<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> David Swanson via <a href="http://warisacrime.org">WarIsACrime.org</a> <<a href="mailto:david@davidswanson.org">david@davidswanson.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> May 26, 2016 at 3:44:44 AM GMT+8<br><b>To:</b> <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Will You Join Me in Voting for Neither Trump Nor Clinton?</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <<a href="mailto:david@davidswanson.org">david@davidswanson.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p>I'm committing to not vote for Clinton or Trump, and <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__click.actionnetwork.org_mpss_c_3AA_ni0YAA_t.1xh_VBqzBOjCQgSf5b7-2DJFDAIw_h0_WQ-2D2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2D2BhheoIczpshG3DfoWpd5dwnJEbE-2D2BI-2D2BDUsSZ6wlsG-2D2FDiS2ChaOTrhv-2D2FNLh-2D2FTu10JQdhVG054rgXb5Agn8RJ0RcBAZ8i5vVZmeGSi2Yt-2D2FLBml0izQT9qpcA1tnXZC-2D2F1z3DNrfWQXtwtnUzR-2D2F03OANIPUNyW-2D2BQpOI1zl-2D2FFQcPajSbJvJcEfU4Vc7e1N4ihowHOACAtfhW9j0l3WvEAyYdsJqSVq1BinguPVlbjdalknLoXnPlZPfpt8XbQqr2GEgH-2D2FQHb3DnFloUzk30W-2D2FaOpfLbiym22lP8pkvWYn72HFD9fcPUfg1dkdueA3zNAhRBrsi6sEOTc2v9KlDn9gBEetaW0r2nRPWXfzJWaxFcCxmmlSgkjLFTtQyuSTfemEDgY-2D2Bj-2D2F18OQB9IPexUMAUunGZ9bwPMefcxh1Xr-2D2FN76X269X6N6K2Q9W2n67JQQQ-2D3D-2D3D&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=Vo_EgU2J53PeG4VpsEA74yy8AUax_Ns4tDqmowzz9fw&s=MVhecvdpK_Y8P_LBkWubu2Vwcv7iJkQtj1VQzYmW_vE&e=">you can do the same</a>.</p>
<p>The
Democratic Party's undemocratic primaries are not over, and nobody has
won them. It is entirely possible that Hillary Clinton will not be
nominated for any office. That doesn't prevent us from going ahead and
committing to never vote for either her or Donald Trump for president of
the United States.<br>
</p>
<p>Making this commitment could send a badly
needed message to the world: There are people in the United States with
some minimal level of decency. It could also kickstart the movement that
will be needed to resist the regime of whichever of them wins. It could
also alert Californian Democrats to the need to vote for Bernie Sanders
in the primary.</p>
<p><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__click.actionnetwork.org_mpss_c_3AA_ni0YAA_t.1xh_VBqzBOjCQgSf5b7-2DJFDAIw_h1_55uI0ZjpoLA9-2D2FYhqE-2D2F4EiuNV0K35trHDBeAilYSlzvCZeeEiNPmJXtTPcDbXM8fgJPHVv5AZ7rOMcjHHv8hTOAdNwZM4CwvplOpKFyGZ-2D2F-2D2BKJXc4LxocuWcRxEUtpo-2D2BIYTIQKNJMXRefqYS39weO8rUIt7B2n0-2D2B3CQbh8fV85glx22JUM95btmX3XCxRD4-2D2BRixGNvwHKc24wP3nK-2D2BugszjRLTiaamKkJulgwwwCpJLWveaWBQtvTbEBRIsWfqwLWUuiGBjudRYyhhcu2X6hWn-2D2FXGhJRrcBNIAYN7KTV3rSj10TwgfIWqf-2D2B6kDdMtoMmSG37UfyLJV89Yyi9fnt8sYcslp54mhIvqiXKrQZ12rlRND8CFNvTgguMiHraJrLQ4y0IAsWDOa2Z8b01Se4HxsVbVM9JBBj9ysYNpyy26qGG9Bg1kETcwPj67zzkwBYs-2D2FSL9JkEXv422x0ABlNYLEtgw-2D3D-2D3D&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=Vo_EgU2J53PeG4VpsEA74yy8AUax_Ns4tDqmowzz9fw&s=yVtHc7wlkRas2ZrRrcOjs1vqmwJI4cfEudfIUi8vPBg&e="><img src="http://www.davidswanson.org/sites/davidswanson.org/files/trumpclintonFB.jpg"></a></p>
<p>There's
a cartoon floating around at which a Muslim U.S. voter tries to choose
between "Ban my relatives from entering country" and "Bomb the s--- out
of my relatives." Not much of a choice, is it? Especially when the
bomber is following the model of our current president with his record
deportations, and the banner is a loose cannon who's proposed to kill
the families of designated enemies in the Middle East.</p>
<p>This is the
essence of the problem. Whichever of these two you were to vote for,
you'd get wars, nasty policies toward immigrants, plutocratic policies
toward wealth, and destructive policies toward the natural environment
-- barring the arising of a powerful popular movement to bring the
government under control.</p>
<p>Sure, one candidate is a comically
ill-informed jackass who hates women, while the other is a woman whose
comically jackassy policies will come with great scholarly volumns of
ill information. But where does either of those really get us?</p>
<p>Lesser
evilism predictably produces a pair of candidates each cycle who are
both worse than was the more evil candidate last time. This cannot go on
forever, and has already gone too far. We need a nonviolent movement to
reform our election system -- something not done through elections. But
there are plenty of good candidates, such as Jill Stein, to check or
write in. We should vote for those good candidates and get right back to
work on improving the world.</p>
<p><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__click.actionnetwork.org_mpss_c_3AA_ni0YAA_t.1xh_VBqzBOjCQgSf5b7-2DJFDAIw_h2_WQ-2D2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2D2BhheoIczpshG3DfoWpd5dwnJEbE-2D2BI-2D2BDUsSZ6wlsG-2D2FDiS2ChaOTrhv-2D2FNLh-2D2FTu10JQdhVG054rgXb5Ai6ENLqL3odAqRof9RyXxrxNcv6GamxaHe0U7OJSSM8oVcSXOhLvPPNsjOnhG5xmIHZBlfoEzLuFpbKMiRME0-2D2BYCcwe5I4UbpcDU-2D2FzvUNEIEaOduMbohBPNZVItKaTapU6GijTDe2Qa7qnMC8a1FCPxWOcq-2D2FsjXn3VS-2D2FJBQKbRQGpvrWQYkMuF86FlkUisRrJ2POWpjsaIk3-2D2FNJdMX2GMzfuFyRUoosv0Jxxih2wgpV8-2D2F0dfllCWikcaSV8I3Ccw22bB4WOqA02ZUi0BWLmXvTg-2D2FyjxtTSIDz1yIGVzoTVXIhkWOxphsgPoViSYXzTQRPuHzG8FKpu4ER-2D2FGrTjMmDv0THKUnN1lzsTUKtJd8XaUAg-2D3D-2D3D&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=Vo_EgU2J53PeG4VpsEA74yy8AUax_Ns4tDqmowzz9fw&s=G1eHKjbYHr3ODYYKnqrqi2C4FfGpfJCqs4_HyEMTbtc&e=">Will you click here and join me?</a></p>
<p>Here are a few reminders of who the "progressive" candidate of the "Democratic" Party is:</p>
<p><img src="http://warisacrime.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/Robert_Kagan_Fot_Mariusz_Kubik_02.jpg">"For
this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be
to vote for Hillary Clinton. The party cannot be saved, but the country
still can be." <strong>—Robert Kagan</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://warisacrime.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/46_Dick_Cheney_3x4.jpg">"I
have a sense that she's one of the more competent members of the
current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about
how she might perform were she to be president." <strong>—Dick Cheney</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://warisacrime.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/henry_kissinger_upi-300x300.jpg">"I've
known her for many years now, and I respect her intellect. And she ran
the State Department in the most effective way that I've ever seen." <strong>—Henry Kissinger</strong></p>
<p><strong>Nobody Beats This Record</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>She says President Obama was wrong not to launch missile strikes on Syria in 2013.</li>
<li>She pushed hard for the overthrow of Qadaffi in 2011.</li>
<li>She supported the coup government in Honduras in 2009.</li>
<li>She has backed escalation and prolongation of war in Afghanistan.</li>
<li>She voted for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.</li>
<li>She skillfully promoted the White House justification for the war on Iraq.</li>
<li>She does not hesitate to back the use of drones for targeted killing.</li>
<li>She has consistently backed the military initiatives of Israel.</li>
<li>She was not ashamed to laugh at the killing of Qadaffi.</li>
<li>She has not hesitated to warn that she could obliterate Iran.</li>
<li>She is not afraid to antagonize Russia.</li>
<li>She helped facilitate a military coup in Ukraine.</li>
<li>She has the financial support of the arms makers and many of their foreign customers.</li>
<li>She
waived restrictions at the State Department on selling weapons to Saudi
Arabia, Algeria, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Qatar, all
states wise enough to donate to the Clinton Foundation.</li>
<li>She supported President Bill Clinton's wars and the power of the president to make war without Congress.</li>
<li>She has advocated for arming fighters in Syria.</li>
<li>She supported a surge in Iraq even before President Bush did.</li>
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