SHACK 243 NO RIGHTS

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Many years back I was around police cadet training.  One night my partner and I were out and we were standing around waiting for a taxi when a bunch of these cadets who had been out for the evening came up to us and said 'did you know it is an old law you cannot stand still on the Queens pavement'  We thought they were joking and recognised us, especially my partner as she was the librarian to the college.  Oh no they said they would make an arrest and read us the bit before the caution leading to an arrest then I mentioned to them they were cadets and they had no power of arrest. They said they did and tried to manhandle me. When my partner who was in a lovely dress and made up identified herself, they tried to get out of it, nearby bystanders said they had been subject to the same treatment on many nights.

We reported them to the Chief Superintendent and the names of the witnesses. They tried to say they were misinformed by the Instructors, some of them resigned and joined the army, the others apologised and the there was one instructor who was dismissed and said 'civilians have no rights under the law' he was a very traumatised person and was later admitted to a home where he tried suicide. 

In different countries ' the rights' of the populace are based and judged by different standards.  This again is cultural, political religious and can clash when meeting different cultures and so on.

Is there a Universal standard set of rules and laws. One can say there is a theme running through them all 'love one another as you would love yourself' How would a child abuser interpret this? 'do not covet your neighbours wife / husband / children property and belongings' How would a burglar and thief see this.  'Do unto others as you would do to yourself' How would a sadomasochist and a violent beheading terrorist take this'.  

Its not as simple as that, it is not words. It is feeling that is deeply in the heart as it were and arousing true compassion. True forgiveness is when there is nothing to forgive, its gone not just words.

How does one find that compassion, by watching ones behaviour and letting the intuitive quiet reflection dwell there in the silence, by unbiased observation, including knowing you are trying to be unbiased, sometimes there is a 'magical AH HA knowing', a bit more of untrue mind stuff dispensed with and then clarity and in the clear light of clarity there is the soft glow of compassion and perhaps that is the Universal Law.

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