Powell Gammill
Letters to the Editor • Criminal Justice System
Sharing Thoughts
Recognize
that it is the time in human history for coercive, violent, power-based
governments to stand down, including the one in this nation. Now is the time to
introduce a transitional structure to peacefully move from coercive governments
to other forms of societal structures.*
Be
among the vanguard who will institute voluntary cooperation among people; free
from coercion, force, fraud or threats.
Let this Nation’s direction once again lead toward human freedom. We are a very young species, we humans: let
us, through our thinking and our deeds, assist in our evolution to a peaceful
species on this planet Earth.*
Acknowledge
that we can manifest innovative organizations, more beneficial for human society
than these old organizations, including government, which gain power over
people through force and fraud.
Cooperation can be won with reason, rather than force.*
Acknowledge
that any government granted the power to levy taxes thus has legitimacy for the
initiation of violence against individual humans as the means to collect those
taxes.
Institute
a government existing only on voluntary contributions. For humans, now must be the age when
cooperation replaces coercion as a survival tool. It is the time in the history of humans when
we must replace coercion with cooperation if we are to survive as a species.
Grant
any government no power to make war. We
can defend ourselves, we individuals, with our personal weapons.
Grant
the government no power to invade the privacy of individual humans.
Close government schools, we can teach our
own children, and save their minds, too.
Remove
permissions and licenses from the list of activities government may practice or
administer or control - and these include marriage, driver’s licenses, vehicle
licenses, professional licenses, and permissions to enter or leave our country. Leave these functions to the Church,
insurance companies, private road owners, or voluntary private contracts.
Introduce
and practice a new cultural ethic: that each individual, once they are old
enough to leave the shelter of their parents’ care, is responsible for that life,
individual self-governance, self-responsibility, and self-actualization, as
well as responsible, until they in turn leave the shelter of their parent’s
care, of those children they manifest.
These are new, cultural ethics which humans must adopt as they have
adopted taboos against other forms of parasitism and slavery.
Provide
for the Zero Aggression Principle, and prohibit any form of taxation, and you
might get something that will work during the transition period.
If we continue to accept and promote the
contradiction that government may legitimately initiate violence, make wars,
tax and regulate us, or enforce other than the common law, then we will have as much of a
new mess in any new government as the mess that this last Constitution has not
prevented. We must set aside the
notion that any human, no matter their agency or reason, may initiate violence
against any other human.*
By now we
have learned through observation that an institution based on the contradiction
that it can protect itself through force and fraud will not long survive. We know that power-damaged minds only
perceive the utility of force: they do not realize that the use of force cannot
be sustained against thinking minds. Force
stifles individual human creativity, cooperation, voluntary effort, and demeans
the human spirit.*
We are each
a thinking, problem-solving unique individual. It is time we looked beyond the present
political structure of taxation and theft, fraud and favoritism, to a new
concept for your individual role in a just, fair, and merciful society. For humans, coercive government is merely a
passing fad. The days of the bully are
over. Reason must prevail. Don’t you think it is time we individual
thinkers evolved to a better cultural and ethical concept of human society? I do. Thank
you. Peace. ~ Iloilo
Marguerite Jones
*Please also read www.Think.ws for
more information on many of the concepts I have presented in Comments
section. Thank you.
The Courage We Need Today
© MeansofInquiry.org January 1, 2009
It is not the courage of war we need today.It is not the soldiers we need.
It is not the tanks and grenades. We cannot heal this world with blood.
We cannot mend the wounds with hatred.
We cannot save ourselves with violence. It is not the courage of power we need today.
It is not the politicians that we need.
It is not the taxes and the corruption. We cannot heal our planet with politics.
We cannot mend the rifts with legislation.
We cannot save ourselves with debt. It is the courage of truth we need today.
It is integrity that we need.
It is honesty and courage. We can heal our existence with honesty and courage.
We can mend the contradictions with reasoning.
We can save ourselves with peace. We know the magnitude of these concepts:
Truth requires courage;
Integrity requires courage. It is this courage that we need today. ~toward entelechy, ilo² Iloilo Marguerite Jones, Helena Montana.
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