Americans have more in common with British people than many people realize. A very quiet and identical revolution is underway on both sides of the Atlantic. Commoners from Alaska to London face off against the same enemy with the same name. What unites them above all else is the simple fact that neither side knows what exactly the enemy is called.
It's not hard to notice that there are cameras on every street corner. Parents may still need individual retraining, but all school-age children are being taught new responsibilities and requirements. We cannot ignore our government's new and very serious concerns about our health and smoking, drinking, overeating and exercise. A new bizarre-sounding “war” is being waged over causes such as overeating and free speech. It's no longer a joke that we may all have to pay a global tax on the air we breathe. Within our personal homes, we are all dealing with a whole new bureaucratic system that has assumed the role of the new Big Mother.
What we have in common is that we are all children of Big Mother's global communitarian family. We know that communitarianism is hard to put into words, but it is the most important word you will say out loud this year. I think its use is slipping a little more into the mainstream every month and we're getting ready to unveil it to the “unwashed masses.”
Some may remember that Tony Blair and New Labour introduced it as the Third Way. Now, Philip Blond is reintroducing communitarianism as the latest theoretical and political answer to what ails us. Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party is leading a revival of communitarianism in Britain.
Former US President Bill Clinton said in a television interview on April 18, 2010 that Americans are now more diverse and communal. This is the latest in Bill's assertions about American communitarianism, and is a repeat of speeches he has given in Toronto, Montreal, and Berkeley over the past year. For the first time in his public and private career, Bill Clinton has not lied.
Communitarianism is a political system that gives power over individuals to unelected community “stakeholder” councils. A stakeholder is defined as a “group, individual, organization, or system” and can be anyone or anything. This term can be found used in almost every government and grant-funded project in existence today. It is always used as if it meant you.
Forming “partnerships” with “stakeholders” is an effective way to bypass voters and taxpayers living in affected areas. Their community's goals and mission have always included “raising public awareness” and advising legitimate government bodies on how to adopt new communitarian laws (Serbia, Ex-communist new EU member states like Croatia, the Czech Republic, or Bolivia and Peru (which would never be identified as such unless otherwise specified) have new openly communist constitutions). The Council for Communitarianism, which claims to involve more people in the democratic process, is doing the opposite. And they continue to seek more power.
Bill is right. We are all communitarians now. No one knows what that means for us. Most people would agree that vague party lines are a refreshing solution to partisan politics. Libertarians will say they like the part about empowering unelected, self-appointed community councils with communitarian powers to regulate the personal lives of everyone in the community. . Catholics will say they just want communitarian spirituality to be included. Protestants, Jews, and Muslims don't want to be seen as selfish, so they will also consider moral values somewhere. The left will dismiss this as a right-wing conspiracy theory, and the far right will call it a communist conspiracy. (If Sarah Palin ever mentioned it, we can be sure she would approve of it!)
This is the part our politicians and “experts” never talk about communitarianism. It is also European Union law. Community law is the perfect basis for the supremacy clause, which overrides all national, state, county, and municipal laws that conflict with it.
Many really smart people go to great lengths to explain to other smart people how some of their theories really make sense. The same smart people will probably say that they don't know anything about the legal part, sorry. They say it's just a benign social theory, one that has already risen and fallen, and there's no need to worry about it. Some say this law is a conspiracy theory.
Community law is the law that regulates all community-based governments. At the top level, we represent the global community. At the intermediate level, it represents the local community. The bottom represents the local community (“not to be confused with local government”, Amitai Etzioni).
In October 2004, Professor Jan Mazak of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic published one of the most surprising descriptions of the EU that I have ever come across. In it he elaborates on the “immediate applicability of communitarian law.” He said the Slovak constitution gives the Slovak government the power to sign international treaties transferring some of the republic's powers to the EU courts, and that the communitarian law makes it clear that it overrides conflicting national laws. He explained that he was telling them through words.
News reports identified that the rejection of the EU constitution in referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005 was based on voters' concerns about the supremacy clause of the EU's communitarian law. However, in neither case could we find any Irish articles or discussions about the EU communitarian legal system that Ireland had in place when Irish people voted. I had expected that such an important issue would be the main issue in the EU membership referendum. It was no small thing. Theories of communitarian justice, economics, development, morality, policing, compulsory volunteerism, etc. are off the table. To participate or not to participate, that is the only question.
But the real dilemma is this. Communitarianism is also a philosophy/legal theory for global sustainable development. Communitarian supremacy is the moral philosophy that justifies new land and resource use regulations based on UN Local Agenda 21. You don't have to accept EU-style local government to be a communitarian. Yes, the EU's system of communitarian harmonization and norms is a model for emerging trade unions from the Middle East to Africa to South America. But we already adopted the hook line and sinker of community government when we changed our national mission statement to adopt sustainable development principles.
Americans, like their neighbors across the ocean, are manipulated back and forth between the right and the left, and even advised against communalist ideas. whatever that means.
Communitarianism only enriches experts, stakeholders, and obedient citizens. People who can read and think for themselves do not need to apply. Voters who claim that national and state laws are supreme in the land need to be reeducated into a more moral and enlightened way of thinking. Our common destiny requires that we all share one common purpose. We can forget common sense, it's completely outdated.
