Taxation

The next topic coming up: taxation and the Fed, and the private corporations and major private owners behind the people who make our money. Coming tomorrow August 01, 2006.

Also, comparison and analysis of corporations and federal collusion and its functional similarities to Mussolini-style fascism.

Aaron Russo

Boy, I always thought the US was idyllic and right. I was pretty proud about us beating those nazis and emancipating slaves, even if the legal changes took 100 extra years. I was amazed about space and I really liked the way technology was going. And the soviet union, I mean, c'mon. Vietnam was a shame and everyone knew/knows it, but i thought it was just a mistake. not law. Iraq 1 was a good deal, but i was too young to know that we sold him WMD and stoked the Iran-Iraq war, and did all tat Reagan crap with the hostages in 1980.


I am so ashamed and displeased that we back every black thing Israel does, this lebanese thing. I am so ashamed that we castrated the UN, and vetoed every single Israeli investigation finding ever. I liked the Clinton economics, even if he did some shady stuff I didn't find out about until later. I am so ashamed of George Bush and his corruption, illegitimate vote scandals, our media ignoring it, 9/11 being entirely a fairy tale of lies, and the second Iraq war. I protested that with a deep voice indeed. And Bush's greivous economics. They impoverish billions and strike at Americans trying to make a good life. The Patriot Act, and a million other excuses, lies, bombings, and video clips. The secret fiscal espionage. The invasive corporate intelligence gathering. The distortion of history. The selling out of what is right for lies. The withholding of technology and information that could save lives!

America, I chastize you. Change your ways and repent of the things you have done.

Recirculation of Israeli Sentiments

I would like to duplicate-post this sentiment and open letter from Israeli filmmakers to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers.

We, the undersigned Israeli filmmakers, greet the Arab filmmakers who have gathered in Paris for the Arab Film Biennial. Through you, we wish to convey a message of camaraderie and solidarity with our Lebanese and Palestinian colleagues who are currently besieged and bombarded by our country's army.

We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy, which has reached new heights in recent weeks. Nothing justifies the continued occupation, closure, and oppression in Palestine. Nothing justifies the bombing of civilians and the destruction of infrastructures in Lebanon and Gaza.

Allow us to tell you that your films, which we try to see and circulate among us, are extremely important in our eyes. They enable us to know and understand you better. Thanks to these films, the men, women, and children who suffer in Gaza, Beirut, and everywhere else our army exercises its violence - have names and faces. We would like to thank you and encourage you to keep on filming, despite the difficulties.

For our part, we will continue to express through our films, with our raised voices, and in our personal actions our vehement opposition to the occupation, and we will continue to express our desire for freedom, justice, and equality among all the peoples of the region.

Nurith Aviv, Ilil Alexander, Adi Arbel, Yael Bartana, Philippe Bellaiche, Simone Bitton, Michale Boganim, Amit Breuer, Shai Carmeli-Pollack, Sami S. Chetrit, Danae Elon, Anat Even, Jack Faber, Avner Fainguelernt, Ari Folman, Gali Gold, BZ Goldberg, Sharon Hamou, Amir Harel, Avraham Heffner, Rachel Leah Jones, Dalia Karpel, Avi Kleinberger, Elonor Kowarsky, Edna Kowarsky, Philippa Kowarsky, Ram Loevi, Avi Mograbi, Jud Neeman, David Ofek, Iris Rubin, Abraham Segal, Nurith Shareth, Julie Shlez, Eyal Sivan, Yael Shavit, Eran Torbiner, Osnat Trabelsi, Daniel Waxman, Keren Yedaya

Thank you

Pentagon and War Videos

you may want to examine a video posted by a soldier who worked with CNN. CNN made a fake news story about troops firing off rounds for target practice and said it was fighting insurgents. that's felony. I am not surprised the Pentagon would examine this. however, the actions of soldiers is inalienably protected by their 1st and 4th amendments.

The action in these videos has a very low probability of being sensitive, and if it is the soldiers would be briefed about it and likely not post it on public websites.

Iraq: Out

I don't like there being hundreds of thousands of soldiers working in Iraq and the American people having 'no idea' what they're doing. We should go. We should also do a thorough private investigation of 'the Iraq war', in the same way we'd do a scandal. There's no reason to wait until the war is over or until hostilities cease to begin this investigation.

ABA, I'm looking at you. UN, I am also looking at you. People's Iraqi forces, I am looking at you. Islamic Jihad, I am glancing towards you and asking you to submit your unbiased findings on the war, as you have intimate knowledge of and situation in this war that deserves respect. Please become peaceful and examine peaceful ways to spread right information. Fighting is worthless. Information is power. Get the information to the right people. Putting huge signs on the WTC that folded down with a long story of all the important information Americans lack would have been 10X as important as any violence. The event spurred millions and billions to investigate things they wouldn't have otherwise, but a massive 100 square acre folding out of reinforced cloth with data on it onto a huge NYC building would have reached international news, and millions would have seen anything written on it.

Do that instead next time. Do that in Lebanon's greatest city. In Turkey, in Baghdad, do that instead of firing a bullet. Make that instead of making a bomb.

Mel Gibson

I do not know whether to put this in religious or politics/culture. It is not portrayed religiously. When many people talk against Israel or 'Jews' I believe they are not speaking against the race or against the religion. Everyone respects those things. I believe they are talking against the actions of the IDF and the state of Israel.

You cannot make a religion a state. You cannot even very well make a people a state, but many nations try. When Mel Gibson talked against Jews, I believe he spoke not as a racist, not as an athiest or anti-Judean. I believe he spoke as a political and social commentary. If he meant otherwise and is anti-semitic, let him make himself clear. If he wants to destroy the Jewish race or wipe out the Jewish faith, then he is an enemy of God. But if he is talking about changing the IDF, the state of Israel, and speaking against war, then I stand with him.

I stand with God.

Arrested For Photography

This man was arrested for photographing police.

The city of Philadelphia would be wise to fire the officers involved without compensation regarding the blatant activity regarded in this case. It would be preferrable to suspend them with pay until their court case is decided in the interest of fairness, and in the event of their loss, to fine them the amount of compensation plus any additional fines.

No officer is allowed to break the law in this way. The officers may face charges of assault, battery, wrongful arrest, possibly even kidnapping, depending on the way the events transpired. Why would it cross such an officer's mind to arrest someone for taking a photo? That is obstruction of the 1st amendment, violation of the 4th amendment, and a form of cruel and unusual punishment and against the laws of the land. Officers in this and every major city should experience rotational constitutionality training on an ongoing basis to keep the force informed of and aware of the rights of citizens and their own rights.

The ABA will be notified of this case.

Iran August

I heard reports today that an important vote regarding Iran will be held in August. I believe that this is a preliminary portion or a demonstration point associated with the planned UK et al invasion, due to the intensity of the topic.

Let it not be.

Is Iran to be allowed to perform nuclear research unhindered? No. Is India? No. The best solution is the production of energy in grossly more efficient manners using either existing copyrights or higher efficiency turbines and carburaters, to push the nuclear option out of the market.

Feeding The Homeless

I have read numerous reports and heard news stories about cities banning the feeding of homeless in public spaces. Their primary concern seems to be that the public spaces are then no longer used for public activity.

Feeding the homeless is public activity. It is taking care off the public. I cannot drive cars in the public park area because there are people recreating there. This is not complained for because it is silly. So is the corresponding complaint silly.

Homeless services must be performed, for it is needed charity and honors God. If it is banned, the state is not fulfilling its duty and will find repercussion.

Repercussion. The resounding of waves. An action returning in a similar form from a new source.

Israeli Attack on UN Deliberate

"The result of U.S. intelligence support for Israel is directly linked to the targeting of particular locations, including the Israeli launch of 24 high-explosive missiles on a block of ten buildings in south Beirut. The entire block was leveled in the attack. The deliberate Israeli attack on a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) outpost in southern Lebanon was the result of that post gaining information of Israeli atrocities committed against the civilian Lebanese population. The Israeli attack, called deliberate by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, killed blue helmet peacekeepers from China, Finland, Canada, and Austria. Israeli continued to attack the UN post even as rescuers attempted to locate survivors in the rubble of the building. The deliberate 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, an NSA spy ship monitoring communications during the Arab-Israeli Six Day War, was the result of the Liberty intercepting Israeli communications on the massacre by Israeli forces of surrendering Egyptian prisoners of war in Sinai. Israeli planes continued to attack the ship, even after it raised a large American flag. U.S. Navy and NSA survivors in the water were also strafed by Israeli aircraft."

You're fired. This event is going to be investigated by the UN and World Court and numerous independent American and international legal bodies. This may culminate in the official unpinning of historic Israeli unethical measures, and a reexamination of historic findings in Israeli geocases. The Nazis did things of this kind, shooting witnesses. Should Israel be expelled from the UN? We should investigate this and discuss the findings in fair media before deciding.

"You who love truth..."

Thomas Jefferson

I am impressed with Thomas Jefferson's agrarian state. I believe we in America and the world can accomplish a similar society of communal quasifarmers in a way using advanced technology, transportation, and communications. He's also quite a man, Thomas Jefferson. Observe:

Thomas Jefferson: On Liberty and Power
International Politics

Published in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - April 1993
by Clarence B. Carson

It is doubtful that Thomas Jefferson could have been elected President in the twentieth century. It is almost equally doubtful that he could have been elected to that high office at any time past 1850. Now I do not draw these conclusions simply because, as we say, times change, and any person thrown suddenly into another era would be more or less out of place and unsuited to positions of power and prestige in the later era. It is rather that Jefferson did not have the temperament, character, and turn of mind to have won election in the later era.

The Man

Jefferson shrank from public debate as a young child does from going into the darkness alone. He avoided, so far as possible, all occasions for public speaking. He disliked pomp, ceremony, confrontations, and heated discourse. As President, he preferred written opinions from his department heads rather than to convene cabinet meetings in an attempt to reach conclusions. He was tall, gangly, freckled, sandy-haired, and some thought they detected a sneakiness about him. For this latter reason, especially, he would probably have been a disaster on television, where openness and straightforward honesty of appearance is essential, though actors can feign such looks with ease, while honest men with a squint might be thought scoundrels. Some thought Jefferson was being overly anxious for popular approval when he did not speak out on controversial matters. The truth may be otherwise; Jefferson loved the truth too much to see it traded casually in the marketplace.

In any case, Jefferson was retiring and what we would call “cerebral.” Possibly no man since Aristotle took more pleasure in observing, recording, and classifying or describing natural phenomena than did Jefferson. Indeed, when time permitted, he filled notebook after notebook with such observations. Jefferson had an active and innovative interest in every intellectual pursuit and activity of his day. He carried on a vigorous correspondence with European and American philosophers and scientists throughout much of his life. His talents were varied and his interests universal. He was trained in the law and admitted to the bar, served in the colonial legislature of Virginia and the Second Continental Congress, drafted the Declaration of Independence, was elected governor of Virginia, was a prolific writer, served as Minister to France, was first Secretary of State of the United States, and was elected second Vice President and third President of his country.

As if all that were not enough, he was a gentleman farmer, a manager of a large estate, a scientist, an inventor, and an architect. Of his inventions, “He invented a hempbeater, worked out a formula for a mold board plow . . . . devised a leather buggy, a swivel chair, and a dumbwaiter . . . . He was constantly studying new plows, steam engines, metronomes, thermometers, elevators, and the like, as well as the processing of butters and cheeses. He wrote a long essay for Congress on standards of weights and measures in the United States . . . . [and] conceived the American decimal system of coinage . . . .”[1]

Indeed, books could be written, and many have been, on Jefferson’s life and attainments. Several of his contributions, each on its own, might have earned him a secure place in American history. Almost certainly his authorship of the Declaration of Independence would have made him a fixture in the firmament of the Founders. His Virginia Bill of Religious Liberty was a classic statement even before it was adopted by that legislature. His two terms as President by themselves have earned him a place among America’s Ten Greatest Presidents.[2] His efforts in founding the Jeffersonian Republican Party would surely have been remembered, as would his architectural contributions for the University of Virginia, the magnificent concept of Monticello, and his background aid for the layout of Washington, D.C. Much more could be named, but surely his eminence has long since been established.

Jefferson himself wanted to be remembered for his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Bill of Religious Liberty, and his contribution to the founding of the University of Virginia. These are indeed enduring monuments, though his First Inaugural Address is no less one. Yet there is something else that he did for which he most needs to be remembered in our time. Jefferson was a vigorous and instructive advocate of the constitutional dispersion of powers of government—the separation of powers within the United States government and their dispersion between the central and state governments. He championed this aspect of the Constitution because it limited government, and limited government was essential to individual liberty.

Defender of Liberty

It is well known, of course, that Thomas Jefferson was an outspoken advocate of individual liberty. He defined it this way: “Of liberty then I would say that in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will, but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.”[3] Moreover, Jefferson professed a passionate attachment to liberty. He wrote to Dr. Benjamin Rush that he had “sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”[4] His belief in liberty was based in the natural rights doctrine, itself grounded in natural law theory. Most proponents of natural rights maintained that natural rights were altered and reduced when man entered society. Jefferson, by contrast, argued that “the idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural right.”[5] In any case, Jefferson was a vigorous advocate of individual liberty.

There should be no doubt, either, that Jefferson believed that government was the greatest, if not only, threat to individual liberty. He wrote that “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”[6] This is so because those who gain positions of power tend always to extend the bounds of it. Power must always be constrained or limited else it will increase to the level that it will be despotic. Jefferson wrote to Judge Spencer Roane in 1819, “It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also. . . .”[7] With this principle of necessary limitation in mind, Jefferson declared “that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest upon inference.”[8]

Nor did his many years in government service assuage his fears of government nor lead him to view it as any less a threat to liberty. If anything, it confirmed him in his earlier beliefs about not entrusting overmuch to those in power. But it was not so much Jefferson’s tenacious attachment to liberty nor especially his fear of government power that set him apart from many of his contemporaries. Most American leaders of the founding era expressed similar beliefs. It was also widely believed that the powers of government should be separated and balanced so that men in power, in their struggle with others for power, would be constrained and limited in their exercise of power. This was generally believed to be the necessary condition for the continuation of liberty.

Most of Jefferson’s contemporaries subscribed to the idea that the powers of government should be dispersed—at least so far as to divide them among the three branches. Many became persuaded, too, that dividing the powers of government between the general and state governments was a good thing. But few, if any, saw as clearly as Jefferson did how much effort had to be put into making such a system work and how far the effort had to be carried.

If the system of checks and balances is to work, he thought, it would be because those entrusted with power used their imaginations, wills, and determination to protect their interests and assert their prerogatives. Checks and balances entail tension, an ongoing and, above all, unresolved tension, and men are usually disinclined to live with unresolved tensions. The natural inclination is to establish some authority who, or which, has the assignment to settle the issues, once and for all, and resolve the tension. Jefferson understood more clearly than anyone else ever has, or at least discussed it more clearly, that the resolution of these tensions—arising from different claims to power among the branches or between the states and the United States—would be to remove the checks and balances...

Protest The Invasion of Iran

It will be difficult to protest the invasion of Iran, but I believe it can be done. This stage is about spreading the information that it is going to happen. This should take slightly less than a week if things go well. The next stage will be a short burst of fire about public discourse on the matter, which will probably be back burner and take 2-3 days. From there it will become 'hit' and specialty information.

We want this to be primary information. It is being primed in the news under cover of Lebanon. American Israeli friendship is being celebrated and touted, which is good, but if it is professed for evil it is evil.

Let's organize these events NOW. Let's spread the word and organize Iranian protests before it hits the news in a week. Let's let the big ground breaking event be a protest and not a response-protest. I want this news propagated in Iran. I want formal Iranian protests to the leak that Iran will be invaded. I want United Kingdom protests in London, Manchester, Leeds, and points in Ireland and on the Continent. I want China to get involved in this. I want to hear what Russia and Japan have to say about Iranian invasion. I want to know what happened in 1953 in Iran and who Herbert Hoover is. I want a documentary of it ready for August or September. The 11th maybe.

I want protests in Boston and New England and New York if they'll do it. I want California as usual, but let's see some protests in Texas and Oklahoma and Colorado. Let's get the Carolinas involved. Let's see a march on DC. Let's not see a bomb about it. I want the media to get this information to the point that they must *address* it fully, and I want individual media sources like columnists to come out and print these stories about the war.

I want bread.

I don't care whether we have the force or not. That is entirely circumstantial and will not hold toast nor mustard. We're not going to war because we can or can't. We're not going to war because it's wrong.

We must honor GOD!

Legal Matters

NAFTA is not a Constituional agreement. 2/3 of Congress must approve of all international treaties. Congress has the authority to regulate interstate and international commerce. Considering the onset of peak oil, Congress should step up work to prepare for a non-oil economy or at least an oil-sustainable economy.

A North American Union would not be ratified by Congress, nor by a vote of the people of America, Canada, nor Mexico. The Congress does not have the authority to rescind its own duties to regulating commerce. That is unconstituitonal.

These measures should be reviewed by our Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has a busy schedule ahead of them.

Foreign companies own American toll roads? Aren't roads the duties of the state? Is the state sloughing off its public duties? Foreign owned schools would not fly either. Will they eat our flesh?

We need to do what is right all over. We can do what is right in Iraq when we fix our economy and infrastructure. We can get the votes need to enforce removal of corruption when we reform campaign finance. We can reform campaign finance when we pass in in a national referendum. This will require information storage and retrieval systems, a free media, non-corporate ownership of information collection and distribution systems, and an educated and involved populace!

What will this take?

VIVA!

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It seems that much of the point of nationhood as far as Israel goes is racial discrimination. I believe that is unprofessional and also would be somewhat illegal or questionable to do in most social areas. I am disturbed that Israel regulates race in such an intrapersonal manner. I believe that the 4th amendment is being violated by Israel's actions in regard to Palestinian citizenship, applying to live in Israel or be an Israeli citizen, etc.

indeed

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

Invasions of Economics

I've recently received word that we're invading Iran before the end of the year, for reasons foreshadowed.

We have been over the consequences this will have on the world in moderate depth, the side laying consequences in shallow depth. This is not about consequences. We know they are dire and far greater in scale than the budgeters can put on paper and far more torturous and gruesome than a military planner can say in numbers. They are atrocities before God.

What I want to provoke is the alternative. To avoid this catastrophe...

Do all things you do not to attain paradise nor to avoid hell, but for the glory of God. These actions the world leaders are planning are not for God's glory.

We need to change the way we do business. First, let us change the way we grow and make food. We don't have to go all out on greenhousing, we can do that much more gradually. We *must* turn from petroleum and chemical pesticide use to ecological pest control. Even small predator structures in fields can dramatically increase yields. www.agribusinesspark.blogspot.com

We can grow enough food for all humans, and even keep up to pace with food production considering human growth. We cna make this human growth profitable and worthwhile and sustainable economically with the modern technologies of water fracturing and efficiency, and reducing materialism and advertising, and changing the industrial and commercial frameworks. www.receiptforlabor.blogspot.com, www.thepowercompany.blogspot.com .

By shifting the way we run our economic systems, militaries and societies can change and no longer will we face massive military threats, and small military groups can be made complacent through social and economic progression and various freedoms. Education reform as well can ensure that we stay mentally and socially nimble enough to prochaine anything. www.educationfreedom.blogspot.com, www.bettergodlinessthrufaith.blogspot.com see below.

If you wish to abandon the Bible and the Constitution, We the People may not be able to prevent you from doing so, but we will heal the wounds with God's hand.

Consider This Video

Deuteronomy 24:16

"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers..."

and according to the new law of Jesus Christ, love is the answer. Jesus never had or commanded anyone be put to death.

1967's UN Resolution 242 calls on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. They have yet to comply. They should either leave immediately or help the UN publicly draw up new resolutions considering the changed climate of the region. As a people's investigative force, we should examine the situation in Israel, Palestine, the Middle East, and America.

"No one shall take a hand mill or even its upper stone as a pledge for debt, for he would be taking the debtor's sustenance as a pledge." Deuteronomy 24:6 Nor shall the IMF/WB forcibly restructure economies to take food or vital resources away from the people who rely on it.

"When you pick your grapes, you shall not go over the vineyard a second time; let what remains be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow. For remember that you were once slaves in Egypt; that is why I command you to observe this rule." Deuteronomy 24:22. Let there be charity for those who are penniless and in need. Do not be ruthless in profit making and taking.

Do not bulldoze crops!

God promised land to the Israelites, but God also took it away by the Babylonians and Assyrians and numerous others in justice. Jesus told us that he was not here to restore Israel politically to glory. Another King David would not change the hearts of the Jews. God's kingdom is not in a castle or on a hill alone, it is in the heart of every man woman and child who is faithful and believes in God and the Lamb. This is where Israel or not Israel lies today.

Katrina and Lebanon

We should evacuate people from Lebanon in the same way as New Orleans. Who cares if they are Meixcan or White, they are in danger of hurricane.

http://www.novacvideo.org/

I was enraged and surprised that the media responded to Katrina before help organizations. At the first sign of failure, national agencies, even international agencies should have begun moving forces to help people in New Orleans dying of thirst. Death of innocents, especially preventable death, is an international emergency worth any cost to prevent.

Israel VS Organized Crime, Not State

This is not acceptable behavior. Hizbolla is not a state. You cannot attack a state to attack terror groups in that state. This is one reason we should not have gone to Iraq and one reason Israel should not attack the state of Lebanon. Let them cooperate with Lebanon. I don't believe Israeli troops are even targetting Lebanese troops.

I would not attack LA to get at the crips. Israel should not attack lebanon to get at Hizbolla.

Israel and Spain

Please examine the tone of this article.

"Israel: Spain relations hurt by PM's accusation IDF uses 'abuses force'"

This is soothsayed. Israel is trying to chastize Spain for denouncing its abuses. It has been well documented that Israel is abusive with its military. What Spain is saying is "yes, we know you've done this in the past. You may be at risk for doing it again in the future, or continuing what you are currently doing. Stop and do what is right."

"Spain's ability to use its influence to help defuse the growing Middle East conflict could suffer following the speech by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero..."

Israel is saying, "don't give me your advice or I won't listen to anything you say."

It's not impressive.

Lebanon Internationals

Someone should fashion a whip to get world governments, even uninterested world governments, to send some trucks or helicopters, or a plane or two to Lebanon to get international civilians out of the country.

I'd fly it. I'd fly in there, pick up the civilian Canadians, Swedes, Maltans, etc, and get them on an emergency basis out of Lebanon and into my country, to be held at the airport or international zone, until they can be sent to their home country by arrangement. Not just those from my own country, but any international who is in danger.

Israel and the Middle East

The solution in Israel must be just like the other solutions. We should focus on the right answer and not on what's wrong. By improving technology and peace movements we will cause peace there. I am uninterested in finding who is wrong and publicizing what is evil about Israel's actions or the war or the world. I know it's wrong; I am uninterested.

I am interested in focusing on what is right.

1. Bring me the plans for the silver colloid antibiotic plan and put it in foods and drinking water, give it to livestock and use it in pesticides. Filter seawater using carbon nanotubes and put this silver colloid in it. Cure acne, bad breath, and stinkiness with it, along with real illnesses.

2. Study better and recommend the methodology of blood electrification to neutralize pathogens. This can substantially improve world health and reduce the incidence of debilitating and expensive disease and infection to a tiny fraction comprised primarily of genetic deficiencies, which can be addressed with stem cells and gene therapy.

3. Show me the water fracturing method to turn H20 into HHO into 2H2 O2, using less energy than is produced by the H2 produced. Make this the standard energy production method and eliminate nuclear and coal power plants. Build new cars and convert old cars to run on water.

4. Grow food on green farms using animal-based fertilizer, greenhousing, and ecological pest control. Grow too much food to eat and use some of it for ethanol and biodiesel, wherever that might be needed. Donate it to international food pantries to prevent starvation.

5. Change transport to centralize around mass transit, maglev trainsets, or water splitting train engines. Erect helium zeppelins to serve as midairports and space elevators. Equip planes with hypersonic scramjets and give them small turbines capable of accelerating them to ~250mph to activate the scrams. Change FAA law to allow supersonic travel overland in the US above the altitude required to have zero ground effect.

6. Change economics in the face of free energy. Apply state-run industry and regulate corporations by market participation. Distribute goods from regional warehouses to reduce commute requirements and traffic.

*UPS* Partner with internet businesses to warehouse stockpiles of goods at UPS plants for rapid delivery to customers.

7. Establish international civil service teams to operate on all scales of interaction. Change education to be curiosity based from an early age instead of mandated. Change licensures and certifications to grades on aptitude tests. Have teachers become research associates for students.

8. Create and dispense software defined radio to allow cheap safe private and effective transmission of information internationally via daisy chain or satellite and tower relay systems. Users pay nothing for radio and can broadcast music, host chatrooms and live radio shows, and do everything medialyte anywhere free with anyone. Sell *that*.

9. Allow citizens under these circumstances to form supporting groups and organizations and communities and join these kinds of communities freely throughout the world regardless of national origin, race, creed, etc. Destroy all copyright law in the face of free energy and universal equality, the lack of a need for piling up huge sums of money and the lack of poverty for plentitude.

That is all. Encourage religious and spiritual expression and praise of God through Jesus Christ and counsel all people empathically for free.

Ban the draft. A real war would have real supporters. Ban wealth. Real projects would have real supporters.

These things can be supported and made through information distribution and retrieval systems, through civil disobedience, non-violence, love, understanding, social cooperation and ambition, willingness to consider and try and believe new things, and by making many thousands of new friends.

Begin.

Jesus Christ, Paramilitaries, and the St8

Jesus Christ told us to offer no resistance against one who is evil, and when attacked to turn the other cheek, that he who raises the sword will die by the sword. But he also said that the state does not carry the sword for no reason.

Is it ethical to make plans for a state to be at war? Ancient Israel [no connection to present day Israel] had to with God's guidance. May we be guided today as we plan for war and live for peace.

If I presumed it were ethical and the goal were for peace and love, I would avoid war and change all states from the inside out. No state is perfect to conquer the others. No society as a whole is perfect. Godliness is goodness and love throughout any state and society.

If I were a man having control of a large area of land, a king, of a country, and attacked by a series of militants, I would make work to expose them and announce who they are. I would not attack the land they come from, or its people. I would love them and court them, as I should all people and lands.

If it became necessary to protect the others from militants, I could not bring myself to attack their land, if they were not led by another king or group controlling such lands. I might ask the community to do something about it. Would I want other nations or people to send aggressive soldiers into my land to retaliate for deaths? No. But sending defensive soldiers into my land who worked with me? I might like that, especially if there was a problem.

It seems that Lebanon has a Hizbollah problem. The solution is not to attack Lebanon. It is to work with Lebanon. I *like* Lebanon.

The Draft

The draft is a threat to the American Constitution and to freedom everywhere. I will not be forced to fight and I use my skills and rights as citizen for peaceful endeavors and promoting peace only.

We have many good alternatives to war. War is failure. I am a conscientious objector, as are millions of Americans in their hearts, who should not be denied their inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, nor from their 1st or 4th amendment if they become soldiers in an armed force.

Examine these links and fire them for wanting to force you to go to war. Or don't, and reject them when they demand it personally. The bill was introduced by Represnetative Rangel [D-NY].

Bill HR 4752 IH is NOT in the House.

http://www.rexresearch.com/draft/draft.htm

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.4752.IH:

Gaza and Non-State Organizations

From Noam Chomsky's interview with Democracy Now...

"Israel and the United States at once announced that they were going to punish the people of Palestine for voting the wrong way in a free election. And the punishment has been severe."

Interesting association.

I have examined that Hizbollah is not a state organization, even if they hold certain posts in Lebanon, the Lebanese state has not been attacking Israel. Israel should not then retaliate inappropriately against the state, or against non-militant civilians. It is conditionally breaking Geneva to attack the infrastructure of Lebanon and Gaza.

I am disappointed that the US vetoed the UN resolution, but I believe an additional resolution against this could properly address the violation and procure proper action and international UN-level awareness against the strikes and their kind. Arab nations should voice UN resolutions on these topics, at least as a forum.

A more appropriate response to these attacks could be a direct military supported paramilitary excursion into Lebanon, potentially with L's consent and assistance, to oust Hizbollah or other instigators of violence. This could accumulate into perhaps a month-long heavy investigation and capturing phase which would be followed by sentencing in Jerusalem and Beiruit. It would express the official Arab world's desire for peace and Israel's desire to target militants and not civilians, and if accompanied by a statement of reforms in the 1st-3rd world and Arab/Israeli interaction systems, could be a founding document and example of a new method of cooperation.

Such a document might benefit Arab nations with recognition of states vs military organizations, publishing of finances, trade reforms, non-aggression/annexation treaties, and certain int'l energy policies that could replace oil, improving the penetration of economic worldwide success. Israel's main benefits from any deal would be peace and not being attacked by paramilitary organizations. Israel is unthreatenable by any Middle Eastern nation except Iran's nuclear program, and international threats, which can be dealt with more broadly. But as far as attacks on Israel, elected states are one of the least concerns to the State of Israel. Dividing the Arab world into states and paramilitaries, which it exists as, would better address attacks and respond to them and their causes.

There are few Arabs who would say from birth that Israel does not have a right to exist.
-William Bunker

Generally some acquire this opinion after hearing of and experiencing terrible things done by Israel and having unpleasant parts of their lives attributed to Israel or western/'zionist' intervention or programs. I think Arabs might be wont to 'donate' Israel to the Jews if they sat down and asked for it nicely and agreed to numerous peaceful and trade-promoting agreements.

Furthermore, the background to all this difficulty and the majority of labor and shortage can be addressed by hydrogen-splitting technology that would make use of seawater as fuel. Please, if you spend 5 minutes on anything today let it be watching this video about company Hydrogen Technologies on Fox News:

Hydrogen Technologies: Water as Fuel
[that forms a quorum, with Stanley Meyer]

Stanley Meyer's water splitter is another possible invention, as is Dr Moray's geoelectromagnetic resonation device. A synopsis of the economic effects of hydrogen fuel and free energy can be found below or at

Economic Consequences of Free Energy

Peace is our profession. See more about hydrogen energy at www.receiptforlabor.blogspot.com

International Crime Thieves

It is unfortunate that every major nation's populace is enduring likely to be suspiciously explained terrorist attacks, testing their people's loyalty and faith. This should not happen to the thousands who die and the billions who are terrorized or offended. America's 9/11, Russia's school event, England's 7/7, Spain's trains, Canada's BS Toronto event, now India's train bombing.

Who investigates these events, double and triple checks the facts? The people. Who can stop them? Who files charges? Who jails the prosecuters and shuts down an international crime ring/evil plan? The people.

As well, Israel's series of terrorist bombings and attacks, and Palestine's sufferings. States cannot be trusted to have militaries.

Israel and Lebanon

Israel: military targets only. Battling civilian infrastructure and threatening it is terrorism and unGeneve. Are the fighters here state or non-state fighters? If the Lebanese government is attacking Israel then may they act in God's name to change that, or turn the other cheek and witness God's justice.

Viva Mexico

More important than a leader is the action of the people. Obradoredos.

War is over if you want it.

Romans Chapter 15

Patience and Self-Denial

We who are strong ought to put up with the failings o the weak and not to please ourselves; let each of us please our neighbor for the good, for building up.

For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you fall upon me." For whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to think in harmony with one another, in keeping with Christ Jesus, that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and ather of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God's Fidelity and Mercy
Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Democratic Capitalism

The results of democratic capitalism seem to be an unfair collection of wealth around a certain few at the top. This is as critically dangerous and non-water-tight as any other form of government's ills.

I believe that this kind of mercantilism cannot work. We have legally shifted beck to mercantilism from a truly free market because of the limitation of oil. Removing the economy of an enemy improves yours with more bud. I mean oil. A world of limitless economy vs a perceived and engineered world of shortage. Sterring towards peak oil is switching the world to mercantilism from capitalism. This is not legal.

Nor is it necessary. Artificial reliance on oil and artificial shortage are being imposed by megacorporations seeking to make more money on monopolies on their products.

We could have enacted anti-trust laws on vehicle companies using only oil sometime in the 1910's. Currently some company-chains have cartels. Is it legitimate to seperate a company with dotted lines across cottage components? How much stock does a company need to own in another to be considered part of that company? 50%? 25%? 5%?

We may be able to place an anti-trust suit forcing corporate change in America and the world. It will take the actions of the government and Congress, to adjust American spending policies. Oil must not be the only option. We can prove that meaningful alternative fuel and oil-efficient technologies exist by citing evidence from the patent office. We should arrange legal action to split companies from oil, for the world's good, and because of this time of fiscal difficulty.

Japan Considers Strike on North Korea

This to me seems profoundly unjapanese.

I would prefer seeing international weapons platforms mounted on Japanese islands or international bases to do the same thing than the Japanese warp their military after 60 years to become outwardly oriented. First strike policy is not the right policy for anyone without omniscience.

Just what of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness?

America has some founding principles around life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This appears to be inalienable. What if my pursuit of happiness includes smoking marijuana, not joining the military, and remaining alive? Can these things be inalienably guaranteed by the state? I believe they can, ethically and legitimately. Since all men are created equally, can the state pursue these rights for all humanity? Yes.

Marijuana is a non-issue, but rights say yes. Thankfully the draft is not active, although bills remain in the Senate. But there are times when the state causes the death of a civilian, such as capital punishment, or in some cases on this battlefield execution. Also in military justice this is common and unpublished.

But frankly, it goes against our inalienable right to life. The state should also provide effectively against starvation, and provide on demand emergency service to anyone at hospitals. This is part of our founding documents and part of our American way. Let's find the way.

Civilian Paramilitaries

"In response to 'kill, don't capture'"

...at first i thought you were going to lament or expose this kind of policy. It is not right to execute captured people on a battlefield, even if you've got no place to 'dispose' of them. What do you do with a civilian who is engaging in paramilitary behavior?

Well, you'll have to treat them as a civilian, and until that can be done, keep them in protective POW custody. Offing them on the field is clearly out of line and plain clothes cold blood murder.
***killing while no life is in danger = murder.***

That's initiating death. Take this to the death penalty.

Try them in relation to their paramilitary cause. what would you do with soldiers you'd captured during war? Release them? Doubtful. Keep them in prison if they are guilty of crimes, or if they are hostile enemy civilians or paramilitaries during wartime. when the war is over, release those who are not guilty of crime.

Post-Oil Situations

We are rapidly approaching a dividing point where we will have to face two admittedly regrettable, yet clearly distinguishable, post-oil scenarios. One, in which we've got likely few people killed and a series of economic and technological breakthroughs leading to world peace, and another in which we've got 150 million people killed, or more, a series of disparaging ecological disasters, and massive starvation, shortage, poverty, and war.



-Rendered from Dr. Strangelove, 1964


I want the people in power to consider these options. We could release the technology to the public, or even to companies and into production for the 171mpg carburater and for water splitting technology.

Assume >go< on ramificiations of free energy.

What could happen?

What would the negative elements of this be? Existing stocks of oil would face substantial reduction in current and future value. We stand to replace existing infrastructure from energy companies and electrical grids as major power plants are replaced by decentralized small energy plants and energy becomes plentiful. American supremecy in the world would be reduced by losing its energy and economic monopoly of petrodollars and dramatically reducing the price of industrialization and infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands or millions of jobs could be lost from the energy sector, from manufacturing and industrial sectors which would be replaced primarily by robotics. Petroleum and chemical companies would be shut down from lack of petroleum products and use. Fertilizer and pesticide companies and agricultural businesses would need to dramatically change production.

We could potentially immediately lose all supply of oil from overseas before the transition could be made. The strateigic reserve alone can last for only perhaps 90 days and even augmented by domestic supplies of American and Canadian oil, could likely not sustain the North American economy, even at a step back during mid-transition and jarring political relations. However, no lives would be lost and all economic activity could be restored and surpassed within 3 years of technology blueprint introduction. Once this technology became worldspread, world economy and labor potential would explode geometrically.*

Conversion kits for cars could be produced cheaply and for perhaps a year's cost of oil per car a conversion could be fitted. The same could go for industrial engines and other applications. For remaining or intermediate projects, the 171mpg carburater could immediately be introduced, reducing American fuel consumption to somewhat less than 2/5 of its ordinary usage, likely sustainable by continental supplies until replacement can be arranged, likely 2-5 years' time. By replacing fertilizers with bacterially [Bacteri-Allied] expedited compost and pesticides with greenhousing and ethical ecological engineering we can nearly eliminate agricultural petroleum use and sustain and advance agricultural development. Plastic can be replaced by cornstarch and tree and hemp farms covering large portions of the American west and Canada. 'Effortless' hydrogen can be produced from Stanley Meyer's water splitter, or if necessary can be created from genetically engineered bacteria's photosynthesis.


*What is the danger of world economy and labor exploding geometrically? We could potentially face isolated groups with nearly limitless power potential doing almost anything they liked. What if an island like Japan decided to use hundreds of terrawatts of energy and robot-manhours to build an enormous array of nuclear scramjet missiles, scramjet aircraft, robotic soldiers, tanks, mineshafts, fortifications, bombs, artillery, and weapons? What if China decided to do this? These are important questions to be aced in the world of tomorrow.

Several responses arise from this. What would motivate them to do this? What would guarantee their success in a world with excellent surveillance, communication, and universal equality? I believe that the Chinese people, the Japanese people, and the people of every government would begin to behave significantly differently when they no longer relied on the state for their energy or public services so much as their local [and international/suit by proxy] police and firemen, hospital workers, construction workers and machinists. Their power could come from a neighborhood level and security techniques could make it unsabotagable, and any large population as a whole immune from mechanical sabotage.

I believe that with this limitless or unlimited energy people could pursue anything they chose to, and that they would not choose to pursue national agenda or warlike ways. Without such constraints they would no longer face shortage of resources, as they could either throw any amount of energy and therefore time into any meaningful project, or any amount into finding a better way to accomplish that project. Organization of force to subdue others would not be necessary and would be foolhardy.

Any goal could be achieved without preventing someone else from achieving a goal, except for that universal freedom principle. Those there who turn away from God and what is good would be shown justice and their injuries deleted.

I believe that a world organization dedicated to monitoring, preparing for, and exposing possible threats, including famine, disease, potential economic or material difficulties, rescues, civil service, and in the meantime, specialized education, would be the best defense against tyranny.

This could be the Human Team, or some such name. An voluntary organization of specially skilled individuals who ethically and empathically care for earth and its inhabitants and seek methods to prevent flaw in mankind's environment and to aid and assit mankind wherever possible. The focus of these Team members would scale up and downwards. Upwards would include the prevention of large volume problems, such as a pending epidemic or famine, or anything like war or natural disasters. Downwards would go from civil regions of service as police, firefighters, hospitalers, even as machinists for civil service, counselors, educators.

I imagine many of earth's people would become farmers for a portion of the day, naturalists, entertainers, robotics technicians, carpenters, construction workers, movers of goods, many dedicated and successful scientists and engineers, few fighters. Few malcontents. I imagine everyone would be able to be all of these things if they chose.

An oil baron, if they chose, could have all energy they chose from earth and water and bacteria, and likely a portion of land fairly large to control. They could have foods grown in greenhouses, machines to do whatever they like, gain entertainment from the internet or any media source, fly in planes, etc. But a game of trying to get everything would be impossible and no longer played. No one would try to force others to play that game, and no one would expect you to. They would be surprised if you tried to acquire a billion dollars, or a million. Needs would be taken care of almost universally, with dramatic pursuit of a communication-connected and motivated friendly populace to achieve a positive state for everyone.

What legitimate concerns to this subutopia present themselves? Will it arrive within 25 years, bombs or no bombs? Yes, probably. Should it have been here by 1985? Yes, probably. What is stopping it, whom and why? What focus of education do they need to achieve this garden? Would they love it? I am certain that all friends of God would love such a place.

9/11

Even if 9/11 was a Pearl Harbor to get us involved in peak oil early, it is murder to solve a problem that we made. The USG should not have quashed high efficiency oil programs, nor should they have dismantled the water splitter. They should not have bowed to Saudi or middle eastern or internal voices that said to promote high oil consumption. The petrodollar should not be propped up by American international politics at the expense of civilians, clean and efficient industry, and a society that can ethically weather peak oil.

This is going 6 miles out of the way through brambles and mires to avoid a pothole. The beer is getting warm, c'mon.

Officer Training School and Public Military Education

I have a question for the military.

Would it be tactically worth it for them to send me to officer training school?

I will produce the write up. I must warn them of certain things beforehand, though. I will not join the military. However, I am an American and I live for truth justice and the American way, and I would only ever use these skills in support of God and what is good. In the event of an invasion on America these training skills could be useful.

They have a massive budget and are in the middle of a recruitment boom for which training measures and budgetary items have been procured. They claim to have need of new recruits and as always especially skilled recruits.

Is it worth the seat and their money to send me to officer training school that I may gain such skills? This depends on whom the individual is they would train. I was offered officer training school in 2001 on the grounds of my high school GPA and SAT scores. I am an Eagle Scout and have leadership qualities and the ability to effectively contribute leadership to a group pursuit.

Would it be beneficial to America's tactical position to have expertly trained officer-level non-enlisted civilians? The support of American people and opinion and the journalistic analysis of state-level efforts is critical to the democratic process. American civilians need to be trained and trained well to efectively support a diplomatic or military process.

I want to attend officer training school, have the government pay for it, and not be obligated to join the armed forces. This can replace a public draft with skilled and performance sensitive optional serviceability. A draft is unconstitutional because it circumvents rights in our ofunding documents to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and is leaned against by the 4th amendment. Speaking against a war or a protest is also banned in the military, which is a violation of the 1st amendment which even soldiers should not be forced to surrender. Furthermore, because I do not believe in the death penalty, I cannot willingly submit myself to a judicial body or other organization that practices it.

However, if a situation is put in my hands where I must make a choice between killing or mortally disabling another person or sacrificing myself or another innocent, the choice is clear that I must defend us. If I am confronted with such a situation on the shores of or inside America I will make that same choice, and encourage those around me to as well, but the same military restrictions will still be borne.

So I ask the state to provide me with officer training due to my ability. I would recommend the state provide voluntary and non-compulsory free boot camp for anyone who appropriately fell into that category as a public service, as a readiness measure for the public and an option for those who cannot ethically join the United States military.

There are many ways that non-enlisted skilled individuals can contribute to the United States and to the world by peace. Information distribution and analysis is more valuable today than it ever has been, and accurate and well analyzed information and the planning and solutions surrounding them can improve American and world industry, stability, and peace. Public diplomacy is more important than ever due to the ease of international communication provided by the internet and new technologies. Providing this training is gentile and will add to an aware and active citizen's education and ability to serve others.

Elite Etiquette

God has seen it fit for mankind to be placed in the hands of a solemn few. Because of this duty and because of God's law there are ways that such a leader must behave.

It is critical for this leader to love the Lord, and to seek to serve him and to serve all how God would want them to be served. Such a leader must use the best technologies and information systems to protect and serve these people with the resources given them by God from earth and heaven while maintaining or improving their resource ability. A leader may have been given trust of the earth, but knows that it belongs to God and is given to everyone.

A Message From President John F Kennedy

World Domination

There are two choices in the world. Either monopolar domination [or brief bipolar domination pursuant to monopolar domination] or universal equality. One of these will be enforced and the other will be the enemy of it.

We can presume that the world is currently moving towards monopolar domination from the various control related activities being promoted. The lead power appears to be the US, but not just everyone in the US, the rich of the US, and by corporatization, the rich of every part of the world who play by US rules. Everyone who is not rich and who is not in the US or playing by US rules is at a severe disadvantage. Examine Iraq and how they were brought to their knees from 1991 to 2003. They tried to become a major world player by controlling most of the world's oil. America shut them down as a competetor.

The alternative ruleset is God's rules. If everyone played by God's rules we would achieve universal equality through justice and law. Everyone receives equal justice under God's law.


Previous to Iraq's forte was Russia. Russia was a power player of the Cold War, arguably WW3. Russia collapsed through corporate warfare, which has become America's war of choice and which is difficult to politically defeat or subterfuge, especially under this private law set.

Before Russia it was Germany. Before Germany, England, France, Spain, Portugal, and back as far as the Turks and Muslims. Each intensifying their rule and ferocity and destruction, one after the next. What can we do to halt this battle?

We must change corporate laws. Corporations should publish all of their subsidiary companies on their products [a Coca Cola Umbrella Company]. They should publish their finances. Since we know America wages war through corporate entities, we should protect nations and individuals from corporate action. We should regulate and submit all corporate and national actions to an international court of law run by democratic world elections.

We must strengthen corporate regulation through the EPA, the World Court, and other regulating boards. Capitalism will need to accomodate and account for the changes in capitalism found from rapid communication and international conglomeration.

The framers of capitalism, different from the framers of the Constitution, did not expect capitalism to become a global enterprise. Capitalism on a small scale, pre-automobile, pre-telephone, pre-international stock exchange, etc. works reasonably well when regulated by human rights and civil rights from government. But no government is large enough to regulate these things today, and capitalism has outgrown them. Workers have not caught up with growth because of nationalist actions and the work of corporations.

The closeness of corporations and government, using one another to advance each other, have left workers behind and this gap is inexorably growing, until corporation and government can be brought under control by democracy. The framers of the Constitution built the laws to protect us, and all our modern law systems and economic triangles have been set up and established by a world corporate government.

We must get back to the Constitution and Bill of Rights [info@bordc.org] and begin to interpret them clearly once again in the light of freedom of the people. Existing anti-trust laws must be engaged. What is a trust? Fair trade must be practiced. We need to get corporations out of government interests and governments out of their corporate monopolies for resources to control their adversaries.

We can do this with new technology obsoleting resources controlled by the state. The water-powered car and the Moray resonating generator use water or the earth's electromagnetic field to generate motion and power. That would save consumers trillions of dollars and reduce the cost of living similarly, and would take much power from the hands of global shipping companies and militaries and governments and put it in the hands of individuals. These devices and the machines that can make them have been guarded fiercely by states and companies. Biodiesel is also a great and easy choice.

We can do the same thing with democracy and the courts and the media. By spreading the word throughout the world we can wake enough people so that they take civil action to mold their governments and corporations and boycott those that do wrong, and prosecute and reshape tyrannical regimes. By taking the 1st amendment back from Megacommunication corporations we can further freedom.

By paying attention to the products and companies we consume from we can shape the corporate model. Avoiding franchises and unethical megacorporations can reduce their funding and increase the funding of local and ethical businesses. Instead of shopping at Walmart, shop at Mom & Pop's, even if it costs an extra buck. Find out who owns the companies you do business with and communicate with them. Encourage more organic foods and eliminate genetically modified food products. Dunkin Donuts uses a lot of hydrogenated corn starch. Ask them to remove it. Ask if your coffee is fair trade. We all learned that in the 90's. Do that kind of ethical digging in all your business.

And by communicating with our government and getting them to change corporate laws and demanding accountability for their actions and international actions we can help prevent state and international malfeasance and build strong court cases for the common decency. They will know that they are being watched. In the meantime, turn off the TV and begin researching for yourself what is going on. Do not wait for news to come to you. Dig.

An Army of Lieutenants

In any organization, all participants are their own masters. I belong to no man, although I comply with standing authority present in The Bill of Rights, the Constitution, our founding papers, and secondarily, it's representatives in our state. Before any of this I belong to God and seek to honor him by obeying his law, believing in and having faith in him and his son Jesus Christ, and behaving honestly in these beliefs.

In a state or any agreement, we all are sovereign. This is what freedom of choice is. As sovereigns we are all commanders of some part of the world, and form social accords and agreements to dedicate our resources together in pursuit of a goal we all desire to achieve. This is not ownership nor enlistment, it is community lieutenantship. We all are lieutenants of the causes we have aspired to, and all must work together, or alone with God, to pursue them. No one does what they believe to be wrong. No one commands what they believe to be wrong. We are free and all workers unto one another.

It is unacceptable for states or organizations to base their actions on the incidence of the religion or statehood of individuals, in regards to any specific nation or denomination. All racist and elitist acts fall short of love.