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Étienne Chouard : le problème du vol monétaire et de la Constitution

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    - Another thing that we were stolen, it is the currency.
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    So, I'm going to read an extremely known sentence for you:
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    "Give me control of a nation's currency and I laugh
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    at whom makes its laws." This is Rothschild who said that.
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    - So I read it that a lot, I haven't sourced it;
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    I didn't go to verify. I would have to find the book of Rothschild.
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    It would be good to find the source to be sure that he said it.
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    It needs to be verified because on the web, there is all the same...
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    There is still a lot of... lies lying around.
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    Therefore we have to watch the quotations. I... I take it back because ...
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    I find it plausible but at the same time, I'm suspicious, I pay attention.
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    I would like... I would like to source it. We really need to find...
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    - It is in "Secrets of the Federal Reserve."
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    - 0K, but that's Mullins who says...
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    Be aware that Mullins was anti-Semitic, in any event that he has become anti-Semitic.
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    I think, I don't know if he was when he wrote his book.
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    But the fact that he is anti-Semitic or he became
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    has to drive us to caution with regard to the quotations which he makes of Rothschild.
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    I... I don't say that it is false, I say that it's necessary to distrust, it's necessary to cross-check.
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    Needs to look... But it is enough to find the books of Rothschild
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    or reports in newspapers of what he said ...
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    Sources must be found, what, that's it.
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    - Thus my question was: "how the drawing lots
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    can allow us to recover our monetary independence?
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    - Great question. The... Money creation...
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    The right of public money creation,
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    The monopoly of monetary creation by the public power
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    is the only way to go to recover
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    our political sovereignty. We must first recover monetary sovereignty
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    so that... we may have a chance to recover the real political sovereignty.
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    One who holds the currency, holds political power, that's for sure;
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    May Rothschild have said it or not, anyway, that's for sure.
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    And in my opinion... the universal suffrage, that is...
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    Renunciation, our renunciation, the renunciation of the people
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    to exert itself political power
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    and the abandonment of political power to the rich
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    through the financing of election campaigns.
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    This representative government
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    makes it possible for bankers total surrender by the States
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    of money creation, which is what happened everywhere
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    and their absolute control over 100% of political power.
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    And therefore it is the representative government
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    which makes this whole shit possible.
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    It is... For me, cause of the causes, it is this iniquitous constitution.
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    This constitution that is found everywhere, all the constitutions of the world,
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    except that of Athens, are built like that, on representative government.
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    And... in all these constitutions, there are all the procedures...
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    and absence of control of elected representatives, the legal rules
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    that protect the notables... There's a whole network of iniquitous rules
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    that are in the constitutions ... and we can't understand, I think ...
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    because it is in all countries and at all times, so there is still
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    a... a common core, there is still a common force.
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    And it's not a conspiracy. These people have not come to an agreement,
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    they have not spoken, it's not that at all.
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    What makes that all these Constitutions are so bad
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    for the people and always so good for "people's representatives",
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    in quotation marks, which are actually ... the servants of the rich, the political servants,
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    the political puppets of the rich.
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    How is it that all the constitutions of the world
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    come to plutocratic oligarchies?
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    This is obviously not a conspiracy. It would be stupid to even think about, that's not it.
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    The common cause and the cause of causes... The primary cause,
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    making all this shit possible...
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    is... Who writes the Constitutions?
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    It is the poor quality of the process of writing the constitution
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    And this poor quality, it comes from the indifference of the people,
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    the ignorance of the people, the laziness of the people,
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    from... the negligence of the people. This is because we don't give a damn about the Constitution
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    and the process of writing the constitution, it is because instead...
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    Instead of writing the constitution ourselves or paying attention to what...
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    those who write the Constitution to be disinterested,
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    don't write rules for themselves.
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    Instead of doing that, we let the Constitutions be written by... elected officials,
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    or by the ministers, or by the men of parties.
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    If people are writing rules for themselves,
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    they don't write the rules for the public interest.
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    And that's the rule, that's the explanation, I think.
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    And formulating a problem is half the solution.
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    Having understood this, I think, basically, between us, despite the...
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    ... the threats that the elected representatives are certainly going to wear against us
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    and the rich which make them elected. They are going to hate us,
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    they will speak ill of us, they will, they will try to discredit us,
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    they are going to try to make us dirty, to say that we are I don't know which...
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    ... submarine of I do not know who.
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    In spite of these slanders, we will have between us...
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    ... we do that the main part...
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    .. we understand and we do understand other people that the main part
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    takes place at the time of the process of writing the constitution.
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    Because our best protection against abuse of power, it is the Constitution,
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    provided... provided that those who write it
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    do not write the rules for themselves and they are not judges and judged.
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    So it must not be men of parties.
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    So here, so I think, a disinterested assembly
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    it can not be done except by drawing lots.
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    If it is made by election...
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    ... who will nominate candidates?
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    Parties?
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    So they will impose their candidates?
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    Well, if our parliamentarians find themselves writing the constitution,
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    you can well imagine that the Constitution that they are going to write,
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    it will be the same as today, we shall not go out of it.
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    Therefore, an elected constituent assembly won't fix any problem.
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    I repeat, my deep, well-argued conviction...
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    I ask only to be denied, if I'm wrong, let it be shown to me.
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    And no one succeeded for now. Yet they try, huh.
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    They argue a lot, huh. It's very interesting,
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    controversy is fascinating; from leftists, rightists,
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    many people try to show that my idea of drawing lots is not...
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    ... is irrelevant, but they're wrong, here, their arguments are not strong.
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    I think that as long as people...
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    ... judge and judged, at the same time judge and judged, will write the constitution,
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    we shall not go out from this muck-up.
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    This is because politicians write the rules for themselves
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    that they become the prey of the richest, thus bankers,
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    and that it comes after a few dozen, few hundred years,
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    after 200 years, we arrive at the strict government of banks, we are there, now.
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    If you don't see this, you are blind, anyway.
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    And thus the drawing lots appear to be the only solution. Then, that frightens people.
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    We say ourselves: "drawing lots of a constituent Assembly? You will...
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    ... you will draw lots of incompetent people."
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    We frighten people with that.
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    And I think that's hogwash.
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    I think that there is no need to be competent to write a constitution.
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    I think anyone in two weeks of discussions, thoughts, exchanges,
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    will understand that...
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    ... a constitution serves to protect everyone against the abuse of power.
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    That, I think anyone can understand,
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    no need to be a genius to understand this:
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    that to protect against abuse of power, we must control the powers.
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    And not every five years, the powers must be controlled every day.
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    that popular initiative must be a real popular independent initiative.
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    That there must be initiatives of popular referendums
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    which can short-circuit institutions.
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    Any normally intelligent individual; it is sure that somebody...
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    ... a simple-minded or a patient, OK, no, but I speak about normal people.
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    So the multitude. Anyone normally constituted
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    is able to understand that... to weaken the powers...
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    ... that to protect us from powers, it is necessary to weaken them,
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    that to weaken them, it is necessary to divide them.
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    Anyone can understand the division of powers.
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    All those who think about the problem fall on the division of powers,
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    on accountability, on the non multiple office-holding,
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    the non multiple office-holding. Anyone who falls on it naturally.
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    No need to be competent for that. And the constituent assembly randomly chosen
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    have highlighted these... I don't know. It should perhaps be ten... ten principles.
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    Maybe even not, five would be enough.
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    After that, it can let write the rules by lawyers
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    so that it is well-written. And then verify that this is really what was meant.
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    And if we are a hundred to think about it,
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    if lawyers are trying to deceive us, there are two or three
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    who are going to notice the trickery, and then who will call us ... alert us.
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    So I think either way it will not be perfect, but it will be much better
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    than a constituent assembly made up of people who cheat,
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    because they write for themselves, because they have a personal interest
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    against the public interest; in this occurrence.
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    I don't say that... I don't say that the elected representatives always have -it is in no way what I say-
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    I'm not saying that politicians always have an interest contrary to the public interest.
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    It is not at all what I say. I say that elected officials and party men
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    have, at the time of the process of writing the constitution, that is to say at the time to write the rules
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    which are going to bother them when they are going to exercise the power.
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    Huh, at that time, in the process of writing the constitution, they have a personal interest
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    contrary to the public interest. And therefore, like in any trial
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    where we reject a judge...
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    ... who is of the family of the victim or the family of the defendant,
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    this judge, we dismizz. We say: "No, but you cannot judge, you're judge and judged,
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    you... we dismiss you. We will put in another. And it doesn't mean you are dishonest:
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    it means just for this case then, for this particular work,
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    you can not do. "Well, elected officials and party members, governments,
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    all professional politicians should be put away,
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    not because they are corrupt or perverse, not at all,
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    but just because it is not them who have to write the constitution.
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    It is not up to them to write the text they should fear.
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    And so that's why the draw is... I think the only procedure
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    that will allow us to recover money creation.
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    This is because... We shall get back money creation
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    only if we get back the process of writing the constitution, that is...
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    ... the control of the text which is the only one which can protect us... durably.
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    And I see no other way than to randomly select the Constituent Assembly.
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    So, to reassure people, I can, we can imagine to amend the draw...
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    ... to...
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    ... how to say, to...
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    ... to fit out it; to fit out the draw so that it less frightens us.
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    One could, for example, organize a free election before the draw,
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    an election without candidate: each of us could...
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    ... appoint one, two, three, the number should be considered,
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    one, two, three people he considers to be honest,
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    people who would do well for the constitution,
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    people who would do the job well.
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    People, I would say, I would try to choose people...
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    ... who are able to listen to others without becoming angry,
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    who can change their mind,
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    people who read a little.
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    I think it would be better if we took people
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    who can still read; to read mementos, summaries,
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    the explanations that will be given to them about the constituent assembly, but hey,
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    others may consider that it is not useful.
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    Thus everyone is going to decide on these criteria. I... It seems to me that it would be good
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    there is in the constituent assembly people who are able
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    to reconcile points of view, who pacify an assembly,
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    who act as ambassadors, matchmakers, people who...
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    ... who reconcile those who have just quarrelled.
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    So it would be nice to have people like that in the constituent assembly.
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    There might be people who have already thought about the constitution.
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    Not necessarily, not necessarily in my opinion, so then everyone is going to appoint freely,
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    to elect, without parties, non-professional politicians.
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    There should be a prohibition. We can elect whoever we want but...
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    It could be prohibited, I think we should ban political professionals.
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    And then... Well, but that can be discussed that, perhaps there may be
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    few professional politicians who hang in there, eh,
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    in the constituent assembly.
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    I think it's dangerous because the professional politicians speak well.
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    This is... They are speakers, good speakers
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    and a good speaker can deceive an assembly, eh.
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    Well, there it is easy to say "the political professionals
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    are not allowed in the ... in the Constituent Assembly."
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    You can elect who you want, but not pros, whatever.
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    And then perhaps we could also put away the...
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    ... all television speakers, all well-known people ...
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    ... to avoid the bias of media: people who don't know who to appoint,
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    and then nominate someone who they see every day on TV.
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    Well, you can ... It is not required to eliminate. Well, need to think about it.
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    Do we put a filter or not on these free elections?
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    Needs to be thought about. I have no ... I have no fixed ideas on this.
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    But in any case we would designate, in this case, this proposal
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    we would appoint...
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    ... people who are not candidates and that we find brave;
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    that we find nice... freely. We appoint them freely.
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    And it is among these people that we would draw lots.
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    That...
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    And then there are people who will be nominated several times and who will...
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    ... who are recognized around them as having these qualities,
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    who will be nominated several times, freely, without being ...
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    They are not even candidates, so they can refuse.
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    Maybe they will refuse, too bad.
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    But we don't need that all agree: we will have so many people ...
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    Well, they refuse, too bad; we shall take others.
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    There are plenty of good people on ... There are plenty of good people on Earth, plenty, plenty, plenty.
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    So, if there are some who do not want, well it is not required.
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    We shall do without them.
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    We could as well, I had the idea recently in a conference whilst discussing with people,
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    We could as well do as they do in the...
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    ... in the martial art competitions : we do a lot of rounds.
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    We win, we win, we loose, we loose, we win, we win , we loose.
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    And each time, there are points,
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    we win points, not points, points, not points.
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    And what will do the rules, there are rule, I guess it's in judo, I don't know,
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    or in karate, I don't remember, which....
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    ... we take off the best performance and the worst....
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    ... because we consider they are accidents.
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    We take off the worst, but we also take off the best.
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    And we keep the... the other performances.
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    And we could do that, we could... The ones who are...
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    very often freely designated, the ones that are often elected:
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    we could say it is a media effect: they, they should be the people who are always in TV
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    or that we saw a lot on the internet or...
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    These ones, we won't allow them in the Constituent.
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    It seems like they are professionals... We can't admit them in the Constituent.
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    And there are the ones that are never nominated, once or twice...
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    I don't know, we could take the fifth which have been nominated very often,
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    we don't take them, and the fifth which have not been nominated, or very few times,
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    we won't take them either. And we would take the third fifth in the middle,
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    which have been quite enough, but not too much, fairly enough...
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    ... designated freely by the others.
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    And that's there, in the middle of these people that we would draw lots.
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    This would give you an uninteressed assembly
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    as you have never seen on Hearth... never.
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    This process... I am formal, in the actual state of my reflexion anyway,
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    I am sure it would give an assembly which would write
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    the first real democracy.... Athenes was a real democraty;
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    but furthermore, the one we would make, us, today,
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    would be... At the opposite of what was doing Athenes, it would integrate women,
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    there wouldn't be slaves, it would surely give rights to the foreigners;
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    not necessarily all the rights but some political rights to the foreigners,
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    and finally there is a lot....
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    .... of wrong or bad sides in the athenian democracy
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    which were part of the time, and that would be anachronical to misjudge today...
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    ... which are not necessary, so some sides of it we wouldn't reproduce.
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    And we could do today a real modern democracy, but a democracy:
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    I don't speak of the representative government which is a treason.
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    I speak about a real democracy
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    with local assemblies in every city.
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    In 36 000 cities, 36 000 local assemblies
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    in which people would decide themselves for their businesses.
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    And rises to national level, only the Assembly of federation of the cities....
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    There could be two or three steps, you know;
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    we need to think of the number of steps which would be necessary
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    to reach the national level. But which wouldn't delegate, the citizen would not delegate
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    only the mini, mini, minimum. Only.
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    We wouldn't let others than ourselves vote
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    only what can not be voted by us.
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    But, for school, we could decide by ourselves,
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    Maybe to a part of the school we could considerate that it would be nice if
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    there was a common program which would be decided by a federal assembly...
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    It needs to be discussed. It needs to be discussed what we give to the federal assembly.
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    But it's not, it's not impossible at all; it is completely...
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    It is not utopian. We need to stop letting others
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    write the constitution for us.
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    - So, I would have two questions after that.
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    First, they are two questions which I'm wondering personally, it is :
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    Does the people want to get their freedom back? That's the first question
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    - This is not sure at all.
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    - And the second question is : the fact that we are in a society
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    where... It is very materialist, there is a lot of TV,
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    we are very much brainwashed.
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    Our desires wouldn't be, in the end... to have a bigger TV,
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    to have ... more things, more beautiful, bigger?
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    Is it not too late in fact? This is the question.
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    - Well, I am fighting because I believe it is not too late.
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    But maybe I am wrong. It is true that it perhaps is too late, I know that.
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    There is a very beautiful quote from Rousseau which I don't remember by heart, but....
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    A sentence where he says that....
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    Once someone has been a slave, he doesn't want to get out of this state,
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    he starts liking his state of slavery and...
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    ... he doesn't want anymore, he doesn't even imagine what would be freedom.
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    When I am upset, I think this is true.
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    And then, when I am happy, I think not but...
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    Look at what happened, in 2005, you open the windows to humans...
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    They are all closed for now.
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    You can vote left, right, you can protest, rant and rave,
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    get in the street by the million, it doesn't change nothing, nothing ever.
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    So it is... this is completely demotivating. I think, this is what shuts down people.
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    It is the fact that the institutions are closed.
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    Open institutions would give people the wish of doing politics,
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    because when you do politics , it allows to change the world. It allows...
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    It would show that all these people who looks extinguish
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    are in fact ambers smoldering. And you remember in 2005, they said :
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    "Don't go bother people with the european Constitution.
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    The Constitution, a dusty and boring text,
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    everybody will be annoyed, they will not... care about it."
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    Look, we were hundreds of thousand peeling article by article.
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    Because there was going to be a referendum; they had open the windows.
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    And we knew that we could change something: we could say "yes", we could say "no".
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    And we believes that if we said "no", it would change.
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    Yes, we got raped a few years later
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    by our own "representative" between brackets, absolute traitors, traitors.
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    Traitors who enforced by parliamentary means
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    everything that had been refused by referendum. This is....
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    One day, they should pay the bill. These people will have to be judged.
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    If we don't arrive too late : they will maybe be dead. It will be that late that...
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    But it's really treason, this.
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    To enforce by parliamentary means what we refused by referendum,
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    when it was exactly the same texte, strictly.
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    It can be proved article by article.
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    Article by article. And the activists who have done the job. A real hard job :
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    they took every aticle of the Lisbon treaty, everyone, one by one,
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    There were hundreds and hundreds, you know.
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    And they found them in the treaty of 2005. They are the same, the same,
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    the same words, in another order, loose, but everything is there.
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    It is scientifically proved, conclusively.
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    Treason, treason what happened in 2008 too.
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    Included the socialists, you know. The socialists by abstaining....
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    It's really chafouins, huh. It really. They really are hypocrits, huh.
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    Hypocritical bastard, huh. Because they....
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    They participated actively to the treason when they did this.
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    Without assuming their betrayal. It is unforgivable. It is unforgivable.
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    And us, we are so nice, we forget.
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    So... You are right : it is true that we forget, that we are nice
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    and that, in the end, we are very materialists; we are happy with our destiny....
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    ... as long as we have bread and games, huh; it's an old story...
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    I hope not. So, what is possible anyway, is that...
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    ... the rich are so greedy...
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    and they are insatiable. You need to read Thorstein Veblen, here,
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    who studies ostentatious consumption,
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    the manners of rich people are childish manners, like in the school yard.
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    Who has the biggest one, you know.
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    It is neverending. The one with the biggest car,
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    the one with the biggest toy, the more... And it is neverending, it is ostentatious rivalry.
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    When we are adult, we thing : "it's a childish behavious."
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    But it is exactly the rich's behavious;
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    Riche people work like that, like kids.
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    And Velben show it very well.
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    So... They are insatiable: they will never stop robbing us, stealing us.
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    However they have, they have moutains of gold. It is never enough.
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    There is an african saying : "More evil there is, more Evil wants"
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    We shouldn't wait for them to stop wanting : it's neverending.
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    What we need, is to put a limit.
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    We grease only the squeaky axle.
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    As we say nothing, they go, thoroughly, thoroughly.
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    They destroy everything there, they break everything. Everything our parents try to build.
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    All the program of the National Council of the Resistance : the pensions, the social security,
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    the public services, everything... We are going to loose it all if we don't step accross.
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    Everything we are doing at the moment is...
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    Bad protests where we... Well I am in the protests but...
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    We laugh, we are... We sing, we are not scary.
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    We are a few; everytime the same person, it is always the same
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    who goes in the street. It's always the same banners.
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    We are pathetic, we are so nice.
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    - So in fact, how... - We cannot scare them, huh.
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    - How can we concretely succeed to... to what you suggest?
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    - Well, my idea... And I think we can play it.
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    But, I think if you are right when you say :
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    " perhaps the people does not want to be free"
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    If you are right, here, my idea will not work
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    But if you are wrong, and if the people, in fact, starts to be so mistreated
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    that he aspires to be free, he will look out for a solution...
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    I, what I see in my conferences is... people eyes shining,
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    there is something new, here.
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    Understanding what is democracy.... There are...
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    ... hundreds of books on democracy. really, there are lots,
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    lots of books on democracy and always on the wrong one pratically.
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    Except few books on Athenes, we speak about democracy
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    talking about representative government. It is the same in the media.
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    In the medias, when we talk about democracy, it is never...
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    We never speak about democracy; we talk about representative government.
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    So....
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    Here, when I talk in my conferences of democracy
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    and I talk about somehting really... new.
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    Well... new, very old in fact but....
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    ... original... never, we never describe democracy like that.
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    There is Rancière, some philosophes... There is Castoriadis.
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    Important people, specialists but who have no....
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    no mediatic space: we don't hear them in TV...
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    Most of the people talk about democracy....
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    and do not open any window, they let us in the trap
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    of the representative government. And me, in my conferences,
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    I talk about real democracy... I say we need to make a strike of the word democracy,
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    to stop calling "democracy" a representative government,
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    we have to call it "representative government", that's all.
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    and that we....
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    So, it's my idea, it's a suggestion, but you know, I will not do anything alone.
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    I need others to be with me. It's necessary for the thing to be understood,
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    It needs the idea to be simple and strong so that it can circulate to everyone.
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    It needs us to get viral; we should have a viral activity,
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    that each one of us, we contaminate one another at first.
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    Despite the slander of the elected, despite all the bad things they'll tell us, the elected,
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    the richs and all the fascists of all kinds.
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    Fascists, even the fascists that call them self antifascists"...
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    Well, despite them all, we should pass the word on.
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    To establish a social justice.
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    To reestablish, to establish a proper prosperity because we will have taken back the control
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    of monetary creation and of rights' production.
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    Which means we will take back control over the Constitution...
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    ... by this simple idea that it isn't to the men in power
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    to write the rules and so everything that count, what count most...
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    and we stop dividing on : "For me, it's about ecology",
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    "for me, it is about justice in the companies", "for me, it is about unemployment", "for me it is...."
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    We stop to have each one our pet subject. We start thinking "the cause of all causes
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    of all that mess, these social injustices, is...
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    It is necessary that they stop to right themselves the Constitution.
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    It is necessary that the constituant Assembly would be disinteressed. So Assembly should be drawn"
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    Drawn from non candidate or drawn simply;
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    but drawn. If we manage to concentrate on this...
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    ... and to become viral. It means that... Well, it's understood,
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    but it is not enough to understand, we need to explain it to
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    5, 10, 20 people... more... We do what we can to explain to others.
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    Because it is easy to understand. It is a simple and strong idea.
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    If you look for the problem at the base, you look for the evil roots,
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    You take the evil at its roots, you look for the cause of all causes and you end up on...
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    "But who wrote these iniquitious rules?"
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    And you end up on the Constitution and the constituant process,
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    so who wrote, who participate to the constituant Assembly.
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    And then you realise : "But here it is ! From here comes all the shit!"
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    So, problem identified, problem formulated, problem solved, at least half of it.
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    Now we just need to set up the solution for the cause of all causes.
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    And if we do that between us, if we pass on the word...
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    How long does it take for us to be millions?
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    If anyone of us appoint , manage to convince two people.
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    Not only convince them that the cause of causes
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    is the bad quality of the constituant process
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    and the fact that the politics are the ones writing the Constitution...
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    So, in fact, the solution is... A constituant Assembly
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    that is not composed by politics : which would be disinteressed.
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    It needs to be anybody who is part of the Constituant.
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    Not only he understood, but he managed to pass on the virus,
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    which means, he has understood that he needed to start explaining to others.
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    We need to explain two things : 1) Where is the cause of causes
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    therefore, the solution; and 2) That the solution is to pass it on.
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    There are two things, and if you don't reproduce you die : the virus, the idea dies.
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    If we manage to pass the message like this, with these two points: 1) The simple idea
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    and 2) It is our role to reproduce without staying passive.
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    Which means we need to manage to convince.
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    Then, at the beginning, there will be resistancies, people will not...
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    They won't believe us, there will be objections.
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    Well, I'll go back to look the conferences, the discussions,
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    and then, after some discussions, I'll get better at convincing.
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    I become a good virus.
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    A nice virus, a virus of social justice.
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    A virus is not only bad, you know.
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    Me, I imagine a positive virus. A virus....
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    of concord...
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    ... of social justice.
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    and it looks like that to me... So, if everyone of us manages to convince two,
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    well... it depends how long it takes. If... two, they take one week
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    to convince two, then they stop... It is not going to be very quick.
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    But if anyone... convince three or four people every week.
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    So, in one month, he convinced a dozen of people.
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    or ten. If every month he manages to convince ten people,
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    And ten people which become themselves viruses,
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    It can go very very fast. We will quickly be millions. It's an idea...
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    I think it can change everything in a pacific way.
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    They won't let it do face to face, but if we are millions...
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    ... wanting one simple thing without dividing....
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    without treating us mutually, one and an another of fascists,
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    focusing on the essential, forgetting the quarrels about details.
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    We will see then, when real democracy is put in place...
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    We will see the details : what will we do about abortion?
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    What will we do about nuclear? What about GMO?
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    What we do about... We will see it all point by point in our popular assembly.
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    With a real universal suffrage... with referendums if we want to.
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    But the time to reestablish democracy, we need to focus on the essential :
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    honnest constituant process, disinterested.
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    If we manage to do that... If we are millions to want it, it will happen.
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    It would be enough to get out in the street, by millions, it will happen.
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    They won't shoot in... They won't shoot...
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    They won't shoot on millions of people.
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    It seems doable to me that thing, and it's original, and it can work.
Title:
Étienne Chouard : le problème du vol monétaire et de la Constitution
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