Government 7
Falling Down: Questionable Government Actions
State Codes/Abbreviations
This might not seem bothersome, but there was a restructuring of state and province postal abbreviations. New U.S. state abbreviations were confirmed on July 1, 1963. Look at the “M”s: Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana – the abbreviations, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT.
Did any effort go into making intelligent abbreviations, or was it a rush job? Some tentative thought must have gone on. For instance, Canadian province and territory codes fit into the scheme, and in fact they had to later adjust the U.S. abbreviation for Nebraska, changing it to “NE” so as to fit Canada’s New Brunswick in as “NB.” Unfortunately, these codes aren’t ordered alphabetically, which would be a help when sorting databases, but it would be difficult (too many states start with “N,” for example).
Recall that there was to be a “North American Union,” merging of the US, Mexico and Canada. Was the harmonizing of codes part of that plan, which seems to have fallen by the wayside? It never made much sense since the small Central American countries would probably be a better fit with Mexico, then later with South America for a “Latin American Union.” Not to say all this mash-up is a great idea, but mergers were on the table. Now it may have changed to a marriage of US, Canada and Greenland!
Phony Patents
“Law-makers” in the U.S. had another brainstorm, allowing the copyrighting of software algorithms.
This is like LEGO “patenting” a LEGO house, assembled by a child from their generic pieces.
Constructing new combinations and permutations is what LEGO is for. And it’s the same for software. Generic pieces are components of a project. The whole point is that they can be assembled in whatever way you like and no one can dictate that. “Algorithms” are just a way to do a job, to put pieces together, and any given algorithm will usually be discovered by many people, on their own. They are not candidates for patent or copyright. Any “official patent” of such, then, is not a real patent, and is against the intent of patents.
We’ve never taken the time to examine in detail exactly what it means to invent and create, so it’s not surprising that this liberty is taken by a corrupt government.
Developments like this are simply an index of how bad things are getting. It becomes easy for any idiot with money to have an opinion and influence when government is out to lunch, so we’ll continue to see more idiocy, like “software patents,” in the future.
(Of course not granting copyrights for software doesn’t mean some entity isn’t protected from being robbed, as when someone literally steals a person’s or company’s work: the software code itself (whether completed or not). But that would be the same as breaking in and stealing someone’s LEGO house.)
To make this clearer, suppose you buy yourself a wrench to do some wrenching. You’ve just gotten started when out of the blue, there’s some shyster lawyer screaming in your ear that he’s suing because a company has patented the “specific counter-clockwise motion of the arm, wrist and hand used when removing a bolt with a wrench.” That’s the sort of mentality you’re dealing with when you hear talk about patenting algorithms.
Immigration Scam
Unfettered immigration is one of the biggest exercises/psyops employed to engender learned helplessness.
Should companies be compelled to take on a certain number of new employees every year, regardless of company finances or need? There are plenty of unemployed who can use a job.
No? Then there’s an argument that countries shouldn’t either.
It’s hard to understand why there should be any immigration when there are any unemployed in a country.
As always, any dissension is simply ignored or avoided, while the flooding of a country with so-called immigrants is carried out without rhyme or reason. Oh, there are the excuses. They are “helping refugees,” or maybe they say, we, “need skilled workers of a particular nature.” A fallacy of “necessity.” As mentioned before, you simply raise the wage for a position you can’t fill, and magically, it gets more interest.
Only certain countries are targeted. Everywhere else, any foreigner is strictly forbidden to work, let alone go on some kind of welfare assistance.
Maybe they say it is citizens, “reuniting their families.” Or it’s a “humanitarian issue,” (really meaning, “case closed, we don’t want to discuss it so we’ll label it with an emotive term that makes any opposition look mean and petty”).
Really, the tactic is used to diversify a country with a variety of races that don’t integrate, to weaken a country by injuring its economy, bring down wages by introducing cheaper competition in the labor market, bring in criminals to disrupt the country, bring in more compliant and complacent individuals, create discord, shortages, and crowding.
None of this seems to be all that secret, which is of course part of the “learned helplessness” aspect.
Hysteria
Not so long ago, and this is an ongoing op, they killed a bunch of chickens that had “The Chicken Flu,” or “The Bird Flu” or something. This was hundreds of thousands of chickens, mind you.
It’s not like the price of chickens and eggs weren’t high enough, thank you very much. Now, what about all these medications and vaccinations they force the farmers to use? Where was the efficacy there in preventing this situation in the first place?
Anyway, let’s apply a little logic to this situation. What if all the chickens in the world were tested positive for “Bird Flu?” Would we kill all the chickens?
And then “Mad Cow Disease” (which we now know is caused by feeding cows their own shit, and pig shit, and chicken shit). Suppose that broke out at the same time. Would we have to kill all the cows, too? And Mad Salmon Disease, and Crazy Tuna disease and Angry Pig disease all happened to break out at the same time?
What if every food-stock animal gets sick at once? Then destroy everything?
What if people get the “Bird Flu,” do we kill them too?
A new panic keeps surfacing from time to time, regarding Ebola. One day, they were howling that it had just spread to continental North America, in Texas! One commentator has already mentioned that this could be an excuse for them to bomb the hell out of Texas, which has discussed succession.
(Note that the great movie, Hud, has a government cull of cattle as one of the plot points.)
Some pundit said it is, in effect, a deliberate, planned animal sacrifice, just as war is a deliberate human sacrifice. Of course it is.
As though animals never have gotten sick before. As though nothing can get sick, without someone rushing in to kill it: It is farcical.
This starvation con is a well-used strategy of mass murder – it played out in a different way in Ireland (1845-52), when the English starved the Irish, blaming it on a “potato famine,” (while Ireland was still exporting massive amounts of food to Britain). And Ukraine, of course, where the Bolsheviks in 1932-33 literally just confiscated all the food, starving 10 million or more Ukrainians to death, but it is the same game.
Government “in Business”
You just can’t have government in business. Any areas it meddles in will be at an unfair advantage.
Two minutes after hearing about another example of “government incompetence,” you hear about how we need to “nationalize” a particular businesses or industries to provide us, the people, with the benefits, instead of the “fat-cats.”
This trick used by government, was actually publicized and explained in a newspaper article over 40 years ago. After these “nationalizations,” the government will then dispense with (“privatize”) the same companies, making money off of the purchase and subsequent sale. They then begin the repurchasing and selling cycle again, on and on ad infinitum, all the while hurting the little guys that don’t have the obvious competitive advantage of government.
There’s no excuse for falling like patsies for this time and again. You’ve heard of “cronyism,” and that’s another example.
When Government Turns Vicious
In the 1989 case of DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, and in a ruling that surely surprised many, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the failure by government workers to protect someone from physical violence or harm from another person did not breach any substantive constitutional duty. This ruling was affirmed in the 2005 case, Castle Rock v. Gonzales, the U.S. Supreme Court again ruling that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm. (Note also the echo of this ruling in the finding that news agencies have no obligation to provide true news; that is, they can lie to you.)
New Orleans drowned during the Katrina storm, and the government came in to disarm people, blocking them from defending themselves, shot people who tried to escape the city, and withheld food, medical and other supplies that rushed in from around the world.
Veterans returning from the war for independence came back to find their farms had been seized by the government.
Veterans were shot by troops in Washington DC, while protesting their ill treatment by the government.
Men were infected with syphilis as a government experiment, to “see what would happen.” This makes no sense, since they already knew what the symptoms of terminal syphilis are, so this was pure sadism.
It’s tedious to list more of the endless examples, and these betrayals are found with all governments. Despite news like this going public, there is no effective reform, or even effective attempts at reform. In fact, most seem unaware there are problems like these.
Your Public Duty
Why is there no discussion of new government initiatives or plebiscites to improve the obvious flaws in the system?
Each day, there are more unemployed, more congestion, pollution, “wars and rumors of wars,” unrest, poverty and mayhem. Yet the political class just sails through, whistling a happy tune.
Of course, if you want to introduce some changes, well, just go and try. Go ahead and get into your legislatures with your stacks of papers outlining improvements and see how far you get.
“No,” we are told, “That is not the proper venue. For The People’s Voice is expressed at the voting booth!”
Even if there were real choice, say, between, Democrats and Republicans, using the U.S. for an example, we know that periodic alternation between the two mean the policies of “that other party,” get implemented anyway, probably in the next election cycle.
So, the bad policies you vote against, will be inevitably enacted in a “democracy,” which makes a farce of doing your “public duty.” Surely we can do better, but unless there is some will for sensible change, nothing will change.
Contingency Planning
Putting excessive faith in government is a form of idolatry, a false worship.
What is needed, whenever any system is designed, is to make preparations for what to do when it fails or starts to get out of control.
The history of government shows that it doesn’t plan ahead, then acts surprised and bewildered when something does foul up, as though such things never occurred before anywhere along the long train of history.
Consider the infrastructure required to allow us vehicles. The vast network of roads and systems for the maintenance of those roads, to provide fuel, to develop, construct and maintain the vehicles themselves...
Yet for government – nothing. Not even the discussion of plans in that area. Things get bad with systems that we haphazardly construct and innocently place our trust in. And then, when disaster strikes, everyone is scrambling frantically but aimlessly and bleating for change. Like a financial crisis, say, with hyperinflation, then subsequent depression, hunger, unrest, then culmination in war.
Even the people more attuned to this problem have their own foibles, like constantly saying, “If only the people would wake up!”
No, the people will never wake up. Recall that only, what? 3% – 10% of the people fought for freedom in the American Revolution against England.
We must be careful what we wish for. Were “the people” to act, they would just get fooled again in some other way that appealed to their desires, insecurities and passions.
Recall the Russian Revolution where the Kulaks, the peasants and common man really got themselves into the blender. Same in the problematic French Revolution. Any reforms have to take into account the chance for error or they are useless.
Government as Helpmate
How Dumbed-Down Can It Get?
Ingredients: wheat, barley, milk powder
Warning: Contains wheat, barley and milk products
Well praise be, that government was on the spot to mandate that crucial piece of information be conspicuously branded on that package! We have everything backwards. No warnings about pesticide residues, GMO content, offal from “migrant labor’s” fecal-stained hands, but plenty of worthless insincerity.
“Screw-Ups”
Take 9/11 for example, presented as another regrettable instance of government incompetence. “They screwed it up again,” and “forgot to scramble the defense jets specifically designed for attacks like this,” because “no one could ever anticipate a completely unforeseeable threat like jets hitting the World Trade Center,” and because, “the day was confusing,” because they were, “running drills to prepare for jets hitting the World Trade Center.”
“Screw-ups” on government’s part are in service of some larger scheme. There is also a perverse “benefit” in that, incredibly, it makes the average Joe feel somewhat “superior,” smarter than “the bumbling government.” And we can’t forget the evergreen ruse to make the current system look absurd and unworkable, to make communist-style changes more palatable.
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