EMANUEL FOR PRESIDENT “FEAR NO EVIL” ２０２４ PLATFORM: Planks Six to Ten

Planks Six to Ten

EMANUEL FOR PRESIDENT “FEAR NO EVIL”

２０２４ PLATFORM

Planks Six to Ten

6)

Stop the dangerous influence of technology on our citizens

The media teaches our citizens that the exponential evolution of technology is an unmitigated positive. Yet, exposure to technologies (vaguely defined as AI) robs us of the ability to focus, deprives us of the wherewithal to think for ourselves, and creates dependency on corporations by stripping citizens of their rationality and forcing them to rely on on-line services run by multinational companies for the tasks that they, their neighbors, and their families could easily undertake themselves. 

Technology is used to induce addiction to short-term stimulation so as to generate profits for corporations.

Citizens must interact with each other and we need jobs that let us cooperate with each other. But all we encounter is recorded messages, manipulated social media, and automated checkouts that we do not need or want. Behind the plastic façade we face lurk rows of supercomputers coldly calculating corporate profits to be gained by replacing citizens capable of resisting tyranny with obedient robots and drones.

Democratic process has been destroyed by the misapplication of technology. That was no accident, but rather a premeditated crime.

A scientific understanding of the state of our Earth, and of our society, must be the basis for the implementation of technology. The long-term impact on the body and mind of 5G, or other technologies, is essential. As Paul Goodman wrote, “Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.” We confuse science with technology at our peril.

7)

Corporations are not people; The rich get only one vote

Corporations are not people and they should not play any role in the formulation of policy for the nation.

The same is true for the super-rich, and for the investment banks that they employ to exert their will.

The information required by policy makers in order to make informed decisions must be supplied to them by accountable career civil servants, professors, and other experts engaged in the objective evaluation of the current state of our country, people who address technical and administrative problems with an eye towards the long-term interests of the people.

There should not be any pressure on those engaged in governance to derive profit for patrons.

The rich are just people and they have no more rights than anyone else. They are not entitled to special privileges in public places, to inside information concerning policy and economic planning, or to special meetings with government officials.

We must empower a true constitutional civil service so that the government can regain its independence and we can produce strict regulatory systems to protect the people from the predations of banks and corporations. In that process, many corporations, such as banks, or communications and energy companies, should be nationalized, and run by competent staffs of civil servants as public monopolies.

Other public services should be run as collectives at the local level, owned and controlled by citizens. Such ethical governance has precedents dating back to ancient times and does not require ideological decoration. It also provides solid long-term jobs at the local level.

8)

Transform the military-intelligence complex

The out-of-control military no longer reports even to the corrupt Federal government. The billionaires behind the screen take our tax dollars and transfer them directly to their bank accounts through the sales of overpriced weapons produced in response to hyped up, or mythical, threats from abroad.

None of these threats, or these weapon systems, are subject to meaningful outside review, or any scientific assessment—the ridiculous missile defense system is a perfect example of the boondoggles resulting from a fantasy world that enriches the few.

Make no mistake, there is a war going on: fifth-generation warfare in which the dumbing down of the people and massive psychological warfare operations against citizens are undertaken to isolate and divide us so that the super-rich can destroy us.

We need men and women willing to give their lives for their country, to save their families and friends. The bravery of soldiers must be focused on the dangerous work of ending the rule of our country by the masters of global investment banks, fossil fuel conglomerates, IT giants, and their swarms of lackeys.

Tragically, the noble sentiment to defend family and countrymen against external threats has been cynically misdirected. The military, and the intelligence “community” that surrounds it as a penumbra, must be transformed, and must be dedicated to a new target: taking back the economy, the discourse on policy, and the means of communication from the billionaires and then confiscating their ill-got assets to pay for their crimes.

Once we have control of our country again, security policy must focus on employing the scientific method to determine how climate change, the collapse of biodiversity, and the destruction of oceans and rivers pose a deadly long-threat and how those trends can be reversed over the long term. The effort must stop the destruction of farmland, the spread of dangerous GMOs, the implementation of geoengineering projects, the release of dangerous chemicals in the air, soil and water, and other schemes to destroy the environment.

In violation of George Washington’s warning of the dangers of “entangling our peace and prosperity,” we have rushed headlong into numerous secret treaties, casually termed as “intelligence sharing” and “security cooperation,” that are leading us towards a catastrophe like 1914.

9)

Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party are described in the Constitution and neither has authority in the formulation of policy

Politics in the United States has degenerated into a gilded bribery machine wherein lobbyists convey the demands of the rich and powerful, and the banks and corporations that they control, to government officials and then that wish list is rendered as law in violation of the Constitution and the will of the people.

Governance is dead.

All debate surrounding the formulation and implementation of policy must be handled in a transparent manner within the government offices as defined by the Constitution. It is illegal and unconstitutional to formulate policy in consulting firms, lobbying firms, or multinational corporations.

Central to the current fraud are two criminal syndicates, connected at the waist, known as the Democratic Party and Republican Party.

The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are not described in the Constitution and they have no authority to make policy, or to play any role in its implementation.

These “parties” no longer represent the people in any sense. Rather they serve to mask and to paper over the criminal influence of billionaires on our government and to promote the fairy tale that a democratic process is at play.

10)

Trade must be ecological and truly free

Trade can be a valuable opportunity for economic exchange between communities around the world. Trade as it is practiced today, however, is entirely controlled by multinational corporations and it is employed to undermine the economic well-being of our citizens while damaging our ecosystem.

Massive container ships, controlled by investment banks, spew out horrid smoke as they carry goods across oceans for the profit of the few, not for the benefit of those who make the goods, nor for the benefit of those forced to consume them.

It is not a positive for the citizens of the Earth, and is certainly is not “internationalization,” for global finance to be allowed to destroy local industries and farms through dishonest trade policy aimed at making citizens dependent on imported goods, rather than products produced in their neighborhood.

We must, together, completely rethink trade and create a 100% fossil-fuel free ecological trade system that is accessible to everyone, that does not undermine local economies, and that meets the needs of citizens, not corporations.