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Thereat: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb, On Our Way Representational Solutions

10/1/2017

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​III of XIII
 
“Look, a Cat.”
“Reb?”
“What?”
“Why you cattin’ Johnny?”
“Maybe Cat’s a sign?”
“Maybe you don’t want to camp talk about Virginia.”
“Could be a sign like Snake and Turkey were.”
“Yet there’s no Morgan.”
“Maybe he’s Cat?”
“Stop with the cat Reb.”
“Cat is looking at something.”
“Yes.”
“Curious?”
“Now I am.”
“Shall we?”
“Sure.”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Thereat Representational



​“Paths Gus.”
“I see.”
“Appears to be three.”
“Indeed.”
“Constitutional paths.”
“The Ways of We the People.”
“Our paths to 2020 Yank and representing We the People according to our numbers, like the Constitution has been saying for 230 years.”
“How old is the representation usurpation Johnny?”
“That began on 9 April 1792, so that would be a 225 year-old usurpation.”
“So we’ve had five years of an un-usurped representation of We the People.”
“Infancy Gus.”
“Not so fancy Reb.”
“It’s Tory Crown fancy.”
“Sounds bad.”
“Tory Crown is the American anti-republic energy that didn’t want the US to be a republic.”
“Still don’t.”
“True.”
“The Confederacy wasn’t a republic, was it Johnny?”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Thereat Solutions

​“No, we had a Tory Crown influence.”
“The states, like Virginia, were independent states in confederation.”
“Right Gus, so the highest power was the state and not the states united.”
“Like our first government?”
“Like that.”
“What was it called again?”
“The first US government, the one before this one, was based on The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.”
“Right.”
“It had no We the People framework Gus.”
“And it failed.”
“States had one vote regardless of how many people they had.”
“Not good.”
“Connecticut and Virginia were voting equals.”
“Odd.”
“Yet they had great differences in population.”
“Clearly a problem.”
“So the Constitutional Convention solved this problem by guaranteeing a new right: the right to one Representative for every thirty Thousand people in a state, which created the House of Representatives.”
“We the People seen as a solution.”
“And not a problem.”
“So what’s the problem now Johnny?”
“Uh …”
 
*Next Up: Sunday 8 October and Thereat part IV, Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Problems.
 
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2020: Virtual Representation and the People

6/21/2017

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“Regulations Lately Made Concerning the Colonies”
 
The lead-in was the title for a 1765 British Empire executive order concerning the colonies; this would have pertained to all colonies, not just the North American ones.
 
The regulations stated: “All British subjects … are virtually represented in Parliament; for every member of Parliament sits in the House, but as one of that august Assembly by which all the Commons of England are represented.”
 
So Virginians with names beginning with George, Thomas and James, for example, should give thanks that they were virtually represented in Parliament by a British commoner (which defines them as colonial commoners). There was no need for someone from Virginia, or any other colony, according to the Crown, to actually be in Parliament; the point being that Washington, Jefferson and Madison were being “virtually represented” by other commoners in England.
 
The 1765 regulations continued: “The colonies and all British subjects whatever, have an equal share in the general representation of the Commons of Great Britain, and are bound by the consent of the majority of that House, whether their own particular representatives consented to or opposed the measures there taken, or whether they had or had not particular representatives there.” (Italics added.)
 
One can see the political seeds of No Taxation Without Representation in the last part of that regulation – “whether they had or had not particular representatives there” – and the seeds of rebellion as well.
 
Virtual representation was Crown representation.
 
*Next Up: Wednesday 28 June and a 2020: Putin Knows. For further reading see Section 3 of Chapter 1, “Revolution – a sovereignty of the people,” in Article the first of the Bill of Rights (2006).
 
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2020: Tax Day Disses Our Revolution and Abraham Lincoln

4/15/2017

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Picture"No Taxation Without Representation"



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​Someone who disrespects is showing respect for another value.
 
For instance, the phrase “No Taxation Without Representation” animated the American Revolution. Taxation without representation is what monarchs and other toughies do and value; representation with taxation is a republican value.
 
So when We the People are disrespected, that is taxed without constitutional representation according to numbers, a usurper is actually showing respect to a monarchic mentality that we can call anti-republican and anti-USA.

PicturePresident Abraham Lincoln February 1865



​The same dis is observable in having Tax Day and the day Abraham Lincoln died coincide: usurpers did that, not republicans.
 
One can say Lincoln saved our Republic from killing itself; having Tax Day on his death day shows a lack of humility on the part of the usurpers. Simply put, it is arrogance.
 
April 15th is a double Republic dis: taxation without representation and it mocks the accomplishments and sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln. We are, by the logic of this day, the Usurped States of America and not the united ones.
 

*Next Up: This Wednesday April 19th and some serotonin receptor science.
 
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Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Birthright

3/5/2017

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Part 11 of 13
 
“We was born into usurpation, weren’t we Johnny?”
“We were.”
“That’s like being born into slavery.”
“Same power.”
“How’s that?”
“Same power that Plato was up against.”
“Might makes right.”
“Yes Yank.”
“So it’s always been something about the people.”
“Divide and conquer usually.”
“Ouch.”
“The people was sort of a derogatory phrase Gus.”
“Bad.”
“Slaveholders would even refer to their slaves as ‘the people.’”
“Like who?”
“Lee.”
“Robert E.?”
“It was common Gus.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“Correct.”

PictureGus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW House





​“Lincoln.”
“1858.”
“Fifty-eight Reb?”
“When Lincoln was running for the Senate.”
“He lost.”
“And then won the presidency in 1860.”
“Did Lincoln coin the Divided House phrase?”
“No, Sam Houston used it.”
“Heard of him.”
“Texas Governor who wouldn’t rebel in 1860.”
“Who else?”
“Thomas Paine.”
“Common Sense.”
“Thomas Hobbes.”
“Never heard of him.”
“Saint Augustine.”
“Sounds vaguely familiar.”
“The Gospels.”
“Heard of them.”
“Mathew and Mark.”
“Oh my.”
“Lincoln was quoting Jesus Gus.”
“Smart man Johnny.”




PictureGus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW United



​“It mostly worked.”
“’Cept for the war.”
“Blame the usurpation.”
“Usurpation divides We the People.”
“That is its purpose Gus.”
“And today in 2017?”
“Worse.”
“Worse?”
“Worse as measured by the constitutional definition of We the People.”
“So our Republic prefers usurpation to constitutional representation?”
“Our Republic is stuck in usurpation.”
“Sounds like Tory Crown.”
“Correct Gus.”
“So to get America unstuck?”
“Use our exceptionalism.”
“Our exceptionalism?”
 
*Next Up: 12 March and part 12 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Census.
 
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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Bring the Boys

9/10/2016

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Part 11 of 13




​“Are We the People united?”
“In 2016?”
“Yeah Johnny.”
“Divided Gus.”
“What about the children?”
“What?”
“Domestic tranquility Reb.”
“A goal from the Preamble.”
“Ain’t domestic tranquility about family, home and kids.”
“Sure.”
“Then division is rotting what’s good.”


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PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Back








​


​“Sepsis.”
“That’s rotten.”
“Putrid.”
“Why don’t We the People read what’s in the book before us Johnny?”
“Sowers of Sepsis.”
“Tory Crowners.”
“Anti-Republic.”
“And yet.”
“Yes Gus.”


PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Home










​“There is our fulcrum.”
“Washington?”
“Article I.”
“The thirty Thousand.”
“Did George ever command 30,000?”
“At the Constitutional Convention.”
“In the field?”
“No, Washington often only commanded 3,000.”
“Three thousand Dandeez.”
“Right on Yank.”
 
 





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*Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series continues on Friday 16 September with part 12, Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Comfortably Numb.
 
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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Feather Birds

7/16/2016

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Part 5 of 13




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​
“Me sees Turkey feathers Reb.”
“Me too Yank.”
“You were right about feeling Morgan around.”
“Turkey and Snake.”
“Yes.”
“Mt Horeb take-me-back moment.”
“Me too Reb.”
“What’s next to the feathers?”
“Document looks like.”
“Let’s look closer.”
“Sure.”



PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Birds


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“Constitution Gus.”
“We the People too.”
“The counter to Tory Crown.”
“Turkey feathers?”
“Written law Yank.”
“I thought you meant that.”
“Sure you did.”
“Who’s the caped avenger?”
“Let’s look.”
“Okay.”





PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Flocking



“I’m guessing General Washington Yank.”
“Me too Reb.”
“The caped avenger is pointing at something.”
“Into the breach perhaps.”
“Or the We in ‘We the People.’”
“Both work: what’s the script Reb?”
“The words from Article I.”
“Significant?”
“The thirty Thousand we’ve been jawin’ about is there.”
“Right there?”
“Right there before us.”
“Sign overload Johnny.”
“Agreed Gus.”
 
Next Up: Wednesday 20 July and a 2020: 7/20 Bill of Rights Participation Day, Do Due Diligence
 
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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Enemy Is Time

7/11/2016

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Part 4 of 13









​“I figured Tory Crown for an …” Gus hesitated, “you know Reb …”
“An enemy.”
“That.”
“Tory can be For and/or Against Gus.”
“For and/or Against what?”
“Constitution.”
“Republic.”


PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Is



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​“Same thing.”
“Agreed.”
“During the war,” Reb continued, “Tory Crown mostly supported the Confederacy.”
“Anti-republic.”
“Yes.”
“And by mostly you mean Tory Crown was in the North too?”
“You mean were there Yankee Tory Crowns?”
“Yes.”
“There were.”
“Anti-republic goals posing -”




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Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Time
​“And passing.”
“- Okay, posing and passing as republican goals.”
“That is true Gus.”
“So Tory Crown is fundamental because of power.”
“True again Yank.”
“That’s why in war Tory Crown bets on both sides.”
“You think well Gus.”
“Thanks Johnny,” Gus noted and suggested, “shall we take a closer look?”
“Lean-in perhaps?”
“Yes.”
“Let’s.”
 
Next Up: Part Two of the 7/20 Bill of Rights Participation Day Preparations, Jesus and Caesar, Friday July 15th.
 
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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Know Sympathy

7/3/2016

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PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Know


​Part 3 of 13
 
“Us you say.”
“Right.”
“What makes you think balancer Johnny?”
“Crown being around.”
“Means?”
“Well,” Reb reflected, “Crown never stands alone Gus.”
“Needs a realm.”
“Needs people.”
“So if Crown’s around …”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Sym




​“Morgan’s around.”
“The Teamster?”
“Right.”
“That takes me back Reb.”
“It should.”
“We were talking representation and free people,” Gus pondered, “and it was Juneteenth.”
“It was.”
“What’s the balancer though? That’s not Daniel Morgan in the sunflowers.”
“Something different.”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Pathy



​“You seem confident Reb, I mean, you’re not hatin' on Tory Crown.”
“Hate is a pathos Gus.”
“A disease.”
“Yes.”
“And Crown knows that?”
“Yes.”
“So the balance involves Crown Johnny?”
“Crown’s fundamental Gus.”
 
Next Up: 8 July and a 2020: Bivalent Ligands Targeting Cannabinoid Receptors? Longer Linkers May Not Be The Solution
 
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Summer Union 2016: Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Three-Fifths

6/26/2016

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PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Three



​Part 2 of 13

“… In our approach to representation and We the People, would that help Gus?”
“Use the slave fraction.”
“Yes.”
“You’re saying,” Gus summed, “that we could use the three-fifths clause to understand free people.”
“Right.”
“How so?”
“Three-fifths implies sixty percent of something.”
“Sure does.”
“Of what?”
“That’s the fraction friction you keep at Reb.”
“The representation ratio Gus.”
“Which is?”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Fifths




​“Thirty Thousand.”
“So free people counted as 30,000.”
“Sort of.”
“How then?”
“The US Constitution says free people are to be represented at the rate of one Representative for every thirty Thousand people.”
“That’s what makes us a republic.”
“True.”
“So 100,000 slaves would have counted as 60,000 free people.”
“Yes.”
“That’s a big deal.”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere Clause





“It was the deal that held the Constitutional Convention together.”
“It made us Reb.”
“Sure did.”
“Hey?”
“What?”
“These plants,” paused Gus, “there appears to be something in them.”
“In the sunflowers?”
“Yeah.”
“Sure is.”
“What ya’ figure?”
“That balancer we mentioned.”
“Balance to what?”
“Us and Tory Crown.”
 
Next Up: 1 July and Part One of the 7/20 Participation Day preparations (a day scheduled for Wednesday the 20th of July).
 
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Summer Union 2016: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Juneteenth Square

6/19/2016

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PictureGus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Back


Back to square one
 
“It got dim Johnny.”
“That happens when Tory’s around.”
“Crown’s around?”
“Yeah.”
“Tory Crown dimmed the light?”
“Metaphorically.”
“What stopped Crown from turning the lights out?”
“You Gus.”

PictureGus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Square


​“What?!”
“You Yank.”
“Me?”
“You.”
“Metaphorically?”
“No Gus, you for real.”
“Be square Johnny.”
“I am being square.”
“Seems like a circle-merry-go-round to me.”
“Corners Gus, like a flanking move.”
“Okay.”
“You Yanks didn’t give up: you just kept at us.”
“We was against you Johnny, not Tory Crown.”
“Think again Gus.”
“How so?”
“Let's step over here –”
“Sure.”

PictureJohnny Reb and Gus Kotka Nowhere One



“Free people Gus: how were they to be represented?”
“You asked that before.”
“Right.”
“Census somehow, but I don’t know.”
“Tory Crown knew.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“What did Crown know?”
“How to divide us,” explained Johnny, “how to divide We the People.”
“A dis-unionizer.”
“Correct.”
“That’s the Anti-Republic part you mentioned.”
“It is.”
“Is? Not was?”
“Is.”
“So Johnny, how are free people to be represented?”
“Perhaps if we use the three-fifths clause to illustrate …”
 
Next Up: The Union 2016 summer series continues Sunday 26 June with Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Three-Fifths.
 
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