Dear Keith: Thanks for your rational-toned reply. My New
Constitution will indeed be copyrighted. But only those parts of it
not copied and adapted from the original, public-domain document.
This isn't being done for making money from the sale of copies, but to
be sure no crazies print 'modified copies' that would, maliciously,
make me look bad�as part of a socialist/communist plot to side-track
my efforts.
I'm not sure you nor others realize that my document has, for fourteen
years, withstood the test of correcting the daily crises highlighted
in the news, and the regular injustices coming from our courts. What
is included is at least ten times broader in scope than the original
constitution. Realize that I have had the advantage (over the
Founding Fathers) of seeing what has and what hasn't worked with our
Constitution.
That 40% of my New Constitution which has been made public has
scarcely been commented on. I am NOT wishing to have your nor anyone
else's feedback on what I have written! Most would love to see the
entire document so that they can make grandiose criticisms about this
or that. From my personal life, I have had head-to-head run-ins with
our corrupt state, local, and federal governments that allow me to
speak from personal experience that few if any other person could have
had. That is why my New Constitution will immediately fire or kick
out of office any public official or employee, including the President
himself, who does not respond appropriately for a logical request of a
single law-abiding citizen for the redress of a grievance. To wit:
"1st Amendment: No law shall be made regarding the establishment of
peaceable religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, but
government, its campaigns, processes, slogans, and disbursements shall
be secular. No law nor private or civil action shall abridge: the
freedom of speech; the freedom of a fair and pro-democracy press or
other medium; the right of People to peaceably assemble; *** and the
right of any Citizen or group to petition government or any of its
branches or departments for redress of grievances. Citizens so
petitioning government shall receive appropriate, relevant, timely,
comprehensive, helpful and just responses from proper authorities who
have thoroughly read, understood, and addressed each salient aspect of
the grievances or requests for directions or clarifications. Failure
to so respond to a rightful petition for redress of a grievance shall,
on a single provable instance, terminate the apt one�s employment,
especially those in management or public office�including judges and
justices�who ignore, frustrate or give the run-around to any competent
Citizen who has been diligent in having a grievance properly
addressed, or in having his or her civil rights fully upheld. No
judge or justice shall presume that by performing the above required
duties, that they in any way might be compromising their objectivity
or fairness in court; justice be not �blind�, but well informed.
Freedom of the press or other medium mandates that there be reasonable
truthfulness in reporting. Wanton distortion of the truth, or
deliberate omission of the truth�except in cases of obvious fiction or
satire�is prohibited. Stating or implying that a particular news
medium has a collective voice (we) or position on any issue is
prohibited, as for example via: anonymous editorials; regularly
occurring accompanying comments; commentary programs financed by, or
ideologically screened by, the same news medium; editorials named as
being authored by management; editorial comments by others that are in
any way ideologically censored, omitted or screened; or by comments
occurring at specific times or designated locations that most would
come to associate with the management of such medium, even if such are
innocuous. No medium shall be a forum for promoting the ideology of
its management or owners, nor shall they employ anyone who uses such
job to hawk their personal political preferences�at risk of loss of
license or closure of the business. Flagrantly editing news to
promote the ideology of management is a felony. No medium shall
analyze, assess, summarize, or make subjective judgments about any
pending election or referendum. Nor shall they invite others outside
of the media to do so. But factual, thorough coverage of the
candidates or referenda issues�on an as occurs basis�is allowed,
provided there are no comments, nor actions, as above, and provided
the same unbiased coverage is given to all of the candidates or to all
of the referenda issues. It shall be a 10 year felony to repress
truthful news reporting in any medium by threatening legal action. No
medium can be sued for libel for presenting material authored by
others, but if a person is harmed by the medium�s content, they shall
be allowed to reply�without editing�in that medium. Each medium shall
respond to breaking news without considering the response of any other
medium. Injuries due to improper news coverage or non coverage shall
not be excused by the media response. A medium reporting on
government shall do so thoroughly, objectively, and with detachment�
being neither laudatory nor critical by form, and not repressing
thoughtful dissent nor its coverage. Every medium shall favor the
truth over supposition, without parity nor bias. False or deceptive
commercial advertising is prohibited. Deliberate use by any
candidate, their staffs or election committees, of false or deceptive
campaign speeches, slogans, advertisements, humor, or innuendo is a
felony. No organization, nor part of the media, nor any special
interest group(s) shall in any way endorse a slate of candidates for
public office; flagrant violation is a felony. No medium shall
display active public records without the free consent of the apt
parties."
Keith, the above should highlight the extreme attention to detail I've
put into my document. No person, by a casual comment, shall have the
"right" to denigrate my efforts. The following proviso is at the
closing of my New Constitution:
"Notes: (1.) *Italicized text represents portions of the New
Constitution which shall be omitted unless separately and specifically
approved by 60% of the voters. Voting to approve the New Constitution
shall not be a vote on italicized portions. (2.) Any person, group or
business which polls the People on their support or non support of
this New Constitution or its parts prior to the national referendum,
shall, retroactively, be guilty of a felony(s). (3.) The news media
standards required, herein, as relates to coverage concerning this
document, shall, following ratification of the New Constitution by the
People, be retroactively applied to any news medium or person therein�
including the full punishments relating thereto�for non compliance
with the standards. Likewise, any judge or justice acting counter to
this New Constitution regarding news coverage issues or any part of
the ratification process shall be held fully accountable. The macro-
will of the Citizens shall be Supreme!"
� John A. Armistead � Patriot
On Feb 20, 12:54 pm, Keith In K�ln<[email protected]> wrote:
Good Afternoon John,
Like Jonathan, Michael, and Mark, I too would like to see your New
Constitution that you ave talked about for at least several years.
Yes, I realize that you have posted various parts and pieces of this
document, but why not post the damn thing, for us to read and try to
understand?
Why the hesitation? Are you concerned about some sort of copyright
infringement? If that is the case, then I can understand.....To a degree,
and you need only state that this is the cause of your hesitation.
Although I disagree with Michael (MJ) on a number of occasions, I will say
that he is a well thought, well meaning and logical gentleman and not one
who is apt to hurl insult or personal attacks on the board.
Just a thought, but obviously we'd love to see your work!
KeithInTampa (Today)
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:30 PM, NoEinstein<[email protected]>wrote:
Folks: The following was prompted by a direct email to me. (See
below.) I'd like to share it with you. � John A. Armistead �
Patriot
02/19/11
Dear Robert (Prezioso):
My first essay 'title-set" on
