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Not Asking. Telling.

Ray Katz
3 min readAug 18, 2024

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The unstoppable power of inaction.

Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash

We aren’t asking. We are telling. We are telling those who violate Nature’s Law by abusing the Earth and who violate our inalienable rights that we do not respect and will not honor your authority.

The official disrespect, indeed abuse of humanity happens everywhere. We the People created governments to protect our wellbeing and our rights. Governments (and their partners, corporations) have violated the agreement and destroyed our trust.

Due to their constant, aggressive and escalating violation of our rights, we declare the authority of governments and corporations everywhere to be null and void.

We understand that you believe we are neither serious, nor capable of living free. You believe that you have powers of enforcement.

You believe that your powers are legitimate because, although you take bribes from wealthy elites, you have our votes and our consent.

You do not. We do not and in fact cannot consent to what you do. Just as slavery was wrong, whatever people voted, so is abuse of women, and the worldwide abuse of people who are sentenced involuntarily to lives of senseless labor and servitude.

Producing food, medicine and the like is sensible and necessary. Being forced to produce all that other stuff—with the…

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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