RogerB
Crusader
RogerB has been mulling over the events in the Senate of late. And something from long, long ago sparked in his old head.
One of my gurus of nearly fifty years ago was a brilliant political-economist and scholar named Eric D. Butler. He wrote a book (actually many, but I cite only one here) titled: The Money Power versus Democracy.
It was published in 1948 by The Australian League of Rights, which Butler founded. It still operates in Melbourne here: http://www.alor.org/
What sparked in my head last night was that we have for the moment, on the last vote, been put down by Party Politics! Not by any other cause, or rationale . . . but corrupt, lazy, party politics.
And we have an answer . . . . yes, it takes a little work hey, what’s new? Though all it takes is adding another correct target to our strategy. Here’s the drill.
From page 10, The Money Power versus Democracy, by Eric D. Butler.
The section: The Futility of The Party System
Butler is citing “The Party System” (1912) by Hilaire Belloc & Cecil Chesterton.
“. . . While the parties dictate our democracy, the people have no power to get what they want. Nothing is left for them but to choose the least of three evils. In a really democratic government the initiative would come from the people. They would ask for certain things, and send men to parliament to represent their wishes. There is no machinery at present by which the people can raise a particular political question, however it may interest them, unless it is included in the program of one or other of the political parties.”
Butler states later on the same page: “If true democracy is to become a reality, the present party tyranny must be removed.”
Butler goes on to give the answers on how to handle the scenario. He begins in the section:
I’ll cut his book short . . . but here is a sample:
Initially, Butler is talking about taking back the power of one’s own government from the “money power” (the commercial banking system that continuously screws our economy and government of the peoples), but this system was actually applied by the electorate in Queensland and Canada prior to WW2, but was subsequently forgotten after the war.
Bulter: “In other words, the electors in each electorate must organize their demand on a non-party basis, give their Member of Parliament clear instructions as to what they want, and have him understand that they are not concerned with his Party label—that unless he does what a majority of the electorate tell him, they will vote him out at the next election.
“. . . If the electors show them (the elected Representative) quite clearly that they will support them, irrespective of Party, just so long as they do as they are told, then control of the Member will be removed from the Party-machine and restored to the electors.”
The recent “no” vote in the Senate is party-politics as usual. It is action by incumbents more interested in covering their arses and not having to think or do any real work except keep themselves in office.
Lazy party-politics now has become our real and necessary target.
It is to be noted that it was the Independent and non-major party Members of the House that took the ethical stand to back and vote for an inquiry, to do some work, and to make for a better society in Australia by gathering the facts, via an inquiry, that would enable justice and the prosecution of malfeasance along with the prevention of its furtherance; and to also produce in law a better definition and management of how to prevent the system from being financially ripped off by pseudo, phony “religion” of which Scientology is only one (if the most egregious) example.
In my view, this is an agenda for our media friends to push . . . . recent events have demonstrated “Part Politics is a broken and corrupt system!” Real democracy and government for the people is based on our elected representatives doing the bidding of their true pay masters, the electorate who elected them to carry out honest representation of the electorate’s interests! Since party politics is broken, the answer is to vote for independents. Senator Xenophon is an example of the honest representation we Australians deserve.
Since this is election year, no? an assault on the major party politicians' culture of Members going along with the "Part-line" and the threat of them losing out because of it might just get them being honest for a change.
Scooter, you’re in Melbourne. The Australian League of Rights is based there. You should be able to pick up a copy of Butler’s book there .. . . or at least a photocopy from the library archives. If not, you guys in ACT certainly, and possibly in other major capital cities like Sydney, will be able to pick up such in the main public libraries. The National Library in Canberra, by law, had to have a copy of this book sent to it on publication. I picked my current copy up from microfilm in the New York Public Library Research Libraries.
I would recommend a read of this quick little gem for those interested . . . . it opens up a strategy for the persuasion of our elected representatives to do as they are “instructed” and promised to do—to represent out wishes and interests!
Carmel, my lovely, does this cheer you up?
RogerB
One of my gurus of nearly fifty years ago was a brilliant political-economist and scholar named Eric D. Butler. He wrote a book (actually many, but I cite only one here) titled: The Money Power versus Democracy.
It was published in 1948 by The Australian League of Rights, which Butler founded. It still operates in Melbourne here: http://www.alor.org/
What sparked in my head last night was that we have for the moment, on the last vote, been put down by Party Politics! Not by any other cause, or rationale . . . but corrupt, lazy, party politics.
And we have an answer . . . . yes, it takes a little work hey, what’s new? Though all it takes is adding another correct target to our strategy. Here’s the drill.
From page 10, The Money Power versus Democracy, by Eric D. Butler.
The section: The Futility of The Party System
Butler is citing “The Party System” (1912) by Hilaire Belloc & Cecil Chesterton.
“. . . While the parties dictate our democracy, the people have no power to get what they want. Nothing is left for them but to choose the least of three evils. In a really democratic government the initiative would come from the people. They would ask for certain things, and send men to parliament to represent their wishes. There is no machinery at present by which the people can raise a particular political question, however it may interest them, unless it is included in the program of one or other of the political parties.”
Butler states later on the same page: “If true democracy is to become a reality, the present party tyranny must be removed.”
Butler goes on to give the answers on how to handle the scenario. He begins in the section:
HOW TO MAKE DEMOCRACY EFFECTIVE
I’ll cut his book short . . . but here is a sample:
Initially, Butler is talking about taking back the power of one’s own government from the “money power” (the commercial banking system that continuously screws our economy and government of the peoples), but this system was actually applied by the electorate in Queensland and Canada prior to WW2, but was subsequently forgotten after the war.
Bulter: “In other words, the electors in each electorate must organize their demand on a non-party basis, give their Member of Parliament clear instructions as to what they want, and have him understand that they are not concerned with his Party label—that unless he does what a majority of the electorate tell him, they will vote him out at the next election.
“. . . If the electors show them (the elected Representative) quite clearly that they will support them, irrespective of Party, just so long as they do as they are told, then control of the Member will be removed from the Party-machine and restored to the electors.”
The recent “no” vote in the Senate is party-politics as usual. It is action by incumbents more interested in covering their arses and not having to think or do any real work except keep themselves in office.
Lazy party-politics now has become our real and necessary target.
It is to be noted that it was the Independent and non-major party Members of the House that took the ethical stand to back and vote for an inquiry, to do some work, and to make for a better society in Australia by gathering the facts, via an inquiry, that would enable justice and the prosecution of malfeasance along with the prevention of its furtherance; and to also produce in law a better definition and management of how to prevent the system from being financially ripped off by pseudo, phony “religion” of which Scientology is only one (if the most egregious) example.
In my view, this is an agenda for our media friends to push . . . . recent events have demonstrated “Part Politics is a broken and corrupt system!” Real democracy and government for the people is based on our elected representatives doing the bidding of their true pay masters, the electorate who elected them to carry out honest representation of the electorate’s interests! Since party politics is broken, the answer is to vote for independents. Senator Xenophon is an example of the honest representation we Australians deserve.
Since this is election year, no? an assault on the major party politicians' culture of Members going along with the "Part-line" and the threat of them losing out because of it might just get them being honest for a change.
Scooter, you’re in Melbourne. The Australian League of Rights is based there. You should be able to pick up a copy of Butler’s book there .. . . or at least a photocopy from the library archives. If not, you guys in ACT certainly, and possibly in other major capital cities like Sydney, will be able to pick up such in the main public libraries. The National Library in Canberra, by law, had to have a copy of this book sent to it on publication. I picked my current copy up from microfilm in the New York Public Library Research Libraries.
I would recommend a read of this quick little gem for those interested . . . . it opens up a strategy for the persuasion of our elected representatives to do as they are “instructed” and promised to do—to represent out wishes and interests!
Carmel, my lovely, does this cheer you up?
RogerB