I'm on my mom's computer right now, so no picture or voice. I got one Windows partition cleaned and I'm in the process of getting the other one cleaned. Hopefully, I'll be able to access some of my important programs once I get it cleaned.
While working on these problems, I started thinking about crimes and punishment. I got to thinking about white collar crimes and how they seem to receive special treatment from the law. White collar criminals usually cause more pain and suffering for more people than the average killer. Why shouldn't they be admitted to the same population as the others and receive the same types of punishment. Restitution would be in order as well.
Instead of allowing the white collar criminals to sit in their modified Country Clubs they call prisons while they collect interest for their misdeeds, making them richer, their assets need to be frozen and they should have to pay restitution to all whom they affected. That would make white collar crime much less attractive.
Race, color, country of origin, wealth, and social status should have no bearing on justice to criminals. The rich have been taking care of the rich far too long. That's probably how most of the rich gained their riches in the first place, stealing from the hard work of others. We certainly know the corporations have unfairly compensated their employees at least since the 1800s and have wielded their power over their employees, even women and children, to fulfill their lustful gain for money and power. They've even taken to reducing pay and benefits for their employees and refuse to take responsibility for their misdeeds by refusing to pay Workman's Compensation for employees injured on the job and increasing the cost of health care insurance to their retired employees to the point that most have had to drop it. The refineries and chemical plants had the laws changed so that they didn't have to allow regulating bodies like OSHA to enter the gates until they had time to hide the evidence of their misdeeds, some of which cost lives and bodily injury, not to mention mental distress to those who lived through the incidents caused by their misdeeds. Such actions by the corporations are criminal in themselves. Why shouldn't these CEOs and other corporate heads be held responsible for their misconduct just as anyone else on the street would be? Why shouldn't they receive the same kind of punishment as anyone else? Bringing them to justice would decrease the incentive for people to continue such misdeeds.
Those who really know me know that I present my ideas and solutions to government officials and world leaders when I feel it appropriate. I don't mince words. Some respond well, some don't. Some respond well after time when they see that I'm honest in my efforts. More and more people are starting to do the same thing and are uniting to make the world truly a better and more peaceful place. We're calling out hypocrisy, frauds, and phonies, and we're starting to make a difference. Will we be successful in changing the world into a better place? If enough people join in for the cause, work together, and quit trying to promote themselves shamelessly as if they created this concept on their own, perhaps. A couple of famous people have tried to make their own events, promoting them as events similar to the ones we at Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace are doing and trying to do, but they don't want to work with others and want all the glory for themselves. They'll go unnamed as we try to reason with them, but if they continue with the same attitude, they will be called out and exposed.
Organizations which promote hate, fear, guilt, and dissension need to go down. That includes churches who feel the need to "shame people into salvation." They seem to think it's their job, not the Holy Spirit's job, to convict people. They think that if they can shame people enough and scare people enough into confessing that Jesus Christ is savior, that's the only way to truly change someone's heart. What does it really do? It might scare some people into changing their actions, but it does nothing to truly change their hearts. Yes, they do some good things and teach some good morals, but they destroy any real hope of people becoming Christ-like as long as the people remain scared enough to let these phony preachers make them think that they can't learn the truth on their own and try to bend the conclusions and pull from the Spirit by those of the congregation who can see through the lies into something that fits what the preacher is promoting.
This is a time for change. REAL change. HONEST change. We can't trust our leaders to do it for us. We have to work together to make real change happen. Don't just imagine. Get involved. Do something. Your fellow man will thank you for it.
Love, Hope, Peace, & Christ Is With Us All,
Cal-el
