“How @Stanford U’s #lawschool is exposing & suing #ElectionFraud in the United States of America..” – The #MSM are hypos!

STANFORD, California – Started in October of 1891 by Jane and Amasa Leland Stanford, Sr. as a School of Agriculture in memorial to their teenage son, Leland Jr. who died of typhoid fever on a family trip aboard to Italy, Stanford University was originally named the Leland Stanford Junior University.

And at the ripe old age of 125 Stanford U. has hosted and taught Presidents of the United States, dignitaries and luminaries of the world going all the way back to the 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover ever since.

Photo courtesy of Stanford University from their about page.

Behind every great man there lies a woman, and boy was their ever a woman behind Leland Stanford, Jane Lanthrop Stanford, born in August of 1828 in Albany, Ny. to shopkeeper parents Jane Stanford would be the driving force behind one of the world’s premiere institutions of higher learning until her death in June of 1905.

Ushering the University into the modern age she would see to it that the school was nationally as well as internationally accredited, liberated and leading the way in terms of the arts and humanities, math and science as well as technology and innovation.

And it is in that indomitable spirit that I wish to speak to you today.

A young Mrs. Jane Lanthrop-Stanford (photo courtesy of Stanford University’s Jane Stanford biography page, 2016)

Jane Lanthrop Stanford’s institute of higher learning is leading the way yet again.

By all popular accounts the primary process for the presidency of the United States is CONcluded with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump being the ones for us to choose from this November.

And most people in the free world are satisfied with these results, looking forward to voting in the fall of this year, presumably, for the world’s first female American president in Hillary Clinton.

Under normal circumstances I’d agree, be agreeing rather, to the process. Accepting it as the norm rather than the exception. After all it’s Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for goodness sakes! “Is this a great country or what?” – Yakov Smirnoff – would be my lament.

Where on earth could you have two more important, more influential people running for the highest and best office in the world, right?

Even Leland and Jane Stanford would surely agree, wouldn’t they? Especially Jane Stanford who believed so strongly in the equality and liberation of young minds, be they men or women.

Jane Stanford might well look on a time like this in our still young nation’s history and say, “My God. Look how far we’ve come, where a woman is running for the presidency of the United States of America?”

Because women like her and Minnie Fisher Cunningham were on the front line’s of the women’s suffrage movement here in the United States from early 1840’s to long about 1920 or so.

Women rallying and marching in the streets for equality in the, “heydays” of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (photo courtesy of YouTube, 2016)

The idea that no matter what we are all equal, all fair in God’s eyes. And that this is the United States of America the freest and best country in the world where all are welcomed, all are treated with fairness and equality.

That your voice, vote and portion matters at the table of American democracy.

And all that was true, once.

Now though, not so much. Because now. In a land where stallworks like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone ushered in a new way for a new American century those works, those efforts have been tainted for the sake of power.

In a four page study paper titled, in part, “Are we witnessing a dishonest election?” Co-authored by Tilburg University’s Axel Geijel and Stanford University’s Rodolfo Cortes Barragan both young men lay bare the potential for fraud in a national presidential primary process according to snoopes.com.

 

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July 08, 2016

I sincerely apologize to you all for the delay in finishing this blog post up, but I’ve had some considerable delay related to weather and other more personal issues.

And I want to personally thank you all for your patience with me in finishing this posting. Your love, support and interests in what I have to say is appreciated. No doubt you could choose to go elsewhere, look elsewhere for words from folks far better than I at this thing called blogging, but the bottom line is that you stayed, stuck it out with me and now, here we are together in all this.

As you all know we are and have been going through a series of things since our July 04 weekend here in America. A lot of moving parts and fluidity abounds in where we now stand. And as we approach convention time for the two mainstream political parties in this great country of ours we have to stop a minute and check ourselves. Do some personal, self-examination and ask ourselves some hard questions via the mirrors that we stand in front of when we ready ourselves for the day ahead.

Some potential questions might well be a long the lines of who am I and why me? Not all that long ago a fellow human being taught me those two questions or rather woke me up to those two questions: Who am I? [And] Why me?

He said ask and answer yourself those two questions and in the process a brave new world will begin to open to you.

I would also add: Am I a registered voter?

So. We now have three potentially important questions to ask of ourselves as we stand affront of the mirror today and everyday thereafter:

Number 1: Who Am I?

Number 2: Why Me?

Number 3: Am I a Registered Voter?

 

Ask and answer these three questions for yourselves and then go out and about your day with family, friends and the loved and teach them to ask and answer these three questions of themselves and then get them to go out amongst their own circles and teach their circles these three important questions. Answer them to the very best of your ability by tracing your roots. Who you are? Where you come from? Who your people are? Where they came from? And then get yourself down to the voter registration office and check and see if you are registered to vote and go and vote this November and in every available election to you thereafter. Have your family, friends and loved ones to do the same. Go to your voter registration office together. Ask and answer that question immediately if not sooner.

Because our election process has been unequivocably tampered with. interfered with and those who have done the interfering. Those who have rigged the primary process for this major, forthcoming, national election cycle must know that they cannot and will not get away with this. This matter will not go unanswered. And in fact it will be answered to, egsastinchally, through our vote and voice.

We cannot and we must not, as Americans, never mind your political affiliation or assumption, but as an American first, a voter second and finally, most importantly, as a human being, will not be silent or silenced over such a rigging. Such a political fixing. Although I vehemently agree to disagree with Mr. Donald J. Trump, Sr. on many things I do agree with him on one thing: The system is rigged.

And it’s rigged for a certain sum and select few to be successful instead of us all. Change it. Change yourselves, for the better, by looking in that mirror throughout today and everyday that you are able to do so, these three questions. Get answers to those three questions before it’s too late.

I love you all and pray God’s peace, blessing and favor upon you and your households. Thank you for standing by me when others wouldn’t…

Rhett.

LINO – Libertarian In Name Only

ORLANDO, Florida – Barely twenty-four hours in and already the Libertarian party of two thousand and sixteen is starting to experience dissention in the ranks.

Over Memorial day weekend Libertarians came together from across the country and around the world to nominate their president and vice presidential candidates at their annual national party convention. And for many the top of the ticket for the fall and the general election season is troubling, deeply troubling.

Many Libertarians say that with the assention of former Massachusetts Governor William Weld to the vice presidency that it will just give the North American Union types and Wall Street Big Money Donors a paper tiger in a Gary Johnson administration, should he win the presidency in the fall.

Because from sun-drenched Florida and the grave of the late great Economist Harry Browne, the 1996 and 2000 Libertarian party nominee for President of the United States of America, you can hear the battle cry of LINO – Libertarian In Name Only!

No doubt the Johnson-Weld ticket will tell Libertarians and you fellow voter nothing could be further from the truth. No paper tigers here, no LINO’s allowed! And so it will go, no?

But lets look at it from this perspective for just a minute, shall we? My prediction is that the Johnson-Weld ticket will be Libertarian-lite in that they’ll run under the Libertarian party banner but will, instead, draw from the well of the Never Trump Never Hillary movements in a kind of “A Coalition of the Willing.” Or as Bill Clinton and Dick Morris did so infamously in the 1990’s, “Triangulation.”

Seeking out those disgruntled and disavowed  Democrats and Republicans who just can’t stand the idea, much less stomach it, of another Clinton or that for matter a Donald J. Trump in The White House.

Or, maybe not? Maybe just maybe it’s what they all really want, and it’s just going to be made to look like it’s not? Just so the media, talking-heads, politicos and party bosses can have something to talk about on the nightly news.

In either case I like Bill Weld and have enormous respect for Gary Johnson, ever since 2011 when he first ran for the presidency. Then as now Johnson stands for some of the same things that I do, but with Charles and David Koch, through Bill Weld, pulling on Johnson like he’s a puppet and they’re the masters even I can’t stomach that!

I hate Charles and David Koch with every fiber of my being for what they have done to this great country of ours and this beautiful world in which we all live. They are evil incarnate, in my opinion, and hell itself would be a far worse place with them in it.

I call LINO – Libertarian in Name Only! And for those disgruntled and disaffected Libertarians I offer this as your Battle Cry:

Hold fast, and as Jesse Ventura says, “Stay Vigilant…”

–Rhett.

“Southern Strategy” Much? – How both Republicans and Democrats shot themselves in the foot in terms of the Vote!

(Atop photo) Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before the Select Committee on Foreign Intelligence for the United States Senate in 2013 over the Benghazi, Libya scandal… (Bottom photo) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent turned Democrat) kicks off his 2016 presidential campaign outside of Burlington, VT. USA…

BROOKLYN, New York – Thursday night Democratic candidates for 2016, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, “got it on,” as they say, under all the hot lights and scrutiny of the day before a capacity crowd in Brooklyn, NY. USA. And to say that it was a heated debate between the two larger-than-life Democratic candidates would be an understatement.

It was doggy dog all night with both candidates experiencing scrutiny from the audience in attendance (in the make-shift style debate hall in a semi-abandoned warehouse in the New York City borough) to the journalists/hosts that moderate the debate for CNN & New York 1 to the candidates themselves as they traded barbs and jabs back and forth throughout the night.

And while some say that their was no clear winner or looser to emerge in Thursday night’s debate, the fallout from the debate or the narrative out of the ‘city so nice that they named it twice’ was that “Bernie Sanders denigrated the South and Hillary Clinton’s wins there in primaries and caucuses and when he was asked a specific question about the primary process and how it was really going in his opinion, he dodged the question”.

Lets be clear here for a minute: There is no question but that Hillary Clinton has done well in the South, all throughout this Democratic primary process for 2016 in fact, BUT lets look to the context and perhaps the method used for all those so-called “Solid South,” wins for Mrs. Clinton.

“[A Map of] The Southern United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau,” for the Wikipedia page titled: Southern strategy…

According to reports from the United States [Bureau of the Census] the “Southern United States of America or the Southern most United States of America is defined ,geographically, as states in the Union below what is known as the Mason-Dixon Line. These are states in the union that receive the most warm-air climate in a given year per the dictates of the seasons and or climates here in the Continental United States of America that receive the best warm-air climate for nine or more period months out of a given calendar year…And these are States that have a race or class of people who are or who  feel that they are divided; politically, socially and ecumenically through no-fault of their own, BUT that their ancestry who participated in the so-called “War between the States” or the Civil War is to blame for all their troubles or social ills within this race or class of people living within the Continental United States of America…”

These states (highlighted in deep red on the map just above) are the States in the Union that make up the Southern most part of the Continental United States of America [excluding Alaska and Hawaii – highlighted on the map by squares on the bottom left hand side just above].

These are the Southern states, since the 1800’s and on here in America, that experienced and lived through, albeit survived, the Civil War’s Reconstruction period having undergone a political period known as the “Southern strategy” or the political as well as emotional  appeal to Southern White Democrats to vote for Republicans in primaries, caucuses and general national election cycles (visa versa).

An editorial cartoon called “Mr. Solid South,” from Harper’s Weekly (1879) criticizing literacy tests in the South (photo taken from Wikipedia page titled: Southern strategy)…

Originally intended to benefit rich Southern white Democrats during the period of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War it has instead proven a useful strategy, politically, for both parties since Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign perfected it in 1968.

Disaffected and disgruntled whites after the Civil War felt that they had no place to turn, no opportunities would ever be presented to them, no chance for advancement or a better life.

In view of the Civil War these Americans had betrayed their country, went against the Union of the United States of America, when they went to war against their fellow (Northern) Americans. And even though the South, as we know it today, lost that war they were still thrown a bone, politically, by the  “Party of [Abraham] Lincoln”.

Republicans strategized with Democrats in the Congress ‘that we’ll give you the South, politically, if you leave us alone in the North, Midwest and Western United States’.

Southern Democrats, in amazement, believed that they had been given a great gift. As a national as well as a Southern States and local political party got together and devised ways to punish not only the black man, but the poor white man as well, through poll taxes, Jim Crow Laws and literacy tests when it came to the people’s expressed desires to vote, hold and own land, etc…

“From 1890 to 1908, the white Democratic legislatures in every Southern state enacted new constitutions or amendments with provisions to disenfranchise most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites. Provisions required payment of poll taxes, and complicated residency,literacy tests, and other requirements, which were subjectively applied against blacks. As blacks lost their vote, the Republican Party lost its ability to effectively compete in the South. There was a dramatic drop in voter turnout as these measures took effect, a decline in African-American participation that was enforced for decades in all southern states….[All over the North]Editorial cartoons [such as this one featured above] from the January 18, 1879, issue of Harper’s Weekly [were seen] criticizing the use of literacy tests. It shows “Mr. Solid South” writing on the wall, “Eddikashun qualifukashun. The Blak man orter be eddikated afore he kin vote with us Wites.” – Taken from the Southern strategy Wikipedia page

In an unwritten deal in 1877 Republicans removed all federal troops from the South in exchange for the White House in the form of Rutherford B. Hayes v. Samuel J. Tilden. As a result Southern Democrats had a political stranglehold on the South until the Civil rights era of 1954 to 1968. And they expected to maintain power for a long time, that was until men like Vernon Johns and Martin Luther King, Jr. came along and forever changed the dynamics of protests for civil and human rights.

Rev. Dr. Vernon L. Johns, M.E. & PhD (pictured on the left) and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. M.E. & PhD. (pictured on the right)…”The father and the son of the modern-day civil rights movement here in the United States of America…”

The undertakings of Johns and King (countless others) lead to the dismantling of decades of authoritarian rule, politically, through the subjugation of poor whites and blacks throughout the South. “Finally!” Many decried. “Someone that we can rely on to see us through to full freedom, justice and equality…[Voices for the voiceless.]”

“[Count] How many Jelly Beans are in [this] jar,” an Illustration for this posting…

It would take nearly fifty years after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but all men are and should be created equally, right?

Wrong!

Fast-forward to today, and some would argue that the Southern strategy is in full effect as many believe that this is what Hillary Clinton used to propel herself to a “comfortable lead” against her opponent Bernie Sanders via the African-American vote in the South.

We may not make the ‘Negro’ of today ‘stand on one foot and count to 100 backward’ or ‘spell soap backward’ or ‘read the star-spangled banner on a piece of paper upside down’, BUT that through things like “voter id laws,” “real id laws,” (Willie Horton political campaign ads) etc. (An as yet alleged kinder and gentler tone and tenor has emerged to the once usual hue and cry of old, “Nigger, nigger, nigger [the Klan is getting bigger]!” – Lee Atwater)

That the past is just prolonged that it is a matter now of semantics, of political correctness and so-called “political establishment” that rules are days now. And we should just excuse this dementedly sad history all away now because a black man has been elected president in this country.

And soon enough a woman will get the honor and privilege to be called the same, right? So. Case. Closed. Right?

Wrong!

Meet the “Southern Strategists,” from Reconstruction on. (Left to Right) Former Presidents of the United States of America Rutherford B. Hayes, Richard M. Nixon, Republican strategist, pollster, pundit and adviser to several Republican presidents Patrick J. Buchanan, Republican party ‘Hatchet Man’ Lee Atwater, ‘Dixiecrat’ and Segregationist Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, Jr. Former First Lady of Arkansas and the United States of America as well as former New York State Senator and Secretary of State (Democrat for President of the United States of America in 2008 & 2016) Hillary D. Rodham Clinton… (photos courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016 – photo editing done by Rhett E. Column, Say What News?!, 2016)…

Meet the unholy of political holiest that we have to thank for the Southern political strategy here in the United States of America.  These are the ones that we have to thank for things like Jim Crow laws, [racial] Segregation, poll taxes and  Literacy in the form of voter id laws that does noting but  test the will and resolve of blacks and poor Peoples throughout the South for centuries in terms of the vote.

Through legislation and taxation and with the help of organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC this faux fo pas trinity, since Reconstruction on, has managed to corner the market and pigeonhole the American democratic process in both the South and the whole of America.

The Electorial College Map for the 1920 presidential campaign between Democrat James M. Cox and Republican Warren G. Harding (photo courtesy of Wikipedia page titled: Southern strategy)…

Republicans and Democrats from 1920 on have bought, sold and traded the American people, the American voter, for both political gain and power, but also for wealth and interests through the Southern strategy. Deploying and developing means, method, motive and opportunity to keep the American people under a type of authoritarian rule. In a kind of modern-day poll taxing-jellybean counting-read the U.S. Constitution backwards style body politic.

Confusing and putting the American people, the American voter, in a state of panic and disarray.  And no two were better at deploying the Southern strategy (deploying chaos and disarray) than Richard Milhouse Nixon and George Cornelius Wallace, Jr..

(Left)’Dixiecrat’ and Segregationist Governor of Alabama George C. Wallace, Jr. and  (Right) former President of the United States of America Richard M. Nixon..(photos courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016 – photo editing by Rhett E. Column, Say What News?!, 2016)…

Like the Ancient Mongolians (Chinese) teaching the Ancient Romans how to Crucify, Wallace and Nixon perfected the crucifixion of the American people via the Southern strategy. Preying on the fears of the common white man towards the common black man. And in their wake of evil we are hung on the cross daily by things like mass incarceration, youth unemployment, police brutality, human and civil rights violations, deportation, debtors prisons, prolonged and enhanced interrogation techniques, spying, lying, drone warfare and perpetual or endless wars (by proxy) in far away places that we don’t even know nor have we ever heard of.

For what? Money. Power. Greed. The fevered dreams of an elite and ruling class of people fulfilled.

2016 Democratic candidates for President of the United States of America (Left) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (Right) former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (photos courtesy of the Bernie Sanders Campaign and the Hillary Clinton Campaigns – photo editing by Rhett E. Column, Say What News?!, 2016)…

The other night Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton met in Brooklyn for a twelfth time out of fourteen, reportedly, scheduled debates between the two Democratic candidates that are left.

Argument has been made, since, that Bernie Sanders is somehow excusing away the fact that Hillary Clinton won the Southern United States or the Deep South by an “overwhelming majority of the black American voter (something that Bernie Sanders himself would never ever be able to do because Bernie Sanders doesn’t know how to connect “properly” with black people and Hillary Clinton does, BECAUSE she is married to the “first black president this country has ever had” – and so it goes in implication),” and that IF she gets the nomination of her political party she will win the South by an “overwhelming majority” in a general election.

Depicting, somehow, a repeat performance of her husband, Bill Clinton’s, 1992 presidential campaign and his own Southern strategy in the form of the “Man from Hope [Arkansas]” and “I still believe in a place called Hope” Campaign theme(s) coming out of the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

And so therefore Bernie Sanders shouldn’t somehow ‘excuse away the once Solid South‘ for Democrats. Its happened before, and it can happen again. In this kind of R. Lee Ermey “Mississippi Burning,” Mayor remarks “our nigra were happy until you FBI men came down here” tail that wags the dog we gonna whip y’all in ta shape come hell or high water moment. ‘The South will rise again!’ And so it goes…

Southern strategy , Solid south maps of the Southern most United States of America and former President William J. ‘Bill’ Clinton ‘tail wagging the dog’ finger pointing moment…

And Mrs. Clinton may well ‘Get Lucky in Kentucky’ and win the whole damn thing via the South, more power to her! But you must never ever forget that a Democrat running for the highest and best office in the land has not won in the Southern most United States of America since Bill Clinton, and that was without an overwhelming majority of the voting population there in a general election. – Not even the so-called ‘twice elected black man’ that’s in the White House now won the South with an overwhelming majority of the vote down there.

“Southern Strategy” Much?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

–Rhett.

 

Lecturer n Chief (The SCOTUS Nomination)

Editorial:

Yesterday. Our Commander n Chief stepped to the podium in the White House’s Rose Garden along with the Vice President and formally presented/nominated US Federal Judge Merrick B. Garland to the US Supreme Court. Watch.

A little while ago I messaged the President congratulating his Administration on formally nominating Judge Garland, BUT I also spoke to him about this lecturer n chief tour that he seems to be on when it comes to the “US Constitution, law and government,” as I put it to him.

Then Constitutional Law Professor Barack H. Obama, II teaching a class at the University of Illinois at Chicago (photo courtesy of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Law, c. 2003)

Relishing, it would seem, the opportunity to teach rather than lead. WHY? What’s the point? To most of us who know and give more than a tinkers damn about law and process we are well aware of the government’s first best duties here when it comes to such a process as naming a judge to the highest court/bench in the land.

We don’t need a lecturer n chief we need a President. That’s why I compelled him to take off his professorial hat for a minute and just be President of the United States of America. And act.  [I mean he’s ACTED on everything else, right? So. Why not this?]

Move on this issue rather than lecture the American people about law and process. Respectfully. Watch.

 

These days though Washington, D.C. seems to be filled to overflowing  with lecturers, teachers and Constitutional Law Professors. WHY? What’s the point? Your bona fides is duly noted. We don’t need how-to’s on law and government. We need movers and shakers. Folks that will do the work that the American voter sent them there to do in the first place.

HERE’S THE THING: The US Senate is supposed to “Advice and consent,” here:

“[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.” – “Advice and consent clause,” [US Constitution] Article 2, Section 2 (Wikipedia)

And the above and titled from Wikipedia sums up my message to the President today. To my elected representatives in Washington, D.C. We don’t need lectures or lecturers we need actors! Movers and shakers who will go to Washington and do the work, truly, of representative government. Democracy. In action. Period. Full stop.

You don’t have to like or approve of a thing that this President does. BUT you do have to extend to him and to the American people who twice elected him the courtesy of giving his judicial nominee(s) a hearing in the judiciary committee and then a fair and impartial up or down vote on the floor of the US Senate.

US Federal Court Judge Merrick B. Garland (photo courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016)

Vote no IF you don’t want Judge Garland on the bench. [It’s your prerogative.] BUT vote. Do your job! And keep your mouth shut. The both of you. Damn. I’m so sick of this crap folks. This is exactly WHY I am fast becoming turned off to politics and voting in the USA.

I don’t need or want lectures. I need action. It’s that simple.

Judge Garland is, by all accounts, a fair and even-handed jurist. And it just so happens that he’s the judge that presided over the federal trials of long-convicted domestic terrorists Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber and the ‘Unabomber’ Dr. Ted Kaczynski.

My good God in heaven I don’t think you can get much better?! But yet and still somehow we’ve got those who wish to lecture US, We the People, on what they know and don’t know. What is and isn’t of benefit to us.

And I am so sick of it. #DoYourJob: The both of you, President Obama and Congress, and keep your mouths shut.

— Rhett.

#Blog: “Home Stretch: WHY #KySen Candidate David Patterson NEEDS to be @ those KET DEBATES!” By Rhett E. Column; #SayWhatNews, #AXJ, #FreePress

Mr. David Patterson, Libertarian Candidate for United States Senate, Kentucky 2014

HARRODSBURG, Kentucky — This week I closed out a petition that I started on behalf of Kentucky Senate Candidate David Patterson. David is the 2014 Libertarian Party (of Kentucky) Candidate for the high office of United States Senate.

As we now know Kentucky Educational Television (K.E.T.) has done all that it can to keep David from the debates. And unfortunate as it is David has had to bring suit against K.E.T. just so that he can participate in at least one if not all of the three, possibly four debates K.E.T. has slated, debates for U.S. Senate on their “Kentucky Tonight,” Program hosted by Mr. Bill Goodman starting on October the 13th. (Please CHECK your local listings for times and dates already scheduled.)

Kentucky Educational Television (K.E.T.) Logo …

For the record I have always liked and appreciated our state’s public television outlet. They have very interesting, entertaining as well as informative programming on their airwaves but when they deliberately and effectually black out or CENSOR a candidate or candidates for high office then I have a problem and frankly we all should.

CENSORED … From the David Patterson for U.S. Senate, 2014, Campaign …

Censorship, in any form, is wrong! It amounts to putting tape over one’s mouth and telling a person, “shut up, no one wants to hear from you!”

What right, rhyme or reason does K.E.T. have to censor David Patterson? To put tape over his mouth, essentially, and say, “shut up, no one wants to hear from you!” Since when did they become the arbiter of information? Furthermore who placed them in such a high standing?

I have long contended that it is the Establishment, the Political Establishment, in both Washington, D.C. and Frankfort, KY. that is desirous to see that no one but Mitch McConnell and Alison Lundergan-Grimes are heard from. #sadbuttrue

The State Capitol Building in Frankfort, KY. U.S.A., 2014…

They have done all that they can. Pulled out all the stops! Leaving nothing to chance up to and including, and I have this on good authority, threatening ,Kentucky Educational Executive Director and C.E.O. Shae Hopkins, to pull K.E.T. funding for the rest of the year ‘if David Patterson is allowed on that debate stage with Alison and Mitch’.

Now! You can take that with a grain of salt if you want to. I would not fault you if you did because and basically its my word against theirs and I am not about to compromise my source’s safety and security per their job, home and family. I will not!

But and to me the powers that be, the political elites and ruling class of the day have some explaining to do. Some accountability in which to attend. They can either put up or shut up.

Truthfully, and you know what they should have done friends. They should have just come on out with it. Revealed their truth. Admittedly, publicly and privately, to David Patterson, “Look brother you’re a heck of a nice guy. A good public servant. You do great constable work for us over their in Harris County, KY. And you are a good friend and confident to many in your community. But the bottom line is this we just do not want you on that public debate stage with our chosen candidates. We don’t! And we would just appreciate it very much if you and your followers/supporters would just go home now and let us handle this. We know what is best for the people of this state. We don’t want to hear what third political party folks have to say, though mighty nice folks that they are, just like ole Gatewood Galbraith was, but we, we know how to handle this thing here. How to handle and conduct business by the people. We know what’s best for these people better than they know for themselves. So be a good boy and run on back home where you belong now, okay? Thank you!”

The Honorable Steven L. Beshear, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky … 2014 photo

If Steven L. Beshear had one ounce of integrity in his body, one shred of compunction about him, he himself would do that very thing. Since it is he himself that is doing the threatening. Bottom line.

He would and should personally come to David Patterson and just come clean. Just confess that it is he and his Establishment Allies in Frankfort and in Washington strong-arming Shae Hopkins & Co. over at K.E.T. But and in fact he won’t because he is not a man of integrity, honesty and fairness. He does not play by the rules. He never has. In fact he makes many of the rules up as he goes along. He has for years. Respectfully.

But and in the interests of the ‘teachable moment’ here is some encouragement for him to turn things around. Watch!

Despite the rudeness of the former Governor of Kentucky turned Kentucky State Senator Julian M. Carroll, Democrat, in this video, there is a lesson to be learned, a clear-cut example of up front honesty. Julian Carroll doesn’t want 3rd political party folks to be heard from. (Especially these days.) Period. Full stop.

He only wants the two-party system to be heard and seen. Voted on, talked to and dealt with ,directly, for space, time and memorial on.

This alternative stuff has no place, and he has no time for it. I can and do respect the State Senator for his up front honesty with Independent Kentucky Chair Michael P.W. Lewis, to a degree.

Independent Kentucky Logo, 2014 … (Facebook Page Header)

Michael is a good man, and a great social media friend and political Allie of mine. But truthfully he had no business treating Michael like that. Direct and frank honesty not withstanding. Respectfully.

In the interests of full disclosure I used to be a lot like State Senator Carroll in my own way of thinking and processing toward folks like David and Michael.

I was a Republican for a long time, then I left the party after the 2004 presidential election, went to the Constitution Party and then in 2008 switched to the Democrat Party as I consider myself a LIBERAL(TARIAN) democrat.

I used to think them crazy. Think them tin foil hat wearer folks who couldn’t govern their way out of a wet paper sack for years. That was until I ran headlong into a fellow Kentuckian and now long-time friend Mr. William Edward Parker of Louisville, KY. W. Ed Parker is one of the finest men I have ever met and known in my entire life. Another political giant in the process toward freedom, justice, equality and independence.

The Constitution Party of the United States of America, Logo for 2014 …

I first met Mr. Parker when he was running for the Congress out of Louisville with the Constitution Party (of Kentucky) against than long-time incumbent Anne Northup, a Republican, to my knowledge Mr. Parker and Congresswoman Northup had no public or private debates together? Not one! But through it all. Through the blackout and censorship process Ed Parker kept his cool, his calm and his wits about him, slogged on, and still managed to give Anne Northup a run for her political money.

Former U.S. Congresswoman Anne Northup, Republican-Kentucky (Louisville’s 3rd Congressional District)

Anne Northup, again a Republican, came out and said, almost right away in fact, that she would not debate, and that year she had five opponents total to run against. Still she managed to pull off the win and get one more four-year term in Washington. Of course long time Louisville business man turned Independent (only for a very brief and barely unmentionable time I might add), turned Republican, turned Democrat John Yarmuth beat her four years later in 2006 and he has been serving ever since.

To his credit ,and the credit of others, John Yarmuth debated and debated Ed Parker on the issues of the day, no questions asked. He stood on his own two feet and by his boot straps and debated Mr. Parker and others without cause or question much to the chagrin of the Establishment. So, and there are indeed some exceptions. Some political rarities as it were. So good on him in the end.

The point being here is that David Patterson has well-earned the right to be heard. Doesn’t matter if the powers that be in Frankfort or Washington D.C. don’t wish him to be heard. Rules are rules, rules by the way, long-established by the Establishment themselves, and when David good and well jumped through those hoops. Those rings of discontent, entanglement and strife the powers that be in both Frankfort and Washington, D.C. got angry and they have been angry ever since. And that’s just the fact of the matter

Don’t you think for one single solitary minute that those in Power & Authority over Us will ‘go quietly into that long good night’. They will not! But, and there is evidence that they are certainly tiring.

In August of this year, for instance, Centre College in Danville, Ky. pulled out of debate hosting duties for the U.S. Senate race specifically after pressure was brought to bear upon them for not allowing or permitting David Patterson (and other candidates for the office) to  debate.

As and at that time they only wanted to hear from and lend space to McConnell and Grimes.

The President of Centre College said of David Patterson, “just because he’s on the ballot doesn’t mean that he is going to get to debate.” Can you imagine?

Centre College Logo, Danville, KY. 2014 …

Does such a pressure need to be brought to bear against KET? Should it? Shae Hopkins & Co. are public employees, essentially. Should We The People rise up in one accord agreement as we did against Centre College for not allowing or permitting David Patterson to debate? Should we? I think we should!

And that’s what I tried to do with the Care2 petition on David’s behalf, two months ago now.

To bring as much pressure to bear as I could to make KET give the debate stage space that David Patterson himself (with the help of others) has well-earned.

Granted we only got 19 people from across the country and around the world to sign on. But those 19 people helped and continue to help to this day to give David Patterson that all-important opportunity to be heard. That’s all! We just want to be heard.

I mean it would be one thing if David was just some crank or crackpots. Some crazy that didn’t have a good rhyme or reason to be there in the first place. I would be the first one to say good on KET for controlling the debate process, our debate process. But and alas David Patterson is no crank or crackpots much less crazy although and I’m sure David’s wife and family would give me odds, lol.

He is a good man with a plan, and although this is his first time to run for higher office he has a Platform on which to lead.

He has the ability to stand on his own two feet, talk and debate the issues of the day with a Mitch McConnell or Alison Grimes or anyone else for that matter. And to that end he should be heard.

Rightly and properly vetted by We The People. Considered fully on the basis of his merits, abilities and raw thought process. Rising and falling on all that and more throughout this whole process. The national midterm election is less than a month away folks. This is critical.

That is WHY we need #KySen Candidate David Patterson on that KET debate stage, in less than a week now from this coming Monday.

The voters need to hear what this man has got to say! Trust me when I say David Patterson is the REAL DEAL. What you see is what you will get. No freckles. No frills. Just plain Jane good old-fashioned honesty and excellence. The kind of good on you stuff that we need in Washington, and Frankfort too for that matter!

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky Logo, 2014, Ken Moellman State Party Chair … http://www.lpky.org

So in this Home Stretch lets work together to Elect David Patterson as our Next United States Senator for Kentucky! Thank you. And until then, “Good night and good luck fellow Citizens of Earth…”

#VoteBetter #VoteSmarter #VoteLibertarian #KySenate2014

–Rhett.

David Patterson for United States Senate, 2014 Campaign …

#Blog: “@KET: Let David Patterson Debate! #VoteBetter #VoteSmarter #VoteLibertarian #KySen ..” By Rhett E. Column; #SayWhatNews, #AXJ, #FreePress

Good afternoon. I started this #petition on Care 2 on behalf of my friend and 2014 Candidate for United States Senate David Patterson.

Link #1. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/661/885/779/kentucky-educational-television-let-david-patterson-debate-kysen2014/

David is the 2014 Libertarian Candidate for Senate and is being kept from debating by Kentucky Educational Television (K.E.T.) because he did not raise $100,000.00 or more in a single campaign quarter to be allowed or permitted to debate. Despite having jumped through every other political establishment hoop in Frankfort, KY. (the State’s Capitol) and Washington, D.C. (our Nation’s Capitol) to get on the ballot across the state.

Link #2. https://thesaywhatnews.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/blog-censored-why-wont-kentucky-educational-television-ket-let-david-patterson-debate-by-rhett-e-column-saywhatnews-axj-2/

And while I have my theories here are but a few of the reasons WHY KET Executive Director & C.E.O. Shae Hopkins: http://www.ket.org/about/ceo.htm

1. The political establishment in Frankfort & Washington just doesn’t want David to be heard.

2. They have threatened, Governor Steven L. Beshear, Shae Hopkins and told her IF she lets David on that stage the State will withhold ‘Big Bird’s paycheck next month’.

3. Or it has something to do with yours truly and the FACT that I am married to an African-American in a still ‘Southern State’ and/or it has something to do with this little known to the public issue: https://thesaywhatnews.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/blog-operation-broken-trust-and-an-thejusticedept-service-failure-to-inform-by-rhett-e-column-saywhatnews-axj-freepress/

Perhaps it’s to do with this as well: https://thesaywhatnews.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/blog-my-open-letters-to-my-u-s-senators-by-rhett-e-column-saywhatnews-axj-freepress/

Either way it is interesting to me how they have done David. He has well-earned his right to be heard, along with everyone else in this country not of Republican or Democrat stripe!

And so, I’m calling out Shae Hopkins and the Powers that Be in Frankfort and Washington. Let David Patterson Debate! #VoteBetter #VoteSmarter #VoteLibertarian #KySen

Peace.

–Rhett.

#Blog: “Georgia State Lawmaker miffed at Voting Improvements..” By Rhett E. Column; #SayWhatNews, #AXJ, #FreePress

ATLANTA, Georgia — Peach State Lawmaker Fran Millar (R) is miffed at how easy voting has become in one county that he represents.

Georgia State Senator Fran Millar (R) pictured, 2014

According to Think Progress:

“The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday that Georgia state Senator Fran Millar (R) penned an angry response to DeKalb County’s announcement that early voting will be available on Sunday, October 26, and that an early-voting location will be opened at The Gallery at South DeKalb Mall. Millar represents part of the county and is Senior Deputy Whip for the Georgia Senate Republicans.”

His letter stated the following:

“Now we are to have Sunday voting at South DeKalb Mall just prior to the election. Per Jim Galloway of the AJC, this location is dominated by African-American shoppers and it is near several large African-American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist. Galloway also points out the Democratic Party thinks this is a wonderful idea – what a surprise. I’m sure Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter are delighted with this blatantly partisan move in DeKalb.

Is it possible church buses will be used to transport people directly to the mall since the poll will open when the mall opens? If this happens, so much for the accepted principal of separation of church and state.”

I am at a loss to understand what the problem is here. On one hand you say, “We need voters. We need voters.” THEN on the other hand you say, “Oh that’s to many voters. They are overwhelming the system. We can’t handle that many voters. You are gonna have to cut that back.” Or, “Separation of church and state. That ‘Souls to the Polls’ thing is bordering on crossing that line of separation. And we just can’t have something like that. We have got to keep the lines blurred. The ACLU is watching.”

Gerrymandering anyone? Anyone?

The more voters the merrier. We do need voters. Voters who are smart, informed, well-informed, and ready, ‘early and often’, to go to the polls at any time. Casting their all-important vote for the candidate(s) of choice. This is what makes a Democracy truly great. Truly a work in progress.

Let the Voters Vote! Thank you.

Voters!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

–Rhett.