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Jun 3Liked by Etienne de la Boetie2

What I expected verses what I got...good one! No political party is gonna save anything.

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Dear Mr. / Madam School Board Trustee

I write to you today in a sincere effort to help you accomplish your noble goals for seeking this office.

That is to help you facilitate the betterment of our schools for our children and young people.

To do this, I ask you to make the Board meeting agenda and the data points behind them available to me as well as all of the other taxpayers.

Upload the stack to a server where we can read, ratify and or annul the elements after log on.

In a perfect world each paragraph must have at least three possible answers: agree, disagree, no opinion at this time.

Direct democracy is a growing trend, and many companies offer these services:

hosting, voter receipts, and a running tally of totals for everyone to see.

In this way Madam Trustee you are assured that you will always have the strength of the community with you when making the decisions that really do effect the lives of our people.

Vty,

Helpful Taxpayer Citizen

Hosting Companies:

https://teletownhall.com/products/text-to-online-surveys/

https://publicinput.com/wp/online-town-hall/

https://www.govtech.com/archive/introducing-the-21st-century-city-hall.html

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Libertarianism like Marxism are fairytales created by the Jews for us to fight over. You’ve been played if you identify with one or the other.

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There is now the wedge issue of the ongoing genocide perpetrated by the Israeli State against the Palestinians. Obviously this is also being used to damage the reputation of small el libertarians.

The Libertarian Party candidates obviously stand against libertarian policies and libertarian outcomes. Such candidates were expected only by members of the jaded cynical caucus, who will not vote this year either.

As a general obvious truth, it should be clear that non-libertarian policies cannot produce libertarian outcomes.

For example, remember Milton Friedman, a classical liberal who was called by Walter Block "a road socialist" because Friedman liked big projects such as public roads, but such big projects are based on aggression and do not bring about any reduction in the power of the State.

A more recent example: Walter Block is an immune system socialist because, like the socialists, he lives under the delusion that Mother Nature is a capitalist psycho who is about to snuff their lives and property with the imaginary flying AIDS plague, and centralizing the medical power in the hands of The Party is the only way for the Workers to survive the threat of Fascism, or some other delirium like that.

Obviously, like Friedman before him, his error is rooted in superstition and willful ignorance, and it cannot produce any result compatible with justice or liberty.

Exterminating innocent people, like the Soviets did in Ukraine 100 years ago, is not a valid libertarian policy. Duh!

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Esteemed Mr. Bowtie2,

Thank you for making the case for the Electronic Townhall.

It is obvious to everyone....

The Republic / Representative Democracy, has failed.

We say it has failed because it does not “promote the general welfare, and provide for the common defense” in ways in which we are in agreement.

And because nothing is more important than our national sovereignty, nor is anything so dear to our sacred posterity, we simply must adjust the mechanism of our government or finish the slide into disintegration.

The ball is in our court; since the authority for government comes from The Citizens.

So… how do we get there from here?

We now have to stand up and inform our representatives that they have broken their Oaths and failed in their Duty to the office in which they were entrusted. They are in Breach, and now must either accept our help by adding the Fourth Branch, The Citizens Branch to our government or Vacate the building.

Because Citizenship, true Citizenship, is not about writing letters to elected officials or voting some good person into office.

Citizenship is about the Ratification or Annulment of each line of every law, rule, regulation and supreme court decision on the books or that is on the docket waiting to be turned into law, policy and taxes.

Nothing short of this is going to ameliorate the present situation, nor will we get to the Stars without it.

During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot observed that: "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy is the one specific reason that the people of America suffered…. and our only means of correction is to inspect their work and hold them accountable.”

Mr. Perot went on to note that this can easily be done with computer programs.

He called it: THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.

“It is only logical that it will become our Fourth Branch of Government”, he said.

Objective reality:

the voting members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not have enough time to read, comprehend or debate any of the laws they vote on. They vote 100 times a day, every five minutes, while in session.

Approximate absolute facts:

Every day that the Congress and Legislatures are in session 100 new bills are introduced and distributed.

The representatives are given two weeks to review the bills before they are brought up for The Vote.

Two weeks into the session they begin voting on the Laws that were previously introduced, while newer laws are introduced.

Many of these bills are in excess of two thousand pages.

The arithmetic demonstrates that the elected representative does not have the time to even read the name of the Law much less the content of it.

Since the Representatives cannot evaluate 200 thousand pages of law speak per day, they vote the way their Party advisors tell them to vote.

This demonstrates that Representative government does not exist.

Thus, they have forfeited their delegated obligations to us, The Citizens.

And the only way to prevent these over worked and fallible people from making even more tragic mistakes, from which we, and the rest of the world, might never recover is to include ourselves in the final decision making process.

The Electronic Congress

How it works:

Before a new law, tax, or expenditure can be put on the books it must first be Ratified by the Citizens.

Existing laws can be Annulled by the same super majority required to Ratify them.

This program can be applied to every level of government and will ultimately solve every problem we have.

To prevent chaos, the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights, would be exempt from review.

Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available in their day.

Just imagine:

With a new understanding we will also be able to accommodate new proposals initiated by us, The Citizens, for program and infrastructure improvements.

We, The People, could actually direct the priorities and review the progress of the major agencies like the: CDC and NIH as well as the libraries, school boards and local police departments.

If our government truly is of the people, by the people and for the people then this is the only way forward.

How to implement it:

We talk about it until it is done.

Concerned Citizens could have AI parse a recent law or Supreme Court ruling into its actionable elements, apply the Ratify or Annul Questionnaire, then distribute the links.

Can I make money with this?

Of course, you can. Use AI to parse the laws you find most egregious into their component pieces. And then have it build the ballot / questionnaire along with some demographic background to make the game especially interesting. Charge a $1 per voter per law to deliver the results of the poll to the government officials and watch the evolution in real time.

The Electronic Townhall becomes the means by which the Authority of the Citizens is used to Ratify or Annul the Propositions of Government.

Ask the local school board for their agenda items, have AI parse the actionable elements, create a questionnaire, distribute it to the concerned citizens and then evaluate the results.

When Human Beings made in the image of God can see the results of their noblest and most sober thoughts, at such a scale, then there will be the moment where Our Benevolence and Good Will shall

overcome Evil and then we can all live happily ever after.

Ross Perot publicly promised that if the People of America would elect him to The Presidency, he would give us The Electronic Townhall.

The Fourth Branch of Government will allow us to go from Chaos to Prosperity and a Life Worth Living … until the end of time.

We were created by God and in the image of God; we are human beings, not animals in a pen.

The Electronic Townhall

https://teletownhall.com/products/text-to-online-surveys/

https://publicinput.com/wp/online-town-hall/

https://www.govtech.com/archive/introducing-the-21st-century-city-hall.html

https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/2015/06/06/the-electronic-townhall/

https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/

https://swarmacademy.ai/

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I don't believe "government" is legitimate at all and it is easily rigged by monied interests. I think our best shot is to widely expose it and create our own parallel systems so we have a life raft when it collapses under its own waste, fraud and abuse...

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TBQH, I thought The Fourth Branch, The Citizens Branch, The Electronic Townhall, as proposed, could be our own parallel system...

Someone has to start publishing active polls on the issues of our day.

Use AI to parse the most egregious situation, law, grant, program, non competitive bid or tax policy you can find into questions regarding its particulars. And post it on the net.

The US president election is a good place to start:

Trump, Biden, Rishi, Jones, Smith, Kuldeep Persuad, Newsome, Pelosi, Johnson, Rense, Abbot, Farve, Putin, King Charles, Peter McCullough, Robert Malone, Pat Paulson, Michele’ O’Bama…

Should the direct election of Senators be returned to the States?

a. Yes

b. No

c. Not sure

What about abortion? Should it be legal? How so? The text of the laws is readily available and everyone has an opinion.

a. Yes

b. No

c. Her body her choice

Or the new Treaty with the World Health Organization…

Should the good and decent Citizens of the world be required to comply with the pharmaceutical recommendations of the WHO?

a. Yes

b. No

c. Depends

d. His / her body, their choice

What about sexually confused children ?

Should the government pay for and facilitate the genital reassignment health treatments so necessary to save young lives?

a. Yes

b. No

c. Depends if their parents need the money

Which issue should the local school board consider the most important?

a. Fluid gender toilets

b. Genderless uniforms

c. Reading and writing

d. Placement of litter boxes in the class room or fluid gender toilets

e. Furrys with hurt feelings – what to do?

f. Teaching pornography correctly

All educated people know that cattle farts are melting the polar ice caps and that it is only a matter of a short while before the entire planet is flooded with salt water. Many people will drown.

What should we do about this?

a. Buy everyone a new boat

b. Pay Bill Gates a billion $ to stop it

c. Vaccinate the cattle to stop them from farting

d. Cull the herd so that only the important people can eat meat.

e. nothing

The rich and very powerful have a new plan to steal all of your money and all of your property. They call it CBDC, Central Bank Deposit Credit. This is electronic money. They can turn it on and turn it off to force your compliance with anything they want.

Do you really want them to have that much power over you?

a. Yes

b. No

c. I am a slave anyway

d. No opinion

The uniform tariff and tax schedule is where the rubber really meets the road, but it is probably too abstract for most. Try it if you like, it goes to infinity.

Post: *The Questionnaire* on your web site.

Charge the voters, your patrons, a $ fee to vote on it.

Have the same AI take the patrons demographics and quantify their base of knowledge; education, reading, business experience, children raised, taxes paid and post that too.

One Questionnaire should earn you many thousands of dollars per month and AI can do it for you!

Just think about it… one survey a month at $10,000 net profit times ten and you are making over a hundred thousand dollars per year. That’s pretty good.

Have the AI post the results in real time and send the results to the respective councilman, commissioner, judge, congressman, state representative, senator and governor!!

Use the power of consensus to demand that negative policies be vacated.

The hope here is the representative will, in an effort to keep his cushy job, comply with the wishes of his constituents.

It is a start.

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Jun 3Liked by Etienne de la Boetie2

It seems someone has decided to deliberately dismantle The System through overload & incompetence. We must build our own systems & ignore theirs to the best of our ability.

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Jun 4Liked by Etienne de la Boetie2

How do we go about doing this?

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That is the subject of my next book!

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What is the purpose of your writing?

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The point is that the political theater is under control. :)

Moreover, freedom is as freedom does:

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/freedom-is-what-freedom-does-but

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Why should voters be registered? That is very problematic and open to manipulation. It is how the "Party System" operates using what is called the "Independent Electoral Committee" which is not independent at all.

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