xists to have the type of impact Ross Perot had on the election in 1992, and far greater. You too start to believe. This is not only possible. It just might happen.

The numbers are definitely there. The key to toppling the Republicans and the Democrats from their stranglehold of power is a plan that will unite all those Americans who are sick and tired of the lies, the corruption and the criminal acts of the two-major parties, and who have lost all hope in the current system. If this segment of the population can be reached, mobilized and united, it can unquestionably receive a plurality in an election with the Republicans and the Democrats. "That's our objective," Schwarz says, and as he never tires of repeating, "Over seventy-million eligible voters didn't vote in the 2004 election. That's almost one-third of the total electorate."

And if you add to that those vast segments of the population, who see through the lies, fraud and manipulation of the current two-party system, but who never even bothered to register to vote, or who simply gave up on the system, like so many young people between the ages of 18 and 25, just to name one of a multitude of groups, then this begins to look like a political force that cannot be denied.

The next ingredient in Schwarz's plan is to offer a platform that will unite this multitude of disgruntled and disenfranchised Americans, and convince them that finally their vote does mean something, and they do have the power to get the crooks and the criminals out of Washington. "One of my biggest advantages, just like Perot, is I'm not a politician," Schwarz states. "I'm a red-blooded American, like everybody else, not an insider, not one of the fraternity. If you're looking for a breath of fresh air, this is it."

Schwarz's eyes roll back in his head at the question that invariably comes next: "Yes, but you're a businessman. You have no qualifications to be President. How could you ever convince the American people you could do the job?" "Come on!" he exclaims. "Without going into my experience on both the DNC and the RNC, the question implies that the current batch of liars and thieves, from both parties, are more capable than me because of their political experience. They've taken this country to the brink of ruin.

This country is on the brink of financial collapse and world war. I couldn't possibly screw it up any worse than they already have. They have run the U.S. as a business for the elite, and have bankrupted our Nation, and their policies have bankrupted many Americans. It is time to look at other ways to run this nation for all, not just for the few."

Schwarz goes on to explain that one of the most difficult things is to convince people he really means it when he says this is bi-partisan. This is mostly because of how people think. As soon as people hear how anti-Bush he is, probably the worst President in American history, they immediately leap to the conclusion he must be a Democrat or a liberal. That's not the case, but people tend to think in polarities. If you're not one, you must be the other. But this is different. This is a true alternative. Schwarz sees both the Republicans and the Democrats as two-sides of the same rotten coin. There's nothing to choose from. He is being very careful not to use any of these labels because as soon as you do, people plug you into a slot where you don't belong, and you lose half of your possible supporters.

So, how does Karl Schwarz intend to appeal to this vast and radically diverse spectrum of disgruntled and disenfranchised Americans? The key is a platform that keeps it simple, and keeps its focus on the root cause of what is destroying America. As you read his platform, you can see all this take shape. All the problems facing American today can be traced back to the same thing, over and over again: the lies, the fraud, the corruption, and the criminal acts of our elected government representatives, Republicans and Democrats alike. The American people have been betrayed by their government. Republicans and Democrats in power in Washington have come to represent precisely the same thing: a big brother government, always in need of more and more of our hard-earned money, so they can run every aspect of our lives, and tell us what we will be permitted to do and think. Both major parties have sold out to multi-national corporate interests and to non-elected elitist international entities and organizations, such as the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO, which are imposing an agenda of world government on us all. In short, our government officials are lining their pockets, and those of their corporate and elite masters, at the expense of our money, our freedom, and the sovereignty of this once great nation.

That's issue number one, and it supersedes all the others. If Karl Schwarz was to talk to the American people about one thing, that would be it. Issue number two is not far behind, and springs from the same putrid root. This is the War in Iraq. As Commander in Chief, Karl Schwarz would stop the war immediately, unconditionally, and withdraw US troops.

Like all the other problems destroying American, the War in Iraq is based upon a huge pack of lies, as is the entire War on Terror. The War in Iraq is an offshoot of decades of commercial and imperialist US foreign policy, the primary objective of which has been the appropriation of foreign resources, and the profit and power of the elite international corporate special interests, which control the US government.

The Bush Administration's War on Terror is also based upon a pack of lies. We now know for a fact that the mainstream version of the attack against America on 9/11, which was presented to the American people by the government and by the mainstream media, is a huge pack of monumental lies. There are mountains of indisputable evidence to support this on the Internet and in articles and books, where millions of Americans are waking up to the truth. However, as with virtually every important issue, you will not hear one peep about this in the controlled corporate mainstream media.

To state his message bluntly, when Karl Schwarz is elected President, all of this will abruptly end. Yet, when you think about it, much of it will end before he is elected, simply as a result of the process of America waking up, and electing him. "There is a great awakening going on in this country right now," proclaims Schwarz. "And there's nothing they can do to stop it, short of hauling us all off to concentration camps." The Internet, of course, has played a primary role in this awakening, and provides beautiful evidence of how great we, as a people, can be, when provided with such a medium of total free speech and information.

Karl Schwarz fully realizes that the mainstream media will lock him out, unless they have no choice, and he believes it is only a question of time before it comes to that. The power of the Internet is approaching that of a major television network. Schwarz intends to take full advantage of it, and he intends to reach the American people the old fashioned way: through word-of-mouth. It's a grassroots wildfire, and it can't be put out.

"The one thing we have to have, though, is unity," says Schwarz. "Without it, we cannot win, and the lies, corruption and crimes against the people will continue. We must stop our bickering, and put all of our differences aside, except one: to throw the crooks and the criminals out of Washington, DC, and take back our great nation. Once we've accomplished that, we can worry about all the rest. If we can unite with this single purpose, there's nothing that can stop us."

Karl Schwarz is President, Chief Executive Officer of Patmos Nanotechnologies, LLC, and Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of The Sassenach Capital Trust, LLC. He is also the author of "One-Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas", a blistering critique of the deceit and corruption of the Bush-Cheney Administration, and the author of numerous articles that have been published on Internet news source websites, and which can be accessed on his websites: www.karlschwarz2008.com and www.karlschwarz.com. Karl is perfectly suited to lead an independent third party alternative to the two-major parties because he has previously been a member of both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. He quit both when he saw first hand that each had sold out to elite international corporate special interests, and each was corrupt beyond repair.