Re: Linux in the Oval Office

[Troy McFerrron <hotdogday@gmail.com>]

Voted Bush. 


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:27:48 -0400 (EDT), Rick Hohensee
<humbubba@smarty.smart.net> wrote:
> or cLIeNUX, for you punk Fedorans that think cLIeNUX isn't unix.
> 
> Presidential platform of Rick Hohensee, July 2004
> 
> I want to be President so that I can try to...
> 
> Replace the Pledge of Alliegance with daily recitals of varying paragraphs
> of the Constitution. Provide every public school student in grades 5 and
> up a copy of the Constitution every year.
> 
> De-authorize all covert activities outside tactical operations in active
> war zones.
> 
> Reaffirm that the "war on terror" is mostly diplomacy and police work when
> prosecuted by the competent, and only becomes all-out war when prosecuted
> by the incompetent and/or corrupt.
> 
> Personal assessment of the impact of depleted uranium munitions with the
> full information-gathering power of the office of President.
> 
> Call off The Crusades by isolating and peacefully dismantling Israel.
> Follow this up concurrently by demanding peace in Sudan and similar.
> 
> Reduce legacy government secrets as close as possible to nothing. That is,
> I will massively reduce "classified information", particularly older
> documents, probably everything over 5 years old except for nuclear
> technologies and similar.
> 
> Implement a closely controlled self-prescription program for adults to use
> such drugs as cocaine, heroin, marijuana and penicillin. That is, I will
> call off the corrupt drug war and de-glamourize narcotics.
> 
> De-commission the CIA entirely, and un-authorize them totally,
> immediately. Out them all in about 6 months. Re-deploy them under INS.
> 
> Remove the term "intelligence" from what it was the CIA used to do. Think
> "strinfo".
> 
> Eliminate covert operations outside actual war zones immediately. Such
> behavior is well beneath the greatest nation ever.
> 
> Biometrically identify every non-citizen on US soil I can get my hands on.
> 
> One immigration rule. (Al Sharpton)
> 
> Promote the vote for ex-criminals. Sue if necessary in support of this.
> 
> Teach evolution as scientific fact and the Bible, Talmud, Koran, the
> Analects, the Tao Te Ching, Aristotle's Ethics, Machiavelli and so on as
> ethics studies. Foster an Ethics Channel on TV.
> 
> Enforce the law with emphasis on the most priviledged facing the closest
> scrutiny. This is my affirmative action policy. I am quite fatigued with
> rich white men giving me a bad name.
> 
> Prosecute George Walker Bush for crimes against humanity.
> 
> Legalize insider trading.
> 
> Investigate deportation of Sun Myung Moon for illegal donations to North
> Korea. Not to mention he quite literally thinks he's God.
> 
> Get out of Iraqi cities immediately, including vacating the Green Zone,
> and retreat to functions of state and federal governments, until the
> cities form regional alliances analagous to nations as they see fit.
> 
> Eliminate the "not for profit" designation for corporations, churches,
> schools, trust funds and anything else. Charity is taxable income. If the
> government wants to subsidize something it can do it accountably, by
> direct subsidy.
> 
> Ensure voting systems accountable to the electorate nationwide, such as my
> own "votescript".
> 
> Pardon Martha Stewart due to the brazen political nature of her
> prosecution.
> 
> Invite the Congress to take over the Anthrax and Chandra Levy
> investigations using the U.S. Capitol Police and any Executive Branch law
> enforcement capabilities they may wish to avail themselves of, such as the
> Postal Inspector's forces.
> 
> List all prisoners at Guantanamo and what they are accused of. (Most will
> probably be released)
> 
> Eliminate economic status requirements, particularly college degree
> requirements, from positions and licenses granted by the government.
> 
> Plead to the Supreme Court to exclude Florida from the Electoral College
> for the rest of JEB Bush's governorship plus 13 years.
> 
> Prosecute Katherine Harris for treason.
> 
> Prosecute the management of Diebold Corp. for treason.
> 
> Make global support of secular democracy the keystone of foreign policy.
> For example, the USA can no more support a Jewish state in Palestine than
> an Episcopal state in Langley Virginia. I consider "secular" to be a
> fundamental aspect of "nation". Non-secular regions will not be considered
> nations, officially.
> 
> Invite 70% of the US military above the rank equivalent to Sargeant Major
> in the Army to resign immediately, with congratulations on winning the
> Cold War. And with the idea that they will not contribute to the loss of
> the peace crucial to the finances of the Bush Crime Family. I'll keep
> generals with surnames starting with, say, F through L or something to
> maintain some continuity during The Big Stand-Down. Maintain a potent,
> progressive, but perhaps significantly smaller military in terms of active
> personnel.
> 
> Return reserves to thier proper roles. (John Kerry)
> 
> Hand over Halliburton functions in Iraq to the US military and mideastern
> engineering firms. Let Iraqis rebuild Iraq.
> 
> Overhaul the White House press corps to exclude the major war infomercial
> networks, ABC, NBC, CBS and so on.
> 
> Make it unlawful for entities other than individuals to contribute funds
> to political campaigns.
> 
> Conduct a variety of political autopsies, such as on Nicholas Berg.
> 
> Establish a position of national developmental sports promoter and invite
> Cal Ripkin to take his work federal.
> 
> Make my life as President extremely public. The adult public will be able
> to monitor most of my personal activity via live motion pictures. Big
> Brother is already here. I give the people of the USA the option of
> keeping an unblinking eye on Big Brother if they are so inclined.
> 
> Convert the Executive Branch to use of open-source computer operating
> systems, such as Linux, BSD, or Plan 9 From Bell Labs. The military will
> be ordered to do so. I hope they aren't waiting for orders.
> 
> Make all publications of the government available by FTP download from the
> Internet in effectively non-proprietary data formats.
> 
> Implement checks and balances on law enforcement such that no jurisdiction
> can monopolize the evidence pertaining to any death.
> 
> Increase personal financial accountability of members of Congress
> and lobbyists and lobbying organizations.
> 
> Task the FBI with a detailed study of every case of someone dying in
> police custody in the US in the last ten years.
> 
> Implement a graduated progressive debt-monetization schedule for the
> Reagan/Bush National Debt to eventually eliminate the regressive debt
> costs left by fiscal incompetents.
> 
> Generalize the definitions of criminal anti-competitive behavior to better
> protect small businesses and economic diversity. Lots of things Microsoft
> does legally will become illegal.
> 
> Ensure that transportation policy emphasize pedestrians and other
> human-power transport first, then mass transit, then roads. I will
> encourage buses, in particular, publicly and privately operated.
> 
> Establish a cabinet-level auditing office, with a general permanent
> mandate and authorization to eliminate corruption and improve efficiency
> throughout the Executive Branch.
> 
> Reduce the implementation costs of the tax system and the welfare system
> by simplifying the income tax code to a single simple formula with a
> positive component, formerly mis-named as the proposed "negative income
> tax". Thus there will be no brackets. The top tax rate should be about 50%
> and the top positive tax rate should provide a homeless man with about
> $10-- a day.
> 
> Eliminate parasitic "protectionist" tariffs, farm and other
> subsidies to the advantaged.
> 
> Require all products bodily ingested by humans, such as cigarettes, have
> thier ingredients listed as is now the case for most foods. This will
> include products with long-standing exemptions from such requirements,
> such as COCA Cola.
> 
> Improve employability and general functionalization services to the
> homeless, literacy programs generally, and many other areas currently
> exhibiting barbaric and outrageously costly neglect. Another area that I
> personally find emblematic of the neglect the USA bestows upon it's
> helpless, my pet peeve if you will, is the condition of the average public
> basketball backboard. A decent outdoor basketball goal is a very
> cost-effective thing. Expect to see full regulation-dimensions rectangular
> backboards with straight rims appearing when I am President. Maybe even
> nets. Expect neglect to decrease generally.
> 
> Emphasise the Internet in education.
> 
> I support statutes and regulations that result in a decrease in the gross
> bulk of statutes and regulations for the sake thereof, such as more use of
> parametric "schedules" such as the well-known "GS-16" schedule of
> government salaries. A quick glance at the US Code suggests that it could
> easily be smaller by a factor of 4 or more.
> 
> Manage my legislative agenda like an open source software project, with
> input from the general population via an FTP site or web wiki.
> 
> Gun control is a population density issue. A moose gun is insane in
> Manhatten. Being without one is insane in most of Alaska.  A simple tax
> can be developed based on how many people are in range of a weapon. Let's
> say the tax is 5 cents a year for each human within range of a weapon.
> That's 20 cents for a moose gun in the outskirts of Nome, and hundreds of
> thousands of dollars for a moose gun in Manhatten. The details need some
> work, but therein lies the solution. There are a number of possible
> side-effects, like gun shops become inately rural businesses, which is a
> good thing. There's also a one-second factor, like 5 cents for each round
> the thing can fire in one second, times population density. Thus assault
> weapons cost more at about thier fire rate.
> 
> I suggest several Constitutional amendments. This listing is not the exact
> language contemplated.....
> 
>         The President may not pardon his own minions. He may petition the
>         Congress to do so. This is the Nixon/Ford amendment, long overdue.
> 
>         Growing any naturally bred photosynthetic plant species in any
>         quantity is a basic right of adult citizens.
> 
>         Voting in all elections of the USA shall be by approval basis, one
>         vote per voter per candidate. Plurality shall be the elective
>         margin. Vote counting shall be by direct popular count. There
>         shall be hard physical documentation of each ballot.
> 
>         All ballots in the USA shall include a "None Of The Above"
>         synthetic candidate. If None Of The Above wins, the contested
>         office shall be filled by a suitable lottery of voters for None Of
>         The Above.
> 
>         Border States may secede from the USA.
> 
>         Border jurisdictions of States may change States.
> 
>         I favor the creation of at-large Representatives and Senators.
> 
> The above amendment to allow growing any herb could be constructed so as
> to foster family farms and serve as a permanent seedbed for small
> businesses.
> 
> Reassess the health risks of cyclamates versus aspartame. Note that Donald
> Rumsfeld was a key lobbyist for aspartame.
> 
> Abolish diplomatic immunity outside embassies. The US doesn't have royals,
> and doesn't aknowledge them on our soil.
> 
> Change the names of Blair Mansion, the Ronald Reagan White Elephant and
> Internationalist Boondoggle Center, Reagan National Airport, the J. Edgar
> Hoover Building, and the Herbert Hoover Building.
> 
> Increase compensation to federal elected officials.
> 
> Set up a history ftp/website in the Education department
> 
> Promise MLB baseball games in Cuba if Castro adopts a constitution based
> on the template on my webpage.
> 
> Marriage is not a federal concern. The proposed tax formula will provide
> positive taxes (back to the person) to dependants, not married couples per
> se.
> 
> Establish a national blues jam on the South Lawn of the White House in the
> summer.
> 
> The legal tradition of the USA has some fundamental quirks going back to
> English Common Law that need fixing. Malice, intent, custodial
> relationships, sanity and other subtleties are sentencing issues, not
> corpus delecti.
> 
> There is no specific labor policy at this time. Labor interests should
> note the elimination of degree requirements from positions licensed by the
> government, the possible huge increase in manpower to the INS via the
> de-commissioning of the CIA, the improved immigration enforcement possible
> in the absence of a corrupt drug war, the reduction in impetus of Latin
> Americans to emigrate to the US in the absense of a corrupt drug war, the
> top tax rate of 50%, and other policies that help the working man, woman
> or family directly, but not explicitly.
> 
> I oppose capital punishment. It's not cost-effective.
> 
> As President I'll probably be able to get some things off the ground that
> aren't political per se, such as osimplay, cycluphonics, the Gitslik and
> Rixpik and so on.
> 
> Life begins when you no longer blame everything on your mother. If I don't
> get the into White House, I blame my mother.
> 
> Rick (Richard Allen) Hohensee
> independant candidate for President
> 
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Troy McFerron
Kernel Ricer and Linux Hobbyist.