Corruption is the Worst Threat Humanity, and America Specifically, Faces Today
In a recent interview with Russel Brand, Col. Douglas Macgregor stated:
"… Americans are conditioned to believe that there are threats all over the world. And in reality, you know, there really aren’t — the biggest threat to America right now, I think, is the incompetence and corruption in Washington, DC.”
However, Col. Macgregor insufficiently characterizes the problem by limiting it to the US Federal Government. It is blatantly obvious from the character and actions of state governors, such as Kathy Hochul (D - New York), Gretchen Witmer (D - Michigan), and Michelle Grisham (D - New Mexico), that state governments are no less corrupted and acting against the best interests of their civilian populations. In the listed examples, the Governors have publicly stated they intend to disarm their populations, and have taken actions obviously contrary to the human rights accorded Americans by the Bill of Rights, and prohibited government by the US Constitution, which limits governmental authority to specific powers. Disarming civilian populations is specifically prohibited in every jurisdiction in America, because helpless people are easily enslaved, which is why despots always disarm them.
There is a word for governmental office holders that exceed their lawful mandates: despot. The above examples, and many, many more state officials do everything they can to effect tyranny, assuming despotic power that interferes with Americans' enjoyment of their lives and liberty and criminalizes them for undertaking their rightful responsibilities and exercising their inherent authority.
Neither is such corruption limited to America. It could hardly be more obvious that across the West similar tyranny is being implemented, and it would be difficult to find more blatant examples of despotism than Canada, Germany, or England, as everywhere national governments are corrupted by obscenely wealthy plutocrats that have plundered the world through fraud and deception by demonstrating a complete lack of ethics and morals, or even a basic respect for human rights, and committing any and every atrocity potential to earn a buck despite the suffering their commercial activities cause. People like Bill Gates and George Soros have used their vast and illicit fortunes to interfere in global, national, and local governance around the world, despoiling the cities of the West, degrading their populations, and wreaking havoc that has killed millions of victims for their immense financial profits.
They are everywhere assisted and enabled by banksters, whose rapine is impossible for good people to fully grasp, and represent the abilities of psychopaths to rise to power in institutions due to their willingness to commit atrocities for profit, that ordinary people cannot even imagine because good people empathize with one another, which psychopaths are incapable of. Banksters launder all the profits of black market criminals. Half the financial assets in the world are such criminal proceeds, and all of them are in banks, or passed through banks. They are the criminals they accuse us of being.
When I was a child, I noted that local police in my island village murdered a local drug dealer, made a blatantly false claim he committed suicide, and then sold drugs out of the police station, which good citizens would not, and could not, believe their friendly neighbors, the police officers, were doing, mostly because they didn't buy illegal drugs so weren't aware of the obvious evidence the smiling psychopaths in blue murdered and dealt drugs to their children. This despite the Chief of Police's sons were notorious drug dealers so prolific his house reeked of weed so bad you could smell it blocks away. Back in the day good people didn't smoke weed, and didn't know that skunky smell from cabbage cooking.
The fact is that institutions of every kind are inhuman, inhumane, are not born, do not die, do not love, hate, suffer, hunger, or mirror humanity in any way, but legally, because they have granted themselves personhood through corruption of just laws to facilitate their rapine economic profiteering on the backs of civilian populations, and these institutions further facilitate the rise to power of psychopaths to the top of their leadership because psychopaths neither are humane or view populations as human beings like themselves. While good people may believe that creating institutions, such as NGOs with limited charitable purposes, or corporations that facilitate groups to commonly undertake commercial enterprises, are useful tools that benefit society, this is because we innately project our world view on others, and the evil inherent to psychopaths is utterly foreign to good people that cannot image roasting people alive or similar cruelty that psychopaths find amusing - and profitable.
At every level, at every scale, institutions and governments have been infiltrated and corrupted by psychopaths and criminals over time. The longer governments have been in place, the more thoroughly and deeply they have been corrupted. Col. Macgregor discusses the financial mechanism that obviously is plied to corrupt governments, but he neglects extortion and blackmail that asserts even more certain and powerful control of bureaucrats, corporate officers, and public figures, who are promoted because they have succumbed to criminal acts such as drug abuse, financial fraud, or human trafficking, and preferentially all those and more, which make it easy to control them by threatening to reveal their crimes and destroy their lives. Kiddy diddlers, in particular, have been leashed by blackmail because their crimes against children would cause them to be torn apart limb from limb by the outraged parents whose children have been disappeared in the many scandals that are suppressed by the enemedia, performing the censorship function essential to the psychopaths that own them.
In every case, everywhere on Earth, formal institutions with codified rules, laws, and statutory regulations have been so corrupted through multiple vectors of criminality, including every kind and stripe of institution, from Church to State and all in between. Good people that cannot imagine the kinds of thoughts bad people have are deceived to support them, but understanding the good intentions that founded them, and that make the functions they are stated to effect necessary to felicitous society. Through the institutional hierarchies, the economic power of such good people is extracted from them and put to evil purposes, contrary to the stated purposes of religious, commercial, and governmental institutions, through the mechanism of corruption.
The formal hierarchies of institutions, primarily corporations today, are fundamental to this process, although corruption can always seek out individuals vulnerable to it, the formal hierarchical nature of institutions massively increases the reach and grasp of corruption to even the morally upright and ethically sound people who are members of them, because their participation is undertaken through forced representation rather than by their own actions. We do not need such formal institutions. People can, and do, today simply work together to do good. When we do, we inherently reject the usurpation of the criminals that try to take our power from us. Because we act of our personal volition, there is no mechanism to take our power from us.
It is time to end the fiction of 'legal persons' through which institutions are able to wrest the powers of civilian people from them by claiming falsely that corporations have rights, that the agents of institutions have immunity from their actions on behalf of such fictions that facilitate the corruption and subjugation of free and sovereign people, good people, everywhere in the world to the most vile psychopaths and criminals through the above mentioned methods, and the many more ingenious deviants devise. In every jurisdiction on Earth the people there have suffered the depredations of deception and fraud, from the steady drain of theft of their resources through inflation effected by financial institutions, to the rape and murder of their children by police and armies claiming the exigency of prosecutory or military urgency to prevent being investigated and exposed as organ traffickers, child sex traffickers, and every other vile and horrific black market profiteer that exists.
Chief among the criminals are the spooks, because information is power, and the most powerful criminals have made every effort to covertly stalk and surveil us, seeking the bit and bridle that enables them to control those whose criminal acts make them easy to extort. We are being herded like lemmings off a cliff of global subjugation to the current crop of criminals that have co-opted government, church, and commerce alike, so the rich and evil can profit off the death and destruction of the good and productive. The rise of rentiers is the decline of industry.
Wherever you live, this is being done to you. Your felicity, and that of your posterity, depends on you acting to reassert your personal sovereignty and power to govern you and your nation. Everyone on Earth, of every race, ethnicity, faith, and class that understands people are inherently endowed with inalienable rights by virtue of their natural existence, is threatened with enslavement to vile psychopaths through these mechanisms. We equally must and are empowered to act to end the deception by which we are threatened. The false claim that corporations are people and have rights is so useful to criminals that it has become a fundamental mechanism by which they have usurped our rights, and by ending that lie in every jurisdiction, populations in all jurisdictions can strip that fraud of it's power to enslave populations that are the true and sovereign free people of the world.
Every person acts and is responsible for their actions, and the deception that corporations act enables criminals to pretend 'the church/government/corporation did it' and escape their personal responsibility for their actions, from Presidents to Preachers, and this lie must end so that corrupt criminals are held responsible for the authority they have exercised. There can be no dismissal of responsibility for a person's actions that institutions today afford criminals. Corporations have no right to vote, to speak, to live, or any rights at all. They cannot be jailed or executed for their crimes. They are not people. They corrupt our nations and civil societies with every action they take that isn't inherent to a right they have. It is impossible for good to come from evil, and institutions usurping human rights can only produce evil results, because usurping human rights is evil.
Regardless of your status, of your situation, of your location, concerns, or needs, this common evil is certainly depriving you of your inherent rights, destroying your people, stealing your economic assets, and causing you harm you can only prevent by working together with your sovereign peers to take back our sole and exclusive right and responsibility to rule ourselves. Let us together unanimously destroy the fiction that has usurped our rights and powers from us by creating pretend 'people' psychopaths possess to dispossess us and our children.
End corporate usurpation of human rights. End legal personhood. Take back what is ours, and ours alone: human rights for human beings.
I see your point with human rights for humans. Probably a good slogan because it is concise. Are you saying the liability protection of corporations should be removed, as in I could sue the CEO of Taco Bell for the hot coffee spilling on me? Or should I be allowed to sue the teenager who spilled it so that every paycheck she makes will be garnished until she pays off the judgement? Or, as in a criminal case, everyone involved up to a threshold chosen by our government corporation? Or, without government, do I approach the employee as she is leaving work and agree to a settlement the best way I see fit?
I'm looking for solutions to all the evil you laid out caused by corrupt humans facilitating more corruption through gaming laws that many times are instituted in good faith. The Declaration of Independence comes to mind where it says governments are instituted to protect our individual rights. Good to note that a corporation did not sign the letter; each signer put their own life on the line:
(Excerpt from https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript)
Unless you can show that some defect of the establishment selling coffee was responsible, I don't think such lawsuit should award damages. As a customer for hot coffee, I reckon you're responsible for your choices, and to be aware of the dangers of hot coffee. If you don't want hot coffee occasionally dumped on your lap, you should ensure your lap isn't under hot coffee being transferred from hand to hand. Now, if a company is selling tainted coffee they bought at a discount out the back of a truck, then I think you have a case for damages if you're injured by drinking their coffee, because they're responsible to ensure what they sell is what they tell people they're selling.
It is notable that the Declaration of Independence wasn't articles of incorporation. When the USA was created, it wasn't a corporation. I haven't dug into the legalese, but have read the statements of others that the US of A was incorporated in 1871, shortly after the Civil War. For the prior ~century of it's existence, it was not a corporation.
Communities, even nations, aren't corporations in which the residents are shareholders, and I don't have any shares of USA, despite being born here long after it's incorporation. The fact there are villages that remain unincorporated and the folks therein manage to build roads, pipe water to homes, and pipe sewage away from them shows that incorporation isn't necessary, and that societies can perform the necessary negotiations and operations to manage communal utilities without resorting to incorporation.
I think the answers you seek can be found in such unincorporated villages, by studying how such places create and provide utilities, for example. The people living there have to discuss amongst themselves such matters, and decide whether and how to provide them. However, such things are often put to votes, and majority rule can force folks into a kind of slavery to the majority, which isn't just. Even a bunch of people that all agree to force me to provide my land for their sewer pipe don't have that lawful authority, so democracy isn't inherently just, and it is necessary to prevent mob justice.
That's why America is a republic.
Thanks!
Edit: I am a big fan of the Declaration of Independence, and the thinking behind it. However I note a big gap between the bit about instituting government and government becoming destructive of the ends for which it was instituted. It seems to me obvious that institutions are inevitably infiltrated by criminals that corrupt the institutions, and that big gap is the lack of any idea how to prevent that from happening.
Jefferson, who largely wrote the Declaration of Independence, later said that we should have a revolution about every 20 years because of that problem. That rather contradicts the language in the Declaration of Independence, where it says that governments shouldn't be overthrown for trifles. So, rather than serial revolution, the founders tried to create a government in which mob justice could be prevented without violence, and yet the population could choose folks to represent them and craft laws that were just and prevented corruption.
They failed. Eventually (and I don't think it took 20 years) criminals infiltrated and corrupted government. How to prevent that corruption is the question of the age, and somewhere between chaos and totalitarianism is a means of enabling society to prosper and advance the blessings of civilization for all. We have a pretty good model in the pre-corporate USA, maybe in the pre-Constitution USA, and we should work out how to tweak those models in an effort to fix what went wrong with America.
Because it's borked now.
I'd point out that the advent of blockchain, of the Hive model, means we don't need representatives anymore. Those representatives are a weak and eminently corruptible link in the chain of liberty, and we should not be forced to delegate our votes [I am not saying Hive is perfect, because it's not, and a plutocracy isn't an acceptable government]. So, I recommend we dispense entirely with the legislative branch. Folks that want to delegate their votes to some fakir or guru can do that, but no one should be required to. That leaves us with the judicial and executive branches of government, and I don't think we need a President, nor permanent agencies that are crime magnets either.
Does anyone think the FDA, CDC, or DHS are doing good jobs? The DOJ? FBI, NSA, or CIA? All of these agencies - the entire executive branch of government - are corruption factories. A Fuera! (to quote a fiery but mostly peaceful Argentinian). That leaves us with the Judicial branch of government, direct democratic voting limited by human rights, and temporary contract employees that achieve whatever needs doing, building roads, pumping sewage, spying on us and reading our every email (maybe we don't need that bit?), etc.
All we need are courts? Thoughts?
This would have the legislative branch moved to the power players (those delegated by people). If they have enough votes then they need not have transparency, but it just might be the case where enough people do not delegate.
The executive also is redefined as the contractors you mention, hired by the judicial branch, not elected by the people. All this seems to just move the corruption magnet to that branch, like we see in South America lately. Bringing up competing branches to check each other was the solution in the US Consitution, with further checks in the state governments which have their own branches similarly checking each other. It is a strategic feat to corrupt so many competing branches like we have seen here.
The overarching check is supposed to be human decency, mostly backed by God-fearing people who are elected in fair elections by a populace that can hear uncensored political speech. So, the culture is important, as is dependable elections. Good culture being too difficult to define, perhaps an amendment can be agreed upon by enough states that can direct elections away from methods that are easily tampered with.
That's not how it works on Hive, and not at all what I intended to communicate. On Hive, which is the legislative model I am proposing, we, the People, each and all decide whether to upvote someone, or a proposal, and that upvote is the funds we delegate - the taxes we pay to fund the project - to pave a road, or pay some AI to collect all our emails and read them. No judicial branch applies to that function.
The purpose and activities of the judiciary I did not mention changing. We do need courts. I don't state we need judges, but we do need courts and juries can rule on law and matters brought to courts for judgement. I neither believe we need the Bar association, which is a form of government itself, although legal representatives are indeed necessary, because law can be a complex matter (even if we discard non-common law and return to principles that juries can adjudicate based on common law, which can be known and understood by normal people).
However, even dialing that back, courts are notoriously corrupt. To my knowledge, this corruption is primarily through judges and bar attorneys, which I have just mentioned being rid of, but juries have also been known to be corrupted, intimidated, and tampered with. Nothing is perfect.
We don't, and probably cannot have, dependable elections. I have seen video of election watchers expelled from vote counting rooms, boxes of ballots that were concealed while election watchers were present and brought out after they were expelled, and then they turned out to have only Biden votes in them, and Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election. Since that fraudulent election, numerous court challenges have been brought against it, but the courts are as corrupt as the state governments that counted the fake ballots, so elections as we presently conduct them are not dependable.
Hive isn't a replacement for that, because I know of Hive users that have in excess of 10k accounts, so they can vote early and vote often. It's just as corruptable as political elections, and worse, all the votes are stake weighted, so the more money you have on Hive the more your vote(s) count. @ned proposed 1a1v before he gave up on Hive, took the money for the Founder's stake, and ran, but he never revealed a functional mechanism the restrict voting to actual individual human beings.
I do not wish to delegate my vote. I do not accede to being represented. Forcing me to allow someone else to represent me is a form of slavery, and I do not consent. The legislative system of representation is obsolete, and Hive proves we do not need it anymore. Neither do I need government agencies - particularly when every government agency we can name is proved to have been corrupted and to represent the interests of the corporations they are supposed to be regulating. Every service provided by a government agency can be provided under contract by a private company, and I can choose to pay for such service voluntarily if I want that service. If I don't want it forcing me to pay for it is, again, slavery, and I do not consent.
But I see no means of replacing courts with private contractors. Being rid of judges and the Bar enables juries to rule on cases brought to court, criminal and civil, and while juries aren't perfectly corruption proof, they are a hell of lot more resistant to corruption than judges and bar attorneys, and I will have to settle for that until someone proposes something better.
Dear @valued-customer !
Worse than a drug dealer, was the Chief of Police punished?😨
He was never accused of wrong-doing. Never charged with a crime. Who would charge him? The police? He was their boss. Being a cop is dangerous - if you're honest. Cops kill people for a living, and will obviously kill anyone that threatens their jobs, livelihoods, or their lives, even if it's another cop.
Thanks!