Mr. Jiri Polak, You have mentioned in your reply while describing the actions needed to enforce a referendum - "Try to put a DD person into Parliament...". This, I feel, should be the central aim.
If a strategy is devised to achieve this then all other things like - attracting the man on the street and enforcing a referendum for making amends to the constitution become easier. If this core strategy is not there then it is difficult to convince people about the practicability of other actions.
This is why I feel that a 'True Democracy web platform' should first be set up that will lead on to putting DD persons into the parliament by directly competing with political parties during elections.
Vijayaraghavan P
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:54:34 0200 wddm@world-wide-democracy.net wrote
Hello, there are many good ideas on the Forum, but how to realize them? In Czech Republic, in theory, we have a clear strategy: The basic principle is that it is the people, not party politicians, who alone are entitled to write and adopt a Constitution establishing a political system. If you let party politicians to do that - as the case has been everywhere - they will put in place a Constitution giving all power to political parties. We - a few independent citizens - have proposed and published a Citizens´ Constitution by amending the existing one which we consider as only provisional. The next step should be to enforce a referendum on this proposal. If successful, the referendum would put in place a new Constitution and a new political system. Such a system would probably contain many elements proposed in the WWDN Forum. How to enforce a referendum? Seek publicity by any non violent means; organize demonstrations, e.g. marches on the Parliament like they do in Poland; a symbolic defenestration and the like. Try to put a DD person into Parliament, get the support of some widely known persons etc. The feasibilyty of such a strategy will obviously depend on the degree of "shakeability" of the man-in-the-street. Maybe people will remain passive and apathetic. In such a situation, we can only hope for a global catastrophy. George Sagi has written a visionary book called "Only from the Ruins". Maybe this will be the only way. But let´s try to attempt something less drastical first! Jiri Polak