Entrapment of life

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Why do we become corrupt? Aren't most people just following orders? If you do what you're told, doesn't your example of good show others that this is the way to go? I think it's because we get outnumbered. 

Imagine first, that you own a business. Here go your costs, and after charging TWICE the cost to you, here goes what the consumer pays.

Ancient chinese secret.

But that's fair. I didn't realize that was fair until I studied business and recognized that as a norm because the textbook said it was so. Small wonder then that people running a gas station earn close to $100k. You wouldn't think so right? Stupid people there, sometimes don't give you change so you can use the phone, sometimes they turn the gas pumps on and off just to run you around like a fool, sometimes they won't serve you alcohol at 1:50am even though you speeded up there with a much foxy lady with a face like Bridget Fonda. All of these things REALLY happened.

How much education you think you need to run a gas station?

Merchants have a great deal of power, not the least of which is that stale old right to "refuse service to anyone". This is almost like the no driving under impairment law. It's ridiculous right? You can't just UP and refuse service to whoever you don't like. You can't just arrest people for impairment. Impairment includes medicine and cigarettes and chewing and eating. A distraction like music could be impairment.

That's not a law, that's a middle finger to the smart people.

The law needs work. It needs refinement like say "this much is too much." Just say NO to drugs, remember that? How'd that zero tolerance policy work out in our lives for the past 20 years? Ok, now how about you BLACK PEOPLE, did it work out for you?

That's a Republican ideology for you, let's ban it but what really happens is the laws are in the hands of the merchants. Adn it's a rich person's or merchants us/them mentality at play here, why? Because I promise you if any of US poor people had a business to run, there is no chance we have problems with drinking too much or using drugs when we are at the store 24/7. and how about that right to refuse service? Shouldn't there be guidelines?

We have a right to trial by jury in this country and this is because... we don't want our police making "gentleman's agreements" with merchants. Obviously this is good for business, but when the police start to lie, CHAOS. When merchants lie to the police and the police just take them at their word, CHAOS. Obviously, merchants have a great deal of exposure in dealing with the public, but that danger is easily reversed into predatory behavior.

Three times in my life now, police have shown up to TRAP me. Once as a speed trap on the way to primary school, after a school patrol obviously told him I liked to speed(because that time she didn't wave at me to slow me down she just looked directly at the cop), the second time out in the middle of nowhere at 2:35am, after I had just closed the bar, someone decides to tailgate me and it turns out to be a police car. And the third time, after I stopped closing all bars in general as a practice, I got turned in by a drive-thru person that mocked my request for food, and then did it again and then yelled at me and then POOF a cop steps out from behind the drive-thru sign, after what was a COMPLETE provocation. Then the manager LIES to the cop so that he will have probable cause.

The first two times, I was too busy having a job to make a fuss about it, but now after several years of contemplating, it's obvious that merchants have WAY TOO MUCH power in our everyday lives. I mean I have a bunch of public records for nothing, for doing what people do everyday. If I was sneaky I promise you I wouldn't have a record, and a great many people would be wondering what was WRONG with the world, why?

Because people follow my example, TRUST ME on this.

Plain and simple this is hunter/prey tactics going on. And if you want me to be prey, I could be REALLY good at it. Blinks are infinite. Once I frame one person, because it was ME someone was trying to frame, there is no limit to who gets framed next. And after 2 or 3 victims legitimize my cause and people start to FEEL GOOD about victimizing others, it's RAPTURE time.

The end of civility.

You can't use evil as a platform. You can't secretly tape someone, and then use that as platform to catch evil. You can't TRAP me, and then say I was breaking the law, when you are guilty of breaking the law FIRST.

Now you might think I should go sue some people but it occurs to me that they might actually fight it by doing MORE illegal things, so before that sort of escalation that involves corrupt cops and a bar and a drive-thru business all VS. ME, I choose to rest my case.

And you might call it fear, and if you want to, you go ahead and call it that.

Those basketball players all indignant about being called what amounts to "stupid", that took off their shirts, proved they were just that by getting indignant at something that was in effect a double-negative. Next time why don't they just walk over to Sterling and grab him by the balls and then see if he says what they want.

If only we could justify betraying someone by calling it whistleblowing. Whistleblowing occurs with evidence, not with words that spout how someone feels. ACTS are cause for concern, NOT opinions.

The reason I am writing today is because we just got news that some people that bought tickets to FUZZFEST, were denied entry. Because the place was at capacity, security stopped allowing entrance due to fire standards. One lady having spent more than $160 for four tickets for her family was just not allowed to enter.

And now what, should she sue for her tickets? Overkill starting to sound good about now yeah? Some of the people denied entry were from Tampa they said and other towns. They drove here to an irresponsible government is what happened. At best they should get a refund on the spot, or future people deserve to have that happen next time. At worst, a class action lawsuit that costs that festival their entire event or at least ALL of their autonomy should be put through. How does something carry the name of Jacksonville and then have such a bunch of THUDS(thuds are stupid, thugs are trying to be stupid). Well this is why, because they are all IN ON IT with the police. Once the police have your back, now you can stand there on your platform of evil and start directing traffic like you write the laws yourself.

Let's think of other examples. If I have access to Sandy relief and you need it for your town, it's kind of a platform for evil. Now you do what I want, even though this here platform where all of the money falls into my hands, should never have happened.

Or let's take derivatives. You know what a derivative is right? Well you take what everyone knows about stock, a percentage ownership of a public company, and instead of having "full" rights, you have partial or derivative rights to ownership. Now this is the perfect example of a platform for evil, because you don't exactly have the rights but this "posssible" right is still sellable based on daily reports of how the company is doing. This is like the looping of the rope around a pole, the first time around halves the movement, and the second time around almost stops it. Derivatives are like that but in reverse, the stock of a big company doesn't change value hardly at all but a derivative of it changes much more often and because of the huge size, the movement is very predicable... to some.

So let's take what I just told you and now ask yourself, should THIS industry be regulated? For many years it wasn't and the LEADERS of the industry, argued against regulation. I mean it's like a casino saying TRUST US our games are fair. Or like an oil company saying it doesn't need waste management. It's rid-DICK! And that's what happened in the mortgage industry with puts and calls that were en masse allowed to influence lending habits for the sake of ramping up and making more popular (and attracting more money to) this "gambling" industry.

But I should have been one of them. I am a Finance Major after all. I was all set to go and my professor was recommending people and I was looking forward to my move to New York one day where I would stake my claim to some of this "imaginary money" that people were making.

He would lecture us at JU on the seriousness of inspiring trust. Of always dressing impeccably, with regular haircuts and shoe polish. He made mention of the power of having a set of good-looking shoes. He told all of US guys, that we would be expected to get a manicure done, regularly and after a good laugh and all of us calming down and then wondering about what he said, he said "I'm serious". It was his highest duty (and ours) to inspire trust in the people that were giving you the dignity of managing their money.

Sadly, it's obvious to me now, that all this money comes from YEARS of people paying on mortgages or paying into pensions, and then having WALL STREET hula-hoop their butts into the fund and then explode it in a disaster made to allow several investors and NONE of the farmers, access to it.

This is NOT an industry of the highest trust, this is an insurance company mentality of stiff the customer when possible and then GET PROMOTED when you do.

Well, the sad thing is you might think wow HEY man they need someone righteous in WALL STREET like you man that understands all of this crap, but no. It's just as I explained it here. Once you realize that they are trying to make it complicated, and that it doesn't need to be, and that the people in charge want the industry more and more complicated just to insure their good practice of PROMOTING the RIGHT KIND of banker, it's time to smoke a cigarette and wonder what it's all for and how did you end up here.

And then you hope some young person like Snowden is reading, someone unafraid or just too dang young to be afraid and maybe their just a little hungry with the need to hunter/prey some illegal people into jail or onto the street. And you hope they make it into the FBI and make IT into a better place if it isn't already.

Arachnophobia is just a fear of spiders. Arachnids are just another word for spiders. Gastroenterologists are just stomach doctors, psychotherapists are just preachers without the faith part, political consultants are just people that watch the news.

It's not hard.

In math, simplification does not change the value of a number and neither do any of these things, making the numbers big and huge are just a way of getting you to quit trying to solve the problem.

What we need are some thunderheads like Sen. Warren or I dunno Rachel maybe or SarahK, someone "courageable" and not incorrigible; preferably NOT a governor, to thunder through some financial reform. Someone unafraid of a BILLION dollars staring them in the face. And hopefully NOT a lawyer cuz those guys are TOO not righteous to make good leaders.

You know what the worst thing about Christie is? I was all set to explain in a blog that the government was run better by people from law enforcement or soldiers and that senators and governors should not be allowed to run for President, until I realized that Christie WAS a police officer, and that MOST of his "crew" are fellow officers, and that probably MOST lawyers have no problem changing sides exculpating themselves of any wrongdoing when it comes to abusing their privilege.

Now, I have no idea WHO would make a good president.

I am happy with Obama but he can't really sound the bell when it comes to taking out the trash and I fear that Warren would have that problem too. But what alternative then? Rubio and Cruz and even McCain come across as callous towards the poor. They come across very much like the us/them mentality that rich people WANT them to have. And without the mindset of professors like Obama and Warren, I fear our leaders.

I honestly think they would rather NOT understand everything they are in charge of.

PS. the worst part of not suing people is that the secret of it, allows evil people to influence all of those people BECAUSE it is secret much like people have used secrets to influence me. So maybe the right thing to do is to go ahead with the lawsuit for the sake of society and for justice. btw, I earned my degree almost 20 years ago and never spent a day in the Finance Dept so my BIG degree doesn't necessarily earn me a job