E-MAIL SENT (Grossman to Gilardin) 10/23/2011
logical, rational and commensurate strategic, political, and organizing
GOALS for the 99%?
[Autumnal greetings, Maria. I sent this around the other week...still very
much under the radar. If you can help spread, I'd much appreciate.
...Be well. Best, RG]
At Wall Street and other occupations, there is much talk of "greed" and "corruption." Historical, constitutional and legal analyses, as well as evaluations of past people's strategies and organizings, are skimpy.
Goals are vague. Credentialed liberals are flooding the field with their red herrings galore -- from more privilege and subsidy to the corporate state to "create jobs," to "enforcing" Dodd-Frank, to REALLY dealing with "campaign finance reform" & "money in politics," to stock transaction tax, lowering CEO salaries...
Anything BUT explaining and challenging pillars of our Corporate State.
Anything but rethinking USA histories that brought us to this place.
For people prepared to move beyond "greed" and "corruption" -- like, for example, to USURPATION -- see below: an Act to Criminalize Chartered, Incorporated Business Entities. For starters.
Why not target USA and state law that has long enabled minority rule...Constitutionalized violence against peoples and the Earth...Denied access to commensurate remedy?
Could be energizing.
Keeping in mind, of course, that there is no quick fix. So we'll have to be creative, persistent...
See below, for AN ACT TO CRIMINALIZE CHARTERED, INCORPORATED BUSINESS ENTITIES.
Feel free to circulate...
The time is ripe...
Good luck to us all, and to the Earth.
In Solidarity,
Richard
An Act To Criminalize Chartered, Incorporated Business Entities
a work-in-progress
As of 12:01 a.m. on July 4, 2012, no incorporated business shall exist or operate within the United States and its territories, or within any State or municipality.
As of 12:01 a.m. on July 4, 2012, all existing business corporation charters granted by the United States, and by all States, shall be null and void.
Neither the United States nor any State shall issue new charters for incorporated businesses. Any chartered, incorporated business entity -- domestic, foreign, alien -- existing and operating after the above date shall be deemed a violent, criminal, and terrorist conspiracy. Its directors and executive officers must be charged with ecocide, criminal conspiracy and crimes against humanity.
No directors or executive officers of unchartered, un-incorporated business entities which may succeed outlawed chartered, incorporated business entities shall be empowered, enabled or protected
a) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential
precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the
United States which had previously defined, privileged and empowered
chartered, incorporated businesses;
b) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential
precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the
United States which had previously bestowed illegitimate legal
authority upon chartered, incorporated businesses;
c) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential
precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the
United States which had previously enabled directors and executive
officers of chartered, incorporated entities to deny employees
standing before the law and fundamental Constitutional authority;
d) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential
precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the
United States which had previously denied people sovereign authority
to define and govern our work and workplaces, our communities, our
municipalities, our States, our Nation;
e) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential
precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the
United States which had previously denied people of this land our
sovereign authority to define elections, to define legislative
processes, to interpret laws;
f) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential
precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the
United States which had decreed the private ordering of our economy;
that is, which constitutionalized corporate directors’ authority to make
decisions on investment, technology, production, destruction, and the
nature - organization of human labor.
As of 12:01 a.m. July 4, 2012, owners of stock in previously incorporated business entities, and entity directors and executive officers, shall forever be liable for all debts, liabilities, assaults, denials, harms, invasions and usurpations committed by any and all successor business entities. The courts of all 50 States and of the United States shall not be open to stockholders or directors or officers or agents of formerly-incorporated chartered business entities for any claims whatsoever.
Municipal, State and United States officials (elected and appointed) who fail to implement and sustain the prohibition -- and criminalization -- of chartered, incorporated business entities after 12:01 a.m., July 4, 2012, shall promptly be indicted and speedily tried for the crime of villainous usurpation -- perfidious, felonious, illegitimate rule exceeding their proper authority -- as well as for the crime of dereliction of duty.
Conviction for villainous usurpation or dereliction of duty shall result in immediate removal from public office, forfeiture of all accumulated and future pensions and benefits, plus extreme public obloquy...for starters.
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NOTES:
1. As the 19th Century began, constitutions, laws and customs in the
new United States denied the overwhelming majority of humans standing and
equality before the law, along with authority to vote.
II. As the 19th Century ended, legislative laws, judge-made laws,
propaganda, armed might and persistent violence by the corporate
class had transformed the United States from a minority-ruled Slave Nation
into a minority-ruled Corporate Nation. This despite valiant mass
resistance and magnificent people’s struggles. The emerging Corporate State -- like
the previous Slave State -- was impressively constitutionalized.
III. In a Corporate State, law, culture, contrived celebration and
tradition illegitimately clothe directors and executive officers of
chartered, incorporated businesses in governing authority. This is
usurpation. A Corporate State nurtures, enables and expedites such
illegitimate governing authority by violence enforced by courts,
jails, police and military force, and by historians. Less-overtly ferocious
institutions -- forprofit and nonprofit -- routinely reinforce that
reality.
IV. In a Corporate State, law, culture and tradition enable corporate
directors and executive officers to deny true self-governing authority to
majorities of sovereign people, despite people assembling over and
over and over again to petition governments in village squares and marbled
halls.
V. Like kings and tyrants before them, corporate directors and their
operatives wield the law of the land, constitutions, elections,
lawmaking, jurisprudence, education and “legal” violence to rule the
many. They lord over all species, rivers, oceans, mountains, Earth
materials, biological and natural systems.
VI. Elected and appointed officials in villages, towns, counties,
cities and states and the United States administer this Corporate State on
behalf of the nation’s minuscule corporate class. They do not have our
consent.
VII. Neither do they represent the majority of life that is non- human --
flying people, standing people, crawling people, flowing people,
creeping people. They do not represent Earth’s biological or natural systems.
By aiding, abetting and enabling corporate directors and executives,
public officials are complicit in denial of Earth’s living realities. Like
corporate directors and executive officers, these government officials
have been acting beyond their legitimate authority. They are usurpers.
VIII. Corporate directors and executives, in consort with public
officials, have long been denying sovereign people access to justice;
access to commensurate legal, electoral, and judicial remedies. They
have long been denying people’s sovereign authority to govern our
communities, states and nation.
IX. Generation after generation, this tiny minority has trained the
rest of us not to see, not to think, not to act commensurate with Earth’s
-- and our -- realities. This Act To Criminalize Chartered, Incorporated
Business Entities is offered as a step toward changing how we see,
think, aspire, organize...
Toward changing ourselves.
R. Grossman
West Hurley, NY
September 2011