Why Not Gary Johnson?

From Ulster County political guru Robin V. Yess:   This is from inside the Gary Johnson campaign. The Libertarian Party National Convention is May 2 thru 6 in Las Vegas. Still wondering if Ron Paul will crash it?

My thoughts (I copied State Senator Bonacic and Ulster County Republican Chair Roger Rascoe):

I don’t know.  I would like to know if Ron Paul is considering a third party bid. If not, it will be worth putting energy and money into Gary Johnson’s Libertarian Party campaign. Johnson is an intelligent, competent leader, with a much stronger resume than either Romney or Obama.  As governor of New Mexico Johnson cut spending with a Democratic legislature. Compare that to our Republicans in New York who specialize in public housing and corrupt deals with destructive real estate developers.   Nationally, we have a Democratic candidate who sponsored Romneycare and a Republican candidate who sponsored Obamacare.  That Gary Johnson was given short shrift in the GOP primary next to extremist kooks like Gingrich and Santorum and a corporate welfare crook like Oromney (or is it Robama?) is proof enough that the two party system is broken.  I’m hoping for a split government, with a GOP Congress and a Democratic president.  However, if Paul runs it is conceivable that his percentage could compete with Oromney and Robama.  Perhaps we can get rid of the broken two-party system.

From the Johnson Campaign:

  Friends of Liberty,

All over the country, liberty-minded activists are preparing to converge next week  to nominate the Libertarian Party candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States.

With those nominations, the 2012 history-making begins.  There are only three candidates for President who will be on the November ballot in all 50 states.  The Republican candidate – most likely, Mitt Romney; the Democrat candidate, Barack Obama; and the Libertarian Party nominee.  Essentially a three-way race for the White House.  And as you well know, I hope to be that ‘third’ cho ice as the Libertarian nominee.

In poll after poll, large majorities of voters are making it clear that they are, more than ever before, open to the idea of a fiscally conservative, socially tolerant candidate – a choice that will not be offered by Mitt Romney or Barack Obama. Those voters are also making it clear that the business-as-usual represented by the tired two-party duopoly is not what they want in 2012.

You and I have worked long and hard to get where we are today.  Our goal has been – and remains – putting liberty, truly smaller government, and individual freedom on the American political agenda.  Well, friends, we are on the verge of doing just that.  Thanks to your support and hard work, we are within a few short days of achieving what the elite media and the political establishment never believed could happen: An election in which Gary Johnson will be on the ballot – in every state - as a very real alternative to Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

Then, it gets extremely interesting.  But only with your help.  Yes, we have done the work, we have traveled far to get here, and we are on the verge of making history.  We are giving America the choice they want and deserve.  But that choice will only be real if we are able to get our message out.  The Republican and Democrat establishments are amassing hundreds of millions of dollars to flood the airwaves, the phone lines and the Internet with their ever-shifting appeals. 

Without your help, our message of liberty and freedom will be lost in the  two-party noise.   We have earned our place in the national debate, but we won’t be heard without the financial resources to take our campaign to every corner of the nation – to build on the base that has been built by Ron Paul, by our campaign, and by you.

With the nominating convention coming up next week, there are only a few days left to have your contributions ‘matched’ – or essentially doubled from the Presidential Campaign Matching Fund.  Every one of those dollars is critical. Please go to GaryJohnson2012.comtoday and help seize the amazing opportunity we have, together, created for liberty, freedom and real prosperity.  Ending needless wars, balancing the budget, getting the government out of boardrooms and bedrooms alike.  We must tell America there is a candidate who will do those things, if given a chance.  Your contribution will let us do just that.

Go to GaryJohnson2012.comtoday and send that message.  We ARE about to make history – and it begins in Las Vegas next week.

Thank you,

Gov. Gary Johnson

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Is This for Real? Was JFK Shot by His Driver?

Sharad Karkhanis forwarded this video. It depicts the Kennedy assassination, but unlike any other footage it shows the driver shooting.  There are a few alternative explanations:

(1) The driver was shooting at someone other than JFK or John Connolly
(2) The tape is altered
(3) The driver's shooting is an optical illusion

The following is the e-mail Sharad sent me:

If this hasn't been altered it certainly a big WOW and would also explain why the "investigation" never came up with anything other then Oswald as the killer.... an inside job investigated by the perps.

 

Apparently, Jackie Kennedy always believed L.B.J. Was the one responsible for JFK's death and her private papers were supposed to have been kept secret for 75 years. However, the Kennedy daughter has just decided to release the papers, early, over her deceased mother's desire for privacy. Did she decide to release her mother's papers to coincide with the release of this video ? Who knows more about the attached video.....like who filmed it and where it has been all these years... And who the driver was ... And what happened to him...

THIS is Jaw dropping !

Watch closely......

Lyndon Johnson said on TV the day after the Kennedy assassination that the world would never know all the facts surrounding Kennedy's killing for 75 years until the complete file of information would be revealed. Walter Cronkite announced on TV, that the Nation could not handle the full truth in that Century. Well, only 47 years have passed since Kennedy's assassination.

This is hard to fake and is very chilling....... Who was driving the limo?

This video shows the limousine chauffeur that takes President J.F.K. And his wife, November 22nd 1963 in Dallas , Texas , shooting the gun with his left hand. This was the video that the CIA did not show to the public view. And did you ask yourself why was Jackie trying to run away towards the trunk, away from the front of the car? And why was JFKs skull wound in the front, when supposedly, Oswald was to have shot him from the back?

Watch the attached video . 

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Three Categories of Romney Voters

It looks like Romney will be the GOP's nominee.  True, Rasmussen finds that Romney outpolls Obama in a two-way race; nevertheless, the assumption of a two-way race is tenuous. A third party candidate can found a pro-freedom party. 

There are three categories of GOP voters who should be ebullient about Romney's now near-certain nomination:

(1) Bailout recipients.  Those on Wall Street and in large commercial banks need a reliable crony capitalist in the White House. Romney and Obama are their men.

(2) Other special interest beneficiaries. Those who benefit from fascist and socialist redistribution should be happy with Romney.  The architect of the Obama health care bill will change little of the Democrats' welfare and other special interest programs. Wasteful military spending will continue unabated.  Large businesses and government bureaucrats ought to be happy too. So should teachers' unions and builders of bridges to nowhere.   

(3) Chumps.  People who watch Fox news, who find their standard of living stagnating, who stand to lose everything from a currency collapse, who do not gain from America's socialist way of life, and who still vote for Romney are chumps.  They lack the self-confidence to think for themselves; they  allow Wall Street-controlled media to tell them what to think.  They believe that they are voting for the lesser of two evils, but there is only one evil--and they are for it.

Romney and Obama are immoderate candidates. They are big government extremists.  That there is little difference between them does not make their ideas moderate. There was little difference between Trotsky and Stalin. That didn't make either moderate. A candidate who advocates that crooked government bureaucrats loot 40% or 50% of the American economy and borrow 100% is not moderate. But that is the position of both Robama and Oromney.

Because the two party system has failed and does not present meaningful choice, Americans who are eager to avoid a final currency collapse might consider voting for a third party. One that is not mentioned on Fox or on talk radio.  This might be Ron Paul or it might be Gary Johnson.  It is more important at this point to build a new party than it is to elect one or another representative of a collapsing paper aristocracy.

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Ron Paul Runs Second on April 24

I picked these numbers up from Google at around midnight on election night.  Ninety-eight percent or more of the results were in.  I computed the simple, unweighted mean (so that New York's results counted the same as Rhode Island's).   Romney won with 61.4% while Paul came in second with 15.4%, and Gingrich came in third with 13.4%.  I turned on Fox Business News for 10 minutes and they were talking about Gingrich and Santorum. They didn't mention Paul. 

In fact, Paul's supporters can sway the presidential election either way, which is why Paul should run as a third party candidate.   I'm not sure whether his running would hurt Obama or Romney more.  It is difficult to know which party is more oriented toward freedom: the socialist Democrats or the fascist Republicans.   One thing that is easy to know: both parties will support Goldman Sachs and both parties will do harm to your personal and economic freedoms.

Connecticut:  Romney 67.4% Paul 13.5% Gingrich 10.3% Santorum 6.9%

Delaware: Romney 56.5% Gingrich 27.1% Paul 10.6% Santorum 5.9%

New York: Romney 62.2% Paul 15.8% Gingrich 13.0% Santorum 9.0%  

Pennsylvania:  Romney 57.9% Santorum 18.4% Paul 13.2% Gingrich 10.5%

Rhode Island: Romney 63.2% Paul 23.9% Gingrich 6.1% Santorum 5.7%

Non-weighted Mean: Romney 61.4% Paul 15.4%   Gingrich 13.4% Santorum 9.2%  

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November 2012 Results Revealed

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Ron Paul as Spiderman

For this week's GOP primary, The Lincoln Eagle, Mike Marnell's edgy, pro-Ron Paul newspaper based in Kingston, NY,  features a cover drawing of Ron Paul as Spiderman.  The drawing is by Joe Sinnott, the 86-year old inker for Marvel Comics whom Stan Lee called Marvel's best. Wikopedia says that Sinnott has worked for Marvel for 60 years, including 16 on Fantastic Four as well as The Avengers, The Defenders and Thor.  Sinnott lives in nearby Saugerties, NY.

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Romney Outpolls Obama

The Rasmussen Poll finds that Romney noses out Obama 46%-45%.  I'm trying to figure out whether that's good or bad.  Rasmussen also finds that in a national generic congressional poll the Republicans are leading by 46% to 36%.  The difference is volatile, though; last week it was less than half that.

The numbers may result from Obama's unpopular health care law.  Rasmussen finds that 53% of the public favor its repeal.  If 53% favor repeal and 45% favor Obama, either almost all the 9% undecided presidential voters favor repeal, or some Obama supporters do.  That makes sense because we're talking about American voters. It would be interesting to know whether a few percent both favor Obama and favor repeal of Obamacare.  Also, the public is skeptical of Obama's economic program.  Rasmussen finds that only 49% of Americans say that their home is worth more than when they bought it, and only 27% think that the country is headed in the right direction.

All of this raises the specter of a double-breasted Republican victory: Republican control of congress and the presidency. On the one hand, that may have the effect of repeal of the health care law. Also, it would slow the environmental initiatives of the Obama administration: the attacks on energy development, the local initiatives like Smart Growth and LEED, and the concomitant attacks on home rule and democracy.   Unfortunately, the Republicans have backed erosion of home rule and land rights too, but to a lesser degree.  It is not clear that government will shrink under double-breasted GOP control; rather, the Republicans have previously consolidated Democratic expansions of state power and big government.  If they do, in fact, repeal Obamacare, it will be a first.

At the same time, the Republicans have been good at causing inflation, expanding military spending, and government tyranny.  All of this goes goes back to the Progressive era, with the establishment of the Fed (under Democrat Wilson, who was elected with the aid of Republican Roosevelt), the FBI, and the Palmer Raids.  (Incidentally,  if you haven't seen Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar starring Leonardo DiCaprio, I recommend it.)

The Bush administration accented the problems with Republican government:  crony capitalism, pork barrel waste, and monetary expansion.  In other words, the problems with electing Republicans are about the same as the problems with electing Democrats.  The difference is that the Republicans bloat government to subsidize Republican special interests while the Democrats bloat government to subsidize Democratic special interests.  Both subsidize Wall Street. 

I am in favor of  a third party, either the Libertarian Party or a new party if Ron Paul chooses to establish one.  Governor Gary Johnson would be a first-rate candidate on the Libertarian ticket. He is more moderate and more competent than either Obama or Romney.  Unlike Romney, who is a crony capitalist who has made his living through connections and monetary expansion, Johnson built a real business from scratch.  He did not expand government in New Mexico; he fought a Democratic legislature to restrain government. In America, now, a third party candidate like Johnson is a more moderate choice than either a Democrat or a Republican.

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Rasmussen Poll: Paul Outpolls Romney against Obama

Fox and other pro-Wall Street, socialist sources have spread the lie that Ron Paul can't win.  In fact, according to the Rasmussen poll,  for months Ron Paul was the ONLY Republican out-polling Obama.  This continues to be the case.  Today, Rasmussen announces that Ron Paul out-polls Obama 44% to 43%, while Obama and Romney are tied at 45%.   The Rasmussen poll just sent this e-mail to its list:
 
 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 (see trends).

Twenty-nine percent (29%) believe the country is generally heading in the right direction.
In a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup, President Obama and Mitt Romney are tied at 45%. Matchup results are updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Texas Congressman Ron Paul holds a one-point edge over the president, 44% to 43%. See tracking history for the Republican candidates.

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Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind and the Historicity of Mass Murder

My op-ed "Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind and the Historicity of Mass Murder" appears in this week's edition of David Horowitz's Frontpagemag.

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Kingston, NY to Experiment with Martial Law April 12

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Will Republican Election Fraud Lead to a Three-Way, 2012 Election?

2012 marks the centennial of Theodore Roosevelt's third-party presidential race.  Roosevelt, the Republican founder of big-government Progressivism, believed that a socialist state should govern business.  A century later, Barack Obama is in the midst actualizing Roosevelt's vision.  A century ago William Howard Taft opposed Roosevelt's socialism and favored anti-trust suits to limit monopoly.  To fight Taft, Roosevelt ran on the Progressive Party ticket, enabling Woodrow Wilson to win and to establish big government policies that included the federal income tax, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Federal Trade Commission, and the precursor to the United Nations: the League of Nations. 

In 2012 Ron Paul needs to establish a new, libertarian party that will hamstring today's Roosevelts: the socialist Democratic Party and the fascist Republican Party.  Unless Paul establishes a new party, democracy will continue to diminish; your standard of living will continue to stagnate; the United States' power will continue to decline; your personal freedom will continue to contract.  Totalitarian laws like the Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act will continue to multiply, and they will restrict your freedom to an ever-tighter radius.  Environmental regulation will deprive you of your home.  America's corrupt, crony-socialist state will subsidize banks and big businesses--while your own wealth diminishes. This will be done with the exuberant support of the American media, from Democratic to Republican, from socialist to fascist, from Paul Krugman to Rush Limbaugh.  The only way out of the crisis is the moderate one: Ron Paul, limited government, and the gold standard.   The alternative is the paper money system that Karl Marx, Joe Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Maurice Hinchey, and Ben Bernanke advocate.

Election Fraud Has Ended American Democracy

Progressivism is ambivalent about democracy.  On the one hand, the Progressives claimed to enhance democracy through the direct election of senators, the referendum, and the recall.  But some Progressives advocated Jim Crow, and others favored exaltation of experts in the Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Trade Commission.  Experts and journalists would, in the opinions of Walter Lippmann and John Dewey, replace or manage public opinion.  Monetary issues, once the subject of vigorous public debate, were removed from public discourse; Americans docilely accepted that experts' dictatorial edicts about monetary policy were consistent with their freedom.  They are not.  The experts have served as Wall Street's stooges.

Following Progressives like Lippmann and Dewey, Fox, The New York Times, and MS-NBC have eviscerated public choice by distorting facts.  For example, in a series of recent Rasmussen public opinion polls Ron Paul was found to be the only major Republican candidate to out-poll Barack Obama in a general election.  At the same time, propagandists like Rush Limbaugh repeatedly claim that Ron Paul can't win. The Republican media bias against Paul was seen in the camera's editing out Paul during the presidential debates. The networks cut segments where Paul spoke.  In describing vote counts, newspapers listed Paul last even when he won; moreover, they did not mention elections which Paul won, such as the Virgin Islands primary.  As a result, Paul polls only 10 percent among GOP primary voters.

The death-knell to Rush Limbaugh's and Fox's credibility has been their unwillingness to discuss election fraud in Maine and Iowa.  It is one thing that Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, and the rest of the Wall Street-controlled media (NBC, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC) lack journalistic standards and do not cover Paul's candidacy accurately. It is another that Limbaugh panders to a Republican Party that routinely engages in election fraud. 

When Lincoln Eagle publisher Mike Marnell asked me to write about election fraud, I was skeptical.  Like many born in another era, I still have faith in American institutions. I remained unconvinced when I read the Ron Paul and Alex Jones websites' accusations of election fraud against Ron Paul.  It may be true that turnouts to Ron Paul events are many times greater than turnouts to Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich events--even as Paul wins 10 percent of the primary vote.  For example, 8,500 people came to hear Paul at Cal Berkeley; 6,000 came to see him at UCLA; 6,200 came to hear him at Cal State, Chico.  These young, dynamic audiences form a nucleus for a potentially revolutionary force.  The Founding Fathers did not have a larger or more dynamic nucleus than this.  But that is not evidence that elections have been rigged, for a vibrant, vocal minority may be a minority still.  This is especially so because GOP primary voters do not reflect mainstream opinion.  Whereas the Rasmussen poll has repeatedly found that Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate able to defeat Barack Obama in November, it also finds that only 10 percent of Republican primary voters support Paul. 

As I read about election fraud, though, I learned that a University of Chicago-based research center called the Argonne National Laboratory has publicly demonstrated that today's election machines sold by firms like Premier (Diebold) and Dominion (Sequoia) are easily gamed.  Argonne Laboratories' Vulnerability Assessment Team found that a hacker who inserts alien electronic devices (at a cost of $10 to $26) into a computerized machine can readily engage in man-in-the-middle attacks. The Vulnerability Assessment Team says that voting machines are frequently stored for weeks at a time in schools, libraries, and other unsecured locations. 

Even the level of sophistication that Argonne Laboratories describes hasn't been necessary for the GOP to butcher election processes.  Several election observers' Websites, including www.bradblog.com and Bev Harris's blackboxvoting.com, have uncovered substantive proof of voter fraud in both the Maine and Iowa caucuses.   These websites' methods do not, however, contemplate electronic vote manipulation of the type that Argonne says is easily accomplished.   In one instance, a Ron Paul supporter in Iowa found an apparent typographical error that caused the Iowa caucus to mistakenly go to Romney over Santorum.  When this one error was uncovered, the GOP was forced to reverse the results and hand the win to Santorum.  In Maine, the distortions were egregious.  Although Ron Paul lost in Maine by 194 votes, the Maine GOP did not count Washington County, which had 6,876 registered voters, according to Ms. Harris.   In other words, there is little reason to believe that the Maine Republican primary was valid. American democracy, RIP.

In effect, there is a combination of factors that lead to questions about the GOP's ethics in conducting this year's primaries.  First, there is Fox's and Limbaugh's unfair and unbalanced coverage that reflects the needs of its owner, Rupert Murdoch, and Wall Street.  Second, there is overt voter fraud that was uncovered in Maine and Iowa, and may exist in every state (if it was uncovered in two states, might it not exist without being uncovered elsewhere?)  Third, there is the susceptibility of voter machines to manipulation--a problem that has not been addressed here in Ulster County or anywhere else.  The GOP certainly has not addressed the problem.  After all, the new systems were the GOP's idea in the first place.  

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