Three posts follow this entry that hopefully will provoke some thoughts and comments from our OH MY BLOG readers.

And here are a few quotes to get you started on the massive scribing to follow:

“An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it”
John F. Kennedy

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein

“There have always been tyrants and murderers
and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end,
they always fall.
Think of it, ALWAYS.”
Mahatma Gandi

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.”
Nikita Khrushchev

“Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.”
Gore Vidal

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.”
John F. Kennedy

“The people can always be brought to do the bidding of their leader.”
Herman Goring

“I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.”
Adolf Hitler

“A government big enough to give you everything is
big enough to take everything you have.”
Benjamin Franklin

“Vote early and vote often — in the same election.”
Al Capone

“Kings, ministers, aristocrats, the rich in general, kept the people in povery and subjection; they kept them as they kept dogs, to fight and hunt for their services.”
Joseph Conrad

“Agents of the world’s elite have long been at war on the populace.”
Jim Keith

“Under Capitalism, man exploits man;
Under Communism, it’s the other way around.
Old Czech joke

“We know the system doesn’t work because we’re living in the ruins.”
Chester Anderson

“Democracy must be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.”
James Bovard

“There ought to be limits to freedom.”
George W. Bush

“This is no time for jokes. You must rid the world of this filth.”
Annie Wilks

“When governments fear the people there is liberty.
When people fear the government there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Make it a gooder.”
George W. Bush

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As it turned out, it was just a way for a local university to accummulate names and phone numbers for surveys and studies.

Is this a flagrant violation of our privacy, an abuse of state-run agencies? The promise of health care when there was no such program is fraudulent.

The honest and right thing would have been to advertise that, if you apply, you may not become a participant of the program, but your information will most definitely be used to conduct these studies and surveys, for solicitation. The choice is yours. Apply and get health care, or not, and get solicited either way.

Bells would have gone off and most people are aware enough these days to know better. It still should have been a personal choice.

To expose the culprits would require an investigative process that the average person does not have time for. But something needs to be done. These growing assaults are not just out of line, they are crossing the line.

Here’s a call to the real investigative journalists out there. If they do their jobs, we can start to eliminate these kinds of offenses. People are going too far with being deceptive and intrusive. They are violating our Constitution. Fraud, Abuse, and Invasion of Privacy are crimes.

We believed them. We trusted them to do the right thing for us and for our nation. We believed they were protecting us, more specifically, our way of life. And yet, we have stood back and watched as our privacy has been invaded, our freedom sold to a potential enemy, because when you become heavily indebted to anyone, essentially, they own you. We, the citizens of the United States, never want to be owned by anyone.

Other than good health, there is nothing more important than freedom and privacy. Those two entities are not privileges that we can ever take lightly. They are human rights; yet, as we have observed, many nations forfeit those rights to “leaders” acting on behalf of their nation’s best interest.

China comes to mind. As well as any nation subjected to authoritarian dictatorship. I ask these questions…how can millions of people allow a small group of men to own and control them? How can that small group of men control a military that is paid for by the hard work and contributions of those millions of people, cause them to live in fear and forfeit human rights given to all humans: the ability to make our own choices, to come and go at will, to feel that no one is dictating our private lives?

We are living the beginnings of that experience. We are placing all of our hopes in a “new” leader, to save us from such a fate. And yet, we know that no one man or woman can save us, should have to save us, because we have the power to save ourselves.

Gas gouging, privacy invasion, inflated prices, combined with a failing infrastructure, increasing natural disasters resulting from environmental damage — these are all calamities that we have the power to resolve.

The final question is … will we wake up in time to save ourselves? Because, right now, we are napping, watching people take advantage of our way of life in a sedated state of unbelief. They are just men. A few men. We are numbers. Big numbers.

We may think we are the tiny little Davids, and they are the giant Goliaths. But the reality is, we are the giants giving up to tiny tyrants. Believing they are acting in our best interests. What will historians write about us? About the choices we made or allowed to be made for us?

Do our current leaders have all the answers? Are they right? Will the future show that they made the right decisions for us?

The past speaks for us. Some of our leaders made good choices when they included us in the true sense of equality and human potential, i.e. FDR’s ‘New Deal’, JFK and LBJ’s ‘Civil Rights’ Enactments.

Other leaders acted from selfish gain at the expense of all others. We are still paying retributively for those choices, through emotional beliefs that divide us racially, genderwise, sexual preferences, and politically; as well as economic inequality, i.e. one percent elite vs. the rest of us. Those choices crippled the masses. It crippled our power. Because their selfish, robber baron greed divided us and continues to divide us, making it easy to distract and conquer, allowing them to control everything.

The simple answer to this query is…would we want another country to invade our nation for our natural resources, pillage and rape and steal and decide how we should live? If the answer to that is no, and it has to be no, then why are we allowing our leaders to do it to others?

First do no harm. Do we have a right to take what is not ours for our future security? What are the consequences down the line? Are they using foresight or greed? Do we want it to happen to us?

There is a saying, ‘what goes around, comes around’. And, since everything in life is a circle, or cycle, it appears to be true.

We should always proceed with foresight and human compassion, because we are all human beings sharing one planet, one home. We should always always always, a thousand always, find a way to compromise until there is a win/win for all concerned.

And when we come up against a negotiator who refuses to compromise to a common end, then the nations of the world, e.g. the UN, and the people of the world, should step in and evaluate the best outcome and make a final decision. If there is resistance at that point, there are options, such as boycotting that negotiator.

Human life is too precious. It’s all we have and when we take it from others, well, live by the sword, die by the sword.