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[Sweeney]

61. The constitution is a dying contradiction

Some of the rights it supports are true rights. We also had to fight a great Civil War to resolve only one contradiction of the constitution. The basic Property privilege issue remains unresolved, and was made worse and more pressing in the wake of war. Consider only that most people in prison are in prison for breaches of property law. We may be violent, but we are also dispossessed of our commonwealth, and yet those in possession deny the people the support of their own land. Entitlements are called entitlements because this people hold the title to this commonwealth, and if that wealth in private hands will not support the government and will not support the population then it must be taken back and re-distributed.

Violence is certainly a danger, and just because counter revolution, reaction actually precedes revolution. Without the South striking first there would never have been a war that was a revolutionary force for the north and a reaction from the South. Same with France, and the same with here.

This police violence is a reaction to a perceived threat that will only grow worse as summer comes.

To understand the process of revolution, it is only a changing of forms, of failed forms for new and working model of the same basic structures. This is not rocket science, but it does require some philosophy. Jefferson talked of forms in the Declaration. So we know those people were conscious of forms and consciously changing them. -And the story of changing forms is the whole story of humanity.

Yet these great changes we are called upon to make by necessity happen so seldom that people forget what they are up to. There is always a lot of anxiety involved. There is always a lot of divisive talk about moral forms such as found in our Preamble. That government as a social form- is created for good is an idea going back to Aristotle. How to re-form government without violence is always the question. We have to remember that in the end our enemies must be transformed into friends, and it is never too early for that process to begin.

We want to do good, and must make a government capable of achieving that end. How do we bring everyone along?. How do we not force people against their will? How do we resist the inevitable roll back of reaction that our Constitution represents? If we have the people for us rather than against we can accomplish anything. This is impossible where the right owns the language and most of the means of communicating -as well as the internet. We have to get a purpose right between us before they pull the plug, as I think they will.

I would like to try with the help of others to write a new constitution that forbids privilege and defends rights. I would appreciate your help. Start thinking about it, and begin thinking of these times as revolutionary since they are the most revolutionary I have ever seen.