Another day. Another misinformed person...

@The_Peacemaker:

WTF? Speak for yourself.

But when was the last Green Party candidate that ever got elected?

Thought so.

This candidate went down very fast!

"During the 90's Jesse was called home three times, first to be the primary care-giver for his grandmother and great great aunt, both of whom had terminal cancer, then for two one hundred year floods within 18 months, which destroyed his Sissonville home and finally because his mother became ill and fell into a coma. "

Two, hundred year floods?! Is this guy Darth Sidious in disguise? Talk about engrish!
"Discouraged with the two party system, and an environmentalist at heart, Jesse began attending Mountain Party meetings a little over a year ago. At the May 3rd convention he lead the charge to keep Nader off the ballot and secured the party nomination for governor. He is the first gubernatorial candidate in the history of the state to secure his place on the general election ballot before the primary election. "

Does not sound like an honest guy compared to Nader. Sounds like a potential dictator in action. Not something one should be proud of if they are upset with the two party system.

"Build a film industry to create jobs, increase tourism, and educate citizens"

Can you say Properganda! Sounds like something that would come out of the book 1984.

"Smaller classrooms and limits on busing "
Okay kids, you better get use to walking 2 miles in the snow to get to school! Same for you old geezers.=] Classroom sizes should depend on what the teacher wants, since they probably know better.

"Every citizen must become a steward of our democratic ideal."
Sounds suditly like; "follow me or die!"

"The world's leader is too powerful to be this flawed without it negatively impacting us all. I know where the weapons of mass destruction are; we have them. I know where the ruthless oil companies are; we harbor them. I know where the mercenary armies are; we employ them. And I know where the environmental terrorists are; we purchase half our energy from them."

I thought Eco- terrorists were for the environment? I'm not sure if Saudi Arabi can qualify as a terrorist group but I think they might be what he is referring to. The guy thinks all mercenary "armies" are evil? Some are but not all are bad.

"Instead of rebuilding an obsolete machine let's build a movement."
So does he want to change the entire system?! Dangerous I say.
To me this guys is a real nut case, who is potential even more dangerous then Bush, Hillary, and McCaine

[...] wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAccording to blog site The Fhiz, a Green Party candidate for president has linked violent video games and television programs to school shootings. The unconfirmed news comes by way of a blog entry detailing an appearance by candidate Jesse Johnson (left) at the annual convention of the Green Party of New Jersey (GPNJ) on March 29th. From The Fhiz’s report: The convention itself was pretty boring… After going over minutes and proposals, one of the Green Party’s presidential candidates, Jesse Johnson… spoke. While I give the guy credit for being able to deliver a speech… his impassioned talk of his accomplishments in environmentalism in native West Virginia and outline for new efficient energy production… failed to impress. [...]

Hahaha!!

The Green Party??

Those hippies talk about violent videogames??

Seriously though to all you dumbarsed environmental politicians play the game and then judge till then go back to your luddite, pot smoking, tree hugging, sissy hybrid car driving lives.

And this is part of the reason why the Green Party will never recognized as a legitimate politcal party. Thank god at least this time Nader isn't involved in this election. He did enough damage in the last two.

Nader's said he's running, just not as the Green candidate.

For people outside the US, I thought I should add a little context to this story. While enviromentalism is admirable and not something to dismiss, the Green Party is pretty much a joke in this country. Nobody takes them seriously, unless they're one of the very small percentage of people actually a part of the Green Party. They merely get sympathy points for being a "third party."

@ sean

What day is that going down again? I want to make sure I have the champagne properly chilled.

hehehe. Green Party.

If you click on the guy's profile it says one of the important subjects of his platform is advancing adult literacy. I will say it again so you can soak it in

He wants to advance adult literacy......

I don't know how others would react to this but I was struck retarded.

He wants to advance adult literacy in the United States of America. Well it is an admirable desire and an very important one...If he was running for president in 1808.

I don't know if this man represents the majority of minority party candidates and I sincerely hope not, but if by chance he does, well now I why we have a two party political system in the Good Ole' US of A.

It removes the people who are pants on head retarded and promotes...

Competency

If I was ever going to vote this party in the first place, they just lost mine

Ah don't worry he wont win. The last time a threed party canident won was the wigs way back when. They are no longer around. SO guaranteed he wont win. And dont worry about him getting much press ether. thried party canidants never get press

He's nobody that's why he said that, he knows that he can get some face time on faux News if he says videogames are bad but I don't think 1 minute of screen time is going be enough to sell anyone on his believability.

I'm having trouble believing that's a real JT post... for one, why is he bringing Golf into this? And two, why does he feel the need to comment on an article that isn't about himself?

Oh wait, scratch that, his name is in the article as a comparative statement. I see.

Oh piss off Mr. Johnson.

YAY Jack's back!!! Oh how we missed you.

Heya Jackie boy, takin some time out from wrecking your own legal career?

freaking hippies...

Get off the grass!!!!!

Don't you know that weed is responsible for all the worlds problems???

No, its true, a commercial on TV told me it was...

hehehe. Hippies.

@Jack Thompson, soon to be ex-Attorney

How convenient for you eh?

At least this moron was kind enough to expand his stupid statement to target tv as well.

As for adult literacy, He may think there's a difference between being able to read & actually being literate, perhaps he wants to get the majority of people to realise that it's "a lot" rather than "alot" & perhaps correct the idiotic way that americans pronounce "aluminium"...

Another misinformed nobody who uses videogames as a scapegoat for youth violence. Same crap as usual. Oh, well. His chances of winning the Presidential election is incredibly low, anyway. I never even heard of the guy.

@StealthKnight

He sounds potentially dangerous but if nothing else he'd be different, variety is supposed to be the spice of life, personally I prefer pepper.

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Ha Ha! Another one joins the bandwagon, oy!

Hi everyone. I wrote the aforementioned article and I have a few responses. For one, anyone who goes out and calls Green Party members a bunch of pot smoking hippies simply needs to grow up and actually read something about the parties platform. Had to "pants on head retarded" bloggers actually read the rest of the article, I provided links to that very information.

Second, candidate Johnson is dead wrong in his idea that video games are serial killer factories. And personally, I advocate taking the crosshairs off of games and putting them on all of the really terrible parents we have in this country. But as fun as slinging insults like chimps sling poop is, we need to focus not on just flaming the crap out of said offends, but on educating them as to why they are wrong, why Jack Tompson is an asshat, and why jumping on the Fox News friendly bandwagon does not mean you are intelligent or informed. Or sane. Reacting the way you do to such people is only going to get more firepower stacked against you.