Immoral war at home against people of color. More African Americans are in prison now in the USA than there were in South Africa during all of Apartheid. See Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. (1) Ask any of these inmates languishing in our vast prison complex - mostly on non-violent drug charges - how democracy works for them. Have you read Charles Ogletree, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Race, Class and Crime in America? Ogletree includes stories of 100 African American men and shows how "race trumps class". (2) Do you know that our prisons are now increasingly privatized, and that Dick Cheney is one of those making so much money on them?
Immoral war against Native Americans. Trapped on reservations plagued with poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse and record levels of suicide; Leonard Peltier has been languishing in prison since 1977, with a release date of perhaps 2040. "....how the Bill of Rights failed....Choke on your blue white and scarlet hypocrisy...." sings Buffy Sainte-Marie in My Country "Tis Of Thy People You're Dying.
Immoral nuclear power plants. Building more of them is still on Obama's agenda, even after Fukushima, now called worse then Chernobyl, despite the corporate media whiteout of the radiation now contaminating the water, soil and air across the globe. Do you know that Exelon, major nuclear power plant operator, was one of the highest contributors to Obama, both in Illinois when he was Senator and when he ran for the White House? Do you know that Representative Edward Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts, a high ranking and supposedly good player about nuclear power plants, has introduced legislation asking for new, better and safer nuclear power plants, rather than no more nukes, no more weapons of mass destruction?
Immoral war against the climate and the planet itself. As the climate crisis reaches its tipping point, the corporate government hides its ostrich head in the sand while cutting back on investment in sustainable, renewable energy, like sun and wind power.
Immoral war against LGBT people. Many suicides by LGBT youth and attacks and murders of LGBT people shine a bright light on the homophobia and heterosexism of our society. LGBT people still cannot marry in most states and the armed forces saga continues. There has never been enough money spent for AIDS research.
Immoral war against whistleblower Bradley Manning. After months of torture at Quantico, he is finally being moved to Leavenworth, a medium security prison. The army says the move had nothing to do with public pressure. Clicking and sending helped here.
Immoral war against our food supply with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's) that are not even labeled. We have a right to know exactly what is in the food we eat. GMO's have known health risks, "including infertility, immune problems, accelerated aging, faulty insulin regulation, and changes in major organs and the gastrointestinal system." GMO's are also dangerous to the environment. "Up to 90% of U.S. soybeans, corn, cotton, canola, and sugar beets are now genetically engineered and routinely inserted into human and animal foods with no labels or safety testing." See Organic Consumers Association, Millions Against Monsanto and Institute for Genetic Responsibility GMO Basics. And the latest crime against us: USDA now moves to let Monsanto do its own studies. Eat organic.
Immoral wars against most of its people. Now the government is at war with most of its people in all ways, except the ultra rich.
If I have left out your favorite screams and/or weeps, I apologize in advance. These are mine; I could have gone on and on.
SECOND URGENT PLEA: Please pay attention to those of us who educate, write, investigate, litigate, legislate and talk about the rigging of our elections by all electronic voting machines.
The putsch with electronic voting machines is a more devious way of murdering us. There are two major kinds of electronic voting machines: Direct Recording Electronic (DRE's / Touchscreens) and optical scan (op scans or opti scans) voting machines. My friend and colleague, Lucius Chiaraviglio, has most aptly renamed then "op scams." All computer systems can be manipulated without detection, and so amount to an illegal, hidden ballot count. Do you know that our elections are owned and operated by a privatized voting machine industry?
The mess in Wisconsin now for the Supreme Court election has once again put vote counting and our elections in the spotlight. My friend and colleague, Victoria Collier, has published a significant paper on the subject at www.votescam.org. (Again, see below for more information.)
Rigging, tinkering with or manipulating elections is a bi-partisan equal opportunity. Republicans and Democrats are involved:
Republicans:
- Florida, 2000. Kathleen Harris, Secretary of State, with strong
ties to the Republican party. See The Brooks Brothers Riot, where paid
Republican operatives, pretending to be ordinary voters, tried to stop the recount in Florida.
- Florida, 2000. See David Barstow and Don Van Nata, Jr., How Bush Took Florida: Mining the Overseas Absentee Vote. (3)
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