And how can we act with integrity?
I found the timing for this theme to be perfect because today is June 3rd. Today is another great day where we can really choose to explore what it means to act with personal integrity.
When I hear people defend prop 98, the only thing they can come up with is that with rent control there is no incentive for a landlord to maintain a housing facility.
What this really comes down to is an issue of personal integrity. When our only incentives are based on greed and profit, we get a failed system. We get toxic air, tainted waters, nuclear waste and slum housing. We have a failed system. We have a grossly over-inflated renters market value amidst a foreclosure crisis sweeping the nation. California's budget is composed of loans from the federal government which is composed of loans and debt leading all the way to China. We have to create a new paradigm because the one we are living in is rapidly decomposing to its inevitable end. This empire has failed.
We can choose to act with personal integrity. We can choose to elevate people, or community, or anything above our value level for money and greed.
We can get off our asses and go vote today. Vote No on 98 and Yes and 99. We can choose to value renters rights and environmental rights above the right for some asshole landlords to exploit even more people. Even more with so many homeowners being kicked out of their American Dreams and ending right back in Rentersville.
Check to see where you vote. Make a gawddamn difference today!
http://www.lavote.net/LOCATOR/
Please note also - that Bill Johnson is running for LA Superior Court Judge. VOTE AGAINST HIM! He is a racial separatist who once called for restricting U.S. citizenship to persons “of the European race” and deporting blacks, Asians, Latinos and others who don’t meet his racial criteria.
Here is what Bill Johnson actually penned in 1990 (as taken from the Metropolitan News Enterprise site):
Johnson, using the pseudonym James O. Pace, published a book in 1985 called “Amendment to the Constitution,” proposing a federal constitutional amendment that would repeal the 14th and 15th Amendments.
The portion of the 14th Amendment that conflicts with Johnson’s plan is the first sentence: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The two-sentence 15th Amendment provides, chiefly: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
The “Pace Amendment” would add this verbiage:
“No person shall be a citizen of the United States unless he is a non-Hispanic white of the European race, in whom there is no ascertainable trace of Negro blood, nor more than one-eighth Mongolian, Asian, Asia Minor, Middle Eastern, Semitic, Near Eastern, American Indian, Malay or other non-European or non-white blood, provided that Hispanic whites, defined as anyone with an Hispanic ancestor, may be citizens if, in addition to meeting the aforesaid ascertainable trace and percentage tests, they are in appearance indistinguishable from Americans whose ancestral home is in the British Isles or Northwestern Europe. Only citizens shall have the right and privilege to reside permanently in the United States.”
As Johnson’s plan is summarized by James A. Aho in his 1990 book “The Politics of Righteousness”:
Only bonafide, certified citizens will be permitted permanent residency in the United States. All others shall be compulsorily deported “in a manner economically beneficial to them” to their native lands. Although this will involve tens of millions of American residents, and is to be accomplished in a single year, Pace assures us that deportation will be “fair” and “minimally painless.” Money now “waste” on federal welfare and public education programs can be budgeted for moving allowances and the leasing of mass transportation facilities.
Those who so wish may keep title to their property in absentia, at least temporarily. But failure to comply with repatriation will automatically result in its confiscation. Further enforcement procedures are not specified. On the whole, the author is optimistic that if the carrot of allowances is beguiling enough, bloodshed should be minimal. To this end, precautions will be undertaken to ensure that “the enforcers do not become over-zealous in their duties.”
American Indians, Aleuts, and Hawaiians, although not real citizens, will not face relocation, but will be maintained in “tribal reservations” analogous to the arrangement in South Africa. Those whose age precludes easy relocation and others who can demonstrate extraordinary hardship may apply for provisional privileges to maintain their present domicile. But since such conditions are always subject to abuse, these should be observed only in the “most extreme” cases.
LIVE WITH INTEGRITY. PLEASE, GO VOTE!
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