ARTICLE 1
Congress of Representatives
CONGRESS RETAINS THE POWER TO:
1-COMPOSE A BALLOT FOR OUR
REGIONAL POPULAR VOTE ['RMV'].
And the partial power
to-
2-REMOVE MINISTERS.
3-NULLIFY THE DECISIONS OF
MINISTERS.
-Congress and the four
ministers comprise our five branches of government.-
-Any one of the 4 ministers may act independently without approval from
any other branch.
-Congress may take no independent, direct governing actions.
-Congress submits one of many ballots that recommend actions that we
citizens may force government to take. All ministers may submit ballots as
well.
-Majority vote of Congress and 2 ministers [or 3 ministers] may nullify
the decision of any one minister.
-Our 'RMV' vote may force our confederation government to take any action
we please and no other branch[s] of government may nullify our vote.
-Our 'RMV' vote will instantly nullify any action or remove any minister
we please.
-Your author begs all us regional citizens and all branches of our
government not to impose on the sovereignty of our districts.
-Our entire regional confederation government in designed to retain 100
times less power than district government within the borders of the individual
sovereign district.
-PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION-
All
references recommending other models for our confederation congress within the
constitution are erroneous 8/25/05
-Each district shall have the opportunity to elect one congressman who is
a resident of their district if that candidate receives either: at least 1% of
the regional popular vote [1+% of all registered regional voters [not 1% of
those who happen to vote in that election]]; or, [if their district’s
population is less than 1% of the region’s population] 80% or their district’s
popular vote. In some larger districts, a candidate’s receipt of 20% of their
district’s voters would give them 5+% of the regional registered voter total
thereby putting them 4% over the required 1% necessary to become a congressman.
Receiving 80% of that district’s vote, in this case, is an improvement in their
voting power in congress but unnecessary to simply qualify for election to
congress.
-Elections of representatives shall be held no less often than once every 2 years
[direct 24 hours district voting recall of district elected representatives
available and direct 24 hour regional voting recall of all regionally elected
representatives].
-CONGRESSIONAL VOTING POWER ASSIGNED IN PROPORTION TO THE PERCENTAGE OF
THE REGIONAL REGISTERED VOTE TOTAL THEY RECEIVE. [I.e.= if a district candidate
receives a total of 9,000 [80% of the district’s 11,250 voters] of his
district’s votes, his voting power in congress will carry a .6% value. This
assessment presumes that the total number of registered voters in the region is
1,500,000. The math would be dividing 9,000 by 1,5000,000 to get .006]. This
rule holds for all representatives regardless of whether they were elected by
their district’s 80% vote or by 1% or more of our region’s vote.
MORE?, LESS?
GOVERNING POWER FOR CONGRESS
-Currently, we assign congress the power to join with at least 2 other
ministers and block a minister from taking actions but congress may not
initiate any action on their own. They may vote to ‘suggest’ actions only and
construct ballot issues to be submitted for regional popular vote. All regions
seeking to adopt our 'DSM' constitution ought to place a measure on their
regional ballot to decide if congressman who receive over 60%/70%/80%/90% of
the regional vote ought to be assigned a correspondingly higher degree of
governing power. Majority popular vote could amend the constitution to
authorize a congressman who receives 90+% of our regional vote to command our
confederation government to take any action he chooses and only our regional
majority popular vote could reverse his decisions or remove him from office.
The same measure ought to offer the best remedy to the possible conflicting
spectrum of authority between powerful congressmen and ministers who are
equally popular.
-CONGRESSIONAL RESIDENCY, SALARY, GRAFT- A congressman may be invited by
any district’s leadership to reside in their district. With an invitation a
congressman shall be permitted to live in any district with adequate
Communications he chooses.
That district’s leadership [or district popular vote] shall vote/decide
what salary they will pay to that representative. Districts are not obligated
to pay a salary to representatives. Representatives who fail to persuade a
district’s government to pay them a salary and believe that their impoverishment
renders them unable to perform their congressional duties may resign their post
[their post will remain empty until a new election is held- [within 2 weeks of
vacancy]]. Congressmen are permitted to negotiate their potential salary with
district leadership before or after being elected. Our Minister of
Communications will be responsible for prohibiting all representatives from
profiting by graft or corruption. Our Minister of Sovereignty will be granted
special powers to arrest congressmen for offences against the regional
confederation. Congressmen who have received 70% or more of their total
regional votes from their home district may be required to reside in their
district by that district’s leadership.
-Congressional Meetings- Representatives shall vote and establish
their rules of procedure for their meetings. [electronic– email, instant
message, internet web cam conference?] and congressional voting shall be held
for five hours per day, four days per week until congress shall agree upon:
rules of order; length and frequency of meetings; obtaining a quorum; length of
a sessions; choosing a speaker and other officers; forming a consensus
regarding what number of monthly ballot measures will to placed on the
confederation ballot and all other rules necessary to facilitate effective
Congressional business.
Congress and the Minister of Communication shall establish a means by
which all Congressmen may attend meetings by electronic communication
(Internet).
-Representatives/congressmen shall be referred to collectively as
Congress.
-MORE POWER FOR RURAL REPRESENTATIVES- Regional citizen’s popular
majority vote, may allot a slightly higher percentage of congressional power to
frontier district representatives [those elected by at least 70% of their vote
total coming from their home district’s popular vote]. [It is the hope of your
author that by vesting greater empowerment to rural people, environmental
purposes are best served. It is self-evident that rural people prefer to
maintain the high percentage of unspoiled land present in their frontier
district[s]. We believe they will more passionately seek to restrain the growth
of cities, maintain a higher qualitative environment for homeland center
districts and the region as a whole. We prefer the ballot making power of
congress to reflect a slightly higher value in the perspective of frontier
representatives].
-STANDARDS STRENGTHENING/WEAKENING- Congress may recommend the addition
or strengthening (never the weakening) of standards. Congress may recommend
amendments to the constitution to us for our two thirds voting approval.
-Qualifications for becoming a district Representative of the Confederation legislature
shall be determined exclusively by the democratic will of the citizens of the
individual district or regional popular vote.
-CONFEDERATION WEAPON CONTROL- Congress shall establish a plan whereby,
at times of intense potential for a region-wide civil war, a trusted, allied
foreign nation will send troops to keep our weapons (those that are stored for
use in foreign war) out of the hands of either of our adversarial sides.
Congressmen will encourage districts to hire their own inspectors to be certain
that our confederation does not violate its own standards concerning the use of
high lethality weapons. The weapons of war shall be unavailable to the
confederation for any use other than foreign war. Congress will maintain an
accounting for all war weapons for the purpose of preventing their use by
Confederation and/or district police against the citizens of any district. Even
if criminals obtain military hardware [tanks, missiles, etc.], police forces
and our deputized citizens shall not be allowed to match their weapon lethality
by use of the region’s armory in their effort to defeat them. We will neutralize
them by force of numbers, using tactics that are least likely to sacrifice
lives. Only in the most rare cases [fast moving, extreme, criminal,
environmental damage, territorial conquest, etc.] will there be the need for
haste and arms escalation to put a swift end to criminal activities.
Congress shall encourage a yearly, region wide, popular vote to establish
a standard that limits the degree of lethality of all domestic weapons allowed
to be used by any citizen, police of confederation government personnel.
-FOREIGN ARMS REDUCTION- Congress shall vigorously endeavor to aid our
Minister of Sovereignty in the making of arms reduction treaties with all
foreign nations. The object of these treaties is to reduce the lethality of the
entire world’s weaponry down to a level no higher than would be adequate for
personal [one person] protection against two muggers.
-Congressmen’s’ INCOME- Congressmen are prohibited from any attempt to
increase their collective or individual income from any source, outside of their
salary [paid by their resident district government], while serving in congress.
-ARRESTING/REMOVING/REPLACING CONGRESSMEN- New region-wide elections will
be held every 3 years. Only the majority vote of the electing district can
remove or discipline their representative elected by district majority vote.
All other congressmen may only be removed by the majority vote of their
original electorate. The district in which a congressman resides can punish him
for any criminal acts he commits within their borders. Our Minister of
Sovereignty shall judge corrupt or treasonous representatives. Districts
surrender a degree of their sovereign right to defend the citizens within their
borders from confederation police power in the case of regional congressmen who
commit offences against the confederation.
Majority vote of representatives cannot remove or censor a
representative. Congress shall determine the order of the personnel within a
ministry who shall succeed a minister should he be unable to complete his term.
The person who succeeds shall not hold a ministerial office longer than 3
months at which time a new election to replace the congressman shall be held.
-Surveillance- Congress shall maintain an open record [surveillance] of all private
meetings [especially gifts received] conducted by all congressmen. The Minister
of Sovereignty shall conduct an ongoing investigation and open report on all
gifts, especially hidden or disguised gifts, given to Congressmen.
-PRIORITIZING BALLOT MEASURES-
Representatives can also give a scoring system to the regional voters choice of
which issue they prefer the confederation act on first [prioritization].
Representatives can pose ballot issues for regional popular vote as creatively
as they wish. They can arrange a multiple-choice ballot with a point system
scoring allowing 5 points for 1st choice of candidate or solution to
an issue and 1 point for the 5th choice. The highest scoring choice
voted on by at least 60% our regional popular voters, will be acted on
immediately by the appropriate confederation ministry.
-CITIZEN BALLOT WORDING/MAJORITY WILL- Representatives shall vote and
choose the wording and subject of each issue they place on confederation ballot
and they shall not countenance any interference from the ministers concerning
these ballot choices. Vote clarification is the art of interpreting the those
votes placed by citizens who have simply written in their own wording to ask
our confederation to take an action of some kind.
CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT
OF DISTRICT SOVEREIGNTY
-Our confederation/congress shall in no way prevent any district from: entering into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation with any other district or nation [nations that are on the Minister of Sovereignty’s enemy nation list may be the exception to this rule]; coining or printing its own Money; emitting Bills of Credit within its borders [our confederation shall defend the right of all districts to pay or not pay any debts to any creditors outside that district’s borders]; making anything it wishes [environmental standards permitting] to Tender in Payment of Debts [our confederation shall determine what tender it will accept from a district as payment of confederation tax]; passing any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto, Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or granting any Title of Nobility [district majority vote is the final determination of all its CIVIC affairs within its borders].
-Districts shall, without the Consent of the Confederation, lay any Imposts or Duties on any Imports or Exports it wishes; and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any district on Imports or Exports shall be for whatever use that district decides;
and shall, without the Consent of the Confederation, lay any duty of Tonnage it wishes, keep Troops, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, especially if it is invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay; and all such district Laws shall not be subject to the Revision and Control by our confederation Congress.
MORE CONGRESSIONAL RULES
-BORDER CONTROL STANDARD- Congress must assist our confederation to prevent any district from prosecuting war [using ships/planes/vehicles of war or war weapons- weapons that exceed the confederation lethality maximum] across its borders [except when the district joins the confederation in war against hostile nations], including the issuing of letters of marque’ and/or reprisal.
-REVOLT- When a ‘REGIONAL MAJORITY VOTE’= (RMV) is established [on any
issue], the congress is commanded to assist our ministers to act on it. Since
the ministers control and direct all government action they have 3 days to
demonstrate obedience to our (RMV) command. Disobedience to our majority
instructed ministers by a rebel, minority citizen group may incur our majority
wrath against that minority. Conversely, if our ministers display a level of
contempt, disrespect and disobedience to our (RMV), we citizens will launch a
passionate armed revolt against them. We citizens must always be mindful of
exactly what degree of minister disobedience would necessitate our armed revolt
against them. If we regional citizens vote to violently revolt against
treasonous, despotic ministers who turn against us, each rebelling district
must force their congressmen to join us. The minister’s disobedience to us
[majority of us citizens] shall constitutionally necessitate that our
confederation army defect from the ministers’ control and promptly join us
citizens.
-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION- For the next 200 years our ministers may submit
their recommendation to us that we might approve the immigration of no more
than 30 exceptional people to our region per year. A 90% approval from Congress
per applicant or an 80% (RMV) will be required to accept any new residents into
our region. Congress shall announce to the public their monthly appraisal of
the degree to which they believe each minister has been effective at preventing
illegal immigration. Congress may recommend our (RMV) to remove a minister if
he/they have not been adequately successful at preventing illegal immigration.
-IDENTIFICATION: Congress may assist the Minister of Communication to
determine what method of identification is both the least invasive or offensive
to citizens and facilitates the most effective means of; distinguishing us
citizens from of illegal aliens; obtaining an accurate vote count; criminal
tracking…etc.
-PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF CITIZENS: Congress shall not infringe upon the
right of any district citizen to take any action against any illegal alien
permitted by that citizen’s district government. Any Minister who takes any
action against a district citizen who, in accordance with their district’s law,
punishes an illegal alien, acts in violation of this Constitutional edict and commits
a treasonable offence. Districts are free to enact and enforce any human rights
laws they please.
-DIRECT COUNT OF CITIZEN’S VOTES: Congress shall assist the Minister of
Communication in his effort to prohibit any type of electoral college system for
the election to any office including district elections.
-DIVISION OF AUTHORITY: Congress shall be the court of last resort to
resolve conflicts between ministers if those ministers choose to avail
themselves of congress as their court. Such conflicts between ministers may
include; their perception of overlapping authority, bounds of power or
responsibility; inadequate appropriation of funds or personnel to their
ministry; potential treasonable behavior; etc.
-TROOP BEHAVIOR: Our congress must author specific rules governing the
behavior of ministers and their troops in order to protect district citizens
when an S-3 invasion is imposed on them.
-CONSCRIPTION: Districts may choose to use Congress to adjudicate a just
and equitable agreement between all districts regulating the imposition of
conscription {likely during foreign war}. The Minister of Sovereignty shall
have authority to impose sanctions on districts that violate this agreement.
-EMERGENCY ALERT: Congress may appeal directly for a 'RMV' [as they
usually do] by seizing [1 hour per day for no more than 20 days per year]
control of the most highly patronized media in order to put out an emergency
message in order to rescue us from whatever they may [by majority vote among
all congressmen] consider to be impending disaster. These disasters that
congress decide require urgent resolution may include; treasonous ministers;
mass invasion [hostile or otherwise]; environmental horrors; civil war; massive
counterfeiting; mass infrastructure breakdown etc..
-AMENDMENTS: By A 2/3rds regional popular vote with 90% quorum our
constitution may be instantly altered in any way we citizens see fit.
ARTICLE 2
CONSTITUTIONALLY
MANDATED STANDARDS
And
The Sanctions used to Enforce Standards
ENFORCING STANDARDS=
SMALLEST INFRINGEMENT ON A DISTRICT’S FREEDOM.
DISTRICT AUTHORITY RULES 99%
CONFEDERATION AUTHORITY RULES 1%
OF ALL THE GOVERNING WE PLACE OVER US
The confederation, when it
enforces our constitutional standards, will temporarily assume only the smallest
qualitative portion of authority over the type of duties that are normally
reserved for all citizen’s primary government; district government. 99% of both
the quantity of crimes and the far larger share of what most of us would
consider to be the more dramatic crimes that are combated under district
authority. Confederation enforcement of standard violation imposes only the
slightest intercession into what is normally under the complete authority of
district government.
The word CIVIC [the word CIVIC
will presume the four words- ‘CIVIC spectrum of concerns’ henceforth in this
document] shall refer to the broadest spectrum of public concerns that: effect
our lives most directly; generally relates to all governing done within a
district’s borders to create the best collective/group/village harmony and has
no effect outside those borders; and, is unrelated to the enforcement of the
sovereignty exceptions which are governed by our confederation. Our sovereign
district government is naturally designed [self-evidently intended by nature]
to govern our CIVIC interests since we have designed districts to be directly
under the largest measure of our control.
Districts will often be offered
first opportunity to enforce most all sovereignty exception in order to avoid
the more costly imposition of confederation power to correct sovereignty
exception violations.
With vast communication and
instant direct-democracy we are entirely confident we can quickly defend
ourselves against any wrongful governing resulting from the small spectrum of
authority we vest in our confederation.
ARTICLE—2 CONFEDERATION STANDARDS
SECTION-1- CONFEDERATION SANCTIONS EXTREME
DANGER!!!!!
MINISTERS CAN USE SANCTIONS TO KILL US
This power is readily
balanced by the fact that=
WE CAN QUICKLY* USE OUR POPULAR VOTE
TO KILL THEM!!
*24/7/365 INTERNET VOTING!!
WE PREFER LEADERS WITH A
LIFE and DEATH COMMITMENT
To
SERVE US HONORABLY and JUSTLY
SOVEREIGNTY EXCEPTIONS-The
BASIS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS
Our confederation must intercede [impose sanctions] to remedy the
following:
1- Environment. Districts must preserve and restore their environment.
2- Borders. District’s sovereign ‘fist’ must not reach the neighboring
district’s sovereign ‘nose’.
3- Majority rule/free and fair elections.
4- Weapons control. Universal limits on weapon lethality.
ARTICLE 2. SECTION 1.-
SANCTIONS
The confederation will occasionally force districts to punish individuals, who commit the most severely destructive violations of standards, with punishments severe enough to prevent the further commission of the crime-
[APR]= Adequate Punishment
Required.
In rare cases, a district, having caught a man who has subjected said district to the horrors resultant from the severe violation of our confederation standards, may not have, as judged by our confederation minister, adequately punished the culprit. The district may fear retaliation from the culprit’s crime syndicate or, possibly, the district’s leadership is just too apathetic about the crime, to take any adequate measure to prevent being victimized again. Since severe standard violation has long-term destructive consequences for our entire region, our confederation will, occasionally, need to assure the prevention of these severely destructive crimes.
This crime prevention may, occasionally, partially, compromise district sovereignty when our confederation must impose an [APR] on an individual or impose sanctions on a district to assure they impose the [APR] on an individual. We intend these impositions on district sovereignty to be extremely rare and imposed only when our regional majority agrees that it must be done for the greater good. Ministers must use their most judicious DISCRETION to best apply these rare instances of [APR].
We proudly instruct our confederation [in most cases] to use the threat of sanctions to convince a district that is harboring cross-border criminals to surrender them to the offended district the criminals invaded. Cross-border crimes, that severely violate confederation standards [environment destruction usually], must be punished adequately if the offended district’s punishment is regarded by the minister as inadequate. We regard the APR punishing of a few criminals to be much more compassionate to a district than a protracted punishment of the entire district population by placing brutal blockade sanctions on it. our minister will offer that choice to district leadership before imposing the sanctions on it.
-[APR] EXAMPLE: A tree-robbing gang cuts and transports old growth trees out of a neighboring district back to its own, then; the gang’s district government fines them and leaves them free to thieve and destroy again. The gang’s district government is profiting from their crime.
The confederation must step in and make certain the punishment of the gang is severe enough to assure that this standard-breaking horror does not recur. The minister must give the offended district first opportunity to adequately punish the forcibly extradited gang. The offended district tortures the gang members and crudely amputates an adequate number of limbs to assure horror of their crime will not be forgotten by their fellow district citizens.
-An additional example: a district government has set weak enforcement against travel/immigration into its district such that their population level goes far beyond confederation limits. Perhaps both districts are apathetic about the damage overpopulation does. The minister must impose sanctions on the invading district, impose sanctions at the end of the year on the invaded district for overpopulation and provide and enforce improved border protection for the invaded district.
A Minister may assign an APR case to another district for sufficient punishment. APR requirements are designed to intensify respect for all district borders in the hearts of criminals without robbing districts of their sovereign right to defend their citizens from unjust, big-government policing.
The protocol for the application of APR on a prisoner, who the minister judges to be inadequately punished by the district authority, will be require a confederation officer to take immediate custody of the prisoner. It will be at the minister’s discretion to immediately prescribe and inflict the APR on the inadequately punished individual himself or to send him to an alternate district for new adjudication.
Our confederation will not apply [APR] to minor violations of confederation standards and especially not to crimes that do not violate confederation standards. Most crime comes under the authority of our district government and are not violations of confederation standards.
The confederation APR
recommendations specified for extradited individuals
When the minister must inflict individual APR punishment, the pain suffered by the perpetrator ought to equal that suffered by all those he has harmed or would have harmed had his crime continued as long and severe as he had intended. In the case of environmental crimes we recognize that most environmental damage takes 10 to 100 years to fully recover. Some of the most profitable environmental destruction [housing, roads, logging, mining, industrial waste, etc.] causes damage that takes 1000s of years to recover. We expect and allow a comfortable latitude of minor destructiveness inherent in much of the human interaction with the environment, but our overall effect on our district environment ought to be one of improvement. We instruct our ministers to bear this in mind when considering what environmental crimes qualify as ‘severe’.
The minister makes certain adequate punishment is imposed on a criminal by a district when: a criminal has damaged a habitat excessively; or, killed off too high a number of the plant or animal itself; or, caused the reduction of the qualitative health of a plant or animal species by 5% or more beyond confederation established limits; or, the time of estimated recovery of the habitat or species is likely to be 10 years longer than the acceptable limit. The following punishments of individuals are APR suggestions to ministers for environmental damage that requires 10 years more than what is allowed to affect the full recovery of the species or habitat to acceptable levels [when acreage is a factor we will presume a minimum of 2 acres were damaged]:
1% to 2% too much reduction in qualitative health of habitat/species --------1 year of public humiliation*.
2% to 5% too much reduction in qualitative health of habitat/species ----- 2 years of public humiliation*.
5% or more past the allowed limit of reduction qualitative health of habitat/species ------ death.
* public humiliation- a cell near [50 yards] the market place with the prisoner in a pit on display to all who choose to walk over and look down at him. No privacy. He may be woken by anyone at any time. Many pictures of his crimes on display with him.
SECESSION/CIVIL
SECURITY/TRUE UNITY
A subcategory of
border control is secession. A standard upholding district that wishes to
peacefully secede from our confederation OUGHT to be given every happy support
for their decision from our government. Our confederation must also defend the
right of districts to break off any amalgamation it may have made with other
member districts with which it has become associated if the citizens of that
district prefer.
Our constitution ordains
universal availability of low lethality weapons in order to best maintain the
military inferiority of government [both confederation and district] in
relation to us citizens. We proudly vest our region-wide citizen majority with
the immediate military superiority to slaughter every member of our government
[confederation and/or district] the moment they please. This is essential to
assure us that our government remains our servant and we the masters over it.
Our weak government has nothing to fear from a majority that they faithfully
serve. We possess an entirely adequate defense against any danger posed by
domestic enemies to the officers of our confederation in the form of those
thousands in the majority who will eagerly volunteer and proudly be deputized
should the need arise.
The confederation ought to
frequently offer a 'RMV' vote to disband [or not] most of the confederation
army in order to afford all districts the opportunity to use their own
resources to collectively form a military force adequate to defend the region’s
foreign borders from foreign enemies. This is the truly inspiring realization
of national unity when many sovereign districts/nations freely unit, under no
compulsion from a central government, to serve the greater good.
GRACE PERIOD
After an inspector has
determined that a standard has been violated, in most instances, the issuing
executive minister shall offer a 15-day notification to the violating district.
This grace period is to allow the time for the district to correct the
violation and punish their individual district citizens who are committing the
violating acts. If, after the grace period, the minister is satisfied that
adequate correction has occurred no sanction will then be imposed.
TIMETABLE. INCREMENTAL CORRECTION.
Many environmental violations
may have resulted from years of the district’s ongoing abuse of their ecosystem
and cannot be corrected in 15 days. Our confederation shall not impose
sanctions on districts according to the severity of their existing
environmental problem but rather according to their speed of ‘clean-up’. The
Minister of the Environment will establish a timetable for the gradual
correction of that particular district’s environmental problem[s]. Sanctions
will be imposed if the timetable in not kept. Our ministers should establish an
approximately equal rate of correction for all districts regardless of the
severity of any particular district’s environmental problem or other standard
violating problem. One district ought not be required to improve an existing
[static problem that is not worsening] at a faster rate than the others. The
operative minister will call an immediate halt to severely worsening problems
[environmental problems particularly]. Some environmental crimes are so severe
they require an immediate confederation invasion to quickly eject the
destroyers of that land/sea before more environmental devastation occurs.
Environmental rescue is an exponentially more important confederation goal than
seeking to garner the favor of the criminal leadership of a district that
deliberately destroys its environment.
There will be incremental
corrections of border, voting and weapons standard violation as well. The
correction of a border, voting and weapon problem is less complicated and,
although important, is not as important as the protection and restoration of
our environment.
Minister Discretion
A minister may determine that
a case of cross-border invasion by one district’s citizens into the land of
another is entirely justified.
The minister may, after the fact, proclaim invaders to be ex post facto
confederation deputies rightfully executing a confederation S3-10 invasion.
refuse with the absolute confidence that a higher purpose of justice will be
served. A 1000 times greater long-term benefit will be served when the minister
refuses the request of the invaded district that the invaders be extradited to
their jurisdiction.
AN EXAMPLE: A Case- The minister has imposed a S3-10 on district ‘A’ that
has richly earned a confederation invasion when the it launched a massive
cross-border military campaign devastating 100s of acres of their neighboring
district’s [district ‘B’] forest. While the minister is gathering a
sufficiently large force of arms to put an end to this devastation, the
district ‘B’ government acts to protect their forest by sending 1500 men to
invade the aggressor district ‘A’ to rob them. The minister then arrives in
district ‘A’ with the confederation troops to find the district ‘B’ encampment
of heroes proudly admitting they have just completed making their rightful
counterstrike. They admit to robbing a million dollars worth of logging
equipment and vehicles and taking 500 criminal citizens of district ‘A’ [all
500 were among the most egregious original invaders of district ‘B’] as
prisoners. The District ‘B’ crusaders openly admit that [on orders from their
[district ‘B’s’] government] they have tortured and executed 100 of these prisoners.
District ‘A’ now demands the release of the 400 prisoners and that the district
‘B’ murderer/torturers to be arrested and subjected to district ‘A’ justice.
The district ‘B’ crusaders demand safe conduct out of district ‘A’ back to home
to district ‘B’ with all 400 prisoners. The district ‘B’ government assures the
minister that most all the 400 prisoners will be tortured and executed.
District ‘a’ will later demand the extradition of the district ‘B’ invaders
back to their jurisdiction for judgment.
THE PROBLEM- What is the appropriate action the minister ought to take to
best serve the most long lasting and highest cause of justice?
MINISTER DISCRETION!!! === THE MINISTER CAN DO WHATEVER HE CHOOSES and
only our regional popular majority vote can reverse his decision.
A SOLUTION= [your author’s]- The minister makes a region-wide public
announcement of his complete rational behind his decisions before he acts on
them [giving time to be overturned by our popular vote]. First he admonishes
district ‘B’ for acting [the invasion, robbery, torture and executions] without
authority. Next, he awards all the righteous district ‘B’ champions of justice
with medals in praise of their heroism and courage. He places the remaining
district ‘A’ invaders under confederation arrest and he proudly grants safe
passage to the district ‘B’ heroes back to district ‘B’ where the minister will
surrender the 400 district ‘A’ prisoners will be released to district ‘B’
justice.
-The minister assures district ‘B’ and our entire region that further
extraditions of the district ‘A’ criminals will be granted to district ‘B’ and
the financiers of the logging will be found and surrendered to district ‘B’
justice.
-The minister encourages his confederation soldiers to join in the festivities
[parade, feasts, celebrations] that district ‘B’ will undoubtedly bestow upon
its returning heroes and their confederation supporters.
-The minister then proudly announces: “That he feels his heart swell with
love and pride for the heroic environmental crusaders of district ‘B’ who are
owed a debt of joyful gratitude by our entire region. Their service to a higher
justice assures the trillions to come after us a glorious land burgeoning with
the greatest possible natural wealth. Let us all celebrate our newfound
confidence that the environment of all our districts is, today that much more
secure. We are certain that the knowledge of the swift, gruesome fate of these
500 criminals has stricken the hearts and minds of the criminally rapacious among
us with paralyzing fear of pain, dishonor and death. This certainty is a
glorious tonic that redoubles our goodwill efforts to improve our environment.
The beautiful flower that grows and blooms out of this horror is our newfound
confidence that our many individual gifts of noble service to our environment
will last and come to the greatest fruition, unmarred by criminals.
Remuneration for damages is likely to be adjudicated by a long-standing
governing body established by district treaty.
If no such body exists to remedy damages suffered by the districts then
the confederation will be willing to adjudicate and reach an equitable
solution.
Privately, the minister
should passionately beseech the district ‘B’ leaders to energetically pursue
the strongest possible comradeship with as many honorable district ‘A’ citizens
as possible. The district ‘A’ citizens who wholly support the execution of the
500 district ‘A’ robbers by district ‘B’ are likely to be in the minority.
However, those rare district ‘a’ citizens, that lead the opposition, are likely
to be eager to make alliances with the more wholesome leadership of district
‘B’. The minister should persuade all the neighboring districts to support and
advise better leadership in district ‘A’. They will, hopefully, inspire a more
moral, wholesome future for district ‘A’. If the district ‘A’ inspector informs
the minister that the district is likely to act in a similarly destructive
fashion again, drastic steps may be taken. The worst-case scenario is that the
minister breaks up district ‘A’ into geographic pieces that he cedes to the
neighboring districts most likely to provide a more noble leadership to the
native citizens.
The moral responsibility to
refuse to punish the guilty in the interest of a higher justice must be
foremost in the mind of our ministers lest they lack the wisdom and goodwill
that entitles them to the vast discretionary power we vest in them.
Sanction Type
The executive ministers
are charged with justly imposing sanctions against districts [RARELY!!!!
against individual citizens] when districts violate constitutional standards.
Any combination of the following three sanctions may be imposed by our
confederation to correct the violation(s) of standards committed by a district.
A minister may impose any severity of sanction that he deems to be the
most effective means of persuading the district to desist from further
violations. The sanctions, in ascending order of severity, are as follows:
S1) VOTE RESTRICTION. Any portion of the offending district’s
Congressmen’s voting power in Congress may be subtracted from his current
total.
S2) BLOCKADE. Any degree of restriction of commerce or travel across the
offending district’s border in either direction is a blockade and may be
imposed upon an offending district by our confederation.
S3) INVASION. An invasion is the
imposition of confederation authority over district authority and may include
[VERY RARELY WE HOPE] the ordering of armed confederation troops onto district
land in order to force the district’s compliance with standards.
The degree of severity of S3s
may range from the more trivial demand by the confederation that a district
surrender the custody of one man to a few Confederation soldiers (i.e.- the district
fails to honor an extradition treaty), to the much more severe instance of the
confederation conducting a military S3 invasion that results in the relocation
or execution of the worst citizen offenders and the horrors of temporary
subjugation under martial law. This severe form of S3 sanction may be humanely
imposed to bring a swift halt to massively destructive environmental
violations.
SANCTION SEVERITY
The number after the dash shall indicate the degree of severity of the sanction type to match the degree of severity of the violation. The recommendations shall be placed in the text of the stated standard. Severity shall be stated with the sanction number first, S1, S2, S3, with the severity figure following, (‘10’ being the most severe down to ‘1’ as the least severe) [i.e. S1-10 would be the maximum reduction [reduced to none] of the violating district representative’s vote in congress]. They appear as- S2-7 -for example. In all cases the degree of sanction severity will be left to the discretion of the particular issuing minister unless the rare instance of our 'RMV' directs a sanction against a district.
The following illustrates suggestions for accurate sanction severity:
S1 Sanctions will reduce district representative’s votes in congress. The number after the ‘S1’ [1, 2, 3 etc.] will be the percentage of votes times 10 [S1-10 sanction on district leaves representative 5% of his votes] subtracted from their total amount they are allowed in congress.
S1-1…….. 10% reduction of the violating district’s representative’s vote[s] in congress.
S1-2…….. 20% reduction of the violating district’s representative’s vote[s] in congress
…..and on to ……..
S1-9 ……. 90% reduction of the violating district’s representative’s vote[s] in congress
S1-10…… 95% reduction of the violating district’s representative’s vote[s] in congress
This percentage of ‘total votes’ presumes that the confederation will adopt a system of higher and lower number of vote allocations for frontier districts [higher] and homeland center districts [lower].
S2 Sanctions are confederation blockades. The sanction issuing minister may be as creative as he wishes in the variation of goods he restricts or the variation of time segments he will uphold the blockade. The minister may prohibit or restrict any individual or group from ingress or egress across the violating district’s border. Each succeeding increment presumes the inclusion of all preceding punishments in addition to its own specification. In other words- an S2-2 includes the S2-1 in addition to its own punishment. S2-3 = all 3. S2-4 = all 4. S2-5 = all 5…… etc.
S2-1…….. All district leaders and their family members may neither enter or leave the district.
S2-2 ……. 50% of all of the citizens of the violating district shall neither enter nor leave the district.
S2-3 ……. 100% of all of the citizens of the violating district shall neither enter nor leave the district.
S2-4 ……. No person shall enter or leave the district [except the district inspector].
S2-5 ……. 20% by volume of all imports shall be prohibited from entry into the violating district [water, fuel, power, food, vehicles…etc].
S2-6 …… 40% by volume of all imports shall be prohibited from entry into the violating district.
S2-7 ……. 60% by volume of all imports shall be prohibited from entry into the violating district.
S2-8 ……. 80% by volume of all imports shall be prohibited from entry into the violating district.
S2-9 ……. 100% % by volume of all imports shall be prohibited from entry into the violating district.
S2-10 ….. Confederation shall shoot to kill all persons
150 yards inside of the violating district’s borders who are attempting egress
from the violating district.
During a blockade our confederation shall continue to protect the violating district from invasion by all others. It is your author’s recommendation that maximum voting communication be maintained continuously during all sanctions of whatever kind. The moment the district popular vote [80% quorum] reverses the district’s violating policy or votes in new leadership that ‘the minister’ is satisfied will obey standards the sanctions must end. During a protracted blockade an overpopulated district is likely to begin destroying its environment to obtain food, fuel…etc. We rely on the issuing minister to remember that his first duty is to the trillions that will need the district’s land in top environmental condition. He can use ‘rewards’ or punishments but he must defend the environment first. If the majority of the region’s districts are violating a particular standard to a relatively similar degree it becomes the duty of the minister to then enforce in a manner that will only punish the worst 10% of districts. The minister’s job of maintaining the goodwill of the majority of us citizens toward our confederation and, at the same time, defending our environment will be difficult in the extreme.
Our constitution is written to govern us after we have reduced
our population and made our environment as rich and wholesome as can possibly
be achieved by man. The governing style of our first ministers attempting to
hold the confederation together while we are suffering through our lands’ long
healing process will stand in sharp contrast to the style of those who govern a
society of us citizens blessed with maintaining a rich, stable environment.
S3 SANCTIONS S-3 invasion sanctions are the most severe and potentially deadly reversals of district sovereignty. The minister must arduously seek every alternate persuasion to convince a district to uphold our standards before he decides to impose a S3 invasion. Some districts’ leadership might wait until our confederation forces them [with S3 sanctions] to uphold confederation standards rather than those district leaders taking personal responsibility for spending district money on upholding them [especially on environmental restoration or population reduction]. Districts’ leadership may fear unpopularity with their district citizens [for raising district taxes?] more than confederation sanctions. Such a district may offer our minister a cash settlement that allows the minister to pay a contractor [or confederation workers] to correct the standard violation. A S3 action may thus be avoided and the standard upheld. The district popular vote or opinion ought to be confirmed in favor of these compromises before our minister accepts them from the district leadership.
Often the degree of severity of the invasion is determined by the degree of district resistance to it. The more district resistance the more confederation forces are required to achieve standard compliance. Congress must exert their most vigorous effort to inspire a 'RMV' vote [80% quorum] to, reverse or affirm a minister’s use of an S-3 invasion. If we citizens fail to inhibit this severe undoing of a district’s sovereignty by our minister then he must presume our approval.
The following is an ascending list of severity for S-3 invasions.
Sanctions S3-1 through S3-4 are not specific. They are defined only by what we hope will be minimum degrees [slight= 1, 2, 3 to moderate= 4] resistance from the district to the confederation’s minimum imposition to correct their standard violation.
S3-1….. Incidences of confederation forces entering a district uninvited but also unopposed to ‘correct’ a standard violation. This correction may require the confederation temporarily taking possession of some district land, without district resistance, in order to perform environmental restoration. There might be standard violations that a district government refuses to correct in order to maintain popularity with their district majority thereby necessitating an invasion. i.e.- Perhaps there is deforestation taking place and the confederation closes a road inside a district. Any action taken by the confederation that occurs without district permission but meets no resistance is an S3-1 sanction.
S3-2 ….. -one example= Our Minister of Defense determines it to be absolutely essential that we move troops through a district against that district’s will to defend our confederation from imminent danger of foreign military attack. -example 2= When a district refuses to enfranchise a large portion of it citizens due to its refusal to afford them an adequately accessible means to render their votes an S3-2 may be necessary. The minister may bring in technicians to build the most cost efficient communication system to those disconnected citizens. -example 3= If a district is sending toxins down river or damming the river the Minister of the Environment must act swiftly to correct the disaster. Our 'RMV' or our ministers must determine how and who should bear the cost of such projects.
S3-3 ….. Our Minister of Defense may choose to distribute many weapons to the majority of a district’s citizens in the hope of restoring majority rule in that district. Perhaps the district voting system is not functioning properly or has been corrupted. So, against the district government’s will and lacking the ability to obtain the district’s popular vote, a minister may be satisfied that the district majority will correct a standard violation when ‘power’ [superior force of arms] is restored to it.
S3-4 ….. example 1= A minister,
at the request of neighboring districts, may invade a district with a
sufficient force to destroy ships; vehicles, machinery, tools and weaponry that
violate weapon standards. The minister must be relatively certain that the
dealing in war weapons or armed cross-border attack by the district is likely
before he invades. Example 2= The Minister of Communication may need to
forcibly disarm a district minority of thugs that may be ruling a district
through force of arms. Example 3= An S3-4 may be needful if severe [murder,
rape, kidnapping, major theft, environmental vandalism] cross-border raids are
being committed by one district against another.
Most all weapon, border and free/fair election standard violations are minor and can be corrected with S2 blockade sanctions or less. If forced to endure a long enough blockade and the district will correct itself, normally, without the confederation acting in direct opposition to our principle of district sovereignty.
S3-5+ sanctions are best reserved
for the most severe environmental violations [district failure to uphold
population limitation/reduction standards is the largest overall environmental
problem that will require these severe sanctions]. There may be sterilizations
of the population between the ages of 13 years to 95 years for the men and 13
to 55 yrs for the women.
S3-5 ….. one example= Our confederation commits a vastly superior force of arms against the district and sterilizes 50% of their population. This will be done over a period of 6 months unless the district demonstrates drastic improvement. The minister will destroy a large portion of the incoming roads inside the violating district’s borders. If there are pockets of district citizens dedicated to the ‘departure’ [animal extinction, forest destruction so severe that it doesn’t recover] of plants and wildlife, the minister may evict them and freely choose more civilized persons to move in and preserve the environment there.
The minister may use the confederation Minister of Defense military courts to swiftly prosecute capital cases of the worst individual offenders who gained the most profit from the environmental destruction they inflicted or intended.
S3-6 ….. one example= Our confederation commits a vastly superior force of arms against the district and sterilizes 80% of their population. This will be done over a period of 6 months unless the district demonstrates dramatic improvement. If there are pockets of district citizens dedicated to the ‘departure’ [animal extinction, forest destruction that doesn’t recover] of plants and wildlife, the minister may evict them and freely choose more civilized persons to move in and preserve the environment there.
The minister may use the confederation Minister of Defense military courts to swiftly prosecute capital cases of the worst individual offenders who gained the most profit from the environmental destruction they inflicted or intended.
S3-7 ….. one example= Our confederation commits a vastly superior force of arms against individual district citizens who are dedicated to profiting from environmental destruction to arrest them. The minister shall have the option of removing and resettling these individuals to other districts or deporting them out of the region. If there are pockets of district citizens dedicated to the ‘departure’ [animal extinction, forest destruction that doesn’t recover] of plants and wildlife, the minister may evict them and freely choose more civilized persons to move in and preserve the environment there. The minister may use the confederation Minister of Defense military courts to swiftly prosecute capital cases of the worst individual offenders who gained the most profit from the environmental destruction they inflicted or intended. The minister sterilizes 60% of their population. This will be done over a period of 6 months and may be rescinded if adequate district improvement occurs.
S3-8 ….. one example= Our
confederation commits a vastly superior force of arms against the leadership of
the district’s group dedicated to profiting from environmental destruction and
then arrests them. The minister shall have the option of removing and
resettling these leaders to other districts or deporting them out of the
region. If there are pockets of district citizens dedicated to the ‘departure’
[animal extinction, forest destruction that doesn’t recover] of plants and
wildlife, the minister may evict them and freely choose more civilized persons
to move in and preserve the environment there. The minister may use the
confederation Minister of Defense military courts to swiftly prosecute capital
cases of the worst individual offenders who gained the most profit from the
environmental destruction they inflicted or intended. The minister sterilizes
70% of their population. This will be done over a period of 6 months and may be
rescinded if adequate district improvement occurs.
S3-9……. one example= Our confederation commits a vastly superior force of arms against a district in order to force the majority of its population into submission. The minister shall have the option of removing and resettling the majority to other districts or deporting the violating majority of the district population out of the region. The minister may use the confederation Minister of Defense military courts to swiftly prosecute capital cases of the worst individual offenders who gained the most profit from the environmental destruction they inflicted or intended. The minister has the option of settling the depopulated district with those he believes will best create an environmentally honorable society. The minister sterilizes 80% of their population. This will be done over a period of 6 months and may be rescinded if adequate district improvement occurs.
S3-10 …… The confederation goes to War with a district. Our confederation commits a vastly superior force of arms against a district in order to force it into submission. The minister shall have the option of removing and resettling the district’s citizens or deporting the entire district population out of the region. The minister may use the confederation Minister of Defense military courts to swiftly prosecute the worst individual offenders who gained the most profit from the environmental destruction they inflicted or intended. The minister has the option of settling [or reapportioning] the depopulated district with those he believes will best create an environmentally honorable society. The intent of a minister to impose an S3-10 sanction on a district [we hope S3-10s will be rare or nonexistent] ought to inspire our swift regional popular vote to either grant or deny the minister permission to impose the particular S3-10 [the most severe of penalties]. The minister sterilizes 90% of their population. This will be done over a period of 6 months and may be rescinded if adequate district improvement occurs.
REGULATION, POWERS and PROTECTION of INSPECTORS
Our inspectors are the first
means a minister has to be assessed of each separate district’s problems and
standard violations. Inspectors are Confederation personnel assigned to each
district as census takers and inspectors without the power to arrest. Only in
the rare instances of S3 invasions shall Confederation inspectors/soldiers be
required to be armed and have the power to arrest. Soldiers/inspectors shall
not be subject to border restrictions. Inspectors have the primary duty of
observing within their assigned district in order to determine if and to what
degree the district may be violating standards. During their normal duty
inspectors may choose to arm themselves with weapons [limited lethality] for
self-defense only. Districts may choose to deputize inspectors authorizing them
to act in an official district capacity. Deputization by a district does not
release inspectors from performing their primary confederation duties within
that assigned district. Inspectors must be granted ingress and egress across
the borders of their assigned district. Inspectors shall enjoy a higher degree
of protection within their assigned district than anyone. If harm befalls an
inspector within his assigned district his assigning minister will absolve the
district of blame if he judges that the collective intent of the district was
not involved in the harming or the inspector was committing a criminal act when
he was harmed. If the minister determines that the district has harmed, or by
omission of action caused an inspector to be harmed, the minister may then
impose sanctions severe enough to assure that the next inspector will be
absolutely safe.
HUMANE TREATMENT of CITIZENS
DURING S3 INVASION
All members of confederation
government, especially ministers and congress, must embrace deep concern for
the humane treatment of district citizens at the hands of confederation during
S3 invasions. During the rare S3 invasion soldiers will have specific rules,
established by congress [instantly alterable by majority Confederation citizen
vote] that severely govern all use of confederation police powers such as:
Personal searches; Searches of vehicles; Searches of citizen’s homes; Arrests
(rare); Pursuit (rare); Self-defense; Seizure of property. Further rules
prohibiting the confederation from excluding,
censuring or limiting the presence of the visual media during S3
invasions must be established by the congress or 'RMV'. Congress shall
prescribe measures ministers ought to take to protect all our citizens from
abuse by inspectors/soldiers during the rare S3 invasion. Our Ministers control the Confederation Army
unless our regional vote directs the army’s obedience directly into our own
hands under the leadership of anyone we choose (revolution by vote, absent
violence). Our instant voting system that enables us to reverse any
Confederation decision and our constant vigilance is the only power we proclaim
as necessary to provide us the protection we need against a potentially cruel,
despotic minister. Our 'RMV' has the Constitutional authority to order the
death of any confederation government official they please, including
Ministers. We may use the 'RMV' to micro-manage and overrule any decision made
by our regional government. By 2/3rds 'RMV' with 95% quorum our constitution
may be instantly altered to ordain additional, more creative protection of
districts from unjust confederation rule.
ADEQUATE DISTRICT
PROSECUTION of VIOLATORS
When a Minister judges that the
district government has imposed inadequate punishment of “severe” violators of
standards he may: 1] Demand those district officials surrender the violator[s]
to another district [to be determined by the minister] for the proper, higher
level of prosecution or, 2] impose sanctions against the district until said
district’s government punishes the standard violator[s] adequately to prevent
repeat offense or, 3] our minister imposes stronger punishment of violators to
assure that violation will not recur.
CONFEDERATION REWARDS TO DISTRICTS
We also encourage our
Confederated government to offer rewards to our districts, rather than
punishments, in order to persuade them to uphold standards. In extradition cases
our confederation is best served to first attempt to offer positive rewards to
the district rather than imposing punishing sanctions in order to gain custody
of the individual.
ARTICLE 2- CONFEDERATION STANDARDS
SECTION 2- ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
ADMINISTERED by MINISTER
of ENVIRONMENT
We set forth these standards as the goals we hope to
eventually obtain. Currently our districts can uphold few of the ultimate goals
our environmental standards are designed to achieve. We citizens must engage in
the arduous process of choosing [voting] a level of sacrifice we are willing to
endure to achieve the incremental but bold improvement of our environment we
all long for. We set forth this list of standards in descending order of their
importance. When we achieve our independence we will rely on our creative
ministers to bestow the rewards and punishments on districts in order to
encourage humane, universally achievable rates of improvement that will
eventually result in our land’s perpetual environmental wealth and
eco-diversity.
1- POPULATION
REDUCTION. (See Population reduction
schedule).
Effective population control
is the single highest testament of a people’s level of decency and
civilization. The one measure of kindness a government bestows on women to
reproduce at will in an overpopulated land is a thousand fold measure of
hideous cruelty that millions are forced to endure continuing far into the
future. The same holds true for all states with uncontrolled immigration. A
state without the political commitment to maintain its population at a level
low enough to be sustained by its local resources is a dishonorable,
uncivilized state. No other achievement made by such a state can make it worthy
of any label other than DISHONORABLE!!!!!!!
Districts will be responsible
for strict compliance with a schedule of population reduction established by
'RMV'. The ongoing intense scrutiny of the Confederation census inspectors
shall report their estimated count of each district’s population to the Minister
of Environment and the Minister of Communication every six months. We recommend
a conscientious birth control program to accomplish the required population
reduction rate. The reduction rates will be based on 'RMV' votes and an
achievable reduction in the number of births in a district if that district has
the will to govern itself.
A percentage of visitors to a district will be counted as residents of
the district’s population. In the formula [yet to be devised] we will use to
determine a district’s true population, we will account for the number of daily
visitors who are within the district’s borders for: 5+ minutes; 4-8 hours; and average number who are staying
overnight or up to 8+ months per year. In order to eventually maintain
population levels below 3000, the confederation may need to enforce reductions
of traffic across district borders below the number the district itself
requires. Border control standards are detailed their section.
We regional citizens will choose ['RMV'] a population reduction level that can be easily achieved. Irresponsible Districts are likely to fear the confederation blockade sanctions that will result if their population reduction schedule is not achieved. If any district fails to uphold the population reduction standards by preventing an adequate number of births and pregnancies, there is likely to be district-wide panic and fear of confederation blockade sanctions.
The horror of an irresponsible district ‘learning the hard way’ to become a civilized society is likely to make such a lasting impression that it will not soon choose to ‘learn the hard way’ again. In order to uphold population standards and avoid sanctions, we believe it is likely that districts will first try limiting births, however expulsions, infanticide or executions are possible harsh alternatives districts are free to implement. Our confederation will regard this district horror as regrettable but entirely within the sovereign CIVIC business of that district. We are confident that an irresponsible district failing to uphold standards adopted by 'RMV' will blame themselves for their internal horror and the correcting sanctions our confederation justly imposes on them.
Inspectors will make a census report to the Minister of the Environment every 6 mo. and we [your author] recommend the following sanctions be imposed in accordance with the degree of violation:
Overpopulated Homeland
Center district violations;
25-50% deficiency of population
reduction—----------------------------------------S1-5 to S2-5.
50-100% deficiency of population reduction
------------------------------------------- S1-10 to S2-10.
25-.50% population increase
--------------------------------------------------------------- S2-5 to S3-3.
50-75% population increase
--------------------------------------------------------------- S2-5 to S3-6.
75% or more increase
------------------------------------------------------------------------ S2-10
to S3-10.
Frontier district violations;
10-50% deficiency of population reduction --------------------------------------------- S1-10 to S2-5
50-100% deficiency of population reduction -------------------------------------- S1-10 to S2-10.
10-25% population increase ---------------------------------------------------------------- S2-1 to S3-4.
25% or more population increase --------------------------------------------------------- S2-5 to S3-10
AND
POPULATION CONTROL
Unhappily, some new districts will fail. Too little water. Bad crops. Greedy leaders. Power failures. Bad weather. Bad luck. Neighboring districts may offer some help or not.
The Confederation shall be prohibited from offering collateral benefit to any district other than the fulfilling of its Constitutional obligations. Our confederation will prevent other districts from attacking an unfortunate district weakened by privation.
We proudly instruct our confederation to honor a noble policy of non-intervention and the refusal of aid to struggling districts to achieve the greater good. It is our noble purpose to allow lands that are naturally less productive to support no greater population than they will naturally sustain. An additional benefit to all citizens of our region is the tax savings gained by allowing failing districts reach their natural level of sustainability. Less productive land ought not to be forced to support a permanent population. With weak soil, inconsistent water supply and other problems, the temporary propping up of a failing habitation shall most likely lead to a greater tragedy down the line not only for that district but also for the neighboring districts that need the wild habitat around them. The Confederation, therefore, shall appraise all districts of how their district’s land will be reapportioned to the neighboring districts if their district fails. Refugee citizens fleeing the destitute condition of a failed district may face the unsympathetic border restrictions of the neighboring districts. These unsympathetic districts may be facing difficulty upholding confederation population standards themselves The Confederation will honor all district’s sovereign right to control their border. Occasionally we must witness the full horror of overpopulation to rededicate ourselves to population control.
Districts that demonstrate exemplary accomplishments of environmental preservation by controlling their population shall be encouraged by the Confederation to send emissaries to other districts as teachers and motivators.
2- WATER QUALITY
Congress will propose that a
water quality improvement schedule be put up for a regional popular vote. This
proposal will assign qualitative values to and quantitative measurements of
every existing pollutant being deposited by man in the region’s water today.
Each district will be required to lessen their polluting practices by the rate
agreed upon by that regional popular vote. The rate by which the confederation
requires individual districts to improve may differ. The confederation may
require the immediate cessation of some severely harmful polluting practices
committed by some districts. These required cessations demand a much higher
rate of improvement due to those cessations in those districts.
The percentage reduction of
the man-caused pollutants your author will arbitrarily [ignorantly] presume to
be possible is 3% per year [a consortium of biologists will know better than
your author]. When districts achieve the full 3% per year [qualitative and/or
quantitative as required by the minister] reduction of their polluting they
will be considered to have fulfilled/upheld 100% of its yearly water quality
improvement obligation. Sanctions will be imposed on districts that fall short
of fulfilling this requirement.
SOURCES; industrial waste, phosphates, herbicide, pesticide, other toxic
farming chemicals, cleaning solvents, fuel, petrol-chemicals, rendering, plant
waste, inadequate sewage treatment, road and transportation runoff [dioxin,
benzene, asphalt, battery acids, car fluids, gas and oil chemicals], mining
waste, power plant effluent, landfill runoff, animal waste, etc.
(The Minister of Environment should have sufficient knowledge of
toxicology, civil engineering, biology and all related sciences necessary to
intelligently judge the destructive effect of all violations of all pollution
and environmental standards.).
Water Quality Sanctions on districts:
20% to 50% less improvement than required --------------------------------------------- ------- S1-1 to S1-7.
50% to 100% less improvement than required -------------------------------------------------- - S1-5 to S2-3.
10% to 30% increase in the release of pollutants ------------------------------------------------ S2-1 to S2-10.
30% to 60% increase in the release of pollutants ------------------------------------------------ S2-8 to S3-4.
60% to 100% increase in the release of pollutants ----------------------------------------------- S3-1 to S3-9.
We require restoration and preservation of all water resources [rivers, lakes, aquifers etc.] back, eventually, to pre-Columbian levels. The daily amount of surface water we allow ourselves to draw from any drainage [the entire drainage] is an amount no greater than quantity that would reduce the outflow, to its lowest elevation, by 15% that day/week/month. We have, therefore, limited our districts to portions of this 15% of the surface water in order to preserve the environmental health and the highest ecosystem quality, productivity and sustainability. We recognize that some of the drainage topography and aquifers extend beyond our regional borders. The minister will calculate the degree to which other regions are to blame for water depletion in our districts. For drainages that pass through our region and empty far away and far below our region we will consider our district to be entitled to only our calculated percent of that 15% reduction of the ultimate drainage outflow. All the swamps, estuaries, marshes, and aquifers that are filled by a surface drainage will be considered ‘outflow’. Our minister may prohibit all water extraction from critically sensitive water habitats that must be preserved.
Ground water shall be allowed to return to their historic levels. Thereafter, water users shall be allowed to extract water in amounts per day/week/month no faster than they are replenished on that day/week/month.
After the ground water has returned to its historic level the Minister of Environment shall issue various limits on the maximum quantity of water permitted to be extracted [ground and surface] from each different 5 square mile ‘section’ [region-wide] according to their various rates of replenishment. When a district allows the extraction of water that exceeds the specific amount permitted for the particular section the confederation shall be regard the extraction as environmental theft by the district and sanctions will be imposed.
WATER DEPLETION SANCTIONS.
5% to 20% over allotted water amount extracted from 1 section ------------------------------- S1-3 to S1-7
5% to 20% over allotted water amount extracted from 4 or more sections ------------------- S1-5 to S1-8
20% to 50% over allotted water amount extracted from 1 section ------------------------------- S1-7 to S2-1
20% to 50% over allotted water amount extracted from 4 or more sections ----------------- S1-10 to S2-4
50% to 80% over allotted water amount extracted from 1 section ------------------------------ S2-1 to S2-6
50% to 80% over allotted water amount extracted from 4 or more sections ------------------- S2-5 to S3-5
80% to 120% over allotted water amount extracted from 1 section ----------------------------- S2-8 to S3-6
80% to 120% over allotted water amount extracted from 4 or more sections ---------------- S3-5 to S3-10
Soil degradation can occur from many sources- [agricultural disturbance, acid rain, dumping [sewage or refuse], mining waste, etc..]. Most toxins that degrade the soil come from the same sources that pollute our water. The Minister of Environment shall have the responsibility of conducting a comprehensive survey of the different soils of every part of every acre of every district throughout the region. Every undeveloped and/or agricultural acre of land will be required to maintain a rate of environmental improvement that eventually achieves a healthy soil condition containing a minimum percentage, variety and mass of microorganisms in the soil. Bad agricultural practices [bad- tilling, compaction, fertilizing, pest control, over-irrigation, ground water depletion, etc] ruins soil pH, destroys microbial life in soil, causes desertification thereafter leaving only the mineral content of soil. The minister will then set a rate of soil improvement to which districts must adhere or sanctions will be imposed. Congress may wish to review the minister’s soil quality standards to determine if they are high enough and is the ‘rate’ of improvement is achievable.
Sanctions on districts.
1-20+ acres of soil 20% to 40% below the yearly improvement rate -------------------------- S1-1 to S1-3
1-20+ acres of soil 40% to 60% below the yearly improvement rate -------------------------- S1-2 to S1-5
1-20+ acres of soil 60% to 80% below the yearly improvement rate -------------------------- S1-4 to S1-7
1-20+ acres toxified/sterilized requiring 1 to 5 years to fully recover—------------------------S1-6 to S2-2
20+ acres toxified/sterilized requiring 5 to 50 years to fully recover—-------------------------S1-10 to S2-8
20+ acres toxified/sterilized requiring 50 or more years to fully recover—--------------------S2-7 to S3-2
100+ acres toxified/sterilized requiring 100 or more years to fully recover—-----------------S2-10 to S3-4
400+ acres toxified/sterilized requiring 100 or more years to fully recover—-----------------S3-2 to S3-8
700+ acres toxified/sterilized requiring 100 or more years to fully recover—-----------------S3-4 to S3-10
5-OLD ‘IMPROVEMENT’ REMOVAL and NEW BUILDING
PROHIBITED
For Homeland Center districts [25 square mile minimum] a 30% of their land shall be the portion in which farms, crops, ranches and orchards [3 acres per 500 acres for buildings] will be allowed. Another contiguous 30% of their Homeland Center District land [preferably near center of district] will be permitted for buildings, homes, roads and all “improvements”. These ‘improvements’ severely inhibit the ability of soil, habitat and ecosystem to regenerate (1000s of years for many building foundations). The other 40% of the homeland district will be reserved for climax habitat and endure no ‘improvements’.
For Frontier districts only 6% of their land is allowed to contain “improvements” of any kind. The Minister of Environment shall establish a limit to the number of acres per square mile on which “improvements” within the “improvement” portion of that particular district shall be permitted. Over-development has left far too many of our districts without the close proximity of cropland, pastureland, and wild lands (wild lands support the wild plant and animal life essential for healthy agriculture) essential to every district’s food autonomy. It is our goal that all districts shall be 90% (or more) self-sufficient in consumable goods. The minister will impose sanctions for the failure to remove the required percentage of old “improvements” that the Minister has directed (old improvement removal= OIR) and for the building of prohibited new “improvements” [some ‘remodeling approved].
OLD DEVELOPMENT REMOVAL RATE SANCTIONS:
10% to 30% less than the OIR rate met by district --------------------------------------------------- S1-1 to S1-4
30% to 60% less than the OIR rate met by district --------------------------------------------------- S1-3 to S1-7
60% to 100% less than the OIR rate met by district -------------------------------------------------- S1-6 to S1-10
Prohibited new Development Sanctions:
1% that year of prohibited increase of developed land --------------------------------------- S1-9 to S2-4
3% that year of prohibited increase of developed land --------------------------------------- S2-2 to S2-8
5% that year of prohibited increase of developed land --------------------------------------- S2-6 to S3-2
8% that year of prohibited increase of developed land --------------------------------------- S2-7 to S3-5
10% that year of prohibited increase of developed land ------------------------------------- S3-4 to S3-8
15% that year of prohibited increase of developed land ------------------------------------- S3-7 to S3-10
We are currently producing more toxicity than our environment can neutralize. The minister will be responsible for establishing a schedule outlining the rate of reduction of the emission of air pollutants required from each district.
The Minister of Environment shall maintain a region wide prohibition against the use or drilling of oil [when the products of oil become nontoxic and biodegradable oil drilling will be permitted]. Coal will be permitted but severely controlled. The Minister shall slightly limit the fermentation of organic material in order to limit the air pollution caused when it is burned as a fuel in a district. Hydrogen production shall be limited as well. Districts shall not be punished for the air pollution that arrives from sources outside its borders. The minister must make public an easily understood detailed set of limitations of the individual and combined sources of air pollutants in order that districts may comply without confusion. He must make known the means by which a district can provide for its energy, industry, household and farming needs [any need] without incurring sanctions for air pollution. He shall, also, make known the means by which all districts must lower demand for fuel and production processes that cause air pollution. The minister will recognize that when a certain low level of emissions is reached he shall designate that level to be a benign and to be expected in an environmentally healthy society [the moderate burning of garden waste and other household burning can emit an acceptable, benign level of pollutants, etc]. The Minister shall quantify the collective toxic effect of all the air pollution produced by the district over the acceptable amount and impose sanctions based on the degree of harm done. The following scale can be applied to both the collective output of air pollutants and the output of specific air pollutants:
SANCTIONS on districts for failure to sufficiently reduce their emission of air pollutants:
10% to 30% less than the required reduction of emission of air pollutants -------------------- S1-1 to S1-4
30% to 60% less than the required reduction of emission of air pollutants -------------------- S1-2 to S1-7
60% to 80% less than the required reduction of emission of air pollutants -------------------- S1-6 to S2-1
80% to 100% less than the required reduction of emission of air pollutants ------------------- S2-1 to S2-3
SANCTIONS on districts for increasing the emission of air pollutants:
5% to 15% over the allowed toxic output ------------------------------------------------- S1-10 to S2-4
15% to 45% over the allowed toxic output ----------------------------------------------- S2-2 to S2-5
45% to 75% over the allowed toxic output ----------------------------------------------- S2-4 to S2-7
75%+ over the allowed toxic output -------------------------------------------------------- S2-6 to S3-4+ ?
6- CLIMAX ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION
Critical environmental preservation with some reduction of district sovereignty
Our regional popular vote will adjust and perfect this governing
A] DEVELOPMENT REMOVAL And PREVENTION.
The Minister
of Environment shall require all districts to dedicate a minimum percentage of
its land in ‘Climax Habitat Condition’. These areas will hereafter to be
referred to in plural as CH[s] [the acronym CH stands for climax habitat]. The
climax habitat condition and pristine ecosystem of the lakes, oceans (the water
surface distance out from shore of the CH[s] to be determined by the Minister)
and rivers will also be maintained within the designated CH[s]. The minimum
portion of the land/water area of frontier districts to be reserved for CH[s]
shall be 94%. For Homeland Center districts the minimum shall be 40%. Today
only about .0009% of the inhabited portion of planet upholds this CH standard.
Each district will be responsible for a yearly rate of removal of the existing
development contained within its CH[s] and ecosystem improvement of the land
from which the old development was removed. Overdeveloped districts shall
submit a map to the minister designating the portion of their land (40% for
Homeland Center districts, 94% for Frontier districts) they intend to restore
to climax condition. The minister may alter these maps in order to select land
of higher quality to preserve in CH Condition. The district may wish to submit
their own map for a 'RMV' vote if they disapprove of the minister’s choice.
Motorized vehicles are prohibited on or above [airplanes] CH land. Popular use of Motors of all kinds are prohibited on CH land [including generators and chainsaws]. A confederation or district paid park Ranger may utilize motors for discrete nondestructive tasks. A district’s failure to protect CH[s] from damage caused by motorized vehicles or motors shall require prompt and vigorous sanctions. The minister may prohibit entry onto portions of CH land entirely if he considers the threat of ecosystem damage to be severe [tree poachers, miners, animal slaughter, etc.]. It is your author’s wish that every individual acre of this earth’s ecosystem become subject to less damage. All areas that presently are parks or park-like should be protected from further damage. The minister shall determine when to apply the general maxim of ‘the rights of districts are secondary to the need for ecological preservation’. The Minister shall choose certain ones of these ‘park-like’ areas, irrespective of the potential loss to the current inhabitants/owners.
We envision roadless CH[s] within frontier districts that could support a small population of environmentally respectful aboriginal people and confederation appointed rangers [with special police powers] within it. Each person who shall live within any CH sector remains there by the grace of the Minister of Environment. The people of the Frontier district may wish to select from among their citizens the persons who may apply to the Minister to live on the district’s CH land.
Each of these prospective Frontier CH residents will be required to pass whatever tests the Minister shall deem necessary. These residents must also be required to successfully complete Confederation army training and accept an army commission as a CH forest ranger. The police powers of these rangers shall not extend outside their assigned portion of frontier district CH land unless the minister shall alter this rule. The Minister shall establish differing levels of limitations to the police power of Frontier CH rangers. All CH residents, being Confederation soldiers, will be subject to both district law and Confederation army law as well. All CH residents must demonstrate to the Minister their ability and overwhelming ambition to preserve the environment and limit Frontier population. With this training and motivation the soldiers living on Frontier CH land may conduct extremely respectful, small-scale, nondestructive agriculture, hunting, fishing, trail building, game tending, temporary lodge building and perfect the art of environmental preservation. Confederation CH rangers that abuse the high privilege of residency on CH land by environmental destructiveness shall be punished severely by both the district and confederation authority. Districts that fail to prevent the destructive citizens among them from abusing their CH land shall be subject to the confederation sanctions. Ranger’s police power within the CH[s] can be used to arrest persons committing the most destructive acts [logging, mass-kill hunting or fishing, setting forest fires, explosives, murdering rangers, etc].
We will remove environmental degradations within the CH[s]. Primary among these degradations are roads but shall also include such elements as cement (building foundations), stucco, asphalt (parking lots), toxic waste and trash (plastic, rubber, metal etc.) must be eliminated from within CH[s] as well. Among the important duties of any citizen permitted to live within CH[s] will be the aggressive prevention of road building. Special powers may be granted to district and confederation personal similar to the ‘shoot-to-kill’ anti-poaching rangers in regard to anti-road-building. The minister shall establish a rate of old road removal to improve CH land. Some roads may be transformed into trails. All roads shall be closed and destroyed within a quarter of a mile of all CH[s]. Anything that the Minister of Environment may consider an impediment to the full recovery to the land’s historic level of prime ecological health must be eliminated from CH[s].
The minister shall make certain that the ‘shape’ of districts, homelands, regions and CH[s] are likened generally to the solidly contiguous outline of present day American counties. Long narrow tendrils of bad land will not be considered an adequate fulfillment of CH standards. The minimum size of one Parcel of CH land shall be 3 sq. miles within Homeland Center districts and 100sq. miles within Frontier districts. The beginning dedication of land that the district or minister chooses to be CH land shall be no worse than what would be considered to be of equal quality to the average quality of district land. Districts will be responsible for replacing non-native plant and animal species in CH[s] with historic native species. Larger Agriculture and ranching shall be prohibited on CH land.
The Minister shall judge whether small temporary improvements may be installed on CH land (birdhouses and feeders, one 500sq. foot tented area per 50sq. mile CH[s] section for frontier districts 3 square miles for homeland center districts for a ranger’s quarters, watering stations for wild life, etc.).
Major degradation of CH[s] [or any land] can happen quickly
[24 hours of environmental horror can ruin land for a 1000 years].
The minister must swiftly move into any district that perpetrates such horrors with an S3-8 to S3-10 response immediately!!!!
SANCTIONS on a district for failure to fulfill required quota of trash, asphalt, cement and “improvement” removal from designated CH[s] land or for placing improvements therein;
10% to 35% less restoration/removal than required by quota ------------------------------------ S1-1 to S1-7
35% to 65% less restoration/removal than required by quota ------------------------------------ S1-6 to S2-6
65%+ less restoration/removal than required by quota ------------------------------------------- S2-5 to S2-10
100% failure (nothing done) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S2-8 to S3-2
Housing, roads, improvements made and motor vehicles used on 1% of CH[s] ------------- S3-2 to S3-10
Housing, roads, improvements made and motor vehicles used on 1 to 3%+ of CH[s] --- S3-10 Swiftly!!
Resource Extraction from
CH[s]
B] Hunting on all district land [including CH[s]].
The culling of animals shall be permitted with precise limitations. If predators and natural die off fail to limit the numbers of a species to historically sustainable levels the district may allow culling back to the correct level. Grazing and browsing species must be culled sufficiently to prevent the departure of plant species and degradation of the ecosystem. The Minister of Environment may declare year-round open season on noxious non-native species of animals. Indiscriminant trapping or poisoning is forbidden. The Minister of Environment shall assign special Confederation anti-poaching rangers [some district inspectors will have this power] with shoot to kill orders to protect endangered and some unendangered species region-wide.
HUNTING SANCTIONS:
10% to 30% per year over the limit of allowed kills of an unprotected species -------------- S1-1 to S1-8
30% to 60% per year over the limit of allowed kills of an unprotected species -------------- S1-6 to S2-4
60% to 85% per year over the limit of allowed kills of an unprotected species -------------- S2-1 to S2-6
85% or more per year over the limit of allowed kills of an unprotected species -------------- S2-4 to S2-8
Open district
promotion/acquiescence allowing hunting for endangered species -------- S-2(10)
& S-3(8)
C] FISHING on all district land [including CH[s]].
The clearing of past obstructions to rivers/streams to allow fish migration will be permitted and will not be considered to be ‘improvements’. The minister will distinguish between city-building improvements built in CH[s] and habitat improvement.
FISHING SANCTIONS:
10% to 30% per year over the limit of allowed kills of an unprotected species -------------- S1-1 to S1-8
30% to 60% per year over the limit of allowed kills of an unprotected species -------------- S1-6 to S2-4
60% to 85% per year over the limit of allowed kills of an unprotected species -------------- S2-1 to S2-6
85% or more per year over the limit of allowed kills of an unprotected species -------------- S2-4 to S2-8
Open district
promotion/acquiescence allowing fishing for endangered species ---------
S-2(10) & S-3(8)
D] Logging
and Plant extraction within CH[s].
The Minister of Environment must establish separate standards regulating the harvesting of plant material within CH[s] in order to preserve the ecological integrity of each separate section of CH land. The Minister must have intimate knowledge of precisely how every separate ecosystem in the entire region looks, smells, tastes and feels when it has reached climax condition. This knowledge is critical in order that he knows precisely what sanctions to impose in order to eventually achieve climax forest conditions of which we will all be gloriously proud. Immature trees that grow in too dense a grouping [likely to cause the death of a portion of the group] may be carefully selected for harvest to promote the health of the remaining trees. The cutting of old growth healthy trees is forbidden. Motor vehicles are forbidden in CHS land for any reason and especially forbidden for logging. No more than 15% of a forest’s yearly deadfall may be harvested. The minister shall forbid the harvesting of any plant in any CHS section that he considers to be a threatened species or that he considers to be essential to that particular habitat. The minister will establish differing prohibitions [total prohibition of species harvest to partial] of the taking of differing plants in different districts.
Logging/Plant preservation SANCTIONS:
10% to 30% per year over allowed limit of destruction of plant species ----------------------- S1-1 to S1-8
30% to 60% per year over allowed limit of destruction of plant species ----------------------- S1-6 to S2-4
60% to 85% per year over allowed limit of destruction of plant species ----------------------- S2-1 to S2-6
85% or more per year over allowed limit of destruction of plant species ---------------------- S2-4 to S3-6
Open district promotion of logging and destroying endangered
plant species ------- S3-10 SWIFTLY!!!!
E] LAND
DISTURBANCE and Mineral extraction.
Mining is prohibited on CHS land. No disturbance of the soil
(on the ground, streambeds [dredging for gold], undersea, etc.]) will be
permitted. No soil disturbance may be done that degrades the ecosystem. The
Minister of Environment shall make the determination of what activities
constitute destructive “mining” as oppose to the incidental primitive camping
uses CHS land. Disturbance of streambeds, for any reason, is forbidden. The
Minister shall provide any and all security necessary to defend a district’s
CHS land from violators raiding it from another district. The violation of any
standard by a citizen of one district while on another district’s land shall be
subject to arrest by either the district or Confederation officials. The
minister shall establish a rate of land restoration of past mining/land
disturbance within CH[s]. The Minister shall quantify a scale of potential
damage done to CH land by mining and impose sanctions according to the severity
of destruction.
MINING/LAND DISTURBANCE SANCTIONS:
10% to 35% less restoration/removal of mining waste than required---------------------------- S1-1 to S1-7
35% to 65% less restoration/removal of mining waste than required --------------------------- S1-5 to S2-1
65%+ less restoration/removal of mining waste than required ----------------------------------- S2-1 to S2-4
100% failure (nothing done) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S2-3 to S2-5
NEW Mining [open pit or other] Degradation covering 1% of CH[s] -------------------------- S2-8 to S3-10
NEW Mining [open pit or other] Degradation covering 3%+ of CH[s] ----------------------- S3-10 Swiftly!
7.- Hazardous material and
equipment.
Sanctions against these specific destructive products and equipment can be established by 'RMV' at a future date. Among the products we may choose to prohibit region-wide are: some phosphates, many herbicides, many pesticides, many solvents, benzene, dioxin, many petrol-chemicals, many combustibles, many lubricants, many cleaning chemicals, many chemicals used in the refinement of ore, …others. We may prohibit [or severely limit the import of] some machinery used for: earth grading, mining, excavating, weapons manufacturing, synthetic fiber manufacture, logging, oil drilling, others….
BORDER CONTROL
UNDER
THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF SOVEREIGNTY.
Our Minister must defend all
district borders from the Invasion.
MOST DANGEROUS [possible] INVADER= OUR CONFEDERATION.
Our Minister of Sovereignty will wield an enormous measure of discretionary power to resolve every intra-district, cross-border conflict [or a ‘non-conflict’ with destructive potential] with consummate justice. All the usual governmental recall processes ['RMV' particularly] will be available to censure our minister if he should misuse this boundless power.
Our confederation is a menacing force to all districts if our minister fails to prevent himself from wrongfully or excessively applying his discretionary power. His power, if wrongly applied, destroys a district’s quality of life and undermines its citizen’s proud will to self-govern. In the future, having voted in the majority for many years on many issues about which we were passionate will have turned our self-governing into a triumphant experience. Many years from now, citizens will have established such a high-powered, capable citizen-ruled democracy that need for our minister’s conflict resolving skills will be minimal. In the beginning, however, most all districts will be in constant need of our minister’s decisive action to prevent district conflict and environmental damage. The margin we will allow him for the error of dispensing too much or too little confederation force will be exceedingly small.
The most agonizing test of a minister’s commitment to the non-intervention, district sovereignty principle will be exercising the self-discipline necessary to restrain himself from imposing confederation power to rescue individuals from suffering and death at the hands of their district government. Every district, will, on occasion [with tacit or overt majority approval], wrongly and rightly, execute/torture/impoverish [etc] what we hope will be only a small number of their citizens. Not every brutal action taken by a district will be wrong. We instruct our minister that 99% of these horrors, approved by district majorities, must go unhindered by our minister. About 99.999% of the usual [approved by no one but the criminal] crimes people commit against people and property, within district borders, must elicit absolutely no response from our minister. The leadership of our sovereign districts will dispense justice in most all of the usual crime cases. Most all intra-district [the criminal crosses district borders] crime must elicit no response from our minister as well. Most all districts will negotiate and implement mutually respectful extradition treaties between each other and, thus, forbid our confederation to intervene. The more our minister wrongly intervenes [regardless of how many lives he saves] the more years of suffering he creates by denying a district the opportunity to correct its own governing mistakes with true finality. The supreme moral purpose of confederation’s non-intervention is to inspire district citizens to democratically establish a local civilization. LOCAL/DISTRICT majority vote/leadership is the only means of establishing a proud civilization since only LOCAL citizens will take personal responsibility for their wrong decisions as well as their right ones. The more painful the disgrace district citizens personally feel for having made their horrific, wrongheaded decision, the more steadfastly wise are their corrections and more swiftly they embrace the most evolved, enduring, humane civilization possible.
Complex Cases for our
Minister’s Discretionary Judgment
We will outline some of the most obvious guidelines to advise our minister when he might apply confederation force.
Some cases we will leave to the wisdom of you the reader to decide how you would instruct our minister with your regional vote. Let us now examine the more complex issues that may require our minister to impose [or not impose] confederation authority:
In our first case, our minister could help [criminal investigations?] a district suffering from serious crime problems about which the majority of their citizens are so apathetic that they have not voted to refuse or accept confederation help. Our minister ought to keep an approximate number of murders in mind that, if committed in a district, ought [in most cases] to be deterred by the forced imposition of confederation ‘assistance’ regardless of whether that district requests confederation assistance. Theoretically, a district’s lack of public safety would diminish the quotient of civic goodwill that we hope would normally be dedicated [mostly] to the preservation of the district’s environment. Our minister could, after no district majority vote to deter murders and determining that the district’s citizens are truly demoralized by justifiable fear, pursue that district’s murderers for the sake of the environment.
In this same case of unadjudicated murders the district leadership may dissuade our minister from imposing confederation power by appraising him of their superior rational. One better motive for district inaction toward murders might be the vehement hatred a district’s majority has for its minority [any minority?]. Perhaps all the surrounding districts had prohibited entrance [passage through] to this minority when mass deportation was attempted our district leadership. Perhaps every alternative was attempted and failed and the majority remains deeply demoralized by the continued presence of the hated minority. Now that the minority is being murdered by the majority [this accounts for the murders] in the outlying perimeter of the district, two major confederation standards are being upheld without the unwanted suffering by the district’s majority. The two standards more easily upheld, with the current murders continuing, are the population reduction standards and the removal of population out and the climax habitat land. Two temporary benefits [the district is in majority agreement to the murder tactics] the murders provide is an absence of the need to require: a significant portion of the district’s women to abort their pregnancies in order to uphold the standards: and, new housing for the members of the minority murdered in the CH[s].
Our same district majority approved assigning 50 people [in the minority] to be captured and held until the 50 sadistic billionaires, who have paid $80,000 each, arrive to individually enjoy hunting and killing one freshly released prisoner apiece. We district citizens approved this manhunt and murders to rescue 10 to 20 important native plant and animal species from extinction. All these species would have been wiped out had we not approved the murders, collected the $4 million and repaired our sewage treatment facility thus rescuing the 20 species [including salmon] downriver from the facility.
Our same district has suffered the loss of about $1,000,000 worth of cattle rustled/stolen from our district by criminals invading from our neighboring districts last year. Of the 500 invading cattle rustlers, we caught 80 of them and sold them to the man-hunting billionaires for $8 million. We have used $2 million to reimburse the cattle ranchers for their cattle and for fence repair. With the remaining $6 million we bought much of our rural land from its owners to convert that land to parks and climax habitat- CH[s]. In the long-term we will develop a stable, static economy with no need of this infusion of exotic capital, but, this trade of blood for environmental rescue, seems heroic to our district leadership now.
All non-standard violating inter-district problems ought to convince our minister to seriously consider asking for a regional majority vote to approve any confederation action before he enters a district without the approval of that district’s majority.
We recognize that many will look upon these district freedoms as despicable barbarities. Your author, however, plainly recognizes what fate would portend the truly despicable barbarity. If we empower our confederation to rob districts of their sovereign right to this level of free choice we rob them of their will to command their own inexorably noble destiny.
Any horrors a district majority chooses to inflict on anyone within their district borders counts as not the slightest stain on the honorability of that district’s people.
We regional citizens must bear supreme dishonor and legacy of long-enduring disgust for ourselves if we prohibit district barbarities thus relegating us all [as district dwellers] to the ignominy of being a pathetic, powerless subject. As long as we regional voters prevent our confederation from wrongfully preventing the ‘freedoms’ being exercised in districts other than our own, we remain worthy of our own district freedoms and have truly earned our right to regard ourselves as noble citizens.
Minister of Sovereignty shall make a determination of what degree of severity of the standard-violating, cross-border crimes will necessitate Confederation intervention and/or sanctions [irrespective of district’s request for protection] to adequately prevent them.
Each individual district shall determine the degree to which it will restrict (beyond Confederation restrictions) [by impost, duty or any means] the incoming traffic of commerce, people or goods entering their territory. Confederation soldiers who have been invited by a district to protect its borders will be allowed largely unrestricted police power to arrest the severe standard violating invaders of that district. The district authority shall have first rights to punish invaders into its district.
In order to assure that confederation soldiers won’t abuse their police power, we citizens must maintain constant vigilance and scrupulously monitor the Confederation’s potentially unjust treatment of districts other than our own. We implore all to conceptualize beforehand the degree of injustice that a Minister could inflict on a distant district that would inspire us to unify and vote to remove or kill that Minister.
If our entire Confederation leadership needs to be crushed and restocked with new leaders we must rise to the heroism and decisiveness the occasion demands. We hope that either our instant voting system or our Minister of Communication will provide us with bloodless revolutions if we ever require one.
We must also be certain we have insured a back-up citizen vote counting system that will give us an honest count of our revolutionary vote when it would be needed. If our Minister of Communication is loyal to our right of majority rule we are saved. If our majority vote fails to disestablish government we will then realize the prudence of having secured the preponderance of weaponry with those in who’s hands the power truly belongs- we citizens!!!- WE THE REGIONAL MAJORITY.
Our intention to protect our sovereign district borders becomes our undoing if those in whose hands we have entrusted our border protection [our confederation] become worse than those from whom we originally sought to be protected. With that admonition in mind we must seek border justice.
The base concept of border protection is to assure all districts that the sovereign ‘fist’ of one district shall not reach the sovereign ‘nose’ of another.
EXTRADITION
----Our first law of district sovereignty prohibits all cross-border aggression between districts. However, we must be confident our minister is so passionately dedicated to ‘higher justice’ that he will conscientiously search out any prior injustice that might exist between the districts involved in any conflict resolution he adjudicates. Our minister must strive to render the higher, longest-term justice by defending/vindicating those districts that are more victimized than victimizing rather than punishing every offence on both sides. We trust our minister do his best to ‘even’ [or slightly even] the score when he adjudicates. We will illustrate many possible harsh attempts at justice that districts will be perfectly free to take within their borders without fear of confederation interference. When districts exercise of these freedoms without violating confederation standards they must be confident that our confederation will not intervene. Unlike the other 3 sovereignty exceptions there are few set rules to instruct our minister how/when to impose justice when border standards are compromised.
Minister discretion can reverse any extradition decision he chooses. If an offending district persists in serious cross-border hostilities against another district the Minister may declare a S-3(8) and impose martial law on that invading district and extradition of the individual invaders until he considers the threat to have been neutralized. In rare cases, an invading district could be in hot pursuit of criminals who have severely violated confederation standards into another district because the confederation forces were not available. That unauthorized invading posse can either receive the minister’s praise or condemnation depending on the circumstances and severity of the invaders offence. The Confederation shall maintain a sufficient contingent of soldiers available to all districts in order to, most often, assure that no cross-border criminal shall be immune from prosecution by seeking asylum within a sympathetic district. That invaded district can prosecute invading criminals that they catch themselves. Districts may choose to any mutually agree upon 3rd party to adjudicate any contended intra-district extradition treaty in order to reach compromise and justice.
The following is a list of the most commonly anticipated cross-border crimes. Cross-border crimes that harm the environment and/or the minister determines causes harm beyond that suffered by the persons injured [property or person] in the invaded district, we will label with APR. APR stands for ‘Adequate punishment required’. Sometimes the minister must urge [not threaten] an invaded district to punish a cross-border criminal severely enough to assure other districts that the criminal won’t become a threat to them as well. Cross-border crimes that only harm individuals or their personal property within the invaded district we will label CIVIC. Both labels are a potential guideline for our minister to consider, not a rule they are legally bound to follow. Either crime type may possibly require the extradition of the escaped, invading criminals back into the jurisdiction of the offended district. Minister discretion may contradict this guideline. If the offended district demands, the Minister of Sovereignty shall [if the standards were violated severely] force the extradition of the invading criminal(s) by imposing sanctions on the district harboring them:
1] Direct Victimizing cross-border Crime.
a) Theft.
Bank robbery- CIVIC. Cattle
rustling- CIVIC. Vehicle theft- CIVIC. Burglary- CIVIC. Personal Robbery-
CIVIC. Gold mining- (APR) (any mining unauthorized by the district or
confederation). Logging- (APR) (any unauthorized plant extraction). Poaching
[animals or plants]- (APR).
b) Kidnapping- CIVIC.
The Minister of Sovereignty may [at his discretion] impose immediate sanctions on the offending district if he believes they are not acting with sufficient diligence to rescue a hostage taken from another district.
c] Destruction of Property-
Arson [buildings]- CIVIC. Arson [forests]- APR. Vandalism- CIVIC. Bombings- CIVIC. [Environmental destruction caused by any of these acts will change their status to APR].
d) Murder- CIVIC. No special protection will be available to ministers or other confederation officials. Only the inspector receives special protection by the threat of possible APR[s] against his murderer[s].
e) Rape- CIVIC.
f) Cross-Border Projectiles. No environmental damage. CIVIC.
Airborne objects [rifle fire, rockets, bombs, mortars, ballistic missiles, etc.] launched across district borders shall earn the offending district the sanctions necessary to convince them to surrender the criminals to the offended district.
The Motives for violation of standard ‘f’ may range from vandalism to intentional murder to military attack.
The Minister shall distinguish child’s play [firecrackers, pea shooters, etc.] from real crime in these cases. A violation that takes the form of a military attack shall necessitate the imposition of an immediate S3-6 to S3-10 response in order to cease hostilities.
2]
Indirect cross-border crime. (Crimes with a less immediate victim).
a) SMUGGLING- CIVIC. Districts may prohibit the importation of any product (anything) they choose. (The Confederation shall establish region wide list of products that are prohibited from importation and require APR {nuclear weapons, pollutants, ddt. Unauthorized war weapons, defoliants, etc.} ). Our regional 'RMV' can reverse any confederation prohibitions of imported product. The Confederation may remand all members (including investors) of a smuggling ring [smuggling against district or confederation standards] to the offended district [or district considering itself offended] for prosecution. The smuggling in of illegal residents shall result in severe district sanctions if the smuggling district does not prosecute and expel the violators. Districts are free to independently outlaw any drug from their district and require the Confederation to help prevent said importation into their district. The Confederation shall make no restrictions on any drug. Those who smuggle destructive chemicals that are likely to significantly pollute air, water or soil shall be subject to capture by our Minister of Environment and our Minister of Sovereignty and prosecution within a selected district.
b) Counterfeiting- CIVIC.
Each district shall retain the sovereign right to print their district’s separate currency. Counterfeiters caught with counterfeit currency of a district other than the one in which they are found shall be held for extradition to the offended district. Investors and transporters shall be rendered into the offended district’s custody along with those knowingly passing the bills.
c) Cross-border Polluting - APR.
The confederation must be certain the injured district punishes the polluting district severe enough to prevent recurrence. The pollution of one district by another shall necessitate the imposition of sanctions on the offending district by both the Minister of Environment and the Minister of Sovereignty. The Ministers shall make all determinations of what shall constitute the criminal polluting of one district by another. Among the variety of violations that may require sanctions are:
1] Water Pollution. APR.
The most typical cross-border polluting is the pollution of a river, waterway or groundwater that flows into another district. The severity of sanctions for cross-border polluting shall be swift. Sanctions will intensify until the offending district desists from polluting and surrenders to the offended district those responsible for this pollution. Our Confederation shall not provide civil lawsuit solutions to this cross-border damage, only criminal prosecutions. No district may ‘buy’ the right to pollute from anyone. Districts may agree to pollution treaties among themselves and choose mediators from any source the wish.
2] Air Pollution. APR.
Air pollution emanating from a district that manifests an intense measurable localized poisoning of the neighboring district’s soil, air, livestock or water shall necessitate intense sanctions until they both desist from polluting and surrender their criminal polluters to the offended district(s).
3] Transporting of waste across a District border APR.
(Same as Air and Water sanctions)
4] Sound. CIVIC. Severe noise pollution that carries across a district’s border shall necessitate the imposition of sanctions sufficient to force the offenders to desist and surrender the violators to the offended district’s prosecution.
5] Smell only [not toxic]. CIVIC
(Noxious smells same as Sound)
VIOLATIONS OF BORDER STANDARDS
WITHOUT THE CROSSING OF A BORDER
1) Water
Theft. APR.
The minister will require the surrender the main person(s) responsible for the severe theft of water to the offended district[s] for criminal prosecution. The minister must be certain of the APR of the culprits in order to assure that the environmental damage inflicted by this crime will not recur. [Water allotments are assigned to each district by the Minister of the Environment].
2]Cross-Border Bribery/Extortion/Blackmail. CIVIC
……but…?
Criminals who seek gain from citizens of other districts by these despicable methods shall be remanded to the government of the injured district for swift punishment. However, these methods can have environmental consequences that might require an APR.
EXAMPLE= A district government can be prepared to preserve a forest and then, suddenly, they are “persuaded” to cut it all down and ship it out to a “buyer”. Our confederation must act decisively to persuade the injured district to swiftly punish the reprobates severely enough to prevent them from posing a similar threat to other districts. An erroneously “persuaded” Confederation official can inflict enormous damage on districts, citizens and our environment. The Minister shall impose sanctions in order to assure the surrender of these criminal bribe receiving officials if they then reside in another district and those who bribed them to the offended district(s) for prosecution. For extortion and blackmail only the “persuaders” will be punished with APR[s]. The offended district can decide the just “correcting” due their blackmailed/extorted officials. These ‘persuaders’ can be extradited for attempting these crimes as well.
3) Communication. CIVIC ……. But….?
The Minister of Communication shall distribute all broadcast frequencies equally among all districts at no charge. The illegal use or interference with another district’s frequency shall incur sanctions sufficient to either cause the offending district to desist from the illegal frequency use or surrender the perpetrators. The minister will extradite these violators. The Minister shall determine the most equitable, environmentally sound means of distributing “landlines” across districts in order to establish universal communication. The destruction of landlines within a district that harm another district shall incur the appropriate sanctions until the inter-district lines are restored. Criminal use of telephonic, radio, microwave or Internet communication by one district’s citizens to harm the citizens of another shall incur sanctions until the violators are extradited to the victim’s district for adjudication. The districts may form their own system of airwave governing or choose our Minister of Communication. All communication carriers that convey vote counting must be governed and protected by the confederation. The minister must determine when communication machinery has been used by a criminal of one district to severely harm the environment/people or another district and extradite those responsible.
4] Air Traffic- All districts shall reserve the right to defend 100% of their air space over their district from invasion. ‘Invasion’, in the case of air vehicles, may be defined to include any air vehicle crossing a district’s borders for any reason. Our minister must make the greatest effort to inform all people within and outside our region of our district’s restrictions on their air space. The large potential for collective harm inherent in the violating of multiple districts’ air space will force the regulation of air traffic to be subject to a governing body larger than the government of any one district.
-The Minister of Environment ought to maintain a region-wide maximum limit of 20 tons of specifically authorized aircraft in flight over the region at one time [lighter than air vehicles excluded].
-The Confederation shall reserve the right to conduct a weekly, airborne, 20-minute [per district], daytime inspection over all districts (inspections likely to involve the use of 400 lb. drone planes with video cameras). These planes will be highly instrumental in the search for environmental abuse or border violations in remote areas.
-The Minister of Sovereignty shall determine a means by which a 'RMV' consensus concerning the degree of regional air traffic restriction may be reached.
-Should a district seek to prohibit all high altitude flights over them, the expense of this enforcement would be prohibitive for them alone to bear. Regardless of what collective decision the minister makes, district leadership can shoot down an airliner over its skies and receive not the slightest censure from the confederation. The Minister therefore shall either conduct a vote or a sample poll or confer with all Congressmen to judge which combination of air traffic restrictions he shall employ. The Minister of Communication may assist the Minister of Sovereignty to employ a formula by which all of the Congressmen’s differing choices can be “averaged”. The minister’s decision can then be affirmed by 'RMV' vote [80% quorum]. Absent a quorum for the regional vote the minister’s decision stands.
The following is a partial list of potential
region-wide flight restrictions:
A] Total Regional Aircraft Ban. TX.* War weapons stationed to shoot down violators of our airspace. (*TX- yearly 'RMV' conducted to determine the TAX we are willing to pay to enforce this policy).
B] Foreign flight duty- domestic ban. Foreign flights that do not pay the duty are destroyed and domestic flight banned. TX.
C] Foreign Ban- Domestic Duty. Foreign flight ban. Districts collectively decide whether to allow all domestic flights, to levy duties or to prohibit all domestic flight. TX.
D] Foreign and Domestic Duty. TX.
E] Foreign duty- Unrestricted Domestic. TX.
F] Foreign Ban- Unrestricted Domestic. TX.
G] Unrestricted Foreign- Ban Domestic.
H]- Unrestricted Foreign- Domestic Duty.
I]- No flight regulations.
The Minister may decide if a geographical combination of districts [a corner of the region] may sell their rights to the use of their sovereign airspace upon the consent of the neighboring districts. Should we choose to institute a regional flight ban against all air vehicles originating from all Foreign nations, our Minister of Sovereignty shall effectively announce our intent to destroy all aircraft that violate our airspace.
ARTICLE 2- SECTION 3 Border Control
STANDARDS GOVERNING THE SECESSION OF DISTRICTS.
DISTRICTS SECEDING FROM GROUPS OF OTHER DISTRICTS
OR DISTRICTS SECEDING FROM THE CONFEDERATION
-This section is a sub-category
of the border control sovereignty exceptions. Our confederation’s defense of
all districts’ right to secede is a freedom that serves to unify exponentially
better than any nation unified by force of law. Our secession right is the
highest expression of rightful governing by our confederation. The highest
testament to the fact that our constitution and confederation is the noblest
model for government than our many districts’ proud, joyful, free choice to remain
in our confederation.
-Our constitution upholds the right of districts to secede, not only from the confederation itself, but also, from any other governing or controlling body claiming any right over its freedom or possessions.
-Each district has the right to free itself from any treaty or contractual obligation it has made with any governmental or commercial entity at any time and expect the support of our confederation to achieve this goal.
-Our confederation will defend the right of all districts to default on any payment for any service, goods or capital improvements, to any creditor outside their district.
-Each individual district is entitled to nation-level sovereignty; to coin their own money, restrict traffic (to all but the few soldiers who inspect), preserve all their wealth for themselves (miniscule Confederation tax) and conduct all their civic affairs without interference.
-Some districts could slowly bargain away their freedom, finding themselves paying too much to outsiders for health care, power, or sewage treatment etc. A district finding that they wish to end a relationship with anyone outside their borders shall be empowered to do just that by our Confederation. No contracts (other than upholding the spirit of this Constitution) that the citizens of a district may have made with any outsider shall be binding or enforceable across district borders unless their own district upholds the outsiders claim. By majority will a district may reclaim its sovereignty and ‘nationalize’ all property it wishes within its borders thus rejecting all claims by outsiders to any property, real or personal that exists within that district. If an outsider with a civil claim approaches the sovereign courts of a district, that district shall be free to ignore it completely. Good will and the wish to continue to do business shall be the best remedy available to dissatisfied buyers or sellers across sovereign district borders. A district can take their sovereignty and bargain it away but the Confederation guarantees that it shall be instantly recoverable.
-All districts shall be free to [by district majority vote] end their membership in our confederation. We shall maintain the highest respect for the principal of the freedom of all nation/districts to secede from, or revoke any, alliance or contact with any entity outside their borders. We direct our Minister of Sovereignty to carefully judge whether the secession of a district [or collection of districts] is done by that district to become an ally or enemy of our confederation. Some secessions may necessitate a war to conclude the hostile attack against us, or remove the source of environmental destruction inflicted on us by the seceding nation.
-A district with an enormous wealth of natural resources leaving our Confederation shall be no loss to us. If a district, whose geographic position could bring a halt to long established transportation routes, leaves our Confederation we must neither claim nor perceive any loss to us. We the people regard the application of confederation force against an honorable district in order to obtain its resources for the sake of the collective benefit as abhorrent, tyrannical and a repugnant, humiliating defamation of our honor that we will not breach. If we extort wealth or benefit from any district we invite the whole world to eagerly embrace this principle against our confederation and us personally. We then invite the world to rip our land apart stealing, pillaging, impoverishing and humiliating all of us. No district may be prohibited from seceding from our confederation based on any wealth or benefit it had been providing to our region.
The following are rules governing district
secession:
-No land area smaller than 25 sq. miles may secede.
-The geographical shape of a land area that proposes secession should take on a ‘regular’ shape rather than long narrow strips of land.
-The Minister of Communication shall verify the vote of the territory seceding to assure that the majority will chooses secession.
- Our minister may encourage a 'RMV' to forbid a
district’s secession if that secession is understood to be likely to cause
severe harm to our region. The most obvious harm that our region would suffer
if an irresponsible district secedes would be a severely water polluting
district secedes upriver from us. Our 'RMV' vote to forbid the secession could
rescue most of us from dysentery and disease and would be a rare exception to
the freedom-of-secession rule.
-We zealously defend the right of districts to be unburdened from outside impediments. They must provide their collective citizenry protection from possible oppression from without.
We are confident that our districts’ maintenance of the highest possible level of district sovereignty will inspire the most passionate, proud, proprietary sense of collective ownership of district land. This heightened proprietary sense naturally results in district citizens’ most intense dedication to the preservation of their environment for posterity. With quick, sure sovereignty comes quick self-sufficiency and thus our honorable environmental purpose is served.
We realize other confederations could adopt our identical constitution but, by coincidence, provide better leadership. It is our hope that districts will always remain free to pursue the highest fulfillment of our noble goals by becoming a sovereign part of the best-led confederation. Secession must remain the sacrosanct right of every worthy district.
The Minister of Sovereignty shall provide all districts, that share part of their border with a foreign nation, with all the troops necessary to [at the very least] enforce the confederation’s required level of prevention of illegal foreign entry. When our minister determines between, either, the district’s restrictions, or, the confederation’s restrictions, he must uphold the border ingress restriction level of the more restrictive of the two governing bodies. This law is holds especially true for districts with foreign borders. Districts with foreign borders that use their own citizens to repel invaders so successfully that Confederation soldiers are unneeded shall receive region wide honors and a generous confederation tax break.
The Minister shall provide a force sufficient to seize foreign smugglers [toxic chemicals, illegal aliens, etc] as well. The Minister shall monitor the district’s prosecution of foreign violators to be assured that penalties are sufficient to dissuade future violations of the region’s sovereignty through that district. APR.
The Minister of Sovereignty shall promote the use of deadly force against invasion (1 or more persons) by illegal aliens. Illegal aliens shall have no protection under Confederation or district law.
Districts shall not invade onto foreign territory. Only our confederation/'RMV' may commit our region to war with foreign nations.
Districts are prohibited from granting; legal immigration to any foreign national; or visitors passes; or tourist visas; or any passage across our international borders.
Only our confederation may grant entry across our international borders.
against districts that
knowingly harbor or allow entry to illegal aliens.
1 to 5 illegal aliens allowed entry/harbored by a district -------------------------------------------- S2-1 to S2-4
5 to 25 illegal aliens allowed entry/harbored by a district ------------------------------------------ S2-3 to S2-6
25 to 50 illegal aliens allowed entry/harbored by a district ----------------------------------------- S2-5 to S2-8
50 or more illegal aliens allowed entry/harbored by a district--------------------------------------S2-7 to S3-5
If we are attacked and decide we will declare war to defend our region from aggression we will enter the usual process that allows the powers over our government to act in descending order to overrule the declaration of war. The two power factions able to declare our confederation government at war with a foreign nation listed in descending order are:
1-Our 'RMV' vote.
2-A three out of our 5 branches of government voting to form a majority decision.
-----the 5 branches are our 4 ministers and our majority vote of congress.
[We might, one day, amend our constitution to empower a majority of district governments to force our confederation into war. However, congress is the approximate equivalent of this representation and your author has deliberately reduced their power. Empowering committees often results in the antithesis of the public will [‘in-dealing’, desperate egos, corruption, lack of personal accountability for any wrong collective decision made by the group, results in the most despicable governing.]].
Our 'RMV' vote immediately declares our confederation to war.
Our majority vote of our 5 branches of government may also commit us to war however our 'RMV' vote may immediately overturn that decision.
When our 'RMV' overturns a majority vote [on any issue [including war]] made by 3+ of our 5 branches of government, our confederation government may not renew its attempt to force that particular action on that issue again for 4 months [we can employ our 'RMV' to change this ‘4 month’ amount at any time].
This model, obviously, gives our confederation government absolutely no power to overturn any decision originally introduced by our 'RMV' vote.
OUR BEST DEFENSE TACTICS
THE PROBLEM: War! We are under attack by an aggressor nation coming across our borders! Little outweighs the gravity of a regional popular vote choosing our war tactics within or outside our region’s borders. We realize that the industrial output necessary to support a war will cause our environment to suffer. We are now called upon to vote heroically.
THE SOLUTION= If we judge that we are likely to win the war if no more than .5% of our regional acreage is damaged to a degree that then takes no longer than 10 yrs to recover, then we ought to throw our collective effort into repelling the aggressors at our borders. Participation in wars conducted outside our regional borders is the free choice of each citizen of our region. Only a regional popular vote will commit our military to an expeditionary foreign war [outside our borders]. Our minister’s ought to have wise advise [not orders] to offer us in this critical situation. All of our ministers ought to be passionately negotiating with our enemies and allies to assure our freedom. If war is then unavoidable we shall make one of two choices. One choice would be to apply our regional popular vote to vest our faith and near total power in one minister to order us to confront our enemy completely unified behind our minister’s generalship. A second choice would be to direct our Minister of Defense to conduct the war according to our specific instructions.
The terms we would offer a surrendering aggressor would be: a flight ban within 100 miles of our border; and, all people within 20 miles of our border must not be armed with anything but personal weapons of ½ of our lethality level we permit within our borders; and, removal of all military armaments within 50 miles of our border; and, the top 50 companies/corporations that intended to profit by our subjugation and theft of our resources must surrender an 80% controlling interest in all of their parent companies to us; we would then liquidate those assets and arm a United Nations style peacekeeping force to patrol and neutralize as many aggressors as it can; and, the top political and military 100 leaders of the aggressor force are imprisoned for 1 year for retraining in a mental facility in a neutral country of our choosing.
We don’t expect these terms will ever be voluntarily met. It is our aim to make the prospect of attacking and losing to us so horrific to all potential attackers that they are permanently deterred. Your author also believes defense strategy number one [below] ought to be our best strategy. This strategy ought to be supplemented with a continually updated announcement to all company leaders who stand to gain the largest profit from taking possession of our region and its resources warning them that they will be the first ones we will torture and execute, regardless of our proof of their guilt. This will ‘motivate’ them to actively seek to defend our sacred land from even the smallest defilement by any aggressor.
The following are some possible instructions:
- If we are confronted with a vastly superior military force the following are some of the possible military responses we could vote/command our confederation take-
1- [your author’s choice] We vote and command our minister[s] to announce the 3000 names [including their children and families] of the enemy leaders [the criminal industry leadership that intends to profit from taking our resources- causing environmental horror- as spoils of war] who we intend to torture [70% 'RMV' majority vote affirming this tactic] and execute [live on internet]. We ought to be prepared to carry out this course of action at any time of peace or war and know every potential target we would torture if we are attacked. We seek to be prepared [prepared only] to carry out these tortures long before a superior military force is assembled near our international border. This is the loving, humane, life-saving choice that spares our environment and the hundreds of thousands of lives that would otherwise perish in military conflict.
2- We vote to oppose our enemy with direct military force [and probably lose].
3- We vote to ruin and sabotage our entire region and become refugees running to another neighboring region.
4- We vote to smuggle a nuclear bomb into our enemy’s region/nation and threaten them. If the threat fails we obliterate our enemy.
5- We vote to smuggle a nuclear bomb into a nation with an enormous military that we order/threaten them to ally with us to defeat our enemy. If the threat fails we obliterate them and threaten another.
6- We vote to peacefully evacuate and hope to buy or beg [probably beg] to migrate to other regions/nations of the world.
7- We vote to Surrender.
-If we are confronted with an enemy force invading our borders that we can defeat without ruining our environment. Our choice then is to vote/command our Minister of Defense to win the war. We can vote certain war strategies for our Minister of Defense if we like.
ARTICLE 2
UNDER the AUTHORITY of the MINISTER of SOVEREIGNTY
The Minister of Sovereignty shall defend the right of all districts to establish their own laws concerning the possession of weapons [under the allowed confederation lethality level] for personal protection. The Confederation shall not infringe the right of any citizen to own any weapon so long as the lethality level of that weapon does not exceed the confederation’s 'RMV' established limit. All citizens will be subject to the same confederation law limiting the level of lethality of weapons.
ALL CITIZENS- This means all district citizens, district police, all confederation authorities, confederation soldiers, all private police will be forbidden to own or carry weapons that exceed confederation lethality limits. We wish to limit lethality down to the level sufficient to protect your grandmother from two muggers [a pistol…?]. It is our hope that one day we will collectively vote to lower the lethality level even further. It is our additional hope to, one day, conduct a global vote to establish a similarly low lethality level for the whole world.
We forbid our Confederation to possess a domestic military capability superior to that of us citizens. We, the governed, intend that we citizens shall vastly outnumber our governors and thus maintain supreme military advantage over them. We the citizens shall rightfully retain the overwhelming preponderance of military superiority necessary to quickly and easily rid ourselves of our Confederation government whenever the majority of us shall choose.
It is our hope that our instant, constant and uncontestable voting system shall provide us with the ability to quickly reform and remake government efficiently enough to preclude any need to resort to violent revolution. However, if voting shall not have imposed our majority will, we shall not shirk our responsibility to unburden ourselves of an oppressive government. It is our hope that the citizens of our beloved region shall, with their hearts filled with moral righteousness, be emboldened to violently resist tyranny now and forever. We shall know tyranny has descended upon us when we, the majority, find ourselves outgunned by the minority that comprise our government. If our Confederation takes your weapon in as part of a region-wide disarmament, meet them with gun in hand and fight ferociously!!!!! YOUR SLAVERY BEGINS THAT DAY.!!!!!
Congress shall suggest a means by which the Confederation shall be irrevocably prohibited and physically prevented from the use of the superior war weaponry except to defend against a foreign nation’s attack upon us. Should a criminal faction conduct a heavily armed [tanks, bazookas, etc.] domestic military attack within our region our confederation will authorize an equally armed response. At the end of a war against a foreign nation the army shall be forced to quickly return the superior weapons to storage facilities in the full view of citizen observers. Congress shall suggest a means by which we all shall be assured that superior weapons are inaccessible to our domestic government (Confederation/district governments both) and us the citizens. All actions are subject to 'RMV' reversal.
-By majority vote, Congress shall suggest the Minister of their choice to conduct disarmament treaties with foreign nations. As with all of our government, our majority popular vote can reverse this choice. It is our goal to persuade all nations that the only national defense needed is an actively voting democratic citizenry armed with no more lethality than needed to defend themselves against a personal attack.
WEAPON SANCTIONS:
THE PROBLEM: District’s police, supported by a corrupt district government, are stealing and extorting money from district citizens. The district police have taken the weapons from the majority of the district citizens. The citizens have voted to execute police and regain their weapons. The district majority has voted the corrupt government out but they remain in power by force of arms.
THE SOLUTION= The minister must immediately impose a S3-5 and arrest these criminal district police along with the corrupt leadership and render them to be judged by the new district government.
THE PROBLEM: District police refuse to surrender their armory of prohibited overly lethal weapons. No use of these weapons by police on district citizens yet.
THE SOLUTION= The minister must impose a S2-4 and wait for weeks or months for the standard violating police to turn over the weapons to the confederation. Minister monitors 24 hr voting to determine if and when the current government/police are being ousted by district majority vote or if the majority of the district wishes confederation help to punish police directly.
THE PROBLEM: The district government refuses to disarm a small, heavily armed hostile contingent of district citizens. The district neither requests nor refuses the offer of confederation help to disarm the hostile citizens.
THE SOLUTION= The minister offers this district’s citizens a direct vote to his ministry to deny his entry into the district for the purpose of disarming the weapon standard breakers. Our minister provides a two-month period for the district’s citizens to vote to deny his entry into the district to forcibly remove all excessively lethal weapons from their district police. Absent that majority district vote, our minister marches in an adequate force to, as politely as possible, collect the excessively lethal arms from the police.
THE PROBLEM: 95% of the district’s [district g] citizens have voted for, taken possession of and received district government blessing to own weapons of 200% greater lethality than the confederation limit.
THE SOLUTION= The minister is completely confident the district will not invade the neighboring districts. The minister takes a vote from each separate district that shares a border with district g to determine if they demand that district g lower its weapon lethality down to confederation standards. If they do want district g less lethally armed, the minister imposes a S2-9 for a 2 months. If after that period the weapons are not surrendered the minister then imposes an S3-5 to reduce the armament of district g.
THE PROBLEM: 95% of district y has weapons of 50% higher lethality than the confederation limit. They have warm relations with all the neighboring districts and none of them really care if the confederation weapon standard is upheld by district y.
THE SOLUTION= The minister addresses congress and asks for their majority vote to determine the level of S1 sanction they prefer him to impose on the congressman from district y. If that vote is zero then no action is taken.
THE PROBLEM: Our confederation has ignored our repeated regional popular vote calling for them to cease and desist from conducting murderous military incursions [using 5000% higher lethality than allowable] into our districts to enforce some insignificant 1% standard violations to which we would have happily complied if asked.
THE SOLUTION= WAR! As best we can we conduct a regional popular vote to elect new regional leadership and authorize our new government to conduct executions of and military action against our criminal former leaders. We then make a concerted effort to install a voting system that forces immediate confederation compliance with our demands.
THE PROBLEM: Confederation soldiers caught by district citizens or police with illegal weapons.
THE SOLUTION= Soldiers with illegal weapons are subject to arrest by district police or citizens. Our Minister of Defense will prosecute illegally armed inspectors and soldiers.
THE PROBLEM: District government refuses to arrest or permit the confederation to arrest 20-30 of their district citizens for poaching large quantities of wild and endangered game with automatic weapons.
THE SOLUTION= Minister of Environment and Sovereignty conduct immediate S-3(1) to immediately arrest the criminal violators. Our minister assigns another district to prosecute these despicable criminals. APR.
The following are some approximate sanctions to be applied
against districts refusing to prevent various numbers of their citizens from
possessing weapons of double the allowed lethality. This set of sanctions
presumes the neighboring districts are severely opposed the standard violating
district’s weapons lethality. Double the lethality of pistols we will
arbitrarily designate as semi-automatic shotguns and rifles. Triple lethality
we designate as fully automatic weapons. Quadruple allowable lethality= grenade
launchers, rockets, mortars, etc. Quintuple allowable lethality= tanks,
ballistic missiles etc.
25% of district’s citizens w/double lethality weapons -------------------------------------- S1-3
50% of district’s citizens w/double lethality weapons ---------------------------------------S1-7
75% of district’s citizens w/double lethality weapons ------------------------------------- S1-10
100% of district’s citizens w/double lethality weapons ----------- S2-5 blockade reduces district lethality
100% of district’s citizens w/triple lethality weapons ----------- S2-10 blockade reduces district lethality
100% of district’s citizens w/quadruple lethality weapons ------- S3-5 invasion reduces district lethality
100% of district’s citizens w/quintuple lethality weapons -------- S3-9 invasion reduces district lethality
ARTICLE 2- SECTION 5
FREE and FAIR ELECTION
STANDARDS
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE Minister of Communication
Neither the Confederation nor district government nor any corporation may use voter registration, or voting records to: collect tax or debt; find whereabouts in order to arrest or discover any citizen for any reason; commercial purposes (sales, advertising, recruiting etc.); army recruiting; or any purpose that importunes our citizens.
THE PROBLEM: Four government leaders of district q use district voting records to locate and punish those district citizens who have voted against or oppose them.
THE SOLUTION= The minister assigns another district [district z] to adjudicate and punish the standard-violating leaders of the district q. The guilt, innocence or degree of undesirability of the citizens punished by the district q leaders must play no role in district z’s judgment of district q’s leaders. Our minister ought to be certain that each despicable district q authority that punished a citizen ought to suffer the same punishment himself at the hands of his victims or their families. The fact that the district q leaders have instilled fear of punishment in all the region’s citizens when they vote should earn them 1 month of ‘public humiliation’ per use of voting records for purposes other than elections.
All of us voters must be confident that only those who are official vote-counters [either those people who are elected by district citizens to the post of vote-counter or the Minister of Communication] shall be permitted to see our votes or our voting registration. Districts may choose to have our confederation only count their votes on district matters. The punishment of those who gain unauthorized access to our voting records must remain the same regardless of what kind illegal purposes are achieved by that access. If district leadership grants awards and benefits to citizens they find through review of voting records the leadership is still equally due the same severity of punishment. We citizens engage in true heroism when we contribute our personal efforts to protect the voting anonymity of our fellow citizens. Regardless of who seeks to locate a citizen, means other than the use of voting records, must be employed to locate them.
THE PROBLEM: A treasonous confederation minister accepts a huge pay-off from a big criminal corporation as partial payment for his effort to get them permits for massive open-pit mining in 2-3 districts. The minister then invents standard violations in all three districts and is preparing a S3-10 in all 3 districts to install a puppet district government owned by the corporation. Then, we catch him in the act before the invasion is executed and we know just where he is. The district, for reasons unknown, in which the criminal minister resides, votes to protect the minister.
THE SOLUTION= The minister is forced out of office by the other 3 ministers [at the behest of our 'RMV']. We citizens have the power to, by immediate 'RMV', ignore the sovereignty of the protecting district, order troops into the district and execute the minister in his house. A majority vote of the other 3 ministers entitles our confederation to execute the treasonous minister since environmental standards were horrifically violated. The complainant in this case becomes the majority of us outraged, regional citizens who are likely to assign a district to try the minister and be certain the severest APR is applied. Your author advises the arrest of the minister then public restraint for at least a month before we conduct another vote when we are less angry. As angry as we are with this minister we must still respect some degree of the sovereign will of the district in which he resides. Since there is no ongoing damage being done and no districts claiming injury, asking for the extradition of the minister, our confederation must proceed with the most deliberate, incremental application of justice. Many other districts have offered our confederation money to buy the extradition of the criminal minister.
If our confederation doesn’t arrest the minister, your author offers 3 of the most probable solutions:
-First- The ministers announce they will allow 2 weeks for a 'RMV' before imposing an S3-1 to seize and execute the criminal minister. Lacking the popular vote to overturn their invasion decision within a week they will proceed into the district and execute the criminal minister.
-Second- The ministers impose a S2-10 blockade until the district extradites the criminal minister to confederation custody.
-Third- One of the districts that nearly suffered the massive harm had the treasonous minister and the vile corporation completed their criminal conspiracy applies to the confederation for the extradition of the criminal minister. The ministers impose the S3-1 invasion, arrest the minister and surrender custody of the criminal minister to the applicant districts. The district then imposes punishment. When they are done with him they turn him over to the confederation. If he is still alive the confederation executes him.
In order to best preserve district sovereignty,
option number three ought to be chosen.
THE PROBLEM: A manufacturing corporation obtains the district voting records of every district and begins campaigning to persuade a district, it discovered to have the worst environmental voting record, to give them permission to build a plant that will secretly produce copious pollution there. Our minister offers to assist the district leadership in its prosecution of the corporation but the leadership balks and refuses. Our minister suspects their shame.
THE SOLUTION= The minister discovers the district in which the corporate officers are now hiding and goes to arrest them. The district harboring the officers is asked to surrender them but regardless the officers will be arrested by the minister and punished. Again, this was a conspiracy to severely violate confederation standards, therefore the confederation is the complainant and will extradite the corporate officers to another district to be tried and punished.
THE PROBLEM: District leadership imposes of a poll tax on citizens against their majority vote. The district’s citizens are too frightened to vote to prosecute them.
THE SOLUTION= S3-1- confederation soldiers, knowing the district’s majority will against their leadership, shall arrest the district leader for theft and he will be tried by his victims within the district or, if they refuse, another district will prosecute him.
THE PROBLEM: A logging profiteer manages to electronically reverse the district vote on an issue of preserving a large part of their district forest before he was discovered. The district votes to preserve his reversal of the vote and permits him to destroy the forest for his profit so they can get a cut of the money. The district leadership fails to punish the criminal [possibly for fear of reprisals from his cohorts].
THE SOLUTION= Both ministers recognize that the district leadership will acquiesce to the imposition of confederation justice on the criminal. Before the environmental damage can occur our minister steps in and arrests the loggers. For the violation of environmental and voting standards he shall be put to 6 years hard labor tree planting and digging new forest irrigation. The district leadership may add any punishment they choose to his sentence. Our minister installs more inspectors to assure environmental standards are upheld by, what seems to the rest of us regional citizens to be an immoral lack of environmental stewardship on the part of these district citizens.
THE PROBLEM: An over-zealous minister releases the name and voting record of his primary contender for his position of minister in the hope damaging him politically.
THE SOLUTION= Any other minister
makes every respectful negotiation with the leadership of the district in which
the criminal minister resides in order to peacefully arrest him. Absent
district permission the minister must impose sanctions on the district until
the criminal minister is released into the hands of confederation justice. The
minister receives public humiliation until regional popular vote chooses to
release him. Your author would not do vote averaging on this issue. If 51% of
the regional votes received in one month choose to release him then the minister
is set free [one/any district must invite him to live there also before he is
released].
Voting and Elections
-We Citizens shall have access to an Internet direct-democracy voting
system that enables us to individually demand anything of our confederation
government the majority of us wish, 24 hours a day, all year long, every year.
We are hopeful that, in the future, computers will gain the ability to process
abstract thought and facilitate the interpretation of the ballots of the
citizen who expresses his choice of government remedy in normal written
expression. We would be well served by such technology.
COMMON VOTING STANDARDS
The following rules apply to the corruption of local district as well as Confederation elections.
District or confederation government officers or any persons who shall have;
1] Conspired to falsify/alter the vote count; or
2] Caused undo hardship on any citizen’s access to the polling place or electronic voting; or
3] Violated a voters right to anonymity; or
4] Posed threats (extortion/assault) against person or property to direct a citizen’s voting choice; or
5] Destroyed citizen’s votes; or
6] Prevented citizens from voting; or
7] Accessed voting records for any gain; or
8] Omitted/altered [without permission] any part of any ballot; or
9] Corrupted the voting process in any way; or
----- are subject to both district and confederation [Minister of Communication] justice/punishment.
Our Minister of
Communication shall conduct a yearly regional vote [80% quorum required][in
addition to the ongoing 24/7/365 voting], over a 25 day period, on the
Internet, in order that we citizens will direct the action of our confederation
government concerning the following:
--Confederation government
acts to on our Micro-management in any way our regional majority vote directs.
--Election of ministers
[Minister of the Environment, Minister of Communication, Minister of
Sovereignty, Minister of Defense/Army].
--Determines the
percentage funding level and troop allocation for the 4 ministries of our
confederation.
--Establishes Regional
limits on weapons lethality.
--Tax percentage that districts are charged [5% of
local district tax is the starting confederation tax].
--Determining the Statutory ratio/limitation of
regional citizen to Confederation government personnel.
UNLIMITED BALLOT OPTIONS
We are confident that each of
us can compose our own individual ballot to command our confederation.
Computers will identify and count each similar command from every separate
citizen composed ballot. Many ballots will be presented to us citizens. Those
issues most voted upon will earn the right to recur in our ballot. The Minister
of Communication’s computers shall display to all citizens an up to the minute
account of: the number of votes each measure has; and each measure’s vote
obtaining history; and (with their security code) their own voting history on
any issue. Popular ballots may be published from our confederation ministers or
any source that large numbers of us find credible. We citizens are free to pick
any of these ballots we choose.
It is likely that your first choice of ballots [the most clearly defined,
effective and receiving the broadest support] will be the ballot offered by one
of the following. These sources of ballots are offered in descending order of
your author’s best guess of what source is most likely to be the most popular
and trusted ballot and is most likely to produce the wisest solutions to the
widest variety of issues:
1] Minister of Communication’s ballot.
2] The ballot of the person you individually consider to be your
district’s leading citizen– He/she could be your district’s Confederation
representative.
3] The ballot of the collective Congress.
4] The ballot of any of the other 3 ministers.
5] The ballot offered by the most trusted crusader for an issue about
which you are passionate.
VOTING MODEL
-The Minister of Communication could possibly adopt the following voting format:
Citizens may choose their
candidates for each office in descending order of preference, first choice down
to third? Points will be awarded to each choice; 3 points for your first
choice; 2 points for your second choice; and 1 point for your third choice. All
the points from these choices are added up and the candidate with the most
points wins.
VOTE AVERAGING
-Citizens may make any requests of the
Confederation they choose, as often as they desire, all year long. Many
measures that we citizens compose ourselves and submit as a vote will relate to
a popular issue but will be difficult to for our confederation to implement.
These votes will be counted toward a quorum on that issue. The Minister shall
assign citizen submitted ballot measures that he considers frivolous,
distasteful, incomprehensible, redundant (citizen’s submission counted as vote
for the original measure) or impossible to implement to be ‘averaged’ toward a
pro or con side of an issue to the best of his ability. The Minister shall not
require a formal majority vote by which the majority of citizens submit an
identical, specifically worded, clear command directing the Confederation to
take a specific action. Instead, the Minister shall categorize all
communication from citizens by the issue addressed in their message. For each
issue he shall have the responsibility of dividing and counting all
“messages”/votes from citizens into either the broadly generalized “pro” or
“con” category. There will be some issues that our minister must accept a pass
or fail, ‘do’ or ‘do not’.
-Determining the “averaged” intent of the total regional citizenry requires the intelligent evaluation of the many opposing, complex, intangible concepts expressed in each voting choice placed on many ballots. We expect that many of the means we propose to remedy public problems will require our minister’s most conscientious comprehending ability to, finally, confidently arrive at a “vote average” that accurately represents our collective will.
For example: 80% of all the region’s citizens [over 18 yrs] have voted expressing their degree of support or contempt for a minister. The majority vote has not directed one specific action for the confederation to take.
The differing votes in this hypothetical case have taken the following form:
Of the 80% voting-
25% of citizens wish to have the Minister of the Defense killed
15% of citizens wish to have the Minister of the Defense jailed for life
15% of citizens wish to have the Minister of the Defense deported
45% of citizens are passionate supporters of the Minister of the Defense
The 45% of the votes expressing a “pro” (supporting the Minister) side are given some weight even though they are in the minority.
The 55% “con” (Condemning the Minister) side wins and is “Averaged” in both with the “pro” side and with the differing percentages within its own “con” side:
THE SOLUTION= ---The Minister of
the Army is jailed for 6 yrs then deported.
-The Minister of Communication shall conduct monitoring of district elections. Districts are likely to have their own sovereign district popular vote counting system of their district elections. However, the Minister of Communication will monitor district elections in order to receive an exact count of all district votes on district issues. The minister may establish a separate electronic vote counting system for counting the votes within districts on district issues. When a district’s leadership is acting to violate confederation standards and the district’s popular vote has directed them not to, our minister can simply step in and force the reversal of the leadership’s actions. If a minister first consults district leadership concerning the arrest of their standard violating citizens, but is refused, he can then consult the district popular vote. If the minister then discovers that the majority of the district’s citizens prefer that the confederation arrest and punish the particular people in their district who are violating standards that will be the course of action our minister must take. This action is far more humane than a minister imposing sanctions on the entire district in order to persuade the district government to bring a halt to the violation of confederation standards.
-The Minister shall give districts any communication assistance that districts need to assure majority rule. The Minister shall monitor our district governments to be assured that our local voting is free, fair, democratic and free of fraud.
-The Minister shall validate accuracy of all Congressional votes. The Minister must validate the district’s congressional elections and recalls (if district law has them).
-The Minister shall devise a means to open the vote counting process to electronic (internet) monitoring by everyone in our region without either jeopardizing voter anonymity or risking the system being ‘hacked’ and compromised.
-The Minister of Communication shall publish (internet) a compendium governing campaign financing and the means by which we citizens shall be assured we are receiving a true accounting of the real source of the ministerial candidates’ finances.
-All citizens over 18 shall have the irrevocable right to vote [Irrevocable by imprisonment, insanity, enslavement or any condition regardless of how odious they may be to our sensibilities] in both district and confederation elections.
-All citizens over 18 shall be eligible to be a candidate for the office of Confederation Minister at no cost.
-The Minister shall impose sanctions on districts that
destroy, or refuse to prosecute those who destroy communication equipment
belonging to the Confederation (transmitters, poles, lines, receivers,
repeaters, etc.). All confederation Communication equipment that allows us all
to transact our voting, shall do minimal environmental harm.
-The majority shall rule the minority in each district any way the district majority sees fit!!!!! Our Minister of Communication will uphold each district’s sovereign right to this principal! We acknowledge no inherent, intrinsic human right except as determined by the local district majority. The minority will receive whatever treatment the district majority vote wills. Justice, goodness and an overwhelming respect for the responsibility of citizenship shall be dynamically inspired when we act with absolute confidence in the wisdom of our district majorities. The moment-to-moment freedom to direct our government will force us to act inspired by the better angels of our nature lest we all suffer.
-We presume our ministers, rather than our direct vote, will make 98% of the most highly significant confederation government decisions. If we were to vest great power in our congressional representatives we become slaves to the rule by an unfocused, unknowable, committee over which we have no direct, local control. Correcting our minister’s decisions will focus much of our voting enthusiasm. Correcting our district leadership’s decisions will command much more of our attention. This is likely to create better government than if we voted to micro-manage government, issue by issue, before our ministers focus our attention by making an unpopular choice on an issue. We, therefore, vest nearly all the power of confederation government with the ministers.
-We recognize that our
confederation imposes much less effect on our lives than does our district
government. Our less powerful confederation government must be controlled by us
as well however. We can remove our ministers instantly and replace them with
some one who will best reflect our majority will. Our dynamic, instant,
citizens’ democracy constantly renews our passion for just government. It is
our hope that we will quickly suffer the harm of our bad decisions in order
that we will be quickly motivated to reverse these decisions with equal speed and
with greater wisdom and goodwill.
-The Minister of Communication shall count all the votes cast (internet) 4 months prior to the election for the top 10 candidates per each district and confederation position and all vote counts on confederation issues as well. The top 10 candidates per confederation office are entitled to free, equal, media access. District elections of their leadership will conduct their campaigns without confederation assistance or hindrance. Our minister will regulate district elections to the extent of assuring all district citizens their district elections will be free and fair.
-The Minister of Communication shall publish (internet) the sources and totals of the financing for each candidate’s campaign.
-The Minister of Communication will not conduct separate primary elections to determine a political party’s preferred candidate.
-We beseech every person on earth to passionately crusade for the secession of their district from any confederation [or nation] that oppresses or enslaves their innocent district while favoring others. Our regional popular vote could turn perverse if one day our regional majority chooses to subjugate districts that are not violating standards at a degree any more severe than the average district within our confederation. If such inequitable treatment of districts spawns civil war we pray that the oppressed minority will gain their sovereign independence and form their own, more just confederation.
Ultimately our injustice to others (POSTERITY) turns around to punish us in return. Therefore enlightened self-interest will make impassioned humanitarians out of all of us.