Daniel Ellsberg: If you’re in a swing state, vote AGAINST Romney & the neocons | Veterans Today

Daniel Ellsberg, the world’s most famous whistleblower, joins me on Truth Jihad Radio today (3 to 5 pm Central, AmericanFreedomRadio.com) to discuss the burning question: Should you vote for drone murderer and Constitution-shredder Obama, just because the Romney-Netanyahu ticket is even worse?

 

English: Daniel Ellsberg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

Ellsberg’s answer: Only if you’re in a swing state. In that case, anything other than an Obama vote is a de facto vote to put Romney in the White House and let Netanyahu lead him by the nose into war on Iran, and maybe World War III.

 

If you’re a sentient life form (i.e. a VT reader) and not in a swing state, by all means, boycott the election or vote third party, says Ellsberg. -KB

 

Defeat Romney, Without Illusions About Obama

 

by Daniel Ellsberg, ReaderSupportedNews

 

t is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013.

 

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The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose values are generally in line with mine — progressives, especially activists — to make this goal one of your priorities during this period.

 

An activist colleague recently said to me: “I hear you’re supporting Obama.”

 

I was startled, and took offense. “Supporting Obama? Me?!”

 

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“I lose no opportunity publicly,” I told him angrily, to identify Obama as a tool of Wall Street, a man who’s decriminalized torture and is still complicit in it, a drone assassin, someone who’s launched an unconstitutional war, supports kidnapping and indefinite detention without trial, and has prosecuted more whistleblowers like myself than all previous presidents put together. “Would you call that support?”

 

My friend said, “But on Democracy Now you urged people in swing states to vote for him! How could you say that? I don’t live in a swing state, but I will not and could not vote for Obama under any circumstances.”

 

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My answer was: a Romney/Ryan administration would be no better — no different — on any of the serious offenses I just mentioned or anything else, and it would be much worse, even catastrophically worse, on a number of other important issues: attacking Iran, Supreme Court appointments, the economy, women’s reproductive rights, health coverage, safety net, climate change, green energy, the environment.

 

I told him: “I don’t ‘support Obama.’ I oppose the current Republican Party. This is not a contest between Barack Obama and a progressive candidate. The voters in a handful or a dozen close-fought swing states are going to determine whether Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are going to wield great political power for four, maybe eight years, or not.”

 

As Noam Chomsky said recently, “The Republican organization today is extremely dangerous, not just to this country, but to the world. It’s worth expending some effort to prevent their rise to power, without sowing illusions about the Democratic alternatives.”

 

Following that logic, he’s said to an interviewer what my friend heard me say to Amy Goodman: “If I were a person in a swing state, I’d vote against Romney/Ryan, which means voting for Obama because there is no other choice.”

 

The election is at this moment a toss-up. That means this is one of the uncommon occasions when we progressives — a small minority of the electorate — could actually have a significant influence on the outcome of a national election, swinging it one way or the other.

 

The only way for progressives and Democrats to block Romney from office, at this date, is to…..

 

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via Daniel Ellsberg: If you’re in a swing state, vote AGAINST Romney & the neocons | Veterans Today.

 

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