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Platform of the Independent Electorate / Decentralist Nonparty [IE/DN]:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by individual people.
The powers not specifically delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor specifically prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to individual people.

IE/DN Constitution:
The Independent Electorate / Decentralist Nonparty [IE/DN] is an association in the sense that anyone who is registered to vote Independent and who promulgates the Platform exactly as it appears will by these actions be clearly associated with the IE/DN.

Disclaimer:
The Platform of the Independent Electorate / Decentralist Nonparty [IE/DN], the IE/DN Constitution, and this Disclaimer are the only official statements of the Independent Electorate / Decentralist Nonparty [IE/DN]. Any other statements made by people associated with the IE/DN are the sole responsibility of the authors.

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FAQs
by James Anderson

What is a Nonparty?
A group of persons associating together, rather than creating a political organization, for the purpose of controlling the policies of a government.

BigLie, Inc.
by James Anderson

An organization is not an entity, it is a tool; a structuring system used to coordinate the actions of individuals.

This tool is maintained and operated by every individual within the system; when all of the individuals behave in a manner consistent with the protocol of the structure, the system functions properly. If the entirety of the individuals decided to stop following the system guidelines, the system would cease to exist.

A corporation, like any other organization, exists only by the constant complicity of those individuals whose actions are structured by it. A corporation is not an entity, if it were it could exist independently of any other entity; it is in fact an idea, existing only in the minds of its operators and on paper. It cannot exist independently; therefore, it is not an entity.

A tool cannot claim civil rights; It cannot act independently of its operators. How would a submarine (which is at least tangible) claim civil rights? The operators may attempt to claim rights for it, but the absurdity of this is obvious: they would be claiming that an object or idea is entitled to civil rights. Does the game of Hopscotch have civil rights? A company has rights, because the individual companions (the stockholders and employees) have rights; this includes the right to class-action lawsuits to insure all other rights.

Now is the time to unmask the faceless corporation and reveal it for what it is: a company of people with individual rights and responsibilities, not a single being.

“Why Bother?”
by James Anderson

What’s the point, right? Lobbyists and palm-greasers control the government and you don’t trust either party.

What level of government do you suppose the all-powerful THEY would be focused on, and what’s this about “either” party? I don’t trust the Donkey party nor the Elephant party - I suggest we call them the Bureaucratic and Oligarchan parties. I don’t really trust any party, but if you want to be in a party you have a pretty fair variety to choose from.

Think a moment about this business of an omnipotent They. Do you really suppose, if They exist, that They are involved in local or regional politics?
It seems more likely that They only pay attention to national concerns. So even if They are somehow nullifying your vote for President and Congress, you can still affect the election of your Mayor, City Council, and also the Governor and State Legislature.

So even if we accept a conspiracy theory driven cynicism we can still register and vote, but for whom?
It amazes me how prevalent the "Two-Party System" fiction is. A kind of implicit collusion exists, whereby the members of the Bureaucratic and Oligarchan parties “assume” that no other option exists. I suggest that we rebalance the scales by never voting for an Oligarchan or Bureaucratic candidate when the ballot includes another option, and that we always ask, “what is your response to the IE/DN Platform?”

We have the ability to overwhelm the status quo, even if They exist. “Why bother”? Because you have more power than you think.

Origin of the Platform
by James Anderson

The Platform is based on the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution:

Ninth Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Tenth Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

As you can see, the Platform is taken word-for-word from the Bill of Rights, with only two additional words, "individual" and "specifically", both of which have been italicized.

These changes emphasize the implicitly decentralist nature of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, re-clarifying for the modern American that which was clear to a generation that had fought a war against Tyranny.

The Bill of Rights is our insurance against the return of Tyranny on American soil, but like any law, it is meaningless without enforcement. Every minute of every day the Federal Government operates in violation of the highest law of the land, and so long as one civil right can be ignored with impunity, the rest are endangered.

It is time to sound the alarm! Your rights are being violated! Men died to secure these rights for us, let us live to secure them for our children.

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