Block Government Version 3?

[Mike Adams]

Block Government - Taking over your housing project from absent slum land
lords! October 31, 2011 at 11:47pm 1998 or earlier (edited 2011) (2013 but
also have other versions out and about that I need to print out and
review?).

LOCAL BLOCK GOVERNMENT:

The ideas, reasons for and how to for a local block/neighborhood government.
The idea of a block or neighborhood governmental body is not new, going back
to before the days of the manor and tun and like bodies. Some more
democratic than others, and some having more powers than others. After all
what is a self-sufficient community? A local neighborhood/apartment complex
or hi-rise can be just as a community and government as a small colony in
Virginia or Massachusetts was.

The basic concept is, that many in the US and else wheres have lost faith in
how things work, or don't know how it all works, that its all, ever four
years, some rich guy comes to their house or church or what ever and says
they want to represent them, but once elected you never see them again for
four years until they are up for reelection or on the news, either for some
policy or worse some scandal.

The basic idea of a local block government is:

1) To give local people a say in the day to day government of their local
community.
2) To see how the wheels of power work from a local perspective.
3) To bring the city government closer to home, more responsive to the local
peoples needs and saying.
4) A feeling of self/local control over how things are done.
5) Common defense against a wide variety of criminal elements.
6) To bring about community ownership of their dwellings and bring about
changes as needed and not as some absent landlord wishes it to be.

How this is done:

1) First off is to have communications between members of a community block
and this means to be safe from fear. Or driven by fear, a need to do
something, hopefully not violent.

2) Forming a Neighborhood watch is a major step along a long road, but the
end results will be wonderful. Local Neighborhood Watch (NW) acts as a local
block element of defense and law enforcement, local law as well as city,
borough, county, state, an federal law. But first off local law. Basically
the neighborhood watch is a local police auxiliary and fits with in the
traditional Militia/Fyrd ideals. The NW is the members of the community
doing what ever they can do for the community to fight against any form of
invasion of the community, to bring to justice those in the community or
from outside the community that need to be brought to justice. To stop being
a lamb to slaughter and to take an active part in the communities
protection, safety and freedom to do what the community people wish to do.
Namely the freedom from fear. The NW in the new government structure will
become the communities law enforcement and the militia arm of the local
block/complex government. Any law enforcement and militia/military structure
must be under civil control, and for this NW, a local block/neighborhood
government is necessary to make sure the NW does not become as bad as the
elements they are supposed to protect the community from.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE:
In a hi-rise for example: Each floor would have a Floor Manager/Reeve, who
in concert with other Floor Reeves and the Building Manager/Reeve would do
the day to day governing (with comments and review by the citizenry of the
building). Normally I like the idea of each floor electing its
representative. And the building manager being elected by the people of the
building in mass. But if its the floor manager is appointed by, selected by,
or hired by their building manager or the company that owns/runs the
complex.

THE BUILDING COUNCIL:
Made up of the Building Reeve and the Floor Reeves.
Supported by select personnel who though not part of the building council do
play a part in the councils business and the maintenance and upkeep of the
building of which they are empowered to govern.

The Building Clerk: Charged to maintain the building records.

The Building Treasurer: Charged to maintain the building finances.

The Chief of the Fyrd: Charged to keep the peace as well as law and order,
leading the security forces and fyrd of the building as needed and directed
by the laws of the building.

Chief Judge of the Building: Charged to judge those who need to be judged in
matters relating to the health, safety and welfare of the building.

BASIC GOALS:
Bring about local government by locals getting involved and forcing city
government to recognize the local block gov as a viable tier of city
government, better able to deal with and collect local taxes and provide
police and local more responsive justice.
HOW TO INCORPORATE THE GOV:
First major step is to thru legal means, acquire the apartments/lands that
make up the local neighborhood, to include declaring the land abandoned by
its "owners" and therefore open for local purchase/eminent domain, salvage
laws and like laws.
Once the first apartment complex is taken over by its one time tenants, they
are to form a governing body, to control the cash flow, rents, utilities and
like, similar to a condo association. But with each Tenant (lease holder)
having a share in the incorporated building tenants associations Inc. The
governing body is to use the money collected from rents and other means, to
pay for the upkeep/maintenance of the building complex, the utilities,
contractors and wages for workers (possible money off rent for work done is
possible). Each tenant household has voting stock shares of the
en-corporated body of the Building Association, and as such as the power to
vote on issues such as:
Election of, removal of the Reeves.
Changes in the relationship between the tenants and their elected officials.
Expelling unwanted members, namely to throw out the criminal elements of the
community.
The Council has the below powers:
To negotiate contracts with outside government, the collect fees, to expel
members, and to act for all purposes as a local city government to include
local civil/criminal court (minor offenses).
One part of the tenant contract is the giving over to the building council
the right to expel unruly/criminal tenants with due cause and trial.
Also one part is also that tenants can not sell their shares unless the sale
is approved by the building council (to keep unwanted external elements out
of the complex).
Tenants who are of legal age are voting members of the corporate body called
the Block Government and as such are eligible to vote, serve the community,
militia service and other tasks as needed.

GOALS:
The Governing Body is to make the apartment complex a safe and livable place
to live. To form a Neighborhood/Block Watch from the tenants to act as an
auxiliary to the local police force. To provide for equitable treatment of
all tenants. To screen new tenants. To act as the tenants representatives
to the City Government. Also to bring into the apartment complex those
services directed by the tenant membership, include possible connivance
store and like businesses on the first floor.. Also to remove unwanted
tenants or unwanted elements (criminal namely).
Delegating powers, how to get the powers (directors) in, and how to get them
out, what powers they have, and what powers does the body politic have to
remove, change, override them.

Board of Directors:
In a hi-rise apartment complex it maybe different, one Director per floor
(Floor Manager), who job is to maintain the peace, maintenance and well
being of the floor and the people on it, and to work with the other floor
managers as well as the building manager to provide what is necessary for a
efficient and fair/just house management.

Floor Reeve: Individual elected by the voting members of the floor the Reeve
represents, to act as their representative to the building council.

Responsibilities: To give the members of their floor good and fair
representation in the tun/building council.

Tun Reeve: Individuals elected by the floor reeves to represent the
building/tun to the either block council or the city council.

Building Fyrd: A combined law enforcement and also in times of emergency a
militia, styled for the protection of the building and its inhabitants. All
residents are members of the fyrd in what ever compactly they can be used
in.

Officers and NCOs having to be voting members.
Head of the Fyrd acts as the Sergeant at Arms of the Building Council
meetings.

Building Council:
Made up of the Building Reeve and the Floor Reeves, it controls (or
delimitates) the representation to the city council and its representative.
Also provides for quick and just law and court cases of building members
(members do not have to go to the Building Council if they do not wish to).

To find cash sources, to collect building fees/rents and debts/charges
(taxes?).
To act as the organizer of the building Fyrd.
To keep the building maintained and utilities paid.
To provide safe law enforcement/security of members.
To expel any unwanted tenants and to find wanted tenants.
To give fair and just government to the members of the building.
To provide services that the individual tenants could not do themselves.
Voting members of the community are the final court of local appeals. If a
majority of the voting tenants vote for expulsion of an unwanted tenants,
then the tenant is evicted as per local laws.

Maintenance: Would be directed by the local government, and contracts given
out as need of members, money and time becomes available. Possible is to
have people work off their rent for maintenance and new works.

(Also have ideas on how to form a Civil Action Group > precursor to a
political party or a guerilla movement?)
(those who advocate violence, likely have never experienced it, or too much
of it, or are working for arms dealers, morticians or working as an agent
provocateur for someone).
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