13 Critical Issues You Are Forbidden From Voting On

The voting privileges granted by the political class during the civil rights movement have pacified nearly every American.  It’s a shame as to this day the very act of casting your ballot on meaningful issues is actively suppressed in the United States. 

 Here are 13 critical issues you are forbidden from voting on:

1. Which foreign lands the U.S. military should occupy
2. Taxpayer bailouts for the banks 
3. The definition of “torture”
4. Interest rates and monetary policy of the Federal Reserve
5. Military grade weapons supplied to your local police employees
6. TSA screening procedure at the airports
7. Nuclear weapons production, storage locations and usage
8. Number of field agents employed by the FBI
9. Medicare tax rates
10. The Supreme Court justices
11. Limits to NSA spying
12. Who is sentenced to death by drone strike
13. The enforcement of the “Bill of Rights”  

Clearly citizens of the United States of America were never given the vote. 

It’s been five decades since the last voting rights movement in America and no one has thought to ask “On What are we getting the right to vote”?

White House People Harassing Journalist

James Risen is the target of White House People

The White House People are upset that New York Times journalist James Risen exercised his right to free speech.  As reported by Alex Park in Mother Jones:

In State of War, Risen revealed a secret CIA operation, code-named Merlin, that was intended to undermine the Iranian nuclear program.  The plan...was to pass flawed plans for a trigger system for a nuclear weapon to Iran in the hopes of derailing the country's nuclear program. 

The Destruction of Nagasaki, For What?

The ruins of Nagasaki Medical College, Japan, 1945
Credit: National Library of Medicine

Sixty-Nine years ago this week a 9,000 pound atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan.  The resulting explosion killed 74,000 people.

The death and destruction caused by the bomb is roughly equal to one 9/11 style attack...occurring every day for 25 days.

Destruction of Shiroyama elementary school,
Nagasaki

Photograph by Eiichi Matsumoto

There are a handful of theories as to why the U.S. dropped the atom bomb on Nagasaki.  I can't say which is most valid or who exactly had the final say in launching this second nuke over Japan.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay was commanding bombing raids in the Pacific late in World War II.  Five months before the dropping of the atomic weapons LeMay ordered the firebombing of Tokyo.  This brief campaign resulted in the killing of 100,000 human beings.

Adding to the confusion surrounding the reasons behind the dropping of the nuclear bombs is this passage from LeMay's New York Times obituary:

Years after relaying the orders from President Harry S. Truman to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, General LeMay said the actions were not necessary.

'Truman Told Me to Do It'

''We felt that our incendiary bombings had been so successful that Japan would collapse before we invaded,'' he said in a 1985 interview with the Omaha World Herald.