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Originally Posted by atari 2600
Ah, that's cute. But, please, don't assume you're as helpless as all that. One can start by supporting a presidential candidate that promises to end the Homeland Security monitoring. And, in the case your candidate does get elected, you better be one of the people demanding updates on the progress of them fulfilling their promise.
Right now, I can only see how the homeland security monitoring is only being addressed as an incidental issue with most of the soundbytes being about the Iraq war in general. So far, to my knowledge, Kucinich and Edwards both voted against the Patriot Act and have made statements that they will end the practice, and Obama and Biden have now come to their side after both initially supporting and voting FOR the practice. On the Republican side, Texas (keep in mind, he's a tad racist) Rep. Ron Paul is the sole proponent of ending monitoring.
To get an overview of all the candidate's positions
http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm
& on Homeland Security
http://www.ontheissues.org/Homeland_....htm#Headlines |
democracy is a myth once it reaches such a large scale..... anyone's best bet is to build up the strength of their own communities and work outwards from there. think much smaller in regards to the bigger issues, make pragmatic solutions, politicians don't really do anything, they pay other people to things for them. if democracy is to work, the people who are paid to do the biddings of politicians need to be in solidarity with the rest of the people, and truly represent their interests before those of politicians... but good luck with all that America. A country founded on such negativity, isn't very likely to succeed in erradicating it....