I don’t know about you, but just exactly what
is the World Court anyway? It appears to be some type of judicial
preceding over in Europe somewhere that is charged with the
responsibility of bringing international crooks to justice. Is
this correct? Seems to me that they spend more time in the news
and posturing about what they are going to do than they are
actually doing something. Most of the trials I’ve heard them
preside over seem have one thing in common, the defendants all say
that the court has no jurisdiction over them and that the trial is
a sham. I can’t remember when they actually convicted someone, can
you? Where is the World Prison anyway? If you want my opinion, we
could just abolish this make believe “Judge Judy” courtroom and
put these guys to doing some real work. If I had my way, I’d
realign these resources for something like the International Birth
Name Review Council. Now, this august body could be in charge of
making certain all persons born in the world had names that
weren’t of a threatening nature. For example, I’d prohibit names
that sounded evil or unfriendly. I’ve mentioned this before, but
just who would have followed Adolph if his name had been “Skippy
Hitler”? See what I mean, the evil tone just goes away, doesn’t
it? Same goes for Stalin if someone had reviewed his application
for Joseph and had said…”Nope, we think he should be called Joe
Bob”. Look around you and try to remember….when’s the last time
you heard of anyone called …Larry or Phil? Been a long time hasn’t
it? See, this former World Court could be put to much better use,
if they’d just start limiting the names given to little babies and
maybe rationing names out so the world wouldn’t have so many
Jeffrey’s and Toms. How does Ronnie Castro grab you? Fidel sounds
so militant doesn’t it? Ronnie is a lot smoother. Ronnie Castro,
the streetcar conductor or maybe an appliance repairman. You know
we could carry this over to the organized crime area. I’ve always
thought that was really a dumb concept…organized crime….what is
this? Do they have board meetings? Probably, but then let’s move
on. Instead of criminal names and nicknames like…”Mack the knife”
we could have “Mack the Twinkie”. Or “Pretty Boy Sam” …or Joe “The
squid” instead of Joe Bananas…..kind of jazz the whole thing up a
bit and take some of the aggression out of a lot of situations. If
nicknames were controlled, then we’d have a lot more peace and
tranquility in the world and a whole lot less hostility. No one
could use angry sounding names; everything had to be judged for
harmony. Look at poor old Al Capone….never had a chance,
mistreated from the word go. It’s rumored that he tripped while
carrying a warm glass of milk to his elderly grandmother and the
broken glass cut his face pretty badly. I’m certain he was taunted
by all of the other kids and was pushed into a lifelong career of
criminal behavior just from carrying the scars (oops) given by
insensitive children at his day care center. If he had been given
the name of say, Fred or Ralph to start out with, well who knows
what he could have achieved besides a life of crime. Same goes for
old Osama…what kind of a name is that anyway? If his parents had
been forced to get name approval on him when he was born and was
encouraged to name him …”Bubba”, look how much better off the
world would be today. Name like that…Bubba bin Ladin, could be a
talk show host or something. Might have been enough to set him on
the path of positive thinking instead of becoming the mean human
he is today. Yep, I think we’re onto something here. Let the World
Court just fade away, and let criminals be tried in the countries
that were homes of the victims. Then the Name Council would have
truly done something good for the benefit of all mankind. Comments
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