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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority." --Joseph Addison We all love freedom. However, the concept of freedom is something that politicians and pundits use and abuse for their benefit. The Founding Fathers never intended freedom to be a spectator sport or something that professional politicians would usurp for political gain. One distraction we have is the problem of living in an age that is excessively politically correct. We are all so worried about not offending anyone that we learn not to have any opinions and we don't learn how to argue our points and therefore don't have to defend our side of an argument or our beliefs, and therefore, we aren't empowered or informed to the extent that we could be. When you truly know an issue, only then can you defend what you believe to be true. And only by engaging others, can we learn and understand our differences. Instead of engaging and possibly offending, we have become a nation of mutes. We go along to get along instead of making our voices heard. It's a strange submissiveness. Those in power take advantage of our silence and frame the issues, they foist rules upon us, and we're supposed to sit back and acquiesce. One of the biggest offenders of this requirement of our submission (in my opinion) is the police. They have simply forgotten that their duty is to protect and serve. Their job is not to see how much compliance they can wrestle out of everyone they come into contact with. Here's a story for you that will illustrate what I mean. I came across an article in The Oregonian entitled "Four Sue Police, Alleging 'Dirty Tactics'". Frank Waterhouse, one of the four plaintiffs in the suit, alleges that the police used excessive force when they fired a Taser at him and bean bag rounds because he was videotaping the police searching his friend's property. The claimant alleges that the police came after him, yelling at him to put the camera down. As he was running away, he said, 'don't come after me' at which point the police shot him with a bean bag and Taser. Officers wrote in their reports that Waterhouse ran off, they chased him and then bean-bagged and Tasered him. One officer wrote in his report, "He had refused to drop the camera which could be used as a weapon." Okay. .. so let me get this straight. He was running away but somehow was seen as threat? It's absurd. Good people keep quiet because they believe it is the 'politically correct' thing to do, and in turn then they get whatever the authority figures give them. I'd say it's high time to begin using your persuasion skills to let others know what you think. Don't let this happen to you.
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Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of wealthy clients using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.
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