Voters
and Citizen,
The
following are addresses I have made to you via the rag trade. They span a few
years. I have included some letters. The words, notions and cost are entirely
mine.
Stephen
Yealands.
Voters
and Citizens,
Not one of
your Members of Parliament is master of their own mind and conscience. All of
them owe their existence to their party. They all have debts to pay, favours to
curry and bribes to deliver. And this is overshadowed by the next election,
their real occupation. They bribe you with your own money and exploit your
ignorance, prejudice and greed. They belittle and smash you. They are your
servants and they treat you with utter contempt. To your shame and detriment.
Because
Òno man can serve two mastersÓ you must demand that your M.P.s represent only
you, no other, no party, no group and no religion, only you. There is a way to
do this. First you must have a free mind and conscience and then you must give
your vote to one who also has a free mind and conscience. This allows your
choice to be guided by your inner voice (conscience, god, whatever). Your
M.P.s, in turn, will be free to be guided by their own inner voice. Their
independence and your wise choice will give you democracy as it has never been.
Stephen
Yealands.
14-4-2007
The Prime
Minister
27-8-2007
Dear
Prime Minister,
First you
steal public money to promote what can only be described as bribery and then
you excuse it by saying itÕs an old custom! And now you are saying you will
pass law so that the thieving can continue. Clearly, honesty and integrity are
notions you are not familiar with. I would like to remind you that political
parties are not public bodies. They are private political power groups. They
should have no public funding whatsoever. To assert that public funding of
political parties is in the best interests of democracy is utterly wrong and
indefensible. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you proceed with your
thieving intention I will make every effort to resist and expose your crime.
Stephen
Yealands.
John Key
5-2-2007.
Dear
John,
Education
is compulsory? Right? It costs parents, sure. But most of the cost is met by
the state. Right? This is because the benefit of an educated population is huge
and conversely the cost of an uneducated population is also huge and ugly.
Right?
So, also,
pay students, from day one, to learn. The work is worthy and there is some to
suit everybody at any time. This will-
á
Instil
a work ethic. From an early age.
á
Make
ÒunemploymentÓ redundant.
á
Make
welfare redundant.
á
Be a
tool to mend holes in peopleÕs education –parenting, law, literacy,
ethics, whatever.
á
Dignify
people. --- Because, no matter how hard one tries its impossible to harm people
by making them more knowledgeable and skilled.
á
Put
an end to truancy. --- No school, no pay. The value of education becomes
apparent to even the stupid and indolent. At an early age.
á
Be a
mechanism to use information technology to its potential to grow wealth.
á
Underwrite
a harmonious and prosperous future.
á
Be
the key that unlocks universal wealth.
á
Address
every single issue raised in your recent speech.
á
Be a
platform that will be very easy to defend and very hard to assault.
á
Change
New Zealand.
á
Change
the World.
á
Fly.
Yours
truly,
Stephen
Yealands.
Voters
and Citizens
Although
F.P.P served you badly it was not flawed. It reflected your greed, carelessness
and ignorance. And now you have an electoral system that makes a virtue of bribery
and cements in the only part you needed gone ---- political parties. F.P.P. was
simple and elegant. It never required political parties. You were free to rise
and reject bribery. Now you are not. M.M.P. requires political parties and it
reinforces party control of candidate members and their ability to offer
bribes. M.M.P. offers an illusion of respectability to a party culture of
bribery, deceit, betrayal and toadyism. A self-serving culture in which the
worst type of personality can rise É
Democracy is one thing. Electoral method is another.
Democracy is simply this. The minority will accept the decision of the
majority, which will apply equally to all. Electoral method is how the majority is found and
its will determined. It shapes and limits the quality of the democracy it
delivers.
By your
greed, carelessness and ignorance every democracy is infected with the
abomination of political parties. This has brought you to a crossroads. In one
direction lie terror and the disintegration of the state. In another lie
fascism and the loss of freedom and rights. There is a third direction. Its
very first step is your examination of your own voting ethics. Beyond waits a
revolution of unimaginable beauty.
Stephen
Yealands
12-10-2006
Voters and citizens
Make no mistake. Every policy, pledge,
manifesto and promise ever made by every political party is a bribe. Political
parties exist only so their collective power can appeal to your selfish greed
with their bribes. Your eagerness to encourage and accept their bribes is a
moral outrage for which there is a price. You pay it every day but you donÕt
notice because you are accustomed to it. Bad governance is the cost of bad
ethics in choosing your M.P.s.
Party M.P.s cannot serve you and others with
your interests across the spectrum. The only way your M.P.s can truly serve
everyone is by representing only themselves. Your M.P.s need to be independent
so that their conscience may have free reign. Your job as a voter is to ensure
your M.P.s are independent and the very best people you have.
Only you, as an individual voter, by your own
conscious effort can bring integrity to politics. In this fact there is a
paradox and a message. So, sell your vote to the highest bidder and be damned.
Damn too, your children and grandchildren. Perpetuate the fraud and harm of the
greatest and cruellest deception in modern history ---- political parties.
Stephen Yealands
10-9-2004
Voters and
citizens
In your
hands lies the power to change the world. But first you will have to change
yourself. The way you vote is the root of all thatÕs wrong. There are only two ways
you can vote --- for individuals or for groups. Almost to a body you vote the
wrong way. You stumble at the very first step, the only one that you personally
have complete
control of.
Your
offence is that you choose political parties for the bribes they offer you.
Selling your vote to the highest bidder is unethical. What it yields is what
you have. The ethical way is to vote only for individuals. You are an
individual and by voting for an individual the essence of your individuality is
preserved and passed to your choice.
The
winning individual candidate will have a different personality than todayÕs
politician. Parliament will have to debate the issues according to each
memberÕs free conscience, intelligence and knowledge. When the debating is done
members can only vote for or against and parliament too can only decide for or
against. This is the proper place for compromise in a democracy.
Personal
integrity is yours to claim, to own and to give. Ethical democracy and
compromise require it. Empower yourself.
Stephen
Yealands
14-12-2003
Voters
and Citizens
The men
and woman you elect to parliament, to make and shape the laws by which you
live, will have as great an effect on your lives as the decisions you make
every day for yourself. Your M.P.s need to be the very best people you have and
they need to be able to be themselves. You should respect, trust and even
venerate them. And yet you hold your M.P.s in low esteem*. Your forbears have
won for you the dignity of the democratic vote and you betray them by
squandering it on representatives whom you do not respect or trust.
The
disrespect and distrust between you and your elected representatives is because
your M.P.s, by virtue of their partyÕs collective policy, are bribe givers and
you are bribe takers. This is something only you, personally, can fix and you
can only do it by voting ethically. You should not vote for any political party
or any party candidate. Political parties own their members votes so you have
M.P.s who cannot represent even their own conscience amidst a culture of
political bribery. Your low esteem for your elected representatives is well
founded and it shouts volumes. I call on you to fix it by voting only for
individuals. This is the only alternative to groups (political parties) and the
only ethical way. It preserves your integrity and that of your
Representative.
Stephen
Yealands
*Readers digest. June, 2004
Voters and
citizens
Every
party list vote and every vote for a party candidate is an abdication of
responsibility and a moral outrage that constitutes the offer and acceptance of
a bribe. Your descendents will curse your shallow greed as they pay the price
of your bribed vote and your ancestors will turn in their graves at the cost of
something so priceless now so carelessly squandered.
For as
long as you support political parties democracyÕs great promise will remain
empty. Political parties are an abomination that debase and corrupt democracy by their
preselection of candidates, by their offer of policy bribes and by their rule
over conscience. These are the foundations of all political parties.
You must
forsake the party bribes, policy, promises and spin. Instead choose the
opposite of political parties, independent representatives. Independent
candidates have no collective power from which to shame you with inducements.
You must assess them by their individual, personal qualities. This will give
you much better and very different representatives who will have little power
for harm but much for good. Every vote, yours and theirs, will be a conscience
vote. Politics will not prevent the best decision and parliaments every
decision will be a true majority. Stability will be inherent. Elections will be
locally focussed and could be unsynchronised. Government will be transparent
and as close to the people as can be. Trust and respect between nations can
have no better foundation than this.
Stephen
Yealands