Carol Brouillet, Green Candidate California’s 14th CD.

Dwayne,
    I don't think you've seen my position and why I'm running.  Your idea is a good one, but I think we must first expose the bogus War on Terrorism and impeach the criminals holding power.  Then we can redirect the nation's resources from killing and controlling to healing- which is what i think your proposal is all about.  I think it would be a better option to young people than joining the military, as we know it, today.  I would be for it.

Here's my 5 minute candidate statement:

Hello.  I am Carol Brouillet, Green Party Candidate for California’s 14th Congressional District.  It is out of love for my family and the world that I work for political change. I want to redirect the nation’s resources from a war economy--from killing and controlling--towards a peace economy. War is the biggest, most lucrative business on the planet, but it enriches the few, and threatens all of us.
 
     On September 11th, what frightened me more than the horrific images from New York was the way the media and the government began beating the drums for war.  There was something surreal about the events of that day. 
 
In January 2002, I organized a march on our Senators and my Congresswoman to demand a congressional investigation of 9-11.  Bush and Cheney asked Daschle to limit the investigations.
 
     Members of Congress, have failed defend the Constitution. They passed the Patriot Act which gutted the Bill of Rights, and granted “War Making Powers” to the Executive Branch.
 
     Congress has also shirked its duty to defend the American people from the executive branch of government, when it is abusing its power, lying to the people, launching immoral, unjustifiable, illegal wars of aggression.   The most fraudulent conspiracy theory about 9-11 is the one that Cheney and Bush used to sell the war on Iraq to the American people by trying to link Saddam Hussein to 9-11.
 
     The White House stonewalled on creating a 9/11 Commission, and only consented to it when they could exercise control over its parameters, directing it through Philip Zelikow, a member of the Bush National Security transition team, and the author of the Pre-Emptive War Doctrine.  The official report was used to sell “Homeland Security” and an expansion of the “National Security State.”
 
     We must ask the hard questions.  Why were those most responsible for the failures of the military and the intelligence agencies on September 11th, rewarded with promotions and increased budgets? 
 
The Project for a New American Century, which includes many in the current Administration, called for the U.S. to extend its power, through a “Revolution in Military Affairs,” including the domination of space, cyberspace, military technologies, and information systems. Their “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” report says: “The process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a New Pearl Harbor.”
 
We must ask who had the ability to carry out 9-11, to destroy the evidence, to cover it up, and who benefited?  Rice described 9-11 as an “opportunity" to fundamentally change American doctrine, and the shape of the world.
 
     Cheney and Bush must be asked to testify “What were the orders that they issued that morning?” and “Who was overseeing the multiple war games that were being conducted?”
 
     We need a real investigation of 9-11.  We need to impeach those who have committed the highest crimes against our country.  We need to recognize that the “War on Terror” is the biggest fraud ever and is a “War of Terror” against the American people and the world.
 
     “Real security” doesn’t depend upon weapons, spies, deceptions.  Security cannot come from terrorizing entire nations in order to maintain the wealth and power of a few over the many.  Real security comes from healthy relationships, a healthy environment, the cooperation of all those who value and respect life and one another. 
 
     I am for Truth, Impeachment, Peace, Justice, Ecological Wisdom and the Repeal of the PATRIOT Act.  I believe the highest duty of a citizen is to hold its government accountable.  I believe a government should rein in corporate power which threatens our health, our environment, and our major means of communication.
 
  We must have voter verified paper ballots. We need to ban corporate money from campaigns. We need citizen oversight at every level of our electoral processes, or we will be stuck with illegitimate, criminal governments serving corporations, at the expense of people and planet.  Our future is in our hands. My hope is that people will recognize that we do have great power, and voices, and we must exercise them, now, for our children, for our country, for the world, for all that we cherish, life, liberty, and the generations to come.

Carol
http://www.communitycurrency.org
http://www.carolforcongress.org