THE LITTLE RED HEN

From: kemcoent@erols.com

Subject: Re: "The Little Red Hen"
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 18:35:50 -0500

Tom Potter wrote:
  
  The little story below, about the "Little Red Hen",
  kind of sums up my attitude, about what has happened
  to the American society.
  
  Over the years, I started many businesses,
  and many of the people I trained, took
  over my businesses, opened their own businesses
  and of course went on to work for other companies.
  
  A few years ago, although I enjoy working, creating
  and starting new businesses, and in fact, had a couple
  of great products ready for the market, I closed my last
  five  businesses and dropped out to spend the rest of
  my life just goofing around, reading, traveling,
  sitting in the woods and comtemplating my navel, etc.
  
  Now, I didn't mind, in fact I loved, giving people
  opportunity, and spending a great deal of time and money,
  on people who were eager to work and learn,
  but I always resented the fact, that the laziest,

  most insecure members of society, for their own
  selfish interests, constantly came around and
  told me what to do with my creativity, productivity
  and work product, which was to give it to them to
  distribute to their constitency, after keeping most 
  of the booty for themselves.
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  The Modern Little Red Hen
  
  Once upon a time there was a little red hen who scratched
  about the barnyard until she uncovered some grains of wheat.
  
  She called her neighbors and said,

  "If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat.
  Who will help me plant it ?"
  
  "Not I," said the cow.
  "Not I," said the duck.
  "Not I," said the pig.
  "Not I," said the goose.

  "Then I will," said the little red hen. And she did.
  
  The wheat grew tall and ripened into golden grain.

  "Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little red hen.

  "Not I" said the duck.
  "Out of my classification," said the pig.
  "I'd lose my seniority," said the cow.
  "I' d lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose.
  "Then I will," said the little red hen. And she did.
  
  At last, it came time to bake the bread.

  "Who will help me bake the bread?" asked the little red hen.

  "That would be overtime for me," said the cow.
  "I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.
  "I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig.
  "If I am to be the only helper,
  that would be discrimination," said the goose.
  "Then I will," said the little red hen.
  
  She baked five loaves & held them up for her neighbors to see.

  They all wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share.
  But the little red hen said, "No, I can eat five loaves myself."
  "Excess profits," cried the cow.
  "Capitalist leech," screamed the duck.
  "I demand equal rights," yelled the goose.
  And the pig just grunted.
  
  They painted 'unfair' picket signs and marched around and around
  the little red hen, shouting obscenities.
  
  Then the government agent came and
  he told the little red hen, "You must not be greedy."
  "But, I earned the bread," said the little red hen.
  "Exactly" said the agent.

  "That is the wonderful free enterprise system.
  Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants.
  But under modern government regulations,
  the productive workers must divide their product with the idle."
  
  And they lived happiIy ever after,
  including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked,
  "I am grateful.  I am grateful."
  But, her neighbors wondered why she never again baked any more bread.
  
  Tom Potter         http://pobox.com/~tdp

Damn, Sounds EXACTLY like Communism to me!

In Canada the police moto is to serve and protect!
But in the USA:

The police have no duty to protect him or you. at least so says the 
supreme court. so put that in your pipe and smoke it along with whatever 
else you have been smoking.

As usual *another* insane reply from Komrade Mortalis.  The police have
absolutely NO legal requirement to protect your life or property.

Bowers v. Devito, 686 F.2d 61 (7th Cir. 1982)

California Government Code, Section 821

California Government Code, Section 845: "Neither a public entity nor a
public employee is liable for failure to establish a police department or
otherwise provide police protection service or, if police protection
service is provided, for failure to provide sufficient police protection
service."

Hartzler v. City of San Jose, 46 Cal. App. 3d 6 (1975):  Ruth Brunell
called the police on twenty different occasions to beg for protection from
her husband. He was arrested only one time.  One evening Mr. Brunell
telephoned his wife and told her he was coming over to kill her.  When she
called police, they refused her request that they come to protect her. 

They told her to call back when he got there. Mr. Brunell stabbed his wife
to death before she could call the police to tell them that he was there.
The court held that the San Jose police were not liable for ignoring Mrs.
Brunell's pleas for help.

Lynch v. N.C. Dept. of Justice, 376 S.E. 2nd 247 (N.C. App. 1989):  "Law
enforcement agencies and personnel have no duty to protect individuals from
the criminal acts of others; instead their duty is to preserve the peace
and arrest law breakers for the protection of the general public."


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