Table of Contents

WeThePeopleNow.org

We The People, not corporate executives, not lobbyists, will exercise control over our governments starting Now, not next month, not next year.

Welcome

Greetings:

Welcome and thanks for your interest in www.WeThePeopleNow.org.
WeThePeopleNow.org is dedicated to helping the People of the United States gain and exercise control over our governments now!

I recognize that there are many outstanding individuals and organizations working on almost every aspect of reform and change. I do not want to duplicate efforts. I want to work together and believe that if we do, we will:

• Provide meaningful, employment opportunities that pay living wages for all

• Avert the severe economic depression that we are likely to experience.

• End the Iraq and Afghanistan occupation/wars.

• Prosecute and remove from office those Government Officials who break the law or violate the public trust.

• Overcome the many other challenges we face, reduce energy dependence with more trains and less traffic, free health care, affordable food, housing, fuel, address global warming,

Please:

1) Work with WeThePeopleNow for peace and justice, to rejuvenate the voice of the people, to restore “we the people’s” role in government, and to encourage and support a government that serves the people.

2) Consider this web site and all the documents here as drafts and open ended. Review the parts that you are most interested in. For example if you are interested in Iraq there is a section on Iraq. The same for replacing Bush, planning, platforms, etc. Send me critical comments and suggestions to improve it.

3) Subscribe to the WeThePeopleNow email distribution list by sending an email to Fisher@WeThePeopleNow.org with the word "Subscribe" in the subject or body of your email.

4) If you or your organization is interested in working with WeThePeopleNow, please send me an email with your name, address, phone number and the area(s) that you are interested in.

5) Tell others about this web sites and our plans.

6) Please support these efforts by clicking the below button or make checks payable to We The People Now and mail to We The People Now, PO Box 1310, Falls Church, VA 22041

Please call 703-725-7849 or email Fisher@WeThePeopleNow.org. if you would like to meet or to discuss your concerns, your suggestions and our future.

I. NEED FOR CHANGE AND REFORM

Our country is in economical, political, constitutional and environmental crises. Our democracy is being eroded by some in our own government who have no allegiance to the founding principles of our Republic.

Some executives from large corporations, some extremely rich individuals, neocons, radical religious fundamentalists and others - not, we the people, - are exercising excessive control over many of our federal, state and local governments. They control most of the media, public sector resources, environmental laws, judicial institutions, political parties, etc.

NOTE: Please consider all these documents as draft, open ended “works in progress” and provide critical comments and suggestions for improving them to Fisher@WeThePeopleNow.org, phone 703-521-3926.

A. Memorandum of Law.

http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/memo_of_law.pdf

This document, among other things, provides insights into and educational material on the Constitution, international treaties and conventions and other laws, civil rights, responsibilities of government officials, rule of law, etc. It specifically shows:

That constitutional rights cannot be limited, taken away or eroded without an amendment to the Constitution.
Violating, limiting, taking away or eroding rights guaranteed by the Constitution is a crime.
Absent a formal declaration of war by the Congress, the U. S. Constitution prohibits Congress authorizing the President to use U. S. forces in or against Iraq, to occupy Iraq or to appropriate funds to be used for any of these purposes.
Absent a formal declaration of war by the Congress, the U. S. Constitution prohibits the President or anyone using U. S. forces, private security contractors/guards, the CIA or anyone in or against Iraq, to conduct clandestine operations in Iraq or occupy Iraq, or to detain people in Iraq, etc.

PLANNING

B. The People’s Reform Plan.

http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/peoples_reform_plan.pdf

This plan provides, among other things, approaches for those interested in putting control of the government in the people’s hands to:

Improve coordination among like-minded organizations and individuals, divide up the work, and work more effectively to accomplish the change so vital to the world and its inhabitants.
Define, frame and articulate the People’s Comprehensive Goals and Agenda
Define, frame and articulate a People’s Information, Education and Training Program.
Develop/refine systems for finding, nominating and electing better candidates and keeping them honest, effective and efficient once they are in office.

C. The Platform of the People. http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/platform_of_the_people.pdf

The objectives of this document are to define, frame and articulate:

A vision of the United States in a peaceful, prosperous world.
Bold goals including, safe, stable, secure environments, free pre-K through college, education and training, job opportunities, affordable housing, healthy food, clean water, etc. for all
All concerns, challenges, problems, issues, deficiencies, lessons learned, etc. that could stand in the way of reaching these goals.
General underlying causes of these concerns and challenges include such things as greed, personnel error, lack of or improper education or training, poor or faulty information, rules, regulations, documentation, legislation, etc.
Proposed solutions, reform, change actions, mechanics, etc. which are needed to reach the stated goals, and address concerns, problems, deficient systems and methods and their underlying causes.

D. The People’s Information, Education and Training Program. http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/peoples_information_and_education_program.pdf

This document outlines a draft program that will provide information, education and training for people from both the public and private sector who want to effect positive change.

Concerns and challenges: the need for allying, change, education, reform and pragmatic solutions.
Reasoning, framing, semantics, linguistics, communications, etc.
Human nature characteristics, goodness, reasoning, ethics, moral values, principles, integrity, character, accountability, cooperation, teamwork, courage, etc.
The Constitution, international treaties, civil right, laws, sovereignty of the people, democratic process, the legal system, etc.
Proposed Solutions and Reform and Change Actions.

E. The People’s Legal Action Plan.
http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/peoples_legal_action_plan.pdf

The Legal Action Plan provides tools, forms and processes to help prevent violations of human rights, obtain justice and provide restitution for victims of crimes and assist in the investigation and prosecution of senior government officials who have violated human rights, their oath of office, etc. For example, a proposed Draft Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief to Find the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to be Unconstitutional and Null and Void and For Injunctions Ordering that It Not Be Invoked is an attachment to this plan.

F. Plan To Put America and the World to Work: Jumpstart the Economy, End the Recession and Avoid a Massive World Wide Depression: http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/put_america_to_work.pdf http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/put_america_to_work.htm

Key actions of this plan include:

Create at least 20 million jobs in the U. S. and help create one billion jobs worldwide by the end of March of 2010. These jobs should help:
1. Provide/maintain vital services, potable water, electricity, natural gas, police, fire, public transportation, highways, public health and public education.
2. Provide free single payer health care and 1000 new modern medicare/medicaid hospitals/clinics. Pay doctors salaries or by the hour
3. Affordable food, housing, fuel, pre-K through college education and training
4. Develop, implement and operate alternative energy sources, energy conservation measures and power grids.
5. Make infrastructure repairs and modernizations
6. Mitigate the effects of climate change
7. Recycle/compost everything
8. Retool factories and manufacture the items needed for this plan.
Provide funds for these jobs and these efforts by:
1. Taking the actions in the Plan to Reform Financial Systems
2. Ending the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations and the so called war on terror
3. Converting defense department and wasteful government spending/contracts to producing items to manufacture items need for this plan.
4. Enacting progressive income/revenue and property taxes on individuals and corporations with very generous tax deductions/credits for worthwhile causes.
Establish an improved Work Projects Administration (WPA) and "Civilian Conservation-Construction-Engineering-Medical-IT-Youth Corps to help coordinate/manage planning and the work.
Bring troops home from overseas to help provide much of the leadership, training, logistics, financial and technical personnel for the new WPA and "civilian corps."

F.1. Plan to Reform, Regulate and Revitalize Financial Systems and Resolve the Foreclosures, Mortgages, Derivatives, and Banking Crises, http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/reform_financial_sys.pdf http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/reform_financial_sys.htm.

Key actions of this plan include:

Identify funding sources for the Plan to Put America to Work: Jumpstart the Economy, End the Recession and Avoid a Massive World Wide Depression:
Repeal the Wall Street bailout legislation, nationalize the Federal Reserve System and recoup as much as possible of the over $12.8 trillion provided or committed to financial institutions.
Government lend and issue money and credit. Establish a "federally-owned lending facility" and States charter their own state-owned banks similar to the Bank of North Dakota.
Seize insolvent banks and other insolvent financial institutions. Replace senior management. Keep banks in operation as government owned contractor operated (GOCO) entities so that they continue to function and the work force stays employed. Sell off those parts of the banks that have nothing to do with banking. Ultimately break the larger bank into community, city and no larger than state size banks/firms.
Have Wall Street create and finance its own bailout fund.
Ban and make foreclosures, evictions and threats of foreclosures on primary residences, family farms and businesses a federal crime.
Limit maximum annual interest rates to 6% on all mortgages, home equity loans and other secured loans.
Prohibit all trading, buying or selling of derivatives including mortgage backed securities and actual mortgages, promissory notes, contracts and similar instruments.
Breakdown mortgage backed securities into individual mortgages and all other derivatives into individual "instruments and related real property and determine market value of the real property and use these values on balance sheets.
Reverse plans to give Chrysler to Fiat. Purchase and operate Chrysler and GM as GOCOs manufacturing energy efficient automobiles and items needed to green America
Most of all - keep in mind there is more than enough to go around. With automation and other productivity gains, five per-cent of the world’s population could provide food, clothing and housing for all the world. There is no excuse for any child in the world to not have nutritious food, clean water, adequate housing and a pre-kindergarten through high school education.

IRAQ AND THE MID-EAST

G. Summary of the U.S. Occupation and Attempted Colonization of Iraq. http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/summary_iraq_occupation.pdf

This document describes the background and consequences from the illegal and unjust U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. It shows how senior government officials, senators and representatives, wrongfully and unlawfully:

Invaded and occupied Iraq primarily to help U.S. oil companies illegally control as much as possible of Iraq’s oil industries and reserves as possible, and to help U.S. oil companies motivated primarily to take as much of the 21 trillions of dollars of Iraqi oil profits as they can.
Rewrote the Constitution and laws of Iraq so that U.S. oil companies would not have to pay taxes to Iraq on revenue and profits from the sale of Iraq oil and could immediately transfer these profits out of Iraq and to their offices in countries other than the U.S. so that they would not pay Iraq or U.S. taxes.
Set it up so that U.S. oil companies would not even have to sell Iraqi oil to the United States and could increase the price of oil at will by withholding Iraq oil from the world market.
Will keep U.S. Armed Forces and defense contractors/mercenaries in Iraq indefinitely to provide security for and help U.S. oil companies control Iraq’s oil industries and reserves because they are afraid that Iraq will re-nationalize their oil reserves if U.S. Armed Forces and defense contractors/mercenaries leave.
Set it up so that the people of the United States are paying with their tax dollars and lives:
1. For the invasions and occupation of Iraq.
2. The security and protection of the oil industries and reserves so that oil company executives can take Iraqi oil profits.
3. The salaries of the senior officials, senators and representatives who planned and caused these problems.
Are soliciting and accepting ever increasing campaign contributions and other favors from oil company executives as a reward for their services.
That except for oil company and defense contractor executives, the people of United States have not and will never receive any benefits from this war and occupation.

H. Proposed Plan to End Violence in Iraq & Afghanistan and Withdraw U.S. Armed Forces and security contractors [PDF] http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/proposed_plan_iraq.pdf

This plan, a composite of relevant legislation and books, does not call for a precipitous withdrawal nor does it call for a more than a few months presence of any U.S. Armed Forces. It calls for the United States in coordination with the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, NATO and other allies to, among other things:

Sincerely apologize to the Iraqis and Afghans for the economic sanctions, invasion, devastation, occupation, the deaths, maiming, abuse and torture, the damage and destruction of, homes, facilities, historical treasures, the attempted theft of Iraqi oil and oil profits, etc.
Order an immediate unilateral cease fire and halt all offensive and clandestine operations by coalition forces, the CIA, U.S. paid mercenaries. Call on all factions in Iraq to please do the same.
Immediately return the control of all government function and all oil reserves and other resources to the people of Iraq, make amends, make restitution, reparations, and condolence payments for all the physical and emotional damages to Iraqi’s and their country, treat Iraqi’s as equals, by respecting the fundamental rights of Iraqis, etc.
Order an immediate withdrawal of CIA operatives and U.S. security contractors.
Move aircraft carriers, other surface combatants and submarines, if any, out of the Persian Gulf and out of sight of land.
Commence massive humanitarian and resettlement aid effort to insure that all the people of Iraq and Afghanistan have access to food, water, shelter, health care, etc.
In coordination with the Iraq and Afghanistan government, request that the United Nations prepare and deploy an appropriate international peace-keeping mission from neutral nations with at least 50 percent of the mission to be from nations with large Muslim populations.
Immediately release all "security detainees" who have not been charged with a crime and pay them restitution if their confinement has been wrongful and unlawful and/or if they have been abused or tortured.
In coordination with the Iraq and Afghanistan governments, the United Nations, the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference, countries and factions in the area to encourage, support and participate in, but not attempt to control, comprehensive and broadly-inclusive negotiations on peace, reconciliation and all other relevant issues.
As the UN peace-keeping mission government assistance teams are phased in, conduct a timely phased withdrawal of all United States Armed Forces personnel and civilian military contractors from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Permanently close all U.S. military bases and facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and transfer them along with vehicles and equipment to the Iraqi police and/or international peace-keeping mission.

REPLACING UNSATISFACTORY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS LEGISLATORS & OTHERS

I. Plan to Prosecute Government Officials et al and to Provide Restorative Justice and Reconciliation Opportunities for Victims and Perpetrators of Crimes, , http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/plan_prosecute_officials.pdf http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/plan_prosecute_officials..htm.

This plan outlines courses of action, procedures, information needs and formats for documents to initiate and follow through with the investigation, arrest or summons, indictment and prosecution of specific civil and military government officials, legislators, war profiteers, corporation executives and others who have violated the law in various jurisdictions. It also outlines proposed opportunities for restorative justice and reconciliation for the victims and perpetrators of crimes and other stakeholders.

Normally, restorative justice comes after the court finds someone guilty of a crime. This plan envisions discreetly preparing criminal complaints and affidavits showing probable cause that would inform alleged perpetrator of the gravity and consequences of his alleged crimes. Contrite perpetrators would be given the opportunity to apologize to victims, pay restitution and make other amends as appropriate. By this he could perhaps avoid indictments, grand juries, trial, the ill effects of all this on his family and the expense of attorneys.

I. 1. Criminal Complaint & Affidavit Against Former Governor Blagojevich, http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/sample_complaint&affidavit.pdf. This document was used to have former Governor Blagojevich arrested while he was still governor. This led to him being impeached and now indicted. It is provided as a sample for preparing similar documents for other individuals.

I. 2. Indictment of Former Governor Blagojevich et al, http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/blagovich_indictment.pdf. This document was used to indict former Governor Blagojevich and others. It is provided as a sample of a multiple individuals and multiple count indictment for preparing similar documents for other individuals.

I. 3. United States v. Bush et al. - Sample Proposed Indictment for a Grand Jury. http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/us_v_bush_et_al_sample_indictment.pdf This is a one-count proposed indictment for a grand jury from the outstanding book U.S. v. Bush et al. by Elizabeth de la Vega, a career U.S. Attorney and federal prosecutor. Interested parties are invited to submit additional defendants, crimes and facts to be added to this proposed indictment or to provide additional proposed indictments. The preparation of proposed indictments is discussed further in the Peoples Plan to Replace Bush and Others

J. Peoples Action Plan to Impeach Government Officials and others.. http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/plan_replace_bush_et_al.pdf
This document provides a plan, procedures and information needed to impeach Government Officials and others. This plan should be used in conjunction with the Peoples Action Plan to Prosecute Government Officials and Others.

K. The Peoples Minimum Qualifications and Characteristics Required of all Government Officials by the People (including the president and vice president, legislators and judges.) and Characteristics Which Disqualify Individuals from Serving as Public Servants. (Being developed)

L. A Twelve Step Program to Reform Congress which updates Winslow Wheeler’s program in his book The Wastrels of Defense: How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security. (Being developed)

V. HOW TO VIEW OR DOWNLOAD PDF FILES.

To view any of these document in Adobe Acrobat Reader, left click on any of the links next to one of the above items or paste the link into your browser.

To download any document, right click on any of the links next to one of the above items and then click on "Save Target As".

Click here http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software.

___________________________________________________________