While more evidence continues to pile up against Hillary Clinton, this time exposing pay to play schemes between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation (while her strategists call for open assassinations), and as Mr. Trump relentlessly hones his carnival barking skills, the Green Party is moving forward after nominating Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka as candidates for President and Vice President. Here are some highlights from the convention that took place last week in Houston:
“Look past this moment. Build pressure. [That] checks the abuses of government,” Julian Assange told the group of Green Party delegates, who had cheered him on with cries of “Wikileaks! Wikileaks!”
“It’s not a revolution to watch a president drop a mic then drop a bunch of bombs on people,” YahNe Ndgo told the audience. Ndgo was a Bernie-or-Bust activist until she threw her support behind our campaign.
“A vote is only wasted when you vote against your conscience,” said Martina Salinas, Green Party candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner.
“We understand the difference between a neofascist catastrophe and a neoliberal disaster,” said scholar and activist Dr. Cornel West. “But we reject both.”
Indigenous rights activist Rodolfo Muñoz said, “The system is rigged. My people have known that for a long time.” Muñoz is a Green Party candidate for Texas Supreme Court.
Cheri Honkala quoted African-American poet Langston Hughes before introducing Vice Presidential nominee Ajamu Baraka: “Let America be America again!”
“I’ve been committed to independent politics all my life,” Ajamu said as he accepted the Vice Presidential nomination. “The electoral process is a way that we build power for the people.”
With respect to political assassinations, one truly has to question the sanity and mental stability of not only Hillary Clinton, but all those who flock to her standard.
And that talk of political assassinations takes us back to a Huffington Post article on 10/19/2011 by Shirin Sadeghi, Independent TV & Radio Host ex-BBC & Al Jazeera, entitled “Hillary Clinton Wants Gaddafi Killed,” wherein we were informed as follows:
It was only last week that the US government tried to negatively portray Iran and Iranians by associating them with political assassinations.
It was just this week that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton openly called for the political assassination of Moammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader.
“We hope he can be captured or killed soon,” she said — while in Libya, to Libyans.
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Of importance to this discussion, where we are alleged to be a nation operating on “rule of law,” is this following from that same article:
It is actually against the law, what the US government is doing.
And not some kind of United Nations “law” or international legal standard (of the sort that sound fantastically humane but are actually just unenforced moral standards that most countries, especially superpowers, routinely ignore).
State-sponsored assassination is actually illegal according to the laws of the United States itself.
In the decades before and since President Gerald Ford signed United States Presidential Executive Order (EO) 11905 on February 18, 1976, the US government has directly and indirectly assassinated people — many people.
And EO 11905 is not exactly ambiguous legal speak — it’s one of the most straightforward pieces of legal documentation you will find.
In Section 5, subsection G, it clearly states that “No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.”
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So what is up with Hillary Clinton and her lackies and lickspittles, then, calling for the assassination of Julian Assange?
Oh, right.
OUR laws do not apply to them.
Sorry about that.
I’m getting old and must have just had a “senior moment” where I totally forgot that because she is Hillary Clinton, and none of the rest of us are, she is special, so that the laws which apply to common persons do not apply to her and hers.
Of course the system is rigged.
It has been rigged since the very first day this nation was formed.
That is something we were taught in kindergarten, when we were being prepared to become thinking, productive American citizens.
Because the system is rigged, this year, I am going to do something I have never done before, which is to write in the names of the people I think could actually serve the nation in the positions of president and vice president with dignity, respect for rule of law and the U.S. Constitution, and respect for the people of the United States and other nations on the face of the earth, as well.
Those names are Tulsi Gabbard for president and Chris Gibson for vice president.
In an article in HONOLULU CIVIL BEAT by Todd Simmons on 2 November 2015, this is what was said about Tulsi Gabbard:
The Honolulu Democrat was in the national spotlight once again Friday night as the lead guest on HBO’s long-running hit show, Real Time With Bill Maher.
Gabbard quickly showed why she’s become such a force, one who seems to be able to speak provocatively and challenge party orthodoxy without any outward signs of significant repercussion.
Within the show’s first three minutes, she had called out Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton as a regime-change loving interventionist and “cheerleader for the Iraq war when she was in the Senate” and accused the Obama administration of “working hand-in-hand with the Islamic extremists” trying to overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
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I saw her on that show, and I was impressed with how she expressed herself.
She is one of the first two female combat veterans elected to Congress, and the first American Samoan in Congress.
She is intelligent, and is able to express herself intelligently, without all this yelling that politicians like Hillary Clinton, NYS Governor Young Andy Cuomo, and yes, even Jill stein resort to when addressing the public.
I don’t like politicians yelling at me, or hectoring me, and I refuse to vote for any that do, so there goes Jill Stein off my list, as she was on Fox recently, and there she was. yelling like Hillary Clinton, so good-bye, Jill, come back when you can talk like a sane person without yelling.
Chris Gibson is a congressman from New York state who set term limits on himself.
He is a good communicator, not a goofy hornblower like Joe Biden.
He is also a veteran of combat,
I remember Chris Gibson many years ago in the early-1980s, when he was a private in the local National Guard unit.
From there, he went active duty, and rose to the rank of colonel in the 82d Airborne Division.
His service included four combat tours to Iraq, and separate deployments to Kosovo, the Southwestern US for a counter-drug operation, and most recently – just prior to his retirement – Haiti where he commanded the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team (BCT) during the opening month of that humanitarian relief operation.
For his service to this nation Chris earned two Legions of Merit, four Bronze Star Medals, the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman’s Badge with Star, the Master Parachutist Badge and the Ranger Tab.
Unlike the main-stream politicians being put forth by the Republican and Democrat parties, Chris Gibson, a student of history who graduated magna cum laude with a BA in history and later earned an MPA and PhD in government from Cornell University and is the author of “Securing the State,” a book on national security decision-making published in 2008, knows the Constitution and is a strong believer in the Bill of Rights.
As a congressman, he stood for stopping the steady erosion of legislative branch power – the people’s power, which stands him in opposite contrast to Hillary Clinton, who is a neo-Federalist.
As a congressman, Chis Gibson is for Fiscal Responsibility: getting back to a balanced budget so that future generations get the same choices and freedoms as people alive today.
Environmentalists have cheered Gibson for voting to curb methane emissions.
Perhaps these Green Party people could be leaders, but let’s face it, they are untried and untested, which is precisely what we do not need in this nation right now, a bunch of amateurs running around with pie-in-the-sky ideas and no real political support.
With respect to political parties, any of them, and all of them, and the office of president of the United States of America, I find myself very much in the camp of Virginian and Revolutionary War veteran James Monroe, president of the United States of America after Jemmy Madison, and also George Washington, another Virginian and Revolutionary War veteran who warned us in his Farewell Address about the pernicious influence of political parties on American government.
All political parties, wrote Monroe, were by their very nature, incompatible with free government, a sentiment I am very much in agreement with.
According to Monroe, and this is a position I agree with, as well, the business of governing is best conducted by disinterested statesmen, acting exclusively in the national interest – not on behalf of sectional interests or personal ambition.
That is why I am writing in Tulsi Gabbard for president and Chris Gibson for vice president.
As to George Washington, who unfortunately has been denounced and discredited and thus, totally forgotten today because like people had been doing for the previous 2500 years or so, he owned slaves, he accepted the fact that it is natural for people to organize and operate within groups like political parties.
Freedom of association, after all, in private life.
But he also argued that every government had recognized political parties as an enemy and has sought to repress them because of their tendency to seek more power than other groups and take revenge on political opponents, which is what we have in the USA today with this continual partisan warfare between the worthless Republican party and equally worthless Democrat party at all levels of government in the United States of America.
As do I, Washington had thought that disagreements between political parties weakened the government, which is certainly the case at the national level in America today, where we have suffered gridlock and partisan sniping and bickering for at least the last eight long years or more, and moreover, Washington made the case that the alternate domination of one party over another and coinciding efforts to exact revenge upon their opponents was itself a frightful despotism which leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
From Washington’s perspective and judgment, the tendency of political parties toward permanent despotism was because they eventually and gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual, which of course, brings us to today, and Federalist Hillary Clinton with her “STRONGER TOGETHER” campaign and a bid for one-party control of government in the United States of America with her in place as our queen.
In his Farewell Address, Washington went on to argue that political parties must be restrained in a popularly elected government because of their tendency to distract the government from their duties, create unfounded jealousies among groups and regions, raise false alarms amongst the people, promote riots and insurrection, and provide foreign nations and interests access to the government where they can impose their will upon the country.
Ah, yes, the Clinton Global Initiative, and Hillary Clinton’s dangerous, discriminatory and prejudicial claim that “If someone has white skin, they are a racist because of Implicit Bias, and we need community programs here in America to cure them.”
In closing, we have actually gone back to this nation’s early days, I think.
This contest is not about liberals versus conservatives or progressives coming to the fore.
We are back to Federalists who want a king or queen on the throne, and absolute power, versus Anti-Federalists, who fear that absolute power with good reason.
Put me in that latter camp.
Speaking of the pernicious effect party politics have on government in this country, according to the POLITICO article “McAuliffe says ex-felon voters not likely to boost Clinton” by Nick Gass on 08/23/16, we, the people, are informed as follows:
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday said that Republicans like Donald Trump need not worry about losing his state to Hillary Clinton because of the 13,000 ex-felons whose voting rights he restored earlier this week.
“We don’t need these votes, and I speak for the Hillary campaign.”
“She is going to win Virginia.”
“We’ve been anywhere from eight to 10 points up now for five or six months.”
“We have built a massive ground operation, which we’ve worked on many weeks here in Virginia.”
“She’s going to win it.”
McAuliffe continued, “She doesn’t need these votes, but let me tell you this, we’re going to go out and try and earn them and put our message out of why they should vote for Hillary.”
“But it’s 13,000 votes, and she’s [in] very good shape.”
The Democratic governor, a longtime Clinton ally, in April issued an executive order restoring the voting rights of more than 200,000 convicted felons.
The state Supreme Court, following a lawsuit by Republicans, ruled that voting rights could only be restored on a case-by-case basis.
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So much for serving ALL of the citizens of Virginia equally.
With respect to those case-by-case reviews, let’s say it is 20 weeks since the court made McAuliffe, a rabid Hillary partisan, go back and review each felon separately.
And let us say he did nothing else but that for those 20 weeks, 8 hours a day, which is 800 hours.
And in that time, he supposedly conducted comprehensive reviews on 13,000 felons.
That is 16 felons per hour, if he was doing nothing else in all that time.
If my math is correct, that is about 4 minutes per felon.
And that is what McAuliffe is calling a comprehensive review to restore voting rights to these people.
Doesn’t that make people scratch their heads and wonder?
Just curious, of course, as I try to figure out just what kind of caterpillar that is outside my window reclining on a mushroom and smoking a hookah out there.