Our audacity of creating a new political party

with aspirations of becoming

the number one party in the

nation, is our hallmark.

Our mission is to replace both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party as the centers of political power in the United States and among the majority of States of the nation. We must do this in order to prepare ourselves for the economic, social and political meltdown which began in 1976 and has accelerated since then. Failure to act wisely in a timely manner will insure our collective and personal disaster. Don't take any one person's word for it, read all of the well-researched books and articles on the Peak Oil Crisis under: Research heading below.

We've got a project, and this site is a central point to keep track of our goals, the project schedule, and our work in progress. Add pages as necessary, brainstorm on the wiki "whiteboard" pages, and use the person-to-person messaging feature to keep in touch with Members. In order to attract, retain, nourish, and support our members and be supported by them, we follow all of the rules against unlawful discrimination and comply with all applicable and lawful election codes.

We will deploy our talents, insight, force of reason by using the Web, which is second only to the invention of fire or the wheel. Our browser-based party charges no dues (donations are thankfully accepted), no oaths, no commitments, and welcomes folks with no opinions. As a start-up we'll begin on the cheap. However, we will eventually need some resources to fight the good fight for political offices for our candidates and passage of our initiatives and referendums.

We are a self-directed, self-organizing force. We are not amused by the lies, exaggerations, lack of insight, and duplicity of the current political parties. We need truth, objective facts, theories tested against reality, and ways of getting our messages across to our eventual leaders. Prominent is our drive toward returning as much sovereignty to the People of United States as possible -- in an orderly, democratic and peaceful manner. We want Lt. Spock to be proud of our methods and results. Be nice; otherwise you have no creditability.

This website is for your use. Add comments, add pages, edit copy you think is bad, stupid, irrelevant or simply wrong. Add a thread or branch an existing one. Use hyper-links liberally with just a one or two sentence introduction of the target text. Add photos, video clips or audio clips.

We will, over the course of time and with some luck and pluck, put video conferencing tools at your disposal so we can discourse in real time and in delayed time, any subject of your choosing and provide you with the meeting announcement and invitation tools.

Our party platform planks will eventually be voted upon during our Virtual Convention, to be held about 90 days before each national election, on the Web, world-wide among all members of LDR. The only requirement is that, in order to have your vote counted, you have to be a currently registered voter in any State. Your vote counts because our primary is 7/24. We've done away with scheduled primary elections and electoral voting.

Our platform planks are developed from threads. Anyone can start a thread for a future Plank and invite comments. Sixty days prior to the Virtual Convention, we will conduct a vote and the top fifty (or whatever number is approved by the Virtual Convention) planks will be chosen. Those planks will be submitted to the Virtual Convention on the first day and the top Twenty-five (or whatever number is approved by the Virtual Convention) planks chosen. These planks will then be vetted by our panel of experts to make sure they can withstand any legal challenge. The vetted Planks will be returned for 24 hours for comments and then a final vote taken on each of the Planks. Any plank not achieving 51% will be replaced by the next most popular plank and so on until we have twenty-five (or whatever number is approved by the Virtual Convention) approved planks.

Please tell your friends about this site and encourage them to become active players in the next "Party of the First Part". We need our cousin parties to quietly walk off-stage into the sunset and let us get on with the salvation of Planet Earth.

Jim Miller

jimmiller5417@yahoo.com

October 1, 2008

• Rename your home page to describe your project, then lock your home page
  
• Encourage contribution: Write a "task list" for new pages.
  
• Invite all group members to help out! (Click on "Invite others" in the Page Toolbox)
• Use person-to-person messages to stay connected and to send updates, reminders, etc.