ASHA Strategies Against Corruption for Better Govt

If my dream of Amending the Constitution with rules to eliminate corruption were to ever come to pass, part of the Amendment would be to take the Preamble, the part that states that we have the right to life, liberty, and happiness, and make it be the guiding ideology of all American law. In principle, any law that violates, those rights stated in the Preamble would be simply unconstitutional. Lincoln even said that all legal decisions should be made using the Preamble as a guide for just law. Using this guide, any new proposed law will need to prove its intentions are good for the people as the Preamble’s statement. Any politician who proposes a law will have to compose an Article of Intention that will always be presented with any publication of that proposed law. No law will be allowed to exist without an Article of Intention. Basically, to break it down, it would be something like this: 1. An Article of Intention is a compilation of necessary criteria determining necessity, intention, and results in the belief that it will prevent fraud in govt. These Criteria of the Article of Intention were created in the effort to eliminate as much corruption as possible in the lawmaking process. Any new law, must be presented by the author or authors of that law with all the criteria of his articles of intention and go through a longer process of stages in the lawmaking process. Within the compilation, the lawmaker must present: a. a real problem, not an imaginary one, for why there is a need for a new law to be established. Debate will be allowed on this critical point. Does there exist another law that already serves this purpose? Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine, details how criminal disasters are deliberately created in order to cause problems that had not existed before. In an act of conspiracy and legalized bribery, politicians will quickly pull out a law, already written, “to fix” the new problem that they created in the first place. The new law usually has consequences that improve the bottom line of the politician’s donors. This normalized activity is nothing less than some racketeering scheme for the guys who have donated the most to politicians. A law like the Patriot Act will be pulled out that has nothing to do with patriotism, but has everything to do with undermining constitutional rights. Lawmaking like this is an epidemic and one of the greatest causes for the sorry state of the country, which is less than a fifth of what it was forty-five years ago economically. b. reasonable and logical argument will be presented for why the authors believe the law they proposed will solve the problem of making things better for the people c. an article written by the politician expressing why he believes that his proposal would be better than any other alternative solution that may be proposed. This would be an important point to debate in order to get the very best legislation. d. the lawmaker will also be required to write as complete and as considerate of a list as possible of any complications that enacting the new law may have on others or the environment e. the complete intentions of the proposed law that is presented in a concise, clear and unequivocal manner. If the law passes, the intention of the law will always be published with it so that no member of the public or law enforcement can ever be confused. f. a hearing, at this point, will be brought to congress in order to discuss how truthful, logical, and reasonable the presentation of the proposed law is. Hearings that give opportunity for any objections to the arguments made by the lawmaker in his presentation supporting the proposed law will be held and the accuracy of his or her presentation debated. g. the lawmaker will refine his law after the debate and then present it to congress once again h. a panel of lawmakers will review the proposed law in order to test certain criteria. Before the proposed law/bill is allowed to come to vote, a panel of independent judges will hold the bill to the light to see whether any part of it violates any part of the Constitution, human rights, or environmental rights. No law that has not gone through the AOI process will be allowed to become law. l. A real problem must be established that is not counter to the rights given by the Constitution or any of the rights of man established by the Magna Carta or the Geneva Convention. For example, the proposed law cannot be to outlaw the Second Amendment or to take away Freedom of Speech or any other laws that protect the population from the govt in the Bill of Rights. Constitutional Rights cannot be seen as a problem. If you swear to uphold the Constitution, you cannot be working to undermine it. ll. The intended results of the law must be established and they cannot be counter to the Constitution. lll. Laws stating good intentions and following what would seem logical argument will have to prove real results through study that that they satisfy their intentions and logic before it is allowed to become law. Studies will be paid to make sure that the new law has the proper intended results. Any law whose result is opposite of its intention will automatically be struck down by anybody who can prove it in court. lV. Any law that can be proven in court to have caused major damages, bad complications, or opposite results of its stated intentions will be automatically struck down. i. Lawmakers will take personal financial and criminal responsibility for any law that does others damages or ends up violating people’s rights. Politicians, just like everybody else, need to go to jail. It only takes a few to put in jail to make others stop breaking the law. What we have now are politicians who regularly break their Oath to the Constitution and promise to look out for the welfare of their constituents. j. With this longer process of making law and the number of checks and its number of checks and balances established in the Article of Intention, politicians will have now no excuse to make bad law. In order to make bad law, now, politicians would have to use much more energy, much more duplicity, much greater conspiracy and number of players to pull off any bad law. It would also establish real punishment for authors and authorizers of bad law and would make their crimes much harder to hide. If any part of that law, from its first intention in its ideation to the consequences after it is enacted, differs in any way from the Constitution, the law will be struck down. Also, if any part of the law differs from the original intention, the law will be struck down. If the politician’s article cannot prove its need or good intent, then that law cannot be passed. If any action by government were to violate the intention of the law, then that action would become unlawful. If the intent of the law is one that is differing to the Constitution or to international human rights, then that law will not be allowed to pass or exist if already on the books. Furthermore, the results of laws will be tested before they are enacted. Are the results the same as intent? If the results differ, then that law cannot be enacted. For too long, politicians have been passing laws with titles that sound like they are intended to do great things, but actually were designed to do the opposite. This is the worst kind of fraud there is, and I truly feel that it should be considered an act of treason. The way to solve it would mean that laws will be tested and studies made to prove they have beneficial results before they can be broadly enacted. If the results don’t agree with the intention, that law will not be allowed to pass. Furthermore, it may be a good idea to apply the standards of the Article of Intention to all the laws already passed for the entire history of this country. To truly fix this country, we will have to clean deeply. Each and every law will come under review in order to check both the results of the law and what the probable intents were for passing any particular law. If the probable intent differs from the Constitution or its result, that law will be dropped immediately. I realize that this is a huge project I propose, one that would put a huge number of people to work, which would also be a good thing, but it is also a necessity if we are going to try to live in a legally fair world. I feel that attention to the intention and to the results of law is necessary to guaranteeing good law. It is the only way that any politician or any governmental official can be made to follow his oath to the Constitution and not pass bad law. Is the intent constitutional? If not, it will be struck down. Are the results the same as the intent? If not, the law will be struck down. Do the results of the law proposed or already enacted cause damage to any individual or group’s life or liberty?, or do the results violate the environment, the rights of plants, or animals’ right to exist in any way? If so, those laws will not be allowed to pass and the existing ones struck down. Using this determination system for a law’s right to exist I believe will transform this country and world. I even believe that it will practically eliminate corruption from government, which is what I believe to be the number one problem in this country. William K. Black believes the economy would turn completely around if we started putting people in jail like he did in the eighties. I believe everything bad would change for the better if we started putting the elite criminals in jail, who happen to be our leaders. For many years now, I have studied long and hard on the problems of the world and have determined that most of the many ills that exist stem from how we govern ourselves, or, rather, how we let ourselves be governed by criminals. For too long, politicians, judges, intelligence agencies, and others have not gone to jail. This just emboldens them and their crimes become worse. We were taught that the times of killing Native Americans are over, but I don’t see it. Have things really gotten better than a hundred years ago? Corruption is not the problem really, but the symptom of a government whose constitution is not detailed enough with clever rules to prevent corruption. In its state now, the Constitution too easily allows itself to be rigged by the rich and powerful. Rules have to be established to counter their influence. I have gathered a list of the issues that cause the problems in the way we allow ourselves to be governed and have come up real solutions. The state of our government has become is deeply fascist in the way that Mussolini defined the term, no boundary between business and govt. Corporatism is what he called it and that is exactly what we have today. The murder of many prominent people who were working to unite people, leaders who believed in democracy, were actually coups for fascism. Leaders who unite the people to demand their rights in the face of inequality and unequal protection are quickly done away with, and the best speeches extolling their lives are delivered by their murderers. If you think about it, there is no way that government can regulate business when government is sleeping with business. There is no way for government to protect any individual, group, or even the majority of people in the country when the government is sleeping with business. The economy becomes about who you know and not about merit, which violates equal protection and leads to a two-tiered justice system. Unequal protection always leads to great tyranny. Because the government has allowed business to control the media, business has been able to take over the government even more completely. This allows ever greater tyrannical actions against the people. Jim Morrison said, “Those who control the media control the mind.” Nothing more true has ever been said. Because big business controls the media, business has been controlling our elections for a very long time, even before the advent of electronic election fraud and all these advanced methods of voter suppression. The CIA was established by the elite to further their exploitation of nations through their prophylactic use of corporations as vehicles to break law without being directly exposed. The elite use the CIA to destabilize economies and destroy democracies or whatever form of government that gets in their way of profit. The CIA is also used to traffic drugs, collect info, and to control the mass media. Time Warner and all the rest of the major media are pretty much all CIA front companies. It was under Reagan that they were first allowed to buy companies. CIA Director William Colby was quoted in 1976, “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” They have never been sued for this statement. Lives do not matter to them. This is the real state of things, the state of our country. Things have run amuck. There has never been more need for an organization to take on the fascism here; to fight against the fraud, propaganda, and yellow journalism; to promote human rights and education; to act as sentinel guard against abuses in the media; and to protect witnesses, whistleblowers, and journalists in order to tackle the major corruption and injustice in this country and the world. This is very important to me. This is something I have committed my life to. My motivation? I have seen how the govt has devastated communities first hand. I have seen too many hurt. I have lived abroad. I don’t want people to hate me because I am American. I want to be able to pay taxes again without feeling guilty for the evil that money is being used to do around the world.