J.A.I.L.
News
Journal
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Los Angeles,
California
January 30,
2002
Republished 9/11/05
While doing a search on other matters,
I happened to come across this old J.A.I.L. News Journal we sent out over
three years ago, which was found posted on another website. I thought its
message was worth republishing. - Ron Branson
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"Every truth goes through three
stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it
is opposed. In the third it is regarded as self
evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Nothing is easier to defend than
truth, yet nothing is more difficult to
propagate!"
-- [email protected]
All good endeavors
start with an idea. Ideas develop into goals, and goals develop into
realities.
--Ron Branson, July, 2000
The Penalty of Leadership!
"In every field of human
endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of
publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured
product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music,
in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same.
The reward is widespread recognition;
the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man's work becomes a
standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the
envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone - if he
achieves a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a
-wagging.
Jealousy does not protrude its forked
tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write,
or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to
slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long
after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or
envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done.
Spiteful little voices in the domain
of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountback, long after the big
would had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to
Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of
those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician
at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a
steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam
by.
The leader is assailed because he is
a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership.
Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy -
but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to
supplant.
There is nothing new in this. It is
as old as the world and as old as human passions - envy, fear, greed, ambition,
and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads,
he remains - the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in
his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages.
That which is good or great makes
itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to
live--lives..."
This text appeared as an advertisement in the Saturday Evening
Post,
January 2, 2023 by Theodore MacManus. Copyright Cadillac Motor Car
Division.
J.A.I.L. shall one day steer
politics and tower over the greatest!
"Give Me Your Substance,
&
I Will Give You
America!"
-Ron Branson
Around September 1st, a week and a
half ago, I did a Google search on "jail4judges," and it came up with 4,970
websites pointing to href="../../State_Chapters/dc/DC_initiative.doc">www.jail4judges.org. One week
later, this Thursday, September 8th, I was visiting a friend and encouraged
them to do the same Google search, expecting to see the same response I got of
5,000 websites, and to my surprise, that number had quickly grown
to 17,700 website pointers.
In the morning (Friday) I called Bill
Stegmeier in charge of www.sd-jail4judges.org to share with him this amazing finding, and he then looked at
that number, which had already gained 200 more websites overnight. It looks
as though we are well on our way toward seeing a six-figure mile-stone of
websites from around the world pointing to "jail4judges." What a blossoming
of a tremendous blessing we are witnessing for J.A.I.L.