Liberty: the American Constitution and the American Way

I enjoy life so much. Every day is Columbus Day.

The American citizen intrigues me. A majority do not register to vote. Many who do, do not.

Government for such Americans is something leaving them alone. It only enters their lives to take taxes or their sons for war and fortunately few of these.

For many of the world's people this is Nirvana.

Most Americans are, or are descended from, people who flew from the oppression of a State. While not true of the slaves their descendents now have the gift of liberty.

The US Constitution and Law protects all this. However in protecting American from their own government's oppression it does not protect others from it nor Americans from each other. The right to bare arms intends to support this. It facilitates a citizen in killing those seeking to harm the interest of their nearest and dearest even if most of these seem to be in their own family. Such is the price of liberty. Many elsewhere would gladly pay it.


But how can this be engineered? The rich American tax harvest is, or is perceived to be, a major source of global oppression. With their huge blank cheque the American non-voter seems to underright the American executive's power outside America if not in it. Americans are as caring as the rest of us but they know little of us accept that we oppress those dear to American's heartfelt interest and our ancestors oppressed those from whom the current generation of American's desend.

Informed active Americans know this. Many of them choose to right such wrongs by acting in the executive. With opposite intent they then find themselves part of its oppression. They strive, they even give their lives, to bring us the gift of American values. However with no obvious access to the american cultural context underpinning them we cannot access them This is tragedy.

Informed American see this, even those trapped in acting it out. They may, they do, endeavour to awaken the wider American consciousness to it. But, how can they? They may have a built in minority in the electoral college that chooses the president. The political side of the executive can then be elected by and effectively accountable to a minority of the minority of Americans who choose to register. Those wishing to act to change the American consciousness thus have a huge task and a huge problem.

5.5billion of us can, and many do, feel opressed by this truly wonderful system of democracy. Those who live within it have true liberty. We would all like access to this. We seem ever excluded from it. This is globally explosive stuff. How can American attention be brought to bear on its reality? Unfortunately it has.

This has had a perverse consequence. Even fewer informed Americans choose to travel abroad. Understandably, they wish to avoid being abused or attacked. They are one of the few apparent conduits we have to the American consciousness. Those Americans who do not choose, but are drafted, to go abroad have an even worse experience of the nature of the rest of humanity. The tragedy grows.

However liberty and the American Way is pervasive independent of the American Executive's apparent power abroad perversely because of it growing weakness at home.

The global way to the American way is here in cyberspace. Here we the whole of humanity including Americans are constructing a means to escape from oppression and walk the global silk road to prosperity outwith the effective purview of states.

We do have to find a way to pay to support the infrastructure supporting this capacity to ignore government as the majority of Americans already do. Can we afford to do this? the answer seems to be yes provided we all get connected. Any cost divided by 6billion is tiny. Most of us can pay many of us are even happy to pay more so others pay less. All over the planet kids of all ages are talking to each other - babel fish even allows this in practically any language.

Even the US government own tax base is undermined by this system. Corporations, such as Microsoft, can shift billions of dollars of value out of the jurisdiction of one state into that of an other in seconds - software services outsourcing to India being but one example.

Can this be halted? Do we have to fear it? NO.

Do states have to worry about their future utility to mankind? YES.

Is the result destructive anarchy? Apparently NOT.

Does it lead to more war? YES but in games where the young men of today learn as did their fathers the value of developing their personal skills, comradeship and teamwork but unlike their fathers they do not have to die to do so.