"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

Friday, 14 January, 2011 13:19

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"William Finnerty" <newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk>

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January 11, 2011

"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

By William Finnerty

Great, REALLY GREAT, but ...

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While I (as always) feel extremely grateful to all those who take to the streets in peaceful and lawful ways, to protest against major outbreaks of government and corporate wrongdoing, my fear is that such protests will never (by themselves) be enough to remedy the basic set of problems involved: having due regard for the kind of people who are doing -- and the many who in one way or another are helping and supporting!! -- the wrongdoing in this particular case, and in many others like it all around the world.

I can very easily understand the viewpoint that "weak governance" is playing a major role.

However, there is also the alternative perception which, from the viewpoint of the wrongdoers, would claim that it is "strong governance" (albeit of the completely wrong kind as far as I am concerned) which is, on an ongoing basis, winning all (or almost all) the important battles for the tyrannous despots, plutocrats, and kleptocrats (etcetera) who are indulging themselves with impunity in the extremely serious and cunningly well-hidden criminal activities concerned.

Unless the "starting place" of the centuries old power-source which is at the present time driving, sustaining, and strengthening such "strong governance" can be honestly sought out, and honestly faced up to -- by sufficiently large numbers of honest people -- and successfully tackled by the open and honest use of the FULL range of all peaceful and lawful means available to them, I have great difficulty in seeing how there can ever be a happy ending for humanity generally (i.e. humanity as a whole)?

Then, and to add to the already large set of reasonably obvious difficulties involved, somewhere in the highly complex chemistry of the human brain there also lurks the subtle and seemingly much more difficult to deal with hurdle which Shakespeare's Hamlet pointed out well over 400 years ago:

"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

Previous to being censored, there was a very closely related comment on such matters at the following Indymedia (Ireland) location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98585#comment276652
< which can still be viewed from the BACKUP COPY >

The above text is very largely based on a second related comment posted at the following Indymedia (Ireland) www location (which was later censored as well):
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98599#comment276707
< but which can still be viewed from the BACKUP COPY >

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Dishonesty: The Achilles' Heel of Humanity?

An Achilles' heel is a deadly weakness which exists in the presence of great overall strength, and it can potentially lead to complete downfall; or, often in tense, troublesome, and worrying ways, right to the very edge of complete downfall.

"One in ten thousand" suggests that as little as 0.01% of humanity is honest, and that 99.99% is dishonest?

If true -- and in many everyday situations relating to social, political, legal, medical, religious, educational, and financial issues (for example), I suspect this statistic of Hamlet's really might be reasonably accurate? -- then it is little wonder perhaps that civilization still struggles with so many major conflicts (and closely related problems)?

Are we all (or almost all of us, i.e. 99.99% of us), with varying degrees of success, and at enormous expense to ourselves overall (i.e. as a species), spending most of our time trying (in one way or another) to deceive each other regarding such major problems; and, for some of the time at least, deceiving ourselves in very significant ways as well perhaps?

And, why is it that the rest of the animal world -- apart from the cuckoo family group perhaps -- appears to be much less afflicted by such dishonest tendencies?

Are we somehow, because of certain deep-seated fears (or whatever) which we are largely unaware of possibly, misusing our additional brain-power? And, avoidably maybe, through the repeated use of poor-quality personal choices which we make each day as individuals, foolishly using (or wasting) far too much of our extra brain capacity for the purpose of supporting corruption-ridden, greed-ridden, crime-ridden, and power-mad people (and their socially malicious pursuits)? And which, consequentially, may be producing much in the way of completely avoidable pain and suffering, injury, illness, and death?

"Ah how shameless - the way these mortals blame the gods.
From us alone, they say, come all their miseries, yes,
But they themselves, with their own reckless ways,
Compound their pains beyond their proper measure."

Homer (Circa 9th century BC, Odyssey - Book I, lines 37 to 40).

The 3,000 or so year old observation just above also seems to suggest that we human beings may be very "slow learners" as far as seeing the hidden danger in certain core-issue social matters is concerned: such as, for example, with regard to the present red-rotten-with-corruption-and-crime SOURCE of our "money supply": which, as an UNELECTED and completely out-of-control group as far as genuine democracy is concerned, now appears to be virtually all-powerful in terms of controlling and bullying all (or almost all) of the governments of the whole world?

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January 13th 2011 Updates ...

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Mention was made yesterday (i.e. January 12th 2011) of this particular Diary Entry in an e-mail sent to UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne MP, and the recipient list included a few dozen or so of his UK parliamentary colleagues.

For further information relating to the e-mail used please click on the following www address:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UK/Parliament/Group1/12January2010/Email.htm#GeorgeOsborneMP

Allowing for the enormous and growing amount of crime, corruption, and cover-ups -- as in "criminal dishonesty" -- which is believed to form a major part of the seemingly (so far) impossible to resolve IMPUNITY problem referred to above, and as can be seen at the www address just above, the recipient list also included a number of senior police officers.

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THE HISTORY OF MONEY

"It is fascinating and almost magical how money appeared on our planet."

Part 1: http://www.xat.org/xat/moneyhistory.html

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New Book Titled "Treasure Islands" (By Nicholas Shaxson)

"At last, a readable – indeed gripping – book which explains the nuts and bolts of tax havens. More importantly, it lays bare the mechanism that financial capital has been using to stay in charge: capturing government policy-making around the world, shaking off such irritants as democracy and the rule of law (particularly constitutional law!!), and making sure that suckers like you and me pay for its operators’ opulent lifestyles."

From: http://treasureislands.org/praise-for-the-book/

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Text which very closely resembles the above can also be viewed at the following Open News "Diary Entry" location:
http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Ay-sir-to-be-honest-as-by-William-Finnerty-110111-898.html

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Human Rights Ireland
http://www.humanrightsireland.com

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	There is NOTHING to prevent governments producing their own DEBT-FREE and INTEREST-FREE money. It has been done very successfully and very easily before, both by former US President Abraham Lincoln, and by former US President John F. Kennedy (for example).