"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
A free template for anyone’s use. By signing and publishing this contract on a public forum, the candidate commits to pure Democracy. This contract means to offer the constituents a free and quick way to get rid of poor performers, while at the same time make it nearly impossible to dismiss a good administrator by subjecting a public officer to the perennial popularity contests called “elections”.
To ensure the elected official’s honesty after the election, we demand adherence to a short list of directives, each named and hyperlinked to a less terse and legalistic motivation for each of these rules.
Why would you vote for anyone that refuses to sign this simple document?
Presenting myself _____________________________ as candidate for the
public service post of __________________________
in the constituency of _________________________
I hereby solemnly take the following oath as the legally enforceable contract between myself and the voting public:
- Democracy:
I shall not accept, countenance, suggest, support, promulgate, promote or vote into existence any rule, regulation or law that is not to the equal benefit of all social classes, and I shall, at every opportunity, get rid of existing undemocratic laws and regulations.
- Non-Partisanship:
I shall renounce and denounce membership of all clubs, fraternities, trade collectives and any other special-interest group, including non-governmental organisations and political parties.
- Translucency:
I shall publish live all public funds records I have access to, and at every possible opportunity publish all other figures coming to my attention, constantly campaign and act to open all other government expenditure, contracts and agreements to free and immediate public scrutiny, and actively resist any attempts at revenge upon anyone notifying the public of fraud or conspiracy against them.
- Accountability:
I shall attend all of my Executive Council meetings, whether at Local or State Assembly level, which are public courts where each official shall constantly be ready to supply all the facts and figures related to his/her portfolio as demanded during the constant discussion of the Town/ Department/ State’s affairs.
- Loyalty:
I shall arrange, schedule and publicly advertise all meetings at times and places accessible to the public. If public participation is impractical even virtually, full and true records of said meeting shall be revealed to the public within 24 hours.
- Humility:
I shall retain my post for as long as I am able and willing, and subject myself to instant dismissal by public referendum, triggered by that number of signatures that exceeds half the number of people who voted me into office.
- Honesty:
I shall execute my official duty to the best of human ability, with honesty to all my constituency and reverence for none but the citizens of this country, and any criminal act I perform against my constituency, shall be prosecuted as treason.
Signed on this day___________ at _______________
on this public portal:
_____________________________________________ (insert link)
_____________________________________
Name
_____________________________________
Signature
The following list explains the thought behind each of the directives:
- Democracy:
Definition: Representatives from all social classes governing to the benefit of all social classes. This rule serves to ensure that laws are carefully considered and debated by society as a whole, instead of the current way, which often involves secretive meetings between banksters and the puppets they sponsored into power. The proposed way removes the motivation for institutionalised robbery, such as deferred taxes and subsidies for partisan groups.
- Non-Partisanship:
The first and foremost, most obvious and blatant problem with the current “Multi-Party” popularity contests sold as democracy, is that the quality of the candidate has no relation to the job at hand. Whatever promises the candidate makes to win your vote, are forgotten after the election. Not because the person is evil, but it ran on some Party’s ticket, and won on that Party’s ticket, and now it has to execute Party protocol, or it gets replaced. And sued for breaking contract. You don’t wanna get sued by career gangsters...
Even more insidious than party loyalty, is the brotherhood of the secret handshake. To an outsider the average Free Mason type of fraternity may seem like grown men playing at Tree House Gang, but how can you trust a wo/man for public office, when it has pledged its very life in obedient service to their club’s First Master or Grand Brother or whatever that specific brotherhood calls their Magnificent Leader. Pledged its very life; imagine having a flunky like that in a position of authority! You can rob, rape or murder millions with no consequence; some idiot who stood for election will take the fall...and this obviously is what happens every day.
The same principle holds for any special-interest group the candidate may belong to; give a philatelist legislative powers, and suddenly everything will need a stamp, with special subsidies for envelope licking and permit taxes on emails.
- Translucency:
Good account keeping is the basis of civilisation. The current decay of civilisation is due in no small part to the successful Bolshevik campaign to convince the voting public that Economics is a terribly complex issue best left to the experts. This national ignorance enables wholesale theft by anyone involved in government contracts, and should any wrongdoing be uncovered, the crime is obscured by technical jargon and abstractions.
By allowing the public access to the daily facts and figures, the official is protected from temptation, and the people can see that their money is spent well. Any observer that can prove fraud, wins a prize equal to 1% of the sum in question. Any entity that can reclaim and return misappropriated monies to the State, can have another 9%. The official/s and/or contractors involved will be charged with treason.
- Accountability:
Modern Parliaments have degraded into gabfests, where officials either prattle empty rhetoric, or repetitively congratulate themselves on their own magnificent achievements. This institution must be reformed into a public court of highest authority, where each official is present, ready and able to supply the latest figures and updates on all aspects of his portfolio. All contentious issues are only considered resolved after public referendum.
Half of the official’s very generous pay is withheld for five years, as security against any administrative mistakes with delayed costs. Parliament should be counting the nation’s assets, not the length of each another’s empty speeches. They should be testing the mettle of our functionaries, not Party members’ loyalties.
Assembly is where the government stand to answer before the nation, not to argue each other on petty issues. Where disagreements between representatives arise, the issue shall be resolved by public referendum. Should any State department need specialised advice, citizens with the needed expertise will freely offer the best current available wisdom from their actual economic existence, not the vague political and economic theories so beloved by career politicians and their very expensive “expert advisors”.
- Loyalty:
Fraud and deceit rule where secrecy and conspiracy thrive. Decisions on public matters should be taken in public view, with public participation where practical. This may mean that every public official has to wear a camera, much like police often do. Public buildings, being present in every district and under close surveillance, have all the facilities needed to accommodate meetings between officials and private or public contractors, negating the need for strip clubs, luxury resorts and massage parlours with underage prostitutes as negotiation venues. The terms and conditions of such meetings being instantly known, open and free bidding will automatically ensue, further enforcing honesty in the tender process. If there are no secrets, there can be no fraud.
- Humility:
We have been given regular elections, with lots of pomp and circumstance, scandal and connivance, carefully calculated to create the illusion of public participation in the so-called Democratic Process. While elections every handful of years gives one hope that the corrupt kleptocrat currently occupying the position will sooner or later be voted out, the fact is, that it likely will be replaced with someone even more venal and corrupt. It also raises the following difficulty;
Should we, by chance or design, happen upon an honest, hard-working and effective person in any position, we have no benefit, because it will soon be voted out. Any project big and complex enough to warrant government oversight, is not likely to be completed within the span of one political term. If anyone can be convinced to sign off on anything someone else is likely to win credit for later, chances are the project will be neglected by the succeeding administration. This leads to short-term vanity projects aimed at building the politicians’ reputations and bank balances, instead of grand public infrastructure projects needed for building the national coffer.
- Honesty:
A government official who, within the confines of the portfolio, commits an offence, is considered to have broken the oath of office. Any act contrary to the oath of loyalty to the constituency is, by definition, treason. A thieving policeman, a rapist teacher, a bought judge or a bribed inspector is not to be prosecuted as a common criminal, but as a traitor to the entire country.
To help the official maintain a high level of patriotism, erring officials must be audited in detail, including family members, business associates and anyone with whom the official has exchanged value exceeding a set amount, say the local price of one ounce of gold. This way, the candidates are pre-filtered by those who know them best. Those most likely to be criminally incompetent will be discouraged from entering public life by their own family and friends, afraid of being audited due to the candidate’s corruption or ineptitude. Half the candidate's generous pay cheque is retained for a term of five years, as guarantee against any possible loss or damage caused by incompetence or fraud.
Final Notes:
The foregoing list is a working copy of an open project. While all effort should be expended upon refining and improving these rules, we should resist expanding and complicating it. It has been said that every new law creates 300 new criminals, but that was said at a time when large cities contained a few ten thousands of people, instead of the millions we have today.
Now laws are made purely to legalise the corruption of those who can afford to have new laws made. The legislation enabling Derivatives trading is a case example. The entire world is about to go bankrupt because of humongous bets made by incredibly rich people, who then sold on those bets as ‘investments’. Shares in non-existent bugger-all. Shares with a collective “value” of over 700 TRILLION dollars. And now they want “their money”! Which entails auditing the entire Earth, balancing the books, and handing over the world’s ownership to a World King. From the bloodline of King David Himself, no less.
This would not have happened, but then we started appointing communist children and society wives to positions of national administration... And none of them can be punished, because they merely execute Party Policy, and Party Policy is the Will of the People, according to whomever counted the votes last. Maybe the contract above can be a step back towards sanity, humanity and Good Administration. Not Good Governance, which is another type of contract, the one we would like to see published (and punished) under Directives 1,3 and 5.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
This is such a new model. You can replicate it anywhere, any time. No-one will believe me if I said you stole my idea, anyway. Don’t break it, but feel free to improve on it. Improve, not complexify, Improve!
P.S. As a writer, of course I would like to be credited with the original, but I actually don’t even know if it really is original...
Regards
paranoid goy
