Forum Post: In the future you will see the wisdom of this - change the seat of government.
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 8, 2011, 3:29 a.m. EST by CarryTheGripsUpToTheAttic
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Many people have expressed their opinion about the way forward in this movement.
There are 3 common flaws in the proposals 1)"demands" have to be approved within the existing political structure, 2)physical theft or violence would require interference from the government, 3)current political entities would absorb this movement, when the feeling in the air is that something absolutely new is required.
Here is my proposal: create a new national capitol. Only that move will be seen as satisfying when we look back on these events in the decades to come.
But how can this small movement break free from the current oligarchy that controls us? We are doctors, lawyers, and farmers just the same as our founding fathers. Yet, the principles they created have been distorted to serve the oligarchy. These principles should be renewed.
In creating a new and better seat of government, we have the most powerful tool ever created - the internet.
I suggest Kansas City, Kansas as a location for this new seat of government. A new and faster internet is being created there. An open and more benign canvas exists at this site, without the stifling history and "baggage" found on either coast.
We don't need to hate "them", we'll just focus on creating a better "us". The energy to do this, exists right now in New York.
CarryTheGrips
I like it.....creative thinking.
"I'm goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City, here I come" by written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952.
OK so we change I to We.....
A new start.
Anything else, and we're back to "asking for permission" from the powers that be.
Congress would love to water down this movement in their committees and processes.
A new beginning.
With the original, egalitarian principles created by the founders.
we don't need a faster internet
text information takes very little memory
we need a more distributed internet
This being a "new start", aligned with the power of the internet, is the bigger feature of this plan.
indeed
though I could see forecasters calling the next apocalypse the failure of the internet
It's interesting - the internet is the one thing designed to be unkillable (or more "unkillable" than anything else). Originally designed to survive nuclear attack.
This tool (internet) is ours for the taking. I still have to give my name, ss#, address, etc., at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The powers that be don't even want it.
my social security number
572 51 2618
Its interesting. This would require the retooling of all the worlds major military targeting systems, but I think its an idea worth considering. Even if the 'seat' doesn't come out of Washington, having a level 'internet' that we can all use as a highway for commerce and communication is, while already in place, a wonderful place to congregate. It can be a further projection of the internet on to the US in a way not conceived of before. Just like the major roads and highways connecting our nation, we can have a new improved 'internet' that reaches everyone by law. Biometrics tied to voting would alleviate voter fraud maybe. This could go places, but shouldn't we be worried about big brother??
A new beginning, in a new location. I like it. I don't want the basic tenants of our founding documents to change, but a new seat wouldn't hurt anything.
Boots
we have to be Big Brother
if every can see how everyone voted, voter fraud will be very difficult indeed
Yes. We are the change we wish to see in this world.
I agree.
No change in the original, egalitarian underpinnings of the founders.