All the world's a staged

By Johnny D. Symon

As some of you are already aware through reading some of my earlier editorials, one of my lifetime passions is the study of human behavioral patterns, chiefly in the realm of criminal psychology. For me this realm is an art form, and hardly a day goes by without me in some way reaching out to re-gather one fruit or another from the vast orchard of human wisdom that the great Hans Gross fed and nurtured throughout his long and industrious life. I'm personally convinced that the Bible holds the greatest collection of criminal psychology lessons, and Hans Gross would appear to be in line with that thought, at least that's how I see it. But whatever led old Hans into his great voyage of discovery, his subsequent findings were little short of phenomenal.

I've spent so many years studying and practicing this art that lately it's become as natural as breathing, and something has crept in almost unawares that's like the icing on the cake; criminal psychology is fun. There's Divine Comedy and there's the homo sapien variety. Years back I profiled Elton John as one of my numerous private studies; his childhood, his education and background, his music and his career. And it didn't take too long to sum up the substance of that boys life, everything about the guy's inner self was revealed in his song lyrics and titles; "Rocket Man" and "Candle in the Wind" are for me prime examples of Elton's particular lifetime bent, (as a songwriter that is.)

But some things peculiar to the style of a songwriter will not always cross over into the psychological behavior patterns of politicians, or those who practice religion in varying forms and guises, etc. and etc., for I still hold a firm conviction in life that everyone is different, each human being is an individual and must be respected as such, whether or not they recognize this fact, and many world inhabitants don't. That's what really lies behind most world conflict. We tend to relinquish our spiritual and moral responsibilities in life by placing one person or another on top of the heap, expecting them to solve all our problems for us. We forget the old adage that power corrupts, then when it does, as surely as night follows day, we blame our leader. We all in effect have washed our hands of any resultant blame for our bad decision.

Some time back I aired my view that a nation would be best served through appointing a Super Computer as sole operator and arbiter of national and international affairs. For time immemorial world leaders have become drunk with power, and all manner of Biblical prohibitions have then been broken. We all know that diplomacy in action is both the art of lying for one's country and of saying nice doggy until you can find a stick, but a Super Computer's idea of diplomacy would prove to be worlds apart from the old and habitually flawed variety. Therefore, for example, if one was placed in the pilot's seat of the United States, Israel's borders would not be on the negotiating table, because the Bible clearly states the ownership and dimensions of the nation. Political, business, and market pressure would have no effect on it's cold, rational judgment, and that's the kind of leader I most require.

I want a leader who can't make mistakes, either through deliberation or error, or through pressure from various entities. A leader that knows everything, and practices jot and tittle, whether it's The Constitution and Bill of Rights, world history, right down the line to the Bible, with its do's and don'ts, and penalties for law breakers.

You see? I'm satisfied that we're all individuals, but many of us are not convinced. This for me is the root of our problem, and it's a root clearly based in ...

"But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said,
Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed
unto the LORD.
And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto
the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee:
for they have not rejected thee, but they have
rejected me, that I should not reign over them."
- l Samuel 8:6,7

Since the fateful day highlighted above, when man chose to reject his Maker, theocracy made way for something otherwise entitled "the negotiating table." And although cold, hard, logic would decree that truth needs no negotiation, for truth is perfect and without question, many of us have fallen into the trap of accepting folly in its stead. And yet throughout good old planet earth, and despite a 21st century fact that technology could relieve mankind of corrupt and failed leaders, we stand back in awe of numerous events surrounding failed and failing leaders worldwide.

Venezuela is about to conduct a referendum on Constitutional reform next Sunday. This referendum is at the behest of the country's leader, Hugo Chavez. If successful, old Hugo will gain complete control over the populace. Now Hugo happens to be nothing more than a crazy SOB, as most Venezuelans would now agree, at least I hope they will next Sunday. But let's not forget that that crazy bum was placed as leader over that people, by the people exercising their right in a democracy to choose their leader, by ballot. Iran is led by a crazy despot who also was placed there by the people's majority. And in Spain their leader is yet another loon who just this week was entitled "ETA's Ambassador" by the leader of the AVT (Victims of Terrorism Association.)

Bill Clinton is someone I'll always remember, not for the fact that America's people voted him in as President by majority vote for two terms, but for the fact that when offered Osama Bin Laden by the Saudis, he refused, and when offered the physical services of a lady other than his wife, he accepted. And finally, on leaving that Big White House on the Hill, he not only took his wife and kids, he also took stuff that happened to belong to the State.

But not to worry, I'll also remember him for recently arriving in Spain to praise President Zapatonto for his work to "fight poverty!" And you'd think that at least Bill's effort was praiseworthy, since he himself spent two terms failing to do so himself, but the truth is that President Zapatonto had done the exact opposite. Inflation has gone up 4.1 percent on last year, and most of the Spanish public are in despair. Conservative leader, Mariano Rajoy, yesterday condemned Zappo's across the board rise in the cost of living.

Another Spanish Conservative, when interviewed outside of the Congress building in Madrid two weeks back by a reporter for the TV show "El Intermedio," had this to say; Zappo and Pepe Blanco were very pleased with themselves recently, because they'd spent three weeks building a jigsaw puzzle. "We did it in just three weeks, and yet it says on the box cover '3 to 6 years' !"

Now fun aside, the truth still remains that the Spanish Socialist government were voted in by an act of terrorism. They are in effect a terrorist-choice government, with friends in the most likely places, namely Cuba's Infidel Castrato, Bolivia's Evo Morales, and Iran's Mad-mood, and finally not forgetting their 4-year close ties with Venezuela's talking-shop boss, Hugo Chavez.

Venezuela's referendum next Sunday and Spain's general election next March, are, in the realms of criminal psychology, immaterial as to their outcome, because the rot will always remain as emanating from the top. With natural man leading the world's nations corruption is inevitable, as is the art of bribery, lies, and deceit, because none of us are perfect, all of us are susceptible.

So some of you will be thinking to yourselves, "Why vote for Alan Keyes? Why should he be any different?" to which I have to say the following ... that unlike those who have gone before him, Mr Keyes stands on things that are clearly written, and therefore would be clearly understood, for if he stands in defense of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and God's Commandments, then any deviation from the direction and content of those sources would be easily discovered. I'm not trying to say that Alan Keyes would be the perfect replacement for a Super Computer, I'm just stating that in my opinion, Alan Keyes is the best substitute imaginable, and with personal income taxe's days numbered, should he make President, he's a unique specimen in the Presidential race.

He offers a return to personal freedom, and moral and spiritual values that most of us, aware of their departure, had near lost hope of their return. But above all, he's offering America and Americans a way back to its original form, when all were aware of their state as individuals, and understood and enjoyed their rights as such. And that's quite something, because nowadays there's little freedom remaining.

"Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age."
-C. Sprague.

As individuals we need to remind ourselves that we play a special chosen part, both in the proverbial Divine Comedy, and the diplo-antic homo sapien variety currently on view worldwide!

© Johnny D. Symon