[pp.int.general] USPP Status

[Antonio Garcia]

That is SADLY not only the situation in the USA... but almost everywhere.
To end that intolerable situation, we need to reassess it objectively, analyse it thoroughly... and present a global viewpoint to the peoples.
The problem is... anybody who has cared to do that job... will find himself in a tiny minority position trying to get it through to the others that have not even started wondering about what really goes wrong in this odd world we shape every day all of us together.
All our troubles... are in our minds... some of them crazier and more delusional than other. Nobody can find solutions for a problem whose premises he got wrong.
We do not have to cheat the system... we just have to aknowledge the system cheats us... and pull all our guts together to do something about it.
People are all fed up, not knowing what to do inside of this global and complex situation we build all together... and the first who really comes with an objective analysis of the situation and a blueprint for a workable evolution... gets it all.
I've been pushing to get "humanism" adopted as the true ideology of the Pirate Parties... because our geek discourse is yet a limited subset of it... the one we felt most confortable with when we used the networks to reach far out and find each other... scattered far away as we were. It is time to aknowledge that... and be who we really are, completely.
Then, we will take off as if we owned rocket science ;) .

From: ray.jenson at gmail.com
To: pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:08:52 -0600
Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] USPP Status



The issue in the USA is that we cannot reconcile truth with politics--where the lobbies control our Congress and maintain their undue influence, we remain robbed of our ability to mount anything remotely resembling a defense, counter-offensive, or even to garner attention. The MAFIAA still holds sway over our lawmakers here, and undue influence in other parts of the world as well. Until that intolerable condition ends, we might as well be shouting "death to the pigs" at a police station. We are little more than targets which everyone tries desperately to ignore. In Sweden, the issue was foreign influence over domestic governments; in the USA, we have no such trigger. We lack solid countering on every front but the ones that truly count, and these are what Murdoch's media hounds work hard to suppress. We don't live in a day or age where truth counts. We live in a time where profit overrules the rights of ordinary citizens, and those who profit work hard to prevent anything toppling it. Until we can have a solid platform that the common person can actually get behind, no party in the USA can operate successfully. And until that happens (which hasn't really occurred in 5 years), no party, whether centralized or not, will really take off. The Utah PP was crushed in 2007 because the Libertarians took our signatures and beat us to the post--Libertarians, funded by corporate interests and backed by special interest funding. It took cheating the system for them to gain a foothold, and yet people trust them as a political party to end the very things they used to push past us. They cheated, period. It was a dirty move, inspired by media hype about the PP-Utah being formed. The time we live in is not one which favors art, unless it comes in the form of mass-produced images on special pieces of paper--we call it currency. We need a fundraiser. I have ideas, and anyone who wants them is welcome to them. But I don't know enough about fundraising to coordinate everything... I would need help. And when I've asked for it in the past, it has been lacking in the PPUS, USPP, and every other branch of the PP that I've appealed to. In short, when we actually find ourselves capable to move, only then can the PP flourish anywhere in the US. But seriously: let's make sure we stand firm, and don't cheat the system the way the others have done. It will hurt us more certainly than any other act.  *Gets down off of soapbox.* -Ray Jenson, former PPUS Operations Officer Ray.Jenson at gmail.com P.S., I probably pissed some people off... please don't spam me with notifications about this. 
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