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Gandhi and followers used
nonviolent resistance to clog
the wheels of the British empire.

Amidst the election excitement created by the media and Electoral Game makers I was reminded today that Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist whose opinion I respect, was endorsing Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate. I email this endorsement to a Peace list server of nearly all Obama supporters. However one person responded by sending us another article from Chris Hedges, this one about his and five others legal challenge to NDAA section 1021, an Obama supported bill that authorizes the executive branch to order the military to seize U.S. citizens deemed to be terrorists or associated with terrorists. The editorial by Chris Hedges points out how the name of the bill the “Homeland Battlefield Bill” reflects how this bill “obliterates some of our most important constitutional protections.”

In this Electoral Game there seems to be little or no room for logic, values or ethics on either side. I am glad that Obama will be winning but wonder if we would accept such lost of rights or such great violence by a Republican candidate.

The argument or spin about the Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, is that by voting on integrity or principle would be ‘wasting a vote’ and help Romney. I doubt if that is true but media and game makers want us to believe it to be true.

The storm out East seems to be taking a back place in media as election and sports entertainment take prominence once again.

What will the “powers that be” offer us after Tuesday’s election, another storm or scandal?

When I heard Chris Hedges speak in person a few years ago at a Catholic Worker resistance retreat he said we could not stop the destructive forces in the US but we could throw ‘clogs in the wheels’ with our resistance and thus slow the process down. This will give us time to build a new society within the shell of the old and be ready when the fall of USA Empire comes.

Resistance seems to be throwing ‘clogs in the wheels.”

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