Free And Equal Presidential Debate
By Bob Small
The second 2024 Free and Equal Debate happened on Thursday, Feb 29.
The moderators were Christina Tobin and Jason Palmer who was a Democratic presidential candidate included in the last Forum.
The participants were the Green Party’s Jasmine Sherman and Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party’s Lap Mapstead and Chase Oliver, and the Socialist Party’s Claudia De La Cruz.
A video of the event can be seen on Rumble and You Tube.
Chase Oliver was the candidate who impressed me the most, although the others had their moments.
Oliver received 80,000 votes in the 2022 Georgia Senate race.
He is platform includes returning to an Ellis Island style of processing immigrants and ending qualified immunity for federal law enforcement. He also wants to abolish the death penalty.
He also wants to abolish the FISA amendments act of 2008, the Patriot Act, and end the TSA.
Oliver also seeks to return America to being a republic rather than an empire. He wants to close all overseas bases and immediately return active-duty personnel to domestic bases. He wants to end aid to nation currently at war.
He wants to abolish the Department of Education and supports gun rights for all.
He’s probably too smart to ever be elected President.
Both Adlai Stevenson (Princeton) and Michael Dukakis (Swarthmore) were defeated rather handily.
Because of that, he also won’t be our first Gay President.
I like all except “abolish the death penalty” because the cost of prison plus their health care? Likely over $70,000/ year! Paying for all the illegals and all the corrupt judges? Prison is a big expense!
How about USA ship their “death row inmates” to Israel or Great Britain? They are our allies, maybe they can afford our failed policies! I sure can’t.