From: | "Bruce Eggum" <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com> |
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Date: | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:27:29 -0600 |
Subject: | Fwd: [WDDM] Moving forward |
Dear Democrats,
Democracy is 1. government by the people. 2. A government in
which the Supreme Power is held by the people. (Webster)
It makes little difference if the ideas or laws or decisions
come from the top, side, or bottom if the people have the Supreme Power to
decide. Thus in democracy, the people have the POWER to decide and determine. Now,
having the "POWER to do a thing, the people of course need to develop a process
to do this. This is where the Initiative and Binding Referendum process is
necessary for the people. Without the process to utilize the POWER, the POWER is
useless.
There must be an administrative process, for police, health,
education, welfare and people will "run" these necessary processes. The people
need to have the Supreme Power of all these processes. The people can do this
by electing heads of these departments, monitoring them and removing them if
necessary. Hired individuals will need specific duties and limits which if the
individual fails to accomplish can be discharged, by the peoples initiative if
necessary. These procedures must all be written and "passed" by the people.
Thus, we need to develop a structure for DEMOCRACY. We need
to insist these democratic procedures be
implemented. It is unnecessary to define direct, indirect or otherwise. Time to
Democratize our government.
As it is, we do not have the PROCESS to exert our Supreme
Power. Some States have a watered down I&R which is a beginning but needs
fine tuning.
We need STRUCTURE which can be approved by REFERENDUM and
can than be implemented.
Sure, we have war or peace, environmental, health,
retirement, and many many other issues. Until we have a process to exert out
SUPREME POWER our hands are tied, our voices only echo in the chambers of
politics.
All the Best,
Bruce Eggum
Thanks for your mail Giorgio..
I agree with mostly everything you said.. I was mainly mouthing off to get
some dialogue going. It is nice to have some good feedback on my comments..
I especially liked the joke about bono.. Great:)
For those in the group who've expressed an interest in recent dialogues-
http://www.foundercontact.com/files/File/Spotlighted/Spotlighted_PrasAnand.pdf
further reading on Social Computer
http://e2000.org/pras/soco2005.pdf
Anyone want to help build this? It's a citizen-based development and problem
solving centre
Regards
Pras