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Thu Aug-07-08 12:07 AM
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My introduction to DU

Edited on Thu Aug-07-08 12:22 AM by claypool4prez

Hi this is Roy Carter, I'm running for U.S. Congress in North Carolina's fifth district.

I'm logging in under the account of one of my staff members who happens to be a former student of mine.

Soon I will create my own account to discuss the issues with you, and hear out the concerns of the good progressives.

I wanted to introduce myself to this site, properly.

Once upon a time in my mountains, and all across America we had ideas, ideas of equality and of progress both socially and economically, and we shared them freely without fear.

We were once a truly great and virtuous land.

For decades though, those ideas of peace and prosperity have lost influence, and our true patriots have been silenced.

Patriotism was mistook for allegiance to one's country, even if that country was going to war without proper cause. And now we're creeping toward the edge of crisis. Our foreign relations are in shambles, our economy sunk in a recession.
Many have been robbed of their liberty.
Others are forced to work for insufficient wages, and are expected to provide for their families by scrapping for them the bare minimum,
Too few live in luxury, while the masses have to decide between paying for medicine or purchasing groceries.
And our environment? That too is stained by pollution deteriorating by the second.
Those are but individual arrows of a barrage that pierced the warm heart of a once promising America, where liberty was more than just a word engraved on a coin.
Our society can exist without a common belief, be we cannot endure without a common goal. A common aim based upon common sense, which is invested in the common interest, and based on an appreciation of who we are, where we came from, and what we can achieve.
Therefore we must work together for a common purpose, one that is beneficial for all.

I'm reaching out to you because this is perhaps the most critical time in modern American history. But more than that, I'm reaching out to you because, for some reason, even though I've never met you, we are together engaged in a struggle, thus joining us in a righteous bond.

We have a chance to change things in this country. But that window for change is creaking smaller by the second. But we must act, and we must act in solidarity, for jobs are at stake, and our very livelihood is at stake. Our environment is at stake.

Our children deserve affordable healthcare, and their older siblings deserve affordable college educations.

Hopefully you will be willing to fight along side me for change, and if so there are a few things you ought to know about who I am and why I'm here.

I decided to run for Congress even though I'm a poor farmer and a lifelong high school science teacher, to improve the lives of my students, get them healthcare, low interest loans if they want to go to college, and above all bring my former students home from Iraq, and make sure none of my students will ever have to fight over there again.

If anybody ask you what Roy Carter stands for, you tell em' progress and values.
The values of empathy, charity, community, choice, sincerity, equality, audacity, sanguinity, tolerance, compassion, conviction, altruism, veracity, grit and common sense are the ones I take to heart, and the ones I instilled in my students.

For those are the principles that demand clout, civic duty, fiscal responsibility, environmental concern, and initiate social harmony and a united push for Peace.

That is why we protest against a form of representation that exists without the blessing of we the represented. We demand to be represented by one of our own, someone who struggled day to day just like we do now, and someone who would never turn their back on us.

As a high school teacher and football coach in some of the poorest communities in North Carolina, I've witnessed first hand the sojourning of economic advancement. Year after year students would step into my classroom with worn shoes, and the same tattered jeans and ragged shirts.

Therefore I could not sit idly by as things continued to take a turn for the worse. A new representative is required in my district, one who knows that not only should government protect every citizen, it must more importantly look out for their own personal well being. It is the right of the human being, regardless of race, class, or religion for which government was established.

They won't talk about it on television much, but there is still a war going on. And it is a debauched war that should have never been waged in the first place. A blind man should have seen the disaster coming, the magnitude, the toll, and the endless duration of the conflict.

No more, I say. No more.

I was ardently against any unprovoked quarrel with Iraq, from the initial outset, because preemptive war is not the American way, nor the human way, and not something any decent person would stand for.

However many were swept up in a scuttled sense of patriotism, and supported it without properly justifying it. And now our bravest sons and daughters, husbands and wifes, and mothers and fathers, our real patriots are stuck in a desert, far from their families, far from their children, and far too far from home.

Our brave soldiers deserve to come home. And I owe it to my former students and players, and their families to bring them home, in one piece and not in body bags. That is why I run.

Sadly, we are the aggressor, the world has not been made safer, and America is no more secure than it was a decade ago, nor are our dear children.

My proposition is peace.

But we're not going to leave Iraq with chicken-hawks like my opponent, Virginia Foxx, casting votes.

Therefore I must liberate this district and it is Foxx and her insufferable boorish gofers that stand in my way, in our way. In the way of peace.

If we can cut the head off the right-wing dragon, though, the rest of the monsters will crawl back in their caves. So I must take aim at the supercilious Madame Foxx, and focus on ending her disgraceful stint as the representative of my district. Because she is not a true representative in any conceivable way. She shuns the poor, condemns the rights of our kids to healthcare, all the while looking the other way as this corrupt administration commits war crimes. And she remains loyal to those scoundrels for what amounts to little more than a schoolgirl crush on George W. Bush.

Virginia Foxx has blood on her hands, and they shall remain stained until she is willing to give up her crush and vote for the common good, to bring home our loved ones, in one piece.

Her heart no longer feels, her soul has turned black, her brain is stuck on stall, and her reputation is dead. And with your support her days in office are numbered, I can promise you that.

And once each of us opens the eyes of our friends and neighbors they will be more than willing to set their fresh sights on something more, on something that puts food on their tables, and provides medicine for their children.

We're building momentum, that started places like here, and it's spreading across the nation. And here in North Carolina it's flowing down our mountains like the storm waters of justice.

Cynics say I cannot win in my district, just as they say that you cannot take back America. They say I'm wasting my time.

But for whatever reason the fight isn't over for some of us.
And we choose to continue to fight for a return of justice, Habeas Corpus, civil liberties, affordable college, healthcare for all, and an end to any and all wars.

So tell your children, tell all who will listen, that the righteous have returned. They are here, and I proudly proclaim that I am one of them, and one of you.
The hearts that were broken shall be healed, the progressive thoughts that have been derelict will be revived.

Right here on this sight, just look around. We're ready to stand up, higher and higher, and take on whatever and whoever stands in our way.

We are not alone, remember that. This movement is taking place not just on this site, or in my district, it is taking place across this land, from shore to shore.

We aren't going to simply hand over Mississippi, not this time, or wave a white flag in Utah, throw in the towel in Alabama, or call Kentucky a lost cause. And they write off my district high atop the mountains of Western North Carolina only because we've allowed them to write us off.
No more. No more, I say.

The righteous have returned, because we've been waiting in the shadows for far too long, waiting for the hard times to end. We must make them end.

So make no mistake this shall be a campaign against those who covet power, by those that require liberty. We're here, we're out there on the streets, and we're not backing down. Not this time. We're going to reach out and bring others to our cause with a zeal that's never before been witnessed. With a passion that will make headlines and a commitment that will carry over for years to come.

We will hit every street, travel down every gravel road, climb every mountain, and walk every valley spreading the seeds of redemption across my district and across this land.

I have laid everything on the line to bring my former students home, and out of harm's way. And so I ask you to join me now, measure your worth, and stand up for no more war, no more pollution, and a change in our national course.

And so I ask you to get ready, to join me hand in hand as we march forward for progress, because I have a campaign to win, and we all have a country to take back.

Thank you,

Roy J. Carter

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/18412

www.roycarterforcongress.com

My introduction to DU

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