America's Third Party May Newsletter

Every genocide in history has been preceded by gun control!

As you may know, we are against War! Our goal is to bring our troops home to protect our border and end the exploitation of Americans by Non-US citizens.  The North Koreans and Syrian situations are a dismal result of bad foreign policy perpetrated by evil, for-profit War mongers! Obama has mishandled affairs with North Korea by not even talking to their leader, once! He continues to exacerbate the tension by flying Nuclear Bombers over the North Korean Peninsula and engage in War games at their border.  Similarly, Obama has continued supporting rebel troops in Syria, despite a growing backlash to this practice. This continuation of Arab Spring is causing Christians to be kidnapped and held hostage in Syria!  Not to mention the spillover in Jordan from people fleeing this conflict created by the US, French and English involvement. We support humanitarian measures only. As US troops (over 2000) wait for deployment to Syria, our President refuses to answer the tough questions regarding Libya. Why did it happen? Why was CIA Intel grossly inaccurate and why did the US install a former Al Qaeda leader as President of Libya?  This is on the heels of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan admitting he has been bribed by the CIA for Years! When will the U.S. stop the practices of starting endless Wars? All of this has occurred with little or no checks and balances that would normally be presented in the free press. The reality is ... in America the free press is suppressed. We have found out the hard way how the media systematically ignores any dissent in America. If you are on the blogosphere, you are forgotten or erased. In 2008, we decided to launch the "blackface video" in response to a general lack of interest in questioning a black President. In order to parody the failures of Obama, David impersonated him in blackface. Our goal is still to raise the bar of awareness on racial equality. We will tackle the tough issues like Affirmative Action and find balance. Currently it clearly judges people on the "color of their skin, not the content of their character". We will work toward ending racial profiling and stopping police brutality. In the dialogue that is emerging from the "blackface video", we are seeing the true nature of racism appear on all sides. We are dedicated to integration and free speech. Together all people can discuss their concerns openly, without being denied their free speech. If you want to be heard, chat with us LIVE every weeknight from 6 to 8 pm Pacific. As long as your conversation does not delve into personal attacks against the hosts, we will leave the chat as open as possible. Starting this month, Sarah Hart will be opening the chat early in a pre-show. So, feel free to come in about 20 minutes early to talk with her. We are multicasting on various web channels. You can monitor all our chats and join the conversation by going to www.coolrock.com, which will actually redirect you to one of our pages on www.scrapplet.com which is an interactive site. You can drag any of the windows around if you want, or delete excess windows, to fit your viewing preferences. When you refresh the page it will go back to how we set it up. We think scrapplet is very innovative when it comes to website design. You can also make your own scrapplet page or host your own show on one of the sites we broadcast on. How You Can Help: Print Flyers: www.americasthirdparty.com/Flyers Call Talk Radio: www.americasthirdparty.com/TalkRadio Encourage friends to sign up: www.americasthirdparty.com/Member

Special Thank You to MAST3Rxx MAST3Rxx created great new logos and Artwork for us to use. The preceding poster and the Banner at the top of this email were created by him. Drone Deployment We are officially against the deployment of drones within the U.S.! With Obama signing the FAA Re-Authorization Act in 2012, he cleared the way for 30,000 drones to fly over our heads by 2020! Furthermore Eric Holder alluded to the possible use of drones against U.S. Citizens.  Let us not forget that much of this started with George Bush. We as Centrists, must certainly work to end the USE of ALL DRONES in the United States for surveillance purposes.  To pretend to want commercial use of drones creates a slippery slope.  We don't want commercial contracted workers spying on the American people! Legalization We hope you all had a wonderful 4/20! We look forward to a time when marijuana is legalized on a federal level. Tell your friends that David Jon Sponheim wants to legalize marijuana! The Economy This is a very unusual time in our economy. The stock market seems to be doing fantastic, yet unemployment remains high. Although some economists claim we are "recovering," we have seen many businesses shutting their doors. Some businesses, especially in the health care field, are building new facilities on virgin land. Meanwhile, buildings of a similar size sit vacant just down the street from these new locations. Why didn't they simply move into an existing structure? The banks gave them a loan for new development to pretend to prop up the economy. Also, when these businesses do shutter their doors in a few years, which is likely to happen, the banks can claim ownership of more developed property and charge higher prices for this "prime real estate" which no one will be able to afford. Much of this "new money" is indirectly coming from the Federal Reserve, which is borrowing against our future. We would like to end the Fed and create an infrastructure bank. This infrastructure bank will offer 2% loans to US businesses, hiring US citizens at a living wage. This would be far more effective in stimulating our economy and creating real growth. Post the following on blogs, facebook, twitter, and into the comment's section on news articles: "Have you heard about David Jon Sponheim? He's running for President of the United States in 2016. He's running under America's Third Party, which is a centrist political party - fiscally conservative and socially liberal. One thing that makes him unique is his willingness to chat directly with the American people in a candid manner. Check out his website and click the "Chat" button. He's goes live every weeknight. I hope you like him as much as I do." Copyright © 2013 *America's Third Party*, All rights reserved. Our email address is: *americasthirdparty@gmail.com*

Random Thoughts at the Beginning of 2013

I need to revamp our website for 2016. David has been talking about a complete re-work of at least the main page. I do want to make it more interactive, but I haven't done so before because we had been hit with spammers and trolls.

I don't understand why lawmakers didn't allow the Bush-era tax-cuts to simply expire in 2010 or now. The last time we did not have a deficit was under Clinton; so, why not go back to the tax rates that were in place whenu he was President? Then, Congress could focus on ways to cut spending. For instance, we could build less multi-million dollar military equipment and use our military personell to guard our bases and maintain military housing, rather than hiring contractors to do this work.

I believe that government should think about new sources of revenue. This is exactly what we propose in our book "Hybrid Capitalism." Then the government can compete in the capitalists system.

I also think that our government isn't pursuing domestic oil in order to save it when the rest of the world's oil runs out. Then, the powers that control the oil can get the most money out of it that they can and be seen as saviors somehow.

As far as Hurricane Sandy victims go, I need to research it more before I can say whether or not $60 BILLION in aid is merited.... As I suspected, there was Pork in that bill, which I'm glad to hear the House cut. 

As school is going back into session, some veterans may choose to stand guard outside of schools.
http://www.facebook.com/VeteransOnWatch I am not opposed to this. I do want to tell everyone that you can and SHOULD ask to see their identification. This is especially true since the Supreme Court has ruled that people can lie about serving in the military.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/2012/06/28/high-court-free-speech-trumps-insulted-war-heroes

Thank you to those of you who have truly served. By the way, it is against the law for some military personell to wear a uniform in public:
http://www.examiner.com/article/marine-corps-threatens-charges-for-marine-dad-guarding-school
The government has this rule in place so that the American people do not feel like we live in a war-zone.

What I would like to encourage is for EVERYONE to volunteer in schools. Many school districts require that volunteers have a background check done and kept on file at the district.
For Veterans involved in Veterans On Watch, I suggest you ask the school permission before standing guard, and volunteer to get a background check done and submit it to the school. This is another measure to protect
our students. Then, volunteer to help in classes and especially reach out to kids who appear isolated.

I believe with LOVE we can help heal our nation.