INTERESTING CHANGES IN BOLIVIA
As the world rushes headlong into a massive falsely utopian homogenization and conformity of nations, peoples and religions, some nations are taking different paths.
Bolivia may be one of them. According to this article in the Los Angeles Times, a new constitution for Bolivia was apparently voted in by the citizens of that nation over the weekend.
One of the things we noted from the article is that under the new constitution, indigenous peoples will be able to "eschew the traditional court system and resort to their own 'community justice.'"
Doing this and similar things should tend, over time, to increase the identity of the various indigenous peoples and strengthen individual rights while weakening the power of the central government.
In other words, such changes work to put people and their often centuries long natural affinities before the artificial entity of a cobbled together national identity and state that is often ruled by a few powerful people who demand allegiance to their particular world views, religious views and social views and who memorialize such things in laws and force these laws down the throats of people who may already have their own world views, religious views and social views.
Those who are opposed to such changes will argue that what is also being done in Bolivia is socialism and the nationalization of private industries by the central government. And, they'd be right. There is some of that in the new constitution. However, if a central government truly is a government of the people (And, isn't that what it's supposed to be?) and not just the tool of a few rich and powerful people, then the nationalization of some massive industries may be a necessary correction to stop a few robber barons from stealing the riches of the nation.
To those who argue against such moves by Bolivia, we'd just point out some of the excesses we constantly read about right here in the USA. How many more stories of fat cat executives of failing companies looking for bailouts with our tax money, who are squandering our money on expensive office furniture and perks, do we need to read about to know that we need some serious corrections to our present so-called free market system right here in this nation?
# # #
NATURE OR NU
RTURE?(Is a Pit Bull just a Poodle with bad rearing?)
LINK
# # #
NOW IT'S THE JAPANESE WHO ARE TOLD TO MAKE MORE BABIES
They understand some of nature's lessons.
LINK
# # #
MEANWHILE NANCY PELOSI HAILS BIRTH CONTROL
She doesn't get it.
LINK
# # #
BASKETBALL TEAM WINS 100-0 AND APOLOGIZES FOR WINNING
Even in sports, nature's lessons are ignored as winners apologize for winning.
# # #
Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
