Enlightened Activism and Politics
Enlightened Activism means working from a cat-bird position beyond the eternal conflict of Politics.
By stepping out of the political cage, we can box it, seal it and dump the 3,000 year old monster into a very deep lake.
We must infiltrate the Political argument with Conscious Light and Humanistic Reason.
Consider the Occupy Movement
Here are some of the Manifesto Ideas submitted for Occupy London Manifesto and the responses I posted to them.
“The current trends within capitalism are not sustainable. We’re using finite resources in an ever increasing rate, due to the commercialism and materialistic society that we live in, grown via marketing and advertising. We need a sustainable system.”
Current trends are not due to marketing and advertising, they are due to the human condition of seeking higher external authority.. a lack of self-responsibility and an attempt to cover up internal conflicts through the distraction of entertainment in various forms. What is required is a shift to a healthy consciousness. Corporatism is bad, it depends on government backed force and fraud. Capitalism is good. It depends on mutual exchange. The Freedom Movement needs to discern the difference.
“Keep it simple. Needs to be something the world can agree upon. No Money in Politics. No profit from suffering bad health. No profit from education.”
The world would not agree on no profit as the world would soon collapse. The world will agree on ‘no force’ once the Freedom Movement and the Conscious Movement combine.
“Prohibit the making of profit from interest on debt”
If you or anyone else does not want debt, don’t take out a loan. How would you ‘prohibit’ interest from debt? By force-backed law? What we must prohibit is the initiation of force, the threat of force and fraud.
My submissions:
“When is Force right? Force is RIGHT — ONLY when used in Self-Defense against individuals or groups (such as ‘government’) that INITIATE FORCE or threaten with the use of force against you or any other individual. No Force, except in self-defence.”
“Take back our country one county at a time by organising small local council election wins for Freedom Movement representatives based on the will of the people (under the caveat of ‘no force except in self-defence’)”
Consider this excellent video:
Occupy Your Mind
The left right paradigm of politics seems to be breaking down. 
Consider ‘Democracy’
Democracy means bullying by a larger group against a smaller group and ignores the golden rule: “no force, except in self-defence“.
The Global Awakening doesn’t seek Democracy. We don’t want large groups voting for laws that create rights against smaller groups. We want respect and fairness. Rational honest fairness… Where people can choose for themselves.
We want to be left alone by anyone who would seek to force us to comply with their wishes. We want defence against those that would initiate force.
Again, we do not want Democracy. We want Freedom from Force. We want The Prime Law of the Twelve Visions Party.
See a great article: Democracy Needs Ignorant People says Science.
Consider this activist correspondence posted to a Libertas social network group:
The Problem With Libertas (and other ‘Pro-Freedom’ yet Pro Democracy Groups)
From Gavriel Shaw
www.gavrielshaw.comOk, I’m just thinking out loud here, and really want to believe in a party such as Libertas that supposedly stands up for liberty, however…
I just watched the UK Libertas Launch video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4SNyP5S2ws
and a question occurred to me…Libertas advocates democracy. Which most people take as meaning ‘rule by majority’.
But Libertas is suggesting that we should complain about the majority vote of the 27 EU parties, explaining that Britain only represents about 4% of the EU parliament.
So if that is correct, what is Libertas’ aim? To create a mass majority of itself and thus have a greater weighting in EU parliamentary votes, by banding together and creating a majority shareholding of the EU parliament, right?
Well first of all that shows tendency towards control of minorities (which is the central problem of so called democracy anyway), but it also doesn’t seem inline with true democracy where everyones vote should be counted and the natural majority sets the rules, because in fact it wants to create a coordinated controlling majority, which suggests that natural fully dispersed and divergent democracy is actually not wanted by Libertas.
Bottom line: Isn’t democracy just a means of putting people in power to rule over those without, whether the party calls itself a european union, democratic government, or pro european party for so called ‘liberty’?
When are politicians going to start talking about genuine liberty of the individual, the great republic of the founding fathers of america, individualism, individual rights, and the notion that governments are only granted powers by the people to protect the people, not to force them into obedience?
Well, that’s my rant. Any one have any feedback?
To which Andrew replied:
Interesting point, Gav.
You’re absolutely right, representative democracy is always in danger of turning into the dictatorship of the majority. That is why I personally believe in “liberal democracy” – i.e. a system of government based on popular consent linked with personal individual liberties.
On to Libertas. The main issues they have been set up to deal with concern the democratic deficit in Europe. In other words, the current eurocracy system actively discourages popular input, control or accountability. We want to push the system to change, so that people can have input. That doesn’t mean excluding others with different views – on the contrary, it means welcomign a vigorous debate. Of course, we want to build a majority with the European Parliament to support our platform – as with any other political programme. But above all it is about changing the terms of the debate, so that the political future of Europe is in line with what the people want, not just what the eurocrats want.
Does Libertas support increased personal liberties? To be honest, I don’t know. I don’t think it’s a priority issue for them. But democratic societies are more likely to safeguard individual rights than non-democratic societies.
Well how about Libertas and other such political groups drop the call for Democracy and identify the real solution… The Prime Law of No Force Except In Self Defence.
Libertarian Groups in the UK
- Political Party: Libertarian Party UK
- Political Party: United Kingdom Independence Party and UKIP MEPs
- Group: British Constitution Group
- Site: Libertarian Home
How To Win Political Elections – The Other 85%
Simply canvassing door to door handing out his leaflet, Gavin Webb secured 13% of the vote in a local council election in the UK and came in ahead of UKIP.
Here’s the graphic on Gavin’s site.
Yet the part I’m excited by is the part most people wouldn’t notice…
…the part that most such political election charts generally do not show.
The part that says:
Turnout 15.9%
Why does that excite me?
Well… isn’t it obvious?
Because of the 85% that didn’t turn out to vote.
Therein lies the incredible potential for a massive and sudden clean-sweep political victory.
No more singing to the choir of existing political voters… no more political-speak…
…but awakening the sleeping masses by aligning with their disdain for politics as a whole and showing them how by their vote we can very quickly throw the entire rotten lot of politicians out of power and give the UK an entirely new opportunity.
It will be done…
Philosophically, the social and political implications come from the debate between individualism vs collectivism. This video documentary is based on the work of Edward Griffin.
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