After the fundraiser with Sheriffs Lopey and Mack, and after I got back from DC, I figured I’d wait a bit before heading up to northern California, to start visiting sheriff offices instead of just an e-mail or phone call. Turns out there’s a panel discussion Saturday with a handful at the same event. If I can get just one to see what the plan is, or ought to be, based on all we know to be true at this point, then we’ll move on to the next step. If not, I’m not sure it’s possible, or that it would have to be some sort of divine intervention. It's all very confusing, I'm trusting no one but myself in regards to these matters, and I think they'll make for a decent final chapter to a novel. Time will tell. For now, it's about seven hundred miles to the top of California, selling Shakespeare along the way. Naturally ;)
Monday, April 16, 2012
Road Trip
Voltaire, in the 1700s, was the first writer to use the “visitor from another planet” analogy: as if you were looking down on Earth, maybe reviewing its history, cosmic eavesdropping on what was taking place. I’ve used that frame often when thinking about what ought to be happening here on the globe, based on all we know to be true.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Dear Sun
Dear Sun, why? Shouldn’t this have been disposed of months ago? Why do I now have to drive to certain counties in Northern California in hopes of finding one or more sheriffs to begin taking tactical steps if honest and sincere?
The fundraiser was what I expected, Mack is either an operative or of lower intelligence, though I was able to speak with Sheriff Lopey at length, and I hope it’s dawning on him this very weekend what we discussed. I hope it’s him, Wilson, Lutze, and D’Agostini that do it. I’ll wait a week or so, then I’m driving up to see if they’re going to protect/defend/preserve Article V. And at the first sign of mental reservations, I’ll note such, then cuss them out for failing their oath.
I’ll admit, political science is not as much work as creative writing, I don’t feel a little dizzy at the end of the day, politically strategizing, as I do working on a play or novel. But I like that dizzy feeling after a great day of creative work a lot more than the kind of feeling the ruminating hunt for justice causes. I’m afraid I’m now too old to do both effectively in a single day. I used to do that ten years and more ago. Haha. I love you and hope you like what I’m doing.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Late Notes
Since when is the subject of revolution boring? Now? Oh yeah, forgot. In that case I write this in interests of the Akashic Record (and I’ll have to remind myself what happened, should things not go as planned). I read about the Akashic Record a long time ago and wouldn’t be surprised if true. It’s the idea everything thought and done by humans is recorded--a universal library supercomputer of sorts--supposedly accessed through astral projection or hypnosis (neither of which I’ve experienced). It’s a concept derived from texts of the Vedas, where a minister of Dharma has the duty to examine a list of good and evil actions by humans after their death. "Nothing is lost of either piety or sin that is committed by creatures. On days of the full moon and the new moon, those acts are conveyed to the Sun where they rest. When a mortal dies the Sun bears witness to all acts. Those who are righteous acquire the fruits of their righteousness there."
Dear Sun, I hope you think I’m doing a decent job. I know I could be stronger against impatience and anger, but I hope you think I’m at least decent in carrying out the life of a poet/artist/activist.
The sheriffs who met in Vegas are having their first fundraiser the day after tomorrow, which I’ll attend having after now having had indirect conversations with both sheriffs that will be speaking--Mack and Lopey--on an internet broadcast. Mack is retired but has renown in the law enforcement community for challenging the Clinton Administration on the Brady bill in the 90s, and is now running for Congress. By the likes of things it looks like Lopey will fall in behind Mack, allowing him to be front man. The group supporting Mack are names I’ve run into, I was co-speaker with them at an event one or two years ago, Oathkeepers, libertarian people, etc.
Mack and the political thought behind him is that of Nullification: when a state doesn’t like what the federal government is doing--either bad legislation from Congress and signed by the President, or bad rulings by the Supreme Court--the states can strike them down, nullify. If Mack is an operative, or is controlled, or is just too conditioned to accept the truth, then Lopey and the rest are about to fall in line with the idea that the sheriffs are going to save America by advocating nullification instead of a convention.
The problem is, and always has been, that there’s no mechanism to execute the rights of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, i.e. all the states can do is pass resolutions saying they’re not going to obey legislation and/or rulings. And where does that leave the nation? In metaphor, nullification as political strategy is like building mops to mop up the latest water from a leaky main, whereas the Article V Convention proposes amendments which stop the main from leaking altogether.
As it turns out, one of the first applications for the Article V Convention was cast with the intent to craft an amendment where powers of the federal government and rights of the states and the people are more clearly defined. In other words, the states have already expressed the desire to add as amendment to the Constitution the legal mechanism to enforce the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
After speaking with both Mack and Lopey, either they’ll get it, or they won’t. If Mack is an operative, there to persuade Lopey and the others that a convention is dangerous, then I have to focus on Lopey, and if not him then hopefully a sheriff who isn’t afraid to realize that they’re actually bound by oath and the record to begin arresting not only members of Congress, but state legislators and Governors, for not obeying their oaths. Of course in terms of practical politics, the sheriffs can’t come out with that. What I hope I can get them to do is to get as many sheriffs on board as possible (there are 3,080+ counties in the US), then when ready, do a press conference with the message: “We county sheriffs intend to do our job; it’s recently come to our attention that the states have satisfied the convention clause and members of the 112th Congress are currently blocking one of two ways to propose amendments that are fixed in the Constitution; therefore we respectfully request members of Congress to honor their oath, do their job, and issue the call for a federal convention. If they fail to do so in a timely manner, we sheriffs will be forced to do our job and begin arresting members of Congress….”
There are a few other things that can be done, but if Mack and his backers are not operatives, just people who simply haven’t gotten it yet, then that leaves it up to preparation and delivery. Unfortunately, based on experience, I’m next to certain that’s not the case. If so, I’d then have to be so persuasive as to wrest Lopey and the sheriffs from Mack and his backers.
That meeting ends and I fly to DC to speak with Occupy folks. A lot of stuff going on, though the more I look at things, the more I realize it really does come down to the office of county sheriff to lead society back to the principles that would have humans free.
Dear Sun, I hope you think I’m doing a decent job. I know I could be stronger against impatience and anger, but I hope you think I’m at least decent in carrying out the life of a poet/artist/activist.
The sheriffs who met in Vegas are having their first fundraiser the day after tomorrow, which I’ll attend having after now having had indirect conversations with both sheriffs that will be speaking--Mack and Lopey--on an internet broadcast. Mack is retired but has renown in the law enforcement community for challenging the Clinton Administration on the Brady bill in the 90s, and is now running for Congress. By the likes of things it looks like Lopey will fall in behind Mack, allowing him to be front man. The group supporting Mack are names I’ve run into, I was co-speaker with them at an event one or two years ago, Oathkeepers, libertarian people, etc.
Mack and the political thought behind him is that of Nullification: when a state doesn’t like what the federal government is doing--either bad legislation from Congress and signed by the President, or bad rulings by the Supreme Court--the states can strike them down, nullify. If Mack is an operative, or is controlled, or is just too conditioned to accept the truth, then Lopey and the rest are about to fall in line with the idea that the sheriffs are going to save America by advocating nullification instead of a convention.
The problem is, and always has been, that there’s no mechanism to execute the rights of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, i.e. all the states can do is pass resolutions saying they’re not going to obey legislation and/or rulings. And where does that leave the nation? In metaphor, nullification as political strategy is like building mops to mop up the latest water from a leaky main, whereas the Article V Convention proposes amendments which stop the main from leaking altogether.
As it turns out, one of the first applications for the Article V Convention was cast with the intent to craft an amendment where powers of the federal government and rights of the states and the people are more clearly defined. In other words, the states have already expressed the desire to add as amendment to the Constitution the legal mechanism to enforce the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
After speaking with both Mack and Lopey, either they’ll get it, or they won’t. If Mack is an operative, there to persuade Lopey and the others that a convention is dangerous, then I have to focus on Lopey, and if not him then hopefully a sheriff who isn’t afraid to realize that they’re actually bound by oath and the record to begin arresting not only members of Congress, but state legislators and Governors, for not obeying their oaths. Of course in terms of practical politics, the sheriffs can’t come out with that. What I hope I can get them to do is to get as many sheriffs on board as possible (there are 3,080+ counties in the US), then when ready, do a press conference with the message: “We county sheriffs intend to do our job; it’s recently come to our attention that the states have satisfied the convention clause and members of the 112th Congress are currently blocking one of two ways to propose amendments that are fixed in the Constitution; therefore we respectfully request members of Congress to honor their oath, do their job, and issue the call for a federal convention. If they fail to do so in a timely manner, we sheriffs will be forced to do our job and begin arresting members of Congress….”
There are a few other things that can be done, but if Mack and his backers are not operatives, just people who simply haven’t gotten it yet, then that leaves it up to preparation and delivery. Unfortunately, based on experience, I’m next to certain that’s not the case. If so, I’d then have to be so persuasive as to wrest Lopey and the sheriffs from Mack and his backers.
That meeting ends and I fly to DC to speak with Occupy folks. A lot of stuff going on, though the more I look at things, the more I realize it really does come down to the office of county sheriff to lead society back to the principles that would have humans free.
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