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The NRA -- A terrorist organization

Guns + testosterone + NRA = American terrorism.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - There were sombre ceremonies across Tucson, Arizona on Sunday, January 8, 2012, in remembrance of Jared Loughner’s shooting spree a year ago where he seriously wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords, killed six and wounded 12 more.

I suggest that the Untied States, is the only country in world, where remembrances could be held virtually every single day of the year for egregious killings of citizens by their other citizens—all indirectly supported by the National Rifle Association.

ALEC-Model Legislation Undermining Constitutional Legislative Decision-Process

Continuing corporate dollar-power IS deciding questions of law, superseding Electees - Voters Defrauded by Set-Up semblances substituting for Democratic political process.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - The ALEC-crisis continues, threatening every state-level law enacted since 1973 with possible, even probable, distortion and perversion from what might have been enacted, lacking corporate dollar-millions spent to provide carefully-constructed and controlled "model legislation" for passage.

The Free Market Fallacy

For you supporters of less government and more free-market, you're barking up the wrong tree.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - We’ve been seeing the warnings at the start of VHS/DVD movies for so long, that we don’t even notice them anymore, except to be irritated that we have to endure them because we can’t fast forward past them.

Top 50 points against capitalism

I differentiate between capitalism and free-enterprise and describe a free-enterprise business as one with no more than two or three co-owners and where the owner(s) know at least 80% of their employees by their first name.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Most of the good done in the world is done by non-capitalists.

Here are the top 50 aspects of capitalism (in no particular order) that are combining to destroy the earth and mankind along the way...

Why most people believe in capitalism

No cheers for capitalism!

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Capitalism is fundamentally about the production, distribution and consumption of goods. By itself, this is a neutral and harmless reality.

The harm enters when production alone, becomes capitalism’s raison d’être Capitalism “works” because capitalists risk their capital in an enterprise in the hope/expectation they will receive an increased return (profit) on their investment. Again, this is not an unreasonable expectation.

Oregon`s ALEC Leader Rep. Whisnant Reluctant to Dialog On His Reasoning

Gene Won "Legislator of Year" from ALEC But Now Has Secretary Send S-N Outmoded Statement to Eugene WEEKLY When Confronted - Part 3 1/2 of ALEC Series.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Long ago in leading story coverage for United Press-Boston, learned first thing demanded on any controversial situation was free, open, honest, comprehensive opportunity for dialog with the reporter, prior to any publication of further detail.

`ALEC` UN-Elected, Writing U.S. Legislation Under Koch-Influenced Direction In Many States

Costly "Hidden-Tunnel Operation" Since 1973 Provides Law-Text For Legislators Reflecting "Facilitation" By Billionaires.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - By personal choice and improbable chance, early on in this life's long journey, I had opportunity to work --and learn-- in our nation's capital city and the Capitol itself --in the 1950s.

What we did there, then, can hardly be termed as "lobbying" since it was so early and so amateurish, but we did succeed in helping to draft an historic legislative achievement, the National Defense Education Act of 1958, which brought more than $9 million in matching funds to Oregon education.

GOPster Gang Preaching
Faith-Driven Fact-Debacles

Perry, Bachman, Romney, Paul promoting falsities - they claim in any rational review of US government.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - Never have so many sought so false and misleading a deep view of past US historical event and culminating current issues than the dolts and distressed-pundit politicians of this GOPster Gang, and its surround of would-be campaign-funds collectors --already failing and falling away one by one.

Flouting First Amendment
Sets System For Disaster

Only Humans Deserve Right to Free Speech - Earned by Personal Pertinent Responsibility.

(SEASIDE, Ore.) - The First Amendment has always been the shining jewel introducing and reflecting the glories set forth in the American Constitution. Our Founding Fathers knew what they were doing --and WHY.

That is how come it IS the FIRST --not further down-the-list of their great accomplishments, still recognized world-around for the invention and intervention and inevitable impacts on individual life and liberties set forth in this superbly sensitive and surely unique document in history.

They Die, We Die: An essay on life and…

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less..."

(CALGARY, Alberta) - At birth we join society (in progress) as a nascent thread; when we exit society, we leave a rip in the social fabric.

John Steinbeck observed in one of his novels: “When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so, you’ve got two new people.” Society is created and sustained by these ongoing interactions of its members—a non-stop fluxion of interrelationships.