Announcement: Independent American Progressives Council Launches

As an organization established to support Independent Progressive Candidates for public office, IAPC needs to employ a set of core principles by which it can establish trust in any individual seeking its support. 

Throughout US political history, individuals have designated themselves as "Progressive".  In many ways, some of these individuals actually represented Progressive ideals and actively sought to pass these ideals through the legislative process. 

Some self-proclaimed "Progressives" have shown a limited degree of Progressive thinking in a few particular areas while being either status quo or even regressive in other areas.  In recent years, particularly after the Twin Towers incident, many so-called progressives (Progressive Democrats) reacted politically, rather than intelligently and independently, by supporting illegal wars.  Principle either never truly existed or was lost somehow.  Years later, these same "progressives", once the wars became unpopular, back tracked and began to speak out against the war (even though some still voted support for continued funding).  Some so-called progressives reacted to the financial crisis by going along with ill-conceived bail outs rather than acting intelligently and independently.  Of course, many of them owe a great deal of their campaign finances to the corporations which were bailed out. 

There are even so-called progressives, such as Anthony Weiner, who actually support  an apartheid regime (Israel) and would go so far in that support that they would seek to deny 1st Amendment rights to groups and individuals who speak out against that regime and its multiple abuses and violations of International Law.  It is simply not enough that these individuals may have supported a single-payer health system similar to those employed in every industrial nation accept the US (later voting for the corporate friendly mess passed into law). 

IAPC finds that candidates who are willing to accept and seek funding from corporations who outsource jobs, are subsidized in doing so, are involved in shady and illegal dealings which cause irreparable harm to citizens, are incestuous within federal programs ostensibly established to serve the health and welfare of citizens and a host of other corruptions are not genuinely "progressive".

For this reason, IAPC sets a standard, its core principles, that it expects will meet the approval of , and adherence by, candidates seeking support from IAPC.  Being core principles, it is expected that all the listed criteria will be accepted.. not just one here and another there.  Independent Progressive candidates may well adhere to more principles than warranted by IAPC and that is most laudable.  To obtain recognition and support from IAPC, however, they cannot adhere to less.  In fact, one condition of support from IAPC is that a candidate receiving any form of support from IAPC must sign an agreement which clearly provides, should they veer from the core principles at any time during their campaigns or during elected office, they become liable for return of all support granted and are black listed in all future campaigns.  

In this way, IAPC attempts to hold candidates to the highest standards insuring that the public gets the best possible representation.

I cannot stress enough the importance of acting, and acting now, to address the current crisis in American politics. 

In spite of claims to the contrary by our President of "Hope" & "Change", America is now embroiled in 3 wars-- Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Our government just failed in a coup attempt in South America and is posturing more military and clandestine operations there and in numerous other countries around the globe.  Our government is supporting an apartheid regime subjecting Palestinians to daily abuse, death and destruction.  Our President believes it is his right to order assassination of American citizens without charge, trial or conviction.  While Americans are losing jobs, their homes and retirements, a result of decades of pandering to corporations and their rabid greed, our President and Representatives from both parties are telling us that handing more control and resources to the corporations will solve these crises.  As these legislative gifts to corporations are effected, the corporations continue their pillage of our nation and demand still more from us. 

Rather than putting an end to unpaid wars that have no bearing on the defense of our nation, the government escalates them and they, the politicians, and their corporate bosses increase their wealth and diminish our already weak grasp on survival.  Their answer to the costs is not to pull money from their own pockets but to take away our survival nets and hand them over to the corporations.  Their response to an overwhelming desire of Americans to have universal single-payer health care is to hand more business to the insurance industry responsible for the health care debacle.  Their response to the corruption of Wall St and the devastation it caused to our economy is to feed them more of our money and attempt to justify it with meaningless regulations. 

At a time when the average flesh and blood citizen can't get a fair shake, a corrupt Supreme Court declares that brick and mortar corporations are citizens with privileges and benefits untouchable by you and me.  And as the brick and mortar of this nation's infrastructure ages and crumbles, our representatives order duct tape and chewing gum to "rebuild and repair". 

A major corporation dumps millions of gallons of both oil and corrosive contaminants in the gulf and lies about the amounts, the damages and the decades of loss, both economic and health wise. 

I am barely touching the surface of the catastrophe we and our children face.  And while one party blames the other, the truth is both are responsible... and demonstrably so.

The greed, avarice and corruption of the major corporations and their Democrat & Republican minions has spilled over to Europe, not as a trickle but a flood.  In Europe, the people (workers like you and me) are rising up in anger, striking, rioting, demanding arrests and removal of corrupt and complicit politicians.  In America, we convince ourselves that changing parties from Democrat to Republican or Republican to Democrat is the answer and will put an end to all these ills.  Some of us have bought into the notion that a new group, the Tea Party, holds the key even though the facts are clear the Tea Party, predominantly Republican, is a manifestation of think tanks from the very corporations now raping the nation. 

In Europe, citizens actually have greater access to real news and have a far greater grasp on reality than here in corporate owned and controlled TV, radio, and print land.  The dissension now rising in Europe is from workers attempting to protect rights they have fought for and gained.  The banks, corporations and G7, G8 and G20 have mandated that those rights be taken away.  In the US, we have yet to obtain many of those rights.  While Progressives, in the US, fight to gain those rights, the GOP and Tea Party fight to insure we never get them.  The Democrats simply devise ways to make us think we are getting rights afforded to those of other countries while padding their pockets by selling us out through the back door.  A fully complicit media, in the US, does its very best to report lies as facts and facts as lies.  The vast majority of Americans are still not aware of how media obtains the stories they report.  It is a fact that most of the news is packaged by the parties interested in manipulating what we see, think and feel.  The media simply reprints what it is handed and passes it off as genuine reporting.  When an organization or individual blows the whistle on the lies and coverups filling our media, the government responds to protect the guilty... not the people.

But we have an option, America!  Some individuals refuse to be bought.  Refuse to be controlled by parties, by corporations, by think tanks, by media... These individuals need our support.  We need to promote them from the grass roots.. urge them to surface on our behalf... give them the chance to rest our government and our nation from the hands of career criminals.  

IAPC is the beginning of a true political revolution.  It is genuinely our last hope in using the system we have to affect real change.  The Democrats, Republicans and Tea Party are all leading us to corporate dictatorship.  That day is coming sooner than one might think.  It is not unrealistic to state that should we, as a nation, fail to act... and quickly... physical revolution will become our only option.  In fact, more and more individuals with whom we speak are beginning to believe physical revolution is our only viable present option.  IAPC hopes to prove them wrong.  Again, I stress, time is running short!

IAPC has, as its sole purpose, the support of a truly grass roots resistance to the complete take over of this Nation by corporations.  To do so, we have to eliminate the thinking that there is any possibility of accomplishing this goal through working with any of the corporate controlled parties.  Eisenhower warned America of the dangers from the marriage of corporations and the military... and we slept while the corporations succeeded.  It is now virtually impossible for a President, selected by the corporations financing both major parties and the Tea Party, to stand up to the military .  Only a true citizen rebellion can accomplish this and it will take a massive movement and commitment from the grass roots to educate  the masses, finance and support Independent Progressives for all offices, and hold them to their commitment to the people. 

IAPC is neither a Socialist nor a Communist program.  We fully expect to be called such by those who will fear our efforts. Our commitment is to promote what we already have in such a way that it progressively benefits 100% of Americans... not the 2% currently benefiting while the remaining 98% scramble.  Our support and supporters are, regardless of any affiliations, viewed as individual commitments to our efforts. We do not accept financial support from any group, organization, lobby or other entity which, in any way, seeks to move us, in any direction, away from our stated purpose.

To get this movement off the ground... and as quickly as possible... IAPC needs your commitment, your grass roots volunteerism and your donations.  To find out more, volunteer, form your own chapter, donate, support or contribute your own insights, thoughts and ideals please visit us at http://iapc.webs.com/ or write to IAPC@gsinet.net

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