Ballot initiatives are the only legal voting mechanism of the people that offer us the ability to make laws that we want to limit government. A lawful and effective system of checks and balances in government exists, where the people, who are not bribed and corrupted by lobbyists, vote for what we want and choose our future.
the ballot initiative is a mechanism that is created by direct participation of voters signing their state's specific initiative petitions that are submitted to their elections office. When enough signatures are collected in a given time frame, the people's law gets on the ballot and then people can vote for what they want, taking their power back into their own hands.
It's extremely important that people learn about this right. If we don't use it, we can lose it. As we are not prepared to qualify initiatives today through any authoritative organizing platform, we are in a state of acquiescence to politicians. Everything they choose goes, that is until the RIPAC project is successful and we create the critical mass of subscribers and affiliates subscribers. This article is written for the explicit purpose to organize people in the State’s for initiative rights.
Rather than be subjected to limitations by the current initiative process, we seek to realistically organize enough people as both members of our organization and as subscribers to our media online, to reach the critical mass needed to qualify them. When we have enough people organized, we can qualify them effortlessly. People can print out petitions themselves, have them signed and mailed in and enough gathered this way could qualify an initiative overnight rather than having to go through a very time consuming and costly paid signature gathering process.
We are doing what no other group is doing. We are planning for a complete reclaiming of these initiative rights and organizing people online to use them. When we succeed, and we will with your subscription, support and participation, we can create a citizenry so powerful, every bad federal law politicians propose can be voted down and blocked forever on into the future. We can also create new policy to limit government and stop it's abuse of power, it's corruption and it's systematic denial of the people's will.
Ballot initiatives are a form of direct democracy, but not to be confused with mob-rule, for they are lawful and when used as RIPAC intends, to limit government power in accordance with the non-aggression principle, they are the most powerful weapon against tyranny.
The first citizen's PAC filed as RIPAC (Representative Initiatives PAC) orients itself towards progressively reducing to the extent of unlawful aggression in society, in aims of elimination of all deleterious aspects of the State, ending and reducing corruption, saving the environment from toxic pollution and pursuing all solution-oriented ideas that the public we represent encourages the most within the boundary of our natural law ethos. Rather than represent candidates, we focus on citizens ballot mechanisms.
RIPAC is non-partisan. We are working to re-define the words "progressive" and "libertarian." They are at their only meaningful core, one and the same, which we will prove through issue-specific debates with the development of our QED (Quorum E-Democracy). The divide and conquer paradigm that has people looking outside of themselves and up to political ideologies rather than natural law is what the elite of the planet keep us in bondage with.
https://ripac.us/empowerment/qed/
The progressive movement was originally non-partisan and not liberal or party specific at all. It was started as a movement to reject federal actions and to give people ballot mechanisms that enable us to have direct checks and balances.
The libertarian movement was predicated on the concept of applying a common philosophical principle that unites atheists, theists and theologians alike, the non-aggression principle, to the role of the government. The result of applying this philosophy for peace is that the less a government interferes with people's natural rights, the more prosperous and better off society becomes.
This principle has proven to be true time and time again in history. Inversely, the more authoritarian a government becomes the less peace and prosperity there is for the people. The more taxation, the closer to slavery a society becomes. The less taxation, the closer to freedom.
The progressive movement was founded on the libertarian and anarchist's non-aggression principle's counterpart, the self-defence principle. This principle says that we must stand up and fight intelligently, without coercion, in ways that enable us to defeat an enemy that is coercive and afflicts aggression upon us.
The progressive movement was non-partisan. In North Dakota, they fought the federal reserve and created a State bank via ballot initiative. They did not suffer from a financial bubble based on fractional reserve lending. They have a system that does not predicate its economy on loans from the Federal Reserve. This was only possible because of the citizen's ballot initiative process. Sources to this claim can be found at the blog on the RIPAC website:
https://ripac.us/2016/09/north-dakota-nullified-fed/
The ballot initiative purpose can be most magnified today by using it to stop corruption in government and put limits on government power first and foremost. There is always a policy or law that can be applied, as with the bill of rights, to prevent government power in order to create a solution the people want. The initiative process can create stronger rights to referendum, recall and citizen grand jury. It can and should be used right away to stop lobbyists influence, create election reforms and limit the state's power of taxation and ensure polluters don't have free reign to destroy our water, air and soil.
Nearly all states have some limited local ballot mechanisms, including initiatives of one level or another, recall, referendum and some, the right to citizen grand jury, the only true system of checks and balances against corrupt courts. Most States have some form of ballot access rights that allows ordinary citizens to intervene in politics, with our own tools, when the politicians are neglecting their oath of office.
Using the ballot initiative process, in particular, is of prime importance today more than ever in history. We can nullify unconstitutional federal actions under the 10th amendment and create any new law for transparency and open and transparent processes in all of our social institutions to improve them or eliminate them outright and replace them with free-market solutions. Decisions will be predicated off of our intelligentsia and the outcome of debates from our planned QED system we hope to release sooner than later.
We have an ever growing archive of model legislation that can solve major problems in our nation today. All of our members can participate in providing new model legislation or encouraging new model legislation in our private forums. Our work is to make our member's ideas become reality as long as there proves to be no violation of the non-aggression principle and that enough support for their ideas are organized in their prospective State.
With the right followership behind our initiatives, we can help to ensure they are drafted for your state and you can take action, helping to qualify them for the ballot to vote in favor of the people's rule.
Democracy by the politicians is undemocratic in nature. Having elites represent us without any real interaction with us is clearly not representative. Democracy by the politicians is "two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner," where they are the wolves and we are the sheep. Democracy by the people, however, non-partisan in its approach to be issue specific and in regards to one policy at a time, is when we clearly outnumber the wolves and we vote for what we truly want. Progressives and Libertarians can all agree on many key areas of policy and RIPAC seeks to unify and popularize our populous common consent.
The elites have the people believing, hypnotized, that even if we work to apply reason and natural law to the process of direct democracy amongst ourselves, that we will become the greatest threat to humanity. Nothing could be further from the truth as evidence of the bill of rights itself.
The paradigm controllers, the gate-keepers, the statists, want to scare the public into believing that we are more dangerous to ourselves and we are better off putting them in charge, to not question authority and to certainly not question the importance of their authority over us. Isn't it clear, they are not our servants, they have become our masters as several past generations neglected the social/political dialog amongst one another about our ballot access rights. When we use the ballot initiative process to our full potential, we can become their masters the way our founders intended.
If you ask the people what they think about the wars, the bailouts, the corporate welfare and lobbyists control of the government, we tend to agree with each other. Progressives and libertarians, liberals and conservatives are all speaking out against the corrupt corporate/government state. When we push policy together to unite behind common objectives, we can regulate government and make it representative of our united will to fix our nation.
RIPAC will file initiatives backed by sound constitutional principles that have been vetted and debated by our members using online voting tools, especially with block-chain technology where applicable. We are embracing future trends and building the online strategies to enable the public like nothing before.
Our values are set to be in line with universal philosophical standards of moral and ethical perspective above our politicians. Nothing unconstitutional can qualify as a ballot initiative by the nature of their restriction set forth by the constitution and courts. We will not empower the state to violate the non-aggression principle or our right to volunteerism. as our primary focus is to uplift societies philosophy, encouraging all to follow non-aggression principles and natural self-defense principles against the government's malfeasance.
When our elected representatives aren’t doing their job and they aren’t working for the common good of the people, the people can file Initiatives and it is our moral duty to do so. Otherwise, we are acquiescing to its tyranny and we ourselves are culpable in the effects of its outcome.
In politics, we chose to be passive victims, or we can take action. We can vote for politicians to make decisions for us, or we can make decisions intelligently, collectively ourselves. We can watch the elected officials and complain, or we can take action to solve our governmental problems by becoming the foundation of governance ourselves with strategic ballot propositions like ballot initiatives.
If we don’t use initiatives, we rely on the politicians. Reliance on government is simply not an option today with tyranny fast approaching and ecological collapse threatening all life on the planet. They have failed us in dealing with the most important issues for generations. We have been subjected to the popular consent to be governed by the unpopular decisions of the politicians instead of choosing the collective self-governance for and by the people directly.
This solution has been available to states since the early 1900's yet no organization, until now, has decided to take on the great work of organizing people to make the necessary massive change happen, to shift the government to governance. RIPAC's work is to transform over time the entire system away from top-down pyramidal rule by elites to a non-hierarchical rule of the people ourselves in accordance with the constitution and natural law. We are building a horizontal platform, with the real activist people together all advancing our own degree of leadership in our communities.
Unlike most popular movements of the past that hinge on voting for the right candidate only once every two to for years, We can take action daily, collecting signatures on petitions that we want to vote on, and participate in creating a non-hierarchical society for ballot propositions where EVERY voter can create governance, rather than being subject to the decisions of politicians.
There are three main areas of ballot initiative petitions.
The strongest petitions, available in just 24 states are for the right to Constitutional Amendments. Refer to the red and blue, as well as blue and yellow striped states in our diagram. People can create statewide constitutional amendments for powerful reform in our State's dealing with any issue we can imagine needs to be a priority to address.
We can also create statewide and local statutory laws and ordinances to holistically transform the current police policing system of "order followers" for the state, into assets for the people rather than liabilities that can hinder our freedoms. Our police can become democratized and transparent in their actions. We can craft initiatives to make them work for the people and protect us from nefarious actions of corporations and public officials, radically shifting their responsibilities. The blue states allow for statutes and so do the green, many purple states have local statutes as well.
Many states do not have statewide initiative rights but many do have local "charter amendments" for statutes. These slightly weaker initiative rights are available in cities and towns across the United States marked purple on the map. A charter amendment is an initiative that first puts a law change we suggest in front of the local legislature to give them the chance to vote on it first. When they ignore public calls to action, these can ensure we force them to make a vote and see where they stand when they see we are serious. If rejected, people can then collect more signatures and put it on the ballot directly, just like a regular ballot initiative statute. Charter amendments must be utilized to their full potential and hold politicians accountable to strengthen citizens ballot proposition processes and the first amendment.
We can achieve all the goals of the people and re-establish constitutional checks and balances against corruption and tyranny.
18 States allow citizen constitutional amendment initiatives:
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Illinois
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
21 States allow citizen statute law initiatives:
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Idaho
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Become a member of RIPAC and help us help you get initiatives you want to see on your ballot!
If you live in one of these states, you are the most privileged. If you live in other states, your state has limitations but local initiatives and charter amendments, referenda and recalls may be available. It's time to use them or lose them!
We encourage candidates to push for ballot mechanisms so the people can be a real aspect of checks and balances the way many of the nation's founders intended.
This government is supposed to be, of, for and by the people, so let’s take back our power! This is a non-party oriented solution because it is issue specific and ALL people who vote can participate. This is not mob-rule, mob-rule implies violence and intimidation. A libertarian direct democracy can be viewed as a process that calls for further decentralization of the government to the larger group of us that sign petitions and vote for legislation that limits government power and empowers the people instead. There is nothing the system can do to stop us as our rules are already in place. The one thing holding us back is the lack of willpower of the concerned citizen.
Don’t let the corporate government be in full control, the only way to re-balance their power is when we become Citizen Lawmakers! This system is anarchy to the politicians and it calls for a complete paradigm shift when you include the grand scope of the RIPAC model of governance.
Now is the time to engage with us and make laws get on the ballot during THIS election cycle. That means you must participate in choosing with us what we should do first and foremost, learn our total strategic perspective and collect signatures on the petitions you want. Don't just wait for politicians, collect signatures and be a part of citizen self-governance.
We can make direct votes and become more powerful than politicians by creating laws ourselves. Learn about your state's rights, what bills can be immediately ready in your state, what new bills can be created rapidly with your participation, how many signatures we will need your help collecting, how many members we will your help recruiting, when the signature collection deadline is and how to accomplish these simple goals with us by joining and engaging in our cooperative political action committee conversations.
Anarchy does not mean without laws, it means without rulers. RIPAC proposes a "Constitutional Anarchy" where a decentralized power of the people that is leveraging block-chain technology for methodological debate sophistication, will help us harmonize our collective goals for society and create de jure governance. We call for horizontal power transfer, rather than top down government, and decentralized governance, for and by the people.
RIPAC members will empower people in our states to be without the need for politicians. No President or Governor can stand in our way with the ballot mechanism strategies we will employ.
Initiatives are legal, they are practical and they are what this nation was destined to become about. We are already taking steps to file initiatives for 2018 that will severely limit the power of politicians.
This new governance for and by the people will represent the final social/political/economic evolution of mankind and spread around the globe. We can fully replace government functionality with ballot mechanisms directly to the point where we don't need politicians to represent us ever again. The future is yours when together, we seize this opportunity to represent ourselves at the ballot.
Contact us to find out how you can assist and be here with us creating history.
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