Republican Politburo Denies State Committee Members to be Heard

Oh, the Irony of It All

Animals in the wild apparently know where food can be found, even though they cannot speak to each other in a manner humans might understand. It might be certain acute animal senses, perhaps detection by smell, or taste or hearing, or changes in temperature, that allow wild animals to survive in harsh environments most humans could not, somehow receiving knowledge of the whereabouts of nourishing foodstuffs hidden among a harsh environment.

But it could also be knowledge conveyed through unspoken, spiritual means, which conveys guidance to animals, to help keep them alive, perhaps even flourishing when snow-covered ground, and intolerant conditions seem to have an advantage.

Somehow, for example, my dogs know when my wife turns into the subdivision several blocks away. When she does, one or both commonly awaken from slumber, leaping from their tuffets, hastening toward the back door, anticipating that “Mommy” will soon be walking through it, and she will be. They are always right. I take that as all the proof I need of a spiritual connection between animals and the circumstances of their environment, somehow affording them knowledge according to universal laws humans simply cannot conceive.

If animals did not have the abilities to gain the kind of knowledge I reference, they would perish. So, obviously, even though we humans may not understand it, what I’m saying must be true. Without strategic knowledge, and the ability to use it, animal life would perish in the wild.

And the same can be said about human knowledge. The profit Hosea may have said it best, communicating through time, “My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge,” impressing on humanity the necessity of continually learning all that it can in order to survive in the natural world.

Having made the case that an ever-increasing body of knowledge is essential for human survival, since that axiom has proven true, does it not follow that the ability to destroy humanity rests, at least to a certain extent, on limiting the availability of knowledge to to the general public? Of course it does.

Since America’s founding, and especially over the past several decades, practically all areas of government have undertaken to secrete many of their activities and intentions from becoming knowledge in the minds of the people for whom governing bodies ostensibly exist. I have no need to justify that claim as it is obvious to any American with a sound mind and a smart phone. Why so many secrets?

The government will tell you these secrets are necessary to maintain national security, all the while opening the borders to allow any foreign adversary, drug cartel member or street thug to walk unaccosted across American borders, and remain permanently hidden from future accountability from the laws governing such things. Thus, we know the need for governmental secrecy also includes the need to cover up certain governmental malintentions.

I used to warn my US Representatives NOT to participate in “classified briefings.” I did this, in essence, in an effort to save my little portion of the republic. I say it that way because for your representative to sit in on classified briefings, he or she must sign an NDA, a “non-disclosure agreement.” That means, if he discloses anything he learns in that briefing, the full force of the US Government could crash down upon him. But I would not convey that kind of advice to these people for their own good as they should know better anyway. I would do it for my own. That is because, as soon as your governmental representative can no longer tell you the truth, as signing an NDA requires, he or she also can also no longer represent you. You would not lie to yourself, would you? Of course not. But with respect to the government, YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IS YOU. That’s how a republic works. It’s imperfect, but the best humans can do. I no longer waste my time having this conversation, as my representative is Rich McCormick, who would never consider such advice anyway.

In America, the building blocks of our representative form of government, that “republic” I spoke about earlier, are each individual. Although George Washington warned of certain ill effects on society should it develop, in order to amass enough political power to affect the manner in which our levels of government function, the “party system” empowering a collective of individuals, unfortunately became inevitable. And because that system became so central to the manner in which individual candidates for public office would be selected, it also became important to legislate various basic rules by which each party would, and should be held accountable to the people they serve. In the case of Georgia elections, that body of law is found under Title 21—Elections.

The reason these otherwise private organizations must be subjected to an entire body of law, as opposed to, say, an Elk’s club, is that these institutions known as “political parties,” are the ramp-way organizations empowered to recruit, cultivate, develop and nominate candidates for offices in the government. That is all they do. Thus, in essence, these political parties are not private at all. They are the on-ramps of our republican form of government. In Georgia, Title 21 provides a foundation of requirements these organizations must abide in order to remain political parties recognized under law. Maintaining that status under Title 21 is the entry requirement for a political party to gain access past the gate-keeper authorizing names on election ballots. He or she would be the “Secretary of State.”

Recently, it became commonly understood among the members of one of Georgia’s great political parties, the Republican Party, that certain executive officers elected by its members in the past effectively changed the portrayal of the organization away from that of a Title 21 Political Party, to that which is legislated under law as a Title 14 Corporation. That is an important distinction because Title 14 corporations are imparted no access to place candidates on a lawful Georgia ballot, defeating the very purpose of a political party under law.

The publicity surrounding that apparent breach, or perhaps partial breach of Title 21 requirements, apparently led those who run the “party” to meet in secrecy this weekend to discuss what to do, never minding the fact that the so-called “cat” is already out of the “bag.” In so doing, rather than effectively operating the organization as one might a political party under a republic form of government, those presiding over the meeting effectively took the assembly into “politburo mode” as one might imagine under the old USSR or Communist China.

I Just Thought This was Funny

Having met in a private “classified briefing,” or what they call, “executive session” to discuss the corporatization of the Georgia Republican Party, and possible solutions thereto, such that no attendee might breathe a word of that which was revealed, Republican members and voters all over the Georgia were denied the representation a republican form of government guarantees. In accordance with the operation of any soviet or Chinese politburo, no points of order nor resolutions regarding the manner of dealing with the political party/corporation issue were allowed from the floor.

But perhaps Republican voters can take solace, noting that the individuals they elected to represent them are so very qualified in their status as members of the State Committee, that their acumen in such things dwarfs any ability of rank and file party members to think, or to present fresh ideas for party executives to consider, ideas which might solve a problem which has festered year after year, with no apparent solution, even to the extent that a State Committee member would issue a general statement, ordering each outspoken member to “shut your mouth and sit down and wait for announcements” on the matter. “Shut up. Sit down. Wait.” Sounds a bit like commands one give a dog, doesn’t it? Well, that is the state of the entitlement attitudes some Republican State Committee members possess in representing Georgia Republicans.

The fact that the party chairman would lead the group into executive session, preventing any knowledge from the meeting to escape and become publicly known, is just another example of how the people’s government attempts to limit the public from knowing what it is doing. It was not as vital that whatever knowledge being conveyed during the politburo session be confined to the group, as it was to hide the proceedings from those they represent. Georgia Republicans should heed the profit’s warning and rise up questioning the proceedings of this weekend, and demand an accounting. According to the State Committee person issuing the “shut-up” order above, the executive session was not secret because it was videoed. Well, then, let’s see it.

Certain reliable reporting did, however, come out of the meeting, concerning an ill-conceived motion to endorse Donald Trump for President BEFORE the Georgia Presidential Primary. The motion evidently did not pass, as it should not have, given that several of the candidates paid the required, “optional” $25K to get their names on the ballot. Why would such an ill-conceived motion have been forthcoming?

Finally, if you are interested to know who these people comprising the Republican State Committee are, so would they! There is no public information available in that regard. The lack of information regarding the identities of State Committee members is yet another instance of the Republican Party Executive Committee disregarding Title 21 law, specifically OCGA 21-2-110(a)(5) which requires that the names, addresses and titles of those composing the State Committee, which is the "governing committee" of the party, TO BE PUBLIC INFORMATION. That is for some very good reasons. First, Republican State Committee members need to know who their fellow members are so that they can discuss policy and policy initiatives together, informally, outside of a Roberts Rules setting. Secondly, members of the Republican Party not on the committee must know who represents them on the committee such that the same kinds of discussions and communications can occur. That is what representative government is all about. As plugged-in as I am in these matters, I am ashamed to say that I have no idea who represents me on the State Committee. And I venture to say, most Republican voters, each of whom are potential, card-carrying, contributing Republican Party members, have no idea such a governing committee even exists.

Item 5 requires the identities of State Committee Members be Public Information

A reliable source recently told me that State Committee contact information has been withheld for non-nefarious reasons, detailing that someone on the State Committee had his or her identity stolen, and thus, the powers decided to withhold that information from everyone, a policy causing much frustration. Unfortunately, that reason does not wash because, for example, anyone who wants my contact information has literally dozens of web-based resources to consult in order to discover it. And I find it at least ironic that the Georgia Republican Party Executive Committee would withhold making the information about which I speak public, as the law demands, ostensibly due to fear that member's identities might be stolen, when they apparently have no problem that the identity of the entire Georgia Republican Party for which they have been entrusted to execute policy, has been stolen, apparently complete with its Federal Tax ID#, and unlawfully assigned to a private, corporate entity, its donated funds apparently transferred to that entity without the permission of its contributors, its rules overwritten to effectively take on the identity of that corporate entity, the very executives to whom I refer now operating that private corporate entity, portraying those two unrelated entities, a political party under one title of law, to be one and the same with a corporation under a different title of law, while they hide the identities of the members of the governing committee of the former entity from each other so that none of them have the opportunity to discuss this situation outside of the setting of an executive session under Roberts Rules. Yes, isn't that just perfect irony? I must tell you, I love irony.