The only two major options for affecting what our leaders do is voting them in or out of office, or taking to the streets in armed mobs. A third option is economic, but there is only so much corpor-rat crap we can refuse to buy… gotta eat and drive to work, after all.

And if our vote is rigged and gamed, and we are never presented with any but corporately-approved candidates, what options does that leave us?

*I* do not accept the ‘guilt’ of which the Commondreams article speaks. *I* did not back the Iraq war. I did the peaceful First Amendment protest thing throughout. See how much good that did. And what would Commondreams have had me do??