STAND YOUR GROUND LAW
GOOD FOR RACIST AND TARGET VICTIM
I have never believed that the heart and minds of all people can be changed to do good simply by appealing to their better nature. The nature of some people is corrupt and that corruption will stay with them to death. Whether a person's corrupt nature would negatively impact the wellbeing of another depends largely on the constraints imposed on a corrupt person. If a corrupt person is about to commit an act and expects the reprisal to be more than they are willing to accept, that person is likely to be discouraged from committing that act.
Racism is a form of corruption. Persons with this corruption can be found in every institution – religion, government, law and so on. In a civilized society law acts as a constraint to corrupt behavior, especially the behavior which negatively impacts another person. Sense the law itself can be corrupt it too must be constrained.
And now to the point of these thoughts – Stand-Your-Ground-Law could be used by anyone who is faced with a corrupt person about to harm them or take their life. Any person has the right to defend themselves and others, even to the extent of taking the life of a corrupt person. The Stand-Your-Ground-Law is not just a tool to be used by a racist but can also be used by a would-be victim.
Adolphus Ambrose Ward
Independent Writer Actor
Books: www.adolphusward.net.
Ebooks: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/97591
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
ET ADOLPHUS AT DYING STAR
ET ADOLPHUS – DYING STAR
Greetings to fellow Space Travelers and Kindred Earthbounds. I've just returned from a now dead star at the edge of our universe. Incidentally the star was very much like our Sun in size and had orbiting planets. Two of the orbiting planets were Earthlike – both with intelligent life forms, similar to us earthlings. The inhabitants of both planets were well aware of the imminent death of their life giving star, and were fully informed that it would be the end of their planets and their lives if they should stay.
Launch areas were full of activity – loading Beings, supplies, and equipment into space vehicles; destine for a habitable star system in another galaxy. Not all inhabitants of these two planets would be leaving with the launch. Many would have to stay and see the edge of a swelling sun before it incinerates them and all they knew.
I went to the center of this dying star and waited. Because my anatomic system immediately transforms to be compatible with any environment, I felt only a slight variation in pressure as the star began to swell. The swelling was rapid and increased at a rate well passed the speed of light. In what seemed like moments it was over – the star was dead.
I emerged to see a planetary system with no visible life forms – the clinging pulse of a stubborn existence rapidly being sucked out of what was once a bright and vibrant system. It was a sad witness, to be sure. Yet as I looked out across that galaxy I could see new star systems just coming into existence – new life just born as death claims an old one. Life and Death, both at the same time: one thing; not two.
Well, Travelers and Kindreds, next time I'll explore some similarities between how we humans function and how galaxies function – let you know what I discover.
Books: www.adolphusward.net.
Smashwords ebooks: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/97591
Greetings to fellow Space Travelers and Kindred Earthbounds. I've just returned from a now dead star at the edge of our universe. Incidentally the star was very much like our Sun in size and had orbiting planets. Two of the orbiting planets were Earthlike – both with intelligent life forms, similar to us earthlings. The inhabitants of both planets were well aware of the imminent death of their life giving star, and were fully informed that it would be the end of their planets and their lives if they should stay.
Launch areas were full of activity – loading Beings, supplies, and equipment into space vehicles; destine for a habitable star system in another galaxy. Not all inhabitants of these two planets would be leaving with the launch. Many would have to stay and see the edge of a swelling sun before it incinerates them and all they knew.
I went to the center of this dying star and waited. Because my anatomic system immediately transforms to be compatible with any environment, I felt only a slight variation in pressure as the star began to swell. The swelling was rapid and increased at a rate well passed the speed of light. In what seemed like moments it was over – the star was dead.
I emerged to see a planetary system with no visible life forms – the clinging pulse of a stubborn existence rapidly being sucked out of what was once a bright and vibrant system. It was a sad witness, to be sure. Yet as I looked out across that galaxy I could see new star systems just coming into existence – new life just born as death claims an old one. Life and Death, both at the same time: one thing; not two.
Well, Travelers and Kindreds, next time I'll explore some similarities between how we humans function and how galaxies function – let you know what I discover.
Books: www.adolphusward.net.
Smashwords ebooks: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/97591
Sunday, March 4, 2012
RACISM - PART OF OUR DEMOCRACY
RACISM
AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
It is now fashionable to blurt out a racist or sexist mind-set and then offer an apology – there is, more often than not, no attempt to make the apology even sound sincere. Like, "Yeah, I said it, but I did apologize, so get over it." Since I'm not a religious person I am not compelled to accept an apology, particularly one following an intentional insult. If I were in my street-voice I would tell the giver of such an apology where to stuff it.
Some see racism as a moral issue – a matter of moral choice. They assume one can simply choose to commit a racist act or not. They think of themselves and others as moral beings virtually incapable of committing an unconscious racist act. When a racist act is committed they see it as just a moral slip and not likely to happen again. They are often unaware of the intrinsic influence that enables the repetition of racist choices. They go on, from day to day and act to act, living within the myth that they are in control of their moral choices.
Racist individuals, on the other hand, are pure political animals. Political animals move to conserve their own interest to the exclusion of any other considerations. These beings conceal themselves in the ideologies of our institutions: Religion, Law, Politics, Education, Employment, and others. They carry out their terror while cloaked in the costumes of those who serve for the benefit of all.
Racism is an economic/political construct, not just a moral one. It is in fact a planned form of Disenfranchisement, in that it locks a particular group of citizens out of the benefits that flow from the collective wealth created by nature and all citizens. American Racism was created by those who had and still have the will and means to control economic and political power. That power enables them to skim and hoard wealth.
Some voices in this democracy misplace pure Christian values in the foundation of this country – while covering their eyes, ears and minds against the lingering groans of black men chained to trees, eyes sewn open to see their wives and daughters raped, butchered, and their flesh fed to hogs. Black people still reel from the barbarism of a time still in memory. The level of trust and respect within the black family, particularly between the man and woman, is still struggling to find stable footing. Black men, in the eyes of too many women and children, have been publicly shown to be incapable of protecting and providing for them and therefore unnecessary. When all citizens of a nation are wholesome that nation is wholesome. We are a nation so full of promises yet we are sick. Racism is an unwholesome and contagious disease and our nation could inevitably die from that growing sickness.
Adolphus A. Ward
www.adolphusward.net
AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
It is now fashionable to blurt out a racist or sexist mind-set and then offer an apology – there is, more often than not, no attempt to make the apology even sound sincere. Like, "Yeah, I said it, but I did apologize, so get over it." Since I'm not a religious person I am not compelled to accept an apology, particularly one following an intentional insult. If I were in my street-voice I would tell the giver of such an apology where to stuff it.
Some see racism as a moral issue – a matter of moral choice. They assume one can simply choose to commit a racist act or not. They think of themselves and others as moral beings virtually incapable of committing an unconscious racist act. When a racist act is committed they see it as just a moral slip and not likely to happen again. They are often unaware of the intrinsic influence that enables the repetition of racist choices. They go on, from day to day and act to act, living within the myth that they are in control of their moral choices.
Racist individuals, on the other hand, are pure political animals. Political animals move to conserve their own interest to the exclusion of any other considerations. These beings conceal themselves in the ideologies of our institutions: Religion, Law, Politics, Education, Employment, and others. They carry out their terror while cloaked in the costumes of those who serve for the benefit of all.
Racism is an economic/political construct, not just a moral one. It is in fact a planned form of Disenfranchisement, in that it locks a particular group of citizens out of the benefits that flow from the collective wealth created by nature and all citizens. American Racism was created by those who had and still have the will and means to control economic and political power. That power enables them to skim and hoard wealth.
Some voices in this democracy misplace pure Christian values in the foundation of this country – while covering their eyes, ears and minds against the lingering groans of black men chained to trees, eyes sewn open to see their wives and daughters raped, butchered, and their flesh fed to hogs. Black people still reel from the barbarism of a time still in memory. The level of trust and respect within the black family, particularly between the man and woman, is still struggling to find stable footing. Black men, in the eyes of too many women and children, have been publicly shown to be incapable of protecting and providing for them and therefore unnecessary. When all citizens of a nation are wholesome that nation is wholesome. We are a nation so full of promises yet we are sick. Racism is an unwholesome and contagious disease and our nation could inevitably die from that growing sickness.
Adolphus A. Ward
www.adolphusward.net
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