Author: turdhed (---.new.rr.com)
Date: 05-05-04 00:53
May 02, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ED MEESE DRAFTED FOR THIRD-PARTY TICKET
Heritage event speaker calls for third-party Meese ticket
At a Heritage Foundation luncheon Friday in Chicago, Edwin Meese III
was
drafted to run for President on a third-party ticket. The speaker
condemned Bush as an inadequate free-markets candidate, calling the
administration's war in Iraq "the biggest market distortion in
the history
of humankind" and "crony corporate welfare on a truly
gigantic scale."
Meese, Attorney General under Ronald Reagan, was in attendance but
did not
immediately respond.
On Thursday night Meese presented the Heritage Foundation's Salvatori
Prize in American Citizenship to Virginia Walden-Ford, Executive
Director
of DC Parents for School Choice. Ms. Walden-Ford, a mother from
Washington
DC, successfully led a local battle to provide private school
vouchers for
students, including her own son, trapped in gutted public schools.
Her son
is now serving in the US Marines.
The luncheon concluded the Heritage Foundation's 27th annual Resource
Bank
meeting in Chicago. This year's event celebrated the 60th anniversary
of
"The Road to Serfdom," a seminal free market treatise by
Friedrich Hayek.
The conference focused on limiting "market distortions"
such as Medicare,
and on ending "corporate welfare" including protectionary
tariffs.
Edwin J. Feulner, President of the Heritage Foundation, declared,
"Too
many conservatives lose hope. They doubt that the liberal welfare
state
can be brought to collapse.... In short, they doubt that The Heritage
Foundation's Vision for America can be achieved."
The complete text of the Meese nomination follows. For video of the
nomination, visit http://www.socialstability.org/video/meese.mp4
"I would like to salute that very brave woman, Virginia
Walden-Ford, who
yesterday proved to us that through individual initiative and free
markets, all of us can rescue our children from shoddy government
education so they can learn what they need in order to compete in a
free
American marketplace.
"But there is a nine-hundred pound gorilla in the room. Instead
of
fighting in the free American marketplace, this brave woman's son is
fighting for what I think we all, or many of us here agree is a case
of
crony corporate welfare, a market distortion on a truly gigantic
scale.
"Ms. Walden-Ford's story convinced me that our political choices
in the
next election are simply not adequate. And I propose that on this
historic
anniversary of The Road to Serfdom, we take a giant step for Hayek's
free
market by drafting a real free-markets candidate. And why not Edwin
Meese?"
"To the next President and Commander-in-Chief of the United
States of
America, Ed Meese!"
The Heritage Foundation is an influential conservative think tank in
Washington DC.
War Propaganda:
If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are constantly being propagandized to approve of war - not just the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically.
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