Former U.S. President Bill Clinton recently told over 7000 people in an Edmonton audience in March 2006 that this is the novel he was reading...   

       Will Cupchik, author

 A novel of political suspense set  in the year 2009, that places the reader inside a covert 'bizwar' that might well have been taken from today's  (and tomorrow's) headlines of political scandals and dirty covert corporate/ lobbying activities. Such activities have a long and infamous American and Canadian history. As the perhaps not-so-fictional storyline in this novel relates, decades ago a seriously threatened American military aircraft manufacturing industry covertly established and funded a secret operation that devastated Canada's military aircraft industry in general, and in particular its worlds' best Avro Arrow fighter-interceptor program. The Arrow's performance promised to surpass anything the American Air Force and its suppliers had, either in the air or on the drawing  boards.

The successor to that early covert group is now engaged is attempting to preserve and expand its HMO and PPO clients' far  more expensive, and much less inclusive, for-profit healthcare  programs by undermining and destroying their chief competitor, universal Medicare, represented in large part by the Canadian, government-funded universal Medicare system that has successfully served virtually all of its citizens at a fraction of the cost on a per capita basis.   

Available now through your favorite bookstore.   ISBN 1-896342-19-1. Bookstores should note that this novel is currently  distributed by the Toronto Aerospace Museum, www.torontoaerospacemuseum.com  You may also order retail purchases from the museum.

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DR. WILL CUPCHIK'S PROPOSALS FOR USING 21st CENTURY TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE DEMOCRACY

The aim of this webpage is to offer some proposals that can help:

1. limit the influence of paid lobbyists upon those who we, the individual voters, elect.
2. enable each voter to interact with his/her elected officials on a 24/7 basis
3. allow voters to cast a real-time & just-in-time electronic ballot on proposed legislation
4. provide voters an opportunity to bring their ideas to open forums that will more directly influence their elected officials,
5. stimulate major software and hardware companies to develop a 'voter vector'  technology similar to that described in the novel, THE AVRO ARROW MANIPULATION: MURDERING MEDICARE
6. encourage prospective and current politicians and business people to become leaders in promoting voter-driven, item-by-item representation in government, thereby once again -- or perhaps for the first time - truly  placing democratic governing in the hands (literally) of voters.

The voting process in our supposed democracies should no longer be analogous to helping decide who special interests' paid lobbyists get to take to 'the dance' for the two or four or five years between elections!

The following suggestions are offered to help stimulate discussion or even debate, and at least certainly more thinking, about the possibilities of creating and enhancing genuinely viable democracies in countries in which their citizens mistakenly believe it already exists...

1. As described in my novel, The Avro Arrow Manipulation: Murdering Medicare, all that is required to develop a markedly different and much more voter-sensitive way of conducting governmental business, is some intention, good will, effort, and remarkably little money. In the novel I described the beginnings of the development of the VOTER'S VECTOR, a Palm Pilot or Blackberry type device that has a secure, biometric, thumbprint-reading access tool. Such a device would allow a member of Parliament to get a virtually immediate reading from his or her constituents on their reactions to a bill or action being contemplated by elected officials. It needs to be remembered that members of Parliament or Senate or Congress are supposed to be the voters' elected representatives, and not the other way around. 

2. To make the Voter's Vector a viable democratic tool, the following ingredients would be required:

   (a) A commitment on the part of the elected member to cast his or her vote in accordance with the wishes of the majority (51%; 2/3, or whatever) of voters, unless the elected member's conscience would dictate otherwise. 

   (b) An security-checking department that would make sure that only permitted voters have indeed voted, 

   (c) a tabulation department that would 'add' up the votes.

3.  A new mentality among the public and elected officials is required to make the Voters' Vector technology a dynamic tool of governing. Elected members work for us, the voters; it is the voters who, in effect, sit on the elected members Board of Directors. We, the voters, as the persons for whom the elected official works, have a right to know who that official is seeing, and why. The elected official's daytimer should be placed on the Internet, with very few exclusions. After all, workers are expected to be working for their employers, on the employer's time. Voters are the employers: elected officials are our employees. 

 Business owners usually take the position that what workers do during their work-related efforts should be known to their bosses. Therefore, it is reasonable that voters should be able to see an online version of politicians' daytimers, and that we should be able to see whom the politicians communicated with, either in writing or face-to-face. Their appointment schedules, and those of the people whom they employ, should literally and figuratively, be 'open books', that we, their bosses can read. Furthermore, the nature and content of their discussions should also be available to voters to peruse.  

5. The introduction of 'Proportional Representation', while a useful concept to a point, would probably do nothing to stop the kind of possible political corruption recently or currently being investigated by governmental agencies in Canada or the USA. The Gomery Commission in Canada and the Abramoff and Cunningham scandals in the USA all have to do with the buying of votes or favors by special interests. Politicians' sole interest should be the representation of individual voters in their constituancies. Meetings with special interest representatives (i.e. lobbyists) should be known to the voters; financial support of special interests should be clear and disclosed. 

Below are some key issues that affect the functioning of democracies:

HOW DO THINGS WORK IN YOUR COUNTRY?	A MORE GENUINELY DEMOCRATIC WAY

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