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- From: dolan@XENON.BERKELEY.EDU (Kent Paul Dolan)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Birthright Party '92 feeler
- Message-ID: <9209042346.AA01160@helium>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 23:50:56 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Birthright Party Campaign '92 Feeler
-
- Way back on 13 May 1992 [so I'm a slow reader], Johnathan Vail posted,
- in talk.bizarre, in response to Rich White's request for help choosing
- from among the losers on the California Democratic Party sample
- presidential ballot:
-
- >> write ins will be accepted so yes! you can vote for carasso or KIBO
-
- > Or Kent Paul Dolan. I was really disappointed he didn't run this
- > time around (yes, we remember).
-
- With such a groundswell of support, it could be time to make a go for
- it, if for no other reason than to watch rissa start to foam at the
- mouth again. It's a little late, and I don't have a real news reading
- account, but at least when the IRS comes to drag me away I can scream
- "it's a Republican plot to suppress viable candidates", like LaRouche
- did when they jailed him on tax charges, so let's put out a little
- feeler here:
-
- USENet, and more generally the global net, is one of the greatest
- untapped political resources in the world. It has access to millions of
- people in offices with access to all the latest yuppie desktop
- publishing software and copying equipment needed to mount a campaing
- among the non-netted folks.
-
- It has access to millions of strong legged, strong lunged college kids
- with time on their hands and the youth and enthusiasm to make a
- difference if only there were a political cause to attract their
- allegiance.
-
- It communicates faster and more reliably than any telephone system or
- broadcast news system.
-
- There are enough US participants that if each of them convinced 100
- voters to join them, their cause would win overwhelmingly.
-
- So, there is this in-joke of a political party called the Birthright
- Party.
-
- The cause it espouses is the saving of the human species, to be done
- in several steps:
-
- 1) Get the US out of the World Kop business; it's some other
- power's turn in the barrel; I suggest Common Europe as the
- likely source of cannon fodder candidates.
-
- 2) Get rid of a few (thousand) other government idiocies that
- waste money but do no good, like agricultural support for
- products that kill people when used as advertised.
-
- 3) Convert the income tax to a flat tax with no deductions.
- Taxing unequally to promote social programs is a bad way to
- do social engineering and leads, through the influence
- peddlars trying to get tax breaks for their clients, to
- massively corrupt government. Deductions feed lawyers, not
- the poor. Get rid of it all and come up with a tax form
- that fits on the back of a post card.
-
- 4) Take the money saved and use it to build a real space program,
- one with a basis in making profits and harvesting the abundant
- energy, mineral, and gas resources waiting for the taking to
- the first crowd brave enough to make the journey.
-
- 5) Given a space capability, move a breeding cohort of the
- population off planet, ASAP, and continue populating space as
- fast as possible.
-
- The result of such a program, carried out with planning and courage,
- would be high employment, unbridled prosperity, coupled in the long
- term with a lessening of the human burden on the ecosystem, as
- polluting industries and mineral recovery and energy production all
- moved to space.
-
- With this as a goal, perhaps this nation could return to the uplift and
- spirit of the sixties and early seventies, and escape from the doldrums
- that began with the Arab oil embargo and have never been shaken off
- because we are a nation without a Purpose.
-
- Those interested in such a program, and willing to try to make the
- Birthright Party a visible part of campaign '92, talk up the idea among
- yourselves, post it around in other appropriate groups, and drop me a
- line. I'm willing to be the candidate, or just the organizer if a more
- viable candidate can be found, or just the gadfly to keep things going
- if that is all my part can be.
-
- If it is time for the flower children to take control, then let's do
- it, and usher in the Age of Aquarius, rocket scientist version.
-
- Kent, the man from xanth.
- "The Birthright of humankind is the stars!"
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