Are you going to stand by while one of your rights to control the government is taken? If so, how do you expect to prevent the U.S. government from treating you and your family like Stalin treated his subjects? By the way, Stalin murdered more of his subjects than Hitler did.

All forms of government, no matter what you call them, result in rule by an aristocracy as government agents are given various powers over the general public. Some have very limited power and some have vast power. Therefore, the question is how can you keep the aristocrats from abusing their power.

How could citizens in the USSR keep Stalin or local party leaders from abusing them? They couldn’t. In fact, if you pissed off the powers in the USSR, you were off to jail or worse after a kangaroo trial without a jury.

Even though our Constitution initially allowed slavery and denied rights to those who were not white males, it was intended to limit the power of government and it provided the means to control government and prevent the abuse of power. Those means were supposed to be expanded to all after the Civil War. However, due to prejudice and the lust for power, those means have been usurped over a period of time and whitewashed from public knowledge through control of the educational system and the media.

To find out how citizens were supposed to be able to prevent criminal abuse by our rulers and the damage that has resulted from the theft of that right, see Why does the U.S. government torture people?
http://dailycensored.com/2009/06/24/why-does-the-u-s-government-torture-people/

November 7, is National Pick Your Oppressor Day. Now they have to do it in secret! Don’t cling to
election fantasies. The whole election circus is owned and operated by wealthy,
powerful and sinister interests. Lots of people sense this. Elections are not
the time when people influence the politics of the system. It is the opposite:
it is a time when the masses of people get indoctrinated in the policies this
system intends to adopt.

The electoral system is a horrible trap. Its parties and campaigns–are a
terrible place to try to organize and struggle for change. Real change comes
from mass action. The civil rights movement was not won by voting. When people
get fooled and drawn into the electoral system their struggle gets tamed. It is
an arena where people get trained to accept the limits and framework of the
system. They are schooled in the political methods most useful and (and least
challenging) to their oppressors.

Lots of people listen to Al Gore rant about “I will fight for you,” and mutter
“Yeah, right.” They laugh at Bush’s talk of “compassionate conservatism” and
see it as obvious bullshit. But is Nader’s vision of a compassionate, reformed
capitalism any more realistic? The whole strategy of the Nader campaign is
based on an elaborate electoral fantasy.

Some elections ago why was Ross Perot allowed into the process when this time Nader is
not allowed? Perot was allowed to “inject new ideas” because the ruling class
needed someone to argue for major social cuts, in a campaign where neither
major candidate dared to be the first to bring it up. But with Nader in 2000
his ideas about universal health care or pro-unionization laws or opposition to
NAFTA are not even allowed to be voiced in debates or the media. Nader’s big
effect for the system is to sucker voters to think their votes count.

Such a public statement of faith in the system legitimizes the future
government and power structures of this system.

There is a saying among political movement people: “Climbing into a voting
booth doesn’t make you powerful–any more than climbing into the back of a
squad car makes you a cop.”

Others can cling to electoral fantasies. Not me!

And Yes, of course, this is an indictment of the entire system.