Article V. –
Non-city or township affiliations and associations: diversity without power
relations
5.A. – Other associational
forms are non-governmental allowing the greatest cosmopolitan cultural
diversity imaginable.
Since cities are many, the possibilities for cultural diversity are
great. But cities are primarily public and political spheres in which citizens
can act as self-governing beings, as citizens.
Other organizational forms, which are wider in geographic scope or in
membership will arise and may exist, including networks, tribes, religious
affiliations, gender, indigenous, scientific and professional associations,
ethnic or language groupings, and artistic or educational affiliations, to name
a few.
These may transcend city or region or even continent in scope and scale.
But none of these may under any circumstances ever do any of the following:
1) Exercise
governmental authority in any fashion. They may have self-governing bodies for
their own organizational purposes and they may make and establish moral,
ethical, normative or behavioral and theological/philosophical rules, but these
can never be obligatory for their members except inasmuch as non-acceptance of
such rules merely means one’s membership in these associations is the price of
one’s own views or practices. These associations may not in any other way
except expulsion from membership engage in any punishment, rehabilitation, nor
may they establish prisons, physical disciplining of recalcitrant members, or
engage in any act of violence. Any such practice will result in their no longer
being allowed to exist as a membership organization in the region in which such
action has taken place. Should such behavior become an ongoing pattern, the
General Council may globally advise all cities on the need or desirability to
ban such an organization from the city.
2) Coin or create or
distribute money for any purposes except to pay their organizational expense
such as for supplies. They may never have paid personnel working for them
either for any reason.
3) Establish any
militia or other armed group for any reason.
4) Hold territory as
an organization, nor informally or behind the scenes wield governmental power
in a city or township or region. Such a practice is to be reacted to by a
general boycott of the city in question, and on its goods and services,
restriction of funds by the global agency until such behavior ends and is
understood to have ended, and travel
bans on its members.
5) Own or control
resources of use to one or more cities. Own or control any cooperative
businesses.
6) Engage in acts of
violence against other associations with which it is not in accord.
7) Engage in organized
lobbying, behind the scenes or secret negotiations, bribery or other attempts
to influence anyone in any temporary position of delegated authority of a city,
township, region, continent or of the world in general or any authority thereof
or of any finance agency, militia, nonviolent self-defense force, or
cooperative of any city, township, region, continent or of the world in
general. Such activity will be considered a major violation of law in every
city and township and will result in the penalty system described above for
violations.
The preceding section shall not be interpreted to exclude the initial
founding of a city by citizens constituted by a plurality, majority or even
entirely by a single ethnic, indigenous, tribal, language or national group.
5.B. – Cities are
open to all and are not tribes, nations, ethnicities, religious institutions or
parties
But a city is not a tribe, ethnicity, or nationality, and anyone
arriving subsequently to even such a township or city will be eligible for full
citizenship on the same basis as all others after 90 days of residency. This of
course does not mean that this person also becomes a member of the tribe or
ethnic association which remains self-governing as an association subject to
the rules outlined above. But as such that organization then has no authority
over any individual in the same city except inasmuch as it can encourage its
members to abide by its moral or philosophical guidance, and even this does not
apply to the city or its citizens as such whether of that same ethnicity or
tribe etc. or not.
5.C. – Avoiding conflicts
of interest while maintaining absolute freedom of movement
No person may hold citizenship of more than one city or township at any
one time, nor hold office of any kind in more than one city or township. Should
anyone be found doing so, whether by accident, oversight or on purpose, they
will have 48 hours in which to announce publicly which city they hold
citizenship in, though that city may then investigate the question to determine
eligibility. Should neither or no city involved find the person to be a citizen
of their city, that person remains free to move newly to a city or township
under the limitations established only by the available residency places and to
then begin the 90 day process of establishing citizenship.
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