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There are signs now, when you walk into a V.A. hospital, and possibly other government buildings.
The hospital sign reads: “Sexual harassment will not be tolerated whatsoever, and this includes ‘whistling,’ ‘catcalling,’ and ‘staring.’” The online definition (Google) of sexual harassment, when it comes to staring is: “Leering, which is a sly, lascivious look or sideways glance suggesting a sexual interest or malicious intent, is an unwelcome and persistent kind of staring that constitutes harassment.” There isn’t much question when it comes to whistling and catcalling, but staring?
At what point is the foundation of the harassment not based on the intent of the person doing the looking? How is intent to be judged without the input of the person accused of such a thing? How do illogical and seemingly legally unfounded warning signs end up on the walls of U.S. government buildings? The anti-harassment sign quoted from here is all over the walls and entrance of the V.A. hospital building in North Chicago. How is the phrase enforced, or it is? How might the questioning go if somebody was stopped and accosted for staring? How can you know what another person is thinking unless some action or statement, or even writing, follows the actions? One wonders if the harassments listed apply only to men with respect to women or whether that’s men to men, women to men, women to women, or what?
Human beings have a long way to go when it comes to communication through signs. Signs, for example, that read “Slow down” in residential neighborhoods when someone is already moving at only 2 miles per hour or so. Speed signs that people have come to think of as the only and right speed a car in front of them must drive, not reflect on the fact that the sign indicates a maximum, not a recommendation. While at work or out in public do not whistle, do not speak out loud to anyone you don’t’ know and, for God’s sake, don’t look at anybody for too long. What is the American culture coming to?
The birds are still gone.
Not one seagull has returned to Lake Geneva. Not one, since the early days of spring, when some sickly ones showed up for one day, while a duck was dying on the beach nearby. Two ducks have shown up with eight tiny ducklings. That was two weeks ago. Now the two ducks have only two ducklings left. What happened to the other six? No green, or other colored, slime has been detected along the shores of Geneva Lake anywhere.
This author gives such good insight which people may feel is biased, but I believe he is seeing right through the very fabric of the government that has so many issues, and needs to be corrected from top down.
“ONE: would start by having the checks and balances of three in government be allowed to have a fourth because the three tier government is supposed to give a checks and balances, and the separation of church and state never truly happened, and this is now coming full circle to allow the private sector to control HUGE aspects of the public sector, by way of lobbyists(should not be allowed, anti trust laws I believe)
TWO: I would try to get the private sector to pay for more of their monopolizing and ruining what is and was meant to be an evolving democracy that allowed all individuals the right to freedom from tyranny in all forms, wether it’s from a single leader, a three party system(that has effectively turned our country into a “two party” system, look even TRUMP, had to run under the republicans ticket even though he didn’t want to, I’m not a big fan of trump or BIDEN, but I am disabled so I’m dependent upon social programs that many people in wheelchairs, deaf, blind, broken backed, whatever is their misfortune to have, we should hang phrase “all men are created equal” to say “all PEOPLE are created equal”, this roe v. Wade I’m not happy about the overturn, and DOBBS too now, is a sign that the two party, the three branch structure of government is not functioning as Thomas Jefferson(slave owner and fathered hundreds of children ) had dedicated his time to try to create, but when a man who believes in raping his slaves, narrates a great document also signed by many slave owners, and then dedicate the constitution to the “redeemer”, had not allowed separation of church and state, the WHOLE reason the Americans, English “throwaways” originally like Australia, decided to create a country based upon violence and tyranny of hundreds not tyranny by one, that claimed exclusive autonomy according to GOD.
THREE: put caps on the money being absorbed by the richest who now effectively have become now more powerful than the government, that’s why we have another pandemic(WWI ring a bell), sleeping disease, another possible global war(WWII, war of independence ring a bell)
FOUR: allow advocacy and available legal issues to be looked at differently as the gentleman talking about being a felon creates huge barriers which my other daughter, I FEEL unfairly now is.
FIVE: disavow the back door deals that have led this country to a very bipartisan, angry and dysfunctional system, based almost entirely upon “MONEY” and less on the original ethics and morality learned through hundreds of tyrants over the last few thousand years.
SIX: Freedom isn’t Free, but bloodshed should not be a solution to almost all our issues as Jan 6, 9/11, Pearl Harbor, so many things throughout history has been called conspiracy theories when in FACT historians and true politicians can clearly show that Kennedy got into office on “illegal drug” money, Reagan with illegal deals done, drug money again an aspect, and his henchman the head of the CIA, George Senior, even Obama, member of skull and crossbones disappointed me by not focusing on the American people as promised, and went international to continue the escapades of the rich and wealthy, instead of many other issues he could and should have addressed, Environment, government corruption, equal rights, a long list
SEVEN: MONEY MONEY MONEY, find a way to stop commoditization of almost everything we do, a person is not to be a bartering tool.
EIGHT: MONEY
NINE: MONEY, borders, racism, social change.
TEN: NEVER GUVE UP THE FIGHT FOR ALL PEOPLES RIGHTS, look at the next homeless person you see, and try to imagine what got him there while presidents wear ten thousand dollar suits now, and all these others driving around in top notch vehicles, sure there are sone that keep it real, but most do not, and it sucks but you follow the money you follow the power, and Religion is very clearly being used as an opiate of the masses AGAIN, when it should be understood that’s what almost all wars have effectively been fought over, control of the masses, first copper, then silver, then gold, and now paper that effectively isn’t worth anything except what we now deem it as, the true power behind most governmental issues. Effective debt load nearly 90 trillion, which over time, has is in a debt load struggle in tge QUADRILLIONS, this is what is really starting to create a divisive country that should not have been led down this path.
One man’s opinion