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Have Pity O Makers of New Laws
North Miami Beach, FL April 2, 2001 Aaron H.
Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on issues, ideas and reflections on the times. Published now and
then, Opinions pro or con are welcome.
HAVE PITY O MAKERS OF NEW LAWS
"Soft" money has hogged the spotlight too long. There are so many other
things that you could spend your time on reforming besides where
electioneering funds come from. For instance:
Soften the unacceptable high volume of sound when you say the names of
candidates.
Restrict the unstoppable series of images of the faces of artificially
enhanced ordinary people.
Stop the unremitting repetition of meaningless slogans that divert our
attention away from real issues.
Shorten the unreasonable length of time the process now consumes.
Limit the obscene amounts of money spent to ennoble unworthy people to
positions of authority.
Regain the loss of reality grounded in real living things when converted to
"virtual" reality.
Remove the masks of piety replacing the warts and scars of real behavior on
real people.
Limit the influence of small, influential, unbelievably wealthy pressure
groups.
Replace the present process that allows managed and coutured images that
falsely represent real people.
Remember the poor, the orphans, the widows, the aged, the lame, the halt
and injured and the "different".
For all of these, O Lawmakers, reform.
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