Bernie was featured on the Bud Hedinger show this morning. It was an excellent interview. Listen to it below:
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Bud Hedinger Interview
December 30th, 2009Denying Floridians The Right To Vote
December 22nd, 2009Florida is currently one of the few states that denies the right to vote to men and women after they are released from prison. If you believe that once a person has paid their debt to society that their rights to vote should be restored then please sign this petition below. here.
Denying Floridians The Right To Vote is Wrong
December 6th, 2009Florida deprives over half a million of its citizens the right to vote because they have a felony conviction. Although these men and women have paid their debt to society by completing their sentences and supervision requirements, they are still denied the right to vote. Governor Crist championed this cause when he was running for Governor and then
followed through when he was elected. The problem is that instead of automatic restoration, these citizens have to go through a cumbersome process that in many cases takes up to several years before someone’s rights are restored. Florida is one of only 14 States that do not automatically restore a person’s right to vote when they have finished their sentence.
If you are a Florida citizen 18 years or older and would like to correct this injustice, please print the following form. Then print your full name, address, city, state, zip. If you would like to stay informed about the progress of this cause, please also add your email address. When you are finished please help by having your family and friends do the same. When the list is complete or when you have gotten all of the names you can, then please return the form to FEORC, PO Box 1748, Ocala, FL. 34478.
WOCA Radio Interview
December 6th, 2009Bernie had a radio interview on WOCA in Ocala and the audio is below. Let us know what you think
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Patriotic Gathering
December 4th, 2009Glenn Beck in the Villages
December 3rd, 2009Bernie and some of his volunteers went to The Villages to see Glenn Beck.
Religious Leaders Take Strong Stand
December 3rd, 2009
The Manhattan Declaration is a document written and signed by leaders of prominent Christian and Catholic denominations with a purpose to declare firm positions against abortion and gay marriage, and for religious liberty.
If you are not aware of this cause I would strongly urge you to get informed and involved with the Manhattan Project. The 154 original religious leaders who signed the declaration have all taken a stand and said that on these three issues they strongly support civil disobedience. I went to the site two days after it went online and there were already over 20,000 signers. As of this morning, there were close to 242,000 signers. It has grown tenfold in a little over a week.
Please take a moment to go on the site and read about it and if you are in agreement please sign on and send it to everyone on your elist.
Obama’s Political Afghanistan Troop Dance
December 3rd, 2009
Tuesday night December 1st, 2009, Obama addressed the nation and finally announced his plans for the war in Afghanistan. Gen. Stanley McChrystal had had assured Obama that with 40,000 additional troops for a surge in he could win the war in Afghanistan. After months of “dithering” Obama gave him 30,000. It took Obama all this time to figure all of the political angles before he could make his decision. Such is the corrupt world of politics created by an absolute void of national leaders in our nation’s capitol. Nothing is ever decided on face value. In this case, the only decision should have been “what is the best decision which will save the most American lives and produce the best outcomes.” Instead, it is all about how to appease this group and that group and how to get into the best position to get the most out of the 2010 mid-term and eventual 2012 Presidential election.
To make matters worse Obama announces that we are going to begin to withdraw our troops in 18 months. There was no reason on earth to telegraph our intentions other than as Charles Krauthammer said on Fox News last night, “To throw a sop to his base.”
Abuse & State Reform School
November 22nd, 2009Crist, others, bear shame for the white house boys
Silence is a terrible thing.
In this case, however, silence speaks volumes about our state’s elected officials, especially Governor Charlie Crist. When most thinking people would expect an official outcry about the inhuman and inhumane conditions at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, all we get from senior elected officials in this state is silence.
The lack of public response by the state’s leadership to media revelations of the horrors at the Dozier School – and the pain and suffering inflicted on boys in its infamous white house – leads one to conclude one of three things about Crist and others in a position to force change, all unflattering: One, they just don’t care; two, they don’t believe the media and eye-witness reports of the shocking conditions at the “school”; or three, the boys are too young to vote and therefore don’t merit attention.
Rather than grabbing self-serving headlines by empanelling a statewide grand jury to investigate official corruption in public office in Florida, Crist should have been at the gates of Dozier demanding the warden’s head and initiating the process to close the place to bring an end once and for all to the concentration-camp-like treatment of the inmates there. (He still would have gotten the positive media attention he so craves).
It has always been said that you can judge the humanity of a society by the way it treats the less fortunate among its citizens, and all Floridians can share some of the shame for the legacy of pain that has been written into the history books by the Dozier School. And yet, our share of the shame is lessened by the reality that we, as individuals, have little real power to change what goes on there. History has shown that governor after governor has neglected to take corrective action to protect the boys sentenced to serve hard time there, a dereliction of duty that appropriately increases their personal measure of the collective shame for allowing those evils to continue.
This is 2009, the facts about Dozier have been well established by the media once again, and it’s time to put in place a plan to gradually reduce the staff and inmate population and close the facility. If Crist and others in positions of leadership in the state aren’t concerned or caring enough to do it – or just lack the chutzpah – then the federal courts should take over and begin the process.
And, if our state’s leadership needs evidence of the evils there from one more eye witness – one more victim of abuse at Dozier – I’ll be glad to share with them my personal experience there as one of the white house boys.
(Bernie DeCastro, an Ocala resident, is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010.)
Glenn Beck
November 18th, 2009-
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