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2020-10-11
From the Greek: Demos (the people) and Kratos (rule, power).
From the ancient Athenians down to the present day, this idea of democracy has been kept alive down the ages despite the autocratic (autos: self) rule of emperors kings and tyrants.
As the old saying goes, two heads are better than one, but how about 60 million heads? How does that work? In ancient Athens they had but one city to worry about (and only the free-born men-folk at that), so to take a vote it sufficed to give each man the right to place a white or a black pebble into the bucket on the way out of the agora (field) after considering the preceding oratory. Clearly something more sophisticated is required in the modern nation.
In the UK our democratic tradition evolved over centuries, spurred on by the religious schism between our monarchy and the Holy Father in Rome (kicked out by King Henry VIII for all the wrong reasons in an early example of UDI). The Holy Father, being not about to relinquish his right to appoint the rulers of Europe, then supported numerous attempts to put the rebellious English back into his box, notably including the ill-fated Spanish Armada despatched by king Philip II of Spain against Queen Elizabeth I. The English being a pragmatic people may have been none too exercised about King Henry's original break with Rome, but we don't like being bullied and king Philip's mission certainly did nothing to endear Rome to the English. So began the popular support for spiritual and temporal independence. Later, King Charles I married a Bourbon Catholic princess Henriette Marie, who bore the princes who later became Kings Charles II and subsequently James II.
Doubtless suspicions about his Catholic wife's religious influence did nothing to calm the events that led to the Civil War, a bloody struggle that pitted one half of the nation against the other, resulting in possibly more deaths per capita than any war before or since. The same religious factors later led directly to the Glorious Revolution: the deposing of Catholic King James II and the subsequent crowning of James' daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange as joint monarchs of England, following their agreement with Parliament on the new Bill of Rights, upon which our present traditional (and religious) freedoms are based.
Following the coronation of William and Mary, the Scots then became the standard bearers for Catholicism in our isles, a rumbling disputation that culminated in the battle of Culloden in 1746, after which "Bonnie Prince Charlie" (Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart) was relentlessly hunted across Scotland before escaping to France. Today we count ourselves indebted to the bonnie prince, as the English army had such trouble in its pursuit due to the inhospitable and largely unknown terrain, that the Board of Ordnance was commissioned to map the country so that the army might better navigate it - and so began our Ordnance Survey, that still produces arguably the finest maps in the world!
Parliament and Monarchy then ruled what eventually became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (space prohibits a proper examination of the history of Ireland here). After the First World War the vote was extended to include women (who had proved their worth in farms and factories throughout the realm).
So democracy has been on a slow and sporadic advance over centuries, and we now have a system where we elect our MPs to represent us in the expectation that they will rule the land to our benefit - yet today in October 2020 we have a Prime Minister who rules by diktat over a parliament that mounts no effective challenge.
How come?
The other primary democratic country is the USA, which has the benefit of a more clearly defined Constitution than the UK. Their Bill of Rights is also admirably clear and concise, which makes it difficult to circumvent.
Nonetheless the USA is having as much difficulty with its democracy as any country in the world right now, with consequences that may not be apparent any time soon.
How come?
Into this mix we must throw powerful supranational agencies such as the World Economic Forum, the world banking network (including the Bank for International Settlements, World Bank, national central banks and the "too-big-to-fail" banks), the United Nations and its multiplicitous agencies including the WHO and IPCC, the major NGOs and Philanthropic Foundations (Clinton Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Foundations etc), and Charities (Oxfam, Red Cross and other medical charities to numerous to enumerate), all of which control vast wealth but none of which recognise any democratic oversight.
Mention should also be made of global big businesses (prominent among them "Big Pharma" and "Big Military") that some think may work a cosy crony capitalistic relationship with governments around the world to relieve them of taxpayer funding by one means or another. Indeed "conspiracy theories" around such as the 9/11 attacks in Manhattan have only grown in support in recent years.
Clearly there is still work to be done if democracy is not to be subsumed by a tsunami of vested interests of the rich and powerful - so where do we start?
Perhaps on one level the much maligned Donald Trump has shown the way - we could reclaim power for the democratic nation state by defunding these "advisory" global agencies that would be used to dictate to us.
On the financial level we might set up a replacement for the world banking network (me neither ... but it's all over the internet and YouTube are censoring like mad) that would render it obsolete (and tear up a great many current assumptions about money and finance in the process).
At the other end of the power pyramid, can "we the people" foster the power of free citizens to replace the two-party system, that controls our parliaments (in the UK and the USA) and answers to its paymasters rather than its citizens. Indeed there are those who suspect that the current outrages in the USA may be designed to wake the citizenry up to the true situation in which we find ourselves.
"Something must be done" - can we do it?
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2020-10-05
The USA didn't gain it's independence and become the premier world power by nicely doing as they were told by the Crown.
Freedom and independence must be asserted - our objective is to encourage all free citizens of the United Kingdom (and of the world!) to institute a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people".
This site is set up, funded, and managed by Jim Makin of Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom, in furtherance of this objective.
Jim studied at Brighton Polytechnic (simultaneously serving two years in the TA), graduated in 1972 with BSc (Hons) Computer Science and Data Processing, and spent his working life designing installing and servicing information systems for manufacturing industry. He is a (retired) member of both the British Computer Society and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, has lived in Petersfield since 1989, and joined the UK Independence Party in 2006 (the clue is in the name). Since then he has campaigned for UKIP in the majority of its by-elections, has contested local elections since 2010, and has chaired the East Hampshire branch of UKIP and maintained its web-site. He also contested the UK parliamentary election (December 2019) in East Hampshire for UKIP.
Following the UKIP response to Covid, he resigned UKIP membership and set up this website to challenge those official narratives that need challenging.
Jim is married with two children, enjoys selected you-tube channels, cycling, and undertaking new challenges . . . and claims "free citizenship" of the United Kingdom.
In 2020 the great Covid "pandemic" burst upon the unsuspecting world and governments globally seemed to lose all sense of proportion, taking wildly over-the-top measures which drove a coach and horses over previously accepted epidemiology and normal democratic process alike.
Something was very seriously up.
In the UK there has been no significant opposition to the Covid emergency laws, despite the massive infringement on personal liberties, huge life-changing economic damage, and draconian imposition of unscientific measures to . . . well, to do what exactly?
Originally the stated objective was merely to flatten the curve and avoid overwhelming the NHS, but measures continued in place long after these objectives were achieved. Covid hospital admissions and deaths trailed away almost entirely by July but suddenly talk was about nothing but "cases" - in reality merely positive results from a PCR test of uncertain accuracy that the inventor stated should never be used for diagnostic purposes.
As the test numbers ramped up, of course more positive "cases" were identified!
More dire warnings of an imminent second wave were promulgated!
More restrictions were imposed!
You couldn't make it up, yet still there was no effective opposition in Parliament to speak truth unto power - they even voted to extend the Covid emergency laws for another six months!
Has someone cast a spell over our democratic institutions? Why are other democracies globally following similarly disastrous paths apparently under the same spell?
Logic suggests that our democracies are broken. It is very clear that we can no longer take our freedoms for granted. We do not have governments "of the people, by the people, and for the people" or this would never have happened - "the people" collectively are too sensible.
Our UK parliamentary system is based upon a very few political parties that effectively act as gate-keepers to permit only party-approved candidates to be elected to Parliament in numbers. Through the party whip system these MPs can then be told how to vote. This scheme enables those who control our political parties to control both our democracy and our government.
This has led directly to the tacit understanding among many citizens that getting involved in politics is not for them. This gives free rein to a privileged few to gain a nomination by a major Party to run for Parliament in the name of that Party.
The inescapable conclusion is that we must develop a better concept of democracy that will support a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" to replace the current two-party parliamentary system.
Such a people-centric concept must inevitably be built from the bottom up rather than on any top-down design. If founded upon the concept of the "free citizen" then it will have freedom built in. Without this foundation any design for government would be open to undue influence from other interests.
The challenge of course is "how to do this?". Political apathy runs through much of society - this must be significantly overcome if the concept of the "free citizen" is to take sufficient hold.
This web-site doesn't pretend to have all the answers. However, we do state the problem and suggest the necessary condition for beginning the process of redesigning and reforming our political landscape to enable control by "the people" first and foremost.
If we get that wrong then any reforms that are put in place will be in vain.
Jim invites all those who aspire to reforming democratic government through "free citizenship" to contribute ideas and support in whatever way you feel able.
Let's make start!
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- To encourage every one of us to think for ourselves.
If we have formed no convictions of our own, then we are open to manipulation (maybe worse) by others who would prefer us to support their agendas (if only by default).
This is the first prerequisite for personal freedom! - To encourage every one of us to act in accordance with our convictions.
Convictions which lead to action also lead to
- Learning
- Confidence
- Courage
- Fulfilment
Only we who are prepared to act out of conviction can be truly free, because freedom is not given, it must be asserted and defended.
Action is the second prerequisite for personal freedom!
- To encourage every free citizen to take active part in the government of the nation.
This is a prerequisite for a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people", but it is not yet clear that we know how best to do this - we aim to explore the possibilities further on this web-site.
This is the third prerequisite for personal freedom and the first prerequisite for a free nation!
- the prize: world domination
- the protagonists: the 0.1% vs the 99.9%
- the battleground: the internet and other news media,
peaceful public gatherings and protest - the weaponry:
the law (used by both sides!),
subterfuge, embarrassment, unwelcome publicity,
control of publicly available information,
emotion-based propaganda and censorship versus truth evidence logic and free expression,
division disinterest and confusion versus love compassion and solidarity,
suppression of public gatherings and protest by police or paramilitaries,
placement of puppet candidates into positions of political judicial and academic power, non-elected "regulators" "Quangos" "Commissions" etc, police, intelligence services, and armed forces, the list goes on.
We in the UK are not alone - peoples the world over are struggling, notably those in the "land of the free", the USA. The vested interests know that the independent-minded peoples of the USA must be subjugated or the "new world order" will fail - the American people are entitled by their constitution to bear arms and the 0.1% cannot hope to overcome the 99.9% by force, so they must do it by other means. Battle over the presidential election has been joined with a vengeance, but this war is not confined to the USA.
This young lady explains exactly why the power of the free citizen is so needed in these times:
The West became great not because of paperwork and regulation, but because people were allowed to chase their dreams and pursue their destinies.
Americans, Poles, and Nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty - we must work together to confront forces, whether they come from inside or out, from the South or the East, that threaten over time to undermine these values, and to erase the bonds of culture faith and tradition, that make us who we are.
If left unchecked these forces will undermine our courage, sap our spirit, and weaken our will to defend ourselves and our societies. But just as our adversaries and enemies of the past learned here in Poland, we know that these forces too are doomed to fail if we want them to fail, and we do indeed want them to fail."
- firstly, form our own judgement, through research, through our conviction to fundamental principles, through listening to those that we trust, and through our intuition
- secondly, to trust our own judgement so formed, and to act upon it
- thirdly, to be prepared to revisit our convictions in the light of genuine new evidence (we are all fallible!).
We are perhaps witnessing world war three, between the 0.1% and the 99.9%. Indeed, by merely living at this time, we may, willingly or unwillingly, be participants in this conflict.