Kelcey Wilson for U.S. President - 2009 to 2013

"The ends don't justify the means - the means are also ends."

What I mean by "The ends don't justify the means – the means are also ends" is that immoral means are immoral, regardless of the ends that the means are intended to serve. Moreover, everything we do in order to achieve our ends are ends in themselves. If we invade a foreign country and kill innocent people, we have caused the ends of those lives, and the ends of the surviving family and friends' relationships with their loved ones.

Another example of a means being an end, is democracy. Democracy may be an end, but it is an end that is never completely secured. Our democracy does not exist simply by virtue of its being established in 1989. Democracy is an end that only exists through its means. If we do not practice the means of democracy, our democracy does not exist.

In fact, if you think about it, as long as there is humankind, there will be no end -- no end of history. There will always be whatever comes next.

That is why we must never believe that the ends justify the means. Since we never reach the end, we must justify our means.

Here's a little more about what I’m trying to do:

The Wilson 2008 Campaign is a complete approach to restoring freedom through high-quality accountable government, energy independence, citizenship, and ethical international relations.

The approach begins
1. Running a completely transparent campaign, broadcast over the Internet, so that voters can really get to know the candidate before they vote, and citizens can learn about the electoral process.

• www.wilson2008.com

2. Building an administration during the campaign, based on ability and merit, so that voters aren’t just voting for the President, but for the entire Executive Branch, and so that the government is ready to go on day one.

• I will ask the current president to declare national voting holiday, and once in office I will make every federal election a national voting holiday.

3. Once in office, webcasting as much of the presidency and administration as possible, and ensuring universal broadband Internet access so that everybody can have equal ability to monitor their government.

• As many Executive Branch meetings as possible that might be of public interest will be broadcast to the public.
• Budgeting will be broadcast to the public

4. Creating a national solar power grid to free us from reliance on scarce energy sources, drastically reduce greenhouse gases, drastically reduce the cost of energy.

• National subsidy to loan the entire cost of putting panels on homes and businesses—paid for by a monthly payment equaling equal or less than the amount paid to utilities previously, and by allowing people to sell any excess clean energy back into the grid at market prices.
• For utilities that are negatively affected by this policy, providing financial support to help them convert themselves into clean energy companies.

5. Bringing the UN into the debate about how to help Iraq, and whether it should provide an international peacekeeping force when the U.S. withdraws.

• According to majority Iraqi wishes, we should pull out anyway, but we should give the world community the opportunity to act through the UN to solve the problem that the U.S. helped create in Iraq.

6. Greatly reducing the percent of any media market that a single business can own.

• Media concentration is a serious and growing threat to public safety and democracy in the U.S.

7. Nationalizing the military.
8. Passing a federal law making private prisons illegal.