Sender's Note - If third parties are
excluded it will only confirm what many of us have known for a long time
now,
i.e. we are controlled by a Criminal and
Treasonous Conspiratorial Duopoly.
If ever there was issue that should
appeal to your common sense of fair play, this is it.
I urge you to do whatever is necessary
to support the inclusion of third parties in the Debates.
Bard
"To shut out legitimate third-party candidates
from these debates is to limit the competitive democratic process on which the
American electoral system is supposed to be built," Ralph Nader stated shortly
before accepting the Green Party nomination on June 25th.
Nader and Patrick J. Buchanan of the Reform
Party have numerous, common sense reasons why they should be admitted to the
presidential debates. Unfortunately, the Commission on Presidential
Debates - run by a Democrat and a Republican - says you have to poll 15%
nationally before they'll let you step up to the podium. This is the
establishment's way of saying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is their clubhouse, and
third parties can't play in it.
It's not surprising that, even with millions of
Americans supporting these two men, the commission remains unmoved. "A
third-party candidate could theoretically get the support of 28 million
Americans of voting age," the Portland Press Herald pointed out in an editorial
criticizing the 15% barrier, "and still be denied the chance to debate."
The commission says Buchanan and Nader have no
chance to win because they're polling under 15%. But Jesse Ventura was at
only 10% before he debated, shot up to 37%, and ultimately "shocked the world"
by beating both the Democrat and Republican candidates.
Clearly the establishment doesn't want Ventura's
scenario to play out nationally, so they set the 15% rule. They say the
number's reasonable, pointing out that three "third-party" candidates have
polled over 15% since 1968. They neglect to mention that two of those men
were establishment office holders, and the third drew on a fortune of $3
billion.
Americans have been reenacting the
Lincoln-Douglas debates for almost 150 years, celebrating a pure form of
democracy in which spin-doctors, TV ads and high-priced consultants play no
role. The debate commission should do justice to the memory of that
watershed event, and admit Buchanan and Nader to this year's
debates.
