Percey, I respect your opinion and it appears we are not that far apart but there are some basic differences in our interpretations. I appears and sounds like your opinions come from the Legal Profession (i.e. - a Lawyer) while mine from a everyday U.S. Citizen that has lived in other countries for over 10 years during my 71 year stay h…
Percey, I respect your opinion and it appears we are not that far apart but there are some basic differences in our interpretations. I appears and sounds like your opinions come from the Legal Profession (i.e. - a Lawyer) while mine from a everyday U.S. Citizen that has lived in other countries for over 10 years during my 71 year stay here on GODS GREEN EARTH! When I compare how LAWS were enforced in those countries and how they are enforced in the U.S. has left me with one opinion, GIVE ME THE U.S.! You see I agree with you about many LICENSE being on in place to collect tax revenue. But many LICENSES are also there to prevent someone from PRACTICE SURGERY with ever going to MEDICAL SCHOOL and the MEDICAL LICENSE gives the patient a sense of confidence in his or her doctor. Just like a LAW LICENSE prevents a person from practicing LAW with adequate education in LAW. Therefore my belief is there are positives to LICENSING and there are times they should never be required. However I do believe LAWS allow for citizens of different cultures to assimilate into our society. The LAWS do not stop a CRIMINAL but when they are captured and prosecuted it gets them off of the street to protect the masses.
In my seventy years, I've only lived in foreign countries for a few of them. From that, I know not everything we are told about foreign countries and the U.S. are true. Even Russians, who we were trained were hard put upon by their Russian agents have freedoms we don't.
If we don't educate ourselves and, at the least, inform others on what we learn, the America we were told we have will keep dwindling away.
Take money and assets. Nearly every last career politician spends money like a drunken sailor. It's so bad our country in trillions in debt to those who are NOT our friends and only stay their hand because it benefits them.
Much of that money is given away to foreigners or aliens. Many outside out country, many within. Just like pyramid or Ponzi schemes, it cannot keep going.
As to licensing, merely that some are good does not make them all good, any more than with other laws.
There is NO license to practice surgery, or law. There are, howevere, business licenses, but they are just that, business licenses.
To practice law, you get a bar card from an entity which claims to be part of the judiciary. That agency claims to be exempt from disclosure laws, claiming judicial protections. However, that same agency conducts executive branch functions, such as going after those who practice law without a bar card.
Sadly, having a license does not make you a good marriage partner, a good doctor, or a good attorney. I know paralegals, for lack of a better name, who can stomp all over the average attorney building pleadings and things, or in court.
Practicing law, like much of medicine, is just a business. You have people who graduated at the top and the bottom of the class. You have people who can think and those who can only parrot.
In the end, our nation was built on distrust as much as it was on trust. Sadly, we have it pounded into our heads, during all our school years, to trust, rather than question.
Sadly, laws are only as good as the people making and enforcing them. More and more dangerous criminals are being let back onto the streets. On the other hand, profitable low fruit, less dangerous criminals put us in at or around first place in per capita incarcerations.
Sadly, our medicine is heavily influenced by profit. Remove censorship and it would be impossible to dispute that much of what is tied to covid is hogwash. Ivermectin does work, as do vitamins, herb and minerals, but those on high would ban even God's remedies, if they could, to promote for profit shots that have gained some trillions, and killed and injured many others.
SIDE NOTE: Merely that someone is a felon does not mean they are full on evil. I know a more than few. Several of them I would trust with my bank accounts and PINs.
Percey, once again I thank you for your comments and find that there are multiple issues we apparently agree upon! Particularly when one gets to your lower paragraphs in respect to LAWS are only as good as the people enacting the LAW then to enforcement of those LAWS. My unfortunate fate in life left me with an Ex-wife who was a LEGAL SECRETARY who in my opinion could run circles around over half of the attorneys in the office where she worked. My brother was a District Attorney Investigator until he retire with over 30 years service and I as a Reserve Peace Officer for 25 years except during the time I was living outside the U.S. He had a stronger knowledge of the LAW than many of the Assistant District Attorneys he worked with over the years. I do understand your statement.
The next is our Medical Profession is steered by PROFITS and BIG PHARMA (as they like to be called), but over my lifetime i have been associated with Doctors that are some of the BEST of the BEST because they where extremely ETHICAL in their Practice and were not sway by the BIG PHARMA PROPAGANDA. Sad part is todays Physicians do not comply with that same ETHICAL STANDARD. Many doctors today could not diagnosis a case of Athletes Foot.
As for as your SIDE NOTE: I to have known and dealt with many FELONS but my experience has been a little different, there have only been one or maybe to whom I would trust with my car keys or PIN #. So I consider you a extremely luck person to have the opportunity to know so many criminals who have turned their life around. My opinion may offend some but GOD BLESS those who have found a brighter path to life.
It wasn't that the felons turned their lives around, it was more because it's so easy to be a felon.
We tend to think of felons as people who steal, extort, murder and so on. However, all it takes it to be on the wrong side of a bad law, be the one to get caught and so on.
Tomorrow, it could become a felony to own a fire arm. Obviously, there are many working to that end. If such a law passed, we would be surrounded by new felons.
We could use the matter of exes. Family courts are well known for their biases, and bending of rules to benefit themselves. That is how I got into law so many years ago (I figured out justice was a purchased thing, and I could not afford to purchase it. As such, I threw myself into the study of law, which allowed me to gain custody of my daughter, which resulted in her knowing both parents, rather than just her mother.
In the end, the things of which we speak make clear the veracity of Bible scriptures. For example, we are warned we can pledge our allegiance to only one master. If two, we would love one and hate the other.
In spite of that sage advice, we have long had it pounded into us that we should pledge our allegiance to a mere tool, the United States.
As I point out to people. I own a rather nice woodworking shop. In it can be found an over-arm pin router, a cabinet saw, drum and disk sanders, a couple band saws, three dust collectors, lathes and so on.
These are all fine and treasured tools. I protect and maintain them. I repair them when broken. However, I never, not once, pledged my allegiance to even my most treasured of my pieces of equipment.
We need to remember, our government of men are valued tools, but not things to which we should pledge our allegiance.
Percey, I respect your opinion and it appears we are not that far apart but there are some basic differences in our interpretations. I appears and sounds like your opinions come from the Legal Profession (i.e. - a Lawyer) while mine from a everyday U.S. Citizen that has lived in other countries for over 10 years during my 71 year stay here on GODS GREEN EARTH! When I compare how LAWS were enforced in those countries and how they are enforced in the U.S. has left me with one opinion, GIVE ME THE U.S.! You see I agree with you about many LICENSE being on in place to collect tax revenue. But many LICENSES are also there to prevent someone from PRACTICE SURGERY with ever going to MEDICAL SCHOOL and the MEDICAL LICENSE gives the patient a sense of confidence in his or her doctor. Just like a LAW LICENSE prevents a person from practicing LAW with adequate education in LAW. Therefore my belief is there are positives to LICENSING and there are times they should never be required. However I do believe LAWS allow for citizens of different cultures to assimilate into our society. The LAWS do not stop a CRIMINAL but when they are captured and prosecuted it gets them off of the street to protect the masses.
In my seventy years, I've only lived in foreign countries for a few of them. From that, I know not everything we are told about foreign countries and the U.S. are true. Even Russians, who we were trained were hard put upon by their Russian agents have freedoms we don't.
If we don't educate ourselves and, at the least, inform others on what we learn, the America we were told we have will keep dwindling away.
Take money and assets. Nearly every last career politician spends money like a drunken sailor. It's so bad our country in trillions in debt to those who are NOT our friends and only stay their hand because it benefits them.
Much of that money is given away to foreigners or aliens. Many outside out country, many within. Just like pyramid or Ponzi schemes, it cannot keep going.
As to licensing, merely that some are good does not make them all good, any more than with other laws.
There is NO license to practice surgery, or law. There are, howevere, business licenses, but they are just that, business licenses.
To practice law, you get a bar card from an entity which claims to be part of the judiciary. That agency claims to be exempt from disclosure laws, claiming judicial protections. However, that same agency conducts executive branch functions, such as going after those who practice law without a bar card.
Sadly, having a license does not make you a good marriage partner, a good doctor, or a good attorney. I know paralegals, for lack of a better name, who can stomp all over the average attorney building pleadings and things, or in court.
Practicing law, like much of medicine, is just a business. You have people who graduated at the top and the bottom of the class. You have people who can think and those who can only parrot.
In the end, our nation was built on distrust as much as it was on trust. Sadly, we have it pounded into our heads, during all our school years, to trust, rather than question.
Sadly, laws are only as good as the people making and enforcing them. More and more dangerous criminals are being let back onto the streets. On the other hand, profitable low fruit, less dangerous criminals put us in at or around first place in per capita incarcerations.
Sadly, our medicine is heavily influenced by profit. Remove censorship and it would be impossible to dispute that much of what is tied to covid is hogwash. Ivermectin does work, as do vitamins, herb and minerals, but those on high would ban even God's remedies, if they could, to promote for profit shots that have gained some trillions, and killed and injured many others.
SIDE NOTE: Merely that someone is a felon does not mean they are full on evil. I know a more than few. Several of them I would trust with my bank accounts and PINs.
Percey, once again I thank you for your comments and find that there are multiple issues we apparently agree upon! Particularly when one gets to your lower paragraphs in respect to LAWS are only as good as the people enacting the LAW then to enforcement of those LAWS. My unfortunate fate in life left me with an Ex-wife who was a LEGAL SECRETARY who in my opinion could run circles around over half of the attorneys in the office where she worked. My brother was a District Attorney Investigator until he retire with over 30 years service and I as a Reserve Peace Officer for 25 years except during the time I was living outside the U.S. He had a stronger knowledge of the LAW than many of the Assistant District Attorneys he worked with over the years. I do understand your statement.
The next is our Medical Profession is steered by PROFITS and BIG PHARMA (as they like to be called), but over my lifetime i have been associated with Doctors that are some of the BEST of the BEST because they where extremely ETHICAL in their Practice and were not sway by the BIG PHARMA PROPAGANDA. Sad part is todays Physicians do not comply with that same ETHICAL STANDARD. Many doctors today could not diagnosis a case of Athletes Foot.
As for as your SIDE NOTE: I to have known and dealt with many FELONS but my experience has been a little different, there have only been one or maybe to whom I would trust with my car keys or PIN #. So I consider you a extremely luck person to have the opportunity to know so many criminals who have turned their life around. My opinion may offend some but GOD BLESS those who have found a brighter path to life.
It wasn't that the felons turned their lives around, it was more because it's so easy to be a felon.
We tend to think of felons as people who steal, extort, murder and so on. However, all it takes it to be on the wrong side of a bad law, be the one to get caught and so on.
Tomorrow, it could become a felony to own a fire arm. Obviously, there are many working to that end. If such a law passed, we would be surrounded by new felons.
We could use the matter of exes. Family courts are well known for their biases, and bending of rules to benefit themselves. That is how I got into law so many years ago (I figured out justice was a purchased thing, and I could not afford to purchase it. As such, I threw myself into the study of law, which allowed me to gain custody of my daughter, which resulted in her knowing both parents, rather than just her mother.
In the end, the things of which we speak make clear the veracity of Bible scriptures. For example, we are warned we can pledge our allegiance to only one master. If two, we would love one and hate the other.
In spite of that sage advice, we have long had it pounded into us that we should pledge our allegiance to a mere tool, the United States.
As I point out to people. I own a rather nice woodworking shop. In it can be found an over-arm pin router, a cabinet saw, drum and disk sanders, a couple band saws, three dust collectors, lathes and so on.
These are all fine and treasured tools. I protect and maintain them. I repair them when broken. However, I never, not once, pledged my allegiance to even my most treasured of my pieces of equipment.
We need to remember, our government of men are valued tools, but not things to which we should pledge our allegiance.