"We The People .... Have No Clothes" -- the book.

[understandinglife]

"We The People .... Have No Clothes" -- we have all had access to more than enough of the truth ever since Dec 9 2000 when Scalia perpetrated the first traitorous act ever committed by a member of the Supreme Court, and it has been nothing but an expanding cesspool of lies, excuses, avarice, murder, torture, imperialism and environmental savaging ever since.

"We The People .... have no excuses." We must make a simple decision - do we allow Bush and the neoconsters to continue to murder, to torture, to lie, to steal and destroy or do we rebuild the Republic as we rebuild New Orleans; do we restore meaning to our Constitution and Bill of Rights as we nurture the impoverished citizens of New Orleans and America, or do we continue pretending it isn't happening.

Time to make a decision my fellow citizens. No where to hide, no point in running, the whole world is watching -- each, every one of us.

The above is a preface to a book I began writing in early August.

The book will be terse -- no more than 100 pages.

It will contain a copy of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.

It will not contain a copy of the Pledge of Allegiance.

It will contain a few specific recommendations for how to rebuild and persistently nurture the Republic.

Among those will be that each school child be asked to read to their classmates sections of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, every day of the school year. Five minutes of reading through the documents, each morning.

I would expect most Americans to be able to recite those documents, from memory, before the age of 18. Let's face it, if you are going to 'die for your country,' shouldn't you at least know what it is (supposed to be).

Other recommendations will focus on:

Are you sure your vote 'counted'?

Do you deserve easier access to vote than any other citizen of the Republic?

Why are you not running for Congress or President?

Constitutional amendments enforcing specific term limits on Pres., VP, Senate and HR.

Who owns America?

And, more.

I will be interested in all your responses and suggestions. Those of you whom have read my posts at DU during the past ~ 10 months will be familiar with some of the details you see in the book.

I had hoped to do more than write a book, but for now, given an unexpected impediment that I confronted yesterday, that is all I am going to be able to contribute.

If I am able to have the book published, I plan for half of the proceeds to go to DU and the other half to Habitat for Humanity. I will accept not a single penny of compensation from the sale of the book.


Peace.

[Lilyhoney]

1. Good luck on the book. Sounds great..

I would like to direct you toward a podcast. If what you really want is to get your message out, you can start to podcast today.

[bleever]

2. Nominating this for all the DUers who'll want to help when they hear about

it. This could be a very rewarding project to have our collective knowledge and wisdom support.

It sounds kind of like an owner's manual for citizens.

:thumbsup:

[understandinglife]

7. "...kind of like an owner's manual for citizens." In_deed.

Yes, and I am eager for input from everyone here.

A key theme will be using the catastrophic disregard for our fellow citizens we have witnessed in New Orleans these past 10 days to make it inescapable for future generations to deny the reality, or, more importantly, continue the structural racisim instituted by Reagan that yielded, for all the world to see, the devestation of not just a region but a very specific segment of our citizenry -- right down to folk from the Hyatt being moved to the front of the line, to get on the bus -- while the NG stowed their suitcases for them.

At one point, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line - much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since Sunday.

"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.


The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, next to the Superdome, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome.

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National Guard Capt. John Pollard called the decision to move the Hyatt people to the head of the line "very poor."

Link:

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050903%2F0603470456.htm&sc=1110&photoid=20050902LADP152

Well, Capt. John Pollard, you are correct and I hope your soldiers will find 'the manual' helpful, next time.

Every person who has read "the manual" will have had it explained to them how ironic and tragic that event is -- and just how far we still need to travel to ensure that Rosa Parks' legacy truly does mean that every American citizen is committed to making ever more real, every day, these words -- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.




Peace.

[crispini]

3. kick

:kick:

[RevCheesehead]

4. Kick and nominated.

Hi, UL! :hi:

[Patsy Stone]

5. Recommended

UL, :yourock:

[BigBearJohn]

6. Recommended. I will buy the book!

[understandinglife]

8. Rich: But character doesn't change: it is immutable, and it is destiny.

AS the levees cracked open and ushered hell into New Orleans on Tuesday, President Bush once again chose to fly away from Washington, not toward it, while disaster struck. We can all enumerate the many differences between a natural catastrophe and a terrorist attack. But character doesn't change: it is immutable, and it is destiny.

As always, the president's first priority, the one that sped him from Crawford toward California, was saving himself: he had to combat the flood of record-low poll numbers that was as uncontrollable as the surging of Lake Pontchartrain. It was time, therefore, for another disingenuous pep talk, in which he would exploit the cataclysm that defined his first term, 9/11, even at the price of failing to recognize the emerging fiasco likely to engulf Term 2.

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But a president who flew from Crawford to Washington in a heartbeat to intervene in the medical case of a single patient, Terri Schiavo, has no business lecturing anyone about playing politics with tragedy. Eventually we're going to have to examine the administration's behavior before, during and after this storm as closely as its history before, during and after 9/11. We're going to have to ask if troops and matériel of all kinds could have arrived faster without the drain of national resources into a quagmire. it took almost two days of people being without food, shelter and water for Mr. Bush to get back to Washington.

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From Falluja Floods the Superdome by FRANK RICH on September 4, 2005

Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rich.html?pagewanted=print

And, the most important question is the one each and every American citizen must ask of themself -- is this the America, is this the world, you want to leave to those yet to be born.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

12. Horsey's current assessment of what we are confronting ....

Time to focus on the basics....and the another major thread of civilization that is obviously broken is 'education.'


Peace.

[DemReadingDU]

9. Thanks U.L.,

Looking forward to reading your book.

[Matariki]

10. i have a suggestion for nurturing the republic

don't tie education to the value of your housing. equal education funding country wide.

[understandinglife]

11. I agree and I plan to treat education the way the interstate highway ...

... system was assembled and functions. Details to follow.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

13. No escaping we all have access to the truth; issue is merely ...

.... willingness to see it and do something about it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4633807&mesg_id=4633807


Peace.

[Independent_Liberal]

14. Kick!

[wakemewhenitsover]

15. Kick