Thomas Allen Cary, July 22, 1948 -
VP candidate for Twelve Visions Party (aka Unaffiliated aka Independent aka Tax Revolt Party) (2012)
Running mate with nominee: Jill Ann Reed (b. 1958)
Popular vote: 2,904 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
The Twelve Visions Party was the political arm of a publishing business and commercial organization in Henderson, Nev. that has various names such as Integrated Management Associates (aka Neotech aka Neothink aka Neo-Tech Publishing aka The Nouveau Tech Society aka Neothink Society aka The League aka The Secret Society aka The Society of Secrets aka Newly-Forming Neo-Tech/Illuminati Societies aka The Athenian Secret Society aka Novus Tek aka Zonpower). No matter the name, this business has been the subject of scam warnings from multiple countries, journalists, ex-members, and consumer protection groups. A few have considered it a smaller version of Scientology. The leadership and faithful followers strongly deny all of these charges.
The enterprise was founded by Wallace Ward (aka Frank R. Wallace) in 1968 and borrowed heavily from the philosophy of Ayn Rand but the group since veered off into some mystical and pseudoscience beliefs that have little to do with Objectivism.
An aggressive Neothink junk mail campaign started drawing attention from the media. The letters offered an invitation into an exclusive secret society of "leading scientists, intellectuals, self-made entrepreneurs and artists, renowned actors and musicians, millionaires, professional gamblers, Casanovas, and statesmen" as well as promising "enormous wealth, love and the most phenomenal personal abilities" and how to "generate huge sums of money... without even trying" and "lose weight or eliminate addictions effortlessly and virtually overnight" and learn "how to control anyone, win any lover, and be more intelligent" and "you will be having sex with beautiful women in one week."
Ward spent some time behind bars for tax evasion before he was hit and killed by a car while jogging in 2006. His son, Wallace H. Ward, continued the business using the stage name of "Mark Hamilton." In 2009 his webpage explained the purpose of the Twelve Visions Party--
Who is Mark Hamilton and what is Neothink?
The author Mark Hamilton is arguably the first person since MLK with a grand, world-changing vision for mankind. Only this time, it’s not just a dream. It is so much more.... The Twelve Visions Party seeks to rid the government of this destructive “ruling class” once and for all. So what will be the benefit from this? Imagine becoming a millionaire without having to lift a finger. Imagine having total financial freedom and living the life you were meant to live. Imagine having a job that you actually loved and couldn’t wait to get to every morning. Imagine yourself having superior intelligence. Imagine having perfect health, even in old age. Imagine discovering and never losing that falling in love feeling with your partner. Imagine becoming slim and sexy, without even trying!
In a later post Hamilton wrote--
The Twelve Visions Party operates under the principles of an idea called Prime Law. The fundamentals of Prime Law include the belief that humans were meant to live happily and prosperously, and that a government is meant to facilitate its citizens’ ability to live this way by remaining honest and not using force to intimidate people.
If put in power, the Twelve Visions Party would aim to add an amendment to the US Constitution outlawing the use of initiatory force by groups, governments, and individuals. Members of the party assert that this will free mankind and promote the unrestricted growth of science, research, and business. Furthermore, Twelve Visions Party members believe that taking the politicization out of these sectors would result in an ideal society.
Rather than share their 144 page platform for 2012, here are the Twelve Visions--
Vision One: Be the Person You Were Meant To Be
Vision Two: Live The Life You Were Meant To Live Everyday
Vision Three: Feel Extraordinary Everyday
Vision Four: Slow Down Aging Permanently
Vision Five: Land The Job Of Your Dreams
Vision Six: Build The Business Of Your Passion
Vision Seven: Experience The Love Of Your Life
Vision Eight: Have The Body You Always Envied
Vision Nine: Become A Genius Of Society
Vision Ten: Have Everything You ever Wanted (via the free-to-soar geniuses and super technologies)
Vision Eleven: Ride A Prosperity Wave To Riches (via falling prices and soaring buying power)
Vision Twelve: Enjoy Nearly Perfect Health (via soaring medical technologies and falling prices)
Presidential nominee Jill Reed of Casper, Wyo. filed with the FEC in late July 2011. Her VP and fellow Neothink follower was Thomas Cary of Landisville, Penn. Since the TVP was a young party, Reed spent part of her campaigning in helping to set up state chapters.
Reed/Cary were on the ballot in Colorado, finishing with 0.10% of the vote and placing 7th out of 17. Reed was also a registered write-in in 16 states, four of them without Cary. Oddly, both Reed and Cary were competing Presidential write-in candidates in Illinois, where Reed was given 131 votes and Cary 14.
Cary currently operates the Congregation of Inspiration apparently with Reed as a corporate partner which appears to be sort of a Neothink franchise.
Election history:
2012 - US President (Twelve Visions Party) - defeated
Other occupations: Congregation of Inspiration, CEO of de Cory Corp.
Notes:
Aside from running a candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts in 2013, the Twelve Visions Party has apparently not been running anyone for public office since. In 2010 they ran a candidate for the Victorville, Calif. City Council.
