Post by Stanley Hetz on Sept 12, 2005 11:37:18 GMT -5
Here is a copy of my most recent political article. Please keep in mind that the opinions expressed by some of the politicians quoted in the article do not necessarily represent my thoughts. I just wanted to give each of them a forum to express their own thoughts, because they are all great people. I hope that you enjoy reading the article.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Politicians Ask President Bush Tough Questions
By Stanley Hetz
© 2005
I recently had the chance to ask politicians from several different political parties to send me statements telling me what they would ask President Bush, if they could publicly ask him one question. This is what they told me their questions would be:
Janice Jordan (who ran for Vice President in 2004 as the Peace & Freedom Party‘s candidate): “Do you ever feel remorse for leading your constituents into believing they live in a democracy under your dictatorship?”
Earl Dodge (who was the Prohibition Party‘s presidential nominee in every election from 1984 through 2004): “My question would be: President Bush, we have at least twelve million illegal aliens in America. You call them good working people. Yet, they all knowingly broke our laws to get here and still break them with phony documents. They cost Americans tens of billions of dollars for medical care, welfare and law enforcement. When will you protect our nation by sending these aliens home and guard our borders just as other nations do?”
Cris Ericson (who ran for Governor of Vermont in 2002 as the Make Marijuana Legal Party candidate): “President Bush, A lot of folks in Vermont support the war in Iraq, and there are a number of defense contractors in Vermont that U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy fuels with federal dollars, and there are military soldiers who are trained at the Firing Range on Bolton Mountain, so you must realize that even though you did not receive the electoral votes from Vermont, that a lot of people here support you despite the death of Vermont soldiers in Iraq. So my question is this, because many, many of the injuries in Iraq are caused by terrorists using explosive devices including detonating devices, would you consider writing a Presidential Executive Order to ‘Re-Open U.S. Supreme Court Docket #99-6899,’ a case denied by the Court in which I am the plaintiff, and I am alleging that the movie industry is selling 60% of their high explosive plastic detonators in commerce worldwide for use as weapons rather than as ‘special effects‘?”
Ericson also recommended reading the bottom paragraphs of www.webspawner.com/users/makemarijuanalegal/petnleadazideco.html
Millie Howard (who challenged President Bush for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 2004): “Mr. Bush, Where will you cut to get the billons for Katrina? Why did your response to the crisis take so long? Given the wrong information about September 11, the wrong information on Iraq, and now Katrina, would you say it is time to stop putting incompetent people on the payroll because you owe someone something, or because they are related to someone who can do something for you? Would you say Mr. Bush that the ineptness of your staff and the ancient civil service laws have turned the government of the United States into a mass of incompetence that has cost America her sons, daughters, wealth, pride, and resulted in a government dominated by idiots?”
L. Craig Schoonmaker (who is the leader of the Expansionist Party): “I guess it would be something like this: ‘Have you any idea how much harm, to people and to the economy, usurious interest rates on consumer debt are causing -- that scores of millions of Americans are worried, harassed, crushed by debt piling up at outrageous interest rates made all the worse by late fees, overlimit fees and the like that raise the effective rate of interest to astronomical levels?’"
Schoonmaker continued, “Of course, the setting matters. If it were in a group setting in which someone else asked a question like that, my backup question would be, ‘Why have you done nothing to end the colonial condition of Puerto Rico and convert the second-class citizenship of almost 4 million Americans into the only class of citizenship there should be in this country, first class, by making Puerto Rico into a state -- or in the alternative to force Puerto Ricans into their own first-class citizenship by compelling Puerto Rico to become an independent country that would no longer drain the U.S. Treasury of billions of dollars a year?’"
Schoonmaker went on, “And if someone else asked about Puerto Rico, I would have another backup, such as ‘Wouldn't it be far wiser and better for everyone involved if we granted statehood to Canada as several states rather than allowing Canadians free access to our internal market without contributing in any way to our tax base and national resources?’"
In conclusion, Schoonmaker wrote, “As you can see, no question I would ask would be extremely simple, such as ‘Why don't you respect the boundary between church and state but insist on trying to use money taken as taxes from nonbelievers to support churches?’ or ‘Why don't you eliminate discrimination against homosexuals in the military?’ or ‘Can't you see that your tax cuts on the rich are ruining society?’ As you might also see from this email, I don't care for Bush's policies on almost any front. Cheers.”
Politicians Ask President Bush Tough Questions
By Stanley Hetz
© 2005
I recently had the chance to ask politicians from several different political parties to send me statements telling me what they would ask President Bush, if they could publicly ask him one question. This is what they told me their questions would be:
Janice Jordan (who ran for Vice President in 2004 as the Peace & Freedom Party‘s candidate): “Do you ever feel remorse for leading your constituents into believing they live in a democracy under your dictatorship?”
Earl Dodge (who was the Prohibition Party‘s presidential nominee in every election from 1984 through 2004): “My question would be: President Bush, we have at least twelve million illegal aliens in America. You call them good working people. Yet, they all knowingly broke our laws to get here and still break them with phony documents. They cost Americans tens of billions of dollars for medical care, welfare and law enforcement. When will you protect our nation by sending these aliens home and guard our borders just as other nations do?”
Cris Ericson (who ran for Governor of Vermont in 2002 as the Make Marijuana Legal Party candidate): “President Bush, A lot of folks in Vermont support the war in Iraq, and there are a number of defense contractors in Vermont that U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy fuels with federal dollars, and there are military soldiers who are trained at the Firing Range on Bolton Mountain, so you must realize that even though you did not receive the electoral votes from Vermont, that a lot of people here support you despite the death of Vermont soldiers in Iraq. So my question is this, because many, many of the injuries in Iraq are caused by terrorists using explosive devices including detonating devices, would you consider writing a Presidential Executive Order to ‘Re-Open U.S. Supreme Court Docket #99-6899,’ a case denied by the Court in which I am the plaintiff, and I am alleging that the movie industry is selling 60% of their high explosive plastic detonators in commerce worldwide for use as weapons rather than as ‘special effects‘?”
Ericson also recommended reading the bottom paragraphs of www.webspawner.com/users/makemarijuanalegal/petnleadazideco.html
Millie Howard (who challenged President Bush for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 2004): “Mr. Bush, Where will you cut to get the billons for Katrina? Why did your response to the crisis take so long? Given the wrong information about September 11, the wrong information on Iraq, and now Katrina, would you say it is time to stop putting incompetent people on the payroll because you owe someone something, or because they are related to someone who can do something for you? Would you say Mr. Bush that the ineptness of your staff and the ancient civil service laws have turned the government of the United States into a mass of incompetence that has cost America her sons, daughters, wealth, pride, and resulted in a government dominated by idiots?”
L. Craig Schoonmaker (who is the leader of the Expansionist Party): “I guess it would be something like this: ‘Have you any idea how much harm, to people and to the economy, usurious interest rates on consumer debt are causing -- that scores of millions of Americans are worried, harassed, crushed by debt piling up at outrageous interest rates made all the worse by late fees, overlimit fees and the like that raise the effective rate of interest to astronomical levels?’"
Schoonmaker continued, “Of course, the setting matters. If it were in a group setting in which someone else asked a question like that, my backup question would be, ‘Why have you done nothing to end the colonial condition of Puerto Rico and convert the second-class citizenship of almost 4 million Americans into the only class of citizenship there should be in this country, first class, by making Puerto Rico into a state -- or in the alternative to force Puerto Ricans into their own first-class citizenship by compelling Puerto Rico to become an independent country that would no longer drain the U.S. Treasury of billions of dollars a year?’"
Schoonmaker went on, “And if someone else asked about Puerto Rico, I would have another backup, such as ‘Wouldn't it be far wiser and better for everyone involved if we granted statehood to Canada as several states rather than allowing Canadians free access to our internal market without contributing in any way to our tax base and national resources?’"
In conclusion, Schoonmaker wrote, “As you can see, no question I would ask would be extremely simple, such as ‘Why don't you respect the boundary between church and state but insist on trying to use money taken as taxes from nonbelievers to support churches?’ or ‘Why don't you eliminate discrimination against homosexuals in the military?’ or ‘Can't you see that your tax cuts on the rich are ruining society?’ As you might also see from this email, I don't care for Bush's policies on almost any front. Cheers.”