+ The temporary acronym signifying the ‘MOVEMENT’ being embraced by NATIONS & INDIVIDUALS that seek to adopt and ratify [ratify by 'RMV'*] OUR CONSTITUTION will be-

‘DSM’**

**‘DSM’- STANDS FOR ‘DISTRICT SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT’. DISTRICT LOCALS ACHIEVING 'DSM' GOALS ARE LIKELY TO ASSIGN THEIR OWN NAME TO THEIR VERSION OF OUR MOVEMENT.

*'RMV'- Stands for ‘Regional Majority Vote’ [quorum required]. 

In order to have a Government to be Proud of, we need a

BETTER CONSTITUTION.

We, therefore, present our-

 

DSM CONSTITUTION

 

Constitution of the Confederation

 

Of the Sovereign Nations*** of  --‘your region’-****

 

***‘Nations’= Our Districts [25 to 1000 square miles] are ordained with nation-level sovereignty

and are our primary government over which we will have direct-democracy control.

****-‘your region’- ‘Placed here should be our popularly chosen name for our larger [with a less powerful, confederated government than our ‘nation’] Region of approximately 52,000 square miles containing our many smaller, sovereign, DISTRICT NATIONS. Our 'DSM' movement mandates weak governments whose only power to enforce any decree is derived from immediate majority support.  

 

We the people of ________** in order to secure the blessings of equal justice for both ourselves and all of our land’s future inhabitants, do hereby ordain this, our- Constitution of the Confederation of the Sovereign Nations of _______ *

 

       We hereby ordain our constitution to provide the highest benefit to our***** future generations. The highest benefit we will bestow is the ecological restoration of our land [air/water et al]. The primary means our constitution will employ to realize supreme environmental betterment is the institution of our passionate crusade to solidify local, nation-level, district sovereignty. Our ardent upholding of our constitution will best: protect and improve our environment; institute nation level sovereignty to all districts [geographic districts of 3 to 30 mile radius]; institute direct democracy over our confederation government through free, fair, 24/7 [electronic], elections; assure defense of all district an regional borders; prohibit our confederation from imposing any governing power over district governments other than the severely limited authority we freely****** assign it. Our constitution sanctifies our passionate crusade dedicated to bequeathing to our***** future generations [distant future] a land transformed from its current, ecologically defiled condition to the gloriously wholesome paradise they naturally deserve.

 

***** ‘Our’- meaning: we hope our fierce defense of our constitution will everlastingly secure local district sovereignty thus naturally resulting in the future local inhabitants [a million years from now] being the genetic descendants of ‘OUR’ current local district citizenry.

****** ‘Freely’- Our constitution denies to the confederation government any power to countermand the sovereign decisions of the district government apart from those within the narrow scope of The Four Sovereignty Exceptions. Because our constitution is ordained to rigorously defend the highest qualitative district liberty [including the liberty of districts to secede from the confederation] we are confident that districts will, in joyful appreciation of this freedom, Freely Choose to support regional unity in times of regional need.  

*******All Masculine pronouns and references presume both sexes [i.e.=‘he’= ‘he or she’,  ‘him’= ‘him or her’, etc.].

 

Our Peaceful, Noble Crusade WILL Succeed

The Primary Goal= Environmental Restoration

The Means= Nation Level District Sovereignty 

 

We hereby joyfully embark on our passionate crusade to rescue humanity’s future generations from the suffering we here, now inflict on them by our current destructive treatment of the environment. No other human pursuit bestows more benefit than securing of the healthiest possible environment for posterity. We are happily certain our crusade will succeed and issue forth an upward spiral of wholesome, natural abundance worldwide. The swift institution of nation level sovereignty for all districts is our best means to advance our crusade. The perfect tool- Internet!- now exists to assist this advancement and assure our success. Unhappily, from time primordial, we humans advanced the destructive power of our technology [transportation, material hauling, tree cutting, etc.] much faster than we have been able to conceive tribal/societal/governmental means to adequately control it. Humanity possesses a genetic hunger to multiply their individual governing power and our crusade will increase that power a thousand fold through district sovereignty. Aided by our ambitious use of instant, global, affordable, communication, [internet now available to most everyone], we will force power out of the destructive hands of large corporations and governments and render it back, where it properly belongs, into the hands of local majorities everywhere.

The genetic reality of our intense desire to gain maximum power over our government and the constant rewards our crusade will bestow upon us now [as well as to posterity], assure us we dedicate our passion to a cause destined to succeed. The degree of sacrifice we are willing to endure is measured according to our courage, dedication and degree of benefit to the crusade likely to be gained.

We’ll engage our superior wit to successfully defend ourselves against our enemy’s attacks. We’ll render our attackers impotent. When required, the severity of our defense will match the severity of the attack against us. Today, in 2005, the malicious, environmentally destructive corporations are likely to direct their criminal attacks against us long before we pose even the slightest threat to their profits. Until local sovereignty-seeking crusaders obtain geographic nationhood, their/our defense against attackers is likely to require a high degree of secrecy and subterfuge. Our object being to escape the undeserved punishments our enemies are eager to inflict on us. Our penultimate efforts will be dedicated to igniting firestorms of action to further our crusade worldwide. It is our primary goal and moral obligation to win the support of our local majority and gradually institute sovereign nationhood for our district [wherever we live]. We hope to maintain favorable world opinion of each district’s struggle and tactics. However the world’s opinion fades to insignificance when matched against the moral superiority of our local majority opinion. Local will reigns supreme over the tactics to either gain or defend district sovereignty. When our local population/electorate is small enough we will take responsibility for ‘our’ wrong majority decisions. We will refer to the bad decision as ‘OUR’/’US’/’WE’ decided badly and point to ourselves to blame for whatever harm we suffer from the decision. The more harm we suffer from a bad majority decision for which we take collective responsibility the better we learn to vote constructively the next time. This rightful dynamic of our district’s certain self-correction is absolutely essential to producing an enlightened, trustworthy government that truly serves us. Our district majority is better qualified to judge the world’s best interest concerning our district’s border defense. If the attackers of either our nation or our potential nation possesses superior military might we must, regrettably but stalwartly, put our potential use of terror to a popular district-wide vote.

The moral grandeur of our movement shall inspire the support of all people, worldwide, of goodwill. Conversely, it will inspire violence against us by the perverse, corporate reprobates that control of our lives and governments everywhere. We must prepare for the treachery of our present governments when our secessions draw near. They will use every illegal means they can think in their attempt to discourage the legal, democratically determined majority that threatens their position of power. As our movement grows we shall see the faces and witness the sadistic evil of the powerbrokers who have the real control over the figureheads that run our despotic governments. We are joyful in our morally superior work. The ultimate nobility of our cause will warrant the ultimate sacrifice for some of our honored heroes.

     The global, corporate, profit-hungry minority is the most serious threat to posterity and the security of all nations. The world under our Constitution guarantees freedom from the destruction wrought by world markets for goods. The environmental damage caused by the mass long-distance transportation of goods out-weighs the sparse, temporary benefit most every product on the world market offers the world now (Extremely rare, small-scale exceptions may be made for some rare medicines, transistors, etc.). A glorious day will dawn when an enlightened world will restrict all but .0001% of the weight of all goods, currently traded, from world distribution.

      The sooner our constitution is freely chosen worldwide, the less severe will be the human suffering resulting from the likely, future, global, ecological collapse. Every month of delay will extend the suffering 100s of years. The enormity [1000s of years] and intensity of the suffering averted by the achievement of our ‘end’ goal reduces the validity of any criticism directed against our 50 years [approx] of applied ‘means’ to nil. Again, our crusade offers an open, free choice to all people. When the majority of the citizens of a district or region choose our constitution it is our hope that their glorious, self-liberating success will inspire millions of us, district by district [especially those of us in neighboring districts], to peacefully, passionately follow their lead. We are hopeful that those citizens of a district’s dissenting minority [who are not criminals] will be treated humanely. However, in accordance with our principals concerning the sovereignty of majority ruled districts, we, outside that district, will not and ought not intervene [except in cases of violation of sovereignty exceptions by that district].

We are confident our crusade will accelerate the ascension of human evolution to a higher, more gloriously wholesome epoch. Humanity is biologically destined to refine the social instinct to an improved level whereby we all demand maximum power over our tribe/group/society and, most importantly, our government. The full realization of our constitution’s goals will triumphantly fulfill these instinctual human needs. Our constitution inflames our passion for power and freedom. Achieving our constitution’s goals is the noblest collective expression of our humanity possible!!!

 

Our Confederation shall Defend District Sovereignty.

 

District size shall be 25 square miles minimum and 1000 square miles maximum [approximately] and we intend each of them to eventually obtain a stable population about 3000. District sovereignty will maximize of the individual citizen’s power over civic government thus, inspiring the highest passion for and confidence in district voting. When our district majority has total control over 95% of our most qualitatively significant local civic government issues we will then become passionate about voting and winning!!! We will be 1000 times more confident about voting and winning when our single vote is 1000s of times more powerful. Americans, for instance, are apathetic today because their vote is one vote in 120,000,000 [Approx.] in national elections. Worldwide, the supreme moral right to ownership and exclusive use of district wealth and resources [obeying environmental preservation] belongs irrevocably to district citizens. Federal governments, in an orgy of criminality, rob districts of their rightful possessions. 95% of the power of federal governments, worldwide, resides in the hands of unelected moneyed interests over which district citizens have no control. District citizens are allowed to be about .0000001% of the deciding power to elect 3-4 federal positions. These 3-4 officials represent about 1% of the remaining 5% of the controlling power of federal government.

We district citizens are relegated to .000000000000001% of the power to control our wealth and resources with the remaining 99.99999999% residing in the hands of thieves and criminals. The thieves take full advantage of the immoral, convoluted system of centralized federal control. Our righteous crusade liberates us from these criminals. District sovereignty will redistribute 99% of all the wealth produced on the planet. You and I can’t imagine that when we take the power to distribute our local wealth that the majority of us local citizens would vote for anything other than a much more even distribution. Under district sovereignty our winning vote might require as few as 1501 other votes by our lifelong friends and neighbors to force our district government to do whatever we want without the slightest interference from anyone [feds or otherwise]. There is nothing like winning to inspire our passion to win more and bigger. Our enlightened triumphs here and now are likely to enrich us so gloriously that we will then set our voting goals on bestowing the highest environmental benefit of the trillions to come after us. Our democratic mastery over our collective destiny reminds us we are men of will, not sheep to be led. For the first time in our lives we are directing our goodwill efforts towards a crusade we are absolutely confident is right and will succeed. We now have our instructive constitution to guide us. Again, our crusade exponentially hastens the ascension of human evolution to heights never before achieved. We can now revolt with full confidence we will win!!! We are happy!!!

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We citizens and districts allow confederation government to exist only by our free consent and retain the right of our district to secede from the confederation at all times. We citizens offer our first allegiance to our district nation. We actively restrict the authority of confederation government to a level about ten times qualitatively less than the authority we reserve for our district government. Because of this limitation we enforce on confederation government the allegiance we offer our confederation is a distant second to the confidence we vest in our district government. Above all we prohibit our confederation from assuming nation level authority over our districts and citizens. We ordain our constitution to maintain regional confederation of districts and prohibit our confederation from centralizing undue power or increasing its power to form a UNION. We are a CONFEDERATION, not a UNION. ‘Unions’ “preserve their union” often by what all of us ought to regard as criminal force. Citizens of districts are morally obligated to revolt against the pathological rule of these tyrannical unions and gradually regain their district sovereignty Our confederation cannot force us to serve or protect it. Our confederation offers districts free choice when regional trouble comes. We district citizens will measure out exactly the degree and method of support for regional problems we determine is necessary without fear of the slightest recrimination from our confederation. That is real freedom. We are confident that our confederation inspires 1000 times greater regional unity through our system of total domestic freedom than nations that are UNIONS ever could through the sadistic, threat of punishment. The US government, guided by its malignant constitution, is a sadistic ‘union’. The nobility of our crusade shines 100s brighter when contrasted against the evil of current corporate, big government rule. Join us in the highest possible expression of collective freedom on this planet.

District sovereignty inspires within us a deep, lasting sense of collective ownership of our district land. When, suddenly, we district citizens are the collective owners of the 25 to a 1000 square miles around us, we become the passionate, proprietary stewards of both our district culture and, most importantly, our district ecology. Voting wisely is critical. Wrong-minded majority decisions could mean district starvation or epidemic. With the application of the dynamically improving collective wisdom, a paradise beyond our most glorious dreams is attainable. Thus, by defending the nationhood rights of our districts our ultimate goal of regional restoration of our environment shall be achieved district by district [across the districts of the entire globe eventually, we hope].  

In order to defend districts against overpopulation and environmental destruction, our confederation shall assist districts with the defense of their borders. Since districts will be given the free choice to restrict ingress down to any level they choose, we are confident they will choose a level far lower than today’s destructively high levels.

Our confederation government will enforce border restriction standards deliberately according to the majority will of that district [more severely restrictive than district majority will [vote] in some cases]. These restrictions are upheld in order to accomplish our noble purpose of reducing mechanized transport and overpopulation region-wide [worldwide, eventually, we hope]. We will illustrate the glorious benefit of reduced worldwide transportation in the ‘LESS TRAVEL…..’ section.

The short-term rewards of our crusade for district sovereignty are wide-ranging. Our confidence in the nobility of our crusade will inspire exalted camaraderie and joyful celebrations. Our higher cause will bring out our best; make us more likely to be acknowledged by the best; in celebrations supremely glorious. As our solidarity increases so will our creativity and courage to reward our collective and individual heroes with these exultant celebrations. Because of the nobility of our crusade we are confident in the personal nobility we garner for ourselves. Bolstered by this confidence we will maintain an unending upward spiral of exalted morale.

The glorious benefits of the new freedoms and powers within our district are self-evident. The power of the district majority to solve every criminal problem will launch newfound eagerness to crusade for district sovereignty. All laws and customs governing individual rights and criminal justice are reserved under the exclusive, sovereign control of each separate district. No one convicted under district justice shall have the right to appeal outside that district. Our confederation government shall have no power to arrest or prosecute any district citizen [rare cases involving confederation invasion are the exception]. Each district shall maintain the independent, sovereign right to: secede from our confederation as a non-combatant [hopefully allied] separate nation if/when it chooses [80% majority vote by seceding district required]; deny ingress across its border to any person or group as it wishes [district majority vote/will]; decline to share any of its wealth or resources with anyone [tiny confederation tax excluded] outside its borders; establish independent justice system [district majority free to bestow every/any kindness or cruelty upon its minority without interference from confederation government]; print its own separate currency; establish any system by which its wealth is distributed among its district citizens according to internal majority will.

Each district shall NOT maintain the independent sovereign right to: defile its environment; attack/invade/do harm across its border; establish rule by district minority; harbor weapons exceeding confederation controlled maximum lethality level.

These four prohibitions our confederation will enforce against districts are titled ‘The Four Sovereignty Exceptions’ listed thus-

The Four Sovereignty Exceptions

Our confederation shall impose sanctions on any district[s] that violate/exceed constitutional standards by:

1]   Fouling their district environment.

2]   Invading across the borders of any other district against the will of that invaded district.

3]   Allowing the establishment of a district government by the district minority [against the will of the district majority] instead of the district majority.

4]   Making or harboring weapons that exceed confederation lethality standards.

 

 

LESS TRAVEL= SMALL LOSS …and... PARADISE= GREATEST GAIN

 

We proudly utilize local sovereignty to gradually reduce travel and transportation infrastructure while we maintain a high quality of life. The small sacrifice of the travel reduction will be remedied 100 times over by the wondrous pleasures of life in the paradise we will be free and able to make of our home district. Chief among these pleasures will be powerfully uplifting new collective celebrations that we will inaugurate. The richest quality of life and dynamically ever-improving, thrilling celebrations will attenuate and, ultimately, supplant our wanderlust.

Your author envisions these 8+ hour celebrations as wild, uninhibited, outdoor events that inspire energetic, mass [60 to 3000 people] participation [drums, music, collective dancing, singing, sports, story telling, more. Our celebrations will be so intensely compelling that other districts will want us to add our joyful energy to theirs. Also, the more rich and joyful our district life the more we will nurture the best in all of us including an ever-widening range of professional skills. Such is the deliberate irony we will encourage. We enrich our life here partly for the purpose of encouraging a life so joyful within our borders that traveling will lose much of its appeal for us. As word of our wealth in uplifting attitudes, ability to entertain and professional expertise spreads [internet] the more neighboring districts will invite many of us to visit. Then, ironically, more travel is facilitated. Ultimately there will evolve a satisfying, natural balance between a district’s need to limit visitation in the interest of preserving local resources and our human desire to travel.

Your author foresees irresistibly euphoric, regional celebrations hosted by a different district every year. We crusade for the realization of a home paradise so glorious that we all fall wondrously in love with our happy homeland and seldom seek to roam.

What glories shall be manifest in our heroes paradise? Imagine 99% of the entire district population being highly to moderately but sincerely eager to aid you in making your life a success. Include the ever-increasing wisdom of the majority of the 3000 [the eventual average total district population] of us district citizens taking command [quorum required] of our government with direct democracy [24/7…electronic voting] whenever we please. The application of this immediate collective wisdom will eliminate the majority of district strife. It is likely that we will need to dedicate no more than 18 hours per week, on average, to ‘make a living’. The time saved by, both, the prompt resolution of strife and fewer working hours will be deliberately dedicated to joyful, paradise building, collective celebrations. The magnificence of these newly invented celebrations are likely to be the most seductive quality of our paradise. Consider the quality of respect and camaraderie endemic in our paradise when no one will earn or have more than 8 times the wealth than the poorest of us. Include slightly less mechanization but no more physical burden per capita than is required of us today. The less machinery we need to import the more autonomy we retain. We will witness the near absence of criminal intent [50 times less crime]. Not a single resource or product will be exported out or competing product imported into our district without our local majority consent. Our confederation government will mandate 40 miles of continual, unspoiled wilderness beginning no further than 7 miles from any one of our village centers and extending out in 180 degrees from that beginning point. Without becoming cost prohibitive, connecting our district with high quality communication to the rest of the world will benefit us immeasurably. We will proudly maintain our stable population below a number that would otherwise outstrip our local availability of district resources. Our courageous prohibition of overpopulation distinguishes our noble district from the uncivilized, inhumane nations of the 21^st century. We are confident the aforementioned essential components will bring to fruition the ultimate paradise.

The particular geo-political dynamics that cause the implementation of local sovereignty to result in travel reduction are not difficult to comprehend. We are certain that local sovereignty is likely to inspire many districts to independently impose much more severe border restrictions, thus, naturally, resulting in region-wide [worldwide, eventually, we hope] travel reduction. Overland mobility of products and people will be severely inhibited by the right of any district, through which any road passes, having the absolute right to close that road or impose a prohibitive toll on it. Other districts or regions will not be allowed the right or the means to conquer or violate the sovereignty of that road-closing or toll-imposing district. Air travel is likely to require too expensive and fragile a coalition of ‘nations’ to support it [adequate fuel supply unlikely]. Also, each individual district will retain the right to prohibit violation of its airspace. Sailing ships may remain in operation however the absence of the overland transportation infrastructure will reduce their level of trade far below today’s destructive amount. Any district possessing fuel resources [or any resource] will retain the right [supported by their confederation] to leave it undisturbed. We believe many districts will choose to do exactly that.

Local sovereignty will create a world without a viable means to globally distribute or profit from, therefore destroy world resources. The vast reduction of mobility of products and people will best rescue the world’s environment and resources district by district and our honorable goal will be joyfully achieved.

High volume mechanized transportation [2005 level] devastates the environment of any region it crosses or enters. The eventual, average number of miles per year of overland mechanized mobility per capita we expect to be reduced to about 1% to 5% of today’s level. Methane, battery and, possibly, hydrogen power are most likely to be the renewable energy [fossil fuel prohibited] used in overland travel. Hopefully, we can eventually reduce the number of commercial mechanized miles of travel [truck, rail and horse driven] per ton of consumable goods we use by 100 times as well. Most people won’t own a personal vehicle [horse and wagon, bicycles, etc will be in wide use].

Approximately 10% of those who will be vehicle owners will, most likely, not be driving more than 5-6 times per month adding up to about 800 miles per year. The remaining 90% won’t travel much over 1000 miles of mechanized, overland, passenger miles per year. Every district will have the freedom to prohibit outsiders from traveling through its land entirely if it chooses. Most districts will, within district majority defined limits, want to allow for both the travel of their own people out of their land and to invite chosen guests in. This natural desire will result in most districts choosing to permit a limited number of guests and traders to pass through their land. Treaties are likely to arise that allow us an occasional [perhaps once every 2 years lasting about 60 days] 1000 mile voyage, half on foot, bike or horse-driven and half in mechanically powered vehicles. There will be a minimum of 40 miles of nearly road-less wilderness between 15-mile diameter population centers. The regional government will enforce these 40-mile mainly road-less buffers between cities and will restrict entry in across the outer borders of their region deliberately in order to protect all districts from the cultural and ecological ravages of overpopulation. Most urban districts are likely to choose to install light rail to carry most burdens thereby interconnecting with the other districts within the 15-mile diameter population centers. All districts will retain the right to control the rail line by refusing entry or charging a toll at their borders. Geographic and travel related issues will be fully illustrated within the ‘environmental standards’ section.

Shame must attach to those who are honest and bright enough to recognize that planet-wide travel limitations are the only way to preserve any paradise anywhere, yet justify excessive mobility for themselves here, now or the people in the future. The Paradise we seek will always retain the district resources and rich ecosystem necessary to rebuild it even if the district is devastated by natural disaster. No district can ever be secure from the over-exploitation and devastation of their local ecosystem if it has connected itself to a high volume, world transportation network. Paradise remains paradise when it is 95% self-sustaining in consumable goods within a 3 to 15 mile radius. Some durable goods can come at an extremely reduced rate [.01% of 2005 level] into a district. The necessary goods [more technical and precision manufactured goods. etc.] will come slower but surely. The quality of life in our lower-mobility paradise will be higher than has ever existed in history.

 

For the brightest and bravest we review our most honorable goals

 

In our biology is the desire to seek the society of other humans. Forming a ‘nation’ over which we citizens have maximum control is, in your author’s opinion, inextricably interwoven with our genetic social instinct. Our personal, instinctual need to form a nation, over which we retain maximum individual control, is deeply ingrained in our humanity. Therefore, it is our primal instinct to employ Direct Democracy to impose our will over our nation. Our energetic employment of today’s high level of communication [the electronics necessary to easily apply direct 24hr year-round voting has been available for nearly 100 years], to conduct of our direct democracy, will impose our individual will over our separate governments, everywhere, quickly and dramatically.

 

Also, powerfully entrenched in our biology, is our need to belong to a nation/district possessing a population large enough to include individuals of every personality type so we can engage the entire spectrum of the human experience. We also need to be assured our vote counts as a significantly large percentage of the total electorate. The occasional grand scale reaffirmation of our convictions coming from outside ourselves [participating in a winning vote] is a human need essential to our mental health. The minimum landmass size necessary to fulfill our need to powerfully reaffirm our will is 25 square miles and the maximum is about 4000 square miles [nomadic peoples may need a larger landmass]. The minimum population size necessary to fulfill this same need is one that supports at least 2000 adults over 18 years of age and the maximum is about 3500 [over 3500 fellow voters begins to be too many for us fellow district citizens to easily contact and form consensus before elections]. There are reasons why the implementation of district sovereignty fulfills our genetic needs so perfectly.

Our constitution institutes the arrangement and regulation of districts to perfectly accommodate our genetic need for ‘homelands’ of about 3500 square miles. Our genetics dictate a deep sense of ‘belonging’ and ‘home’ when we are still within two days walk of home.

Two days walk is about 30 miles [depending on terrain] if you are carrying your goods and family. A 30-mile radius around your home is about 3000 to 4000 square miles. When we begin the third day of walking away from our home we get the sense that every step is made into the land belonging to ‘others’. This is yet another reason we will crusade passionately for the institution of this, the best constitution. In order to satisfy our need for maximum control over our government it is desperately critical that we maintain a population low enough to maximize the power of our single vote. Voting apathy is the malicious enemy of the paradise that intelligent, passionate citizen involvement will create. Apathy begins to erode our voter confidence when it takes about 5001 votes to make a majority [majority of 10,000 is 5001]. When we limit our population so that an attainable majority numbering between 1501 out of 3000 to create paradise is maintained. A stable local population of all the people you grew up with makes the most receptive group to join you in most any quest you conceive of to mold your nation for the better. Two months of passionate campaigning and you can garner the 1501 votes needed to force government action. We can focus our passion on one issue for the two months necessary to contact and persuade 1501 of your neighbors who are most likely to be within a 3-mile walking radius. Today national campaigns to change federal government [60 million votes needed] are nearly futile. This new dynamic of a government is 10,000 times more accessible to your persuasion, irrefutable and the self-evident formula for achieving the greatest good.

The greatest good we seek is far better than most of us have yet witnessed. Certainly we are humans, not angels, but the best paradise possible will be achieved when our local sovereignty formula is fully adopted. The speed of local majority action will create a self-correcting dynamic that maintains a perfect balance between too much or too little government and keeps government mostly out of our lives. Only in the rare instance of needing to bring a particular criminal to immediate justice will we vote to take specific action against a fellow citizen. With the general threat of criminality removed, we will develop a joyous culture 1000 times more rewarding than any we’ve ever dreamed possible. We will progress to an age of inspiring the best out of our fellow citizens using only the attraction of the glorious rewards or, at worst, the threat of depriving them of some reward. Our district majority is likely to become wonderfully effective at the use of the ‘carrot’ instead of the ‘stick’ as the best means to create paradise. We are likely to institute a joyful dynamic of competing with each other to be recognized for contributing even more spectacular rewards to our nation. Imagine a tight-knit joyous culture that will gather once [or more] a month for a 16 hr party that invites nearly every one of their 3000+ countrymen. Again, a wild, raucously thrilling festival of sports, music, inclusive ritual dancing, story telling, drumming, games, thrill events [moments of zero gravity fun], etc. that makes every heart swell with pride is the goal. The mere thought of not being invited will inspire all of us to hasten to bestow every possible benefit to our nation. Imagine living your whole life absolutely confident that 99% of everyone you see in your community is thrilled to see you ‘win’ and be equally confident that they know you are thrilled to see them ‘win’. No longer will mothers warn children about strangers.

Drugs- no one will want to dull their senses so often they miss out on being at their best to share in the beautiful culture of joy and support all around them. The possibility exists for us to vote in a pay scale that only allows the highest paid among us to receive no more than 8 times more than the lowest paid among us. All measures we quickly enact can be just as quickly reversed.

The dynamic of civic betterment by way of immediate change is assured. Our electorate is small enough that when we [the majority] direct government to act, we refer to our government as ‘US’ and ‘OUR’ decisions rather than ‘THEM’ and ‘their’ decisions. This means that when we vote badly and ‘our’ decision causes us to suffer we take responsibility. We will say ‘we voted just as wrong as we possibly could have’. ‘We have to get much smarter about our vote next time!!!!’ Today you rarely hear anything about government without hearing our rightful complaint blaming ‘THEM’ for ignorant or sadistic rule over us. So, even our voting mistakes create an improving self-correcting dynamic. The more damaging the voting mistake we make the deeper and longer lasting is our conviction to avoid repeating it.

The paradise we will experience here at our sovereign home as a valued member of our nation will uplift us 100’s of times more than anywhere we could visit as a stranger. We will, of course, prefer travel occasionally. Districts/nations of all sizes will have the equal right to prevent entry across their borders to the uninvited traveler [local majorities of most all nations will most likely stiffen their borders]. In order to for a party of travelers to persuade nations to invite them into and across their land hopeful travelers are likely to [my suggestion] offer services in lieu of a toll [tolls might be unfeasible due to many separate national currencies]. The best promotion of international goodwill and a great means to persuade nations to invite you in would be to form a troupe of entertainers. The same big celebration or some part thereof, your nation throws [A wild, raucously thrilling festival of sports, music, inclusive ritual dancing, story telling, drumming, games] can be advertised to ‘go on the road’. Those with the greatest goodwill and/or talent might eventually be the ones best able to persuade nations to allow them passage through their land. Less permeable borders will encourage separate cultures with qualities 50 times more thrilling, 100 times more unique and 100 times richer in traditions of harmony, beauty, freedom and justice. The happy result being- we need not travel far to experience cultures entirely different from our own.

Democratic nations that call themselves unions, rather than providing freedom and justice, enslave and rob their people. Our confederation is replete with the highest political virtues and bestows the highest benefit to its citizens. Some people suppose that local sovereignty would incite local mistrust and strife between our sovereign districts/nations. Others suppose that unless the people of our districts/nations are forced to support the region [as with ‘united’ rule their army would murder and jail dissenters] in wars against attacking nations then their support would never come. Both these suppositions are wrong. Internal strife between sovereign districts of our confederation will never occur, except on the smallest scale, for two reasons. First, the love and powerful appreciation of their own sovereignty will inspire all districts to desire, with equal intensity, the blessings of the sovereignty of all other districts. Secondly, our districts will offer equal respect for the borders of their neighboring districts as they wish to receive respect for their own. Even if a district were foolish enough to make a majority vote to attack their neighboring district our confederation will step in and stop it. Most importantly, the people of districts will maintain a reverential respect for their humble confederation government. The people know that their humble confederation government is passionately devoted to noninterference with the their district, internal, civic self-rule. They know, with equal certainty, that all other governments would punish them for and make a total reversal of 95% of all their independent civic decisions. Our confederation is unalterably dedicated to strict noninterference with ‘civic’ district autonomy and equally passionate about securing all district wealth to district determination. Our confidence in our confederation’s passionate commitment to the principal of noninterference in both these governmental functions assures our proud support of our confederation in most all its larger causes.

 

WE CRUSADE TO GAIN OUR INDIVIDUAL HONOR!!!!!

 

 OUR CERTAINTY THAT WE ARE BESTOWING THE ABSOLUTE GREATEST GOOD FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER GENERATES WITHIN US AN ABIDING SENSE OF MORAL GRANDUER, WORTHINESS, MAGESTY AND HONOR!

Only when the world’s environmental fate is forcibly rested from the malignant hands of large corporate/governmental power and secured permanently in the hands of us passionately voting local majorities will mankind slowly become worthy environmental stewards of the earth. Our local sovereignty formula advanced by the action we specify is the absolute best means to rescue the world’s environment. Since you are the brightest and the best you seek the peace of mind secured by taking these actions and accomplishing these most honorable goals possible.

The camaraderie among those who join our crusade will make you purposeful and joyous. Currently you know no one with a plan to rescue the planet that you are confident will work. Now that you are a noble crusader you are that confident man with THE PLAN! Not ‘a’ plan--- THE PLAN!!! Others will begin to hold you in increasingly higher esteem as you build local consensus. This cause transforms you into someone becoming more hopeful than doubtful about the eventuality of a richly wholesome world environment. That hopefulness and nobility sets you firmly on a course of discovery of newfound direction and purpose in your professional and personal life.

Do you trust those who, week after week, month after month, never experience exuberant, public, collective, lasting, genuine joy? There are those who celebrate wildly without a deeply ‘genuine’ reason. Any of our crusaders who are giving their best effort to the cause are entitled to the most profound, soulfully genuine joy that exuberant celebrating can provide. Joy rising from your soul that is based on the noblest depth of purpose gives you clarity of affirmative purpose. You can offer, WITH TOTAL CERTAINTY, a comprehensive, affirmative answer [our constitution!!!!] to solve the most profoundly damaging problems threatening the world. With this joy of purpose comes the necessary focus on promoting the affirmative rather than attacking the negative. Only those that make us confident they possess this depth of joy do we deem worthy of trust and respect. Only these joyful ones do we trust when they express righteous indignation against malignant problems and their makers. As the brightest and best you are advancing your highest leadership potential by embracing this joy. This deepest sense of joy is far too compelling for you to resist.

 

Honor Yourself!!!……Embrace Our Crusade!!!!

 

OUR CONSTITUTION

 

-This continued preface features our superior governing concepts

we direct our confederation to enforce-

 

     As individuals we pledge our first and most profound allegiance to our constitution in order to bestow in perpetuity, upon all our forthcoming native-born, our homeland in a state of the richest possible environmental paradise possible. We devote ourselves to the fulfillment of our constitution’s principals in order that we shall transform our current environmentally destructive culture into an honorable culture of good stewards bestowing more benefit than harm upon out cherished land.

    We hereby dedicate ourselves to rendering to our confederation the least possible measure of power to control us citizens or our sovereign district governments.

Our constitution guarantees the supremacy of rule by our sovereign district governments.

Our constitution prohibits the power of our confederation government from being imposed on any of us individual citizens except in the rare cases of the violation of confederation standards that districts refuse to, or are unable to enforce.

   Such is our love of our great measure of freedom from obligation to our confederation government that, in order to protect that freedom, we proclaim ourselves privileged to volunteer to collectively defend and support our confederation government. We are not people united by force of government. We are many independent district nations whose people are a hundred times more passionately united in purpose by our love of both; our district’s dynamically democratic self-rule; and the maximum possible freedom from force or harm based outside our district [especially our confederation government].

 

DESCENDING ORDER OF POWER

 

      The following is a list, in descending order, of our most powerful institutions. District government commands only the qualitative measure of control over our lives we district citizens vote to allow it. As regional citizens, also, we must vote to carefully control the small measure of power we allow our confederation government.

 

-FIRST- DISTRICT MAJORITY POPULAR VOTE.

For the everyday CIVIC governing of us citizens within our district borders we bestow the highest power to our direct-democracy district majority vote.

 

SECOND- DISTRICT LEADERSHIP 

The majority vote of our elected district leadership is rule of law within the district unless overridden by our majority citizen vote within the district.

 

THIRD- REGIONAL MAJORITY POPULAR VOTE.

Our confederation government determines only about 5% of the qualitative governing over us. Our regional majority popular vote has supreme, instant power over our confederation government.

 

FOURTH- CONFEDERATION MINISTERS.

The individual command by any one of, or majority vote of, our ministers allows them to impose ‘sanctions’ on our district as a whole but almost never on any citizen directly.

 

FIFTH- CONFEDERATION CONGRESS.

The majority vote of our congress of district representatives shall gain a high degree of our trust to formulate our best ballot for our on-going regional popular citizen vote.

They shall have the power to elect ministers when an adequate majority regional popular vote is not obtained. Occasionally they will reverse the decisions of ministers.

 

SIXTH- COMBINATIONS OF DISTRICT LEADERS.

We shall make independent treaties and trade agreements between any number of our districts and their leadership[s].

 

THE MECHANISM FOR THE DIVISION OF POWER

 

-[this section repeated in article 1]-

 

-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. 

 

--OUR CONFEDERATION GOVERNMENT ‘3 OUT OF 5’ BRANCH REVERSAL--

-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.

 

DISTRICT SUPREMACY

 

   We shall now bravely illustrate the heroic forbearance we demand of ourselves when our oath to uphold district sovereignty is most severely tested. When any horrific CIVIC [behavior that doesn’t violate confederation standards] crime is committed within a district’s borders by any number of its resident population, we who reside outside that district hereby swear not to intervene unless invited by that district’s leadership or by that district’s popular vote. We citizens [who reside outside our subject district] regard the violation of a district’s sovereignty, for any reason, as a personal dishonor. We are absolutely certain that any ‘cure’ we could possibly impose on a district from outside its borders is a 1,000 times worse than the CIVIC ‘disease’. ‘Cures’ [applied to any CIVIC crime] imposed from outside violate two vows your district pledges to you that, if broken, absolutely ruin the goodwill of all us district citizens. We district citizens must retain our incontrovertible right to collectively impose [or tacitly approve] the most harsh punishments on people [citizens or not] within our borders and only our district judgment must decide the justice of our collective act. District authorities will judge capital crimes without appeal to any other outside authority. Our districts must retain this right primarily to apply district punishment to those who commit horrors in their district, especially environmental crimes. Only they are qualified to judge the destructiveness of crimes and the likelihood of culpability of those accused within their borders. Only we district citizens possess the intimate knowledge and depth of care of our community qualifies us to show mercy or wrath toward wrongdoers. With our community so competently secured we preserve all the loving goodwill so necessary to inspire our best, most generous environmental efforts.

Without autonomous solutions and rewards guiding our district’s collective fate, we district citizens loose faith that everything good and honorable within our district will be lost. We must maintain an unbroken thread of district majority voting that radiates our strong collective goodwill. These votes must demonstrate a real commitment to the preservation of our physical and human resources in order to maintain our exalted confidence that our good work will be honored and continued by all who come after us on our district land. ‘Solutions’ coming from outside our district that intend to save the lives of thousands now are certain to result in the bloody sacrifice of millions of lives over time. 

 

-We now draw as fine a point as possible on our mortal oath to endure death before we dishonor ourselves by violating any district’s right to the sovereign governing of its CIVIC behavior-

EXAMPLE 1

     Let us suppose we have one district [district ‘g’] that has a large majority of its citizens of ethnicity ‘y’ [you pick one]. All 300+ of the region’s other districts contain a 98% majority of ethnicity ‘z’ [you pick one]. District g has a near perfect obedience to all confederation standards. In this region our ministers [all of ethnicity z] have our greatest love and respect. Then, 20 members of our most loved minister’s family [[all of ethnicity z], 5 of his infant and juvenile children, wife, brothers, sisters, mother, father, grand parents and cousins] all visit district ‘g’ to vacation. Suddenly, without warning, a huge majority of district g’s population launches itself into a brutal rampage of genocidal, ethnic cleansing that rapes, tortures and murders all 20 of our minister’s family along with 400 other people of ethnicity z.

 

NOW!!…………WHAT RESPONSE DO WE DEMAND OF OUR CONFEDERATION?

     Our minister [whose family has just been tortured and murdered] immediately, passionately begs all the other confederation ministers and all of us regional citizens to embrace restraint. He begs us all to restrain ourselves and display perfect respect for district g’s borders. He beseeches us to respect their absolute constitutional right to perform every single murder, torture and rape they have inflicted!!!!!!!! Our minister must immediately deploy his troops to defend district g’s borders against violation by any of us outside their borders. It is his responsibility to vigorously prevent even the slightest violation of district g’s borders by any other district, individual or confederation force. Our constitution binds us all to our sacred contract of universal defense of all district’s right to conduct their CIVIC justice in any way they see fit, regardless of any objection from the rest of us outside its borders. 

Scenario continues…

     Our beloved minister has, thankfully, persuaded us regional citizens to restrain ourselves from voting to wrongfully command our confederation government to invade and punish district g. He has insisted we refrain from violating our principals. He remains fully cognizant that our confederation forbids ministers from offering any derogatory comment condemning the CIVIC sovereign behavior of any district. Our minister must plead that we recognize where to place the highest blame for the most despicable wrong doing that now dwarves this tiny wrong of the murder of these 400. A thousand times more despicable and deserving of a 1000 times more of our blame, are the horrors we cause today by the environmental destruction done by those 4-5 of our districts that are least obedient of our region’s environmental standards. 10,000 people yet born will suffer a miserable early death as a result of the environmental degradation done in one day by our 4-5 most environmental unsound districts. We therefore have no right to persecute district g. If District g is among those with highest environmental record, we must honor them as heroes and seek to emulate their superior, moral, innovative leadership regardless of any number of mass murders their majority would have tacitly endorsed within their borders.

     Your author’s prediction of what our regional citizen’s actual response is likely to be is that they would quickly vote expel district g from our confederation and close all our district borders to them. They would continue district g’s water rights and migratory herd rights.

     Your author’s recommendation is as follows- We continue without expelling district g from our confederation. Independent of the confederation’s preference all the districts that border district g could, if they prefer, independently blockade district g. If they were to act thus, the entirety of district g’s population would be locked inside their borders and will receive no incoming travel [goods, services, visitors] other than their confederation inspector. District g will then be free to create paradise within their borders or turn on each other like criminals. The confederation would insure that the bordering districts do not cut off or pollute district g’s water supply or restrict their migratory herd, flock or fish ingress and egress. The confederation promises district g that if their district inspector is harmed it will go hard on them. District g knows they could have expelled or deported those 400 citizens instead of killing them and they know we know that.

No district ever owes its wealth to the confederation so no tribute is owed to satisfy any resentment citizens might have concerning the killings. If other districts in our confederation choose to issue death warrants [or other punishments] on any district g citizens that they catch [within those other district’s borders- not within district g’s borders] that is their right at any time regardless of what reason they profess.

     Your author’s main purpose for recommending non-intervention into district g is to assure all districts that, regardless of how severe [sadistic, unjust or just, repugnant] any of their popularly approved district actions might be, they will not be punished by outside powers. This district freedom is critical in order that all district citizens are completely confident they won’t be punished by outside powers when they punish environmental wrongdoers.

A district’s record can be 1000 to 1, unjust to just decisions against people they punish for any reason they choose and we will be perfectly satisfied they are taking the absolute best, swiftest path to establishing their district paradise. Districts must establish [and credit themselves only], by majority rule, their own commitment to justice regardless how long it takes or how many people must suffer within their borders. If we regional citizens instruct the confederation to punish any district for the wrongful treatment of people within its borders, then all districts must fear confederation punishment for any severe treatment they may impose even when their severe action is entirely just.

When we regional citizens empower ourselves to use our confederation to punish district citizens for any reason other than the violation of sovereignty exceptions, we destroy the confidence of every one of us district citizen’s ability to create the most evolved, humane civilization possible. This destruction is absolutely certain to result in a 1000 times more tortuous suffering to 1000s of times more people over many more centuries than the suffering that any number of murderous acts a free, sovereign, evolving district would ever cause. [As an example within this example: A district independently places a value on each of their few remaining old growth pines of 200 people per tree. The death of any one of their uniquely indigenous trees would mean the extinction of an enormous portion of the world’s genetic stock of that species of tree. Then, a proud district citizen assassinates 20 tree poachers in the act of cutting the trees [he has proof] and brings their heads into town. Instead of prosecuting the man for murder, the district gives him a parade and erects a statue of him to honor his heroism.] This wonderfully wholesome, praise-worthy district must not be made to fear interference from any power outside its borders. Our 'DSM' constitution gloriously defends this wholesome dynamic in all districts. 

    All districts must retain their sovereign right to act [according to their majority will] as mildly or severely [murderously] as they wish against anyone, at any time, for any reason within their borders. Districts must retain the right to equally or unequally protect or not protect the lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness of those within their district. Each district’s Civilization will evolve to its highest level of joyful freedom and justice only when their citizen’s majority retains complete control and responsibility over their CIVIC governing.

     As our non-intervention continues, we wait and, perhaps, over time, the citizens of district g will begin to acquit themselves by performing heroic acts or bestowing enormous benefits to our confederation and us regional citizens.

We observe that district g continues to uphold all confederation standards and continues to prefer to remain as a member of our confederation. Perhaps, over time, we will permit district g’s citizens to participate in regional sports and arts festivals.

     We all recognize that, if district g had been violating confederation standards [especially environmental violations] at the time of the murders, we might have rightfully begun punishing them, for the standard violations, right away.

    Although we regional citizens have the ‘ability’ to command our confederation government to punish district citizens, even if they have not violated constitutional/confederation standards, we absolutely OUGHT NOT exercise that ability, ever!!!

We must elect leadership/ministers that urge us with unrelenting ferocity to never vote to direct the confederation government to punish anyone except for standard violations!!!! Even for standard violators, our confederation will offer districts the first opportunity to punish them. 

     If the minister fails to persuade us to refrain from voting to command our confederation to invade and punish district g, his outrage might inspire our minister to use his influence to divide the confederation. If we citizens act in anger, violate our oath and 60% of us vote to invade and punish district g, our minister ought to be righteously outraged and dedicate his efforts to beseeching the leadership of that 40% of the districts [or as many districts voted in the minority] to secede. If our minister successfully inspires about 40% of the region to secede and form a new confederation and the other 60% tries to prevent it, then that alone proves that we are right and our secession is necessary.

We pledged and they pledged an oath swearing to defend the sovereign right of all standard-upholding districts to peacefully secede. Now they angrily violate their solemn oath.

It is, therefore, woe to our right-minded 40% if we lack the courage to go our own way, prove ourselves to be men built of sterner stuff, independently form our new confederation and secede from those of weaker commitment to what is morally right.   

     Our noble regional commitment to restraint and non-intervention into district g will result in an overall, long-term benefit that will vastly outweigh the harm of district g’s horrifying murders.

 

The penultimate benefits will be the region-wide strengthening of district borders and more diligent adherence to confederation standards by all districts. But, by far, the most glorious benefit will be the accelerated rate of advancement toward the certain, higher district civilization due to direct local district responsibility.

We proudly seek to strengthen the confidence of all districts citizens that they will remain unmolested in their inspired pursuit of establishing their own, ever-heightening, collective commitment to CIVIC justice within their borders.

 

EXAMPLE 2

-Districts shall retain the right to refuse entry to any minister at any time. Districts must guarantee safe conduct to our ministers when they grant them entry and guarantee them immunity from district prosecution regardless of the minister’s personal or political behavior. We may, eventually, recommend to or constitutionally insist that, all our ministers travel only in districts that guarantee them safe conduct. Ministers that choose to ignore a district’s refusal to grant them safe conduct shall not be immune to district prosecution and neither our confederation or regional majority popular vote shall override district sovereignty and rescue them from the sovereign will of the district. One position [the confederation appointed district inspector] will reserve a higher degree of confederation protection against district prosecution as well. Should a district seek the punishment of a district inspector they must fully satisfy the Minister of Sovereignty that justice is being served. If the Minister of Sovereignty is not satisfied the confederation will then impose sanctions against the district to remedy the injustice [unless regional popular vote dictates to the contrary]. Districts may choose to surrender an inspector they have arrested to the confederation congress of district representatives for judgment if they wish. All others that a district wishes to punish shall enjoy no possibility of rescue from our confederation or from regional majority popular vote. We coconsciously define the limitation of power the confederation’s district inspector has within the district in order to better illustrate each district’s absolute right to prohibit the confederation from activating any troops to be used against any district citizen at any time except in the rare case of an s-3-10 invasion.

 

EXAMPLE 3

-We regional citizens may occasionally punish [by our regional majority popular vote] a minister that has imposed Confederation force against a standard obeying district [our own district or another]. This minister would be in direct violation of our constitution’s protection of district sovereignty. These occasions oblige us to instantly overturn that minister’s decision.

Should we then, by regional popular vote, choose to punish [death or less] a minister for thus violating the sovereignty of a district, our command must be immediately executed.

 

EXAMPLE 4

-Not only our regional majority popular vote but also our regional leadership in the form of: the agreement of three ministers against the fourth minister; or, 2 ministers and the majority vote of congress may agree to punish a minister or reverse his decision.

We are especially hopeful a majority of ministers will intercede when a rogue minister wrongfully imposes his authority over a district’s CIVIC authority. Our leadership may immediately reverse his decision and punish him, hopefully, in proportion to his violation of our constitution’s principals. We regional citizens must instantly use our majority vote to reverse any decision wrongly made by our confederation government.

This would include our wise overturning of an intercession by the majority of ministers over one minister if the majority is wrong. The day will come when a minister will have friends or relatives who are common criminals or crime victims of CIVIC crime within a district. This kind of personal motive may tempt a minister to erroneously use Confederation force [blackmail under guise of authority] to force district officials to either punish or rescue a CIVIC criminal.

The same motive might apply to a minister with friends who bribe him for their business gains. We regional citizens must stand ready to use our majority vote to punish graft, corruption and every subtle misuse of confederation power against districts or citizens at any moment [as soon as we are certain]. Our Minister of Communication must make a full report, on the Internet, of confirmed or reasonably suspected erroneous imposition of Confederation authority by our ministers onto the CIVIC affairs of districts. We citizens will be ready to punish him for the wrongful omissions in his report.

MORE

-Ministers may not appoint themselves to the position of ‘inspector’ in order to assure their safety when traveling through an ‘unfriendly’ district.

-Ministers may appoint no more than one inspector per 1000 people within a district [regional popular vote can alter this number as we choose]. The cost to the confederation may make this high number of inspectors impossible to support. One inspector per 50,000 might be a more realistic starting number. 

-Our Minister of Sovereignty shall prohibit citizens from egress [leaving] out of our region by way of crossing the border into a foreign nation/region that forbids our entry into their land.

-Our confederation shall not declare war on foreign nations except by 3/5ths majority popular vote [80% quorum required]. Minister of Sovereignty may increase protection of our region’s foreign borders to any level he considers necessary to repel foreign invasions [hostile or otherwise]. Either, us citizens or our leadership may close our borders to any person[s], nation, people, creed, race, religion, etc. without fear of showing cause. It is our intent to never conduct military action of any kind outside regional borders. However, our confederation leadership must respect the command issued by our regional majority popular vote if we vote to attack [see ‘tactics’] another nation. 

-We shall be ever vigilant to elect confederation ministers who are the most passionate defenders of nation level sovereignty for districts. We seek confederation ministers who are passionately dedicated to preventing our confederation from any but the slightest imposition of power over our sovereign districts. Our confederation ministers must passionately seek to render to districts the greatest quality of governing power rather than harboring ambitions of centralizing and strengthening the power of our regional confederation. We must elect ministers that stand ready to defend the right of every district to reclaim all of their sovereignty, at any moment, even after a district has bargained it away to any outside power or moneyed interest.

-Any district will be free to impose a death warrant [within its district borders] on any minister or confederation officer, other than their district inspector, they please. All confederation personnel targeted by districts ought to be notified by those districts.

Standard obeying Districts are free to conduct any anti-confederation action within their district borders [including executing ministers] they please without fear of any confederation action against them. These antagonistic districts shall remain members of our confederation as long as they wish and no 'RMV' vote demands their removal.

-Should we choose our Confederation leaders unwisely, and occasionally we shall, our power of immediate popular recall and replacement of ministers assures the eventual success of our quest for leaders ruled by the better angels of their nature.

We demand Ministerial candidates that regard their attainment of the office as a life and death mission. Ministerial office is indeed a life and death undertaking since we shall retain the right to execute a minister at any time by command of our regional majority popular vote.

 

DISTRICT GOVERNMENT

 PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION RECOMMENDED

All references recommending other forms of district government within the constitution are erroneous 8/25/05

    Your author recommends that districts adopt a government whose members are elected to receive proportional representation. Proportional representation is a guarantee to most every voter that they will elect at least one candidate who will hold a significant position of power in our district government and will give voice to their deepest shared convictions. Our chosen candidate will, at the very least, give voice to our opinion regarding the actions we know our government must take to create a civilization of which we can be proud. 

   I recommend [not insist] that district governments choose to rule by committee [parliament?, council?] offering approximately one position [aldermen?, elder?, councilman?] to each of those 5 to 40 candidates who receive the highest number of votes. Obviously, I recommend about a 5-member council to the less populated districts and a higher number [40+?] of councilmen to the more highly populated districts. With an adequately high ratio of councilmen to citizens, even those of us in the minority are most likely to vote one candidate into office. Each district’s citizens may choose to assign: equal power to each candidate elected to the council; or, we shall assign them power equal to the percentage of votes they receive. This 2^nd model would mean, for example, the vote of the ‘40%’ candidate would carry a 40% power share of any vote he makes on any issue brought before the district council; the 30% candidate would carry 30%; 15% candidate 15%; the 10% man 10%; the 5% man 5%. This would mean that the councilmen with the lesser portions of the power will need to unify to defeat the 40% candidate. If this model is applied when one candidate receives over 50% of the vote this effectively allots a winning vote to the 50+% candidate on every issue he votes on in council. We district citizens ought to assure that the minority candidates can force the majority candidates to hear their opinions on every issue even if the 50+% candidate retains the power to decide the outcome of the council decisions. I personally guarantee that the voter turnout, passion and depth of thought vested in each vote we district citizens make will increase exponentially if our district government adopts proportional representation.

   Once we institute proportional representation in districts, we must include a means of recalling councilmen, if necessary.

Your author’s recommendation will be to make each councilman obligated to the exact voters who elected him. Our vote counting computers will easily track those voters. Voters would have to be willing to be identified for this purpose. The mechanics of recall would be to allow a candidate’s original electing voters to vote 24 hours per day to instruct, support, recall or replace him by a 51% vote. Districts can vote to schedule a new general election to elect new candidates at any frequency they please [2, 3, 4, years?]. Then the ‘specific’ voter opportunity to recall process can begin again.

   Let us pose an example that presumes that the maximum number of councilmen your district will allow to be elected to council is 5 members and there are 10 candidates running for the 5 positions. We suggest an electing method that allows the citizen to apply a score in descending order to each candidate.

Your 1^st selection of candidate receives a score of 10 points, your second favorite candidate receives 9 points and you then must apply a descending score [8, 7, 6, etc.] for each of your lesser choices down to your least favorite who get 1 point. The scoring is totaled and the five candidates receiving the highest totals are elected. You become the constituent of the elected man to whom you gave the highest of your scores. This will mean that if none of your top 5 choices of candidate is elected, your 6^th best choice of candidate becomes your councilman and you are his constituent. This enables you to vote to recall him if you choose.

   There is a slight, inherent problem with the fact that allowing only the individual, minority-elected candidate’s electing voters to recall him.

Suppose 90% of all the district’s voters decide they eagerly wish to recall a councilman whose constituents refuse to recall him. The majority will could take a backseat to the minority will in this somewhat negligible point. However, regardless of whether a solution to this problem is found or not, the minority councilman would still wield only a minority of the decision-making power in our district government.

   This model of proportional representation for district councilmen varies slightly from the electing model and the voting power allotted to congressmen.

 

GEOGRAPHICAL MODEL

 

The following is the EVENTUAL goal of

Constitutional Limitations on Population and Land Use [see maps on pg.____]

- REGIONAL POPULAR VOTE required to alter these standards.

Administered by; Minister of the Environment.

 

All districts are likely to compete for land. We therefore suggest that, long before secession occurs, citizens must debate and vote for the most fair and just division of land.

 

We shall establish a geographical model, vigorously enforced by our Confederation, that will irrevocably, eventually, prevent habitation beyond the following constitutional limits-

 

1.) 90,000 person maximum limit per 3600 sq. mi. [aprox] Homeland area.

2.) 75,000 person maximum limit per 615 sq. mi. [approx.] Homeland urban/suburban center.                      

3.) 15,000 person maximum limit per 3000 sq. mi. [aprox] of surrounding the Homeland’s Frontier                   districts. 500 square mile minimum size for frontier districts. 25 square miles is the minimum size of homeland center districts.

4.) 40-mi. minimum distance of Frontier (5 persons per sq. mi. avg.) district land required between homeland centers.                                                                                                                                           

5.] Frontier district land use severely restricted [mechanized travel prohibited in frontier districts] to preserve the land in near pristine climax habitat condition.

 

6.] Both Frontier districts and Homeland center districts (minimum size is 25 sq. mi.) will be restricted to a maximum population of 3000 citizens. If any district’s population reaches 3,400 citizens, our Confederation shall impose sanctions severe enough to return that district’s population beneath the 3,000 person limit.

7.] Our Region Size we model after the amount of land that will sustainably support between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 citizens. This amount of land ranges between 38,000 square miles and 45,000 square miles. Less habitable land [arctic regions, desert regions, etc.] we presume will require a much larger square mile area in order to host 1,000,000 peoples within their region self-sustainably.  

8.] By the use of this model we estimate the eventual achievement of the goal of a world population of a maximum of 1,000,000,000 persons. 

 

-Our first Minister of the Environment shall be required to submit a map precisely detailing how he would place the exact boundaries of every district. He will be forced to adhere to that proposed map of districts when he is elected. This map may be instantly altered by regional popular vote.

-Districts are required to eventually maintain their population at or below a level that enables it to provide and distribute to its members 90% of its consumable goods without causing environmental damage.

-We shall not seek to expand the collective territorial borders of our region beyond the present [45,000-sq. mi. is the average size likely for regions] geological size and placement.

-All districts are subject to Confederation’s environmental requirements concerning land use. It is critically important for districts to uphold the confederation standards regarding climax habitat requirements.

-Population levels are a goal eventually achieved by each district fulfilling its yearly, currently required, population reduction levels.  

 

TAX  [POSSIBLE TAX MODEL= See Article 3]

 

     Each district/Nation that has an independent currency system may conduct a yearly local popular district vote to possibly choose the following method to pay its confederation tax=

     The district directs their treasury/mint to print all of the money necessary to pay for their local district government costs plus the 5% of that amount that is necessary to pay their confederation tax. In this way no individual or commercial enterprise is punished by being directly taxed either by the Confederation or by their local district government.

 

VOTING METHODS AND STANDARDS

 

SEE= FREE And FAIR ELECTION STANDARDS. ARTICLE 2. SECTION 5

 

-We Citizens shall have access to an Internet direct-democracy voting system that enables us to individually demand [we shall individually compose our ballots when we choose] anything of our confederation government the majority of us wish, 24 hours a day, all year long, every year.

Our confederation shall conduct a yearly regional popular vote [80% quorum required][in addition to the ongoing 24/7/365 voting] in order to:

--Micro-manage confederation government in any way the regional majority vote directs.

--Elect ministers [Minister of the Environment, Minister of Communication, Minister of Sovereignty, Minister of Defense/Army].

--Determine the funding level and troop allocation for the 4 ministries of our confederation.

--Determine our the level of district tax we pay to our confederation.

--Other items will become our custom to decide yearly as we choose.

 

Four Sovereignty Exceptions [again]

We empower our Confederation to encroach on the sovereignty of district nations to perform the four following governing functions [the four sovereignty exceptions]. We list here the minister[s] authorized to enforce the related standards. 

1] Environmental protection

We shall not be free to damage our environment. Minister of the Environment.   

2] Border protection (district and foreign borders).

Districts citizens shall be free to cross borders into other districts only at the invitation/permission of the district they enter. No district may do harm to other districts. Minister of the Environment and Minister of Sovereignty and Minister of Defense.

3] Free and fair elections.

Election results must be the product of the true, uncoerced, choice of district citizens in district elections. Regional elections of confederation government actions and leaders must be equally uncoerced. Minister of Communication.

4] Weapons control.

Universal lethality limitations shall be imposed on weapons by the confederation government. These approved weapons shall be available to all persons equally. Confederation soldiers or district police shall not be allowed weapons more lethal than those available to any citizen. Minister of Sovereignty.

 

Ministers

 

Our Confederation shall have four elected offices that will be chosen by our region’s entire electorate (our Constitution may be amended to include more of the regional popularly elected positions if our regional popular vote chooses).

-If a 60% regional majority vote [of all regional voters registered] for a minister is not obtained then congress will elect the minister by the majority vote of congressional power.

-A minister may be removed from office or have any of his decisions nullified by either: our majority regional popular vote; or, the vote of all of the other three ministers; or, the majority vote of congress [60% of all congress power] and 2 other ministers. These removals can be overturned by our regional majority popular vote or we may change our constitution concerning this power to remove ministers.

 

MINISTERIAL POSITIONS

1] Minister of Environment.

Shall primarily determine if districts are enforcing confederation environmental standards. 

2] Minister of the Defense.

Border defense [regional and district]. Weapons control.

3] Minister of Communication.

Vote counting. Tax. Communication. Liaison with representatives of each district.

4] Minister of Sovereignty.

Foreign affairs. Judicial system. District conflict resolution. Secession rights.

 

-Congress will present a ballot measure [regional popular vote] specifying the division of power between the separate ministries.

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 1^st choice of candidate or solution to an issue and 1 point for the 5^th 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. 

S3-5+ SANCTIONS for ENVIRONMENTALLY SEVERE VIOLATIONS

     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.

 

WE HOPE S3-10 WILL NEVER HAPPEN

 

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

 

DISTRICT SOVEREIGNTY,

THE WITHHOLDING OF CONFEDERATION HELP

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.

 

      3- WATER DEPLETION

 

      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

  

           4- SOIL QUALITY STANDARDS

 

Soil Degradation and Restoration:

      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

 

                         6.  AIR POLLUTION

 

     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.).

 

A] CLIMAX HABITAT SANCTIONS

 

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….

ARTICLE 2

SECTION 3

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.

 

CROSS-BORDER CRIME

 

   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 3^rd party to adjudicate any contended intra-district extradition treaty in order to reach compromise and justice.

 

CROSS-BORDER CRIMES LISTED And SPECIFIED

 

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

UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE Minister of Sovereignty and the Minister of Environment.—

-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.

 

INTERNATIONAL BORDER DEFENSE

 

     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.

 

The Minister shall establish the level of sanctions

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

 

WAR

 

OUR PROCESS OF DECLARING WAR

 

 

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

SECTION   4

WEAPONS  CONTROL

 

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.

WE CITIZENS SHALL NOT BE DISARMED

     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.

 

GOVERNING OF ELECTIONS AND BALLOTS

 

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.

REGIONAL And DISTRICT ELECTIONS

 

-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.

 

ARTICLE 3

TAX

UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION.

 

The tax amount a district pays our confederation

shall not exceed 5% of the yearly amount

that district spends on their own district government.

 

-Our Confederation shall collect a tax from each district that shall be equivalent to 5% of the cost of that particular district’s yearly expenditure for their own home district government [this amount is subject to the immediate increase or decrease by majority regional popular vote].

-Our Confederation shall not levy any tax on any individual citizen or commercial enterprise.

-Our Confederation shall conscientiously strive to reduce the cost to all district Nations equally as far below the allowed 5% as possible. The minister will promptly refund any yearly surplus equitably to all districts, according to the proportionate size of their tax in relation to other districts. 

-Our Confederation shall not enrich itself in money beyond the sum of one year’s operating cost over a current year’s budget without the express dictate of our 'RMV'.

-The Confederation shall negotiate a tax ‘trade’ that allows a district to pay their district inspector[s] directly in exchange for a reduction of their confederation tax bill.

POSSIBLE TAX MODEL

-Each district/Nation that has an independent currency system may conduct a yearly local popular district vote to possibly choose the following method to pay its confederation tax=

 

The district directs their treasury/mint to print all of the money necessary to pay for all their local district government costs plus the 5% of that amount that is necessary to pay their confederation tax.

 

-In this way no individual or commercial enterprise is directly taxed either by the Confederation or by their local district government.

-This percentage may be changed by 'RMV' vote. Our Minister of Communication must carefully account the ‘true’ cost that district citizens pay for their district government in order to calculate the confederation’s 5%. District citizens might be paying ‘phantom costs’ or awarding district leadership special benefits that are not necessarily ‘on the books’.

-The separate possible currencies of districts may cause the Minister of Communication to negotiate extremely complex combinations of trades in order to provide a commonly [common region-wide average value] accepted 5% value to the confederation. Our confederation may need to buy and sell many goods and services it doesn’t need from many different districts in order to acquire the spending power to purchase all the goods and services it does need.   

-The Minister of Communication and/or Congress shall construct a 20-item budget and we shall all be free to assign a percentage of our tax we recommend be spent on the particular budget item. Averaging these thousands of separate amounts from us is simple math. Our averaged majority vote directing the allocations of our confederation public money can be clearly defined and obeyed.

-Budgets decided by our regional popular vote will require an 80% quorum within one assigned 25 days period per year. Our 'RMV' can instantly alter this yearly tax vote rule.

-The Minister of Communication shall keep a confederation bank account in every district bank [in districts that have banks] in order to accept tax payments from districts. our Minister of Communication will obediently distribute tax money in the specific amounts for the specific purposes we have prescribed by our vote.

 

TAX ALLOCATIONS

 

-The following are recommendations [your author’s] for the practical distribution of tax moneys and confederation personnel. All confederation personnel are technically members of the army and can be required to serve [in some capacity] to defend our region. In peacetime we will allot only 5% of our confederation personnel to the Minister of the Army to be soldiers. We ought to dedicate 90% of tax moneys to confederation salaries, products and property. Your author will make a few recommendations for the allocation of the remaining 10%. The percent of our tax money we allocate for salaries and the purchase of goods and outside services ought to remain static as well. We will need to reserve a surplus of confederation money to allow for the fluctuations of property and special project costs in order that cost overruns won’t cut into payment of salaries. All expenditures can be altered by our 'RMV' at any time.

 

-----Absent a ministerial or popular vote directing confederation expenditures, the beginning Confederation government allocations of tax money by category and percentage shall be:

 

-40%---- Confederation Personnel Salaries.

--------------Allocation of this 40%  by ministry—

A] Ministry of Environment--- 45% of troops. === Environmental inspection, population reduction, etc.

B] Ministry of Sovereignty---- 25% of troops. === Domestic and foreign border defense.

C] Ministry of Communication-25% of troops= Internet Voting. Census. Media. Banking. Communication system. Tax collecting.          

D] Ministry of the Army------- 5% of troops === Army general administration & training of all troops. Army supplies Personal security for ministers [personnel of minister’s choice].

----------- All personnel receive military training from the Minister of Defense and twice yearly

------------attendance at the Minister of Defense festival/conventions [sports, music, dance, games, etc.] is

-------------required. Our 'RMV' will determine some rules deciding length of volunteer army service.   

----------- In the event of war Minister of Defense personnel allotment shifts to 90% [or as per regional ---------------- popular vote].

 

50%--- PROPERTY, GOODS And OUTSIDE SERVICES.

 

 

-----Allocations of this 50% by ministry- including food, clothes, housing, health, transport, etc.-----

 

40%--- Minister of the Environment. Environmental assistance equipment, testing gear (soil, water, air), monitoring devices, drone aircraft, video gear, decoys.

15%--- Minister of Communication. Communication system. Internet. TV & radio Transmitters. Phone system. Redundant low-tech Voting equipment. Citizen Identification.

25%--- Minister of Sovereignty. Border Defense. Drone aircraft, monitoring devices, special weapons, heat and laser sensors, confederation courts, etc.

20%--- Minister of Defense. Army’s weapons For Foreign wars, logistics, communication, radar, troop support [uniforms, food, clothing, portable shelter, health, etc.], yearly festival gear [sports, entertainment, music gear], etc.

 

10%--- SPECIAL PROJECTS.

 

10%-- Determined by regional popular vote. --- One possible option [one of your author’s suggestions] to which voters might allot a portion of the undesignated tax funds could be the construction of one or more institutes [GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CENTER= ‘GOC’ SEE= ARTICLE 5. SECTION 5. PART 2] that would be dedicated to creating model villages in microcosm. The purpose of these villages would be to present demonstrations and models that best promote all our noble 'DSM' cultural, political, economic and environmental principals. These demonstrations on display in these small-scale farms and villages would be: environmental techniques of farming; animal husbandry; home-made power; aquaculture; sewage treatment [passive and active]; waste digestion [methane]; alternative fuels; reclaiming water; trash disposal; civil engineering; homebuilding; building material acquisition; wilderness preservation/enhancement; transportation; etc. The institute will be a center for teaching, research, celebrating, televised political debate, government offices, etc.

----- Regardless of what purposes to which we decide to allocate confederation personnel and resources there may only be enough funds from taxes to allocate one inspector per district and the 4 ministers. Our regional popular vote will determine the overall size and cost of confederation government.

 

Tax Enforcement.

 

     The Minister of Sovereignty shall enforce the Confederation’s tax requirements of our districts. The equivalent of 5% of their expenditure on their local government is the Confederation’s tax requirement of districts and the Minister of Sovereignty shall take the following actions to ‘encourage’ our districts’ full compliance with the Confederation’s biannual tax requirements.  

District fails to pay 25% of its tax--------------------------------------- S-1(5)

District fails to pay 50% of its tax--------------------------------------- S-1(10)

District fails to pay 75% of its tax ------- S-1(10) and Soldiers native to district have their pay garnished until tax dept is recovered.

 

District fails to pay 100% of its tax ----- NEGOTIATION.

 

 NEGOTIATION PREFACE: The district is in perfect compliance with all Confederation standards yet refuses to pay confederation tax: 

NEGOTIATION #1- Confederation soldiers native to their district, regardless of where they serve, take half pay. This value will be subtracted from the district tax debt. 

NEGOTIATION #2- Confederation soldiers stationed in their district receive adequate livelihood from the district and goods or services from the district equal to his confederation pay. This value will be subtracted from the district tax debt. 

OR

NEGOTIATION #3- The district renders goods or services equal to their tax debt to the Confederation. Some services/goods that tax-owing districts could render to the confederation for payment of tax debt might be counting votes, validating the census [outside their district], tendering agricultural produce or manufactured goods, etc.   

If the district refuses all these compromises:

The Minister of Sovereignty increases the severity of sanctions by one ‘grade’ per month beginning with the least sanction [S1-1] until tax requirement is met.

                                        

ARTICLE 4

ARMY RECRUITMENT AND TROOP ALLOTMENT

 

-Troop Allotment.

      Troop allotment to the separate ministries may quickly shift to the Minister of the Army if severe regional strife should occur. Regional majority popular vote [50% quorum] may determine these allotments. Absent the regional vote the Minister of Sovereignty shall determine these reassignments of troops. The Minister of Sovereignty betrays the environmental spirit of our Constitution if he reassigns needed troops away from the Minister of Environment for any purpose other than to avert region wide catastrophe. The Minister of Communication shall, as with the budget, develop a ballot that designates our choice of percentage of troop allotment for each ministry. When, in any 25-day period, 50% of us shall submit (internet) valid ballots, the totals are then mathematically averaged and our will becomes a Confederation directive.

 

The following [as stated in tax allocations] are our Constitutional troop allotments and their most common duty: 

 

A] Ministry of Environment--- 45% of troops. === Environmental inspection, population reduction, etc.

B] Ministry of Sovereignty---- 25% of troops. === Domestic and foreign border defense.

C] Ministry of Communication-25% of troops= Internet Voting. Tax collecting. Banking. Media. Census. Communication system.

D] Ministry of the Army ---- 5% of troops == Army general administration. Training/recruitment of all troops. Army supplies Personal security for ministers [personnel of minister’s choice].

---------- All personnel receive military training from the Minister of Defense and twice-yearly attendance

------------at the Minister of Defense festival/conventions [sports, music, dance, games, etc.] is required.   

----------- In the event of war Minister of Defense personnel allotment shifts to 90% [or as per regional ---------------- popular vote].

 

-Army recruitment.

    The Minister of Environment shall authorize the Minister of the Army to recruit [not force] citizens to become Confederation officers and soldiers when the need arises and budget allows. Wealthy districts or citizens shall be gently encouraged {NEVER FORCED} to finance their own citizens who volunteer for service. The Minister of Communication’s regulation of the budget shall determine the general size of the army. Emergency funds may be allocated to initiate swift military action.                                                                

 

-Geographical Distribution of RECRUITMENT.

The Minister of Army shall endeavor to recruit from as broad a spectrum of districts as possible. An attitude of objectivity is best maintained by a soldier who defends, inspects and works within districts from which he shall not hail. All soldiers who are not personally sought by one of the Ministries shall be assigned to one by the Minister of the Army.

      

4] Rejection. The Minister of the Army shall test and judge the suitability of all recruits. A District that sends their brightest and best to serve the confederation shall, in return, receive soldiers of matching high caliber to serve in their district. Districts that send recruits of little talent will in return receive soldiers of the lowest intellectual and emotional caliber to serve in their district. The district must replace the recruits that are rejected by the confederation with more suitable candidates.     

5] District refusal. It shall be at the discretion of the Minister of Sovereignty to impose sanctions on districts that do not send recruits for service in the Confederation army. No greater sanction than S-2(2) may be imposed for this purpose and no sanctions at all if volunteers from other districts are sent in their stead. We realize that wealthier districts might bargain with poorer districts to avoid confederation service in times of peace. Our Minister of Sovereignty may restrict inter-district bargaining to avoid recruitment during wartime.

 

ARTICLE  5

EXECUTIVE  MINISTERS

                    

SECTION 1

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS of ALL MINISTERS

                                                        

   ---The four ministerial offices are:

Minister of Environment                               

Minister of Sovereignty

Minister of Defense or Minister of the Army [same position select the title your region prefers]  

Minister of Communication

 

     All executive power shall be vested jointly in the four Ministers of the Regional Confederation of Member Nations of {YOUR REGION’S NAME). Minister’s term of office shall be four years [barring recall by 'RMV'] and be elected as follows:

-- Electronic voting shall be conducted region-wide over a period of 25 days open to all citizens over 18 years old [no exclusion for incarceration, insanity, enslavement, etc.]. The Minister of Communication shall conduct the vote count open to public observation (internet) and declare the candidate with the plurality of the vote as the winner.

Manifesto

All ministerial candidates, prior to election, shall be required to write a manifesto declaring their intended governmental action. The Minister must publish a precise compendium, specifically detailing all sanctions they would impose on each district currently violating confederation standards.

They must also state why they judge the district to be currently in violation of the standards. They shall rewrite the constitution according to their preference and state why they urge the changes. We may choose to mark our ballot (internet) permitting the minister (if elected) to act according to his prospective Constitutional changes or choose to bind him to our Constitution as it is written. If the proposed changes one minister proposes aren’t in agreement with another, then the complex task of vote averaging must be performed by the Minister of Communication.          

 

Also demonstrated and outlined in his manifesto shall be the following:

--The grace period a minister would grant a district to uphold different standards before he [him specifically] would impose sanctions. He must also specify the severity of sanctions he would impose for the violation of each specific standard. He must also specify the specific performance he would require of the district by to enable them to avoid the imposition of sanctions by that minister. Would he eagerly assist a district to find the solutions that allow their compliance or would he demand the impossible from districts in order to satisfy his sadistic joy of punishing them? Some of those with the most malignant political ambitions are not the least bit shrewd. They are deceitful but lack subtlety. If, in his manifesto, our minister promises to show leniency to districts for specific standard violations and, then, turns imposes the most severe sanctions for those same violations, we must swiftly remove that minister.

-Ministers that promise to make government a beneficent partner of districts, then, punish/tax them at every opportunity, may find their life quickly shortened. 

-- He must illustrate what severity of standard violations would cause him to impose an S3 invasion {Keeping neighboring districts out during the S-3. Reestablishing district government. At what point he would prohibit habitation in a district by declaring the entire district a CH. Etc.)

-- Why he believes Frontier preservation [40 miles of primitive wilderness between homeland centers] is critical to the sustainability of our region’s ecosystem. All of Our ministers must possess a fervent conviction that this expanse of wilderness between urban areas is absolutely essential to our own and all civilizations.

-- His prospective allocation of his troops to districts.

--How he will instruct his troops to conduct thorough inspections for standard violations while respecting citizens’ rights and defending them against unreasonable search.

-- The spectrum of affirmative, instructive and helpful acts his troops will perform while in districts.   

-- All creative solutions he wishes to apply to the problems his ministry is designed to solve.

-end manifesto requirements-

 

-- Removal. Ministers may be removed from office by our regional majority popular vote [80% quorum]. The vote of 3 other ministers will remove a minister. The vote of 2 other ministers and a 70% vote of congress will remove a minister. If a minister is removed by other ministers [or 2 ministers and congress] and then is reinstated by our regional majority popular vote within 90 days he cannot be removed by ministerial vote again for 2 years.

 

-- Qualifications. We demand that our minister possess a comprehensive knowledge of the entire region’s needs and the superlative expertise we demand of one who would take command of the particular ministry for which he contends. We have full faith and confidence in our ability to use our wisdom and goodwill when choosing a leader of our Confederation and therefore all citizens are qualified to become a ministerial candidate. Our candidate’s required publication of his manifesto on the internet will enable all of us to judge his qualifications.

-- Conflicting Authority. Our congress [or we citizens by regional majority popular vote] shall establish the rules and means that will enable our Minister of Sovereignty to adjudicate conflicts of authority between ministers. It is our hope to obviate as much conflict between ministers and between ministers and congress as possible.

-- Salary/Staff. Ministers may receive a salary as much as 8 times more than the least paid individual in the employ of our confederation and no less than the lowest confederation salary. A district may choose to host a confederation minister and bear the expense of paying his salary. That district’s confederation tax bill will be equitably reduced and if a surplus tax credit is due the district for this salary payment then it will be applied to the future tax debt of that district. The Minister(s) will be free to allocate funds from their ministerial budgets to hire who and as many personnel as he judges will best accomplish the goals of his ministry. No more than 3% of the total number of confederation personnel allocated to a ministry may be assigned to the ministry’s administrative and security staff. Our minister may accept volunteering staff from any source and we regional citizens may closely monitor ministries to be certain contributions are not, in fact, bribes. The district that hosts a ministry may provide building facility with electronic communication and record keeping capability to the confederation minister for a tax reduction. Ministers shall receive a pension established by congress or regional popular vote.

 

--- Graft. Ministers shall not accept any gift or pay other than their salary except to apply the value of that gift to accomplish the legitimate purposes of his ministry.

 

--- Oath.  Ministers must swear an oath to: the Constitution; the confederation; the promises they have made to the voters; and, the following oath [no citizen oath will ever be required]:

“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of Minister of __________ for our Confederation and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the _________ region”.

 

--- Foreign War. We entrust our national security to our Minister of Sovereignty. Our Minister of Sovereignty shall bear singular [subject to reversal by regional majority popular vote] responsibility for committing our Confederated regional government to foreign war. We citizens will be especially interested in the majority opinion of congress to assist us in forming an opinion and voting to commit to foreign war [and establishing tactics]. From the moment the Minister commits our Confederation to foreign war the Minister of Communication shall conduct a four-day regional vote to allow us to countermand the order (by majority not plurality) and possibly censure of the Minister of Sovereignty. Our popular vote may choose to commit our Confederation to war at any time. The Minister of the Army shall have full military authority to conduct a foreign war during which he shall be the commander and chief of all confederation troops.  

 

--- Press Conferences/Debates. All ministers are required to attend and provide answers to interviewers and contending candidates at no less than ten 2-hour televised press conferences/debates per year. 

SEE ‘MEDIA’ UNDER= ARTICLE 5 SECTION 4 Minister of Communication

 

ARTICLE 5- SECTION 2

MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT

 

     Our Minister of Environment shall be the guardian of our land and honor. We must regard ourselves, our culture, our nations and our accomplishments with abject shame if we bequeath to posterity an impoverished environment. We are confident that each passing year our noble, confident, restorative efforts will nurture our land back to bountiful condition we are proud to bestow to the many millions who, age after age, will call our land home. Our minister will stalwartly defend of our environment against those few who would violate our standards in order that the majority of us shall joyously exalt in the honorability of our culture. We are confident our minister will lead us to ever heightening triumphs of noble stewardship.

We are equally confident our minister regards the privilege of leading us in our glorious crusade as the highest honor mankind can bestow. It shall be the sacred duty of our minister to inexorably lead us all to the proud achievement of the ultimate environmental stewardship.

 

--- Manifesto. Prior to election, the Minister must publish a precise compendium specifically detailing all sanctions he intends to impose on all districts he judges to be currently in violation environmental standards.                                                                             

Also demonstrated and outlined in our minister’s manifesto shall be the following:                                                                                                                                                       

--The grace period and specific performance required of the district to enable them to avoid the imposition of sanctions.

-- A thorough knowledge of the best means to restrict the acreage of region’s agricultural to the lowest level that will richly provide for the eventual population level we will come to agree is sustainable.

-- A means to best harmonize and enhance the most symbiotic relationship between our agriculture and the wilderness acreage that we seek increase. 

-- Our minister must state the maximum regional population level he believes is ‘locally’ sustainable.

-- He must devise the absolute best means to preserve our region’s environment during our currently overpopulated and overdeveloped condition.

-- Demonstration of the Minister’s knowledge of: each district’s historic plant and animal biology; soil toxicology; alternate livelihoods for environmental despoilers; and all scientific knowledge necessary to protect environmental quality.

-- His allocation of votes to Congressmen and his rational for this dispensation (details this section). Some of the congressman of the most environmentally destructive districts will warrant our minister’s S1 sanctions immediately.

-- An exacting account of how and why the Minister would conduct differing levels of S3 invasions. {Keeping neighboring districts out during the S-3. Reestablishing district government. At what point he prohibits habitation in a district. Etc.)

-- Why he believes Frontier preservation is critical to the sustainability of our region’s ecosystem.

-- His prospective allocation of his troops to districts.

-- How, where, why and for what violations he will instruct his troops to conduct thorough inspections. Our minister must express why he will respect citizens’ rights and defend them against unreasonable search during his S3 actions.

-- The spectrum of affirmative, instructive and helpful acts his troops will perform while in districts.   

-- All creative solutions he wishes to apply to environmental problems.

 

Corruption. By our 'RMV' vote we may command our Minister of the Environment to be subject to 24 hour live video recording of his life while he serves as minister. This public scrutiny should preclude any minister from committing treasonous acts. Absent this degree of scrutiny we must all maintain our best collective vigilance to assure ourselves we are honorably lead. The Minister must instill in his soldiers a passion to demonstrate their environmental goodwill and are thus implacably resistant to corruption. The right to punish a corrupt minister falls in the following order- 1^st- the district that was or could have been most damaged by the corrupt acts of the minister; 2^nd- the Minister of Sovereignty; 3^rd- the congress. Any district may try any minister in absentia and if the Minister of Sovereignty is convinced the district’s case is proved, and the offence severe enough, he may extradite the minister to that district for punishment. If the Minister of Sovereignty is not convinced of the minister’s guilt, the district retains the right to arrest and punish the minister if they seize him within their borders. All districts may issue warrants for the arrest of our minister. No citizen, including our ministers, are immune from a district’s prosecution. Absent prosecution by his own district and no 'RMV' to arrest him, our minister may remain in office even though any travel may subject him to arrest.  

 

Entertainment. Our minister [in conjunction with the other ministers] will direct his soldiers to, as a means to promote mutual goodwill between our Confederation soldiers and our district’s citizens, organize festivals that require at least 50 of them to form a troop who will travel from district to district conducting: entertainment festivals; small shows; circuses; sports; theater; concerts; competitive games; or any uplifting shared activity.

 

Aircraft. The Minister may use small drone aircraft equipped with video cameras for inspection flights over districts. These must be at midday and no more than 20 minutes per day over a district.

 

Troop Allotment. To demonstrate our priority of environmental preservation we will [absent the overriding 'RMV'] allot 45% of all Confederation army troops to our Minister of Environment. Congress shall suggest a protocol for partial troop reassignment to the Minister of Sovereignty if border hostilities arise between Member Nations.

 

Medical Skills. The Minister shall train as many soldiers as possible to provide medical services to citizens. The primary medical skills our minister will teach his soldiers to perform will be vasectomies and tubule legation [population control is the ultimate, primary means to preserve environment]. The minister’s soldiers must know inoculation against infectious disease and some ability to diagnose the same. The minister’s soldiers must teach disease prevention and as much medicine as possible to all citizens, especially those in remote locations.

 

Affirmative help for Districts.

In order to best assist districts to avoid environmental sanctions our Minister must propose a program to district leadership that best educates their citizens in the best environmental practices. We recognize it is always better to have environmental standards met by the sovereign will of the district without any “encouragement” from the Confederation. The Minister must judge what he knows ought to be done by a district to meet standards and balance that with what he believes can be done by them. The Minister shall have the full discretion to dispense justice with any amount of leniency or severity he judges necessary to best achieve our honorable environmental purpose. Our Minister shall be governed only by our popular vote, the length of his term and, most profoundly, by his conscious.

 

[Also see section 2 under Minister of the Army ‘Government Operations Centers’]

 

Ministry soldiers shall demonstrate differing methods by which we citizens can accomplish compliance with Confederation standards and enhance their environment such as the following:

a - No till farming.

b- Planting “manure” trees among ground crops.

c- Planting vegetable crops under deciduous orchards.

d- Methane digestion of animal and plant waste.

e- Multiple use of passive digestion ponds stocked with fish and marshland plants for sewage digestion.

f- Labeling foods with higher nutrition content that are grown organically.

g- Instituting a district program that requires their locally produced goods [agricultural and industrial] be sold at a price that pays: fairly for the cost to the producer; and, the cost to the health of the environment; and, the profit the seller prefers. The amount of additional money [like a tax] paid for goods produced by environmentally harmful means would be collected separately and submitted to a district environmental fund. The fund can be used by the district to repair past or prevent future environment damage. Also, the local prices paid to responsible producers of food and industrial goods would then be the lowest. 

h- Help reestablish native plant and animal species in district.

i- Teach the production and use of environmentally safe products used for: cleaning; coloring; painting; roofing; road building; fuel; building material; etc.                    

- Congressional Voting Reapportionment. The Minister of Environment shall enforce Constitutional allocations of the number of votes to which each Congressman is entitled to use in congressional meetings. There shall be a standard allotted number of votes assigned to each Congressman based on district type and size as follows:

Congressmen of the Smallest 50% of Homeland center districts vote allotment—100 votes.         

Congressmen of the largest 50% of Homeland center districts vote allotment----- 200 votes.

Congressmen of the Smallest 50% of Frontier  districts vote allotment-------------- 300 votes.

Congressmen of the largest 50% of Frontier districts vote allotment----------------- 400 votes.    

     Our purpose for assigning more power to Frontier districts is to promote environmental preservation. Our frontier district citizens are most likely to love and eagerly defend the larger expanse of unspoiled land around them. We are hopeful that the citizens, thus, the congressmen of frontier districts possess a reverential commitment to their land and environment and a heroic resolve to resist the multifarious bribes and payoffs offered to them in trade for their land and resources. We are confident this reverence will produce a culture that stands as a bulwark against the insidious, rapacious growth of cities beyond their environmental viability. Our Minister of the Environment must seek to allocate a greater measure of power to frontier districts in order to prevent the possible expansion of Homeland Center Districts into frontier district land.

   We are cognizant of the challenges that face Homeland center districts as well. With more citizens per square mile, the greater acumen district leadership must have for inspiring concentrated goodwill and respect for their delicate, more severely impacted ecosystems. From this culture we also expect responsible Congressmen.

     We are confident the wisdom and joyful morale of Congressmen will ascend proportionately with our ever-increasing successes at defending posterity against environmental harm, thus, realizing the true nobility of our entire region’s culture.  

 

- Ambassadors. The Minister shall receive foreign ambassadors to promote and accept environmental treaties.

 

- Addressing Congress. The Minister shall have the power to convene (internet) Congress to issue an address on the State Of The regional Environment in which he shall call for our cooperation in accomplishing our environmental goals.

 

- Volunteers. The Minister shall promote the use of volunteers of all capabilities.

 

ARTICLE 5- SECTION 3

MINISTER OF SOVEREIGNTY

 

      Our Minister of Sovereignty shall have the duty to: enforce of the Confederation standards regulating Border Control, Weapons Control and Sovereignty application (secession by districts); adjudicate conflicts between districts [our minister must be chosen by those districts to adjudicate]; assist in adjudicating the reestablishment of district borders; defend our international borders; enforcing weapons standards; establishing treaties and diplomatic relations with foreign nations; suggest [who, why, when, how] to us regional citizens which nations we ought to conduct a 'RMV' to decide if we go to war against.

 

FOREIGN WAR. The Minister may call an emergency meeting of the other 3 ministers and the majority leader of congress to announce his decision that he is committing our confederation government to war against a foreign nation. The other 3 ministers may vote to immediately reverse his decision [or 2 ministers and the congress leader may also reverse his decision]. Congress may reverse their leaders vote as well if there is time. If time permits in this emergency congress will deliver their majority vote only.

If no vote or an insufficient vote by the other branches occurs then our Minister of Sovereignty’s vote to go to war stands.

Our 'RMV' may reverse any decision made by any single branch or collective vote of the branches of our regional government.

    Our principle shall be to have no allies, contracts, business interests, land holdings, territories or any possession outside our regional borders that would ever cause us to declare a war of aggression across our regional border into a foreign nation. If we are attacked or credibly assaulted we must decide if we will then defend our region from that attack.

PLEASE SEE OUR SECTION UNDER= ‘BORDER CONTROL STANDARDS’ TO EXPLAIN OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE POLICY AND TACTICS.  

 

DISTRICT DISPUTES RESOLVED BY OUR Minister of Sovereignty. The minister shall establish the court in which conflicting districts [that choose his court] could arbitrate and contest all disputes. Our Minister must maintain a stalwart defense of the right of all districts to conduct their governments with sovereign self-determination and, with equal vigilance, protect each district from harm by any other.   

     We assign 25% of our Confederation troops to the Minister of Sovereignty. Should districts conduct military aggression against each other, the Minister of Sovereignty must intercede to secure borders, cease hostilities and resolve the conflict between districts (internal district conflict shall not be resolved by the Confederation unless that district’s majority requests it, or severe standard violations arise from it). If the aggressor district severely escalates hostilities against a victim district to the level of war, the Minister may declare the aggressor to be an outlaw nation and impose S-3(10) war of subjugation upon that aggressor (the Minister shall determine what degree of “severity” shall require what degree of confederation response].

      The Minister shall suggest solutions that settle each dispute between districts without the need of our minister imposing sanctions. Solutions employed by the minister that achieve an equitable and just result will differ in every instance. Justice is not found in a law book. We, therefore, entrust our minister with a broad latitude of discretion to resolve conflicts between our districts using any degree of force that he determines to be just. The Minister must make his public announcement, to all us regional citizens, illustrating of all the intricacies of all solutions he intends to employ to resolve all existing and/or prospective conflicts between districts.

 

Expected activities and our requirements of the Minister of Sovereignty:

1] Salary. Ministers may receive a salary as much as 8 times more than the least paid individual salary paid by our confederation and no less than the least confederation salary.

2] Facility. The Minister may accept any district’s offer of the use of any facility that adequately provides for his operational needs in exchange for a tax credit to that district [as per the confederation requirements].

3] Public Address. The Minister shall address (TV or internet) the region as per the confederation requirements.

4] Enforcement of Standards.         

A] Extradition. The Minister of Sovereignty may make his best judgment when it is just to impose sanctions on districts that are holding cross-border criminals. Districts may mutually choose our minister or any other arbiter to determine the just resolution of disputed extradition requests by any applicant district. It shall be within the discretion of the Minister to defend the decision of a district to refuse requests for extradition of their citizens proven to have invaded and committed crimes within the borders of an a neighboring district.

Our Minister may judge that the ‘crimes’ committed in the invaded district produced a furtherance of a higher justice and he may honor the invader for his heroism (heroism= emergency destruction of earth moving equipment, spiking trees, bombing factories that produce weapons of mass destruction, etc.). The Minister shall, at his discretion, offer immunity from extradition to citizens sought by a district ruled by the will of the minority within that district. It would then be required that the Minister invades and restores majority rule in that district. The Minister may not conspire beforehand to contract private citizens to invade a district and punish violators of Confederation standards. We shall place few rules on our minister and elect a man we know to be just. We will know him to be a heroic champion of justice rather than a rule-maker.

B] Drugs. No substance that does not violate environmental or weapons standards shall be controlled by the Confederation in any way. Districts reserve the sovereign right to regulate or refuse to regulate the production or use of any substance environmentally safe substance they choose.

C] District Weapons Control. The Minister shall impose sanctions on district authorities that afford themselves an arms advantage over their average citizen. His manifesto shall express the details of his intended resolutions to all violations of weapons standards as well.

D] Illegal Aliens. We regional citizens seek to offer the most humane treatment of the criminals who invade our region as possible. In times of enduring prosperity we are likely to allocate all the funds necessary to comfortably deport all illegal aliens.

In times of our severe hardship we are likely to impose less humane, more economical solutions to discourage invasion. We are likely to experience many years of dissatisfaction with our anti-invasion measures. If we vote in anti-invasion measures that are less severe we anguish over the inequity to which we subject ourselves. If we vote in measures that are more severe we suffer differing degrees of guilt for the human suffering we inflict on foreigners regardless of how certain we are of the absolute greater good we bestow by preventing overpopulation. We hereby offer, with mention of your author’s prejudice, a list of some additional [difficult] possible measures we could take to respond to the invasion of our region:

1- We open our borders completely. We make no distinction between citizen and invader. Whatever public ‘safety net’ we provide for what once we proudly called citizens we now provide equally for the invaders. We will allow so many unidentified, untraceable non-citizens into our district that when those who invade and choose to rob, murder or do us harm and leave are likely to escape with impunity.

2- We open our borders completely and deport one out of every 10,000 illegal immigrants. We issue expiring visitor passes but make only the weakest effort to enforce them. We bestow an exponentially greater amount of benefits to invaders than we do to citizens in the form of civil rights and public ‘safety net’ money. We will allow so many unidentified, untraceable non-citizens into our district that when those who invade and choose to rob, murder or do us harm and leave are likely to escape with impunity. We bear all the cost of finding, identifying, apprehending, housing, feeding, health caring, schooling, processing, prosecuting the few invaders we apprehend and then pay the cost of transporting them out of our district. [Most people would agree that this is an accurate portrayal of present day defense of the borders of the USA.].

3- We open our borders completely and impose Draconian measures to identify our citizens. Positive physical citizen identification can be moderately useful in our effort to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them’ when we seek to deport invaders. At birth, we implant highly complex, un-forgeable, identification ‘chips’ somewhere inside our citizen’s bodies. Scanners will positively identify each of us. The suspicion, dread, betrayal, anxiety and a general atmosphere of intense treachery, not to mention the cost in money and invasion of our privacy, is a high price for a society to pay to avoid the adequate defense of their borders.

4- We partially defend our borders and partially impose more stringent identity requirements for both ‘us’ and ‘them’. All the previous, dishonorable conditions we allow to befall us citizens apply.

SUGGESTIONS

-All persons that are not citizens who come across our international border without the specific invitation and authorization of our Minister of Sovereignty will be considered criminals and all illegal aliens and will be arbitrarily punished, killed or deported as our Minister of Sovereignty sees fit. Without a regional majority popular vote to specify otherwise the minister will begin capturing illegals immediately.

-Any citizen residing in a district, that surpasses their obligation to reduce their population, may buy any number of imprisoned illegal aliens from our minister [if their district permits this act and the population reduction schedule is upheld]. We will require our minister to sterilize the illegal. Our minister and our confederation shall take no responsibility for any harm that may then ‘befall’ the purchased illegal.

- If no district or citizen buys the alien any foreign nation may buy an illegal alien from our Minister of Sovereignty for whatever arbitrary price our minister decides.

- If no one wishes to buy the illegal alien within whatever time the minister wishes to offer the alien for sale the minister shall then execute the illegal alien quickly.

- Districts are free to institute slavery [illegals as slaves] if they choose however; they are likely to find it economically unsound [your author recommends against it but recommends 1000 times more strenuously against any regional interference with the districts right to choose] [Most districts will choose more district births by their native population rather than importing slaves or allowing illegals into their district [environmental standards require population reduction]].    

-The Minister shall maintain a shoot-to-kill force to defend our international borders against invasion (illegal aliens) until the population levels on both sides of our border meet confederation standards. [The minister must establish a means by which his border troops will not mistakenly shoot our citizens. The Minister of Communication shall assist our Minister of Sovereignty with citizen identification issues.

-The minister’s troops shall render valuables discovered on illegal aliens to the citizens of the district in which they are seized or killed].  

-Foreigners may not gain citizenship here by marriage to one of us. In rare cases the Minister may negotiate a citizen exchange with a foreign nation. Persons born in our region of an illegal alien mother shall be of illegal alien status. 

-The Minister shall determine the rewards and tax refunds due to those of our districts that share a border with a foreign nation whose citizen’s militia prevents [shoots to kill?] illegal alien invasions without Confederation assistance.

-Congress shall monitor the minister’s level of success preventing [shooting to kill] invasion by illegal aliens. If the congress determines that our minister has been given adequate troops to defend our borders and yet high levels of illegal aliens still enter our region then congress must suggest our regional popular vote to ‘correct’ our minister.

 

MANAGING OUR MINISTER’S INVASION PREVENTION PERFORMANCE

 

The following are your author’s suggestions for our treatment of our Minister of Sovereignty according to the quality of his performance preventing illegal immigration into our noble region:

1- Exemplary success* preventing invasion shall gain the Minister an award ceremony from Congress.  *Illegal Invasions are raising our population by no more than .0001% per year.

2- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by .001% per year -- our Minister of the Environment takes charge of 50% of the Minister of Sovereignty’s troops and dedicates them and more of his own troop allotment to protect our international border with more ferocity.

3- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by .01% per year -- our Minister of the Environment takes charge of 100% of the Minister of Sovereignty’s troops and dedicates them and more of his own troop allotment to protect our international border with more ferocity.

4- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by .09% per year ---- we immediately vote the Minister of Sovereignty out of office. Our Minister of the Army intensifies border defense imprisoning 75% and killing 25% of the invading illegals.

5- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by .1% per year -- we immediately vote to have the Minister of Sovereignty subjected to one year of public humiliation. Our Minister of the Army intensifies border defense imprisoning 25% and killing 75% of the invading illegals.

6- Illegal Invasions are raising our population by 1% per year -- we immediately vote to have the Minister of Sovereignty subjected to 5 years on a 30 ft chain in a public location. Our Minister of the Army intensifies border defense, killing 100% of the invading illegals. Tortures of illegals published on the net.

7- Our Minister of Sovereignty is taking bribes to allow illegal aliens into our region -- we immediately vote to have the Minister of Sovereignty subjected to one month of public humiliation and then executed.*

*We ought to know what percentage our regional population would grow per year if we had no border protection and judge the deficiency of our minister’s performance by that figure.

We urge all nations/confederations to adopt our policy of prohibiting illegal aliens.

 

We bestow the highest loving blessing on all those who will,

one day, call our district ‘home’ by instituting the most severe prevention of illegal invasion possible!!!!!

 

5] Foreign Affairs. Much of the executive power to determine our region’s foreign affairs shall be vested with the Minister of Sovereignty. The Minister shall make many determinations of which foreign nations shall be considered favored and which are enemies. Foreign nations shall earn enemy status from us by acting 2 to 3 times more destructively toward their environment or their own people than we are to ours.

The Minister judge that a nation’s leadership to bears our region severe ill-will and thus he may appoint enemy status to that foreign nation, regardless of any evidence of hostile actions against us. The Minister may [reversible by our 'RMV' vote] prohibit our travel to, and commerce with, enemy nations. The Minister only shall have interaction with enemy foreign governments.

 

6] Affirmative Tasks and Goodwill to Districts. The Minister’s troops shall join those of the Minister of Environment to: perform of helpful deeds to benefit districts; promote troop moral and regional goodwill; advance our confederation traveling entertainment campaign. Care must be taken by our minister to assure that the Confederation’s help does not become a form of welfare upon which a district’s economy depends.

 

7] Counterfeiting. The Minister along with our Minister of Communication shall develop a comprehensive training program to prevent counterfeiting. The Minister must make the cost of this crime prevention minimal without compromising the success of the program.

 

8] Sovereignty Court. It is our hope that this court will be seldom needed. Our Minister of Sovereignty shall protect each district’s right to the first opportunity to prosecute all violators of confederation standards first before any possible prosecution by our Minister of Sovereignty. The Minister shall have unlimited discretion determining who he shall choose as a sovereignty court judge. Tenure of judges shall last no longer than the term of their appointing Minister [or their dismissal by our 'RMV'.]. No appeal other than a 'RMV' or the ‘3 out of 5 branches’ reversal, shall be available to the convicted beyond the court’s decision. The Minister shall be responsible for the justice of all his judge’s decisions and may reverse or change their decisions at will. The following are cases over which the court shall have authority:     

 

A] Criminal violation of confederation standards- Violations of both the district law and the confederation standards that the Minister cannot persuade the injured district or any other district to take, our Minister of Sovereignty must impose his justice. A district’s failure to prosecute may be due to that district’s leadership fearing that a defendant’s terrorist gang, family, friends, etc, may brutally retaliate against them. Fearful district leadership may not have the heart to prosecute a defendant who is a well-loved regional folk hero. Etc.

 

B] Prosecution of Treasonous ministers or other serious felonies against our confederation without direct injury to a particular district will be tried by the Minister of Sovereignty court. In the case of a soldier, who is not the district inspector, committing a crime against a district citizen, the Minister of Sovereignty may relinquish the soldier to the district authorities. A Ministry of Sovereignty observer will monitor every trial, conducted by a district court, against any confederation personnel. Our minister reserves the right to take custody of confederation defendants that he believes to be wrongfully convicted by a severely incompetent, district court. Our minister must realize the enormous damage the imposition of this ponderous degree of confederation power will inflict on the confidence of all district citizens in the sincerity of our confederation’s promise to maintain the sovereignty of all districts. At the poignant discretion of our minister, the defendant may be held pending a reprieve by either our 'RMV' or a confederation government ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal.

   -We regional citizens must apply the absolute highest degree of caution if we choose to free anyone, from what a district determines to be the rightful application of their justice, regardless of the importance of the convicted. We regional citizens must consider the degree to which we will undermine our own confidence in our district’s sovereignty. Our lack of this crucial confidence accelerates the erosion of our goodwill to preserve our environment at an exponential pace. If the confederation can [by way of 'RMV'] step in and reverse our district’s ‘bad’ sovereign decision then they can just as easily step in with supreme arrogance and perversely squash our most critically correct decisions.

-Our minister’s potential wrongful use of this power can strike the most brutal blow to the most powerfully inspiring tool our crusade possesses to restore our environment= CONFIDENCE IN OUR DISTRICT SOVEREIGNTY!!!!

-If we regional citizens decide to back our minister in this type of reversal of our district sovereignty principle, we must do it with the absolute confidence that we will all stalwartly maintain the following opinion about the convicting district throughout our life=

IF OUR DISTRICT WERE EVER TO ACT SO DESPICABLY, WE FERVENTLY PRAY OUR CONFEDERATION WILL INTERCEDE AND RESCUE THE WRONGLY CONVICTED MAN.

If we lack this confidence we ought not employ our regional vote to reverse the district’s decision.

 

-The Minister of Sovereignty may choose to surrender a treasonous soldier, whose treason injured a district, into the hands/court of that injured district to be tried for both the treason against the confederation and the criminal harm done to the district.

-When the Minister of Sovereignty prosecutes a high-level ministerial staff member accused of a treasonous level of graft or abuse of authority he shall determine whether the official will receive summary judgment or a trial. The minister may simply present the evidence, announce his judgment and wait three weeks for any possible reversal by our 'RMV' or our confederation government ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal. If no reversal occurs his decision stands.

-Our good Minister of Sovereignty will often decide to bring all facts of high crimes into the full public light of a trial in order that we all may determine the degree to which we are in accordance with the minister’s wise and equable judgment.

 

C] District Disputes. The Minister may issue summary judgment on any dispute between districts that are violating confederation standards during their dispute. Districts that violate no standard may use any court or arbitrator they wish to solve their disputes. Our Minister of Sovereignty may wish to avail all of us of all the facts with a televised trial covering an important dispute between districts.

 

Some of the claims to be brought before the Minister for a potential trial may be:                      

-- Civil claims for loss suffered by acts committed by cross-border criminals.

-- Flood damage suffered by a downstream district from the upstream district’s negligence.

-- Territorial disputes over land rights and boundary line placement.

-- Cross-border theft.

-- Water rights.

-- Patent infringement.

-- Cross-border pollution.

-- “Checker-Boarding” to starve out neighboring districts.  

 

“CHECKER BOARDING”

     Our minister must prevent the districts that surround their neighboring district from conspiring to blockade the borders of their “victim district” in order to starve them out and absorb their land or buy them out cheaply. All districts have the sovereign right to restrict passage across their borders as severely as they wish. Our minister must determine if the neighboring districts are unjustly punishing the “victim district” by effectively blockading them. The minister must reopen the victim district’s borders to travel and trade if this determination is made. Our minister need not apply an equal standard to all districts and situations but rather, he must promote the highest, longest-term justice. There may be a district that has somehow, in the past, unjustly burdened their neighboring districts and our minister determines that the neighboring districts are entitled to humble this district somewhat [without violating burdening district’s borders].

 

DISTRICT Disputes –cont.-The Minister must sternly govern the zeal of his prosecutors. The power to punish easily turns into a sadistic passion in men who are not held accountable for their prosecutorial behavior. Therefore, our Minister may choose to prohibit career prosecutors in favor of a 6-month turnover of his court officers. Our Minister will bear the ultimate responsibility for all the decisions concerning his courts therefore he must not anger us by doing too much or too little. The prosecution of crimes so petty they should never have involved the Confederation will earn our disgust. Sloth and cowardice displayed by the absence of punishment of more destructive crimes will not only outrage us but also raise our suspicions of graft. It is therefore the job of the Minister to inspire our confidence in him by demonstrating substance not salesmanship. With enough pictorial and publicly televised evidence the Minister may save us the expense of a trial and summarily issue judgment in many cases [all cases subject to our reversal by 'RMV' or our confederation government ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal].

    Any severe chastisement of his staff that our minister determines to be necessary might, if broadcast on region-wide TV, inspire our highest confidence. Regardless of the level of his performance, we shall best judge his sincerity by the tone of his voice when he faces real challenges. If we are ever so dissatisfied by his performance, we can quickly install a new Minister. If we are ever outraged by any minister’s destructive actions, we regional citizens stand ever prepared to use our 'RMV' to quickly shorten his life.

 

Article 5-  SECTION 4*-

MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION

 

*- Portions of section 4 are a repeat of material appearing previously in our constitution.

-The Minister shall have 25% of the Confederation’s troops trained to serve as his staff.

 

     Our Minister of Communication must be someone unquestionably honorable, incorruptible and able to choose a staff of equal stature. The Minister shall enforce all Free and Fair election standards. He must maintain our Internet voting system’s electronic security. Our minister must offer his manifesto before becoming a candidate for the office of Minister of Communication. Our minister must be well suited to 24 hours per day of our televised scrutiny of him.

The legitimacy of government depends entirely on the strength of his integrity. The pressure and scrutiny we are likely to impose on our Minister of Communication would provoke the resentment of most any person. We are confident we will choose a man superior paragon of strength for our Minister of Communication who will proudly endure any level of oppressive scrutiny we impose on him and joyfully maintain his own high morale.  

     

Our Minister of Communication’s duties include:

 

1-Voting and Elections. Assuring free and fair confederation elections. Registrar of voters. All citizens over 18 assured a right to vote. Establishing and conducting our Internet 24 hour, year-round voting system. Conducting and Broadcasting Election debates. Public election surveillance. Monitoring district elections. Monitor and regulate campaign financing. Our minister will pronounce of his decision to the other ministers exactly what our majority-will Commands our Confederation government to do.

2- Census. Conducting and assuring public access to our census. Maintaining our Regional citizen identification system.

3- Treasurer. Maintaining the confederation money accounts in district run banks. Releasing confederation funds to all the proper authorities to which those funds were budgeted.

4- Tax. Keeping an account of each district’s confederation tax surplus or debt.

5- Media. Allotting broadcast frequencies to districts [or groups of districts] for radio, TV, microwave.

 

1- Voting and Elections

 

Refer to= [Free and Fair Election Standards ARTICLE 2 SECTION 5]

 

-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.

 

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) 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-

----- are subject to both district and confederation [Minister of Communication] justice.

 

GOVERNING OF ELECTIONS AND BALLOTS

 

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, that will direct our confederation government to:                                                                                                                            

--Obey any micro-managing will we impose on our confederation. 

--[every two years] Conduct our Election of ministers [Minister of the Environment, Minister of Communication, Minister of Sovereignty, Minister of Defense/Army].

--Determine our confederation’s yearly budget including the funding level and troop allocation for the 4 ministries of our confederation.

--Establish Regional limits on weapons lethality.

--Tax percentage that districts are charged [5% of local district tax is paid to our confederation as the starting tax figure we agree upon unless amended].

--Determining the Statutory ratio/limitation of regional citizen count to the Confederation government personnel count.  

 

2-CENSUS ………… [Minister of Communication]

 

-The Minister of Communication will conduct the census specifically for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of the voting process. The minister must develop a system that will precisely identify every voting citizen in order to be certain each vote count is legitimate [not fraudulent] and correct. Our census will assist us in the identification and arrest of illegal aliens.

-Minister must know exact number of citizens that reside in our region in order to know how many citizens shall equal 50% plus one. 50% plus one is the number of votes that constitutes a majority that passes measures.

 

3-Banking/Treasury- … [Minister of Communication].

 

Our Confederation shall not coin nor print any currency. The Confederation shall not establish a national or regional currency nor shall it regulate any district/Nation’s currency.

Our confederation shall not sell bonds nor create or control a treasury nor create a national bank. Our Minister of Communication must either establish a new, or coalesce with an existing system of exchange between districts in order to obtain the value of the tax that districts pay to our confederation. Our minister will maintain a confederation account in district ‘banks’ or exchanges in every district. Our minister must possess a superior aptitude for trade and exchange from all the separate district sources in order to obtain the value necessary to pay for the cost of our confederation government.

 

4- TAX-… [REFER TO- ARTICLE 3. TAX ]

The tax amount each district pays our confederation shall not exceed 5% of the yearly amount

their district spends on their own district government.

 

-Our Confederation shall collect a tax from each district that shall be equivalent to 5% of the cost of that particular district’s yearly expenditure for their own home district government [this amount is subject to the immediate increase or decrease by majority regional popular vote].

-Our minister will deposit all confederation tax funds into confederation accounts in district banks.

-District leadership embezzlement of confederation funds will require our Minister of Communication to order an S3-1 sanction to capture the embezzler and the funds [failure to recapture the funds will necessitate our minister subtracting the amount from that district’s tax account].

-If our Minister of Communication extorts or wrongfully removes district funds, the district leadership shall issue an extradition request to our Minister of Sovereignty for the capture and punishment of the Minister of Communication.

-If the district leadership captures the criminal Minister of Communication within their district, they may punish/kill the minister without fear of confederation reprisal. If the Minister of Sovereignty is satisfied with the guilt of the Minister of Communication our Minister of Sovereignty must grant the extradition request to the injured district.

-Our Confederation shall not levy any tax on any individual citizen or commercial enterprise.

-Our Confederation shall conscientiously strive to reduce the cost to all district Nations equally as far below the allowed 5% as possible. The minister will promptly refund any yearly surplus equitably to all districts, according to the proportionate size of their tax in relation to other districts. 

-Our Confederation shall not enrich itself in money beyond the sum of one year’s operating cost over a current year’s budget without the express dictate of our 'RMV'.

-The Confederation shall negotiate a tax ‘trade’ that allows a district to pay their district inspector[s] directly in exchange for a reduction of their confederation tax bill

 

POSSIBLE TAX MODEL

-Each district/Nation that has an independent currency system may conduct a yearly local popular district vote to possibly choose the following method to pay its confederation tax=

 

The district directs their treasury/mint to print all of the money necessary to pay for all their local district government costs plus the 5% of that amount that is necessary to pay their confederation tax.

 

-In this way no individual or commercial enterprise is directly taxed either by the Confederation or by their local district government.

 

5- MEDIA

 

-The Minister shall also maintain the system by which Congress and the ministers communicate and conduct Confederation business. The Minister shall govern the free distribution of all broadcast frequencies (radio, TV, phone etc). Confederation shall retain 2% of the airways to establish government broadcast channels/webcasts/microwave transmission. The Minister shall assure an equal amount and quality of free media time to all top 10 ministerial candidates during the last 2 months before the 25-day electing process begins.

Press Conferences/Debates. All ministers are required to attend and provide answers to interviewers at no less than ten 2-hour televised press conferences/debates per year. We shall institute a 'RMV' to determine the number of press conferences and the number of debates we will require from our ministers per year.

    We seek to assure all contending political perspectives to have a Proportional opportunity to Voice their opinion to our confederation Government [all 4 ministers]. All ministers shall be required to appear in televised debates with his 10 highest vote-gaining opponents he faced in his last election. The Ministry of Communication shall conduct the debates. The debates shall be two two-hour segments with an hour and a half break between. The first segment shall be the opportunity of the tenth to the second runner up opponent from the last election to debate the Minister for 10-minutes each. These opponents shall predetermine the exact amount of their 10-minutes they will allocate to the Minister to answer their questions. The opponents may opt to give a 10-minute speech if they so desire and require no immediate answer from the minister. Opponents have the option to give the Minister their intended questions in writing beforehand if they choose.

Opponents who decline the appearance surrender their time to the remaining opponents equally. Opponents shall have the option to use a cut-off button to curtail the Minister’s answers if they please. The moderator shall instruct the Minister to stop talking and listen when the opponent employs his cut-off button. The second 2hr segment shall be a debate with the first runner-up opponent verses the minister employing the same rules and as the first segment.

     This will inspire all of us to vote in Confederation elections because of our certainty that win or lose someone representing our opinions will force his strong voice to be heard.          

     These debates are mandatory and should a Minister decline he shall be subject the disciplinary measures established by Congress and enforced by our Minister of Sovereignty [or our regional popular vote].

 

MINISTER MANIFESTO

 

--- Manifesto. Prior to election, the Minister must publish a precise compendium specifically detailing all sanctions he intends to impose on all districts he judges to be currently in violation FREE And FAIR ELECTION standards.                                                                             

Also demonstrated and outlined in his manifesto shall be the following:                                                                                                                                                      

-The grace period and specific performance he requires of the standard violating districts to enable them to avoid the imposition of sanctions. Our minister shall a Submit comprehensive compendium of standards for free and fair elections and the sanctions he intends to impose for the specific violations.

-A through knowledge of election, voting, taxation, campaign financing, media and communication principals.

-Demonstration of the Minister’s knowledge of each district’s: degree to which it’s government reflects its citizens majority will; campaign financing sanction violations; confederation tax account; vote averaging; etc.

-- An exacting account of how and why the Minister would conduct a S-3 invasion. {Keeping neighboring districts out during the S-3. Reestablishing district government. At what point he prohibits habitation in a district. Etc.)

-- His prospective allocation of his troops to districts.

--How he will instruct his troops to conduct thorough inspections while respecting citizens’ rights defending them against unreasonable search.

--The spectrum of affirmative, instructive and helpful acts his troops will perform while in districts.   

--His Encouragement the use of e-mail instead of letter mail.

--His Assistance to remote areas of districts obtaining access to voting.

--Encouragement of the total freedom of confederation government information. All us citizens may have open access to all records our confederation may have on us individually. All records on all public issues shall be open to our scrutiny.

 

 

ARTICLE 5. SECTION 5.

MINISTER OF THE ARMY [or DEFENSE]

 

PLEASE REFER TO ARTICLE 3 SECTION 2

WEAPONS STANDARDS- ‘WAR’. SECTION STATING OUR DEFENSE TACTICS.

 

     Our Minister of the Army shall be our high commander of the Confederation army. In the event of war, declared by our regional majority popular vote [or by our confederation government ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal], our Minister of the Army, in conjunction with our Minister of Sovereignty, shall conduct all military and political aspects of the conflict: logistics; supply; troop deployment; tactics; weapons allocations; accepting or refusing armistice, cease-fires, surrender, etc.; establishing provisional government in conquered territory; treatment of POWs and liberated/conquered civilians.

       In peacetime it shall be his duty to: train his men to the highest degree of professional competency for their jobs [combat and non-combat][other ministers may rely on our Minister of the Army for some specialized training of personnel for their ministry]; maintain discipline; and inspire the absolute highest morale among our soldiers.

     Establishing the highest feelings of Goodwill between our districts and the Confederation army shall be his responsibility. Military readiness in peacetime shall be a secondary responsibility of our minister. We require our minister, in conjunction with our other ministers, to actively promote the goodwill of all district citizens toward confederation soldiers/inspectors and our confederation in general. Our Minister of the Army will organize 40 to 200 confederation soldiers to conduct sports/music/recreation festivals that tour our region’s districts promoting this goodwill.

     Our Minister of the Army shall command 5% [swiftly alterable by 'RMV' vote] of all troops. New recruits and a higher percentage of existing troops and will be assigned to him in time of war.

     Absent war, our Minister of the Army is not [by your author’s current description] being assigned as much qualitative responsibility as any one of the other 3 ministers. In part 4 we will suggest more possible responsibilities to assign to our Minister of the Army. Congress may present a ballot to approve any suggested increase in the minister’s authority.

 

SECTION 5 IS COMPRISED of 5 PARTS:

1-      AUTHORITY LEVELS.

2-      GOVERNMENT OPERATION CENTER [GOC].

3-      GENERAL DUTIES And RESPONSIBILITIES.

4-      ALTERNATIVE PROPOSED DUTIES.

 

PART 1- Authority Levels

-Our regional popular vote can assign an ‘authority level’ to our Minister of the Army at any time during our year-round 24 hour voting during wartime or peace.

-We may choose to assign an exceptionally high level of power and authority to one minister [or leader] during time of war. Severe civil strife or catastrophic invasion of our region by foreign aggressors may one day arise thus demanding our most inspired selection of one charismatic, impassioned leader to take command of our Confederation’s military and government. Should foreign aggressors profane our soil, our chosen military champion will rightfully inflame our most belligerent passion to rip the hearts from our enemies thus rescuing ourselves from conquest, genocide and/or subjugation. Then, when peace is reestablished, we can bestow our highest honors, express our profound gratitude and respectfully divest our heroic leader [Minister of the Army?] of his high powers.

-We may assign congress the task of establishing election rules that resolves any conflicts that may occur if our vote assigns more than one minister a high degree of authority. Congress may also submit a measure that establishes new rules that would replace our government’s balance of power [our confederation government’s ‘3 out of 5’ branch reversal dynamic] should we regional citizens mandate that a ‘leader’ assume a large degree of authority without being a minister. We citizens may employ a 'RMV' to assign high power to anyone we choose regardless of whether we make him a minister as well.

-An ‘authority level’ vote shall be valid only when at least 70% of all regional citizens over 18 assign an authority level [any level] to any one candidate along with their vote for him.

 

ESTABLISHING THE AUTHORITY LEVEL

-Our means of determining the ‘authority level’ will be to first assign each level a point score of 1 through 8. Second, the total Authority Level scores from all votes are totaled. Third, this total is then divided by all the votes that assigned an authority level [votes not assigning an ‘authority level’ are not part of the ‘authority level’ equation] and the resulting number will be the ‘authority level’ assigned to our minister.

 

THE LEVELS

 

The following are authority levels we may assign [by 'RMV'] to our leader[s] [Minister of the Army?][our regional majority popular vote remains our supreme power over the minister]:

1. No special powers. The minister shall have the usual powers that our constitution bestows. 

2. The minister or leader may take a one-time opportunity to remove any minister with the majority vote of congress and call for a regional popular vote to replace him.

3. The minister or leader may take a one-time opportunity to remove any minister with the vote of one other minister and call for a regional popular vote to replace him.

4. The minister or leader may take a one-time opportunity to remove any minister with the majority vote of congress and replace him with his personal choice.

5. The minister or leader may remove any minister with the vote of one other minister and replace him with his personal choice.

6. The minister or leader may replace any minister with his personal choice at any time.  

7. The minister or leader shall appoint himself absolute ruler over our confederation but must respect our superior district sovereignty and shall only be replaced or denied powers only by our 'RMV' vote.

8. The minister or leader shall appoint himself absolute ruler with all powers over our confederation and all districts and shall only be replaced or denied powers only by our 'RMV' vote.

 

PART 2- Government Operations Center[s] [GOC]

OPTIONAL CONFEDERATION INVESTMENT

Under the management of the Minister of the Army.

 

[Your author’s suggested investment to wealthy regions/districts with a large surplus economy]

[The land and buildings will belong to the district in which the Center is located]

[All center staff and visitors will be governed by that district’s law]

 

     We regional citizens may wish ['RMV'] commit some tax funding [in partnership with the resident district] to establish GOCs (government operations centers). Regardless of any quantity of outside funding, district law will determine all civil rights granted to all personnel. These Government Operations Centers may provide an environmental model of villages and farms in microcosm to demonstrate methods of producing household goods, providing home services [power, waste digestion, water, etc.] and agriculture that our confederation recommends to districts.

The object of the farm, schools, hospital, media center and manufacturers is to provide districts/citizens with the instruction necessary to help them comply with all standards and become more self-sufficient.

       The host district may take charge of managing/owning the most labor-intensive operations and reap the benefits from them. Our confederation will require the district to maintain the teaching/demonstration functions of ‘their’ operation.

       The financial goal of the GOCs shall be the self-sufficiency of the center and possibly the production of goods that shall supply confederation personnel thus reducing the tax burden of all districts. The district that hosts a Government Operations Centers shall determine the level of commerce they wish to conduct with the center.

The following is a description of the size, form, function and purpose of the GOCs.

The GOCs shall serve the following main functions:         

1] Army Base and training center.

2] Operations center to accommodate part or all of one or more ministries and a partial center for congressional operations.

3] Agricultural school and research center.

4] Environmental functional models. Alternative power, sewage treatment, home building etc.

5] University. Liberal arts, medical, sciences, etc.

6] Teaching Hospital and research center.

7] Media Center.

8] Entertainment, Arts and Sports center.

 

 

FACILITY

      The size of each GOC may be about 4 square miles and should be rich in water and soil resources. Three square miles shall be crops, orchards, pasture, forest, fishponds, wild habitat [CH[s]], grass sports fields etc. One square mile [dispersed variously throughout the 4 square miles] can be comprised of various narrow battery powered vehicle pathways/parking [30 acres?], gardens [surrounding the buildings 200 acres?] indoor building compounds [100 acres?]. The sports fields of one GOC shall be extensive enough to accommodate half of our army in tents when large celebrations are held. 10 to 15 removable, one-story, modular houses of varying size and design can be provided for building demonstration purposes. At our present level of region-wide population reduction, troop accommodations and training grounds may need to cover as much as 200 acres [foot traffic only]. Again, The building compounds of the GOC must not exceed 100 acres. The entire GOC could be located within 4 square miles of existing unnecessary housing tract whereby 3 square miles of buildings are converted into farmland/wilderness and 100 acres of the remaining buildings could be converted into GOC compounds. Most of 2300 of the 2560 acres [4 square miles] of ground will be maintained in either arable or natural condition [not covered or compacted]. Perhaps, half natural and half agricultural.

     The Minister of the Army and our Minister of Communication shall manage and determine what public contributions [money and technical assistance. Some in trade for tax relief] will be accepted to help fund the Government Operations Centers. 

 

Government Operations Center[s] Description

 The following describes in greater detail the various GOC functions.        

1] Army Base.

 

    Soldiers housed at the base shall comprise the majority of students taught in the GOC facilities. Standard military training shall be taught along with the specialized skills [medical, environmental, etc.] that a soldier must learn to begin service within one of the Ministries.

2] Government Facility.

 

     This facility must be capable of temporarily accommodating some of the ministers and staff sufficient to conduct much of their governmental duties. Most ministers will govern from their home district by use of Internet/phone communication. The ministers will require adequate Government Operations Center communication equipment to perform their duties when they visit. All requisite living comforts for the ministers, staff and their spouses must be supplied [limit on the number of family members housed]. Among the separate facilities requisite are libraries, courtrooms (Sovereignty court), computers (record keeping), security equipment etc.

3] Farm and Agricultural school.

 

      One of the objects of the GOC farm shall be our Confederation’s demonstration of agriculture at its environmental best. The teachings of the many heroic ranchers and growers (i.e. Masanobu Fukuoka), who are the earth’s good stewards, shall be taught.

-- Some of the agricultural elements demonstrated shall be-

a- Manure trees among the crops and crop management.       

b- fertilizer from digested plant and animal waste.

c- No-till planting of crops.                    

d- Minimizing heavy soil compacting machine harvesting. Minimizing fuel usage.

e- Horse cart or light rail crop transport.

f- Maximum predator and prey habitat surrounding farm.

g- No pesticides or chemical fertilizer used.

h- Develop seed bank of original native disease resistant seed strains for grains,                                       fruits, vegetables, forests, grasses etc..

i- Fish farms.

j- Apiary. Honey.

k- Animal husbandry.

4] Environmental Demonstrations.

 

     The entire GOC shall demonstrate the highest adherence to the spirit of all Confederation standards especially environmental standards. The following are examples of some of the environmental practices to be demonstrated by the GOC personnel.

a—Nonpolluting power. Wind, solar, hydraulics, heat exchangers, methane digesters, tidal flow, wave power etc. to be used for electricity, heat, etc.

b—Passive sewage processing [marshland preservation].

c—Marijuana and other ligneous plants for paper, cloth, fuel, ropes and plastic.

d—Building material and techniques. Hay bail construction. Geodesic domes.

e—Lighter than air vehicles for movement of crops and heavy material without creating a road.

f--- Forest preservation.

g—Transportation. Battery powered.

5] University.

 

Refer to “Report to the Commissioners for the University of Virginia” Thomas Jefferson. August  4, 1818.

The following are subjects for instruction and research-

Letters- Literature, Grammar, Rhetoric, Ideology.

Government – Political Economy, Law (International, Municipal, Civil, Criminal), History.

Science- Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Anthropology, Mathematics, Metallurgy, Mechanics, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Ecology, Mineralogy. Medicine. Languages.

 

In order to be instructional to districts and provide goods and services, mainly to the army, the GOC University may have working shops conducting; blacksmithery auto repair, ceramics, welding, bicycle making, greenhouse nursery, brewing, foundry, paper manufacturing, electronics manufacturing, plumbing/ hardware/pipe manufacture, shoe making, gunsmithing, food processing and packaging- etc. 

Much has been written on the Philosophy of education* therefore all ministers shall give input to our Minister of the Army to aid him with his establishment of the Universities.

*Writers who might advise to our Minister of the Army might consider in the establishment of a University might include- Herbert Marcuse. Aristotle. Mortimer Adler. Thomas Jefferson.

6] Hospital and Medical Research.

 

     Our hospital and medical school shall teach first aid to every soldier and some soldiers will receive medical schooling in order to become physicians. Some soldiers will become practitioners performing vasectomies and tubule legations when requested by districts. Our Minister shall endeavor to advance the cause of medical research as far as financial prudence will allow. The Minister of Sovereignty shall determine the degree to which districts shall be allowed to rely on Confederation expenditures to provide medical service to them.        

7] Media Center.

 

Each GOC shall have a communication center that will amply provide for every communication/record keeping need of the Minister of Communication. All citizens will be offered a means of assessing:

A] The accuracy and honesty of this the central electronic vote counting system.

B] The comprehensive electronic (internet) library.

C] Confederation records.

D] The televised government debates, press conferences, meetings and the televised campaign and election process etc.

8] Entertainment, Arts and Sports Center.

 

     -Celebrations. Reverence for place. Demonstrating joy-filled participatory events.-

    A culture of enriching/exciting ceremonies, rituals, traditions, pageantry, celebrations and entertainment unalterably infuses every heart with a reverential love for that culture and, most importantly, for their land. When most every member of our district confidently anticipates frequent, high-energy, community celebrations that joyously unite our culture, our pride of place and value of our fellow district citizens multiplies exponentially. With this confidence, we then revere our land and seek to heighten the magnificence of our own paradise home. Our profound enrichment of our district cultures elevates our district home to the stature of our greatest source of joy by far thus rendering our regard for excessive travel as a truly doubtful source of pleasure. This is the cultural wealth that inspires environmental preservation. Thus, we advance our environmental crusade by heightening the joyfulness of our home district’s many celebrations. Perhaps once per year we would conduct a regional festival. 

      Confederation festivals on the GOC’s grounds shall inspire the joyful goodwill and fellowship between all districts and between all district citizens and Confederation troops. Soldiers are encouraged to make vigorous use of all outdoor and indoor sporting facilities and develop competitive leagues that include army and citizen teams. The music, art and theater taught ought to be of the variety most popular with the most people although eclectic tastes may also be accommodated. The potential inventiveness of our citizens who are inspired to demonstrate new forms of mass participatory entertainment, knows no bounds.

      Our Confederation army shall invite all our region’s citizens and the citizens of the closest 30-40 districts will be particularly encouraged to attend the confederation festival. The resident District officials will reserve the right to deny entry to anyone or group they choose. The regional festival will be a massive “county fair/festival/celebrations/concert/sporting event to be conducted on GOC grounds. Many organizations both public and private may compete for large audiences, therefore the confederation’s festival may not be the only regional festival. The production of the army’s festivals will, hopefully, become popularized among homelands. We hope districts and homelands will invite portions of the Confederation army to participate in the festivals of their own creation. Your author envisions a mostly frenzied, hedonistic, sometimes reverent, carnival atmosphere. Among the events might be: massive group, tribal, hypnotically intoxicating, ritualized, somewhat competitive singing, drumming and dancing ceremonies; and, storytelling (legends, tall tales, prognostication, political and social satire); many participatory sports; bands; thrill rides; rodeo; capture the flag (paintball?); haunted house (?); and any ingenious entertainment any of us who are eager to invent new thrills might bestow to the rest of us. 

 

PART 3

GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

The following shall be the duties and responsibilities of the Minister of the Army-

 

1] Delicate balance of district verses confederation authority over Soldiers/inspectors. Our Minister of the Army will be primarily responsible for maintaining the discipline of all inspectors. This high standard of discipline is crucial in order that as few inspectors as possible offend district citizens and their authorities. Our Minister of Sovereignty is assigned the power to reverse any district decision to punish any confederation personnel. He has that power but is given our sternest admonition to use it only in the most desperate of circumstances. In part 4 we will suggest special duties we may assign to our Minister of the Army. We shall establish the means by which districts, our confederation and inspectors will be assured that they all mat rely on equal justice.

They all must be made thoroughly confident the highest possible care will be taken by our confederation in their application of only the most impeccably just decisions to determine the fate of inspectors accused of any offence against a district. All standard-upholding districts must be completely confident they may rightfully arrest and punish inspectors that violate district law without suffering at the hands of a vengeful confederation. Our confederation must be confident their inspectors may perform their duty without suffering unjust punishment from district authorities.

2] The minister’s inspectors will possess the highest character and judgment.

     a- Confidentiality. We charge our Minister of the Army with a campaign to assure all citizens that CIVIC crimes [murder, common theft, etc.] will not be reported by our inspectors or soldiers to district or confederation authorities. Inspectors will be instructed to report only violations of confederation standards and these violations will only be reported, confidentially, to confederation officials. In order to assure each district will have the first opportunity to punish district citizens who violate confederation standards, Confederation authorities must report these standard violations that inspectors witnessed to district authorities. The obvious benefit to districts is their opportunity to both, avoid the imposition of confederation sanctions against them and protect their citizens from law-breakers. Our Minister of the Army will assist all district authorities by illustrating various, non-punitive options they might employ to best persuade their citizens to cease the violation of various confederation standards.

   b- Restraint. Soldiers may return no verbal insult he may receive from a citizen.

   c- Courage, Loyalty. Soldiers shall be perfectly self-restrained from offering any harm except in self-defense and at the same time perfectly prepared to fight, kill and face life-threatening peril if ordered.

3] Democratic Military. The Minister of the Army shall promote and support [within the realm of what is practicable and financially feasible] the right of soldiers to vote to decide who among them will receive advancements and/or discipline. Troops will be encouraged also to democratically best advance their general welfare within the constraints of the budget and common sense.

4] Roads. The Minister shall endeavor to maintain mobility of troops without improving any road in any district unless approved by the Minister of Environment.

5] Sterilization. Our Minister shall require soldiers to abide by the regional average concerning their own sterilization. All districts are likely to independently adopt measures requiring differing quantities of their citizens to be sterilized in order to uphold confederation population reduction standards. The Minister will “average” these percentages among all districts and require that percentage of his troops to be sterilized.

6] Alternating Duty. The Minister may choose to alternate the duty and location of soldiers approximately every 6 months in order to occasionally prevent boredom with routine and frequently to prevent potential bribery or extortion of either the district leadership by troops or visa-versa. Our Minister of Communication shall submit all ballots from all sources [all ministers, congress, others] that are composed for the purpose of establishing a standard by which soldiers are rotated between duties and districts. If the Frequency of Troop rotation is determined by 'RMV' vote our Minister of the Army receives a clear directive. Soldiers shall also contribute democratic input to determine the frequency of their rotation and their preferred location of duty and our minister may consider their preference.

7] Soldier’s Payment. Our Minister of the Army shall be responsible to each confederation soldier to fulfill our confederation contract of payment for their service. Our confederation’s failure to pay troops will authorize soldiers to desert. The home district of each unpaid soldier shall appeal to our Minister of Communication for tax credit in the amount owed to that soldier. The district may then pay the soldier. Soldiers that remain unpaid are likely to rightfully inspire a ceaseless lowering of troop morale.

8] Morale. Our Minister of the Army must inspire the highest sense among citizens and troops that there are few higher callings than becoming a soldier of our Confederation. Our troops heroically champion our noble cause and our Minister of the Army must be a worthy of the admiration of champions everywhere. Our minister shall inspire by example of self-sacrifice on behalf of our noble environmental crusade. The Minister shall assign missions whereby a soldier can employ superior wit and guile to achieve honors due him for heroic service. The perilous stealth, iron nerves and audacious courage our soldiers will demonstrate when undertaking the missions to which our Minister of the Army will assign them will entrench them in the annals of honor and heroism. We seek a charismatic Minister of the Army who shall make of every soldier an emissary of goodwill, a man of gentle patience yet eminently capable of decisive, violent action. He shall successfully train his soldiers to be men of humility who shall freely admit their mistakes yet are confident that the greater good bestowed by their mission imbues them with nobility. A Soldier shall be a man made confident that our Minister of the Army will be certain our entire region honors him for the heroic sacrifice he endures in his everyday struggle to gain the greatest good for our beloved region.

9] Manifesto. As a candidate he shall render his manifesto that demonstrates, as much as writing can, that he has the requisite wisdom, knowledge and courage to be our Minister of the Army.

10] Military Tactics. [Hopefully, excellent diplomacy [or terror threats] will render all combat tactics unnecessary]. Should outnumbered confederation soldiers come under attack in a district, against which no S-3 orders are declared, the instructions shall be to escape or defend but not attack. We realize the violence that is necessary if men must defend themselves in hand-to-hand combat. Our minister must leave a wide margin for judging spontaneously provoked, violent conflict between small numbers of soldiers and citizens. Only when an S3 [or more] is ordered may soldiers initiate aggression. Our confederation soldier’s personal dealings with district citizens, one-on-one, during peacetime ought to be characterized by his eagerness to promote goodwill to the district. They shall defend themselves only as a last resort. The Minister shall teach his soldiers the humility necessary in most all their dealings with citizens.

-Our Minister of the Army will possess the military genius necessary to assure victory and, at the same time, preserve as much life as possible. When to ambush, flank, decoy, redirect an attack, retreat, infiltrate and employ all other tactics your militarily ignorant author hasn’t included here shall be perfectly mastered by our Minister of the Army. In S3 conflicts with districts, we instruct our Minister of the Army to assemble a force 10 times numerically larger than the forces assembled within the district and hopefully secure a bloodless victory with his tour de force.

     In war with foreign nations we vest our Minister of the Army with the authority to determine nearly all military decisions. The tactic of terrorism shall require 70% of all of us 18 or older to vote for this action. Terrorism tactics are likely to be specified/averaged by us, the 70% approving voters.

11] District Crime. Special agreements [rare] may be made, with the agreement of all parties [district leadership and confederation authority and the inspector], for an inspector to assume the additional, simultaneous duty of district policeman [industrious inspectors might wish to earn more money]. These rare agreements will be approved only when the minister in authority is satisfied that the inspector’s confederation duties will not be impaired by his other employment by the district as one of their policemen. These agreements can lessen our inspector’s effectiveness since many of the civic law-breakers who would have confided information about confederation standard violators would no longer speak to our policeman/inspector. District majority popular vote shall overrule these agreements when they please.

-With the request of district authorities, soldiers may: kill that district’s invaders on sight; defend a victim they witness being attacked; or arrest persons in their district for the violation of Confederation standards. It is, however, preferable that district authorities perform their own civil police work.

 -Only an S3 invasion declared by a Minister shall warrant the use of confederation ordered searches, seizures or arrests by soldiers. Inspectors without district authorization, during normal peacetime duty in districts, shall have no police powers.

-A 'RMV' will be conducted for the purpose of establishing a standard code of conduct during any possible S3 invasion that best protects civic and human rights and establishes the most humane treatment possible toward us citizens during S3 invasions. Confederation inspector will preserve the confidentiality of district citizens if they are observed in the commission of CIVIC crimes even during an S3 invasion. 

12] Agency. Our minister will forbid all soldiers from engaging in any employment by any commercial enterprise of foreign nations while on duty for our confederation. A soldier may not be employed to impose any CIVIC district penalty upon district citizens even if he has gained employment as a district policeman as well as confederation inspector. No soldiers may be employed by one district to act against another.

13] Personal Assistance. Barring preexisting orders, Soldiers may use their own judgment, if they wish, to lend a fellow citizen assistance with a task or rescue them from danger.

14] Firearms. All soldiers must abide by the rule of district law permitting or forbidding firearms. Soldiers will respect the Constitutional right of all citizens to carry domestically approved firearms in districts that permit firearms.

15] Ecology. All soldiers shall be trained to recognize stresses to the ecosystems that are indicative of Confederation standard violations and report the same to their confederation leadership.

16] MEDICINE. Our minister will provide as much medical training as possible to all troops and to inspectors particularly. Our minister will train inspectors to perform vasectomies and tubule legations surgery especially and will offer this skill to districts as a goodwill tribute from our confederation.

 

PART 4

ALTERNATIVE POTENTIAL DUTIES

 

Troop discipline, troop training and management of our GOC ought to leave our Minister of the Army available to accept higher responsibilities. The following is a list of potential duties our minister may undertake if we regional citizens approve these programs and allocate the funds adequate to finance them:

1- SPECIAL PROJECTS CORPS.

Our minister shall form divisions/battalions/squads of troops of all numerical sizes, trained in many skills and prepared to be deployed by the other ministers in multifarious projects. The budget of many ministers may only provide for standard enforcement and deployment of their inspectors. Our Minister of the Army can train troops for many projects beneficial to districts. Some projects might be modeled loosely on the USA’s ‘WPA’ of the Roosevelt years.

-Our minister must teach as many skills as possible that will be useful to our confederation, to private employers and also to the self-reliant farmer and householder. We seek to provide all troops with skills that are of the most benefit to them after their service to our confederation is over.

-Our minister may assemble a multitalented squad of 20 men to lead many [300?] willing district citizens in building an ideal public works project in their home district. Your author envisions a district water/sewer/power project that poses minimal expense to our confederation. District labor may only be available a few months per year so the project could take many years. The only benefit to the confederation would be the environmental improvement and the added economic/political stability of the district. This improved infrastructure would provide self-sufficiency to fewer district citizens on a large [600 acres?] partial of currently overpopulated, overdeveloped land. Converting land that never should have been developed back to its wild state [on half of it?] and to farms/gardens [on half of it?] profoundly ennobles us all in ways most of us alive today we never dreamed possible.    

-Our minister may provide traveling expenses to many 3 to 6 man squads to pose themselves as people deserving trust enough to get close enough to kill or capture the many billionaires who would be most likely to finance attacks on our region. Our minister would order our squads to take pictures of them and their families in order to prove our ability to murder them if we choose.

No threat of terror tactics are too severe if they successfully provide the means by which war is avoided. We would deploy our heroes to prevent attacks against us, not to attack others or expand our region.

-Our minister will recruit scientists of all disciplines to conduct research and pilot programs that will best provide general and environmental benefits to our region. One environmental dilemma our minister will resolve will be achieving a region-wide consensus on what products ought to be produced in which districts [in all districts?] and what products ought to be imported by many districts from fewer districts, in order to yield the least environmental damage. Our confederation wishes to provide the most environmentally sound means by which all districts can achieve as much self-reliance as possible by producing as many of their goods from their own district resources. In order to cause as little environmental damage as possible, some products and raw material must come from outside most districts [complex electronics, steel and iron products [engines, cable, ovens, durable goods, some medicines, etc]. Our minister may deploy many men to train district companies in the best, environmentally sound methods to acquire the raw material and make the products that ought to be acquired and made within district borders. Our minister’s researchers will calculate the best means by which goods that must be imported to districts will require as little road and vehicle use as possible. Providing districts with products is always a delicate assessment of which approach will cause the least environmental damage. The environmental destruction caused by vehicle and road building [and use of both] is minimized when products are produced locally but the excessive, local acquisition of raw materials [and fuel] destroys many acres of district land [plus, some district manufacturing plants could possibly be unnecessary and redundant]. Conversely, the environmental destruction of district acreage [plus district air/water/soil pollution] is minimized when products, that otherwise would have been made in the district, are imported into the district using minimum transportation needs [fewest roads, fewest vehicles, least miles traveled].

-Our minister will develop superior police tactics that best spare the lives and dignity of both citizens and police. Some incorrigible standard violating citizens [weapon standards especially] may require special tactics to spare lives. Districts that invite our confederation to arrest their heavily armed [standard violating] citizens ought to expect the most humane, effective methods to be used in their apprehension. With much time, either non-lethal ambush or starving the surrounded suspect might be employed.

 

WITH TIME MANY STELLAR ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS MAY BE CONCEIVED And ADOPTED BY 'RMV' OR OUR CONFEDERATION GOVERNMENT ‘3 OUT OF 5’ BRANCH MANDATE.

 

ARTICLE 6- AMENDMENTS

 

 A vote of two thirds of all citizens 18 years of age or older will amend to our Constitution.

 

CONCLUSION

 

     The more passionately we devote ourselves to district [district sovereignty], regional and world implementation of our constitution, the more confident we become that our individual life accounts for being a force of good in the world. Our collective action and collective success will inspire first thousands, then millions to advance this simple, noble crusade, self-evidently destined to establish a world-wide, unalterable dynamic of human will at its best. This dynamic of freedom and environmental healing will not alter over time.

Once we all get our first bite of the glorious power that enables us to rip our destiny out of the malignant jaws of big money and big government, we will realize our ravenous, lifelong hunger to establish our autonomous dynamic of freedom and we will never relinquish it. All humanity burns with fierce, instinctual desire to regain this freedom. The world under our Constitution is a free world not a dominated one.  

 

     Only the most cowardly cynics among us will refuse to comprehend how simple and certain are the enormous rewards realized by even the most frightened allegiance to our constitution.

 

     Imagine the future condition of your land within 10 miles of where you live today and the degraded life the unfortunate people will live upon it 150 years from now if our environmental horrors continue unabated. What if these diseased, beleaguered unfortunates could walk up to our face right now and point to the legacy of environmental degradation we have imposed on them? What feeble rationalization would we offer to acquit ourselves. How crushing is the mountain of humiliation heaped onto us as we suffer their judgment of us? Deep in our hearts where pride and honor should be glowingly resplendent resides the corrosive, desperate fear of the terrible shame to which posterity’s judgment would condemn us. In the most cowardly, disingenuous fashion we irresponsible children have sought to rationalize our disgrace away or deaden our pain with a myriad of obsessive behaviors [TV, food, trips, pills, religiosity, excess of all kinds].

 

 

FINALLY! OUR SALVATION!!!!

 

OUR ALLEGIANCE TO OUR CONSTITUTION

RESTORES OUR HONOR!!

 

     With our sword, forged of molten courage, we shall confidently triumph over every despoiler of the earth until we achieve the restoration of our land back into the glorious paradise, the possession of which we are naturally, unalterably entitled. Each day we act to further our 'DSM' goals we draw nearer to achieving our ultimate purpose of attaining the day when man’s collective effect on the planet does more good than harm.

 

Copyright 2000 Bill Kahn usa.

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ACTION TO TAKE

 

STAND UP STRAIGHT!!

YOUR ACQUIESCENCE TO THIS HORROR ENDS NOW!!!!

THE WORLD IS BEING SAVAGELY VIOLATED

AND

YOU ARE ITS RESCUER!!!

 

OUR 'DSM' CRUSADE. ‘DISTRICT SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT’. DIRECT DEMOCRACY.

 

     Global communication [internet] is primed to carry the most inspiring, hopeful message ever bestowed on mankind. Our crusade bestows the world’s best hope of instituting global justice and environmental redemption by instituting worldwide direct-democracy through the use of 24-hour Internet voting. Our former, justifiably apathetic attitude toward voting will be forever transformed into passionate determination when our majority vote commands instant dictatorial power. Your dedication of fifteen minutes per day [appx.] of determined, purposeful voting, will establish our majority power to wrest total command of all the world’s resources away from today’s moneyed interests who despoil them. We offer our 'DSM' constitution as the absolute best model for a government. By dedicating our voting energy to achieving the noble 'DSM' principals we accelerate our seizure of power a hundredfold. We all possess a deep instinctual need to wield maximum individual power over our local government and possess an equally compelling need to liberate our local district ‘nation’ from nearly all outside influence and authority. Our 'DSM' constitution is the supreme fulfillment of this primal human need by irrevocably instituting the absolute nation-level sovereignty of each district/nation [district= 25 to 1000 square miles]. Our 'DSM' crusade assures all of us 1000 times greater ownership of our local land and its resources. Every district leader and source of wealth to empower our district leaders will be contained within our district borders thereby rendering them 1000 times more fearful of us citizens and our local majority vote. This moment-to-moment, close-proximity total control we will have over our ‘nation’s’ leaders will force them to swiftly obey every whisper of a majority vote [quorum required] we register at any hour of any day. You and your local majority are the rightful sovereign rulers of your local part of the world and advancing the 'DSM' movement is the self-evidently best means of reclaiming this birthright. In order to best illustrate the degree of ‘nation-level’ sovereignty our 'DSM' movement bestows upon districts, only we district citizens [not federal governments or any corporation], by our majority vote, are endowed with the supreme moral right to: totally refuse to export or permit any outsiders to benefit from any of our district’s resources; refuse or permit entry into our district; create, ratify and enforce all our own civic/criminal laws in total opposition [if we choose] to any outsiders laws; close all the roads [if we choose] that pass through or exist within our district borders. The internet is the new, perfect tool to secure the supreme political power upon any voting majority anywhere and, by use of this tool, our 'DSM' movement will accelerate the accomplishment of every worthy goal we could possibly wish to achieve, including any degree of district sovereignty we may wish to establish.

 

INTERNET VOTING. 15 MINUTES PER DAY [MOST DAYS]. ALL YEAR.

    We need not become martyrs to achieve the noble 'DSM' goals. None of our efforts need pose any danger of us: being killed; arrested; breaking laws; ‘demonstrating’; or, sending money to people [charities] that you and I don’t know. Our collective goals can be achieved by our individual dedication of as little as 15 minutes per day [extra-governmental voting on the internet mainly]. You will form an extra-governmental voting group of about 30+ of your neighbors to: elect the leaders of your group; amend and ratify your 'DSM' constitution; take actions to benefit your district and weaken current government; form liaisons with other district’s voting groups. We recommend that your extra-governmental voting group adopt your own version of the following endeavors designed to best cultivate local sovereignty, direct-democracy, peace, justice, liberty, environmental restoration and the better world that direct majority rule will inexorably create.

CHART- TIME TABLE & GROUP SIZE

This chart outlines the approximate growth rate over time for your extra-governmental voting group.

Numbers may vary in rural, sparsely populated areas.

 

STEP ONE------ 2 to 8 weeks= 10 to 30 members.

Be brave! It all starts with you! Your neighborhood group can begin extra-governmental voting either by Internet or group meetings. Pick a local issue that you are certain will seize the interest of many of your neighbors. The grander goal of worldwide direct-democracy may inspire your neighbors to join your voting group as well. Then knock on your neighbor’s doors to recruit members. Everyone realizes they can get what they want far easier by collective, rather than individual effort. Establish parliamentary/personal respect. Read 'DSM' constitution. Begin amending future constitution. Begin voting to take small ‘safe’ [no arrests] ‘actions’. Elect leaders for your group.

 

STEP TWO---- 1 to 6 months= 50 to 300 members.

Continue all endeavors begun in STEP ONE. Incrementally increase the importance of your actions [without being arrested]. Elect your ‘leaders in theory’. Elect members to debate [as if they were in authority] the duties and measures to be taken by the leadership that would govern your district were it free of your current nation’s control. Vote to decide if your group will support a candidate for current district government. Liaison with other voting groups from other districts to consolidate power. Your group buys [if it hasn’t yet] a hosted, interactive website to count your votes on the net.

 

STEP THREE----- 3 to 10 months= 100 to 3000 members.

Continue all endeavors from STEP ONE And TWO. In conjunction with other groups from other districts, vote to establish potential district and regional borders. Consolidate/increase the inclusiveness of your group’s membership within the radius of your two most geographically distant members.

If conflict arises between your members over the accuracy of your vote count, consider hiring ‘our company’ to count your votes. Begin announcing in the media the criminality of current district government due to the disparity between their actions and the actual mandate of the district’s majority will as evidenced by your extra-governmental vote count.

 

STEP FOUR----- 6 to 20 months= 200 to 10,000 members.

 Continue all endeavors from STEP ONE, TWO And THREE. Your group leaders discover new, SAFE, inspiring, increasingly beneficial ‘actions’ to take in your district or you vote in new, better leaders. Continue to weaken current government.

 

STEP FIVE----- 10 to 40 months= 90% of all residents in your district.

Continue all endeavors from STEP ONE, TWO, THREE and FOUR. Liaison with other voting groups in all the other districts within your entire county. Begin to establish a countywide consensus, especially on environmental issues. Keep recalling succeeding judges, councilmen and mayors until they instantly obey your local majority will. Force the mayor to fire every current policeman that you choose and hire the new ones you choose.

Once your local police and mayor become your accomplices you ought to exponentially increase environmental benefit of the actions [both legal and ‘illegal’ actions] your group votes to take. 

 

STEP SIX- 18 to 70 months= 90% of all residents in your County.

Maintain district sovereignty. Only your district citizens’ vote counts for CIVIC district issues.

Continue all endeavors from STEP ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR and FIVE. The extra-governmental voters outside your district must vote to respect your district’s sovereignty [and you theirs].

Defend the right of your district to autonomously decide its own extra-governmental CIVIC issues within your district’s borders. Continue to increase the importance of your environmental actions. Unify all of your district voting groups within your county to firmly establish your countywide majority choice on every important county issue. When your current county government decides in defiance of your voting groups’ consensus, especially on environmental issues, you must vote to punish and shame them. Use the media to demonstrate the disparity between current county government actions and the actual countywide consensus on these issues.

Also, you ought to remove and instantly arrest the worst current county/city/district government officers who conspire to despoil the environment. Begin to unify all voting groups within your region to eventually establish a solidly verifiable regional majority vote on regional issues. The ultimate regional issue is a majority regional vote on peaceful secession from your current nation.

 

STEP SEVEN----- 28 to 150 months= 90% of all residents in your Region.

Continue all endeavors from STEP ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE and SIX. Unify all of your district voting groups within your region to firmly establish your regional majority choice on every important regional issue. Begin to do the same for your entire nation. Maintain the sovereignty of your district and be certain your district’s voting group is willing to obey the sovereignty exceptions listed in the 'DSM' constitution. Be certain to apply your district’s extra-governmental vote to establish the correct balance of power between your district and the regional government even before secession occurs. Elect your regional leadership of your regional confederated ['DSM'?] government. Begin to garner the political power of all nations who are in agreement with your region’s right to secede from your current nation. Amend and Ratify your final draft of your regional constitution ['DSM' constitution?]. Our regional extra-governmental leadership must secretly recruit and instruct thousands of the willing heroes, within and outside our region’s borders, who will be necessary to enforce our secession if our current nation violently opposes us. Conduct a regional extra-governmental vote to establish the final majority approval of the tactics [proposed by our leadership] to accomplish secession if it is violently contested by our current nation.

 

STEP EIGHT----- 60 to 600 months= WE WIN!!

Establish the worldwide support sufficient to assure your region’s successful secession.

Maintain district sovereignty. Only your district citizens’ vote counts for CIVIC district issues.

Continue all endeavors from STEP ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX and SEVEN. All districts understand that your current nation has been made to realize that it will be opposed by a military force that is 10 times greater than its own if they oppose our region’s peaceful secession. Our current nation has been informed by many of the world’s nations that they will cancel their trade agreements they have with them if our region’s secession is violently opposed. Your trusted regional leadership declares marshal law and submits your approved declaration of independence to our current nation.

Peaceful secession is achieved!!!!!! Respectful trade is conducted between our new confederation’s regional government and our former nation. Your author is confident your region will have established many successful strategies to triumph if, in its current, weakened condition, our former nation makes the suicidal decision to start a criminal civil war against us. To the horror of our former nation’s pathological leadership, they will witness their troops on the battlefield turn, en masse, leaving them and joining us. The civil war could conclude in one day and be distinguished by our uproarious, triumphant laughter at the foolish dreams of our former nation’s pathetically inadequate “leadership”.

 

 

SUGGESTED METHODS for ACTIONS and GROUP DYNAMICS

 

BEGINNING ACTIONS

We all can marshal [or be marshaled by] 30 of our closest neighbors to begin our extra-governmental [outside government] voting campaign. The actions taken [by vote] ought to be those least likely to provoke arrests while, at the same time, bestow increasing benefit to your local district/community.

This voting and action taking is the beginning of an incremental process that is certain to result in the worldwide adoption of the 'DSM' constitution, district by district.

   Your group ought to make at least 5 decisions per week to resolve multifarious issues. The more small actions your group agrees to take and, hopefully, gain an 80% or larger majority agreement, the better. In order to assure that we all ‘back’ the majority decision we can try the ‘25-cent ante’ method. This method would require each member of our little group of 30 neighbors to agree to contribute 25-cents apiece [per week?]. Then you vote what tiny [$7.50] action will best advance the collective ‘good’ for our district or membership that week or day [?]. Some examples of little [$7.50] actions might be: ½ hour of litter pick-up; planting a tree; pulling some weeds; distributing flyers [to expand your group]; phone calls/letter writing to government offices to redress our grievances; etc. For a wider variety of more detailed potential measures please refer to our ‘SAMPLE BALLOT’.

 

ADVANCED ACTIONS

   Every effort must be taken to conduct at least 2 years of safe ‘actions’ that advance our 'DSM' cause so profoundly that our hearty optimism and enthusiasm is maintained. Maintaining the rate of ‘increasingly effective advancement’ high enough to incite our continued passion, without provoking arrests [or worse] by current district authorities [criminals usually], is our most daunting challenge. In every district there are those natural, undiscovered leaders who possess the matchless genius for choosing the precise actions and strategy that will, both, inspire us, keep us safe from arrest and safely’ weaken current government. We are all eager to become superbly confident we will pursue the most successful, least perilous course to weaken them and prepare our extra-governmental government to peacefully assume truly just authority. You must seek out those among you best qualified to bestow this justified confidence.

 -Your author recommends that your group discover the exact likelihood of arrest of each action your group votes to take.

-Calculate the ratio of benefit gained versus the risk [potential cost [arrests?]] incurred by each action, then, employ your most judicious decision [vote] to approve or disapprove the action. You ought to have voted to choose the dollar amount the group would award to those who are arrested for the actions your group directs. Please vote, also, how many arrests are too many for your group to endure even if those arrested are perfectly satisfied by the award. Adjust the risk level of your actions accordingly.

-If we synchronize the district actions we take with those that others take in their district we can, eventually, overwhelm the abilities of all local police to control us.

 

GROUP RESPECT

    Your group ought to remain small [30 to 50 members] for a few months in order to firmly establish mutually respectful behavior among your members at meetings. Also, you ought to maintain the group at low membership while you are establishing an adequately high percentage of the members participating [voting] on a high enough number of issues per week. Most importantly, those voting in the minority must demonstrate respect for the decisions made by your group’s majority. Most of us ought to experience being in the minority at least once and respecting the decision [vote] made by the majority. Also, when we are in the majority camp we ought to respectfully hear the dissenting arguments of the minority. It is crucial that we 30+ of us are absolutely confident of this respectful dynamic of critical debate between us in order to: arrive at the most informed, judicious majority decisions; and, demonstrate to newcomers our eagerness to assure that all views [not every voter] are respectfully heard on every issue before our majority vote is established.

Some of your neighbors might not be ‘well adjusted’ enough to function as a respectful adult in a social setting. If your group’s majority votes to permit a member to participate online only, then his vote will be registered even if his attendance at your meetings is prohibited.

 

READING And AMENDING OUR 'DSM' CONSTITUTION. Confederation leadership.

    During the time [3 months?] we are voting to take these small, practical actions, we can also be voting on the theoretical amendments we would suggest be made to our 'DSM' constitution. These issues concern the kind of regional government we would establish when [5?– 50? years from now?] we secede from our current government and form a confederation with our surrounding districts.

   During the advance into the first 1 to 3-year period you must elect the regional leaders whose duty it would be [in the future] to lead our confederation government. Your district, in league with the many other neighboring districts within the geographical region [30,000 to 50,000 square miles- the borders of which you and the citizens of your region will also establish], will, one day, be minimally governed by such elected confederation leaders. All of us ought to participate in our extra-governmental direct-democracy that chooses, replaces, censors and reverses the decisions of, all our extra-governmental leaders. Our potential leaders [that we will frequently replace] ought to be required to state [on our voting website] the remedies they would apply to about 20 critical issues per month and we must then vote our support or opposition to each of these future remedies. This 1 to 3-year extra-governmental voting dynamic will force us keenly defines the noble goals [primarily environmental goals] we seek to achieve once we 'DSM' crusaders become the government.

    Completely independent of our regional constitution ought to be our district constitution that, one day, establishes a just government within our sovereign district. Our comprehensive 'DSM' constitution establishes the most environmentally responsible governing dynamic ever conceived, however, your district majority may amend it to suit your future needs. Your group of 30+ ought to determine your majority opinion on as many constitutional issues as possible during this early period. Reading and amending the 'DSM' constitution becomes critical to inspiring our most profound determination to achieve the most noble goals that leave the most lasting benefit. After reading the 'DSM' constitution we might vote on what action we would direct our district government and regional government to take in response to current world and local affairs.

[Your author advises you to look to the truly important issues rather than the specious ‘talking points’ on popular media]. Look to how you would direct your district government to best assist your district’s citizens to establish the most autonomous, prosperous, environmentally responsible livelihood possible. Among the future issues upon which we should eventually establish a solid 80% majority opinion ought to be: what environmental goals we would seek; maximum population within our district we would permit; means to maintain our mandated district population level; the degree of direct-democracy power we would grant to dictate regional and district issues [power of citizens versus the leadership]; how we would distribute/administrate land and wealth [economic issues]; our management of foreign trade; our defense against district or regional attack; our alliances; law enforcement; etc.

 

EXPANSION OF YOUR GROUP’S MEMBERSHIP

      With a 3-month history of strong agreement among at least 80% of 30+ of us on the most significant issues possible, our group might consider expanding to be as inclusive as possible of the closest 300 neighbors to be new voters within our group. The eventual goal is to include every single neighbor living in your district.

Determining a just and realistic map outlining where to establish your district’s borders is complex and fraught with the potential for intense strife among competing districts. Please refer to our hypothetical geographic model in our 'DSM' constitution for guidance on this difficult issue. At this point the group might consider paying the $20, or so, per month [for our entire group] to obtain a hosted/dedicated website to count votes and voice opinions over the web. All the previous activities and theoretic voting ought to continue and the actions can begin to increase in importance and effect.

 

VOTING WEBSITE. SECURITY. ANTI-FRAUD. ANTI-HACKING

     We could, at this point, elect a website manager/vote counter. His job would be: verification of neighborhood residency; hacking prevention; vote fraud prevention; reporting criminal coercion/extortion that influences votes; posting our daily ballots and results; posting member’s arguments, pro and con, on the issues; posting proposals of actions to take [ballot measures]; posting links to member’s personal/political websites; posting neighborhood events/news; etc. The anti- ‘Vote fraud’ duties of our Webmaster would include the prevention of outside parties [criminals] from: reversing votes; removing votes; adding fraudulent votes; or, the buying of votes. The usual web security software ought to be sufficient for this purpose. The more critical vote security becomes for your group [when your membership is in the 1000s] the more you ought to consider hiring ‘our company’ to count your votes. ‘Our company’ will be regarded as the most trusted, trust-worthy, secure Internet vote-counting company on the planet.

 

CELEBRATE

     This progress toward gradually building a local government outside the control of authorized government should be gloriously inspiring as well as the most effective means of combating the injustice of your current government. Outstanding morale is critical. We ought to richly celebrate our new honorability. It helps to ‘be honored’ by others but, your confidence that your most sincere efforts applied to the 'DSM' crusade will definitely achieve mankind’s most noble goals is your most meaningful assurance that you ought to credit yourself with the quality of honor. Make your parties thrilling, high-energy events that build solidarity and inspire your eagerness to honor your deserving members and be honored by them. These are ceremonies you can eventually organize. Your joyful block party might send out groups of ‘emissaries’ to knock on doors to invite more neighbors to participate in your voting group and your parties. It shouldn’t be difficult to persuade people to join your voting group when they realize the added benefit of party invitations. Also, everyone wishes to have their voice heard and vote counted concerning community affairs.

 

COMBATING INJUSTICE

  Authorities at all levels will realize that all people [including them, if they are honest] will be fiercely inspired to wrest ‘the power to run the world’ away from the rapacious, unelected, moneyed interests in control now and return it to its rightful owners= the majority of us citizens. They will fear the moral supremacy of our movement. If your local authorities are punishing members of your group for actions [supported by a majority of the district’s citizens***] that are absolutely lawful, and/or harmless* with such barbarity that your district’s movement is in danger of concluding, there are a spectrum of strategies designed to force the cessation of their barbarity from which to choose:

 

1. -Total war.

2. -Alliance with the world’s 'DSM' movement to gain financial help to conduct a civil liberties court campaign [2 million members? Times $2 per year dues? Equals a $4 million yearly legal fund?].

**3. -Elect local/city/county/state government officials. If our 'DSM' candidate is elected mayor/governor there may be some opportunity to effect change. Currently there are cities promising to arrest federal officers if they violate their citizen’s civil rights. If we elect a 'DSM' governor we can instruct him to pardon every 'DSM' crusader that is arrested for protecting the environment. He could impose marshal law against loggers, developers, excessive water removers, road builders, oil drillers, etc.

4. –Terrorism.

5. -Civil suits against the authorities.

6. -‘Mau-Mau’-ing’- Legal and illegal irritating/harassing/malicious mischief [dirty tricks] against the individual policemen and members of current city/state government who have inflicted criminal harm on you. The more frequent, varied, anonymous and creative these actions become, the more confounding they are to our enemy.

7.**** – Media campaign for us and against them.

* ‘Harmless’- Some innocent, victimless defiance of authority ought to occur without arrest [i.e. a block party on a cul-de-sac without a permit, posting small announcements on utility poles, graffiti removable, etc.].

** #3 “Electing officials”- There is a peril in this strategy. Elected officials are forced to obey the current, malignant, federal constitution. This oppressive constitution forces our state/county/city leaders to often disobey the majority will of us district citizens. Our 'DSM' leaders, elected to current office, must anger us by opposing our will or obey our will and be arrested by the criminal federal government, thus, demoralizing our noble crusade. We all must become supremely well informed of our leader’s carefully devised governing plan [including the lies we instruct him to tell in order to avoid his arrest] before we elect them to current office.

*** Our ‘DSM’ movement might oppose rare cases of environmental destruction, popularly supported by the majority of citizens within a district, if we can establish support of our opposition by the majority of the citizens of the state in which the district lays.

   In the case of choices 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7, most of us can easily measure the risk involved and vote accordingly.

 

 

COMBATING INJUSTICE.- WE SEEK TO WEAKEN THEM NOT CAUSE THEIR DESPERATION

Your author recommends that we combat the barbarity of our current government by rendering them disconsolate, impotent and resigned to the inevitability of their defeat. Without government authority to punish these criminals, I prefer they [the current government] be made to feel secure we won’t direct theft, vandalism, assault or murder against them. I want them weakened, not desperate. Their desperation could elicit their psychotic leadership launching terror attacks [Waco style] on our 'DSM' leadership. Your author will happily support the tactics your district majority decides upon as long as the applicable [to the situation] sovereignty exceptions [in the 'DSM' constitution] are upheld.

 

 

****COMBATING INJUSTICE.- ****MEDIA CAMPAIGN. COVERT ALLIES.

    Current government’s harassment of the most wholesome, decent, victimless actions we take is likely to shame them when the media [internet especially] exposes the truth. Many police are likely to become disgusted with themselves as they realize they are called upon to act as a criminal minority, victimizing innocent people in our district. Many police [and other government workers] will join our movement as an operative/informant who will covertly tape and video the criminal actions and decisions by police and higher authorities. We will make full use of our covert allies within the ranks of the enemy police. It will be a joyous day when the police leadership plans an attack on our district and every policeman calls in sick that day. Our crusade is intended to be as bloodless as possible. Those willing to face arrest will receive our support if the noble acts they commit are ones upon which our majority has previously agreed. When the police have more to fear from a united, verifiable, solid majority of us decent district citizens than we have to fear from them, the changes we seek will rapidly be enacted.

 

 

 

OUR GLORIOUS DAY ARRIVES

 

 

    We elect our regional confederation government and gradually we begin to establish a civilization of which we will be rightfully, euphorically proud. Every day our new government enforces the noble principals bestowed by our 'DSM' constitution hastens the arrival of the day when mankind’s collective effect on the planet does more good than harm.

 

 

 

 

 

MARCH TALL!!! MARCH PROUD!!!

THE MORAL SUPERIORITY OF YOUR CAUSE IS INDISPUTABLE!!!

YOUR DELIBERATE, RISK-FREE, HEROIC EFFORTS NOW ASSURE THAT YOU WILL TRIUMPH OVER

YOUR DESTRUCTIVE CURRENT GOVERNMENT.

 

HONOR. PRIDE. VICTORY.

YOURS!!!!