Disrespecting The Law

By Roger Colins

Hong Kong protesters Accused of 'Disrespecting the Law'.

Hong Kong has heard that the man in charge Mr Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying will not step down as demanded. Quite the contrary, as Beijing have begun backing him to stay in full control as their representative of the people. Take that any way you like.

Have a look at this, today's headline on the BBC website;

Hong Kong protests: China strongly backs leader CY Leung

 

The report details one interesting affirmation from the People's Party's official Communist newspaper, the people daily. This, having come from yet a third source from yet another newspaper but none the less, as you can see about half way down the article on the BBC, we have the line;


People's Daily also carried on its website a
comment piece from another newspaper
which stated: "Hong Kong has for many years
enjoyed peace and harmony. It now sees the
emergence of this embarrassing chaos, and
the root cause lies with a few people who are
disrespecting the law."


I couldn't help myself and took to a dozen or so comment boxes to bandy about a hashtag; #Disrespectingthelaw. I doubt anything will come of it and if so, it'll probably be perverted into something anarchist. It's the mindless hypocrisy of whoever this came from that is so telling in a situation where kettles are being called black. The protesters are allowed to protest in Hong Hong. They're allowed to vote for their own representation and this they can do for another 33 years according to legislation agreed to by the People's Communist Party, just 14 years ago.

The People's Party, having gone along and insisted Beijing vet the HK candidates, have broken their own law and certainly disrespected it. Calling the protesters illegal, is also breaking one's own law as the the Communist Party said they could. It is slander at the same time, but I'm not sure if that's actually a crime in China, Beijing or Hong Kong. Probably not.

The phrase 'Do as I say, not as I do.' might only fit if this person, this People's Communist Party weren't going around breaking the laws he, they, it,.. himself, themselves, itself invented. Even if the people of Hong Kong were to comply with Beijing's rule, orders, administration or laws I can't see where they would start as anything said by the mainland is beyond contradictory.

#Disrespectingthelaw

The News Show

By Roger Colins

Civilisation has gone as far backwards in morality as we have forwards in science. The very posture of pious, modern society could not make it any clearer that barbarians have higher moral standards than we do.

The cold blooded, hypnotising snake is but an amateur.

Just because millions of starving, mosquito ridden, disease infested children aren't dying on our doorstep does not mean that we aren't letting it happen.

This kind of hypocrisy could just about have been excused when we didn't know what was going on in the world. Those that would come back from war with stories beyond belief, explorers that returned from the sea with tall tales of giant sea monsters weren't likely to be believed and when I first saw a news broadcast as a child my soul quite immediately decided for certain this could be nothing other than sheer, fantasy.

My parents would not have allowed these things to take place, they wouldn't even let me be late for school. The same therefore goes for every other adult that went around telling me what to do. They'd all been entrusted with a responsibility over my life and had to live up to it, which included the news show. It too was a part of my life now. Therefore, this news show could not be telling the truth.

 
My Tablet

From there we arrive at a space age alarm clock going off at half past five. A hot shower, coffee, breakfast and smoke before horror strikes as the realisation dawns. Out of our of a collection of three hundred garments, we just can't decide what to wear and are already late for work. We stare long, just at that one collection. In the back of our head we hear 'I earned this.' Get up early every day, put on a big smile and work like a drone to pay for it. 'I deserve it.'

Hypocrisy sounds curiously similar to the Greek, Hippocrates. You've probably heard of the Hippocratic oath and may even have some notion of what it involves and yet, those that have gotten this far will still admit they don't want to hear it and those that haven't, are already watching a video of a funny cat.

Why not, here it is in full:

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art — if they desire to learn it — without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but to no one else.

I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgement; I will keep them from harm and injustice.

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.

I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favour of such men as are engaged in this work.

Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

If I fulfil this path and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honoured with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.

Murder

Two things happen when you kill for the first time. You'll vomit, and then you'll explore an overwhelming sensation of power. It feels good. This is not dissimilar to when you got your first pay check. Something inside you managed to count how many people died for every last penny you earned and made you feel sick. Then that cool feeling of God like power washed over you, and the feeling of sickness was forgotten.

I'm not talking about animals or fruit or an accident or self defence. I'm talking about deliberately taking a human life. One six year old girl dragged thirty kilos of copper twenty miles from a mine to an airport across a stretch of war torn land.

Her pay check is survival. She deserves to do it again until she fails to earn that pay check next time.

A five year old boy then manipulated that copper into wires in a toxic furnace halfway across the world. His pay check is a bowl of rice.

An insane, ten year old girl then puts that wire into a computer circuit on the other side of the city. Her pay check is in actual money.

That circuit is put into a computer by another, that computer is packed into a box made by another and those boxes are loaded onto trucks, trains and planes by another.

When the boxes land at their destination there are machines and robots to pick them up and move them into that shiny high street shop where a fat, peaceful, charitable, enlightened, educated, happy, well paid, insured, knowledgeable, well balanced and all around nice husband and father takes your credit card and you've got a brand new tablet. You feel like God. You feel this way because as far as this world is concerned, you are.

#hypocrisy #morality #civilisation

Ruling Power

By Roger Colins

The House of Commons in session

It's always a point of controversy to discuss war, religion, sex or politics. Controversial because these are all very much a personal point of view and disagreeing with a persons belief displays a rather callous disposition and assumes that one person, put simply, claims to know better than the other.

Of course, we don't know any better. The lot of us are crawling around blind just trying to do the best we can, the best way we know how.

A person can't really be judged a lesser being by anyone else because when it comes down to it, any one of us could be right. Dogs have their good and bad points the same as cats but which is overall 'a better pet'? We just can't be sure.

Democracy comes from the ancient Greek word demos 'of the people'. Curiously, communism has a remarkably similar definition being 'owned by the people'.

This being so, one can't help but wonder how the two found themselves in such opposition.

Communism without it's historical application is quite the excellent idea. So is democracy. National socialism works very well and monarchy, should it be genuinely benevolent, would be highly popular. It seems governance has just gotten stuck in history.


Power Play

Perhaps it has something to do with power. The adage goes that absolute power corrupts, absolute. Does it apply?

It would if you include dictatorship but not when these particular instances are designed to spread the attributes of power over a wide area.

Vladimir Putin. President of Russia

Lust for power, then. A person that finds himself in power may only want more.

The limits to their success may only depend on the limits to their morals and should this person discover that he has none, he or she could very well develop a messiah complex.

The concept of democracy differs somewhat from the rest in only one particular and that is corruption.

Any other system has a lot more holes that beg for exploitation. The lustful immoral are drawn in like moths to the flame.

Leaving consensus aside, democracy is still the most corrupt-proof government we have to work with and yet these holes keep cropping up.

Back handers, bribes, quid pro quo and back scratching constitute the epicentre for corruption, especially in a democracy. Politicians are looking for votes and will sell their mothers to appease as much of the electorate as humanly possibly.


By Design

Barack Obama. President of the United States of America

There is also the issue of funding and this is predominant across all government types.

A candidate has to publicise his entry, gain support from his party, present his policies and spread the word.

In order to do this the media is enlisted to help out and the only way to create more publicity than your opponent is to shovel the most amount of money at the media.

Does that mean the candidate willing to impart the most money will win? Certainly seems that way.

Votes are there to give the most practicable forum for opinion. Buying votes if rife in many democratic states globally but it is still down to the individual should the electorate give up his free will for a few pennies more because the practise has become established, part and parcel with how the country decides who gets to take over next.

The very existence of any government's infrastructure including anarchy, shows that there is a vested interest in how things should or should not be done. How things should be done has to lie in the hands of the people, even if it is anarchy.

Hierarchy of representatives from local council all the way up to the cabinet allows a conduit of communication from the people to the person. Representative, is a choice word.


A Civilian Servant

Politician or advocate, leader or reformist, lunatic or genius; when they stand at the front and commence parley that person represents those that gave over the responsibility. There is another name for this station.

David Cameron. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

A servant.

Should that person digress from such position to express and relay the thoughts, feelings and desires of his or her constituency, they are no longer representative of the people they claim to speak for.

Suggesting that a representative has no personal interest what-so-ever is quite at odds to the allure of power.

Finding a person that has no interest in power to serve as one's representative may seem daunting but there is a final point to be made.

If said person has a proven track record of service to his or her country then they would not refuse the honour, they could not or it would go against all that they have previously sought out and accomplished.

#power #government #ethics

Subliminal Messaging

By Roger Colins

Spot anything other than Ned? Subliminal messaging seeds thoughts and ideas in the back of our heads without our conscious awareness.  Negatives are a prime example of this effect. The brain doesn't hear negatives. If told not to think of a green house, you'll immediately think of one. Most commonly, the trick is used in advertising, marketing and sales. Subliminal messaging is essentially a form of hypnosis as the victim's will is being toyed with. Here's a short example. __________________________________________________________ 'If it were the right price, you'd buy it, wouldn't you?' tag question. No one can answer no, so 'Yes' 'You have the paint range selected personally by you.' customer nods in understanding, not agreement. 'After we send it to the factory you can have it in about three weeks.' nods again 'So, when can we make the appointment?' Close. The salesman has already made you say yes, then, makes you think of something unrelated. This is in order to distract for a moment while you try to connect his first line to the next. You know you said yes but to what, you can't remember any more. There is no connection and he has managed to confuse, just for a second. Lastly, while you're listening and thinking, the salesman jumps you with an assumption, once again cutting off your thought process. You're on the spot, don't want to disappoint the lovely man and just settle for agreeing to the sale. The 'Yes' was the subliminal message and how it works are the connections to it. As far as the top name brands are concerned they just want to remind you that they are still the best. Coca Cola, Nike, Apple all bombard the general public with slogans and labels. Although we will look, we not think about it. The image is just there to reinforce their grip on the market. Subliminal messaging is more subtle. In addition to the logo flashing across a screen, they throw in a clip of your favourite pop music to make it more appealing. This tells you that they have the same taste as you in music even if you don't have the same taste in drinks, trainers or computers. Subliminal messaging can more subtle than even that. I like to think of it as liminal messaging. This trick here is to encourage actively conscious thought on the subject matter. Take 'The Wolf of Wall Street'. Scorsese is well known for cinematic violence and his movies have an attractive quality because of it. He has however done movies without violence but even though they are just as good if not better, they have not done as well at the box office than those with the trademark blood and swearing. More than that, after having walked out of a movie jam packed with more swear words than any other in living memory, can you honestly say you will swear less after having watched it? Monkey see, monkey do and if we are not careful about looking out for the tell tale signs of subliminal messaging then we have no defence against it and soak up every last bit of it. Positives, negatives, blunt and subtle. The news and media are no different. They learnt this trick by sheer accident and now it's used as the gold standard. Instead of trying to cover up a scandal or ignore a humanitarian catastrophe it is simply easier and more effective to report on it and every other to saturate our expectations. If a nuclear bomb were dropped on China, seven nuclear bombs say, there would be world war. Imagine there were no scandalous reports in the current day media and had not been for a number of years. Along comes a nuclear bomb of presidential assassination or phone hacking or sexual assault, there world be the media equivalent to world war. No one would put up with it. As the media is now a soapbox for everyone's worst sins, we put up with it because it appears to be the norm, accept that because it is being reported someone else is going to do something about it and are resolved that it is not our problem. If China were hit with actual, nuclear bombs, I do not believe people would let it slide unless everyone were being hit with them too. Subliminal messaging is clever but not as clever as an on-the-nose-double-blind. It's fun, entertaining and just like a Martin Scorsese movie.

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Modern Pirates

By Roger Colins

___________________________________________________________ The Jolly Roger I cheat, I'll admit it. I'm even going to tell you how not to do it but first, a quick note on the ethics involved. I'll come back to a fuller examination on morality and ethics some other time but for now, let's stick to cheating. Guy Fawkes Mask Pirates are cool. They strike the Jolly Roger, offer a chance for surrender and plunder treasure without a care in the world for who's getting the pointy end of the stick. Aside from the seafaring pirates that still hound the horn of Africa to Madagascar, modern day pirates also operate on the internet. Screeners, ripped music and DVD's, even movies sneaked out of Hollywood before the blue screen has been filled in, are all outlawed. These, pirates have more in kind with Robin Hood than Jack Sparrow. They risk their well being not for themselves but to share their ill gotten gains with the entire planet, free of charge. The bad guys are supposed to be cool or they wouldn't make very good, bad guys but even pirates are supposed to abide by the pirate code! Privateer If you own an Android powered device, you're already a cheat. Really? Android is based on Linux open source software. Completely free and run by volunteers, no different than a charity shop. The competition, we know who you are, all secretly consider Linux distributions, cheaters. What is inside Android? Android, Ubuntu, Mint, Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, the new Steam, Gentoo, openSUSE and Chrome, yes Chrome too is Linux based source code. Have a look here for an idea of some of the rest. 'Why haven't I heard of these?' you might ask. First of all, Linux is primarily the developer's tool to build other software. Some of you may already be aware of this. As you can see, Chrome is Google's flagship browser. Chrome was built on Chromium and Chromium built with Gentoo, one of the skinniest operating systems ever made. It'll fit quite easily on any thumb drive. Unless you're a developer, you probably won't have heard of most of these. Second, it's free. Open source means that anyone can play with the source code to fix bugs, adjust, tweak and arrange any program to get things working the way you want. Since it is free, there's no point in advertising or marketing it, at all. Lastly, everyone's scared of Linux and quite rightly so. It is powerful. Any android phone or tablet can be 'rooted' which is to simply unlock the safeguards so you can start playing with the source code and turn it into a refrigerator, should you so wish. Pirates! Java has become integral Google had a problem, quite recently because the developers used Java to stick the Android programs together without telling anyone. Naughty. The commercial software you pay for seem to provide a very poor service. They are, user friendly with great design, crisp graphics and clever apps all brought together to provide a hassle free experience at a reasonable price. How many times did your operating system stall or crash last week? Mine hasn't, ever. Why? Because I have a community of crackers (hackers) building mine. Genuinely motived, they don't waste time with big business and are only interested in the best. Survival of the fittest sounds like something that only happens to wild animals and homo sapiens, but were are still homo sapiens and survival of the fittest is still very much alive and well, if not more so than ever before. I cannot and will not, ever, endorse theft, robbery or fraud. Unless you are starving. If you are starving, I will not only endorse but actively encourage. Taking advantage of others is deplorable but taking advantage of those, taking advantage of you is beating them at their own game. It is up to you to decide who is taking advantage of you and who is trying to make life more convenient. Buccaneers Here's what not to do if you still don't want to cheat. Don't, download and install Firefox nor, these add-ons for the browser - Adblock Plus, Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon, Adblock Element Hiding helper, BetterPrivacy, DoNotTrackMe, Firefox Ad killer, Ghostery, Self Destructing Cookies, Skipscreen or WOT - because they will kill the advertising community, stop the big companies tracking your every move and make it near impossible for them to market new products or inform the general public about new deals, discounts about the latest top brand name products for you to buy, on the internet at least. WOT will however keep you safe from known malware. Don't follow this link, or follow the 7 steps about 'pipelining' to speed up your internet that will take less than a minute to do. Last of all, whatever you do, don't visit watchseries, vodly or movie4k. They all keep changing their URL's and suck money out from under the already poor and ailing production companies. If they go under, there'll be no more TV shows or movies for anyone. The Linux Penguin You can however, go to Linux, download and install Ubuntu, Mint or openSUSE right alongside your current operating system but beware, even though it is worth it, it will take time to do and you'll have to learn one or two new things and, you'll still be cheating!

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