Etienne Chouard - Conférence des Colibris 30/01/2013 à Paris

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Isabel made a nice transition but

with CNPV to this question the
democratic that is to say

finally what interested me

in what I heard you say
many times this is to say that
finally what interested me

in what I heard you say
many times this is to say that

and a kind of cause of causes and
if we can not change

all that maybe there is a
problem in the way we

organize together

is what you can tell us more

hello to all

it appears that

the collective brain which I participate
my side for some time

I too am a hummingbird

that is to say, I do what I can
we do what we can and in this collective brain

is being put in

highlight , to see

a series of ...
highlight , to see

a series of ...

how to tell lies or
errors as you want but

good , say error

on significant words

that prevent us from

that prevent us to imagine the
solutions

radical solutions that
no words to take root

it all started ... I must go quickly so I'll go fast ...

it all started in 2005 on the occasion of this
debate on the anticonstitution

European I call it like this
Now , I do not know ca

at the time still
European I call it like this
Now , I do not know ca

at the time still

I thought it was at the time a
poor European constitution

because I ... I read in the
I could see that the text we

not protected but we imprisoned

that this starting point of my reflection
which woke me what I

transformed into a hummingbird so this adventure then this hazard

m led on the track
the constitution, the law

I am a lawyer by training so that
leads me to go naturally

it seems to me that the common point
all resistant to all those who

brawl against injustice
social

ecological, but not only that
can be financial, social, in

the enterprise corruption
responsible etcaetera

different social injustices I find
that

activists

resistant

share

their impotence. we
together, our common cause

even if it feels very different

our common cause is our
i.e. political impotence that

even if there s apply
even if we are very very many

millions in the street

we come not to change essentially on
unable to regain control

of

policy

we come not to regain control
our decisions

collective

we know very well

by our members just by our
experts who spend their time

to focus on a subject, become
very sharp on the very sharp nuclear

the energy

renewable , very sharp on the
financial disaster , very sharp on

the labor law which we
need to protect ourselves from

owners et cetera et cetera

even with , thanks to these donors
alert through these resistant

even with

alternatives for everything you need
make it better

it seems that we

run into a wall of impotence which
same for all of us
it seems that we

run into a wall of impotence which
same for all of us

and none of us

and this is what I imagine we
should change

none of us
and this is what I imagine we
should change

none of us

n try to understand but

but where it comes from is what it is
is that it is a law that falls from

heaven this is what political impotence

it is always true that the observed and
everywhere is observed in all the countries

world

and at all times , peoples

are subject to teachers who decides
everything for them

they are left in the best
If the possibility of designating these

masters

by so-called
falsely universal suffrage

universal suffrage for me is a vote
ourselves the laws we

consent and therefore there called
universal suffrage merely

designate our masters

and more from people we do
not even chosen which are selected by

the richest

those who can afford to buy

TVs and newspapers

our ... in our collective brain we did the week

last correlation

between

the number of hours spent watching TV
before the elections

the election results

incredible

c is absolutely perfect you have
points

a curve corresponding
exactly when you reconcile the

scales

exactly the correlation is perfect
one to be elected is one who

went on TV

this is not the one who is the most virtuous
this is not one that is most

brave, this is not one who has the
best values , who sy splint most

he who seeks the best public interest , who

listens to others and is patient, must stop

ca n has nothing to do with it

one to be elected is one who
went on TV

So what is important

politics with false universal suffrage is to designate

masters

among those that were not selected

what matters

it has TV

nice

it's called democracy

I I we doing to us
we see that

have put out on television and we
Let's learn who we talk to on

Internet and then we'll see
in meetings

we are us
see that we got smoke

the word democracy then
few other words

ESSENTIAL

I call liars and words that are
the really important words if we the

re appropriate

those we considered utopias

become political projects
feasible

they were utopias because they had
all words upside

and we agreed to use the wrong

example

we call democracy the
people power

a system in which the people did not
power

I 'll just make a break
to vary the

pleasures I'll just give you a
sentence that I like a lot because

when I discovered that

I discovered that c is thought of as
this from the beginning this is not a

accident is not a drift is not
a regime that was good which became

bad

it is a regime that has been designed from
departure

as it is today i.e. a
diet rich for the rich by

rich

I will read you a quote

Sieyes was a "great thinker of the French Revolution " forgiveness

large

I mean historical

a scoundrel sold, corrupt , which
has filled the pockets of gold that he

gave Napoleon later I
not going to argue

but in any case Sieyes is one of the great thinkers
One of the most important thinkers , not

a second knife

of the French Revolution wrote
this SMS :

"Citizens

who call themselves representatives waive

and must give

to the law themselves

they have no particular desire
to impose

s they decided what the wills France

be it more this state
it would be a state representative

democratic

the people I say , " always said
Sieyes

" in a country that is not

democracy " in September 1789
therefore ,

" not a democracy " between
brackets " and not France

be

the people can not speak can not act

that its representatives "

you not tell me that representatives serve

people they know from the start
very well that they want to

they want to take it to the people they pretend
to be servants of the people and in fact

they also mastered before
French revolution j ' have another small

it comes from Voltaire therefore , Voltaire died al time of the French revolution , it just died

with Rousseau ,

and Voltaire had written
few words, you have as c is

picked

his philosophy is
same as that will end up with

Sieyes and

designers of our plans and
current sponsors of our pension

follow the same moral voltaire

voltaire for the moral good of society
that is organized

where the small number

actually work

the large number

is fed by him

and government

That is the moral of voltaire we
are supposed to learn at school

as the alpha and omega I
and I learned as the alpha and omega

of the virtue of tolerance

goodness , progress

democracy

my eye!

voltaire make a good icon
for arms dealers for

people who are fattened selling
weapons, voltaire selling weapons

I learned much later ca

Voltaire was a supplier to the armed

I have not developed - what are we
can etienne

if you had to descend into something
which is good for us and that we

ca said like we could do
together

then

it was discovered that in fact
it reopens the doors. unlike

the

it's true we could read what I
say but saying ..

though he speaks a lie
words to practice but to

positively and what we do
but

attention to what I tell you
it gives me full

hopes

if I had ... that's right

yes if I had to rely on virtue
political actors under the

elected today

if you do not now see you
'll ever site that serve only

banks that do not serve the people;
serving banks

banks that have elected
this is normal so do not blame them

they are in their role and returns
lift

to those to whom they owe their power

us they owe nothing

you understand curves, they must
their power to those who pass

on TV and they s us they tap
n have nothing to do

voters you understand
what counts is the transition to

TV

so if I wait

if I wait

these political actors under

I'll wait a long time if I wait
written by these democracy

folks it never happens

Yet that there are good people in there , there are people

who toil among
elected people who seek to serve

the general interest I do not say
they are all rotten

this is not what I say

I ds when they write the
constitution

that is to say, when writing the text
higher I would not have time

develop 'll have to go see the
net detail but

when they write that top text

that they should fear

to protect us all we
needs a constitution that is to say

a superior text

that will protect us all tyrants
tyrants anyone we do not know

but which still good
constitution it should it should

be

if it is us who wrote it
should protect us against tyrants

tyrants

all

or is it that the text we
let write

idiots we are

Finally, we are unaware
ignorant

not yet awakened us
we let write

constitution

by the very people who ought to fear

I think everything is there

it is not antagonistic with this
I heard tonight is

I think the additional
Best resistant need

integrate

their software into
priorities

in that in addition to having detected

monetary scuttling more
have spotted scuttling

energy

besides having spotted scuttling
in our education

etcaetera besides having spotted
each each social injustices

their causes and solutions

should we re- appropriating the
constituent process it takes more than

they are the professionals
policy

people we need

but which should not write
constitution requires more than it is they who

in the process are then constituting
how to practice

must you first that we
very many have understood

it is there that plays our
Impotence is when when we

accept a professional
policy

write the text that should be feared
to protect myself in addition to its

potential abuse of power

so when I give here

I realize and possible future
very predictable

political impotence

when I spotted this place where I
spotted

among all causes of my
helplessness I spotted a cause

important . Hippocrates was a physician

we
said to look for the cause of causes

because when you are sick it is
nothing to attack symptoms

we must seek the cause of
disease when we found the cause and

that is attacking the cause

it solves the problem it's the same
to us

if one takes the waste
or poor

nuclear decision and that they say

this is very bad nuclear decision
you can protest all you want

but it is not at all the cause is
a consequence

I think if we take the problem
if each of us

trying to trace the cause of
our powerlessness despite the need for

is given the efforts that it arrives
not to change things

we will all converge to a point
is the same that is

instituting organize our first
power by writing ourselves the

constitution then be played after

écrivonsd'abord , we regroup
on , it has two advantages

1 . d we first met we stop
arguing they found a common cause

and 2 . instead a consequence of c is
cause it is smarter

we will be more effective by in
taking a case to a

result

on one stone two birds with more
it becomes millions fight

a common thing

instituting our first power on
is bagarrera on details

about what we do

how are we doing so far
if you do a referendum in the street

it will not work most people
are

good will say if you ask them questions
we need a Constituent Assembly

elected

so it's normal they are told
ca all day to

TV on the radio we repeat the
democracy is the election and the election

this is democracy I hurry

I'm sorry I can hold seven
hours then really I must be careful

I must get to keep
just the best and most important

but the most important is that

for that to happen to it
happens that we become a

constituent people is to say
establishing our power instead of

leave establish our powerlessness
other

of political professionals was
no need for professionals

policy

to make it happen we need
wanted

for that we want we need to be
form us

these jokes popular education which
we need

it is useless to expect you understand
whether elected officials who shape us

media form we
professionals of this that it is

nothing

it is up to us to form between
we

the base is expecting nothing of our
masters

you basically happens when the word
out there waiting there something that

The important thing is that the next
Constituent Assembly

it should not be elected

it must be raffled
or that

s there who are afraid of the draw
but hey we could discuss the

fears that it makes you none is
founded the draw

with controls that go with

has any power for us
protect against abuse of power

more protective than the election

and illusory confidence that
not work 200 years of experience

election

n ' gave the power, since
1789

200 years of elections have always given
power to the rich! there is a

or two exceptions , nothing whatever

always power to the rich while
200 years raffle to

athens I do not have time to develop but
it is that which has 200 years of drawing

lot in Athens - hopefully tonight
anyway - 200 years raffle

it is the poor who ruled without
stop for 200 years but I it

I did that moves this thing
that these are facts

I say but how long

if the draw empowers
poor poor us c is c is 99 % if

the draw controlled
lce is not drawn to

vote the law is that we vote the
the law drawn we make

services needed

if the draw political

retains the power to the people and gives
power to the people

and if the election empowers
rich conbien time yet

99% we will defend this false
universal suffrage as the alpha and

omega of how our freedom
time

that is the question

the last word

we should actually I am
discovering , I'm good

conferences for a year or two years
more

I meet a lot of people I don not stop to
progress but

I also discovered that

there is something that works better than the
conference is the workshop component

tomorrow not tomorrow but I actually with a
masters ignorant paris

and I actually another in
Vercors Saturday

it's great that thing what we do
we get together we can be 10

be 20 can be 2 or 3

and we will talk about
we will set up

our social contract we will we will
check

that it is possible

for example what we lack the
popular initiative referendum

yeah it's true that it holds in
three lines and it suffices to

write

and you can even prick countries
neighbors

and then when we fall into the country
neighbor we look at how he did it

they say it's not bad but still it
put first paragraph referendum

popular initiative
established

second paragraph except
of

with the exception of taxes ( like why did they put the taxes ) and al exception of treaties

it's not complicated if you do that

you turn into action what the
departure is the idea must go

a sentence and you'll see that it anchor

in you the idea that it is possible and
it is much better

people whose job it is not
may very well written good

constitution

people that this is not the
trade may well write

a constitution and because it is not their
business they write very good

constitution for everyone

- Voila - thank you !

we will stop