A Civil Rights Conundrum

Musing today over the issue of Civil Rights.

If Equal Protection Under the Law applies to Americans, does it also apply Globally?

Must the United States treat all citizens of the World at a minimum, in the exact same manner that it must ~ by Law ~ treat its own citizens?

In setting a Standard of Law, should the United States by International Law, be required to maintain that standard with regards to Equality among all, as proof that the United States believes in its own standard of Justice and is applying the same to its own citizens?

In that event, based on the United States ratifying Civil and Human Rights for all, if the United States treats others as it treats the citizenship here in the U.S., then the Civil and Human Rights of all should improve proportionally and the Standard of Law for Americans would accordingly, be considered "Maintained" at that high standard.

For why would the United States not treat others as well as it treats its own citizenry, and vice versa?

If the United States fails to treat others Globally as it treats the citizenship here in the U.S., then one must believe that the United States is not treating its own People properly under the U.S. Standard of Law, and that U.S. Citizens suffer at the hands of the United States Government in the same manner that citizens overseas suffer from its alleged crimes and misconduct.

Meaning, that if citizens of other nations overseas suffer Civil and Human Rights violations at the hands of the United States, then it's likely that U.S. Citizens are suffering the same treatment in one form or another, from their own Government.

And this would include "Torture," and I'm not just talking about "Waterboarding" or other evils this Government has perpetrated against Foreign Citizens, in hypocritical contrast to what this Government espouses in terms of Civil Rights, Civil Liberties and Human Rights.

I'm talking about the many ways the United States Government has of destroying Human Lives, especially those it destroys here in the United States in terms of False Allegations, Malicious Prosecution and Fraudulent conviction ~ to end result in False Imprisonment and the confiscation falsely, of Civil and Human Rights via incarceration in places like Guantanomo Bay, Cuba, "Flo-Max," in Florence, Colorado, U.S.A., and on average, in every Federal Penitentiary across the land.

Citizens Foreign and Domestic falsely accused of being Enemies Foreign and Domestic, and treated inappropriately as a result, with Mass Communications of the Government's spin against these people used to influence The People against them, whether the Government is putting out the Truth or not. Innocent men and women have been known to plea bargain out of fear of the "Worst" which they are always threatened with, even though they haven't committed a crime and a plea bargain ultimately doesn't represent proof that they committed a crime at all or a crime worthy of suppression and oppression by the United States Goverment.

Only the hard evidence does, and a lazy Government wishing to avoid the expense and the work, offers threats and plea bargains in place of a Work and a Legal ethic.

Otherwise, and rather clearly, it's fair to say that the United States is operating under a double standard; that it professes one standard publicly of Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, Freedoms and Human Rights; and that it applies a second Standard hidden behind the facade of the Standard that came first, and then allows State and Local Governments to do the same, while it turns its head away from State and Local Government Crimes and Civil Rights violations, to focus on conducting more of its own.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," is a biblical expression of fairness and justice, upon which the United States is founded. And yet, daily, Civil and Human Rights are violated here in the United States and these violations no longer know boundaries of color, religion, sex, class, status, etc.

As Jesse Jackson once said (paraphrasing): It matters not what boat you came to the United States on, for "we're all in the same boat now."

Or, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said: "What they do to one of us, they do to all of us." And throughout history, that thought, that sentence, has been repeated before, based on Humanism ~ that what was true yesterday about Human interaction, remains true today in terms of Human interaction ~ and it must be pointed out that a "Modern" Civilization based on and derived from Antiquity ~ unable to separate from the past, remaining on a single path, with other paths out there yet waiting to be taken ~ will remain Obsolete and incapable of advancing or progressing to greater Freedoms, but rather, regresses away from the same.

Humanism equates and exists upon the Antiquity that represents Human Times and action by Human Kind. Humanism therefore equates to the term "All Known" ~ and frankly ~ "All Unknown" Human History, but most importantly, all "Known" Human History.

Is it not amazing that a Human Being can build a computer, which could and frankly has advanced the Human Cause magnificently, but the Human Being cannot capitalize on such advancement further, or on the greater advancements that could be achieved through leaps and bounds towards progress? And all because Mankind is Human, and Humanism has Mankind regressing away from future, via repeating "past mistakes" (War, for example)?

...rather than Man putting his past behind him, taking greater risks at higher speeds, and riding that computer at a dizzying pace into a new future, one the Human Kind can only imagine of thanks to the computer and Slothful Man's invention of the same!?

Why build a tool if you're not going to use it properly, to its full extent and range of use?

Such is man. He's slow. Hasn't figured that one out yet!

Man, in fact, is slower than "slow." He builds fast machines which he is incapable of driving as a result of his slothful ways. Takes a computer to guide the Space Shuttle in during re-entry from Space, because's Man's Eye, Hand and Mind coordination, cannot react quickly enough to any threat that exists between Space and the Landing site. The Space Shuttle re-enters at 24,000 mph. Twenty Four Thousand Miles Per Hour.

Man builds fast machines, but due to Slothful Humanism, he can't operate his technology without help from the technology itself.

The same is true of Man's collective Life.

To put it bluntly, Civil and Human Rights are declining in the United States because of Corporate influence over Goverment and politicians. That and the fact that some men are too slow to figure out what other men have "going on," particularly in terms of scams, schemes, fraud, flim flam and Con-artistry. Corporations operate on the basis of the "hand being quicker than the eye," and just how fast you can conceal what you're doing, or explain it away, from Slothful Men. The men and women running such Corporations are not much faster themselves, but they don't have to be, as long as they're faster than and a jump ahead of "Slothful Man." They get away with the misconduct they pull by merely staying a jump ahead of the slower guy.

As embodied by the expression: "You snooze, you lose!"

Corporations are a major portion of the funding and propaganda of this two Party system. Humanism and our "predictabilty" as Human Beings, plays right into the hands of Corporate interests.

Where have Civil Rights, Civil Liberities, Human Rights, the Law, gotten us since 1776?

Is this nation advancing or declining on the issues of Civil Rights, Human Rights, Equal Justice and Equal protection under the Law? And is technological advancement by Human Beings in America causing us to advance or decline more than simple logic, common sense and reasoning, might provide in the way of Progress?

These are questions needing to be raised and answered.

As for the answer here, as long as all men are NOT equal, despite the poetic-romatic-nonsense applied to their Creation, Civil Rights, Human Rights and Equal Justice, along with and in particular, the Failure of the Same, will always exist as issues in dispute, while oppression and suppression continue their march against all Humanity, not just against the citizens of the United States of America.

Convoluted Systems of Justice which make the victim the criminal, and the criminal the victim, are not advancing our cause and in fact, are causing our decline.

All Citizens of the World are affected by these simple issues and All Citizens of the World are eventually and ultimately affected by what goes on specifically here in the United States, and whether or not American Citizens receive Equal Protection and Equal Justice under U.S. Law, as citizens here are alleged to receive, but in fact, do not and likely, never will.

If the United States believes in its Laws, why are those Laws not applied equally overseas, upping the Standards of Justice and Equality elsewhere by simple, evenhanded application of U.S. Law by the U.S. Government to citizens overseas, whether or not Governments overseas truly want their People to have that much Freedom?

The simple Truth is: the Government of the United States is a fraud which does not treat its own Citizens in accordance with its own Standards, and allows Corporations and "Those With Money" the "Right" to enslave U.S. Citizens and control their thoughts, beliefs and actions, through Mass Communications. Corporations are in control of the U.S. Government, its Politicians and the People, and Corporations have ulterior motives that hide behind three pieces of paper conspicuously displayed in the National Archives, in Washington, D.C., but none the less, hidden behind glass that distorts and protected by armed men controlled by Corporations and their lap dog Political friends, the former, whom strangely enough, are this nation's "Elected Representatives," and the latter whom are, represent "dogs that bite" the collective hand that truly feeds them, not the Corporations.

As if anyone really has a choice as to whom they elect, since they cannot control whom is allowed to run for Office, be heard during his or her campaign, and placed on level ground through appropriately and perpetually reformed, Campaign funding Laws and Measures.

Even the News Media are Corporate and what benefits one Corporation tends to benefit all, especially in regards to unevenhanded and Unconstitutional treatment of American Citizens and American workforce. They have the money, the power, the ability and the support, as Corporations under U.S. Law, to do whatever they want to whomever they want, until such time as they get caught or America rises up against them all and "takes down the beast."

Otherwise, like Will Rogers, one only knows what they "read in the paper," and thus the issue goes back to Corporate Media feeding the Masses pabulum.

The problem is, many Americans believing these Corporate types, their Spin Masters and their media outlets ~ as controlled by money via "Advertising" payments ~ are listening to stories such as "We're the greatest nation on earth (!)."

Americans come to believe this Big Lie, without regards to the Great nations, including those responsible for our founding, that have been around longer than 200+ years. Americans are furthermore, without regard to developing, up and coming Third World Nations, and as long as people are fat, dumb and happy on pabulum that feeds them the thought, the idea, that "Hey, you're the greatest (!)," the Average American could care less about, nor do they really know, what goes on in the rest of the World, unless Corporate Media tells them, and in that regard, Corporate Media feeds them heaping bowls of mushy pabulum and will only tell the American Masses just what Corporate Media wants them to know.

Frankly, we haven't reached our third Century as a nation and our brains are already fried on pabulum.

Politicians figure into all this not as "Elected Representatives," but newscasters for what Corporate Media wants the Public told.

Our nation is not represented in Congress or the Senate by the enlightened "Elected Representative..."

...our nation is run by "Weathergirls." Plain and simple. Apologies to Sarah Palin of a sort, because she legitimately worked as a "Weathergirl" before going into Politics, and I'm referring primarily about those "who didn't!" Which I guess makes Sarah Palin more experienced than anyone in American Politics to be an American Politician, meaning, it was she, not John McCain, who should have run for President.

Meaning even further that ~ "as is tradition" in televised newscasting ~ the State of the Union Address like the "Weather," is always broadcast before the Sports. They won't "stay tuned" for the boring after the exciting, so you give them the State of the Union and the Weather(girls) first, then conclude your broadcast with some excitement ~ The Sports!

The People, their minds already filled (actually, "oversaturated") with pabulum, are more concerned with "How about them Dodgers" than they are their own Government and those whom are running it. You never here them say, "How about them Politicians!?" That's the difference between a "Brooklyn Bum" and a "Politican."

One is a figure of speech, meant to be complimentary; the other's a Bum making speeches containing facetious compliments.

And we elect these "Pretty-haired" "Weathergirl reporters" not on merit or ability, but rather, like we would our fellow students in a School Student Body election, as based on "popularity" and for what job?

At least the Dodgers are chosen and paid on their ability to hit the ball out of the park, or just to get hits at all without striking out.

As many Republican politicans appear to be doing (the latter) in regards to Sex and Politics in the State of Nevada.

As for Student Bodies at campuses across this nation and overseas, these students are not elected to run the school. There are already people hired to do that. So get a clue. You can elect all the Politicians you want, but there are already people paid to run the Government, and they exist in the Corporate Boardroom, not the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., or anywhere else for that matter. Americans may as well be getting their leadership from a Clerk operating a Slurpee Machine in a 7-11 store that looks like the Taj Mahal.

In fact, that choice might actually be better.

There are only ghosts in the Lincoln Bedroom. Ghosts of Dreams detailing what we could have been, as opposed to what we are today. Class struggle in what was originally intended to be a Classless Society, until one-man, one-vote became an impossibility ~ something that was possible, only the wealthy could not stand for it, and "Elected Representatives" and a "Limited Democracy" were the end result of an "imposed compromise" in its most Oxymoronic form.

In real life, the people running the United States are all Corporate, not Congressman or Senators, who rely on Corporate funding to get elected, then having received such funding, are required to do what they are told or they will not be around after the next Corporate-controlled election.

They may be manifested in Presidents, CEOs, Attorneys, Board of Directors, Judges, Politicians, Newscasters, Broadcasters and the like, but they are Corporate and that fact determines what their job is.

And what the hell is their job?

Simply put: they swear to uphold the Laws and Constitution of the United States. That is their job. What do they do with that job? They turn around and fail their responsibilities miserably and with Malice Aforethought, with ulterior motive ~ greed being that motive ~ and work using the Law to turn around and enslave you and I.

The "Powers That Be" don't like what you have to say ~ they can destroy you over it. Even if you're in the right. They're the ones with the money and the power, nine times out of ten over you.

Money and Knowledge of Law are power. So too, are Mass Communications.

They remember Machiavelli and his "expedience" first, and apply those lessons, while preaching secondarily of Sir Thomas Moore and his "Utopia," wherein "Great Power comes with Great Responsibility."

Who wins, who loses, when they put Machiavelli first, let alone, let him have a voice at all? Even the Prince he was advising "way back when" rejected his advice. The People of Italy were appalled. That's right. Machiavelli was Italian and living under Royalty, not an American trying to build a Democracy.

And yet today, along with Adolf Hitler's Big Lie, Machiavelli is central to American Corporate Business Interests and Operations, without regard to U.S. Civil Rights, U.S. Civil Liberties, and U.N. Declared Human Rights, and all because of expedience, which Machiavelli of course, was a proponent of. Torture was easy; Diplomacy was hard.

Take the Low Road over the High...and even charge a Toll!

Musing today about Civil Rights, Human Rights, U.S. Law, and the failures of the three despite the existence of U.S. Government to defend those Rights and Laws. Musing about the fact that there is more substance to a Disney Movie Musical than there is to the song and dance represented by the State of the Union Address, as deivered by no less than the President.

And ABC TV broadcasts both ~ AND the Wide World of Sports! And often times, in that order!

Musing while remembering of course, that Thomas Jefferson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, which started the American Revolution, and whom later became President of the United States, indicated that America should have more Revolutions more often.

How very fascinating coming from one of our Elected Representatives, whom by no mere coincidence, was also a Slave Owner at the time of and long after he signed his name to Civil Rights, Civil Libeties and the Cause of Freedom not only here in the United States, but as a Dream he hoped would sweep the World.

Jefferson couldn't even sweep his Slave Quarters with that Dream, Sports Fans...

...and that's because, if Jefferson were alive today, he'd be a Corporation. So too, would all the Founding Fathers be.

Especially George Washington, who offered to command our Revolutionary Army, if the U.S. Congress would merely cover his expenses.

You should have seen the bill!

Makes Mariah Carey and a hundred Divas just like her look frugal in comparison.