Post by Brandon O'Brien on Sept 13, 2010 20:28:27 GMT -5
The Fundamental Law of the Obligation of Government to its Citizens
A Declaration on the Inherent Relationship Between Government and the Governed
Written by Brandon O'Brien
Presented to the Twenty-second General Congress of the Socialist Party of Eire
on
17 March, 2010
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1. It is the nature of every government to exist only so long as those who are governed choose to accept the authority exercised by the government.
2. It is the obligation of every government to insist upon the happiest possible existence for its people; the welfare of the citizen being the first and most important care of the government.
3. So far as citizens' wants and needs may differ, it is the obligation of the government to mediate dispute between citizen and citizen when such a dispute arises, while finding the greatest mutually-beneficial end to such a dispute.
4. It is not the government's duty to fulfill one governmental form or another, nor can one form of government be termed necessarily better than another, but it is the government's duty, be it composed of a president and his cabinet or a king and his ministers, to ensure that those powers entrusted to them by the people be exercised for the greatest benefit of the citizen.
5. Knowing that all this is true, a government that truly respects and values the rights and needs of the citizen will adopt the socialist model in order that it might guarantee to the citizen that these obligations be filled, not simply promising that they will be.
6. The socialist government is obliged, first and foremost, having attained the guarantees for its citizens that their needs will be fulfilled, to defend itself from those enemies that see it as a threat; it is therefore necessary for the socialist government to build a military to not only defeat any invading army but be capable of penetrating the invader's land and liberate its peoples from such a tyrant that would perpetuate war against a socialist government.
7. Having attained such a military, the socialist government is then by necessity required to turn its attention inwardly to ensure that the citizen is not to be seduced by promises of false utopia by other systems and must have a strong counter-intelligence agency in place to prevent subversion amongst foreign nationals and natural born citizens alike.
8. Having thus guaranteed the national and ideological borders from within and without, it is necessary for the socialist government to mold the new generations to appreciate the socialist society and encourage them to contribute to the further development thereof by ensuring uniformity of teaching and thought within every primary, secondary, and advanced place of learning in the country.
9. Parochial schools, being opposed to many socialist teachings, must by extension be seized and closed. The right to believe in a creator God cannot be revoked, for no institution can stamp out a personally-held belief. However, the right to train subversion into children is contrary to the obligations of the government to its citizens and cannot be tolerated.
10. It is only natural, having closed such subversive schools, that the children of such believers would flee to the churches to escape the light of reason that they have been trained to see as the darkness of evil. For this reason, only state-sanctioned priests and congregations may worship publicly. All other worship being held in secret and suspect of subversive counterrevolutionary activity must be rooted out and its participants liquidated.
11. The liquidation of counterrevolutionary and subversive citizenry is necessary by the revolutionary government, the socialist government, any government that seeks to uphold its obligations, in order to prevent discord and anarchy from dividing citizen against citizen. However, the death penalty, being cruelly abused and the instrument of the Anglacht and other oppressive regimes, must only be reserved for this specific class of character and never utilized against anyone else.
12. If by ignorance any obligation has been left out of this Fundamental Law that is by extension of any other necessary to the functioning of government and society, it is to be reasoned that it is also fundamental and obligatory to the government's functioning. If in the course of human evolution any or all of these current obligations become obsolete, let it be that their necessary extensions go with them, for the Fundamental Law should be fundamental first to reason and sense.
--Brandon O'Brien
A Declaration on the Inherent Relationship Between Government and the Governed
Written by Brandon O'Brien
Presented to the Twenty-second General Congress of the Socialist Party of Eire
on
17 March, 2010
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. It is the nature of every government to exist only so long as those who are governed choose to accept the authority exercised by the government.
2. It is the obligation of every government to insist upon the happiest possible existence for its people; the welfare of the citizen being the first and most important care of the government.
3. So far as citizens' wants and needs may differ, it is the obligation of the government to mediate dispute between citizen and citizen when such a dispute arises, while finding the greatest mutually-beneficial end to such a dispute.
4. It is not the government's duty to fulfill one governmental form or another, nor can one form of government be termed necessarily better than another, but it is the government's duty, be it composed of a president and his cabinet or a king and his ministers, to ensure that those powers entrusted to them by the people be exercised for the greatest benefit of the citizen.
5. Knowing that all this is true, a government that truly respects and values the rights and needs of the citizen will adopt the socialist model in order that it might guarantee to the citizen that these obligations be filled, not simply promising that they will be.
6. The socialist government is obliged, first and foremost, having attained the guarantees for its citizens that their needs will be fulfilled, to defend itself from those enemies that see it as a threat; it is therefore necessary for the socialist government to build a military to not only defeat any invading army but be capable of penetrating the invader's land and liberate its peoples from such a tyrant that would perpetuate war against a socialist government.
7. Having attained such a military, the socialist government is then by necessity required to turn its attention inwardly to ensure that the citizen is not to be seduced by promises of false utopia by other systems and must have a strong counter-intelligence agency in place to prevent subversion amongst foreign nationals and natural born citizens alike.
8. Having thus guaranteed the national and ideological borders from within and without, it is necessary for the socialist government to mold the new generations to appreciate the socialist society and encourage them to contribute to the further development thereof by ensuring uniformity of teaching and thought within every primary, secondary, and advanced place of learning in the country.
9. Parochial schools, being opposed to many socialist teachings, must by extension be seized and closed. The right to believe in a creator God cannot be revoked, for no institution can stamp out a personally-held belief. However, the right to train subversion into children is contrary to the obligations of the government to its citizens and cannot be tolerated.
10. It is only natural, having closed such subversive schools, that the children of such believers would flee to the churches to escape the light of reason that they have been trained to see as the darkness of evil. For this reason, only state-sanctioned priests and congregations may worship publicly. All other worship being held in secret and suspect of subversive counterrevolutionary activity must be rooted out and its participants liquidated.
11. The liquidation of counterrevolutionary and subversive citizenry is necessary by the revolutionary government, the socialist government, any government that seeks to uphold its obligations, in order to prevent discord and anarchy from dividing citizen against citizen. However, the death penalty, being cruelly abused and the instrument of the Anglacht and other oppressive regimes, must only be reserved for this specific class of character and never utilized against anyone else.
12. If by ignorance any obligation has been left out of this Fundamental Law that is by extension of any other necessary to the functioning of government and society, it is to be reasoned that it is also fundamental and obligatory to the government's functioning. If in the course of human evolution any or all of these current obligations become obsolete, let it be that their necessary extensions go with them, for the Fundamental Law should be fundamental first to reason and sense.
--Brandon O'Brien