08-12-2012, 07:12 PM
Today I formally nominated Jim Garrison for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
The nomination form allows for a mere 256-character (including spaces) description of "Act(s) of political courage for which your nominee is to be considered."
Accordingly, I offered this:
Garrison is the only person to arrest, indict, and try a suspect in the murder of President Kennedy.
In an act of political retribution, Garrison was tried for and acquitted of accepting bribes to protect illegal pinball machine operations.
Space on the form was provided for "Links to publicly available information about your nominee." I provided the link to Joan Mellen's Farewell to Justice homepage:
http://www.joanmellen.net
Criteria and eligibility for the award are described thusly:
In Profiles in Courage, President Kennedy told the stories of eight United States senators who risked their careers by standing up for particular ideals or principles, even when constituents or powerful interest groups pressured them to bend.
Today, elected officials are too often captives to opinion polls, reluctant to act in the broader public interest when it means taking unpopular courses of action or offending powerful groups. The Profile in Courage Award honors modern-day elected officials who stand up for the public interest, even when it is not in their own interest to do so. The award celebrates individuals who choose principles over partisanship who do what is right, rather than what is expedient.
Award Criteria
Ordinarily, the award will be made to living Americans who are or were elected officials.
Individuals at all levels of governmentfederal, state and localare eligible for the award.
Emphasis will be placed on contemporary acts of political courage.
On occasion, in rare and special circumstances, awards have been made to foreign officials.
Detailed information about the award may be found at:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Events-and-Awa...Award.aspx
The nomination form allows for a mere 256-character (including spaces) description of "Act(s) of political courage for which your nominee is to be considered."
Accordingly, I offered this:
Garrison is the only person to arrest, indict, and try a suspect in the murder of President Kennedy.
In an act of political retribution, Garrison was tried for and acquitted of accepting bribes to protect illegal pinball machine operations.
Space on the form was provided for "Links to publicly available information about your nominee." I provided the link to Joan Mellen's Farewell to Justice homepage:
http://www.joanmellen.net
Criteria and eligibility for the award are described thusly:
In Profiles in Courage, President Kennedy told the stories of eight United States senators who risked their careers by standing up for particular ideals or principles, even when constituents or powerful interest groups pressured them to bend.
Today, elected officials are too often captives to opinion polls, reluctant to act in the broader public interest when it means taking unpopular courses of action or offending powerful groups. The Profile in Courage Award honors modern-day elected officials who stand up for the public interest, even when it is not in their own interest to do so. The award celebrates individuals who choose principles over partisanship who do what is right, rather than what is expedient.
Award Criteria
Ordinarily, the award will be made to living Americans who are or were elected officials.
Individuals at all levels of governmentfederal, state and localare eligible for the award.
Emphasis will be placed on contemporary acts of political courage.
On occasion, in rare and special circumstances, awards have been made to foreign officials.
Detailed information about the award may be found at:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Events-and-Awa...Award.aspx
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene