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Do our laws follow our religions? Excise a Gerp Today

Excise a Gerp Today

Do our laws follow our religions? 

This morning I received a call from a man in a different corner of our nation regarding the issue of police abuse.  He insisted that I tell him the answer to "what's your jurisdiction," according to the primary and secondary definitions in Black's Law Dictionary.  Black's 8th starts definint the term on page 2490 and goes on for pages, providing this first:

1. A government's general power to exercise authority over all persons and things within its territory; esp., a state's power to create interests that will be recognized under common-law principles as valid in other states <New Jersey's jurisdiction>. [Cases: States 1. C.J.S. States §§ 2, 16.] 2. A court's power to decide a case or issue a decree < the constitutional grant of federal-question jurisdiction>. — Also termed (in sense 2) competent jurisdiction; (in both senses) coram judice.
Pretty soon, I found out that the caller wanted to hammer me into submission with the assertion that the bible is the source of the law and jurisdiction comes from God. 

I told him that law comes from man's observation of relationships which culminated in the Golden Rule, and has nothing in particular to do with God or the bible.  I said the authors of the Bible lived under laws on that basis long before anyone wrote a bible.    I did not get to venture further because the line suddenly disconnected.

Anyway, he seemed to want to know MY authority for demanding that Police treat me with love and respect under my normal condition of abiding by the law.  I did not get to tell him that jurisdiction applies only to Government, and cops have only the authority to interfere with people under provisions of the law. I wanted to point him to the state constitution's guarantee of our right to privacy and to be let alone from intrusion of government into our lives except as specified in that constitution... and that explains why certain police behavior constitutes "abuse."

I wanted to explain that the people need to read the criminal laws regarding stop-and-frisk, and probable cause to arrest law breakers, and police powers to prevent crimes. And while abiding by the criminal laws, people should always demand identification and recitation of authority from cops, and sue and file internal affairs and criminal complaints against cops who violate their rights by exceeding that authority.

I suppose John Wolfgram could give him some lectures on that point, having suffered government thuggery and won in court against them.

How to Prevent and Eliminate Abuse by Government perpetrators of Crime ("Gerps")


But eventually, regardless of the source of abuse, whether from cops or criminals, people need to embrace a gradient scale of actions calculated to prevent and terminate abuse by government thugs.  Unless of course, they like to feel and deal with bruises, cuts, broken limbs, bashed heads, black eyes, life-long disabilities, and death at the hands of government thugs.

1.  Avoidance - keep out of harm's way.

  • Don't smart off to or antagonize law enforcers
  • Stay away from organized arrays of law enforcers
  • ALWAYS have one or more "wing men" (and least one surreptitiously) nearby observing and recording
  • Try to have several supporters in your company as witnesses, intimidating by mere peaceful presence

2.  Physical force  on-scene

  • get a concealed carry or other gun permit and bear arms for defense of self and others.

3.  Personal process - polite interaction with the abuser
  • talk to the abuser in calmer circumstances
  • coax, suggest retirement, offer a different job, explain the upshot of accelerating the issue, etc,

4.  Administrative process
  • write demand letters to legislators, mayors, police chiefs, news papers,and the abuser's family/friends/employers
  • hire investigators and PR agencies to dig up and expose dirt on the perp to the news media

5.  Legal process

  • file internal affairs / administrative,  criminal, and tort complaints, and prosecuting herding to resolution

6.  Political process

  • campaign for and elect politicians who will eliminate the abuse from within government

7.  Public process

  • rally, demonstrate, and march in parks, streets, public malls, etc., with signs, banners, flyers, etc.
8.  Retribution through removal, not punishment
  • Excise the perp and any enablers/supporters from government or (if necessary) from the planet by any means deemed expedient.
  • Use stealth to make detection and counter-retribution least likely.
  • Exercise caution to avoid mistakes, for the process constitutes grave personal danger.

Cops - Only Human

We should realize that police work endangers the cop, and the cop's family.  Dealing with sneaky, violent criminals imposes stress on cops that creates a fight or flight reaction tendency (PTSD), partly because the law constrains them not to kill the criminal on the spot except in certain circumstances.  That makes it dangerous for ordinary non-criminals to come into the cop's immediate presence. 

Add to that danger the fact that many cops use drugs and have become criminals themselves by accepting bribes, stealing the contraband and loot of both criminals and the innocent, and committing rape, mayhem, robbery, murder, and a host of other crimes.  They generally operate under an omerta-style code of silence in a good old boys network that protects the cops from exposure, arrest, and prosecution.  Even "good" cops have fallen into that network and turn a blind eye to their fellow officers' bad behavior, so they have become part of the problem and citizens simply cannot trust them to do the right thing to rein in the abuses by bad cops.  And, criminal cops have little compunction about hurting innocent people.  They tend to see everyone as just another kind of criminal.

Our Duty and Its Source

All of us have the duty to eliminate evil, criminal, abusive people from government.  I call them Gerps, Governemt pERPetratorS of crime.  Sometimes we find it too onerous and burdensome to make the effort because so many Gerps exist and hurt others.  We ought to feel compunction against such lethargy and dereliction of duty, but more than that, we ought to work together at home and in communities to excise crimes and Gerps from government, even if our favorite cops and politicians commit those crimes.

At the same time, we should patiently exercise some restraint, realizing that people in and out of government might err in good conscience.

We should never feel disdain for those seeking to expose and excise crimes and Gerps from government.  We should lend such justice seekers and their efforts our support, help fund their efforts, and join in to do the work as needed, as we prosecute our other ambitions in life.

You can ask whether the Bible or your religion endorses the above scheme of terminating abuse by cops and others in government, and excising the abusers from government.  The bible says "an eye for an eye," justifying vengeance.  It also says "love your neighbor as yourself," justifying tolerance.  Jesus elevated those notions by saying "love one another as I have loved you" and "forgive others seventy times seven."  And of course, the Golden Rule, a component of all religions, provides "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  So, clearly, justice-seeking has its practical, moral, and ethical limits, ending short of hurting others except in a just cause.  Seeking justice becomes a balancing act.

Well, nothing I have written above violates the most enlightened of those principles.  If you love your fellows, you will not permit government thugs and rogues to abuse them.  You will not abuse them, except in the interest of prevention and justice, and you will not permit their abusing you.

If you have registered to vote, served in the US military or any other government job, or become a naturalized citizen, you have sworn an oath to support the US and state constitutions.  Those documents impose limits on government and police power.  The swearing of an oath has a religious nature, even if you don't add "so help me God" at the end. 

Thus, you have both a legal and religious duty to enforce the imposition of those limits on the authority of government employees.  You MUST, as both a good citizen and a child of God, eliminate crime and criminals from government by whatever means you deem expedient.  So,


EXCISE A GERP TODAY.

 

Reference - READ THESE


Florida Constitution of 1838 Article I:

We the People of the Territory of Florida ... in order to secure to ourselves and our posterity the enjoyment of all the rights of life, liberty, and property, and the pursuit of happiness, do mutually agree, each with the other, to form ourselves into a Free and Independent State, by the name of the State of Florida.

ARTICLE I.  Declaration of Rights.

That the great and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established, we declare:

Section 1.    That all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal; and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property and reputation; and of pursuing their own happiness.

Section 2.    That all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and established for their benefit; and, therefore, they have, at all times, an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter or abolish their form of government, in such manner as they may deem expedient.

Section 21.    That the free ... of this State shall have the right to keep and to bear arms, for their common defense.

Declaration of Independence of 1776, Paragraph 2:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.


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A Reason to Revise the 13th Amendment

I welcome discussion of the questions and issues raised below, but please keep hateful or insulting rejoinders to yourself.


A Reason to Revise the 13th Amendment

Copyright © by Bob Hurt 18 May 2012. All rights reserved

Pesky Questions About Bozos

Does a society have the right to enact laws that effectively prevent members of the society from

  • becoming a financial burden on the rest of society?

  • endangering others in society?

  • infecting innocent babies with a condition of lifelong obtuseness, brutishness, torpidity, and lack of intelligence?

How and why has the USA changed in average intelligence since its beginning?

Does any right of a society or civilization justify limiting the lower boundary of intelligence for parenting, such as through eugenics programs?

This commentary addresses those questions and might provide insights for the sincere truth-seeker.

Law and Likelihood of Harming Others

Consider the legislative enactments regulating business practices, highway traffic, and human relations. Take for example seatbelt laws. Government requires people to buckle themselves in because:

  • People often cause car crashes through negligence, incompetence, judgment error, or equipment failure;

  • The violence of car crashes often maim or kill people in and out of the car;

  • Such terrible loss causes families to suffer from reduced of earning power and enjoyment of life, and becoming a burden on society;

Thus, modern civilizations prohibit human actions likely to endanger selves. others, and society.

Qualities and Uses of Intelligence in Civilization

According to Wikipedia's IQ article, IQ has high heritability, intgelligence highly correlates to SAT scores, and people with IQ of 70 to 90 will likely engage in criminal behavior. Lynn and Vanhanen's books on IQ show the high correlation of national average IQ to gross national product. Therefore, means exist for society to determine the intelligence (g factor) and IQ of its members, and their corresponding value to society in terms of productivity, academic achievement, likely crimnality, burden on society, and the likelihood of low-intelligence parents procreating low-intelligence children.

One must have an IQ of at least 85 to graduate from high school. US IQ distributions from actual tests reveal that at least 75 million of its people have IQ below 85 and even more cannot graduate from high school because of behavior and health problems associated with low intelligence.

In the past 150 years the US has moved away from circumstances requiring massive numbers of low-intelligence people in its military and work forces. The military leaders of today desperately want recruits to have high school diplomas, and many manual labor jobs have moved to 3rd world countries as mechanization has modernized farms and factories. America needs people who can think, arrive at correct evaluations, and make correct decisions.

Hypocrisy of Ignoring the Gene Pool

Wouldn’t it make sense to reduce the need for protective laws, prisons, and welfare infrastructures legislating to elevate the quality of the gene pool?

I see the refusal to take such action as rank hypocrisy:

  • We demand laws regulating seatbelt usage, road, motor vehicle, and building construction, highway speed, driver licenses, professions like plumbing, dentistry, medicine, and lawyering, and many other areas of life, on the basis of likelihood of resultant injury. But,

  • We ignore the far higher likelihood of injury resulting from procreation by people of low intelligence.

How much sense does that make?

Hypocrisy aside, does it not seem unintelligent to refuse to discuss the reasons and means for reducing the percentage of grossly unintelligent people in future populations? Does it not seem even more stupid to refuse out of political correctness - the notion of feeling embarrassed that the topic might offend those of grossly low intelligence?

How about taking a poll of the stupid and ask them whether they enjoy feeling confused, frustrated, victimized, in trouble, and unable to learn, to figure things out, or to make prudent decisions? We might discover that they think they figure things out just fine, or that they hate the condition and would become smart if they could.

Well, aside from that, it could go without saying that the highly intelligent would find some tasks boring that the lowly intelligent would find gratifying. Likewise, tasks that would challenge and gratify the intelligent would frustrate and anger the unintelligent.

Many jobs exist that would suit the unintelligent. Thus, society's needs for the unintelligent still exist, such as domestic servitude, and simple tasks for which employers cannot afford machines. But such tasks have an economic value nonetheless, and it makes no economic sense to force an employer to pay more than the value of them.

Intelligence Strata (Classes) in America

The existence of 75 million relatively unintelligent people in America and the lack of available jobs for such people poses a serious problem that has resulted in America's prisons bursting at the seams.

America has entered an age where it handles unintelligent people as follows:

  • Puts them into the welfare system (they burden taxpayers); and

  • Suffers crimes at their hands (they burden their victims and then the criminal justice system).

Meanwhile, the very smart have advertised the American Dream's cornucopia of goods and services which the unwealthy obtain through debt. The unwealthy, unlike the unintelligent, do have intelligence, but either don't use it sufficiently to become wealthy, or actually don't have quite enough intelligence to become wealthy. That is, wealth does not generally happen by accident except when inherited by someone who very likely has high intelligence, the offspring of someone intelligent enough to garner wealth.

So we have three major strata:

  • The highly intelligent wealthy (high class)

  • The somewhat intelligent or lazy unwealthy (middle class)

  • The unintelligent poor (low class)

In practice:

  • The high class has managed to make the middle class into voluntary servants through glitzy ads and debt.

  • Many of the high and middle class employ the low class for domestic servants.

  • Some, but not that many, of the middle and high classes provide the low class with food, clothing, and shelter as part of the domestic servitude arrangement.

  • The existence of many if not most of the low class have made the high and middle classes into their involuntary servants through crime, and taxation that pays for welfare abuse, health care, social workers, failed education efforts, and prisons.

  • Even though taxes on the high class do pay for the upkeep of the low class, the high class never notices it as a burden because of other tax benefits and shelters, but those taxes impose a severe burden on the middle class.

The 13th Amendment and Reverse Slavery

This makes it apparent that the 13th Amendment did not actually abolish involuntary servitude. In reality, it appears that Americans, through their misguided sense of fairness, justice, and altruism, have destroyed the effectiveness of community charity programs for the feckless, handing those to government, and converted the middle class into slaves of the low class AND the high class.

The upshot of this weird dilemma: Americans have upset the Law of the Survival of the Fittest with a system of legislated slavery of the middle class to the high class through usurious debt and to the low class through taxation. Victims of this system can only imagine that the high class engineered it intentionally. It does seem pretty slick when one ponders it. And that explanation clarifies the reason Government refuses to patrol the borders or impose some kind of check on the presently unrestrained procreation of children by unintelligent parents.

This dilemma and its causes constitute a wholly immoral, unethical perversion of civilization's ideals. A society ought to engineer civilization for evolution toward some age of light and life, so to speak, where no crime, poverty, or war exists, and people can prosecute their ambitions without unduly burdening their fellows. That can never happen in an increasingly mechanized society in which 25% of the people haven't the cognitive ability to graduate from high school, and will certainly resort largely to crime or welfare abuse to get by.

People of low intelligence make sense in a free society so long as others don't become systematic slaves to them. The unintelligent must have a means of becoming gainfully, self-sufficiently, and happily employed, or the wards of those willing to care for and obtain economic benefits from them. The unintelligent simply cannot become and remain wards of the state without an economic justification. Liberty, after all, comes at the expense of commensurate responsibility.

Reverse Slavery Justifies 13th Amendment Revision

The foregoing discussion sheds new light on the 13th Amendment. That Amendment should stand, but ONLY for people with sufficient IQ and ambition to operate self-sufficiently. So, Congress ought to modify it a bit to that end.

Though many might feel loathe to admit it, involuntary servitude gave many benefits to many people, in spite of members of master and slave classes abusing one another.

Potential Benefits of 13th Amendment Revision

It provided sustenance, employment, and regulation for the servants and labor and other economic and personal benefits for the masters. Both sides benefited and to a large extent enjoyed the arrangement. And most of the servants, though slaves, escaped far worse conditions in their homelands.

But, involuntary servitude had serious deficiencies:

  • Incorrigible and violent slaves endangered the master and other slaves, and belonged in prison, not in a family or commercial enterprise.

  • Abusive or negligent masters hurt or deprived their slaves.

  • Many people became slaves who had the intelligence and raw ability become good, self-sufficient citizens, and should not have become involuntary servants.

Today we have a reverse-slavery system where the high and middle classes, who can care for themselves and become good citizens, have become involuntary servants to the low class who cannot care for themselves or become good citizens.

Society must reverse this situation while dramatically reducing the low class to a size that society actually needs for a smoothly functioning economy. That constitutes the supreme reason to outlaw production of bozos in America. Within 3 generations the averate intelligence of the nation will rise significantly, welfare will diminish so that neighborhoods can handle it without government interference, crime will drop dramatically, inner city ghettos will disappear, prison industries will shrink, and America will become monumentally more productive, more competitive than ever in the world economy.

And, Americans with good sense should demand a change to the 13th Amendment to impose a system of involuntary servitude on able-bodied people who, by their nature, cannot or will not care for themselves without hurting or burdening others.

Americans of good sense will otherwise remain slaves to the unintelligent of the land. And that just doesn't make much sense, does it?

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Oh Yeah Sourdough

1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter I granulated 10 years ago and kept in a jar in the fridge. 
Took some out, fed it flour and water for a couple of days, got this frothy, bubbling spongy mess.

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Mixed it in with a cup of oatmeal and 50/50 white bread flour with whole wheat flour.
Included a big heaping tablespoon of salt, some olive oil, and sugar. 
Formula:  200g sponge, 20g salt, 650g R/O water, 1000g flour
Got this big blob of dough going.  No kneading.  Just got all the ingredients wet.

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Stretched and folded it every 45 minutes, 3 times.
Cut the blob into loaves and let it rise in bread pans for 3 hours.

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Snipped a groove in the tops of the loaves with scissors.
Put those loaves in a cold oven and baked them 45 minutes at 375.
Fresh out of the oven, Piping hot at 199 degrees F.  Smelled up the whole house.
Lawdy Momma!  OH  Yeah!  Sourdough!

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2460 Persian Drive #70, Clearwater, FL 33763-1925
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Virgina USDC awards Storm Bradford over $40,000 in TILA Lawsuit

Storm Bradford just won a Truth In Lending Act (TILA) lawsuit against HSBC.  A US 4th circuit ruling opined that a TILA violation victim must post a rescission letter AND FILE A LAWSUIT within 3 years after consummating the loan in order to get the court to rescind the loan.  He waited 4 years to file the lawsuit in order to challenge the ruling.  Storm posted the Rescission letter within 3 years but waited another year to file the lawsuit, just to make a point.  He lost that count but won $35,000 in damages and another $5000 in sanctions because the servicer HSBC had refused to identify the owner of the note.  He sued the substitute trustee, mortgage broker, and bank. 

Congress created a US Government agency to interpret TILA, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  A CFPB lawyer contacted Storm and said CFPB agreed with his position (the 4th Circuit erred in ruling the TILA violation victim must file the lawsuit within 3 years) and that they would write an amicus brief to that effect for his appeal.  They wrote a similar one for the 10th Circuit. http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201203_cfpb_Rosenfield_vs_HSBC_Amicus.pdf.

Storm believes that generally a litigant can play the case correctly and win the heart of a judge who tends to favor the bank. In this case, the judge said HSBC substantially impeded Storm's ability to rescind timely under TILA.  Storm says he did not know whom to sue and couldn't sue within the 3 year period because he did not know who owned the note. He had asked HSBC to tell him who owned the note, and they had refused in order to drag things out and make Storm miss the 3-year TILA window for filing the rescission case. 

In the lawsuit against them, HSBC said they sold the note to Allied Bank.  Storm called Allied and they said they didn't own the note.  HSBC filed motion to dismiss for failure to name and serve indispensable party (Allied). The judge told Storm to join Alled in the lawsuit.  Storm said Allied is not an indispensable party because they had told him they did not own the note. He served them anyway.  Allied moved to dismiss.  Storm responded that they hadn't the right to a dismissal for want of standing (they didn’t own the note).  In discovery, Allied said they sold the note to Residential Funding.  Storm served Residential Funding.  Storm added a count to complaint that Allied had not timely told him they had sold the note.  He demanded all attorney fees because trip through rabbit hole was made necessary by failure to disclose name of owner of note.  And the judge agreed with him, awarding him $5000 in a motion for sanction of Allied for not admitting the truth to begin with.

Rescission is a common law remedy regarding contracts.  But federal common law does not exist, Congress passed the TILA.  Rescission restores the parties to their financial status prior to contract.  The parties must return money to one another. 

Note:  A borrower under water on a loan cannot give money back. But in cases where the lender defrauded the borrower, the court will award treble damages, and that can provide the arithmetic necessary to justify the rescission order.  In that way a borrower can get a house free and clear.  For this reason, many mortgagors have chosen to dig for the lender/agent torts and contract breaches underlying the mortgage.  It just so happens that Storm Bradford’s company Mortgage Fraud Examiners provides that service for beleaguered homeowners.  If you want his help, contact him at http://mortgagefraudexaminers.com.

“When I give seminars and teach people about the principles in solving  mortgage and foreclosure problems, I want them to know that I have walked in their shoes, that I myself have fought the battle in court,”  said Bradford in an interview today.  “I consider it important that people have well-grounded faith in their service providers,” he added.  He mentioned that he remains available to speak at seminars nationwide for attorneys seeking Continuing Legal Education credits and learning the techniques and nuances of winning clients’ houses free and clear from tortious lenders.

 

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A "BEAT ISLAM" Message to TWO BILLIAN CHRISTIANS

To ALL Christians who want their lives to count for something extra:

I just received this text, terribly formatted to consume many pages, from a
well-meaning Christian friend to dozens of CCs.

When we get 100,000,000, that's one hundred million willing Christians to
BOND together, voice their concerns and vote, we can take back America with
God's help, Become one of the One hundred million, then lets get 200
million. It can be done by sending this email to your friends. Do the math.
It only takes a willing heart and a fed up soul. God Bless America and Shine
your light on Her. In 1952 President Truman established one day a year as a
"National Day of Prayer." In 1988 President Reagan designated the First
Thursday in May of each year as the National Day of Prayer. In June 2007
(then) Presidential Candidate Barack Obama declared that the USA"Was no
longer a Christian nation." This year President Obama canceled the 21st
annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse Of
"not wanting to offend anyone." BUT... on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM
until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was Held on
Capitol Hill, Beside the White House. There were over 50,000 Muslims in
D.C. that day. HE PRAYS WITH THE MUSLIMS! I guess it Doesn't matter if
"Christians" Are offended by this event - We obviously Don't count as
"anyone" Anymore. The direction this country is headed should strike fear
in the heart of every Christian, especially knowing that the Muslim religion
believes that if Christians cannot be converted, they should be annihilated.
This is not a Rumor -Go to the website To confirm this info:
http://www.islamoncapitolhill.com. Send
this to ten people and the person who sent it to you!... to let them know
that indeed, it was sent out to many more.

Protecting America from Islamic extremists and their onerous Sharia Law and
murderous and militant Jihadostss seems a noble motive.

I consider living one's religion in devotion to supreme values an even more
noble motive. Part of that living, according to Jesus, consists of going
two-by-two to residences in communities, knocking doors, and trying to help
those inside with their concerns in life. All of use ought to have a "wing
man" in such an effort. This act of selfless love will infect many others
with a desire to help others, and it will end up bringing relief. It will
cause us to develop more expertise in helping others, and in pointing them
to practitioners with better skills than we have. Eventually it will result
in the organization of practitioners for that purpose.

Stop and ponder that Five Pillars of Islam and how they might align with the
gospel of love and unselfish service , and embrace of one's Sonship with God
that Jesus of Nazareth taught and lived throughout his public ministry.

1. There is one god, Allah, and Muhammad is his messenger

2. Pray 5 times a day

3. Give alms to the poor, widows, orphans

4. Make a pilgrimage to Mecca

5. Fast for a month during daylight hours of Ramadan

Contrast this with the three tenets of the Gospel of the Kindom of God which
Jesus taught:

1. Acceptance of the fact of the sovereignty of God - he is our wise
and loving Heavenly Father, we are his children, and we should love him.

2. Belief in the truth of the brotherhood of man - all people are our
brothers and sisters and we should love them and serve them unselfishly and
lovingly.

3. Faith in the effectiveness of the supreme human desire to do the
Father's will, to become LIKE God - sincerity is the key to the Kindom of
Heaven.

All three elements of the Gospel grace the pillars of Islam. Muhammad
promulgated those pillars nearly 600 years after Jesus disappeared from view
on the morning of Pentecost, 30 AD. Because of the similarity, I have
always known that some enlightened missionary of the teachings of Jesus made
his way to Muhammad and taught that Gospel to him. And as a consequence of
that similarity, Islam has become the fastest growing religion with over 1
billion adherents.

But Muslim extremists pose a problem to my thinking. I see them the same as
crusaders, inquisitors, and witch hunters of Christianity in bygone ages.
Christianity got a 600 year head start on Islam. 600 years to 1000 ago,
Christians abused and murdered people in the name of God just as badly as,
or worse than, Muslims have over the past 400 years. It would not surprise
me to learn that the angels had somehow inspired Muhammad to start the
religion of Islam because of the vast gulf in religions philosophy between
Christianity in 600 AD and the Gospel that Jesus had taught. Islam might
have been needed on this world to fill the spiritual holes Christianity, and
to reduce the risk that the Gospel might get lost forever, particularly
during the DARK AGES of 500-600 AD. In any case, give Islam another 600
years to evolve and civilize itself, and it might become a very benign
religion.

None of that will change the reality that we can only live our core
Christian religion by obeying the orders of Jesus in the Great Commission he
uttered that Pentecost morning on the brow of Olivet. He commanded his
apostles and all of his followers to go into all the world and teach all
nations and all creatures his gospel and commandments. We cannot do that if
we don't approach individuals and families in an effort to help them with
their troubles. That will warm their hearts, and they will open their
hearts to our ministry and message.

THAT is LIVING our religion. And NOTHING WE OTHERWISE DO OR SAY can
possibly have a more negative effect on the spread of the hatefulness of
Islam. Jesus, our Creator knew this, of course. And that explains why he
set it as an example 2000 years ago to all of us for all time.

Back to the quoted text above, we should not hold anyone in disdain for
encouraging a national day of prayer, or for praying with Muslims. In fact,
we should encourage more of it. The growth of Islam should serve as a
clarion call to Christian leaders to excise offensive and illogical elements
from their dogmas so that more of the world's rational, educated people can
embrace them in good conscience. For a clue about this, read Thomas Paine's
3-volume Age of Reason, as
troubling today as 200-years ago. Then the leaders of Islam will have to do
the same to compete against Christianity for donations and membership.

Please send THIS message to everyone you know. Write or call if you want
help or encouragement starting and continuing your 2-by-2 ministry.

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Write-in Candidate Sibley Asks US Supremes to Make Obama Prove POTUS Eligibility

Obama’s POTUS Ineligibility…

Here’s one the mainstream media will ignore. See Montgomery Blair Sibley’s press release below regarding his Certiorari Petition to the US Supremes which starts with these words:

     ***** Question Presented For Review

Petitioner – a citizen of the United States and a Registered Write-In Candidate for President of the United States – filed on January 3, 2012, both as ex relator the United States and individually, a quo warranto suit against Barack Hussein Obama, II, challenging his Article II, §1 eligibility to hold the office of President in so much as his Father was not a United States Citizen. The District Court to date has refused to rule upon that Petition.

Accordingly, on February 14, 2012, Petitioner filed a Petition for Mandamus in the Circuit Court seeking an order requiring the District Court to expeditiously rule one way or another upon the quo warranto petition. In response, on March 6, 2012, the Circuit Court ruled that: “The district court’s delay in ruling on the petition for writ of quo warranto is not so egregious or unreasonable as to warrant the extraordinary remedy of mandamus.” Accordingly, presented for review is the following question:

WHETHER the question of the eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama, II to be President presents a case of extraordinary constitutional moment demanding prompt resolution by the District Court, the Circuit Court and, ultimately, this Court.

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I have attached the Quo Warranto lawsuit (also see Sibley’s link below) that presents the evidence of the forgery/counterfeiting of the Birth Certificate Obama alleged that someone found in Hawaii, but which someone created in Adobe Photoshop by making a composite of other documents.  Sibley believes he has standing to bring a Quo Warranto action because his candidacy for US President suffers a threat from an imposter who has no right to hold the office of President.  Some believe Obama belongs in prison for deceiving the American voting public into thinking he was born in Hawaii, when in reality he was born in Mumbasa, Kenya, to a British citizen father, and for taking and holding the Presidency without having natural born citizen status the US Constitution requires.

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From: Montgomery Blair Sibley [mailto:mbsibley@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:21 AM
To: Montgomery Sibley
Subject: POTUS Write-in Candidate Sibley Forces Supreme Court to Rule on Obama’s Eligibility to Be President of the United States

Greetings,

Please see the attached.  The ball is now in the Supreme Court to decide the issue once in for all or, perhaps, never, thereby confirming the status quo without ever addressing the issue:  Is Barack Hussein Obama, II, eligible to be President of the United States?

Montgomery Blair Sibley
202-643-7232  (voice)
202-478-0371 (fax)

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PRESS RELEASE  #3

FOR IMMEDIATE  RELEASE

March 28, 2012


For More Information Contact:                     MONTGOMERY BLAIR SIBLEY through www.MontgomeryBlairSibley.com


POTUS WRITE-IN CANDIDATE  SIBLEY FORCE S SUPREME  COURT  TO RULE ON OBAMA’S

ELIGIBILITY TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON  D.C. - POTUS Write-In Candidate Montgomery Blair Sibley today filed his Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court. That Petition presents the Supreme Court with record evidence that: (i) Barack Hussein Obama, II, is not a “natural born Citizen” as required by Article II, §1 of the Constitution and thus is ineligible to be President and (ii) that the “Certificates of Live Birth” released by Mr. Obama are in fact forgeries. Additionally, Sibley is filing a Motion to Expedite Consideration of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari. By these documents, Sibley is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to expedite the resolution of his  Quo Warranto lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court before the Honorable John D. Bates. Significantly, though eighty-five (85) days have passed since Sibley’s filing of the lawsuit on January 3, 2012, Judge Bates has refused to rule upon any of the pending matters in that suit.

Sibley’s filings procedurally forces the Supreme Court to declare whether they will take up the question of Obama’s eligibility to be President or allow the question to be relegated to a judicial process that would not reach the Supreme Court until well after the November 6, 2012, election, let alone before the September 3, 2012, Democratic Convention.

Sibley stated: “Obama’s eligibility to be President is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. I have properly invoked the federal statute which authorizes challenges to the eligibility of federal office holders and procedurally have now moved that question from the District Court through the Circuit Court of Appeals and now, with these filings, to the Supreme Court. If t

A Romantic Afternoon in Paris

Ten Years ago this coming summer Darryl, Maria, and I ventured to France.  We visited a famous cafe in Paris named Le Deux Magots.

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Wikipedia (read the article at the above link) reads

It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual élite of the city. It is now a popular tourist destination. Its historical reputation is derived from the patronage of Surrealist artists, intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and young writers, such as Ernest Hemingway. Other patrons included Albert Camus and Pablo Picasso.

The Deux Magots literary prize has been awarded to a French novel every year since 1933.

Kinda reminds me of that wannabe nostalgic flick Midnight in Paris.

I scribbled poetry at the table there, and stashed it in an adventure log now stuffed somewhere in my crowded book case. We enjoyed a light lunch that day and pondered the antics and discussions of those who frequented the place in the 1930’s. 

I’ve often replayed that romantic afternoon in my mind with pleasure.  I feel so fortunate to feel that same romantic attraction and love for my precious Maria, year in and year out.


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Foreclosure Defense Advice, plus Templates for Florida

http://gingolaw.com

Titusville, Florida lawyer George Gingo has done some good work in providing foreclosure defense templates at the above web site.  Apparently he wants to toss pro se litigants a bone because he knows they cannot afford an attorney if they cannot make mortgage payments. You can get a hint about the quality of George’s work from his incredibly tolerant and patient appellate brief for the Lytles whose house the plaintiffs wanted to steal, a theft the lower court ordered.  See it here:

http://mattweidnerlaw.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/LyttlevBankUnited.pdf

I saw from the docket report that the George filed the Appellant brief on 12 Jan 2012 Appellee only filed an answer, ungodly late, on 15 Mar 2012.   I have not seen it but I imagine the Appellee brief reads like drek.  I hope George learns how to demand sanctions of the plaintiffs and their attorneys for their lies, delays, and shenanigans.

Some of my law expert friends claim you cannot make standardized legal documents.  I consider that utter nonsense.  Sure, you can take a standardized document for a starting point, and adapt it to your particular situation.  Of course on template does not fit all circumstances perfectly, but it can fit MANY circumstances NEARLY perfectly.  Lawyers use prior pleadings/responses/motions/notices/petitions ALL THE TIME for similar cases.  They would be idiots NOT to because, like a recipe for cake, you DON’T NEED TO REINVENT A RECIPE FROM SCRATCH EVERY TIME.  You just need to make sure the standard recipe produced a good result the first time.

And note that if you face off against a crooked “CONNECTED” attorney before a crooked “CONNECTED” or hateful judge, your legal documents might not have the proper effect anyway.  But, you can still base an appeal on them and timely objections, timely exceptions, and timeliness within the rules.

So, I “fan my fumes” at those who denigrate legal templates.  You can fare best with an honest, competent, diligent attorney, but it you don’t have one, and must do it yourself, templates can save you a lot of distress and give you good guidance, particularly if from a reputable source.  Remember that even the Rules of Civil Procedure contains templates for certain kinds of complaints (like foreclosure complaints in which the plaintiff must affie to owning and holding the note).  So, ignore people who denounce templates, but make sure you flesh them out with the proper information, adapt them to your court and situation, and consult reliable documents like the Florida Litigation Guide.

REMINDER TO USE COMMON SENSE:

1.       Foreclosure Defense Wastes Time.  I generally consider foreclosure defense a waste of time because a defendant who borrowed money on a mortgage note, bought a house with it, and did not pay it back accordingly, MUST forfeit the house to foreclosure auction in order to repay the note with the proceeds.  AND usually, these days, the defendant will end up owing a HUGE judgment lien because the house always auctions for far less than the loan balance.  The mortgagee can sue any time for damages respecting the judgment lien, and typically will if the defendant’s financial fortunes improve such as through winning a lottery, inheriting a fortune, or landing a well-paying job.  The judgment lien endures for 20 years.  And courts/trustees nearly always end up ordering a foreclosure auction.  Meanwhile the defendant will rack up ever more obligations in accrued interest and legal fees. For that reason, it makes no sense to defend against foreclosure.

2.    Drag Out the Foreclosure for CASH.   It makes far more sense to PAY NO MONEY TO AN ATTORNEY. Delay as long as possible while putting the money into savings or a growth investment that you would pay a lawyer or servicer every month.  Pretend to do a loan mod to drag things out (NEVER actually do a loan mod).  Then try to sell through a realtor, offer it for short sale, or do a keys for cash deal with the lender.  Demand zero judgment lien, or simply offer the lender your deed in lieu of foreclosure.  Many foreclosure victims using this method would have enough cash to buy a house at a real estate auction or short sale within the year to 3 years the foreclosure takes.

3.    Sue the Predatory Lender.   It makes MOST sense to attack the lender for the tortious conduct, contract breaches, and other violations underlying the mortgage.  If you get a proper examination done, you might find appraisal or loan fraud for which the court will award treble damages.  This money could pay down the loan or you could end up with the house free and clear.  You would find a personal injury attorney to get the lender to offer settlement, and if the lender refuses, find a personal injury attorney to take the case on contingency.  The litigation will take 2 or 3 years to complete (with you in the house the whole time).  In a jury trial, you could win PUNITIVE damages amounting to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.  Your lawyer would get 40% of the total take, but you’d get your house free and clear and a wad of money.  Wouldn’t your prefer that to suffering through a foreclosure?

Do you want help finding the torts, breaches, and violations underlying your mortgage?  If so, DO NOT GO TO A LOAN AUDIT OR SECURITIZATION AUDIT company, as most of them cheat you.  Instead, scan in and zip all of your mortgage, closing, and foreclosure related documents, then CALL ME at 727 669 5511 or E-mail me.  I shall give you the guidance you need.  As most of  you know by now, I do not run a business and I do not charge money for consultations (though that could change soon).  So, call or write NOW.

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Feel free to disseminate this message to all of your friends, family, associates, law buddies, service providers, and especially to people suffering from foreclosure, and also to people with mortgages who don’t face foreclosure but want to do something about being “under water” with their loans.  I try to take or return calls/email for all who try to contact me.

  

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Bob Hurt Critiques News Reporting of George Zimmerman shooting of teen Trayvon Martin in Florida

Ted Gest:

I appreciate your justice story summaries at http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/crime-and-justice-news.  Thank you. 

Today I address the following summaries of stories on the teen shooting in Florida below (George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin fought, and Zimmerman shot Martin to death).


FL Teen Shooting Overstepped Neighborhood Watch Protocols

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Neighborhood watch programs have long been the eyes and ears of local law enforcement, keeping tabs on suspicious behavior. The shooting death of unarmed Trayvon Martin by a watch volunteer may incite debate over how to balance vigilance and action, NPR reports. Recordings of a 911 call by George Zimmerman to police in Sanford, Fl., suggest he overstepped basic protocols set down by the National Sheriffs' Association's manual for such watch groups. Zimmerman shot and killed the 17-year-old in what he said was an act of self-defense during a patrol.

"Although Mr. Zimmerman apparently was not part of any official neighborhood watch organization, even if he had been, these folks don't have any more power than ordinary citizens," says law Prof. Paul Butler of George Washington University. "They are not law enforcement officials." About 25,000 watch groups are registered with the sheriffs' association, which started its program in 1972. Other groups are registered with local law enforcement. The association called Zimmerman a "self-appointed neighborhood watchman," and it is unclear whether he would have been familiar with NSA guidelines. Most neighborhood watch programs have functioned safely and helped reduce crime, says a 2009 federal report. There have been other cases of surveillance escalating into violence. A man in Utah was shot dead in 2009 by the father of a teenage girl who apparently mistook the community watch member's questioning of his daughter for an incident of stalking. Chris Tutko, who runs the sheriffs' association's neighborhood watch group, says the manual his organization distributes says that citizens should never take action on their observations. This message has been harder to get out as budget cuts to local law enforcement have forced some departments to curtail their support for watch groups. "It used to be that departments had an officer assigned specifically to the local neighborhood watch program, but there's not much money for that anymore," Tutko says. He says one problem with unsanctioned programs is that without police aid and member screening, "you have no way of knowing if you're letting the bad guys in." For neighborhood groups, "firearms are definitely out," Tutko says.

NPR


Calls Grow To Reassess "Stand Your Ground" Law In Florida

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Seven years after Florida enacted a landmark "stand your ground" gun rights law that became a model for other states, calls are mounting from the public and some state officials, including Gov. Rick Scott, to reassess it after the fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch captain who apparently confronted him after deeming that he looked suspicious, says the Christian Science Monitor. In another development yesterday, Bill Lee, police chief in Sanford, Fl., where the Martin killing occurred, said he would temporarily step aside.

The law's expansiveness could cause problems for prosecutors and law enforcement officials trying to determine the credibility of evidence and witnesses. A coalition of black Florida legislators asked House Speaker Dean Cannon to open hearings on the law, which removes any duty by an armed citizen to retreat from danger and allows the use of deadly force if there's a reasonable fear of death or grave harm. Cannon says he wants to wait until more facts are known about the incident, and until state and federal investigations are wrapped up. State Sen. Chris Smith is writing a bill that would bar a shooter from claiming self-defense if he or she is at any point the aggressor or provocateur.

Christian Science Monitor

I have these comments.

1)      America’s Black and liberal media pundits have universally expressed outrage at the self-defense shooting, demanding the ouster of the police chief, and the arrest of George.

2)     Travon Martin wore a “hoodie” that made him look suspiciously like a gang thug.  Florida has laws (below) against wearing hoods that descended from the anti-KuKluxKlan eara, but many people, particularly gang thugs, wear “hoodies,” more to cloak their identities than to stay warm.

a)     876.11 Public place defined.

b)     876.12 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public way. No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be or appear upon any lane, walk, alley, street, road, highway, or other public way in this state. History.—s. 2, ch. 26542, 1951.

c)      876.13 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public property.

d)     876.14 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on property of another.

e)     876.15 Wearing mask, hood, or other device at demonstration or meeting.

f)       876.155 Applicability; ss. 876.12-876.15.

g)     876.16 Sections 876.11-876.15; exemptions.

h)    876.17 Placing burning or flaming cross in public place.

i)       876.18 Placing burning or flaming cross on property of another.

j)       876.19 Exhibits that intimidate.

k)     876.20 Wearing mask and placing exhibit to intimidate.

l)       876.21 Sections 876.11-876.20; penalty.

3)     The cops received over 400 alert and help calls from the neighborhood the preceding year, and 8 robberies had occurred there.  That created a heightened sensitivity of the residents to the presence of suspicious-looking people on foot.

4)     Police had notoriously taken so long to respond to calls that many criminals had gotten away.

5)     Neighborhood Watch, while a good organization, cannot and does not train ite members in the use of firearms, and to avoid actions it warns members NOT to carry firearms or get into a confrontation with crime suspects.  This waters down the effectiveness of any neighborhood defense program because it lets criminals know they can have a good chance of getting away with their crimes.  Therefore, people like George feel naturally inclined, out of common sense, to arm themselves and pursue suspicious people who look like intruders.

6)     If the gated community is largely a white community, and Trayvon walked through it looking like a thug, and then acted even more suspicious/guilty by running away instead of speaking forthrightly and politely to George, then punched George in the face, no one should feel surprised that George shot Trayvon.  Death often results from physical combat.  Trayvon behaved stupidly and it cost him his life.  The fault lies with him, not George.

7)     Anyone has the right to patrol his neighborhood under arms and on the lookout for thugs, burglars, carjackers, and other crooks.  If more people did that, fewer neighborhood crimes would occur because the bearing of arms deters would-be criminals from trying to victimize the innocent.

8)    If Trayvon had a pop can in his pocket, the bulge might have resembled that of a weapon, and that might have alarmed George.

9)     Occasionally “relatively” innocent (stupid, untrained, or inattentive) people would get shot if more people bore arms.  However, dangers exist all over the world.  The innocent die daily from accidents and mistakes arising stupidity and inattentiveness.  Such deaths or injuries would occur anyway through traffic accidents, bee stings, dog bites, falling off roof, stepping into holes, etc, whether or not people bear arms and patrol neighborhoods.

10) Trayvon’s father Tracy Martin should have done a number of things as a responsible parent – Such advice would have included an admonition

a)     Drive Trayvon to the store instead of making him walk.

b)     Train Trayvon in principles of self-defense and in not unduly alarming others or making them fear for their safety in his presence.

c)      Warn Trayvon about how to behave when walking through the neighborhood, including all of the following.

i)       Show respect to neighbors and others who might accost him.

ii)    Don’t dress like a gang thug, specifically don’t wear baggy, low-slung pants or a hoodie

iii)  Don’t wear a hood on his head

iv)   Walk on the sidewalk or left side of the street,

v)     Don’t  jaywalk,

vi)   Don’t shortcut through or trespass on people’s property

vii)Keep your head up

viii)     Don’t carry a boom box or wear ear pieces, or listen to hip-hop music to the extent of distraction

ix)   Remain alert and attentive to surroundings and to hints of danger, but don’t suspiciously do so

x)     Stay out of confrontations, altercations, and harm’s way

xi)   Understand the Florida “Justifiable Use of Force” laws (Florida Statutes Chapter 776, below)

xii)Understand the right of non-felon adults to obtain permits and carry concealed weapons

xiii)     Understand that members of different racial groups harbor inherent distrust of one another and will feel more concern about personal and property safety in the presence of members of other races.

11)   Trayvon, a minor child, needed such advice, because under a hoodie he could (and did) pass for an adult and a thug with evil intentions, because such an appearance does not typify the appearance of those who walk down the streets in that neighborhood.

12) Sadly, many young Blacks dress and talk like thugs because so many of their rap and hip-hop role models dress and talk like thugs, and so few have sufficient male parental guidance at home.  The bulk of the American population society knows this and sees it daily on national television, on the streets, and in mixed-race interactions.  This has created an American mindset containing an image in which Blacks generally loathe, resent, or disrespect Whites for no reason other than racial differences, and Whites generally fear, distrust, and/or keep their distance from Blacks.  People cannot tell by looking at attire and behavior whether a young Black male has malicious intent.

13) The news media seems reluctant to interrogate the father and his “fiancé” in order to discover why neither of them had the adult caring and common sense to give Trayvon advices like those above, nor to inspect Trayvon’s appearance before Trayvon left the house.  They are legally responsible for him and any damage or trouble he caused.  They are responsible for his death because their negligence laid the groundwork for the altercation between Travon and George, and for the shooting.

14) Black thugs seem to prefer White victims.  Read mathematical proof in the 1999 La Griffe du Lion article “Crime in the Hood” based on US Government data regarding crime in America.  Additionally, in a declining economy where competition for jobs and commodities becomes tougher, crime tends to increase, adding to natural racial tensions. Informed people have good reason to fear and arm themselves against thugs, particularly in communities where police traditionally delay showing up in answer to alarm calls.

15)  All public schools should, but don’t, teach children the basics of laws of self-defense, such as the below Justifiable Use of Force laws.

16) The Mainstream Media did not report any of the above issues to any meaningful extent.  Even though news stories mention the Florida “Stand Your Ground” law, actually called the “Justifiable Use of Force” law, none of the stories provide links to on-line references, and they seem to pick a name for it that makes looking it up difficult if not impossible.  I provide below the actual statutes in question.  The typical reader should see them as impeccably sensible because people ought to arm themselves to defend themselves and their property and communities through the use of force.

The 2011 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 776 
JUSTIFIABLE USE OF FORCE

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CHAPTER 776

JUSTIFIABLE USE OF FORCE

776.012 Use of force in defense of person.

776.013 Home protection; use of deadly force; presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm.

776.031 Use of force in defense of others.

776.032 Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force.

776.041 Use of force by aggressor.

776.05 Law enforcement officers; use of force in making an arrest.

776.051 Use of force in resisting arrest or making an arrest or in the execution of a legal duty; prohibition.

776.06 Deadly force.

776.07 Use of force to prevent escape.

776.08 Forcible felony.

776.085 Defense to civil action for damages; party convicted of forcible or attempted forcible felony.

776.012 Use of force in defense of person.—A person is justified in using force, except deadly force, against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other’s imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if:

(1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony; or

(2) Under those circumstances permitted pursuant to s. 776.013.

History.—s. 13, ch. 74-383; s. 1188, ch. 97-102; s. 2, ch. 2005-27.

776.013 Home protection; use of deadly force; presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm.—

(1) A person is presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another when using defensive force that is intended or likely to cause death

Will You Love the Free Love of Amy Shalert?

http://thenewamerican.com/culture/family/11272-speaker-at-planned-parenthood-supports-teen-sex-in-home

Wouldn’t you have enjoyed high school more if you could have brought a boyfriend home and had a healthy, protected round of raunchy sex with him to wear off the tension of a hard day of lectures and gym?

Planned Parenthood speaker and UMass Assistant Professor of sociology Amy Schalet thinks so.  According to the article:

[Shalert says] "In the Netherlands if a girl is in a relationship, she’s not a slut for wanting sex, for making decisions about sex part of your life that you are allowed to own and make choices about. Teen pregnancy rates are about four times as high here. Birth rates about eight times as high.”

Schalet added that it was unfortunate that American teenage girls feel that "in their parents’ eyes they would be a disappointment if they were to engage in sex.” Her book about the subject, Not Under My Roof: Teens, and the Culture of Sex, argues that if parents allow their daughters to have sex at home, then the parents will retain more supervision. She writes,

Obviously sleepovers aren’t a direct route to family happiness. But even the most traditional parents can appreciate the virtue of having their children be comfortable bringing a girlfriend or boyfriend home, rather than have them sneak around. Unlike the American teenagers I interviewed, who said they felt they had to split their burgeoning sexual selves from their family roles, the Dutch teens had a chance to integrate different parts of themselves into their family life.

So much for “family planning.”  Shalert admits that Dutch teens have a lot of pregnancies and give birth to a lot of babies. Maybe she knows some slick way to get teenagers to use contraceptives effectively in the USA, but it sure as hell hasn’t worked in The Netherlands.  I never heard of any workable method of preventing pregnancies among teen sex machines one except sterilization, and that will not stop the spread of STD.

As a teen, I would have loved easy, abundant, wild and crazy sex after school.  But then I would have had to tolerate some horrible related stresses that make adult life difficult, stresses that often destroy academic ambitions.

Before he died my youngest brother reminded me that he used to get most of his crazy sex from teenage girls whose fathers had kicked them out of the house for their slutty ways.  So, he surely didn’t intend for his daughter to become easy prey for a younger man like himself, and he stayed in his end of the house when her boy friends came a-calling.  I suppose my brother and niece came to an understanding, particularly since no other woman lived with them to nix the idea.  The daughter seems to have grown to adulthood happy, professionally competent, well-adjusted, and childless, graduating summa cum laude from her university studies.  Something tells me that would not have worked in most households – most girls don’t have the astronomic intelligence of my niece, and many dads don’t have the fatherly decency of my brother.

To begin with, many fathers feel competitive against daughters’ boyfriends.  According to Wikipedia:

The global prevalence of child sexual abuse has been estimated at 19.7% for females and 7.9% for males, according to a 2009 study published in Clinical Psychology Review that examined 65 studies from 22 countries. Using the available data, the highest prevalence rate of child sexual abuse geographically was found in Africa (34.4%), primarily because of high rates in South Africa; Europe showed the lowest prevalence rate (9.2%); America and Asia had prevalence rates between 10.1% and 23.9%.[11] In the past, other research has concluded similarly that in North America, for example, approximately 15% to 25% of women and 5% to 15% of men were sexually abused when they were children

If upwards of 25% of women and 15% of women were abused in the USA as children, the numbers make it seem that 30% or more of US families have some kind of sexual abuse of children going on.  I don’t imagine the abusers would take kindly to sex competition from the local school or bebop joint.  I imagine that the new teen sex partnering would lead to disclosure of some of the abuse.

And all this leads the honest investigator to question why, if society would approve of a family’s child can have sex at home with a child from outside the family, society would NOT approve the family child having sex with another family member.  That seems just a little illogical.  Why should society accept one form of illicit sex but not another?  Pandora’s Box seems about to explode at the seams.

Okay, with the box popping open, shouldn’t we address the question of why everyone should not have the right to invite sex partners into the home, even married couples?  It’s no secret the many married couples have ever less sex together, and many cheat because of the craving for new conquests and more exciting experiences.  And that leads to no end of quarrels, fault-finding, and behavior that motivates the spouse at home  to ask “what do you hide that I should know about?” 

Well if bringing new sex partners into the marriage is just too much to expect the spouse to tolerate, why not establish a “Pleasure Palace” in every community where men, women, boys, girls, spouses, children and others can visit for no-strings sexual and other service, merely as a pleasure pursuit, whenever they like?  Why shouldn’t family members do a turn of duty there, delivering the service, perhaps for a little spending money or “allowance.”    And if all can do it there, why not a round-robin exchange of sexual favors at home between parents, kids, siblings, cousins, and the like?

I’m just dying to get answers to these questions from Amy Shalert.  I want to know where she sets moral, ethical, or pragmatic boundaries and why.  She might not have admitted it, but it seems obvious that she really wants to open that Pandora’s Box of Free Love left over from the yearnings of her Hippie days.

She was a Hippie, right?

 

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