A Revelation, of Revolution, for a Resolution

A Revelation, of Revolution, for a Resolution

BY Gary Anderson

To most of the American “John Doe” public, we are not as involved in the ongoing of our local restrictions through government entities, much less, State or Federal governmental decision-making, unless it actually effects our real lives. As we spend our time, in this fast paced electronic cellular world, watching out for our own, the family, our property and ourselves. This leaves little time to watch the world changing around us as the play-offs are happening, FaceBook is a prime time virtue and taking care of our own families becomes are number one achievement. The problem is, we as American citizens, need to take notice of the new laws that are effecting our lives but to an extent that it is creeping up from behind and if we do-not watch out, our so called “freedoms” will be swallowed up with in our so revered America, that once stood as Freedom! We, as individuals and as a collective called citizens must come together in solidarity and take our American citizenship seriously. We, together, as the People, must protect our rights, before we awaken one gloomy day and find our “waters, land and air”, have been taken away from us due to our lack of attention or ignorance!

Regardless of what State you live, we as Americans, have rights. You know from watching news reports, the internet or from conversations with your friends or area locals, that our environment is under siege and at a mindset of municipal war between corporations, Foundations and Governmental entities, such as our President, certain members of Congress, NOAA, PEW, EDF, TIDES, in wanting to lay claim to your lands, mineral rights, water and even the ocean to include the fish in it, just to name a few. Did you know there is a Foundation out there comprised of many a Corporation and Congressional members called The Shadow Government? When researching this dark entity, you can read for yourself some of what we are all up against.

Though many things are happening in our country at lightning speed, as Americans we have what Thomas Jefferson described as "certain inalienable rights" and it is with this right that we can fight! We have the blessing to Educate, Organize and plan our destiny rather than have someone tell us what to do. It is time to stand up and make a difference, be heard across your communities and the world. It is not like yesteryear where mail took a week or more to go across the country. Between FaceBook, Twitter, Linkin, and a range of other social media outlets, we can spread the word that we as a people make the rules that run government, not the other way around because if we do not stand up and ask for accountability, our communities, air, soil and water will be ruined. Under the rulings from NOAA and its regulatory agencies, if we do nothing as we are now, we can expect lawyers, legislators and corporate public relations persons to tell us we must be like sheep and follow the laws and the “regulatory”* systems that provide "protection," which, in reality, means allowing state agencies to issue permits to license the destruction of our sea shores, communities, jobs and maybe even destruction of the species in the oceans to which they are meant to protect. We must band together in a unity to exercise our fundamental right to self-government in the communities where we live by adopting a community rights ordinance that asserts our civil and democratic rights and then prohibits those corporate activities which violate our rights. * In considering the meaning of "regulatory," one must understand that there is no option to say "no" within that framework. In a community rights-based approach, however, the power to decide the fate of our community comes from us, the citizens, exercising our inalienable right, which is mandated in The Ninth Amendment (Amendment IX) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, addressing the rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, to making local governing decisions that protect human and civil rights.

To put this in a simpler ideology, let us consider phrases like State land use, zoning laws and Sector Separation which is used in parceling up the ocean, are but a case in point. In a regulatory structure, let us say that to burglarize is a "regulated" and "permitted" agenda by state government. To this, one could argue that this is a violation of our fundamental rights, but the state, our municipal lawyers, and the burglars, could all argue that our community is "preempted" by the state from our right, prohibiting burglary. To mitigate the worst effects of burglary, we can "zone" the burglars so that theft is only "permitted" in our oceans and tributaries to, but not in our houses or our own property. Issuing licenses to corporations like, EDF, PEW, NOAA and the TIDE's Foundation that "permit" them to harm our communities fishing grounds is just as absurd. Understanding that corporate attorneys and lobbyists are the primary drafters of regulatory law at the federal and state level of government, one can resolve that the laws our governments adopt reflect the interest of large corporations, not the people. We have only to look at the devastation of the commercial fishing industry in “regulatory” agencies closers to proposed closers of Atlantic blue-fin tuna, Red Snapper, Blue Fish, Grouper, Halibut, to name but a few, not to mention that the United States of America's government is the only culprit in the world shutting down these fisheries. All the rest of the world is allowed to “burglarize” the fish. The U.S. And its agencies are doing this based on inaccurate numbers and made up data, enforced and we follow?

When laws harm, the people and the environment, they are illegitimate and it is our duty to either change those laws or replace the laws with ones that secure and protect our rights.

Citizens of our great country, the United States of America, have, in the past changed the way and the existing laws we had, in order to give us our “ inalienable rights” to all. I write this in tribute to Martin Luther King as today is a holiday contributed to him. We were a country that once permitted slavery of Africans, to which that was abolished and later the ability of both women and Blacks alike were given the right to vote. During the time that women and African Americans had not the right was because of they were considered “property under the law” and these were regulations and laws until citizens changed them.

We must begin by understanding that we have the Right to Self-Government in the communities where we live, and that we are born with “certain inalienable rights.” The only way we will be able to protect our communities is by exercising our rights of local control. We have the choice to protect what we use to have and pass it along to future generations, or sit back, do nothing and see it destroyed.
This is the time to speak with one voice, Solidarity, in the language of of the people, by the people, for the people. Stand up and fight! Twitter this, tell your friends and neighbors, FaceBook your concerns. Speak out as this is but the only way for a revelation, of a peaceful revolution, for a resolution.