We! The People Webzine: This is No Joke: How to Take Power by Dennis Morrisseau

by Dennis Morrisseau
January 16, 2007

I would like not to. We would all like not to I guess. But that's not going to work anymore. We have to. There is no other option. No one presently in power is going to help us, even though some of them say they will and say they can. They're lying. So here's how:

Keep in mind the meteoric rise from nowhere to "front runner for the Presidency" of Howard Dean just 3 years ago. This is the new political paradigm. That he failed at the end is beside the point. He failed due to personal mistakes. The power and speed of his rise, andhow it was done, must be kept in mind. We can do that again, and we must, in the upcoming '08 Congressional elections. My proposal is that dozens of us, hundreds of us "outsiders" launch a unified national campaign to take control of Congress, ignoring the presidency.

Here's why:

As a nation, we are celebrity addicted and have been seduced time after time into fake contests for the fake power of the Presidency. Congress writes the laws, collects the taxes, and writes the checks that fund all government actions, even war. Congress can choose to fund or not fund
whatever they wish. Congress signs all government paychecks. What does that tell you? It should tell you that Congress calls the shots; and I am telling you that. I'm a retired small businessman with a degree in political science and I am not kidding. All those Democrat and Republican Congressmen are happy to have us think they are just a bunch of warring doofusses. They love it when we focus our attention and hopes on Presidential elections.

And when things go wrong--things they set up--they shove that cardboard cutout President out in front of us to take the fall. Presidents come and go, but Congress and their hidden backers and agendas have so far stayed with us. Congress is responsible for the Iraq war and what may be coming soon in Syria or Iran. Congress can refuse to fund those actions but won't. Congress, and our own inattention are responsible for everything you see that is wrong with our government and our politics and our posture in the world. So we need them gone. We need to pay attention now and we need to become congress.

I will announce shortly as an Independent running for Congress in Vermont. I'm looking for a second Independent candidate anywhere in the country to also announce linked to me. If that doesn't impress the mainstream media, we two will find a 3rd Independent candidate, and we'll stage a 3 person announcement. If that doesn't impress, we three will find a 4th brave soul and the 4 of us will announce/reannounce together--and so on. All of this is unprecedented in American history, so I am convinced that by the time we get to 3 or 4 or 5 linked Independents--ordinary decent citizens who won't follow orders from Party Bosses, the media will notice. We should then grow to 8 or 9 or 10 Independents a lot easier than we got the first few. Somewhere in there the "Dean phenomena" will occur, and we will leap to 100, or 200 or more.

At that point, even before the '08 elections, we will already be able to govern. We will be able to shove Bush and the present Congress around--because everybody will see by then what is coming. The People are coming.....And all those "well-connected", incumbent and corrupt Congressmen of both parties will know that their time is finally up.

Dennis Morrisseau
W. Pawlet, VT
(802) 645-9727
dmorso@netzero.net
http://www.2LTMorrisseau.com

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Mr Morrisseau was an Independent candidate for Congress in VT in the last election.