Demos, of the people – all the people?

Demos, of the people – all the people?

Bill of Rights and a New Constitution the only way for fair representation for Aboriginal peoples. Its in fact the only way for fair representation for all Australians.

Yes, so, since we’ll talk and talk .. but not to each other. And since we’ll talk the talk but always above each other, and since, our anti-democratic government will keep passing the carrot to each of us individually – just to have a look, and since, not only does the current constitution allow them to do this; perhaps we should just reach out and take the carrot out of their hands? They really just abuse that floppy flaccid old carrot now …

‘All argument employed to prove the insufficiency of democracy grow out of this one root – the supposed necessity of deception and prejudice for restraining the turbulant human passion.’ – William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice.

So, some thoughts on processing democracy as brothers in arms;

Our Community:
• Its no longer necessary to define Community by artificial electoral boundaries. This was just a way to lessen the expense, to the government, and to ensure elitist representation in times before electronic communications and the net.
• Right now, today, if the Aboriginal people wanted to they could organise themselves into their own electoral community – it would be anti-Constitutional, so what? It does make sense though, to have smaller cimmunities based on regional requirements but there are also communities that have as their main base ideals and mores that interlap and overlap – this is common to all modern Community.
• The Aboriginal people want a protected and guaranteed Voice in Australia’s Parliament.
To have that, they need to change the Constitution. That means a referendum.

**Its far easier and more democratic to make a New Constitution.
• The people as a whole do that, and not a government.
• A New Constitution, defined by a Bill of Rights, stands above the Parliament (the Collective Debating Club, a meeting place of the community representatives of the Country).
• Constitutions are not the gift of a Government!

What the King’s government, Trakka Wyatt et al, are doing is setting a trap for dissention. Ultimately they are looking for a failure in order to say, we told you so. Also they are looking to ensure that a referendum will fail under the current Constitution.
• They seek divisions in the people of Australia.
• This is the way our constitution is written, and its rotten.
• No government, no matter what side of Politics they try to make us believe they are on, will support a referendum on an issue such as this. It is not in their interests.
• Like the Republic issue, its easy for a government to disrupt the true Will of the People.
• Australia is unlikely to have another democratically minded amd reformist government, like that of Gough Whitlam, again. Not, at least, until we have sorted out government privilege, overreach self-interest and self protectionism.
• Government currently believes it is above the people and has a right to be so. It does not.
• Governments, like Australia’s present Government, despite their hypocritical rhetoric base their authority on division and coercion and their divine wisdom.

* Ultimately, Australia needs a 21st century Constitution! Australia both needs to be, and wants to be a Democracy.
• This we should ensure with a Constitution based upon a fair and inclusive Bill of Rights.

• We would all like our own voice in Parliament. This is because the old constitution doesn’t give us that.

• Our representatives need to be bound to us, and their tasks need to be defined by us, and not the Parliament. Fitzgerald Principles.
• The current constitutional contract is a farce and takes us all for fools. It a game government plays with Democracy.

The whole system is wrong and needs to be redefined.

* There was a young lady from the First Nations communities last night who said that she didn’t like the idea of separating the Aboriginal people from Australia.
• There was also a young man from Australia’s Far Right Community who also said he didn’t like the idea of separating the Aboriginal people from Australia.
• They are both right!
~ we should examine this carefully. Unpack it as they like to say now. These two Australians come at the issue from very different perspectives but that is ultimately the point.
• Let’s say, that the Far Right – Dutton’s Mob – also want a separate voice in the Great Debating Club guaranteed by the constitution?
• Let’s also say that the Greens want their voice in the Great Debating Club guaranteed?
• And me, the unemployed homeless? I too want my separate voice in Parliament. Guaranteed?
• Let’s also note here, that many young Australians, these days, make the mistake of thinking that the government is the constitution.
• The constitution defines the government.
• Bad constitutions support corrupt government.
• The government would have you all believe that they are the arbiters and the protectors of the constitution – another thing to carefully unpack!

We need to make a 21st century Constitution based on a Bill of Rights. The same Rights for everyone. Let’s have another convention – yes, more time but worth it.
• Lets also make sure that its not bound by any Government mischief making, no obfuscation, no coercion. No rules that say, well you can’t have this convention – they don’t have a say in whether we can or not!
• No rule that says, we you can have it but it must be bound by the rules of the current rotten Constitution! – no rules as to a timeline; we make that.
• The government, we say to them, ‘Oi get on with your business and well tell you when were finished’ – this is above government so no government representatives; thats meaningless. Its above Parliament so no Parliamentary representatives; just as meaningless.

We have the technology. We can communicate online, we can vote and we can discuss online – cost is an irrelevant excuse because it our future we are deciding. The government will say, there are security issues here. Claptrap .. tell em to put a chain around Australia!
They will say, don’t fix something that ain’t broken! We can say, buddy its well and truly busted. And we can say, not only is it busted but, it in itself won’t allow us to fix it. Like everything else in life, when we encounter this type of situation – we must get a new one, and we should always go and get a better one. That’s a constitution.

They will say, this is sedition. This is not sedition. What it is, is a people unhappy with an archaic constitution that has no protection of individual Rights or Community Rights. A people sick and tired of government lies.
• our current Constitution is only a protectional mechanism for the government status quo. And this is the thing we are all dissatisfied with.
• What do we do? We fix it. We don’t allow it to fix itself when the best thing it can do is to reinforce itself in its own image. This is what we don’t like – the image! How stupid would it be for us to remake something stronger that is not in our interests?

We want Democracy! We want true Democracy! No ifs and buts!

No Australian government, not Joe Lyons’, not Menzies’, not Johnny Howard’s even came close to disclosing their inherent Fascism at has King Morrison’s. Its partly to do with the times in which we live in, but only partly, its much more to so with the complacency and the weakness of Australian people and the divisions that our sacred constitution allows a government to sow false fears amongst us with.
No constitution can be legal, let alone moral that says we are bound to a corrupted Democracy, enshrined through the smoke and mist of discretionary authority and rule by fear of unjust and inequitable laws.
• it’s a farce; we all know its a farce; they know that we all know its a farce but, they want our children to either believe that it is not a farce or to be, like us, scared to make the change. And because we are all scared to make the change and because we know how difficult it is, is such a very good reason to help our children make the change now.

Democracy allows us to exchange ideas freely, and to live the lives we would all wish all others to live peacefully. We cannot do without each other. We can be as different as chalk and cheese but somewhere we must come together for each others sake. This is the only reason we need ‘government’ and the only place for a government is within an inclusive and collective Debating Club.
• There’s no need for a government, or a Parliament – this is an archaic principle of divine right – to sit in perpetuity over us.
• Parliament, the Debating Club, is a temporary expedient for temporary collective actions. We do have the technology to make this work.
• Don’t they keeps telling us we do? If they can search for our faces amongst the crowds in order to punish us, then we can use the same technology to make a fair and accountable and a just governing authority.

“Its better to do something and make a mistake than to do nothing. If you make a mistake you can fix it. Nothing can’t be fixed.” John Stevens.

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