Arrest Warrants: Avoiding a Warrant for Arrest Keeps the Cops Away
Avoid getting arrest warrants if you can and make sure you know when you have one
Not all arrest warrants can be avoided because they are completely out of your control. You can make sure that you find out about them early enough to find a lawyer and deal with it before the police come knocking on your door in the middle of the night to drag you away to jail.
It is possible to avoid some warrants however and you should do everything that you can to make sure that you don’t end up with one. You don’t want to get arrested for a silly oversight do you?
How to avoid Bench Warrants
Bench warrants are similar to arrest warrants. If you get one then you can expect that the police will eventualy come after you to take you in. The main difference is that a Bench Warrant is issued by a court and an arrest warrant is issued by the police.
If you were told to attend court and you missed the appointment then a Bench warrant can be raised. The court can issue a warrant for you if you don’t follow their instructions at any point during or after your court case. If you were given a fine or community service to carry out by the court and you fail to pay or do the work then the court will issue a Bench warrant.
It’s easy to avoid getting a Bench warrant. All you have to do is follow instructions. If you turn up in court when you are told to and you accept your punishement, pay all your fines and do your community service then the court will have no cause to issue a warrant for you.
If you have to do community service as part of your judgement then make sure that the court has been informed when you have completed the work. This is a silly mistake to make and one that’s easily made. After all you’ve paid your debt to society so that should be the end of it right? Wrong, if you do the service but the court aren’t informed then they will assume that you haven’t done it and guess what? they will issue a Bench Warrant for you.
How to avoid an Arrest Warrant
The best advice I can give you here is to obey the law at all times. Don’t steal, don’t be violent, don’t do drugs, don’t drive faster than the speed limit, don’t park in places where you should not… Get the picture?
The problem is that you can’t allways avoid an arrest warrant because the police can issue one for you at any time. You don’t even need to have committed a crime for this to happen. The cops just have to think that you did it. What this means is that you might not even be aware that you have an arrest warrant because you haven’t been notified yet and you can’t remember breaking the law.
Warrants for arrest might be issued against you for several reasons. You might have driven through a red light and not noticed. You might have been exceeding the speed limit and the letter hasn’t got to you yet. You might have committed some serious crime or someone has stolen your identity and committed a crime for you.
It’s hard to avoid Criminal identity theft
Criminal identity theft seems to be getting more and more commonplace. Someone pretends to be you and goes off and committs a crime. If they get caught then they give the police your details and skip bail. In this situation an arrest warrant will be issued in your name and the police will come looking for you instead of the criminal who realy committed the offence. This is one of the worst situations to be in because you never know when it’s going to happen or in which state the arrest warrant is going to be issued in.
If you have a warrant for your arrest for something that you did not do then the best you can do is to make sure that you find out when a warrant is issued on you. If you are aware of the warrant you can get yourself a lawyer and hand yourself in voluntarily before the cops come and drag you off in handcuffs.
Finding out if you have an Arrest Warrant
If you have an arrest warrant then eventualy you will have to appear in court to answer the charge. You will be in a much better position to argue your case effectively if you have voluntarily given yourself up because this shows the court that you have made an effort to comply with the law. So how do you find out if you have an arrest warrant or not?
The easiest and by far the most convenient way to check for arrest warrants is to use an online public records database. Public records from thousands of different sources can now be accessed from a single website to do background checks and find out information on almost anyone including yourself. Arrest warrant details are included in the information that will be made available to you. These websites very powefull so use them wisely.
Steve Gee
http://www.articlesbase.com/criminal-articles/arrest-warrants-avoiding-a-warrant-for-arrest-keeps-the-cops-away-676821.html
Alex Jones: Epic Corruption and the Whistle-blower
Alex talks about the incredible story of Richard Fine, an attorney being held as a political prisoners in L.A. County Jail for over a year!!
[[ Epic Corruption and the Whistle-blower ]]
Cassandra Anderson
http://www.Infowars.com
April 14, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court will be holding a private conference hearing on Friday, April 23rd 2010, to determine whether to hold a full court hearing on corruption charges within the Los Angeles County government for illegally imprisoning attorney Richard Fine. A rally to acknowledge the U.S. Supreme Court hearing will be held at the L.A. Superior Court building at 8 am Tuesday April 20th, by supporters of Richard Fines release from illegal imprisonment. Mainstream media has avoided any mention of this epic corruption scandal, despite its significance, and now it is on its way to the the Supreme Court.
Richard Fine, who holds a PhD in international law and served as an anti-trust prosecutor at the Department of Justice in Washington D.C., has been in jail in the L.A. County Jail for over a year in solitary confinement. He never had a trial, there has been no conviction, nor any sentence to keep him there. Sheriff LeRoy Baca claims he does not know why Fine is in jail, yet he keeps him there and failed to answer Fines Writ of Habeas Corpus. Baca refused to allow a filmed interview with Fine until Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit on behalf of Full Disclosure Network, and then, out of the blue, he changed his mind and granted a filmed interview with them!
Fine believes he is imprisoned because of political reasons:
1. Fine exposed L.A. Superior Court judges of taking illegal money from the County, in violation of the California State Constitution.
2. The County Supervisors were using public tax money to pay off the Superior Court judges.
3. The Superior Court Judges decided cases in favor of the County (Fine reports that since 2005 to present, only 3 people have won cases against the County as a result of the bribes).
4. The California State Legislature have given the judges and County Supervisors immunity from prosecution for their actions and misappropriation of taxpayer money.
5. The judges have tried to get Mr. Fine disbarred from the California State Bar as a result of the lawsuit he filed on behalf of the taxpayers who were denied due process.
6. Superior Court Judge David Yaffe (accused judge) failed to recuse himself and sent Fine to prison. He also failed to cite any precedent (denying Fine due process).
7. L.A. County Sheriff LeRoy Baca illegally imprisoned Fine, and Fine is in jail today.
8. Fine should have been released within 5 days, according to the law.
Sheriff LeRoy Baca was subject to term limits, but prior to his last election, he filed a lawsuit to get out from under term limits. The Superior Court judge ruled in his favor (surprise!). Term limits are a prevention against corruption. The lawsuit was approved by the County Supervisors who paid for it with the taxpayers money; the taxpayers had previously voted in term limits, but it was overturned for Sheriff Baca. Sheriff LeRoy Baca is up for re-election June 8, 2010. No one is running against him. He makes $268,000 a year in this position.
In this interview, Fine tells us that the special interests behind the County Supervisors are the real estate developers, who gave money to Supervisor Antonovich and Supervisor Knabe, who were then disallowed from voting on a related Environmental Impact Report that Fine submitted in a real estate development case. They voted illegally in favor of the developers.
This is how our government is usurped by criminals and corruption within the system.
http://www.infowars.com/epic-corruption-and-the-whistle-blower/
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Chain Reaction
After researching much of the information regarding the Informant system, I believe this is at the heart of much of the corruption that we are seeing in our society. In our justice systems and in our communities. I believe this system is enslaving large portions of society. I also believe that there are many of us that were and are blissfully unaware of what is happening and will remain so until it is too late.
There is a chain reaction that is happening in society that if left unchecked has the potential to infect and destroy the very core of society that we have all known and depended on. That is of course the snitching infection. I call it that, because there is no other way to describe some of the events that I have read about while doing research into the Informant system.
While researching this phenomenon I have come across people who one minute seemed like average decent persons, and the next minute after being caught up in the Snitching/Informant system were willing to sell their very mothers down the drain to keep themselves free. This is not going to be the case for every Informant, but it’s the case with too many that are a part of this system.
Once let loose back into society many will continue with a life of crime. others will continue with what I call the game.
The Game
The game is one of set up’s and betrayal where the Informant will try to set someone up for a fall. They will choose a target and the unsuspecting target will get caught up in a scheme of some kind, eventually be arrested, they do not necessarily have to have committed a crime, and then the informant will testify against the person they entrapped, or other informants will. Once this new person is caught up in the game, should they be turned informant then the cycle continues once again.
I don’t know how many Informants are a part of this game that is ongoing in society, but I suspect that the many are, and all of them once they decide to become informants are owned by the system, and their handlers. That means anytime the government wants or needs a favor guess who they will call upon? Do you begin to see the makings of a corrupt society? Remember they can call upon these informants years later after these informants have been let loose. Many of these Informants will also go onto have careers, and even become contributing members of society, but they are still owned by the state. A lot of these Informant deals are kept off the records, meaning that the person is owned by a handler, but there might not be an official record of it, but when that handler needs a favor, that Informant will be called upon, and will risk exposure if they do not comply.
[quote]For example, unlike a classic plea bargain, informant deals lack finality because an informant’s obligations are ongoing. Written co-operation agreements often extend a defendant’s obligations into perpetuity, while informal, unwritten agreements last as long as the police or prosecutor wishes to use that informant.[/quote]
To understand how the game works, we will review three case studies. These are just a few of the many that I came across when reading the stories on the wall. It’s a continued pattern of set up on unsuspecting pigeons, and hardened Informants who will do what they need to do to stay out of jail.
http://www.november.org/thewall/wall/wall.html
Before we review the case studies I am going to again remind you of some statistics.
http://www.aclu.org/images/asset_upload_file744_30623.pdf
[quote] as many as fifty percent of African American males in some cities – are in contact with the criminal justice system and therefore potentially under pressure to snitch. By relying heavily on snitching, particularly in drug-related cases, law enforcement officials create large numbers of informants who remain at large in the community, engaging in criminal activities while under pressure to provide information about others. These snitches are a communal liability: they increase crime and threaten social organization, interpersonal relationships, and socio-legal norms in their home communities, even as they are tolerated or under-punished by law enforcement because they are useful.[/quote]
[quote]The uncoordinated, widespread use of informants in the United States by thousands of different police departments and various federal agencies does not of course, amount to the focused, purposeful political mission of the Stasi. But if anywhere near eight percent of the male population in inner city communities is snitching, that figure meets or surpasses Stasi level of between one and ten percent of the total population as informers.[/quote]
http://november.org/stayinfo/breaking08/HoffmanCase.html
[quote]If things had gone according to plan, you never would have heard of 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman. She would have just been another confidential informant, one of more than an estimated 100,000 in the United States who work with police to send someone else to jail.[/quote]
These figures do not include people who are informers via work, school, or community group programs. When we take into consideration numbers such as that, we are looking at an epidemic that is worst than what happened in East Germany. Keep in mind that in addition to all this, there will also be 800,000 Terrorism Liaison Officers added to the Informant population in the United States. These figures should wake up America and other cities to the dangers of what is happening in various societies.
The Game
To understand the game you might want to picture it in the sense of how a disease spreads, you start with on carrier and that person infects one person right after another. Some of those carriers will go on to infect others. Some will be dormant and not infect anyone. You might also want to think of the movie lifeforce, where one has the constant need to feed on one person after another, then those victims need to feed on others. You can have a very sick and infested city in a short space of time if such an infection goes unchecked.
The game is one of the Informant being placed primarily back in society, but this could also happen in jail, where an informant via lies, deceit, entrapment or some other methods set’s up another person to take a fall. That person then come in contact with the criminal justice system, they can then choose to become informants themselves, or refusing to do so, will spend lengthy spaces of time in prison. This game is primarily enacted via drugs, but that’s not the extent of it. Shoplifting is another example. I see this used with the teenaged informants, setting up their friends to steal from the stores, so that they in turn can become snitches.
Theft, drugs, stolen cars, any crime that someone can make a deal with police to become informants, they can be released back into society and are a danger to the rest of society. This is not to say that all Informants are horrible people, many just did not want to be in jail, some others are a true danger to society, nearly all are under pressure by the government to produce other Informants, and that obligation is never ending, some are allowed to lay dormant, till they can be of use.
http://november.org/stayinfo/breaking08/FL-Hoffman6.html
[quote]In Hoffman’s case, it was the work of another informer that led to her own work for the police.
On April 15, an informer told Tallahassee police that Hoffman had sold marijuana in the past but hadn’t done so recently, according to police records.
At the time, Hoffman, 23, was in a pretrial drug diversion program because of charges of possession of marijuana and resisting arrest in February 2007. To stay in the program, she had to stay out of trouble.
Two days after police got the informer’s tip, a Tallahassee police officer stopped Hoffman as she was getting into her car
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http://www.mapinc.org/images/Hoffman.jpg
Rachael Hoffman then went on to become an Informant. She first tried to set up a close friend and when that failed, the close friend helped her find the dealers who she tried to buy drugs from on behalf of the police. The sting went wrong and she was killed. Had this gone successfully, those drug dealers if they agreed to become informants might have been released back into society as Informants and the cycle would have continued. It’s a frightening cycle that has become more widespread than can be imagined.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/
Case number 2.
Joey Settembrino was a young 18 year old, just about to go off to college.
He was set up by an Informant. The Informant was a close friend of his. He use to spend his weekends at the Informants house.
[quote]He was a very good friend. I had known the guy for many years. We had gone out every weekend, fishing on his boat, hydrosliding, skiing. I was very shocked; it was very unexpected. It’s not something you expect from friends.[/quote]
In an Informants society, it’s what you expect from just about everyone and it makes people suspicious and closed off. This is what happened in East Germany once the population became aware of what was happening. In America many Americans are not aware that these types of games are being played. In these cases the targets were encouraged and did get into illegal activities, however that is not always the case, and many times innocent people who had nothing to do with illegal activities are still caught up in these games and convicted on the testimony of Informants.
[quote]He wanted me to go back to the house where I got the acid from and get something else. They wanted me to wear a wire and they wanted me to go back there … to buy some other type of drug, no matter what it was, whatever he had in the house, so they could set him up. Just a chain reaction, one gets to one, one gets the other and they just keep going. I told him that I couldn’t do that, that I didn’t get the drugs from that house. At that time I was really confused. I was shocked, and I told him that I couldn’t do anything for him. But he kept trying, he kept threatening, talking about a lot of time. “You’re going to do 25 years. You’re going to be in prison your whole life.” … He really tried to scare me. But I told him I couldn’t do anything for him … . [Eventually] they went back to the house in which I got it from, they arrested the other guy, my friend [who I bought the acid from]. And he’s now doing a 10-year sentence along with me.
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Joey said it best. This is like a chain reaction that just keeps going and going. One get’s one, then another and another and another. Those in turn get others and the cycle continues. Remember it’s not just drugs, and it’s not just the guilty that are being caught up in this game. If we review cases of Gang Stalking, we hear of men who thought that a woman had entered their life for the sole purpose of setting them up to look like a rapist or something else.
There are stories of targets being framed or other set up’s, and there are targets that do turn informant and then go back into society and try to harm other targets. This is happening in ever sector of society. Rachel, Joey and even Clarence were all going off to college, or had finished college when they were caught up in these stings.
Joey refused to become a snitch and thus spent 10 years in jail. His friend that set him up, who had been caught for drugs himself, was back on the streets, selling drugs, and setting up at least 11 or 12 others in the first year that Joey was in jail.
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Do you know why they wanted you?
I’ve asked that question, I’ve asked myself that a thousand times, “Why me? Why did he set me up?” …
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In this game that is happening, I would say that they want just about everyone. They will get some people via community programs to be Informants, some via their places of employment, or community programs. Now the people who are informants via community programs and other legit means might not play the game of setting people up directly, but they are still part of the game, and they still work hand in hand with these others that are playing by a different set of rules. Many might not be aware of who they are working hand in hand with. At the end of the day, they all work for the state, government and all the orders come from the same sources.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/cases/aaron.html
Clearance is in jail because he introduced two parties that wanted to buy or sell drugs to each other. He had never been involved with drugs before, but one day his cousin called him up and asked him if he could find someone to buy drugs from. He said he knew some people and thought that they might be involved in dealing, he would check into it.
Clearances case is interesting because all the other parties who turned Informant received less time than he did. He does not know why his cousin and the others turned against him and lied, or why the prosecutor seemed intent on punishing him because he would not snitch and become an Informant.
[quote]What was it like having your friends testify against you?
Well, we’re sitting in the courtroom. These guys that I knew all my life came up, and they said [stuff] about me that wasn’t true, and they hurt me. It really truly hurt me, Robert and James really hurt me ’cause James is my first cousin. I looked up to him all my life. Robert was supposed to be my best friend at the time. We grew up together from playing Pop ball all the way up to high school ball together, and I couldn’t believe that they would sit there, in front of me … and say the things that they said about me … . [The] only thing I could say was it wasn’t true. But nobody believed me … . You had to have a fall guy, and I was that person.
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It should be noted that the others involved all had prior drug convictions. Which means if they were out on the street and able to set him up, they were likely already Informants. He doesn’t know why they turned on him, but it’s possible that this might have been the idea from the get go. The assumption being that he would turn snitch and then be in a prime candidate on the college campus, a pawn to be used to set up other pawns, because that is how the game works.
[quote]Why did he do it?
Well, I had a opportunity to talk to James one time … . He said, “Man, I’m sorry, man.” I say, “James, why you do me like that?” He say, “Because I had no choice.” I said, “What you mean you have no choice in the matter?” He say “Because Miss Griffin say she didn’t want Bob to try your case.” She say if [he] didn’t cooperate and do what she told him to do, that she was going to hurt him worse in his case … . He say, “Well, the prosecutor Miss Griffin said if I don’t do it she going to put me in prison for the rest of my life … . I got to do what I got to do.”
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He stats that the prosecutor pulled his cousin aside and when his cousin went back on the stand, his cousin lied. This is not the first time scenarios like this have happened, it can only be imagined what these prosecutors or handlers have on these Informants to make them sell out their own friends, and family.
[quote]And the real drug dealers are out —
On the street now. And probably doing the same thing they were doing before they went in. I just don’t understand.
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He also does not understand, but if you review enough of these cases, you start to see a pattern and you start to understand, this is how the game works, and yes they are probably back on on the street looking for the next pigeon to set up, and try to turn them into informants.
It reminds me of something a forum member once told me. This guy said that he was set up because he met this woman online, who he dated only to discover that she was married. Her husband got mad and that’s why he thought he was set up.
The person on my forum pointed out that he had met the woman via some co-workers who introduced him to the website where he located this woman. The person on my forum suggested that he was probably profiled and set up by the co-workers who sent him to the site, knowing he would met this woman. The idea is that these games and set up’s take place long before the victim is aware that they are part of a game.
The Global outlook.
Targets of Gang Stalking complain that even when they leave countries such as the U.K., Canada, U.S. that the stalking continues. That is understandable we have seen muli-governmental corporation in other investigations.
What is not understandable and the most frightening sector of this is that various targets have moved to a variety of countries and they all report the same thing, Informants that are able to follow them 24/7.
This suggest that these Informant networks are getting global in nature. They are popping up in areas that are unexpected, and if this trend continues we will have a global surveillance society.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/04/israelandthepalestinians.middleeast1/print
[quote]Middle East: Israel’s secret police pressuring sick Gazans to spy for them, says report· Treatment only offered to would-be informants
· Patients allowed to cross the border drops sharply[/quote]
The same situation is happening in Iraq where they previously had family structures that might have prevented Informant networks from spreading as rapidly. The country will be rebuilt and the Informant structure will be a part of it.
Why would a global surveillance society be necessary?
I will not speculate. I will however say that based on research many societies in history that had a dictator, tyrant, or despot who came to power and who wanted to pull off an unpopular agenda’s such as Hitlers Germany, or Stasi East Germany, employed an army of Informants. It’s the most effective way that a society can control, monitor and subdue the inhabitants.
Since history has shown us that these informant networks are often needed to move forward tyrannical agendas, then can it be assumed that if we could slow down or stop the chain reaction of the Informant movement, we might be able to stop some of the corruption that we are seeing in many areas of society?
Stopping the Chain Reaction.
To stop the Informant infection people need to be aware that there is a lethal chain reaction happening in many parts of society. They need the understanding of how the game is played, and awareness of how far spread and how far reaching it is.
In America prison system reform could go a long way towards fixing the system that has become corrupt. Then prosecutors would not be as dependent on the testimonies of Informants and the power could start to shift back.
The family structure. Communities with less stable family structures are more vulnerable to this system.
People need to be aware that these entrapment’s are happening at every level of society, ever profession in society, thus why it goes all the way up to the top.
If people are unaware, they will not realise the various ways that people can become entrapped, including using someone that you are in a personal association with, or who you just “accidentally” meet. Someone you have a business relationship with.
Some people they will use their own greed and stupidity against them. Other will be a deliberate trap, others will be framed and will have committed no crime. Not being aware of how this system works, many will quietly accept off the record deals, and thus become indebted to the state, able to be used at will. Remember this is happening at all levels of society. Rich, poor, black, white, male, female.
If you have a parent, grandparent that was a snitch, Informant, they might try to go after the next generation.
Your friends, family, co-workers, anyone that is an Informant not by choice but by force, can be a liability to an innocent person.
The problem is more widespread that many realise, and what’s even worst is the silence that surrounds this problem in society. Till it’s talked about, discussed, and exposed it will continue to infect society, and have far reaching and unimaginable consequences, not just for those caught up in the game, but for the many unsuspecting victims, targets, or pigeons yet to come. This is not just happening at local levels. Targets have moved to various countries around the globe and encounter the same type of surveillance network.
We must stop this chain reaction. Awareness and exposure are key.
Happy Holidays.
gangstalking
http://www.articlesbase.com/news-and-society-articles/chain-reaction-695386.html
The Injustice of California’s Record Sealing Statute
If you were arrested and tried for a crime where there was not even “reasonable cause” to believe that you committed the crime, you can be left with a criminal record that will prevent you from getting a job, housing, volunteering in your children’s classroom, and other basic things that those with a clean criminal record can do. All this damage comes from a crime that you clearly did not commit.
California’s record sealing statute Penal Code section 851.8. is designed to prevent this gross injustice by allowing people who are found factually innocent to have all records of the arrest and court case sealed and destroyed. In most situations, the statute successfully balances state’s right to preserve information against an individual’s right to preserve their reputation. However, in a large number of situations, wrongfully-accused individuals are left with life-long damage caused by the records of arrests or court cases where they were factually innocent, but the statute does allow for the records to be sealed.
The California Department of Justice (CDOJ) keeps a complete criminal history on every person who has ever been arrested or charged in court with a criminal offense. This report is commonly referred as a rap sheet or background report. Among other things, the rap sheet shows the date, location, and reason for the arrest or court case. Even if a person is found innocent or if the charges are dropped, the record of the arrest and any court case is shown on the individual’s rap sheet.
Unlike reports kept by credit bureaus or the Department of Motor Vehicles who only report negative history for a limited number of years, once something appears on the CDOJ rap sheet, it stays forever; unless the individual successfully petitions to have the record of the arrest and trial sealed. A successful petition to have a record sealed with wipe clean any evidence of the arrest or court case from the CDOJ rap sheet.
The CDOJ will only release the rap sheet to authorized state agencies for limited purposes or to the individual who requests their own rap sheet by filing paper, submitting fingerprints, and paying nominal fee (which can be waived for individuals who cannot afford the fee). Despite an apparent attempt to keep the rap sheet from public disclosure, raps sheets are widely used for private purposes. According to a 1996 study by the Society for Human Resource Management, 80 percent of mid-size to large employers conducted criminal background checks to screen potential employees. That is up 26 percent from 1996. Rap sheets are often required by a wide range of other individuals and organizations, from landlords to Little Leagues.
The information contained on rap sheets often determines which applicant gets such things as housing, employment, or the ability to interact with their children.? There is no law in California that prevents these decisions being made on the basis of arrests or charges for which the person was factually innocent. Accordingly, it makes good public policy sense to have rap sheets be as accurate and free of information that would wrongly prejudice an individual. California’s record sealing law gives most wrongfully accused clearing their rap sheet of negative information.
The procedure is put forth in section 851.8 states:
“in any case where a person has been arrested, and an accusatory pleading has been field, but where no conviction has occurred, the defendant may, at any time after dismissal of the action, petition the court which dismissed the action for a finding that the defendant is factually innocent of the charges for which the arrest was made.”
If the individual is successful the statute states:
“The court shall also order the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the offense and the Department of Justice to request the destruction of any records of the arrest which they have given to any local, state, or federal agency, person or entity. Each state or local agency, person or entity within the State of California receiving such a request shall destroy its records of the arrest and the request to destroy such records, unless otherwise provided in this section.”
One of the major problems is that that statute will not allow for the partial sealing of a record. Courts have refused to interpret PC 851.8 as allowing “surgical excision of certain parts of arrest records.” So if an individual who is charged with two crimes is found factually innocent of one the crimes and guilty of the other, no part of the record be sealed. Consider this scenario that leads to an unjust and unexpected result:
A couple is having a heated argument. A neighbor who fears violence calls the police. When police arrive one of the suspects, who is in fit of rage, wrongfully accuses the other of sexual assault. The police arrest the accused for sexual assault and disturbing the peace. An hour later, the accuser calms down, loses the anger and recants the testimony to the police. The wrongful charge of sexual assault is never filed in court.
However, the accused goes to court and pleads guilty to a misdemeanor of disturbing the peace and is sentenced with a $200 fine. Unbeknownst to this defendant, and most defendants, is that there is another sentence that they will have for life. Whenever some asks for a rap sheet, they will see that the defendant was arrested for a felony count of sexual assault. The defendant will have to spend a lifetime hoping people believe the explanation for the negative history on the rap sheet and dealing with the likelihood that it will cause unfair prejudice.
This unjust and unexpected result hurts the individual and society by placing large, life-long obstacles to a person reaching their personal and professional potential.
For more information about record sealing and propose remedies, see www.recordgone.com.
Mathew Higbee
http://www.articlesbase.com/law-articles/the-injustice-of-californias-record-sealing-statute-108703.html
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The Virtue of Romanticism
The Virtue of Romanticism
By Punkerslut
Romanticism: An artistic and intellectual movement originating
in Europe in the late 18th century and characterized by a
heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual’s
expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the
attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against
established social rules and conventions.
– Dictionary.com
I remember once seeing a small child at a bus terminal, covered
in a blanket and carrying a piece of luggage that was close to
her size. I looked again. I didn’t know where she was going. I
didn’t bother to ask. But there was something there that maybe a
painting could capture, maybe a song could express, that I saw.
And I looked again.
It is my sole contention in this piece, that the greatest value
of life can be derived from our emotions. To deny what the heart
truly seeks, whether it violates the principles of conventional
society or not, is to deny the liberty of happiness. I contend
that no man is free who cannot live with himself. A prison will
form around his spirit, as he seeks any means of understanding.
To truly live, one must be able to know who they are. Image,
whether it is age or gender, are unimportant in this aspect. The
important part of knowledge, of the wisdom of self, is not what
the world may see when they see you, but how you and your
intimate friends know about how you feel. And in our society,
there is so much inhibition, about recognizing our shame, our
guilt, our happiness, our fears. To speak that your words become
the expression of your soul has been turned into a weakness,
believed by the masses to be the epitome of a soft mind. If a
man were to find his happiness in a lover, in the secret smiles
of watching the movement of one who captures your dreams — if a
man discovers his own peace in this world of ours, then what
true argument can we offer that it was not his own emotions that
granted him this most perfect truth? If a child is kept up at
night, to the hours of the morning, plagued with misery of
memories of abuse of cruelty, would it not be inhumane, to tell
him to ignore it — to tell him to close his eyes to the
daemons, while they increase in size with every passing year?
And I contend this: that to truly live, one must be free with
their emotions; and by this, I mean that a person cannot hide
from what they feel, and true happiness is only accomplished
when they speak all worries and dreams with those they are close
to. It is a tragedy to think that billions of men have died on
this planet, before they could truly live.
I remember one night when I saw a California sunset. The orange
melded with the red, almost searing the sky into peace. I’m not
sure I ever saw anything so beautiful. And I am glad that I
spent that moment with those I consider to be my family. When
one thinks of family, they think of blood relatives, whom they
have to aid and harbor in times of distress, due to social
norms. When I think of family, I think of a group bound not by
blood, but by love, and when I aid or help a brother or sister
in their time of need, I do not do it out of an obligation I
think I am tied to — I do it because they were a shoulder to
cry on, they were the first to stand up and speak when I was
accused of wrong doing. It didn’t matter to them that it may
have been a massive army threatening me, just like it didn’t
matter to me that I had to travel for three days straight so I
could see their faces.
Dreams keep me from forgetting how much I love them.
If a woman was asked who she was, and if she could not answer,
I would have a hard time believing that she was happy. If you
know that you truly love someone or something, there is always
an inhibition or a fear in telling others that you feel this way
– but the greater part of our population has gone even further
in this, by having such a fear or inhibition in even telling
themselves. It is here that society turns our emotion into a
crime, turns our hearts into convicts. By knowing ourselves, our
wants and fears, perhaps our shame or guilt, our love and hate
– by not only knowing, but understanding, the dreams and
nightmares of our soul, the dreaded possibilities that our minds
tumble over every night, the magnificent fantasies that make us
soar with a shy smile — by understanding our emotions, we can
find an honest path to happiness. If we were to engage in an
activity, because it is expected and not because it is our wish,
it is a lie — not only to our close allies, but also to the
greatest individual in our life: ourself. When we lie to
ourselves, so we can fulfill a social obligation, or a family
obligation, it detiorates our soul, it destroys the fundamentals
of happiness. Because in that sort of situation, another day is
another excuse for deceit, another confrontation or encounter is
another chance to hide the lies. A sincere person will find
distress in telling a lie to themself while keeping a clean
conscience. Whatever may be the effort that must be exerted in
portraying an image that society demands, it would take all the
effort in the world — but it is the act of lying to yourself
that weighs heaviest on the soul. Romanticism is about knowing
and understanding the truth of your emotions.
There are so many expectations, so many things that we must do
to uphold our image. Society has already given us a schedule, a
uniform, and a routine. Failure to comply will make people not
trust you, and the idiocy of this is that this is how they
respond once you learned to trust yourself. The sort of
expectation that you are given can vary. Children are expected
to obey and love their parents. There can be hardly any doubt to
the origin of this rule: it was written by adults. Besides that,
children are naturally submissive and needing of parental
affection. There was little objection to this rule. But it
became harder to understand and accept the state of things, when
a child realizes that their parent is doing something wrong,
something cruel, merciless, and brutal. The only crime was
listening and judging for himself, and still the child will be
regarded as a failure of the family for having an alternative
opinion. But imagine if the child had complied with the demands
of the family and spoke lies, that he believed what the father
had done was right — if they forced themselves to believe this
all their life, every day would be draped in the idea that it is
okay to lie to yourself, if it pleases another. Independence is
perhaps the greatest thing to have. To be deprived of it at such
an early age and for so long is a crime. Perhaps it is a lover
and their expectations of another lover, or perhaps it is a
friend and their expectations of another friend. Perhaps someone
is expected to be sexual because of a stereotype, such as their
gender, and perhaps someone is expected to be non-sexual for the
same reasons. If a person follows these expectations to fulfill
the image that others have thrown on them, they will never find
real happiness. They will find that their days are full of
deceit. Such a life is not a real… All that I ask of my
brothers, my sisters — my comrades and my friends — is that
they never deny how they feel, to themselves or those who they
trust; and I ask them this, for their own happiness. Their
suffering is my suffering. Their poverty is my poverty. And my
riches are their riches. Our love belongs to us.
When a lover apologizes to their significant other, when they
are not at fault, just to end the conflict so they can be back
in that blissful affection. They are lying to themselves and
their lover by giving in, but they are honest in one respect –
that they will do whatever it takes to satisfy the person that
means the most to them. I admit it. It may very well be true
that when a lover apologizes to end conflict, when he or she is
not at fault, such a relationship should most likely end anyway.
And when we think of our friends and our family, sometimes it
is hard to say how we feel, what our heart has told us for so
long. Because society keeps telling us that it is a source of
weakness, or a source of depravity. Let society think as it
shall. Social rules should never be a reason for a person to
condemn their lives to sorrow and pain. When I think of my
family, I think of the society of those who have touched my
heart, of the kinship I have formed, of the connection of our
minds. And I remember again…
Dreams keep me from forgetting how much I love them.
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The 10 Most Popular Movies of All Time – A Cheat Sheet
Are you a movie dunce? Do you not know your Corleone from your Kurosawa? Would you recognise a lightsaber if it hit you in the face? Well, don’t panic. To help you catch up on your movie knowledge here’s a crash course in the top 10 movies of all time, as voted by the readers of the Internet Movie Database. Careful, though… here be spoilers.
10. Star Wars IV: A New Hope
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away . . .
Luke Skywalker, farmhand and son of Darth Vader, is torn from his home when his aunt and uncle are murdered by Imperial Storm Troopers searching for the stolen plans to the Death Star, a space station with weaponry capable of destroying planets. Luke escapes with his two droids, Jedi Knight Obi Wan Kenobi, smuggler Han Solo and first mate Chewbacca.
After escaping Tatooine, the ragtag crew stumble upon the Death Star shortly after it has destroyed the planet Alderaan. Caught by its tractor beam, their ship is dragged in. While attempting to escape the Death Star the team rescue Princess Leia, held prisoner in the ships bowels. During the rescue Obi Wan sacrifices himself to allow the others to escape.
In a grand finale, Luke destroys the Death Star by firing a missile into a weak spot in the structure of the ship and Darth Vader, is cannoned off into the depths of space.
Quote: I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Trivia: Al Pacino, Burt Reynolds and James Caan reportedly turned down the role of Han Solo.
9. Pulp Fiction
A movie whose various plotlines are far too intertwined to summarise in a paragraph or two, Pulp Fiction simply tells the story of a day in the life of a group of unusual people—two hitmen, the wife of a gangster, and a boxer who killed in the ring among others.
Edited to tie each story together, the movie often plays out of sequence—to the point where the final scene and the opening scene take place at the same time. Full of pop culture references and quotable lines, Pulp Fiction stays true to form as a Tarantino movie.
Quote: Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.
Trivia: Vincent Vega (John Travolta) is the brother of Vic Vega, also known as Mr Blonde, in Reservoir Dogs.
8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Set during the US Civil War, the movie follows the three protagonists Blondie (The Good), Snake Eyes (The Bad) and Tuco (The Ugly) in their search for a hoard of gold stolen by bank robber Bill Carson. All three want 50% of the gold—resulting in a good old-fashioned standoff. Snake Eyes is shot dead, and the honorable Blondie allows Tuco his share of the booty.
Quote: You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.
Trivia: Clint Eastwood wore the same poncho for all three ‘Man With No Name’ movies—without washing it once.
7. Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List tells the true story of Oscar Schindler, a Nazi industrialist who becomes so moved by the plight of the Jewish people during World War II that he devotes himself to saving as many as he can. Even after rescuing over 1,100 Jews from the gas chamber, Schindler bemoans the fact that he could have saved more had he sacrificed everything he had.
Quote: I could have got more out. I could have got more. I don’t know. If I’d just… I could have got more.
Trivia: Steven Spielberg refused to take any pay for the film, claiming that it would feel like he was taking ‘blood money’.
6. The Seven Samurai
Regarded as Akira Kurosawa’s greatest film, the Seven Samurai tells the story of a terrorised village in war-torn 16th Century Japan. Constantly attacked by gangs of bandits, the residents enlist the services of seven ronin, or samurai without masters, to protect them.
Despite initial tensions between the villagers and the samurai, they together successfully defend the village against the bandits. However, their success comes at the cost of the lives of four samurai.
Quote: What’s the use of worrying about your beard when your head’s about to be taken?
Trivia: The three samurai whose characters survived the film were the first three to die in real life.
5. Casablanca
Hiding out in Casablanca, Morocco during World War II, exiled American and former freedom fighter Rick Blaine passes the time running a popular nightspot. Blaine’s tedium is interrupted when Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo arrives with his beautiful wife Ilsa—Blaine’s ex-lover.
Blaine holds the key to Laszlo’s safe passage out of the country, and Ilsa offers herself to him in exchange for her husband’s safety. Blaine faces the choice of sacrificing Laszlo to win back Ilsa, but in the end decides to do the honorable thing…
Quote: If that plane leaves the ground and you’re not with him, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Trivia: The line ‘Here’s lookin’ at you, kid’ was voted the 5th most well known movie line in history by the American Film Institute.
4. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The third and final instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King offers an epic finale to Frodo’s quest (thousands of extras took part in the filming to add to the drama). Finally arriving at Mt. Doom, Frodo is overcome by exhaustion and the stress of bearing the Ring. Helped by Sam, Frodo manages to make his way into the volcano.
At the last moment he finds himself unable to throw the Ring into the magma, choosing instead to wear it. Gollum, surviving Frodo’s earlier attempt on his life, attacks Frodo and bites off his finger, removing the ring. Losing his grip, Gollum falls into the pit along with the Ring, breaking its hold over Frodo and killing Sauron.
With Sauron’s death his army is destroyed, just in time to save the army of Men, poised to fight to the death at the gates of Mordor.
Quote: Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can’t carry it for you… but I can carry you.
Trivia: The Return of the King used over seven times the number of special effects shots used in an average movie.
3. The Godfather: Part II
Split between two timelines, the second instalment of The Godfather trilogy follows Don Vito Corleone through his adolescence in Sicily and New York during the early 20th Century, and later his rise to power as a Mafia Don. It also returns to a point a few years after the conclusion of the first movie, with Michael Corleone running the family interests following his father’s death.
After learning that his brother Fredo has betrayed the family, Michael must order his execution.
Quote: I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!
Trivia: Robert de Niro won an Oscar for his portrayal of a young Vito Corleone. De Niro and Marlon Brando are the only actors to win Oscars for the portrayal of the same character.
2. The Shawshank Redemption
Based on a novella by Steven King, The Shawshank Redemption tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a successful banker wrongly convicted for the murder of his wife and her lover. Given two life sentences, Dufresne is sent to the maximum security Shawshank Prison where he befriends Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, a lifer who helps him adjust to prison life.
Over the next twenty years their friendship grows while Andy has a positive effect on the inmates, helping to establish a prison library and education system. Unfortunately, the mean-spirited and criminal warden beats down Andy’s spirit until he finally escapes through a tunnel that took him two decades to dig.
In a final act of revenge Andy exposes the warden’s crimes, driving him to suicide to avoid being sent to prison. Red is later released on parole, and tracks down Andy to a beach in Mexico.
Quote: Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Trivia: The mugshots of Morgan Freeman as a young man are actually pictures of his real life son, Alfonso.
1. The Godfather
Adapted from Mario Puzo’s seminal Mafia novel, the first instalment of The Godfather trilogy sees Don Vito Corleone, head of the Corleone crime family, struggle with the realities of a changing world. When he refuses to work with drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo in a scheme to push heroin in New York, he falls foul of Sollozzo’s backers the Tattaglia family.
When Vito is wounded in an attempted assassination his son Michael—previously determined to have nothing to do with the family business—volunteers to kill Sollozzo. Following the execution Michael is sent to Sicily to hide out until it is safe to return. After Michael’s brother Sonny is executed by the rival Barzini family, Michael safely returns and takes his place as the head of the family in time to see Vito Corleone die of a heart attack. In revenge for the attacks on his family Michael arranges for the murder of the heads of the other families, to take place during the baptism ceremony of his nephew.
Following the baptism Michael orders the execution of the father of the baptised child—and his own brother in-law—Carlo Rizzi, in retribution for Carlo’s role in setting up Sonny’s death. The movie ends with the widow, Michael’s sister Connie, suspecting that Michael was involved in Carlo’s death.
Quote: I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.
Trivia: Sofia Coppola, the director’s daughter, played the baby baptised at the end of the movie. She returned to play the role of Michael’s daughter Mary in The Godfather: Part III).
So there you have it. If you’ve been paying attention you should now have just enough knowledge of the top ten movies of all time to bluff your way through a conversation with a movie buff. These bare bones won’t take you far, though, so I suggest you set aside some time, get a big bucket of popcorn, sit back and enjoy the best of Hollywood. You won’t be disappointed.
James Shenton
http://www.articlesbase.com/art-and-entertainment-articles/the-10-most-popular-movies-of-all-time-a-cheat-sheet-55149.html
LEADERSHIP
WAYNE FIELDS –“The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet. These six will gladly you attend If only you are willing your mind they’ll ease your will they’ll mend and charge you not a shilling.”
WB YEATS –“The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are Jull of passionate intensity.”
WC FIELDS –“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”
WCLEMENT STONE –“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”
WELSH PROVERB –“Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.”
WEMHER VON BRAUN –“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”
WEN JLABAO –“Please just hold on, people are going to get you out of here.”
WENDELL BERRY –“Energy is superhuman in the sense that humans cannot create it. They can only refine or convert it. And they are bound to it by one of the paradoxes of religion: they cannot have it except by losing it; they cannot use it except by destroying it…”
WENDELL BERRY –“Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.”
WENDELL BERRY –“We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.”
WENDELL PHILIPS –“Difference religion breeds more quarrels than difference of polities.”
WENDELL PHILLIPS- “Difference of religion breads more quarrels than difference of politics.”
WENDELL PHILUPS –“Low is nothing unless close behind it Stands a warm living public opinion.”
WENDY MARSTON –“Once you have the chance to be anything you want, you face the really tough question: What do you want?”
WERICK THE GREAT –“All religions must be tolerated. Every man must get to heaven in his own way.”
WERNER VON BRAUN –“Use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution.”
WERNHER VAN BRAUN –“Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go— and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.”
WES NISKER –“if you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.”
WH AUDEN –“A poet is a person who is passionately in love with language.”
WH AUDEN –“No human being can make another one happy.”
WH AUDEN –“No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.”
WH AUDEN –“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for; I don’t know.”
WH AUDEN –“We must love one another or die.”
WHITE –“In antiquity, every tree, every spring, every stream, every hill had its own genius loci, its guardian spirit… Before one cut a tree, mined a mountain, or a brook, it was important to placate the spirit in charge of that particular situation, and to keep it placated. By destroying animism, we have only ended up exploiting nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.”
WHITE HOUSE –“The sound of the Shafer heralds the beginning of a new year and a time of remembrance and renewal for the Jewish people. During these holy days, men and women are called to reflect on their faith and to honour the blessings of creation.”
WHITMAN –“The untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”
WHITNEY HOUSTON –“It’s about believin’ when you ain’t got anything to believe in.”
WHITTIER –“The smile of God is victory.”
WHOOPI GOLDBERG –“It never occurs to me that there are things I can’t do.”
WIKIPAEDIA –“Researchers reason that all living humans descend from Africans, some of whom migrated out of Africa and populated the rest of the world. If the mitochondrial analysis is correct, then because mitochondrial Eve represents the root of the mitochondrial family tree, she must have predated the exodus and lived in Africa. Therefore many researchers take the mitochondrial evidence as support for the “single-origin” or Out-of-Africa model.”
WIKIPAEDIA –“As Mahalakshmi, the supreme Goddess of Love and Delight, she lends grace and charms everything divine or human. As Mahasaraswati, the Goddess of Divine skill and Knowledge, she is the firefighter and trouble-shooter for the entire universe.”
WIKIPAEDIA –“Hypertextuality is the interconnectedness of all literary works and their interpretation. A woven fabric of cultural consciousness is imitated and, in fact, investigated.”
WIKIPAEDIA –“Primordial Parashakti is the ultimate dynamic energy of transcendental Brahmn… Brahmn is attributeless whereas Parashakti has many attributes. While, Brahmn has only to be cognised, Parashakti can be worshipped with name and form. She is Divine Will personified. She isconscious power beyond everything. She is the invisible and constant presence that sustains the world, linking form and name, holding them in interdependence. There is nothing impossible for Her She is the Universal Goddess. She is all knowledge, all strength, all triumph and all victory she is the Goddess Supreme, Maheshvari, who brings to us the total state of illumination.”
WIKIPAEDIA “Shakti is Mother of the universe. She creates, preserves, dissolves. She is the sat and so creates. She is chit, so she is life. She is ananda or bliss. He is also possessor and controller of opposite qualities: Destruction, death and terror as Mahakali, Goddess of Supreme Strength.”
WIKIPAEDIA –“Space-time entails a new concept of distance. Whereas distances are always positive in Euclidean spaces, the distance between any two events in space-time — called an “interval” — may be real, zero, or even imaginary.”
WIKIPAEDIA –“The real purpose of the Paryushan is to purify our soul by staying closer to our own soul, to look at our faults, to ask for forgiveness for the mistakes we have committed, and take vows to minimise our faults. We try to forget about the needs of our body and our business so that we can concentrate on our-self. Swetambers celebrate eight days of Paryushan and the last day is called Samvastsari. In these eight days most of Jains keep fast in many ways and all Jains keep fast on Last day of Paryushan. The process of shedding our KARMAS really begins by asking for forgiveness with true feelings and to vow not to repeat mistakes. The quality of the forgiveness requires humility and suppression of anger.”
WILCOX AND MUMFORD –““I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.”
WILFRED B L TROTTER –“The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folklore; states even approaching them cannot be reached without a moral and emotional effort most of us cannot or will not make.”
WILFRED PETERSON –“The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.”
WILILAM JAMES –“There is only one thing a philosopher can be truly relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”
WILL AND ARIEL DURANT –“The future never just happened. It was created.”
WILL DURANT- “Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.”
WILL DURANT –“In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”
WILL DURANT –“The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.”
WILL DURANT –“The trouble with most people is that they Think with their hopes or fears or, wishes rather than with their minds.”
WILL ROGERS –“An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”
WILL ROGERS –“Even you’re on the right track, you won’t get anywhere if you’re standing still.”
WILL ROGERS –“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”
WILL ROGERS –“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
WILL ROGERS –“One revolution is just like one cocktail, it just gets you organized or the next.”
WILL ROGERS –“Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.”
WILL ROGERS –“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
WILL ROGERS –“We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give them plenty of publicity.”
WILL ROGERS –“We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.”
WILL ROGERS –“You can’t say civilisation isn’t advancing, in every war they kill you in a new way.”
WILL SCHUTZ –“Man’s self-concept is enhanced when he takes responsibility for himself.”
WILLA CATHER –“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.”
WILLA CATHER –“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”
WILLA CATHER –“Where there is the greatest love, there are always miracles.”
WILLA GATHER –“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
WILLA GATHER –“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
WILLA GATHER –“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”
WILLARD MARRIOTT –“Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the tree.”
WILLIAM A WARD –“Another fresh new year is here…/ Another year to live!/To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and I give!/ This bright New Year is given me/to live each day with zest…/To daily grow and try to be/my highest and my best! I have the opportunity/ once more to right some wrongs,/ to pray for peace, to plant a tree,/ and sing more joyful songs.”
WILLIAM A WARD –“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
WILLIAM A WART –“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD –“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.”
WILLIAM ASHWORTH –“Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.”
WILLIAM BENNETT- “There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
WILLIAM BLACK- “A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“A dog starv’d at the master’s gate/ Predicts the ruin of the State./ A horse misus’d upon the road/ Calls to heaven for human blood./ Each outcry of the hunted hare/ A fibre from the brain does tear,/ A skylark wounded on the wing,/ A cherubim does cease to sing.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“Ancient poets animated all sensible objects with gods or geniuses… choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“He who binds himself to a joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity’s sun rise.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care/ Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness,/And put on intellect… Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I’ve a wife that I love and that loves me; have all but riches bodily.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“Man’s Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“Scientists, in trying to decipher that which should remain indecipherable, would turn that which is soul and life into a mill or machine.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“The strongest poison ever known/ Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.”
WILLIAM BLAKE –“The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.”
William borah- “The marvel of the history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
WILLIAM BRAMWELL –“There is too much meat and drink, too little fasting and self-denial, too much taking part in the world… and too little self-examination and prayer.”
WILLIAM BUTLERYEATS –“Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.”
WILLIAM CHANNING –“To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.”
WILLIAM CLAYTON –“The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them.”
WILLIAM COFFIN –“Only reverence can restrain violence — reverence for human life and the environment.”
WILLIAM COWPER – “Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
WILLIAM COWPER –“But war’s a game, which, were their subject wise,/ Kings would not play at.”
WILLIAM COWPER –“God made the country, and man made the town.”
WILLIAM COWPER –“The bud may have a bitter taste,/But sweet will be the flower.”
WILLIAM COWPER:- “Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
WILLIAM DRUMMOND –“A man who cannot reason is a fool, a man who will not reason is a bigot, and a man who dare not reason is a slave.”
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING –“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”
WILLIAM FAULKNER –“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
WILLIAM FAULKNER- “Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
WILLIAM FEATHER –“A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.”
WILLIAM FEATHER –“Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.”
WILLIAM FEATHER –“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
WILLIAM FEATHER –“We always admire the other person more after we’ve tried to do his job.”
WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY –“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.”
WILLIAM GARTNER –“What separates the entrepreneur from others is that entrepreneurs act on what they see.”
WILLIAM GLADSTONE –“Duty is a power that arises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us in the night. It is co-extensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow that cleaves to us, go where we will.”
WILLIAM GLADSTONE- “Justice delayed is justice denied.”
WILLIAM HAVARD- “Our country welfare is our first concern, and who promotes that best, best proves his duty.”
WILLIAM HAZLITT –“Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.”
WILLIAM HAZLITT –“Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.”
WILLIAM HAZLITT –“Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”
WILLIAM HAZLITT –“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
WILLIAM HAZLITT –“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.”
WILLIAM HAZLITT –“There is heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING – “Error is the discipline through which we advance.”
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING –“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.”
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING –“To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.”
WILLIAM HOCKING –“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”
WILLIAM HOMADY –“What I am inside determines the issue in the battle of life.”
WILLIAM J. BENNETT:- “There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“Believe life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“If you care enough for the result, you will almost always attain it.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“Then you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
WILLIAM JAMES –“This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.”
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN –“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.”
WILLIAM JONES –“Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.”
WILLIAM L GARRISON –“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?”
WILLIAM L. SHIRER –“Most true happiness comes from one’s inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.”
WILLIAM LANDBURG –“Modern portfolio theory allows for the fact that financial markets are by their nature unpredictable. An infinite array of events that are, impossible to foresee or control affect returns — currency meltdowns, earthquakes, terrorist attacks and 100-year storms (which have a way of occurring every five years!). Logic and rational thinking rarely factor into the mix. As was seen in the dot corn era, a company’s underlying strength, reflected by such variables as profitability, earning prospects and market share, may have far less effect on share price than mindless exuberance. How else can we account for the swings and gyrations in the stock market in recent years?”
WILLIAM LANGLAND –“We should be low and love like and lean each man to the other And patient as pilgrims, for pilgrims are we all.”
WILLIAM LANGLAND –“We should be low and love like and lean each man to the other And patient as pilgrims, for pilgrims are we all.”
WILLIAM LAW –“A life devoted to the interests and enjoyments of this world, spent and wasted in the slavery of earthly desires, may be truly called a dream, as having all the shortness, vanity, and delusion of a dream; only with this great difference, that when a dream is over nothing is lost but fictions and fancies; but when the dream of life is ended only by death, all that eternity is lost, for which we were brought into being.”
WILLIAM LAW –“All other sacrifices that we make whether of worldly goods, honours, or pleasures, are but small matters compared to that sacrifice and destruction of all selfishness, as well spiritual as natural, that must be made before our regeneration hath its perfect work.”
WILLIAM LAW –“For Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies.”
WILLIAM LAW –“Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God; hate nothing but the evil that stirs in your own heart.”
WILLIAM LONDON –“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”
WILLIAM M THACKERAY –“Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.”
WILLIAM Mc FEE –“The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.”
WILLIAM MCDONOUGH –“Don’t get me wrong: love nuclear energy! It’s just that i prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there’s an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it’s wireless!”
WILLIAM MCGONAGALL –“Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean, Your stately mansions, and beautiful Green! Likewise your beautiful bridges across the river Clyde, And on your bonnie banks I would like to reside.”
WILLIAM MOMS –“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and elevating them to an art.”
WILLIAM MORRIS –“Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them.”
WILLIAM MOTHERWELL –“Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power to wander as it liketh them, by wizard oak and fairy stream.”
WILLIAM ODOUGLAS –“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.”
WILLIAM PENN –“Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of our sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.”
WILLIAM PENN –“He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at least.”
WILLIAM PENN –“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; r no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
WILLIAM PHELPS –“We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure — the eternal present, for it is always now.”
WILLIAM PITT –“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants.”
WILLIAM PURKEY –“Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like no one is listening and live like it’s heaven on earth.
WILLIAM R INGE –“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”
WILLIAM RANDOLPH –“A politician will do anything to his job –even become a patriot.”
William S. Burroughs- “Be just, and if can’t be just, be arbitrary.”
WILLIAM S. GILBERT- “And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends up on whose solicitor has given me my brief.”
WILLIAM SAFIRE –“Never assume the obvious is true.”
WILLIAM SAROYAN –“Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else.”
WILLIAM SAROYAN –“No man’s guilt is not yours, nor is any man’s innocence a thing apart.”
WILLIAM SEWELL –“We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – “We are such stuff as dreams are made of; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy The appetites .they feed.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Alas! How should you govern any kingdom, That know not how to use ambassadors.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Fear no more the heat of the sun, Not the furious winter’s rages; Thou thy worldly task hath done, Home art gone, and taken thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Have more than thou showest, / Speak less than thou knowest, /Lend less than thou owest, / Ride more than thou goest, / Learn more than thou trowest, / Set less than thou throwest; / Leave thy drink and thy whore, / And keep in-a-door, / And thou shalt have more / Than two tens to a score.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons’ difference, as the icy fang And churiish chiding of the winter’s wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body. Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, “This is no flattery”.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“How poor are they that have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“If she be made of white and red,/ Her faults will ne’er be known,/ For blushing cheeks by faults are bred/ And fears by pale white shown:/ Then if she fear or be to blame,/ By this you shall not know,/ For still her cheeks possess the same/ Which native she doth owe.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Love all, trust a few: Do wrong to none.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE -“Love asks me no questions. And gives me endless support.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“My crown is in my heart, not in my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment. A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Poor and content is rich and rich enough.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Some rise by sin, some by virtue fall.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“When icicles hang by the wall,/ And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,/ And Tom bears logs into the hall,/ And milk comes frozen home in pail,/When blood is nipp’d and ways be foul,/ Then nightly sings the staring owl,/ Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note,While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE –“You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.”
WILLIAM SHEDD –“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM –“The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.”
WILLIAM STYRON –“A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.”
WILLIAM THOMAS- “No statement can be profound once it has been repeated by others.”
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY- “Blindness we may forgive but baseness we will smite.”
WILLIAM WARD –“The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain—he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem — he is challenged by it.”
WILLIAM WORDSWORHT –“Wisdom is often near when we stop than when we soar.”
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH –“And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.”
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH –“I made no vows, but vows/ Were then made for me; bond unknown to me/ Was given, that i should be, else sinning greatly/ A dedicated spirit.”
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH –“The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; little we see in Nature that is ours; we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not — Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; so might I, standing on this pleasant lea, have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH –“Wisdom is often nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
WILLIAN ERNEST HOCKING –“Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.”
WILLIS HARMAN –“By deliberately changing’ the internal image of reality people can change the world.”
WILLIS PLATER –“A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment.”
WILLIS WHITNEY –“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
WILLS DURANT –“India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother of Our philosophy, of much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity.. of self-government and democracy In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all.”
WILLS DURANT –“It is the function of the youth to defend liberty and innovation; of the old to defend order and tradition, and of middle age to find a middle way.”
WILMA ASKINAS –“A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.”
WILMA RUDOLPH –“No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.”
WILMA RUDOLPH –“No one goes alone to the heights of excellence. Whether your business is building a loving family, a great idea, a meaningful career, a work of art, or a vast commercial empire, your success will depend on others, and theirs will depend on you.”
WILMA RUDOLPH –“When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God: Why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn’t just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.”
WILT ROGERS –“It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
WIN PE –“Monk-poet Shin Maha Thilawuntha wrote poems on the thoughts in the Dhamma like the deep tone of a palace drum heard in the far end of the realm. Shin Maharathathara wrote of the nature of kingship and of matters secular in poems like an ensemble for an anyein or like the warble of a karaweik. I marvel at their use of language and a vocabulary both precise and rich. From which deep intellect did they draw it. By which attrition are we losing it. I feel sad for our collective forgetfulness.”
WINNIE THE POOH –“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart I’ll stay there forever.”
WINNIE THE POOH –“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL – “There are a lot of lies going around … and half of them are true.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL – “There are a lot of lies going around … and half of them with out socialism is slavery and brutality.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Democracy is the worst form of government Except for all the others that have been tried.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether He is prepared for the ordeal is another matter.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“I do not resent criticism even if for the sake of emphasis it parts for the time with reality.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“If you are going through hell keep going.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL -“If you have an important point to make don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack”.
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again, Then hit it a third time, a tremendous whack.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“In war, you can only be killed once, but in polities, many times.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures…”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“One voyage to India is enough; the others are merely repletion.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“The empires of the future are empire of the mind.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young grow wild oats, the old grow sage.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Without measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
WINSTON CHUECHILL –“Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
WINWOOD READE –“And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the air is Saharas that separate, planet from planet, and sun from sun. The earth will become a Holy Land that will be visited by pilgrims from all quarters of the universe.”
WITHROP ALDRICH –“The price of power is responsibility for the public good.”
WM LEWIS –“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”
WOLF BLITZER –“You always give the aggrieved party the chance to respond before you publish or go to air.”
WOLFDYKE B KING –“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
WOODROW T WILSON –“All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.”
WOODROW T WILSON –“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.”
WOODROW WILSON- “It is not an army that we must train for war, it is a nation.”
WOODROW WILSON- “There must be, not a balance of power, but community of power, not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”
WOODROW WILSON –“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”
WOODY ALLEN – “How it is possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size.”
WOODY ALLEN – “Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends.”
WOODY ALLEN –“Don’t let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.”
WOODY ALLEN- “Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.”
WOODY ALLEN –“Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.”
WOODY ALLEN –“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
WOODY ALLEN –“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.”
WOODY ALLEN –“If you’re not failing, you’re not trying anything.”
WOODY ALLEN –“I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”
WOODY ALLEN –“I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”
WOODY ALLEN –“I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
WOODY ALLEN –“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
WOODY ALLEN –“No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.”
WOODY ALLEN –“People who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
WOODY ALLEN –“Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experience go, it’s one of the best.”
WOODY ALLEN –“The heart wants what it wants. There is no logic to those things.”
WOODY ALLEN –“The heart wants what it wants…. There’s no logic to those things.”
WOODY ALLEN –“To you I’m atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.”
WOODY ALLEN –“You see me as an atheist. God see me as the loyal opposition.”
WORLD BANK –“If you are not reforming, another country will overtake you.”
WORLD BANK –“Reform is like repairing a car with the engine running— there is no time to strategise.”
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION, 1948 –“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
WORLD SCRIPTURE –“In a family, parents are responsible for the welfare of children and offer children an embracing, unconditional love.”
WRITINGS OF BAHA WTAH –“No man shall attain the shores of the ocean of true understanding except he be detached from all that is in heaven and on earth.”
WRITINGS OF BAHA’u’LLAH –“That seeker must at all times put his trust in God, must renounce the peoples of the earth, detach himself from the world of dust, and cleave unto Him Who is the Lord of Lords. If anyone revile you, or trouble touch you, in the path of God, be patient, and put your trust in Him Who heareth, who seeth. He, in truth, witnesseth, and perceiveth, and doeth what He pleaseth, through the power of His sovereignty.”
WTPURKISER –“Not what we say about our blessings, but how he uses them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
XENOCRATES –“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
XHARYA MAHAPRAJNA –“The principle of anekanta symbolizes the fact that no element is either different or same as the total. It is both separate and integrated. A person is not entirely different from this universe; yet, he is not the same. We are undeniably connected — that is why we lead both dependent and independent lives.”
XUN ZI –“A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.”
Y V REDDY –“In India our mandate encompasses both growth and stability.”
Y.B.YEATS –“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of fire.”
YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO –“There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bear it in mind. When one understands this settling into single- mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.”
YAMANA ESKIMO –“Do not seek to benefit only yourself; think of other people also… If you were lucky in hunting, let others share it. Moreover, show them the favourable spots… let others, too, have their share. If you want to amass everything for yourself other people will stay way from you; no one will want to be with you. If you should fall ill one day no one will visit you because, for your part, you did not formerly concern yourself about others. Grant other people something also. The Yamana do not like a person who acts selfishly.”
YANN MARTEL –“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
YASNA –“All these, indeed, gather unto Thee, 0 Mazda! They who have done Thy work, whose actions accord with the Truth, Whose words proceed from the Good-Mind, Whose Inspirer art Thou from the very beginning.”
YASNA –“At the last turning of life to the faithful making the right choice according to his norm doth Ahura Mazda, the Lord Judge, in His sovereign power Bestow an end better than good. But to him who shall not serve the cause of good, He giveth an end worse than bad, at the last turning of life.”
YASNA –“He who upholds Truth with all the might of his power, he who Upholds Truth the utmost in his word and deed, he, indeed, is thy most valued helper, 0 Ahura Mazda!”
YASNA –“I shall take the awakened soul to the exalted abode with the help of the Good-Mind, Knowing the blissful rewards of the Wise Lord for righteous deeds. As long as I have power and strength I shall teach all to seek for Truth and Right.”
YASNA –“May the true-spoken word triumph over the false-spoken word.”
YASNA –“Through Thy power, 0 Lord, Make life renovated, real at Thy will.”
YASNA –“With Truth moving my heart, With Best Thought inspiring my mind, with all the might of spiritual force within me, I venerate Thee, 0 Mazda, with songs of Thy praise. And at the last when I shall stand at Thy Gate I shall hear the echo of my prayers from Thy Abode of Songs.”
YASSER ARAFAT- “Choose your friend carefully. Your enemy will choose you.”
YASSER ARAFAT –“I extend my congratulations to the Israeli people towards the Jewish new year. I hope this holiday will be the beginning of a new era of peace and security between the two peoples — the Israelis and Palestinians and other people m the region.”
YASSER ARAFAT –“Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.”
YEHUDI MENUHIN –“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.”
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO –“Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.”
YIDDISH PROVERB –“The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.”
YIDDISH PROVERB –“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul?”
YIDDISH PROVERB –“With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.”
YITTA HALBERSTAM & JUDITH LEVENTHAL –“At times, all we have to do in life is show up, be present, and allow the magic to unfold.”
YOGA SUTRAS –“When one is established in non-injury, beings give up their mutual animosity in his presence.”
YOGI BERRA –“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”
YOGIBERRA –“You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
YOHYA B. MU’AD AL RAZI- “Paradise is the prison of the sage, just as the world is the prison of the believers.”
YOKA DAISHI –“The Mind like a mirror is brightly illuminating and knows no obstructions, It penetrates the vast universe to its minutest crevices; All its contents, multitudinous in form, are reflected in the Mind, Which, shining like a perfect gem, has no surface, nor the inside.”
YORUBA PROVERB –“Lack of respect to the constituted authority is the source of most conflicts in the world.”
YORUBA PROVERB –“Lying does not mean that one could not be rich; Treachery does not mean you may not live to old age; But it is the day of death (judgment) about which one should be baffled.”
YORUBA PROVERB –“Offend me and I will question you — this is the medicine for friendship.”
YORUBA VERSE –“Only few people act in our interest in our absence, When we are not around. But in our presence, all display their love for us.”
YOSHIDA KENKO – “Ambition never comes to an end.”
YOSHIKO NOMURA –“The law of cause and effect without exception rules all events that take place in the phenomenal world. There is no effect without a cause and each effect becomes a new cause.”
YUL BRYNNER –“Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.”
YURI GAGARIN –“To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature—could one dream of anything more? When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is, Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!”
Z.A.BHUTTO- “Democracy is a flexible art. What appears impossible today is possible tomorrow.”
ZACHARY SCOTT –“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”
ZADOK RABINWITZ –“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.”
ZAFARNAMA -“God is the Master of the earth and the sky: He is the Creator of all men, all places. He it is who creates all — from the feeble ant to the powerful elephant, and is the Embellisher of the meek and Destroyer of the reckless. His name is: “Protector of the meek”, And Himself He is dependent upon no one’s support or obligation. He has no twist in Him, no doubt. And, He shows man the Way to Redemption and Release, From the Guru’s.”
ZAHARIAS –“Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.”
ZARATHUSTRA –“Courage begets strength by struggle with hardships. Courage grows from fighting danger and overcoming obstacles. Develop the courage to act according to your convictions, to speak what is true, and to do what is Right.”
ZARATHUSTRA –“Seek your happiness in the happiness of all. Regard the sorrows and sufferings of others as yours and hasten to assuage them.”
ZARATHUSTRA –“These two Primordial Principles in One, Of Light and Darkness, Good and 111, that seem Apart from one another, yet are bound Inseparably together, each to each In Thought, in Word, in Action, everywhere. Are they in operation; and the wise Walk on the side of Light, while the unwise follow the other until they grow wise? These ancient Two, in mutual wrestle-play Give birth to Twin- Desires, high and low, that shape as Hate-Mentality in some, in others as the Better Mind of Love. 0 Mighty Lord of Wisdom, Mazada! Supreme, Infinite, Universal Mind!, Ahura! thou that givest Life to all!,/ Grant me the power to control this , mind,/ This Lower Mind i of mine, this egoism, And put an end to all Duality,/And gain the reign of One as is desired/ Unconsciously by even the graceless ones,/ The evil sinners, in their heart of hearts.”
ZARATHUSTRA-“Courage begets strength by struggle with hardships. Courage grows from fighting danger and overcoming obstacles. Develop the courage to act according to your convictions, to speak what is true, and to do what is right.”
ZAUQ- “An increase in love increases the light in the world.”
ZELDA FITZGERALD- ‘I don’t want to live – I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
ZELDA FITZGERALD –“I don’t want to live- I want to love first and live incidentally.”
ZEN –“Life is the only thing worth living for.”
ZEN BUDDHISM –“A University Professor went to see Nan-in, a Zen Master, to find out more about Zen. As their meeting continued Nan-in was pouring Tea and continued to pour even though the cup was overflowing. The Professor cried. “Enough! No more will go in!” Nan-in replied, “Like this cup you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
ZEN BUDDHISM –“The world is like a mirror, you see? Smile and it smiles back.”
ZEN MASTER KYONG HO –“Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life … Attain deliverance in disturbance.”
ZEN SAYING –“To know and not to do is not yet to know.”
ZEN STORY –“One day it was announced by Master Joshu that the young monk Kyogen had reached an enlightened state. Much impressed by this news, several of his peers went to speak with him. “We have heard that you are enlightened. Is this true?” they inquired. “It is”, Kyogen answered. “Tell us”, said a friend, “how do you feel?” “As miserable as ever”, replied the enlightened Kyogen.”
ZEN THOUGHT –“Before enlightenment —chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment — chop wood and carry water.”
ZHUANG ZI –“Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.”
ZIG ZIGLAR – “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them every where.”
ZIG ZIGLAR – “Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”
ZIG ZIGLAR –“A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.”
ZIG ZIGLAR –“All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we’re doing what we have been told or asked to do.”
ZIG ZIGLAR –“Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.”
ZIG ZIGLAR –“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR –“A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR- “Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR –“Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR –“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR –“I know nothing about sex because I was always married.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR –“I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire.”
ZSA ZSA GABOR –“I’m an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the home.”
Mr. Ashok Sharma
How Law Enforcement Agents and the Community Can Curb Burglary in the Community
Community Policing: A Viable Panacea for the crime of Burglary
By
Osasumwen Osaghae
December 2008
The Crime of Burglary
The crime of burglary has several components. Some of the elements have provoked disagreement. One of such elements is what constitutes a dwelling place. Section 111(5) of the powers of Criminal Courts (sentencing) Act, 2000 provides that a domestic burglary committed in respect of a building which is a dwelling. The Article
Meaning of Domestic Burglary: When Is an Outbuilding a Dwelling? (Kalu, 2008) examined the meaning of a dwelling. According to the writer, dwelling is not defined in the 2000 Act. The writer then preferred the common meaning of the phrase dwelling place. The article reviewed the case of R Vs Rodmell in which the accused was convicted of burglary in a shed which the victim protected with burglary alarm. The frontier of dwelling house was extended to include shed. The writer disagreed with the judgment and the rationale for the judgment. The basis for the disagreement was the judge’s omission to define a dwelling house thereby leaving the premise for the judgment to ideological guesses. The writer then suggested that “dwelling” be given its literal and natural meaning of abode (inhabited) instead of the legal forest created by the unclear judgments on the matter.
Swaray (2006) considered the nexus between expectations of burglaries and actual burglaries. There was the belief even though unfounded that the apprehension of people that their homes were likely to be burglarized was misplaced. But the study found otherwise. Titled On the relationship between the public’s worry about safety from burglary and probabilities of burglary: some evidence from simultaneous equation models, the paper flawed the policing policy of the government in dealing with burglary cases and contended that the policing methods are not customized enough to ease the burden of burglary on the citizens. The article discussed burglary in the United Kingdom and Wales. The writer employed a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods to identify the relationship between the fear of burglary and burglary itself. The writer argued that environmental variables encompass physical and social dimensions of neighborhoods and public places that people frequent during the course of their daily activities. The effect of the fear is to create insecurity laced with apprehension which in turn reduces quality of life. The author concludes that there is indeed a relation between the cognitive and the emotional aspects of the problem. The study found that there is strong interdependence between households worry about burglary and actual and perceived probabilities of burglary.
Sorensen (2007) considered alternative policing as an option to the traditional policing method. The writer identified three basic approaches to burglary reduction, although the boundaries between them are not always clear. The three approaches are (a) reducing underlying motivations for crime; (b) pro active/problem oriented policing; and (c) situational crime prevention. This article focused on situational crime prevention, which concerns the management, design, and manipulation of the immediate physical and/or social environment with the aim of making crime appear more difficult, more risky, or less rewarding in the eyes of potential offenders. The article is based on burglary in the Scandinavian countries. The writer noted that earlier studies in Burglary did not include evaluation processes for the experiments and so he improved on the state of the literature by including an evaluation process in his study. The article titled Randomized experiment on burglary reduction, argued that multi-tactic approach to reducing burglary may not be the best approach as it obscures the actual working tactic and cloaks an ineffective method with a “working” garb. Sorensen (2006) concluded that a study such as his own may not lead to unambiguous conclusions. He would therefore recommend further enquiries in the area.
Community Policing
Burglary has been on the increase and has tended to defy traditional policing. Community policing has been recommended as a more effective way of dealing with the problem. Community policing is based on the recognition of a geographical unit (city) as consisting of many neighborhoods with particular sets of qualities and service needs. It is a customized model of service delivery tailored to meet the needs of particular communities. Community policing consists of two complementary core components; “community partnership and problem solving”, (Community policing consortium cited in Oittemeier & Wycoff).
Changing policing practices, wider social divisions have led to the transfer of policing responsibilities from the state to an assortment of public, private and voluntary agencies like the community youths, neighborhood watch and the vigilantes, (Johnston as cited in Yarwood, 2007). Policing efforts would fail if the community does not embrace the policing strategy. In the same vain, community policing is bound to fail if the citizens cannot trust the police force in their community. In extreme cases of failed loyalty, the citizens protect the criminals in their midst than they cooperate with criminals in their communities because social commonality as in race, religion and economic standing.
Community policing has taken on different names and conceptualizations such as “neighborhood watch”, “vigilantes” (Fleisher as cited in Fourchard, 2000), “anti-thief and anti-witch organizations, (Heald as cited in Fourchard, 2000). The article titled Histories of Yoruba Vigilantism is a case study of a local form of community policing that is in use in the Southern Nigeria city of Ibadan. There is a mixture of failed loyalty on the part of the people in the city and a loss of confidence. The result is that the people are more comfortable with non state policing comprising the locals in the society with an effective information network which was found to be lacking in the operations of the state police. Fourchard (2000) argued that the rise in the activities of vigilantes is an indication of the failure of the traditional policing model and a remarkable increase in the level of crime in the society among other crimes, burglary. ‘Vigilante’ in Nigeria is a term initially used by the police in the mid-1980s as a substitute for an older practice present since the colonial period and referred to as the ‘hunter guard’ or ‘night guard’ system. Colonial administration in western Nigeria either tacitly authorized it or legalized it, giving rise to an enduring continuity of these non-state forms of policing. The article traced the origins of Vigilantes to pre-colonial Nigeria when the British found it hard to curb crimes. The concept of the community has been evolving constantly with rules and safeguards being put in place to ensure that the powers were not abused. The rules and safeguards are understandable giving the non state nature of the vigilantes. One of the challenges of community policing is the potential for the abuse of the power conferred on the local policing agents. In contrast to the argument of Fourchard (2000), some of the vigilantes have themselves become the criminals because of state approval of their activities and the arms some of them are given. The article concluded that some characteristics of the community policing method in Southern Nigeria have remained to this day and have had the impact of reducing crimes such as burglary in the city concerned. Some of the practices are the curfew system, erection of gates along the streets to reduce access to and from the streets. The Curfews ensure that people stay more at home with various times set for the curfews. In most cases, people were forbidden from moving about from 8.00 pm to 6.00 am. This made a lot of sense since most of the burglaries (burglaries used in loose sense) were committed at night. Even when the curfews were stopped, the people still return home at about the time set for the curfews feeling that it was not safe to be out after the set curfew period. This had the effect of reducing break ins and burglaries as the criminals refrained from going into the homes where there were people. More than any thing else, the article shows that community policing in association with other safety precautions would reduce burglary but not in isolation.
Among several theories, there is the theory which states that when geographical locations are reduced, crime watch is made easier. A body of theory predicts that increases in the aggregate risk of apprehension within geographic territories may lead to crime reduction. The theory has variously been referred to as structural deterrence, (Sampson & Cohen, as cited in Kane, 2006), or ecological deterrence, (Bursik, Grasmick & Chamlin, as cited in Kane 2006). The theory refers basically to community policing, (Kane, 2006). The article titled On the Limits of Social Control: Structural Deterrence and the Policing of “Suppressible” Crimes discussed the theory of deterrence and its waning influence in explaining criminal propensity. The article examined the development of threat estimates that people make about their local environments and the processes by which they may transmit those threat estimates to people within their social networks. Researchers have applied the threat estimate framework to such environmental hazards as floods, traffic accidents, fires, and oil spills, generally finding that increases in perceptions of risk along the hazardous outcomes are often associated with changes in individuals’ behaviors within discrete environmental settings. The study attempted to fill these gaps by examining whether variations in the risk of apprehension across geographic territories has predicted variations in subsequent crime rates (robbery and burglary) within police precincts over time in a major urban setting. The study integrated the primary methodological and theoretical advances highlighted in the macro-deterrence literature by specifying a longitudinal design, using the community (i.e., police precinct) as the unit of analysis, and incorporating arrest activities independent of known crimes and clearances as the apprehension threat variable.
Conclusion
Community policing remains the most viable option for curbing burglary and other property crimes. As indicated above, the system will not work in isolation but in conjunction with other measures presents a viable option for combating burglary in the society. Community policing would depend largely on environmental influences in order to be effective. Community policing is based largely on interpersonal relationships and information sharing between community inhabitants and the policing authority. If there is at anytime, a loss of confidence or a communication gap, community policing may fail. This is one feature working in favor of public policing in that it does not have to rely on cooperation from the citizens wholly
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