( – promoted by buhdydharma )
(Yesterday I was challenged to provide a workable set of agreed underlying principles of existence on my “The Core” essay at my home blog, The Wild, Wild Left. Here’s my attempt)
In order to establish and maintain the Great Peace, provide that this Earth on which we reside shall flourish and affirm Humanity’s continuity, set forth these tenets as Undeniable:
The human race is one race, and so it shall be taught as established Scientific Fact; as such we revere our Unity, but shall not deny our place as just one of many species in a Greater Ecosystem that must be nurtured and preserved.
That Man must serve one another, with full autonomy balanced with social duty to survive as a species, and that only through a commitment to Peace shall this come to bear.
No affiliation by nationality, clan or religion shall ever be held above the Principles of the Great Peace that unites us as One.
In order to promote the Great Peace, no standing armies shall be maintained, nor weapons of mass destruction be created or held.
In order to promote the general welfare of our species, it is held that every individual has equal and full rights that shall be impugned by no other for any reason.
The Council of the Great Peace shall represent all People’s using fair courts, just laws and tempered reason and will be the Universal Law accepted globally. There shall be no local laws created by any Peoples.
The Great Peace Council shall be Comprised of Elected Representatives of one man and one woman from each identifying region.
All candidates for those seats shall be given equal time and equal funding by the Great Peace Council to present their case for service to their Peoples.
The Great Peace Council shall be called at Spring and Autumnal Equinox to review Regional disputes, or as need arises.
Sitting Representatives may hold office for as long as their People wish them to, and be recalled by any/all of these means:
1) It has been determined by the council itself that the Representative has proven to not be fully committed to the Tenets of Peace.
2) It has been determined by the Council that the Representative has tried to illegally create influence by bribery or favours to create favoritism for his region above other regions.
3) The People whom the Representative was chosen by chooses to recall them for failure of duties.
There shall be no permanent Regional Governments nor petty officials established.
There shall be no infringement of People’s Rites or Religions, nor shall any of these be established against the Great Peace. None shall be held above another.
All legal standing, being of marriage, inheritance, reproduction or other shall be ONLY established by Secular Law. Individuals have the full right to equal standing regardless of personal relationship status.
All humans are entitled to shelter, potable water, foodstuffs, education and Healthcare. Our principles stand that the creation of such is a Primary Goal.
No region shall use or require of other region’s assets to create a false environment in an unsustainable area, such as water requirements to create an oasis of a natural desert. Assistance shall be provided for natural disasters such as drought and flood.
Should disputes arise, Local Councils may be called, and their consensus reviewed by the Great Peace Council.
All industry and manufacturing shall serve the People, and as such operate in green, sustainable ways and no assets created from such shall be held by few, rather shall be distributed among the many.
There shall be created no system of Speculation or Trade for profit. Markets shall be regulated to provide goods and services to all, with excess reserved only for the provision of future needs.
All credit shall be provided by a People’s Credit Union, and no usury charges above 1% for operational purposes shall be charged.
Education and University study shall be provided for all the Earth’s denizens, with the tenets of Unity, Peace, the Sciences, Philosophy and the Arts all being prized greatly. A uniting language shall be created and instructed for all. No Private Universities nor Religious Universities shall be established that counter these values.
Individuals who have been deemed a threat to society by means of a fair and lawful trial shall be removed to a secure and humane facility. Those will be requires to provide reasonable labor services according to their ability, and attempts must be made at rehabilitation with periodic review.
Groups who have been deemed a threat to the Great Peace shall be brought before the Great Council, whereby negotiation and a hearing of complaint shall take place. Intervention by force as a last resort shall be determined by the Great Council, with detention priority and loss of life to be avoided when possible.
There shall be no restrictions on Speech or Press that does not directly threaten the Great Peace. All News is subject to provide factual information with penalties and removal of license for repeat offenders. That which is provided clearly as Opinion is not subject to these requirements, barring hate speech or direct threat.
We shall all serve one another and our Earth as one.
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My ideas for tenets of a post-apocalyptic world. Feel free to dissect, rewrite, criticize or praise (yeah, baby!) my 5:30-7:30 am efforts.
I read in their entire this morning:
The US Constitution
http://www.law.cornell.edu/con…
The Iroquois Constitution
http://www.constitution.org/co…
the UN Constitution
http://www.un.org/en/documents…
The Communist Manifesto (scanned this am, read before, book on my shelf)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…
The Georgia Guidestones
http://www.thegeorgiaguideston…
The first three are awfully concerned with trade and capitalism, and the specific “protectionism” of themselves as “exceptional” owners of their regions.
The UN has lovely rights.
The Iroquois is stuck in the minutia of protocal, but overall very good.
The Guidestones are too vague.
Do we need The Great Police to maintain The Great Peace? Since…
Who would decide who “shall be brought before” and who would have the power to do it, and by what authority?
Other than that it all sounds great, Diane.
bad link, yours, to the UN, or something.
heres this one.
“Control” of resources/energy sources (of all kinds) is central.
I had this really awesomely great Archeology Prof in college, mid – 70’s, great guy, great Teacher. He was an old geezer even then and I dreaded this course, but it actually helped me understand a LOT, esp the way he taught it. In the midst of that particular “energy crisis”.
Visiting sis is cleaning out my junk room … gotta go !! lol
This succinctly lays out the principles that we should strive for. I also love the title “The Great Peace”. Thank you.
The guys who made the Guidestones have assured their continuity after wiping everyone out via swine vaccine,food shortages,war and everything else at their disposal. Merely projecting your own goodness and light on the after the disaster scenarios really has no bearing on what they already have plans for.
at a very general level it is a very good place to start….
yet it will never be………
as a soul here observed the dance of power will not go quietly into the night…..
and they have both the guns and the butter………
but it will emerge down the road when the dust settles(or the ash and snow begin to accumulate) ……
is the Iceland of the Commonwealth years, from founding settlement until the mid 13th century. There was no “executive branch”, the “legislative” and “judicial” branches combined in regional assemblies (interestingly, spring and fall regional assemblies, as your model suggests) and the annual national Althing, each of which practiced forms of direct democracy. There may be something written in English that explicitly recites the social mechanisms of commonwealth-era Iceland, my understanding is drawn from reading the sagas.
Without an executive branch, enforcement of the decisions of the Assemblies and the Althing fell upon the people themselves. Some would harbor those “outlawed” by the decision of an assembly; in doing so they would risk outlawry for themselves.
into the quakers or mennonites (or one of those type societies, i’m sorry-can’t remember)
when a problem/change occurs they have a meeting. everyone has a say. nothing is decided one way or another until they can agree.
slow going…. but then i find nothing wrong with that.