Martha Madness

While the prosecution has rested their case against Martha Stewart, everyone seems to have forgotten one very important point.

Imagine you have money invested. Exactly where doesn't matter. But for the sake of argument, let's say it is a three month term deposit at your local bank.

Now imagine a bank employee tells you that Joe Bloggs, the well known investor, is taking all his money out of the bank because the bank is not quite stable.

Now ask yourself, "What would you do?"

Are you going to leave your money in the bank knowing that any minute now you could lose the lot? Or are you going to take it out to save it - losing the interest and maybe wearing a small withdrawal penalty?

If you are like most sane people, you will protect your money and take it out.

This is what Martha did. After being given information which would mean leaving her money would lose her money, but taking it out would save it, she did what any normal person would do. She took her money out to save it.

For this crime of moving $250,000 around, which any normal person would have done under the exact same circumstances, the government is spending untold amounts of money to "get her." Not that her "crime" hurt anyone at all. In fact, there is no victim. No-one was deprived of their money by her actions. No-one was hurt by her actions. Her actions did not result in anyone losing their job. Nope. Her sole crime is trying to protect what she had already worked hard to acquire. That is all. She is guilty of not willingly standing by and watching $250,000 of her hard earned money go down the drain.

Shame Martha, Shame. Shame for trying to protect and preserve the fruits of your efforts. Don't you know in this collectivist socialist-leaning society of ours that such behavior is to be frowned upon.

Personally, I think the whole case is a joke. A least it would be if it wasn't so serious in regards to the punishment at the end.

Think of it. If she is found guilty and does time, she will be going to jail for protecting her money without hurting anyone else. And that is ridiculous.

Iraq Elections

So some of the Iraq populace will protest over not having an election for 12 - 15 months. Undoubtedly, this will be blamed on the US. Despite these dates being put forth by the socialist-loving UN.

Reasons are simple: No census, no electoral body, no rules governing how elections are to be had, no voter registration, etc.

Reasons that you and I would accept because they make sense. But those who follow the power hungry Mullas will do the Mulla's dirty work and hold demonstrations protesting the lack of elections. Protesting the US, while holding the UN blame-free, even though the dates come from the UN.

Just your typical anti-capitalist stuff.

Iran Elections

A travesty of voting freedom and an election farce is what it is called. At least, it is what I call it when the sitting members of government BAN and DISQUALIFY 2,400 candidates, who are for political reform in the country, from even running for election. And among those disqualified were 87 current members of the 290-seat parliament!

Further. The reformers had all their messages blocked from the government run television station, while it simultaneous urged people to vote for the remaining candidates - all loyal to the Ayatollah - because a voter boycott would have sent a strong signal that the Ayatollah's reign was not wanted.

Oh yes. The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his 12-member Guardian Council are scared of freedom. For if a true and honest election were held, they might find themselves out of the power they stole in 1979. They even used such tactics as saying, "Anyone who fails in the slightest way to fulfill this duty will be answerable to God in this life and the next" - which is a big deal to a believer when coming from an Ayatollah (the Ayatollah Ali Meshkini in this case).

Police Not Welcome Here

It has now come out that there are certain sections of Redfern where police just don't go (something my police friend had told me over ten years ago) and places where they do not stay. (My friend even told me of streets that if you went up on a motor bike, people would come out of their front doors armed with bricks and other weapons!)

What does it say about an area where police cannot stay for fear of being set upon by the residents? What does it say about those residents?