Nolan Finley Needs To Retract His Wish Of Death For Conyers

Nolan Finley
Journalistic Hack

Being quite familiar with Mr. Finley's pontification in the public affairs of Detroit, I have taken a personal fascination in the odious descent of his political punditry.

On November 26, 2015, Nolan Finley of The Detroit News published an "Editor's Note: Conyers clings on and on and on."

It was this particular quote of editorial effrontery which caused me to immediately stand aghast:

"Too many politicians cling to the office until their next appointment is with the undertaker. Looks like Conyers is determined to be one of them."

To begin, from a cursory search, there have been 816 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives who have died in office since 1790 and 298 Members of the U.S. Senate who have died in office.

Some of these elected officials were murdered and some died of natural causes; unfortunately, Mr. Finley failed to identify how he desires the undertaker to "meet" Congressman John Conyers, Jr.

It is this failure which has raised Mr. Finley to meet the bar of besmirching his profession as a journalist.

One may attack a political party, the work of an elected official, or even the personal life of politician if it is juicy enough, but when anyone, especially a public figure such as Mr. Finley, wishes death upon another human being who happens to also be my dearest friend, I take personal issue.

This is nothing less than a threat of death in the current national climate of domestic terrorism, encouraged by the leadership of Mr. Finley's political persuasions.

I would absolutely dread the thought of Mr. Finley encouraging another historic assassination of a civil rights icon. 

Then again, Mr. Finley has been readily fashioning his career to become a sensationalistic, comedic journalistic hack who definitely triggers big hits and generates lots of backlinks for The Detroit News advertisers.

I demand you, #NolanFinley retract your wish of death for #Conyers

I wrote the following some years ago and thought it appropriate to repost at this time.

Universal Health Care: Providing For The Common Defense and General Welfare

The issues surrounding unruly town hall meetings and angry mobs were addressed over 200 years ago in the Federalist Papers, specifically #9, Hamilton and #10 Madison.

Hamilton #9: The utility of a Confederacy, as well to suppress faction and to guard the internal tranquillity of States, as to increase their external force and security, is in reality not a new idea. It has been practiced upon in different countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics.

What Hamilton basically says is that an insurgent faction disrupts consolidation and consensus of groups, better known as a republic. This idea was expounded and refined in Madison #10.

Madison identified the "inner tranquility" of the consolidation and consensus of groups as the "majority". He further spoke of the futility of non-peaceful protests as they disregarded established legislative processes, having elected government representatives.

"Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people."

Historically, civil disobedience only works when functioning under the policy of peace. These protests are not peaceful in language or activities, an early presentation of failure of the insurgence.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.The Bill of Rights: First Amendment

The key word is "peace". Once this tenet of the First Amendment is violated, peace, the government is empowered to protect the people, pursuant to the General Welfare Clause in the U.S. Constitution. The following is an excerpt of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States, called the General Welfare Clause:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

Violence, be it verbal, economic, emotional or physical, becomes grounds for government intervention, or rather the calling of the police to maintain the peace. When this happens you have an insurrection, pursuant to the General Welfare Clause. Under this light, health care as commerce, or rather Universal Health Care, is seen as a "provision for the common defense social disease, meaning maintainability of individual and social health, becoming fungible with the temporal terminology of General Welfare.

Quintessentially, Universal Health Care is one in the same with the Common Defense and General Welfare of the people of the United States of America. Here is a visual model for greater understanding:

Universal = Common

Health = Defense

Care = General Welfare

There is a lack of organization and understanding, as the insurrections constantly demonstrate a significant failure in mastering a rudimentary education of the social mobilization.

Peace.

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