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Vietnam Vet and Former Head of Star Wars Wants to Impeach Bush, Crack Down on Corporate Crime
CORPORATE CRIME REPORTER


Crime, Repeal Corporate Personhood – but First He Has to Beat Congressman Weldon
20 Corporate Crime Reporter 36(1), September 11, 2006

Bob Bowman is running for Congress.


He is a Vietnam Vet.


He flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam.


He was the director of the Star Wars program under Presidents Ford and Carter.


He was a corporate executive at General Dynamics in San Diego, California and Space Communications Company in Gaithersburg, Maryland.


And now is he running for Congress.


Last week, he defeated a primary opponent to win the Democratic nomination and the right to challenge Congressman Dave Weldon in Florida’s fifteenth.


Bowman wants to repeal corporate personhood, crackdown on corporate crime, and impeach President Bush and the leadership of his administration for deceiving the American people about Iraq.


He believes corporate Democrats should be voted out of office.


“Anybody who puts corporate profits above the security of the American people doesn’t deserve the name Democrat and I just assume get rid of them,” he says.


Four years ago, Bob Bowman was diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer – Waldenstroms macroglobular anemia – which he believes is linked to his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam.


“After trying six different chemotherapies, they finally found a chemotherapy that works,” Bowman said in an interview with Corporate Crime Reporter. “And it has put the cancer on hold. And I haven’t had to had a treatment since the beginning of the year.”


His resume reads Republican, he looks military, but he talks populist Democrat.


“The real question is not left or right, big government or little government,” Bowman says. “The question is – who does government serve? I’m running as an ordinary citizen, not as a politician – in order to take back America for the people. I want a government that serves the people and not the big money interests. And we haven’t had that for years.”


Bowman says that “corporate crime is far more damaging that all of the ordinary street crime lumped together.”
“The leaders of Enron damaged more lives than a year’s worth of street gangs in New York and Los Angeles,” Bowman said in a 20-minute interview at the National Press Club.


He thinks of himself as a Bobby Kennedy Democrat.


What about Huey Long?


Don’t know enough about Huey Long, Bowman says.


Bowman says that he supported the Star Wars program when he headed it.


“The problem is that when Ronald Reagan was elected, they turned this quiet research program into a crash program to deploy offensive weapons disguised as defense,” Bowman says. “I started speaking out against it and warning of the dangers of weapons in space, and an arms race in space. And Reagan’s Joint Chiefs called me in and pleaded with me to warn the American people and the Congress. There was a gag order on all military on active duty and on those who had retired since Reagan took office. They couldn’t say or write anything. I had retired under Carter before Reagan came in. They had no hold on me – no legal way to shut me up. So, the Joint Chiefs asked me – please, warn the Congress and the American people about this military lunacy. And I did – I gave over 5,000 speeches against Reagan’s star wars scheme during his administration. And we succeeded in keeping weapons out of space.”


After leaving the government, Bowman went to work as an executive in the defense industry.


“But I found that I had less freedom of speech in industry than I had in the military,” Bowman said. “When I started speaking out on the dangers of weapons in space, my employers tried to shut me up. I eventually had to resign from industry.”


He’s been a citizen activist for the past 20 years.


He wanted to be the Reform Party’s candidate for President in 2000, but lost to Pat Buchanan.


Now, Bowman wants the leaders of the Bush administration impeached for the Iraq war.


“I have called for the impeachment of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and Rice,” Bowman said. “I do not favor the impeachment of Bush alone because I think we would be going out of the frying pan and into the fire. I do not want Cheney as President. He’s dangerous enough as vice president. My call for impeachment is based on the administration’s deliberate deception of Congress and the American people in getting us into war in Iraq.”


He admits that his opponents will seek to smear him for his take on 911.


“I’m going to get smeared because of my connection with the 911 truth movement even though I do not propose any conspiracy theories and I do accuse anybody in our government or country with involvement in 911,” Bowman said. “I simply want the American people to be given the truth and they haven’t been yet. There has been a massive cover up. And I don’t know whether the cover-up is to protect guilt or to protect incompetence. Either way, the people deserve to know the truth. If Dave Weldon wants to come after me and accuse me of being a conspiracy nut, I will welcome a debate on the issue with him.”


Bowman admits to being the underdog to Congressman Weldon, a physician who has support from right-wing Christians.


And Bowman says that the national Democratic Party has written off the race as hopeless.


But he believes that if he can raise enough money to let voters in his district “know that we exist and give them some idea of our platform – if I can do that, we will beat Weldon and beat him decisively.”

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