Federal Government Caves In To The Unintimidated Press
Written 11/28/02 by
Rutkawski Gutkawski
It might've passed relatively unnoticed, however, Monday, Nov. 25, 2002 could ultimately go down as one of the most significant days in the history of the United States and of democracy itself. It was on that day that the federal government acknowledged what the Unintimidated Press has been trying to pound into people's heads for years: That the U.S. Congress is made up of nothing but a bunch of pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies.
The acknowledgment came in the form of a Federal Election Commission ruling to allow people who challenge incumbents in congressional races to deduct a salary from the campaign funds that they raise. The purpose of the ruling is to try to intice average people - blue collar workers, etc... - to take time off from work to run for office. While they're away from their job, they could still be paid an amount equivalent to what they earned in their occupation, up to $155,000, the obscene amount that members of congress are currently paid, if not more by the time you read this..
This is a huge capitulation, cave-in, or whatever you want to call it, to the Unintimidated Press. For years we, and only we, have been arguing that the American form of democracy is flawed in that it does little more than result in a government of pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies. It's always the people who skated through, who didn't come within a light-year of the reality of the system, who get to pass their moral judgment on everyone else all the time.
The victory here isn't that the ruling will result in a congress that's made up of a bonafide cross section of the American public anytime soon. In reality, it's just a feeble attempt to make it look like the government is trying to do something about it.
The victory here is that the ruling by the F.E.C. is proof that the federal government realizes that it has no defense from the accusation that the congress is nothing but a bunch of pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies.
It also constitutes the first major change to the democratic system since it was first invented by the ancient Greeks, an acknowledgment that merely electing people to govern doesn't go far enough to establish a valid government.
It should be pointed out that as significant an event that this was it was done in a very, low-attention-getting manner. Why? Because the government doesn't want to draw attention to the fact that it's fatally flawed.
Copyright 2002 Unintimidated Press
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