Election 2012
columnist: Larry Ward

Topic: Abolition of Statism
Election 2012- Part I- The Forced Deck

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This article argues that there is a common sense among Americans that can be organized into a Common Sense Party to restore Constitutional law.

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by Larry Ward
(libertarian)
Sunday, September 28, 2008

While we do not know which finalist will be apparently chosen in the carefully orchestrated election, we do know that the choice will be made from a forced deck. A forced deck is a deck of 52 cards in which every card is the same. If, for example, every card is the Queen of Diamonds, when the magus^*1 invites you to, "pick a card pick any card", he can be one hundred percent confident that you will chose the Queen of Diamonds. (Never lose the right to chose, right?) Lincoln's counsel is useful here. "You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Some of us are not fooled this time, but what can we do?

A large number of us united in support of the Ron Paul campaign, raised a great deal of money and, using the internet, succeeded in not allowing ourselves to be completely silenced by media. It is tempting to blame the majority for not seeing through the media hoax and tempting, thereupon, to abandon faith in American Constitutional Democracy. I reject this cynicism and challenge readers to consider the proposal I will develop in this column every Sunday, for a new, "Common Sense Party for American Renewal".

If we start now we have four years to frame, and perfect in the furnace of orderly public debate, a party platform that is representative of our common sense of what government should and should not do. There are things that we can and must be doing right now if we are ever to restore America's Constitutional government and common law courts, her education system, tax structure, economy and monetary policy, her jurisprudence, foreign policy and industrial base- restore awareness of her heritage and most importantly, restore her spirit of national and individual responsibility and independence. As far as I am concerned, Ronald Regan was the last President of the United States and I am confident he would applaud this call for a new day in America- even if he had to move to a new political party again, the Common Sense Party for American Renewal.

I will also call in this column, for support for and collaboration in construction of means to conduct parallel elections which keep the vote count honest and allow people to vote for candidates that the establishment, by hook or by crook, blocks from getting on the ballot. Voters will then be able to vote for Common Sense Party candidates for state, local and federal office- if they so choose. Will they so choose?

If we frame our platform to restore government of the people, by the people and for the people, then I believe that the majority of the people will support the new party and its candidates. I believe this because I believe that people who are not starving do not eat garbage. Given a viable alternative to the increasingly lunatic policies, legislation and candidates of the last 29 years, I believe that our countrymen would cheerfully vote to drive the snakes out of our congress and courts, out of our classrooms, tax exempt church industries and general life and law, and to populate our high offices with men and women of common sense and common decency. The Common Sense party that I propose would be the only party with a platform that can tell you what it stands for.

Suppose there does exist among us, a common sense of what government should and should not do and that our common sense is in fact, resonant with the common sense of the majority. Suppose we could define that common sense with such precision and clarity that the majority recognized our agenda for government as defining the kind of government they've wanted all along. Suppose we could find a way to appeal to the majority in spite of media. Suppose we could provide means for the majority to vote for the policies and candidates of their choice in spite of the virtual Berlin Wall that is erected around the electoral ballot by nameless committees and party hacks. Suppose our vote tabulating apparatus could correct the notoriously faulty arithmetic of Diebold vote tabulation machines. Suppose in a word, that we won.

Let me ask you something. Say we ran a Common Sense Party candidate and the candidate won 60% of all votes cast in both our legitimate election apparatus and the establishment's rigged apparatus. What would we do if the entrenched political party claimed victory because our candidate was not on their ballot?

I'd like you to think about it so we will be ready with a consensus strategy for crossing that bridge when we come to it. In tossing the idea around, I hope you'll remember Barry Goldwater's admonition that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. I know the action that I would recommend and support but I'm a not a goin a tell yuh just now.

I will tell you what Malcolm X recommended when the black population he represented was excluded from the electoral process by the same kind of media sorcery and double talking gimmicks which now block candidates who represent the common sense of the general population from getting on the ballot. Malcolm X said, "Don't break their laws. Don't ever break their laws because you'll never get any justice in their courts. But if they try to stop you from voting they're breaking the law so take em off the planet."

Now Edison made the useful observation that genius is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. I believe that all the things that are suggested here are possible if we will just believe in America's greatness and rediscover and restore the foundations of that greatness. I believe that with that inspiration, we are collectively capable of doing the work needed to make the dream of American renewal a reality. I believe that in 2010 Common Sense Party candidates can claim seats in the federal congress and in 2012, reclaim the White House and the Congress. In these columns, I will do the work of proposing apparatus for this new party and refining the proposals as other voices comment with insight that may elude me. I will strive for union and consensus.

But I want to defer the perspiration portion of our enterprise to dwell just a little longer on the inspiration part. Next weeks essay, Year of Jubilee, imagines the kind of government the we should and can have instead of the lunatic government we do have, humiliating our nation at this moment, with its latest atrocity de jour, the banker bail out. Talk to yuh later. LW

Foot notes:

*1 Magus a magician or sorcerer. A priest of Zoroaster in ancient Persia.

*2 Common Law is arguably the most critical foundation of America's greatness. 60 years of propaganda have erased our knowledge of the common law. Readers of this column will become reacquainted with this heritage of which they have been robbed.

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