The Question is: How Can I Disappear?
Most of the question can be explained with one word: "Underground."
Begin with advance planning. Start by creating, an unknown to anyone, stockpile of cash. If you have any medical conditions requiring medication, begin a stockpile of that as well.
Lets start with the appearance changes. Colored contact lenses, hair color, hair length, shave or grow a beard or moustache, clothing style, vehicle change, possibly to motorcycle, as the helmet adds extra protection from identification by pesky video surveillance cameras. One of the hardest to do, change any identifying habits.
If standard modes of travel are out of the question, meaning you don't own a car, go by bus. Pay cash for the ticket, and use the new assumed name. Remember though do not be caught on the cameras in the station or on the bus which means doing some of your own surveillance ahead of time so you know where the cameras are located. The average American is caught 200 (two hundred) times a day on surveillance cameras.
You'll have to procure new living arrangements, Business cards(instant new ID for identification to people unknown to you). Then Visas, Passports, Personal ID, Credit Cards, Social Security Card, and Birth/Death Certificate more than likely from various personages outside the law and usually of darker purpose.
Faking one's own disappearance/death can be difficult especially today with all the advances in electronics, forensics, GPS etc... and not to mention dental records.
So unless you want to acidically remove your own finger and footprints, tongue prints and earprints which are also coming into vogue now as identifiers, as well as pulling all of your own teeth (Ow!) you'll have to rely on the criminal underground.
If you have contacts with MI6 or the American CIA or NSA, (unlikely, but not improbable) they will be able to wipe your "record".
Create a "blind" email address, with "fake" name and physical address info, either at a local library or internet cafe. Only use it there or on a dedicated laptop with programs to block any 'traffic analysis', use anonymous web surfing software and IP address hiding programs.
More options include a prepaid phone, most of which are 'disposable' meaning untraceable. Drop the credit cards, learn to live off cash and gift type credit cards available at most Wal-Marts.
Another thought would be the world of computer programmers/hackers. They could assist you by infilitrating the mainframes of various governmental agenices e.g. Social Security, Vital Statistics, IRS, Immigration, Homeland Security, et al, although unlikely to be inexpensive.
Legend holds that 7 years is the timeframe to be pronounced legally deceased without a body.
If the need comes along to revive your "old" identity as long as a murder is not involved you'll be fine. If there is then there is no statute to expire for murder and as far as other crimes go it would depend on the country/county/state and the severity of the crime committed.
Enjoy!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
03 July, 2010
TARP, Jobless Rate, and where is the Bailout for the Regular Guy?
After reading the article on Yahoo!! on 01 Apr., 10 about U.S. Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner I was reminded of the way I and many others felt when our Gov't started bailing out the financial institutions to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars.
Yet we, the Average Joe got a paltry $250.00. How's that help? It barely would fill a Humvee gas tank.
I make no pretention as to being an Economist, and Heaven help those poor schmucks, but to me it makes more financial sense to let the big institutions and credit bureau's breathe their last, as they failed to do what they were hired and paid to do. That is protect the American public from what happened during the Great Depression. Now that this "Depression" is even greater than that historic one.
The Gov't should have forgiven We The People our debts across the board, which in Biblical times was done after 7 years. This would have immediately improved the economy. Sure it would have killed many banks, credit unions, auto makers/dealers and other businesses worldwide, but at the same time it would have saved many global citizens from illness or death, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and numerous other bills, etc...
This in turn would have ensured that the "Big Guys" would have immediately retuned and rethought their business models and the way they have treated their customers.
Also how is it "good" for our economy to let American businesses take their shops overseas or out of the country where labor is cheaper. Of course then the jobless rate would skyrocket.
Next is, and I know this will rattle some cages, if we cut down on what we import, for example Cars, and we "Buy American" then unemployment will go down and the economy will go up. How simple can it be?
Now I know it is 'good for business' and Gov't trade negotions to favor certain countries, read Most Favored Nation status, but come on open your eyes Big Gov't. How do you think we got in this mess? Simple... by sending our jobs, factories, et al out of the country and allowing other countries to import their goods to us.
I know we export to them as well and thus that does assist with the economy, but in a disaster of this magnitude we need to be keeping our money, our people, and our jobs in the United States, not exporting them.
Now that the Chinese workers are finally realizing they have been getting a raw deal, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Companies-brace-for-end-of-apf-2437567795.html?x=0 it is time the U.S. Gov't stops granting foreign companies tax breaks and not to mention other benefits and incentives. Offer those to our homegrown employers to keep their company in the U.S.A.!
Rick Goodwin, a China trade veteran of 22 years, has said, "The new game is to find a way to do the domestic market." Meaning here in the United States. Let's 'do the domestic market' some good and get those companies back in the United States.
Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" mocked Frisbee company Wham-O for returning half of the production for Frisbee and production for some other products back to the United States.
I say we should praise and reward Wham-O for returning to the U.S. and bringing jobs along with it. Then perhaps other American companies with production overseas would return to their native soil.
How is it that we have relinquished our freedom and liberty to tell those in positions of authority that we don't like the way they are governing.
Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although I also appreciate the quote from Edmund Dantes in V for Vendetta, "People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."
We The People should be critical of our government because the government is only interested in maintaining its power, which we in turn stupidly grant it.
A foretaste of a future article begins below.
It depends on who has the weapons. As long as we have the 2nd Amendment the government has to be afraid of the people...citizen or subject...a bullet stands in the way.
The reason our Colonies were able to have a successful break from England was because they had the firepower to do so. The balance of weapons and firearms in the United States is equal to or greater than all the combined U.S. Armed Forces.
Those nations who take the firearms from their masses convince their subjects that they will take care of them in their hour of need. They believe it not realizing the reason the government took the firearms was to remove the threat to their authority.
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
These two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Yet we, the Average Joe got a paltry $250.00. How's that help? It barely would fill a Humvee gas tank.
I make no pretention as to being an Economist, and Heaven help those poor schmucks, but to me it makes more financial sense to let the big institutions and credit bureau's breathe their last, as they failed to do what they were hired and paid to do. That is protect the American public from what happened during the Great Depression. Now that this "Depression" is even greater than that historic one.
The Gov't should have forgiven We The People our debts across the board, which in Biblical times was done after 7 years. This would have immediately improved the economy. Sure it would have killed many banks, credit unions, auto makers/dealers and other businesses worldwide, but at the same time it would have saved many global citizens from illness or death, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and numerous other bills, etc...
This in turn would have ensured that the "Big Guys" would have immediately retuned and rethought their business models and the way they have treated their customers.
Also how is it "good" for our economy to let American businesses take their shops overseas or out of the country where labor is cheaper. Of course then the jobless rate would skyrocket.
Next is, and I know this will rattle some cages, if we cut down on what we import, for example Cars, and we "Buy American" then unemployment will go down and the economy will go up. How simple can it be?
Now I know it is 'good for business' and Gov't trade negotions to favor certain countries, read Most Favored Nation status, but come on open your eyes Big Gov't. How do you think we got in this mess? Simple... by sending our jobs, factories, et al out of the country and allowing other countries to import their goods to us.
I know we export to them as well and thus that does assist with the economy, but in a disaster of this magnitude we need to be keeping our money, our people, and our jobs in the United States, not exporting them.
Now that the Chinese workers are finally realizing they have been getting a raw deal, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Companies-brace-for-end-of-apf-2437567795.html?x=0 it is time the U.S. Gov't stops granting foreign companies tax breaks and not to mention other benefits and incentives. Offer those to our homegrown employers to keep their company in the U.S.A.!
Rick Goodwin, a China trade veteran of 22 years, has said, "The new game is to find a way to do the domestic market." Meaning here in the United States. Let's 'do the domestic market' some good and get those companies back in the United States.
Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" mocked Frisbee company Wham-O for returning half of the production for Frisbee and production for some other products back to the United States.
I say we should praise and reward Wham-O for returning to the U.S. and bringing jobs along with it. Then perhaps other American companies with production overseas would return to their native soil.
How is it that we have relinquished our freedom and liberty to tell those in positions of authority that we don't like the way they are governing.
Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although I also appreciate the quote from Edmund Dantes in V for Vendetta, "People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."
We The People should be critical of our government because the government is only interested in maintaining its power, which we in turn stupidly grant it.
A foretaste of a future article begins below.
It depends on who has the weapons. As long as we have the 2nd Amendment the government has to be afraid of the people...citizen or subject...a bullet stands in the way.
The reason our Colonies were able to have a successful break from England was because they had the firepower to do so. The balance of weapons and firearms in the United States is equal to or greater than all the combined U.S. Armed Forces.
Those nations who take the firearms from their masses convince their subjects that they will take care of them in their hour of need. They believe it not realizing the reason the government took the firearms was to remove the threat to their authority.
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
These two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Increased Surveillance in the U.S.
This piece was incited by the Yahoo News Article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100614/ap_on_bi_ge/us_drones_over_america on 14 June about issuing flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions.
Now think about this, the NSA has been performing U.S. Domestic Surveillance on We The People for ages, that was one of its initial responsibilities, see Project Shamrock which was started in the 1950's to monitor international telegram and selected voice communications of American citizens, and Project Minaret which intercepted voice communications of persons of interest to US security organizations of the time, including Malcolm X, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, and Martin Luther King.
For a number of years, United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) 18 was the policy document governing its interception of the communications of U.S. citizens. This document, which has largely been declassified, may no longer be the primary guidance, as there are controversial claims, by the George W. Bush Administration, of an inherent Presidential authority for warrantless surveillance as part of the national security.
There has been a large-scale and controversial capture and analysis of domestic and international telephone calls, claimed to be targeted against terrorism. It is generally accepted that warrants have not been obtained for this activity, sometimes called Room 641A after a location, in San Francisco, where AT&T provides the NSA access. While very little is known about this system, it may be focused more on the signaling channel and Call detail records than the actual content of conversations.
The SIGINT Satellites are trouble enough, what with being able to be anywhere on the planet in minutes and able to visualize down to the city block level, but it is unknown if those satellites have sound capabilites.
Once the UAV drones are made 'radar invisible' or stealth, the UAV's will be able to see and listen right into our living room or car and gather any 'necessary information.' These pilotless aircraft come in a variety of sizes. Some are as big as a small airliner, others the size of a backpack. The tiniest are small enough to fly through a house window.
Guess what the UAV's can do?...
And if the satellites and UAV's are unable to gather the 'necessary information' then it comes down to the street and building level surveillance cameras.
So now the Alphabet Agencies will now have more information concerning our habits, personal, spending and otherwise.
We can kiss the 1st, 3rd, and, 4th Amendments GOODBYE.
We The People need to push for an update to the 14th Amendment or a specific amendment to protect personal privacy encompasssing our homes, vehicles, personal communications, children, families, et al.
It is bad enough that Florida alone has over 30,000 surveillance cameras, and now the Sunshine State will be adding more "Traffic/Red Light Runner" ones as well.
The average American, That Means YOU, is caught on surveillance cameras across the United States on average 200 (two hundred) times per day.
Think about that. Being watched by "Them" 24 hours a day, while you sleep, eat, shop, shower, drive, and I'll leave the rest to your imagination. Now while some may enjoy being the exhibitionist, others may not and ALL should be interested in guarding their private lives.
Now I am all for security, I served in both the U.S. Navy and Army, but I think Big Brother is getting too big for his breeches.
And any country or state for that matter, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
Think About It!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Now think about this, the NSA has been performing U.S. Domestic Surveillance on We The People for ages, that was one of its initial responsibilities, see Project Shamrock which was started in the 1950's to monitor international telegram and selected voice communications of American citizens, and Project Minaret which intercepted voice communications of persons of interest to US security organizations of the time, including Malcolm X, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, and Martin Luther King.
For a number of years, United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) 18 was the policy document governing its interception of the communications of U.S. citizens. This document, which has largely been declassified, may no longer be the primary guidance, as there are controversial claims, by the George W. Bush Administration, of an inherent Presidential authority for warrantless surveillance as part of the national security.
There has been a large-scale and controversial capture and analysis of domestic and international telephone calls, claimed to be targeted against terrorism. It is generally accepted that warrants have not been obtained for this activity, sometimes called Room 641A after a location, in San Francisco, where AT&T provides the NSA access. While very little is known about this system, it may be focused more on the signaling channel and Call detail records than the actual content of conversations.
The SIGINT Satellites are trouble enough, what with being able to be anywhere on the planet in minutes and able to visualize down to the city block level, but it is unknown if those satellites have sound capabilites.
Once the UAV drones are made 'radar invisible' or stealth, the UAV's will be able to see and listen right into our living room or car and gather any 'necessary information.' These pilotless aircraft come in a variety of sizes. Some are as big as a small airliner, others the size of a backpack. The tiniest are small enough to fly through a house window.
Guess what the UAV's can do?...
And if the satellites and UAV's are unable to gather the 'necessary information' then it comes down to the street and building level surveillance cameras.
So now the Alphabet Agencies will now have more information concerning our habits, personal, spending and otherwise.
We can kiss the 1st, 3rd, and, 4th Amendments GOODBYE.
We The People need to push for an update to the 14th Amendment or a specific amendment to protect personal privacy encompasssing our homes, vehicles, personal communications, children, families, et al.
It is bad enough that Florida alone has over 30,000 surveillance cameras, and now the Sunshine State will be adding more "Traffic/Red Light Runner" ones as well.
The average American, That Means YOU, is caught on surveillance cameras across the United States on average 200 (two hundred) times per day.
Think about that. Being watched by "Them" 24 hours a day, while you sleep, eat, shop, shower, drive, and I'll leave the rest to your imagination. Now while some may enjoy being the exhibitionist, others may not and ALL should be interested in guarding their private lives.
Now I am all for security, I served in both the U.S. Navy and Army, but I think Big Brother is getting too big for his breeches.
And any country or state for that matter, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
Think About It!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
15 June, 2010
Government Taking Control of Our Children
Greetings All,
While preparing to write a piece about Gov't outrages concerning surveillance and a police state I came upon this.
I saw this article and the fact that is it already exists as a UN resolution and is currently being enforced in other countries is scary enough, but now OUR government is considering it! In a nutshell, the government will have control over how parents raise their children and what we teach them and what we allow them to do or not do.
The U.S. Senate is expected to take up the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The effort is a dangerous treaty for the family, according to pediatrician Rosemary Stein of Burlington, North Carolina, and a spokesperson for the Christian Medical Association (CMA).
"It takes away the parents' rights to rear their child and gives it to the government," she explains. "The government becomes the caretaker and the guardian, and the parent(s) becomes the babysitter." Another way to define it would be 'the government takeover of our children.'
If the contract is enforced, the government would have the right to intercede or supersede if officials believe the parents are doing something that is not in the best interest of the child. An example of this comes from Germany, where the government has passed laws that ban parents from homeschooling their children.
"I didn't know that it was this insidious, and at the same time, this overwhelming," Stein laments. "It goes over everything -- what you teach them, what you do with them [and] how they're reared."
The CMA spokesman predicts this will change society from the bottom up. For instance, a 16-year-old girl in Great Britain asked her parents to let her boyfriend move in and share her bedroom. When the parents said no, the teen filed suit and won.
It is not known when the U.S. Senate will try to ratify the treaty, so Dr. Stein says people need to start contacting their senators to voice their views.
Now if this isn't enough to give anyone pause for thought, then maybe my next article will!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
While preparing to write a piece about Gov't outrages concerning surveillance and a police state I came upon this.
I saw this article and the fact that is it already exists as a UN resolution and is currently being enforced in other countries is scary enough, but now OUR government is considering it! In a nutshell, the government will have control over how parents raise their children and what we teach them and what we allow them to do or not do.
The U.S. Senate is expected to take up the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The effort is a dangerous treaty for the family, according to pediatrician Rosemary Stein of Burlington, North Carolina, and a spokesperson for the Christian Medical Association (CMA).
"It takes away the parents' rights to rear their child and gives it to the government," she explains. "The government becomes the caretaker and the guardian, and the parent(s) becomes the babysitter." Another way to define it would be 'the government takeover of our children.'
If the contract is enforced, the government would have the right to intercede or supersede if officials believe the parents are doing something that is not in the best interest of the child. An example of this comes from Germany, where the government has passed laws that ban parents from homeschooling their children.
"I didn't know that it was this insidious, and at the same time, this overwhelming," Stein laments. "It goes over everything -- what you teach them, what you do with them [and] how they're reared."
The CMA spokesman predicts this will change society from the bottom up. For instance, a 16-year-old girl in Great Britain asked her parents to let her boyfriend move in and share her bedroom. When the parents said no, the teen filed suit and won.
It is not known when the U.S. Senate will try to ratify the treaty, so Dr. Stein says people need to start contacting their senators to voice their views.
Now if this isn't enough to give anyone pause for thought, then maybe my next article will!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
14 June, 2010
Florida, Arizona, and The Police State
As some of you may or may not know one point of contention between Bill McCollum & Rick Scott in the Florida Gubernatorial race concerns the Arizona Senate Bill 1070 AKA Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act .
Possibly to enact the same in Florida.
It obligates police to make an attempt, when practicable during a "lawful stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official", to determine a person's immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is an illegal alien.
Now who is to say what "reasonable suspicion" is?
Is it because you look Hispanic, Latino, Mexican, Cuban, Arabic, Israeli, Eurasian, you have red hair, or blue, you name it, or you could be wearing a shirt that purports coexistence between all the world religions, and that could make you 'suspicious.'
This seems to me to be "racial profiling." Aren't we supposed to be NOT engaged in profiling!
So 'they' haul you off to jail, detention, lock up or whatever you'd like to call it, until 'they' decide either you're American enough to release or not enough and keep you incarcerated for an 'unspecified length of time.'
For those of us old enough to remember sounds a bit like McCarthyism and the old Soviet KGB tactics.
Want a little foretaste of what could be in our future? Watch the movie "V for Vendetta." What a little fearmongering won't do for granting the Government control of our lives.
Isn't our country defined as "The Great Melting Pot." A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society.
This from Schoolhouse Rock back in the day:
"You simply melt right in,
It doesn't matter what your skin.
It doesn't matter where you're from,
Or your religion, you jump right in
To the great American melting pot.
Oh, what a stew, the red, white, and blue."
HELLO Government people! This is what is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Lazarus daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jews:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Quit hammering on these people that just got to the United States of America, looking for a better life, and what do we do, we ship them right back to where they came from after they worked so hard to get here.
Now I know not everyone is perfect and the criminal element comes right in with the good.
Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although, I also appreciate the quote from Edmund Dantes in V for Vendetta, "People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."
Was not the U.S. Gov't founded with the intent of preventing tyranny (sure seems like the good ol' US of A is being a bit tyrannical) and investing the people with 'inalienable human rights.'
Think about that word:"Inalienable" what do we call people who are not "Americans'. that's right 'Aliens', not the kind from outer space, but the kind from a space (country) that is not our own.
Webster's defines Inalienable as : incapable of being alienated. So in other words we should treat everyone like they are our brothers, not some evil, wicked, mean, and nasty monster.
The Gov't should remember the Golden Rule "treat others as you would like to be treated."
The Bible has this to say on the matter: Matt. 25:40 "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto Me."
Someday we, meaning the United States, may need the assistance of the countries these people have come from, and guess what those countries are going to remember how we treated their countrymen.
Another thought as I part, which I will expand on more at a later date on my blog.
It is bad enough that Florida alone has over 30,000 surveillance cameras, and now the Sunshine State will be adding more "Traffic/Red Light Runner" ones as well.
The average American is caught on surveillance cameras across the United States on average 200 (two hundred) times per day.
Now I am all for security, I served in both the U.S. Navy and Army, but I think Big Brother is getting too big for his britches.
And any country or state for that matter, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
Well, I will be looking forward to your thoughtful responses to my rambling on this subject.
Give It Some Thought!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Possibly to enact the same in Florida.
It obligates police to make an attempt, when practicable during a "lawful stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official", to determine a person's immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is an illegal alien.
Now who is to say what "reasonable suspicion" is?
Is it because you look Hispanic, Latino, Mexican, Cuban, Arabic, Israeli, Eurasian, you have red hair, or blue, you name it, or you could be wearing a shirt that purports coexistence between all the world religions, and that could make you 'suspicious.'
This seems to me to be "racial profiling." Aren't we supposed to be NOT engaged in profiling!
So 'they' haul you off to jail, detention, lock up or whatever you'd like to call it, until 'they' decide either you're American enough to release or not enough and keep you incarcerated for an 'unspecified length of time.'
For those of us old enough to remember sounds a bit like McCarthyism and the old Soviet KGB tactics.
Want a little foretaste of what could be in our future? Watch the movie "V for Vendetta." What a little fearmongering won't do for granting the Government control of our lives.
Isn't our country defined as "The Great Melting Pot." A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society.
This from Schoolhouse Rock back in the day:
"You simply melt right in,
It doesn't matter what your skin.
It doesn't matter where you're from,
Or your religion, you jump right in
To the great American melting pot.
Oh, what a stew, the red, white, and blue."
HELLO Government people! This is what is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Lazarus daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jews:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Quit hammering on these people that just got to the United States of America, looking for a better life, and what do we do, we ship them right back to where they came from after they worked so hard to get here.
Now I know not everyone is perfect and the criminal element comes right in with the good.
Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although, I also appreciate the quote from Edmund Dantes in V for Vendetta, "People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."
Was not the U.S. Gov't founded with the intent of preventing tyranny (sure seems like the good ol' US of A is being a bit tyrannical) and investing the people with 'inalienable human rights.'
Think about that word:"Inalienable" what do we call people who are not "Americans'. that's right 'Aliens', not the kind from outer space, but the kind from a space (country) that is not our own.
Webster's defines Inalienable as : incapable of being alienated. So in other words we should treat everyone like they are our brothers, not some evil, wicked, mean, and nasty monster.
The Gov't should remember the Golden Rule "treat others as you would like to be treated."
The Bible has this to say on the matter: Matt. 25:40 "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto Me."
Someday we, meaning the United States, may need the assistance of the countries these people have come from, and guess what those countries are going to remember how we treated their countrymen.
Another thought as I part, which I will expand on more at a later date on my blog.
It is bad enough that Florida alone has over 30,000 surveillance cameras, and now the Sunshine State will be adding more "Traffic/Red Light Runner" ones as well.
The average American is caught on surveillance cameras across the United States on average 200 (two hundred) times per day.
Now I am all for security, I served in both the U.S. Navy and Army, but I think Big Brother is getting too big for his britches.
And any country or state for that matter, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
Well, I will be looking forward to your thoughtful responses to my rambling on this subject.
Give It Some Thought!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
17 April, 2010
Education
It's no secret that the US educational system doesn't do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America's schoolkids lag behind their peers in pretty much every industrialized nation. We hear shocking statistics about the percentage of high-school seniors who can't find the US on an unmarked map of the world or who don't know who Abraham Lincoln was.
Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system -- overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can't pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems. Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck.
Why? Because they were designed to.
How can I make such a bold statement? How do I know why America's public school system was designed the way it was (age-segregated, six to eight 50-minute classes in a row announced by Pavlovian bells,
emphasis on rote memorization, lorded over by unquestionable authority figures, etc.)? Because the men who designed, funded, and implemented America's formal educational system in the late 1800s and early 1900s wrote about what they were doing.
Almost all of these books, articles, and reports are out of print and hard to obtain. Luckily for us, John Taylor Gatto tracked them down. Gatto was voted the New York City Teacher of the Year three times and
the New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. But he became disillusioned with schools—the way they enforce conformity, the way they kill the natural creativity, inquisitiveness, and love of learning that every little child has at the beginning.
So he began to dig into terra incognita, the roots of America's educational system.
In 1888, the Senate Committee on Education was getting jittery about the localized, non-standardized, non-mandatory form of education that was actually teaching children to read at advanced levels, to comprehend history, and, egads, to think for themselves.
The committee's report stated, "We believe that education is one of the principal causes of discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes."
By the turn of the century, America's new educrats were pushing a new form of schooling with a new mission (and it wasn't to teach). The famous philosopher and educator John Dewey wrote in 1897:
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.
In his 1905 dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly—the future Dean of Education at Stanford—wrote that schools should be factories "in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products...manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."
The next year, the Rockefeller Education Board—which funded the creation of numerous public schools—issued a statement which read in part:
In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters.
We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an
imperfect way.
At the same time, William Torrey Harris, US Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906, wrote:
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
In that same book, The Philosophy of Education, Harris also revealed:
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places.... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
Several years later, President Woodrow Wilson would echo these sentiments in a speech to businessmen:
We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Writes Gatto: "Another major architect of standardized testing, H.H. Goddard, said in his book Human Efficiency (1920) that government schooling was about 'the perfect organization of the hive.'"
While President of Harvard from 1933 to 1953, James Bryant Conant wrote that the change to a forced, rigid, potential-destroying educational system had been demanded by "certain industrialists and the innovative who were altering the nature of the industrial process."
In other words, the captains of industry and government explicitly wanted an educational system that would maintain social order by teaching us just enough to get by but not enough so that we could think for ourselves, question the sociopolitical order, or communicate articulately.
We were to become good worker-drones, with a razor-thin slice of the population—mainly the children of the captains of industry and government—to rise to the level where they could continue running things.
This was the openly admitted blueprint for the public schooling system, a blueprint which remains unchanged to this day. Although the true reasons behind it aren't often publicly expressed, they're apparently still known within education circles.
Clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine wrote in 2001:
I once consulted with a teacher of an extremely bright eight-year-old boy labeled with oppositional defiant disorder. I suggested that perhaps the boy didn't have a disease, but was just bored. His teacher, a pleasant woman, agreed with me. However, she added, "They told us at the state conference that our job is to get them ready for the work world…that the children have to get used to not being stimulated all the time or they will lose their jobs in the real world."
Think About It!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system -- overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can't pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems. Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck.
Why? Because they were designed to.
How can I make such a bold statement? How do I know why America's public school system was designed the way it was (age-segregated, six to eight 50-minute classes in a row announced by Pavlovian bells,
emphasis on rote memorization, lorded over by unquestionable authority figures, etc.)? Because the men who designed, funded, and implemented America's formal educational system in the late 1800s and early 1900s wrote about what they were doing.
Almost all of these books, articles, and reports are out of print and hard to obtain. Luckily for us, John Taylor Gatto tracked them down. Gatto was voted the New York City Teacher of the Year three times and
the New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. But he became disillusioned with schools—the way they enforce conformity, the way they kill the natural creativity, inquisitiveness, and love of learning that every little child has at the beginning.
So he began to dig into terra incognita, the roots of America's educational system.
In 1888, the Senate Committee on Education was getting jittery about the localized, non-standardized, non-mandatory form of education that was actually teaching children to read at advanced levels, to comprehend history, and, egads, to think for themselves.
The committee's report stated, "We believe that education is one of the principal causes of discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes."
By the turn of the century, America's new educrats were pushing a new form of schooling with a new mission (and it wasn't to teach). The famous philosopher and educator John Dewey wrote in 1897:
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.
In his 1905 dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly—the future Dean of Education at Stanford—wrote that schools should be factories "in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products...manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."
The next year, the Rockefeller Education Board—which funded the creation of numerous public schools—issued a statement which read in part:
In our dreams...people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters.
We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple...we will organize children...and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an
imperfect way.
At the same time, William Torrey Harris, US Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906, wrote:
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
In that same book, The Philosophy of Education, Harris also revealed:
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places.... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
Several years later, President Woodrow Wilson would echo these sentiments in a speech to businessmen:
We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Writes Gatto: "Another major architect of standardized testing, H.H. Goddard, said in his book Human Efficiency (1920) that government schooling was about 'the perfect organization of the hive.'"
While President of Harvard from 1933 to 1953, James Bryant Conant wrote that the change to a forced, rigid, potential-destroying educational system had been demanded by "certain industrialists and the innovative who were altering the nature of the industrial process."
In other words, the captains of industry and government explicitly wanted an educational system that would maintain social order by teaching us just enough to get by but not enough so that we could think for ourselves, question the sociopolitical order, or communicate articulately.
We were to become good worker-drones, with a razor-thin slice of the population—mainly the children of the captains of industry and government—to rise to the level where they could continue running things.
This was the openly admitted blueprint for the public schooling system, a blueprint which remains unchanged to this day. Although the true reasons behind it aren't often publicly expressed, they're apparently still known within education circles.
Clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine wrote in 2001:
I once consulted with a teacher of an extremely bright eight-year-old boy labeled with oppositional defiant disorder. I suggested that perhaps the boy didn't have a disease, but was just bored. His teacher, a pleasant woman, agreed with me. However, she added, "They told us at the state conference that our job is to get them ready for the work world…that the children have to get used to not being stimulated all the time or they will lose their jobs in the real world."
Think About It!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Working in a Nursing Home
Along the lines of controlling the masses, a Nursing Home where once again everything is pre-programmed for you so you don't think for yourself.
You will get up at the time decided for you by the Nurses and CNA's of your unit, you will not have a bath everyday, maybe only 2 - 3 days a week, and you will eat this because that is what the Dr. says you can eat, and these are your meal times, and you can only wear these medically approved socks.
Oh and best of all, "well gee Mom and Dad everyone else's parents live in a nursing home and we just don't have the time to care for you because of our jobs and school and the kids."
The Orientals, Japanese, Koreans, etc... have very minimal nursing homes in their countries, Nursing Homes are not the primary caregiver it is the family.
Why is that? Because they venerate their descendants! It is seen as an honor to care for one's parent's, grandparent's, etc... in old age. They also do not see them as useless old codgers who can't do anything anymore.
Most Orientals remain productive well into their 70's and 80's, they might not being performing heavy work in the traditional sense of the word, but they can still care for grandchildren, perform chores around the house, and many other services that help to keep them functioning both mentally and physically.
In our society, once our seniors stop working and making money they are seen as a burden and useless. In my area alone there are 41 nursing homes, that doesn't include specialty facilities, like Hospice, Assisted Living, Retirement communities, Adult Day Care, etc... if you do then that number jumps to 194, just here! What does that say about how we care for our loved ones and senior citizens. Oh just dump'em in the nursing home they'll take care of them.
Now I know some of our seniors need rehab and the like from a fall or for hip fractures, etc... and some seniors make the decision on their own to move into a nursing home or retirement community, but the large percentage do not.
Another thing, while almost all the CNA's, Activities, and Nurses who work in these facilities are loving, caring, and compassionate, they sure don't receive pay that is commensurate with the services they provide.
The administration makes all the money while the front line staff make a pittance. Does Admin have to clean up the messes, change Depends, feed, transfer people into bed or wheelchairs, keep them entertained? Nope, but Adminstration makes the large percentage of the money.
Now in some instances where someone has worked their way up the ranks, then yes they should be rewarded. But for the poor CNA who's making $8.00/hour wiping dear old granny's behind, something's wrong there.
If we expect these strangers to care for our loved ones then we should pay them handsomely to do it.
Ever wonder why you see all those commercials on nursing home abuse? It's because the staff isn't paid what they're worth, they have too many people to care for and not enough time to do it in. So guess what? They hurry up, make a simple mistake and someone gets hurt; all because Admin. doesn't want to pay to have more staff and pay the staff they do have well, in order to keep them.
Now the Agency staff that come in they get paid great! Sometimes double to triple what the regular staff are making. That money should be going to the regular staff that are there day in and day out, and maybe... just maybe, there wouldn't be so much agency staff to have pay so highly for.
Enough of my ranting.
Give it some thought.
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Below a little something else to think about...
All of us learned this tidbit in school right 90% of the worlds cash is in 5% of the world's population's hands. Why is that? No wonder we have 3rd world countries whose per capita incomes are less than $200.00 a year.
And another thing credit bureaus annoy the hell out of me. Why? Because how are they legal? They have all your personal info, Driver's license number, Soc. Sec. number, home address, telephones, who you've bought from, loaned to or from, I am sure the CIA, NSA and, FBI would love a piece of that action, that is if they don't already.
It is too much information for one entity to have, and yet no one says our privacy has been violated, and anyone with a couple of bucks can get this information from them without your consent.
You will get up at the time decided for you by the Nurses and CNA's of your unit, you will not have a bath everyday, maybe only 2 - 3 days a week, and you will eat this because that is what the Dr. says you can eat, and these are your meal times, and you can only wear these medically approved socks.
Oh and best of all, "well gee Mom and Dad everyone else's parents live in a nursing home and we just don't have the time to care for you because of our jobs and school and the kids."
The Orientals, Japanese, Koreans, etc... have very minimal nursing homes in their countries, Nursing Homes are not the primary caregiver it is the family.
Why is that? Because they venerate their descendants! It is seen as an honor to care for one's parent's, grandparent's, etc... in old age. They also do not see them as useless old codgers who can't do anything anymore.
Most Orientals remain productive well into their 70's and 80's, they might not being performing heavy work in the traditional sense of the word, but they can still care for grandchildren, perform chores around the house, and many other services that help to keep them functioning both mentally and physically.
In our society, once our seniors stop working and making money they are seen as a burden and useless. In my area alone there are 41 nursing homes, that doesn't include specialty facilities, like Hospice, Assisted Living, Retirement communities, Adult Day Care, etc... if you do then that number jumps to 194, just here! What does that say about how we care for our loved ones and senior citizens. Oh just dump'em in the nursing home they'll take care of them.
Now I know some of our seniors need rehab and the like from a fall or for hip fractures, etc... and some seniors make the decision on their own to move into a nursing home or retirement community, but the large percentage do not.
Another thing, while almost all the CNA's, Activities, and Nurses who work in these facilities are loving, caring, and compassionate, they sure don't receive pay that is commensurate with the services they provide.
The administration makes all the money while the front line staff make a pittance. Does Admin have to clean up the messes, change Depends, feed, transfer people into bed or wheelchairs, keep them entertained? Nope, but Adminstration makes the large percentage of the money.
Now in some instances where someone has worked their way up the ranks, then yes they should be rewarded. But for the poor CNA who's making $8.00/hour wiping dear old granny's behind, something's wrong there.
If we expect these strangers to care for our loved ones then we should pay them handsomely to do it.
Ever wonder why you see all those commercials on nursing home abuse? It's because the staff isn't paid what they're worth, they have too many people to care for and not enough time to do it in. So guess what? They hurry up, make a simple mistake and someone gets hurt; all because Admin. doesn't want to pay to have more staff and pay the staff they do have well, in order to keep them.
Now the Agency staff that come in they get paid great! Sometimes double to triple what the regular staff are making. That money should be going to the regular staff that are there day in and day out, and maybe... just maybe, there wouldn't be so much agency staff to have pay so highly for.
Enough of my ranting.
Give it some thought.
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Below a little something else to think about...
All of us learned this tidbit in school right 90% of the worlds cash is in 5% of the world's population's hands. Why is that? No wonder we have 3rd world countries whose per capita incomes are less than $200.00 a year.
And another thing credit bureaus annoy the hell out of me. Why? Because how are they legal? They have all your personal info, Driver's license number, Soc. Sec. number, home address, telephones, who you've bought from, loaned to or from, I am sure the CIA, NSA and, FBI would love a piece of that action, that is if they don't already.
It is too much information for one entity to have, and yet no one says our privacy has been violated, and anyone with a couple of bucks can get this information from them without your consent.
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