Network America Action Plan 2008
and why all the
other action plans are doomed to failure because they do not recognize these
current realities
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Section 1: Action Plan 2008 – What is it?
1. The only place left for the everyday citizen to have an impact is at the
local level in the precinct system.
2. The first step is for this “Action Plan 2008” to educate people about the
precinct system, and explain to them how to participate in it. This is about a
ten minute lesson – and can be spread to several hundred thousand people quickly
-- thanks primarily, but not exclusively, to the internet.
3. The Network America website is in the process of implementing the programming
so that any voter in the USA can come into the website at any time and sign up
to participate in his or her state, county, and precinct. They can then tell
their friends and allies anywhere in the nation how to also add their influence
to this action movement. This system is to be open to the public -- so that
citizens can contact other participating citizens without having to go through
any central clearinghouse.
Section 2: How the Logistics, or Nuts and Bolts, actually work
4. There are 50 states in the USA, and a little over 3100 counties in those 50
states. (For instance 88 counties in Ohio, and so on.)
5. Those 3100 counties are divided into a something over 300,000 neighborhood
precincts. So, ideally, we need 300,000 people who will put conscience before
party to run for precinct executive in each of the major parties (Democrat and
Republican, which two parties control every county, as far as we know, and
therefore how the votes are counted in each county; third party supporters see
below).
6. A precinct is usually five to ten streets around your house. Everyone in your
precinct votes at the same polling place (or neighborhood precinct) that you do.
7. The voters in your precinct have a chance to elect or choose a PRECINCT
EXECUTIVE in the spring of even numbered years (i.e., 2006, 2008) for each party
that has automatic ballot status in your state. In most states, the only two
parties which have automatic ballot status are the Republican and Democratic
parties.
8. The precinct executives elected at the primary election meet together about
one month later, with all the other elected precinct executives in their own
party -- in your county, – and elect the leaders of their local party. This
meeting is called the county organizational meeting.
10. Then, for the next two years, the head of the local party and his team have
three key powers:
a) to endorse candidates for his party for all local offices and for Congressman
in your area;
b) along with the other major party in your local county -- to determine how the
votes are counted in your county on election day;
c) to meet in your state capital with all the other county heads for his party
and elect the state chairman for his party, and then all the state party leaders
meet and determine the head of their national party, and the national party
leaders set the rules for the Presidential primaries in that party.
11. The above points are mostly covered in an amusing way in the short speech:
"The Most Powerful Office in the Land" found at:
http://www.networkamerica.org/most_powerful_office.htm
SECTION 3: We Must Get on the Playing Field of the Precinct System – So We Can
Achieve Our Legal, Legislative and Judicial Goals
12. Important concept: The activists who are working for a better country are
not even on the playing field. They do not know about the precinct election in
the spring of even years. They do not run for precinct executive in their
neighborhood precinct (even though it’s very easy to do so). They do not know
about, or attend, the county precinct meeting in their own county which takes
place near the month of June in even numbered years, such as 2008, and which
elects the party leaders.
13. Another important concept: “We’ve been at a football game. Those we have
been trusting in for leadership – have convinced us that we can be effective
without going onto the playing field. The other side is out on the playing field
scoring touch down after touch down. Our unworthy or clueless leaders have told
us to stay in the locker room watching the game on a monitor. They have
encouraged us to yell at the monitor, ‘Please, quit scoring touchdowns for your
side, score some for our side!’ They have encouraged us to write a letter to
those on the field. Visit them in their offices after the game. While the other
team may pretend to take us seriously at times, every game they keep going out
onto the field and scoring a lot of touchdowns for their side, and, of course,
they never score any meaningful touchdowns for our side. Now, we have to finally
get out on the field – which is the precinct system. We may get beat up at
first, BUT AT LEAST WE WILL BE ON THE FIELD and have a CHANCE to score
touchdowns.”
We might find that we can become stronger than the other team much faster than
we think.
Section 4: How the Individual Fits into the Precinct Strategy
14. Since about one third of the precinct positions are vacant at any given
time, one can win in those vacant precincts by getting on the ballot (usually
requiring about 5 signatures from your neighbors to qualify) and voting for
yourself at the primary. In the contested races, you can often win with just a
few votes, since most people don’t even know this precinct race is on the
ballot.
15. 45 days or so before the primary election day in even years (usually between
Jan 1 and Feb 20), a person who wants to run in his or her precinct calls their
board of elections, finds out what precinct they are in (boundary lines
sometimes change), and gets a petition to run for precinct executive.
16. Then, the precinct candidate gets about five signatures of eligible signers
on that petition, and turns it into the board of elections by the deadline.
Rules vary by state, and the county Board of Elections has those rules, has a
list of all the eligible voters in your neighborhood precinct, and all the
people eligible to sign a Democratic petition or Republican petition for
precinct executive. The Board of Elections people are almost always more than
helpful – the women at the desk at the Board of Elections are NEVER the problem
in my experience.
17. On election day, if you wish, you (or someone on your team) can stand and
greet every person going into your neighborhood polling place (precinct) to
vote. This is the only election in the USA where this is possible.
18. About a month after the primaries, all the elected precinct executives who
have the energy to show up (and a lot don't), meet at the local VFW or the local
high school, or the local convention center. These precinct executives elect the
leadership for their party for the next two years. (Usually the Democratic Party
and the Republican Party in your county have a precinct organizational meeting
in the same month a few days or weeks apart.)
19. Worth repeating: 300,000 good families can be alerted potentially within six
months to a year with the help of the internet, telephones, faxes, and person to
person contact. The internet can be used for regular communication, including by
2006 audio and video - - and Podcast broadcasting. Millions of young people and
retired citizens could potentially be mobilized in this way – in the form of
emails and audio or video newscasts – in which they would be the peaceful
participants – real players – in determining the future course of our nation.
“It’s 1776 all over again – but this time – you are there.” The precinct
strategy is a peaceful strategy working through long established, but little
known, legal and constitutional avenues which are open to everyone..
Section 5: Some Essential Concepts and Practical Observations
20. Why must we, for now, work in the two major parties? (This strategy is NOT
anti-third party, but third party builders must face the music of current
realities in order to give their efforts a chance to be effective in the long
run.) Every county in the USA is currently controlled, as far as we know, by the
Democrats and Republicans. Almost every county in the USA has completely
unverifiable and unconstitutional computerized vote counting systems – with the
votes counted in secret by private mega-companies which have been
unconstitutionally delegated the authority to "count" the votes in secret by the
two major parties. This is the way it works in 99%+ of the counties in the USA.
See www.votefraud.org or
www.blackboxvoting.org or
www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm )
21. All third party organizations -- AS WELL AS HONEST REPUBLICANS AN DEMOCRATS
WHO BECOME TOO TROUBLESOME for the current Ruling Elite coalitions -- are
checkmated for the next thousand years until an honest vote count is restored,
where ballots are kept in public view in each neighborhood precinct, and then
those ballots are counted by hand in public view by all factions within that
neighborhood precinct at closing time on election day. (For the record, I have
enthusiastically supported third party efforts since 1992, and will continue to
support third party candidates at election time in all probability, even though
I know they have no chance to win if the private companies who are counting the
votes in secret want to block such candidates, even if they win, by computer
votefraud. Third parties are already in a state of total demoralization due to
crushing defeat after crushing defeat at the polls. Without restoring honest
elections so that they get an honest count when they do win, then the third
parties are checkmated for the next 1000 years. Period.)
22. Voting is now completely controlled (riggable) – only a few small counties
in a few small states count the votes honestly and in the open. THE COUNTY
LEADERS of the major parties determine how the vote is counted. (Read that as
many times as you need to so that it sinks in; sorry to be a tad insulting – but
if you don’t grasp that, you will not see the need for this precinct program,
and the futility of all other strategies without the precinct strategy to change
the leadership in the major parties. Note: I am insisting on this because I want
to see all the good programs succeed, which they cannot without the precinct
strategy and restoring an honest vote count.
23. If the above on the state of our voting seems far-fetched go to the websites
listed above.
24. Recall here how the Big Media focuses the public on the two candidates
running for office, but never on where the favored endorsed candidates came
from, i.e., the precinct system which elects the county party leaders. We will
tell the people how the whole system works.
20. HOW DO WE GET A CREDIBLE LEADER TO REACH AND MOVE THE MASSES? THE REASONABLE
ACCESS LAW.
21. As these steps are in progress, candidates in various cities would air radio
ads to the public through major talk shows on major AM stations. We have done
this since the 1980s in one major Midwest area, but this is a little known law
which very effectively protects a federal candidate’s freedom to communicate
with the voters via FCC (Federal Communications Commission) licensed radio and
TV stations. You can read about the Reasonable Access Law here:
Explanation of the Reasonable Access Law
VI: WHAT COULD HAPPEN IN THE NEXT 2 to 6 YEARS
(So, here’s the ideal of what COULD happen, and which has NO CHANCE OF HAPPENING
IN THE NATURAL ORDER without the precinct strategy.)
22. All the people who think they can make a difference by writing a letter,
going to D.C. to march, or passing out literature for their Democratic or
Republican candidates, or working for their third parties – are educated to add
to their activities, as an absolute priority, to run for precinct executive and
try to win in one of the parties that control their county. This would take as
little as 2 to 4 hours per year, and as much as 40 hours per year (if one wanted
to really organize and stand at the polls -- or have someone stand at the polls
for him or her -- on primary election day.)
23. In most states, the only recognized parties are Republicans or Democrats. As
far as I know, every county in the USA is run by the Republicans and Democrats.
So – that means how our votes are counted, and who is endorsed for public office
with a real chance to win – comes almost always from the local heads of the
Democratic and Republican parties (today, with few exceptions, these positions
are occupied by opportunists and worse; if the precinct strategy becomes known
and implemented, as America gets in worsened straits, and if we can keep the
internet free, this may change for the better quickly -- and soon).
24. With the internet, telephone, and person to person contact, we would need to
redirect about 300,000 people into the Republican Party, and 300,000 people in
the Democratic Party – and redirect their efforts to winning the precinct
executive position, attending the local county organizational meeting for their
party, and there electing honest, informed party leaders to lead the local
parties for the next few years.
25. Then, the honest party leaders in each party re-install open, transparent
vote-counting systems in their local county. If you are not sure what this
means, read here:
www.votefraud.org/how_our_votes_should_be_counted.htm
This short essay explains how the votes should be counted – and the bottom of
the essay shows how relatively INEXPENSIVE it would be to fund an honest citizen
count in every neighborhood precinct – immune from centralized computer-rigging.
26. Next, the honest party leaders would unendorsed the incumbents who did not
want to work in the right direction, and would endorse candidates who wanted to
implement the changes needed in local, state, and national policy.
27. The new breed of party leaders would also have to make it clear to US
citizens in their areas that the electronic media was not to be the primary
source of information, and that citizens would have to rely on various endorsed
internet websites to get true and reliable information, as well as hopefully,
endorsed podcast broadcasts. (The current reality where about six major
corporations control all the Big Electronic Media with the approval of the FCC
-- would have to be dealt with once the Congress was recaptured – which might
not be long if the precinct strategy is widely understood and implemented.)
Section 7: Summary and End
28. Summary: How our votes are counted is determined ultimately by the party
leaders in each county. – The state and national party leaders who determine the
rules for the Presidential primaries are elected by the party country leaders
for each party. -- Almost all endorsed candidates for the major parties at the
local level, state representative, state senator, and for the US Congress – come
from the local party leadership of the major parties. The party endorsed
candidates almost always win the primaries – and one of them goes on to become
the lawmaker, AND THE LAWMAKERS THEN MAKE THE LAWS. Those who make public
policy, determine in large part the destiny of the nation.
29. Through this precinct strategy, the efforts of those promoting all the good
issues can be enhanced and – and their objectives can be achieved – we can put
America on the course of her true destiny once again. THIS IS THE GOAL – for
ourselves, our children and our grandchildren.
30. In this sense, the office of precinct executive -- is The Most Powerful
Office in the Land.
The End.