March 17, 2004

The startling success of Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of The Christ’ is an inspiration in more ways than one. If an independent movie can so thoroughly discredit all the conventional wisdom about Hollywood then maybe an independent presidential candidate can do the same thing for American politics. This election could very well be the last time it will be at all possible.

Using his own money Mel Gibson made a movie that no major studio would even consider. He did it according to his own conscience, in his own way, and look what happened. The people supported his vision; Mel Gibson was right, the establishment was wrong, wrong, wrong and when the public was given something profound for a change, they embraced it. The people know the difference between quality and business as usual and I believe they know the difference when it comes to politics too. But The American Political Machine, whose only goal is to perpetuate and strengthen itself, will never allow a candidate to compete who is not absolutely and irredeemably under their control.

Once again this year we will be offered a choice between a big government socialist that calls itself a conservative and a big government socialist that calls itself a liberal. This will continue to be our lot until the control of machine politics over this country is broken. It will not break itself, we must do it.

Half of those eligible to vote in the presidential elections do not do so. In a close election, like the last one, that means that about three times the number of people who voted for the winner did not vote for him. I think that many of these folks would vote if there was someone worth voting for. If only half of those who are opting out of the process could be encouraged to vote we could have a real election. We could even end up with a real President.

Bush has been nothing less than a traitor. His one concession to the constitution he swore, falsely, to uphold was acknowledging that the second amendment was indeed an individual right as even some of the most liberal constitutional scholars had always recognized. But he did nothing about the thousands of therefore unconstitutional gun laws and after 4 years has not only made absolutely no attempt to repair the damages done to that right but allowed the worst Clinton era legislation to be perpetuated. Using the old Reichstag Fire ploy, he has created a huge federal police bureau reminiscent of George Orwell’s ‘Ministry of Love’. He has overseen the elimination of certain jury trials, compromised habeas corpus, promoted clandestine arrests, indefinite detentions and secret courts, grossly expanded federal spying on citizens, gutted the Freedom of Information Act, made a sick joke of our immigration laws and lied on a Clintonesque scale about sending our troops into war. Among other things. For the last several years his ober polizei have even been making discreet progress to allow the use of torture to extract information from ‘suspects’. This last is especially disturbing since, given the federal police’s talents for fabricating or destroying evidence it would seem to be superfluous and one can only surmise that the real intent is to have their own weapon of terror to use against future dissidents. Unless North Korea is hiring I cannot believe such a person would have any future in politics.

Kerry? Look at his face while you listen to him speak; it’s obvious that someone put Bill Clinton’s brain into some kind of giant, perennially constipated rodent. He is duplicitous and greasy; a gold digger who equates money and power with character. Will our country be any better off by trading George Bush’s patrician fantasies for those of John Kerry? I don’t see how.

Another conventional wisdom disproved by ‘The Passion’ was that of language. No movie with dialogue spoken exclusively in two dead languages could possibly be successful, right? Once again, wrong, completely wrong. Might it be possible then to conduct this political campaign in another language that is dead, at least dead in all political circles; the language of truth? Will the American people understand what is said if they are not lied to? Yes, they will. The question is, is there anyone who could run for president who is willing to speak the truth? I believe there is, but they certainly are not in the race yet.

I get very angry when organizations such as the National Rifle Association tell their members that they should support someone as “the lesser of two evils”. To me it just shows how deeply these groups are invested in the political machine. This is the United States of America; we are a nation with millions of intelligent, honorable people. Why should we have to settle for anything evil or anything lesser? We are the best and we should have the best. It is not enough to be a super power when the potential is there to be a superior power.

Amen.

Lee Robinson welcomes your feedback!

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