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"We are dealing with a sophisticated collective psychosis"


William Finnerty
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Which Laws Protect Against Government Crime?

 by W. Finnerty Fri Aug 24, 2012 08:41

Reply to "Opus Diablos" at Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:19

Personally, I would suggest that -- for individuals who wish to try and protect themselves from government crime (as individual human beings acting alone on their own behalf, as opposed to joining a group of one kind or another and trying to find protection from government crime through that particular method) -- constitutional law should be the first "port of call": particularly if the constitutional law of the jurisdiction the individual normally lives in formally embraces support for human rights law, national and international, based on the United Nations Universal Deceleration of Human Rights (1948).

In connection with supportive comments relating to this deeply held and long-standing belief of mine (as outlined in the paragraph above), I suspect it might be very difficult for anybody to improve on the observation made by John Adams (1735 - 1826) provided just below. (For those who might not be aware, in addition to being the second President of the Republic of the United States of America, John Adams was also a highly educated and accomplished lawyer, as indicated at the following www location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams.)

"Politics is the Science of human Happiness - and the Felicity of Societies depends on the Constitutions of Government under which they live."

Very interestingly (as I see things), John Adams issued the following statement a few weeks before his death in 1826:

"My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, of the independence of the United States: a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind."

Related Link: http://tinyurl.com/d546o2j

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The above text is largely based on a comment dated August 24th 2012 at the following Indymedia (Ireland) location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102279?comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false#comment291771

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"We are dealing with a sophisticated collective psychosis"
 by W. Finnerty Fri Aug 24, 2012 09:29

Reply to "Opus Diablos" at Thu Aug 23, 2012 09:52 ...

This observation of yours ("We are dealing with a sophisticated collective psychosis"), which, viewed from a different angle, can also (I believe) be reflected in the following question:

"Why is it that the summation of such political, legal, and corporate corruption appears to have already crossed some invisible line, and taken on a monstrous and self-destructive 'life of its own': so that it now looks to many (including myself) as though the worsening situation relating to corruption may in fact be unstoppable, and impossible for humanity to ever reverse?"

Related Link:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/CelticParty/29April2012/Email.htm

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The above text is largely based on a comment dated August 24th 2012 at the following Indymedia (Ireland) location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102060?comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false#comment291772

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Human Rights Ireland:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/

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William Finnerty is back living in the Republic of Ireland at the present time, which is where he was born and where he grew up. His father was Irish (County Galway), and his mother American (New York City). He has worked mostly in the (more...)
 
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