Such executives will also be prohibited from profiting from any discoveries in alternative fuels, and will be banned from operating any vehicles utilizing such fuels, even if gasoline powered vehicles become obsolete, since it is largely through their influence that any meaningful search for alternative means of energy has been repeated postponed.
8). The Talk To The Enemy Law:
Although Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has been harshly criticized for advocating this method of diplomacy, this law will require that before any war, talk of war, or saber-rattling occurs between the United States and any foreign nation, the leader of that nation will be invited, without conditions, to engage in discussions to defuse the situation.
As the Bush dictatorship has demonstrated, wars are promoted by demonizing an enemy, even when it requires lies to do it.
The antithesis is also true: Peace can be obtained by humanizing an enemy, and by permitting the enemy to humanize us.
9). The No Preferential Treatment Law:
Americans, or at least white Americans and a few self-loathing minorities, hate affirmative action policies, supposedly because such policies give preferential treatment to minorities. Some states have even voted to abolish affirmative action, and when they are successful they proudly proclaim, “The People Have Spoken!” Of course, when the majority of those people are white, they’ve also been able to silence minorities who lack the numbers to “speak” via the ballot box.
So why not take this sentiment a step further, so white Americans are denied preferential treatment too? This law would prohibit anybody from obtaining a job, promotion, educational opportunity, or social position because of one’s relatives, friends, spouse or spouse’s relatives. In addition, nobody will be allowed to run for political office simply because their relatives, spouses, or spouses’ relatives held political office before them. If affirmative action is preferential treatment, as George W. Bush proclaims, then why should he be able to benefit from the preferential treatment provided by his family’s wealth and political influence? Why should Mary Bono be elected to the House of Representatives simply by riding on the coattails of her deceased husband? Why should Jeb Bush also benefit from daddy’s wealth and influence, so he could rig elections for his brother? Why should any qualified person be displaced from or denied any position simply because a lesser-qualified person has “connections?” Isn’t this, as affirmative action opponents say, placing unqualified and undeserving people in positions of influence and power?
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