From a friend

With all the controversy and the **** poor stable of likely candidates I felt the time is right to throw this out there again. Things grow more hopeless each day and the reason, as always, distills down to GREED. American politics draws those who have not been “GROOMED” for oligarchy but hope to achieve it on the backs of American workers. WHILE THEY CAN, because
they KNOW where this is all leading, and THAT is into forced socialism. And so, what we are seeing in Washington today from our “representatives” is a last chum feeding frenzy]

Spankthemonkey dot com (or The Case For Internet Government)
by George A. Yesthal
8/5/08

DISCLAIMER
[The following is a plan to provide an alternative to current government and is modeled after a democratic system. I personally do not subscribe to the “majority rules” theory of government, but it’s obvious that MOST Americans do. It is to that directive that this proposal is addressed.]

Are you tired enough of criminal government yet to try this?
Salaries of congress as of 8/13 (updated)
Majority Party Leader – $193,400.00
Minority Party Leader – $193,400.00
General members of congress: Annual Average – $174,000.00
535 x $174,000 = $930,900,000.00 + 2 x $193,000 = $93,476,000.00. These are ONLY their salaries for one year. It does not take into account health care and pensions…for LIFE.
That means ONE congressman taking a seat at the age of 35 and dying at 85 would cost us $8,700,000.00 Add health insurance and they’ve cost us $10,440,000.00.
$5,585,400,000.00 (that’s billions) is the very minimum our current congress alone will cost us if they all live to be 85. And this, all for persons that most Americans agree, do not represent our wants and needs.

Has anyone stopped to ask themselves just exactly why we are spending so much time, energy and finances on an electoral process and the proliferation of a governmental machine staffed by grossly overpaid and overcompensated “representatives” from the president down to state representatives? These people exemplify the meaning of the word superfluous. They are obscenely unnecessary, yet we court them, stroke their egos and line their pockets like they are actually providing a service. Are we stupid, insane or both? All these self-regulating criminal cartel types are doing is stealing from us while providing nothing but an elaborate dog and pony show that we pay for to the tune of our own impoverishment and despair.
Why would I say such a thing? I must be mad, right? After all, the very basis of our system of government is predicated on our guarantee to qualified and duly elected representatives to echo our voice in the seat of government, Washington DC. Without these “officials”, without the “authorities” there would be no system, no coordination, no order, NO GOVERNMENT, right?
If you believe that you’re as stupid as I think you are and you may leave the room. This article is for the people whose ears just pricked up and are thinking, “This is getting interesting, Continue.” So continue, I shall.
I make my audacious statement because there is already a more efficient mechanism of governmental representation and regulation in place and functioning with an efficiency that can be neither approached nor realized by the current system. This is a system that can make decisions and resolve issues almost instantaneously as opposed to the months or even years that it takes to get things done with the present system. The present system is rife with corruption spawned by our need to trust to the honesty, or lack thereof, of the people we elect. Those people are able to get away with the corruption through the fact that WE THE PEOPLE don’t have the slightest idea what is going on in the seat of power (and seat of POWER is exactly what it is, not seat of REPRESENTATION). We ostensibly know what the issues are through what concerns us individually but is our voice actually being heard…or addressed…or REPRESENTED? We honestly do not know. All we know is what our LEADERS (should be REPRESENTATIVES, right?) tell us. They have told us lie after lie after lie until we sing THEIR song instead of them singing OURS.

The system I allude to alleviates all that confabulation and deception and puts the seat of power right in our (the People’s) possession where it belongs, through a true and rock-solid democratic process the likes of which has been hitherto only dreamed of by prospective founding fathers. It guarantees every individual’s voice is heard and speaks for that individual with an eloquence and sureness that could never be achieved by any politician regardless of their honesty and best intentions. So what’s this magical system I speak of?

The INTERNET.
Our founding fathers were obliged to set up a system whereby, we the people had to elect officials, tell them of our concerns and send them packing off to Philadelphia and later Washington with an adequate traveling stipend, with the hopes that they understood and then CHOSE to represent the will of the majority. Why? They lacked the convenience of technology to do otherwise.
WE…do not.
Yet we still adhere to this antiquated and patently inefficient system as if it were something holy…sacred. Why? Because the SYSTEM has enabled an elite few to seize and hold power and lord it over us. If we don’t change it, we are doomed. I’m sure that even the most ignorant and clueless of us can see that things have got to change. Are we so gutless or complacent that we will go to our destruction with a solution literally right at our fingertips, or will we continue to complain about our state of affairs while we waste this amazing technology to click on Spankthemonkey dot com?
This is a compromise between technocracy and anarchy. It’s important that we shed the stigma of anarchy as a lawless and terroristic social chaos of armed thugs running amok. That’s NOT what anarchy is. Anarchy is a voluntary form of government in which the emphasis is on personal liberty that in reality would probably play out as smaller and more diversified technically supported agricultural communities. Anarchy does not mean no protection for those who need it either, but the particulars of those needs and the means to address them would be left at a local level. But this is not a discussion on the feasibility of anarchy, but of an alternate and more efficient form of coexistence and the right to the pursuit of happiness through the assurance that our voices ARE heard. Hey, if not voting in the weekly, monthly or yearly (whatever) referendums is your choice and it doesn’t matter that your druthers aren’t heard and included, don’t vote. It’s your choice.
I know, dissenters that I’ve already mentioned this to cite the objection that the internet can be hacked and I have to say that I certainly don’t have all the answers in the technical regard to how it should be regulated, but I’m sure there would need to be some kind if regulatory and monitoring staff and they would probably need to be randomly rotated and picked by the system itself. I know there is no fool-proof and incorruptible system but can it really be anymore inefficient, expensive and corrupt than the system we have in place now?
And, don’t worry, Spankthemonkey dot com would remain unaffected.
ADDENDUM
The Fix: Daily rotation of monitor/admin. The computer picks the rotation so it’s random. Excessive penalties for mismanagement. i.e. Life imprisonment OR capitol punishment etc. Excellent monetary compensation. People would have to qualify by passing technological tests and criminal record checks. But this would be voluntary and they would be fairly compensated. But everyone involved in monitoring the system must be held hyper-accountable. With the proper firewalls and the best of modern technology it can be made VERY secure indeed. Hell…recently they announced smartphones that are virtually unhackable. I look at it this way; running the whole system by computer is good enough for NORAD. BTW…It’s the checks and balances that get corrupted. Any human self-monitoring system will, does and HAS broken down. Taking the human element out of the equation as much as possible can only help.
Also, and this is important. ANY resolution that is to be put into LAW must receive 85% of the votes instead of the 51% allotted by common democratic dynamic. There are simply TOO many laws, making too many criminals of too many otherwise respectful people. This proposal is predicated on a Voluntarist anarchistic platform and intended to employ almost no laws that must be ENFORCED and keep them to a minimum. Therefore, for a vote to the referendum to become law it would require a TRUE majority of the aforementioned 85%.
The program doesn’t get put into force until checked and rechecked by independent sources. Trust me, a government operated by computer has far fewer variables that can go counter to public interest than one run by 534 individuals with their own agendas, not to mention the hundreds of lobbyists that court them. Plus, it costs the taxpayer $92,916,000.00 per year (at present) JUST for congress’s salaries. That doesn’t even take into account the salaries of the Speaker, POTUS and every governmental employee in every department which runs into the hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars. That money would be retained by the taxpayer and would funnel back into a MUCH healthier economy. It’s a win/win proposition. Think of it; my system could not POSSIBLY fail us to the degree that the current system has.