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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>The issue in the USA is that we cannot reconcile truth with politics--where the lobbies control our Congress and maintain their undue influence, we remain robbed of our ability to mount anything remotely resembling a defense, counter-offensive, or even to garner attention. The MAFIAA still holds sway over our lawmakers here, and undue influence in other parts of the world as well. Until that intolerable condition ends, we might as well be shouting "death to the pigs" at a police station. We are little more than targets which everyone tries desperately to ignore.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>In Sweden, the issue was foreign influence over domestic governments; in the USA, we have no such trigger. We lack solid countering on every front but the ones that truly count, and these are what Murdoch's media hounds work hard to suppress. We don't live in a day or age where truth counts. We live in a time where profit overrules the rights of ordinary citizens, and those who profit work hard to prevent anything toppling it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Until we can have a solid platform that the common person can actually get behind, no party in the USA can operate successfully. And until that happens (which hasn't really occurred in 5 years), no party, whether centralized or not, will really take off.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Utah PP was crushed in 2007 because the Libertarians took our signatures and beat us to the post--Libertarians, funded by corporate interests and backed by special interest funding. It took cheating the system for them to gain a foothold, and yet people trust them as a political party to end the very things they used to push past us. They cheated, period. It was a dirty move, inspired by media hype about the PP-Utah being formed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The time we live in is not one which favors art, unless it comes in the form of mass-produced images on special pieces of paper--we call it currency.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We need a fundraiser. I have ideas, and anyone who wants them is welcome to them. But I don't know enough about fundraising to coordinate everything... I would need help. And when I've asked for it in the past, it has been lacking in the PPUS, USPP, and every other branch of the PP that I've appealed to.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>In short, when we actually find ourselves capable to move, only then can the PP flourish anywhere in the US.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>But seriously: let's make sure we stand firm, and don't cheat the system the way the others have done. It will hurt us more certainly than any other act. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>*Gets down off of soapbox.*<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-Ray Jenson, former PPUS Operations Officer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> <a href="mailto:Ray.Jenson@gmail.com">Ray.Jenson@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>P.S., I probably pissed some people off... please don't spam me with notifications about this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>