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N.B. This is only a page of various tentative suggestions related to EthoCracy, while our main official page is the following on the official subject of EthoCracy. The main EthoCracy is the long term objective of the PythagorArium. Its short term objective is the new type of holistic education called EthoPlasìn. EthoCracy is a third-generation type of democracy, one that went from Democracy to Meritocracy, and then from Meritocracy to EthoCracy. This webpage on suggestions related to EthoCracy is particularly long and complex, and describes, further down, after some introductory comments, a series of 30 major specific reforms, numbered from 01 to 30, that would have to take place, cumulatively, as a package, in order to transform an ordinary democracy into a Meritocracy as a first step, and then into an EthoCracy. Preceding this package of 30 reforms, for a quick overview, there is a short nutshell section on the Essence of EthoCracy that groups the main reforms, and gives them a brief description, under seven leading characteristics, with appropriate links to the full text of the reforms mentioned for more complete information.
Thus:
- For only a quick overview of the suggested package of reforms so far, read the Essence of EthoCracy.
- For the official page go to EthoCracy.
- To jump the introduction of this page and read sequentially the detailed analysis of the 30 cumulative reforms, go to the Package
- To trace one of the 30 suggested reforms quickly by title, the catalogue is the following:
A Syntagma as Opposed to a Constitution (
A Priority National Charter of Rights,
with Duties and Exclusions
A NoNoNo Government: No Borrowing, No Debt, and No Surprise (Taxation or Law)
Holistic and Meritocratic
Schools With an Agricultural Area (EthoSchool)
Prison-Farms Connected to Homeless Hostels and Animal Shelters
Natural Resources National Ownership
& Product National Goodness Code
No Fed-Type Central Bank
No Secrecy For All Non-Elected International Organizations (NEIO)
A New National and International Auxiliary
Language (EthoGloso)
EthoCracy is really a third-generation form of democratic government
DemoCracy --> MeritoCracy --> EthoCracy - Meritocracy,
from an ethocratic point of view, as an improvement to the original concept of democracy, is
essentially a "Democracy that is direct and transparent, attributing social
benefits and positions of power openly, and strictly on a basis of merit". As the Just Balance
for the rights, duties, positions and benefits corresponding to the different nature of each citizen,
Meritocracy is the short term political objective of
EthoPlasìn,
as a good midway step towards full EthoCracy. However, if Meritocracy improves democracy,
it maintains essentially the present form of democratic
government institutions, and
the same parliamentary system we find at the moment in most western countries. In turn,
EthoCracy is the
long term political objective of
EthoPlasìn, and
EthoCracy
does not only improve democracy through the
application of more merit, with regards to the attribution of social benefits
and positions of power, but also involves drastic structural changes of the
constitutional state powers, all intended
to bring about increased information transparency and accountability, strong ethical values, more efficiency,
least possible corruption, and better social justice. These
EthoCratic changes happen in government
institutions (to render them more efficient), in social values (to render them
more responsive to the merit of each citizen, and to be the reflection of a better
civic decorum) and in philoecosophical concerns
(to promote a better sense of Planet Oneness Responsibility).
Democracy - Democracy, as we know it today, in most countries, is
distorted, sick, and in an advanced state of impotency, not to say imminent
chaotic collapse, in many, if not most, important countries. More than
faulty or outdated however, it
simply is not/not democracy anymore, certainly not democracy as it was first conceived
by Ancient-Greece. It is only really a
demagogy, or a bastardized deviation of the original concept of democracy invented by Ancient-Greece, which
was much closer to what we would call today a "Direct Meritocracy" or more
simply a
"Meritocracy". In the last few years
in particular, it has clear
ly become an ugly
combination of a financial Plutocracy, as an Oligarchy, serving the
"highest"
interests of the rich commanding class, and a populist Clientocracy,
serving the "lowest" interests of the poor mass-voting base,
in order for the politicians to get more of the popular vote. From
this point of view, what we call "Democracy" today is only an illusion of
democracy: citizens are given the impression that they have power, through their
votes, but their votes only serve to push into positions of power officials who,
once elected, will pretty much do whatever they want, and serve mainly their own
interests and sense of power. That type of democracy is certainly completely incapable of resolving
the most serious modern problems of most countries,
especially from a civic or an ethical point of view. Most of the time, this
demagogical monster takes the form of a
huge bureaucracy that is grossly unnecessary and, because of its size
and secrecy, is
wide open to mercantilism, corruption, unfair privileges, injustice, inefficiency and political nepotism:
something one should probably call a Corruptocracy.
Even from an economic point of view, most of the time, it is now an
Impotent National Plutocracy, incapable of
playing any leading national role anymore, and hardly capable of passively
responding, weakly and/or wrongly, to an ever more
Powerful Global Plutocracy. The National Plutocracy is subdued and
subjugated by the Global Plutocracy that is well on its way to implement a worldwide
Creditocracy leading fast to a
Debtocracy and, in the end, to a
complete Slavocracy. Worldwide this time! In its historical
perspective, this phenomenon is a fourth-type of
slavery, much more sophisticated than the 3 previous ones, serving much better the interests of the current 'masters', as these new
masters do not even have to maintain the new type of slaves anymore, like they
used to have to do, completely or partially, in the first three types of
slavery. And slavery, extended to the majority of the citizens of a country, be
it 'only' a financial slavery, is certainly not the reflection of a 'democracy'.
In the meantime, and as a result, on the side of the dominant minority, ignorant
or vicious national politicians,
foolish international bankers,
and incompetent bureaucrats worldwide, get unfairly, not to say dangerously, into positions of power, with huge and undeserved privileges of all kinds,
attached to themselves, or granted to their nepotistic clientele, while most
citizens under their command suffer from many cascading forms of social and economic injustice.
Merit is totally absent from that scenario, except occasionally, and in a purely
nominal and accidental
way. Ethics are only a theoretical concern of few idealistic individuals who
occasionally manage to bring the subject up for discussion in the public opinion
but with practically never any concrete positive result. The new type of
democracy proposed by EthoPlasìn, called an EthoCracy, is much closer to the original concept of
Ancient-Greece, as a kind of Directocracy, from
which Meritocracy sprouts much more naturally, and that can more easily prevent,
to a great extent, the worst aspects of modern democracies, like political
corruption and financial slavery. Some of this is explained in more details in
few of the reforms of the Ethocratic Reform Package mentioned further down, like the first two
reforms talking about the new NEVoC voting system
(and Voting as a Duty instead
of only a right), and the reform mentioned further down:
EthoCracy as Direct Democracy
Pushed to its Limits. That
EthoPlasìn concept is
EthoCracy,
a form of government that
puts things into better order, correcting and improving most of the mess
delivered by most modern democracies, in particular with the application of a
new managerial culture based, as per the
EthoPlasìn
logo, on Better Decorum,
More Merit
applied through a new Social
Olympic Spirit, and a
sense of Planet Oneness Responsibility.
EthoCracy fosters excellence on the basis of the capacity of each citizen,
ensures only the best ones get into positions of command, or at least into positions of
power corresponding legitimately to their best commanding qualities, and ensures that
everyone is rewarded in the end on the basis of their own merit. In principle
everyone serves others and oneself, each at a just level, with no form of unfair slavery nor
any major injustice.
The beautifully ordered rows of Lavender, up to the left, symbolize the improvement of Meritocracy over Democracy. In an EthoCratic country, civic life is based on the holistic education of the human Tetractys and the outmost importance of meritorious conduct, and consequently, even if things and citizens may still not be perfect, they tend to express themselves with better order, manifesting a healthier basic living harmony, like the above 'educated' rows of lavender, contrasting the wild growth nature of the civic environments of practically all contemporary democracies. Lavender, with its beauty and purification power, is one of the EthoPlasìn Symbols of the vegetal kingdom.
MeritoCracy and EthoCracy
(SOS) (EOS) (COS) (EthoCOS)
- Both MeritoCracy and EthoCracy, as conceived by Ancient-Greece, albeit with
the single name of 'Democracy', are based on a spirit of community life that
is much better, or much more meritocratic, than the one animating contemporary democracies. In the original
concept of Ancient-Greece, Democracy was in terms of every citizen being able to
express freely and directly his opinion in public, and every eligible citizen being able to
express his actual vote directly instead of through a representation (even if not all
citizens were being able to provide
a decisive vote for important decisions) and render the relevant decisions
directly executive, without the intervention of any meaningful bureaucracy. MeritoCracy or EthoCracy, corresponding
to what Ancient-Greece called simply 'Democracy', was based on a type
of culture that was very close to the spirit that animated the Olympics during
that same period, on
something that
we call the Social Olympic Spirit (SOS) and
Ethical Olympic Spirit (
EOS):
equality at the starting line and in front of the standing rules (law) during
the competition, but with only the very best ones being able to reach the top,
and everyone reaching the just level of his own merit. This spirit, when applied
well in all sectors of public life, becomes a Country
Olympic Spirit (COS). Modern
democracies are managed wrongly because they assume, and push, in order to get
more votes from the widest possible base of the population, for a flat, fake and
illusionary equality of all citizens, and consequently they attempt to give unfairly an equal lot
(or maybe rather an equal "bit") to everyone independently of merit. By the
same token, through an unnecessarily huge bureaucracy, they manage to allow, grant, and tolerate blindly, huge privileges to a caste
that gets into positions of power without merit, nor ethics, in most cases, in
particular in relation to the well hidden plutocratic financial elite. Merit
and ethics are baffled all the way in the process. Basic flat equality of human beings is
not only a fake objective, but even pure fiction, as
citizens are born far from equal. Mother Nature does not make them equal. Some are more
intelligent. Some have great talents, while others have none.
Some are more
beautiful, or physically stronger, while others are weaker. Some are more dedicated to achieving
excellence, while others are more interested in just having a good time while it
lasts, independently of the consequences to others, let alone to themselves in
the long run. Some are better equipped for intellectual work while others are better
equipped for manual work. In a Meritocracy, and even more so in an EthoCracy,
merit and ethics have a fundamental importance in achieving success, and in
compensating fairly all citizens, on the basis of their best natural talent,
personal efforts and honest dedication, in particular in making sure
most deserving persons get into positions of most power with, fairly and inevitably, some
legitimate
privileges attached to their more important role. Strangely enough, we already know this
EthoCratic principle, and
we apply it very well, spontaneously, even without questions, in the field of
national sports. In the
national sport of a country for example, be it soccer, football, hockey or
baseball, only the very
best athletes get to the top, and get rewarded accordingly, on the basis of
their natural talent, efforts and best honest dedication. All the others find their
right place, or niche, at the appropriate level that corresponds well, and fairly, to what they
are, what they did so far, and what they can offer. Nobody finds this unusual or unfair
in national sports. In fact the ones located in the
lower teams not only do not feel unfairly treated but, most often, become the best fans of the ones at the higher levels
and, as such, everyone is quite happy, without any feeling of any real injustice.
The lower ones might be sad they have not reached the top, but they do not feel
unfairly treated. They accept their lot, and wish best luck to the better ones.
It should be the same in all good democracy, and in all fields of human and
social activity, certainly so in an EthoCracy.
EthoCratic governments and countries try to run themselves on the basis of this same kind of
Olympic spirit. This is in fact what EthoPlasìn
calls SOS (Social Olympic Spirit), as one of the founding elements of a
MeritoCracy and, in particular, of an EthoCracy. In an EthoCracy the
SOS is complemented by the
EOS
(Ethical Olympic Spirit): merit + ethics. This combination is sometimes called
SOSES
(SOS and
Ethical Spirit)
in the EthoPlasìn environment. An EthoCracy is a society where merit, ethics,
SOS and
EOS all together, play a
fundamental role in managing the country and giving a fair lot to each citizen. At
national level, as a country, in fair competition with other countries, this
SOS becomes
COS (Country Olympic
Spirit). A
society, or a country, containing these elements combined could also be called an
Olethocracy
(combining parts of
3 words:
Olympic,
Ethics
and MeritoCracy). A
more simple and elegant way to call it might be AristossoCracy (to avoid the
emblematic word of Aristocracy), or
Aristarchy (a county managed by the 'excellent ones',
or the 'accomplished ones', from the meaning of "Aristos", or "άριστος"
in Greek). Another alternative could be a
KalloCracy, from the meaning of 'Kallos' ("κάλλο":
harmony and beauty of body and soul together, in terms of both stature and
behavior combined). On the basis of the name of this website, and
all the concepts of the new reforms of this page in particular, we have preferred to
call it simply "EthoCracy". This
is certainly the spirit that animated the inventors of 'Democracy' (which
again was, at the time of Ancient-Greece,
much more a Meritocracy, even an EthoCracy, than a democracy as we know it today,
deflated into a demagogy, to say the least), and the inventors of the Olympic competitions:
a social interplay based on a meritocratic emulation of the best ones, and where each
one wins fairly, and acquires a fair lot, at his proper level, on the basis of
his talent, his efforts and an application of clear and simple ethical
and meritocratic rules. Thus the important page of this website on the
Pythagorean Man Emulation and
the formation of the
Tetractys, in
order to achieve the Victory on
the Minotaur. This is
'Social Olympic Spirit'
and 'Ethical Olympic Spirit', and hopefully 'Country
Olympic Spirit'. This is
SOS and
EOS. This is
SOSES. This is
hopefully also COS at
national country level, allowing not only best performance of citizens within
the country, but best ethical performance in competing proudly with other
countries, culturally and economically, for offering the world the best of their
talents as an EthoCOS
(Ethocratic Country Olympic Spirit). This is the foundation of
EthoCracy.
This EthoPlasìn spirit in its various forms, as SOS, EOS or COS, implies many important changes in the manner a society functions and in the way a government manages a country. In particular, with the advent of the era of the Internet, of powerful database management technology and of instant worldwide communications, all sensible persons can legitimately ask themselves the three following questions:
Who needs huge bureaucratic governments,
with 'elephantic' national ministries and bilateral embassies worldwide? Who
needs
monstrously inefficient and corrupted parliaments with hundreds of
super-paid ignorant
and incompetent members in particular? Could not a
new form of e-Democracy, like an EthoCracy, with complete 
transparency,
full accountability, merit, ethics and
database management efficiency, be able to eliminate most of the burden of bureaucracy, prevent
practically all corruption, expose and avoid the bulk of nepotism, and respond much
faster to all the needs of its citizens?
Why should not citizens be better in charge, able to express their will more easily, through a more efficient and much quicker form of voting, and command practically in real time the application of merit and ethics in their society, better than through slow, heavy and costly political elections that require months of preparation, weeks of absurd electoral campaign, and massive amounts of public money literally sent uselessly down the drain?
Why should not citizens enjoy at least MeritoCracy, and have a chance to get their fair lot on the basis of their best talent, personal efforts, and honest dedication, instead of on the basis of nepotistic relations, or of the financial status of their family? Why should not citizens enjoy even EthoCracy, with the best application of the ethics? Why should not all citizens be able to obtain their fair lot, even if it involves inevitable limitations to some, and legitimate privileges to others, in particular to the best ones, like in sports, and be happy about it, if they also know that it is based strictly on merit, and that honest attempts are made to recuperate the most unfortunate persons, or the weaker elements of citizenship, and to compensate adequately for some of their most serious mistakes or inadequacies?
EthoPlasìn Political Objectives - EthoPlasìn is not currently affiliated to any political party of any country in the world, but it nevertheless has clear political objectives. From this point of view, it is useful to peak here at what we said in our page Description In More Details regarding its Political Objectives.
EthoPlasìn Ultimate Objective - The advent of EthoCracy is the
fundamental long-term
EthoPlasìn political objective. If Meritocracy is its short term political objective, what
EthoPlasìn
is proposing, as its long term political objective, is a new form of modern
democracy, a kind of powerful e-Democracy, called EthoCracy, based on
SOSES (a combination of
SOS
and EOS),
top available modern technology, and in particular the so-called
EthoCracy
Reforms
Package involving the 30 government reforms mentioned below.
This involves 
drastic
changes in our forms of government, rendering them lighter and more efficient,
and an improvement of our approach to the subject of social justice. EthoPlasìn
will pursue this long term political objective, along with the recognition of its
EthoGloso auxiliary language. The
advent of a world with the implementation of both EthoCracy and
EthoGloso, in the
same environment, forms what EthoPlasìn calls its EGG (EthoCracy
& EthoGloso
Governance) Policy. Implementing a fertile
EGG Policy, for the birth of best possible
Civitas
Management, in as many environments as possible, is
the ultimate objective of EthoPlasìn, to be pursued worldwide, through the
PythAssociation, its association of members formed on the basis of the
best holistic EthoPlasìn Education and the "Critical Mass" of more
disciplined individuals it will eventually form. This however has nothing to do
with any kind of hegemony or ideology. The
EGG Policy, and the spirit at the base of
EthoCracy, along with its reforms, its objectives and its new
Civitas
Management
life-style, all stem from the
DEMONE values of the
EthoPlasìn
logo: "Better Decorum,
More Merit and
Oneness Responsibility". These
DEMONE values
themselves are based on the philosophy of Ancient-Greece, of Pythagoras and
Plato in particular. That philosophy gave the world, for quite a few centuries,
what can be considered the best of what one can call "Civilization",
influencing the "invention" and the implementation of the best type of
human education, and consequently the best form of meritocratic democracy. This
is the meaning of the Return Of Philosophy,
mentioned in the very title of our opening page and, as explained in the first
section of that page, the importance of the resumption of the first aspect of
that philosophy, that was a
"System of
Fundamental Values
to Guide Human Living"
as opposed to only the
"Formulation of Concepts to Help Understand the World",
like unfortunately modern and contemporary philosophy have reduced themselves
doing in the last 400 years, in particular since 1968. Thus the need for the
return of that type of great philosophy and, as seen in another vital page, the
need for what we call the Pythagorean
Man Emulation and the holistic formation of the
Tetractys in our contemporary education, and
in our Civitas
Management,
like both EthoPlasìn education and EthoCracy government reforms want to achieve. This
Return Of Philosophy should be accompanied by a
Return
Of Democracy, that is a return of real Democracy as founded in Ancient-Greece, that is
as a combination of "Direct Democracy & Meritocracy".
Essence of EthoCracy in a Nutshell
To put it in simple terms, an EthoCracy is essentially a
direct and subsidiary democracy, founded on the
5 sacred principles of
transparency, merit,
family, nationality and
decorum, with a powerful executive, but with an even more powerful
electorate. These 7 characteristics are:
1- Directness: EthoCracy is direct in the
sense that voters have an absolute power over the government, voting easily and
safely like never before, through NEVoC, and government actions are tied absolutely to a
winning Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program: the Executing Power can only be
Elected at Absolute Majority, and can
only execute
what was in its electoral program, all of what was in its
electoral program, and execute it all with only the resources explicitly
mentioned in its electoral program. Nothing else, nothing more, and nothing less, based on a
Fully 4-Way Binding Electoral Program!
This characteristic of directness also implies a less invasive role of
Political Parties, but without reducing
the vital importance of their role, albeit within more delimited parameters.
2- Subsidiarity: EthoCracy is subsidiary
in that its new type of constitution includes an unusual constitutional annex, called
FTL, amendable more easily than the
constitution itself, but that nevertheless states broad constitutional principles that have to be respected in
all laws and regulations of the country, and consequently reduces the need for
an extensive regulatory legal system on all aspect of the life of the democracy.
The FTL is quite extensive, and covers
broad issues but, by the same token, it prevents the need for the formulation of
thousands of useless laws and regulations. As long as people and corporations
respect the FTL, they are pretty much
left undisturbed, with as less legislation as possible, except if a
CID (Civitas Interest Defender) intervenes, or even a
private citizen through a PJM (Private
Justice Mediator), when they appear not to be respecting its guiding principles.
3- Transparency: The new type of
constitution of an EthoCracy, called a Syntagma, includes a 4th
and a 5th power of the state, the
Informative Power, that supplements the 3
traditional ones (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial), and the
Corrective Power. All branches or
institutions of government, at all levels, are forced to a degree of
Full Transparency never seen before in any democracy, through the intervention of
this new state power, both with regards to the public and private sides of
activity in the country, and immensely facilitates it strong
Zero Tolerance policy on corruption. The
same principle applies to the private sector when it affects people in general,
like it is eminently the case with the new banking system managed through a
NAMA (National Autonomous Monetary Authority) on a basis of
transparency and full responsibility, and a revolutionary
NoNoNo financial system, with No borrowing power,
No
debt and No surprise taxation or legislation. This characteristic of transparency also implies
a Separation Between Politics, Media
and Money that is better and firmer than ever before in any type of modern
democracy.
4- Merit: EthoCracy is centered on merit, in that
citizens do not only have rights, but also duties, with each right having a
corresponding duty, and the rights and benefits of the state are distributed, or
excluded, on the basis
of the respect of this inseparable combination of rights and duties. On the other hand, it brings
more easy and accessible meritorious justice to all citizens, with the
creation of a new system of private justice, through the role of a
PJM (Private Justice Mediator),
that replaces in a subsidiary way the expensive public-court justice, and assists fairer tax
collection on the part of independent professionals, and easier resolution of
personal and family problems. It also brings better
recovery to citizens who have made mistakes, by the creation of a brand new
system of Prison Farms, offering both better
rights and stronger duties to all prisoners based on their meritorious behavior.
5- Family: In order to facilitate
the maintenance of our best values, and the growth of children accordingly, as
future generations, the traditional family structure of society, in terms of
legally married couples, is highly promoted by an EthoCracy, but, at the same
time, highly facilitated and incentivized in all its aspects, like never before
in any democracy, with more fairness to the parties involved, including through
GCB (Growing Children Benefit) in the
context of reunification of Extended Family Units (EFU)
in the same environment, and the
development of privileged EFB (Extended
Family Business) as much as possible.
6- Nationality: EthoCracy is focused on
nationality, not because it is nationalistic, in the bad connotation of
the word, but
in that it will always give clear priority, in distributing its
Chartered rights and
benefits, to the citizens and families who have the nationality of the country.
It also reinforces the sense of good patriotism, and legitimate pride for nationality,
through the institution of a new PPS
(Paramilitary Patriotic Service) that replaces the old type of military service.
In the same spirit, the constitutional
FTL
forces the retention of a
NAMO (National
Majority Ownership) on all natural resources, the institution of a National
Goodness Code (NAGCO)
for all commercial products, and a strict control on national
monetary contributions provided to all NEIO
(Non Elected International Organization) entities.
7- Decorum: EthoCracy has a
fundamental objective of improving the living quality of all our environments,
be they civic, economistic, ecological, cultural, political or institutional in
general. This means better national health through the help of
AHM (Alternative Holistic Medicine), better holistic
education Schools with obligatory civic education, less
micro-criminality and neater social environments with only
Legal Immigration and least possible
multiculturalism. This
objective is also attained through other reforms, like the construction of more
elegant and ecological NECA suburbs, the
national ACE (Award Civic Education) system
of encouragement and reward for good civic education, the role of
Reinforced Consulates abroad controlling the
inflow of illegal migration, and the new
OppositArium system giving a chance of full protest and opposition to
government action, with more visible and better impact, than never before, on the part of
all protesters, even at national level, pushing
Democracy to its Limits, and thus
will less need of, and less tolerance for, violent destructive protests in
public streets.
N.B. The package
of 30 ethocratic reforms that follows, to transform a plain democracy into an
EthoCracy, in order to be understood correctly, and to achieve its full potency, has to be read on the basis of the
above considerations and, again, taken as a real unitary transformation,
as cumulative reforms, as opposed to as separate individual reforms.
EthoCracy Reforms Package
The following package involves 30 fundamental and cumulative reforms (including, as the final one, the implementation of the use of EthoGloso as an auxiliary language at national level). They all take full advantage of the top technology available today. To be understood and assessed properly however, these reforms have to be read and taken as a package, as opposed to as individual reforms. These reforms want to improve Civitas Management, in a similar manner that Plato wanted to change it when he wrote his Republic, and Aristotle wanted to improve it when he wrote his Politics, some 2300 years ago. Like them, in front of our own audience, considering today's dire need for change, and the necessity to take the following reforms as a package, we feel strongly we should borrow one of Aristotle famous logos in front of his own audience, after expressing his own set of rules for change: "Accepting something different is not an option":
«Το μη ενδεχεσθαι αλλως εχειν»
→ REFORM 01/30
A New Voting Way and Duty (NEVoC) -
The new voting way is biometric, and what an EthoCracy calls "NEVoC":
("National
Electronic Voting
Card") - In addition, in an EthoCracy,
as explained in another reform of the
Priority National Charter of Rights
and Duties, voting is no more
only a
right. If it is a right, it is certainly not only a right. Under the
new type of ethocratic constitution, the
Syntagma, it is
definitely a
duty. First and
foremost a duty! A constitutional duty! It is however a much
facilitated duty through the
institution of the new NEVoC voting system. Through this new mechanism,
voting, as a duty, is made easier, faster, safer and
cheaper than ever before in any democratic system but, although the
new system uses the Internet in the background, it is not at
all a plain type of voting online through the Internet in the comfort of
one's home. NEVoC voting becomes rather like going to the bank or to the
post office. The system however allows to vote most easily, anywhere in the
country, in any type of election, and even at the new type of
Reinforced National Consulates abroad. This new
NEVoC system is also the first
element of the 30 ethocratic reforms in this package, and it is not/not by coincidence: it is a vital prerequisite in assessing
and implementing all the following 29 reforms, as a package, that we call the "EthoCratic
Reforms Package", and in making the package to be a success. All the
other reforms mentioned in this list depend on
NEVoC to some degree, one way
or the other, directly or indirectly, and cannot be easily fully implemented
without the power of
NEVoC. The institution of this special electronic voting card makes that new
voting card capable of
identifying and matching its owner in an immediate and absolute way, through a
combination of a picture and some specific
biometric body features, like finger prints and eye iris characteristics. This
NEVoC card also
involves the development of two corresponding voting machines: one capable of
identifying the voter through the
NEVoC card, and preventing a duplication of voting in any particular
election and, once passed the ID check point, and after having received the
appropriate eligibility voting ticket, a totally separate but adjacent machine
capable of registering, and cumulating
NEVoC votes instantly
and anonymously. A voter must enter through
the first machine booth, pass to the second one in a one-way direction, use
forcibly his anonymous voting ticket and
exit through the second adjacent booth after having voted. Of course, the
NEVoC ensures absolute
secrecy of the choice(s) made in the current election, and only certifies the fact that the
citizen has voted in that election. It then also ensures the voter cannot
vote a second time in that election, countrywide and worldwide. The voter
keeps his voting ticket safely, as if it were a kind of utility payment
receipt that includes his
NEVoC ID with
the date and the code of the election. Each school, hospital,
police station and municipal office has, under its responsibility, to protect
and maintain one of these
NEVoC booths, activating or deactivating it as
necessary. Institutions like public banks are also required to host such
NEVoC machines. Citizens
can then vote safely anywhere in
the country, and do so willingly, at any place and time of their own convenience, within the
time frame of
any given electoral week, and do so in complete secrecy. Results can be computed instantly during
that period, without any possibility of fraud, and without any possibility of
secrecy violation. This way, elections also
cost a very small fraction of what they cost today and they are held
most easily, even much more often, as required, without any significant inconvenience to the
citizens involved, providing a much more regular democratic tool to control the
actions of the elected governments. In EthoCracy, the
NEVoC card also becomes the new compulsory
national biometric identity card for both nationals and all foreign
legal residents. Its first issuance can be done as
soon as a child, with citizenship, needs a passport, and/or not later than
age 7, or as soon as a foreigner establishes legal residence. No
NEVoC, no passport! This biometric
NEVoC ID card has only 6 things
appearing on its front: the name of the country of
issuance on top (in abbreviated form if the name is long), a Voting Residence
Code (or NEVoC Code)
on the second line (made of 3 blocks of 3 letter digits, as the official codes for
the country, the province and the city of residence, followed by 3 blocks of 3 numerical
digits forming, when attached together, a unique random number of 9 digits:
a total of 18 ID digits between letters and numbers), a full face picture in the middle, and the main first name
(with its first letter capitalized), followed by the main surname (all
capitalized) of the person near the
bottom. At the very bottom it has a bold number in "0/x"
format, where the first number can be a "0" or a "1", with the "0"
indicating subject does not have the nationality of the country of issuance,
and "1" indicating possession of that nationality. The second number "x"
indicates the number of nationalities owned by the subject, with additional
3 letter digit Country Code details that can be showed at the back, as a
choice of the holder. The picture occupies all the available space between the country
name and person names. All other particulars, including gender and a full
person or country name, more complete than what is on the front, along with the integrated chip
with all the card's particulars,
appear at the back. At the bottom of the back, there is a barcode, that is
not a number, but a digitally readable summary of the identifying data of the card.
This barcode includes a full residence address, and a compulsory personal email
reserved for
NEVoC communications, maintained on the
InformArium website. The last line at the back has a City Code of
residence and the date of the last update. Its
NEVoC picture
is updated at least every 7 years, along with the
rest of its specific identifying biometric features, possibly serving for all national
identification purposes. The
NEVoC basically ensures absolute identity
based on biometric features. The inclusion of the fiscal code for taxation
purposes is only an option. Some citizens may want it integrated for
facilitating all their recognition operations with one single document. Some
may choose not to have it integrated for their own reasons.
At each regular 7-year renewal, or ad hoc renewal for change of data, citizen can change their mind and include, or exclude,
the fiscal code while updating their
NEVoC. The 7-year renewals respect the
Pythagorean Septennial Life Periods
that bring meaningful changes in each human being, physically and
psychologically, as explained in our
page on Pythagorean Ways.
Again, voting in all national elections with
NEVoC in an EthoCracy is not
only a right anymore, but rather also a constitutional duty, as seen
in the other reform of the
Priority National Charter of Rights and Duties. In principle only citizens can vote
in national elections, and non-citizens with a zero in their "0/x" code number
cannot vote, being rejected by the
NEVoC machine in any national voting
process, along with the ones not having the Country Code of the
NEVoC machine. With the
NEVoC system, all citizens are also allowed to vote
abroad, if and when useful, at their national Reinforced Consulates that are all equipped with
NEVoC machines.
NATIONAL - PROVINCIAL - MUNICIPAL VOTING
The above
expresses the NEVoC features
for elections at national level. This special card has
similar utility at provincial and municipal (local) levels mutatis mutandis.
At provincial level, it is used strictly for referenda, or for consultation purposes, and not for electing
or confirming a provincial Governor as, in an EthoCracy, all members of the
Executive Power are
Voted only at National
level, as part of the team of the current national president being elected.
Provincial Governors can only be dismissed by, or with the president, if he
is not reconfirmed by the
Yearly Government Confirmation Process. Municipal
Governors can always be dismissed independently
by the
President. At local municipal level, the
NEVoC can be used for both purposes:
consultation and confirmation.
All citizens, along with all legal non-citizen residents, have to be
NEVoC registered, with an exact residence address, and
a specific NEVoC email maintained by the
InformArium. National consultations
apply exclusively to citizens. Provincial and municipal consultations may
also apply to non-citizen legal residents. All can be convoked for an easy
and quick consultation, at any of these 3 levels, at a
NEVoC machine of
their convenience, anywhere in the country, or at a
Reinforced Consulate abroad, within
an established timeframe of at least one week, and must vote as a
constitutional duty, lest
bear the consequences in terms of a fine or a taxation penalty. An additional perk
offered by the NEVoC card is that it can be flashed to a special
machine, along with a biometric element (like the right index finger), at any port of entry of the national borders, in order to
facilitate automatic entry into the country with no, or least, formalities,
in order to facilitate the automatic entry of citizens and
Only Legal Immigration. An
EthoCracy is by definition a country with controlled national borders, and
all non-NEVoC travelers must come in through appropriate identity
document verification
independently from the prescriptions of any supra-national structure like
the EU, or other similar non-national authorities, which are all undersigned
with this restriction.
VOTING AS A CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY
Considering the maximum facilitation of the new
NEVoC voting system, not
voting in an EthoCracy is not a crime, but definitely considered an offense,
as an unaccomplished, or unfulfilled, civic duty,
under the National Chart of Rights
and Duties, punishable by a fine
or a tax penalty. Using the appropriate national
NEVoC
electronic voting cards, the related
automation machines in their dedicated physical sites,
makes voting so
easy that there is no excuse for not doing it, and
it is required as a
constitutional duty, and not granted as just a right.
In an EthoCracy, citizens do not only have rights, but also duties
under the National Chart of Rights
and Duties. In fact, voting is a right from age 15, but definitely
a duty at age 18, normally during or after completing the
PPS (Patriotic Paramilitary Service). Ensuring that the national
community has the best possible government, or at least that it has a
government managing the country as the majority wants it, because it could
only be Voted at Absolute Majority, is a
duty of each citizen wanting to have, and to maintain, the citizenship of
that country. It is certainly so in an EthoCracy. The new requirements of the improved
Legislative Power
(through its new ExpertArium)
and the improved Opposition Power (through
its new OppositArium)
also require
that citizens all vote at each election and at each yearly
Confirmation of
Government Performance. Most of the other improvements brought in by an
EthoCracy in this package of 30 reforms (like:
Full
Transparency and accountability of the Executive and Judicative Powers,
and the Four-Way Binding
Electoral Program etc.) also impose
such a voting duty requirement. In other words, not voting without justification is an
unaccomplished constitutional duty of the citizen, literally an offense under the civil
code, and the subject of a penalty: a fine or an automatic increase of 5% on all
annual income taxes of that citizen. With the
NEVoC system, all citizens can vote most easily,
and must do so, even abroad, at their national
Reinforced Consulates equipped
with NEVoC, if and when required.
NON-VOTING AS AN INFRACTION
After each election NEVoC compiles the
list of citizens who have not voted, to be integrated to the database of the
GinfonArium (part of the new
Informative Power) and to the
CorrectivArium, for verification, publication
as True Information, and
eventual communication to either the police office for a fine, or to the
appropriate tax office for the application of an administrative
penalty of 5% increase in taxation, except in cases of justification to the
CorrectivArium for the non-voting offense,
within seven weeks of the elections, due to sickness, travelling abroad in non
NEVoC areas,
or other legitimate impossibility to vote.
EMULATION OF ANCIENT DIRECT DEMOCRACY AND MERITOCRACY
Finally, the
voting duty and the new NEVoC system allows contemporary democracies to
emulate the original idea of democracy, as conceived by its inventor,
Ancient-Greece, and to make it the combination of a
Direct Democracy Pushed to its
Limits, and hopefully a Meritocracy as
much as possible, as opposed to a distant representative democracy. This
allows citizens to exercise their decision power more directly and, by the
same token, to eliminate as much as possible the intermediaries, like
traditional parliamentarians, who, in
exercising their representational role, too often to their own personal
advantage, are commonly the source of gross negligence and worst political corruption.
EXCLUSIONS FROM THE RIGHT TO VOTE
As a last point, as mentioned in the other EthoCratic reform about the
National Charter of Rights and Duties,
some people living in an EthoCracy might have their
right to vote excluded from
them, temporarily or permanently, at one, or more, or all levels.
LOST NEVoC AND RATAC
The word RATAC
means government Records Accessible To
All Citizens. Not
denouncing immediately a lost
NEVoC is a
serious criminal offense, and circulating without it is another serious
offense, albeit less serious. In another reform about
Full Government Transparency,
we explain that, in principle, all government records, of budget transactions
of any size, in and out, and documents of any kind, are all accessible
read-only by all citizen. This access is granted through a logon to the new
InformArium website, with one's
personal
NEVoC data, along with a PIN, similar to the
most secure credit cards logon; The
InformArium checks instantly the
validity of the
NEVoC. If it is still
valid, the citizen is immediately granted
RATAC access.
→ REFORM 02/30
A Syntagma as Opposed to a Constitution, and With
5 State Powers
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The word 'Syntagma', in Ancient-Greek, means "constitutional
arrangement". The constitution of an EthoCracy is so different from
what we have in most western countries at the moment, that it is appropriate
to change its name. It is thus called a
Syntagma, instead of a Constitution.
The Syntagma proper is very short, and expresses, only and exclusively, some
fundamental principles to be respected in all behavior and eventual legislation of the
EthoCracy, principles and values that cannot be changed except through a
majority of 3/4 of the vote of a dedicated
NEVoC referendum. That includes a
new and quite revolutionary system of separation of powers that is divided
in 5, and not in 3 anymore. Then, as seen explicitly in another
reform, the Syntagma has a Constitutional
Annex, called the
Fundamental PhiloEcoSophical Law (FPL). That part of the constitutional
arrangement can be changed with a 2/3 majority vote in a dedicated
NEVoC referendum. The process of
Amending Constitutional Law
is described further down in more details. That
FPL in turn, among many
other things, also includes all the provisions of what is normally called
the National Charter of Human Rights
and Duties,
and these national provisions have an absolute
priority over any other foreign, international or universal charter that the
country might want to subscribe to. In addition, and this is quite a
novelty, unique of an EthoCracy, this national charter has an unusual final clause that makes it
possible that some of these rights might be suspended temporarily, from
specific people, in specific circumstances, until some conditions are met on
their part. This unusual provision reflects the spirit of an EthoCracy in
which the meritocratic system gives citizens duties
to fulfill, as much as rights to enjoy, with the
two being closely intertwined: without fulfilling some duties, one may
temporarily not
be able to enjoy all of his rights, even some fundamental ones.
SEPARATION
AND TEAM WORK OF
5 STATE POWERS CHECKED BY REAL PEOPLE'S POWER
The theory of
Separation of Powers
developed in the 18th century in its modern form, mainly by
Montesquieu,
includes three separate branches of State Power, traditionally called: the
Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial. These 3 powers are intended to
be completely independent from each other, with none of them having more power than
the 2 others, and all 3 existing in perfect balance and independence from
each other. This is in
fact a model of state governance that originated in Ancient-Greece, was
adopted, and further developed, by the ancient Roman Republic, and then spread around the
world as the so-called
“Trias Politica”,
that we find ourselves in, today.
In the ancient times, the mass media, or more appropriately the world of
technological mass information accessible to all instantly, did not yet exist, and consequently
could not have been considered as a possible State Power. However, in our contemporary
world, the means of mass information have acquired such a real powe
r that it is at least as
important as any of the three other traditional State Powers of the
Trias Politica.
Consequently, this new mass information power cannot be left entirely into private hands, and has to
become a new State Power but, obviously, only in terms of
True Information, or as the
most honest possible public information, at the service of all citizens, and without preventing a
free parallel private media system existing for private purposes. This modern
development, and the need to create a public system of
True Information, forces us
in a "de facto”
situation of “Tesseras
Politica” ('Tesseras' meaning '4' in Ancient Greek, just like 'Trias'
meant '3' in Montesquieu's classification, and, as seen below, 'Pentas' will mean '5', because an
accomplished EthoCracy is really a "Pentas Politica").
Most modern constitutions have not yet adapted to this
new contemporary
mass information reality that only came into existence after
Montesquieu. Consequently this 4th
State Power of public
True Information does not yet
exist, or exists only partially, and wrongly only in private hands at the moment, and in a wild way, being
regulated in a mercantilist way, through subsidiary laws influenced by
lobbies with special interests, as opposed to pure
True Information. This new
power must be
brought into a
constitutional arrangement that brings it in balance with
the other State Powers. EthoCracy does adapt itself fully to this new
mass information reality
and places, as seen below, a brand new
Informative Power
in its constitutional arrangement, but only at the service
of public True Information. To show its sharp departure from the
Trias Politica status quo, an EthoCracy is said to have
not a
Constitution, but a
Syntagma (a name
that really means a “Constitutional arrangement of the state” in Ancient Greek).
To be ethocratic, such
Syntagma
should then include at least four, and not three, State Powers, in its own theory
and practice of Separation of Powers: the
Executive,
the Legislative, the
Judicative and the new
Informative
powers.
In fact, in Ancient-Greece, their meritocratic democracy, at its best time, was so
open and so
direct (only participative instead of representative) that, for all practical purposes, their constitutional arrangement
was really, in practice, a Tesseras Politica, and not a Trias Politica,
even if it was not mentioned explicitly in this manner and the mass media did
not yet exist. They had no
representational system, but a direct democracy, and all government information was always
directly
discussed, by all interested persons, in their fully open assembly, in an open-air public place,
talking in front of all citizens, and with all citizens able to
express freely their opinions. This
open and direct information reality constituted de-facto the 4th State Power that we call today,
in an EthoCracy, the Informative Power. But
an accomplished EthoCracy is even a
Pentas
Politica, including a 5th power, the
Corrective
Power, that merges the most vital constitutional responsibilities and
security aspects of two other national forces: the police force, and
the military forces of the country, and absorbs one aspect of the
traditional judicial power under its separate wing: the Constitutional Court
of the Judicial Power. In short, an EthoCracy
promotes
two subsidiary national forces
(Information and Police/Military) to two new State Power : the new
Informative Power, and the
new Corrective Power. As such they form
two new State Powers, that become 5 instead of 3, forming a
Pentas
Politica instead of the traditional Trias Politica. They are
all independent from each other, but also collaborate as required under
the constitution and the guidance of the new
LeaderArium. On the other hand, if an
EthoCracy promoted two national forces to two new State Powers, it also somehow
demotes partially two of the traditional
State Powers, in
order to render itself more efficient, and they are the Legislative Power
and the Judicial Power. The
ethocratic Legislative Power is heavily dominated by the Executive Power,
but the danger that may result from this partial submission of the
Legislative Power exists only in appearance as, in fact, the new Executive
Power is a new, and real,
People's Power, through the combined interplay of a few other
powerful ethocratic reforms, like the duty to
vote under the NEVoC system,
the related elections only at Full
Majority, and only at
National Level, the
Direct Democracy Pushed To Its Limits, in a most comprehensive
OppositArium, and in particular the fully
Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program of an elected President, acting within the tight parameters
of a
NoNoNo Government System, and under the
strict requirements of
RATAC budgets,
whereby the executive President
cannot propose, during his mandate, any new
legislation, in particular in relation to any new taxation, that has not been planned for explicitly
in his electoral program, subject to his immediate resignation, after
confirmation of non compliance to his program, by the new
CorrectivArium in collaboration with
the True Information
provided by
the new InformArium.
In turn, the partial demotion of the traditional judicial power is not
really a demotion, but a kind of appendectomy, as the removal of one of its
present components, the Constitutional Court, from under its wing, and its
placement under the wing of the new Corrective Power, in order to render
that highest court more independent from the lower levels of Justice that
have nothing or little to do with pure constitutional issues, and place it
more properly under the supervision of a new State Power that has everything
to do with the respect of the constitution. This split also protects the new
constitutional court from undue political influence within the judicial
system of the country, in particular at its highest level. The Minister of
Justice of the ExecArium has
inspection and corrective rights over the judicial system administered by
the JudicArium, and the Head
Corrector has inspection and corrective rights over the Constitutional Court
supervised by the
CorrectivArium.
Montesquieu
(1689-1755), with his Theory of Separation of Power, did something good to
resolve the main problems of the harmonization of management power within
a country, but mainly from the point of view of the elites of his time, to
which he himself belonged. He could sense, because of the abuse and misuse
of power, the coming of the French
Revolution (1789) and probably wanted to avoid the worst. But he did not go
far enough, in his theory, in order to create a more effective
People's
Power, and the revolution became unavoidable some 30 years after his death.
On the other hand, with the poor level of education of most common people at
his time, and the lack of modern technology to help his project, this is
probably as much as anyone could do, and a good first step
for which we should all be grateful for the improvement of the management of the
political power.
ETHOCRACY MEANS REAL PEOPLE'S POWER OVER A POWERFUL
PRESIDENT
Some 250 years after the death of Montesquieu, and with the new technology
available today, it is time to make the necessary second step
to finally transform our system of government into a real People's Power
but, by the same token, a meritocratic system of People's Power. On the one
hand, a real
People's Power without merit would only lead to a demagogic disaster. On the
other hand, without proper checks and balance, People's Power can only lead
to a tyranny, and the worst type of tyranny, under the fake cover of law and
justice. As Montesquieu himself well said:
“There is no crueler
tyranny
than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of
justice.” This is the second step that the
new Pentas Politica of the
EthoCracy wants to achieve: add more merit and more balance in State Powers.
Thus the necessary passage from Montesquieu Trias Politica (the
first step) to the Pentas Politica (the second step) of EthoCracy.
This second step will finally achieve what the first step could not do,
because it was too early in history, but was meant to do, and that, finally,
can be done today. It is not an easy change, because it disturbs too many
established interests of the politically correct, but it can be
done, with a bit of courage, if we spread the appropriate consciousness that
will make a critical mass of people realize that real meritocratic People's
Power is possible through an accomplished EthoCracy. Only with EthoCracy and its
Pentas Politica,
along with holistic
EthoPlasìn
education, can a country finally have
real People's Power, with merit and balance, a power that can never, any more, be flagrantly
contradicted, or violated with impunity, by any institution or level of
government, and a political power that is also finally exerted by a new kind of real
meritocratic elite: not a pseudo elite coming from the top, based on money or family
inheritance, but an elite coming from the bottom, extracted from the most
deserving people, through the best form of national holistic education, the
EthoPlasìn education, and the best principles
of Meritocracy applied to all
aspects the civic life. With EthoPlasìn holistic education and EthoCracy,
let alone also EthoGloso, the
political power can finally become a real
People's Power, and one
administered by the most capable, deserving, and meritorious citizens,
like never before in the history of humanity.
The strangest thing
however, about this constitutional Pentas Politica, is that, in its
absolute majority, the
Herd is in Command of the
Shepherd Dog and not, as usual, the opposite, for the rules
that the corrective dog itself makes sure
every sheep respects regarding their proper environmental (constitutional) behavior:
the herd (NEVoC voters) commands
the shepherd dog (CorrectivArium)
that commands the sheep, and the shepherd himself (ExecArium
government) can more often relax, and more easily enjoy peacefully, the
beauty and harmony of the environment (EthoCracy constitutional
arrangement and corresponding good social decorum).
In short, with the Pentas
Politica of an EthoCracy, we have an executive President who is more
powerful than probably in any other country in the whole history of
democracy but, only within the limits of his
Fully Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program and his constitutional form of
NoNoNo Government. Within these limits, he
can, and he must, proceed efficiently and practically undisturbed, like
never before. Outside these limits, this unusually powerful President is in
fact totally powerless as it is the People's Power that approved the limits
at absolute majority, through the binding electoral program, and effectively
commands behind the scene, within and without the limits. Even the
LeaderArium
has no more power than the coordination of these limits imposed by
the People's Power. And its power is the
NEVoC
Power, assisted by the
Fully Four-Way Binding
Electoral Program Power, and the
NoNoNo Government Power.
Over that People's
Power, there is simply no power
(thus the nice 'chasing fish' symbol of real
People's Power above to the right).
And not even the joint efforts of the
ExecArium and the
LeaderArium
could ever decide simple things, like new taxes or new legislation,
or difficult ones, like declaring war. Only People's NEVoC Power could do it.
In light of
all the above, here are
the 5 powers of the Pentas Politica of an EthoCracy
described briefly:
PENTAS POLITICA
AS MERITOCRATIC PEOPLE'S POWER
1) Executive Power (ExecArium) -
An EthoCracy under its Syntagma has, really, an "Executing"
power as opposed
to an "Executive" power. It is called the ExecArium. With the most easy, quick,
cheap and efficient NEVoC voting system in place, the
"Executive
Power" of an EthoCracy really belongs to the voters themselves, or to
the people, and there remains
essentially only an "Executing Power" in the hands of the government.
Elected presidents and ministers must execute the specific items
of a Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program voted by an Absolute
Majority of voters, or items of an ad-hoc
NEVoC referendum, and
not invent themselves any new plans of action of
their own creation, while on duty, in terms of law or taxation, for the management of the country. Even in cases of
emergency, the "executing" power can still stand in most cases, because a
NEVoC ad-hoc
consultation can be held most efficiently in a matter of days, even hours if
need be. In cases of
"immediate emergency", or a natural catastrophe, an important decision taken preemptively, with the
concurrence of the LeaderArium, can exceptionally be confirmed
retroactively through a special ad-hoc NEVoC, in a matter of days, and, if not confirmed, the Prime Minister
must cancel the urgent measure immediately or, resign immediately. Certain decisions, like all the ones involving taxation
or laws, can only be
taken as an explicit item of a
Four-Way Electoral Program of a full election, and not through any
ad-hoc
NEVoC consultation. A leader of an EthoCracy, as its President, is a real
unequivocal executing leader, with full control of the executing power,
elected as such with his own name, face, program and a team of ministers
equally well known in advance, including the chosen prime minister, as part of
the electoral program and contest. Only a strong presidential system can reflect this
essential EthoCratic requirement of an executing power
holding firmly and stably the reins of power, and using
power to lead the country in the right direction,
that is in, and only in, the direction chosen by the voters, on the basis of a clearly established
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program
or a NEVoC referendum. The two beautiful
Ancient-Greece sculptures of the Charioteers of Delphi to the left, well
commanded by a strong and competent Enioxos, are the symbols
of this
kind of power controlled by the voters of a direct democracy. As such, an
EthoCratic President is capable of running a government of his complete
trust, and complete dominance, capable of dismissing or replacing any of his ministers at
will, at any time, and without discussion, nor justification, in order to achieve
most efficiently the
implementation of a Four-Way
Binding Electoral Program. An elected EthoCratic President
is fully in charge, for as long as he is
confirmed by the Yearly Confirmation
Process during any one of the following 5
years, or by a brand new general election that becomes mandatory after maximum 5 years. In the meantime, except in cases of
clear treason or flagrant corruption, the President and his Prime Minister (not
necessarily the ministers) enjoy full immunity.
Any
eventual judicial trial against them has to be postponed after the expiration of their last confirmed mandate. In the case of the ministers, the President,
on the recommendation of his Prime Minister,
has the
choice to maintain their immunity during mandate, or to request their
resignation, and let them be submitted to trial immediately. Any minister,
elected as part of the team of the President, who changes political
party affiliation during his mandate (thus changes the
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program
on which he was elected), must resign automatically and immediately, and wait for a
new general election for a new chance to become reelected on the basis of another
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. Such minister
can be replaced immediately by the President with another candidate of his
choice but, if his name is not one of the candidates from the list presented
before election, this nomination is subject to explicit confirmation by the yearly electronic
Confirmation Process or an ad-hoc
NEVoC consultation. The President always has the prerogative
of forcing one of his minister to resign immediately, but again, he has to face a reconfirmation of
his mandate in explicit relation to his new ministers
at the next Yearly Confirmation
Process. The President cannot nominate judges of the
JudicArium, nor
Correctors of the
CorrectivArium, as these are nominated by the
LeaderArium, in collaboration with
the professional association of these State powers, and the
InformArium. He appoints however
the head of the LegisArium along
with the first 25 experts (of 100) of the ExpertArium.
He also appoints the head of the
InformArium in concurrence with
the
LeaderArium and the Ombudsman. The
Ombudsman in turn is appointed in full concurrence of all State powers,
including the
LeaderArium. The
LeaderArium itself is composed of
all ex presidents, ex prime ministers and ex Governors who are willing to
participate, and they nominate their own leader.
2) Legislative Power
(LegisArium)
- An EthoCracy, under its Syntagma, has a new kind of expert Legislative
Power, more efficient than ever, and not disturbed by any kind of lobby. It
is called the LegisArium. The parliament room in which they discuss and
formulate legislation is called an ExpertArium. The word
ExpertArium basically
means a Parliament house of
Experts. It is an improved
Legislating Power with the additional benefit of being
fully protected from the corrupting influence of political lobbyists. Just
like the elected government is an "executing" power, as opposed to an
"executive" power, the ExpertArium is really only a "legislating"
power, and not a
"legislative" power: it has no power of creativity to
invent new laws
during its mandate, and can only put into law the various specific elements
of its winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program that have
to be dealt with through new legislation. In an EthoCracy, no more parliamentarians exist as we know them
today. Representational politicians, in the form of traditional
parliamentarians, were maybe useful before the advent of the current millennium
communications technology, but they are outdated today, just like the
Outdated Traditional
Ambassadors talked about in another reform. In an EthoCracy, electors only elect a
President (with his
explicitly chosen team of Ministers and candidate Governors). No traditional parliamentarians are elected nor necessary. Most of
them in any case, as we know them today, are totally incompetent, for the
formulation of new legislation, and their role is replaced by a slim team of
100 experts (seats) confronting themselves with interested citizens in the formulation
of new legislation. The first quarter (25) of these experts is chosen by the
Prime Minister of the elected President under their full
responsibility. Some may work full time under contract for
their full mandate, while others are named on an ad-hoc basis, depending
on the legislation being discussed. Another quarter (25) is reserved seats for
private journalists
with at least 10 years of experience in investigative journalism or, as an
alternative, by
external experts, journalists or not, nominated by the HQ of prominent
newspapers. As there can be only 25 such representatives, the association of
journalists decides which newspaper will provide candidates in relation
to what legislation. Their presence can vary, depending on the
legislation being discussed,
and their interest in its formulation. The last half (50) are seats reserved for
expert citizens,
representing various non-journalistic pressure groups, on the subjects of the scheduled agenda being
discussed, but all with a known expertise
in the field of the
legislation being discussed, as certified by the groups they represent. All
traditional lobbies for example,
even presumable experts in their field of interest, are
totally prohibited from operating as
traditional lobbyists, in relation to government
officials, if not exclusively and openly through these 50 seats of the new
ExpertArium, and openly under national TV broadcasting, subject to severe criminal penalty
(of course, as citizens, "lobbyists" can also register to intervene in
the OppositArium, the new opposition, and public opinion institution, replacing the traditional Senate). These last two categories (75) travel to the parliament at the
expense of the people they represent, or their own, and can be paid a small per diem for
the days of their
presence. The journalists leaving free seats can be replaced by representatives
of other pressure groups, and vice versa. Remaining seats (over the 100 "Experts") are freely available in
priority to observers from the
various ministries concerned with the legislation being discussed and, on a
subsidiary basis, to private interested citizens. Like never before, private journalists have the
opportunity to become better watchdogs of democracy,
but any interested citizen also has a better chance to play
more proactively that important role as an expert (let alone their eventual
proactive role in the new OppositArium). The Prime Minister schedules a project of law, publishing
it for discussion
at least one month in advance. Interested journalist (up to 25), or representatives of
pressure groups (up to 50) also schedule themselves for discussing them, on a first
come first serve basis, but not later than 3 days before the debate.
Additional journalists can fill in the seats left open by the 50
representatives of pressure groups, and vice versa, to be decided not later than 2 days before the debate.
Otherwise they can also sit in as observers if there are any slots
available over the 100 quota of active expert participants. Discussions take place on any
project from one to maximum five working days, with all the suggested
amendments being argued and registered by the 25 government experts. The 25
government experts then pass on the result of these discussions, with
their own recommendations, to the stable expert employees of the relevant
ministries, for the final formulation of the new legislation to be signed by the
Prime
Minister, in the form of a decree within one month maximum, and by the
President in the form of new legislation in the following week. Even if the
Experts do not vote, their
recommendations are 'politically' important, as the government cannot just
ignore them or not take them into consideration if they represent the
opinions of the majority, but they are not binding. The government
can still
ignore them and decide to go its own way, as long as "its way" corresponds to its
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program, subject to be confirmed, or not
confirmed, by the Yearly Confirmation
Process. In that process, there is
no need for any majority vote of any kind, nor a tour of
majority approval
of the formulated legislation in two different parliamentary chambers. The only things the ExpertArium
possibly votes on, seeking a majority of 2/3 to do so, at the discretion of the
Governor are three: 1) to hold a NEVoC referendum on
a specific subject if the Prime Minister signed new legislation ignoring the
opposition of obviously the great majority of the ExpertArium or flagrantly contravening
the Four-Way binding Electoral
Program; 2) to request a consultation to the
constitutional court in highly contested legislation from a constitutional
point of view; 3) to make an amendment to the
constitutional annex, the FPL
(with a 2/3 vote), or to the
Syntagma constitution itself
(with a 3/4 vote in this case), as per details mentioned
in the FPL Reform. With an
ExpertArium, the interests of the citizens are better protected, because of the greater possibility of their direct
involvement in the formulation of the legislation, and the other controlling
factors mentioned in other separate reforms, like the
Full Transparency, the easy electronic
Annual Confirmation of Governments, the involvement of the
InformArium with
powerful information, and the possibility of
NEVoC Referenda at Will. All legislation
is
approved much more quickly and efficiently than now, let alone at much lower
costs, and its constitutionality can still be perfectly protected through
the normal involvement of the constitutional court whenever required. In
addition to the 100 seats of Experts in the
ExpertArium, there are another 100 seats for
observers, and 50 of those are usually reserved for the representatives of the political
parties as observers. The rest is for other general
observers, or visiting citizens, at the discretion of the Governor. The maximum total seats occupied in the ExpertArium
is thus 200 (like in the new OppositArium). Members of the
ExpertArium
are called
Expertarians.
3) Judicative Power
(JudicArium)
- In EthoCracy under its
Syntagma, the Judicial Power is
called Judicative, in
that it is fully accountable for mistakes, absolutely non political, and can
only render justice on the basis of existing laws, without applying any
subjective reservations or circumstantial considerations to increase or
decrease a penalty. Judges operate
with the outmost degree of neutrality, as representatives of a "Blind Justice",
like the symbol to the left. They
can
only apply existing laws to the letter, without trying to give them any
interpretation. In case of doubt, the interpretation of the law is the
exclusive competence of the LeaderArium as a first step, and the Constitution
al Court
as a second step if necessary. The constitutional court however is no more
within its own State Power, but under the new State Power of the
CorrectivArium. Judges can consult the
LeaderArium
at their will and convenience. The ExpertArium
can also do the same but mostly to call for help in formulating, or
reformulating, a law in a way that would avoid the probable need of
a future interpretation if enacted in its present draft form. In relation to the
Executing Power, magistrates of
the Judicial Power can certainly
assess instances of claimed corruption. However, even if the facts appear serious infractions to the law, and unless
the infraction is a flagrant act of treason or corruption with at least
three
direct witness, the President and his Prime Minister are immune to any
trial until the end of their electoral mandates.
Contrary to magistrates, the ExecArium is elected and must be in charge,
undisturbed as much as possible, until the next
Yearly Confirmation of their
mandate or a new election. In turn, to
balance fairly the evaluation of the executing power by the judicative power,
let alone by the NEVoC People, the executing power, through its minister of
justice, also has the right to evaluate the operations and
effectiveness of judicial officials, based on the number of their mistakes
and, after having published all the relevant information through the
InformArium, and obtained the agreement of the
LeaderArium, propose legislation to
counteract their behavior, or to punish or dismiss a clearly incompetent
judicial official (The new
CorrectivArium has similar powers of inspection and punishment
regarding serious mistakes of the Constitutional Court). In EthoCracy, judicial officials have to be completely
and officially a-political in their behavior: no formal affiliation to any
political party, nor any activity, nor public declaration of any relevant public
influence, on the activities of the Executing or Legislating powers, as a
strict condition of their employment contract, and of their stay in function,
subject to immediate dismissal under the criminal code. Magistrates
abandoning the judicial career cannot be allowed, under the FPL, to be a candidate in any
presidential election for at least 5 years, or to be candidate Governors for
at least 1 years. To counter-balance, all politicians leaving politics
cannot become a judicial official for at least 5 years. Judges are also
responsible for their mistakes or their irresponsible actions or inactions
in front of third parties, just like any other type of professionals, be it
a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. The new
OppositArium and
InformArium can also be the triggers for the investigation and
condemnation of incompetent, corrupted, or flagrantly unfair
magistrates according to a majority of the public opinion. In an EthoCracy,
magistrates have a special additional function: to assess the non-compliance
of the Executing Power to its
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. Judges cannot however take
the initiative in this assessment. Only the
ExpertArium can request such
assessment from the judicial system, and only after it has obtained the
concurrence of the LeaderArium. In that specific case, the temporary
immunity of the President does not exist and the trial exceptionally takes
place immediately, during the mandate of the President, while the decision
of the court is effective immediately: if the non-compliance is established,
the President has to resign immediately. In case of conflict between powers,
one of the 3 most senior judges of the constitutional court, not involved
himself in the controversy, can be requested by the Ombudsman, after
consultation and concurrence with the LeaderArium, to review the case and
take a final and non appealable decision.
>> Nomination of Judges. To
ensure full impartiality of all judges, and their secure non-political
affiliation, and a-political behavior, they are appointed by a joint
promotion board of the National Association of Magistrates (NAM)
and the LeaderArium, after the InformArium
has had a chance to publish all possible
True Information on their
private life and careers so far. Lower magistrates are promoted and
nominated by the NAM exclusively, but also after having given the
InformArium to publish all
True Information on them.
>> Free Private Justice Helping
Public Justice and Proper Tax Collection. In an EthoCracy, there is also a
form of private Justice, managed by retired judges and lawyers, called
PJM (Private
Justice
Mediator) that supplements public Justice while
helping to resolve taxation and family conflicts. This is the subject of a separate reform.
PJM
adjudications basically apply only to conflicts between two physical persons
who have paid regular VAT on an interpersonal contract, or on the provision
of personal services from a free independent professional. The advantages
are many, in terms of time and money, for the persons involved, the tax
payers, the PJMs and society in general.
4) Informative Power (InformArium)
- This is the brand new 4th constitutional state power of the
Syntagma of an
EthoCracy, added to the traditional 3 of the Theory of Separation of Power.
Over and above its newness, it is also the most useful one to the population
in general, as it helps all and every single citizens to take
decisions on the basis of True Information, as much as humanly
possible, when voting or taking other important actions or decisions. This 4th constitutional power is being added to the improved,
Executive, Legislative and Judicative
powers of this package, with the creation and help of three new agencies: the
GinfonArium, the
VinfonArium and the
CidArium. The GinfonArium has a
new kind of professionals called Ginfonalists.
The VinfonArium in turn works similarly with Vinfonalists. The
InformArium also has a third group of professionals, the Cidalists,
abbreviated as CID (Civitas Interest Defender), forming a CidArium,
providing True Information on the respect of the
FPL by
all private companies or corporations.
The
InformArium, is the Cerberus (Three-Headed Watchdog) of democracy:
1st HEAD: The GinfonArium that stands for:
Government Information
National Arium.
It works with the new Ginfonalist
professionals, watching over
Government, as Analysts/journalists, for True Information
made available to all citizens.
2nd HEAD: The VinfonArium that stands for:
Valuable Information
National Arium.
It works with the new Vinfonalist
professionals, watching over private activity for valuable
True Information made
available to all citizens.
3rd HEAD: The
CidArium that stands for:
Civitas
Interest Defender
Arium.
It works with the new Cidalist
professionals, watching specifically over big companies and corporations for
True Information regarding their working for the good of the country,
over and above their own good, in order for them to get the approval of the regular renewals of their
compulsory national business charter.
>>
The
InformArium has nothing to do with
Censorship. This Three-Headed
Cerberus Watchdog has
to do only with True Information and consequently with the
Meritocratic Competition that stems from it. It certainly never applies preemptive censorship of any kind,
on anything nor on anybody. It has only to do with a new constitutional
FTL responsibility of publishing
and divulgating, as much as humanly possible,
only and all
True Information
within the confines of an EthoCratic country, for all citizens to enjoy, and
to use in order to take their best decisions, regarding all aspects of their lives.
The
InformArium never
judges, like courts of justice do, but only informs,
including about the Judicative Power. It never takes new decisions,
like the government does, but only informs,
including about the decisions of the Executive Power. It never
proposes legislation, like the ExpertArium does, but only informs, including about the projects and realizations of the
Legislative Power. It never takes initiatives, like private
businessmen or corporations do, but only informs,
including about the nature and quality of these business initiatives for the good of
the country. It only informs, and informs well, as well as possible, as the best source of
True
Information in the EthoCracy. And it does it completely independently
from the 3 other traditional powers of the state, like a powerful protective
Cerberus dog. Consequently, on the basis of that
useful True Information, it also encourages best meritocratic
competition between all people and institutions of both the private and the
public sectors of the country, giving people a new and immense
Informative Power to take
their best decisions regarding all aspects of their lives. With this new
Informative Power, voters in particular cannot be cheated, misinformed, or
fouled anymore, let alone fall victims of fraudulently ingenuous "dizinformazia", certainly much less than ever before in the long history of
democracy.
>> Under the
FPL,
True
Information is always publishable without penalty.
True Information
is True Information,
is True
Information! Consequently,
once made public, it cannot,
ever, on the basis of the constitution, be considered defamation, racism, hate
speech, privacy
violation, nor
offensive treatment, on the part of anybody. This
is quite a constitutional revolution. This is a fundamental new way to think
our society. If the information is really
True Information, it
is always automatically publishable
without penalty, as a constitutional
duty, for the benefit of all citizens, to be considered
and used openly by all of them, in order to take their best decisions
regarding any aspect of their lives. This right of free publication however
excludes the additional right of a harassing repetitious exploitation of the
True Information for clear primary reasons of private profit
by commercial means of mass-media. On the other hand, it is supplemented by the new
right of Freedom Of Opinion
included in the national ethocratic
National Charter of Rights and Duties in relation to the Internet in particular.
>> Privacy protection is an
entirely private matter. Under an EthoCracy, those who want their
privacy protected must take the necessary measures to protect it perfectly
themselves, whichever way they wish or can, but cannot
sue a journalist (nor a ginfonalist, nor a vinfonalist, nor a cidalist, nor a judge of course) who brings true facts out,
as
True Information,
through the
InformArium, even if these facts can be picked up and
republished by the mass-media.
This
full cross-checked transparency of True Information
of the InformArium might occasionally be tough
on some people, but it is a
small price to pay, for citizens in general, compared to what they all have
to pay in the current situation,
where most of the information is meanly filtered by lobbies, often transformed into
pure "Disinformazia", protects only the
powerful elites that journalists or their patrons have an interest to protect, and prevent
the citizens in general to form themselves a just opinion, based on
True Information, in taking decisions in relation
to their co-citizens, their administrators, and their politicians,
let alone
their life plans, the management of their country, the management of
their public money being spent at home and abroad, the management of their
food or other services and utilities provided by independent professionals
or corporations.
>>
Ginfonalists: Their role is comparable to a combination of
the practical work of an investigative journalist
and a magistrate. Their role is essentially to find, analyze, and bring to light government
information in such a way that all citizens will always have the best possible
True
Information at their disposal, in particular at the time of an
election, whatever embarrassing this may be for the
government, at any level of any of its structures of power. They come under
a brand new autonomous authority (a new agency of the Informative Power at the hierarchical level of the Constitutional
Tribunal on the Judicative side) called the GinfonArium. Contrary to ordinary journalists,
ginfonalists
specialize in general government information, but in particular in public
money information: how, how much, and where, and to whom, it is being spent and how it is
being used. They also keep a special investigative eye on public national money
being contributed to external non-national entities, like for example the UN
or the UE, and all NEIO
entities. If these external bodies refuse to collaborate transparently with them, they
have the constitutional power to suspend, or stop, all future government contributions to them
until decided otherwise. Ginfonalists provide
government activity information in two ways: first in unsolicited ways, informing
proactively the
public with True Information, at all times, and in the best way
possible, and second, in solicited ways when answering requests from
citizens or national legal entities or journalists. They never answer questions
directly to
any external non-national entities. The government
is also constitutionally forced to collaborate fully with the GinfonArium in
two ways. First they have to open all files to their
investigative work, even in relation to confidential material, just like
they would have to do with investigative judges.
Second, all government bodies are forced to proactively provide
True
Information to the
GinfonArium, regularly, without waiting
for being requested to do so, on the particulars of
each penny they spend. Under the Syntagma, only a minimal amount of secret material can be excluded
from the work of ginfonalists, just like from judges, and only for as long as strictly needed for the success of
very few
secret operations. Under the new Syntagma, just like judges are independent from the
government, the ginfonalists are also independent from the government.
Nevertheless, just like tribunals, they also have to be independent from
lobbies and private interests that could disturb their constitutional
responsibility to provide a just and independent service of
True
Information.
>>
Vinfonalists: Their role
is to do what ginfonalists do, but in relation to private activity this time, as
opposed to government activity. Their role is to provide all citizens with
valuable True Information with regards to activities like
corporations, independent professionals, the mass-media etc. The role of the
vinfonalists is also facilitated under the Syntagma, as under the
FPL, all
the private entities that they screen for
True Information are not anymore just purely private,
but
entities with an additional constitutional public responsibility to provide
True
Information about their activities, in order to demonstrate they work
for the good of the country, and to justify the renewal of their charter or
working license. All companies producing commercial products also have to
demonstrate to the VinfonArium that they are producing under the
criteria of best NAGCO
(NAtional Goodness Code). In addition to serving their legitimate private
interests, they are also at the service of
True
Information, for the benefit of all
citizens, and of the various powers of the state, just like Justice is. Journalist,
ginfonalists and Vinfonalists, while working fully independently, like judges, must constitutionally work for a
just and True Information, without any external or internal influence of any kind.
Private journalists and private mass-media found to provide serious Non-True Information can be suspended, temporarily or permanently, from operating within the
country.
>> Cidalists: the role of a
CID is closely related to the
FPL of the Syntagma, and is explained in
details in the reform called A Fundamental PhiloEcoSophical
Law. The Cidalists are however dependents of the
InformArium. They
ensure the full respect of the FPL by all private companies, and the full
consideration of all serious FPL externalities,
with FCA (Full
Costs Accounting), even for future generations,
in both projecting and accounting, while developing their projects. As for big corporations having more than 50 employees,
they legally need to have a cidalist on board, full time, working in
full confidentiality from inside the board of direction. Smaller
companies do not have a full time appointee, but a
CID visits them on a
regular basis for the same purposes. As for financial institutions of
all types, or banks of all types, as seen in another reform, they must have
a full time CID on their national board,
but a special one, nominated jointly by both the
InformArium
and the CorrectivArium.
>>The
Revolution of True Information - The
InformArium is a revolution of
the democratic world, often called the Tinfo Revolution (with Tinfo standing
for True INFOrmation,
and Tinfor standing for True
INFOrmation Revolution). It is to be realized that this
new State Informative Power
is
quite a constitutional revolution and, constitutionally, a new way to live.
It is an EthoCratic way to live,
with a 4th constitutional power giving more decision control to each
citizen, as opposed to politicians, bringing best possible meritorious
competitive democracy, and founding the
efficiency and success of EthoCracy.
From this point of view, an EthoCracy is a real "democracy of
information", or "democracy of true information", or a kind of
InfoCracy.
However it does not mean that journalists
become public employees, like the ginfonalists or vinfonalists, nor that the mass-media have to be
nationalized as state entities. The novelty is mainly about the public ginfonalists
and vinfonalists who,
like independent judges, paid by the state, have an explicit
duty to bring out True
Information about the activities of all branches of state power,
including their own, and about the private activity of private entities who
may have a great influence on the wellness of the population in general if
they did not respect the constitutional
NAGCO principle.
By definition these two new kinds of professionals are ideally considered to be absolutely honest and
incorruptible True Information
analysts in relation to government and private business activity. The reverse is also true
about judges in relation to vinfonalists or ginfonalists, let alone
journalists, and their eventual
misbehavior or corruption. With regards to these two new professional categories specifically
(ginfonalists and vinfonalists) judges can proactively investigate their
actions, without waiting for a serious incident or an interested party to
request them to do so, like it is generally the case with other sectors of
professional activity. In case of
conflict between the two sides, as a first level of recourse, ginfonalists
and vinfonalists respond to a board of judges, and judges to a board
of ginfonalists and vinfonalists for a final adjudication. However, both
vinfonalists and ginfonalists have the constitutional duty to bring out
True
Information, and make it public, of whatever source, about whatever activity of both the public
and private sectors. All of them, along with journalists, work for Global True Information within
the country. Under an EthoCracy there are still both public and private newspapers
and TV stations, but all their employees have to work for a
True
Information, for the benefit of all citizens, whoever their employers
are.
>>
NoNoNo Information. Based on the above
True Information Revolution,
and to rival its NoNoNo
Government system, an EthoCracy can also have, through its
InformArium, only a NoNoNo
Information System, with No
hidden data on what the best of science can offer,
No hidden knowledge on all national and world
events, and No hidden agenda on
any plans of the government at any level. Through such system, disinformation,
mercantilism, corruption and dangerous political or business behavior, are rendered very difficult,
if not completely impossible. In this way also, citizens always have the
best possible information at their disposal for taking their best decisions
about both their private and their public lives. This constitutional arrangement
not only inevitably renders hidden corruption and dangerous business behavior extremely difficult,
but in particular it makes
it more difficult than ever before in the history of humanity to use
disinformation to control public opinions in favor of deviating political or
private interests, let alone hidden agendas. The new role of the Cidalists is also vital to ensure all
private companies and corporations respect all
FPL norms and
even consider all
their externalities, even for future generations, without being able to use
faulty information, or a non-full, or non-true-full cost accounting for the
good of the country. In light of the above, and of another ethocratic reform
having to do with the National
Ownership of Natural Resources, one of the consequences of this new constitutional
arrangement, is that foreign international corporations cannot own any national
newspaper, TV or other national mass-media, except on a minority basis. This does not prevent
collaboration of national mass-media with foreign mass media, but all this
collaboration must come under the responsibility of the national part, and
the authority of the national
GinfonArium or the
VinfonArium in order to ensure that only
True Information is spread,
as much as possible, around the
country. All foreign information coming in through the Internet or
international TV stations must always be identified explicitly, and
constantly, as "Foreign Non-InformArium-Competence
Information" during reception and circulation. Foreign printed press imported in
the country must be stamped in the same manner, at the top of their front
page, or on an added front label.
Respecting this simple norm of transparency, foreign press, media and books can be received and/or circulate
freely within the EthoCratic country.
The
InformArium has nevertheless the right to make controls
retroactively on foreign information that entered the country and possibly take legal or restrictive
actions against producers, importers and distributers, of what will be
blatantly considered not
True Information.
At its discretion, or on the denunciation of some source, it will act in the
same retroactive manner with all private books being published by private
national citizens or publishing houses. As a last point clarified in another reform
about Political Parties, the
InformArium publishes
the names of the persons frequenting the premises of political parties, but
only as True Information,
without attempting any interpretation on the purpose of the visits, for the
sole benefit of the persons who contributed money to these parties.
True Information
is non only the power and source of best democracy, but the
very foundation of an EthoCracy, as well expressed by the graphical
label in big red letters up to the left.
>>
More
Clarifications about
TV Stations.
Public TV stations come under the authority of the
InformArium and, in an
EthoCracy, can only be 2 of them, competing with each other for the quality
of their programs. There is a third one, at the exclusive service of the
InformArium.
This last one however is not a normal TV station, but a special TV station
publishing True Information in relation to all government activities (from its
GinfonArium), private business activities (from its VinfonArium), and
company activities (from its CidArium), without interpretative
comments or conflictive discussions, including of course
True Information about the 2 public TV stations
and its own. This
InformArium station publishes all expenses of the 3 public stations, in
particular the exact monetary compensation in public
money given to private artists, collaborators,
or contributors of any kind, for all aspects of their shows, provisions, or
appearances of any kind, on their 3 public networks. These 3
public stations are funded by public money, using the best of the latest
technology, and are always accessible to all
citizens without charge, but reducing operational costs to their essential
level of neatness and beauty. These 3 public stations cannot use
interruptive publicity during programs, but only concentrated publicity
sessions between programs of up to 15 minutes maximum per hour. Some of
these sessions can be for unpaid publicity, for social or public utility
purposes, and, if related to a program, can be interruptive and integrated
to that program. Regular employees appearing
regularly on screen, all wear proudly a station's uniform at all times,
which includes full-length trousers for men and knee-covering skirts for women. As dependents of the
InformArium, the two stations are named IA1, and IA2. They have a mandate to broadcast only
True Information, with their
directors signing accordingly a contract of constitutional responsibility.
The nominations to the direction of the 2 public TV stations are made by a
joint executive board of the
GinfonArium and the VinfonArium, and completely independently from any political intervention,
nor any other kind of influence, only on merit, justified with accurate
True Information. These 2
directors cannot be members of the directorate of any political party, nor
have ever been in the directorate of any political party in the past. The
InformArium has not only the right, but the duty to publish any
True Information it can find about
the past and curriculum of these directors, including aspects of their
private life that have become public in the past. It will also take similar
action about any of the information that these directors allow to be
broadcasted in their various TV programs. After a third instance of such non
True Information, not successfully
contested, the director is dismissed immediately. When addressing matters of
politics in open discussions, these 2 public TV stations must always have a
perfectly balanced representation of people of the left and right sides of
the political spectrum, or of known opposing views on the subject in
question. The TV stations that want to have a particular political
orientation, must all be private, and advertise themselves accordingly and
explicitly at the beginning of all programs. The special
InformArium TV
station is called IA3, and its director is appointed by the
LeaderArium, in
consultation with the GinfonArium and the VinfonArium. Private TV stations
can be
free, financed through publicity, or received at the cost of subscription
fee through an appropriate decoder. If they want to have a political
orientation, or service the objectives of a political party, they
must say
so explicitly at the beginning of each program. They are not bound by severe
rules of behavior, like the 3 public stations, but they also have a
constitutional responsibility to broadcast only
True Information. As such, after 3
not successfully contested warnings of the
InformArium about having
published non
True Information,
the staff members of their directorates can be submitted to a serious
personal financial penalty, and even criminal
charges, in most serious cases, let alone the possible cancellation of their
Business Charter as a private TV station. They in fact work under a National Business Charter, like all private
corporations in an EthoCracy, and the renewal of all these charters, under the
constitution, every 5 years, can only be done after they have justified to a
judge that they work for the good of the country and, in the case of mass-media, that they also work for
True Information.
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Internet Freedom of Opinion vs. Freedom of Speech. As seen in the
other reform on a
Priority National Charter of Rights and Duties,
there is a new FOLIPET
constitutional right being implemented in an EthoCracy, whereby he Internet is basically let free,
for full freedom of opinion, as opposed to freedom of speech,
within only very broad parameters. Internet has to do with a
worldwide web of free and spontaneous information without borders nor limits.
As such, it includes
all of our world reality, the good and the bad, the safe and the dangerous.
In an EthoCracy, this perfect mirror reflection, of all of our reality, good
and bad, is made available to all citizens as a new constitutional right of
Freedom of Opinion.
Citizens have to learn to use the Internet accordingly, or decide not to use it, being conscious of the risks
they take if they do, just like when they go physically to places that might
be dangerous to them. Taken this way, this clear exception to the principle of
True Information, that characterizes an EthoCracy, comes in as a
balancing force to what the constitutional policy of
True Information
may often inevitably screen out of what people ought to know, or to
consider, for taking their best decisions about all aspects of their lives. In spite of its defects,
the basic value of the Internet is too important and
useful to be submitted to any kind of formal public
control, not even for apparent or assumed racism,
conspiracy theory, discriminating comments or hate speech.
This special and unique constitutional freedom is based on a new right of
Freedom of Opinion, that is different from the usual
right of Freedom of
Speech that come with all good charters of Human Rights. That new right
of Freedom of Opinion comes with the
Priority National Charter of Rights and Duties, that is another
fundamental reform brought in by an EthoCracy. Such excesses and mistakes on the Internet, in an EthoCracy,
on the basis of this new constitutional
Freedom of Opinion, cannot even be fought and corrected through private legal action.
If they have to do with non True Information, in the opinion of an
interested person, that victim can only bring it to the attention of the new
InformArium for analysis and the eventual publication of corrective
True
Information on its own website. In such cases of required corrections
however, the Internet provider of the offending website will be requested by the
InformArium to put a
link on his contested webpage to the corrective
True Information of
the
InformArium website, lest face the possibility of having his website
blanked within the country. The alternative for the offended person is to take
it for what it is, or appears to be, and forget about it, like ugly phony conversations one might
have had, or held, in a public square, or at a neighborhood coffee shop. The only thing that is
always required from the Internet providers, within the ethocratic country, is to have a
warning flash tag for the public, at the opening of any Internet accessing session, that says brightly, for 3
seconds, that the information being presented has not been, and will not be
proactively, subjected to any national
InformArium scrutiny for its accuracy as
True
Information, nor will it be usable
by any public office for any control or prosecution if it is considered inaccurate, false or offensive. In as much as an EthoCracy is constitutionally
an InfoCracy of True Information, as much as humanly possible, regarding all aspects of public
and civic life, it allows, in principle, entirely free information to circulate on the
Internet as a factor of counterbalance, and an expression of the new right of
Freedom of Opinion of its
National Charter of Rights and Duties.
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More Implications For politicians. One of the major consequences of this 4th power of the state, the new
Informative Power, and the constitutional responsibility of all
government officials to provide only
True Information, has to do
with the politicians elected to handle the
Executing Power and with the
promises of their Four-Way
Binding Electoral Programs. As seen in other reforms,
having to do with fully Four-Way Binding Electoral Programs, and the handling of an
EthoCratic Country Without Public Debt, the elected
Executing Power is not only obliged
to execute what is in its electoral program, and only what is in its
electoral program, but also to execute all of
it, as a fundamental constitutional responsibility, without any
borrowing power, not even through the emission of obligations, and only with
the resources mentioned explicitly in his
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program
at the time of the elections. The elected
politicians are also obliged to provide explicitly, in their program, the
source of the funding of their electoral promises. Providing non
True
Information regarding these electoral promises, and about their funding, is subject to severe
penalties, including heavy personal fines, prohibition to be a political
candidate anytime in the future, at any level, and even prosecution under
the criminal code in most serious cases for not having complied to a
fundamental constitutional obligation.
5) Corrective Power (CorrectivArium) -
An accomplished EthoCracy includes a fifth power of the state in its new
Pentas Politica. This new State Power integrates what are
essentially the constitutional responsibilities of the
police and military forces protecting a normal western democracy with
respect to law and order, plus the
supervision of the fully independent Constitutional Court which does not
come anymore under the wing of the legislative power, nor under the wing of
the executive power through any ministry of Justice. These
3 forces keep their internal separate roles to start with, but integrate them when
necessary, under the common overall structure of the new
CorrectivArium that
becomes the fifth independent State Power of the
Pentas Politica. Its
overall role however is reoriented to
essentially protecting, first and foremost, the constitutional values and principles of an
EthoCracy, like a good
shepherd dog, docile in normal
circumstances, but
always ready to act forcefully, proactively, and correctively when necessary,
even against the other lower levels of justice belonging to the
JudicArium, and/or against the
inappropriate actions of all the other 4 State Powers from a constitutional
point of view. The
traditional protection role of the three integrated forces, with regards to
national borders and internal security, still exists but becomes subsidiary
to good constitutional order. The strangest thing however, as seen
above, in the introduction to this
Pentas Politica, is that,
because of the interplay of a series of other reforms, the
Herd is in Command of the
Shepherd Dog
and not, as usual, the opposite, for the rules
that the corrective dog itself makes sure
every sheep respects regarding their proper environmental (constitutional) behavior:
the herd (NEVoC voters) commands the
shepherd dog (CorrectivArium) that commands
the sheep, and the shepherd himself (ExecArium
government) can more often relax, and more easily enjoy peacefully, the
beauty and harmony of the environment (EthoCracy constitutional arrangement
and the corresponding good social decorum). The
CorrectivArium first role consists in proactively making sure,
like a good friendly police force, which can become corrective, even coercive when necessary,
that the Syntagma, the
FPL, and the
National Charter of Rights and Duties
are all implemented correctly, not only by all citizens, a
lien residents,
institutions and corporations, in their daily behavior, but also by all the
State Powers. It does so
without ever attempting to extrapolate from the related constitutional
rules and principles, and without judging anyone, but only by applying the
said rules, or making
sure people and institutions apply them, as literally and as correctly as
possible. In this way it is a kind of police force, but the difference with
a normal police force is that it is not under the command of the
executive power, nor of any minister, like normal police or military forces
that may
typically come under the Minister of Interior, the ministry of Justice or
the department of national Defense. It is not either under the new
Informative Power.
It is an independent State Power at the same level
of the other 4 State Powers. It will
however necessarily collaborate
willingly with these other State Powers to ensure corrective application of the legitimate
decisions they may take under the Syntagma
and its dependent laws. In turn, it will also act proactively, and even
correctively if necessary, against these
same State Powers
if they take illegitimate actions on the basis of existing constitutional
rules, or actions contradicting the norms and plans of the last
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. The
CorrectivArium
is really, first and foremost, at the
service of the constitution and the people who voted the existing
electoral program and the constitutions rules
through the Four-Way Binding
Electoral Program of the presidents elected so far, while
correctively acting against those who do not respect them, people or
institutions. It is
important to stress that it is at the same level, and completely independent from the government or from the other
State Powers.
It can act proactively without waiting for a command from a minister or a
judge, just like it will also collaborate with them after receiving legitimate requests,
typically from a minister or a judge, but in the same manner that it will collaborate
also with a simple citizen after receiving from him a legitimate request
regarding the violation of one of his constitutional rights. The other State
Powers, like any other institution,
or citizens, can
also legitimately request its protection when required, or collaboration when
necessary for legitimate protective or corrective action. Nobody however can command the
CorrectivArium
by force, just like nobody can command a judge or a minister by force,
if not by the force of the constitution. The traditional ministry of
Interior still exists, but has no direct authority over the police force.
The Department of National Defense in turn becomes one of the two branches
of the new
CorrectivArium:
the Police branch and the Military Branch; The two branches are separate but
collaborate as required, and are even exchangeable, or capable of becoming
one single force when necessary under the
Head Corrector.
Then the second role of the
CorrectivArium
is to protect the country, as a country, at its borders and within its
borders, like any good
military force would do, to make sure the national constitution is respected,
and the national security in in tact, with regards to whoever may be in, or
coming in the country. The third role
of the CorrectivArium is to keep an eye on the Constitutional Court, over
which it has power of inspection and corrective measures as explained in the
introductive section on
Separation of 5 State Powers. The head of the
CorrectivArium
is called the Head
Corrector (in constant quest of constitutional and security order
to be corrected), and
is appointed by the LeaderArium
after the latter has obtained full True
Information from the InformArium
on all the proposed candidates, but that new
Head Corrector must necessarily come from
within their ranks, with at least 14 years of experience, and age over 49. The LeaderArium
can also dismiss the
Head Corrector of
the
CorrectivArium,
or suggest the dismissal of one of its members, if it has substantial
justifying information from the InformArium
to do so, and the concurrence of the Ombudsman. The dependents of the
CorrectivArium
are all generically
correctors (replacing the words "police" and "soldier")
but of various grades, similar to police and/or military grades. Police,
armed forces of various branches, and all jails or detention centers, all
come under this new
CorrectivArium.
All wear constantly a common
corrector
uniform, albeit with distinguishing marks of roles and grades. Their quarters are,
on the police side, mainly in the old city jails that were transformed into
CSH (City Security
Hostel) after these old city jails were transferred out of town as new
CPF (Countryside
Prison Farms), and mainly in existing military quarters on the military
side, but with full interchangeability when required. The field
correctors are an entirely male force because they are
expected to work constantly resolving conflicts in difficult situations, and
very often with great danger to their lives. Internal support staff not
involved in outside operations can be female. All also collaborate intensely
with the centers attached to the new
CPF, for the
sheltering of both people and animals in unusual need of help that cannot be
appropriately provided in the city center. They also collaborate intensely
with the new PJM,
giving them temporary office space if necessary in their
CSH in order for
them to resolve particularly difficult situations having to do with family,
business or taxation conflicts. This
CorrectivArium
is a national force of good public order, and essentially a
force of protection of the constitution.
Correctors often collaborate with, or
give a hand to, the other protecting forces at local or municipal level,
like security guards or traffic agents, especially when these subsidiary
forces signal to them instances of criminality that come to their attention.
By the same token, they also keep a critical eye on these subsidiary police
forces to ensure they always act on the basis of the principles of the
constitution. In an EthoCracy, there is no compulsory military
service, only a compulsory PPS
of 10 months, but there is still, within the
CorrectivArium, a professional career
in various branches of military activity
(including Army, Aviation and Navy). The
Correctors are the main forces
that would protect the country physically in case of an external military attack or a
defensive war. They all collaborate fully with the other State Powers under the
supreme coordinating guidance of the LeaderArium
if and when necessary. The LeaderArium
can always, by a majority vote, dismiss the
Head Corrector and force the
nomination of another one, from a choice of candidates coming from the ranks
of the
CorrectivArium,
fully screened by the InformArium,
and presented to the LeaderArium.
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A New
Arium Structure of
the State Powers Under a LeaderArium
- An ARIUM is a reserved area of activity dedicated to a specific
function. A LeaderArium is one such area for national "Leaders". In addressing the new
Syntagma reform of an EthoCracy, replacing
its constitution, we have already seen 5 of these Ariums corresponding to
the new structure of 5 State Powers instead of 3: the
ExecArium (Executive Power), the
LegisArium
(Legislative Power), the JudicArium (Judicative Power), the
InformArium
(Informative Power), and the CorrectivArium
(Corrective Power). There are more Ariums that are not State Powers, but
nevertheless important areas of state activity. The
GinfonArium, the
VinfonArium, the
CidArium, and the
OppositArium seen
in other section are four more of them. The national territory of an EthoCracy is divided in
up to 10 provinces maximum, with each a
ProGovernor. These 10
ProGovernor
positions form the ProvinArium
of the provinces. The city Governors replace the traditional mayors,
and are called MuniGovernors,
standing for municipality Governors, and have a
MunArium. The
ProGovernors
have a very small office, with no budget except for their own
support staff administration, and only assist the
ExecArium in ensuring that its winning
Four-Way binding Electoral Program is being implemented correctly by the
MuniGovernors
at
municipal level, and only with the resources indicated explicitly in that
winning electoral program. All the above Ariums are managed
by Arium Governors, assisted by 2 Deputy Governors. All Governors meet
annually into a meting called the
GovernArium,
to discuss current issues in relation to the progress of the execution of
the
Four-Way binding Electoral Program
of the President. All ex Presidents, ex Prime-Ministers,
and all ex Arium Governors, who have served at least one term,
and leave
these positions, or retire, if over age 49, can become members of the
LeaderArium, until
they die, if they so wish. This Arium structure as a whole, called properly
the LeaderArium, can still be
called a Parliament, even if it is very different from what we call a
Parliament in most democratic western countries. The
LeaderArium is not
however a real State Power, but rather the
coordinator of all the Ariums that form the new structure of balanced
State Powers of the EthoCracy.
The LeaderArium
sits normally about once a month for a week (5 working
days), but can decide to have more frequent sessions when required, or longer
sessions less or more frequently, but not for less than a total of 12 working weeks per year.
The LeaderArium
has two main functions. Its first role is to appoint, in principle, all the
Arium Governors. Its second role is to give opinions, or consultations, to
the other Ariums, mainly the
ExecArium, the LegisArium, the
JudicArium, the
CorrectivArium and the
OppositArium, and even to the Ombudsman, either when requested, or when
these leaders
choose to do so because, in their experience, they feel it is important to
do so. The Ombudsman can also
consult the LeaderArium
on particularly sensitive or conflictive issues. Those who choose to become members
of the LeaderArium, and sit a
minimum of 12 weeks per year receive a 20% increase of their government pensions, tax
free. Members of the
LeaderArium are called
Leaderarians.
They vote between themselves to elect a LeaderArium
Governor. The role of these
Leaderarians
is extremely important in resolving conflicts between the various
government Ariums and institutions, and in providing opinions of experience
on the most difficult questions addressed by these institutions, be they
with a constitutional relevance or not.
OVERALL NOMINATIONS
Each Arium has a Governor, a First Deputy Governor, and a Second Deputy
Governor. At the national level of the 5 State Powers, and except for the
ExecArium, whose Governor is
necessarily the elected President, all other national Arium Governors are
appointed by the
LeaderArium but, in principle,
from a list of at least 3 internal candidates coming from the ranks of each
Arium. In exceptional circumstances, on the basis of a majority vote, the
LeaderArium can appoint an
external person not coming from the ranks of the Arium, or force a change of
governor from the ranks. Each First Deputy
Governor in turn is appointed by the
ExecArium, but only from the list of
candidates mentioned in the electoral program of the elected President,
except from its own, who is necessarily the Prime Minister. Finally, each
Second Deputy Governor is appointed by the
InformArium, or by the CorrectivArium, except for
their own,
who are chosen by the JudicArium.
Below national level, all Governors are chosen by the
ExecArium, while the first Deputy
Governor is chosen by the
InformArium and the second Deputy
Governor by the CorrectivArium,
but always with the concurrence of the
LeaderArium, and only from
candidates mentioned in the electoral program of the elected President.
For details, consult the Arium
Nomination Table. The
CorrectivArium
in turn has the exceptional power to force the resignation of a member of
the
LeaderArium
if the
InformArium
concurs with True Information
regarding the misconduct of the contested leader. The distribution of power between all the Ariums
is completely crisscrossed, for absolute transparency and maximum
independence, but without preventing a powerful President to be in
predominant position, as the real representative of the
People's Power, in
order to accomplish his
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program with maximum efficiency and
celerity, and without exceeding the boundaries of the constitution and of
his own power.
POLITICAL
TETRACTYS AND HUMAN TETRACTYS
[This is an older version of the Political Tetractys. The final version is
on our page on EthoCracy] -
As seen in the
introduction to the Pentas
Politica of the new ethocratic constitutional arrangement, an
EthoCracy takes the traditional Trias Politica of
Montesquieu (with 3 State Powers: Executive,
Legislative and Judicative), and promotes the constitutional aspects of two
live forces of the country (Information and
Police/Military) into two new
State Powers. This makes the EthoCracy a
Pentas Politica (with 5 State
Powers: Executive, Legislative, Judicative, Informative and Corrective). By
the same token, an EthoCracy demotes partially one of the State Powers of
the Trias Politica, the Legislative Power, that becomes heavily
dominated by the Executive Power. Both the new ethocratic Legislative and
Executive Powers however become themselves, in practice, a single, new and
real People's Power under the guidance of the
LeaderArium. See the
introduction of the
Pentas Politica section for all the details. This means that, in
practice, there remains only 4 real State Powers: the
ExecArium (dominating the LegisArium,
and dominated in turn by the
LeaderArium, as the new People's Power), the
InformArium, the
JudicArium, and the
CorrectivArium. These remaining 4 real
State Powers is what we call the Political Tetractys. This new
Political Tetractys forms a real People's Power,
like there has never been one in the whole political history of humanity. On
the other hand, the holistic
EthoPlasìn education, that is at the foundation of an
EthoCracy, is also based on a Tetractys, that is the
Human Tetractys
of Pythagorean origin, as presented in our page on the
Emulation of the Pythagorean Man.
These two Tetractys, the Human Tetractys and the Political Tetractys, have a
lot in common for the way they control the balance and harmony of the
behavior of human beings: The Human Tetractys controls the human being as an
individual Person, and the Political Tetractys
controls the human being as a Citizen, or even
as a People. The
Body part of the Human Tetractys has
corresponding similarity with the CorrectivArium
of the Political Tetractys, controlling the most basic appetites and
passions of the human being through the cardinal virtue of
Temperance. The Soul
part of the Human Tetractys has corresponding similarity with the
JudicArium of the Political Tetractys having to
assess the good and the bad of the human behavior through the cardinal
virtue of Fortitude. The
Spirit part of the Human Tetractys has corresponding similarity with
the
InformArium of the Political Tetractys that
has to bring to the human being the best possible information for taking the
best possible decisions through the cardinal virtue of
Prudence. Finally, the Wisdom part of the
Human Tetractys, at the top of the pyramid, has corresponding similarity
with the
ExecArium (assisted by the
LegisArium
and guided by the
LeaderArium) that ensures, through the cardinal virtue of
Justice, that the new and real People's Power is
kept within the boundaries of the best possible philosophical wisdom. At
that level of the Tetractys, it is the same Philosophical Wisdom
that must guide both the Human Tetractys and the Political Tetractys,
leading the human being as a person in the first case, and as a citizen and
a people in
the second. Thus the need for an accomplished EthoCracy to use only holistic
EthoPlasìn education in all
schools of the country. Hopefully this is the kind of holistic education
that all members of the
LeaderArium will have received or, in any
case, the kind of philosophical wisdom they will use to lead, within the
parameters of the Syntagma, of the
FPL, and of the
National Charter of Rights and Duties,
the brand new constitutional arrangement of the EthoCracy, promoting the
Demône Values,
and creating a meritocratic quality of
Civitas Management and Wellness like there was probably never
before in the history of humanity and democracy.
→ REFORM 04/30
A Fundamental PhiloEcoSophical Law (FPL) -
In an EthoCracy, a Constitution is called a Syntagma.
It can be amended only through a 3/4 majority vote, not of any
parliamentarian chamber, but rather of a specially dedicated
NEVoC referendum. It is not amendable
by the "Parliament", but only directly by the people as described further
down in the section about the process of
Amending Constitutional Law. That Syntagma
is
very short by nature, and includes only the leading principles of the
constitutional arrangement of the state, and the most basic rights to be
respected in all existing and eventual legislation. The rest of the
constitutional rules is reversed into a more flexible
fundamental law called the PhiloEcoSophical Law (FPL).
The word "PhiloEcoSophical" was coined by EthoPlasìn to mean:
"Love of ecological and philosophical wisdom
in relation to all living beings and to all environments of all kingdoms". These concepts are very different from, and much more
sophisticated than, the limited ones of the current 'green' ecological movements,
and have more extension as they include fundamental concepts,
and principles to be respected, in relation to all
environments: ecological, cultural, soci
al,
institutional, political, financial and economical, along with all kingdoms: mineral,
vegetal, animal, human and global "planet oneness". The principles of the
FPL have
to be fully respected in its current state by all citizens, in all
their activities, in particular by all persons at the top commanding levels
of any firm, company or organization, private or public. That
FPL law, contrary
to the ethocratic Syntagma,
can vary from one ethocratic country to another, and is more easily
amendable than the constitution itself, as seen in the section about the
process of Amending
Constitutional Law. On the ecological side, in most
cases, it will most certainly include many of the suggestions made in our page on
PhiloEcoSophical Issues,
like
PEC
(the
Philo-Ecosophical
Compensation
principle) in all legislation related to ecology and/or architecture,
whereby citizens have to always compensate, in some way, for all damage done
to nature when constructing or exploiting nature for their own purposes.
Typically, if one constructs a building with 2000 square meters of natural
surface land being lost at its base, he has to compensate doing something
ecologically constructive to another piece of land of 2000 square meters,
private or public.
Similarly the law will inevitably include
PES
(Philo-Ecosophical
Structure
principle) in all legislation related to the conception, design and approval
of all new buildings being built. This means that any new building being
built, or even only renovated in many cases, must be 
conceived and handled in terms of
philoecosophical objectives. All have, for example, roof rain water
collection facilities, with separate piping to recycle the rain water in
various useful ways until exhaustion, like using it for flushing toilets or
watering gardens and the personal orchard balconies promoted by EthoCracy.
All new apartment buildings must have a special community room that can be
used in turn, at different hours, as a kindergarten, a recreational area for
young or old age people, and for condominium meetings or activities of
various kinds. Naturally, the
FPL also includes strict specific
provisions regarding the care of domestic animals and the respect of
representatives of all natural kingdoms. Typically it includes things like the
prohibition of growing animal in cages for massive meat production, and the
obligation to save the critical extent of great rain forests where they exist. The
FPL always
includes provisions regarding the absolute need to decrease existing government
budget deficits by at least 1% a year, for new ethocratic governments that
might still not have yet a NoNoNo Government
system, except after a
NEVoC referendum waiving
that requirement for the following year, and waving it only for one year at a
time. For such governments, the same kind of principle applies to the prohibition to increase
public budget deficits, except after a national referendum authorizing it on
a set of explicit measures.
Non-compliant governments on these two budgetary requirements must resign
immediately, and a new election must take place in the following month
without the candidature of the faulting managers
being allowed in the new election. The
FPL will
also always force the application of the principle of
Priority To Nationality
(PTN), which comes from the
Syntagma itself, as a favorable
factor for national citizens, as opposed to non-nationals, in the formulation of any new law, and
in the reception of eventual
benefits of any kind from the government. A typical example is the one of
the Bank Failures mentioned in another reform. Other reforms go
typically in the same direction, like the ones related to
Extended Family
Units, Extended Family
Business, and Legal Immigration. The main reason of this principle is
the fact that an EthoCracy is based on the idea of maximum responsibility
and accountability of all management forces, and this can be applied easily
to only nationals of the country. The non-nationals who want to enjoy the
same benefits can take whatever action is needed to acquire nationality.
AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
In an EthoCracy, the constitutional law is not
amended by any chamber of any parliament, but only by the People directly.
It is done in 3 steps that apply to both the
Syntagma and the
FPL. First, the
proposed amendment has to be a part of an electoral program won by a
President at a majority of at least 51%. Second, that amendment is put in a
final draft that has to get the approval of the governors of all 5
components of the Pentas Politica
plus the LeaderArium. Then the
amendment becomes the subject of an ad-hoc NEVoC
referendum for this exclusive purpose. In the case of an amendment to the
Syntagma, that referendum has to be
won by a majority of 3/4 of the citizen population. In the case of an
amendment to the
FPL, the referendum
has to be won by a smaller majority of 2/3 of the citizen population.
THE FUNDEMENTAL PRINCIPLE BEHIND THE
FPL
In an EthoCracy, the executive
power can only be Elected at Full Majority, and
is fully bound by a
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program: it can
only execute what is in its electoral program,
must execute all of its electoral program, lest
resign, must realize the program with only existing resources or the new ones specified explicitly in the
electoral program, with No Public Debt,
and only with members of a team of executives and eventual consultants
explicitly mentioned in his pre-election program. An EthoCracy has a NoNoNo
Government, with no debt, no borrowing power, and no surprise legislation or tax,
with a clear agenda that cannot be
implemented if not only through a
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program
accepted at full majority in the last elections. The
fundamental principle is the following: what is voted by a majority of citizens in a national
election cannot in principle be illegal or
unacceptable, except if the electoral program violates some very broad principles regarding
fundamental values like honesty, security, nationality, liberty and life
support, thus the first step of the process of
Amending Constitutional Law
described just above; but, by the same token, in order for the country to
continue to be an EthoCracy, amendments to constitutional law have to
respect the most fundamental ethical values of what is being called an "Etho-Cracy"
and its Pentas Politica;
Thus the second and third steps of the process of
Amending Constitutional Law
described just above.
Consequently the constitution proper, called a
Syntagma, is very short, very
difficult to amend, and includes only these few broad principles to be
respected in all constitutional amendments, lest the country cease to be an
EthoCracy, while being supplemented by an annex, the
FPL, also with
constitutional value, but that can more easily be amended. What is constitutional today, in the
FPL, may not be
constitutional tomorrow, or the opposite. In an EthoCracy, in principle, a full voting majority of 51% always
has the final say on what is legal in the country, and courts cannot
overrule this principle, except
for very few fundamental values that are not changeable, if not by a 3/4 majority,
and are formulated in the first part of the constitution called
Syntagma, and others, in the
FPL, that require a
2/3 majority. And,
as the Syntagma itself states clearly at its very beginning,
international conventions, of any kind or level, private or public, cannot change
or overrule this national
ethocratic constitutional approach. As seen in another reform, these
International Conventions can be agreed to, and
undersigned, only with this explicit reserve, lest the signatories acting
unconstitutionally, or the EthoCracy ceasing to be an EthoCracy.
NOVELTY FOR PEOPLE IN SITUATIONS OF POWER, AND FOR
CORPORATIONS WITH A CID
The real novelty
however with the FPL comes in 2 complementary ways.
First, any person reaching a position of top
commanding or management power, in a directorate of any type of organization, private or public, in order
to legally confirm his nomination, has to get formally a copy of the
FPL from the
MuniGovernor of his residence, in its
current state, and sign, in the appropriate place, a formal
legal commitment to respect all of its provisions.
Second, all private companies and corporations with more than 50
employees, in or out of the country, must integrate a
CID
(Civitas
Interest Defender)
employee to their compulsory national directorate, and pay half his salary. The other
half is paid by the InformArium that has provided the
CID as one of its own
designated employee. The CID does not have any voting right, but must sit on all
sessions of the compulsory national board of direction, observing or commenting its decisions,
or the decisions of a higher international HQ regarding projects of national
relevance, to make sure the FPL is respected, that the corporation is working for the
good of the country, and is considering, in all its estimates and accounting
practices, not only the normal costs of the immediate realization of its
projects in the country, but also the important externalities of these projects
in the country, and the
consequences of these externalities for the current and future generations
of the citizens of the area, or of the whole country. Any decision by an
international corporation taken by an HQ abroad, and being applied within
the country, has to be confirmed by their national directorate to which
their national
CID belongs, lest
become legally inapplicable under the constitutional FPL,
and possibly face a suspension of its compulsory national business charter.
In the case of financial institutions, of any type, in particular all banks,
private or public, national or foreign, a CID
must sit on their national board, and
must report, when necessary, in this specific
case, not only to the InformArium,
but also to the
CorrectivArium, as it is
exceptionally nominated jointly by these two new State Powers. A
CID must work in complete confidentiality
within the corporation, even with regards the
InformArium who had him
appointed, and is not to publish any details of its projects, subject to
legitimate criminal prosecution by the corporation, but, at the meeting
scheduled for the final approval of a project, if the
CID has not been
successful in previous meetings to convince the board that the
FPL was not
being respected, he has the legal duty to submit a written report to the
board, at the opening of the session, expressing which aspects of the
project, in his opinion, violate the
FPL, or do not consider enough
seriously the serious national externalities of the project. If the final approval of
the project is still signed in, and not suspended for at least two weeks, in
order to consider his FPL report, then the
CID has a legal right and duty to
copy his report to the InformArium for an eventual concurrence in the
following week, and, if concurrence is obtained, for his report being made
public on the InformArium website, and communicated immediately to the
ExecArium, the
CorrectivArium and the
LeaderArium for follow-up counter action in the second week. During these two
weeks, in spite of its approval by the corporation, the project is
constitutionally suspended, and any action of the corporation to actually
start the realization of the contested project would be plainly
constitutionally invalid, whatever signatures it involves, at whatever
level. Smaller corporations do not have an appointed
CID, but have a
CID
sent by the InformArium to visit them on a regular basis. The penalties for not
respecting the FPL are extremely severe, regarding the managers
at fault, but
also their organizations. In the case of a private firm for example, it contemplates
a suspension of its compulsory national charter, if not a cancellation, and
even the
possibility of the expropriation of the firm concerned, with
nationalization of its national operations if appropriate, to be resold at
the best offer on the current market, excluding the original owner, directly
or indirectly. As said earlier, the
FPL can be different for
each EthoCratic country, adapted with some flexibility to its own national concerns
or needs,
and updated constantly by the
Four-Way Binding Electoral Programs of its successive
governments and the related NEVoC
referenda. The
FPL basically contains good principles of responsibility and accountability related to the national management
of the resources of
all living environments and of all kingdoms. Putting too much in a Constitution means
being stuck with a lack of flexibility in adapting to the evolution of the
current state of the world and its constant new needs. Putting the
PhiloEcoSophical principles in the
FPL means more flexibility and efficiency
in governing for the good of the country. This
FPL however has, in
all its provisions, a fundamental binding power as strong as the
Constitution itself, to which it becomes an explicit and essential
Constitutional Annex, but can be more easily amended. That
FPL also includes most of the
provisions of what we call today a Charter of Human Rights that is being
addressed in more details in another reform regarding specifically the
National Charter of Rights and Duties.
PJM INTERVENTION FOR
CONTRAVENTIONS OR PERSONAL EXCEPTIONS TO THE
FPL
An EthoCracy is in
great part a subsidiary form of government. As long as people and
corporations respect the FPL, they
are pretty much left alone, with as less legislation as possible interfering
with their activities. Big corporations who do not respect the
FPL are quickly reminded by their
integrated CID (Civitas Interest Defender).
Private citizens in turn, when they feel they are suffering a damage, or
that their rights and interests are being violated by another person, or by a
corporation, may request a meeting with a
PJM (Private Justice Mediator) for
evaluating their legal situation, free of charge, and take their best
decisions accordingly.
On the other hand, a person in an EthoCracy is considered as having a
fundamental Individual
Sovereignty that has to be respected in as mush as it does not
cause any prejudice or damage to other citizens.
Such exceptions can always be submitted to a
PJM for evaluation and a final
decision, free of charge, or to a court at the expense of the claimant.
SPECIAL RELATION OF THE FPL AND THE
CorrectivArium
When clear constitutional rights of a person are being violated by another
person, or by a corporation, or any other legal entity, the person suffering
the prejudice can consult first a
PJM and, if he concurs, the
PJM will then involve
immediately the
Correctors of the new
CorrectivArium for follow-up and
appropriate action.
→ REFORM 05/30
A Priority National
Charter
of Rights
with Duties and Exclusions - An EthoCracy can well
subscribe to an external, or universal, Charter Of Rights, like the Universal
Charter of Human Rights of the
UN, but only in as much as it does not contradict its own internal
national charter, which
has more priority, and also includes duties as much as rights,
and even some possible temporary exclusions. In case of
conflict, this internal charter has absolute constitutional priority, within
the ethocratic country, over all other
charters that may have been subscribed to. In an
EthoCracy, all charters of rights adhered to
by any level of government, or public institution, must be
interpreted in
light of the matching constitutional principles and duties of the
Syntagma and the internal charter of
rights and duties. This internal
charter of rights is part of the FTL (Fundamental PhiloEcoSophical Law),
the Annex of the new
Syntagma constitution, is much more complete than most external ones, and differs
typically from the UN Charter of Human Rights in six main ways:
1) It includes
duties matching much, if not all, the rights included in
the charter.
2) It includes rights of all kingdoms, and not only human rights. This
includes the mineral, the vegetal, the animal, the human and the Planet
Oneness kingdoms. It also includes specific Economic
Rights to be respected by the business world in exercising their
activity not only for their own profit, but always also for the good of the
country and its people. This includes even the activities of purely financial and
credit companies.
3) It includes a last paragraph of possible temporary exclusion, or suspension, specifying where,
and when, human rights in particular
can, and may, be
suspended temporarily, for specific persons in specific circumstances, until
some conditions are met.
4) It includes a brand new right of
Freedom of
Opinion for written material on the Internet, to counterbalance
and supplement, with a superior form of freedom, the usual Freedom of Speech that still applies
normally, as it does in most western countries, to all fields and
forms of information.
5) It gives a clear priority to citizens of the country in all rights being
granted.
6) It can allow some temporary suspensions or exclusions to some of its
rights under some special circumstances.
THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF TEMPORARY SUSPENSION
This last and essential paragraph of the charter of rights of an EthoCracy, as
confirmed by its new type of constitution, called a Syntagma, reads more or
less as
in the following terms:
A human
right can be excluded, or temporarily suspended, by a judge or another public
official, with regards to a specific claimant, when that claimant is himself
a flagrant violator of that same right, or has not
first
denounced openly, and
formally, through all means
available, the violation of this same right that he was aware of. In particular, a foreigner,
resident in the ethocratic country, has to have denounced such violations in his
own country of nationality, if they are well known to take place, as a
constitutional duty, and have also requested
reciprocity, formally and explicitly, for the application of that same
right, in his country of nationality, with appropriate certification that
this has been done, before
becoming a legitimate claimant of that right in his ethocratic country of residence.
In the meantime, that right can, and may be, formally temporarily suspended
with regards to that person specifically, and in such case, any attempt on
his part to still claim it unduly is a criminal offense of omission for
having neglected an important constitutional duty of his ethocratic country
of residence. In an ethocratic
country, the means of denunciation and protest are many, easy, and powerful. They include
the new OppositArium, the new
GinfonArium and the access to both ginfonalists
and journalists of the private press, let alone formal letters certified to
have been sent to an appropriate embassy or foreign institution.
Too many people claim all sorts
of rights in our contemporary society, without ever being the least
concerned with any corresponding duties. We have already mentioned the example of the
NEVoC duty to vote corresponding
to the right to vote in an EthoCracy. If, for mentioning few other examples,
prisoners
of a CPF claim better prison living conditions as a right, they are also faced
with the duty of contributing in some way to the additional expenses
involved, either
now, working in prison for the community, or later on, after being reintegrated
to the open society;
If employees claim the right of better unemployment conditions, they must also face the duty of paying additional contributions while working, or the duty
of facing some
compensating free social work when receiving unemployment benefits. A human right
is always accompanied
with a corresponding
duty expressed explicitly, as explicitly as the right itself is being
expressed. The priority given to citizen is total and permanent in the case
of RATAC transparency
access to government records. In most other cases, in particular in cases of
conflicts resolved by a PJM or
a CorrectivArium Corrector, it is
only a relative priority that always applies to a citizen as opposed to a
non-national legal resident or an alien illegal migrant.
EXCLUSION FROM THE RIGHT TO VOTE
In an EthoCracy, the right to vote is excluded from various
categories of people, essentially the ones who only take advantage of the
country without participating, or being able to participate, to the burden of its good maintenance, or to
the conservation of its best national culture on the basis of the
National Charter of Rights and Duties,
and the FTL. These include people like
full welfare receivers, mentally-ill people, prisoners, recidivistic criminals, and all non-taxpayers
(except VAT),
but also all non-nationals working legally in the country and all foreign
illegals. The decision on their voting status is taken by the
MuniGovernor
of residence, at the appropriate occasion, or by the
NEVoC authority at the time of
the renewal of national voting card of each citizen. The exclusion is either permanent or
temporary as per each case involved, but for all non-nationals, it is
automatic and permanent.
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
In the same spirit, in an EthoCracy, no international convention can be
agreed to, and subscribed by any official signature, by the government or any of its institutions, if not
only after having been the explicit
subject of a Four-Way Binding
Electoral Program voted in majority. This even applies to
economic or commercial agreements that require a government involvement,
directly or indirectly. Once authorized by elections, the signature of such
international conventions always makes it explicitly clear that the
subscription will cease to be effective as soon as a another
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program
decides accordingly, at anytime in the future. In an EthoCracy, there can never
be any transfer of authority to external or foreign entities of power, or
supranational organizations, through any kind of agreement or convention,
except after having been voted explicitly in a
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program and, in
case of conflict, in the respect of an absolute priority being maintained by
the national authority, its Syntagma,
its National Charter of Rights and
Duties, its FPL, and
all its other internal laws. The same rules
apply, mutatis mutandis, to the agreements of foreign aid that, except in
cases of natural disaster emergency, all have to have been pre-approved by a
NEVoC election, with all its details made available to the new
GinfonArium,
and through the GinfonArium to
all people, before, during and after the aid is provided.
NEW
FOLIPET RIGHT OF
INTERNET FREEDOM OF OPINION AND THE INTERNET
The present reform of the Priority National Charter of Rights and Duties of an EthoCracy
creates a brand new right of Internet Freedom of Opinion that is different from
the usual Freedom of Speech found of most good charters of rights,
and only applies to the Internet. This new right is related specifically,
and exclusively, to the Internet, in terms of mass-media written
information, and in this sense, it is appropriately called a "Full
Opinion Liberty If Peacefully Expressed Truth",
or FOLIPET. We have
seen some implications of this new constitutional right in the context of
the other reform of the InformArium
and its exception to its principle of
True Information with regards
to the Internet Freedom
of Opinion vs. Freedom of Speech. The Internet is basically and mainly a spontaneous
mass-media of the people at large, as opposed to the filtered mass-media of
publishing corporations who always have to defend some interests, of their
own or of their patrons, in publishing what
they do. In other words, the Internet is not a main-stream mass-media, but a
kind of out-stream mass media, attached to no specific publishing authority.
Although it is written, or put in audio and video, it is free and wild, like information
provided
frankly as
personal convictions between friends at home, while standing up over coffee on a
fresh balcony,
after a seated formal dinner in a hot room with abundant good wine. But that
Internet casual balcony is a
worldwide one, and of incredible value, as it is expressed mostly
spontaneously and without fear, accessible instantly to all
people, whatever their intellectual
or cultural levels are. As such it is unique; as such it is precious; and as such it must
be protected, and protected constitutionally, even with its inevitable
exaggerations and white lies, like a frank talk between two good friends, or
between two old social competitors expressing their reciprocal antipathy. The information of the Internet
is basically divided in 4 parts. The first quarter is pure crap, phony and
totally unreliable information. The second quarter is
True Information
all right, but of not much public interest, and without any meaningful utility to most
people. The third quarter is a often a useless duplication of what we
can find easily, and in a better format, somewhere
else in the current mainstream mass-media, or in popular books. This
fourth quarter however is
unique, and most precious
to everybody, as it is not only True Information, but
True Hidden Information
that cannot
usually be found absolutely anywhere else in the mainstream mass-media. As
such it is extremely useful to
most people, particularly from an economic and political points of view, in
order to ensure they can take their best decisions regarding their opinions,
their choices, and
the administration of their lives and country. And
this True Hidden Information is available instantly, free of
charge, albeit at the expense of loosing a bit of time searching for it, in
the comfort and intimacy of one's own home. For this precious reason alone,
the world should be grateful to the Internet and forgive it some of its
flaws and sins. An EthoCracy certainly has this kind of gratitude and
forgiveness, to the outmost degree, but only for the Internet. Every rule has
an exception, and with regards to the
constitutional policy of True Information of an EthoCracy, this is the exception, and the only
one. That fourth quarter of the Internet information is a spontaneous outcry of
the common people, as opposed to the elaborated views of professionals of the
mass-media who, most of the time, force or twist the information to their
own interests, following only the politically correct, and too often turn it into disinformation. As such the
Internet
must be protected to the point where, if it were to be blocked on an
international world wide web basis (WWW), an EthoCracy would recreate it, as a
constitutional right and duty, on the basis of a
NWW (national wide web)
basis. This ethocratic protection of the Internet comes from the new
constitutional Syntagma and is further regulated in its
FPL and
in
its National Charter of Rights and Duties.
The common right of Freedom of Speech is much more limited than an
Internet Freedom of Opinion. People using freedom of "speech" must still respect
strict legal norms of asserted truth, or social correctness, if they do not want to be sued for reasons of defamation,
racism, privacy violation or hate speech. An "Internet opinion", in
particular from bloggers, is not so much concerned with truth, as known
usually only by sophisticated or cultivated people, as much as
it is with deep personal conviction on the part of
simple next door people. This kind of conviction
usually does not come from professionals minds, but from
common sense, on the part of people who do not
have much study time available before they express their opinion.
These reactions of common sense, or gut feeling, are nevertheless usually
right, in their assessments, and usually correspond to what most people think
and feel at the very bottom of their hearts. It is thus important for other
people to know this, and to take this into consideration in forming their
own opinions and decisions. That kind of common sense conviction is the one usually expressed spontaneously
between family members, friends or acquaintances in the intimacy of their
private homes. If such opinions of
personal conviction, not based on verified
True Information, cannot
be expressed in the mainstream mass-media, in an EthoCracy, they can be
expressed freely on the Internet, as spontaneously as they can be expressed between
friends talking on a balcony or a public square, but only on the Internet, in
a written or spoken audio visual form. The main restriction that the
FPL and the National Charter
impose is the absolute duty of not exploiting that new
FOLIPET
on the Internet
for a commercial activity, or other personal economic gain, through any kind
of repetitious publicity or propaganda. Each of these Internet personal opinions has to stay as a kind of
spontaneous and ingenious, maybe even malicious, "balcony-opinion", taken and accepted as such by everybody, for the
good and for the bad, without the risk of any legal prosecution for things
like defamation, racism, privacy violation or hate speech, that still apply normally to the
more traditional right of Freedom of Speech. Apart from that
imposition, the only other constitutional restriction, and duty, imposed by
the FPL, has to
do with the complete prohibition of using pictures of minor children, below
age 18, while using
FOLIPET, except when
authorized by a responsible adult, or when the pictures already exist
in the public domain of the mass-media, in or outside the Internet. This
new
FOLIPET right is also well in line with the meaning
and intention of the
new 4th power of the state, the InformArium,
essential to an EthoCracy, whereby
True
Information is always publishable without penalty.
LIMITED PRIVACY IN MANY CASES
In an EthoCracy, the requirements of full transparency of all public
officials operating only on
RATAC budgets,
and of equivalent full transparency of private persons receiving public
money that has to be spent through
BADAROTA bank
accounts,
limits privacy in may cases that have to do with the handling of public
money. For example, as seen in the relevant reform on
Full Transparency, there is
no privacy applying to all sums of public money
being disbursed to private citizens, for any purpose, even for routine
things such as pensions being legitimately received: all disbursements of
public money have to be published by the new
InformArium, and rendered accessible
to all through the Internet website of the
GinfonArium.
→ REFORM 06/30
Elections Only With Absolute
Majority
- In EthoCracy, governments can only be elected at absolute majority. In an
EthoCracy, voting
is also a duty, as opposed to only a right, and it is not an automatically
universal right: some exclusions, permanent or temporary, may exist on the
basis of the new Priority National
Charter of Rights and Duties. On the other hand, considering the easiness of
voting with the new NEVoC system, not voting,
for those allowed to do it, is an offense, for an unfulfilled constitutional duty, subject of a
serious fine, or a taxation penalty. In addition, EthoCratic electors
choose only a team of government for managing the
Executing Power, and not
any politician to sit in any Parliament. It is the role of the new type of
EthoCratic Political Parties
to express this Executing Power, in terms of a
program, a candidate president,
along with his team of executives at national, provincial and local levels,
including a list of potential candidates as his eventual external
consultants. Nonetheless, the Legislating
Power and its political opposition, through the new
OppositArium, are both reinforced, and the
electors (not parliamentarians) have
more power than in any other democratic system to influence the role of the
expert legislators in the new ExpertArium,
along with the role and performance of the Executing
Power.
NO MORE SILENT
MAJORITY NOR OBSTRUCTIVE MINORITY
In EthoCracy, there cannot be any more a silent majority, nor
an o
bstructive minority sitting on top of it, paralyzing the efficiency of
the elected government executing its
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. As a prerequisite, a majority election must always be achieved, through a second tour, or a third tour if necessary
in particularly fragmented electorates. At the second tour, if no majority
party has won, the new election takes place between the parties with at
least 25% of the vote (or the 3 highest). At the third and last tour,
if necessary, the election is then contested
nationally between only the two highest candidates, and one necessarily
gets the absolute majority. With the new NEVoC system, such tours of elections are
most easy, without any significant inconvenience to anyone, and take place
with no meaningful costs to the taxpayer. Such
majority governments are then free to operate, but strictly on the basis of their
specific Four-Way Binding Electoral
Programs, without the unnecessary disturbance of a traditional
type of opposition and within the boundaries of a
NoNoNo Government and
RATAC budgets.
Opposition still exists, even reinforced, and exists in a new and improved form, as
seen in the OppositArium reform. Candidate presidents
in an
EthoCracy can be as many as expressed by the population, normally within the
framework of
political parties. However, as seen in the reform about the
New Role of Political Parties,
only the candidates of the political parties with the 10 highest level of
registered membership can participate in a national election. In addition, after the second or the third tour
of a national election, only one can be elected, and
only with an absolute majority. This is the only way for an EthoCratic
President to
be really in command and fully efficient but, as explained further down in many another
reforms, there are many new and excellent means of control against any kind of abuse of
power on his part, let alone the fact that he is strictly bound by a Four-Way Binding Electoral
Programs and a form of NoNoNo
Government.
→ REFORM 07/30
Elections Only At National Level -
This means elections at national level, and appointments at lower levels by
the elected national ExecArium. In an
EthoCracy, there
are elections only at national level. An elected
President, with the help of his team, appoints Governors at the lower levels of provinces, if any, and
at the level of municipalities. To ensure the
Executing Power of the
government is respected at lower levels, all Governors are
appointed, and not elected.
The President's
list of candidate Governors is established and published by the relevant
party in advance,
before
elections, with a choice of up to 3 possible candidates for each position,
known with their name, DOB, picture and full curriculum on the
InformArium website.
This includes a list of potential candidates as eventual external
consultants if and when required in various fields. As
soon as this is done, the new GinfonArium of the new
constitutional Informative Power comes into play for analysis and
publication of True Information with regards to all candidates. Once the
election of the President is completed, the selected
Governors replace all the existing ones, within one month, or get reconfirmed if the
elected President is the same one, and/or he chooses to do so. All these
Governors become a combination of managers and inspectors at local level, to
make sure that local administrations behave properly and
that the government
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program
gets implemented effectively at all levels. Like the President, Governors have full power on
their local administrations, to confirm or release any inefficient or
corrupted official, or to increase or decrease subordinate staff. All 'permanent'
local
employees of provinces or municipalities are thus hired or released by the
series of acting Governors over time, under the ultimate responsibility of their
own acting Presidents.
ELIMINATION OF LOCAL VOTE OF
PERSONAL CLIENTELE
This system
ensures full responsibility of both Presidents and Governors but, having no
local elections, the system also ensures
there is no possibility of any vote of clientele at local levels, thus
eliminating, or at least reducing immensely the possibility of corruption, mercantilism, and nepotism at these local levels.
The new Governors imposed from the top, by the President, as
ProGovernors
or as
MuniGovernors, are fully in charge and without any close link or
personal interest at the levels where they serve. Nothing prevents however a candidate Governors to campaign for their candidate
President during an election, but they are not elected by anybody
at that election, only
selected as candidate Governors by their candidate President, and possibly
appointed by him if he gets elected. The President through his Prime
Minister has the power to substitute
any of his Governors (like any of his Ministers) at any time, without
appeal, as per the explicit terms of their appointing contract, as long as the new Governor
being appointed is one of the three possible candidates at the time of the
election of his President. The President can also move his Governors around,
from city to city, or to a location where the Governor is not known at all,
as Governors are really conceived as a kind of ambassadors of the
ExecArium. In the absence of a candidate Governor from the original electoral
list, the
President can appoint whoever he wants, subject to the
Yearly Confirmation
Of Government described in another reform.
→ REFORM 08/30
A
Fully Four-Way Binding Electoral Program (BEP) - In EthoCracy, there cannot be
anymore politicians campaigning saying one thing, and then governing doing
something else. Electors are fully in charge of their destiny, without the
risk, or the fear, of having to live with such old-fashioned politicians
that were elected on the basis of lies that they do not even respect while
in office. An elected government,
the ExecArium, as we have seen in
another reform, is really an "Executing" power, as opposed to an "Executive"
power. This is why it is called the
ExecArium. As such, it
is strictly bound by its electoral
program, in 4 cumulative ways, subject to immediate forced resignation.
The four absolute and cumulative binding rules are the following.
FIRST: the ExecArium can
only "execute" what is in its electoral program,
and nothing else.
SECOND: it
must also "execute" all of what is in its
electoral program, nothing less and nothing more.
THIRD: it has to execute all its program
without new taxes, or
only through the explicit form of financing mentioned, or explicit new taxes as
put in the electoral program for any specific item, and of course all in a
RATAC
way.
FOURTH: the execution of the electoral program, by a
president, can only be done with the help of the members of the list of
candidates that were contained in his team, within his electoral program,
including the names of potential candidates as eventual external consultants
if and when required. Such an electoral program is a
BEP. Be it clear that these
four binding rules are to take force within the limits of an EthoCratic
NoNoNo Government system (as seen in another
reform: a government with No borrowing power, No debt and
No surprise legislation or taxation) and a
NoNoNo Information system (No
hidden data, No hidden knowledge, and No hidden agenda). In the case of a conflict in the
interpretation of the execution of the
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program,
the problem can be submitted by any citizen, or by the new
GinfonArium, or by the new
CorrectivArium, to the Ombudsman. The
Ombudsman, if he agrees there is a conflict, consults the
LeaderArium. If the
LeaderArium also agrees there is a
conflict, the Governor of the
LeaderArium can request the
immediate resignation of the
ExecArium. If the
ExecArium refuses resignation, the
issue can be passed to a senior judge of the supreme court for an
un-appealable final decision but only if the majority of the
LeaderArium concurs. Howeve
r,
during a mandate, if a Government felt it has to take an initiative not
planned for in its electoral program, or contrary to its program, it can attempt to hold an electronic
referendum on the subject involved (most easy and at practically no costs
again
with the new NEVoC voting system). Such referendum,
specifically on electoral program inconsistency, can also be
ordered and effected easily, at any given time, through a majority vote of
the ExpertArium requesting it (the only other thing the
ExpertArium possibly votes on,
apart from requesting a constitutional consultation on a project of law when required,
or an amendment to the FPL
constitutional annex mentioned below). In EthoCracy, a
national leader, that is a President, is elected on
the basis of a clear
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program to be respected fully, subject to immediate
resignation and new NEVoC elections (quick and easy) one month later. Any
leader made to resign specifically for not having fully fulfilled his
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program,
cannot be allowed to re-submit his candidacy for at least another 5
years. Any leader certified by the Ombudsman and the
LeaderArium, or by a
court, as having done the contrary of what was indicated in his
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program is prohibited from ever applying again as a candidate President.
ANNUAL CONFIRMATION OF GOVERNMENT ACTION
The main consequence of having a fully
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program, being
obligatorily accomplished by an
Executing Power, is the requirement of confirming this
is being done, on a yearly basis. Again, with
NEVoC, this is most easy.
The new Electronic Voting System, as described in the first element
of this package of EthoCratic reforms, makes the voting so easy, and
practically so cheap in costs, that, in the second week of October of each
calendar year, governments are submitted to a yearly confirmation of their
good management, and their strict conformity to their
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program for
the part they have achieved so far. Any result below 50% in this special
NEVoC consultation means
automatic government resignation and the
immediate election of a new President one month later.
REALIZING AN ELECTORAL PROGRAM PARTLY WITH NEW NO-DEBT
MONEY
As seen other reforms, whereby an accomplished EthoCracy can only
finance itself with No-Debt Money, and
through a NAMA, if
and when an item of a winning electoral program, like a brand new
infrastructure, is to be paid for with new
NAMA money, it has to
be mentioned explicitly in advance, in the
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program,
and
with an explicit indication of the new taxes that might be required down the
line for the future maintenance of this new item, indicating a realistic
time frame, in terms of months or years, and a realistic estimate of the
expected costs.
NUMBERING AND
EXCLUSION OF ELECTORAL PROGRAM ITEMS
All items of an electoral program have to be numbered sequentially from one
to infinite. A voter can very well still vote for his preferred candidate,
and his overall preferred program, without agreeing at all on some of the
items of that program. On the safely anonymous electronic voting ballot, after indicating the candidate
he prefers, the voter has up to 10 slots where he can digit, if he so
wishes, the numbers of the
items of the electoral program he absolutely does not want to be executed.
When counting the ballots for a candidate, these exclusions are also
accounted for. If more than 55% of the voters of a candidate have excluded a
particular item of the program of that candidate, this latter candidate, if
elected, cannot implement this particular item during his mandate. That item
is then excluded from his
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. This numbering is also most
essential to another reform having to do with the
Full Transparency Of Public
Officials, and the related PIT
system.
→ REFORM 09/30
A NoNoNo Government
- This means a government with
No Borrowing Power,
No
Debt, and No Surprise (in Taxation or Legislation)
- This is what an EthoCracy calls the
NoNoNo Government System. It also
matches and emulates the
NoNoNo
Information System of the EthoCracy. As we can see in other reforms of the package, an EthoCracy government, with
No Central bank in a traditional
way,
and with the power of the Treasury to issue no-debt money for new real-economy value, can
never, and must never,
become indebted. In fact, constitutionally speaking, an
EthoCracy government does not have any borrowing power.
At all! This means it
does not even have the right to issue government bonds of any kind. Like
Edison said: "It is absurd to say our country can issue bonds and cannot
issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the
other helps the people". Having no
debt, an EthoCratic government cannot either be faced with the payment of any kind of interests on
any kind of loan. Paying any interests on any loan would be
constitutionally illegal. In this way, the EthoCratic government has only two sources of
money. First, the regular taxes. They serve to pay the
current expenses of
existing government services and can only be collected for the maximum amount of
the curr
ent expenses required for that purpose. Second, new money,
printed and/or electronically issued. This new money serves only to pay brand new economy value, like new infrastructures
planned for in a winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program.
These
are paid for through pure new money that has no link to any kind of loan, debt or interests. It is
issued by
the government under strict legal control (that is: "printed"
by the Treasury, as opposed to by a central bank that
would have had to print the money anyway, and then would have charged interests,
uselessly, on a
commercial loan of this "thin-air" money to the government).
This new money can also be created as much as needed to attend the most
pressing needs imposed by a natural disaster. The above means
that taxation and budgets are always kept at their lowest possible levels, but without
preventing economic expansion or the attendance of emergencies, as required, through the Treasury emission of
fresh, new, and no-debt-money for new economy value. Within these parameters, an EthoCratic government is also bound to pay all its committed
expenditures responsibly within maximum 30 days. As for taxation, in an
EthoCracy, no government can impose a new tax that was not part of its last
winning Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program. New surprise taxes, or laws, invented
after an election,
during an electoral mandate, are constitutionally impossible. The same principle applies to increasing an existing tax.
Both would require a new and easy NEVoC election, or an
easy ad-hoc NEVoC referendum, to take place. But the same logic also applies to
all new laws: they cannot be formulated except if they were mentioned
explicitly as a POL
(Project Of
Law) within the preceding general election, with an
explicit
mention of its objectives and main elements, including financing, within the
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. In addition, in an EthoCracy, taxation over 49%, assuming earnings were legally obtained because of the
good talent and the best efforts of a tax payer, or through a company
respecting the best interests of the country, is considered
inadmissible, as a kind of 'theft of state', or hidden
'democratic thievery', whatever the amount
of the legal income. However, in such cases of a bracket of 49% tax being
paid, an individual entrepreneur or a corporation can be investigated by the
ombudsman to see if the prices of products sold by them should not be
decreased, or salaries of employees involved should not be raised. After a few years of EthoCratic regime, no level of
government is expected to have any budget
deficit, and it is estimated that
taxes in most cases would never exceed 25% of personal or corporate income.
A maximum 25% of income tax is in fact an EthoCratic ideal objective for both
citizens and corporations. Similarly, taxation paid to a Central Government for
more than 49% of the total amount of taxes to be paid by any person or
company, is also to be considered
wrongly paid and reimbursable to the appropriate regional or local
governing institutions. Tax payers must be able to see as clearly as possible where
their tax money goes and be given a chance to be satisfied, hopefully proud,
of how it is being spent. At least 51% of all taxes is thus versed to
non-central
entities, like municipalities or provincial institutions. In turn, any level
of government wanting to create new services, or increase existing ones, is prevented to
do so if not only after an appropriate electronic referendum approving
it (quick, easy and cheap under the new NEVoC voting system), and the consequent taxation increase, or the
NAMA involvement for
funding the new economy value with no-debt money. If any budget deficit
existed when a new (first) EthoCratic government took power, it is also
constitutionally bound to reduce it by at least 1% a year, subject to
an appropriate NEVoC election or referendum confirming the
temporary wavering of that legal requirement of the "Fundamental
PhiloEcoSophical Law" (a flexible annex to the constitution,
called the FPL, as seen in another
reform) for the
coming year. Old deficits inherited by previous non-EthoCratic governments
can be handled by NAMA, over a few years, by substituting portions of
debt-money with real no-debt-money, thus maintaining money reserves in
commercial banks more or less at their existing levels. An EthoCracy state budget is
basically managed like a good family budget and does not normally involve
expenses bigger than the income, except after a clear consultation and
approval of the majority of the persons involved in funding the expense
through raised taxation or
NAMA intervention.
Governments must take open responsibility for all taxes they impose, and do
it in full transparency. Consequently all taxes must be openly pre-discussed
in a Winning 4-Way Binding Electoral
Program and explicitly quoted to
the citizens being taxed. Even the
VAT
cannot be hidden as included in
the sales price and must always be stated separately and
explicitly on both price tags and
receipts.
NO GOVERNMENT EXPLOITATION OF
CITIZENS
In many countries, there is an acute phenomenon of exploitation of men by
men, directly or through corporations, let alone even slavery in many cases. This is impossible in an EthoCracy because of the
interplay of many of the reforms of this package. However, even in the
so-called best democratic countries, excessive or abusive taxation, and legislation not planned for
through a Winning 4-Way Binding Electoral
Program, often lead to a more subtle form of real slavery of the
citizens concerned. If this is avoided through EthoCracy, this
package of reforms nevertheless gives to its Executive government more power than in
practically any other type of
democracy. This is, as seen in another reform, the interesting effect of the real and double
power brought in by EthoCracy, as the phenomenon that we called:
People's Power over a Powerful President. As for taxation, in case of a
minor conflict, a citizen may first attempt an informal conciliation through
a PJM Taxation Protection
process. In the case of formal auditing investigation of
an individual, or a firm, by the tax office for suspected irregularity, all
investigative meetings outside of a tribunal must include independent
third party observers chosen randomly by the
city Governor, from a list of locally retired citizens and journalists
prepared to play that role for a minimal fee comparable to what is paid to
the members of a jury in a criminal trial. These witnesses must be 1 to 3 in the
investigation of a private tax payer, as per his desire, 3 to 5 in the case of a company, and
up to 7 in
the case of big international corporations. These witnesses are independent
observers from the eventual proactive presence of any lawyer defending the
persons concerned. Their role is to protect the tax
payer against any kind of injustice or unfair aggression, let alone
corruption, on his part, or on the part of the tax
office. If the majority of them is not convince justice was done, they can,
at the end of the investigation, after consulting a
PJM free of charge, make their objections
known to the CorrectivArium,
or even public in writing through the
InformArium, for
due consideration and eventual intervention by a court of law. If
the majority is convinced justice was done, they are bound by law to keep
their opinions, and all the elements of the investigation, completely
confidential to themselves. These rules, combined to the principle of
Full
Transparency mentioned in another reform, reduce substantially the mismanagement, or the
loose management, of all public funds, along with its related corruption and
nepotism, and thus produce additional resources for new projects developed
for the best benefit of all citizens.
→ REFORM 10/30
An OppositArium With All
Possible Forms Of Oppositions
- The OppositArium replaces the traditional Senate. It expresses and registers
all possible forms of Opposition and Public Opinion. It is an improved
Opposition Power, but, first and foremost a National Public Forum, or a place to
express and register public opinion like it has never been available before
in any modern democracy. Similar to the replacement of elected parliamentarians with a limited number
of nominated experts in an ExpertArium, the Senate becomes the
OppositArium, as a public forum open to all
citizens to discuss any subject of public interest or concern,
even if not the matter
of any intended new legislation in the ExpertArium. In this
opposition process, citizens can enjoy all the power of the
True
Information provided by the new
GinfonArium of the new
constitutional Informative Power
to prepare themselves.
Citizens
intending to speak at the
OppositArium have to apply with
the presentation of a clean penal certificate, the
specifications of who they represent (any city, or association, or any group of at
least 5 persons) and submit a brief
one-page Executive Summary of
their subject to be published and scheduled at least three weeks in advance.
These summaries can also be commented and supplemented with
True
Information by the new
InformArium. On the publication of the summary, all opponents, or interested parties, have a chance to also
schedule themselves for counter arguments at least one week in advance of
the intended debate. Any citizens, expert or not, having an interest in the scheduled
subject, and representing at least 5 persons having the same interest, can apply to come in, assist to the discussions and be given time to present objections,
suggestions, or improvements, to the concept, law, absence of law, or
situation involved,
up to the limit of the 200 seats available. As seen in another reform, even citizens with serious criminal records are allowed to speak during
two
special weeks in the course of any given year, even if they represent
only their own selves, pushing the
Direct Democracy
to its Limits. A particular effort is
made to encourage the younger and the older citizens to also take part
together in the
talks of the OppositArium, confronting and opposing each other on the same
subjects: the younger than 30 (even minors) and the older than 70 years old. In
fact, twice a year for a week (twice 5 working days), the debates are scheduled to confront only these two categories on
new or old subjects already
discussed during the preceding weeks or months, reviewing them with the particular
point of view of these 'opposite generations' perspective. In
fact, these two yearly
sessions are called OGP
sessions, or the weeks of the "Opposite
Generations Parliament". Like in the
ExpertArium, all discussions
of the OppositArium
are obligatorily
public, led by an official Governor, steno typed, published in an official gazette,
possibly substantiated by some True Information of the new
GinfonArium, and televised live, nation wide, through special free TV channels
and/or the Internet. The video archive is kept, and public, for at least
49
years. Discussions
on any specific subject are limited to one to five working days maximum at
the discretion of the Governor. Members who participated in the activities
of the OppositArium
as citizen speakers can be referred to as OppositArians in
their curriculum, with relevant dates and notes.
COMPENSATIONS TO SPEAKERS
In the
case of the OppositArium,
citizens living outside town, and granted scheduled time in advance for
exposing their views, can be paid a small per diem for their expenses coming
to the OppositArium. The younger than 21, and the older than 70,
are also paid appropriate and reasonable hotel accommodation, accompanied by an
adult of
their choice. Persons who have not complied to their duty to vote in the
last election, and paid a penalty for that reason, as certified by the
GinfonArium, may still be booked for speaking, but without receiving any
kind of per diem. All these expenses, for both the
ExpertArium and the
OppositArium, amount to a tiny little fraction of what these two
traditional chambers spend, give a much better representation of all points of view
in formulating changes to current legislation or difficult situations, and achieve this objective
with much more flexibility, and in also only a small fraction of the costs
and time it usually takes by non ethocratic traditional chambers.
HOTELARIUM
However, the OppositArium
and the
ExpertArium together own a
HotelArium. This is a nearby hotel with direct underground communication to
both the OppositArium
and the
ExpertArium, with no luxury, but
with perfectly functional rooms, where workers and/or scheduled visitors to
these two institutions can be lodged for a small fee, or hosted free. When
rooms are available, visitors to the OppositArium for example must use use
of those, or receive a per diem for not more than the regular per diem of
such rooms.
QUESTIONARIUM AT AN OPPOSITARIUM PLENUM
Approximately once every two months, the OppositArium schedules a special
session, of at least one full working day, where all Governors of all Ariums
have to present themselves, all together, as an OppositArium Plenum.
They come for a double confrontation, live on TV cameras of the InformArium.
They first confront themselves and criticize the activities of each other's
Arium, and then get confronted by all scheduled OppositArians from the
general public. These special sessions are called the QuestionArium.
→ REFORM 11/30
EthoCracy as Direct
Democracy Pushed to its Limits - The
original democracy concept, as invented by Ancient-Greece, was not at all a
"representative democracy", nor a "regulatory democracy", like we know them today, but rather a
real direct democracy, not to say a "Direct
Meritocracy", with citizens expressing their
opinions and voting directly on their own right at the assembly, instead of
through a deputy, and decisions being taken by a majority of simple
individual citizens instead of by elites of lobbies and powerful
corporations. From this point of view it was all the opposite of what we
have today as "regulatory democracy" and the terribly undemocratic
mercantilism that inevitably comes with it. This original "Direct Meritocracy" is what EthoCracy tends to emulate as much as
possible. With the advent of the era of the Internet, and new technology
offering the possibility of a NEVoC voting system, like the one mentioned
above as the first EthoCratic reform, along with the use of specialized TV
stations, what could be done on a reduced scale in Ancient-Athens can now be
emulated quite easily at the scale of much bigger cities, or even big countries.
Citizens can now have direct voting power most easily, and the power of
direct opinion expression at national level more than ever before in human
history. This is what the new ExpertArium and the new
OppositArium mentioned
in other reforms are trying to emulate. Providing a clean police
certificate from the CorrectivArium, and a signed sponsorship from the group they represent, free available seats in the
ExpertArium or the
OppositArium can always be proactively distributed to
potential observers in the week preceding any debate, including groups from
schools, hospices, industries, professionals, farmers, syndicates etc. A limited
number of these ad-hoc observers at the OppositArium
can also be allowed a
few minutes for a personal intervention under live national cameras if the
standing moderator offered this possibility before the end of a debate,
because some time was still available within the normal limits of regulated
discussion periods. In fact, twice a year for a week (twice 5 working days),
the OppositArium
is open also to members of emarginated groups, socially, politically or
economically, even to, or through, representatives with serious criminal
backgrounds. These two yearly sessions are called the "Emarginated
Groups OppositArium". At time of special social tension, additional days can also
be made available on an ad-hoc basis. During a special crisis period, some
of the seats can even be assigned on a continuous basis (for the duration of
the crisis) for the relevant
groups and parties to take turns in the discussions with their representatives. Even
prisoners can be
brought in when required, to represent their co-inmates, and be given a
chance to express a majority opinion or a protest. This ensures
absolutely everybody can have a chance to
be heard in public, through the OppositArium
and its national TV channels, as
a much better alternative than through organizing violent demonstrations, or breaking
protests, in streets or public places, in order to get media attention and visibility. They not
only get better public attention, nation wide, but at the same time they are much
less disruptive for the other citizens in need of attending their daily
routine life. This "democracy to the limit" can also prevent the declaration
and the holding of the most disturbing or disruptive strikes for the public in gener
al. This, along with the other changes to institutions
mentioned above for achieving an EthoCracy, pushes the process of direct
and participative democracy to its outmost limits, like no other modern democracy
does it at the moment. By the same token, Direct Democracy, and the
consequent Meritocracy that usually sprouts more naturally from it, tends to
eliminate all the intermediaries who, just too often, become the subjects of
the worst political corruption in exercising their distant representational
work. An EthoCracy is thus, first and foremost, a kind of Full InfoCracy,
where citizens can not only get immediate and complete
information from the InformArium, even exhaustive knowledge, on any question, but can also vote
on the related issues more directly and swiftly than ever before, and have
immediate access to effective means to express their opposition to some
projects being discussed, publicly and democratically, even at national
level, using the OppositArium, like never before in the history of humanity.
FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF
OPPOSITION AND PROTESTERS OFF LIMITS
The direct democracy pushed to its limits, as mentioned above, in particular
through its new OppositArium, has given to
all citizens, even to those with serious criminal records, the best possible
means of protesting democratically, with media attention and national
visibility, more than in any other democratic system.
Protesting
differently, in particular violently, is thus off limits. In an
EthoCracy, all protestors acting outside the extensive democratic means available to
them, like wildly in public streets, must, by law do so with their full responsibility
under the criminal code and the powerful intervention of the
CorrectivArium. This
means essentially two things. First, they must
do so open face, that is without anything hiding their faces, not even any
kind of regular motorcycle driving helmets. Protesting publicly with a
hidden face is a crime sufficient for immediate arrest, for that sole
reason, even if the protestor is not involved in violent action, and is the
subject of the payment of a fine.
Second, they become fully responsible for
all the
damages done during violent demonstrations, through either fines or reduction of
their salaries for as long as needed, let alone possible additional jail
sentences with accompanying free repairing social work in appropriate cases. If
in particular a protester is arrested by the
CorrectivArium because he is involved in violent or breaking
activities, and cannot demonstrate he has used at least once the extensive
official democratic means of protest available to him regarding his current protest, he
cannot avoid at least a minimal jail sentence, or a period of part time or
full time social
repairing work without pay, independently of any financial fine or damage he may be
responsible for.
→ REFORM 12/30
A Firm Separation Between Politics,
Media and Money -
In an EthoCracy, this separation is firmly controlled, as complete as
possible, and on the constitutional basis of the Syntagma. Politics is based
on ideas, and concerted ideas through
Four-Way Binding Electoral Programs accepted at majority, not on
media or money
power. Media in turn, as national media, under the influence of the new 4th state
power, the Informative Power, is based on the dominant
constitutional concept of
True Information, without an inferred meaning of any censorship
whatsoever, rather the opposite, and not
on the interests, or even often the manufactured disinformation, of lobbies
or corporations, nor on the influence of politics, except for media with an
explicit political affiliation in its
front page. Finally, money power cannot invade,
in any dominant way, not openly nor surreptitiously, the independent fields
of politics and media. The
"Three Best Friends" of normal
democracies (Politics, Media and Money), become the "Three Best
Competitors" of an EthoCracy. Politicians exist to express ideas, let alone
ideals, and have them accepted by a majority of voters through a
fully
Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program, and through the full execution of that
program once elected, lest be forced to
resign. With current most sophisticated communications facilities, and the new
cross-control ARIUM Structure of
the government, this effort requires only limited public money, and no
dominance of open nor hidden private money or media power. Money really
comes into play in politics and media, only as a possible open second step, when these ideas have been accepted
by a majority of voters, and need materialization, or when they are opposed
by a majority of voters and OppositArium speakers. Money is not at all a 5th
power of the state, and stays essentially in the private realm, albeit
possibly making also its own recognized and legitimate private interest while helping the public realm, but
definitely under the control of politics and the vigilance of independent
media: the "Three Best Competitors". This EthoCratic separation of money, politics
and media has a series of
important cascading consequences that changes drastically what we know of
most western democracies at the moment.
AS FOR FINANCING TO POLITICAL PARTIES
In an EthoCracy, there is no more public financing of political parties
except for the matching, with public funds, of the limited private
contributions received from their registered members. These contributions
can only come from individual physical persons with
nationality and never from any association or any other legal body.
They cannot legally come from non-registered members. In addition, these private contributions cannot exceed 25% of the last declared net
annual income of the member. In any case, these contributions, per person, are
also limited to
the maximum of the average total salary of a local
nursemaid (as established
by the municipal Governor, for the purposes of another EthoCracy reform having to do with the social salary of a
mother not working in order to stay at home to grow minor children and enjoy
EFU or
EFB benefits). All
these legal contributions will be matched by public money,
but only after election,
and only if the party got at least 5% of the popular vote.
Furthermore, political parties are limited to
10 in number. If 10 exist already, and a candidate president wants to form a new
party, he has only two options: negotiate an amalgamation with one or more
of the existing parties, or gather a membership, with which to form a new
party, that will be higher, in registered members, than the membership of an existing party,
as published by the InformArium, with
the automatic elimination, for electoral competition purposes, of the party with the lowest membership
one month before the next
election. An EthoCracy can have any number of political parties, but only the 10 highest membership parties can participate in a
national
election, independently of the votes a particular party may have got in the
last election, or even if that party won the last election.
Membership
maintenance level is the key for a party to be allowed participation in a
forthcoming national election and, on the basis of the
FPL, voters cannot legally be
registered members of more than one political party at the same time. In return
for this public money, and even if the party refused that public money, the party
must provide the records of a proper
JanitoSecurity Reception service (explained below). The private financing can only be
done in full
transparency, with the names of the contributors being published openly on the Internet by the party, and equally
openly, as True Information, by the new
GinfonArium of the new constitutional
Informative Power of the new
Syntagma.
AS FOR THE JANITO-SECURITY SERVICE OF POLITICAL PARTIES
The delivery and publication of the records of a JanitoSecurity
reception service of a political party, in terms of all the non-staff movements in and
out of their official premises, is meant to protect the interest of the
people who contributed private and/or public funds to political parties, in
providing them with
True
Information about who associates with these parties. In order to have the best possible means to eventually verify
possible illicit relations between politics, money and media, all political parties
must deliver their JanitoSecurity records of the movements
of all non-staff members at the entrance of their premises. These
records are then published by the new
InformArium. This is however no/no kind of spying service, but only a plain
ethocratic True Information service. The
JanitoSecurity employees, or accompanying staff involved, only register, and report faithfully, to the
InformArium,
all factual movements in and out, of all non-staff persons, without
commenting nor attempting any
interpretation for the reason of these movements. Their records are sent daily to the
InformArium, with a copy to the political party itself. The
InformArium then
publishes these reports on its website as what is considered strictly
factual True
Information that can be useful to the public in general, and to the
voters of that party in particular, let alone possible eventual judicial
officials investigating the party for any given legal reason. The
JanitoSecurity receptionists involved are chosen and paid by their party,
but receive their operational instructions, and protection for their
independence, from the InformArium. They must receive full collaboration from eventual additional security guards that
may be needed, and
paid for, by the political party, at the entrance of their buildings.
AS FOR ASSOCIATIONS AND CORPORATIONS
No non-physical person, like
corporations or associations, can provide any money whatsoever to any political party,
subject to criminal prosecution that may lead to a sentence of imprisonment
and/or a fine of ten times the amount of money provided to the political
party. The fine is, in principle, applied only to the persons responsible
for the illicit donation, and against their personal property if they have
no liquidity; In case of no liquidity nor property, the responsible illegal
donators get a jail sentence, and the fine is turned in a subsidiary way
against the liquidity and properties of the three highest executives of the
organization they represent, or to them automatically if there is a doubt
about who is responsible for the illicit donation. Following one of the
principles of the FPL, punishment with imprisonment is always a subsidiary
way when financial punishment can be applied, in terms of
personal economic punishment of the managers at
fault. This is why, in the case of financial institutions, of any type, in
particular all banks, private or public, national or foreign, a
CID must sit on
their national board, and must report, when
necessary, in this specific case, not only to the InformArium,
but also to the
CorrectivArium, as it is
exceptionally nominated jointly by these two new State Powers. In an EthoCracy there
just cannot be anymore any
kind of hidden money power behind political or government action, nor even any open
or hidden funding from non-physical-person entities. On the other hand, all interested parties in new legislation,
including associations and corporations, have better public facilities than
ever before in the history of democracy to express their views and concerns, let alone their interests,
in the open discussions of the new
OppositArium that is a major
tool in the Direct Democracy
Pushed To The Limits that an EthoCracy really is.
AS FOR LOBBIES
In the same manner, no lobbies, as we know them today, can exist in an EthoCracy, subject to
criminal prosecution. These lobbies can still exist, and act legally, and even act strongly, but only
openly, under live
TV cameras, within the public forum of the new
OppositArium, or as
registered speakers of the LegisArium. They cannot ever
request private or hidden meetings with Expertarians, in their offices or
outside their offices, for the
purpose of lobbying and influencing the legislators. Attempting to do so
outside the ExpertArium constitutes a legal presumption of an attempt of corruption sanctioned
by the criminal code. The punishment here is also applied first against
the liquidity and properties of the persons responsible for the illegal
lobbying, as per the same principles seen above regarding illicit financing
of political parties. In particular, the
FPL prohibits lobbies
representing the interests of any foreign country,
entity or person, even in the OppositArium,
except if the government has already decided to give aid to a foreign
country, or to oppose that foreign country one way or the other, in an
explicit item of a winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program, or has a conflict to resolve with a foreign entity. Foreign
non-national residents can however register themselves to speak in the
OppositArium, but on a non-priority basis with regards to nationals.
AS FOR EXPERTARIANS
The new expert legislators, appointed and sitting in the new
ExpertArium, called Expertarians, are all given an individual
office to do their work. It is however a fully public space. Any conversation
with visitors has to take place either publicly in these offices, always with
the presence of at least one witness, be it their own secretary, or be
postponed, if they are private, to be held outside the ExpertArium. Most
Expertarians serve only
for a few months at a time, and during that time, the space provided to them
as office is fully reserved to their official work in consultation with
the other Expertarians. A private visit in these
offices, held without witnesses, is a criminal infraction. Expertarians
meeting people who are known to them, inside or outside their offices, who
insist in trying to influence their work, have to
report the fact to the new GinfonArium, and invite these people to book
themselves to speak and express their views and concerns at the
OppositArium.
Not complying Expertarians are punished under the criminal code, fired and
refused to serve in that same capacity in the future, for the rest of their
life.
AS FOR EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS BELOW THE EXECARIUM
As seen above, the electors select, and elect, only a president
with his fully known executive team. His program
also contains the names of his executive candidates at provincial and municipal levels, let alone at
international organizations to which the government already contributes
public funds. All of these are thus indirectly elected with
their names and their faces, and with all
True Information available
about them,
provided by the InformArium, with regards to their competence and
curriculum. There can be no surprises after the election, and all will
necessarily make sure the
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program is executed faithfully
and completely at all
levels of the country. The other great advantage, if not the most important
one, is that all these candidates will not be forced to find money to
campaign and to be elected, like it is the case in a non ethocratic country.
These appointees will be nominated strictly for their merit and their
loyalty to the President and his winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. This means that
even poor candidates, but qualified candidates according to their candidate
president, can become part of the
executive power on their sole merit, even without any campaigning money at their
disposal, nor any media power. This also means a further separation between politics,
money and media,
and the elimination of most of the corruption that is usually taking place
otherwise.
AS FOR NEWSPAPERS , TV STATIONS, AND WIDE DISTRIBUTION
PUBLICATIONS
In an EthoCracy, all national and non explicitly affiliated newspapers, and
the like of wide distribution magazines, can be owned in majority
only by a national person, or a
national corporation, that has this ownership and management as an
exclusive activity. There can be
no mix at all, on the part of the owner, with
any other kind of business activity, like a TV station or a manufacturing
company, and the same owner can only own one such media. This
'no-other-business' requirement also applies to all full-time
journalists hired by the newspaper. Journalists with a personal private
business on the side cannot become full-time journalists of a newspaper,
only external
contributors. In turn, all external or part-time contributors, or
collaborators, who also have a private business activity, have to identify
the type of their private activity, as a short p.s. at the end of each of
their written contributions. Private investors, who run a private business of any
kind, and want a share in a newspaper, can only do it through a blind trust,
and with an explicit mention of their share, as
True Information,
in a reserved place within the newspaper. Fulltime hired journalists can
also do the same. If they acquire a business after being hired, they have to
resign or place their newspaper share in a blind trust. No national newspapers,
or magazines of any kind,
affiliated or not,
receive any public funds whatsoever, and all have to survive strictly on
publicity and the regular sale of their copies. Newspapers affiliated to any
political party, or any association, religion, or any other kind of legal
national entity, have to make an explicit mention of the affiliations, be it
in small letters, but on the front page, just below the name of the
newspaper. National newspapers cannot be affiliated to any non-national
entity. No foreign non-national entities can own any newspaper in majority in the
ethocratic country, but they can distribute their newspaper freely, for sale
in the country, as
long as they identify explicitly, within the newspaper, who their owners are,
and their eventual affiliations, and who their funders are, if and when they receive money from
external funding sources. The same rules apply to all private TV stations,
mutatis mutandis, and the owner, who cannot have one as an exclusive
activity, must either sell it, or sell its other kind of business, be it
even in the related field of mass-media. None of the above prevents
companies or associations to have their own private publications, well
identified as such on the front page, for their internal needs or for public
information or publicity for who they are and what they do. All
identification or affiliation particulars, on the front page of all media,
of owners, contributors or funders, must be pre-approved and certified by
the InformArium as
True Information.
→ REFORM 13/30
A Limited But Important Role of
Political Parties -
As seen in another reform, the Public
Financing of political parties is extremely limited in
an EthoCracy. Their duties are also limited, but nevertheless very important. Political parties, in
an EthoCracy, are essentially dedicated to expressing a
Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program
and a leader as their president candidate for the next
national election. Because an EthoCratic government is a
NoNoNo Government, with not only No
debt and No borrowing power, but also No new taxation or
law, all new laws have to be announced as a
POL (Project Of Law) within a winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program, with its explicit objectives
and all its essential items, before an elected government can elaborate it,
and apply it, during its mandate. These
POL elaborations
become just about the most important duty of political parties. From this specific point of view,
political parties are in fact still
vitally important because, not having a traditional legislative lower house
with elected parliamentarians in the new ExpertArium,
and having a NoNoNo type of
government, the leaders they express,
and the members of their
executive teams, are the only real politicians
that still exist in the country, and they have to control and manage competently the
ExecArium power of the whole country, while all other officials of the
elected government
are employed technocrats and their technical support staff. Nevertheless, in an EthoCracy, political parties
are still necessary, and a candidate president, in order to demonstrate his
seriousness and a legitimate fellowship, cannot usually decide to go on his own,
without affiliation to a party. Parties, when forming
themselves, have only a
well delimited constitutional role, albeit an important one. With the creation of the
ExpertArium, traditional politicians as we know them
today, sitting in a parliament, are unnece
ssary, because totally outdated, awkwardly dangerous
through their incompetence and ignorance, and in fact, except for the
executive power, they are inexistent. None can sit in any kind of parliamentarian chamber, as we now know them today, playing power games, and
posing useless obstacles to government efficiency in executing its winning
majoritarian Four-Way Binding
Electoral Program, doing so at great and useless public expense,
let alone possibly favor or enrich themselves through mercantilism and corruption
in the overall process.
Their main role is still very useful and important, but is limited to, and consists essentially in,
working within the party for
expressing a leader (a
candidate President) with a
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program and his
team of Ministers and Governors for the next presidential election, supporting and
proposing that candidate president like the beautiful
supportive hand to the
left. One of the three most
senior positions of these political parties, or an appointed expert of theirs, can also sit in the
ExpertArium by
right, as an observer, in addition to the 100 experts (using 50 additional seats maximum, to be
shared by all parties on the basis of their numerical importance in
membership). The other senior management members of political
parties can
also freely sit, in turn, in the OppositArium, just like any other private
citizen, but never for more than 49% of the extra seats available.
Officials of the government in charge,
can no more fall victims of obstructive political opposition members sitting
in parliament, like it is too often the case in most modern democracies, in particular from parliamentarians who were elected
but are, too often, characterized
by acute ignorance and incompetence in relation to their legislative
function. As long as they fully
respect their Four-Way Binding
Electoral Programs, governments, always
Elected at Full
Majority, are legitimately allowed to manage strongly and freely, undisturbed, with the
help of a new class of
Expertarians, albeit
taking into consideration the possible opposition of the public opinion (in
the ExpertArium, in the
OppositArium, in the work of
True Information
of the
GinfonArium and
VinfonArium of the
InformArium, and in the
interventions of the journalists of the private press), and facing
Yearly Confirmation or rejection of their management by the
relevant yearly NEVoC process and/or the next general election. While doing
so, in Full Transparency,
and with purely
RATAC
budgets, the President and his Prime Minister have the right to be respected and
to enjoy full immunity from any judicial trial for the length of their
mandates, except in cases of clear treason, or factually flagrant corruption,
or criminality, well documented by the new InformArium and concurred by the
LeaderArium.
CANDIDATE PRESIDENTS FROM POLITICAL PARTIES
This is the only normal route for a candidate president to a national
election. However, to ensure the best experience and competence of such
candidates expressed by political parties, the constitutional
FPL of the
Syntagma requires that such candidates have first served successfully, for
at least one term, at each of two inferior levels: as a
MuniGovernor at
municipal level, and as a
ProGovernor at the provincial level. A candidate
not meeting this requirement can only, if favored by a political party, be
encouraged to present his candidature to that political party, and be
accepted by that party as a sponsored president. If that
sponsored candidate wins the election, he can then, if he so wishes, and
if the party also still so wishes, become an official candidate of that party,
and be their new candidate president,
without having to meet the above requirements of the
FPL anymore in future
elections.
INDEPENDENT PRESIDENT CANDIDATES WITH NO POLITICAL
PARTY
Nothing
prevents
a candidate President to propose himself for election without being
affiliated to a political party. The
FPL will allow it, but
only if that candidate has been, in his past,
either a successful
MuniGovernor
or a successful
ProGovernor, and he accepts to do
so formally under the force of a signed engagement in front of the
InformArium, with a total prohibition to receive any private contributions
from non-physical persons for his election, nor public financing of any
kind, fighting the election only on the basis of his own
money and popularity, and declaring to the
InformArium the names of all his
private-person contributors and the amount of their contributions. The
InformArium will have the engagement signed formally by the
independent candidate only after having found
and published all possible True Information on the candidate,
public and private, embarrassing or not, on its website, for the benefit of
all citizens, at least one month before the national election. However,
the requirements of a Four-Way
Binding Electoral Program without the assistance of a political
party will be particularly difficult to be met, but will still apply fully.
→ REFORM 14/30
Full Transparency of All Officials
(RATAC & PIT)
- The word
RATAC
is
being coined here, and stands for: Records
Accessible
To All
Citizens.
PIT means
Public Information
Tag. In EthoCracy, only
RATAC
budgets can
be managed by government officials. In an EthoCracy, as seen in another
reform, the constitution, called a Syntagma, has a
4th state power called the Informative Power, being added to the
three traditional separated state powers: the executive, the legislative and
the judicial powers. With this 4th constitutional power, including its new GinfonArium, the hands of all public managers can
only handle True Information, that is only
crystal-clear business. This is the meaning of the symbol of the picture to the left. Everything
of the public realm must be handled publically, in a fully-transparent-no-secrecy-way. To
start with, all government actions not strictly related to immediate national security, or
to discrete and current police investigations, must be
handled in full transparency. Even in such cases, secrecy, when allowed, holds 
only until
there is a danger of compromising investigations, or important foreign relations, through early
transparency. As soon as that danger disappears, secrecy
must also disappear
automatically and retroactively. This full transparency also refers to all accounting books.
All of them! Everything! At all levels of public government! No more routine confidential or secret
data! No more, in particular, any reserved accounting transaction! Secrecy
applies only in very few specific instances, well defined by law,
and only for as long as strictly needed. In fact, in an EthoCracy,
all levels of government can only operate on the basis of a
RATAC
budget, that is with a firm policy of
Records
Accessible
To
All Citizens.
The responsibility to publish faithfully all accounting transactions with
public money falls on all public executive managers through the new
GinfonArium. All
members of the ExpertArium and/or the
OppositArium, let alone the
LeaderArium,
and all
journalists, or even simple citizen who desire it, can then have full access to all unclassified
government information automatically, and all budget entry, in and out, instantly and freely, directly or through
the Internet website of the new
GinfonArium. The
GinfonArium also
automatically receives, as a constitutional right, copies of all government
records having to do specifically with the disbursement of any sum of public money, and
can verify such records and make them all public, along with the results of
their analysis and research. They do not have a judicial role, but strictly
an informative role, and constitutional duty, under the Syntagma, but what they publish as
True Information can easily lead to judicial investigations
on the request of any interested party. Full transparency,
and full information, bring less secret bureaucracy, and less
secret bureaucracy in turn, always brings less occasions of corruption and
mercantilism, along with better services, and best possible justice, to all
citizens. Last but not least, this full transparency principle also implies
that, under the constitutional FPL
itself, there is, by constitutional principle, no privacy applying to all sums
of public money being disbursed to private citizens, even for routine
legitimate things such as pensions: public money can only be spent publicly.
As for more important sums of public money being spent by private
individuals or companies, after winning a bid for public works, they can
only be handled through a
RATAC process,
including an ad hoc bank account opened specifically for the purpose of the
related public funds, and
not through the private bank account of the individual or company that won
the bid. Such bank accounts are called
BADAROTA, another new word being
coined here, and standing for Bank
Account
Data
Accessible
Read-Only
To
All. The acceptance of
BADAROTA handling is a
necessary condition for private individuals or companies to compete in bids
that, if won, will be spending public money.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS PERSONAL ASSETS
Full transparency also implies a complete inventory of all
properties and assets of all senior government officials, in particular the
executing power, deposited openly and publicly with the GinfonArium, before
the election or the nomination, as a condition to their appointment. The
same rule applies to their vertical family members, and brothers and sisters
on the horizontal line, immediately following their appointment, but to be
kept, in this case, in full confidence and privacy in
the hands of the Ombudsman. If the relatives concerned refuse to
collaborate, the Ombudsman must recommend the cancellation of the
appointment to the InformArium.
In such cases, the InformArium
may either decide to force the cancellation of the appointment, or
alternatively conduct its own official research of the inventory of the
properties of the relatives concerned, but keeping the information
confidential until transparency may become required for any serious reason. The Ombudsman
and the GinfonArium will necessarily also make a comparative assessment of the
assets of these same officials and relatives, at the end of the mandates of
the appointed officials, with all the relevant information being kept
confidentially by the GinfonArium
until there are reasons to do otherwise. Flagrant serious inconsistencies must be
submitted by the Ombudsman or the
GinfonArium, previous consultation and agreement of the
LeaderArium, to the
OppositArium for public discussion, with the
possibility of a magistrate getting involved, on the request of the
LeaderArium, in an appropriate
investigation of inconsistency of apparent and suspected criminal relevance. The same principle of full
transparency extends mutatis mutandis to all entities of public
governing power, including Judges, Governors, Deputy ministers etc. In
the specific case of the top 3 executive positions of each State Power
and/or Arium, they must also declare to the Ombudsman, in confidentiality,
all property acquisitions during the five years following the end of their
public mandate. As for members of the LeaderArium, all must do it, and those
who choose to act in this capacity until they die must then do so for the
rest of their life.
TEMPORARY IMMUNITY OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRIME
MINISTER
However, because of
the need for a clear and powerful leadership in an EthoCracy, of the President and his Prime
Minister, during their
mandates, these two appointees enjoy temporary
constitutional immunity until the end of
their final electoral
mandates, except in cases of flagrant corruption
or criminal acts with at least 3 available
witnesses. Ministers may also enjoy similar immunity, and also Governors, but
only at the discretion of
the President and his Prime Minister. In an EthoCracy, full responsibility of government
institutions in relation to a
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program, and full accountability in
their actions and expenditures, is extended as well to lower levels of
government, mutatis mutandis, like to Governors of provinces and
municipalities. Copies of all documents pertaining to their actions and
expenditures are also obligatorily given to the
GinfonArium and published on an appropriate institution Internet
website providing full transparency under the responsibility of the top
commanding position.
NO ANONYMOUS
COMPANIES
In an EthoCracy, no anonymous company can exist or conduct any kind of
business within the country, directly or indirectly. As seen in another
reform, this rule also fits well with the principle that
punishment for corruption or
fraud is always applied first to the persons concerned, as faulty
managers, as opposed to their companies, and, whenever feasible, as a
personal economic punishment before any prison term may be considered. This
non-anonymity rule applies eminently to all banks or all financial
institutions of any kind. This includes bank transfers, in and out of the
country, to any entity that has no clear executive management in terms of
physical persons.
THE PUBLIC INFORMATION TAG
SYSTEM (PIT)
In an EthoCracy, all public property must always be identified clearly with
a PIT. In the same
manner, all private property or activity financed or assisted partially with
public money must be clearly identified with a
PIT indicating the
amount of public money involved. Whoever receives public money, as a private
individual or company, must have a website
identifying and relating clearly his name with the amount of public money
received, even if it were only a simple one-page website indicating the
details of the PIT.
In the case of a company, the
PIT must always
indicate the name (plus level and function) of the person who received the
money or who was specifically responsible for handling its reception and its
proper use without corruption, plus the name of the owner or president of
the company who is always associated to this same responsibility. Such
company must also put a PIT
inscription plaque at its entrance with the details. Such public money
assistance must also have been the subject of a
BEP (Binding
Electoral Program), and its
PIT must indicate the
BEPID or the
exact number of the Sequential
Numbering of all Electoral Program Items. All public buildings,
owned or rented, must also have a
PIT at their entrance,
indicating their annual maintenance costs and/or the amount of annual
rent being paid, and to whom responsible person
it is being paid. When this is not possible, the
PIT will only indicate
"POP" (standing for
Publicly Owned
Property), like typically on a piece of
furniture being moved around. In other words, all
public property, and all
private property or activity assisted with public funds, must
all and always have a
PIT. All cars owned by
the government, directly or indirectly, must have a
PIT sticker on their
back window and persons often mixing with public officials using public
cars, or public officials using their own cars, may well decide to put a
"Private" sticker instead on their cars if they do not want to be associated
with public property. In the same manner, all websites of people or
companies receiving public funds must have a popup
PIT screen, showing up
automatically on opening their home page, that indicates the
PIT and the
BEP concerned,
including an eventual
BEPID, for the
part of public money they enjoy.
TRANSPARENCY OF ALL DISBURSEMENTS OF PUBLIC FUNDS
Under the authority of the 4th constitutional power, the
Informative
Power, any single public penny
spent by any public administration, including international organizations
spending public money contributed by various countries, must be readily
traceable, fully accountable, and publicly justified with appropriate documentation
provided to the new InformArium authority, to be published and made available immediately and verifiable by any interested party,
subject to the dismissal of the managers involved and/or prosecution in
justice for consistent irregularities. International organizations spending
public money, through national contributions, must also operate on
RATAC
budgets,
otherwise have their national contribution reduced by 25% in the first year,
and by an additional 1% for each following year. The full details of all such financial transaction records
must be readily copied to the new GinfonArium. All government officials of any power
are personally responsible for proactively maintaining full transparency regarding their own operations
at their levels,
and they are also fully, and personally, responsible for all their mistakes.
Private individuals or companies in turn, spending important sums of public
money, after winning bids for public works, are all forced to do it in a
perfect
RATAC
manner, through
a BADAROTA
banking arrangement and the relevant bank account mentioned explicitly on
their compulsory
PIT plaque, at the
entrance of their offices, and on the popup screen of the home page of their
compulsory website, long with the
BEPID involved,
as per the typical example provided to the right.
→ REFORM 15/30
A
Zero Tolerance With
Corruption - Under the
FPL, any member of the
government, or any judge, or any member
of the ExpertArium or
OppositArium, caught in
corruption, or caught not having denounced corruption he was aware of,
or should have been aware of in his commanding position, is banished
for ever from applying for any other public function, and punished
accordingly on the basis of the existing norms of the criminal code. All
official operational documents have to be efficiently signed by at least 3 levels of
authority and, whenever a signature
appears on a document, and that document
becomes evidence of corruption, there is a legal presumption that the
official of this signature should have been aware of the corruption. The
(top)
third level of signature on a document is also legally mandated to take
whatever action is needed to make sure the document becomes public knowledge
through the
RATAC
process of the InformArium,
and is readily available for consultation by any interested party, including
the media. This includes making also a copy of that document available in full
transparency through an Internet website of their own when appropriate. Any document having to
do with the actual disbursement of any sum of public money has to be
automatically, and obligatorily, copied as True Information to the new
GinfonArium of the new constitutional
Informative Power
of the Syntagma. On the private
side, once a person or a company receives a contract from the government, or
money for the partial or full payment of that contract, all the related
documentation issued on the side of that person or company must also be made
public in Full
Transparency, with copies made available on the Internet website of the company,
the
RATAC
website of the InformArium, and
the appropriate
BADAROTA of the appointed bank. A person or a company
caught not abiding by these rules is not legally authorized anymore to bid for any
new public contract in the following 10 years, even if their contracts so far have
been executed in a completely honest way.
TRANSPARENT OPENING OF PUBLIC BIDS
All bids for public work must
be presented at a public meeting, and
opened publicly at that same public meeting,
in front of invited guests of the press, the
ginfonalists, and any other persons who may have
an interest in the bids after having become aware of the bid opening
session pre-announced by at least 2 weeks on the
RATAC
website of the
GinfonArium. Each bid must include a standard opening executive summary of
one page maximum, and that page is made available by the bidders, as a very first step, to all
people coming at the bid-opening session, as a pre-requisite, before the
actual bids are open with all their details. The full 3 lowest bids for
important contracts over an established sum are then
submitted to the OppositArium for a nation-wide public forum discussion during
a day of the second or third week following the bid-opening day, with the
proactive involvement of the new
GinfonArium in the process for full or eventual additional
True
Information purposes, while bids for small contracts or provisions
under the established sum can be attributed immediately to the smallest
bidder. The government then
takes consideration of these discussions for the bigger contracts, and decides sovereignly, in the end,
to whom to attribute the contract, or to request a new bid contest. The
final attribution may not necessarily go to the lowest bidder if the
government can justify it. Once the
contract is attributed, then both the government and the contractor are
responsible for providing Full Transparency on the details of all payments
made during the process, partial or complete, through an appropriate
BADAROTA
arrangement.
PRIVATE WORKS TO BE SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
Private works that are meant, or are likely, to
be sold to the public at large (to more than one private individual), like the
apartments of a new condominium building, are subject to similar regulations
regarding (if not the price, at least) the specifications of the quality of
the infrastructure and of the various main components of the work involved,
all made available as
RATAC, for at least 21 years on the internet website of the
contractor, with a copy archived, and available, for ever, on the relevant city website
and
the database of the new
GinfonArium.
CORPORATIONS CANNOT LOBBY INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONALS
DIRECTLY
The fundamental constitutional law in annex to the Syntagma, the
FPL, is
very explicit on the fact that corporations cannot lobby
directly (in their private presence, and with the
offer of
attached favors or privileges) free independent professionals for the benefit of their own
companies. In an EthoCracy, this is attempted criminal corruption. This applies to private professionals in general, like engineers, notaries, doctors, journalists
or lawyers, but of course in particular to all fully public professionals,
like judges, Governors, or any kind of government official at
any level. The information work of these
corporations can only be done indirectly, through their
own websites, or other
public medias, including the VinfonArium, and offer no privileges to these independent professionals, subject to
prosecution under the criminal code and, in most serious cases, a possible
suspension, or even withdrawal, of their charter to operate as a corporation within the country. In
such cases, if the independent professionals involved have not proactively denounced, and
rejected formally, these attempted interventions to the
GinfonArium, they can also,
even for this sole omission, be
prosecuted under the criminal code, and possibly loose their practicing
licenses, temporarily or permanently. In case of need of an encounter
between these two parties, in order to avoid a potential conflict of
interests, the meeting can take place only in the presence of at least two
independent witnesses, and the VinfonArium can easily provide such witnesses or
act as such.
CORRUPTION PUNISHMENT ALWAYS APPLIES TO PERSONS FIRST
In an EthoCracy, under the FPL, corruption punishment may apply to a
company, and be paid in part by the company involved,
but it always also apply first to the persons in the company
responsible for the corruption, and to their managers, for not having prevented it. The main
burden of the penalty, whenever possible, has to be supported by the
responsible persons involved, and not by the company. The spirit of this
approach is that persons getting involved in corruption should know, ahead
of time, that they are working for their own possible
personal eventual full economic ruin, over and above the eventual
damage or ruin of their company, including confiscation of all their
personal private assets and properties if necessary, in priority over the
ones of the company. Prison as a punishment is always reserved, by an
adjudicating judge, in accordance with the constitutional
FPL, as a
secondary choice, after the primary personal economic punishment has been
fully applied, or for poor faulty managers without assets. This is why, as
seen in another reform, there cannot be any anonymous company existing or
making business within the country, directly or indirectly. The corruption involving
a private single person, as opposed to a company, is also punished on the
basis of this same FPL spirit permeating all the laws of the EthoCracy.
→ REFORM 16/30
A New Type of Extended Family Business
(EFB)
- The FPL
establishes a strong policy of priority and
incentives given, in all national laws, to small business, and in particular
to the new type of EFB (Extended
Family Business), as opposed to big companies, or even to small business
that have no family foundation.
EFB means businesses employing at least 90%
of their employees as family members, or
extended family members,
and businesses where unionization is done only
if all 100% of the employees request it at a general assembly. An
EFB, like a
condominium, has
1000 dwelling units divided in various shares. Members do
not join as ordinary employees, but as a kind of 'partners', or
rather dwellers, albeit maybe with different kinds of
share of dwelling units in the business. The dwelling units serve only for voting purposes in
the general assembly, and do not serve as a basis for establishing the actual
salary of each employee. These small business are called ExFaBusiness
companies (or EFB, standing for
Extended Family
Business). These
EFB are
expected to resolve their personnel and business problems through mutual negotiations,
like in
a general condominium assembly, without a right to strike, without any superior
or inferior negotiating party, on the basis only of the shares of dwelling
units of each member,
and without external syndicate representatives, taking decisions at pure and
strict majority of all dwelling units: one unit one vote. Members joining the company are hired
through a contract with explicit reference to these
EFB norms, and with an
agreement on the redistribution of the overall dwelling units, just like when a
person acquires some, or more, space in a condominium. Contrary to a
condominium however, on the basis of an explicit clause of the hiring
contract, if an
employee does not respect the rules or the decisions of the general assembly, he can be fired out of the
EFB without
any appeal to an
external judge, only with an appeal to a
EFB general assembly. If such
appeal is lost, there could be, in certain special circumstances of flagrant
injustice, an appeal
to an external judge.
CONDITIONS TO BE AN
EFB
The conditions are very simple, but cumulative:
-- To have the owner(s) as national citizens, and at least 90% of the
EFB employees
also as national citizens.
-- To have 90% of its working employees as family members by blood or legal
marriage relationship.
-- To have all family members working in the
EFB
living in accommodation located in the same block
of municipal streets, or at most in an immediately adjacent
block. These private accommodations have to be in the same block where the
EFB is, or with
direct public transportation to that block in
not more than
half an hour.
-- To provide a dedicated
CFS (Common
Family
Space), in the form of an adequate and
comfortable common daytime living area, fully equipped with kitchen, washrooms and
basic infirmary devices, where all the
EFB members, working or not, can meet
at will, at any time, where old incapacitated or sick persons can be left
easily with good care, where babies or young children can be kept under the
attendance of a responsible non working adult, and where the whole
EFB community can
join, any evening, or over weekends, to spend good entertaining time
together to reinforce its solidarity. A normal
CFS
must include other communicating areas, like an
EFA (for
Adults), an
EFE (for
Elders) and an
EFK (for
Kindergarten purposes). If the common area of
accommodation of the workers is not in the block where the
EFB is located,
then the EFB has to provide the main
CFS in the accommodation block, with a
similar, even if smaller, back-up
CFS reserved area in the compound of the
EFB premises.
-- To be registered as an EFB with the
VinfonArium after signing a
formal
EFB agreement with
the help of a PJM.
ADVANTAGES FOR THE
EFB, THE FAMILY, SOCIETY AND THE COUNTRY
At the above conditions, the
EFB company can immediately benefit from a
reduction of 10% of the
company income tax, for the sole reason of being
a registered EFB, because it will likely never strike, and is not likely cause any
public social disturbance with its operations. That 10% however must be
redistributed, on a strict par basis, to all
members of the extended family, working or not, of any age, even minor
children, as a Government
EFB Bonus of encouragement for
maintaining the solidarity and the stability of the
EFB, and to ensure the
"dirty linen" of the
EFB is washed within the family, be it the
extended family, as opposed to through social disturbance. Alternatively, a
general assembly of all adults concerned could
decide, but only on a unanimous basis, to reinvest that bonus in the
EFB for any
urgent or important purpose. In addition, the
VAT of an
EFB is
constitutionally limited to maximum 10%, like for all free independent
professionals. Big corporations tend to want to command to
the government, attempting to make the rules, or influence their
formulation, let alone not respecting them with impunity, while small
companies tend to obey more easily to the government directives issued on
the basis of the constitution and to the objectives of a winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. They are also much more responsive to
required change when the need arises on the basis of a winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program, or more responsive to transformation, or to special assistance to
their employees, in the case of an economic crisis, as they are built, and
operate, on the basis of family solidarity. The ugly kind of mercantilism,
and lack of employee solidary assistance, that characterizes many big
corporations, has to be fought, and the
EFB companies have to be encouraged
and helped as much as possible. The basic income tax reduction of 10% that
they get is separate from, and
in addition to, the personal
GCB (Growing Children Benefits) incentives for genitors, as exposed in the
other complimentary reform on More
United Families. Overall, these cumulating benefits
of EFB and
GCB are
an irresistible incentive to create
EFB companies, and live, and work, in
the context of reunited extended families as much as possible. In addition,
if these families reunify themselves in a close physical environment, within
the EFB compound, or in the buildings of adjacent streets, it is expected
that families with special problems, like sick or handicapped relatives, old
incapacitated parents, or maybe simply with particularly difficult children,
will find the best help, and all the help, they may need to face these
situations in the best possible way within the
EFB environment, without
requiring special social services financed by public money. This means more living harmony, not
only for the families involved, but for society in general, and the country
as a whole, and with less need of
the government to try to intervene with public programs and funds to resolve
these social problems.
→ REFORM 17/30
More United and Contented Extended Families
(EFU)
- This reform has to do with the formation of
Extended Family Units (EFU)
enjoying Growing Children Benefits (GCB).
It is a complement to the other reform on
Extended Family Business. On the basis of the constitutional
FPL however, these benefits
can only apply to a
EFU with nationality. The biggest source of problems of our society at the moment, in the
western world in particular, is the extremely difficult situation of many
young families through a combination of factors: working parents with
children and no free assistance through their extended families, the consequent
very low birth rate, the growing factor of separ
ated or divorced
families, and the endemic lack of the educative presence of genitors and
grand-parents in the daily life of most children. If we want our culture not to disappear,
or our civic environments not to fall into decadent ruins, and women to not be
deprived of a working life, we have no choice but to take drastic measures to ensure
the problem is resolved. In addition, in extended families living together,
difficult children, or children in serious conflict with their genitors, one
or both, always have a better chance of finding one
'extended' member of
the family to help them grow, psychologically and civically, more harmoniously, and not
to move, as easily as
it is the case now, to a world of growing micro-criminality in their
adolescence. Consequently, an EthoCracy gives irresistible financial
incentives and benefits to
legally married national
couples with children, who decide to stay married and
live together, with
their children, whatever the difficulty, as mother and father, until
their youngest child is at least 16 years old, even if this means, hopefully
in only a minimal number of cases, an explicit mutual agreement of the
couple for having a formal
DEDLA (Discrete
Erotic
Double Life
Agreement) for separate sexual relations
purposes, outside the view and knowledge of their minor children, or
alternatively use the informal
WLEW (White
Lie Erotic
Weekend) tacit
understanding. Both the
WLEW (White
Lie Erotic
Weekend)
and
DEDLA (Discrete
Erotic
Double Life
Agreement) strategies, if
used in complete discretion, are better than a separation, much better than
a divorce, from the children's stability point of view, and allow to keep
the many ethocratic benefits attached to this reform, for having more united families to
grow children with more harmony and love, let alone to rejuvenate the
population and reduce the horrific amount of abortions in the country. For the formal
DEDLA (Discrete
Erotic
Double Life
Agreement), an appointment with a
PJM is sufficient to sign the
agreement, in an hour, and at no fee. The
special legislation developed to help these situations establishes various
social
GCB (Growing
Children
Benefits) bonuses for many national genitors growing children
in certain conditions. These
irresistible benefits, to most couples responding to these parameters, include a
reduction of the income tax of national families
by 10% for
each
child in the family. Having six children for example involves a 60% reduction
in all family
income tax,
but only, and strictly, under the constitutional
FPL, for
married nationals of the country with a "1/x" code (as
opposed to "0/x") for
nationality on their NEVoC national IDs, and
only for up to the limit of the
average salary of the municipality of residence, as the top possible income
to be considered in the calculation. These are strict
constitutional parameters, including the "1/x"
nationality factor on NEVoC for the genitors.
One such mother
with two children less than 16, choosing freely to stay home as a fulltime mother and housewife,
also gets a small and un-taxable social salary, issued by the state in her own name,
equivalent to 50% of the regular basic salary of an average
Nursemaid working in
a public hospital of her city of residence, with corresponding pension
contribution paid by the state for 100% of the salary average of the local
nursemaid. With only one child, her salary would be only 25%, but still with
full pension contributions. With 3 or 4 children, the average would be 75%.
With 5 or more children, the average would be 90%. City Governors establish
the average salary of local nursemaids, and the percentage of limit is in consideration of the fact that
these women do not have to go out to work, have a tax-free
social salary, have pension contributions fully paid, and the family also enjoys a reduction of taxes of at least
10%,
and possibly up to 80%, with 8 minor children, of the average salary for
their municipality. Such families, with 2
national
genitors, and with at
least one child, also
get financial or taxation assistance for re-grouping themselves with the grand parents,
or, in their absence, with alternative candidate relatives,
in the same building, or an adjacent one, or in a bigger house: moving expenses are
entirely paid for, in such cases, and interest-free loans can cover the eventual increase
in real-estate space necessary to be acquired for the re-grouping. In the case of no
grand-parents available, or willing to participate in the re-grouping, an
alternative choice can be allowed, like one sister of the
genitors involved, even a non-relative woman if necessary, at the same conditions, but with the obligation to stay
together in the same building premises for at least 10 years, and to
participate actively, on a daily basis, through no outside daytime work, in helping the family
with children and household maintenance. In such cases of alternative "extended family", if
the candidate is not working, but is of working age, she will not
receive a social salary but she can get pension contributions equivalent to the
ones paid by the state for a mother. Any eventual financial retribution in
such cases, comparable to a social salary for the helping woman, has to be
worked out between the working genitors and the caring woman involved. Extended
Families with nationality, who have succeeded in regrouping themselves in the same city block,
or within adjacent blocks, can register legally with a
PJM as a new
EFU (Extended
Family Unit), to
facilitate their access to all the above government benefits. A
EFU can also receive the
right to have, and run, its own private school, as an
EFS (Extended
Family School) for
primary and secondary levels, as long as they respect the official studying
programs for these levels and other eventual norms of the
FPL. If they
also have, or want to start a business, they can also register as a new
EFB, and enjoy the additional
benefits.
NATIONALITY IMPLICATIONS FROM
THE FPL
As seen in another reform, the one of the constitutional
FPL, the
Syntagma expresses many
ethocratic fundamental constitutional principles to be respected by all laws
and public institutions of the country. Two of them are: 1) help nationals
of the country in high priority over non-nationals, and encourage a strong
sense of nationality through all laws and institutions of the country; 2)
help national genitors living in the country to grow children in a context of unified
extended families as much as possible. On the basis of these two fundamental
constitutional principles, all the incentives and benefits mentioned above
are cut in half if one of the genitors of the families described above does
not have a "1/1" nationality code on his or her
NEVoC. If the two genitors are
non-nationals, none of these special ethocratic
benefits apply.
IMPLICATIONS FROM THE EFB LEGISLATION
Within the context of the new EFB (Extended
Family Business, a
separate Reform in the package) legislation, it is expected that help for growing children, on the
part of working mothers, can even still more easily be found. The precious
EFB
benefits can all come to reinforce the ones of this reform. A working mother of an
EFB, with or without the father in the
EFB, has the right to choose to
continue working part-time, refuse the
GCB social salary of this reform, and
get a percentage of her current salary from the
EFB, based on the same percentage
of the working hours she still provides to the
EFB, without the
EFB being
legally able to decide otherwise, except if it is to make the percentage of
her salary bigger than the percentage of the working hours she still
provides, after a decision accordingly by a majority of the general
assembly. Her part-time replacement however has to be another member of the
extended family. Her alternative is to abandon her job, become a full-time mother,
and receive a normal GCB social salary as described above. A working mother in
an EFB is already
an EFB partner and, depending on her salary, she will likely decide to
prefer the percentage of her EFB salary, instead of the
GCB social salary of
the previous reform, because she knows she will most probably find easy, and
fully trustworthy, help for growing her
children, within the context of the extended family, through non working
members of the EFB, like grand-parents, or other family members who have
decided not to work and may live in, or close to, the
EFB compound. On the
other hand, the EFB itself, being family-based, will most likely find easily
another trustworthy non-working member of the extended family to supplement
the percentage of non-working hours of the mother involved, without legally
having to hire the supplementary person, except if it is on a clear temporary
basis, until the working mother decides otherwise. This, by definition,
makes all parties happy: the working mother does not quit completely her
job, or career, if it was considered rewarding to her; the
EFB does not have
to hire formally a new and complete outsider in the company, with all the
risks involved; the replacing person of the
EFB, who was not working, most
likely voluntarily, will be pleased for the partial salary for a while; the
extended family reinforces its solidarity, in particular through the
services and activities of the
CFS (Common Family Space) of the
EFB;
the state does not have to pay any social salary in the meantime; and there
are a few more persons and businesses living and operating more happily
around the country, and helping raising children more harmoniously, and thus
bringing them to majority with a better potential for contributing more
extensively, and more positively, to the improvement and
Kallos Beauty of all our civic
environments.
→ REFORM 18/30
Holistic and Meritocratic
Schools With an
Agricultural Area (EthoSchool)
- In an EthoCracy, public schooling is provided entirely free of charge, up
to the end of university but, because it is a meritocratic system, only the
real best ones can reach the top levels, similar to what happens in the field of
national sports, on the basis of best natural talents and efforts. Schools also obligatorily teach
and apply civic education, up to, and including, university level, impose severe internal
discipline, compete between themselves for attracting and producing the best students and, in the
process, select only the
best, or
most meritorious ones, for university
studies. Again, it is a process similar to the one of the selection of the
athletes of a national sport, ensuring that the very best ones get to the
highest national team level. In addition, all ethocratic schools have an
integrated, or connecting, agricultural area to which all students in turn
must participate, for a short half a day a week, in growing plants or
harvesting crops, and/or in caring for various kinds of animals. These
school agricultural areas are
not full farming environments, like in the case of
Prison-Farms, but they must all integrate an agricultural land area, with
appointed agricultural staff, from which students are expected to
learn and to help produce efficiently and proudly part of their subsistence
food in a perfectly biological way. Regular teachers, in collaboration with
the agricultural staff, are also expected to supervise this agricultural
participation, and grade the students accordingly on this new
compulsory subject matter of their curriculum. The EthoCratic schools also base their education on the
principles of what is in our pages on the
Pythagorean Man Emulation,
regarding the formation of the
Human Tetractys:
they provide a holistic education, and thus they do not only
'instruct' the
'intellectual center' of
students, but also 'educate' their
'emotional center'
and
form their 'physical center. All
schools are also managed through an
SOS approach (Social Olympic Spirit) mentioned at the beginning of this page, that
is like the various levels of teams of a national
sport, where the best ones get naturally to the top, because of their best
efforts and natural talents, and the other ones find each their just niche,
or level, that correspond
to their merit: their
best aptitudes and their best level of honest dedication. In other words, schools
are more selective, but not on the basis of an elite due to the social
or economic status of the family: only on the basis of the
objective merit of each
child, independently from his family. Fair and constructive
punishment is also applied for repairing mistakes or stimulating
better performance and achievements. Plain "no-punishment", as it
has been "politically correct" since the
pseudo-revolution of 1968, is plainly
"Politically Incorrect"
in an EthoCracy. Ethocratic schools must give good
training in all
subjects of the curriculum, but they must also, first and foremost, provide
good education, civic education, and
just punishment for mistakes or irresponsible conduct is pat of all good
education process, albeit maybe concurred with the genitors involved when at
all possible. In an EthoCratic country, there are 10 years of 10 months of
compulsory public school starting on September 1st. Children must show up at
age 6 (or 5 if they will become 6 during the last four months of the
calendar year). These 10 years are followed by a year (of 10 months) of
compulsory
PPS (Patriotic Paramilitary Service: see below) for all children,
males and females, during which year, among other things, they are helped by professional
counselors with their best choices for future schooling (professional,
technical or military), or for technical or unqualified work
after their
PPS. Then follows non-compulsory but still free (no-fee) public
school, either as technical school for 4 years or university for 6 years.
The 6 years of university include, to start with, 4 years of essentially theoretical
and cultural study, and then 2 years of essentially practical study related to the first
4 years, independently of any additional years of further specialization,
practical or theoretical, that may
follow. University students not reaching the passing mark for two years of
university in a
row are forced to leave and revert to technical schools, or private
universities, or professional military enrolment. The same fate touches the ones who reached age 28 and have not
yet completed their 6 years of university study. Technical schools however are always
open to candidates of any age except again that those who do not reach a
passing mark for two years in a row must leave, and offer their services to
the labor market without technical qualifications. These technical schools for apprenticeship, in various
professional skills, are mostly practical study and they admit honorably
students not capable of, or not fit for, more intellectual professions at
university or post-university levels. Students of the first 10 years of
public school never double any given year because of poor grades, but their
average grade during these
first
10 years is the base for the selection of those
destined to technical schools or to university. Children can then improve their
10 year average grade, compensating 'bad' years with
'good'
years in the course of their 10 years. The opposite, of course, is also true. In principle, universities
receive the top 25% of them, distributed between all universities, but
taking into account the preferences of the students involved as much as
possible. Universities also have to
compete and produce best employable professionals, in particular through an
appropriate use of the last 2 years of practical study at university. In
turn, severe penalties are imposed on public universities producing,
in majority,
still unemployed professionals (in their own profession) at the beginning of
the third year following the end of their university studies. All this
information is followed and made available to the public as
True
Information by the
GinfonArium of the new
Informative Power. Those
public universities with poor records
can see their quotas of students reduced, and their budgets lowered accordingly, with
the possibility of even their charter being withdrawn in most serious cases,
and sold to the private sector. The
global indicative quota of 25% for university students can be adjusted over the years,
up or down, as per the needs of the time, in order to avoid major crisis of
unemployment. This way, each child in the school system finds its best
position and niche, or type of working life performance, just like in the management
of the various levels of teams of a national sport, where each athlete finds its
just place and level.
In EthoCracy, public universities produce much better professionals, and there is,
for all of them, also much less unwarranted
and unnecessary unemployment than there
is now. This
is "Merit" applied to the field of national education, a situation not
less unfair, nor more unpleasant, than what happens at the moment, quite
spontaneously and naturally, in the field of national sports.
Private schools and universities can still exist, but receive
no public
funds. They however operate on the basis of a government charter. They must
also teach civic education in the same manner that public schools do. They
must be inspected yearly and compete with public
institutions in producing best employable professionals, with their charter
possibly being withdrawn if their record is particularly poor, not only in
terms of instruction, but also in terms of civic education as defined for
the needs of the public schools. Because of the major importance of the
quality of all education being provided in the country, their performance is
closely scrutinized by the
GinfonArium, and all relevant
True
Information is published by the new
Informative Power on a continuing
basis, as allowed by the constitutional
FPL, even if they are not public
institutions. Foreigners, or non-national residents, have to pay a student
fee, and comply to the normal civic education requirements of all ethocratic
schools, at all levels.
IMPLICATIONS FROM THE
FPL
The constitutional FPL of the
Syntagma expresses many ethocratic fundamental
constitutional principles to be respected by all laws and public
institutions of the country. As seen above, one of them is to do whatever
possible to reinforce the positive figures of father and mother, let alone
the concept of authority, and the concept of the natural "Beautiful
Difference" between males and females, in front of students, while
attending ethocratic schools. This means that although schools below
university level are mixed environments, and children of both sex attend the
same schools together, all normal classroom sitting lessons are provided to
males and females separately, in different rooms, and with teachers of their
own sex. However, all other activities and times at these same schools are, in principle,
spent normally in a mixed environment. The same segregation applies in
practicing sports, with rare occasional exceptions. Other exceptions are made in
studying some compulsory subject matters.
National Economy Concepts is a compulsory subject matter for all males,
while Domestic Economy Concepts is a compulsory one for all
females, even if each can follow also the subject of the other, on a
non-compulsory basis. In the spirit of the inventors of holistic education in
Ancient-Greece, wrestling is a compulsory sport for all males, while
swimming is a compulsory one for all females. This does not prevent a male
to do also swimming, nor a female to study also national economy concepts,
but on their own free time and without being compulsory. On the other hand,
Civic Education is a compulsory subject for both males and females.
Good civic behavior grades are awarded to all children, every month, like in
all other subjects, and these grades can help, or damage, the child average
school grade for the overall 10 years of compulsory schooling, and thus have
some significance on access to university studies. The concept of Civic
Decorum is also dear to the ethocratic
FPL, and consequently all
students must attend public schools with the full school uniform, including
shoes, paid by the student family. The price to pay for the uniform is minimal, and certainly less
expensive for the genitors than using a continuous change of new clothes
during the school year. With paid uniforms, families thus end-up saving
money on clothing for their children. The wearing of the uniform is compulsory until the
children are handed back to their genitors, and must be maintained
impeccably by the genitors, subject to a penalty on the Civic Education
grades of the child. The FPL
is also very clear about the necessity of
public education to be holistic and very
selective on a purely meritocratic
basis. The implication of this constitutional principle are many. Students
cannot receive only instruction, or pure instructive knowledge, as future competent professionals, but must
also receive holistic education as good human beings, and as future good citizens. In
turn, teachers cannot act as teachers on the basis of only their knowledge,
but have to be trained as graduates of special teachers schools, as soul educators,
make their students also "learn how to learn", learn themselves how to teach
and be educators, before they can be hired and
act as teachers transmitting knowledge. In an ethocratic country, apart from
having special dedicated schools for forming teachers, many universities
also offer faculties with this specific specialization. Once teachers are in
position, they have a double role, and they must act not only as traditional
teachers, but also as coaches of best
meritocratic behavior, somewhat like good sport coaches do quite
spontaneously, as much as they act as good knowledge transmitters, at all
levels of schooling, including university. They are not concerned only with
the formation of the intellectual center of the students, but also with the
formation of their emotional center, let alone their physical and artistic
skills, and grade them on a holistic meritocratic basis. As much as student
must come out of the public education system as good technicians or
professionals, they must first and foremost come out as good human beings
and good citizens.
→ REFORM 19/30
A New Patriotic Paramilitary Service (PPS) - As seen in another
reform, the
constitutional FPL of the
Syntagma expresses many ethocratic fundamental
constitutional principles to be respected by all laws and public
institutions of the country. One of them is the reinforcement of a good
sense of patriotism. In an EthoCracy there is no traditional compulsory
military service, but only a professional military service, as a
freely chosen
long-term career. In turn, there is a Patriotic Paramilitary Service (PPS)
that is compulsory for everyone, all citizens, and
those non-citizens who are permanent
residents and not forced to a compulsory military service in their country
of citizenship. It applies equally to males and females, of whatever sex
orientation, and it lasts for 10 full months. They have to present themselves
for PPS on the first of September of the year they get to be 17
(or 16 if they will become 17 during the last four months of the calendar
year), or delay for a year, at
their choice, but without any exception for further flexibility, except of
course for
seriously handicapped children not having attended normal schools. They must wear the
"EE"
Uniform [Similar to the one on the picture
to the left, with the EE standing for
EthoCracy
and EthoGloso patriotic service]
full time during the service, including when circulating outside the
encampment during
authorized days of leave. Males and females sleep
separately in isolated dormitories. Their training is done partly separately
and partly together, on the same paramilitary campus. The education they
receive includes a thorough review of the national history, special training
for the command of their official national
language, in both speaking and writing, civic education, good manners,
EthoCracy philosophy and principles, with a concentration on its
main concepts of decorum, merit, ethics, and
philoecosophical values. Their overall
PPS formation also wants
to reinforce in them a strong sense of patriotic pride for their
nationality (or their country of permanent residence in case of legal
immigrants who still do not have citizenship), along with the
development of an equally strong sense of oneness responsibility at planet level. In
addition, they enjoy full time availability of expert counselors regarding
their personal life, the development of their aptitudes and talents, and
their choice of a job, a profession or further study at university, or at
technical or military schools. The discipline and the respect of
authority on the campus is very strict, similar to what happens in the best
traditional military campuses. Arms training is minimal and limited to the
handling of defensive strategies and tools for eventual participation in the appeasement of
violent civic unrest or the protection of areas of disaster. At the end of the service, the
PPS issues a
PPS Certificate that includes marks of level of performance, and
of good behavior, that might be
helpful or detrimental for eventual job opportunities, just like any other
normal school certificates. Be it clear however that being "Patriotic" in
attending the PPS does not mean being "Nationalistic", certainly
not in the
bad "Nazi" sense of the word that the politically correct usually gives it
today, but only "Patriotic", in the best
traditional sense of the word.
In these EthoCratic paramilitary campuses there is never any activity
expressing any form of a sense of national superiority or supremacy, but
only a good sense of loyalty and pride for belonging to one's country, and a desire to
know what is needed to preserve or improve the best culture of that country,
including the quality of its national language(s). To compensate and better develop
also a sense of
internationality, and an EthoPlasìn sense of Planet Oneness Responsibility,
EthoGloso is also taught on the campus, as an IAL, in order for its citizens to be
equipped with the best tool available for easy routine international
communications worldwide. All this certainly has no connotation of any racial pride,
nor any nationalistic pride, but only normal and natural patriotic pride in
the good sense that was given to it in the culture of Ancient-Greece. Of
course it is the kind of good patriotic pride that can, and should, be cultivated by all
nations, each in their own way, without any intent of supremacy, for the
sole purpose of maintaining the integrity of each their own special and
beautiful historic culture, not to mention their own particular basic
values, traditions, language, and social, economic and spiritual interests.
PPS IN THE ETHOPLASIN ACADEMY
In an EthoCracy, for the
candidates chosen for the EthoPlasìn Academy, the
PPS can be done within the
Academy. In such cases, it involves a double effort related to achieving the
combined objectives of the regular
PPS program outside the Academy, and the
additional and special objectives of the Academy for its
First Stage year of preparation for the
formal entry at the Academy (as explained in section 4, called
The Difference,
of our home page).
→ REFORM 20/30
Only Legal Immigration and
Least Possible Multiculturalism -
Cultures and races are beautiful, each with their own unique beauty. They have to be preserved and protected
like precious jewels, or noble wines, of various kinds. Like wines however, they cannot be mixed
extensively with types
that are too different from their original nature. You can quite
successfully mix
together a lighter with a darker red wine, both of a red color, but you cannot mix wine with
beer, not even a white
wine and a red wine together, or a wine with a champagne, let alone beer
with both red and white wines, without producing
the degradation and the loss of all your original precious components. Doing so, you produce a little disaster,
loosing not one, but two or more, precious entities. Looking back at the last century, from
our present perspective in this second decade of the 21st century,
affirming
that multiculturalism has only produced disastrous results in the western
world is only affirming
a real and sad fact. The inevitable "melting pot" of the USA, but also the highly
planned and desired "mosaic" of Canada, and the politically correct "multiculturalism" of
Western Europe, have all produced only negative results and incredible loss
of original cultural beauty. Many great cultures, countries and empires have
been destroyed in the past essentially because of multiculturalism. The
Roman Empire is probably the most notorious example from the past. France
and England are probably the most notorious examples today. This old
negative phenomenon is repeating itself today in Europe and North America. The beauty of the culture of each,
and most, western countries is being completely
dismantled and disappearing because of forced or tolerated multiculturalism. The only country that appears
to be a clear exception is Israel, strongly implementing least possible multiculturalism
and most possible integrity of their culture, even
the purity of their people as a race, through the strong enforcement of
appropriate racial Jewish marriages. From this specific point of view,
Israel can only be taken as a good example to emulate as much as possible
in the rest of the western world. As for
immigration, an EthoCracy makes a clear difference between a legal immigrant
and an illegal migrant alien. Immigration is never a right of the migrant
alien, but a right of the receiving
nation to grant it or refuse it. It can become the right of a regular
immigrant, but only after due selection process of the receiving country has
taken place and granted that right. A country is like a home: no stranger has the right to force his way
in, and establish, without being invited. Legal immigration is desirable and
useful, but forced immigration, or illegal immigration, or a flow of vagrant
migrant aliens, is a dangerous iceberg on which too many civic
environments and cultures are already crashing at the moment, some of which with the
near certainly of sinking completely in the next generation or two, like
Holland, Belgium, France and England, to name only a few in Europe, and the
most visible ones at the moment. Under
EthoCracy, no country
is forced to accept illegal
or clandestine migrants who, most
of the time, once in, are themselves forced to become street beggars or peddlers, let alone
new additional alien micro-criminals being added to the national ones. In an EthoCratic
country, only legal immigration can take place. In the same
spirit, only
national street beggars
are given a
special ID, and accepted as such by the population, and only when there are no better
alternatives offered by charity or public shelter organizations, or when the
national beggars themselves forcefully refuse these facilities.
Non-national street beggars and non-national street peddlers, as well as all
the foreign migrants working illegally, are gently, but swiftly and firmly, deported to their own
countries, hopefully at the expense of their families or of the countries
involved, like in consular repatriation cases, or at the expense of their
national employers (firm or household) in the case of those working illegally. The same rules apply to illegal foreigners in self-invented
jobs, like abusive parking lot 'managers' of otherwise free public parking
areas, or
car windshield cleaners at street corners. The illegal migrant flux must stop, and the regular immigrants must be selected and
chosen; The costs for doing such selection are much less than the costs for
not doing it, and the advantages are to both parties: the migrants
themselves and the country receiving them. Chosen immigrants are then accepted as such,
as desired regular immigrants, by the receiving country,
prior
to their arrival, based on a strict set of rules
related to health, security and job offers not filled by nationals. Citizens
giving employment to illegal foreign workers commit a serious offense, under
the criminal code, that is
payable through a high fine plus all the costs of detention and deportation
of the illegal involved. Renting accommodation to an illegal has the same
kind of penalty. Giving house work and free accommodation to illegals
pending refugee status is acceptable, but only if it is done in agreement with the relevant
refugee determination institution involved. Sleeping on the streets or in public places is illegal
for foreigners and they are forced to go to cheap commercial or charity
hostels with proper registration with the local police for appropriate
identification and action. National street peddlers
in turn are allowed to sell their goods, but
only in areas
appointed officially by the municipality Governors for such purposes, usually in, or
by, flee-markets, or other kinds of public and open street markets.
In an
EthoCracy, nobody, national or foreigner, can enter the country without
showing an
identity document, and foreigners must have sufficient money for their
intended stay. Showing an ID, for quick association with the face of the
bearer, is the minimum requirement, and the only one inmost cases, but an
absolutely essential minimum one. This is why, to reinforce this orderly
admission process, and minimize inconveniences to all concerned, as seen in
another reform, an EthoCracy uses new
Reinforced Consulates Abroad, with a brand new role regarding
immigration. If a foreigner is caught in the country without an ID, the
loss of which has not been formally and quickly denounced, it is assumed, as a legal
presumption, that he has committed the
crime of destroying his own national ID within the country, and as such, he is
not allowed to claim refugee status. This crime prevents
that foreigner from having access to any refugee status institution, forces him
to a CSH (City Safety Hostel) for
temporary detention until identification, and renders his deportation automatic after
identification. If clandestine workers, or illegal migrants
with IDs, appear to claim
legitimately that they cannot return to their country of origin, fearing for
their life or their integrity, they are then referred to
the UNHCR centers, or a CSH in
the meantime, to verify their identity, and to be processed and distinguished, either as illegal migrants or
as convention refugees. They are maintained in the meantime in appointed holding
centers, and
eventually returned home safely, as soon as possible, if they are not
refugees. UNHCR is
however famous for having overly relaxed criteria for the recognition of
refugees, and for granting too easily refugee status to thousands of economic
migrants that are not at all refugees under the specific terms of the convention. The UNHCR needs to be drastically
reformed (like its mother institution, the UN, that should become an UEN,
as seen below, and commented further in the relevant paragraphs related to the UNHCR in our hot page on
Immigration Issues). Until it
is reformed, the final recognition of a refugees thus always belong to
the national country in which the migrants happen to be, after its own additional
scrutiny corroborating, or not corroborating, the one of the famously irresponsibly
slacked UNHCR.
IMPLICATIONS FROM THE
FPL
The constitutional
FPL of the
Syntagma expresses many ethocratic fundamental constitutional
principles to be respected by all laws and public institutions of the
country. One of them is that, until nationality is acquired, the residence
of a non-national can never be considered permanent, not even the one
accepted as a refugee, or as a stateless person or as a legal immigrant. Until the
acquisition of citizenship has been acquired, that status of residence has
to be reconsidered for extension, or rejection, every 5 years maximum, and
after each criminal infraction of the non-national concerned. The
FPL is also openly anti-massive-multiculturalism, as it has only caused social and
economic disasters in the history of civilization and in particular in the last century. Consequently, all applications for
immigrant status, or residence status, will be considered with a clear
priority, but not an exclusivity, given to foreigners coming from countries
with the closest possible culture and religion to the majority of the
citizens already in the country.
→ REFORM 21/30
Prison-Farms Connected to Homeless
Hostels and Animal Shelters -
According to the FPL, in an EthoCracy, all
new jails are built to become
self-supporting
"Countryside Prison Farms" (CPF),
self-sufficient
at least for the production of their own food, and the food of their twinned
CSH.
All existing city jails in turn are gradually
converted into new "City Safety Hostels" (CSH),
and also made self-supportive for their food through the free provisions of
a CPF with which they
may be twinned. A
CPF in turn is connected
directly to at least two kinds of pu
blic
adjacent logging spaces: a hostel for homeless people (a
CPFH:
CPF
Hostel) and a shelter for abandoned dogs and other
animals (a CPFS:
CPF
Shelter).
Some CPF
also have a connected infirmary for mentally ill people who are
abandoned by their families, without resources, but are basically autonomous
within a friendly accommodating shelter, except for basic vital needs like
their alimentation and their showers (That kind of infirmary is called a
CPFI:
CPF
Infirmary).
These 4 accommodating components (the countryside
CPF with its adjacent
CPFH,
CPFS, and an
eventual CPFI),
are physically directly connected to the
CPF, and closely linked in their basic vital subsistence
for food purposes. That CPF is
also expected
to provide food for a 5th component, a
CSH to which it may be
twinned, producing and ensuring delivery of all its food, free of charge. In addition, the
prisoners, along with eventual collaborators from the
CPF two hostels (the
CPFH and the
CSH to which it is twinned), and
possibly also, on a voluntary basis, from its
CPFI infirmary, are also responsible to take care of all the animals of the
CPFS shelter. Prisoners are even encouraged to
"adopt" at least one of
the animals, and take care of them in a particular personal way, and possibly
even to take some of them in their cells overnight under certain conditions.
On request they will also train dogs for special purposes for outside
persons who want to adopt them. These potential adopters are we
lcome to come
to the CPF, at established places and times, to see the animals and decide
which one they want to adopt. Healthy hosts of the hostels are also expected to give some helping
attention, or care, to the unhealthy or handicapped persons, and possibly also
to some of the animals. Prisoners become basically working farmers,
producing sufficient food, for themselves and other social institutions, and taking
care of animals, in particular abandoned dogs. All the persons involved,
accommodated free of charge, in all the
connected components of a CPF, are expected to collaborate like a big
extended family
in all aspects of their basic survival and happiest possible lifestyle.
Within the wider enclosed space of these huge countryside prison farms, all
good behavior persons are circulating freely, during the daytime, but wearing a
locked GPS bracelet tracing their movements if and when required. During the night, there is a
curfew with strict sleeping time, in locked cells, or in other controlled areas.
Basically, being self-supporting for food, even if not
necessarily for each
individual inmate, becomes a required civic duty
for prisoners
under the constitutional
FPL of the
Syntagma. In
addition, the food production of a
CPF must, and can only, be
strictly biological. If that duty
of producing self-supporting food is not met
by the prisoners,
then their rights, in terms of various forms of facilities and comfort, are
proportionately reduced, or temporarily limited, up to an eventual bare essential
level, including food. The state provides free accommodation (jails,
hostels, shelters, infirmaries) but, as much as possible, certainly in the
case of most prison-farms, not free food.
Prisoners have to maintain themselves, farming efficiently for at least their own food
and their attached components.
Other expenses of a CPF, like staff salaries, are excluded from this constitutional requirement
of self-sufficiency, and paid by the state. The prisoners refusing to
collaborate are placed in special aisles with minimal food and commodities
paid for by the state, until they decide to collaborate. In turn, those
who provided an exceptional collaboration, for a good period of time under
surveillance, may be moved to a
CSH, as employees in
various capacities, working for free, but with permission to get out into
the city for a few hours a week with a discrete GPS bracelet.
PRISON FARMING WITH ONE
POSSIBLE FORM OF COMPENSATION
This strong approach however, on farm prisoners, is partially compensated with a
small economic benefit: the prisoners do not receive any salary but,
if and when
the CPF produces sufficient food not only for itself, but
also for all its connected components, or alternatively for a school or a
poor old-age hospice within the municipality,
the farming prisoners receive basic pension contributions paid for by the state for
their time in prison, on the basis of what a regularly employed farm hand would
receive working legally for a farmer employer in the area. These contributions are
basic, but they
include both the part that would be normally paid by such an employer and
the part paid by such a farm hand.
CASES OF SPECIAL SEVERITY OR LENIENTCY OF THE
FPL ON CRIMINALS
EthoCracy is particularly more severe than other forms of state with regards to
many types of criminals who must be treated as serial killers for their sole
criminal activity, even if it is not directly demonstrated that they may
personally have killed one or many persons. Illegal drug importers, dealers
and sellers,
are all included, as their illegal activity is typically, and inevitably, the cause of hundreds
of deaths of young people down the line. The list also includes illegal arms
traffickers, be it producers, sellers, importers or exporters. Producers,
sellers, importers, exporters and users of dangerous chemicals that are
known to be often spread on food plantations, and are provided to non
authorized handlers or users, in the country or abroad, are also included.
They are all considered as a kind of serial killers. On the other hand, EthoCracy is more lenient than other
regimes with healthy, and not-dangerous, criminals who could, and can, become civic
workers, or friendly assistants to city police officers, or internal guards
at City Safety Hostels (CSH), or can be authorized to work part-time out of jail
during daytime (for free, or for earning a basic income, helping society in
various ways, and possibly paying contributions to their eventual pensions).
All good candidates are encouraged and helped to do so. For more details on this
harder/softer approach, please refer to the examples of the relevant paragraphs
in
our hot page on Socio-Economic Issues.
FOREIGNERS
SENTENCED TO JAIL IN AN ETHOCRACY
An ethocratic country wants, in principle, all foreign criminals given a
final jail sentence in the country, to be expelled to their own countries, and
serve there their jail sentence when at all possible. They are put to jail
only for the time it takes for the two bilateral consulates to make the
necessary arrangement for secure expatriation. In principle, each country
should take care, and support the economic burden, of its own national
criminals, especially for long term inmates. Exceptions can be made, but
not for any humanitarian reason, only for a
conviction of the judge that the inmate may be unduly set free in his own
country, or not serve a jail sentence for the same crime in his own country.
The judge is not concerned with the fact that the jail sentence in the home
country of the criminal might be of a different length. An EthoCracy will
reciprocate, and receive its own criminals, as long as the prisoner does not
have also the citizenship of the country of origin. This is a new role of
the new type of Reinforced Consulates
of an ethocratic country.
THE MANY BENEFITS OF THIS NEW APPROACH
This approach gives first the prisoners the important psychological benefit
of having a much better self-pride in their social recuperation process. They
also do
not feel like useless parasites and, in any case, this approach definitely reduces the
amount of hardcore parasite-criminals maintained at entirely public charge.
All this means more human recuperation and important financial savings for the state. It also mixes all
sorts of persons in need of assistance and social recuperation for one
reason or the other, and creates a positive atmosphere of mutual assistance.
It also mixes animals and persons in need of help and affection. It means the
disappearance of the most ugly dog pounds, with beautiful dogs suffering
terribly, for months and years, in small and dirty cages. It gives city
centers much better decorum, by not having to cope with too many abandoned
persons and animals, giving both categories decent shelters, in secure
places, and a chance to live closer to nature, while still having lots of
people and animals around them with whom to share help and affection.
→ REFORM 22/30
Better Integrated Holistic Health, Food and
Agriculture - This includes the legal status, in an
EthoCracy, of many types of
AHM (Alternative
Holistic
Medicine). Health and food, along with all
ingestible
substances from agriculture, are closely related. In an EthoCracy, food and health management, within
the national borders, receive a very special, and constitutional, attention, along with the
consumption of any kind of ingestible products. Food is of primary and vital
importance for all citizens, more than anything else. Controlling the
quality of food production outside national borders, is not only difficult,
but more costly, and untrustworthy in most cases when done by foreign
distant
technocrats, or by the producers under the assumed bureaucratic direction of
such technocrats. Controlling it internally,
and at the source, is easier, less costly, and much
safer, as national producers can be more closely watched, and more readily held legally responsible
for their mistakes. A democracy cannot ensure that its citizens live with
good clothing, or housing, not even with excellently nutritional food most of the time, but an
EthoCracy must ensure, as a minimum, and as a constitutional duty, that all its citizens live at least
with good biological food, and safe ingestible substances from a health point of view. The
FPL encourages national production
of food, as much as
possible, and as close as possible to the consumer, as opposed to importing food, and wants to push this national production to an ideal point of self national sufficiency.
It authorizes imports only on a basis of confirmed scarcity, and
only after special national import controls. The
FPL also encourages the personal
production of food, in particular vegetarian food, in little private gardens,
or in orchard balconies, to be consumed, or
bartered at officially designated open markets for bartering purposes (free of
VAT in this case),
within the
limits of a municipality or an adjacent one, by individual
persons not providing it to any store or commercial market.
This personal bartered production however can only be fully biological food. Eventual personal
overproduction of such food that cannot be bartered, can only be given free,
to social entities, like City Safety Hostels (CSH), schools,
charity organizations, public orphanages, or poor public old-age hospices for old
people. The rest
of an eventual personal overproduction, if sold, can only be provided to
same-municipality bio-markets or stores through normal
VAT taxation. One of the constitutional
principles of the FPL is that food, in spite of being biological as much as
possible, should travel as less as possible, and be taken from the ground,
or from the plant, as close as possible to its normal time of full
bloom and maturity, and as close as possible to its end consumer. This means a
clear treatment of favor, in all related laws, given to micro-forms of agriculture
that lead to self-sufficiency, as opposed to industrialized forms of
agriculture, starting at the personal level, and up to local, municipal and
regional levels. This also means least possible degree of imports from
distant areas, or in particular from foreign countries producing it with no
easily controllable standards, except for reasons
of temporary emergency or serious local scarcity. As for meat, the
FPL prohibits
totally the growth of animals, for massive food production, in cages, or in
other torturing forms of animal life maintenance before butchering. Animals
must live a life as normal as possible while alive, and butchering must be
as quick and painless as possible. The
FPL also includes
very strict limitations for anyone handling or using dangerous chemicals in
food production and, as such, users of such chemicals can be considered, by
Justice, as serial killers, under the
criminal code, in various circumstances, for the sole fact that they have
used such substances, independently from the number of persons that might
have been affected, in their health or their life, by such chemical products. As
for National Health, the FPL of an EthoCracy allows the existence of
natural Alternative Holistic Medicine (AHM)
to be studied, practiced, and to be
used, as a free choice, by anyone, from licensed practitioners. These
AHM
practitioners work exclusively with natural bio food and/or plants, for
alternative cures to most diseases, but they cannot ever reduce their
services to blind sales, or to only issuing natural
drug prescriptions. They must, and must always, attempt to treat patients in a holistic
way, which implies a psychological medical intervention as much as a
physical intervention. New university faculties train them accordingly, as a
kind of mix of three professionals: a psychologist, a modern drug
prescription issuing doctor
and a specialist in medical botany. Their medicaments are strictly natural,
most of the time personalized on the basis of the holistic analysis of the
patient. They involve no kind of non natural botanical substances, and are produced
without any industrial process, mostly freshly prepared on request. In fact
they are produced by the
AHM
themselves, directly in their offices, or by countryside
AHM laboratories with skilled artificers.
AHM laboratories cannot sell
directly to patients, but only to the licensed
AHM practitioners, on their
guidance and on their request. An AHM doctor however can also have a private outlet
with an assisting employee, but directly attached to his office, not open to
the public at large, where the regular clients he has been following for
some time already can come, without having to pay a visit fee, to pick-up an
already established dosage or mix of an already established potion or
medicament for their holistic medical treatment for an agreed time.
ONLY AGROECOLOGICAL FARMING
In an EthoCracy, only best AgroEcological Farming is permitted. This means a
type of farming that, in principle, is not reliant on
external chemical
fertilizers, nor pesticides, except for a minimal part in case of unusual
emergency, but rather on
internal natural means, like controlling pests and disease with natural predators,
mixed crop and livestock management, and agroforestry (inter-planting of
trees and crops). Chemicals and pesticides cannot be used except on an
explicit permission from the government after a consultation of agreement with
the InformArium. The
external
beauty of the agricultural products may decline, but their healthiness, and
thus their internal substance beauty, is
preserved to the maximum degree, along with an eventual long-term increase in
production, for the best benefits of all consumers in terms of health and
availability.
THE SPECIAL ROLE OF THE
VINFONARIUM
This
is a reform where the VinfonArium of the new constitutional
Informative
Power of the ethocratic country comes 
into play with a highly important
role. The basic role of the VinfonArium is to provide Valuable
Information to all citizens of the country, as
True Information, in a proactive and in a
reactive way, with regards to the private business activity within the
country, as opposed to public government activity (which is of the similar
concern of the GinfonArium). Under the
FPL, both the AHM Practitioners and
the AHM Laboratories involve a special kind of new professionals who
cannot
use any kind of publicity for their work and medicaments. Any information on
the nature, production, use and utility of their medicinal products can only
be provided to the VinfonArium who, after the appropriate research and
analysis, provides all the necessary related valuable
True Information
on their website for all citizens, and in particular for eventual clients of
AHM practitioners, for them to be informed as best of possible on that
non-mainstream commercial business activity. As for food production in
general, the VinfonArium also provides similar
valuable True Information,
for both national and eventual imported food in cases of national scarcity.
Finally, the VinfonArium provide as much
valuable True Information as
possible, with regards to all other ingestible products, through mouth
or other parts of the human body, like water from various sources, for
drinking or bathing purposes, commercial drinks, mainstream medicinal
products, vaccines, perfumes, cigarettes, soaps, cloth detergents, lotions
and creams that can be body absorbed etc.
→ REFORM 23/30
Private Justice Helping Public Justice, Tax Collection and Family
Issues
- In an EthoCracy, all retiring lawyers,
magistrates and judges, who are at least 50 years old, and have at least 25
years of experience in legal practice, can, if they so wish, apply to become
a
PJM (Private
Justice Mediator),
in order to stay professionally active for few more years, while in pension,
and maybe supplement their pensions with reasonable tax-free fees,
pre-established by law, paid by the JudicArium, to resolve
the personal private
conflicts arising between two citizens. For the conflicting parties, there is a real incentive to use
that PJM, as it is entirely free
if they meet an easy condition related to
VAT transactions. On the
state side, there is also a big incentive, as the costs of general tribunal
administration and maintenance in this case are not only cheaper, but really inexistent, as the
PJM
works from his personal home, or from his chosen
private space. In an EthoCracy,
public Justice becomes subsidiary to private justice, as a first step,
but only for conflicts between two single physical persons, without involving any
lawyer, or any formal court of law with regular magistrates, nor judges with
tribunal support staff. This form of primary private justice applies, at
certain simple conditions and, in principle, only to conflicts
between two individual physical persons, and not when one of the parties in
conflict is a company, or a legal entity, except if that company is owned by
a single free professional (including possibly his legally married spouse
and children), with not more than 5 dependent support staff as opposed
to company partners. When such private persons sign any kind of personal
contract, or get into any kind of interpersonal business, or receive any
kind of services from a free independent professional, the
FPL asks
them, as a constitutional duty, but without forcing them, to register that business
relationship immediately with the JudicArium. There is no immediate penalty if this is not done,
only down the line, if and when private free justice may become requested by
persons who have not registered. This registration can be done very simply,
with the submission to the JudicArium, by simple email, of a copy of the first original official fiscal
receipt issued in the context of this contract, or professional service
relationship, on the basis of which
VAT taxation was paid, or is being paid, or is to be paid. If there is a
formal contract involved, the submission of
the fiscal receipt should be accompanied by a summary of the contract, on a simple
one-page form of the JudicArium, that can be downloaded instantly from its
Internet website. The submission goes to the
JudicArium, through a normal
PJM dedicated email address, with ONLY the
NEVoC number of the
sender in the subject line (the 3 blocks of 3 letter digits followed by the
3 blocks of 3 numerical digits). The attachments are in the form of a simple scanned
copy of
the VAT receipt and of the
NEVoC of the submitter with matching names. That
email becomes the official confirmation that the registration was done. The
JudicArium replies immediately, and automatically, with a
PJM registration
number for that registration. The communication system so far is completely
automated. All successive communications, if any, on the same business
relationship, only have to mention
that registration number, in the subject line, and only that number, instead of the
NEVoC
number, and provide the new attachments, like possibly copies of receipts of
further VAT payments, or the form summarizing
a contract made in the meantime. This submission is archived immediately by the
JudicArium on its database, for no further immediate action, and hopefully
for no further action at all in the future if a conflict does not arise
between the parties in relation to the original business agreement. For the interested sender, it is sufficient to keep a
copy of the documentation, with the
PJM registration number written on it,
to be covered eventually with private justice assistance, in principle at
no expense at all, if a conflict were to arise between the two parties
regarding that specific business or relationship. The only time there would
be a fee to pay for the PJM process would be if, down the line, the raiser
of a conflict is found, by the
PJM, in final analysis, to have submitted a
totally preposterous claim, with no foundation. The persons engaging in any
kind of private contract, or even informal work collaboration, who do not
respect this FPL constitutional duty, do not have, in principle, any legal
recourse to private justice to resolve their eventual conflict, not even in a normal court
of public justice, or at least
not an easy recourse through public justice. If they nevertheless insist to go for a trial, using
normal public justice, their case will be heavily penalized in terms of
priority for being heard by a normal public court of law. This is the first penalty
for not having registered such private contracts in due time, and it is in terms of time to be heard
in a public court. In such cases however, the magistrate who first receives the
documentation may, as his first step, if the documentation
demonstrates that the VAT was paid for the whole contract, still offer the
two persons in conflict to go for an easy and faster
PJM resolution, but not
for
free this time. This is the second penalty for not having registered the
private contract originally, and this time it is in terms of money as a fee for the
PJM. The
JudicArium
would indicate the penalty as a
PJM processing fee payable to the
JudicArium, because of an
unaccomplished constitutional duty under the
FPL. That fee can vary in each
case, possibly be quite heavy, but probably still much cheaper for the parties
than using a lawyer in a normal public court of law. In other words, for this type
of personal business conflicts, the system encourages the parties until the very end,
and as much as possible,
to use cheap and fast private justice as opposed to expensive and slow
public justice. The parties then decide which way they want to go. It is to
be noted however that, in a normal case, there is no
PJM fee to be paid by
the clients for the services of the
PJM (who in turn receives a tax-free fee
from the JudicArium for his mediation), but if there is the necessity of the
involvement of independent specialists for technical clarifications related
to a damage done, these expenses will be temporarily covered by the
JudicArium but, in the end, may be reimbursable in part by the
client, up to maximum half the amount. In a normal registered case, when a conflict arises,
regarding a particular contract or service that has a
PJM register number,
the offended party asks the JudicArium
for an appointment with an available
PJM closest
to his living area. The PJM is appointed on the request of that first
offended party, and cannot be refused by the requestor nor the other party, just like a judge
cannot be refused in a public court, except on claim of clear conflict of interest. The
appointed PJM
convokes, or visits, the parties, gets all the relevant details of the
conflict, and produces a final decision within two weeks maximum if he wants
to receive his tax-free fee (2 weeks plus reasonable time for a documented
eventual request for external technical consultations, from specialists,
about the exact nature and quantity of a damage done). That final decision
of the PJM
has the normal value and
force of a regular trial in a normal public court of law. As a perk, the Private
Mediation Justice has a original innovation. On the
InformArium TV station,
the IA3, there is a regular TV program where normal
PJM cases can be heard
live. The InformArium offers the most representative cases a chance to be
heard live on TV, and claimants can also ask for the same kind of
opportunity. Both parties in the conflict would have to accept to do so if
it were to happen. In such cases, if they both accept to go live, the total
VAT documented as paid, in relation to the conflictive contract or
professional relationship, becomes, for the winning
party, a full tax
reduction of the same amount, on his next annual income tax report, and/or the
following ones if necessary, but not a cash reimbursement.
An EthoCracy is in
great part a subsidiary form of government. Al long as people and
corporations respect the FTL, they
are pretty much left alone, with as less legislation as possible interfering
with their activities. Big corporations who do not respect the
FTL are quickly reminded by their
integrated CID (Civitas Interest Defender)
and, if no corrective action is swiftly taken, the CID must report the
company to a Corrector of the
CorrectivArium
for appropriate corrective action.
Private citizens in turn, when they feel they are suffering a damage, or
that their rights and interests are violated by another person, or by a
corporation, may request a meeting with a
PJM (Private Justice Mediator) for
evaluating their legal situation, for a consultation free of charge, and take their best
decisions accordingly. In attempting to resolve the most difficult of
these conflicts, the
PJM can seek the help of the
Correctors of the new
CorrectivArium
if a constitutional right is involved. Correctors will also provide a CID
with temporary office space in their
CSH if necessary, in
particularly difficult cases involving aggressive conflictive parties that
could put the security of the
PJM into question.
PRIVATE CONTRACT RATINGS BY THE
PJM
In assessing conflicts, a PJM has an additional constitutional duty under
the FPL. He will have to give a
PCR
mark (Private
Contract
Rating), from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best mark,
to privately contracting people, reflecting the degree of respect they have
had for the terms of the contract involved in his mediation, with a separate
PCR note for each of the two parties on both side of the contract. These
PJM
PCR
ratings are provided to the VinfonArium and made public knowledge on its
website, but without mentioning the details of the contracts involved.
People, in this way, develop a good, or a bad,
PCR mark, for the degree of respect
they have had so far in executing their contracts that ran into conflict,
and only for those that ran into conflict. Consequently, when third party citizens intend to enter
into a private contract with anyone, they can consult the
VinfonArium
database to see if there is, and, if so, how many, and what kind, of
PCR the
person they intend to deal with has had in the registered conflictive
contracts. This can help tremendously good raters gaining additional
business, and prevent simple people to enter into any business relationship
with the bad raters, let alone have these bad raters gradually run out of
business if their
PCR
record is particularly bad.
PJM PROTECTION MAY BE EXTENDED TO ALL FOR TAX COLLECTION PURPOSES
To encourage the spontaneous voluntary payment of the
VAT by free
independent professionals, in dealing with clients or
with other non professional persons, their
VAT is constitutionally limited
to maximum 10%, just like for all EFB (Extended
Family Business) activities.
All citizens, free professionals, or companies, if and
when they have regularly registered
VAT receipts with the
JudicArium,
have an automatic right for the free protection of a
PJM, if and when they
run into trouble with the national taxation office wanting to audit them for
any reason.
Those who do not meet the conditions related to
VAT registrations may still
request
PJM protection, but for a fee. In such cases, the role of the
PJM is not linked
anymore to only a physical persons. It is also extended to all legal entities
or companies. However, the role of the
PJM in all such
taxation auditing cases is not one of
defense, but essentially one of a neutral legal observer to ensure there is
no corruption involved, offered or pretended, on either side, and that the
tax payer has at his disposal best legal advice during all sessions of
investigation. For more formal taxation auditing, citizens or corporations
can enjoy, in addition to the defense of their lawyers, the protection of
special witnesses, as their pairs, guaranteeing
No Government Exploitation
of any kind regarding them and their assets.
PJM PROTECTION FOR VIRTUOUS
VAT TAX PAYERS
AND THE MRV LOTTERY
In
most democracies the government has extreme difficulty having
VAT paid on
all private business done between a free independent professional, like a
plumber or a doctor, and his private individual clients. This is, in most cases,
first, because VAT is usually too expensive, and, second, because there is
no incentive to make the payment and not easily cheat the tax office.
EthoCracy resolves, in great part, this kind of interpersonal business
relationship with two means. First, the
VAT on such personal transactions is
constitutionally stable to maximum 10%. Second, it has a new system of
MRV (Mutual
Receipt Voucher)
that incites both parties to issue a mutual receipt because it can become an
important lottery ticket at a monthly
MRV draw, live on TV. Most of the free
professionals involved, when receiving the
VAT, issue a receipt, using booklets of pre-printed
receipt forms, adding simply a date, an amount, a justification, and a
signature. Under the MRV system, clients
paying the VAT also use similar forms on their
side, and each party issues a mutual form. The printing costs,
for these booklets of receipts, become a full
income reduction on the next annual income tax report. The side receiving the money
issues a Receipt, while the side providing the money issues a corresponding
Given money voucher. Each form is
pre-printed with the persons full
NEVoC residence code
on it: the 9 digits in 3 blocks of 3 letters (for the Nation, Province and
City), and the 9 digits in 3 blocks of 3 numbers (forming together a unique
personal residence code), followed by the “1/x” Nationality Code. These
booklets of pre-printed forms all come in the exact size-format of paper currency, with a
sequential VSTN (Vat
Sequential Transaction
Number), with a tick mark choice of either "R"
(Received money receipt) or "G"
(Given money voucher), and in
self-producing carbon-copy duplicates
(of at least two, or more as a choice). Each party in the transaction,
at the time it takes place, adds
simply a date, the "R" or "G" tick mark, an amount, a justification, a signature and a first name that
may, or may not, be their real ID first name of the issuer in a Nickname
Box. The pre-printed
NEVoC code
by itself, already pre-printed on the form, knows all the particulars of the users, independently of the
nickname on
the form. For fiscal purposes, it is only the
NEVoC code that counts. The
nickname placed on the form, will only be used for the
MRV lottery draw on live TV
in due time.
Each party exchanges, and keeps, the original
MRV received from the other party. Then
each party, puts in the VSTN of the
other party in the designated rectangle of the
duplicate copy he was left with on his side of the transaction.
This closes the VAT transaction loop and allows participation in the monthly
MRV Lottery. Then each
party can drop his own duplicate copy in any street mail box, without
the need of a postal stamp on it. These forms are well known to the post
office, and directed automatically to the national
MRV office, where they are
accumulated in a huge full glass-wall room of the
VinfonArium, waiting for
the monthly lottery draw. In the meantime, as a pre-requisite, when the issuers had their
first
MRV
booklet printed, and only that first time, they had to register on the
Internet with their NEVoC residence code, and provide phone numbers, if they
so wished, and a compulsory email, where they can be reached,
at the time of the live draw, using only the Nickname written
on the transaction. At the live TV
monthly draw, made from all
MRV forms accumulated for that month, 10 tickets are
extracted, in front of the watching TV cameras and some public, and
under the control of
a PJM.
If phone numbers were provided at registration time, an attempt is made, by the
PJM, to contact the winners by phone directly, on live TV, to advise them
that they are a
winner. If so, winners are free to talk openly, identifying themselves, or to keep everything in
privacy, through using only the Nickname appearing on the
MRV. In any
case, the 10 tickets are immediately published on the
VinfonArium website
and the winners are discretely advised by the
VinfonArium. After the draw, still live on TV,
the MRV forms, that have a standard currency size, are all
gathered by the assisting public and put into money counting machines to be
counted. The first ticket drawn gets a prize, in basic
national non-fractional currency unit, like 1 Euro, equivalent to 10% of the number
of MRV counted in the glass room for that month. The second prize gets 20%
of the counted MRV, and so on, until the last one, who gets 100%
the amount of MRV.
As an example, if there were 1 million
MRV tickets in the
glass room, the 10th ticket drawn gets 1 million Euro. After the draw, the
acting PJM has the responsibility to destroy safely the content of
the glass room for that draw.
Members of the public helping in the count and in the destruction of
the forms were given a special ticket on arrival and one will receive a
consolation prize before departure of 1% of the counted forms, which would
be 10.000 Euro in our example. To withdraw the check for his prize, pre-issued in the
following week by the VinfonArium, on the basis of the winning
NEVoC particulars,
the winner has to contact the VinfonArium and concur an appointment with an
appointed PJM of his area, at least two weeks
after the draw, come in with a chosen witness (or reject a witness formally
in writing in front of the PJM, who then provides his own witness), and
present the original
MRV form of the
other party in the original transaction, showing the same date and amount appearing on the copy of his
own winning MRV, the sequential transaction number of the other party, and his own
original NEVoC. The
PJM then releases
the
check to the winner for 90% of the prize. He then takes the
NEVoC data of
the partner in the transaction and arranges for him to be advised and get
the other 10% of the prize. Only
NEVoC holders can withdraw. However, in the spirit of the constitutional
FPL,
giving incentives in all its laws to nationals of the country, as opposed to
non-nationals,
and to EFB in particular, the winners
with a non-national NEVoC code for nationality have their prize
automatically reduced by half, but the national winners registered as
EFB double their prize. All prizes are attributed
tax-free, but the money for the prizes comes from only a very minor part of the
brand new income the
state has acquired by the incentive of the
MRV system and lottery for
encouraging more virtuous VAT payment and collection. Otherwise, all that
new state income would have been subtracted to the state by evading
VAT tax
payers.
CHOOSING A PRIVATE MEDIATOR WHO IS NOT A
PJM
Choosing a conflict resolution mediator who is not a
PJM, for those who do
not want to use public justice for any reason, nor a regular
PJM, is a
strictly private matter under the full legal responsibility of those doing
it, and in which private matter the JudicArium has nothing to do. However,
an EthoCracy wants to encourage private conflict resolution as much as
possible, in order to decongestion public justice as much as possible for
all the cases that really do not need full public court hearings. If individual
persons, or even companies in this case, want to
resolve a conflict this way, choosing their own mediator, assuming the two
parties fully and formally agree, the state will request that they also get
a PJM as an independent observer in the resolution process, but for a
reasonable fee this time. The parties cannot legally decide otherwise. The
PJM in such case is not party in the negotiations, and will not
participate in the negotiations nor take
any decisions. He will only observe, and comment only if and when he believes
some law is not being respected or, from his perspective, corruption is being suspected
in the process. In such cases, he will provide written comments to the parties,
copied to the JudicArium, but not necessarily for any further follow-up from
the JudicArium. The only condition to receive a observing
PJM is that this
mediator should be a person with no/no legal or
judicial background, in order not to enter himself into conflict with the
PJM, and be only a person
who knows particularly well the parties and the
details of the conflictive contract involved. If the chosen mediator is a lawyer, or has
any judicial background, the parties have no choice but to follow the course
of normal public justice resolution, or take the full legal responsibility
and risks of their potentially illegal initiative. If that kind of mediation
is found, in the end, to be totally unsatisfactory, and was handled without
an observing PJM, an eventual
public court case to further attempt to resolve the
situation will be heavily penalized with a lack of priority for a public
court hearing.
USE OF A
PJM FOR AGREEMENTS ON PERSONAL OR FAMILY
PROBLEMS
In a typical example, a
MANY ADVANTAGES OF THE PJM SYSTEM
Public court justice is inaccessible to most individual persons, plainly because
of its costs, and consequently most of them never get justice done for this
sole reason. But full justice through public courts is
also totally unnecessary in the majority of personal conflicts. This is why
an EthoCracy offers free subsidiary Private Mediation Justice in the easiest and simplest of cases of
conflict, as long as the parties involved are in order with some aspects of their taxation
responsibilities. Such clients can get entirely free private justice. The State also offers
full public court justice
in a much cheaper way for tax payers as, in thousands of cases, it does not
use anymore the fully staffed courts of law, and thus also saves an incredible amount
of public funds that would otherwise have to be paid by the tax payers. Justice is also administered much faster, both on the
PJM
side, usually in maximum two weeks to one month, but also on the public side, because of
the high reduction of the number of cases using public courts. The lineup to
be heard in public courts is much shorter. In the meantime, the
VAT tax is being paid
much more often, and much more fully, than it is the case in the absence of
a PJM system, and the state, this time, not only saves money, but increases
it entries by substantial sums money on a yearly basis. This encouragement
to virtuous VAT payment is also further provided through the new
MRV lottery
system under the protection of a
PJM. Citizens in general
are overall much happier about the administration of Justice in general within the country
and about their elected government, and receive important prizes for more
virtuous taxation practices. More citizens can also receive free legal
advice from a PJM, on any subject. Finally, more persons and companies can
receive free observing protection, from a senior judicial official (the
PJM), if they run into trouble with the tax office who wants to audit them.
→ REFORM 24/30
The Construction of National EthoCratic City Areas (NECA)
- In an EthoCracy, when a city looks for the development of new urban living
areas, it must establish at least one National
EthoCratic
City
Area (NECA)
within its borders.
A NECA is a very special city area, like probably none exists at the moment
anywhere. Living in a NECA has obviously many important advantages but, as
one of the fundamental principles of EthoCracy is that each charter of
rights must be accompanied by a corresponding charter of duties, all these
privileges are in fact accompanied by a series of bin
ding duties through a
formal contract. It would be an utopia to pretend to impose strict rules of
decorum and civic behavior to all people in a country as a whole. In a
NECA, as a brand
new and special development for that purpose, it is
not only possible, but must absolutely be so. People
living in a NECA buy a public property at cost price, which is probably only half
of the commercial price for the same kind of space outside the
NECA. In addition, they get at
least double, in advantages offered by that property, compared to a
similar living space outside the NECA. They thus buy their property at about not more
than probably one quarter of what they would normally pay on the non-NECA
commercial market for the same space and advantages. The difference in
"price"
however has to be "paid", for the real full value of what they get, but it is not in terms of money;
It is in
terms of commitment to a strict EthoCratic life style, and severe rules of
civic education, on the
basis of a binding NECA Contract
(or: NECAC). Those who do not like the terms of the
NECAC are free
not to apply to live in the
NECA, and to find a
property outside the NECA, like most people do, at the normal commercial
price for real-estate in their area.
TEN PRINCIPLES
By
definition a NECA exists and functions on the basis of the ten following fundamental
principles:
1) Because of its particular requirements, for
both land and buildings, a
NECA can
only be a brand new city area, or suburb directly linked to the center by
metro, built from scratch, brand new, by the municipality;
2) From an ecological point
of view, it is obligatorily built on
the basis of the best
PhiloEcoSophical Principles of EthoCracy. It is a completely
self-sustainable, and self-survival, environment for both food and water, in
particular the local production of its own vegetarian food. Each
apartment also includes a specially equipped orchard-balcony watered
automatically with
the accumulation of roof rain waters; The
NECA itself includes many green
spaces with beautiful homesteads and farmsteads. In a
NECA, bartering vegetarian food
is encouraged, perfectly legal and entirely tax free, with designated
reserved places for this purpose. Internal food markets can only sell, or
barter, internally produced biological vegetarian food. The rest of the
vegetarian food, if needed, is only sold outside the limits of the
NECA. Non
vegetarian fresh biological food cannot be imported or introduced for sale inside the
NECA, subject to
severe criminal punishment. No type of non-biological food can be sold
within the NECA. Meat is also produced within the
NECA, but strictly
biological, and only from animals grown normally on land, and fed on their
natural diet. In case of internal scarcity, biological food from outside can
be introduced, but only if its source is certified from the same, or an
adjacent, municipality.
3)
The construction of a NECA is a public project
that cannot be the subject of any private price speculation of the kind that is
usually the case with normal commercial property in a normal city area outside a
NECA;
Prices are fixed by the
NECA and protected
from inflation by special
NECA adjustment.
4)
Similar to an EthoCratic country that has controlled national borders, a
NECA is a perfectly
enclosed area with security guards at each entrance and regular 24/7 municipal police surveillance inside
its confines. Living in a NECA requires carrying a picture
NECA ID card at
all times for easy identification. Invited guests staying overnight are also
issued a simple card with their basic particulars and the name of their
NECA
host, to be rendered on departure;
5) A NECA includes no
individual houses but only multi-story
NECA Buildings, residential and
commercial, with 5 reserved floors: two underground (for parking and
storage), the ground floor owned by the Municipality (albeit with building
entrances maintained by
each condominium), the first floor
reserved for various condominium facilities and activities, and the roof
floor; Above that
second ground level, there is up to seven floors of apartments to be sold to
private owners; Some of the wider green areas can possibly include each a
farmstead given (not sold) in priority to extended families willing to work
and produce vegetarian food to be bartered internally or sold in priority to the inhabitants of the
NECA at little above cost price.
6)
Apartments are sold to approved
buyers strictly at cost price but can only be resold after that, or given in
inheritance, to vertical family members, at the
original purchase price (plus the value of the inflation for the years of the
residence of the selling owner, as established by the
NECA, minus damages) or sold back to the
NECA at that
value;
Buyers cannot rent their property except to
NECA approved candidates signing
their own NECAC;
7) All
the land, including the one on which buildings sit, and the ground floor of each building, always remain the public
property of the NECA;
8) Living in a NECA is a free choice, with a life strictly regimented by
a
severe NECAC , signed in freewill, that can exclude inhabitants from the
NECA, if they do not
respect its rules of the contract, and force them to find alternative accommodation for themselves
outside the NECA, let alone be expropriated if necessary (with parents
taking full responsibility for the infractions of their minor children, as if they
were their own infractions, until each child can sign his own
NECAC as an adult);
In short, from a social point of view, its inhabitants must live and behave
on the basis of best decorum, accepting that their right to live in the
NECA
is strictly based on, and severely linked to, a meritorious contractual
agreement;
9)
A NECA is not only a strictly a no-religion area in all its public living
spaces, but it has no intention of promoting a modern multi-cultural environment;
Rather
the opposite, as it is built in part for these two specific purposes; It is by definition an essentially mono-cultural (or at least
"analogous-cultural") environment capable of reflecting
and promoting the best set of EthoCratic values, applying universally, in
terms of civic education and ethics but, of course, as adapted to the best national and patriotic tradition of the country in which it is built;
This is done
in the most positive way, without any implication of any anti-religion
bias, nor any ugly
"nationalistic" connotation, as too often intended by the word "national"
in
the dominant media defining the politically correct; Global multiculturalism, in the way it has been promoted, in most western
democracies, in the last century, has only produced social disasters and,
consequently, a NECA uses only a minimal common denominator of
multiculturalism, in that it includes only nationals of the country (those who own a national passport,
but independently of their country of origin or of their owning a second nationality)
and citizens who accept the rules of the same basic culture and life-style
of the NECA and its
NECAC;
10)
Finally, living in a NECA not only requires carrying a picture
NECA ID card at all
times for easy identification, but also for enforcement and sanction of infractions to
NECA EthoCratic Rules
of proper behavior. Sanctions go from various levels of fines to forced
exclusion, including possible expropriation in exceptional cases, all on the
basis of the NECAC
quadrilateral contract signed and accepted at time of admission for living
purposes. A constitutional provision also protects
a NECA from being overruled easily, without
very serious justification, in implementing its special
NECA contracts and
enforcing them.
ONE POSSIBLE EXAMPLE
The NECA Contract involving the 10 principles mentioned above can vary slightly in its
details from NECA to
NECA, in particular from country to country, adapting it
to their own national cultures, like for example in standards related to the
way to dress in public, but the ten fundamental principles remain basically the same.
Here is an
example of these NECA principles as they would typically apply to a
NECA
built in a central European country in order to respect its best
culture and tradition of decorum.
First of all, the NECA is a new suburb
that is necessarily connected to the center of
the city with efficient and direct underground public metro transportation. All
its street buildings are
NECA Buildings,
or NECAB, with a series of EthoCratic characteristics. For example,
none have synthetic wall-to-wall carpeting on their floors, only natural wood, marble or
tiles. They are built to collect rain water for flushing toilets, washing floors,
or watering gardens and parks
(until exhaustion). Each apartment has one orchard-balcony for gardening, and each building
roof has well hidden (from street level view) solar panels for subsidiary electrical
current purposes
(until exhaustion). Streets, sidewalks and surface parking areas are all built
exclusively with breathing
stones or tiles, with no asphalt or cement. Distributing drinking water is
done using
best bio-piping with bio-sensors, through an entirely different circuit, and
dedicated house taps, separate from the water circuit for sinks, washers, bathrooms and balconies. The
NECA also uses a triple underground circuit for collecting and
filtering waste liquids: one for natural biological waste (like toilets), one for
mild house chemicals (like normal soaps and detergents from sinks, showers or
washers) and a dedicated one for less recyclable toxic liquids collected through a dedicated
build-in sink in each apartment (for things like used kitchen oil or special
cleaning products). When a
NECA is close to the sea, the
biological waste water
circuit is managed through sea salt water, with buildings equipped with
appropriate facilities. All
apartment buildings are also built to encourage harmonious family growth and
reunification, with appropriate mobility incentives for this purpose from
building to building, and with adjacent apartments predisposed to be opened
and connected easily on request. Buildings
all have at least two privately owned underground floors for parking and storage.
Then they have a ground floor owned publicly by the
NECA (except for the entrance,
which is owed by the building),
with space for safe children playing grounds
outside with domestic animals, and space
for few eventual NECA rented small street stores at the ground level. All
street level stores are public property of the
NECA, and are rented by the
NECA in agreement with the condominium of the building involved. Above the
ground level entrance, in each building, residential or commercial, there is
a first floor owned as the common property of the condominium building and
reserved for condominium facilities, like meeting rooms, a small area for
resident servants, including a mini-dormitory, recreational rooms for
various ages, a gym, a clinical space for the temporary handling of persons
with special handicaps, and a few small bachelor apartments that can only be
rented by the condominium, to people signing also a
NECAC, to help reduce their condominium expenses
of the building. Above
that reserved first floor, from the second floor up, buildings have maximum
seven floors of apartments, and a common roof
area terrace for condominium family recreational purposes, partly covered and partly open,
owned by the NECA
but maintained by the condominium. The
covered part of that roof terrace sustains well hidden solar panels for
subsidiary electrical current. Accessing an apartment involves first a
NECA Key,
or NECAK, provided by the
NECA Administration,
programmed electronically to open 2 doors: the
entrance of the building of work or residence, and the entrance of the corridor of
work or residence,
along with a third private key for the apartment.
The apartments have from one to five bedrooms, but all are constructed to possibly
connect internally
when required, or be completely isolated easily and safely on request. All
buildings are also equipped
with an outside sliding well chute, at the back, for fire escape emergency.
Balconies
also all have small magnetic doors for domestic animals to go
out freely, in the absence of their masters, for their natural needs. Each building has a
normal Condominium Building Fee, plus a corresponding additional, b
ut minimal,
NECA
Fee, of NECAF, for things like the
NECA Administrators nominated by the municipality,
the NECA Security guards controlling entrances and the enforcement of
NECA
rules, and the maintenance of common parks, barn and sports facilities. The streets themselves and other
"public" areas are maintained by the
municipality like in any other areas of the city. All
combinations of two parallel streets have a wide common pedestrian path,
dividing
them at the back of the
apartment buildings, where people and animals can circulate freely,
walking, jogging or bicycling,
without car traffic at surface level. Car traffic intersections with these
pedestrian paths are all
lowered
underground, with widened spaces at that lower
level for internal NECA bus
transportation stations, or
NECAT. At these
lowered intersections, there are direct accesses to driveways leading to the
private home parking slots, from under the pedestrian paths at the
back of
each two rows of buildings, as streets are never a legal parking place except
for few slots in front of each building reserved for guests, emergency or delivery purposes. A
NECA is without any ugly electrical wiring outside, and all
electricity and phone/Internet components, public and private, are
maintained easily through direct access, without the need for excavation, at the upper
part of the walls of the underground driveways behind two rows of buildings. The same
goes for all
tubing and piping installations, all located at the lower parts of these
underground driveway walls, with clean water on one side and waste water and
liquids on
the other.
[The basic outline of an ideal NECA could
be very similar to the design up to the left, as one of the excellent models of
futuristic cities drawn by the
Institute of Vedic City Planning of Maharishi University.
In a NECA, each little green square of that
Maharishi design would itself resemble the chessboard-like sketch
we provide, up to
the right, where each black line is representing a street, and each dotted line
is representing a back pedestrian path between parallel streets (at surface
level) and parking driveways (at the lower level). That
chessboard is delimiting a total of
60 property lots of 50 square meters each, for constructing various types of buildings,
and 4 lots at the corners reserved by the NEC
A.
At the surface level, the 4 reserved corner lots are for eventual decorations or
things like common ovens or BBQ facilities, or newsstands. Underground,
these same 4 corners all have space for stops (by car or truck) for perfect garbage
recycling and collection, along with a four-loop cloverleaf of
car traffic like the red drawing to the right. At surface level, where
needed, street intersections with lights are usually all replaced by roundabout
points, with no traffic light, causing an uninterrupted traffic flow with
moving-out priority. The 240 "chessboards" of the NECA would thus offer 14.400
construction lots. The central square of the drawing up to the left would
certainly include NECAL,
with the leaders administering the whole NECA, and the central NECA Mall, or
NECAM, assisted by 4 smaller malls equally distributed towards
the 4 corners. The overall design would
include 32 additional green spaces, represented by the 32 bigger green
squares, to be used for various sports, and for the enjoyment of citizens with
their children and domestic animals, including the horses of the barn of the
NECAL. Such
NECA
could easily accommodate at least 1.500.000 inhabitants in an ideal
NECA setup of 8 square kilometers. Then nothing would prevent starting with a
quarter of that space (as an attachment of 2 square kilometers to an existing city) or combining
full NECAs together in various
ways to build a brand new an independent NECA City of a bigger size, with lots of additional pleasant land space around it, like in the
beautiful octagonal arrangement down to the left].
THE REAL NOVELTY
Most, if not all, the above
features, related mainly to
NECA Buildings, are new to current city planning as we know it today, but
the real novelty is first and foremost the
NECA Contract
, or NECAC, that has to be signed by
all adult inhabitants. People buying a home or an
office in the NECA, or renting or working in the
NECA, or living-in as adult
children, have to sign
a formal
quadripartite
NECAC
(involving: 1) the
condominium of the building of residence or work, 2) the
NECAL
Administration, 3) the municipality and 4) the person concerned), certifying that they are fully conscious
of, accept, and will respect all the
established EthoCratic rules, or be
required to sell their property and/or leave the
NECA, let alone be forcefully
expelled and/or expropriated if and when required. This is the so-called
binding NECAC Contract, compulsory for living or working within the
NECA.
Children becoming adults must sign their own personal
NECAC. For an adult being condemned with a final
jail sentence, for a violent crime or for corruption, even if the facts happened outside
of the NECA, involves the same kind of forceful and
permanent exclusion from the
NECA, even if the penalty is condoned. The
NECAC also enforces strict decorum rules for various purposes,
including the proper way to dress and behave, on the basis of best civic EthoCratic
neatness, when circulating outside of one's own
home (like, certainly, no shorts or mini-skirts in public areas, but certainly no chador either,
nor any other ugly, or highly foreign-or-religion-qualifying items, or unorthodox
body marks, or dressing
apparels, which would typically include, in our present example, things like piercing,
punk hair or aggressive skinheads, grossly exposed tattoos, burkas, kippah skullcaps, low
non-natural-waist trousers, finely interweaved African hair braids that
cannot be readily opened for thorough daily washing, Asian turbans, clerical shirts, cassocks or soutanes etc. For
that matter, even the sloppy jeans of cowboy origin would be completely banished from the
main NECAM mall, the
NECAL, all
NECAR restaurants, and
all the NECAS schools. As
for exclusively natural-waist jeans, they are only tolerated in
public, reluctantly, in the rest of the
NECA, like in the 4 smaller decentralized shopping centers and the local street stores
or coffee shops,
or when there is no better alternative on the basis of what one is doing,
like for dirty manual work). That same good decorum prohibits all
publicity and heavy metal music in all public places. The
NECA has
also a strict no-smoking
and no-drug policy in all the
NECA compound, be it outside or
inside, with these same rules applying to visitors or invited guests under the responsibility of the inhabitant
hosts. All junk food outlets are also banished from the
NECA and only regular
seated coffee shops can serve 'semi-fast' or slow food, albeit only
from a biological source,
and never to be consumed outside, while walking on sidewalks or streets. The
consumption of alcohol drinks by themselves, including beer, without accompanying food, is
never allowed in public places. EthoCracy is not against any religion but a
NECA has no
church of any religion and, as per the binding quadripartite
NECAC , no public expression of religion practice
whatsoever is allowed, in its public
areas, within all the confines of the
NECA, outside of the intimacy of
private homes. Each
NECA must also include a special
NECAL center,
in the central mall, for recreational, and cultural
purposes, where all
inhabitants can meet for various purposes and where the dominant
language, in particular when communicating with foreigners living in the
compound, is
EthoGloso. Free
EthoGloso
courses are being offered by the center on a regular basis. An internal
NECAN
(newsletter) must also be published in EthoGloso, on a weekly basis,
with the contributions of all who want to participate. The
NECAL center
includes an Olympic pool, a meeting hall that can also be rented for evening
entertainment, a dormitory for invited outside guests, play/sports grounds
with eventual additional pools, and a
barn where domestic animals can be cared for when needed, or used for
entertainment, mainly horses, dogs and cats. It also includes a special
NECAS for the primary and secondary education of all youths of the
compound, where students attend strictly in uniform, and accept (through the
NECAC of their parents) to follow few courses, in addition to their
regular curriculum, regarding subjects like: civic education, good manners,
ethics, Meritocracy/EthoCracy and the EthoGloso
IAL language. Those
attending special or foreign schools outside the
NECA are bound to also follow
these additional courses at the
NECAL center, at agreed convenient times, and to
attend these outside schools while wearing, with pride and responsibility,
the NECAS uniform (except if these outside schools
force them to use their own
uniform). NECA residents are strongly encouraged to
practice at least one sport, and to be
vegetarians, as much as possible. Apart from the small personal
orchard-balcony-garden of each apartment, each residential building must also include an appropriate
bigger space outside, maintained by the condominium, for an additional
NECA Gardening Area where citizens
can grow, if they so wish, their own vegetables, in a biological way, along
with various kinds of plants and flowers. Additional space for personal
biological gardening is also available in some of the bigger green public areas of the
NECA. Right in the middle
of the enclosure of the NECA, there is a central
NECAM, with only certain
types of stores being allowed to open, under strict EthoCratic
NECA
Contractual Rules. That
NECAM has an entrance leading outside of the
NECA,
underground, through moving sidewalk belts, to an
attached city metro station. This
adjacent metro station includes an appropriate parking area, a
mini-incinerator for garbage, a fire station, a NEVoC voting booth, and a heliport. The
NECAM can also direct
people to various underground passages with moving sidewalk belts leading directly
to the 4 mini-mall areas. The
NECAM
always includes at least a professional building, a clinic, a multi-room cinema, a dry cleaning and washing area, a carwash, a
central post office, a NEVoC voting booth, a small market area where residents can sell their own
fabricated products,
and the cultural NECAL
center. People
who are not living, working, or invited in, cannot enter the
NECA at any given
time without authorization from a
NECA host responsible for their behavior.
The alternative is, for non-guest visitors, to enter "freely"
after accepting to carry a special GPS-controlled
Telepass
for their car, or a GPS bracelet for pedestrians, to be forcefully rendered back on exiting the
NECA. The cars
of all inhabitants can, and must, come in, and go out, completely freely and
automatically, through a
reserved gate, using an appointed non-GPS electronic
NECAP Telepass. No peddlers
or beggars are ever allowed in. People living
in, can all move afoot underground, from various parts of the
NECA, directly
to the city center, without using a car, through the adjacent metro station,
and connect normally with all
other public transportation means at appropriate stops.
ENFORCEMENT
All persons circulating within the
NECA are subject to heavy fines issued by
the municipal police patrolling the
NECA 24 hours a day, for infractions to
the EthoCratic rules of the
NECAC . After 3 fines,
an inhabitant receives a Warning of Caution. After 3
such warnings within a year,
an inhabitant receives, from the
NECAL, a
Pre-Expulsion Notice if any further infraction will be
notified to him within the following 12 months. If this happens, expulsion
becomes mandatory, including expropriation if necessary. An inhabitant's
NECAC
also states that parents take full responsibility for the infractions of a minor
child, as if they were their own infractions, and that if the child becomes an adult and
refuses to sign his own binding
NECAC, parents will be
forced to move out the child, or move out as a family with the child, find separate accommodation outside the
NECA, and they will not be able to sell their
property to that child, nor give it to that child as inheritance. Certain
categories of inhabitants must pay automatically one yearly fine going against their record
for their right to live in the
NECA, and this applies for example to able people below
age 75 who are not registered to practice any sport (be they only members of
a group walking at least half an hour a day), or mentally sane obese and anorexic
individuals refusing treatment. Inhabitants committing infractions can repair, and erase some
of these infractions from their record, by doing social work, like assisting isolated old
NECA people or
caring for sick animals at the
NECAL barn. Living in
a NECA is a freewill choice, contracted formally in order to enjoy its many
advantages while complying to its corresponding duties. Nobody is forced to live in a
NECA and those who do not like its
EthoCratic rules being enforced are free not to contract their moving-in, or
are free to leave on the basis of
their contractual engagements.
ACE
→ REFORM 25/30
A National System of Award for Civic Education
(ACE) - As seen above, the constitutional
FPL of the
Syntagma expresses many ethocratic fundamental constitutional
principles to be respected by all laws and public institutions of the
country. One of them is to have compulsory civic education in all schools,
and a national rewarding system for good civic behavior in an appropriate meritorious way.
The rewarding system is called ACE (Award
Civic
Education). In fact, the
ACE system is precisely the formalization of the
legal obligation of teaching civic education in all
schools of an EthoCracy and the obligation of all other civic
institutions to sanction the duty of good civic
behavior of their members at least in a minimal and positive way. As
seen in another reform about the
Charter of Rights and Duties, in an EthoCracy, citizens do not have only rights, but also
duties. Just like voting is a duty, as seen in the
NEVoC Reform, good civic behavior is
also a duty. Civic education is intended here in terms of good behavior
in relations not only towards other human beings, but towards the beings of all
kingdoms: human, animal, vegetal and mineral. And civic education is also
intended as a loving process, for all beings, and not as a restrictive
process. In an effort to encourage the formation of better civic environments, an
EthoCracy has an established
ACE System to
reward citizens in various ways for their good civic conduct. The system is
based on environments where people know each other well, like schools,
industries, residential buildings and offices of all sizes. It is then
ramified up, at municipal, provincial and national levels. In an EthoCracy, all
offices or institutions have a mandatory elected
ACE representative,
with an ACE
budget, and all
ACE funds and contributions are kept in an appropriate
account managed at the highest applicable
level, be it a NECA dedicated account, or a national or world
ACE
institution if any already exists. Like we explain
in our 'hot' page on Micro-Criminality Issues, starting with schools, public and
private, all parents must pay a small symbolic yearly fee, called
CEF (Civic
Education
Fee) if they have one (or more) child at the school. That fee is the subject of a
yearly negotiation between the school and all the parents involved, and the
poorest families can be made to pay only a very minimal one, but a fee is
obligatory. Parents cannot be indifferent, nor ignore from laziness, nor be left alone, in
the essential civic education of their children, be they children of public
or private school
s.
A symbolic fee raises their will to better attend the issues. The same applies to teachers, and they too are subject
to the mandatory fee paid from their pocket. Both parents and teachers must feel the symbolic
burden, and the push value, of the objective, and feel embarked in a process of obligatory
collaboration with the payment of a small fee. Good civic environments do not come
free and demand the related reflection through the feel of a related burden,
as symbolic as it may be. Good conduct school
marks do not only exist in an EthoCracy as a mandatory study subject matter, but they are made public on a monthly
basis to all the
parents of all the children of each class. Quarterly meetings of all the
parents involved, once with their children and once without, are scheduled
for compulsory attendance, subject to the payment of a fine equivalent to
a duplicate of the CEF fee involved for that year. At the third absence, or
after 3 fines paid, parents are invited to attempt to find another school
for their children or pay yet a multiple of ten times the yearly fee as a
higher fine. At those CEF meetings, all the civic conduct marks for the class are
reviewed and discussed as a group, like the matters of a good condominium,
along with all other relevant issues of good conduct and civic
education. Half of the comprehensive
CEF money is reserved and given each year as a prize to the
three children with the best civic education marks of that school, in order
for them to attend summer courses, or an educational vacation or trip of
their choice with an accompanying parent or tutor. The second half is
submitted to the municipality that will match it with an equivalent sum for
all its schools. Half of the municipal contribution in turn goes to similar
awards to its best citizens from a civic conduct point of view on the
recommendation of their co-citizens. The other
half of the municipal contribution goes to a provincial
ACE fund for other
more important awards at that level. The same goes on between provinces and
the national level. What schools do, all other small living environments do:
residential condominium buildings, industries, offices etc. These also vote
for the nominations of citizens of their working or residential environments
for awards at the municipal or higher levels.
ACE citizens receive
ACE
certificates. In an EthoCracy, all employers are forced by law to give the
necessary time off to their employees to attend
school
ACE meetings on a quarterly
basis. Condominiums are also forced to have the
ACE subject on
their agenda, and its
eventual related problems, included as one item for discussion at all their
meetings. This ACE system
is to force citizens to be concerned with civic issues, reinforce the spirit
of good civic conduct in all environments, and ensure the proper rewards
to their best ACE citizens on a meritocratic basis.
ACE awards in turn
become part of a normal curriculum and may be most useful to the citizens
concerned from a new job opportunity point of view. All offices and institutions
in an EthoCracy have the duty to issue an
ACE
Certificate , or an
ACEC, when requested by a member. This can typically
be an employer, the director of a school, the Governor of a city, the
administrator of a condominium, or the president of a professional
association. As per the choice of
the applicant, the ACEC can be issued without details, but always with
a possibility of zero to four aces, or
with all relevant details relevant to the number of aces on the
ACEC. Prospective employers have a right to request it from a
candidate employee, and if so, the
prospective employees have a duty to submit it. A Zero-ACE certificate by
itself does not mean bad civic behavior, but it certainly means no
outstanding good behavior from a civic point of view. A Minus-Zero
ACEC means there are serious infractions of the citizens against
the provisions of the regulations regarding civic behavior. A Minus-Zero
ACEC stays has a minus certificate for one to 5 years, depending
on the civic infractions. Typically for example, being caught by municipal
police not recycling house garbage would mean a fine but also a Minus-Zero
certificate being issued by the
NECA or city Governor if requested in the following
12 months. Being caught throwing used car oil, or plastic containers, at sea
or on country land, involves a five year Minus-Zero
ACEC,
independently from the corresponding fine or the possible criminal penalty. Torturing an
animal also involve a five year Minus-Zero
ACEC
from the city or the condominium to which it may be requested. The
ACE System is thus an excellent means to
help fight
the present psychological nihilism, the rampaging
micro-criminality, and the growing bullying behavior in most public places
and, by the infusion of the right culture, also in most private environments. In the long run,
it helps immensely to reduce the levels of these negative factors in all
our environments, be they civic, educational, ecological, political, or
institutional. The ACE hierarchical system is, in the end, the way to get
an
ACE Medal, as a world award
this time. It is the
WACEM prize (World
ACE
Medal). This is a prestigious prize, similar to a
Nobel, to which is
attached a scholarship or a money award, issued each year
to the three best ACE performers in the world, based on the initiative and
the recommendations
of all the issuers of ACE certificates worldwide. Like for the PytHarmony
prize (issued for EthoCracy promotion but reserved to EthoPlasìn members),
the best candidates chosen for
WACEM are three but, this time, not
necessarily EthoPlasìn members. Internally, if a
WACEM is won by a member,
it is called a PythACEM prize. The (two) series is (are) graded, as per the
procedure in the Olympic
competitions, and the winners get a Gold, Silver and Bronze medal. The
WACEM prizes (like the PytHarmony prizes) can be issued for outstanding
contributions for the improvement of any of the natural kingdoms from a
Pythagorean or an EthoCratic point of view. They can
be related to achievements regarding the Human
Kingdom, the Animal Kingdom,
the Vegetal Kingdom (including land and sea plants) or the
Mineral Kingdom
(including land, air and water). The corresponding medals, Gold, Silver or
Bronze, are thus distinguished by a corresponding "H",
a "A", a "V", or an "M"
in their center, below the
WACEM mark on top,
and the year for which it is granted at the bottom. The issuing authority
processing the ACE candidates and issuing the 3
WACEM prizes each year, at
an official ceremony, is the ElinArium
('Salon de Philosophie') of the
PythagorArium. In this overall
ACE program, the new
GinfonArium of the new
Informative Power
has a major role in gathering the information and informing the country
about the processing of all the awards.
→ REFORM 26/30
Natural Resources NAMO & Production NAGCO -
The word NAMO
stands for NAtional Majority
Ownership. The word
NAGCO stands for
NAtional Goodness
Code. All persons or corporations, national or international, exploiting natural
resources, must
comply to this constitutional NAMO rule of
national majority ownership. This
principle is enshrined in the new Syntagma. In an EthoCracy, this includes
banks and currency but, as seen in another reform on a new
NoNoNo Information System,
it also includes mass-media.
It certainly includes eminently all natural
resources that must all remain national, certainly mostly national, for at
least 51%, and
mostly into private hands, except on a subsidiary way for temporary
legitimate purposes. As for real-estate, bare
non-residential land can only belong to a national citizen in majority, as well as land intended
to be constructed for residential purposes. Foreigners can buy real-estate freely,
in full exclusive property right, but only
in the form of a condominium for personal use,
be it for purposes of their own private residence or their own commercial activity. If the foreigner
ceases such personal use or activity, the prope
rty cannot be rented, not
even to a national, but must be closed, or sold to a national, or to another foreigner for
his personal use. A foreigner cannot, for example, come in, buy a
condominium
apartment, then rent it and leave the country. If so, it remains closed,
and after 5 consecutive years of being closed and unused for more than 11
months per year, it must be sold to a national at a public auction. Foreign
companies are all corporations that must own a renewable
NAPBUC (NAtional
Private BUsiness
Charter) for their
national business activity, owned in partnership by
NAMO capital. As such, they can freely buy buildings for their commercial operations, with
their supporting land, including an adjacent land lot of up to a maximum of 5 times
the perimeter of the buildings concerned. These foreign companies cannot own
any land not meant to host these buildings, nor any bare land, nor any natural
resources not meant to be exploited by their operations in collaboration
with NAMO capital. The
NAPBUC of all corporations
or companies, be they entirely national or in partnership with a majority of national
capital, is renewable on a 5 year basis, after demonstrating, in front of a
judge, that they are operating for the good of the country. If they fail this
demonstration, their charter can be withdrawn, or subjected to heavy fines
until corrective action is taken for the good of the country, with possibly
a complete, or a partial, or temporary restriction of importing any product
they may need for their national operations. Similarly, foreign
companies that want only to bring their own foreign-made products in the
country must also own a
NAPBUC, renewable every year in this case,
demonstrating, in front of a judge, that their products have a good
NAGCO, or that the products are well made and
serve the good of the country. National importers cannot import foreign
products from companies who do not own a national
NAPBUC for that purpose.
The renewal of all business charters is well publicized in advance by the
InformArium, and
opponents can book their opposing intervention in front of the acting judge. Foreigners already owing
real-estate property improperly in majority, as from before these
ethocratic restrictions, can only sell it to nationals, for any use they wish, or to another foreign
person or company that will use it for its own commercial activities, or
their operations in the country with NAMO capital. As for natural resources, foreign companies can come in, freely, to exploit
national resources, on the basis of a legal contractual
NAPBUC agreement with a
national entity of the EthoCratic country, but never own these natural resources except on a minority share basis. If private
national capital cannot be found to buy the majority share of the national
resources to be exploited, the government has to come in, if it so wishes,
when it corresponds to a national interest, with a public investment to
ensure the property of the national resources remain
NAMO. The only alternative, and the one
always chosen in preference by an EthoCracy, would be a contractual
agreement for strict exploitation purposes, without even a partial ownership of
the foreign company, on the basis of a renewable
NAPBUC, after demonstrating
the exploitation will be, is, or has been, done for the good of the country. As for currency, it can only be national and (as seen
clearly in the reform related to the EthoCratic reform of the
Central
Banking System) fully under the control of the treasury
of the national government, and not under the control of any central bank
owned by private share holders or by a supranational central bank. At least 51% of all the profits made by
foreigners, or foreign companies, through national operations related to the
exploitation of national resources, must be reinvested in the country, while
in relation to commercial activities having nothing to do with the direct
exploitation of national resources, only 25% must be reinvested
internally. Regarding natural resources, if a foreign company with an old
full property wants to
sell, or cease its activities, and recuperate all its investment, it can
only sell to a national entity with
NAMO capital, eventually in partnership with the
government, if necessary and appropriate. If it sells to another foreign
entity, it will only recuperate its basic investment, along with its
legitimate share of exportable profits, but not its share of required
reinvestment of 51% of its annual profits in the country. That share will
become temporary government property as a new public share in the business.
However, such government share, or partnership, on the
part of the government, can only be temporary, until another suitable
private partner is found to buy it, be it a national or
another foreign entity.
IMPLICATIONS OF THE NAGCO
The product National Goodness Code, or
NAGCO, is a
fundamental constitutional requirement of the
Syntagma. The implication is that the
government, or any politician, cannot promote the investment of any foreign
company directly, but only indirectly, by promoting the production, within
national borders, of a product that the new
Informative Power has already
assessed as having an excellent
NAGCO, or an excellent
potential NAGCO at
certain conditions. And the
NAGCO analysis can
only take place through the InformArium,
through the open and public exchange of
True Information between all
the parties concerned, including the active participation of potential
competitors to the investment, and the public in general, in favor or
against the investment, and in particular the verbalization of the opinions
of the population most directly concerned with the intended location of the
investment. Once the Informative Power
issues its clearance, with the documentation of its rationale and the
conditions involved, then, and only then, the
Executive Power and/or the relevant
ministry, can legally get involved in facilitating and promoting the foreign
investment.
→ REFORM 27/30
No Fed-Type Central Bank
but a National Autonomous Monetary Authority (NAMA) - In western democracies, there is a central bank that issues/prints new money literally out of
"thin-air", not on
the basis of a gold reserve, nor of any real new value being created in the economy, and
without being fully controlled by anybody: not by the government nor certainly by the citizens electing the
government. In addition, most of these central banks are owned in majority by
private
shareholders
, or are under the full control of
these private shareholders, even
when they appear to have been "nationalized", like in England or
France, without, for all practical purposes, the national governments, let
alone the Constitution, being
able to really control the actions of these private shareholders. This is tantamount to
a right of "legal forgery" for open money printing
granted to some undeserving privileged and usurious private individuals. The best example of this ridiculous and
unjust situation is the Federal
Reserve central bank of the USA, where a handful of
private individuals can print trillions of dollars out of nothing
and, to add insult to injury, turn around and lend them to the government with interests, while most
other private American citizens struggle
to make ends meet on the basis of few hundred dollars. We repeat: this central bank lends that
"thin-air" money to
the government, directly or indirectly, but to be reimbursed by the
government as "real debt", not "thin-air debt",
and with interests, all coming, capital and interests, from the taxes of the
taxpayers, and of course from the inflation the process creates. This is tantamount to "legal usurious moneylending"
by a private corporation (not to say, more explicitly, an uncertain kind of
subtle legal cover, gained through fraudulent mercantilism, to what is
really "inflationary money laundering" by
private individuals). This
"thin-air" process, if not totally unconstitutional, in
the countries where it is used, is certainly
unnecessary, undesirable, and most unfair to both the government and, in
particular, the taxpayers.
In an EthoCracy,
there is no such fed-type of central bank but only a
National
Autonomous
Monetary
Authority (NAMA)
through which the
treasury of the government, not any central bank,
controls the printing of new money, albeit under full transparency and full
Legislative Power control. However, legally, the EthoCratic government can force the printing of new money through
NAMA, but only
for the exact value of the new
infrastructures it had in its
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program and that it needs to put in place,
and pay, for better
servicing the population. The government then pays these new infrastructures with
new money
that did not require any tax collection (to the full advantage of the taxpayer),
and that does not need to be reimbursed to any bank, let alone with any kind of interests
(to the full advantage of both the Government and the taxpayers).
This way the government only puts new money on the market that is
not inflationary, because the new printed money corresponds to a real new value created in the economy for the benefit of the
country in terms of brand new infrastructures (and only the ones
planned for explicitly in a winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program),
along with the explicit value of the creation of their directly dependent
additional services: it is certainly not any more just "thin-air-debt-money with interests" like the money that is being printed
by a conventional central bank system. Through this process, the Government achieved three important
objectives: it saved millions in inexistent debt (capital and interests), it improved the
infrastructures of the country at no expense from its current budget, and it did it all without creating inflation
nor raising taxes.
For anything else but the above process of implementing new infrastructures,
planned for in a winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program, the National Monetary Authority
is completely free from any political interference and can play its
independent role of controlling the activities of all private commercial banks. The National Monetary Authority is thus a compromise: in some ways
it is like a traditional Central Bank and, in some of its functions, it is
submitted to the political power gained from an EthoCratic election.
Finally, in an EthoCracy, because of the inexistence of a central bank, no
legal dealings can be allowed, on the part of any bank in the country, with
any non democratically accountable financial international institutions like
the IMF, the World Bank or the World Trade Organization: only elected
governments can handle such dealings, if and when required, and only on a
specific mandate from an explicit
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program item of the last
NEVoC
election, or of an ad-hoc NEVoC referendum. In turn, of course, all the money the government needs for the current
routine
operations of existing services and infrastructures
cannot be "printed", and must be obtained from regular
tax collection in agreement with specific requests placed in
Four-Way binding Electoral
Programs.
In other words, existing services that may be increasing in operational
price or maintenance, as opposed to new
infrastructures (with the creation of their
new dependent services), cannot be financed with
new
NAMA money.
PUBLIC CENTRAL BANKING, OR
NAMA, IS NOT
ENOUGH BY ITSELF
Having public central banking however, through a
NAMA, is not enough by
itself to necessarily resolve the problem entirely. Some important countries
are already in a similar situation, and seem to work better than most
others, in terms of financing more successfully, and more easily, their
economic development, but still have not resolved the problem completely
because, in the background, private "Money Power", with its internal and
external ramifications, still controls these governments through
mercantilism and corrupted
politicians. This is probably the case for example, in great
part, of China, India and Russia at the moment. This is why an EthoCracy
also requires a package of other
cumulative reforms supporting the success of the
NAMA. This includes eminently the
major reforms on
A Firm Separation Between
Politics, Media and Money and a A
NoNoNo Government, but also the assistance of other subsidiary
reforms, like
A Limited Important Role of Political
Parties, A Full
Transparency Of All Government Officials,
A Zero Tolerance With Corruption,
and of course, last but not least, the proactive backing of the brand new
type of Syntagma Constitution with a
fourth and a fifth powers of the state, the
Informative Power and the
Corrective Power, working
independently from the 3 traditional ones, the Executive, Legislative, and
Judicative powers, providing
True Information helping the total pureness of the system
for the benefit of all citizens and ensuring the
correct, or even corrective,
application of all
constitutional rules.
COMMERCIAL BANKS FULL RESPONSIBILITY
In an EthoCracy, commercial and investment banks can be both public or
private, with no mix, and both compete normally for attracting clients and
rewarding business investments for the benefits of their clients. Both can
use only limited fractional reserve lending: a maximum ratio of 3 to 1 for
public banks, and maximum 5 to 1 for private banks, as opposed to the
current legal
ratio of 10 to 1 (or often much more, illegally) that is applied by all
banks in most countries at the moment. No private bank is guaranteed by public money in case of failure, and
public banks are only partially guaranteed. Only private insurance can cover
the risks and the gaps. On the other hand, no public bank can have any secrecy in
administering its funds, and is only obliged to ma
intain privacy on the
amount of money contained in each personal account they open and maintain,
just like in private banks. However, this same privacy does not apply to
accounts in public banks for companies or organizations of any kind, private
or public. Private banks can decide differently or even offer a choice of
accounts with or without privacy for companies and organizations, on the
basis of the contractual agreement made in each case between the two
interested parties. Except for these few limitations of privacy, all banks,
public or private, must operate and manage their assets on the basis of the
full transparency, full accountability and full legal responsibility inherent to EthoCracy, subject to
serious fines (primarily to their managers, as opposed to their
banks), and possibly more serious penalties, like dismissal of
responsible staff without
severance pay, and possibly the confiscation of their personal property,
and/or even imprisonment as a last resort. All banks balance sheets must also
be submitted to the new GinfonArium
for scrutiny and publication as assumed True Information, with or without reserve, for the
benefit of the public at large. Within this framework, in an
EthoCracy, a private bank failure is not guaranteed in any way by any public
money, as this would be anti-constitutional from the point of view of its
Constitutional Annex called the "Fundamental PhiloEcoSophical Law"
, and in particular unconstitutional in that an
ethocratic country cannot have public debt of any kind, and certainly no new
debt for assisting private irresponsible business. In the case of public banks, the full public cover
of a failure applies only to the private personal bank accounts of
nationals
of the country, with new
NAMA money, while the
cover applies to only half of all the non personal accounts, or the personal
accounts of foreigners. In the case of
a bank failure, private or public, all management staff of all levels is obligatorily, and
definitively, released without any severance pay, nor any other bonus of any
kind, and,
for the sole reason of the management failure to which they belong,
independently of their individual direct personal fault in managing the bank,
with a fine of one full year salary, while their bank is submitted to a
complete investigation that may result in all sorts of more serious
penalties for its top management, up to full confiscation of property, and years of imprisonment
for basically destitute managers. All public banks must be
only national
banks. All foreign international banks are considered private banks, fully
submitted to national laws, for
all their national operations, in particular in the case of a failure. In order to help bank
clients assess their situation and the risks they take, all banks, including
foreign banks operating in the country, are
forced to publish their balance sheet on a yearly basis, and the details of
all their investments or loans to non private persons, on a
monthly basis.
The GinfonArium must receive copies of all these report for scrutiny and
publication, and all the clients of these banks must also receive this essential information in the form they
prefer, on a
monthly and yearly basis, even by email.
IMPLICATIONS OF THE
FPL FOR INTERNATIONAL BANK
TRANSFERS
As seen in in another reform, the constitutional FPL
of the new Syntagma expresses many
ethocratic fundamental constitutional principles to be respected by all laws
and public institutions of the country. One of them is to reinforce a good
sense of nationality, patriotism, and full transparency in all aspects of
the public life of the country. The 4th power of the state, the
Informative
Power, was established in part for these purposes. As such, on the basis of the
FPL,
an international bank transfer crossing the national borders is considered,
in principle, for this sole fact, an affair of public interest, and no more a strictly private matter. One of the consequences for all commercial banks
is that all international bank transfers, over an established
minimum, in and out of the country, crossing national physical borders, one
way or the other, have to be made known to the
VinfonArium of the new constitutional
Informative Power, and not known anymore just to the banks
and the clients involved.
Contrary to the banks involved, the VinfonArium does not want to know the
justification for the transfer, but only the details of the transfer in
terms of amount, persons and banks involved. Such cross-border transfers
cannot either be kept in temporary holding accounts owned by the banks, but
only make their direct way from a personal
account to another personal account. In principle
the VinfonArium will keep all outgoing
transfers in full confidence, but only as long as they are made by nationals,
independently of the amount. To the contrary, if they are made by non-nationals, the outgoing
transfers will all be made public automatically on the
VinfonArium website,
independently of the amount. However, in case of a criminal investigation by
a magistrate, for suspected corruption or illegal money recycling, all the details
of the outgoing transfers will be made immediately
available to the acting magistrate or judge, even for nationals, with details provided as
they were received by the VinfonArium, as
True Information in their
possession. In case of incoming transfers, over
an established minimum, for national or non-national receivers, the details
will automatically be made public as
True Information on the
VinfonArium website. In all cases, the communication to the
VinfonArium does
not ever have to be made preventively, but has to be made immediately after
the fact, the same day or the next working day at the latest, with full
details of the sender and the receiver, in terms of both persons and banks
involved. Bank account numbers are obligatorily made known to the
VinfonArium, but not make public; they can be made available only to a
magistrate in an official judicial investigation. Payments made by credit cards, or by any other means of money
movements across national borders that are not regular bank desk transfers, in
and out, over the established amount, follow the same rules, mutatis
mutandis, on the part of the persons, companies and institutions involved.
In any case, all money transfers outside national borders are
subject to a special capital exportation tax levied automatically by the
bank involved, albeit at only a minimal symbolic level in the case of small
amounts of money for personal use withdrawn through personal debit cards
while travelling abroad.
→ REFORM 28/30
No More Permanent Embassies, only Reinforced Consulates -
In an EthoCracy, ambassadors are only ad-hoc
and temporary nominations for the time of special and very confidential
missions abroad. They are basically home-based specialists send abroad
temporarily on diplomatic status, but only when really required. In our
contemporary technological and global world, because of the globalization of
the "world village", there is really no more need
for full embassies abroad but, by the same token, because of this same
globalization, there is a new need for reinforced
consulates abroad. With the advent
of the era of Internet, and instant,
sophisticated and safe video telecommunications worldwide, not to mention the
incredibly good and exhaustive information provided by the world press
(printed and multi-media, official and/or alternative), bilateral embassies, as we know them today, are
completely outdated as a system. In countries of the location of the HQ of important
international organizations, like for example in the cities of Paris, Geneva, Rome or
Brussels, with a multiplication of bilateral embassies by a factor of 2 to 5,
in the same city, this outdated system is so redundant that it is plainly ridiculous. Their
maintenance also requires the expense of tremendous resources of totally
exaggerated and unnecessary costs, in terms of staff, properties, security
measures, and a long series of unfair privileges, of all colors and shades,
being provided to a caste of public servants that, for the most part, is
totally incompetent and often dangerously useless. These staff being rotational, and often very poorly
trained, they are also mostly unprepared and incapable
of serving effectively in a foreign country, except maybe a bit more so by
the time of their departure, when it is too late to enjoy their services
fruitfully. What makes things worse,
most senior embassy officials spend most of their time, in their expensive
offices abroad, reading and summarizing in writing, in their national
language, the local foreign newspapers of their
country of accreditation, which is, today, with current technology,
something they could do as easily, and as well, if not better, while sitting in front of
their computers at their home base. In addition, while abroad, the majority of them do not even speak
the local language sufficiently well to do this 'job' on their own, and
they need the constant and costly help of translators and interpreters that
they could find as well at home, or at home from abroad online. Certainly, not more than
probably about 5% of these diplomatic officials master the local language
sufficiently well to understand the important nuances of the newspaper
articles they read, or which ones are facetious or dis-informative in
their content, or which of their local interpreters are incompetent or biased in their
translations. In other words, as well put in evidence recently by Wikileaks, most of
what they do, reporting it back home, at great costs to produce it, and even greater
costs to protect it for years in a confidential way, is mostly useless,
sometimes potentially dangerous, and usually not much more revealing than
what one can find in good official international mass media in his own language,
let alone an incredible amount of valid alternative media. Of course
this extensive reporting is the cause of an incredible loss of time and money
also on
the part of some of their well paid supervisors, at their offices back home, who
spend hours reading the useless reports, and do not want to even think of
questioning
the uselessness of the whole process, because they only hope their turn will
soon come to be posted abroad, in a posh embassy, to do the same useless
work, and finally also enjoy themselves the long chain of unmerited
privileges attached to that position. The process, with its numerous
unnecessary privileges,
is thus most unfair to all the tax payers who paid to produce and maintain
the useless mass of staff and documents. As mentioned above, in an EthoCracy,
ambassadors still exist, but they are only
ad-hoc nominations for special, temporary, and unusually confidential missions,
that sometimes do require a very trusted representative to travel physically abroad, meet foreign
government contacts most discretely, conduct secret bilateral
negotiations, and report back home, during and/or after their missions.
REINFORCED CONSULATES
In an EthoCracy, as seen above, there is no need for traditional embassies.
By the same token, in an EthoCracy, Consuls must not only still
exist but their role is even much reinforced in three ways. Their basic
primary role is, and remains, to help their co-citizens, within their foreign
country of accreditation, when they run into trouble while abroad. This role
is mostly irreplaceable by foreign nationals and it must continue. This
basic role however is reinforced in three ways.
a) First
reinforcement - With the wild movements of vagrant
illegal migrants worldwide at the
moment, new EthoCratic Consuls are requested to play a much more important role than
traditional consuls, in helping to pursue
the legitimate objective of accepting only legal
immigration whenever possible,
and only real refugees under the convention whenever possible, as mentioned in
another EthoCratic Reform on Only
Legal Immigration and Least Possible Multiculturalism, not to
mention the suggested reform of the UN
and its dependent UNHCR in particular. This way,
through the accrued role of consuls abroad, appropriate pre-selection of all
potential immigrant is made abroad, before the arrival of the prospective
immigrants to their desired country of destination and, by the same token,
the huge wave of illegal alien migrants, for the most part, is prevented
from flooding the country represented by the consul. This avoids useless
hardship to the prospective immigrants themselves, and useless additional
micro-criminality to the receiving country, because of huge and unchecked movements of
illegal migrants without status nor legal work. Of course, this kind of pre-selection process also impedes, in great part, the
arrival of many undesired potential immigrants or migrants,
for various legitimate reasons, and
of false refugees who are only economic migrants.
Most countries at the moment neglect completely this important task
of immigration pre-selection and
cause this way some irreparable damages to their own civic environments, and
unfair harm to floods of vagrant illegal migrants. In an
EthoCracy,
in front of any real or potential right that immigrants and refugees may
have, there is the constitutional duty of the receiving country to select them.
Neglecting this duty, like most receiving countries do at the moment, means the very probable collapse of the
present type of life, not to say civilization, that the majority of their
citizens enjoy at the moment, and logically want to maintain. This collapse
is already very much on its way in many non-EthoCratic countries of the
western world. Unless formal pre-selection starts taking place, as mentioned
abroad, this cultural collapse will
inevitably happen against their will, in the coming two or three
generations, after having collided, frontally and fatally, on
the
terrible iceberg of illegal immigration,
out of pure negligence. In turn, this illegal movement also causes a terribly
damageable absence of essential manpower, and a dramatic brain drain, to the countries of origin of these illegal movements
of migrants.
b) Second reinforcement
-
The second way consulates are reinforced is
with the reversed migration movement of
their own nationals, those who become destitute, or illegal vagrant migrants, in the
host country of the consulate accreditation. In an EthoCracy, the police of the host country has the
legal
duty to gather the
illegal destitute foreigners, and to force them to the door
of the consulate of competence for assistance, or to a gathering center
agreed to, in a bilateral agreement, but again for assistance by the
consulate of competence in these gathering centers, and at the expense of that consulate. Under an amended
convention on consular relations, the consulate is legally responsible to assist
its own citizens, either temporarily, in placing them in designated centers at their
expense, or permanently, through repatriation at their expense. Each country, in all justice
and fairness to taxpayers, has enough of its
own destitute people to assist, and should not be forced to also assist thousands
of foreign migrant nationals.
c) Third reinforcement - The third
reinforcement is in terms of ensuring temporary physical protection and
accommodation, within a special area of the consulate, if and when
necessary, even with call-in food when required, and offering total and free
modern communications facilities to destitute, or seriously harmed, or
distressed, citizens who ran into serious trouble while visiting the country
of accreditation of the consulate. The consulates must have at least three safe rooms
always ready, for this purpose, within the consulate itself, and agreements
already made, with outside accommodation providers, for rooms to be used by such nationals
in difficulty, under a guarantee of full payment of the related expenses by the consulate. Such
expenses however, made by the consulate, must in principle be eventually reimbursed by
the nationals involved, after their return home, with the
confiscation of their passports in the meantime. During the period of
consular assistance abroad, the consulate must also offer private cubicles,
within the reception area of the consulate, with full, and fully free, instant
communications facilities, with both the home country and the country where
the consulate is located, or any other country if needed, to ensure citizens
can resolve by themselves, as much as possible, as if they were at home, all
their problems from, and within, the host country. If necessary, the
consulate employees will intervene in the process, for interpretation
purposes, and use their special
access rights to also arrange online meetings with officials of the 2
countries (host and national), and pass them on to the distressed citizens
for appropriate discussions and clarifications, without having to go outside
the consulate. Non-national residents running into trouble while abroad,
must address themselves to the consulate of their own nationality for any
kind of financial assistance. If they have a
NEVoC identity however, and are
residents without the nationality, they can nevertheless take advantage of
the full communication facilities of the consulate, to communicate with
their home-residence families, persons of their own country of nationality,
or national business contacts anywhere in the world, in order to resolve
their distressing problems in the most possible efficient and expeditious
ways, but with no accommodation rights for overstay within the special rooms
of the Consulate itself.
OVERALL
Operating and managing foreign operations this way, with only reinforced
consulates instead of full embassies abroad, and considering the cheap
information technology available today, and the immense savings in related
resources, even taking into account the additional costs for immigration
pre-selection, or pre-control of migrants abroad, this reform means spending only a very small fraction
of the budgetary resources used today for maintaining redundant diplomatic
employees and properties abroad and thousands of illegals at home. The
overall approach results in incredible savings. The
reform also improves immensely the decorum of civic environments of both the
host country and the country of nationality, reduces the levels of
micro-criminality, reduces equally immensely the false hope and hardship of
illegal migrants and false refugees, and improves the social justice of
the tax payers currently paying, more than ever before, the exorbitant and unnecessary costs of
outdated and redundant diplomatic operations, and of unnecessary assistance
to huge and useless movements of illegal vagrant migrants. In the meantime,
distressed citizens, while abroad, are assisted with more efficiency than
ever before. As seen in the other reform about
Countryside Prison Farms, an
EthoCracy tries, in principle, through its reinforced consulates, to also
Expatriate All Foreign Prisoners
to their home country, as it should not be responsible for the related
economic burden, in particular with long-term inmates.
→ REFORM 29/30
All Non-Elected International
Organizations With No Secrecy (NEIO) -
This applies to all
NEIO (Non-Elected International Organization) financed through
contributions of public tax payers money from various member countries.
These include supra-national organizations, like the EU, the UN, the World
Bank etc. Such
NEIO entities cannot have any
secrecy regarding any of their deliberations, nor any of their budget items,
lest loose their contributions from an EthoCracy member country. Such bodies
must, inprinciple, just like all ethocratic governments, use strictly
RATAC budgets and
documents lest loose their contributions. The very few exceptions to secrecy are
always very temporary, for only as long as strictly required, with a maximum
limit of 3 years, and have to be justified and pre-approved by the new
Informative Power of the contributing EthoCracy
member country.
However, the secrecy then applies, for the approved period, but only to the
deliberations, and not to the corresponding budget expenses: the spending
for reserved operations can be given a temporary code name for the same period,
corresponding to the code name of the reserved operation, but the amounts of
money being disbursed must be indicated sequentially, and in a clear
RATAC way, for all
contributors, country or citizen, to
follow easily, under that code name. Just like EthoCratic governments, the
NEIO entities also have to be
governed by a strict NoNoNo Management,
mutatis mutandis, and NoNoNo
Information, lest loose their contributions, all or part of it,
from their ethocratic member countries. As far as budgetary expenses are
concerned, and as seen in the ethocratic reform on
Full Transparency,
international organizations spending public money, through national
contributions, must always continue to operate on
RATAC
budgets,
otherwise have their national contribution reduced by 25% in the first year,
and by an additional 10% for each following year, with no retroactive
recuperation once their accounting has been brought back to full
RATAC standards. This is quite a little
revolution imposed by EthoCracy, but a necessary one. In particular, this
means that supra-national organizations, like typically the EU, cannot
anymore just impose, downwards, criteria of good administration to their
members, but are also subject to corresponding criteria of good
administration, coming upwards, from their ethocratic member countries, in terms of
Full
Transparency and No-Debt Management. EthoCracy requires that public money be
handled, all and only, through NoNoNo Management
and only fully
RATAC
budgets. An incredible amount of public money is being spent badly at the
moment, by many international or supranational organizations, if not most of
them, for all sorts of useless, or even often damageable programs and
projects, and to maintain the huge, expensive and inefficient bureaucracies
that elaborate them, and pretend to manage them, supposedly, for the good of
the world populations, while doing it in fact in great part, if not mostly, for attributing their
respective castes, in the p
rocess, and in various ways along the way, all
sorts of expensive and totally unmerited privileges. All of this is done at
public expense of contributing tax payers, and is simply inacceptable, not to say outrageous. An
important portion of this financing also ends-up in the private pockets of
corrupted handlers and leaders of many foreign countries. Just like the national
bureaucracies and governments of an EthoCracy have to be kept under better
control, with least possible expenses, and no public debt, by a series of
reforms like the ones mentioned above, all international or supranational
organizations that receive the national money of an ethocratic country have
to be controlled in a similar manner. Doing it directly however is
practically, and legally, nearly impossible. There is only a correct
practical way to do
it, and it is an indirect and fragmented way. An EthoCracy will not contribute,
not blindly nor directly, to the general global budgets of such organizations,
but will pay its fair share of their expenses
through financing specific projects that are estimated vitally important, by
the national ethocratic government, for implementation within the national
borders or abroad. The new InformArium power of the EthoCracy will
research the various projects of all the
NEIO entities wanting
national contributions, request detailed information from them, on their
operations and their costs, and, if and when satisfactory
True Information
has been obtained for these projects, all of it will be published on its
GinfonArium or
VinfonArium websites. After that, any candidate President, in
a national election, will carefully consider that
True Information, choose from it the
projects that he and his party find most useful for the best of the world population, and
politically most agreeable to his objectives, and put the financial amounts
he decides he wants to contribute for these projects in his
Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program. If he wins the election, the public money will be
contributed accordingly
by the new ExecArium. In case of an emergency, the same kind of proposition
can be done through the yearly NEVoC reconfirmation process of the President's
mandate. All of this however has to be done on the basis of the new
constitutional arrangement of the ethocratic country that is governed by
strict NoNoNo Government and
NoNoNo Information policies: it has no borrowing
power, cannot have any public debt, and cannot use any surprise
taxation or law that has not been explicitly approved by a
NEVoC election. In addition, all
its decisions have to be taken on the basis of
True Information. Last but not least, in
relation to national concerns for the advent of EthoCracy, as seen briefly
in conclusion of this page, the UN in particular would need a major reform
to become a UEN (United
Ethocratic Nations).
NOMINATIONS OF
REPRESENTATIVES AND CONSULTANTS
In an EthoCracy, there cannot be any non-elected representative of the
people sitting in the Executive Power. This applies first to the
ExecArium
of the country, at national level, but also to the representatives of the
government at any NEIO
entity, or any other type of international organization, like the UN,
along with all their
parent organizations, to which the ethocratic government provides financing
contributions from its public money. Representatives are not nominated by
the national ministry of Foreign Affairs, but by the elected president,
after an election, and only
from the names of candidates he has chosen and included in his
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program for this purpose,
and only for the time of his mandate. Once nominated, these representatives
have a double duty under the
FPL.
First they represent the country normally, as most
non-elected representatives do it now from non ethocratic countries,
but strictly from the point of view
of defending the principles of the national
FPL and the
National Charter of Rights regarding foreign aid or
international collaboration. Second, they have
an extra duty, made known explicitly in writing to the organizations
involved at time of nomination, of collaborating closely with the national
InformArium for providing all possible
True Information regarding
the activities of these international organizations, and for insisting that their
operations be conducted with no debt and the least possible costs. The same
principles apply, mutatis mutandis, to the nomination of external
consultants at any level and for any purpose: if their names are not
included in the list of a President who won the last majority election, in
his Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program, they can only be appointed after a new national election, or
after a
NEVoC process of
Annual Confirmation of
government activity in the meantime. If it is done through a
NEVoC, the new
InformArium has to have had a chance
to publish all possible True Information on the candidates at least one month
before the NEVoC. In the cases of
non-national consultants, the InformArium will still publish all necessary
True Information on the
candidates, and may condition some of its funding in the case of inacceptable candidates. In all cases of
such nominations, for representatives or consultants, the nominees must have
no spouse and no first-grade vertical or
horizontal relative in any existing executive position of the elected
president's list at any level, nor in existing positions of the executive
staff of the organization concerned that will hire them as consultants,
except if approved explicitly as such in a NEVoC
process.
→ REFORM 30/30
A National Auxiliary
Language (EthoGloso) - An
EthoCracy definitely and firmly promotes the use of its international
auxiliary language (IAL)
within
the country. In fact, it promotes its own,
EthoGloso, as the best Universal
Auxiliary Language. It also promotes its use abroad, as a universal
IAL, as
much as it can. Because of its easiness, people can, at a cultural level,
concentrate better on, and improve, their own national languages
(instead of loosing so much time and energy, most of the time quite uselessly,
learning many other difficult foreign national languages) but, at the same
time, through their IAL, they become able to communicate easily, and perfectly, at a practical level,
with any other citizen of
any other city, or even country, with whom they come in contact, at home or
abroad. An IAL can certainly also improve tremendously the communications in all the
international organizations, and save a great part of
their budgets in useless simultaneous interpretations and written translations. It
can also save many persons, intellectuals or not, from the psychological
difficulty they may have, let alone the possible shame in some cases, for
feeling that in order to achieve success, they are forced to learn the dominant language of another country that, to them,
may not be particularly friendly, like it is often the case with English,
but also with French and German. Esperanto is the best known such
IAL at the moment, but not at all the best alternative.
Consequently EthoPlasìn
has developed a better alternative,
called EthoGloso. At its basic level, it absorbs most of the Esperanto
vocabulary, albeit with a different spelling in order to be able to use only
the 26 regular unaccented letters of the English keyboard. From this point
of view, it is like a kind of Super-Esperanto. This
IAL allows the
possibility of holding easy conversations worldwide on routine daily subjects, and the
most easy switch of the existing worldwide Esperanto community to
EthoGloso.
At its more advanced level, EthoGloso provides a lot of additional new
vocabulary, mainly for sophisticated writing and speaking at more cultural
or professional levels, equivalent to what could happen in most national
languages. All the new vocabulary, over and above what is absorbed from
Esperanto, is based on Latin and
Ancient-Greek, the two ancient languages at the very base of most occidental
modern languages. In an EthoCracy, EthoGloso becomes compulsory study in all schools,
up to the end of university.
EthoGloso
does not of course prevent anyone from learning
any other foreign national language for their own pleasure or culture. For more details, see our page on
EthoGloso.
From a National Perspective - In
EthoCracy,
all powers are more balanced and bring more justice to all its citizens through
more merit, better ethics, improved decorum, strong philoecosophical values and
a sense of planet oneness responsibility. In particular, as seen above, its
constitution has become a Syntagma that transforms the arrangement of
the state in 5 separated powers, instead of the traditional 3, as a new
"Pentas Politica" providing more
True Information, and
fuller transparency, on all activities of the state, at all its levels, thus guaranteeing
best possible democracy, least possible corruption. The 4th power, the
InformArium, sits at the
very foundation of
an EthoCracy. In addition, there
are no more
traditional parliaments nor traditional government institutions as we know them
today.
There
is not even anymore a traditional type of opposition: no
more traditional ignorant and incompetent parliamentarians or senators being elected, thus the imposs
ibility of such
individuals to make purely obstructive opposition, or change political party during a mandate, and possibly
force this way the early fall of an otherwise perfectly performing government
(Executive Power) on
the way to realizing its exact
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. Electors only elect a government,
or better, a team of executing leaders, at national and local levels, with an
absolute majority, and these
same electors have easy and
complete power over these elected leaders. Electors thus elect a President with his program,
his team
of ministers and his list of local Governors: the 'Executing' Power. Electors do not
elect parliamentarians nor senators in the traditional way anymore. Electors also make sure that
the Executing Power is in a position to manage and fulfill its fully
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program,
by electing it at absolute majority, not because the government will need any
majority vote in any parliament, but as a symbol of the clear will of the
majority of people to have the winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program executed without useless obstruction.
There are no more local elections, only national ones. This does not only mean
simplification, but also an immense reduction of electoral costs, not to mention
the reduction of electoral clienteles and their related corruption. The elected president in turn appoints
all his local Governors at lower levels (provinces or municipalities) from the
list of candidates known at the time of his election campaign.
Opposition
still exists however and, in its new and stronger form, democracy
is even much better served by it. In addition,
there is a new constitutional Informative Power that controls the
government much more independently than traditional accomplice oppositions in
whichever form they may exist. The new Parliament of Experts, the
ExpertArium (the
Legislating or Legislative Power of the new Syntagma), deals
with new legislation in the most effective way, entirely at an expert level and
strictly tied to the winning
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. The
National Public Forum, the
new OppositArium (ex
Senate) plays the
role of an opposition, but much better than now, in particular when combined
with the new Informative Power of the new Syntagma.
In an EthoCracy, opposition
can be expressed
by any citizen, chosen by any pressure group, or by competent experts, all
better informed than ever before through the
True Information provided
by the new Informative Power, but without having the
possibility of paralyzing government efficiency through obstructive political
opposition, while that government is only clearly fulfilling its
Four-Way Binding Electoral Program. Such opposition only has the possibility of influencing the
public opinion, on its own or with the help of the new Informative Power, and thus
influencing both the next annual confirmation of the current
government and influencing also the vote for the
following general election of a new government team. The Judicial Power in turn only applies the law and verifies its
constitutionality when requested by an interested party; It clearly has no chance of interfering
proactively, or unduly, in any
way, certainly not publicly, with the Executing and the Legislating powers. There
is thus a real and complete separation of the 5 powers to an absolute degree, certified by the
constitution. Finally, the
new LeaderArium (the council of ex Presidents and ex Prime-Ministers) has an important conciliatory and consultative role for
counseling all the new institutions and resolving their potential conflicts. In the meantime,
combining all the above EthoCratic reforms with the new structure of government
institutions, all sectors
of the civic life are better informed and better administrated, with more selective schools (thus
much less unemployment), more
stable families (thus more equilibrated children for future generations), improved handling of
criminals
(thus much better civic environments down the line), no clandestine or illegal influx of
migrants
(thus better regular immigration and much less micro-criminality) and an engaging set of philoecosophical
concerns and initiatives affecting all new legislation (thus better living conditions on our
beautiful Earth, based on a stronger collective sense of Planet Oneness Responsibility). All citizens
do, in the end, get
more justice and a
fairer personal 'lot' from improved institutions, on the basis of their
merit, and
enjoy better environments from a civic, institutional, ecological, political and cultural points of view. This is more
than flat responsive representative Democracy and even better than proactive Meritocracy: this
is EthoCracy.
From an International
Perspective
- UN to
UEN - From an international perspective, the first thing to do to respect
the EthoCratic spirit is to go from UN to
UEN. In light of all the above government reforms taken as a package, we
have
to go from a "United Nations" organization to a "United
EthoCratic Nations" organization: from UN to
UEN!
An EthoCratic
reform at national level, in a growing number of countries, on the basis of what
we call the EthoCracy Reforms Package, definitely cascades the need of corresponding reforms at the level of all the main
international organizations. The UN (United Nations) for example is at least as corrupted,
and certainly more inefficient, than most of its democratic and undemocratic member nations. It is
clearly totally inefficient and incapable of resolving most serious world
problems. In spite of this, its caste is full of undeserved and very costly
privileges. In many of its initiatives it is dominated by too many representatives
of undemocratic, or even dictatorial, countries who are allowed to scandalously sit on, or
even head, important commissions like the one on human rights, the one on the status
of refugees, or the one on the status of women. In this respect, the present UN
is literally and plainly "ridiculous", with no better word to qualify this
inacceptable behavior, and a careless, if not often destructive, super-national structure. The same kind of comments can also be made,
mutatis
mutandis, about most other international organizations, like the EU, FAO, UNHCR,
UNESCO
etc., not to mention other less obvious
ones, like
the Arab League or the African Union. Even the top commanding HQ of
the most important churches or racial organizations would deserve similar
comments, like the World Council of
Churches, or the World Jewish Congress, all factually known for all sorts of
abuse of power on simple people internationally, in light, or in spite, of their non
democratically elected mandates for the most part. Similar comments can also apply to the biggest
financial organizations, like the World Bank, the FMI and the WTO. In addition
to ridiculous initiatives, similar to the ones of the UN mentioned above, they also all
constitute, and serve furtively, a caste of individuals, useless and incompetent for the most
part, with huge
salaries and highly inadmissible
privileges, not to mention their too often hidden agendas, all at the expense of the poor citizens who pay the taxes of the
nations who finance them, or of the nations they have contributed to indebt. A very good expert literature exists on this subject and
consequently it is useless to
add more details on this webpage. To return to the subject
of the UN, thinking of excluding undemocratic
countries from the UN, or ask them to quickly become democratic in the short
term, is an utopia; but
exclude them for this sole reason would also be a mistake. For good or for bad, they
are deeply involved in world affairs and consequently they must also be brought
in at the important discussion tables, and involved in the activities of an organization created
precisely to resolve world problems.
Certainly,
as a starting point, the undemocratic member countries of the UN must not be allowed to hold any
leading position in the type of UN commissions mentioned above, having to do
with citizens rights, until they at least commit
themselves formally to pursue long term objectives of democracy and they demonstrate, through their work
and opinions in other important commissions, that they are engaged
seriously in a definite process of gradual democratization. As for the
democratic countries however, the situation is not much better. Most people will also admit
that simple democracy, in the deflated way we know it at the moment, in most of the
so-called democratic countries of the western world, is not either without
terrible flaws. To name only the main problem, rampaging political corruption is
nothing but endemic,
and consequently taxation is way exaggerated in order to palliate for the
revenues "lost" in private pockets and in various banks of complacent
countries generally known as fiscal paradises. This causes incredible damage and injustice to the citizens of these democratic
countries that are sometimes not less unfair than the damage and injustice
caused to the citizens of undemocratic countries. Again expert literature is equally
abundant on this subject 
and there is no need to add more on this subject in
this webpage. In other words, most countries now, most of the democratic ones
and most of the undemocratic ones, are so flawed that they do not meet the
ideals, not even the basic objectives, that are theoretically at the foundation of an organization like the UN
for the purposes of the best management of world affairs. The meritocratic
spirit and values animating an EthoCracy, reinforced by the new Informative
Power of its Syntagma, can help tremendously to ensure that
only the best representatives of both democratic and undemocratic countries
are allowed to reach prominent positions of leadership in an organization
like the UEN (just like it happened through the influence of the famous
Hemicycle School of Pythagoras shown to the right,
in the government institutions it reformed in many
excellent cities, kingdoms and republics for few centuries, starting some 2500 years ago). Someone has already suggested to recreate the UN, and rename it the
UDN (United
Democratic
Nations), but that is too much to ask to most of its undemocratic
members, as they would not be able to meet its definition nor its entry standards, at
least not in the short term. One could then suggest to call it
UMN (United
Meritocratic
Nations). This would probably facilitate somehow the admission of
many undemocratic countries, as a country can probably be quite meritocratic without
necessarily be fully democratic. It would also force the democratic countries to
correct some of their main flaws and become more worthy, through the choice of
more meritocratic representatives, for sitting in prominent positions
of power, like the main ones at an organization like the UN. This could
theoretically be a good middle-way position, and maybe force both undemocratic and democratic
countries to improve themselves, at least look more honorable, and become
somewhat more
effective and more fair in attempting to manage world affairs and resolve world
problems. However, in our
present culture, the words "Meritocratic" and "Meritocracy" are pretty much
annoying to many people as they often have a derogatory meaning, or connotation, of
inequality, ugly social elitism,
even sometimes of an idealistic utopia, let alone being
concepts that define vague objectives that are difficult to pinpoint in practical
terms. In front all these difficulties, it becomes quite
clear that all the practical
government reforms mentioned above, in the EthoCracy Reforms Package,
even taken as a package, are no utopia at all.
They certainly require a drastic change in mentality that might be
difficult to accept at the beginning, as they disturb many well established
interests, let alone the privileges of a huge caste, but they are quite feasible. The best part is that they
can also be adapted quite well,
and quite easily, with some reasonable progressive flexibility, to satisfy the
needs of improvement of both democratic and undemocratic countries now sitting
in the UN. The package can certainly help improve the management of all countries quite drastically in
many ways, without the democratic ones loosing all of their present liberal
pluralism and without the undemocratic ones loosing all of their present
authoritarian power. With such compromise, with EthoCracy, both sides can certainly
improve quite substantially. If both the democratic and the undemocratic nations
follow the suggestions of the EthoCracy Reforms Package, they can both collaborate
strongly in creating a new era of "Better Decorum, More Merit and Planet
Oneness Responsibility" (the EthoPlasìn logo). Both sets of countries,
the democratic and the undemocratic ones, can then become, or be proactively in their way to become, an "EthoCracy". A new UN
recreated for pursuing these
objectives can then be renamed
UEN (United
EthoCratic
Nations) and finally be in a much
better position to resolve world problems more fairly, not to say manage world
affairs more
honorably, and bring more justice, more ethics and more peace to most world populations,
thus more happiness to a growing number of people on our beautiful Planet Earth. Such a world
would probably
not be a paradise, but it would certainly be a much better world, managed by much
better world leaders. From our point of view, it would become a New Era of
EthoCracy
finally come true, led honorably, in the best possible way, by a new
UEN.
From a Planet Oneness Perspective - The EthoPlasìn logo at the base of the EthoCratic philosophy is: "Better Decorum, More Merit and Planet Oneness Responsibility". From a sense of Planet Oneness Responsibility, the new Fundamental PhiloEcoSophical Law (FPL) mentioned above ensures the very best possible effort of each country for the preservation of our beautiful Planet Earth in its best possible state, not only from an ecological point of view, but from the perspective of all living environments, subject to extremely severe penalties.
From the Perspective of
Democracy - An EthoCracy is authoritarian in some ways but also
more democratic than any other regime, with real direct democracy at its best,
and the possibility of its governing power being lost as
easily, and as quickly, as it was gained. An EthoCratic regime
appears, at first glance, to be quite authoritarian, and it is.
Authoritarian, but both ways: from both the point of view of the
government and from the point of view of the people who elected it and control it like
never before. It is authoritarian for example in that it requires a
compulsory NEVoC ID with unequivocal biometric features; it 'forces' citizens to vote
in all national elections, subject to a fine; It puts into power only powerful governments with an
Absolute Majority and full capacity to realize their exact
Four-Way Binding Electoral Programs
completely undisturbed by the opposition if they so wish; It accepts only legal
immigration etc. However, this authoritarian character is
perfectly well balanced with democratic means of incomparable force in any
modern democracy at the moment. The EthoCratic systems requires a yearly confirmation of a
government, subject to an immediate new election, thus putting down a government
more easily than in any other system by a kind of spontaneous referendum. It is a
Direct Democracy
Pushed To The Limit, and consequently it allows more
citizens than in any other system to be heard easily at national level in
defending their rights and requests. It also has a system of opposition more
powerful than ever before, readily open to all citizens who want to take
advantage of it, albeit only in an educated civic way, within the new
OppositArium, instead of through breaking demonstrations in public streets:
an opposition available to even minors, criminals, prisoners or persons with
ideas that make them potentially violent individuals, all with granted national
media visibility through the relevant TV channels and the Internet. In
particular, because of the new 4th power of the state, the
Informative Power,
citizens can be informed with True Information like never before in any
democracy, and consequently take better decisions and vote more easily than ever
before. Overall, a
clear Four-Way Binding Electoral Program that electors voted for, at full majority, becomes a
pledge, a solemn undertaking, to which there can be no deviation.
However, if the
majority of citizens see that this is not happening, or if they change their mind, they have a chance to change the
government expeditiously and sovereignly within maximum one year (at the yearly October confirmation). An
EthoCratic system is thus an authoritarian regime but one that can most easily
be put down by the authoritarian electors . It is
authoritarian both ways, with an efficiency
expressed easily like never before. In particular, it is a sort of social contract that certainly
has at least one of the best characteristics of the ones defined by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, in that an EthoCratic government is not elected mainly to command and
direct people, through all sorts of initiatives and decisions of its own
invention during its mandate, but rather mainly to direct the correct execution
of the decisions already taken by the people in voting a specific and mandatory
winning Four-Way Binding Electoral
Program. The government does not command people, it executes a program
commanded by the people, lest be defeated efficiently and go home quickly. Politicians can
still be leaders, but mainly, if not only, at the time of the formulation of the
program they want approved through an election. Once his program is approved by
an election, the political leader who formulated it is not a real leader anymore, but
mainly an efficient and competent executing director. It boils down to the fact that if EthoCracy
is authoritarian,
and it is, it is less from the point of view of the government, and more from the point of
view of the citizens controlling their government actions better than
never before, in particular in light of the
True Information provided
to all citizens by the new Informative Power of its new Syntagma
constitution. In turn, politicians have an easier time than ever before. Once
having their program approved they can, more freely than ever before, be the
serene executors of that program without the undue and destructive interference,
most of the time, of the ugly politics of our so-called contemporary
representative "democracies". This is EthoCracy!
From a Social Perspective - As seen in the above Package of 30 Reforms, an EthoCracy wants to restore our society on its best traditional values, or the values on which our western civilization is founded, the ones we have inherited from the best tradition of philosophy that goes from Pythagoras and Plato, and that was kept alive for centuries after them, really until today, but through various cycles of weakness and reinforcement. Right now, in particular since the pseudo revolution of 1968, as seen in our Background Page, we are in a cycle of real weakness, and we must reinvigorate a new cycle of reinforcement, as these values are universal and eternal in their intrinsic nature and worth. We are talking about ethics, merit, justice, beauty, goodness, decorum, moderation and a strong sense of oneness solidarity, first as a family, then as a country, and in the end as a planet. The first and main tool to restore these philosophical values is a reformed education based on these values, implementing fully the principle of merit and the formation of the full Tetractys of students in a holistic way. This is what the EthoPlasìn Academy wants to do, and the type of education it wants to spread around the world as much as possible. Without this basic type of holistic and meritocratic education being implemented, the rest of the reforms meant to improve our democracies and social environments, like the above Package of 30 Reforms, is nearly impossible to implement. Education however is not only a school affair, but also an integrated family affair. This is why the above Package of 30 Reforms gives outmost importance to the strengthening of happy harmonious families, in particular extended families. After school education, it is family harmony and solidarity that is the second main tool for a restoration of our best traditional values. Regarding the families, there are two main reforms, regarding the the Extended Family Business (EFB), and the Extended Family Unit (EFU) that come into play to help them. If however someone combines an EFB and an EFU together, with their cumulative benefits, it becomes an EFBEFU, that forms an incredibly powerful tool for the reformation and reinforcement of a society in an EthoCratic way. Of course, all the other reforms also bring cascading effects for the improvement of our social environment, including the last one, to long for, that is the teaching of the EthoGloso language that would not only facilitate perfect communication as an IAL, at national, international and world levels, but also help reinforce the quality of the national language of each citizen in his own country and social environment.
EthoCracy as a Dream Come True? Why not?
- Dreaming is good, especially when the dream is not only beautiful but also
perfectly achievable. The difficulties involved in realizing the dream of
EthoCracy, at national and international levels, are not only all surmountable,
but they also offer a 
fascinating and positive challenge, that
can bring an immense joy to all its pursuers, and immense benefits to all the
citizens of the countries involved in the process, let alone humanity as
a whole. Looking at the package of the 30 proposals of reforms mentioned above, and reflecting carefully
on them, the benefits of this so-called EthoCracy Reforms Package are so
immediately obvious, and so vitally important, that once known, and well
publicized, they will be readily picked-up, pursued, and even proactively demanded, as
necessary reforms, by thousands of sympathizers around the world. The current
corrupted politicians, and the privileged and useless caste fed by the present system, will
certainly strongly resist and oppose the package, attempting to ridicule its
feasibility and its importance, but the thousands of enthusiasts, worldwide, will
soon force them to change their mind, or else be phased out or checkmated by the reformers.
In addition, considering
the philoecosophical aspects alone of the EthoCratic Package, it is also obvious
that a new EthoCracy
Era will most likely spare
beautiful Planet Earth from having to face at least the worst of the various catastrophic scenarios
that exist about its survival in
the coming generations, and hopefully bring in a new type of more peaceful and
happier world that we, sometimes, wishfully like to call EthoLandia. This
will be an era,
and a world, of "Better Decorum, More Merit and Planet
Oneness Responsibility", as per the EthoPlasìn logo, with more
True Information and meritocratic justice for all human beings: still not a perfect world, but
nevertheless a perfectly feasible and highly meaningful improvement! It is certainly a beautiful
objective and, even if that objective is not reached quickly nor easily, for
those engaging in its pursuit, it is a beautiful path to walk through on
the way there!
BeLove!
