Thursday, 3 April 2025

Author: Dr Navin C Naidu

The baring of fangs

When the government smiles, the rattlesnakes run for cover.— Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux Native American chief The baring of fangs is usually an expected event when the recipient of the naked truth, bereft of embellishments and improvisations, is unable to agree or accede to the demands for reform and resolution.

Neo-science, non-science and nonsense

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist Everyday thinking, or ‘stinking thinking,’ neatly separates and distinguishes neo-science, non-science and nonsense, and catalogues them for mental blockades, silly arguments, useless debates and inevitable migraines. Even nonsense has a spot. You can

The dystopian dilemma

I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears. – Lauren Oliver, American author The right is condemning the left, and vice-versa in North America; the anarchists are condemning the separatists, supremacists and extremists; the revolutionaries are condemning the do-nothings; the politicians are blaming each other while fattening

Land ahoy!

Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust, French novelist The 15th century code for empire-building was ‘land ahoy,’ shouted by the ship’s watch to inform the weary seafaring crew that land has been spotted. Whether or not the ship’s captain and

Civil wrongs

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.– Ida B. Wells, founder of the NAACP Civil wrongs invariably happen when civil rights are distorted and decimated in litigated cases. Civil rights are property rights within the scope and substance of Article 13 Federal Constitution

Freedom: Fact, fiction or fantasy?

For what avail the plough or the sail, or land or life, if freedom fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist THE greatest fear facing mankind is for some superior sovereign to define, decide and deliver freedom either through public policy manifest in written laws and constitutions, or by sheer

Stealthy salami slices

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by. – A.E. Samaan, investigative historian A salami attack, first coined in the 1940s by Hungarian politicians, imposes small, incremental changes to a system to steal small amounts of money or resources. The changes are often so small

Of unsound mind

Wisdom is evidenced when correcting mistakes; unsound mind is  evidenced when defending faults.  – Huineng, 7th century monk MANY world leaders, past and present, are known to have endured some degree of mental incapacitation best known to their inner circles and a discerning public. Usually, the truth surfaces after these

First, do no harm

Law without justice is a wound without a cure. – Anonymous All international treaties, covenants, pacts, proclamations, declarations and Executive Orders must pass muster within the confines of three Latin maxims, viz, primum non nocere, (first, do no harm), erga omnes (rights, duties and obligations owed toward all under international

Sullied sovereigns

To dare a thought is to risk being wrong. – James Dale Davidson, American investment writer Your first contract with government is triggered by your birth certificate. Your inalienable sovereign status denies you a certificate of conception that becomes irrelevant in the cacophony of citizenship. You may be a sovereign