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 ()

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