I've just published a new video entitled "Equal Rights and Justice: Concrete Suggestions."
In the video I express my absolute support for massive protests in the face of the murder of George Floyd and the centuries of racial oppression, systemic exploitation and injustice.
I also note that all men and women have an inalienable right to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and an inalienable right peaceably to assemble and to petition their government (which belongs to the people) for a redress of grievances.
I discuss the disturbing evidence of the widespread and systematic deployment of provocateurs to deliberately subvert these inalienable rights, and the fact that such subversion of the inalienable right to assemble and petition for redress of grievances violates the founding documents of the nation, which all those in the military are sworn to support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
The video also explores the repeated use of the pattern of provocateurs in the decades following the ostensible end of World War II -- right up to the present.
And, the video provides concrete suggestions for solutions to some of the glaring problems of police brutality and systemic exploitation, including:
- An immediate end to the use of all chokeholds of any kind by police in the US
- The de-militarization of the police in the US
- Forbidding the police to make arrests except of those committing an overt and ongoing act of violence
- The institution of a fully voluntary federal jobs guarantee program, following the decades of work on this concept by MMT economists such as Warren Mosler, Bill Mitchell, and Stephanie Kelton
- The institution of a public banking alternative, perhaps using the US Postal Service (with an online option as well), following the work on this concept by economists such as Michael Hudson and authors such as Ellen Brown
The sacred traditions of virtually every culture of humanity universally declare that the life of every man, woman and child is a gift from heaven. They also declare that the gifts of nature such as the natural resources of forests, streams, ocean ports, fertile soil, sunshine, rain, and the mineral wealth under the earth are also themselves gifts from heaven to the people of a land -- but that the most precious heaven-sent resources of all are the people allowed to be born into that land, and the unique gifts given to each and every man and woman.
No one has the right to take away the divinely-given life of anyone. Likewise, economic and social systems which deny the ability of others to develop and use their heaven-sent gifts constitute an affront to heaven. We can and must create systemic changes which will eliminate unemployment, economic exploitation, racism, white supremacy, and police brutality.
The mandate for doing so comes from a source far higher than the power of any power that has wrongly been seized by those who have chosen to stand against humanity.
