Roger J. Wendell
Defending 3.8 Billion Years of Organic EvolutionSM
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pass laws under which you make money... and out of your profits, you further contribute to our campaign funds to send us back again to pass more laws to enable you to make more money." - Senator Boise Penrose (R-Pa.), 1896 |
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"It is unconscionable to perpetuate fraudulent or biased electoral practices in any nation. It is especially objectionable among us Americans, who have prided ourselves on setting a global example for pure democracy. With reforms unlikely at this late stage of the election, perhaps the only recourse will be to focus maximum public scrutiny on the suspicious process in Florida."
- President Jimmy Carter, Chairman of the Carter center in Atlanta |
"...in Western Europe and in countries like Canada, and Australia, and Japan where you can not be a public figure professing absolute certainty about the divine origin of the Bible and be taken seriously. These are embarrassing convictions in much of the world, and, in fact, we are virtually alone, in the developed world, as a society that still conducts it's national discourse under the shadow of religious literalism."
- Sam Harris interviewd by Michelle Martin on NPR's Talk of the Nation
about his new book, Letter to a Christian and keeping religion out of public policy.
Broadcast on Monday, October 02, 2006 and transcribed by Roger J. Wendell
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, & county commissioners."
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- Senator Mark Hanna, chair of the Republican National COmmitee, 1895
"Our fight is with those who have stolen the name Democrat - the party hacks, the lobbyists, the weasels who somehow couldn't cut it in the Republican Party because they didn't have what it takes to destroy a national forest, or close a thousand libraries, or take free breakfasts away from the malnourished little ones in the inner city. You have to have real guts to do stuff like that, and you have to enjoy it. Those who don't, get jobs over at the Democratic Party."
- Ralph Nader being interviewed by Amy Goodman, July 2004 |
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"America wasn't built by conformists but by mutineers - we're a big, boisterous, bucking people and now is our time. Our democracy is being dismantled right in front ofour eyes by our own ruling elites. This is a crucial moment when America desperately needs you and me to stand up as citizens. We are not only what democracy counts on, we are what democrcy is."
The Public Spirit of America |
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"...Big Money from a narrow and self-interested elite group of donors distorts democracy and produces perverse outcomes that favor a privileged few and hurt the rest of us in all sorts of ways."
"Hasn't it always been this way? And haven't we already tried to fix it?" "The short answer is yes. Politicis in America has always been a contest between organized people and organized money. But that's no reason to throw up our hands and become reisgned to the situation. After all, the history of America is the history of steady efforts to expand democracy and include everyone on an equal footing."
Is that a Politician in Your Pocket? (Washington on $2 Million A Day) p. 211 |
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A Registered Republican Since the 70s - Me!
I've always supported the Republicans' tight fiscal policies. However, their support of monopolies, big religion, expensive military and their war on the environment have always been disappointments. As a Republican, I'll continue working to attempt bringing honor, reason and decency to the Republican party.
Not only have I been a regestered Republican, since the early 70s, but I was elected twice
Also, although not directly related, I have served on the City of Aurora's Election Commission
Unfortunately, in the early 2000s, the bad guys gained control of my state and federal government. |
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Here is a Denver Post Affidavit of Publication for a Legal Notice that I published on my 40th birthday (November 12, 1995). It was in their Sunday edition under section 8901 "Legal Notices." Here is what it said;
"I am 40 yrs. old & have been a registered Republican my entire adult life. Although I agree with the party's position on taxes, and other related issues, I am ashamed of their "war" on the environment. I appologize to the American people and promise to continue working to protect wilderness and wildlife. Sincerely, Roger J. Wendell, POB 460101, Aurora, CO 80046-0101. E-mail: aq328@freenet.uchsc.edu (I paid for this notice with my own money and am only interested in policy change, NOT remuneration" |
Here's something of mine that made it to the Republicans' Arapahoe County Assembly:
(It was passed by Precinct 2509 on April 11, 2000)
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Resolution: Children and Open Space
Whereas; Colorado Republicans recognize that the quality of life
Be it resolved; that Colorado Republicans, in the interests of |
Every political party has its bad apples. During the time when I was involved in
local government my party turned a blind-eye to Reagan and number of his minions
involved in all kinds of not-so-nice work in the name of the American people:
On December 20, 1983 President Ronald Reagan sent Special Envoy
Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq to shake the hand of Saddam Hussein - this
was at a time when America was arming, supporting and encouraging Saddam...
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