VP candidate for Outer Space Party (aka Flying Saucer Party aka Universal Flying Saucer Party aka Independent Nonpartisan) (1960)
Running mate with nominee: Gabriel Green (1924-2001)
Popular vote: 0 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/537
The campaign:
It all started with economics. Addison Brown had cooked up an economic theory in 1947 called "Prior Choice Economics," and this was expanded upon in 1955 by Gabriel Green. This system could be described as sort of a competitive free-market utopian system where physical money and taxes are abolished and purchasing power is gained by how many "points" one has earned on a labor card, the amount to be determined by some sort of government body.
Shortly after publishing his 1955 economics book, Gabriel Green went public with his belief that he was in contact with aliens and organized the Los Angeles Interplanetary Study Group in 1956 which morphed into the national group, Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs in 1959.
In 1958 Green ran for US Congress in California under the Economic Security Party (ESP, get it?) banner.
Green was sitting in his home in Whittier, Calif. in the spring of 1960 when an alien in a business suit from Alpha Centauri paid him a visit and told him, in English, "We want you to run for President of the United States." Or at least that's his story.
Prior Choice Economics godfather Addison Brown was named as the running mate. He was living in Illinois at this time. Yes, I know, a Green/Brown ticket. Brown was also known as "John Believer."
The Party platform included: "... Free permanent insurance on everything, no more taxes, free medical and dental care for everyone without the disadvantage of socialized medicine and cradle to grave economic security."
Green quotes from media:
"With the help of spacemen I believe I can carry millions of votes ... Hundreds of space people are walking the streets."
"All of our high scientists have been taken to other planets. President Eisenhower flew out to Edwards Air Force Base for a briefing with a saucer crew. I know Nixon has been contacted, but I am not sure about Kennedy."
"I may not win in 1960, but I'm sure of 1964."
Green endorsed JFK shortly before the election saying an "extraterrestrial electronic brain" predicted a Democratic landslide. Also, he explained, "Not enough Americans have yet seen flying saucers or talked to outer space people."
Outer Space Party campaign manager Elary John Willsie (1921-2005) told the press that JFK's razor-thin victory was due to Green's endorsement, otherwise "it appears likely that he [Green] would have polled at least 500,000 votes." Since the Green/Brown ticket was not on any ballots, those votes would have been write-ins.
Within a short time Green had managed to integrate Prior Choice Economics into his extraterrestrial/political agenda, informing us that this economic system was also used by alien civilizations. We will read more about this in elections to come. Meanwhile, being the VP nominee did not seem to be a milestone in the life of Addison Brown, who was involved in much more important projects.
Election history: none
Other occupations: author, physicist, economist, inventor, futurist
Buried: ?
Notes:
Addison Brown managed to somehow expand the Prior Choice Economics theory into a whole complicated cosmology that included "resonation physics" and the ability to overcome Death itself. Brown and his Canadian disciple Alan K. Wu had developed a piece of software that was downloadable on any home computer called "Miracle.zip" that would somehow enable one to begin this process. After Brown's stroke in 1996 and death in 2000, Wu had set up a website (now extinct) as a way of honoring Brown's desire to set up a foundation continuing his work.
Summarizing Brown's cosmological model looks to be extremely complicated, but Wu gave it go:
We are dedicated to the preservation and continuation of the work of the Prophet-Writer-Inventor Addison Brown, sometimes known as John Believer, of Portland, Oregon.
April 23 1922 - January 2000
Mr Brown is a writer of scientific and economical theories. He is a Prophet in the Eastern and original sense of the word, yet he 'sees' life and life's mysteries and their unraveling through the eyes of contemporary science. He is an inventor as well as a futurist, a visionary in the formost avangarde tradition, or anti-tradition, as some would have it. His theories and New Cosmology leads to Human Understood Reincarnation and Resurrecting the Dead Project.
PERSONNEL :
Before his stroke in 1996, I used to work with and under the supervision of Mr Brown. At the present time I am the sole member of this research.
It was the hope of Mr Brown before his stroke to found a foundation which would continue his research.
BASIC THEORIES and WORKS :
Addison's work consist mainly of these basic parts : A New Cosmology in Resonation Physics with application to Human Understood Reincarnation and Resurrecting the Dead Project, and Theories on Economics known as Prior Choice or Permanent Credit System Economics which if implemented will solve all of the problems of unemployment, taxation, Medical care, old age retirement, funding for public and private education, child and adult welfare, joblessness and loss of jobs to the third world or a foreign country, and most of the economical problems of the latter 20th century. It will also help to fulfill, along with resurrection of the dead, the major CREATIVE prophecies of Christianity. It serves as a Mirror that reflect and echoes prophecies of the Christian religion, how "in the Last Days the dead shall be resurrected ' and how "by thy WORK, thy shall be judged (as to how much work is done and performed etc." for the whole world to see.
It also fulfill CREATIVE prophecies of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and other major religions.
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The main work is how to time the birth of a child using computerised horoscope timing so as to exhibit the highest possible Human Potential Quotient, or duplicate the soul shape and consciousness of a person previously alive but now 'deceased'. (Soul seperated from body because body no longer exist due to expiry at old age or some other causes.) The term Human Potential Quotient is developed and introduced by Addison and I based on computer programs developed here for the IBM PC and applies to the overall intelligence, abilities, potential, courage, integrity and personalities etc. of a unborn child based on, for lack of a better term, 'Astrological considerations' or computerized Horoscope timing. This computerized Horoscoping is based on the theories and techniques developed by Mr Brown, the Prophet from Portland, Oregon.
You can download programs ---Miracle.zip--- developed for the IBM PC on Human Understood Reincarnation and Resurrecting the Dead project. As mentioned before, the programs will enable you to predict the best time for birth of a child so as to have the highest Human Potential Quotient.
If you find this incredible or hard to believe, and if you are not interested in over coming death, there are other files and programs available in the zipped file that discuss economics, life's mysteries and other topics and problems.
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More trivia I cannot resist. The concept of resurrecting the dead is a main theme in Ed Wood's cult-classic late 1950s film Plan 9 From Outer Space. In the movie, the leader of the aliens, the one who has approved the plan to bring the deceased back to life, is played by the actor John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge in his only cinematic role. Breckinridge was the great-grandson of another John Cabell Breckinridge, who ran for President in 1860 as part of a third party-- the Constitutional Democratic Party! And to add to our joy of trivia involving the Pacific Northwest, his third party VP running mate, Joseph Lane, died in Oregon just like Addison Brown! As one of Plan 9's gravediggers says, "Yeah, kind spooky-like."
