David Duke, the man used as the main argument against public campaign financing, shows why this measure can save America billions and defend true American interests
By David Duke — MP3
When our American forefathers adopted the Constitution, each congressional district had a small population. Campaigners rode to the villages and towns of their district and truly stumped for votes; that is, they actually stood on a tree stump and made a speech. No one needed powerful special interest groups to finance a campaign because standing on a stump doesn’t cost any money. Members of state legislatures campaigned the same way. To campaign for U.S. Senator one just had to visit the state legislature because it elected U.S. Senators. Again, such campaigning required no money.
Incumbents had no great advantage in campaigns because any challenger had exactly the same opportunity to get his message to the voters.
All that has changed–and America suffers for it.
Make no mistake about it: the present system of lobbying on the national and state level constitutes nothing short of public bribery of elected officials. When a powerful lobby can promise a candidate huge sums of money and perhaps even a windfall job for the lobby after he leaves office – if only he votes their way – it is bribery, pure and simple. Yet, this bribery permeates America’s political system.
AIPAC, a lobby that in effect represents the interests of a foreign government (Israel), is so powerful that hardly a single senator or congressman can afford not to prostrate himself before this altar of Jewish extremism. If an elected official doesn’t go along with AIPAC, not only will he face loss of campaign money he needs, his opponents will be lavished with cash. AIPAC also has contacts with thousands of rich Zionists who can also contribute for or against any candidate deemed important to the Jewish lobby. A recent article in the YNews revealed that the top three campaign contributors in the United States are Jewish extremists, and the biggest is an “Israeli citizen” who controls a media empire in the United States. In addition to their campaign finance clout, an incredible level of Jewish domination exists in the media, and once they deem someone an enemy of the Israeli agenda, they unleash yellow journalism against him with unholy force. The offending politician is lucky if all the media do is ask him if he has stopped beating his wife.
Israeli billionaire Saban biggest donor to US politicians
Communications tycoon has donated at least USD 13 million to American politicians. As a close friend of the Clintons he contributed to the Democrats, but President Bush has not been deprived either
Itamar Eichner
Published: 01.23.07 by YNet News in IsraelIsraeli billionaire and media mogul Haim Saban is at the top of the list of donors to political campaigns in the US.
Fox Network revealed over the weekend that Saban has donated approximately USD 13 million to various candidates.
According to the report, Saban, a close friend of the Clintons, is one of the major donors to the Democratic Party, though he has also
contributed to republican candidates, including President George Bush and Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Next on the list of donors are Stephen Bing, father of Elizabeth Hurley’s son, who donated USD 10 million; Businessman Fred Eichner, who has given candidates USD 8 million… [ All of the top 3, Saban, Bing, and Eichener are Jewish extremists]
When I served in the House of Representatives in Louisiana I saw the corrupt system of campaign financing at work. Vote for certain special interest legislation and the representative will be promised huge amounts of money for his campaign coffers. This was and is perfectly legal.
As a member of the House of Representatives, special interests repeatedly offered me support if I went along with their agenda. I saw this as nothing more than bribery and I never took a cent of special interest campaign money. I fought hard for campaign finance reform. The main argument used against public campaigning is that it is too expensive. In fact, the system of bribery utilized in the lobbies is a hundred times more expensive than would be public campaign financing.
I believe that a minimum of a billion dollars a year is wasted in special interest boondoggles in Louisiana. I am sure the same theft occurs in every state.The system results in countless wasteful projects and expenditures. Allocating a few million dollars for public financing of elections would change all that.
On the federal level, the cost of the special interests and the damage done to America is absolutely incredible. A perfect example again is the Israel lobby in Congress, which has led to billions of dollars in taxpayer’s money going to Israel every year. Over the years the total amounts to Israel is equivalent of tens of thousands of American taxpayer’s dollars for the benefit of every Israeli citizen, citizens who have never paid a penny in U.S. taxes!
But, billions of dollars of theft is only one aspect of the damage done by nefarious lobbies such as AIPAC. AIPAC and the Jewish supremacist Neocons got us into the disastrous Iraq War. By the end of this year the cost will approach one trillion dollars, and that is not counting the human cost to American lives and families. We have now seen about 30,000 Americans either killed or grievously wounded in this insane war that only hurts every American and every true American interest.
One can argue effectively that the special interests that control campaign financing today are the main reason why America has a myriad of ills, why congress constantly defies the overwhelming will of the American people. For example:
The overwhelming majority of Americans want our troops brought home from Iraq.
Yet, instead the government sends more and more Americans into this inferno.
The overwhelming majority of Americans want our government to enforce our laws and defend our borders from illegal immigration.
Yet, instead the most powerful forces in Congress propose Amnesty programs for illegal aliens.
The overwhelming majority of Americans want true equal rights for all and thus an end to the blatant racial discrimination of affirmative action.
Yet, racial discrimination called “affirmative action” against better-qualified European Americans continues in every sector of government and is pervasive in the private sector.
I could expand this list a thousand fold. Every one reading this article can give many examples of how special interests harm prevent policies wanted by the American majority.
The enemies of public campaign financing use me as an example of the terrible consequence of such a law. Even the new advocate of public campaign financing, Sen. Dick Durban, excuses his past opposition to it because of me. Here is a quote from a national news article:
Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, who is up for re-election next year, last week acknowledged changing his mind about public campaign financing in recent years.
He opposed it for years, he said, because he did not want to see candidates like former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke tap taxpayer funds. But Sen. Durbin backs public financing “because the stakes are so high.” He also said lawmakers spend too much time fundraising, to the detriment of their workdays.
I still am the poster boy in the fight against public campaign financing. But, it is not just me that they fear, it is any American who listens to his own conscience, his own opinion, and to his voters rather than the special interests that act only for their own “special interests” to the detriment of the American people.
Stephen Steinlight, former head of National Affairs for the largest Jewish organization in America, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), admitted the incredible power of Jewish lobby, and he wrote very plainly about why Jewish extremists oppose the campaign finance laws:
…Not that our disproportionate political power (pound for pound the greatest of any ethnic/cultural group in America) will erode all at once, or even quickly… Unless and until the triumph of campaign finance reform is complete, an extremely unlikely scenario, the great material wealth of the Jewish community will continue to give it significant advantages. We will continue to court and be courted by key figures in Congress. That power is exerted within the political system from the local to national levels through soft money, and especially the provision of out-of-state funds to candidates sympathetic to Israel,…
Every American who wants an America that defends the heritage and rights of our people should ardently support public financing of elections. It is no wonder that the most powerful Jewish extremist organizations in America oppose it.
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