shaberon
28th February 2026, 09:00
There is an obvious new problem to contend with.
This thread is not an attempt to post every tiny little detail, but to focus on a few things in the realistic face of the problem of ever starting a better way at all.
2026 was the end of America's participation in civilization as expressed in the Peace of Westphalia and the United Nations Charter.
It was already a walkout, but previous violations were cloaked and built over by long discussions. And so we might say the masks came off.
Everyone knows we went into the 1950s with the assassination of Mossadeq and a genocide in Korea, kept making excuses for doing it around the world, until we have a person who thinks they can do whatever they want with abuses of power.
As Revolutionaries and Anti-Federalists, we told you so in 1789, perhaps now more people are ready to deal with it.
To proceed, I'll make an example of what I am doing by the forum Guidelines (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/announcement.php?f=152):
When sharing external (non-forum) material with other members, please do it in the form of links with summary paragraphs. Posting very long passages of external text is discouraged.
The summary of the content of the link should ideally be in your own words and/or with a short extract from the text itself. If you are quoting external text, please always give a link to the source material, so we can all clearly see where something has come from. This makes it easy for others to dig deeper into the posted material if it interests them.
Like that. We need enough of the external material to form a basis for our reaction. Most of the articles I link are trimmed down; sometimes the order may be changed. The thing is not posted for its own sake, but so we mentally process it.
This is the ideal:
We’d strongly recommend directing your comments, questions and concerns to the forum as a whole, so that anyone may answer you. This simple guideline promotes community discussion, rather than individual confrontation.
It's posted publicly, is supposed to be a public discussion. If I question a post's author, it is really just "a question" in public view.
Also:
“Dead text” unnecessarily consumes bandwidth, as well as server space and (most importantly) reading time. When replying to a post, please quote only the previous text that’s essential to the reply. Just edit (trim down) the text in quotes that you’re replying to.
So, yes, by "forum", it has the intent of public discussion. This subject is heavily polarized; there is no interest in what the current regime may say to justify itself. The purpose here is how to purge and prevent it from existing.
If right now, we are heading for an American faux pas of the highest order as a judgment against Iran, I fully believe this is part of what I posted with respect to the forum's main concern, The Anglo-
Saxon Mission (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?355-The-Anglo-Saxon-Mission&p=1697067&viewfull=1#post1697067).
I find that the current moment is the outcome of previous events. There are efforts to discard this or twist it around. We have other threads that cover this extensively.
Our lives have been a failure to enact reason.
The cause for that is mostly a matter of Congress.
Well, of course my Representative does not represent me, so how do I replace them. I can't. I started trying to figure out who they even were, and discovered the area where I am has been gerrymandered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering):
...defined in the contexts of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.
And what that means is, you will always get the same Republican-majority Congress; they basically won't be challenged.
That extreme actually is grounds for a revolution. The only possible work-around is as in the thread Vote Them out in the Primaries (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?130849-Vote-Them-out-in-the-Primaries-2026-and-Beyond).
In order to realistically shape American policy, you have to field Primary candidates that hold radically different values. I found them. Someone can do this.
That is exactly what is missing through stacks of forum posts and the whole history of protest movements in general.
These may be "messages", but they are being sent to people who don't want to hear it. You have to change the people.
The crude method is simply to vote out all the incumbents, let no one sit in office who governed during some stupid period, but it would be better to fine-tune the results to a new political platform.
One of the most important ideas we want to bring up is the end of the "Cold War" mentality and Security State.
This would address issues such as Imperialism, Zionism, and ICE. Documents about Gaza and the Kurds are living proof of the distorted language used to overwhelm populations. They can speak clearly against it. We can use that as a parallel.
In general, we would like to reverse policies of aggression and greed, and come up with something that would be of local benefit. I don't know what that is yet. I don't think anyone has the silver bullet of the perfect things to do, but we can broadly agree on a few things to stop doing.
I've read about things like de-fund the courts, which I do not agree to. Repealing things that perhaps ought not be prosecuted is what we have in mind.
Repealing institutions is the bulk of this strategy:
Federal Police
The Truman Doctrine (force projection)
Zionism, NATO (undesirable partnerships)
Income tax, Property tax, Federal Reserve, corporatism
Insurance domination, unrepeal Glass-Steagall; FIRE sector, rentier economy
Abuse of food and medicine
None of that is "necessary", in the way that figuring bankers' profits into Gross Domestic Product does not actually represent any product.
Page one of Turmoil in the United States (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?130313-Turmoil-in-the-United-States&p=1698176&viewfull=1#post1698176) looks at going after the corporate sponsors of ICE. As per posts above it, these powerful lobby groups are effectively "in control"; they would not be if they went out of business.
If we are serious about an uphill struggle, items that have minor Congressional support today, would have to become the majority, i. e., pass. The records tell us who says what. And so we can track the fate of strong proposals such as:
HR 7138 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7138/text?s=1&r=8) against Wall Street Landlords places a 100% tax on a big company selling an individual house.
HRes 1030 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/1030/text?s=1&r=16) impeaches Kristi and defunds ICE.
There is a minority, maybe 80-100, of Congresspeople who are not that bad and give a strong voice on some of these issues. Yet we will also find weaker legislation, such as proposals Israel is not allowed to use American weapons except under "certain circumstances"; a better proposal is to abolish supplying them in the first place.
This week I did not notice anything about the military and Iran, perhaps indicating the momentum is not really there; the Vice President is against it, the President may even be against it, but actually working for Israeli and affiliated corporate interests. So, that's why he's going to have to be the figurehead of the fall.
Here is a description of a few protest movements:
Indivisible (https://indivisible.org/) is Anti-Administration with a list of grievances.
Dissenters (https://wearedissenters.org/) is a crowd of young people. There isn't really anything else on their home page. There might be a little more to it through the links, but it appears shapeless.
Dimantle the MIC (https://www.dismantlethemic.org/) is a "resource hub" themed on Eisenhower's farewell address. It seems vested towards education if you want to learn a lot of stuff about defense contractors and so forth.
Friends Committee on National Legislation (https://www.fcnl.org/) is the Quaker lobbyists since 1943. That's perfectly legitimate. I didn't specifically ask if they had ever gotten anything passed. That's seventy years of Quaker presence in DC and my first impression is that Federal behavior does not resemble the Society of Friends. I'm going to guess that very little of their main idea which is the same as mine, has been particularly welcomed.
ANSWER (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.N.S.W.E.R.) is a NYC-based response to 9/11 which includes communists and is anti-Zionist enough to instead support Hezbollah. And so it is because of those tendencies or "connections" that most other groups shy away from them. Too strong. Too acerbic. These must be the ones that Trump was telling to leave the country and I am guilty by association.
What we found with punk is that vested interests watered it down to a feeling of rebelliousness. All of these sorts of things have the tendency to be defrayed and sandbagged. The popular wave of resistance does not become translated into Acts of Congress. This loose assembly needs to be tightened up and aimed at a handful of basic principles, which, to me, mainly appear to be negations.
The intermediate tactic between being ignored and actually having a Congress that functions in a civilized manner is Class Action Lawsuits. These will come in mostly because of ICE such as:
Hussen v. Noem (https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-federal-government-to-end-ice-cbps-practice-of-suspicionless-stops-warrantless-arrests-and-racial-profiling-of-minnesotans)
2018 Juvenile to Adult Transfers (https://immigrantjustice.org/for-attorneys/cases/garcia-ramirez-et-al-v-ice-et-al/)
Domestic Terrorism (https://www.npr.org/2026/02/23/nx-s1-5722988/dhs-lawsuit-biometrics-domestic-terrorism) (meaningless and un-enforceable)
Warrantless Arrests (https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/five-individuals-launch-class-action-lawsuit-over-warrantless-immigration-arrests-in-north-carolina)
This thread is not an attempt to post every tiny little detail, but to focus on a few things in the realistic face of the problem of ever starting a better way at all.
2026 was the end of America's participation in civilization as expressed in the Peace of Westphalia and the United Nations Charter.
It was already a walkout, but previous violations were cloaked and built over by long discussions. And so we might say the masks came off.
Everyone knows we went into the 1950s with the assassination of Mossadeq and a genocide in Korea, kept making excuses for doing it around the world, until we have a person who thinks they can do whatever they want with abuses of power.
As Revolutionaries and Anti-Federalists, we told you so in 1789, perhaps now more people are ready to deal with it.
To proceed, I'll make an example of what I am doing by the forum Guidelines (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/announcement.php?f=152):
When sharing external (non-forum) material with other members, please do it in the form of links with summary paragraphs. Posting very long passages of external text is discouraged.
The summary of the content of the link should ideally be in your own words and/or with a short extract from the text itself. If you are quoting external text, please always give a link to the source material, so we can all clearly see where something has come from. This makes it easy for others to dig deeper into the posted material if it interests them.
Like that. We need enough of the external material to form a basis for our reaction. Most of the articles I link are trimmed down; sometimes the order may be changed. The thing is not posted for its own sake, but so we mentally process it.
This is the ideal:
We’d strongly recommend directing your comments, questions and concerns to the forum as a whole, so that anyone may answer you. This simple guideline promotes community discussion, rather than individual confrontation.
It's posted publicly, is supposed to be a public discussion. If I question a post's author, it is really just "a question" in public view.
Also:
“Dead text” unnecessarily consumes bandwidth, as well as server space and (most importantly) reading time. When replying to a post, please quote only the previous text that’s essential to the reply. Just edit (trim down) the text in quotes that you’re replying to.
So, yes, by "forum", it has the intent of public discussion. This subject is heavily polarized; there is no interest in what the current regime may say to justify itself. The purpose here is how to purge and prevent it from existing.
If right now, we are heading for an American faux pas of the highest order as a judgment against Iran, I fully believe this is part of what I posted with respect to the forum's main concern, The Anglo-
Saxon Mission (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?355-The-Anglo-Saxon-Mission&p=1697067&viewfull=1#post1697067).
I find that the current moment is the outcome of previous events. There are efforts to discard this or twist it around. We have other threads that cover this extensively.
Our lives have been a failure to enact reason.
The cause for that is mostly a matter of Congress.
Well, of course my Representative does not represent me, so how do I replace them. I can't. I started trying to figure out who they even were, and discovered the area where I am has been gerrymandered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering):
...defined in the contexts of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.
And what that means is, you will always get the same Republican-majority Congress; they basically won't be challenged.
That extreme actually is grounds for a revolution. The only possible work-around is as in the thread Vote Them out in the Primaries (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?130849-Vote-Them-out-in-the-Primaries-2026-and-Beyond).
In order to realistically shape American policy, you have to field Primary candidates that hold radically different values. I found them. Someone can do this.
That is exactly what is missing through stacks of forum posts and the whole history of protest movements in general.
These may be "messages", but they are being sent to people who don't want to hear it. You have to change the people.
The crude method is simply to vote out all the incumbents, let no one sit in office who governed during some stupid period, but it would be better to fine-tune the results to a new political platform.
One of the most important ideas we want to bring up is the end of the "Cold War" mentality and Security State.
This would address issues such as Imperialism, Zionism, and ICE. Documents about Gaza and the Kurds are living proof of the distorted language used to overwhelm populations. They can speak clearly against it. We can use that as a parallel.
In general, we would like to reverse policies of aggression and greed, and come up with something that would be of local benefit. I don't know what that is yet. I don't think anyone has the silver bullet of the perfect things to do, but we can broadly agree on a few things to stop doing.
I've read about things like de-fund the courts, which I do not agree to. Repealing things that perhaps ought not be prosecuted is what we have in mind.
Repealing institutions is the bulk of this strategy:
Federal Police
The Truman Doctrine (force projection)
Zionism, NATO (undesirable partnerships)
Income tax, Property tax, Federal Reserve, corporatism
Insurance domination, unrepeal Glass-Steagall; FIRE sector, rentier economy
Abuse of food and medicine
None of that is "necessary", in the way that figuring bankers' profits into Gross Domestic Product does not actually represent any product.
Page one of Turmoil in the United States (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?130313-Turmoil-in-the-United-States&p=1698176&viewfull=1#post1698176) looks at going after the corporate sponsors of ICE. As per posts above it, these powerful lobby groups are effectively "in control"; they would not be if they went out of business.
If we are serious about an uphill struggle, items that have minor Congressional support today, would have to become the majority, i. e., pass. The records tell us who says what. And so we can track the fate of strong proposals such as:
HR 7138 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7138/text?s=1&r=8) against Wall Street Landlords places a 100% tax on a big company selling an individual house.
HRes 1030 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/1030/text?s=1&r=16) impeaches Kristi and defunds ICE.
There is a minority, maybe 80-100, of Congresspeople who are not that bad and give a strong voice on some of these issues. Yet we will also find weaker legislation, such as proposals Israel is not allowed to use American weapons except under "certain circumstances"; a better proposal is to abolish supplying them in the first place.
This week I did not notice anything about the military and Iran, perhaps indicating the momentum is not really there; the Vice President is against it, the President may even be against it, but actually working for Israeli and affiliated corporate interests. So, that's why he's going to have to be the figurehead of the fall.
Here is a description of a few protest movements:
Indivisible (https://indivisible.org/) is Anti-Administration with a list of grievances.
Dissenters (https://wearedissenters.org/) is a crowd of young people. There isn't really anything else on their home page. There might be a little more to it through the links, but it appears shapeless.
Dimantle the MIC (https://www.dismantlethemic.org/) is a "resource hub" themed on Eisenhower's farewell address. It seems vested towards education if you want to learn a lot of stuff about defense contractors and so forth.
Friends Committee on National Legislation (https://www.fcnl.org/) is the Quaker lobbyists since 1943. That's perfectly legitimate. I didn't specifically ask if they had ever gotten anything passed. That's seventy years of Quaker presence in DC and my first impression is that Federal behavior does not resemble the Society of Friends. I'm going to guess that very little of their main idea which is the same as mine, has been particularly welcomed.
ANSWER (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.N.S.W.E.R.) is a NYC-based response to 9/11 which includes communists and is anti-Zionist enough to instead support Hezbollah. And so it is because of those tendencies or "connections" that most other groups shy away from them. Too strong. Too acerbic. These must be the ones that Trump was telling to leave the country and I am guilty by association.
What we found with punk is that vested interests watered it down to a feeling of rebelliousness. All of these sorts of things have the tendency to be defrayed and sandbagged. The popular wave of resistance does not become translated into Acts of Congress. This loose assembly needs to be tightened up and aimed at a handful of basic principles, which, to me, mainly appear to be negations.
The intermediate tactic between being ignored and actually having a Congress that functions in a civilized manner is Class Action Lawsuits. These will come in mostly because of ICE such as:
Hussen v. Noem (https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-federal-government-to-end-ice-cbps-practice-of-suspicionless-stops-warrantless-arrests-and-racial-profiling-of-minnesotans)
2018 Juvenile to Adult Transfers (https://immigrantjustice.org/for-attorneys/cases/garcia-ramirez-et-al-v-ice-et-al/)
Domestic Terrorism (https://www.npr.org/2026/02/23/nx-s1-5722988/dhs-lawsuit-biometrics-domestic-terrorism) (meaningless and un-enforceable)
Warrantless Arrests (https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/five-individuals-launch-class-action-lawsuit-over-warrantless-immigration-arrests-in-north-carolina)