The Constitution of the Interim Government
of the Republic of Un-America
We, the People, Animals, and other Sentient Beings of the Republic of Un-America, in order to bust a serious move have opted for a new style in the quest for participatory democracy: Inclusivity, Anarchist Beats, and Respect to the Struggle for Equal Opportunity are our thing.
Article I
Section I. All legislative yin-yang is coordinated by the Legislative Branch of the Republic of Un-America known as the Con-Gress of the Republic of Un-America. The Con-Gress consists of random criminals, culture workers, and anonymous street kids who irregularly converge and converse to apply whatever practical sociological knowledge they have acquired with regard to human nature, abilities, and understanding.
Section II. The main mission of the Con-Gress is to provoke and irritate other people into getting off their ass and taking action.
Article II
Section I. All executive-like behavior is directed by the Executive Branch of the Republic of Un-America known as the Out House of the Republic of Un-America. The Out House consists of those sentient beings who choose to function as Representatives of the Republic of Un-America or the Interim Government thereof.
Section II. The purpose of the Executive Branch is to provide focus and vision to the Republic of Un-America, its organizations, its administration, and its citizenship. It has no authority whatsoever except the value bestowed in its Cultural Capital.
Article III
Section I. All opinionated judgments, decrees, and judicial pretensions is performed by the Judicial Branch of the Republic of Un-America known as the High Court of Mediocre Mediation (HCMM). The HCMM consists of various experts, academics, and know-it-alls who argue with each other all night long about who said what, who hit who first, and how conflicts might be mediated better by not staying up so late at night.
Section II. The purpose of the HCMM is to sweep red hot conflicts under highly inflammable rugs, kick back, and see what happens.
Article IV
Section I. All powers of communication and media are bestowed to the Propaganda Branch of the Republic of Un-America known as the Department of Disinfo. The Department of Disinfo consists of more than 500 million writers, filmers, hackers, musicians, e-mailers, and people who talk too much. You may very well be one of them.
Section II. The main function of the Department of Disinfo is to kick some ballistics and spread words, thoughts, and spirits like viruses. Information contamination for the nation.
Article V
Section I. The most important powers held in the Republic of Un-America reside in the Missing Branch of the Republic of Un-America known as the Informal Unit of Occassional Riots (IOUR). There are currently 5 billion inofficial members. Membership criteria are extremely lax.
Section II. The function of the Informal Unit of Occasional Riots is to get busy with filling responsibilities of the day-to-day necessities, organization, and public expression of grievances. When that doesn't work or when the state or corporate private security forces are cracking down on their abilities to express themselves they are to riot, rumble, or express support for those who do so. These statutes are clearly laid out in the Untied Nations Declaration of Humane Riots.
Article VI
Section I. Various administrative needs of the Republic of Un-America and the Interim Government thereof may be filled by various ministries, such as the Ministry of Foreign Languages (MFL) whose task is to translate official documents, the Ministerial Department of Bureaucratic Enhancement (MDBE) whose task is to compile application forms, offical policy briefs, and procedural dictates, the Ministry of Webworking (MoW) whose task is to update and maintain webpages and cybernetic intercourse, the Ministry of Offense (MoO) whose task is to expose, reveal, and thrash imperial agents, and the Un-American Intelligence Community (UAIC) whose task is to collect revelant information, analyze it, and compose reports. Anyone so willing to activate themselves might want to do so now before someone else does it first.
Section II. The Executive Branch of the Republic of Un-America has the right to create new ministerial departments according to need. This right is further reserved for any Un-American citizen.
Article VII
Section I. Each branch of the administration of the Republic of Un-America (or the Interim Government thereof) is an autonomous unit. No decision is legitimate and declared to be offical unless it is unanimously accepted by all branches at roughly the same time. Voting on all matters occurs continuously at all times and votes are assessed, assembled, and judged by whoever is on duty at the moment as Co-Representative of the Interim Government of the Republic of Un-America.
Section II. There is necessarily much chaos occuring at all times and bureaucratic participation via meetings, discussions, and procedural necessity is granted a certain amount of cheerleading by Those-With-Nothing -Better-To-Do. Popular participation in street parties, forest festivals, group art, public discussions, graffiti, spontaneous sports, philosophic encounters, and experimental movements in democratic development are granted greater weight by Those-Who-Know-How-To-Live.
Article VIII (Ten Principles of a Sane Society)
Section I. New Democracy - Governments must shift from serving corporations to serving people and communities.
Section II Subsidiarity - Those most affected by a decision shall have the most say about it. Whatever power can reside at the local level should.
Section III Ecological Sustainability - Today's needs ought be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
Section IV Common Heritage - All the nature, water, land, air, forests, mountains, is to be shared as a collective inheritance. Likewise, culture, knowledge, and basic services such as health care, water distribution, education, public safety, and social security, are a common heritage which no corporation should own at the exclusion of those who do not own.
Section V Diversity - A diverse world is a healthy world and the challenge is apply principles of complementary assets as opposed conflicting interests. Similarly, the homogenizing effect of corporate globalization, totalitarian capitalism, and authoritarian regimes ought to be replaced by the preservation, exploration, and development of diverse and multi-faceted community cultures.
Section VI Human Rights - The UN Declaration on Human Rights which calls for a "a standard of living adequate for ...health and well-being..., including food, clothing, housing and medical care, and necesary services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment" ought to be the cornerstone of global development as opposed to IMF Structural Development Programmes and the World Trade Organization's obsessive priority: the facilitation of economic trade.
Section VII Jobs, Livelihood, Employment - In a world where income means living then jobs are a basic human right.
Section VIII Food Security and Safety - Nations ought to be able to produce their own food and be protected from the potential hazards of bio-tech and chemical industries.
Section IX Equity - A major priority for global sustainability and development ought to be the elimination or radical reduction of the gap between the rich and the poor, both within and between countries.
Section X The Precautionary Principle - If a technology or product raises certain unanswered questions then it should be shelveed until the questions are answered sufficiently. Likewise, social risks -such as lowering school budgets- ought to be approached with equal hesitation and care. In both cases, serious societal damage could potentially be caused and it may take years, even decades, to reverse. .
(Adapted from the Ten Core Principles for Sustainable Societies in the publication Alternatives to Economic Globalization by IFG at http://www.ifg.org)
Article IX
Section I. The following section is a Bill of Rights, according to the prepensity of governmental institutions for initiating rites of bills.
Section II. The following items (termed Articles) have been ratified by a special Con-Gress, in coordination with the Executive Branch of the Interim Government of the Republic of Un-America, as bonus amendments to the Constitution:
Article 1 People have the right to rock.
Article 2 People have the right to do whatever they damn well please so long as it does not piss anybody else off (including Mother Nature). Exceptions are made with regard to pissing off people who have a chronic need to be pissed off [See Article 8]. People have the right of equal access to the fruits of Mother Nature (tranquility, food, shelter, health care, clean water, electricity, recycling, music, dancing, sex, drugs, bicycles). People have the right to chill. People also have the right to get in your face if they feel that you are infringing on their ability to chill. All these rights generally go without saying.
Article 3 No member of any government has the right to grant, detract, or legislate rights. If they do so then they may be interfering with the right to chill and people thereby have the right to riot.
Article 4 No corporation has the right to place rights of property and collective or private rights to chill over the rights of equal access to the fruits of Mother Nature. People have the right to smash corporate property when corporations infringe on those rights. They also have the right to get on a bullhorn and scream out some nasty syllables.
Article 5 People have the right to arm bears. Animals are under considerable threat by humans and any humans who wish to express solidarity by arming animals are protected by this article.
Article 6 People have the right to assemble all sorts of weird shit and call it "art". Other people have the right to laugh at them and call them "idiots".
Article 7 People have the right believe in conspiracy theories, UFOs, poltergeists, and the President of the United States of America. Other people have the right to smile and humor them knowingly.
Article 8 People have the right to majorly diss people who make money off of other people's misery, especially mafia syndicates, drug-dealers, advertising agents, gangs, car salesmen, insurance-extortion industries, the prison and military-industrial complex, and Dick Cheney.
Article 9 People have the right to make their own money and currency systems if they want to. They also have the right to engage in informal exchange systems or gift economies.
Article 10 No God, alien, politician, lawyer, authority figure, celebrity, or prophet has the right to change or make amendments to this Bill of Rights. Anyone else can do as they damn well please.
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