Subject:  Commentary about guru's current editorial (Taft).
Date:     Tue, 29 Aug 2000 210442 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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........guru is pleased to receive and forward the following -- which
concerns his editorial that is now posted on the website:
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: politics
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:59:13 -0600
From: "Bob Taft" 
To: 

Hi Roy:
Enjoyed your take on the two-ring circus.

I knew a fellow years ago who was a field organizer for the RNC; I think he
did Montana in 1952.  He had  a shoe box half full of business cards, each
one different, each representing a job he did for some organization he
fronted for, with his name and the title Special Vice-President, his code
for buying favors of the bureaucrats and politicians.  This was what he did
when he wasn't doing field work.

Permanent political party structure is dependent upon graft and patronage
for its existence.  In low-density states like here in the west the national
committees have to send in field organizers every two years to coordinate
things for national elections.
  
The White House was irrevocably lost at the Republican national convention
in 1952 when Chase Manhattan bankrolled Eisenhower into nomination.  With
computerized elections, the vote at the national and most state levels is
now meaningless.  If you've read the Colliers' book VOTESCAM  you know why.
The reason all the media networks simultaneously issue correct election
"predictions" two minutes after the poles close is because the results are
predetermined.

So why bother with elections and conventions when they are meaningless??
You already answered that.  It's for the legal transfer of millions and
millions of dollars to the party hacks who keep the system in place.

The political scam is a big, big business.  There are 20,000 registered
lobbyists running around Washington, DC buying and selling politicians and
bureaucrats, like my friend I mentioned in the first paragraph.  And
actually what he did wasn't even legal;  it was strictly under-the-table!
A few weeks ago a US Rep. from Idaho let the cat out of the bag on the
preferred trade status for Red China when he announced that he had turned
down $200,000 for his vote.  If you consider that the big international
corporations that want the world free-trade scam in place might have spent
$200-thousand per Representative, and let's say $1-million per Senator for
his vote, that's less than $200-million total, when we now have a MONTHLY
trade imbalance of over $3-billion!!!

What we are witnessing is the end of a great civilization, a dying
civilization.

And now on to your website which must be pretty good if it's been linked to
http://cyberspaceorbit.com, which I use as my home page.


Best Regards,

Bob Taft
The Taft Ranch
(307) 332-2352

[........When guru was attending the University of Missouri in 1952, as a
leader of the Young Republicans, he campaigned on behalf of the late Senator
Robert (Bob) Taft......Cheerio.....guru.....]


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