What Gerald said last night ...

Gerald is an ex-black panther who has a couple of weekly shows on LUVeR. he is also giving LUVeR his music and political library. (A lot of people are giving LUVeR their complete record collections!) - Frank Moore

What Gerald said last night ...

We told Gerald about Frank's interviewing John Sinclair, reminding him of who that was. He was very impressed, and wanted to hear that interview because, he said, Frank always gets to good stuff, and he knows it was a good interview. He loved the endorsement quote from John Sinclair!

We had also printed out Frank's platform, including the new planks, and showed them to Gerald. The first thing he mentioned was that he thought the copyright patent laws were already supposed to be as Frank was proposing, but as he talked through it, he said he guessed that those laws have been subverted and manipulated by big corporations. Reading the next paragraph, about businesses selling their products in the U.S., he said now that would never get past THEM. They, the corporations, have so much invested in exploiting people in other countries, places where there really is barely a government to speak of to control anything about its work force.

He was saying that ever city is supposed to have one public access channel, but that doesn't even happen. In Oakland, they tried to pass off Soulbeat as public access, but it really was a commercial station, privately owned and operated, and so really was not community access, like anyone could come in, do a show, say what they wanted ... like BTV is real public access. He said he has been thinking about doing stuff on BTV, but TV is so much work! Not as easy as just coming in and doing his radio show on BLR, where it doesn't matter what he looks like, etc. We said that even TV can be really easy ... he could do it the same way he does his radio show, it would just be on TV, like how Democracy Now started ...

He really loved "Election Day will be a paid holiday." He said, now that ... that makes sense. We pointed out that Frank was the candidate of the "Just Makes Sense Party", and he laughed ... he said he has been thinking that on some level for a long time, but never said it. He said he was going to have to steal that one ... At some point, he said he wanted to use this on his show ...

He really liked limiting the bill length to 5 pages ... he said he tried to read Bill Clinton's crime bill when it came out, strategically released after the Oklahoma City bombings ... did we know how long it was? 1,000 pages! He couldn't get through it.

On the marriage plank, he thought the churches should stay out of it, that marriage should be a civil institution. If people want to go to church and have a religious ceremony, that's fine ... but he felt it should be a totally civil thing. He wondered how you would prove that you were eligible to be a "family"?

One of the things he also said was that Frank doing what he does makes him feel like he can really do what he wants to do. If Frank can do all that, he can certainly do what he is dreaming about, which he felt was a great thing about Frank. He said he really liked Frank and everyone and would be spending more time over with you if it wasn't for those CATS!

NEW PLANKS!

I will push for complete public funding for all political campaigns and the banning of political contributions and the use of personal wealth in political campaigns.

The President should have a line veto. But the Congress can over-turn this line veto by a simple majority. Also bills should be limited to 5 pages in length and/or limited to one subject.

An individual taxpayer will be able to direct her taxes to what functions she wants to support. But corporate taxpayers should not have this option.

Every corporation should come up for a renewal every 25 years, at which time it must prove that it has been operating in the public interest. If it fails to do this, it loses its right to exist. Corporations which have existed before this policy will have 10 years before they will have to prove they are worthy.

Government should leave marriage to churches. Instead, any two or more adults who have been living together for at least 2 years should be able to register as a “family.”

MORE TO COME!

In freedom,
Frank Moore

PLATFORM FOR FRANK MOORE’S PRESIDENCY ‘08

I’ll do away with welfare and social security. Instead, every American will receive a minimum income of $1,000 a month. This amount will be tied to the cost of living and will not be taxable.

We will have universal prenatal-to-the-grave health care and universal free education with equal access.

I’ll do away with all tax deductions for over $12,000 income. Instead, there will be a flat tax of 10% on annual income of less than one million dollars for an individual and less than five million dollars for a corporation. But the flat tax will jump to 75% on annual income exceeding these limits.

I’ll cut the military budget by at least half.

Public mass transit will be free, 24/7, and reliable.

All patents and copyrights will expire in 20 years. Inventions, products, etc. which are developed with governmental money and/or public institutions can not be patented.

All businesses selling their products in the U.S. will have to certify that their products were manufactured in accordance with this country’s labor, wage, environmental, and safety laws… that they meet or exceed these….no matter where they were produced.

Each city and each “media market” will have at least two public access channels on radio, broadcast television, cable, AND satellite!

Election day will be a paid holiday.

MORE TO COME!