In the midst of the Corona Pandemic the murder of George Floyd, a man of color from Minneapolis, Minnesota, by uniformed police officers, for no apparent reason and in plain view and recorded for the world to see, came as an incendiary reminder of the distinct possibility that things are out of control in the United States of America. Beyond any of the particulars concerning this heinous crime, consideration of the fact that the institutional framework of American society is shattered has to be a possibility that thinking people of conscience must weigh. The delay in arresting the perpetrators and the failure of authorities to acknowledge immediately the gravity of the crimes showed that race remains central to the way in which justice is ignored or delayed rather than administered with impartiality. As has been heard in response to other such incidents, too many to list in this short statement, “I’m tired of being tired about this kind of treatment”. For those not tired, the bomb and the bullet can be the remedy sought. Ballots seem deaf and inert to the needs of the oppressed and persecuted, and “Burn Down The House”, becomes an appeal to tortured reason and aggravated frustration.
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Historic November Election – Will it Happen ??
No matter the level of distraction from business-as-usual politics and the needs of responding to the current coronavirus pandemic, the case for voting for John Karl Fredrich as a write-in candidate in the November 3, 2020, Presidential election remains strong.
The drive for equal rights for women, and civil rights and voting rights for all, is paramount. Legal elections require hand-marked paper ballots and the availability of risk-limiting audits; it’s been proven that putting a computer between a voter and their ballot disallows audits as tampering can change outcomes and remove any traces of the mischief. The Electoral College is a specious anachronism that negates one person/one vote and accentuates the inequality between large and small states that is already institutionalized in the Senate. The United States has lost even the pretense that the results of any election are correct because verification is impossible when evidence of changes can be whipped clean without detection. Why this flaw is not corrected is the advantage it gives to political parties and permanent incumbents so the incentives for fixing it are few, and the cynicism it fosters further discourages larger turnout. That is a persistent pattern in our heavily manipulated elections.
For The Ship of State to right itself in the water the President and Congress will need to work together to get control of the budget. If the legislature budgets by continuing resolution rather than line item mark-ups in committees, and the executive seeks to divert and impound appropriations, there is no discipline and the road to financial ruin is well paved. Better to pave actual roads and build schools and housing and bridges by Congress funding public works and human capital resources and direct money from the military to infrastructure and social services, with proven successful programs like Social Security and Medicare and Veterans Affairs as top priorities. Straightening out the national accounts will require new revenues, the elimination of sweetheart deals for the privileged few, and progressive tax policies that reverse the ‘unholy alliance between business and government’ that has plagued our federal system since the first billion-dollar budget of over a century ago.
I also recognize and embrace the partnership that will be needed between Congress and the President for progress in these areas and in order to advance the necessary reset in American foreign policy from Cold War mind-sets and other fearful and counter-productive attitudes bred from recent mistakes. I advocate unilateral, incremental nuclear disarmament and the deployment of forces only where approved by Congress except for immediate and imminent actual national security threats pursuant to the War Powers Act.
Finally, as the Chief Presiding Officer of our country, I pledge while working to accomplish the above-stated goals to push for preserving the maximum amount of our national environmental assets, including National Monuments, Wildlife Refuges, and water and timber resources. National policies must include carbon and nitrogen dioxide management, regulation of harmful chemicals, and intelligent restrictions on addictive drugs. To further our debate on all of these topics I would require that the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Time Doctrine to facilitate our national discussion on these subjects and others. If we do not do try to do all of this, and Congress does not hold an up or down vote on all of these matters, in what sense can we say that we are represented in Washington, DC?
Letter to Voters – The Challenges We Face
Dear Friends and Fellow Citizens,
One year ago today on Kauai’s North Shore and later that day in Santa Clara Valley, California, I officially began my campaign for President of the United States. After being unable to qualify for the March 3rd California primary, things did not look too promising; but since then, dozens of candidates have become discouraged, quit the field and now of the remaining few who have not suspended their campaigns, John Karl Fredrich sees that The Time Has Come. The question is, between the coronavirus pandemic and world economic collapse are things bad enough to make Fredrich the best possible choice in order to Build The New America? I believe that the program I propose answers that question in and of itself
- Smash Plutocracy
- Destroy Political Cartels & Money Bundling Syndicates
- Create Majority Rule & Representative Government as the Base for Real American Democracy
The foundation of the program to save our government, our people and our planet is fourfold:
- Establish Equal Rights and a viable Social Contract for all; that include The Equal Rights Amendment for Women & National Health Care.
- Eliminate The Electoral College and Gerrymandered Congressional Districts; National supervision of elections with verifiable paper ballots & audits.
- Renunciation of first strike with nuclear weapons and the end of Executive Branch wars and secret government and un-auditable military budgets.
- Developing with Congress the asset and resource management and budgeting approach that will get these jobs done.
To create the dynamic for success our fight must be focused on the enemies of poverty and ignorance since sticking with ways that have proven to be so far unsuccessful hurts our efforts to achieve economic security, good public health, and a sense of personal well-being.The Preamble to the Constitution spells out the purpose quite clearly and succinctly:
“. . . to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, . . . “
There is nothing in the text supporting factions, party strife, money bundling, influence peddling and manipulation. The key issue of whether or not popular government in these United States can be salvaged from the depredations of corporations and political factions has been excluded from full discussion over what specifically must be done to institute government that actually works; in other words, the conditions necessary for the proper functioning of our government’s structures to do those things The Preamble mandates. Political parties, mass media, money and the purchase of power have combined with some of the most venial, reprehensible officials and fearful, critically under-informed voters in American history to commandeer what was once, hopefully, a peoples’ republic. Rather than recount that ignominious tale, let’s look to a prescription for healing and a plan for repair.