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Election 2008, The Alliance Party

Posted by Janet Goodrich on Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:10:00 PM

                A newly formed political party called the Alliance Party proved to be a formidable force in the 2008 election. This party was formed as a survivor effort by a 2000 Presidential Candidate that maintained he won the popular vote. In reality, he got a plurality of votes from the electorate residing in eight states that contain 57 percent of the U.S. population: California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington. The 2000 US Census Bureau makes public that these states have the highest proportion of foreign-born persons in the United States. 
                After the 2000 election, the Alliance Party, which was cultivated by an elite group of foreign investors, pushed though a Constitutional Amendment that eliminated the Electoral College and made the Presidential election simply, a winner by majority of votes. Although the majority of the US’s population lives in only nine states, in the past the Electoral Process protected the other 42 states voting rights, but the process was little understood by the populace. A Constitutional Amendment passed easily. When voters failed to fight for The Electoral College, it was sacrificed, leaving way for the worse aspects of human nature to be exploited.
                How real is this scenario? The facts are accurate–with the exception of the imaginary Alliance Party and the Constitutional Amendment. But, could it happen? Don’t say no until you think about how safe you felt before September 11, 2001. 
                The Electoral College guarantees that the all voters will have the opportunity for their vote to be counted, with their varying paradigms, ideologies, beliefs, skin color, religions, economic situations, and every other difference that make up the Hats of the United States, from Cochise headdress to Hedda Hopper’s millinery .  
                If not for the Electoral process, the President of the United States could be elected exclusively by voters exclusively from just the heavily populated areas. Think about it. California makes up 12% of the population of the United States, where New York and Texas make up 7% and 8% respectively.  Add it up. 
                If not for the Electoral Process, the nine states that make up half of the US’s population, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, New York, Texas, and California would decide the Presidency of the United States, and lesser-populated states, such as Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, Hawaii, and South Dakota would not even be represented in the Election process. Thus comes the Alliance Party.
                Election 2000 was the perfect example of the wisdom of the Electoral process. Sixty percent (60%) of the states selected the president, and when the "folks" in states like South Dakota pulled that lever, their vote was counted. Sixty percent of the states decided who would represent the mishmash of individuals that make up the United States of America. One hundred percent of the states were represented simply because it was the fear of an Alliance Party, of which was the archetype Alexander Hamilton wrote about in Federalist No. 68 March 14, 1788:
 
”Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union”
 
                Still, pitifully, in the 2000 Election, while almost three-fourths (69%) of the US population was voter age, only 63% was registered to vote, and of the registered voters, only just a little over half voted in the election. Forty-five percent (45%) of our voter age population did not elect the President of the United States of America in the 2000 Election. © 
 
                                          
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... and for liberty for which it stands

Posted by Janet Goodrich on Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:00:00 AM

      It has aroused grown men to tears. It has inspired young men to fight. Many have died to protect it from defamation and dishonor. Nations salute it. Government and its citizens pledge their allegiance to it. It is the greatest symbol of liberty and justice in the world today. 

      Its colors represent red for hardiness and courage; white for purity and innocence; and blue for vigilance, perseverance, and justice.             
      Songs have been written for it. It is called by many names, Old Glory, Stars and Stripes, Flag of the Free, Banner of Liberty, Star Spangled Banner, The Flag of the United States of America,
and June 14, is its day,  
                                    Flag Day.

             It was 232 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that the Continental Congress resolved:

...that the Flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white, and 
   the Union be 13 stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation.

             The red and white stripes represent our original colonies and the stars, our 50 states.     
             The Flag of the Free never flies higher than in a time of distress when our citizens become one and then it blazes in its splendor. When the heroes that raised Old Glory on that hill in Iwo Jima in ’45, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank, and Rene Gagnon, it was so, as they said,
"every Marine on this cruddy island can see it."
         And as our history has borne many heroes, after a brutal terrorist attack on American soil, September 11, 2001, New York City Firefighters, Billy Eisengrein, George Johnson, and Dan McWilliams raised The Flag of the Free on Ground Zero and our nation resounded in a freedom call for which our troops willingly fought.   
      Wrought in history is The Flag of the United States of America. It was during the war of 1812 that the glory of the Star Spangled Banner flying steadfastly amid exploding bombs in Baltimore Harbor inspired Francis Scott Key to write when, the smoke cleared, what he saw, that “...our flag was still there," and the story of what he witnessed by the dawn's early light, became song, words that resonate evermore, that our flag waves O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave,  The Star Spangled Banner, our National Anthem.   
            This Banner of Liberty that evolved from 66 different flags began with another American hero, General George Washington, who asked Betsy Ross to make him a banner that would represent the liberty on which our United States was founded. 
            Then, one hundred years after The Flag of the United States of America was adopted by the Continental Congress, the anniversary of that declaration was first observed and Old Glory was honored, on June 14th. 
         The evolving official United States National Flag, has become a muse for equality and independence, and is a symbol of our ideals.  Americans all over the world display The Flag of The Free–not just on Flag Day but during times of conflict, Independence Day, Memorial Day, and Veterans Day. 
            It is with reverence that we drape Old Glory on the caskets of those that have served and died, resting the starry blue canton over our champion’s heads. 
         No other flag flies higher than The Flag of the United States of America with exception for the Church Pendant as Chaplains conduct services at sea and the United Nations Flag. The deference to our Stars and Stripes carries meaning beyond national respect as the United States Flag flown upside down represents a distress signal, and is flown at half-mast as a symbol of mourning. 
         Scores of American children learn early to stand with hands over their hearts, watching, as The Flag of the Free unfurls dramatically aloft and free, symbolizing the freedom for which it represents.
            I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America…, are words written by Francis Bellamy that have survived 117 years  to Pledge Allegiance to our National Symbol Of Liberty. 
            In 1942 Congress made this Pledge of Allegiance part of the uniform code for the use of The Flag of the United States of America, and in 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the two words that added "under God" to the pledge.         
            Since that time, schoolchildren all over The United States of America recite each day:

"I pledge allegiance to the

Flag Of The United States Of America

and to the Republic for which it stands,

one Nation under God,

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

 

© 1981 Janet Goodrich

 

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...a real American hero.

Posted by Janet Goodrich on Monday, June 01, 2009 12:00:00 AM

          It seems to me, what we really need is a hero

         ...a real American hero. 

      You know the kind, a rip roaring God Bless America and for liberty for which we stand I cannot tell a lie white hat hero.
      Remember ...he's the man whose word means more than what's written, and knows truth is honor and honor is a man.  We need a Mr.Smith, a JohnWayne, a Sam Houston, a Helen Keller, a real live, kicking, dare to be different, undefeatable, American hero.  What we need to hear is, It's okay to be American. It's okay to buy American. It's great to work and get ahead, because, that is American, and that is what makes America great. We need to say, Do like Americans. Americans have been doing it for years. And mean, “We're proud because Americans are leaders in this world.” We need to know that it's okay to put in a day's work, give a thousand percent and do more than 'your best' because that is American. 
      We need a hero who's not ashame when Oh say can you see... brings tears to his eyes and a lump in his throat; 
      a  flag-waving hero,
that stands with his head held high and hand over his heart when our Star Spangled Banner soars unhindered in the wind
…remembering,
that young men have fought and died to protect it from suppression and dishonor, with pride that American children pledge their allegiance to the Flag of the Free, and that other nations respect its glory. 
 
      Yes, what we really need is a hero.
 
      You remember the man. He's the one that led the march, that dove in the icy river, that carried the flag, that rode off into the sunset without telling you his name.      

© 1979 Janet Goodrich
 
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