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The Voter’s Internet Party: a modest proposal
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 27 January 20051 comment
The Voter’s Internet Party: a modest proposal.
By James K. Sayre
We need to create a new Voter’s Internet Party. With every passing day it is becoming painfully more obvious to all but the most fanatically partisan of us that the vast majority of the Senators and Representatives from both of the two major political parties are irrevocably corrupted by the unseemly influence of major corporations and the wealthy ruling elites. Therefore, we, the vast majority, who want clean honest open government, need to form a new political party that will serve our interests, and not those of the ruling wealthy corporate elites. Therefore, may I suggest that we create a new Voter’s Internet Party to honor the ideal of a traditional count-all-the-votes democracy.
With widespread use of the Internet, we now have a relatively easy, inexpensive and efficient way to contact and organize the many millions of American voters that have been disenfranchised and disillusioned in the 21st century by the Bush & Co. theft of the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections. The brilliant example of the highly effective grassroots campaigns of the Internet-based MoveOn.org in the 2004 Presidential campaign has shown that Internet-organizing can be a powerful tool for progressive social change.
Orange. Since orange has been clearly identified in the mass media as the color of protest of election fraud first in the Ukraine and later in the United States, let us use the color orange to help identify our new Internet Voter’s Party.
We need our new Internet Voter’s Party to help facilitate our country’s return to the exclusive use of traditional hand-counted paper ballots. We need to stage thousands of 21st century versions of the 1773 Boston Tea Party by dumping all of the computerized electronic voting machines and computerized electronic vote tabulating machines into the nearest body of water. As long as there are any computerized electronic voting machines and computerized electronic vote tabulating machines used in any voting precinct in the country, there will be Republican hackers, riggers and thugs who will find ways to rig, hack and steal future American elections.
We need our new Internet Voter’s Party to demand that all future elections be administered by professional non-partisan state civil servants, not by partisan political hacks such as the 2000 Republican Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris and the 2004 Republican Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will not be accepting any corporate donations or contributions.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will be grass-roots based on small individual annual contributions not to exceed a maximum of $100 per year. Of course, individuals will be encouraged to donate their own time and energy to help build the new Voter’s Internet Party. Our new Voter’s Internet Party will thus avoid the corporate corruption, which has long been the hallmark and the curse of the two large political parties.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will honor the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will honor and preserve our natural environment.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will honor social security, labor laws and privacy laws.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will honor a woman’s right to choose.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will honor international law, international treaties and international obligations.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will honor the working people of American with good working conditions and a living wage for all.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will honor the public’s right to control public airwaves and to thus require public interest broadcasting on television and radio instead of the current arrangement of allow greedy private corporations to dominate our airwaves.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will honor the right to universal health care and universal single-payer health insurance.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will return the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to its traditional watch-dog role of protecting the American consumer instead of its current practice of protecting and enlarging the obscene profits of greedy drug manufacturers.
Our new Voter’s Internet Party will not torture anyone under any circumstances. Our new Voter’s Internet Party will consider the Golden Rule in regards to torture: If you don’t want it done to you when you are in legal custody, then we will not do it to anyone in American legal custody.
27 January 2006.
Contact information: James K. Sayre
Email: sayresayre@yahoo.com
Mail: Post Office Box 191, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA.
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Forum posts
29 January 2005, 01:53
"Ill tell you why not,"
I hope you’re a healthy person, because if you’re not, going to the doctor and paying him out of pocket will put you in the poor house in no time flat, unless you’re wealthy. And, let’s not even think about what a stay in a hospital would cost.
This is the 21st century. People should start thinking about current realities of life and not waste their time reminiscing about how things may have been in the past. Comprehensive health care should be included as a basic human right, along with the right to work for a livable wage.