MEMO TO: Friends of Freedom
FROM: Publius II
SUBJECT: A strategic plan
Quotation: “Citizens today are disgusted with being forced through taxes to support an arrogant and deceptive monster in Washington, DC. Those who think would be interested in discussing a proposed plan for government that eliminates today’s three most overbearing and abusive bureaucracies: the IRS, the Congress and, eventually, the Pentagon.” — Publius II
Publius II began researching the government in Washington DC in 1985 as a hobby. His investigations and thinking focused on the truth. With the passage of time he came to see in ghastly detail what government officials were doing TO citizens while the rhetoric pounded on about what they were doing FOR them. The hobby morphed into an obsession.
He studied democracy and contrasted its principles with those under which the authoritarian regime in Washington operates. He studied human nature, learning in detail what horrendous sins man will foist upon his fellow man when he knows he will not be punished. Furthermore he learned that, once in power, the incredible lengths the dictator or elite class will go to stay there. Proof exists not just in Egypt, Libya and Syria; world history is stacked with examples.
People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. Because today’s high public officials believe in the PANG principle (people are no good) they think citizens must be ruled from the top down and not governed from the bottom up. The kicker is that citizens are hard-wired to support what they help to create. Without this freedom there would be a crime problem.
Human nature impels nearly everyone to seek a better life. Combine this fact with the PANG principle and the unavoidable result is high public officials making things happen to benefit themselves. For some 50+ years citizens have watched things happen while supporting this system of government thru forced taxation and voting in rigged elections. Those who think wonder what happened to their democracy.
The research data consist of a quotation (above), an eight-page paper called Common Sense II, which compares the situation in 1776 when Thomas Paine wrote the original version with today, and 14 eight-page essays to enlighten and motivate thinking citizens. Topics include taxes, health care, futility of war, education and corruption.
There is also the preliminary draft of a proposed Constitution of the United States of America. This document would be discussed and debated by citizens in local meetings and ratified in state conventions just as was done in 1787-88 with the present document (which is being routinely ignored and violated by the government).
This memo is intended to recruit KINDRED SPIRITS who would rapidly disseminate the results of Publius II’s research to a carefully targeted audience. His thinking appeals to citizens who are fed up with Big Washington’s deception and corruption AND possess the COURAGE to move out of their comfort zones in order to make good things happen.
The objective is a government guided by the principles of democracy: thinking citizens governing themselves. If they are to enjoy limited, honest and clean government they can trust no one else to do this vitally important job. Therefore this strategic plan seeks democracy thru a NONVIOLENT grassroots rebellion.
A vast network would be built by targeted citizens forwarding this memo in relays to additional kindred spirits. This done, concerned citizens would invite friends, family and neighbors to meetings. They would alert local print media in advance. On the date set below Publius II would release the data in small groups, to be quickly relayed to thousands thruout the nation.
A newspaper might publish the data as follows: quotation, Common Sense II and then the essays. An eight-page essay is about 3,500 words, which roughly fits the same space in a newspaper as a feature story. A pre-alerted editor would publish the quotation on one day along with Common Sense II, and then one essay on each day following in his/her discretion.
As an incentive to publish an editor would be informed that thousands of other editors would be approached at about the same time. If each initial recipient relays to an average five new people (allowing for overlap) and each takes an average three days to relay, eight relays would reach about 390,000 friends of freedom and maybe half that many newspapers in about 24 days. This collective effort should go far toward persuading the news media to stop being press agents for the government and return to investigative reporting favoring the citizen’s side of the great gap between them and “their” government. People would demand TRUTH and get it.
Now, Publius II knows that newspapers and magazines have lost popularity to oral media like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, etc. Please be advised, dear reader, of the lasting value of print. It can be read, reread, ask citizens to THINK, impel them to reflect on it and, if worthwhile, to share it with others for productive discussions and debate. This is the essence of the democratic process, but today people seem more inclined to contradict others without THINKING. The neat thing is, a reader can refer back to it repeatedly because it is still there for further reflection. (Both Jefferson and Tom Paine believed in reflection and practiced it.) Admiral Hyman Rickover was considered a genius. He said, “Great minds discuss ideas. Medium minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
The impact would be a rebellion that is coordinated thruout the land. Abstracts of essays with a link released in pairs every other day would go public so rapidly that when the monster in Washington reacts it will be too late. And it WILL react; human nature cannot be repealed. Hence the present urgency of staying beneath the radar: kindred spirits only. With this strategy there would be no need for rallies or street or mall demonstrations that might turn violent.
At this point the multitudes should be ready for democracy: “—- huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Therefore the timing would be good for editors in their judgment to publish the preliminary draft of a new constitution.
Publius II is a print man. Altho it takes some effort, print can be examined and criticized at length while broadcast is far more easily forgotten. Furthermore the author wants to keep people focused on the message instead of the messenger; hence the use of a pseudonym.
Lest this use be misconstrued, Publius II makes no apology for his writing. Quite the opposite: he takes fierce and patriotic pride in it. He loves his native land.
In 1776 when he published the original Common Sense Thomas Paine wanted readers to focus on the message. History shows that what is arguably the toughest tome on liberty in the English language had a great impact on the outcome of the Revolutionary War. Paine put a major emphasis on COURAGE. Years later when the proposed constitution was being discussed and debated a series of newspaper articles encouraged ratification. They were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, and published over the signature “Publius.”
Should Publius II’s thinking find favor with the multitudes citizens’ children would grow up, marry and give them grandchildren in a society guided by morality and democracy at home and peace abroad.