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Some ideas on governance in the 21st Century PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Jeffree Benet   

I am the 99%.

Fox News keeps spewing out that the 99% of the polity who has decided to seize the reins of government "don't have a policy paper" or a "list of demands" like they are just some insignificant flies buzzing around them, but they'll be pretty quick to dispense with the labels, when they do the math on the 99%'s mood. But since they want "platforms" so they can co-opt and pervert the democratic spirit of the day, here's some to start the feed of ideas... I am one of the 99%.

1) Support the wars in the world of Islam, (but for other reasons than resources). Yes, a joke, but the tired fact is, hemp oil (the original fuel for the automobile) can out supply petroleum at a fraction of the price with a thin percentage of the the environmental and socially destructive results, and you can even make biodegradable plastics out of it. Corporate monopolies in control of the levers of state are actively working against this.

2) I believe in the free market (not the rigged Ponzi scheme that is the current financial dictatorship), and participate in it on a daily basis, by voting with my money, spending it in a system where I benefit from my taxes.

3) I'm a globalist. I believe in the need for an ETHICAL, Best-Results social contract, with maximum freedom for "all mankind" and banning financial bribery in the political process. I also believe that State mandated obedience does not bring about peace and prosperity any better than the free association of individuals. Yet everywhere the world is governed by those with monopolies on coercive force.

4) I believe in separation of state and church, separated from their coercive influences on the human spirit. I believe that religious polities of all stripes are a toxic influence on the collaborative social contract, and have read every founding father's exhortations on the formation of the political parties and their toxic nature to democracy. But I also know that they were slave owning elitist themselves, constructing a system to prevent direct connection to the helm of state. Originally, electors were chosen by Senators, who were chosen by Representatives to select the President. Yet even today, most morons will tell me "I VOTED FOR OBAMA/BUSH" when they didn't unless they are one of the electoral college.

5) I believe that gold is just another fiat currency, akin to clamshells and paper. It has very little material value, and its market is cornered in an anti-free-market way. A new system of financial account/value store has to be created to cope with the demands of 21st century earth, the 18th century model is antiquated and failing. Can you say obsolete?

6) I think national borders should be abolished, and instead national membership can be subscribed to, like credit cards and insurance. It de-facto works like this already for the monied, but should be a human right for all. This will create a free market of ideas and social services which can be worn anywhere in the world. That way, people who don't want to pay taxes can subscribe to live in areas where they get that level they are willing to pay for. I would subscribe to Netherlands, Singapore or Hong Kong.

7) I believe in the right to bear arms, but I don't exercise that right. I favour the abolition of standing armies, and the right of collaborative self policing. I believe that society's obligation to govern "for the common good" should make corporate "for profit" police states impossible and our duty to civil liberty should resist this corporate takeover of the administration of govt. Remove the profit leaches from the public administration and greatly reduce the need to tax.

8) I believe in woman's reproductive freedom. I also believe marriage licenses should have to be renewed every 5 years. This would eliminate the costly divorce industrial complex and be less coercive on familial units. I will believe sexual minorities are equal to everyone once they agree that being gay is not special.

9) I didn't vote for Obama, or Clinton, they're part of the same racket, face-men for the same cronies behind the scenes. POSTUS is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Fortune 500.

10) End the Fed after forcing them to pay out on all their "securities". Nationalize the debts. Most of America's (and an even higher percentage of the EU's) financially engineered "debt crisis" is money "the people" owe themselves. (SS fund and military retirement fund being plundered and replaced with treasuries and EU member states owing each other money).

11) I've read Wealth of Nations, and I'm glad you're a fan of 1700s books, but many more have been written since then that are more useful. I'm a direct descendent of Roger Sherman,the only founding father to sign all four of the nation's founding documents, but I know that the US Constitution is void where prohibited by law.

12) I am anti-monopolist, and unless you wish for the existence of the POSSIBILITY that, THEORETICALLY, 1 person could end up owning EVERYTHING, and the rest of us as well. And unless you're dreaming that you could be "the One great king", you'd have to be against a system which intentionally consolidates resources into fewer and fewer owners, or you'd have to be a partisan hack.


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