Sachal Khawaja
5 min readFeb 6, 2022

NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT- PARADIGM OF POTENTIAL CHANGE.

The "un-informed" is "uniformed" to keep all "ill-formed".
How can a system that is meant to serve only the elites with authority, nuisance and riches, possibly dispense social justice, emancipation and the like amongst the masses?

People all over the world are suffering in one way or another. The World is dystopia; the majority is ruled by minority. The 1% not only play the system, but they also make the system!

Allama Iqbal, the great said "People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals"

The restriction of power in few elite hands creates great deal of mischief in society and goes against social well being.

All humans deserve quality of life, so winner gets all is fine in sports but human life is neither a sports nor a hunting game for the privileged.

The name of the author of the article ( prompted by Jamahiriya Green Book) is not important. We need to look beyond words and titles and get to meanings and concepts.

“A man in need is a slave indeed...

Democracy is the power of the people, not only the expression of the people"~ Muammar al-Qaddafi, The Green Book.

All political systems in the world today are a product of the struggle for power between alternative instruments of government. This struggle may be peaceful or armed, as is evidenced among classes, sects, tribes, parties or individuals. The outcome is always the victory of a particular governing structure - be it that of an individual, group, party or class -and the defeat of the people; the defeat of genuine democracy.

Philosophers, thinkers, and writers advocated the theory of representative parliaments at a time when peoples were unconsciously herded like sheep by kings, sultans and conquerors
The ultimate aspiration of the people of those times was to have someone to represent them before such rulers. When even this aspiration was rejected, people waged bitter and protracted struggle to attain this goal.
After the successful establishment of the age of the republics and the beginning of the era of the masses, it is unthinkable that democracy should mean the electing of only a few representatives to act on behalf of great masses. This is an obsolete structure.
Authority must be in the hands of the people as a whole, a genuine grass-roots system of governance.

Political struggle that results in the victory of a candidate with, say, 25%
or 51% of the votes results in 
a dictatorial governing body cleverly disguised as a false democracy, because 75 or 49% of the electorate is ruled by an instrument of government they did not vote for, but which has been imposed on them.

Such is dictatorship. Besides, this political conflict may produce a governing body that represents only a minority. For when votes are distributed among several candidates, though one polls more than any other, the sum of the votes received by those who received fewer votes might well constitute an overwhelming majority. Resultantly, the candidate with fewer votes wins and is considered as legitimate and democratic!
In actual fact, dictatorship is established under the cover of false democracy. This is the reality of the political systems prevailing in the world today. They are dictatorial systems and it is evident that they falsify genuine democracy.

Parliaments are the backbone of that conventional democracy prevailing in the world today. Parliament is a misrepresentation of the people, and parliamentary systems are a false solution to the problem of democracy.
A parliament is originally founded to represent the people, but this in itself is undemocratic as democracy means the authority of the people and not an authority acting on their behalf!
True democracy exists only through the direct participation of the people, and not through the activity of their representatives from political class only!

Parliaments have been a legal barrier between the people and the exercise of authority, excluding the masses from meaningful politics and monopolizing sovereignty in their place!
People are left with only a facade of democracy, manifested in long queues to cast their election ballots.

To lay bare the character of parliaments, one has to examine their origin. They are either elected from constituencies, a party, or a coalition of parties, or are appointed. But all of these procedures are undemocratic, for dividing the population into constituencies means that one member of parliament represents thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of people, depending on the size of the population. It also means that a member keeps few popular organizational links with the electors since he, like other members, is considered a representative of the whole people!
Immediately after winning the electors' votes the representative takes over the people’s sovereignty and acts on their behalf.
The prevailing traditional democracy endows the member of parliament with a sacredness and immunity which are denied to the rest of the people. Parliaments, therefore, have become a means of plundering and usurping the authority of the people.
It has thus become the right of the people to struggle, through popular revolution, to destroy such instruments - the so-called parliamentary assemblies which usurp democracy and sovereignty, and which stifle the will of the people.

The masses have the right to proclaim reverberantly the new principle: no representation in lieu of the people.

People will not achieve sovereignty and power unless they stop asking others to lead them and give them freedom, until they understand the importance of making and overseeing decisions for and by themselves in a grass-roots governance system.

Any Local Government as third tier under the thumb of political and executive establishment of a Provincial Government is an obsolete structure. It is a dictatorial system, a sham democracy and it falsifies genuine democracy.

guided by the famous motto of Umar Ibn al-Khattab, "Since when may anyone enslave men whom their mothers have borne into this world as free men", words which were the first declaration of freedom and of human rights in the history of Mankind, We, the people, must demand “ A local body of government based on a party-less electoral system in which each elected unit ( ward) of a Union Council (UC) offers candidates for local implementation committees such as health, public safety, economic development, law enforcement, education, food and drug safety, etc.

Regular general people’s conferences shall be held in the union Secretariat hall by each unit (ward) of the UCs of a local body of government to formulate recommendations for its respective UC Secretariat.

The tenure of all UC members shall not exceed two terms of four years each.

Each committee member is elected by receiving a majority of votes from all UCs of a local body.

The committees shall implement the laws adopted in the joint sessions of the UCs of a local body of government.

Once formed, members of each committee prepare an additional two-member candidate list for approval by a vote-casting system from the UCs of a local body of government.

One member of each committee shall be approved in a joint session of all UCs of a LB of government for the grand provincial council.

The Grand Provincial Council shall represent each province in the national council of the federal government headed by a nationwide elected President with statuary powers.

The federal government will consist of a few ministries, such as Revenue and Treasury, Judicature, Defense, Water and Power, Mineral Resources, Port and Shipping, and Communication".