Constitutional Convention

DECLARATION OF REASON

As the western world enters what it calls the third millennium, technical applications present a practical method of quickly disseminating accurate information to virtually every person in the nation;

REVEALING THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT:

Prerequisite to democracy is an informed responsible electorate.

Secrecy feeds ignorance. An ignorant electorate breeds fear and hatred, manifest by violence; a violent society is chaotic and unhappy.

Honest responsible information encourages trust. Trust minimizes fear, resulting in a less stressful, more enjoyable society.

Because humanity does not live by sociological philosophy alone, it is also necessary to consider the provision of recreation, food, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation, education, and health care ("economics").

Because the impact of human industry upon the ecosystem becomes increasingly pronounced with the growth of population and the short-sighted application of technology, to insure future generations a habitable environment, it is, or very soon will be, incumbent upon humanity to strike a sane balance with material reality in the procurement of its economic desires.

Wisdom is the most economical application of knowledge and resources. Wise procurement, production and distribution promote a more pleasant society.

It is not possible to simultaneously serve a wise and a foolish administrator of knowledge and resources, because, all justifications aside, one either loves the One and detests the other, or detests the One and loves the other.

Eleven score years ago a group consisting of idealistic as well as self-interested or pragmatic individuals brought forth the United States of America, which is widely believed to have been a revolutionary social structure. The idealists among them claimed it was founded on the principles that "all men are created equal, and endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."

Some years later, "We the People ... in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," drafted the Constitution of the United States. Practically the Constitution is only a social compact, written by mortals, trying to codify the structure of the United States government. This turned out to be not a true democracy, but a republican form of government, particularly subject to oligarchic manipulation.

Arguably, in a world where people in Georgia and people in Maine needed to make joint decisions over distances of many days' travel, it was as close to democracy as technology would permit. Representatives were delegated to meet in a central location, to represent the interests of their constituents. The substance of that representation would be embodied in legislation, to dictate the nation's finances, postal service, courts, culture, commerce, crime, declare war, and maintain the armed services. A presidency was established to administer the laws made by representation, and to act as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. A judicial system was constituted as a legal check on the powers of the legislative and executive branches.

Now, as devoted stewards of the earth, to secure a pleasant prosperous social environment for humanity's children, responsible people must institute governments which actually derive their just powers from the consent of a well informed electorate. Since, as is evident by the present state of the world, government has become destructive of these ends, it is the duty of responsible people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that government long established should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience has shown that people are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. To prove the status quo to which this nation has deteriorated, let facts be submitted to a cynical, media-manipulated world.

WHEREAS, unless the federal government of the United States of America is constrained by the United States Constitution to limited jurisdiction, and limited power; it becomes a lawless government, capable of the most egregious excesses of any regime or gang of common thugs in human history; and

WHEREAS, the federal government of the United States of America has enacted laws and regulations, in voluminous number, through popularly unknown Executive Orders, regulations, and legislation passed, often questionably, without the knowledgeable consent of the people, usurping the Constitutional authority of the sovereign states, reducing the sovereign citizens of this country to ill-informed consumer/wage-slaves, who must pay the consequences of an international state of corporate irresponsibility, and

WHEREAS, these myriad laws and regulations have resulted in a society which imprisons a greater percentage of its population than any other nation on earth while increasing numbers of its citizens live in mounting fear, hopelessness, hunger, and homelessness; and

WHEREAS, through an unconstitutional and unlawfully enacted "income tax," the federal government has created a "carrot and stick" that has seduced and coerced the elected officials of the several states to submit to the unlawful incursion of the federal government and its agents into the sovereign territory of each state, as a trade-off for the receipt of these ill-gotten proceeds; and

WHEREAS, the people of this country have been exploited and subjugated to an unlawful authority by an unlawful system of loans from a private banking institution, known as the Federal Reserve, and been forced, even at gunpoint, to submit to an unlawful federal income tax which is not and never has been within the authority of the federal government to enact or enforce, all to the benefit of private individuals and corporations at the expense of the liberty, lives, and property of the citizens of this nation; and

WHEREAS, the exploitation and subjugation of the nation to the corporate state of mammon has been accomplished by creating confusion and division amongst the populace through saturation dissemination of distorted accounts by domestic and international media, financed by commercials promoting soap, toothpaste, mechanical gadgets of every description, processed foods, insurance policies, middlemen and other forms of socially acceptable parasitism dependent upon the perversion of truth "to make a living" ; and

WHEREAS, this national exploitation and subjugation has gained acceptance through the propagation of an ideology of "Peace through Strength," the practical application of which reveals commitment to the premise that soap, toothpaste, mechanical gadgets, processed foods, insurance policies, middlemen and other forms of socially acceptable parasitism are of greater value than "lower forms" of human life, suitable for sacrifice upon the corporate altar of foreign war and/or domestic police action; and

WHEREAS, persons acting under color of law as federal agents, under the direction of those claiming to be elected officials sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, but with the treasonous intent to betray the populace to the physical domination of armed might, have infringed upon the right of the people to keep and bear arms, have conducted unlawful warrantless house-to-house searches and seizures, have assaulted and killed sovereign citizens of this country on the false pretense of "gun control," "child abuse," "the war on drugs" and a plethora of unlawful statutes enacted to unlawfully control the lives and liberty of the citizens of this country and fertilize a growing home gulag industry; and

WHEREAS, elections are now controlled, if not through outright technological manipulation, by the more subtle power of committees and lobbies wielding the most money to obtain electoral votes or sway the nomination of candidates and persuade the enactment of legislation that has made it impossible for the common citizen to participate as a candidate in an election or for the vote of the common citizen to be meaningful; and

WHEREAS, politicians, selected through the corporate-controlled electoral process, are actively engaged in further perversion of the fundamental law of the United States, with proposals to balance their own misapplication of knowledge and resources, by diminishing health, education and social welfare, while continuing to produce extraneous weapons of mass over-kill, and to turn the First Amendment inside out; and,

WHEREAS, short of incarcerating an eve-growing percentage of the population, politicians have proven incapable or unwilling to provide moral leadership, or resolve the underlying economic and sociological forces which fuel the pro- and anti-abortion debate currently dividing the country, and instead of balancing the competing demands of a growing population and the profit motives of the corporate state, continue promoting the mistaken concepts that freedom is money and life is subservient to financial interests; and,

WHEREAS, it being self-evident that the current system of law has reduced this civilization to a state of control by disinformation and fear; it is,

THEREFORE, time that the conscious citizens of this nation cast off the convenient forms of slavery to which disinformation and fear have accustomed them and to establish new safeguards, through agreement on harmonious visions of a mutual reality, that will enable human progeny to survive past the coming century.

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