Mike and Starchild, Your
advice is noted. I will take
most of the article off and
put it into links. I will
emphasize war and empire
as I think that is the biggest
problem and the one on
which my opinions resonant
most with the voters here in
the left half of san francisco,
looking from the North of
course.
Ron Paul hails from Texas,
but here in San Francisco,
the Constitution is not
something to be revered, it
as object of contempt written
by dead rich white male
slave owners a long time
ago and stands in the way of
progress to Socialist Utopia.
In other words a non starter.
--- In lpsf-
discuss@yahoogroups.com,
<dredelstein@...> wrote:
Phil,
You've drafted a wonderful
statement which would
appeal to libertarian
eggheads only.
Unfortunately, the
audience you wish to interest
has a sound-bite
attention span. I suggest
you review Ron Paul's site
(www.ronpaul.org)
and model yours after his.
This is the text on his home
page:
"Dear Friend,
Man's nature is
unchanging, and so are the
principles of liberty. And
when I raise my hand to
swear to Almighty God that I
will preserve,
protect, and defend the
Constitution, I mean it with all
my heart, as
you would. That's why,
before every vote
I take, I ask if the
legislation under
consideration is
constitutional. Of course, it
virtually never is. That's why
they call
me, `Dr. No.' I will not
support any bill that violates
the
Constitution! Ron Paul"
Simple and to the point.
Easy on the eye and on the
brain.
Best, Michael
From: ricochetboy
To: lpsf-
discuss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday,
February 15, 2006 3:24 AM
Subject: [lpsf-discuss] Re:
Draft for my Congress run
website,
choosepeacenow.us
Fact checking and spelling
checking
and any suggestions are
warmly
welcomed.
--- In lpsf-
discuss@yahoogroups.
com, "ricochetboy"
<philzberg@>
wrote:
>
> Is anyone really suprised
that the
Vice
> President shot first and
asked
> questions later. Isn't that
the kind of
> thinking needed to run
the New
> American Empire. No
hesitation, no
> weakness, Ever!, or the
Babarians
will
> be at the gates. War
must be taken
to
> the Enemy. (After all, if
we don't
keep
> those birds in thier
place, Alfred
> Hitchcocks vision could
become
real,
> and the Birds could eat
our lunch!).
..
> but seriously...
> Is there any real
opposition to the
> American Empire of
Endless War.
No.
> In the last elction the
choice was
> between Less troops, or
More
troops.
> Between Yale and Yale.
> The Democrats voted en
mass to
> divest themselves of
responsibility or
> accountability for the
second Iraq
war
> by going AWOL of thier
responsibility
> to vote a Declaration of
War. No
> opposition.. No hearings
held to
> check the President's
assertion
about
> WMD. No witnesses
called in public
or
> in secret to probe the
intelligence
> gatherers about what
they really
> thought. No, the polls
supported the
> (Vice) President. The
public wanted
to
> watch war on thier new
Digital Wide
> Screeens, made in
China, and
bought
> on home equity credit
card. The
> Democrats folded with
barely a
> wimper. Some
Democrats from anti
> war districts, like Nancy
Pilosi,
voted
> against the war
proposition but
vated
> the funds. And on the
Sunday after
> the proposition was
passed
> overwhelming,
Representative
Pilosi,
> the leader of the LOYAL
Opposition
> was there on the 50 inch
widescreens,
> dressed in Red scarf,
White Blouse
> and Blue suit, with an
American
Flag
> lapel pin, assuring
America that she
> and the Democrats
would support
the
> President in whatever
decision he
> made.
>
> Was Ms pilosi's behavior
in the lead
> up to the war out of
character for a
so
> called Liberal Democrat.
After all,did
> the Democrats when
they last
> controlled the House,
the Senate,
and
> the Presidency,
dismantle any of the
> Empire of War?. Did
they finally
> execute an exit strategy
from
> Germany, from Korea,
from NATO.
> No they dabbled here
and there but
> had no vision to make
us a normal
> country again.
>
> San Fransicans are
Peace loving
> people. We know in our
hearts and
> our minds that we don't
have to be
> Emperor of the World.
The world
> hates empires and
always works to
> destroy them. To
maintain Empire
> means Endless War.
>
> San Fransicans are
progressive
> liberals in large
measure. We hate
> war.
> Then why have San
Francisaca
voted
> for tacit supplicants to
war? Who
> knows. But the party of
Classic
> Liberalism is hereto give
San
> Framncisco a choice.
>
> Libertarian is just a funny
sounding
> word for Classic Liberal.
It's a weird
> word for a great tradition.
Like
Geico
> is a strange name for a
car
insurance
> and Trader Joe's sounds
like a
tackyy
> suburban hotel cocktail
lounge, it a
> word that San
Franciscans can learn
> to love once the product
is tried.
> Libertarians oppose all
but directly
> defensive War. We
unequivocally
> oppose Empire and
endless war.
> San Fransicans have a
choice in
> November, they can
vote for Nancy
> Pilosi, and maybe get a
little less
> Empire, and a littlemore
or less War.
> or they vote for the
Classic Liberal,
> the Libertarian, a strange
word for a
> great idea.
>
> When San Francisco
elects s
> Libertarian to congress it
has the
> potential to set off a
Revolution
> against the Empire of
Endless War.
It
> even has the potential to
end the
civil
> war between Red and
Blue. There is
a
> large number of
traditional
> Republicans who detest
the
towering
> debt supporting empire.
Following
our
> lead, middle america
might rise up
> against the tyranny of
the status
quo,
> and vote out the
Republican Empire
> Builders.
>
> The strtegy is simple,
give the Neo
> Conservative
Republicans what they
> say they have always
waqnted and
> Give it to them GOOD
and HARD.
> Give them Limited
Government,
Give
> them the Constitution.
Give them
> income tax cuts to zero.
Give them
> hard money they cannot
just print to
> pay for Empire with
inflation. Make
> them come begging to
the States for
> an aircraft Carrier. Take
the money
> out of the Empire of War
and put it
> into Sacramento and
Annapolis and
> Albany. Then we
Libertarians can
> have agood old
fashioned Political
> fight with the powers that
be in
Sacramento over wether
> compassion begins at
Home or in
> Sacramento, but at least
we will
have resources for
compassion.
>, not just the
> scraps after War has
eaten the
> countrys' financial heart
out.
>
> Only Libertarians have
the best
> product , less war, more
filling. Try
it,
> take a taste in
November. You have
> nothing to lose but your
chains, I
mean it's not like a
> Republican can win
here..
When you elect me, the
first vote I
take will be for which party
will run the
house. If only one party
promises
immediate withdrawal from
Iraq, I will
vote for that party, wether
it be
Democrat or Republican. If
neither
party will make that
promise, I will
bargain for as much peace
and as
little empire as possible.
The
Democrats will probably
win my vote.
Steny Hoyer would then
become
Speaker of the House. I
met mr Hoyer
once. A friend asked me
to take off
work and drive to Saint
Mary's County
Maryland to appear on
behalf of a
Seventy year old man on
trial for a
parole violation from a
long ago child
molestation conviction. It
seems the
old man had recently
babysat for a
family member and in the
heat of an
internal familyy dispute the
old man
was turned in for
babysitting, a
violation of his parole. The
prosecutor
was going for broke. Mr.
Hoyer had
defended the man years
before, and
took time off from Capitol
Hill to come
defend this most
unpopular defendant.
This makes Mr. Hoyer a
man of honor
in my eyes, so you needn't
trouble
yourselves that in Ms
Pilos's absence
the Speakership will fall to
a rogue.
While we are talking about
Maryland,
that is where both I and
Ms. Pilosi hail
from. I remember her
brother as
Mayor when I was a teen.
He was a
really nice guy. He was
sort of the
Rodney King of the
Baltimore riots
following Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King's
assination. Why can't we
all just get
along. What I do not
remeber was him
standing up and saying"
no, not in my
city," when then Govenor
Spiro Agnew
issued shoot to kill orders
to the
Maryland National Guard.
The shoot
to kill order got
Presidential candidate
Richard Nixon's attention
and the
Governor moved on to
greater infamy.
Mayor D'alesndro seemed
never to
recover from the trauma
and quitly left
office after only one term.
Like her brother, Nancy
Pilosi is a
very nice lady. And like her
brother,
she has not stood up
effectively to the
Republican empire
builders. She
needs to be asked to take
her good
heart to somewhere else
besides the
House of Representatives.
leaving the
public stage for someone
who has a
clear vision on how to
stand up for
Peace.
Looking at how we got into
this mess
can show the way out.
Teddy
Roosevelt stands tall in the
rogues
gallery of war mongers.
His powers
were slightly diluted by
surviving
respect for the
Constitution's limits on
the powers of the central
government.
The best he could do was
make war
with a by then fifth rate
power, Spain.
It was an ugly part of our
history, but
the worrst was yet to
come.
Woodrow Wilson was
intent on War
from the day he was
inaguarated. He
was the model Gerge
Bush follows.
He was intent on making
war and
making the world "safe for
Democracy." What stood
in his way
was the Constitution's
prohibition
against personally levied
taxes and
paper money. In a coup of
machiavellen statecraft he
engineered
the questionable
ratification of the
sixteenth ammendment
and convinced
Congress to pass the
Federal Reserve
Act which established a
privately
owned central bank to
ensure an
ample supply of credit for
a soon to
be world power. The US
was now
financially prepared for
Empire.
The Federal Reserve Bank
ws at least
the third attempt to
establish a
national bank. The
Democratic Party
was essentially founded to
oppose the
Second National bank,
and that is
exactly what Andrew
Jackson, the first
peoples president did.
The Federal Reserve is a
privately
owned bank whose
shareholders
include Lazard Freres
spelling", the
Rothschild Bank of
Englamd, Morgan
Chase, and Citi.
When the Federal
Reserve was
established in 1913,
Congress was
promised that preservation
of the
value of the currency was
to be it's
primary mission. In less
than 100
years the value of the
dollar has been
reduced to two cents.
Since the
election of George Bush
the Federal
eserve has doubled the
amount of
dollars in circulation *I
need to fact
check this.....
If you had put one hundred
dollars in
your dwarer on the first
tuesday of
November of 2000, by
some accounts,
especially considering the
amount of
gas or helath insurance or
house that
one hundred dollars can
buy, it is
only worth fifty dollars now.
You open
the drawer five and a half
years later
and found someone stole
fifty dollars
from your drawer. If a thief
did that
and he was caught , he
would go to
jail. But the thief speaks in
strange
tongues, is knighted by
The Qween,
and hailed as the greatest
central
banker ever. Who got your
fifty dollars
and half of every dollar
that any
American was foolish
enough to leave
in cash over the last six
years/? The
owners of the Fed and
other New
York Banks were the first
to get the
newly printed money.
When the Fed
prints up new money or
actually just
pushes a button on a
computer and
creates money out of thin
air, the first
people to get that money
are the New
York banks. Only the New
York banks
get first dibs on the fresh
new money.
Why?. Because they wrote
the
Federal Reserve Act and
did not want
to share the booty with any
other
banks. The Fed can create
money out
of thin air in many different
ways, but
each way is like reaching
in your desk
dwarer and taking out a
ten spot. The
number one purpose of
the Fed in
President Wilsons mind
was to give
Washington the ability to
fund war
with debt and reduce the
burden of
debt with inflation. Real
bullets have
to be bought, and
something else has
to be sacrificed to pay for
the bullets.
But inflation is invisble to
the public.
John Maynard Keynes
said that not
one person in a million can
detect the
theft of inflation and
identify it's cause.
This is how Lyndon
Johnson paid for
the war in Vietnam and put
the bill to
the American people in the
form of the
nasty stagflation that poor
Jimmy
Carter got blamed for. The
Fed has
been running the printing
pressing red
hot for years. Inflation of 4
percent is
the tame inflation the
government
admits to. But you can
look at your
health insurance bill, or
your,gas bill,
or housing prices and tell
me what
inflation really is when the
pencil
meets the kitchen table.
Four percent
inflation led President
Nixon to declare
a National emergeny and
institute
wage and price controls.
Of course
that did not work because
the grocer
is not the cause of
inflation. The
Federal reserve and only
the Federal
Reserve creates inflation/.
Once before I went legally
blind, I
stopped for gas on I 5 and
the sign at
the cashier's station read,
Please do
not yell at the clerk, the
clerk does not
make pricing decisions for
the Shell
Oil company. Well neither
does Shell
Oil. The price of a gallon of
gas is in
the usnits dollars per
gallon. If there
are twice as many dollars
floating
around the world now as
there were
when GBII was first
appointed, is it
any wonder it costs twice
as much in
terms of dollars to buy a
gallon of gas
..
Inflation absolutely screws
poor
people the elderly, the sick
, and the
disabled. Few if any have
income
that is properly indexed to
inflation.
Savings are destroyed by
inflationn.
Renters have no asset to
climb the
inflation ladder.This
punishes the
young and the newly
arrived
immigrant. Stocks have
not gone up
since 2000 and are pretty
much where
they were in1997.They are
a nearly
guarnateed loser for the
small guy as
the insiders make the big
bucks and
know when to sell.. The
ultimate
insiders are of course the
New York
Bankers. they get the
hundreds of
billions of newly minted
money first
and then lend it out to the
rest of the
country and world. In turn,
when the
Fed's presses are running,
thier profits
are lets say, nice. Last
December,
according to the New York
State
Comptroller, the New York
City
employees of the money
center Banks
collected just under 25
Billion Dollars
in bonuses down a few
Billion from
the previous Christmas.
Both Republicans and
Democrats
coddle Wall Street. Huey
Long, the
colorful maverick Govenor
of Lousiana
was famous for saying, the
Congress
is like a restaurant, you
have
Democratic waiters and
you have
Republican Waiters, but
they both
save the same expotive
deleted
cooked in the Wall Street
Kitchen/
Inflation is the number one
cause of
economic misery and the
number one
reason the rich get richer
and the poor
get poorer. The only way
to stop
inflation is to abolish the
Federal
reserve.and have sound
money of
fixed supply that cannot be
created
out of thin air whenever
the
republicans or Democrats
wannt to
fight another war on the
backs of the
poor and middle class.
America did
without a central bank for
most of the
period between 1789 and
1913. By
looking at old real estate
records and
newspaper ads one can
see that
prices were pretty much
stable during
that whole period, with
small bouts of
inflation and deflations
whenever the
government tried a
National Banking
scheme or some other
schem to
artificailly increase credit.
There was
no Great Depression until
the federal
reserve made the massive
credit
expansion to pay for World
War One
and fuel the boom of the
roaring
twenties that led directly to
the Great
Depression.
I know this is a lot to read
and a lot to
take in, but the point I want
to make is
that by voting for a
Libertarian you get
someone who knows how
the game of
endless war is played and
knows what
to do to end it.
There already is another
Libertarian in
Congress. He is a nominal
Republican
but he was the Libertarian
Presidential
Candidtae in 1988.His
name is Doctor
Ron Paul. He is an
outspoken
opponent of the War and
has
frequently shared stages
with Terri
Sheehan. He only votes
Republican in
procedural votes. I will
follow his lead,
and promise you I will vote
Democrat
in procedural votes unless
olny the
Republicans promise
immediate
withdrawal from Iraq. I will
however
play hard to get to get as
much peace
promises out of the Dems
as I can.
But I know the hearts of
San Francisco
hate the Repubblicans and
I respect
that. I will vote no on any
defense
appropriation that includes
funds for
foreign based troops
unless the US is
directly attacked by a clear
enemy, or
the threat of an attack is
real and
imminent.
My goal will be to help
make the
United States just another
country,like
Switzerland or Costa Rica.
Nuetral in
foreign affairs. George
Washington's
major policy statement in
his farewell
address will be my guide.
Here are some tough
divisive issues...
As for Israel, so long as it's
neighbors
threaten it's right to exist, I
will lobby
for a bill giving a one
hundred percent
federal income tac credit
for every
dollar donated to the state
of Israel.
The credit will be fully
transferable to
any other person's income
tax the
person wishes to give it to.
If Israel is
attacked, any American
wishing to
defend it will receive
immunity from all
Federal taxes for life. If
Israel
launches an unprovoked
attack on it's
neighbors, I will propose
that similar
income tax breaks will be
granted for
those who wish to defend
against
aggresion.
I will support very liberal
immigration
policies for any who are
threatened by
tyranny throughout the
world.
I will not vote for any
appropriation
that leaves any US troops
stationed
overseas. I support
complete
dismantlement of Empire.
Who needs
it. Costa Rica and
Switxerlad should
be our models and George
Washington our guide.,
Thats enough for tonight>
> .
>Suggeestions and
criticism and fact