Presidential Platform for John Smith in ‘08
Would you vote for him? - Part 1

October 17, 2006 by mugsy.

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Hello, my name is Johnathan Q. Smith and I’m running for President in 2008.

Our nation is in an extraorinarilly sad state today. Driven by reactionary idiology, common-sense solutions that sometimes offend our sensabilitites as “bad” have sometimes proven to be the wisest course of action. The policies I want to enact may sound radical, BUT THEY WORK, with a proven track record of success, saving lives and money. I believe the only way to rescue our fragile Democracy from the catastrophic policies controlling our country today, forced upon us by radical religious ideologues, corporate raiders, and the politicians that cater to them in the name of the next big campaign donation, is to set ideology aside and consider options many of us have previously been unwilling to consider because it offended someone’s irrational logic. Here is my platform. Would you support a candidate that proposes:

Terrorism against the United States stems from our direct involvement and interference in their societies. - The standard bloviating attack line here is that anyone that dare suggest America share in any of the blame for what the terrorists do to us is a “terrorist sympathizer that would surrender our country to the terrorists like a Frenchman surrendering to a bowl of Jell-O. But as a wise person once said, “If you are unwilling to examine the reasons for terrorism, you’re never going to end it.” Osama bin Laden claimed that the justification for the Islamic reign of terror against the United States… stretching back to the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1978… were all in response to the U.S.’s involvement in Muslim government affairs, installing and supporting brutal dictators:

It is time the United States get out of the Middle East and stop meddling in their affairs. The first step on this road is “redeployment” of our troops out of Iraq and into the surrounding border states, allowing the Iraqi’s to resume control of their own country. It was one year ago next month that U.S. Representative (and former Marine drill sergeant) John Murtha first proposed redeploying our troops out of Iraq and into neighboring countries, providing only support to Iraq in their own efforts to regain control of their country. And for this, Democrats were labeled as “cowards” wanting to “Cut & Run” when things got tough. Well now, eleven months and several hundred troop deaths and a growing, spiraling out-of control civil war later, Even Republicans are starting to see the wisdom in Murtha’s proposal. Of course, they dare not compare their own calls for redeployment to that of Congressman Murtha’s nearly a year ago. It’s a shame that so many must die before they finally see the light, all in the name of playing partisan politics.

The next step is energy independence. - Most people would be surprised to learn that less than 20% of our oil imports come from the Middle East. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if we reduce our dependence on foreign oil a mere 20% through both increased use of home-grown Ethanol and higher CAFE (fuel economy) standards, we wouldn’t need to import a single drop of Middle Eastern oil. This is an EXTREMELY obtainable goal that could be achieved in less than four years. For those worried about “economic collapse in the Middle East inciting yet more violence”, fear not as the rest of the world is more than ready to take up the slack… most notably China.

Take the criminal element out of Marijuana sales and prostitution by legalizing them. - It is the very act of making these things illegal that contributes to the destruction they contribute to society. We tried making alcohol illegal once in this country and the result was violence and an exploding crime rate as mobsters like Al Capone become notorious for their brutality. It was the repeal of Prohibition that took away the profit and criminality of selling and distributing alcohol illegally, even removing life-treatening risk from drinking “bathtub gin”, and once again made it a regulated substance.

Marijuana is the most tame of illegal drugs. It’s diliatarious effects on par with alcohol (unless it is adultrated with other, more addictive or deadly substances… again, a result of it’s illegality). The American government will spend over $20 BILLION dollars fighting the “War on Drugs“, which has been about as successful as George W. Bush’s “War on Terror”… more rampant, violent and criminally profitable than ever before.

Legalizing and regulating marijuana usage would protect lives, take the criminal element out of its sale and distribution, free up our courts, our jails, and law enforcement so that they can concentrate on more serious matters.

It is the illegality of prostitution that results in “sex slavery”, pimps, “crack-whores” and the spread of life threatening, even deadly, diseases like AIDS and Syphilis. Legalizing protestitution allows it to be regulated. The health and well-being of women is protected. Neighborhoods that have seen their street-corners turned into meeting places for “Johns” to pickup prostitutes in full view of their children as women sell their bodies and put their lives at risk, will see the problem quickly disappear as legal bordellos licenced and regulated by the Board of Health replace them.

In Part 2 of my platform, I’ll be discussing “Protecting our borders” and Healthcare. Thank you for keeping an open mind and thank you for your support.

(PS: If it makes you feel any better, I do not drink, have EVER done drugs, or solicited a prostitute, so none of my positions on these issues stem from personal experience on the wrong-end of the law.)

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