X-Message-Number: 5839 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 18:27:40 From: Steve Bridge <> Subject: A new immortalist presidential candidate? To CryoNet >From Steve Bridge, Alcor February 26, 1996 This year in Arizona, the ballot for the Republican primary is wide- open. There is no fee and no minimum number of signatures is required. This has meant that a lot of "interesting" characters with revelations from God and very creative campaign platforms are on the ballot. But one particular candidate caught my attention. The following are a few paragraphs (from a much longer article on the unknown candidates by Martin Van Der Werf) from *The Arizona Republic* newspaper on February 24, 1996. "Charles Holden's life hasn't made much of an impact on society, and he knows it. He lives almost invisibly. "He has no phone. No car. He makes barely enough money delivering handbills to businesses and homes to pay his rent and buy food and beer. "Don't make the mistake, though, of assuming that just because Holden has nothing, he doesn't want anything. "Holden wants to be your next president. "Whether you know it or not, from a musty trailer with a leaky roof in a rundown trailer park near Indian School Road and Interstate 17, a campaign for the highest office in this land is being waged. " 'I just need one breakthrough: to maybe get on a national TV show like *Regis and Kathie Lee*, or *Jay Leno*, or maybe *Good Morning America*,' Holden said." This doesn't sound like our kind of guy? Well, just wait. "Holden, 45, believes this nation should concentrate on building an electronic instrument that could remove the free-radical molecules from the bloodstream, which he called the largest culprit in the aging process. If that machine could be perfected, he said, Americans could lead longer, healthier lives. Eventually, he said, similar technology will bring loved ones back from the dead. "He also thinks robots should be built that construct buildings out of recycled materials. People who live in dumps, he said, could trade them in and get new ones built with this quick, inexpensive technology. "He sits in a lawn chair he has brought from outside into his kitchen, and thrusts the horn-rim glasses he holds in his hand back and forth to make points, talking so quickly at times that he must pause and try to remember what he was going to say. " 'I think if people catch on to the idea of wanting to stay young forever, they'll vote for Holden, because I know how to do the job,' he said." Hey, now this is a man who understands the future. It's apparent that it is merely journalistic prejudice that described him so badly. And any oddities in the explanation above were probably due to the usual sloppy reporting. Maybe I should make sure this guy gets a computer and subscribes to CryoNet. We could bring him to Alcor for speeches. After he gets on *Regis and Kathie Lee*, he could really bring cryonics and nanotechnology to worldwide attention. Oh, wait. There are two more paragraphs later in the article. "Holden said he, too, has spoken with the Lord. " 'From the time I was 5 until I was 12 or 13, I heard the voice of God 35 to 40 times,' Holden said. 'The words weren't as significant as the meaning. Whenver God spoke to me as a boy, I knew in my mind that I aspire to some kind of greatness. When a loud voice thunders down from the sky, you don't ignore it." Darn, and he was so close. Kevin, cancel that CryoNet subscription. Stephen Bridge, President () Alcor Life Extension Foundation Non-profit cryonic suspension services since 1972. 7895 E. Acoma Dr., Suite 110, Scottsdale AZ 85260-6916 Phone (602) 922-9013 (800) 367-2228 FAX (602) 922-9027 for general requests http://www.webcom.com/~alcor Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5839