MEET KEENAN WALLACE DUNHAM … INTERGALACTIC COLONIZER
|| By FITSNEWS || Just when we thought we’d brought libertarianism to the mainstream … at least in South Carolina … along comes a presidential candidate with some decidedly “out of this world” ideas.
Keenan Wallace Dunham of Myrtle Beach, S.C. describes himself as “a Christian dedicated to family values and peace in the world.” And while he’s mounting a long-shot bid to earn a nomination which itself is long-shot for the presidency … he’s got some common sense ideas on the legalization of marijuana and the elimination of the individual income tax.
This website has written for years in support of both those concepts …
Dunham’s views get a bit off the beaten path, though, when his campaign website addresses the issue of “space colonization.”
“Keenan is a Mensa high IQ scientist who has planned this campaign for ten years and is constantly honing and teaching his plans for their nationwide implementation,” his website states by way of introducing the subject.
Mmmm-kay.
So … what’s the plan?
According to Keenan’s campaign, the money raised by taxing marijuana at nine percent “will fund Keenan’s Space Colonization NASA for Moon travel, Mars bases, TERRAFORMING, Asteroid Mining, and Galactic expansion for generations.”
“In a personal scientific vision Keenan plans to reDux our NASA into a colonizing mission for generations to eventually mine Suns all the way to the center cluster of billions of stars of our galaxy!” his website states.
Whoa …
And we thought our belief that NASA should be privatized was radical!
We’re no “Mensa high IQs” here at FITS, but we do know a thing or two about political messaging. And if we’d been planning our presidential campaign launch for ten years … we might have dialed down the interstellar insanity to, say, “five.”
We’re not necessarily saying the pursuit of asteroid mining as part of America’s generational galactic expansion is a bad thing … but Keenan’s “head in the stars” candidacy seems to us to be in need of a reality check.
Of course we are interested in hearing his thoughts on non-proliferation agreements with the Klingons and Romulans …
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A “libertarian” pitching taxes to build New Gingrich style moon colonies….perfect.
Anyone can label themselves anything….just ask Bruce, er Kaitlyn, Jenner.
Moon colonies were never a bad idea. Taxing to make it happen, that’s the bad idea.
This guy’s idea of a Moon colony is a room at Motel 6 on the dark side of the moon.
Spelled with a “C”.
Pardon Muah. I’m ashamed.
I was amazed.Kaitlyn looks just like Jethrine Bodine
I didn’t believe@33
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Laugh, if you will, but it has been a long-held tenet of Libertarians that we would be much further advanced in space flight, had it not been for governmental control – see the works of L. Neil Smith, Robert A. Heinlein, and other Prometheus award winners. Taxing for governmental programs, as TroubleBaby points out, is not a Libertarian (ahem) enterprise.
“a long-held tenet of Libertarians that we would be much further advanced in space flight, had it not been for governmental control”
Right. Governmental control of LSD, METH, ecstasy….
More like government just being government.
And all ya’ll thought Ms. Lindsey was the weirdest candidate from South Carolina…
You’re forgetting the Cullers. 10 kinds of weird.
Who knows? If andwhen Iran gets a nuclear bomb, some legislators in Washington might regret not having taken Keenan’s advice.
And I wonder if Israel has given this plan due consideration. (They made a garden from the dessert, so they could probably do wonders with the Moon.) And, really, what’s one more Diaspora if the alternative is annihilation?
Wow, did Keenan bleach his skin? Where’s Kel?
After midnight last night all contact with Fitsnews was lost. I deleted the app and the task bar icon but did not help. Tried this morning to google but it came up in Russian! Anybody else experience this, and if so, what the hell was that all about?
Will Folks aka Sic FITSNews Bible Thumper • 3 hours ago
Yup. Hacktastic Morning!
“hacktastic”..suuurrre.
You mean “shitty server (singular) and crappy SQL DB” admins.
hah! I decided to translate it and this is what came up —
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mumps peppas consecutive series pig
peppas all series in a row.”
We need to supply this guy with a list of the shops and stores that we would like to have in the first shopping center on the moon. Would we be able to take and drive our cars on the moon? I imagine we would have to modify the carburetor.
I have had the last two morning of not being able to access “Fits News.”
It is a conspiracy against the sane bloggers that post here.
Or he could be limiting our access with the new “bullshit” filter he just installed.
What that was all about is you need to get a life.
You backed T-Rav..and you’re questioning this guys ideas?
People who brag about Mensa wear it like a badge of honor… like they are better than everyone else. They’re smart is some ways, but downright retarded in others. Nature has a way of balancing them out.
KEENAN is crazy. Man is never going to go to the Moon.
This guy is hilarious! Whats not to love!
Actually, I kinda like the guy. Anyone that bases his election on building a moon colony, you gotta love. If the next election was based on letting anyone in kindergarten and older vote, he may have a chance.
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If he does his space suit like he does a tie and collar he won’t last long.
Bet he is no Buck Rodgers.
L. Ron Hubbard?
L Ron Hubbard was a very complicated character, don’t know if this guy has attained the knowledge and experience to be compared with LRH. We will see, may be he has the intellect and drive to do something notable, we will just have to wait and see. And he also ,at this point, would not make a very good Buck Rodgers.
Mencken, almost a century ago, pointed out how kooks are rarely kooks in just one subject area.
On mining the sun and other stars, see the story of Icarus for a bit of a cautionary tale.
Shocked to discover he’s not one of my Facebook friends.
I guess he gets his fashion sense out of MENSA magazine. Every time I’ve taken an IQ test at school or for job interviews I have received a membership offer from them so I’m not that impressed.
He just does not seem to appreciate the Irony of his platforms. Maybe this will help.
http://www.alaskacommons.com/2013/05/25/smf-37/libertarian-society-vs-socialist-society-mad-max-star-trek
FITS “…brought libertarianism to the mainstream…
Snicker…
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
? John Locke