Mark E. Smith Discusses 'Consent To Tyranny'

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Thursday, October 25, 4 to 5:30PM
Central Public Library, San Diego
Free



"If the Republican Party "wishes to return America back a couple of
centuries, or at least about half a century," that would make them
more progressive party--something I do not and cannot believe.

You see there was a time that the King of England could imprison or
kill anyone he wanted because he had the Divine Right of Kings. That
changed in the 13th Century when a group of noblemen forced the king
to sign the Magna Carta. From then until the 21st Century no king or
President could throw people into dungeons or kill them at will, but
had to bring them to court and allow them something called due
process. Only if they were found guilty in a court of law could they
be caged or killed.

That changed when the Democratic Party pushed through the National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Now, any President of the United
States can indefinitely detain or even kill anyone he wants without
due process. This is all the more troublesome in light of the fact
that the US government under both Republican and Democratic
administrations has continued to hold prisoners in Guantanamo that the
government has already admitted are innocent of any crime. We are now
officially back in the Dark Ages of the 12th Century, so a half a
Century or even a few centuries more would hardly make much
difference.

I support the Election Boycott Movement because third parties have no
chance of winning in our winner-take-all system, and both major
parties represent Wall Street and the military-industrial complex
instead of representing Main Street and democracy. To vote for the
Democratic Party, which has just taken us back nine centuries, for
fear that the Republican Party might take us back a century or so
more, is irrational, but it is apparently the best argument that the
Democrats have."






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