Control Government
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…….. | To exercise sufficient control over government, we will invite, orchestrate and lead mass collaboration projects that allow individual Americans to participate in government like never before. First, we are developing the core component of our control — an EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS — and every individual American is invited to participate by helping to shape what will go into it. This Handbook will contain the basic principles, policies and procedures that must guide the actions of our Senators and Representatives, and the principles will be anchored to the basic American principles that can be found in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. Once individual Americans have had a chance to shape the content, we will publish the Handbook and distribute it to every Senator and Representative on Capitol Hill. At the same time, individual Americans can participate by downloading and printing a copy of the Handbook and then hand-delivering it to their Senators and Representatives back home. Together, We the People will then ask every Senator and Representative to sign a formal acknowledgement that he or she has read and fully understands everything in it. The next step will be watching government, monitoring the official actions of every Member of Congress and comparing them to the basic principles, policies and procedures in the Handbook. With help from individual Americans, we’ll keep track of their voting records and make all of this Government Oversight information available to the American public. Every October 1, with inputs from individual Americans, we will produce and deliver to each Senator and Representative on Capitol Hill an annual performance review to let them know if We the People believe they are doing a good job or not. If their actions are consistent with the basic principles, policies and procedures in the Employee Handbook, they’ll get a positive review and will be more likely to keep their jobs. If not, they’ll get a negative review. Either way, we’ll put them on notice if they need to correct their behavior in certain ways. And as with the Handbook, individual Americans can download and print these reviews of their Senators and Representatives, and take them into their offices back home. They should even request meetings at which they can discuss these reviews with their Senators and Representatives. To ensure accountability, we will maintain a political hit list containing the names of all Senators and Representatives who received negative performance reviews and/or refused to correct their behavior as requested. This will allow individual Americans to self-organize in order to fire them in the next election.
Members of Congress and their policy staffs will be invited to participate in all stages of this collaborative process that is designed to improve public policy and achieve good governance. We focus the exercise of our control on Congress because it was designed to be the first branch, the linchpin of our constitutional system. Congress is supposed to be preeminent because it is the only branch directly tied to us – We the People – through popular elections and representation. It is Congress, not the president, that originates all laws and government funding, and has oversight power over the other branches of government. Only Congress can withhold funding from and even impeach the president and leaders of the other branches. We exercise sufficient control over Congress, and then work with Congress to exercise sufficient control over the Executive and Judicial Branches. This is how our government is supposed to work. It’s as simple as this: We the People already hire our government’s management team with our votes, and since they work for us, we need to start viewing and treating them as employees. Each one of us becomes a Director and together we make up the Board of Directors. Everyone needs to participate in government this way. Again, influence over government must be shared among all the people. This is a time for bold action. We the People are Sovereigns, not subjects. Let’s start acting like it. WHAT YOU CAN DO AS A SOVEREIGN
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Beyond the Handbook, we will:In 1961, President John F. Kennedy called on the American Newspaper Publishers Association to help protect the freedom and independence of every individual. He concluded his speech with:
And so it is to the printing press – to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news – that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
Since the mainstream media fails us, We the People must rely on ourselves, and we must look to the Internet, modern communications technologies, new and social media to build the vehicle that will forever change the way we participate in our government.
FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. is this vehicle. It is a multimedia business that will:
- Remind everyone of the existence and importance of basic American principles, report objective news of current government actions, and provide opinion-editorial commentary focused on whether or not these actions are consistent with the basic principles.
- Increase transparency by monitoring the actions of our government; conducting investigations to uncover conflicts of interest, unethical and even criminal behavior; and reporting the facts to individual Americans.
- Perform extensive research and data analyses to find the root causes of our country’s problems, model to pre-test each of the competing public policy options that are proposed as solutions, and propose legislative reforms based on reason.
At every step of the way, FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. will engage and involve individual Americans in the process, giving them numerous opportunities to participate effectively and make a difference themselves. A social networking site that is linked to the Blogs will facilitate the building of a grassroots political movement from the ground up.
This movement will be made up of free and independent Americans who choose the path of perseverance and strength, who choose to stand up and fight the central bankers and financial elites for control of our government, who choose to exercise sufficient control to actually govern through our elected representatives.
As Thomas Jefferson said:
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression.
And:
The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe…
And as President Ronald Reagan later said:
We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we’re sick – professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, “we the people,” this breed called Americans.
This is who we are, and why we are.
FREE & INDEPENDENT MEDIA, Inc. is the vehicle individual Americans will rely on to gain and retain sufficient control over government. And to exercise this control, it will become the de facto Supervisor or Board of Directors over Congress.
It will focus on Congress because it was designed to be the first branch of our government, the linchpin of our constitutional system. Congress is supposed to be preeminent because it is the only branch directly tied to us – We the People – through popular elections and representation. It is Congress, not the president, that originates all laws and government funding, and has oversight power over the other branches of government. Only Congress can withhold funding from and even impeach the president and leaders of the other branches.
We exercise sufficient control over Congress, and then use Congress to exercise sufficient control over the Executive and Judicial Branches.
Our central organizing ideas and principles are those articulated in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and other writings and correspondences of our Founding Fathers.
Since these ideas and principles are universal and based on reason alone, this is a non-partisan business that fuels and directs a non-partisan movement for all Americans – Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Independents, wealthy, middle class, poor, black, white, brown, red, yellow, etc. We’re all Americans, it’s our country, it’s our government, and it’s up to every one of us to work together to ensure it serves us and protects the rights of each one of us. If we allow just one of us to be oppressed and injured, we allow every one of us to be oppressed and injured.
