NOTES ON TERMS

(Well over a decade old. Written for the concept stage. Sorting thoughts.)

A people: is a real society of individuals. We can touch or be touched by them. They have concord and security, based upon a shared language, history, accepted political beliefs, basic philosophy and homeland, with common responsibilities and commitments. So, they have an identity.

A nation, generally, is a notion grafted onto a people, an illusory society, and an altered copy. It is a political association individuals are forced to join, unknowingly, at birth. It makes the real people subject to a phantom of themselves. Its purpose is to amass and hold power, to control and monitor the entire population, to validate all aims and actions, experiments, and misdeeds of leaders, and be ready to do their wishes. It is the ideal cover for politicians, for any manipulations, threats, use of force, sometimes covert killings, conscription; secret, twisted science; wars, expropriation of land, freedoms, rights, and resources. It permits non-stop law-making and ‘tax-takes’, the sub-letting of rule to agents and quangos, the quiet farming-out of various assets or favours to whoever, wherever, whenever, to extend its interests. [‘Quangos’ (plural) is an abbreviation for ‘quasi-autonomous, non-governmental or national government, organizations.' (Chambers Dictionary)] Once sovereignty is supposedly and ‘legally’ extracted by politicians, the people, or some federation of peoples, can be endlessly moulded and manipulated, with good or bad results.

A State is a nation’s double, a twin to add power, leverage and wealth, without constant explanation and justification. The nation-state is a double disassociation from reality. First, the nation mystically re-personifies a people. Next, the State de-personifies nationhood. To remove its people’s power to act alone, plus their personal resources, and to use their identity! Their sovereignty can be used like a credit card without trace or effective accounting. States command loyalty. But, States, leaders, and governments, unless kept subservient and disciplined by democracy, deserve no loyalty! Those who would be first must become “last of all, and servant of all,” (Mark 9.35), not a Louis XIV: “L’État c’est moi!”: (I am the State!) Electors, with inherent supremacy and responsibility, require and thus demand loyalty from Parliament, of right. They respect only faithful servants.

The Law in early history was clear and simple: a brief list of rules. Now, law is evilly complicated, unprecedented in invasiveness, and joined to impudent ‘Directives’ from the covetous EU. No one, without a lawyer knows the law, and every lawyer requires a lawyer! Ever-changing, cumulative, complex law is the bludgeon, at present without limit and beyond our control, to cow the decent and the law-abiding and remove wealth and freedom for State use. Law-production is industrial. There is no desire to simplify. For, complexity transfers more control: whereas simplicity tends to wrest it back. The system fails to protect us properly from criminals, and, if they are caught, to ensure their reform. Who, then, is our abuser but the State? Rightly, we are reminded not to “take” the law into our own hands. But we remind politicians they “took” powers, borrowed, from our hands, and those of our forefathers! We retain final jurisdiction! It is our duty, by democratic process, to regulate key ‘breaches of our peace’, and of our freedom, and to respond firmly to their lack of loyalty to us.

The Crown in Britain, has, so far, sidestepped its past by becoming the supporter of democracy and individuals. Now it is for Government also to shrink! Like monarchy, it must show regular evidence of loyalty to us. Or, it will become disrespected, irrelevant, and unwanted. Monarchy has the merit of cutting dead the presidential pretensions of politicians whom we must control. Presidents tend to lust power, misuse it and reduce the scope of individuals to run their private realms created by hard work and thought. Monarchy, in continuous check from Parliament on the chessboard of power, is currently the Encourager of the family: of us who move from dependence to increasing duty. Much is made of the royal Prerogative, used in fact by each Government, to get its way undemocratically, over Parliament and the People. The underlying People’s Prerogative, used by the Parallel System, capable of removing politicians, parties and theoretically even Parliament if persistently disloyal, is to improve the political system wisely, upgrading all public business.

The European Union is a power-laundering mechanism. It is as worthy of trust as any drug cartel. Its aim is to amass all power in geographical ‘Europe’ that breathes or trades. It switches wealth, powers of decision, and responsibility from the true owners, without their vital permission, beyond their control. Just as an impostor king must be removed, so must the imposed EU.

Flags embed attitudes about nationhood. They mystically seal our membership by feelings attached to music or words. The aim is to solidify the power of the leadership and group power. The school ritual, before the flag in the USA, discomforts non-Americans, as their loyalties differ. The insertion of the EU flag in Britain is manipulation, to strengthen the unaccountable Council of Ministers and Commission, acting beyond electoral control. A noose of stars.

A Loyalty Oath, like the vote, is reckoned to transfer power. Then, has the time arrived for MPs to swear allegiance to us? In our words. And to the Queen, as our constitutional guarantor? And for the Government and civil service to do so also? Perhaps. Forced oaths are of false value. A yes or a no, with effective consequences, suffices. On taking a seat in the Commons after being elected, the MP is, in effect, blackmailed into swearing sole, prime allegiance to the Queen, (who now pays taxes voluntarily, is funded by Parliament and is obliged to sign Bills regardless of her opinion). Elected governments are as loyal to the People as they elect to be. Parallel Democracy is a rod of discipline.

Sovereignty, the primary word of politicians, is ultimate legal authority. They claim it. They use the self-serving device of the ‘sovereignty of Parliament’ to grasp it. By it, they grant, themselves and it, powers as gods. Only because we have enabled them to do so. In fact, politicians are powerless, penniless nobodies, until ennobled by Electors with lent and limited powers. Electors are sovereign till they die. Parliaments exist by their say-so. Power flows from the People, who either use their ultimate authority, title, legal right and power, or get abused! Party politicians are beggars acting as princes. Our task is to cross-check and correct them. Citizens have ultimate authority as a life-long internal asset: externalised, confirmed and anchored by the Vote. History records rulers conferring charters, rights and privileges, on temporarily-favoured, much-needed followers, with powers taken from them initially. The EU’s Charter plus Constitutional Treaty do this. But, in reality, our personal sovereignty is non-transferable! Always, we must confer power in part only. We must perpetually adjudicate. No one: monarch, State, government, institution, or temporary leader, can appropriate our power “legally”. A legislature daring to transfer our powers to others, without unmistakable and lasting public concurrence, sets about annulling its own rights. ‘Rule by the People’ encapsulates democracy. It invalidates both the EU Commission and all EU structures. It shakes the foundations of disloyal Parliaments. It makes reform, by the responsible action of the People, possible. It totally condemns the three current parties to the disfavour of Electors and to their possible dissolution.

Democracy is a mechanism to control and moderate government. It is not token representation with slowly-diluted electoral authority. By Parallel Democracy real control is possible. A wider avenue is cut for conscientious citizenship. Representative Democracy has drawbacks in an age demanding ever-faster personal judgement and self-government. Parallel Democracy harvests the minds of the willing electorate, without adding one straw to the back of our creaking system. It develops several extra, load-bearing institutions. It is a growing-device. It stretches and exercises the latent talents of Electors, Taxpayers, and Customers: key synonyms for the aware and responsible community. It re-attracts Electors’ lost goodwill. It helps Parliament to govern governments. Consequently, by merit and right, greater power can return to the rightful owners, reversing a long disconnecting trend. We add double-checking controls and underscore the principle of government inferiority. One day, key buildings of parliamentary democracy in Great Britain, Europe and elsewhere, may be destroyed, as may palaces and ancient landmarks. Making Parallel Democracy operational becomes important, as an installed back-up. After a devastating crisis, it is an instinct to rebuild as before, as Churchill did. But, our present democratic form is not the ultimate one in history. It is one stage along our path. The new system, active, and dispersed throughout the population, would be resistant to attack. As a principle of citizen-responsibility, it could become indestructible. Politics and democracy carry too much historical baggage for simple meaning. Now with Parallel Democracy, a more contemplative, less-impulsive companion is presented. Its noun converse is neutral, calmer, and skirts tradition.

Earth was lent to mankind: to individuals, not governments!

Just as The EU Charter and Constitution have been used by politicians, their officials and constitutional lawyers, as irresistible levers to prise government by the People from the hands of the People, so The Electors Charter is the progressive mechanism by which the People deliberately regain, improve and keep it.

These notes are cut to the last three paragraphs in the Shorter version of The Electors Charter. Due soon!

Posts (X)  and (Y), which follow, complete this draft version of The Electors Charter, The Beginning, 2011.

A.L.

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