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"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men."Washington, D.C. - In a recent 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court set the legal precedent which allows police to initiate traffic stops based solely on anonymous tips. The Navarette v. California decision was so dangerous that one Justice called it "a freedom-destroying cocktail."
- Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting in Olmstead v. United States (1928)
"We as investors have a success story in this country for 22 years. We've started from scratch and we have now such a fantastic story... We have investors from Europe, from the United States, from South America, from Africa, from Asia. They are all here. And why are we being taken hostage by irresponsible, I must say, political decision making people?"
"I've heard about 20 or 57 Chinese high-tech companies ready just to move in and replace Alstom, Siemens, BASF, and Bayer, just to name the few. It's amazing!"
Comment: This is just one area where a general knowledge of ponerology would do the world a lot of good. Rodger was obviously mentally disturbed: his shallow affect contrasted to his overly emotional wording, his asocial demeanor, his 'weird' behavior resulting in few friends, his hypersensitive reactions to perceived insults and slights. Not to mention his pathological and contradictory views of himself and women. On the one hand all he wanted was to 'love and be loved', he was a 'perfect gentleman', and he despised the 'cruel and heartless' girls who did not accept his advances (if there even were any). On the other hand, he displays his own cruelty and heartlessness, utter lack of 'gentlemanly' qualities, and love in the act of premeditated murder.
Forget about gun laws! If police had an iota of psychological knowledge, this tragedy could have been prevented. Of course, for this to work, the police forces themselves would have to be purged of their own psychopaths.