Posted on 05/11/2006 10:11:46 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Zirkle suggestions stir attention pot
Candidate to shred Playboy magazine; discusses Korea.
JAMES WENSITS
Tribune Political Writer
SOUTH BEND -- Give Tony Zirkle props for knowing how to get attention.
Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican nomination in the 2nd District congressional race, already has proposed putting deadbeat dads on U.S. border patrol duty and said he would be willing to debate the notion of bringing back the guillotine to punish "porn-pimps" who prey on children.
Now, Zirkle says, he will shred a copy of the "original Marilyn Monroe Playboy magazine" at a Monday news conference in his South Bend law office. He has made a campaign issue of pornography and sex-related crimes.
According to Zirkle, he paid $1,200 to an Internet source to acquire the rare magazine so that he could destroy it.
Although it contains a nude photo of Marilyn Monroe, Zirkle conceded that the magazine is tame by today's standards of pornography.
Zirkle has sought to call attention to his low-budget campaign with a series of news conferences and startling statements.
On Thursday, Zirkle suggested the unification of North and South Korea and giving North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il 60 days in which to abdicate or face the threat of a unified invasion by the United States and China.
To get the North Korean leader to agree to abdication, Zirkle suggested tempting him with international amnesty for his crimes -- and the offer of a professorship at either Beijing University or Yale University.
Zirkle also discussed the failure of the Ottoman Empire to unite what is now modern-day Iraq, and said the United States shouldn't be obsessed with the idea either.
One option, he suggested, would be to unite the Kurds in northern Iraq with the millions of Kurds in Turkey, the Sunnis in the center with Jordan and Shia in the south with Kuwait.
Zirkle dubbed those new states "Turkurdistan," "Jordiraq" and "Kuwaitimesopotamia."
Another option would be to form three, mostly independent states into an Iraqi confederation. The confederation would have a central government with limited powers, he said. The United States could then enter into an agreement to defend all three of the states against outside attack.
Separating the three entities could help prevent civil war and bring stability to the region, Zirkle said.
Zirkle also called for a public debate on uniting Pakistan and Afghanistan into a single nation.
He conceded that the United States would have to secure the aid of Russia and China to support his nation-changing proposals.
Ping!
I will suggest "Turdistan" as a contender.
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