PUTNEY — It is absolutely thrilling to see that the Green Revolution has begun in earnest.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is the American front line of peaceful evolution toward an economy that improves our relationship with Earth.
Bolivia's law verbalizing rights of the Earth and other beings begins our visualization of all the good things to come: the community that builds; the giving and the making instead of buying; the forgiving instead of retaliation; the learning that leads to powerful understanding; the empowerment of our truer ideals; the managing of disembodied authority that suffers from addiction to greed and control; the Renaissance of humanity once again honoring Source, each other, and all imaginable life.
The centralization of authority has resulted in the mess that we are in; the way forward is to command greater authority for our future and consequently greater responsibility for our present.
Vermont is a good state, a strong state, but it needs to be much stronger. It needs to lead itself to a better outcome than what is described by the current supporters of this nasty harmful political/economic system.
The more power and authority an individual has, the more that person needs to return that authority to the least powerful, to stay in healthy balance within the psyche of the whole of collective unconscious.
As a state, three new policies will re-balance our relationship with the federal government more than any others.
The first is the creation of a state public bank, which, like a public library, will lend to the common good at the direction of our local representatives and support local commercial banking endeavors.
I've made, Organic Money, a film that I will make available to anyone who wishes to understand our monetary solutions more deeply.
The second is the denial of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration's right to prohibit industrial hemp. Our state needs to move forward with implementing an industrial-hemp industry, from assisting processing plants, to issuing loans for product development and small business creation, to educating farmers, to end-use marketing, to cooperative purchase of appropriate farm equipment. (The fiber is so strong that it will break regular harvesting equipment.)
Vermont needs to be the first state to have the balls to point out that the Drug Enforcement Agency is in violation of NAFTA for its threats against the agriculture of a non-psychoactive, highly beneficial crop with the result of supporting petrochemical mega-corporations and denying Vermont the ability to export what we import.
We hold the border to Canada, and we hold the authority to grow hemp. The DEA is in the wrong, and we will stand down once we stand up!
You have seen our build-with-hemp workshops and my car with the message that Henry Ford built a car from industrial hemp. So he did, and so we shall.
We in Vermont will revive his vision of bio-sourced transportation and fuel, without competing with corn and other food crops. I have made Hemp IS Fully Green, a film that I will make also available to those who wish to learn more.
Our third new policy is the creation of a state “Tax Forwarder” office, which would gives us the authority to support those functions of federal government that we feel have merit, and to do so as one. We would remit our taxes to the Vermont Tax Forwarder office on the way to the IRS.
Unconstitutional, you say? The federal government has not been championing the principles or the letter of law held within that document for nigh on 100 years, in progressively worse transgressions. It is not only constitutional to create a tax-forwarder office, it is also our implied duty - indeed, the first step on the way to restoring tax-free living.
You might know me as the flake who ran for governor and, yes, once again I will be running. I am just an artist, one who can visualize the future in a more beautiful form than is now before us, so you accept my flakiness.
I am here only to educate the people of Vermont, so that they know what to ask for - or should I say command of - their elected persons.
It is through these policies we will all be empowered to live the life we know in our hearts we should be. One of respect for our own power, and respect for all else.
The people representing us in New York City need homemade food, warm socks, new undies, thank-you letters, and more.
On Columbus Day, a little posse from Vermont will be traveling there to bring care packages to the Occupy Wall Street people. We will cook in our own homes the Sunday night before, meet at 7 a.m. from the Outlet Center parking lot at Exit 1 and caravan, take the train from Stamford, Conn., into the city, then take the subway from Grand Central to the heart of the movement.
The cost per person can be as low as $30 what with train and subway fare and sharing gas. Email me or call me at 802-387-5229 for more information.