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Free Sovereign's
Universal Treaty Organization Essay
1 - Treaties
FSUTO is an organization of individual sovereign persons who voluntarily
join together in mutually agreeable treaty contracts. Sovereign persons who belong to
governments in which the person gives the right to be represented by one's government
within FSUTO will still retain individual sovereignty though through all dealings with
other governments the government itself will be treated as a sovereign, though in
actuality it is not, it is a representative of sovereigns; in FSUTO only the individual
person is sovereign under law.
An individual who is independent and governs oneself will be treated equally
as a government with other governments. The important thing is that every single person
who is a member of FSUTO has voluntarily joined and has either signed the treaty oneself
or has signed one's consent over to the government of one's choice and has given that
government the authority to sign treaties and is thereby bound by it.
All legitimate law must be based on the consent of the governed, all of the
governed, sovereign persons are not to be treated as potential criminals who have to be
coerced and controlled to force them to behave honestly or to be presumed to be
incompetent or irresponsible, FSUTO considers the sovereign person as fully capable of
governing one's own life and regulating one's activities with other people through mutual
consent.
A sovereign individual or an entity or
government acting with the consent of the sovereign person may sign all of the FSUTO
treaties or any one of them, in some cases it is possible to sign on to only specific
articles or clauses in a particular treaty or to negotiate a new or different treaty or
different articles or clauses that still fit into the scope and intent of the original
FSUTO treaty, though the wording and some of the terms may be different, the basic concept
of a new contract should be consistent with the FSUTO treaty under which it gives
jurisdiction.
Signing one treaty or signing a contract based on a particular article or
clause or negotiating an original contract binds the parties only to that particular
treaty, article, clause or contract and in no way is anyone bound to any other part of any
of the other treaties, except where it is explicitly defined and cross-referenced to the
applicable treaty, article or clause.
The purpose of FSUTO
is to provide a means for settling disputes between people living under different
government jurisdictions, FSUTO treaties must be negotiated and are flexible, they may be
applied differently depending on the different agreements between members, as long as they
don't compromise the sovereignty of its members or preclude them from effectively
obtaining justice against violators of their laws or being able to satisfactorily settle
their disputes.
Librademia and its civil governments have no absolute geographical territory,
they exist only on the property and within the person who chooses to become a civilzen and
have jurisdiction over that person's property and activities, though they are not really
virtual, they rule real physical territory, the property of the civilzens who belong to
it. FSUTO provides the reach beyond those governments to enforce the rightful laws of
each government as long as they are not imposed on other jurisdictions by providing the
means for self-governing sovereigns to arrest and bring to justice those who choose to
violate their laws. FSUTO respects the right of all individuals to have their own
self-government, to choose a government or to live as a government onto oneself.
The main problem of conflict between FSUTO treaty provisions and some other
libertarians and anarchists is the issues of children's rights
and abortion. Those remain the most decisive issues among libertarians, with widely
varying beliefs, within Libertocracy those issues are also the most contentious. We have
made clear our position on them in the Librademian Essay on the Rights of Persons.
They are likely to create some problems in reconciling different beliefs with other
libertarians.
The FSUTO Human Rights
treaty upholds the Librademian definition of children's rights for the most part, though
they allow children to assume their
full adult rights if a child can prove one's capacity to make decisions on the level
of an adult and take full responsibility for them, the status of an adult may only be
achieved if the parents have broken their filial contract
with their child by abuse or
abandonment. So as long as the child is mature enough to consent, is one's choice and is
completely voluntary, it is allowable. It allows children to make decisions for themselves
with their parent's permission, so that children may engage in certain behaviors that are not
allowed in Librademia if the child chooses to do it and the parents give their
permission, but the parents must not use coercion, pressure or rewards or withholding of
affection or respect to get children to behave in ways which corrupt the child. The FSUTO
treaties are to protect the child from those perverse and immoral behaviors that parents
sometimes lead their children into through various forms of coercion or withholding of
respect or affection or by denying them other opportunities. People who want to live in a
free society will have to learn to respect the right of their children to be free to be
themselves, particularly the right of boys and girls to the behave in ways that are
natural and appropriate to their sex
identity without suffering persecution from parents, family members and society to
pervert their behavior or fail to exercise guidance that may lead them into self
destructive behaviors such as drug abuse or prostitution.
The FSUTO inter-governmental treaty forms a
superstructure of government between sovereign members, as each individual is a member of
one's own supreme government by consent, the person consents to join the FSUTreaty
Organization by signing any of the treaties. As government is an agreement and a service
to protect and uphold each other's rights, every just action of that government must be
consistent with its premise, the government must serve the people, it must never be
allowed to subjugate people into being its servant.
2 - Contracts
All persons are by nature equally free and sovereign, they have certain inherent
rights which are exercised in the freedom to pursue their own happiness according to their
own choices, to enter into contractual associations and consensual governments. The
choices an individual makes cannot deprive or divest one's children or grandchildren the
enjoyment of life or liberty, or deny them their right of acquiring property, pursuing and
obtaining happiness and safety or impose on them the government of their ancesters or deny
them their right to negotiate their own contracts and treaties.
Legal systems are a superstructure erected upon an underlying structure of
self-governing systems, such as families, social associations, economic interactions,
communities, nations and civil governments founded and operated through consensual
contracts. They have as their basis natural self-enforcing rights which are under the
maintenance and protection of individuals themselves, who together uphold those rights
through the simple realization that cooperation within any civilized society must be based
on mutual consent and respect for basic rights, that to violate any of these rights will
destroy their consensual government and endanger their own rights.
Since contracts are formed for the mutual benefit of its members, people who
don't respect other's rights don't deserve to benefit from any of the resources or
products of the contractual organization.
For any contract to be lawful and enforceable each person must voluntarily sign it, it
must either be explicitly or implicitly joined into by voluntarily joining an association
or organization which is a member of the contractual organization. But this implicit
membership cannot be assumed merely through association but must be consciously entered
into by the person giving one's permission to accept the agreed upon definition or rights
and laws that are clearly understood and allowing by consent the government to enforce
those laws by entrusting one's self and property to the jurisdiction of that government.
Each member is in an implicit contract with each of the other members to
respect some agreed upon set of terms by reason that each member to some degree is using
the resources of other members who have voluntarily contributed those resources into an
organized system in which they have agreed to share those resources only under certain
predetermined upon set of rules.
Any organization that is based on deception or luring people into associations or
confiscating their property or in using other people's resources in ways that is in
violation of the owner of the resources terms for use is not a legitimate contract, it is
unenforceable because the person has not consented to give jurisdiction to that authority
to regulate one's interactions with others and since it's based on coercion and the threat
of force it has no more moral legitimacy, according to moral codes, than the obligation to
pay off an extortion racket.
The social contract is transitive in that it extends to and includes not only those with
whom one is in direct contact, but all those who interact with persons or entities with
whom one is directly involved, thereby passing on acceptance of the contract through
complex interactions throughout an organized society. However, no contract may be imposed
on third persons, the contract is passed on only through acceptance between two or more
parties who come to an agreement among themselves, their contract cannot be imposed on
others with whom they merely associate.
For the contract to be applied to others, the others must consciously enter into the
contract. If a person shares one's resources with someone outside of the contract, then
the outsider has not become a member of the contract simply by accepting what is offered
by the member, however, the member may have by sharing those resources, violated their
contract, and if this is so, the outsider is beyond the authority of the contractual
organization, instead, the contract member may be held liable for misuse of contractual
resources, because the member chose to join the organization, the member is solely
responsible for the use of contractual resources.
A - Explicit Contracts
Explicit contracts are in a written form that enumerate the terms and
conditions to be met or performed and is voluntarily signed by both or all parties. Since
the contract is signed, witnesses are not absolutely necessary, though having witnesses
better insures enforceability of the contract in a court of law.
B - Implicit Contracts
Implicit contracts are non-written contracts, which may be; verbal or
understood as a contract when one enters onto another's property or into an organization,
activity or association, for there to be a contract in such a case the terms and
conditions of the contract must be clearly understood by all parties entering into the
assumed contract. All verbal contracts are completely legally binding, the same as written
contracts, except, that in verbal contracts there is a need for a witness to verify that
both or all parties understood the contract and entered into it voluntarily, an absence of
a witness means that a verbal contract is unenforceable in a court of law, the verbal
contract itself is real and is not voided by not having a witness, but it is made null
because of its unenforcability.
Other forms of implicit contracts in which people consciously enter into
associations must be clearly understood by all parties, if a person enters another's
property and clearly understands that to do so is to accept the laws, rules and conditions
of the owner of that property, then this person enters into an implicit contract, such a
contract is completely enforceable without witnesses, because if the guest should violate
the laws or conditions set by the property owner, then the property owner may enforce
one's own punishment on the guest; such punishment may only come in the form of exclusion
from the property or seizure of any assets put under common trusts by the parties involved
or some form of censure or ostracism, the FSUTO-Human Rights Treaty and the Constitution
of Librademia which are social contracts entered into by all members voluntarily, forbid
retribution in the form of violence against people for merely breaking civil agreements;
of course should the guest threaten violence or steal the owner's property then the owner
may respond with any defensive force.
Other associations such as joining into an activity or entering a party or
any other social group or club may involve assuming contractual agreements merely by the
choice to enter into the association.
All implicit contracts must be founded by private property owners which offer their terms
to people to either accept or reject voluntarily, there can be no implicit contracts
imposed on people merely by everyday or free association, people who live in the same
vicinity with each other or associate with each other in their travels or informal
conversations are not bound to any common contract, people who have a common ancestral
heritage or who live on land that has traditionally been identified as belonging to a
nation are not bound to any common contract.
To organize communities, nations or other cultural groups under a contract requires that
all persons voluntarily inter into it by their own choice, and if other people should
choose to enter any spaces controlled by those individuals who have formed this
contractual association, then those people choose to enter into an implicit contract, but
in no way may this contract be imposed on other people's property or freely chosen
associations.
Filial Contracts
Children live under an implied filial contract with their parents, a contract
which is accepted by the child accepting the love, protection, food, shelter and other
gifts of the parents. When a child reaches adulthood the filial contract of childhood
comes to an end; the child is now an adult fully capable of making responsible choices
equally with other free adults; any other contracts; filial, civil or otherwise must be
made under the same equal terms as described above that applies to all free people.
Parents may not pass on their contracts to their children against their children's will, a
parent's choice of civilzenship or citizenship is strictly their own choice and must be
kept to themselves, the child may be considered a junior or temporary civilzen or citizen
by being under the government of one's parents, but of course, when a child reaches
adulthood that person is free to enter into one's own contracts and to choose one's own
civilzenship. Nothing that the parent has chosen to perform or accept from any
organization, government, or state may be imposed on the child as any type of obligation;
such imposition is slavery. Any assumed implicit contract that tries to impose any
obligations or conditions on children that extends into adulthood is non existent, it is
null and void.
Contracts formed by people in the past such as constitutions, conditions of
living within a nation, ethnic or religious group which was made by distant ancesters is
none existent in the present, such a contract applied only to those ancesters who
voluntarily entered into it and that contract came to an end when the last of its
signatories died. No person may impose the contractual agreements of one's own distant
ancesters on other living people in the present, such an idea is absurd and a complete
travesty against contractual law. Old constitutions formed and signed by dead people are
not enforceable on anyone, they are null and void, none existent. For a constitution to be
passed on to other generations, people must voluntarily sign it, not implicitly, but
explicitly sign the constitution without any form of threats, coercion, force or denial of
the right to form one's own constitutional government under one's own terms, and without
seizing one's private.property or denying the person the right to use one's own property
and to freely engage in business or the choose to put one's sovereign property under the
jurisdiction of one's chosen government. When constitutions are passed on from one
generation to the other by voluntary acceptance, the constitution will exist as long as
people consent to participate in it, they may not in any way impose it on other people or
use it to commit criminal acts such as theft (taxation), wars (terrorism, mayhem and mass
murder), state eminent domain (armed seizure of private property) or claiming to rule
whole territories which include private properties that do not belong to them or trying to
use the constitution to impose their nationality or religion on others.
A constitution is a socio-political contract formed by people who voluntarily
enter into the constitutional contract by their own free will, fully understanding its
definition of rights, laws and terms, it applies only to those people who choose to accept
it, it may not be imposed on other people against their will, other people have the same
right to form their own constitutional contracts to govern themselves in mutual consent
societies, merely having associations with people under different governments, such as
visiting their property or engaging in business with them does not mean that a person is a
signatory to their constitution and has not through implication become a civilzen
(citizen), though it does mean that the person entering into that constitutional space is
bound to abide by that constitution and its laws and that one is subject to its punishment
for breaking them.
As Lysander Spooner said in speaking about the fraudulent social contract on which some
states base their constitutions; "Since we ourselves did not sign the contract we
are not bound by it."
In free societies there is a superstructure of consensual contracts that govern
interactions between sovereign individuals on many different levels, a constitution
governs only the sovereign property and activities of its members, which, when foreigners
choose to enter that contractually space they are bound to obey it but they have not by
implication chosen to join it and to submit one's whole life and property to the
government of someone else's constitution. Explicit public contracts are formed by private
property owners creating a public space under a contract which defines the public
conditions.
Implicit public contracts are those in which people enter into a public space
that has been formed from private property through free consensual associations, people
who enter this public space and clearly understand the rules and terms of the space have
given their consent to abide by them and they may set their terms for punishment, which is
only restricted by human rights law as described in the FSUTO-IGT: Sec.II;Art.3,Cl.(H).
Public spaces or property that has been formed through, theft (taxation), state eminent
domain, coercion, force or other criminal acts is not a legal contract and any assumption
that it is false.
In business, implicit contracts are those in which transactions are made under clearly
understood terms, signing a contract is not necessary for every single transaction or
business association, acceptance of clear and honest conditions between the parties
involved is all that is necessary for the contract to be considered legal; though, this
definition should apply mostly to transactions between merchants and consumers, because,
when people go into business together or are transacting a large and important deal, they
need to sign a contract with witnesses to protect all parties and enforce it in a court of
law.
To enforce implicit contracts merely requires that the plaintiff show that the person
voluntarily entered into a contractual agreement, that the person clearly understood its
terms and conditions and that there was no coercion, force or deception used to get the
person to accept the contract. For the claimant to impose a punishment or collect damages
for the breaking of the contract, the respondent must have in some way given permission to
the claimant to punish one for breaking the contract, this means that there must be a
clearly understood terms of punishment or restitution for breaking the contract. If the
implied contract clearly included conditions of punishment and the respondent accepted
this, then the respondent is bound by it, and restitution may be guaranteed if the
respondent has chosen to put one's assets within a contract
insurance trust that allows the claimant to claim damages (such a contract insurance trust exists for all FSUTO members and
Librademian civilzens).
If an alien enters into an implied contract and then breaks that contract,
then if the alien has not put any of one's assets within a legal trust, then there is no
way of collecting damages, the implied contract still exists but the contractual
conditions for restitution are null. The contractual owner may however, punish the
transgressor in ways which involve control of property or associations of the contracter,
which may include exclusion from the contracters property in the future or from any
association which the contracter has with other people or entities.
3 - Law
(A) Treaty law is the law of the sovereigns' governments, the treaty itself does
not make law although there are laws that arise within the treaty which are a compilation
of laws which exist between the sovereign's governments.
For there to be a crime there must be a violation of a sovereign jurisdiction, when this
occurs the jurisdiction will prosecute the offense, if a crime is committed across
sovereign's borders, the victims and the accused may agree to prosecute in one
jurisdiction or if they can't agree on which jurisdiction, then there must be a joint
investigation and joint trial.
Under the IGT, the victims of different jurisdictions must
get the consent of the accused to hold the trial in one of the victims' jurisdiction.
Otherwise there must be a joint trial, with a neutral court set up, with a neutral joint
grand jury and a neutral joint judgeship and a neutral joint petit jury, all of which must
be composed of civilzens from a jurisdiction other than those of any of the victims or the
accused. Of course, the plaintiffs and accused may choose one's own legal counsel from any
civilzenship. If the plaintiffs or the accused can't afford counsel, then one must be
provided from a jurisdiction of the person's own choosing.
It is against treaty law to transport products which are illegal in one jurisdiction into
another jurisdiction in violation of the jurisdiction's laws. Both to smuggle illegal
goods into a jurisdiction in which it is against the law to do so and to smuggle goods out
in which it is illegal to remove them from that jurisdiction. It is illegal to transport
or traffic in stolen goods and it's illegal to harbor or aid a fugitive who is fleeing
justice from a another member government's jurisdiction.
Treaty persons and entities operating in a jurisdiction are subject to its laws and
litigation.
Treaty members should identify themselves to visiters, clients and customers so that
people may know under what laws they are operating and know where and how to file damage
claims. Each person, entity or government who signs the treaty should clearly mark their
territory so that visiters are informed of the laws that apply in that jurisdiction, they
should also identify the treaties to which they are a party.
Under the FSUTO law failure to identify one's territorial spaces and provide
necessary legal information to the public in a way that is designed to conceal or deceive
constitutes a violation of the Treaty and therefore treaty member governments agree under
this clause; that people who are foreigners that violate the laws of that government will
not be subject to prosecution if the government has tried to conceal it's territorial
jurisdiction or has deceptively covered the borders of it's territory or lured or trapped
someone into the commission of a crime. If a person should enter a property, space or
association, where there was no markings or information provided, if it can be shown that
the person entered said space with a clear knowledge and understanding of the implied
contractual terms of doing so and later violated some code of the contract then that
person will be fully subject to its provisions. In the absence of clearly marked
jurisdictions, if a person should commit a crime against another person while visiting the
foreign jurisdiction, that jurisdiction may prosecute the offender only for those crimes
which are also crimes under the Librademia Laws which are accepted by Treaty members as
the default legal code. Ignorance of the laws of Librademia is no excuse for an offender.
For other legal codes to be in effect against non-civilzens the government
should clearly identify itself and its laws so that visiters are not deceived or
entrapped, but clearly understand what is or is not allowed in certain jurisdictions.
Also; persons, entities or governments who are treaty members that do not identify their
spaces as being under the authority of the appropriate treaty agree, that, under this
clause; people who commit actions that would be in violation of the treaty will not be
sued or otherwise punished because, through no fault of their own, the visiters did not
know that the treaty was in effect in that space. Jurisdictions have only to mark their
jurisdictions in a reasonable way, they need not have signs everywhere, because when a
person travels onto territories or spaces in which the person knows to be foreign it is
the obligation of the visiter to find out what is the jurisdiction of this territory and
under what treaties they are operating, and what are their laws, so therefore, the
jurisdiction need only provide identification in a place where the visiter would expect to
find that identification. The identification should also include information or a
reference to get information on the jurisdiction's laws and treaties.
(B) Common Law
The role of common law in FSUTO is very limited
and restricted. The IGTO should govern as little as possible, leaving that duty to supreme
and civil governments. Its most difficult for a large inter-governmental organization to
interpret common law and for that reason it should be applied with an understanding of
only the broadest accepted common law standards. Common law should never be used to extend
the reach of the law or to shape or mold the law or its application in ways it was not
explicitly intended to be used. Instead, in FSUTO, common law interpretation should only
be used to fill in the gray areas that lie within explicit contracts and codified laws,
since it is the only duty of FSUTO to take the contracts and laws of member governments
and interpret their intended meaning without adding to or subtracting from that meaning.
(C) Enforcement
The act of merely signing a contract is not sufficient in itself to insure
compliance, a person must, besides signing the contract, take the action of placing
oneself, property and assets under the jurisdiction of the consensually accepted authority
that will ensure compliance for all members and enforce the treaty agreements on all. When
a person assigns the authority to this entity the person gives over to the authority
access to one's assets in the form of an insurance
trust so as to provide legal protection to other members.
Because a litigation suit arises out of contractual associations, to be sued
one must give one's permission to be sued. When a person signs a treaty contract one
places one's assets into an insurance trust that gives permission to be sued, provides the
mechanism to compel appearance in court to answer charges or claims and a means of
restitution for anyone claiming damages. The amount of assets that are placed under an
insurance trust should be sufficient to cover any potential damages arising out of
interactions between members, persons who are taking on responsibilities that may result
in greater liability then one can afford to cover, may purchase insurance coverage from an
insurance company who collects premiums and accepts the risk.
(D) Litigation Suits
People in a free society where individuals are free agents and have no
government watching them as if they were an immature child and not responsible for their
own behavior. Therefore since FSUTO forbids the use of force except as a defense against
violence, the only way to make people pay up for debts and non-criminal liability is
through contract
insurance.
4 - Foreign Policy
Treaty member's policy toward alien persons, entities and governments is to live
and let live. Sovereign individuals will govern themselves and control their own property
and exercise their natural right to defend themselves and their property against any
violations by others.
Alien governments who violate sovereigns' rights will be punished in every
way that can legally and realistically be accomplished. Aliens should be punished for
these violations in ways that are appropriate to the offense; to let the punishment fit
the crime.
Alien authorities who interfere with communications with attempted censorship
or regulation of the free and open air waves, should themselves be restricted from using
communications lines owned by sovereign's entities and alien governments who impose
customs checks or random searches on free travelers, should themselves be restricted from
freely traveling through sovereigns' territory. Governments who impose taxation should
have to pay duties or tariffs, which are essentially fines, in order to trade in
sovereign's economies. Alien governments who unjustly arrest innocent people who have
committed no real crime against anyone's rights should have their government's employees
arrested upon setting foot on sovereigns' property, these employees of a criminal
organization can be punished or they can be used as bargaining chips to win the release of
the innocent persons who are unjustly being held captive.
All actions against aliens must be purely defensive, it should not be
provocative nor interfering in aliens' activities. Violence should be avoided and used
only as a last resort to defend people's lives. Injustices committed by alien government's
against sovereign's property should be fought using non violent means, as long as no
violence is threatened against the sovereign person, the alien authorities should notify
the sovereign person of their intention to invade that person's property but the alien
authorities should not make a move against the person that is aggressive or threatening of
violence. If an innocent sovereign person is unjustly arrested, every available political,
economic, diplomatic and dienforcation strategy should be employed to win the person's
release. Instead, alien authorities should notify the suspect's government and present
evidence to that government as to why the alien authority believes that the suspect is
wanted and ask the sovereign's government to issue a warrant for that person. Any arrest
or subpoena to appear as a litigant or witness must be processed through the legitimate
legal channels of the sovereign's government or FSUTO.
FSUTO is a government based firmly on the concept of universal human rights and even
though aliens don't belong to FSUTO their rights will be equally respected with those of
FSUTO members and while aliens may not be obliged to comply with all laws or regulations
that is entered into voluntarily by FSUTO members, those aliens who are traveling on FSUTO
property will be considered to have implicitly consented to accept FSUTO laws and
regulations by their choice to travel on FSUTO property.
There should not be very many cases of conflicts between sovereigns and
aliens as long as each respects each other's boundaries and lives by a policy of live and
let live and does not impose or extend one's activities onto the other's property,
including not engaging in behavior that directly threatens one's neighbors or imposes
pollution on one's neighbors or otherwise disrupt the general environment.
When action has to be taken by FSUTO members in self defense against alien
aggression after warning and asking the aliens to cease the threatening or trespassing
behavior and giving the aliens the chance to talk and negotiate for a settlement, the
aliens will be accorded the same respect for their rights as for FSUTO members and if
police or defense action is taken against an alien the alien will have exactly the same
rights as far as protection against a warrantless search and the alien is entitled to the
same protections when being put under arrest or held in custody and all of those rights,
entitlements and protections listed in the Librademian Constitution which is the default
constitution for FSUTO.
The exception is that an alien waging war against any FUSTO member will be
accorded no respect at all. When a defensive action is taken against alien property
however, the action will be intended to stop the alien from threatening or trespassing
against sovereign's property and if the alien is on alien territory at the time and since
the alien is not a FSUTO member, the alien might not be arrested or tried for trespasses
against sovereign's property if the alien ceases the trespassing activity immediately and
agrees to live and let live in good faith in the future. FSUTO authorities will simply
stop the trespassing or polluting activities or prevent the alien from acquiring the means
to continue violating sovereign's rights, the exception is when an alien directly
threatens the life of a sovereign, then the alien may be arrested on alien property with a
warrant and brought to into FSUTO jurisdiction to stand trial.
Also aliens who have committed crimes against sovereigns and have fled to
alien territory in which there is no recognized government and the alien person has made
no effort to form a legitimate government by one's self or other recognized governments,
and has not entered into good faith negotiations toward signing a treaty or contractual
agreement with one's neighbors, then FSUTO authorities may invade alien territory to
arrest the suspect or otherwise confiscate stolen property or prevent actions that
threaten sovereign's rights.
If the alien has
established a government of oneself or formed one with others and by doing so has
signed a treaty or contract with another recognized government, then FSUTO authorities may
not invade this recognized sovereign territory but will request that either the foreign
government try the suspect or turn over evidence or remove threatening or trespassing
actions from the property or extradite the accused or hand over such property as named in
the warrant. Compliance with these requests will take place according to mutually accepted
treaty or contractual agreements. Under no circumstances may any government invade any
other sovereign's property except in self defense.
The reason why government authorities
may go into alien territory to arrest a suspect or retrieve property is because if an
alien does not claim sovereignty over one's property by declaring one's own self
government in a way that is legitimate and is founded on respect for other's sovereignty
and the accepted understanding of universal human rights, then in fact that alien does not
truly have sovereignty over one's property and does not live within a legitimate
government since all private property ownership is derived from sovereign control over
one's property through one's own self government or entry into another legitimate
government and by doing so governing one's interactions with others through mutually
accepted treaties or contractual agreements.
With the unanimous consent of the members
of FSUTO, we declare these Treaties shall supercede all existing state constitutions,
charters, acts, laws, statutes, regulations, or ordinances, particularly if they are
contradictory to the principles and laws of FSUTO members and shall be rendered null and
void, holding no authority or obligation binding among FSUTO members.
5 -
Inter-Governmental
(A) The FSUTO-IGT Organization is not an independent government entity unto
itself, it is a joint operation government dependent on and operated by the sovereigns'
governments. It can not make laws on its own nor can it enact policies or operate programs
on its own, it is merely an operating structure which enables the sovereigns' governments
to work together jointly on mutually agreed upon terms to enforce their own laws and
cooperate on policies and programs that serve their interests. Nothing that the
Inter-Governmental Organization does may in any way violate the sovereigns' governments
laws or the rights of its civilzens, it may not impose any form of taxation or regulate
any activity of its sovereign members.
To be legitimate, courts and the procedures of trials must be based on
voluntary association, negotiation and agreement, rather than on coercion. Persons who are
members of FSUTO have by joining it given their permission to accept its government and
courts; and aliens who travel into FSUTO jurisdiction have implied their consent to accept
its terms. However, any alien who infringes on the person or property of another across
FSUTO borders may be subject to a requirement for restitution by the damaged person.
(B) Crimes
Committed Across Borders
While crimes that are committed across sovereigns' borders may be
investigated and tried in joint courts, rarely should this be necessary because any crime
has to be a trespass against a person or one's property or lawful activities which usually
occurs in a particular jurisdiction. If someone commits crimes across borders then that
offender should be tried in the court of jurisdiction where the offense occurred. If their
is a dispute as to who has jurisdiction, then both member governments have given their
prior consent to allow the case to be tried in a joint-court.
If a crime that was committed across borders results in separate crimes being
committed against more than one victim or more than one crime committed against a victim,
then trespasses against both borders have been committed and therefore the offender may be
tried separately for each separate crime, against each victim, committed in each
jurisdiction, but may not be tried for the same crime against the same victim(s) in more
than one jurisdiction. If the victims come from different jurisdictions and they can't
decide where to prosecute the case, then they must prosecute jointly in the IGO courts and
hold a joint trial. If the accused is tried jointly by all victims and is acquitted then
the accused may not be tried again in any of the victim's separate jurisdictions. If other
victims of the same crime decline to join in the prosecution of that particular offense,
and if the accused is acquitted, then the other victims have given up their right to
prosecute that particular crime in the future. This, obviously is to prevent double
jeopardy. However if the accused is tried and acquitted by the victim in one jurisdiction,
it does not prevent other victims of other crimes that may have occurred as a result of
the crime for which the accused was acquitted from prosecuting in other jurisdictions.
In the case of a crime being committed electronically (through lines of
communication), the offense may be considered to be different in different jurisdictions,
it may be a crime in one but not in others or the penalties may be different. In this case
the accused may only be tried once for the commission of a particular offense, which may
be called by different legal codes. The different jurisdictions may agree to prosecute in
one of their jurisdictions; if they can't agree, then it will be prosecuted jointly.
If there is more than one victim from different jurisdictions of a single offense
(regardless of what it is called by different legal codes), the accused may only be tried
once for that particular offense. All victims must be named in the prosecution or those
victims who are not will give up their right to prosecute the offense in the future.
In all criminal cases, the victim who was most harmed by the offense has precedence
over other victims in charging and prosecuting the case and the jurisdiction in which an
offense was committed that regards the offense as the most severe will have precedence
over other jurisdictions. That means that regardless of where the case is held, the victim
who is most severely harmed will be guaranteed the right to prosecute the case under that
victim's own legal codes and sentences, even if the trial is held in an IGO court.
Because, if the governments can't agree to the site, the IGO will automatically have to
charge the accused with the most sever offense and pursue the most severe sentence. The
victim most harmed may agree to plea bargain the offense down to be more likely to get a
conviction. The other victims will, of course, receive their share of recompensatory
damages.
(C) Inter-governmental
Operations
Each government chooses its own representatives to the Inter-Governmental
Organization who will carry out the mandates and policies of the members. The legitimate
role of the IGO is strictly limited to carrying out those purposes clearly explained in
the FSUTO-IGTreaty. The treaty allows a wide range of operating procedures and, though the
Librademian government is the default model to be used for the operating procedure of the
IGO, the members through their representatives may vote to change the operating procedure
in any way that does not violate the treaty or trespass on the sovereignty of its members.
6 - Security
(A) Signatories to SUDAPT have pledged their support for joint security
operations but they have not in any way accepted any obligation to provide any resources,
money or personnel to any joint security operation. The joint security organization is to
provide an operating structure for its members to freely contribute to their mutual
security interests, every single operation requires mutual consent of all individual
people who are members of FSUTO.
(B) Dienforcade
Dienforcade is an operating procedure for the defense of Sovereign's governments and
as Dienforcade is the enforcement of peace and human rights and the defense of legitimate
governments, no crimes against innocent people may be committed by using defense as an
excuse. We are not defending some inhuman entity without rights, we are defending human
rights itself and in no way can violating human rights be justified in defending human
rights. Member security services will be held accountable by other member's security
services who participate in mutual enforcement of any FSUTO Treaty as well as their own
laws, since the Joint Security Organization does not have sovereignty on its own nor does
it have any independent authority of its own, it will be held accountable to all of its
members and if some members were to violate the SUDAPTreaty by committing crimes against
innocent people, then the other members would join together to defend themselves against
an enemy who would threaten them.
(C) Peace
The ultimate goal of the Joint Security Organization is to maintain peace and uphold
human rights at the same time, and of course these two goals are absolutely necessary to
each other, all operations of the joint security service is to create, maintain or to
enforce peace against those who would destroy it.
Alien authorities who want peace should respect human rights freedom.
(D) Working Together
Security services may be provided either privately or by governments, either way they
will be treated equally in their opportunity to provide the services that people want. All
security service providers must compete with each other to provide the best services at
the most cost efficient price and at the same time they must cooperate in fulfilling their
duty to provide security, only through cooperation can they succeed and those who
cooperate better will succeed the most.
(E) Mutual Defense
FSUTO has a centralized command structure, but under that each sovereign government
has their own forces, under their command, because there are many forces, including
private forces, they is extremely difficult to conquer. Even if one government's official
forces where to be defeated, all of the other FSUTO members will continue fighting against
the enemy for the ultimate salvation of the government who has lost its defense force, and
all of the private forces will continue to fight as well as small groups and individuals
within the governments, so that government will not be defeated at all, its government
will continue to function among the civilzens, because the civilzens are the government,
and it will still have numerous defense forces still fighting, so in reality the enemy
will find that they can't really defeat any of our governments, because the people are the
government and the other governments will continue to fight for them, private groups will
fight them and individuals in many households will own and train to use assault weapons,
so they will face the overwhelming task of having to conquer not a central government,
because FSUTO, Librademia and other government have no physical capital to conquer, but
they will have to conquer and subdue an entire society of freedom loving people, many of
whom are willing to fight to the death rather than submit.
FSUTO members must join forces to defend all of its members from the
tyranny of the state, some non-violent strategies for doing this includes; making public
speeches, petitioning, writing letters to the print media, distribution of literature,
public demonstrations, boycotts, student and workers' strikes, refusal to pay taxes,
refusal to accept state money, writing and calling political office holders to protest
injustice, draft resistance, deliberate bureaucratic inefficiency, incitement of
desertion, etc.
Gene Sharp, a leading proponent of non-violent, civilian based defense, has
outlined two different strategies that involve a "nonviolent Blitzkrieg" -- a
policy of total non-cooperation, resistance, a general strike, refusal to submit to
political commands and massive protests -- and as an alternative, the less dramatic but
more sustainable "selective resistance" -- looking to certain institutions and
groups for protection and defense and targeting specific enemy institutions and policies
for defiance and protest. Human rights defense aims to shield every individual from all
oppression, both foreign and domestic, but it is the domestic threat within states that is
more constant.
7 - Human Rights
All persons within the treaty are protected by the rights defined in the Librademian Constitution, a person may
alter or waive any of those rights or define them in another way simply by choosing a
different constitution. However, no member government may perform any act that is in
direct violation of those rights as defined in the Librademian Constitution unless their
civilzens or visiters specifically alter or waive the right in question and fully
understand the consequences of doing so.
Sovereignty
All rights, as far as the FSUTO is concerned, is completely a matter of
individual sovereignty. While a person may choose to join any government a person may also
choose to remain an independent self-governing sovereign. Persons who are a government
unto themselves are to be treated equally within FSUTO with other governments composed of
millions of civilzens.
An independent sovereign is a country onto oneself, an authority to make laws and
establish relations and to govern one's interactions with others through contractual
agreements, such is the basis of all legitimate government.
8 - Economy
(A) The laissez faire nature of the treaty economy must not be compromised by any
intrusive regulations. Regulations may exist only to insure freedom of enterprise. Each
sovereign member may operate one's own economic activities without interference and in no
way may any Treaty Organization regulation extend to member's sovereign economies. As a
sovereign member brings one's economic activity into the FET Organization the free enterprise nature
will be maintained but there will be externally applied rules and regulations which may
not be imposed internally so as to allow members to have total operational control over
their business entities. The rules and regulations will only apply to the FET organized
economy of which the member choose to put their businesses and activities. These
regulations do not apply to a member's business outside of FETO who operates a part of one's business
in FETO. The regulations will be in the
form of preventing any activity that infringes or obstructs the free participation of
other individuals and firms in the economy; such as non-discrimination and anti-collusion
regulations and regulations to prevent fraud and in other ways to protect consumers as
well as regulations for occupational safety.
The FET an the Social Contract is the only just
way of satisfactorily providing for equal opportunity, minimum wage, workers safety as
well as other social benefits such as health insurance, retirement and family leave.
Private contracts can regulate activities more intricately and precisely than any supreme
or public government will ever be capable of doing. With private contracts both parties
are satisfied because its arrived at by negotiated consent. Through private contracts many
things such as property zoning, privatizing the roads, nature preserves and socially
harmful activities can be privatized and controlled.
(B) Coordination
Coordination between individuals and firms who may be operating from different
economic organizations will be under the direction of the FETO which will directly regulate monetary
transactions and banking operations and services within the FETreaty Organization and they
will regulate investitures as well as having the responsibility for overseeing
occupational safety, consumer protection and enforcing voluntary contractual agreements
between participating members.
(C) Exchanges
Monetary transactions will be conducted in a manner as described in the FSUTO monetary system.
Within this economy anyone may create their own money as long as it is backed by something
of real value and is fully insured as described in that document. Anyone may operate a bank and provide
banking services as well as investitures and insurance services as long as it is in
compliance with FET.
(D) Intellectual
Property
Intellectual property is an entitlement in FSUTO and as such it comes with
conditions, those conditions are that persons or entities who seek intellectual property
protection must be responsible for (aa) making sure that all of the information stated in
the patent, trademark or copyright must be completely honest; (bb) respecting the lawful
intellectual property claims of others; (cc) they must not use their intellectual property
to commit crimes or to directly support or fund the commission of crimes in a way in which
the intellectual property is directly supporting the criminal activity. If a person
commits crimes but doesn't directly use the intellectual property in the commission of the
crime and doesn't directly use the profits that come from the intellectual property to
support criminal activity then that person may not have one's claim to intellectual
property terminated or infringed upon.
When one receives intellectual property protection it comes with these terms and to
violate any of the terms is to forfeit one's claim.
The protection for intellectual property applies to all persons and entities
within FSUTO who participate in the various public economies, not only FETO, but it also
applies to all member's sovereign economies. No one may publicly distribute or sell any
protected property nor claim authorship of such property.
Persons may freely use protected property for their own private enjoyment in
any way they choose but they may not reproduce it for the purpose of distribution or in
any way use it for personal profit.
Though the national economies are largely private associations, in the case of
intellectual property they will be considered as public economies and, therefore it is
illegal for persons or entities to use any protected intellectual property without the
expressed consent of the owner in a way that would be considered public within the
reference frame of the national economy.
It is unlawful to use intellectual property within any publicly organized activity for the
purpose of distribution or resale or advertising or other personal gain or public
entertainment without the author's permission including a prohibition against intellectual
property exploitation in underground economies.
9 - Public Safety
People are responsible for themselves in FSUTO and as such they are responsible
for their own property. All private safety regulations must be made through contracts.
Public safety is protected by the FSUTO-PST contract as
well as the member government's laws. Public safety by definition means that regulations
apply externally at the point where a threat or action enters the public sector, they
cannot invade sovereign private property, if a private property owner is doing something
that is directly threatening one's neighbors then the neighbors may file a complaint and
if the complaint is proved to be true then the property owner will be made to cease and
desist the threatening behavior.
Aliens who do things that directly threaten member sovereigns will be dealt with
through defensive action. Since they have not signed any social contract or treaty they
can't be sued and it is hoped that through reasoning persuasion aliens will agree to not
perform actions that threaten their neighbors and eventually through diplomacy and
negotiations they may sign the FSUTO-PSTreaty.
It is up to us to protect ourselves from threats in ways that are appropriate to
the threat.
If the threat is continual and the property owner refuses to stop or even to talk or
negotiate a settlement, then FSUTO police may blockade the alien's property and not allow
any supplies in or out and may sever outside communications and in particular they may
intercept and prevent delivery of any materials that may contribute to the threat. If an
alien were to do something that is potentially life threatening to a member, then FSUTO
defense forces will invade the property to prevent the action or to take away the ability
of the alien to threaten one's neighbors in the future. This action should not involve
excessive violence but should only perform a defensive action with a minimum of violence
and with as little invasive action as possible.
Workers may protect their own safety through the FSUTO Occupational
Safety Codes.
10 - Environment
Since the environment affects people across governmental and national
boundaries, no individual, group, government or nation has the right to contaminate or
destroy the general environment that other people use. While treaty member governments
have their own laws regulating and protecting the environment within their jurisdiction,
when their policies affect the general environment that extends across their borders they
have a responsibility through the FSUTO-EPTreaty to use the mechanisms explained in the Treaty to
reconcile their differences and seek a just solution in order to protect the environment
for all to enjoy while not infringing on each other's sovereign control of one's own
property.
Members of the FSUTO-EPT by their signing have voluntarily agreed to create an
environmental authority to settle these differences.
Firstly, that members agree not to introduce alien species of flora or fauna or other
biological mutations or creations or chemical substances which may disrupt the delicate
balance of the general ecosystem. Secondly, they agree not to directly pollute other
people's property or release harmful effluents which they know will cause harm to
particular people or property. The EPTreaty allows only for pollution which meets the
standards set by the EPTreaty agreement which uses the guidelines of allowing pollution at
certain acceptable levels that will not knowingly cause death or debilitating injury or
illness to people, damage to property and will not greatly harm the environment. However,
these levels of pollution will still cause some damage and therefore all persons, entities
and governments who are members of the EPT have the right to sue persons, entities, or
governments who release the effluents and by doing so cause harm to the claimant. The
claimant must show that harm has been done and that the effluents in question was the
cause of the harm and show where the pollution was released and who was responsible for
the release. Individual entities who contribute small amounts to the accumulation of
pollution coming from an entire industry will be responsible for the damage they cause in
proportion to the amount of effluents they release as will all other members of that
particular industry who will share the cost of paying damages
to people for the damage their pollution caused.
The EPTreaty also includes protection for ecosystems as well as individual endangered
species of flora and fauna.
Aliens
When alien people, industries or governments are responsible for pollution or other
actions that are destructive of the general environment which member sovereign's enjoy,
then other measures will have to be taken to correct the behavior. It is hoped that the
aliens will be reasonable enough to realize that we have a mutual interest in protecting
the environment for the sake of the general welfare of all people as well as the economic
interest of having a clean environment and sustainable resources for the future. And to
these ends it is hoped that the aliens will enter into negotiations for the protection of
the environment for the meeting of these goals and other mutual environmental interests.
However, should an alien be responsible for pollution or other actions that
is destructive of the general environment and refuses to either meet to enter into
discussions on how to protect the environment or simply refuses to stop such actions, then
measures similar to those taken to
protect public safety must be taken to protect the environment.
Sovereign's defense against alien pollution or destruction of the general environment
should be according to the policies explained in FPT. No member's government should invade alien property for
reasons of minor pollution such as smoke from fires or noise pollution or minor runoff
from sewage or other activities which do not threaten sovereign's lives nor does it damage
their property. However, action may have to be taken if such behavior were to be extreme
or persist for long periods of time such as prolonged pollution that begins to effect the
neighbor's health or threatens to damage property. Action may also have to be taken to
capture or destroy any alien flora or fauna that may be harmful to the local ecosystem.
Certainly, the discharge of hazardous effluents cannot be tolerated and if the alien
refuses to enter into negotiations to control or stop such pollution then FSUTO
authorities will have to take action.
11 - Social
(A) Through the social contract people may organize a society and arrange it in
ways that better protect their rights and uphold their social roles and values. They can
work together through mutual consent to refine their society to the finest degree,
ordering things in ways that are more civilized and meaningful and that encourage morally
good behavior and set up good role model leadership. They can encourage those values in
which they believe without imposing them on others because other people may form their own
social contracts, the FSUTO social contract is one which tries to empower people to
protect their social roles and values by maximizing social opportunity for individuals to
be able to join together to create the kind of social environment they want. Within this
framework people may organize any type of society that doesn't violate individual rights
and doesn't deny others the opportunity to organize their society based on their own
values.
Civilized people must settle their differences through mutual consent which
may be arrived at through mediation, arbitration or a general understanding which is
codified through contractual agreements. Civilized people do not impose their values on
others through force. All social interactions must be through free associations, no one
may force people to associate with each others against their will and there certainly
can't be any kind of legitimate civil society which is maintained through coercion or
force.
People may arrange their associations in ways that fit their model for roles
between men and women so as to create a more morally wholesome and emotionally fulfilling
society that is more conducive to men's and women's needs and is a healthier environment
for the family and children.
(B) Equality
Equality in the FSUTO-SCT is based on the equal rights of sovereign
individuals to govern themselves and to freely associate and to negotiate for their own
type of social contract based on their own values and under their own terms with others
who hold common beliefs and interests. The FSUTO social contract is one which establishes
a larger society based on the inherent equality of all human beings to be free to run
their own lives, it is based on the equal opportunity for individuals to be able to earn a
living, to get a job and to advance and succeed in an equal opportunity economy. It is
based on the equality and uniqueness of the sexes with the respect for men and women that
allows them to be themselves in public life and tries to create opportunities that
maximize masculine and feminine participation.
(C) Family
One of the primary purposes of the FSUTO-SCT is to create an environment
that is conducive to the needs and welfare of the family. To this end the social contract
establishes controls that allow its members to control and regulate activities or
materials that may not be appropriate for all members of the family. It provides the
opportunity for members to join together to promote activities and materials that help to
create the best possible social environment for the family and to promote policies and
programs that help parents and children. These policies and programs may include using
organizations and resources within the FSUTO-SCT to create programs for improving
parenting skills, clubs and activities for children, guidance counseling for children and
teenagers and marriage counseling and other relationship counseling as well as programs
for the elderly and programs that improve relations between different social groups. They
may also establish programs for mental health and moral guidance as well as self
improvement and social skills courses. These regulations and programs are of course
voluntary and must be funded and run exclusively by the signing members. Their obligations
are not to be imposed on other sovereigns.
(D) Sex
The right to masculine
and feminine identity, behavior and sex
roles will be protected and promoted in FSUTO. To insure this, members will control and
regulate materials and resources so as to clearly represent normal and moral sex roles to
provide the maximum opportunity for men and women to participate in public activities and
to maximize their careers. No behavior or materials which undermine the integrity of
masculine or feminine identity will be allowed to be imposed on people against their will,
but of course, freedom of speech and behavior and association will be respected in FSUTO,
this includes the freedom to behaviors that some people may find offensive and conversely
it means the freedom from those offensive behaviors and the freedom to create an
environment that is conducive to one's needs.
Members will be able to set up organizations which develop programs and zone
activities and services so that masculine and feminine needs may be pursued without
imposition from perverting influences. This includes the right to set up programs and
training courses for men and women separately when there is a reason for this based on the
different needs of each sex. If a man or woman finds that a product, service or
informational material to be insulting to one's identity as a man or woman, then this
person may ask the provider, who is obliged to obey their request as a SCT member, that it
be zoned into an area so that people who may not be offended by it can still find it but
that there should be a zone space that is cleansed of offensive content. Also, a man or
woman who finds that there is a lack of opportunity for masculine or feminine expression
or pursuit of activities or otherwise a denial of sex role behavior between participating
individuals may demand that the provider make such opportunities available for those who
want them.
(E)
Personal Unions
In FSUTO-SCT relationships are what the people who inter into them
define them as being according to their personal contracts.
Marriage is protected in the Social Contract by a trademark that defines it
according to universal values described in The Librademian Essay on Rights of Persons. Persons may form
their relationships and define them in their own ways according to their own values and on
their own terms as long as they don't try to undermine the integrity of other people's
personal unions by misrepresentation or fraudulent use of other people's identity, because
marriage is as much a part of the identity of the husband and wife as is their own
individual names, the SCT protects the integrity of this identity as well as any
privileges or obligations that the couple define in their contract. The SCT recognizes
that marriage unlike other personal relationships directly affects the rights of children
and in order to protect these rights a civilized society must respect the integrity and
responsibilities of marriage.
(F) Women
The purpose of the Social Contract for women is to create opportunities
for them to maximize their feminine
participation in public society by providing opportunities for them to organize themselves
in ways that protect their feminine integrity as role models in society and to develop
better sororital associations and improve sex role relationships. Women must be empowered
to control materials and resources so as to create precisely the type of feminine identity
that serves their needs and interests in the public sector, they must be able to organize
these resources in ways that allow women to be able to nourish their own lives with an
environment that helps to develop the best that is in them. Specifically, there should be
in all publicly provided services and resources an environment that is peaceful,
cooperative, sharing and includes information, opportunities and programs particularly
suited for mothers, wives and single women. The most important law of the social contract
is that no hostile, aggressive or combative behavior is to be imposed on any women nor is
any type of anti-feminine image such as amazon women, feminazis, lesbians, prostitutes or
other types of hostile and harassing actions which undermine feminine honor and
opportunity or infringe on their rights will be tolerated, nor will any form of sexual
harassment or directly disparaging insults designed at denying women the freedom to
exercise their rights or restrict their opportunities from being able to participate in
public activities in an environment that is respectful and supportive of femininity.
(G) Men
The purpose of the Social Contract for men is to create opportunities
for them to maximize their masculine
participation in public society by providing ways for men to organize themselves in
masculine activities both for fraternal and sex relationship reasons. The idea of this
contract is to create an environment for fraternal organizations, men participating
exclusively in sports together or in other athletic or outdoor pursuits and most
particularly in exclusive combative activities. For men to be honorable and decent and to
fulfill their responsibilities in society men must be able to be involved in training that
helps to develop masculine
character that serves women. To accomplish these goals men need to be able to develop
their masculine attributes
through competitive and combative activities in ways that protect the moral commandment
that men must be protective of women and not in any way be involved in any competitive or
combative activity with or against the opposite sex. Also, any type of social organization
that is shown to fulfill specific masculine needs or is founded on one's identity as a man
is protected by the Social Contract and all providers of resources must provide the
opportunity for men to use these resources in the way that they see fit.
(H) Children
Children are living under a restricted form of the social contract called the
filial contract, between parents and their children, one in which the parents agree to be
good parents and the children agree to be good children, to obey their parents and to grow
into good adults and members of society. As children mature they may take more
responsibility for themselves and make their own choices in proportion to their
demonstrated ability to be responsible for their choices. When the child becomes an adult
the person must take full responsibility for one's choices and just as the person has the
justifiable right to unlimited choices, to determine one's own fate and govern one's own
actions with others, the person is also held fully accountable for those choices. As
persons grow, they extend the social contract to others they encounter by obtaining the
other person's consent and they in turn may pass on the social contract to others through
mutual consent.
The filial contract is based on the Librademian Constitution's definition of the rights of the family,
marriage, parents and children's rights and the Librademian Essay
on the Rights of Persons but may
be altered by the parents and the society in which they live if the child also consents to
alter or wave certain rights in which the child voluntarily does so because of the child's
personality, attributes or life goals in which the child was not in any way coerced or
abused and that the child is fully aware of the consequences and was allowed the
opportunity to make alternate choices. This determination may be made by the child's
parent's society, however because of the FSUTO Human
Rights Treaty, if someone from another government believes that a child's rights are
being violated or that the child is being denied the full exercise of one's rights, then
that person may file a suit in the FSUTO Joint-Government
and challenge either the parents or their government for failing to protect the child's
rights or to give the full opportunity to the child to exercise one's rights.
If a child is being coerced or pressured into denying one's rights the child
may file a complaint with any treaty member government and ask for their protection. Every
child within FSUTO has the right to choose one's own civilzenship, however the parents may
make that choice for the child and by doing so the child will be of the same civilzenship
as the parents, though if in doing this the child should express the desire to choose a
different civilzenship, then the child will have dual civilzenship in which the child's
primary civilzenship will be that of the child's parents but the child's rights will be
under the protection of the child's chosen government. So if the child's parent's
government defines the child's rights differently than does the government that the child
chooses then the child's rights will be defined according to the child's chosen government
and while the child will live under the parents government that government may not do
anything that violates the defined rights of the child's government. If either the
parent's or the child's government should be in contradiction then the definition of the
parent's and the child's rights in relation to each other is as defined in the Librademian Constitution; disputes over the definitions of rights may be
settled in a FSUTO Joint-Governmental hearing.
Children who's rights are violated by the their parents or their government
may file criminal or litigation charges in the child's own government or if the child's
rights have been violated as defined in the Librademian Constitution in a way in which the child has not legally waived
or altered those rights, then the child may file criminal or litigation charges in the
FSUTO Joint-Government.
The social contract is an agreement between members to create the most
positive environment in which children may grow up. To achieve this, all members make a
commitment to abide by the definition of children's rights and entitlements as defined in
the Librademian Constitution as they will use that model for children's rights
as the ideal for children in FSUTO-SCT public life. Members agree not to do anything or
promote any activity that violates these principles in the public sector, as the Social Contract applies only to the public sector of FSUTO,
however, members of the SCT agree not to violate these principles in regards to children
any anywhere, at any time, including in private life.
This means that children will enjoy freedom from any type of abusive behavior
or coercion into behavior that might deny the child's rights or deny self expression of
the child's religious beliefs and that boys and girls will be protected from coercion or
harassment against their sex identity and that children are to be protected from exposure
to violence, narcotics, alcohol, pornography, sexual combativeness as well as sexual or
economic exploitation. In public children are to be protected from exposure of to any form
of harassment against the child's identity based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion or
nationality. In the public sector an environment must be created for children to
participate in that is free from sexual combativeness, pornography, violence, narcotics or
other types of immoral behavior that may contribute to the delinquency of miners or to
emotional or psychological harm.
All SCT members agree to create opportunities that are appropriate for
children of different ages to participate in public life in activities that are open to
the general public, excepting those things that are specifically intended for adults,
members agree to zone adult material so as not to provide access to inappropriate material
by children.
(I)
Ethnicity
No person who is a member of the Social Contract may be subjected to
racist hate speech or harassment or discriminated against because of one's race,
ethnicity, nationality or religion and no person shall be denied the equal opportunity to
get a job or advance in that job or to be denied equal access to any public resources or
in any way suffer segregation based on the above characteristics. No public entity or
organization may organize to create separate facilities for people based on these
discriminatory reasons nor is any Treaty member obliged to provide for separate use of
resources based on these characteristics, however of course, if a group of people who are
of the same race, ethnicity, religion or nationality should want to rent or otherwise pay
for use of resources then they may use those resources exclusively among themselves and
should a group want to reserve a public facility they may do so for any reason they
choose. If a public facility such as a meeting hall or athletic field is open to the
public to be reserved by groups then the providers of such facility may not practice
discrimination in segregating the use of such facilities based on discriminatory reasons
and conversely the providers of the facilities may not discriminate against an ethnic,
national or religious group who may themselves what to reserve the use of such facilities.
The point is that if resources are allotted to groups to have temporary exclusive use, the
authorities over the public resources may not discriminate for or against private groups
which organize themselves for the use of such facilities. This does not include operating
public businesses or properties in ways that result in segregation, any public facilities
loaned or rented out to groups is only temporary and no authority over these public
facilities may develop or encourage a pattern of discriminatory use of the resources.
(J)
Offensiveness
Members of SCT are bound by their word to create zones that segregate
different types of material that may be offensive to some people with the ratings and
definition of such material defined in the Social Contract, this list and the definitions
may be added to, changed or redefined by additional contracts attached to the SCT. Members
also agree to provide opportunities to consumers or guests that allow them to be able to
control information or material in ways that allow people to have the tools to regulate
and zone material in ways that fit their values; and members agree to make changes in the
providing of materials or services so as to meet the mandates of the Treaty. Members are
only responsible for making such changes as are described in the SCTreaty; if an
individual were to be offended by some type of material
that is not named in the Treaty and is not related to such content as has been generally
described in the Treaty, then a member-provider is not obliged to make such changes on
one's own, if the consumer wants to regulate content or resources beyond what is named in
the Treaty then that person should form an organization which will regulate and manage
resources and information on one's own. In such a case Treaty members are bound to respect
this wish and to allow consumers or guests to control resources or material that the
consumer or guest has access to, however, the provider does not have to perform any task
or pay for such action, if a person is offended by material not named in the Treaty and
the provider refuses to create a different zone for such content, then the consumers may
organize and pay to create a zone on their own to filter the content and the content
provider must allow the consumers or guests to do this.
For people to protect themselves against offensive material being sent
through the mail, people should identify in their address what type of material they will
accept according to a ratings system to which the person subscribes. If a person has this
address identification, then no one may send offensive material that violates that
person's rating definition. A person may adopt a different type of control against
unwanted material by notifying the sender or otherwise marking one's address with a clear
warning against specific types of material. The address ratings are to simplify things for
everyone. It's alright to send any material to a person who has no rating identification
or other type of warning. A person with no warning or rating who expressly notifies a
sender not to send certain material to one is legally protected against such material
being sent.
12 - Civil Planing
(A) Civil planing is to be limited strictly to those properties which have
been voluntarily put within an authority under the FSUTO-CPACTreaty.
Within this authority, CPACTreaty members may do virtually any thing they want with that
property because they have total control over it, this allows them to refine and develop
the property to suit themselves. They have the civic control to plan their cities, to zone
certain types of activities and to develop the kind of services that the community needs.
They may cooperate to develop the community itself with activities that enhance the
culture and recreation of the community and foster closer community spirit based on
voluntary mutual cooperation.
(B) Joint Use
Public space as described above apply only to FSUTO public spaces created
between members. Member sovereigns may discriminate within their own public or private
spaces which are limited to their jurisdictions. FSUTO has no authority over associations
within member jurisdictions. The terms of joint use of properties under the CPACTreaty
will be largely determined by the individual contracts of the owners of the property with
persons, entities or governments who wish to share joint use. Persons and entities who
belong to different governments may join together in jointly held public property to find
common ground and negotiate contracts to allow joint use of public property under
agreements that all members accept. Unlike in the political state, no organization is
allowed to steal private property or rob people of the use of their own private property;
joint public space is limited strictly to that property in which the government, entity or
person has voluntarily chosen to put one's property under the joint authority of the CPACT
which they have consensually signed.
13 - Conclusion
As has been emphasized, sovereignty belongs exclusively to the individual
human being and jointly in the governments that people choose to enter into through mutual
consent, and as such, the FSUTO treaties are all contracts that are restricted to
properties, authorities, services and activities that are explicitly defined in the
contracts and are to be strictly limited to those defined responsibilities, they are not
to extend beyond those responsibilities and in no way may anyone assume any power or
responsibility under the FSUTO treaties that is not expressly defined in the treaties or
in a mutually accepted contract under FUSTO.
For a social contract to be legitimate as with any contract it must be
voluntarily entered into and mutually accepted by all parties, a contract applies only to
the two or more parties who sign it, no contract can validly be imposed on persons or
entities who are not signatories of the contract. Implied contracts are those in which the
people or entities enter into a condition that is created by contractual agreement by
other parties with the entering parties being fully aware of the terms and conditions of
the contract and the entering party choosing to participate in the contractual environment
voluntarily, if the contractual parties use any type of force, threats or coercion then
not only is the entering party not implied to be participating in the contract but any
type of criminal action on the part of the contract members renders their contractual
activities as criminal and illegitimate.
The political state uses lies, force, threats and coercion to get
people to surrender their rights. The illegitimate idea of the old social contract within
the political state is one which creates an artificial person; a citizen, and brainwashes
people into perverting and surrendered their rights by getting them to trade their real
and natural rights for the artificial rights created by an illegitimate contractual
organization, i.e. the political state. People who begin in a natural condition of rights
surrender those rights when they inter into illegitimate social contracts, its the ability
to fool people into surrendering their natural rights that allows the state to get away
with its crimes.
Natural human rights are inalienable, that means they cannot be denied and no
organization or power can justly change the meaning of those rights nor may any power take
those rights from a person. It means that those rights belong to the person inherently and
no attempt at perverting or redefining those rights under any definition of law changes or
denies those rights, persons who have entered into illegitimate contractual organizations
such as the political state have not truly lost their rights they have only been fooled
into not exercising their rights.
The Free Sovereign's Universal Treaty Organization is a contractual organization based on
voluntary mutual consent for the benefit and for defense of its members against the
criminal actions of illegitimate contractual governments such as the political state and
the criminal trespasses of others.
FSUTO authorities are to maintain strict neutrality and
impartiality toward member governments, organizations and persons. The Inter-Governmental
Organization does not make laws on its own and the FSUTO police and defense services are
not advocates for or enforcers of their own particular laws or policies, they are neutral
and impartial advocates for the member's governments and enforcers of the member's laws.
They simply enforce the agreed upon contracts of the members and their chosen laws in an
equally fair and impartial way and defend them against external violations.
by Gregory Flanagan

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