I’m not at all embarrassed by the word Freak.

To be abnormal, to deviate from the style of government that I deplore in America today, is not only wise but necessary.

I think it’s time for someone to run on some kind of realistic platform rather than to get into this hypocritical gibberish that’s characterized politics in this country for I don’t know how long and still does in most parts of it.

The idea here isn’t to destroy the system or to work within it but to seize it, to drive the pigs off the ship without sinking the ship itself and putting us all in life rafts.

It seems to me, the only way to cope with the power is not to ignore it, but to get it.

So to that end,

I pledge to take control of my political destiny and the political destiny of my community and do what the whole notion of democracy is based on, to participate.