I'm writing in answer to your Facebook request for"personal stories" for your new book, about the motivation for becoming a political activist...

You sound like a well intentioned man with his heart in the right, at least politically Right place, looking for and spouting out simple solutions to extremely complicated issues.  This is precisely why I became a political activist, because of people who think like this, especially those in a position to make others long for the fantasy of escaping a Conservatively dug economic hole, with a get out free card.  This isn’t a negative attack on you Mr. WIMMER.  It’s a very positive review of how people like you transformed me from an elitist TV Director into a grassroots political activist.  This, Congressman WIMMER, is an American’s challenge to publish in your new book, a POV that differs from your own.  I have hope, because you are not a Ben Quayle nor Michele Bachmann.

Like many adults, as a kid I was delivered into an age of political awareness, glued to the old black and white TV for the first Kennedy/Nixon debate.  After the assassinations of the sixties, Nixon twice, Kent State and Vietnam, I put away political interest, as one of those “childish things.”  I buried myself and my national public spirit in my NYC Media/Theatre/Education career.  It was respectful, lucrative and safe from a national journey to the corporate dung heap.

Desperation and Hypocrisy are the father and mother of Political Projection and “people who are hungry and out of a job, are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” The Hammer and the Hair are out.  Foreclosures up, employment down.  Murdock using his Census, has enriched the RIGHT Govs.  It’s the American way, so STOP ignoring that we’re being media manipulated in lockstep celebration of backward thinking.  LOOK around you.  Why would the Board Room boys hire you, when not hiring you keeps our economy and us needy, and keeps Obama in his place.  LISTEN to yourself and turn off corporate owned media, that programs us, into a programmed non-reasoning, out of control mass of reactionaries. “The tie that binds” us, is our freedom to choose how we respond and think:  seeing all things connected;  one village of one human race, mind and body politic; each an essential part of the other, or else, streets flowing with the red tea of mob mentality.

Oh, “Come On,” Eric Cantor, why is it that those who scream the loudest about God & Country are the first to dismantle our very foundation:  The Bill of Rights – most notably the First Amendment with its five different exceptional promises:  Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Expression, and Freedom of Assembly.  Even Harry Reid, who is running against a most un-American candidate is free to cowardly make a fool of himself, just to win.

There once was a Governor Brewer, who took her state to a private sewer, but then came along, a guy with a song, who joined her with, “Come On!”

After Preamble Constitution, New World had rights for all solutions.  It saved us through war, and kept up our score, until immigrants knocked on back door.

You heard of the land Arizona, where some still say, Gov we’re not gonna; but if Brewer Jan, has private bird in hand, no prisons for prisoners pro bona.

You’ve heard of the walk out from Kingman, before MTC private guardsman.  The trio escaped, with cutters for gate, and ran off for cousin reunion.

There once was a body called Congress, who harmonized problems by redress; but then came the flood of Wall Street thugs, and now it’s like, the Great Depress.

When court trials became a bother, we got AG Ashcroft to barter, to satisfy need for Dick’s basic greed, Bush got Abu Ghraib from McCotter.

Corrections Corporation of America, bids Federal prisoners to Arizona.  From out of the state, they fill the Gov’s plate and also her advisors’ Cornucopia.

CCA lobbyists for Brewer, advise what’s best for the fewer, but what they don’t know, despite their good show, now we’ll join Feds, and sue her.

Senseman and Coughlin must realize, why Gov wants prisons privatized, but now it’s out, she can’t run and pout, cause we got three cells customized.

So it must be said, that many in Phoenix feel dread, but thanks to the judge, we can’t make Jan budge, cause “papers please” for now is dead.

Running Death Row for a profit, Jan gets bit of $11 million in her pocket. Without jailing increase of immigrant brownies, her finger is stuck in a socket.

In all criminal prosecutions, accused get public deliberations, but without a jury, private prisons are but Arizona corruptions.

So, “Come On,” give Bill of Rights a glance, no Cantor & Jan Constitutional slants.

It worked before Reagan, will recover from Bush fakin’, so “Come On” give First Amendment a chance.

Despite scare crow “Come On” banter, it’s right there in Jefferson’s hand, though slanter:  Any Pro or Con Religious Freedom Band is well, Un-American.

So Cantor retire to Arizona, for Boehner tan and plan how you’re gonna, explain to Virginians why you “Come On,” for drillin’ off shore, why don’t cha.

“Come On” Congressman Eric, don’t be so esoteric.  Following your school of “Come On,” would rule U.S. Founding Fathers all fools.

Bad enough wishing us ill, with J. B’s “papers please,” bill, but The Hill cherry picking Bill of Rights from such as you, is too bitter a pill.

The “BILL of RIGHTS” is “What’s Beautiful About "America, The Beautiful!”

JAMES D. WARING, a CUA Professor of Drama, died Aug. 2 in Washington, D.C., at the age of 77.  He was not a special interest, but he made his students feel like “special interests,” and I was one of them, so “Death Be Not Proud,” for these takes:  Ten medical angels gunned down; Biblical like floods in Arkansas, Nashville, Central Europe, Pakistan; Earthquakes in China, Haiti, Japan, Chile, California;  Gulf region attacked by BP, leaving black gold as “What Lies Beneath” hiding from fingers crossed inspectors praying at fish oil wishing wells; Ted Stevens, last flight; Red baked Muscovites choking on smoldering peat.  “A Pale Horse” walks among us.  Is God breaking or keeping his promise to Noah?  Should we fear God, foot in mouth brain dead Ben Quayle or, are we just reaping the climate that the bad seeds of greed have sown?

2012 Nostradamus deadline looms.  Shall we replay an Exodus of wandering in the wilderness or, choose our targets in memory of those who died under attack, September 11, 2001 or, shall we just remain duped by the great Dick of “so,” and continue to reap what The Bush League sowed, while the shadow government of the financial elite, like Americans for Prosperity, hold court, dictating the script to political & media puppets, reminding all, their bread is buttered on the RIGHT side.  Formerly the Statesman like leadership of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F, Kennedy defined us as the nation of hope for all nations.   FDR saved the world from Hitler and JFK saved it from nuclear annihilation.  What was it Bush/Cheney “Left Behind?”  “I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth," "You Betcha.”

…God said, “you broke it, you fix it.”  Imagine, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans,” in a world of nations where, comparatively, we are infants.  No need to act like it, however, for our original mid-wives seem to have thought of everything that was needed to launch an exceptional idea: “a new birth of freedom,” which has stood the test of war, foreign invasion, slavery, the death and destruction of brother against brother, assassination, “Following the Sun” expansion, voting rights for women, Roaring Twenties, Dustbowl, Great Depression, Hitler, 50’s heads in the sand, 60’s tragic turbulence, Watergate, Iran hostage crisis, 80’s corporate takeover of government, 90’s loss of civility between political parties, and suddenly a disgusting irresponsible act of oral in the Oval, and we lose our national balance, overreacting and spiraling down, over the edge of our raison d’être, stumbling into the 21^st century of “a house divided against itself.”  Now, like the frog sitting in a pot of cold tea over a simmering flame, “The Dark Side” begins a slow undoing of what has been the result of an exceptional ideal: The United States of America.

Some think the world is ending in 2012.  Some even hope for it.  I’m of the belief that all have the opportunity for renewal instead, through cleansing, purging and purifying ourselves of what all of us know deep inside, is not so good about our nation, our history and our government’s policies.  Historically, most governments of developed & civilized western nations claim to their citizens, that they are the greatest creation in the entire universe.  So if America is the mightiest of the mighty, why not accept the challenge of Nostradamus, or Jesus for that matter, and “seize the day,” so that what ends in 2012, is what we wish had never been written in our national diary:  hate, bigotry, lies, secrets, assassinations, the Pride of, “America, RIGHT or Wrong;” the Envy of what the board room boys have that keeps us looking the other way, while they continually rape our planet; the Gluttony of “Super Size Nation;” the Lust for the immediate gratification of something for nothing; the Anger in political rallies and on Facebook that erodes civil debate; the Greed of international corporations, who finance limitations on our government’s ability to “preserve, protect and defend” us from their evil; the Sloth of giving up and dying the slow death of apathy.