Dear zenbillionaire:

There was a comment to my "Important Political Announcement" that I would like to take a moment to post a friendly response.

zenbillionaire wrote:

"It'd be fun sometime to write up all the reasons a normal person wouldn't want to be President. Just imagine what might happen if Mr Smith went to Washington in the 21st century, all the power brokers and image makers that would land on him with both feet, all the people who'd try to tell him how the system works (and in no uncertain terms). I expect it would be a nightmarish experience."

Yes, indeed. I am reminded of something very funny I heard a comedian once say (darn it that his name escapes me at this moment*). He had this theory of what happens to those men who are elected President. When the President-elect first visits the White House before he is to take the oath of office, he is taken to a secure bunker where he gets to view a short video. It is much like the Zapruder Film of the Kennedy motorcade in Dallas but with no shaking of the camera and from a different angle than most people are used to seeing. There's even a close up of when the bullets begin to fly and strike President Kennedy. The implied threat for the new President is to not buck the system that is already in place.

zenbillionaire continues:

"Corruption in the political arena is endemic worldwide. There's no place in it for a peaceful person without desire to run the lives of others. A person like you or I wouldn't be able to change a thing even if we were elected President. The only folks who can really change this country are its citizens, and each of them will have to do it by themselves.

"There's a basic truth that few understand; you can't give a person liberty, if they don't have it, they must find it for themselves." (emphasis mine)

I agree with zenbillionaire wholeheartedly on this point. I even covered this in my important political announcement. It's also one of the main reasons I am NOT running for the office of President of the United States.

I am basing my non-campaign on the comedy of the late Pat Paulsen. Pat used to "run" for President as part of his act and later when the government started to complain about his facetious campaigning for office, as in any broadcaster that carried his act would have to provide equal air time for other candidates, he began to NOT run for President.

I am NOT running for the office of President of the United States but I do have some suggestions for those who want to try and repair this heavily damaged "Titanic" we call the Federal Government. My non-campaign is a literary device that provides me an avenue to present these recommendations and to point out the hypocrisy of those who call for cuts in some government programs while protecting their own favorites. Everything, every "sacred cow," every "third rail" must be touched and cut dramatically if there is even to slightest chance of saving this Leviathan as it is currently manifested.

Personally I think this monstrosity is not worth the effort and is beyond saving. My family and I are on a 5-year plan to get ourselves to the point where we can live in a "1984" world while using 19th century technology. And we are not moving back into archaic forms of everyday life for the ridiculous purpose of reducing our carbon footprint but because this is what a totalitarian government will force upon all of us and all of you.

I will give it one more "College Try" and let people know what I think and what I suggest but in reality the momentum is greater for more oppression because too many people are ignorant or complacent in securing their own liberty. Maybe this one little snowflake will start the giant snowball rolling in the other direction. At least someday in the far future when my grandchildren, or their children, ask me why didn't anyone save everything, I'll be able to say I tried...

* While visiting the Lew Rockwell blog later I was reminded that this was the late Bill Hicks.