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Well for one thing, we can voice our discontent. Marching with hundreds or thousands of like-minded people won't accomplish much. The MSM won't cover the demonstrations. They would rather cover a score of Tea-Partiers hanging Obama in effigy.   The only time they cover a demonstration is when it's in Russia. Our discontent doesn't seem to matter. Soon, when the military starts rounding up dissidents in neighborhoods across the U.S., these demonstrations will come to an abrupt halt.

 

One thing that the MSM does cover however is when violence occurs. While I'm not advocating violence, sooner or later it's bound to happen. They also cover elections. I'm talking about the elections where a nation of over 300 million people are given two people to vote for, a Republican or a Democrat (not that there is much difference between the two). What would really throw them into a quandary is if people stopped voting for the two politically controlled political parties. Could that ever happen?'

 

If it could ever happen, now is the time. I have yet to talk to ANYONE that is enthusiastic about either candidate. From what I hear, people despise both candidates. This leads me to question how they came to represent their political parties. On the Democratic side, we have a President that holds weekly death meetings to decide which so-called enemy will die from drone strikes. He also presides over a nation that spends 53% of our tax dollars on weapons of war and the military. This guy has caved so many times to the GOP; I wonder why they hate him so much? He has out-Bushed Bush by extending the Patriot Act, implementing the NDAA, and presided over a Congress that makes it a felony to protest on Federal property. He has ratcheted up the War in Afghanistan, gone to war in Sudan and other nations in Africa, encircled China and Russia while he proposes sending the bulk of our Navy and Marines to Asia to encircle China.

 

While Romney, who changes with the breeze, hasn't said a goddamn thing about what he will do if he becomes the president. I don't believe he knows, Karl Rove hasn't told him yet. He's going to up the military budget, but beyond that, he's a freaking dolt.

 

Where does that leave the American people? Well, you can buy a few more American flags, some yellow ribbons, and work two jobs to get your kids through college so they don't have to join the military to pay for it. If they come back and they are in one piece, assuming they don't kill themselves or kill their wives, they can go to college or get unemployment benefits and move in with you. Just remember, don't ask them what they have done if they were in a combat zone, you don't want to know.

 

Perhaps there is an alternative. You can get informed by going outside of the Mainstream Media. The internet is a good place to start. Maybe, just maybe, you can hang in there just long enough to see how you have been lied to for the past few decades. A good place to start is by entering "U.S. Defense Budget compared to World Defense Spending" in a search engine. Another search would be "Rapes in the U.S. Military. Maybe then you could go to "Civil Rights Lost". Just for chuckles enter "Suicides by Military Members". The list goes on and on.

 

The choice is yours. Except for the readers that already know what I'm talking about, the rest of you really need to get up to speed. Great Britain didn't commit half the crimes against us that our government has committed in the last 20 years, and we fought a revolution over it. If you choose not to do anything, you will deserve anything that happens to you.

 

There are a few Third Party candidates out there. Rocky Anderson is my choice. Almost everyone says that he doesn't stand a chance. Quite the self-fulfilling prophecy, don't you think? If the majority voted for him, he'd win. Of course they don't tell you that. In conclusion, you can believe what they tell you (just as "they" said that a ramshackle Army couldn't defeat a world power like Great Britain in the late seventeen hundreds), or you can think for yourself. What a novel idea!

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Tim Gatto is Ret. US Army and has been writing against the Duopoly for the last decade. He has two books on Amazon, Kimchee Days or Stoned Colds Warriors and Complicity to Contempt.

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