"Their View" Archives:

June 20, 2004

• In The Eyes Of The Beholder
  (What You See Is What You Get)
• The Bolsheviks of Baseball
• Bush the Next FDR?

June 13, 2004

• When Saprophytes Speak
  (Around The World In About Eight Hundred Words)
• Ladies Night of the Living Dead
• Gun Control = Government Security

June 6, 2004

• Mission Accomplished Sir!
  (So You Wanna Talk About Vietnam? - Part 5)
• "Click It or Ticket" Sticks It To Drivers
• Ronald Reagan - Man of the Century

May 30, 2004

• Colonel Dunn: A Gentle Reminder (So You Wanna Talk About Vietnam? - Part 4)
• Persecution at the Shoe Store

May 23, 2004

• Major General John Paul Vann: ‘The Cat’ (So You Wanna Talk About Vietnam? - Part 3)
• The Patriot Act is a Refuge for Scoundrels
• To Conspire or Not to Conspire, That is the Question

May 16, 2004

• Lyndon Banes Johnson: The Beagles Nightmare (So You Wanna Talk About Vietnam? Part 2)
• Abu Ghraib Ain't No Animal House
• Deconstructing the JFK Myth

May 9, 2004

• Vietnam And Current Demographics
  (So You Wanna Talk About Vietnam? Part 1)
• This Just In: John Kerry Is Dull
• None Dare Call It Conspiracy! 

May 2, 2004

• A Family Of Spies
  (Oh The Webs We Weave...)
• Grab Your Sweater: D.C.'s Feeling a Draft
• America First is Populism in Action

April 25, 2004

• A Place Called Perfect
• Articles of Confederation Was Preferable

April 18, 2004

• The Day I Learned To Shoot
• The Problem With Shock And Awe
  (Cleaning Up The Rest Of The Mess)

April 11, 2004

• Look, Boys! Now You Can Fight Like Real Men!
• Benighted Brains
  (It Only Makes Sense To ‘Thems’ and ‘Dems’)

April 4, 2004

• The Governor is a Harsh Mistress
• Hanoi John and Mutha Theresa
  (Benedict Arnold Takes Aim at Benedict Arnold)

March 28, 2004

• 9/11: Blood On Bush's Hands?
• Entangling Alliances (Not On My Tires, You Don't!

March 21, 2004

• Creating Iraq In Our Image
• The New Face of America
  (Ranting Sheep Are But A Tempest In A Tea Pot)

March 14, 2004

• To Rock the Vote, Knock It, or Block It
• Why I Still Like Bush (A Word to the Pseudo Cons)

What They Thought June 27, 2004

R.A. Hawkins
Jonathan David Morris
SARTRE

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R.A. Hawkins
Battling With The Corporate Drug Cartels
(Just Do Your Job And It Won’t Be A Problem)

Imagine my surprise when I went over to www.worldnetdaily.com and saw an article about one of my least favorite lobbying groups rubbing elbows with Bush. The particular group of which I speak is the corporate drug cartels. I realize they are actually corporations but I’m sure there are a lot of cartels that simply view themselves as corporations too. They even had a survey there and at the time the winning question was “Is this guy trying to lose the next election?”

It really is a very logical and fair question. As my readers know, I seldom offer any negative reaction to much of what Bush does. I’m not too sure I’m going to say anything bad about him here, either. But if any of this initiative goes through I have a lot of bad things to say about the electorate.

Taking a brief spin back through the not too distant past, let me put you in a time the liberals all refer to as ancient history which is best forgotten. (They don’t want you to remember all of this.) Poof! You’re back in the end of days when the dark angel of Dims ruled over us all. That’s right Bill Clinton is in charge again. One can’t help but shudder. During his term we had kids killing kids in skool with guns. In each case where the records were available the kids all had one thing in common. They were on drugs mandated by skool shrinks and skool councilors. Yes I know how to spell school but this is then, remember? If the parents hadn’t given the drugs to the kids they could have been charged with parental negligence. This sure does sound like what they were discussing in the article at www.worldnetdaily.com. I for one don’t want to see a return to this kind of mess.

I’m sure there are a few reading this who are saying ‘right on, give it to Bush. He deserves it.’ Then there are a few who are reading this and knowing exactly what I’m going to say. They will have my reasoning wrong though. I think Bush should take the campaign donations and get reelected. Hey! If it is okay for the Dims to take money from the likes of Soros and with the help from Zack Dislexly and antiwar.com, Bush should take this money too. It will stop the Dims from getting the money that way. It is amazing to see how the Dims pushed for election reform and then skirt the whole money thing.

They’re even getting help from Michael Moore in a not so indirect way. All of these people are very anti-American, and Moore is dumb enough to be quoted in several places as having said to a British audience that the dumbest Brit is smarter than the smartest American. I’m sure there are a lot of people who would be upset at his having made that kind of a comment. But in all fairness to that intellectually indigent chap, he is making that comment based on experience. One might ask what his experience might be. He moves in circles filled with liberals and that is who he associates with, so for him to make a comment like that isn’t really all that dishonest. Like most liberals he has a problem with facts…they keep getting in the way, so he brushes them off and moves on. I suspect that statement is as close to reality as he ever gets even if it was an accident. When he made his dorkumentary called ‘Bowling for Columbine’ he left out the forced drugging of the kids who were involved in these shootings.

So as you can see I’m still beating up the liberals. They have taught me one thing however; it seems to be one thing the corporations haven’t learned. Remember the DNC convention of ‘96? It was pretty much paid for by the tobacco industry. I’m sure they chuckled to themselves when Gore and Clinton got up there and did all of their anti-smoking shticks. They should have seen the writing on the walls however. For the first time in a long time the Dims lived up to one of their campaign promises. They went after that industry.

Mr. Bush needs to take a page from the liberal playbook and do the same thing. He needs to get up there and openly state that nobody is going to be pulling the big brother mind control game because that is more of a liberal thing. We all got to fight this demon when Clinton was the grand Pubah of the Dims. We can fight it again and win. It is up to the electorate to keep an eye on this and to not let any law get through such as the Corporate Drug Cartels might want. When the legislation is actually put out there, it will be a liberal that wants to go into the skools with mind control drugs not a conservative. Fight it - don’t whine. Send nasty letters, email them, put bumper stickers on your car and thank Newt Gingrich. He and his bunch were the ones that gave you the thankless electorate the congressional website www.thomas.loc.gov so you could keep an eye on them. Use it!

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R.A. Hawkins
Richard Hawkins was born in Aurora, Colorado and grew up in Littleton, Colorado in a quiet little neighborhood nobody has ever heard of called Columbine Knolls. He has been married to the same woman for twenty-six years, and worked for the same aerospace company for twenty-eight. His primary interests over the years have been his family, sociology, mastering his survival skills, windsurfing, music, politics, raising wolves, art of all types, mycology, perma-culture, archeological anomalies, geo-politics and staying gainfully employed; not necessarily in that order. He often describes himself as a separate subspecies of human – ‘Eclecticus-Iconoclastimus’. His primary driving force is his unwavering belief that as sovereign citizens we are each responsible not only for our own beliefs and actions, but where those beliefs and actions take us in life: That the truly intelligent person learns to determine what the consequences might be for our beliefs and actions and then acts accordingly. Our individual actions always affect far more than we can imagine. R.A. Hawkins is the author of "Through Eyes of Shiva," available via Amazon.com. More of Mr. Hawkins' commentaries can be found on his web site, Entropical Paradise.

Jonathan David Morris
Jonathan David Morris is a political writer based in New Jersey. A strong believer in small government, JDM often takes aim at oppressive taxes, entitlements, and laws, writing about incompetence at the highest levels of culture and government. Catch his weekly ramblings on his web site.

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SARTRE is the pen name of James Hall, a reformed former political operative. This pundit's formal instruction in history, philosophy and political science served as training for activism on the staff of several politicians and in many campaigns. A believer in authentic public service, independent business interests were pursued in the private sector. As a small business owner and entrepreneur, several successful ventures expanded opportunities for customers and employees. Speculation in markets, and international business investments, allowed for extensive travel and a world view for commerce. SARTRE's intent is to stir the conscience of those who desire to bring back a common-sense moral and traditional value culture for America. So who is SARTRE? He is really an ordinary man just like you, who invites you to join in on this journey.

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Jonathan David Morris:
The State of New Jersey: Unsafe at any Speed

New Jersey is known for its roads. I have varying theories as to why that may be. Part of me thinks it's because the roads are the only things out-of-staters ever see. This would account for why people think New Jersey smells, when, in fact, New Jersey only smells on the Turnpike where out-of-staters pass through. And if you must know, New Jersey only stinks for the same reason blowfish blow themselves up. It's a defense mechanism. It's meant to scare you away.

Anyway, I also think New Jersey is known for its roads because they're the biggest moneymakers we've got outside Atlantic City. And I'm not talking about the buckets of cash brought in by all our tollbooths. No, I'm talking about the money we make off of traffic fines. You see, the State of New Jersey has this way of taking the fun out of driving and sticking it straight up your tailpipe. For example, there are now no fewer than three -- count 'em, three -- instances in which the state doubles its fines for speeding.

First, there are Work Zones. Whenever a New Jersey driver sees a sign saying, "Work Zone Ahead," he knows to slow down for fear of doubled fines. And, of course, it makes sense to ask folks to drive slowly. After all, there are workers working in Work Zones. Speeders risk running them down.

But you've got to understand these Work Zones are everywhere. Back roads. Major highways. You name it. And in some Work Zones, there isn't even any work going on. Traffic slows to a crawl as the orange signs start appearing at the side of the road: "Slow Down… Work Zone… 1000 Feet." And then you get there. And you realize you've been duped. All it amounts to is an empty dump truck and a bunch of kicked over cones.

God forbid you should get pulled over, though. They'd still double the fines.

To me, this seems unnecessary.

Then there are 65mph Zones. Here you wouldn't think there'd be a problem with speeding, seeing as how the whole idea is to drive faster than usual. But if you thought that, you'd be wrong.

Typically, you're safe doing 70 in a 65, which is nice. But when you're driving in a 65, things are already opened up and expected to move a bit faster -- that's why they made it a 65 to begin with. And when things get moving, it is very easy for the flow of traffic to go from a cool 65 all the way up to 80. Now, I'm not suggesting you should go that speed, but let's get real here: When traffic hits 80, you've got to go 80. Anything slower could easily get you killed.

And that's what I'm getting at. These 65mph Zones are ruled by a "zero tolerance" -- i.e., Nazi -- policy. If a cop's having a bad day, and it's the end of the month, and he hasn't reached his quota, he can pull you over and cite you for doubled fines. Yet driving precisely 65 when the prevailing speed is 80 is probably just as dangerous as 80 itself.

Lastly, the state doubles its fines in Safe Corridors. Yeah, you heard me: Safe Corridors. Never heard of them? That's because they're new. And I can't possibly describe them like the State of New Jersey describes them, so here's the official description from the Department of Transportation's February 6th press release:

"Signed into law by Governor James E. McGreevey in July 2003, the [Safe Corridors] initiative doubles fines for a variety of driving offences, including speeding and aggressive driving, on sections of Routes 1, 9, 22, 40, 46, 47, 73, and 206. The highway sections were designated as 'Safe Corridors' based on statistics showing a crash rate 50 percent over the state rate and 1,000 or more crashes over three years."

Safe Corridors are the worst racket yet. I travel Routes 1 and 9 all the time. And you know what? You're lucky if you can speed there. If things moved any slower, you'd put your car in park.

You want to know why people keep crashing all the time? It's because you're putting in too many goddam traffic lights and strip malls. Knock it off already. I like shopping as much as the next guy. But everywhere I go, all I see is a Lowe's on this side of the highway and a Home Depot on the other. A Staples and an Office Max. A Friday's and a Tuesday's. Enough is enough. All this stop-and-go traffic is getting ridiculous. It takes me two hours to travel ten miles. Even horses go faster than that. Weren't automobiles supposed to solve this problem?

And I'll tell you what really gets me: It's the fact that these Safe Corridors are meant to protect people, yet they debuted to curiously little fanfare. You'd think the state would be patting its back in public every chance it gets. It doesn't. Instead, it's as if they're trying to conceal Safe Corridors altogether. Only dorks like me who spend time checking out the NJDOT's web site even know about them.

And you ought to see the "Designated Safe Corridor" signs. They're white and yellow, unassuming, and posted in spots you wouldn't think to look -- like behind the branches of trees. What's more, they contain blocks of text explaining what Safe Corridors are, as if it's safe to slam your brakes and read them.

I originally planned on writing this article when Safe Corridors came out a few months ago. My plan, though, was to purposely get pulled over in a Safe Corridor, so I could write about it. I had it all mapped out. I'd go before the judge, and he'd ask me to enter my plea for speeding, and I'd tell him, "Not guilty by reason of insanity." And when he asked me to clarify, I'd look around the courtroom and say, "Hey, I'd have to be crazy to speed in a Safe Corridor."

Crazy, indeed. I'd be crazy for thinking the punch line was worth the money.

Because money is what it comes down to, after all. If it wasn't about money, they wouldn't be hiding Safe Corridors, much less have them on top of those other doubled fine zones. I mean, I'd love to tell you, at this rate, it won't be long before Unsafe Corridors completely disappear, but I think that's the basic idea. You probably already figured as much.

The way I see it, it's really no wonder out-of-staters race for the borders when they're driving through New Jersey. They're afraid to venture any further into the state and see what other fines can be levied for their own good. Hey, I live here -- I can't say I blame them.

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SARTRE Encore Presentation from 05-11-03
The Criminal Bar Association  

Consider the undeniable systemic problem with the law. Attorney’s police themselves and are not accountable to the public. That’s exactly how lawyers want it. The concept of a Bar Association, comprised of members from the genuine oldest profession, having the dubious distinction of being “officers of the court”, is the height of arrogance. In its most bare and simplistic constitution, to become part of the pretender class, one must swear ultimate allegiance to the State and the Brotherhood. In order to sit at the table, the solicitor agrees to protect his own kind for the privilege of compromising the holy of holies - The Law.

If you think this is a harsh assessment, just read the Bill of Rights and explain and defend why the predominance of current case law and court decisions so evidently violates the clear meaning of the U.S. Constitution? Surely, only those who derive a vested interest or suffer from acute brainless functionality, would conclude and argue that ninety-nine percent of statutes are consistent with our fundamental and supreme declaration of principles.

The reason for this tragedy is obvious. Legislation is enacted predominately by lawyers, and laws are adjudicated by judges, most of who are attorneys-at-law. Now add to this prim and bogus scheme, the function of the Bar Association - a nice and neat way to deflect and ignore any complaints or changes against brethren members. How sweet! Only lawyers have the franchise for judge, jury and arbitrator - with immunity from accountability for the shyster fraternity.

Imagine how often you can expect that accountability for the barrister, will be dispensed by a league of fellow conspirators? Awe, only in the world of the legal eagle will such absurdity soar to the heights of justice! But wait, there is an answer to this scam that never sees a real trial by jury . . .

In a rare moment of populous equity, let’s ponder a real solution.

Attorneys are assigned their license to practice law after passing the bar exam. Their permit for misrepresentation is granted on the state level. Normally complaints against a particular counsel would be filed with the Bar Association in the county were the lawyer has their primary office. Since the present arrangement is a closed shop, run by the esquire class, why not break the monopoly of this presumptuous cartel and let the public administer the process.

Here is how a true disciplinary formula would work in the real world.

1) Actions against attorneys for violation of professional conduct would be filed in the county of record for the lawyer.

2) Complaints would be heard before a public body of citizens, selected by lot from the current registered voters in that community and chaired by a citizen in the same manner.

3) Similar to a grand jury, a set rotating term for such a panel, would conduct reviews on all complaints against attorneys.

4) Open proceedings with full access to the press and the public.

5) Much like arbitration, citizens would hear the complaint, examine evidence and pass judgment on the alleged violation.

6) There would be NO appeal to the courts, since individual constitutional rights are not litigated. Only actions, stemming from professional misconduct, applies.

7) The franchise license to practice law for profit and as a business, resides and retains jurisdiction approval by the country board of citizens.

8) Remedy and penalty for infractions would impact the status of the attorney to practice law in that jurisdiction, with restitution judgments and relief discipline alternatives - determined by appropriate community standards.

9) For those instances where criminal conduct is determined, referrals are made directly to the sitting grand jury in the district. Since county prosecutors are government attorneys, their role is to abide by the legitimate authority of grand jury decisions.

10) Conditions for conduct community review applies to ALL members of the ratified BAR gang, whether in the public or private sector.

Before you critique such an outline as quixotic, unsound or lacking pragmatism, ask who controls the legislation process that would enact such elements of reform and accountability? Yes, the lawyers would fight like hell to keep their special exemptions and protect their nefarious syndicate. However; that only validates how extreme the abuses have become, how entrenched the actual organized criminals have succeeded and how institutionalized our society is to accepting this fraud.

You don’t need to harness a bull to drag the plow, when all the asses are ready to do the pulling.

Does the herd nurture leaders or is the pack but a swarm of worker bees, serving queens? Drones to a sealed system of privileged gatekeepers; who create, administer and decide the law is certainly not due process - let alone a society of free citizens. Transforming the Bar Association from a select ‘boys club’ safekeeping habitual and serial abusers, would require even more profound legal reforms.

The latest perversion of our Constitution - the DemocRAT’s Senate filibuster to obstruct an up or down vote on federal judgeship appointments - demonstrates why internal regeneration is impossible. Lawyers becoming legislators is akin to opening the hen house to the fox. Attorneys serving as judges is like giving the keys of the prison cell to the chronic lawbreakers. Who are more culpable to charges of criminal conduct than the culprits of the BAR? Their outlaw club is immune from conviction. RICO will never apply to these gangsters! What a dream system for the tyrant. Just look for the esquire, and you will find the despot, all tied in legal terms and certified by rigged courts.

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