Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant.– Associate Justice Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court (1916-1939) Politicians gloat about the need for transparency, responsibility, accountability as they wield power to classify, or declassify, certain documents deemed surreptitiously secret. The media frenzy over this issue in the USA is on overdrive while most Americans
A written Constitution is not a mere lawyers’ document. It’s a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the Age. — B. R. Ambedkar, Indian jurist The time to restructure the Federal Constitution (FC) has arrived to accommodate all 21st century stakeholders — the People, the Borneo
De jure regimes are constantly bombarded by de facto jurisdictions, especially when claiming actions for the recovery of land. This involves everything above the land, beneath the land, and around the land. This is accepted, endorsed and known in de jure language as a Latin common law doctrine: cuius est
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader THOUSANDS of decisions delivered by courts of law have courted disaster, provoked anxiety, shock, controversy and outrage because of the huge question marks hovering ominously over the rule of
The greatest praise government can win, is that its citizens know their rights and dare to maintain them. — Wendell Phillips, American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans Vision, Mission and Provision 2023 has arrived on a firm foothold for politically active citizens and public action councils (PACs) to maintain their
If nominated, I’ll not run; if elected, I shall not serve. – American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman In politics, the inevitable shibboleth (buzzword, password, catchword) is prosperity, liberty, unity, stability that wins votes and keeps the citizenry convinced for a spell. In religion, it’s abiding faith and belief
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them. – W. Edwards Deming, American management consultant The art, science and business of government is easily identified by its myriad variations, deviations and applications to clumsily endure, not cure, deliberately self-inflicted defects. It’s conscience suicide. The
Representation is but silent regress. – Abhijit Naskar, author and neuroscientist “The party controls the government and the government controls the society, and there is little room for philosophical or political diversity,” observed Mark R. Levin in his American Marxism. This calls for unmanipulated education designed, structured, fortified and empowered
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist We are tethered to the wretched earthly bonds, bondages and boundaries giving us the illusion of existence with the aid of the five physical senses. That’s that part of
Make sure nobody sees your daily mask; but see theirs. This is the secret of the seer and the seen. – Adi Shankara, Indian age (800 AD) The misused, mistaken, misunderstood and misapplied term “persona” (Greek) means a mask that Grecian actors wore to portray characters by hiding their faces.
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