Jim Headrick's Blog

The same people that supported President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during their terms a presidency, have evidently forgiven these two people from leading us through unwanted or needed wars which brought us to the economic crises, and are now blocking any effort President Obama contemplates to govern us back into some economic and physical health for the individuals and the nation.  These people have freedom of speech and should be able to say anything they want, however the ones that I am referring to are US Representatives and Senators. 

Senators and Representatives are put in Congress to carry out the wishes of the people that sent them.  Instead these people run on a platform of trying to get everyone to think like they do.  This is an impossible task for anyone.  Even Jesus said you cannot think like I do, but I will forgive you if you faultier.

Whose fault do we think this is?  In my opinion it is the fault of the 50% of the people that do not vote.  I cannot believe in a Christian nation that the majority have such hatred for any minority race.  I cannot believe that the majority of the nation that there is a cast system in the United States.  Please remember that if 50% of the people vote only 26% controls the vote.  20% of that 26% or 5.2% of the voting population is controlling their followers and your life.

Any politician or a major stock hold will tell you that if they can control 10% of the vote they can control any group.  20% of the people look into the subject in which they are interested and make decisions to support their agenda.  The rest of the people listen to the 20% without doing any research on their own.

Which category are you in.  Are you a leader or follower?  If not a follower, do you do your own research?   

I am watching our esteemed congress at their very best.  Unfortunately their very best falls short of adequate. 

I really don’t know if the bill that was defeated in the Senate today is a good bill or not.  I do know that it didn’t pass.  The real tragedy is that the citizens of this great nation said to congress, “we have a problem with some people that can get and use guns that should not have them.”  Congress said, “We are not smart enough to fulfill your desire.”

This happens too often.  If they just can’t do the work, then tell us.  They said they could fulfill the needs of the citizens of the US when they ran for office.  Did they just lie, or did they just come to Congress to fulfill their own agenda?

This type of activity reminds me more of the ancient Roman Senate than the Senate of a Republic of the United States.  If you vote to send someone back to Congress because they can do something for you at the detriment of someone else, then you are clearly not part of the United States where I want to live.  If you actually look at the voting record of the congressional representatives, and do not consider that voting record when you vote, you might as well stay home.

I don’t know what the answer to the gun control bill should become to be.  However, I am very sure that one of the choices is not, NOTHING.

I have seen Chinese and Mexican food prepared, and I have seen laws passed by the US Congress.  I love Chinese and Mexican food, but I can’t stand laws passed by the US Congress.  Those Chinese and Mexican chefs have to consider everything they do because the taste of their creation is immediately tested by the consumer. 

The US Congress should be more like those chefs.  Each side or even those in the middle of any issue only look at their side of the situation and ignore the other side of the issue.  Every issue has one or more sides.  The problem is that we have to take the ill designed often bitter pill and eat it whether it has considered the public’s best interest or not.

When I listen to politicians being interviewed on TV, they simply do not answer the question put to them by the questioner because they don’t want to expose the problem to the public.  The questioner cannot make them answer the question and mostly just goes to the next question or issue.

I remember reading a Michener novel; I believe the name of the book was “The Tell”.  In that novel which was explaining the information taken from a “dig” in Israel that one of the characters in the novel was Jewish and was on a counsel which met every year in Jerusalem to discuss the Jewish laws.  An example of such laws was given which reminds me of our Congress.  The subject was it right to throw the dishwater out on the Jewish sabot.  Evidently they had concluded that it was okay to wash the utensils but had to decide just on that point.    

There are things that just should not be in national law.  Some things must be decided by the inhabitants of the area affected by the local jurisdiction or maybe not at all.  If it is not okay to rob someone, but it is okay to take advantage of someone, what is the difference other than the micromanagement of the governing laws? 

In the Christian society we believe it is not okay to kill.  However, in the case of the unborn fetus the US Supreme Court, the court decided when life begins.  Now in this Christian society we have bowed to the Supreme Court as God instead of saying, “You don’t have that authority.” 

In a free society you have to have the right to succeed or to fail.  You have to have the right to make mistakes that does not affect anyone but you.  You do not have the right to think for me.  God knows everything.  If you do not believe that, then you are not a Christian.  With all He knows he gave us Ten Commandments to live by.  The founders of our country knew that.  They knew they could not control every aspect of our lives nor did they want to do so. 

Yes I have seen sausage made.  I eat it because it tastes good to me.

I see people from other countries celebrating by firing weapons in the air like we see in the old cowboy movies.  I don’t want to live like that. 

I see county and states making laws that arm people that normally aren’t armed.  Teachers in school in one state, head of households in Georgia.  The people are necessarily trained to handle a gun, and more importantly they are not trained to aim a gun at another person and pull the trigger.  This is a whole different mindset.  I don’t want to live like that.

We are going backwards and not forward in God’s plan for the human race.  If we are not going to believe in peace on earth, then let us say so and get rid of all the laws.  In other words anyone can have a gun any time or do anything to anyone else just because we want to.  I don’t want to live like that.

If we want to have peace on earth, then we have to realize that the bad people and people who do not possess a good mind will find a way to do whatever they want.  The legal ramifications of a psychiatrist reporting someone because they think someone might do something unlawful and then convicting the target person by restricting their rights is nuts.  It just cannot happen in this free society.  The congresspersons know this, but will not say so because they think that we are not intelligent enough to understand it. 

There has never been a public debate along those lines that I have ever heard.  The congress just wants us to hear what they believe we can comprehend. We give people the opportunity to carry hand guns.  We cannot take that right away from the public.  However, we cannot allow people to have just anything that will fire.  A surface to air shoulder weapon just cannot be something we can tolerate.    

We need a general law that makes people and corporations responsible for what they do.  A person should not be able to do anything they want on a whim.  A corporation should not be able to do anything they want on a whim or even because it will make their stockholders more money.  Rather than regulating the size of gun or allowing a corporation to take our money or do harm to the public or put the public in harm’s way, we should be able to charge a person for putting someone in harm’s way by the way. They should be charged or maybe arrested like a person that yells fire in a crowded theater.  If a corporation does it, there should be a hearing and if charged immediately, their business halted until the harming situation is resolved with the court.

We cannot micromanage everything because there is no one in the United States smart enough to do it.  If an individual is arrested or put in jail as a result of his or her actions, at least they have to deal with the consequences.  A corporation should have similar consequences.  If a medical company does harm to the public, the president and the board of directors of the company should have to personally face the same consequences since the Supreme Court has indicated that a corporation is a person.

We simply cannot micromanage our society.  We can’t make decisions in general for all crimes against society.  Legislators like the Georgia legislators that pass a law that every household must have gun in the house must be declared unconstitutional because I have a right to go unarmed because the constitution says I have a right to the pursuit of happiness.  How can I be happy if everyone has a gun ready to use against me.

We are a free society, but have to maintain a responsible attitude to each other.  I want to live like that.

There is equal blame between Congress and the media for confusing the public to the point we don’t have a clue as to the real truth.

It is true that a statistician can take a set of numbers and without using all of them every time come to a different conclusion with each study they perform.  However, by ignoring one or more of the factors necessary to reach a conclusion, the outcome can never be reliable and true.  Unless we know what the politicians know we can never discover the real truth.

Reported: There is no way to reduce the gas consumption of automobiles more than is being produced in the USA.

Fact:  There are existing modifications that can be made to existing engine that could as much as triple the gas mileage presently available in our US automobiles.

Reported:  The car and truck exhaust pollution cannot be reduced in the near future.

Fact:  The same technology that produces the better gas mileage can also produce very small amount of pollution which would not show up on most automobile testing units.

Note:  A group of congress members have views this technology.

This is just one example of misinformation delivered to us by our representatives in congress and confirmed many times over by the media.

Get involved.  Get the facts.       

Who was

Thomas Jefferson ? 

This is amazing. There are two parts. Be sure to read the 2nd part (in RED)…..coming true now??

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.

At 5, began studying under his cousin’s tutor.

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.

At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.

At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.

At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started his own law practice.

At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America ? And retired from his law practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .

At 33, took three years to revise Virginia ‘s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two years.

At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.

At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .

At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.

At 61, was elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired to Monticello .

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.

At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe .”
— Thomas Jefferson

“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
— Thomas Jefferson

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
— Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

Elizabeth Warren asked Wall Street regulators today, “Can you identify the last time you took the Wall Street banks to trial?” A lame answer at one time was, “We do not have to bring people to trial.” These regulators think that there really are companies that are too big to be regulated which translates to too big to fail. They seem to believe that these businesses can do as they please no matter what it does to the people. These people are using other people’s money. They have to be regulated. However, let us look at these companies that seem to be too big to be regulated. Let us just look at the top fifty world banks in 2012; http://www.gfmag.com/tools/best-banks/11986-worlds-50-biggest-banks-2012.html#axzz2LB1rHLje

There are eight world banks larger than the largest bank in the United States and only a total of five United States banks that are in the top 50 world banks. Any of those banks in the top fifty can be sanctioned and controlled by world banking authorities. Our banks are nowhere near too big to fail. From the news reporting the media seemed to think that if these banks or members thereof were prosecuted that the bank would take revenge against the United States. That is not what they said, but it was clear from the reporting that they believed it. The media obviously believe in the power of the masses. The customers of these institutions and the voters of the United States [if they take responsibility by electing people to congress like Elizabeth Warren] have much more power than any institution.

OUR COUNTRY CAN NEVER BE SO BIG OR ALLOW ANY TYPE OF CORPORATION INCLUDING BANKS TO GET SO B IG THAT THEY CAN WORNGLY HURT ANY INDIVIDUAL WITH NO CONSEQUENCE.

The first ten amendments of the Constitution of the United States are known as the Bill of Rights.  My reason for bringing this subject to light is that I wonder just how many laws and court decisions contradict these Amendments. 

The first one many have heard of because it is referred to in the press quite often.  However, mostly the press doesn’t really state the Amendments in its entirety.  Let’s just look at these for a few minutes.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The first section concerns the establishment of religion.  This means that Congress can’t even address religion in any way.  If Congress can’t address religion in any way then the Supreme Court cannot rule on any religious matter.  That is simple and straight forward.

The second section concerns freedom of speech. 

I think we have done pretty well on that one and the other item concerning assembly has been fairly well adhered to, although there are some problems there in the government’s reluctance to protect those active in such assemblies

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

If you read this completely you will discover that the first of the amendment states that a well regulated militia is mentioned.  As regular citizens living in this county we should have the right to bare arms for recreation, hunting and even protection, but it is not part of the Constitution.  The National Guard is the only state sponsored well regulated militia that would qualify as identified in the Constitution.  However, they are not allowed to take their weapons home outside the bases.

The states fund the national government, the national government pays for the Nation Guard and the governors control the National Guard unless they are needed for National defense.  At that point they come under the direction of a four start general.

This way it is hard to determine if the Guard would be state controlled if the state had a disagreement with the national government.  If the national government has first control then a separate militia should need to be formed and regulated solely by the states.

Confusing isn’t it; was it planned that way or did that just happen.  If that is the case then our Second Amendment rights have to be interpreted that we need guns.  Now what size and shape is a different matter.

Amendment III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

This one so far has been fairly well kept except during the Civil War.  At that time the army did just as it wanted to.  They used southern property as they deemed fit.  As a result of the Civil War the Southern States were determined not to have been separated from the Union.  This shows that the national government will do as it wishes and decide whether or not it was right or wrong later.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The only thing I can say there is that this would be kept if the accused has enough money.  Otherwise the government especially the justice system does as it wishes both locally and nationally.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

I have, in my lifetime seen this amendment trampled by both state and federal government.  Again money plays a big hand it this.  This goes for people not getting JUSTLY compensated to people being defrauded by the government so other not connected with the property can prosper.  Again the justice you receive is directly related to how much money you have to buy your justice.

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

On the fringe of this amendment it seems we are doing well, but in practice the rights of each accused is to prove themselves innocent when accused.  The innocent until proven guilty is a myth.  Access to lawyers for jailed individuals is impaired almost completely in some counties to fairly reasonable in other.

Once the individual is tagged guilty the populous treats him guilty even after restitution has been made.  Needs work; criminals should be brought to justice, but within the realm of the Constitution.

Amendment VII

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Here one thing that probably should be done is to amend the $20 to a value based idea.  The other thing that should be done is to force the trial to be settled at a faster pace once the damage has been assessed.  In common law practice the attorneys drag out the trails to benefit themselves and shield the damaging party from paying.  This is a constant in our society.  People that have a grievance usually cannot hold out because they do not have enough money.  Always it takes money in this country to buy justice.

Amendment VIII

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

This is being used in some cases to extreme allowing criminal types to circumvent the law, again, if they have money.

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

This was supposed to cover rights not mentioned in the above texts.  The problem here is it sometimes used to adjust the tone of the first eight amendments.  This was never the purpose.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

This one has gone one way and then the other.  Before the Civil War the states gave the government certain powers and during the Civil War and shortly after the federal government took powers it never had before and kept them.  Again the federal and state and local governments will take power then explain why they took it.  This is why the constant redistricting of the voting public should be done independently.  Otherwise one vote will never mean anything.