






Before
The Federal Communications
Commission, Washington, DC 20554
In the matter of
Michael Stephen Levinson, pro se
Independent candidate for president of United States
v.
ABC Television Network
CBS Television Network
NBC / MSNBC Universal Television Network
PBS Public Broadcasting Network
Fox Television Network
CNN Cable News Network
Complaint
Table of Contents
Page Numbers
1) Complainant v. NBC, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, ABC, Fox, CNN
2-3) Table of Contents
3-5) Motion to grant pro se petitioner leave pursuant to 47 CFR § 1.3 Suspension, amendment, or waiver of rules:
5-6) Introductory Comment / Names and addresses of all parties
6) Statement of law §315(a) and §312(a)(7)
7) Relief and Damages Sought
7) Statement of Facts Upon 1st Request for Access
10) Exhibit A — Single Space Facsimile Reproduction of 1st Request for Access
14) Health Care Solution Speech To Be Delivered Extemporaneously
17) Banking Reform Essay / Speech also posted at The Daily Beast web site
19) Program to Rejuvenate American Automobile Industry
19) Broadcasters and Cable Casters To Whom Access Request Was Tendered
20) Postal Addresses of access request recipient networks
21) Scanned Image of US Postal Certified Receipts
22) Scanned image of REFUSED TO ACCEPT DELIVERY by NBC
23) Refusal to accept delivery constitutes gross 312(a)(7) violation
24) Exhibit B 2nd §315(a) Access Request upon president Obama’s Televised West Point Speech
24) Link to Declaration of Candidacy in New Hampshire. Also campaign web site.
32) War Strategy for Victory in Afghanistan Essay / Speech To Be Delivered
45) Exit Strategy Out of Iraq Essay / Speech To Be Delivered / Link to PDF copy of book by candidate, “New World Hors D’oeuvres” online.
51) Postal Receipts exhibit image
52) RETURN TO SENDER REFUSED envelope images of NBC/MSNBC refusals
53) Exhibit C Facsimile Reproduction 3rd Final §315(a) Request to Respond to State of the Union Speech as independent candidate for President
54) Michaelslevinson.com Authorized Presidential Web Site Statistics 11/ 09
55) Statement of Law and other matters included in Requests for access
62) Health Care Essay including First Amendment Speech Fund electoral solution
76) The Marijuana Town Hall Issue / Speech To Be Delivered
78) Plugging The Intelligence Hole to Eliminate Domestic Terrorist attacks
79) Clipper Ship Building Program to Create Minimum Two Million Jobs
84) Scanned image of Certified US Postal Receipts of request delivery
85) Scanned image of Refusal to take delivery by NBC to be presented at hearing
86 Scanned image of ABC refusal to accept request Return date 12/19/09
87-8) 5 USCA § 553 and §1.721 (4) Timely request for public adjudicatory hearing
89) Comment for the Commissioners followed by Affidavit of Service
Motion to grant pro se petitioner leave to proceed
Petitioner moves, Pursuant to 47 CFR § 1.3 Suspension, or waiver of applicable rules:
Petitioner, pro se, is unable to determine length limitations in this complaint, which contains, in its body, as exhibits, the speeches to be delivered including digital reproductions of the US Postal Certified requests for access tendered under §315(a), to which the networks complained against have summarily refused consideration.
Petitioner / complainant prays the Commission grant petitioner leave to proceed, suspending, or waiving page limitations, or any rules that may impede the swift conduce of justice in this matter, and, further, waive any administrative infraction, whether recognized by complainant, who is pro se, or overlooked by complainant and raised by attorneys representing defendant networks complained against who may seek to enjoin this administrative procedure.
The broadcast and cable casting networks’ constitutional violations require immediate bold measures by the FCC Commissioners. For a lesser violation of law, defendants would ordinarily be individually complained against (citation omitted) leaving to the Communications Commission on its own merit, in its own interest, to suspend the applicable rule, so to join the complaints as one complaint.
However, the public interest issue, the overriding interest of justice in protecting the constitutional rights of the American people to be an informed electorate trumps FCC’s administrative prerogative.
Petitioner / complainant, pro se, in the interest of constitutional justice has taken the liberty to join all these parties complained against into a single complaint so that justice may be served, as all are guilty together, in the same instance, of the same “impermissible” constitutional violation. Petitioner prays the commission grant leave to petitioner to proceed with this consolidation against all of these above named constitution violators together, for purposes of this complaint, as one body for the evidentiary reason as follows:
Introductory Comment
It is clearly shown herewith: the television broadcasters and cable casters willfully violated the constitutional First Amendment right of the American people to political speech, which, according to U.S. constitution, is not permitted.
Pursuant to 47 CFR § 1.716 (a) Michael Stephen Levinson is occupied as a candidate for the Federal elective office of United States president, 2012. Complainant resides at 8601 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N. Apt 9, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33702 and can be reached via (727) 466 – 3064. Complainant address may also be listed as, and US Postal mail is also delivered to complainant address: 8601 9th St N. APT. 9. Complainant campaign address and complainant residence is the same address.
Pursuant to 47 CFR § 1.716 (b) The Broadcasters complained against, are listed above and may be contacted through the following addresses: 1) ABC Television, president, David Weston / ABC Television / 7 West 66th St. / New York, New York 10023 2) NBC / MSNBC CEO Jeff Zucker / NBC —MSNBC Television / 30 Rockefeller Plaza / New York, New York/ 10012 3) Fox Television Rupert Murdoch, Chairman, Fox Television / 1211 Avenue of Americas / New York, New York 10036 4) PBS Television Paula Kerger/Wayne Goodwin? John Boland C/O PBS Television / 2100 Crystal Drive / Arlington, VA 22202 5) CBS Television Leslie Moonves C/O CBS television / 524 West 57th St. New York, New York 10019 6) President / CNN / One CNN Center / Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Pursuant to 47 CFR Ch.1 § 1.716 complainant Michael Stephen Levinson files this Complaint in accordance with § 1.721 of this part due to failure of television broadcast networks complained against to even respond to independent candidate for U.S. president Michael Stephen Levinson’s three legitimate requests for access under 47 USC § 315 (a). Statement of Law
47 USC § 315 (a) states “If any licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station . . . Appearance by a legally qualified candidate on any (1) bona fide newscast, (2) bona fide news interview, (3) bona fide news documentary, or (4) on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events (including but not limited to political conventions and activities incidental thereto), shall not be deemed to be a use of a broadcasting station within the meaning of this subsection. . . . .
Nothing in the foregoing sentence shall be construed as relieving broadcasters, in connection with the presentation of newscasts, news interviews, news documentaries, and on-the-spot coverage of news events, from the obligation imposed upon them under this chapter to operate in the public interest and to afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on issues of public importance.”
Upon the above named networks unwillingness to honor the obligation imposed upon them under this statute, to operate in the public interest and to afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on issues of public importance, by refusing to even communicate with the independent candidate for president, upon the complainant’s three requests for access under 315(a), inclusive herewith, in violation of complainant’s First Amendment rights, as an independent candidate for the office of president of United States, the afore named networks are also in gross violation of §312(a)(7) which authorizes the Commission to,
“{R}evoke any station license or construction permit — . . . for willful or repeated failure to allow reasonable access or to permit purchase of reasonable amounts of time for the use of a broadcast station by a legally qualified candidate for federal elective office on behalf of his candidacy.”
License revocation, for the repeated constitutional First Amendment violation of the American people’s right to be an informed electorate is the most serious of all charges that can be brought before this agency. Relief and Damages Sought
Wherefore, Pursuant to §1.716 (d), § 1.721 and § 1.722, relative to relief and damages sought, complainant requests commission to order the network broadcasters and cable casters complained against to provide makeup time for each of the three instances of their failure to provide an equal opportunity to complainant, on behalf of an informed electorate, and, in addition, in the same Order, each broadcaster and cable caster shall be required by the Commission to pay complainant damages of one million dollars, penalty, for each of their unconstitutional arbitrary across the board discriminatory rejections of complainants reasonable request for access, total three million dollars from each of the violating networks complained against.
In the most recent presidential campaign it was noted the Barack Obama presidential campaign raised and spent approximately 700 million dollars. In a benchmark editorial, years ago, former Wall Street Journal editor-in-Chief Robert Bartley stated, and petitioner paraphrases, ‘A presidential campaign, to be considered credible by newspapers, and other media, must raise, before the political campaigning begins, no less than 20 million dollars.’ Whereas the networks complained against have placed their licenses to broadcast and cable cast in jeopardy, by their willful and repeated failure to respond to petitioner’s reasonable requests, and these licenses are valued at billions of dollars, and these damages sought could be and could have been raised from the electorate during a broadcast, had these above named networks, under well settled laws that govern their license to broadcast and cablecast, simply honored their lawful obligation to the American people, petitioner would not be seeking or be entitled to the reasonable damages sought by petitioner, which enables petitioner to proceed as the credible candidate he is; for the recalcitrant network’s refusal to have allowed access is both an attack on petitioner’s rights, damaging petitioner’s credibility, their refusal trashes the unbridgeable right of the American people to see and hear a speech by a candidate for president, and this impermissible violation of law cannot go untouched. Statement of Facts Upon 1st Request for Access
Pursuant to § 1.716 (c), and § 1.721(a)(5) the following is a true statement of facts.
On September 9, 2009 President Obama delivered a partisan political speech on the issue of “health care” to a joint session of Congress. The president requested his meeting with both Houses of Congress along with the “use” of network television to cover his staged political event. The networks complied with the president’s request for television coverage.
The networks clearly recognized that airing the president’s speech to both houses of congress, while contributing to their public interest obligations, was a non-exempt political “use” of television, subjecting the broadcasters and cable casters to §315(a) obligations on their part, to other candidates for the office of president.
Consequently, the networks complained against contacted congressional leaders of the Republican Party and offered the Republican Party equal opportunity to address the nation on the health care issues. Republican party leaders chose U.S. Representative Charles W. Boustany, Jr., Republican of 7th Congressional district, Southwest Louisiana, to address the nation, following the president.
Boustany was selected to give an address on lowering health care costs, in response to and following the President's remarks to the joint session of Congress television show, on Wednesday night, September 9, 2009.
This fact, that equal opportunities as required by the §315(a) statute, were offered to the republican party was also clearly pointed out in complainant’s request for access, which was timely delivered to the defendant parties named above. An electronic copy of the September 15, 2009 Equal Opportunity request is included with this Complaint as Exhibit (A) and is included in the body of this complaint, herewith. This reasonable request for access, made upon well settled communications law also includes a restatement of the § 315(a) law, as is shown herewith:
Exhibit A
To: The individual chief operating officers and / or appropriate officials in charge of the following broadcast and cable casting networks : ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.
Dear Sir or Madam,
Upon the public interest standard, this letter is a request for equal opportunity access under Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
This Section 315 access request by Michael Stephen Levinson, candidate for president of United States, is made in order for Michael Stephen Levinson to respond to Barack Obama's political speech which president Obama delivered to both Houses of Congress, on September 9, 2009, using your television channels to deliver his speech to our nation, by equally delivering my response, on your television or cable network, being what I see the health care reforms we require for our nation’s economic health, and other economic issues, besides.
The evening which I am requesting for broadcast and cable cast time, to “use” in order to deliver my response to president Barack Obama's speech, under Section 315, is September 29, from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.
This Section 315 request for access is my response to president Barack Obama's televised partisan political speech, that delivered live to both Houses of Congress, in the evening prime time hours, on September 9, 2009, 6 days ago.
The president's nationwide speech was a partisan political speech. This was made clear by republican Member of the House Joe Wilson, who interrupted the president's speech, pointing his finger and loudly shouting, "You lie."
What immediately follows, for your convenience, is a partial statement of the law, citations removed, and where appropriate, my commentary added.
The Communications Act of 1934, as amended, authorizes the FCC to issue licenses to broadcast stations only if it finds that such grants will serve the “public convenience, interest, or necessity.”
While the Commission is charged with ensuring that all broadcasters serve the public interest, the public interest standard is not clearly defined by statute. However, the FCC has specified several public interest obligations relating to programming and consumer accessibility that broadcasters must fulfill. A significant part of a broadcast licensee’s public interest obligation relates to political broadcasts.
Mass media political speech is a First Amendment Right we bequeath on our candidates for federal elective office.
Pursuant to section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, if a broadcaster allows “any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station; he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station.” Under section 315, the broadcaster is not permitted to censor the material broadcast by the candidates.
Certain types of broadcasts are exempt from the equal opportunity requirements.
Under section 315, an appearance by a legally qualified candidate on any (1) bona fide newscast; (2) bona fide news interview; (3) bona fide news documentary; or (4) on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events , is not deemed to be “use of a broadcasting station” for equal opportunity purposes.
Generally, equal opportunity is defined to prohibit discrimination between candidates. The practices, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with service rendered by the broadcaster must be the same for all candidates for a political office. Broadcast licensees are also prohibited from making any contract or other agreement “which shall have the effect of permitting any legally qualified candidate for any public office to broadcast to the exclusion of other legally qualified candidates for the same office.”
Under this provision, for example, a station could not enter into a contract with a candidate stipulating that the station would not sell time to another candidate during the same time period.
Section 315 does not require broadcasters to allow candidates to use their facilities; however, under the Reasonable Access Requirement, Section 312 (a)(7), the “willful or repeated failure to allow reasonable access to or to permit purchase of reasonable amounts of time for the use of a broadcasting station . . . by a legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office on behalf of his candidacy” could lead to revocation of the station’s license.
The FCC, decades ago, established principles governing political broadcasting, attempting, back in the day, an required ongoing promulgation of Acts of Congress, with an eye to guaranteeing the First Amendment rights of candidates to deliver their live political speeches on mass media, along with the rights of the populace to see and hear said speeches without infringing the rights of broadcasters, keeping in mind the overriding issue: the paramount rights of the electorate to be an informed electorate, via the broadcaster's adherence to the public interest standard.
On this threshold issue of my entitlement to an equal opportunity, as an active independent candidate for president, my entitlement to an equal opportunity with the president of United States, upon his partisan political speech on health care reform delivered to both Houses of Congress played live on the aforementioned broadcast and cable casting networks, please note, as was noted by wire services and various newspapers nationwide:
U.S. Representative Charles W. Boustany, Jr., (Republican of 7th congressional district Southwest Louisiana) was selected to give an address on lowering health care costs, in response to and following the President's remarks to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night.
The networks being requested for an equal opportunity under Section 315 aired Representative Charles W. Boustany, Jr.'s Section 315 equal opportunity response to the president after the president concluded his political speech.
Any claim of exemption on your part is clearly an First Amendment chilling, arbitrary discrimination against both the First Amendment Rights of this independent candidate for president, Michael Stephen Levinson, to deliver his independent response, and the American people's First Amendment Right to hear this candidate's proposed solution to our health care insurance problem.
In the event you, the network broadcasters and or cable casters determine you are above our law and therefore willfully discriminate against this independent candidate for president and thus deny this independent candidate for president's request for access you should be prepared to suffer the consequence which could be the revocation of your broadcast license, for your willful failure to adhere to your obligation to the American people, upon your willful suppression of the American people's paramount right to hear an independent candidate for the office of president offer his innovative solution to this vexing health care issue to which, in fact, no other candidate or member of congress, or any elected official claims to have any solution to.
The Federal Communication Commission is not a party to this request.
In 2000, the Federal Communications Commission illegally and unconstitutionally amended an Act of Congress. They did this via unconstitutional earmark, slipped into an appropriations bill. FCC removed the First Amendment obligation of 356 PBS stations to air political speeches by any candidate for federal elective office.
What applies for one, applies for all. This 'earmark' whether approved by Congress or not, is beyond chilling. It violates the First Amendment Right of the American people to political speech.
The "earmark" stated the Federal Communications Commission was absolved from even "answering the telephone" (the candidate's paraphrase) upon complaint against the broadcast network for their failure to respond to a request for access by a legally qualified candidate for federal elective office.
Therefore, the Commission, by its own hand, dissolved its jurisdiction over the adjudication of any dispute related to my, or any federal candidate’s First Amendment Right to give a mass media broadcast political speech, on an equal opportunity equal mass media footing, with the president of United States, my intent, by virtue of this Section 315 equal opportunity request for access.
While the Statute has been liberally interpreted to mean that I, the candidate, am not obligated to state in advance what I propose to say, because a candidate cannot be censored, I DISAGREE WITH THAT LIBERAL INTERPRETATION.
I hold you the network broadcasters are entitled to know in advance, that the candidate seeking the air time under Section 315, though the “time” is an entitled "use;" and even though the candidate is "entitled" to an uncensored "use," the candidate has programs and plans to offer the electorate beyond 'platitudes," "policies," and "positions." You are entitled to that information.
The following 1400 word essay will take approximately 20 minutes of my requested hour of broadcast / cablecast time. Included here, you can read my carefully crafted original innovative approach to providing health care coverage for the millions of uninsured people without inflating our federal budget.
I include the only long-term solution feasible, supply demand answer at the end of the essay: free medical education for doctors, dentists, and all related personal. In fact, one could easily spend a half hour on that single paragraph!
The 2nd essay following is another economic program, to reform Wall Street, specifically, the banks. My plan will work in such a way to replace the income taxes paid by working people in our country with the mortgage interest being paid on our the privately mortgaged property.
180 million taxpayers will have total tax relief on the first 125 thousand dollars of their earnings without any reduction whatsoever in the revenues coming in to the federal government, so all our public commitments are kept intact.
The approach by president Obama was / is to bail out giant Wall Street banks instead of individual people. My approach as a candidate for president is to create a new financial instrument: The Mortgage Savings Bond, to bail out every homeowner, and with these bonds, purchase every mortgage in the country.
It is for the American people to decide whether they want this economic solution, not the broadcasters who air commercials paid for by the banks.
The third essay, The National Car-Lotto is my economic program to rejuvenate the automobile industry in America without cost to the taxpayer. I intend to spend at least ten minutes explaining this program to the American people.
The final ten minutes may be devoted to my reform program of the credit card industry, by explaining my plan for the "Uncle Sam Shazam Card, a "public option" open to every Master Card / Visa / Capital One, credit card holder in the United States.
My intent for the interest accrued on the potential 150 million Uncle Sam Shazam card holders is to direct that interest paid on the Shazam Cards be applied to the interest due on our national debt.
When I explained my Shazam Credit Card reform program to my Chase banker, my banker blurted out, "We will be in the black."
I believe the American people will agree with my Chase banker, that my non-partisan economic programs in total, will put our country in the black, on the right track, without inflation or devaluation of our currency.
Read the essays included in my request, that are part of my Section 315 access request, part of my response to the president's political speech and please acknowledge my request for access so I don’t have to move against you in the Federal Court with an Order to Show Cause.
I am available for interview, on or off camera and willing to answer any question.
What’s in your wallet, besides your broadcast and cablecast license? Reply to:
Michael Stephen Levinson
8601 9th St N. # 9
St Petersburg, Florida 33702
Essay # 1 the first part of my Section 315 equal opportunity request for airtime.
Our free enterprise, the American heartbeat is stressed! One prob limb is the growing roll that lost their health insurance along with their jobs. My Loose Penny Program, a capital injection, will instantly begin to repair our economic muscle, but to create jobs, mission critical steps must be taken.
President Obama needs to exit the teleprompter trail, cold cream his charcoaled eyelids and summon our fast foods, supermarket; Target and Wal-Mart CEO’s into the White House to ink my proposed infusion solution. Obama went to Cairo. He can palaver with KFC. The loose change in your pocket will make the health care diff rinse our economy requires.
Every chain must participate in our Loose Pennies Program, regardless the size of their enterprise. Our purpose: an additional two-cents in their cash registers. For every item registered we want two pennies extra, added as patriotic gratuity.
This is not a government mandate. Anyone can refuse to pay the voluntary tip. Burger, fries and a drink totals six extra cents, pennies off the pavement. Regardless what we purchase at the market; we are only pitching in some loose change out of pocket. 40 items at the supermarket could easily be $150. Does another 80 cents inhibit your generosity?
A worker chosen by the workers to represent them can meet with the managers to approve the total pennies for everything out the door the week before, dividing that total by everyone’s hours worked.
Then we include up to $2 dollars extra for every hour in the worker’s paychecks. A 5 % deduct for a Medical Malpractice Pool is also doable, which employers don’t have to match, so their sticker prices won’t rise from an extra cost of doing business. The chains won’t be squeezed from our Medical Assurance pay raise that, on management’s tally sheet, is a plus minus wash!
The worker’s pay increase won’t come out of management’s pocket, but work place production is guaranteed to grow. When someone quits, the crew will likely ask the boss to leave them pick up the slack, so they earn more money!
The overage, beyond the $2 dollars hourly extra in every pay, goes to interest bearing Medical Savings Accounts, with the worker's name on his or her portion. President Obama can ask those on the low end of the economic chain to divide their bounty, or the President can order the take home half in cash, with the balance going to grow these proposed medical savings accounts, a health care solution ten million people strong.
The medical savings account, as a health care solution beats health insurance!
Insurance companies are dedicated to making money, not protecting the sick from financial disaster. When an insurance company cancels your policy because you have an expensive disease, they don’t refund your premium. But with a Health Assurance Savings Account, when you quit or get fired from the job, your medical savings account goes with you!
After a year behind the fast food counter, a 40-hour per week worker could have more than two grand in their Health Assurance account. Ten million uninsured people at the bottom of our economic food chain might not have health care insurance but all would carry Health Assurance! In the event they don’t feel right they have access to medical care, and a second opinion, because the money to pay is there. When it’s your money, unneeded procedures evaporate.
Other companies, besides the fast food chains could have the option of halving medical savings accounts, in lieu of providing an insurance policy for their workers. A sensible choice solution eliminates insurance company monopolies.
This works for the medical professional, too. You accept the charge, the doctor swipes your Medical Assurance card and the money is debited from your Health Assurance account. The insurance bureaucrat is out of the mix.
This proposed over-the-counter voluntary two-cent gratuity, $344 dollars monthly doesn’t bash our budget. These out of pocket pennies go to the working not so rich, without government intrusion. Government Bureaus are by-passed, but to investigate anonymous charges about businesses that may be cheating workers.
In all the dry cleaners add a nickel to every shirt pressed, a dime for every dry cleaned piece. In all the family operated dry cleaners, medical savings accounts will replace the worker’s share of their family’s health insurance.
This 2 cents extra covers 90% of all the minimum and lower wage jobs in USA, juicing the recovery by pumping the bottom of our economic chain, enriching the people most likely to purchase goods with their money! Fresh dollars spent creates jobs. Those in low echelon jobs, working 40 hours a week will have $80 extra weekly in his or her pay envelope, the diff rinse between scraping by and getting ahead; the advantage of $76 after a 5% set aside for our Medical Malpractice Pool, $40 in their pay with at least $36 going for Health Assurance savings.
Millions of uninsured not so rich people building Medical Assurance Accounts will directly benefit from this voluntary deal. We gain from tipping our pennies to working folks, as these millions of uninsured won’t be crowding emergency clinics for care, which we all pay for. Emergency health care costs are infected by the actuarial projections of how many uninsured people might use emergency room walk-ins for care during the course of any year.
People in min-wage jobs with Health Assurance accounts pay for access on a need-to-be seen basis. In addition to medical savings accounts, the two cents gratis can secure a million defaulting mortgages, a contribution to neighborhood health as foreclosed house disease is a cancer that devalues the whole street.
For the rest of our uncovered citizenry, doctors and dentists must be allowed the volunteer opportunity to do tax deductible charity, treating them. A charity patient is anyone without insurance. The plan: doctors do $50,000 in charitable medical services and deduct the 50 large off the top of their federal tax. Then, after all the deductions, the doctors take an additional half off their bottom line; twenty-five thousand or half, whichever is greater.
Medical professionals could perform $100,000 in charity and deduct $50,000 off their tax, and because they only owed $49,000 in taxes, earn a one thousand dollar income tax credit. This health care approach cost effectively makes sense.
Doctors won’t be at the mercy of an insurance companies,’ take it or leave it payment. People suffering with unaffordable premiums, with pre-assurance from their physicians, will begin to cancel their overpriced insurance policies.
Every doctor will have a waiting list of patients waiting to be classified as charity. Doctors will have more patients, their work incentive, freedom of income tax.
Isn’t this one-line change in our tax code easier to digest than a thousand page med-reform stick-it-to-us vaccination, unread even by its authors, our congress? Would insurance company’s shills show up at town hall meetings screaming, “It’s a communist plot! Down with their two cents for medical savings accounts?”
Every doctor and dentist will have a sign on the door: “No insurance? I’m here.”
These ideas will enrich our economy from the bottom up, possibly save a million mortgages, and insure access to health care services for many, if not all the millions of uninsured people, leaving rip off insurance companies to self reform, according to our free enterprise marketplace.
The long-term solution to our health care prob limb is free medical education for doctors, dentists, and all related personal, our goal one hundred thousand doctors graduated every year until we have one family doctor for every thousand people. A national marijuana tax could fund this program, as could a three per cent reduction in military contracts. Politicians are sometimes eloquent identifying the issues, but it is those who finance their campaigns that govern the solutions.
In this light, the above proposed change in our tax code, encouraging doctors and dentists to treat the uninsured as a deductible charity, could not pass either House of our current congress absent a public outcry demanding it.
I am the unknown poet, a long-time candidate for president, roasting in the sun.
Once upon a time our Fourth Estate was independent, standing watch, reporting true. Today’s corporate approach to politics locks out the unknowns who seek public office, a primary reason there aren’t any candidates. You announce, “I’m a candidate.” The editor’s don’t ask, “What are your ideas?” But, “Show us twenty million dollars.” And without access to buckets of ducats, the access to broadcast speech, to present their platforms is also blocked. Blog in the bog, dog.
We need to renew our politics, starting with the reestablishment of our First Amendment Right to televised political speech. Upon this essay, I am requesting e quill time of our television networks, to give my independents’ response to president Obama’s health care speech to the congress, which the broadcast and cable networks aired live, September 9, 2009.
Here is essay # 2 on banking reform that will use around 20 minutes of airtime. This copy was posted today, online, at The Daily Beast under my Oliver C. Kerr screen name.
Oliverckerr
This is my banking program, to rejuvenate our e con oh me and reform the banksters. What you might ask is how many million Americans would vote for the program.
While reform of our health care is on the table this week, the crush of mortgages near, or already in default is another economic crisis that inhibits our economic rejuvenation.
We used to say, what's good for General Motors was good for America. But today, as America goes, so might go the planet. We need to refresh our cap id a list structures, get back to basics, and renew our enterprise.
Everything hangs in the balance of sense. To start, we, the governed people, through the entity that is our government, should purchase all the mortgages in our whole country, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Ugly mortgages are those known as tock sick.
The mortgages can be purchased with Mortgage Savings Bonds, an original innovative financial instrument, not cold cash, hot off the presses. Cheyenne-easy say, "Cash fusion burn hole in pocket," a recent example, zombie bank's remodeling their washrooms with silver trashcans and gilt toilet seats for their visiting associates.
The Mortgage Savings Bonds couldn't be cashed in until the mortgages are paid, but they certainly could be sold or traded by their holders on the open market. Savings Bonds are backed by the good faith of the American people and in this issue, real property on which the Mortgage Savings Bonds will be written.
We can pay 90 cents on the dollar for the good, 85 cents for the bad, and 60 cents for the ugly; millions of mortgages, refinanced with thirty-year fixed rates, the diff rinse in the spread, according to the credit worthiness of the mortgagee, in tryst running from 3% for triple A, up to 7% for sub-prime, tock sick late pay holders rated as deadbeat.
Rather than future bailouts, or government intervention, banks can work with us or sink in their zombie holes. If need be, by Executive Order, we are purchasing all home mortgages, good, bad, or troubled, with Mortgage Savings Bonds backed by the good faith of the American people. We, the people are entitled to repurchase the fruits of our labors. This proposed buyout is a reasonable, 'yes we can do' beneficial refinance program!
Redoing these millions of mortgages, a giant job, can be accomplished with a fail-safe do-it-your self, online program. Those who aren't computer literate can get their numbers entered by income tax preparers, their nominal fee, Uncle Sam guaranteed. Every homeowner in America benefits from a reasonable mortgage payment. The world’s e con oh me will settle into normal non-inflationary growth from this mortgage solution.
We can tack a non-interest 2nd mortgage on sub-prime homes that swapped and sold for twice their value, tock sick still, after a 60 percent whack, so people can remain in their sub-prime dream, pay down their debt, and eventually, as prices inch up, their mortgage drawn down, see their liens paid off fair and square, with their equity left intact. This is a great way to stabilize sub-prime neighborhoods.
After our Louisiana styled repurchase, the mortgages on every house in America will be handed over to bank branches in the same zip codes, to service the debt. The ex-mortgage holder banks are compensated for the service, that amounting to collecting our mortgage payments, on behalf of us, the Savings Bond backers, we, the people, standing behind Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha.
We let the banks hold 'our' money, twelve payments worth, before they have to, after their nominal handling fee, begin handing over our ducats to our Treasury. With our mortgage money available, banks at the branch level will be flush with liquidity, replacing the money their central managers blew on competitive swap speculations.
Banks can start loaning 'our' money to all the capital hungry businesses in their zip codes. There will be in tryst on the Mortgage Savings Bonds with which all the home mortgages were purchased. There will be in tryst on 'our' money, which we are allowing the banks to borrow from us to loan out to all the businesses in their neighborhoods that require capital, so interest we accrue from the trillion-dollar mortgage purchase is washed.
In some cases, temporarily, our mortgage payments could be loaned to the zombie banks to turn around at a profit, so they can restart without government foreclosure. Banks should like that. We have options. Instead of a seizure and selling, we could let the zombies fold their tents and quadruple our federal credit unions as their instant replacements. One aspect of our federal credit union system: the shareowners are the credit union's depositors. What is the flaw of a capitalist enterprise funded, owned and run by its users, like our Medicare?
A few months back, Treasury Secretary Geithner, on "This Week, With George Stephanopoulos," stated: "A core part of our plan involves making sure banks have enough capital to provide the lending we are going [slur] need to get recovery back on track”
Now to the in tryst on all these millions of mortgages: The banks must fork that money over to Uncle Sam every month! Speculate that the interest on all the home mortgages in USA, totals 300 billion dollars each month. Now consider all the income tax collected from the taxpayers, their taxable earnings up to 125 grand's worth, also equals 300 billion dollars per month.
The interest on all our home mortgages can replace our income tax, up to the first 125 thousand dollars worth of taxable income! Someone who rents has their income tax dollars in their own pocket to do with as they please, pay down credit card debt, save up for a house, a car, the kid's tuition, pizza. Keeping your own money is a politic rant to which we all subscribe.
"The day is here /machines kin run / in do the whirr kin / No tax on my hands brother / Tax machines instead.”
A working homeowner is freed from paying income tax. The interest on his mortgage goes for our public works, replacing the tax on his hands. D.C. has operating capital and we, the people keep what is ours. Apply this same principal to commercial mortgages. This isn't a commie heist! Only the mortgages are seized, not the property, and they are fairly paid for. Savings Bonds are a great rock solid investment. This buyout is fabulous for commercial mortgage holders because so many are facing default.
The advantage: their property is purchased, the mortgage in the hands of the government, via Mortgage Savings Bonds, letting the owners off the hook, their option, retain property management, which pays them money. The principal goes toward retiring the Mortgage Saving Bonds, the in tryst to cover the rising cost of living, example Medicare, so life is good for all.
The above program provides permanent income tax relief for our citizenry, tock sick asset relief for bogus banks, and effective capital replenishment for the government. With this mortgage innovation in place, other countries will be lining up to invest in America.
At the end of the This Week segment, after replaying the Saturday Night Live spoof of Treasury Secretary Geithner that aired the night before, Secretary Geithner remarked, "People have a lot of ideas. We listen to everybody. The only test that matters is, is it going to work? Is it going to get credit flowing again?
The government program hasn't worked and won't. But this program will.
180 million taxpayers will vote for these recession stuffing relief measures in a heartbeat because every taxpayer benefits. President Obama should smell the coffee. The president's approach feeds the bureaucracies that fed his campaign by printing trillions of dollars in future debt, Obama's risk: a single stick of chewing gum will cost our gum chewing electorate one dollar plus tax before 2010.
This program bypasses bureaucracies, the only ego inflated creatures on planet earth that both feed on themselves, and multiply. Can you suck on your toe and create two of you? Bureaucracies can and do. Bureaucracies are rigid, appearing unsinkable, but they must be sliminated for planet health. We need to rearrange how our governments generate money so the funds are available to cleanly reenergize our good ship Mother Urf. michaelslevinson.com
Here is the 3rd essay which is intended as part of my one hour speech based on my constitutional right under Section 315 of our telecommunications law, to seek an equal opportunity s a candidate for president, representing the interests of independent voters un aligned with any political party.
The National Car-Lotto
I want to be the car czar. Firstly, I like the rhyme. But I also have a plan that will put cash-for-clunkers to shame: a national car lottery.
Here's how the National Car-Lotto works: $1 tickets are sold nationwide every week. We take the average price of every model sold by GM, Ford, and Chrysler—say that is $23,000, with taxes, tag, dealer fees and extended warranties included. For every 23,000 tickets sold, one lucky winner gets the American-made car of his or her choice with all the additional fees covered and no tax liability until they sell or trade their win.
With an advertising blitz on radio, TV, newspapers and the web, our big three could raffle off thousands of cars every week—30,000 cars is a reasonable goal, each one paid in full upfront with the lotto money.
Everybody wins! Consumers get the car of their choice—a youngster in school might want a Focus, someone else a Sebring convertible, a family of five, a Hybrid Yukon. Regardless, each car comes fully loaded! The American public—not the White House—decides which manufacturers survive and thrive. The dealerships come out on top, too, as the full sticker sales commission is divided amongst their sales force.
Best of all, many car-lotto winners will be people who drive, but aren't in the market to purchase a new car or truck, much as they'd love to. Millions of people who can't afford to purchase a new car but can afford to run a vehicle will purchase car-lotto raffle tickets, whether they own a gas guzzling clunker or not! The odds of winning a fully loaded, state-of-the-art car—23,000 to 1—are way better then winning the lotto!
GM will have thousands of Volts pre-sold before the first one rolls off the line. We could even start a high-end two-dollar ticket and include Silicon Valley’s all-electric Tesla.
Those people who are planning on a new car aren't going to hold off until they win one in the car-lotto; especially with their neighbor's lotto winner gleaming next door. In a tight world market, our auto industry will survive long term from the good faith of the car-lotto raffle ticket purchasing public.
Here is our president, Barky 'Good Wrench' Obama, on TV back in March, barking his approach to killing off GM and Chrysler. I paraphrase President Obama:
"Its time we make the automobile industry dependent on the unending flow of American raffle dollars."
The used-to-be Big Three can pay my car czar wages and cover the TV ads. The lotto people can administer the daily raffle.
We should move on this and give our car industry a chance to renegotiate fresh rolls in a permanently altered world e con oh me. I want to be the car czar guy in the ads exhorting everyone to purchase their car-lotto raffle ticket, the industry's Car Czar—selling a chance far more likely than winning the Lotto or getting on American Idol.
That way, when I run for president, from being in all the ads, every buddy knows me. Sad, when it comes to politics, in today's bureaucratic world there isn't any room for innovation. With all the status quo egos blocking the way, it's difficult to even foist an original idea into play, much less myself, on the table, though millions of jobs will be secured from this old fashioned lotto-raffle.
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The addresses listed (pages 20-21) above are the addresses of the 7 broadcasters and cable casters where the request for access under §315(a) was timely tendered.
Exhibit (A) 1, inserted following the addresses, is the photocopy of the Certified Postal receipts. Exhibit (A) 2 Is a scanned image of the envelope containing the request marked RETURN TO SENDER REFUSED.
RETURN TO SENDER REFUSED constitutes the NBC and MSNBC response to the presidential candidate’s legal request for access. Upon reading the name Michael Stephen Levinson on the envelope, NBC, and MSNBC both, in order to demonstrate their unlawful prejudice and continuing policy of discrimination against Michel Stephen Levinson, simply refused to accept, read and /or consider the request for access.
This judgment on the part of NBC and MSNBC to arbitrarily reject any request for access by refusing to even accept the request for access constitutes a gross violation of § 312(a)(7) that requires immediate intercession by the full Commission, upon receipt of this complaint.
Complainant 2nd Request for Access under §315(a) was in response to President Obama’s “use” of the television granted by the networks for his Afghanistan policy speech. An alternative to the president’s Afghanistan war plan was not offered by the republican party. Complainant’s 2nd Request for Access under §315(a) was timely filed within the seven day time frame window of equal opportunity to the above named networks on December 8, 2009. An electronic copy of the December 8, 2009 Equal Opportunity request is included with this Complaint as Exhibit (B) and is included in the body of this complaint, herewith. This legal request for access was tendered under well settled communications law and also includes a statement of the law within the request. Exhibit B, tendered to the named TV networks is facsimile reprinted as follows: Exhibit B December 8, 2009
To: The individual chief operating officers and / or appropriate officials in charge of the following broadcast and cable casting networks: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.
From: Michael Stephen Levinson for president of United States 2012
Dear presidents, Chief Operating Officers, and others,
I, Michael Stephen Levinson am a candidate for the office of president of United States. I have been actively campaigning for the office of president since October 15, 2007 when, in Secretary of State William Gardner’s office, in New Hampshire, I declared my candidacy for president of United States, declaring that I was seeking the nomination of both political parties so our nation could present a united face to the world, as I was bringing to the office of president of United States a Vehicle for World Peace.
The public recording of this campaign declaration speech is available on the Internet at http://youtube.com/poetprophet. My political web site, http://michaelslevinson.com is devoted to my continuing candidacy for the office of president of United States.
The michaelslevinson.com web site visit statistics for November 2009 show 937 unique visitors, 1346 visits, 14,361 page views, and 54,057 hits.
This letter of request for access to all of you, individually and as a group is a request for access by Michael Stephen Levinson, candidate for president, under Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended,
This Section 315 access request by Michael Stephen Levinson, candidate for president of United States, is made in order for candidate Levinson to respond to President Obama's most recent political speech, which Obama delivered to the nation, from West Point, on December 1, 2009.
President Obama’s speech was a “use” of the television networks, not an exempt news event. When Obama “used” all of your television channels to deliver his political Afghanistan war speech to our nation, he was enabled to do so because you individually granted president Obama the opportunity to use your network. This grant of opportunity opened the door to access requests for an equal opportunity to address the nation by other candidates for president.
Had the networks negotiated with the president to hold a press conference at West Point, with the first four rows for media persons, whether he took questions after his teleprompter presentation or not, the press conference would have been an exempt news event. Instead Obama, with your cooperation, scheduled a use.
The evening which I am requesting for broadcast and cable cast time, to “use” my equal opportunity, in order to deliver my response to president Barack Obama's Afghanistan speech, under Section 315, is December 22, from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.
The president’s West Point “use” of the television networks for political purpose was on Tuesday, December 1, 2009. This equal opportunity request for access under Section 315 is filed Tuesday, December 8, 2009, within the seven-day window for legal requests.
In the event you fail to respond to my legal request for access to deliver a speech in response to the president’s speech, under USC 47 Section 315, I will have no choice but begin immediate legal steps for judicial intercession.
I prefer to hear from your offices and / or your news divisions as your news divisions are very liable to have many questions about my Afghanistan War strategy, and I am prepared to answer any and all of their questions on the subject of the presidents war strategy and other political matters your news divisions consider of import.
The president's nationwide speech was a partisan political speech, what with his professionally applied eye shadow dressing and careful scripting, a “use” of the airwaves for partisan political purpose.
To the best of my knowledge and belief, I am the only declared candidate for president besides the sitting president at this time, likely the only person to have requested access under Section 315 to make a speech.
The campaigning for president of United States, and in the case of a sitting president, the campaigning for re-election, ongoing from the day of the president’s inauguration is a reality, as campaigning for the presidency and all the other federal offices in America is a full time media industry. The difference between today’s campaigning, for Obama, not quite one year in office, and his campaign activities three years hence, is intensity.
The president’s statement, during his speech, that we would begin to draw down our troops in Afghanistan, in 2011, after the planned 30,000 thousand troop surge, coincides with the period for his full time campaigning for re-election, while conducting the business of our highest office. One can hear the ongoing war slogan, “Don’t change horses in the middle of a stream.”
When broadcast television consisted of three networks and cable television was in its infancy, in order to protect the television viewing public from an onslaught of campaign speeches, arbitrary requirements were promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission to walk a fine line between regulating unbridled political speech, while at the same time, protecting the First Amendment Rights of the viewing public to hear a political speech.
In today’s television world, bandwidth and spectrum are practically unlimited with hundreds of channels for the viewers to choose from, so the Commission’s arbitrary limits on First Amendment rights are not applicable.
In fact, in 2000, the Federal Communications Commission abrogated its purview over the interpretation of our political access laws and how these statutes relate to the public interest when the commission breached the boundaries of its own discretion, rewriting the 312(a)(7) statute passed by the congress to facilitate the unconstitutional removal of 356 PBS stations from their obligations to the public interest standard, relative to allowing access for political speech by candidates for federal elective office.
Therefore, the Commission, by its own hand, dissolved its jurisdiction over the adjudication of any dispute related to my, or any federal candidate’s First Amendment Right to give a mass media broadcast political speech, on an equal opportunity equal mass media footing, with the president of United States, which is my intent, by virtue of this Section 315 equal opportunity request to you networks, for access.
This rewriting of our access law, trenching the First Amendment Rights of the American people to hear or to deliver a speech violates our constitution. The Commission’s unconstitutional act is subject to challenge in Federal District Court, on its own merit, without this “e quill” time request for access under Section 315.
Of course this legitimate request for access will be attached as a showing that you, the networks sit above the law, and do not respect the law or the First Amendment rights of the citizenry who constitute your viewership.
As the Supreme Court made clear, over and over:
“It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters which is paramount . . . It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market . . . It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experience which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC.”
Understand when the US Marshall delivers the Order to Show Cause why your license should not be revoked for your willful and repeated failure to allow access it will be too late for your license, because the law is the law.
As noted above, you, the television networks and president Obama could very simply have avoided having to grant any equal opportunity, upon request, by requesting president Obama, instead of scheduling a political speech, to have called for a press conference to be held at West Point, the first three or four rows of seats for press only, upon which Obama could have delivered his teleprompter speech, as a news event, and therefore not subject to equal opportunity obligations.
While the Statute has been liberally interpreted, when bandwidth was limited and scarce, to mean that I, the candidate, am not obligated to state in advance what I propose to say, because a candidate cannot be censored, I disagree with that liberal interpretation of the statute.
I hold you the network broadcasters are entitled to know in advance, that the candidate seeking the air time under Section 315, though the “time” is an entitled "use;" though the candidate is "entitled" to an uncensored "use," the candidate has programs and plans to offer the electorate beyond 'platitudes," "policies," and "positions;" and you, the networks are entitled to that information in order to make a fair judgment as to the validity and value to the electorate of my proposed speech.
As above, “It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experience which is crucial here.”
What immediately follows, for your convenience, is a partial statement of the law, citations removed, and where appropriate, my commentary added.
The Communications Act of 1934, as amended, authorizes the FCC to issue licenses to broadcast stations only if it finds that such grants will serve the “public convenience, interest, or necessity.”
While the Commission is charged with ensuring that all broadcasters serve the public interest, the public interest standard is not clearly defined by statute. However, the FCC has specified several public interest obligations relating to programming and consumer accessibility that broadcasters must fulfill. A significant part of a broadcast licensee’s public interest obligation relates to political broadcasts.
Mass media political speech is a First Amendment Right we bequeath on our candidates for federal elective office.
Pursuant to section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, if a broadcaster allows “any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station; he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station.” Under section 315, the broadcaster is not permitted to censor the material broadcast by the candidates.
Certain types of broadcasts are exempt from the equal opportunity requirements.
Under section 315, an appearance by a legally qualified candidate on any (1) bona fide newscast; (2) bona fide news interview; (3) bona fide news documentary; or (4) on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events, is not deemed to be “use of a broadcasting station” for equal opportunity purposes.
Generally, equal opportunity is defined to prohibit discrimination between candidates. The practices, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with service rendered by the broadcaster must be the same for all candidates for a political office. Broadcast licensees are also prohibited from making any contract or other agreement “which shall have the effect of permitting any legally qualified candidate for any public office to broadcast to the exclusion of other legally qualified candidates for the same office.”
Under this provision, for example, a station could not enter into a contract with a candidate stipulating that the station would not sell time to another candidate during the same time period.
Section 315 does not require broadcasters to allow candidates to use their facilities; however, under the Reasonable Access Requirement, Section 312 (a)(7), the “willful or repeated failure to allow reasonable access to or to permit purchase of reasonable amounts of time for the use of a broadcasting station . . . by a legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office on behalf of his candidacy” could lead to revocation of the station’s license.
Any claim of exemption on your part is clearly an First Amendment chilling, arbitrary discrimination against both the First Amendment Rights of this independent candidate for president, Michael Stephen Levinson, to deliver his independent response to the president, and the American people's First Amendment Right to hear this candidate's proposed solution to our war against al Qaeda and Taliban forces who oppose us in Afghanistan.
In the event you, the network broadcasters and or cable casters determine you are above our law and therefore willfully discriminate against candidate for president Michael Stephen Levinson, and deny this candidate for president's request for access you, the networks should be prepared to suffer the consequence which could be the revocation of your license, for your willful failure to adhere to your obligation to the American people, upon your willful suppression of the American people's paramount right to hear an independent candidate for the office of president offer his innovative solution to this vexing issue of drawing to a just conclusion this war in a foreign land to which, in fact, no other candidate for president or would be candidate for president, or member of congress, or any elected official claims to have any solution to.
The Federal Communication Commission is not yet a party to this request.
As noted above, in 2000, the Federal Communications Commission illegally and unconstitutionally amended an Act of Congress. They did this via unconstitutional earmark, slipped into an appropriations bill. FCC removed the First Amendment obligation of 356 PBS stations to air political speeches by any candidate for federal elective office.
What applies for one, applies for all. This 'earmark' whether approved by Congress or not, violates the First Amendment Right of the American people to political speech.
The "earmark" stated the Federal Communications Commission was absolved from even "answering the telephone" (the candidate's paraphrase) upon complaint against the broadcast network for their failure to respond to a request for access by a legally qualified candidate for federal elective office.
Therefore, the Commission, by its own hand, dissolved its jurisdiction over the adjudication of any dispute related to my, or any federal candidate’s First Amendment Right to give a mass media broadcast political speech, on an equal opportunity equal mass media footing, with the president of United States, which is my intent, by virtue of this Section 315 equal opportunity request for access.
The following essay, War Strategy for Victory in Afghanistan is a major element of the speech I have requested an equal opportunity to deliver. It is followed by “Exit Strategy out of Iraq,” which is included as we are engaged in war in Iraq, also.
Wars are always fought for economic reasons, and this one, bleeding our treasure, one million dollars per year for each additional soldier - 30 billion a year total for the proposed surge, is killing our potential for economic recovery.
We don't have any "military officers who are strategic leaders." There aren't any Eisenhower’s, Bradley’s or Patton’s in our military establishment. We only have military bureaucrats who are comfortable with the military bureaucracy that is their way of job security life.
I am a candidate for president of United States.
The words, "Counter terrorism, counter insurgency, nation building" are the current language of bureaucracy. In Vietnam the key word, over and over, was "logistics." The idea behind the surge, that we will give the Afghan people / government time to develop their own security forces sounds like déjà South Vietnam all over again.
Dan Rather appeared on MSNBC Rachel Maddow a few nights ago. He said the main problems in Afghanistan, not in order of importance were the total government corruption of the "government" in Kabul, and the opium production, which is the main rural farm "product." Dan Rather remarked some of the opium money went to fund our enemies, the insurgent Taliban seeking to drive us out of Afghanistan.
Is war the game on Obama's table? Chess is the game. There is no peace resembles the plane! The way to take out the people who are trying to kill us in that theater is via drones. Drones can fly for hours without need for refueling. They are inexpensive to build. They have super live cameras so they can clearly see the enemy as a bull's eye target and the pilots operate a joy stick a half a world away.
They could be made to fly practically silent. I suspect we have the photo technology for the drones to have a "see in the dark" capability. In the event one could be shot down with a Sam missile from the ground, no one gets killed.
But there are not enough drones! Nor are there enough pilots because the military bureaucracy only allows fighter pilots to operate the drones when there are easily a half million teen age master computer game players in America who could do as well, very possibly better! Actually the other services, the army and navy are also using drones, and training younger non-flyers to operate them, but there is still a shortage.
With a simulation program a 17-year-old civilian game master, from his bedroom computer, could learn to perfectly land and take off a drone in two days flat. The 17 yr. old computer game master could fly the drone target and wipe out enemies all day long!
Killing someone is something the drone pilot would have to live with. When we have a firing squad, only one of the shooters has a bullet. The others on the firing line have blanks, so no one knows who actually killed the guilty convicted party.
Apply the same principal to the drones. Hooked in via Internet, we could have, all over America, game masters operating the drones after one gamester actually takes the drone off and they are airborne. Then, with enough of the drones, a thousand, not a hundred, we can patrol every road and guard the treacherous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The president of United States could ORDER every plane manufacturer to build drones 24 / 7!
The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is treacherous for our troops on the ground, but for a drone the playing field is leveled. It stands to reason anyone crossing that border, either way, from Afghanistan to Pakistan is smuggling drugs, or heading to Afghanistan to kill Americans. With near silent flying drones we take them all out!
Every road going from where our troops are stationed into the rural areas can be monitored from above and we can pick off one or two Taliban at a time. The word would spread amongst the Taliban soldiers, who fight for a payroll that at any time they can be killed, from above. The Taliban enemy would be pinned down so we can occupy all of the opium poppy fields, pay for the crop and put the Taliban out of business. It would not be long before Taliban would cease to exist. With enough drones anyone and every single Taliban recruit who left Pakistan for Afghanistan would not return home.
A president who is a leader would tell the "military" that that is what we are going to do. Our air force military is opposed to this solution because they only want experienced fighter pilots operating their drones, nor are they pushing to order more drones demanding, when in fact, via remote a half a world away the experienced air force fighter pilots are really just playing a computer game for real.
With 20 different civilian kid (master gamesters) operating each of the drones, the actual kid whose fire button fired would not be known. The kills would be a “we,” not a "me." That's better, easier for our kids to absorb and live with.
What I or any other person seriously intending on becoming the next president of United States sees or plans is a notable issue, worthy of your consideration.
Besides the potential for development or pipe line transportation of natural resources, like natural gas and oil, the other issue is the Afghanistan economic monopoly of the world's opium poppy which is distilled into heroin right on the farm! That is the only issue, driving the everyday fighting, not the future developments of natural resources!
Every time you pull up at a Stop and Go in America, to get gas, or a coffee, or cigarettes, outside a few feet away from the door someone is hanging out. That person is dealing crack from Columbia, or heroin, from opium poppy grown in Afghanistan. Control of that opium inspires and funds the Taliban. The opium / heroin sold in America, one million $2 bags a day, funds the Taliban.
This unremarked criminal drug harmony is taking place from sea to shining sea. When Barky Obama's oldest daughter comes home from school with an ever so slight droop in her eyes, from a morning snort with one of her friends, then maybe our president will get wise!
When more than one million pre-teen and early teen agers are getting into heroin, telling themselves, "I'm in control, I only use twice a week," then America will begin to see again the flowering of out-of-control crime someone bound to the drug is willing to commit, to get their drug. Ignoring the real issue, which is the opium poppy, will bring on the unnecessary mayhem we might soon be facing.
We can occupy all the poppy fields, and pay the farmers cash in advance (CIA). That must be our policy! This occupation can take place, without shooting, over a ten-day period. In his speech, President gave one line to the "drug trade."
We adopt this opium poppy strategy, as explained, or we risk another terrorist attack in America, rivaling the 9 / 11 attack, because the money needed to make another attack will come from the sale of the opium / heroin around the world. Should such an attack take place in the midst of natural resource developments, then what?
Were a potential attack, sponsored by the proceeds of their opium / heroin distribution, the only issue on the table it would be good enough reason for your close attention! The heroin being sold on every street corner will continue as long as our president casts a blind eye on the real enemy.
The key to winning Afghanistan and Pakistan, to dissolving al Qaeda and Taliban, is controlling the opium the Afghanis meticulously grow. On this planet, world wide, opium is the grand poppa of all opiates. That dirt-cheap heroin readily bought every day on the streets of Manhattan and Washington DC, on the streets of Kabul, and by the barracks' gates where our troops are billeted, began its life a sleepy Pashtun poppy, milked in Afghanistan, oceans away.
That 17% pure heroin bag; available on select street corners in every major city in the western world, started out an opium poppy grown in Afghanistan. You first saw the rich Afghanistan poppy fields in "The Wizard of Oz."
93% of the world's opium is grown and refined into heroin right on the Afghani farms! That is the land we need to occupy!
They Afghanis are not such a backward unsophisticated country as rigid status quo bureaucrats are apt to paint them. The farmers grow the highest quality most potent opium that yields the most heroin, world wide, similar to our Iowa farmer's ability to grow bountiful crops of corn.
They also grow the most potent marijuana on the planet. The Afghanistan farmers' capability is similar to our Iowa farmer's ability to grow bountiful crops of corn, which our farmers export worldwide. Our farmers get a much better deal for their corn than the Afghani farmers get for their crop of opium poppy.
Bill Gates must marvel at their opium / heroin market share. Monopoly was his goal, too!
The poppy crop is irreplaceable, worldwide; a blessing for all sides, especially us, because controlling the opium poppy fields means we will have taken over the main source of income for all the barbarian Taliban, the terrorist al Qaeda operations in Afghanistan and all the neighboring countries, including all of the Western Hemisphere cartels and subtle European drug dealerships.
The opium / heroin must be our focus. Why does our government fail to see this? Why does our military allow the Afghani convoys carrying tons of heroin to pass the checkpoints? Who is paid off?
The heroin lifeblood for terrorists and drug cartels is smuggled out of Afghanistan, throughout Europe, with tons, tons going by plane and ship to South America where, repackaged, the heroin's origin is disguised so no one gets wise; and from there, routed to Mexican cartels, and from Mexico, into United States, to be sold in our ghettos and suburban neighborhoods and school yards.
For the cartels this wholesale heroin represents billions of dollars in retail business. Billions of underground criminal, and terrorist dollars, our schoolyards only one of the cartels’ retail outlets! The Mexican dealers, sent to every city by the cartels are told to insure there aren't any shootings over distributorship territory, as they are quietly building a repeat steady business. Because they have a monopoly on the heroin they can carefully develop their sales force of unemployed school dropouts, which is what they are doing.
Knowing the destination for much of the heroin is America, why does our military ignore the convoys of trucks laden with heroin and allow them to pass? Why not seize the truckloads of duffels, slice them open and dump the contents to blow in the wind? The answer is $$$$ in lots of pockets, regardless of turban or uniform!
We could take these convoys out from above with the drones. Why aren't these orders being given.
The key to stuffing Taliban and al Qaeda, eradicating all of their corruption of Afghanistan, is to choke the opium supply the Afghan farmers are world wide famous for; choke the supply which would wipe out the opium / heroin smuggling trade and choke their criminal customers on our side of the sea.
We don't have 68,000 troops in uniform, stationed in South America, chopping down the Columbian jungle to get at the cocaine plantations. That is not happening. But we do have 68,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan, 30,000 more on the way and the opium poppy strategy carefully explained here will save most of their lives.
Surely, we can agree we do not want to see any more American lives lost or blood shed.
The Taliban's and al Qaeda's end in the opium/heroin trade nets millions of dollars, peanuts in the big picture, falafel on the table for Taliban's "freedom fighters" billeted over the border, in Pakistan; and money for the families of al Qaeda's suicide bombers throughout the Middle East.
For the international criminal drug cartels the Afghanistan opium / heroin wholesale / retail is between 500 and 600 billion illegitimate unwashed tax-free dollars year in and year out!
Without the opium / heroin trade, al Qaeda and Taliban operations would be decimated. The Western Hemisphere drug cartels would lose their hundreds of billions of dollars and would be facing their own recession. Street corner drug dealers would be signing up for unemployment checks. All of the illegal heroin in the United States would dry up as the pipeline for the heroin would be destroyed!
That is exactly what we want.
In Iraq, whoever is running the roads, wins. With ten thousand off road quad cab American trucks, manned by four armed "volunteer" Americans getting $28 per hour, the trucks, each equipped with CB radios, binoculars and police radar guns, could seal all of Iraq's borders. Oil by the truck tanker full would not be "smuggled " out to Syria, to fund the insurgents, and the border between Iraq and Iran would be sealed, so suicide bombers and IED devices would not be smuggled in as is a daily event today.
In Afghanistan, Taliban also controls all of the roads, so every land patrol is a potential death drive, a wasting of our blood and treasure! The opium dollar is fueling both the war and the Taliban structure, enabling them to strike from any roadside at will! We spend one million dollars on a huge truck to sweep the road for buried bombs, and the Taliban spends ten dollars on the remote detonator device, perhaps an additional $20 on the explosives that at least disable the truck.
The numbers are way in their favor. We are spending a thousand times more money so even winning we lose!
Afghanistan is a poor country with a rich culture. Whoever of the warlords controls the opium harvest will have battled for that right. The hardy Afghani farmers get only enough to live decently and plant their fresh poppy.
The Taliban "freedom fighters" would leave for home in a heartbeat, were they not getting fed and allowed to while away the days smoking the black Afghani hashish. No food no money no fight. The newly chosen Taliban "leader" in Pakistan has a payroll he must meet. The opium proceeds cover the Taliban payroll!
President Obama is our Commander-in-Chief, the civilian boss in charge of our ribbon shirts, but General Stanley McChrystal and his military bureaucrats, and all the retired cable news talking heads grousing every day are all misreading and misleading the Afghanistan war.
Wars are fought for economic reasons. The poppy fields fuel criminal enterprises worldwide. Control the poppy fields and all the criminal activities worldwide are thwarted!
A recent Wall Street Journal article: Top Troop Request Exceeds 60,000 by Peter Spiegal and Yochi Dreazen stated,
"White House officials familiar with deliberations said that while some elements of the Taliban were inclined to harbor al Qaeda, which operated freely in Afghanistan through 2001, other members were focused on Afghanistan's internal politics and much less likely to support the international terror group."
Oh! The Taliban is more interested in securing seats on the local neighbor hooded school boards? Hardly! Their Afghanistan infrastructure has one purpose: controlling the opium poppy during and after the harvest!
The Taliban differs from al Qaeda in one respect. Taliban are criminal drug dealers hiding behind religion and oppressing the local people they believe is the key to their continuing success in controlling the opium / heroin, so they can send their kids to Ivy League schools, whereas Al Qaeda smuggles heroin to fund senseless political attacks throughout the Middle East, and to plan another 9/11 which cannot be accomplished without many millions of dollars.
A few years ago a Taliban leader came to Texas. Whatever the official reason for the "trip," talks about a potential oil or gas pipe lines, another reason was to have some lengthy conversations on throw away cell phones with Mexican and Columbian Cartel officials about shipping refined heroin instead of tell tale smelly opium. The Columbians got into the act because no one would suspect heroin originating in faraway Afghanistan would be round-about smuggled into South America, and from there, north to Mexico and then into USA.
In that sense, the oil pipeline talks were a cover. The Taliban came to Texas to solidify the opium / heroin pipeline. Moolah for the mullah.
We don't need to build an Afghanistan army. The unaligned unofficial Afghani militias know how to fight.
With a little structure and dollar support at the bottom, at the farm level, the Afghani people will protect themselves. Abraham Lincoln established a sea embargo to win the Civil War. Without supplies by ship from Europe, the Confederate Army was doomed.
Our troops get killed on border patrols between Pakistan and Afghanistan to protect our way of life across the ocean. Yet a stone's throw away, Mother Nature's opium is grown for the criminal and international terrorist's gain? How can our military be so dumb as to allow this to go on, creating millions of terrorist jihad dollars?
The only thing going across that Pakistan / Afghanistan border are paid fighters and convoys of drug smugglers hauling their cargo. The Afghan opium is key to everything happening there! We can eliminate all the border travel with 24 / 7 invincible drones from above!
We own the opium and control the poppy fields and the whole country is ours. We don't need the roads. We can resupply our troops dug in with nighttime helicopter delivery!
Opium control by us means renegade Taliban, al Qaeda terrorists, and warlords are on the road again. Skedaddled or killed.
(I like the idea of not killing anybody.)
Though I am an insurgent candidate for president and bring to the table a Vehicle for World Peace, my candidacy is not the issue; only what "eye" say is the issue. The opium production and our clear ability to control that opium, is the main and only topic.
Our guys must begin digging foxholes in every opium field, making Cash In Advance deals CIA with the Afghanis we are purchasing their opium crop for top dollar, in raw opium form, while paying them rent for digging our fox holes on the edges of their poppy fields.
The farmers won't have to brew the black sap into a dangerous snowy heroin powder, so they are poppy plentiful, an ounce or two included for the house, compliments of us.
Raw opium isn't dangerous. You won't kill yourself smoking opium the way you can so easily overdose from a heroin syringe, so we want their whole opium crop raw, just like unrefined brown sugar, and we will pay the refined opium heroin price, which is similar to tacking on an additional 65 cents to a bushel of Iowa corn.
The war momentum will immediately shift! Once we are digging in on the poppy fields, everything changes because without the proceeds from smuggling the heroin, the Taliban will whither away!
Instead of Taliban's "freedom fighters" picking us off every other day as we patrol the dangerous Afghanistan border, we will occupy the opium poppy fields and wait for Taliban to show up should they dare, our invited guests for a steel jacket lunch.
The key to Afghan quality of life for Taliban, thugs without a country when we defeat them, to shipping their kids off to Ivy League schools is based on who gets to stash the cash from Afghanistan's opium crop.
Would that be Karzai and his drug dealing family in Kabul? As soon as we instigate the above strategy Karzai and his government officials will protest, because they also benefit from the opium / heroin smuggling and sales.
At the same time, on the diplomatic front we ought to push to reunite Pakistan with India. This will initiate a further eviction of Taliban by the Pakistani people. For Pakistan, rejoining India means freedom, food, jobs, education, and a better life. Only the Pakistani military bureaucrats are against this idea, and their minds could be changed with a passport, an SUV, and a forty-acre guarantee in Montana.
Instead of knee jerk reactions to my "The Hunt For Red October" reference to "Montana," just get creative and plant that idea in Pakistan newspapers above the fold! Now is the time to wag the Pakistan India dog! Regardless what India and Pakistan do, we need to put this idea on the table and get all the people talking about it!
Sad, these policies, purchasing Afghanistan's opium, piecing off the Pak military, and reuniting Pakistan with India may be too progressive for the president, and for his Secretary of State Hillary Clintstone, too, but perhaps not.
Certainly this wagging of the Pakistan-India dog will be incentive for the Paks to evict the Taliban and that is what we want to happen! The Paks have nothing going for them under the Taliban gun.
Don't you know the Taliban bribed the Pak military for long-term safe journey with the opium money. That is how they established their foothold in Pakistan! Opium money! Too bad our President is surrounded by bureaucrats who wouldn't know the scent of an opium house were they standing at the door.
Many Taliban soldiers will change colors of their turbans and meld into the crowd as soon as they realize the opium harvest has been taken away from them. It isn't about religion, or the neighbor hooded school board, or how many times a day you pray to Allah, it is about the opium / heroin and millions of dollars in cash! Since you can eat three hot meals a day in the streets of Mumbai for less than a dollar, one million dollars = one million days divided by x number of Taliban soldiers.
In Afghanistan, we need to get busy, prepare the opium fields, create comfortable foxholes guarding every poppy acre, booby trap the brush surrounding with a wide safe swath to the farmhouse, and make it clear to the farmers, by shelling out CIA Cash In Advance, we are purchasing their whole raw opium crop but paying top refined heroin price, so the farmers are with us! Less work and more money is a super incentive for the farmers.
Taliban, Al Qaeda and warlords will have to exit their caves and cross the poppy fields instead of picking us off with their remotely detonated roadside attacks on roads they control. Retired military may be opposed to this poppy war, but hard pressed to explain why they support that opium trade just the way it is.
We should be purchasing the whole poppy crop, and negotiating fair and square and in advance how much sticky black sap can be extrapolated from each plant. The plants, ripening by day, are the draw for Taliban, al Qaeda and warlords to show, the only way for them to go, taking on our troops in the poppy fields where we will defeat them!
When they come down the yellow brick Afghanistan Road we can sting them from above. A couple drone attacks will turn them all around in their tracks. No opium no paychecks.
The extra virgin first opium milking is scheduled to start tomorrow. Our enemies know that but they will be powerless! The farmers are out of the picture as they are already paid in advance. At 4:00 a.m. we begin snipping every plant two inches above ground with two handle bush trimmers, chop chop, just like that. At dawn, we start stuffing wood chippers and spread the soil with the chopped up results to fertilize next year's crop.
So good-bye Taliban grunt, and don't step on any land mines going home.
A couple million heroin addicts in Europe will be going cold turkey! The Mexican and Columbian drug cartels will be out of heroin, and lose hundreds of millions of criminal dollars in projected sales, reason enough for everything we do to control the poppy fields.
Regardless bureaucrats will be viciously against this operation. The status quo is how the rigid government's bureaucrats always want to go.
But with a cash infusion at the farm level, Afghanistan will begin to flourish. The Afghani people will start rebuilding their own country, without corruption from above, roads and schools decided by tribal leaders in the farm districts where the poppy is grown, with a helping hand from us.
We must also purchase their whole marijuana and hashish crop, and either sell that to the shops in Amsterdam or bring each of the harvests to USA for medicinal purposes. Otherwise we run the risk that that crop, too becomes an income for the terrorists. Afghani marijuana is the most potent in the world, best for relief of chemotherapy's side effects.
Regardless what Obama's surrounding bureaucrats say, we occupy the opium fields, purchase the whole crop, and all the heroin sold every day in the United States will dry up! Young kids in poor neighborhoods will not become addicted to heroin. Don't we want that? The opium / heroin dry up is guaranteed because all of the other countries where opium grows, they only have planted enough for their own homeland and neighboring clientele.
The opium pays al Qaeda's world salary. But who controls the opium wins the terrorist war, worldwide! The above poppy strategy will accomplish our mission! Those opposed want things the way they are.
Follow the money, Mr. President!
In the event we ignore the terrorist's cash cow, and leave, al Qaeda, opium rich, will have the funds to execute all of their murderous plans. Wasn't the twin towers brought down and their Pentagon attack enough for you! The opium trade paid for the 9/11 tragedy! We cannot risk allowing that to repeat. We cannot!
Unless Obama wants it guaranteed before the end of his first year that he is a lame duck one-term president, then ignore what eye say. When there are fifty-thousand street corner heroin dealers in USA earning a living dealing "smack" then what are you going to do about the new generation of criminal entrepreneurs, throw them in jail for working in a jobless economy.
What will that cost?
Candidate for president michaelslevinson.com
Michael Stephen Levinson is a candidate for president. This is his Iraq plan.
You lived under Bush, and through the war he put us into. Now you have Obama. The following commentary, "Exit Strategy out of Iraq" appears in "New World Hors D'oeuvres." A free pdf is available online at the following address: http://www.michaelslevinson.com/newworld.pdf
One important element in the Lev program for Iraq: 40,000 American citizen ambassadors would be employed on this dangerous civilian mission. The citizen volunteers would receive $28 an hour wages and double time Saturdays and Sundays, for a guaranteed 16 hours of overtime a week.
We would also ship over to Iraq 10,000 quad cab trucks gathering dust on our dealerships.
With this program the Iraqi's will become our 2nd strongest ally in that region of the world. What follows is from Lev Exit Strategy essay.
"Liken Iraq's interim constitution to our own Articles of Confederation. Iraq needs a constitution that will last. They do not have one yet. Our constitution should be their base. We are the youngest nation on the planet, with the oldest standing government. Our constitution should be translated, and the Iraqis challenged to read our Bill of Rights and adopt our constitution for a ten years trial.
The Iraqi people might embrace our tried and tested methods where everyone's rights are protected and all religions are equal under the rule of law! Our own Constitution, in place, could bring about closure to the Iraqis' internecine fighting, leaving only Saddam's old Baathists, and al Qaeda's sponsored terrorists for the Iraqi tribal militias to deal with, without our involvement.
We should be going over our constitution for the Iraqis line by line on their television all day long; and in their newspapers, too, so Iraq's people can adopt our constitution as their own. Unless we win the peace, the Bush sponsored Iraq war was completely a waste, all those lives wasted for Bush's vanity, but to win we need some innovation, beyond our constitution, with forty thousands more of our own people - volunteer civilians doing their part, some good in Iraq, or we can't pull out.
Those going over should be civilians, not soldiers in uniform! It's time the American people are embedded with the Iraqis, key to our success in ending this horrible war with honor! We need to deliver our constitution to every village, pass out translated copies with a hand shake, and help establish democracy in Iraq, from the bottom up, which is the way democracy has always started up, contrary to Bush's and Obama's style of doing business, top down above us, and to do it right, to win, we need the right truck.
In order to leave Iraq in peace, our victory, we must supplement our troops with 40,000 citizen ambassadors. President Obama must order an independent retrofitting of ten thousand off road trucks that today gather dust at our dealerships, with volunteer ambassadors from every state aboard, in forty vehicle teams. Christen our trucks, The Scorpion Brigades, with license plates from every state, and Onstar hooked up, so we, the people over here, are over there, too. F-150's, Sierras, Toyota Tundras and Silverados are made for the desert job. I can hear the announcer's voice proclaiming, "Like Iraq!"
Regardless who is president, this dangerous civilian volunteer mission will pay minimum $28 an hour with double time for overtime, including life insurance paid by Uncle Sam. The president must instruct our potential citizen ambassadors to go to their favorite dealerships and register for emergency service.
Obama's ignoring this is our reason to immediately begin moving for impeachment - to get him off the golf course while lives are at stake! Volunteers seeking the opportunity to go over to Iraq (and earn $2000! a week) please note: It is required you bring your own assault rifles with cases of ammo, too; and not be afraid to pull the trigger with a person in the crosshairs, or you can't make the trip. In Iraq kill al Qaeda or be killed.
The "I" in the acronym IED, precedes the "E" for Explosive. "D" is for Device. "I" they say, is for Improvised, but we are the true innovators, not Bush's acro-bureaucrats. Commonest of sense, our "can-do" spirit dictates the take out menu for off-road, retrofit truck embedding. Coat trucks desert cream, especially the chrome; uniformly splotch beige; rig grills with cast iron shields to protect motors, also splotch; beef suspensions; enlarge gas tanks; add Mobile One to crank with charcoal dip filters of air conditioning. Fasten compasses to dash. Reupholster camper tops with police grade Kevlar and Dragon Skin, same stuff in door panels. Using junkyard iron, plate truck undersides and doors. Be nimble enough to squeeze through an oversize sunroof or stay home and dream.
Include the best dash-bracketed 40 band CB's and high powered binoculars, with police radar guns, too, distance calibrated, so when our Scorpion Brigades dash around the desert floor in 40 tooth combs we mean any suspicious Iraqis rolling, or foreign Jihads going home, stopping to plant a road-side bomb, and then rolling on, are guaranteed their surface-to-surface laser-guided ticket.
Load cases of bottled water, freeze-dried everything, and microwaves, with delicious ready-to-eat stuff bought local, off the neighborhood retail shelf.
Every mission critical democracy truck flown over should include a digital camcorder and laptops with wireless Internet access, so we can see what is up with our citizen volunteers. The camper tops need tow missile brackets, so over night, trained civilian gunners can sit their tails on the spare tires to fire. Every quad cab has to have 50 caliber machine gun brackets on their roof, so when the need arises, whoever rides shotgun on the border can ride standing upright in the sunroof, and stinger a crossing suicide bomber, besides the foreign interlopers going home on leave, who need their tires blown out in their tracks, in the middle of nowhere, then swatted like flies.
We should be getting our quad cabs readied for off road desert duty immediately! The army pipeline for bureaucracies' armored vehicles is 18 months. Our Scorpion Brigades could get their iron plating welded and ready for emergency service inside 48 hours!
A real president would speak to us and give the order. C5-A Constellations should be flying from city to city, loading trucks bumper-to-bumper with crews aboard, tailgate parties scheduled to be held on the desert floor. Obama's refusal to budge is a major reason to throw him out at the end of his term if not sooner! Obama cannot be allowed to sacrifice any more of our precious kids in a guerrilla gun battle that refuses to finish, that guaranteed, without these above described, retrofit, quad-cab 4-wheel drive, off-road trucks immediately put in the Iraqi mix.
The genuine threat of a one-term presidency could motivate his wife, Michelle to read her husband our riot act. The easily manipulated wimp must surely realize the more our troops are wounded or killed, the less likely democrats will hold their offices.
The democrats will pay at the polling booth for Obama's war mismanagement.
When this was first written down, when it said Bush where it says Obama, before FBI came knocking on my door with my email to newspaper editors in hand, Americans killed in Iraq numbered 650 and counting. 4000 were reported as wounded, politic-speak for body parts sheared off, and 13,000 casualties. What qualifies the label: casualty?
Ten thousand trucks, four civilian ambassadors in each, is the minima required to establish a foundation for Iraqi democracy and peace. As long as Bin Laden sends volunteers to al Qeada in Iraq, why can't we be sending over volunteers?
Besides visiting every country hamlet and town, to make friends, assess needs and begin a grass roots, people to people Marshall Plan; in groups of forty, with cells and CB radios, our Scorpion Brigades will seal, in and out, all of Iraq's borders, guarding the oil pipe lines, too, while watching all the highways and byways leading to the terrorist Qaeda strongholds, in quartets and pairs, parked off-road a few miles apart, their CB's and cop-car radar guns, powered to mark insurgents that pull off road to plant explosives, along with their human detonators, left back to trigger their remotes from behind the nearest berm.
Our spotters can CB down the two-lanes which car needs disabling, etc., then proceed to take out the sucker left there to blow us up. The Scorpion Brigades on guard will nail each and every insurgent they encounter especially by the border, enabling us to secure Iraq at large.
The Scorpion Brigades, ten thousand trucks strong, will binocular every checkpoint. The Jihad insurgency pays its own way, smuggling oil, which they cash out every day in Jordan and Syria. We will "ticket" the tankers filled with stolen oil long before they pull up to the Iraqi border.
Insurgency is a full time occupation. But insurgents have to eat. When we own the length of all the borders with our Scorpion Brigades, the continuous feed of recycled terrorists from around the Middle East will be canceled, as will their means of finance, which are smuggled oil and goods.
10,000 quad-cabs, four people strong in each, ought to be enough to control all of Iraq's borders, visit every hamlet and town, and also own the roads leading to the outskirts of any al Qaeda controlled towns and cities which our media isn't talking about.
Here is the key - the icing on the cake: We want the Iraqi parents to let us bring back 50 thousand of their kids to America with us, to live in America and go to our schools, for a couple years anyway, so the kids are out of harm's way, safe from flaring violence in Iraq, and learning democracy here.
The kids and their parents can have dedicated cell phones so they can talk to each other every day.
This kid exchange, for the Iraqis, goes with Congress awarding Iraq favored nation status, so our citizen quad cab ambassadors can palaver ready deals in every village we visit for all their figs, nuts and dates, packed on the spot for export, in exchange for American cash over the Iraqi barrelhead.
In the last election I sought the nomination of both political parties, so we can present to the world a united face, backed by all the American people, the first step toward my coming natch a rill that will suffice as world peace, beginning with a peaceful night, when all the world's peoples will be doing the same thing at the same time: watching my whirled wide sprechen on TV.
I promise in advance, to spout a delicate sensible, mull tie ling well rhyme, in every line, so all peoples all over the planet, our good ship mother earth, feel they are participants.
I trump all the candidates, besides our current president because I have the words for all man kind. I am going to say these words for all man kind, live, on world wide television, or you are going to lose your good life on this planet, because your world is leaderless, the ecologic balance is liable to tip. First comes World Peace. Then as a world we will solve the man made global warming. That is, from my point of view, the order of world events.
Regardless your party affiliation, my Iraq Exit Strategy is a viable way to stage a military draw down and get out without a debacle. Unless we seal Iraq's borders first, when the date certain for leaving is public, and we begin a mass pull out, al Qaeda cells from surrounding Arabic lands will send recruits to practice bag an American, the Bush Obama legacy: our patriots body bagged, but beheaded, their missing heads lined on the roadside, heads as melons, wired to a scarecrow stake, dead eyes on a roll, haunting our troops on their way to the airport, remotely blown. Osama Bin Laden's barbaric message will reign throughout. We cannot allow it.
Nor can we stall Iraqi civil war or talk them down without my program, which offers a safe future for their children. The above, my end war strategy isn't a game. With 50 thousand Iraqi kids, temporarily living in America and going to school, Iraq will become our very firmest ally, a bastion of western styled democracy, and a model for all the Iranian and Syrian and Palestinian kids to follow.
You have a choice: world peace or the continuing smoke and mirrors.
Michael Stephen Levinson
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Exhibit B (1), above, is the photocopy image of all the certified US Postal delivery of the Request for Access to the same broadcast and cablecast networks as the first request for access under §315(a)

Exhibit B (2), above, is the photocopy of the NBC and MSNBC return to sender refusal to even accept delivery of complainant’s request, which is a chilling example of political discrimination by the NBC network.
Complainant’s 3rd request for access as an independent candidate for president of United States was in response to President Obama’s State of the Union speech to both Houses of Congress which was aired live by all of the networks from whom complainant sought and continues to seek, an equal opportunity to present his non-partisan solutions.
Complainant request for access under §315(a), as did the other requests, includes a statement of the law, pointing out that under §312(a)(7) the networks, in failing to even answer complainant have placed their licenses in jeopardy as their broadcasting licenses are subject to REVOCATION for the willful and repeated failure to allow access. This request further includes, as did the first two requests, a vigorous sample of the speech complainant intends on delivering. The request, Exhibit C, follows herewith: Exhibit C February 2, 2010
To: The individual chief operating officers and / or news division presidents and / or appropriate officials in charge of the following broadcast and cable casting networks: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.
From: Michael Stephen Levinson, Candidate for president of United States 2012
Dear presidents, Chief Operating Officers, et al
This press released letter is an equal opportunity request for access in response to the president of United States Barack Obama’s “use” of our television airwaves, delivering his State of The Union speech to both Houses of Congress, Wednesday, January 27, 2010 from 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm.
I, Michael Stephen Levinson am an independent candidate for president of United States. I have been actively campaigning for the office of president since October 15, 2007 when, in Secretary of State William Gardner’s office, in New Hampshire, I declared my independent candidacy for president of United States, declaring that I was seeking the nomination of both political parties so our nation could present a united face to the world, the reasoning behind, I am bringing to the office of president of United States a Vehicle for World Peace.
President Obama, and those others, the seekers of our highest office do not claim any Vehicle for World Peace in their lexicon. The concept itself, a viable method for achieving world peace is show-stopping news. There aren’t any candidates even suggesting they have a clue on what explicitly they can do to deliver Peace to the world from the office of president.
The public recording of this October 15, 2007 presidential campaign declaration speech is available on the Internet at http://youtube.com/poetprophet and also http://vodpod.com/michaelslevinson
My political web site, http://michaelslevinson.com is devoted to my continuing independent candidacy for the office of president of United States.
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This letter of request for equal opportunity access to each of the networks, individually and as a group, as noted on page 1, above, is a request for an equal opportunity for live televised speech by Michael Stephen Levinson, candidate for president, according to Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended,
This Section 315 request for access by Michael Stephen Levinson, candidate for president of United States, is made in order for candidate Levinson to respond to President Obama's political State of the Union speech, which he delivered to the nation, via your television station networks, from a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, January 27, 2010.
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was a “use” of the television networks, not an exempt news event. When Obama “used” all of your television channels to deliver his political Afghanistan war speech to our nation, he was enabled to do so because you individually granted president Obama the opportunity to use your network. This grant of opportunity opened the door to access requests for an equal opportunity to address the nation by other candidates for president.
My request for access was dutifully filed with each of your networks.
The president’s State of the union address, televised, is also a “use” under Section 315, and for that reason U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner was given the authority by the television networks to invite newly elected Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia to give the republican response to the president’s State of the Union address.
I hold the threshold issue of “use” is clear in this complaint and well settled.
The networks have ignored the independent voter’s right under Section 315 to view and listen to an independent candidate for president’s televised response to the president’s televised address.
I am an independent candidate for president, thus my request!
In the recent special election in Massachusetts, to fill the seat vacated by the death of Senator Kennedy, it was reported by news media that in Massachusetts, 51% of the registered voters are registered as Independent.
It is fair to say that 51% of your viewers who are registered voters are registered as independent.
My independent campaign for president of United States and my response to the president’s State of the union “use” of network television is directed at the least, toward half of all the registered voters in Massachusetts, likely half of all the registered voters nationwide. The registered independent voters are entitled to judge ideas not proposed to them by the so-called two major parties. The unregistered party of the unregistered is larger than both of the parties combined!
It is only fair, under Section 315 that Independent voters get to hear a response to the president’s speech by an independent candidate for the same office as the president holds.
The evening which I am requesting for broadcast and cable cast time, to “use” my equal opportunity, in order to deliver my response to president Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, under Section 315, is the soonest evening after the president’s address, upon the tendering of this request, for the same length of time as President Obama’s address, including the televised time of his coming and going to the podium.
February 10, 2010, from 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm, so as not to interfere with the Winter Olympics, seems a reasonable date and prime time to exercise my equal opportunity right.
This proposed date for my response, February 10, 2010, from 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm, as an independent candidate, responding to the president’s address gives all of the networks from whom time is requested plenty enough time for scheduling my speech and for your news divisions to uncover as much as they can about my person and my candidacy, the issues I stand on, the nuts and bolts solutions to our problems that I am going to present in my live televised speech.
in the history of our political broadcasting, I am the only independent candidate for president ever to have ever exercised this entitlement to an equal opportunity to respond to a president’s State of the Union speech.
In that sense, this request for access under telecommunications 315 is News!
As a demonstration of your acknowledgement, the good faith of your having received this request you should be releasing this access request to your news divisions.
I believe my analysis of the law, on behalf of an informed electorate, is reasonable, nor can there be any reason to delay this request as the American people are entitled to decide who has the best idea for reforming our health care, protecting our nation from terrorist attack, creating genuine jobs, and reforming our financial institutions , as will be shown herewith.
In the event you fail to respond to my legal request for access to deliver my independent speech in response to the president’s speech, under USC 47 Section 315, I will be without any choice but to take immediate steps for judicial intercession which under well settled law may lead to the revocation of your license to broadcast and cable cast, though my intent, clearly stated is to deliver a live televised speech in response to the president’s speech.
At risk here is your broadcast license, for the willful and repeated failure to allow mass media access to my candidacy for the office of president of United States. This is an issue that can and will be brought, on behalf of the American people’s right to be an informed electorate, into Federal Court.
I prefer to hear from your offices and / or your news divisions as your news divisions are very liable to have many questions about my Health care solution as it is presented herewith, a main element of my intended speech.
I am prepared to answer any and all of all your news division questions on the health care issue and every other issue, the genuine jobs I propose we can create and the simple financial reforms the congress can instigate that will be part of my uncensored speech.
Protecting our nation from another Al Qaeda attack, exactly the explicit measures that must be put in place, that President Obama has failed to put into place, the structural failures in each of our intelligence agencies, CIA, FBI, and NSA that, without change guarantee the eventual success of another terrorist attack plane, if not by plane then by land or by sea, is a key element in my planned address to the nation, besides an opportunity to demonstrate why I should be president.
So far, relative to terrorist attacks we have been lucky! The American people are entitled to this sensible information I bring to the table, the exact measure we can expand, the one program we need to put fully into place on this issue of protecting our nation from mindless terrorist attack and along with that, any other political matter your news divisions consider of import I am more than willing to unequivocally answer.
I am prepared to unambiguously explain to your news division what intelligence gathering and handling steps are required to eliminate al Qaeda’s shoe bombers and underpants bombers from any repeat performances; exactly the Executive Orders president Obama can sign immediately to more fully protect the American people from another attack.
This issue of the America’s safety from terrorist attack is not a partisan issue.
The president's nationwide State of the Union speech was a partisan political speech, a “use” of the airwaves for partisan political purpose.
I must advise you that suppressing my constitutional right to mass media speech under well-settled statutes reflecting our First Amendment in our Bill of Rights suppresses a clear solution to the issue of eliminating the next terrorist attack.
Should another terrorist attack, this next time, successfully take place, because you will have suppressed the solution I bring to the table, a solution available to the American people via mass media speech, you will pay dearly for denying the information to the American people!
To the best of my knowledge and belief, I am the only declared independent candidate for president besides the sitting president at this time, likely the only person requesting access under Section 315 to make a political speech.
The campaigning for president of United States, and in the case of a sitting president, the campaigning for re-election, ongoing from the day of the president’s inauguration is a reality, as campaigning for the presidency and all the other federal offices in America is a full time media industry. The difference between today’s campaigning, for Obama, one year in office, and his campaign activities three years hence, is only of intensity.
When broadcast television consisted of three networks and cable television was in its infancy, in order to protect the television viewing public from an onslaught of campaign speeches, requirements were promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission, to walk a fine line between regulation of unbridled political speech, while at the same time, protecting the First Amendment Rights of the viewing public to hear a political speech and a candidate’s right to deliver.
In today’s television world, bandwidth and spectrum are practically unlimited with hundreds of channels for the viewers to choose from, so the Agency’s arbitrary limits on First Amendment rights are not applicable, especially in light of the Supreme Court’s days old ruling on the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on the candidates of their choice in elections.
In fact, in 2000, the Federal Communications Commission abrogated its purview over the interpretation of our political access laws and how these statutes relate to the public interest when the commission breached the boundaries of its own discretion, unconstitutionally rewriting the 312(a)(7) statute passed by the congress, to facilitate the unconstitutional removal of 356 PBS stations from their obligations to the public interest standard, relative to allowing access for political speech by candidates for federal elective office.
The Commission, by its own hand, dissolved its jurisdiction over the adjudication of any dispute related to my, or any federal candidate’s First Amendment Right to give a mass media broadcast political speech, on an equal opportunity equal mass media footing, with the president of United States, which is my intent, by virtue of this Section 315 equal opportunity request to you networks, for access.
This rewriting of our access law, trenching the First Amendment Rights of the American people to hear or to deliver a speech was an unlawful and violated our constitution and Bill of Rights.
The Commission’s unconstitutional act is subject to challenge in Federal District Court, on its own merit, absent this e quill time Section 315 request for access.
Expect this legitimate request for access to be attached as a showing that you, the networks, see yourselves as above the law, and do not respect the laws or the First Amendment rights of the citizenry who constitute your viewership.
As the Supreme Court has made clear, over and over:
“It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters which is paramount . . . It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market . . . It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experience which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC.”
Understand when the US Marshall delivers the Order to Show Cause to you, signed by a panel of federal judges why your license should not be revoked for your willful and repeated failure to allow access, it will be too late for your license, because the law is the law.
But I do not want your license to broadcast. I seek only the exercise of my constitutional right to deliver a speech as a candidate for president in response to President Obama’s “use” of network television January 27, 2010.
While the Statute has been liberally interpreted to mean that I, the candidate, am not obligated to state in advance what I propose to say, because a candidate cannot be censored, I disagree with that liberal interpretation of the statute and have provided herewith a draft of my proposed speech, though I intend on an extemporaneous delivery of my speech. I do not require teleprompter equipment.
I hold you, the network broadcasters are entitled to know in advance, from any candidate seeking the air time under Section 315, though the “time” is an entitled "use;" though the candidate is "entitled" to an uncensored "use," the candidate should have programs and plans to offer beyond 'platitudes," "policies," and "positions;" and you, the networks are entitled to that information in order to make a fair judgment as to the validity and value to the electorate of any proposed speech by a candidate for president, that is a “free” equal opportunity “use.”
The “publicity seekers” are not entitled to the privilege of mass media broadcast and generally they do not even seek non-commercial “free” time, as publicity seeker campaigns consist of “I am a candidate” declarations and not much else.
As above, “It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experience which is crucial here.” Your obligation, under the public interest standard is to insure that happenstance, not to dismiss or suppress it!
What immediately follows, for your convenience, is a partial statement of the law, citations removed, and where appropriate, my commentary added.
The Communications Act of 1934, as amended, authorizes the FCC to issue licenses to broadcast stations only if it finds that such grants will serve the “public convenience, interest, or necessity.”
While the Commission is charged with ensuring that all broadcasters serve the public interest, the public interest standard is not clearly defined by statute. However, the FCC has specified several public interest obligations relating to programming and consumer accessibility that broadcasters must fulfill. A significant part of a broadcast licensee’s public interest obligation relates to political broadcasts.
Mass media political speech is a First Amendment Right we bequeath on our candidates for federal elective office.
Pursuant to section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, if a broadcaster allows “any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station; he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station.” Under section 315, the broadcaster is not permitted to censor the material broadcast by the candidates.
Certain types of broadcasts are exempt from the equal opportunity requirements.
Under section 315, an appearance by a legally qualified candidate on any (1) bona fide newscast; (2) bona fide news interview; (3) bona fide news documentary; or (4) on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events, is not deemed to be “use of a broadcasting station” for equal opportunity purposes.
Generally, equal opportunity is defined to prohibit discrimination between candidates. The practices, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with service rendered by the broadcaster must be the same for all candidates for a political office. Broadcast licensees are also prohibited from making any contract or other agreement “which shall have the effect of permitting any legally qualified candidate for any public office to broadcast to the exclusion of other legally qualified candidates for the same office.”
Under this provision, for example, a station could not enter into a contract with a candidate stipulating that the station would not sell time to another candidate during the same time period.
Section 315 does not require broadcasters to allow candidates to use their facilities; however, under the Reasonable Access Requirement, Section 312 (a)(7), the “willful or repeated failure to allow reasonable access to or to permit purchase of reasonable amounts of time for the use of a broadcasting station . . . by a legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office on behalf of his candidacy” could lead to revocation of the station’s license.
That is the issue you are facing in this request; your very broadcast license!
Any claim of exemption on your part is clearly an First Amendment chilling, arbitrary discrimination against both the First Amendment Rights of this independent candidate for president, Michael Stephen Levinson, to deliver his independent response to the president, and the American people's First Amendment Right to hear this candidate's proposed solution to our health care problems, and more.
In the event you, the network broadcasters and or cable casters determine you are above our law and therefore willfully discriminate against candidate for president Michael Stephen Levinson, and deny this candidate for president's request for access you, the networks should be prepared to suffer the consequence which will be the revocation of your license, for your willful and repeated failure to adhere to your obligation to the American people, upon your willful suppression of the American people's paramount right to hear an independent candidate for the office of president offer his innovative solution to this vexing Health care issue, along with a careful explanation of how we draw to a just conclusion this war in a foreign land to which, in fact, no other candidate for president or would be candidate for president, or member of congress, or any elected official claims to have any solution to and furthermore, the changes in our intelligence gathering and handling, the necessary repairs to what president Obama characterized the “unacceptable,” “systemic” failure of the intelligence agencies to intercept the recent terrorist attempt at mass murder by a Nigerian Osama bin Laden sympathizer agent of destruction.
The Federal Communication Commission is not yet a party to this request.
As noted above, in 2000, the Federal Communications Commission illegally and unconstitutionally amended an Act of Congress. They did this via unconstitutional earmark, slipped into an appropriations bill. FCC removed the First Amendment obligation of all 356 PBS stations to air political speeches by any candidate for federal elective office.
What applies for one, applies for all. This 'earmark' whether approved by Congress or not, violates the First Amendment Right of the American people to political speech.
The "earmark" stated the Federal Communications Commission was absolved from even "answering the telephone" (the candidate's paraphrase) upon complaint against the broadcast network for their failure to respond to a request for access by a legally qualified candidate for federal elective office.
Therefore, the Commission, by its own hand, dissolved its jurisdiction over the adjudication of any dispute related to my, or any federal candidate’s First Amendment Right to give a mass media broadcast political speech, on an equal opportunity equal mass media footing, with the president of United States, which is my intent, by virtue of this Section 315 equal opportunity request for access.
The following essay, Health Care for All is part of the speech I’ve requested an equal opportunity to deliver in response to president Obama’s speech.
“I declare every day that I am an independent candidate for president. Here is my solution to our health care problem, and more, carefully spelled out. Not withstanding my appearance before you this evening, my constitutional right to access for televised speech, a First Amendment battle, is soon to be heard in federal court. The exercise of my unalienable right as a political candidate, to share my political programs, to via mass media, deliver my politic vision is the core of our franchise.
In spite of our broadcasters previous transgressions, having bet their television licenses on FCC’s destruction of our constitutional guarantees, mine to mass media speech, yours to receive, I cannot lose this courtroom battle. I’m within the laws of political broadcasting. Broadcasters have their own views on their public interest obligations, but in my case, our Bill of Rights will prevail.
The law is the law. My appearance this evening, in response to the president’s speech does not mitigate the networks’ clear recalcitrance in this First Amendment issue. All our broadcast and cable casting licenses may be revoked, auctioned off to the highest bidder for their failure to have allowed me access before our recent, year old election for president.
I am defending our right to both hear and give a speech over our airwaves. Nor can the broadcast networks trump our constitution. Besides, my platform for president is composed with better ideas, and my Television Scripture, the Vehicle for World Peace.
I’m clearly the best defender of our constitution, a requirement for president!
I bring to the table a Television Scripture, written down to give live, on whirled wide, all channels television, better than old blind Homer, dusk until dawn, with every line a delicate sensible rhyme, running and punning through every spoken tongue, for all the world’s peoples to see and be a part of at once.
On good ship mother earth, in my lexicon, World Peace begins with a peaceful worldwide night. I need only retell the tale of Adman and Even in the Gar Den ov Edum, then follow with how God created man, along with some fresh information about our DNA, to establish my credibility for the world vid drama to unfold. I wish there was some other way, but to wheel a change of course in the course of our human history, on good ship mother urf, I must first become the free people’s leader, to rise up, the poet president, prophet of humanity and earn the prize for peace by delivering the world to peace.
My Health Care plan, sponsored with your loose pennies, costs half what the Congress projected in theirs. With Congress’ glom, their bureaucrats will blockade the insurance companies by regulating our citizenry’s complaints. Upon my plan bureaucracies are out of the mix. My health care solution will cost 400 billion dollars, yearly, and cover all the uninsured people in America, without an Act of Congress.
My plan, bell clear, could be an oped today, start tomorrow, and within three months, cover everybody!!
Health Care is an issue that currently drains one-sixth of our economy! Unless we repair health care delivery, we sink to a 2nd rate 2nd tier borrower nation. Technology invented in America will be developed across the seas, with the wealth created remaining in the producing countries.
Down a short road our dollar could implode, turning 20 million almighty dollars into a fast nine, our purchasing power for all imported goods, chopped in half.
When I was a kid, a pack of gum was a nickel. Soon a stick could cost a dollar. A loaf of fresh baked bread was less than a quarter. Today that same loaf approaches four bucks. The tenured, $170,000 per year bureaucrat is unperturbed.
Everyone agrees our economy is off kilter and needs a surge. Washington’s legions of svelte regulators thrive, as does Wall Street with their billions of bonus dollars, while the rest of our country, the people who do the work and pay their tax, whose money bailed out banks, are choked. The government’s bureaucracy, self-enriched, grows wealthier, as does Wall Street, while the citizenry is at a stand still, unable to connect, near broke.
One major prob limb on the tree of our economic life is the growing roll of those who lost their health insurance along with their jobs, without even a possible new job in sight.
My Loose Penny Program, unlike the billions in taxpayer's bailout dollars, is a capital injection that will repair our economic muscle, repairing health care delivery without government intervention! The public improvement of people’s lives, with government side-stepped, rattles bureaucracies, as the failure of the Congress’ plan to hatch, sets their bureaucrats back many thousands of planned-on six figure jobs.
But to create real jobs, to reestablish the vigorous economy we had, where health care doesn’t drain production, as union contracted health care commitments drained General Motors’ profit from every car, mission critical diplomacy is required.
Mr. Obama can dispense with his fly around Town Hall speeches, wipe down the makeup on his eyelids, (Obama wears eye shadow for outside speeches - his wife can front him some cold cream), and summon all our fast food, supermarket, Target and WalMart CEO's to Washington, to immediately ink this job creating capital infusion.
Our health care debacle prompted Nobel Prize economist, Paul Krugman, to write, “The U.S. government, as a whole—has become ominously dysfunctional.” But my proposed solution can roll in spite of the hypocrite Congress, theirs, a self-created corrupted culture that includes every member of both Houses. Before tonight, their all-inclusive taint hasn’t been on any table for public discussion.
People know. The whole country disrespects Washington, DC’s politicians. To the question, “Have you ever, while serving, accepted money from any PAK, individual, or company, the answer, from every Member of our Congress, is narrowed to, “yes, but . . .”
Their “yes but” is the money these public servant “liars in public places” require for their reelections. Supposedly, without big time dollars they would be pushed out of office, services surrendered. But the campaigning money they raise corrupts their office, for the people fronting them money do so to guarantee their own role in legislation, justifying their lock on our status quo with talking points for both voters and their colleagues, an example of this political charade, the parroted script that low priced drugs from Canada could jeopardize public safety, as though Canadians are dropping like flies from their medications.
Upon Members’ elections, every single article of clothing Members wear, for the duration of their whole public service careers, is purchased with lobbyist campaign donations, rubber stamped by the Election Commission, the assumption their duds were bought for campaigning, a part of their reelections, serving the public interest and all of that. Every election calls for dozens of expensive new suits, hundred dollar shirts, pricey silk ties, outfits for the spouse and hand sown, leather soled shoes, all on someone else's dime.
The electoral solution is obvious. Remove the money required for political campaigning so elected officials are not beholden to their sponsors. This is accomplished with a $3.00 income tax check off for our First Amendment Speech Fund. You declare your candidacy, either as write-in candidate, or your name pre-printed on the ballot and then, book your thirty or sixty-minute speech on your choice of TV stations in your district, or multiple stations for a state wide federal Senator race, or network, in your race for president.
The money to pay the stations for your live speech broadcasts, replacing the ad dollars lost for that slot, comes from the First Amendment Speech Fund. As soon as you declare your candidacy you have two hundred million dollars in your Speech Fund for televised speech! But our Speech Fund protects only live speeches by the candidates, and the candidate has to take an oath, at the outset, the live televised speech that he or she is about to deliver is of their own making. The weak tag line, “I approve this message” will become, “I swear these are my own words.”
I can hear the fascist’s confusing litany: “Then anyone can run! A smooth talking commie socialist could get into office!” Haven’t we elected our share of empty suits? We are three hundred million people strong and we don’t have our best or brightest to serve the public good in our public offices, protecting our rights.
Having a speech fund, enabling anyone who believes they have the right stuff, to run, also protects our democracy from corporate influence. Corporations, after all, are business entities; regardless the recent Supreme Court ruling, a corporation’s obligation is to the continuing wealth of its stockholders, not the general good, or wealth of our nation.
By a person’s spoken words we can judge the contents of their character. A thirty minute speech by a candidate for federal office could be followed by the district’s newspapers’ editorial boards instantly discussing and interpreting the candidate’s speech; on the spot, questioning the candidate in the studio. One could stand for office without compromise; without obsequiously groveling for money.
My proposed “Lev” Health Care program is independent of insurance companies, bureaucracy, or an Act of Congress, excluding a one line change in our tax code, providing incentive for medical professionals to treat "charity" cases in exchange for a tax deduction, the pot of gold at the end of the medical provider's economic rainbow: Freedom of Income Tax.
The loss of tax revenue from this proposed tax deduction given to medical professionals who treat charity cases, ‘charity’ here defined as anyone without insurance, is offset by eliminating emergency rooms for non-emergency health care. People seeking non-emergent care will be turned away with a list of available doctors in their neighborhood.
The congress’ projected yearly cost, 86 billion was / is to come from our tax wealth, withheld from our earnings, or from a batch of fresh taxes. The cost of my Health Care program is half, spread nationwide, a few pennies from non-income tax-paying teenagers, a few extra pennies from retired people, along with everybody else's loose pennies, including an undocumented workers.'
There isn’t a thing wrong with the following “Lev” proposal. It is straight Michael Stephen Levinson, out-of-the-box. Economic renewal and health care are interrelated elements of my candidacy for president. I naturally want to show the way to real economic health, rejuvenating our economy while I set the stage for World Peace. I’m the only candidate for president, actually the only person world wide, with a Vehicle for World Peace.
Doctors and dentists earn more money with my program, by our removing the insurance companies’ drag on our access to health care. With my Loose Penny Program funding our own non-profit Medical Assurance Pool, all our people will be covered, have access, and live longer healthier, more prophet-able lives.
Obama went to Cairo, Oslo, and Copenhagen. He can meet with KFC. Your loose pocket change, those loose pennies in your pocket are going to make the critical care diff rinse for the well being of our whole economy, starting with the health of all America’s people!
So to the gut of my Health Care plan: an additional two-cents voluntary gratuity into the cash registers of all our chain food locations nationwide, wherever we fast food eat and shop. For every item over the counter we include two extra pennies, added as patriotic gratuity. These pennies add up to a two dollars an hour tax free raise for the millions, at least ten million lower echelon workers, a value added tip from us, from we, the people.
Every fast food and supermarket chain must participate in our Loose Pennies Program, regardless the size of their enterprise because it betters our nation. Millions of people are a good enough reason for president Obama to get into the act.
But this proposal does not require Obama’s pre-approval or government mandate. The only requirement to begin is the go-ahead from the CEO's of the participating chains, as merely handling all the two-penny voluntary gratuities for every item scanned, for a one penny handling charge on every two dollars, is spotless profit for the chains!
Those g’zillion pennies will become millions of Medical Assurance Savings Accounts, and add up fast! After twelve weeks, at least four billion eight hundred millions of dollars, with six hundred million of that in the Catastrophic Illness Pool, the remaining four billion two hundred million dollars in Medical Assurance Accounts, the other four billions, eight hundred millions of dollars, a pay raise in approximately ten million worker’s take home.
Anyone can refuse to fork over the voluntary two cents gratuity at the cash register! It’s voluntary! Burger, fries and a drink totals an extra six cents, pennies off the pavement. Regardless what we purchase at the market; we are only pitching some loose change out of pocket. 40 items at the market could easily total $150.00. Would an additional 80 cents inhibit any American’s generosity?
A worker selected by the workers can get with management to approve the total pennies for all the goods out the door the week before, inspecting the division of all the extra pennies collected, by everyone's hours worked.
In this manner, with our voluntary pennies, we include up to $2 dollars gross extra for every hour worked in the workers’ paychecks. A $5 deduct to start a Medical Malpractice Pool is included in this deal, but employers don't have to match that $5 set aside for the Medical Malpractice Pool, so their sticker prices won't be rising from any imagined cost of doing this two penny business, on behalf of their workers.
More about this $5 set aside for the Medical Malpractice Pool below.
The chains aren’t squeezed from our consumer-paid-for pay raise for those who serve at the bottom of our economic food chain. In fact they gain! This is an accounting plus minus spreadsheet wash, the chains’ penny deducted from every two dollars, before we enrich the Medical Assurance Savings Accounts created for all the millions of uninsured workers who don’t earn enough money to justifiably afford health insurance!
The worker's pay increase doesn't come out of management's pocket, but work place production will increase because of it. When someone quits, the on-the-job crew might ask the boss to leave them to pick up the slack, so they garner more gratuity money!
The overage from this two penny voluntary program, above and beyond the $2 dollars extra in hourly gross pay, goes into the interest bearing Medical Savings Accounts, with the worker's name on his or her portion.
Setting aside the overage at the busier locations, where people work harder, two dollars an hour in a forty hour week is more than $4000 a year, a healthy tax free raise.
There are other innovative possibilities, because the prime issue inspiring our voluntary gratuity, earmarked for the working not so rich at the bottom of the economic food chain, is Health Care. That is the reason that we should all voluntarily participate in this program with our pennies. It will lower costs and improve our own medical care, regardless of our individual situations.
The chains’ management, on their own, without government intrusion, can divide the $2 an hour extra to be taken home half in cash, with the remaining dollar an hour going to dramatically grow these Medical Savings Accounts, the Health Care solution for between ten and twelve million uninsured people. $2000 in the pay envelops; $2000 in Medical Assurance Savings Accounts, all without Congress’ multifarious tax tentacles in the pot.
More than ten million of our uninsured will have access to medical care.
They can share their Medical Savings Account with their spouse, significant other, and off spring. The Medical Savings Account, as health care solution will work for at least twenty-five million people who need med-care access, but don’t have insurance to pay; cost to the income taxpayer, zero! Cost to the general public, a voluntary two cents.
Our Congress is hardly composed of original thinkers. All our Congress can see is to stuff health insurance down our collective throats because that is all they know. The health insurance lobby will be dough-ing the dollars to the Members regardless of party to keep them in government service, fired up forever, enabling the Congress to stuff their collective gullet at the public trough until they retire. The Members know that, too.
Are Medical Assurance Savings Accounts a good idea? The United States Senate’s staffs have medical savings accounts deducted from their paychecks, automatically deposited. The Senate staff has a fabulous insurance policy, with high deductibles. When the insurance need arises the deductibles are covered from their medical savings accounts.
Insurance companies are dedicated to making money, not protecting sick people from financial disaster. When an insurance company cancels your policy because you have an expensive disease, the insurance company doesn't refund your premium.
But with a Health Assurance Account, when you quit or lose your job, your Medical Savings Account goes with you, your Med Savings Account debit card in your pocket!
After a year behind the fast food counter, a 40-hour per week worker could have more than two grand in their Health Assurance account. Ten million uninsured people at the bottom of our economic food chain cannot afford health care insurance but all can have Health Assurance, with their spouse, significant other, and off spring included!
In the event someone doesn’t feel good they have access to medical care because the money to pay is there, including a second opinion! When it's your care, your money, and your Malpractice Insurance Pool, unneeded procedures evaporate.
Other small companies, besides the fast food chains could offer the "private Lev option," creating Medical Savings Accounts for their workers, in lieu of offering a pricey group insurance policy. The insurance companies that bought your Congress would find people in their group insurance rips leaving in droves to establish Medical Savings Accounts! This sensible choice solution, which we, the American people privately create with our voluntary extra two cents, eliminates the insurance companies’ health care monopolies.
A worker could opt out of his company's group insurance. The employer's end could go into the employee’s paycheck, or holiday bonus. The half the worker was paying would still be withheld, but would go into the worker's Medical Assurance Savings Account.
This is omnibus Health "Insurance" without the insurance companies.
Are the other countries, all ahead of us relative to the quality and cost of their health care, dependent on an insurance company? Insurance companies do not play such a role in the other countries, except in private round-the-clock treatment for the very rich.
Is there any government bureaucracy involved in my program? Are my proposals 2500 pages of unreadable language? Does my plan require three years of bureaucracy to set up rigid deaf care bureaucrat fostered rules and regulations? It does not.
This two cents program works for the medical professionals, too. You accept the doctor’s fee, the doctor swipes your Medical Assurance card and the money is debited from your Health Assurance account. The Dr.'s cost layer, an employee, in communication with the insurance company’s customer service person for treatment approval, is eliminated.
Without taking on additional help or office overhead, our doctors can begin digitizing all their medical records. This proposed over-the-counter voluntary two-cent gratuity, $344 dollars monthly doesn't bash government. These out of pocket pennies go to the working not so rich, without intrusion. Government bureaus are by-passed, except perhaps to investigate anonymous complaints about businesses that may be cheating their workers.
In all the dry cleaners we can add a nickel to every shirt pressed, a dime for every dry cleaned piece. In family operated dry cleaners, Medical Savings Accounts will replace the worker's share of their family's personal health insurance.
This 2 cents extra can cover 85% of all minimum and lower wage jobs in USA, juicing our recovery by pumping the bottom of our economic chain, enriching the people most likely to purchase goods with their money, along with providing a health care solution!
The fresh dollars these people spend will create jobs. Those in low echelon hourly jobs, working 40 hours a week will gross $80 extra weekly, the diff rinse between scraping by without insurance and getting ahead, covered; the advantage of $75, $35 in their pay envelope, with $5 per week set aside for a Medical Malpractice Pool, $40 earmarked for Health Assurance Savings, less $5 there, to create a Catastrophic Illness Pool which protects the long term solvency of all the individual Medical Savings Accounts, and more.
A couple extra pennies on top of every item we purchase in all the fast foods and supermarket chains makes all this happen, without an Act by our corrupted dysfunctional Congress. Poll that issue: Are both Houses of our Congress corrupt? Yes or no. Nine out of ten people will answer yes, unless they have a job that is government connected.
The Catastrophic Illness Pool is not only a medical solution for the millions of uninsured low echelon, mostly young and healthy workers, but also the solution for those millions of people without insurance, because of a pre-existing condition that precludes them from getting insurance coverage.
After twelve weeks the Catastrophic Illness Pool will be six hundred million dollars deep. Deep enough so people with pre-existing conditions can be invited to join, an issue the ten million benefactors of our loose penny parade will agree to. The ten million workers will overwhelmingly let these pre-existing condition people into their Catastrophic Pool, in so doing, putting a nickel in God’s bank that cannot be taken away from them, insuring, should a crisis arise in their own lives, the money to cover their cure is there.
To restate my plan: $2 an hour X 40 hours is $80 fresh dollars a week, $344 a month, more than $4000 fresh dollars a year going to more than ten million uninsured working people, based on our voluntary two pennies on every item over the counter in all the fast food chains, WalMart, KMart, Target, and every supermarket chain in America. We could also include Home Depot, Lowes, Office Depot, Sam’s and Costco, too.
The $80 extra a week is divided in half. $40 for pay envelopes, $40 for Medical Savings Accounts. Then $5 out of the pay raise for a Malpractice Insurance pool, and $5 from within the Medical Savings Account, set aside for the Catastrophic Illness Pool.
Here is how we create a tort reforming Malpractice Pool. Physicians and dentists are invited to join the Malpractice Pool by putting in $5 per every participating patient’s office visit. Practitioners can invite their other patients to join the Pool, too, so within the year, they can cancel their exorbitant malpractice insurance. We immediately establish a reasonable award for all the malpractice possibilities, allowing any aggrieved party to get a lawyer in the event they feel the pre-established malpractice award is inadequate.
We find a reasonable award by bringing all the malpractice cases ever litigated under one roof, rather in one computer hard drive, averaging the individual awards for all of the malpractice cases, then halving that amount for a net award. The malpractice pool will dramatically lower the cost of practicing medicine. Dr.’s can practice without fearing lawsuits, earning more money per visit, at the same time even lowering their fees!
Besides unnecessary procedures and tests vanishing, once both Dr. and patient agree to be in the Malpractice Pool, we also have a chance to develop a doctor patient data base that scores doctors who are repeat serial malpractitioners; a med-practitioner’s “car fax.”
Here is how the Catastrophic Illness Pool works:
You are working the past five years for a fast food chain. You are assistant manager. You began, flipping burgers and stayed with your Medical Assurance Savings. You develop kidney disease, failure, and need dialysis while waiting for a must-have transplant. The transplant cost is catastrophic. The dialysis and hospital transplant money comes from the Catastrophic illness Pool so your Medical Assurance Account remains intact for your family.
Your Medical Assurance Savings account covers initial visits to the Dr. and dental work. Also yearly check ups, x-rays, pap smears, mammograms, flu vaccinations, everything required to insure you stay healthy. In the event it appears there is something seriously wrong, involving serious money, the Catastrophic Pool is triggered. Everyone can afford a check up with a Medical Assurance Account!
Millions of uninsured not so rich people building Medical Assurance Accounts benefit from our voluntary two penny deal. We gain, too, from tipping our pennies to working folks, as these millions of uninsured won't be crowding emergency clinics for care, which our tax dollars pay for, as emergency health care’s costs are infected by the actuarial projections of how many people might use an emergency walk-in for health care during the course of any year. That in itself is a tremendous savings for our government!
Working people in min-wage jobs with Health Assurance accounts will pay for health care access on their need-to-be seen basis. In addition to Medical Savings Accounts, the two cents gratis pay raise might secure a million mortgages near default, a contribution to economic health as deserted house disease is a cancer that devalues neighborhoods.
As noted above, a worker with a Medical Assurance Savings account can use the card for his spouse and off spring, so coverage rises to at least 25 million people.
For the rest of our uncovered citizenry, doctors and dentists must be guaranteed the volunteer opportunity to do tax deductible charity work, treating the uninsured. A charity patient is anyone without health insurance. The plan: doctors do $50,000 in charitable medical services and deduct the $50,000 off the top of their federal tax. Then, after all their tax deductions, the doctors take an additional half off of their bottom line; $25,000 or half, whichever is greater.
Medical professionals could perform $100,000 in charity and deduct $50,000 off their tax, and because they only owed $49,000 in taxes, earn a one thousand dollar income tax credit. This health care incentive cost effectively makes sense, putting the doctors in competition with the insurance companies, as enough “charity” cases could lead to an income tax free life for the underpaid primary physicians.
Doctors will work harder, and won't be at the mercy of an insurance companies’ “take it or leave it” payment for medical services rendered. Doctors won’t be beholden to insurance companies as their patients, suffering with unaffordable premiums, with pre-assurance from their physicians, could also be canceling their pricey policies in droves.
Every doctor will have a waiting list of patients in line to be reclassified a “charity” case, but medical care won’t be rationed. Doctors will have greater patient loads, their extra work incentive: Freedom of Income Tax.
Isn't this suggested one-line change in our tax code easier to digest than a twenty-five hundred pages med-reform tax increase stick-it-to-us vaccination, unread even by its authors, our Representatives to both Houses of our Congress? Would an insurance company's shills crowd a town hall meeting shouting, "It's a communist plot! Down with their two cents for Medical Savings Accounts?" I doubt it.
Every doctor and dentist will have a sign on the door: "No insurance? I'm here."
These ideas will enrich our economy from the bottom up, possibly saving one million mortgages, and insure access to health care services for many, if not all the millions of uninsured people, whilst allowing the rip off insurance companies to clean up their ax.
Congress doesn’t have to return the insurance company’s campaign donations, either, for copping out, because my program does not require an Act of Congress, beyond the one line money saving change in our tax code, creating incentive for primary doctors, and specialists, too, to work more, and in so doing, lower their income tax down to zero.
The long-term solution to our health care prob limb is free medical education for doctors, dentists, nurses, and all related personal, our goal 100,000 new doctors graduated every year until we have one family doctor for every thousand people.
A national marijuana tax could fund this medical education program, as could a three per cent reduction in military expenditures. Politishinz adroitly identify the issues but fold their intestinal fortitude, for special interests financing their campaigns are holding all the tickets. Lobbyists write the fine print codicils that inform and dilute every bill passed.
In that light, the above proposed change in our tax code, giving doctors and dentists incentives to treat the uninsured as a deductible charity, could not pass either House of our Congress, absent a million person public outcry sitting-in, surrounding the Capital.
At a recent televised Town Hall meeting, a student asked president Obama, "With over one out of thirty Americans controlled by the penal system, why not legalize, control, and tax marijuana to change the failed war on drugs into a money making, money saving boost to the economy? Do we really need that many victimless criminals?"
Because the questions at these Town Halls are pre-scripted, the student was precluded from adding, “Couldn’t we use the tax revenue from marijuana sales to fund free medical education for doctors, dentists and all related personal?”
The president answered, "There was one question . . . that ranked fairly high and that was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation; and I don't know what this says about the online audience, (who submitted their questions in advance) but . . . this was a popular question. We want to make sure it's answered. The answer is no, I don't think that's a good strategy to grow our economy. All right."
With Obama’s pre-planned answer, his ignoring government’s oppressive incarcerations, their prosecutions of victimless crime, to focus instead on economy, our president’s true colors aired, showing his aloof hypocrisy; his elite distaste for opinions and beliefs held by millions of independent citizens whose opinions he evidently cares not about. Obama assumes his fellow politishinz will continue their hypocritical opposition to reversing marijuana prohibitions, in spite of all the benefits we get, as a people, from telling truth.
Obama knows from his own experience, marijuana is not dangerous and does not harm. He smoked it to counteract his own post adolescent anxieties. He went on to graduate school with honors, eventually, to run for and win the presidency of the United States. Marijuana contributed to Obama’s teenage pot smoking dreams of his father. Obama is a winner, not a leader.
Winners get to the finish line first. But for the true leader, truth is their beacon. And since when does a president’s cultural attitudes determine how the rest should live their lives?
The state of California may vote for full legalization of cannabis sativa, beyond their so-called liberal interpretation of what constitutes a medical reason behind prescribing marijuana.
Economists in California estimate the “pot” cash crop amounts to more than 14 billion dollars a year, dwarfing the money generated that is attributed to commercial farming of fruits and vegetables. The tax on this cash crop could amount to a couple billion dollars the state of California is desperate for.
So let us as a nation deal with this issue as other nations are going down the same road as California. Suppose for a moment there was full legalization in all the states at once instead of one state at a time, and we began full medical research into the issue of marijuana as a medicine that fights cancer, besides alleviating the discomfort and pain from chemo-therapy.
There would be 50,000 Dagwood shops, filling prescriptions for ounces of cannabis sativa and lesser amounts for anxiety and other ailments. The Dagwood Shops could serve sandwiches, and sweet drinks, coffees and teas besides playing live or recorded music.
In the front window a post teenage, under educated previously unemployable person would have, for themselves, a dream job, cleaning the “lumber,” trimming full buds, wearing surgical gloves and mask, preparing rolled spliffs, and blunts.
50,000 unemployable people in their dream job would be taxpayers! From the 50,000 new businesses, at least 350,000 jobs would be created within a month!
What keeps this program from happening is the government bureaucracy that makes its living from the status quo drug laws. 800,000 people are arrested and charged with using or selling marijuana every year because the bureaucracy, in Washington DC rewards the local police departments with electronic surveillance “goodies” based on the number of arrests the local police departments make.
This prison industrial complex must be brought to an end. We cannot afford to continue locking people behind bars for non-violent “crimes” that are not criminal.
The independent voters are entitled to have this issue on the table as millions of people will benefit from the sensible reversal of the “drug” prohibition nationwide.
The “Town Halls” Obama has scheduled are all clearly pre-scripted events, manipulating the image of spontaneous, open ended democracy in motion, an imagery, by his own admission, as above, that is sadly false, save the insights into his character we are given by his words. Were Obama our true leader, more than an aloof technocratic election winner, the near tragic loss of an airplane loaded with innocent people, by virtue of an intelligence fiasco on his presidential watch, would not have taken place!
Has president Obama stated the safety of the American people is his primary concern? Were Obama not flying around to fake Town Halls, to answer pre-determined questions and set up answers, he might have been insuring it was safe for the rest of us to fly!
Does president Obama read Time Magazine? One imagines he does. After all the president has been the subject of many articles and the cover. Copies are on Air Force 1 and in the White House residence.
The following paragraph is the lead opening of an article from Time Magazine,
TIME MAGAZINE April 8, 2009
There's a quiet revolution underway at the CIA and its sister agencies. A new generation of analysts, determined to drag their Cold War–era colleagues into the world of Web 2.0 information-sharing, have created Intellipedia, a classified version of Wikipedia they say is transforming the way U.S. spy agencies handle top-secret information by fostering collaboration across Washington and around the world. Rolled out in 2006 to skeptical veterans at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., Intellipedia has grown to a 900,000-page magnum opus of espionage, handling some 100,000 user accounts and 5,000 page edits a day, according to the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The Intellipedia is a wiki board for the gathering and analysis of intelligence information. But the CIA officials at the top, according to Time, do not have their hearts in the Intellipedia, and volunteer agents operate it!
By Executive order the president can order all of the agencies to use and share the intellipedia, functioning as a tripod, with cross relationships at every level of security, and thousands of agents involved, the newly formed national Security Commission at the top, as overseers, able to see every thing below!
Structure is the issue. Each of our intelligence agencies has adopted a managerial structure first developed by J. Edgar Hoover: Nothing can happen, or be investigated without approval or assignment from someone at the top of the command chain, exactly the opposite of what must be done to protect our nation.
The government can easily employ one thousand Arabic speaking Americans to translate every political Arabic web site into English and post the sites on the Intellipedia Wiki.
We have state of the art data base management tools and search engine software these agencies are not using! Without these proposed changes, mostly accomplished with an Executive Order, we can expect the next airplane attack will be successful and we cannot say how many hundreds of lives will perish.
In the exercise of my constitutional right to mass media access, my explanation will make it abundantly clear that with the Intellipedia utilized, there would have been twenty agents waiting to arrest the Nigerian at the airport in Amsterdam.
A replay of the C-Span hearings conducted by Homeland Security Chairman, Senator Joe Lieberman indicates the possibility a couple bureaucrats recognized in advance the Nigerian could be al Qaeda connected and that it might be useful to let him land in USA to see what he was going to do.
For this outrageous stupidity those bureaucrats should be summarily dismissed.
I welcome a discussion with your news divisions about the Intellipedia and the structural inefficiencies of our intelligence agencies that most certainly are leading to disaster. My speech, my public explanation of this needed solution will potentially save thousands of lives, because the full utilization of the intellipedia will virtually eliminate any terrorist threat from coming to evil fruition in USA.
Genuine jobs, their creation, putting people back to work so they can keep their houses and pay their bills is an issue which the president talked about. One solution offered by the president deals with adjustment to the bureaucratic tax structure, offering a tax cut to small business of $5000 for hiring an additional worker.
Someone paid ten dollars an hour earns $400 per week and in three months the $5000 tax reduction is eaten up, the worker’s training period is over and the job is also eliminated.
The following jobs program is from http;//michaelslevinson.com
“My goal is to build a thousand fleets of strong clipper ships, 10,000 ships, with software controlled fully automatic sails, to carry our exports all over the world. Everything in our stores, made in America, we export. We export Kool-aid, Ivory soap, tooth paste.
All the plentiful goods we take for granted in USA: cooking oil, grains, computers, and software, whatever you see for sale on our shelves here, we sell world wide, over there.
When I was 10 years old, fifty-eight years past, the most famous Russian inventor known to man was a USSR fellow named Reguspatoff. Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. His name was stamped on everything. America leads the world.
Building 10,000 clipper ships, wherever there is water, and people need work, will create, starting out, between 500,000 and one million jobs, leading within a few years, to 4 million good unskilled, and semi-skilled jobs, leading to even better, fully skilled jobs! Not all of our citizenry dreams of operating a computer, writing software, and going online. For lots of people, a decent paying job, where they lurn on the job, and can upgrade to semi and fully skilled labor, as carpenters, plumbers, and electricians, using their hands, is for them, a great trade and a dream come true, something they take with them wherever they go.
College stew dense (dent is singular), will pay reduced tuition, and get their undergrad education, while sailing the ships as co-ed crew. So the ships won't cost to operate, even when sailing light, without a cargo. Undergraduate 101 courses are infamous for their giant impersonal lecture halls, with grad students teaching, so course work, programmed in Flash, digitized, on muscular workstation computers, with wireless at sea access to internet, and the school libraries online, or aboard ship on DVD will do just fine, and the students will see the world, and get a genuine lived-on sense of the planet, our good ship mother earth.
The ships will pay for their building, carrying cargo! The president talked about 30 billion available dollars from the TARP payback. Some of this shipyard money can come from that 30 billion, and from University Endowments, absent the president's bully pulpit, by Executive Order.
Funds might also materialize on Wall Street, with or without federal government backing. The beauty of this job-creating program is the jobs are long term for real, and government is not required to make it happen.
How did the Dutch do it a couple three hundred years ago? This is a giant jobs program that will put America back to work!!! This needs to happen for the strength and rejuvenation of our economy.
The 10,000 clippers ship advantage, in a WTO free trading world is clear. We can say to all of our trading partners, world wide, "We welcome all your exports to United States. Our only request (diplomatic buzz word for requirement), is that your exported goods come to America on our ships, at negotiated freight on board charges all the parties can live with."
In the event the world grain markets are depressed, with our export grains going on our clipper ships, we can adjust the shipping charges to protect our farmers.
Certainly WalMart and K-Mart can inform their Chinese suppliers, that their next boatload of shoes and pants are to be loaded on our clipper ship fleet, waiting in their harbor.
When I am president, by Executive Order, all the people languishing in jail because of drug violations, related to marijuana, will be pardoned. This clipper ship program needs to be in place so there are potential jobs waiting for these people, too, whether they are pardoned or released after they complete their sentence!
Once upon a time we were a great seafaring nation. We must become a great seafaring nation again. Our clipper fleet should also include 20 non-nuclear submarines, for ocean research, mostly on duty in the shipping corridors where speedboat pirates ply the waters.
The ship's under graduate crews might also include a few youngsters integrated who are uneducated; kids who were raised in the roughest neighborhoods, and who may have already done time, and may even be paroled to the ship, to learn how to read and write and have a chance at a better life.
The college kids can teach these under privileged, gone wrong kids, reading, and writing, and all the basic skills they missed, growing up, before they turned to crime and got caught.
In the event a fleet of twenty clippers around Indonesia, or Somalia is under attack, and there are at least forty speedboats coming, and one of our research atomic subs is an hour away, these hard knock toughs are my selected crew members who can handle the 50 caliber super high power sniper guns, tow missiles, and grenade launchers issued from the Captain's locker. We need not fear any pirates attacking our student crewed clippers on the open sea.
Notwithstanding the myriad of independent, small non-union maritime related businesses, sail makers and the like, who will all enjoy excellent, healthy growth from this clipper ship plan, the top heavy democrat party unions will oppose this clipper shipping program because they want the status quo: to keep the lid on their skilled labor supply and demand, in their prevailing, overpriced skilled labor pool.
One of the reasons for the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler can be laid on the doorstep backward looking democratic party supporting the bloated unions.
Relative to our labor unions, having been a member in good standing, in the Seafarers International Union, for nearly a decade, best to quote my old shipmate long lost friend, the bots'n Arthur Harrington, of Boston, about the unions, "...used to be in this country, a workin' stiff could say, they give me a job to do, and I stand behind them." Nowadays they say, "They give me a job to do, but I hired them."
Arthur Harrington told me that on the deck of the S.S. Missouri, two days south of the Equator, heading to South Africa.
By Executive Order, all the paper used by the federal government, and all the clothing worn by the military, shall be produced from industrial hemp, grown in America. The Reform of our Federal Reserve System, those conservative measures that should at least be looked at, may also be presented during my national speech.
I hold the view, in light of the history of our money, that we should have two varieties: one variety is a Silver Certificate, that should be reproduced on long life hemp paper, especially for redistribution by the ship's crews in the third world, when the crews go ashore to make micro-economic business with the unemployed underpaid masters of hand made goods in the third world country they visit.
The other variety of dollar is the dollar as commodity, where a trillion dollars are wire transferred overnight. These dollars should be equally backed, but by Federal Reserve Notes, not silver.
One is a modicum of eggs change, used in the everyday conduce of affairs by the lowly working folk who live close to the ground. The other, Federal Reserve Note, is for high wire transfer.
The clipper ship program will enrich the third world peoples, in their own countries, by bringing Silver backed dollars into their poor communities, in exchange for hand made goods to fill out a return ship cargo. Industrial hemp will make available our whole domestic lumber industry for building clipper ships.
I have provided enough speech material to qualify my request for access: A carefully crafted medical care solution showing how all can be covered at half the proposed cost of the Congress’ program with a source for the money other than the taxpayer’s dollar.
I have offered a legal response by the congress to the recent Supreme Court ruling on First Amendment rights of corporations that will equalize their campaign money on behalf of an informed electorate.
I have explicitly pointed out and explained a viable solution to the “systemic” intelligence failure in stopping terrorist attacks that can be accomplished via Executive Order.
I have explained how and where we can create jobs without government money.
The American people are entitled to be an informed electorate. In the event I do not hear from you I will assume your position is to spit on the constitutional rights of the American people and you will pay for that with your license to broadcast and cable cast.
Michael Stephen Levinson
8601 9th St. N. #9
St Petersburg, Florida 33702
727 – 466 – 3064

26. The above is an image of the certified delivery US Postal receipts tendered to the same broadcast and cable casting networks 2/ 3 / 2010.

27. Pages 84 shows scanned images of Certified US Postal delivery. Page 85 shows the NBC and MSNBC REFUSAL to accept delivery of the candidate for president’s request for access. Page 86 is the image of the ABC Refusal to accept delivery of 2nd access request, dated December 11, 2009.
28. 5 USCA § 553 teaches us: “It is fundamental rule of administrative law that if agency’s rules of practice and procedure would have substantial impact upon persons affected by agency actions, such rules must issue from rule making proceedings, whether formal or informal; at minimum, these rules must be published and held out for comments by affected persons and by public in general, in order that public can ascertain whether agency is acting for public good.
Therefore, in light of the above, independent candidate for president complainant Michael Stephen Levinson is entitled to and seeks a hearing with the Federal Communications Commission commissioners, on behalf of an informed electorate, in the adjudication of this crucial First Amendment matter.
29. Pursuant to §1.721 (4) complainant’s continuing grievance against the above named defendant television and cable cast networks remains un-redressed and unsatisfied as the defendant television and cable networks continue in their violation of § 315(a) and, by their failure to respond, further violation of §312(a)(7) of the Communications Act, causing a great injustice to occur against the constitutional rights of the American people and this injustice continues to occur by the continuing denial by the above named networks of complainants rights under both § 315(a) and §312(a)(7) of the law, so that both the public interest in its right to be an informed electorate and complainant’s campaign for the office of U.S. president are being severely damaged by above named defendant networks willful and repeated failure to allow reasonable access, under well-settled law, to complainant, for complainant’s stated purpose of giving substantive explicit political speeches, providing solutions to serious problems of governance, on behalf of complainant’s campaign for the office of United States president.
30. One copy of this complaint was posted to the Federal Communications Commission March 31, 2010 via US Postal Priority Mail. This Complaint was also tendered to the Commission via the complaint page on the Federal Communications Commission website. Petitioner complainant candidate was informed by staff in the Secretary’s office, that this electronic submission via the FCC website was sufficient as the agency worked with a 3rd party company that would provide the necessary 15 copies according to the statute.
31. It is expected the physical US Postal copy of this complaint will arrive at FCC April 2, 2010. As the campaigning for president is ongoing, and campaigning for seats in the House of Representatives and United States Senate are “heating up,” the expectation of communication from the Commission setting a timely date for an immediate hearing on the issue of the three requests for access under § 315(a), to which the television and cable networks complained against could not even bother themselves to answer, thus trashing the First Amendment rights of the American people to be an informed electorate, before April 15, 2010 is not unreasonable, as the First Amendment constitutional rights of the American people are at the bar.
A Note for The Commissioners
This Formal Complaint before the Commission adheres to complainant petitioner’s constitutional First Amendment Right to access under well-settled statutory law.
Because the broadcast media utilize a valuable and limited public resource, there is also present an unusual order of first Amendment values: although the broadcaster is not without protection under the First Amendment, it is the right of the viewers and listeners which is paramount.1
WE find in
34 F.C.C. 2d Use of Broadcast and Cablecast Facilities 519
(2) In making time available to candidates for public office no licensee shall make any discrimination between candidates in charges, practices, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with the services rendered pursuant to this part, or make or give any preference to any candidate for public office or subject any such candidate to any prejudice or disadvantage; nor shall any licensee make any contract or other agreement which shall have the effect of permitting any legally qualified candidate for any public office to broadcast to the exclusion of other legally qualified candidates for the same public office.2
We find further
34 F.C.C. 2 d Use of Broadcast and Cablecast Facilities 523
[W] e interpret the intent of Congress to be that the mere making of minimal expenditures . . . does not entitle a person to equal opportunity under section 315 (a) . [A] person who has taken out a $5.00 advertisement in a newspaper, and submitted a certification in connection therewith, would not, in the absence of other facts to demonstrate the bona fides of his candidacy, be entitled to equal opportunity under Section 315 (a). 3
In consideration of the facts in this First Amendment issue: The petitioner is an avowed candidate for president. On behalf of his candidacy the petitioner operates a huge web site laden with essays purporting solutions to the problems facing our nation, which is well beyond the taking out of a $5.00 advertisement in a newspaper as proof or statement of candidacy.
Petitioner candidate also sends out a newsletter, Levinson for President to newspaper editors, columnists and staff writers at newspapers all over the country, which is a substantial showing of actual candidacy for the office of president as opposed to a nominal five dollar notice in the local newspaper.
Green v. F. C. C. 447 F. 2d 323 (1971) 329 tells us
[2] In our view, the essential basis for any fairness doctrine, no matter with what specificity the standards are defined, is that the American public must not be left uninformed. 4This is the basic First Amendment concept that inspired the creation of the Fairness Doctrine: The American public’s paramount right to be informed.
While the Commission does not support the Fairness Doctrine, the First Amendment concept that inspired the Doctrine, when scarcity of bandwidth was an issue, is the very nature of our constitution. The First Amendment Rights of the electorate are paramount rights. Section 315(a) is law, while the nebulous Fairness Doctrine is not.
The fairness doctrine attempted to fairly deal with ideas; both sides of an issue whereas § 315 (a) addresses the first Amendment rights of candidates to access.
An issue for general consideration is when access rights under § 315(a) attend.
In today’s world, though less so at the beginning of a presidential term, the campaigning for president is continuous but in this case the when of the continuous campaign for the office of president is not at issue.
The president made “use’ of the television networks to enhance his partisan political speech to both Houses of Congress, and the networks treated this appearance as a “use,” inviting a member of the other political party to give a response.
For insight it helps to look at
Report and Order Amendment of Parts 73 and 76, 68 F.C.C. 2d 1049 1052 (1978)
[I] n attempting to “establish a date . . . before which no candidate can be considered legally qualified, . . . PBS asserted that this is not a substantial problem, since stations have the right to determine when to make their facilities available to candidates and if a problem does exist . . . under the “reasonable access” provisions of Section 312(a)(7), the Commission can deal with it by setting a date on which “reasonable access” rights vest. PBS . . .argued that the proposed limit is unnecessary because under the present rules, if a write-in candidate “uses’ broadcast facilities prior to the time a ballot candidate can qualify, the intended ballot candidate “can secure equal opportunity rights by declaring that he or she will pursue the office as a write-in candidate, if they fail to obtain ballot status. [Bold by petitioner]
8. After carefully considering all of the comments on this aspect of the proposed rulemaking, we have decided not to amend the rules to limit the time in which a write-in candidate shall be considered legally qualified. We are inclined to agree with PBS that this is not a major problem. In fact, it has rarely arisen. When it does, as PBS suggests, it can be dealt with under the “reasonable access” provisions of Section 312(a)(7) so far as federal candidates are concerned.5
Therefore, it stands to reason as long as the president of United States can “use” the television networks to enhance his political speech before both Houses of Congress on behalf of his plan to reform our nation’s health care, a life and death issue that involves every citizen, regardless of station, other candidates for the same office are entitled to their broadcast opportunity to state their case on this issue of reforming our health care nationwide, with an eye to providing medical coverage for the uninsured citizenry, another way of expressing the concept of guaranteed access to health care for all.
The burden is on the outsider candidate to file his request for access under § 315a to give the broadcast and cable networks an opportunity to schedule the 315 (a) requestor’s broadcast so the independent candidate can place his solution on the table, in the public marketplace of ideas.
There is no principal means, under the First Amendment, of favoring access to broadcast time by organized political parties over other groups and individuals.6
On March 30, 2010, president Barack Obama, appearing on The Today Show, with Matt Lauer, answering a question about republican Mitt Romney, stated, “The republican governor and now presidential candidate.”
The campaigning for president is without boundary on television, and will go on until such time as our nation settles on a leader who can lead the world.
The failure of MSNBC and parent NBC to even accept the Michael S. Levinson US Postal Request for Access, based on their reading the return address and determining the Certified letter was from Michael Stephen Levinson / candidate for United States President, represents an impermissible discrimination, grounds for the revocation of their license to broadcast. This revocation upon their continuing refusal, is a requirement of constitutional law as the constitutional right of the American people to hear and see a speech is the people’s inviolate paramount right.
Petitioner has dutifully filed this Complaint with Federal Communications Commission and met the statutory requirements in so filing, utilizing electronic means of filing on the Federal Communications Commission web site.
Michael Stephen Levinson
8601 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N. #9
St. Petersburg, Florida 33702
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Affidavit of Service
Michael Stephen Levinson, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
On March 31, 2010 affiant duly filed the above captioned Complaint with Federal Communications Commission via FCC website, and with the following defendant broadcast and cable cast networks via Certified US Postal:
ABC Television, president, David Weston / ABC Television / 7 West 66th St. / New York, New York 10023
NBC Universal, Inc. / MSNBC/ Richard Cotton / Executive Vice-President & General Counsel / 30 Rockefeller Plaza / New York, New York/ 10012
And
Margaret L. Tobey / Vice President, Regulatory Affairs/ NBC Universal, Inc./ 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW/ 9th Floor/ Washington, DC 2004
Fox Television Rupert Murdoch, Chairman, Fox Television / 1211 Avenue of Americas / New York, New York 10036
PBS Television Paula Kerger/Wayne Goodwin? John Boland C/O PBS Television / 2100 Crystal Drive / Arlington, VA 22202
CBS Television Leslie Moonves C/O CBS television / 524 West 57th St. New York, New York 10019
President / CNN / One CNN Center / Atlanta, Georgia 30303
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Michael Stephen Levinson
1 U.S. C. A. Constitution Amend. 1; communications Act of 1934, § 1 et seq., 47 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq.
5 Report and Order Amendment of Parts 73 and 76, 68 F.C.C. 2d 1049 1052 (1978)
6 U.S.C.A. Const. Amend. 1.