Non-Intervention

Others,

The economic policy that makes banks too big to fail also makes crooked corporation leaders too big to jail. It is a hyper-aggressive environment that promotes destruction.

Economic destruction is devastating insofar as it takes away the ability to provide for basic needs. The economy for a democratic society has to have self-corrective features.

This is an essential purpose for government. Correct the deficits. The suitable selection of a war was never valid as a definition for a leader because reasons were manufactured for finding war.

UN Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml

Human Rights Ps8 Ps26

The Creator ‘speaks’ through
the design for creation.

Nature’s God has established
love as the law for life.

When I consider your heavens, LORD,
the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars
seem set in their courses by the glory of the sun.
The design for star fire
burns on desire.

What is human being
that makes us mindful
of being human?

The goodness of leadership
is our leader. Good government
is exalted around the world.

Each has responsibility
for responsible leadership.
If injustice occurs somewhere
it takes place anywhere.

Praise has been raised from the mouths
of infants and children for the majesty
of mind that rises above the heavens.

A stronghold has been set up
to celebrate the liberation from darkness.
The rays of praise that shine with the sun
expose the plans of the adversaries
who amplify adversity.

Rosy-fingered dawn bursts in on
perception with the speed of light.
The machinations of deception
are exposed to sight.

You have made us only a little lower than angels.
We have been adorned with the glory and honor
of dignity.

It is essential to promote the growth
of friendly relations among the nations.

If we are to prevent freedom
from falling to the last resort,
the recourse of rebellion against tyranny
and the injustice of inequity,
we must set forth the human rights
that are to be protected by the rule of law.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security.
No one will be held in slavery or servitude.
Slavery and the slave trade are prohibited.
No one is to be tortured or subjected to cruel
and inhuman punishment.

Everyone has the right to a nationality.
Everyone has the right to participate in government
governed by elected officials.
The will of the people is the authority
for the state.

Legal adults have the right to marry
and establish a household.
Everyone has the right to own property.
Everyone has the right to proper pay
for labor.

No one is compelled to belong to an organization.
No one will be denied work based on association
with an organization.

Everyone has the right to health care, education,
social security and enough prosperity
to provide for basic needs.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure
including reasonable limits for working hours
and periodic holidays with pay.

Murder and multiple murders are capital crimes
for a citizen.

Genocide and wars of aggression
are high crimes for leadership.
No one is to be subjected to arbitrary arrest,
detention or exile.

Everyone has the right to due process of law.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought,
conscience and religion.

No one is to be deprived of privacy or confidential communication
without probable cause regarding suspicion for criminal offense.
Everyone has the right to self-defense.

We were born free with dignity and equal rights.
We are endowed with reason.
Reason is shaped by education, experience
and responsible leadership.
 
We are called to treat others with respect.
No one is to be discriminated against based
on any distinction such as race, color, religion,
opinion, sex, language, party affiliation, national origin,
social status or group.
 

Everyone has the right to freedom of assembly
and association.

The inherent dignity and inalienable rights
for all the members of the human family
is the foundation for freedom, justice
and peace in the world.

Test and try me, LORD.
Examine my heart and mind.

Your love is before my eyes.
I walk respectfully with you by faith.
I will walk with faith in grace
and justice for respect.

I live with integrity for design.
I will live with faith in truth
for justice by respect
for the rights of others.

I sing with thanksgiving
for the goodness of life.
My feet stand on level ground.
I will bless you in the assembly.

Bless the LORD,
my dear soul.

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Gitmo and Constitutional Rights
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/center-constitutional-rights-responds-obama-drone%2C-gitmo-speech
"Prior Justice Department interpretations, for example, that imminence does not require clear evidence of a specific act in the immediate future, do not engender confidence."

The US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is a slap in the face of liberty in the law. The prisoners who are protesting with the hunger strike have been detained without trial.

Post 9/11 western society has regressed to a “shoot or arrest first, then don’t bother to ask questions that conflict with the official story” state. What will a reasonable view of history lead rights-respecting people to think about this state of society?
 

A song from the Venerable Bede (672-735 CE) expresses the question in terms of the personal perspective.

Before Death
Bede's Death Song

“Before the unavoidable journey there,
no one becomes wiser in thought than him who,
by need, ponders, before his going hence,
what good and evil within his soul,
after his day of death, will be judged.”

Steeleye Span - Bede's Death Song
Bede's Death Song
Old English
"Fore there neidfaerae naenig uuiurthit thoncsnotturra than him thaarf sie to ymbhycggannae aer his hiniongae huaet his gastae godaes aeththa yflaes aefter deothdaege doemid uueorthae"

Spoken
Bede's Death Song (in old English) Northumbrian Version Anglo-Saxon

If the Gitmo offense were not bad enough for the US, the western coalition alliance has made of mockery of democratic values.

Send in the Cavalry?
War and Taxes

The only moral justification for war is self-defense. The justification has been circumvented by false flag operations wherein advocates for the industry for war have blamed aliens or foreign agents for attacking a member for alliance with a policy based on non-intervention.

The Chinese and Muslim nations have an obvious conflict in terms of political views regarding religion. They are however aligned in terms of their non-aggression policy. They don’t send their troops into other nations with invasion level events. They have been promoting a policy of “no boots on the ground” since the end of World War II.

The western coalition engaged in invasion level events after 9/11/01. NATO was the organizing agency that fed the UN the plan for the events. NATO was being manipulated by representatives from the industry for war.

Someone was responsible for organizing the fundraising that was used to pay for campaigns and lobbies that would discard concern for investigation of the claims that aliens were attacking the alliance by the attack on the USA. The battle for Mogadishu was used to make the movie, “Blackhawk Down.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)
It was planned failure. It was known that the situation was highly volatile. It was known that there were not enough troops being sent into the area to secure the objective.

The failure was planned to evoke sympathy for invasion level events out of sympathy for the troops who were sent in against superior numbers. The US troops were fighting against Somalians that were supplied by Muslim and Chinese weapons manufacturers. Much of Africa had been alienated by western colonization, so their developing governments were willing to negotiate with industries from other nations.

The invasion of Afghanistan was being anticipated by the industry for war during the Clinton administration. The public was being persuaded that the Muslim nations represented a threat to the national security of any of the members of the alliance because they threatened the strength of the US in Africa.

Then, “they” dared to attack the largest member of NATO, the US, on 9/11/01.

Whoever was responsible for organizing the circumvention of opposition to invasion level events needs to be charged with high crime. The Koch brothers caused wars for aggression to threaten national security for China and Muslim nations. They threatened the security for western coalition nations in the process. 

They had been pressing for the legalization of torture. They have been responsible for the genocide with the missiles from the drones. The citizens for the US and other western nations are being charged with the bill for their invasion level events and their offenses against liberty.

They need to be charged with the high crime so he can be tried for the offense in a court of law. If the Attorney General for the US has to coordinate with the state in which the party resides to press charges, then that is what needs to be done. If they need to be charged by any of the states in the union, then that is what needs to be done. Otherwise, this crime against the people of the US, Afghanistan, Iraq and the nations of the western coalition will go uncorrected.

Non-profit agencies were used to accomplish the crime against the people. The current investigation of the IRS by the Republican party is a tacit acknowledgement of this fact. This is another high profile maneuver by the Republicans to protect their investment in the high tech and costly solutions promoted by the industry for war.

Non-Profits
http://theeverlastinggopstoppers.com/2013/05/buying-vote-non-profits-spend-millions-elections-call-public-welfare/
"[Non-profit] organizations enjoy tax-exempt status in exchange for promoting social welfare. In this election, the most expensive in U.S. history, they also have emerged as the primary conduit for anonymous big-money contributions."

When tax revenue is falling in relation to rising profit, something is serioulsy wrong with corporation control of the government.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-chart-14?fsrc=scn/gp/wl/dc/taxingforsome

Non-profit status is granted to organizations that serve social welfare. Social welfare does not include participation in political campaigns according to the statute.

Sen. Bill Nelson – IRS Scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGyOqrbd5-k&feature=player_embedded

Moody Blues – Tuesday Afternoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bPLWBhNW3FM

“The trees are drawing me near,
I've got to find out why.
Those gentle voices I hear
Explain it all with a sigh.”

Limit the weapons industry to self-defense.
 

Steve K.

Happiness

Others,

Cruelty was the norm in punishment when the story about the prodigal son was created. Cruelty was presented as a deterrent to criminal behavior, but people could be convicted of crime without being guilty.  Death was the norm in the code of Hammurabi, the legal document that served as a model for imperial government. 

Greeks and Romans could argue that they were better emperors than the Persians because they did not destroy their enemies. Byzantines could argue that they were better than the Romans because they did not persecute non-christians by throwing them to wild beasts in the coliseum or by killing convicts from the conquered on the cross. Nevertheless, the death penalty could be applied to non-elitists by the elitists.

The English bill of rights (1689) did not outlaw slavery. It did not propose freedom of religion. It specified the right to bear arms for Protestants.  The right to vote; to a criminal trial in a court of law before a jury of peers; and to not be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment were limited to those who subscribed to the imperial religion.

Civil and human rights came to be regarded as uniquely limited to those who agreed to worship “God” with the monarch. This concession also amounted to agreement to absolute power. The monarch could declare war based on his or her assessment of what amounted to a suitable war in the contest for the wealth of nations. The monarch could have people put to death when it suited the authority of elitism in the competition.

The "elite" did not admit to error in leadership according to elitism.  Guilt was found in those who were not judged to be part of the elite-ness of the One. Cruelty was regarded as a necessary foil to the act of remembering to show compassion for the poor, the embodiments of economic weakness.  The story of the prodigal son shows that non-elitists favored prodigal behavior as a way to see that human nature suffers from error; as the antecedent to forgiving prodigality in others.

Happiness
from Psalm 32

Happy are those who are forgiven;
whose will to harm has been left behind.

Joyful are those who are not found guilty
because there was no offense;
whose spirit has no guile.

My bones withered when I was consumed with fear.
My groaning lasted throughout the trial
to test the charge in the accusation.

My ancestry was tested.
The moisture of my soul
dried up as in the heat of summer.

I acknowledged my flaws
to refute the claim to absolute power.
I did not seek the will to power
over others with cruel punishment.

I said, “I will confess limitation
to convert my weakness into strength.”
I was forgiven for the guilt of sin.

The faithful pray in times of trouble
and thanksgiving. They are not overcome
with consumption due to feelings of guilt.

You are my hiding place LORD.
You will preserve me from troubles in trial.
You will surround me with shouts of deliverance.

“I will instruct you in the way that you should go.
I will guide you with the light of insight.

“Do not be like the ignorant beast
that does not seek to increase understanding.

“Admit to ignorance when the confession is due
and you will not be subjected to continuous correction.”

Those who order or perform evil acts
deserve greater punishment
than the justice in human government
can provide.

Mercy embraces those who have faith.
Be glad, you faithful! Rejoice in the LORD!
Shout for joy, all who are true of heart!”

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The western world has been showing those outside the NATO alliance that it does not respect civil or human rights for those who don’t support elitism in the capitalist enterprise for the industry of war. The Islamic world has little reason to respect the western contention that government should respect civil and human rights. The coalition has shown disrespect for the independence of foreign nations with two invasions, drone warfare, torture, cruelty in punishment and laxity in correction. Disrespect has been shown for the rights of non-elitists.

It is one thing to be among the elite by training and performance in service to others. It is another to be elite because things were set up for your advantage. The elitist advantage as instituted by Congress does not require effort for excellence. It reinforces the claim to absolute power over others. Excellence in performance has effort justification as a self-perpetuating benefit for society. Elitism by decree makes work seem like a joke.

Perfection in being requires improvement as needed. It is not holiness in being freed from responsibility.

The act of prayer is an acknowledgement that needed improvements require help for achievement. Prayer is like a note to God. The following song celebrates the ability to acknowledge the need for help in achieving improvement that is needed.

Charice – Note to God
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_A-T4ZjUo&feature=endscreen&NR=1
I’d say give us the strength to make it through.
Help us find love ‘cause love is overdue.
It seems like so much is going wrong
on this road we’re on.

I am what I am for who I am, but I respect others as respect for law in order to govern action for civil rights.

We are what we are for who we are, but we need to respect others as respect for the rule of law in order to extend alliance for human rights.

Steve K.

Transfiguration

Others,

Transfiguration

The story of the Exodus relates details that declare opposition to slavery. Opposition to slavery is good when it is not limited to the Liberator and confederates of the imperial alliance. Opposition to polytheism was presented with the premise that the stories about the gods endorsed immoral behavior. The counter-point to this argument is that faith in God was used to endorse war, slavery and genocide; behavior that is considered to be more immoral than sexual immorality.

John Locke was one of the greatest champions for civil rights in history, yet there is a passage in his treatise “Concerning Civil Government” that sanctions slavery as a valid expression of absolute power.  He got the ball rolling in the right direction, so to speak, but the endorsement of slavery counters the natural opposition to it.

Locke wrote “…there is another sort of servant, which by peculiar name we call slave, who being captive taken in a just war, are by the right of nature subjected to the absolute dominion and arbitrary power of their masters. These men having, as I say, forfeited their lives, and with them their liberties, and lost their estates—and being, in the state of slavery, not capable of any property—cannot in that state be considered any part of civil society, the chief end whereof is the preservation of property.” (Locke, “Concerning Civil Government, 1689, Ch.VII, ‘Of Political or Civil Society,’ Para.85)

What tyrant could not claim that his war was just? Slavery is an offense against human nature. Self-defense is regarded as a human right. War fought to defend national independence may be regarded as just. Nevertheless, the enslavement of the opposition is not justified. The so-called spoil of war spoils credibility as a civil government.

He also wrote “…it is evident that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society. It can be no form of civil government at all.” (ibid. Para.90) This is not the end of his antinomy against the affirmation of civility in absolute power.

He continues “…he that thinks that absolute power purifies men’s blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this or any other age, to be convinced of the contrary.” (Ibid. Para.92) It seems that Locke was playing the devil’s advocate. He agreed with a prime proposition of aggressive imperial expansion, only to oppose the agreement. The opposition to a statement that he documented was something that he regarded as necessary for changing the history of his time.

History was changed. Freedom of Religion was added as a civil right to the US Constitution by James Madison. Slavery came to be outlawed. The right for women and men of color to vote was acknowledged. Stipulations regarding due process in law were added as well. While slavery has been outlawed, it has not been eliminated. Those who enslave people not in our society are attempting to enslave us economically.

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Respect for religion is an expression of respect for cultural development. Freedom of religion is  a political policy that shows respect for a diverse population of people.
Freedom of Religion in Japan

There was a time when freedom of religion was not allowed. Catholic missionaries had established missions by the sixteenth century but 6 friars and 20 Christians were martyred in Nagasaki in 1597.
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/32.html 
"The Christian faith was first introduced into Japan in the sixteenth century by Jesuit and later by Franciscan missionaries. By the end of that century, there were probably about 300,000 baptized believers in Japan."

Other persecutions followed.into the seventeenth century. Western missionaries were not allowed to return until the nineteenth century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Japan 
"Persecution continued sporadically, breaking out again in 1613 and 1630. On September 10, 1632, 55 Christians were martyred in Nagasaki in what became known as the Great Genna Martyrdom. At this time Roman Catholicism was officially outlawed. The Church remained without clergy and theological teaching disintegrated until the arrival of Western missionaries in the nineteenth century."

Article 20 of the Japanese Constitution declares freedom of religion as political policy.
http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Japan/English/english-Constitution.html#CHAPTER_III
"Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all. No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor exercise any political authority. 2) No person shall be compelled to take part in any religious acts, celebration, rite or practice. 3) The State and its organs shall refrain from religious education or any other religious activity."

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Torture is regarded as cruel and inhuman punishment. 

Torture v. Targeted Killing
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/obama-released-torture-memos-why-not-targeted-killing-memos "The key difference between the torture memos and the targeted-killing memos is that the torture memos were written during the Bush administration, while the targeted-killing memos were written during Obama's."

Torture is harmful, Targeted killing is lethal. Why does the comparison of the two run the risk of lost perspective? Torture was advocated by an administration that had directed two invasions against independent nations. Afghanistan was invaded for "harboring terrorists." (It is not a justification for invasion.) Iraq for suspected WMD's. (Another invalid justification.)

Targeted killing is not an acceptable policy. It needs to be rejected as cruel and inhuman. Brennan's nomination also needs to be rejected. This said, it needs to be remembered that the torture memos took place during the "war on terror." The war on terror was a larger scale of inhuman cruelty because it included invasion level events.

Lobbying influence and campaign contributions bought the policy of drone warfare. It is a scaling back of the war on terror, but it is still unacceptable.

Congress buried mention of targeted killing and indefinite detention in the National Defense Authorization Act (700+ pages).  The US needs to adopt a policy of non-aggression or the elite who profit from war or genocide will drive us into economic ruin. They don't care about the state of the economy as long as they have the green for the greed machinery.

Brennan Moves Back from Opposition to Torture?

"On torture, Brennan acknowledged that he was aware of the practice while he was a senior CIA executive in the ‘00s, and that he left the agency believing it could yield useful information, although he opposed it. Yesterday Brennan said he’s now unsure, after reading the summary of a 6,000 page classified report recently produced by the Intelligence Committee, whether torture produce information that saved lives or led to the capture of Osama bin Laden. “At this point, Senator, I do not know what the truth is,” Brennan said.

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/08/brennan-hearing-shows-a-restless-congress-on-drones-and-terrorism/#ixzz2KJKseQw8"

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It is an accident when torture produces reliable information. Loyalty to state or religion, opposition to torture and physical reactions to pain virtually guarantee that false information will be extracted. The provision against cruel and unusual punishment outlaws torture even if it produces important information from time to time. The argument that it saves thousands of lives pales in comparison to the number of lives that were sacrificed to the war on terror.

Property damage and wasteful spending on war are also prohibitive in the consideration of using torture, targeted killing or invasion level events. The regurgitation of war on terror rhetoric is offensive to the US constitution and the people of the world.

Human rights are civil for Americans.

Congress has placed itself and the country in an untenable position. They legislated targeted killing and indefinite detention with the NDAA. Now they will be determining whether or not the policy chief for drone warfare (targeted killing) will become the director for the CIA. Many in Congress will dance around that which they authorized legislatively.

They cannot afford to promote someone who has actively promoted targeted killing to direct intelligence operations. While it has not been asserted that Brennan directed or approved of torture, the knowledge of it will need to be treated as quintessentially important. His nomination has to be rejected in order for Congress to start self-correcting.

If they don't correct themselves, other branches of government will have to do so. The unacceptable provisions of the NDAA are human rights violations. They cannot stand. The US will lose credibility as a representative for human rights in the world. The integrity of belief in civil rights will be damaged as well.

Neo-Cons Rise to Defend Drones
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/as-neocons-defend-obama-allies-doubt-him-on-drones-as-never-before/272947/ 
"Kill list overseer John Brennan starts confirmation hearings today to determine whether he'll get to be the next CIA director. Everyone is abuzz about a confidential memo that describes some of the scenarios in which President Obama believes that his underlings are empowered to extrajudicially kill Americans."

The use of drones to kill militants as suspected terrorists is indefensible according to the rule of law. Killing suspected terrorists without a trial is an extension of the justification for torture. It presumes that killing some is justified in the defense of many; just as the torture of an individual was presumed to be acceptable in defense of "thousands" of lives. The justification is false because the accusation of terrorism has to be tried in a court of law in order to preserve judicial authority based on evidentiary judgment.

If political leadership has conceded to false justifications, it has been due to the claim to absolute power by the industry for war with influence affected by lobbies, campaign funds, speaking engagements and competition for the wealth to win political contests for social influence. Decreasing tax breaks for the wealthiest is a way to decrease the size of the problem.

The progression of concern for civil rights has extended into the foreign policy of national government. The following piece celebrates civility for human rights.

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Rights
(Japanese Constitution, the French Declaration of the Rights for Man,
English Bill of Rights, The UN Declaration of Human Rights Ps.71)

Human rights are civil for the people of the nation.

People renounce wars of aggression from the state as a right for the nation. Force will not be used with belligerence to settle international disputes. Defense is allowed for the protection of civility. Alliance will be cultivated to include broader representation for humanity.It is essential to promote the growth of friendly relations among the nations.

If we are to prevent freedom from falling to the last resort, the recourse of rebellion against tyranny, oppression and the injustice of inequity, we must set forth the human rights that are to be protected by the rule of law.

National assembly recognizes rights for citizens and human being. These rights are declared in writing as the plan for government. No law will be made that violates human rights. Law will be written to protect people from harm due to violence or oppression.

People are born free and remain equal in rights. Social distinctions regarding qualifications are founded upon goodness for the public.

The aim for political association is the preservation of human rights. These rights are life, liberty, property, security, resistance to oppression, education, employment, health care and religion.

The principle for independence resides in the nation as an expression of natural law. Things co-exist. There is a community of relations in co-existence. The perception of one thing can be referenced in relation to others. Comparison and contrast define perspective in experience with reason. The bill of rights was expressed to oppose the absolute power of monarchy. The separation of powers was established to oppose absolute power in government. No individual or group may exercise authority that does not proceed from the health and safety of the nation of people.

Liberty consists in the freedom to do anything that injures no one else. The exercise of the natural rights for each person is only limited by the assurance of rights for the other members of society.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security. No one will be held in slavery or servitude. Slavery and the slave trade are prohibited. No one is to be tortured or subjected to cruel and inhuman punishment.

Everyone has the right to a nationality. Everyone has the right to participate in government governed by elected officials. The will of the people is the authority for the state.

Legal adults have the right to marry and establish a household. Anyone has the right to own property. Everyone has the right to work with proper pay for equal work.

No one is compelled to belong to an organization. No one will be denied work based on association with an organization that recognizes human rights.

Anyone has the right to health care, education, social security and enough prosperity
to provide for basic needs. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure including reasonable limits for working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Murder and multiple murders are capital crimes for a citizen.

Genocide and wars of aggression are capital crimes for political leadership.

No one is to be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Everyone has the right to due process of law. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. No one is to be deprived of privacy or confidential communication without probable cause regarding suspicion of criminal offense.

Everyone has the right to self-defense. We were born free with dignity and equal rights.
We are endowed with reason. We are called to treat others with respect. No one is to be discriminated against based on any distinction such as race, color, religion, opinion, sex, language, party affiliation, national origin, social status or group.

Everyone has the right to freedom of assembly and association. The inherent dignity and inalienable rights for all the members of the human family is the foundation for freedom, justice and peace in the world.

The industry for war has become an international oligarchy that has usurped the claim to absolute power. The oligarchy has been making policy for the government by paying for lobbies, campaigns, vote manipulation and speaking engagements to “win” the competition for elected office. Tax breaks for the wealthiest people in different nations have to be reduced to correct the problem.

Claims to absolute power may not be used to override the rule of law with a constitution and a bill of rights. Absolute power is defined as use of war, genocide, targeted killing, murder, assassination, enslavement, torture, indefinite detention, excessive bail, prosecution as persecution, conviction by characteristics of birth or association with legal social groups, cruelty or laxity in punishment, excessive force, predatory pricing, taxation without representation or any act that oppresses people.

People have the right to petition the government; to vote without manipulation; to participate in debate with freedom of speech; to belong to a religion that is not promoting war as aggression, crime or establishment over the state; to self-defense that allows for the ownership of weapons as property; and due process in law that includes a trial before a jury of non-discriminatory witnesses when accused of crime. Judgment will be made from the body of evidence for public scrutiny with the scientific method.

I take refuge in the liberty of the law. LORD, let me never be put to shame. Protect me from oppression. Set me free from persecution. Save me from violence. Shelter me from war. Incline your judgment to me for salvation.


Liberty with happiness is my hope. God given rights have sustained my faith since youth. The understanding of nature’s God has been the goal for my religion.

I have been sustained by the LORD with faith since before I was conceived in the womb. Providence has given me strength. My praise is directed to God and those who support human rights.

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Thermal Runaway! It's not just a physical anomaly. It's a political condition that Boeing has been forcing on the US and other countries in the western alliance.
 
The video is short, but powerful in its implications. Please view!

Thermal Runaway
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57568291/investigators-short-circuit-in-dreamliners-lithium-ion-battery-led-to-fire/ 

Dreamliner Becomes Nightmare for State Owned Business
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324906004578287963634247382.html
"No airline staked more on Boeing Co.'s BA +1.49% new 787 Dreamliner than LOT Polish Airlines SA, a troubled state-owned carrier that embraced the jet as means of gaining more lucrative, long-haul travelers. Now, its hopes for the plane threaten to turn into a nightmare."

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What's the con for neo-cons in the UK? They want a spending cut that will impose austerity measures on struggling European countries that won't sacrifice their fiscal advantage in the EU budget. What's the best response? Cut the advantage to cut spending for the EU.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/08/david-cameron-eu-budget-gamble"Cameron had always aimed to secure a real-terms freeze in the EU's near-€1tn budget. The latest proposals, presented by the European council president, Herman Van Rompuy, in the early hours of Friday, called for the EU's "payment ceiling" to be cut from €942.8bn in 2007-13 to €908.4bn in 2014-2020.

"The prime minister hopes to be able to go one step further and say that he has secured a cut in the budget, the first time this has happened in the history of the EU."

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The list of human rights for civil government may seem large. The size may be daunting. People have the right to make a living. Most people are delegated to the middle class or lower simply by virtue of the limitation of resources.

The following music video pokes fun at the difficulty of trying to make a living according to the norms of society. Try to sell lemonade. You can’t give it away. Sell alcohol. The liberation from absolutes based on norms associated with majority rule can feel intoxicating. There are other ways to make a living, but a sense of humor is generally regarded as required.

The Cataracs – Alcohol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc2YBVZx-Ps

Democratic society is a mixed bag of tricks. Flexibility in organization for providing a service facilitates adaptation to market variability for the public.

Love others. Be true to yourself.

Steve K.

Jericho

Others,

Timaeus means Honor.

Plato wrote a dialog by the name. It was written with style, but it serves as a stylistic advocacy for tyranny. Socrates, the leader of the previous dialogs concedes decisions in public policy making to the elite.

“…people of your class are the only ones remaining who are fitted by nature and education to take part at once both in politics and philosophy…yesterday when I saw that you wanted me to describe the formation of the state, I readily assented, being very well aware that, if only you would, none were better qualified to carry the discussion further and that when you had engaged our city in a suitable war, you of all men living could best exhibit her playing a fitting part.”

Plato had made “Socrates” into his mouthpiece for elitism. War and oppression of the people as rabble were seen as necessities by the elite, because the elements and the elemental spirits were destructive during the creation of the state of being. People who don’t agree with the dictates of the elite are seen as terrorists, militants or collateral damage.

The “Timaeus” was known to the gospel writers. The eloquence of style was known as a cloud of smoke to protect elitism.

Support for the dictatorship of industry profit is evidenced in the government of Syria. This dictatorship has the Alawite minority in power over the Sunni populace. Assad is the son of a dictator. He is the son of honor according to Plato’s definition.

Syrian Conflict
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/syrian-conflict-not-just-battle-against-assad/261316/

Assad is blind Bartimaeus according to the gospel story.

Jericho
from Mark 10:46-52

Salvation came to the city of the moon
to celebrate the victory of faith in time.
A large crowd had assembled
to join the celebration.
The son of Honor, a blind beggar,
 called out to the Savior
as he was leaving:
“Son of Goodness,
have mercy on me!”
When he heard that it was
the teacher from Nazareth, he cried,
“Jesus, Son of David, have mercy.”

Jesus stood still and said,
“Call him here.”
They called to the blind man,
“Take heart. He is calling for you.”
Bartimaeus jumped up
and made his way to Jesus.

The Savior asked,
“What do you want me
to do for you?”
The blind man said,
“My teacher, let me see again.”
Jesus said, “Go. Your faith
has made you well.”

His blindness had been belief
in destruction as the law.
He had believed
that the destructiveness of nature
compelled the dictator
to visit destruction on those
who were not with him.
This made it impossible
for him to do anything productive;
to do anything that was good
ran contrary to the belief in destruction.

Jesus had reassured him that his faith
could lead him to live a good life.
He immediately regained his sight
and followed him on the way.

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Assad is not the only dictator in the world. The threat of subordination to the dictates of industry profit is very real in the USA. The National Defense Authorization Act has two provisions that run contrary to protection for human rights.  The bill was signed into law, but it authorizes the indefinite detention of citizens. It also supports the targeted killing of militants.  Both provisions offend respect for due process of law in enforcement.

Dave Matthews Band – Why I Am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKh9H9UdoA

“It's why I am unlikely to agree
It's why I am climbing out of my monkey tree
Why I am still here dancing with the Groogrux King”

Christ is the Groogrux King. He is with, for and by the people. He is for love and human rights.

It’s why I won’t agree with the dictates of destruction.

Support the correction of elitism. Elect responsible leadership. Stand opposed to the unacceptable provisions for dictatorship.

Steve K.

Mercy

Others,

Constitutional government documents principles aimed at fairness in political leadership. Human rights are listed in addition to the demarcation of procedures for organizational structures. When a constitution establishes favor for a single party, it is inherently unfair.
it is inherently unfair.

Freedom of religion is a necessary clause in the listing of human rights. While it has been falsely identified as the cause of western decadence, it correctly identifies the government's role in relation to religion. The state is not to establish religion, neither is it to prevent the free exercise of faith. Citizens of the state have the right to choose or reject religion.

Many "Islamic" countries have constitutions that include elections, freedom to assemble in more than one party and the listing of other human rights. The listing of Islam as the state religion however is undeniably a flaw in the constitutional organization of the state. Libya liberated itself from the tyranny of Ghadafi, but their current constitution promises to establish another form. The Arab spring will not succeed in anything but changing dictators, if they don't list freedom of religion as a human right.

Clashes in Libya
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFBRE89K07C20121021

Libyan Constitution
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/22/libyan-draft-constitution-sharia-is-principal-source-of-legislation/

Avoiding Documentation for the Oppression of Citizens
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-21/site/ct-oped-1021-libya-20111021_1_new-constitution-post-gadhafi-libya-national-transitional-council

Freedom of religion is a necessary clause in the listing of human rights. While it has been incorrectly identified as the cause for western decadence, it correctly defines the government’s role in relation to religion. The state is not to establish religion. Neither is it to prevent the free exercise of faith. Citizens of the state have the right to choose or reject religion.

It is incorrect to define a state religion given this provision for freedom. It follows that the definition of a state as Islamic, Christian or as any other proponent of religion or anti-religion is wrong as well. This includes atheism.

“Islamic” countries have constitutions that include the right to vote, the freedom to assemble in more than one party and the listing of other human rights. The listing of Islam as the state religion however, is undeniably a flaw in the constitutional organization for the state.

Libya liberated itself from the tyranny of Gaddafi, but their current constitution promises to establish another form of dictatorship. The “Arab Spring” will not succeed in anything but changing dictators if they fail to list freedom of religion as a provision for human rights.

Clashes in Libya
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFBRE89K07C20121021

Error in Iraq
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-21/site/ct-oped-1021-libya-20111021_1_new-constitution-post-gadhafi-libya-national-transitional-council

party, it is inherently unfair.

Freedom of religion is a necessary clause in the listing of human rights. While it has been falsely identified as the cause of western decadence, it correctly identifies the government's role in relation to religion. The state is not to establish religion, neither is it to prevent the free exercise of faith. Citizens of the state have the right to choose or reject religion.

Many "Islamic" countries have constitutions that include elections, freedom to assemble in more than one party and the listing of other human rights. The listing of Islam as the state religion however is undeniably a flaw in the constitutional organization of the state. Libya liberated itself from the tyranny of Ghadafi, but their current constitution promises to establish another form. The Arab spring will not succeed in anything but changing dictators, if they don't list freedom of religion as a human right.

Clashes in Libya
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFBRE89K07C20121021

Libyan Constitution
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/22/libyan-draft-constitution-sharia-is-principal-source-of-legislation/

Avoiding Documentation for the Oppression of Citizens
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-21/site/ct-oped-1021-libya-20111021_1_new-constitution-post-gadhafi-libya-national-transitional-counc

Mercy
Psalm 91, Isa.53

When you live your life as well as you can
you don’t deserve to suffer cruelty.
Faith in the LORD is a refuge.
It is a haven for establishing goals.
It is a hospital for recovery from harm.
Protection is provided according
to liberty within the justice of the law.

Principles build principalities.
They are guidelines for morality.
They are the messages
from the messengers.
They are the rules for living
a good life.

Righteousness is the victory
for living well.
Happiness, health and prosperity
are the fruits of morality.

The prophets and apostles
were persecuted for the morality
of their message. They promoted
mercy when injustice threatened
punishment with torture or death.
They endorsed kindness
when reckless abandon
was respected as normal.
They taught people to live with respect
when such a thing was regarded
as absurd by the advocates for aggression.

They were punished for opposing
greed and avarice. They were killed
when they did not worship leadership
that laid claim to the power over life.

Jesus was for justice.
Defense was condoned as natural,
but cruelty and violence
were condemned as pride.

He had proclaimed love as a cure for infirmities.
He had carried the burden for our insecurities,
yet he was afflicted and convicted as guilty.
He had been punished as though
he was being stricken down by God. 

How excellent is his majesty?
He is clothed with splendor.
Light has become his attire.
The wealth of his legacy
will never tire.
Love is still the basis
for learning within the law.

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When recovery is seen as agreement with leadership irrespective of truth, the recovery is concession to dictatorship. Capitalism works when prosperity is earned in relation to the effort to provide a service. Products are services. When capitalism supports disproportionate award to the leader, the CEO, it is not efficient in building the economy. It is an effective promotion of dictatorship however.

While I don’t agree with the implication that religion promotes irresponsibility, I do agree that there are those who advocate for irresponsibly disproportionate pay scales. All too many of these individuals claim affiliation to a religion.

Responsibility
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/in-debate-opposing-positions-came-down-to-one-word-responsibility/2012/10/17/151d571a-188d-11e2-9855-71f2b202721b_story.html

Leaders who receive incredibly large salaries are often defended by the limitations for humanity. They can’t be expected to be perfect. They are human, all too human. Nevertheless, they are receiving pay that makes them into gods in the social hierarchy.  

Meanwhile, they fire people who are actually working like gods just to maintain a paycheck to pay for the cost of living. The cost of living is being driven up in order to pay for the CEO salaries in the interim. Thus, this incredibly destructive fiction is set up wherein the boss gets big money because he isn’t perfect, while the employee is fired for not meeting expectations for perfection.

Romney and Ryan Republicans are irresponsible because they support dictatorship. If you want to be a responsible citizen with or without faith, vote for those who support the correction of the elitist advantage.

Have mercy on all the people of the nation. Support reasonable pay scales. Show respect for those who are not paid for their work. Support social programs that limit military spending by providing services to citizens for the country.  

Dave Matthews Band – Mercy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT_d2yjkUaY

Stand up for where we need to be.

Steve K.