EXPANDING DEMOCRACY
Phase
One: Equal Media Access Constitutional Amendment
I want to have a
heart to heart talk with you, the poor and the working people of the United
States and the world, especially the “99%ers”, those of you currently occupying
Wall Street and Downtown Manhattan. I
also want to talk to your brothers and sisters in other cities and other
countries taking similar actions to expose the terrible injustice and hardship
wreaked upon us by that enormously wealthy, enormously greedy 1%, who hope to
continue enslaving the rest of us.
IT SIMPLY AIN’T
GONNA’ HAPPEN, PROMISE! Why?
By implementing
the changes I am now proposing, in a Three Phase program, starting with this
phase, Phase One.
In this election
year of 2012, we must make THE MAJOR CAMPAIGN ISSUE: THE EQUAL MEDIA ACCESS CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT! That Amendment, which everyone can endorse by signing the National
Petition/Referendum, states simply:
“All candidates for elected public
office, able to meet reasonable ballot requirements of the several States,
shall be provided equal access to inform the public by the media without regard
to financial means. Reasonable ballot
requirements shall be fair and equitable to all; shall not be burdensome,
financially or otherwise; shall be non-discriminatory on any basis; and shall
not be partial nor favor any political party(s), ideology or belief.”
To achieve the MUST GOAL of having this
Constitutional Amendment adopted, we, the “99%ers”, should form our own
political party, not Democratic or Republican, as BOTH major parties have been
co-opted and become slaves to the priorities of the criminally greedy and
avaricious “1%ers”, the Super Rich. We can call this new party: THE ARISE PARTY-or-THE
PEOPLES PARTY-or-YOU pick the name! O.K.? O.K.!
Every candidate for the Presidency,
regardless of party, must agree to champion and support the “Equal Media Access
Constitutional Amendment,” or WE SIMPLY WON’T VOTE FOR HIM/HER!
Every candidate for the Congress, both
House and Senate, in this election year, must also agree to champion and
support the “Equal Media Access Constitutional Amendment-or-WE SIMPLY WON’T
VOTE FOR THEM!
And, since the State Legislatures must
ratify every Constitutional Amendment, everyone running for the State
Legislature in every State in the Union must also agree to champion and support
the Equal Media Access Constitutional Amendment. If not, again-WE SIMPLY WON’T VOTE FOR THEM!
THIS MUST BE THE FOCUS, THE ONLY FOCUS,
OF THE 99% OCCUPYING WALL STREET AND EVERYONE ELSE! AGREED?
GOOD!
Phase
Two: Employee/Consumer Control Of All Institutions
As every single
American should know, and NEVER FORGET, our Declaration of Independence, which
historians have described as our “national conscience”, states emphatically and
beyond question: “ALL MEN (PEOPLE) ARE
CREATED EQUAL, AND ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS TO
LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.”
Since we are all
“CREATED EQUAL”, our forebears eliminated entirely the entire concept of a
class known as “the nobility” and all titles of distinction. And, they also got rid of the European
concept of the “Divine Right of Kings”, which ceased to exist – and good
riddance – in the new nation they established, our beloved United States of
America.
Clearly, then,
and beyond question, in the political
sphere WE ARE/AND MUST BE ALL EQUAL!
PERIOD! Conforming to this
mandate, in PHASE ONE we called for the adoption of an EQUAL MEDIA ACCESS
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT that will, as it should, take the influence of money
out of the political process. AMEN!
It is only
natural, and necessary, that now, as we begin PHASE TWO: EMPLOYEE/CONSUMER CONTROL OF ALL
INSTITUTIONS, we expand our democratic rights from the political sphere into
every other sphere – economic, social, etc.
If we truly
believe we are all equal, and equally beloved and to be cherished by God and by
each other, how can we continue to permit the existence of a “Boss” in any
form? WE CANNOT AND WE MUST NOT! When I,
Walter Pietsch, the guy writing this material, became a hospital
administrator, in charge of Welkind Neurological Hospital in Chester, New
Jersey (1970-73), at the time of my appointment I had the right and the power
to hire and fire anyone I chose. In the
process of converting Welkind from a nursing home to a long-term care hospital,
I created new By-Laws. These By-Laws
eliminated that power, and replaced it with Employee Rights and Consumer Rights
Committees, and also mandated that they, the employees and consumers, would
have the power TO HIRE AND FIRE ME! AND
THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD BE AND MUST BE – EVERYWHERE!
Everyone of us
knows that the people performing the most work – in a hospital, for example,
the aides, the orderlies, the housekeepers, the maintenance workers, and yes,
the nurses and the doctors – are the ones with the “hands-on” knowledge to run
that institution most effectively. If we
need other specialized skills, as in another form of business for example, then
we hire an accountant, or a computer systems analyst, or some other specialist
to handle certain complex issues. BUT,
WE, THE EMPLOYEES AND CONSUMERS, AFTER RECEIVING APPROPRIATE FEEDBACK AND
INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS SPECIALISTS, WILL ULTIMATELY MAKE THE FINAL DECISION.
This means: NO MORE “BOSS”! NO MORE FIRING AT WILL! NO MORE BLOATED SALARIES AND “GOLDEN
PARACHUTES” FOR SOME RICH BIG SHOTS, WHILE WE GET ALMOST NOTHING! AND NO MORE DICTATORIAL CONTROL OVER OUR
LIVES AND OUR “HAPPINESS”. ONE BY ONE,
THE INVINCIBLE, NON-VIOLENT FORCE OF US 99%ERS WILL TAKE CONTROL OF EVERY
SINGLE INSTITUTION, GIVING “POWER TO THE PEOPLE” AND INSURING “LIFE, LIBERTY
AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS” FOR EVERYONE!
Phase
Three: The “Dream Dollar”
Contrary to
popular myth, the dollar bill many people refer to as the “Almighty Dollar” is
NO SUCH THING! It has no mystical powers
or any other special powers at all. The
ONLY reason we carry U.S. dollars around in our pockets is because trying to
fit a horse, a cow, or a pig – or a house or a car – in our pockets simply
won’t work!
The dollar is
only, purely and simply, a MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE!
NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS! An
economic system that has given it greater value, allowing it to earn profits,
dividends, interest, etc. is based on the DELUSION OF SCARCITY!
Millions of
Americans remain currently out of work; whole inner cities are rotting due to
massive unemployment. Buildings and
bridges decay; streets, roads and parkways become crumbling nightmares to
navigate, while our vehicles underbody is shaken apart due to lack of repair;
able-bodied, ready-to-work citizens sit idly by, unable to feed their families;
while the resources to REBUILD AMERICA are sitting there, just waiting for us
to pick them up and DO THE JOB! JUST
LIKE FDR DID IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION!
Only this time,
it will be different, far different and far better. For today, as we commence PROJECT REBUILD
AMERICA to restore our nation, we no longer need to worry about the “national
debt” or any other debt, because that relates to the “old dollars”, most of
which are owed to the rich and the super-rich, whose millions and billions of
bloated resources – concentrated in the hands of the few, the 1%ers, at the
expense of the many, the 99%ers (we, the American people) – will soon cease to
exist and become irrelevant.
Any individual
with a net worth over three million dollars, or any family with a net worth of
over five million dollars – will be considered to be “super-rich”, and a 1%er,
and that excess wealth will be restored to the national treasury, soon to be
converted to “Dream Dollars.”
As our
Government begins to print the new “Dream Dollar”, it will be backed by and
represent only one thing – A UNIT OF WORK!
We will decide, together, whether the “Dream Dollar” should represent
one hour of work, or ten minutes of work, or whatever we agree is fair and
equitable. NO ONE’S WORK WILL BE WORTH
MORE THAN TWICE ANY OTHER PERSON’S WORK, BECAUSE WE ARE ALL GOD’S CHILDREN, AND
ALL EQUALLY PRECIOUS!
The “Dream
Dollar”, as its name implies, will bear, on its front, the visage of the
beloved: Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.. Above his picture will be the
caption: WE HAVE A DREAM! And below his picture will be the words: WE SHALL OVERCOME! On the
back of the “Dream Dollar” will be a picture of Dr. King’s four little young
children, and alongside of it will be another picture of four other children –
of various races – reflecting Dr. King’s vision of all our children sitting
down “at the table of brotherhood.”
Something
new: Each new “Dream Dollar” will bear
its own serial number and will have its own history, based on the purposes for
which it is used, so that IT CAN’T BE DUPLICATED! Further details will follow. DREAM DOLLARS MUST BE PUT INTO CIRCULATION
IMMEDIATELY – TO END OUR NATIONAL DEPRESSION AND RESTORE HOPE TO AMERICA! If anything has been omitted, I’m sure you,
the people, will add further details.
PREPARED
BY: ARISE, P.O. BOX 10057, WESTBURY, NY
11590; PHONE: (516) 456-1916
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