Posted on 05/15/2015 9:23:15 PM PDT by PROCON
When I return to Washington for my arraignment in federal court this week, it will be by car, not gyrocopter. My flying days are over, perhaps forever. Accepting responsibility for my actions means I accept their consequences, which I always took seriously. As my freedom rests in the court’s hands, my hope is that Americans will understand why I took the risk to deliver them a message: We the people must pay attention to democracy.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion about my flight over the Mall last month, but I did not commit this peaceful protest thoughtlessly. The most important requirements were met: No one was hurt, no property was damaged and the message was delivered. It was a message Americans agree with.
A poll by the Global Strategy Group indicates that 91 percent of Americans see the corrosive influence of money in our political system as a problem that demands attention. And in a Gallup tracking poll, voters identified frustration with government as their No. 1 concern in recent months, ahead of the economy and jobs.
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I’d be more sympathetic if he had protested the Clinton Foundation, Muslim terrorism, or Clinton rapes.
Whats wierd is he did not fly his copter when unions and lawyers gave to democrats. Its only when the GOP found a way to even the game that it became an important issue.
For example:
"I am sorry these people had to lose their lives. But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be."
-- Timothy McVeigh
All the criminal rationalizations in the world don't make a criminal an honest man, or a murderer a patriot.
Right, and I flew an X-Wing fighter into the Galactic Republic's Death Star to save our democracy. Nothing to see here folks, move along... no really move along.
A lot of people want to snipe over semantics, but the fact is the guy is right. Our elected representatives look at us a supplicants rather than their bosses.
I mean seriously people, do you feel well represented?
Interesting case he’s making to try to get out of decades in the slammer for a silly stunt. Hit up something populist and see if a jury is dumb enough to buy it...but it is DC, after all.
And how did that work out for you?
Remember, he’s not out to convince US. All he has to do is convince one member of the jury.
It ain’t money, its “speech”.
Our elected officials are bought and sold. We sit back and cheer when the “right” people are doing the buying. In effect, we’ve reduced the political process down to a form of fantasy football.
I wonder how Mr. Hughes feels about the foreign money pouring into the Clinton Foundation.
From his rambling and ranting, one can deduce that Mr. Hughes is a Democrat. Hence, the foreign and domestic money going to the Clintons and Obama does not matter.
That matches the pep rally Party mentality of the masses.
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