{"id":10552,"date":"2018-12-11T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2018-12-11T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:14:11","slug":"france-isnt-fallingit-is-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/11\/france-isnt-fallingit-is-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"France isn\u2019t Falling\u2026It is Rising!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BY BREE HOOD ON DECEMBER 9, 2018 (ghionjournal.com)<\/p>\n

The general feeling expressed about the mass revolt currently taking place in France, is that the country is falling. But that assumes that France is composed of just it\u2019s government and not composed of its people. If it is the people of France revolting against their neoliberal government, is it really falling? Or, is it rising? Who makes France what it is? Is it the government or is it the people?<\/p>\n

The answer can be found in asking another question: who consented to authorize the French government? The same group that consents to authorize any government. The People. It is the exclusive right of the People to create and consent to social contracts which transfer their Natural Creator endowed authority to a system of vassals (government). Power structures come and go, but the People, the living human beings remain because they are the creators\/authors of those structures.<\/p>\n

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The vassals we endow with our authority are not meant to act in an individual capacity, they are meant to carry out the will of the\u00a0people\u00a0<\/strong>who authorized them. They are Not meant to\u00a0serve the corporations<\/a>\u00a0and rich who pay them, or the bottom-feeding\u00a0lobbyists<\/a>\u00a0courting them, or the banks and financial institutions who\u00a0leverage them<\/a>. It\u2019s us, they owe their allegiance to the common man and woman who call that \u201cnation\u201d home.<\/p>\n

When the vassals of the people no longer honor their obligations to act only on behalf of the people, the masses have the right and authority to withdraw their consent to the social contract which created the government. They have the right to engage in self-defense against state violence being committed against them. And they have the right both legally and morally to do whatever is necessary to end their oppression, including killing their oppressors and those who trespass against their right to dissent.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t say these things to be hyperbolic or promote violence in any way, violence is always a last resort. But when the time comes that peaceful revolution is known to be impossible then the only option left to oppressed people is violence. In preparation for that time, and in the context of what is going on in France right now, I want all human beings to begin to wrap their minds around what their rights truly are. I want the populace at large to start to comprehend the hierarchy upon which civil authority rests, and that they are on the top of it, the source of it in fact.<\/p>\n

I also want to challenge people to begin to contemplate the morality of our system and its laws. All civil lawmaking should be bound by morality, yet history shows us it often is not. Slavery was legal, the Jewish holocaust was legal, the genocide of Indigenous peoples across the globe and the theft of their land and resources is still considered legal, Jim Crow was legal, Segregation and so many other immoral things have been and are currently the law in this country.<\/p>\n

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If it is our authority giving power to such laws then it is up to us to reject those laws, up to and including ending the authority of the governments which continue to enforce them. We must demand that all laws rely on morality as the guiding force, even in the face of state violence\u2026especially then. That\u2019s when it counts the most actually.<\/p>\n

If we do not do this, if we do not make\u00a0this change<\/a>\u00a0as a society, to a standard which always asks the fundamental question of right and wrong, then we are doomed to tear ourselves apart from within. We cannot be bound in a social contract which is immoral or forces immorality upon us and expect that unity and fraternity will grow from that.If a law or government is immoral, then we are morally bound to disobey it, fight it, and end it. It is our unalienable right to do what is moral no matter what the civil law says.<\/a><\/span>CLICK TO TWEET<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0people<\/a>\u00a0of all nations must recognize that they have the absolute right and authority to sever the authority of their vassal systems (governments) at any time, for any reason. That any suggestion otherwise is a promotion of enslavement. Governments do not own us, they did not create us\u2026we created them.<\/p>\n

Governments cannot force humans to consent to anything, they must gain our consent willingly or else they have used violence and duress to enslave us. Any people enslaved have the moral and legal right to end their enslavement by any means necessary. That is the truth, and there is no other way for me to say it. Governments have no power over us, but that which we allow them to have.<\/p>\n