Morality Laws and Extortion in a Free Society
                                                               by Vincent Michelangelo c2008

  The Memorial Day weekend offers many people a three day break from the routine work week.  I live in Pasadena with a large family including three adults in their twenties.  On Sunday afternoon two  of our housemates went down to the Venice boardwalk with another couple.  At one point they were waiting for their friends to shop and stepped off the boardwalk to have a cigarette.  They were standing on a grassy knoll in the shade directly across from the store fronts.  Within minutes a female police officer was interrogating them, followed by another officer and then two more policemen in the background.

They were both issued tickets for smoking in public, although there were no visible signs to say otherwise. 

 My housemates were dumbfounded as there was no debating the issue.  They will have to call a number to find out the cost of the tickets and choose to either pay the fines or show up in court to fight it.

      This incident brings up two things worth thinking about in regards to our society.  The primary issue is  the police state in the United States that has been steadily growing over several decades with a staggering boost since 9-11.  The secondary issue is this continual campaign against smoking tobacco, specifically in public places.  Both issues reflect a young soul society that has been brainwashed with massive doses of fear, mistrust and misconceptions.  Morality is often based upon fear, which feeds the false personality and justifies  right and wrong with belief systems.  If our society does not begin to expand the consciousness of the soul,  then the dream for this planet will be usurped by those who profit from people’s ignorance, apathy and economic hardships.  In a police state you are no longer innocent until proven guilty, but instead guilty until proven innocent.  Is this the kind of society that we the people have agreed to accept and create? 

Is this our shining example of a democratic Republic?

      It has been nearly seven years since 9-11 and I have done my fair share of study on the subject.  It is clearly  evident that this horrific event was “allowed to happen” and that those involved were at the highest levels of  government and national security.  It was compared to Pearl Harbor and steered the American public toward war in the Middle East.  It was another classic play on the part of the “elite rulers” who meet in their Bilderberg  meetings, Trilateral commissions, Council on foreign relations, and other secret societies.  They control the monies and manipulate wars; they have leaders assassinated, “deviants” imprisoned, and own the media channels;  they have no true national sovereignty because they serve a global agenda; they are the same international elites who were challenged at the turn of the twentieth century; today they are wealthy family dynasties, monarchies,  and corporate elites; they may appear strong, yet inherently they are weak, isolated and burdened by their  global agenda.

     In my opinion the biggest conspiracy going on is being televised across the airwaves via media channels that  are directly controlled by elite factions in cahoots with one another or competing over the control.  Either way it leaves many people disillusioned and comfortably sedated.  On the flip side, the emergence of film in our society  allows for the truth to be revealed on a mass level.  I have seen extraordinary documentaries over the past decade  as more people have the courage to investigate various aspects of our society including the tax system, 9-11,

the media, corporate monopolies, the prison industrial complex, the pharmaceutical industry, the machinations  of war, and the UFO phenomenon.  In our minds we can focus on the positive or the negative, and we can also  choose to change the channel, end the brainwashing, and regain control of our basic rights and individual freedoms.

      I am completely at odds with the anti-smoking campaign that has been waged against our society.  It reeks of  liberal do-gooderism backed by the conservative laws of a police state.  The conscious use of tobacco has been part of the human experience for centuries, and believe it or not, but there are benefits to the body through the  smoking of tobacco.  I can already hear the protests, and yet the medical establishment has a long way to go in regards to understanding health and the “wholeness” of a human being.  I take a more holistic approach to my  personal needs including a daily survey of my emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of my being. 

 Since I know that I am a Soul in a body, I do not allow man-made laws or scientific reasoning to confuse my  intuitive knowing and my ability to discern what is true versus what is false.  It is from this place that I enjoy the conscious use of tobacco and support a smoking awareness campaign.  Everyone should be allowed to enjoy a meal or the beach or a concert, both smokers and non-smokers equally.

     If we are trapped by a system of rules and laws, then at the very least these laws should truly protect and serve people rather than extort and imprison them.  A must read is Peter McWilliams’ book Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do:  Consensual Crimes in a Free Society.  A “consensual crime” is a victimless crime, for it is not against a person or their property; check out the statistics and see how many consensual crimes fill up our prison systems. 

 It is time to wake up and realize that tobacco is not the problem, drugs are not the problem, abortions are not the  problem; the problems are within how we can collectively get along, how we can share space and resources,  how we can prosper without it being at the expense of another, how we can worship or celebrate without being  harassed, how we can honor individual liberties and maintain our national security, how we can build our economy  from with and educate our children to another level of awareness and understanding.  Are as individuals content to just get by and follow the norm?  Have we been conditioned to fit in, belong and conform without questioning corrupt elders?  Are we fed up yet?

     At forty-one years old I was not pleased to hear that my younger housemates received tickets for smoking cigarettes in public.  I know that they will probably not fight the tickets in court because it will cost them a day  of work; however, the price of the tickets may change that.  It is obvious that different cities around Los Angeles pride themselves for a “tough” police force who prey on anyone who looks “different.”  The various forms of extortion that exist via parking tickets, the seatbelt law, car insurance penalties and smog testing (that’s an article in itself)  is absurd.  The new one effective July 1^st, 2008 is talking on your cell phone while driving; so here we go again,  another reason to pull you over and interrogate you. 

Do we have to start a conscious driving campaign to go along with the conscious use of tobacco?  Instead of brainstorming about how to revitalize our economy or better educate our children, we have to pass petty laws that extort everyone… Like the T.V. commercial “click it or ticket”  sponsored by the Department of Transportation, “we give tickets to save lives.”  Are people really buying into this? 

     Well, I don’t think my housemates will be going down to Venice anytime soon.  They will take their business elsewhere and enjoy a day of fun in a more pleasant, less patrolled environment.  As a matter of fact, there are a few cities that are becoming “mini-fascist” areas like Burbank, Glendale, Calabassas and Santa Monica.

Smokers are clearly not welcome.  Racial profiling is rampant.  An air of fear and snobbery permeates these places and others like them.  In San Diego several beaches have also made it a fine to smoke in public, yet when they rake the beaches, it is not cigarette butts they find…No, what they find is miscellaneous trash and diapers!  That’s the truth.

Are we truly progressing as a society?  Are these kinds of laws a measure of our morality or simply a reflection of our fear, ignorance and lack of solidarity?  We as a people can unite above these differences and set a much better example as a working democracy in a free Republic.  Yet are we still a democracy in a free Republic?

 Does anyone feel any safer since 9-11?  I guess a perpetual war on terror is not so comforting after all.  And where is Vice-President Dick Cheney?  Does anyone know?  Oh, that’s right, it’s none of our business, for NATIONAL SECURITY PURPOSES, of course, it’s all very clear now.

Morality Laws and Extortion in a Free Society
                                                               by Vincent Michelangelo c2008

  The Memorial Day weekend offers many people a three day break from the routine work week.  I live in Pasadena with a large family including three adults in their twenties.  On Sunday afternoon two  of our housemates went down to the Venice boardwalk with another couple.  At one point they were waiting for their friends to shop and stepped off the boardwalk to have a cigarette.  They were standing on a grassy knoll in the shade directly across from the store fronts.  Within minutes a female police officer was interrogating them, followed by another officer and then two more policemen in the background.

They were both issued tickets for smoking in public, although there were no visible signs to say otherwise. 

 My housemates were dumbfounded as there was no debating the issue.  They will have to call a number to find out the cost of the tickets and choose to either pay the fines or show up in court to fight it.

      This incident brings up two things worth thinking about in regards to our society.  The primary issue is  the police state in the United States that has been steadily growing over several decades with a staggering boost since 9-11.  The secondary issue is this continual campaign against smoking tobacco, specifically in public places.  Both issues reflect a young soul society that has been brainwashed with massive doses of fear, mistrust and misconceptions.  Morality is often based upon fear, which feeds the false personality and justifies  right and wrong with belief systems.  If our society does not begin to expand the consciousness of the soul,  then the dream for this planet will be usurped by those who profit from people’s ignorance, apathy and economic hardships.  In a police state you are no longer innocent until proven guilty, but instead guilty until proven innocent.  Is this the kind of society that we the people have agreed to accept and create? 

Is this our shining example of a democratic Republic?

      It has been nearly seven years since 9-11 and I have done my fair share of study on the subject.  It is clearly  evident that this horrific event was “allowed to happen” and that those involved were at the highest levels of  government and national security.  It was compared to Pearl Harbor and steered the American public toward war in the Middle East.  It was another classic play on the part of the “elite rulers” who meet in their Bilderberg  meetings, Trilateral commissions, Council on foreign relations, and other secret societies.  They control the monies and manipulate wars; they have leaders assassinated, “deviants” imprisoned, and own the media channels;  they have no true national sovereignty because they serve a global agenda; they are the same international elites who were challenged at the turn of the twentieth century; today they are wealthy family dynasties, monarchies,  and corporate elites; they may appear strong, yet inherently they are weak, isolated and burdened by their  global agenda.

     In my opinion the biggest conspiracy going on is being televised across the airwaves via media channels that  are directly controlled by elite factions in cahoots with one another or competing over the control.  Either way it leaves many people disillusioned and comfortably sedated.  On the flip side, the emergence of film in our society  allows for the truth to be revealed on a mass level.  I have seen extraordinary documentaries over the past decade  as more people have the courage to investigate various aspects of our society including the tax system, 9-11,

the media, corporate monopolies, the prison industrial complex, the pharmaceutical industry, the machinations  of war, and the UFO phenomenon.  In our minds we can focus on the positive or the negative, and we can also  choose to change the channel, end the brainwashing, and regain control of our basic rights and individual freedoms.

      I am completely at odds with the anti-smoking campaign that has been waged against our society.  It reeks of  liberal do-gooderism backed by the conservative laws of a police state.  The conscious use of tobacco has been part of the human experience for centuries, and believe it or not, but there are benefits to the body through the  smoking of tobacco.  I can already hear the protests, and yet the medical establishment has a long way to go in regards to understanding health and the “wholeness” of a human being.  I take a more holistic approach to my  personal needs including a daily survey of my emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of my being. 

 Since I know that I am a Soul in a body, I do not allow man-made laws or scientific reasoning to confuse my  intuitive knowing and my ability to discern what is true versus what is false.  It is from this place that I enjoy the conscious use of tobacco and support a smoking awareness campaign.  Everyone should be allowed to enjoy a meal or the beach or a concert, both smokers and non-smokers equally.

     If we are trapped by a system of rules and laws, then at the very least these laws should truly protect and serve people rather than extort and imprison them.  A must read is Peter McWilliams’ book Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do:  Consensual Crimes in a Free Society.  A “consensual crime” is a victimless crime, for it is not against a person or their property; check out the statistics and see how many consensual crimes fill up our prison systems. 

 It is time to wake up and realize that tobacco is not the problem, drugs are not the problem, abortions are not the  problem; the problems are within how we can collectively get along, how we can share space and resources,  how we can prosper without it being at the expense of another, how we can worship or celebrate without being  harassed, how we can honor individual liberties and maintain our national security, how we can build our economy  from with and educate our children to another level of awareness and understanding.  Are as individuals content to just get by and follow the norm?  Have we been conditioned to fit in, belong and conform without questioning corrupt elders?  Are we fed up yet?

     At forty-one years old I was not pleased to hear that my younger housemates received tickets for smoking cigarettes in public.  I know that they will probably not fight the tickets in court because it will cost them a day  of work; however, the price of the tickets may change that.  It is obvious that different cities around Los Angeles pride themselves for a “tough” police force who prey on anyone who looks “different.”  The various forms of extortion that exist via parking tickets, the seatbelt law, car insurance penalties and smog testing (that’s an article in itself)  is absurd.  The new one effective July 1^st, 2008 is talking on your cell phone while driving; so here we go again,  another reason to pull you over and interrogate you. 

Do we have to start a conscious driving campaign to go along with the conscious use of tobacco?  Instead of brainstorming about how to revitalize our economy or better educate our children, we have to pass petty laws that extort everyone… Like the T.V. commercial “click it or ticket”  sponsored by the Department of Transportation, “we give tickets to save lives.”  Are people really buying into this? 

     Well, I don’t think my housemates will be going down to Venice anytime soon.  They will take their business elsewhere and enjoy a day of fun in a more pleasant, less patrolled environment.  As a matter of fact, there are a few cities that are becoming “mini-fascist” areas like Burbank, Glendale, Calabassas and Santa Monica.

Smokers are clearly not welcome.  Racial profiling is rampant.  An air of fear and snobbery permeates these places and others like them.  In San Diego several beaches have also made it a fine to smoke in public, yet when they rake the beaches, it is not cigarette butts they find…No, what they find is miscellaneous trash and diapers!  That’s the truth.

Are we truly progressing as a society?  Are these kinds of laws a measure of our morality or simply a reflection of our fear, ignorance and lack of solidarity?  We as a people can unite above these differences and set a much better example as a working democracy in a free Republic.  Yet are we still a democracy in a free Republic?

 Does anyone feel any safer since 9-11?  I guess a perpetual war on terror is not so comforting after all.  And where is Vice-President Dick Cheney?  Does anyone know?  Oh, that’s right, it’s none of our business, for NATIONAL SECURITY PURPOSES, of course, it’s all very clear now.