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ABOUT ME:
John-Henry Hill, M.D., Ph.D. is the pen-name used by this author since 2008 when submitting essays solely on THIS BLOG, which I refer to as my “Law Blog”, even though it contains a small number of essays on “topics of the day”, plus a “JOKES” page, a LINKS page and so on…
So, WHO am I really?.
I am, in fact, a former physician and medical researcher, having earned a doctor of medicine (M.D.) degree in the early-1970’s. Within a few years I decided to center my career around private-sector clinical-medical-health research, whose clients most often were numerous U.S. government medical-health agencies. By the mid-1980’s, as personal computers and primitive computer networks (“local area networks” or LANs) began to appear, out of necessity and efficiency in terms of my own projects, I studied and took formal computer courses (MSCS degree) in database theory and programming; and soon was programming databases, not only for my own research projects, but for other researchers as well. It was actually FUN, so that I changed careers again and a became full-time medical-health research programmer and LAN specialist for private-sector companies and later two federal agencies,
In 1998 five colleagues and I also formed our own privately-owned company, specializing in database programming for medical-health research for major medical centers, U.S. government medical-health agencies, pharmaceutical companies and similar entities both in the U.S. and Europe. (We did the same work type of work that we had been doing, except that we integrated by code several software products into one system.) For over 20 years prior to my early retirement in mid-2009, I worked as a software database programmer and LAN specialist. In the early 1990’s I also earned a Ph.D. degree in American history, with a specialization in “The Evolution of American Law-Political History from the Colonial Period Through the American Civil War”.
There is SO MUCH MORE to learn – for all of us!!! I have just scratched the surface in my years of research and studying; and consequently in all of my essays on this Law Blog. I have been studying this stuff (mostly as a “U.S. history junkie”) for over 55 years; and learned a great deal more when researching for my Ph.D. However, I still do NOT consider myself an “expert” in law, medicine or medical database programming. To me NO ONE is an “expert”; there are simply people who know more about a topic than most other people. None of us can learn everything – not even about our work or our profession, our hobbies, or anything else. Life is simply too short. And all people possess knowledge that they never write down, so it is lost to the living and future generations. It is a pity that until about 100 years ago, it was customary for all Americans to keep DIARIES and write a great deal about what they knew, read, had done that day and so on. Watching sports, radio, films, TV, personal computers, the internet and cells phone have killed off that custom of a daily DIARY. Those people were the TRUE HISTORIANS of past generations – and from which most real professional historians (who perform their own original research, as opposed to simply quoting so-called “facts” from books previously published by other historians) always use such diaries as one of their primary sources of information. It was the ordinary people who wrote such diaries who were the true historians.
My ultimate decision to leave America forever was precipitated by a JOKE I told to a U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (CIS) officer at “Passport Control” at Boston’s Logan Airport upon arriving from Europe in December 2008. The first two incidents were the most grueling and took place at Boston’s Logan Airport. What transpired and the means by which I sought remedy are described in one of my essays on this blog titled, “DONUTS, THE U.S. CUSTOMS-IMMIGRATION SERVICE (CIS) AND COMMERCIAL LIENS” It is FUNNY and SAD at the same time. However these incidents were NOT the root cause for my decision to leave the U.S. forever. Instead these incidents were the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back”.
In 2009 I abandoned America forever as my home and have lived with my wife in Europe ever since, taking an early retirement, with homes in Ukraine, , Crimea (now part of the Russian Federation, with by far the greatest amount of autonomy of any Republic in the Russian Federation, retaining its own independent, the sole Republic with right and power to postpone and in some instances render void within Crimea the application and enforcement of certain Russian Federation laws, while retaining ts own independent legislature and court system) and Switzerland. I have has NO intention of returning to America… ever! I am a member of NO political party – neither the Democrat or Republican or Libertarian or whatever – since all political parties are simply competing factions within a Mafia-like system of oppression and wealth extraction.
As the old joke says, “How can you tell when a politician is lying?” Answer: ”His lips move.” Another relevant joke regarding the apathy of most Americans goes like this: One man asked another, “What do think about the ignorance and apathy of the average American?” To which the second man replied, “I don’t know and I don’t care!”
John-Henry Hill, M.D. , Ph.D.
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