Getting off the Grids

Right now, August 8, 2007, America is at a tipping point. We arrived here through a series of incidents and actions taken by people. Our tools were law and institutions, tools we generally believe provide stability and order. Growing numbers of Americans now realize that those we trusted have used those tools to enrich themselves. We are faced with the compelling need to change government because of the deceit and unbridled greed of those who used our trust to steal.

Greed is a long understood human failing. Greed did this to America by using our institutions in ways that were deceptive. Those deception were created by people who stood to profit in a variety of ways. This did not happen as a conspiracy. It happened because when one person comes up with an original way to steal it will be copied, applied to other circumstances to achieve the same purposes.

A blow dryer is a small appliance used to dry and style your hair. Dropped into the bathtub of someone you want to eliminate it is a murder weapon.

Blowdryers and institutions of all kinds are just tools. Individuals are responsible for how those tools are used when entrusted to them. There are many tools we need to rethink.

Our monetary system was intended to provide the means for exchange, to securely hold money and to provide a way to measure what money is worth. It has become a weapon in the war to steal the wealth of people around the world. Fractional banking and is a monopoly license to print money issued by Congress to the FED in 1913. This system has stolen the wealth of five generations while reorganizing us to make stealing ever easier.

We have learned that the greedy are never satisfied. Constructing institutional means by which they could continue to steal was easy We trusted them; they made sure their actions were covert and then redefined the terms. They worked diligently to make sure that all the institutions eliminated choices that did not profit them. This happened for electricity, transportation for all financial dealings, for insurance, and for all government services including the police and military. They have been recalibrating the police and military to control us when deceit finally fails, which it is now doing.

How they did it is also fascinating.

They knew that eventually we would notice. To put off the day of reckoning they rooted around and found justifications for their actions. We know those justifications through many ideas. Among these are Communism, Socialism, The True Faith (fill in your favorite), The Free Market, Spreading Democracy, Terrorism, Straussianism, Progressivism and so on. The list is endless. Some of these are complex sets of ideas that are logical when reality is ignored. All are dressed up in pretty and inspiring rhetoric that paints a picture that either can't work, given the facts of human nature, or was never intended to work.

The greedy have huge piles of stolen money and continuously buy new idea sets that persuade people to accept their latest insertion of another sucking machine. American history is full of the names of people who made smaller piles of money supplying these justifications. Look over the funders of think tanks and notice where their funds originate. Start with such as American Enterprise Institute and Aspen Institute. You can move on to others. The constant tendency of organizations to become bureaucracies adds to this tendency.

In the best and most noble organizations there is a tendency to replace volunteers with paid staff. The paid staff tend to focus on their own best interests, often voiding the original charge of the organization. This can be changed by making sure that the management are always volunteers of long standing and the staff positions are only functionaries. Computers have reduced the need for large infrastructure in any case.

That is volunteer organizations. Government grows and spends with unbridled enthusiasm and there are no controls because there are no volunteers.

By artfully redefining words like 'is' and 'privatize' they can justify anything. Just slather on lots of rhetoric that evokes emotions but is completely disconnected from what the words mean and you have those streams of income firmly in place. Add politicians and courts funded by the corporations and, voila! Government as it exists today.

If you are an activist in America today you probably have your own set of ideas that includes some that they sold you. They are artful in taking good ideas that could make us free and instead converting those into ideas that enslave. One current example of this is the word, “privatize.' It used to mean giving control back to the individual.

If you instead translate this into 'corporatize' you will have a much better idea as to what is happening.

Federal government was a bad idea in the first place because it removes the services people are paying for into remote hands. Transparency is completely lost. That was one problem. A worse problem was the constant redefining of terms and the essential basis for American government.

Government is just a contractor hired to fix our collective toilet. Government cannot be sovereign because the only sovereignty exists in individuals. Those are the rights referred to in that far more useful and meaningful document, the Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —“

So that is the back story, where we are today. Now the question is what to do about it.

First, you can only trust them if you can see exactly what they are doing at all times. That is the transparency.

Second, individuals must be able to give smack down to uppity contractors directly and immediately. All government employees are contractors as are all those government hires to provide services.

Third, this form of government, with power collected at the Federal level, created an infrastructure that was outside the form originally accepted even by the Founders. It needs to be returned to its original form with the people deciding how to organize at the most local level.

If the last 200 years was the beta test it is time to reboot.

Rebooting means we need to get off the grids they set up to contain and control us; we need to focus local for all our needs, strengthen community, and assert accountability through common law courts.

That is the agenda. Let's get started now.