“Whether President Obama or assumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney wins the presidency, there’s a third candidate no one’s paying much attention to, and that candidate is guaranteed to be the one clear winner of election 2012: the U.S. military and our ever-surging national security state.”

So why not pay some attention to the real third candidate in this race - the Green Party’s Jill Stein, the only candidate who is running with a party that takes no corporate money whatsoever? Jill Stein is calling for a massive redirection of military spending to pay for a Green New Deal, which would tackle our economic and ecological crises together. If you exclude anti-imperialism voices from the debate, you are reinforcing the very problem that you are complaining about.

For more about Jill Stein, check out http://www.jillstein.org

Sue the hoodie company? Why stop there? How about we
actually shoot some guy who makes his own iron on t-
shirt or hoodie with cross hairs on it?
That way, we can not only excuse extreme over reaction
to the freedom of expression, the right of people to
peaceably demonstrate their greivances, unlawful
interference in private business and conduct but we can
rationalize killing someone by ‘they were asking for
it’ or ‘their opinions are disgusting so who’s gonna
miss them anyhow?’
SOBER UP - then reread what you posted.

Another thing in the offing that we might be prepared to welcome would be some more truth about what went on in the last ten years of wars without end, some military whistle-blowing, defections, criticisms, some stories of military families trying (in vain) to get help or information withheld. And some increasing awareness and complaint about the loss of Constitutional rights under such stringent surveillance, and attempts to strengthen local democracy.  Broader public interest in politics.
Maybe.

Now that the Security State has lost one in the NDAA decision, maybe there are other possibilities under the law, properly administered, that would be worth challenging.  How about police over-the-top handling of crowd-control at public demonstrations. Before this NDAA decision I had about given up on the legal system, but there’s hope! 
  Here’s another way to begin—Sue that outfit that is so low as to make money from selling those
“hoodies” with the cross-hairs. That’s a new low for America as a whole—a personal insult to every single member of the population who has either a heart or a grain of common sense.

Actually, from what I can see in my limited view, the populations of the world have a chance to get all their acts more together in time to save the human race from the ravages of what really amounts to a relative few maniacs who have only the frailest hold on the very limited “power” they have, compared to the power of life itself. Furthermore, their power is limited to only control, sidetrack or delay—not to create, invent, give birth. What is a drone compared to a genome? How can an a-bomb compare to the seed of a sequoia?  Don’t be deceived.  There is something at work in the universe much greater than the ticking and clicking of Wall Street, U.S.A.

The employees of the defense industry, in well paid, recession proof jobs along with the over 2 million ‘volunteers’ in uniform make up a sizeable voting block which finds itself in every state in the union.

Forget that it produces nothing beneficial to the United States nor the world in general.

What men and women between 20 and 60 will see the possibilities in planning practical ways to work for a Peaceable War Against War?  Who will work together and plan new ways to escape from the trap of habit, and move toward freedom, justice and real democracy?  Who will promote new ideas to unlock the old habits of fear, murder and stealthk, and point ways to bring the promises of life on earth to fruition. Who will inspire children to grow up wise and straight and honest? Who will love the old, the poor, the sick and tired? Who will plant the gardens of tomorrow? Who will farm the winds and the sun?
  Maybe Occupy and all of us who see the possible future will hold together until we succeed.  Who among us here would not hurry to contribute and join in?  Who does not feel the flow of new energies? Who would not benefit from the renewal of a meaningful democracy? Who can turn away from a future waiting to be born?

Someone ought to, but I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Who will make a broad, practical, organized plan to embrace the final Battle Against War?  Who will volunteer to help?
Who will get together to devise cooperative segments of Americans 20 to 60 willing to join together and commit themselves to create and promote possible ways to benefit the American people as a whole? Who will discover places to work in reorganizing locally, forming more cooperative, life-nurturing ways to survive and prosper without killing other people and other places? Who will serve to inform the vast American heart and mind of what it can do?
  A massive concept of natioinal genius is required to inspire, encourage America to come back to life and get free from destructive practices and habits.
Nothing less is required than “a new birth of freedom” where everyone, male, female, child, adult, can find self-respect and value as part of a living organism of community. Who would not be willing to make a place for him/herself in a re-committed, reconstituted Democratic Union?  Who will begin it?
Who will carry it on?  Who will consecrate both spirit and will to it?  Something truly great is waiting to be born.