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Political Issues/Comments / Democracy Defense Act

« on: September 04, 2010, 04:19:00 PM »

DEMOCRACY DEFENSE ACT drafted by  Peter D. Moss

The General Assembly of Vermont finds that in spite of some democracy at the town/local level, there is a lack of real democracy at all levels of Vermont and federal government. To remedy this situation and to create a peoples government, the following provisions are enacted on the effective date of this act.

1. Only one style of ballot shall be used and shall indicate only the first initial and last name of each candidate under each office of signature petitions listed so as to avoid party line voting, sex discrimination, and other impermissible and irrelevant bias. The voter signature petitions shall specify that the petition qualifies the candidate for both primary and general election. Each ballot shall provide at least two write-in blanks for every office, so as to qualify candidates who do not wish to waste time for collecting signatures.

2.Candidate debates shall include all candidates for each given office. Print and broadcast media and other organizers of public debates shall invite all candidates for the position debated and will not commence debate until all candidates are present and ready. Failure to do so will disqualify the debate sponsor as well as any candidates who commence debating with an incomplete panel. The names of offending candidates shall be removed from both primary and general election ballots.

3. Thieves, fools and juveniles removing, defacing, or otherwise damaging one or more lawn signs shall pay for 100 new lawn signs, and shall  personally install all 100 under the direction of the victimized candidate. Persons witnessing lawn sign tampering and promptly notifying the county sheriff and able to identify the vandal, shall be entitled to a $500 cash reward to be paid by the vandal or if a minor, by the vandal's parents or guardian. Indicted lawn sign tamperers shall be prosecuted by the state's attorney for thievery and vandalism. If the state's attorney fails or refuses to prosecute, then this act empowers the victimized candidate to prosecute pro se or hire a member of the criminal bar to prosecute the vandal at the vandal's expense, or if a minor, by the vandal's parents or guardian.

4. Persons objecting to lawn signs on their personal property shall phone the Vermont secretary of state who shall notify the lawn sign owner to remove the offending sign at his or her earliest convenience. Persons not objecting to one or more lawn signs shall thereby waive their right to have any candidate's lawn sign removed, as provided under the equal protection laws.


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Current News & Events / 2010 Peace Candidate Peter Moss is running for US Senate & VT Senate

« on: May 23, 2010, 10:17:15 PM »

I would appreciate any signatures from registered voters on my nominating petition. Here is what I stand for:

2010 PEACE CANDIDATE
PETER MOSS for U.S. SENATE and VERMONT SENATE
P. O Box 413, Fairfax, Vermont 05454            phone and fax 802-849-2108
peter28moss@gmail.com                            http://petermoss.org

POLITICAL CORRUPTION: I do not raise or spend money on name recognition ads. Why?
Because now elections cannot be won, only bought. Professional career politicians want to be re- elected, above all. Few have the money, so they take special interest lobby money which is really   quid pro quo bribes for legislative "favors." The Supreme Court falsely claims that this money is "free speech" and entitles corporations, domestic and foreign, to use unlimited bribes.
MY SOLUTION: The Vermont Fairness Doctrine which would pool all available funds and divide it in equal amount among the candidates for each office. Also, provide equal media access in campaigning, not just for the well financed. This would help candidates that propose and intend to serve the public interest and disadvantage the professional career politicians who just want re-election. And enact single term limits: two years and out. The laws such one-term legislators would enact, would serve the public, not career politicians. And above all, we need initiative, the ability for every voter to propose legislation. Senator Mike Gravel is organizing this nationally, and 24 states already have initiative.

WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER. MY SOLUTION: Diplomacy, not occupation. International sanctions, not bombing. Interview airline passengers and when appropriate, examine their shoes and underwear and even body cavities, whatever it takes to ground terrorists. They can be disarmed harmlessly. And recall Vermont's National Guard from foreign occupations, and secede if the military-industrial complex prevents that. Better still, stop the Pentagon from foreign wars, and beef up homeland security as necessary.

HEALTH CARE:  The U.S. and Vermont , no health care problem. What we have is a for- profit, private insurance problem. There are reportedly 40 million Americans without health insurance and they have a problem, but 280 million, or 88 per cent, have no problem. More importantly, most people want health care, not endless debates about health care reform.               MY SOLUTION: The Vermont health care commissioner should issue business permits only to insurers who will compete with Medicare's 97% benefits to 3% admin costs ratio. Also, establish a Tax Forwarder's office in Vermont's tax department to retain our Medicare tax, plus.
Medicaid funds, Workers Comp, employers' current contributions, and other sources.

VERMONT YANKEE: It has been accurately described as an accident waiting to happen. In addition, nuclear energy is not clean, not cheap, not safe, not honest and not credible, false claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
MY SOLUTION: Close it in 2012 on schedule and pursue clean, safe energy options: solar, wind, geothermal, small hydroelectric and purchase existing hydroelectric generators. Send dry cask stored spent fuel for safekeeping in the basement of Entergy heaquartrs in Louisiana. If this fails, secede and that will end the involvement of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a public enemy said to be an unconstitutional agency to promote nuclear energy at taxpayer expense

PARTY POLITICS: If we lived in an honest system, we would call them Elephant Capitalists and Donkey Capitalists, not Republicans or Democrats. And who needs two capitalist parties? The Bohemian Club. Meet the "bohos" at http://tinyurl.com/4qnu3, some 2000 rich and powerful men who alone make U.S. policy. And then you wonder why Obama promises peace but the wars go on as if nothing has changed. That's because nothing has changed. The three branches of government exist mainly to fill the media with "news" and the three branches are mere political theater to keep the bohos out of the public eye. And the commercial mass media have brainwashed the electorate to believe that we live in a democracy. We do like hell. We live in a disguised dictatorship of the bohos. And two more things: (1) the boho-controlled media have convinced the electorate that only Demopublicans can win and voting for independents is a wasted vote, and (2) the only alternative to capitalism is socialism (or communism or marxism or leninism). You never see them mention economic democracy, but you can look it up in the Wikipedia or buy a book about economic democracy from Amazon.com.
MY SOLUTION: Teach economic democracy in school, and encourage kids to question why the U.S. wastes blood and treasure in foreign lands while some Americans are hungry or homeless or unemployed, while banksters give each others billions in bonuses before repaying their bailout paid for by taxpayers

ELECTIONS: To discourage voters from voting and better disguise the bohos, news of election fraud appear regularly. Truth be told, if you vote Democrat, you get a capitalist government, if you vote Republican, you get a capitalist government, if you vote independent, you get a capitalist government, if you don't vote, you get a capitalist government. So why vote and why support a hopelessly corrupt boho-dominated government?
MY SOLUTION: Televoting by computer, and reporting results in real time by televised graphics. The shrinking computerless electorate can vote in the nearest public library and can be helped by most librarians. While voting in incumbents is a waste of time, once we have initiative, we can vote meaningfully in a better, boho-free democracy. The bottom line is that only two systems are possible: Top down power and bottom up power. The first is all forms of materialism like capitalism, communism, socialism etc., ruled by small, self-serving groups. The second is direct democracy, voting on issues, and based on economic democracy.

WHAT JUSTICE? Today's courts protect the rich and powerful. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence about successful law firms who split fees with judges. Bribery is criminal but fee splitting is not. Also, judges can and do dismiss meritorious complaints by summary judgment or bench trials without a jury. Then on top, the U.S. Supreme Court only considers 1% or 2% of appeals filed. MY SOLUTION: Teach pro se procedure in high school and demistify the legal process so that adults will have sufficient legal skills and lack "fear of court" when they become employees consumers, homeowners, tenants, taxpayers, etc. without needing lawyers. Jury-only trials would provide better justice and the elected foreperson can preside better than a career judge. Also, create 13 Supreme Juries, one in each circuit, to review appeals ignored by the Supreme Court. And of course, abolish corporate personhood.

ARE YOU UPSET about the economic downturn? Bail-out for banksters at taxpayer expense? Billions of bonuses for banksters and to their subordinates who take excessive risks with our money? The stock market slump? Large and growingout unemployment? The rising foreclosure rates? The drop in property values? The increase in homelessness? The rising waste of blood and treasure to fight "terrorism" in faraway lands by young Americans to defend megacorporate interests who profit from oil and gas and other natural resources, all in the name of "protecting our way of life" MY SOLUTION: If you are upset by any or all of the above, you can do something come November 2, 2010. Do not vote for any Democ rats or Republic rats. Never re- elect any incumbents, no matter what their line of bull. Professional career politicians are only interested in re-election and furthering their careers. Vote for independents only and demand a single-term term limit. When that is done, you will have peace, prosperity and justice, but not before. You can vote yourself a better future but you must break your habit of voting for familiar names or party labels.

FOR MORE DETAIL see http://petermoss.org or my book available from Amazon.com