On June 25, Massachusetts voters will elect a U.S. Senator to fill John Kerry’s term. The ballot will include three candidates, the Democratic nominee, the Republican nominee, and the nominee of the Twelve Visions Party. He is Richard Heos. Here is a story about his campaign.
The Twelve Visions Party had a presidential candidate in 2012. She was Jill Reed, who was only on the ballot in Colorado, but who filed as a write-in candidate in many other states. Thanks to Michael McDonald for this news.
Read the article. Apparently the Twelve Visions party is dedicated to the proposition that American government ought to be reduced to guarding our borders and making all of us rich.
I wonder what their other ten visions are and what chemicals are used to induce them.
Do we really need more political parties that see our own government as our greatest enemy?
Our own government IS our greatest enemy. If you need proof, ask Bradley Manning.
Good luck Richard! You have my full endorsement!
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That’s right Jed. Our government is plotting against YOU. Every day our elected representatives go to their offices ready to conspire to take everything from YOU! They want your money. They want your guns. They want your property. They want your rights. Hell, if your kids are good looking enough they want them too!
Why do you live here, anyway? Why don’t you just go to some other country where their government is not plotting against their citizenry. Hey – I know where, too!
Try Sweden.
lolololololol
If you love the government so much, YOU’RE the one who should move. This country was founded on the principle of distrust of the state.
The best part was the fact that he lives off the state but finds no contradiction in wanting to eradicate it…because he “earned it”.
Well done, Mr. Heos.
Career military sign a contract with the U.S. government. Military pensions are part of their agreed-on compensation. He did earn it. It’s not welfare.
@1: “Do we really need more political parties that see our own government as our greatest enemy?”
Please. This isn’t even a party with an ideology. It’s just a front for the neothink scam.
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Be careful what you say, Jed. Your greatest enemy is watching you, reading everything you write, listening to everything you say, going through your trash. The US government is your personal A.J. Weberman. In fact, I’d bury your scat if I were you.
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Working for the US military is “not welfare.”
True.
Neither are Medicare or Social Security or unemployment benefits. Recipients of post-miltary service benefits are every bit a part of the “47%” as recipients of benefits under the “entitlement” programs Heos evidently hates and wants to privatize.
And I’ll say this too – “protecting our borders” is coded, but nevertheless obvious bigotry.
I agree with what Jed wrote in comment #2.
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If our own government is our worst enemy, then you must be able to name some governments which wouldn’t be your worst enemy if you happened to be a citizen of those countries.
So…care to name a few, and tell us why they would be lesser enemies of their citizens than the US government is to Americans?
Or do you believe that ALL governments are their respective citizens’ worst enemies?
How about you Mr. Simple?
It’s Siple. Learn to read.
Government by it’s very nature is evil. The only real debate is whether or not it’s a necessary evil.
So if you don’t like yo massa’ or plantation, you are required to find a plantation you do like?
But what if you are opposed to slavery or merely wish to be free?
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Slavery is evil. Democracy is not.
Representative government is imperfect, but if you want to be a serf, try living in a country without it.
USSR was a well known “representative democracy”.
Sorry TruFoe, you’re talking in circles. To people that have been denied the right to vote in your so-called “democracy”.
Before you berate those seeking the right to vote in your “democracy”, maybe you would get a more receptive audience if you included their voices. “Democracy” looks a lot like slavery if you aren’t allowed a voice.
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WHOA! Hold on there! I NEVER defended any effort to disenfranchise anybody. I’m responding only to the paranoid and baseless assertion that our government is the “worst” (not my characterization, but Jed’s) enemy of its citizenry. In a democracy there will always be factions who work against the interests and rights of some ( or perhaps nearly all, in some instances) citizens – that is one of the imperfections of democracy that Madison attempted to counter with his notion of an “extended” republic, which I support.
Put words I someone else’s mouth, ok bud?