There are government departments concerned with maintaining the power of the state bureaucracy using any type of scare tactics to obtain public consent for their Fascistic policies. At the lowest level these are the people who X-ray you at airports, confiscate your toothpaste and strip search you, but of course it’s okay as it’s all in the name of security. At a higher level these are the people who will extraordinary rendition you and run Guantanamo Bay – and constantly monitor all the world’s communications – and switch off the Internet.

Eventually it will be impossible to manage or fund this level of intrusion, but in a V4Y world where politicians are in short supply, there won’t be the same tension that currently exists so the security problems will be massively reduced.

Wherever you go, people are people all over the planet and have far more in common with each other than differences. It’s the politicians who use the media to highlight these few differences in order to achieve their cynical agendas. Of course, they do this as the lackeys of the elite (by which I mean the global oil industry, plutocrats like Murdoch, Soros, etc… why list them all?) and the activities in Washington or any other capital are just parliamentary pantomimes, smoke and mirrors and spin to give the veneer of democracy to policies that have already been decided on that harm the majority and preserve the elite.

Most people now recognise that the “manipulation” ie professional lying that is standard in politics is no longer credible – we’ve reached that level where you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Sadly there are still some trusting souls who have had such a good brainwashing that they’ll only recover when V4Y removes the motes from their eyes.

Really it’s quite simple to move this forward, we don’t have to risk our lives on the streets as the brave people in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries are doing. Everyone who wants electoral reform or is a concerned environmentalist (or is just aghast at the scale of deceit that politicians globally are using in order to explain away the massive theft by the elite) is basically singing from the same hymn sheet. We might be on different verses, but we all like the same song. It’s like being into football (soccer) – we love the game, we support different teams, but ultimately everyone is agreed on one thing, football’s brilliant.

Same with Vote For Yourself. We can debate about issues all day long, but when a whole nation gets to vote on all the important things like health, education etc there can be no arguing afterwards as we will have achieved consensus across society. We probably wouldn’t need to debate on these subjects again for years. Meanwhile all the redundant politicians could be investigated for their crimes which should shut (or lock) them up for many years. As for the elite, they must be quaking because they are not stupid people and must recognise that they are coming to the end of, in some cases, centuries of influence.

Unless we have a cohesive system in place that is undeniably fair and just, we do run the risk of seeing a messy transition. In order to start the negotiations with the incumbent governments, globally, as switched-on techies we need to start affiliating. There has to be one single point of focus. I suggest that V4Y would be ideal – it’s an apolitical rallying point for people who can already see that we will, inevitably, triumph and wrest control from those who know little about reality, but lots about power.

To put it simply, we have already won – there’s no way that any government can resist the public. In order to get them to go away, all V4Y needs is a million Facebook friends, doesn’t matter which country you live in.

I can hear you say: Only a million? In December 2009 (ie 14 months ago) a Facebook campaign was set up in the UK which saw, in less than a week, 500,000 people pay about £1 each to download a particular Rage Against The Machine song. This was done in order to stop the X Factor record from becoming Xmas No 1 – effectively 500,000 people got together and used the Internet to give Simon Cowell a bloody nose!

Everyone who does it should print out or use a marker and put up an A4 sheet in their car with V4Y on it. As people who do not use the Internet keep seeing this, they’d obviously ask what it means and someone would explain: It’s Vote For Yourself, init!

The precedent is there, the V4Y Facebook page is there, the requisite number of pissed off people is there – let’s focus on affiliating with V4Y.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Freifunk
http://www.masternewmedia.org/the-alternative-p2p-wireless-internet-network-the-netsukuku-idea/
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Netsukuku
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IEEE_802.11s
also
“http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/non-centralised-
infrastructure/index.htm:

” * YaCy is a search engine where many nodes share information to
build a distributed index.
* Status.Net is a microblogging system that allows users to run
their own Twitter-like site and federate selected streams with other
systems.
* Tahoe-LAFS is a high-redundancy file system that allows many
systems to contribute to an encrypted and distributed storage system
which nonetheless remains readable only to the owner of the files and
not to the owner of the storage
….
* Diaspora will hopefully be a social networking community where
users can run their own federated “pods”, thus owning their personal
data and directly controlling what is shared with who.
* OpenPGP encryption is based on self-issued certificates which
gain authority as a result of a web of trust expressed via user-
maintained keyrings rather than a hierarchical certificate authority
system that can be centrally compromised.
* There is discussion and prototyping of a P2P DNS in progress,
without a root authority but rather with federated authority…

… * Various federated identity approaches already exist for
different use-cases, using mechanisms like OAuth and SAML.
* Various experiments in using P2PTV video streaming technology
exist, where the video stream is sourced from nearby users rather than
always from a central provider.
* And of course there are many P2P file distribution systems, as
well as the GNUNet framework project..”

http://www.stanford.edu/~allison/saito.html
http://www.media-art-online.org/iwat/
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Saito:Kenji.html
http://www.watsystems.net/watsystems-translation/english.html
https://twitter.com/jukux
http://www.accianco.jp/
http://www2.media-art-online.org/~ks91/gsap2009f-ks91.pdf
http://www2.media-art-online.org/~ks91/gsap2009f-ks91-doc.pdf