was meant to defend us rather than defeat us. But then... It seems that common sense has been lost and this world has gone mad.
Carrie Hutchens is a former law enforcement officer and a freelance writer who is active in fighting against the death culture movement and the injustices within the judicial and law enforcement systems.
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