Posted on 05/29/2015 9:17:32 AM PDT by all the best
I came across an interesting story from India recently.
In a landmark animal rights case, the High Court there ruled that birds can no longer be kept in cages.
The judges asserted that birds have a fundamental right to live with dignity and be free.
Incredible. If only we humans had the same fundamental right.
Many of us come from a country that claims to be free.
We grow up singing songs about our freedom, and we are told by our governments that evil men in caves hate us because we are so free.
This is powerful propaganda that starts practically from birth and stays with us for our entire lives.
Even Hollywood does its part with heroic action movies portraying the homeland as strong and free, with evil villains who invariably have foreign accents.
But it’s all a ruse.
Most of us don’t even have the most basic freedom to choose what we can / cannot put in our own bodies, or decide how to educate our children.
The volume of rules, regulations, and laws is so vast now that you can hardly breathe without committing a crime.
And when they’re not busy confiscating private property through ‘civil asset forfeiture’ or shooting defenseless citizens, police now drive around shutting down children’s lemonade stands for failing to have the appropriate permit.
Just this morning the US government’s publication of all the new rules, laws, and regulations totaled 313 pages.
And that’s just for today. Tomorrow there will be more.
Each of these new rules covers the most ridiculous topics– like regulating the way that dishwashers can be sold.
I’m sure we can’t even begin to imagine how horrifying life would be with a rogue dishwasher salesman on the loose.
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So do cows. Those Judges need to stop eating. It will make the world a better place.
These people shouldn't be reasoned with, they need to be knocked down and stepped on. It is way past time we stopped treating their prattlings with indulgence and started demanding an accounting for such incompetence.
To quote Kid Shelleen: “You ought to see it from MY side.”
Who is John Galt?
More and more people are getting it.
It’s why I moved from Seattle to rural KY. It’s why I have my tag line. To be clear, it’s more about timing than obama.
Well, we don’t have a fundamental right to live with dignity. Dignity, like respect, must be earned. I suppose it depends on the definition of both.
Freedom relates to the process. How others view it is part of THEIR freedom. As soon as you demand they respect your choices, you have robbed them of their freedom of thought, speech and conscience.
With freedom comes the freedom to fail, to fall flat on your face, to make a fool of yourself, to flop, etc. That is the responsibility side. These days liberals think all failure should be blamed on and paid for by others. That’s not freedom.
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Our government has had 60+ years of unrestricted financial freedom. The freedom to print unbacked currency, to issue unlimited debt, to centrally control the first of all markets - the supply of money.
Of course then government is going to grow wildly. Ideologies that support that growth of the progressive nanny state are going to do very well, because ultimately, there will always be unlimited funding for them. So we’ve had a couple generations now whose ideas of freedom, self-responsiblity and the role of government have been greatly influenced by this huge, progressive nanny state around them.
Your tag line is understandable, but the blame is misplaced. Obama is a symptom, not the disease.
This dumbing down phenomenon is covered in “TransEvolution. The Coming Age of Human Deconstruction” by Daniel Estulin.
All because of our children being conditioned by the “public school”indoctrination system (removed from the Natural Family) to destroy self-initiative and emasculate boys and dehumanize and destroy Reason and warp Natural Instincts and kill Virtue in all children. Schools are designed to literally destroy Virtue and create “group thinkers” -—(who can’t “think” actually-—they are fixated at puerile stages to be immature for life).
Without Virtue, there is no Freedom possible (Aristotle/Cicero/Founders).
Take back the minds and emotions of your own children and grandchildren—and control what goes into their minds-—and direct and habituate them to the Good. All behaviors and attitudes are LEARNED and HABITUATED by the environment. Don’t give the minds of your children to the State EVER. Toxic cultures like the Weimar Republic literally destroyed the masses’ ability to “think”-—controlled all perceptions and desires and created Hitler. Liberty for Security -—it NEVER succeeds and will end in total dehumanization.
To quote Kid Shelleen: “You ought to see it from MY side.”
Ah Lee Marvin was great but the horse was a show stopper, LMAO
Yes, that is what I mean. It’s why I say it’s more about the timing than about obama. He’s just the rube that happens to be “at the top” when it happens. Of course, his being there IS a part of it.
Judges in India? O.K.
Bad judges in India, execute them all.
Bad judges in India, execute them all.
My bad. I read it as "Indiana." But I shall not be surprised if judges in California made such a ruling.
Bingo! You are right!! The horse leaning against the building with his legs crossed was just too funny!!!
We’ve had protection of endangered species rulings in practically every state in the Union.
However, even the most liberal Appeals Court Circuit in the land can sometimes surprise:
Ninth Circuit Dismisses Action Alleging San Francisco Violated the Endangered Species Act
In a three-page memorandum decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed Wild Equity and other groups’ appeal from a lower court decision, dismissing as moot a lawsuit alleging that the City and County of San Francisco (“San Francisco”) violated the Endangered Species Act’s take prohibition as a consequence of its continuing operations of the Sharp Park Golf Course. (2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 4854 [pdf].)
The lower court dismissed the action on the grounds that the Fish and Wildlife Service issued a biological opinion and incidental take statement covering golf course operations. Wild Equity appealed, arguing that the incidental take statement does not become effective until the consulting agency – here, the Army Corps of Engineers – takes action by issuing the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) section 404 permit sought by San Francisco. While the appeal was pending, the Corps issued a CWA section 404 permit to San Francisco. Nonetheless, Wild Equity pursued the appeal, arguing in the alternative that the case falls within an exception to the mootness doctrine as a situation capable of repetition, yet evading review.
In a unanimous decision, the Ninth Circuit panel rejected Wild Equity’s contentions concluding that the case did not meet either of the two prongs of the Supreme Court’s capable of repetition exception. The court went on to state: “The issuance of the ITS and CWA permit have [ ] fundamentally changed the legal landscape within which the parties are operating, reducing the likelihood that this issue will arise again between these particular parties.”
Nossaman served as outside counsel to the City and County of San Francisco in this matter.
This is not why I fought Communism, all those years ago.
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile.
Since 1543 A.D., Justice is SUPPOSED to be blind.
I know a man who escaped Hungary ahead of Soviet tanks in 1956 as a teenager with only the clothes on his back. A couple of years ago he bought a farm and a city apartment to escape what he saw happening here. He never imagined such a turn of events.
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