Democracy comes from within, from the desire for freedom from the hegemony of powerful vested interests. But we only travelled so far in this direction before new interests hijacked the plane. We were busy congratulating ourselves for achieving Freedom From and then went back to sleep. We did not seek Freedom To Be.
The sham of Representative democracy finally died when all the parties adopted the same clothes. Now the zombie stalks us, powered only by the spells of corporate elites.
A brutal Victorian ideology is dressed up by the false prophets of knowledge as our salvation. Listen to Work and Pensions Minister Jim Murphy- "Work is the ONLY route out of poverty" Yet he speaks without knowing what poverty is.
It is not his fault. If you were given a five year mandate to do whatever you wanted would you not commit crime? Equality before the law was yesterdays news. Can you ASBO Blair for causing alarm or distress while pursuing his War on Scary Things? No, you cannot.
So where will we find democracy? We can start by looking within ourselves, our homes, our communities.
A change is gonna come. We, the people, will wake up in the style of Rip Van Winkle. We will connect, we will share, we will become with purpose. We will put the last first and the first last. We will put our common purpose before our individual obsessions. We will be united.
We will listen, we will educate ourselves and we will be inclusive. And when the time comes we will fight for the right to become human once more. Our shattered spirits racked by consumptive guilt, intolerance and hate will be rejuvenated.
But an idea is nothing without action. Action really does speak louder than words.
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing- start to meet, pass on this idea.
Network. Learn-by-doing. Scale up. Serve the cause. Right now they have us exactly where they want us. Fragmented. Petrificated. Disjointed. Afraid
If you are the only one in the beginning it doesn't matter. They will come if you are there. We are the Movement for Democratic Change in the UK.
It begins here
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mmm idea has possibilities
03.04.2007 14:05
democracy now
more on heaven
03.04.2007 14:38
It would be very easy to build a nation of compassion, as long as every individual is given their own space with which they can live self sustainably then there will be minimal conflict.
Groups that live communally are the most high ranking of the human species. They are the cultures that are most likely to survive a catastrophe.
Although politics may always exist, it must exist under the label 'Proportional Representation', as in Germany, and have no authority regarding war. Only the UN may decide that decisive action must be taken against any nation, and their weapons will certainly not feature warplanes or artillery. Insurrection and mass exodus from a region of instability (e.g. a BNP county) will be used as tools to weaken the aggressors, and paralytic arsenals will be used when soldiers move in to arrest. Any existing politics will be used to handle trade that is passing through the science cities of the future, such as London, Nottingham and Oxford. Every city may have their own political table, carefully balanced via the strength and expertise of local councils.
Full accountability of all officials please. When this is all over we should have the right to stroll through MI6 HQ.
Tza
V quote
03.04.2007 15:47
Download a face sized V mask :I will see you next November at Parliament Square!
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Remember...
03.04.2007 16:25
Guy Fawkes: portrait of a freedom fighter or terrorist? You decide which.
I see no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes possible dissident-decendent.
are people better?
03.04.2007 18:54
why people that don't rule should be better than people that rule? why a new movement should work if people are bad?
it seems to me pure illusion to think that the world is divided in "bad" oppressors and "good" oppressed.
the fact is that oppressors and oppressed carrie the same moral ethical connotations, the former able to express them, the latter having to suffer the consequencies.
point is: is humanity - all in all - just rubbish? can improve? has ever been better? has ever improved?
if your answer is 1 yes and 3 nos for you it's over.
santerre
Funny U should suggest 5th November...
03.04.2007 19:50
Where do you think false flag ops started to be effective? 7/7? Madrid bombings? 9/11? Northwoods? Pearl Harbour? Sarajevo?
Nah, you got to go back at least to the Borgias...
As for defying SOCPA, Brian's well ahead of you - join him please, before They nail him for good.
Wouldn't do any harm to get George Galloway involved too...
Gui de Forkes
Nice One
03.04.2007 22:08
Would be good for you to print out and 'get it out there' I reckon.
Good luck with it.
Boyd
With it
04.04.2007 00:11
problem
The truth is out there Boyd for you - Pass it On
04.04.2007 12:43
The structures of power will be confronted with the active, direct, energetic, living agency of people.
Democracy = power to the people
Bob