"The only way the people can take the country back from the corporatocracy is if enough folks--believing they can make a difference--get sufficiently riled up to get involved in politics."

Absolutely, Don. I agree with you 100%.


Here's the text of an email the Kucinich campaign has just sent out to its supporters. I'm on their list.

Dear Kucinich Supporter,

We want to keep you updated with everything that is happening with the ABC situation. As you know, they have excluded Dennis from tonight's debate.

Yesterday, the Kucinich for President Campaign filed an emergency complaint with the Federal Communications Commission claiming that the ABC television network is violating its obligation to operate in the public interest by excluding Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich from tonight's scheduled debate in Manchester, NH. The filing points out that Kucinich is the only Democratic presidential candidate who has qualified for Federal matching funds who is being excluded by ABC. Further, the complaint charges, the televised event is not a true presidential primary debate without including all credible candidates, but instead is effectively an endorsement of the candidates selected by ABC.

Besides fighting this in court, we are fighting on the airwaves by purchasing TV and radio time.

Supporters will also be gathering outside the location of the debate in Manchester, New Hampshire tonight to hear Dennis speak. But he should be inside at the debate.

Mainstream America needs to hear about the one real Democrat - Dennis Kucinich.

We need your support to get the word out that Dennis has the platform that America needs and wants. The mainstream media won't tell you. Did you know Dennis just won another straw poll? It was held by the Washington State Democratic Party but you will have to look hard to find it!


Don, I'm not even an American citizen or an American resident, but I care about your country. For one thing, I lived there for 10 years (age 10 to 20), so it's a very big part of my own background. (I'm really sort of a Canadian-American, to all intents and purposes, though Canada, being where I was born, is a bit closer to my heart.) For another, the USA is part of North America, and what I really am is this: I'm a North American. I care about what happens on this whole continent deeply, because this continent is my birthplace! It's a single great land to me, and a holy place. I am doing what I personally can to support the Kucinich campaign, even though I don't live in the USA, because it matters to me what happens. I will do what I can to support Obama or Edwards if they run for president. Hillary Clinton? I am uncertain about what I would do if she won the nomination...it might depend on a number of other factors, such as the Republican alternative, for example.

You see, it's not the individual politicians themselves whom I am really upset with. It's the Coporatocracy, the shadow government behind the scenes. It's the unwarranted intrusion of the Corporatocracy into every important process, domestic and international, that is crippling the ability of individual politicians in most nations to really serve their public honestly, and it's this subversion by the Corporatocracy that has got to be fought and stopped...BY individual politicians who have the courage to take it on and by the public in general.

While I am disgusted with the corruption of the traditional political machines that the Democratic and Republican parties have become over the last many decades...that does not mean that I am disgusted with the individuals who are members in those parties or with the individuals who are running for office (provided they are honest and forthright in genuinely serving the public, rather than serving a bunch of corporate lobbyists).