Pledge of the Elected

I have for some time now been considering the points of politics and how to change the current situation without disrupting in such a way that causes negative/harmful effects or influences.

Two points or possibilities that I have been looking at are 1) the need or necessity for real democracy, also called direct democracy, and 2) the point of how to instill honesty but it's like accountability into politics and also the public domain. I guess that's more than two points, and when I expand upon them, they end up not being separate but several points which are inseparable yet require to be looked at and developed almost as stand alone points. Why? Because it's almost going to be impossible to get all of these points, all of these changes to be instituted at the same time; therefore it is – I would say – imperative that we consider solutions that are able to be implemented in kind of like Lego fashion, kind of like components of a system that are able to be replaced and upgraded without having to replace or even shut off the entire system.

The first point that I’m going to speak about is the point of accountability in the public offices of government. Governments all over the world have been and are upping their monitoring of citizens/everybody, so why don't we up our monitoring and surveillance of government? Surveillance of the people by the government is not the problem; not enough surveillance of the government by the people is I would say more relevant. After all it is the government that's making the rules, deciding basically what we can and can't do while the people sit back protesting occasionally with not really a clue as to what really goes on in the halls of government. Why don't we change the rules, change the focus, put it on the honesty/integrity of the people who claim to be serving the interests of the people while in reality the interests of the people are being back-sided, led into a hole in the ground.

The idea I have pertaining to government surveillance of the people is to turn this point around, use the momentum of the government-speak to direct the flows of government to the benefit of all; what's good for the people must also be good for the government. Let's demand – as it were – that the government follow/abide by their own rules. Let's insist that all newly elected officials pledge to institute of policy of open source accountability in all their official duties as elected officials.

Specifically I’m speaking of requiring all new and reelected public officials to (before they are elected or re-elected) sign a pledge that all of their public dealings will be open to the public, online 24/7. This means that all office telephones will be monitored, conversations recorded, all government offices will have cameras and microphones with leads to the internet for 24/7 live viewing and listening. Basically I’m speaking of doing everything possible to ensure that not one iota of public business transpires without the public having live listening and viewing access to it. Corporations monitor their private employees; let us monitor our government Employees. It's not just a matter of national interest, it's a matter of national security lol, people's civic responsibility.

Of course government officials will say that this is a ridiculous idea, that they require privacy, secrecy for our own good, that they need to be able to conduct public affairs out of the prying eyes of the public. However, when we look at the root cause of the allowance of such deceit within and as the political structures, we see that it's mainly due to unaccountability, the ability to be deceitful without being called out, caught. We also see that this institution of the people is no more an institution of the people than a private corporation is for the benefit of the people. Everything is in reverse; it looks and seems as though it's going the right way when in reality it's going in the opposite direction of what is best for the people, the animals, environment, earth . . .

We can change some things right away by using what we do actually have, the power of the vote. If we stand for this simple practical solution of imposing accountability onto politicians, their offices, everything, every aspect having to do with so-called public service, we are able to at the very least call the government's bluff. What is their bluff? It's their cards that their holding; they don't amount to the moral righteousness of the stand they're portraying. They are portraying the need of the people to accept for our own good the intrusiveness of government surveillance while they themselves surround themselves behind almost impenetrable walls, declaring those who would expose them to be enemies of the state. Theirs is not an honest stand; it's a stand of fear, fearing the very people/public they claim to be serving, and this fear will only intensify until we all expose ourselves as having nothing to hide and therefore nothing to fear of each other.

Using our Internet platforms, we are able to simply spread the word that, any politicians who do not agree/sign the pledge of open government, i.e., agree to open all their conversations and dealing up to 24/7 Internet feeds, we will not vote for them.

Let's call the government's bluff and see what happens. Let's turn the tables, redirect the flows of surveillance onto the government itself. Let them spy on whomever the wish; let everyone spy on each other. If this is what it takes to bring about some accountability both in the realms of government and the private sectors, so be it. At least this way we'll all be able to see what each other is doing. Instead of trying to go against the current of surveillance, the exposing of secrets, let's embrace the current and direct it to the benefit of all.

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The Solution to Exceptionalism

Vladimir Putin’s “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.” underscores the spitefulness of and as mankind’s original starting-point from which we as the human race have brought ourselves and this planet to the brink of extinction.

 Some people might think that the word, “Spite” is overkill, but really it’s not. And if people in general were not so brainwashed by religion, consumerism, education, culture, family, tradition and so on, this would be easy to see this.

In a closed in world – a vacuum called Earth – with limited resources, competition for resources should not even exist. But it does, which means that some have far more than an ‘equal’ share. Why? Because we steal it from the innocent and those that are less inclined or endowed to play and survive in this competitive game of exceptionalism.

In school, they'll tell you that these are the competitive rules by which all must abide, but I will tell you that this is just another part of the lie, a campaign to keep people brainwashed, deaf, dumb and blind.

You can blame “God’s will” or the so-called law of survival of the fittest, but when it’s all said and done, it just comes down to one word, spite. It’s a frame of mind embodied within and as the sea of humanity wherein drops of water believe themselves to be exceptional, separate from the sea.

There’s only one rule to understand:

 Be the best that one is able to be, which is defined as that which is in all-ways best for all.

Our freedom of choice as our right to spite one-another says to go-ahead and continue to ignore, pray if you like, anything to avoid having to actually do something that places you/me at risk of being the nail in the coffin that stood up just to get hammered back down.

From this dead-end of a Human Race as the sea of life in a constant state of self consumption, there is only one unending solution, a course correction (from the Rule of Spite) to the Principle of Oneness and Equality within what is best for all. Herein and as this open-source foundation of life, let us all unite to resolve the inequalities of Life.

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Internet Information Accountability

• The issue of Internet Privacy is being used in reference to keeping one's digital information/data secret/concealed from criminals, corporations, governments and the likes of the NSA. However, I would say that this term is being misused, perhaps intentionally for the purpose of confusing and misleading us to support that which we actually oppose. If we just take a step back, we might realize that it's not a question of Privacy in and as the Public Domain, but one of a lack of integrity and accountability.Privacy pertains to one's own personal space in/as the body of information that he or she would keep concealed/secret within and as that personal space. The Public Domain of digital information that encompasses all that has become the Internet as the Global Mind – of Potential – is in fact not able to be private or privatized due of the nature of its design, it's collective. Thus to demand privacy for one's digital information in/on/as the Internet is like demanding privacy while walking down a public street; you're not going to get it because of the nature of a public street, it's public domain.
  
  Although the majority of Internet privacy advocates probably use the Internet without intending to cause harm, what they may not realize is that, the privacy one demands for his/her information in and as the public domain is actually secrecy/anonymity – that which is currently being exploited by abusers who often do intend to cause harm. The issue of Internet Privacy cloaks anonymous-abuse under the guise of free-speech and privacy; thus distracting us from seeing the cause of the very abuse that is facilitated by Information anonymity/secrecy.
  
  It's a world in reverse: anonymous groups demanding privacy – in the Public Domain – for protection from the very-abuse that proliferates due to and thorough anonymity/secrecy/unaccountability, portrayed as free-speech and privacy in and as the Public Domain. This situation in which many currently find themselves spurred on by Anonymous groups in support of Internet privacy while at the same time ignoring the issue of Internet Integrity/Accountability is exactly where the information abusers would have us be: anonymously directed and distracted towards an issue such as privacy in the public domain, not realizing that Privacy, Secrecy and Anonymity in and as the public domain are all one and the same, Unaccountability, the grandfather of Abuse.
  
  The war against Information Abuse is with ourselves, and our common enemy, the spawn of Fear is Secrecy/Unaccountability. It hides within and as us-all behind the cloaks of Privacy, Anonymous, National Security, Classified, Confidential, Top Secret, For your Eyes Only, and so on to the cloak of Ignorance and the little white lies by which we infect our children, damning them to become that which deep-down inside we all realize is just an extension of the same lie.
  
  John F. Kennedy put elitism into perspective when he said “The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society”; however, what he failed to expose before he died, was the role that “We the people” play in authorizing repugnance at the higher levels of the system through our acceptances and allowances of repugnant secrecy/unaccountability within and as ourselves.
  
  Secrecy as the containment of information within and as any domain is by definition the absence of honesty which by default, limits the holders (us) to the lies we accept and allow ourselves to be-hold and be Hell-ed. Why should we the people expect, the elite to be transparent, open and honest in the Public domain with their secret information, when we ourselves insist on privacy/secrecy for ours? It's a double standard, a cycle of dishonesty/unaccountability that persists because neither the Masses nor the Elite have had the courage or will to be the first to lower their Informational weapons of Secrecy/Unaccountability.
  
  Information Unaccountability is a weapon of mass destruction that will continue to spread destruction, disease and death until “We the People” stand up and become accountable sources of all our information within and as the Public Domain. This is the window of opportunity that the Internet as the externalized collective mind of human information is currently presenting for us to stand up and remove our cloaks of secrecy; thus exemplifying that Fear is not to be feared but exposed for what it is and has always been, a lie obscuring the truth.
  
  What happens in the Internet as the external collective mind, also happens in the internal minds of human beings. Thus, by standing and supporting 100% Information Accountability within and as the Internet, we will not-only nurture Integrity within and as the Internet, but also within and as ourselves as humanity; thus welcoming the end to the age of Abuse, and  a new beginning perhaps for mankind. As we the people stand and begin to lower our Informational weapons of secrecy, so too will the corporations, governments and spy agencies, for who are they but us.