Shut Down Wars

& the Surveillance State, NOT

Food Assistance, Economic Opportunity Programs, Housing, Parks, etc.

“Endless wars:America’s expanding military empire will continue to bleed the country dry at a rate of more than $15 billion a month (or $20 million an hour). The Pentagon spends more on war than all 50 states combined spend on health, education, welfare, and safety. Yet what most Americans fail to recognize is that these ongoing wars have little to do with keeping the country safe and everything to do with enriching the military industrial complex at taxpayer expense.” John Whitehead, attorney, author of Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State ,From NSA Spying & VIPR Sweeps to Domestic Drones: A Round-Up of the Police State Programs NOT Affected by Govt Shutdown

 “As the parts of the government affected by the shutdown disproportionately impact economic opportunity programs for the working poor, historically marginalized communities are likely to the feel the effects of a shutdown acutely as time goes on” reports Imara Jones. 

The working class will suffer from this government shutdown, but the drone bombing, Gitmo, various wars, and surveillance will continue– all the things the public would end in a real democracy, if they were given an opportunity to vote on it. 

In short, the shutdown is great theater for the Democrats and Republicans, who beat their breast and cry out that the other is the great Satan, as the government continues, decade after decade, to do less for the American people and more for transnational corporations and transnational investors who don’t pay taxes or give a damn about the American people.

[libertyunderground] Today’s LUV News: 2 October, 2013. http://luvnews.info/Join.htm

No Pay for Congress During

the Shutdown!

 1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
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