Weighted Democracy

   Imagine a world, where those who gave more to the state got more say so in state activities. Imagine a world where intellect was valued over anything else. Imagine a state that gave people opportunities to earn more than one vote so that you can put yourself above the people who have failed society and bring us down.

  What i wanted you to imagine is a hypothetical system of voting that i call a weighted democracy. In this system everyone starts out with just one vote, but each person can earn more. Ways to attain these extra votes could be hypothetically, one vote for every five years of military service and another vote per combat deployment. Obviously the people who care about this country the most are the soldiers fighting and dying for it.

   Another means of attaining votes would be through education. An associates degree could be worth two points while a bachelors could be worth three. A masters would be worth five and a doctorate could be worth 10. The United States was once a powerhouse of intellectual ability, we must provide incentive to our youth to get education and show them that we value the mind.

   Community service would be my third and final way of attaining votes. for every five hundred hours of community service would get a person one vote, but people who take the community service road would have a max out point at just three votes from this area. The people who do physical labor for the state deserve a little something to.

   Now some ways to lose a vote would be for example, dropping out of high school but it could be reattained after getting a general equivalency diploma. For every felony committed, but you could earn your one vote back after ten years. those who go on welfare would lose a vote until they were back off welfare.

   Imagine a world where doctors, scientists, and the military are valued over social parasites, a world that makes sense. without the uneducated holding back our democratic processes imagine what we could achieve. Freedom is not free it has to be earned.

Ken Buck, a disgrace to progress

 this morning's subject is the Colorado state election for governor. a race filled with sexism and a primary due
for august 10.Both are Republicans and both are involved in the shady business of attacking one another for the wrong reasons.

      On one end we have Ken Buck, the Weld County District Attorney. And on the other end we have Jane Norton, a former LT. Governor
This essay will explain Ken Buck. He thinks he should win the election basically because he is a man. When asked why should people vote for him he responded with "because i don't wear high heels". Very interesting I would have thought that by the year 2010 gender would not be an issue in an election.

    Ken Buck also has a warped conception of what separation of church and state is. He thinks
the government should fund religious organisations if they do good things, as if we don't have a 13 trillion dollar debt. His statement"I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state" should be all the people need to hear to know this
man is an ignorant fool.

    Ken Buck Does not support federal control of schools, but prefers instead local governments controlling the youth's education. Obviously this would lead to different standards all across the country which you may guess is not a good thing.He wants to do away with student loans in his state hence promoting even more intellectual degradation. I do agree about needing education reform,after all look what our education system has done to him. In my opinion we need more federal control over the education system.

    Ken Buck believes homosexuality is a choice and compared it to alcoholism.He obviously didn't pay much attention in science class because we now know that most of our personality is inherited. He opposes gay marriage, as if it hurts somebody.He wants to keep gays out of the military, even while were at war.

    He wants to end all abortion even in cases of rape or incest. He wants all birth Control off the shelves so that we can have rampant teen pregnancy. So in the end religion can be his only justification for these views, do you want a sexist theocracy in this nation deciding whats right and wrong for you based on his interpretation of god?

   In Conclusion Ken Buck is bad for Colorado, he's bad for this country and his ideas are a testament to our failing education system. He wants to push us back centuries to a less enlightened time. We cannot allow such idiocy to lead or even be in charge of anything of importance in this country. It would almost seam like treason against our founding father's to elect this bigot, he work against everything they have created.

Imperialism

This writing is going to explain how in order to maintain progress a state must embrace imperialism. Imperialism is when one nation attempt to dominate another politically or economically. In the 21^stcentury we’ve already witnessed some of the consequences of imperialism, but history has shown that the advances made by imperialistic actions out way its drawbacks. I am going to broaden the scope of imperialism to mean any type of aggressive action of an idea country or organization so I can go more in depth.

  Europe has contained history’s most powerful nations. What all these countries shared in common was their value of imperialism. With ought the threat of a foreign takeover there would have been no motivation for progress. The rest of earths continents held the week and primitive nations that were abruptly ended by European colonialism.

  Sure there are many peaceful ideas in the world but what good are they if you are not willing to fight for them, so the whole idea of constant peace is flawed. If you know that one idea, government or culture is superior to another and you allow the inferior to continue to exist you invite the destruction of yours, by being peaceful you allow competition to rise up to challenge what is right.

Another idea involving peace that is flawed is peaceful protest. It’s hypocritical from the start, the whole idea of showing off numbers is to scare the opponents with the thought of what if these numbers were militant. So why even waste time with peaceful protest? If you have an idea and evidence for its validity it is your duty to spread it by any means necessary.

So as unhappy as imperialism sounds if the United States hadn’t forcefully removed Native Americans then there would be no one to rise up against Nazism or Communism. In these situations the end justified the means.

Foreign Policy

I am about to discuss the United States foreign policy and my likes and dislike about it. Even though I dislike president bush I was a fan of his foreign policy. I hear my peers talking about how it’s not our right to police the world and that we should stay out of the business of other nations. I have absolutely no respect for the opinions of those who use this as an excuse for isolationism. There are good reasons to stay out of other nation’s affairs and I will explain them later, but first I am going to show why we have the right to do whatever we want on this world.

  After the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union the United States was the only remaining superpower in the world leaving us with the responsibility to govern the planet? It would be irresponsible of us to allow weak nations with no future to stand in the way of our interests. The consequences would be grave, we would eventually through appeasement become one of these week hopeless nations and if we care about our future we cannot allow our leaders to appease the world. The resources we need for survival are spread around the globe and we cannot afford to negotiate ownership of them. Obviously the American system of government is currently the most effective system ever conceived up to this point in history. It is foolish to engage in diplomacy over our interests when we rightfully have the power to take them. Unfortunately most Americans are not educated enough to see things this way.

  Our educational system is the tool that can be used to fix this. If more emphasis was placed on history, politics, and national superiority then a new generation of voters can lead our nation to further greatness and global dominance. I wish our president could give a speech about how we are deploying to the middle east to secure oil resources to further our nations might and get support for it. Unfortunately out government has to use propaganda and phrases like “war on terror” to justify endless war. I wish the day would come when people realize that war is necessary to survive. This nation was born in war expanded through war, and maintains survival through war. If people fail to realize this we are doomed to fail like every other nation in history. People in America have gotten complacent, people are so used to being in the greatest nation to ever exist that they begin to worry about the morality of our treatment of foreign countries. Our position as global superpower is not set in stone and can end at anytime.

  Our nation has been called the melting pot of the world and I like that. Our system of government should be spread all over the world bringing all of humanities cultures into our melting pot. I know I have spoken about a culture for all of humanity before and I think that our country is the place for it. After all today’s American culture is a combination of all the positive traits of last generations immigrants.

  Now imagine a world with no war. This is only possible if a nation with a stable system of governance absorbs the other nations. If you do not believe this is true try and think back to a time when individual states when to war. Obviously the civil war but that can never happen again in the nuclear age as long as the central government has the possession of nuclear weapons. World peace is possible but must be fought for, and there is no other nation more prepared than the United States of America!

Cultural Diversity Is Devisive

       Many Americans and people all over the world celebrate cultural diversity with the idea that it is the opposite of racism. In reality cultural diversity divides rather than unites. We are all human; therefore we should strive to reach an assimilated human culture for the world to share. This culture of humanity shouldn’t be based on religion, morality, race or blood but system of government common language. In this essay I’m going to discuss this idea in further detail starting with the consequences of celebrating a personal heritage.

      From the sixteen hundreds up to the eighteen hundreds black slaves existed all across America predominantly in the south. Most people might not think that cultural diversity and unfair discrimination go hand and hand but if you stop to think about why the slavery situation happened it can be traced backed to two reasons. The first is religion; the southern Baptists used the Old Testament to justify their cruel and inhuman treatment of the slaves. The second reason is pride in their European heritage, a blood heritage. Europeans in past times have viewed their culture superior to other world cultures and viewed members of non European dissent less than human. So should Europeans continue to celebrate their cultural diversity?

        In the 1930s and 40s the Nazi party was busy spreading ideas of a superior German culture, not surprisingly they began detaining Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill or any other group that their culture viewed as less than human. As you probably know the Nazis began using genocide as a means to celebrate their cultural diversity. Religion plays a role in this example as well. The Germans believed in a superior race of Aryans and that they should rule the world. Aryans are completely fictitious and based on a belief in a mythology. Should be celebrate their religious freedom as well?

       In the 1960s and 70s the Black Panther party was also busy celebrating its cultural diversity. Spreading black power rhetoric and using violent tactics to attempt a revolution is what they will be remembered for, but I think they should be remembered for something much simpler, a group that celebrated their cultures diversity.

  Now in our modern times we have Muslims celebrating their culture through suicide bombing, Jews trying to bring about the end of the world in Israel and Christians trying to impose Old Testament law on the people of the United States. These actions are all products of their religion which is directly related to culture.

  Now imagine a world where instead of cultural diversity, people celebrate cultural unity, all the worlds ethnic groups all promoting science and civilization as the real tool for progress and setting aside cultural diversity. “: we will be able to join at hands and sing free at last free at last” –Martin Luther king

Teen Violence

Every once in awhile you here in the news of school shootings and teen suicide. And sometimes the Perpetrators are atheists. This may lead you to believe that atheists are mentally unstable and violent. But I can find a more feasible reason for why the perpetrators are generally atheist. It’s because they are a minority, people fear and pick on the ones who don’t fit in. people have treated minorities as if they were less than equal throughout history so why should it stop at a lesser scale of the high school? These people must feel Out of place and angry at the way society treats them. This is not justification for their acts but it is explanation. Whether they are right or wrong about their atheist world views it is still difficult when the majority thinks you’re wrong and oppresses you for it. Obviously the more people in a following there are the easier it is to join and the more excepted the group is. So since these kids belong to a minority they cannot handle the pressure to conform so they resort to inflicting self damage or turn towards violence as the answer and may even resort to suicide. If the tables were turned and we lived under an atheist government then it would be Christians or whatever group is the most oppressed that are the perpetrators of these acts. In conclusion oppression is what leads to violence for example most street gangs are made up of minorities.

Gun Control and Oppression

   In the United States gun control is an issue subject to rigorous debate. My stance is that the writers of the bill of rights recognized that the right to bear arms is the people last defense against oppression. History has shown that the tyrants who plagued the 21st century all instituted strict gun control policies often followed by mass murder. Many modern nations today that have experimented with gun control have experienced an increased murder rate. Gun control prevents good people from defending them against people who mean to harm them and more importantly out of control governments. In the following paragraphs I will go into detail about how gun control is the precursor to oppression.

   The Nazi party instituted gun control in 1938, excluding party members. This paved the path to the systematic extermination of 13 million Jews and other “undersirables”.  Imagine the difficulty the Nazis would have faced if the oppressed population were armed. If the German people recognized this vital step toward oppression they would have noticed this key event.

   The Soviet Union established gun control in 1938 resulting in the murder of 20 million political dissidents and the complete oppression of the Russian workers, the very people in which the communism is supposed to protect. The vicious party controlled people through starvation, which they would remain subject to due to the lack of weapons for self defense.

   In 1935 Mao Tse Tung established gun control resulting in 20 million murdered dissidents. In 1911 Turkey outlawed private guns resulting in 1.5 million Armenian deaths. Guatemala embraced gun control in 1964 resulting in 100,000 murdered Mayan Indians. In 1970 Uganda murdered 300,000 Christians after establishing gun control. And now the President of the United States advocates gun control. We cannot allow our defenses to be taken by oppressive government and fall victim to the same fate as 56 million other murdered people in the 21st century.

   The right to bear arms is one of our most important rights, it is not a privilege and if it is treated as such we will become just another group of slaves under an oppressive dictator. Statistics show that gun control not only does not reduce crime but sharply increases it. Gun control does not make people safer because criminals will still acquire what they want regardless of legality so why disarm the innocent? The United States is the only country in the world with more guns than people. With a national population of approximately 304,000,000,If all these people were armed it would be a dictators worst nightmare so natural any oppressive force would want weapon ownership kept to the very minimum and that’s just what might happen if you allow government to over intrude on your rights.