|
| Affiliation | Green |
|
| Name | Abel Noah Tomlinson |
| Address |
Fayeteville, Arkansas , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
Unknown
|
| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Dec 01, 2008 12:46am |
| Tags |
|
| Info | I am currently a UA graduate student in Political Science. I was originally born in a pup tent in the beautiful Ozark Mountains near Kingston, Arkansas. My parents, who were building a cabin at that time, are Craig Tomlinson from Denton Texas and Melody Tomlinson from Oklahoma City.
Not long after I was born, my family migrated from Arkansas all around the United States. After living in a dozen states, I chose to abandon education at the age of 16 to seek employment and support myself. I labored in rock work, logging, log cabin construction, a lumber yard, saw mills, carpentry, factories, a fruit plant nursery, and auto servicing. This diverse range of employment has given me perspective on the lives that many American citizens struggle with.
At one factory, I suffered a hernia from lifting heavy objects, but I didn’t have private health insurance. The factory’s insurance enforced unknown bureaucratic protocols to avoid paying the expensive surgery bill, which appeared as a slick strategy to avoid payment and inflate profits. I think this experience has provided me with insight into America’s healthcare crisis.
After suffering this unaffordable injury, I made the decision to join the military. To join, I needed a high school diploma, so I re-enrolled at Mountainburg High School. However, I soon discovered I could attend college when I rose to the top of my class. I also met a woman named Amanda and was awarded scholarships to the University of Arkansas, so I opted to go directly to college instead of serving in the military. Shortly after starting college, I married Amanda and we had an amazing daughter, little Anna.
After graduating from Mountainburg High School, I obtained a B.S. degree in Horticulture Science from the University of Arkansas. I graduated at the top of my class, and then was awarded a doctoral fellowship and began a doctorate degree in plant science, studying molecular biology of plant diseases. However, half-way through my degree I realized that my passion and academic interest was political, so I changed my direction of study and began a master degree in political science.
I have also been a community organizer, and I am a long-time, firm critic of the Iraq War and the Bush Administration and have written on this subject at some length as a columnist for The Arkansas Traveler, the official U of A paper. I have long advocated that the Iraq War was wrong, and that actions by the Bush Administration justify impeachment proceedings.
As a member of the Fayetteville OMNI Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology organization, I have helped organize demonstrations for peace, giving speeches at these events.
I also founded the UA registered student organization Impeach for Peace UA, and served as President. As President, I organized an impeachment demonstration and a seminar with Ret. Colonel Ann Wright on the UA campus. I believe impeachment was warranted because we know the Bush administration lied nearly 1,000 times to justify the immoral and illegal Iraq war*, and they committed serious breaches to the United States Constitution through warrantless wiretapping and undermining of the right of habeas corpus, and by committing breaches of international treaties through authorization of torture, which are violations of Article VI of the Constitution as well.
However, my most significant political experience is working hard for the interests of the student body at my position as Senator for the UA Associated Student Government. As Senator, I authored and sponsored legislation advocating environmental sustainability, an increase in natural gas severance tax for the State of Arkansas to benefit higher education and state economic infrastructure, keeping college affordable for students by opposing unneeded tuition increases, and for increasing ASG transparency and accountability.
I also authored legislation to petition, on behalf of the collective student body, our national representatives for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, and for the petitioning of Congress for a strategic end to the costly Iraq War that is severely harming student and overall American economic interests.
I understand one may argue that I am young or still inexperienced, but I feel my experience is near equal to Boozman’s when he came into office. His only political experience was on a school board. Moreover, I strongly believe that judgment is far more important than experience, and my judgement is far superior to Boozman’s. I was right about the war from the beginning and Boozman was not, and I was right about the extreme economic incompetence and corruption on the part of the Bush administration, while Boozman marched in lockstep as our country was driven off a cliff.
[Link] |
 | BOOKS |
 |
|
| Title |
Purchase |
Contributor |
|
| Start Date |
End Date |
Type |
Title |
Contributor |
|
| INFORMATION LINKS |
|
|
|
