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However, most crimes requires lots of customers and assistants. For example, many of the stolen automobiles are for resale, not for use by the criminal who stole it. Many of the items that are stolen in burglaries are also for resale. Government corruption does not always require customers, but it requires a lot of people to suppress attempts to expose the corruption, such as by ridiculing the "conspiracy nuts", spreading deceptive information, and distracting people with trivial issues. The people who purchase stolen items and the people who suppress
attempts to expose the crimes are not truly "innocent" because they
are assisting the criminals. These people could be described as accessories
to the crimes.
Involuntary criminalsMost of the people who assist crimes do not realize that they are accessories to the crimes. Most of these people are like my own family members. Specifically, they are emotionally unable to deal with the problems we face. They suppress attempts to expose crimes simply because they suffer from some type of emotional disorder.Rather than refer to them as "accessories to the crime", which implies
they deliberately assist the crimes, they could be described as
"inadvertent criminals" or "involuntary criminals". I suppose government
officials refer to these people as "useful idiots".
High crimes levels require crummy citizensThe level and type of crime in a nation is a reflection of its citizens. If the American people were truly the greatest people in the world, a lot of the crime would cease due to a lack of customers, and because crimes would be exposed quickly by the citizens.An example is the issue of the CIA selling cocaine. If the CIA is truly selling drugs, they are causing problems for the entire world by supporting criminal networks, corrupt governments, murders, gun smuggling, money laundering, and dishonest bank officials. They would also be indirectly causing the deaths of lots of policemen, immigration officials, and other people. However, the CIA could not sell drugs unless there was a large number of customers for their drugs, and a large number of bank officials, professors, military officials, magazine editors, policemen, and government officials willing to ignore or assist the corruption, and a large number of inadvertent criminals who suppress attempts to expose the crime. Therefore, if you are going to complain about the dealing of drugs by the CIA, why not also complain about all the people who directly or indirectly assist the CIA? People who assist crimes are considered to be "normal" citizens, rather than criminals, but if you were a victim of crime, you might not feel that way. For an example, imagine that Jeffrey Dahmer is living in your neighborhood, and every few weeks he kills and eats one of your friends or family members. Imagine that the police and television news reporters know about the crimes, but even they are too emotionally weak to deal with it, so they ignore it. The banking officials also know, but they do not want to lose Jeffrey Dahmer's bank account, so they say nothing. When you try to have Dahmer arrested, Dahmer's lawyers interfere because they realize they can make more money by protecting Dahmer than by stopping him. When you post documents on the Internet that expose Dahmer's killings, the magazines Scientific American and Popular Mechanics publish articles that support Dahmer. Finally, imagine that your friends and neighbors ridicule you as a conspiracy nut, or ignore you. If such a situation were to happen to you, would you complain that Dahmer is a criminal? Or would you be asking yourself, "What is wrong with the majority of people?" Why not apply this same concept to the September 11 attack and other scams? Specifically, why not ask yourself: "How can so many professors, policemen, firemen, military people, magazine editors, and citizens allow a handful of criminals to create so much chaos and suffering? What is wrong with the majority of people?" The attack on Nancy KerriganNancy Kerrigan was hit in the leg at an ice skating competition. Shane Stant was eventually caught, and he told the FBI that Tonya Harding's husband hired him to hit Kerrigan. Tonya Harding was never convicted of involvement, but many people suspect that she at least knew about it since her husband had arranged for it.Some Americans reacted to the attack on Kerrigan by feeling sorry for
Tonya Harding. Her web site ( The children who start life at a disadvantage are often referred to
as "Underdogs". It is much more difficult for an Underdog to become President
of America compared to a "privileged" child. However, there is nothing
to stop an Underdog from becoming a respectable member of society and setting
up a happy life for himself.
Unfortunately, some Underdogs end up committing crimes, or they have
trouble maintaining stable friendships or marriages, or they develop alcohol
or gambling problems. They may blame their problems on their miserable
childhood, but there is a point at which an adult has to take responsibility
for his life and stop justifying his terrible behavior on his crummy childhood.
If we allow adults to blame their bad behavior on their childhood we
will encourage more bad behavior because it allows everybody from a poor
neighborhood to justify their crimes with remarks such as,
It is certainly true that a child who grows up in an environment of
crime, corruption, fighting, and gangs will be more likely to consider
such behavior "normal". For example, some children who grew up in families
where incest was common have mentioned that they assumed incest was a normal
part of family life, and not until they were older did they discover the
truth.
It is understandable when a young girl considers it normal to have sex
with her father if she grew up with incest. And it is understandable when
a child considers shoplifting to be normal if he grew up around parents
who shoplift.
However, as children become adults, they should occasionally look at
their attitudes, their clothing styles, and the manner in which they talk
to and treat people. They should notice that some of the attitudes they
picked up during their childhood are inappropriate.
It is possible that Tonya Harding's husband grew up around so much crime,
violent Hollywood movies, gangs, steroid use by athletes, and corruption
among the judges in sports events that he considered the attack on Nancy
Kerrigan to be normal behavior in such important sports contests.
However, even if his behavior was due to the terrible environment he
grew up in, pity will not make him or anybody else a better person, nor
will it stop future crimes.
The environment a child grows up in will affect his attitude. Therefore,
it is important to create a better environment to raise children. However,
that requires stopping the crime, not feeling sorry for the
people who do it. Children should develop the attitude that crime is an
undesirable
aberration, not an ordinary part of sporting events, political contests,
and everyday life.
The two largest groups of Americans seem to be the Liberals and
the Conservatives. Most of the people who call themselves Liberals
believe that the solution to crime is to feel sorry for criminals, and
most of the people who call themselves Conservatives believe that the solution
is to hurt the criminal with jail, torture, or death. Neither group has
done anything to reduce crime or help us understand why it occurs.
The issues we face are much more complicated than the common people
are making them appear. We need more intelligent people in control of the
world.
The people a thousand years in the future will certainly look at the
most wealthy neighborhoods of today as being incredibly primitive. Does
that mean that Bill Gates, George Soros, and George Bush are suffering
from poverty but are too stupid to realize it?
The only sensible explanation is that poverty is a concept; a perspective;
an attitude; a figment of your imagination. Whether you are suffering
from poverty or enjoying your wealth depends on how you want
to look at life. Life is miserable if you want it to be, or it is wonderful.
It depends entirely on your mind.
Some of the people in poor neighborhoods drink excessively, abuse their
spouse or children, and commit crimes. However, their bad behavior is not
due to their lack of money. Giving them money or pity will not transform
them into happy, productive members of society.
Some people in rich neighborhoods also drink excessively, abuse their
spouse or children, and commit crimes. Giving pity to the rich people will
not help them, either.
The only alcoholics and criminals who have become better people are
the ones who could face their problems and do the hard work
of changing their attitudes and behavior.
A common attitude in America is that ignorance, crime, alcoholism, and
divorce are the result of poverty, and that the solution to this
problem is to end poverty, usually with welfare, pity, or some form
of handout.
The opposite makes more sense. Specifically, ignorance, crime, alcoholism,
and divorce can create poverty. Solving these problems is not easy.
We need better school systems, a respectable government, and better behaved
citizens.
The poor neighborhoods are often ugly and full of trash, but that is
not
because the people are poor. Rather, it is because so many of them
waste their time and money pouting, hating, drinking, fighting, gambling,
and watching TV. They are poor because of their terrible behavior.
The reason life in a poor neighborhood is so miserable is because of
the people who live there, not because of the lack of material items.
Many of the people in those neighborhoods are neurotic, uneducated, stupid,
or retarded. They are ruining their lives, and they are making life miserable
for the children in their neighborhood.
Many of the people in poor neighborhoods do not have jobs, so they have
plenty
of time to clean up the trash, plants gardens, and arrange dinners
and social affairs. Instead, they drink, fight, watch television, and pout.
The miserable qualities of a poor neighborhood are due to the
crummy
minds of the people who live there. It has nothing to do with their
lack of money.
Tonya Harding could have become an inspiration to the "Trailer Trash"
children. She had a talent for ice-skating that was far beyond what most
people have, and she could have enjoyed it. But her husband, some of her
friends, and possibly even herself, ruined an incredible opportunity.
The attack on Nancy Kerrigan is more evidence that many of the people
who live in poor neighborhoods are in their miserable situations because
of their undesirable minds.
Many poor people complain that they do not have opportunities, but everybody
has opportunities. However, many people have mental disorders that cause
them to ruin or ignore their opportunities.
Giving pity to people who behave badly will not make them behave in
a better manner. Rather, it encourages them to pout and hate.
One of the most self-destructive attitudes in America is that we can
help the Underdogs by giving them pity. The only way to help people
through education and training. We can only help people to
help themselves.
I mentioned that Linus Pauling is an example of how a child in a bad
situation can become a respectable member of society. There is a woman
who makes an even more incredible example, assuming that what she says
is true. That woman is Cathy O'Brien. If she is telling the truth, she
has gone though more abuse than most people would even dream possible.
However, one of the reasons it is difficult to believe her is that if you
have the chance to meet her, you will find that she is so adorable that
you can't stop wondering to yourself, "If this woman is telling the truth,
why is she not the least bit bitter or angry? Why is she so happy?"
The common attitude in America is that a child who grows up around crime
and abuse will become a miserable criminal. This attitude is one reason
people doubt that Cathy O'Brien is telling the truth. It is assumed that
any woman as adorable as she must have been raised by rich parents, sent
to special schools, and pampered by servants.
Lousy environments certainly can give children bad attitudes, but there
is nothing stopping them from getting rid of those bad attitudes as they
grow up.
When you justify crime by saying the criminal grew up in a bad environment,
you are encouraging pouting and more crime, which will make
the situation worse. People should be told that even if they did grow up
in a bad situation, there is nothing stopping them from improving themselves,
becoming respectable members of society, and enjoying life.
What you become depends upon your own mind. Don't blame your
terrible behavior on a lack of money, or because you parents were crummy.
For example, imagine if the majority of athletes were hiring
people to attack their competitors. Imagine if prior to every football
game, basketball game, ice skating competition, and Olympic contest, the
majority
of athletes dropped out because they were hit in the leg with a stick.
And how you would feel if people were doing this to each other as they
applied
for jobs? How would you feel if somebody hits you with a stick every
time you were on your way to a job interview?
Or imagine if almost everybody was abandoning items in supermarkets
and other retail stores. Would you dismiss such behavior as insignificant
when it happens on a large scale?
In case you assume that her mother was struggling to afford food, you
should know that she was wealthier than the average American.
I was expecting people to criticize her when she was finished with her
story, but I was amazed to discover the other people considered her mother
to be "clever". It seems that most Americans believe that when you cheat
a department store, you are "clever" rather than a "criminal".
Imagine this happening on a very large scale. Imagine every American
citizen purchasing items and then a year later lying to get a free replacement.
A lot of people justify their cheating of corporations on the grounds
that the corporations are evil entities. However, if the American people
were the moral, intelligent people they claim to be, they would discuss
the problems we face and try to improve our situation.
I agree that corporations are dominated by neurotic people who foolishly
believe that money is going to make them happy, but committing criminal
acts is not going to make the nation better.
Some people think they are clever for stealing hotel towels, or utensils
from restaurants, or books from the public library. Imagine if everybody
did this.
There is no perfect solution to crime because no matter what we do,
lots of people are going to be upset by it.
Many athletes are aware of the corruption in sports, and some of them
come to the conclusion that since other athletes are cheating, they have
to cheat in order to maintain equality with their competitors. For example,
many athletes justify their use of performance enhancing drugs by pointing
out that other athletes are doing it. Those particular athletes are more
evidence that when we who ignore crimes, we are allowing the situation
to get worse.
Many people complained about the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, but who complained
about the other the people who cheat in sports events? The message to athletes
is that nobody cares about the cheating as long as it is subtle. What type
of message is this?
Years ago when I first heard about an athlete taking drugs to boost
his performance, my attitude was, "So What?" A lot of crimes seem trivial
when we focus on one, individual crime. We have to look at the effect a
crime has on other people and on the future.
The same concept applies to people who behave badly. For example, parents
who abandon items at supermarkets and retail stores are not violating any
law, but their children might pick up the attitude that the behavior is
acceptable.
Furthermore, other people's children might also pick up that
attitude simply by observing it. Those children might respond, "But everybody
else is doing it!" when their parents complain about their bad behavior.
If the American people were the responsible, moral people they claim
to be, children would be picking up good attitudes from the wonderful adults.
Instead, raising children in America is raising children in a gigantic
jail
that is lacking supervision. Parents have to spend a lot of time trying
to remove the crummy attitudes their kids pick up from other
prisoners.
Your life is whatever you make it. If your mind is crummy, your life
will be crummy. Conversely, if you are the most intelligent person on the
planet, your life will be the best managed.
A nation is whatever the people make it. If the people are dishonest,
mentally ill, hypocritical, selfish, and violent, they will make a crummy,
violent, crime-ridden society. Conversely, if the people are the greatest
people in the world, their nation will be the greatest nation.
Why does America have so much crime, corruption, and slavery? Why is
America resisting the metric system? Why do the American people spend so
much money on gambling, alcohol, drugs, and other forms of entertainment,
and so little money on anything useful? Why is the leadership in America
so incompetent and corrupt? Why are our news reports so stupid and deceptive?
Why do so many Americans have intense cravings for wealth and fame? Why
are so many Americans willing to manipulate children for the purpose of
increasing corporate profits?
Millions of Americans are trying desperately to find some group of people
to blame the nation's problems on. There are millions of Americans insisting
that our problems are due to liberals, Republicans, Jews, blacks, or Mexicans.
The only way America will be able improve is when it faces the fact
that its problems are coming from its own people. America is a victim
of the majority of Americans.
Some of the people who came to America were respectable and were simply
looking for a new life, but most of them are just like the Statue
of Liberty describes them: the Wretched Refuse; the Huddled Masses; the
Trailer Trash. We must stop pretending that the immigrants to America were
the best people of Europe. We have to face the fact that most Americans
have serious mental disorders.
From what I have seen in other countries, the majority of people in
every
nation are suffering from mental disorders. Badly behaved people are not
unique to America.
The world will not improve from people who hate, feel sorry for themselves,
or who selfishly think of their personal income. We will create a better
life for ourselves only after we get better leadership, and better
behaved citizens. We need citizens who are willing to help make a better
society and a better world.
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