Byelection cancelled
September 08, 2008
Magda Konieczna
Mercury Staff
http://news.guelphmercury.com/article/378004

GUELPH
Don't go to the polls today.
There was little surprise but a lot of excitement yesterday
morning when Prime Minister Stephen Harper called a general
election for Oct. 14, cancelling the byelection in Guelph
and in three other ridings.
Independent John Turmel -- who holds the world record for
running in the most elections -- hasn't yet decided where
he'll run in the general election. It'll either be Guelph or
Brantford, he said.
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'Undemocratic' Brantford may prompt Turmel to run in Guelph riding
JOHN PAUL ZRONIK, EXPOSITOR STAFF
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1190573&auth=JOHN%20PAUL%\
20ZRONIK,%20EXPOSITOR%20STAFF

Citing a local lack of democracy, independent candidate John
Turmel may run in the federal election in Guelph instead of
Brant.

"It's so undemocratic in Brantford that I'm thinking of
going to Guelph," Turmel said Monday. "I may probably go
where I have a chance to participate."

Turmel -- who holds the Guinness World Record for "most
elections contested" -- has run in 67 campaigns. He was
running as a candidate in a federal byelection in Guelph
that was scheduled for Monday but was cancelled when Prime
Minister Stephen Harper called a general election for Oct.
14.

Turmel, who lives in Brantford, said being escorted by
police from a televised Rogers debate in the city during
last year's provincial election and not being invited to
speak during a debate at Pauline Johnson Collegiate during
the same campaign made it clear to him there is a lack of
democracy in Brant riding.

Turmel said he'll take some time to decide where he will run
as a candidate in the current campaign, but the outspoken
independent -- who champions the legalization of marijuana
and a social currency system -- said running in Guelph would
allow him to promote his issues.

"There's a lot of good reasons to go to Guelph," Turmel
said. "I'd be stupid to stay (here) when the cops will just
remove me."
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http://news.guelphmercury.com/article/378934
At least two of four candidates from byelection running in
general election

September 10, 2008
Thana Dharmarajah
Mercury Staff

Meanwhile, John Turmel, who ran as an Independent candidate
in the byelection, said he hasn't yet decided whether he'll
run in his home riding of Brantford or stick with Guelph.

He said he was leaning toward Guelph as the city has allowed
him to participate in most of the debates, apart from one
hosted by the Guelph Chamber of Commerce.

In Brantford he was escorted out by police from a televised
Rogers debate and was denied access to a high school debate
in last year's provincial election.

"Why should I stay in Brantford when they've got cops to
keep me out of the debates?"

Turmel still has some time to decide. The deadline for
prospective candidates to file their papers with Elections
Canada is Sept. 22.

JCT: So they both know that I was cheated less in Guelph.
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WALTER STEWART

JCT: Way back in 1993 federal election, I founded my
Abolitionist Party in 3 weeks to run 80 candidates (1 more
than the Greens) blowing the million in "proceeds of crime"
I'd recently won before the Ontario Provincial Police's
"Project Robin Hood" raid on my 28-table Casino Turmel in
Ottawa. Proceeds of Crime (10 years for over $1 million)
dismissed with judge ruling it applied to proceeds hidden
not proceeds blown.

On October 4 1993, three weeks before the election, an
article by the Toronto Sun's Walter Stewart titled "No-
interest loans may save us" gave Abolitionists a wonderful
boost to our arguments for installing LETS on the Bank of
Canada's computer to give all Canadians access to the
interest-free credit like Walter explains could be given to
governments:

I had printed up 20,000 (blowing the million) but still had
plenty left and was using them as draft paper in my printer.
Then this byelection presents itself and I decided to print
up a flyer and have room on the back for something else. I
hate handing out 1-sided information. So I used the Walter
Stewart article which I've been handing out to the Guelph
voters who had a chance to hear The Engineer's designs on
the Bank of Canada's computer.

NO INTEREST LOANS MAY SAVE US
The Toronto Sun, Monday October 4, 1993.
Walter Stewart

WATERLOO -- At the risk of introducing a new idea during an
election campaign, two professors at the University of
Waterloo want to revive the Canadian economy by using a
scheme that has worked on Guernsey. The Island, not the cow.

The professors are Jack Kersell, who teaches political
science, and Robert Needham, an economist and director of
the Canadian Studies Program at Waterloo. Their idea is that
the government should direct the Bank of Canada to issue
credit at low or no interest for building capital projects -
- roads, schools, hospitals, bridges, railways, airports.

JCT: Why create low-interest chips with low instability when
you can create no-interest chips with no instability?
Remember that the instability causes Unemployment and
Inflation whose equations are direct functions of the
interest rate in the Miracle Equation: Umin = Jmin = I/(P+I)

WS: Actually, this is what the Bank of Canada did during World
War II with great success and without causing undue
inflation.

JCT: Only for those who believe inflation is Shift A, too
much money chasing the collateral because Economics doesn't
teach about Shift B, same money chasing less collateral
after foreclosure.

WS: In addition, various levels of government could borrow
this newly created money to retire high-interest loans.

JCT: Citizens should get the same access to the Bank of
Canada to settle-up all their interest-bearing loans too!
Why just governments allowed to use Bank of Canada accounts
to get out of debt, why not citizens to be able to side-step
the loanshark private banks and access the national bank?

WS: The result would be a vast improvement in Canada's
employment, a sharp drop in the deficit, and a return to
stability and prosperity.

JCT: As the Miracle equation predicts, if I=0, then U=0 and
with involuntary unemployment eliminated, the result would
be the "vastest" improvement possible because once you hit
maximum use of manpower, there ain't no more. And when money
issued balances taxes demanded, there can't be "deficit."
I=0 makes money as stable as a poker chips that everyone
trust because everyone knows how it works. It's a receipt
for collateral in the cage. No voodoo monetary theorists
necessary to understand stable chips.

WS: At a theoretical level, the proposal has some impressive
academic backers, including William Henry Pope, co-author of
the classic Canadian text Economics, used in every
university in the country, John Hotson of Toronto, founder
of COMER, the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform, and
economist Allan Schmid of Michigan State.

JCT: I made the first presentation on the LETS software
being what they needed to use at the Bank of Canada or any
database they would like to start with until the Bank of
Canada comes online. Unfortunately, these are economists and
getting it engineered wasn't part of their course. So COMER
still hasn't come up with a software to suggest installing
at the Bank of Canada though they certainly know what should
be done if not how.

WS: There is even a lobby group, called "Sovereignty" which
has headquarters in Freeport, Ill., and which has drawn up a
piece of legislation to "direct the US Treasury to issue
such funds as interest-free loans to state and local
governments."

JCT: Abolitionist Ken Bohnsack still fighting the good
fight to use the Treasury plates to create Treasury money
instead of letting the Federal Reserve use bank plates to
create bank money. Still haven't gotten Ken on the "practice
what you preach locally with LETS" until the voters let you
install USLETS or UNILETS for all.

WS: The idea is that central governments should take back
from private banks the crucial role, which they had until
recently, of creating money for the economy, thus restoring
sovereignty to the state.

JCT: Bingo. We are slaves to the banks because they get to
create our chips and loanshark them to us. Why represent our
collateral with their chips for a fee when we can represent
our collateral with our chips for free?

WS: The theory has been put into practice on the isle of
Guernsey, since 1816, with, apparently, overwhelming
success. I am not sure, given the differences between Canada
and a small island state in the English Channel, whether
this lesson means we ought to copy Guernsey or move there
but the "Guernsey Experiment" is worth a look.

JCT: He's not sure whether the software would work given the
difference between a small island database and big national
database. As the world's foremost "banking systems engineer"
I can bet that the size of database is not relevant.

WS: In 1816, Guernsey was in a hell of a mess. The seawalls
were crumbling, there was no market-place, roads were muddy
and horrible, and the local government was 19,000 pounds in
debt. Revenue came to about 3,000 pounds annually, 2,400
pounds of which went to pay interest on debt. Sounds like us
except that, unlike us, the Guernsey folks did something
about it.

They created and lent to the government 6,000 pounds of
interest-free money, and used it to fix up the seawalls.
This worked so well that they went on doing it -- and are
still doing it -- to create an economy with zero
unemployment, a high standard of living, low taxes and very
low inflation.

JCT: Now remember, this just happened in Argentina after the
banks went under in 2001 to let Argentina pay off all its
international debts. This wasn't reported on in depth so
most people aren't aware that a country broke 5 years
earlier had managed to pay off all outstanding foreign debt.
Just like Guernsey. With one difference, while in Guernsey,
the new social credits were supplied by government, in
Argentina, the new sociable credits were supplied by barter
timebank clubs. So whether citizens create their own stable
monies enabling the country to get out of debt or
governments creating their chips to get out of debt,
interest=0 currency generate inflation=0 and unemployment=0.
Why Leviticus, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Haggai, Job, Nehemiah,
Jesus, Mohammed all inveighed against loansharking. They
knew without the mort-gage death-gamble of usury, love would
reign and conquer all problems.

WS: Gasoline, for example, costs about one third of what it
does in England, about 120 km away. What worked in Guernsey
may not work here, in a much more complex and more exposed,
economy.

JCT: It's only chips. It's only accounting. It's only
arithmetic. Various shades of economic complexity do not
call for various shades of arithmetic. Software works on a
database the same no matter the size.

WS: Canada has long since lost control of its own economic
destiny. We traded it to the U.S. for hamburger and to the
Japanese for VCRs, long ago. Just the same, the idea of
looking at debt, and the way debt is created, is a
worthwhile one, if only because it will drive our bankers
crazy. The way it works today, almost all of our money
supply is created by banks as interest-bearing debt, with
them on the receiving end.

JCT: They've been granted the license to manufacture credit
and loanshark it out.

WS: We can't solve the deficit crisis thus created by
slashing expenditures or raising taxes, because these
measures bring the economy to a halt. The solution, then,
appears to be to substitute low- or no-interest public funds
for high-interest private money.

JCT: Citizens deserve to be able to substitute no-interest
Bank of Canada funds for high-interest private money too!

WS: The approach can hardly be any more misguided than the
pointless lashing around that is all conventional approaches
have to offer us today.

JCT: Conventional approaches are all based on the Big Lie,
that raising interest reduces Shift A inflation, that it
lets businesses reduce prices. Note that almost every time
you read about inflation anywhere, Shift A inflation, too
much money, the interest is touted the medicine. Inflation's
coming, have to raise interest. Inflation's not too bad, can
lower interest rates. It's a Big Lie because it's repeated
every time they promote interest as a reducer of prices. It
sounds so stupid here because it's pointed out but you've
read it thousands of times without laughing: How stupid to
say raising interest reduces prices when businesses have to
pass them along to break even." It's such a Bie Lie that
it's not even noticed by many who do realize it.
http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/biglie.htm

JCT: On the main side of my flyer was my introduction:

John Turmel's Guinness Record Quadruple Election Campaign

Who: John "The Engineer" Turmel
What: Guinness quadruple "most elections contested" Record
When: September 8 2008 Guelph federal byelection
Where: Guelph Ontario Canada
Why: Present the UNILETS time-based currency solution to
financial problems

King of the Paupers, John "The Engineer" Turmel will be
doing video reports on
1) my Guinness Record 67th race in the Canadian federal
byelection in Guelph Ontario.
2) my Internet run for "Prime Minister of the Planet" as
author of the United Nations UNILETS resolution to use a
time-based currency to restructure the global financial
architecture.
3) my Internet run against the candidates in the two United
States presidential election races, not only between Barack
Obama and John McCain but also between Matt Santos and
Arnold Vinnick now on in their TV's West Wing race at the
Canadian Learning Channel. I get to explain how using the
same interest-free Treasury dollars that Lincoln used lets
America drop using interest-bearing Federal Reserve bank
dollars.
I've always shown up my low-tech opponents because I have
the LETS interest-free time-banking software while they
never get enough currency from their orthodox banking system
software to solve the problems they face. So not only will I
be posting my video reports on solutions to global and
Canadian problems but I'll be posting how I'd fix the
problems the American candidates will be forced to face and
then fail to solve. Where I'll succeed because I'll be
willing to bet the solution I engineer with UNILETS time-
based money is optimal while others cannot back up what they
want to see. We just let anyone log on to the Bank of
Canada's computer, borrow enough to pay off all interest-
bearing loans so that all payments now go against principal.
Everyone, even the weakest, someday gets out of debt.
I have run in triple federal, provincial and municipal
concurrently several times before but this is the first time
I'll run a quadruple campaign and my first YouTube campaign.
We'll have an internet vote to see who would vote for the
low-tech candidates over John the Engineer for Prime
Minister of the Planet?
---

JCT: And I decided to put my "Richest Pauper's Prayer to
Richest Man" and add a new part at the end about Bill Gates'
failure to do anything. Mr. 5%:

Richest Pauper's Prayer To The Richest Man
For a Microsoft Email L.E.T.S. Timedollar checking account by Y2K

October 15 1999.
To askbill@... : World's Richest Man
From johnturmel@... : World's Richest Pauper

Hello, Bill Gates, "World's Richest Man," a Guinness claim to fame.
I'm John Turmel, "World's Richest Pauper" politics my game.[1]
"The Engineer," "The Gambler" 48 elections clear,[2]
As "Abolitionist," L.E.T.S. "Banking Systems Engineer."[3] [4]
"Blackjack King;" "Casino Czar;" "Robin Hood;" "Millionaire;"[5][6]
"Guerrilla Lawyer;" best "Bank Fighter Extraordinaire."[7]
"The Great Canadian Character Anthology says best,[8]
The motive for my Pauper's twenty-year persistent quest.

As Dr. Walter Schneider, "Math of Gambling" Prof. can swear:
"He went from apolitical to running everywhere;
One day his interest in interest existed not.
Next day, its abolition was his motivating thought."
The Pauper's seen some high-school buddies choose to quit the game,
You too, "The Man," have buddies I would bet checked out the same.
No loanshark, "Richest Man," earned gains were making tools I use.
You should concur with Richest Pauper's engineering views.[9]

In Nehemiah 5, he says: "You must do as we do.
So "Stop exacting interest!" It is the Big Taboo."
St. Thomas 95 is verse where Jesus said it best:
"If you have money, do not lend it out at interest."
Another prophet great, Mohammed known in Muslim lands,
Decreed that it was "sinful if one interest demands."[10]
No "Mort-Gage" interest and they'd have shouldered life with ease,
But their "Death-Gamble" poverty was fatal, their disease.[11]

Ralph Nader's found the banks today "unsafe at any speed,"
And has endorsed Timedollar L.E.T.S. banks "safe for every need."[12]
I penned some verses on how L.E.T.S. could end Queen's poverty,[13]
But palace staff were little help. No high tech whiz had she.
Yet L.E.T.S. in British Parliament hears M.P.s voicing "Yes."[14]
"No tax for trading time with neighbors." U.S. I.R.S.[15]
Australia says "lifeboat" L.E.T.S. cushions community.[16][17]
Great Britain's politicians hail L.E.T.S. "anti-poverty."[18][19]

I've marched with Jubilee 2000, though they are ill-aimed,[20]
Forgiving poorest's debt is alms, no panacea claimed.
But White House, I.M.F., World Bank saw Pauper's placard best,
That "Banks Starve Third-World Babies," so "Abolish Interest."[21]
With interest switched off in banker's debt machinery,
Those former "chains" of debt become mere "straps" borne easily.
So Pope, reformers, Jubilee 2000's date is near,
Yet Ecuador's "not poor enough" to qualify this year.[22]

"Debt Cancellation," "Tobin Tax," they're splashing in the pool,
The problem's in the money pumphouse. "Interest" the tool.
The vast solution takes all errant money-pumps in hand,
It's not a half-vast splashing in the money pool that's planned.
Relief could reach the whole wide world to ancient strife placate.
Imagine Earth as Eden with no feedback causing hate.
The Christians and the Muslims and the Nazis and the Jews,
Are in agreement L.E.T.S. conforms to everybody's views.

The Richest Man must also tire of a game gone mad,
But you have power to switch off the feedback that is bad.
An Online L.E.T.S. by Microsoft to shop with "Hours" we trade,
With global lifelines reaching all and money local made.
We'll gladly pay our service charges, cash or Green amounts,
If you'll be veins and arteries to link our L.E.T.S. accounts.
Millennium! L.E.T.S. Jubilee! Give "World-Class Gift!" you can,
If you grant Richest Pauper's Prayer To The Richest Man.

In Matthew chapter 6 verse 9, Christ taught us how to pray:
So every day till Year Two Thousand, here is what I'll say:
"Our Father, who in Heaven art, hallowed be thy name,
Thy Kingdom come when L.E.T.S. be done on Earth as Heaven, the same.
Give us now our daily bread, forgive us all our debts,
As we forgive our debtors all their debts with this new L.E.T.S.
And to temptation, lead us not. No debt which suffocates.
L.E.T.S. Jubilee 2000 from our Santa Billy Gates.

Amen with The Engineers
If you agree we need Email L.E.T.S. for our planet to
survive, also write to Bill Gates at askbill@...
and send him your prayer explaining why you think Email
L.E.T.S. could help and yours.
Send a comment to John Turmel johnturmel@...
Home http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel

P.S. 2008
A decade's almost gone, Bill's opportunity was lost,
For failure to use might, a quarter billion souls the cost.
Bill studied the inequity as business problem same,
World's Richest Man's "Club 5%" give piece of win in game,
For Bill social reform is rich donating to the poor,
It's just more of the same, it's alms, his riches are the lure.
He could have been a hero to the starving masses, rare,
Instead his role has been a mere "no-difference" billionaire.

JCT: Sure, he could have engineered a new Heaven and opted to
offer 5% charity in the old Hell.

[1] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/ariz97.htm
Arizona Republic" "World's Richest Pauper" 1997-07-19
"Winner at the table can't seem to prevail on election night"
[2] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/w93jjm.htm
Criminal Code Amendment: R. v. Turmel (1996), 109 C.C.C. (3d) 162
(Ont. C.A.)
[3] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/abprogs.htm
Abolitionist Party of Canada Programs.
[4] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/urlsnat.htm
Surf 150 L.E.T.S. websites in over 40 nations
[5] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/prsgame.htm
Turmel Gambling Press Archives
[6] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/prspol83.htm
Turmel Law Politics Archives 1983-01-26
[7] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/topaz.htm
Record "Robin Hood" Raid on Casino Turmel Topaz
[8] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/anthology.htm
Anthology of Great Canadian Characters, Hubert Bauch 1984
"A winner at the table. A loser at the polls."
[9] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/bankmath.htm
Banking Systems Engineering Mathematics Analysis
[10] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/pombible.htm
Turmel Poem on Bible references to money and interest +500 verses
[11] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/pombank.htm
Turmel Poem of banking system engineering +500 verses
[12] http://www.cfg.com/timedollar/Welcome.html
Timedollars United States, Edgar Cahn
[13] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/pomlizas.htm
Poem to Her Majesty explaining how L.E.T.S. could save.
[14] http://www.regeneration.detr.gov.uk/cbri/annexa.htm
U.K. Government endorsement of L.E.T.S. 1997
[15] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/usirs.htm
U.S. I.R.S. tax free status of Timedollars
[16] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/np5.htm
Australia: The Bulletin: Bartered Bride 1990-01-09
[17] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/endeahm.htm
Australia Parliament debates L.E.T.S. Amendment 1995
[18] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/stock96.htm
U.K. Stockport: starts L.E.T.S. "ANTI-POVERTY" strategy 1996
[19] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/enukgvt2.htm
U.K. Government considering Australia L.E.T.S. legislation 1999
[20] http://www.lights.com/jubilee/
Jubilee 2000 Cancel-the-debts-of-the-poorest web site
[21] http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/prspol82.htm
Toronto Star: IMF World Bank meeting: "Immmorality of
interest led man to police station" 1982
[22] http://www.50years.org
Hosts of recent Washington Anti-I.M.F.-World Bank Protest 1999.

JCT: So, this election upped my 66 elections contested to 67 but
did not up my 66 elections lost to 67. I'll have to put some kind
of asterisk mentioning that though I didn't lose, I didn't win.
Yet.