- Laws are supposed to serve the people as opposed to controlling them -
"MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent. The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any, that are not of it." John Locke (The Second Treatise of Civil Government, Chapter VIII Section 95)
Many are persecuted needlessly over laws that do not serve any collective purpose for the health, safety and welfare of the people as a collective. Besides being a human rights issue, it is also very expensive at taxpayer cost. Laws can also be used wrongly as an alternative to correcting a problem that our Federal, State and Local governments are actually responsibe for.
The punishment for breaking a law we believe should also be reviewed. The Law might have validity, yet the punishment might not be legitimate. It could be very little, or arbitrary or overly harsh. As we evolve as a society, we see that laws should be for only serving the people, and that punishments are for the purposes of rehabilitation, as opposed to being used as deterrents or revenge
Learn More about the Balanced Party's policies on Law Management here -
I'm kind of hung up on the fact that we're divided as human beings and as long as there is another living creature on this earth with us we're not free to do what we want. Yes, we can become independent but in the long run for society to function correctly we need to become inter-dependent. How many truely independent people do you actually know? I mean is it independent when we expect government to do what we want when the majority don't even know what they want in the first place? Aren't we more in tune with expressing what we don't want all the time?
My daughter recently sent me a humorous article about a guy complaining because he had to take a drug test to get his job. His complaint was that his taxes go for welfare checks which people don't have to take drug tests to receive. So what is government or the people that government suppose to do about things like that?
Yes it would nice to have a decent judicial system, but what is a decent judicial system? We're not in government so those that make these decisions are usually school trained lawyers who really never will experience life the way the majority do. Oprah had a show on once about a successful businessman and his wife going and living in the exact same conditions those who live below the poverty level do. They started with next to nothing and quickly realized how important even pennies were. There was no room for wasting them. Then the guy got sick. They found it almost impossible to get into a free clinic. That was their downfall. The first thing the guy did after that was to make sure all his employees got health insurance. He made a statement about people living below the poverty level I never will forget. "They don't need a handout; they need a hand up." To me where is it possible to find anybody to run for office where laws are made that isn't just book smart, but has some street smarts? We've got people controlling and making laws without the slightest knowledge about the humans they make these laws for. Our government started with slave owners such as Jefferson versus someone more people oriented like Hamilton. Could it be the same sort of slave owner thinking is still in existence yet today when it comes to laws? Look into the privatization of the prisons done for profit and how drug laws were made tougher to fill those prisons up. Government actually furnished drugs in areas like LA. To many wrongs have been going on for to long to make this an easy problem to resolve. I'm kind of the mindset that it's time to divide the rich from the poor as political parties for more equality in representation.
Ken:
I believe the following should be in a Grop Discussion called 'The Dignity of Human Rights' , but it pertains to what you say. It is a email thread about College Students and the Forgotten Class -
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Dear Ms. Shaena Engle:
I found your article informative on college student political focus, ( i.e - concern regarding military involvement, same-sex couples, the death penalty, control environmental pollution, tax issues, national health care, federal control over the sale of handguns- at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/6731 ) but wonder why there is an absence of interest in what we could call the" forgotten class as one example". I thought kids were into human rights ?
In Oakland of all places which is just next door to your Univerisity, just like in LA, NYC, Chicago, and in any inner city, people face daily survival issues where at best are subject to Medicaid cuts if in fact one does qualify, schools which are not safe havens for learning, and where daily survival for children is in question if not conscripted into gangs. If in fact an individual reaches adult hood, more than not have not made it through high school, where many end up in prison. Some of the more fortunate can get to join the US military which for the time being enables them perhaps some peace when sent to war compared to what they have at home.
One question this poses is in being the intellectual capital of our nations tomorrow, if our college students do not account for our society as a whole, what part in it can they actually participate in ?
Was it a matter of this not being included in a questionnaire , a matter of indifference, or lack of awareness . Further, where are the questions about the cost of higher education, and the means to afford it. Was this also ever brought to the students attention , or is all this in another survey ?
Respectfully Yours,
O.K. Daley
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From: Higher Education Research Institute <heri@ucla.edu>
Mr. Daley,
To be brief in answering your question, that factor was not analyzed
because it was not included on the survey instrument. You can see which
questions items were included from the survey instrument archive linked
below.
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/researchersToolsCodebooks.php
While these surveys do have general interest questions the majority of
the items are directly related to education issues in higher
education.Unfortunately, because of the limited space available on the
surveys we cannot , ask every question we would like to.
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