WHY I THINK JOHN EDWARDS SHOULD DROP OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.

UP FRONT News September 24, 2007
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"DEAR JOHN" LETTER: WHY I THINK JOHN EDWARDS SHOULD DROP OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.

As many people - including to the apparent deep quite overtly hysterical consternation of a tightly controlled club calling itself the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists, or NYMAA - are aware, I have been somewhat supportive of the presidential candidacy of John Edwards. Indeed, I've met him and spoken directly with him on a few brief occasions and I was among those who many months ago urged him to run for president. I had also supported him in the 2004 Democratic primary.

A main reason why I encouraged him to run is because of the politically (to me) unaccept- able spectre of Hillary Clinton as president (and as U.S. Senator for that matter).
I thought the more progressive and hardly indigent Edwards could beat her and even more
easily beat any Republican nominee. I also thought that, even if Edwards was not pure enough for the elitists in the "anarchist" group, he was "left" enough to convnce Ralph Nader not to again help out the Republicans on behalf of the Lyndon LaRouche/Lenora Fulani-infiltrated Greens.

I view Republicrat Hillary Clinton as political anathema. As Hollywood powerhouse David Geffen correctly said about both presidentially inclined Clintons, they lie with such ease. The reality is that, in her habitual pandering to liberals, while she rails about being up against a
"right wing conspiracy", in her deep financial and political association with the worst corpo-
porate predators around (Murdoch, Trump, the Corocoran Group, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.) Hillary Clinton IS a right wing conspiracy. The only more pro-War Democrat around has been Joe Lieberman. The only reason she is now against the Iraq War is because almost the entire country is. On that issue there is no question that, regardless of his other foreign policy views, Barack Obama emerges as a political prophet when compared with Mrs. Clinton (who is wedded to "profit"). John Edwards, much slower than Obama to reject the Iraq War, is a second string prophet on that issue.

I have to admit (and if she is honest, which she is not, Mrs. Clinton should admit) it is
somewhat "personal" between Mrs. Clinton and me. She's known about me since at least 1993 when her husband's people had me arrested at the U.S. Capitol on the day before Bill Clinton's January 20, 1993 first inauguration, when I came to DC to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in opposition to Warren Christopher as Secretary of State because he, like President-elect Bill Clinton, had deep-sixed the documents I faxed to then via Clinton secretary Betty M. Currie on the Chinese Communist Genocide in Occupied Tibet. Mrs. Clinton, directly and via her pal Rupert Murdoch, is tight with the genocidal
corporate regime in "Communist China." She and Murdoch make a lot of money in that slave state - which according to published reports operates a concentration camp where Falun Gong people are tortured and killed. Mrs. Clinton, like her consistently China and corpora-ion-compliant husband, is fully aware that over one million Tibetans have died as a direct consequence of the racist (Tibetans are a dark race, the Chinese are light complexioned) occupation of Tibet. Mrs. Clinton is a principal player in the coverup of the Genocide in Tibet.
After Mrs. Clinton carpetbagged her way into the U.S. Senate - and perhaps forgetting about my activities vis a vis her husband on Tibet - Mrs. Clinton once helped me obtain an expedited Social Security check when I had an emergency and, via a political connection, I was able to access her quite directly. A few years later in a more dire emergency situation (I was homeless and had been robbed of my hotel rent money), by which time she once again became aware of my still very visible Tibet activities, she not only rejected my request for help, she had me placed under surveillance and via her investigator "Mr. Zimmerman" threatened me and had her constitutent services hack, Yajaira Yepez send a defamatory and threatening e-mail about me to my brother Jim in upstate New York. Hillary Clinton should be running for president of China.

Those were some of the reasons I decided in the spring of 2005 to run against her for the U.S. Senate. (In fact I had to run also against two Lyndon LaRouche/Lenora Fulani-choreo-
graphed "candidates", Jonathan Tasini and Green Party dictator Howie Hawkins, both of whom - entering the race well after I started my campaign - ran denouncing Clinton but actually to help her (sort of like Nader's services to Cheney/Bush over the years.) Clinton reacted by silently refusing my offers to debate and by making certain that no one in what she perceives of as her personally acquired Democratic Party in New York deals with me as a constituent or as an advovate. One of the main officers in Hillary Clinton's Wehrmacht is the boss of the New York City Council, Speaker Christine Quinn. The Flighty Quinn, among other really bad things she has done over the years, has refused to respond to my January 30, 2006 e-mail regarding urged City Council resolution citing Tibet and caling for the removal of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing. Quinn is also a main ingredient in what I call the Quinnberg Administration, which is involved in a shell game of pontificating about tenants rights and homelessness while giving the City away to the developers and ignoring staff abuse of homeless people in drop-in centers and shelters.

I live in Staten Island which is (despite an instensfying challenge from UP FRONT News) a media monopoly run by the entrenchment-protecting Staten Island Advance. In a borough with a relatively large number of Republicans, the very autocratically run Democrats (concentrated on the North Shore, where I live) the Republicrat Clinton controls things like Mayor Richard Daley used to do in Chicago. It is a fact however that the Clinton/Quinn machine has angered the growing anti-War community in Staten Island and that many African-Americans are disgusted with in particular Quinn who, indulging her royalty complex, took it upon herself to disrespect black people by refusing to permit several blocks of a street in Brooklyn to be re-named after black nationalist Sonny Abubadika Carson. (I can only speculate about the double-talk that would emerge from Clinton - who lives in uniquely lily-white Chappaqua - on the Carson issue.)

John Edwards has emerged as little more than what can be derivisively called a typical politician. He spouts about poverty and then - aside from the absurd $400 haircut (he can get one for much less even in NYC, I know several places from which he would emerge looking just as good, at least cosmetically - takes big bucks from one of Rupert Murdoch's publishjig subsidiaries and from a hedge fund. Edwards promised long ago to at least say something about Tibet and about the matter of the Beijing Olympics. In fact, he joins Hillary Clinton and George Bush as participants in the Coverup of the Genocide in Tibet. John Ed- ward has been in e-mail no-comment mode to me for a long time and so theris no way of knowing if this lawyer/cash magnet has invested in that hedge fund known as China.

Hillary Clinton is very glad that John Edwards continues to run although (except for Iowa in which state he has become as near resident for many months) he is very much in third place. The only Democrat with a chance to prevent Mrs. Clinton from literally purchasing the Democratic nomination, is Barack Obama. John Edwards only interest in New York is for meda attention and fund raising. He has provided almost no support to loyalists such as college professor Steven Gradman. Mr. Gradman has for several years organized the Edwards NYC meetups. Compared with the Obama meetup operation here, it's like the Bronx
High School of Science baseball team against the Yankees. Maybe Edwards is not happy that Mr. Gradman - who is not just a rhetorical progressive, he is a working one - served as the Media Coordinator for my U.S. Democratic write-in campaign for the Senate against Mrs. Clinton.
Obama and Edwards in fact split the very, very substantial anti-Hillary vote among Demo-
crats. Republican Karl Rove was right when he described Mrs. Clinton as a "fatally flawed" candidate. Despite the American voters' history of allowing ourselves to get duped (Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, et. al.), I think most people, left, middle and right, do not want to elect someone (again) that one cannot trust at all.

I hope that John Edwards decides he would much rather be the vice-presidential candidate on for example a ticket headed by Barack Obama, which could thrash the Republicans, than become possibly the first person to lose twice as a Democratic vice-presidential nominee -
by running on a ticket headed by the Leona Helmsley of politics. Tom Weiss, Publisher -
UP FRONT News.
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Willard Whittingham, Editorial Advisor - UP FRONT News
Rev. Demetrius Carolina, Pastor - First Central Baptist Church, Staten Island
Hon. Tony Avella, New York City Council
Hon. Charles Barron, New York City Council
Designated political and human rights leaders

TONY AVELLA TO INTRODUCE CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION CITING CHINESE COMMUNIST GENOCIDE IN TIBET

UP FRONT News August 3, 2007
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TONY AVELLA TO INTRODUCE CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION CITING CHINESE COMMUNIST GENOCIDE IN TIBET, AND CALLING FOR REMOVAL OF 2008 OLYMPIC
GAMES FROM BEIJING. INDEPENDENT-MINDED LEGISLATOR TAKES ON AN AUTOCRATIC COUNCIL SPEAKER

New York City Councilman Tony Avella (D.-Queens), a member of a minority group known as independent-minded Councilmembers (Charles Barron, a Brooklyn Democrat, is another), will introduce a resolution into the Council, citing the illegal Chinese Communist occupation of Tibet and the consequent over half century of Genocide there, and calling for the removal of the 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing.

I first brought up this matter with Mr. Avella several months ago in light of his readiness to stand up to the dictatorial Council Speaker, Christine Quinn (D.-Manh.) by op- posing her legislation substantially raising the salaries of Councilmembers and a bunch of already highly paid Bloomberg aides. Ms. Quinn under-publicized the Council hearing on this ripoff but I learned of it from an inner page article in the Daily News and so, occasionally looking up at Ms. Quinn’s icy stare, I testified in opposition to her salary grab bill.

Christine Quinn and I do not get along well at all. One of the main reasons is her Hillary Clinton-connected game-playing on the issue of the Tibet Genocide and opposition to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. To make a long story much shorter, for years, when I lived in Tribeca and subsequently, I had been lobbying, among other legislators, then City Councilmember Kathryn Freed and urging her to introduce a pro-Tibet resolution. I also lobbied Councilmember Quinn who evinced little interest. In 2001 Resolution #802, eloquently denouncing the Chinese Communist for the Tibetan occupation, was introduced and passed unanimously. Taking credit for the work of others (e.g. me and Ms. Freed) Quinn made herself the lead sponsor of the resolution.

Resolution #802 was based on a good deal of information provided by me to Ms. Freed,
and contained much language on atrocities in an occupation that has cost the lives of over 1 million Tibetans and the exile of many thousands of others. Unfortunately, it had zero impact. Why? Because Resolution #802 made no mention of opposition to the Beijing Olympics, the only issue that matters to the Chinese and American governments because it involved gazillions in corporate profits.

Christine Quinn has since arrogantly refused to act on my oft-communicated urgings, most explicitly stated in my January 30, 2006 e-mail to her via her Chief of Staff Chuck Meara, calling for another resolution, which would also call for the removal of the 2008 Olympics from China. You see, Quinn’s boss is the dictator of the Democratic Party in New York State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton, who is up to her eyeballs along with her husband in the coverup of the Genocide in Tibet, is making a lot of money in China along with conspicuously her political pal and fundraising engine, right wing media imperialist Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, as reported in The New York Times and in UP FRONT News, is guilty of Chinese Communist-orchestrated news suppression, whether about Tiananmen Square, the Falun Gong, or Occupied Tibet.

At a recent meeting involving members of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Tibet Committee Mr. Avella, after listening to accounts from me and the U.S.T.C. of Chinese Communist atrocities, many of an explicitly racist nature, against the Tibetans, said that he will sponsor a resolution, to be drafted in consultation with me and the U.S.T.C., that will cite the Chinese Communist Occupation and Genocide in Tibet and call for the removal of the 2008 Olympics from Beijing.While he hopes that Ms. Quinn will support his resolution, Mr. Avella made it clear that he is ready to challenge her if necessary.

Mr. Avella described some changes Ms. Quinn has made in Council operations since she became Speaker - in a classic back room deal. Ms. Quinn is attempting to control the content of any legislation that is introduced. Apparently her notions as to legislative independence are not unlike those of a certain political leader in relation to the Reichstag in 1934.

Tony Avella is at this point the least publicized of the likely candidates for the Mayoralty in 2009. The most publicized – with, not at all surprisingly most of the puff publicity appearing in Murdoch’s New York Post – is mayoral wannabe Quinn.

Ms. Quinn, thanks largely to UP FRONT News, is being exposed for the pro-developer manipulator that she is. Ms Quinn, with her high-handed vetoing of a proposal to change the name of several blocks of a Brooklyn street to Sonny Abubadika Carson Avenue, has
angered many of the African-Americans whom she has mistakenly been assuming would vote for Mrs. Clinton and her.

In light of steadily rising opposition to the 2008 Beijing Olympics because of China’s aiding and abetting the Sudanese government’s Genocide in Darfur, the “Quiet Genocide” in Tibet starts to get very noisy. Tibet is a campaign issue!
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THE “ANSWER BESTOWER.” HOW HILLARY CLINTON IS PRIVATIZING THE PRESIDENCY.

UP FRONT News August 6, 2007
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“If people react to you in the role of answer bestower, then quite possibly you are.”

That sentence appears in a letter from college-age Hillary Rodham that she wrote to high school pen pal John Peavoy, who has released copies to The New York Times, which published excerpts from the correspondence, evidently to Mrs. Clinton’s considerable annoyance.

The lengthy Times article on the younger Hillary reveals a financially very secure, but very alienated teenager/young adult who saw herself as intrinsically superior to others. Two terms that appear are “patronizing” and “narcissism.” As far as I can tell, Hillary Clinton has not changed. She is as menacingly messianic in her way as Dick Cheney is in his.

The closest I’ve come face-to-face with Mrs. Clinton, to whom I am disturbingly well known, is a couple of years ago when, as I was sitting on a bench next to Madison Square Park, she passed within one foot of me as she strode towards the speaking area area for a Veterans’ Day event. I stifled the momentary urge to introduce myself – something that would have probably gotten me severely harassed Betsy Gotbaum*-style.

Mrs. Clinton knows about me in connection with my very visible activities, particularly in connection with exposing the facts about the cover-up of the Chinese Communist Genocide in Occupied Tibet because she and her husband are, like many other politi- cians, perpetrators of that cover- up. She was of course well aware of my candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 2006 as a Democratic write-in candidate, a race in which both she and pesudo-candidate Jonathan Tasini refused my offers of debate. And before she was aware of my Tibet activism, she knew of me as her constituent whom, some years ago, she once assisted me on an urgent Social Security matter when I was homeless. At the time, I was able to access her via her staffer Yajaira Yepez, the wife of Daniel Serrano, Chief of Staff to State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV. After Mrs. Clinton learned of my Tibet activities, especially those very critical of Bill Clinton’s toadying up to the Chinese Com- munist regime at the behest of the U.S. corporate establishment for whom China is the biggest profit pool in history, Mrs. Clinton refused to assist me on a similar Social Secu- rity matter. Not only that, she had me placed under surveillance (“Mr. Zimmerman.”) She is also responsible for the content of a defamatory letter about me that Yepez sent to my younger brother Jim (who, despite rhetorically leftist sympathies, has been known to play ball with the government) in upstate New York.

Hillary Clinton is an individual who is convinced, sort of like Lyndon LaRouche, that she is an “answer bestower” and therefore was born to rule. I perceive her as essentially Machiavellian in that she is amoral and will stop at nothing, her alliance with right wing media predator Rupert Murdoch being a case in point), to achieve power. She takes al- most any sort of criticism as a form of sedition and heresy. That is very dangerous in a person who is politically wrong as often as she is, Iraq being a case in point. Like false prophets in search of true profits everywhere, when she is exposed she resorts to lying, as correctly suggested, albeit separately by Hollywood producer David Geffen and me among an increasing number of others. Not unlike LaRouche, Mrs. Clinton is good at using the language of the progressivism and the left at hoodwinking poor people. She spouts tenants rights and takes gobs of money from real estate developer-predators. She talks about universal health insurance and her pockets are lined with Big Pharma money.

When in Harlem, or presumably in any African-American community, she spouts her versiuon of black power. And then she goes home to a community that is, I am told by a Chappaqua resident, lily-white by design.

And, given her alliance with the Communist China-friendly Murdoch, she is an apologist for Genocide in Tibet.

My feeling is if Hillary Clinton is nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party, on what would be essentially a step towards literally purchasing and privatizing the presi-dency, even the really pathetic Republicans might have a chance at retaining the White House. To me a political smackdown between Hillary Clinton and say Rudolph Giuliani would offer the “choice” between the equivalent of two evils. Under those circumstances a true progressive alternative (e.g. Ralph Nader without the Lenora Fulani/Lyndon La- Rouche/Paul Zulkowitz/Howie Hawkins wing of the Green Party or a similarly unencum-bered Cynthia McKinney) could attract voters.

Hillary Clinton may think she is an “answer bestower.” My answer to Hillary Clinton: “Just say ‘no.’”

*The CIA-linked NYC Public Advocate Gotbaum, whom I’ve known personally via a family member of mine since 1979, once tried to have me arrested at her office when I was there for a scheduled appointment to discuss staff abuse of homeless people in drop-in centers and shelters. Gotbaum later made it worse when, during her re-election cam- paign, she claimed I was “stalking her.” That lie evokes a Dwight Yoakum country song, “”I Ain’t That Lonely Yet.”)
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