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Uncle Emanuel Watkins
02-27-2008, 02:34 PM
The original idea of the Golden Mean -- a political model developed by Aristotle which isolates the moderate point of view -- was in response to outrage caused by his teacher Plato and his revolutionary teachings. Although such liberal teachings helped mold the minds of his students, such extreme ideas by the master professor were so unpractical outside of the classroom in comparison that they caused a lot of political havoc in the city-state of Athens.
So, the original political spectrum contemplated by Aristotle was conceived so that Athenians might unite to develop a common culture. The development of this common culture really took a lot of work because effort was required of them to learn how to compromise.
When our forefathers exercized their Constitutional right to print up political propaganda, by way of the bill of right regarding freedom of the press, they invested their own money and effort to establish civil ideas that might lead the nation away from legal tyranny -- the type of government we live in presently.
In comparison, the news media today does not exercize such responsibility in their reporting. Although it should not be deemed a problem when the news media makes a profits, a right which they have because of the selfless investment of others, we should always appreciate that they don't make their money by reporting the truth.
Granted, they aren't reporting lies to us either as much as just selling us an empty box. In order to sell the empty box, one must never forget to tell the potential customer exactly what they want to hear while always remembering to never lead them up a hill. Because the latter endeavor would amount to work! Similarly, the nature of news media is all about down hill entertainment because such businesses are in the business of selling empty boxes.
This empty box I speak of is the legal tyranny we live in today. The news media reels us into this empty box by first dividing us up into liberals and conservatives. They divide us up by baiting our hooks with endless legal issues to debate. In order to get us all to bite, they use the polical spectrum irresponsibly.
For example, let's say in the future that a majority of us in the United States decide to turn unfavorably in opinion against the issues of legal abortion or gun control. In order that they might make money reporting this change in opinion, the media would report it to us with the claim that "The opinions of the American people are becoming conservative . . .." Although this statement might sound responsible and true, it is mere news entertainment. In actuality, if the majority of the people in the United States did decide to turn unfavorable in opinion against the issues of legal abortion or gun control, their political views would become the new moderate opinion. But such effort put into reporting the truth wouldn't sell a bent nickel through the one eye Willy (television) if it were given away.
The legal tyranny we live in today has become the empty box of goods the media sells to us. In fact, as the media was once part of the legal tyranny that existed in the former Soviet Union, it now exists in a like manner as part of a single party that has developed in our own nation.
In order to get potential voters to buy into such a cruel system, the news media distracts us from our good sense. Unfortunately for the legal tyranny now ruling over us, our forefathers left us a clear definition in the U.S. Constitution of what is good sense. Through its civil interpretation as evidenced in the Declaration of Independence, the Federal papers (Publius) and our Bill of Rights, we should be able as American citizens to see the filth, smell the filth, taste the filth and hear the filth of any impending legal tryannies.
But our forefathers expected much more than that from us. It was expected of us to feel unhappy as Americans when living under such a legal tyranny -- basically a reality eroded down to living in a courtroom. It was expected of us to share a common American culture which requires a prerequisite of happiness -- in order that we the people may establish a more perfect Union of civil contentment.

Laja
02-27-2008, 02:52 PM
looks like there's lots of good stuff in your posting, but can you edit it so there's better paragraphing? visually, there's just too many words in too small a place and i just can't read it without getting a headache. thanks!

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
02-27-2008, 03:56 PM
looks like there's lots of good stuff in your posting, but can you edit it so there's better paragraphing? visually, there's just too many words in too small a place and i just can't read it without getting a headache. thanks!

Take a look at my last 10 posts and you will see that they are all simple in that they all focus on just one issue. Understand just 1 post and you are 90% of the way there. In fact, the only issue addressed by me in this forum is the one I feel is sacred. The one issue we should all cherish is the one which deals with how we interpret our Constitution. My argument always claims that we lose our soul when we interpret the Constitution in legal terms; whereas, we find our common culture as Americans when we interpret it in civil terms. The Constitution does define our character as Americans afterall.
To simplify even further, just imagine that I interpret the Constitution not as a legal expert, a lawyer so to speak, but as a civilian. Or think of me as a lot like a farmer, perhaps, the kind of people most Americans were back during the American Enlightenment period that created our Constitution. When the forefathers wrote our civilpurpose into the U.S. Constitution back then, the word civil meant just that: civil. As we no longer vote in forefatherlike leaders into our government but law making lawyers instead, the legal meaning of the word civil has been changed to the point where it is now interpreted more like the word illegal because the only people around to interpret it are legal experts.
Okay, now imagine a new type of political spectrum. Rather than have "liberal" at one end of it and "conservative" at the other as is normal, imagine replacing it with the concept of legal tyranny at one end and civil purpose at the other. Okay, when our government moves to the side where it has become a legal tyranny, the type of government we live in today, we basically live in a huge metaphorical courtroom where we exist not as citizens but live as incompetent clients of lawyers. In this metaphorical courtroom the word civil has little meaning.
In order to get ourselves out of this legal tyranny of a courtroom, we need to be responsible as citizens. We need to quit our bickering as both liberals and conservatives who blame the other for all our problems so that we can find instead our common culture as Americans. As we are developing this common culture as Americans, we will be moving away from living under a legal tyranny. Eventually we will arrive at the civil purpose our forefathers intended, a place with more civil contentment, less courtrooms, less judges, less lawyers, less police officers, less prisons, more money, less taxes. . . etc..

molly_pitcher
02-27-2008, 06:30 PM
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Uncle Emanuel Watkins
02-27-2008, 08:26 PM
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Man, this is easy. 100th verse same as the first.
With both liberals and conservatives supporting Ron Paul, isn't it silly complaining about and blaming the liberals and conservatives? I mean, wouldn't these guys feel ashamed once they cross that line to join us as liberals and conservatives? And yet, they already have joined us in the movement. Doesn't any one else get that in here? If we aren't going to bicker about how different we are, then what do we have left to do? I just supposed the only thing left to do is establish our common culture as Americans and to hell with the issues.

IcyPeaceMaker
02-27-2008, 08:59 PM
Don't forget that reporting the truth takes effort, honor and responsibility, neither of which is in abundence within the MSM.

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
02-27-2008, 09:27 PM
Don't forget that reporting the truth takes effort, honor and responsibility, neither of which is in abundence within the MSM.

1) Build a common culture as Americans rather than bicker.

2) Dig the news media out from the relationship it is having with our eroded 2 party system through an organized writing campaign to notify every news media employee why such a relationship is a danger to the U.S. Constitution.

3) We should draw a deep line in the soil for people to cross so that it is a lifelong change. We should also quit trying to sell people on the idea that an empty Federal box can solve any of our endless political issues.

4) Boycott the court (compromise), fire a lawyer and support paying less taxes which support the legal tyranny which we live today.

5) Go fishing or whatever makes you happy.