From: dolan@XENON.BERKELEY.EDU (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Birthright Party '92 feeler
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:50:56 GMT


               Birthright Party Campaign '92 Feeler

Way back on 13 May 1992 [so I'm a slow reader], Johnathan Vail posted,
in talk.bizarre, in response to Rich White's request for help choosing
from among the losers on the California Democratic Party sample
presidential ballot:

>> write ins will be accepted so yes! you can vote for carasso or KIBO

> Or Kent Paul Dolan.  I was really disappointed he didn't run this
> time around (yes, we remember).

With such a groundswell of support, it could be time to make a go for
it, if for no other reason than to watch rissa start to foam at the
mouth again. It's a little late, and I don't have a real news reading
account, but at least when the IRS comes to drag me away I can scream
"it's a Republican plot to suppress viable candidates", like LaRouche
did when they jailed him on tax charges, so let's put out a little
feeler here:

USENet, and more generally the global net, is one of the greatest
untapped political resources in the world. It has access to millions of
people in offices with access to all the latest yuppie desktop
publishing software and copying equipment needed to mount a campaing
among the non-netted folks.

It has access to millions of strong legged, strong lunged college kids
with time on their hands and the youth and enthusiasm to make a
difference if only there were a political cause to attract their
allegiance.

It communicates faster and more reliably than any telephone system or
broadcast news system.

There are enough US participants that if each of them convinced 100
voters to join them, their cause would win overwhelmingly.

So, there is this in-joke of a political party called the Birthright
Party.

The cause it espouses is the saving of the human species, to be done
in several steps:

    1) Get the US out of the World Kop business; it's some other
       power's turn in the barrel; I suggest Common Europe as the
       likely source of cannon fodder candidates.

    2) Get rid of a few (thousand) other government idiocies that
       waste money but do no good, like agricultural support for
       products that kill people when used as advertised.

    3) Convert the income tax to a flat tax with no deductions.
       Taxing unequally to promote social programs is a bad way to
       do social engineering and leads, through the influence
       peddlars trying to get tax breaks for their clients, to
       massively corrupt government.  Deductions feed lawyers, not
       the poor.  Get rid of it all and come up with a tax form
       that fits on the back of a post card.

    4) Take the money saved and use it to build a real space program,
       one with a basis in making profits and harvesting the abundant
       energy, mineral, and gas resources waiting for the taking to
       the first crowd brave enough to make the journey.

    5) Given a space capability, move a breeding cohort of the
       population off planet, ASAP, and continue populating space as
       fast as possible.

The result of such a program, carried out with planning and courage,
would be high employment, unbridled prosperity, coupled in the long
term with a lessening of the human burden on the ecosystem, as
polluting industries and mineral recovery and energy production all
moved to space.

With this as a goal, perhaps this nation could return to the uplift and
spirit of the sixties and early seventies, and escape from the doldrums
that began with the Arab oil embargo and have never been shaken off
because we are a nation without a Purpose.

Those interested in such a program, and willing to try to make the
Birthright Party a visible part of campaign '92, talk up the idea among
yourselves, post it around in other appropriate groups, and drop me a
line. I'm willing to be the candidate, or just the organizer if a more
viable candidate can be found, or just the gadfly to keep things going
if that is all my part can be.

If it is time for the flower children to take control, then let's do
it, and usher in the Age of Aquarius, rocket scientist version.

Kent, the man from xanth.
"The Birthright of humankind is the stars!"
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