Very rarely do both morals and laws coincide with one another. What is morally right often times cannot be legislated. Case in point racism, despite our current laws their still exists a very racist society. It is also true that laws are very rare a proper indication of morals. An example of this is slavery and “separate but equal”. There was even a law in one state that allowed for the murder of a religious sect simply because you wanted their land. Currently there are a couple of battles being fought legally that have great moral implications.
Over two hundred years ago several great men who had helped colonize America made a very important and crucial decision. They began the process of declaring independence from the dominant power of the time and that was England. They did not take their decision lightly, they had grievances that the King of England was failing to address and felt they had no choice but to revolt.
Violence as a means for social change is difficult to comprehend. The very essence of social change is to make society different even better at points; regardless of the causes, violence seems to only make it worse. Whether it is life, liberty or property someone always loses something when violence is employed. If all other non-violent options are exhausted and violence is the only means to bring about the needed changes then the violence is immeasurable in value. The Boston Tea Party was one such…
The American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU is currently working to help maintain the constitutional rights that are given to all people through legislation and through defending individual’s whose rights have been infringed. They work within the legal system through civil procedures to procure the rights of all American’s regardless of the person’s agenda or political standing. According to the ACLU’s website,
Ever told a blonde joke? How about a racist joke? How about ever used a racial epithet in anger? Ever made a stereotype or generalization about a particular group of people based upon what you “know”? Many people only consider the overt forms of racism as racism; they think the hate groups are the only ones who are racist or bad. But what about those people that aren’t overtly racist but instead are covert about their racism? These are just a few ideas of how people can be racist without even knowing it.
Most people don’t know that CSUSM’s official full-time status is significantly lower than the financial aid status that is considered full-time. Accord to CSUSM full-time is anything over 6 units, however the required units for full-time for financial aid and many insurance companies is 12 units. So the fact that CSUSM has limited once again students to only 13 units is no coincidence. They make no additional money off of students if they take more than 12 units. Financial aid and any aid from the state and or federal government does not increase if you take more than 12 units.…
Apparently California State University – San Marcos is no longer in the business of graduating students at least not unless you are willing to play by their obscenely inane rules. They once again, due to “budget” cuts are restricting the level of units that a student can take to only 13! The absolute absurdity of this is that they are continuing to build a student union to the tune of about 40+ million dollars. So let’s see they aren’t willing to give up their student union for a while until the budget “rights” itself. Yet they are willing to charge…
The upcoming Arizona Immigration Law is severely flawed. It criminalizes to an extreme level those who have entered the country without wading through the mound of paper work and dealing with the obscenely long waiting period. What it doesn’t do is address the fundamental causes of undocumented workers. Currently the immigration system is set up to only “allow” a select few of individuals that are lucky enough to win the immigration lottery. Why is the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness criminal? It is the basis for which this country was founded; we of all people should be embracing individuals from…
This afternoon I received an email from the President of CSUSM, the school I am attending. It was informing the student body that there was found in one of the bathrooms on campus, racial epithets. There have been a string of these lately, UCSD and their racial problems included. I am wondering where this is all coming from. My parents are from areas where racism was certainly more prevalent, but I wasn’t raised that way. It is very disappointing to hear that people still think with such hate for their brothers and sisters.
In light of all that is going on in the world, I think this subject is one that is appropriate. Often times so many people sit idly by and watch as the decisions of others affect their lives and not necessarily for the good. Then when they don’t like what has happened they sit back and complain about it. It is only when it affects them directly do they start getting involved. Certainly the time to get involved is before you are affected. There is so much room for change but if we let the world go on without saying…
I am trying to decide on a different major. I thought I could pass calculus but much to my regret I cannot. I have attempted it several times and have met with the same result each time. I can’t go onto the other parts of computer science without passing calculus. There are several benefits to changing majors of which the most important is I can graduate earlier than I could with computer science. Now the real question is what major should I choose? I am thinking about Political Science and then heading on to law school. If I do that…
I am sitting here trying to do my blog for the day and well it is nearly midnight and I have barely started. I am tired and need to go to bed but I made a commitment to myself that I would write a blog every day. So today’s blog will be short, sweet and to the point. First of all, I would like to really ask, what is going on with the Nobel Peace Prize committee? I mean seriously, what has President Obama done to deserve this prestigious award? I’m not saying that he doesn’t deserve it but the…
You know this past year we held elections where we voted and Barack Obama won. He promised a campaign of change. The interesting thing is that his changes although perhaps welcome to some people aren’t the changes that are going to create the greatest amount of joy in the world. You see he is trying to fix a system that isn’t necessarily broke. The people running it are fundamentally unhappy with their lives. When that occurs, no amount of change is going to ever be enough. Because it doesn’t matter how often you move or where you move to, if you…
The following article was on 10news.com
“SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California’s top lawmakers restarted budget talks Monday with the hope of hammering out the final details on a deal to close the state’s $26.3 billion deficit.
Sarah Palin resigned recently, at least that is what the news media is all hyped up about, but seriously, does it matter? I mean in the big scheme of things does it matter. I mean so far we have had “the normal” candidates that do everything by the supposed book and look how they turned out. I suppose it is human nature that we want things to remain somewhat close to the status quo, whenever things get off track we balk at them and question them. I am not saying I necessarily endorse Mrs. Palin however I am saying that…
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