My Archives: March 2005
Monday, March 28, 2005
A Mother Speaks
And it becomes as basic and universal as and better than the Ten Commandments...It is about time that we return to civilization!
Please see what I have added at the bottom of my post "Abu Ghraib in the Hospital" and read the essay linked to, save it, print it out and frame it for your children and everyone to see who visits you...
Permanent link to the post: http://www.butterbach.net/blogs/net/archives/00000203.htm
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:28 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Sunday, March 27, 2005
The only thing worse than the government these days -- if such is possible -- are those portions of the populace to whom this government owes its allegiance.
[quote from Hubert G. Locke]This verdict is from America and about the Bush administration, wouldn't you have guessed? :-) I dare add the following: These days? Any day, basically! Possible? It is possible! And it has been going on since a while, since times immemorial actually, and now, thanks to the increased population of the world, it is more visible anywhere than ever, from St. Peter's Place in the Vatican State today till Protestant Sweden all year round and most any other place you could put your finger on on a map of this earth (even the moon included already and soon Mars and Jupiter), with politics and religion intertwined as some may think only fundamentalist Islam could have it. No, those majority "portions" can have it ~~ and are
enough to even be experts at this. All day long. And during the night. Amen. Which leads to the population increase and the voting majorities.Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:31 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Friday, March 25, 2005
Abu Ghraib in the Hospital
Since days I wanted to write this, but due also to other stressful commitments my force to do it was lacking. I was suffering in silence.What is going on here with Terri Schiavo is plain torture. As it is not possible to do such a thing on a dead body, the makers of the laws (perpetrators of the greatest crimes and perpetual traitors to their laws), the executioners [sic] of the executive, the gods, not in white, of the courts, don't just shoot her in the head killing her right away, but prefer to let her slowly wither away under painful inner contortions to get their perverse pleasure of being powerful over others. And one can be powerful only over living people. The dead usually give a damn.
This has all the signs of Abu Ghraib: humiliation and physical destroying.
The gods in white, with their ignorant and conflicting theories on the case and their total ignorance of other existing treatments, should at least apply a minimum of decency and good sense.
As I read in an Associated Press report about the feeding tube removal (the third one so far, and previously followed by a reinsertion), the tube "is removed in a simple surgical procedure". They are not talking about an operation. This sounds to me like saying pacification (or democratization) instead of war. The feeding liquid is sent through the tube with a syringe. There is a drawing on the page! As if they could not simply stop using that syringe to put something down that tube, no, the surgeon gods in white, hooked as they are on their technical sorcery and proud like a Las Vegas magician, but coarse like an auto mechanic who didn't have to swear the Hippocratic oath, prefer to take that whole plastic garbage out and later (maybe) put it in again...
Without anesthetics, I presume? And if with, who has ever heard of better means to work in the direction of health improvement?... Imposing on a weak body additional requirements to heal unnecessary wounds, is mindless. Especially considering that this human body has been fed for 15 long years with what those "Bocuses" had on their five star liquid menus. I have not seen the leather-bound printed menu of that restaurant, but I can read it on Terri's face, and the à la carte is as ample as in a prison.
In view of the hopeful case that the tube will after all be reinserted, how can anyone in his right mind (but the Florida nutcases seem to be very numerous, like they are all over the place of that fucked-up system America and the rest of the world [though there are a few places with a bit more grip on these things]) be so irresponsible as to irreversably damage that body by withholding water?! Withholding food is not the big problem. It can be even beneficial, especially considering the average fare of the majority of hospitals. Often or sometimes sufficiently good for those patients who do not really need to be there except for their foolishness and the sake of the hospital's revenue, but almost universally well below the quality level needed by those who really need help to recover and escape the clutch of the Grim Reaper. I bet that if during those 15 years Terri had received, in addition to that basic food concocted by the chefs of that diner "At the Tavern of Science", some natural power food according to principles espoused and perfected by people like Ann Wigmore, David Wolfe or Franz Konz (to just name a few at random), parts of her brain would have recovered or have been strengthened and one would see it in her face. As I have decades of studies and experience (and also successes, done the job professionally for years) behind me regarding nutrition and health, I can tell you that Terri's face now looks like many I have seen of people who were not at all in Terri's situation, but obviously nourished wrongly. Telling more about this would require another column, a rather long essay, if not a book.
Anyone ever heard of Civil Disobedience? No? How strange, I thought you over there (I am here in Germany and hail from Luxembourg) read Thoreau in high school. But this author is probably on the curriculum of state schools to instill a disgust of it. Compulsory reading is not like freely chosen reading.
Finally, I am glad to notice that after the flood of commentary coming from all sides, and largely from libertarian columnists and bloggers, that used this case to toss and turn with great intelligence all kind of philosophical and political issues, especially the aspect of federalism versus the sovereignty of the federal states, we start to get now more common sense articles, as loving and simple as a glass of water.It is after all an individual case and a case for individualism.
SeeTerri's last chance
Humanity lost in Schiavo media frenzy
A "Painless" Death?
Cruel, unusual . . . Read this!
As she lay dying This essay is a great monument to civilization! Read it even if you are not particularly interested in this case. A mother speaks and it becomes as basic and universal as and better than the Ten Commandments.
If you google for schiavo glass water you will find a wealth of recent very humane opinion about this emblematic glass of water.
[This editorial can be freely reposted if unaltered and the source is given with the correct URL and including this note.]
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 03:28 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Fashion and Freedom or post hoc ergo prompter hoc
I promise you the greatest delight, deepest insights and a pleasant revigorating of your moral sense, which will give you hope: read Ilana Mercer's latest column on Antiwar.com:Second Thoughts, First Principles
"Sadly, Americans (and our Fearless Leader) are capable of grasping only a Disneyfied version of majority rule, not the Middle Eastern version. This is why they doggedly conflate democracy with freedom, and "the freedom to vote" with liberty. Here's a useful tip for Fields [CB: This is Townhall.com's "scribbler" (Ilana's expression) and "Hail-Bush-er" (mine) Suzanne Fields]: voting is synonymous with freedom only if strict limits are placed on the powers of elected officials and only if individual rights are respected.""In Bushite theology, any injustice is pardonable so long as, in retrospect, some good can be attached to it."
"The Bush administration is less clever than the merest child, for it believes it has discovered "something better than truth, and justice, and universal law." The deplorable achievement of Fields and her fellow travelers is to have persuaded Americans to adopt the same conceit."
From Ilana's long essay (a true major broadside) I chose the above short quotes, as they are important statements and conclusions I agree with as they are fully compatible with my own views as expressed on my sites, even if I would prefer to go "somewhat" [rather a lot! ;-)] further in individual-anarchist radicalism than the conservative or classical liberal (or Randian minarchist) position expressed in the first quote. But the promised real delight, the real insights, the real moral strength (like fresh out of a wellness center) will come from her unsurpassed language (smiling or laughing because of her language trouvailles will no doubt cost you less than some wellness resort and you escape the risk of maybe meeting there the neocon lady folks she describes) and from the brilliant developments leading to those statements and conclusions.
You will see that "Genghis Bush", taking a war for a spin, nekkid (like that child did in the story of the emperor's clothes) or, why not, in a fashionable abaya "of his making". The rank and file over there will have to buy it for $49.99. So much for fashion and freedom.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 10:57 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Friday, March 18, 2005
Terri SchiavoSHAME ON YOU, COLD-BLOODED FLORIDA JUDGE MURDERER!!! Don't walk by my server in Boca Raton, Florida, or this server might get the idea to transform itself into a thousand tasers.
The State kills. As I always said and will continue saying. Till the last moron maybe understands it.
Taking the life of a brain damaged woman who speaks, smiles, has communication and pleasant contact with her parents. Laws are no excuse. Laws are bad by themselves. They kill manifold all the time. As they are despotically imposed on all individuals born or residing or travelling in a gratuitously determined piece of land by congenitally criminal people, government people who think that they are worth more than you, that they have a right to be slave holders, that you do not belong to yourself, but to them. Perverse sick people!
And laws that gave a husband more rights than it gave the parents. And the whole legal farce took 15 years and all that long time did not succeed in implanting some kind of decent natural feelings into that judge and all those governments thugs.
Those thugs know that they deserve to be killed in self-defense. That's why they want to disarm people, so that they can continue their addiction to their perversity.
Read the following:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=594440
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=594090
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/02/tampering-with-witness-or-destroying.html
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/thomaslknapp/110918948045508795/#79173
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/03/congress-versus-axis-of-evil.html
http://www.butterbach.net/epinfo/qualegevivis.htm
I even hate to mention Michael Schiavo, as disgusted as I am by him. He did not want his wife, but also did not want to give her back to those people, her parents, he took her from in the first place and now. But the money he took.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:40 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
MINIMUM WAGE FRAUD
Ken Schoolland, Associate Professor of economics and political science at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, and an author of this website, today publishes an international version of his essay "MINIMUM WAGE FRAUD", which shows very clearly and in a vivid manner that minimum wages do profit neither employees nor employers, only politicians. He is taking the much discussed and supposed panacea to an absurd level. The last two short sentences of the essay alone are worth reading that essay!Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 07:26 PM GMT+1 [Link]
The Threat
Of one day being without computers, except Lenovo ones, and maybe have to rely on an abacus again or even a Japanese human calculator... IBM has a long history of being in connivance with the despotic State and has served enough dictatorships for money... Who else needs a mainframe these days? Not many. So it is within their logic to get rid of the Personal Computing Division. For big business it is much too troublesome to deal with individual private customers. A central dictatorship like China is more convenient. Government never lacks cash like the private individuals whom it takes it from by force. Like Microsoft also they are hangers-on of government departments.A comment today by John Zube:
The Communist Regime of Mainland China still claims Taiwan as part of China. Couldn't France and Germany similarly e.g. claim England? Or could not the "united" European mainland people similarly claim "England" and Ireland as their "own"?
The territorial unity, collective sovereignty and "representative" power spleen is still in full swing.
Taiwan, I wish you luck against IGM, International Government Machines...
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 10:19 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Monday, March 14, 2005
Indeed, I'm sitting on a well of idiocy.
This morning I learnt that all parties have agreed to demand a driving license for small boats. The conservative party said it would be enough with a minimum age. So now everybody has to go to the boating school, and such schools need a license too, I suppose. And they can’t charge too much, so we have to have some officials to set fair prices. Such cost have to be covered, right? Perhaps a small boat tax would do. This of course requires a register. To be fair, the tax has to be differentiated according to the size of the boat, motor horsepowers, etc. Thus, people would have to declare the characteristics of their boats in detail, and these declarations would have to be checked and administered. A small fee would cover that cost. And so on…While you and I might see all this as arguments against the licensing, I suppose just about any of the conservatives might say – Wow, we hadn’t thought about all those unintended consequences. Perhaps we were wrong? After all, think of all the work the license would create!
Such is life an ordinary Friday morning in Sweden.
The ordinary Friday above was last Friday, when Richard C.B. Johnsson, Ph.D. in Economics, was musing for our delight.
Read his essay To the Monopolists of All Parties.Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 12:06 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Sunday, March 6, 2005
The cowboy is back on his ranch
That's the refreshing language (my translation from the French original) the Luxembourg communist newsletter "Goosch.lu" (#63 of March 4) uses to report about the former shepherd's (of sheep!), now Shepherd (of sheeple!), recent visit to Europe.In the main newspaper of my city of residence, in the German language "Hamburger Abendblatt", their correspondent in Washington, Cornel Faltin, in the issue of February 24, states that the visit of U.S. president Bush is hardly "taking place" in the U.S. media: no pictures in the papers, short clips at CNN. Therefore, as it is not "happening" there, I feel that my little additional reporting may be justified.
"Bush in Brussels: How much does it cost?" Our inquisitive journalists on the far left state that, when leaving, Bush forgot to pay the bill. And the bill may be astronomical, like N.A.S.A. bills, at least compared, I guess, with the budget of our leftist little newsletter. The Belgian minister of the Interior, Patrick Dewael, has already presented a first estimate according to which the Belgian federal police alone is left with an unpaid balance of €621,969. To this you have to add the expenses of the local police of Brussels and of the boroughs of the Belgian capital, which should also be situated around €600,000. All in all, the bill should be something like €1,200,000 (= US$1,588,800). Just compare this with what the security of an European summit costs: €132,000.
To this, we hear on our left, one has to add the cost the economy of the capital has to suffer because of the slowing down during the visit. And they add that the German authorities will surely increase this figure substantially, if we consider the gargantuan security measures around and in Mainz during the visit of "the criminal" in Germany.
Indeed, the "Hamburger Abendblatt", not at all on the left, reports the following (my translation): "Security first. Rhine and Main closed for navigation, the sliding shutters of the shops of Mainz down -- public life in the whole Rhine-Main area was paralyzed."
On the Luxembourg far left we only hear "and to think that the dough for 'le social' (the Social State) is cruelly missing".
May I conclude? Dear Americans, we Europeans do not want to hear anymore from you that we do not do enough against terrorism. Didn't we spend a nice wad on one terrorist alone?
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:46 PM GMT+1 [Link]
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