Today has been kinda a long drawn out day. But that could be the hangover. Man, has there been a lot to blog about since I've been dormant. So I suspect this'll be a long ranty one. I'll keep the newer ones more segmented.
Okay every - one.
It's been a year and three/four days since I made my last post. I started this, and put it aside and stopped doing it. But well, the ranting is back and I need to vent about Space News, and my extremely unorthodox political views about society.
Democracy is spreading in the middle east they said months ago when Tunisia's revolution began kicking off what has been called the Jasmine Revolution or 'Arab Spring'. Later revolution spreading to Egypt and Algeria; here, four months later Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Jordan are among the names of the largest countries seemingly influenced and effected by the revolutions, into their own actions. There are talks of what is called on one Al-Jazeera opinion piece a 'peace troika' between Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. This could a historic moment for middle east peace.
This has a lot of people in the United States and elsewhere taking notice of their live, and situations. Questioning the social, and judicial systems that confine their lives... What of this is necessary? what of this is too much? can we really come into a peaceful modern future with the ideologies, and structure useful to a bygone people, and era who inhabited a vastly unknown world which doubtless orbited in an unknown void of space. Now, I am not saying that basic structure has not remained constant at the very core of humanity and of the societies which we are host to and part of. But that being said there are some key issues I think I have with some of the unnecessary aspects of society which could be re-managed in ways which would allow them to take greater advantage of their available resources such as money.
What am I talking about? well, and this is going to sound wild at first. We shouldn't rely on the police to provide justice for non-violent crimes, we should use lawyers. I'm talking about massive police cut backs, and re-distribution of policemen to areas experiencing more violent crime. But In areas where the crimes are of a predominantly non-violent nature the burden of Justice should fall on the victim to take advantage of a city appointed lawyer (which we will need way more of, and lawyers are an overcrowded worker base as well, at the moment.)
When I talk about Non-violent crime what do I mean? I mean victimless crime, would be put in the hands of the citizens, whereby illegal non-violent actions are considered 'actionable' instead of 'illegal' and any offended citizen can rightfully sue the person for money, or compensation for violating the law. This compensation process will provide justice, and punishment. Eliminating the use of holding cells for non-violent crimes, and crimes where there is no present statement of concern about the defendants plan to run. Perhaps if we have a system of making a license invalid out side of town, until the court date that could get around the whole bail/bondsman relationship and issue but cops would need to treat runners like violent offenders in this case meaning they would pursue them. If the defendant does not appear in court, in addition to a fine from the courts.
What I effectively mean here, is that I want to ensure the rights of the people to produce, or consume anything they desire as what I would consider fair considering all people on equal footing (hypothetically) in terms of who fits the bill of 'responsible adult'. However substances deemed illegal could be actionable by any offended party, so the school could sue you for smoking pot. But your neighbor is a dick if he does, but if it's on his land sure he's a victim. A roommate of mine suggested that this seems like a rather horrid process, which I told him was the determent from committing non-violent offenses.. people will sue you. You will have the right to a trial which you will be charged for fleeing if you did so, and be treated humanely as possible and eliminating need for holding cells, or guards in most non-violent cases.
This would also mean that non-violent crimes could be mostly solved with monetary exchange, and we could see a drop in people arrested by the now lowered number of police over data they happen to uncover during a warranted unrelated investigation. But an steady stream of people who rape, fight, murder, steal, molest, or eat other people (granted they weren't eaten with consent that is.) Filling up the ample Jail space to serve their time, with a small enough portion of non-violent criminals that were deemed needing of jail time by the courts that could be maintained by the minimum security facilities we already have too many of, and keep over-full of too many non-violent criminals. I'm not saying you couldn't goto jail for this shit.. just only if you are stupid and offensive with your non-violent crime on someone elses property, or on your property to a visitor. And I think it's fair to say you could call the cops in any situation where you are too scared to know what to do properly for investigative assistance and preparation for court as they would today. But with More of their budget freed up for cool things like suped up cars, and nice labs like they have on TV shows.
Jobs you say? This would kill them? well... yeah or at least make them move to where they are needed. But Imagine the stress it would relieve from the Lawyers looking or work, not to mention the generations of law school grads to come. We have a lot of lawyers in the U.S. and we're only making more. For this to work, we need more lawyers this creates a demand, or deficit of lawyers over time unless the public is encouraged to seek law as a profession.. Perhaps they should have a large federal union they could work for, maybe even this would require the formation of a new institution of Modern Society. A social program that manages fleets of some kind of cross between a lawyer, and a cop. Imagine that... *shivers* alright, I see my roommate's point. But still Imagine the power that would put into people's hands. The Motivation it would provide the people to be active in the legal affairs of themselves and their nation. Active and aware people, a concerned people, and a judicially represented people.
I'll write more about this later in my even wilder spiel about what we could do now to get the attention of major Corporations in America that are playing games with us at the National level, and at the personal level by becoming more aware of your rights to legal representation, and the power of the proletariat.
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