Opinion: Rework

"Training wheels" can help a child learn how to ride a bicycle.

Nobody ever won the Tour de France with training wheels on his bike.

 

The Federation of States has established the role of "coordinator" to help manage reconstruction of the Land Jurisdiction State Governments.  That role is like training wheels.

The coordinator role will sunset after the Assembly is operational.  Their job is to work themselves out of a job.

So why is the current Michigan Coordinator inserting himself into everything and controlling everything?

This is how The Michigan Assembly is currently set up and trying to function...

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It is a top-down, leader-run, organizational structure that mimics a corporation, the very thing everyone is trying to escape.

A few individuals are doing a lot of work, but most Members do not do anything except attend meetings run by the coordinator and his assistants.  Non-Member American State Nationals (ASN's, i.e. Michiganians) are boxed out, as are members of the General Public.  All meetings are closed and for Members only, and meeting minutes are only sent to Members.  The TMA Agreement disallows sharing information outside of the Membership.

To be a Member, one must first be an ASN, prove they have sent notice letters (see TMA website), be interviewed and approved by the Coordinator and his associates, and lastly sign the TMA Agreement.

The TMA Agreement was written by the Michigan Coordinator, and he claims it was approved and endorsed by the Federation.  Its purpose is to try to prevent ill-intended people from making their way into the Assembly to disrupt and prevent its reconstruction.  Two documents are signed, both by the prospective Member.  The Coordinator signs nothing.

Autograph, TMA Affirmation of Purpose and Conduct

Signature, TMA State National Agreement

These administrative requirements keep most people out of The Michigan Assembly, and they keep the Coordinator fully in charge.

Project managers absolutely hate "rework."  Rework is anything that must be redone, repaired, redesigned, or fixed in order to complete a project.  Rework adds unnecessary cost and delays, and is extremely frustrating.  The sign of a poorly-run project is lots of rework.

The Federation provided a "blueprint" for the reconstructing state assemblies to follow, and that blueprint is discussed in a previous post, Pillars.  The current TMA organizational structure does not conform to that plan, and the Coordinator is an integral part of its operation.  How can the Coordinator's role sunset if he is involved in everything?

It will require rework.

At some point, the Coordinator will have to get out of the way, extract himself from everything, and let Members start learning how to do their jobs -- all Members, not just his handful of assistants.

The training wheels must come off so people can learn how to ride.

I eventually realized the TMA Agreement is in the form of an adhesion contract.  Just because we are operating on the Land does not mean Sea Jurisdiction practices cannot creep in.

adhesion contract.  A standard-form contract prepared by one party, to be signed by another party in a weaker position, usually a consumer, who adheres to the contract with little choice about the terms.  (Black's Law Dictionary, 11th, p. 403)

The Michigan Coordinator prepared the "agreement," and each Member is in the weaker position.  If people want to be in the Assembly, they must sign it.

After nine months of struggling to work with the Michigan Coordinator and trying to help the Assembly reconstruct the Land-Jurisdiction Government, I decided I no longer agreed with the "Agreement," so I rescinded my signatures...

When I did so, I reserved all of my rights, without prejudice, which includes my right to assemble.

The Coordinator cannot lawfully keep me from assembling, but he kicked me out anyway.

Being unbound by his agreement frees me so I can freely speak my mind without being accused of violating my agreement.  For example, I have been free to establish this blog, the Michiganian Free Press.  I may have been restricted before from sharing what I knew about what was going on, but I am not now.  I am free, and he cannot do anything about it.

The state of affairs under the current Michigan Coordinator is, unfortunately, unfair and provably ineffective.  The Pillars are not up, and there is no sign they are going to be up anytime soon.  Friendships and personal loyalties do not outweigh a fiduciary duty to ten million people who are owed Land and Soil-Jurisdiction Governments.

All Michiganians must do what they can to correct this situation and get their government reconstructed and functioning fully.