Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.
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A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.
Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.
Cats cant speak, that's common sense.-Yoruichi
You need to decide for yourself whether you want to be a rare jewel or a common flower
While police internal affairs is allowed to protect corrupt police officers that engage in unethical behaviors, illegal activities or murder, there will always be a genuine mistrust by the common people.
Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle us, and show that we have, to a certain extent, given up our individuality, and have consented to wear the collar of authority__hat we are followers. Throwing away these names, let us examine these questions not as partisans, but as human beings with hopes and fears in common.
Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.
In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!
When it is a law abiding common person versus the police internal affairs regarding a corrupt or incompetent police officer, the statistics show that it is the common person that most frequently loses.
Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, _ A house divided against itself cannot stand._ That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble.
In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.
Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was too stupid to be a clerk. Probably I should receive no replies; possibly one. Possibly also (nay, probably) it would be from the one man who was not stupid at all. But suppose I had advertised that I had a place for any one who was too clever to be a clerk. My office would be instantly besieged by all the most hopeless fools in the four kingdoms. To advertise for exceptions is simply to advertise for egoists. To advertise for egoists is to advertise for idiots. It is exactly the bore who does think that his case is interesting. It is precisely the really common person who does think that his case is uncommon. It is always the dull man who does think himself rather wild. To ask solely for strange experiences of the soul is simply to let loose all the imbecile asylums about one's ears.
Any process that fails the Common Sense Test, cannot pass a Biblical Test. Those who have more should share with those who have none or less; not the other way round. Prosperity Gospel is antichrist.
The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.
What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.
The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.