The resolution of all planetary
economic problems, except those generated by unnecessary resistance to
the resolution, is now with us. It arrived as a godsend.
Its implementation will be
peaceful, kind, fair and safe. It will not cost anything. It is so
simple a child would understand it.
Implementation is possible
immediately except for two obstacles: not enough people know of the
plan; and significant anticipated unnecessary resistance. This document
will bring to people word of the plan. The setting of OUR deadline,
November 11, 1992 [1], will confront all resistance.
The plan calls for a single act of
courage on that date by somewhere between one and eleven percent of the
national population. [2]
Because it will be done on that specific day by courageous souls linked
in purpose and faith, its effect will be heroic and irreversible.
There is sufficient time before
November 11 for somewhere between one and eleven percent of the
population to forge the needed link. The Organization of United
Renunciants is dedicated to linking people for this plan, providing
information and understanding to all who ask, and protecting OUR
participants.
I am the founder of the Organization and responsible for its writings and decisions. [3]
I welcome communications and accept help. I have no designs on the U.S.
Presidency, which will never be available to me because I was not born
a citizen. I am, however, eligible for the Prime Ministership, a job I
have also not sought, of Canada, an even bigger country. Regardless, I
am as American as Mahatma Gandhi.
OUR Plan is based on the fact that
money has no value. I wrote about this in 1989 in an essay I called "A
Crash Course In Speculation." Between then [4]
and now various events and realizations occurred which led to the plan
and made it timely. And everything has continued to convince me that
money indeed has no value.
George Bush's deadly deadline to
Saddam Hussein gave me the idea of issuing our deadline. The fact that
it was OUR deadline resulted in the Organization of United Renunciants.
Organizing renunciants made sense because I had, in August 1990, as a
result of understanding the Persian Gulf crisis, and accepting the idea
of renunciation as guidance, given away all my money, real estate,
paper holdings and personal effects and forgiven all debts owed me.
November 11, 1992, since it is a
week after national elections, since things don't take as long as they
took, and since it is to this country's leaders that the deadline is
issued, is the perfect day. And the ultimatum to the leaders is simply
this: come up with a better plan or we will, starting November 11, have
nothing to do with money.
If by November 11 we do not have
enough renunciants to effectuate OUR ultimatum we will set a new
deadline -- April 15, 1993, for example. [5]
We will not call for OUR members to have nothing to do with money on
any deadline date unless we are certain that we have the number
necessary to achieve OUR goal: the peaceful transformation of the
system of management of the affairs of government and people.
The Organization of United
Renunciants asks for no money. Neither does it refuse money. All money
received will be used, until it is no longer currency, to inform and
maintain communication between OUR members. Neither I, nor any other of
OUR members, will receive any monetary remuneration for OUR work. [6]
If the resources necessary to do the work are not provided, it merely
will not be done. Since resources are as far as the eye can see,
there's really not much space for failure.
[1] At this time,
OUR Latest Deadline ("OLD") is November 11, 2011.
[2] I have
been told by someone who swore that studies indicate that information
diffusion in a human set occurs when in the neighborhood of fifteen
percent of the set have been exposed to the information.
[3] I meant by
this that I was solely to blame for the idea and the writing. I did not
mean I held or sought any control over anyone, or even over whatever
flowed from any of this. I am actually praying that good computer folks
will put their heads together on this, and take it completely off my
hands. Then I can put my hands to what they're great for, picking up
trash.
[4] The first
statement of OUR plan, along with OUR Pledge and related writings, was
mailed to fifteen political people or organizations and newspapers on
October 23, 1992. These documents have been given to a number of other
people since then. Consider yourself one of OUR friends if you're
getting this now.
[5] Any future
date, e.g., April 15, 2011, works fine. OUR idea had been to stick
to the eleven-eleven date, because it's a remembrance of armistice,
a perfect day with every good reason to do nothing, but there
are plenty of fine days to go around.
[6] I've
changed my mind about this. I don't think it makes any difference if
the good folks who might do this get paid, and if they want to be paid
to do it, then happily pay them as much as it takes.
© Gerry Armstrong 1992, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011