I'm running for president in 2008

By Michael Moriarty
web posted May 30, 2005

Not too long ago, a Non-Governmental Organization
representative from Cameroon stood in the United Nations
General Assembly and stated with naked ferocity: "Our enemy is
individual freedom!"

It is, at least, a frank admission and an honest challenge to Sir
Winston Churchill's belief that the "common denominator in the
history of the English-speaking peoples is individual freedom."

Cameroon's radically Marxist NGO spokesman unwittingly gave
us the formula for defeating our Marxist/Leninist enemies and
their liberal, federalist sympathizers. What they're aiming to
dismantle is the American Republic. All they need to do, they
figure, is squeeze it into the framework of an increasingly
powerful socialist federation run by the United Nations. So far,
they've done a pretty good job.

The leftist Organization for Educational Resources and
Technological Training (a global NGO network) held an
assembly in Montreal in 2002. Guess who the keynote speaker
was -- Bill Clinton. Yes, the former U.S. President and
Godfather of worldwide socialist federations.

In my travels to film locations, I see an increasingly widespread
acronym used: C.O.W. I've seen it on cigarette lighters made in
Red China and on the awnings of franchises like Cow Ice
Cream. Ties are made with cows on them and worn by
employees of Marxist shops; bronze bovines sit on the streets of
the cattle town of Calgary to remind the Conservative Party
who's really in charge.

C.O.W. stands for "Communists Own the World." That, as far
as I'm concerned, is chickens before they really hatch. S.O.W. –
Socialists Own the World -- is much closer to the truth. It's also
a more applicable self-image.

I was gratified to see an American response to such symbolism
in Providence, Rhode Island (where I shot scenes for the film
Swimming Upstream). On the streets are potato heads, wrapped
in the American flag and flashing nice sets of teeth. It doesn't
take long to imagine the Cows wandering through a field and
having their udders bitten off by a herd of angry Spuds.

"Don't tread on me."

That was the defiance of the first flag of the American
Revolution: it sported a snake as the image of the 13 colonies.
Being Irish-American, I much prefer the potato soldier. That's
my kind of civilian militia. Which brings me to the best strategy
left to wriggle out of the hammerlock that socialist federalism has
the American Republic in. The freest continent, North America,
must conceive of itself as the home of 330 million individual
nation-states.

I've lived my life with the certainty that, after God and Mother
Earth, there is nothing more powerful in the universe than the
free, unique and independent human being. History has been
largely a record of the directions certain enlightened or benighted
individuals have taken, followed by the multitudes later on.

The magnetism of Marx's Das Kapital has more to do with the
blatant, urban display of have and have-nots during the Industrial
Revolution than any true eloquence in the diatribe itself. The
Communist Manifesto provided a quick but impulsive fix to the
inevitable growing pain of capitalist expansion. Without the
Industrial Revolution we would not now have the liberating
Micro-computer Revolution, which has empowered individuals
with instant access to every major library in the world.

Since the Devil has always been marked by his impatience,
Communist dictators -- from Lenin to Robert Mugabe of
Zimbabwe -- have been regularly showing up to fill the power
vacuum of a community that proclaims God has made such a
sorry mess out of the human race
that it's better to believe He never existed in the first place.

The Almighty, I firmly believe, has a big surprise in store for
these "enlightened despots." Their increasingly messianic
presumptions will lead to the final stage of their atheism, which is
nihilism, as described by their Maoist comrade, the existentialist
philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. In such a godless intellectual
universe, there is neither good nor evil, there just is. "La vie est
nausée." (Life is nausea.) "L'enfer, c'est les autres." (Hell is other
people.)

Engulfed by such atheistic misery, the Marxist utopianists are
courting suicide. As surely as Al Qaeda's zealots flew
commercial planes into the Twin Towers, the entire leftist church
– reform, orthodox and communist zealots alike – will destroy
their own tower of Babel with their evil delusions.

Filling the power vacuum left by a murdered God are the likes of
Osama bin Laden who thinks he has his god Allah sewn into the
hem of his robes. There's Joseph Stalin who purged the cream of
his military at Lubyanka Prison because they didn't agree with
him, and Mao Ze Dong who starved 30 million Chinese to death
in his Great Leap Forward. Following in Mao's footsteps, Pol
Pot made horrifying history with his killing fields. Today, North
Korean dictator Kim Jong Il (after burning his generals alive in a
public stadium) lets his people starve while he develops nuclear
missiles for use against Japan and the United States.

After dispossessing white farmers of their land in Zimbabwe,
Mugabe is enforcing an agricultural policy that creates famine. To
this club of communist psychotics, the freedom of individuality is
just another "opiate of the masses."

Power corrupts and the potential power of a leader of a socialist
federation is not only a government of diminishing returns, but
also a creeping dictatorship kept benign by liberals such as
Pierre Trudeau and Bill Clinton but quickly turned malignant by
the likes of Fidel Castro. The drift from sham democracy to
communist tyranny is a thoroughly predictable political
devolution.

Federalism necessitates the immediate transformation of
individual humans into numbers and statistics. A worldwide
federalist body such as the UN views the combined death tolls
brought on by genocide and ethnic cleansing as a welcome
reduction in the global population. The UN's stated intent is to
encourage a drastic reduction in the population of the Third
World. Even the UN's vaunted peacekeeping self-image has
proven more of a psychological torture chamber for brave
Canadian soldiers in Africa and the former Yugoslavia. The UN
wasn't really interested in ending the slaughter, only in managing
it. Lump this criminal neglect into the UN's other favorite
euphemism -- population control -- and you have the smell of
tyrannical indifference to life, liberty and freedom.

I'm building a third, hopefully mainstream political party: The
Realists. A third point of view is an absolute necessity to deal
with America's gradual absorption into socialism's hegemony.
The only recent and healthy presidential debate was when
independent candidate Ross Perot and his Reform Party were
there to ask a few hard questions and make edifying
observations, back in the 1992 and 1996 U.S. presidential
campaigns.

The Democratic and Republican parties have neglected some of
the major building blocks to freedom contained in the U.S.
Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. In
forthcoming editorials, I will endeavor to show why and how a
bipartisan power-sharing plan has been devised in order to
enable the slow and barely discernible transformation of our
American Republic into a socialist federation.

As for becoming a presidential candidate in 2008, yes, I will
throw my hat into the ring. I'm well aware that the founders of
third political parties always prove to be their creation's greatest
liability when they run for the presidency, but I'm declaring my
candidacy anyway and would appreciate help from serious
conservatives reading this editorial and agreeing with the opinions
stated therein.

Until 2008, then, I shall play a cross between Ross Perot and
Pat Paulsen and endeavor to enjoy myself along the way, while
engaging voters in debate on the real issues now challenging the
freedom and integrity of the American Republic.

Michael Moriarty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning
actor who has appeared in the landmark television series Law
and Order, the mini-series Taken, the TV-movie The 4400 and
Hitler Meets Christ, a surreal tragicomedy based on the actor's
controversial New York stage play.

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