No 1013 “En mi opinión” Agosto 1, 2015
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
Lázaro R González Miño Editor
Lázaro R González para Alcalde del Condado de Miami
Shocking:
You Won't Believe These New Allegations Against Hillary
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Source: Daily Mail
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by: Laura Collins
Fears are growing among Hillary Clinton's
advisors that Bill's sordid past is returning to thwart his wife's presidential
campaign.
With her presidential bid the couple's relationship is the subject of renewed scrutiny bringing with it the threat of a second 'eruption of bimbos' akin to the one that almost derailed Bill's own presidential bid first time round.
In recent weeks Hillary's campaign has found itself increasingly mired in the scandals of the past.
Paula Jones, whose sexual harassment case almost cost Bill the presidency 21 years ago, has already come forward to deliver her verdict on Hillary's bid for the highest office. Source: Daily Mail
With her presidential bid the couple's relationship is the subject of renewed scrutiny bringing with it the threat of a second 'eruption of bimbos' akin to the one that almost derailed Bill's own presidential bid first time round.
In recent weeks Hillary's campaign has found itself increasingly mired in the scandals of the past.
Paula Jones, whose sexual harassment case almost cost Bill the presidency 21 years ago, has already come forward to deliver her verdict on Hillary's bid for the highest office. Source: Daily Mail
- See more at:
http://americanactionnews.com/articles/shocking-new-revelations-about-hillary-s-skeletons-in-the-closet#sthash.OV81z6Ot.dpuf
Alexis de Tocqueville
Predicted the Tyranny of the Majority in Our Modern World
Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw many of our current
problems.
Arthur Milikh is assistant director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for
Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation.
We often boast about having attained some unimaginable redefinition of
ourselves and our nation. How odd, then, that someone born 210 years ago today
could understand us with more clarity and depth than we understand ourselves.
Back in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville accurately foresaw both much of what
ails us and our remarkable uniqueness and strengths. Tocqueville’s deservedly
famous book, “Democracy in America,” was the product of his nine-month
excursion throughout Jacksonian America. The purpose of this trip was to study
our country’s political institution and the habits of mind of its citizens.
America’s Place in the
World
Tocqueville correctly thought the then-developing America was the way of
the future. As such, he foresaw that Europe would never be restored to its
former greatness—though he hoped it could serve as the cultural repository of
the West.
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He also predicted Russian despotism, thinking that Russia was not yet
morally exhausted like Europe and would bring about a new, massive tyranny. In
fact, he conjectured that America and Russia would each “hold the destinies of
half the world in its hands one day.”
The majority’s moral
power makes individuals internally ashamed to contradict it, which in effect
silences them, and this silencing culminates in a cessation of thinking.
He therefore hoped America would serve as an example to the world—a
successful combination of equality and liberty. And an example of this was
needed, since equality can go along with freedom, but it can even more easily
go along with despotism. In fact, much of the world did go in the direction of
democratic despotism—wherein the great mass of citizens is indeed equal, save
for a ruling elite, which governs them. In a strange sense, Tocqueville would
think that North Korea is egalitarian.
Despite his hopes for America, Tocqueville thought grave obstacles would
diminish our freedom—though he didn’t think them insurmountable.
The Power of the
Majority
Most alarming to him was the power of the majority, which he thought
would distort every sphere of human life.
Despots of the past tyrannized through blood and iron. But the new breed
of democratic despotism “does not proceed in this way; it leaves the body and
goes straight for the soul.”
That is, the majority reaches into citizens’ minds and hearts. It breaks
citizens’ will to resist, to question its authority, and to think for
themselves. The majority’s moral power makes individuals internally ashamed to
contradict it, which in effect silences them, and this silencing culminates in
a cessation of thinking. We see this happen almost daily: to stand against the
majority is to ruin yourself.
Moreover, Tocqueville feared that the majority’s tastes and opinions
would occupy every sphere of sentiment and thought. One among many illuminating
examples is his commentary on democratic art. He foresaw that the majority
would have no taste for portraying great human beings doing great deeds. Art
used to be the pictorial representation of man’s connection to the natural or
divine order to which he belongs. But in modern democracies, art would go in
the direction of the majority’s tastes: it would be abstract, focused on color
and shape.
Why? Because to experience this kind of art, one needs to only have
senses, whereas to experience the art of the past, one needs an education in
the classics—the Bible and ancient literature especially. It’s easy to
pontificate about Jackson Pollock, while it’s difficult to understand
Michelangelo. But most revealing is that abstract art is an expression of
democracy’s hatred for human greatness, the very theme of art.
Tocqueville’s
Predictions About the Modern State
The influence on the mind of democracy and the majority weakens and
isolates individuals. This creates fertile ground for a new kind of oppression
that “will resemble nothing that has preceded it in the world.”
Tocqueville foresaw an “immense tutelary power”—the modern state—which
would degrade men rather than destroy their bodies. Over time, he feared, the
state would take away citizens’ free will, their capacity to think and act,
reducing them to “a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the
government is the shepherd.” Are
contemporary China and Russia substantially different?
But Tocqueville did prescribe some solutions. He hoped that those having
read his prescient book would come to understand that the defects of modern
democracy require great attention and careful management. Specifically, he
hoped, we would strive “to preserve for the individual the little independence,
force, and originality” that remains to him.
In other words, when looking at any given policy, our lawmakers might
look not at the benefits for their home district, or vainly calculate attention
from the next media hit, but rather look at what any given policy proposal’s
long-term effect will be on securing freedom and rights. Making individuals
stronger, more independent, more able to resist the tyranny of the majority and
of a constantly growing administrative state is the goal.
Tocqueville’s critiques are given in the spirit of friendship. He wanted
us to “remember constantly that a nation cannot long remain strong when each
man in it is individually weak, and that neither social forms nor political
schemes have yet been found that can make a people energetic by composing it of
pusillanimous and soft citizens.”
On the 210th anniversary of Tocqueville’s birth, asking contemporary
Americans to pick up “Democracy in America” is perhaps too great a request.
Nonetheless, we may at the least recall his clarity of vision and take
seriously that America requires statesmanship and intelligent guidance to fight
off the natural propensities that diminish our freedom.
Correction: This
article originally stated that Tocqueville was born 225 years ago.
California....Home of the...
"Interesting that the LA Times did
this. Lou Dobbs reported this on CNN and it cost him his job. The
only network we would see this on would be FOX. All the others are
staying away from it. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican this
should be of great interest to you!
Just One State - be sure and read the last
part...try for 3 times.
This is only one State....If this doesn't
open eyes, nothing will!
From the L. A. Times.
1. 40% of all workers in L. A.
County (L.. A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and
not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal
immigrants working without a green card.
(Donald Trump was right)
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los
Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list
in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles
County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by
taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California
detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los
Angeles County are living in garages.
7. The FBI reports half of all gang
members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD
properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are
Spanish speaking.
10. in L.A. County 5.1 million
people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish. (There are 10.2 million
people in L. A. County.)
(All 10 of the above facts were published
in the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking
our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States 'annual
population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results
from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
We are fools for letting this continue.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Send copies of this letter to at least two
other people. 100 would be even better.
This is only one State...If this doesn't
open your eyes nothing will, and you wonder why Nancy Pelosi wants them to
become voters!
IF YOU DON'T AGREE JUST DELETE--IF YOU DO--PASS
IT ON! WHERE DO WE GET THESE MORONS?
Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. Adding
a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American
people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we
drain every cent from you. Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on
Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing
toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going
to believe this.
Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax
on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds!
Alas, it is true -- all to help the 12
Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!
This woman is frightening. She quotes...'
We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say
something like this?), and in our country and at the same time limiting the
amount the rich can invest. (I am not rich, are you?)
When asked how these new tax dollars would
be spent, she replied:
'We need to raise the standard of living
of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated
12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with
millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes
could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would
like to have as 'Americans''.
(Read that quote again and again and let
it sink in.) 'Lower your retirement; give it to others who have not worked as
you have for it.' Send it on to your friends. I just did! This
woman is out of her mind!!!!!
PASS IT
ON
DAILY EVENTS FEATURED STORY
Cover
Oregon Scandal Illustrates the Arrogance and Audacity of Failed Big Government
No Obamacare
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Liberal Democrats had the audacity to believe that something as complex
as providing health care to millions of citizens could be more effectively
administered by government bureaucrats who had no experience or training in
administration of this sector of the economy, than by the experienced and
trained experts who managed the provision of health care in the private sector.
In Oregon, Governor John Kitzhaber and his administration were confident
the state would lead the way, setting the example for many others, in how it
would set up its state Obamacare exchange and administer the signs-up for the
program. After spending more than $300 million setting up the state’s health
care exchange, not a single citizen of the state signed up for Obamacare via
the website before it was closed down. The Cover Oregon failure was such a
political liability, for a governor in a heated battle for reelection in 2014,
that Kitzhaber appointed his chief political advisor and campaign consultant,
Patricia McCaig, to lead and carry out the closing of the site to protect the
governor’s campaign for reelection.
In the process, they came up with the brilliant idea to deflect
attention from their own glaring incompetent and rotten corruption and
squandering of about $300 million in Cover Oregon by blaming the whole fiasco
on Oracle, the information technology firm they brought to try to fix the
doomed health care exchange website. They not only blamed Oracle for their
failure to make Cover Oregon work, they filed a lawsuit against the company
claiming they were responsible for the failure. Kitzhaber and McCaig not only
presided over the failed Cover Oregon, but they further compounded the mess by
suing Oracle.
While the lawsuit against Oracle is wasting time and resources in the
court system in Oregon, there are still many unanswered questions about how and
why Cover Oregon failed to sign up a single citizen to Obamacare, and where all
that money was spent. Taxpayers were taken for $300 million and no one appears
to know where all that money went.
Furthermore, as Gov. Kitzhaber got himself into trouble from other
scandals as well as this one, he took the path of least resistance earlier this
year and resigned his office. Clearly this whole mess needs to be thoroughly
investigated, and it looks like the House Committee on Oversight and Government
Reform, chaired by Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, is going to step up and
conduct just such an investigation of what happened and where the money went in
the Cover Oregon fiasco.
The failure of the
Maryland Health Connection state Obamacare exchange has lead to a out-of-court
settlement with the company contracted to create it, Noridian Healthcare
Solutions. The Washington Post reported about this
last week. In the settlement announced earlier this month by Maryland Attorney
General Brian Frosh, Noridian will pay $20 million upfront and another $25
million over five years in annual installments of $5 million. The money will be
split between the state of Maryland and the federal Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services (CMS). Exactly how much of the settlement funds goes to the
state of Maryland appears to have not been disclosed.
Maryland was among the 14 states that established their own state
healthcare exchanges under the Obamacare program. The Maryland state exchange
failed just minutes after it opened on October 1, 2013, despite Noridian’s $193
million contract to bulid and implement the exchange in that state. The settlement
still needs regulatory approval before it is finalized.
The Cover Oregon website never worked, and didn’t sign up a single state
citizen for Obamacare. Those who were able to sign up had to fill out and file
paper applications for Obamacare. Those who did sign up for Obamacare, if they
were not eligible for full government subsidies for their health care, signed
up for plans that offered sub-par coverage combined with excessively high
premiums and shockingly gigantic deductibles. When the stores of Obamacare
health care policies with $5000 and higher deductibles came out, it was clear
that Obamacare was a joke. Clearly such a poor designed plan seemed like it was
either massively incompetently conceived or it was deliberately designed to
fail. It clearly was anything but evidence that Big Government and liberal
bureaucrats could administer such an important sector of the economy, such as
health care, more efficiently and effectively than it was administered prior to
Obamacare by the health care system we had in place.
As Cover Oregon failed quite disastrously and miserably, other state
exchanges failed and the entire Obamacare system is proving unworkable. There
is increasing talk about how the so-called health care reform signed by
President Barack Obama is soon going to descend into a “death spiral” that
collapse Obamacare into a black hole of epic failure. To succeed, economically,
and bring in enough revenue to pay for those who qualify for subsidies (which
is needed if Obamacare is going to cover any significant percentage of those
who lacked health care insurance), it would have to sign up enough paying
customers enrolling in those ridiculous plans with the sky-high deductibles.
Since more who signed up for the program were those eligible subsidies, and not
the ones who would be paying out of pocket, the whole system teeters on
collapsing because the individual mandate is not succeeding in forcing millions
to sign up and pay for Obamacare at the exchanges. The whole Obamacare system
might yet go the way of Cover Oregon.
The entire Cover Oregon mess shows that liberal Democrat politicians had
the audacity to think that government could manage such a large sector of
economy and provision of health care better than could the private sector. And
when it failed, it illustrated the arrogance of liberal politicians, such as
Gov. John Kitzhaber, who believed he could cover up the epic failure of the
state Obamacare exchange by put a political appointee in charge of closing it
down in time to save his reelection as governor of Oregon. Conservatives warned
that government would not manage health care better than the private sector,
and that enacting Obamacare would only make the health care system worse. The
failure of Cover Oregon only proved this to be more true than any critics of
Obamacare ever expected. It also proved, once again, that liberal Big
Government is not the solution to our problems.
That warning was given quite clearly in 2010 as Congress debated over
enacting Obamacare. But the liberal Democrat majorities ignored the warning, as
did the president, and Obamacare was passed by narrow, partisan majorities in
both houses of Congress, not receiving a single Republican vote on final
passage. Cover Oregon, and Obamacare, are a prime example of the corruption,
failure and incompetence in public policy that we were when Democrats alone,
governing in one-party fashion and refusing to work with and compromise with
Republicans, decides public policy. The arrogance displayed here should be
enough alone for voters to be extremely hesitant to ever trust liberal
Democrats to “reform” health care every again.
Dean Chambers, inspired by the ideas of freedom and
the principles of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, is an independent
journalist, founding and editing two independent newspapers while in college.
Secret Deal Between Turkey And U.S. Will Sell Out The Kurds
Image credit: Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
...details of a deal
between the Obama administration and the...
Analysis
Last week, Western
Journalism reported that Islamic State
had succeeded in drawing Turkey into the Syrian war after a suicide attack by a
Turkish terrorist affiliated with ISIS killed 32 young Kurds in the border town
of Suruc in Turkey.
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Turkey responded to
the attack by launching airstrikes on ISIS positions in Syria. This happened a
day after a telephone conversation between President Obama and Turkish
President Tayyip Erdogan in which the latter agreed, for the first time, to
allow the US-led coalition against ISIS to use a Turkish air force base for
strikes against Islamic State.
Shortly after Turkey
entered the battle against Islamic State, it became clear that the government
in Ankara had another reason to interfere in Syria and Iraq. Turkish airplanes
attacked Kurdish positions in northern Iraq, and the Syrian Kurdish militia YPG
reported on Monday that Turkey had shelled their positions in the border area.
Turkish media
revealed at the same time details of a deal between the Obama administration
and the AKP-dominated government in Ankara and reported a conflicting narrative
of why Turkey intervened in Syria and Iraq.
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STORIES
A Syrian journalist reported that US
administration officials contacted the Turkish government last month after the
Turkish army amassed forces along the Syrian border. This happened after the
Kurdish YPG militia conquered vast territories in northeast Syria and seized
the strategic border town Tal Abyad in Syria.
Erdogan and Turkish
Prime Minister Davutoglu vehemently oppose the establishment of a Kurdish
autonomous area or an independent Kurdish state along the Turkish border
because they fear it will lead to increasing separatism among its own six
million-strong Kurdish minority.
The Turks told
Administration officials that they had drawn a red line from Aleppo to Kobani
and that they would not allow more Kurdish advances along the border. The
Americans were receptive to this message and saw an opportunity to finally
enlist Turkey as a member of the anti-ISIS coalition. Negotiations started; and
after a month, a deal was reportedly closed.
The US Air Force
could use the Incirlik air force base in Turkey but had to allow Turkish
oversight of the targets it would strike in Syria and Iraq from Incirlik. This
means that strikes that would help the YPG seize more territory along the
Turkish border would be vetoed, according to the Turkish outlet Today’s Zaman.
In return, the U.S.
would cooperate with Turkey to establish a so-called ISIS free buffer zone in
the north of Syria. Officially, the Turkish government says that it wants this
buffer zone to keep ISIS away from its border and to relocate the one and a
half million Syrian refugees in Turkey. The Syrian Kurds, however, think that
Erdogan and Davutlogu want to drive a wedge between the three Kurdish cantons
in Syria–and by doing so want to prevent the establishment of a Kurdish
autonomous area in Syria, Reuters reported.
The U.S.
administration denies that it is collaborating with Turkey to create a buffer
zone based on the Turkish model, Bloomberg reported.
“We’re not out there staking out zones and doing some
things that I know have been discussed in years past — no-fly zones, safe
zones. What we’re trying to do is clear ISIL,” a senior administration official
said. “I think it’s important not to confuse that with staking out these zones
that you can identify with road signs and on big maps, and that’s just not
what’s happening.”
“On Monday, a White
House official told an audience in a closed-door meeting at the Middle East
Institute in Washington the same thing about there being no safe zone inside
Syria, according to two people who were inside the meeting. The Obama
administration is sending a delegation back to Turkey next week to work on
exactly what the new cooperation along the northern Syria border will look
like, the official said,” according to Bloomberg.
The Turkish
government, however, insists that a buffer zone will be created; so it’s hard
to see how the U.S. Administration will prevent Turkey from doing so. Besides,
the Obama official Bloomberg quoted said the U.S. is “trying to clear ISIL”; so
in the end, the territory will be free of ISIS if everything goes well.
There is more.
Some Turkish media
and the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party PKK say that Turkish intelligence and
security forces might have been complicit in the Suruc suicide attack. They
point to the fact that shortly before the blast, PKK activists were banned from
entering the building where the attack took place while the terrorist got
through security control.
This might sound
far-fetched; but this past weekend, the British paper The Guardian delivered new evidence that the
Turkish government has given support to Islamic State in an attempt to
overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
An anonymous Western
official told The Guardian that when US Special Forces raided the compound of
ISIS commandant Abu Sayyaf in Syria in May, they found proof of an oil trade
between ISIS and Turkey worth tens of millions of dollars per year.
“There are
hundreds of flash drives and documents that were
seized there. They are being analyzed at the
moment, but the links are so
clear that they could end up having profound
implications for the relationship between us and
Ankara,” the Western official Told the Guardian.
As Western Journalism reported last week, the
Turkish Intelligence Service MIT has been delivering weapons and ammunition to
Islamic State as well.
The Turkish
government has clearly used Islamic State to get rid of the Assad regime but
has apparently come to the conclusion that direct intervention in Syria has
become necessary because of Kurdish national aspirations and because of the
overall situation in the country. It has become clear that Syria as we know it
has ceased to exist, and Erdogan wants to be in the position to determine the
future of the areas that border Turkey. So the Turkish government has clear
goals and acts accordingly.
She wrote that the
U.S. military does not understand the new partnership with Turkey because there
are no territorial or operational objectives–and there are no clear directives
on the use of military power. She recalled how another U.S. operation to
improve the situation in Syria without clear objectives became a huge failure.
Dyer was referring to the training of a new local ground force that was
supposed to turn the tide in the never-ending war. Nine months after the
announcement of this plan, only sixty fighters have been recruited and trained.
Basically, the U.S. is in this partnership for the convenience of Turkey, she
concluded.
Some analysts say
that there is another conclusion that can be drawn. By entering into a
partnership with Turkey at a time when Kurdish forces were the only ones who
succeeded in driving Islamic State out of territories in Iraq and Syria, the
Obama administration seems to be selling out the Kurds.
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PARA ALGUNOS "DESCONOCIDA"
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Miren bien a lomejor
esta su casa en esta lista.
Ya vi y la mia no
esta.
Estos dos hermanos
rompieron el "hijaputometro", el pueblo cubano no ha podido
levantarse y quitarse esta "claque" del lomo. Cuantas oraciones van
por el termino de esta dictadura ???? Solo Dios y la Virgen lo saben. Tal vez
podamos ir a Cuba y verla libre de estos ipos, si el Señor lo permite
!!!OJALA...
Luis
Ni siquiera el sanguinario Stalin
necesitó tantas mansiones
para hacer gala de su
hegemonía.
Analisis de un Robo
Total..Las casas de Fidel...docenas de mansiones y fincas...para su uso
personal y para su familia y sus invitados...increíble...
http://www.cubaeuropa.com/historia/Fidel%20Castro/Residencias.htm
http://www.cubaeuropa.com/historia/Fidel%20Castro/Residencias.htm
P.S.
En definitiva son más de 5 décadas de la peor de las dictaduras
conocidas.
Además
de ésto son dueños de la isla, ¿No?
Why Social Justice is a Contradiction… by Terry Applegate
Speaking on
the occasion of the creation of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in
California recently, President Obama declared it to be “an issue of social
justice.” Well, this was certainly giving a new stretch to an old term. In what
way could the creation of a National Monument be considered to be an act of
social justice? It certainly could not be just to the owners of the properties
there who will no longer be able to use their property as they saw fit. For
them, it will be an act of injustice, a taking of their previous right to
property and the free enjoyment of it. For these people, an act of injustice
has occurred. So, how can “social justice” trump “individual justice”? Or, is
that not even possible?
The ‘social’
in “social justice” implies a group of people, not merely an individual. Hence,
social justice means justice for a group, not for a person. But can there be
justice for a group that doesn’t create injustice for individuals? Probably
not. Here’s why; justice is defined as someone receiving their just deserts,
punishment for criminal actions, rewards for virtuous deeds. This is hard
enough to achieve on an individual level.
But, on a
group level, social justice becomes impossible. Has everyone in the group been
equally culpable or, worthy? Not likely. Is everyone not in the group equally
guilty or not? Of course not. Hence, by its very nature, every act of ‘social
justice’ MUST result in injustices for certain persons. Consequently, since
socially just acts are, in their very nature, unjust, there is, in reality, no
such thing as social justice.
Most people
visualize justice as being blind. Think of Lady Justice holding a sword in one
hand and scales in the other. She is often depicted blindfolded so as not to be
prejudiced by “who” someone is, so she can judge justly according only to ones
deeds and not according to one’s position, status or any other attribute. But,
since social justice implies justice for a group it automatically means
removing the blinds from Lady Justice. Now, she must see if one belongs to the
defined group or not. Depending on “who” she sees, not what that person has or
has not done, justice is then meted out. Social justice thus cannot result in
blind justice which we inherently think is fair.
We see the
fallacious concept of social justice used all the time to create classes of
people based on race, gender even grouping people by whether or not they have
committed specific unmentionable sexual deeds. If you are in the created class
you receive special treatment or remuneration based on some perceived wrong
that has been ‘committed’ against the class. The excluded class (the rest of
us) must pay the price of justice to the victimized class. This might entail
paying monies to right the wrong or, the granting of privileges such as
preferential hiring for jobs, preferential entry for university admissions,
preferential judicial privileges for suing others, etc. None of these
advantages are available to the rest of society outside of the class. By not treating individuals
as individuals but by placing them in assigned classes and treating the classes
equally rather than the individuals equally there are necessary gross
injustices created in both punishing the innocent and rewarding the guilty.
This forcing
one class of people to pay the price for a perceived wrong done to another
class then is prima
facie unjust. Every member of the protected class has not
been harmed. In many cases classes are formed based on supposed damages to the
classes’ ancestors. This results in extending the past injustices into the
future as innocents are made to pay the price for crimes committed by others
even before the blameless people who are ‘righting’ the wrong were even born! This is flagrantly unjust.
Why then do
terms like social justice gain wide credence and get used to justify inherently
unjust actions? There probably are two main reasons why this happens. First,
our governors don’t have the patience to do true justice even though that is
their job. Were they to pass righteous judgment on each and every act it would
be too messy and time-consuming for ambitious officials intent on improving the
world. It is much quicker to advocate for social justice and be done with it in
one fell swoop.
Second, our
political crusaders want to accomplish social goals that would never pass
muster with the citizenry openly, so they must cloak their sinister programs
under the guise of social justice or other grand-sounding schemes in order to
re-distribute resources and privileges to their chosen and favorite clients.
When it comes
to justice, the consequence of thinking ‘socially’ rather than ‘individually’
results in spreading guilt to everyone rather than just the perpetuators of the
wrong. Hence all now suffocate under a shadowy cloud of collective guilt and
are cowered into not saying anything with a ring of a moral tone to it because
no one is worthy to make a judgment – all are as guilty as whoever would be
condemned. This is what we now call ‘tolerance’ (except for Christians).
Christians are not tolerated because they refuse to think ‘socially’ and are
adamant that people be treated as individuals and not collectively.
Christianity holds open the door of redemption for individuals. Christ does not
save a group, he saves one person at a time. An individual can repent, be
saved, take on the mind of Christ and be cleaned up. But there is no system for
collective redemption. The collective on-going guilt of those buying into
‘social justice’ results in a never ending gloominess of heart that cannot be
assuaged.
By spreading
the guilt and responsibility to everybody, the truth of mans’ sinfulness is
acknowledged, the fact of a moral universe is affirmed, but the possibility of
Christian salvation is denied. A virtual hell on earth is created, the perfect
playground for our self-anointed elite to be offering up a never ending menu of
potential fixes for what ails us but which can never be cured.
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.¡¡¡En los últimos tiempos mi vida se
complica !!!.
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La ansiedad es incompatible con
la construcción. El mundo se ha vuelto muy vertiginoso. La
velocidad pretende ser un valor y la eficiencia fugaz se ha convertido en el
paradigma del éxito y el fracaso.
La política no es la excepción a la regla y abundan movimientos partidarios que
brotan y aspiran a subirse a esa ola. Pero no menos cierto es que esos mismos
espacios políticos que han nacido como aluvión y crecido velozmente, tienen
demasiado de circunstancial y de efímero. Así como aparecen con gran rapidez,
también se desploman a idéntico ritmo. Nada bueno puede venir de la mano de
hazañas meramente espasmódicas.
Ciertos sucesos casuales pueden ser funcionales a la aparición de un contexto
extraordinario, diferente, que genere gran expectativa dadas sus singulares
características. Pero nada es mágico en esta vida. El solo hecho de creer en
esa fantasía es una muestra de una dudosa inteligencia.
Las construcciones llevan tiempo, esfuerzo y sacrificio. No se puede crear algo
serio en tan breve lapso. Y en política mucho menos. Se debe trabajar duro,
cultivar relaciones sólidas, articular ámbitos genuinos de discusión, intercambio
y consenso. Pero también son esenciales los liderazgos criteriosos para lograr
que lo que emerge se constituya en algo respetable.
Lo auténticamente bueno, lo que realmente vale la pena, es siempre el fruto de
una larga serie de aciertos y también de desatinos, pero sobre todo, de esos
cimientos sólidos que se han edificado a lo largo del tiempo, gracias a la
voluntad de aquellos que creen férreamente en esa posibilidad que permite
soñar, bajo la condición de tener los pies sobre la tierra.
El ilusionismo en política jamás sobrevive. Las campañas proselitistas
profesionales, las brillantes estrategias de marketing especialmente diseñadas,
los candidatos que, desde fuera del sistema aterrizan en la actividad
partidaria, son solo recursos, ardides, que pueden funcionar en el corto plazo,
pero que no garantizan nada suficientemente sustentable.
Los atajos son trucos que sirven para acortar camino, pero hacer política no es
solo lograr eventuales triunfos, ni colarse por un resquicio. Eso puede ayudar
pero nunca dejará de ser un simple hito en el complejo y prolongado sendero que
conduce hacia la realización de grandes propósitos.
Por eso, cuando se observa el escenario político actual, y se percibe con tanta
claridad la desmesurada ambición de ciertos personajes por alcanzar el poder a
cualquier precio, no se puede menos que anticipar que esos intentos culminarán
sin pena ni gloria. Lo grave no es el final de esas instancias, la mayoría de
las veces, absolutamente predecibles, sino el desperdicio de energías y el
derroche de ilusiones que ello implica.
Sumarse eternamente a nuevos proyectos es una gimnasia demoledora, que
desgasta, corroe la confianza y destruye a quienes deciden hacerlo. En la
política, como en casi cualquier ámbito de la vida, se trata de construir de a
poco, con paciencia, consolidando paso a paso, tropezando a veces, pero
asimilando el resbalón, para capitalizarlo y avanzar nuevamente desde allí.
Para eso resulta imprescindible disponer de perseverancia para evolucionar,
humildad para comprender el recorrido y capacidad para rodearse de los mejores.
La idea no es transitar un desenfrenado derrotero, repleto de angustias y
premuras, sino más bien dedicarse a colocar ladrillo sobre ladrillo, con la
serenidad que ese trámite requiere para no empezar de nuevo a cada instante.
Quienes pretenden modificar el curso de los acontecimientos deben entender el
sistema y su detallado funcionamiento. Si ya lo han descubierto, pues entonces
habrán entendido que esto no es para improvisados seriales y mucho menos para
ansiosos crónicos.
Los que están en el juego desde hace mucho saben muy bien como sacarse de
encima a los arribistas de siempre. Es cuestión de tener la templanza
suficiente. Entienden que todo lo que escala rápido, desciende con similar
prontitud. Solo se trata de esperar, porque lo que germina repentinamente, con
personalismos y mezquindad, no tiene chance alguna de perdurar.
Si realmente se desea cambiar el rumbo, deberán primero comprender que esta no
es una carrera rápida, sino una maratón, una verdadera prueba de resistencia.
En esa disciplina se deben manejar los tiempos con talento, dosificar los
ritmos con creatividad, guardar el aire, apurar el paso cuando sea necesario,
pero también registrar que la meta está bastante más lejos de lo que parece y
que apresurarse es sinónimo de frustración asegurada.
Es una pena que ciertos líderes que llegaron a la política no lo hayan
comprendido en su momento. No solo ellos perdieron la ocasión de pasar a la
historia al darle prioridad a sus urgencias personales. También arrastraron a
muchos ingenuos ciudadanos que se montaron a esos espejismos, y cuando todo se
derrumbó, no solo fueron derrotados, sino que en ese trayecto quedaron atrás
buena parte de sus esperanzas, repercutiendo además directamente en cualquier
futura oportunidad.
Lamentablemente, el presente reedita esta cuestión y la coloca en el centro de
la escena. Muy pronto se habrá despilfarrado otra chance concreta de
transformar el presente. Como tantas otras veces, se privilegiaron los
intereses del corto plazo y el tren pasará de largo inexorablemente.
Parece difícil imaginarse un profundo aprendizaje de este nuevo capítulo. Más
bien paree que no faltará quien vuelva a responsabilizar a los "malos de
la película" por los errores propios, sin hacer la autocrítica
indispensable. Nada distinto ocurrirá hasta que no se comprenda acabadamente
que en política también, la ansiedad es incompatible con la construcción.
Alberto Medina Méndez
POLITICS
Donald Trump Isn’t Preparing For The Debate
As the frontrunner in national polls,
Donald Trump will likely get the center podium in next week’s debate.
But while
other Republicans running for president are studying briefing books and
rehearsing one-liners ahead of the televised showdown, Trump is
taking a different route, according to people who know him.
“He is
unscripted,” longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone told The Daily Caller.
“Un-coached. Un-handled. And no one puts words in his mouth.”
Trump’s
team is emphasizing his lack of debate preparation — at least in the
traditional sense — to bolster the campaign’s argument that he is not a
politician.
“Doesn’t
the fact that he’s at the British Women’s Open tell you something?” said
somebody with knowledge of the Trump campaign operation, referencing the
candidate’s jaunt to Scotland this week.
“Right
now, Jeb Bush is in some Holiday Inn suite eating sucky club sandwiches,
there’s some stand in, someone playing Trump, somebody playing Scott Walker,
somebody playing Ted Cruz…”
“Trump’s
not doing any of that,” the person added. “Trump already knows what he’s
saying. He knows his own mind.”
A big
question heading into the Wednesday debate in Cleveland is who will be on
the receiving side of Trump’s attacks.
“I don’t think he’s going in with a strategy of ‘I have to attack this guy or I
have to attack,’” the person said. “I think he’s going to go in and lay out his
vision. Say what he thinks.”
“But if
you’ve read his books, you’ve seen his speeches, he has a very clear maxim,”
the person added. “If you attack Trump, you’re going to get counter-attacked at
twice the velocity.”
Asked if
Trump intends to push a specific message in the debate, the source uttered a
familiar phrase. “Yes. ‘Let’s make America great again.’”
Tags: Donald Trump, Elections 2016
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/31/donald-trump-isnt-really-preparing-for-the-debate/#ixzz3haev3pJ9
What Causes
Border Surge Is Not What Obama Says
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Source: The Daily Caller
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by: Timothy Meads
The Government Accountability Office
stated Wednesday that confusing policy statements from the Obama administration
were largely responsible for the surge of illegal immigrant minors last summer.
Seventy thousand unaccompanied children poured through the southern border in 2014. On top of those numbers, 60,000 additional children came into the country accompanied by their parents, according to the GAO.
The Obama administration previously claimed dangerous economies ravaged by drug cartels were responsible for the surge.
“Agency officials noted that a variety of factors likely caused the recent rapid increase in [unaccompanied minor children] migration, including the increased presence of coyotes, perceptions concerning U.S. immigration law, and recent improvements in the U.S. economy,” according to the report. “In addition, agency officials noted that some pervasive problems have recently intensified in some places, including rising levels of violence and insecurity and worsening economic and social conditions.” Source: The Daily Caller
Seventy thousand unaccompanied children poured through the southern border in 2014. On top of those numbers, 60,000 additional children came into the country accompanied by their parents, according to the GAO.
The Obama administration previously claimed dangerous economies ravaged by drug cartels were responsible for the surge.
“Agency officials noted that a variety of factors likely caused the recent rapid increase in [unaccompanied minor children] migration, including the increased presence of coyotes, perceptions concerning U.S. immigration law, and recent improvements in the U.S. economy,” according to the report. “In addition, agency officials noted that some pervasive problems have recently intensified in some places, including rising levels of violence and insecurity and worsening economic and social conditions.” Source: The Daily Caller
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