What Is the Unified Settlement?

THE FLAG OF EARTH
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The Unified Settlement was founded February 27th, 2004, in response to the question, "What are ya gonna do about it?"

If a global, peaceful, freedom-based nation isn't exactly an original idea, neither was it copied from anything else. The concept is too obvious not to have been thought up by many others, however separated by time and space. I'll freely admit to having been influenced by things I've read, then and now. We reach ever higher by standing on the shoulders of our predecessors.

The idea seemed right to me, so I went with it. Given the grip the power elite have over us, here on Earth where we are SETTLED, if the many are to be free from the relative few, those many must become UNIFIED. Activism is a good thing, but if activist individuals and groups were to realize that all their causes could be served by joining together, their combined power would assuredly change the world.

Think about that for a moment. All these causes -- What is the source of the problems they are trying to solve? In nearly every case, you will find government involved, either directly or indirectly. This is not a knee-jerk reaction, but a carefully considered position.

There was a time when I thought a direct democracy would be best, but it was pointed out to me that direct democracy invariably leads to 'mob rule', bringing everything down to the lowest common denominator. When I had to admit that people were in fact easily swayed, through propaganda and other means, I began to wonder if there could be any form of government that would be immune to corruption.

Another definition of 'mob rule' might be 'under the control of organized crime'. Well? Can someone tell me that the major governments of this world are not criminal organizations? Is government not a magnet for corruption?

Yes, there are some who seek office because they genuinely wish to be public servants. Some of them even manage to keep from being bribed or coerced into 'the family' and 'their' way of doing things. That rare beast, the actual public servant, is more likely to be found at the local level. The higher up they go, the more pressure they face to toe the 'company' line.

I happen to live in West Virginia, one of the United States that all too many Americans don't seem to know exists -- they think the name of the state simply refers to the western part of Virginia, which settlers west of the mountains first attempted to become seperate from as early as 1776. In 1783 they wanted to call it "Westsylvania" -- I suppose if that were the name today it would get confused with 'Wrestlemania'... Anyway it took another 80 years and a civil war (an oxymoron if ever there was one) for statehood to finally be granted. Some of our governors haven't exactly been ones to be proud of, but now we have Joe Manchin III, who is in my estimation one of those rare beasts -- an actual public servant, a real person who genuinely cares about other people.

If government were largely comprised of such men (and women), we would effectively have 'official activism' -- government representatives would more often than not do their best to, well, REPRESENT the people and SOLVE problems instead of creating them. However, this not being a perfect world, it is the greedy, corrupt, and power-hungry who are in control.

Sad, but true.

It is very possible for local governments to be kept in check, but less and less likely that governments can be accountable, the larger and larger they get. Thus it is the largest which must be dissolved first.

Do we need a United Nations? Do we need a European Union? Do we need individual nations, or even states and provinces? Do we even need cities to operate as anything but public service corporations? These are things for the people to decide, when they finally get it through their heads that big government is a big self-serving lie.


The Unified Settlement is NOT a government. As a global nation, it knows no boundaries. As workers unionize to keep from being taken advantage of by corporations, so must we all band together to reverse oppression by the power elite.

'They' have used every trick they could think of to fool us into giving them more and more power. WE have to stand up and demand our true freedom.


WE are the Unified Settlement.



Phil Smith
January 11th, 2006

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