(Based on AlterNet: Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey )
Chomsky could have saved us time by condensing this four page article into one short sentence: “Capitalism is still the cradle of classism based on financial manipulation leading into sublimed modern slavery.”
However, I am glad that Mr. Chomsky presented evidence that can’t be argued, and shows so eloquently how well-crafted sublimed tyranny is progressive in the “Land of Free”, off of all places in the USA.
It is being done under the eyes of the voters who have been molded into seeing by tunnel-vision, while voting for the HONORABLE slogs who care about their position and financial support for reelections; instead of serving the taxpayers, the citizens who voted them into office.
While this is happening, we may ask: Where is the mainstream media? Where is Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC and the leading newspapers? Well, the mainstream media can’t comment on such topic. Not because they do not see it, but because it is the gigantic financial monster "the Masters of Mankind", the 1%, and the 0.1% who owns the mainstream media.
Conveniently, in this case the mainstream media follows the comment of Jesus who said “A house divided against itself, cannot survive.” So, the main media has become the other tool supporting precisely what Chomsky said “the mold”. Otherwise, the editors and journalists who would write about such topic, would end-up on the street—precisely where they avoid looking at.
However, Chomsky could have added more fuel to the fire if he wanted to bring in Peter Elbow with his free writing that has caused division within the academia, by the fact that it teaches us to look and think outside of the mold.
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Judges: With a 27% Raise, More Equal Than the Struggling Citizen
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/nyregion/commission-raises-ny-judges-pay-27-over-3-years.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
NY TIMES
Commission Raises N.Y. Judges’ Pay 27% Over 3 Years
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: August 26, 2011
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My Take
Wrong Move at the Wrong Time
The NY judges pay-raise is a mockery of America, and a kick from capitalism. We are in times of shrinking prices in real estate, people are losing their jobs, salaries and benefits are being reduced, and economists see nothing but doom and gloom. These are times of belt-tightening while judges are getting a 27% pay raise; something is wrong.
These raises all get back to royal traditions and classism, where the purpose of power and influence is simply to line their pockets, with one hand washing the other.
There is no way that a judge or politician or any ruler or king or president can properly have a sound judgment of its subjects when the level of comfort or has a wide gap between ruler and ruled. Those rulers simply do not understand the needs nor the motivations for people’s acts, when those rulers don’t know the conditions where the average citizen lives.
How can a judge fairly judge an unemployed father with back child-support, or a mother who shop-lifted a loaf of bread to feed the children, when the judge has a guaranteed job with all the comforts of a secured home, and with plenty on the table? Despite all the rules, that judge will never understand the pains inside those people whom he or she condemns.
Some people say that keeping judges well paid will deter corruption. If corruption can only be deterred by the judges getting confortable salaries, than those judges area nothing but a bunch of dishonest lawyers who got to be judges by having good connections. If that is the case we need common people to be judges, for the lawyers are the ones who need to present the evidence.
Jurors don’t have any law-training to decide who is guilty or innocent. That means that judges are obsolete. Therefore, judges don’t need to be paid more than the average, citizen or juror.
NY TIMES
Commission Raises N.Y. Judges’ Pay 27% Over 3 Years
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: August 26, 2011
_______________________________________
My Take
Wrong Move at the Wrong Time
The NY judges pay-raise is a mockery of America, and a kick from capitalism. We are in times of shrinking prices in real estate, people are losing their jobs, salaries and benefits are being reduced, and economists see nothing but doom and gloom. These are times of belt-tightening while judges are getting a 27% pay raise; something is wrong.
These raises all get back to royal traditions and classism, where the purpose of power and influence is simply to line their pockets, with one hand washing the other.
There is no way that a judge or politician or any ruler or king or president can properly have a sound judgment of its subjects when the level of comfort or has a wide gap between ruler and ruled. Those rulers simply do not understand the needs nor the motivations for people’s acts, when those rulers don’t know the conditions where the average citizen lives.
How can a judge fairly judge an unemployed father with back child-support, or a mother who shop-lifted a loaf of bread to feed the children, when the judge has a guaranteed job with all the comforts of a secured home, and with plenty on the table? Despite all the rules, that judge will never understand the pains inside those people whom he or she condemns.
Some people say that keeping judges well paid will deter corruption. If corruption can only be deterred by the judges getting confortable salaries, than those judges area nothing but a bunch of dishonest lawyers who got to be judges by having good connections. If that is the case we need common people to be judges, for the lawyers are the ones who need to present the evidence.
Jurors don’t have any law-training to decide who is guilty or innocent. That means that judges are obsolete. Therefore, judges don’t need to be paid more than the average, citizen or juror.
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