The Robin Hood Party
Robyn hode in scherewode stod
by Richard O’Xman

Read the previous entry (”Article Ongoing”), if you will, and change the Healthy Party name to fit the fame of Robin Hood. The Robin Hood Party will work for the vast majority of voters in the state of California. We don’t need the votes of anyone who’d object to the notion of taking from the rich (as in wealthiest 2%) to give to the poor. Not whilst astounding amounts of unwarranted/unhealthy subsidies are routinely placed in the coffers of gangster corporations and politicians.

Citizens hereabouts have quite a lousy sense of history, but when the Emancipation Proclamation was finally issued from the mouth of Lincoln, there was lots of talk about taking the land from defeated, treasonous Confederates, and handing it over to deserving former slaves… who had worked the land, and made it unconscionably profitable. And who, in many, many cases, participated (invaluably) in our Union victory. The forty acres and a mule bit actually never materialized in the way it’s taught in school… or in the way that it’s thought about today. However, that’s history (1), yes?

None of us have to get involved with such land transfers today, BUT… the thrust of Robin Hood’s legacy — much of it — can be embraced to improve matters for one and all.

Give a look, if you will, at Dan Bacher’s rundown of Sacramento’s latest gift to us all:

http://www.counterpunch.org/bacher08022008.html.

Don’t got tied down with all the back and forth blah blah about the pros and cons of this and that. Get busy with me to change the world overnight.

This is truly a no-brainer, this business of/proposal for having OUR PERSON sit in the Executive’s seat in Sacramento no later than 2011*. But you’re going to have to lay aside your “excuses” for not taking action with me, and put your old paradigms for action to bed… for good.

Come one, come all, Merry Men and Women and Children and All God’s Creatures.

Blessings in solidarity,
Ricardo
headburg@yahoo.com

*While you’re waiting to vote in 2010, you can see me about giving some strokes to the Nader/Gonzalez campaign. Double what they’re expecting in votes, and you’ll be doing two things: One, you’ll be doing a good thing on several counts vis-a-vis the presidential race. Two, you’ll be laying the groundwork for a proper reception for The Robin Hood Party. I do hope that those in a position of power within the N/G campaign will give me an opportunity to delineate how I think they should go about recruiting voters and campaign workers. Old models are being followed, and regardless of what accomplishments are achieved in that way, the results of their efforts are going to be much less than what could be the case. The reason that I can’t simply soundbite the approach that I recommend is that activists are too enamored of — victims of — paradigms of the past, models which are no longer sufficiently successful, cannot be. And to lower the associated resistance which comes with that syndrome, I have to eyeball each and every person… so that I can slowly make a dent in that armor. One cannot merely post steps to improvement because activists are inclined to prematurely discount suggestions which are not in accord with their… habits. In person contact, allowing for leisurely dialogue, is mandatory. The well-intentioned activists who I routinely encounter are burnt out, rushing — and much too much on automatic — to produce the results they say they seek. Burdens can (and should) be shared, and numbers significantly increased in short order. But a radical revision of approach is in order, must be embraced… yesterday.

Footnote:

(1) The history of slavery continues today in our American midst, as many readers know. Real slavery. Our party could easily be called The Abolitionist Party… if citizens had a better sense of history.