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		<title>The Beating of Kelly Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 05:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the video, I see an officer being very unclear about what he expects Kelly Thomas to do&#8230; &#8220;Put your feet out in front of you&#8230;put your knees back&#8230;put your feet out in front&#8230;put your knees back&#8230;&#8221; This while the entire time he&#8217;s putting gloves on like he&#8217;s suiting up for a fight. Then, he ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the video, I see an officer being very unclear about what he expects Kelly Thomas to do&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Put your feet out in front of you&#8230;put your knees back&#8230;put your feet out in front&#8230;put your knees back&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>This while the entire time he&#8217;s putting gloves on like he&#8217;s suiting up for a fight. Then, he punches Kelly in the face. What grown man is going to sit there and take that? It&#8217;s like being put on a stove and told to sit there while they turn the heat up on you. They expect you to take whatever they dish out to you, pain and all. Resist and they start beating you with batons.</p>
<p>They were telling him to put his hands behind his back. But, I could see him holding himself up so that his face wouldn&#8217;t hit the road. It&#8217;s natural! If he moves his arms, he hits the ground.</p>
<p>With their knees in his back, pushing and pulling his body in different directions, how do they expect him to do anything they are asking him to do?&nbsp; Then, of course the posse comes running into help.&nbsp; At one time, I think I counted six officers.</p>
<p>While several knees are in his back and several officers are holding his extremities, one officer is beating him relentlessly.&nbsp; Another officer is tasing him just for fun.&nbsp; He&#8217;s just shooting watts through Kelly like he&#8217;s a lab rat and the officer is getting to use his taser for the first time.</p>
<p>Toward the end of the video, listen hard. One officer is asking another officer, &#8220;What are we doing?&#8221;</p>
<p>The other officer&#8217;s answer, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t appear at all throughout the video that the officers had a game plan other than to torture the man. It cannot possibly take that long to grab an arm and put it in handcuffs, then maneuver the other arm to cuff it. After a minute, you can have his feet in shackles too if you&#8217;re that insecure about it. But, I didn&#8217;t see any rhyme or reason to what they were doing and obviously they didn&#8217;t either.</p>
<p>Watch:</p>
<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/T8r33VHT46c" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
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		<title>How To Handle A Salesperson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My conversation with the cable company this morning: &#8220;I&#8217;m calling about cable service.&#8221; &#8220;Do you want a bundle package?&#8221; &#8220;No, just cable please.&#8221; &#8220;Are you sure? Our bundle packages are really great!&#8221; &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t need anything but cable.&#8221; &#8220;So, you have phone and internet?&#160; Who is your phone service through?&#8221; I know salespeople are ]]></description>
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<p>My conversation with the cable company this morning:</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m calling about cable service.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Do you want a bundle package?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No, just cable please.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Are you sure? Our bundle packages are really great!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t need anything but cable.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So, you have phone and internet?&nbsp; Who is your phone service through?&#8221;</p>
<p>I know salespeople are only doing their jobs. But, I would love one day to be able to make a purchase without all the hassle.&nbsp; I wish one day a salesperson would actually treat me like I&#8217;m an informed consumer and I might know what&#8217;s best for me.</p>
<p>But before you start thinking I&#8217;m some grumpy guy, imagine my voice in a calm, professional manner&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, when I called I knew exactly what I wanted and that&#8217;s all I wanted. But since you are so insistent, I&#8217;ll tell you all of my business that isn&#8217;t any of your business. First of all, I have a cell phone package with my daughter. Her phone service is much more than mine when it comes to separating the services, so it would make no sense to have a home phone when my daughter still needs her phone. Second, the community where I live has wifi. It&#8217;s high speed internet access that is faster than any of the packages you offer because I took the time to look.&nbsp; We have a gym, a volleyball court and two pools too. But, that&#8217;s beside the point. So, all I want is to talk about your cable service. Is that ok that I might know what I need more than you do and ask that you quit wasting my time thinking I&#8217;m not a responsible consumer?&#8221;</p>
<p>So much of my time gets wasted by people who want to use it for my convenience.</p>
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		<title>Internet Monsters Google and Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this evening, I watched a video on Youtube about Google and Facebook. It was based on their complex algorithms and the selections they feed us. A form of censorship was the issue that was raised and I agreed whole-heartedly with the conclusion. Preview the video: Surfers, internet users, should be left to deal with ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this evening, I watched a video on Youtube about Google and Facebook. It was based on their complex algorithms and the selections they feed us. A form of censorship was the issue that was raised and I agreed whole-heartedly with the conclusion.</p>
<p>Preview the video:</p>
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<p>Surfers, internet users, should be left to deal with the hassle of filtering their own information. Neither Google nor Facebook should attempt to do that for us. We miss information that we need to see.  We miss information that we might have wanted to see. But based on some robotic scheme, it’s being censored out for us.</p>
<p>It’s just that before you start to feel ill of Google or Facebook like they are some kind of monsters, just do a little thinking about the subject again.  Remember the old saying, “Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it?”  Well, it’s what you’ve been asking for since day one and all they were trying to do was give it to you.</p>
<p>The internet was the information superhighway compared to newspapers and magazines.  There was never going to be a day when a researcher was going to be able to pour through all the newspapers and magazines throughout the world, narrow down just the pertinent information and then filter it by preference without the help of infinite information compilation and a very quick spider to index it all.  Thank you Google!</p>
<p>Then, of course we invited Google into our homes. We wanted to know who was viewing our information. Then, we wanted to know where they were coming from, where they were going when they left, how long they stayed, which pages they visited…etc.  So, Google gave us analytics.  Thanks Google!</p>
<p>We placed greater and greater demands on a growing conglomerate that before long, it was doing everything for us as long as we were feeding it. But, Ms. Jones down the street doesn’t want the same information that Mr. Jimmy does on the other side of town. Not even if they do the same exact search, they don’t want the same exact results.  Once again, it’s Google to the rescue.  Thanks a bunch Google!  You’re really swell!</p>
<p>Then along comes a social media platform that gobbles up all the rest and spits them out before lunch. People Like Facebook!  In fact, they love it! They love it so much they like to like it.  They like to like everything that walks, makes a noise, makes them laugh, makes them think, but not too much, Facebook is supposed to do that.  Thanks Facebook!</p>
<p>Everything we like is being recorded so that Facebook can offer us more things we like. So, we keep liking things. It’s a simple little click that gives us all the power in the world.  Good things come!  Bad things go away!  Thanks Facebook!  I like liking you.</p>
<p>What did we expect them to do?  If a name brand cereal came out with something that gave us an awful taste in our mouths, would we keep buying it? Would they keep making it and marketing it to us? Everything we buy is presented to us based on our personal preference.  If you don’t believe that, then you don’t know how long you’ve been watched.</p>
<p>So, they’ve been watching every move I make and catering to their view of my wishes. I don’t see that as evil. It had good intentions.  But, I don’t want filtered from the bad things of this world. I want to be educated about people who are not like me, or who do not like me.</p>
<p>I want to know when a girl wins a spelling bee and when a boy gets stung by a bee.  I want to know about the next Tsunami and I also want to know about the tourist attractions there. I want the scores from the football game and I want to know about the war in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Don’t try to figure me out!  I haven’t done that yet and I’m way ahead of you.</p>
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		<title>Total Shiznit Ballsnatch Backward Judge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is this kind of shiznit, this total ballsnatch, that undermines any notions of a legal system!&#160; What is this about? This judge is considering taking the children away from both parents because, and his only reasons are, they can’t get along and they can’t agree on anything. “You can’t get along, you can’t agree…you ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is this kind of shiznit, this total ballsnatch, that undermines any notions of a legal system!&#160; </p>
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<p>What is this about? This judge is considering taking the children away from both parents because, and his only reasons are, they can’t get along and they can’t agree on anything.</p>
<p>“You can’t get along, you can’t agree…you can’t agree…you can’t get along,” are the only reasons he could state!</p>
<p>I have often wondered what would be the remedy for the courts if the parents appear to know nothing about what’s best for the child.&#160; I would hope that the court system, in this type of situation, would have something in place to help the parents.&#160; There always seems to be a program somewhere for some reason.&#160; I’m sure there are parenting classes and educational programs that can teach parents how to raise their children.</p>
<p>But, the court oversteps its bounds when it removes the children from both homes simply because the parents can’t agree and can’t get along.&#160; There was a solution when I went to court, give one full custody and the other gets visitation.&#160; It wasn’t the best solution, but my daughter didn’t go to foster care.</p>
<p>This wreaks!&#160; It really does!&#160; There is something else in play on this one and I’d like to know what it is.&#160; Is money involved?&#160; Is a system in place that gets compensated for placing children in foster care?</p>
<p>Draconian Law by the way, which is something the judge mentions in his condescending tone, are very heavy punishments for even the smallest of crimes.&#160; Draco wrote the law of Athens, 7th Century BC. It was put in place because prior to that the law was oral and it was interpreted whimsically. Draconian Laws though were written so harshly that they called for death for even minor offenses. Plus, the laws were flexible when it came to who you were.&#160; The lower class had different laws from the upper class.</p>
<p>Therefore, Draconian Law is considered “Cruel and Unusual” punishment in America, to the U.S. Constitution, which this judge is “elected” to interpret. Cruel and unusual punishment is in violation of the 8th Amendment.&#160; Therefore, this judge needs removed by the evidence we have in video, by his own words.&#160; The children need restored to their parents and let’s start the custody proceedings again, only this time with a judge who is actually sane!</p>
<p>I love this list of questions that brings to light a few interesting matters.&#160; From the grandmother’s perspective:</p>
<p><a title="http://grannyleaks.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/10010656-questions-i-ask-myself" href="http://grannyleaks.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/10010656-questions-i-ask-myself">http://grannyleaks.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/10010656-questions-i-ask-myself</a></p>
<p>By the way, after reading through the Granny Leaks site, it seems this matter is sufficiently resolved.&#160; But, how many others go on like this unnoticed and no one has any power to do anything about it?</p>
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		<title>$6.6 Billion Just Shows Up One Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I&#8217;m not entirely an understanding individual when it comes to the sheer amount of money our government seems to go through.&#160; But, in news today it seems that $6.6 billion in lost Iraq cash is all of a sudden accounted for says inspector Bowen, specal inspector for Iraq reconstruction&#8230; $6.6 billion in lost ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="float: left;" src="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bowen.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="200" />Okay, so I&#8217;m not entirely an understanding individual when it comes to the sheer amount of money our government seems to go through.&nbsp; But, in news today it seems that $6.6 billion in lost Iraq cash is all of a sudden accounted for says inspector Bowen, specal inspector for Iraq reconstruction&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/once-feared-lost-now-accounted-iraq-inspector-says-153935856.html">$6.6 billion in lost Iraq cash now accounted for, inspector says | The Envoy &#8211; Yahoo! News</a></p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;ve lost like $10 a couple of times.&nbsp; One time I even managed to lose $100.&nbsp; There was a weekend where I blew through about $500, and woke up on Sunday wondering where that was.&nbsp; But, that really doesn&#8217;t count.&nbsp; I blew that!</p>
<p>So, $6.6 billion huh?&nbsp; It&#8217;s an easy thing for the government to just lose $6.6 billion?</p>
<p>But, oh wait!&nbsp; They found it!&nbsp; In fact, it was never missing.&nbsp; It was there all along.&nbsp; It was just not accounted for apparently.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hey guys, I found that money!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What money?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The $6.6 billion we lost during the war.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh yeah?&nbsp; That&#8217;s great!&nbsp; Where was it?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Uh, right here.&nbsp; Behind this book.&#8221;</p>
<p>Warren Buffett wouldn&#8217;t even be able to missplace $6.6 billion.&nbsp; But a quote I heard from him recently says it all, &#8220;I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that  anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members  of congress are ineligible for reelection.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hmm, I wonder what he&#8217;d do about this&#8230;!</p>
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		<title>Muslims Plan Protest on 9/11&#8230;In London</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a site that hypes up what they deem as the failed battle against terrorism and a graphic that shows a plane flying into the World Trade Center, Muslims Against Crusades and Sharia 4 America are touting a protest for the Moment of Silence Americans and American sympathizers will share on 9/11 at 8:46 am. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/image.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/image_thumb.png" width="240" height="224" /></a>With a site that hypes up what they deem as the failed battle against terrorism and a graphic that shows a plane flying into the World Trade Center, Muslims Against Crusades and Sharia 4 America are touting a protest for the Moment of Silence Americans and American sympathizers will share on 9/11 at 8:46 am. But, their protest will take place in London.</p>
<p>The World Trade Center is in America. The tragedy happened in America.&#160; If the war against terrorism has failed and as these sites claim, that Islam is taking over the world, then why not have the protest in America? In fact, do it right at Ground Zero where the twin towers fell!</p>
<p>No, like the cowards they are, they will hide out in London and make noise from over there. The war against terrorism has not failed. Islam is not taking over the world. It’s like saying “Ta Da” when you do a magic trick. Your magic is weak! </p>
<p>All the hype the terrorists and terrorist sympathizers put out is layered with so many lies, they can’t keep up with it. Most recently, we got Osama Bin Laden. Until then, terrorists have been running all over the earth like little roaches trying to get out of reach of the battle against terrorism.&#160; How many people have we arrested and tried?&#160; How many people have we hunted down and killed? </p>
<p>So, what I see is a lonely guy sitting in a run down building cut off from the rest of the world except for his small television and laptop. He types a message to the Muslims Against Crusades, “Tell the world terrorism is not dead.&#160; It’s not dead.&#160; I swear to it.&#160; Please, let everyone know.&#160; Terrorism is not dead.”</p>
<p>Maybe if he keeps saying it to himself, he thinks it will become true.&#160; Your magic is weak! “Ta Da” says to the audience, “Hey, I’ve done a magic trick” when they should be able to see it for themselves.</p>
<p>I learned about “Ta Da” on the latest episode of <em>Royal Pains</em>, airs Wednesdays 9/8c on the USA Network. Watch “Ta Da For” on usanetwork.com right now!</p>
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		<title>Law Isn&#8217;t Always Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching The Conspirator the other day, I wondered how our law ever got to the point it is now and if it still needs work. A movie directed by Robert Redford, The Conspirator is about putting on trial co-conspirators of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Robin Wright plays the role of Mary Surratt, the mother ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image_thumb.png" width="162" height="320" /></a>Watching <em>The Conspirator</em> the other day, I wondered how our law ever got to the point it is now and if it still needs work. A movie directed by Robert Redford, <em>The Conspirator</em> is about putting on trial co-conspirators of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.</p>
<p>Robin Wright plays the role of Mary Surratt, the mother of John Surratt, a friend of John Wilkes Booth. Mary Surratt runs a boarding house in which John Wilkes Booth and other co-conspirators are documented to have stayed plenty of nights and held meetings to organize a plot to kidnap the president. Obviously, the plan to kidnap the president turns into a plot to kill the president and John Surratt checks out of town.</p>
<p>The assassination went as planned and John Wilkes Booth was hunted down and killed, leaving in his dust several Southern allies who will be found and charged with co-conspiracy, including Mary Surratt. Of course, because of the fact that it was the president who was shot, swift justice is the only way to remedy the situation and to restore confidence in the government, the military and the American way of life.</p>
<p>This brings the discussion of law to light. The movie is based on fact and the trial of Mary Surratt was going to be held by military standards, by military officials, and conducted in a way that would undermine strides that law has made to be righteous. Military standards are very different from civilian standards. Military personnel are property of the U.S. Government and law doesn’t have to be conducted in the same manner as a regular court of law. </p>
<p>But, Mary Surratt was not military and even though the trial was about co-conspiring to assassinate the president, Mary Surratt should have been given the same rights as any other civilian charged with a crime. She should have been able to stand trial and be judged by a jury of her peers.</p>
<p>Reverdy Johnson, a Maryland State Senator at the time, argued before the military tribunal that Mary Surratt deserves to have a trial and be given proper counsel. His arguments were what makes our law what it is to this day and it makes the foundation of law look rather weak. But, we get some insight into what makes up our law. We get to see that it hasn’t always been right and that people haven’t always agreed with it. Johnson’s arguments prove that fact because they are after all, basic premises of law. The fact that he even had to argue them makes the whole law system look like it started on some real shaky ground and could have gone either way, the way it did or the way toward dictatorship.</p>
<p>The officials who ran the trial were blood thirsty. Seeing their attitude toward those standing trial, it’s a wonder they agreed to anything. The prosecutor had all the leverage he wanted while the defense had very little rope to hang. The prosecutor’s objections were sustained while the defense’s objections were overruled, without fail. It was a one-sided trial and it was blatantly obvious, not even an attempt to appear unbiased.</p>
<p>It reminds me of another trial. Paul a disciple of Jesus Christ, was arrested by the Jews and handed over to the Romans to be charged with a crime. But, the Jews had no specific crime. In fact, it’s interesting to hear how Festus presents Paul’s case to King Agrippa, “There is a man here who was left in prison by Felix. When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him and asked for a sentence against him. I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met the accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the charge. So when they met here, I lost no time, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought. When the accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the crimes that I was expecting. Instead they had certain points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.”</p>
<p><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image1.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" src="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image_thumb1.png" width="136" height="123" /></a>These arguments are the arguments of law. They establish a documented sense of logic in approach to the law. For reference, Acts 25:13-27 is where you can find them. Festus understood the basic premise of law and how law should be fairly constructed. A charge has to be concrete, not a difference in theology. An accuser has to be able to face his or her accuser. A defense has to be presented. From there, we have further defined these basic premises.</p>
<p>A defense can be constructed by a defense expert. The charges have to be substantial and the prosecutor has to prove it. That’s what we hold to be our law. Paul got justice. Mary Surratt didn’t.</p>
<p>The weakness of our foundation can be seen in the lack of spirit for the law the military officials demonstrated in the “trial” of Mary Surratt. Even her own appointed defense attorney was reluctant at first. He didn’t understand why he had to be her defense attorney. He didn’t want the people to hate him or to judge him for “taking her side.” </p>
<p>He almost mounted a poor defense and at first, tried to get out of being her defense attorney at every turn. That is until Reverdy Johnson gives him an assignment, Mr. Aiken, Mary Surratt’s attorney played by James McAvoy, can be released of his duties to defend her if he can prove that she is guilty, a task he soon finds more difficult than it seems.</p>
<p>A person can only be found guilty if the evidence proves beyond the shadow of a doubt. There can’t be one ounce of doubt. Even when everything else says yes, not one thing can say no. This is another premise of law.</p>
<p><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image2.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/image_thumb2.png" width="240" height="213" /></a>It’s just that I find it remarkable how law has evolved over the years and how it got to where it is today. It took a few people with some idea of logic to present theories of law to others and to get them to agree. What were they fighting?</p>
<p>The “Shadow of a Doubt” is one thing. How many times have you just known someone was guilty? If the evidence can’t prove it, the person might not be so guilty after all. Of course, sometimes the evidence we need can’t be found. But, sometimes the evidence we have points to false conclusions.</p>
<p>Having a proper defense is another stipulation they were fighting. The scum of the earth deserves a proper defense. Who we perceive as the scum of the earth just very well may be the most innocent person we know, but we won’t without a proper defense.</p>
<p>A defense can be provided by the State. That might seem to run counter to fairness.&#160; But, remember that there are three branches of government. The legal system itself technically is not the entity providing indigent individuals with defense attorneys. That money is coming from another source, making them an independent party to the legal system itself, which supplies the court houses, the judges and also the prosecuting attorneys.</p>
<p>But, people who can’t afford an attorney have every right to be provided one in criminal cases. Otherwise, our government could easily fill jail cells with indigent people. What good would that do?</p>
<p>Let’s see. Let’s say there’s a case the police can’t solve. It would be easy just to pick someone who is poor and charge them with a crime.&#160; They would be found guilty and the confidence in the legal system would be restored.&#160; That’s just one example why the poor must be provided an attorney if they can’t afford one.</p>
<p>Let’s say there’s a community of people the government wants taken off the streets for some reason. Maybe they are living on property where some rich and privileged individual wants to build. Maybe they are driving down the value of real estate in the area. Maybe certain government officials just don’t like them at all. It would be easy just to round them up and charge them with fallacious crimes. Who would help them? Who would be there to stop it?</p>
<p>Good thing nothing like that ever happens today…</p>
<p>Author of <em><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/book">A Danger to Society</a></em>, a tale about the notions of law, crime and criminal behavior.</p>
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		<title>How Freedom of Speech Really Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes told the director of the Houston National Cemetery and Department of Veterans Affairs officials that they could not block Houston Pastor Scott Rainey from invoking the name of Jesus Christ in a Memorial Day prayer. Finally a Judge with some common sense on the matter.&#160; But, I don’t blame the ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/image_thumb.png" width="240" height="247" /></a>U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes told the director of the Houston National Cemetery and Department of Veterans Affairs officials that they could not block Houston Pastor Scott Rainey from invoking the name of Jesus Christ in a Memorial Day prayer.
<p>Finally a Judge with some common sense on the matter.&#160; But, I don’t blame the Veterans Affairs Officials.&#160; I just think that they are all confused.</p>
<p>The Separation of Church and State is simply a tool put in place so that&#160; the Church can’t have the say over laws we make.&#160; Forgetting our history is one problem we have in knowing where we are going.</p>
<p>The Church at one time had the King’s ear.&#160; The Church dictated law.&#160; In America, we no longer allow that to happen.&#160; But, I have heard some ridiculous complaints come out of certain notions that some people have about the Separation of Church and State.</p>
<p>For instance, I once witnessed an argument where an atheist was saying that a pastor has no right talking to a senator about a law.&#160; What?&#160; Everyone has access to our senators.&#160; A pastor who is talking to a senator is practicing the same rights we all have.&#160; People of the Church are allowed to influence law just the same as any other activist, organization or individual.&#160; It’s just that the Church is no longer the final say or the lawmaker of any laws.</p>
<p>Another instance is just what I mentioned earlier about Pastor Scott Rainey praying on Memorial Day.&#160; Here’s how freedom of speech works.&#160; You can’t tell Pastor Scott Rainey what to say.&#160; If you don’t want to hear the name Jesus Christ at the Memorial Day prayer, you get someone else to do it in the first place.</p>
<p>The prayers that take place before Congress, the words on our dollar bills, the Bible that we use in court, none of these things even apply to the Separation of Church and State.&#160; They have nothing to do with making laws.&#160; They are tradition and people who try to remove certain rituals from our traditions are actually trying to change the country into something it is not.</p>
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		<title>The Expert Affiliate Racket</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 15:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The normal psychology behind making money online in the affiliate marketing business is to offer good products and services to the potential buyers you can reach.&#160; That goes without saying…even though I just said it. Gratuitous Keyword Insertion &#8211; marketing, marketing to, marketing solutions, marketing blog, marketing tips, line marketing, internet marketing blog, net marketing, ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/beach2011.jpg"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="beach2011" border="0" alt="beach2011" align="left" src="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/beach2011_thumb.jpg" width="240" height="267" /></a>The normal psychology behind making money online in the affiliate marketing business is to offer good products and services to the potential buyers you can reach.&#160; That goes without saying…even though I just said it.</p>
<p>Gratuitous Keyword Insertion &#8211; </p>
<p>marketing, marketing to, marketing solutions, marketing blog, marketing tips, line marketing, internet marketing blog, net marketing, internet marketing blogs, internet marketing promotion</p>
<p>Please keep reading:</p>
<p>But, what is going on when an affiliate is being touted as an expert? It attracts a lot of attention. It gets people hyped up about a seminar or course.&#160; But, it’s not the normal psychology.</p>
<p>When I first started writing online, I was connected to a few of these affiliate experts. I wrote their seminars and courses. Immediately, I realized the game and I want to spell it out for you because I want you to succeed.&#160; I want your online business experience to be enjoyable and rewarding.&#160; So, let’s take a look at what goes on behind closed doors.</p>
<p>I’ve said it about a thousand times and I’ll probably say it a million times more, but most of these marketing seminars or courses are actually marketing marketing to marketers.&#160; It’s a bunch of nothingness that goes around in circles.&#160; It’s like selling air and water.</p>
<p>Of course, you’re saying, “They do sell air and water.”&#160; That’s the point.&#160; Online marketers are getting away with marketing marketing to marketers.</p>
<p>What is that?&#160; Let’s break it down.&#160; Marketing is about putting products in the public eye, getting the message out there about a product or service.&#160; So, marketing marketing is about getting the message out about how to market and to who…marketers.&#160; Now, do you see how it’s a bunch of nothingness?&#160; It certainly isn’t about getting a pair of shoes in the hands of a runner or getting a book in the hands of a reader.</p>
<p>When I teach marketing, I teach about actually selling products and services.&#160; My first book about online business, <a href="http://michaelallenonline.com/tutorials.php">Making Money: The Techniques of the Gurus</a>, details how you can sell anything from t-shirts to bonzai trees.&#160; Those are tangible products people can enjoy.&#160; I teach beginning online entrepreneurs how to do that.&#160; Download it now For Free!</p>
<p>So, having said that, those marketing courses don’t teach you how to sell watches, computers or furniture. They are selling you, and I mean selling you, their marketing courses about marketing marketing.&#160; For one, the niche is already saturated so tapping into it is highly competitive and trying to stand out in it is nearly impossible.&#160; But, who would really want to anyway?</p>
<p>Marketing courses can go for as little as $200 and climb to $2,000, $5,000 and even $10,000.&#160; I know one affiliate marketer who rehashes his old courses and sells them over every six months.&#160; He calls them something different, but you’re not <em>getting</em> anything any different.</p>
<p>I had this conversation with one of my clients a few years ago.&#160; He bought two courses thinking he was going to get a more advanced version of what he had already bought.&#160; Disappointed, he discovered it was the same course…different package.</p>
<p>Also, after he showed me what was in the course, I sent him my book that I allow people to download for free.&#160; He was amazed to find everything in there.&#160; He had bought one course for $695 and the other for $2000 to find out that the same information was in my book that he could have downloaded for free.</p>
<p>But, the real crime comes when we look at the seminars in Hawaii and Cancun.&#160; Even Los Angeles and down where I live in Florida, these “Expert” affiliates love having seminars in places where most people take vacations.&#160; Guess who’s paying for their vacation?&#160; That’s right.&#160; You!</p>
<p>A handful of affiliates get together in what they call a Joint Venture.&#160; They throw their material together that doesn’t amount to anything more than what I teach for free in several of my books and in my business articles.&#160; They market the seminar to you, who thinks you’re getting a major weekend training session.&#160; So, you purchase the seminar and you make arrangements for a local hotel as well as travel.</p>
<p>What do you find when you get there?&#160; </p>
<p>(Let’s assume that you have read all of my articles at the <a href="http://michaelallenonline.com/blast">Blast</a> and you’ve downloaded both my <em>Making Money</em> ebook and the <em>Supplement</em> from my <a href="http://michaelallenonline.com/tutorials.php">Tutorials</a> page.)</p>
<ul>
<li>At the seminar, you will get:</li>
<li>A motivational speech to get you hyped about marketing.</li>
<li>Another motivational speech to get you hyped about the seminar that you already purchased.</li>
<li>Break for dinner.&#160; That’s a Friday.&#160; Oh by the way, don’t forget to purchase the book or DVD that is at the stand on your way out to dinner.</li>
<li>Saturday begins with a motivational speech to get you hyped about your day.</li>
<li>You attend one session before lunch, which to your surprise you find that you already know the stuff…because of the stipulation I made earlier about already having read my tutorials and articles.&#160; Break for lunch.</li>
<li>You’re thinking, “It’s just beginning.&#160; I’ll definitely learn something after lunch.”</li>
<li>After lunch, you attend another session that is just a step above what you learned in the morning.&#160; And again, you already know what they are teaching you.&#160; By the way, each “session” comes with a book or CD.&#160; Make sure you purchase those!</li>
<li>Saturday wraps with another motivational speech that is designed to keep you there, coming back for more on Sunday.</li>
<li>I can’t say that you won’t learn one or two things on Sunday.&#160; But, is what you learned equal to what you paid?</li>
<li>By the way, these so called “experts” are staying in nice hotels, eating great food and enjoying their evenings…at your expense.</li>
</ul>
<p>For what you paid, you should be getting a crash course on marketing that should be equal to college credits at an accredited institution.&#160; That’s not what you get!</p>
<p>Can you imagine paying for the vacation of someone who doesn’t know any more than you about online marketing?&#160; They downloaded all their material and rehashed it as their own, they’re being treated like an expert because of the hype and they’re being handed vacations because you didn’t know that it was all crap?</p>
<p>Here’s the secret!&#160; There is no secret!</p>
<p>There is no button you can push that will amass a fortune for you.&#160; There is no software that can do everything for you in “just three simple clicks” or “five minutes.”</p>
<p>To build a business online takes a little work.&#160; You can set some things in motion that will work automatically for you while you do other things.&#160; But, you’ll have to put that together.</p>
<p>To make my point, my <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/49284760/No-Limit-Cash-Machine"><em>No Limit Cash Machine</em></a> is a completely automated system that you can put together in a few hours.&#160; It is a set and let system.&#160; But, you’ll have to build it first.&#160; Then, you’ll want to keep building because the more you build, the more you make.&#160; The point is that you still have to work.&#160; Nothing online is as simple as they make it out to be, even though making money online is fairly easy when compared to anything else.</p>
<p>Anyone who has ever made money online will agree with me that it takes a little work.&#160; Even the scammers who are trying to scam you, if they could ever be honest about it, they would tell you that putting their scams together takes work.</p>
<p>So, don’t fall for the hype!&#160; That’s all I am trying to say.&#160; Look at everything that “sells you” and figure out why it is “selling you.”</p>
<p>A few tips:</p>
<p>If you are making a purchase of an online business course or tutorial, look for contact information.&#160; How do you contact them?&#160; Do they have a refund policy?</p>
<p>If you can’t contact them, don’t make the purchase.</p>
<p>If they do have contact information, use it.&#160; They should at least have an email.&#160; Send them one with a question. Any question!&#160; If they don’t answer, don’t make the purchase.</p>
<p>Also, do you know what you are getting?&#160; If you went to the store, you would be able to look at the product.&#160; If you buy online, can you at least get a preview of the things that you will learn?&#160; Make sure you pay attention to this tip.&#160; Affiliate marketers are great at selling you on hype alone.&#160; Look at the hype objectively and see if they tell you anywhere on their webpage what you will get when you make the purchase.&#160; Scam artists won’t tell you.&#160; Legitimate affiliate marketers will be more than happy to spell it out for you.</p>
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<p>Read my <a href="http://michaelallenonline.com/tutorials.php">Tutorials</a> and look at the list of <a href="http://michaelallenonline.com/tools.php">Tools</a> that I suggest for building an online business.&#160; Stay up to date on current business practices at the <a href="http://michaelallenonline.com/blast">Blast</a>!</p>
<p>Also, check out <em><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/book">A Danger to Society</a></em>, my novel that got me into online marketing in the first place…</p>
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		<title>Random Thoughts from the Air</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a flight from Florida to Maryland to see some family and friends I left behind when I started this new leg of my life. See what I just did there? Anyway, I was seated between two readers. As a writer myself, by all means I love readers. So, read away! With no hopes ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/image8.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://adangertosociety.com/blast/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/image_thumb8.png" width="240" height="205" /></a>I took a flight from Florida to Maryland to see some family and friends I left behind when I started this new leg of my life. See what I just did there? Anyway, I was seated between two readers. As a writer myself, by all means I love readers. So, read away!</p>
<p>With no hopes of conversation, I turned my computer on to see what I could find on the internet and immediately saw that my battery was low. It didn’t matter anyway because they charge for internet service and for only a few hours of connection, it costs pretty close to what I pay a month. </p>
<p>So, the laptop goes back in its bag and the next thing I think to do is connect to the internet with my phone. No signal at that altitude. I’m left with only two choices, sleep or think. Well, sleeping wasn’t really an option. In that human mail tube they call a plane, it’s really impossible to sleep unless you are extremely tired. So left with my thoughts, I thought I’d share:</p>
<p>In No Particular Order</p>
<p>Why don’t we load planes from back to front? Don’t you think that could save us all the headache? I know my knees would appreciate it.</p>
<p>Now I know why they invented cargo shorts…they’re perfect for airplanes, especially the tuna can I flew. Three people were seated in an area that I would normally take up myself. Having my wallet in my cargo pocket was a relief when they asked me if I wanted something the drink. I took two.</p>
<p>If I were traveling at fifty miles an hour and I threw a ball at fifty miles an hour opposite the direction of travel, would it fall straight to the ground? If I threw it in the direction of travel, would it go twice as fast or would it come back and hit me square in the face?</p>
<p>I thought about when I was in the airport. I stood in front of the urinal, it flushed itself. I put my hands in the sink, the water ran itself. I put my hands under the dryer to have them dried for me. I can go from one end of the airport to another without moving. If we keep making the world so automated, soon we won’t need any people in it.</p>
<p>Then of course, as always, deeper thoughts overcame me…</p>
<p>Upon the death of a friend, he will be missed. He truly lived. He attacked everything he did with such vigor. He woke up in the morning and got ready like he was doing an audition for the world.</p>
<p>He came to see me recently. I put him up in my spare bedroom. I woke up those mornings to hear a man who would hum to himself while getting ready for the day. He was a guy who dressed to the tee to go to the beach.</p>
<p>Our talks whether in person or on the phone were always small lessons about life. We had a thing we would say that I will share with you now. Embrace the struggle! We had struggled together at an earlier time in our lives.</p>
<p>I went on to write my first book. He went on to be a very in-demand car salesman who toured the country to promote sales. Both of us had struggled at one time, but we made it through. We said it back then. But, it made more sense to us in this stage of our lives.</p>
<p>He was content. He was going to propose to his girlfriend. He said that he wanted to be comfortable when he did it. He needed to be in the place where he is most relaxed. So, he was going to light candles and propose to her while he sat on the toilet.</p>
<p>I died laughing. I can still remember hearing his laugh. I’m sure my friend would agree when I say, there’s no reason to be afraid of dying. Don’t worry about death. Just make sure you do some living first.</p>
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