this election will be decided

[Craig Thompson]

by the votes of the independents, and undecided. The latest polls have their percentage at roughly 6%, which is also roughly the difference between the 2 main candidates. I have not seen this since ’92, when Perot took enough votes away from both candidates to significantly alter the results of who got elected. He got 18.9% of the popular vote that year. Those votes would have gone to either of the two, and Bush Sr. may very well have won that election, if not for Perot.

The point is this. Those voters who stood up for their beliefs, and ignored all the pessimists that said they didn’t have a chance, had a major role in determining how we, as Americans, allow our voice to be heard. They voted their conscience, not for the “lesser of two evils”. They didn’t want evil at all, and they stood up with courage, conviction, and passion to say that they will fight for their Freedom, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. I know – I was one of them.

We were the William Wallaces of this country, the Patrick Henrys, the Ayn Rands, the Thomas Jeffersons, the George Washingtons, the Jesus Christs – all men and women (and yes, God Himself), who not afraid of standing behind the truth, stood against tyranny and oppression. Some of us were killed, some of us died, never compromising our message, and some of us still live today – and we are fighting with every last dying breath that we have in order to tell the truth. And vote for the truth.

Ask yourself whether you’ve ever wanted to be part of a historic, epic battle, and now’s your chance. As a little kid, have you ever wanted to fight dragons, rescue damsels in distress, save the princess trapped in the tower from the spell of the evil wizard? Or loved with all your heart, and did it until it bled, never giving up the object of your love? Have you been hearing a voice, deep down inside, your entire life, that has been speaking to you that you can make a difference? Your life is yours to live – make a difference towards what you believe in, and what maybe you hope others will fight for, and maybe what you pray for God to, maybe what you’ve been talking to friends for the last few weeks about, and just maybe what you’ve been actively pursuing to enact change in. Have you been volunteering to help others enact change? Have you been helping your kids and loved ones with every fiber of your being, and you’re getting tired of struggling under the weight of government oppression? Have you been running for office? Have you been helping those who have? Have you been hoping, more than anything, that someone will be elected who will actually restore your Freedoms that were supposed to be guaranteed under the Constitution? Have you been telling your friends and family about wanting to see Freedom restored?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then do not fail to have courage now, despite what the talking heads of news networks are telling you. This election will be decided by you – not them. Those polls are largely based on people in the media, and the people that they can reach via telephone. They don’t go into the stores, or in the streets. They say they talk to people who have land lines. But those are the people who are calling C-Span and other call-in shows to voice disapproval of the 2 main candidates. Have any of you ever been polled before an election?? I never have, I’ve never seen one, I’ve never been asked, never been called – even when I used to have a land line, some 15 years ago now. As far as I know, those polls may not even exist – merely manipulated by the media to influence you before you go in to the booth. I’m not saying they in fact are, I’ve just never seen evidence either way. So I have no idea how those polls are generated, and what they actually mean right now. What I do know is this – our Freedom is up to us, our lives are up to us, and our next President, IS UP TO US!!! You, and me, and every single one of us.

A person’s character is determined by their actions (or lack of action). Have the character to find the candidate that you most closely align with (regardless of what you think their chances are), and vote your conscience once again. Just like we did in ’92. And if you do, you will know that even after the fact, and no matter who gets elected, that you stood up for the right decision. You had the courage of a Patriot, and were more American than you’ve ever been up to that point. You followed your heart, instead of listening to the voices of pessimism, and doubt. You didn’t shrink back to cowardice at the last minute – you had the determination to carry this thing through to the end, even though in the big picture, it’s not the end at all – it’s just the beginning. What happens after tomorrow is also up to you. I’ve already made my decision – I will never stop fighting for Freedom until the day I die. If that means me never being President because I’m too much of a radical, so be it. If it means me being elected tomorrow, so be it. If it means that tyrants, dictators, socialists, or even religious leaders masquerading under the banner of “tolerance” end up killing me because I’ll never stop being outspoken about the truth, then so be it. Those things are not up to me. They’re up to you, and others, and God Himself. May His will be done - in heaven and on earth. And may the will of the American people (and true Patriots) be done – tomorrow in the voting booths.

In all Patriotism, and in defense of the truth,
Craig Thompson

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[.Tom]

I'm proudly writing in Ron Paul. :)

[afmatt]

Wow Craig.
Goosbumps here, very stirring piece. I wrote in Ron Paul on my absentee ballot.

[acptulsa]

I have no way to vote for anyone for president who is worthy of my vote. So, I will not vote for president.

I did not respond to the poll because I will be voting. There are people down the ballot who're well worth the trouble.

[supermom]

It's easy to come across as stable on a forum like this with welll written and long-winded speeches. People who've never met you are very easily convinced that you are worth listening too. Truth be said, you are in fact a very intelligent man with great writing skills. Unfortunately you are also a mentally disturbed person who is in need of professional help.

We ( friends, family and aquaintances) have been reading your self-indulgent political babble throughtout the past few months with nothing but concern for your well-being. Your bi-polar characteristics have taken you from a productive architect to a delusional "candidate for president." Unfortunately your last email crossed some serious lines of disrespect. We can only hope that these following words that have not been posted on this forum are not your true beliefs but also some small part of you that needs healing. Most of us know you carry the guilt of having committed many of the following acts that you now judge so harshly.

Regardless if a person is pro-choice or pro-life the following words by Craig Thompson are shocking and demeaning to all woman:


My stance on abortion is not only a belief in biblical commandments, but
it's also based on a scientific defense of a baby being human at the point
of conception. What determines life is blood. If there's blood, there's
life. If there's no blood, there's no life. At the point of conception,
the sperm and the egg meet, and there is blood, so there is life. And at
that point, the two separate living (but non-human) entities join to become
human, right then and there. That's all that is needed, from that point on,
for that baby to eventually form into a full-grown adult. Nothing else is
needed, so at that point, the fetus has rights. The womb isn't even
necessarily needed, because test tube babies are born all the time. Call it
Mother Nature, God, or whatever name you choose for it, but the process
works so that the womb is better suited than a test tube. The basic
ingredients of the recipe are there at the point of conception though, and
that is what defines the child as human at that point.



Now we don't go around saying that a murderer of a 13 year old has rights,
and if we outlaw murder, then we violate the criminal's rights. Why then,
do we confuse an issue, and claim that a woman has rights over her body,
while ignoring the rights of another person, (the child in her womb). I
believe in the right to life of every single person. 100 year olds, 30 year
olds, 2 year olds, 1 day olds, and 1 second olds (at the point of
conception). We do have rights to our own body, but we can only exercise
those if we are not violating others' rights at the same time. We can jog,
and exercise our right over our own bodies to stay fit, but we can't legally
do it while running on top of a bunch of toddlers' heads. We can lift
weights, but not legally, if we are dropping those weights on our neighbors
toes. We can take self-defense classes, but we are violating others' rights
if we start dropkicking every person we see in order to practice our
techniques in real life situations.



A woman does have reproductive rights - the right to either procreate or
not. If she doesn't want to have a child, then she doesn't have to. She
doesn't have to have unprotected sex, protected sex, or any sex at all. But
if she does, she is putting herself at risk. Same as if I start a business,
I am putting myself at risk. I'm risking not only failure, but also risking
success. If I happen to become successful, through the application of sound
financial principles, then I don't complain that I've made all this money
now, and what in the world am I going to do, because I never really wanted
this money in the first place? If I didn't want the money, then I shouldn't
have started working. If the woman didn't want a child, she shouldn't have
taken the risk. An ironic observation in this context is that the socialist
argument in business is that if a business owner fails, they should not have
to face the consequences of that failure. It should be up to the rest of us
to help that person out, even if it's against our will. We should be forced
(through taxes) to bail out the failures of bad financial decisions. I have
no tolerance for this point of view. I believe in the self-reliance of the
individual, and it's up to them to face the consequences (of success or
failure). And if they're successful, they get to keep their wealth. We
live in a country that is increasingly punishing success, and rewarding
failure. Same as abortion. Roe vs. Wade punishes the success of God's
creation, while rewarding the failure of a woman to make good decisions in
regards to her body. Women don't have to sleep around. They don't have to
have sex outside of marriage, and they don't have to have sex at all if
they're trying not to get pregnant. There are multiple options, such as
having tubes tied, a man having a vasectomy, condoms, birth-control pills,
birth-control shots, ring-type contraceptives, and the list goes on and on.
With all these options, there are no excuses for pregnancy within consensual
sexual relations.



Let's consider the scenario where a woman is raped now (non-consensual sex).
These cases are rare, compared to those cases that are due to
irresponsibility, but let's consider the source of the problem, instead of
arguing based on a hypothetical (apart from its fundamental problems). How
does a woman get raped? At a club, where someone slips something into her
drink? Late night jogging, and being accosted by a deviant pervert?
Dressing provocatively, and rousing the lusts of their guy friends? Name
any other situation where a woman can get raped, and most of them are due to
a previously irresponsible decision. Now I am not saying that those women
"had it coming to them". Nothing justifies rape, and nothing can ever
excuse it. Men (or women) who sexually assault another should be severely
punished. I believe, in this instance, in an eye for an eye. Send them to
prison, where rape is committed on a regular basis, especially towards those
who are there for that crime. What I am saying about those rape situations
though, is that in most of the present day contexts where it happens, the
woman could have made better decisions, and avoided the risk. Let's help to
educate women about making more intelligent choices with their social
behavior, than punishing innocent life because of their bad decisions.



And in the least common situations now, let's consider a completely innocent
girl, that just happens to be in a situation, which through no fault of her
own, is raped. A 16 year old walking home from school in a low-income part
of town gets accoste/ol/web/webmail/bin/tnef: unrecognized option `--save-body'
Try '/ol/web/webmail/bin/tnef --help' for more info.
d by sexual criminals. She becomes pregnant, and is
faced with a decision. Does she have an abortion, or does she give birth to
the child, and then either decide to give it up to adoption, or raise it?
She didn't ask for a child, she didn't put herself at risk sexually, or
socially, or make any decisions except a noble one - to go to school in
order to better educate herself. Now, in order to justify abortion in this
context, you necessarily have to view the pregnancy as a punishment that she
didn't deserve, and that she is within her rights to obtain justice for.
But the pregnancy is not the crime. The rape was the crime - let's not
confuse the 2. If a pregnancy occurs due to the enactment of a crime, then
why would it necessarily be an outrage to view the pregnancy as a gift? The
rape was certainly not a gift, but maybe the child is. Maybe it's not, but
as long as there is a chance that it is, then that necessitates the
separation of 2 issues that are unfairly combined into one issue. Now, I
don't view the pregnancy as a punishment (or a crime) - and that's because I
don't think she was doing anything wrong to deserve it. I view the rape as
a crime, which the criminals should be severely punished for. Therefore, I
view the pregnancy as a gift, while seeing the rape as the evil that is was.
Now that the pregnancy is a gift, she can decide to return the gift, or
accept it. And returning the gift (in the form of abortion), is committing
murder in order to try to bring justice to a rape. It's doing something
worse, justified by something not as bad. A rape is a horrible violation to
a woman's rights, but murder is even worse. I don't believe that two wrongs
make a right, or that an even more horrible crime is justified because a
lesser crime was committed.



If we had a criminal justice system in this country that held to the
integrity of upholding the law, and punishing criminals severely, then rape
crimes would go down much lower than they are now. The only way to stop
crimes is through the law. The law is in place not only for criminals, but
for law-abiding citizens as well - to punish the criminal, and protect the
innocent. When the criminal is protected though, and the innocent is
punished, through various misapplied "civil" liberties, and "criminal's
rights", then you see the rise in crime. It's virtually condoned at that
point. Then more people commit rape, and if pregnancy occurs as a
consequence of those rapes, then you need to condone murder, so that the
victim of the rape can abort the child. Every problem has a source, and the
source of this problem is the reversal of justice, at every level. Causes
have effects, and you cannot escape that law of nature.



In all Love, Equality, and Justice

Craig Thompson





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