Suddenly as reported in the Time Argus, Bernie
Sanders has started a signature drive to get on the Democratic primary ballot!
I guess Bernie wants to debate Craig Hill and Larry Drown? I doubt it. Rather Bernie wants to make shure no one is on the Democratic ballot line come November.
Could it be that Bernie actually wants to be a Democrat, the party that he votes like and with whom he is getting support from?
I do not know much about Larry, but I do know that Bernie is aware of the fact that Craig Hill is already making a point of exposing Bernie Sanders
voting record, which exposes the reality of his rhetoric.
I hope that the Vermont press will entertain a true debate and airing of issues. Bernard Sanders does not deserve a free pass to the Senate no matter how chic, warm and fuzzy, he may seem. I myself am appalled by the fact that he voted for the Iran Freedom Act, which Dennis Kucinich called "a stepping stones to war". See Justin Raimondo's piece at Antiwar.com for details. Vermonters should know that Bernie has voted for a bill that calls for economic sanctions and regime change in Iran. This is not about peaceful solutions, but solutions based on power politics that plays into Bush's hands. Also the fact that Bernie wants to cut off aid to the Palestinians is appalling. The treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government and the United States is nothing less than a genocidal progrom which is stealing land, water and human decency away from these people. Are not all humankind made in the image of god? Are not all men created equal as our Declaration of Independence states? Why not policies that respect such ideas of self-evident truth? So in essence Bernie Sanders supports the state sponsored terrorism of Isreal, Britain and the United States which is beggetting the very terrorism that we decry. This is not the way to peace. Peace can only come through trust that can not be bought, but worked at through projects of mutual development which people of that entire region need such as water development. Right now
the battle between the Palestinians and Isreali's is as much about water as anything else. There is much more of Bernie's record that he does not want Craig Hill, or anybody else the chance to question him on. I frankly believe that no one deserves a free ride into the Senate of the United States. Certainly the other millionaire, and Sanders is a rich man, Richie Tarrent, is not going to go after Sanders voting record that helps the Bush Administration. Tarrent is not going to challenge
Sanders as to why he refuses to take his oath of office seriously...for anyone who believes that 19 Arab hijackers are responisible for demolition of the World Trade Center is either willingly or unwittingly going along with the basic contention of the Bush Administration, that Al-Qeada did 9/11 and thus we must have a war on Terrorism. Sorry folks 9/11 was a Reichstag fire style Coup that is the excuse to implement the preemptive war plans of the neoconservatives and concurrrent abrogation of the Constitution which Bush's imperial signing statements attest. With his vote in support of th Iran Freedom Act, Bernie is doing Bush and the NeoCons bidding. One must ask why did it take so long for Bernie
to sign on to John Conyers inquiery into a possible impeachment. Well because Vermonter's themsleves were becoming the leaders in our own call to have Bush and Cheney impeached so Bernie finally jumped on board. By the way it was Chuck Ross, Patrick Leahy's top aide in Vermont, was the leading voice against the Jefferson's Rulebook Impeachment proceeding from ever being taken up for a vote by the Vermont Legistlature. Such Legistlature endorsement would bring the very credible issue of impeachment to the floor of Congress. That was not what Leahy and the Democratic leadership want. The Democrats do not want to get rid of Bush, they just want to continue the 'wait until November charade' that did not work in with the coup's of 2000 & 2004. Who says that we will have
an election without stories election fraud somewhere in the country this year? The issue is that we must get Cheney and Bush out now. Bernie could do that by taking the essence of what Craig Hill tried Patrick Leahy to understand in 2004 about 9/11 and make that an issue. Expose the anomilies of the case that show that the 9/11 Commission was a farce. A farce that is the ultimate unchallenged excuse that allows Bush to go to war and dismantle our Constitution and Bill of Rights. The reason that Leahy and Sanders will not bring up this issue is that they are afraid. They know the message of the Anthrax letters. Well there are Citizens in this country and this state that demand that our leaders uphold their Oaths to defend the Country from enemies both foreign and domenstic. Our young soldieres are dying to do so right now, why can't highly paid politicians like
Leahy and Sanders do so? If Tarrant is a patriot, then he will ask these questions too, but he is a Bushist, or will he wake up! Craig Hill is not an apologist for the Bush administration unlike the wimpy milktoast oppossition of the Co-dependent Democratic Party and suppossedly independent Sanders. Sanders made a faustian bargin with the Democrats a long time ago which has forced him to vote in the democratic block, though he is gets to keep his independent cover. Do not judge a book by its cover. Craig Hill has a wide platform of solutions that Vermonter's and the nation needs to hear concerning a New Deal type of approach to solve the Energy crisis/global warming issue which is needed to be implemented as a response as well to
the fact that the finacial system is helplessly
bankrupt. We can have a positive future. It is the bankruptcy of the west that is the cause of the imperialism of the United States. War is the way in which the speculative bubbles can be kept alive. Read 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman' by John Perkins to understand the role of the IMF/World Bank in its subjugation of nations.
The economic material of the LaRouche organization is right on target as they have for years. Craig Hill is not a LaRouche supporter in that he does not like his stance and rhetoric on the environment and other poinst, but Craig does realize the need for a New Deal type of approach to reindustrialize the United States such that we can implement a new Green economy. The Vermont Legistlature passed a Resolution JRH 76 that calls for an New Deal approach to saving the nation's Machine-Tool capacities and skilled workforce through a plan ot diversify the productive capabilities of the ailing Automobile sector. The federal Government can create and allocate the recources towards such a diversification plan. The precident is hear as confirmed by the Vermont Resolution. Congress must promote the General Welfare as is its Constitutional charge by directing investment towards those projects in infrastructure and the promotion of science and manjufacturing that will deal with the many issues that face our nation, a nation that still can not seem to clean up New Orleans. As a member of the Congressional Committee on Banking what has Bernie Sanders done to promote such Congressional power over the use of the nation's finances towards investment in the physical economy other than going into supportting
the greatest speculative bubbles in history? The plan is right there with you and you are in power already as Congressman Mr. Sanders. If you really want to be Senator, why do you not do what you can while you are a Congressman. State that you doubt the official story of 9-11 and want a new investigation. Work to stop a war with Iran as oppossed to helping Bush start one. Bring forth the Vermont Resolution on retooling the auto industry and reviving the American economy away from the bankers such as Middlebury alum Felix Rohatyn who funds the Democratic Party to not take an FDR style approach to our crisis. Bruce Marshall Co-Chair Green Party of Vermont. |
