Comments on: Forest Baker’s 15 minutes of fame?

By: Paulette

Paulette — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:31:57 +0000

Interesting how Forest Baker has listed his place of employment for the last 13 years as ‘Sumeo Corporation’, yet a google search on that term ONLY brings up his own linkedin account and his own reference to such an entity even existing. Who the hell is this guy?? Sounds like an elite who knows far more than we know-nothing plebs, so surely we should vote for him. Yeah, I think we’ll just stick with Stark. At least he’s mostly absent and is likely to kick off soon. No telling what a RINO like you has in mind, since you’re too good to even campaign and meet your supposed constituents. Yeah, I like my neighbors and employers to be strangers — if only the damn government would mind their own business as well, that would be PERFECT. Sounds like you have other plans for us. Thanks, but no thanks.

By: Forest Baker

Forest Baker — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:44:43 +0000

I don’t know of any group of folks who seem to have read through the same copy of my book (that I gave to Chris some months ago) only in order to find fault with my ideas.

You all don’t seem to understand corporations, parternships, sovereignty or the underlying process of financial capitalism that has been feeding us for the past 100 years. You all seem to think we were meant to be human resources, consumers and taxpayers forever…and that is precisely what the Democrats want you to accept when they tell you that you are free…but they already have your health, education, welfare and police services in their portfolio of stuff we should be able to better do for ourselves. They are socialists and you want them to do that better. I want them to stop trying so hard already and to mostly leave us alone. I’m a conservative libertarian capitalist with 40 years of work in the global business arena.

It takes quite a long time to internalize all the various elements that make up financial capitalism. It can seem daunting. I know that. Has Mike ever read an Economics text? Money and Banking? Finance? My stuff might be a little deep for most of you but at least you’re digging through it and finding enough in there to disagree with me about. Thanks for playing.

I never once use the word commune anywhere in my book to describe the Cote. It is not a hippie commune. It is not a kibbutz in the desert. Someone made that foolishness up as a crisp political lie (imagine that?)and you guys are buying into it without checking your facts.

A Cote is simply a corporate campus that does business (IBM at Cottle Road is a good example), that we can live on if we like (Stanford has one of those) and that we also own. Nothing complicated. A partnership. And no one said you need to join one if you enjoy working for strangers and living next door to other strangers in a house that is your largest investment so you might someday retire with dignity. How’s that going for you, by the way?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:54:24 +0000

That letter is a lot more readable than most of Baker’s writings. Usually he tries to impress the reader with his vocabulary, while using that vocabulary to hide his ideas. I guess he’s trying the 60s tactic of making the ideas so intellectual and confusing that no one will want to admit they don’t make any sense.

As for his ideas: I own my own home. I really like the idea of individual ownership. I want to choose my paint color, my carpet, my furniture, etc. without people telling me what it should be; regardless of whether those people are the government or a Board of Directors for a Corporate Commune. His “Eukariotsu economics” is just another way for people to seek personal power to arbitrarily bludgeon every-day individuals.

By: Sandi Jacobs

Sandi Jacobs — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:15:46 +0000

I will not vote for Forest Baker the Republican and this is why.
Baker’s book titled “Eukariotsu Capitalism in the Post-Sovereign Economy” states on page 86 “My answer to this is the Commonwealth Trust State.” “A Cote is an association of 500-1000 families where working members are employees of the entity. The Cote owns and operates income-producing businesses, it own schools and clinics. It develops and manages residential and commercial real estate occupied by its denizens. Each partnership organizes, owns and administers a small bank. Cote assets are held I a perpetual trust for the benefit of all partners. Each head of household should be gainfully employed by one of the entity’s business units or pursue a professional career with Cote members as clients, students or patients.”
“Commonwealth partners will be carefully recruited in order to fully populate each campus with a statistically normal mix of direct labor workers, middle managers, technical professionals and executives. Compensation rates will be equivalent with salaries and wages in the surrounding economy. Furthermore, partners will be provided with well-built residence owned by the Cote inside a closed corporate campus.”
I translate this as creating a DICTATOR who will run and decide for a certain community. You wouldn’t even own your own home, etc. There is no way in which I can support a candidate that has this mindset. I see him no better than Pete Stark!!! Forest Baker is running a silent campaign and isn’t scheduling any meet & greets to be questioned by the citizens of CD-13. He also is not accepting any donations or help with his campaign. Mmmmm…..Why???
I sincerely hope that citizens of Congressional District 13 wake up and Write-In Independent Chris Pareja’s name (www.chrispareja.com) on the ballot in November. It is NOW that we must stand for principals, values and not another socialist-marxist. I could not in sound mind even vote for Baker for if he were to win and support the kind of stuff he wrote in his book I couldn’t live with knowing I voted for him.

By: Virginia Westfall

Virginia Westfall — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:27:40 +0000

A vote for Mr. Baker is a true vote for the unknown. His Website does not tell where he stands on the various issues. His book tells of having communal communities.. not freedom in the true since, in my opinion.
If elected will he step into Mr. Starks shoes and carry on as he (stark)did/does, Not live in the district, not listen or speak with the constituents, only pander the special interests? Where does Mr. Baker really stand?
The only rally in the District, to my knowledge, his support was from out of district.

By: Steve Kemp

Steve Kemp — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:30:58 +0000

Now I know where Baker stands. On top of a tall mountain in a theoretical world. Why is this guy even running??