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THE ANSWER TO CENTRISM IS A MORE PERFECT CENTRIST AGENDA

OR WHAT TO DO IN 2007 FOR THE PEOPLE TO WIN IN 2008

By George-Luis Dewey - Editor at Libertysteward.com 7:39 PM October 8, 2007 Veguita, NM

Politics is the art of the possible. Some famous person said that once. I heard it from my political science professor. It still rings true even in this convoluted political scene we find ourselves mired in.

Once there were rules and we keep trying to believe they still exist as we go through our highly trained partisan ways of electing our representatives in public office. But centrism doesn’t work like that. It erodes the mandate and the voters interest to corrupt their efforts into the contrived language of bipartisanship. And what you end up with is a One Party of Elitists who get elected and carry on with their own special interest agenda.

What is the greatest shame of this tortured process? If there were a single fact that punctuated the shocking nature of this civic disaster it is that neither party has a true majority and both together add up to less than 50 percent of the total potential voters - about 23 percent of the voting public gets to ‘win” and control the course of public events for 4 to 8 years, most likely an eight year term. That translates to the sad fact that you will likely only get 8 times in your life out of a total of 16 elections you may get a chance to vote for a President assuming there is a party change involved. You may well see your goals and aspirations, values and potential locked up for long periods of time before creative or constructive change really gets to happen. That’s all assuming you began to vote at the earliest age and you got to live to the ripe old age of 80. Many people never vote.

The most significant aspect of centrism is that the core values characteristic of the party and its idealistic mandates get trimmed away for the watered down version usually referred to as “bipartisanship”. And this is the tune that once again in the 2008 election we are expected to dance to. Once again we are to ignore the smell of rotting flesh and treason and burned out and detonated buildings and go on carping “Remember 9-11” like it was a shining example of bipartisan patriotism. We are to allow fear to rule us and select one of the “politically correct non-controversial party approved cardboard candidates”, and we must let centrism deliver us onward to more cleverly crafted mediocrity and disenfranchisement. And we must be very scared and freeze like a rabbit afraid of losing its carrots vs. reaching out to stop an abomination or a transgression towards a fellow citizen or selected victims foreign or domestic. We must learn to deny our humanity, get on with business as usual and stimulate the economy by going shopping to be good windup patriot. This sad surmise seems even more pathetic since centrism will surely be our constitutional demise, leaving us a country none of us will recognize as home anymore. Our country won’t feel like home, it won’t look like home and in fact it won’t be home any more. We must do something definite during the next election cycle to affirm our civic values as apart from our economic interests.

The way I see it, Centrism left to its own mindless devices is going to destroy us. The American psyche just doesn’t know how to think outside the Centrist entrapment. It may sound like a Kung Fu oriental paradox, but perhaps it will take centrism to defeat centrism. The Chinese in the Book of Changes or I Ching say the hardest task is for the People to marshal armies against themselves. When the Centrist deadlock inhibits revolutionary change evolutionary change becomes the next option. Stagnation and more of the same is not a viable or sustainable option.

I suggest Centrism can destroy us or we can use it to recapture our dignity, freedom and core values by not creating a political strategy that tries to think outside of the centrist argument only to doom itself to failure by losing mainstream appeal. The Constitution we have all sworn an oath to uphold. It is at the core of our civic process and is as mainstream in its appeal as it gets. Those of us who comprised the disenchanted intellectuals and idealists in our prospective parties need to realize that we are either losers again or empowered to re-enfranchise ourselves by realizing how we, as those on the outs, are really strategically joined at the hip. We have to repossess the language of centrism to benefit from a powerful strategic alliance.

This Constitutional Mandate can emerge across party lines as the Centrist Reform Crossover Voters Coalition. The language that can unite us is the Constitutional importance of our times as embodied in the most Constitutionally loyal candidates from each party that we can field as a populist mandate in 2008. We can continue to use the internet as our forum instead of Primaries to select our candidates and then run them as Write In Candidates if necessary. . That way we The People can create the Perfect Virtual Party and none of them have to drop out of their Parties or be essentially disloyal to their party values. We can use Centrism to defeat Centrism and force all candidates to start being equally accountable to the People instead riding the coat tails of their parties and the intentions of their privileged elitist handlers.

As a Constitutional Green well aware of the tiny percentage of centrist voters out there that it takes to swing an election from D to R, ping to pong, or Democrat and Republican I also know that the only thing that can reverse this Diagrama of Elitist Control is to unite the Crossover Base that makes or breaks candidates. That is what the big money game is all about. That is why you need money to buy access. It is the total subversion of the will of the People. Debates take place only in the realm of the endowed. Constitutionally grounded populist candidates representing the correct intellectually sound reason of the citizen need not apply. The internet and the creative, new age of blogism and independent media of the spontaneous driven citizen activists can act to bridge this disaster we are currently in and by uniting with their disenchanted counter parts in the opposite party together they can create a New Centrist Dialogue. They can field their own Constitutional Candidates.

I am not going to fool around now - I’m not going to dance up to the next point I’m just going to flat out tell you how I think we can do this.

We need to Unite disenchanted anti-elitist Democrats, Republicans, Greens and Libertarians and focus on the salvation of all of these people by invoking a strong reaffirmation of the Bill of Rights, Constitutionalism, the General Welfare of the People and the soundness of our Treasury, Currency and Market Accountability. We must implement an essential mandate of Reform in America and we must elect a Constitutionally respectful Citizen Congress. We need to realize that there are no Democrats or Republicans or realistic Greens and Libertarians unless they all have their Constitutional Rights protected. It is the Mandate to Save our Great Republican Representative Democracy and the Vehicle for the People to win the next election.

I believe Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich and Barak Obama all need to put their name in a hat. In the hat there are three designations: President, Vice-President and Secretary of State. I hope Ron Paul draws President because he has the age and consistency of a true conservative grounded in Constitutional respectability. That shows consideration towards all of us. Then I would like to see Dennis Kucinch our current genius in the intelligence community also grounded Constitutionally and a perfect balance for a no nonsense Ron Paul, he would be my kind of Vice President. And I can really see Barak Obama as a shining symbol of American equality, and opportunity, diversity and attainment. He earned his status as a lawyer and public servant. I know he would make Condaleeza Rice look like the pretender that she is. If America can ever accept him it may take him making that difference in Foreign Affairs and in the Publics perception of his talents in a natural context. I would envision an new era of stability and integrity in the political process with this Trinity in place. As for the others they are all pretenders - cardboard cutout elitist groupies sucking up to the money and privilege they want more of at our expense.

The worst thing that could happen to the Constitutionalist movement today is that it would be passed by in the 2008 election for more customary pillaging and graft by the bi-partisans. It would then go on to be re-inherited by the the Neo Cons who would use it as a propagandistic tool to return to power after a democratic "bipartisan" victory, ie more of the same elitism in action.

This voters Crossover Coalition would defeat the stagnation we have been suffering at the hands of centrism. It would empower those who have been pushed out of the mainstream of their parties and characterized as unelectable by the financiers that steer our elections into the hands of the controller elitists who manipulate the process and the outcome. People left out by centrism can either do nothing and once again get left out or they can literally Own the Process. Furthermore the Internet can act as an accountability tool to police the outcome of the election by auditing the populist vote with a separate database designed to protect the integrity of the process and the results as they will be reported. Therefore, the next election would be a much more free and accountable process, with candidates held to a reasonable standards of scrutiny and benchmarks of progress towards real public needs and agendas. Just think - all because a bunch of inspired centrists refused to be mediocre!

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by George-Luis Dewey, Libertysteward May 15, 2010 Sea state threshold catastrophe, the Gulf of Mexico defiled, national moment of truth whatever you choose to call it, this is a time when you can smell the heavy salt of fate in the air. It is ancient in our make up to shrug off chaos until we are well over the edge and pummeling to the bottom. Man paints his preconceptions into the essential whole of his canvas of predilection and this clever ethos slavishly enhances his greed and acquisitive desires in the web of the political world. It is a subconscious process whereby he defines what things and souls are going to do for him before he even gets to know what essentially defines them in their own right.*Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, (Shambala Dragon Edition) . He builds into the genetics of the process that which others are going to do for him as paramount and continually minimizes the need to concern himself with the essential needs of the fostering community he is going to thrive in. Meet Mr. Businessman, and yes, he’s in Oil. Boiling, vaporous, disintegrative, blobs of burning oil! When this whole thing happened, my first instinct was the perfect memory of the smell of the refinery I grew up in, the wind would carry the scent everywhere. I flashed to the Bay of Maracaibo and the sordid hellish constantly burning oil spill I witnessed there. And then that dull pit in the gut where you know instinctually that the media is already lying or doing their “stupid talk” where they purposely skew or salt the facts with paltry analysis and sound-byte “facts”, often huge understatements issued to them by the guilty parties themselves. The first one I heard was 5, 000 barrels a day. The red light went off right there since I remember reading that this well was a rather prolific producer. Then add to that the margin the oil companies would have routinely understated their production to the government as, and the excess profit they would have made by manipulating the price on the market; these are essential aspects of oil man accounting we pay for every day. It is, of course, characteristically as infantile and unprofessional as oil man engineering, which as we have witnessed in the last three weeks is as witless. When you can see their gross mis-statements from space and logic out the size of the spill for yourself with some basic calm sea assessments and some earth based geometry you know they are lying on a vast scale.**See Google.com/sat: http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/ Let’s just consider for a moment some of our own accounting here. There is plenty of blame to go around and if you want to see who is guilty you don’t have to look past the core of our most intellectually dishonest institutions - Congress, you can start with that. Heck lump all the politicians in there, then the Business Community down to the last “drill baby drill” sound byte chirper, and you can toss in the essentially extinct fourth estate that is a holy owned subsidiary of the corporatist plutocrats. And you can throw in our environmental angels of our better nature the EPA and the “revised figures” “science” community of post 911 experts that will rubber stamp your preconceptions of science for a fee and reinterpret any aspect of the Bureau of Standards to their own level of metaphysical presumption....you know the type - they will tell you that jet fuel can melt and even pulverize steel reinforced girders and concrete. Weird, in the science class I went to they never lied to us like that and got away with it, but alas stupid and credulous has an entirely new definition in America in today’s etiology . So for a moment here, while we confront the wall of their curious indifference to the public good, let’s just look past that and look at a few of the lies that have indeed been confirmed by clownish little nondescripts like you and me my fellow citizen. Most people don’t have a clue what a barrel of oil is. Let’s start by looking at that, because if you want to know the scale of something you would like to start with some form of measurement. A barrel of Oil is 42 gallons of oil. It is equal to 5,800,000 Btu and it takes 7.333 barrels of oil to make 1 metric ton of oil and this is equivalent to 307.986 gallons of oil. Don’t be confused with the three place decimal you can round it off to 308 gallons. Now that we know what our base measurements are and how they are relevant to one another lets consider what kind of pollution routinely goes on around the planet to understand what we have been considering both acceptable and routine up to the present, based on what we honestly know about the level of pollution. 6,000,000 metric tons of oil pollute the planet every year from cumulative calculations of routine oil spills and from leaking or pooling waste oil around rigs planet wide. This represents 1,848,000,000 gallons per year (all dumping sources, not just that which ends up in the ocean and we really don’t know what amount gets to the sea) .***EPA-600/2-81-199, Sept 1981 Oil Slick Dispersal Mechanics, Osamor/Ahlert, Dept Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University. Now BP and it’s bootlicking media buddies reported 5,000 barrels a day leaking, so I instinctually figured they must be understating this to a factor of 10 so as to not cause a furor. Well, within a few days that lie was confirmed by google sat an a few relatively simple calculations. And as they usually do they only succeed in throwing gasoline on the fire of public opinion. In three weeks 2,100,000 gallons has leaked into the bay each day when we accept 50,000 barrels a day as the level of real leakage and it may be greater than that. ((50,000 barrels X 42 gallons ) = each day load.) In 23 days since the beginning of the spill that is equivalent to 48,300,000 gallons are currently in the gulf. If it goes on to 90 days, as predicted, (before capping), we will have defiled the bay with roughly 189,000,000 gallons of crude. That represents 613,665 metric tons of crude that will be all over the place in the gulf. And since BP’s operatives TransOcean has been submitting the mess with a litany of dumb things such as dumping even more toxic dispersants on the oil and burning off distillates they probably haven’t made their own job any easier in reality and this will be monstrous to even attempt to contain or clean up. That’s equivalent to 37,800 tanker trucks the size you commonly see driving our highways to their way to some gas station to off load. Using the length of the average semi-truck fuel transporter as 75 feet that’s 2,835,000 total feet divided by 5280 feet or the length of a mile and the size of this spill in 90 days will be equivalent to a line of semi truck fuel transporters 537 miles long. So much for the scale of things...as they are. To understand the preparation both the government and the oil industry had gone to in order to prepare for such an even I found the amount of literature and its quality too paltry and bordering on childish in is depth of analysis and level of responsibility. The base line literature designed to protect us from such events was a single EPA research paper sponsored by a grant project EPA Doc- 600/2-81-199 dated 1981 and titled Oil Slick Dispersal Mechanics. I cannot see one iota of change in their procedures, directives and presumptions to date other than of course all the schmoozing that has gone on with the pipe and drilling permitting process which is mindlessly cozy with the disaster-makers themselves. From a preventive standpoint the last line of defense from such a disaster was always the bony intrusive clutching fingers of politics, not a safety valve to avert catastrophe at 5000 feet below the ocean floor, not to mention substandard pipe purchased from China that burst under the pressure of both greed and elements improperly assessed and calibrated. Essentially this study was foolishly documented. Primarily it was based on some absurd assumptions such as calm seas, observable phenomena only and primarily analyzed from the surface of the sea without further in depth environmental analysis and subsurface studies, etc, etc, etc.... The science stuff is all there - a hodgepodge of obscure statistical analysis, dispersal rates, clever names for aspects of a spill, charts and graphs up the bazoo, but bereft of any real integrity as a comprehensive in depth analysis of probabilities with a high level of predictable lethality. We certainly would not give a potential terrorist this kind of access and confidence if they intended to play around with such potentially devastating probabilities. We would be applying electrodes to their testicles while they stood on one foot on a block of ice with a hood over their heads! With friends like the oil companies who needs enemies. Isn’t it interesting that out of one eye we would pursue terrorists with the above mentioned typical knee jerk Republican Bush tactics and yet reserve suits and ties and gentle conversation and bottle water, tea and crumpets for our oil drenched counterparts. Softly spoken gentility laced with legal-sleeze and politically acceptable contempt spoken like good little manipulative legislooters. A disgusting dog and pony show of ineffectual Congressmen and Senators; a ridiculous farce fit for a clown. A clown just like you if you are buying any of other their bull winkle any more! According to the authors of the study, Chukwuka A. Osamor and Robert C. Ahlert: “It is impossible to predict accurately the rate of spreading of an oil slick. Spreading rates are site dependent and are influenced by the hydrodynamics of the underlying water and surface air columns. A few theoretical studies which have improved the knowledge of oil slick transport have been reviewed. More recent experimental investigation have involved actual field studies in which large volumes of oil have been spilled intentionally at sea.” The writer goes on to bemoan the high cost of such studies and proceeds...”Usually, the spreading of oils on water is considered to consist of two independent mechanisms (Hoult, 1972). The first mechanism is the tendency of oil to spread as a gravity wave on calm water,”...at this quiet stage, lacking wind, the main bubble of oil is referred to as a “lens”; “the second mechanism comprises the gross transport of oil masses in the presence of external forces, i.e. the convective forces of winds, currents, tides and waves. The total area covered by an oil spill is a combination of the areas covered by both spreading mechanisms.” They go on to note that “Evaporation causes volatile components of the oil to be lost to the atmosphere and dissolution causes soluble components to leach into water...the effects of other weathering processes, e.g. microbial degradation, photo-oxidation, etc., may be significant also, depending on the duration of oil exposure.” But the study of course grossly neglected such fine points as what happens to your presumptions of microbial degradation when you have a spill in an area already terminally ill from deadly Hypoxia (i.e. the total lack of oxygen) in dead parts of the ocean like the northern coast of the Gulf Region and a myriad of environmental considerations that were not extant at the time and are hopelessly wanting for critical research as yet unfunded and undone. How glorious their intellectual dishonesty, how blind their consideration of catastrophic probabilities and how ultimately cavalier their piratical philosophy of greed and disinformation! Both the US Congress/Senate and the Business Community are profoundly at fault here. All these factors and huge gaps in credible science abound and are not taken into account by people who continue to presume that something of this scale can be effectively cleaned up, as there are other levels of pollution barely taken into account. Think about this: the use of dispersals to break up the spill at the top of the surface...what exactly was the point of that? If you use oil-man logic it gets rid of what you can see on the surface and sinks the crude to the bottom in calm water. That process is also self-defeating as it makes to oil go clear to the bottom where public opinion might not be able to see it, but trust me - it’s there. And when the hurricanes come and the deeper ocean currents take the oil around the Gulf in the four directions and then out to sea then I wonder what the geniuses will come up with next. And then the writer of the Rutgers University Study goes on to say, in the one glimmer of revelatory truth in the whole document, that should have begun loud peals of alarm bells all across the land: “The importance of dealing with oil spills by diversion, containment and collection of floating oil cannot be underemphasized. The methods are not practical in all spill situations,...For Example, there is a “sea-state threshold” beyond which containment and recovery of oil slicks is impossible. Dispersion of oil slicks by chemical treatment may be the only option available to reduce adversed impacts on the environment.” Of course the study makes no mention or mere consideration of at what point there mere risk of such a possibility becomes unreasonable. Reason need not apply with these folks, all they see is profit. And then the last glib admission by the writer states: “Furthermore all the mathematical models used in this study and used to assess the size and scope of an oil spill are only relevant in the case of calm seas.” And we all know from what we have seen in the Sea State Catastrophe of the the Gulf of Mexico that presumption only lasted three days until the wind began to blow and it was really out of our hands at that point. The moment we started throwing dispersals on it, it was already too late. I invite the reader to go to the NCCOS and NOAA websites to examine for him or herself the 5000 km2 region of the dead zone in the gulf documented from space. It already threatens a $2.8 billion fishery in the northern Gulf. That is an area the size of New Jersey which is entirely a dead zone devoid of life giving oxygen. This additional disaster will threaten the economies of 5 states and the environment of the planet for many years to come and it is very probably the very perceptible end of the very life of the ocean if this degrees of mindless load of pollution continues as any kind of acceptable standard into the future. We are at the crossroads of the Sea-Stage Catastrophe of the Oil Age and whatever future we want to have left. We have to evolve to a new level of intellectual honesty in our consideration of each others real needs and limitations and on how we choose to manage our environment from now on. This is not just an environmental crisis, it is a full fledged crisis of the nation state and the entire business community going forward. Reasonable honorable people have got to evolve some reasonable control here in America or I doubt the planet will have a prayer and I really hope our Chinese pals are paying real close attention or even give a damn. Cleaning up our act has to be done or we will never move forward from here. And at the heart of cleaning up the corruption we have to wrest ourselves from the grip of corporate hogs who want to over-run our political system. Our own Supreme Court has seen to that. Congress must reform the laws of the Senate and get rid of the foil of the fowler - the infernal filibuster and it must get beyond the mechanism of campaign contributions from corporations that claim the rights and privileges of individuals and stop cooperating with people who subvert any kind of responsible policy of the commons or for that matter the mere discussion on a national level of its essential nature. When is enough enough and what about any of this is even reasonable or responsible or honorably scientific? There is nothing redemptive in unretrievable sea-state catastrophes or fascist state politics. Update: May 18, per numerous new reports there is a plume of under-water oil that is supposed to be 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. If you suspect the oil companies of lying to us as to the scale of this leak consider the following: Let’s use the above statistics as to the size of the underground plume that is said to be the largest. Let us assume rectangularity just for the sake of argument. These dimensions in miles are converted into feet and then multiplied times each other to give us cubic feet: 275,616,000,000. I used the following website address to calculate this spill size: http://www.easycalculation.com/unit-conversion/volume-unit-converter.php Next convert the cubic feet into US barrels of oil and you get 49,089,306,060 Barrels and you get 1,716,769,330,144 gallons! Significantly more than we have been told about it. If the oil comprises only 50% of this single plume we are still being grossly misinformed as to the real size of this disaster. It would be necessary to perform density tests to verify any of these results and of course it is impossible to accurately use a rectangle under water filled with oil in solution with salt water to estimate size or volume correctly. My figures are not intended to be accurate only to throw doubt on what we have been told. When the truth finally comes out I will wager that it will become known that the rig was leaking for days before it blew. Update: May 22, per numerous news reports the truth about the scale of this spill is starting to come out. Scientists now say that the daily spill amount is more accurately placed at somewhere between 95,000 and 110,000 barrels a day ( 3,300,000 barrels in 30 days), equivalent to 4,620,000 gallons per day or in 30 days = 138,600,000 gallons total spilled into the Gulf. 450,020 Metric tons in 30 days. That is equivalent to two-thirds of a 90 day load originally estimated at 5,000 barrels a day and revised to 50,000 barrels a day. This is equivalent to a line of fuel transport semi-trucks 355 miles long so far. That is longer than the state of New Mexico is wide by a few miles. These figures are probably still a low estimate. I was heartened to see that the Tibetan Lama was on the Today Show this morning as I had quoted his predecessor Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in my article. He said that this event is the real mark of the beginning of the 21st Century and spoke of the need for responsibility and positive solutions. To all my brethren: Nemaste! Update May 23, 2010: I was relieved to see that scientific confirmations have been made of the 100,000 to 110,000 barrel a day load limit. Of course this could be revised even higher after the density of the subsurface oil is known. It is gratifying that my figures have been confirmed and my figures are accurate. And it remains to be seen as to whether they will admit to a leaky well long before it actually blew. The next very big immediate issue is going to be the recognition by the public working on this that they have been sent to do a dangerous job with no safety equipment on the order of gas masks etc. The reason why is simple and has only been accentuated by BP in their efforts to sink the crude to the bottom to get it out of the public view. Crude petroleum is a combination of toxic gases and natural distillates found in the oil that are extracted and used as fuels such as gasoline, kerosene etc. These enhanced and refined products in their natural form of distillation contain many numerous toxic substances. I will focus on the one that is probably the worst and that is Benzene. It is said to be immiscible in water, i,e, it doesn’t mix and it tends to float as a narrow band of gas clinging to the ocean surface and just above the water. By telling these fishermen to go out and place booms in the water they had to know that these fellows would have to lean over the side of their boats to place booms in the water and they would be breathing tons of the stuff over a period days or weeks at a time. Benezene causes cancer and is known as ID# 1114 in the 2000 Emergency Response Guidebook used by first responders and various aspects other agencies. It says in Guide 130 for spills of raw benzene that the vapors are heavier than air or floats just over the surface of water and in concentrations it evinces a yellowish tinge. To clean up this type of spill you must use self contained breathing apparatus a plain filter is wholly useless. The risk of explosion is real and the ignition point can simply be a lack of an adequate ground - on water that’s a difficult concern as this stuff can be real fluky if it gets into contained areas . On the ocean much of it will go into the atmosphere but a great deal of it will be added into the ecosystem on shore and in the ocean depths. People are going to suffer horrendous long term effects from this stuff and anyone who is already pushing the limit with a smoking habit would do well not to expose themselves to this stuff for any amount of time without the proper safety equipment. Also Benzene alone, not to mention a myriad of other distillates in heavy oil, has several other byproducts produced by industry and these involve elements found also in sea water or the oil itself, so many other dangerous gas combinations will be adding to the toxic load of the benzene. The government and BP are going to experience lots of liability here just like what was done to the victimized fire-fighters during 9-11. They are being asked to do a job that may have mortal consequences and not being properly warned or protected. The effects can be delayed and often show by very difficult breathing problems that get much worse over time in the case of a high exposure. Oxygen therapy can be used to treat minor exposure, but long term effects of benzene exposure is not good. Nobody in a refinery lives right in the compound, they live a good distance away because of the long term danger of benzene exposure in particular.

Personal Strategies for Restoring Sustainability and Integrity When Confronted with a Bankrupt Failed Two-Party Morass Well, here we are, one year into the most cleverly contrived political coup d’etas in history with the election of Barack Obama and the democrats. Don’t get me wrong I am one, but soon to be I shall redeclare as “Decline to State” in New Mexico. I was a Green Party member who left that party to become a democrat in the last election, because I feared if I did not register I could not audit my vote even minimally. The voting machines in the State of New Mexico have been proved to be fraudulent and I did not trust either the state officials in charge of elections, nor the original Diebold machines used to tabulate the vote. We all learned how effective those mechanisms were at stealing the vote in 2000 and 2004 to allow for the “election” of a blatant tyrant. I ran as a Green Party Write-In Candidate from the Green Party in District 2 of New Mexico in 2002 for the US Congress. I did this because I knew the day of 9-11 that no Arab terrorist could have possibly breached the security embedded in the twin tower complex, including building 7. I knew no jet plane or jet fuel could have possibly brought down a structure of such integral engineering. The kinetic energy at the target was infantile compared to the fortress of design and the fuel involved could not have possibly ignited the girders, let alone pulverize them so thoroughly that nothing larger than two-keys of a dial-up phone could survive. Nor could such an impact cause a building to pancake exactly into its footprint without toppling, leaning or causing a partial break-away of the structure at best. It did not take a rocket scientist to see that it was a perfectly engineered planned implosion by skilled demolition experts who knew precisely the exact engineering specifications of the building. I knew I was looking at a classic case of sabotage from within both intuitively and through logic-testing the criteria of what I had observed. It was an inside job, because no-one else had the skill, tools or motive, opportunity or access to pull it off. I knew it the day of 9-11 and I told and associate of mine that fact, it is a matter of record. Understand, it is not important to my ego to be mentioning this, rather I do so to make sure you understand I did not come on these conclusions through the input of others after the fact. During the Clinton Era I stopped reading most newspapers, because I began to notice how propagandistic they had become. Then came the “shrug”, a despot incarnate, the Republican dictatorial shill we know as George W. Bush. By then I knew clearly what I was up against as a citizen, I had a government that had become patently conspiratorial and seamlessly plutonic. It had morphed into a Bi-Partisan Centrist Monster that had an agenda of its own, quite separate from the democratic civic process we had all presumed represented us. And as the nation recoiled from the devious criminal behavior and the impact of a demolished mainstream economy, it turned back in typical bipolar fashion to the alternative of the democrats in the hopeful visage of Barack Obama. But alas, here we are one year into his administration and what has he done? The first thing he did is cooperate with the opposing party to declare a fiscal emergency and then turned right around and rewarded his contributors and patrons the banksters and crooks in Washington. The next thing he did is staff his government with elitist Clintonities who are the blue dog fowlers of the Democratic Party. As a Green Party Member, I got tired of watching my party, (at the time), give away elections to either a Democratic Vote or a Republican Vote. Both of these parties had been selling out the American electorate for years. I call it PING PONG POLITICS and it goes nowhere. If you honestly look at how it works, a very narrow set of voters in the middle of this bi-polar madness actually elects the party of “choice”. Both Democrats and Republicans fight over the votes of a few narrow centrists independents that aren't really progressive and aren't conservative either, in fact they can't quite make up their minds what the heck they are. They usually vote out of anger or they are knee-jerk one issue voters who chirp sound-bytes and thinking they are highly informed proceed to upset the apple cart for any real or significant progress on either side. This ugly equation has been disenfranchising Americans for years. Having analyzed this I finally came to the conclusion that short of a real revolution there was no way of solving this unless a Third Party could build significant momentum and overcome this conspiracy by the materialized interests of Wall Street contributors who rule the economy from their centrist position to stymie everyone else. Both parties are guilty of leading us down this wicked road of iniquity and cheating us out of a truly viable political system. It finally dawned on me this was much like a schizophrenic behaves and it is true bipolar behavior in the clinical sense of the word. How do they pull this off? Well, for one thing each always suggests doing things that are really largely red herring issues...ie, they set us up to believe, as Reagan did with his classic 12 points, that they are going to push for major reforms that they know will never stand the litmus of the courts in the end. In reality the populist sentiment for change merely gets side-railed and no significant change or reform is accomplished. They love it! The other thing they were guilty of is that each attacked the Constitution from their preferred advantage at the behest of the most centrist elements within their parties that sought aspects of control that fed their bottomless hunger for power over the rest of us. Consider that the Republicans love to attack our civil liberties granted to us in the Bill of Rights by decimating the 1st, 4th and 5th and 6th Amendments of the Constitution, while the Democrats love to chip away at our 2nd Amendment rights in particular and they are plainly spend-happy when it comes to being responsible fiscally and staying within budget, although in the last administration the Republicans did a great job of pilfering the Treasury for their own reasons. Look at the subject of abortion for instance. The Republicans railed on and on about that for eight straight years, and for years prior, in order to control the so-called “Pro-Life” voters. Did we see any real implementation of this “mandate” they were so proud of? Of course not - it was merely a red-herring issue and they knew it would never get past the Supreme Court testing it would most assuredly come up against in the course of the process. But it served their manipulative purpose perfectly and motivated the one-issue voter to back them with zeal, the same zeal they ironically ascribed to in supporting the criminal prosecution of two illegal wars against a largely contrived “enemy” with a majority of subsequent victims of those wars who were in majority innocent women and children in foreign lands. Such is the true tenor of their “Pro-Life” strategy. Moreover, the same moralistic set of knee -jerk one-issues voters signed up in droves for insolvent zero percent loans and overly inflated home loans that were based entirely on lustful greed and piggery. So again, here we are. Banksters, criminals and bone-heads get rewarded and we get to watch our entire system collapse to an even lower level of degradation. Well, the solution cannot be going back to more of the same, so what do we do now? Political reform is the evident answer but how do you implement that when you have do appeal to the wolves to reform the hen house? I submit you don’t. Politics is the art of the possible, but the people themselves do not really understand how to implement reforms. Going back to your fellow partisans is no longer viable, intellectually honest or minimally reasonable. I believe the solution is to form a party that is truly Progressive Socially, accepts that the Bill of Rights is inviolable and insists on fiscal responsibility and on a sovereign currency that reflects a true standard of value and domestic solvency for the middle class American citizen. If you give this some consideration these are really constructive realistic limitations we have to eventually acknowledge. When you embrace your limitations you finally unlock your hidden strengths to overcome adversity. The motto of the Navy Seals is Improvise, Adapt and Overcome. By forming a value-based centrist coalition we acknowledge that we can only work our way out of this by reconstructing the ideology of the Commons in a more realistic fashion. (Although I literally hate centrism, if I am capable of “hating” anything, I know it is a fact of life in American politics. Realize that hatred is just a basement form of love, whereby the “hater” is hopelessly tied to the “hated” in a subjective perverted form of attachment equally powerful as the motive of love.) That way we unite the best elements of both parties and cut out the manipulators in our midst by finding a true common ground under a new party banner. If we keep mindlessly opposing each other within their formula America will be drained of its life blood in short order, but if we unite and combine the best of both mandates to create a Third Force we can steer a path out of this entropy and chaos. The time has come for the Third Party of the 21st Century - the PCP or Progressive Constitutional Party! Ideas for the platform include a foreign policy that reflects intrinsic American values, such as not doing business worldwide with any nation that does not accept our Bill of Rights within their own countries. We have to stop propping up people whose governments in many ways are diametrically opposed to our own in nature, such as our relationship with China and other despotic regimes. Just an idea, but that would be an example of what I would consider to be a more civically rooted stance rather than an economically convoluted one. Our domestic policy should be grounded on the essential values of the Bill of Rights which represents our basic values and is the heritage that we derived from our great history and the brilliant minds of the founders. Yet we must incorporate change as we move into the 21st Century, because things have changed a lot since 1776! To that end I am a solid progressive unafraid of the work required to reform this broken system. And then, logically, if we are going to be discussing “values” we have to accept that fiscal reform is very much a part of this essential prescription for saving the patient. We need to wrest the control of our money system away from the Private Banking Syndicate we love to endow with the misnomer of “The Federal” Reserve. It is neither. It is not Federal and there is no “reserve”. Our money is worthless paper. Everything under your feet is sixty-percent owned by China who owns the bulk of our debt. And what do we do to keep China buying up our debt at the very moment (after the Crash that just happened) that they were ready to walk away from our dollar currency? We continue the despotic policies of George W. Bush and continue to fight a war on two fronts to protect the bulk of mid-east oil as the barbarian soldiers for the Chinese Communist Government we support hand in glove. We are essentially doing the same things the Barbarian armies did for the Romans, which is, as you may remember, what led to the eventual demise of Rome. Yes we are in a terrifying state of iniquity, but there is only one solution to this unless we want even more terrible things to happen in the future. My first suggestion is that we form the new populist party of We The People in the form of the Progressive Constitutional Party (PCP) and put these conspirators in their place forever. Stand up against the snare of the fowlers and if you do nothing else with this effort, then send them a spine shivering signal of primitive FEAR. Give them a dose of their own terroristic guile. Do this by just exercising the sacred rights granted to you by our basic constitutional guarantees, before you lose the option. Stop playing linear checkers and start playing chess. Moving on, there are limited options on the board on how you can protect the wealth that you have in the short term, but there are reasonable things you can do. I will, however, have to address this in three ways to suit the three classes of the monetary system as it exists. Whether you are poor or rich you can move your money to a credit union and get your money out of a bank. Credit Unions, because they primarily serve relatively spoiled government employed constituents, will probably be assisted (if possible) and or stabilized if the dire consequences of this time get worse. Plus they are much more friendly to their members because they think and act in common interest and it is a new vision of the Commons that we are all trying to craft here. Their fees and service charges are minimal, they buy cars at fleet sales prices in lots of 100 or more and greatly reduce the subsequent cost of the credit and the car as an asset. They also loan money at a much better rate than a bank and generally represent their customers very well. In California I bought my first new car through a credit union and when I compared my price to a bank deal on a cash basis the bank cost was $13,500 and my price was $6, 500. Big difference! If you are dirt poor and can scrape any funds at all together or at best used lumber, some plastic sheeting and a few greenhouse-quality corrugated panels you can make a grow box, fully enclosed in your back yard and produce vegetables right straight through the winter. I have one in my back yard and I have Romaine lettuce, beets, spinach, cabbage and other vegetables growing quite well throughout the winter and in late January as of the date of this post they are thriving protected from the brutal windchill factors I have to endure up here on the high llano at 5000 ft. of elevation (high desert zone 5&6). You can collect a modest seed store for current and future use, but don’t overbuy them, because seeds don’t keep forever and hoarding only ensures a shortfall of seed production in the following years. Do not buy genetically engineered seeds as they compromise the integrity of quality seed by pollinating with them. (Don’t do anything that is unsustainable because it is only a short-term solution and will get you nowhere.) What you end up with is a degenerate seed strain no good to anyone. Thanks Monsanto and your buddies out there in the rackets! If you live on a fixed income and are on disability or social security realize that if you purchase medical maintenance supplies for things like colostomies or diabetes you can ask your supplier to waive your 20% co-pay as it is not mandatory that you pay this and many providers are willing to waive it if you request a hardship waiver. Congress forced providers to collect this, but stopped short of making it mandatory in order to increase health care sector profits for corporations, but still provide a hidden mechanism to keep the pressure off people who are really in a helpless situation. Good companies that I know of are companies like Liberty who provide colostomy and diabetic supplies. I invite any other providers to give me their names if they will do the same for you and I will publish their names in this article in future updates. The same mechanism applies to most Doctors and healthcare providers if you just ask. You can lower your car insurance prices by choosing a company like Amica Insurance, because it is a true mutual insurance company. Amica paid claims straight through the great depression and never laid off a single employee. To my knowledge they still have a similar level of integrity and the day they don’t they will lose me as a customer. Stay away from companies that claim to be mutual insurance companies and are not that at all. Amica is going through an intense expansion right now so don’t take your eye off them, keep googling their progress and make sure they don’t drift off into “greedyland”. Go to a minute phone and find the absolute cheapest solution and if you own a computer for heaven’s sake join Skype.com, they are wonderful as a company. The owner of Skype is a true visionary. If you find a fast wireless free connection Skype works very well and it’s absolutely free if you call another Skype client. If you call a land line world wide it is seldom over 2 cents a minute. Another great company is Twitter.com as it is an open platform communications program that opens you up to a worldwide community of Tweeters who use its 140 character message bar to talk to each other in one giant town hall meeting. I think it is a very progressive and democratic equalizer. I can’t say enough good things about them. Within their forum you will find Mashable.com and he will inform you on new and dynamic tools at your disposal all that work with Twitter. Basically do not patronize companies that do not give you performance standards that you can use to track and measure their realistic progress. Do not patronize large multinational corporations unless you really need what they are selling to drive your business, look for smaller domestic entrepreneurs who are your neighbors and help bring manufacturing back to America. Stay away from disposable plastic garbage products that end up in land fills and are designed solely to force you to buy another cheap plastic piece of crap to replace it with. It’s mindless to spend your money that way. Stay away from Walmart if you can help it and shop selectively for basics only when you do have to go there. Their dog food is toxic - don’t feed it to your pets. They killed a bunch of my puppies and only confessed to having GMO products in their dog food (Starlink Corn, since removed from the market) after I threatened to have it independently tested and promised to sue them. They then, and only then, admitted it to me in a letter later. But all the Walmart management at lower levels denied it and lied to me repeatedly as I desperately tried to figure out the source of the attrition. Walmart is chronically dependent on garbage products like flashlights that use batteries and clog landfills with lead and toxins. And you can never find one that doesn’t break before you really need it. I believe they sell bootleg or rebuilt computers as new and the software that comes with them often does not load, because the loading codes they sell with them are not legitimate. I bought two Toshiba laptops, neither of which would load such purchased software that came with the computers. One failed completely and corrupted its own ram chip, that should never even be possible, but that’s what happened. I lost $850 on that deal. During the generator shortages due to Hurricane Andrew they were not past selling me a $350 generator for $900 and then wouldn’t honor the warranty within less than ninety days when they said that the manager who had sold it to me had been fired for being a drunk. Since he told me to bring it back and was no longer in their employ they disclaimed any responsibility. They are nothing but corporate crooks. I won’t belabor the point you can read multiple sources that reveal their chicanery. Next thing I would say to you is pull the plug on any Citadel Communications Radio Stations and Fox News, CBS, NBC and ABC. They pander to their corporate handlers and dish out a constant stream of pap, disinformation and propaganda. Get a computer and get into independent media sources. Be selective and objective and don’t listen to people who spew forth venom and hatred. Five people control about 90% of what you see on TV and hear on the radio and stay away from theocratically based programming. Retrograding back into religious mythology doesn’t attend to life’s problems and only restricts the dialogue with more dogma. In your home convert to a guerilla style homebuilt solar and wind system. Wire your house yourself with a standby system. Just make sure you put redundant fuses on each line to any service you are going to power. Do not tie into the grid as this will greatly increase your costs and you become a slave of the power company when you become part of it. You don’t need an expensive solar bank, rather a modest scaled down system. You can buy spiral florescent bulbs that use tiny amounts of power, dump the tube TV that sucks watts like a vampire and get a small flat-screen TV that operates on about 75 watts (about the same as a laptop computer). You don’t need 24 or 48 Volt systems - you can stay at 12 volts which is the same as the power system in your car and inverters for 12 Volt applications are reasonable and available in almost any auto parts store. Inverters change that 12 Volt current into 110 Volts so you don’t need to change out all your minor appliances to 12 Volts. You can run a straight 12 Volt line into your garage and provide a socket for plugging in a cheap tire inflator which you can carry in your car in case of a flat. If you carry a tire plug kit you can patch most tire problems and air them up without even removing the tire from the rim. If you are limited financially get a solar freezer instead of a refrigerator and get a good cooler for a refrigerator replacement. By simply freezing a gallon of water each day in the freezer you can use that to cool your refrigerated food without freezing it. Keep your longterm meats and frozen vegetable concentrates in plastic bags in the freezer. Put cheap fused inverters in each room you want to light and you can plug in your low-wattage draw appliances that are 110 Volts into that receptacle instead of the grid power socket. By scaling down the draw of your appliances you effectively cut the number of solar panels and wind-generators you would have to purchase in half. Run your water heating by putting a solar collector on your roof and take your showers during the day or if you must use propane get a flash heater, not a water heater. These use much less propane and only heat water on demand. A poor man’s washing machine can be something as simple as a small barrel filled with soap and water in the back of your pickup truck, as you go down the road it agitates and rolls the clothes around absolutely free! But if you have the funds to provide enough sustainable power to your home then convert your washer to a 12 Volt washer and dry the clothes in the sun like your grandparents did it years ago. They smell better than machine dried clothing. Although they cost a lot of money an Ecola Blue water purifier will clean up your water supply and wean you off of chlorinated and fluoride treated toxic water. It takes water out of the air instead of from city sources or a well. If you live in a remote area then build a cistern off your roof, capture rainwater for your house and garden and buy a pedestaled tank and create a gravity-feed water supply that needs no energy to push water. Use primitive rain barrels if nothing else is feasible. Create a Tool Cooperative with your neighbors and share tools that can cost a lot of money thereby reducing redundancy in purchasing of things that are not that critical to your every day needs. Share - it builds good relationships and encourages responsibility. Yes it can be testing at times, but you can do it. Create shared wells and power systems if your neighbors live close, as this too can save you both lots of money. Build habitat for wild critters around your home so they have something to eat and foster a bevy of wild birds in your backyard. By simply putting out a dove and quail block of seed in your yard you can guarantee a domestic food supply in the country. You can also pile up some dead tree branches and cover them with bird accessible openings, but nothing big enough for a predator, and they will nest in there and take up residence out in your fields. Wild and domestic turkeys, chickens and guineas will give you a good back up food supply and grow your own corn each year careful to grow the same variety as any neighbor within a mile or two to avoid pollination problems with competing strains. Get a storage device to put up some corn to feed your critters and you can buy it by the ton hauling it in your pick up truck from the mill instead of buying it by the bag. Medical needs can be a real source of hardship if your are not prepared for hard times. Put together a basic medical supply kit to suit your essential needs - help may be a long way from you when you need it the most. Your physician can help you do this and be your best source of advice when you are figuring out what you need. Realize, however, that draconian laws have been put in place in the several states that can mean your hard sought supplies can be confiscated from you by the authorities so hide some of these where they’ll have a real hard time finding them so you don’t lose them. Having a firearm accessible to you is not out of the question, because you will have to defend yourself, but I do not advocate accumulating too many of these because it merely makes you a target for the worst and most dangerous elements out there in a lawless landscape. Audit medical preparedness and make sure you understand the ins and outs of how you would seek emergency care if you needed it. Know where the nearest trauma center and burn center are, because you will not be likely to survive if you go to a second rate hospital that can’t handle trauma. Keep hydration and electrolyte solutions on hand so you can stabilize a patient if necessary. Put together an herbal pharmacy of basic medications that can be of immense help for lack of anything else. Even simple garlic is a potent antibiotic if you have nothing else. Crush it, wait ten minutes, then put it in the wound after it is activated if you don’t have penicillin. Aloe Vera is great for burns. Golden Seal will stop bleeding in minor wounds and seal them with its own bandage, so too with Slippery Elm and Comfrey. They are all natural antibiotics and Comfrey can actually inhibit the progress of gangrene. Study, research, share your knowledge with your neighbors and build a support system to pull together. Good classical herbal knowledge can be found in my very favorite standby - Jethro Kloss, Back to Eden and another jewel is Where There is No Doctor (google it). It is translated into many different languages. The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide from the Royal Navy of England is also very sound. When it comes to medical help you need to consider that most hospitals are very unfriendly to the indigent and often don’t even get diagnosis right. I am not saying you shouldn’t seek medical help, but seek alternative cures before you commit yourself to being irradiated mindlessly or drugged into insensibility and helplessness. Often the drugs these doctors prescribe are worse than the problem you are attacking. Many of them are in the process of being tested and you are the guinea pig. I encourage anyone to use nutrition and natural medicine before they try “government drugs”. If you can afford a doctor spend your money here first as the body is a self-healing mechanism and if you give it the correct attitude and nutrition it’s own healing power can assert itself. A company I am truly impressed with is http://www.neurorelief.com or http://www.neuroscienceinc.com (it’s parent name). They have a network of doctors that use their products and are really worth checking into. They have studied the four hormonal systems of the body for over 30 years and arrived at standards for each of the critical hormones your body uses to regulate itself. My doctor sent me to have multiple blood tests for numerous body functions and I sent off a urine sample to this company and they sent my doctor the results. He subsequently prescribed the correct cutting edge medical supplements for me and the result so far has been plainly astounding. Where the doctors at the hospital only gave me cursory examinations and very shallow levels of testing discriminating against me because I was indigent they kept me marching in place and misdiagnosed for years - since 1981 and in multiple hospitals. I finally found out that it was a hormone imbalance probably due to chronic malnutrition and stress due to my complicated injuries sustained in an accident. I will be writing about this soon, but the first part of my experience can be understood by reading Apachacuti - A World Upside Down, A Personal Perspective on Healthcare under the Digest of Articles right here on Libertysteward.com. As the body fills in the nutritional blanks the regulatory systems of the body kick in and your immune system can conquer the disease syndrome. Something as simple as different types of sugar in the same product can cause liver and kidney disfunction that can look identical to other serious afflictions, when that is not what you are really dealing with. I highly recommend you check them out. Your money will not be wasted and they will help you with financial aid if you need help. May you stand in the Light Brothers and Sisters - more later as soon as I can give you more. Nemaste! Note: the businesses mentioned here do not pay libertysteward for advertising. Migrate to: Digest of Articles Top of Page

A Day in Belen

a letter to my local papers

May 31, 2011

That morning I was driving north through the center of Belen New Mexico, (which means Bethlehem in Spanish) and having just crossed through the main light I noticed an old man on my left walking. Suddenly he tripped and fell on his face on the sidewalk. I pulled right hard and jumped out of the truck running through traffic to get to him. I picked him up helping him regain his bearings and in a few moments he seemed better and able to stand up straight. “Are you hurt anywhere in particular or just everywhere? I asked.

“Oh, no I’m mas o menos ok, it will probably hurt more later...” he smiled a little as if to say “Que no?” which of course is the equivalent of “don’t you know?”

I made like I was about to get back to my truck by saying “Well amigo my name is George and I guess I’ll be seeing you around town “?

He grabbed my arm and said: “Wait, I’ll bet you know my name!” looking at me as if we had met somewhere before. “Because you see I want to thank you for picking me up when I needed help. “Tell me - don’t you know my name?”

I guess I was struggling to kick my hippie memory out of short term and into long term and somehow figure out where I lost that brain cell. Had I forgotten this guy? He seemed kinda familiar, but then Belen is a pretty small town so I’d probably seen him and even said hello at one point or another.

“Well you see my name is Jesus and so when I say thank you for helpng me up when I fell down it really means a lot to me...” he said with a specially cultivated twinkle in his eye.

We both shared a moment of precious knowing silence and I said:

“Well, I thought I knew you and I guess in that sense you should remember when we met before, do you remember?”

“I’m an old man and I’m not as good at remembering, but you, you go ahead and tell me.” he smiling somewhat hazily.

“I met you in Mexico, or let us say it must have been a younger you, but none the less it was Jesus who picked me up on the road after a terrible accident on the way back from Ensenada. He was dressed in white cotton simple garments, sandals and long hair and looked like all the paintings in the churches of South America. Blonde haired white guy. Looked like a hippie to me. He delivered me to safety and I owe my life to him. When they looked for him later he had vanished as if he was never there, Seven different uniformed border police swore to it.”

“Did he tell you his name was Jesus?” he asked.

“He never spoke his name, but he answered my call after I called out to Him to not let me die. The first thing I heard immediately after I spoke those words was a voice on a lonely highway by the cliffside out of the darkness: “Don’t worry - I will come and take you to wherever you need to go.”

Then I heard the VW van start up and he pulled up in a hippie van and drove me to safety. You see - you where there, don’t you remember”?!

After a moment of considerate silence he said: “ I know now you will remember my name, because I know we have both been privileged to know His name and to have been picked up .”

As we both shook hands and went our ways I left that experience feeling like I had that small town warm glow of thankfulness come over me that something genuine and timeless had occurred that day and I went away from it thanking the Great Spirit for everything I have in Life and for whatever name man wants to call Him in that Spirit.

Both of these are true stories. Yet they become larger than life because of the timeless humanity of the content. So it is in life when we are given the task to craft legislation for a better healthier Commons, which is really a direct reflection of that “small town feeling” I was talking about. I would ask all of my fiends in Belen and Socorro and all over America to think about regarding each other as the most important new frontier for creating Wellness in the Land by supporting a very positive first step in this process of being the Good Samaritan for each other. Please support the following Bill in Congress and the efforts to mobilize the nurses all across America for Healthcare for All:

Support the DNC Afghanistan Withdrawal Resolution and Sanders' American Health Security Act of 2011 (S.915).

Remember Wars only send your small town underprivileged youth to die in foreign countries so obscure investors can win on the markets that drive wars, whereas a vote for Universal Healthcare makes for a healthy land all across this nation. You can spend your money to kill your kids or create a living fabric of life and wellness all across America for the same money. You have to grow up to the fact that you are your brothers keeper and it is the right thing to do. And you have to stop and realize there is not enough money for both. Ask yourself is it better to spend that money taking care of our first duty to ourselves and our children or to be the obscure occupiers of another people’s country? They are as weary of a useless war for profit and conquest as we are, but they care about nothing except for us to get the hell out of their country! Freedom, democracy, cell phones and computers they care nothing about, but they hate us for occupying their land and if the shoe was on the other foot, how the heck would you feel? What it comes down to is that eventually no matter how you feel about the reasons we fought the war in order to keep doing it it is going to destroy us. A sane man doesn’t go with his feelings at a time like this he looks to his reality and goes with what he knows. Do you eat the seeds of your next years crop? Do you squander them when your children’s lives depend on that harvest?

Its better to take a step back when at least it seems we’ve accomplished our obscure goals and to spend the money laying the groundwork for a Healthy Commons and Wellness here at home. We cannot look to a greedy posing Congress or our Party to do this, we have to stand up and make them do it. Stand up for America and Stand up for yourselves.

Occupy Events

in Socorro NM

On November 17, 2011 Socorro held its first Occupy Protest in Solidarity with 320 other cities across the Nation. It was attended by 30-40 people and was enthusiastically greeted by people driving by and cheering and honking in support. It was a great start for a small town like Socorro.