Thoughts on the Primaries 2

On my last blog, Thoughts on the Primaries (1?), I typed about the threat of our current status quo. Our politicians are nothing other than puppets or marionettes, for the Establishment. : ( We must stop this tyranny. The first (and most important) action is to protect the voting process. We should either have the ballots counted by hand. Another idea, is to give every voter an anonymous identity of number (and this will be done at the precinct level). And, if a vote really is miscounted, the voter could bring up his case (and a governmental check will be done). All in charge of counting votes will be bipartisan. The federal government shall ensure bipartisanship and a lack of conflict of interest(s), while the local area (probably individual precincts) will actually be conduct the process. Before even this can happen, we must prevent fraudulent votes (hence one of the reasons why we need to stop illegal immigration). Contrary to what the Establishment says Diebold, and the ilk, are not the solutions; they actually leave RIGGED elections, a possibility!

The next move is to crack down on lobbying and campaign contributions. We need to limit money that can be donated to politicians from multinational corporations. There shall be no money laundering (such as Wal-Mart giving money to a purely domestic company, to "softly" give money to political campaigns. States should do this, when and where the Federal government can't (and shouldn't for some). Also, when politicians retire, they may not become lobbyists (for f0r-profit organizations). They same applies to the Board of Directors (of for-profit companies).The only exception is if they receive below $100,000, on an annual salary (retirement coverages for the firms shall also be scrutinized. If they do so (without an exception) they will lose congressional pensions and health care coverage. There will also be a very higher tax rate (enough to make a profit from the lobbying firm, rather meager). We must wean our politicians off of the teat of Multi-national corporations, if our nation is to survive.

The third move is to bring anti-trust laws (and strengthen current ones we have). Our major broadcasting channels and whole news-media, shall be localized. Corporations with a commercial conflict of interest (to deemed by a bipartisan commission), will be forbidden from owning media outlets. Newspapers will be localized (not everybody should be reading the New York Times; read your own local newspaper! The more local, the better.) Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and the like will have major decentralization in the media. For example, Fox News, inc. won't be able to control what all of its viewers see (especially on political matters) what all of its viewers could and would see from New York to Los Angeles, from Canada (and Alaska) to Mexico. Think: Decentralization! On top of this, Rupert Murdoch won't be able to control his former channel, as he already has the Conglomerate's collection, in combination with corporate interests. His power, "trust," monopoly, must be destroyed. This is just one case in point. Channels should stop "Poll Results" for the Presidential Campaigns. They are being used by a channel to subtlety endorse a candidate. Broadcaster: "Hi, everybody! [The other week, we totally fixed the Presidential debate, purposefully to prop our choice candidates.] It looks like Huckabee is the most popular candidate, right now. He has the highest approval ratings. Everybody says he won at our hosted debate. He is great! Now, here is America's favorite, Pastor Falwell, Jr. Hi! Mr. Falwell, Jr." Falwell, Jr.: Hi, just so you know, everybody, Huckabee is a great guy! He is a fiscal conservative, and most importantly a 'man of God,' endorsed by our protecting Establishment!" B: "Yes, indeed. ........." And they go on, and on, with this propaganda, with a "Huckabee is winning and many think God is hand-picking him, so let's spend the whole time building his name recognition, while ignoring the others, especially Ron Paul. And here is one of the very few times they talk about Paul (which only occurs when he is doing well, so as to discredit his success): "Ron Paul is a nut! He thinks the North American Union is desired by our bosses in the Establishment! He wants the terrorists to win! He wants to get rid of the whole Federal Government! He is a Racist, a White Supremacist! He wants to let innocent foreign non-Whites die! He hates Abraham Lincoln; he might even be happy, he died! His supporters are loonies!" This is just the tip of the iceberg, as they try to deface his name, and misrepresent everything he says. All they can do is throw fallacies. Because, people tend to pay so little attention to politics (they just listen to the "major" issues) they tend to know little about political matters (except Britney Spears' latest shopping spree, and such!). They also rely too much on emotion, and what they are told to believe. The corporate-owned media knows this! And everything is staged! So, rationally speaking , one could well accept that Ron Paul meant "I just wish Civil War could have been settled diplomatically first," but the paid broadcaster equates this statement to actually opposing Lincoln's legitimacy. I greatly admire Lincoln for what he did, but even from the perspective of Ron Paul disagreeing with Lincoln, that is the whole point of democracy. People are supposed to have their own views, if they wish. This is the whole point of our Democratic Republic, which itself legitimized Lincoln's election. So, therefore, Paul couldn't have been challenging Lincoln's legitimacy. He is actually protecting what truly legitimizes him! But I digress! My whole point is that people need to dig into the information, themselves, and not rely on corporate interests, to tell them everything!

Maybe those who can't think for themselves, shouldn't be allowed to vote. That's one reason why minors can't vote, they would just vote whomever their parents supported; just like people vote for whomever Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh tell them to. The same thing is happening in the Democratic party, with Barrack Huessin "Osama" Obama.

Take care, and have a nice weekend!