Nov 5 2008 

My thanks to the people of  the 8th District for their votes, confidence and attention to the issues I advanced. Though I have been compelled to yield the field, it is a great day for America. Now we have hope of our foreign policy decisions being made by someone who is not intoxicated with imperial hubris.

         Thank Y'all Again, Kent Hargett   

Kent Hargett

Democratic Candidate For Congress,

 Eighth Congressional District, Texas

"A Nation, Not an Empire!"

Priorities:

Stop The Transformation of America Into an Empire.

Face the Whole Truth About Petro-Dollar Terrorism and Develop a National Security Doctrine to Answer Today's Dangers.

Make a National Decision to Reduce Dependence on Oil.

Support the Development of Basic Affordable Healthcare.

Restore the Domestic Economy and Protect the Employment of American Workers. 

A Message to the People of the Eighth Congressional District

    America today is beset by staggering security and economic problems. The world is not fair to any nation, and some of America's problems would have surfaced in any case. However, in 2001, our national and economic security problems were entrusted by the electorate to those who announced themselves to be the unrivaled masters of both issues: The Republican Administration and Congress.

Since that time, they could scarcely have done a more thorough job of abandoning their duty to face America's problems. They could not serve America because they deliberately abandoned the truth about America. They made a deliberate decision to transform America from a nation into an empire. In the early years of the Bush 43 administration, the "Case for Empire" became a common, reoccurring theme. In their intoxication with power, they overlooked one simple fact: The United State of America is a nation, never having been designed or intended to be an empire. The priority of an empire is the gathering and sustaining of external power, regardless of the cost to population at home. Though this was never intended to become the work of America, it has become the work of the contemporary Republican Party. It has become imperialistic.

We must now restore the focus of our government to it's original purpose: ensuring the safety and security of the American people. We must forsake this illusion that we can control the energy resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, thereby controlling the economic world. Obviously, the combination of forces rising against us is beyond the comprehension of the shallow short-term thinking of the inhabitants of Washington. We must make a national decision to supply our energy needs from places far removed from the uncontrollably volatile Persian Gulf. We must create a Homeland Security system focused on the safety of our population here at home. We must end this hopelessly stupid idea of finding safety in the process of Western armies transforming Islamic societies.

As we forsake the sorrows of empire, we can build policies for National Security, Energy Security, and our long-neglected Domestic Issues.

Since the early 1980s, I have worked with and for small, local non-profit organizations. I am optimistic about what can be done in the areas of the Economy, Healthcare, Education, the Environment, and other issues. Much can be accomplished by a government attentive to the needs of the American people. But, at the moment, our needs are overshadowed by the energy-security entanglements of the Persian Gulf wrought by the imperialistic will of the Republican Party. The transformation of our policies from the current self-destructive ones into realistic ones is necessary for any kind of economic durability.

These are my intentions and why I am a candidate for Congress.