We people have little real input into our government. The government does what it wants, we elect them and that is the end of it. If a President has their party in majority, it puts to much power with only "their" ideas. Presidents are CEO's or Managers of our country, and should do only what the people have authorized. This bloody war, based on lies could have been avoided if common sense people had read the reports and voted to war or not to war. Why should one person be given the authority to war, killing tens of thousands, wounding tens of thousands, costing billions of dollars?

It is time we have Iitiative and Referendum for all our governmental systems, local, state, nation, global.

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PROBLEMS AND CONSEQUENCES

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Here is an accurate article. You can GOOGLE and find all kinds of documentation of the points made here. I suggest we earnestly develop a I&R&R System.

1. What it is now,
2. What could happen,
3. What it could be like.


1. WHAT IT IS NOW
Iron Fisted America

By Charles Sullivan

11/14/05 "ICH " -- -- Understanding the collective American psyche is no easy task. To those living in other lands we Americans are an enigma. Indeed, we are an enigma unto ourselves. To others we appear foolish, dim-witted, cowardly and morally bankrupt. To allow the rise of a fascist regime to take power is compelling evidence for those views. Let me try to explain why.

Nothing in America is what we are told it is. Whenever the president speaks—it matters little which president we are talking about—we can be reasonably certain that they do not utter truth as we know it. During the past fifty years America has not had a socially progressive president. The Clinton presidency was under siege from day one by the power hungry ideologues fueled by Christian evangelicals. Bill Clinton certainly was no progressive, as his detractors would have us believe. At his most liberal Clinton was nothing more than Bush lite. He twice won the presidency by out righting the right. Clearly, this was no victory for progressives. No modern era American president represents the interest of the people. They represent the rich and powerful. The same is true of Congress.

Every branch of the American government is awash in corporate money in sums so vast as to boggle the mind. Little wonder that the American government does not serve the interest and needs of the people. It serves the wants of soulless corporate entities whose only concern is unbridled bottom line capitalism.

To further complicate matters, the vast majority of the media is under the control of the same corporate oligarchy that direct the government. The corporate media, as the name implies, serves the corporate interest. Little that the corporate media tells us has any relevance to truth as most of us know it. The corporate media are purveyors of lies and distortions that are used to subdue and control the public mind, often for sinister purposes. Seek alternative channels of information that flow from non corporate sources. There you will find what you need to know to be free.

Every branch of government and ninety nine percent of the media operates in the corporate interest—not in the public interest, as we all too willingly assume. America is not even close to resembling a democracy, as the national myth proclaims—it is a corporate oligarchy. It is a deeply class divided society in which the rich prey upon the poor. Here it is the poor who do the bidding of the rich. It is the poor who fight the wars for the economic gains realized by the power elite. It is the antithesis of Robin Hood. Here the rich routinely steal from the poor. They rob them senseless and call it democracy!

America is a land of contradictions. Under the edicts of unrestrained capitalism, the people serve primarily as drones and producers of capital for the wealthy. The majority of the people are mindless consumers of goods. They are automatons at the service of the unscrupulous gods of finance and material power. Their needs do not matter to those in power. They exist to cheer the captains of commerce on in their joyful work of consuming the planet.

The world knows only too well that America is a violent nation. They know, many of them first hand, that America preys upon the poor and the defenseless. The manner in which the corporate oligarchy that drives American politics treats its own down trodden is a microcosm of how it treats the rest of the world. The extermination of the indigenous people of North America by pious Anglo invaders is an atrocity that makes the Nazi liquidation of the Jews pale in comparison. America has yet to come to grips with its initial episode of genocide and ethnic cleansing that may be at the root of its pathological behavior. The annihilation of the American Indian was just the beginning of what capitalism could do.

Multinational corporations view the earth as a vast aggregation of commodities and markets to be exploited for profit. They do not regard the world’s citizens as human beings. They are sources of cheap labor and consumers, to be exploited by those in power. Ecosystems and the biological systems that promote life are summarily ignored by corporatism.

Global capitalism is a malignancy intent upon devouring the world. It seeks to commodify everything and every one. It intends to privatize the entire planet, effectively placing the world’s resources into the smooth, grasping, white hands of a few wealthy individuals. This explains the existence of the Bilderbergers, an annual gathering of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people who meet to determine the course of global capitalism. Along with the World Bank and the IMF it sets the world’s financial and political agenda. It also represents the establishment of a world government—George Herbert Walker Bush’s ‘New World Order.’

From cradle to grave the collective American mind is under the all pervasive assault of corporatism. This is all we have ever known; it is all most of us will ever know. It explains our combined failure to see the world in terms that can only be described as Disneyesque. Every day in America is an adventure in the implausible Land of Oz As a people we have no conception of reality. We have been carefully insulated from the pain and suffering we have inflicted and continue to inflict upon the world. Quite literally, we not know not what we do. But even more tellingly, we don’t want to know.

When we invade sovereign nations we are told that we are liberating its oppressed people from the throes of tyranny. When we enslave and torture Islamic people we are told that they are terrorists who mean us harm. In true Machiavellian terms, the ends justify the means. This also explains why we cannot come to grips through honest reckoning with the horrors of the national tragedy we call history. We have unelected leaders who lie, maim and murder and we call them Christian. Isn’t that strange?

We target nations with left wing leaders like Venezuela’s popular president Hugo Chavez and call them threats to democracy, when we ourselves have no conception of what democracy looks like. The only threat that Hugo Chavez poses to the United States is that he places the needs of the people above the profits of multinational corporations; and that is as un-American as it gets. Anti-capitalist equates to un-American in the diseased mind of corporatism. This is why the U.S. has deposed not only Chavez but Aristeed in Haiti, and a whole litany of South American pro people, pro environment, pro democracy, and pro labor leaders. That is why CIA operatives have routinely instigated coups against the hemisphere’s most popular democratically elected leaders. That is why so many of them have been assassinated by bullets paid for by our tax dollars. Countless others have been beaten, tortured, and disappeared, courtesy of U.S. tax dollars.

The corporate oligarchy loathes democracy because democracy demands the evenhanded distribution of wealth. It demands accountability. It requires justice. It seeks to know truth. No matter what pretensions we may make to the contrary, the U.S. has a long history of opposing democracy throughout the world. The undeniable proof lies hidden in our national history; a history that has been carefully thrust down the memory hole of an Orwellian nightmare we have unwittingly helped to forge through unfettered complacency.

From North Korea, Viet Nam, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Cuba, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq, the Philippines, Cambodia, the former Soviet Union, Iran, Syria, Eastern Europe, Haiti, and Jamaica—I could go on indefinitely—America’s military might has always opposed and snuffed out fledgling democracies. Every U.S. military intervention during the past fifty years and longer acted to put down insurrections of popular movements of the people. A thoughtful examination of the evidence makes it clear that the obvious and only possible conclusion is that our military might is used not to promote liberation, democracy, and freedom. It serves as the iron fist of capitalism to smash the face of people’s movements for social justice and autonomy. U.S. militarism is the arm of corporatism that invades and plunders sovereign nations to rob them of treasure and resources. Its purpose is to open new markets to capitalism; to create pools of slave labor and a constant stream of cheap goods for American consumption. It is Wal-Mart amplified a hundred thousand times and projected across the globe.

None of this is news. We are simply witnessing the unrestrained avarice of the rich and powerful running rough shod over the principles of democracy and social justice. It is the continuation of Manifest Destiny. It is the sound of the rich and powerful preying upon the poor and the innocent. None of it is what we have been told. We must open our eyes and our minds to see it for what it really is. We must come to grips with our own sordid history and all that it has wrought. Only then we can begin to do something about the present and the future.

Charles Sullivan is a furniture maker, photographer, and free lance writer living in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. He welcomes your comments at earthdog@highstream.net
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10983.htm∞

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note from eggy:

2.WHAT COUULD HAPPEN:
We people do have the power to petition and insist our government respond. We can demand
a Initiative and Referendum and Recall psocess entirely operated by the people. All actions become effective as soon as they are ratified by the people.
see: TRG Polity -- nonpartisan community
for DD and true republican governance
http://trg-polity.org∞ Direct Democracy League http://ddleague-usa.net∞

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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:36:15 +0100
From: Wolfgang Fischer <global@emanzipationhumanum.de
Subject: Re: [Worldcitizen-l]
Some Explainations of New definition of mankinds evolution

Find below my suggestion while using your frame of thought:

New definition of the mankind¹s evolution

Universe vibrates according to the regularity of a ³Secret Single Supreme
Central Power² which at the same time is the origin of universe and existence.
Our Earth obviously is part of this existence as well as our solar system and
everything else. According to given forces and regularities life develops
gradually/evolutionary. According to the intend of The Single Supreme Central
Power life comes into existence in various form and shape starting from simple
vibrating molecules which create the ever more complex getting DNA. DNA
represents the unadulterated intend of The Single Supreme Central Power and
creates the ever more complex getting diversity of life. The later a species
evolves in succession the more free it is to move around and to have options.
Whereas all of nature is bound to DNA which is inherited and to instinct which
partly is inherited and partly is learned, the latest intention/invention in a
long line of evolution so far is the human being. The decisive difference
between mankind and the rest of nature is the human brain. Due to the complex
mirroring potentiality of its cerebral cortex mankind is completely set free
to decide and to have options and at the same time mankind carries full
responsibility for its actions and behaviour.

In this context when we examine the history of human beings we observe that
the structure of body and mind of mankind is fully developed and completed
after passing various stages of evolution. All the time nature teaches on how
to live and how to live a prosperous, peaceful and constructive life. Being
born human beings are naturally ignorant like other creatures. Human history
reveals that some individuals, in the various communities decide to live
according to nature and its inherent regularity. They build their societies
upon such regularity and its generating and unifying spirit. Those might be
called ³biophils². As they love life and honour its innate glory they live in
peace. Some individuals on the other hand decide to live according to
different interests and self-made rules. They build societies upon such rules
and their destructive and separating world views. Those might be called
³necrophils². As they love matter before life and honour matter and its
illusionary wealth they live in constant doubt and uncertainty.

As history proves the second group is more violent. By its growth and
behaviour from time to time it destroys itself by the consequences of its way
of existence thus spreading scarcity and misery all over. The crux within this
group is that by manipulation of awareness it partly succeeds in making people
believe in alien forces which they make responsible for their own effects.
Thus the natural learning process is inhibited to such an extend that many
people loose their innate relation (Human Religion) to The Single Supreme
Central Power and henceforth are aligned to illusionary ideas which entail
ever more misery and scarcity. Due to the fact that illusionary and shining
wealth which belongs but a few is embedded in global misery and scarcity, many
people can be convinced that by competing strong enough it might be possible
to reach such shine and wealth. It also is being told within parts of this
group that reaching wealth is a prove for being acknowledged by their type of
god.

Because of a long history of several thousands of years nearly all people do
harbour biophilic and necrophilic aspects altogether within themselves. War
between these two forces continues from the beginning not only individually
but also collectively.

3. WHAT IT COULD BE LIKE:

Any time, however, we (the human beings) have the chance to support the
biophilic part within ourselves and as a consequence we will enjoy sustainable
life forever. But if we (the human being) resist to do so we will have to face
disaster and destruction at the last.

Thus, the definition of ³Good Acts² of human being under this context is ³all
those acts which take place in favour and for the benefit of human beings,
nature and global well being³ are ³Good Acts². Similarly, all those acts which
taking place against the favour and benefit of human beings, nature and global
well being are ³Bad Acts².

So, as such, all-humanŒs ³Good² activities lead to prosperity/Paradise and all
²Bad acts² of human beings lead to disaster and Hell.

Again, in order to get prosperity and Paradise on Earth in Heaven while being
aware of the contrasting powers and strength of action and re-action in the
self of human beings we just need to remember that we human beings at any time
are free to decide for those acts and such kind of behaviour which help The
Single Supreme Central Power to increase its overall Energy. Only this way we
human beings are able to conquer the destructive forces.



Dr. Wolfgang Fischer, München

Initiative Emanzipation ad Humanum
http://emanzipationhumanum.de∞
http://mensch-sein.de∞
Authentizität - Authenticity - Auténticidad
I've adopted the Simultaneous Policy (SP) http://www.simpol.org∞

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SUGGESTIONS AND PETITIONS

To begin in these United States we could pass this peitition around. Also necessary is some good solid Direct Democracy literature.
Please spread far and wide, add comments and suggestions of how to further this cause.

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Suggested Ammendement: It would also be prudent to add an I&R process.
Begin petition:

Petition to ammend the United States Constitution

Article. V. [ Annotations ]
Suggested Amendment added to the legislative ammendment process:
The people, using the I&R Process shall propose ammendments to this Constitution by application of a petition signed by 1% of the electors. An ammendment which is approved by 50%+1 popular vote of the electors will be ratified and implemented immediately.

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Present Article on ammendments
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.



John Baker wrote: (and I ammended ) "I'd like to propose a simple amendment to any democratic constitution.

Whereas The US provides only for the Legislature to make ammendments to the US Constitution.

Whereas a democracy is, by definition, a government approved of by a
plurality of its citizens.

Whereas any government is constituted by a set of laws commonly called
a Constitution.

Whereas a plurality of citizens is a simple majority of the voting
public.

The following article to the constitution is proposed as a matter of
course to obtain a truly democratic republic.

We the People, declare sole sovereignity over our lives, our property
and our government. In order to fulfill our responsibility to
ourselves and our children we proclaim our inhernet right to decide
how the constitution of our government shall be decided. This
amendment sets forth the ideal that only a plurality of citizens can
decide how the the constitution of the government can be amended.
Thus, this amendment proclaims that only by a simple majority
constituting 50%+1 of the voting public can the right to amend the
constitution be validated. Currently, the right to amend the
Constitution can only ber amended by elected officials. This amendment
does not change this. This amendment only provides the opportunity for
a plurality of citizens to establish this right. By enacting this
amendment, any change to how the constitution may be amended must be
met with the approval of a direct majority of the voting public.
Further, any change to how the constitution can be amended must be
petitioned by 1% of registered voters.

This is a rough draft. Basically, it is intended to get the ball
rolling towards direct democracy. All it does is put the power OVER
the amendment process in the people's hands. Thus, if the people wish
for only elected representatives to have amendment power, then so be
it. Once this power is established it is my contention that the rest
is history. I make no assumptions about what the people want or how
this will play out. All I know is that to for a democracy to be true
to itself then the power to amend the constitution must be decided by
initiative and referendum.

Comments? Objections? Suggestions?

The next step would be to take this amendment to the people directly
via a petition drive. Not that a petition would be legally binding but
that it would serve to educate and inform. Once enough people are on
board the politicians will follow.

We the People, declare sole sovereignity over our lives, our property
and our government. We proclaim our inhernet right to decide
how the constitution of our government shall be decided.

This amendment sets forth that a plurality of citizens can decide how the the constitution of the US government can be amended.
This amendment proclaims that by a simple majority constituting 50%+1 of the voting public have the right to amend the US constitution.

Currently, the right to amend the
Constitution can only ber amended by elected officials. This amendment
does not change this. This amendment only provides the opportunity for
a plurality of citizens to establish this right. By enacting this
amendment, any change to how the constitution may be amended must be
met with the approval of a direct majority of the voting public.
Further, any change to how the constitution can be amended must be
petitioned by 1% of registered voters.

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