Wow, my first LP supporting or informing article!
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DON’T NEED A CONGRESSMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE DRAFT VOTE GOES
October 5 —
House votes down draft bill
Snippet from article:
Washington - It started out as a cheap publicity stunt by US Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) – a bill to revive the military draft in America. Then House Republicans pulled a stunt of their own, bringing the bill to the House floor with limited debate so that they could vote against it. The bill went down, 402-2.
But Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik isn’t fooled. And he doesn’t believe most Americans are, either.
“Sure, they voted it down today,” says Badnarik, 50, of Austin, TX. “No politician with the brains to wangle a National Guard slot or a 4F rating during Vietnam is going to come out in support of the draft a month before the election.”
“It’s how they’ll vote in January that worries me.”
Link to full article
My Thoughts:
I still think it is a dead bill and dead issue based upon my military experience and the numbers that are in the military right now, no need to worry Mr. Badnarik or American Public, BUT I can see his point though it still would not come down to a draft.
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“IT IS NOT TOO SOON FOR HONEST MEN TO REBEL …”
October 8 —
Badnarik: I will debate or be arrested
Snippet from the article:
Michael Badnarik, the Libertarian Party’s 2004 presidential nominee, will debate John Kerry and George W. Bush in St. Louis on Friday. Or he’ll go to jail instead.
“A majority of Americans say that I should be included in the events sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates,” says Badnarik, 50, of Austin, Texas. “And the CPD, as a non-profit, has received special treatment from government on the requirement that they be non-partisan in their activities. Bi-partisan is not non-partisan.
“Unless I am allowed to participate, the debates become a massive campaign contribution to two of the candidates, illegal under the very campaign finance laws those two candidates have passed and signed as Senator and President.”
At 8 p.m. on Friday evening, Badnarik, along with the demonstrators expected to assemble in protest against his exclusion, will proceed to the police line erected to keep himself and the other legitimate candidates out during broadcast of the “bi-partisan campaign commercial.”
And then he will cross it.
Link to Full Article
UPDATE TO THAT SITUATION:
MICHAEL BADNARIK ARRESTED
October 8
8:38PM CT
The first report from St. Louis is in - and presidential candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green Party) were just arrested. Badnarik was carrying an Order to Show Cause, which he intended to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Earlier today, Libertarians attempted to serve these same papers at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the CPD - but were stopped from approaching the CPD office by security guards.
Fred Collins reported to me from the ground that Badnarik and Cobb are in great physical condition and great spirit.
Link to Full Article
My Thoughts:
Yet more reason that the two party stranglehold on this country should be broken, after all last time I checked Abraham Lincoln WAS a Third Party Candidate, so was Ross Perot, more parties in power mean less corruption in power. The two party myth needs to be destroyed before that myth destroys the United States of America.
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Finally, about the Third Party Debate.
Snippet from Badnarik's site about it:
Michael Badnarik will be squaring off against Green Party candidate David Cobb, Socialist Party candidate Walt Brown and Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka. Independent candidate Ralph Nader declined the invitation. George Bush and John Kerry were also invited, who thinks they’ll show?
Which I just saw on CSPAN that they will air it Sunday at 6:30 and 9:30 EST (?), I will update when I have full confirmation from CSPAN's website. Interesting debate, could be, just a change of pace from the other big debates, might inform oneself on Candidates besides the 'Corporate Two Proxies' (as Ralph lovingly calls them). I will watch it and link to the RealPlayer Clip afterwards, which CSPAN keeps a library of previous broadcasts in Realplayer.
That's all for now, from the Grim one.
Later,
Grim Xiozan