ICPPC (International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside)
Friends!
Here in Poland the battle to save Polish farmland from corporate buy-outs continues. But that’s not all the Polish farmers are up against…Watch the video below. Tractors have been blockading government institutions from 14 January…
Regulations that the Warsaw government has imposed over the years have made it virtually impossible to sell farm processed foods to local shops, schools or private individuals. The only way farmers can conform with the hygiene and sanitary regulations imposed from above, is by carrying out their simple processing tasks in specially designed and equipped buildings that none can afford to build or to adapt.. except the very large producers supplying the food industry and supermarkets. Yes, that’s right – it’s all about destroying the competition – which in this case is the small and medium sized independent family farms that produce the best foods!
There are still one and a half million such farms in Poland!
ICPPC is supporting the protesting farmers to highlight this grossly unfair treatment of all who wish to provide fine quality, flavourful and ‘real’ farmhouse-foods in their own localities.
You too can be part of this vital protest…
Join in – by sending a brief letter in support of the farmers to Prime Minister Tusk urging him to change the regulations so that family farmers can sell their products locally! And send a copy of your letter to us here at ICPPC – biuro@icppc.pl . Thanks!
Contact to Prime Minister:
Premier Rządu RP Donald Tusk
Secretariat of the Prime Minister
Aleje Ujazdowskie 1/3, 00-583 Warszawa, Poland
fax: +48 (22) 694 70 53
e-mail: sprm@kprm.gov.pl
You can donate to our activities here
http://icppc.pl/index.php/en/support-us.html
Tags: civil disobedience, eu regulations, Farm Wars, farmwars, food safety, food sovereignty, gmo ban, icppc, poland, small farmer, war on monsanto
During the 1992 Presidential campaign Ross Perot observed that
“a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy was the one specific reason that the people in America suffered”.
Mr. Perot then suggested that the best and perhaps only way
to make government officials accountable
was to include the citizens in the decision making process.
He went on to note that this can easily be done with computers
and called the proposed mechanism
THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
With this computer program every interested citizen can indicate whether or not they agree or disagree with every law, policy and program on the books or that was being advanced. It can be used at every level of government and in every jurisdiction.
To prevent chaos the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available. He referred to it as the Fourth Branch of government; Executive, Judicial, Legislative and Electronic Townhall.
The idea is to perfect every section of the various laws and policies that do effect each and every one of us every single day.
The program would even allow a citizen to go back and change his vote as he matured.
The gray area…
As the data is collected, a reasonable person would expect that
the responsible government officials would modify the laws, policies, and programs and make them congruent with the will of the people they are supposed to be representing.
With tens of millions of laws and tens of thousands of taxes there is plenty of work to be done.
According to Mr. Perot, this, the harnessed experience and the combined intelligence of hundreds of thousands or even millions of citizens focused like a laser light on the real issues, will, as surely as night follows the day, perfect every law in our country and eventually it will right every wrong.
Its the only way to do it.
Mr. Perot publicly announced his intention to give the people in America the ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL – our fourth branch of government – if he was elected President.
But this modern concept for truly representative self government was so far removed from the business-as-usual-two-party-system that the talking heads, trolls, and cointelpro agents yelled out that Mr. Perot was trying to destroy our Constitution, our government and our way of life.
The ELECTONIC TOWNHALL was denounced as unworkable. How would the poor participate?
How would fraud be prevented?
What about those who do not know how to use a computer?
In a final act of desperation they claimed that allowing the average citizen to pass judgment on the individual pieces of public law would be tantamount to anarchy.
But we all know the truth: only the concerned will bother to participate.
The media was so intensely negative towards the ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL that Mr. Perot was forced to stop talking about it.
Its now been twenty two years since the proposal.
No other person of national reputation or significant influence has picked up the idea. BUT the talking heads for both parties regularly stage “townhall meetings” where they talk of “reform” and “returning power to the people”. Thus they try to link themselves to the idea without adding to its manifestation.
We are stuck in the hopeless loop of: “candidates with a sense of morality and respect for the Constitution who really understand true brotherhood, justice and democracy and who will do the right thing for us each and every time, trust me”.
While we cannot make light of sincere individuals we must acknowledge the fact that regardless of who has been elected to public office the problems in our government get more complicated and our people continue to suffer.
It appears obvious; we need something besides business as usual.
Could we possibly admit that our national situation, now being made global, is far too complicated for the President and the 535 elected members of the legislature to manage in our best interests?
You, the person reading this know some of the things we need.
Your friends, our fellow countrymen have their solutions too.
But the only way to organize the workable ideas is
to create a device that will enable all of us to
simultaneously contribute our best thinking and most benevolent experience towards solving our most complicated problems.
That device is THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL and the place to begin is with our existing laws.
In 1996 Rush Limbaugh mentioned the demonstration site by accident. We got 15 thousand hits in 24 hours and 4 thousand people answered the home page survey question: (after some preamble)
*How long should a legally arrived elderly immigrant have to wait before they start collecting social security?*
In less than two weeks the US Congress changed the criteria from 6 months to two years.
NOW
As living witnesses to the political power this device holds for civilized humanity, we urge you to participate fully in the prototype ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL and forward the news of its existence to all those you know to be interested in the future well being of the people of our country.