Eureka ! It's Bigger than Politics-Strike While the Irony Is Hot!(SwamiB.)

A Modest Proposal

So just how do we do that? Here is my modest proposal to get away from peripheral diversionary issues and force media -- and public -- attention on the illegitimacy issue:

1. Establish a committee of 100 (or more) prominent Americans from all fields of endeavor and across the political spectrum. This Committee of the Concerned could include people like Bill Moyers, Ralph Nader, John Dean, Ramsey Clark, Arianna Huffington, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., etc., etc., etc.

2. Have the Committee issue a statement that they have "deep concerns" about current Administration policies that violate the Constitution, established common law, international law and the "moral law" set forth by our religious traditions. Since our elected representatives seem -- on the whole -- unwilling to truly represent us by taking on these issues, the Committee has taken on this task in the tradition of our Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence.

3. Announce that the Committee will be conducting its own "people's investigation" into a number of issues which our government and elected officials have largely avoided. These include: (cont. below)

IT'S BIGGER THAN POLITICS

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By Steve Bhaerman
aka Swami Beyondananda is a nationally-known humorist and political uncommontator, who is the author of "Swami for Precedent: A 7- Step Plan to Heal the Body Politic and Cure Electile Dysfunction."

ThoughtSpores on.....,

* The Elections of 2000 and 2004. (...)

* The War in Iraq. (...)

* The 9/11 Attacks. (...)

* The So-Called Patriot Act. (...)

* Inappropriate Use of Secrecy. (...)

* Officially Sanctioned Murder and Torture. (...)

* The Valerie Plame Case. (...)

* Suppression of Science. (...)

* News Replaced by Propaganda. (...)

* A President Who Acts Like a Dictator. (...)

* Government Of, By, and For Multinational Corporations. (...)

4. Immediately establish an alternative "moral authority" (...)

5. At the same time, establish what could be called The Canary Project to protect truth-tellers and whistle-blowers. (...)

6. Membership organizations like Common Cause, MoveOn, True Majority, etc., etc. would be encouraged to enroll their constituencies in supporting this investigation (...)

7. Make the announcement of the Committee and the investigation on July 4th of this year, and use the prominence of the signers to gain media coverage. (...)

8. Decide on a priority of issues, conduct the investigation, and broadcast it on C-Span in its entirety. (...)

9. Announce a Re-Constitutional Convention (to reconstitute the de-constituted Constitution) for July, 2006, where Americans from all across the country can have input in answering the question: What could we be doing if we weren't spending lives and resources to protect the few? What could we be doing if we created a Manhattan Project for safe, renewable energy? How could we better spend a part of the $400 billion we spend yearly on weaponry to really create peace and security in the world?

Time for the Body Politic to Trade in the Old Dodge for an Evolvo

But now, with information at our fingertips accessible at nano-speed and with the core teachings of so many spiritual paths liberated from secrecy, we must take up the weapons of spiritual Truth and ask ourselves, "What is the human potential?" Are we merely here to "survive," to be manipulated by fear into swallowing the blue pill of ignorant consumerhood? Or are we here to evolve in consciousness and use our precious resources and human intelligence -- intelligently?

As I said at the outset, the issues we face are far bigger than "politics," particularly the politics of left vs. right. It's time for those awakening to the clear and present danger -- and the awesome opportunity to make an evolutionary leap – to abandon the left-right battlefield and come front-and-center. As Buckminster Fuller said in his book of the same name, the choice we humans face at the dawn of this new millennium is "utopia or oblivion." Sure, utopia is a challenging idea to wrap your mind around. But it beats the heaven out of the alternative.

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Swami’s 2005 State of the Universe Address



Wake Up Laughing --
But For Goodness Sakes, Wake Up!

by Swami Beyondananda

~~~Fascism is a potentially fatal condition where artificially generated fear causes unnatural growth of muscle tissue. If left unchecked, it will eventually constrict the heart and squeeze the life out of the body politic. Already, a grave parasitic condition called Military Industrial Complex has been draining our lifeblood for decades, and has been linked to the current epidemic of Deficit Inattention Disorder. No wonder we didn’t have the resistance to shake off Mad Cowboy Disease last year.

With the body politic near fiscal exhaustion and fear-gnomes clouding our vision, all the administration had to do was utter one magic word -- “Osamasaddam!” -- and presto, all criticism would be dismissed. Thanks to this sophisticated dismissal defense system, far too many Americans were put into a state of cattlepsy and herded into the bewilderness.

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America needs to Get down off it's EthnoCentric high-horse

reNounce it's UNnecessary clAims of #1 Status

Mind it's Own Business

Come Home

and ReBuild... The Promise of The Dream ! AND,

Tend Needs, & Clean UP..Here..at HOME