WASHINGTON — In physics, a unified field
theory is an attempt to explain with a single hypothesis the behavior of
several fields. Its political corollary is the Cupcake Postulate, which
explains everything, from Missouri to
Iraq, concerning Americans’ comprehensive withdrawal of confidence from
government at all levels and all areas of activity.
Washington’s response to the menace of
school bake sales illustrates progressivism’s ratchet: The federal government
subsidizes school lunches, so it must control the lunches’ contents, which validates regulation of what it calls
“competitive foods,” such as vending machine snacks. Hence the need to close
the bake sale loophole, through which sugary cupcakes might sneak: Foods sold
at fundraising bake sales must, with some exceptions, conform to federal
standards.
What has this to do with police, from
Ferguson, Mo., to your hometown, toting marksman rifles, fighting knives,
grenade launchers and other combat gear? Swollen government has a shriveled
brain: By printing and borrowing money, government avoids thinking about its
proper scope and actual competence. So it smears mine-resistant armored
vehicles and other military marvels across 435 congressional districts because
it can.
And
instead of making immigration policy serve the nation’s values and workforce
needs, government, egged on by conservatives, aspires to emulate East Germany
along the Rio Grande, spending scores of billions to militarize a border
bristling with hardware bought by previous scores of billions. Much of this is
justified by America’s longest losing “war,” the one on drugs. Is it, however,
necessary for NASA to have its own SWAT team?
A
cupcake-policing government will find unending excuses for flexing its muscles
as it minutely monitors our behavior in order to improve it, as Debra Harrell,
46, a South Carolina single mother, knows. She was jailed for “unlawful
neglect” of her 9-year-old daughter when she left her, with a cellphone, to
play in a park while she worked at a nearby McDonald’s.
Resistance
to taxation, although normal and healthy, is today also related to the belief
that government is thoroughly sunk in self-dealing, indiscriminate meddling and
the lunatic spending that lards police forces with devices designed for
conquering Fallujah. People know that no normal person can know one-tenth of 1
percent of what the government is doing.
In
Federalist Paper 84, Alexander Hamilton assured readers that although the
proposed Constitution would increase the power of a distant federal government,
this government would be inhibited by scrutiny: “The citizens who inhabit the
country at and near the seat of government will, in all questions that affect
the general liberty and prosperity, have the same interest with those who are
at a distance, and ... they will stand ready to sound the alarm when
necessary.” Not now, when five of the nation’s richest 10 counties, ranked by
median household income, are Washington suburbs, parasitic off the federal
government. The people who write the regulations of school lunches must live
somewhere.
Darin
Simak, a first-grader in New Kensington, Pa., who accidentally brought a toy
gun to school in his backpack, turned it in to his teacher. School
administrators then suspended him because the school has a “zero-tolerance
policy.” What children frequently learn at schools is that schools often are
run by biological adults incapable of common-sense judgments.
“We
simply cannot allow toxic things to be in our schools,” said a spokesman for
the Texas school district that confiscated the suntan lotion of a 10-year-old
who then became sunburned on a school trip. Students, the spokesman explained,
“could ingest it. It’s really just a dangerous situation.” Not as dangerous as
entrusting children to schools run by mindless martinets.
Contempt for government cannot be
hermetically sealed; it seeps into everything. Which is why
cupcake regulations have foreign policy consequences. Americans, inundated with
evidence that government is becoming dumber and more presumptuous, think it cannot
be trusted to decipher foreign problems and apply force intelligently.
The
collapse of confidence in government is not primarily because many conspicuous
leaders are conspicuously dimwitted, although when Joe Biden refers to “the
nation of Africa,” or Harry Reid disparages the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby
decision as rendered by “five white men” (who included Clarence Thomas),
Americans understand that their increasingly ludicrous government lacks adult
supervision. What they might not understand is that Reids and Bidens come with
government so bereft of restraint and so disoriented by delusions of grandeur
that it gives fighting knives to police and grief to purveyors of noncompliant
cupcakes.
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George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/ferguson-the-untold-story_b_5697928.html
I’ll resist the temptation to be insincere when commenting
on the endless hopelessness of American society or what instrument the media
plays in the whole affair, but romanticizing a straight injustice that weeds
its way through our daily lives like were just supposed to accept it isn’t
going to fly with me.
Gun violence begins and ends with the one who pulls the
trigger. It doesn’t matter if you’re a policeman or a criminal. When you shoot
an unarmed human being with a gun, you murdered them! There isn’t any amount of
neighborly love or feeling of support that is going to change it.
I understand the importance of seeing things from a
different perspective, but the reason this is happening is because we are tired
of it. It happens in a school and we mourn. It happens at the Mall and we
mourn. It happens over and over again by a certain organized institution towards
the ones their supposed to be protecting then were done mourning. It’s time to
start chucking some rocks and bottles and open up a can of whoop ass on them.
That is the spirit that is captured by the media and being displayed on
national television.
What the media will never do is stop trying to blow up every
dignified thing Americans have ever been proud of because there is no money in
it. It doesn’t capture a lot of attention and it sure doesn’t boost ratings.
The media is a controlled entity, just like the justice system and a political
machine. It doesn’t want division to lose to peace!
People are generally good in nature and it’s their instinct
to care for one another, but when being manipulated they turn dangerous and
violent just like any other animal. What seems to be the cause of it all is the
constant rule of thumb to override clear judgment. Just because you look
suspect doesn’t mean you are suspect and when authority figures learn to deal
with others on an equal basis then and only then will we truly be united.
United we stand and divided we fall, so what is so unclear
about our fall in America? Racism divides us and every demonstration shown over
and over again on television contributes to the fact that somewhere power
brokers enjoy the division because it’s good for business. People buy more guns
and ammunition when their afraid. The only problem is that the ones who are
afraid don’t get guns only the ones who make people afraid have guns.
It’s simple history that goes all the way back to the start
of civilization. Oppress people and they will revolt against you. Educate
people and they will communicate with you on an educated level, but that
doesn't happen when you attack them merely because of their appearance.
The beginning of this piece started when George Will explained, "a unified field theory is an attempt to explain
with a single hypothesis the behavior of several fields." The theory he called the Cupcake Postulate. In the responding comment section everything from how he was a over liberalized an over educated hack to it is our own fault for electing people who don't have our best interests at heart.
I am opposed to demeaning a qualified writer for stating plain simple information on a observance he or she has made. I'm also opposed to shouldering the blame for this circumstance because I'm a citizen of this country, but also because I'm a citizen of another country that is often overlooked. In Indian country, we look at the world and respond with a hefty, "Well now it's your turn, you don't like it to much," because we have been dealing with the foreign invasion of our homeland for a lot longer.
My ancestors had geopolitical and a economic system that worked just find for thousands of years until we were so-called discovered. The balance was obtained though absolute necessity to survive. You see, when you have idle time to consider how to manage your neighbor's affairs, nothing good can come from it and that essentially is what government is, a control system.
Take the early civilization of debate in Greco-Roman times for example. Why did they need a set of laws to institute their philosophy around the world? It was out of the need to control foreign territories. They had to decide if the people they were conquering were people at all because if they were people than they had rights. This was done in a multiple deity society mind you where the sink or swim test was to ask the conquered if they acknowledged the Dominant societies gods.
In our society, we don't even get that far because of the so called institution of government that abides by laws that were written by the people for the people and answers to the people except for one little exception, it doesn't apply to Tribes. We are the exception because many of us will never totally disseminate from our own society to join that of a foreign society, especially when there is no incentive to do so.
In the late 1800's and early 1900's we were forced onto the land that today we are excused of just free-loading off of. People say we get everything for free while they continue to self destroy the country that we took care of for thousands of years. Everything from were godless savages to mindless neanderthals has been claimed by the government considering us and now scientists are trying to say we aren't even the original inhabitants of this continent. This blog's title is Paleolithic because in my first post I ever wrote I stated the case that undermining a whole race of people's claim to be humans on this place on earth removes any claim they have to the exact location of their inhabitants and therefore null and voids any rights they possess.
Again, I'll restate it towards the one's experiencing just a fraction of what my people went through, "It doesn't feel to good now does it." When you take in regard the fact that the average citizen is comfortable to address the problem without fear of repercussions than consider that my people have had to adjust to a forced dependency because it is literally against the law for them to carry on their life in a usual and accustomed manner, you start to realize there is no comparison.
It can't be overstated that the vulnerable citizens in society are not in the situation because they chose to be subservient, but because they had no choice. So now I will back track my claim that it is not completely the same scenario that African American people are experiencing an injustice anymore or less severe than Native Americans or Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans. My point is that we are all experiencing a system that coherently doesn't follow a path that continues to keep our best interest in mind therefore we are not treated truly equal in a system that doesn't provide a way for that to happen.
What initiative we have is to overcome racial bigotry for the same reason other races in other eras had to overcome those same challenges. "We shall overcome," is not a mantra or a spiritual heme. It is a fact that our numbers are greater and will continue to be greater in the future. The more resistance toward the realization of this fact is obvious when The leader of the most powerful country in the world was elected, twice.
The times that we lay down our lives to correct a harsh reality that in the dominant race theory, "blood is thicker than water," is upon us. Minority blood has been spilled all over this land and it is literally built on ethnic slavery. Every construct of every race has been subject to exploitation through manifest destiny. Only the destiny involves the figurative as well as literal sense that life liberty and the pursuit of happiness doesn't only belong to one race of people, but to all who embrace it's principles.
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