- Dear Jeff,
-
- I'm writing this note in response to the unjustified
and heavy-handed criticisms I saw leveled at Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and
Ron Paul (R-Texas) on www.rense.com from Dick Eastman in two different
articles. Both articles were posted on January 19, 2007. One piece was
titled Kucinich Supports War, Zionism And Globalization(http://www.rense.com/general75/kuch.htm
) and the second piece was called The Next President (http://www.rense.com/general75/nextp.htm)
I was originally only going to write to you about theKucinich Supports
War rant, but when I read The Next President, I was beside myself with
indignation.
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- I spent a bit of time on the Internet looking at other
items that Dick Eastman had posted and I see that he's posted various articles
on 9-11 and is involved with chat forums that cover the NWO agenda. That's
fine, however, when he dismisses two of the finest examples of congressional
PATRIOTS who STILL exist in an otherwise traitor-laden congress, then it's
time to set the record straight
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- Let's start with Kucinich Supports War, Zionism And Globalization
. I don't know where Dick got the info that Kucinich said he would support
Hillary if she got the Democratic nomination for president, but let's assume
for the moment that Kucinich said exactly what Eastman claims he said.
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- So what?
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- Does that REALLY mean that the man who ran as the only
TRUE anti-war candidate in 2004 and again in 2008, is now pro-war because
he said he would support the Democratic Party's nominee if that should
be Hillary Clinton? Does Dick Eastman now simply ignore the fact that Kucinich
had spoken out against the invasion of Iraq from the very beginning, has
opposed every fascist/globalist maneuver that Bush and his compliant congressional
traitors have installed, and has called for the pullout of our troops from
Iraq as platform planks in TWO presidential elections?
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- Why does Eastman makes so much of this? I have to assume
that Kucinich was pigeon-holed by a reporter who put a HYPOTHETICAL question
to him about supporting the Party's candidate if that happened to be Hillary.
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- Kucinich is a lifelong member of the Democratic party
who is running for President in the Democratic Primaries. He was elected
as mayor of Cleveland and later to the House of Representatives as aDemocrat.
It doesn't surprise me that he would tell a reporter that he's going to
support the Party's nominee in the general election. That doesn't mean
that the entire mantle of treasonous, socialist, and globalist baggage
that rightfully belongs to Hillary Clinton is now transferred over to Dennis
Kucinich by virtue of such a statement.
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- Question: Is this the same Dick Eastman who just TEN
days earlier on Jan. 9, 2007, posted another article at rense.com titled
Kucinich Plan For Iraq Withdrawal And Restoring Our Republic(<http://rense.com/general74/restor.htm>http://rense.com/general74/restor.htm),
in which he begins the article with these words:
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- "Jeff - The Kucinich plan is litmus. The Democrat
Congress must adopt Kucinich plan NOW. It must EAT "Kucinich Spinach
NOW" or "Leave the Table in 08" -- Pelosi backs and implements
it now...or resigns."
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- Holy Mackerel, barely more than a week ago, the Kucinich
(pullout) Plan was considered by an easily excited Dick Eastman to be the
LITMUS altar before which all Democrats should kneel, but now, the same
author is cast as a NWO flunky on the Rockefeller payroll! Is it just me?
Or does Dick tend to react emotionally- in the moment? .
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- Mayor of Cleveland
- Anyone who takes the time to read the history of Cleveland
while Kucinich was mayor (1978-79) will discover that Kucinich proved himself
to be a man of his word and an equally scrappy populist who took on the
Big Boys of Cleveland-and won. Corporate interests who controlled the Cleveland
Electric Illuminating Company (CEI) wanted to acquire the city-owned electric
plant called Muny Light. Kucinich ran on a campaign promise to retain ownership
of the plant, despite the fact that his own city council and the six banks
holding the city's 14 million in loans (racked up by the previous administration)
conspired against him to try to force the sale of the plant. Rather than
knuckle under -which is what most politicians would have done-Kucinich
held his ground and got a special election ballot referendum on February
27, 1979 to keep the plant and pay off the loans with a 1/2% tax increase.
At the time, Kucinich was vilified and lampooned to no end by the media
as "Dennis the Menace" or as a Hitleresque cartoon character,
but the wheel came full circle when in May of 1996, The Cleveland Magazine
(formerly a critic) said:
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- "There is little debate over the value of Muny Light
today. Now Cleveland Public Power, it is a proven asset to the city that
between 1985 and 1995 saved its customers $195,148,520 over what they would
have paid CEI."
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- Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich
) adds that:
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- Kucinich's move also preserved hundreds of union jobs.
In 1998, city council granted Kucinich amnesty, stating that he had "the
courage and foresight to refuse to sell the city's municipal electric system."
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- Patriot Act
- In October of 2001, 98 US senators and 357 House members
committed TREASON by voting for the US Patriot Act, as they directly violated
their oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, but two of the 66 House members
who voted AGAINST the Traitor's Act included the names of Dennis Kucinich
and Ron Paul.
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- Chemtrails
- We have been sprayed with poison-laden, population culling
chemtrails for NINE CONTINUOUS YEARS. There was only ONE member of the
entire United States Legislative Branch who had publicly addressed this
unprecedented act of treason and sponsored a bill (HR2977) to stop it (along
with space-based weaponry). That congressman is Dennis Kucinich.
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- Kucinich on the Issues
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- Wikipedia listed Kucinich's 2004 Presidential platform
as follows:
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- 1. Immediate withdrawal from the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization>
- WTO and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement>NAFTA.
- 2. Moving U.S. troops out of Iraq and replacing them
with <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN>UN peacekeepers.
- 3. Ending the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs>war
on drugs.
- 4. Abolishing the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty>death
penalty.
- 5. Preventing the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization>privatization
of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security>social security.
- 6. Ratifying the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty>ABM
Treaty and the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol>Kyoto
Protocol.
- 7. Introducing reforms to bring about <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>instant-runoff
voting.
- 8. Creating a single-payer system of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care>universal
health care.
- 9. Creating a cabinet-level "<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Peace>Department
of Peace"
- 10. Legalizing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage>same-sex
marriage.
- 11. Repealing the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act>USA
PATRIOT Act.
- 12. Full <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security>social
security benefits at age 65.
- 13. Environmental renewal and clean energy.
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- and the 2008 Presidential platform as:
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- 1. Creating a single-payer system of universal health
care that provides full coverage for all Americans.
- 2. The Immediate Withdrawal of All U.S. Forces from Iraq
and replacing them with an international security force.
- 3. Guaranteed Quality Education for All, including Free
Pre-K and College for All who want it.
- 4. Immediate withdrawal from the WTO ( World Trade Organization
)and NAFTA ( North America Free Trade Agreement).
- 5. Repealing the USA PATRIOT Act.
- 6. Fostering a World of International Cooperation.
- 7. Abolishing the Death Penalty.
- 8. Environmental renewal and clean energy.
- 9. Preventing the privatization of social security.
- 10. Providing Full social security benefits at age 65.
- 11. Creating a cabinet-level "Department of Peace"
- 12. Ratifying the ABM Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol.
- 13. Introducing reforms to bring about instant-runoff
voting.
- 14. Protecting a Woman's Right-to-Choose while decreasing
the number of abortions performed in the U.S.
- 15. Ending the war on drugs.
- 16. Legalizing same-sex marriage.
- 17. Creating a balance Between Workers and Corporations.
- 18. Restoring Rural Communities and Family Farms.
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- With the single exception of legalizing same-sex marriage,
I see nothing in these platforms that I couldn't fully endorse. These are
the positions taken by a TRUE American patriot whose FIRST loyalty is to
the US Constitution and to the preservation of American sovereignty, the
Bill of Rights, economic independence, and putting an end to the decimation
of our military and our country's reputation abroad.
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- Compare these REAL and SUBSTANTIVE issues addressed by
Kucinich to the platforms of other candidates running for President in
2008. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, for example, a two term member of
the Senate, threw his hat in the ring today and vowed to run on a platform
of fighting "to renew the nation's cultural values and pledged to
focus on rebuilding families (AP )" . Wow, now there's a man with
cojones..
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- It's going to be interesting to see what Senator Barack
Obama, the latest version of the CFR's 'Jimmy Carter' Presidential Model,
will post on his web site for a platform. With the money of George Soros
backing him, I don't see any limitations that he could possibly encounter
in getting out the word about the Many Wonders that lay ahead for America
if he were to be voted in (of course, the Illuminati's Golden Team for
2008 will be the Clinton/Obama ticket-but shussh...., we can''t really
talk about that yet. ). .
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- Ron Paul
- In The Next President article, Mr Eastman reduced Ron
Paul to
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- "that timid shadow-populist Ron Paul with absolutely
not a dollar behind him and a GOP party 100 percent against him."
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- Timid? Hardly, but I'll address that absurdity in a moment.
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- It's not hard to see why the 1988 Libertarian candidate
for President is given little support by GOP regulars in Bush's home state
of Texas. Who do you think has their hands on the wheels of power in Texas?
Anti-government, anti-corporate, anti-globalist, anti-draft, anti-CAFTA,
anti-UN, anti-FDA, anti-income tax, anti-Federal Reserve, pro-gold standard,
pro-industrial hemp, pro-Constitution "mavericks" like
Ron Paul?
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- I won't take the time here as I did with Dennis Kucinich
to list the majority of Ron Paul's pro-Constitution positions, but you
can find them listed at Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul
). Anyone with Ron Paul's track record for standing up for the Constitution
and the Rule of Law deserves our highest respect, gratitude, and admiration.
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- While Ron Paul may get little or no political/financial
support from the GOP, Dick Eastman misses the most obvious point of all:
Ron Paul has spent SEVENTEEN years in the House as the congressional representative
of 14 th District of Texas because the people in his dictrict KEEP RE-ELECTING
him to office. Why do you suppose they would do that when the fat cats
of the GOP- who practically control every square inch of Texas, with all
of their power and money- can't push him out of office? Do you think it's
because he CARES about people and their welfare and his constituents know
it? Do you think this may be the reason why he also became a medical doctor?
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- Politicians who are truly "timid" do not take
a pro Constitution stand on the issues in these coersive times. It's the
exceptional man (or woman) who can resist the undertow of the 'go along,
to get along' politics which most politicians succumb to. It takes real
guts and more than a little cunning to try to defend America against the
onslaught of the New World Order-and still remain alive (as we all know
what happened to Paul Wellstone and many, many others).
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- In The Next President, Dick Eastman pines for a Superman
dictator to fix all of the ills that the Illuminati has imposed on the
American Dream in the past 100 years of insidious gradualism by covert
agents of the Rothchild/Rockefeller variety. That may sound appealing to
the anxious and naive, but it is extremely DANGEROUS to entertain such
a fantasy because that's PRECISELY how Hitler became dictator of Germany
in 1935 ( http://educate-yourself.org/cn/voteourtraitors27oct06.shtml).
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- We already HAVE the best Constitution on the planet written
by men who knew well the folly of placing your trust in the hands of a
Superman. We have three branches of government which- when functioning
as stipulated by the Constitution- will balance each other and prevent
the rise of tyranny and the subjugation of American citizens.
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- Currently, our government is top heavy with FIFTH COLUMISTS
who are violating their oaths to UPHOLD the Constitution by passing "laws"
-such as Patriot Acts 1 & 2 - which are GROSS VIOLATIONS of numerous
Articles of the Constitution and relinquishing "powers"' to the
Decider which they have no Constitutional AUTHORITY to do.
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- We must REMOVE these traitors by recall, by voting them
out of office, and SUPPORTING the mere HANDFUL of bona-fide PATRIOTS--like
Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul- who are currently trying their best to stem
the tide of the One World agenda and hold on to this republic.
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- Cynicism and defeatism are NOT options to be entertained.
We are in the eleventh hour of losing this nation. .
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- Sincerely, Ken Adachi .
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- Reply from Dick Eastman -
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- Kucinich's already-promised willingness to support
a pro-war candidate who wins the primaries -- given on the day he announced
-- signals to the party bosses that Kucinich will deliver the anti-war
Dems whether the party goes pro-war or not - and in so doing the
war immediately becomes an irrelevant issue, worth zero time or money or
thought to them. Kucinich is an issue candidate and he has
promised he will not back his troops out of the party if his issue
is ignored. Party bosses whose concern is winning, patronage and
the interest groups - especially AIPAC - which essentially gives them their
jobs -- will have no reason to waste time on idealists whose ideals can't
translate into using their feet.
-
- Remember how the blacks as an interest group are ignored
in the Democratic Party because they can be taken for granted. Kucinich
has thrown away the only leverage the anti-war movement had with the
Democrats. The bosses know 1) that the Republicans are
not going to run an anti-war candidate: 2) that Kucinich and Ron Paul
are going to keep a third-party anti-war candidate from emerging;
and 3) that the big donors of the party are pro-war Zionist Jews
who don't seem to mind all those Iraqi - and maybe soon Iranian - deaths
as long as Israel becomes 'safer' and war borrowing becomes heavier and
defense corporations keep getting fat contracts.
-
-
- Kucinich himself has answered my accusation on Rense
-- but read his statment and see if *anywhere* he retracts his
promise to support whatever candidate the primaries choose regardless of
position. Here it is:
-
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- "No one in Congress has spoken out more consistently
against this war than I have and any suggestion to the contrary is a lie. I
am running to win the nomination, and therefore I am expecting all the
other candidates to support me, even if they have supported, or continue
to support the war. If people who are really for peace unite behind my
candidacy then I will win. Finally, the path to peace must be above the
type of manipulation, smears and polarities. We must call upon ourselves
to do better. --Dennis"
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-
- I should mention that I am being flooded with letters
from Democrats who supported Dennis Kucinich in 2004 yet who agree with
my appraisal of his position. Here are some examples:
-
-
- "He took, drained millions of dollars from real
progressives, blunted any real anti war or progressive movement in the
Demo party, and then totally rolled over and danced for Kerry and the
DLC. Fuck him."
-
-
- "I campaigned for him in NH. Here's an article
I wrote about the goings-on at the Democratic Platform Convention in the
summer of 04, where his failure to act with courage and leverage the anti-war
vote was prominently on display. Throughout the primary he did well.
He gained the respect of progressives everywhere by imploring us to "vote
our hopes, not our fears." But when the centrist juggernaut of John
Kerry seemed unstoppable he relaxed his antiwar pressure so as not to divide
the party. If ever there was a time to do the opposite, to insist for
inclusion and to stand on principle, even at risk of breaking rank and
splitting the party, it was during that summer of 2004, when it became
abundantly clear that progressives were in the tent in name only. But he
did nothing of the sort. He evidenced much hand-wringing and tears, but
rather than play hardball with Kerry, he acquiesced to assure his continued
seat at the table. In the end, in Boston, he stood side by side with John
Kerry and on top of a very prowar democratic platform. Not only was this
a colossal strategic mistake--his failure to effectively bring his antiwar
sentiment into the platform and to the Kerry camp--it was a colossal failure
of his leadership. He risked nothing on our behalf, and we got nothing
in return. He 's a goddamn footsoldier for the DNC, nothing more. "
-
-
- "i stopped being a kucinich supporter the instant
i heard him hand over his supporters to kerry at the dem conv in boston
'04. i had spent almost a year of my life traveling over the country working
on his campaign. i had already decided that i wouldn't support anyone
who wasn't going to bring out nine eleven."
-
-
- And my favorite, a short one:
-
-
- "can you buy these puppets on Amazon?"
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- When Kucinich came out with his plan I threw out the
challenge -- If the Democrats really can support
this plan - if Kucinich wins in 2008 and tries to implement when
he takes office in 2009 - then let the party prove it by pushing the
plan in Congress NOW in January of 2007.
-
-
- But when I saw that the plan made not a stir on the Hill
-- not a peep of mention by Nancy Pelosi or any other major Democrat --
I wrote the following:
-
-
- "I said the Kucinich Plan -- Kucinich spinach --
was very good and that the thing to do was push the plan now -- and if
the Democratic Party and Democratic Leadership in Congress would then
show us that they are capable of getting behind it now now now now now
NOW -- then we would know that we could trust backing the Democrat brand
for an anti-war candidate -- but just as I knew would happen --
this good idea has been ignored, brushed off, chilled, put on extinction
by all of those who represent and operate the Democratic party these days.
They want their political power and pork and Hillary is promising the
most and has the fat cats behind her -- so to hell with the good of the
country as long as we high in the party hold those positions
of power where you never feel the pain etc. So Kucinich is nothing but
a bait-and-switch scammer playing his trick to keep people from leaving
the party, to keep them from finding and helping launch a non-bi-partisan
non-plutocracy-owned alternative.
-
-
- And you who admire Ron Paul -- hasn't he written
some great anti-war and populist articles!!! -- are victims of the same
trap. Kucinich can't win the Republican Party nomination -- all of the
Republiicans who would have supported him -- the Pat Buchanan types --
have left the GOP -- his candidacy is as "token" as that
of Kucinich among the Democrats.
-
-
- You may love Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul -- given
the nightmare of alternatives -- and so you feel it your duty
to ignore what I am telling you -- and what I am telling you is that Kucinich
and Paul are dead ends -- the Democrats are proving by their not picking
up the Kucinich plan that they aren't really serious about him -- that
they would never support his candidacy -- that he is just there to keep
people from using their activist labors and their money to build a third-party
candidate to stop Hillary Clinton -- whom Kucinich has already said he
will support when she wins the nomination.
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- And Ron Paul, I am truly sorry to tell you, is
the same. He has written great essays -- but what is that? Is he a speaker,
an effective orator? Is he known by the masses? Is the Repubican party
going to help him along -- when he says he is in favor of removing the
trillion-dollar lollipop from their sociopathic infantile monster-that-devoured-the-middle-class
mouths?
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-
- Absolutely no chance.
-
-
- Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich -- neither can win their
respective party's nomination -- yet by trying they will squeeze support
from the might-have-been third party candidate who could have won -- from
the candidate we should be busy helping to raise up right now.
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-
- This is no accident.
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-
- The war-profiteering police-state-loving plutocracy will
give us, as always, two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican -- and
the third parties will -- as organizations with paid administrators following
an old routine (and some of the operatives of some of the parties clandestinely
working as sabatours for the plutocracy) -- each put up a candidate --
so that opposition to the bi- partisan "two" will be so divided
that voters will see the hoplessness and not want to "waste a vote"
and will end up voting for the "lesser of two pro-plutocracy evils"...as
always happens.
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-
- Most people will not bother voting.
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- The fielding of a new third party to vie with all the
other third parties will fail. The running of the same array of third parties
each hoping that everyone will miraculously see that they are the one
and only logical choice will also fail. Many well-intentioned and otherwise
well-infomed people are calling for a "super third party" that
everyone can join to solve the problem -- except that every third party
thinks of itself as that super third party -- and so we are stuck with
all of the third-parties considering themselves the super third party
and running against each other and ending up with the same result we always
have.
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-
- It is a trap that is inherent in the party system. The
party system was devised by plutocracy to ensure the unbroken rule of
plutocracy. So, so far, we "the people" have been
pretty slow in coming up with ways of foiling the plutocracy's two-party-system
hoodwink.
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- Incidentally, there is a way out of this trap.
-
-
- A good candidate must be chosen outside of the party
system. Chosen how?
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-
- I proposed some months ago that Nader, Moyers, Seymore
Hersh, Cindy Sheehan, Howard Phillips and Patrick Buchanan get together
and see if they could agree on one name -- then that one name would be
run in the party that would give him (or her) the most freedom (the fewest
strings) for an anti-war anti-globalization administration that is not
owned -- as Jimmy Carter tells us -- by the Israel lobby or
any of the corporate string-pullers. (I've made a similar suggestion
in the last three presidential elections -- the late Harry Browne was
in place of Sheehan back then -- and Harry actually wrote that he
was interested it the Libertarian party would consent to the idea.)
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- The solution is to have tried and trusted leaders, veterans of
the bigger and more attractive third parties -- people who have actually
run for president and who have a national reputation for integrity --
to join a few journalists who also have reputations of being independent
of the plutocracy and also of have boldly exposed the excesses (crimes)
of the plutocracy and/or analyzed its failings -- to have this group of
leaders get together and choose candidates for president and vice president
-- thus picking anti-plutocracy candidates with broad spectrum appeal
who are not yet tied to any party -- and doing so BEFORE the parties pick
their candidates.
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-
- I propose that former presidential candidates Ralph Nader
(representing greens, consumerists, independents, non-Zionist progressives,
anti-globalists) , Patrick Buchanan (representing anti-globalists, populists,
"paleo" conservatives); Howard Phillips (constitutionalists,
tax-payers, small government, Jewish background); join with journalists
Bill Moyers (a Democrat of high principle who has given some of the most
telling analysis of the US power elite and the problems with the republic)
and Seymour Hersh (journalist who from Viet Nam to Abu Ghraib has reported
the truth the ruling minority has not wanted made known -- who has shown
great courage against the plutocracy -- yet who is Jewish and would not
tolerate any anti-Jewish choice (but would defy the Israel-Lobby simply
by being independent-minded and moral and courageous as he has always
been) -- and, completing the group, Cindy Sheehan (a woman whose opposition
to the wars stems from the most basic roots of love and compasion -- a
mothers love for her own son -- a woman who cuts through the politics
to get to the heart of the matter, the wrongness of a war that has nothing
to do with protecting the people of the United States).
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-
- Will these people participate in this? Not ordinarily.
But these are extraodinary times.
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-
- Could such a group come up with someone? We won't know
unless we try. And if they can't, then what hope do we have anyway? We
must be willing to try something new -- the plutocracy has every other
move we could possibly make anticipated and covered to defeat us.
-
-
- The Unity Recommendation is not only a good idea -- it
is the only idea that has a chance of working. Don't debate it. Don't
fiddle with it.
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-
- Get behind it. Push it.
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-
- But if in the end Nader, Buchanan, Moyers, etc.
end up also two-faced and pick a pro-war candidate -- then
it will be time to quit that idea, too -- like Kucinich should declare
that he will desert the Dems if they go pro-war with Hillary.
At that point, I would quit messing around and seek out David
Duke as a last desperate hope -- and drafting Alex Jones as his running
mate -- draft them to lead a populist revolution from the bottom
up, not a party, but a candidacy to save our very skins -- where the
people vote paper ballots and every candidate has poll watchers
following the whole process with an angry populace up in arms to see that
it is done right.
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- Dick Eastman
- Yakima, Washington
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-
-
- By the way -- I did not pick the title of the article
that appears over my essay on the Kucinich candidacy -- the title I sent
to Jeff was too long. It was: "Hillary Clinton's positions on war,
zionism globalization identical to Bush -- yet candidate Kucinich has
announced he will back her candidacy if she wins the primaries"
-- I never actually said he is pro-war -- although, just among
us, I occasionally look at him and wonder if he cares even one
damn iota.
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- Dick Eastman
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