Truth vs Falsehood (26 page)

The demands on the President of the most powerful nation on earth are quite extreme, and the presidency is under constant public exposure by the media and subject to critical attack consequent to being in the spotlight. At times, it is of a brutally invasive media that magnifies the slightest trivia, such as stumbling on a step or losing one’s balance. One can see that the lack of respect inherent in today’s media reflects that same quality of a society in which disrespect pervades even childhood so that it has brought down the calibration of the ordinary classroom from 400 in traditional America to today’s classroom at 190.

To this day, there is a compassionate respect for the agonizing decision that was forced on President Truman regarding the necessity of a triage benefit of dropping the atomic bomb. He had to weigh the morality of killing 180,000 civilians in order to prevent the estimated death of six or seven million people, had conventional warfare continued, which was therefore a problem of the situational ethics of triage. His decision calibrates at 475. The whole nation regretfully mourned the obvious decision that had to be made, along with the moral dilemma. It is, however, notable that the bombs that had to be dropped to end World War II were the last atomic bombs that have ever been dropped, which indicates that the world understood the underlying lesson and that the sacrifice apparently was not in vain.

President Roosevelt’s frequent “Fireside Chats” (cal. 500) made the populace feel cared about and therefore more homogenous in attitude and supportive of the presidency itself, which is often between a rock and a hard place and is forced to choose the lesser of two evils.

When evaluating the spiritual aspects of the event, it is of interest to refer to the teachings of the ancient
Rig Veda
(cal. 705), which say that each level of life sacrifices itself to support life on a higher level, out of which there is accrued karmic merit as well as the undoing of past negative karma. This phenomenon underlies the concept of group karma and implies an answer to such questions as “What is the group karma of the vast hordes who, for centuries, massacred whole populations of innocent civilians, and why are millions of innocent populations periodically wiped out by genocide?”

U. S. Politics

Political parties operate at the interface between the populace and the government. Out of necessity, however, they have their own agendas and motives in order to survive, which are influenced by public opinion, personal viewpoints, philosophic agendas, and the need to serve vested interests, such as party contributors. Thus, there is the necessity for compromise, and the calibrations of the political parties reflect degrees of partialities, positionalities, and subserving the need to win. The various strategies employed are often similar to those of sports gamesmanship, and pollsters play an influential role. Calibrated levels tend to change as various positions and personalities fluctuate and reflect shifts of opinion.

Because emotional appeal and personal charisma are deemed as necessary to win, they frequently tend to override rationality and truth or spiritual principles. These factors bring down the overall calibrated levels of political parties from the lofty 500s of love or the 400s of reason to the practical ‘get it done’ attitude of the high 200s and 300s, which is characterized by willingness, service, and productivity. Although politics may cite moral or even religious issues, it sometimes does so primarily for secular reasons, e.g., to win votes.

As would be suspected, extremists calibrate below 200, the level of truth and integrity. The Far Right tends to become fascist (fascist ideology calibrates at 125), and the Far Left moves into the sophistry of thinly disguised Marxism (Marx calibrates at 130, communism at 160) and its distortion of reality (i.e., perpetrator/victim model).

U. S. Government Departments and Agencies (12/17/04)

U. S. Policies and Agencies (12/17/04)

Interestingly, most government departments calibrate at about the same level as the giant international corporations and therefore reflect a business-like orientation. Implementation of government policies and regulations requires legalization plus vast government bureaucracies and agencies to carry out the complicated and practical requirements of those policies. This requires uniformity, dutiful job performance, and strict adherence to details. Their implementation requires vast amounts of paperwork, regulations, data accumulation, and giant electronic information networks. Efficiency is required at the interface of the budget vis-à-vis a demanding or even critical public as well as the judiciary and adversarial attacks by special interest groups. A bureaucratic official is thus saddled with enormous responsibility, along with the functional, practical, as well as political, resolutions of an incredibly complex mass of details and specifics. For example, Medicare regulations run over 10,000 pages, the U.S. Tax Code stacks to the ceiling, and there are forty-seven million files on science/research.

In addition to the requirements for complicated functioning, fairness of application is also a legal requisite, and, therefore, the heavily laden bureaucracies have to display equitable application to all segments of the population, which in itself can become quite contentious and litigious.

In addition to all the above-mentioned stresses, employees’ on-the-job performances are constantly monitored, graded, and documented. In response to this, the overall stress of the bureaucratic world tends to result in their becoming fearful, defensive, cautious, and highly regimented. Therefore, documentation of compliance is seen to be highly important. In the health field, the inflexible rule is “If it isn’t documented, it never happened” (and therefore will not be reimbursed).

It is understandable that, as a consequence of multiple complexities and pressures, the functions of some governmental departments have fallen below calibration level 200. As the public well knows, some departments have ‘lost’ billions of dollars that are not even traceable due to the complexities of the system. Impairments of the government are the focus of both research and criticism (Stossel, 2004). Some departments are impaired because the top figures are political appointees rather than experts in their field (e.g., having a military general run the war on drugs), or the politicians have imposed restrictions such as those by the Church/Pike Committee of the 1970s (cal. 180), or the Torricelli Principle (cal. 160), which helped cripple the CIA and FBI, as did the Reno/Gorelick ‘wall’ policy (cal. 190) that preceded the events of 9/11, which then triggered the Iraqi War. Paradoxically, the same elements that impaired government operations then attacked the later administration for the debacle of which they were primary designers.

Calibrations indicate that United States intelligence (but not the Pentagon) is compromised by undetected double agents that consist of a mix of (1) Far-Left ideologists, (2) Islamic converts, and (3) compartmentalized dual personalities (discussed in
Chapter 11
; also see Sperry, 2005).

Government operations became impaired by politicized obstructionism based on purposeful misrepresentation of issues and contradictory directions. An example is the Mexican immigration issue, which is obscured by irrelevancies. The actual problem is merely whether legality should be required or not, which is really not even an issue since the law is clear and comparable to the requirement for drivers’ licenses. Whether the immigrants are Mexican or needed as workers by the economy has nothing to do with a legal registration requirement.

The country is under imminent threat by terrorists dedicated to destroying the country and who seek entry by all possible means. The front door to the United States through major airports and Customs border stations is apparently now reasonably functional (after fifteen obvious terrorists got through prior to 9/11), but now the back door is a wide-open invitation. European countries with lax immigration policies have come to regret them, and some countries are now actually held hostage by militant group threats (i.e., Sweden and France).

To clarify the issue, it is interesting to note that illegal immigration calibrates at 180 (therefore, technically a crime), while legal immigration calibrates at 210. Of importance is that Cuba’s Castro is a leading coordinator of terrorists worldwide and is therefore hospitable to anti-U. S. operatives who simply go through South and Central America (where there is already a connection between the Mara Salvatrucha “MS-13” criminal gang and al-Qaeda) into Mexico and then into the United States through the wide-open Mexican border, where a million foreign nationals cross over yearly. That is equivalent to giving terrorists
carte blanche
, an opportunity that is equally enjoyed by drug smugglers and criminal escapees from foreign countries.

Another obstructionist issue to border control enforcement is the factor of operational costs and budget constraints that stand in contrast to the enormous annual expenditures for endless pork-barrel projects that are noncontributory to the national security, which would be assumed to have current priority, inasmuch as militant extremists are presently planning and pursuing strategies for additional terrorist attacks on vulnerable targets (calibrates as ‘true’). The nature and extent of such plans, as well as their details, are easily diagnosed by consciousness calibration technology, which also readily tracks the location of key figures, such as bin Ladin. As emphasized in earlier chapters, there are no secrets anymore—all is readily transparent. It does not take a $50-million reward to locate a wanted fugitive. The information is freely available in a matter of less than a minute (no budget requirements).

The tax-paying public might get greater satisfaction if they were supportive, friendly, and helpful to government agencies instead of subjecting them to an endless barrage of criticism and manipulative, politically-based lawsuits, such as the continuous assault by environmental activists (cal. 195). The budgets of forestry and parks departments are nearly wiped out by these disruptive partisan actions that seek to serve their own interests at a cost to the public (e.g., the Forestry Department currently has over five thousand pending lawsuits, so the money does not go to preserving the forests but instead is sidetracked to legal costs). As an observer remarked, “We can’t save the trees because of the legal fees.”

Judicial System