BS: Kucinich v. Texas

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Peace
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 10:58 AM

It amazes me that America finally gets someone who's willing to 'tell it like it is' (or, equally, tell it the way he sees it) and the MACHINE just keeps goin' out of its way to ensure he doesn't get elected. Has it struck y'all that just maybe your democracy is in deeper peril than it ever has been before?

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Riginslinger
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 12:02 PM

The MACHINE is going out of its way to make sure he doesn't even get heard.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 12:30 PM

Here is the latest message from the Kucinich campaign:

Now Is the Time to Do the Right Thing

Dear Friend:

I am not in tonight's Presidential debate in South Carolina because, over the weekend, the Federal Communications Commission supported the arbitrary and deliberately exclusionary criteria imposed by CNN and its parent company, Time Warner, Inc., to keep me out. And, because that FCC decision came so late, there was absolutely no time to appeal or to challenge their denial of Americans' right to hear from the one and only candidate who is willing to demand ...

Immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq. No war with Iran. A national, not-for profit health care system. Repeal of the Patriot Act and a restoration of civil liberties. The cancellation of NAFTA and the rebuilding of the U.S. auto, steel, aerospace, shipping, and manufacturing industries. Carbon-free and nuclear-free energy policies.

But, it's not too late to fight for what we believe, and that's why I am asking for your help. (Click here to donate).

The Democratic Party has out-sourced your right to a full and fair debate to private, multi-billion dollar media conglomerates whose interests do not represent mainstream America. Their interests are best served by manipulating the political process to achieve their own ends, promote their favored candidates, and profit from the rewards of their power and control.

To challenge those powers and defend your rights, we are running up   extraordinary legal expenses. We need your help to sustain those efforts so that everyday Americans can believe in their rights and have faith in their strength to stand up against the political and corporate powers that are ignoring us at the same time they are trying to dominate us.

With your help, we can change this system. We can demand reforms, fight for justice, and re-write the unfair laws and the discriminatory regulations to make this a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Please contribute whatever you can, and ask your friends to do the same, because the cost of doing nothing is far greater than the price of doing the right thing. Before it's too late, now is the time to do the right thing.

Thank you

Dennis

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 12:33 PM

What democracy?

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: CarolC
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 12:35 PM

Hey, LH, check this out. This was one of the people with us yesterday at the debate in South Carolina. I think this was very effective. And it got us a lot of media attention...

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/724/gallery/322333-a322732-t3.html

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 12:50 PM

Very good, Carol. It makes me sick to see what is going on in the USA with suppression of alternative views in politics. It has become a controlled society under a privileged and unaccountable oligarchy, one that imprisons people without due process of law, one that tortures people in extra-legal facilities, one that launches wars of aggression based on outright lies, and one that arranges phony, meaningless national elections in which all the officially sanctioned candidates who get national coverage are servants OF the oligarchy.

We've seen that kind of thing before, and we've seen where it leads. It leads to a de facto dictatorship and a police state...and it leads to greater wars not far down the road...wars which will not end until the oligarchy itself is broken.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Peace
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 12:59 PM

The suppression of views has been working its way into the 'average business day' ever since Bush became President. Between him and Cheney and the crew, people don't have any views left, 'cept those the boys want them to have.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Riginslinger
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 10:33 PM

There has to be an answer to all of this, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 12:03 AM

Time eventually provides an answer for everything, including the most corrupt of political regimes.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 01:21 AM

My own feeling is the answer is people getting involved, like the folks at Black Box Voting. Check out this thread and what these people are doing to try to clean up the election process in New Hampshire. I find it very inspiring, myself...

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/71456.html?1201055989

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Wesley S
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 05:00 PM

He's expected to drop out of the race soon.

Story here

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
From: Peace
Date: 24 Jan 08 - 05:08 PM

Good idea on his part.

1) He had NO chance to become President--he'd never have got by his own party.

2) He better try to hold onto his present seat.