The Liberal Position: "What in the world do you mean that the First Lady of the United States of America lied? This is ridiculous and maybe subversive! This better be good or I just might call the White House! I heard her speech, and she sounded so sincere and earnest about health care! My God, she was talking about taking her daughter Sasha to the emergency room! What can you possibly fault about that? You Republicans really do have an extra Y chromosome like we Democrates said years ago!Everyone, just like Michelle and Sasha, should be able to go to the emergency room for treatment!"
The Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative-Republican Arguement: "Lisa, my libelous, liberal friend, you have put your finger on the 'You Lie, Michelle.' Mrs. Obama did give the impression that you needed health insurance to go the emergency room. She said something like, "I was so glad that we had health insurance!" The lie is that you need health insurance to get emergency room treatment. You don't have to, and you haven't had to since 1986 when the Emergency Room and Active Labor Act was passed. By that law, all hospitals that receive any public money are required to treat everyone. Everyone, Lisa, not just those with health insurance. It doesn't matter if you have medical coverage. It doesn't matter if you're not an an American citizen. It doesn't matter if you are in America illegally and about to blow up one of our skyscrapers. Anyone, anywhere in the world must be treated in our emergency rooms. If you can get here, the emergency room will treat you. I want to be fair and balanced here, Lisa. If Michelle Obama had said she felt better knowing that she had health insurance and was a paying customer, I would have had no problem. But this is not what she said, and as a lawyer, she is very capable of saying what she means. So the 'You lie, Michelle!' is justified.
Lisa, you are very emotional. You need to watch out for those who sound so earnest and sincere because, more often than not, they are the ones who are lying. They are using emotions, not facts, to sell you a lie. Don't buy into anything on an emotional basis. The barbarian's mind runs on pure emotion. Don't be a barbarian, Lisa. That's what you sounded like a few minutes ago."
Lisa: "I'm sorry. I just felt so upset when I heard you saying Michelle Obama lied. There's nothing wrong with feelings!"
Two-Guns: "Think first, Lisa, and when you've thought it through as much as you can, then feel. Don't go around feeling all the time. That's what a barbarian does."
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Arguement 20: " What? 'You Lie!' #3?"
The Liberal Position: "What do you mean - Obama lied again. I can't believe it! My Obama!"
My Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative- Republican Arguement: "Lisa, I heard it myself. Rush Limbaugh was playing a part of Obama's appearance on the David Letterman Show. Obama said something like: 'The people in Canada are perfectly happy with their health care.' I could not believe my ears! And the crowd cheered that statement! I cannot understand it, Lisa. I have heard and read over and over again about Canadians being very unhappy with the long, long waits for doctors, especially specialists. I have heard about Canadians coming to America for medical care including cutting-edge drugs they couldn't get in Canada. I have heard that there's a demand for nurses in Canada because the medical care sucks, and nurses are getting out. Just a week ago, my mother who lives in North Idaho told me that they have a lot of Canadian doctors who have left Canada because of the government health care. I can't believe Letterman's audience hadn't heard and read the same things. Was the audience ignorant or did Obama just have them mesmerized by his flowery speech like a rattlesnake hyponotizes an innocent bird so he can swallow it? No, the crowd must have been Obama plants who would have cheered and then gulped Jim Jones flavored Kool-Aid if Obama asked them to.
Obama must stop lying. It is very disrespectful to us, and one day he like Peter may yell "Wolf," and no one will believe him. But Obama, as a Communist, is a collectivist. He is anti-individual, which means he is not for you as a person, but he is interested in structure like groups, classes, and most of all, The State. He does not see you and me as individuals with sacred rights. He sees us as resources for the Almighty State. This is collectivism, and collectivism has a long history. It goes back to men such as Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Heidigger. These men were philosophers who believed that honesty was unimportant in your quest to gain power.
Power was the ability to force people to do things you wanted them to do. Ultimately, these three philosophers, like Obama, were slavers. However, in the real world lying is a sickness, and I pray that Obama will get well before he gets worse."
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850. PS. Today, I heard Rush Limbaugh say twice that Obama was being disrespectful toward us. This is the point I made yesterday in my last post. Is Rush reading me? I will know if he uses the term "slaver" to describe Obama or any other collectivist. That's a term I've never heard from the media.
My Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative- Republican Arguement: "Lisa, I heard it myself. Rush Limbaugh was playing a part of Obama's appearance on the David Letterman Show. Obama said something like: 'The people in Canada are perfectly happy with their health care.' I could not believe my ears! And the crowd cheered that statement! I cannot understand it, Lisa. I have heard and read over and over again about Canadians being very unhappy with the long, long waits for doctors, especially specialists. I have heard about Canadians coming to America for medical care including cutting-edge drugs they couldn't get in Canada. I have heard that there's a demand for nurses in Canada because the medical care sucks, and nurses are getting out. Just a week ago, my mother who lives in North Idaho told me that they have a lot of Canadian doctors who have left Canada because of the government health care. I can't believe Letterman's audience hadn't heard and read the same things. Was the audience ignorant or did Obama just have them mesmerized by his flowery speech like a rattlesnake hyponotizes an innocent bird so he can swallow it? No, the crowd must have been Obama plants who would have cheered and then gulped Jim Jones flavored Kool-Aid if Obama asked them to.
Obama must stop lying. It is very disrespectful to us, and one day he like Peter may yell "Wolf," and no one will believe him. But Obama, as a Communist, is a collectivist. He is anti-individual, which means he is not for you as a person, but he is interested in structure like groups, classes, and most of all, The State. He does not see you and me as individuals with sacred rights. He sees us as resources for the Almighty State. This is collectivism, and collectivism has a long history. It goes back to men such as Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Heidigger. These men were philosophers who believed that honesty was unimportant in your quest to gain power.
Power was the ability to force people to do things you wanted them to do. Ultimately, these three philosophers, like Obama, were slavers. However, in the real world lying is a sickness, and I pray that Obama will get well before he gets worse."
Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850. PS. Today, I heard Rush Limbaugh say twice that Obama was being disrespectful toward us. This is the point I made yesterday in my last post. Is Rush reading me? I will know if he uses the term "slaver" to describe Obama or any other collectivist. That's a term I've never heard from the media.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Arguement 19 "Another 'You Lie!' Obama Impeached?"
The Liberal Position: Lisa, your Liberal Friend screams, "What do you mean- Obama made another lie in the health care address to Congress? What do you mean- he should be impeached?"
The Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative Republican Arguement: "Yes, Lisa, Obama lied again about health care in that speech to Congress. He made another "You lie!"
He said that "buying insurance on your own costs you three times as much as the coverage you get from your employer." He used the same words later in Minneapolis when he was putting down "the marketplace." The marketplace is simply the processs in which you and every other individual is free to buy or barter for what you want and can pay for. Communists are against you being freee. The State (Obama) will tell you what to do. Obama is a communist. Hence, Obama's sneer at the marketplace. Obama lied again about health care because the Congressional Budget Offfice (CBO) compared employee-paid health insurance to individually paid health insurance. It stated, "Premiums purchased in the individual market are much lower- about one-third
lower for single coverage and half that level for family policies." This was reported in the Wall Street Journal. In other words, you as an individual can get health care coverage at much cheaper rates than your employer can. Anywhere from 33 to 50 percent cheaper. Not three times or 300 percent more expensive as Obama said.
Thus, Obama lied at least two times in his health care speech to Congress.
Lisa, we cannot tolerate a President who has such disprespect for us that he lies to us. That is why I said impeachment has to be kept in mind. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850. PS. Saturday, I wore my shirt that has a picture of Obama on it with the caption "Worst President" over the picture. I was meeting a Navy Seal so I thought I'd be safe wearing it. But I first stopped for gas, and as I paid for it in a rough, country store, a Liberal snarled, "So I guess you liked Bush?"
"No. He was too liberal for me," I replied mildly.
"Idiot!" he spat and walked out of the store.
I finished paying at the same time and walked out behind him, saying, "Thank you for your foul mouth. You must be a Democrat."
"I am, and I'm proud of it," he called back as we went in different directions to our vehicles.
"Yeah, you people use force to make us do everything!" I countered, keeping my anger on a very short leash and trying to remain detached.
No reply. A reply would have necessitated too much intellect for this guy and most Liberal Democrats.
The Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative Republican Arguement: "Yes, Lisa, Obama lied again about health care in that speech to Congress. He made another "You lie!"
He said that "buying insurance on your own costs you three times as much as the coverage you get from your employer." He used the same words later in Minneapolis when he was putting down "the marketplace." The marketplace is simply the processs in which you and every other individual is free to buy or barter for what you want and can pay for. Communists are against you being freee. The State (Obama) will tell you what to do. Obama is a communist. Hence, Obama's sneer at the marketplace. Obama lied again about health care because the Congressional Budget Offfice (CBO) compared employee-paid health insurance to individually paid health insurance. It stated, "Premiums purchased in the individual market are much lower- about one-third
lower for single coverage and half that level for family policies." This was reported in the Wall Street Journal. In other words, you as an individual can get health care coverage at much cheaper rates than your employer can. Anywhere from 33 to 50 percent cheaper. Not three times or 300 percent more expensive as Obama said.
Thus, Obama lied at least two times in his health care speech to Congress.
Lisa, we cannot tolerate a President who has such disprespect for us that he lies to us. That is why I said impeachment has to be kept in mind. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850. PS. Saturday, I wore my shirt that has a picture of Obama on it with the caption "Worst President" over the picture. I was meeting a Navy Seal so I thought I'd be safe wearing it. But I first stopped for gas, and as I paid for it in a rough, country store, a Liberal snarled, "So I guess you liked Bush?"
"No. He was too liberal for me," I replied mildly.
"Idiot!" he spat and walked out of the store.
I finished paying at the same time and walked out behind him, saying, "Thank you for your foul mouth. You must be a Democrat."
"I am, and I'm proud of it," he called back as we went in different directions to our vehicles.
"Yeah, you people use force to make us do everything!" I countered, keeping my anger on a very short leash and trying to remain detached.
No reply. A reply would have necessitated too much intellect for this guy and most Liberal Democrats.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Arguement #18 "Health Care Is A Right!"
The Liberal Position: Lisa, your Liberal friend, says, "I don't know what all the fuss is about health care! It's our right! Everyone knows that!"
The Arguement from an Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative Republican: "No, Grasshopper, health care is not a right. Any time you require another person to work for you at the point of a gun, you are not exercising a right. You are exercising force. When you force a person to work for you, you are engaged in slavery. You are a slaver. What you are doing is morally wrong as well as illegal in America. But with the growth of the Welfare State, slavery has been growing incrementally since the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Now socialized health care threatens to destroy the finest health care in the world and destroy America's position as the leader, by far, of new, cutting-edge drugs. It also threatens to withhold medical care from seniors. The supporters of health care, dear Lisa, are nothing but sick slavers." Peter Nickerson MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.
PS. Did you see the column by New York Times writer, Maureen Dowd, in which she said that when Joe Wilson yelled out, "You lie!" to Obama, she knows he meant "You lie, boy!" How does Maureen Dowd know that? Does she know what the lottery numbers are for tonight's Florida Powerball? Please call me, Maureen! As I said, Liberal Democrats are sick slavers. Slavery, yours and mine, is what is on their mind as they use the force of the almighty vote against us to take more and more of our money and freedom away from us. Slavery is so much on Liberal Deomocrat Maureen Dowd's mind, that when Joe Wilson yells something, she projects onto him a slave term:"boy." No, we're not slaves yet, Maureen, but I know you're working hard on it.
The Arguement from an Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative Republican: "No, Grasshopper, health care is not a right. Any time you require another person to work for you at the point of a gun, you are not exercising a right. You are exercising force. When you force a person to work for you, you are engaged in slavery. You are a slaver. What you are doing is morally wrong as well as illegal in America. But with the growth of the Welfare State, slavery has been growing incrementally since the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Now socialized health care threatens to destroy the finest health care in the world and destroy America's position as the leader, by far, of new, cutting-edge drugs. It also threatens to withhold medical care from seniors. The supporters of health care, dear Lisa, are nothing but sick slavers." Peter Nickerson MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.
PS. Did you see the column by New York Times writer, Maureen Dowd, in which she said that when Joe Wilson yelled out, "You lie!" to Obama, she knows he meant "You lie, boy!" How does Maureen Dowd know that? Does she know what the lottery numbers are for tonight's Florida Powerball? Please call me, Maureen! As I said, Liberal Democrats are sick slavers. Slavery, yours and mine, is what is on their mind as they use the force of the almighty vote against us to take more and more of our money and freedom away from us. Slavery is so much on Liberal Deomocrat Maureen Dowd's mind, that when Joe Wilson yells something, she projects onto him a slave term:"boy." No, we're not slaves yet, Maureen, but I know you're working hard on it.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Arguement #17 "I Can't Believe That Wilson Guy!"
The Liberal Position: " I can't believe that Wilson guy, A Republican, yelling like that during Obama's health care speech! Really!"
The Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative Republican Arguement: " Congressmen Joe Wilson of South Carolina finally did what so many of us have been asking our Republican politicians to do for a long time: Show some backbone. Jesus was not a chump, and neither should they be! Joe Wilson sat on a committee that saw the liberal Democrats beat back two attempts to include American citizenship as a requirement for receiving American health care. What are the liberals proposing- that American taxpayers finance health care for the world? They really do want to break America, don't they, Lisa (the Liberal)? Repeat, the Liberals opposed the citizenship requirement twice. Therefore, when President Obama stood in front of both houses of Congress and denied that health care would be open to anyone who applied regardless of where he was from, Representative Joe Wilson had the manhood to yell, "You lie!" He was right, and Obama was lying. Obama is the one who should be apologizing for having lied to Congress and the American people. Since when do you apologize to a liar for having pointed out his lie? Not in America, baby! It's a shame Joe folded so fast and apologized to Congress for his outburst. I would not have. Let them cite me for pointing out one of many of Obama's lies. I would frame the citation and give it the place of honor in my congressional office. Let Congress try to do anthing more to me. The lying Liberals wanted to shut down Joe and send a message to anyone else who wants to be honest. The Liberal Democrats are corrupt, sick people. I hope Americans have the guts to pick up Joe Wilson's banner and yell, "You lie!" the next time Obama disrespects them by telling them a lie. Let's get some guts, Americans." Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.
The Ayn Rand, Liberterian, Conservative Republican Arguement: " Congressmen Joe Wilson of South Carolina finally did what so many of us have been asking our Republican politicians to do for a long time: Show some backbone. Jesus was not a chump, and neither should they be! Joe Wilson sat on a committee that saw the liberal Democrats beat back two attempts to include American citizenship as a requirement for receiving American health care. What are the liberals proposing- that American taxpayers finance health care for the world? They really do want to break America, don't they, Lisa (the Liberal)? Repeat, the Liberals opposed the citizenship requirement twice. Therefore, when President Obama stood in front of both houses of Congress and denied that health care would be open to anyone who applied regardless of where he was from, Representative Joe Wilson had the manhood to yell, "You lie!" He was right, and Obama was lying. Obama is the one who should be apologizing for having lied to Congress and the American people. Since when do you apologize to a liar for having pointed out his lie? Not in America, baby! It's a shame Joe folded so fast and apologized to Congress for his outburst. I would not have. Let them cite me for pointing out one of many of Obama's lies. I would frame the citation and give it the place of honor in my congressional office. Let Congress try to do anthing more to me. The lying Liberals wanted to shut down Joe and send a message to anyone else who wants to be honest. The Liberal Democrats are corrupt, sick people. I hope Americans have the guts to pick up Joe Wilson's banner and yell, "You lie!" the next time Obama disrespects them by telling them a lie. Let's get some guts, Americans." Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Arguement #16 " Obama's School Speech Was Wonderful!"
The Liberal Position: Your friend, Lisa the Liberal, exclaims: "Did you hear Obama's speech to the school kids yesterday? It was wonderful! I sat there and drank Jim Jones Kool-Aid and loved it!"
The Ayn Rand, Liberatarian, Conservative Republican Arguement: "Lisa, first of all, I understand that Obama administration did not even talk to the school boards about televising his speech into their schools. It went directly to the principals and the teachers. If this is true, it was wrong. The school boards run the school system not the principals and the teachers. If true, this was more ignorance or arrogance from the Obama administration. Take your pick, there's plenty of both in the Obama administration.
Before I listened to his speech to the school kids, I told myself that I'd stop listening as soon as he said something I strongly disagreed with. I made that promise out of respect to my blood pressure. Lisa, yes, I did hear things that I agreed with such as hard work, self-reliance, and being realistic about becoming a professional basketball or football player. These are all conservative ideas, not liberal ones with the exception of working hard. That the liberal would love for you to do if you were working hard and long for the state while Obama was sitting up at the White House eating $100 a pound steak. Liberals do not want you working hard for yourself, but for the government. The politicians think they have the right to take your money and spend it the way they want to. They have become very brazen parasites!
But when Obama said that if a student drops out of school, he hurts not only himself but the United States, I left the room as I had promised my blood pressure. Lisa, we are free people. We are not here to serve the United States government or live up to its expectations. If I am sixteen and drop out of school, the only people I may hurt are my parents and myself. I have no obligation to the parasites that will suck my money and liberty the rest of my life! My two children both dropped out of school because they would not endure the physical and pscyhological violence being done to them. The school staff would not stop it. One of my brothers dropped out of high school for about the same reason back in the sixties. In his case, a principal pushed him and on top of all the hostility and intimidation he was getting from fellow students after schools were integrated, he decided to drop out. In both cases, three children dropped out of school because government refused to protect them in school. Don't talk to me about the United States government being let down if you drop out of school. It's such hypocrisy! It's none of the government's business, and each time it does get involved in the schools, it only makes the situation worse. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850
The Ayn Rand, Liberatarian, Conservative Republican Arguement: "Lisa, first of all, I understand that Obama administration did not even talk to the school boards about televising his speech into their schools. It went directly to the principals and the teachers. If this is true, it was wrong. The school boards run the school system not the principals and the teachers. If true, this was more ignorance or arrogance from the Obama administration. Take your pick, there's plenty of both in the Obama administration.
Before I listened to his speech to the school kids, I told myself that I'd stop listening as soon as he said something I strongly disagreed with. I made that promise out of respect to my blood pressure. Lisa, yes, I did hear things that I agreed with such as hard work, self-reliance, and being realistic about becoming a professional basketball or football player. These are all conservative ideas, not liberal ones with the exception of working hard. That the liberal would love for you to do if you were working hard and long for the state while Obama was sitting up at the White House eating $100 a pound steak. Liberals do not want you working hard for yourself, but for the government. The politicians think they have the right to take your money and spend it the way they want to. They have become very brazen parasites!
But when Obama said that if a student drops out of school, he hurts not only himself but the United States, I left the room as I had promised my blood pressure. Lisa, we are free people. We are not here to serve the United States government or live up to its expectations. If I am sixteen and drop out of school, the only people I may hurt are my parents and myself. I have no obligation to the parasites that will suck my money and liberty the rest of my life! My two children both dropped out of school because they would not endure the physical and pscyhological violence being done to them. The school staff would not stop it. One of my brothers dropped out of high school for about the same reason back in the sixties. In his case, a principal pushed him and on top of all the hostility and intimidation he was getting from fellow students after schools were integrated, he decided to drop out. In both cases, three children dropped out of school because government refused to protect them in school. Don't talk to me about the United States government being let down if you drop out of school. It's such hypocrisy! It's none of the government's business, and each time it does get involved in the schools, it only makes the situation worse. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850
Friday, September 4, 2009
Arguement #15 "I Have A Right to Get An Abortion!"
Arguement: Your liberal friend, Lisa, exclaims, "It's my body! I have the right to get an abortion if I want to. The government has not right to tell me what I can and can not do with my body!"
Answer: Lisa, on this issue you and I agree. I will however use your words against you because what you believe as a liberal except for your stand on abortion is usually contrary to the arguement you are making here. That is why I say that liberals are sick: they are not in contact with reality and contradict themselves consequently.
Yes, it is your body, and government which I define as pompous politicians and their brown-shirt enforcers has no right to tell you what you can do with your body. You are a free person, not the slave of the state. The state has no claim on how you use your body. It cannot force you to carry a baby to delivery. But I demand consistency from you or I'll have to tell you that you are being a hypocrite. You're saying that the government has no right to what your body produces. I agree and add that it applies to more than a baby. You can use your body in many ways to produce many things. A prostitute uses her body to produce money. The whore has a right to the fruits of her labor: money or whatever she is given in exchage for the service of her body. The rocket scientist has a perfect right to the fruits of the labor of his body which comes mainly from using his head. The state has no right to make you grow a baby, and if you do deliver a baby, the state has no right to that baby. Likewise the state has no right to other things that you use your body to produce.
I consider it a necessary evil that we have to pay taxes for such things as police, firemen, and national defense. Such things are necessary for each individual's self-protection which is the only legitimate function of goverment. A proper government acts only as an agent of man's self-protection. A proper government does not force you to use a part of your life to pay for a part of another man or woman's life. A proper government does not take your money and distribute it to others. That is slavery, and supposedly that was outlawed in America. It is one of life's ironies that American blacks with slave blood in them and so righteous about the evilness of slavery done to their ancestors are for the most part Liberal Democrats who want to force financially productive people to give up a portion of their money to those who are financially less productive, mainly, in race ratios, blacks and Hispanics. That is slavery.
I abhor abortions. An abortion kills an innocent baby. There is a simple, honorable answer to not wanting to raise a child: adoption. I will agree that there needs to be more incentives to adoption because for too many children are being killed in abortions. Governement has created a lack of incentives by outlawing payments by adoptive parents for a child. If a mother were able to sell her child to adoptive parents approved by social services and reviewed by the court, I am certain that there would be far fewer babies being aborted. What is less bad - selling a baby or killing a baby? This is not a perfect world and selling your baby through an adoption process would be far better than killing her through an abortion. Do I make myself clear? Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.
Answer: Lisa, on this issue you and I agree. I will however use your words against you because what you believe as a liberal except for your stand on abortion is usually contrary to the arguement you are making here. That is why I say that liberals are sick: they are not in contact with reality and contradict themselves consequently.
Yes, it is your body, and government which I define as pompous politicians and their brown-shirt enforcers has no right to tell you what you can do with your body. You are a free person, not the slave of the state. The state has no claim on how you use your body. It cannot force you to carry a baby to delivery. But I demand consistency from you or I'll have to tell you that you are being a hypocrite. You're saying that the government has no right to what your body produces. I agree and add that it applies to more than a baby. You can use your body in many ways to produce many things. A prostitute uses her body to produce money. The whore has a right to the fruits of her labor: money or whatever she is given in exchage for the service of her body. The rocket scientist has a perfect right to the fruits of the labor of his body which comes mainly from using his head. The state has no right to make you grow a baby, and if you do deliver a baby, the state has no right to that baby. Likewise the state has no right to other things that you use your body to produce.
I consider it a necessary evil that we have to pay taxes for such things as police, firemen, and national defense. Such things are necessary for each individual's self-protection which is the only legitimate function of goverment. A proper government acts only as an agent of man's self-protection. A proper government does not force you to use a part of your life to pay for a part of another man or woman's life. A proper government does not take your money and distribute it to others. That is slavery, and supposedly that was outlawed in America. It is one of life's ironies that American blacks with slave blood in them and so righteous about the evilness of slavery done to their ancestors are for the most part Liberal Democrats who want to force financially productive people to give up a portion of their money to those who are financially less productive, mainly, in race ratios, blacks and Hispanics. That is slavery.
I abhor abortions. An abortion kills an innocent baby. There is a simple, honorable answer to not wanting to raise a child: adoption. I will agree that there needs to be more incentives to adoption because for too many children are being killed in abortions. Governement has created a lack of incentives by outlawing payments by adoptive parents for a child. If a mother were able to sell her child to adoptive parents approved by social services and reviewed by the court, I am certain that there would be far fewer babies being aborted. What is less bad - selling a baby or killing a baby? This is not a perfect world and selling your baby through an adoption process would be far better than killing her through an abortion. Do I make myself clear? Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Arguement #14 "It's Wrong To Torture"
I have no arguement with this, and I am not going to try to weasel out with any
"Yes, buts." Having seen the dark side of law enforcemnet and judicial proceedings, I am loath to see torture accepted for terrorists becauase I know that "terrorists" will soon degenerate into a catch-phrase for anyone the people currently in power don't like. Just this morning, talk-show host, Neal Boortz, read snippets from "My Barack Obama.com" which included "people who are against health-care reform are right-wing domestic terrorists and are the heirs of bin Ladin." Torture is wrong and besides that, cannot be accepted out of purely self-interests - You could easily be called a terrorist if you don't go along with the party in power especially as the party begins to lose power due to its increasingly exposed corruption and its desire to force Americans into economic and psychological misery. We must not become like our enemies in order to defeat them. Bill Gertz in his book "Betrayed" concludes that the CIA is a statist agency primarily concerned about itself and unable to protect America and suggests structures to replace it. What we need is an agency perhaps like Blackwater that can establish an intelligence system of spies and informants in foreign countries. Pablo Escobar has shown us how well such a system works in the drug trade. I do not say that ironically: Escobar's deadly mistake was to go public in his dream to become the president of Columbia and become a politician. This helped expose his drug organization and more importantly, alarmed the power structure in Columbia and probably America. If we don't establish something much more effective than the CIA so that we can have human beings gathering intelligence, we are going to be moved more and more in the direction of snatching humans which is a particular forte of the Navy Seals and then torturing them to find out what they know. This is barbarism that America has to remain above. Let's not forget that in spite of Obama's lofty, flowery speeches against torture, he, like a true egomaniac, has retained the power of rendering for himself and himself alone. Rendering is nothing but cowardly torture by proxy. We, meaning America, must not become the enemy to beat the enemy. Why did we bother then? Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0950. PS. Possibly my columns are eliciting some attention: I am getting calls from a certain number, but when I call the number, there is no ring. Jingle, jingle.
"Yes, buts." Having seen the dark side of law enforcemnet and judicial proceedings, I am loath to see torture accepted for terrorists becauase I know that "terrorists" will soon degenerate into a catch-phrase for anyone the people currently in power don't like. Just this morning, talk-show host, Neal Boortz, read snippets from "My Barack Obama.com" which included "people who are against health-care reform are right-wing domestic terrorists and are the heirs of bin Ladin." Torture is wrong and besides that, cannot be accepted out of purely self-interests - You could easily be called a terrorist if you don't go along with the party in power especially as the party begins to lose power due to its increasingly exposed corruption and its desire to force Americans into economic and psychological misery. We must not become like our enemies in order to defeat them. Bill Gertz in his book "Betrayed" concludes that the CIA is a statist agency primarily concerned about itself and unable to protect America and suggests structures to replace it. What we need is an agency perhaps like Blackwater that can establish an intelligence system of spies and informants in foreign countries. Pablo Escobar has shown us how well such a system works in the drug trade. I do not say that ironically: Escobar's deadly mistake was to go public in his dream to become the president of Columbia and become a politician. This helped expose his drug organization and more importantly, alarmed the power structure in Columbia and probably America. If we don't establish something much more effective than the CIA so that we can have human beings gathering intelligence, we are going to be moved more and more in the direction of snatching humans which is a particular forte of the Navy Seals and then torturing them to find out what they know. This is barbarism that America has to remain above. Let's not forget that in spite of Obama's lofty, flowery speeches against torture, he, like a true egomaniac, has retained the power of rendering for himself and himself alone. Rendering is nothing but cowardly torture by proxy. We, meaning America, must not become the enemy to beat the enemy. Why did we bother then? Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0950. PS. Possibly my columns are eliciting some attention: I am getting calls from a certain number, but when I call the number, there is no ring. Jingle, jingle.
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