On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Rick Archer <r...@searchsummit.com> wrote:
> > > This is very encouraging. > > Maharishi said back in the late 70’s that in the Age of Enlightenment, > administration would be more on the local level. > > > http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/corporate-control-not-in-these-communities > > *Corporate Control? Not in These Communities* > > Can local laws have a real effect on the power of giant corporations? > > > > by Allen D. Kanner > > posted Feb 04, 2011 > > > Mt. Shasta, a small northern California town of 3,500 residents nestled in > the foothills of magnificent Mount Shasta, is taking on corporate power > through an unusual process—democracy. > > > > My first reaction is that this could not work. Initially states had some of these rights as granted by the Constitution, but Congress and the Supreme Court castrates states with funding and the Supreme Court doing such things as making corporations persons because they do business in multiple states so the Supreme Court can get away with these rulings. States are forced to enact model legislation specified by Congress because if they don't they don't get their money back. So states have to enact uniform driving rules, uniform inspection rules, uniform highway rules else they won't get the money sucked from them in the form of federal taxes. But I've seen theses kind of ordinances work. Boulder, CO became something of a marijuana and gay mecca. This in a state which was, except for Boulder and the Capital Hill neighborhood of Denver, a very redneck state. What happened? Doctors are now traveling around Colorado writing prescriptions for medical marijuana and Colorado is something of a gay friendly state. What happens in Boulder eventually spreads to the rest of Colorado. It started locally and spread. We can't control what our MCs are going to do. We can pretty much predict what they'll not do. If they run on a platform for the people, they'll soon change their agenda once they go to Congress. Pressure on local elected representatives will work. Flooding the halls of Congress with citizens does no good. Flooding City Haul works.
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