The compelling idea of government BY, FOR and OF the People is sweeping the world ~ not as an idealistic luxury but as a profoundly critical necessity. That aspiration has found expression in a new American political party that serves the PUBLIC interest -- with an ETHICAL candidate for President.

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A new political party that serves the public interest is now in the process of qualifying for ballot access in time for the 2012 election ~ the Justice Party. One of their candidates for the Presidential nomination is none other than Rocky Anderson, the beloved ex-mayor of Salt Lake City whose pristine record of fighting for human rights, social ethics and political accountability leaves no doubt about his sincerity when he declares that the Justice Party will serve the public interest.

The public interest has completely disappeared not only from Supreme Court rulings, White House policies, Congressional and State legislation but from national political discourse, as if there is no longer any such thing as the public interest. As the Constitution and social programs are being systematically dismantled, everything that belongs to the public is being sold to private individuals and corporations ~ education, health care, postal service, national parks, infrastructure, even military functions, intelligence and surveillance.

Today 400 people in the US own more than the combined assets of 150 million Americans. A tiny percentage of extremely wealthy individuals control the government, media and every critical institution to perpetuate their own self-interest to the detriment of society.  This antisocial minority has secured for itself ridiculously low taxes and taxpayer-financed subsidies and bailouts by controlling politicians with bribes (campaign contributions) and an army of lobbyists. With a few notable exceptions, lawmakers suffer from a pathological ETHICS deficit far more serious than the budget deficit. In fact, the two deficits are directly related to each other. Massive tax cuts for the wealthy, multi-trillion dollar wars of aggression and Wall Street bailouts created the budget deficit.  

What is most insidious about this exaggerated concentration of wealth, (facilitated by Congress), is that this wealth is used to deprive the vast majority of Americans of their Constitutional right to political representation. Only the ultra-wealthy have had representation ~ until now.

Preliminary discussions about the Justice Party platform included such luminaries as Rocky Anderson, Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Nancy Marcus Newman, Linda Yahr, Jerry Peloquin, Cletus Zeitz, and Paul Zeitz. They agreed on 8 core principles:

1. Tax the rich and corporations;

2. End the wars; bring the troops home; cut military spending;

3. Protect the social safety net, strengthen Social Security and improved Medicare for all;

4. End corporate welfare for oil companies and other big business interests;

5. Transition to a clean energy economy, reverse environmental degradation;

6. Protect worker rights including collective bargaining, create jobs and raise wages;

7. Get money out of politics;

8. Improved health access and quality for all.

The Justice Party platform is still evolving and YOU can shape the agenda by joining the discussion at: http://americanidea.justicepartyusa.net. One thing is certain: this Party is not selling out to corporate interests. Campaign donations are limited to $100 per election cycle.

On economic and fiscal policy: Rocky Anderson supports increased tax on investment income; immediately ending the Bush tax cuts; cutting defense spending significantly; offering tax incentives to firms who hire US workers and disincentives to those that don't; splitting up too big to fail banks; and he opposes hiring ex-financial executives as advisors to the president on economic policy.

What a glorious difference Rocky Anderson would make in the White House in contrast to the current array of antisocial contenders including the Wall Street lackey masquerading as a Democrat. As Glen Greenwald so succinctly put it:

"Obama has  embraced the vast bulk of George Bush's terrorism policies ; waged a war against government whistleblowers as part of a campaign of obsessive secrecy; led efforts to overturn a global ban on cluster bombs; extinguished the lives not only of accused terrorists but of huge numbers of innocent civilians with cluster bombs and drones in Muslim countries; engineered a covert war against Iran; tried to extend the Iraq war; ignored Congress and the Constitution to prosecute an unauthorized war in Libya; adopted the defining Bush/Cheney policy of indefinite detention without trial for accused terrorists; and even  claimed and exercised the power to assassinate US citizens  far from any battlefield and without due process."

Anderson has been a leading and unflinching opponent of the wars of the Bush-Obama Presidency and came to national attention with his passionate calls for the impeachment of Bush for war crimes. As the founder of High Road for Human Rights, it is inconceivable that Anderson would ever condone unlawful rendition, CIA black sites, torture, indefinite detention without trial for ANYONE, let alone US citizens. Unlike Obama, he WOULD have vetoed the human rights violations in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.

So it looks like police raids didn't get rid of the Occupy Movement after all. An idea whose time has come cannot be annihilated with pepper spray, mass arrests and police tactics. Ideas are invincible. The compelling idea of government BY, FOR and OF the People is sweeping the world ~ not as an idealistic luxury but as a profoundly critical necessity. That aspiration has found expression in a new American political party that serves the PUBLIC interest -- with an ETHICAL candidate for President. The consciousness of Occupy Wall Street has found a permanent home.

Our time has come.

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Justice Party: justicepartyusa.org

Justice (internet) radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/justicepartyusa

Links ~ Rocky Anderson

Campaign website: https://www.voterocky.org/home

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YourFriendRocky

Biography: https://www.voterocky.org/node/1; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Anderson

Videos ~ Rocky Anderson

Rocky Anderson for President 2012 (5:25) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUOoYzNh1yQ&feature=email

Democracy Now (12-13-11)

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/12/13/ex_salt_lake_mayor_rocky_anderson

Audio ~ Rocky Anderson (Justice Radio): http://www.blogtalkradio.com/justicepartyusa/2011/12/30/guest-appearance-by-rocky-anderson

Authors Bio:
http://nikkialexander.wordpress.com

Nikki Alexander is a full-time writer and activist encouraging deep systemic reform in the United States to bring about social, political and economic justice for ALL members of our society. We are in this together and share a common responsibility to create national priorities that serve the public interest. There is no hierarchy above us. What we value together becomes our national character. Let us then reach for highest ideals.