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.