Francis L. Holland to Attend YearlyKos, Lead "Truth About Kos" Panel Discussion

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.

Francis L. Holland to Attend YearlyKos,

Chair “Truth About Kos” Panel Discussion

In a carefully negotiated deal worked out through intermediaries, Francis L. Holland and Markos Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA have agreed to end their public acrimony and work together for the good of the Democratic Party.  Without admitting guilt, Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA has agreed to do the following:

1) Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will sever any and all contacts with the Central Intelligence Agency, if, in fact, he has any remaining contacts with the CIA;

2) Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will acknowledge that, contrary to what he said at the Commonwealth Club on June 2, 2006, the CIA really is, in fact, responsible for extraordinary rendition and therefore is not "a very liberal institution” and does not have its “heart in the right place."

3) Disavowing his statements in his October 2006 Cato Institute article entitled, “The Case for the Libertarian Democrat,” Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA vows never again to support “states’ rights,” which was the Confederate rallying cry during the Civil War;

4) Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA has agreed to acknowledge that the First Amendment guarantees of free speech are fundamental to the American way of life, and therefore he will review policies and procedures at DailyKos to replace the pervasive, repressive and dictatorial and apartheid-like “banning” and censorship policies at DailyKos with First Amendment-based policies that show respect and esteem for the Constitution of the United States.

5) Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will acknowledge and disavow any family connections that may exist to Exportadora de Sal, S.A (ESSA) of Mexico and its representative, the Baja Salt (Group) of El Salvador, ending any and all direct and/or indirect contacts with the destruction of grey whale spawning grounds and poisonous slaughter of sea turtles in Baja Mexico.

To the extent that they may exist, Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will acknowledge and disavow any and all family contacts with El Salvador’s right wing Asociación Nacional de Empresas Privadas (ANEP), which the CIA calls an El Salvadoran political pressure group that is associated with the 1980 assassination of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.  (Members of the National Association of Businessmen (ANEP) ... The chain of command then proceeds to death-masters like [deleted by the CIA] [who] have contacts with retired officers who go around to the different security forces as "black bag" men, paying off and recruiting likely foot-soldiers.  The latter are recruited at the lower and even middle levels (captains and majors) of the different security forces.  Death squad hitmen thus recruited are on the receiving end of a vertical hierarchy leading up to the paymasters (whom the foot-soldiers do not know...)." Intelnet.Org

7) Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will publicly disavow any all connections, direct or indirect, to the Salvadoran death squads that the CIA says are supported by ANEP, of which Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA is a board member, while also serving as “manager” at the family hotel business of Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA, the Jaltepeque Suites Hotel;

“EL PAPEL DEL CLUSTER DE TURISMO EN EL DESARROLLO DE UNA NUEVA ALTERNATIVA ECONÓMICA, BASADA EN LA INDUSTRIA TURISTICA EN EL SALVADOR, 1997-2000."

8)  Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will permit Black and Latino Americans to join and remain members of DailyKos, without been “banned” or exiled, at least until their present numbers (currently 2.5% and 1% respectively) rise to the percentage of Black participation among delegates to the Republican National Convention (6.7%);  Is the term "Whitosphere" a Fair Descriptor for the White Blogosphere?

9)  Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will stop undermining the candidacies of non-white-male candidates for the presidency and will work to end the 43-term white male monopoly of the US Presidency in 2008, acknowledging the value of pluralistic leadership at the highest reaches of American government while accepting the inevitability of the end of the white male monopoly paradigm.

10) Explicitly disavowing his past political history, Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA agrees to never again support candidates who hate Black people and eschew women’s rights, such as Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush (who appointed Justice Clarence Thomas), Henry Hyde and other Republicans well know for interventionist policies abroad and divide and conquer tactics here at home.

11) Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA agrees never again to support a presidential candidate who believes that ketchup should be counted as a vegetable in school lunches for low income children.

12) Moulitsas will allow September 11 conspiracy theories to be discussed at DailyKos, at least until there is a consensus about how and why and by whom the Twin Towers were actually destroyed. (Watch the Eye-Witness Video Compilation from the Major Networks and See What You Think!)

13) Moulitsas will suspend the enforcement of  The 10 Unwritten Rules of Speech at DailyKos (How to Avoid Violating the 10 Unwritten Rules of the DailyKos Public Opinion Governance Board (DKPOGB)), at least until it can be determined whether these rules are the harbinger of a coming police state.

14) Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA agrees to inform YearlyKos participants of their right to participate in any protests at YearlyKos that may originate at the “Truth About Kos” panel discussion.

15) Instead of repeating the meme that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (and all people who are not white men) “don’t lead,” Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will announce his support for the Clinton/Obama ticket at YearlyKos.

16) To prove that he is no longer a Republican, Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA will commit to help the Democratic front-runners win the presidency and vice presidency, instead of trying to throw the election to the Republicans.

In exchange, Francis L. Holland has agreed to:

1) Moderate his criticism of DailyKos, YearlyKos and Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA;

2) Francis L. Holland will refrain from publicly calling Markos ZÚÑIGA a “liar” for previously insisting that "I don’t have money. I don’t come from a famous or powerful family. I was an immigrant to the United States," all of which has been proven not to be true. 

Francis L. Holland will refrain from calling Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA a "liar" as long as the latter agrees  to acknowledge that his family owns a sumptuous and exclusive multi-million dollar hotel complex in El Salvador called the Jaltapeque Suites Hotel, while the “manager” of the ZÚNIGA "family business" is, in truth, president of the Salvadoran national tourism board, president of the Salvadoran national association of hotels, and a board member of the Salvadoran national private business associations.

3) Francis L. Holland agrees to acknowledge that there is no direct evidence yet that Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA is personally responsible for the destruction of grey whale spawning grounds in Baja Mexico by the Baja Salt (Group) that is owned by Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA, who is listed as “manager” at Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s family’s Japultapeque Suites Hotel;

4) Francis L. Holland agrees to stop referring to Kos supporters as "minions" and "sycophants" and he will reaffirm his belief in their right to be wrong;

5) Francis L. Holland further stipulates that his “Truth About Kos” panel discussion at YearlyKos will be “only one of many events” at YearlyKos and, therefore, out of respect for the free speech of others, Francis L. Holland agrees not to disrupt any overt or covert CIA recruitment activities; not to disrupt any white supremacist panel discussions on how to make the Democratic Party only as inclusive in the future as DailyKos is now; and respect DailyKos members’ right and tendency to meet and discuss how to perennially and perpetually support and maintain the white male monopoly of the presidency.

6) Having been reinstated at DailyKos, Francis L. Holland agrees to post not more than one high-impact diary per day denouncing the white male supremacy paradigm and the 43-term white male monopoly of the presidency.