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We, The "Unwanted" People...
Submitted by Golem XIV via Golem XIV's Thoughts blog,
The fact that the phrase sounds antique should warn us of the scale of our folly. We have lost, given away, pawned the power we once claimed. We have ceased to be who we once were. Or at least who we claimed and hoped to be – The People. Now who are we? The Consumer? The Unemployed. The Unwanted? ”We, the Unwanted” does not have the same ring about it does it? And yet that is what we are fast becoming. It is time to chose. Sit in front of your television or computer screen and let it sooth you, until one day you too find you have have become one of the unheard, unlamented, Unwanted. Or reach out to others and grasp hold.
It is surely time that we re-assert what the phrase “We, The People” once meant. It is suybolic I know. But symbols are powerful. And the powerful fear them.
For too long now we have been supine, docile and cowed. There have been sputterings of resolve when a million people took to the streets to oppose the War in Iraq. But the rulers of the day ignored us and ‘the people’ simply went home vaguely disquieted, perhaps a little hurt at being ignored but mainly just confused as to what to do next – if anything.
For decades now we have let others have the initiative, let others define what was acceptable and legitimate. When it was never their position to do so. This must stop.
Once, a certain people declared, “No taxation without representation.” It was and still is a simple idea. You may not tax me unless you represent my interests. Only those with my interests in mind may ask me for taxes. Today that definitiion of democracy has withered and been quietly replaced by another similar sounding but actually radically different version – I would say perversion – of democracy. Today we are taxed by people who represent every interest but ours. They are still representatives but not of our interests. Democracy has now become a kind of opera – more and more lavish in direct proportion to its separation from ordinary people and their lives. Every four or five years we get to chose between two teams who represent some interest which is not ours. They may represent the interests of bankers, or global corporations, or militarists and the industrial complex which gets rich from their adventures, or some other grouping within the machinery of the State, or the intersts of a powerful global 1% – whatever interest they serve it is never yours and mine. For those who will clamour and say the Democrats or Labour or La Gauche represent the interests of the labour unions, WAKE UP! It’s been decades since that was even partially true. Labour under Blair and Brown was Thatcherism by another name and ignored a million people who said very clearly and en masse, that the Bush/Blair war was unjust, illegal and unwanted. The Democrats under Obama followed the same financial and economic ideology as Bush, even chosing the same people to run things, and was as warlike and arrogant as well. Change? Tell it to a moron. He might believe you.
Democracy is broken. No one represents us. We are allowed only to chose between different teams of The Entitled who, once chosen, ignore us completely. The whole idea of a mandate has mutated. Once that idea meant that a government could do what it had said it would do when it was trying to win our votes. Beyond those things, it had to consider ‘The People’. Today all parties consider that being elected means to be handed absolute power to do whatever they feel like doing, whatever they can ram through the tattered remains of accountability and oversight.
Elected dictatorship in installments is what we have today. And when each installment, no matter the different names and colours of the teams, is almost indistinguishable from the last, what is representative democracy if not a street parade of oversized cartoon characters and their pantomimed arguments. Are we not amused?
If we do not speak up soon we will find when we finally do, nothing is heard but grunting and bleating. We are, to borrow a phrase from the brilliant Roberto Callaso, already walking through a vast slaughter house. And those who run it have no good intent.
It is past time when we must revivify what We the People means. We must stop reacting like frightened animals and take the initiative.We cannot allow those who presume to rule over us to continue to tell us what ‘must’ be done and to over-rule all debate by insisting ‘there is no alternative.’ We must state what We the People will accept and what we won’t, what we regard as legitimate and what is not. It is for us to decide these things not them. It may seem like just words and on one level of course it is. But it was only words when it was said the first time. What those words did the first time and can do again, is to stop our rulers’ proclamations always being against a blank and passive background. Simply by declaring what We will and won’t tolerate or accept we force their proclamations to appear as what they are – aggressive, partisan and debateable.
You might say that it will still be just words and that blood would still have to be spilt upon the ground before their point had force. Which may be true. But still, simply by re-stating that there IS a “We the People” we take a stand, and are heard.
So here is my suggestion, for what it might be worth – What matters is that we state what WE will and won’t accept, what WE do and do not recognize as legitimate. What matters is how many of us sign. It does not matter that we may not all agree or that we may have differing lists. What matters is that they are not so different, that we can all stand together, and all take back what is ours – the power to DECIDE for ourselves what powers we lend and what powers we do NOT.
We the People:
Will not accept taxation for the purpose of paying off, even temporarily, private banking or other financial debts.
We will not accept the rulings of international arbitration panels on which our interests are not represented and which are convened on the basis of Bilateral Investment Treaties about which we were not consulted.
We will do not recognize the right of bond holders of ANY standing to be given seniority over the tax payers and people of a nation. We will NOT bail them out.
We reserve the sovereign right to decide in the event of another finacial crisis, who does not get paid, whose wealth is anulled. It is not for the unelected market and its experts to tell us.
We, the people do not accept the right or authority of private or unnaccountable State organizations to collect, hold or use private data gathered by any means that the law and courts have not specifically and publically granted.
We do not accept the legitimacy of any private law enforcement body.
We do not accept that there is any justification for secret or unaccountable bodies to hold any power over us. We simply do not recognize they have any legitimacy.
We will not tolerate military actions taken in secret without any parliamenary and public accountabilbity and permission.
We reserve the absolute right to hold to public and legal account any leader who takes actions which disregard the above. No elected official is above the law and no leader has the power to aquit those the courts have proceeded against.
No organization is above or outside the law.
We the People do not accept that any organization is too big to prosecute or too big to fail. Any organization that becomes so or remains so depsite this clear instruction, and then fails, forfeits its entire worth to the public purse at a post bankruptcy price.
I offer this as a start only. Others will no doubt be better informed and able to formulate a far clearer, better and sharper declaration.
If they do, I would like to sign it and offer it to as many others as technology will permit me to reach, for them to consider signing. The internet gives us this chance, to put up a document that any number of ordinary people can chose to sign. People might wish to have a seperate version for each Nation. Or, in a global world, perhaps we need to remain together as the global 99%. What matters is that enough of us sign so we can really say with a single voice – WE THE PEOPLE serve you notice that we are back!
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It is not in the interest of any elected politician to work for the benefit of the majority of the population. The bottom 98% of the population do not fund the election campaigns of the candidates nor do they provide them jobs with obscene salaries once they leave the positions of power like Timmy boy.
So why would the politicians waste their time working for the middle class and the poor from whom they do not derive any personal benefit? The only activity they do is pacify the majority of the population using false statistics and promises of a better future so that they do not lynch them and their sponsors while they are robbing the taxpayers.
www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40231.html
Please add:
Right to clean water without flouride and other chemicals including fracking fluids
Right to clean air without barium, aluminum etc. as present in ubiquitous chem trailing/weather mod/sick experimentation.
Right to fair elections without money influence
Corporations are not people
Freedom from multi-year agenda laden, elite (pig fuckers) ngo's like Trans Pacific Partnership.
Dismantle monstrosities like Fox News and reestablish a free press.
"Monstrosities like Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, AP, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, et al..."
There, fixed it for you...
Let us ride to Camelot!
Ah, but WeThePeople aka the 'american' middle class is still around and is still in charge. Nobody else is. This is how an 'american' society works.
This reminded, it is clear that the only way to make it, as repeated so many, is to trim the middle class. There is no other way by now.
'Americans' look around and see nobody else to thieve from. Who could they thieve from? They have been thieving from anyone possible.
Now, as 'americans' are about theft, the only thing they can do, is to thieve from themselves.
Such, part of the middle class must disappear.
Those former 'american' middle class who cant come to terms with the loss of their 'american' middle class status. They are no longer middle class. They can call themselves the unwanted if they wish.
It remains though that the King Class, WeThePeople aka the 'american' middle class is still around.
When it comes to interesting comments on how society is changing. In mid July of 2008 an article by James Grant appeared in the Wall Street Journal titled "Why No Outrage?". In the article Grant writes about how the turmoil and problems in the financial sector would in the past created a huge outpouring of anger from the public. Now it seems that we are numb and powerless to respond, words like stupid and lazy come to mind. Silent and safe within the the huddled mass it is more comfortable to move with the crowd. More as to why we have grown so complacent in the post below,
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/01/why-no-outrage.html
It's about time.
RICO all banksters, IRS, DOJ, DOE, DOL, NPS bureaucrats,lobbyists and their political hores.
LESS GUBMENT, LOWER TAXES AND MO JOBS solves the problem
Yet will not occur by magic.
"Unwanted" people exist in most countries for differing reasons, but usually with a common theme that they are not adding to the output and tax-take of the nation.
Thus, they become a burden and governments aim to spend as little on them as possible. Ignoring their input when formulating policy becomes just another symptom.
In the UK the biggest group in society that are ignored are "the older generation" aka pensioners etc.
Not only has this group been financially raped by economic policy over the last 5 years (Zirp, QE, collapsed annuity rates etc) to the point where many are now living in abject poverty and have to choose between "eating" and "heating", but they have received decades of 2nd class service from the NHS and everybody else. It is quite normal for these people to be patronized by government, banks and big money and treated like they are all suffering from dementia.
Thee is no solution to the emergence of elected dictatorships bar taking to the streets and revolting.
We the people have also allowed government to borrow money in our name, on our collective credit rating, to pay for immediate "benefits" and that we did not make any provision to repay the money. In the process we the people have allowed ourselves to be put into perpetual debt serfdom in order to service the debt. We have place our unborn heirs into the same condition of serfdom, an act that all previous generations of humanity would have considered to be the utmost crime, indeed a form of treason.
While the above applies to both the US and Europe, at least in the US we have recourse if we would only exercise it. It is past time for the states to call a convention to consider repairing and changing the relationship of the federal government to the states and the people. Since infinite money enables infinite government, above all, we must severely restrict the ability of the federal government to continue to create money out of thin air and to spend far more money than it takes in. We must stop the fiscal predation upon us and our heirs.
Clearly the present trajectory of government is to total tyranny. We must change that while we can do so without shedding of blood.
A commenter above referenced the mass demonstrations of the 60's and 70's. In more recent times we have "Occupy". A movement in the street will result in the government shedding blood. That is the reality. Accept it, embrace it, or line with the cattle and voluntarily be slautered.
want to starve the beast all sounds well and good. Look what happened in Wisconsin when the law was passed to have teachers and firemen and cops pay a percentage of their health insurance coverage. They occupied the state capitol and damn near tore the place up. That is part of the beast. There is a city tax of 3.31 on my cellular phone bill monthly. It is none of the city's business who my cell phone provider is let alone the ability to tax me 40 dollars a year on it. Taxes are everywhere. Public schools at 12K per student per year to turn out navel gazers for the 60% that do graduate. Most of them need remedial training to even write at college course work levels. What other business can have a 40% failure rate and survive? Government work. Oxymoron. So a guy shows up for a post office job after having lost his male parts in battle in service to his country. He tells interviewer he is a veteran and his only handicap is he cant drink coffee. Interviewer tells him normal work hours are 8 to 5 and since he is a veteran he gets bonus points and he can begin the next week. Report for work and expect to work 10 to 5. 10 to 5 the new hire asks? Yes replies the interviewer, this is a government job and we spend the first two hours scratching our balls and drinking coffee so just come in at 10.
The people are of the states. The states constitution claim that all power is inherent in the people and that the people possess inalienable rights endowed by God. Those constitutions also say the all authority and power of government comes from the people. This may sound like pie in the sky words, but if you do not know how, when and where to claim your God given rights, then you don't have any. The people are only ignorant, but that can easily be cured for those who whis to be cured.
Please see "The Liberty Amendments" by Constitutional atty. now talk show host Mark Levin.
Also, what about mass protest marches on DC this summer? Seemed to work back in the '60's & '70's.
I would add to the "WE THE PEOPLE" demands that those responsible for and who profited from, the crimes against society and the people that led to last 6 years of whole scale theft of the nations wealth be held accountable. That they be treated as equally as the man on the street in the spirit of "Liberty and Justice" for all. That their ill gotten gains be repatriated and that when proved guilty of violation of law be jailed as per the law. That we the people wll settle for nothing less.
But prior to that we may wish to engage in a greater endeavor:
"It is past time when we must revivify what We the People means."
We must first revive/redefine the meaning of the individual as an American citizen. We must honestly review our past actions and/or inactions and determine where we have been lacking in our responsibilities as they pertain to freedom and individual rights and what actions do we need take, what are we willing to sacrifice in order, not to restore our country to what was, but to make it what it was suppose to be.
If we are unwilling to engage in such action, then we should vow to shut the freak up.
Great article!! Our president is about to make a National speech where his own White House it trumpeting it as a "First Salvo!"
Weapons fired against his own people inunison for maximum effect. hedgemaster.blogspot.com
"Democracy has now become a kind of opera"
We the People formed a constitutional republic.
People who seek to "reform" the system are misguided. "They do NOT truly wish to leave the plantation. They simply want better working conditions."
The system is "broken" because the Constitution was flawed in its original design.The U.S. Constitution should have explicitly:
1.) outlawed private central banks
2.) outlawed the issuance of debt instruments by the U.S. government
3.) stated that all taxes would be collected by the various states, to be transferred to the U.S. government only after approval of tranfer by each state legislature.
4.) stated that no U.S. agency (or private organization acting as its agent) could collect taxes or fees from the people
5.) stated that the Common Law would remain the ONLY law applicable to the people, unless each man/woman individually, with full disclosure, consented in writing (as a contract) to be bound by a particular statute or act
6.) stated that ONLY the U.S. Treasury could issue money, either as gold or silver, OR as paper currency backed by gold or silver with redemptions in gold and silver on demand
"The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again." -- Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England (appointed 1928). Reputed to be the 2nd wealthiest man in England at that time.
Tonto: Who is this "we", white man?
Lone deRanger: Huh?
Humans are too stupid to survive.
There is no "we". All these "we" are fiction. All that exists is individual human beings. Period. The endless attempts to establish this "we" (yankee fans) and that "we" (whites, blacks, jews, asians, christians) and endless other "we" (americans, germans, citizens and congressjerks) are nothing more than predators jamming fictions into the minds of stupid sheeple in order to prepare them to be prey.
So speak for yourselves, humans, and I'll speak for me.
I am me. One individual. One sentient being. I am no "we". I am no part of any real "we". I am one. You are one. Fred is one. Mary is one. Once you itemize all the individuals, the process is complete.
There are no "we".
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Here is what I guarantee to every human thinking of this issue. If you are delusional enough to accept your fiat, fake, fraud, fiction, fantasy and false role as some "we", or part of some "we" --- you are finished. You are prey. You destroyed yourself.
Let me be clear. I am not a "citizen", and never have been. I am not a "Chinese" and never have been. I am not an "American" and never have been. I am not subject to any acts, laws, statutes, regulations or any other nonsensical assertions made by predators-DBA-authorities.
All so-called authorities are simply individuals with delusions of grandeur. Actually, most of the predators know they are nothing but psychopathic individuals, but they also understand that most morons == humans are so stupid that they actually believe their claims of "authority" mean something, and their claims of endless "we" (citizen, taxpayer, american, german) mean something.
I can only shake my head when I hear people say "I am american" or "I am chinese" or "I am a New Yorker" or "I am a we" of one sort other another. What fools. They throw their lives and selves away like a cigarette butt. And indeed, anyone stupid enough to accept classification as a "we" is just about as smart and valuable as a cigarette butt. They should know.
Hey, I agree that Thomas Jefferson said some mighty fine things in his day. But I am not stupid enough to imagine, even in my wildest dreams, that when he and his band of merry morons sit around and table and sign a document, that somehow, magically, every human being for hundreds or thousands of miles, and for hundreds or thousands of years, is somehow converted into a "we" (or "us").
If those delusional humans can obligate everyone for hundreds and thousands of miles, and across centuries or millennia, then anyone can. Those who signed that document were simply individual human beings, of equivalent "status" as any other human being for 240,000 years before, and 240 years after (so far).
Any individual human being who is not utterly brain-damaged can immediately see that any other individual or individuals can write and sign documents, and create the same they did.
Which is NOTHING.
Nothing popped into existence when those merry men signed their documents, and nothing popped into existence when endless other individuals signed endless other documents. An assertions that "everyone is now an american", and "everyone is now obligated to obey our demands, and the demands of human predators with fictional titles for centuries for centuries to come" is worse than stupid. It is insane. And anyone who does not see this is also insane. This is not a careless formulation. Any individual who believes such nonsense is clinically insane in the most fundamental possible way. They cannot distinguish what exists from what does not exist. They cannot distinguish what is from what is not. They cannot distinguish real from fiction.
Anyone with the most modest abilities of reflection has to see the blatant absurdity of one individual simply asserting other individuals are part of a "we", and therefore obligated to obey orders, hand over their wealth, go kill people on other continents, and so forth.
Ludicrous!
Perhaps individuals who consider themselves part of that fictional we called "Mexicans" will relate to my next question.
How many humans have waited in their car at a border stop, or struggled to get over or under a fence, and looked up and saw birds flying over the fence --- birds without passports, birds without visas, birds without permission, birds without the endless fiat, fake, fraud, fiction, fantasy and massively delusional mental constructs of "we" and "authority" and endless other bogus false concepts?
Because humans supposedly have a bigger brain, they must be slaves? They must comply? They must obey? They must wait? They must pay?
Ludicrous!
To the 43 individual humans on this planet who are not terminally insane, the behavior of human beings is so blatantly preposterous, description is pointless. Who would we describe this to? The terminally stupid and insane? Yeah, that'll work. NOT. But yes, we did try, endless times.
The result? At the very best, a few individuals say "interesting", then write stories that presume this "we", that "we", and endless another "we". Sigh. Hopeless.
Humans are finished. Just flush.
The 43 individual humans who are not terminally insane (but not predators) are well advised to get out of dodge... as far, far, far out of dodge as possible. And hide. Go invisible. Get self-sufficient.
Because those other 7 billion individual humans who consider themselves that "we" called "their fellow man", are completely psychotic, and thus extremely dangerous. Even those who wish to be, and make real efforts to be benevolent are extremely dangerous. For any creature who cannot distinguish real from fiction, may do just about anything. Including, of course, obey some "authority". Stay clear.
Honestann, take your meds. You're writing great stuff, but taking waaaaaay too long to do it. As one of the 43, there is nothing I enjoy more than someone who gets "it". You definitely get it. I'm not sure we can get far enough out of dodge (I'm as far as I intend to go), but we live in interesting times. Totalitarian times, but then, it has always been so. Keep up the good work.
As an official self-appointed member of the "43", have you ever encountered anyone you could break free of their insanity?
I just broke out laughing. As I finished the above sentence, I made one of those semi-arbitrary connections (not really) that happens now and then.
I was remembering what's her name (Moab) who said to the hero (Jake Sully) in Avatar... "we will see if your insanity can be cured".
After she first noted that "you can't fill a cup that is already full". Which makes me wonder if Cameron is also one of the 43... or at least understands that humans are pretty much destroyed before they even reach their teens. Their brains are so jam packed full of fictional nonsense before they escape the prision known as "home" (and "school"), that "their cup is full", and for practical purposes "cannot accept anything more" of any significance.
A question for you. If you think those "long rants" have no chance, do you imagine that "short rants" do? I know... it is very unlikely we'll ever reach 44, no matter how hard we try. Just a waste of our time. I always hope there is someone out there "on the edge", and just by some amazing coincidence reads just what they need to make the last tumbler fall into place.
I have no illusion that anyone else has a chance to benefit.
Your post is an excellent example of great communication of an idea. I would like to think we have an opportunity to pry the door open and let in some light, but they have to walk out into it. In a sense, we are wasting our time. We could be doing something productive, but then do we have to produce all the time? Can we not take a few moments to connect with another?
I didn't mean to say long rants have no chance, but a shorter, more concise one might have greater appeal. This is something you have noticed yourself in the past and mine was a bit of a tease. I was hoping my encouragement at the end was not lost.
It is not my place to save the world, 98% of the population would find my rants to be maniacal at best. I'm not sure we could evolve as a life species, if the training ground was all skittles and unicorns. It is enough to pull away the facade, one day at a time and if another gets a glimpse from our efforts, curiouslty should do the rest.
"Totalitarian times, but then, it has always been so".
Modern totalitarism is different from traditional totalitarism. It has shifted from folklore (where everyone wears a uniform) to immanence (where everyone is uniform). Science provided the tools to do so, while humans remained the same (vulnerable).
So fascism has always been effective, but it is now powered by science (see Bernays, marketing, hypnosis etc). Imagine some traditional fascist leader in our modern world: there would not even be any crowd gathering to listen yo him! In a way one could say: There is not any one left on this planet... Only hypnotized zombies...
Yes indeed, and well stated.
You raise an interesting question.
And that is... how to apply old, new, fundamental or elaborate techniques to render the hypnotic trances ineffective. Someone really should be working on that. Of course, if you are correct, that is impossible, because nobody remains not under the spell.
But we believe 43 individual minds still exist, against which the techniques did not work. And I suppose we hope 43,000 people exist today who are not so completely captured in the trance that recovery is at least possible in principle. In my case, I believe I understand why - because I saw through the scam at age 4 and made a firm decision to take full control of my own observations and conscious processes. That may, in fact, be the story for the other 42... but... maybe not. Why assume so without evidence?
I believe humans are finished, and say so. That's part of me being 100% honest with myself without exception. But I hope I am wrong, very wrong, massively wrong. And so I work on a way to escape this very real "planet of the apes" that we live on. That seems to be the only obvious long-term hope. And sadly, not one easy to achieve.
I agree. As you say, the zombies won't walk into the light. Me, I do something productive roughly 24 hours per "day", and these rants on ZH are my waste of time - a very tiny percentage of my productive hours. Mostly I "waste" time by wandering around under the starlit sky, late at night. That's my primary release. But when I need a break during daylight hours, and there's nothing important to do in my greenhouse, I'll waste a bit of time here if I see an excuse.
Fortunately for me, I type at about warp 9.95, so these rants take only a few minutes to spew upon the world. And these ideas are so well known and understood by me for so many years, they don't take time to formulate. I literally spew characters at warp 9.95 from start to finish - which is why I generate so many typos, spelling errorz, and stupid mistakes.
You are so right that we have zero obligation to save the world, or even help the world. However, I do appreciate the few lights of awareness in the world on the rare occasions I notice one. And you know, I still remember how much time, effort, strain and struggle it took me to identify the fundamentals of the issues (not just "something is wrong here"), so I spew these character dumps in the hope that someone somewhere who has been struggling for a long time to grasp the nature of reality and consciousness (and the "roles" played by predators, parasites, producers and prey) might encounter an idea that makes many cogs fall into place in their minds.
That's the best we can hope for - to provide a tiny bit of insight at hopefully the right moment to break the trance. And of course you realize that 99.999999% of humans are too deeply in the trance to be helped. But the "1 in a million" who still have a chance to escape the trance are still out there, still struggling.
I must admit to not knowing how to communicate most effectively with the 1 in a million who may be receptive to "just the right bit of insight at just the right moment". Given my personal quirks, longer more thorough rants like the one you're talking about would likely be more effective for me. But you may be right that most folks are better served by soundbites or at least "snacks" rather than "meals".
BTW, if you can reach 2% of the world, you're definitely a factor of millions more effective than me! Which, I guess, is the point. So keep up the good works.
honestann,
it was all going really well until 'the best we can hope' and the all of your eloquent individualism melted into the needy 99%.
BTW, you need 6%, that is the tipping point.
Feeding 'Snacks' to the sheeple (http://xkcd.com/1013/) only encourages carniverous behaviour
If you had the power, what would you do ?