are shared but only once after that the only way to control the idea the way the ideas will flow is to use the government to violate the real property rights of others but perhaps the most offensive part about ip is how it shifts the focus from innovation . for stopping innovation in a true free market by definition devoid of intellectual property as the world was for millenia until relatively recently historically speaking the focus is on that next idea if you want to compete stay ahead you have to be the most creative you have to stay on the cutting edge that's what is rewarded in the financial incentive for innovations the same as it is in industries today but aren't subject to ip you wouldn't say that the fashion industry lacks innovation can you imagine a world in which the cut of your clothing is patented if only levi strauss were allowed to make jeans of someone else tried levi could send police to step down their operation or food where chefs couldn't copy recipes or if you try to make an omelet as seen on t.v. you have to pay royalties to emeril lagasse as for inventions tha

here's the idea. the new idea of quantum mechanics in the early part of the 20th century where newton said tell me how things are today, and i will predict how they will be tomorrow. the universe is like a giant clock work. i'll use mathematics to turn the crank forward and predict things how they will be and that's the way of thinking about things was accurate when applied to every day octobers like glasses or to the moon's motion or a rock you throw. newton can tell you what happens, you do the observation, and it happens, great. when people probed the microscopic reel, that fell apart. >> a different universe there. >> it's a different environment. let's not use the word universe too much tonight. [laughter] why should the laws not work on tiny scales. they don't. the new laws, the laws p quantum physics and the idea is you can only predict the likelihood, the probability of one outcome or another so if i'm not dealing with a rock or the moon but an electron and i want to know where it is, the quant

muhammad yunus is micro banks give small loans to interest in them so they can start businesses and the idea is being further developed by the grameen creative labs the lab is also full of people being involved in the process of making money rather than just receiving it the supporters of this idea see it's already working in countries like bangladesh and india so maybe it's an idea that should be adopted in russia. limited rights and thank you very much for being with us well first of all on the third of october the nobel prize winner and founder of grameen bank dr mohammed yunus appeared in the simpsons well before he appeared on my show or spotlight but now in the simpsons does that mean especially the simpsons i mean if there was that social business is becoming a trendy thing in the world. at least it becomes a choice of stuff and this is all about what we talk or if we do our or our book we always try to do this drug coverage out of the children's to the next generation explain it on the other level on the joyful level it's a good about and i'm looking forward to the professor you know

and our idea, the idea, the american idea is so decayed it doesn't matter anymore. not even really discussed. where is the competing idea? shariah wants total control for allah. total control for the collective. total control for the business really. united nations for the corrupt and for the corrupt businesses of the world. where is the competing idea? they all want to control. we must replace our stuff with an idea. this is why we talked about e-4. enlightenment, education, empowerment, entrepreneurship. enlightenment, find your place with god. find your place. who is he? does he even exist? do i have a place? are we all here or just blobs that happened to pop up? can we all be herded collectively, or does god look at us and judge us as individuals? if he does, you better educate yourself. then empower yourself. find that creative idea. you notice all of this is about destruction and then control. that is not what he is about. he is about creation. america, if we are going to win, we need the competing idea. it ain't about stuff. back in a second. hi, anne. how ar

within the idea of being a writer the idea of going out into the world somewhere i didn't know and shocking myself with experience rather than sitting in a room and trying to write over and over again this idea came to me and from that came the idea of going to india which was not a random country for me but a country in which i had unfinished business. until i stayed for six years. this book "india calling: an intimate portrait of a nation's remaking" is a result of realizing that the india i found beginning in 2003 was a wholly different india from the india my parents left and nothing prepared me for it. not their stories or my own visits every few years or what i read in the newspaper. india is in the midst of a revolution but a revolution that was taking place in the mind. you didn't see blood on the streets or troops or people in korea square like in egypt. it was a profound revolution happening in the country of a million people. this is the story of that revolution. i will read from three passages in the book. the beginning, middle and end. they reflect three stages of the journey.

that issue and fact he thinks these people are being treated just by so fine that he scoffed at the idea that they should be able to see their families after all as inhofe says we need draw the line somewhere now the international committee of the red cross has been pushing the pentagon to allow for family visits of get motivated eighty's and they already provide phone and video conferencing for some of them but senator in office friends are going to list stick over the proposed idea apparently hitler was almost paradise so for his embarrassingly dumb and glib statement obesity is a larger problem and the absence of due process republican senator jim inhofe of oklahoma wins tonight's till time award. and now a short while back we first told you about how google are taking it upon themselves to censor any words they were sociate of the piracy sites and they're so. we also spoke of whispers that congress was working to ensure that the federal government would be able to unilaterally order those search engines like google to block sites that they put on a blacklist and it turns out those ru

found the idea of mutually assured destruction crazy. he had the desire to defeat communism and if you look up the decisions that he made, courageous and unpopular decisions, i believe that is finally ended the soviet union, brought down the berlin wall. most presidents don't get to do that. tour and not have happened if anyone else had been elected president. the view on the economy was he reorder our economy. we are still reacting to the ideas that ronald reagan first promulgated when he ran for president in 76. we're still debating the size of government. how large should government be. should the approach to poverty be a government direct approach or a private sector approach? ronald reagan found the size of government ridiculously large. he was a new deal democrat who converted to republican because he thought the new deal and finally the great society went so far that it had become counterproductive. people were being locked into a party as opposed to given a road out of poverty. he did everything he could to change that which he di

it's going to be do you know the idea it's going to be well i mean it's going to be a combination of the two i mean the g.o.p. wants somebody that can make their candidate for instance ron paul's magnus's in that he has it is not people do not flock from paul because he's a republican candidate they flock to rome paul because he's ron paul so what the g.o.p. needs they need they need two things they need one somebody who's platform and whose history as a legislator as a governor. who witnessed that the g.o.p. has set out on abortion on maybe on social issues definitely on the military but then they also need somebody that they can try to around the country for you know the months of the campaign season and say like this is the guy you vote for not because he's themself because he's a republican but you need to get republican voters out not just people who identify with the care but why do you think it is that young people flock to me and he's not a young guy president obama is much younger yes then ron paul but is it because they have grown up with you know with this corporatist gover

of a dignified in the west as a set of ideas of liberty i mean mussolini and hitler were men of the west. record to really going to live with the i said liberalism i didn't say liberty i said it's . already right i want it to go to the point still holds i mean hillary mostly we're not liberals ok rick i want to go to you i mean we don't hear today we use the term west all the time you know and i use it all the time i'll be honest with you but we don't hear the word we don't say the east we don't people don't use that is it's polar opposite. well in philosophy we talk often about eastern philosophy and i'm reminded of the young in a satirical magazine we have here in the united states that had a headline that went something like chinese student discovers western philosophy and his parents were horrified that he was into these radical western ideas. but i want to pick up on something that homie said earlier that i think there is a certain experience of the west from the outside that we who are so-called westerners can't ignore that is when for example the west is. protecting the airsp

want to change the future and destiny and shape the nature of a nation get control of the ideas. this goes back to the lewis polls in one nine hundred seventy four members of the chamber of commerce saying to the president chamber of commerce which was later adopted you know about a year later when he was put on the supreme court by richard nixon it was he said we need to be basically infiltrating the schools control ideas worldview if you can control them old ideas and beliefs and world views you have the the most ultimate power there is so for example you've got these guys out here peddling the idea that the rich should control the economy for themselves they call it the so called free market or deregulation mode taxes you know keep the rich rich poor poor old scams they're they're peddling the idea of the poor the poor because they're cursed or lazy i mean this is incredible if you consider where this started i mean look back you know this this debate in american politics look back to the it to the seventeen eighty s. and the seven hundred ninety s. sir edmund burke was the lea

and then on one occasion i love the idea, and you talk about the so cleverly. he knows that there is no transport from the pacific side of the california but still takes people down because he will make a profit on dumping them in nicaragua and leaving them. what a guy. >> 1850's. again, this you know, i try to give full play to the different sides of vanderbilt, to be sympathetic and try to understand him as a person, which means shelling where he was not a jerk and also showing how hard and tough he was. this example is a wonderful case of a discovery in research. i happened upon the old records division of the new york county clerk's office during my research, not very well used by historians in the past. they have all the surviving civil lawsuits in this chamber up above in the circuit court building if you watched law and order you would recognize the interior. they use it often in their set for interior scenes. it is amazing. the stories that come out of these lawsuits, it was a secretive world in the 19th century. net transparency requirements imposed by

it is like the idea cosmopolitanism it is silly. >> for the same reason that esparanto is silly. aughter] >> ok, so you cannot have high- level conversations with a permit of language that simplifies everything. >> i think esparanza was an idea that you could transcend nationality surely with language. i find it amusing that this kind of nationalism that we have today, this idea that the u.n.'s diggs kerry is or a third of -- edicts carry an authority, or the human rights commission to decide what to do abroad or not is also silly. i think that is less of a problem than the divisions within our country where we are being torn apart by this ethnic centricism. it is getting worse. >> there is unavoidably a contemporary political issue that is raised by this discuson, and it is the one that diana talked about at the outset, which was that roosevelt in the way that he is speaking is clearly talking about a country somewhat like imperial rome. in 1894, if i can try to read- give a fair reading of roosevelts mind, i think the year before he had stated that the united states was on the v

but i was intrigued by the idea of where do we get the idea from the first place that there were these ideas that were outside history? and the second reason i really came to this topic that is that we're living in a moment of a resurgence of populism. i think we'd all probably agree on that. different kinds of populism and commonsense is the idea that it's at the root of populism. in some ways this book is a prehistory of populism. how did we ever get the notion that ordinary people together with kitchen table solutions might know better than experts, policy wonks in washington. that's -- those two roots that's kind of an interest in politics and an interest in historical writing combined. >> what do you think about the fact that glenn beck and the tea party movement have adopted thomas paine's commonsense? >> i find it fascinating. so for years and years, really until the reagan years, tom paine was kind of considered the pa pateren saint of the left. he was much hated really in the early 19th century in america for his supposedly atheist views, his radical political economy. and mos

>> the first thing you need to do is determine if the idea is feasible. before you start spending money or filing patents and building prototypes, to determine what's unique about the product. why would a consumer buy this product. what problem does it solve and why it's different from everything else that's out there. and then determine if you can make money from it. the world is littered with lots of inventions that never amount to anything because there wasn't a big-enough market for it or maybe you couldn't deliver it at a price point that consumers are willing to pay for it. assuming that you can determine that it's feasible. then you surround yourself with good people. you meet with a reputable patent attorney to protect the idea. >> what would a patent attorney cost me. >> typically a patent costs between $6,000 and $10,000. but it's a small price in the overall scope of bringing an invention to market. >> one of the great things you do in this country is that soap box derby thing. and science fairs. we don't really kind of do that in the uk. i don'

here's the fanciful idea that people floated. imagine that when you travel to the past, for instance, you never come back to your own universe. you come back, say, in the quantum universe. you come back to one of those other copies of our universe. so if i go back in time and till my participant before i'm born, i wouldn't be born in that universe, but so what? my parents would be unaffected in the universe which e started. so that's sort of, again, a little far afield, but at least that's some interaction with time trial. time travel. >> question over here. >> i've just had a question of something i'm recently aware of, the condensation theory. >> yes. >> and it's something that physicists, we are so lucky to live in a time where people can prohughes this -- produce this. now, hypothetically, if they can create that instant in a room, let's assume they can, do all the basic theories of quantum mechanics break down? >> do you want me to answer? >> sure. >> i don't think it does that. brian will be the final arbiter, but i think it

the idea, the president's science adviser, james kelly and, he had such power and persuasion with the president that anything he did he did not have to report to congress later in his memoir he admits maybe that was not a good idea. at the time james killian authorized the two headed nuclear weapons test, thermo nuclear bombs one was set off 20 miles up the other was 50 miles. but 28 miles is right around where the ozone layer is. and at the time i found in the declassified documents there was discussion among the scientist what might have been and could we make a hole in the ozone layer? this was an actual discussion. the answer was yes. we could, but we believe the bomb turbulence would close up the whole of it was made. so they went ahead with the test. >> host: a question about sources if everyone did -- interviewed is sworn to secrecy and how do believe at and you have top-secret clearance then what makes you think they told you the truth? >> guest: what is interesting is some of the things i have been talking about like project 57, the dirty bomb test spreading plutonium, people

i started to look at that but then uncover the fact there really frightened a lot of people the idea of blood transfusion hundreds of years before the discovery of blood types 1900. long before the discovery of guinness the show or an aseptic they were w transfusingit humans with animal blood. it was even more odd, just ignore that on the screen. [laughter] but i realize plaid -- blood transfusion started quickly and b ended just as quickly after the reserve failed to transfusion they were called up on murder charges and there was a court case and after that it was determined blood transfusion would be outlawed in france and later in france and england and italy which were the hot spots. that is where i began. as hot as it seems one thing that was interesting to me, and that's okay.s i can do this without the illustrations. j what is interesting tove me, do we have any physicians? can you imagine doing modern medicis without the benefits of blood transfusion?n there is bloodless surgery and ao way to use the patient's own blood during emergencyt surgery and trauma surgery of course. w

the energy i have. we want to see our ideas implemented? i have got three beautiful young children who are the future of america. thank you. and steve and i want them to grow up in a country where all things remain possible, where the american spirit continues to climb in were the american dream is within reach for everyone. there is no problem that we face here in america or around the world that will not yield to human effort, to cooperation, too hard work, to perseverance. our challenges of always some of the best in america, and as we have to read our history, we will make the world better than it is today. we will do this by reelecting barack obama president of the united states of america. thank you, all. thank you so much. on to victory in 2012. thank you very much. thank you. [applause] thank you. ♪ >> tonight on c-span, "q&a, with former navy seal dick ciyc -- couch. also, a prime minister's questions, david cameron talks about osama bin laden. and later, jon huntsman with university of south carolina. you can now access

in someone's mind that's the power of ideas ideas have have have more have tariff reform the planet changed the way that we interact with things change the way that we live in a very real way every culture and nation in history started as an idea everything started as an idea ideas are at the core of absolutely everything so if you're a billionaire and you want to change the future and destiny and shape the nature of a nation get control of the ideas. it was because back to lewis powell as one nine hundred seventy four member of the chamber of commerce saying to the president chamber of commerce which was later adopted you know about a year later when he was put on the supreme court by richard nixon it was he said we need to be basically infiltrating the schools control ideas worldview if you can control them old ideas and beliefs and worldviews cult you have the the most ultimate power there is so for example you've got these guys out here peddling the idea that the rich should control the economy for themselves i call it the so-called free m

where do we get the modern ideas of human rights? i'm interested in the roots of our modern political vocabulary and the concepts that we b&b about a lot, sometimes without exploring much. >> let's go to your expertise then. common sense, a term or concept used during the french revolution. 1789. >> exactly. what i find most interesting and this came out of working on this topic is that the french revolution does adapt a french version of good sense more than common sense and is very similar notion, but two very different ends. that is teiresias in pain the kind of revolutionary democratic populism. what you see in the french revolution as comments and used exactly the opposite way is the kind of counterrevolution or counter conservative idea, meaning an idea that could be leveled against the radical reason abu ghraib is the hair in particular in the way of defending traditional ways of doing things, the wisdom of people in the countryside and the roots of modern anti-democratic populism of the light in the age of revolution that in t

those are the ideas. we have others that we have considered, but they're going to be more difficult to deal with because of the required two-thirds vote that are conditions that the state impossesses on us -- imposes on us. >> thank you. the reason seniors come to every town hall meeting is because san francisco is aging. the census report, the over 60-plus population in san francisco will double in less than continue years by 2020. the 85-plus, which has a 50% of being alzheimer's is growing even faster. so to put in money, to protect infrastructure for the aging population, it's really money well spent, because in a few years if we do not have the infrastructure, our city will be spending a lot more money in the acute setting, hospital setting, and nursing homes, which don't have any beds right now for medi-cal and low-income seniors. thank you, mayor, for restoring our nutrition program. thank you for not sending our seniors to bed with empty stomachs. but now i'm going to speak on behalf of our 50 job

for the title may be wasn't the this either. ten - ideas from all schools. i'm not thrilled with the title that he chose so i am going to ask a very well pragmatic question. it's not a screed so it doesn't deserve a screed title. one title that might sell but to be misleading is how the law schools are destroying america so i don't think that would have worked either but do you mind telling us what the process is to focus group a book titled how you settle on this one may be whether i have any talent with with your title? >> first you're absolutely right i didn't want to signal discreet because i didn't want to write a screed, and it's not easy to come up with titles, but the last week i would try to do is focus group because it would wear off all the images. i was thinking i'm afraid of in part to the school for scandal as a phrase from what was the restoration company in part of the lord of misrule at the public festivals to make fun of the high and mighty and i wanted to make fun of the high and mighty, and partly i was looking for words

the general fund departments. we've bounced departments to propose ideas -- we have asked the departments to propose ideas about how we can reduce things. we announced them to add 10% reductions. we are in the process of looking at the ideas they put on the table to make decisions about which of those we can and cannot live with as we balance the budget. that is the process happening now. the long-term outlook for the city -- the economy is beginning to recover. when we look at the longer-term horizon, we see a familiar picture. even as the economy recovers and the revenues get better, costs will continue to grow at a faster rate. a lot of that is attributable to the growth in employee costs. the numbers of the bottom of the screen are the deficit projections for the next three years. they are projected to grow. it is not just that we have continuing problems ahead of us. the message is that we need to take some actions to correct that. if we do take some actions and make some decisions now, we can bring those numbers down in the future. it will require a lot of difficult decisions that we need to make to start cor

that goes directly against the idea. certainly, we always have to push against the notion of what celebrity means, this infatuation with material things. we are always fighting that. now with it being so rampant. just the other day, what does it mean to be fortunate? i think i have always been fortunate. we did not have a lot of money but this is not just monetary. it has to do with two people that raised me that cared about me. dusty williams played piano for the church choir. i was inspired by my preacher and here i am preaching. i have always been fortunate and we have to redefine what that means. >> you are going to be in russia when you officially take over in july. you officially take over from mrs. jamison in july. how do you process that? >> i have never been to russia. there will be a takeover. this is so exciting. miss jamison is a remarkable lady. for me to not only be succeeding where but also to just learn from her and to be able to call her a friend, someone who i looked up to as an image is now so human to

i just wanted to point out that again, i think i know what maybe the ideas is. i will say the project sponsor in my opinion has made some pretty significant changes to the project to try to accommodate the nubs. it's a little bit krgeso concerns at this hour that there are still difference ises of opinion within the neighborhood. but i'm supportive to hear it. i want to make a mention because we had another project not to long ago i was not supportive of continuing. you were suddenly changing the rule on a particular type of use midstream where the project head sponsor had jumped through all the hoops we asked him to do, paid all the fees and at the last moment changed. so if we're going to study a larger citywide kind of program, i'd say that, you know, we get through the projects that are being proposed right now and you know, if you want to stop it tomorrow, that's fine but don't stop it yesterday. i'm not sure -- you know, if we want to put a moratorium and do a study then do it tomorrow but not today. >> commissioner antonini? >> i agree with commissioner fu

then but never i don't recall the last time an actual governor of utah actually even entertained the idea so is you know given the current political environment in utah nationally as well as in utah do you think that the governor just put his foot in it or he actually maybe helping so i mean this sounds like some of the tea party would sober know exactly i mean you might as well talk about you know selling off the grand canyon as he would be talking about signing off pristine public lands and utah which the state's always been known for and when the congressman first made his comments i mean we reported about it we just thought it was absurd we're going to utah would require. one this local reporter asked the governor i mean i was just shocked to see him start to make the case that privatization might actually be better he said things like oh maybe indian burial grounds will be better in private hands or maybe you know the sort of the. sure yeah yeah exactly he then i mean this is a man and i mean this is this is what we're seeing all over the country right now and it's a trend across sec

then density equity, the idea that they are all equal and the changing growth is not the fault to the east. it is two years late or more than two years late. this is opposed by people that expect that the housing element to deliver less light, lest density, and more parking and yet are utterly silent on solutions for affordability and density equity. their objection seems to be that after all of these years, astonishingly, there has been insufficient notice and process. i cannot fathom what the city would expect to achieve by sending this back. the idea that the single-family home neighborhoods aren't risk to this housing element is a total red herring. we have never heard a proposal anywhere that would put our families at risk. this proves how utterly broken ceqa is. i urge you to uphold the work the planning department has done. >> are there any other members of the public that wish to speak? seeing none, why don't we hear from the appellate for a final 3 minute rebuttal. >> this provides a policy basis to undermine the density. the director always tells you what it is not that he n

showers and yeah, we will see a little sunshine in between the clouds but you get the idea, temperatures are cool. occasionally wet highs 50s and 60s. we will see wintery like weather as temperatures will be on the cool side and you will see showers sacramento valley, ukiah, high country they are getting boll lopped by a winter storm, winter storm warning, could see over a foot of snow above 8,000 feet snow down to 350 headed any where up in high down -- 3500 headed any where up into high country be prepared. maybe left over snow showers into tuesday as well. unsettled weather in the bay area, more to come cold front moving through overnight cold air behind it scattered showers likely continue on and off throughout the day. don't be fueled you will see that sun come out briefly but more showers coming in and that cold storm going the produce the possibility of isolated thunderstorms we could be in for gusty winds and hail to go with that. 8:00 a.m. in the morning, scattered showers, hit and miss as the main cold front has gone on by. we see occasional showers and occasional lightning str

and the family said interesting idea but no, let's let him rest in peace. hey were going to try to warm him up to try to get the blood moving and then transfused him what animal blood so this is not something just located in the 17th century, and the advent of the discovery of the blood circulation doesn't mean that there is a series gone by any means. bloodletting will continue well into the 17th century, and it's again associated with the humor and as you are suggesting associated with a whole range of ways of describing the human body and also describing constrictor -- human character. >> i will limit myself -- >> the third question to be a spirited and turn over to other people. what is your take on the origin -- you mentioned so i'm going to feel that is fair game. what is your take on the origin of that term? was it that julius caesar was actually born that way, that his mother's belly and uterus were cut open and he was extracted that way or is there some other -- i heard that's a controversial -- >> it's absolutely controversial. >> what are your tho

want pakistan to go downhill and given a choice they'd rather we pay the freight than they do so the idea of china taking over as the banker and supporter of pakistan going to happen and china interesting also saying that they completely support the fight against against terrorism with pakistan but not throwing the us into that window but how important is it that we've got at least that stealth copter tailback because a lot of people were afraid after that we know that china expressed interest in it in the days after the raid so it was that a big victory for john kerry if there was any victory in his trip i mean if john kerry is where he is on a diplomatic mission the best we can hope for is he doesn't see anything done to make us a new enemy they were going to give us that back where they were going to have bigger problems you know that having another visit from not a big deal and we also of course firefly all the details are now between nato and pakistani the pakistani military there so we aren't supposed to cross over into pakistani territory this is something that actually happened in

why was the idea out there in the first place? why is there any perceived need to see evidence of death? to discuss this, and jeremy spoke with an author and photographer. >> this is a new thing. >> absolutely not. there is great historical for the bodies of the defeated to be displayed by the victims. richard iii, defeated by henry vii, stripped naked and dragged through the streets. henry vii of what it richard to be seen like that, shoring up his own positions. james iv was killed, henry viii used a bloodstained cloak as evidence of the death. bodies and death are powerful and important. >> there is a well-established pattern? >> yes. >> it is surprising to me, your photographer, you must have taken lots of photographs. why should this not be made public? >> i think we are not at the battle, we are in the modern age. i think it should not be made public for two reasons. one is practical, the other is moral. on the practical level, the only reason for making it public seems to be as evidence of some kind, that this has taken pla

i had the idea and i gave it to you and you took it and ran with it. let me ask you. what has it become? what have you done? a lot. the 9.12 project is what each person made of it. like life. what have you made? my guess is if you made it about politics and protests, your groups now are starting to dwindle and struggle. it may have struggled in power wars in tea party and everything else. many have been swallowed up by tea partys and many swallowed up by g.o.p. operatives and people are starting to question. now that the congressional election is over and the tea party has accomplished what they set out to do, what has changed? the g.o.p. still struggles to find a man or woman to match the times. who are you going to vote for? who are you excited about? donald trump? got to find someone to goes through the times. the countdown clock of our destruction ticks down dollar by dollar, right by right and lie after lie. the media still refuse to as mitt that the spontaneous revolution brought on by the youth of the middle east, were no such thing. the democratic revolutions a

how about the idea of being taxed by the mile you drive. >> it is a controversial idea. n safely say that. we've had a couple presidential administrations, the last two in fact, the bush administration, the obama administration, telling us to buy more fuel-efficient cars. side effect to that -- there's less federal gas tax revenue coming in so that's the main reason for this idea. on the plus side, this tax i want to say is an idea. it is not a bill yet, hasn't been sent to the floor. it would either replace or add to the current federal gas tax so this could essentially be a new tax. on the plus side, you have increased revenue for the government. the congressional budget office looked into this, said it would be easy to track now with electronic mileage counters. on the cons, there are privacy concerns. should the government know how many miles we drive. also varied commute. some folks live in rural areas and have to drive farther to begin with. this would be unfair to them. and obviously the next one, it would be a new tax. >> how would you do this? >> the government c

the idea was people make the better choices how to protect the land and the environment, and moreover, the government should not be a land owner because in europe when you got kings, they tended to own a lot of land, and they could tell people what to do. there was a couple things that went along with that. one was they expected people to do something with the land. you couldn't just horde land and sit on it like a european land barren. there was several laws that come into effect during this time. one is what we call swatter's rights or preemption. if you found land, sat on it for seven years and don't get kicked off, you own the land. if they don't kick you out, in seven years, you can claim the land. what's the reasoning behind that? you shouldn't fence off a bunch of land, fence off texas and say i own all of this and never visit or develop your land. see, they wanted to prevent that, and so to do that, they made sure you have to police your land and ride your land and develop your land or you might lose it. another factor instituted over time towards of enhancing development was

what was the idea? the idea that man can rule for himself. how does he do it?merica is great, because america is good. what makes us america, really, and unique? right now, i read a story today that americans are just killing killers. that's the spin. on one of -- which one was it that said that? america is a bunch of thugs, killing killers, osama bin laden. that's why we need a revolution. no. no. don't you see, everything that is making us america is being dismantled. this is -- you may have a different list. this is mine. we're individuals. then we're pioneers, we're dreamers, we're courageous, charitable. fair-minded. and people of faith. i put this list down yesterday. it started to look at this list. and i thought to myself, really? are we individuals anymore? are we individuals? look what our system is doing. it's all about collective salvation. the people or the workers. it's them. us against them. the rich versus poor. the blue collar versus the white collar. politicians against the people, or people against the politicians. you can't do it on your own

the idea of the justice system only belonging to the prosecution is what has to change. when i got to stand up and say jonathan shapiro on behalf of the united states of america -- and the defense lawyer had to say joe smith for this shmuck -- you get a sense that the system has bought into it. if you convict an innocent man, you have committed a far worse crime than any other crime because you have let the guilty party off scot-free. that is incorrect incredibly -- an incredibly important message. if anybody is waving the flag, it ought to be the public defender's office. their reluctance to do so, somehow, the sense that if they do so in will make them seem pro-government or some kind, i have never been able to fully grasp. >> let me ask a question. should we remake the image of the public defender in to the public crusader? is that what we want to do, do we need to, should we? >> i certainly think so. i bought into the public crusader thing when i was a child. ironically, here i am, not serving as a criminal defense attorney or public defender. i wanted to be a crimin

gallery three features work that relates to the ideas of self-determinenism, alternative world making and utopia. visits can still participate in this -- visitors can still participate in this project. during the opening, we invite visitors to come in and try on these costumes, pose in front of the backdrop. he was really inspired by comic books that he read as growing up and thinks of this space as a post-apocalyptic monster portrait gallery where people can remain genderless once they put on the costumes. we think it's important that this be happening in san francisco, which is considered an ekpe center of the queer actual cure. the majority of the queer cultural events happen in june which has been designated as the pride month. which to me translates as the period of time in which people can be in clear arts and culture. in september, it's hashingening back to that and proving that this is something that is scon significantly happening all the time. what danny and i hope visitors take away from this exhibition is to observe the diversity within the designation of queer in terms of