Association for Sovereign Home Rule Within ©

                                                      mission statement:

1.        The Association supports any local alternative energy and banking initiative to work without any subsidy;  

2.       We advocate that 2012 redistricting conforms to the New York State Constitution  (NYSC)  Article 3 express mandate for one-person one-vote with NYSC defined total inhabitants with the current census enumeration:

•       Mandates that each County sub-division or territory shall receive at least one Assembly member wholly within, with special regard to towns and cities with commensurate total inhabitants;
•       That each County sub-division with the prerequisite total inhabitants for two assembly members or more shall be redistricted with such assembly districts wholly within;
•        That each existing county sub-division or territory with commensurate total inhabitants shall receive at least one state senator wholly within and that all assembly districts of the respective sub-division shall be contained  wholly within the respective senate district;
•        That the towns, villages and respective cities wholly within a County sub-division without an adequate number of total inhabitants for at least one assembly district wholly within shall by bottom-up initiative associate with adequate other towns villages and cities to provide for dedicated assembly representation wholly within the new sub-division and or urge the state legislature to enlarge the number of Assembly and Senate members in a proportion of 1 senate member : 3  assembly members or be subject to the requirement of forced merger of towns / Villages cities into larger sub-division accordingly by the State Legislature according to NYSC Article 3 Section 5 and with the Mergers and Consolidation law.
•       That State legislative redistricting coincide with the needs of home rule local district and the commensurate  US House Representative redistricting into a nested set.
  

3.        We advocate in strengthening local sovereign home rule that may effectively compete with the need to rework the size of the county sub-division entity, and by bottom-up invitation by towns /villages and cities to join for reaching an economy of scale with which to share common services and goals of the People’s bottom-up polycentric Sovereign Home Rule within towns villages cities and in NYC versus top-down monocentrism. 

4.        The Association endorses the Brooklyn Home Rule Coalition 2011 initiative to recreate sovereign home rule within Brooklyn with bottom-up election of 18 community board officials within Brooklyn apart from the city of New York with a new city Charter.

5.        The Associate works with those persons in the several states for re-establishing of limited government in Washington District of Columbia responsive to bottom-up home rule, including the demand in the increase of the members in the US House that from 1929 onward has questionably capped and increased the geographic size of each district in relation to the respective total inhabitants of each state district, thereby diminishes the reasonable expectation of constituency speech at the grassroots decreasing competition in each district in favor special interest.



                                                                                                                                BACKGROUND

The Association for Sovereign Home Rule Within is dedicated to saving the inalienable rights of inhabitants properly resident within New York state, that for sixty years has suffered the dictates of men against the mandates of the New York State Constitution (NYSC) specially Article 3 for redistricting of the legislature, and Article 9 for Municipal Home Rule.

The present assortment of 57 kinds of supposedly home rule County state sub-divisions are not providing equal treatment for real property owners resident within the respective 61 home rule Cities, 932 home rule Towns and 576 home rule Villages outside the city of New York (NYC) as a result of  failure to  protect competition and safeguards by local initiative and or the maladministration from Albany.

That with the exception of NYC, the residents within each home rule city / town / village entity  outside of NYC are entitled to their own respective bottom-up elected supervisor or mayor and council  and when having adequate total inhabitants are entitled to dedicated state legislative representation nested and wholly within the respective state sub-division home rule municipality within that control the respective budget to serve the residents within and thereby to protect individual inalienable rights to liberty and pursuit of happiness.

 The New York State Constitution (NYSC)  considers NYC a territory composed of five (5) Boroughs that formerly had Home Rule Counties within since the questionable cooperative agreements of the NYC Wagner Administration during the early sixties that had the counties give up control, of budgeting and bottom-up home rule provisions to the detriment of the now 8.5 million persons and inhabitants resident within.

Anecdotally the generic man on the street would agree that the NYC territory  has too much influence in Albany as a result of harboring too many persons who are not proper inhabitants defined  by law that exceed the NYSC legal debt limit  affording  NYC questionable use of general funds that otherwise must be used to retire debt burden upon  private property, and as such NYC is too big for its britches so to speak.

The Association for Sovereign Home Rule Within holds that bottom-up sovereign home rule is essential to salvage an otherwise bankrupt top-down monocentric system that  does not represent the inhabitants of the state. The county structure per se must be seen as an accommodation for an economy of scale for the home rule towns villages and in some cases home rule cities within such a county - the county structure is in disrepair. 
 
The patriot statesman Thomas Jefferson, with concern for the survival of the precious American Revolution, created a model of bottom-up polycentric self governance to push back on the monocentric tendencies of the oligarchy that prefer to enforce a top-down corporatism as now seen with Mayor Bloomberg and others allied with globalists such as Columbia University School of Foreign Affairs Professor emeritus  Zbigniew Kaimierz Brzezinski whose several books and efforts to create global regionalism that subsumes national sovereignty is expressed by his view of regionalism at Mikhail Gorbachev’s October 1995 State of the World Forum, that quote:

 “We cannot leap into world government in one quick step...The precondition for eventual globalization — genuine globalization — is progressive regionalization.”

The First Bush Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development was created to implement the organizing principles of the 1992 Rio Treaty also known as  Agenda 21 to render the USA a net importer of food using private property as collateral. The Agenda 21 program is that of The Regional Planning Association in concert with Caritas in Veritate with the intent to redistribute personal property, halt private agriculture production, limit individual freedom and liberties here in New York and the several states. That all aspects of Smart City/ Smart Port planning like the “Congestion Pricing” plan by Mayor Bloomberg’s dictate is to further diminish bottom-up self governance in each Borough so that individual rights and private property ownership are blended into the collective. The plan is to depopulate rural upstate areas in favor of creation of a look but do not touch Sherwood Forest land trust model by crowding the increasingly landless into cities and suburbs for easier population control.

 The Association For Sovereign Home Rule Within favors the individual sovereignty of the individual versus the collective that has outrageously emerged as a result of the failure to maintain the NYSC guaranteed protection of bottom-up sovereign home rule within municipal entities properly defined under NYSC Article 3 and Article 9 with related law, and that there has been outrageously imposed unfunded mandates and burdens placed upon private real property owners destroying the family and communities.

Chris Strunk is the founder of the Association For Sovereign Home Rule Within. Chris was born in Manhattan, is a Vietnam Era veteran with a background in geography, architecture, having worked ten years for New York State under the Mario Cuomo administration, and now self-employed since 1992 in Brooklyn where Chris resides.

The Association for Sovereign Home Rule Within   that steering committee endorses the Brooklyn Home Rule Coalition (BHRC) ballot initiative with New York State Municipal Home Rule Law (MHR) Section 37. NYC eligible voters will vote on modification to the Charter of the city of New York (NYCC) at the 8th of November 2011 General Election, that in part reads:

  "Brooklyn Home rule provides for bottom-up elected representation in each Brooklyn Community Board District (CBD) composed of  no less than three representatives each elected from a compact coterminous sub-district of 5000 inhabitants wholly within;


that each representative shall be elected for a one year term  by eligible voters of each respective district, and when elected to be reimbursed in a per diem basis at minimum wage including reasonable expense;


that the respective CBD representatives shall elect by 2/3 vote a Chairperson for each CBD; and (4) the respective Chairperson shall possess the warrants and or CBD Members’ proxy on all matters presented by the respective CBD to the Brooklyn Mayor at the Brooklyn Council composed of eighteen CBD Chairpersons.  "


This BHRC initiative is about correcting the questionable NYC exception to home rule afforded in the rest of the State. NYC power resides with the mayor and city council located in Manhattan with impunity., and  imposes a top-down not from bottom-up basis.

NYC Boroughs no longer are Home Rule entities as once existed, to the detriment of individual liberty, freedom and meritorious competition within. Each of five Boroughs has an elected borough president, district attorney and various city council members based upon one-person one vote that no longer coincide with the neighborhoods, community boards, state or congressional representation and or respective service districts. The residents of Brooklyn have little or no control over what may happen to private property or the conduct of governance that is imposed by top-down appointment of sinecures that officiate over the respective community board, in which the otherwise sovereign 2.5 million inhabitants within 89 actual Brooklyn neighborhoods are without any home rule.

We invite the reader to become familiarized with the effort on the BHRC Initiative page and feel free to contact us for more information and collaboration.


CONTACT:     Chris Strunk