Replying to Why I am not voting in this so called election..

this is my personal opinion of what is happening in our country.
remember it is the true patriot that stands up and questions.

so as far as the election is concerned..i am not voting for either one of these tools. the reasons are so numerous but i'll give you some main ones. we are projecting our power around the world in a disturbing fashion. just recently we have begun to conduct raids in Pakistan. this was supposedly our ally in the war on "terror". next we are likely to engage Iran in some form in the next several years. neither mccain nor obama have said anything contrary to this. yes mccain is more openly belligerent, but i think obama will be just as ready to use military force abroad. we have been in afghanistan for seven years! in iraq for over five! if you take the two wars separately this is twelve years of war. This is longer than vietnam, world war ii, world war i, civil war..in other words longer than any wars we have been in. and mccain says we will stay as long as we have to.. obama's change is a "possible" timetable which he might have abandoned as an idea, and a shift of troops to Afghanistan and maybe even Pakistan.
for that reason alone, neither of these candidates will get my vote

reason number two: both of these candidates have said nothing about the various laws created during the Bush administration giving more power to the executive branch. also all the laws such as the Patriot Act, which go against a basic tenet of American society: "those who sacrifice safety for liberty will find themselves without both safety and liberty".. to all of you who want to tell me that this is only a risk if you are a "bad" guy, i say STFU you stupid piece of shit. During world war II, FDR imprisoned tens of thousands of Japanese Americans. he didn't even need a Patriot Act to do it. the fact that its called "The Patriot Act" is a fucking travesty too, because it implies that if you are against it you aren't a patriot. fuck you King George. we've got a government that condones torture, indefinite detention, secret prisons..in other words tyranny which some meatheads think is all ok because it only applies to "terrorists".Bullshit.
Department of Homeland Security? wtf?? Department of Intellectual Property Rights??


Then we have the wall street bailout. Almost a trillion dollars worth of handouts which are supposed make some kind of profit. Even in China they were astounded by this move. First the house of reps votes this monster down, and then they get scared because the market dropped 777 points.. Wow, everyone who switched their vote because of that was either really sly or a total bafoon. the dow jones industial average is not directly correlated to the economy. its a wonder, that since then we have had a day with a 800 point increase in the Dow. And MCPalin has the fucking audacity to talk about the redistribution of wealth.. We need to "unfreeze credit markets".. You do realize that the markets froze up when Hankster announced the proposed bailout. Banks and financial companies stopped lending because they wanted to see what would happen with the bail out. Yippe! Privatize profits for corporations but socialize their loses by making the citizens pay for it! Yay! Another part of the travesty is how the main news channels portrayed this shit. I watched BOTH house debates on CSpan. The first time, there was a strong voice of opposition to this bill for many reasons.
The media claimed tha the bill did not pass because some Republicans switched their vote.. What about the fact that both parties came out in strong opposition saying that this was not the right thing to do. Then George Bush comes out and says "The legislative process is not important, the bill will pass" WTF does that mean? And then what do you know it? The Senate takes up the bill, makes it 400 pages, adds 160 billions dollars of crap and voila the House passes it.

The GWOT or Global War on Terrorism is a sham. Terrorism is indeed real, but governments have been the biggest sponsors and creators of terrorism in the history of our world. More people have died and more property has been destroyed because of government initiated war. Much more than some crazies have ever done. Yes, 9/11 was a dramatic and shocking event. We were right to go after Al Quiada for it. So maybe it should be the Global War on Al Quaida. What other words will our country declare war upon? The War on Free Speech and Assembly? The War on Freedom? The War on the US Constitution oh wait I forgot, they already started those wars but decided not to tell us.
our country is full of murder and crime. our own citizens are more likely to be killed from a "regular" crime than a terrorist act. more people die from preventable diseases, yet we are consumed with fear about shadowy and mysterious terrorists.

I could go on and on.. The election itself is crap because we get two candidates that participate in fixed debates.. Its a well known FACT that the debate commission was started by Dems and Repubs. and is a private corporation headed by two former chairmen of both parties. The point of all this is to make sure that neither of the candidates is put on the spot, or says something foolish. The debate rules are often held secret..


really i could go on and on.. i still believe that this is a great country. with enormous potential. its up to us young people to stand up and demand real change,

feel free to participate in this sham election. If you do, please vote third party. Remember that Ross Perot won something like 19 percent of the popular vote in the 90's. Vote for yourself even. Better yet, don't vote. Contrary to what you've been told, not voting is not immoral. If choices are evil or more evil, it is far better to abstain. I am not voting...end of story.