The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Help us Robin Hood

    This just might be one of the most important documents that you have ever read. You don’t have to agree with everything that I say. All I ask is to read this. If it makes sense to you also then do something about it. Do you remember watching the movie Robin Hood and feeling like Robin Hood was doing something that was really good, right and just because of the evil, corrupt political power there? I remember feeling that way, but more than that I feel that way today. I believe that I have a dream and a vision for the common good of all mankind. I believe that this dream will change the world to be a truly better place. I’m not currently running for some political office so I don’t need a fancy slogan, but I am asking for change. I know that most people that read this will at first have a negative response to this idea because it challenges beliefs that people have assumed are truths for many years. Let’s face it the rich, powerful, evil, corrupt have been around for a long for a lot of years. People are generally afraid of change, because ordinarily when change comes lately it has been for the negative. People are suspicious and expect bad to happen. People have this idea that the wealthy are somehow better people than themselves, or somehow they deserve all that they have, even though someone else might have earned it for them, or perhaps they used unethical but legal means to make their money, or perhaps they even got rich by selling drugs or organized crime. Just because a person has wealth doesn’t mean that he is a good or nice person or that he deserves to have it or keep it any more than you or I do. Keep an open mind about this idea before making any judgments about it. I would ask you to think the consequences all of the way through. Personally I am tired of a few lucky people that just happened to be born with a golden spoon in their mouths, or happened to get lucky with an idea, as Bill Gates did being able to have more money than any one person should ever be entitled to hoard at one time, while the rest of us carry trillions of dollars of debt. It is at the loss of every single U.S. citizen, and not just the U.S. but of every person in the world. I wish to propose that it is unjust, that it is greedy, selfish and wrong for people to possess excessive amounts of money and to hoard it, and I wish to make it unlawful. I really don’t think that any one single individual or family would or should ever need more than 10 million dollars at any one time (I use this amount as an example). I know that this idea is going to reach opposition from some of the most powerful people in the world. I don’t really care. Once I pass this idea on to you, then it is no longer in my hands, but now it is everyone’s decision to weigh it, decide weather or not there is truth in it, and weather or not it is an idea worthy of any or all of your effort to become involved in it, and to make sure that something gets done about this idea. Because right now it’s just that, it’s just an idea. You may have to decide wither or not it is worth fighting for or not. It could make a difference for our own futures and for the future of our children, that is, if it’s not already too late, if our economy isn’t already too far gone this time. Social Security is rising the age of when we can retire.

    I would propose to you that greed is just another addiction, it isn’t glamorous and it doesn’t make people nice or better people. Wealthy people actually commit suicide more often than poor people do, so it doesn’t make people happy. I’d propose to you that greed is perhaps the worst addiction known to mankind. Yes it is an addiction. I think that it is just like the drug addict, alcoholic, gamblers, sex addicts, workaholics, or overeaters. But do the rest of us really have a say about this, or do we just have to bow down and accept things as they are and let the wealthy continue to steal from us? So what can or even should we do about it? I’d like to propose an intervention of the most powerful kind. The bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. If you had a drug addict living with you and they kept taking your money, would you just keep allowing it to go on? I’m sure that these people have a lot of excuses why they are so greedy and why they hoard the money. But if we can’t convince the wealthiest, most educated people in the world to become caring, sharing, honest, accountable human beings, then what right do we have to force the poorest person that lives in the slums and can’t feed his family, to quit stealing, killing and selling drugs. How can we ask the poorest, least educated, the people brought up under the worst possible circumstances to change, after they have been so traumatized? How in good conscience can we accuse them of being greedy and selfish and call them criminals and then to put them in prison, when we allow our most intelligent, most well schooled people brought up with everything that they ever desired to be greedy, selfish, childish hoards? Someone planned to make poor people crazy, because they are a very real threat. They might want some of the rich persons share at life. If only the poor had a role model to live up to. Do you think that poor people would need to sell drugs if they could just get a decent job? And what about the powerful drug lords, if they could only keep10 million dollars what motive would they have continue to push drugs at the rate that they do after they had already made their 10 million dollars? Why would the do it if it was just going to be taken from them anyway? They would loose all of their incentive and their power. They wouldn’t be more powerful (richer) than any of the other drug dealers, and they would be a lot easier to deal with from a law enforcement prospective.

    We the people have to decide that it is in the best interest of the majority of the population to stop allowing the wealthy to hoard money. We have to bring it to ballot, and we have to vote on it and put it into law, so that it should be unlawful for any one greedy individual to hoard more than a certain amount of money. But do the rest of us really have a say about this, or do we just have to bow down and accept things as they are?

    “Someone has asked me, “How does someone else having a large amount of money affect me.” My answer would be, simply put, that our country only has a certain amount of gold in its reserve, and now we don’t even use the same gold reserve standard as it was intended when our forefathers started the gold reserve. They are now cheating and making fake money because we don’t have enough gold to back it up. We are in debt trillions of dollars. Hitler did this same thing to Germany before it fell. He printed fake money. That is what we now do. Why do you think that other countries think that we are evil? Even poor countries and poor people understand that you are supposed to pay your debts. Gold is supposed to be the standard that we use to print our money by. Money is supposed to be backed up by the gold that we actually have. We are only supposed to print as much money as is backed up by the gold that we have. There is only a certain amount of money to go around. To make this simple lets say that the amount of money that we have in the U.S. at our disposal is like a pie. Let’s say we invite a certain distinguished individual to dinner. After ward you pull out this beautiful pie that you worked hard to make and set it on the table. The distinguished individual takes the pie and cuts himself a piece that equals 7/8 of the pie and takes what he doesn’t eat home with him, and he leaves 1/8 of the pie for the rest of your family and you. That is what has happened to our economy. If certain individuals hoard large percentages of our money, then the rest of us are left to suffer with what is left over. That is what is now happening. We don’t have enough! Are you tired of always striving to have enough, saving up so we can perhaps have another vacation, or send our kids to collage and then only having medical expenses take everything that we have lived and worked for all of our lives? Are you tired of recessions and depressions? Are you tired of being a looser (or should I say someone making you a looser)? Are you tired of phony reasons to raise gas prices? Are you tired of losing all of your dreams, your homes, and possessions? Are you tired of seeing old people gloat over spending their kids’ inheritance? What has happened to our world? When will we say enough is enough? I’ve had enough of having the wealthy taking my life from me? That is what happens when they raise gas prices, the rich get more, and you get less. Is this the life that you dreamed of? Is this the American dream, or is this dream a lie? And what the heck are we working so hard for anyway, we are working so that we can make someone else rich? Most of us work hard so that at the end of our lives we can have a house paid for, so that we can leave it to some rich person that owns a retirement home so we can live out the rest of our days there and give the rest of our money to another rich person that owns a big hospital so we can pay for our medical bills?

    And why are we going through a recession right now, here, today? The wealthy have planned for this, so that they can buy your foreclosed houses at a small percentage of what it is worth and then sell it back to you at a premium price down the road here in a few years. It’s all a game to them. They don’t care about you or me! They manipulate the stock market for their benefit. Don’t you see the trap that they (the wealthy and powerful) have set up for each of us? The wealthy and powerful have set it up so that we are slaves to them, so that we are dependent on them, so that we will always be in need of them for our livelihoods, our food, our interest only mortgages, they have everything planned out for us, or I should say for them. Like a poker machine, always keeping us thinking that we might get something back, that we might be able to experience “the American Dream” but rigging the economy so that like a slot machine, it always takes more than it gives back. Or the biggest lie of all is just like the one that lottery players and gamblers swallow, that one day they might be one of the lucky ones. Trust me; the odds are not in our favor of ever getting rich if things continue the way that they have for the last 200 years! Why not instead have 20 people win 10 million dollars instead of one person win 200 million dollars? That would up the odds of more winning wouldn’t it. We have to actually do something if we want things to change for the better for all of us; so that the wealthy do not rule this country any longer, so that the power is put back in the hands of all Americans again, by the people and for the people, remember that?! Instead of politicians secretly passing legislation in private back rooms in the middle of the night in scheming, unethical, deceitful plans of getting their perverted self motivated bills passed, perhaps the people should be able to have a say in all matters that effect them, instead of having our lives manipulated for us in spite of our opinions and views or what we think or want. Perhaps our forefathers realized that a few greedy people might get together and try to monopolize this county. Didn’t they teach us anything? After all, that is why they had a tea party and it’s why the constitution was set up for the people, of the people, and by the people. Not by who has the most money to campaign for office, given to them by the people who have the most money, and to profit the people that have the most money to gain by getting them in office. The wealthy are not going to do anything different for us no matter how many promises they make of change. The wealthy bought and pay for the people that rule our county. They own them! They are the people that we are letting rule this county!!! Simply because a person is charismatic or a better liar doesn’t make him a great politician. By the people and for the people, remember that principle? This country was founded on that principle. I don’t think that this part of our constitution is any longer true. I have a feeling that if we try to make this change, we will find out just how untrue the wealthy have made this principle to be. But have courage; there are more of us than there are of them. But we do have to stop living in a fantasy. It’s time to come out of the matrix! We have given the wealthy this power by our own views and our opinions of them! They are only flesh and blood. The wealthy are idolized by us. We all want to be like them! But in reality, many of the wealthy are dishonest, non-caring, jerks that could care less weather you or I lived or died. They only want things to continue going the way that they are so that they can continue to steal every one of our dreams from us! They want our money. I’m tired of just surviving while others live a life that the rest of us can only dream about, while children live on the streets, homeless, just wondering if they will have a meal or a place to call bed that is safe from predators, or even just a place that is warm and dry. And we wondering day after day if we will be able to keep our job, our house, everything that we have worked so hard for all of our lives. Wake up people!!! Why should the rich be the most powerful people in the world? Why? Isn’t it simply because they happened to be lucky enough, or dishonest enough to have a lot of money? Do they work harder than you or I? Does having money make them better people, or generous, or people that wish to help others out of their poverty, or more honorable people, or more honest, or more loving, or more worthy of our respect, or more deserving of a good life. Obviously not! But we all see a rich person and our knee jerk reaction is to kiss his behind or make him an idol. How many drug dealers and thieves get to live in luxury? The constitution of the United States says that we are a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Not a county of the greedy, by the uncaring, and for the selfish. I guess the question that we should ask is this; why do we allow it to go on this way? Think about it for a moment. Why should any one person ever need more than 10 million dollars at any one time in their possession? A person could live on the interest only of $10M and have a million dollars a year to live on at only 10% interest. How could anyone struggle to live if they had one million dollars in interest per year to live on? They wouldn’t even have to work. I know that I could sure survive on that. But we are allowing certain people to hoard billions, and now even trillions of dollars. How much does Bill Gates now have? Why does he need that much money? What does he plan to use it for? I think that the only reason that the wealthy need money is for their own egos, so they can be richer than someone else. Do you really care enough about their egos to sit and watch the thousands of homeless in America that we see every day on the streets when the wealthy could be supplying them an education, or a job, or perhaps some medical attention. Do we owe it to the rich, more so than a homeless child to let them continue in their greed? Come on people, become human again. Are we willing to just sit back and watch the thousands maybe soon the millions of Americans loose their homes to foreclosures? It’s really happening people! I’m loosing my home at this moment. We need to pass into law a limit on how much one person can keep for their selves, because the money is needed by millions of people, not just a few lucky ones. If the money was taken away from the wealthy people of just the U.S. and given to promote jobs and education then there would be more money than everyone in the U.S. would ever need. If we limit how much money an individual person can hoard then more people will become wealthy. How is that for a really awesome concept? Did you hear what I said? If the money was taken away from the wealthy people of just the U.S. and given to promote jobs and education then there would be more money than everyone in the U.S. would ever need. So how would it work for a wealthy person? So after Bill made his ten million he would have to decide who would be the next in his company to make the next ten million then both of them would have to pass it on to two more and then four of them would have to pass it on and so on and so on until every person in the U.S. and hopefully the world will be effected and posses wealth. Some might say well what would be the motive for Bill to continue working. The answer is simple, poverty. Do you think that Bill would enjoy having less than $10 million? If he quits, he will become poor, and I really don’t see that happening. There really is enough to go around if the wealthy wouldn’t hoard it all. And if the U.S. does it, don’t you think that it just might catch on in the really poor countries of the world also and in the rest of the world. No one in the world would have the power to stop this movement. No one would want to, except the people that are now in power! But remember, there are more of us than there are of them, and we can out vote them.Isn’t it time that we stopped giving our respect to selfish hoards? I can hear the Billionaires now saying, how can I possibly live without 10 of my 747 jets, or my 6 yachts, or my 30 houses, or my 10 islands, or my 10 Mercedes, 10 limos, 10 Ferraris, ect, ect. ect. and why, just so some stupid homeless kid can eat, or afford medical attention, or have some clothes, or perhaps even so every person could afford a house, paid for, or a small organic farm, or hey just dream it!! I can hear them whining now; you mean I have to give up my private golf courses, my private islands, my 1000’s of sections of land that I grow chemically and genetically altered crops! Did you know that the drug companies are growing crops that are making us sick on purpose! Just so they can sell you their medicine to fix you. Please check out this web site. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/01/this-company-may-be-the-biggest-threat-to-your-future-health.aspx?source=nl ) This effects the health of the entire world. I can hear the rich saying, why should I have to give up my stuff; sniffle, sniffle, waaaa, waaaa! Well I say enough is enough!!!!! I can’t help but asking myself, did all of these greedy hordes flunk kindergarten or something. Aren’t those the kids that took all of the color crayons from the rest of us so that they could have them all? Weren’t they supposed to learn to share back then at 5 years old or something like that?

    I believe that what we are talking about here is humanity. We’re talking about life and death. We all know that laptops are nice, but are they worth giving up our retirements for, or extending our retirements until we are 67 or 70 or 75 only so we can have a little thinner computer? The government is talking about there not being enough money for Social Security so that we may not even be able to retire at all, or for those who can retire, it will be later and later in life! Is it really worth giving up our retirements so Bill Gates can have one more Island, or toy, or jet? I think that the large businesses should still be allowed, and they should be allowed to grow, and taxed a larger percentage on larger profits, I just think that we should limit how much any single individual or family is allowed to hoard and keep from the business personally. Think about what this will do for taxes. 2% of the wealthy already pay 90% of the taxes, so buy doing this all of our taxes will be paid for by the people that have the money rather than making the poor who are already struggling even more burdened, by paying taxes. Pretty cool concept isn’t it? Taxes should be completely paid by the people and businesses that have the money and can afford to pay something and not by some poor widow struggling to keep her home or to eat. Some have said, “Yes but, wouldn’t the wealthy just move to another country?” If you were wealthy would you want to move to a country that has kidnapping for ransom rather than stay protected in the U.S? In other counties they don’t have their favorite restaurants, or good roads, or any of the things that we enjoy here in America. If you were wealthy would you want to live somewhere else, or in a place where everyone else had 10 million dollars also? At least they can keep their measly $10 million dollars……. and their lives. As bad as things are right now, we are still the wealthiest county in the world. The wealthy would be terrified to move to other countries not only because everyone there is so poor and they don’t have the police like we have to protect them from the poor stealing their money, but probably mostly because if they did fail to comply and even move we would boycott their products and they would soon go broke. Last but not least if the U.S. adopts this policy, many other countries will also see the benefits and follow suit also. It’s good for everyone, except for a few really greedy, selfish, hoarding individuals. Imagine no one would have enough money individually to fund a terrorist group; there would be too many bosses with money for anyone to get their individual selfish decision!

    When do we admit that going down the same road expecting different results is nothing more than insanity and wishful thinking and it does not and will not work? When do we say enough is enough and make some changes that will really work, and that will really help the homeless, the orphans and the widows, and our problem with crime! I know it’s really hard to think about someone more than ourselves, it’s our nature. But just trying to live shouldn’t have to be the burden that it is, for anyone.

    So what do we do with the money that we take from the wealthy? If the rich are only allowed to keep say $10M then anything over that amount could go to pay for an education for those of us that weren’t born with a silver spoon in our mouths, or medical attention to someone that can’t afford it, or to care for the elderly of our land, or to promote jobs, or anything to help the majority. I’d like the job of saying which poor person gets helped today. Wouldn’t that be fun! Talk about job security! What a concept, health care for everyone that doesn’t cost us everything else in life that we would also like to have. Perhaps we could really afford to help the poor, really finance small business, even retire before the age of 70. I’ll bet we could think of a million great ideas! This is a worth while cause that I believe is worth fighting for!!! It’s even possible, because there are more of us than there are of them, and we can out vote them. I believe that if we pursue this ideal that it will become like the pyramid effect. The wealthy now will help others to get an education, so they too will obtain their $10M. Now we have doubled the rich who will in turn help others obtain their $10M until every person in the U.S. has been helped by this. And the pyramid effect works really quickly. Maybe they will even feel good about the fact that they are doing something good for someone besides their selves! Wouldn’t it be awesome if every one of us reached the 10 million dollar limit and we had to raise the dollar limit to 20 million? But it is up to each one of us individually to do something about it. If you feel that this idea makes sense and is a worthwhile cause, then is it worth to you a few minutes to sit down and write a letter to your politicians? Heck, you have a computer, copy and paste it. What’s the big deal? Is it worth sending this letter to everyone on your email lists so perhaps they can do something about it also? Is it worth making and signing a petition? Is it worth bringing this issue to a vote? How would you vote? How do you think that everyone would vote? …..well almost everyone. Even better, how hard would you be willing to work at this dream if you thought that you personally had the possibility to earn or have an extra ten million dollars in your lifetime, and in your children’s lifetime? Do you think that it’s fair that a few lucky ones get to have 95% of the money and the rest of us get their crumbs? Our money is worth less and less daily. Inflation is eating us up alive. Are you ready for another depression soon, or do we do a little internal housekeeping? But with this information, you will need to do something about it, even if it’s only to discus it with your friends and make some sort of decision. Perhaps it’s just to email this letter to your friends so that they can make a decision about this also.

    I kept hoping and praying that the wealthy ones would see the realities that we all see going on around us daily, and out of the goodness of their hearts say perhaps I could get by with one less jet, or one less Island, or a Billion dollars less, and perhaps help someone else for a change. But unless we force them to do it, I don’t think that it is going to happen. It’s only getting worse. And we the people do have the power and the vote to bring this about, if we will only make it happen. We can do it!!! Please, let’s make it happen!!! I know that once you think about this, you too will agree that this makes perfect sense. Let’s change our futures, let’s actually do something about it! Start petitions. Contact our politicians by letters and emails. Let’s start lobbing! If nothing else, please send this email to everyone you know, talk to friends, peers, people at church or the club. Pastors, send this to everyone in your congregation. If you believe in this cause, like I do, then perhaps you could start giving your time to make it happen. Let’s make a better tomorrow for our children, for ourselves, and for the less fortunate than ourselves also. They are worth our time and our effort, and for once let’s do something for others also and not just ourselves. For once lets do something right!!!!!! Let’s truly be humane! Let’s make a U.S.A. that really is for the people and by the people, and not just for a few greedy, selfish, pigs. Are we going to encounter opposition, of course? Are they going to call us names, who cares? Communists, Indian givers, thieves; it takes one to know one! Are they going to use any tactic available to man, probably!? They will probably attack us personally, but this dream isn’t about any certain man, it’s about all of us, it’s about fairness, it’s about an issue that affects everyone. We must remain determined, and on course, and we can make the biggest change that mankind has ever known, except for perhaps Jesus! Remember, there are more of us than there are of them! Let’s change our country, our lives, and our world! It’s up to each one of us personally! Let’s make this dream become a reality. Let’s really make this happen, not only for us, but for future generations to come, and for the people who are less fortunate than we are, and who are truly in need of someone to fight for them; the poor, the homeless, the thousands of people and children living on the streets. It’s time to care! Why should a few have a paradise on earth and the rest of us suffer because of their greed? We tried to help the blacks abolish slavery, but the wealthy and powerful didn’t accept the principle that our forefathers fought and died for; they just turned things around to make the rest of us slaves to them again and in need of them again. Please let’s make our voices heard. Remember, there are more of us than there are of them. Thanks to every one of you that are willing to actually do something to promote this cause, and thanks from all of us that will benefit from this dream. After this idea is brought to fruition, we can afford to buy the rich a cry towel. Heck we can by them 10. For those of you that are slaves to your work and don’t have the time or the energy to do something yourself, God bless you. Do what you can. The wealthy aren’t going to support this cause, so it’s up to you and me to do it now. So how ever you choose to help, please don’t let this opportunity pass us by. Please do your part to help, whatever that may be. God bless you, and God bless America!

    This document was deliberately not signed, so perhaps you can sign it.

    Sincerely,

    From all of us.