Towards Individual and Collective Enlightenment and
Well-being
There’s Fun to Be Had, Free United Natives
‘We are all natives of this Planet’
To the Randomly Selected Members of the Citizens’
Assembly
Ladies and Gentlemen, I was an observer of the first meeting of
the Citizens’ Assembly.
The Citizens’ Assembly is, as a matter of fact, a
Liberal Party knock-off of the idea of the sampling or random
selection process, our home-grown made in BC, None Of The Above
(NOTA) electoral alternative. This is well-developed concept which
has been in the hands of two Chief Electoral Officers and at least
four Attorneys General, and the Lieutenant Governor for at least
seven years, though you wouldn’t know it.
There is this Vital Difference -- that in the NOTA system you
would have self-selected, i.e. you would have exercised the
political savvy of your own sovereignty, (choicemaking), by having
voted NOTA on the ballot in an election. This simply means you have
rejected party-selected candidates or independents with your vote.
You would have chosen to trust in the potential for untainted
political integrity of the larger population around you, .i.e. the
will of the people towards individual and collective
well-being.
This Liberal Administration is blind-siding the public. I have
published my analysis of this action and you will find a copy of
this three page letter of April 29th 2003 in my first submission to
the Assembly web site [West 0010] and at
www.animalvoices.org/NOTA.
By appointing you, using the NOTA system in a limited and
inappropriate way, they have gained a temporary advantage for their
corporate capitalist backers. This advantage is that they do not
have to face the inevitable wrath of the voters until 2009 (i.e.
two elections from now). Should the people of B.C. Have a chance to
use the model of your Assembly for a Constituent Assembly and vote
for the None of the Above Option in great numbers, there is a
possibility of a landslide victory for out-of-the-box common sense
and an end to the profession of politics.
This Constituent Assembly would replace the outworn Westminster
system of public power brokerage, often fairly described as a
“Cabinet dictatorship,” i.e. in-camera
cabinet deliberations which are political in nature. These have
been used to structure the mandate of the Citizens’
Assembly and ought not structure the non-partisan electoral
deliberations of your assembly, as they are doing at this time.
The Westminster system attempts to fulfill the intentions of
Montague Norman of the Bank of England, that “the
Hegemony of World Finance should reign supreme over everyone,
everywhere as one whole super-national control
mechanism”.
Unless counteracted at the next election a world-wide economic
enslavement and corporate prison state could control our province
even more brutally, thus rendering more likely the possibility of a
revolution, rather than an evolution of our Electoral
Processes.
Wake up, folks and smell the roses. You are part of something
really powerful, healthy and fun, if you work together and stay
confident of your own common sense, observations, and reason.
Don’t let academic wordiness or the arbitrary narrow
focus of hidden agendas of the Liberal administration distract you
from why you came and what you want for the people of
B.C. lf you don’t know yet, listen to your
fellow assembly members and people in your communities.
The Liberal administration is not bound to accept even a
consensus from you. Many of you came in full knowledge of this fact
and became involved anyway, rising above the cynicism around. You
were selected randomly and I have observed that you are caring,
respectful people with intelligence and heart, just as 1 predicted
to the naysayers in government and institutions of propaganda.
As an immigrant, non-partisan trained and experienced observer
in Canada for 44 years, having emigrated from England, I consider
there never has been a people more capable than British Columbians
of managing their affairs of State in a compassionate and
intelligent manner, given the chance to vote the NOTA
option -- eliminating the hidden agendas and dirty
tricks and blue meanness of political parties of all stripes.
If we adopt the NOTA voting option, and it becomes our unique
style of Direct Democracy for REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, and if it
was popular enough to send a majority of non-party representatives
to Victoria, they would form a consensus-seeking caretaker
government of the common sense centre, a very far cry from the
adversarial politics of our time. A new era of participatory good
management of collective affairs would ensue.
Towards reconciliation with the Aboriginal Peoples, another
randomly selected representative in each riding could be selected
from a separate pool of First Nation and Metis NOTA voters, with
their approval. This could lead to an honourable and permanent
settlement of land ownership and management issues, and this would
bring about a new quality of equality and unite the people in an
attitude of care for this mother, our
children’s’ native land. These are matters
which your Assembly and subsequent randomly selected assemblies
might address.
As a profession, politics attracts the wannabe dominators among
us. Just has been with us as a sub-species for quite
enough generations, that it has become, in addition to a fat
paycheck the few, identifiable as a caste. If I seem to you
somewhat harsh towards the professional political power grabbers,
you might want to read Mark Twain’s satirical novel,
“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court”.
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