Thirteen Proposed Highway Extensions and On-Ramps That Could Help Relieve Traffic in Chicago (Incomplete)

     Here are some changes that I would recommend be made to the highway system of the city of Chicago, Illinois.
     The choices of these thirteen proposed extensions, was informed by a map charting the location of the city's road congestion at different times of the day. That map can be found at the following link:
     http://www.illinoisvehicle.com/about-us/blog/traffic-patterns-chicago/


     1. Make the Interstate 290 / Dan Ryan Expressway connect to Butterfield Road better. (Between western Elmhurst and eastern Hillside)

     2. In western Evanston, build a highway off-ramp leading from McCormick Road, to a highway to be built over (or in place of) McDaniel Avenue and Park Avenue (leading north to Wilmette). (Evanston and Wilmette)

     3. In the south Skokie neighborhood, expand the portion of Highway 50 / North Cicero Avenue, where it meets Interstate 94. Allow cars traveling from south to north on Interstate 94, to more easily merge into North Cicero Avenue. (Skokie)

     4. Streamline the transition from N. Lake Shore Drive, going northwest, to North Ridge Avenue, in the Edgewater neighborhood. (North Side)

     5. In the northwest part of the Lincolnwood neighborhood, build an on-ramp leading from W. Touhy Ave. to Route 41. (North Side)

     6. Create a more efficient interchange where Interstate 94 meets Caldwell Avenue / Highway 50 and Highway 14. (West Side)

     7. Build an extension off of Highway 64 / North Avenue, at the corner of Thatcher and North, curving northward, then west to merge with Highway 19 (which lies south of o’Hare International Airport). This should help relieve congestion southeast of o’Hare Airport. (Northwest Suburbs).

     8. Develop Highway 20, Lake Street, and Kinzie Street into a highway (building highway over train tracks on Kinzie), or connect these roads. This will provide an alternative route from downtown Chicago to Elmhurst and the west suburbs, allowing drivers to avoid the Dan Ryan Expressway / 290 if their destination is north of the Dan Ryan. (West Side & Downtown)

     9. Connect Highway 56 to St. Charles Rd., and to Main Street, Central Avenue, and Kinzie St. (possibly by building highway over train tracks on Kinzie). This will provide an alternative route from downtown Chicago to Elmhurst and the west suburbs, allowing drivers to avoid the Dan Ryan / 290 as long as their destination is north of the Dan Ryan Expressway. (West Side & Downtown)

     10. At the Jane Byrne Interchange, build on-ramps and off-ramps enabling access to North and South Halsted streets from the Dan Ryan / Interstate 290. This should help relieve congestion on the Dan Ryan. (Downtown)

     11. In the northern part of the Englewood neighborhood, build an on-ramp connecting traffic moving south on N. Halsted, over W. 63^rd Street, to Interstate 90 going southeast towards Indiana. (Near South Side)

     12. Create an interchange where Highway 50 meets Highway 55 / Stevenson Expressway (north of Midway Airport). This should help relieve congestion on the Stevenson, and near Midway. (South Side)

     13. North of the McKinley Park neighborhood, build a new highway that connects the Stevenson Expressway to W. 31^st St., Historic U.S. 66, and Highway 34 / Ogden Rd. Build a highway over these streets, or widen them and connect them in some way. This should help relieve congestion on the Stevenson. (South Side)

Written on May 14th, 2021

Published on May 15th, 2021

How Committed is the Green Party to the Principle of Decentralization?

     The purpose of this article is to determine on which policy topics the Green Party and its supporters are most committed to decentralization. Decentralization is one of the Green Party's Ten Key Values.
     gp.org/four_pillars_ten_key_values

     I put this article together after the party's last presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins, ran on a platform that called for increased centralization of the regulation of energy and transportation affairs into the hands of the national government.
     This platform prompted me to ask, "If Hawkins is leading the party to support more centralization on energy and transportation, then on which other issues is the Green Party still whole-heartedly committed to decentralization?"

     I have sorted thirty-one major topics in politics, into seven categories: Centralize More, Keep Centralized, Mostly Centralized, Promote a Mix (...), Mostly Decentralize, Keep Decentralized, and Decentralize More.

[Policy Topics Which Most of the Green Party Wants to] Centralize More
- State Department / diplomacy
     (centralize through growing and properly funding, and demilitarize by transforming into a Department of Peace)
- Interstate regulation of commerce
- Energy, and provision of public utilities
     (centralize, but eliminate influence of businesses, lobbyists, and monopolies)
- Transportation
     (centralize, but streamline, and eliminate business & lobbyist influence)
- Campaign finance reform
     (centralize, but streamline, and eliminate business & lobbyist influence)
- Labor Department
     (centralize in order to create a jobs guarantee)
- Justice Department & the Attorney General, incl. courts

[...] Keep Centralized
- International trade, including tariffs
- Establishing uniform rule of naturalization of immigrants

Mostly Centralize
- Elections
     (cooperative or corporative federalism; national government should supervise more)
- State public worker benefits
     (increase national supervision of public sector employees' affairs, benefits, and bargaining)

Promote a Mix of Centralization and Decentralization, inc through Cooperative or Triple Federalism
- Military / Department of Defense / Pentagon / common defense
     (centralize its administration, but reduce its use, and demilitarize it, while decentralizing public defense)
- Social Security / retirement
     (centralize by growing S.S. into Social Security for All, i.e., a U.B.I. to every American, which would decentralize the distribution of U.S. Dollars)

- Agriculture
     (cooperative or triple federalism, but eliminate business & lobbyist influence)
- Education
     (cooperative or triple federalism, but eliminate business & lobbyist influence)
- Child welfare
     (cooperative or triple federalism)

- Health
     (cooperative or triple federalism, but eliminate business & lobbyist influence)
- Housing & Urban Development
     (cooperative or triple federalism, but eliminate business & lobbyist influence)
- Taxation
     (both states and federal government should have taxation power)

Mostly Decentralize
- Treasury
     (keep Treasury Dept., but decentralize through a UBI)
- Veterans' Affairs
     (decentralize, or abolish, or make unnecessary by putting its activities under Defense Dept. &/or H.H.S.)
- Native American affairs
     (localize through increasing tribal autonomy)
- Patents / intellectual property
     (keep administration centralized, but reduce durations)
- Gun control laws
- The internet
     (centralize regulation as a public utility in order to foster a decentralized or polycentric creative / collaborative commons)

Keep Decentralized or Balanced
- Law enforcement and policing, prisons and jails

Decentralize More
- Interior Dept. / land management
     (decentralize to the bioregions)
- E.P.A. / environment & ecology
     (decentralize to the bioregions)
- Homeland Security
     (decentralize, shrink, and abolish)
- Sanctuary cities and sanctuary states
- Mutual aid, direct action. and charity

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Written and published on February 9th, 2021

Edited, and Image Added, on February 10th, 2021

Response to ABATE of Illinois Transportation PAC's Federal Candidate Survey

     I wrote the following as my response to ABATE of Illinois PAC's federal candidate questionnaire, titled the "ABATE of Illinois PAC General Election Survey". ABATE of Illinois PAC is a political action group that advocates for freedom on transportation issues.

     According to Wikipedia, ABATE stands for several things, among them:

     - A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments

     - American Bikers Against Totalitarian Enactments

     - A Brotherhood Aimed Towards Education

     - American Bikers for Awareness, Training & Education

     - American Bikers Aimed Towards Education

     - American Bikers Advocating Training & Education

     To learn more about ABATE PAC, visit the following links:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_motorcyclists%27_rights_organizations

     http://abate-il.org/abatepac/reports.html

Section 1 - Helmet Laws

     Issue: Since 1986, the Illinois General Assembly has had an ongoing debate over mandatory helmet laws. The Federal Government has occasionally tried to influence this debate using studies that have been refuted by independent research. Other States have slowly expanded youth and bicycle helmet laws to create a mandate on adult riders.

     ABATE of Illinois has consistently supported the freedom of a rider to do their own research and choose for themselves by opposing all forms of mandatory helmet laws.

     Ql) Would you vote for a mandatory helmet law for all motorcyclists? Yes or no, and if yes, would you sponsor or co-sponsor the bill?

     A1) No, not at the federal level.

     Q2) Would you vote for a mandatory helmet law for minors? Yes or no, and if yes, would you sponsor or co-sponsor the bill?

     Q2a) If you answered yes, for what ages?

     A2) Yes, for minors under 16, unless the helmet hinders their mobility, visibility, and/or reaction time.

     Issue: In past years bills have contained mandatory helmet requirements for both motorcyclists and bicyclists. Some have proposed confiscating the bicycle until parents can retrieve it from the police. In past, bills have tried to fine parents, third parties or even children for not wearing a bicycle

helmet.

     Q3) Would you support a helmet law for all bicyclists? Yes or no, and if yes, would you sponsor or co-sponsor the bill?

     A3) No

     Q4) Would you vote for a bicycle helmet law for minors? Yes or no, and if yes, would you sponsor or co-sponsor the bill? If you answered yes, for what ages?

     A4) No

Section 2 - LED Accent Lighting

     Issue: Illinois legalized solid LED accent lights for motorcycles 4 years ago but unlike neighboring states, they excluded Red and Blue colors. Modern LED systems have thousands of color options which creates an enforcement issue with Red / Orange colors and Blue / Green colors. Modern systems also glow Red underneath the bike when brakes are applied. This increases visibility & safety but is technically illegal in Illinois.

     Q5) Would you support legalizing all colors for accent lighting on motorcycles in Illinois? Yes or no, and if yes, would you sponsor or co-sponsor the bill?

     A5) Yes, as long as flashing LEDs with two colors or more aren't displayed in public (as they could trigger epileptic seizures). I would sponsor legislation to that effect; it would require a constitutional amendment to become a federal law, however.

Section 3 ; Autonomous Vehicles aka “Driverless Cars”

     Issue: Companies are testing driverless cars in Illinois with no regulations, and little oversight.

These vehicles rely on sensors to see" and a computer to drive for the human occupant" The federal

government has been very slow to issue any regulations on these vehicles, instead letting states

develop individual standards. ABATE is aware of independent research showing that the collision

awareness systems used by AVs do not see motorcycles effectively. Motorcycles are not being

considered in the design or the rulemaking process. Even here in Illinois, we have had an

Autonomous Vehicle Task Force for nearly two years, yet motorcycles were not involved in the

conversation until June of this year.

     Q6) Would you support legislation requiring IDOT to include representatives from all

vulnerable road users in developing regulations for Autonomous Vehicles?

     A6) I am a candidate for federal office, so the position for which I am running, should not have the power to shape the policymaking concerning the operations of the Illinois Department of Transportation. So I am neutral to this proposal in regards to the current race in which I'm running, but If I were a candidate for statewide office, I would say yes, and that I would co-sponsor legislation to that effect.

     Q7) Would you support regulations requiring the successful completion of closed circuit testing before allowing an autonomous vehicle on Illinois roads?

      A7) Yes, if I were a candidate for statewide office. I am running for federal office and I do not support federal government involvement in policymaking concerning transportation, aside from regulating interstate commerce. The proposed legislation pertains to transportation, and to transportation commerce, but not solely to commerce. What I can say for sure is that this issue should remain in the hands of the State of Illinois, and that I as a federal legislator would not interfere with Illinois's ability to test autonomous vehicles in closed-circuit trials (on the condition that such testing does not take place on public roads straddling two states or more).

     Issue: In addition to driverless cars, some companies are trying to enable remote control of Semi

Trucks on Illinois roads. This process known as 'platooning" allows the lead vehicle of a convoy to

control several trucks behind them. ABATE believes there are very serious safety concerns with this

technology

     Q8) Would you support allowing remote controlled Semi Trucks on Illinois Roads?

     A8) Yes, but only if they complete closed-circuit testing first. I would sponsor legislation to that effect.

Section 4 - Gasoline / Ethanol Fuel Blends

     Issue: Com growers and environmentalists push for increasing Ethanol in our gasoline supply by

subsidizing higher percentage ethanol blends with tor credits. It is against federal law for motorcycles to use any blend higher than 10% (E-10). Fuel blends higher than 10% can void motorcycle warranties. E-15 pumps are not clearly labeled prohibiting motorcycle use, and some pumps are so called "blender pumps" which could cause a motorcycle to fuel with up to 4 gallons of E-15 when they thought they were fueling with E-10.

     Q9) Would you support requiring E-15 and higher blend pumps to be clearly labeled "not for

motorcycle use"?

     Q9) Yes, on the grounds that the federal government has an interest to regulate commerce in such a way that protects the consumer's right to be fully informed about the product (and protects his property rights in his vehicle).

     Q10) Would you support requiring E-l5 and higher blends to have their own dedicated pumps to

prevent accidental misfuels caused by blender pumps? 

    A10) Yes, on the grounds that the federal government has an interest to regulate commerce in such a way that protects the consumer's right to be fully informed about the product (and protects his property rights in his vehicle).

Responses Written on September 4th, 2020

Submitted on September 4th, 2020

Introduction Written on September 8th, 2020

Published on September 8th 2020

Our Basic Needs Are Abundant, Not Scarce

     In late November 2017, I posted a commentary to social media regarding what I regard as the most basic and primary set of human needs, whether they are scarce or abundant, and how we could access and afford them more easily. The post, originally titled “Everything Should Be Free”, follows:

     The law of supply and demand dictates that if a good is abundant (i.e., more exists than people need), its price will fall towards zero/free.

     To clarify, resources existing in a fixed amount, does not necessarily guarantee scarcity by that fact alone. Nor does scarcity only refer to shortages; shortages which are locally felt may be a symptom of inefficient distribution, unequal distribution. Scarcity is a condition in which a resource exists in a smaller amount than the amount demanded or needed.

     We can verify that most things we need to survive are not scarce, by simply thinking about it. Which things do we need to survive, and which phenomena and technologies make them freer? Our most basic needs are air, water, food, shelter, clothing, and medicine. I have not addressed clothing here, nor the need for plumbing and sanitation; but I did not leave them out because they're any less important; they're no less important. Instead, I have chosen to comment on how to make energy and transportation more easily available to people.

     AIR is free to breathe, but there will only truly be no price for clean air, when there is no more unnecessary air pollution, and when the costs of cleaning the air up (that is, cleaning up after ourselves) have gone down to zero. But it is possible.

     WATER falls from the sky in abundance. We can collect it, but only when it's legal. Sometimes it's illegal for a good reason, like when altering rain flow affects our neighbors' property, or threatens wildlife in the area, or drastically changes the water table or causes flooding. But when collecting rainwater does not require creating an artificial lake, it can be done freely and safely. Through rooftop water filters and rain collection systems, we could make water much easier to afford and acquire.
There is also a product called LifeStraw, which converts contaminated water into free, safe, filtered, drinkable water. If this product were made easily and cheaply available to the third world, perhaps through charity or mutual aid, then struggling people would have a much easier time acquiring water, one of the most primary things we need to survive.

     Enough FOOD is produced on the planet annually to feed 10 billion, while we have to feed only 7.5 billion. While the US throws away 40% of food, France requires groceries to donate unsold food to charity. Teach people how to grow food, and let them do it in cities. Watch “Extreme Couponing” and look up the mutual aid organization Food Not Bombs.

     SHELTER could be easily made cheap, or even free, through liberalization of homesteading requirements, changing local building codes to keep up with modern safety innovations and allow experimental architectural techniques, and returning the vast swaths of land owned by the federal government back to the states and the people. This will make land more available, and in turn, more places to stay.
     There are now 6 empty residences for each homeless American. Remove all government supports (including police protection) for absentee property ownership. Allow people to host homeless and needy people in their apartments without requiring them to pay rent, and allow renters and trailer and tiny house residents to claim state homestead tax credits (in states other than Wisconsin, the only state in which residents can do so).

     MEDICINE is kept artificially scarce and artificially expensive through patents, taxes, insurance mandates, trade barriers (against foreign-made pharmaceuticals), deadly approval delays, and other unnecessary and often unconstitutional intrusions. Getting rid of these privileges and barriers could help reduce the prices of medical care, medications, and medical devices.

     ENERGY is kept artificially expensive through patents, regional monopolies, preferential subsidies for one energy source or the other, and more. Letting the market choose renewable resources like solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, and Alternating Current energy could save money, lives, and the planet.

     TRANSPORTATION could be made cheaper by withdrawing all government and taxpayer supports from car dealerships, used car lots, and car graveyards. Vehicles in car graveyards, and aircraft sitting on government-owned lands, could be repaired and turned over to those who need them. The idea that car dealerships sit on cars, and have state-licensed private security guards and the police to protect them (sometimes at taxpayer expense) should indicate that price reductions are the only way to clear the market. The fact that supply and demand are not meeting, and causing markets to clear, ought to indicate that what's being sold simply isn't worth what they're asking for. Maybe it even indicates that there is not currently a free or fair market in transportation.

For more information:

- look up Citizens for Truth in School on Facebook,

- read my article "You Don't Need Money to Live" at http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2017/02/you-dont-need-money-to-live.html

and

- read my blog entry "Links on Homelessness and Moneylessness"
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2018/05/links-on-homelessness-moneylessness.html

Originally Written in Late November 2017

Edited and Expanded on December 1^st, 2018

Published on December 1^st, 2018

The Transportation Security Administration

The following was written in April 2014, as part of a response to the Campaign for Liberty's 2012 survey questionnaire for candidates running for federal office.

9. Will you support legislation to shut down the Transportation Security Administration and place airport security back into private hands?

     Yes, I will support legislation to shut down the Transportation Security Administration, and support legislation to transition the T.S.A.'s administration to non-public hands, including private hands.

     I will urge commercial airports to apply to the T.S.A.'s Screening Partnership Program in order to transition to private screening while maintaining T.S.A. oversight. Also, I will sponsor constitutional amendments to strengthen the 4^th Amendment, and legislation to prohibit any and all activities of the T.S.A. and its Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (V.I.P.R.) teams which violate the civil liberties enumerated therein. I will also oppose efforts to expand the jurisdiction of the T.S.A. to additional and new forms of transportation.

      I will additionally support legislation to transition the responsibility to collect funds and to provide for the administration of transportation security at the state and local levels of government, as well as to private hands. Local and market-based alternatives should be free to compete against the federal government to provide better transportation security services – and policy thereof - leaving consumers and taxpayers more free to convey their preferences about local airports' security measures.

      It is for this reason that I will support legislation to introduce even more alternatives to private and local authority, including egalitarian enterprises and non-governmental and quasi-governmental entities. I will sponsor amendments to T.S.A. legislation providing for the options of transitioning of the administration of transportation security to a wider set of alternatives than simply public governmental departments and bureaus, private enterprises, or public-private partnerships; namely, worker-consumer-cooperatives, social purpose enterprises, and non-ministerial quasi-governmental departments.

For more entries on homeland security and terrorism, please visit:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/03/911-heres-what-i-think-happened.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-aurora-batman-massacre.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/national-defense-authorization-act-for.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/september-11th-2001.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/jared-lee-loughner-and-gabrielle.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/in-response-to-question-about-patriot.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/notes-on-osama-bin-ladens-reported-death.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/airport-security-and-expectation-of-harm.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-israeli-role-in-911.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/indefinite-detention-and-2012-ndaa.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/wiretaps-searches-and-patriot-act.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/identification-and-travel-documents.html

For more entries on transportation, transit, travel, and the automobile industry, please visit:

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/01/sovereignty-and-secrecy-freedoms-of.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/spencer-stuart-recruited-executives-for.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/questions-about-roads-eminent-domain.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/economic-policy-for-2012-us-house.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/identification-and-travel-documents.html

On the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Endorsement of Scott Walker in the Recall Election

Written on May 20th, 2012

Edited in April 2014

   The following is my response to a question from Ryan Haack: “Are you going to say something about the Milwaukee Journal[-]Sentinel "endorsing" Walker.[?] ..."

   When Walker said he had no plans to make Wisconsin a Right-to-Work state, I wanted it to be an RTW state, but not just out of disagreement with Walker. That made me to the fiscal right of him.

   I changed my position to being against state RTW laws because I feel that they condition and inhibit contractual obligations for too large a geographical area and too many people. Walker came out in the last week or so saying he supported RTW laws, so now I disagree with him again, which makes my overall policy slightly more palatable to the left.

   Generally, I see the need for austerity and for cuts in government services, but I feel that it's more the federal government's fault than it is Walker's. I'm more likely to support austerity when the people decide it's the right time, not when governors have allowed the feds to bankrupt state and local governments.

   Arthur Kohl-Riggs said something to the effect of "any reasonable governor would have accepted that federal high-speed rail money". I disagree, and I commend Walker for rejecting it. High-speed rail that almost exclusively benefits Midwesterners does not promote the general welfare of all Americans, which I feel should be a necessary condition for federal spending.

   Besides, I think the private sector would do a more efficient and responsible job of constructing transportation infrastructure than the government, and there is less of a chance that that money would have been diverted to other spending projects and ending up in the pockets of politicians and lobbyists.

   Some might respond to the above by saying that the money would end up in the hands of CEOs and the like, and we all know how much Walker likes tax breaks for businesses and the wealthy. But Walker and I do not share the same economic or political philosophy.

   Walker is a corporatist technocrat who supports states' rights to some extent. I favor local communities' rights, and - under such conditions - taxation based on the creation of income disparity (but I also support introducing competition in governance, so that people can choose which fair and neutral party arbitrates disputes which they cannot resolve by themselves).

   In my opinion, Walker is not polarizing because he is farther to the right than people are used to. He is polarizing because – as with any politician, especially a governor or a president, under the current monopoly-government system – it’s Walker’s way or the highway. And that’s just the way it will be if Barrett wins.

   Nobody will be satisfied – and the “general (read: ‘universal’) welfare” clause will never be fulfilled – as long as people cannot vote “none of the above” in every election without having to vote again, and as long as people cannot choose to be governed by anyone other than the federal government along with its state and local subsidiary governments.

   The only politician who will not be polarizing is a candidate who lets people refrain from associating politically with people whose ideologies are nearly or completely irreconcilable with their own.

   Polarizing, extremist politicians are in-style in this political season. Scott Walker and Paul Ryan may be polarizing, but they are not extremist. But the most prominent extremists - people like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson – are somehow not polarizing; Paul has in fact been described as “transpartisan”.

   I feel that this shows that what we need is not “compromise, not capitulation” – as Democratic congressional candidate Mark Pocan put it – but “consensus, not compromise”, as independent congressional candidate myself puts it. This premise alone would satisfy the general welfare requirement.

   Fiscal sanity – not Scott-Walker-style soft money and tax breaks for businesses and the wealthy – helps the pocketbooks of all Americans. A humble foreign policy with a strong national defense – not George-W.-Bush-style interventionist military belligerence – makes all Americans safer.

   I am a Republican only in that republicanism is a means to an end. I respect extremists from both ends of the economic spectrum, because they have goals. All that polarizing, non-extremist, “pragmatic” Democrats and Republicans have to offer us is an all-or-nothing, “my-way-or-the-highway” mindset, and a political culture where an average of 49% of the people are dissatisfied and envious of those who are better represented.

   David Koch was the Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential candidate for president in 1980. Libertarians knew he wasn’t one of them then, and they know he isn’t one of them now. Libertarianism is not about corporate tyranny; it's about discovering to what extent any existing corporate tyranny is the fault of the State.The results of a (very in-depth, I must say) political quiz I recently took shows that libertarianism is nowhere near as all-or-nothing as the framed, false Republican-Democrat, "left-vs.-right" dichotomy. The quiz described me as a Libertarian Party sympathizer first, a Green Party sympathizer second, a Republican third, and a Democrat fourth.

   In conclusion, I am not voting in the recall election. I will vote in a Wisconsin gubernatorial election when and only when a candidate makes credible promises to start issuing passports; to advocate for the construction of consular offices with the purposes of establishing diplomacy with the foreign, alien federal government; and to re-assert the state's freedom, independence, and sovereignty, which is referenced in official federal government documents spanning from 1778 to just three years ago.

   Until that day happens, I urge my fellow (automatic, de-facto, default) Wisconsinites to vote "none of the above" if that is an option, and to remember to make as many qualifications as possible when making excuses for a representative of any agency at any level of one of the several governments to which we were presumed to have consented to delegate powers when we decided (without informed consent) to be born within the unnatural borders of a corporate State in proximity to the parent company which calls itself the United States Government.

For more entries on Wisconsin politics, please visit:

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/01/against-tammy-baldwin.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2011/05/scott-walker-vs-unions.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/01/against-pocan-roys-worzala-and.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/02/on-scott-walker-and-government-secrecy.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/04/against-lee-pocan-roys-worzala-and.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/04/campaign-tri-fold-flyer.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/05/campaign-poster.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/08/speech-at-capitol-in-madison-wisconsin.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-happened-when-i-skipped-obamas.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/10/speech-at-great-midwest-marijuana.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/10/wisconsins-2nd-district-us-house-debates.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/10/press-release-october-12th-version-3.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-12th-press-release-version-2.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/10/speech-at-deforest-area-chamber-of.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2012/11/joe-kopsick-vs-fighting-bob-lafollette.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2013/04/letter-to-tammy-baldwin-on-gun-control.html

http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-didnt-unions-do.html

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