I,
Drew Kopf, am running for President; and here is what I intend to do:
On January
1, 2004, I launched my campaign for the Presidency of the United States by
placing a few pages on the World Wide Web. As Election Day, Tuesday, November
2, 2004, approached, I added additional pages to provide those who are interested
in the details of how they could help take control of our country's government
away from the power brokers in the political parties by electing real outside-the-beltway
people as President and Vice President of the United States and, as elected
officers at every level of government in the United States.
I continued to add pages
with information about my positions on the issues that concern the people
of our nation and about my qualifications that I believed and still believe
make me the best and most logical candidate for the office of President of
the United States.
While others declared
their candidacies and were decided upon by the various parties and power groups,
I approached people with the option that gives them a better choice; that
is, to take the power back to the people and away from the power brokers.
I have been pointing out what can be done to do just that and have been inviting
people who feel as I do, to act on those feelings by working with me to over
throw the parties by electing a truly independent person as President of the
United States. The people who will need to be supporting this effort are regular
people with only the good of the country in mind and not the hope for personal
gains other than to free themselves from the tyrannical debasement of the
system under which we have been struggling for far too long. I offer the following
challenges:
If people from your community,
people whom you knew to be good, honest and forthright people; people who
were not doing the bidding of party politicians, but, rather, coming together,
on their own, for the good of the community; if such a group approached you,
you who might be a recently retired person, or a person in mid-career, or
an energetic student ready to begin your career, or an independent business
person, a person whom they respected and in whom they had faith, and if they
asked that you take the next two, three, four or even six years off from your
current commitments to commit yourself instead to the service of your community,
would you at least consider doing it? If the community were prepared to provide
you with sufficient funds to sustain yourself during that period, would you
not serve your community in that way for the greater good of us all and then,
at the end of that service, return to your former endeavors?
I would. And, that is
what I ask you to do; to pick a job in the service of our country and to step
forward and do it. There are offices at almost every level of government service
to be decided upon in elections each year. If only the powerful people are
allowed to continue unencumbered to get placed by their political parties
in those positions, then in truth all the criticism you our I may make about
the way they run things will be undeserved and we will surely continue to
be laughable to those who continue to play the rest of us for the fools we
continue to be.
There are enough independent
people in our country to wrench the reigns of power away from the party bosses
and their want-to-be followers; the insiders who have been permitted by the
rest of us to pad the government with do-nothing jobs for their friends and
families, who come up with all kinds of schemes that give those connivers
all sorts of free vacations and government vehicles for private use and all
manor of other needless benefits while snickering to each other at how much
this one or that one got this time.
They are absolutely laughing
at us; at you and at me and at every one of us who continues to let them get
away with it. If you think that the few of them who "get caught"
every now and again are any kind of proof that the government officials are
the watchdogs they hold themselves out to be; think again; for they are anything
but. They are members of one political party or another and only move in on
the few cheaters who go too far even by their ridiculously low standards and
as a way to demonstrate to the rest of us that they are doing their jobs;
bologna. The graft, pork and cheating goes far beyond the few that get led
away in chains on slow news days and you know it.
Heed my call. Get into
the fray. Run for office and get others who are truly independent Americans
to run for office too. Take over the government one office and one job and
one judgeship and one Presidency at a time. Stop waiting on the side lines
and complaining to each other about how bad it is and wondering who it is
who are allowing this governmental mockery to continue as it has. Because
until you actually do something, and by that I mean start serving your community
from the inside, or at least trying to do so, which, by the way, can go a
long way to scaring the party folks at the leadership level, you are part
of the problem.
Join me. Learn how to
cast your vote for an Independent Write-In Candidate for President of the
United States and how to make certain that your vote counts in your state.
Then start running for office; and run like your life depends on it; for believe
me, it does.
