Don’t sleep on this Europeans. Call and harass your reps in Brussels.
I would too, but I’m still not allowed to vote here after more than 14 years of legal residence. 🙄
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absolutely. Have been circulating a letter and article to push council members
Writing petitions to politicians is meaningless and useless.
Those are NOT your "representatives" in any way.
Simply do not obey, do not vote, do not pay taxes, mind your own business.
A sovereign individual do not go and ask for permission or write petitions... like a child.
"Writing petitions to politicians is meaningless and useless.
Those are NOT your "representatives" in any way."
This is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If they have no idea what we think or know, they can't possibly represents us. Neither can the public record, which is useful when politicians pushing agendas claim they didn't know their policy would have predictably bad results.
It's also demonstrably untrue. E2EE message scanning in Chat Control was voted down by EU politicians, as nostr:nprofile1qqs2ggm7ggxdkzejx8ghrl58n09wx73dk74l9uf2xdaew5ehvxxr4sspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eeks6t5vehhycm99ehkuegprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezucm0d9hxvatwv35hgtnrdakszl3pnh says, because of all the experts who communicated with those politicians. Net neutrality was restored in the US for the same reason.
So anyone who says communicating your views to politicians is pointless is a) wrong, or b) a shill or Useful Idiot for the people who want to push stuff like Link Taxes and Chat Control through legislatures without resistance. Or both.
The truth is one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response.
To beg for the blessing of "authority" is to accept that the choice is the master's alone to make, which means that the person is already by definition, a slave...
This is empty moralising. Believing it as a universal truth requires ignoring a bunch of independently verifiable facts. But hey, you do you. If you refuse to walk because your ideology tells you legs don't exist, who am I to judge 😏
A petition is a formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to “authority” in respect of a particular cause.
However in most cases, when you sign a petition you have inadvertently accepted the obligation of the very thing you are petitioning against, when in fact you may have had no obligation in the first place, as there was no lawfully binding contract to begin with.
Meaning the subject or cause you are petitioning against did not even apply to you, but through the very action of petitioning, now it does.
This is why most petitions against the “government” are actually set up by the very “government” you are “petitioning” against.
Note: a petition is an “appeal” which means in simple terms “begging”. You have lost your sovereign status and become subservient to a higher authority.
For example: If you petition against changes made to the “Human Rights Act” then you have accepted that “contract” or corporate policy, and are now bound by it, when it never even applied to you.
You have now agreed that your rights no longer belong to you, but are now controlled by the people who have written the “Human Rights Act”, who now have the power to change them at will. You have become a slave.
A lawful petition can only exist where a standing agreed upon contract already applies.
For example: If a group of people all sign a contract to work for a corporation, and the management of said corporation then “change the deal”, the group of people could “petition” against the changes to an existing contract.
However if you are petitioning against a change in policy regarding a contract your are obligated by, remember regardless of how many people signed said petition, the overall document is only considered as one voice and only carries the weight of “one person” in court.
Therefore it would be better to sue the management for breach of contract than petition, that way the workers retain their sovereign status.
Note: Most unions will not tell the workers this, and are usually working with the very corporation the union said they would protect the worker against.
Petitions are also set up and offered by governments to defuse a situation where the people are angry over a certain issue said government caused.
The way this works is those who sign have a sense they are acting against the issue and therefore are making a difference, when in fact they have not, and hence do not take the matter any further.
In short, only children or slaves beg, make appeals and petition.
This ignores a core tenet of anarchist theory (shared with most schools of International Relations theory), which is that a state is a monopoly of force in a geographical area. The state has authority because it has the power to imprison or shoot you, and no one can hold it accountable for doing so (expect using its own mechanisms). I'd love to see you explain to Uighurs or Palestinians that they somehow took out a contract for cultural genocide services with their local state corp. 🤣 Again, this is demonstrably not how political or legal systems actually work. But billionaires sure want you to believe that is is...