Who has the Courage to Do What is Needed to Survive?

I have thought a long time on what to put on my blog as I don’t want to be someone who rants and raves about something illogical or unsupported. So here is my blog about the politics of justice, the legal system, the education system, and change needed for positive reform.

Our current political system is an amalgamation of inconsistencies and contradictions, and it allows elected officials to financially rape our society unchallenged or questioned. First, let me remind you that we bring our children up saying they have a voice in government if they vote but we are lying to them. Since we have the Electoral College, they don’t have a voice because the Electoral College speaks for the voters and only whispers the demands of the people. Every citizen has one real responsibility and, unfortunately, this responsibility is accepted as an option by law and by society. This responsibility is the right to vote and participate in the system of government and to hold representatives accountable for their actions. If you look at the numbers for voters, most people don’t vote on the issues on the ballots, yet complain when things don’t go their way. When politicians enact bills and pass laws, they are passed using the money of hard working people to enact these bills/laws to, hopefully, better our society and make a difference under the guidance of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. We proclaim there is a separation between church and state yet we punish people who wish to commit suicide. Puritan values seem to dominate our culture with moral laws, yet Puritans would have punished children with capital methods such as spanking or whipping for deeds of misbehavior. Puritans had the sense to raise hard working, educated children as they were the ones who would bring a better and stronger future but our society conflicts by showing a weak hand to disrespectful children.

Our society has changed from one of focus and determination to produce quality, educated children who will represent our country in the world market, to one that produces children who’s only chance of success in the Special Olympics. Our society is one of sheepish characteristics. We only speak up against issues that hurt us directly or our pocketbook, people seem to only look at the short future and have no concern for the long run and what effect our actions will have on our children and their children. Our dependence on oil and gas should have given us the inspiration to find new and better ways to power our industries and vehicles. When Kennedy started the space race, he set forth a challenge that was unheard of at the time but American determination made a concept into a reality and we jumped to interplanetary transportation. The same determination that told us to wipe out the native people that lived here in order to build our McDonald Empire of Franken Foods and Video Game Babysitters. California used to be #7 in the nation in education when I was a child, now we can barely compete in any market due to the fact we produce sub standard children because we care about their “feelings” instead of the abilities. Child psychology and fear of litigation has turned the once, never questioned, instructor into the now always challenged and threatened teacher. Every parent seems to have taken the full college classes and internship of student teaching during their 9 months of pregnancy without anyone noticing. These parents should be legally bound with a restraining order from the classroom when the teacher deems them a nuisance, and when 2 teachers deem them a nuisance, the parent is only allowed as far as the office. A school’s job is to produce the best quality student to meet the standards set forth by each state, or withholds that child till the child can accomplish those goals. Some people will call me harsh and worse words but when it comes to mentally challenged children who can’t compete in the world market, those children need to be culled from the children who can compete and instruct those children in real world jobs and skills for basic survival (Such as home maintenance, job skills, etc.). When a child or group of children take more energy and time from the class then the whole class does, those children are stealing from the community the time and energy required to better and challenge the minds of the future of a city’s resource. We need to tell parents of special ed children with serious disabilities that their children can’t compete in the world market and we’re sorry for that but we WILL NOT sacrifice an entire class for their children and the parent’s misunderstanding of their child’s skills. We need to tell parents of children who are serious behavior problems to teachers that they can take and keep their children at home till they can learn manners and respect for the adult that is teaching them. If they think they can do better at another school, then they are welcome to take the child to another country, state, or city but the district, in an ideal situation, has the teacher’s back unless evidence shows the teacher is at fault. This last sentence brings up the other issue I have that may anger teachers out there, but I have this opinion because of what I have seen and know about teachers in the field. Teachers are honored with Tenure when they work a certain amount of time without problems requiring administrative intervention. Tenure makes the teacher bullet-proof from firing and this is where the problem exists for the parents of a child who is abused by the teacher or when the teacher becomes ineffective and an anchor around the neck of the school. The original purpose of Tenure and its protections was to prevent an aggressive administer from firing a teacher unjustly as an act of reprisal. We, of the regular work force, have no such protection and the teaching field needs to come into the 21st century by eliminating this protection so weak teachers can be fired and teachers who are a threat to the safety of a child.

My last point comes on the issue of law and the legal system. Our legal system is by no means a just system but a system of gladiatorial combat. It is a Good-Old-Boy system that refuses to evolve because of the people guarding it from change to keep traditionalists happy in a system that allows judges a world where they can deny opportunities to find the truth and better the chances of justice being achieved. You have to ask yourself why they refer to the justice system as an aggressive system based on focusing on wins versus losses instead of finding the truth. Lawyers should be guardians of truth and defenders of bettering society. When a client has demonstrated they are guilty by action of admission, there should be no protection for them and should be prohibited from representation. Criminals who commit crimes against society involving murder, mayhem, etc should not get a trial for proving their guilt if there are witnesses and should be sentenced immediately to save the fees of lengthy court services. Gangs should be treated as terrorists and executed for their actions immediately. Gangs have been a cancer on our society for the longest time. Crypts and Bloods are one of the oldest established gangs and members are identified in most gang units and police stations around the nation. If you have been identified and are known by the gang units as an aggressive gang member then you need to be taken away. We need to limit the amount of things that can be sued for when our society has realized it can make a better living suing state and city entities for crimes committed against them by individuals. This needs to stop because this costs these organizations millions and, in some cases such as the Rampart District situation, undermines the legal system that hard working law officers have spent days and weeks on. My last legal issue is on the matter of guns. I understand that everyone has different opinions on guns, but you can not question the one logical fact that is unquestionable. The fact that a gun is a tool and a machine and is incapable of murder, attempted murder, etc as it is a nonliving thing that requires something to activate it. It has three purposes in life: To shoot in a safe environment for the betterment of marksmanship or to satisfy some deep need for extraordinarily loud noise or to satisfy the need to control a powerful force, to defend oneself from invasion of your home or your property/country/city by an uninvited intruder, and lastly to take a life with the help of an entity capable of loading the weapon, using the weapon, and caring for the weapon. The reason the Federal government put restrictions on Assault weapons is that Brady was shot by an idiot with one and Reagan took out his anger for almost being shot by banning the type of guns used for combat. California then banned these guns because it saw an opportunity to use the Federal government to achieve its ultimate goal set by individuals who have no understanding of guns and are backed by conservative fear driven sheep. This is demonstrated by the fact that the Federal government’s ban has been lifted yet California has maintained its ban. This demonstrates that it fears its citizens having access to the guns whose primary job is to terminate life efficiently. This is because California lacks the backbone to deal with the individuals who are violent enough to kill or hurt others, so it takes the tools that make it easier for these people to do what they like. Then we have the Safe Gun Act which is the biggest joke and happened in response to parents of victims of violent crimes and could not sue the criminal who killed their child, so they sued the company who made the gun because they knew they could sue the one creature who couldn’t fight back in a state that can’t admit when it has problems and blames everything but the thing that is the real problem for its problems. A wave started that caused gun companies that made quality guns to leave California because that very state started to attack them. Then the state realized it could extort money from these companies for protection by doing “Tests” to show a gun is safe that most guns would have failed because the test is unrealistic for what happens to a gun unless it isn’t being used properly to begin with. So, we have a state that condones extortion and misinformation because its very citizens go around blindly with their hands on their ears yelling, “I’m not listening! I’m not seeing!, I’m not listening! I’m not seeing!”

I think I have presented a pretty good case showing how our decline has happened by our own creation. Our denial and inability to make hard decisions and act appropriately has cost us as a state our high ranking and our country its respect. Our politicians are demanding high salaries for jobs that are undeserving of such pay considering the benefits they get on the side. “Filibusters” should have been outlawed and be cause for impeachment when used to stop a bill as the representatives of a state using this technique are saying their citizens are children and incapable of intelligent and logical discussion and debate. Politicians steal from the mouths of children and hard working families to line their pockets and decorate their offices. Schools won’t step up to parents to protect a standard of education that once set California as a state to be respected. Our children represent our culture and state, and schools are supposed to prepare children for the work force with needed skills in a specific order to match their development. As children are promoted before mastering these skills, they only build on top of existing deficits from previous lacking in skills. Our legal system is one that has become stuck in niche of comfort and disinterest in justice. It’s founders were concerned with making a legal system that protected the human rights that were violated by the British system. That system now needs revamping as society has changed and human rights are being violated by fellow citizens. We need to look very hard into the mirror and see the unshaven, dirty person who looks back at us happy with handouts instead of making something of themselves and seeking respect from its peers.