AKTUALIZOVANO:
www.anoprosvejnara.cz

Tisková zpráva; Představení občanské iniciativy ANO PRO ŠVEJNARA.

Dnes, v pondělí 4. února, proběhne v 16:00 v kavárně Krásný ztráty (Náprstkova 10, Praha 1) představení nové občanské iniciativy ´Ano pro Švejnara´. Nová občanská iniciativa se představí veřejnosti a promluví politolog a nakladatel Alexander Tomský.

Občanská iniciativa má za cíl podpořit prezidentskou kandidaturu Jana Švejnara v nadcházejících prezidentských volbách. Součástí představení nové iniciativy budou následující body:

-webová stránka www.anoprosvejnara.cz
-internetová petice ´Výzva volitelům KDU-ČSL: Odmítněte politický obchod´
-podpořte Jana Švejnara emailem svému voliteli
-diskusní fórum
-zajímavé články a odkazy

Iniciativu podpořilo již během víkendu několik desítek osob z veřejného a kulturního života.

Představení občanské iniciativy se koná v baru Krásný ztráty, neboť nezvolení Václava Klause by bylo ´krásnou ztrátou´ pro Českou republiku.

Bližší informace poskytnou:

Lukáš Sedláček.
lukassedlacek@hotmail.com, 776 043 773

Jiří Š. Cieslar
jcieslar@seznam.cz, 736 181 391

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Once upon a time in Ontario, Canada, a party leader by the name of Bob Rae became the premier of the country's largest and richest province. It was a magical election. Took the entire electorate by storm. "Dark horse?" An understatement!

I powered through this weekend's news material on the johnny-cum-lately "scandals" (ironic?) swirling about the Svejnar camp, and I couldn't help but think back to the year 1990 in Ontario. That was when New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Rae ousted the Liberal administration from power...a party which nearly had the automatic vote of the Ontario electorate if it voters didn't opt for the go-to Consevatives, the province's erstwhile Big Blue Machine.

It was a resounding majority victory. The NDP landed 74 out of the 107 seats up for grabs in the Legislature, and it was a message from the Ontario electorate to the ruling Libera and Conservative pashas that the time for their brand of politics had definitely run its course. As I remember it, it was a great year in Ontario.

What made Rae's victory so significant was that this was the first time a neo-socialist party had won a provincial election west of the province of Manitoba in Canada. The resounding NDP triumph baffled the NDP's most strident critics and pundits -- even Rae himself -- who wasn't expecting to do so well.

The later policies of the NDP during their five year reign completely changed the way politics was practiced in Ontario, and several of the programs enacted during their tenure are still on the law books to this day. (Have a look at the link above for some of the things they'd implemented during their half-decade run.)

A propos to Jan Svejnar and his CSSD backers here in the Czech Republic.

What is flying completely over the heads of most of the Czech electorate -- either deliberately, through manipulation, or inadvertently, through our perennial horse-and-blinders approach to ignoring the bitter medicines our society is forced to swallow -- those who have very little present influence in the matter, is that a nod for Svejnar will be so damn good.

It represents change. A change we desperately need.

It's precisely this fact which is making Klaus, Topolanek, and their various handlers perspire bullets, which is why the muck has started flying four days before the presidential tipoff. They've sent some junior ODS lackey down to the dusty StB Archives' cellars -- now housed in The Institute for the Study for Totalitarian Regimes (but really, all the files? Klaus doesn't keep any of them at home under his mattress?) -- to spend 18 hour days rifling through the files for some dusty folder which smears not Mr. Svejnar, but Mr. Svejnar's elderly dad!

Like LBJ said...there is no sin in politics for being immoral, only stupid.

Then, as Erik Best writes in his Final Word this morning, Topo did a yeoman's work by casting aspersions on just who is financing Svejnar's romp around Cesko during his recent Roosevelt-ian brand new "New Deal" campaign swing.

The net result is a double whammy against Jan Svejnar...enough to rock the political boat just days before the secret bicameral ballot, and just sufficient to convince any of the straggling on-the-fence Deputies or Senators that perhaps it's best for them to fall into line. An election for Svejnar might result in their being turfed out of office during the next round of regional elections. All that pent-up passive-aggressive rancour of their respective electorates who will passive-aggressively cast their ballots in strong opposition to the StB-collaborating Svejnar extended clan.

I know, all of this sounds completely ludicrous. I'm reading it as a write it, and I can hardly believe it myself.

But what is this truly saying about our electorate? It actually reminds me of the way I talk to some of the young people I meet as part of my professional work.

They'll get all excited about a particular idea, the words cascading out of their mouths faster than the ideas even form in their heads. But then, suddenly, some Bonobo monkey seated way back in the nose bleed section will plant just a single seed of doubt in his/her mind, and all of a sudden there's pin-drop silence. What happened, you ask?

I blame the control-freak teachers in the school system who have poisoned the minds of our young people -- who eventually grow up into working, contributing adults with families -- whipping them into submission, with minds much lesser than their students'. And then these same adults will pass it on to their kids. And the vicious cycle perpetuates...like the clap.

Dear poslanci and senatori: vote for Jan Svejnar because this is the only sensible choice. Be lauded for your uplifting of an entire young generation, instead of for the asphyxiating of yet another crop of our nation's future leaders, change agents, and creative instigators -- not for creating for shit disturbers and miserable folk.

Our young people are not yours for the exploiting, okay? And they certainly aren't your personal pension fund factories.