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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
checks appreciated.