William Waugh, In a different thread you wrote, I hesitate to endorse new rights Thank you. That prompted me to write the following: The Civil Right to Representation of Choice is Not a New Right? The belief that any of us has rights is a myth, a myth created to help the many stand up to the elite. A mythical right becomes stronger when it is written down especially when it is written in foundational documents and when the right is described as god given. Just as, for the individual, perception is reality, for a culture, a society, a nation, myth becomes reality if enough people believe the myth. Such it is with the unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence among which are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. In 16__ the English elite who executed King ____ did not have an uprising of the people of England on their behalf. They did not have that support because the people of England did not have widely shared myth that they should be free of a monarch. In 1776, in the 300,000 copies of Common Sense that were distributed in the rebellious American colonies, Thomas Paine called for a declaration of rights and independence to be written. Paine created a scenario of democracy under the trees for a small group of people and a representative democracy when the group became too large for direct democracy. Thomas Jefferson then wrote the Declaration of Independence and the members of the Continental Congress signed it. The two writings asked the common man to become engaged in a war against the British King, not on behalf of the American elite, but upon behalf of all of humanity to advance, exercise, protect the rights of the people. The American Revolution was won with the blood, sweat and lives of the farmers and the laborers who made it a fight for their rights and their independence. The vast holdings of the loyalists to the British Crown were confiscated and distributed to the American elite but the soldiers were paid poorly if at all. Thirteen years later, after the British were defeated many unpaid civilian soldiers had their property taken from them for failure to pay hard currency on their debts; the lenders would not take commodities. The resistance to the foreclosures became, Shay’s Rebellion of 1786-7. In the summer of 1787, the elite representatives of most of the States assembled in Philadelphia in an effort to create a strong central government to protect America against foreign powers but also to protect against rebellions by the people, the people who helped the American elite supplant the British Loyalists. The Founders did not create a democracy. They did not create a representative democracy. They created a “Republic.” A Republic can be an oligarchy or almost any form of government short of a hereditary monarchy. There is, and rightfully so, huge dissatisfaction among the people regarding the operation of the U.S. Government. It is now time to exercise one of our inherent rights, a right that was suppressed by the Founders, the right to choose representation that looks out for the interests, not of the elite 1% but, of the great majority of the American people People always had the right to be free but it wasn’t until the Thirteenth Amendment was adopted that the government was prevented from interfering with that right. Poor citizens always had the right to vote but it wasn’t until the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted that government was prevented from interfering with that right. People of any race, color or creed always had the right to no be discriminated against but it wasn’t until the Fifteenth Amendment was adopted that government was prevented from discriminating against these people. Women always had the right to vote but it wasn’t until the Nineteenth Amendment was adopted that government was prevented from interfering with that right. Thomas Paine said everyone has the right to participate in a direct democracy and that when the population of the citizenry was too large that we had the right to a Representative Democracy. At this tie the government interferes with our right to the representation of our choice by only seating the representative of the largest faction of voters. The great majority of the people are thereby deprived of the representation of their choice. The adoption of all of the other amendments that have prevented government from interfering with our rights came only after someone claimed the right and then the people rose up and demanded that the government stop interfering with the enjoyment of that right. Join me in the proclamation that we have the Right to Representation of Our Choice and then let’s get to work educating our fellow citizens about this right so they can rise up and through their demands secure protection against government interference with the Civil Right to Representation of Choice.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 02:31:56 +0000
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