Oct 192015
 

Greed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BREAKING: Stop the Big Money Takeover of the Medical Marijuana Industry!

Nefarious lobbying by big tobacco corporations are putting a common sense medical marijuana reform measure in serious jeopardy. Proposed rules would allow special interests to bleed the industry dry – threatening the safety of Michigan cancer sufferers and other sick patients benefiting from the proven medical properties of the substance.

Rep. Mike Callton (R-Nashville) introduced the “medical marihuana provisioning center regulation act” earlier this year to protect the rights of medical marijuana patients. Callton’s bill would regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in a sensible manner, ensuring safe access for qualifying patients.

It was expected that this bill would pass immediately without a hitch, but that hasn’t been the case – due to the actions of cronyist lobbyists like Ron Boji who will apparently put the lives of cancer patients at stake in order to line his own pocketbook.

The language Boji and his associates want added to the bill would mandate a costly middleman position reserved solely for wealthy, entrenched special interests that currently benefit from tobacco regulations. Previously, the alterations were proposed in the at the House at the behest of Rep. Klint Kesto (R-Commerce Twp). Although they were unable to sneak it through that time around, they are trying again in the Senate.

Under the new language, special interests would pocket up to 10 percent of the revenue from the medical marijuana industry because of a state-mandated monopoly on the transportation services related to medical marijuana. The expense would be covered by sick patients who desperately need to treat their critical illnesses along with the caregivers who provide them their life-sustaining medicine.

This is only the latest in a long pattern of troubling behavior from Boji and his associates.

Boji and his real estate development company Boji Group were responsible for the infamous new $41 million taxpayer-funded Senate building. In spite of the boondoggle being appraised for a fraction of its immense $41 million price tag, an on-going $454 million budget crunch, and roads falling to pieces across the state, Boji was able to secure that lucrative contract, and has drawn the ire of millions of concerned Michigan taxpayers in doing so.

Not content with those ill-gotten gains, Boji now wants to take cash out of the pockets of cancer patients as well. Humanitarian, medical marijuana advocate and former 9thDistrict Republican Congressional candidate George Brikho strongly disagrees with Boji’s business model.

“This is as unethical and despicable,” Brikho said. “I have fought for years on behalf of patients, caregivers and those in the medical marijuana industry who have built it into what it is today. And never could I ever have imagined such heartless, reprehensible tactics as what I have seen from Ron Boji and his associates.”

“If a store buys $1 million dollars worth of medicine, parasites like Boji would automatically pocket $100,000 from that transaction because of these unnecessary provisions being added into the bill,” Brikho said. “In the free market, a wide variety of companies would perform that service at a fraction of the cost. Because of vultures like Boji, the patients and caregivers would bear this burden just so he can benefit. That is as un-Christian and un-American as it gets.”

Brikho urges people to call and e-mail their state senators to demand that Rep. Callton’s “medical marihuana provisioning center regulation act” is passed without any changes made to the bill.

“They tried this funny business before, they were able to gain control of one Representative, however we were able to stop them by getting the word out” Brikho said. “I hope the people can make their voices heard to stop these corrupt special interest groups before patients and caregivers are made to suffer. I also encourage you all to contact your Senator. Tell them enough is enough, people like Boji only hurt the citizens of Michigan.”

Sep 282014
 

assad christ

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Foreign Policy Aids ISIS and Must Be Stopped to Save Western Civilization

America has been dragged into yet another war. This time, it is in Syria to stop the forces of ISIS – or at least to use this as an excuse for expanding U.S. military involvement in that region to appease the blood-thirsty political class. The war fervor was manufactured by a corporate media that has displayed images of these barbarians committing disgusting, brutal acts 24/7. This has caused the American public to shake in its boots, develop amnesia, and forget about the mess that their foreign policy has created over the past decade. This warmongering approach, sadly favored by an overwhelming majority according to all opinion polls, is wrong-headed and will only exacerbate problems in the Middle East.

We must recognize the cold, hard reality that is staring us in the face. The United States has no track record of success in its Middle Eastern affairs. As a matter of fact, it was many rash and wrong-headed foreign policy decisions that have caused this disastrous situation. Preemptive attacks, invasions, bombings and the funding of terrorist groups by the United States have fostered an atmosphere of hatred and disorder that has allowed a vicious entity like ISIS to rise. Truly, the bureaucrats in Washington D.C. and their enablers are the best friends of the Islamic Jihadists as they do everything they can to foment their rise all over the world.

For the most obvious example of this, let us look to the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq. When Saddam Hussein was governing Iraq, the presence of radical Islam in the country was marginalized. Although he was clearly repressive and tyrannical, he kept even worse forces at bay with his iron-fisted rule. By going in there, disposing of him and creating a power vacuum, American foreign policy created conditions conducive for a group such as ISIS to ascend. Freedom and democracy were supposed to spring about, but the opposite has happened in actuality. All of the experts were dead wrong or lying, and Americans are a trillion dollars poorer and thousands of soldiers are dead because the gullible public accepted their patently false nonsense without so much as thinking.

America has frequently targeted the opponents of ISIS for regime change. One of ISIS’ most determined and effective enemies is the al-Assad regime in Syria. Just last year, there was a desperate push from Obama and warmongers in both parties to illegitimately eject al-Assad from power. He was called a terrorist, a dictator, the next Hitler and so forth. Despite the outpouring of opposition to the radical foreign “rebels” and support for the Syrian Arab Army in that war from the Syrian people, Washington D.C. poured significant resources into the effort to depose the government. We heard all the familiar canards that we heard about Saddam to dupe the public into supporting an unfortunate invasion of that country. However, the public and the American military refused to buy the propaganda in that case. Obama and his Congressional collaborators were unable to overthrow Assad – for the time being.

Now, imagine if Assad was removed from power in Syria right now and unable to fight ISIS forces. It would have an even greater foothold in the region. If American foreign policy had been successful, ISIS would have been bolstered. If we had listened to the John McCain’s and Mike Rogers’ of the world, ISIS would be more powerful than ever because one of their worst foes in the region would have been vanquished. This foreign policy failure of ours was the best thing that could have happened to Syrian and Iraqi Christians under persecution from radical Islam, in spite of the spin being served up by the blind, deaf and dumb Washington D.C. political class.

Another one of ISIS’ worst adversaries is Iran. Like Iraq under Saddam, it is not the nicest place to live. It regularly commits many human rights violations that are deplorable. But when there is an extreme force like ISIS terrorizing millions of people, you have to pick your poison. There is simply no hard evidence that Iran or Syria pose any sort of an existential threat to America or the world at large. Both countries have shown no inclination to spread radical Islam in a brutal, imperialistic manner. However, ISIS has clearly shown the will to dominate the region, and America is incomprehensibly working to decimate all of their foes!

The sad fact of the matter is that American politicians, bureaucrats and media propagandists suffer from a terrible case of Hubris. Bombing the Middle East, laying it to waste, and then looking at your handiwork to make the case for yet another senseless war is reprehensible. Putin may be committing war crimes in the Ukraine, although those making accusations about that are less than credible. If the charges against Putin are true, and that’s a big IF, he should be denounced by every respectable individual. However, in comparison to the U.S. and the war crimes it has committed in the past decade alone, Putin is a dove. American policymakers have lost the moral high ground and have no right to tell Russia or any other country how to handle their affairs. Whatever stature they had was squandered with their deadly military empire and the millions of corpses left in its wake.

Americans like to boast that they live in the land of the free, the shining city on the hill that serves as the beacon of freedom, liberty, democracy and all that is right about the world. But those days are long gone. American exceptionalism has become a thing of the past. Perhaps it was lost after the United States sanctioned torture, or maybe it was lost after hellfire missiles were deliberately dropped on wedding parties, rescue workers and funeral processions by American predator drones, or possibly it was lost after depleted uranium was needlessly dropped by U.S. forces onto Iraqis causing an epidemic of birth defects, cancer and other maladies. Nevertheless, our exceptionalism is finished, and some arrogant deluded politician’s bluster is not going to bring it back.

These are the hard truths that are usually glossed over in the mainstream political discourse, but they must be addressed. America has destroyed virtually all of its good will abroad and is hemorrhaging money at an astounding rate. The country is more than 17 trillion in the hole according to official numbers, and hundreds of trillions in the red when unfunded liabilities (future promises of government payouts related to Social Security, Medicare, pensions, etc.) are factored in. Nobody can explain how this money is going to be paid back. Debt-addicted Americans live in a lala land, and the rest of the world suffers because of their refusal to live within their means and mind their own business.

Additionally, we are no longer a free people but are subjected to a growing totalitarian police state and an Imperial Presidency, which threaten the very rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness articulated in the Declaration of Independence. The feds have taken for themselves power that was never delegated to them, power which is in violation of the Constitution, power which is in violation of their oaths of office to uphold that document, and power which no one should possess. No matter how much Americans may love to wrap themselves in the flag and play the role of patriot, their society is clearly headed down the road to totalitarianism. The Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves at what America has become. While Americans are duped into chasing phantoms thousands of miles away, their own government is a million times more menacing than any convenient Arabic bogeyman that is being pushed as this week’s excuse for war.

The only way we can start on the path back toward righteousness is by electing public officials who will shake up the status quo, and speak truth to power. In the 9th Congressional District, we have one of those people running as a Republican. His name is George Brikho. He is not an establishment, machine politician. He is a small business owner of Chaldean descent who advocates a rational judicious foreign policy that will restore American prestige and exceptionalism. He personally understands the damage that has been done to Iraqi Christians, and knows that U.S. interventionism has been the leading cause of their peril. His competitor, Sander Levin, represents all that is wrong with our political system. He has voted for illegal wars, debt, bailouts, corporate welfare and other abominable policies that have plagued our country. Brikho is a rebuke of these incomprehensible policies that have failed us so tragically for many years. He is the breathe of fresh air that we need in a Washington D.C. political class rotten to its core.

George Brikho understands that we are not helping anyone out with our foreign policy except for power-crazed Washington D.C. bureaucrats and money-hungry corporate fatcats. He knows that we must reject the self-serving interests that will use any turmoil throughout the world to call for more war. Their schemes have failed us spectacularly while enriching and empowering themselves at our expense. They have caused an untold amount of human misery in the process. No more American blood must be spilled in these unnecessary and counter-productive foreign conflicts. American foreign policy has already paved the way for ISIS to lay claim to land, people and power. It is time to change our ways before we cause even more damage overseas and in the homeland. The road to peace, Liberty and prosperity begins with electing representatives that understand the importance of these key principles. Please cast your vote for George Brikho for Congress in the 9th District on Nov. 4. It is a vote for peace, freedom and sanity in a world that needs these things now more than ever.

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Sep 162014
 

Press Release for Immediate Distribution – 09/16/14

George Brikho calls on President Obama and Congress to stop their
aggression against the Iraqi, Syrian and American people

Royal Oak, MI: George Brikho, Republican nominee for Congress in Michigan’s Ninth District, called on the President and the Congress to stop committing acts of aggression the people of Iraq, Syria, and America. “The unconstitutional foreign policy of the U.S. Government has led to the growth of radical terrorist groups and state-sponsored terror in the Middle East. All Americans remember what that led to on September 11, 2001. It makes no sense to continue putting Americans at risk for the benefit of politicians, bureaucrats and their special interest patrons,” said Brikho. “The current policy of regime-change overseas has resulted in a horrible death toll for the countries affected, left millions of innocent people displaced, destroyed their infrastructure, unleashed savage persecution of various religious and ethnic minorities, cost thousands of American war dead, cost tens of thousands of wounded and maimed, siphoned off huge amounts of taxpayer dollars and led to an all out assault on the Liberty and privacy of people all over the world, including Americans. After all this we are no safer, but we are certainly less free and less prosperous.”

The incumbent Congressman for the Ninth District, Sander Levin – D, has been in office for 16 terms. During his more than 30 years in office, Mr. Levin has been a reliable supporter of the military industrial complex, the foreign governments, U.S. government spying on Americans and the Federal police state powers. He has been an opponent of the freedom, privacy and prosperity of ordinary Americans here at home. Unlike Congressman Levin, George Brikho will put Liberty first and battle the political class in order to protect his neighbors and constituents from the schemes of the power elite. “I will take a different path than my opponent”, said the Republican challenger. “I will actually fulfill my oath of office to uphold the Constitution. Sander Levin is a serial oath-violator who works for the politically powerful. I will stand up for the middle class and the forgotten Americans.”

Brikho, whose mother and father are Chaldean immigrants from Iraq, is also determined to do whatever he can to resist the latest overseas outrages being committed by President Obama and his enablers in Congress. “Unlawful, aggressive, interventions in Libya, Iraq, Syria and other countries have led to the creation of ISIS. Despite their being no constitutionally-required Declaration of War, despite their being no attack on us, despite the clear voice of the American people, the president is continuing to unilaterally stir up more trouble in Syria and Iraq. Last year, the Administration mislead the American people about the alleged sarin gas attacks in Syria in order to stampede us into another war. He has continued operating unlawfully and against the wishes of the American people – and the Syrian people – by arming and training so-called “moderate rebels” in an attempt to overthrow the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad. This illegitimate activity against a coalition partner in the “Global War on Terror” has empowered foreign jihadists who are definitely not moderate. It has led to increased death and destruction, as well as increased vulnerability for the long suffering people of the Middle East. I urge all my neighbors in Michigan to call Congressman Levin’s office in Washington at 202-225-4961 and his office in Roseville at 586-498-7122 to demand an end to this immoral and destructive policy immediately. People should also call the White House at 202-456-1111 in order to demand an end to these harmful and aggressive policies. Congress and the President have no right to attack other countries, putting us all at risk, like this. They must obey the Constitution, debate the facts of the matter openly and completely, only declaring war for clearly defensive purposes. Aggressive and pre-emptive wars violate the Just War standard and the Constitution. It’s time to return to a moral and Constitutional foreign policy.”, said Brikho.

As we speak, the Syrian Arab Army is battling against ISIS and associated groups, as they have been for years. Any attacks on Syria will only make matters worse. Either the attacks will reduce the ability of the Syrians to resist the radical extremists or they will put America unnecessarily on the front line as the high profile opponent of ISIS, resulting in a propaganda coup of immense value to them. This will lead to more recruits for them and more danger for everyone else. With the President speaking and acting in an increasingly bellicose manner, time is certainly of the essence. If you wish to stave off the latest developing disaster, the time to act is Now.

For more information on George Brikho’s campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives seat in the 9th District, visit his website at GeorgeBrikho.com.

Aug 192014
 

9th District Candidate George Brikho helped to lead The Christian community in a rally (Ryan Road in Sterling Heights, Michigan) which brought to light the genocide of such minorities in Iraq. Brikho himself, a Chaldean American, has ties to the victims in Iraq. Liberty lover Brikho stood proud in allegiance with his community, peacefully bringing awareness to the area. Brikho is a strong opponent of our failed foreign policy and believes these policies have created the turmoil which has caused the persecution of many minorities, including, but not limited to Christians, Syrians, and Assyrians…all of which are a large part of the community that he is representing (in the 9th District). Brikho serves as a voice for the persecuted.
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May 192014
 

Retire Levin Fundraiser Fundraiser 8 Fundraiser 7 Fundraiser 6 Fundraiser 5 Fundraiser 4 Fundraiser 3 Fundraiser 2 Retire Levin FundraiserGeorge Brikho’s “Retire Levin” fundraiser was an amazing event. This was a fundraiser and it became a celebration for George becoming the Republican Nominee for the 2014 Congressional Election. Supporters enjoyed a live performance by the D-Town Rewind as they mingled about Brikho’s political views. Due to Brikho’s strong beliefs in the 2nd Amendment he raffled off an AR-15 and one lucky winner was chosen towards the end of the night.

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