Ralph Nader, the attorney, activist, public speaker, author, defender of the constitutuion, and sometimes presidential canidate, came and spoke at Tulane this week. Under the guise of running for president, Nader stopped in New Orleans long enough to remind a packed auditorium about the ideals that the country was founded upon and the prevailing threats that assail them right now.
In terms of his political aspirations my friend Joey described him as "The exterminator who is running for the top position among vermin." It takes a serious man to take on such a foolhardy task and to keep up a doomed mission.
But make no mistake, Ralph Nader is getting results. This here is proof.
His speech was informative and rallying. From illegal wiretapping, to student loan inflation, to privatized prison systems there is no scandal this man is not keeping score on (just like he did when he first took the auto industry in 1965). Which is good! Because somebody has to stay alert. Or has he would explain, we all do. Its our civic duty to stay informed and from there keep the government in check and under our thumbs.
That is why every four years he traverses the country, going to all 50 states, to deliver speeches to people so that they don't forget the state that the union is in. He's 74 and still full of passion, anger, and hope for this country and its ability to make a u-turn away from the course it is currently on.
However, only if we all decide to grab the wheel.
(here are some notes with electronic paint)
"The american people can have anything they want but it seems as though they want nothing much at all."
"Better to vote for the thing you believe in and lose than to vote for the thing you don't believe in and win"
-Eugene Debs (his hisotrical role model)
On the current educatuion system:
MEMORIZATION TO REGURGITATION TO VEGETATION; THEY TEACH US TO OBEY BUT NOT TO CHALLENGE
(Now excuse me while I go update my account on facebook)
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