The ONE BURNING question of this election is...

From: cLIeNUX user (r_at_cLIeNUX.)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 21:05:55 -0000

As President, what is Rick Hohensee going to do with 1000 sheets of Dr.
Scholl's moleskin?

There isn't anything about it in his platform that I can see.

Presidential platform of Rick Hohensee, September 2004

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Based on what I know from an adult Internet account, basic cable, modest
but extremely varied everyday experience, and various print and broadcast
media, I want to be President so that I can try to...

In short, give the USA an overhaul.

Get out of Iraqi cities immediately, including vacating the Green Zone,
and retire to functions of state and federal governments, until the cities
form regional alliances analagous to, and perhaps with external, nations,
as they, the representatives of the Iraqi cities, see fit. This may
involve a turf trade between Shi'a and Kurd areas of Iran, for example. If
Iraq chooses to reform as Iraq, make it as easy as possible for the new
Iraq to be a secular democratic republic at the federal level.

Unilaterally or otherwise liberate Darfur from the "Sudan" "government" in
Khartoum.

Personally conduct a long televizeable interview with Saddam Hussein.

Reaffirm that the "war on terror" is mostly diplomacy and police work when
prosecuted by the competent, and only becomes all-out war when prosecuted
by the incompetent and/or corrupt.

Guarantee jobs to soldiers injured in Iraq, with preference for
aquisitions roles in the Pentagon, such as making sure Halliburton
recieves funds due to them.

Guarantee jobs to All Jersey Girls and similar in the DOJ and similar.

Investigate and probably prosecute George Walker Bush for crimes against
humanity under US law. I note here that the enthusiastic cooperation of
the houses of Saud and Bin Laden in this endeavor is anticipated with the
same great optimism that a rooster greets a natural sunrise. "Justice for
all" can only exist when there is punishment for criminals at the top.

Signal the end of Anglophone imperialist belligerence by isolating and
peacefully dismantling the Zionist proxy political establishment in
Palestine. Isolate Israel, in other words.

Fire all Republican appointees and appoint no Republicans.

Take the peace dividend we haven't had yet from winning the Cold War, with
extreme prejudice toward Halliburton and the Carlyle Group.

Make my life as President extremely public. The adult public will be able
to monitor most of my personal activity via live motion pictures. Big
Brother is already here. I give the people of the USA the option of
keeping an unblinking eye on Big Brother if they are so inclined.

Guarantee a veto on any and every bill submitted to me longer than 50
pages in length, thus fostering clarity, modularity, efficiency and
atomicity in legislation and autonomy between the Executive and
Legislative branches. The reader may note that this entire platform is in
sync with such a policy.

Replace the Pledge of Alliegance with daily recitals of varying paragraphs
of the Constitution. Provide every public school student in grades 5 and
up a copy of the Constitution every year. Provide appropriate
dissemination of explanations of phrases like "writ of mandamus". People
that like oaths of subjugation can pledge thier allegiance to the students
every day. If you can't live without the Pledge of Allegiance, join the
Marine Corps.

Overhaul the White House press corps to exclude the major war infomercial
networks; Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS and so on. I'll probably limit that access to
newswire services.

Reduce legacy government secrets as closely as possible to nothing. That
is, I will massively reduce "classified information", particularly older
documents, probably everything over 5 years old except for nuclear
technologies and similar. Set up a periodic challenge and review system
for classified information to remain classified on about a 5-year
periodicity, with increasingly difficult tests to remain classified as
time passes.

Semi-legalize drugs. Implement a closely controlled self-prescription
program for adults to use such drugs as cocaine, heroin, marijuana and
penicillin. That is, I will call off the corrupt counter-democratic drug
war and de-glamourize narcotics. Drugs are for sick people. Sick people
can obtain drugs in a healthy society. This will reduce the US black
market economy, reduce the outflow of capital from the country, improve
the image of small business, improve patient information recieved by
doctors from thier patients, vastly reduce the area of the world hostile
to the US, reduce medical costs, reduce the use of needles, and many other
unimaginable benefits one would expect from choosing to discontinue losing
a war. PCP and similarly destructive toxins will not be legalized, nor
will truly sophisticated drugs actually requiring a doctor to even
understand the advertised purpose of. I don't think any amphetamines such
as meth and ecstasy will be legal (self-prescribeable) at this point.

Remove the degenerate military term "intelligence" from what it was the
CIA used to claim to do. Replace it with the degenerate military-style
term "strinfo", a contraction of "strategic information".

De-commission the CIA entirely, and un-authorize them totally,
immediately. Out them all in about 6 months. Re-deploy them if they choose
to hang on under INS. If an agent or analyst wants to go to work for
another strinfo agency they will have to get personal approval from me,
and I'll be very busy with other things. The Legislature is currently
(Sept. 04) fiddling with the CIA organizational chart. That's not going to
make me listen to thier garbage reports. The current US intelligence
problem would largely be solved by a President that can use a web browser.

Eliminate covert operations outside actual war zones immediately. Such
behavior is well beneath the greatest and most powerful nation ever, and
if you are so patriotic that you want to commit psychopathic acts for your
country, you should be willing and expectant to die or spend the rest of
your life in a cage to do so.

Biometrically identify every non-citizen on US soil I can get my hands on.
Emphasize undocumented aliens in lieu of the dehumanizing term "illegal".
Aliens are entitled to basic human rights, but security and other concerns
greatly compromise further rights of aliens. Naturalization thus becomes a
matter of good behavior for a significant period of time.

Promote the vote for ex-criminals. There are too many election abuses now
and abuses of the term "felon" to disenfranchise ex-felons.

Teach evolution as fact and the Bible, Talmud, Koran, the Analects, the
Tao Te Ching, Aristotle's Ethics, Machiavelli and so on as ethics studies.
Foster an Ethics Channel on TV.

Foster a newswire TV channel featuring AP and Reuter's text. Possibly
require such a channel to operate a satellite or cable TV company, and
maybe an ethics channel as well. Newswires involved may include Al
Jazeera, Pravda, the BBC and so on.

Establish a grade school diploma indicating that the holder can read a
reputable newspaper, a roadmap, and the Constitution with some
comprehension and compute unit prices for groceries in thier head.

Legalize insider trading.

Abolish leveraged buyouts if they haven't been already (Bobby).

Investigate deportation or imprisonment of Sun Myung Moon for illegal
donations and information transfers to North Korea.

Hand over Halliburton functions in Iraq to the US military and mideastern
engineering firms. Let Iraqis rebuild Iraq.

Eliminate the "not for profit" designation for corporations, churches,
schools, trust funds and anything else. Charity is taxable income. If the
government wants to subsidize something it can do so accountably, by
direct subsidy. This is the only way to "close loopholes"; all of them at
once.

A radically simplified tax/welfare system will include eliminating
foodstamps. USDA infrastructure to distribute agricultural surpluses may
be overhauled to provide a subsidized USDA brand, or not. The distribution
of surpluses and so on may be further expedited by government grocery
stores in low-income areas, or not. The extremely indigent will have
federally provided debit cards via regular banks to regulate the flow of
funds on a daily or weekly basis so they don't "sell thier foodstamps" or
put thier SSI check in a slot machine all at once and so on. Similar
controls will be created analagous to WIC. The total funds going to poor
people will increase. The Texas Lonestar Card or whatever it is is
exemplary, but should not carry the stigma of a special card.

Require businesses selling gasoline retail to have a public restroom.
(a lovely bit of civility from Texas State law).

Ensure voting systems accountable to the electorate nationwide, such as my
own "votescript". ftp://linux01.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX/interim/votescript

Pardon Martha Stewart due to the brazen political nature of her selection
for prosecution, and the general joke nature of insider trading
enforcement.

Invite the Congress to take over the Anthrax and Chandra Levy
investigations using the U.S. Capitol Police and any Executive Branch law
enforcement capabilities they may wish to avail themselves of, such as the
Postal Inspector's forces. In other words, promote law enforcement upon
the Executive Branch by another branch, perhaps with some improved
latitude for the President to manage strictly executive affairs, such as
promotion issues in the military.

List all prisoners at Guantanamo and what they are accused of. (Most will
probably be released)

Eliminate economic status requirements, particularly college degree
requirements, from positions and licenses granted by the government. This
will be enforced very promptly in the US military as pertains to rank.
Federally audit license testing, and allow associations to make up thier
own tests, if re-testing the licensed is periodic. Land grant universities
will probably lose students, but gain some license testing business, for a
net loss of gross business.

Plead to the Supreme Court to exclude Florida from the Electoral College
for the rest of JEB Bush's governorship plus 13 years.

Investigate and probably prosecute Katherine Harris for treason.

Investigate and probably prosecute the management of Diebold Corp. for
treason.

Invite 70% of the US military above the rank equivalent to Sargeant Major
in the Army to resign immediately, with congratulations on winning the
Cold War. And with the idea that they will not contribute to the loss of
the peace crucial to the finances of the Bush Crime Family. I'll keep
generals with surnames starting with, say, F through L or something to
maintain some continuity during The Big Stand-Down. Maintain a potent,
progressive military with current uniformed personnel levels for the
forseeable future but sharply curtailed systems aquisitions.

Require that motorcycles have 2 headlights 3 feet apart.

Explicitly allow articulating motor-tricycles that lean like a 2-wheeled
motorcycle. Honda has made small vehicles with this characteristic.

Task the National Endowment for the Arts with promulgating cycluphonics.
ratiolity, and the unwound cycle of fifths as a method of subsetting tonal
clusters. http://linux01.gwdg.de/~rhohen

Get some computer programmers at DARPA to finish Ha3sm, Hohensee's
Autonomous 3-stack machine, a computer operating system.
ftp://linux01.gwdg.de/pub/cLIeNUX/interim/Forreal.tgz

Make it unlawful for entities other than individuals to contribute funds
to political campaigns. In particular, corporations shall have no
political funding rights. I'm also very curious about how the whole board
of directors thing works, and my current view of that phenomenon is quite
negative.

Conduct or review a variety of politically curious autopsies, such as on
Nicholas Berg, Lori Klausutis, and the guy that was murdered in Bush's
State Department right in headquarters.

Establish a position of national participatory sports promoter and invite
Cal Ripkin and/or Carl Lewis to take thier on-going work federal.

Establish a US Executive Organic Demonstration Farm within the Beltsville
national agricultural research center and get all food consumed at the
White House from that farm, or as close to that ideal as possible, with
all deliberate speed and as the maturation times of various crops permits.
The White House culinary staff shall advise on the crops and varieties
grown, and culinary considerations of husbandry. Consultancy shall be
sought from persons such as Kent Whealey of the Seed Savers Exchange.

Abolish Daylight Savings Time.

Convert the Executive Branch to use of open-source computer operating
systems, such as Linux, BSD, or Plan 9 From Bell Labs. The military will
be ordered to do so. I hope they aren't waiting for orders. Tip to
unixphobes: learn the ed editor.

Make all publications of the government available by FTP download from the
Internet in effectively non-proprietary data formats.

Conduct executive discretion organic control experiments on the locust
horde currently marauding West Africa.

Implement checks and balances on law enforcement such that no jurisdiction
can monopolize the evidence pertaining to any death. The word "police"
does not occur in the Constitution, and the balance of power needs to be
extended to police entities policing each other, federally and between the
States. This can be limited to matters of wrongful death. Whereas the US
is a nation of laws, the Constitutional sovereignty of the several States
does not mean a license to murder.

Task the FBI with a detailed study of every case of someone dying in
police custody in the US in the last ten years.

Manage the White House grounds and monumental DC landscaping organically.

Increase personal financial accountability of members of Congress and
lobbyists and lobbying organizations.

Implement a graduated progressive debt-monetization schedule for the
Reagan/Bush National Debt to eventually eliminate the regressive debt
costs left by fiscal incompetents.

Generalize the definitions of criminal anti-competitive behavior to better
protect small businesses and economic diversity. Lots of things Microsoft
does legally will become illegal, such as kickbacks to system
administrators.

Provide two copies of every required schoolbook to every public student in
America; a hardback that stays in the classroom, and a paperback that
becomes the property of the student.

Task the dairy industry with deciding upon a variety of real fermented
cheese to bear the legal designation "American cheese", and without
compensation, remove that designation from artificial imitations of
cheese.

Uphold the contractual obligations of the USA while allowing certain bad
investments to lose thier value abruptly, such as excessive capacity to
create weapons.

Maintain the research elements of the military industrial complex while
conducting a general massive down-size in terms of total aquisitions.

Ensure that transportation policy emphasize pedestrians and other
human-power transport first, then mass transit, then roads. I will
encourage buses, in particular, publicly and privately operated. Running a
bus line will become a right of a business entity wishing to do so,
assuming reasonable safety regulation compliance.

Establish a cabinet-level auditing office, with a general permanent
mandate and authorization to eliminate corruption and improve efficiency
throughout the Executive Branch.

Reduce the implementation costs of the tax system and the welfare system
by simplifying the income tax code to a single simple formula with a
positive component, formerly mis-named as the proposed "negative income
tax". Thus there will be no brackets. The top tax rate should be about 50%
and the top positive tax rate should provide a homeless man with about
$10-- a day in 2004 dollars.

(Another thing I'm looking at is a flat top rate of 50% so that a large
segment of low income people pay no income tax, but that's just an item of
curiosity so far. It depends where the level is that will produce revenue
comparable to Clinton-era tax levels. Another idea here is to consider all
gross revenue as income, rather than considering profit as income. At a
much lower nominal tax rate on a much larger tax base, this can inately
eliminate the distinctions between not-for-profits, businesses, and
private parties. Regardless, any changes I make to tax codes will be huge
net simplifications. Complexity itself is a reduceable cost.)

Eliminate parasitic "protectionist" tariffs, farm and other subsidies to
the advantaged.

Require all products bodily ingested by humans, such as cigarettes, have
thier ingredients listed as is now the case for most foods. This will
include products with long-standing exemptions from such requirements,
such as COCA Cola. The regulation to list ingredients on medicines wiped
out narcotics-based "patent medicines", and should have a positive overall
effect on cigarettes and what is in them. Eliminate the current parasitic
relationship between the government and tobacco company fines.

Outlaw kickbacks to doctors on prescriptions, with draconian penalties.

Closely investigate a legal doctrine of reduced liability proportional to
pre-existing risk. That is, childbirth and old age are risky. Fault in
such cases is to be taken into account somehow. Wrongful loss of life is
to be pro-rated to 80 years, or ten years older than the decedent, which
ever is greater. Or something like that.

Allow imported drugs.

Improve employability and general functionalization services to the
homeless, literacy programs generally, and many other areas currently
exhibiting barbaric and outrageously costly neglect. Another area that I
personally find emblematic of the neglect the USA bestows upon it's
helpless, my pet peeve if you will, is the condition of the average public
basketball backboard. A decent outdoor basketball goal is a very
cost-effective thing. Expect to see full regulation-dimensions rectangular
backboards with straight rims appearing when I am President. Maybe even
nets. Expect neglect to decrease generally.

Solicit involvement of professional athletes in adult literacy outreach
programs. My personal experience with illiterate homeless men is they need
a Ray Lewis or similar to help them with thier phonics.

Institute a sentancing premium on illiteracy for jail and prison terms,
which can be overcome by learning to read while incarcerated. Make the
premium greater for shorter incarcerations, up to 2 to 1 for sentences of
less than 6 months.

Require that house trailers for permanent residence be built and founded
for 100 mph winds.

Closely review the remedy ruling in the Microsoft anti-trust case decided
by Judge Collen Kollar-Kotelly.

Emphasize the Internet and other non-traditional channels in education.
Formal education is a contradition of terms. Also emphasize sports and
gardening.

I believe the validity of the Patent Office is subject to fundamental
review. In the mean time, certain areas of technology are grossly
inappropriate for patent protection. Genetics and software should not be
patentable.

Manage my legislative agenda like an open source software project, with
input from the general population via an FTP site or web wiki.

Organize the Executive branch like a heirarchical filesystem. Some
renaming of departments would, I believe, make government more lucid
generally. The top level of the "cabinet" should be reflective of the
relative amount of executive attention appropriate to each department.

Make public spaces in DC, Montgomery, and Prince George's Counties
available to the National Arboretum and Beltville research farm for
planting and long term observation of ornamental, fruit and shade tree and
shrub varieties developed at those facilities. Promote such plantings in
low-income DC in particular.

Increase the federal payment to DC.

I am a personal fan of the National Zoo. Problems there will be attended
to. The Zoo is in part a victim of it's own fabulous historical successes.
The first white tiger in the US, Mohini Rewa, was a gift to the US from
India. Now you can be killed by one in your own mansion in Vegas, or in
it's cage in a Florida zoo. A new mission may be in order. For example,
the national zoo of the USA could be more North American in focus. Elk,
moose, turkeys, dugong, manatee, paw-paw, chestnut, indigenous azaleas....
The current plan for demonstration elephant breeding in downtown DC is
ridiculous.

I support statutes and regulations that result in a decrease in the gross
bulk of statutes and regulations for the sake thereof, such as more use of
parametric "schedules" such as the well-known "GS-16" schedule of
government salaries. A quick glance at the US Code suggests that it could
easily be smaller by a factor of 4 or more.

Gun control is a population density issue. A moose gun is insane in
Manhatten. Being without one is insane in most of Alaska. A simple tax
can be developed based on how many people are in range of a weapon. Let's
say the tax is 5 cents a year for each human within range of a weapon.
That's 20 cents for a moose gun in the outskirts of Nome, and hundreds of
thousands of dollars for a moose gun in Manhatten. The details need some
work, but therein lies the solution. There are a number of possible
side-effects, like gun shops become inately rural businesses, which is a
good thing. A gun collector may be forced to move to the country to retain
his collection. There's also the issue of a one-second factor, like 5
cents for each round the thing can fire in one second, times population
density. Thus automatic weapons cost more in proportion to thier fire
rate.

Establish the year-old version of the Lynx webbrowser as the viewability
standard for federal web entities.

I suggest several Constitutional amendments. This listing is not the exact
language contemplated.....

        The President may not pardon his own minions. He may petition the
        Congress to do so. This is the Nixon/Ford amendment, long overdue.

        Growing any naturally bred photosynthetic plant species in any
        quantity is a basic right of adult citizens.

        Voting in all elections of the USA shall be by approval basis, one
        vote per voter per candidate. Plurality shall be the elective
        margin. Vote counting shall be by direct popular count. There
        shall be hard physical documentation of each ballot.

        All ballots in the USA shall include a "None Of The Above"
        synthetic candidate. If None Of The Above wins, the contested
        office shall be filled by a suitable lottery of voters for None Of
        The Above.

        Border States may secede from the USA.

        Border jurisdictions of States may change States.

        I favor the creation of at-large Representatives and Senators.

        The child of a President may not be President or Vice President.

The above herb amendment to allow growing any herb could be constructed so
as to foster small exurban family farms and serve as a permanent seedbed
for small businesses.

Reassess the health risks of cyclamates and other alternatives versus
aspartame. Note that Donald Rumsfeld was a key lobbyist for aspartame.

Abolish diplomatic immunity outside embassies, and transit to the burders
from embassies. The US doesn't have royals, and doesn't acknowledge them
before the law on our soil.

Change the names of Blair Mansion, the Ronald Reagan White Elephant and
Internationalist Boondoggle Center, Reagan National Airport, the J. Edgar
Hoover Building, and the Herbert Hoover Building.

Destroy the LBJ Memorial.

Increase compensation to federal elected officials.

Grant Wayne Williams (the convicted Atlanta child strangler) a new trial.

Closely scrutinize zoning laws. One idea here is to make it illegal for
any area to be precluded from use as a residence. This idea is to make it
more problematic to pollute, create hazards, and to help reduce dependance
on transportation. This may also have side-benefits for the homeless.

Closely scrutinize the concept of personal trust funds.

Set up a history ftp/website in the Education department

Keep America's shipyards open at a low level with ships with potential
civilian or humanitarian roles. The US doesn't currently need submarines,
destroyers, aircraft carriers and so on. Freighters, troop ships and so on
can continue to be built. They might be nuclear powered, but will be
lightly armed, if at all. An oil-spill response ship might be worth
consideration. Another possibility is a floating marine biology college.

Provide a low-cost clinic option besides a hospital to every county in the
USA (one good idea in the Rongpublican platform).

One immigration rule for all countries (per Al Sharpton). This is part of
the complete breakfast of simplifying the US Code and the Code of Federal
Regulations, as well as being a matter of fundamental racial fairness.
This does not preclude special control of Mideasterners, who are currently
worthy of special treatment for security reasons.

Promise exhibition MLB baseball games in Cuba if Castro adopts a
constitution based on the template on my webpage.

Marriage is not a federal concern. The proposed tax formula will provide
positive taxes (back to the person) to dependants, not married couples per
se. Personal social and philisophical issues are a huge area the federal
government can beneficially recuse itself from, and such issues are not
mentioned in the Constitution. Monogamous marriage may or may not be the
backbone of society, but it is not the backbone of government, and
certainly not the federal government.

The legal tradition of the USA has some fundamental quirks going back to
English Common Law that need fixing. Malice, intent, custodial
relationships, sanity and other subtleties are sentencing issues, not
corpus delecti. That is, intent is not part of the crucial body of a
crime. In the jargon of computer programming, and Charles Moore in
particular, the criminal legal system is mis-factored. "What" and "why"
are beneficially separable, and this is a fundamental departure from
English Common Law.

The US military will be excercized in the third world to project
sustenance. That is, when the global situation allows, the US military
will be used as a variant of the Peace Corps. The courage of the military
will be required to sustain losses to disease and to operate substantially
unarmed in theaters where the US military is a semi-welcome guest.

There is no specific labor policy as such at this time. In theory I do not
support the distinction between labor and management. Labor interests
should note my positions which are not explicitly labor initiatives such
as the elimination of degree requirements from positions licensed by the
federal government, the elimination of various subsidies to various
sectors other than the working man/woman, the possible huge increase in
manpower to the INS via the de-commissioning of the CIA, the improved
immigration enforcement possible in the absence of a corrupt drug war, the
biometric identification of all immigrants, the reduction in impetus of
Latin Americans to emigrate to the US in the absense of a corrupt drug war
in thier home regions, substantive measures to reduce health costs, the
top tax rate of 50%, and other policies that help the working man, woman
or family directly, but not explicitly.

I oppose capital punishment. It's not cost-effective, and is distracting
to Governors and Presidents.

Enforce the law with emphasis on the most priviledged facing the closest
scrutiny. This is my affirmative action policy. I am quite fatigued with
rich white men like Skull and Bones giving me a bad name. I do not intend
to abolish wealth. I intend to require it to exhibit some class or be
abruptly impoverished.

I will conduct my personal relationship with the District of Columbia as
an example of America's relationship with the world. The current federal
relationship with DC is neglectful, arrogant and parasitic. The continued
operation of National Airport is lethal arrogance. I will work to make
every corner of the District of Columbia burst into bloom in every way.
For example, DC has a sub-scandalous adult illiteracy rate, and a wealth
of influential religious, sports and entertainment figures to become
involved in correcting that national disgrace.

Homosexuality occurs in nature. Homosexuals "parenting" in the nuclear
family sense is fundamentally unnatural. It takes a village to raise a
child. There may well be some homosexuals in that village. They likely
don't have parental control over anyone, naturally.

The better tone of American foreign policy was set by the Monroe Doctrine
the better part of two centuries ago. The USA must consider free nations
it's allies, and less than free countries less than nations. In a
sentence, A nation is a secular democracy, and other areas are primitive
countries needing help to become or join real nations. This latter
category currently includes Israel, and to my knowledge, the entire
Arabian Peninsula, as examples. My policy is to side with nature in all
things, and to favor such regions evolving into nations, as is clearly the
long-term trend of human history. Template constitution at
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~rhohen

Life begins when you no longer blame everything on your mother. If I don't
get the into White House, I blame my mother. 

-- 
Rick (Richard Allen) Hohensee
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