Guest For  WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1,  2012

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                                                                         GUEST:

                              JOE  FRIENDLY

                         

                      

                                  

             Activist  Producer: "Truth For A Change"

                                http://www.youtube.com/user/joefriendly

                                              Joe Friendly Peaceful Rev.

                                             Plan for Peaceful Revolution

                                                joefriendly@earthlink.net l Revolution

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The program can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the you tube link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRvS3NB9kkM - JOE FRIENDLY

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More about: JOE FRIENDLY

Hello, I am Joe Friendly. 

My Early Life: I've lived my last 37 years in Manhattan but I'm originally from Chicago, with some time after college spent in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, California; Stanton, Virginia; DC; Boston; and Toronto. 

My legal name, by an Order in 1980 of the New York Supreme Court, is now Joseph W. Friendly. I am comfortable with the Friendly, but I didn't tell the court what the W. stood for. It stands for whatever I feel like at the moment, for example, Joe Change once in a while, with JoeChange.US, JoeChange.TV,  (plus .org, .com,  .info) also sites you might care to visit that are me, offering a vision of what Obama should be leading us toward if he lived up to his campaign promises.

I was born with the name Arthur Myron Rubin of father Harold Rubin, an immigrant from Poland, and Louise Massover Rubin, born in the US of Russian immigrants, who re-married Arnold Holan after my father died in 1970. She died in 1992. I have 2 younger brothers Byron Rubin, a protein chemist, and Craig Rubin a sculptor and inventor.  My father originally had rabbinical training in Poland but in the US built up a small retail chain of men's necktie stores and a little necktie factory, of the name Majestic Neckwear Company.  The flagship store was on Chicago's State Street, and other stores in Chicago, St Louis, Cleveland, Columbus, and Milwaukee. Eventually he added bow ties, belts, caps, sox, and cuff links for sale in his stores.

Education: I graduated Dewitt Clinton Elementary School in 1952, Nicholas Senn High School in 1956, California Institute of Technology ---Caltech---  in 1960 with a BS in Engineering and the University of Chicago Law School in 1963 with a JD.  Along the way I did some learning at Purdue University (first year engineering before transferring to Caltech), Northwestern University (summer courses in math)  University of Illinois (summer courses in math), Columbia University (night school course in animation), and New York University (education courses to teach high school instead of serving in Vietnam.)

In Manhattan, since 1973 I earned my living mostly as a household mover, eventually operating a small moving company.  I started the moving company out with a classified ad in the Village Voice opening with "you can help and save" and enjoyed the informality of working closely with new people. I drove around town with an old 12 foot step-in-van usually with political slogans I lettered large on the side, photos of some here. Also since 1973 I have been producing public access cableTV programs in Manhattan, mostly of alternative political themes, the first series of programs named Fundamental Change, then Radical Truth, Alternative Views, and eventually Truth For A Change since about 1994 which eventually went from weekly to Monday thru Friday.  Usually I video public talks that contrast with mainstream politics. 

My passions are bringing to public attention my discovery of why birthday is a big deal, bringing forth a plan for peaceful revolution in which we rescue our culture from commercialism, and legalizing marijuana.

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­Joe Friendly's Plan For a Friendly Revolution

A Legal Revolution

 

Revolution made simple!!

 

Some principles articulated

some new political forms

[

So a Peaceful, but Total Revolution

may proceed gracefully

 

a changing of the guard

 

a new set of people to run government

 

our future arrived at by

a full talking out

 

as a whole people

 

of the possible,

 

as compared

with

 

what is,

 

and ownership

up for full reconsideration

 

property rights surrendering to human design, building a

monument to human intelligence

 

You people of good will

who have hoped

reason might prevail:

 

A solution

to the problem

we face as a People

of this country,

of this planet,

 

 

How to save America

from its decline

 

How to make the changes

we need

 

Here is spelled out an alternative

 

Here’s how the People

can retake Power,

 

as is our sovereign right

 

from an illegal government

 

a money-driven

imitation of democracy.

 

Spelling out

what needs to be spelled out

 

principles

of an enlightened
social order,

 

A plan for

the salvation of America

and the world,

 

Truth

that will make us free

of our present government

 

that is in the way of progress,

that has sold us out

and turned against us.

 

A citizen has worked out

the important first steps

articulating

 

An Alternative,

 

A Plan

For Peaceful,

But Total Revolution

In These United States

 

                                                          So public discourse                                                

can proceed to

the details of implement

 

as we begin to create

a  government in waiting

 

with the confidence

there is a way

it can all fit together.

 

How we can create

a new reality

 

in which government

and economic power

and public communications

are in public hands:

 

Where everyone

can find work worth doing

a good life worth living

 

Where justice abounds

and truth

 

and human generosity.

The pen,

video,

and the Internet

 

mightier

than the sword.

 

a chance for humanity

to overcome

 

the cruel grip

of the Establishment

upon the public mind.

 

As a Whole People

we decide what to do

with our Nation's wealth

 

our productive capability

 

our public communications networks

and our other

various industries

 

how to re-invent

our Federal Government

 

and our local

and State Governments

 

to function effectively

as instruments of the people.

 

Put it all up for

extensive public discussion

at the national level

 

using Alternative Media

at the start:

 

what kind of life

we will create

 

after the people

take over the wealth

and the political power

 

what we want to do with

the corporations

 

who do we want

for directors of the corporations,

 

what kind of work do we want to create

 

a public discussion inviting

good folks to come forward

to talk it through.

 

We foster and develop

dialog with the public,

 

our future leaders

develop before our eyes

 

as the discussion gives flesh

to the idea of revolution

 

so a clear notion is achieved

 

so the people can knowingly

say “yes, let’s do that,”

 

so life could be

so much better

than what we got now.

 

To make the discussion public

we use the internet

cable and satellite

 

snail mail

and face to face meetings:

 

Among the topics for discussion so the people

can make their choices

 

What to decentralize

what goods to produce

how to produce them

 

how to distribute them

 

what services to provide

 

how workers should be treated

 

creating work worth doing worth believing in

.

For the good of the planet

the path advocated here

is that we use

our productive capacity

 

to produce an

abundance of

high quality

durable necessities

 

that will be a new standard

for the world.

 

We create a

post-scarcity

environment

 

and greatly simplify

the marketplace:

 

No more gimmicks

the straight truth

 

an end to the selling games

and wasteful packaging.

 

Publicly owned

Public Communications

 

providing a variety of avenues

for art and truth

to reach the public

 

Say, each citizen

to vote for one head of

7 National TV Networks

 

10 National Radio Networks

3 National Newsmagazines

3 National Newspaper chains

 

and revitalize

local newspapers

and local broadcasting

 

to serve

rather than manipulate

the public.

 

 

We stop using goods

as props for profit.

 

People instead of

business as usual.

 

Reason in the marketplace:

honesty's reason,

fairplay.

 

A new respect for the customer

                                                        as owner, co-owner.

 

A Renaissance

in product design:

 

Goods that really are good

 

Functional design

 

An end

to the promotion of

appearances

as a marketing technique.

 

Optimizing design

for maximum satisfaction.

 

A rational

re-industrialization:

 

an end to deliberate waste

 

an end to

planned obsolescence.

 

Goods Made in America

we can again be proud of.

 

A new respect

for the employee as co-owner

 

quality and care

replacing the rush.

 

Presently our economy suffers

the bottleneck of

a lack of customers

 

because most of

our nation's wealth

is owned by only a few.

 

The revolution here proposed

provides a graceful way

of redistributing that ownership

that is, ownership of

the giant corporations,

straightforwardly

to the people.

 

To try to keep

this revolution peaceful,

 

a safety net for the rich:

a couple million or so

for each individual millionaire

 

and each member

of their immediate family

 

who loses out

because of this public takeover

of the nation's wealth.

 

We can easily afford

to be so generous

 

because there are

so few wealthy people

 in our country.

 

the top 10%  of our population

own 84% of the corporate stock,

 

The top 1%

own more corporate stock

than the bottom 90%.

 

One important issue

separating

the political Right

and the Left

 

that is here resolved:

 

If Communism

stands for the collective

and Capitalism

for the individual,

 

we have enough

excess capacity

that we can afford

to experiment

 

with the full variety

of group and

individual ways

of decision-making

 

for institutions

and companies

in this perfect revolution,

 

opportunity for all modes:

 

group consensus,

 

and merely group majority,

 

and democratically chosen

individual leaders,

 

and committees

of representatives,

 

and committees

of partners,

 

All to be afforded opportunity

to participate in

the experimenting,

 

to participate in

our nation's economy.

 

The decline of America

is seen by the world:

 

our system of picking leaders

doesn't seem to provide us

a government of, for,

and by the people:

 

Our government

is corrupt.

 

 

Instead of

honest reasoning together

by our so-called

representatives in our legislatures,

 

we have votes for sale.

 

Everyone knows it.

 

Yet our system is so

out of control

we seem to lack the means

to restore a true democracy.

 

We now have

dysfunctional government:

 

legislators who don't really

reason together honestly

 

and therefore cannot

solve our nation's problems.

 

We are not using

our incredible

productive capacity

 

for the good of our people,

the world's people,

and our Earth.

 

Here is a way

to have power

in worthy hands.

 

A way of human harmony,

a way of humans thriving.

 

Here is what

you have been waiting for

 

The Revolution

A Graceful Revolution

A Perfect Revolution

 

A Peaceful Revolution

 

 

Peaceful because

it will be apparent

to nearly all of us

this is the way.

 

A New Form of Government

For Our Times

 

Using television,

the telephone,

the computer

to replace Congress

with the people.

 

An individual president

or an executive steering group

who proposes law

directly to the people

 

for their electronic vote

in response.

 

This proposed method

of national discussion

among the people:

 

Individual citizens

who feel they have

some message of value

 

to offer to a national discussion

via keyboard

or in-home video production

 

have their message

first broadcast

to a small number

of other individuals

 

for their vote

whether it is worth

broadcasting to a larger group.

 

If an offering survives

a number of lower levels of approval

 

it is eventually broadcast

to the whole nation.

 

The number of levels of approval

can be adjusted

 

to keep within workable bounds

the demands for attention of the whole nation.

 

In addition, we can choose

regular discussants

 

whose opinions

and powers of analysis

we come to value

                                               on all or particular subject areas.

 

Representative democracy

replaced by direct democracy.

 

We need a declaration of principles:

 

What is the essence

of the revolution?

 

A new way

for humans to treat each other.

 

Truth, goodness,

humans treating each other honestly,

 

with an open, sensitive caring

 

(with the aid of a

post-scarcity abundance

of necessities).

 

Capitalism is a mentality

antagonistic to these values.

 

The revolutionary idea:

respecting full individual dignity

 

and using our incredible

technological capability

in a direct rational way

 

to create a heavenly abundance

of high quality goods

 

instead of the incidental

and accidental by-product

of high finance,

 

and ugly (contra-righteous)

"bottom-line" analysis.

What do we replace capitalism with?

 

Public Ownership.

 

We declare the next

thousand years

for the human experiment

to perfect public ownership:

 

trying to put people

in control of our economic power

 

who are truly oriented

to serving the people and

the planet

 

people being treated

fairly and respectfully.

 

We declare the next

thousand years

for the human experiment

to perfect a system of justice

 

that actually works

to achieve justice,

 

things happening right

or there is someone in power

who will give ear to reason,

 

and have the power

and ability

and inclination

to make justice happen.

 

We declare the next

thousand years

to develop social forms

 

providing maximum opportunity

for the full development

of each individual

 

and to develop a rich

sense of community

and planetary unity

among all the world's citizens.

 

A way for truth to prevail

and full human happiness.

 

That direction

for the millennium to come.

 

That future for America.

 

There are truths to be told

of great wrongdoing

by our government

 

that we need to face

as a whole people

 

so the Public will be clear:

Those in power

are unworthy of their power.

 

The truth will makes us free

as we face what evil

our government is guilty of

 

so that we can free ourselves

of its authority

 

and choose a new

form of government

 

that will give the idea

of true democracy

a second chance

in this corrupted land.

 

Our government has been a cruel monster unto the world

subverting democracy and freedom.

 

We need to focus together

on the details of US wrongdoing in each country,

 

the stories told for us

by willing experts

 

so that we can,

as a whole people,

come to our senses,

 

seeing that those

in governmental power over us

 

and the system of public communications

 

upon which we have depended

for keeping us informed of what our government was doing

are unworthy of their power

 

so we can choose authority

worthy of trust,

 

people to invest with

the powers of leadership

who tell the truth

and will really serve the people,

 

so that we can see clearly

the inadequacy of our commercialized system of public communications

in collusion with

our corrupt government

 

allowing Hitleresque outrages against humanity

to be committed

 

by our government,

in our name, around the world

 

with the ugly truth mostly hidden from the public.

 

The US government has taught torture interrogation techniques to police forces

  of many countries

 

brought here for training

at the so-called

School of the Americas [link:]

supposedly to teach democratic values

 

but instead taught how to prop up

unpopular governments

of US supported dictators,
with brutal methods.

 

The ones in control

of our nation's nervous system

have betrayed us.

 

Our public communications

have let our government

get away with horrible wrongdoing

and cynical intrigues around the world.

 

The media we depended upon

to know what was going on

sold us out,

the people, the public,

 

sold us out to the government,

repeating their press handouts

as Gospel

 

when those involved knew

they were lies

 

and failed to reveal

the evil our government has been committing.

 

One book we can all read as a Whole People

that provides the details

 

of the US Government's cruel

and illegal actions

around the world

 

is Killing Hope,

U.S. Military and CIA Interventions

Since World War II

by William Blum.

(Common Courage Press)

The CIA has operated as

a super-Mafia.

 

Our CIA and State Department

have committed incredible horrors

in so many countries

around the world:

 

[links to be constructed, by country:] Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, The Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, East Timor, El Salvador, Equador, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Seychelles, Soviet Union,  Somalia, Surinam, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Zaire.

 

We have become like Romans around the world,

 

a dreaded influence out of touch with real goodness.

 

That is the change of direction

for American foreign policy

here proposed

 

instead of a Roman-style

Pax Americana

of US domination:

 

and cruel rule of the world

 

bankers bossing governments

to cut social services,

                                                        health and education

 

to privatize utilities like electricity, telephone,

and now water!

 

bankers backed up

by our big bucks military

and nasty network of agents.

 

We become a people of goodwill, conscience clear,

a people of truth and honor

 

A truly positive force

in the world

 

instead of the

anti-people monster

that the U.S. government

has become.

 

That’s why the terrorism

against America

 

there are legitimate grievances

 

the US has subverted democracy

cynically, persistently,

shamefully, disgustingly

continuously,

 

The only way for real security against terrorism

 

we need

a new foreign policy

in which the US is

a true friend to the world,

 

we need new control

of the air waves.

 

We, the people

as the owners

of the airwaves

take them back

and create channels that offer truth.

 

And that don't abuse

our children.

 

Public ownership

and control of TV

will allow us

to take money out of politics

 

providing free access

to the public

for political candidates.

 

We can save America

gracefully,

 

the basis here presented

for us to stop and think,

for a change

 

a simple clear deal:

 

We give truth a chance

in our lives

and the goodness

of the human heart

 

and nurture that goodness.

 

We choose

to change the game,

new rules to live by

 

new games to play

work worth doing

 

in which the

human spirit thrives

compared with jobs

under corporate commercialism

 

and the corrupt culture

it has created.

 

Corporate employment

is serving a

totalitarian regime.

We, the people

break the grip

of Management,

 

the totalitarian

corporate

pecking order,

 

in favor of a system

committed to people

 

a moral, rational order

 

with fairness prevailing:

 

a system for achieving

justice and fairness

that extends

into the workplace.

 

We declare,

as part of the new reality

that we vote into being,

 

a post scarcity

economic system,

with an abundance

of high quality necessities,

 

and a generous

minimum income

for each citizen.

 

These new features

to our new

economic system:

 

No income tax.

 

Cancellation

of all existing debt,

international, personal,

corporate, etc.

We set the counters

back to zero.

 

On our dollars it says

in God we trust.

                                                  In our Pledge of Allegiance

we claim we are

a nation under God.

 

In Leviticus 25 we are told

God wants debt canceled

every 50 years.

 

Surely 2000

divided well

by 50!

 

It should have happened in 2000 or 2001

 

So now it’s overdue!

 

Something we should do

whenever we can manage

to right this wrongful burden on civilization.

 

The Revolution’s New Economic System

 

A new pay scale

a metric decimal wage

 

a thousand a week minimum for any job worth doing

 

and to feel free

to face the truth

 

$1000 per week

every fourth year

to every adult

 

over 18,

 

and as reparations

to our nation’s racial victims

and maybe all our victims throughout the world

 

a thousand a week for 4 years

 

an extended holiday to climb out of the rut

maybe travel

 

or just keep working and maybe buy a place

 

a chance to  think,  learn and grow

 

A streamlined

pension system

for all citizens age 65

and older

 

$1000 per week for life,

                                                   as a way of promoting                                                   

heaven on this earth

 

but those due reparations

to receive a double portion

 

so they can afford

perhaps to help others.

 

Heaven on earth

rather than pie

in the sky

 when you die.

 

Heaven on earth

instead of murderous

militarism

 

and the looming nuclear nightmare

 

with Bush and his gang

publicly advocating

preemptive use of nuclear weapons

 

for no good reason at all.

 

The factual basis laid out here

for the American people to wake up

 and get past the dumb flag waving

 

our nation’s people realizing

the U.S. government’s guilt of so much mass murder

 

and a People wise enough to renounce

the death penalty

 

so our own guilt for murder

is not cause for our own deaths.

 

The big hope:

People decide to say no to

 

their illegitimate fascist government

 

and quit contributing to

the most terrorist organization

on the planet:

 

Our American people take

into their own hands

our America’s

economic system.

 

Then we can

go about deliberately

creating 100 million new jobs [link]

 

jobs worth doing,

at good pay 

 for every citizen

who wants one

 

so we can begin

to achieve

 a post scarcity 

mode of existence,

 

so we can afford to be good,

so we can afford

to face the truth

and tell the truth.

 

By giving each citizen

a thousand dollars a week

one year every four (or maybe even every single year)

 

we can begin to be clear

about what jobs are worth doing

and afford to face

which jobs are not worth doing.

 

We can begin to achieve

 leadership only

upon freely given consent:

 

Individuals with

enough economic security

to make free choices of employment.

 

People will be able

to step out of

unhappy marriages.

 

We won't need

to waste so much

of our resources

on security, police and prisons.

 

Peaceful, but

 total revolution requires

Free Full education for all,

 adults included.

 

An end to advertising as we know it,

those energies

instead of misleading

and miseducating people,

 

utilized for genuinely  

 positive education.

 

America as a leader

in education,

free, full educational

opportunity for all.

 

A renaissance in education:

 A wide range of subject mastery

 as the norm.

 

The full development of the individual, 

the moral conscience, 

 and sense of human solidarity.

 

Developing a consciousness

about the power dimension

in life's situations:

 

the dimension of control

as a sensation

a psychological phenomenon

 

that we all learn

to beware of and share

consciously, knowingly.

 

Public speaking with a microphone

made comfortable and natural

for each citizen-student.

A renaissance

in our system of

higher education,

 

rethinking

academic categories

and degrees.

 

Outreach for the broader public

to experience living on a university campus

in a learning environment.

 

Use of television

and the internet

to provide access

for all to our best minds.

 

A massive effort to accomplish computer literacy

and media literacy

(how media is produced)

for all citizens.

 

A renaissance

in the library system:

 

Public ownership

of our bookstore chains,

 

turning them into reading rooms and libraries

by adding lots

more tables and chairs

and taking away

the obligation or object to buy.

 

It will save trees

and garbage

and living space.

 

An investment we can make

in our touted

American ingenuity:

 

community workshops

where you can make

what you want

in metal, wood, glass, plastic,

electronics, ceramic, gardening, etc.

 

access to all tools,

a tinker's paradise,

an artist's paradise,

an inventor's paradise

 

 

bankrupt manufacturing facilities

bought for public use.

 

a bloodless revolution:

power transferred gracefully

in the name of reason

 

in the name of humanity

 

by a citizenry making their

will clear to all

of their choice for different

leadership of their society’s institutions

 

different ownership

 

different authorities

 

different heads running the show

 

a Revolutionary Council

that will discuss over TV

the future of our country

 

and oversee a redistribution

of political and economic power.

 

Let us give thanks to capitalism and commercialism

 

for developing our technological capability

 

but now they are

in the way of progress.

Instead of our economic conditions getting better

 

instead of real progress

we have the de-industialization of America

 

the export of manufacturing and associated employment

to countries with pitifully low wages.

 

Here is a plan for peaceful revolution

for these United States.

 

Quick. No Fuss.

No bloodshed

 

A graceful transition of power

from the present bad guys to

the best people we can find.

 

The object: a satisfied feeling

in the heart

that power is in worthy hands,

 

that we are a government

of and for the People,

for a change.

 

There is no shortage

of good people

 

but our present system

for picking political

and economic leaders

filters them out.

 

Values?

 

Our degenerate politics

has the family values advocates

cutting child care,

 

aid to dependent children

and to expectant mothers,

and low minimum wage,

too low to support a family.

 

This revolution is about

creating a moral order

 

in which people try

to do the right thing,

 

practice human values,

honesty, goodness.

 

Commercialism is a deliberate

avoidance of moral values,

human compassion,

human conscience:

 

a mentality lacking

in human values.

 

It is no secret.

 

The amorality

of the business world

is openly described

in Economics courses.

 

Occasionally there is some PR put out to hide it.

 

We as a people

have to declare our faith

in a moral order

 

of people trying to be good

to each other,

kind, honest, fair,

genuinely helpful,

 

instead of the business world's phony,

"Can I help you?"

 

We can choose

as a whole people

a higher path

 

than the cruel ways

of the business world

A way of goodness

cooperation,

 

humans helping each other,

instead of competition

and greed.

 

Commercialism

is like a cancer

upon humanity

 

A pathological force

 

a destructive force

 

that is in the way

of our progress,

 

taking more than giving,

methodically,

professionally

 

in every situation

every human interaction

 

doing whatever

it can get away with

for profit

 

taking advantage of

legal systems

designed for human beings

of flesh and conscience.

 

By our letting the

Commercial forces

dominate our culture

 

we have done harm

to our children

 

and brought things down

to low moral levels,

 

debasing our humanity

 

glamorizing violence

and aggression

 

making a person's looks

so important

 

that so many people,

particularly women,

feel nearly worthless.

 

[link to construct, examples:

For example, Revlon pulled

all its advertising

from Ms. Magazine

 

because they had a cover story

about a woman

who made it in business

 

and she wasn't wearing

any makeup.]

 

Commercialism

erodes goodwill

by preying upon it,

 

preying upon

the human impulse

to trust and care,

 

creating bitterness

in its wake of disappointment

and frustration.

 

We have to rebuild

goodwill and human trust.

 

We have to rebuild our culture

for Reason and goodness

to prevail.

 

Again we try to build

a real democracy.

 

We learn how to live

as human beings

 

who can feel

each other's pain

 

and learn how

to reason with one another

and how to listen

to each another.

 

What is the problem?

 

The 1% at the top

that run the economy

and the government

 

have been conning

the public

 

that for the other 99%

to run the economy

and government

 

would defy the laws

of human nature,

 

as if the premise

of democracy itself ,

that people could run

their own affairs

 

were itself

a faulty premise.

 

What do we replace

commercialism with?

 

Public Ownership

and a commitment to righteousness.

 

That's what

the next thousand years

of human history

will explore and perfect,

 

to Save Our Planet

from the bottom-line guys.

 

Commercialism

is an irresponsible force.

 

We can do better.

 

We can choose

the moral path

as a Whole People

because we know

in our hearts

it is the right path.

 

Peaceful Revolution:

Fundamental Changes

 

A new pluralism,

a new federalism:

 

providing places to live

and economic facilities to run

for intentional

communities

of kindred spirits

 

based on any set of

ideas or preferences

that can attract a group,

 

in addition

to the usual criteria

people tend toward:

 

race, ethnicity, religion,

and sexual preference.

 

We give each citizen

the choice

 

who wants to live

integrated, or all black,

all white,

 

all Asian,

all whatever

or particular mixtures,

 

and we generously

provide opportunities

for every group

to have their place in the sun

 

a share of the land,

a fair share of the economy.

 

For those who choose to live racially integrated

 

it will mean the benefit

of full cooperation

among truly committed souls

 

so their goal of eliminating

racial discrimination

within their communities

can actually be achieved.

 

A new national religion

to unify us:

 

We, the People

will declare

what Principles to uphold,

 

as sacred,

preciously important.

 

We gather regularly in groups

of say, at least 7 or 10,

 

say, at sundown,

noon and sunset,

 

and declare our faith

in being good,

 

in doing the right thing

in human situations.

 

 

We declare and share

and support our commitment to human solidarity.

 

Truth held forth

as our cardinal value

 

Truth to save America

from its Decline

 

to recognize the evil

that our government

has done to its citizens

and to people around the world

 

subverting democracy

 

sabotaging socialism.

We have been manipulated

with lies

that have resulted in

needless wars,

 

the needless deaths

of millions,

 

needless

military spending

 

that transferred wealth

from poor to rich.

 

We can be a prosperous

thriving people,

 

a true help-mate

to the world.

 

We have

the technical means

for an intelligent

abundance

 

but commercialism

is in the way of progress.

 

Commercialism

has resulted in

our de-industrialization

 

and the impoverishment

of many by exporting jobs,

 

ruthlessly downsizing.

 

We choose

as a whole people

to reject commercialism

as a pathological force,

 

a destructive force,

that pollutes our public communications

corrupts our language

 

degrades our culture

 

and undermines

our moral fiber.

 

A new system of Justice

for our beloved country

dedicated to making Justice happen.

 

A new kind of Judge

open to reason

directly by the parties,

 

a full and fair hearing

by an investigative judge

able to move freely

and decide quickly:

 

Justice

without needless delay

before the public

over televideo.

 

A new kind of Judge,

not chosen as so many of our Judges now,

according to some other agenda than merit,

 

but unusually open

and resourceful minds

 

with a psychology

and integrity

 

especially gifted

for making justice happen.

 

Such people are around,

especially among those born January-February.

[link to birthdate discovery ]

What is this justice?

 

It is a satisfied feeling

in the heart,

 

an informed heart,

that things are made right,

as right as can be.

 

Writers of TV dramas

and literature

generally appeal

to that human sense.

 

The audiences

that sit through movies

expressing together

their approval of a story

 

give us proof

of the existence

of such a general

human sense of justice

 

the idea of things

coming out right.

 

As to ownership

of the smaller

commercial corporations,

 

our Judges will oversee

the redistribution

of ownership

on a case by case basis.

 

The employees

can challenge the owners

of businesses

 

as to who

better to own an enterprise

 

and the Judges will investigate,

 

hold elections if necessary

and make a determination

 

who best to own

and control each business.

 

The forces of wealth

have used home ownership

as a tactic

 

to create

a sense of vested interest

in our lopsided system

of private ownership

with our government

having given to banks

and S & L's

valuable mortgage insurance.

 

With the cancellation of debt,

all mortgages

will be paid off.

 

There will be some changes of  residential ownership

to provide for

intentional communities

as earlier described.

 

The forces of wealth

who control public communications

and the flow of information

 

put out the spin

that public ownership

of our corporations

 

is a bad idea,

can't work,

defies human nature.

 

An assertion

maintained by the system,

the Establishment,

 

with lies

and unlimited cruelty.

 

Along these lies

they have our public believing

 

that the demise of the Soviet Union

is proof that socialism

as an idea

is dead.

 

The US took aim

upon the Soviet system

because it stood for socialism

and deliberately destroyed it.

 

We isolated them

and denied them technology.

 

We used our

sevenfold superiority

of economic size

to bankrupt them.

 

The US knowingly played upon Soviet priorities

of military spending for security,

 

with hostile provocations

when their military budgets

were being considered.

 

The demise of the Soviet Union

cost us trillions in debt

 

that are now resulting

in drastic cuts

in our social services

to pay off that debt.

 

What we pay for

the interest on that debt

 

is more than

the US government

spends for health,

education, and welfare,

combined.

 

That debt is to be

all canceled

in an instant

 

by We, the People,

as an act of our

sovereign will,

 

the resulting bankrupt banks

taken over by the people,

 

with a safety net provided

for citizen savers not to suffer.

 

Life in the former Soviet Union

 

under so-called

free enterprise

 

is far worse

for the vast majority

of its people

and they know it.

 

The US has been tampering

with elections there

to keep the lid on,

 

The US was after

commercialism in Russia,

not democracy.

 

Same goes for

the criminal policies

of the US toward Cuba.

 

The economic warfare

the US wages against Cuba

amounts to

a modern day siege.

 

The US uses its vast network

of embassies around the world

 

to monitor any trade with or investment in Cuba

and threatens

whoever is responsible

not to engender the wrath

of the sole reigning superpower.

 

This is flatly prohibited

by the Charter of

the United Nations

 

which declares that

no member nation shall use economic warfare

against another

 

for the purpose of

trying to effect

internal political changes.

 

That is exactly

the US publicly stated purpose.

 

The US hostility against Cuba is driven by the need

to stamp out any experiment in Socialism

 

tending to demonstrate

that an economic system

based upon

people helping each other

 

human solidarity

as opposed to human greed

could succeed.

 

We are supposed to believe

that defies the laws

of human nature.

 

But the Cuban people

enduring the cruel siege

for more than 38 years

 

---Israel fell after a Roman

siege of 7 years---

is proof of the viability

of their socialism.

 

If the American People

were free to travel to Cuba

they would readily see

socialism works in Cuba.

 

The spirit of human solidarity there is robust.

 

It would begin to dawn

that the US government

has been fooling us about Cuba.

 

It would become clear that

it is our government

that needs overthrowing

not Cuba's.

 

The Revolution:

we replace the present ones

in control

with good people

 

people we know are good people.

 

We actually

deliberately

carefully

willfully

 

choose our best people

to lead us

and to be our Judges.

 

Revolution: The truth

finally prevailing.

 

A People taking

for themselves,

into their own hands

 

the TV Networks

and media empires

as a new branch of government.

 

Instead of auctioning off

the spectrum

to the world's wealth

 

the people take back

the airwaves

 

and entrust them to goodness

to truth, to art, to justice.

 

The revolution made peaceful:

useful principles to make clear

---like laying down the law---

that this is indeed the right way

 

the wealth of a nation

owned by its people

 

this nation

every nation

or better yet and to come:

all by all.

 

Public ownership of the public corporations

in partnership with the employees.

 

Return of the family farm.

 

We pull the plug on waste, on pesticides, herbicides

 

and other needless pathologies of our marketplace.

 

We pull the plug on the Pentagon and the CIA

as about domination, not defense

 

about cynical acts of criminality and subversion

more than intelligence gathering.

 

We pull the plug on

prison building

and prisons generally

 

as a form of torture

life under a Big Brother.

 

We pull the plug

on privatization

both in this country

and pushed upon other countries

by the IMF and World Bank.

 

In sum, We redistribute

the wealth of the Nation

from the few to all of us.

 

We replace

amoral commercialism with

morality and reason.

 

We go post-scarcity.

 

We use our incredible capacity

to create

an abundance of high quality

timelessly simple necessities

 

with a social order based on truth in public communications.

 

We take money out of politics

and opt for far more

direct public participation:

 

Self-government.

 

We become a people

of their word

 

for a change

 

who honor their Treaties.

 

A people of good will

human kindness prevailing,

and human honesty

 

people able to afford being honest

able to pay all their bills

effortlessly.

 

No income taxes. No debt.

 

A thousand a week

to every adult

every fourth year, or so,

 

so each can afford to

climb out of the rut

of wasted lives.

 

The creation of enough good jobs for all

at good pay

so that all can afford to live decently and with dignity.

 

The wealth of America

enjoyed by an honorable people

willing to face the truth.

 

[links of examples:

Public ownership of the food processing industry

will mean a dramatic

improvement

 

in the quality

and nutritional value

of what is placed

on supermarket shelves,

 

treating the consumer

as the owner rather than

profit's victim.

 

Public ownership of the pharmaceutical industry

 

will result in much more

invested in

scientific research

---at least a tenfold increase!---

 

without the limitation

of present day marketing considerations

 

such as which diseases

are the more profitable to treat.

 

Public ownership of the oil industry

will mean far more effort

to achieve solar energy

and other sustainable energy sources,

 

which the oil industry

has been hostile toward,

and has used its great powers

to prevent,

 

often buying out companies

and patents simply to prevent

competing systems

reaching the public.

 

We will stop the incredible squander

of millions of years' fossil fuel

 

irresponsibly consumed

in less than a hundred years.

 

We are overdue for

a scandalous revelation

of more of the myriad horrors

the government is guilty of

 

besides the criminal murder

and destruction in Iraq and

Afghanistan

 

resulting in a public

suddenly becoming

so disenchanted with our government

 

and corporate leadership

 

that they are in the mood

for a revolution.

 

like US complicity in Iraq’s sins

that our government hypocritically condemns

as basis for a war that violate the UN Charter

 

or shocking public revelations

that the US deliberately

staged the terror of  911

 

to whip up public fear

to begin a new military buildup

to dominate the entire planet.

 

It will provide for a graceful transition

to appropriate government

if we have begun to create a government in waiting.

 

The time has come

to reclaim our government

and take back control

of our society

 

so the militias won't take over

by default

 

or through unsuccessful

resort to violence

will not set it up

 

for the military to step in

to make order

 

with the Homeland Security Act and FEMA

used to put dissidents into concentration camps.

                                                            

 

Q & A:

Question: Why bother making a plan for revolution?

 

Answer:

The public is just about ready

for the big changes our country really needs

if actually given the choice.

 

Nearly 80% indicate they feel our government has turned

against them and is not worthy of our consent.

 

But there has been lacking

an alternative.

 

The idea here is to provide

a plan for an alternative

with which to begin creating

 

an actual alternative government

we can put in power

 

to replace our present corrupt evil government

 

that is destroying the planet

that murders daily.

                                  Question:                                       

"Don't we all know revolution can't possibly be peaceful,

because the rich will never

give up their power

without a fight?"

 

Answer:

Although such claims

are freely made

as if some truth based on History

 

or a fathoming of the dynamics of Greed,

 

what is offered here is

in the interest of 80%

to 99% of the population.

 

So the faith here is in reason,

word will get around

that there is up on the web

 

an actual coherent plan for revolution

 

that a peaceful, intelligent revolution

is thinkable and desirable

 

it will win the support

of even the police and army.

 

The time does seem about ripe.

 

What is advocated here is

a new mentality prevailing

particularly in leadership

 

humans truly trying to be helpful to one another

 

rather than

commercialism's cruelty

 

we choose instead

enlightenment, friendliness.

Some Topics yet to be

more fully addressed:

 

Male and Female

 

Drugs

 

 

Freeing all intellectual property

as well as nearly all prisoners

 

 

a fitting compensation for

the harm the U.S.

has done to the world

 

Revolution by discussion:

Let's talk it thru:

What it will be like after the revolution.

 

What a fair distribution of the world’s resources would be like.

 

Proposed list of

Revolutionary Council/

Government in Waiting

Michelle Alexander
Ed Asner
Bob Avakian
Ben Barber
Charles Barron
Brian Becker
Medea Benjamin,
Jodie Evans
Danniel Berrigan
William Blum
Barbara Boxer
Harry Belefonte
Father Roy Bourgeois
Ward Churchill
Noam Chomsky
Ramsey Clark
John Conyers
Angela Davis
Lamis Deek
Barbara Ehrenreich
Daniel Ellsberg
Sara Flounders
Bruce Gagnon
Bill Gates
Danny Glover
Amy Goodman
Juan Gonzalez
Glen Greenwald
Robert Greenwald
David Ray Griffin
Thom Hartman
William Hartung
Jim Hightower
David Harvey
Howie  Hawkins
Tom Hayden
Chris Hedges
Doug Henwood
Andy Humm
Dahr Jamail
Mumia Abu Jamal
David Jensen
Kathy Kelly
David Korten
Paul Krugman
Dennis Kucinich
George Lakoff
Glora LaRiva
Cynthia McKinney
Ralph Nader
Leonard Peltier
John Perkins
Tom (Tomorrow) Perkins
William Rivers Pitt
George Soros
Joseph Steiglitz
David Joseph (Zeitgeist)
Michael Schwartz
Garry Trudeau
Mark Crispin Miller
Michael Moore
John Pilger
David Swanson
Mara Verheyden Hilliard
Gus Speth
Cindy Sheehan
                                                            Naomi Wolf                                                              

David McReynolds
Michael Parenti
Christian Parenti
Miles Rapoport
Robert Reich
Chalmers Johnson
Dahlia Wasfi
Harvey Wasserman
Maxine Waters
Danny Schechter
Assata Shakur
Bernie Sanders
Jeremy Rifkin
Lyndon LaRouche
Brian Lehrer
Phil Donohue
Pete Seeger
Katrina Vanden Huevel
Jesse Ventura
Michael Ratner
Stanley Aronowitz
Jonathan Shell
Norman Solomon
Laurence Lessig
Bill McKibben
Jackie Cabasso
Rosie O'Donnell
Charlie Sheen
John Burroughs
Jeremy Scahill
Heidi Boghosian
Richard Heinberg
Wendell Berry
Michael Hudson
Kevin Martin
Van Jones
Alice Walker
Richard Wolff
Ron Paul
Ann Wright
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Margaret Flowers
Jerrold Nadler
Michael Lerner
Alice Slater
Robert Parry
James K. Galbraith

 

 

 

 

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