Dear Good Friends & Fellow Citizens:
I want to take the opportunity at this time to thank all of you who have supported me and The Cause that I have pursued over the last 50 years of political action, but especially in the races for the House of Representatives and this year’s Presidential election as those contests were particularly focused on the issues of the nation’s misplaced priorities of military might and expanding economic advantage for those who are already privileged at the expense of those in real need. One central feature in that battle has been the fight against the hegemonic power of the two major political parties in the United States, the Democrats & Republicans. The central elite of both those groups are continually willing to sacrifice the many in exchange for power for the few, and while doing that demean the promise of equality and justice upon which the nation is predicated. I continue to maintain that unless we fix that, our current form of government from the Constitution of1787 will no longer obtain and a new manner of governing will be required of us. The essence of non-violent political struggle is the ballot box, and unless security of the vote can be protected and enhanced, and the cash spent by big economic syndicates and individuals can be limited, people will out of frustration give up in believing that non-violent engagement can change the world and will walk a different path. That would be a dangerous distraction from our real problems.
This is not rabble rousing or alarmist conjecture but a measured opinion based on calculating the gap between our present performance and the magnitude of need to change the way we do things. The national government must legislate in many areas; to improve authorization and appropriation procedures, to honor treaty arrangements, especially in regard to control of nuclear weapons and other genocidal armaments, and to bring to heel outright criminal behavior by the entrenched oligarchy which will entail joining the International Criminal Court so as to allow for US citizens to be arraigned there. The way in which corporate control has penetrated the media since the abandonment of the Equal Time and Fairness Doctrine has impoverished public discussion of all of these pressing issues and vitiated the public forum so that propaganda and infotainment flourish with little appeal to fact or reason. The AGYHOOYA battle cry was specifically designed to get in the face of the pharaonic press and challenge every citizen to rethink their facile assumptions. Truth of the matter is, I’m not very good at politics, a fact to which nine election losses adequately testifies. I can therefore say with unequivocal enthusiasm how much I truly appreciate those of you who have stood with me during my political campaigns. I thank you from the bottom of my heart . . . and the top and the center as well for that matter . . .
Sincerely, John Karl Fredrich May Grace, Peace & Love be with you always, JKF — 30 —