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Subject: Stauber piece on Nader in Capital Times 11/1/2000
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 23:07:26 -0600 (CST)
From: MichaelP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The Capital Times
Madison, WI
Page 9A
Wednesday, November 1, 2000
NADER MOVEMENT AIMS TO PULL PLUG ON CORPORATE POWER
*John Stauber
John Stauber is co-author of the book Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies,
Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry.
A well-organized campaign of fear and loathing is attempting to
frighten people from voting their own consciences. Recently a group
calling itself 'Nader's Raiders for Gore' has been leading the
fearmongering to dissuade citizens from voting for Ralph. Liberal Democrat
and big business lobbyist Toby Moffett, recently a Monsanto vice president
and now with a major DC lobby firm, is coordinating the effort to smear and
attack Nader. Moffett and other lobbyists love Al Gore because, while
Gore did not invent the internet, he is the techno-pol responsible for
forcing Americans to eat Monsanto's inadequately tested, potentially
dangerous and unlabeled genetically engineered foods.
I agree that a Bush/Cheney administration would be bad news for
most of what I personally hold sacred. However, voting for Al Gore is not
the answer. Every four years there now comes the less reprehensible
corporate candidate. This year it's Al Gore playing the role. If he wins,
in four years he would star in a repeat performance, and then maybe the
esteemed senator of the insurance and prescription drug cartels, Joe
Lieberman, would step up from his understudy position.
Forget that. I'm working and voting for Ralph Nader because he is
giving voice and leadership to the growing pro-democracy movement needed to
bust the stranglehold that corporations have over our lives and our system
of government. If Nader were running as the Democrat.... But of course,
that would never happen because the system is so rigged that only a
candidate beholden to corporate special interest money can today win either
party's presidential nomination.
Even if Bush wins the White House there is some light in that dark
cloud. It would mean that Nader has probably succeeded in winning enough
votes to jump-start a national progressive third party and he has certainly
galvanized the grassroots to confront and blunt either candidate's
pro-business agenda. A voter rejection of the Democrat ticket might also
inspire some inside that party to question and re-think its partnerships
with big business.
Bush in the White House would also guarantee that four years from
now we will not have to endure the apologists' excuses about how 'Yes,
President Gore has been a major disappointment but he had to compromise to
win a second term. Re-elect him because he will move in our direction.'
I'm joyfully casting my vote for Ralph Nader and the growing grass
roots movement to reclaim American democracy. No matter who wins on
November 7th I will celebrate what the Nader/LaDuke campaign has
accomplished in forcing the single biggest issue of our time -- corporate
domination -- to a much higher level of awareness and action. Nader/LaDuke
has succeeded in this despite a pittance of campaign money, hostile news
media awash in political advertising lucre, the enforced censorship that
kept the duo out of the debates, and now, desperate outpourings of fear and
loathing on the campaign trail, courtesy of corporate lobbyists for Gore
such as Toby Moffett.
Be warned however that merely voting for anyone is not enough.
Commit yourself to the understanding that the growing pro-democracy
movement sparked by Ralph Nader's candidacy is just the beginning. Commit
yourself to personally helping it succeed with both your time and money in
the months and years ahead, long after November 7th.
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