Capitalism, by its very nature, begets war. The conquest of nations for required or lusted for resources leads to aggressive actions and conquest, subsequently, occupation.

I listened to the raving of the deluded John McCain defending the old "stay the course" and was taken back to the words of the President who most drove my future, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

President Lyndon Johnson's          Justification for the Vietnam War Johns Hopkins University, April 7,1965

"Viet Nam (Iraq) is far away from this quiet campus. We have no territory there, nor do we seek any. The war is dirty and brutal and difficult. And some 400 (4000) young men (and women), born into an America that is bursting with opportunity and promise, have ended their lives, on Viet-Nam's (Iraq's) steaming soil.

If this doesn't sound like the ranting of every hawk in the congress and elsewhere what does? 

My father used to tell me that "the mills of the gods grind slowly" but when you realize that men and women and children will continue to die or be maimed because we cannot simply throw our hands in the air screaming "run away, run away" because there are constitutional problems to be crossed and challenges before any such move could be made.

We are suffering an elitist Congress and an aristocratic Presidency that resembles the sinister years of early American Federalism under John Adams (left), and his compatriot in Capitalism, Alexander Hamilton.

There can not be this red tape where life is concerned. The most dangerous  Bureaucracy in America is not the social welfare education system. No. It is the the entire government of elected officials and elected or appointed judges. The red tape they produce that costs us billions and billions of blood money and danger is dedicated to the greed of their minions.

You and I pay, and our children and grand children pay with our lives, our very lives. This is not tolerable for men and women whose lives are threatened already by unwitting involvement in an haphazard war that has engendered larger mass hatred of America than was ever imagined in the minds of our worst enemies 4 years ago.

In large part the entire horror of the middle east is begun after Israel became a state. The expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and holdings created many generations of exiles, refugees that have been the ever present horror in the midst of every neighboring Arab state. The hot bed is the border of Israel and Palestine, but the horrendous, piteous, human refuse of this conflict over burden the already swollen populations of their host countries.

The culture is amok. White men are freed based on evidence that says they did not rape a black  woman. Imus says a jive thing and it made sisters sizzle, with proper response. White people are making millions selling albums of hip hop that is become the jargon on the street to many and filtered into even an Imus so he is in baggies trying to sound "hip" Hip? Hip at what cost? There is a quadruple standard afoot, people. What's good for one goose is not applicable on the gander here at all.

"Dirty up the culture and get everyone staring at midriffs and breasts." That should have been the real watchword of the Sensational 60's. It took until 1967 and the release of the Beatles "Revolver" album until people grew their hair, felt the hurricane of the Draft, started the Hippie movement and got on the anti war band wagon. They may have only gone to protests to find an outlet for their beloved "free Love" but at least they went to protests. And there will be protests, not now, but they are coming.

The first mention of a draft, which may not come until the new regime is in the White House, will put a fire under the pants of the young. They are alienated as is and broke and trying to make lives for themselves, in the face of the toughest conditions that ever faced and American Worker. If this monstrous war is to continue while Congress acts out a sinister and slow barbeque of the issues, then there will soon be real calls for a Draft. It has to come.

People of conscience, gather together your friends and families and talk seriously about these issues. They are at the center of your lives. For my money, of which there is scant little, Socialism is the only answer. It just makes sense. We ought to stop being afraid of the word "Socialism". It was given a bad name by people like Senator Joe McCarthy (left) and Richard Nixon and we all know how sane and honest they were.

What's wrong with being Sociable? I have always been a kind of social fellow and why should I fear Socialism as a way to improve my lot in life? Don't you enjoy Socializing with your friends after work? Have you ever attended a Social? A Civic event that presented you with a Social gathering? Well how about we become a Social Nation? And that = SOCIALISM.

No more "Meet The New Boss, Same as the Old Boss". No boss. We trust the lower level members of the bureaucracy to select a Supervisor from their ranks.

The Supervisor organizes the workers/owners of a society where there is no private ownership, and everyone receives what they need according to their subsistence needs and gives only what they can provide in strength and ease, with dedicated commitment.

This is something like Hugo Chavez sees for his Venezuela. He is being touted as an enemy of the United States by Condoleezza Rice and yet Citgo commercials grace our TV screens. They show American citizens thanking the people of Venezuela for helping with their heating needs. Until he succeeds in nationalizing all the oil companies in his country, he is still a valued vendor to the US. So we curse him in Congress but value his services.

Socialism means there would be no more war of greed ever fought, no sword lifted but in direct defense of these United States of America. Instead of war we would be trying to share this egalitarian economic system with anyone who was willing to try it. Let's get really social.

Let's get really social and get rid of all the filth we are inundated with to keep us busy and ineffective, unable to resist the degradation of our civil rights. Lets stop allowing for religious intolerance and return to the unique place as the only nation in the world where you could openly practice any faith and no faith would be foisted on you.

It is serious. More serious than global warming, Mr. Gore. But Mr. Gore has big money and he no interest in helping the poor except to enlarge, sparingly, the dole . We need to get rid of this person in politics.

We need to rid ourselves of politics. Our nation is too big to chance an "American Idol" Presidency. The Supervisors in our new government would choose finalists who would go before the people in open election from any computer in the nation and be linked to  social security numbers as a signature.  Or a card from the IRS that has to be mailed back like your income tax. The IRS does a great job of getting the right postcard from the right people. Voting any other way is a poor substitute for honesty.

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