Jim Headrick's Blog

When someone plots against the government of the United States, then carries out the plot; that is treason!  We find out who is plotting against the government, and as soon as the plot is discovered the culprits are arrested.  They are then tried for treason or sent to Guantanamo for interrogation.

This is correct and the way it should be.  We now have people who campaigned and were elected by their accomplices to congress with the promise to shut down the government and overthrow the present administration.  The larger majority elected the President for a second term because the accomplices of the traitors could not get a majority to agree with them.

We stand now with a partially shut down government with the possibility of going into financial default.

It is now time for the justice department of our government to step in and arrest those advocating the overthrow of our government, the ones that backed them in the election and is supporting them now, and if votes were not private, the accomplices that voted them into office.

Each one of those advocating all the above is also guilty of fraud.  They swore to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States after they swore to the people who elected them that they intended to shut down the government.

It is confusing to us that try always to be strong and stick to our convictions when the congress agrees to sign a treaty that has a clear intent to interfere when someone uses weapons of mass destruction against civilians, then turn the other cheek when the time comes to stand behind the resolution to sign the treaty and its many amendments.

The UN Security Council is, as always, a joke.  After concluding that the chemicals were used, it does not go forward honoring its own treaty.  England then followed the process by denying the support for the US that trying to follow treaty.  As usual Russia and China are on the other side with their usual objections to help anyone but themselves.  Come to think of it they may be Republicans. 

If we are not going to honor our treaties then we should not sign them.  I believe if a treaty is proposed and ratified by congress, it simply has to be kept.  The president only has to be certain in his mind that the weapons of mass destruction were used then give an order to stop it.

If the Representatives and Senators want to stop this action they must vote to be removed from the treaty with whatever repercussions that brings. 

This isn’t rocket science.  I can’t believe that 300 or so lawyers can’t understand the procedure or the consequences.

It is unfortunate that the politicians and Judges in power don’t have the intelligence to assess the problems to make proper decisions concerning anything.  In this case I am referring to voting.

 At the present time we have the states making decisions on how to vote in federal elections.  Since all the total population is eligible to vote for all federal policy makers in the legislative branch of government and the president and vice president in the executive branch of government, I believe the federal government should have the right to adjust the voting rights for those elections.

If I am voting for President or Vice President, if anyone anywhere in the United States is disenfranchised from voting my vote is either enhanced or impaired which should not be the case ever.  My vote should be on an equal playing field with all the others voting for candidates for those offices.  If I am voting for a senator or representative to sit in the United States Congress,   if anyone anywhere in my state is disenfranchised from voting my vote is either enhanced or impaired which should not be the case ever. My vote should be on an equal playing field with all the others voting for candidates for those offices. 

In any other scenario of voter control only a few persons are manipulating the system to elect only those they want to be elected.  Therefore this ability of choosing representatives on a national level should be regulated by the Federal Government.  

The states then could set the regulations for state and local representation.  This however in many states would result in two elections and to sets of voting cards.  In many cases it would case two separate elections to be held.  This would be more expensive, but it would be the only thing that would come close to the intentions written in the Constitution. 

If my argument holds then the Federal Government in its elections should make the rules of election uniform throughout the United States so we don’t end up in a situation that allows the Supreme Court to elect the president. 

I checked into American Values First website because I was happy someone was thinking, at least I thought, outside the box to discover they were probably working the same way everyone else is working.  This description refers to individuals and organizations that simply have an idea and sell it.  They are afraid to allow people to give real input to address problems faced.

The present administration is doing the same thing.  They want change, but not from the ground up.  They solicit people that caused the problems to solve the problems without input from the people that are working within the conditions that resulted from the problems caused by the people in power that caused the problems.

I suggest someone read the definition of grass roots and instead of just saying grass roots, follow the definition principles.   

I have been thinking about the Tea Party that has positioned itself within the Republican Party which is the more closely aligned group and easily manipulated.  I have determined that it is officially now a cult. 

A cult is a group that thinks about, talks about and takes on no projects or actions with the exception of those activities which promotes the goals of its members.  Cults have murdered people and/or just taken its members on a ride which has been unhealthy and sometimes dangerous for the community in which they reside or operate.  Normally we think that all the power of the cults is normally directed to the members within its influence, but just think how powerful a cult would be if it could affect change outside its influence.  A cult with power?  What a thought.

Normally we hear a spokesman from a cult and shake our head and wonder what happen in this person’s life to make them think like they do.  When we hear how the individuals inside the cult were manipulated, we feel sorry from those individuals.

Now think about what I have just written and think about the Tea Party.  Their spokesmen make outrageous statement on a constant basis.  We then think politically instead of logically how we could bring them into our fold of negotiations allowing us to get some work done.  Instead we should be thinking of them as a person in a cult that will not think any other way.  They are controlled by some entity, entities, or thoughts that will not allow them to move from their position.  They tell us it is the bible, but those of us who have read the bible know it is not.

Now let’s think about a cult with power.  John Banner is not in the Tea Party, I do not believe. However in his effort to accommodate all the members on the Republican side of the isle, He has caved in to begin pacifying the cult, Tea Party.  This caused things that have damaged the bills that have been passed, and kept bill that should have gone forward to be stopped in its tracks.  This power could keep its reign over Congress until Tea Party Justices could be placed on the Supreme Court. 

This cult could damage the presidency of Obama or even a conservative republican it he were elected.  I am an independent business consultant and former branch manager of a very large company plus many years of sales experience.  I have the ability to sell people things they don’t need, but that isn’t a salesman, that is a con artist.  However during my years of work, I study people, so that helped me write this note.  As a consultant, I am presented with problems.  My job then is not to find a way out of a difficult situation but to find the cause of the problem then find a way out. 

I believe I have found the infection in this government and it is the cult known as the Tea Party.  They will say it is the deficit or this or that.  Those problems can be worked out by normal thinking people.  A cult can never work out solutions.  If something isn’t done about this cult we will be in this fix for decades and maybe never return to normal. 

The solution is to ignore their rhetoric and just consider their goals as a negotiating point they should be considered, if reasonable.  They should be taken out of any powerful position on any committee.  Lastly their private goals should be exposed and they should not have a forum.  Most of the latter has been the fault of the media.  The media covers much of what they say because it is so ridiculous it makes good sound bites.  

If I had my way everyone would be forced to read and study the bible.  However that is not America.  My pray to my God is that we feed the poor, help those that want to change, and expose God and his principles to everyone that will listen.

I am sure that many people don’t know, but he lawyers in congress should know.  They don’t practice what they know.  As with many of us it isn’t that we don’t know what to do; we don’t do what we know.

In the mid 1900’s when I was growing up I knew even then that the statement many fools even in my own family would say, “I don’t argue about the bible or politics.”  Even then I knew that was a stupid statement.  However, I had and still have many arguments about both, but I don’t fuss about either. 

To fuss means we say I’m right and you’re wrong.  An argument says that I believe something and this is why.  In other words we make a point using some degree of logic.  The fussing category is what we hear from Washington and many of my friends.  We need more arguments the campaigns.  We need arguments in Congress.

Constantly we have opinions instead of facts and conclusions, too many times, bases on the wishes of controllers.  If one cannot listen to an opposite view, take a position, and enter facts or suggestions that will bring that opposing view and his own view closer together; one should not be in Congress. 

In the history of democracy we learn that everyone cannot agree on anything no matter what the subject becomes to be.  Our republic has its drawbacks simply because of control of numbers.  If one owns ten percent of the stock of any company and has a reasonable influential position over another forty one percent, one has a better than even chance of controlling the chairman, several board member, and thus the policies and procedures of the company.  As a result the company’s goals become the goals of the one rather than the many.

This is the way of congress now.  The Tea Party fusses about nonsense in order to keep the rest of Congress from debating the issues.  The way this works is Congress over many years has taught the public to listen to phrases and other sound bites instead of doing some research themselves on the issues.  The Team Party uses this fact to keep up the rhetoric which seems to be strong enough to keep the more reasonable members of Congress from fearing the electorate. 

I wanted to find a group of people trying to fight the ridiculous methods and laws produced by Congress, but I find that they are using the same tactics of sound bites they are trying to fight.

I plead with the electorate first to grow your numbers and become involved in the process, but be careful.  Now the organization best to lead this revolution is the White House.  The problem there is that they use the same people who are causing the problems of our country as advisors.  They will not look for people that think outside the box. 

When I say think outside the box, I don’t mean people that have radical ideas.  There are no new ideas.  There are only idea expansions.

The people that run these United States made their money and/or gained their power within a system they refuse to change because it will hit their bottom line.  Of course their bottom line is so large that it doesn’t matter what they give up, so the threat then becomes losing power.

The electorate’s problem then becomes to be to elect and/or direct those in Congress to think of the electorate’s best interest then the interest of the country with emphasis on how the national laws passed effect their particular electorate’s interest and also protect the country’s power to keep the structure created by the founders safe from outside influence.  

I am very concerned about the direction our conversations of government and religion are going.  I will concentrate on this for a time.  Many of my fellow citizens do not seem to follow closely enough the shallow interpretation of the ones with the loudest voices.  At this time the Tea Party says we should always follow the bible teachings in life and force government to place those interpretations on all citizens. 

If we look at the Middle East right now we will see that the approach of a Theocracy government will not work.  If we follow the line thinking presented to us by the Tea Party, we will eventually become governed by the religious right.  It hasn’t worked in the Middle East and it isn’t going to work here.

Jesus never said to anyone you must follow me.  If he has said that to the people that everyone would have followed him, it would not have meant anything to Him or them.  He said you must choose to follow me if you want to go to heaven, but there is not a mandate to go to heaven.  It is a choice.

Mohammad on the other hand conquered his way into power and forced people to live the way he purposed or die.

What we do have in the United States are laws, at least originally, that put forth the values of the Christian religion without the rule that we must submit ourselves to the Lord.  That is what our founding fathers saved us from.  We don’t have to serve the Lord, but we must follow His principles in our society.

There is no statement that says separation of church and state.  The church is all over our constitution with the exception that the state cannot declare that we have to follow one or the other religious paths to heaven.  That is left up to the individual.

Let us suppose that the Christian far right wins, and we become a Theocracy.  Let us also suppose that in the future the Muslim religion becomes dominant in Congress.  Let us then assume that the far right Muslim (Taliban) which would be like our Tea Party interact with our Congress the way the Tea Party is reacting now.  We would not get the reasonable activity of the Muslims in our government now.  It would be a nightmare as compared to the actions of the Tea Party’s escapades. 

This type of government could evolve into a police force enforcing the laws of the land and another police force enforcing the Muslim laws.  Several years ago I was with a Christian businessman in Casablanca, Morocco.  He pointed to the very large Mosque down town and said, “Even though I am a Christian I had to help pay for the building of that Mosque.”

Jesus said feed the poor, but at the same time said, through Paul, those that do not work should not eat.  There is always work that can be done, so work can be mandated unless the people are incapable of working because of physical ailments.  This does not mean children have to work.  They should be feed and schooled properly, learning about the responsibilities they will later face.  Children should not be denied exposure to shelter, food, clothing and education.  We have the money to do that either through the church, where it should be, or the government who was given that responsibility by the church who didn’t want it.

It’s not complicated.  It is simple.  We should use the KISS method of governing.  KISS is an acronym for Keep It Simple Stupid. 

Simple – vote for those people that share your values.

Simple – Prioritize our federal budget to reflect the responsibility of the federal                                        government to the people.

Simple – Throw out those in government that are not doing their job.

Simple – We fire every Congressman every two years.  Think before you vote.

Simple – We fire every Senator every six years.  Think before you vote.

Simple – Love your neighbor

Simple – If you believe, Love your God

Simple – If you don’t have God in your life find him and read his word.