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Politicians Should Learn Lessons from RFK Campaign and Inspire Us

4/28/2010

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Are you inspired by any politician?

Common complaints about those who run for office are the promises they make and do not keep, their unwillingness to stand for something and their reliance upon negative campaigning, especially through 30-second spot ads on television.

Recent political campaigns have featured promises in which the public has been told by candidates of both major parties what they want to hear.  Nixon promised “peace with honor” in Viet Nam, Carter said he “would never lie” to us and George H. W. Bush told us there would be “no new taxes.”

Candidates offering the most appealing promises have tended to win and have had to focus on keeping them.  Some promises have been kept and others not.  But it hasn’t always been this way.

Robert Kennedy campaigned for president in 1968 by telling audiences what they did not want to hear: to a group of college students, he said he favored removing the deferment that students had from the draft.

Yet he claimed students as one of his biggest constituencies on election day.

Advisors told Robert Kennedy not to speak to a mostly black audience in Indianapolis after it was revealed that a white man was accused of murdering Martin Luther King, Jr.  They told him the crowd could form into a mob and injure or even kill him and others present.

Yet he gave the speech, anyway.  Not only did no one harm him, but on that fateful day, Indianapolis was the only major city in the whole United States that did not have rioting.

His opponents used what was then a relatively new forum with which to campaign, television advertising.  But Robert Kennedy did not like this approach because he could not articulate the ideas that he based his campaign upon, such as ending the United States involvement in Viet Nam, reducing poverty and promoting civil rights for all.

So he frequently used 30-minute, rather than 30-second advertisements.  They worked to help him to detail and clarify his positions and how he would lead the United States if elected.

Kennedy’s campaign of 1968 should inspire us because he chose to run his campaign by what he believed was right, regardless of the consequences.  His willingness to do the unpopular and even the unthinkable showed a solid grasp of self-knowledge and gave the voters confidence of his integrity to principle had he avoided the assassin’s bullet and won election.
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Deadline for Restoring Hope in USA: November 2013

4/15/2010

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Hope for the United States of America died many years ago.

Our nation used to have hope for so many and for so much.  It used to believe that things were possible, like equal opportunity for all, ending involvement in conflicts that made no sense and serving as a role model for other nations.  We used to have politicians who were statesmanlike and who had no fear standing up for unpopular principals at their own risk.

We are running out of time to get that hope back.

In fact, the deadline stares right at us.  By November 2013, we must do the following before the spotlight of media and public attention given to those who fueled that hope runs out:

Establish the truth about those who were taken from us.  Lies destroyed the hope we once knew.  Lies about who killed the Kennedys.  Lies about KentState.  Lies about 9/11.

Get the truth about JFK's assassination and tell everyone else, regardless of what the media or those in power say.  We don't need every detail.  We do need the truth that members of our government perpetuated the murder and framed an innocent man, Lee Harvey Oswald.  All other facts about the assassination simply fall in line behind these two facts.

We must know the truth about these events for our own survival.  If agents of the government can murder the president, presidential candidates and other innocent people, they are capable of murdering anyone.  Knowing how they did it can only help us.

Tune out candidates who only give us sound bites.  It started with the 1968 campaign, with Richard Nixon and Roger Ailes effectively using spot ads and focus groups to win the election.  Nixon said very little about any plans he had for the United States and refused to debate his opponent, Hubert Humphrey.

The last presidential candidate to routinely speak off the cuff about his thoughts for improving our nation was Robert Kennedy.  He spoke with passion and paid no attention to polls.  He risked his life informing the people of Indianapolis that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been murdered, apparently by a white man.  Of all the major cities in the United States, the only one not to suffer a riot that night was Indianapolis.

We must vote out the phonies and tune in the real candidates.  If a candidate cannot talk straight to get the job, how will they tell the truth to us?

Stop the Wars!  Our long involvement in Viet Nam gave our leaders reason to believe that they could get away with getting into a war over lies.  Groups of people I call the "War Party" made a fortune with their stocks and contracts and they shoveled some of it back to those who made the war possible.

History repeats itself with the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and covert actions elsewhere.  It is time to stop falling for lies like "weapons of mass destruction," "we have to get bin Laden" and "we must fight pre-emptively."  These are just empty sound bites designed to stop reasoned conversation.

We must stop these kinds of wars to save future generations from the agony inflicted upon us.

Don't let November 2013 sneak up on you.  After it is gone, no one will care much about JFK because the golden anniversary will have passed.  Act upon the truth and for the truth now to bring back hope to our nation.
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What Will You Risk to Get Truth about 9/11?

4/7/2010

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The kinds of risks we are willing to take speak volumes as to what policies we favor for our society.  Consider the following questions, all of which are predicated on the assumption that public policy will never perfectly address the problem that it covers.

Which possibility do you prefer?

1.  Too many people receiving government (taxpayer) services OR too few receiving them?

2.  A guilty person going free OR an innocent person punished?

3.  A fetus aborted OR a child born into a life of starvation?

4.  Children with access to marijuana OR adults deprived of marijuana for medical purposes?

5.  Nazis with free speech rights OR government censorship of movies?


Why are these questions difficult to answer?  It is because policies are designed for the masses rather than the individual.  In the first question, we cannot guarantee that everyone who needs services will receive them because of fraud and error.  If we crack down on fraud by hiring more investigators, for example, we increase the chance that those who need services will be judged in error, thus resulting in too few getting the services.

The same risk takes place in the other questions as well.  Mathematicians call this a Type I or Type II Error system.  Guilty people will go free because prosecutors, judges and jurors make mistakes or have bias that causes misconduct.  The best way to remedy the problem would be to change the laws to prevent errors from causing mistrials or by changing judicial instructions.  But the result would most likely be an increase in innocent people found guilty.

Likewise, by changing policy to discourage or forbid abortion, we risk more children born to parents who live in poverty.  If we crack down on possessionof marijuana, we risk arresting or jailing even those who use it for medical purposes.  If we tell the Nazis they may not have a parade, we will have trouble justifying a policy based on free speech for some and not others.


How do we make our decisions with these kinds of choices?

We can acknowledge that no valid opinion will please everyone.  We must at some point decide that some results are simply better than others.  Those who favor too many people receiving taxpayer expenses will undoubtedly risk others calling them names like "socialist" but the disdain of others must be risked to effect public policy.

We can apply this "Risk Model" to the most serious questions before us.  For example, we can decide whether the public needs a new investigation of the events of 9/11.  The factors include the costs to the taxpayers, time spent in Congress or whatever forum is used and the possibility of government secrets revealed.

The question before us is then: Would you prefer the possibility that guilty people go free for the crimes of 9/11 OR the possibility that taxpayer money will be wasted in the process of conducting the investigation?

It all depends on what you are willing to risk.
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Enjoying Modern Life Has Caused Us to Write Ourselves out of the Script

4/5/2010

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As I sit here writing to you through the Internet, I feel like we have lost something in our world. And I think we are responsible for this loss.

It all began when most people I knew got a personal computer in the early 1980s.We believed what advertisers told us that the compact computer would save us from the "paper blob" (in the words of a contemporary commercial).We also thought that computers would help us to become more organized and efficient.

Besides the frequent breakdowns and freezes, and the increase in paper production because of the ease in printing out, the personal computer has deprived us of the personal touch.I rarely write letters anymore, using the word processor for a while until the advent of electronic mail.There was much of interest we could see in a person's handwriting, like whether they printed or used cursive and whether they closed letters like the letter "a."

Microwaves came about to save time in the cooking of food.It always works well in a pinch to throw something in the microwave, or to "nuke" it, but no one can seriously say the food that comes out of it beats the "old-fashioned" ways of the oven or the grill.And while it is true that the grill caused more smoke and carcinogens to the environment, have we really made up this problem with the microwave?

And we also started using the automated teller machine (ATM) to get cash.Its ease of use leads to the financial demise of many.Back in days of writing out withdrawal slips, a person had to go inside the bank during its regular hours to retrieve money, which created a type of deterrence.And now, with the use of credit cards, we never see the cash leave our hands!

By making things "easier" for ourselves, we have created new complications.The worst part is that we keep moving ourselves further and further from everyone else.Instead of enjoying a sports event at the stadium with others, more people opt instead for television, now with cable and satellite channel options.Hearing the roar of the crowd is a memorable experience that fewer people will get to engage in.

With the continuing economic problems in the United States, more people want to stretch their dollars out.They could take the easy way by buying fast food and re-heating it with the microwave.But it would be must less costly and healthier for a person to cook the food fresh themselves every day.

But who has time to cook? Or to take cooking classes? With the use of convenient options, we think less and less of going to a class, being around people and learning something that could help us.

Where are the voices in our lives? Many people go to cubicles and do not interact much with co-workers because they are pre-occupied with information from computers. Our neighbors are more and more becoming people we have only interacted with on the Internet.It is sad when the favorite voice of so many are people like Rush Limbaugh who stir up anger and spread lies and half-truths on the radio.

You read my words instead of hearing them. We have allowed this script of convenience and isolation to be written for us.We should realize that the script includes me and you but no longer us.
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