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February 29, 2008 at 18:29:44

The People Are Governing Themselves.

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster Page 1 of 2 page(s)

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Most of us think of a people governing themselves as just so much rhetoric. Not true. The last year of the Ron Paul Revolution has proven that using the social networking tools provided by the Internet we can indeed come together to take action that is unprecedented in scope and power. These have been early steps but, in fact, whether or not Ron Paul is inaugurated as President next January, a mass movement of people have created the tools that provide the means to displace the present morass of government. We will change the world.

It was impossible. It happened anyway. Now it will become the new standard for what it means to be a grass roots and the marker that changes the measure of political action. The panic you see in those in power, the threats of martial law, are evidence that they know perfectly well their ploys are not working.

Despite what many say the Ron Paul Revolution is not over and Ron Paul, as the singular icon and spokesman for the movement that bears his name, will continue. We will displace the status quo imposed by government, stop the profits of grid corporations and those who control them. The Revolution will accomplish that not because of any brilliance in the Official Campaign. It has proven itself to be incompetent at the most elementary political tasks. It will happen anyway.

The people are doing it themselves.

Americans are coming together from all imaginable points and so changing the landscape on which the political battles of the near future will be played out. We are set up for a realigning election despite the Vote Stealing Machines and despite the ugliness of those in power.

At the foundation of this change is the Revolution. Hierarchy in its various forms has proven itself to be no match for the hub, the network, where individuals either cooperate or decline to be involved, keeping their money and time for other purposes.

Future historians will, given the time, explain it all as inevitable and they will also explain how Americans regained access to the truth through a media they controlled in the same fashion. That is about to happen; again it will shock the establishment and those who use the tools of the past.

There is power in the Hub and power in the Mesh. The impact of the Hub has hit, the Msh is about to be felt.

The Hub is the sharing of knowledge to facilitate cooperation. You see that in the Revolution. We share freely. The Mesh takes the Hub one step further into our communities, building the platform for local cooperation that connects to others like a sea of wildflowers in springtime. Getting off the grids has many parts, this is one of them.

The Revolution faces a series of challenges. It will use the same tools to solve those problems that it has used this last year.

Stolen Elections, the Media, the economy, the list seems endless.

Here, the failing economy and the need to survive meet our rising awareness that the present system is irreparably broken.

The first issue is elections and local organizing. Other needs will follow. We will displace the MSM with the truth, reported without being filtered; given to us unmanicured and without being withheld until convenient. The media is now an extension of the PR departments of major corporations. To enact change will enable the people to become their own media.

The people are now poised to take elections back in to their own hands. Over the last months a coalition has been building. Elections will be run at the precinct by committees elected by the people in that precinct; votes will be counted by the same process. The totals will then be placed on line and counted transparently, leaving no doubt as to the outcomes. No longer right and left, there is one agenda.

We will pass model legislation where this is proscribed by law; we will demand our money back from the companies who sold us vote stealing machines. Let them figure out what to do with the things.

The new media coming into existence will tell the truth because it will be run on the same principles that run the Revolution, transparency, cooperation, and individual freedom.

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I'm a 29 year old male.
TyI'm a 29 year old male.

Ron Paul

I don't see what any of these ideas have to do with Ron Paul. Your vision of the future of society is not Ron Paul's vision. Ron Paul believes in the free market capitalist system where everyone competes against each other. Voluntary cooperation which you're advocating is a concept of socialism.

by Ty (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 868 comments) on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 4:33:51 PM

Melinda Pillsbury-Foster is the author of GREED: The NeoConning of America and A Tour of Old Yosemite. The former is a novel about the lives of the NeoCons with a strong autobiographical component. The latter is a non-fiction book about her father and grandfather. Ms. Pillsbury-Foster has been active in politics since the Goldwater Campaign. She left the Republican Party to join and become active in the Libertarian Party in 1973, working as an activist and party officer until she left the Liber...

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Melinda Pillsbury-FosterMelinda Pillsbury-Foster is the author of GREED: The NeoConning of America and A Tour of Old Yosemite. The former is a novel about the lives of the NeoCons with a strong autobiographical component. The latter is a non-fiction book about her father and grandfather. Ms. Pillsbury-Foster has been active in politics since the Goldwater Campaign. She left the Republican Party to join and become active in the Libertarian Party in 1973, working as an activist and party officer until she left the Liber...

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Ron Paul and the Revolution

You are wrong. Ron is committed to letting people do it themselves.

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster (139 articles, 1 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 121 comments) on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 5:04:45 PM

63yo retired ex-trucker, construction worker, now widowed and farming in East Texas. Firm believer in using common sense to solve problems.
txfarmer63yo retired ex-trucker, construction worker, now widowed and farming in East Texas. Firm believer in using common sense to solve problems.

Regardless

It really doesn't make that much difference about Ron Paul or the Internet, as long as there are voter's who vote according to which sound clip they liked the most.

Just as the Democratic Party has rules in place to dilute the choice of voter's in Primaries. The Texas Democratic Party plainly states that there will be no Winner Take-all in the Primary. Voter's have to return at 7:15p.m. on Election (Primary) Night to vote for Delegates. The actual Winner of the vote can only get 75% of the Delegates outright. The other 25% can come from the Post Election Caucus. Plus the infamous Superdelegates.

The Internet can be a valuable tool as John Dean proved in 2000 and Ron Paul is proving now.

But, until we get some Ethics Reforms and Campaign Contribution Reform we are going to see more of the same. A Ron Paul type coming in dead last. Rep. Paul has some good ideas. His best selling point was his total opposition to the Shrub from Day 1.

Put teeth into Ethics Laws so a Tommy Delay can't break all the rules, announce that he was "totally vindicated" after being Censured and then retire to Sugarland with all the money.

Stop Corporations, Unions, PAC's and 527's from donating. If you aren't eligible to vote for a candidate, you can't give money to that candidate. And then set a reasonable limit on the amount that can be donated, say $2000. Most folks I know don't have $2000, but some folks might and that seems a reasonable limit.

That will force candidates to turn to the Internet to help get their message out and maybe have the added benefit of making them face the issues, rather than smearing their opponent.

Although Texas A&M is working on cloning, I have yet to see a pig fly. And I see no chance that the above ideas would come to pass, unless and until enough actual voter's, as opposed to Special Interests Groups, insist on it.

by txfarmer (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments) on Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 7:12:44 AM

Regardless

You need to at least take a peek out of the box.

Elections are pointless until the people take back control of the vote. That must be local by precinct committee. The count must take place there with oversight by the precinct; the tally must be online and transparent so we can simply jump over the present corrupt infrastructure. Whining about fixing the present system is pointless. As long as there is the attractive nuisance of money and power consolidated the same problem will inevitably reoccur.

Political parties are just boxes we use to organize our activities. Your emotional and or ego investment in the present tools for organizing are the first problem you need to confront. Climb out of the box, it is nice in the sunshine.

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster (139 articles, 1 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 121 comments) on Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 3:33:05 PM