September 26, 2004

Your Tax Dollars at Work

A “Newsweek” article from the September 27, 2004 issue called “Cops, Killers, and Moles” indicates
that there are 120,000 police officers on the Iraqi payroll. Unfortunately, approximately 30,000 are
not doing any work. The United States wants to release these non-working members of the force,
but fears doing so because these people may turn against the Iraqi government and assist
terrorists. In order to avoid this possibility, $60,000,000 of US tax dollars have been set aside to
pay these non-working officers what is being called “severance pay.” Meanwhile, nothing is being
done about those members of the police force who are “taking bribes” from terrorists on the
grounds that, “If we start firing everyone, where will we end up?”


March 15, 2004

For the first time in the history of nations, terrorists won a victory over a government. Timed only
days before the national elections in Spain, the attack on train stations had the unfortunate effect
of turning the populace's attention toward what was perceived to be the cause of the terrorist act:
Spain's involvement in the war against Iraq. Immediately after the attack, the Socialist Party in
Spain smelled an opportunity in the blood of their countrymen. The party leaders encouraged a
vote that would end Spain's involvement in Iraq and thereby end the threat of a repeat terrorist
act. Incredibly, the Spanish people accepted the logic and offered themselves as a sacrifice to
world terrorism.

It was a despicable act of cowardice for the Spanish Socialist Party's leaders to turn a massacre
into an advertisement. The cowardice was made worse by the fact that terrorist leaders have
learned a lesson: time your attacks. They now have a template for victory.

December 31, 2003

While Halliburton is busy overcharging the US government millions of dollars for crude oil, one US
company is busy getting at the root of the energy problem through technology that could
eliminate the US’s need for foreign oil. The company—Changing World Technologies—has invented
and patented a materials conversion process that mimics the earth’s geological processes of
compressing and heating matter until it converts to oil. The process produces no contaminants or
pollutants of any kind; in fact, the factory does not even need an environmental permit to operate!
CWT has a fully operational plant in Carthage, Missouri, strategically located next to an enormous
turkey farm. Why a turkey farm? Because CWT’s plant takes the waste products from the farm,
dumps them into their processing stream, subjects them to extreme heats and pressures, and
creates various kinds of oils, gases, and fertilizers.

December 19, 2003

Yesterday Libya voluntarily offered to end its development, storage, and proliferation of weapons
of mass destruction. This is perhaps the fastest and most unusual change in constitutional law
that has ever resulted from war. This action comes as the result of the United States’ destruction
of the Iraqi government and its subsequent control in the formation of a new government and a
new economy. The decision is unusual because the United States essentially forced Libya into
conformity of international law without direct aggression and without Libyan losses. Historically
(according to Philip Bobbitt’s account in The Shield of Achilles) governments change their
constitutions when and because they lose a war. In this case, Libya changed its policy (a
manifestation of its constitutional order, which includes practices of self defense both real and
perceived) because Iraq lost a war.

Other countries will soon follow suit. Others will remain defiant or increase their belligerence (I
believe that Korea will remain defiant). However, all are now forced to make a decision about their
policy regarding war: Will it include weapons of mass destruction?

One result of these decisions (i.e., changes in the constitutional orders of these countries) will be
greater economic prosperity for those countries that change their constitutional orders to align
themselves with the policies that the Unites States dictates. Those that publicly and ambitiously
disarm will be seen as “friends” and those that do not will be seen as “enemies”. Friends will be
offered economic opportunities through international trade, loans, development, and gifts.
Enemies will be punished with lack of participation in international economic growth.