.:|:. Dove Love’s .:. Points and Passions .:|:.

What’s wrong with this picture?? 

A guy is trying to unlock his OWN front door and FROM THAT he’s tasered, arrested and convicted of supposedly resisting arrest. *look of total disbelief*   His attorney, after this guy is convicted, says, “I’m mortified…he shouldn’t have been convicted…they’re taser happy.”

Man Tasered” Breaking” Into Own Home

First point, wouldn’t one’s first thoughts upon seeing someone on THE FRONT PORCH at THE FRONT DOOR consider for a nano-second that just maybe this was the resident of said home?  Second point, the guy had been drinking, he didn’t look that big or dangerous, he showed them his hands — no weapon. They (two cops) had drawn guns on him. Why — why in hell was it necessary to taser this guy?  Because they could??

And then they further show their stupidity and control-freak crap by pursuing a conviction on a man who was simply trying to enter HIS OWN HOME. And the DA, lol, saying the tasering was a “smart” move on their part.  *eyes rolling*  It looked like it was hard for him to keep a straight face in saying that.  I say, thanks for showing us the, um, caliber of individuals that are policing and governing your fine community by ensuring all of this is strongly in public view – Omaha, Nebraska.  So, attention all law-abiding citizens, if you live in or are just passing through Omaha, Nebraska, ya’ might wanna hire a body guard before trying to enter your own home, or any other such outlandish activity or atrocity.

And other news… Oh look, what a coincidence :) A story reflecting why we, um, should trust and totally cooperate with any “law enforcement officer” — no matter what.

Ex-Cop Arrested on 30 Identity Fraud Charges

Oh, but I’m sure this is an isolated case, and that most cops are way up there in the honesty and other morals department. And I’m sure they screen those cops-to-be with a fine-tooth comb. Yep, we should not concern our little sheeple head about such things.  So we should just bend over and take our beating tasering like a good little slave citizen should.   

Here’s a fact. The nature of this existence is change. That’s a surety. So either something gets better — or it gets worse. Look at our legal system, our government, has it been getting better?

Dove

I just came upon this excerpt on another blog. The author of that blog seemed to be getting it, and stated emphatically “force doesn’t work.” Um, yeah, bingo. But the irony is this person appeared to be quite devoted to religion — apparently oblivious to the fact that organized religion is one of the most controlling systems in our world, one of the most insidious in our lives.

So here’s the excerpt, on the issue of abortion and clear indication that allowing people their “god-given” right to freedom and not fearful control is what actually works.  Go figure :)

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ROME, Oct. 11 — A comprehensive global study of abortion has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not, suggesting that outlawing the procedure does little to deter women seeking it. The data also suggested that the best way to reduce abortion rates was not to make abortion illegal but to make contraception more widely available, said Sharon Camp, chief executive of the Guttmacher InstituteIn Eastern Europe, where contraceptive choices have broadened since the fall of Communism, the study found that abortion rates have decreased by 50 percent, although they are still relatively high compared with those in Western Europe. “In the past we didn’t have this kind of data to draw on,” Ms. Camp said. “Contraception is often the missing element” where abortion rates are high, she said.

source: www.nytimes.com
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And because of all of our controlling systems (parents, schooling, church, governments), we feel powerless, suffocated — it’s slowly killing us. We are beings that were meant to be free, to govern our own lives without constant interference from others. It comes to mind how some animals will die in captivity, others will chew off their own foot to become free of their entrapment. “Give me liberty or give me death” says Patrick Henry. Life without freedom is intolerable, and the intrusions and control of the government in our lives now is unconscionable. We are no longer respected as “the People” and have clearly become the slaves. We aren’t respected for the power that all human beings have within them. We all balk at being controlled. Some much more strongly than others, but we all have that anti-control thing. It goes against our nature to be controlled. And yet in this mega-controlling society, we have all come to be very controlling people, many (many) “control freaks.”

And that makes sense, we have been controlled since birth, and there’s our training to control others. And this insatiable desire, seeming need, we have to control others is all rooted in fear, something we live and breathe to our great detriment.

But my original point here — freedom works, rigid control doesn’t. Why that hasn’t become abundantly obvious confounds me. Have our religion-based laws reduced the “crime,” has it gotten our world under control? How’s that “war on drugs” workin’ for us? How ’bout that prohibition thing? Have we dramatically put a cap on prostitution? Did our former abortion laws stop women from getting abortions? No, it just ensured the deaths or suffering of a lot of women. Again, human beings will not be successfully controlled — ever. Either freedom or death will come first. Even as the “sheeple” we have allowed ourselves to become, we are still very powerful beings, we will always push back (in one form or another) upon being pushed.

Dove

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.  Martin Luther King, Jr.

As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law are the rule.
Albert Einstein

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Thomas Jefferson

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Insanity.  Un-frickin’-believable.  Here’s an excerpt from the article.

Corporate Greed, Intellectual Property Laws and the Destruction of Human Civilization  (newstarget.com)

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Did you know that if you have children you are an international criminal? You have violated intellectual property laws by infringing on the copyrights of companies that have been granted patents on the human genome. You have replicated that gene sequence by having children without the permission of the owners of those gene sequences. As bizarre as it sounds, it’s absolutely true: having children is a violation of patent law.

This has come about because those at the U.S. Patent Office seem to have lost their collective minds. They have allowed companies and individuals to gain ownership of intellectual property that should never have been granted to a private organization or individual. Some things belong to nature — like the gene sequence of a human being. Man didn’t create it. There’s no Einstein who created the human gene sequence, put together some DNA and made human beings. People are not an invention; they are a creation.

Intellectual property, and patents in particular, are intended to cover inventions; things that we were the first to create, not something we stumbled across because we have the right equipment to detect them in the natural world. Clearly, genes are already in existence. We did not invent them; nature did. And yet, people and organizations have been granted patents on seeds from nature.

No patents on seeds

Those of you familiar with the subject know I’m talking about basmati rice, a type of rice native to India. It has been harvested for centuries throughout India and Southeast Asia. But a few years ago, a U.S. company filed for a patent on basmati rice and the U.S. Patent Office said, “Sure enough, you own it.” That company then proceeded to try to shut down the harvesting and farming of basmati rice in India. They said, in effect, “All you farmers out there? You owe us a royalty now. We own the patent on this seed.” Luckily, the Indian government intervened and thwarted the patent by having the rice listed under the European Commission’s regulations that protect regional foods.

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 Read the whole article here http://www.newstarget.com/022096.html

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“We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.” ~ William Reece Smith, Jr.

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“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” ~ Pericles

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“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. ~ Thomas Brackett Reed

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long. ~ Thomas Sowell

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“To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.” ~ Elizabeth Cody Stanton

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“The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.” ~ Cornelius Tacitus

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“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.” ~ James Madison

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“We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

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“Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn’t stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband — it creeps up insidiously… step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone.” ~ Baron Lane

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“You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.” ~ Lyndon Johnson

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“Freedom can not be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little value.” ~ Lucius Seneca - Epistolae Morales (c. 60 A.D.)

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“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” ~ Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

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“It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

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“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” ~ Edmund Burke - (British statesman - 1756)

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“There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

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“The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.” ~ Erwin Griswold - (Dean, Harvard Law School - 1960)