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OVERVIEW
Civilization,
like life, is in a perpetual struggle with death. And as life maintains
itself only through metamorphosis, by abandoning the old and recasting
itself in younger and fresher forms, so societies achieves a precarious
survival by adapting their political and social content. The “principles
of a civilized society” are based on mutual dependence, and
the reciprocal interest of all citizens upon each other, creating
the great chain of connections holding it together.
Our
American civilization is being attacked by individual and corporate
interest. These interests wish to create a feudal society of servitude
to further their profit and greed. Their feudal society demands that
the ideals of liberty, justice and equality be sacrificed to the bottom
lines of profit and greed. They would take our society back 150 years. We
can adapt to this threat by recognizing our mutual interest and
act accordingly. We are the nation. We are the sovereign. Our
Constitution was written with a special care that has given it flexibility
over the last 217 years. This adaptive capacity has given us abolition,
women’s suffrage, direct election of Senators, child labor
laws, civil rights laws, and numerous other advancements of liberty,
justice, and equality.
Government
is nothing more than “a national association” acting
on the “principles of society”. Good government involves
a delegation of power from the people for the common benefit and
public good. Bad
government represents individual and corporate interests above the
interest of the public good. Presently, our federal government represents
the moneyed few, individual and corporate interests. Our federal
government has violated our social compact, our Constitution, and
the ‘principles of our society’. When a government violates
its social compact, its constitution, and the “principals
of society”, it is unlawful and illegal. People
and society create a constitution, and they are the ultimate sovereign
over the laws. The U. S. Constitution forms the government; it is
sovereign over that government. The government derives its power
from the people.
A disease has sickened our federal government. It sources a cancer
that is harming all American society. It is crippling our cities
by starving them of federal funds. Much of our taxes going to the
federal government are not returning to our communities. Our tax
revenues are being looted by those who are financing our federal
elections. One
tenth of one percent of our adult population finances more than
80% of the cost of federal elections campaigns. This travesty is
called campaign financing. This campaign financing is a process
of organized bribery. The disease is greed. This legal bribery of
campaign financing is a cancer that may kill our Constitution.
It is destroying the health, prosperity, and welfare of our America.
We Americans must take action.
The political dynamic that exist today, November 2007, offers
a solution that should be exploited immediately. That political
dynamic is:
1)
Our citizens fervent desire for federal elections campaign
finance reform.
2) The repeated inability of Congress to produce such meaningful
reform.
3) “The inherent conflict of interest” Congress has
in policing itself and its
campaign donors in federal elections
campaign finance reform legislation.
4) Congress, the people’s representative, must be disqualified
from any involvement in federal elections campaign finance reform
legislation.
5) Our citizenry needs to legislate a federal elections campaign
finance reform law directly, and enact that legislation through a national
democratic vote. Leadership
needs to command and unify all political, social, and economic forces
for this one specific purpose, and then exploit this advantageous
political dynamic. This solution will progressively reform our federal
government. This solution needs only to be acted on with courage
and belief.
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