Our Common Insanity
By Niki Raapana
8-3-10



Across the globe, national constitutions are undergoing rapid modifications. In some nations the change is covert and only a few citizens are aware of the exact criteria. In others (mostly "former" communist/socialist countries and "former" British colonies) the changes are open and named in public policies, constitutions, and trade agreements.

In South America, the new Bolivian Constitution is openly defined as a communitarian constitution. In an interview with Bolivia's foreign minister, titled `Communitarian socialism will refound Bolivia' David Choquehuanca explained:

"Political Constitution of the State'', approved by referendum on January 25, 2009, by 61.4% of the vote and announced on February 7, is clearly of transcendental importance for the refoundation of Bolivia. The recognition of individual and collective rights, popular participation, the principle of equality and the end of all types of exclusion and discrimination are all present in the new constitutional text.

"It establishes the creation of "a Unified Social State of Law whose character would be Plurinational Communitarian, free, independent, sovereign, democratic, intercultural, with decentralised autonomous departments, regions, municipalities and indigenous circumscriptions". (links.org.au/node/1048 )

In the United States, the evolution to communitarian supra-nationalism has been gradual and hidden from the voters (especially the ones who may use their constitutional agreements to maintain their power over government servants). As a response to Kevin Egger's letter to the editor of California's Napa Valley Register on July 14, 2010 shows, the idea of global communitarian change is just a lovely idea, especially to adept Americans.

Americans, even when they are told exactly how the NWO is being implemented in their own homes and neighborhoods, deftly avoid any factual discussion of the global-to-local reality. The global plans get buried in the local b.s. (Notice how many commentors addressed UN Local Agenda 21 in their responses: http://napavalleyregister.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_6c629
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In Great Britain, home of the Fabian gradualists, the newly elected "conservative" PM David Cameron has already proposed a big new communitarian program called "The Big Society." Cameron's communitarianism is well documented in the English press, but, like their cousins in the U.S., British commoner's awareness of communitarian legal principles remains at the pre-school level, and the academics are there to maintain that level. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/newsdebate/r/t-10160247/index.html?threadIndex=2)

As I've written more than once before, member states in the European Union have already openly incorporated supremacy of communitarian law. Professor Ján Mazák, PhD. , President, Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic explained in 2004 in the "National judiciary after the accession of the Slovak Republic to the European Union" that "The primary rule is, that the national courts of member states are obliged to apply directly those communitarian standards which fulfil the communitarian conditions of the immediate applicability." (Full reprint of Mazák's speech is in the appendix of 2020: Our Common Destiny, http://nord.twu.net/acl/books.html)

From South Africa (http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/1183) to Southeast Asia (http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t734132812), communitarianism is the dominant political system. Hong Kong is the model for global communitarian policing, (crj.sagepub.com/content/4/1/61.abstract) even though it has "largely failed."

Every member state in the United Nations has adopted communitarian principles. How many people in those nations have never once heard the word or anything about the philosophy?

On the surface it's called sustainable development. UN Local Agenda 21, adopted at the Rio Earth summit in 1992, suggested local communitarian councils should control all land and resources. Under this guise of "protecting the environment," the economic foundations for self-reliant nations have been all but eliminated. Land use, including privately owned land, is almost completely controlled by small councils of self-appointed communitarian leaders.

Like I wrote in my May 2010 article for the UK Column, Our Common Community, "Americans have a lot more in common with the British than many may realize. On both sides of the Atlantic there is a very quiet and totally identical revolution underway. Commoners from Alaska to London face the same enemy with the same name. What binds them in a way that surpasses all others is the simple fact that neither side knows what exactly their enemy is called." (http://www.ukcolumn.org/articles/our-common-community)

It's called communitarianism, and it's past time we let it out of the closet in the "free" west