Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think what happened with this guy is his house was broken into many times and he got tired of it. He lives in a very poor neighborhood. A lot of Americans are in complete denial of the relationship between poverty and crime, because to admit that poverty is the root of most crime would require us to admit that our economic system needs to be reformed. I think what you've written is true. People are ruled by fears, not rational thought, and most cannot see past the end of their own noses. Not a good recipe for a civil society. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 4/1/12 7:06 PM, "scleroplex" <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote: >agreed! >people are being deliberately manipulated into using their archicortex and >chronically operate in survival mode >because it keeps them from paying attention to so many important issues. >and now with people unable to retire at 55 there are fewer and fewer >people >attending council meetings >and monitoring democracy at even the local level, a situation that is only >going to get worse >as there is an obvious and concerted campaign to make people who still >have >good pensions feel GUILTY >for doing so. > >it so happened that just yesterday i was reading the arguments president >truman put forth when he vetoed first the McCarran Act of 1950 and again >the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952. > >naturally truman was not supported by the spineless democrats and the >McCarranites overrode both his vetoes. > >"Truman vetoed the Act because he regarded the bill as "un-American" and >discriminatory. His veto message said: > >Today, we are "protecting" ourselves as we were in 1924, against being >flooded by immigrants from Eastern Europe. This is fantastic...We do not >need to be protected against immigrants from these countries?on the >contrary we want to stretch out a helping hand, to save those who have >managed to flee into Western Europe, to succor those who are brave enough >to escape from barbarism, to welcome and restore them against the day when >their countries will, as we hope, be free again....These are only a few >examples of the absurdity, the cruelty of carrying over into this year of >1952 the isolationist limitations of our 1924 law. In no other realm of >our >national life are we so hampered and stultified by the dead hand of the >past, as we are in this field of immigration. > >Truman's veto was overridden by a vote of 278 to 113 in the House and 57 >to >26 in the Senate." > >sound familiar? > >making people always think in terms of stark survival leads to predictable >choices that in turn can be very profitable. >and the people who are corralled into ghettoes predictably end up hurting >each other instead. > >it was fascinating to see how quickly social infrastructures collapse. >i was in kuwait during the invasion in august 1990. >the first day there were iraqi tanks everywhere shelling buildings while >next to them there were people >waiting for the public bus, which arrived on time and picked them up. >the public bus service ran on time the next 2 days too. >the 4th day the iraqis drove all the buses into iraq and there went bus >service. > >the sadder thing for me was watching people stop respecting red lights at >intersections. >everyone followed traffic laws the first 4 days too. >then it became a free for all with rampant flouting. >so clearly, social order was just imposed on them from the outside. >it was not part of them. >unlike in japan! > >my father never ever ran a red light even then in occupied kuwait and >everyone smirked at him. > >and when we were in the no-man's land camp between iraq and turkey >some men commandeered the water tap and would refuse to let me fill my >bottle. >controlling the tap seemed important to them on some level which i have >never understood. >which was really interesting as they were escapees from kuwait just the >same as i >and we were all in the camp equally just waiting for the turkish border >guards to let people in. >standing there that day i understood the power of the archicortex in >controlling their behaviour. >had i been able to question them 5 years later they themselves may have >found it hard to explain their behaviour. >i was 20 years old then. >and became a neurologist. >bharani > > >Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:42:40 -0500 >From: Greg Rubenstein <gcr910 at gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Warning: There is nothing in here worth your life >To: lug at leica-users.org >Message-ID: > ><CAMkHw3Yc60p=CHGuf=Em_gETJ3agat2q8EVxxFmR=jb4ksfOdA at mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Been following this thread and think a much larger is issue being >ignored or missed. > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information