Reinstating the draft

I support reinstating the draft, only if the draft did not allow special privileges for wealthy individuals. The wealthy chicken hawks, like President Bush, who support war will not fight it themselves or enlist their children to fight. If they were forced to put their children in harm's way, it might not be so easy for our politicians to declare war.

Dems have power, now use it

Dear Democratic Congress:
Congratulations on a decisive victory. Bringing back integrity to Congress includes bringing back accountability. Bush and Cheney need to be held accountable for the lies they told to get this country into war in Iraq, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people and costing a trillion dollars.
You no longer have the excuse of not having control of both houses of Congress. To say that you will not hold them accountable and just work with them is tantamount to being an accomplice to their manipulation.

The Death of Our Democracy

It is time to sound the funeral dirge. It is a time of lament and sorrow. Having your vote count is the basis of democracy. When the Governator came from a future where machines ruled the world in the movie Terminator, we thought it was science fiction. Now the voting machine rules the world. Now vote totals are subject to no paper trails, hackable machines, and lack of verification.
The then CEO of Diebold, a large voting machine vendor, had given large sums to the Bush campaign and wrote that he would bring the vote home for Bush in 2004. Diebold's machines are proven to be hackable.
I could never imagine we would be living in a corporate/totalitarian state - but, here we are.
All those people who agonized and died for the banner of freedom and we end up with democracy being destroyed in a second with a keystroke.
Woe is us.