EMANUEL FOR PRESIDENT
“FEAR NO EVIL”
2024 PLATFORM
Planks Sixteen to Twenty
16)
The creation of money, and the determination of its value, must be undertaken with the authorization of the Congress and be handled in a transparent and democratic manner
The creation of money, and the definition of its value, is assigned to the Congress of the United States by the Constitution and monetary policy be conducted in a transparent, scientific, and democratic manner.
Private banks, corporations, and wealthy individuals have no authority to interfere in the process by which the amount of currency is determined, or its value assigned.
Sadly, the unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act of 1913 established a monetary system controlled by private banks which resulted in a radical concentration of wealth over the last century, and especially the last decade. The control of money by the few has destroyed the government and democratic process.
Today, swarms of mythical creatures like derivatives are cooked up by financial institutions and treated nationally, and internationally, as the equivalent of money.
When these international financial institutions create money out of thin air, they thereby dilute the value of the money belonging citizens through the resulting inflation. That is to say that they are engaged in thievery, not “investment.” And yet the newspapers that they control tell us that inflation is the equivalent of rain or snow—an inevitable natural phenomenon.
The wealthy hoard money tax-free in offshore accounts, accumulate vast amounts of real estate, create bogus foundations, funds, and NGOs that hide their fortunes and that influence government policy.
The wealthy use their illegal control of money to promote wars, build useless, or fraudulent infrastructure, buy stocks and bonds, and engage in other illegal practices that increase their wealth at the expense of the citizen.
We will establish immediately a national bank accountable in a transparent manner to the Congress, and to the citizens, one which will determine the worth of money with respect to actual value, and will render all fake money used by these multinational banks as void, including their digital currencies and other ephemera used by global finance to buy the real objects in our nation like farmland and water, and to purchase influence over our government officials.
Moreover, the illegal manner in which money and finance has been taken over by the few will be fully investigated and the crimes made public—including the declassification of all actions undertaken by the Department of the Treasury and other monetary institutions—especially the massive transfer of money to private banks in 2020.
The illegal actions taken by private bankers and their shareholders are sufficient to warrant public disclosure of ownership and to pursue the confiscation of assets of those responsible for criminal actions.
Money will be created in accordance with its constitutional purpose, tied to real assets, and distributed in an equitable manner to the various states and local governments to provide for the economic necessities of the people.
17)
Halt the anti-intellectual campaign to dumb us down
Our citizens are subject to unending campaigns by corporations in advertising, entertainment, social media, news and education that are meant to induce anti-intellectual sentiments, to inhibit the ability to focus, and to promote vague and impressionistic thinking that undermines civil society, destroys families, and renders us passive before the forces of techno-fascism.
This shift in our culture is not natural, but rather induced by hidden forces in the corporate world who strive to render citizens docile, indulgent, and narcissistic. We must raise the level of intellectual engagement in every corner of our country, encourage people to think for themselves, and inspire them to propose solutions for problems as citizens of their own volition.
We must encourage citizens to be citizens, to read, write and argue with friends and family about the critical issues of our age in a democratic process.
Entertainment that glorifies waste and the idle lives of the rich is a criminal action against our citizens. The advertising and PR industry must be subject to the strictest regulations so that our citizens are no longer brainwashed or have false value systems implanted in their minds.
18)
Revive the Iroquois principle of seven generations;
End the cult of growth and consumption
Although the constitution of the Iroquois Nation “The Great Law” of 1722, had a profound influence on the United States Constitution, the focus on sustainability was tragically overlooked after the founding of our country.
The traditions of the Iroquois, and of other native nations, who valued the water, the soil, the wildlands and the ocean and who demanded that humanity live in harmony with nature must never be forgotten.
Among the cultural roots of the United States, the “seventh generation” principle is primary and must be made central to our economy.
The “seventh generation” principle of the Iroquois Nation, and the native tradition, demands that we consider how our decisions today will influence the lives of our descendants seven generations in the future in all policy decisions.
This principle is scientific and rational, and it stands in marked contrast to the irrational and false assumption that the oceans, forests and grasslands are commodities that belong to individuals or corporations, and that can be destroyed for personal profit.
The “seventh generation” must serve as the basis for the complete revaluation of our economic and cultural assumptions about economic priorities. We must stop the use of deceptive metrics like “growth” and “consumption” to assess the well-being of the nation. We must consider together the health of all our citizens, the weal of the environment, and the prosperity of wild animals and plants in our decisions.
19)
Farming for the people and for a healthy and fair economy
The depletion of our soil, the poisoning of our water, and the destruction of the ecosystem will result in an exponential rise in the cost of food over the next decade—that process is made only worse by the efforts of multinational corporations to destroy the food supply and monopolize seeds, fertilizer, and water.
Because farming will be the most critical activity for survival, we must leave behind the bankrupt system of industrial farming that spews deadly fertilizers and pesticides everywhere, that introduced harmful GMO plants and that forces us to pay for foodstuffs we could produce ourselves.
We must return to farming by the people and for the people. The land must be distributed to large numbers of citizens to be used as family farms as the foundations of a self-sufficient democratic society.
The soil and the water granted to us by our mother the Earth has never been, and never will be, the property of corporations. It must be broken up and returned to the people so that we can produce food for ourselves and our neighborhoods through food production and distribution that is independent from multinational corporations.
Family farms offer the greatest future opportunity for meaningful employment.
We will not allow the few to destroy our soil and water so as to make fortunes from agricultural exports. Organic sustainable farming aimed at supporting humanity is the only true source for food.
20)
Eliminate nuclear weapons by any means necessary
Humanity faces an unprecedented risk of nuclear war, one made even more dire by the promotion of “usable” mini-nuclear devices and the mad rush for war in Ukraine, in Taiwan, and around the world.
It is a sad travesty that the Unites States is spending the trillions of dollars needed to educate our children and create independent and sustainable communities, to upgrade a nuclear force that must be eliminated in accord with the Non-proliferation Treaty.
We commit ourselves to the elimination of these dangerous weapons from the Earth for the sake of our children.
We will forcibly confiscate, and destroy, all nuclear weapons, starting with those in the United States, and then those in all the other nations. The Strategic Command, and the entire military, will be made accountable parts of the federal government following the Constitution in this process.
We will work with committed groups of citizens at home and abroad, inside government and outside, to make sure that the development of nuclear weapons is stopped permanently and that none are left behind.
Dear Daniel,
Much honored. And let me know if you have suggestions. I am so ashamed that I received all these advantages in youth that I feel I have to, am obligated to, do whatever I can, whatever it takes.
I've read many articles by Emanuel and been blown away. While I hope to see a government with a well composed cabinet, with folks like Jill Stein, Cornell West, Kucinich, Jimmy Dore (aka proven good souls hardened by fire), I just bought an annual subscription here and was asked to give my reason. That's it.